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April 10, 1941.
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Cirenaica. has perforce leaned towards puzzlement mixed with some. anxiety. What do they portend? has been the question generally asked. It is impossi- ble to give an emphatic answer, but certain points can be, and should be taken into considera- tion.
It must be remembered that Britain, in her Mediterrancan and African campaign has been faced with three responsibilities. Firstly, the safeguarding of Egypt; secondly, the destruction of the Italian empire in East Africa: thirdly, the needs of our Balkan Allies. It has been im- campaign without taking cognisance of three factors collecvely.
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the brilliant offensiva in the
Desert in which Graziani's huge and splendidly
equipped army was routed,
had of necessity, to be a prelude both the essful completion of the
successful campaign in East Africa which has finally destroyed the Italian empire, and to the release of certain troops for the Impending Balkans war.
It now seems clear that General Wavell set himself a time-table to which he and his troops have adhered with almost miraculous precision His skillful disposition of troops and hls strategy cannot be challenged, and because he has proved his worth, confidence in his judgment, remains unimpaired.
The knowledge that Nazi mechan- ised and infantry forces in con- siderable numbers have been able to land in Tripoll from Stelly is unpala- table, and it would be unrealistic to Ignore the potential danger of the present advance by Axis forces in
Cirenaica. But this, of itself, docs not necessarily change the essentials of the Mediterranean and Middle East situation. The original Wavell ad- vance in North Africa was primarily and almost exclusively for the pur- pose of crushing and defeating an army; it was not designed to capture and hold comparatively unimportant desert wastes, and harbours which had been blasted beyond usefulness. The purpose was accomplished; the threat to Egypt was dissolved and the subsequent reduction of the rest of Mussolini's overseas possessions realised.
The withdrawals from Cirenaica are obviously strategichl in design; they are costing us but little in men or materials; meanwhile the British Command can make its plans for full resistance in its own time and choos ing its own place. The successful con. clusion of the East African campaign la certain to release for use elsewhere British sands
of "blooded whose own equipment has been reinforced by huge quantities of captured I material; and it is conceiva. bla that these will be the man who will stop the Axis advance in North Africa when and where it is desired, It... La In this perspective, that: the British withdrawals from Cirenaica should be viewed,
An Easter Message By A. J. CRONIN
Author of "Hatter's Castle." etc.
Lambs
For then, the earth is awakening. frisk in the green pastures, the trees put forth their buds. The birds eing again, spring flowers break upon the mossy freshness of the woodland banks. Sap runs snow in the willow shoots, yellow catkins nod in the breezo, the rivers fill the lush meadows with their music.
Now life is everywhere, a sense of brightness and of light.
Light, indeed.. . Ah! That is the key for which we blindly seek.
The very name of Easter, from the Saxon Eostre, emblem of light, betokens the true signi ficance of the festival, the rebirth of hope in the Bouls of men.
On Good Friday, the peoples of creation touched the abyss of their dejec-| tion. All light was gone, all hope seemed lost'l
THE LIGHT
OF THE WORLD
Then came the cry: "Christ is risen! The days of darkness and defeat are past! Christ is risen from the dead!"
BETTE DAVIS
and
CHARLES BOYER
ALL THIS
AND HEAVEN
TOO
Sorialised by Harry. Loo From the Novel By RACHEL FIELD
And so, this Easter, above all times, we have the invitation to open our hearts to this ever-
THE STORY SO FAR: Mademoi- Insting light, to cast out the selle klenriette, governess in a titled gloomy shadows of despair. To Parisian family, is tried for the mur let Christ arise, not in the stereo-der of her employer's wife, and typed lip service of clamorous, acquitted. Through the aid of Henry. Field, a young American preacher, conflicting creeds, not in plati- she gets a position in an exclusive. Her pupils tudes invoked to suit the policies New York giris' school. Her of politicians, but in sweet tran- discover her past and tested induces quillity, secretly, within breasts.
tempted to
her
resion
taunt her.
Che
our is
to face them, and by telling them her to join their respect. They this listen
Make no mistake present chaos is no novelty. MANKIND, through the ages, has known war before, and cruelty, torture, oppression, the
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Creathlessly as she tells of her trip to Paris-the meeting with young Field--and of the Duke and Duchess and their children and of the insane riette saves the life of the youngest, jealousy of the Duchess. Mlle. Hen~ but incurs the hatred of the Duchess,
While she and her children are away
theatre and the governCES panies them. The dalties blare the
decom-
IN those days when my medical virtue so neglected, so forgotten, practice took me through the it has ceased almost to exist.
