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Britain's Coal
of embittered debate.
None
when
caused so much trouble during the last thirty years as the coal industry. Vital as it is to the rutional prosperity, there has been none which has been so slow to accommodate itself to modern conditions, and none in which there has been so much unrest among the workers or
such disastrous strikes.
A Tribute to Goebbels
THERE is a good deal of dis-
cussion at the moment about propaganda. Our Govern- ment is thinking about running ita own propaganda factory, and, true to official tradition in this "land of such dear soula." appointing distinguished gentle- men to run it whose only con- spicuous qualification is that they know next to nothing about
the business.
Perhaps our devoted Minis- ters think their propaganda chiefs could easily and quickly pick up all they need to know about their job from studying the inimitable Dr. Goebbels. If that truly is their iden, it is any-
How he
Cements the Democratic Front
By "An Old Stager"
"Next Time"
Things will not be that way this time, if they insist on try- ing one more reckless gamble with destiny. And that typical Nazi dream of a quick knock- out by air frightfulness is no longer anything but a criminal dream.
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However cynically or brutally Nordic philosophy may sneer at it, Europe is still overwhelming- cluding ourselves, and, what is a Chinese gangster when he ly religious in instinct. There more, are doing so. In point of pumps lead from his auto- Is an imponderable weight of fact, Germany's pre-war colonics gun into some inoffensive citizen
fervent conscious opinion never paid her. The total raw up town, is pining for "Leben force, and reckless ambition. against despotism, ruthless material she derived from them sraum." In both instances the Mankind has not achieved its was negligible.
controlling Impulse is just cri- freedom through bloodshot cen- thing but a bright one. It is
minai greed and utterly egoistic turies lightly to throw it away said that in any encounter in The Old Blood and Iron
exhibitionism.
again without fighting to the which the French Army is en-
And that ushers in point num- The only thing on earth that death gaged, the presence of a bat- ber
for liberty. The con- two. Before Germany restrains the Chicago gangster science of humanity will arraign talion of the Foreign Legion is started tearing up all the scraps is the possibility of police action Germany, if Germany precipi- worth two brigades. My estim- of paper that helped to avert the and the chair. The only thing tates yet another Armageddon, ate of Dr. Goebbels' propaganda dread of war from Europe be that will restrain Hitler-Goering- and next time there will be no work is that he is worth at least fore 1914, she had vast oversea Goebbels and Company is the more criminally-misguided_con- an army corps to his opponents. possessionis. There was no lack possibility, amounting to a cer- niving at the tearing up of Pence
If anyone is thinking of hand- of. "Lebensraum" ing out a prize for thoroughly Germany,
then. Yet tainty, that any further grand Treaties. and nobody else, bluff will be promptly called, at high-class recruiting work for plunged the world into military whatever expense and incon- deed, it is a fairly safe prophecy In fact, if trouble comes in- chaos and militant earthquake in venience, and the certainty, that the next. Peace Treaty which their Army chief's could will be signed in what is her former colonies on a plate another real European show I should not care
How would handing her back readily assure them of, that in left of Unter den Linden..
to be a now afford us any more faith in down they would be much worse Nazi in Germany,
once the Germany's peaceful intentions off from the start than they suppressed undertow of Ger
to be in 1914. They man opinion got loose behind a ow than then? It is not "Le proved bensraum" that the Nazi gang caught us napping as usual then, retreating German front. There sters of Berlin are after, but the and began their bid for hege must be a good many people in old blood and iron ambition of mony with overwhelming advan Germany who have a little ac- Deutschland Uber Alies. You tages of numbers and equip count to settle with Dr. Goeb- might as well try to tell me that ment.
bels and his friends.
our national defence services, it would be sheer prejudice to overlook the signal claims of Hitler's Minister of Propagan- da and Public Information. "Doc" Goebbels, if one may bor- row the bright imagery of select American poker circles, fairly scoops the pont 'every time. Lord Kitchener was good, in 1914. But I am inclined to rank Dr. Goebbels just # few marks higher in 1939.
Every time the "Doc" lets himself go, and pumps up some more of his native super-heated venom. I reckon it is worth quids to the Democratic Front. How
1914.
