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• 1940, War, Doney Projections
World Rights Braceved
July 30, 1940. By Walt Disney
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ANY an English tourist has vivid
MANY
memories of Málta, of its ancient walls reflected in a really blue Mediter- rancan, of its whitewashed houses with their flat roofs throwing off the glare of the hot sun, of its churches and castles recalling the colourful history of many centuries, and of the huge, grey-painted battleships at anchor in the harbour..
Even after the war began Malta had not thrown off its face of peacetime gaiety. There was no black-out in the island, the shopa were open until midnight, and the theatres played to full houses,
Living was cheap, petrol was plentiful, and beer was only 4d. a pint. Now, however, Malta is blacked out, its sky is filled with roar- ing 'planes, and war sets the note of all its activities..
Phoenicians,
almost exactly in the centre of the It lies Mediterranean, this little island which is the hend- quarters of the British Fleet und of the R.A.F. In the Mediterranenn, and a stronghold of British imperial power. In its history of
Grecks, Cartha- been held in turn more than 2,500 years it has ginians, Romans, Arabs, and the Knights of St. John, who ruled it from 1630 until they were dispossessed by Napoleon in 1798. Later in that same year Nelson blockaded the island, atx Malta was officially annexed to the British Crown by the Treaty of Paris in 1814. Following the Crimean War the military defences were greatly strengthened and the island was deve loped as one of the most important ports of call for the world's shipping and as the principal base for the repair and refitment of ships of the Royal Navy in the Mediterranean.
At Valletta, which has been the island's capital since 1570 its name commemorates La Vallette, Grand Master of the conquering Knights of St. John-are great dock and victualling yards spread over the shores of two, anns of the harbour known as "Dockyard" and "French" creeks, and there are also hospitals, maga- zines and storehouses,
Malta itself is some 17 miles long, with an area of 5 square miles. Included with it are the island of Gazo (28 square miles) and the islet of Comino, which lies between the two-making a total of 122 square miles. The population is estimated at about 275,000.* mainly of Phoenicians or Carthaginian descent and of the Roman Cathollo faith.
Both English and Maltese are offein! languages, the former being the offelal language of the adminis- tration, while since 1934 Maltese has taken the place of Italian as the principal language of the courts of Inw, Many thousands of the Maltese are employed In the dockyards and arsenals, and during the Great War they provided a garrison for the island as well as many seamen for men-at-war and minesweepers and labouters for the planeer bottalions that did such good service at Gallipoli and Satoniku.
Partly, at least, because of their excellent record in the war the Maltese were granted responsible government in 1921. Its working was not entirely satisfactory, hdwever, and it was revoked in 1936, when the island reverted to the status of a Crown Colony.
Then, in 1939, a new constitution was promulgated by the Governor, General Sir Charles Bonham-Carter, under which there is a Council of Government com- two unoffiekad pased of eight official members and members nominated by the Governor, and ten eltcted members.
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Let's form An Anti - Anti League
ARE YOU SURE?
1. The chief constituent of marble is (1) quicksand (2)
lime (3) mercury.
2. What is the difference between match play and medal
play in golf?
3.
What are siblings?
4.
Which man actually kills the bull' in a bull fight, the matador or the picador?
5. The Czar of a great industry is often termed a magnet.
(true, false)
6.
In what year will Halley's Comet reappear?
7. Is an ecl a fish?
8. Which type of dog listens to his master's voice?
9. Which western state has a unicameral system of
government?
10. What was the middle name of the author of Kid-
napped?
11. Can you think of three different uses of the word
battery?
12.
What does a burnt child dread?
13.
Of which verb is wrought the past participle?
14.
If a bottle and a cork together cost a dollar and five cents and the bottle cost a dollar more than the cork, what did the cork cost?
15.
With whom do the mermaids flirt?
10
In what country-did--a-father succeed his own-son to the throne?
17.
What names may be logically coupled with (1) Barnum (2) Frankia (3) Mutt?
19.
18. What is the shape of a liquid?
What simile is customarily used to describe flatness? 20. Does the speedometer of a car add or subtract mileage
when the car moves backwards?
