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Walking down the line of Aldershot's Malplaquet Bar- racka one's feet were suddenly not a-tapping to the sound of à military march.
It acemed as if Spring had suddenly touched the long dark barrack rooms and started them off singing. Inside, the stendy rhythmic grunt of the bass and euphoniura envorted with the AMERICAN STRIKES shrill treble of the flute, the
smooth toneA of the clarionet i Ever since the war, a longa mellow fusion, the cornet and linked with the solemn oboe in series of labour disputes have been the French Horn cut keen into the cause of continual frustration the mixture, and over it all the America. They reached a Lanxohooe gushed_a_throaty sob.. stimax when the railway strike Further down the lines solemn. threatened to bring the economic carnest-faced soldiers like! life of the nation to a complete standstill. The crisis was avoid- ed at the last minute when Pre- sident Truman threatened draft.strikers into the Army.
in
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the event, these emergency pow ers were not needed, and in any case foundered upon the rocks of Senate opposition.
By
CAPTAIN C. W.
SMITH
fairies with wanda, waved musical batons Meanwhile,
in A fragile the House of Representatives had the gruff exhortations of their |
1-2-3-4 motion in compliance to prepared mare moderate anti-"Queen" in front to use their | strike legislation embodied in arms "less like legs of mutton." what is known as the Case Bill,
Spring had indeed come to the must important clause of Malplaquet Barracks. Its com. which aimed to make any strike ing there marked the long illegal for a period of 60 days awaited resurgence to life of the after mediation had commenced, Royal Military School of Music, The President last week
the Mecca of the Army bands-
Six long years of war | cised his right to veto and reject, had drastically cut down the ed this measure--a somewhat per School's activities, but the ur- plexing move for one who only rival of the first Spring of 12 days previously had threaten- Peace meant for them' the start ed to put all strikers into uni- of a drive to help the Army's form. The explanation ́undoubt, regimental bands strike up
exer-
adly lies in the fact that, as head
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Lord Shortenke, reading, that there is a boot in goldfish, bas been considering disposing of some of the denizens of the Boulton Wynfovers ponds and bowls, much to Lady Shortcake's delight,
She feels that the days when every guest found a bowl of them in the bedroom have gone forever. Shortage of labour has compelled Lord Shortenke to feed the fish himself, and he finds that their fascination wears off. In fact, he Bald to her yesterday, "I'm not sure, you know, that these little blighters don't bore me. They never do anything. And they look damned silly Better get 'em count- ed and catalogued and auction 'em. He added later. "But I won't part with Pride of Taunton. - of.....Nuneaton,-- or ---Sailor
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Message From The Zoo
Only by co-operation and under- standing can the nations of the world hope to mucogod in laying the foundations of a now and batter order, based on a Charter for Animals, and going faster then apund.
(MISS LIEN HO).
Not Relevant To Anything Much
"Madness." saya ધ writer, "sometimes seems to break out in the House at question time.” As when a pathetically small Liberal asked the Minister of Fuel why the Queen of Syria had been allowed to hang dah all over the facade of the Haymarket
Theatre on
Empire Day, and whether his at- tention had been called to the fact that each fish was wearing rain- bow-colored straw hat with tooth- brush stuck in it.
"There Wan
| Hansard.
no reply." says
Why, Firemen?
What strange
mental disease
Why
which
again in their full pre-war may be a snobbish privilege, it the Big Four-Great Britain, of the Democratic Party. Mr raise the
force. The drive, designed to seldom increases one's confid-Russia, Prussia, Austria, set makes people honx the first bri- Truman cannot afford to alicnate bands at present suffering from kind.
standard of Army ence in the destinies of man-out to rebuild Europe, suggests gades? This craze seems to be the Labour unions' support-the lack of personnel and training.
many fascinating parallels with growing But to counter-balance it biggest factor in his party's suc- consists of an
How comforting if statesmen events of the present day. the brigades are no longer called intensive four belonged to a separate and supe-
out to remove cess at the last election. The fu months instructors course
But Harold Nicolson does)
heads of boya remove the for rior race! How disconcerting to more than tell it brilliantly. Ife was it always fremen who had to
from between railings But ture outlook is still anything hur band N.C.Os. and a year's course discover, дн
bandamer showing their mystic radius, that Minis-shows, in a subtle yet convinc-old charter, like the one
one approaches ing fashion, the decisive effect promising. Congress persists in for young
do thia job? Was due to some ats opposition to price controls. promising musical talent.
ters and Ambassadors appear, that character may exercise on lays down that any whale washed Thus the demand for higher
A Luxury?
as a general rule, not markedly policy, and circumstance unlike oneself-with the same character.
