The realities of war leave small room for any kind of pose.

A high degree, also, of personal stoicism easily felt but not obtruded; and towards weak and small things--women and children--a natural softness and tenderness of feeling, as though a man who has upon him such stern responsibilities of life and death must needs grasp at their opposites, when and how he can; keen intelligence, _bien entendu_, modesty, courtesy; a habit of brevity; a boy's love of fun: with some such list of characteristics I find myself trying to answer my own question.

They are at least conspicuous in many leaders of the Allied Armies.
"Why don't you _boom_ your Generals ?" said an American diplomatist to me some eight months ago.

"Your public at home knows far too little about them individually.

But the personal popularity of the military leader in such a national war as this is a military asset." I believe I entirely agree with the speaker! But it is not the British military way, and the unwritten laws of the Service stand firm.