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Burma this week had its third Royal Governor in two months. He was Major General Sir Hubert Elvin Ranee, tall, gaunt graduate of Sandhurst and an old Burma hand. But the new Governor would have to work miracles to bring order into the festering chaos...
Leaning back against the Secretary's big desk, with shoulders hunched, Sandhurst-educated Winston Churchill talked easily, as one old soldier to his fellows. From the lines of a veteran who had served with his ancestor.* John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, he recalled an old, soldierly axiom...
...Harrow, red-headed young Winston Churchill was last boy in the "third fourth" (the lowest division of the lowest form) for three times as long as any boy in the school. It took him three tries to nudge his way into Sandhurst. At 24, an Army lieutenant, he applied for Oxford, gave up when the examiner demanded a schoolboy's Greek irregular verbs from a British regular officer...
Unhappily, such matters are not well taught at Harrow and Sandhurst, where 41-year-old Brigadier Derek Schreiber, chief of staff to the Governor-General (H.R.H. the Duke of Gloucester) was educated. When the Brigadier married fashionable Viscountess Clive last fall his valet, ex-Corporal Ernest Cyril Field, persuaded himself that the marriage would mean an increase in his duties. He asked for a raise. Schreiber declined, Field departed...
...pleasantly wooded district, the grounds and buildings had been laid out in 1937 to house a second Sandhurst (Britain's West Point). Turned over to the U.S. for an officer training camp, it was converted after V-E day into a campus for 4,000 G.I. students. At the start, there were only 3,611, including 270 officers, 14 nurses, and eight WACs. They ranged in age from 19 to 46 (average: 22½) and in rank from buck private to lieutenant colonel. Their average education amounted to one year of college...