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EGYPT

World whoat shortage affects not only the daily broad. It moans Famine. Why? Hore Jean" Barnett," M,D.,. ex- plains what's so vital

In A Grain Of Wheat

When you casually plucked) next year's plant, called the

your prewar holidays in the country it is probablo that you had no idea just what it was you were idly twiddling around in your fingera.

If you had thought for a moment, the word "four" would have come. into your mind-bread.

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BY THE WAY

By BEACHCOMBER,

an car of corn from the wheat germ (though it has nothing to field-that day during one of do with bacteria).

presumo we snall have to wait for the B.B.C. Highbrow The gori, itke any other Programme before We get eced, has the greatest store of broadcast ballet (with plentiful

the grain. It commentary). nutriment comes to us mixed with a per- That bump was Sonfo Tum centage of white flour, as patent | bleova's head hitting the wall of brown breads and as special the sham castic. Sorge Trouser- vitamin foods.

in is stamping his foot and shielding his eyes. Ah! Pushov Around the The debate on Egypt, did not

endosperm and is coming out of his corner for the germ are several protective the advance the Conservative cast

noxt round. Tumbleova It le dulfkely that you would layers of tough, fibrous conte looks scared. She's taken a lot very much farther. Which isha realfood that you were called bran. These are despised of punishment. Here he comes. not surprising since the Govern holding in your hand fot only by the miller, who sells them to Ho's caught her by the legs and ment's dechiant' is logical and | broad-whfte and brown--but the farmer as wheat offal for is swinging her round right. What has happened His bacon and eggs, too. And milk, feeding poultry, pigs.and cowe. round. Phugh! He's thrown her torically this problem goes back and meat. to the close of the 1914-18 war when Lord Allenby, who was engaged in clearing up after the Let us take a look into an serious riots, there, declared that ear of wheat the car of wheat the surest defence of Egypt would that any one of us as holiday be achieved by co-operation with makors might pluck from the

felda. d friendly and independent Egypt.

A Poop Inside

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There was, however, rio reaf It will enable us to know [advance in this direction till, in what it means when we read 1936 Mr. Anthony Edén made that "tho extraction rate of the treaty which is now coming flour, ta to be increased from to an end. Up to that time Bri 80 to 80 per cent." tish policy was to uphold a cor Or when we read that an in- rupt Court against the people. creased extraction rate will ad- This meant that the claims of the versely affect poultry farmers. people, vigorously pursued against and pig and cattio farmers. their rulers, were pursued against

Or when we read that the Great Britain 1.9 well. Mr. "darker loaf is more nutri- Eden made Egypt friendly, and tious than the white, loaf of prevented her from becoming a peacetime. quisling Power. He promised that in due time we should get is a mighty storehouse of food For the little ear of wheat out; and it is that promise on and vitamins, for animals as which the present Government woll as human beings. are acting now. Here we have "continuity of foreign policy" in

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The World's Necds

The Government's decision to

to

and

The miller alms at getting rid into the orchestra. Sho's split of this bran coating in grinding her lip on an oboe, The conduc- the grain, because it is tough Fifteen alll Serge is after her, tor has thrown her back. and makes the bread dark, which his customers do not shooting at her with his absurd bow and arrow. The corps da care for.

Thoy holat It is easily sorted in the mill, ballet intervenes, for the soft endosperm is more Her on

their shoulders. easily powdered than the tough Pushov and Trouserin are leap- bran, and so can be sifted off ing about like demented salmon from the coarser bran particles. at an electric weir. The germ, too because of its Three Persian Lads In Troublo high oll content, breaks up into flakes rather than powder, and Respectable writer, Ho, yes, so can also be removed if re-we three Persian gentlemen ard quired.

of being told it must be of us the whole grain ought to be ex- form at the Enormous

The problem of how much of getting a permittance to par- Fair, tracted for fldur has bech one but we not one of us three are of the Ministry of Food's of remembering bur grand- greatest headaches. The trouble mothers' unwedded names, and is that in giving us white flour it is that is the honly question (which is a'70 per cent, extrue-of all the forms we are of un- tion) the most nutritious parts; derstanding, Leap, good sir, left out. of the wheat berry have to be into a motticar cab and come

BT Provider

So wholemeal

No Real Sacrifico

now to hellup we three of fill- ing up our forms for pormit- tances, thus we beg of you, ho, Plank on belly, up, down, up, down, friendly eir.

