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This above all remember they will be very brave men	A
And you will be facing them You must not despise them	B
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I am as you know like all true professional soldiers	C
A profoundly religious man the true soldier has to be	D
And I therefore believe the war will be over by Easter Monday	D
But I must in fairness state that a number of my brother officers	C
No less religious than I believe it will hold out till Whitsun	A
Others more on the agnostic side and I do not contemn them	B
Fancy the thing will drag on till August Bank Holiday	E
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Be that as it may some time in the very near future	F
We are to expect Invasion and invasion not from the sea	D
Vast numbers of troops will be dropped probably from above	G
Superbly equipped determined and capable and this above all	H
Remember they will be very brave men and chosen as such	I
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You must not of course think I am praising them	B
But what I have said is basically fundamental	J
To all I am about to reveal the more so since	K
Those of you that have not seen service overseas	L
Which is the case with all of you as it happens this is the first time	M
You will have confronted them My remarks are aimed	N
At preparing you for that	O
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Everyone by the way may smoke	P
And be as relaxed as you can like myself	Q
I shall wander among you as I talk and note your reactions	R
Do not be nervous at this this is a thing after all	H
We are all in together	F
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I want you to note in your notebooks under ten separate headings	S
The ten points I have to make remembering always	T
That any single one of them may save your life Is everyone ready	D
Very well then	A
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The term Psychological Warfare	U
Comes from the ancient Greek psycho means character	F
And logical of course you all know We did not have it	V
In the last conflict the fourteen eighteen affair	U
Though I myself was through it from start to finish That is point one	A
I was in fact captured or rather I was taken prisoner	F
In the Passchendaele show a name you will all have heard of	G
And in our captivity we had a close opportunity	D
We were all pretty decently treated I myself	Q
Was a brigadier at the time that is point two	W
An opportunity I fancy I was the only one to appreciate	X
Of observing the psychiatry of our enemy	D
The word in those days was always psychology	D
A less exact description now largely abandoned And though the subject	Y
Is a highly complex one I had it was generally conceded	Z
A certain insight I do not know how but I have always they say	E
Had a certain insight into the way the strangest things ebb up	A2
From what psychoanalysts now refer to as the self conscious	B2
It is possibly for this reason that I have been asked	C2
To give you the gist of the thing the how shall I put it	V
The gist	D2
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I was not of course captured alone	A
Note that as point three so that I also observed	E2
Not only the enemy's behaviour but ours And gradually I concluded	F2
That we all of us have whether we like it or lump it	V
Our own individual psychiatry given us for better or worse	G2
By God Almighty I say this reverently you often find	H2
These deeper themes of psychiatry crudely but well expressed	I2
In common parlance People say 'We are all as God made us '	-
And so they are So are the enemy And so are some of you	W
This I in fact observed point four Not only the enemy	D
Had their psychiatry but we in a different sense	J2
Had ours And I firmly believe you cannot point six master	F
Their psychiatry before you have got the gist of your own	A
Let me explain more fully I do not mean to imply	K2
That any or many of you are actually mentally ill	L2
Though that is what the name would imply But we your officers	C
Have to be aware that you and many of your comrades	M2
May have a sudden psychiatry which sometimes without warning	N2
May make you feel and this is point five a little bit odd	O2
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I do not mean that in the sense of anything nasty	D
I am not thinking of those chaps with their eyes always on each other	F
Sometimes referred to as homosensualists	M2
And easily detected by the way they lace up their boots	M2
But in the sense you may all feel a little disturbed	P2
Without knowing why a little as if you were feeling an impulse	M2
Without knowing why the term for this is ambivalence	M2
Often referred to for some mysterious reason	A
By the professionals as Amby Valence	M2
As though they were referring to some nigger minstrel	J
Not of course that I have any colour prejudice	M2
After all there are four excellent West Nigerians among you	W
As black as your boot they are not to blame for that	O
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At all events this ambivalence is to be avoided	F2
Note that as point seven I think you all know what I mean	A
In the Holy Scriptures the word begins with an O	Q2
Though in modern parlance it usually begins with an M	B
You have most of you done it absentmindedly at some time or another	F
But repeated say four times a day it may become almost a habit	R2
Especially prone to by those of sedentary occupation	A
By pale faced clerks or schoolmasters sitting all day at a desk	S2
Which is not thank God your position you are always	M2
More or less on the go and that is what	R2
Again deep in the self conscious keeps you contented and happy here	T2
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Even so should you see some fellow comrade	U2
Give him all the help you can In the spiritual sense I mean	A
With a sympathetic word or nudge inform him in a manly fashion	A
'Such things are for boys not men lad '	-
Everyone eyes front	V2
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I pause gentlemen	A
I pause I am not easily shocked or taken aback	W2
But even while I have been speaking of this serious subject	Y
I observe that one of you has had the effrontery	D
Yes you at the end of row three No Don't stand up for God's sake man	A
And don't attempt to explain Just tuck it away	E
And try to behave like a man Report to me	D
At eighteen hundred hours The rest of you all eyes front	V2
I proceed to point six	M2
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The enemy itself	Q
I have reason to know is greatly prone to such actions	M2
It is something we must learn to exploit an explanation I think	X2
Is that they are by and large undeveloped children	A
Or adolescents at most It is perhaps to do with physique	Y2
And we cannot and must not ignore their physique as such	I
Physique of course being much the same as psychiatry	D
They are usually blond and often extremely well made	Z2
With large blue eyes and very white teeth	A3
And as a rule hairless chests and very smooth muscular thighs	M2
And extremely healthy complexions especially when slightly sunburnt	Z2
I am convinced there is something in all this that counts for something	N2
Something probably deep in the self conscious of all of them	B
Undeveloped children I have said and like children	A
As those of you with families will know	Q2
They are sometimes very aggressive even the gentlest of them	B
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All the same we must not exaggerate in the words of Saint Matthew	Z2
'Clear your minds of cant ' That is point five note it down	A
Do not take any notice of claptrap in the press	M2
Especially the kind that implies that the enemy will come here	T2
Solely with the intention of raping your sisters	M2
I do not know why it is always sisters they harp on	A
I fancy it must ebb up from someone's self conscious	M2
It is a patent absurdity for two simple reasons a	B3
They cannot know in advance what your sisters are like	C3
And b some of you have no sisters Let that be the end of that	Z2
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There are much darker things than that we have to think of	G
It is you they consider the enemy you they are after	F
And though as Britishers you will not be disposed to shoot down	A
A group of helpless men descending from the heavens	M2
Do not expect from them and I am afraid I have to say this gratitude	Z2
They are bound to be over excited	Z2
As I said adolescently aggressive possibly drugged	Z2
And later in a macabre way grotesquely playful	J
Try to avoid being playfully kicked in the crutch	I
Which quite apart from any temporary discomfort	Z2
May lead to a hernia I do not know why you should laugh	D3
I once had a friend who not due to enemy action	A
But to a single loud sneeze entirely his own	A

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