Hotler

Courtesy of a fellow-Aussie

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/4077305/Joan-Bright-Astley.html

made me laugh

Hi CT,

Thank you for sharing that with us. It is a very informative piece, and it also made me laugh.


Margaret

Margaret - you're very welcome, I particulary laughed at this:

Joan Bright got to know many of the commanders quite well. A particular favourite of hers was General Wavell, who became a regular correspondent. “The main ethical objection to war for intelligent people,” Wavell told her on one occasion, “is that it is so deplorably dull and usually so inefficiently run.” In 1942 Wavell cabled Ismay to ask whether Joan Bright could be sent out to India to set up a secretariat on the War Cabinet Offices model. The answer was a firm No

Yes CT, that was a good story.

I read somewhere else that she got to know George Gershwin.


Margaret