all rankings congenital idiots, despairingly incapable, to be told and told and told. They are serious because in such exercises is given the final training and proof of the man, group and ship discipline gained through an interest in the work in hand and through repetition, repetition, repetition; serious because such exercises ensure that each man's way of going about his job suits the ship's plan as a whole. And that, after all, was what the Cook Strait battle amounted to, another step, more spectacular and realistic than usual, in the long training for the building of spirit and efficiency. Who won the Cook Strait battle? Does it matter?
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 80, 2 October 1933, Page 10
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