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BULGARIA
Bulgaria now appears to have been forced to the cross-roads: is she going to declare war
They Can't Lick WHAT THE
the British
Sense of Humour
XTAR is a grim business, and
WA
SOVIET LEADERS TOLD ME
By Arthur Wauters
When Germany attacked the
Another "whole cloth" war- mind these raids, but I wish to it would certainly, gag time joke is an adaptation of an goodness they wouldn't come at Soviets I called to mind conver Junch time. It's just thought-sations which I had had with most of us if it were not for the old favourite:
Soviet statesmon travels in Russia.
happy fact that the national Office boy: "Plonse, sir, could less!"
sense of humour comes to our I have to-morrow afternoon off ?” rescue. But there is more to it Employer: "Your grand- than just a general sharpening mother, I suppose?"
of the community funny bone; individually. we become more
How those Britishers can "take it" With a sense of Office boy: "Exactly, sir. humour second to none in the ready to crack jokes, as well as She's making her first parachute world, they are atoutly and im- more appreciative of others' jump." jokes. We all realise the truth of the old ditty:
during my
We are, one of them told me, the heirs of the French Revolution and we shall escape a repetition of their Ther- mistakes. There will be no midor for Communist Russia, There will be no imitation of the Girondins
he had pushed on a war outside the pregnably armoured. And no-country in order to take people's at where is their drollery more intention off the dimculties within. The man who told me this was shot evidence than in their placard-by Stalin with many others. Look next at "tailored" jokes, ing. It has become a new war- "A bit of humour now and that is, war incidents that have time art, each trying to outdo his been seized upon by the whimsy neighbour in laugh-producing In relished by the best of artists and turned into full-
signs, fledged anecdotes. For instance, men !"
there is the one about the British
then
Yet
A Dover rooming house proprietor
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Peace Policy
It is perfectly true that the Russians have not attempted to export Communism at bayonet point, Russia 1 the only country in the world ruled by a Communist Govern ment. This ment.
not the case as for Fascism and Totalitarian Govern- This may seem an eccentric pilot who got lost and landed at puts a card in his window as soon menta are concerned for they have 0s a vacancy occurs. The card in succeeded in taking over the direc state of affairs when war is such Cufragh in Kildare.
variably reads: "Nice rooms with tion of a considerable number of
Ballons. The
The conflict between Trot- the facing a horrible experience; we should
Growled the
Irish every tough
convenience,
sky and Stalin was based entirely a public on this difference of basic ideology. laugh less instead of more.
sergeant who greeted him: enemy." A placard in there is a psychological basis to "Twould fit ye better to thank building in one of the ralded suburbs The latter wished to perfect the it. Laughter is a type of "de God you're not a dead man, for a of London used to read: "Don't Socialist State within Russia in peace fence mechanism." As Kobold corpse ye'd surely be, landing worry-it may never happen." After and the former only believed in the very sharp attack the placard triumph of Communiam if it were brought about by world revolution. Knight assures us, "a sense of like this without warning, only a
a slight change: humour is like "Medea's magic for our anti-aircraft gun is after reappeared with ointment, which quickly heals going to Dublin for repair be. "Don't worry-likler has missed us
Soviet Russia has attempted to re- every wound and renders one cause young Mick here jammed again.”
it blazing into a flock of wild
One night a bomb fell in the cen-
entirely self-contained, She immune." Few things assuage geese that came overhead last tre of a street in the shopping dismin
trict, blowing out all the plate glass hos, as far as possible, renained burdened minds as much as Saturday night."
windows in the nearby stores. One outride military confists. She han
up***
anot fully succeeded in this latter alm. hearty laughter; a person with-
Then there is the "tailored" proprietor immediately put out a sense of humour is with-
joke about the young officer re- sign: "Open as usual." His com- The Communist Parties in all the Den full the Munich agreement. They better. His read: More open denounced the
sign out one strong shield against turning from leave abroad. He petitor across the street, went one Democratle countries exploited to the the batterings of outraged for- was just about to take his place than usual!" A South London bar weakness of Chamberlain and Dala- in an air liner when a girl ran ber, after the upper part of his shop up and asked the passengers if had been blown away by a bomb, any one of them would be kind nalled the following notice on his door: have had a close shave. In this respect the British enough to sell her their seat as what about you?" people are perhaps, the best her mother was dangerously ill armoured. There may be jokes and the liner was full up.
