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HITLER AND BALKANS
THE stage is being set for the first military opposition to IIit ler in his quest for the "peace- ful" subjugation of the whole of southeast Europe. First move was Yugo-Slavin's 'repudiation of the tri-Power pact signed by her former Premier and Foreign Minister; then followed re ported (and not officially denied) massing of British armed forces on Yugo-Slavia's southern frontier, and simul- taneously Yugo-Slavia rushed troops to her Rumanian, Hun- garian and Bulgarian borders, while the Nazis proceeded to concentrate armies on the other side of the frontiers. Since then events have been moving in- exorably towards a final show- down..
Mussolini, thoroughly alarmed at the prospect of a belligerent Yugo-Slavia, aided by British men and materials, on the op- posite side of the Adriatic Sea, has apparently appointed himself mediator between Belgrade and Berlin; Hitler, adopting his now transparent tactics, is filling his
stories
with
of newspapers alleged Yugo-Slav atrocities upon the Germans. Equally significant, though perhaps lesi obvious in design, in the visit of Mr Anthony Eden and General Sir John Dill to Belgrade, and not to be ignored in these poli- tical cum military manoeuvres was the recent overture by Turkey to Yugo-Slavia indicat- ing willingness to implement an alliance suggested some time ago, but which was then cold- shouldered.
The implication behind all this is that Hitler's days of over- running the smaller nations by brutal intimidation are ended.
He has been brought to a jolting
Moustache Parade
Further extract from the diary of journalist
IN
turned soldier.
N this place, men are men. They have upper lips as splky as cacti.
There are soldiers in this camp who have hot kissed a wo man since childhood, for fear of stabbing her through the checks with the waxed ends of their stiletto-like-moustachios.
There is a tale of a sergeant-najor whose moustache, through thirty- Ave years of twisting and waxing, grew into a kind of horney substance with which, if enraged, he could rip people open.
#
!
The man who told ine about it is) an old regular soldier. "He used to sleep wiv is old moustache in a little bag like a 'ammock," lie said.
He himself had been trying to raise a
a similar proof of virility for of his years, but the thin, sandy
yielded nothing but funt.
We had not been in our new camp twenty-four hours before the foreign recruit whom we call Siberia was, as they say, "Stopped for his mous- tache,"
He affected a row of bristles in the shape of on eyebrow, which the Lad from the Elephant and Castle de- scribed as "Nine 'airs and a nit."
The Regimental Sergeant Major
a fatherly kind of man about whom the most Insatiable grouser can find nothing to say-didn't know what to call it. He simply said; "Shave this | morning?"
Siberiu replied: "Yes, sir."
Then the R.S.M., shaking his head sudly, said:
"Do something about that inous- tuche, son. Cut it off, or else grow
it. Don't leave it hanging about as if it doesn't know whether it's com- ing or going."
Siberin said "Yes, sir." and a dark giint Later, he said:
"Cut it off or grow it, ch? Good,
came into his little bright eyes.
SHRUNK
FASCOM
VARK ASHTUB
WYNDHAM
PARIS UNDER
THE GERMANS
By Polly Peabody
But most enjoyed by all Hit-
The Parisians of to-day and "Vive Churchill, a mort Hit- are prisoners of war under er!" as well as "Vichy a vendu ler's followers are the Paris In France aux Allemands. " shops. These men, denied all the vigilant watch of an
are scratched on walls and luxuries for so long, who had not army of gaolers. They can window-panes; and under cover seen a well-furnished store for hardly call anything their of darkness anti-British posters years, became inflicted with a
I shall grow it till I make Old Bitown, and their enemy is the are torn down. look like a chorus boy."
Next
buying craze which bordered on hysteria. Stocks of perfumes,' But the iron grip is tighten silk stockings, silk underwear,
of moustache-pomade, and paced the At first the French were ing, and severe punishments are furs, etc., have been almost en
So he went out and bought a tube arbiter of their every action. hut feeling his lip.
stunned by the blow of sud- inflicted for any infringement of tirely exhausted. Many shops, the rules or for any apparently which are not allowed to close, den defeat. They blamed unfriendly attitude. Many of remain open with empty coun-
shot. When the ters and barren shelves. from their leaders, who had, they fenders are morning, the Kid Widnes made a vast commotion over felt, betrayed them, and culprit cannot be found some in- The ingenious Parisians have nocent person is shot in his place found ways of escape from many his shaving. He lathered his pink face until he was hung with a kind cursed their own blindness and the local community heavily unfamiliar difficulties which are of Father Christmas beard of white
But he left his upper lip on and the mistakes of these fined in sums ranging up to a now inflicted upon them. One million francs. Paris cinemas of them is the problem of trans- are closed for weeks when Axis portation. Taxis and buses no personalities are hissed on the longer exist. Cycling or walk- ing ia the only substitute, As bicycles are few, it is not un- usual to see a man pedalling hard with his wife in a little trailer
suds.
fathered.
He wet his safety-razor, grasped last years.
Now the reaction has set himself by the left ear, scraped off scop, and said "Alja!"
Mmmin. They have learned their like a shave to liven a man up." lesson under the pressure of He contorted his face very hideous- the German boot. As a re-
and got rid of more suds.
