The Archive · 1933

Modern Major-General

Then there was Major-General George Fleming whose health had) een also proposed by Mr. Martin. The company was given to under stand that if you took a, Scotsman, allowed him to be born in London, went him ton Somersetshire lino regiment in the beginning, gave hint Tater a Welch Regiment to com. mand for variety's sake and left Treland to be the prospective. scene of his employment on return home (after the half-pay travail had een "passed), you had the ideal) ce-ordinating officer of an inter national defence force such as th brought Shanghai through the. testing time of early 1932, Major-General Fleming, in fact, was the modern Major-Genera] who, Combined" absurdly youthful looks—- had. been taken for his own, ADE. ina British ward-room the: other day—with the gift of getting ea-operation and service,

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