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DEFENCE UNITY
A DISH OF BOMBS
(By Nathaniel Gubbins, London “Sunday- Express" humorist).
My dear Boy, Such a long time since I wrote I thought. you would like to know how we art since peace was declar- ed.
As you might expect, Emily The White Paper on "Central has nothing but atomic bomba Organisation for Defence" in- on her mind, and your Uncle dicates how far-reaching has been-Fred is ready to join the Home Guard again at any moment- the development by the present this time he says he will get Cabinet of the war-time
a commission before the iron- machinery. cvolved by Mr.
monger, and give him hell Churchill. While the Prime throughout the next war.
Minister and the Cabinet as a whole will lose none of their res- ponsibility for the broader pects of organisation for national
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Although we used to laugh at Emily and her fear of Rus- sia, we don't laugh so much now, though I expect things are not so bad as they secr→→ only safe Emily thinks the place, if anything should hap- Pole pen, wil be the South where she could live on seals, though I don't suppose sleep- ing on an iceberg would do her catarrh and perpetual colds any good-poor darling. Forgy has had doggy flu again" and, like the talking dog in the barks "No, no, no" papers, whenever Molotov is mentioned on the radio.
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Florrie came round to ten
she
the (last of the BU enke) and told not
make only us that in the next war enemy will atomic bomba as big as the Queen Elizabeth, which will blow whole cities to pieces, but also microscopic bombs which they will mix with our food and blow our insides out-as was the first to predict the flying bomb (apart from H. G. Wells), and told us all about amphibious tanks and giant sky mirrors to burn us up with the sun's rays long before they turned cut to be true, we think she may be right again-any- way, Emily is frightened to eat almost anything now, and went into a dead faint when she mis- took a bit of grit in her bread for a little bomb.
HENT, 1956 WY NEA BERVICE, TILL IT. I
By Dick Turner
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"He's got the most widely read column in town-we keep a full-time secretary just answering the complaints on
his stuff!"...
As they await their fate questions uppermost in the minds of the Nazi leaders are:" "Why did Germany lose? Could we have avoided defeat? What apportunitica did we miss?" Goering's reply to these questions is published below.
BY THE
WAY
By BEACHCOMBER
A Portsmouth postman opened his bag the other day, and a cat jumped out.
A very neat and practical de- monstration of the metaphor, and very useful for education
Children would pay.. purposes.
more attention to proverbs if they could see them illustrated in. this fashion; It should be easy to hire a man to roll a stone round and round the play- ground, in order to show that it gathers no moss; to get 70 ca 80 cocks to crowd round the kitchen range to prepare a booth; to let a tiger bita a pupil, and then to observe the pupil's shy demeanor, when the tiger attempts a second bite; to badger a worm into a turn- ing; te dip a laurel bush into a bottle of good vine thus showing how unnecessary the bus is to the enjoyment of the wine.
Soft Words Butter: No Parsnips
Dr. Strabismus (Whom God Preserve) of Utrecht, once pro- ved that soft words like "even- ing," uttered repeatedly in clear tones, failed to produce the faintest trace of butter on a heap of parsnips.
See "The Parsnip Through History," by Mra. Telfont:
ท
HOW GERMANY Practical Socialism
LOST THE WAR
Neurnberg, Tuesday. Nazi. "In this way Hitler hoped to Germany would have emerged encircle nearly all the Red victorious if she could have Army, made, peace with France and before Britain early in 1940 launching the Norwegian, Bel gian and French campaigns.
This was the first tactical blunder Hitler made in his dream of world conquest, ac- cording to the former goose- stepping Luftwaffe leader,
"The plan failed, because the advance of the northern group was stopped by the Valdai mountains, and our group in the south was slowed down by the resistance of Kiev.
