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"Ia my baby roady, Hawkins *** "Not quits,Sie. They're just dusting it,”
A gesture of old world courtesy, no doubt, but was it really necessary ↑ "
“Very mocessary indeed, Sir, as it hap pens to be a hip-bath which has lain tome years in the coatli-hours, flir Lordship rarely entertain."
*Ila Lordship's notions of hospital- ity are not of this century. He seemed
to think he had a sacred duty to lay
me low beneath the table. I marvel that I'm here to tell the tale.”
"Yet in some wayı (žis Lordship is
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*Placed there by His Lordship's own hand, Hawkins. And a very refresh- Ing drink following upon a one-sided battle with his Lordship's decanters."
"Yer, Sir, and Ross's has still farther virtues. It is justly renowned for anni. hilating the after-effects of alcohol, vulgarly known as mornings after,"
"So that's why I'm all alive and kicking? Well, well, one lives, and learna. Go and boil the kettle for my bat! I don't want to miss my breakfast."
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GRIN AND BEAR - IT
By Lichty Hitler Pounds
thel, changu Times, Tur
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"Are we lucky, Mom! Otis Wilton's dog had six pups and his mother only let him keep ono, so she gave me the ather five!"
Free France Marches with Britain.
Rallied Colonies
FREE
Gates
At the Of Araby
Interesting observations on the war operations and potentials in the Middle East by one of the most widely respected American political correspon- dents. Mrs McCormick acted as European corres- pondent for the "New York Times' for many years, and is an authority on European affairs.
By Anne O'Hare McCormick
"The Oriental is a very old Arabs. While the pipe line child," wrote Gertrude Bell after from the Kirkuk oil fields to the her, first journey to the Near Port of Haifa is reported, cut, the Premier who headed the East. She went on to noto Stato boforo -Rashid-All's coup --- what every traveller feels who d'etat has issued a manifesto in the name of the six-year-okl tries to understand the strange King calling for a cessation of world cast of Suez, a world at hostilities and a return to cou- once static and nomadic, rooted stitutional government.
in Genesis yet formless as the Important Factor moving landscape of the desert.
If the call is heeded it will be "Their statecraft consists of
more important than a tempor- guesses, often shrewd enough, ary stoppage in the flow of oil at the results that may spring or the result of the fighting be- from the clash of unknown tween the British troops and
Rashid Ali's mon. forces, of which the strength that the pro-German politicians It will mean
ind the aim are but dimly ap- can get no direct military help prehended; their wisdom is that from Germany in time to save of men whose channels of in- for an Arab rising has met nu themselves, and that the signal formation and standards of response in the "neighbouring comparison are different from Stutes,
ours, and who bring a different very significant. In
And this would imply something
Ancient Roots
villages and scattered from Alexan- dretia to the Gulf of Aden are some-
known
though they have rulers, and disliked most of
many
them,
FREE FRENCH FORCES are now side by side with their set of preconceptions to bear campa
British comrades in arms in Syria. It cannot be doubted which way lies the sympathies of the greater part of the popu-upon the problems laid before thing like 40,000,000 Arabs. Al- lation of this mandated territory. Neutral observers in the Mid-| them," dle East have during the past few months reported that Nazis
they have never experienced Ger- and Nazi methods are decidedly unpopular there, and the deser-
man rule. They are, impressed by bears Indication "UP is received in tions by French and colonial troops, who crossed into Palestine,
force, they have lost the little econo- to join the Allies, are proof of some of their statements.
Sooner or later, it was inèvi- mle security they once had, they have been saturated with Nazl ond This new stroke places the colonies which have rallied to the table that this conflict should Fascist propaganda. With standards either wholly or in part without previous call of Free France in important perspective, and it will be in-spread to
and preconceptions different from that subcontinent teresting to look at their position.
they The Free French colonies represent a territory six times the which lies between the Black weighing have been watching and
Led by IRtle
cliques of jealous size of France and one-seventh of her population. They com-Sea and the Red. There the men, what they do will represent prise the New Hebrides, Chad, the French Cameroons, Ubangi-human story began, on the gray ans on the outcome of this struggle. the guess of these primitive politici. Shari, Middle Congo, the French Establishments in India, New plains of Asin Minor, in the, The trouble in Iraq is only a straw Caledonin and Gabon."
