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MY

By

CHALLENGE

MARTIN FERREY

THE AUTOBAHN

the ex-

Because it waa a fine, warm window are all kinds of articles.

i afternoon, I decided I had been being offered in exchange for working too hard. I would go for something else: an attractive doll a walk; I would go to the neigh for a blouse and skirt; a set of bouring town about five miles knives. for glasses; a notice offers away. I left the barbed wire bo- two chairs in exchange for a bed. hind ma; blessed relief to walk But the predominating denire t cut of thin prison and along the for clothes, and shoes: 1 road. At first, how pleasant Just change requested on

shoox to be mixing with people in or sally fantastic. Most intriguing

linary clothes, and to pass front is

a very severo doors that were homes, not billets old lady, who must have been a

ont is a portrait of for the military. But soon I be local celebrity. She. apparently, gan to feel how the people were is worth aix mappies. I wished looking at me. I was feeling well had six nappies on mo: In spite in the sun, striding along, twiving of the regulations, I would have ny stick. But in apito of the gene in and bought her. Spring and the Song of Solo- monich air, I noticed how they looked at rues sullen, renentful. was a British officer; an intposer

Ensa Types

This again is a garrison town. and part of it in wired off for the

of ration cuts; a starver of troops; Germans can only enter it people who had never heard of they work for us. So I leave the the British went world of humanity and primitive exchange, and go into the perl-

look for the Oflcors

Helsen until there. And I was mad, of

course.

Occupiers don't walk;

they whirl along in motors, throw-offer to

ing

up clouds of dust or storms of

The Officers' Club turned out to puddle-water. It худа very bsa rather dreary, empty build- salutary experience. I began to ing. Some Ensa types, cutting the ace things through German eyes. aloom with their accents; a Padro li's a narrow road and there's not having tea with a voluntary wo- much room on the sides. Every man worker: some Control Com- few minutes you have to step into missioners, and an R.A.F. officer the ditch because of passing mill with an A.T.S. subaltern. A tary lorries.

German band ploughed sadly plicate the

situation

Germana with their

com.

corts-a o-cart is indisponsable to the Deulacher of 1946; usually

It's his only menna of

and he unes it

Sticks, coal, calories of any

By CHARLES

DIMONT

the washing manure, baby, elec- through the Overture to William tric lamps, the collected works of Toll. They'd probably gladly have Goethe, Father's funeral tophat: given a week's wages to risk

an expert go-carlor can get them all in at the samo time.

Fairy-Tale

cally German fairy-tale, Bloping T's magnificent country; typi woods of pines, white farm-houses with high roofs, trim symmetrical fields; everywhere people digging in the hope that they will

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having apples shot off their heads, st long na they could eas the bits. While the Enan typea were demon- and The Show Must Go On what- applauding loudly, chus strating that Act in. International,

over

the personal cost, I paid my and left. It was a very lovely evening, su of death until the harvest. Yards avenue, between the trees, edging walked-home; along the narrow of washing hang in the sun into ditches from time to time to come to the Autobalin.

are

for

Children

I

rinke

ventional

the

for trucks, cars, cycles

'said

Yes,

mean

1

was a

य

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the Building Advisory Recon- struction Committee completed its report in approximately three months, they were complimented upon the achievement. There Bus been little occasion for con- gratulation since publication of the Repurt. Let there be no mis- take. No-one is expecting iniracles. And no-one imagines that the absence of outward and visible) signs of development implies that those chiefly concerned in tack- ling the problem are not hard ar work. It should, however, be possible to satisfy the impatient to the extent of revealing to what i extent Government is considering entering upon a programme of new construction, what steps are being taken to encourage private owners to restore their damaged property, and what are the pro- spects of procurement of mater- Fials within a reasonable period of time. On the question of new construction, there is much to be

As a wounded ex-Commando] and again if we are really are sturdlar on the bridge cell and go-carts. Presently I caught said for the recommendation I claim the privilege of ad- honest, with ourselves we will "Schokolado! Schokolade!" to up with an old man. To my sur made it! ane correspondence ministering a mental purgative admit that we felt aggrieved if

the Tassing trucks and columns recently, urging

to these of my

called

me with the con- kindred who we had to work more than six crossing. art will probably have tur

be greeted Gott" before the they up

prise, Rhine dardisation. The suggestion

cannot or will not settle down, hours a day.

turned the salutation and remark- for it unli to go on calling that a decision to go ahead with to civilian life.

