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YOU WERE ON A ROOF TILING AND WEARING EVENING DRESS- YOU SAW YOUR GIRL FRIEND WITH ANOTHER MAN SO YOU TOOK A SLATE FROM THE ROOF AND THREW IT AT YOUR
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Vinubli
THE SLATE FLEW STRAIGHT BACK AGAIN INTO ITS ORIGINAL PLACE
-THIS DREAM MEANS:
A dream is one way in which your sube, conscious mind attempts to remind you of something you would prefer to forget. By disguising its message in symədin.. 14 tries to get past the resistance of your conscious mind To facing up to it.
This dream, for instance, in trying to advise you not to be conceited. You feel yourself in an elevated position (on the roof); socially superior to your girl friend and her companion (you wear evening dress, they don't). Pre simably because she dares to think of other men, you fing your fancied social superiority at her to annoy her (you throw a satel
But you fall the slate comes back)-and Hightly, too. At the moment you seem to be in love with your own fancied superiority; in short, a snob,
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the families from Egypt
take it all in their stride
HERE has been a run
On here
hot-water bottles
R NIGEL BIRCH,
wing the past Me Secretary
few days, and this coming week it is likely to be step- ped up, as the RAF'S PTC 23 swings into full action.
PTC 23 (the initials stands for Personal Transit Centre) is one of the organi- to take sations
up care of the wives and children of RAP and Army
have who
been men
Canal evacuated from the Zone.
And the first thing that wives find they want, after from Egypt's coming
hot-water warmth.
noted bottle. NAARI have the fact, and will not again have to knock up local chemists for supplies on Sunday, as they did when the first party of evacuees arrived.
a
This week there will not be, as in the past, occasional aeroplane loads of evacuees coming in. "Operation Hot- water Bottle" is now in full swing, and one aeroplane load a day is arriving.
of
for Air. announced in the Commons that the partial evacuation Service families is being made from the Canal Zone. Four thousand women and children are being brought back by seu and air before the end of the year.
The Air Ministry are responsible for a ir transport arrangements, and for arranging ac- commodation in Black- pool. They have re- ceived, said Mr Birch, generous co - operation from everyone in the town.
What is happening in Blackpool? Here is a report
by ROBERT KINGSLEY
Pictures by VICTOR DAEE8
3s. a day for babies. Already quarters have been prepared for 2,000 other rank's and 600 officers' families.
'Mediterranean cruise'
But if PTC 23 is taking the operation very much in its stride, so Luo
Some are the wives.
that we saw had hardly got to Egypt before they were sent home: some had been there long
£1
under
to grow rools. None ned to think it anything out the
way to have had to bring family of say three children ten on a two-day acro- plane-train-coach trip after being given only a few hours' notice to leave. We did not encounter one grumbler,
I met Mrs E. P. Fryett. of Hastings, recently of Ismailia. Mrs Fryett, wife of a flight- sergeant, had already caught a cold. She brought her children, (10) and David (12). Peter Linette (5) hame by ship.
"Quite the cruise," she said.
at
Naples, Gibraltar."
Mediterranearn "We called Marseilles and
But it was only a week or two ago that she was peering through the shutters of her own flat watching до Egyptian mob dragged out
finder with the DFC named burning furniture
of the homes of neighbours. E, F. Nind,
Wing Commander Nind, Now her main anxiety is about married and father of a David's schooling. He was at a bgarding school. in Cairo and five-year-old daughter, was loved it. He does not like the stationed in South Wales idleness forced on him here when he gut his orders to while a place is being found for
him in a grammar school.
ITC 23 is housed in a red-brick promenade hotel, with a "For sale" notice in one of its windows on Black- go to Blackpool. He had pool's North Shore. It is just been reading about the staffed by 70 RAF and evacuation and pitying col- Army personnel hand pick- leagues in Egypt for the
work it would involve. ed for their human ap- proach to life.
Next thing, he found It is predominantly RAF, himself at the receiving end and the CO is a wing of it all. And already in commander, a former Path Blackpool he seems to have
NAAFI stores have had a rush. Just one hot-water
bottle remains of a once ample'stock.
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vested the whole operation with a quite remarkable humanity, so that a situa- tion that is trying for every- one is being stripped of all the worst features of an enterprise with the dreary label "official,”
The parties of wives and children erriving by train are met by RAF and WRAF "teams who first of all assure them that they will not be pushed around.
pot
David may take longer to place than other children. Thanks to the help given locally most
children are being fitted into schools within two days of their arrival, some of them consider organisation in this that the respect is better than it need be. High-chairs free
At a private hotel just off the sea front, we found 10 wives and 17 children. Mrs Nora Ditchfield, the proprietress, cald: "They've really settled them- selves in wonderfully; they've been very good."
The RAF have provided free high-chairs for infants, and Mrs Ditchfield's five year- old daughter Shella had made the
A FIRST NOVEL
By A Man Who May Be Pope
an
house
writes like THE FOUNDLING (Hut Strachey
chinson, 98. 6d.) is angel, but an
#
angel who has a first novel by Cardinal crackpots at a country
force-landed in a community of Francis Spellman, of New party. York, who many Americans believe might well be the that he is a next Pope.
Cardinal Spellman offers J draught like presbytery tea- warm and comforting.
Broan
A one-armed. soldier the Kaiser's war finds a live baby in a corner of the Christ mas Crib in St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Cathedral, New
There is Ned Moon, boasting happy and in- tegrated mah, yet transformet into a taman bomb síle as soon as the intellectuat Marina, his colleague's wife, detonates in the rural peace of Flitchcombe.
