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GRIN AND BEAR IT
By Lichty
April 23, 1940.
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STALIN'S WORST ENEMY
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It's Spring time
Brighten up with these accessories
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"I wish you'd stop that shagging long enough to lot the
custard sot!"
Something
about YOU
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THEN the wor 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 skirt In the loen! palais de danse were unlucky.
Then, quite suddenly, people started having fun again.
And the gurgling, walling Rob of the saxophone and other firange orchestral Instruments split the celling plaster once more in the dance haunts of Hammersmith and Tooting.
In fact, at the present rate of progress the dance band mustelan is doing more to win the war than 75 per cent. of the young men in batile-dress,
On what authority can I make such an assertion?
Where do we get these ideas?
They come from A new book called "War Begins at Home," published by Chatto and Windus at s. 6d. and complied by the many spies who belong to the or- ganisation Miss Observation..
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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.
Palola proprietors and social promoters had no choice.
They were told to pack up.
But gradually
prevailed.
common
sense
At first the dance halls reopened for brief sessions only.
Thch come extended times. And managers were able to re- cord that they were doing even better than in procellme.
Britain had begun to dance her way through the war.
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In suburban halls, there were dancers who hadt Intd up their cars and taken to bicycles... pedali- 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 bonds were missing from hotels and restaurants.
They returned.
And the smart set returned to the limelight, too,
On the radio new tunes, topical and haunting, began to make their appearance.
They were different from the Jangling, jingling song-hits of 1914-1918.
They were polished, sophisticat- ed, swingy..
Bomehow there was nothing you could roar out In chorusts like "Tipperary" and "Tack Up Your Troubles."
But you could DANCE to them and sing the words softly na you danced,
Quite early in the war, you realised we were going to dance our way to Victory.
MZIA MA
"We're Going to Hang Out the Washing on the Siegfried Line" hns good words, but it has an infinitely better tune
.. and to swing- conscious young England it's the lune that counts.
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There were songs about the black-out, about bringing my soldiers daddy back to me, about Initier,
The optimism of the saxophone was infectious.
Dance halls advertised forth- coming Victory Balls.
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Posters announced "Dancing da usual during alterations in Europe."
"Thank God We're Got Navy!" was a Great War slogan.
Be thankful, too, for the Army and the R.A.F. But don't forget to be grateful for your dance halla and bands.
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THERE is a movement in Scan- dinavia to encourage Leon Trotsky to find his way into Russla by ono of the back doors.
The men of the Northern coun- tries would like to
Trotsky wreak his revenge on his comrade Stalln. They say his eyes fame with hatred at mention of Stalln. He hater the present government of the USSR with fiercer biller- ness than he hated the regime of the Tsars.
In a sense it may be said that Leon Trotsky--one-time world pariah and famous international publicist of to-day-holds the con-
dence of the world.
.
TO-DAY and every day Trotsky la sitting at his piled-up deste in a lonely old house guarded by twelve detectives outside the Villa Hermosa, Mexico.
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Great mountaing shut in that strange homestead near the Guate- malan border. The man at the desk has dead white hair and beard, He looks tired, but his activity is of the old feverish tempo.
Much of his timo s spent in adding yet further chapters to his monumental work, The History of the Russian Revolution. The new chapters reveal the grim intentions, the aspirations and policy of the man who now rules Russia.
Behind Trotsky's desk stands a sale.
In that safe are locked papers, which, soys the exile, will 'one day when his book is Onished throw a fearful light on Stalin's rise to power.
"Beware of Joseph Stulin, the Because these are going to play a
man with the steel eyes,"
Said maintaining the large part in
Lenin
Lenin cheerfulness
as he lay dying. and cool
as his successor dreaded Stalia essential to our sense which are
more than he dreaded death. Не inal victory.
warned Trotsky how the "Man of Steel" might one day enslave the makers of the Russian Revolution.
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Ps. Other chapters in Mass
“• Obšervation's book deal 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 evacunted, when the lights went out ..read "WHE Begins at Home."
The whole thing is rather like an X-ray photograph of yourself at
war.
BUT Trotsky is engaged on something more than placing Stalin in the world pillory. His net is still world wide. He still wields a peculiar power, Nobody knows what the man at the Villa Hermosa is, thinking. He is a sphinx, ex- cept to the inner circle of tho 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
April. But it's no good waiting until the warm weather really comes and then saying: "Good heavens, I must do something about my legs. I can't take thom bathing in this condition."
I don't want to be depresning, 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'g-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 assets on the personality balance-sheet, instead of liabilities.
Tough, red legs should also be wrapped in hot towels before they' are dealt with. Then they should be massaged-again for at least a quarter of an hour-with a nouirsh- Ing lubricating cream.
If they are pimply or have goose- flesh, don't use the cream. The best treatment for them is a lotion which will "satiniso" the skin sur- face.
