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NEW CALL TO ARMS
A DEEPER appreciation of the
shocking and terrifying destruction which the Nazis Luftwaffe is causing to London and, other cities in Britain is offered in the decision of the British Government to invoke
a plan for the general mobilisa- tion of fire watchers in other
January 3, 1941.
"If ever there was a time when the words "United we stand, divided we fall" had
meaning, it has been the
period since the Axis came
into being
龠
United States Stands For
Falls
With Britain
HE. Axis has .functioned in THE German Italian THE
Japanese pact ought to functioned in regard to Italy,
regard to Japan just as it
make clear to Americans, if
Had the Battle of Britain suc- ceeded in the autumn, by a few
By
Dorothy Thompson
Germany started the war in there are any who still need Poland with the clear under- convincing," that this is no standing that the move would European war, but a world Italy entered at the precise mo
involve Britain and France. weeks' "blitzkrieg" after the pat- war aims really are is ingenious-" revolution for the redistri- ment agreed upon--with the tern of France, then Japan probly revealed by Dr Schacht, who bution of the entire planet. collapse of France. Germany
ably would not have been in- is writing down a blueprint for the new World Germanica, in n That's what it was intended could, it was reckoned, handle voked at this moment, to be in the beginning; that's with Britain she would need Empire in Axis hands, the Near. France by herself; for the war
With the citadel of the British
book to be published at the right what it la; and in the nature of. Italy.
moment. things it is directed as much'
Eastern and Far Eastern posses- Dr Schacht announces quite' against the United States as
sions and Commonwealth mem- simply that the real objects of against anybody else.
hers could have been cleaned up this war are the breaking of the between the three Axis partners. "plutocracies"—namely, Great
Britain and the United States. Now, by the roundabout route of Japan, Germany and Italy' manage to send what amounta THE Japanese angle reveals
THE to an ultimatum to the United itself in the plan that after this war the United States is to have no interests whatsoever, If the U.S.A. moves in Europe commercial or otherwise, in the or joins the war on the side of Pacific. uny Axis enenly, all three Powers regard her as an enemy. We are to be allowed to' trade exclusively with Europe-which If ever there was a time when needs some of our products- the words "United we stand, and with South America, where. divided we fall" had meaning, far from having a "Sphere of it has been the period since the Influence," we are to be appor- Axis came into being.
tloned "quotas."
Down
Lambeth Way-To-day
by G. R. STRAÙSS
(Labour M P. for Lambeth North)
From New York to New Guinea, Lambeth Walk is known to-day as a typical corner of Cockney London.
Like most other parts of the Metropolis-like, în fact, most- urban districts in Britain—it has been bombed savagely.
In telling its story, then, Mr Strauss, whose con stituency contains The Walk, is telling the story of all the great centres of population. For they are all the same. The ac cents may vary, but the talk of Lambeth Walk is the talk of the townamen of Britain.
there's one thing. I always did hate cleaning my 'windows."
Business is bad, because many of those who used to make up the
States.
THE Battle for Britain is not
Tn battle for an overcrowded only through
11
We are to be allowed to trade monopolistic import-export syndicate, to be The Battle for Britain is the of Europe, necessitating the end set up for the whole continent
scrap of geography.
"Walk" crowds have gone. The Battle for the Atlantic Ocean, of individual trading in this young men are in the Forces, most just as the Battle for France country and the establishment of the children are evacuated, and with Britain was the Battle for of a similar government mono-
the Mediterranean and the sea- poly here.
some of the mothers toa,
Nevertheless, those who stay are still cheerful, although behind their cheerfulness there is constant anxiety and occasional tragedy.
But if you are in any doubt as to
ways to Africa, the Near East and Asia.
If the
European
We shall be invited to stabilise our currencies together with Fascist Japan, Russia and pan-Fascist
how Lambeth people are standing Powers control the Atlantic from Europe, and merge the banking the strain, come along to the Rest Europe, and Japan controls the systems; but Germany will keep Centre-formerly a college where Pacific from Asia, the United the rubber mark for merchan- those who go are turned out of their States will be penned in by the disc and tourist, trade.
homes by an "incident."
LISTEN'.
oceans and will be finished as a
great Power. We shall either
The debts of all Germany's
Listen to the comment of a shop girl, who, with her family, had been accept this dictum or not accept vassals will be recognised in bombed out of her home in the mid-it. Not accepting it will mean principle, but will be paid in dle of the night. She was busy war, and war alone, by our goods. helping to prepare breakfast for the selves.
others.
1 have always wanted to go to
The Axis is ingenious in re.
For Latin America, which lives by exports, this system will mean economic strangulation or collabora the Axis at our gates.
words, the enforced use of per-Yo you remember the words! conego," she said. "And now, herevealing who its enemles really tion, and we shall eventually have
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It is a vital step; unhappily raid" of Sunday last clearly has stirred the Government more than anything else in this war. The Huns have now revealed that they are prepared to at- tempt to destroy everything historical and beautiful they can reach with their bombs; they are carrying total war to its ultimate stage,
a very necessary one. The "Gre
of the song:----
I ∙am."
