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Would you let husband
your
go again?
THE SUBJECT THE WOMEN
OF AN EMPIRE, AND THE MEN
Armies would disappear from these shores in those nights. No one, except those who sent them, would know where they had gone; whether they had survived. Radio sets would be dumb; nowspapers would be under a stern censorship.
Sons and nephews under com- pulsion would leave their homes. for the training camps.
Rumours of disaster like those during the days of Mons in 1914
and spread. The truth of these would neither be admitted nor
TOO, ARE THINKING ABOUT would trickle over the country
EN who fought in
the last war are asking each other
one question in these weeks that are arousing the ar senals and smelting works from their long sleep.
That question is "Would you go again?".
-by POP WRIGHT
when I went there to thank denied officially, them for their efforts on my be- half. Ex-oflcers-colonels, cap-
THEN at night the ex- servicemen, with his twins and others were being wife and family sleeping around- rigged out with overcoats and
boots to amarten them up for him, would have his lonely
struggle. interviews for jobs."
In this matter of the children one scene through which I pass- responsibilities these now For- ed in the dark early days of the
As an ex-private who saw the
gotten Men discharged in France last war was on other fronts, I would forgotten. not care to watch that pathetic
and
I have received batches of letters parade. It has been asked many times from fellow ex-servicemen.
Hongkong Telegraph.gave up his business or his job their futures in the hands of a try of Pensions. Many thousands
FRIDAY, March 19, 1937.
event of another war. And the
Associations like the British Legion, Old Comrades and orga- nisations for ex-officers, which that the State is mildly surprised to the colours. should have existed for social or that they ever returned from
the war. Generous pensions
one not to be
My battalion had been en-
Letters to me from all ranks camped in a training ground on the out-skirts of Sheffield. We of the in the past nineteen years, some- Many of these having pension tell of the humiliation times seriously, sometimes sar- grievances have reproached me dole queues, of "public assis were leaving the city to entrain for one of those "unknown des- castically. For in only too many for encouraging their sons to tance" grants and of heart- cases has the lot of the man who join the colours and to place breaking decisions of the Minis tinations" of the period.
People lined the roads at in 1914-18 to join up been hard. State which they believe hag of the men of 1914-18 would be every point as we marched by. Some were in tears, others failed them.
eligible for service again in the cheered. Their impression generally is State would expect them to rush standing in its own attractive And then we came to a school, THIS PICTURE
grounds. The road in front AND THAT
patriotic purposes only, have
NOW for the other side. was lined with children. They have been granted in some
That is, a Britain cheered and waved their hands The Great War destroyed the found it necessary to shoulder "absolute" monarchies of Ger- responsibilities for ex-service- cases, but the method of giving hurled into a war which, if she as we passed them.
did not win it, would mean her They were all blind; many, Russia, Austria and men which they were persuaded them has been curious, Turkey
In some instances men who death as an Empire. Such a
· that had
hitherto at the time of the "call" would never saw service outside Eng- defeat would place the nation
WOULD you go again? remained na survivivals from be undertaken by the State.
land have been awarded life under a reign of tyranny and fought at Mons wrote to me re- An old soldier who earlier centuries. It appeared to Britain it was proclaimed pensione as-invalide. most men and especially to the would, after the war, be a "Land
sacrifice not to be removed by contly from a Surrey workhouse, framers of the Covenant of the Fit for Heroes."
Other men who claim that votes at general elections, or He ended with the P.S.: "It League-
This meant they can prove by independent even by a revolution. of Nations that the work for the fit; generous pen- medical testimony that their
looks as though there will be A Britain in the first rush of another war before long. I ex- world had been made "safe for sions for the unfit. It was the health has been wrecked by ac- war, a Britain afire with anxiety pect we should all have to go democracy". The vision of future international relationships should be so.
wish of the nation that this tual service in the field have ap- day and night under the un-again." Was one of willing co-operation
plied to the Pension Ministry ceasing drone of airplanes keep- for common ends between free,
ing sentry in the skies. TIRED and scarred men again and again, but in vain. Lequal--independent, democratic
returned to their
The nights would be the test
2.
Ho supplied the suppose.
answer, I
nations. Inevitably occasional homes after the armistice con- I QUOTE from just one of the ex-servicemen. The farm disputes would occur but these fident that their future had not spondent who enlisted in 1914 hear the perpetual throb of the This country is urming--for de letter from a corre- labourer lying in his bed would BUT, do you know, there need be no problem. S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD. friendly atmosphere of goodwill been jeopardised by their poor and was wounded in France in troop and ammunition trains as fence. We seek no quarrel with and mutual understanding. If ly paid war service. Fights for May 1915. He recovered and they passed through the coun- any one; and if the women and by any mischance the old Adam pensions and allowances from afterwards took a commission. tryside from one end of Britain children as well as the men of bellicosity or aggression re- the State were undreamed of. Ultimately he was invalided out, to the other. asserted
raise their voices against our itself anywhere, the But gradually those associations disabled by rheumatoid arthritis. sanity of the whole Society of had to line up to champion the From the age of thirty-two he would hear that some sound, more troubles such as we had Men in their beds in the towns statesmen involving us in any Nations would quickly apply the rights of the State's own has been a victim of the com- Family men would be listening in 1914, then the battleships overwhelming force at its com- veterans.
plaint, but he cannot obtain a and straining for that bellow in and the 'planes will not go into mand to repress such atavistic Since I started my series of pension. tendencies. That was the situa- articles urging reforms of the
the distance that would
I mean action. tion in 1920, when men promised conditions of the serving soldier I saw at the Officers' Association, gas and shrapnel.
