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Although little attention has been given to it in the American Press, nothing more revolution- ary has been proposed by. Pre- sident Truman than the co-or- dination of the armies of all th American countries, including Canada. This would give the munitions industry of the United States the monopoly of building warships and supplying guns, planes and equipment. Under Truman's plan, ali the training the obricua. organisation and equipment of

FLIGHT FROM THE OBVIOUS

Youth is a perpetual flight from ; respectable

household.

middle-class

THE CLOCK AT THREE?

By ROBERT LYND

It is reported that two of the groat railway companies, the LMS. and the L.NE.R., have- decided to abandon the useful old custom of keeping the clocks out- side the stations two minutes or so fast.

I can see no Teason for this

except on

clocks, llko

the assumption that children, should be expected to tell the truth and that

clock outside

station

а

a mechanical George Washington. I am not in favour of lying in general; but I hold that machines are there for tho service of man and not as pat- terns of morality. If a clock few minutes fast. by encouraging me to speed up, enables me to catch a train that I might other wise have missed, It has

to my mind performed the whole duty of. a clock. It has deceived me, but It has deceived me for my good.

In a perfect world thero. would be no need for deception of any kind; but in the present imper- fect world we apparently need to be tricked at times into doing what is right. Consider, for example, that, vast deception-- qummer-time. If we were reason- ablo boings, we should be able to get up an hour earlier during the summer months without a ! the clocks and watchca in the country having to tell lies to us for 24 hours a day. We should brace our moral muscles and get up at half-past seven in the morning, oven If the walch at the bedside said half-past seven.

As it is, however, it would need Franch an immense effort for many of us

of the

asc)-

In middle-age, to rediscover an Readers whose notions the South American republies obvious fact is often deeply com- French novel are vaguely would be based on that of the forting-for example, after five clated with ideas of champagne United States. And negotia- years among grit and gloom and and sin may find "A Woman ef tions are in progress to induce bus-queues. that Parts and the the Pharisees" a sombre and for- Canada to come into line. It is

month of April form an intoxicat bidding book. ing mixture.

Not "Gallic" denied that this means a military Thank heaven that, in these alliance. But every newspaper circumstances, I'm not obliged to in America declared that that plunge into the crooked back was what Churchill was propos- to review some pseudo epic that atreets of current English fiction ing when at Fulton he suggested smells of her bar parlour; or that there should be close mili- | tary cooperation between Bri- tain and the United States and

By

used words almost identical with PETER QUENNELL

.

AN

those in the Truman Bill to Con- gress. That

Bill enables the rambling domestic chronicle that United States to arm her neigh-asema to have been written on hours, train their generals and the crumpled tablecloth of admirals and help reorganise olde worlde Surrey ten-room.

Just before I left London I re- their armies and navics. This coived the first volume of what move will no doubt be gone into is eventually to be a complete fully when the American Repub-translation of the works of one Freuch lics meet at Río de Janeiro to dis

of the greatest modern moralists;

to

Accepted By All

дл

phrase. Ita

and I am one of the many-

to get up every day an hour earlier than usual, if we know it was an hour earlier than usual. If my breakfast were brought to mo at half-past seven and I did not belleve it was half-past eight. I should feel that I had been- It is not at all "Gallic" in the about in a state of semi-anima

robbed of my sleep and should go looser sense of the characteristics, nevertheless,

tion

of the rest of the day. ture has always been distinguished lingas some reader always re- those for which French litora- am, of course, a moral weak-

economy of style,

neatness of minds me when

confess to.a construction, and a ponetrating in-

not entire indifference to tobacco sight into the origins of human but then thousands of us are conduct.

moral weaklings, and, if lying Like my Communiat acquaint-clocks and watches can turn as ance on the Channel boat, you into moral giants, I for one am a horological may regret Mauriac's limitations in favour of such and resent his point of view.

doviation-from-the-truth But you must agree that, with- in his limitations, he has pro- duced an unusually impressive and, at times, extremely moving story.

BY THE WAY

. By conviction he is, a devout Catholic, but it is typical of the

The

With this book, in translation--

UNDER REVIEW

WOMAN US.

By Beachcomber Lord Shortcake, reading that

know,

auction 'em."

that these

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After all, our clocks were lars even before summer-time became legalised, Greenwich time is true time, if I am not mistaken, only on the meridian of Greenwich, and the further west you go from Greenwich the bigger liars the clocks become. Welsh clocks and Cornish clocks. if they had con- sciences, would hayo. heavy weights on them.

Lot

As we

time-

cuss plans for. preparation Francois Mauriac is now "against the day when the forces elderly maa. During the war he of degeneration-forces compar played a gallant part in the ranks able to Nazi-Fascism with its im- of the Resistance.

