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January 8, 1941.
By Walt Disney
DONALD DUCK
THERE.....I KNOW
THE WHOLE BOOK
BY HEART!
NOW, WILL YOU GIVE ME
THE LESSON YOU PROMISED
ME, DONALD?
SURE THING,
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By Henry Buckley
LISBON.
HE fragrant perfume of honeysuckle fills the night air in the gardens of Estoril Casino. It is not a prelly building as seen from outside. It was designed and built by two Frenchmen,
Jourde and Paul Reynes, and the French do not like clean, straight lines.
But inside you forget that the outside is all corners, for tho restaurant, with its spacious dance floor, is plea-· sant and airy, and it has the biggest plate glass windows I ever saw anywhere.
From them you can look out over the moon-lit Bay of Cascaes and see the Atlantic rollers pound the beach and see the twinkling lights of the pilot ship in the background,
"Europe's lung" they call this little corner of the Con- tinent, where life still goes on with some pretence of nor- mality, where you can have all the petrol you want and sugar is not rationed, and whisky cheaper than at home. Lisbon to-day is the cross- roads of Europe, and Estoril, just fifteen miles away, houses the elite of the travellers who come and go.
THE
HE party of men in dinner dress sitting over in one corner of the casino restaurant are oil men. They have been having a con- ference in the Hotel Palacio down near the station for the last few days.
If you knew what they had decided on you might have an inkling of how the war will go, for so much depends on this liquid gold. The grey-haired oil king at the head of the table is rated as one of the six richest men in Britain.
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The group of heavily built, golld Swiss citizens at a table nearby, who have obviously dined heartily, have come to Lisbon from -Switzerland to shop for their nation. There is no more individual buying, the Swiss Government pur- chases and distributes the goods when it can get them.
These
some of the smartest Swiss business brains, and their job is a heavy one. They must find sellers, pay in gold, get per-. mission for the goods to pass the British control-if they are articles not available in Portugal-and then they must usa endless ingenuity to trans- port the marchandise across a Spain whoso-rolling stock was ruled by the civil war, and then over the disorganised railway system of unoccupied France to the frontier, and into Switzerland by motor truck.
TALL Frenchman and a short, stocky, rough-looking Dutchman
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watch the dancers as if there were no more important thing in the world to do. The Frenchman arrived in Paris from the Baltic fifty years ago, a penniless youtli, and to- day he is reputed to be worth well over £5,000,000. He is a refugee; off to New York.
The Dutchman is one of the best-known gold dealers in Europe. He talks in terms of gold bricks- brick weighs 400ozs, and solls at about £8 an ounce to-day, so I am told. If you were to ask him how much gold you would' need to send from Zurich to New York to pay a debt there in Argen- tine paper pesos, he would gaze up at the ceiling for a few minutes and then he would tell you exactly how many bricks you would need and what transport, insurance, loss of interest during trans- port, would cost you. Com- pared with his French col- league he is a man of modest means: he is worth about one million sterling.
TEXT door to the res-
Naurant is the gamb
ling hail where you have the choice_of_losing_your_money_ at roulette, French Bank, or -if you are ready to gamble real money-at baccarat. A lackey bars the way to the baccarat table; you must give your name there and some in- dication of being a person of substance.
The keen-faced woman with glasses who sits at the far.end of the table is familiar figure there and at most, casinos in Europe. The wife of a mil- lionaire Balkans bankers, her face changes not at all whet-
her she wins or loses two or three hundred pounds at a sitting.
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The roulette tables more democratic. You
play as little as two escudos fifty-sevenpence. And If you put it in the middle of a square and the number comes up you will get back thirty- five times sevenpence, which makes just £1 0s. 5d.
that rarely happens.
But
A Central European cou- ple, man and wife, both with paper and pencil, are playing very carefully. They do not look rich, possibly they. hope to make some money to help them on their way. He hus drawn an elaborate chart. They bet only on the red colour, two shillings at a time, and get back their investment a red number wins instead of a black I hope they win. But people rare- ly do when they need the money.
