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Birthday
HERR HITLER was fifty yester-
day.
There is another man who used
to celebrate his birthdays in Berlin with great pomp and glory-the mighty ruler of a mighty nation.
But for twenty years he has been spending them in lonely exile in Doorn, forgotten by the world.
The man who plunged the world into war has learned his lesson. Foreign papers, please copy.
Spain
THE report goes that Mussolini
will withdraw his troops from Spain on May 15, after three post- ponements. We do not know yet whether there is to be another post- ponement.
But in any case, Mussolini docs not hold all the cards In Spain. There are several other factors in the situation to be considered.
In France there are Spanish Re- publican soldiers all dressed up and with nowhere to go. It is true that they have no arms, no ammunition, no airplanes, no tanks, no big guns. But neither did Franco when he started that civil war, and the mer- chants of death can always provide them.
Again, Italy is a long way from Spain. Her line of communication runs past 250 British and French warships that have not been mossed for nothing.
And Germany is a long, long way from Spain, too. Just no far from Spain as France was from Czecho- Slovakia last month.
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That is a little pledge made by Signor Mussolini and Mr. Neville Chamberlain last October. Both countries' claim that they adhere to that agreement.
It may prove the
reason why there will be no wat in Europe,
`JERUSALEM, Apr. 20-A Jewish. supernumerary policeman was killed, and five Injured when a lorry, in which they were travelling, struck o land: mine nétira town' west of
Jerusalem to-day-Reuter.
What the [ women of-
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T
by.
MARY FERGUSON
HEY can't scare women with any of their talk about what might hap- pen in tho future. How do I know? It's simple.
I have been listening to what women are saying.
First let us listen-in to women in the North.
They aro humble women. Some of them are trying to make a good Ulfe for their fami- Kes on small weekly incomes.
But they are proud and bravo women, too, and they get a good · laugh when they read about the Jitterbugs. For their part they have never met one, Quito innocently they Imagine that all the fitterbugs live in Lon- don.
That isn't fair, of course, but can you blame them when they don't know Londoners per- sonally?
I
A
FTER
seven years in London with only a few flying visits to Scotland and the North of England I went up to Lancashire and Yorkshire recently.
Mrs. Amy Brown, who runs a small hat shop in a Lancashire town, was full of a grand philo- sophy about life.
"I think all the frightening talk that is going on at present is a terrible thing,” she said, as she marked down a new season's hat from 23, 11d. to Os, 11d.
"I may as well get rid of it even at a cut price," she explained, "as keep it til It's out of fashion. "Hats aren't solling as well there daya. Folks seem to be spending their spara cash on tins of con- densed milk and tins of soup and sardines 'just in case.'
Mrs. Brown laughed cheerfully. Well, I suppose that's a good 'thing. It ̄micans more food in the country stored in private larders Instead of being concentrated in huge central depots, but it makes business a bit lop-sided if you know what I mean."
Mrs. Brown snapped shut her till. She had taken exactly twelve and tenpence for the day's trad- ing, which amounted to three hats sold.
"What I say," she said with
vigour, "la that it folks would only start thinking about cheerful things and talking brightly about the future it would be a lot better for us all."
N Scotland it takes a big national event to witch a woman's thoughts off spring cleaning at this time of year.
My mother, who lives in Glas- gow, writes the local gossip in her weekly letters to mo.
"We were just saying the other day that when the spring comes everybody will feel much brighter. Down our street most of the neighbours have begun spring cleaning and Mrs. McGowan was asking me if I was arranging my spare room as a dormitory, for children In case there was another cristo.
She wanted me to buy single beds for the children, for she said that is what she is doing. Do you think I should? I don't think wo should be so sure there is going to be another crisis. Maybe the dic- tators and people who cause all the trouble will feel a bit more cheerful when the brighter weather comes.
"They are saying here that they wish it were possible to have an exhibition like the Bellahouston Park exhibition every year. It was nice hearing all the foreigners talking their own languages.