You should apply it at least twice a 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 into the legs. Let it dry.
It
EAVE it on all night, and repeat
And don't forget that legs which the procedure in the morning.
are smooth and well-groomed- that's to say, free from scorch- marks, rougliness, redness, goose- fish and hair--oven If they're not particularly shapely, hold their Marlene own against legs filte Dicirich's If they happen to be blotchy and uncared-for.
F they are too thin, they should. I be massaged for at least fifteen minutes a day with a flesh-forming Tho strokes should be cream. long and arm, from ankle to knee. Fat logs should be wropped in hot towels for about five minutes before beginning massage. Then sprinkle them thickly with a good talcum powder and massage in the way I've just described,
Massage con be used for both building up flesh and breaking down fat. After about Afteen minutes' treatinent, usa pelrissage-- 1.e., pinching and rolling the flesh between thumb and foreünger,
If you're wearing stockings thin enough to show the skin through, It'll look superb. Choose it, by the way, in a colour which blends with 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 use a wIX
adviso
depilatory. Otherwise mitten, which looks as if it were made of very fine sand-paper. You slip it over your hand and gently rub the legs with a circular
until the hair is removed. over the entire surface of the leg-hairy or not.
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very good way of keeping the skin smooth-but don't do I vigorously. You should have ball after, not before this treat- ment.
"Red troops are fight- ing among themselves, often shooting their commanders and fleeing," say reports from the Finnish
Is LEON Front.
TROTSKY,
Mexican villa, plan-
in his
ning counter- revolution?
many others, Trotsky was at last granted n resting place
by President Cardenas in the state of Tabasco, chiefly be- cause of its remoteness and fa- acerasibility.
There he writes for the American Press, adds chapter after chapter to his great history, and ocen- slonally broadcasts to the USA. As for his writings, it was Winston Churchill who said that Trotsky was the best paid writer in the English Innguage.
On his desk stands a microphone normally
used Q8 paper weight which can be hooked up to the American broadcasting chalns via telephone cable to Mexico City at
a few minutes* notice,
At the time of the famous Mos- cow trials of the British engineers, Trotsky was to broadcast to all America, denouncing the Soviet rulers, From his desk he spoke fiercely into his microphone, but nobody in the States heard him.
Bro
By JUAN
RICCI
knows his true nation- ality,
Though in properous circumstances, Mr Smith looks famished and his burning eyes add to the effect. This ono 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 his 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 falso pass- ports, used during the Tsarist re- gime, there la 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- Er for Justice 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."
Some mysterious agent had cut the telephone cable to Mexico City.
Around Trotsky's study scores of book shelves and files: Every day an acroplane delivera letters, books and newspapers, and three secretaries deal with the vast correspondence which he main- tolas s dictator of the Fourth International, whose adherents are to be found in every quarter of the Klobe,
The most important of Trotsky's
secretaries is
11 saffron- skinned, bony, dark-haired per- sonage, always addressed
05 Ms. Smith. He speaks English, Spanish, German, Russian and French with bewildering Duency, so that nobody-Revolution,
For come 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. Ughtly and no light is to be seen front outside, Trotsky has no wish to be shot while he is at work explaining his part in the
BOOKS: by Monica Dickens
This Man
Be
GFRANKAU,
onco
who has been de- servedly called "A Prince of Story- tollors," 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 orchbishop and get away with it.
an
He has certainly got away with the rather audacious story of his own life, and the re- putation that his books have given him of being a Arst-class story-teller has not been betrayed.
Gilbert Frankau
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. Od.).
The only adjective I can think of to describe this book la "Cheeky." Ho' takes a 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 could
ould never see anybody's point of view but my
own," and "My main love, my
alon, was for murwhelming pas-
It is almost as it he dared you to like him, at the same time dety- ing you to disapprove. The result is that you do like lim, exceedingly, but with a faint feeling that it is neither for his good nor yours that you should.
You feel that if he were your son, you would have spanked hun suveral times during hila irrepres sible career, but he would probably have taken the wind out of your nails beforehand, by acknowledg- Ing and glorying in his naughtiness,
THERE is none of that rather forced reminiscensing that makes so many autobiographies so dreary. Liko Frankau's "Peter Jackson" stories, and all his novels, this la what one of his typical characters would call "A rating good tale," and includes some highly diverting anecdotes of various great men Kipling, Maugham, Arnold Ben- nett, Michael Arlen, among others. My favourite, however, is the saucy Recount of a verbal fray that he had with H. G. Wells, who, he says: "looked me over as though I specimen out of a bottle." Half way through the books, the was forming in my mind: thought was
The man's a cad!" But on the very next page, he managed, by boldly putting my thought into words, to make me completely re verse my verdict.
were a
.
Ho overheard one man sny to another: "What do you think "of young Gliberi?” And he quotes Ülie answer: with a glorious, relish, Vas being: "Well, his father was gentleman."
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