WO-
The distinguished figure in even- ing dress accompanied by two charming young Portuguese men is a well-known German writer and one of these clever young people sent hither and thither by Herr von
Tibbentrop And it may be my mistake, but it does look to me as if the tall, in- telligent-looking Englishman play- paying for more attention to the ing at table number one is really
movements of the visitor from Ber-
lin than he is to his game. He is going to lose an awful lot of money unless the German goes soon, I am afraid,
At the next table is a star radio speaker of Columbia Broadcasting -you will have heard his quiet, effective voice many a time from various European capitals if you tune into the American broadensts regularly. He is going back to see ten month-old twins who won't re- cognise the papa who put them in a boat at Cherbourg five months ago. A well-known muvictone ICWS reel operator is sitting with him..
IT
T used to be a common say- Ing that if you snt long enough on the terrace of the Cafe de la Palx on the Place de l'Opera In Paris you would see the whole world go by. That is nearly true to-day of Estoril Casino. Only those were gladder days.
To-day we are watching the col- lapse of a Europe which will never be the same again, no matter what turn the war takes. It is the at- mosphere of a rainly autumn day.
One
FUNNY SIDE UP
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"Oh, General, I'm knitting a sweater for Junior-what size'
will he be next month?"
of the things
we
are
fighting for is to be able to
SAY
WHAT
WE THINK
AN we have a little sanity
CAM Wheels at of Mr
H. G. Wells? He went to America to speak his mind about this war. His outlook has not. coincided with the more conventional idea of pro- paganda that should be fed to the Americans. Therefore Mr Wells should not have been granted an exit permit.
By this confession in the House of Commons we are to use exit permits as a form of censorship. Yet our censor- ship is based on information to the enemy and not expres. sion of opinion.
Mr Wells has given away no great military secrets, no de- Lalla of defence. He has call- ed a few generals fools, and, under the present struggle for freedom of speech, he is en- titled to do so. He has been called an agnostic, and simi- larly we claim to fight for freedom of faith, religious or otherwise.
A
woman looks at the war-by
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grades of opinion and outlook. The Americans are not entirely a race of nitwits.
ANOTHER sweet story about
a dear lady who was giv- ing a party and suddenly an- nounced to her friends, "Now look, Mr So-and-So, an American, is coming up. Let's not talk about our fears, shall we? It makes such a bad impression."
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Nuta! To nli whom it may con- cern-I am frightened, and have sufficient imagination to know the damage
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my make. Only a would
mummy would pretend otherwise. Let's tell the Americans we don't like bombs, but we can at least behave well under them.
To support my point, let me
tell you of a comment from Mr Ralph Ingersoll, the American proprietor of the news- paper Р.М. "Опе thing that pleases me hero is that I can go anywhere, see anything, say any thing without being challenged. And believe me, you have nothing to hide from the American public."
Let us live up to that telbute,
The necusation that he is nilen- ating American sympathy for our cause is a foolish' one. Mr Wells is greatly respected in America, and I am sufficiently confident of American sympathy to believe that It can be left to judge for itself.
In our propaganda to the United States there has been too much of this attitude. of "beads for the natives." The American public is an enlightened one, bred on facts. It is not taken in by the fairy plcture of heroics that a number of people would wish to give it..
SUGGESTION for shelters We might do credit to
comes from a crime re friends by presenting them all portor friend of mine. Why not
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the murderer's cell 11 the Old Bailey? He points out that there are a hundred cells in the Old Bailey, pleasantly furnished with stool and chair and mattress, empty, with a strong steel door for protection.
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The murderer's cell ls slightly more privileged than the rest. is three times the size, and a man and wife and children could rest there quite comfortably. There ore large rooms at the end of the cells fitted with gus and water.
I think for those who are not squeamish it would be an excellent. idea to spend the night in the condemned cell and come out alive in the morning. Many have come out to dle
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Evans of the Broke might in- vestigate these cells. By strange feature, of the wor they are nearly always .empty.
WHAT is this little game the W Post Office is playing? A friend wanted to send a telegram to her husband and she was told It would take a long Ume, but she could pay sixpence extra to send
and Il priority. She paid,
it arrived in half an hour.
Priority is usually reserved for messages connected with Боте wartime service. It has now been opened to the public because icle- grams were taking hours. It is Bixpence for the privilege of get- ting your telegram put on the top of the pile.
Speed should be a normal ser- vice of telegrams-not to be paid for at a premium.
THERE are some good signs
in London's damage, A pub has this one. "No Gos, No Water, but Good Spirits."
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