It is a curious, but important fact, that in England the more the public see their Army in action, the less attractive they find it. I do not doubt that one of the reasons for the slow response to recruitment is because the Army has not carried out the promises given in the war. They are permanently quartered today on too many acres of England and they are apparent with all their paraphernalia and battle array as too great a proportion of our population. A great part of my constituency has been dominated by the Army for much too long. After the last war, the Army cleared up in double quick time and got into the esteem of the public thereby. The generals should not think that, by hanging on to land year after year, by extending their boundaries, by bombing practices, and by putting up barbed wire, that they are making the Army attractive. They are doing the reverse. The temper in my constituency has been rising all the time, and I am very glad of it. Perhaps a year ago we might have had some difficulty in finding a case, but there is no doubt now that public feeling is rising. I think the War Office chance of keeping their end up at a well balanced local public inquiry is much less than it was before. The Under-Secretary of State had better look into that side of the matter, and see that these decisions are now taken very rapidly indeed, because the effect of a long delay is having very deleterious consequences on the public morale and the affection of the people for their Army.