In Action "Tomorrow will see the start of the Ministry of Bubbleblow- ing's temporary semi-rationing scheme for string. Local string- controllers will issue books of H
each coupons,
coupon
being divided into SL and VK units, interchangeable with the BEF units in the supplementary book issued to holders of NR units cancelled against points value. This method, it is hoped, will save 17,018 miles of string per day. Sellers of string will have
strategy, of planning, and of 'pre- paration for an emergency will be the task of a flexible Defence Committee, whose normal chair- Iman (in the absence of the Prime Minister) will be the Defence Minister. Other Ministers, in- cluding the three Service Minis- ters (now no longer in the Cabi- net) will be regular members of this Committee, and the three Chiefs of Staff will regularly be in attendance. This is in cordance with current practice; what is new is that the Minister of Defence, in his full-time office, will have had the opportunity for constant interchanges of views Hongkong's Control of Tradewith the Chiefs of Staff Commit ree and with their joint staff, which forms part of his own Ministry. Neither in the Cabiner nor in the Defence Committee will the presence of the Defence Minis- ter imply that the three Chiefs of Staff will lack the occasion to put forward their views on technical questions of strategy and plans directly and in person. But it will be the Minister's business to apportion in broad outline the re- sources upon which the three Ser vices must call, to settle a com-
cut the TUF coupons mon policy upon questions of gen-
(coloured red for men and bluc eral administration between the
for women) and paste them in- three Services, and to administer
At a local dinner and dis
to the ante-dated books of non- such inter-Service organisations cussion to decide Britain's poll
"He detached one of the two interchangeable units, so. that. operational, intelligence, planning tical future, the chairman of
motorised corps from the centre they can be sent back to the and administrative as already the Whist Chub was nearly "After the Polish conquest, army group to reinforce the consumers for return to the exist and may be created. On all lynched by excited members of I had several talks with the attackers in the north.
collecting stations. One hun- thousand Gentle Swedish author,, Knut - Bonde,” Impoverished these matters, he (and not the the
"On October, 1942, Brau- dred and sixty-three women's True Blue, Conserva-] and at my request, he saw the chitsch was dismissed by extra officials have been drafted Service Ministers) will be answer-
Foreign Secretary Hitler, who took command him to the local string officers. The able both to the Cabinet and to tive Association when he said British
scheme is being started at once, the House of Commons, while that the Conservative Party (Lord Halifax) in December, self. But it was too late.
"Stalin had had time to or.in order to get it going before the three Service Ministers will should unite with the Socialist 1989, and asked for Britain's
ganise the defence of Moscow, it has to be stopped. be responsible only for the ad- Party to fight Communism at peace terms with Germany.
the next General Election, 1.5
and the Allies were able to send ministration of their own De
that was our only hope for
him tanks and planes partments within the
resources avoiding a
slave State-the allotted them a subordinate, but True Blues said that rather still a considerable field. Though than have anything to do with the White Paper discusses the posSocialists they would all com- sibility of amalgamating the three mit harikarias two of them Services at some. future time, the were caught at the door with Cabinet have decided that this the club's lives and forks is out of the question at the sticking out of their handbags it looks as if they meant what present moment; indeed, it is un-
they said. likely ever to be practicable. But what is already practicable and essential is a common policy and common central organisation with an executive authority such as the pre-war Committee of Im- perial Defence could not provide. Such a central organisation is now
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Your loving
AUNT MAUD“
provided, with the authority and "Provincial
driving force not merely of a full-time Cabinet Minister, but
of the three professional officers Delirium"
responsible individually for the
Moscow, Oct. 14.
execution of those plans upon. "Izvestia" denounces as 4 which collectively they are the "provincial paper's delirium"
"I tried everything in my power to bring about peace with France and Britain early in 1940," he said.
"Lord Halifax told-Bonde, 'I'm glad you came. If there's anyone in the Reich who might win Hitler over to a reasonable peace, it is Goering."
"Lord Halifax submitted two
"Then Field-Marshal Walter von Brauchitsch committed a to desvastating mistake which, I believe, decided the entire war.
Too Late-g
Marvels Of Science®
"Thus, 111 days after Ger- many attacked, we had lost the A monstrous, dark, wire. war in Russia.
topped cylinder for brushing. "However, in the atomic ferrets off things.
oppor- main peace proposals-the re bomb we had another
Prodnose: But how does it work? f establishment of an independ-tunity to turn the tide.
"But the Allies had beaten Myself: You filthy materia ent Polish State, and more Hberty for the Czechoslovakians us. Our scientists were unable list. Must everything "work" 7 pending а solution of the to find the right material for Prodnose: Surely a contrap- Czechoslovak problem.
the container, in which the tion like this loses all its point pro-atomic bomb could be trans-if it doesn't workho cares? I
Myself: And
"I transmitted these posal to the Fuhrer.
he f
"To the first proposal replied, "Perhaps. To the second he gave a categorical 'No.'
Missed
ported.
"Our jet fighters could have ask you, who cares a curse? charged the whole course of Aren't there other things to the war, but Hitler intervened, think of? and directed, that the planes should carry bombs, too.
