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GRIN AND BEAR IT By Lichty
April 23, 1940.
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STALIN'S WORST ENEMY
Library, Supreme Court.
It's Spring time
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"I wish you'd stop that shagging long enough to let the
custard sot!"
Something
"We're Going to Hang Out the Washing on the Siegfried Line" has good words, but it has an Infinitely better tune ・・・ and to swing- conscious young' England it's the tune that counts.
about # YOU
WHEN the war started, gloom
came over England.
It was as though Royalty had died.
Those who wanted to do a show, see a football match or swirl a nifty start in the local palais de danse were unlucky.
Then, quite suddenly, people started having fun again.
And the gurgling, walling sob of the saxophone and other strange orchestral instruments split the ceiling plaster once more in the dance haunts of Hammersmith and Tooling.
In fact, at the present rate of progress the dance band musician'
is doing! more to win the war than
75 per cent.of.the.young...men-in-n- battle-dress,
.
On what authority can make such an assertion?
book
Where do we get these ideas? They come from.. a new called "War Begins at Home," published by Chatto and Windus at 9s. Ed. and compiled by the nany spies who belong to the or- ganisation Mass Observation.
W
Chapter Nine of this book re- cords that on the outbreak of war dancing stopped in every big city throughout the country.
It had to.
Palais proprietors and promoters had no choice.
They were told to pack up. But gradually prevailed.
common
social
sense
At first the dance halls reopened for brief sessions only.
Then came extended tunes. And managers were able to re- cord that they were doing even better than in peacetime.
Britain had begun to dance her way through the war.
In suburban halls, there were dancers who had Inid up their cars and taken to bicycles.. . pedall- ing their way to rhythm Instead of taking it easy in their cars,
In the West End, smart people complained because the
faces of
famous bands were missing from hotels and restaurants,
They returned.
And the smart set zeturned to
the limelight, too."
On the radio new tunes, toplent and baunting, began to make their appearance.
They were different from the Jangling, Jingling song-hits of 1014-1818.
They were polished, sophisticat- cd, swingy.
co
Somehow there was nothing you could roar out in choruses "Tipperary" and "Pack Up Your Troubles."
But you could DANCE to them and sing the words softly as you danced.
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Quite early in the war, you realised we were going to dance our way to Victory.
There were songs about the black-out, nbaut bringing my soldiers daddy back to me, about Hitler.
The optimism of the saxophorte was infectious,
Dance halls advertised forth- coming Victory Balls.
Posters announced "Dancing s usual during alterations in Europe."
"Thank
Godl We've Got Navy!" was a Great War slogan.
Be thankful, too, for the Army and the RA.F. But don't forget to be grateful for your dance halls and bands.
THERE is a movement in Scan-
dinavia to encourage Leon Trotsky
to find his way into Russia by one of the back doors.
The men of the Northern coun- irles would like to see Trotsky wreak his revenge on his comrade
Stalin. They say his eyes flame with hatred at mention of Stalin. He hates the present government of the U.S.S.R, with fercer bitter- ness than he hated the regime of the 'Tears.
In a sense it may be sold that Leon Trotsky-one-ume world pariah and famous international publicist of to-day-holds the con- Adence of the world.
TO-DAY and every day Trotsky Is sifting.ol his piled-up desk in lonely old house guarded by twelve detectives outside the Villa Hermosa, Mexico,
Great mountaing shut in that strange homestead near the Guate- malan border. The man at the desit has dead white hair and beard. He looks tired, but his the activity is of
old feverish tempo.
Much of his time is spent in adding yet further chapters to his monumental work, The History of the Russian Revolution. The new chuplers reveal the grim intentions, the aspirations and than who now rud policy of the
Russia.
Dehind Trotsky's deskt stands a safe, In that safe are lucked ippers, which, says the exile, will one day when his book is finished throw a fearful light on Stalin's rise to power.
"Beware of Joseph Stalin, the Because these are going to pluy n
the large part in maintaining
man with the strei
sald eyes," cheerfulness and cool
Lenin as he lay dying. common
Lenin dreaded Stulin essential to our sunse which are
as his successor final victory.
more than he dreaded death. He warned Trotsky how the "Man of Steel" might one day enslave the "makery of the Rusian Revolution,
S.-Other chapters in Miss with
-to me-less interesting things!