Valley of the Euphrates, in the 40 gauge is direction more surely ☆ THE AFRICAN GROUP OF COLONIES, situated hair waste lands beyond the Jordan, questions. The first is suggested by
WARRIOR WOMEN
PYE. BAND SPREAD RADIO
PUBLIC sentiment will warm ly welcome the generous tribute MARCONIPHONE, ALL WORLD RADIO which Mr Winant, the United States Ambassador, paid recont- ly to the part which the women Chater Road. of Britain are playing in the www | national war effort. What has impressed him, he testifies, as much as anything since he arrived in England, is that this is a woman's war more than any other in history. It is true. Not only are women engaged in all the active services and in all the industries, but they are, by their indomitable spirit, their uncomplaining fortitude,
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morale at the sticking place.
Mr Winant has seen the bombed areas, and noted how
the
mothers and home makers there have faced unmerciful disaster, and shown, not less than their men in the fighting Services, the staying-power of their race.
Women are being confronted sacrifices with dangers and
which have never before pre- sented themselves in the game form and in the same degree;
should
if we knew the answers to three brict dispatch from London an- lantic Ocean a coastline of 1,000 kilometres where there are a power was bound at last to has been released after months of de- nouncing that. Harry St John Philby number of modern ports with good facilities.
shake not only the Western tention under "defence regulations." The group of colonies constitúting French Equatorial Africa
Mr Philby was on special duty as a and the Cameroons binds together British West Africa and East world, the edifice of industrial British political agent in Baghdad Africa, forming a block right across the continent from the Red civilisation, but the ancient during the last war. After the war Sea to the Atlantic.
he served as adviser to the native roots whence stems the tangled government in Mesopotamia and It is evident that apart from the actual support which the history of man.
Truns-Jordan. He was collabora- Free French equatorial empire can contribute to the Allied war
At some point tor of T. E. Lawrence, knows Arabia effort by the virtue of its resources, Germany now finds herself the battle had to return to the better than any living foreigner and deprived of certain products of which her industry was in great original field of Armageddon, Englishman ever permitted to live in need.
was famous for years as the only
Mecca. Why was he interned and
Clue to Policy
"Special mention should be made of New Caledonia and the Not only the Balkan peninsula why is he now released? nickel, lead, chromium and iron ore which she exports to the and the Iberian peninsula but British Empire. Gabon sends woods which are used in the con- the Arabian peninsula had to struction of aeroplanes, and Chad sends cotton. Plumbago and choose between Hitler and the wolfram are obtained from the Cameroons, as well as iron and mica.
alternative of Hitler.
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the Free French movement.
How Britain Is Adding To Her Merchant Fleet
Ships From Factories
By A Shipping Correspondent
in the Arab world; in so for us there
any primacy
herent people, he is the leader. Ihn
the
answer the third
are restive. A
trade programme worked out be-
The answer to that question would be a clue to British policy since the war started. The next centres in the attitude of 1bn Saud, King of So far the fight going on in Saudi Arabia. He is the strong mat TRITORY, A central organisation called the "Council of ment. It is aprending within tribes and kingdoms, of this inco-
10 GOVERN THE AFFAIRS OF THIS VAST TER-Iraq seems to be a local engage Defence of the Free French Empire" was created in October 1940 the Iraqi borders, and a few Saud is supposed to be a friend of at Brazzaville by General de Gaulle. The Council, which was officially recognised by the British Government in January, con- vague incidents have occurred the British, and if he takes sides in sists of the commanders-in-chief of the Free French Forces, the in Syria and Palestine, but be very great.
an Arab showdown, his Influence will. Governors of the most important colonies and also of persons re- there is nothing to indicate any es hidden in the cautious mind of presenting those moral values which found their expression in
general movement among the Ismet Inonu, Premier and virtual dietator of Turkey. Supposing that the time is past when the Turks might have helped the British, what is their policy toward their former subjects and their alliance with and Afghanistan? By abolishing caliphate and the symbolie fez and yasimak, Turkey, gave up the leadership of Islam, but can she re- main
passive to the threat of Ger- man domination of the Arab world?
