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they were brought in. I was fifty years old, United Italy the Italians very highly, and once even present at a ferce as a general conception among BUT when, as usually happens, they can neither bring them- it is an undeniable fact that argument between a stretcher the people is no older than the
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A MUZZLED PRESS
The view that many of the perplexities and dangers ap. in Europe to-day are parent attributable to press censorship has been expressed by a veteran, American journalist who has just concluded a lengthy tour
of the
Continent.
In Russia.
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For several weeks in succes- to wash them. I seldom heard sion I was posted at a regimental any complaint about danger, but first aid post a few hundred sleeping and living conditions
GEORGE EDINGER
who has had opportunities of judging them at first hand here displays the his: torical and psychological background of the men, now facing the stiffest part of the task to which Signor 'Mussolini has turned them in Abyssinia.
THE ITALIAN SOLDIER
yards behind the line and I was in, ng way worse than those at responsible for the transport of an English public school would the wounded from there to a produce lamentation. casualty clearing station about 'The Italian is not a pioneer two miles buck.
thrusting after the world's open spaces. When he emigrates, it is not to the Eritrean wastes or the Libyan wilderness, bui
NOTES OF THE DAY to the sidewalks of the Bowery
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But even this generalisation needs to be qualified. There are any number of individuals, there are indeed entire units such as the Alpine Corps raised in the Piedmontese Mountaina, who are not only good fighters at all times, but incline to feats of astonishing and often quite pointless bravery for bravery's sake.
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THIS often takes a form which
un Englishman would think showy and theatrical. I re- member a young officer who when a certain stretch of road was under shellfire insisted on walking up and down it while his men were taking cover.
When I tried to persuade him to join the rest of us in a posi- tion of relative security, be answered: "Certainly not. The men must learn to follow their officers. They must think that he is not afraid of shellfire. They must think he is not afraid of anything."
HOWLERS IN THE CLASSROOM No matter how many of them
we hear we never tire of the "howlers" perpetrated in the schoolroom, and find them'a wel- come tonic in the humdrumness of everyday life. Here is u collec tion culled from tenchers who find that life in the classroom is not
always drab.
"Sir Walter Scott," wrote ene bright pupil, "was called the Blizzard of the North. He tried to reach the North Pole but died in the attempt."
New York is behind Greenwich time, another scholar tells ሃነጾ "because America was not discovered till mucit later."
Italy's Dictator, would no doubl be interested to learn that "Mussolini is a new kind of stuff," Another young essayist states that he is sort of material used for indies' stockings.
Queen Victoria's praises have oflen been sung, but one pupil in particu- jar holds a great admiration for her, She was a very brave Queen," he says. "She satyn the thorn for more than 50 years, and was therefore the longest Queen on the thorn."
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and the restaurants of Soho. Even when he does go to a SWING TO LEFT
young country like Australia.or Indications in France to-day are Argentina you will generally the Leftists will have made notable find him working in an office or gains in the Chamber of Deputies behind a counter at Sydney or
Buenos Aires. by the time the second ballot is Italy and Germany, there are completed next Sunday. How far "totalitarian" censorships. In
BUT this widespread aversion this will influence foreign policy)
from hardship is not due to several other countries, such as is open to question, for there are effeminacy. It is the natural Spain, Portugal, the Balkan conflicting elements at work within result of two thousand years of
civilisation. States, Poland and the nations the Chamber and the result may
The Italians, like the Jews, bordering on the Ballic, the quite easily be a stalemate. It is are capable of great feats of iron hand of the censor des fairly anfe to predfet that French endurance and great deeds of The fact that their cends from time to time as foreign policy, so far as collective courage.
(soldiers have won Tew victories national emergency dictates. action for the preservation of and that their people shrink
"Sir Walter Raleigh," we are told, "wes a famous man. He invented Then there is what this Ameri-peace is concerned, will be firmer from hardship is emphatically
tobacco, potatoes. and blcycles." as a result of the additional weight not because they are cowards." can observer describes as an
of Left influence in the Chamber really has something
Persuade the Italian that he against the King of Naples or Cowper was also a famous man, for worth equally probably for the King a young biographer says that after occult censorship, such as is
twice committing suicide he lived but whether it will be very con-fighting about (and that is not of Naples against Garibaldi, till 1800, when he died a natural practised in France. Many Fiderably stiffened. as one might going to be easy with two thou- I remember talking in the death."