So if you want to know how you felt when you thought there'd be air raids in September, when your kids were
peculiar evacuated, when, the lights went oui
read ar Begins at Home."
The whale thing rather like an X-ray photograph of yourself at
war.
BUT Trotsky is engaged on something more than placing Stalini in the world pillory. His not is still world wide. He still wields a power. Nobody knows what the man at the Villa Hermosa is thinking. He is a sphinx, ex- cept to the inner circle of the mysterious Fourth International,
Hunted out of every country in Europe and refused a home in
LOVELY LEGS
Of course, it's only the middle of
comes
April. But it's no good walting unlit the warm weather really and then suying:* "Good heavens, I must do something about my legs. I can't take them bathing in this condition.”
I don't want to be depressing. but by the time you'd got them looking as you'd like them to, It's ten to one that the bathing season —and summer, too, If it's anything like last year's--would be over.
Whereas if you begin to begin to get them into training now the very first time you stroll out, un- stockinged, they'll be nasets on the personality balance-sheet, instend of liabilities.
And don't forget' that legs which ARC stmouth and well-groomed that's to say, free from scorch- marks, roughness, redness, goose- fish and hair-even II they're not particularly shapely, hold their own against
Marlene log ke Dietrich's if they happen to be blotchy and uncared-for.
IF they are too thin, they should
be massaged for at least fifteen minutes a day with a flesh-forming cream, The strokes should be | long and firm, from unkle to knee, Fat legs should be wrapped in hot towels Tor about five minutes before beglaulag massage. Then sprinkle them thickly with a good talcum powder and anassago in the way I've just described.
Massage can be used for both building up flesh and breaking down fat. After about Afteen minutes' treatment, use petrissage- le, pinching and rolling the flesh between thumb and forefinger,
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Rough, red legs should also be wrapped in hot towels before they are dealt with. Then they should be massaged gain for at least a quarter of an hour-with a noulsh- ing lubricating cream.
If they are pimpty or have goose- flesh, don't use the cream. The best treatment for them is a lotion which will "saiinise" the skin sur- face,
You should apply it at least twice i day-morning and evening. First cleanse the skin thoroughly with soap and water. Dry gently with- out rubbing too hard. Then put on the lotion fairly thickly, patting it into the legs. Let it dry.
LEAVE it on all night, and repet the procedure in the morning. If you're wearing stockings thin enough to show the skin through, 11'11 look superb. Choose it, by the In a colour which blends with way, your stockings,
This lotion also removes scorch- marks, and is an excellent "make- up" for too-pale legs in summer-
time.
If you have a really thick growth of hair on them, you can uso a wax depliatory, Otherwise I advise a mitten, which looks as if it were inado of very fine sand-paper. You slip it over your hand and gently rub the legs with a clrcular movement.
Do this until the hair is removed. Rub over the entire surface of the leg-hairy or not.
a
It's a very good way of keeping the skin smooth-but don't do it vigorously. You should have bath after, not before this treat- mont..
"Red troops are fight- ing among themselves, often shooting their commanders and fleeing." say reports from the Finnish Front. Is LEON
TROTSKY,
Mexican villa, plan- in his
ning counter- revolution?
many others,
Trotsky was at last
granted a resting place
لادا
President Cardenas
the state of Tabasco, chiefly be- cause of its remoteness and ither uccessibility.
There he writes for the American Press, adds chapter after chapter to his great history, and occa- sionally broadcasts to the U.S.A As for his writings, It was Winston Churchill who said that Trotsky the was the best paid writer in English language.
Ön his desk stunds a mlerophone normally used as a paper weight which can be hooked up to the American. broadcasting chains via telephone enble to Mexico City of a few minutes' notice.
At the time of the famous Mos- cow trials of the British engineers, Trotsky was to broadcast to ul Amerlen, denouncing the Soviet rulers. From his desk he spoke dercely into his microphone," but nabody in the States heard him.
Some mysterious' agent had cut the telephone cable to Mexico City.
