The selection board was much wer than T expected. 1 just had fo sit ata table with two RA. officers who asked me general know-Tedge and a few mathematical questions. "Thad no difieulty in answering them. T start off with 2/~ 9 day, but as soon as T can start fyi goes up considerably.
Tneidentally, if at the end of the war T wish {9 go back to the Bank, shall have no aifficulty——When-fever any officer looked at my papers and saw that Shanghai was my birthplace, he invariably said that th were' pretty hot out there. To on replied that the people in' Shanghai thought that things were hotter over here, He locked at me, in consider fable surprise and said "Is that so? So you see there are no grounds for worry. or alarm, T don't know where Til be posted fo yet, so T can't let you have my address.
Of my own people, of my old friends ost of them doing their bit for Eoxland in the Services or in the {orles. Tt seemed to me that ey uniform monthly magazine and. in it was a Ist of old boys who were doing the bit In HIM. Services. Most of them were in the BEF. My friend had met some of them before he sailed.
filled me with pride to think that they had asked to be remembered to me after the terrible ordeal they had been through at Dunkirk. Some of them had been wounded, 1 was told, but they were itching to get and have another smack, as they put it, at the Germans,"
1 heard many more' storits, too humorous to mention here, of the wonderful spirit of Britain, told ina homely, quiet way by these men of the sea, who would be facing danger from Nazi attacks when they reached British waters. It did not. seem to worry them much. I think Iwas more worried than they were. Anyip certain that the 1 was told of the mighty spirit of Britain which is manifested in every man, woman and child in every city, town and village. I was given news "The salt of the earth, these British seadogs."
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