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Selected men will go to Sandhurst next year and the college regulations will be amended accordingly. Militi men who are to go into the antiaircraft units will all go into camps in the West country and out of them the new 6th and 7th A.A. Divisions will be formed As might be expected with such a deluge of men coming up there are shortages in clothing, tents, maps and instructors but all is being remedied and the general plans have worked out well.
For some years now we have planned out what would be done in a big call up and looking back it can be said that little was unforeseen. The terrific rush of Territorials might have upset any plan but all that happened was a shortage of various stocks.
The new Supply Ministry is now established in the Strand under Mr Burgin who has Vice-Admiral Sir Harold Brown as his Chief-of-Staff Expansion of the Army being the main theme in defence, the Ministry is to work for equipping the land forces and leave the Navy and Air Force on the resources they now enjoy. The War Office is really subdivided into three parts now, one each for Inspection, Supply and General Administration. The New Army is divided into Coast Defence, Air Defence and Field Force Service, We are ready. Let no one doubt that.
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