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"I wish to blazes I could remember the Chinese word for stop!"
Formerly, many of us were narrow-minded, said Mrs Pleasant, who runs a canteen in her village. But now all England's being mixed, and shaken up, and people are finding out things they had never dreamed of, not in places only, but in people. And Mrs Pleasant asks if that is not as big a thing as the war?
A LETTER FROM EVERYDAY
"Don't talk about my can- teen," said Mrs
Pleasant, "that makes it sound too im- portant. We call it the Sen- field House Club."
"It was my idea, actually," said Mrs Pleasant's daughter.
Rosemary Pleasant, home on a week's leave from the Women's Auxiliary Air Force, had, as her, mother put it, temporarily reverted to type, Her body was in a large chair; her legs were over its arm. She was simultaneously smoking cigarettes and caiing chocolates. A number of fashion catalogues strewed the floor.
"It's rotten to have no place to go to when you're off cluty," said Rosemary, "and it's about five miles to the big canteen at Windicliff,”
"That boy's preparatory sclidol in the village was taken by the army," said Mrs Picasant. "They've got about niity men there. There are other men at the searchlight
Rock posts, and gunners at Hend. I asked the officer in charge at the school if we could start a soldiers reading and recreation room in our old stable.. He gave us his bless- ing. So that's how it all began."
"Come and see it!" said Rose- mury.
*
The old stable at Scaleld House dates from couching days, I had been cleared of inside divisions, floored with wood, and given win- dows, as a wet-day playroom for Rosemary and her brothers. Its door was opposite that of the Sen- field House kitchen.
"There was a lot of spare furni- ture tucked away about the house," sakl *Rosemary, "Those funny looking Victorian chairs are really Jolly comfortable. The
ENGLAND
by Kathleen
Conyngham Greene, O.B.E.
"I think he must have fallen in love with some Mademoiselle frum Armentieres," murmured Rose-
mary.
"Someone gave us the wireless,” sald Mrs Pleasant, "someone else lent us the gramophone. We got records from everyone we know. The last lot of nen--regiments change quite often-were from the Now North, and musical. The whole room would! sit listening Tscha
chaikowsky. The present lot want
darts! Up those to play stairs are what used to be the chauffeur's
rooms. We've writing tables there now and some shelves of books. Two of the artil- Jery men bring their own chess- board and chess-men and go up to the quiet room to play."
"Mum has to get the tca andi sugar and margarine and so оп through the Women's Voluntary Services," sald Rosemary. "Each cup ims to be entered and a return sent in It means quite a lot of work! Most of the cakes are made in the house. Mrs Kitchener adores the soldiers."
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"We don't attempt to give them sausages and eggs and bacon, like the real canteens," said Mrs Plea- sant. "Just tea and cake and bis- cuits. They pay a penny for a cup of ten, another penny for a slice of cake. The tea's made in our own kitchen. electric
"I wa
won't sell chocolate or light was in already. The fireplace cigarettes. It would not be fair belonged to a sort of grooms sit-
on the village shop. But we sell ting room at the end. It only writing paper and envelopes, and mennt knocking down a wall to Mrs Kitchener has a reserve of make it a part of this room. stamps. People come in
and help There's a sort of welcoming look
us nl the busy times. The
men themselves about an open fire."
love to lend a hand with sweeping and washing up."
We had left the okt stable now. Rosemary had gone back to her dreants of un-uniformed apparel. Pleasant and I were walking the lawn. The bank of trees that sheltered the house was glowing will reds and golds, with smoke from a pyre of burning weeds blowing across like a fea- ther. There was a glitter of sea beyond the jagged outbie of Rock Head,
and
A big table at one end was covered with magazines phpers.
"They like such odd things,” sald Mra Pleasant, "motor bicycling and Bim
naturally! But one papers, man anked if we'd take in a poultry magazine. Another got us to order him the Free French daily paper that the de Gaulle people publish over here--at his own ex- pense too!".
Mira
across
"It is strange how work comes to find one," said Mrs Pleasant. "I felt rather forlorn here, in the test war days, with Rosemary and "the boys"Lone. We över fifties are very willing. But we aren't much wanted in modern war. I look in London children before this coast the battle line. When bombs began dropping, and the children went away, i couldn't go too, leaving the village to 'stick
became
Then came the solders-and here was my job at home!"
*
"it isn't only the tea and books and so on," she continued. "They like to have someone to listen. We've got part of a territorial battalion here now; mostly London
One of men.
my great friends used to be a wailer, another a bus con- LOTIN ductor. His home was bombiki last week. He had leave to go up and see about 1. He stopped here on his way back to
tell
his folks were all right. You see them opening their pocket books and showing snapshots of their babies and so on to the
women who
help with the tea. I don't suppose must of them had ever talked to real village people before. The friend- liness doesn't end In the club rooms. We have football matches
the vil--
ves the soldiers and the
BOINC
We're hoping to get an occa- sional concert party, and talks in the evening. One
Ser- geont, an
asked intelligent man. Rosemary for a book about trees. It was quite a new idea to him that they were, as he ank, "divided up is regiments, with different leaves, like badges
same as us.
This sort of war is a dull business, when it simply means looking at na empty sea. It's a good chance of learning new things for men who've probably given all their time to carning a living since they left school."
We had reached the path that led to the vilinge and to my bus for home.
