ARMY OF BRITAIN

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23829, 8 June 1939, Page 12

ARMY OF BRITAIN

AN ALERT PROFESSION NEW ADMINISTRATION LONDON, May 30. Cartoonist David Low’s famous creation Colonel Blimp—the choleric old school colonel—is now enshrined in the national records by medium of Hansard. The Secretary of State for War, Mr Hore-Belisha, in a debate in the House of Commons on the Compulsory Military Training Bill, explained that militiamen would get the benefit of the new spirit of Army administration. He added that “ Colonel Blimp ” had, for a long time, been buried, and his influence eliminated from the British Army. “ The bibulous, blustering ser-geant-major,” said the Minister, “ is now a figment of the imagination, and I wish his spectre could be completely dissociated for ever from the Army, which is now a modern, alert profession that respects education, perhaps more than any other profession.”