"We were compelled to start
Problem
our research again. We found is: If nobody really exista, A question frequently asked it impossible to modify the how is anybody to know that machine in that respect.
MILITARYRACE MEETING Government's joint advisers. The the story by David Snell in the tary opportunity at the begin- ces
PROCEEDS TO CHARITIES
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HAPPY VALLEY RACE COURSE
SUNDAY, 20TH OCTOBER
First Saddling Bell 2.30 p.m. First Race starts at 3.00 pm.
"This was the first opportuni- ty Hiller missed to end the war "In June, 1940 after the fall of France, I made another peace bid, unsuccessfully trying to contact the British Ambassador five at Lisbon and the British proved fatal, Minister at Berne.
"I hope others will learn "Hitler missed a great. mili- their lesson from our experien- scheme is admirable, and its de- "Atlanta Georgio Constitution" ning of the war against Russia. tailed elaboration clear and that Japanese scientists, who
“I approved of the war again- soundly based. During the tran- had invented an atomic bomb, st Russia, but we could have - ended it less lamentably than sitional period when it is being were now in Moscow established in practice a parti- "This, delirium of a provincial we did perhaps we could have cularly heavy strain will fall upon paper came according to mar- won it...
ket-demand: Other provocateurs, the first whole-time Minister of not on a provincial scale, pick Defence.
ed it up and started to spread it over the world.
"Hitler's plan, which, so far, has never been revealed in its entirety was that on June 22. 1941, three army groups were
"Hitler's order made us lose nobody really exists, since there is nobody to know it? Hallucfna- valuable months, which tionalism replies: The fact of non-existence, implying at first sight the non-existence of every body, does not preclude the pos sibility of an impersonal State of Existence 'or Idea of Existence. Though there can be no idea without somebody to have that idea the essential ideality of being may exist as a potential entity in the imaginary col lective mind of that which pro- duces non-existence.
O.R.'s Complain Of Raw Deal
Washington, Oct. 13. Officials of five veterans orgäņi-.
If that is not clear, write to Military and political agents to move ahead, one to the northzations complain here that other Dame Marigold Tufty for her and those who derive profit by with a motorised corps, one to Tanks get-a-raw deal under the pamphlet, "Whither, Nothing?"
U.S. Army's present court-mar- doing their business in an at the centre with two motorised tial setup.
Mrs. Wretch, M.P. mosphere of fear launched this corps, and one to the south Urging various methods of new flow of frightening brim with a motorised corps. said changing the procedure, they de Mrs. Wreich, M.F., said-yes- stone. Earlier, they were Goering: frightening the world with the Motorised divisions of the dual system
clared that in many theatres a terday: The best way to pre
prevails with soft atomic bomb monopoly and a first group were instructed to rules for Oficers, tough ones for roofs over their heads is to pull vent homeless people getting stick of atomic diplomacy, drive against Leningrad, with- G15 Associated Press.
out bothering about their rear or petral, supplica......
They were to pass around Leningrad from the south, aud then move straight on to Moscow. be
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AWANCHAI The plea for removing the de- cres which puts Wanchai out of bounds to Servicemen is one which will commend itself to many if only to put an end to the CASH SWEEPS There will be a Special Cash Sweep on the rather degrading nightly spectacle last race, tickets for which ($2) may be round the H.K.CC ground and obtained at the Office of The Hong Kong Arsenal Street. The cholera, out- Jockey Club, Exchange Building, First floor,k which was the occasion for **** together with the usualThrough" "numbers
(816), including a chance in the Special putting the area out of bounds as furnishes justification for perman- ceased to cause anxiety to the ently placing Wanchai beyond the medical authorities, and there re-pale is another matter. There can mains but one thing strongly in be no question that many shop-
Hitler's Hope favour of retention of the order: keepers in Wanchai who catered dow The incidence of venereal disease principally to servicesmen have he motorised corps of the third group had the same taak among the Services has shown a been severely hit, and with cholera in the direction of Rostov, and remarkable decrease since War at an end, are entitled to con after incivering that city, was chai was placed out of bounds, sideration: It is possible that mealso to drive on Moscow; Exact figures are not available, compr ise arrangement may be
Two motorised corps of the but it is known that the reduction worked out whereby the main third group were to push direct has been rather more than fifty thoroughfan
ly towards Moscow can
"At the outskirts of Moscow
Sweep
TOTE DOUBLE on the 2nd and 4th Races."
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