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ENERAL "TIM" PILE, Commander-in-Chief of Anti Aircraft Com- mand throughout the war, chose Battle of Britain week
...AND HOW
THE GENERAL
IN
Sir General,
to publish his 398-page his- TELLS WHAT SHE THANKED HIM FOR
tory of Britain's defence ngainst air attack."
AOT, was
was more in-
that the Home Guard Bad been
issued with these weapons, we were asked to keep quiet about our having them too."
The score
A
;
A Doctor Stirs Up A Village Hornets' Nest
By J. W. TAYLOR
R C. S. ORWIN, the the application of machinery Agricultural expert, and every sort of labour-ald' has caused quite a to farm work, had halved rumpus in the countryside the
agricultural popula- with his recently expressed tion. views at the Town and
Country Planning School at Added the doctor: "Tho St Andrews, Fife, drawing a blacksmith has vanished sad picture of hamlots seat- with the horno he shed; the tered all-ovor the country work of the wheel-wright which havo "lost the will to has been transferred to the survive" and of the dis- factories, the village shoe- appearance of the village maker and tallor has been blacksmith,
by shoemaker, replaced
factory-pro- tallor, parson and school duced footwear and clothes. master.
"Nonsense", snorted. Mrs
T. N. Waldron, clinirman of
the Warwickshire Women's
this breakdown of the:
tho
Institute in reply. "We "AND added to most certainly have not lost the will to survive.
of This self-sufficiency information comes not from old villago communities the develop-
be
books but my experience of must 30 years of living in a hum- ment of local transport, the Press and wireless and the let."
rural exodus which is a na- Mrs Waldron is an ex tural process that cannot, Mayoress of Stratford and and should not, be arrested.”- at the moment one of the 300 villagers ("all very' much alivo and thriving") Ebrington. Warwick
T the end of the
war he of says the scoreboard in the ghire. entrance hall at Glenthorn, his HQ (ot Stanmore, Middlesex) showed that, quite apart from 1,972 flying bombs, the troops
of A.A, Command had destroyed 822 enemy aircraft, had prob-
The doctor was relentless. "Bereft," he went on, "of the leadership of the parson and schoolmaster, too small to equip a village hall or organise a women's insti- tute, many of these villages have nothing left to com-
ably destroyed 237, and damag-DR Orwin's opening broad. mend themselves but the
ed in varying degree a further | side was: The trado in old world charm' of their
422.
picture postcards, portray surroundings.” General Pile, who had the ing Britain's heritage of distinction of being
the only
Retorted Mrs Waldron:
Tho
man to retain the same com-rural beauty is based large idea that impoverished country, mand throughout the war, ends ly on the perpetuation of people rush to the prosperous- by quoting two letters from conditions of life and labour towns and cities for their daily "our customers--that patient, which
every sanitary in- bread is laughable. gallant, good-tempered crowd who never liked giving in, who spector, health visitor and ever ready to grumble,education officer condemns and equally ready to give more out of hand." than our just share of prakse.
were
No followed with
"The towns stoop down to the country for their very existence. They may have fresh water in the towns, but they haven't got the fresh air and even their fresh water comes from the country.
"He was A most amusing when Churchill arrived at the He interrupted the celebra- chairman and his method of Kremlin in his romper sult." tions with a reminder that per- conducting business was dyna-*
He used haps the most astonishing out- mic.
He says: "Churchill...adored to bark ques- come of this, the RAF's Trafallons at you, and when you guns. 'Cannon,' he used to call
Time To Go the sucking of Sir made a statement that a certain them, and he' Hugh Dowding, Chief of Fighter Ding could be done in a fort- teresied in questioning me as to
HE firs came during the statement that the greatest As soon as anything goca night's Command and the man respon-
time he would say; the number of cannon I had in ""THE
flying bomb battle as we loss sustained by village wrong, back they come to the sible for victory, as soon as it "That's. excellent. Now would action in the various areas than were moving to the coast. Dear communities in the fast country-whether It's a holiday
other equipment 50 you like to reconsider the time? In the
Sir, your efforts during the night generation or so had been or a sick child or under... Sir Frederick Plic
Are you sure it can be done in necessary to make those cannon blitz were not a great success, the almost complete elimina nourishment, back they
He liked. to hear the "Dowding had been a thorn in n fortnight?"
