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"It has occurred to the Foreign Secretary, Mme. Endor, that perhaps you might be in a position to keep him in touch with what the Prime Minister ts going to reveal next."

Churchill's man brands-

THE FALL OF FRANCE. BY

Sir Edward Spears, Heina- mann. 25. 333 pages.

T

HEight for the body

of France was over. Lost. The battle for

THE COWARDS

THE

the soul of France was on. This profounder struggle raged for 11 fortnight or more. And General Spears, Churchill's personal repro- The story opens with the sentative with the French week of Dunkirk. The main Prime Minister, ant in the British Army is embarking stage box during the per- and every pro-German voice formannce, Now he writes in France says the painful, bitter and British are fleeing betray. moving story of what he ing poor France. saw and heard,

that

the

And the nature of the Britain is asked to strip of the last fighter play? Melodrama, with ac- herself cents of brutal farce. tragedy which is also cutting social satire.

A British Crossword Puzzle

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A defences of her island. Yet

this unt

very moment, French pilots are sitting at Tours, without

I which

AND

CORRUPT

They caused the fall of France and today General Spears tells the painful, bitter story of the tragedy that he watched at close quarters

by

GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON

over

Gan.

Reynaud's car is the Mme. de Portes, a powerful figure, know iny too much.

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RELIGION A white

haired

Georg

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BY PHONE Priest - Father

Franz Wartburg of Nuremburg — the world's first religion by tele- phone plonier. The idea is that all in need of spiritual noince will shortly be able to collect it over the telephone..

Although he has only just begun his "Dial 'C' for Comfort

Father Wartburg al- system, ready answers some 20 telephone calls n day from Germans need- ing someone to put

them in elcser touch with God,

No appointment is necessary. If you feel depressed to the point

at

despair you just dial Father Wartburg and WOITY him with problems. The result

of such conversations

been

has so far that the iden has no successful

the been ofelally embraced by the

is Jesult Order in Germany, so that soon it may be possible to un- burden yourself, by phone, to the Priest-in-Charge of any Catholic community in Germany.

After wavering, Reynaud swept away in the torrent defent; his final emotion is re- lief that his burden is laid down: "As if walking into 12 room to condole with a widow- er, one was confronted by bridegroom."

urrive, British Ministers Churchill and his paladins their Halifax closer to heaven than any of us," and Beaverbrook, "his rocket-like energy" about to make up Britain's shortage,

aircraft

THEY LIVE Thul

wostien

Cypriots- especially Cypriot

- livo! longer than any other prople in tlie British Commonwealth just revealed by official figures prepared in Cyprus to back dalms by the colonial adminia- tention that Cyprus is the be t- The kevered

territory

in Mediterranean,

The average Cypriot women's

aeroplanes -and 200 French nero- planes

are 30 kilometres

In the sequel, Judas Judas. away, idle. There are many honged himself; Chautemps wint instances of that kind.

to America." Physical disaster hus These they are, the censende, produced moral

Before the clinux Is reached, | LONGER collapse, the corrupt, the muddied; tooth- Their mumbling exhibits

its symp dike

less gebernis

of politicians; and toms most shamelessly in ministers looking the higher social and shoulders to their money and

reaches; military

the their mistresses--the great army

of the

89 Licorges "Snti"" generals whose military Mandel called them, himself the science brings them only chief of the Hard, the brave

defent, Jews who in France's agony em Assurance of

their bodled the eternal France. the politicians, with entourage of mistresses, their partiality for good cooking-to the intolerable end the French cuisine is suber these are the creatures on whom fall the lash of Spears's contempt and the searching beam of his analysis.

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39 1al; Plike. Žu Lange, 20 Inches at. Du Bonk, 21 Lkdo. 32 Devil.

Down; a arry 2 Compete, 4 Aken, 5 L, 0 Peer. 9 Trod. 11 Abuse, 13 Aer v. 14 Laski Youth, 17 Obat. 16 Shou, 20 Greeted, 22 Punk, 24 Links, 25 Civil,

ir 20 Pro.

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

YOUTH AND ROMANCE-

DIRECT

"PÅRDON ME →

COULD YOU

·ME TO

THE

PARSNIPS?

WHEN SHE GROWS UP SHE'LL BE AFRAID OF

MICE...

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'COPE. 1954 BY GENERAL FEATURES.

DORP, THEWORLD RIGHTS RESERVED.

'Like Judas'

Joun

mon

To Petain he Huld: "What France needs is another uf Arc," and the old Insisted on rending the whole of i speech he had delivered

On

The honest man

Speurs Implored him to leave and led Frunce from abroad, to whom Mandel Mlle. Bretty, was deeply attached, added her are packed, plea, "The trunks

But

Jew 102 for Georges," leave would look like cowardice Mandel stayed, to be murder:ð.

