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THE OUTLOOK IN EUROPE
FRIDAY,
NOTES OF THE DAY
NORDIC NONSENSE
MARCH 15, 1985.
IN A WILTSHIRE VILLAGE
'i'ne ethnologists do not think much of the Nordic theories of Herr Hitler and his coadjutora One of them, lecturer at Guttin- Many years have passed since the ing dragged out of bed to enjoy ren University, was discovered to Wild Women chained themselves to themselves. Eavo told a friend that what the the iron palings of Downing-street, Nazi leaders had to say about race insulted Cabinet Ministers, slapped the Gulld chiefly consist of scienti- The outward visible activities of was "rubbish." This came to the cars of the authorities, as all policemen, destroyed national profile and profoundly intellectual ro- adverse criticiarna do in Nazi or perly, and otherwise favourably search of a competitive nature. Fascist countries. The ethnologist impressed the country at large as There are brief contests which may drow, further odium upon himself
single meeting, auch as inter-inem-
The Very Idea!
HOW TO RAISE THE WIND
Novel Recipe for
Bazaara
There are all sorts of ways
by contradicting the official Nordic to their deep sense of responsibility to conducted within the limits of a of raising the wind, but the fantasy in his writings, thus, as and their high standard of culture. ber age and weight guessing. This good old bazaar system, still the head of the Nazi Racial- Roughly, the same number or competition calls for good judg-highly favoured in church Political Department puts it, alding years have elapsed since our village ment, considerable power of deduc and abetting those who challenge street, trembled beneath, the heavy tion, and tremendous tact. It also and other circles, takes a lot the declalve influence of hereditary tramp of the Ancient Order of provides scope for retaliatory mea of beating. Basically, one forces on the history, destiny, and Foresters, or the heavier trend ofsures. civilisation of peoples. For this Old fellows, as we swung by to the
bazaar is pretty much like offence he has been deprived of his one and only, yet none the less bulbs," which rages throughout the another, but there are vari University post. It is one more inspiring, march of our village winter, from equinox till equinox.ous ways of organising one." Inmontable comment on the straits band. to which culture has been reduced in Germany under the narrow,
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Then there is the "battle of
For this great rivalry grit and
nessed.
Take 1 charitable institution in
The connection between these two stamina are required. In the fall Here's a useful recipe, any- fanatical political-sectarianism of phenomena is a logical one. Man, of the year each member receives how: the Nazis. Experts who will not as a public institution, has passed: one daffodil bulb, which she burles. don the official blinkers and speak Emancipated Woman reigns in his After that it is a matter of sheer through the Government amplifiers stead. Man no longer move in pluck. But none of these events need of funds. Place it under. And their occupations gone. Yetmagnificent procession through our can compare with a glorious half distinguished patronage, and steep In saying that the Nordle theoriesvillage streets; no gathering la an hour spent in watching the visit of the German Government are sacred to them, Women, by virtue Ing clocutionist recite Milton's 08 deoply in debt as possible. Surround with a dozen and a half "Paradise Lost." In this remote willing workers and 1 active rubbish the ethnologist referred to of their enfranchisement, invade was only expressing what must be political meetings, although, be-village such a thing is so rarely wit-secretary. Mix in 6 or 6 ladies in the minds of millions of people cause no sane woman admits that throughout the world. If the Ger she at thirty until she is forty, their It must be noted in commisera mans be racially the cream of numbers aro gratifyingly small. tion for the great majority of our humanity, it is a pity. that they Women possess themselves of pigs women folk that they do not belong
the should, through their present Gov- for the sheer joy of attending big to Gulld of Emancipated ernment, be the exponents of an suppers, at which, for some abstruse Women. They are not gloriously Intellectual Intolerance that pitches reason, pigs and politics become free. They are not established nor them at one stroke back to the hopelessly mixed up. Of an even prospective spinsters. They are Middle Ages or farther.
ing as we step out of the chill night, not either from choice or force of and Into the glowing interior of circumstances splendidly childless. the village inn our first impression Neither are they wealthy enough to la-here at least is a man's place. entrust their domestic duty to hire But when we look behind the door lings. They are merely wives and we find we are mistaken,
mothers fettered to the burdensome necesalty of perpetuating our race,
WAR MYSTERY
than
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"Wot were it she were on upon?" "Didn' you 'enr what the
of title and allow to simmer for six months. Stand the result be- fore a clear fire in a small room until a committee begins to form. Flatter the Indies of title until they consent to become pat- tronesses, then put aside in a cool place until quite firm.....
