"Perhaps I'm hard to please
When I was younger
I didn't much care what I ate or drank or
smoked. But nowadays I take my pleas- ures, not sadly but seriously. I suppose you
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would call me faddy. I hate to be put off with second-
best, no matter what it is. I won't eat a peach unless it is English. If I order caviare it must be Beluga.
You see what I mean about whisky.
While I can obtain a whisky as soft and smooth as a fine liqueur,
why on earth should I be
put off with anything less
than White Horse? I
admit that perhaps I am
hard to please - but take
it from me, it pays."
WHITE HORSE
WHISKY
You can tell it blindfold!
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RUSSIA RESHAPING H
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Russian idealism had something
Boil."
however im academic fro
On its 21st birthday (Feb, 23) the man Left which did so much to help own Red Army swore, man by man from Hitler to power. Marshal to raw recruit, a new Oath. It had little in common with the old International-Class-War "Red Oath" to do with it, but the Soviet de saving Czech of Lenin's time.
cision to act in Spain was mainly In any ca "Power Política" on the defensive, stinately ne
This time they swore, no longer an attempt to commit France to Wall" betwe
large-scale intervention so as to stif- Germany, as "Song of the Toiling Class”. to "devote all their thoughts, all their fen the French "Popular Front" route, even if energies to the goal of liberating All Government then in power. Thereby it, quite hop Toilers for the Cause of Socialism," it was thought the
Franco-Soviet strategy and but merely, as "Soviet Citizens," to Pact of Mutual Assistance, in pur- tions in the march "to the defence of the Soviet suance of which Russia joined the force have b Fatherland" like any
strengthened. · other terri- League, would be torial army on the defensive.
Like Berlin, Moscow had Prague- link with France and. Western bas- More than any other recent doca- tion of Slav power, now on the de- ment, this registers the distance fensive-constantly in mind. Tear- covered in a "national" direction by ing up the Soviet-Czech Pact and Russian Bolshevism under Stalin's thus stultifying the Franco-Soviet astute guidance.
one, the Munich Agreement killed that always-forlorn hope: Russian intervention in Spain.
Russian intervention in Spain, al-- though for a month or two in 1987 it gave the Republic the command The September crisis caught Rus- of the air, did not belie this change. sin at an awkward moment of re-
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It was clandestine (the Soviet Press construction. Stalin's purge of never once admitted the presence of Army and Civil Administration- range bombir a single Russian there), relatively aimed at an ultimate
"national" cause the Cze belated and confined to materiel, stiffening of both-had temporarily to provide th staffs, and tank, 'air and anti-air- weakened both. At least 75 per bases) and to craft men-rarely more than 1,200 cent. of all officers from the rank work in the in all.
of colonel upwards had had to be forces would sacrificed.
EFFECTS OF MUNICH
IF WAR HAD COME
had
been wi
have been bro
stage, for rou
in great war
The Pacts had remained
Whatever the Comintern had pre-
Soviet policy, once In August, in a clash with the viously done, civil war really got going, was dir- Japanese involving about a division
"Po- each, the Red Far-Eastern Army, ters in a dipl ected to fostering moderate
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pular Front" Republicans against acting by Moscow's orders on extremists. Moscow had digested sternly restricted front, had under- the sour lesson of the Communist taken to show the world that Russia "wrecking tactics" against the Ger- would “never yield one inch of her
Once a year the doctors at Guy's Hospital don make-up and en- tertain the patients and hospital staff. This year their show is call- Photo ed "Come Clean” and all the characters are qualified doctors. shows one of the charming members of the cast assisting his com- panion with a light between scenes.
had been no s so when the g
French Charg Czech Minister
the Czech Mill clear explanat Army was re
ATTITUD
The Kremlii 'come convince therefore Brit of fighting Hi and so decide `sive” in the if the proper Ge Litvinoff twice resolve to ful open to her":{ the Soviet-Cze course, only to tacked German
Now that C the Soviet vie Mark, able to
Bions when re titude to the V is cold. Mr. more than eve Charles's hand fort is belittled
By G
Bringing Up Father
BY GOLLY÷ILL GIT MAGGIE'S OTHER BROTHER TO COME OVER AND WAKE HIM UP-IF I DO HE'LL ONLY. WANT TO. BORROW SOME MONEY-
I'LL GO TO ME OFFICE AN' CALL ~HIM UP- THEN
HAVE DAUGHTER PHONE ME TH
RESULT5-7,
YES-DADDY. THE OTHER BROTHER CAME OVER AND THEY HAD AN AWFUL FIGHT TO SEE WHO WAS TO SLEEP ON THE SOFA -
HUF
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