Wednesday
Noises all night, and slept very
badly. Fine sunny morning. “Daily Express” had a flaring headline “All
Men of 35 To Be Called Up”, followed by an article stating categorically that
all men born after 1909 are to be
called-up, regarded, and kept in the army until the end of the Japanese
war. The article suggests there has been
some “mis-apprehension” about the position of men of these ages, which the
Ministry of Labour is anxious to clear up.
Am wondering whether Spivy was correct in what he told me last December,
when he assured me I was free to take the Wisbech post. I told him that I was born in 1910 and was
Grade III, when he said: “Well, that’s alright, you’re quite free to take the
job if you can get it.” I remember telling Poulter shortly afterwards that I felt I ought to have had this in writing. Incidentally, in his last letter Poulter said
that Spivy had been asking after me very kindly.
Bought the “Herald” and “The
Times”, but neither mention this business, so that it may be nothing more than
a piece of dirty “Express” journalism.
But it makes one very anxious.
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