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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 words, the enforced use of per- haps 50 per cent. of the entire nation.
It is a vital step; unhappily -n-very-necessary-one-The-"fire" 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..
ment agreed upon-with the
That's what it was intended could, it was reckoned, handle to be in the beginning; that's with Britain she would need France by herself; for the war what it is; and in the nature of Italy. things it is directed as much against the United States as Had the Battle of Britain suc- against anybody else.
ceeded in the autumn, by a few
Down
By
Dorothy Thompson
the new World Germanica, in a book to be published at the right. moment.
European war, but a world involve Britain and France. weeks' "blitzkrieg" after the pat- war aims really are is ingenious- - revolution for the redistritaly entered at the precise mo.. tern of France, then Japan prob- ly 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
voked at this moment,
Empire in Axis hands, the Near With the citadel of the British
Eastern and Far Eastern posses- Dr Schacht announces quite sions and Commonwealth mem- simply that the real objects of bers could have been cleaned up this wor are the breaking of the between the three Axis partners, "plutocracies" — namely, Grent Now, by the roundabout route Britain and the United States. of Japan, Germany and Italy THE Japanese angle 'reveals manage to send what amounts itself in the plan that after. to an ultimatum to the United States.
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. any Axis enemy, 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.
tioned "quotas.”
Lambeth Way-To-day
by G. R. STRAUSS
(Labour MP, 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, in 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 cents may vary, but the talk of Lambeth Walk is the talk of the townamen of Britain.
-OD
there's one thing. I always did hate cleaning my windows."
Business is bad, because many of those who used to, make up the
scrap of geography,
HE Battle for Britain is not We are to be allowed to trade Tute for overcrowded only through a monopolistic import-export syndicate, to be, set up for the whole continent The Battle for Britain is the of Europe, necessitating the end 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 are evacuated, and with Britain was the Battle for of a similar government mono- of the children trome of
of the mothers too.
"Walk" crowds have gone.. The
Nevertheless, those who stay are the Mediterranean and the sea- poly here. silli cheerful, although behind their Ways to Africa, the Near East cheerfulness there is constant anxiety and Asia.
and occasional tragedy.
But if you are in any doubt as to
If the
European
We shall be invited to stabilise
our currencies together with
Fascist Japan, Russia and pan-Fasciat
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 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 dise and tourist, trade. homes by an "Incident."
LISTEN
oceans and will be finished as a
We shall either The debts of all Germany's Listen to the comment of a shop great Power. 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 Belves.
othera
·
"I have always wanted to go io
I am
The Axis is ingenious in re-
O you remember the words college," she said. "And now here vealing who its enemies really D of the song:-
"Everything free and easy, "Do as you darn well pleas
"7 ་་ ་་
-Of-coursa_the_Walk,"og_we_in Lambeth always call it, was
are at just the right moment.
For Latin America, which lives by exports, this system will mean on, and we shall eventually have economic strangulation or collabora-
the Axis at our gates.
I don't want you to think the people of the “Walk" are indifferent to the discomforts and dangers of
Also, the European end of the the raids. For from It. They are Axis may greatly hope that our suffering severely,
attention will now be diverted to
The USA. needs Allies. It needs. -It-is-no-fun-sitting-up-all-night the Far East our attention and them immediately and desperately.
thinking.
reality never a bit like that, and in a crowded shelter. And it's no
in and every night with young children our defence effort. I hope we We ought to reverse our limited it certainly isn't a bit easy, and a fun queueing up from early in the are not so easily diverted. thousand regulations prevent you afternoon to reserve your place in doing "as you darn well pleasy."
the basement of one of the big office Why don't you make your way buildings in the neighbourhood, or
there,
in an underground station.
Nevertheless, I have yet to hear
"Go
there, stay there..
The United States stands or There's nothing to prevent you a 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 "Walk" is on 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. whether you will want to stay there. There is much resentment, angry my company. I doubt, though, good humour in Lambeth either.
THEN AND NOW
resentment,
Its not and never has been a question of whether the British Em- pire needs us; it is a question whe- her we need the British Empire. We do.
