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PRIVATE LIFE OF A PRIVATE
Sergeant Has A Heart
Germany by Germans. Other firms are manufacturing soups, delicatessens, house furnishings, electrical equipment and a thou- sand and one articles, which were formerly imported from Germany and the German-occu- pied countries..
Further extract from the diary of a journalist now in the Army.
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Old Silence reude:-
Dear Sergeant,
We could not honesty say that we aren't pleased at the prospect of CUCKOO-CLOCK," says leaving this place and joining the Battalion. The fact that we shall
A Buttery. "Let's give him bellowed to go will mean that we
a cuckoo-clock."
There is a storm of negation. The Kid from Widnes says: “Don't be a silly git, for once. What would a Sergeant do with a cuckoo-clock, soppy?"
Buttery, whose speciality con- sists of sanguinary threats, but who has, in effect, a heart of gold, raises a fist and cries, "I'll smear you along the wall."
The Lad from the Elephant and Castle says: "Let's give the Sarnt a watch."
"None o' the cheapjack bar- gains," says the Ingleton grocer. "If we give Sergeant a watch it must be a good watch, and we can't afford a good watch, Nay, mak it a lighter, and put a bob each.
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Old Meanic observes that there is a law against it. "Mustn't give N.C.O.s anything
"The Tall Boy from Sun- derland laughs and shouts: "If
shall have learned enough to join learn stil more about the busi- older pupils in higher classes, and
ness of good soldier.
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But we may never mect, you again; and there is not a man in this Squad who is not sorry for that.
We came to its place us men of peace, forced to war by conscience looked forward with some
We
and prevalling elreumatisgiving
to the first weeks of breaking-in.
But you gave us confidence. We recognise and admire the indincas and patience with which you, our Squad Instructor, taught us the strange new things we lied to learn.
Now, we know enough to stund on our own feet on sokliers. Wę owes this to you.
What can we say? We thank you, and are grateful to you. And we want to put it on record that we consider you to be a fine soldier and a good man; a patient teacher and a kind friend; a strong man who is gentle-which is God's own kind of gentleman.
There is not a man who signs his feel proud to have known you, name to this letter who does not
THE SQUAD. "Smashing!" says the Lad from
we want to expreyus our ap the Elephant; and we all agree that preyuciation, prihet to the law" Old Silence has hit it exactly; and
"Look," says Spencer
sign in alphabetical order; and in the due course present it ceremonially to Salesman. "We want to tell the the Sergeant.
Sergeant how grateful we are, before we go to Battalion. Am
I right, gentlemen?
"Right. Well, we can't buy him He opens the letter: rends it care- proper gift, because we can't afford fully; folds it again: puts it back in it. He'd only lose a lighter or a the. enevlope; puts the envelope in cigarette case, anyway. Let's write his inside pocket; buttons his blouse him a testimonial ...a kind of over it-all without a word, without address and all of us sign it, a flicker of expression. He'll appreciate that more, than a "It's your last pay-day, remem- lousy lighter."
ber!" he bellows. "The Golden Eaglo Jay's to-ight! Get out of 11. Go on "Ah. It's not the present, it's the along and get your kopecks!"
The Lad from the Elephant anys:
clated it more'n that.”
"But
didn't
"But who's to write it?" asks the Kid from Widnes.
Old Silence pleks up a pencil and he says, and
writes.
you ace where he put It says Old Silence.
"No, where?"
"Next to his heart," says Old Silence, as we join the pay-queue.
The SNAPSHOT GUILD
TAKING FLASH PICTURES
In five years Several weeks ago a In many cases the skills and warehouses.
newcomers brought it became the centre of the fur committee presenting with them from their home: trade of the world taking the thought that counts," murmurs old
place of Leipzig which, until Hit-Meonie. For once nobody disagrees "Well I'd a thought 'e'd u appre- the organised Jewish lands have been a valuable fer came, was the great Euro- with him. communities of London contribution to British com- pean fur market.
German Jews created a thriv met in an effort to com- munity life. Since no re-
fugee may accept a job as ing leather-bag business, in pad. "Well bat the possibility that long as there is a British which British workmen are do war-time conditions subject capable of filling it, ing the work formerly done in might be used to foster they have had to create their own jobs, and in doing this, an anti-Semitic move have created jobs for 15,000 ment in Britain. "The British workers as well. evacuation of the large cities has brought sudden influx of Jewish shoc manufacturers has his refugees into communi- works at Bolton. Maker of ties to
bead which Jewish Viennese bags opened
Czech and Danish farmers, workrooms in Belfast. In West ways are strange," an Coventry, 20 Czech craftsmen small towns with considerable who were received in British English Jewish organ are teaching England's rural scorn, are locally acknowledged pointed out, "making it workers to make wooden toys. to-day as masters worthy of im- Manufacturers of silk under itation-When-it-was-found- necessary to explain the
were not enough wear from Berlin opened a plant that there Jew and the Gentile to in London. Chemists and tech- English workers to cut pit props each other."
nicians have taken their secrets for the Welsh mines, a work of utmost national importance, the to South Wales where they are British Forestry Commission de- Realising that anti-Semitic being applied in the new dye cided to employ refugees from propaganda usually relies and optical glass works opened Czechia-Czechs, Slovaks, Sude- up to provide work in the dis- for its strength on being tressed areas.