1. (2) Lime.
ANSWERS
2. Match play is a hole by hole test of opposing golfers' ability. Medal play is an attempt to cover a given number of holes In the lowest possible number of strokes.
3.
Siblings have one
-parents in common.
4. The matador.
or bolli
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5. Marnate is the word, noi
magnet.
0. 1087.
7. Yes.
8. A fox terrier.
9. Nebraska has only one house
of representatives,
10. Robert Louis Stevenson.
11. Battery meaning the pitcher
wul catcher of a baseball team.
Battery meaning a device to loro cicetrielty. Battery mean- Ing a company of artillery. 12. The fire.
13. The Work.
14. The cork cost two and one
half cents.
15. The ble swells and the lite
eddies.
16. Rumanis. Michael
WAK sud-
ceeded by his father Carol and
now the Crown Prince.
17. (1) Barnum and Bailey (2) Franky and Johnny (3) Mutt and Jeft,
18. The shape of a liquid is ob-
viously determined by
rhapo of the container. 19. Flat as a pancake. 20. It registers nothing.
MOST GIRLS LIKE TO BE KISSED
THE girl with the arched eyebrows and the green dress was getting away with it all 'down the line. She wasn't --doing it at the expense of any- body else all that very fetch- ing nonsense came irresistibly out of herself. It was fetch- ing. She was attractive and she knew it. She wanted to bo made a fuss of, and wo-the men of the party, that is- know that. But the women......-- One who ought to have known better hissed: "I've never scen a girl make herself so cheap no man could possibly res- pect her?"
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"Because," I said, "she is the most honest woman in the room, and far away the most attractive, Most of you like being kissed in corners, When nobody obliges, you cry our grapes. The giri in green cries no such thing-slic Cries "kiss me in corners,” and we̱, becouse she cries it so prettily and wittily, hasten to do so.
I'm not suggesting that you should go round the world making yourself stupidly cheap Mere, cuddling with any one half-baked and every one reduces you from a
girl to charming
something else. But I would like, once for all, to debunk this woman-made bogy about men "not respecting girls who are honest, enough to like
ground and play her game too. But as for not respecting her-it's an invention of the undesired who don't know how to dirt prettily.
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It's not clever to make quick, eatty remarks about other women to a men. Hundreds of you do it. be thinking. I suppose that he can educated by hearing home truths about women by a woman, He's not educated. Hy's shocked and uncomfortable.
Don't laugh at, or make fun of, your parents. We won't respect you for it. Don't, when we take you somewhere rather smart for dinner, eye it all phlegmatically. and try to make us believe that. you do this sort of thing every of the week. You'll give man can
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I-eyed the indy. Nobody. I regalety and all that galety implies yourself away, and no
fected, was making any fuss of and to say so into the bargel, her. "Madam," I said: "on the contrary, I respect her chor -mousty,"
"Rubbish," cried the lady “No man could, Why should he?"
We're not the hypocrites and prigs we're often made out to be. If a woman is clever enough to dirt wall and wittily, why we're ready to meet her, on her own
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that. Don't bo
It's even less pleasant in a woman than in a man. Don't be obvious learn your game which we all know is catching ussplay it well,
the
I have been asked to join the Anti- Gambling League. This is about the last straw.
I have had lectures on the evils of domi. noes and how they give you spots before the `oyes, and how one thing leads to another, and before you know where you are you find your- self in some loathsome euchre den sunk to the ears in sin,
I don't know why there should be so many anti-this and anti-that leagues.'
Goodness knows the opportunities for falling by the wayside and ending up gracefully in the gutter are becoming fewer and fewer these days and the world is weary enough without people telling you what not to do.
For instance, I wouldn't mind joining some of these Anti organisations, but when I got u pamphlet saying that tobacco was an insidious drug which was sppping my health and morals and roining the chances of the coming generation and a few other odds and decided that the time had come to start on ends 1 Anti-Anti League. I am drawing up my first pomphlet to be issued shortly.
Do you know of the horrible evils of chess? One becomes sour, morose and censorious (I'm not too sure how censorious is spelt, but it doesn't matter. It should never have been in the language, anyhow).
