Tur Bue Excte most Bes 10 Eaxnt—By. General "Hugh 8. Jeho Doubleday, Doran, New York. Gt "Everybody in the world's a Rink-Stink but Hughie Johnson and he's all right." This was the four~ old remark of the author and, incidentally, the hero of this autoblography, When facing an angry crowd of small contemporaries in a family quarrel in the Johnson " backyard. The incident is chosen by General Johnson to illustrate the accuracy with which history repeats itself. The son of a pioneer and the Jgrandson of a soldier of the Civil War, General Johnson naturally went to West Point and adopted the Army Jas a career. In accordance with In the middle of lunch Lord Gort started. to ask. me questions. about Hankow, and particularly about Borodin, who was always the centre of curiosity' for foreigners. T answered that 1 knew Borodin rather well and oth liked and admired him. Te T had taken off all: my clothes and Jumped fon the table T'could not have shocked the company more. (Not. Gort. of course-che was a soldier. fresh. from England, and nad sone of the Shang prejudices). One of the taipans, ooking as if'Re houeht he Nad not heard correctly, asked: sort of fellow I Borodin, then?"
answered this at some. length, and then returned to my fond with feeling that the subject had been dis posed of. But the taipan was stil puzzled. Thad spoken of Borodin's ind, which was mot at all the kind of thing the taipan wanted to. hear.
'But that's not what T mean,' said, leaning forward from the other de' of the table, "T mean, What. sort fellow is ho? T mean, is hes Twas afraid to 1 might Rot Be abl ugh for fear that 0 stop. military practice unfortunately established in Europe, he now sits down to write an apologia and he is strongly on the defensive. The reader ig asked to agree with him that the parting from President Roosevelt was) come to more in sorrow. than anger and that the Blue Eagle Cam-Pais in the hands of General Johnson was a remarkable achievement by a man who scorned red tape Jand was ever restive unless he was ignoring "the proper channels "of administrative effort. The impression, unfortunately, is that General JJobrson did not seem to understand good deal of the problem which he expounds Ju so breathless [though it is not easy for the reader fo understand exactly what he was [driving at and, indeed, exactly what the accomplished. "He makes a great [point of the fact that seven men were Jeventually posted to the office which the filled—but the cautious observer 43 not inclined to accept that as a.
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