How does thepoordevil decide whether he is supposed to defend his government or insist stoutly on his committee's right to see those wretched telegrams from Sierra Leone?
Thepoordevil died in a stupid war which Britain blundered into, ran badly and gave the professional officer corps free hand which led to the massive unneeded slaughter infantry being mowed down by machine guns.
In one, a poordevil who is the only regular in his local bar not to have made it on to television, rights matters by throwing himself out of a nearby upper window.