We looked at him. mmmm-he-sid There's nothing.
ly,
cream.
try some of that thur sult, they are determined to resist their invader with the them thur cut-throats...... And a only weapons left at their
One day brushless
Maybe I'll get one o' them thur cut-throats, .. You get a cleunek shave with one o' bottle o' that thur lotion to take
screen.
tipica mentes
The writer of this article is a young American who has
away the burn... Well, how does command their wit and just reached London their intelligence. The Ger-
"Smooth as an egg."
smooth #9 an "How's me tash coming on?" he angel,
after many adventures
The Kid's face was, in fact, as mans have conquered the in war-time. Europe.
er fried egg country, but they have not conquered the people, for they have utterly failed to
"What tash?" asked Old Silence, understand the French men- rather astonished.
tality. At this point, Old Mennte, rushing in, said: "Widnes, lend us razor."
She spent the last three months before her departure for Eng- land working in the American Red Cross
Hospital in Paris.
SORTABAKOANI SEMULLERNEHUNTSMANUAL
behind.
.1
With most of the shops empty-
and the German occupation mark still greatly mistrusted by the sprung up in Paris. A few eggs
French, a system of barter has
are exchanged for knitting wool, a few lumps of coal for a little
oil, a piece of soap for almost anything. The acute shortage of food taxes the skill of the French
cook, who, without the necessary ingredients, still feels he must Bave his reputation.
Shortage Of Food
your To-day Paris is a sad and de- "Wipe it when you've finished," pressing sight. It is more re-
Food cards are issued and ra- sald the Kid from Widnes, Heminiscent of a garrison town
tions arc bustled into the hut, borrowed a than one of the world's most
growing smaller. For the Germans, this Paris There are long waiting lines in that for so many years has been the streets outside the markets. amined his face; grabbed Siberia's delightful cities. Bullet-grey hailed as the "Mecca of Joie de Housewives often stand in the roar up and down the vivre," and which was to be the cold for hours, only to return
from
cars
mirror
a Corporal, and ex- tube of moustache-pomade, and plas tered his upper lip with it..
tush should be trained," he said. Champs Elysees; troops crowd shining trophy of their drive to home empty-handed. "I'm going to grow, a proper tash, a the pavements; sentrics, salut- the West, is a disappointment. colonel's fach, all brushed up, like.”
The Corporal said, "Mind you don't grow that tash too long, or it'll get in your gas-mask and suffocate you." The Kid from Widnes looked grave
Then Old Meanle canie back, and said, "Funny, ha?"
What d'you mean, funny?" asked the Kid.
"That razor."
"You fussy git," said the Kid from me, it's good enough for you. Widnes. "If it's good enough for
t
"Yeah? Well, it's got no blade in
"Oh," said the Kid from Widnes.
The iron discipline of the Ger-
ing and heel clicking, stand at Since the day when 187 acro- attention at the doors of hotels planes were shot down over Eng- man army has made itself felt. and apartment houses which land, dancing has been stopped. Speed and efficiency have become have been requisitioned by the Notices of this were posted in the mode in Paris. French restaurants and night clubs. To policemen were given long white army of occupation. The Swas add to the gloom, Nazis were gloves to direct the traffic in tika flies over every famous forbidden to associate with German style. In restaurants, building in the city as a bitter French women. The gaiety has erstwhile alow waiters fairly and constant reminder of the German triumph.
War On The Walls
gone out of Paris, and the bitter aprinted from table to kitchen. cold and shortage of food add German rules must be obeyed. to the depression. A few night Any lingering after curfew hour clubs are kept open specially for lands the offender in polishing the Germans; and there they sit Nazi boots or peeling potatoes Yet in Paris is a war being drinking bad champagne and until five o'clock in the morning. waged-not a spectacular war, watching the shadow of an ex- A woman who crosses an avenue but efficient in its purpose. It
pected lightning war
is the war of scribbles on the darker and longer. walls, of hisses and catcalls in
grow outside the pedestrian zone was,
as a lesson, escorted back and forth ten times by a Nazi official, and unexpected full stop in his enable Britain to set up valuable air the darkness of the theatre and Sightseeing is one of the ma- A ray of light from a window in quest for easy conquest of south-Nazi cities in the east; it would spell subtle double meanings in con- cupation. They tour the town bullet through one of the panes, bases for attacks on vital industrial cinema, of knowing smiles, of jor pastimes for the army of oc- a black-out may bring a revolver eastern Europe. If he wishes to the anal overthrow of Mussolin! in progress any further, he must Albania; it would offer splendid ap- veraation-these undermine all horded together in large trucks. fight, and it is conceivable, in portunities for wholesale sabotage Hitler's propaganda efforts. Napoleon's tomb is the highlight Yet the soul of Paris and of view of his pronounced plans re- by antagonistle Rumanians and Bul- The thousands of posters which of these expeditions. Another France still lives. The people garding the battle of the Atlan- garlans; and even if his armies sut-paper the walls of the city serve big moment is the morning now look to the future with the
in some progress in tic, that a war front in the Yugo-Slavin, it would cost them 18 an outlet for a growing anger, parades over the whole length of great hope that Britain and the Balkans is the very last thing he de heavily in men and materials, net- The Parisians never miss an oc- the goose-stepping Nazis and British Empire, their Allies and sires. The reasons are crystal clear; ther of which would Hitler and easy casion to scratch sarcastic com- the sound of heavy German their friends, will triumph, and it would entall the diversion of a to replace.
ments above the very words that music, the Parisians turn their that they themselves may still waffe from air main field of sent a very healthy prospect for are supposed to win over their heads to avoid looking at a pic be able to play a part in the operations-western Europe; it would Germany.
allegiance, "Vive De Gaulle?" ture which breaks their hearts. overthrow of the hated Bocho,
not inconsiderate part of his Luft- War in the Balkans does not pre-