I'm sure it would have got a few people saying, oh, how interesting, they've broken out into North African music, but actually it just didn't sound convincing.
This resulted in a tremendous loss of self-confidence. Soldiers and officers came to doubt the things they were fighting for, even the necessity of fighting.
"You will never know how much enjoyment you've lost until you get to dictating your biography," he wrote. "you'll be astonished at how like talk it is and how real it sounds."
In your personal life, your reaction to stressful situations like these might be to start Shouting, or to go hide in a corner and feel sorry for yourself for a while.
An official of the Philatelic Bureau said an inquiry had been launched, but said it was too late to recall the stamps from hundreds of post offices across the country.