ARMY COMPLAINTS
DEPARTURE FROM TRADITION. DIRECT APPROACH BY PRIVATES TO OFFICERS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, April 15. The Army Council has broken tradition and made it possible for a private directly to approach an officer with a complaint instead of through a warrant officer or n.c.o. This also applies to the A.T.S. Under the new instruction “request hours” are set aside for all branches of the service at home and abroad wherein, under strict privacy a private or n.c.o. can interview a responsible officer and discuss personal problems and grievances. Officers are instructed to make the interviews man-to-man talks between friends. The “Daily Express’s” military correspondent says that hitherto privates were often deterred from making complaints through an n.c.o. for fear of reprisals. The new system aims to democratise the Army. It is realised that soldiers in this war have a higher standard of education and it is felt that ofcers and soldiers should be brought into closer touch.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 April 1943, Page 2
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