Occupational Therapy in Wartime

On the first day of this war, I listened to the conversation of a colonel and a member of the Indian Civil Service. Both were retired men whose whole lives had been spent in unselfish service to others, who had brought particularly able minds to each problem that had occurred in their work. The colonel had started as a youngster in the South African War and his life work had been governed by his desire to put to an end all that could lead to war. His outlook was that of a doctor who fights disease. The Indian Civil Servant had spent all his working life in thinking out and guiding the development of good government and of all that was best in the district where he had served. To both, the outbreak of another war meant the break up of most of that to which their lives had been devoted?but both realized that the