Newspaper cutting
The Times
Category
Ephemera
Date
27 Jan 1942
Materials
Newspaper
Measurements
92 x 75 mm
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Mr Straw's House, Nottinghamshire
NT 749869.42
Summary
One of a series of newspaper cuttings - miscellaneous items of interest to the family. A newspaper cutting from THE TIMES 27 JANUARY 1942 SALUTES TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES Sir,---In your issue of January 23 Dr. Edith Summerskill, M.P., referring to the order that women must salute N.F.S. officers, said that the first thing that recruits were taught was that a salute was not to the individual but to an honoured uniform. Is it not time that this extraordinary delusion was scotched once and for all? One does not salute a uniform---one salutes the holder of the King's commission. That is why soldiers must salute their officers, if they know them, when the latter are in mufti, and why they are not compelled to salute dummies in officers' uniforms in tailors' windows. Yours faithfully, SIDNEY SALOMON 87, Richmond Hill Court, Richmond, Surrey, Jan.23. At the bottom of the cutting is handwritten in black ink; 27 Jan y. 1942
Provenance
Straw collection bequeathed to the National Trust on the death in 1990 of William Straw.
Marks and inscriptions
Bottom of page: 27 Jan y. 1942 underlined
Makers and roles
The Times, printer and publisher