There
is also fourth
question, Taking a leaf from the Book during the slump of a decade built" or unseaworthy, as the brought to the fore by reports that and they have risen nobly toof Father Noah, British ship- ago.
conservatively minded had pre
Washington is working out a plan the height of the grim
builders are about to fabricate emer-
New Yards For Old dicted.
to send food shipments to Algiers ships inland.
and Morocco, with the object of stif- gency. If they had flinched or
The plan will thus make use.
fening General Weygand in holding As evidence of this It may be out against Nazi pressure. This is failed, no valour, however shin-
This they are doing with not only of factory facilities at pointed out that the "Standard also a sign that the hungry Arabs ing, could have availed to hold inspired the builder of the ser importance, but also of in Britain more than twenty tween the United States and French
precisely the same object as present engaged on work of les- A" and "Standard B" ships built under French rule the front. As the struggle goes original Ark, namely, to make waterside sites for which a years ago are still in service, North Africa alter the fall of France on more and more is demanded secure against disaster all man- useful purpose has long been and change hands, when they might have saved the situation. It
sought. of the country's women-kind; ner of men and beasts.
come on the market, which is may even yot, but Hiller is already at the gate of the Arab peninsula. and whatever is demanded is
The British Admiralty, in Steps have already been taken seldom, at high prices,
and the question he provokes sounds short, as part of its gigantic to equip these derelict yards
like the stroke of a clock showing. being given. Mr. Winant bids war-time chipbuilding program with up-to-date plant for as-
how late the hour is and how nor- his own country-women, whom me, has decided to adopt "pro- sembling the pre-fabricated Since those days, of course, a row is a world in which we live 'next
great deal of experience has been door to the Arabs. he was directly addressing, to fabrication" methods in the parts.
gained with standardised shipbulid-„__ building of merchant ships. The vessels to be built will methods of the last, war were not yards specialising in certain types
ing. Although the mass-production inake it their duty to interpret This means that the vessels will be of a standard design, especi- continued under, normal conditions, of tonnage. to the women of America the be built in sections at ordinary ally adapted to working under recent years have seen the growth Solving The U-Boat Problem pince in the war that is held by steelworks inland, and thence the convoy system, with a carry- shipbuiding, whereby, & design of new scheme. will present to insur-
be called "zerior" With this
then, the transported to assembly yards ing capacity of about 8.000 tons. vessel, proved to be eflclent for No
on the coast or on the great The pre-fabricated parts will he particular trade has been repeated shipbuilders.
mountable problems for British rivers."
of rolled steel, and "frills" will many tlines, Several of Britain's largest be cut down to a minimum,¡
The supreme, virtue of the The
project TR tendency towards the lies in the removal of Umitations steel constructional firms, whose Lessons From Last War economy of standardisation Orst which condition output to the
shower itself during the Fragrant Garden normal work includes the build-
faxtimum capacity of the country's The nave scheme is reminis when, with vacant berths and orders shipyards. For thei
slump Ing of bridges, viaducts, largo cent of that adopted during the few and far between, certain ship-
new scheme virtually
converts - large ....... inland Of Memory buildings, and so on, are taking last war, when similar mass builders worked out designs for
for factories into widely-separated ship- All-the-year-round flowering part in this novel schema. shrubs are to be the garden-loving It is anticipated that it will for building ships in Britain, hope of finding a buyer before the the country, at the same time.
production methods were used them down "on spec, that is, in the greatly the total building capacity of handy, economical ships and laid yard components, and thus increases speed- Dame Margaret Lloyd George's live be possible to deal with at least Despite a good deal of criticism ships were completed,
ing up prod
production, Ing memorial in the gardens of her one-third of the components of in its early days the plan worked Despite bad times, then prevail-an idea from Father Noah, has tapped
This Great Britain, t home, Brynaweton, Criccieth.
by borrowing The shrubs are to be planted in a each ship outside the usual ship exceedingly well, for not only ing for shipping, there vesis were an entirely new and incalculably garden of remembrance which Mr building centres. The work of was output greatly increased, snapped up readily, and when times valuable source of merchant tonnage Lloyd George has ordered to be de-assembly, moreover, will be car- but the tonnage so constructed speculative designs formed the basis the U-boat and the long-range Improved some of these early, id most and counter the menace of stuned... It le to have an iron date ried out at shipyards dismantled was not in the least "ferry- of many of the ships turned out by bomb
the women of Britain. better service could be rendered or more richly deserved.-L.D.T.
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