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TO SCORN DELIGHTS
THE home market is still too much of a drain on Britain's resources; the civil consumer has not yet travelled far enough along the road of self-denial. He must, it seems, to a greater extent than before, learn to scorn delights and live laborous days.
That Miltonic gospel is an excellent guide to all citizens who wish to know how they can best help forward the national
effort.
The further restrictions in- dicated recently will be cheer- fully accepted everywhere, even by shopkeepers, whose already- great difficulties, the President ↑
February 10, 1941.
Will the United States Enter The War?
Last February Everett Holles, United. Press Ca. bla Editor, accompanied Under-Secretary of State Sumner Welles on an of- ficial, "Fact finding" mis- sion to Europe. Impor tant changes of adminis tration policy in the inter- vening months have been. greatly based upon re- -sults of Welles' mission. Holles has just completed an extensive, study, at
The Next
Eight
Weeks
Will Tell
by
EVERETT HOLLES
a year ago in Rome, Paris, Berlin and London.
Welles came out of Ger- many last year hearing what was tantamount to a blunt warning from Hitler that if the United States knew what was good for her she would keep her skirts clear of any entanglements such as aid for Britain.
That was the time of the "phoney war" and reports reaching Mr Roosevelt some purportedly originat- --that Washington of U. S. against the Axis be- and tanks can be de-ing from Goering
in sufficient Hitler was in a mood to foreign policy, interview. cause of President livered
Roosevelt's unpre- quantities.
negotiate peace were heard ing high officials.
cedented programme to
time I found high govern- feclers" even
and again. These contended "guarantee" a British ment officials acutely ap that Hitler was willing to prehensive lest a test of step aside as dictator if an
*
WASHINGTON, Feb. victory.
19 (UP). Administra- Actually it is war the British ability to sur- equitablo peace for Germany tion leaders in Washing- right now without any vive come before suffi- was devisable. ton believe the next shots being fired ancient aid arrives. Diplo Welles learned that Hitler eight or ten weeks will alliance between thematic, military and was willing to negotiate a tell whether the United. United States and Bri- naval leaders told me peace but that following States will be plunged tain without any seals they believe Britain will the conquest of Poland-the into actual warfare or signatures.
be able to turn back any
Fuehrer wanted a "victor's peace." But Hit- German invasion. ler knows, just
One high official said the to the Fuehrer paint & grim Washing- "odds on such a Nazi under word picture of German ton knows, taking are easily.60 to 40 in planes reaching beyond Europea picture ranking the United Britain's favour.
the United States as a rival States can- But those close to Presi- of Germany whether or not not deliver dent Roosevelt fear Hitler's the United States entered
surprise stroke may be even the war.
Mr Sumner Welles (right) photographed with Count Ciano after their talks in Rome last year.
£ 5
In private conversation with Hitler, Welles listened
Welles returned and Mr
an "avalan-
worse than an invasion... che"
of that he may try to knock Roosevelt flung down the arms to Britain out by "total de- challenge that there can be Britain struction" from the air for no reconciliation between before six which Coventry and Lon- the Axis "tyranny" and the
don bombings have been democratic way of life. months or
a year, and merely rehearsals.
This attack of "total de- hence Hit-
struction," it is believed in
The barricade had been ler may at the United States, may come thrown up but there had
been no shooting.
tempt a after or simultaneously with knockout a-German invasion of Ire-
But in this race against. blow at land sometime in March.
time to arm Britain, the Britain be- I can state on authority
United States will un- that the United States new doubtedly be compelled to fore United
policy of all-out aid to
take bolder steps than any States Britain is a direct result of
disclosed thus far. planes, Under-Secretary of State guns, ships Sumner Welles' explorations
Without Women
A World Without
become a
The administration's pro-
gramme is being pushed ahead
on the principle that if shots are to be fired it must be Germany who fires the first one.
What
developments might drive Hitler to declare war?
1. Use of American warships to convoy arms shipments across the Atlantic.
of the Board of Trade recognises, FEW people seem to have realised "icult," Usually they mean what perienced, there seems a new zest in
something quite lite for most people. will be increased. Seeing so
it, but it is a fact that hundreds they say, and not
2. Use of American merchant of thousands of men are now living different. There are no moods" to
cope with and no one to accuse them They say that a sailor makes an ships through modification of many inspiring examples every life in which only the male sex of queer, abstract faults.
Ideal husband, because he is never at the neutrality law to transport day of the courage of our figures.
home long enough to various defence forces, of our
nuisance to his wife. Mant of the war supplies to the British Isles. 3. Seizures and handing over men in the. Forces are now like Pence-time sailors; they get home to Britain of foreign merchant only at long intervals and for short ships now tied up in United periods. This ensures that there States ports. no time for bickerings and squabbles to develop-no opportunity for All must be regarded as criticism-na chance, for
strong possibilities because they offer for relief of Britain's most Jurgent needs shipping,
women. The Happy Medium
In civilian life the average man in fairly well surrounded by Generally his home contains at least one, and all day he is meeting them
at his work,
Took £3,000
or to
To Shelter
So much for old "family life."
to
be a
Heart"
family
can
The "Where-were-you-last night" Think of all the husbands, fathers. inquisition is quite absent, unless, if A.R.P. legions, and of tho brothers; and, fiances who are now in the Forces, they overstayed their removed entirely from their normal time off, and in that case it is the
C.O. who sifts the problem with peoples of the heavily bombed, home circlet
minimum of words! towns, large numbers of the public are oppressed by a sense of the comparative inadequacy
In general it seems that this all-troubles to be too intrusive. male communal form of life is very “Absence Maker The. of their own contributions to- wards victory. They will be his family has been evacuated, he laundergoing it.