Do you realise that you are headed straight for the reception house if you don't relax? Be warned in ilme. Take stock of yourself!
Are you getting the best out of life? Take the family out this week-end and leave your pawns and bishops at home,
Join the School of Arts or a Sewing Bee. If there is a nearby vacant allotment, form a ilar-dice school in your district.
I had an uncle who was the family model. He had a bleak face with a dropping moustache on it, and he didn't like anybody much. The family used to use him as a sort of standard measure,
"Why don't you be more like Uncle William?" was the ery.
Uncle William never appeared, he just loomed: I'd breeze in after an afternoon with the boys with a bunch of flowers and a bottle of lemonade, and slam the door and throw my hot across the room and say:
"Well, Mrs. Lower's little boy has returned to the fold! Hoist all flags!"
"Shh! Uncle William's herci"
"Oh, hello, Nunky boyl How's tricks?"
**I
am keeping in reasonably good henith, due,
my boy, to the exercise of a restraint which you don't seem to possess. To get the best out of life I have found and I am a much older man than you--that moderation Is the key to good living-and all that."
And out in the kitchen I'd whisper to my wife: "Why did you let him in?"
"Do you think I can tell him by the way he rings the door bell? He's been out here criticising the way I run my kitchen! What does he think I am!"
Not so loud! He'll hear you.”
crime in
I often think that if there were fewer people snoop- ing around giving good advice there would be less
in the
be an Anti-Advice Society. When I first got
there
Delnitely a BL,
and more or less settled
down, our relations and in-laws flocked around and told us how all the pletures were hung in the wrong places and the furniture needed rearranging and the carpets didn't match the wallpaper.
I think I would prefer a good, clean typhoon to these
flat-fooled. twiddling, folly-pop, slobbering, ginger-beer, guzzling, gloomy, crepe-hanging anti- everythingers,
You may have gathered that I do not approve of these people. Well, I don't.
I'm all for tolérance... It's more gentlemanly.
most girls like being kissed
in cornera,
stand by your loyalues, take your
jtings without squealing about them at parties, have fun and be yourself. You'll have earned, all the male respect you want-if you - want it!::
I wouldn't say that it was more womanly, because le moment a woman becomes tolerant that's the thne to send for the private delco- tives. Or at least to erect jot of mental sandbags around yourself.
I've noticed how a wave of taler- anco stems to sweep through the home just before my wiơ's blth- day anniversary, nnd how my nephews knock each other · down to light my 'plpe round about Christmas time,
Still, when it comes to a close study of tolerance and intolerance, It's hard to say which is which, If you could hear a Russion and a Japanese, discussing the situation In Germany and the possible re- percussions in Italy, as I did the other night-Crikey! ;-;
I took them both to my club and made them play a couple of games of snooker,leuit
The face of Europe
dotted fill over wurde, should be
This is my recipe for peace.
And anyone who cares to join" my "Anti-Anti Club may do so for the measly sum of two shilifiga.“
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"Got the ring safely?" "The ring? Oh." Wait a minute.. Ring. Here it is, No. Confound it. Where is it? Could have sworn it was in this pocket.” "You will find it nestling coyly in- the bottom right-hand waistcoat pocket."
"Oh yes. Of course. Soitis. Ha! Hal Funny if I lost it. Yes, I 3009 - let's go over this busiNKIS once more. Now what do I do when "
My dear Peter, look at your tic. Full yourself together. Remember, I'm the man who's going to be married, not you. G, K
5 Oh. Are you? borare, Fact is, old "rather weak státe!
tion of yours last night. “Oh my poor head. I'm sure I won't be able to squeeze it into that wretched lepper,"
...
"If you'd only taken my advice last night and stuck to gin and Rose's..
**Roses P. Oh yes. For the brider- said they malds. I thought were to be carnations".
Rose's Lime Juice, blockhead | Prevents hangovers, Therapeutic action. I wish I'd rammed a quart of it down your silly throat. Next time I get married, Peter, remember you stick to gin and Rose's the night before."! “Oh yes. Thanks for the tip, I will. I kay - Charlds there did I put that ring PE wild have