Letter: Shoes of sloth

Thursday 04 July 1996 23:02 BST

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Shoes of sloth

Sir: Lieutenant Colonel Richard Quicke, commander of the Winchester Training Regiment, considers wearing training shoes a sign of sloth ("New soldiers find going tough without their mums",

4 July).

Is it not because young men realise they will be under the total control of the holders of such absurd prejudices that they do not join up?

GEOFFREY MYERS

Croydon

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