Prime Minister to Secretary of War, 4 February 1941


"Please see the Times of February 4.  Is it really true that a seven-mile cross-country run is enforced upon all in this division from generals to privates?
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Who is the general of this division, and does he run the seven miles himself?  If so, he may be more useful for football than war. Could Napoleon have run seven miles across country at Austerlitz?  Perhaps it was the other fellow he made run."