If Britain is defeated, we shall be alone against the world. Invaded or nal 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 Finally, America's defence pro- the outcome in Europe and in gramme is utterly inadequate. It the Atlantic. Japan knows this will not be adequate until we re- cognise u state of emergency and otherwise, why the Axis and mobilise the why the new pact?
entira man power. machine power, and money power of country for defence, letting What the minimum German everything else take second place.
Against Mr Herbert Morrison, when
Hitler, of course for But you must first know what the hatred of him is permanent and un- announcing the compulsory Walk" was like before the war.
shakable-but also against the au- scheme, found it necessary to lined with shops and stalls, where A long, narrow, rather mean streel,
thorities.
Particularly because of the shortage include a rebuke in his state-the neighbouring housewives did
shelters, but for many other ment. "In more cities than one their
marketing because the goods reasons too. some of you have failed your wert a friend or two with whom to out of London and were anxious to were cheap and one was bound to People who plainly ought to be country. This must never hap-| gossip.
go found that they did not fall within FUNNY SIDE UP The "Walk" was a social and shop- any Government evacuation scheme, pen again", he declared. These
ping centre of
working-class
Invalids for example, I know of a poor are stern words, and possibly district. Only on Saturday nights bed-ridden woman whose husband convey more than Mr Morrison did it come near to the colourful and wanted to get her away as soon as
the severe bombing storted. intended they should. Fow, if glamorous place of the song.
Then there were bustling crowds, He found, after applying to various any, in Hongkong have had garishly lit by the bright lights from authorities, that there was no pro- first-hand experience of modern the shop windows and the tinres from vision for her removal. So she had raids, carried out as they are by ter bursting from the pubs.
the stolis, nccordion music and laugh- to stay in London, although she could not even, get to, a shelter ut Nowadays on Saturday nights the night.
In words that are outspoken
the Nazis with all their insen-Valle" is deserted. You cannot go, then there are the old people, who, sate brutality and utter disre marketing in 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 Supple- what little has been seen here colour has gone.
Pension and are unable, to mentary through the cinema has been
For a bomb Innded plumb in its pay the rent of their London homes, centre, smushed 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
"Walk" ore tion and to set one wondering wooden boards now hide the displays well in ungry they express their
that
used to brighten the thorough-| how the people at Home have fore
and vivid, as Herbert Morrison, him- been able to stand it as they
This catastrophe did not completely self a Lambeth man, well knows. dishearten one shopkeeper. When appointment have. Furthermore,
was in the nick of the ли- 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 England are sufficient to show that, by and large, there has been a wonderfully concerted effort to thwart Hitler's at tempts to destroy and terrorise.
CARRYING ON
But in spite of all the upheavals (of the war and the folly of the au- expect ralda of a nature similar to thorities, Lambeth Walk carrier on. the fire attack on London. It seems Pinned on the boards which take fairly obvious that it was a test raid, the place of smashed shop windows, likely to be repeated, or at least at are notices which say, "Business teropted, on a much larger scalo in usual." the future. Therefore, it clearly
Nor have the people lost their
Mr Morrison's words must not be behoves the people of Britain to be Cockney wit. As I passed the shop taken so much as an Indictment as ready to withstand such onslaughts. next to the one destroyed by the an urgent appent. It is possible that Only by a scheme such as that out-bomb, the owner looked at the rubble, someone blundered last Sunday when lined by Mr Morrison can this pre-plied feet high in the front of his so many famous and historical build- ings were laid waste; but this cannot ledge is dark and harrowing,
patation be effecivated. The know- premises, and asked me as I passed, be laid at the door of the average man and woman in England; their and angush; but the country has
okening days and nights or suffering scan you lend me a loover, Me
Straws?" efforts hitherto
Drabber and rather battered, its have been too stected itself for such a day, and, people fewer and their lips a lttle splendid to worrent such an Indict- there is no doubt, is ready and will-tighter, but their spirit unchanged- ment what it means is that from ing to answer the new call for com that is what you would and now git henceforth, Britain generally must pulsory service.
you gu dawn Lambeth way:
the
By Abner Dean
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