"I don't know anybody who is feeling really nervy about things, but they are sorry that nothing is being done for the unemployed.
"We get nice young men round the door every day trying to sell buttons and bootlaces.
I think
it is a shame so ilttle is being done for them.
"Do you think Mr. Chamberlain is a good man? Sometimes I think he is and then other times I feel that I distrust him."
aro
RS. A. and Mrs. total strangers to me. They live in Bucking- hamshire, and play golf on good days and bridge on dull days.
We travelled up to town in the same carriage the other day, and they wore saying that the new fashions are too funny for words, because what woman in her senses wants to walk about looking as
"I know, because 1. have been listening to them."
though her petticoat was hanging down.
They were quite worried.about 1t. Fashions and the servant problem seemed to have them. ilcked.
Mrs. A. looked about 65. She was stout and cheerful. "My husband was telling me that somebody wants men to give their wives wages, and he says if that becomes law he will give me two pounds a week.
"I must find out who these women are and write to them. It's
ridiculous Idea. I didn't get .married to get a job, and, anyway, it would be awful if we had to take set wages every week."
Mra, B. laughed, and tucked her fur closer round her neck.
"I think wages for wives aro necessary," she had told Mr. B., "because some men don't give their wives any definite amount cach week, and that makes. life unendurable for the women who don't know where the money la coming from to pay the food bills, the rent and the light.
"My daughter was telling me all about it the other day. Dr. Edith Summerskill, you know the woman "doctor who is a ̈Labour M.P., "was telling her that some men earn- ing small wages keep most of the money to themselves, and thele wives live in a state of constant
To-day's Thought- THE best counsel is that of
woman.
-CALDERON.
A WAR OF WORDS
DEADLY war is being fought.
A. DEADLY way achieved, prent
victories. Apart from engulfing This Crooping Barrage
much material wealth and from ac- quiring millions of new subjects for the victors this war is enslaving and enfeebling the minds and the will power of hundreds of millions of men and women.
Of Propaganda
are
fear that they won't get any money at all some weeks,
"It's all right for women like us to say we don't want wages,“ ·
G
DING back to the Lancashire women and
what they are saying, I remember being struck by their absorption in the future and chances of work for their children. A friend of Gracio Fields in Rochdale was saying, "We've got to think about the future of the young folks. I wish something could be done to get them into Jobs with some future in them. "You know they are losing heart up here, for the youngsters are saying they want to go away to the Southern towns where the now factories are opening up.
"It would be a good thing if the Government would start some of their new factories up hero and give the young ones a chance to got work near their own homes."
O
Was
NE of my neighbours. saying that for 50m0....... ronson -or- other-- she couldn't be bothered to read romances any more.
"I wish some novelist would write a novel about the life we are living to-day in houses in small country towns and in the suburbs," she said, "So for as I can seo nobody is bothering to make a story about us. I want to read about a woman like myself who is alone all day doing the housework, planning how to make 'n few pounds cover a lot of ex-
nacs.
"Romantic love stuff seems so silly just now when we are all planning a new type of future for ourselves and our children."
Normally my neighbour is not a serious woman. She is the bustling, busy type of housewife, To-day she talks seriously, although quite cheerfully, about the fact that a steady change is coming over the lives of the people in this country.
We shall have some tremendous decisions to make quite soon," she said to me, and I do hope we are wise and make good decisions."
When asked what kind of decl- stons, she replied: "Oh, you know what I mean. We must stop being.