He says: "I will tell you what the arrival in the sky of bombs, We call that Splendid Isola- themselves perpetual peace in a
tion. well-ordered world. What a dif- ferunt picture we have in 1937! Over a large portion of Europe there have been set totalitarian Governments--far more powerful than have been known before in human H TOW the memories crowd on me 1907, when Eremon was successful. history, and democracy itself is loch and the
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'NATIONAL' MEMORIES
From the farmer-owned Sun- He only had a lightweight to carry, broken winded Tip- but several times I have listened to in danger of being swamped. In perary Tim to the immortal quartet Alfred Newey riding that race over several of these States, the who defied the hunting burden of again. Eremon was one of soveral League of Nations ideal of twelve stone seven.
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winners trained by Tom Coulth- co-operative peaceful world-order fore my time. I love to hear the
Manifesto and Cloister were be
walto. is openly repudiated. How is it old-timers debate and argue which unstuck.
A good thing very nearly came
A loose this degeneration has set in? A was the better. They were the first himself
horse attached to Eremon and Newey variety of causes doubtless have to carry the maximum weight to simply could not shake him off. played their mischievous part- victory.
Wherever Eremon went, so did the e.g. economic nationalism, the membered by all except the young- air, Newey had to hit off the loose Jerry M. and Poothlyn will be re- loose horse go. Once, when in mid- groas injustices in the Peace est. -I was fortunate enough to see horse with his whip. The jockey Treatles, the lack of imagination both win. Jerry M. was a grand lost an iron, but that did not worry among statesmen of the war-type of chaser, trained by Bob Gore Newey. He kept his seat and his time Allies that prevented them and ridden by Ernest Piggott. Such head and finally rode his horse home from foreseeing the necessity of was Jerry M's fame that, in spite of triumphantly.
his twelve stone seven. he was as remedying the real grievances of strong a fancy as was Golden Miller There was what la known in rac- Germany and Italy. Above all to-day
Ine circles as a "turn up" la the else, however, the idea was
imagination by his mighty n much respected member of the and elsewhere that the League of
'National Hunt Committee and a On the great day at Aintree he steward of many meetings, was then Nations existed mainly to per-made it all looks so easy. He might a trainer. petuate a world regime in which have been carrying the lightest bur- He saddied two horses and had a. Great Britain and France reaped den for all the difference it made to great fundy for one of them. To his all the advantages, Germany was him. He simply toyed with the surorise, and also to the surprise of penalised and even Italy got a/Opposition and, had the race won arst and second,-but in the wrong, of the onlookers, the pair finish-
In
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allowed to grow in those States popis day Jerry M. captured the following year. Mr. Withingtoh, now
jackal's rather than a lion's
deeds.
long way from home.
I should say that was one of the order so far as anticipations were
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By J. HILTON : PARK
share. Article 19 of the most comfortable rides Ernest Pig- concerned. Mattie MacGrezor was sight in the paddock. But it did not day trying to reduce the swelling. League's Covenant belied this gott ever had in a long career in the the main bone of the stable, but the affect his galloping, and he was a He was repaid for all his trouble by despised 60 to 1 chance, Rubio, who, second successive winner for Gere. seeing the horse score a popular vic-. interpretation of the League's saddle. *
It was said, had once worked bo Sunloch had a light weight and a try. purpose-but it was never It applied, and
was in the year. Immediately tween shafts, beat his more faneled in its present after the war that Poethlyn was stable compa readly
enough.
romantle career. He was regarded form, moreover, is probably un-successful, with Piggott in the sad-
as a joke in some quarters, but the Sergeant Murphy was trained by workable. It will obviously be a die. He had won a war-tima Nation-
Glenside was a "dead end horse off and made practically all the run onour of being the only trainer laugh was on his side when he set the still living George Blackwell,
who shares with Richard Dawsori. very difficult task to restore the al when it was run at Gatwick, a fortnight before the National of
ning+ sense of co-operative goodwill Poethlyn was a dominating factor in 1911. He had been attacked by a
hia day, and as with among the nations, but it must public would not look boron M. the cough, and hat only one eye, If I Shaun Spadah was a grand old to have trained a Grand National
beyond him, remember rightly;
horse who is still living. He was a and a Derby winner. Sergeant. be undertaken df our modern They made him an 11 to 4 favour- In the ordinary. way he would beautiful jumper and gave a very Murphy was ridden by the trainer civilisation is to be saved from ite, and be did not let them down, have, been a a well-fancled candidate, smooth performance. The trainers a hack and out hunting. He was: utter destruction. The League mind us once more that the Grand curatarices combined to prevent:hls Lincolnshire and remarked to me,
Then came the anti-climax to re- for he was a good jumper. But cir had just saddled the second in the great favourite with everybody..
I should place Troytown pretty of Nations way is the only way National can be a lottery and that gives any promise, but it unto itself. The year after his great were twenty, Preparation. There National," and his words 'came true."
law having a real
mero "Never mind.". I will be first in thé high in the list, starters that year.
He was a grand horse, who won must be a League, in which the victory, Poethlyn was once more the
and Glenelde wns. the only one to Music Hall was trained by Golden the National on the worst day on LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD. Possibility of peaceful change is popular choice. He fell at the very complete the course without falling, Miller's present treiner. When he which the race has ever been run.
provided for as clearly and fully fit fence.
He was the first- of three. National run at Hurst Pátk shortly before the The rain poured and the course was as the preservation of law and one to have done that. My earliest Covert Coat had stringhalt and in on his leg as big as a tennis ball
And, I may add, he is not the only winners pidden by Jack Anthony. National, he came back with a lump a morass, but Troytown skipped.
through itgally and mado
somes order
Grand National, memories go back to consequence was, not an attractive Anthony was up almost night
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