Guiding Light Smashed By.ccccescces Field Marshals

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“hilst the average increase in service pay, ponsions and allowancos announced by Thorneycroft on February 6th is within the 'guiding light! figure of 4% per annum (boing 7#% over two yoars). senior officers did much better. Fiocld Marshals got a £20 per woek increase bringing thoir annual rate up to £7,026 or an increase of over 17% A Lieutenant General's pay goes up by an extra £712 » year to make £4,836, also ovor 17% upe The oxcuse given for this disparity is that the sonior officers got no increase in 1962 at the last review of pay. However, if tincomes restraint! is so much in’ the nation's interest, surely those most patriotic of all people — the militany chiefs — could set an example?