on ashore between Hythe and Deal wages is likely to continue. The
la the property of the Curator of C.IO. maritime unions of dock with many
The regimental band, along vanities and the same absurdi-
the Muniment Room at Appleby? other pence-time tics, and (as often as not) a
The subject he has chosen is Two men were running along a ers and ships crews threaten to Army niceties, had been dealt deplorable taste in after-dinner vast and comlicated. Napoleon's street where a fire had broken out. strike. In that event, the flow a crippling blow
by the war, anecdotes.
fall, like Hitler's, found Europe orner," said one of the men. "I've "I hope it's not, the house as the of grain to Europe will again At its outbreak the inrge
Yet these are the men who re- harnessed to the war-machine,) cease. This may well make bread majority of regimental bands model, maps, coin
seen that twice." explosive but totally unprepared to con- rationing in Britain inevitable. disappeared almost
formulas and, ultimately, pull vert
Or again. overnight.
A man sa flimea the workings of that rauing from the windows of a Bandsmer, were quickly return the lever that starts an atomic machine to constructive pence-house. He best on the door, nad- ed to regimental duties, and the bomb descending, FRENCH LOANS
time purposes.
when a woman opened it, he blurt training of band boys practical.
"It is inevitable Nicolsoned out in great excitement. "The ly came to a standstill. Man- An international conference writes, "in any alliance or conli- house is on fire!" "Is that all?” France, with the aid of her power for fighting became the involves not only national as tion, formed for the immediate said the woman calmly. "Weil, mised bundle of loans from the keynote; bands, it seemed, were pirations and United States, should now he in
a luxury war.could not afford.
economic ur-purpose of defeating a common it's all can think of for the gencics
said the man. the several part- also the private enemy, that a position at ity rate to make a Typical example of the fate antagonisms of fallible human ners should hesitate to disclose
of-the-regimental band was that beinga
The Suet Touch serious beginning with economic of the two bands of the Middle- ference table.
their ultimate-ambitions either; round A COR reconstruction. The need is not sex Regiment. Broken
precisely or in advance,
Charlie Suet has an idea for a up at only to repair wartime losses, but the beginning of the war, by
As Harold Nicolson observest
"The realization of these ob now kind of satellite town. First "Nobody who has not actu-jectives must obviously depend you choose your town. Then you also to overtake very serious ar the time of the Battle of France ally watched statesment deal upon the nature of the final vic- that down to make a site for |_cars_of...equipment that had ac- in 1940 had started many of
the satellite town. The people ing with each other can have tory: if it be complete, then made homeless would then be cumulated before the war. Large-2nd Battalion band were sery |
any real idea of the immenso they may find that they have billeted on householders in another ly for political reasons, Frenching an stretcher-bearers, others
part played in human affairs claimed too little; if it be in town, until the satellite had been business men were allowing their und some had become casualties.
had become platoon N.C.O., by auch unavoyable,"
und complete, then they may find built. They would then move back plant to deteriorate rapidly be- More unfortunate was the lat
often unrecognisable,
have that they
claimed too to the new houses. cnuses fore 1939, with the consequence Battalion band which was cap
as lassitude, affability, per-much. sonal affcction that even then the proportion of tured with tho
Faster Than Heat or dislike, regiment in misunderstanding, deafness or
"Moreover, since even in the obsolete and worn-out machine Hong Kong in 1941, and later incomplete command of a for- it is difficult enough to main-is said to have invented a method A man who put his arm into a most favourable circumstances lion's enge and clawed the beast tools was quite astonishingly high. lost men while being shipped France needs, more than anything over, to Japan
eign language, vanity, social tain unity of purpose, direction. of doping electric hares. This on the ill-fated else. a large-scale restocking with Japanese
interruptions _transport" "Lisbon capital goods for
Maru" which was torpedoed. which she is certainly at present in no position were not be to silenced by the the regimental banda
But
Churchill Acts
but
scaled
nioment."
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and momentary states and sacrifice as between allies announcement has puzzled the
engagements,
health."
I have
in war- natural
"How on tendency police considerably, arises to postpone until victory earth can drugs be introduced into the little ereatures' olce- has been won the discussion of tricity?" asked a rather silly de- OF issues which пте certain to tective' yesterday."
matic. stalemate
Strabismus
all
in
thia
to pay; and the American loans war, and were destined to strike VIENNA, subtitled "A Study
THE CONGRESS will presumably go mainly for up again. this purpose, to the extent that
in Allied "In the grim months following several points of view one of the to gow dissension."