If all the clocks and watches perialistic drives-threaten

in the country told the exact disrupt the equilibrium of the

truth, however, it would be al- most as inconvenient as living in world." In the past, American strange combination of unity and

which everybody told his neigh Gilbert's Palace of Truth, in Republics have bought supplies disunity one finds in France to- there is a boom in goldfish, has bour exactly what he thought of from here, there and everywhere! day that representatives of oppos-been considering disposing of him. We should have to keep for their armies, which have never ter and that the French Com- some of the denizens of

ing parties accept him as a mas-

the altering the time shown on our been first-class in numbers, phy. munist with

Boulton Wynfevers ponds and watches every few miles whom crossed sique, training or equipment. Channel admitted-perhaps

cf Lady Short travelled westwards. If the rail- bowls," much ก Their officers went abroad for trifle grudgingly--that his latest cake's delight.

way companies abandoned Green- training the majority to Ger- work, "La Pharisienne," included She feels that the days whenwich time for true time, think of

a bowl of every guest found

the elaborate calculations that many or Italy, although at one many splendid pages.

them in the bedroom have gone duce scrupulously correct

would be needed in order to pro- time Peru called in a British military mission to reorganise her.

for ever. Shortage of labour A Woman of the Phorlaces, by hos compelled Lord Shortcake to

.tablea forces. And, of course, many Francois Mauriac (translated by feed the fish himself, and he

Hopkins), Byro American Republics had British-Gerard

and Ands that

One of the most astonishing re- their fascination sults of trying to make the clocks built warships. But it is more to A

In fact, he said to tell the truth-at least to tell as OF THE PHARI- wears off. Canada that Truman's chiefs-of-SEES, the English publisher and her yesterday, “I'm not sure, much of the truth as possible- staff, are looking than to the na- translator have decided to begin you

little may be seen in a journey across tions in the South. They want their series-wisely, I think, since blighters don't bore me. They Canada where, according to the joint bases and weather stationsauriac here touches upon a sub- never do anything. And they time-table, the traveller leaves one in the Far North of Canada as

Ject of universal Interest.

look damned silly. Better get station- forget which it We have most of us met om counted and catalogued and carlier than he arrives at it. This part of their Aretic defence plan. woman of Madame Brigitte's

is the fantastic sort of thing that He added later. happens as a result of trying to Americans who

kind. The example may be an "But I won't part with Pride impart the spirit of George Wash- have always thought that the country

extreme one. The type itself, on Was the other hand, is certainly fami- of Taunton, Glory of Nuneaton, ington to machines. safe from all attacks are now lar

or Sailor Tom."

us not then he unduly con- looking at globes instead of flat We have seen the damago that Dingi-Poos to Egham science-stricken If we give a twist maps. Nothing was said until she did, and observed her palned The other day that brigand to the truth in our dealings with the other day about the talks and puzzled efforts to explain the chief who gives me the silks he clocks and watches. This is white with Canada, and even now these havoc she created.

steals from the merchants' cara-ying at its most innocent, like seem to be in only the prelimin- "good woman,

For Madame Brigitte is a bad vans asked me it there had been putting a delft exg in a nest to

with the best of

encourage hens, to lay. I cannoc ary stages. It is being emphasis intentions and the worst under any other man in my life. My think it is a sin to tell a lie to ed that the proposals to the Do- lying motives. Beneath her ap dear, I laughed so much that hen if the hon becomes a better minion are simply technical, with-piritual arrogance.

parent humility is a destructive he thought I was hysterical, and hen in consequence,

apologised for asking such a In the same way. I cannot think out foreign policy commitments, "Home Trutha”

personal question. I then said I it is a sin for a clock to tell a lie and will not involve the United

had a sweetheart for over the to a traveller if it helps him to States in

At heart aho desires to dominate Canada bas with Britain or mem-ing and serving. The more sheff he ever met you he would cat

arrangements when abe believes that she is lovea, and gave aim your name. Iwards the attainment of the grand

hope you don't mind. Ho said virtue of punctuality.

But do we believe the lying bers of the British Common- appears to abuse herself, the

clock! I wealth. But the disclosures are higher, does the female Pharisco you into ten thousand pieces. Soof. this I can now go to bed earlier certainly do. Becausa vise in her own opinion.

if ever you come here again, I and got up earlier than I could likely to bring repercussions. Of course, she is liberal with should keep clear of him. It's aver do before Mr. Willett taught "home truths"; but, as William pity you are not a politician, as clocks the principles of falsehood. ELECTRIC SHOCK Blake once shrewdly remarked: then you could come hero on a. If I did not believe the clock. In- The truth that's told_with_bad misalon of inquiry or something dead, instead of feeling moderats

antont Hong Kong which used to

at the taxpayors' expense. I am ly well just now. I should fest a Dista boast that its charges for electri

all the log you can touched that my photograph is physical wreck as long as summer invent city were among the cheapest in and Brigitte's conscientious. In still beside your bod, though time lasted the world has how to deplore them terference in her. associates moral what the devil Matthew Arnold's welfare leaves behind it a charred Essays have to do with our ro- as among the most expensive. The trail of frustration and unlationship, I don't know. Your increase announced yesterday happiness Francols Mauriac's ly, you old roisterer

little kiss landed in Dung raises the price to more than three

Buch is and a half times pre-war, and the beralas. He shows us hot effect

Your lonely,

ments which are the depraved: intellectual pabulum of selfish DINGI-POOS price of coal is saddled with the her husband and her step-

children; on frer pensioners, the. main responsibility. Against the miserable Puybarande, whom she

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pagane. There is no stressing of sex-indood, there is no step, the consumer has no re- atbonpia to befriend but ultimate-

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franddy. We rebellion of Praise From The Pulpity in for their young charges. org children and the Mañad of The Rev. Arthur

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