. "In addition to these normal qualifications, for an officer to remain in the service, he must practice monastic celibacy; to remain free of public stigma and humiliation he must remember that ???a defence of an attack??? is now ??? a defence is an attack???; he must be prepared to live in sub-human habitation, give his undying, unquestioning, unrecognised, unreciprocated loyalty, and for any hope o" . . .