 | Marquess George Nathaniel Curzon Curzon of Kedleston - 1907 - 72 pages
...ideal Frontier officer — a taste for languages, some scientific training, and a powerful physique. The work, which he may be called upon to perform,...feels that the honour of his country is in his hands. I am one of those who hold that in this larger atmosphere, on the outskirts of Empire, where the machine... | |
 | George Nathaniel Curzon Marquis of Curzon - 1907 - 76 pages
...ideal Frontier officer — a taste for languages, some scientific training, and a powerful physique. The work, which he may be called upon to perform,...feels that the honour of his country is in his hands. I am one of those who hold that in this larger atmosphere, on the outskirts of Empire, where the machine... | |
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... they will hardly succeed— patience and tact, initiative and self-restraint, these are the complex qualifications of the modern school of pioneers. To these attainments should be added— for the ideal Frontier officer — a taste for languages,... 