THE BENEFITS OF BIFURCATION
No, the mis-en-scene is not
Tientsin, that unattractive,
appearances
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equality, if not of superiority; of that indefinable "top-of-the- worldness". And this quite ir- respective of age, temperament.
well Cleopatra's invocation to Since last Hummer,
the worm fits this mountebank: dreary city of the plains, of the By N. B. Whitestone Parliament passed the
Coal Poor venomous fool! Be angry, dull suburban streets, of dusty Mines Act, the British coal in-and despatch!"
public gardens; that country of ever, saved the situation, the figure (if any), constitution and dustry has ceased to be the topic that if Germany had not got it seems incredible that green the well shaped form, the expert self, however demure and girly- Dr. Goebbels is so useful--to the iron-clad earth from which polished, spotless suppleness of bank balance (also if any). A
which delighted the
eye; dnre-devil arrogance asserts it- him it would be our patriotic things can once more spring; Quietly and inconspicuously duty to suggest improvising him, where little Annie will one day it bespoke the master mind. girly the Indy may have been: steps are now being taken for In fact, accepting Dr. Goebbels in May rush excitedly home She seemed, bless her! as happy courage and optimism wrap her as part of the Nazi regime, if from school with the marvellous as the lark is popularly sup-in a roseate clime where all is applying the law.
too Germany has the Government it tidings that she has actually posed to be; is concerned as well. Even those who long ago soon. There is no
great in- deserves its national deserts seen a green shoot proceeding Vere-de-Vere, and she was, as have topped the rise and now dustry in Britain which has must be pretty nearly minus from the earth-and earth it is, well she knew, the cynosure of descend more or less sedately
something astronomical. And
notwithstanding our blase population, but little towards the Western valley, re- yet there seems to be a little Then the scene changes, with reeked she as she clattered on cognise these weighty facts. clique of palpable mental refec-
withering. blasting.
towards the Ferry. nerve.
And, once recognised, they ne- tives in these islands to whom wracking sandstorms; again the invaluable doctor's outbursts with sizzling heat. But this far
count for the otherwise un- represent
accountable multiplication of the Sermon on the from fair city has now a further", my dear! just look at
schools, riding Mount. They actually believe claim to attention and will in-
equestrienne that girl! The legs! What academies, hacking clubs, and so almost every word he says.
evitably go down to history in a get-up! D'ye suppose she
on, Why endure the aching dis- midable Brown Bomber, who has the irresponsible as inextricably withers and fetlocks?"
If Joe Louis, America's for the minds of the flippant and knows the difference between comforts of the China pony's jolting gait, the agonies of the just necessitated the insertion of entangled with those prosaic
The acid remark and the bumpety-bump of the tyro pain- 28 stitches in honest Tony Ga- but still necessary garments the quickly averted eye of my com- fully endeavouring to accommo lento's face, complained that he mention of which-once strictly panion of the sore and yellow unte herself to what the local was being physically intimidated taboo in polite society-even to leaf drew from me a smirk of lights are pleased to term "post- In part, the trouble has been by elderly spinsters, nobody day usually evokes a snigger of understanding and fellow feel-trotting"? Why with martyr's due to conditions not easily con-would believe him. But our derision.
ing for them both, well knowing sickly smile do the lassies make prize sentimentalists and out- No! the raison d'etre of these that, dared she brave conven- light of skinned and blazing trollable; in part, to the fact that size emotional nitwits find not reflections was bepanted, tion, Forty-five would dive into thigh, knee and calf, due to the
young lassie uncon- similar attire at the double.
