BRITISH SOLDIERS
SOME CHARACTERISTICS FRENCHMAN'S OBSERVATIONS PARIS, Mar. 12. The characteristics of the British soldier were the subject of an address by M. Andre Maurois, the French novelist and essayist, to French liaison officers stationed with the British Expeditionary Force. \ M. Maurois said: "The British soldier is a hard worker who possesses a sense of humour and who never boasts. He is capable of prolonged silences, and is suspicious about anybody who talks too much. He is never inclined to sulk. He is extremely brave, but is rather ashamed of that. "In the British officers' messes, do not talk until vou have found vour depth," M. Maurois said. " When you have remained silent for three years, the British Expeditionary Force will say to i you. 'You are a nice, quiet fellow.'" Illustrating the close comradeship between the Allied forces, M. Maurois disclosed that Highland regiments had taught French troops in the Maginot Line to sing "The Bonnie Banks of Loch Lomond."
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24254, 23 March 1940, Page 12
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