NATIONS IN ARMS
OBSERVATIONS BY BRITISH WAR MINISTER.
“It must be remembered that the nation is in arms, and there is no dearth of ability in the ranks.’’ said the Secretary of State for War, to the accompaniment of applause, when speaking recently in the House of Commons on the Army’s part in the war. Mr Hore-Belisha added that one of the mon who had reached the top for the leader’s course on the way to a commission was a labourers’s son (an announcement very much more striking in Britain than it would be in New Zealand). “The look-out for talent is continuous, and all commanding officers are instructed to search for it. In this Army the star is within every private soldiers reach. No one, however humble or exalted his birth, need be afraid that his military virtues will remain unrecognised. More important, no one who wishes to serve in the Army need consider his status minimised by starting on the bottom rung of the ladder.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 November 1939, Page 6
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167NATIONS IN ARMS Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 November 1939, Page 6
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