The Filthistan, Trio

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All Over The Place

When

In an 80 per cent, extraction its best aspect. Egypt, largely Just a few facts about world almost all the germ is left in. pwing to the presence of the Bri-wheat needs just now:

and as the germ is the richest tish, has become a relatively pros

B1 known, it is predicted that 60 mil-source of vitamin perous country. We have a good lion people will starve this tho B1 content of National flour record there, and shall leave with year as a result of a shortage in

the inhabitants of goes up to 25 times as much Chagnay-St. Vitus sent a de- a better one. ·

world, stocks of eight million a white flour. tons of grain. If we look at

putation to the Mayor, to ask bread (made from the endosperm and the flown from the flagpole on the

why an old shirt was being' PREFERENCE WINS! this as one and a half times the

total grain used each year in germ) could be our richest pro- Town Hall, they were told by the vider of B1, which plays America has adopted the prin Britain, we get an idea of the auch

Town Clerk that a laundress on important part in ciple of Preference. Do you rub enormity of the shortage. breaking

had climbed up and attached the down carbohydrates your eyes at that statement Then increase the extraction rate of in our body to provide us with as she has taken the flag and shirt. It had been loft there, read the message of President flour from 80 to 85 per cent.nergy and beat.

starched L Truman in signing the Philip will save 300,000 tons of wheat pines Trade and Rehabilitation a year. It seems an insigni-. Bills. This, says the President, ficant amount, but it will sK70 is "an unprecedented plan of pre-two an a quarter million people cision to introduce.86 per cent.fined Ds. 6d, for clipping his The Government's recent de- A grocer at Milvingham was ferential trade relations with the from starvation,

How? And how is the extra extraction flour means that the nostrils with a bent bicycle Philippines to last for 28 years." five per cent. extraction to he extra

5 per cent. must come spoke. It is a two-way arrangement from obtained?

from the bran. which both countries receive maxi-

Recent If we could cut a wheat grain

research has shown mup benefit. Thus America re-lengthwise we should see in the that the innermost layer of this Two platelayers attacked a cognises the value of Imperial middle, around a sort of ven- despised sneath, next to the local school teacher named Fen- Preference when it comes to re-tilating cavity, the "endosperm" endosperm, is very rich not only ster at Gilvert Rocks, when he habilitating a war-stricken coun--white bread, white flour, to in protein (body-building food), asked them to lay him a plate

consists of hun- but also in iron (blood-builder) of eggs and bacon. try closely tied to herself. But you-which

dreds of cellulose-walled cells and nicotinic acid (part of the what of Britain's Imperial Pre containing starch particles float vitamini B complex, shortage Hang This On The Hatrack ference, that two-way system ofing in a bed of protein called of which causes bellagra). trade which brought such stability, gluten.

Inclusion of this rich layer Modernta north-west winds prosperity and strength to a vast It provides also the coarser.in bread will almost double the are approaching from cast- area of the world in the pre-war? grained semolina, with its conti- iron content. One pound. of words. Mainly bright and dull, Negotiations are soon to begin nental offspring, macaroni and Sir Ben's new bread will give with intervals of rain or sun- three quarters of all the iron shine. Warm, cold and cloudy, we need cach day.

continuing cold or warm, with So it seems that Sir Ben has clouds and sunshine alternat no need to be apologetic about ing. Moderate winds, mainly his 85 per cent. loaf. We shall local or general, with occasional be the better for it.

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IN THE WORLD OF BOOKS

the elimination of Preference within the British Empire. These negotiations were imposed upon

In the lower part of the grain Britain in retum for the loan of wo should ace the baby seed for £1,000,000,000 which still hangs fire under debate in Washington. When America on the one hand grants Preference to a people who have long been under her tutelage and on the other hand demands that the benefits of Preference should be eliminated among the British peoples the negotiations become close, to the tarcical. ! .

