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Liberty's Legions
are ready
By Harry Levin
The Mere Man
NOMEWHERE in Palestine. But a few days later he suc- Spain, for France when Franco tury, the Duke of Windsor, is.
behind a gate inscribed with ceeded in disappearing under won the civil war. the simple word “Pax,” a palm- the very nose of the Gestapo, girdled monastery looks down agents,
They volunteered bodily for this new war for. Ilberty and upon a military camp.
Their motto is the motto of were sent to Syria. One young Two thousand years ago the Czechoslovakia's beloved first man speaking for them all said, RADIATOR GRILLE, BETTER Legions of Rome, were encamped President, Masaryk-"Truth will "We long for home, but we do LOOKING ALL ROUND, MORE here,
not wish to go there until Fas- EFFECTIVE ROOM IN THE REAR COMPARTMENT, MORE
IT HAS AN IMPOSING NEW
prevail."
To-day it is a Polish Legion Like all Czechs, they are cism is crushed." LUGGAGE SPACE AND A HOST which lives in its sunbathed great footballers. They sing a R.A.F. Preferred
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Among the Palestine volun- 1. Below the white walls of the their quietness is deceptive, for teers who have thronged to the monastery its bugles ring out the steely look in their eyes re- colours are farmers, craftsmen as a great fire leaps towards the calls the fact that never have students and professional men. sky: It is a huge pyre lit by the Czechs made peace with torches brought by runnere their "conqueror," from that holy fire that burns
in the sepulchres of Jerusalem.. "La Patrie"
sadness.
The biggest rush has been to join the R.A.F., which for a fortnight has had to close its It is burning in memory of
recruiting offices. After only a Most of the Free Frenchmen few weeks training theso re- the tens of thousands that fell
in the Middle East are in Egypt, cruits have achieved the smart- for the Liberty of Poland.
but some are here. They are ness which is inseparable from Across the darkening, plain more reticent than the French- the R.A.F.'s blue uniform. comes the haunting melody of men one used to meet in France,
This camp fire is symbolic of Toung by thousands of a dignity born of a tremendous where Britons, Australians, New Poland's famous hymn of free- and they bear themselves with
all other camp fires in Palestine,
Zealanders, Rhodesians and Most of these Poles passed They utter the words, "La many others argue in a strange through the furnace of the patrie," with a grimness as mixture of languages. Polish campaign of a year ago though the Fatherland and they
They exchange experiences, in Black Sea coast, sometimes in have not yet had the opportuni- groups, sometimes singly, until ty to fight but everyone knows round their sweethearts' and they were able to form an when they come face to face children's photographs and, as Eastern brigade which eventual with the foe they will prove im- soldiers have done from time immemorial, arrange meetings ly took up its headquarters in placable.
to be held when peace has been Syria.
declared.
voices.
and succeeded in reaching the have been gravely injured. They love and other things, pass
One of them who knows Eng- Almost every one of them has land and loves it quoted Macau- lay-"Delusion may triumph but his Odyssey..
the triumph of delusion is only
One he has an Irish ancestor for the day." under the provisions of the Telecommual-passed through the German
cations Ordinance, 1036. Butch new
bears the indication "UP" is received a lines, thanks to the pass he had Hongkong on the date of publication by filched from the body of a dead
the United Press Associations, who ta
serve all rights and forbid republications, spy. either wholly or in part without previous strangement,
Spain's Unit
Men of Faith
The fate which has assembled in the Holy Land these men Cracow, from Manchester and from Melbourne and Bruno, kas The longest pilgrimage to this crystallised their unshakable camp of Liberty has been made determination and unshakable One, stripping the uniform by the smallest unit, that of the faith in the victory which is to from a deal Hussar, got near Spanish Republicans who left bo Britain's. the, German lines. Then he was able to disguise himself, as a peasant woman, and it was his feminine "wink" that succeeded in getting him past the guards. world to the weak spots in his armour. The Polish
Cracks In Hitler's Armour DURING the spring and carly summer Hitler's sweeping attacks on neutral and largely
unprepared countries followed by his final
"blitzkrieg" on France blinded the
To-day these dents have become
-DUNKIRK-
Eagle kirk will be spoken with reverence.