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Rush of Kip to the Head Bring me my stoutest driver,
bring me my horn-faced spoon, For the dew lies fresh on the fairways where the divots how to the moon; There's a long trail, and a strong trail, and the niblicks all- row-.
of articles, furnituro, clothing, Take a miscellaneous collection bric-a-brac, etc., of little or Dr. and Mrs. P. Wong-Quincey and
apparent value, use, or beauty. family wish to thank all kind
History would be a great deal friends and sympathisers for their more interesting if we could get at
Sprinkle freely with labels bearing presence at the Burial Service of its insignificant footnotes. It is
prices greatly in excoas of the orf Sister Mary Terosita, (Phyliin
ginal cost of the articles in ques- Wong-Quincey) от Maryknoll forever hinting at absorbing little The Emancipated Women's Guild Sisters, at Happy Valley yester-stories that would make much bet-meets behind closed doors. What
The meeting has dispersed; the tlon. Arrange en clean baize. day, and for Boral tributes sent. tor reading than the really impor-it thinks is a profound secret; what lights are out, and the cars of the covered tables round a largo room tant things which get all the space it does is steeped in mystery; what more cultured members have long or hall in some convenient district. but in most cases it does no more it means to do is with us a matter disappeared. Two elderly dames, Tightly squeeze several hundred hint. The anecdotes and of anxious speculation. But one trudging homeward together, are philanthropists into the room or romances which would make his thing we do know and that is, that, silent because the business of caver- hall; thoroughly pluck these, and tory real to us get lost in the after the manner of Israelites about ing ground requires a great deal of strain their credulity by pressing shuffle, says an American colum- to leave Egypt, Its members do breath. At length they reach a nist. A few days ago some relief everything with their loins girded, parting of the ways, and in the thoni with the articles of furni werkers were excavating Indian or, to be more explicit and a trifle deepening twilight they pause a ture, clothing, bric-a-brac, etc.......... mounds on the edge of the famous less indelicate, with their hata on. little, after the manner of their
Unless the greatest trouble and Civil War battlefield of Shiloh, in The secretary, completely hatted, kind, before taking their respective care have been taken in the pre- Tennessee. They accidentally reads the minutes. The president, { roads. ·
paration of this dish the result drovo their picka into a grave in even more completely latted, and which had been burled nine un-midst breathless silence, signs them.
"An' who was she na did crack 'er will often form what la known
A dedcit, In this known Union soldiers killed in that The treasurer counts the money in jaw zoo?".
case tho BI- counts will have to be carefully The fact that Germany has battle. And one of the skeletonsa hat; that is to say the treasurer,
turned out to be that of a girl and not the money, is in the hat. Youd' mean the one they zed was a pared afresh from similar fa- "Oh, she! I can't mind 'er name. | cooked or the whole bazaar pre- now admitted possession of an Skeletons, of course, were about Buns and tea are consumed stand-cutionist. Theyd reckon as 'ow gredients in another room or hall. Air Force is causing some con- all that remained. Each was en Ing, and everywhere is a sense of she done that fer a livin'." cern in France, where it la aug uniform, clearly identifiable as the Children of Israel, they will cased in the remnants of a blue readiness. It is ns though, like,
"I shouldn' think that were true, gested that the development in such by the tarnished brass buttons. presently march but with their should you?” troduces a new factor in the The girl had apparently been some unleaven buns and flee to вое conversations which Sir John 17 or 18 years of age. The Con- better Land. We shall decline to federate bullet which killed her was harden our hearts. We shall let Simon is to have in "Berlin. found inside her skeleton. And them go. Unlike their illustrious Pres'dent zed 7" There can, of course, be no deny that's all there is to the story forerunners, the Suffragettes, the ing the fact that Germany has ment, which tells us almost noth-little or no violence. It is true hearin' one side, an' I 'ouldn' turn just that tantalising little frag- Emancipated Women perpetrate "No not prop'ly. I be hard o' no right to modify the Ponce Ing, but which sets the imagination that on occasion they round up t'ather car roun' for fear zum on Treaty unilaterally. Thus from to work frantically. Where did all the old-age pensioners they can em "ould think I were alookin' at
this girl come from? How did she lay hands on and bear them off to 'em." strictly legal point of
get there, on one-of-the bloodiest some central place, and there view, she is obviously in the battlefields of all the bloody war? engage them in bright conversa would tell us about Spokeshave or "Well sho zed thic young 'ooman wrong in infringing its provi-Was she one of those luckless girls tion: fil them with food, the sions. But the admission now who wish they were boys, and, mas-quality and quantity of which they zum sich feller; reckoned it 'ud be made does not in reality put any querade as boys whenever possi are alike unaccustomed to; enter. good fur us, but there you card new complexion on the situa-ble? If so, how did she get in the tain them with play acting, the same as I did.” tion, since it has long been war recruits had to undergo sing to them till their poor old bottom to it. Who were this 'ere army, in view of the fact that Civil point of which is entirely missed; "I tel'oe I couldn' make top nor known that Germany has had an physical examinations just as pre-heads ache; and finally compensate Spokeshave? I 'card 'er zay as 'ow Air Force. All that happens, sent-day soldiers do? Or was she therefore, is that the Berlin perhaps, the sweetheart of one of ounces of tobacco, Thus do the fun."