ten, Germans, Carpatho-Ukra- There was a cor- inians, Jews, Hungarian and able to point at individual mer in London that five years Poles men of as many objectionable cases, this ago was a waste of storerooms tionalities as that country used committee is urging all Jews;
in Britain to make good Answer-In '41
Farmers From The Continent
Internment Policy
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to shelter within its borders. There is harmony among them often they cannot make themselves understood ex- Kazany citizenship the key-note of
cept in English. Few of them Jewish private and public] By WALTER WINCHELL had ever done manual labour be living. Particularly, says a
fore. They used to be lawyers, Still a blank page of history civil servante, engineers, wri- call issued by the organisa-is 1941, and destiny itself will tors, singers, doctors, students Now they are tion, the Jewish employers write the final chapter; 20 cen- und merchants.
turies and 20 nations will all felling trees, sawing pit props, as well as employees are find their answer in the year carrying the heavy pieces to the urged to note the import called '41.
piles. ance of recognising trade There is no question of peace | unions and trade union con- or war. Five years of suffer
thousand. This work of Alting the refu- ditions; Jewish landlords ing have brought a
years of understanding. The gee in Britnin into the nation's must pay adequate atten- so-called appeasement of Hitler community life was momentar!- tion to property and equit- is, at last, unmasked.
ly interrupted by the wholesale internment of all alions at the able conditions for tenants, Appeasement does not mean beginning of the war. It is to while Jewish merchants are granting territory; it means the credit of the British people
of conscience strangling the warned of the evils of price mankind.
that a general protest against . It never meant an this internment policy is having cutting and other unfair honest offer; it was only, the bait its effect. The majority of these
of the cheat-for the fool. trade practices.
It does not mean a world of unfortunates have been released. Foreigners desiring employment Adjusting The Refugees trade; it means an open market have been invited to register at
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local offices of a newly organised British relief organisa- A conference table to von Rib- International Labour Branch of tions have done an excellent bentrop is the place where de- the General Employment De- job of adjusting the Jewish mocracies are made helpless for partment of the Labour Minis-
the battlefield... Peace to try. refugees to English condi- Goering is just another military Under the guidance of Eng- Munich to Mus-land's admirable Labour Minis- tions. There have been two objective
solini is the only place where tor, Ernest Bevin, refugees in mass rofugee migrations to he's won a battlo-and 1941 to Britain are being employed un- England since 1938, otal-Hitler is his very last chance to der the same working conditions The blast out the old and blitz in the na native Britons; producing a ling 87,000 persons.
now feeling of unity and com- first came from Austria and now. Germany, Czechoslovakia and Poland; the second from Norway, Holland, Belgium and France.
The odds, to-day, aro a billion radeship among the various na- to one against him. Hitler is tional groups which, it is hoped, fighting to call the world his em- will lay the basis for a new un- piro, but the people are fighting derstanding among the nations to call their souls their own. lof Europe after the war is 'over.'
With flash, shots such as this, are quick and sure—and your subjects don't have to pass in bright light.
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NN turned up with a camera | bulb-and close the shutter. Thalm.
problem the oilier night. She all, and you have your ploluro. had been trying to take somo anap- Moreover, you can uno any flim shots of the pup-a raty tlo you profor-the quick dash is bright rascal-and he wouldn't stay put onough for box camera exposures In fact, the warmth from the photo with daytime atm, when the bulb in lampa mado him even moro skittish|soven feet from the subject. And. than usual, and by the time she If you use high spood Alm, tho bu was ready to shoot, he was usually can bo`seventeen foot back. out of night.
With a flash synchronizer, flash "All right,” I told her, “we'll fix bulbs are oven more useful. You him. We'll wao a flash bull, and got can even use them in the daytime,. him down on sim before he even to brighten up the nearby dotalis knows it." So, we arranged things in a shady scons. And you don't. and In about three minutos sho had have to put the camera on a tripod. just" the picture she wanted.
|—you can hold it in your hand, and Maybe you're taken flash shota tako snapshot exposures. Some of -maybe not. If not, winter is the most attractive daytime shots Kood time to get acquainted with
you see in the magazines are made this lygn of pictare-taking, and you'll find it mighty useful. For with the aid of synchronized Gasb,. most indoor shute, I use the regu- and it's a real help.
I didn't have a synchroniser tor lar food bulbs; but for some shota,
a long time, because they used to. flash is much better.
It's simple to use, too, even the high-priced-hut "I bought ono. you don't bara a dash synchro last year as soon as the Inexpun.. nizer. Just put your camara on a sire models began to come out.. tripod or table edge, and at the Now Ann wants one too; she knows sbultor for "ime." Insert the Nash) Rood camera accessory when she bulb in a house hamp Atled with the dogs one. And maybe there's a good regular cardboard reflector you no hlut for your owa 'camora kit, ra for snapshots at night-but be certainly hate to part with my gyne sure the switch is off at the mo- chronizerit. Has already paid, for mont. Now open the camera shut- itself in first-rate pletures, lorennp on the switch to flash the
John Yan Guilder
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