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THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 22, 1941.

CHINA MAIL

WINDSOR HOUSE

THE DOMINIONS

The Prime Minister is probably right in declining to put the con- sultation between Britain and the Dominions on too formal a foot- ing. The creation of a standing Imperial War Cabinet is full of difficulty. It would have to con- the tain representatives of all Dominions, of India, and of thei Colottial Empire. It would, sit, ting with the present War Cabinet, be a large body. The executive character of a War Cabinet would be lost. Moreover, each Dominion would need to detach an extreme- ly mportant member of its Gov- ernment to allend, and that, with the political balance as it is in in one or two cases, would not be easy.

At a Inter slage of the war, perhaps, we can usefully have, as we had in 1917, an im- perial War Conference, with the Dominion Prime Ministers sitting in with the War Cabinet. But for the present there is everything to

be

the said for the visit of Dominjan Premiers in rotation. each to be during his visit member of the War Cabinet Mr Menzies's presence 141 London proved of enormous value

timeliness, He has DOW Fraser, followed by Mr.

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The Bread Penny

New Zealand, and we may hope that later Mr. Mackenzie King and General Smuts will be able: to visit Britain. And, as in 1917, there should be also recognition of India, this time as a full partner But it should be through a pro- the Indian, not through manent

There is not much that can- Secretary of State or an Anglo-Bot Le obtained for gold," ans- this wered Anna, adding thoughtfully. Indian. If only to secure

as she went to the door with her formal association the immediate visitor. "I wonder now grant of greater authority to In- dians at the centre would be worth while.

before I "AND as for cheese, which is so

nutritious." said Emma Van; boy who Klampen, rising to go, "that is not Fancy!

even for gold." any." to be obtained

LIFE IN ALSACE- LORRAINE

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She closed the hall door and went quickly towards the small slip of a bedroom behind the sit- ting-room. Jan lay propped up on pillows, looking für smaller, under the bedclothes, than his thirteen years. The liness had done that, and then the lack of nourishing food. If he had not had the illness he might have done as well as other boys on the rations the Germans allowed.

the But now, without

was ill, to show to a had never sten one.

family hadn't

His

ing and a cracked blue Delft plate. half it a hand As she passed got drew a black-out curtain across

the window, then

"Where is it now?" She spoke though faintly, trying to still her agita-her. tion.

"It's in my pencil-case, I think."

someone was

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paused

watching She knocked, and an old man opened the door and motion- ed her inside. But when he saw shook | properly who it was he

his head saying. "it's no good. I don't want your silver candle- sticks, nor your escritoire either.

Who do

buy you think would then? Not the Germana; they do their shopping In the smart dis-

She found his pencil-case and rummaged in it until among india-rubbers and old stamps and pencil stubs, she found what she was looking for. It was not a penny at all but a button; a roundtrict." tortoise-shell button such as old-

By Elizabeth Kyle

"They tell me you always buy gold," she said, laying the bread penny on the table.

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"The set was broken up in THESE FACTS MAKE my grandfather's day and divid ed amongst his family," she said, adding firmly, "One cheese is not enough. I want some eggs for an invalid."

"Ah, that's something different!",

at her suddenly, But he looked It might have been expected butter and eggs and so on which

suspiciously. "How do I know it's Intact?" And he began with a that the Nazis, anxious for French their doctor hardly liked even to

to sharp penknife apparently mention as a necessity unless he have tem-1 should seem to be mocking....

split the button. The top half collaboration, would

came up neatly from the under, pered the rigours of their system

in his und there

palm was dear?" she "Are you hungry,

silver coin with a grooved edge. to the habits and sentiments of

asked, looking down on her little the people of Alsace-Lorraine. brother.

fashioned Dutch gentlemen wore The slit in the grooving was al- on their surtouts a hundred years most invisible, but again his knife The vivid account of the pro-

That ago "No," he said listlessly.

and more. As she stood found it, and with a sharp spurt vinces given by a correspondent frightened her. That was bad. But grasping it tightly Jan

asked. and tinkle the two pieces flew, remembered her in the pages of "France" shows! she

sudden "What do you want with it, Anna? apart, leaving a thin gold coin in the So, during palm. a his what speaking with Everyone else knows

did far-seeing that the Nazis have preferred the thought while

Napoleonic Wars, Emma and, saying. "What a pity! bread button looks like."