"All England's being mixed, and shaken up," said Mrs. Pleasant; "bodies and braing, I wonder, sometimes, if that isn't as big a thing as the war. Formerly many of us-country
town people, North, South, Midland-were nar row-minded. Now the scattered families, and thousands of soldiers, have been jolted out of their
They're grooves.
finding they'd
dreamed of, thing
nover not in places only, but In people; good things they thought could only Nourish at home. We falk of building a better Britain after the war. I think we're beginning it
now."
out
H. V. MORTON describes the
Secret Abbey Funeral
of
Neville Chamberlain
THE ashes of Neville
Chamberlain were secretly buried in West- minster Abbey in the pre- sence of the Duke of Gloucester, who represent- ed the King, Mr Winston Churchill and members of the Cabinet,
It WRS the first secret. "public" funeral that has ever been held in the Abbey Church, and it will go down in history as the most remark- able funeral in the long annals. of Westminster.
Grent secrecy was main- tained for obvious reasons. Only the Cabinet, the Diplo- matic Corps and the Press were informed; and all passes to the Abbey were marked "secret."
Arrangements had been made with a Government office that, in the event of air raid danger, roof-spotter
а
in Whitehall would give the alarm in time for members of the Cabinet and other mour- ners to be taken to sheller.
Purple Vestment
An hour before the service _began_I_was_standing-in-the-
cold, empty
nave with the Dean of Westminster. The coffin, containing # smull casket in which were, the ex- premier's ashes, had been de- posited the night before in the Warrior's Chapel, where Lord Allenby and Lord Plumer are buried.
As eight vergers, wearing purple vestments, lifted it shoulder-high and prepared to carry it through the church to the high altar, the first air raid alarm of the day sounded in London,
Slowly and solemnly the ashes of the man who flew to Munich, the man who believed that he had snatched safety out of the nettle danger, the man whose sad voice An- nounced war on that mild Sep- tember Sunday over a year ago, was carried through the Abbey to the wail of the sirena, a grim and horrible requiem.
The Dean turned to me and, opening the printed order of ser- vice, took from it an inset printed in red ink and said: "I hope there will be no need to interrupt the service."
And I read that, should it be necessary to take cover, arrange-
.
The Duke of Gloucester, in khaki, attended by an officer who wore a revolver at his belt, passed up the church gazlag at some of the stained ginss windows that have suffered-although slightly – from blast.
was followed by Mr Winston Churchill, who led a sombre band of pallbearers, which included Lord Halifax, the Speaker of the House of Coinmons, Lord Simon, the Lord Chancellor, Sir Kingsley Wood, Mr Attles, Sir Archibald Sinclair, Lord Stanhope,
Capt. Margesson and Mr Arthur Cham- berlain, a
cousin
The first part of the service was held in the choir and was con- ducted by the Dean of Westmin- ster: the second part took place in the south aisle of the nave, where a stone had been removed next to the grave of Bonar Law.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, in rich vestments of purple, stood at the graveside; opposite stood the sad figure of Mira Neville Chamberlain. Behind her slood the Duke of Gloucester, and to one side, near the coffin, were the pall bearers led by Mr Winston Churchill.
Commitment
Two vergers, opening a door in the foot of the coffin, withdrew n small casket of polished wood and a bunch of arum lilies. Casket and flowers were reverently lowered into the grave as the Archbishop pronounced the
commitment. The small group
containing, per- two hundred people, most of them men who p_had_come_straight- from Ministries and Departments of State in their ordinary, work- nday clothes, was surely the least formal gathering that has ever attended an Abbey funeral.
haps,
There were not more than a dozen silk hats-one of them the Premier's in the whole church. The only touch of splendour wan provided by the rich vestments of the clergy.
Tribute
When the service was aver, Mr Churchill, Arst, and then members of the Cabinet, flied past the grave and inclined their heads towards the ashes of their late leader. The Diplomatic Corps followed, and last to leave was Mrs Chamberlain, who stood, almost alone, gazing down into the grave.
She opened her bag and, tak ing from it a small crushed yet- low chrysanthemum, knelt down and placed it beside the casket. Then, rising, she said good-bye to the man by whose alde she oner stood upon the balcony of Buckingham Palace before + wild and cheering crowd.
. So ended the strangest "public funeral that Westminster Abbey has ever Itnown.
New York To Have A.R.P.
When and if an enemy force ments had been made for the bombs New York, the city will Duke of Gloucester and members be ready to fight resulting fires of the Cabinet to shelter in the with knowledge obtained "in nc- Crypt of the Chapter House; that tion" abroad. the Diplomatie Corps would be taken to the Pyx Chapel, and that the Chamberlain family and members of the Housce of Par-after receipt of reports from liament would be taken to the -Norman Undercroft.
Trony
What grim Irony that the lover of peace, as Mr Chamberlain o
often called himself, should have been buried in such on atmosphere. Six tall candies of unbleached wax burned round the catafalque upon which the coffin lay, and os the first mourners arrived the sirens blew the "Raiders passed."
Mrs Chamberlain, in deepest black with a dark vell hiding her -face, was met at the west door by the Denn and conducted to a place In the Choir.
Firo Commissioner McElligott,
Now
three New York firemen observing in London announced that a volunteer corps of fire- fighters would be organised along the lines of the Air Raid Precautions brigade of London.
They will be trained in fire-fight- Ing by 3,000 retired firemen, McH gott sald, and will be equipped with trailer trucks sitatler to those used for forest are work. Uniformed, and in steel helmets, their function will bo to get to the scone of n bomb-ig- nited blaze and extinguish It quickly. -There will be a marine division also.
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