From another essay-book we find people; have-assumed; from-the expect,-it-would-not-do to guess sand years of civilisation-telling Great War-to-a-Calabrian.recruit.. wealth of invective in which Unfortunately,
been the him that war is a fool'a game), who assured me that the people that "Topsy grinned at Miss Ophelia, experience of the past that the and he can be as fine a soldier in his village all believed that displacing a set of beautiful white the French newspapers indulge
Leftist groups, while ductrinising as any in Europe.
they were being conscripted to "Pompeil," it is sad to learn, "was when some foreign Governnient upon the merits of the collective Englishmen who generalise fight against the Florentines. destroyed by an overflow of saliva from the Vatican." It is also in- incurs their disapproval that system, are not enthusiastic about from the Italian record in the That was in 1915.
teresting to know that "from Austria On the other hand, when the we get e from a bird called the the French press is free. On it except where it directly concerns Great War should not forget
the safety of the French frontier. that Victor Emmanuel's soldiers Italian soldier gets into his head enu
were badly clothed (they had the idea that something he can "The Zoodlac," writes an ingenious the contrary, it is the considered They have given the impression no waterproof coats), underfed understand has to be defended, pupil, Zoo of the sky where view of this American news-that they are inclined to selfishness (with a meal of soup and he will stand up courageously animals
Ilons,
virgins, und They are all for macaroni twice a day they were to any
No after they are dead." paperman that it is subjected in this respect.
odds to defend it. On He imparts some more knowledge to a remote control that is 'sti-the collective system, the League of lucky), inadequately supported the Piave in 1917, the word was by telling us that a man who looks Nations, and mutual assistance by artillery owing to their passed 'round that Venice must on the bright side of things is known lingly effective. In the dictator-acts if it is to the French adyan country's shortage of coal and be saved. Most of the Italians ns an optionist. If he looks on the ship countries, also, the art of tage; but if there is a chance of steel, and as often as not quite had some idea what Venice was, journalistic invective is, as has risk to French Interests they be-
often been shown latterly,
are
it. haa
come cautions, and,, without forcing the iraue, accuse the Goveniment,
a
[ déveloped to a high degree-but for the Right or Centre, or all three, only when the official, order, is of failing in their international may be given. In their case, the out-responsibilities. This bursts are inspired from higher good polities, but it is not good ethics, and makes no friends for up. Only Britain and the France. The Leftists could have United States, atcording to the tremendous Influence for good American critic,
dis-not only in the affairs of France but in those of Europe if they tinguished by a press which is exerted themselves and were loyal independent and unafraid. On to the letter of the principles on this point, it can probably be which they were elected. Perhaps in the next Chamber we shall see said with complete accuracy a change. that there is no other European country in which an effect are used only to drill the masses analagous to that of the Hoare-into a 'certain stereotyped way Laval proposals on British of thinking, the effect can hard- opinion could have been seen.y fail to be pernicious. The British method is to permit am-1 Nor is it easy to think that anyple freedom of speech and other European Government writing. It is based on a firm would have been so responsive belief in the rights of the people to public opinion as the British and on a consciousness of the Government was on that occa-fact that to attempt to stifle sion, On the general question legitimate opinion is compara- raised, it will scarcely be dis of a steam engine-an eventual ble to sitting on the safety valve puted that if all European explosion is inevitable. A free Governments were amenable to Press and freedom of specch informed, constructive criticism are great heritages. Happily from the peoples they govern, for the Buitish people there is a powerful brake would, be no fear that the legacies left to applied to excessen and errors thom by Weir forefathers are in of policy. When newspapers danger of being taken away.
SIDE GLANCES By George Clark
"Darling, you seem to be losing interest in your music.
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teeth,"
other
dull side he is called a planist."
Another scholar, who is evidently a football enthusinst, says that "be- fore the English beat the Spaniards they were at the bottom of the Lea- gue of Nations,"
"Some cows are very dangerous," writes a sound philosopher, "especial- ly the bull." "Herrings," he con- tinues, go about the sea in shawls." and it is interesting to know that "a cuckoo is a bird that lays other birds' es In its own nest and vice-versa."
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* "Elocution," states another howler, "Is the method adopted by the American Government for killing people," and goes on to say "Bacchus is the Gad of betting."
"A harem," says another, is n hutch for keeping hares fu." Also, "'n magnet is a thing that you find In und apples."
"Aladdin," we read in another essay, had a magic lamp Every time he rubbed it a guiness sprang
out of the ground."
"A connoisseur," it is stated, "is a person who stands outside a picture
house." And "o talisman is a man who calls
the furniture week for money for German," say a clever scholar, goes to school at un early
however old he is."
Every
a particularly
bright howler. comes from the boy who writes "The sun never sels on the British Empire because it is on the cast and the sun always seta in the west."
"When he climbed Vesuvius,” says another
"be found the essayist, ereator smoking at the top."
The zebra,' we find, is like a horse, only striped, and is used chiefly to illustrate the letter Z." Also, the chief occupation of the people of Perth is dying.
"A sinister person is a woman who has not married," comes from an other hoivler, who adds, "Hell h no fury like a woman's corn."
Lavinia Derwent