and now the flying bombs get
to the countryside, the side of the Air Ministry. "You would reply Yes. Ife noise of them, too, and, right through as they like. Tan't it tion of every form of indus- He was convinced that only his would Dien turn to whoever up to the end of the war, he time you went?" And the trial activity and of the ighter boys stood between us was recording the minutes of was always getting into trouble sec
second, addressed somewhat. and defeat.
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the meeting and say, 'Make with his colleagues for going on unusually to Sir General Pile, People engaged in it. note. The General says he will" 10 gun-sites in the middle of a was received just as the first In the memory of those
been won.
"He WOS determined they have so and so done in a fort. paid when a shelter,to have phase of the Son Dear Sir, still living, most of the vil- should be equipped with the night's time.
And there you been safe in 'à best that could be got. If a would be, tled tightly to plane any other equipment formance date." was ordered out of the coun
try by the Air Ministry he was up in arms at once.
per-
At one time ground defence games played by AA Command were very old fashioned in- Second Front
deed. "The shortage of rifles many of our continues: was such that
ENERAL PILE
"It meant nothing to him that "Now I told Beaverbrook weapons, and were
units had to give up theso given in
was lost."~~..
planes might be wanted in Malta, the Middle East, or in that, given special preparation stead pikes and cudgels......Al- India. If England was lost,.all and adequate troops, I was though it was generally known quite certata a Second Front could be carried out, that Dowding had lengthy argu- was high time
a commande! ments, first with the techni- was appointed, and that, of our cat staff at the Air Ministry Army Commanders, it seemed and, falling to budge them, with to me that Montgomery Sir Cyrl! Newall, Chief of the Thorne" (General Sir Andrew Air Staff, himself
Not popular
or
Thorne, G.O.C. Scottish Com mand) "was eminently suitable for the job. Does Montgomery really read his Bible as he says NENERAL Pile says: "As a he does?" asked Beaverbrook result he got the lion's share curiously. I said I really didn't
of what was going, but it did not know.. make him popular....
como
THE so-called clod, stuck in
the mud of a hamlet or
to the rescue of his sister or his
Thank you and the boys for all lages were little worlds of your work.
From
AN EAST their own, but today nearly village, invariably has to come END MOTHER."
all that had changed. Agri- aunt in the town Down to the And Sir General Pile some-
how thinks that letter is better culture no longer dominated country she comes with her bigh industrial and social life. heels and a bit of velling on her value than a lot of medals.
The decline of arable farm- hat.
"And a lite later back sho tury and, more recently, goes to the big city with all the
Basil Cardewing at the end of last curi
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C.V.R. Thompson Reports
The American Scene
NEW YORK.
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The Beaver laughed hi MERICANS looking for a her offence; Two of his supporters were hoarse laugh. Why is it that A dream house at less than Courteously ask for necessary * Revenue report. Reason: Churchill and Beaverbrook Ulstermen or Irishmen are such They gave him full credit for successful generals? Is it be-ghimare prices were told re- data; and
cently they could buy a four- Politely hand over the sum- all he did, but in the end they cause they are slung out of could not save him, and so, as Ireland in their youth to make room home for £90 down and mons.
La month on the never-never he said somewhat sadly to me, their fortune and sink or swim?'