them with a pound of ten or four e were dead, poor 'ould heart o' talks will take place in a more the soldiers, who had obtained a Emancipated Women work off their realistic atmosphere; there uniform in some manner, disguised accumulated energy, and perhaps, seems little ground for fearing herself in it, crept into camp by in view of the tea and tobacco, it'er zay as ow 'e writ pomes and "Ten't no good arstin' I. I 'eerd that they will necessarily be less some hook or crook to be near her is a fair bargain.
sonnets-" lover, and had been caught with successful on that account. Ger-him when the unexpected swirl of many's attitude may be wholly battle broke over Grant's army? irregular, but it will at least Was ho one of the eight who were bring the issues down to prac-buried with her? Or did they get ticalities, and will, at the same separated in the heat of battle, so time, emphasise the necessity of that he never knew what happened an aerial accord between her and
to her? These are questions that other European Powers, includ- cannot possibly be answered; but ing Britain and France. The who can read the little story with- out wishing earnestly that they Anglo-French agreement, reach could be? These rollef workers ed last month, certainly provides dug up one of history's most fas- the most promising plan yetcinating fragments but it can evolved in the direction of never be anything more than a strengthening the organisation fragment, a footnote to a tale of of peace in Europe.
• Anting at much that we Since
like to sco rovealed. The December, 1932, when
the nine skeletons have been buried in French and German armament a new grave in Shiloh Cemetery, claims were reconciled in the now. The only marker is a tablet, common formula of equality in inscribed "Nine Unknown Union a regime of security, it has been Soldiers." clear that little progress in the direction of disarmament would
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be made unless practical effect agreement to suggest to Ger- were given to the declaration, many and the other European Germany's absence from the Powers a basis for the "free League and from the Disarma negotiation of à general settio- ment Conference, and her steadyment," intended to deal simul- concentration on re-armament, taneously and without priority. have without question contribut, with the organisation of secur- [ed powerfully to the growing ity, equality of rights in a unsettlement in Europe. At security system, and an agree- every turn, Europe has been ment regarding armaments gen-. faced by Germany's demand for erally which, in the case of Ger- aquality and by France's demand many, would replace the present for security, and the failure to. Treaty limitations, and Ger- find a solution of this. two-sided many's resumption of her place problem has not only ham in the League of Nations. It strung the work of the Disarma will be the main task of Sir John ment Conference, but has helped Simon, during his Berlin visit,
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to a new armaments race. The the scheme. The future peace value, of the London conversa-of Europe may well turn on the tions of last month was that result of his talks with Ger- they disclosed a real beginning many's leaders, the importance. In facing up to the realities of of which it would be well-nigh ☛the situation. They led to an impossible to over-estimate,
In one
or two cases old folk, warned in time, have sought sane tuary by staying in bed, and in all fairness we admit having no re- cord of any old-age pensioners be-
thie bit very well on'y I thought she "There lack zee! Now I eerd were on about bonnets'. Ah well, its a pity 'e never had nothin' else (Continued on next column)
“Wilford, please put that guy away quickly so we can catch
that ourly train home.
O-Braid, and Taylor and Vardon,
didn't I tell you so?
And it's fare, fore, fore, where my birdie is waiting for me;
For they've taken the tee frow the caddio and they've driven the ball from the fee; There are tell-tale prints in the bunker; there's blood on the face of the pro-
Braid, and Vardon, and Taylor —where did that last one go?
My faith is nailed to the flag- pole, and flutters athwart the Bicy
My lio is nailed to the counter, wore it never so fair a lle;. There's a long putt, and a wrong putt, and I aim at the back of the tin-
O Braid, and Taylor and Vardon,
didn't that last go in?
And it's fore, foro, fora, where my birdie is waiting for me; It's fore, fore, fore, and bogey is
only threc
Had I the wings of an eagle-had I the brains of a hen ·
(0 Braid, and Taylor, and Var don)—I shouldn't be playing
text.
Atta Boy, Son! Mr. Frank Stovona Dear Pai
Kemember when you used
to say I was so stupid. I would never got a job? Well, you're wrong. I've had six in the Inst. month.
Harry(elgnod)
to do. Do'ee find anything o' thie lump along now?"
To this last enquiry there is no answer. From a neighbouring hill- top the soft chimes of a church. clock come to the rescue..
"Lard That there's never six o'clock. Well there if our "ould man don't cuas ten't as I do thenk." The speaker shuffles on her home ward way, and in due course arrives at her wicket gato. In the light. of a young moon the little brown and gray cottage appears to be hakop. Nobody would guess that within it is la cauldron of blasphemy."Iscariot” in the Western Gazette.