The Duke of The most de- mocratie of Windsor
British royal. personages of the twentieth cen-
also probably the moat' dis- tinguished of Britons for all- round, universal
popularity, There is hardly a place where his name is known that he is not fondly regarded with the friendliest affection, and no- where outside of the Empire is this more true than in the United States. On his visits to the great American Republic as the Prince of Wales, Edward early carved for himself a niche in American hearts, and a very. sure testimony of the love which Americans feel for him may be found in the remark made by a Middle West farmer, who said, after he met him. ""Taint bad if these United States had some Prince feller. jest like him!"
era of
a niew co-operation
It is the name of the Duke of Windsor that springs most readily to mind when I think of the most happy, cholce Mr Churchill can make for sudden untimeliness by the death of the position of Ambassador in Washington,
left vacant with such Lord Lothian. There is not a single doubt that at this most important of times, and when Anglo-American coming into being, Britain should who is not only well-liked but who have a representative at Washington can be trusted implicitly for what- ever he does by the American In
of life. Lord Lothian, was such a man, and fulfilled the He earned the confidence of Ameri- highest expectations of
his
position. caus because of his natural simpli- city of heart, his disdain of the diplomatic tradition of mystery and Intrigue, and his. "common touch." Britain must select someone to re- place him who can, in the same way, reach right home to the individual
eac American.
every walk
There may be other eminent men,, sulted to be Ambassador, who have even greater training and experience for the work than the Duke of Wind- sor, but there cannot be one who,. if appointed, will be instantly ac- cepted with such spontaneous good- will."
I have three reasons for favouring the Duke: firstly, for his own per- sonal popularity; secondly, for the fact that he is married to an Ameri- can, and
for the fact that uch
thirdly an
would be n appointment means of placing Great Britain back In the good books of those Ameri- cans who, rightly or wrongly, felt that their country had been alighted because Edward had to abdicate on account of his American wife.
"SO LONG as the English tongue survives, the word Dun- For in that harbour, in such a hell as never blazed on earth before, at the end of a lost deẞnite cracks. Having failed to The Polish brigade left for battle, the rags and blemishes that have hidden the soul of carry his "canqueat” of Franco to Palestine when France capitu-democracy fell away. There, beaten but unconquered, in shin- Britain's shores Hitler lost his golden lated. It includes Marshal Piling splendour, she faced the enemy. opportunity, since which he has been gudski's Legionnaires and the They sent away the wounded first, men died so that others turning this way and that in his pick of the youth of Poland. could escape.
It was not so simple a thing as courage, which efforts to administer a "knock-out
the Nazis had in plenty.
of the Duke's It was not so simple a thing as dis- blow" to the British.
Tanned, friendly and smart, theymarch along with the cipline, which can be hammered into men by a drill sergeant Polish Eagle proudly displayed was not the result of careful planning, for there could have upon their kapis--the broad-rising in all his glory out of mill, office, factory, mine, farm and It was the common man of the free countries, brimmed cap worn by the
ship, applying to war the lessons learned when he went down French Foreign Legion.
the shaft to bring out trapped comrades, when he hurled the lifeboat through the surf, when he endured poverty and hard work for his children's sake.
That Hitler's march to Paris was not so victorious as he would have the world believe has since been evidenced by the difficulties he has encountered In negotiations with Vichy fact which is beginning to convince the whole of Europe that General de Gaulle was right when he declared in his proclamation from London on November 8 that "France han löst a battle, but France has not
lost the wari”
Not many weeks ago the world was edified by the news that the German
Fuehrer, dropping his role of dicta- tor, had decided to travel to Spain
attempt to include that country in the
This is not the first time the Polish Eagle has been seen in these parts. Nearly 150 years 4go Napoleon himself praised the valour of the Polish Legion- naires who played auch a big part in his Eastern campaign.