The young-officer gave up his in Berlin and Rome; but they are as funeral psalms compared scat and wired his C.O.: "Given
tune.
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means acquiescence to the Axis, ishing nonsense dished up in or is she going to retain neutra-London by the whimsy artists lity which will be a defeat for of the nation. And the saints be Hitler's policy.
praise for that!
Bulgaria has had a most un- fortunate history most of it step-marked by wrong decisions by its leaders at fateful mo- ments. Even the choice be- tween Constantinople and Rome -the Greek Orthodox Church and Roman Catholicism-made by the first Boris one thousand "years"ago"comes into this-cate-
By Charles Clay
But the prize for seizing upon the exigencies of war and whimsically turning them to good account camo from London flower-seller follow- ing the British anti-rumour cam- paign. This stout-hearted lady put up a placard over her posies. It rend: "Don't talk in your sleep, there may be a jerry under your bed. Say it with flowers, instead."
capitulation .and
dier, but when they found them- solves face to face with identical dificulties they quickly put into application a peace policy. This at one time reached the level of fawning on Germany.
All these efforts, however, have not been able to preserve them from war. They are now within the sphere of hostilities. The Communist slogan. of "Imperialist War has vanished. It cannot be used again for a long time by Communist propagandists in he world. Stalln, who has always claimed to be a complete follower of Lenin, was obliged by foree of circumstances to fight. He could not allow Germany to seize his agricul
Humour is an intangible but berth to girl. Returning by next No wonder an old man, placidly tural products, his mineral riches stout defence in war. We may plane." The reply he received painting his house during an air and, above all, his all, which sup "Congratulations. Your raid, mildly replied when told to piles his motorised army and agricul-
come down to safely; "Bombs? I ture. expect to endure the hardships ran:
Leninism when the wonder and the horrors of conflict longer next confinement will be in thought it was the wind shaking my
ladder!" No blushing bride said "I do" during a
Leninism believed that it would be and with less spiritual casualty, barracks."
every These jokes, and literally hun- violent raid on London which did best, by giving up territory if we have a joke or two to take refugo in. The lilt of laughter, dreds more like them, circulating not interrupt the marriage ceremony time that it became necessary, to
to wear themselves out through con even sad laughter, is invaluable, among Britain's civilian and the bridegroom grinned and re-allow the arent Capitalist countries
military population, are a power- marked: "This is a good start!"
No wonder a certain English Indy niet so that, profiting by their weak- For this reason an examina- ful benison. They cheer and en- in her very late seventies, receiving ness at the end of such a war, the gory for it paved the way for tion for British war humour may-liven-spirits.-There is no doubt a cable from an American friend Communists could spread among What is its that they have been in large part suggesting she visit the United States them destroying the social structure
for
the British for the duration," promptly re- and attempt to establish Communist pattern? What are its con- responsible
ability to take it." Familiar plied: "Hearty thanks charming in-
-accept hope to
To-day Russia, like the other coun-- with such conscious drollery, the ultimate victory is secured!"
tries, is exposed to the same exhaus- become unconsciously
There is something tremendously tion which results from world war- inspiring In such high-spiritedness fare.
have lessons for us.
religious dissension which split from the Bulgarian Empire Al-
sequences? bania and Macedonia, After
There of Turkish
are four kinds of British short period rule the Bulgars rose again British war humour: First there drolll to independence but from 1396 is the work of the jokesmiths to 1878 they endured the op- who either concoct war jokes out
a
vitation,
cheer. Let - us
when
Governments..
in the face of an implacable enemy.
