Royal Military College, Sandhurst

There was the ISI that was working with us.

They were all educated at Sandhurst in the UK.

They all came to training classes here in the United States.

But then there was the other ISI, the guys with the long beards, the guys who created the Taliban, the guys who were creating, funding, and arming terrorist groups to attack India.

He's older than de Gaulle.

And when Winston Churchill entered Sandhurst, he scraped in 91st out of 102 applications, but he graduated 20th.

out of 130 officer cadets who graduated that year.

So similar, difficult to get in, but once they're in, they definitely find their place.

This afternoon, I had a game of hockey which left me relatively unharmed.

Santurce hockey must be about the most dangerous game of all, masses of enthusiastic but none too skilful players, and I use that word in its loosest possible sense, flailing about.

If Eton hockey players are anything like it, I'm not surprised they say Waterloo was one on the playing fields.

It helped immunise the officers against the sight of blood and huge casualty lists.

Oswald Mosley was born into the gilded comfort of an old aristocratic family on a November day in 1896, the kind of privileged upbringing that produced both politicians and pretenders.

He entered Sandhurst, where he failed to meet the strict military standards, then served as a young officer in the First World War, coming back with a taste for leadership, but also for the sense that Britain was faltering in ways no single parliament could solve.

By 1918, when the war ended, Mosley had already made a name for himself among MPs and began his rapid climb into politics.

He entered Parliament as a Conservative MP for Harrow, but unlike most of his contemporaries, he was more interested in formulating broad economic ideas than adhering to party lines.

He flunked out of Eaton.

He went to Sandhurst, the military academy for Great Britain, and had to leave after he contracted gonorrhea.

Really was a total failure.

He was a stockbroker for a while and lost a lot of money, and the war came along and saved him because he got appointed a lieutenant commander without having to know anything about the Navy or anything.