ever shortening of the shorts? in believing that Intelligent and cernedly taking the sultry morn of owners has been confronted educated Germans think we are ing air of Pedder Street. Hat sartorial freedom (save from Man, owing to the fact that
+ with the doggedness of a singu- encircling them with intention less she was, her polo jumper of the neck upwards) has been his MAN seems unaware of his larly class-conscious body of em-to wipe the Reich off the map. canary yellow might well have as a right from the beginning peril. If and when the ployees. But in the main in-
emerged from the same dye-vat of time, is doubtless unaware skirt is deinitely superseded, his Our Prize Sentimentalista as her shoulder-length and shin- of the fact, though undoubted assumption of, and the lady's adequate organization has been
This sort of thing makes me ing locks; south of the equator fact it is, that the immediate apparently tacit, though in reali- at the bottom of it; neglect of uneasy. I get a disconcerting festooned and wrinkled habili- and invariable effect of the in- ty deeply rebellious, acceptance the known remedies gave sub- feeling that perhaps Hacken-ments which would have filtration of the lower female of his superior calibre, will be stance to the miners' grievance.schmidt, or whoever is the cham-scorched the souls of the sahibs limbs into the bifurcated gar-doomed. She has unearthed the The authors of the Coal Mines pion strong man of the moment of Jodhpore; have caused the ment is an instantaneous feeling source of his courage, his pro- Act took the courageous course in the circus arena, goes in hour- sudden demise of Walter Gilbey. of exhiliration, of jaunty self-wess, his strength, his mental of providing for the State pur-ly terror that I may assault him. "Point-to-Point's" boots, how-confidence, of emancipation; of activity. Pop the plump and
What these encirclement-swal- chase of all the coal-mining lowers of these islands-I doubt royalties in the country. Three whether any exist in Germany years hence all the coal in Great are actually doing, besides Britain will belong to the State possibly lending some slight as- represented by a Coal Com-sistance to Dr. Goebbels, is to imagine the Germans are us mission, and this body was em-
stupid as themselves. powered to take immediate
That is a gross exaggeration. measures to promote amalgama Germans are really quite cute tion of collieries, if possible by people. The way they are now agreement, if not, by compulsion winning the war they lost is -in or before 1940:
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In view of the inevitable, the Then there is another favour- colliery-owners have already ite and impassioned theme of been getting together and have the learned Dr. Goebbels to
which
even more people here been bringing groups of mines seem to give credulous ear. We under common management, are constantly being told that To hasten the procedure the the Germans need "Lebensra- Coal Commission has now issued um"--which means, in plain Jan "outline plan" dividing all the English, elbow-room for develop- coal fields of Britain into arcas blent appears to go quite well ment. That feeble Gott-mit-uns each of which should become in certain home circles in the single unit. It invites discussion United Kingdom. Dear old Mr. and friendly co-operation as the Lansbury almost weeps when he best means of securing sound is told how terribly Germany suffers from the lack of big open results.
spaces.
Thus the last stage in the re-
There are two simple answers construction of this basic in- to this tomfoolery. In the first dustry is now in sight. The place, in what way is Germany, industry is to be equipped to so far as all commercial and develop its own resources to the trading facilities are concerned, utmost, face severe foreign com- any worse off than anybody else? Certainly, so far as our Imperial petition and provide better possessions are concerned, Ger- wages and better conditions of mans are as free to trade and life for its workers,
industrialise as anybody else, in-1
GRIN AND BEAR IT
By Lichty
"Turn off those police calls, Sis—they're makin' mo 'nervous.”
exuberant denizen of. Brokers' Alley into crepe-de-chine, and will his spirits and his profits flug? Will they? Picture to yourself a Legislative Council in Residents' Dnirji frocks or a Association in peau-de-soie and do you suppose there would be sufficient vigour even for the consorship of disrespectful and other journalism? Enough even for the aug- gested suppression of hawkers' equawks? No! all this enervat- ing masculine vim-lies wholely und soly in the trews. The third generation of a bepanted femin- ine race would dispose beyond any doubt of any last remaining conceptions of male preponder- .
energy
ance.
Consider the baby boy, who will remain an adorable; docile and insipid Infant while in frocks, and no one who has wit- nessed his instant transforma- tion when in his first knicker auit, can cast a doubt upon a matter which has passed beyond the realms of theory.
Consider the coolie woman, in every respect the equal-if not worse-of her lord. Ponder upon the Grecian ballet-skirted Guards, fit only for palace cere. monial sentry-go, useless for the field; and who, released from their grotesque enparisons, reż PLEASE Tuơn: To Fage 5.