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"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

'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.”

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THE CHI

BRITAIN'S PATH

THREE main possibilities face true, as the recent history of Ger- tain essential

Britain during the next

few many and, still more, cf Italy has fighting Servi months. The first, and most shown it to be, the converse may be case for a Mi favourable, is a gradual simmer- applied that lacking, "the will and range. . . . 1 ing down of the international caul- methods of inducement to secure even stronger dron-at least for a time. The se- that they shall be utilised," a

na-. cond is the outbreak of a short and tion's efforts will be severely limited "BUSINESS violent European war, ending, so (as we know our own to have been their enemies may hope, in the de- in a large degree) however plentiful feat of the Western Democracies. its man-power, skill, materials and The third is the outbreak of a money. European war which lasts several years; such a war the Democracies and their allies would almost cer- tainly win, though only at a very high cost to themselves.

GERMANY ALREADY ON A

WAR FOOTING

The Axis countries, it is true, suf- fer in peacetime from a shortage of Those are the three most likely foreign exchange which makes it prophecies, apart from unforeseeable difficult for them to import all the accidents, and it is generally re- essentials for manufacture, and cognised that Britain needs a very would suffer further in war from rapid and well-inspired development the process of blockade. But as Sir of her forces, both national and Arthur Salter points out, a blockade diplomatic, if she is either to make would duplicate rather than double war too dangerous for the Axis Po their difficulties; lack of foreign` ex- wers to undertake, or too difficult (if change becomes not an additional they do undertake it) for them to impediment but an irrelevancy when win.

goods are shut out by a blockade. Moreover, some of the measures al- ready taken internally to counter the exchange shortage economies and substitutes could apply equal- ly as remedies against blockade con-

COMPARISON WITH AXIS

POWERS

resources

are

Historians... hard to accou setting up a

Z

They will fin understand w modities Act so tardily an include, amon metals as wel sers and food

If they ind has not been sense to face answer may ernment, her strategic pre lic pressure

How this may be done is the prin- cipal theme of a new book by Sir ditions. Arthur Salter, M.P., "Security: Can :

Germany's industries, being al- We retrieve It?" (Macmillian, 8s

ready on a war basis, start with an 6d). Much of Sir Arthur's thought advantage for this purpose over our is rightly devoted to long-term policy,

own. But she has for it is fairly obvious that not even "as far as her internal the strongest defence programme or within her original frontiers the most far-reaching system. of

And whereas concerned, about reached the limit bi-lateral or tri-lateral pacts is likely of her expansion of armaments ex-

ciate the to maintain a dynamic Europe in a penditure, and may have to reduce

case of our static condition. But the chapters it.

This is the sense in which the general war- suggesting future international financial strain will affect the mili- steps are interlocked with others of

tary effort. It is a real and impor- more immediate urgency, in which tant factor, of which there may the author discusses how our pre- soon be visible consequences, if there sent strength compares with that of is still to be a long armaments race the Axis Powers and how it could without war.”

and should be increased, whether as

a deterrent to war or as a fighting asset.

dicates: that financial strain “is in

an early war.”

The conclusion may be that Ger- many will have to give way in the The strategic picture presented is armaments race, but there is a grim by no means unhopeful, even if it is consideration which the author in- not quite so bright as that painted itself one of the forces making for by the wishful-thinkers who are al- ways telling us that the Dictator- ships face imminent economic col-

Meanwhile, what measures are lapse and that all we have to do is to we taking to organise the much sit tight in the consciousness of our superior resources which we possess financial strength. Sir Arthur Sal- (despite our greater normal depen- ter has no faith in any easy theory dence on imports) against such a equating financial with strategic contingency ↑

weakness.

Sir Arthur Salter has out-

"So far as a country has the man- lined and repeatedly stated power, the skill and the materials in the House of Commons the case required to produce what it wants, for a proper Ministry of Supply. He and the will and methods of in- repeats his arguments convincingly ducement, or compulsion to secure once more, and in a footnote, added that they shall be utilised, no as the book was going to press, shortage of money will limit its notes the Government's decision last efforts."

month to create such a Ministry-

If this statement of the author is limited to Army supplies and cer-

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Bringing Up Father

VES-JERRY-I'M GONNA GIT HOME EARLY AN' PRETEND I HAD A HARD. DAY AT THE OFFICE-SO I WON'T HAVE TO GO TO THE OPERA- | WILL MEET YOU LATER -

THAT'S

·THE TALK-

WELL- YOU'RE HOME EARLY- MY-BUT YOU LOOK TIRED-

-YES-1 AM - MAGGIE

· DARLINEI HAD A- HARD DAY AT TH’.. OFFICE-ME EYESTM ARE TIRED FROM GOING THROUGH TH’OFFICE BOOKS-

I WUZ SO BUSY- I DIDN'T

HAVE TIMEVENE

GO OUT FOR LUNCHA SHOULD HAVE WORKED LONGER-BUT I'M TOO TIRED

CH-DEAR- CAN I GET YOU A CUP OF TEA?

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