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Main Strength of Nation “Today our country is passing through the most difficult times it has seen for a century or more, and more responsibility is going to fall upon your generation than ever fell upon ours. You can all help, whether you are weak or strong, brilliant or slow, because the main strength of our nation lies, and always has lain, in the middle —in what we call in the Army our other —ranks. Most of our success, whether in war or in peace, has been the victories of the average man, the average Englishman. He is not brilliant as a rule, or spectacular, but you can rely upon him in particular for efficient and responsible work in a subordinate position. We ourselves rely upon him to such an extent that we pay him the compliment of taking him entirely as a matter of course, and he very seldom fails us.”—MajorGeneral Beith (lan Hay), speaking on responsibility to the boys of Pocklington SchooL
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Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20914, 20 September 1939, Page 6
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168TOPICS OF THE DAY Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20914, 20 September 1939, Page 6
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