VATICAN AND

RUMANIA Vatican City, May 26.

A Vatican source said yester- day that nothing is known of ficially of the report of an Im- minent rupture of diplomatic relations with Rumania, but ad- ded that "such · possibility is not excluded."

- "Great French_Romances," infor A guarantee that they spread the better." What Bacon wrote was "Money is like "muck, English Translation. Selected with would lather Balzac was in

introduction bu Richard lather all his life, and he died in not good except it be spread." Aldington

harness.

This means the same thing, and Is botter English.

(Pilot Press, 155.) Here, in commodious form, are four French novels which. M:. Richard Aldington tells us in his admirable Introduction have - caped the terrifit mortality of that specles of writing."

The four books with their date of first publication are:

(1) Lu Princesse de Cleves, By Madamo de Lafayette. 1078

(2) Manon Lescaut. By the Abbo Prevost. 1781.--

(3) Les Lisiaona Dangereuses. By Chuderlos do Laclos. 1782.

(4) La Duchesse de Langoɑtu. By Honore de Balzac. 1834. The rat was written by a great lady at the Court of Louis XIV.

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I give no guarantee that al: readers will like all four novela. But there is something for every- body in each of them, and the "A Fullot on the Midden" Blx hundred pages present a good!

Rachel Knappelt. fifteen shillings worth. The "in-[". (Michael Joseph, 10s. 8d.) troduction by, Mr. Aldington is The story of a young woman.

who though of the countryside in interesting, extremely Informa tive, and altogether very well terms of rural rhapsody, and dong..

then, during the war, wont to work on a farm. She found littlo that was idyllic, a great deal that was ultra-realistic, and all of it fun. Hero is her description of the farmer for whom she worked:

"Forth, Beast' by Louis Marlow.

(Faber and Faber, 89. Od.) This is an extremely amusing book which pretonda to be a blo graphy, suggests that it might be an autobiography, and is realiy anatige. There le something on ty page for comobody to dia- agreo with, t

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The second tells a story of the Manon Lescaut was the gutter. first of those. Peccant heroine who for somo, hundred and fifty For instancs, take, the state- years in French dramm and flement that a man who writes to tion, were to break the hearts of | please himself stands a' pood Inmunèrablə overs, curl up on a chance of plossing other peopin. Loula Quinze sofa, and "dle of ¦ I agree. Where I do not agree in consumption..........

The Rome "Daily American" quoted a well-informed observer да declaring rupture might follow the Rumanian Govern ment necusation that the Holy Sée representatives abroad had used their diplomatic Immunity to aid the former Nazi regime of Germany-Associated Press. URANIUM IN AUSTRALIA

Sydney, May 20. Extensive aurvoy covering

that a bore cannot write a good 450 square miles in the Flind The theme of the third book is

novel because he doesn't get keen ors Range mountains in South tho abuso of sox in an over

enough pleasura But I never Australia is to be undertaken to bphleticated society. The super. Yet met a bore who did not ex discover the value of the extent neidi visw of this book that i tract the maximum of delight out of uranium dopvalta, pen

pormenraphic Actually, of himself; that is why he is a The survey will take three teaching is that those who dos baral years and the party will come troy love are destroyed in their The book presents one with prita egyška), skolortata, 89. ns-

wilfully Blatante and memining team, then equipped with diamond drills, Iarrely, political Babes was me of the according to My John McBwin, bably, the hardent: worker offi ali obbory, leader of tile) Country Fartsy the work moyoliste. Add Hen-1 fancy that Mr.

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The boas la the exact oppo site of tho conventional idea of a farmer: Instead of being stout and having apple 'checks and shiny leather gaiters, hea tall, lean, alarmingly active and wears, of all things, pincerca He has a toputation, which he encourages with delight, of bes Ing quite mad. He takes his glasses off when he reads, his teeth out when he eats, and ho colebrated his sixtieth birthdný by standing on his head in the middis of the road."

It would be interesting to rand this together with Hardy's Tons of the D'Urbervilles," and correct one by the other.

Selected Stories of North Hoult," The Hour-Glass Libra (Maurice Fridberg: Pre 04:) Half-domen admirablo, i sormis