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it.
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says Elsa
Running party is like mix- ing a cocktail, says Elsa Max- wall, the jolly hostess' whose parties aro famous in Europe na well as America.
have to find that something in overy guest and then blend what you have. Only you must blend judiciously.
"You should make your parties personal. Get people to talk Everyone about themselves. loves doing that whether they admit it or not.
"If they don't talk about themselves it means they are not sufficiently at home."
Miss Maxwell has a cure for the guest who does not enter in- to the spirit of a party. She Let the workman in Cleve-hands him (or her) a book and
anys:
go.
"There is something unusual, to see how any theatre may not also make efforts in
sions of the problem they are something charming in every of this war could be of other theatres of operations).
"You asked to solve, they will solve human being," she says. greater interest than the
it. They will not be appalled. British Isles and their
American naval and air forces They are not quitters. waters of approach and ac-
aro available in sufficient But now they are confused; a cess, and how anyone could strength to go a long way to confusion which is deliberately fail to see that no matter ward making these German ef- added to and nursed by the com- what happens in the Middle forts futile. While the United mon enemy and by our own de or Far East, the war will States Army and its land-based featists and isolationists.
air force (we do not have separ- Full, clear, simply stated not be won by Germany un-
ate air establishments in, the facts from London would be less Britain is overwhelmed; United States) are undergoing like a bracing dash of fresh cold and that Britain will not enormous expansion and will be overwhelmed while the not be ready for a major effort sea line between North this year, the United States America and the British Navy, with a very large and land be told of the sinking of efficient naval aviation, is com- the aeroplane parts he has la-
"Take this to bed with you. pletely ready for any responsi- boured for three months to The fact is that, consider- bility which may be placed upon make. He will not despair nor You are not enjoying this party go on strike. He will be ex- and I'm not enjoying you. God ing this war as a struggle to
ceedingly angry and will make night!" It is true that we have Japan his anger felt in the best way preserve the free way of to consider in the Far East, but he can find-by making more of it and join in with the rest. "In most cases they snap out Hongkong Telegraph. life which has been our
concerted measures Amongst
and better aeroplane parts, and heritage and of which the Zealand, the Netherlands, India ment see that the second con-
Great Britain, Australia, New by insisting that his Govern- If they don't, well just let them English speaking race has and the United States could signment is delivered. been the principal architect front as to give pause to the For the moment the issue in ties? Well, you have to go back for ages, the military situa- most reckless Japanese while this main theatre of the war to the time when Elsa was mix- permitting the United States hangs very largely on the time-ing with a young theatrical set tion becomes simple indeed Navy adequate freedom of ac- liness and effect with which in London-Noel Coward, Bea- under the provisions of Use Telecommual- when objectively studied, tion in the Atlantic.
American naval and air aid can trice Lillie, Gertrude Lawrence,
and others. be brought to bear on it. These, however, are military With this premise in mind.
They were invited to a recep- considerations. In this, coun- The Iraq revolt appears, as I Obviously, North Ameri- try, as in Britain, military af- suggested, to have received tion to meet Queen Mary. There ca becomes the arsenal and fairs must be subordinate to little real support among the she met Princess Beatrice, who civil authority, which in the last Iraqi population or from other took a great liking to her. Elsa Britain the fighting spear- analysis rests with the people. Moslem countries. The likeli-had only 17 shillings and six- head; these roles are
For an uncertain and divided hood of a widespread. Arab ponce but she decided to ask people to make war is to court movement in favour of the Axis Princess Beatrice to her little A LITTLE more than a year geographically dictated.disaster-a fact of which the now seems remote,
flat. ago, France stood shoulder to
Reinforcements, including "The theatrical folk came with shoulder with Britain in the war This is not to say that fate of France is the most re- cent example. Unity may come, for democracy against totall-Americans should work and and with it united and effective convoy through the Mediter us. I could not afford much- continue to reach just a few sandwiches, somo tarianism. Then came the Britons fight; but that in action; but one thinks that this rancan,
unity will come only when much Egypt, the Axis position in hard-bolled eggs and beer. But catastrophe, the evacuation of one area the principal acti- of the present confusion, uncer- Libya becomes more questiona- the guests went for it in a big Dunkirk, the occupation of
cleared away;
still to be kept in mind as possi- when clear,
"Princess Beatrice said: "This Harry Roy & His Band. Paris, and France passed under vity must be production, in tainty, and doubt has been ble almost hourly. Spain has way.