"I said I thought the same system. for the third time he was sack-
applied to thing
Septemen who ed (he had already had two
Again he from the went to Canada. previous intimations
he
Air Ministry, that he was to co. laughed hoarsely. Anyhow,' but they had rescinded them). replied, the Americans will In-
-good things she con posalbly. carry. And we can still enter tain our guests from the towns without touching their ration books."
that
Mrs Waldron admitted "octopus towns" had wrought havoc among Tural · Industries "with their inducements and promises which never fructify," but strenuously denied that the decline in country crafts
Was due to little communities losing the will to survive,
la double what it was last year, says
Illicit distVero can undercut Icgal whisky because they do not have to add up to 158, in HE argued, "Build a Wood- PATTLECRY of the Republi- taxes on their retail price.
words in the nearest market B
in their comparsa
town and you kill the sale of This covers rates and insur-
little hand-made articles in the President Truman's full price anto until the
of against
pert in the US, Sylvia Por the village swoolshop and all village, of course, and you kill £1,576 is pal. It also buys "fair deal" is Down with State ONLY WOMAN financial ex-
Sate-lem ter, sums up the new Washing the other institutions that make
all they
It is high time we stopped feed the villages and hamlets well But
cans
Irm. In the word
accuse Truman
sist on commanding the Second the site, and provides evergreens they lump togethering the fon altitude to Britain: Maybe a village solf-supporting.
and a lawn.
"Hugh Dowding was then Front. sent to Amerlen, but, while as C-In-C. of Fighter Command he was unequalled, he was not take place?' I asked. lle sald: fnir-sized bedrooms, bathroom, to increase Government contre aspirin and tried the castor oil are hundreds of Themed the right man to deal with our I will tell you the date. Chur-streamlined Itchen and central over the individual and, some- treatment, American Allies, and so in a chill has in mind 43, but I in heating. short time he came back to tend to go on beating the drum England and retired."
The house is prefab, with a When do you expect it to be 10ft. living room, two US into a welfare State, trying ing, Britain multimillion-dollar clear the towns and the
times, outright Socialism.
United Stales
Yet
the
likely to tour the US, in un
sturdy and self-supporting over."
WINDOWLESS, 20-storey
for '42, otherwise no one will steel. America's largest heavyT PLANES from Britain are building, costing £2,250,000 ed:
of
do anything to get things After
fall the
Crete ready (1041), General *Plio sald he thought it was necessary to have someone forceful and push-
'Romper suit'
£2
CHANNEL
awinaning
ds
A#
Makers are
As a parting shot she remark-
"What happened. when Industry company.
designed for the £10-a- attempt to clinch dollar orders is to be put up in the middle of corn was duroped on us, from house,
Why, our farmers weck man (most U.S. workers from airlines already interested. Broadway, to provide a head-co
quarters for America'a TV In- couldn't get the prices for their carn 212 to £15 a week), in
CHEAP SUITS will be cheaper dustry,
own good corn. The same thing ing put into the War Office. THE general describes a visit mostly plywood.
is happening with fruit With and expensive suits dearer "The sort of person that was
And it takes no more than 20 of Mr Churchill to Russia:
In US shops this winter. Cheap
all this Italian fruit coming in, will wanted should have the men-
"Il visit there had unfor-minutes to turn out.
suits will be cut by up to
who wants our Pershore pluma? look like a minor affair if we in the country are not al- iality of Lord Beaverbook, with tunately been a complete op.AFFIC POLICE stopping and will sell for around seven 42-year-old George Holderby, of lowed the sugar for jam-making, whom I had been having an in- He had started off on the wrong motorists in New Jersey had guineas. Good suits will be Proctorville, Ohio, does creasing number of contacts foot when Stalin began brow
what and so our fruit is rotting on the Introduce themselves jumped to both on committees and private- beating him. He stood on the orders to
250. Tallors find he says he can. Ho is waiting trees, And the stuff they turn there is a market for both cheap for the Ohio River to rise a foot out from the factories isn't fit to dignity of the British Empire and thes:-
Politely ask for the privilege and expensive suits, but hardly or two to swim 100 miles non-ent. It isn't jam at all. and would not have it belittled
The driver's any examining
medium-priced stop from Huntington, West fault lies not with the villagers, by the Russian Government of
Virginia, to Cincinnati.
• "ACK-ACH” (Harrap, 16s.) Stalin' took great offence, too, licence;
but with the powers-that-be."
ly.
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