There is Marina's husband-
Acon-plump and swariby, with great giglamp eyes, his arms always talk, like a dancing bearts.
ard held cut in
York. "And while the snow And ghastly children. One Li
falling, called "Co-Co."
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a city dream-
ed, a
cabby
The self-importance, the BI-
"hod a Utudirilsing. As he drank his
soldier's left leprosy-ma
that
slept in first cup of tea he caught sight the strong of himself in the dressing-table cradle of a mirror....But what was
kind of phos- phorescent mould on his head, In this cosy cardinalitial above his left ear? He paused. prose Оле learns that the startled, teacup in air, and soldier cannot adopt the baby stared. because he is a Protestant and the foundling is rated Roman Catholic But everyone wants to help.
Soldier
Jolly, Hateful
"It was merely the greying patch over his temple, of course. .But it looked dreadfully Uke what i was; the place up- of on which a supernatural finger
and foundling keep close together. One follows with mild interest the progress
the foundling through a farm had been laid, under whase institution, his strivings
in steel touch the warmth of life music, his romance. Then the had fled, never to return."
bilnded
new war, and he is And the cardinal reaches for
the sugar bow!.
and In the strenuous, jolly, hateful proceedings of a house "What's wrong with my eyes, party at the Manor. Aron seems major?"
likely to be a deceived hus- band But he avolds that fade "There's nothing wrong with because Ned. for all his inner the eyes a man has given for commotion, handdy makes the defence of his country, fel- pass at Marina.
low."
50-30
The disintegrated Ned runk The point about this sheere, out on her, bleating angrily. tolerant, and
book Is "All this bother! Ruination!" that it is obviously concerned The excitement ends, like the with real people, real problems. world in that T. S. Eliot thing. In fact, the discovery of a baby not with a bang, bụt a whim- in St. Patrick's Cathedral in- per.
in the reallimaufry, is describedi as
spired it. In England royaîtles Gwen, another girl wil go to orphans of all ligions.
Strange company
"tangled, dejected, and wet." Do I borrow these labels and apply them to Miss Strachey's tale? I abstain. There is a her new TN for the
novel, THE saving malice in Miss Strachey's MAN ON THE PIER examination of these Drips. (John Lehmann, 108. 60. This book offers dew diluted recently published), Julia with diallusion.
ABOVE: The RAP is in charge--and that means entertainment children too, Helping with the overloaded rocking- horse-property of the hotel proprietor's daughter are Flight- Lieutenant S. E. Fearne (left) and Squadron- Leader H. N. C. Dixon.
ABOVE: It's cold out- side and raining, but the évacuee children take peek at Blackpool through the hotel window. So dif-
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visitors free of her rocking ferent from the sunshine
horse and other toys.
The visitors get three meals a daybreakfast, luncheon and high tea at Ave; and the house was quiet, Mrs Ditchfield said, by about seven in the evening. While WC were there the children gave to everything an atmosphere of holiday.
while their mothers patiently wrestled with large civilian buff forms relating to family allowances.
In Egypt they received colonial allowances, which in the case of the light-sergeant's wife I spoice to, added up to a total net income of £82 a month.
What they miss
The wives missed first their husbands, secondly the sunshine. They had seen little of Black- they saw made them think the pool's shops but the price tags
RAF ought to arrange a special Blackpool allowance.
They were all excited at being able to get fresh milk instead of tinned for their children.
The children seemed mostly to They are asked to sign miss bathing. They looked at forms until they have put the waves lapping Blackpool's night's sleep between them and promenade, decided the water their flight from Egypt. And it was much the same article as is left to them at what time they they had known in the Bitter report to PTC 23 next day to age Lakes in Egypt and wanted to The doctor, submit to documenta bathe despite the November tion, and discuss money matters temperature.
but
at Suez.
Che SNAPSHOT GUILD
Shooting On The Fly
FRIEND of ours came surprisingly good, almost any round the other day to ask type of camera having a lens about taking pictures from the 1/3 or faster and shutter air. He was flying to New speed of 1/100 yields satisfac. York, and wanted to shoot tory shots. some black-and-white pictures en route but wondered the technique.
about
:...
When it came to film we re commended a fine grain film of average speed, pointing out that Ina-much as he-like most of he needed sufficient film speed the rest of us does not own an to allow the use of a filter on aerial camera, his first question the camera and at the samo was about cameras, "Can I use time needed a fine grain film an ordinary camera for making since aerial shots always call shots from an airliner?" be for enlargement
usked.
.
Since haze is present at high We told him that he could, altitudes, we suggested he use a adding that while box camera K2 Alter. This alter, we told results are risky, but sometimes him, would serve for air chote and later be useful for shots on the ground
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with the accounts officer, were things getting difficult When the wives do report they for wives in Egypt? "Well there find they
18 Include as a member, (6), do not have to queue was an unpleasant atmosphere can sit in a comfortable that you could feel wherever yon 17 Possesses (4).
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can shop at a NAAFT displaying Barnst, who has brought
Jung 20. 6)" and John ^ (18 montha) | 41 fair selection of toys (as well as home, hot-water bottles, of course), view: of most. while they await their turn to: I left with the
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your window, hold, close to the window
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"Shooting at 1/100 with: must black-and-white films you'll probably want to use a lens opening of 1/8 for an averago shot. A bright scene-michas you ret whom you flyover beaches calls for an opening. half-way between 1/8 and f/11. And a dark sceno, like a snow. loss winter scene, calls for an. opening of 1/8.31 AMD 10/25
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