Around Trotsky's study scores of book shelves and files. Every day an aeroplane delivers letters, books and three secretaries deal with the vast newspapers, and correspondence which he main- Lains 218 dictator of the Fourth International, whose adherents are to be found in every quarter of the globe.
ure
By JUAN
RICCI
knows his true nation- ality.
Though in prosperous circumstances, Mr Smith lootts famished and his baning eyes add to the effect. This one
man is the link by code and cipher with the Trot- skyists of the world.
If Trotsky ever goes back to Russia Mr. Smith will be tils right-hand man,
A room overlooking the gar den terrace of the Villa Hermosa is called the "room of souvenirs." Here are stored documents amassed over a period of nearly thirty years of exile.
Besides a number of false pass- ports, used during the Tsarist re- gume, there is a release warrant in Trotsky's real name, Lew Davido- vitch Bronstein.
ALL visitors to the Villa Her- mosa are closely examined by the Mexican police.
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One fairly frequent visitor. Max Hastman, a painter, whose wife is the sister of none other than Krylenko, who made himself infamous as the People's Commis- sar for Justlee during the series of sensational trials in the Soviet some years ago.
Krylenko signed the death war- rants of many of Trotsky's friends. He suddenly disappeared about two years ago and is almost certain to have been "liquidated."
For some time since the death of his son Sedov in Paris Trotsky was convinced that attempts might be made on his life. Lately he has got over his fears.
Nevertheless, in the evening the shutters of his study are closed tightly and no light is to be seen from outside. Trotsky hus no.
The most important of Trotsky's three secretaries is a saffron- skinned, bony, dark-haired per- sonage, always addressed os
Mr. Smith. He speaks English, Spanish,wish to be shot while he is at German, Russian and French with work explaining his part in the bewildering fluency, so that nobody Revolution.
BOOKS: by Monica Dickens
This Man
Be
ILBERT
GFRANKAU.
Onco
who has been de- servedly called "A Prince of Story- tellers," was nicknamed, equal- ly deservedly, by a newspaper colum- nist, "Filbert Swan- kau."
Should Spanked
and then disarmed you completely, by making you laugh,
Naughty he certain-
ly is, but he has a way of shocking that makes me feel he could tell a questionable story to in archbishop and £པ་ away with it
He has certainly got away with the rather audacious story of his own fe, and the re- putation that his books bava Gilbert Frankau
given him of being
frat-cinss story-teller has not been betrayed.
He reveals this. among other proofs of a staggering and, one suspects slightly exaggerated, con- celt, in his "Self Portrait," a novel of his life (Hutchinson: 10s, ed.).
The only adjective I can think of to describe this book is "Checky." He takes shameless delight in chronicling, with no sentiment and a great deal of humour, the brazen examples of his devil-may-care egotism.
He forestalls outside criticism by unrepentant self-criticism.
"England's most voluble and self- opinionated author," he calls him- self, and says that, as a young man: "I coul
could never see anybody's point of view but my own," and "My main love, my overwhelming pas- alon, was for myself."
It is almost as if he dared you to like him, at the same time defy- ing you to disapprove. The result,
you do like him, exceedingly, Is that but with a faint feeling that it in neither for his good nor yours that you should,
You feel that if he were your son, you would have spanked him several times during his irrepres sibio career, bui he would probably have taken the wind out of your, salls beforehand, by acknowledg- ing and glorying In his naughtiness,
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THERE is none of that rather forced reminiscensing that makes so many autobiographiles so dreary. Like Frankau's "Peter Jackson" stories, and all his novels, this is what one of his typical characters would call "A rattling good sale,' and includes some highly diverting anecdotes of various great men- Kipling, Maugham, Arnold Ben- nett, Michael Arlen, among others. My favourite, however, la tie saucy account of a verbal fray that he hind with H. G. Wells, who, he saya: "looked me over as though I were a specimen out of a battle," Half way through the book, the thought was forming in my mind: "The man's a cad" But on the very next page, he managed, by boldly putting my thought Inte words, to make me completely re- verso my verdiet.
He overheard one man BAY to of another: "What do you think young Gilbert?" And he quotes the answer with a glorious reilsh, as being: "Well, his father was gentleman."!
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