"GENERAL" FOR GENERALS.
Lord Leverhulme tells in "the Spectator" a story which bears amusingly upon the current controversy about officers and privates dining together k public places. Several of the rank and file of the old Artiste , Rifles, he recalls, were once enjoying refreshment in a private room of a hotel. Among them was Brandon Thomas, author of "Charley'e Aunt." A general entered, hoping to find the om disengaged. He drew the attention «f the men to the fact that private soldiers were not supposed to use the room in question. Brandon Thomae, rising to the occasion in characteristic fashion, pointed out on the door the , word "Private," and added ' that the '-General" room wae on the ground floor.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 157, 4 July 1940, Page 21
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