Now, if in any of the Forces or it much to the taste of those who are enger, one is confident, to adapt surrounded by his own sex, and the
But sources close to the Pre- change is great,
How the wives and mothers and There are an astonishing number their lives still further to the
whosident believe Hitler's anger will The Arst thing he notices, it he sisters would fume if they thought of married men in the Army necessities indicated by Mr thinks about the matter, is that there their men were really rather glad to confess quite frankly that they get on be tempered by such considera- Oliver Lyttelton.
are not at home continually. What quit good deal more peace and an eminem bi domestic squabbles better with their wives when they ties up
have the wives to say to this? Can 1. Japan-Whether ho quietness nowadays. Men do not and feminine bickeringsl The nation'a industrial and chatter much, and they are seldom Actually, the ideal life would seem it be they have been too much of the count upon the Japanese to en- human
must be resources
mean between the old schoolmistress end not enough of the ter the war under the triplo "family" existence and the present sweetheart?,
alliance, which contains the applied with the maximum
harder one. Perhaps in the old days
It does seem as though a woman's loophole that Japan is obliged of peace we were gotting too obsessed intensity to the only task that
censorious attitude to fight only in the event of with the idea of the comfortable chief failing is matters
"attack" to ourselves
home as the peak of life's ambllion. to her man, be be husband, son, or
by the United States or flance. Usually, If there is ony posterity-the overthrow of
Undoubtedly the lot of the man criticism of conduct, it is the woman other non-belligerents..
2. Russia-Whether Hitler who worked all day and spent nearly who is responsible, rarely the man. Nazi tyranny. Personal expen- "YOU are one of the most every evening in his home was dull.
There seem to be so many petty could feel sure of the Soviets That explains the rather extraordin- diture, much though it has foolish persons I have ever come a desire of nearly all young men in faults which a mere male can commit who are at his back while meet- already been curtalled by legia- across, the Tottenham magiu-businesses to become travellers that he is always made to feel guilty, ing a new and powerful enemy lative action, must accept an Young, a widow.
trate recently said to Mrs Annie men who move about the country, Having a drink; going out at nights; in the west.
seeing new scenes and new faces each lack of tact; lack of "push and go":
3. Italy-Whether war on the other turn of the
day. screw.
slovenly dressing: lazy habits; potter ing about at a hobby, are made to United States might prove to be Luxuries will be eschewed, semi- She had just told him she used
appear important crimes, until the the move needed to break down luxuries dispensed with, and to take her life's savings, £3,000 in New Zest in Life
sweetest-tempered man is apt to get Italy's wobbly war machine. restive. only the most obviously, and notes, to a public shelter every
night.
4. France. J. B. Priestley emphasised this
and Spain- urgently essential purchases
longing for change in "The Good That is why the all-malé existence Whether they might complete made.
In the shelter, she said, she mot Companions" the urge to cut loose of the Forces appeals to so Her son's friend, Stanley Thomas from all the humdrum worries and men. It is nice to get a leave and tween Germany and France and many the already serious troubles, be- This will not only give now Hammond, a. 23-year-old soldier. to strike out afresh.
to enjoy women's companionship grip and toughness to the war
Costly Cups Of Tea Well, this war has shaken a good again, without staying long enough turn starving Spain from the effort, but also confer fresh
few people out of their rut, and pro-for the novelty to wear off and the Axis. Each morning for a week he wentmises to do more in this matter be strength and endurance capacity
There is a deep conviction In on the character of the people. back to her home in Newton-road, fore It ends. They said we were "Half a dozen honeymoons" is the circles close to Mr Roosevelt The war becomes moro and more. N., for a cup of tea
getting soft and decadent-too fond description given to six leaves which that Hitler will move cautiously On October 22 she found that of an easy and comfortable life. We one man had in the first fifteen in taking the United States as
have given the ile to that accusation; months of the war. Well, when mort £2,500 was missing from the attache but there is no doubt that thousands people are lucky if they attain one a declared enemy and that Ger- case in which she carried her money of men were beginning to find their good honeymoon in a life-time, this many, for all her threats, is like
On a charge of stealing the -£2,500 lives a little lacking in incident. shows that there must be something ly to stand for a vast outpour- In favour of this world without ing, of United States', aid to Hammond was committed for trial,
Informed that £1,300 of the money Now, when excitement i on women.
BritainTM Bafore........ sho had been recovered, Mrs Young pro-emotion which is constantly being
ALDO war. `mlsed to put it in a safe place. talt,. Instead of one rarely, exa
a test of psychological as well
as of physical vigour, and it will not be said that this free people were unable to discipline, them- selves up to and beyond the point attainable by the docilo masses of Nazidom,
rows to begin.
declares