Dutchmen adorn their garments shock tactics and the persecuting Because we were going to have

in case of the worst. measures that are more natural

something nice for supper," lift- Remembering how he said he to their genius. French may not ed the heavy velvet curtains wasn't hungry, she decided not "I can give you for this," said be used in the schools, talking dividing the room from the other to tell him, but said instead, "I've Henryk Pieters, "a fine Alkmaar' French is an offence, papers are beyond and began to thread her got to go out for a little. Try not cheese. Have you no more bread

between cumbrous, hand- posted on the walls expressing way

there are no

some pieces of rosewood furniture to be impatient till I come back." hatred of France,

towards the old glass-fronted

She ran upstairs and began to books, German names French

corner-cupboard. Everything in replace French everywhere. These the room"

and put on her things quickly. It was was old, heavy,

the black-out methods are common form, in handsome and had been in their dusk already and

But all the made it dangerous for people to some degree, when a Government family a long time.

near the canals tries to force a foreign culture into antique shops in the Hague were be wandering its own system. But the Nazis, stuffed full of such objects, which later than this. She brushed her

"Eggs are gold," he grumbled. armed with the Gestapo and its no one was buying. What use was empty jewel case aside impatient- money to-day unless, it bought ly, looking for her gloves. Her

mother's pearls, her father's mas- "Yes, and prison too. My heart finished technique, add their own food?

sive signet-ring had long been was in my mouth, transferring special cruelties. One of them is

my brother's barge specially interesting in view of She found the key of the sold-though not for money. A them from the Vichy programme. The Vichy corner-cupboard and unlocked It. few minutes later she had left last night, lest one should drop of the Her fingers strayed among dozens the house and was boarding and tell the tale to the first Ger Government speaks strengthening of family discipline of tiny objects; little handleless tram bound for the workmen's man policeman who passed." But of its chief blue-and-white teacups is fine district round about the Wilhelms he disappeared a moment, then brought her around, red cheese! and loyalty as one

and transparent as paper; a silver Canal.

and three eggs, all hidden in al objects. The Nazis, of course, want filigree coach; a bunch of seals

The water in the canal, which little-basket with a few sticks off to subordinate the family to their that had belonged to her grand- system; and in Alsace-Lorraine as father; and presently her heart by daylight looked like dark charcoal on top. in Germany they train children to began to thump with agitation for green satin, melted now into the spy on their parents. In his re- what she sought was not here, dusk, so that one hardly perceived When she stepped out on to the small houses and shops quay it was dark and no one was Even the little girl had cent book Sir Bernard Pares says One faint hope remained. Quick the that the Bolsheviks, who used this ly she stepped into the other room bordoring it. A row of barges about.

again, letting fall the dark cur-lay moored under the bridge, and disappeared down into the warm to her depths of her father's barge. Yet method of terrorism in early days, tains behind her, and said as calm- a little girl, muffled up have renounced it. Children in ly as possible: "What have you done eyebrows, song a low song to the Anna, hurrying along it, heard Russia are now taught in the with the bread penny, you bad clothes-pin.in her arms which Imaginary footsteps all the way schools to respect their parents boy? Did you take it out of the she pretended was a and elders. Marshal Petain has cupboard one day when I wasn't thus closer affinities with the looking?" Bolsheviks, whom he dreads, than with the Nazis, with whom he hopes to collaborate.

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that she too were a little girl, Anna paused at a doorway with again, so that she could clasp the the name "Henryk Pieters, Anti-basket to her breast and sing Oh quer," above it. The little window over it, croon over it, make peg- yes, I remember. Don't be angry, at the side showed nothing but a ple think that she only carried Anna, but I took it to school fly-blown Rembrandtesque paint» doll.

"The 'bread penny?