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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 27, 1941.

CHINA MAIL

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BATTLE OF ATLANTIC

Loss of HM.S. Hood on the eve, as it were, of President Roose- vell's statement of policy, which most assuredly will be deeply concerned with the issue of the Battle of the Atlantic, will lendi additional emphasis to everything he says. It is stupid, of course, to permit the grievous loss to arouse undue depression. That is merely playing the game of Goebbels, whose extremes of enthusiasm have carried him to the farereal assertion that the loss of Houd is the deathblow at the Navy and to Britain's hope of winning the WHEE Th Adiralty have ཎྞཏྟཱę+t yet revealed the proges

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The I'

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of "Houd" is talk gaikan men who went down withi ber any suggestion that might of the Royal Navy

gravely undermined as proposter

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It does, however, impress upon the United States, the danger of sitting back and admiring the

magnificent performances of Our fighting men, and condoling with us in those tragedies that make up the story of a de perate con- tel.

Americans are now demanding that the freedo of the should he re asserted hy

Presitient, What IN meded

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something even more than that. The call for America's all-out

H.M.S.HOOD

WE WILL REPAY

Yater

Cheesy Ballads

Our vegetarians have been tell-

with

effort has not been more strongly ing Lord Woolton,

some

put than by Mr. Willam L. Ball, Justice, that, since milk is meat to i deputy director of the division of them, they should be allowed a

production

PIRE

that

says.

11 h exacted from thent. poor substitute for the sturdy

By Ivor Brown

famous borough, lying among its rich, well-watered meadows, should yield so spare and mean an article is not explained. Dairy produce goes

gleaming through

urban slang. Many may

thieves' cant, of "Chuck it" or "Come off 11." But why?

so nutive and so picturesque as Dorset's Blue Vinny, for anything SO quantitatively imposing as Double Gloucester, or for anything so unpretentiously local as Lan- cashire or Derbyshire?

For all I know the grocer who failed to respond to опе such colourful request may have been "1 justified. Perhaps Blue Vinny had disappeared from a world given over to sentimental moaning about

larger shore of the carving (per- Rouse- in President velt's

organisation. haps paring would now be a more armaments

accurate word) of our nationa! "For Us to suppose.”

voices are cheese supply. Other "That Britain is growing stronger raised, no less fairly, on behalf of every day in relation to Germany

the country labourer whose mid- is criminal folly. Por us to enjoy!

day meal, or nummit (non-meat). growing feeling of safety

as it is called in the South-west, simply because Enghind is still

never did contain much meat but nighting back is the grossist negli cutisisted of hunky bread and a

What is the cold. hard; slab of theras The town labourer the pastoral ballads, as Calverley its "blues" of the soul. If so, the For it was the truth of the waiter? Germany: might here interpose his elom to observed, and even penetrates the more's the pily. points out this authority, started more of the coveted article, sitice

have great merit of the English cheeses, could be matched only through bundle for his intervals fresh- being aware of what it means-or creatures, demanding to be stock- eat with a muhtary machine the too was apt to marry a similar beard a cry of "Cheese It" without to be regional and even parochial The expenditure of Sitar 900.mní. Itent. It is not only the plough meat, for it is an old catchworded and served with a reverent and 400 To this it has added the pro- man whose heart turns cheese- of the pavement. Apparently it is geographical scholarship, as much

of the occupied word when the dræctive capardy

from as if they were wines of vintage. the Sun rides high

equivalent. emerging

Calverley could have made, had countries and the huge tributes Brad with a smear of jam is a

he troubled, a most agreeable ballad of these local beauties, for, ike the flowers, "almost singing There appears to be something themselves they

come." What? about cheese which fascinates the have Dan Pearce, Peter Gurney, to set English and indeed almost intoxi-

Tom Cobley and Uncle such strange and

Cheshire, Blue cutes them, to

Blue against contradictory uses do they apply Viny, Caerphilly, and old Double the term, Cheese means "the cor-loucester and all as the items of rect thing," with the adjective

a festive chorus? And that with- fine or showy, while it is applied out starting on the noble army of

Pennine cheeses. contemptuously both as a verb in "cheese It" and as a noun to a

The trouble began when sundry The simpleton

fat-head. ог

cheeses were manu- "patent" strangest meaning of cheese is a

detached portions deep curlsy, to "make cheeses," factured with

separate paper wrappings: according to the O.E.D., being "a, in schoolgirl's amusement, consisting cheese should be and should look these article, and in turning round rapidly and then a farmhouse

their isolated suddenly sinking down so that the were petticoals take something of the, sections went pat with the genteel detachment of villadom. They form of a cheese."

were "nace," they were "refeen- cheese And whatever real ed."

