Defence

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30738, 30 April 1965, Page 10

Defence

Sir, —Your leading article, “Procrastination,” was a most heartening salvo on behalf of the Army, all the shots seeming to fall in the target area. After the best part Of 40 years spent as a regular soldier and in administering the Territorials in England, how well one knows all those niggardly economies and specious evasions adopted by governments in their dealings with the armed forces, including the matter of pensions. Still, one had always assumed hitherto that things were done better in this country. One cannot help wondering, if the pay and equipment of our serving soldiers are so far behind the needs of the time, what may be the position in regard to service pensions, provision for dependants, and the well being of disabled veterans, all of which tend to lag behind the rising cost of living.— Yours, etc., M.T. April 29, 1965.