Brothers in Arms
This meeting round the camp- for the purpose of making a personal are also emphasises the close- Axis. Spain's answer was plain ness of the brotherhood in arms when Senor Suner, in collaboration of the many "Legions of Liber- with Sir Samuel Houre, the British ty" gathered up and down the Ambassador, signed a financial agree. Holy Land many of whose re mint with Britain. This may not algnify that Spain has definitely presentatives are guests of the turned her back on the Axis but it Polish Brigade to-night.
certainly indicates that she is not sure of Hitler's final victory in the war There are the Czechs, austere and therefore prefers to remain men whose sun-helmets bear the neutral for the time being. The Bulgarian king at the Ume of symbol of the Lime leaf. Most Rumania's collapse went to see Hitler of them came from Syria after and for a few days observers feared the German occupation but some that he too was being drawn into the
saw Prague's final humiliation,
German net. But in the meantime Greece, which has always manfully and succeeded in escaping by relected German propaganda and methods which even now cannot intrigue, showed the spirit of the be revealed, people by defying Italy to do her
worst.
The subsequent successes of One of them was arrested be- Greek arms probably had something cause he raised his clenched to do with Bulgaria's later statements
that above all things she desired to hand towards heaven as he stood maintain her neutralty. Whatever boforo the Czechoslovakian Un- the reason for his ignoble attack on known Warrior's tomb on the Greece, Il Duce misjudged the fight- ing power of the Grecian army.
day of the invasion. To-day as a result, reports declaro that Hitler is, trying to persuade
to
attempts. It winte
Turkey to accept the role of media attractive. The "conquered" coun- tor. The Grecian position, aided by tries in West Europe, while theore- the British navy, air force and tically dominated by Germany, are materials is, however, sufficiently beginning to show increasing courage favourable
all and temerity in their opposition to Buch
also be German rule. It was only last week dangerous to talk "peace" at this that Gorman troops stationed in stage as Mussolini, even if an armis Norway had to be put on ́s war foot- tico were declared, would have the ing because of hostile acts. It is also time he badly needs, in which to known throughout Holland that some repair his losses,
500 of her erstwhile leading adminis» trators are imprisoned in German Whatever Greece decides to do, concentration camps, wille Belgium Hitler's armour shows signs of fur and France are not faring much ther cracks, Russia is not proving better. As for Poland the situation so amenable in regard to Japan as is reported to be horrible beyond Germany had hoped. : If Russia con= |description, . Each country - although tinues her aid to China as the has suprofiting to German domination, la declared she willi Japan, nust retain a seothing caldron of discontent and in strong force in Manchuria, thus cannot, but sap - Hitler's® military making the long promised - drive, strength, PA, fact which he ? muit southwards more hazardous and less. recognise with some trepidation.
been little.
This shining thing in the souls of free men Hitler cannot command, or attain, or conquer. He has crushed it, where he could, from German hearts.
.*
It is the great tradition of democracy. It is the future. It is Victory."
Reproduced, from "The New York Timės,"
FUNNY SIDE UP
By Abner Dean
'All
wanted was a from physical examination.
was
positive they'd find SOMETHING wrong!"
The Prime Minister, who is one staunchest friends. must certainly be acquainted with all the factors, and it may be sure that his choice, whatever it may be, will not have been made without con- |sideration of these factors,
It was Lord. Lo- The Filmsthian
who WILE Do Their quoted as saying that Hollywood is Bit
playing its part in maintaining British morale. The cinema, in these times when nations are struggling for their national existence, is certainly a welcome relief from terrifying experiences.
Britain is receiving more Ameri- can films than for many years since. the quota system went into force, but European countries sadly miss them, especially those countries whose populace must be kept satisfled and mentally keyed to the war ef- fort.
The radio in Germany and Italy is not a vehicle for entertainment but for propaganda, and cannot take the place of the aims. In Britain now, the radio must also largely be oc- cupled with war news, warnings and oficial advice, though a great deal of pure, delightful entertainment is still being provided. So even "horso opera" and thriller serials are doing their bit in the fight of free peoples against totalitarton tyranny. "To Whet Your
Whistle"
I had always Imagined that the phrase "ta
whot your whistle" dated probably from Harry Weldon or one of the North Country come dians. But here it is bobbing up in the seventeenth century. Izaak Walton's "Piscator" re- marks," "Let's o'on say grace, and turn to the fire, drink the other cup to whet our whistles, and so sing away all sad thoughts."
Inefdentally, I had always thought the phrase was "to wet your while-
I had never read Walton. It seems to me the perfect book-for- these days, with no apologies to the consummate asses and dolls who call anything but a sordid,· "realistic". novel, or a treatise on local govern- |ment", "boardsji "the literature of,
escape.
Claudius