Sine last spring, latter's armies cheese sandwich of the Iniler's have a inquered the Montiment »! muddle day. Europe.

have His land armies

tremendour acquired

of dores

Cheese, indeed, is so much a and equipment, 50 amminution

part of the native larder and of that, since the collapse of France,

has been English life, wars permitting, that Germany's production

it goes rolling through all bucolic relieved of the urressity of turn myths and ballads in its mild and ing out great quantities of equipmilky way. Sang Calverley.

tim

British

ment. All this factories have been "working day and night to replace the equip- ment left on the roads of Flat- ders and the beaches of Dunkirk."

Mr. Batt is by no means un- mindful or unappreciative of the effort that America has made up to now. The machine-tool indus- try, he notes with pride, doubled

The farmer's daughter hath soft

brown hair

(Butler and eggs and a pound

of cheese),

And I met a ballad, I can't say

where,

consisted of Which wholly

lines like these.

and kisses,"

its output in 1939 and redoubled "Bread and cheese

and smack of the milk-

"cheesy" as a Victorian term for

It is sadly significant of our

suburban;

mellow,

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it in 1940, and will do even better) sang the older music-hall as types this year. Output of aircraft en- of thrifty pleasure. We have all gines has increased twelvefold] met these songs with their dairy time that we now are delighted | may be, raw with youth or rotten since last year, and tank produc- echoes

creamy or crusty, tion will be well under way with- shed. The English, wherever they to receive "cheese" of any kind. with the extremes of age, sharp

Gone are the regional niceties, theor took such rhymes and in a few weeks. But, turning to went. the broad picture of the race with fancies in the vagrant's pack, This, fine and local nominations. Cheese, heavenly or horrible, it is never Germany, he reminds U.S. that prayer, for example, comes from to be exact, is "the curd of milk, Just "nace.”.

coagulated by rennet, separated while she shipped $100,000,000 America: worth of materials to England in December. It still remains true that America has not provided Britain with as much as Hitler has been able to extort from France alone, “not to mention Denmark, Norway,

Belgium, Surely this charming supplication Luxemburg and Holland.” is a reimport, having been first

taken overseas by a Yorkshire Does this mean that there is no inan, if it in fact be true that the use trying to aid Britain that it admirable blending of the cheese

But I, when I undress me,

Each night upon my knees Will ask the Lord to bless me With apple-pie and cheese,

from the whey and pressed into a But to think of 'cheese in all its solid mass," You would think that subtle variations is either to feed since pure milk and rennet do on happy recollections" or to "in- visions of the not vary greatly cheese would dulge in forward emerge very much the same modest plenty which peace may wherever the blessed coagulations bring. Meanwhile cheese is just and compressions took place, But, cheese, a covetable paring from happily, the reverse is the case an anonymous-slab, and of high Cheese can be sweet or sour, blue utility as such, if not a source or red, yellow or white, hard or of zest. (My own advice is to help soft, thanks to some nicely vary out a common-place cheese with ing mystery in the methods and a speck of mustard.) To the bal

ladry and beauty and diversity of True, the importation of a stan- cheese we shall some day return: dardised article at a price con- for the present we may cite with America must multiply by three, Be that as--it may, you can venient to the poorest (did in gratitude a simple observation five and even ten times the pre never delve far into the prose peace-time obliterate from many made In 1855 by one Dr. Muffet, asaan early student of nutritive geht rate of shipments to Eng- and poetry of the elemental Bug- minds the idea of cheese land. Then and only then, will fish without finding a cheesy smell generic title for a grand assort-values and perhaps the parent of it tip the balance in favour of and savour. Is the moon made of ment of country products, each the curd-consuming miss made for Britain. But this, in turn, means green cheese? So our playful sim- proudly different and even aloof. ever famous by her session on that we must drop the fiction that plicity has continually Inquired. How many workers at a London tuffet. "Brend and cheese," sald we can perform a modern miracle Thin ''' men. poor scraps of grocery counter would have the doctor briefly, "be two tar- of industrial transformation with humanity, are likened to Banbury known what a customer intended pets against death." He spoke for out hurting anybody."

cheese, though" "why"that "onko:who suddenly asked for anything our time,j

is too late and the task is too big? and apple flavours be mainly materials of its construction. Not at all, declares Mr. Batt.native to that county. What it

mean is that

does

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