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The

CHEERFUL SOLDIER

On

Man from Korea finds

the day the war

a way of life

In

Korea was one year old, a

Home

received paper

letter from a mother, part

Is of which

reproduced 1m here....one Bon wa

that

war; soon another would go. What hope, sha asked, could she take from all this?

Perhaps she will find part of the answer in the story of Private

Bydney Webb.

of the Gloucesters, who got Home from Korea recently,

W

By a Special Cor- respondent in an interview with Private

He Is

con-

to do with his money. quite unlikely to own a fine big house and a car. He is tied to Tottenham with invisible cords, But is Sydney Webb de- pressed at its prospects? Not likely. He is the most tented man imaginable.

Because he has found out for that what matters mest in life is not what you get out of it but what absorbing μου put in to the business, of making friends.

SYDNEY WEBB himself, the hard way,

anybody gets ino a train, arst thing they think about is hid- Ing themselves behind a news puper. It faltes a bit of getting

HEN young Syd-used to."

ney Webb joined the Army, he was doing what came naturally.

That doesn't mean that Sydney Is n belligerent chap at all. He is a quiet and peaceable a fellow as you will find anywhere in his home in Tottenham, Lon- don, Sydney is no Hotspur.

But all his pals were joining that doom-shadowed win- up, in

The man from Korea pauses, reflectively.

"In the Army, it doesn't matter what sort

of job you had. You might have been making £15 a week or fifty bob makes no difference. You're all together, and you feel sort of at ease with one an- other, if you understand me."

At Ease

understand very well.

Hear him: "The Army taught me a lot of things. It made me understand te a lot better than I could have done in Civvy

It showed Street.

,me what comradeship was worth, see?"

Yes, you do see. Curiously, as you sit yarning with Sydney Tough passages in about the Normandy (he was blown up at Caen and Le Havre) and the are and bitter slogging match in Korea, curiously, you begin been to feel that you have missing something,

ter of 1940. And without his you can see clearly that here nesses.

puls Sydney was lost.

He is one of those happy, is a man who values being at uncomplicated characters who come to life in a crowd, He puts good company above good pickings.

for

Se Sydney joined the Army company. Many another has done the same.

A Career

QUT what makes Sydney im- Bu

mediately remarkable as a soldier is this. He joined "for the duration," like the rest of us. But after a year of it, in the arid dawn of 1942 when soldiers Innumerable had only one thought "Roll on my de mob."Sydney Orderly Room and signed on as Regular for seven years with the Colours, Ave on the Re- Serve.

Sydney had found kis feet. Soldier- Ing was the

Arst job he

hud found

that

h c

fancied.

He

stitled down

10 make carcer of it.

weni to the

euse with his fellow-men. It occurs to you that that is a rum thing in a soldier,

Не

goes on: "I tell you, straight, you get a spirit of com- radeship in the Army that you don't get in Clvvy Street.

"Mind you, I don't say the Army and marriage mix"-he shoots a sidelong glance at his 21-year-old wife Doreen, which you pretend not to notice. "No: they don't. But if a. single chap asked me, I'd recommend the Army every time, You

beat it for making can't

friends."

Something stirs in your mind, man from as you watch the Kores, sitting there beside you, stolid and equable. Friend- liness emanates from him like

You remember back to the yours when you, too, had no straining ambitions, no bitter- When you weren't absorbed in petty hopes and fears, and you weren't always wondering if you were getting on as well as you should be.

When, in fact, you were "in the-mob," where comradeship precious the most was possession of all.

I the

Wh

Of such, Koren comrades as these, Private Sydney. Webb says: "You can't beat the Army for making friends. I tell you straight — you get a spirit of And the Army showed me

comradeship that you don't get in Civvy Street.

what comradeship is worth."

NEW YORK

TT is 85 in the shade and humidity is CX- cruciating. New York is, a hot-box and an incinerator. Every now and again we are deluged with fierce, brief, tropical rainstorms, and then the foggy curtain of heat an aura,

A

beard falls over the panting city. phrase you have -before- stirs in your mint Are the New Yorkers letting something about "the tow-rope the suffocating climatic condi- spirit." Who said that? Ah, tions-I won't honour it by yes. You remember, Sydney's calling old boss, of course Montgom- down?

Not at all. Civic pride and This is what "the tow-rope patriotism spirit" means.

ory,

Q.

a

Many man found it

11

long

and

3

ted 1 6 1ų 2

chore,

Ing

truin-

PRIVATE and

in ounting guard and

WEBB

more.

But training some Sydney soldiered serenely on, uncontaminated by the lich to be up and doing which afflicted

most wartime soldiers like rash.

