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He might well have asked or hewould have been allowed to ask.   But if one were to look at thecharacter of these two persons I could hardly imagine that someonelike Brigadier Jack Cronje under the circumstances and in theface of such an instruction against his background and experiencethat he would have asked any questions, thereby giving the impressionthat he was not
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entirely willing to act in this way without some protection. He was not the kind of person who would have shied away from thiskind of action under these circumstances.  Someone else mightwell have.  But against his background I don't think that in hiscase, he would ever have thought of asking such a question.