Wherever we went we were are grown up, and no longer care. it was fine, but it didn't

they d

ed on the weather, Ho! a few approved

Let those of us who write pampered, cosseted and treated One of the children runs down. types of ferro-

whining letters concrete structures would bring endorsed: "Is this

to the Press, as tin herees, by people who and walks with me for a bit. summer was on the way. I said

She what we were the

it was heroes the is six years old, dark-haired. Yes, but times were bad; although renl

very beautiful country, [quick results inasmuch as the fought and died

framework for the concrete pour of us who lounge on streets be the most part good-humouredly ho

for?"; those civilians who patiently and for healthy enough to look at, but her

shoes in terrible state. I'm much worse in the

food situation. of course, was could be moved in its entirety moaning the fact

towns, But that a job endured the misery and squalor sorry I don't carry chocolate a then he added, they'd brought it from site to site. It would indoes not drop into our lap, those of life in wartime Britain. part of my normal accoutrement. al

I ask whether her father

This on themselves. troduce a modified system of mass of us who lounge on streets be

but I speak now of the average smokes. She pays her father was

remarkable confession from * production. The appeal is power-public has already forgetton civilian, not the greasy war pro- killed last year in the war.

Was German, and I looked ut him ful, for if there is any sphere deselves together and take stock who were in the minority, and Most of them

our deeds of valour, pull our-fiteer and his shrill fady-friend

well- In the town thore are ahons. Closely. He was a broad,

built old man, with a wide face, manding hurry, it is housing re-fof the situation.

are filled with white side-whiskers and a bushy habilitation.

who, like most minorities,

luxury

goods The basis

unobtainable for most of our managed to make a lot of noise scale in England. at

on such white moustache; on his head lie any rate as grumbles is inadequate food, and attract attention,

wore a little alpaca on my last leave. Children's

cap with a LAYING A BOGEY high income

tys. shining black peak and a button tax and Inck of To off-get this, what did we

tatty but chean; pictures, some above it. Gen. Sir Brian Robertson's in./housing. If we are honest with really have to face? Separation some good reproductions Cotswold know the real

Yes, he repeated, indifferent original landscapes ret

they'd ret what they deserved; but did r vitation to representatives of the

ourgelves we must admit that admittedly П tremendous arty crafty on a

cause of all the on a low scale-paint- international Press to turn up and all this and that civilians have burden to those who stayed at bookmarkers, presents.

are lucky to have escaped hardship, but just as much of a cd boxes

I began some for almost

trouble?

general almost anything. see for themselves that there is no endured for years

condemnation of Hitler,

but he conditions home, so the sacrifice was equal sreret German army maintained which, in the Forces, would The rigours of the campaign the Barter Shop. Only

The most interesting shop shook his head fiercely: no, no, it

wasn't that at.

enquired in the British zone of occupation have caused a mutiny within a shall we be really honest and baratively few Germans can myself whether it would be the

a com- what,

it was, thall

speculating to should finally dispose of a mis.

admit that the hardship was afford to buy on the black market: Versailles Treaty, Bolshevism, or chievous and damaging rumour.

infrequent and that after it was the Barter Shop is the real econo

the British There is a ready market to be

le centre of the country. In the| Erypt. He gripped my arm and, administration of over we enjoyed the sense of found in many parts of the world

achievement it gave tos, UB

with Churchillian contempt. spat for any report, however wild and

muck as we enjoyed the stories amongst the most courageous |

two words: "The Autobahn!” unfounded, which is detrimental

we were able to recount?

and silent sufferers. Physical danger and death -

For What? to Great Britain. This particular

If this article is published, Well, I said; well. For though surely after six years we have as I hope it will be, for the I didn't want to appear dense, 1 canard, however, has had more)

had our bellyful of adulation? message success than mest offerings of its

We cannot continue indefinitely overdue.

it bringa is long- couldn't svo I shall

the point. But he type. Even so careful and au-

to make

reviled coon Illuminated me. Just think a virtue out of a frem all quarters. thoritative a commentator as Mr. A lot of the present-day dia- necessity.

for a moment, he said, of all the Walter Lippmann returned to the to the fact that

content-of-ex-Servicemen-is duo! There are only two dasses of then do not try it on.

If the cap does not fit you. material, money, energy and plag we have lost ex-Service men

If it ning that went into these United States in May believing the art of thinking construc-right to complain: those who at the head

who have y DOES fit you, then my name is Tor what went down them? The that the British had organisedatively, and we have become in a are beyond all complaints and you can fling as much mud at when they drove against Austria the article and Military. A very impressive sight large German force to use in a sense the victima of the well- those who are sinister game of power politics intentioned propaganda which maimed.

permanently it as you like, but stop whining or Czechoslovakia, but what hap

and get the was conducted by all sections of which they played behind

pened the really Autobahn against

whon they went down the The first class will be happy difficult without a nurse. England any

America "silken curtain"

the community on our behalf, enough-It is their depondents and living without a wet nurse. Russia? of their

zonę!

at the other, end, Our reasoning just as assiduously as did the Rus" |

powers have who suffer.