ghastly stalemate of siege, the grimy alleys and dingy one- Nowadays we are gorged with horrors of famine and of plague. the Duke takes his daughter to the roomed tenements of the slums a diet of faith and charity a And mankind has survived. of a great city. I had a patient stodgy diet, devoid of vitamins! Mankind has endured these hor-story and the Duchess sees it. who has ever since lived in my From the pulpits of Christen- rors, not of its own seeking; has
CHAPTER IV recollection.
dom we are urged to believe in struggled from the pits into God, to love our highly unlovable which, with cheering and with MADAME LA DUCHESSE, in a drums, it has been led, has state of blind fury at reading neighbours as ourselves.
home-and with her came the papers, at once left Corsica for the Marechal her aged father, Sebastian-Abbo Gallard, her com
childròn, fessor-and her
younger
Ол Isabelle, Berthe and Raynald. their arrival the children rushed hap- pily to their beloved Mue. Henriette, who shortly after was summoned to
con-
the gloomily magnificent chamber of the Duchess, where she was sternly confronted by the lady of the house, her father, and her priest.
She was an Irishwoman, past fifty, worn, beahawled, wrinkled as a walnut, raddled with work AND through it all, through emerged, triumphant, marching and misfortune und sickness. the sound and the fury of onwards to a gentler era. A
If ever anyone had learned by bathed in Stygian despair.
the exhortations, the world lies period of recovery and peace..
In a universe where star light takes a hundred million years to heart the bitter lesson of the
Down in the dark corners of travel to this planet, time cannot poor, surely it' was she. And now, at the end of a life of many human hearts lics the be measured by the pinpricks of morbid certainty that this bar- unbelievable vicissitude, she lay barism, this lunatic convulsion one man's allotted span. stricken with a lingering, incur- of a power-drunk autocracy HITLER-like Hannibal, Attila, able disease ... tuberculosis of
call it what you wish-is the Napoleon, Ghengis Khan, and the throat.
final horror, the cataclysm which all who sought to dominate the A harrowing picture, and one marks the twilight of the world, Earth, each in his petty day of I might have spared you, save an avalanche annihilating all pillage and destruction acclaim- for the fact that it provides me that is good and beautiful in ed as Moloch, Precursor of Mil- from me everything I love! But, oh, with a parable.
life, sweeping mankind irrevoc- lennium... is no more than au For this old woman made no ably to its doom.
illusion, a fleeting irritation, a moan about her wretchedness. Humanity, bloody beneath re- gnat alighting for an instant on Whenever, on my professional peated bludgeonings of fate, a glacier, when viewed from the visits, I attempted a word of bound by the chains of tyranny, standpoint of eternity.
The human soul, imbued with awkward sympathy... making befuddled by the fog of battle,
What's
a truce with my conscience, as bemused by the crass ineptitude, hope, is indestructible. No wea- it were. ..she had always a the lying promises of its leaders, pon forged by man or devil can smile, a bright shake of her can see no farther than this near ever vanquish it.
Amidst the savagery and head, and the same incorrigible horizon. Humanity, in short, has
beastliness of war, the heels of lost the power to hopol unconquerable reply:
"Ah, now, doctor!
And so, to-day, it would appear tramping armies cannot stamp your worry? Sure, there's al- as though the dictum of my old out the seeds of nobility and slum woman holds a message: a truth. Beyond the insane tumult ways to-morrow!"
special, precious message, am- of the conflict there lies the pro- It wasn't her courage that plified and reinforced by this mise of the skies. struck me-though God knows present season of the year.
Gentleness and kindness are she had enough of that! Nor
"There's always to-morrow!" immortal. The tyrant's bones yet her wry, invincible deter-
will one day rot, and from that mination, expressed with the THAT, indeed, is a thought festering corruption will spring flowery romanticism of her race, which is appropriate to any an Easter snowdrop... to witness the breaking of an- Eastertide: when Nature holds Remember, remember, on the other dawn.
its breath in expectation... not darkest day of all, Christ will It Was something deeper, in fearfulness, but in joyfulness rise again in the hearts of men! rarer: the shining practice of a and hope.
There is always to-morrow.
Why Easter Eggs and
Hot Cross Buns
"Ever since you have come here," the Duchess began with baleful eyes antivite apima steal an deliberate campaign to steal away that you dared plan this latest insuli That while I was away you flaunted your hold over my husband in public, for the King and all Paris to see!"
"Please let me sperk for myself, Madame! I resent this slander as much or more than you do."
"Do you realise what this slander. as you call it, implies?" "It is all too clear: "Then you admit it."
"I admit nothing. Madame. If you don't choose to believe me, you must believe facts-in this house, which is infested by Mme, Mallard, and your other sples, my every movement is
the Duchess
Was known." Here called from the room and her ancient father insisted that should the gover" nesa go, it would only give credence to the ugly gossip. He said that from then on his daughter and son-in-law would be seen together oftener, until the rumours died away.