Ignorance of it. They are told only the good things and told ad nauseam, Mussolini are paeans of praise for The speeches of Hitler and what they have done. They are the boastings of what they are going to do. They are denunciations of the democracies. So with every news Samuel Hoare remarked, there
paper article, every offelal brond- It shot has been fired: in which not listening to all the hot music of the Mayor of the most remole town.
a war in which not a single many people in Europe to-day who sit cost, every speech, every official from Goebbels or Gayda down to the single bomb has been dropped. It is scares and alarms, and wito wait for a war of words.
the crash which they believe is to They glorify their own country and selfish and thinking only in terms Some time back Sir Samuel Hoare destroy us all. They have fallen their own regime. They pour scorn of our own families, Iaunched
powerful
broadside under the creeping barrage of pro- und ridicule on France, Great Britain, | think in terms of nations." against those who have brought this paganda sent out day by day, week and the United States, cleverly celz- form of warfare to a high art, who by week, month by month, from the ing upon every little fault or weak- have applied it with relentless totalitarian nations. energy and unscrupulous determinat Hits Both Ways tion, and have reaped from it well- nigh incredible successes,
не
The British Home Secretary, coun-
tered that creeping barrage of pro- paganda which threatens to engulf imany people-not excluding our own -in a creeping paralysis. Resistance Broken
Take the problem which to-day
ness and magnifying It before the eyes of their people.
Wa must
IVING in Tiber-street, Islington, N., Mr. Tron- ddle, a saying to her.
If Hitler builds a motor bighway torments the nights and days of across Bermany, not only all Germany children: "That's a nice steel shel- millions of British men and women knows it but also the whole world Butter, isn't it? Just thinks what fun the problem of nerial invasion.
If the German rallways have to curtall you can have in it in the summer. their services because of the poor Doubtless it may be right for res condition of their rolling stock and me if we make it a summer- ponsible statesmen to warn us that the lack of replacements not one per-mouse, and put some flowers in it. we are no longer an island nation, that our frontiers are on the Rhine, son in a thousand is made aware of We can make it comfortable with.
the fact,
some chairs and maybe a table," that the aeroplane has modified the
Such information is certainly no security we once found in a strong Navy.
part of the panegyrics emanating What is more, it is not broadcast by from the Nazi propagandlat machine. the democracies. Yet the dissemina- tion of such information would coun- ter much of the German propaganda, of capital and or raw material in the as would the facts about the scarcity
Reicht. Counting Our Blessings
ND now, what 'am"I' saying?
aald to the B.B.C.
that I would like to given talk cashire folks are facing up to the about the way in which Lan- bad times they are having.
How has this state of affairs been brought about? It does exist; no one can deny that....
It is due simply and solely to sheer The mennes from the air is a very weight of words. Those words pro real mennee. He would be a 100 duce events, The Nazi conquests who despised It. But what we are were achieved by the propaganda apt apt to overloale. Is that it is machine-by words. "The simply marched in to take possession solely against France and Britain roops universal menace. It is not directed after the propagandists had wroken The threat to Berlin is every whit as down every obstacle and all resin- cat as it is to Paris or London, tance.
The peoples of the democracies are What wo bare seen in Austria, continually being told of the tremen- Czecho-Slovakia, and Memel, can dous preparations for war in the The Prime Minister has sold that although the people up there are also be seen in every corner of totalitarian countries. They are also it was a good thing sometimes to Kving in tragle, timea so far as the. Europe and Africa which Herr Hitler told that their own arrangements to "count your blessings." Anyone who staple industry, cotton, la con declares by word of mouth and the counter those preparations aro far did so in this country, he added, cerned, yet they are remaining writen word must become part of the from perfect, that there is tremen- whether employer, worker man or proud, industrious and wonder- German Reich.
dous Iceway to make up.
woman, would and that there was fully brave. The B.B.C. thought very much to be grateful for in the conditions hiero as compared with the
such a talk wouldn't be, choortul "conditions in most other counteles. enough You see they don't know
Never were truce words spoken. | what women are saying.
More Important still, we can see it] That does not hapen in Germany In France and Belgium, Denmar), and or in Italy, If there is a deficiency Switzerland: In every Euryhan anywhere, the people of the dictator nation, including our own. Ar. Sir / countries are
kopt In blissful
I said I could give a brigh hopeful talk, ahowing that:
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