0

He expects soon to be in-

valided out of the Army. "I'm one of the lucky ones," he says.

You See

A Treat

"UNNY, you know,”

soar

DON IDDON'S

DIARY

Sox as a conversational gambli..

TUESDAY

Children' in their teens have

On the lighter side there' aro no similar oscillations, The

fashion trade flourishes, and the American girl

the along avenues looks cool and poised and delectable in her linen suits and her bare shouldered dresses, her deep-cut blouses as fragile as lingerie.

and

Jewellery frosts bare backs necks and gem-studded butterflies are poised on sun- burnt skins,

Marlo drug driver

casc

newest

male

star, and bis

"Glasses with coloured frames lenses have become the It will take me some time to taken to dope. The statisles and it weather-get them

between most valued make-up and get used to the surcharged vary, but there are

Experts say they 30,000, teen-agers beauty aid. after hearing all 6,000 and

do a lot for a woman's almosphere about the 10d, ment allotment here who have become-addicts cun

and face, Including hilding 117. Now heroin, London, of marijuanu. inflation in

is a sinister, men invariably make passes at and

girls who wear glasses, Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds, marphine, It Cardiff, Edinburgh, and Norwich, frightening thing."

The city, has just decided to In entertainment the ex-lorry I cannot get my American

children's

Lanzo is the friends very interested in the establish

hospital since mcat allotment or the price of addicts'

after case has come before the film "The Great Caruso" breaks goods In British shops,

courts

I am astonished by some of 10 know how the radio programmes. As a good and strong an ally we

I have been told by parent, would be in case of

I war.

urgent commentators to look "Very have sold:

and carefully at my children's eye good

very

strong, but the

British watch for an eccentric change have other things their of mood, and for hypodermic needle pinpricks on their arms. Pamphicts are pushed under my door. ""Fight the narcotics evil," and some politicians and

with the mercury. The sweating Customs man prodding into my suitcases on the docks says: You must be glad to be back." The apart- says ment

pale, superintendent, perspiring, and dog-tired says: There's no place like little old New York, ch?" And the garage hand, the newsboy, the de- licatessen girl, and the window- eleaner join the chorus. "Bet "It was a treat, to get away you couldn't wait to get back to the U.S.there's everything from people grumbling all the

here," the lads. time, back to kind of felt at home then."

You wouldn't think,

Sydney with his warm smile, "When I was a single chap used to report back voluntarily from leave before my time was up! liked it better than Civvy Street, see.

that

You

just

to

not

nerves

and

think there

agreement

Less criticism THEY want

on

minda."

I do is every-

At the

much- moment the ndvertised criticism of Britain dwindled. eeems 10 have

to talk have

und

feet, sitting

our

1

not enough.

Steaks are up THERWISE there has been

box-office records

Awaiting Olivier

Leonard is

Broadway another muscle-man,

Jack 320lb,

and the biggest best current comedian, Celeste leads the feminine Holm

field as television, radio, stage, and screen star, She is over- whelmed with contract offers.

Hedy Lamarr's friends are worried about the complete break Ehe Is making, with Hollywood. They say she is

They all agree Sydney had found his voca- tion. Square-bashing. spud- knowing the bare facts, that COULD have waited, boshing, Jankers and all-to life had been over-kind Sydney it was the life of lives.

Private Webb, What has life thing here, but there is certain-

so ly overwhelming and admirable The orators and the newspapers voters call for the death penalty He settled down to "have

given him, to make him

play a softer ture.

for all dopo pedlars who selt duffy" at it,

Nothing but wounds, self-esteem.

No one has rung me up to the drugs to children. Nine

later, years

Sydney serene?

While some Europeans No, some-

About tic British and grumble Webb got home again from pain, discomfort?

The drug addiction has hit bound to weary of Mexcio and complain, the complain thing more. Korca.

even Whose baked dragging their

which won't be easy. Her bed Sydney Webb has tasted the Americans,

there are ten boy addicts to brought less than £100 at the savour of comradeship, and he and fried on the tenement stops, down on the job, or not puiling children as young as 12, and will want to make a comeback,

Our more vigorous attitude every girl addict. Teen-age famous auction, finds it worth more than riches, on the make-gift beds on the their weight.

addiction is limited largely to

Clark Gable js taking You begin to wonder, meeting fire-escapes, agree that they are

In Persia lucky to be here.

has impressed the the big cities of New York, holiday to

the get. over came back, I the man who

offelals Washington, Chicago, Our and Americans, Temperature, tensions,

Detroit, split with Lady Ashley, A have not wilted the here are flooding the newspaper New Orleans, and St. Louls.