bly "Hitler's next move," but authoritative answers have
is one of the loveliest parties I've been given to the questions, from these distant. scenes the ever known. You make things How great is the danger to Bri- eyes of the observer must turn tain? How imminent? Can back to the battle of the Atinn-go with a swing!' Germany-has--no secure America avert that danger by tic-the battle of transportation "I began wondering if. I which must be won in order make others ay happy as I made: arsenal which cannot be fighting? and, above all, if we
fight, what sort of world shall that the fruits of certain vic-the Princess. I gave another Now, France is emerging from
This we be fighting for? What sort tory in the battle of production party and I've been giving them
may be reaped.--(M.I.)
ever, since." the darkness, but, unfortunately, reached by bombs.
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ON THE WRONG SIDE
a blackout for twelve months. While Petain was master, though he had no means of aiding the -Allied-cause, still ho was careful
not to injure it.
the other, fighting.
*
create so formidable a defensive
is emerging on the wrong side.. grievous disadvantage to of victory shall be our goal? For months the Germans tried Germany is increased by the to put Laval in the saddle and
not all come at once. First of
How did she learn to run par-.
THE BIBLE BASIC
IN ENGLISH
so bring about the collaboration fact that American produc- The answers to these ques- they sought. Their attempt tive capacity, once it is tions must come, but they will was a failure. But in Admiral geared to war require-all must come the answer to the Darlan they appear to have ments, is far greater than first-How great is the danger found an instrument quite as that of the Continent of belleve that British
to Britain? Many Americans officials subservient as Laval and much more effective. As the London Europe. Add to it Britain's ought to tell the Anterican people the exact truth about the "Times" puts it: "There does production, diminished shipping situation, for example, ing in the dark; it is not over-liar words of the Fourth Gospel not appear any German demand, though this may be, and not withholding any pertinent come by the dark." however humillating, which the
Vichy government in its present Germany seems certain to
By Hugh Redwood
"And the light goes on shin-1 This rendering of the fami-
mood can or will refuse. In be outmatched in a war of GRIN AND BEAR IT uverything but name, Vichy is machines provided, she joined to the Axis."
docs not, before that time, Horrible as it is to think of an overwhelm the advanced bld friend turned traitor, there
is no blinking the fact any fighting base, the island of longer. France, not because she Britain, on which our abi- wishes, but under the force of lity to injure her depends. circumstances and under per- verted lendership, is against us.
It is as simple as that, If Marshal Petuin is still pro-
But the fact which leaps testing, hla protests aro no instantly to the eye is the longer audible. It is Darlan imperative need for main- who is in the saddle, now, and
taining communications be- Darlan and his satellites are showing more enthusiasm and tween the arsenal and the more enterprise in collaborating fighting base. If these can with Germany for the extinction be severed, the base must of France than they ever showed eventually find itself in seri- in collaborating with Britain for ous straits, just as any out- the defence of French libertles. post must do when its sup-
Admiral Darlan has two sub-ply line is cut. - ordinates'in Syria, General Jean- Upon the severance of tho Marie Bergeret, Vichy's air supply lines the Germans are their best efforts miniator, and General Dentz, directing commander of the French forces.
Both are working in the German army. He is not only a tool of Interest. It is Dentz who is still the Nazis, but a vain and stupid needlessly sacrificing. Ilfo and une.
roperty in Syria by trying to Vichy has in fact become very dofy a victorous Anglo de Gaulle nearly an all-out enemy.
DRESS
("And the light shindth in. darkness; and the darkness com- prehended it not"--John2 1,
translation of the Bible into Basic English.
By Lichty 5) is a fair sample of the new
"Let's go inful don't think you visualize me in it!'
The work is so far advanced that the Basic New Testament will be available for the public presently. It is being published jointly by the Cambridge Uni- versity Press and Messrs Evans Bros., Ltd.
"Far more than a publishing event," is the view which the ayndics of the Cambridge Uni- versity Press take of its issue at the present time. ⠀⠀
"HOMELY WORDS"
Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden, of the Ortholo gical Instituto, is a simple form of the 'language, restricted to a „vocabulary of 860 words.
For the purpose of the Bible. translation; however, 150 words have been added-50 of them special · Bible · words and the- others listed as giving most help in the reading of verso."
Two separate groups of ox- ports have watched over the production of the New Testa ment, and the result, it is hald, is "a gospel simple, clear and in homoly words such as are used, and understood by mon,!
common
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