THE 'PARATROOPS' OF TROJAN LEGEND
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FOR ten weary years, so ancient legend says, tilt GrAks laid seige to Troy; still the great bastions withstood all' assault. Then Agamemnon, their resourceful leader, withdrew his army to Tenedos, feigning defeat. Cautiously at first the Trojans crept out from their city to wonder at the monstrous figure of a war-horse which thair enemies had left behind in their retreat. Boisterously they dragged their strange trophy within the city gates, and there was feasting until far into the night.
But when the last reveller was sleeping, Agamemnon's men came down from their hiding place in the bowels of the giant effigy,disarmed the wine-drowsed Trojans and flung wide the great gates' of the city for the Greek legions returning stealthily through the night. Thus fell the city founded by the immortals of antiquity.
This present war is as much a war of resourcefulness as of resources. When its final history is written it will be fond that Britain. has never lacked resourceful leaders, either in the Forces or in the Factories behind the Forces.