Sir Ian Hamilton's Advice to Ex-Service Men General Sir Ian Hamilton, opening the new club of the Paddington Branch of the British Legion at St. Stephen's Road, Bayswater, said that by not holding together ex-Service men had run risks of being forgotten.
"Marshal Kuroki, Commander of the Japanese Ist Army, told me in 1905," he continued, "that the outside absolute time limit of national gratitude for past military services was six months. He had tested this matter after the Chinese War, and he knew. membered is to remember selves and your own superb ser "The very Jast way to get self remembered with pride and thanksgiving is to struggle out one by one with a barrel organ and play fox-trots in so horrible, limp} a style that even the gutter-snipes realize you've no guts. Actuall, T heard a fellow singing the oth day frightfully out of tune. What you think he was singing with me, fast falls the I assure you the girls were so ashamed they didn't know which way to look.
"No, if you want to be remem-beyed, get into a good club with good comrades. Get together. Once 5,000,000 men get together into clubs they won't be forgotten—not much. So I have pleasure in declaring this club open. it be number one not in directory alone, and may_ wives of the members bless it for keeping them gay but sober. May you all be happy."
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