Mile, Henriette agreed to stay but us sho, cajne out she heard the frenzied voice of the Duchess, "And it is not enough that you humillate me at home, without doing it in public? Is it not enough that she is my children's governess, without making her your companion?" As Henriette hurried past she heard the voleo now shrill and pleading, "Have pity on me, Theo. If you have dono this to punish me, believe me I am well corrected! Come back to me.” Mile. Henriette was in her room in a tumult of agitation and packing to leave, when the Duke appeared, his handsome face drawn and hag Hard. "Mademoiselle" he said des perately, "you mustn't gol":
To suppress an established custom is twenty-five sovereigns were substitut; It was impossible not to comply with notoriously difficult, and this fact was ed.
the request very modestly made by recognised by the early Christian Оп Maundy Thursday, too, the set of nymphs in their best apparel, and fathers. Thus, instead of trying to Sovereign used to wash the feet of the several of them under twenty. I wtah- abolish the heathen festival of Eostre, poor. At Greenwich, in 1572, Queen ed to see all the ceremony, and seated,
"You shouldn't come here: now, a Saxon goddess, they wisely preferred) Elizabeth washed the feet of thirty-nine myself accordingly. The group then Monsleurt There is already enough
to imbue the feast with new and poor people. The number was govern lifted me from the ground, turned the trouble.” Christian spirit. And so it comes ed by the reign of a monarch. This chair about, and I had the fellelty of a about that the tradition of Easter washing ceremony was last performed salute from each. I told them I sup "I beg of you to remember, the reaches back to pagan timės,
by James H.
posed that there was a fee for each children... Raynald who owes you Further examples of this early Chris- The tradition behind the old Eastar due upon the occasion and was answer his life. Louise, Isabelle, Berthe, tlan policy in connection with Easter custom of heaving" is obscure. ed in the affirmative, and having satis- are not wanting Our hot cross buns "leaving" was practised more parti fied the damsels in this respect they who have learned to trust you!" at Easter are cakes which the Baxona cularly in Lancashire, Straffordshire withdrew to heave others. At this
The Christian clergy, who were unto have · typified
the
had in Honour of their goddess Eostre, and Warwick. 11 sanid originally time I had never heard of the custom. "They are young--they will for Resurrection, but on inquiry I found that on Easter Act," she answered in passionate de able to prevent the people from eating jand the custom prevalled tuntil Monday, between nine and ten, the fence, "There are some things that sought to expel the paganism by mark the beginning of the eighteenth cen men heave the women in the same it is useless to fight against, Mon- ing them with the Cross,
tury. By then, however, it had become manner, as on Tuesday, between the sleur, and one of them is another Again, the Eastern egg carries on a so rough and vulgar a pastime as to be same hours, the women the men. woman's Jealousy! She hates met" festival tradition which has had its forbidden by the magistrates. In
Brilliant Ughing was a feature of the It will be better for all of us. „Sha counterpart in all parts of the pagan description of the practice by a Me cording to Home, the Paschal per al time, you and the
Brand's "Popular Antiquillo," early Christian ritual at Easter. As will be happier! And perhaps, in world...
Abbey welghed three Thomas Loggan, of Easinghall-street, Westminster quoted?
hundred pounds, "I was sitting alone last Easter But perhaps the most curious Easter Tuesday, at breakfast at the Talbot, in eative bellet was that connected witla "What kind of love that drives me
"She loves you, Monsieur," Shrewsbury, when, I was surprised by the dancing sun. Soon after dawn the entrance of all the French servanta on Easter Day, it was asserted, the to madnesst
In 'mediaeval times the "peace egg was presented by each monk to triends, neighbour or stranger, early in the morning of Easter Day, with the bless ing of Pax vobiscum."
"Never.”
"On Maundy Thursday tradlilon do at the house handing in an armchair, sun-could be seen dancing ins hefdes. I shouldn't have presumed to creed that the monarch thould dis- lined with white and decorated with vens in honour of the Resurrection speak of: love at all, Monsieur. tributa pirs of gold, frankincense, and ribbon and favour of different The traditions from which, this beller have no right, and I ask you to for myrrh amongst the poor at the Chapel colours. I baked them what they want arose, must, surely have been of) trekt patet e Royal St James's. But'as the rearsed; their answer was that they camel antiquit: stretching, back Hippar to, parte pleaded in the name of the chil
paksed, these offerings gradually degons to henye mo.” It was the custom of the the days of sunworship,i
orated in, valus, unil in 1860, at the place on that morning, and they hoped the Ides of the dancing sun wall widely ide
dren and she consented to stay on suggestion of the · Prince:”: Consort, that, I would take a post in their chairs: nccepted.