current fan magazine has an S his Army life draws to its perhaps there isn't another way A$

Judges are sentencing pedlars antlele "Why the Clark Gables citizens. And the past few days and radio offices with bold, close, what hus No. 14404430 to reckon up the debits

have been tricky. Mr Mallic's belated, explanations of

to 18 years' imprisonment, It is will never part.". It went to Pte. Sydney Webb, of The credits of life. riloucestershire Regiment (late Perhaps, you say to yourself, peace proposal and the Chinese polley there.

press too early. General MacArthur, the Middlesex) to say about it? Did there is something wrong with Reds

Robert Sherwood, the play- mistake when he the he make a

accountancy

only caused a considerable dither, wonder man and star-spangled

wright, is due in London any спе

ise to soldier on?

showed you losses, claims un-

the dedication What he has to say is not settled and debts.

looking for booby-trups and to human size.

t the John Winant quite, perhaps, what you might

Je has taken The Man Who Came Back pitfalls. Beware the

to wearing cans are spending more time at speech. ambush,

Memorial. spend- expect from a man who has does not feel that fe owes say the politicians.

fancy bow-ties and has replaced home, saving more, and

The public is already de- taken such rough handling-two

4ickets for in 0.9 percent higher

the manding wounds, bitter pain, discomforts him anything. Twice wounded, Let's hope the Communists his corncob pipe with a large ing less. The cost of living is

the blown up, battered and buffeted will bring truth to the truce Groucho Marx-type cigar.

Olivier and Vivien Innumerable.

than last year at this Laurence mulion words of country "You can't beat the Army," from pillar to post....he toes talks,

that life owes him Last week-end, listening on ovidence during the Senate time, and in New York alone Leigh appearance. In "Antony Sydney

"You can't beat not feel

That's anything at all. He is gloriously the radio to developments on hearings was too much even for 10 percent higher.

Merle Oberon says she would Beet and veal have gone glad to be alive and home again. the planned parley, I wna jolted the Americans to digest, There

up 20 percent, so not a suspicion that perhaps

many not be going England if she You do see. You see in his

MbcArthur is inclined to

The sound of air-raid sirens,

be are buying them. great had not agreed to do a picture friendly smile you fed in his

England might struggle Joquacious. worm handshake, that here is a Now it you analyse careful-

priec-cutting war has not yet there, War-conscious

dented the official Bgures.

along without you, Miss Oberon, THEY

Sport preferred

Wall Street, the street of if you cannot make the trip, proposition

are the latest model, novel

TRUMAN frightened men, Tides #lic friendship is worth more than bound to begin to wonder if in the world. They are switched

you are and I am sure, the loudest PRESIDENT

Films to see emerges with credit from roller-coaster. When the war in comfort or advancement.

Wo recommended films- "It's funny to be back," says Things are as bad es you some-Ton now every. Saturday at noon the inquiry, and I don't expect. Korea broke out it panicked and Aed, in the Holo," &, com-

to keep

New Yorkers keyed up MacArthur to command any dagged-Now that peace is in Sydney ruefully. "Course, I'm times think,

and aware of the wor menseo, great following in next year's the humid air it panics and pelling picture about and some of his body to the Air-rald practice drill bas Presidential election,

The millions who turned out It is the community of dread faces the prospect, which not far more shelter signs if not to watch his parades, the air fully anxious, not to get shorn

now pre ful anxiety, and I am dread all out to help one another. You everyone would find alluring, shelters in mid-town the

than ter

there, fat over grousing about of Gening ping when I went away, conditioned

labourer, making what you ought to be geting, or a moral certainty that thu there more was talk were Tow dark itself just now has grammes pursued on plan

Io Civvy Street, now I Sydney Webb will never be so mussion threat out-renke oven a much more, pressing problem, there is a solid bad for con- can't help noticing, woon as rich that he won't know what the triumph of the Boston Red on its hands thian polities limed boorns,

Everyone and his brother are martyr when I left, bas shrunk no great rise in crime. Ameri- day to make

SACS

for making friends.

what matters, "

Two

out of my seat by the piercing is In The Mob

man who hat devoted his life to No the components of Sydney

the

that

giad to be back--I'm a married man now but you can't help noticing the difference.

aren't

ngs in the army you're

Webb's contentment,

Sydney has given nine years

service of his country. He now been increased, and there are

war-talkk

bar.

or the

Actually,

Y

and Cleopatra" here,

un im- probable newspaper Aman, and starring Kirk Douglas, Heflin and Evelyn Keyes. Both, "The Prowler," featuring Van

However, for adults only. In my

pro-

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