Jobs for Generals

To Britain's problem of redeployment, reconstruction, reconversion, war's end had added another: jobs for generals. Last week, Lieut. General Sir Bernard C. ("Tiny") Freyberg, V.C. (Crete, North Africa, Italy), was redeployed. His new job: Governor General of New Zealand.

Choice Empire plums had already gone to other Army bigwigs: Canada's new Governor General Field Marshal Sir Harold Rupert L. G. Alexander, India's Viceroy Field Marshal Viscount Wavell, and Palestine's High Commissioner Field Marshal Viscount Gort. South Africa's governor generalship may go to either Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur W. Tedder (Eisenhower's Deputy), R.A.F. Bomber Command's retiring Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Travers ("Bert") Harris, or Chief of the Imperial General Staff Field Marshal Lord Brooke.

Past the prewar retirement age in Britain's No. 1 Army job, Marshal Brooke is about ready to leave it. One possible successor: Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery, now administering the British zone in occupied Germany.

Extreme sample of what demobilization may hold in store for brass hats of lesser size is the case of Brigadier Thomas Evers, of Dewsbury, Yorkshire. Last week, he was offered his prewar job of bus conductor. He declined with thanks.

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