ADDRESS 45 Hillend-road and after them, up this beautiful, came back again: sinns hehind the iron curtain of gone rusty through lack of use,

The accond class are usually Burnside, Rutherglen, Clasgow, wonderful construction, camo hun- theire Mr. Lippmann, having six years; every thing has been We have been spoon-fed for

dreds and hundreds of coined his phrase, was too pressed done

of American for us. We have been

tanks. Or else the bombers camo for time to sec whether any adequately fed without worry

and bombed the bridges, and "silken. curtain" would in reality as to the source of supply c

it was no we to anyana. And prevent him from visiting the Bri- the cost of our food. We have

was no good, he declared, refuging Probably the most prevalent of new recruits to the indiges-cil saying it was all the Nazis' tish zone, where he could have over had to think about the disorder throughout the world tion ranks comprising all those fault; the idea had been conceived let me Interrupt. no good at found for himself that the "secreting has been provided cost free This is the logical outcome of couples forced,

fuel for cooking it; our cloth today is "atomach trouble." unfortunate young German army" was a complete and without coupons,

married long before Hitler, and approved myth.

through the by the whole German nation, ex- all the worry newspapers All our journeys have been recent

and distress of housing shortage, to live with cest for a few visionaries, like QUEEN'S CAMERA EXCHANGE & STUDIO took up the charge till a denial hy planned for us

years, according to their parents, with the result- himself. from door to eminent medical opinion. President Truman himself set it door; most of our entertainment

ant emotion explosions.

Now.

he went on, wanted temporarily at rest. It may be was provided on the apot or arch-destroyer of health and young

But the real culprit is that Young people, particularly to consider the proper method of hoped that the bogey is now laid.we were taken to it in recrea-happiness chronic

are the more locomotion, there it was he waved tional transport for a nomina! which

anxiety, likely sufferers.

But they have his stick over a ploughed field. induces nervous in-little to worry Continued from Col. 5

charge. We have been well digestion,

about if ther and on the other side. I sat paid in comparison with the

can throw off, or analyse out Tallway line. Nothing, he said if they can manage to take their standard to which most of us for his living

In the days when man fought of existence, the fears behind sound railway system. Look at could defeat a really gravely, thoughts from

the nagging, were accustomed before the nature and wild beasts, bis

against raw their chronic anxiety.

England; it had good railways, persistent worry which is ruin=|war.

Self-Discipline

and it won the war, Look at ing them.

And we could nearly always shut off activity in his digestive on the stomach trouble

his ally. They

Autobahn, Most of the fears that bring Germany: It had the Fear, which is behind all our be sure of somewhere to live, tract, and poured into his blood proved

tho war was

lost. At this worries and troubles, is a cow. even if a few of us did have to powerful drugs,

are moment, ab engine: Billy when faced the

came alob ard, and any man worth his salt dig a hole in the ground.

such as ad-squarely.

Hne; it had cacoped/ knows how to deal with Above all, and this is the root fight or to run hard.

renalin, which helped him to Victims must stop looking for sluped to a hump in the middle. Emmott's studio. The cylinders coward.

of our troubles today, no One man, in the depths of matter what we did we could not economic Jungle. The powerful course of self-discipline.

Today, he fights in a tough surgery, and settle down to a was an extraordinary collection of

a way out of their trouble via and between them and tho financial and physical despair, bo sacked from our jobs, not chemicals still pour into his

tubes ratchets turned himself into a successful with the diro results which fol- bloodstream but, as they are rost, a young

and knobs, all hiss- and happy citizen by turning low dismissal in civilian life; not used up in physical action, "Rest! I've done nothing else be waiver. The old ma

When prescribed nothing but ine and spluttering and bobbing. with an effort from his trou- loss of income, near starvation they remain in his body to ir for months and, still I'm no off his hat, and stond atlity to women Enid, "p and down. It had A largo bles, and frankly facing his and eviction from our homes.

The man fears. He pictured the worst

Wo could

ritate his colon and make him batter." She was wrong. Al-attentions I even tell "the sick. that could possibly happen to Managing Director what we

though

Ivory nearly kim, if things continued to go thought of him personally, and famous stomach specialists said and part of the night, her mind I saw an International

One

Maluted. the world's most she was not resting. of

she was not working, Peace, ho

“ho-stid, after as ho thought they were head the manner in which he ran his recently that, la.50 per cent. of was racing from ono fear to driver and sednon-lic attendants, ing. He positively gloated overbusiness," and be reasonably indigestion ensos, the specialist another, the extreme results of his sure of being re-employed by can find nothing wrong with the

of Pullman-caxiwaldirs and guarda fearn.

him after an interval of twenty-digestive tract. He explained and fitters from overwork are red and kren ve but it was time

With mon, financial worry in their internation eight days or 0.

that the commonest causes of the main causes of nervous in too. Before I asid goodbye, I month per your, often more, on fatigue hypersensitiveness, and This is no real cure, but all worked on the railways. No, no, he

Our holidays were at least a nervous indignation are worry, digestion,

T full pay, and we were givan Insomnia)

asked him whether he had ver rotura fare to our destination,

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