Russin han also known a Thermidor Simple, spontaneous, stirring, these A zealous ARP warden, during reactions to disaster and death prove which cost the lives of a very large above, all things that the British number of Officers. We do not know presssive demands of the Turks of whole cloth, as the saying is, a blackout, saw the lighthouse have a resilience that will be hard, how far this factor will have effect in a dark and as it seemed per- or who seize upon war incidents on Barra Head going about its if not impossible, to snap. Their in the future evolution of operations, When Trotsky succeeded, after manent period of history which and. "tailor" them into full- business of Illuminating nearly a national sense of humour is their
brilliant victories, in destroying the hundred square miles of ocean, most powerful defence. must seem to them still as hor-fledged anecdotes.
That, of course, was right: and Good cheer is the basis of an in- White Russians and cheeing the Al- rific as anything the Nazis
Then there are actual uncon- proper, and the warden nodded flexible determination to win, and lied armies from the New Europe can conjure up.
therefore strongly partista attempt" were in embryo. sciously droll incidents that hap. with satisfaction; ships at sex ability to laugh is the basis of good the objective factors for "a Bona- With the aid of Russia this pen and circulate as war stories had to be guided from the shoals, fortify ourselves with laughter. This Trotsky did not wish at that time to
blackout or no blackout.
is one case where he who laughs first make use of the high prestige which
he enjoyed. stupifying, stultifying and bar in their own right. Thirdly,
will also lough last-and loudest. And then the warden suddenly barous period came to an end there are funny remarks made
What did he see? and Bulgaria regained her in- during moments of excitement. stiffened.
are the With a resounding oath he rush- dependence. She endured the And, finally, there
inimitable British placards and ed down to the shore, comman- vicissitudes of Balkan politics until the Great War when she notices taking humorous ad- deered a boat and plunged vantage of wartime conditions.
through the waves towards the elected to fight with the Central
lighthouse. Coming within hail- Powers and suffered in the
ing distance, he bawled out peace treaty considerable di-
Look first at samples of the through a megaphone. minution of territory to gratify
jokesmith's art. One of their The keeper thrust his head Rumania, Turkey, Greece and best "whole cloth" jokes is about over the rim of the towering Yugo-Slavia,
a young sergeant who asked the structure. "Man," shouted the sergeant-major for advice in warden, "don't you know this is framing a charge for which there a blackout and you're supposed was no example in King's Regu- to pull your window blinds lations:
down?"
Bulgaria does not want to fight Turkey. If her people wore consulted they would be satisfied that their old enemy was no longer a menace to them; they would want to con- tinue in their peaceful peasant ways. The last country in the world they would want to fight fs Russia.
"What was the man doing, A second engineer serving on a exactly?" asked the sergeant, trawler during the evacuation of major...
troops from Namsos left. his "Farting with a girl in the engine room and went on deck during a fierce Nazi bomb attack on his ship. He thought hô park, sir."
could be of more use up top than tremendous work carrying am- down below. He was. Ho did munition to the trawler's one anti-aircraft gun. And as he for bare existence as an indo- trotted from shell box to gun, pendent unit.
"Well," said the sergeant major solemnly, "charge, him with impersonating an officer."
However, Bulgaria is another country where the bulk of the people have no say. In their af- fairs. Boris has been dictator
reckless of the bombs falling all since he ousted the cliques who
around his ship, the second hummod round the Government
If she elects for the Axle she engineer sang "Pennies From -reactionaries, anti - pensant will have sold her soul for tem- Heaven." bodics pro-Fascists movements,porary gain and the hate of revisionist groups, republicans. Russians and Turks: the alter A bomb dropped in a south Bulgaria sold herself into Axis native is to defy the Axis to England river and a local angler hands trying at first to off-set turn her from neutrality and to exclaimed indignantly:"This the Balkan Entente, then to re-rely on the unstable conditions will upset the fah for weeks." British commercial In southeastern Europe and Hit- Salda tain hor neutrality and now, for's unconsolidated gains to traveller, throwing his napkin back to the wall, she thinks only keep the Axis hordes from fore angrily on the table in a south- east town restaurant: “I don't of that final throw the struggle Ing her hand
GRIN AND BEAR IT
By Lichty
“You win, Adale They DID have.
In all those boxes!"
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