I don't want you to think the are at just the right moment. people of the "Walk" are indifferent to the discomforts and dangers of
suffering severely,
Of course the "Walk," as we inf It is no fun sitting up all night
reality never a bit like that, and in a crowded shelter. And it's no
"Everything free and easy,
Also, the European end of the "Do you darn well pleasy. the raids. Far from Ht. They are Axis may, greatly hope that our attention will now be diverted to
The U.S.A. needs Allies, it needs Lambeth always call it, was in and every night with young children the Far East-our attention and them immediately and desperately our defence cffort. I hope we We ought to reverse our limited
thinking. it certainly isn't a bit easy, and a fun queueing up from carly in the are not so easily diverted. thousand regulations prevent you afternoon to reserve your place in
It is not and never has been a doing "19 you darn well pleasy."
question of whether the British Em- "Why don't you make your way
pire needs us; it is a question whe there,
ther we need the British Empire.
a
have yet to hear
the basement of one of
the big office buildings in the neighbourhood, or in an underground station. "Go there, stay there...." Nevertheless, I
The United States stands or There's nothing to prevent you single word which would suggest falls in the Far East with Great making your way there, and if you any weakening of their will to fight Britain, We stand or fall in care to know what the "Walle ison to victory.
both the Atlantic and the Pacific like to-day, I invite you to do so in And it isn't all contentment and with Great Britain.. my company. I doubt, though, good humour in Lambeth either. whether you will want to stay there. There is much resentment, angry
THEN AND NOW
▾
resentment.
course-for
We do.
pro-
If Britain is defeated, we shall be alone against the world. Invaded or not invaded, we shall live on the terms of the conquerors and be back The disposition of affairs in where we were in 1776. the Far East will depend upon Against Hitler, of
Finally, America's defence Mr Herbert Morrison, when
But you must first know what the hatred of him is permanent and un-the outcome in Europe and in cramme is utterly inadequate. It announcing the compulsory Walk" was like before the war.
shakable but also against the au-the Atlantic. Japan knows this will not he adequate until we re- state of emergency and cognise a scheme, found it necessary to.
otherwise, why the Axis and mobilise the entire A long, narrow, rather mean street, thorities.
Particularly because of the shortage why the new pact?
man power, lined with shops and stalls, wherei
machine power, and money power of include a rebuke in his state-the neighbouring housewives did of shellers, but for many other
What the minimum German everything else take second place.
the country for ment. "In more cities than one their marketing because the goods reasons too.
defence, letting were cheap and one was bound to People who plainly ought to be some of you have failed your wet friend or two with whom to out of London and were anxious to country. This must never hap-gossip.
go found that they did not fall within FUNNY SIDE UP pen again", he declared. These
ping are stern words, and possibly convey more than Mr Morrison intended they should. Few, if in Hongkong have had first-hand experience of modern raids, carried out as they are by
any,
meet a
Government evacuation scheme, I know of
Invalids for
for example.
a bed-ridden woman whose husband wanted to get her away as soon as the severe bombing started.
The "Walk" was a social and shop any
centre of a poor working-class district. Only on Saturday nights did it come sicur to the colourful and glamorous place of the song,
He found, after applying to various Then there were bustling crowds, garishly lit by the bright lights from authorities, that there was no pro- the shop windows and the flares from vision for her removal. So she had ter bursting from the pubs.
stalls, accordion music and laugh- to stay in London, although she not even get to a shelter at
the
the Nazis with all their, Insen- Nowadays on Saturday nights the night.
is deserted. You cannot go
In
wooden boards now hide the displays
"Walk"
sute brutality and utter disre marketing
"Walk"
Then there are the old people, who, the blackout. And they want to stay with relations gard for place or person; yet even
in the daytime much of its in the country, lose their Suppie- mentary Pension and are unable to what little has been seen here colour has gone.
For a bomb landed plumb in its pay the rent of their London homes. through the cinema has been centre, smashed the shop windows No wonder there is anger. And, sufficient to excite the imagina- almost the whole length, and rough believe me, when the people of the are angry they express their tion and to set one wondering that used to brighten the thorough-feelings in words that are outspoken how the people at Home, have
fare
and vivid, as Herbert Morrison, hlm- been able to stand it as they
a Lambeth man, well knows. "This catastrophe did not completely self have. Furthermore,
dishearten one shopkeeper. When is appointment was in the nick of the
U he arrived the next morning and time. He has already done much to thenticated stories of heroism found his plate glass had disappeared. restore confidence. by the various voluntary fire he remarked to his neighbour: "Well, fighting and war services in
been
the future.
behoves the horefore, it clearly
CARRYING ON
But in spite of all the upheavals
of the war and the folly of the au-
England are sufficient to show expect ralds of a nature similar to thorities, Lambeth Walk carries on. that, by and large, there has the are attack on London. It seems Pinned on the bonrds which take a wonderfully concerted fairly obvious that it was a test raid, the place of smashed shop windows, effort to thwart Hitler'a at-likely to be repeated, or at least at- are notices which say, "Business as tempts to destroy and terrorise. templed, on a much larger scale in usual."
Nor Mr Morrison's words must not be beh
have the people lost their of Britain to be Cockney wit As I passed the shop taken so much as an indictment a ready to withstand such onslaught next to the one destroyed by the an urgent appeal. It is possible that Only by a scheme such as that out-bomb, the owner looked at the rubble, someone blundered last Sunday when so many famous and historical build-
lined by Mr Morrison can this pre-piled feet high in the front of his Ings were laid waste; but this cannot
paration be efectivated. The know-premises, and naked me as I passed, be laid at the door of the average
ledge is dark and harrowing, bet-
bet-"Con
Can you lend me a Hoover, Mr man and woman in England; their
okening days and nights of suffering Strauss?" efforts hitherto
and anguish; but, the country · has; Drabber and rather battered, its have bren too splendid to warrant such an indict-
slected itself for such a day, and, people fewer and their lips a Íittle ment.
what it means is that from
there is no doubt, is ready and will- Ugbler, but their spirit unchanged- henceforth, Britain generally must
Ing to answer the new call for com- that is what you would find now "If pulsory service.
you go down Lambeth way,
DDD o
By Abner
Dean
!!Can you wait?;
expect a phone call any minute!".