create controversy, to discour- Unity," is fromage other potential allies, and they are not used up in meeting Dunkirk, letters began to appear most illuminating and absorb current deficits on the balance of in the Press asiting, "Where are ing books
Harold Nicolson is writing of Preserve), of Utrecht, says that Dr. Strabismus (Whom God payments. One part of the loan our military bands, and why very long time. read for a the events of 1813. But then people's noses are alowly grow is carmarked for buying surplus
don't we hear them?" Bobinil
The story of how, after the ed out of an unusually sensible common cold, which results
sentences might have been pleking longer. This is due to the American shipping necessary human reasoning. The
these demands wns a Bound sudden collapse of Napoleon's and well-written contemporary intensive nose-blowing. step if transport is not to be an was spread all over the country
Army ambitious, and not entirely un-editorial analysing
the diplo gues
thinics, by the on. the even more serious limitation on busily training for the battles
upplies than ability to pay.
haye trunks All to come. Few people, especially
recently year 2380 we shall achieved in Paris.
like elephants. Asked whether in all, the loans are much smaller those in the biltzed towns had and the steady release of men' Then, as now, Russin was the slophants got their trunks by than the loan which Britain is still the time, or opportunity to see from the forces, the bands found incalculable factor; and then, as
blowing their .noses, Strablamus waiting for Congress to ratify them. But, it was reasoned, if themselves faced with another now, an air of preverse in- said he thought not. Experiments and they are probably a good deal the Army couldn't come to the musician shortage.
scrutability velled Russian aline cold germs, showed that
on rats, which were injected with less than M. Blum hoped to get and there is nothing like a lusty that the Royal Military School
people ther the banda could, It was to meet this demand and methods.
could be induced to blow its nose, Although the nominal total of the military march to rouse and stir of
and so the mosca did not grow loans is 1,337 million U.S. dol-1 the spirits of the people.
It goes without saying that longer. Music, started their new
The doctor's secretary. courses, though lars, the free money obtained by
undoubtedly there are gigantic differences. MI Aubergine de la Goudron- the main burden France amounts only to 670 mil.
of training But, though the Czar Alexander nerie-Roulaquette, says that Stra- will fall on the regimental band of Russia was the type of bene-blamus is at present investigating lion dollars, as against the 3,000 zoillions for which M. Blum is this, took action. In so many music
Mr. Churchill quick to see who has the taste and talent for appear again, the difficulties of
musters. For the man or boy volent desput who may never an electric onion,
to have asked. · But.
and the words he told the War Office "stretch" in the Army ahead of tions of his
still has a long his position and the contradic Down Omelette Avenue loans made to the French do not to "Get the bands going again, him, the job na bandsman is a him to resort to diplomacy of a gigantle machine which lays a temperament led News comes from Amerien of a. need ratification by Congress, and Get as many going as possible proposition. Whether ho have been given without political and as quickly as possible.
is kind that now. seems striking-concrete house in the manner of a conditions in any way comparable
hen laying an egg." But short- The bands rapidly began to master and his instructors or
taught by the regimental band-ly familiar.
Nicolson's scotch of Alexap to a scarcity of houses in sholl. age of concrete will probably lead with those forced on Great Bri- form, although, in many cases, by the Royal Military School of der is part of a long gallery of Dried houses in packets
not with their original members Music, he will get a sound vivid and impressive portraits: their place.
will take nor in the samo strength as in musical, education which should
Talleyrand, the turncoat of their pre-war days. Attached stand him in good stead when genius; mainly to training depots, they he comes out of the Army, And
Captain Foulenongh Metternich, with his powder-Reproved by his host for drink Cairo, June 25,
played to the Army and to the aa for his pay and the "conmale-ed hair, his Olympian good ng from the bottle, Foulenough The Arab League today said bomb sites. They played at ments, well,
people in camps, factories and sions he gets on band engage- looks, and, his intolerabio self-ald."Although I am getting on that Syria and issued a decree passing-dut
ask a bandsman | Buffelency:
in venta, my eight laattil ̈ ́ens forbidding Import, buying or dances and
parades, concerts, how much he earne, and hu Castlereagh, one of the great-cellent. I can still drink without selling of Zionist made goods They played at National Bay- This war has proved that the aries, who was hated in his own
on tours abroad won't tell you,
eat of English Foreign Secrets the aid of ginnsea "ta from Palestinė.
Penalties un to life terms Soldier" weeks until finally modern warfare in which. It men have been hated before or of no English book published ing Campaigus and "Salute the band, despite the mechanics of country as few modern states result is never dull. I can think have been fixed for violatora of their most welcome playing aroma to have no place, is still ince the new decres, while confiscat came with the V.E. and VJ a poccssary part of the Army. ed goods will be sold at hal? colebrations.
Harold Nicolson's them during the past six months theme is better calculated to hold the in- price. Associated Press.
With the ending of the wat on.
The band, It seems, will play complex: but his handling of it torest and stir the imagination
light and skilful that the of any educated grown-up.
said
tain.
SYRIA BOYCOTT
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