"A very curious man," Spears concludes, "one side of his mind was watching the anties of his colleagues with ironicul amuse- ment: the other was watching like through events

vy cs thimbles full of sea water. it was possible to be fond of a

Mundel,"

Joan of Arc in 1937, "initely fish, I should have been fond of pathetic in his childish satisfur- tion as he read."

mornie

in

IRC

Collapse of French military caste hay the symptoms of a conspiracy, long matured.

uf

But the politicians are hardly better: Chauteinps, the brillant orator, pleading the cause dishonour in a voice that would have made a stone weep-like Judas, 1 tight,

Mundel, Eve Curie, beautiful, clear-sighted, tearful in her insistence that French must not be dishonoured--they are lights

brightly that shine more cause they are so few.

162,

Churchill,

hir "gathering immense reserves of Inoral strength,"

French pleads for from Nezih Arara if need be. But you cannot beat Hitler with words.” 115 Feluin

#:1 says, and a moment comes,

dreary, rain-sanked garden at Tours, when Beaverbrook, "his ayn mism immediately felt," "We're doing no good says: here. Let's go along home."

They go.

Churchill welcome

petation of life tat birth) is 08.8 years, If he reaches the uge of 90, she can expect to live for another

Her 19,6 years.

is tho average Dearest rival Maltese woman, who, at 60, 1+ calculated to have another 10.7 years in front of her.

Nor are the Cypriot men far behind. At birth, male explc- lance of fe is 03.0, and at 60 it in 16.9 years.

"DROPPED"

+

British Broadcasting Corporation

of n story musketeers were century

Lust scene is lalt in the shadowy hall of Heynaud's IN hause at Borceaux, where a

cameramen timing be- tense de Gaulle, lurking hind a column, whispers

that 17th-century

20th by him interrupted means to have Weygand

air-pilots and paratroops. arrested. He goes to the

The BBC which is to televiso Bekl to sce Spears off to Eng-

Alexandre Dumas's "The Three land-und ut the inst

Musketeers" !u six weekly jumps on board.

November episodes beginning on

minute

Flying low, they crossed the ***There was nothing Channel: but this mon's courage to kindle Surrey. he-

into flame The Uny spark hope." In the sunshine of the At the hond of the State, garden of

No. 10, Churchill's Roynaud, honest and patriotic,

of

friendly. is pulled one way by Churchill's smile of welcome was warm and words, another by the disastrous

When France tell, Spears, her tidings from the front, which Invariably reach the Cubinot duped lover, was hit by some room at the psychological of the debris. His book is the

And profening moment.

always

at ery of a man who has been hurt

At The County Fair

*SORRY- I'M A

POTATO

PUG

MYSELF

"DON'T YOU THINK WE HAD

BETTER START PIETING T

"

IF YOU ASK ME -- THAT SKINNY JUDGE DOESN'T TAKE HIS WORK SERIOUSLY /*

WUNK

BY

HARRY

WEINERT

ITS A GREAT DAY FOR THE FARMER WHO DOESN'T

GET AWAY FROM HIS WORK VERY OFTEN.

LET'S PARK THE

WOMEN IN THE NEEDLEWORK CONTEST- "THEN WE CAN SEE THE SIGHTS/

show

24, has stated that some scUITS were filmed at Frensham Ponds, Among difficult shota of the musketeers were those riding at night, which technical- ly required a patch of blue sky. On one occasion the film unit sighted just such a patch of blue and waited 45 minutes until it had travelled to the position, when it was suddenly obliterated by smoke traily from

planes. HAF

When "shol",

British

duci WILS being "great cloud" of paratroops on a training

exercise alighted all around the fim unit. "Although the troops were undoubtedly trained to the tooth in advanced forms of un- armed combat they stood around in enthralled alience watching a dew moments of 17th-century sword play."

LEFT BANK 'St Germain de

the Left LAUCHING Pres

Bank jungle of Existentialists, is shaking under something like revolution. The hitherto gloomy tribe of M. Jean Paul Sartre's admirers has

to started

laugh because they've suddenly come

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"

the work of Alphonse Allais.

Allais, born 100 years ago,

a sort of French Mark Twain. He wrote more than thousand richly funny yarps alled with gagn that have since be picked up by stage comics all over the world, like "Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow." One of his talca was about the old man in the bus who, infuriated | with a fidgeting child next to him, snarled, "If you don't keep still, you beastly littlo bay, I'll clout your ear." The mother looked up.. "I have you know, Monsieur sho sold, "that it's a little giri."

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PENSIONS Eighty-ive per- FOR NAZIS cent of surviving former Nazi middle and high functionaries are receiving official govern- ment pensions-as "retired, KOV crnment worker."

Offcial records show that 30 percent of these "retired". Nazl officials are receiving pensions of over 500 marks a month com pared with the averago German Industrial wage of 930 marks. Eighteen percent or. the pensioned-off Nazis are collab ing pensions of 1,000 marka A

1,00 month.*

On the other hand, humerous ex-Navi officials are not goiting pensions, for the, simple reason that they are back at work-in the German Government. Chlof Ministry employing these former Nazi, offcial the Hofugio Ministry, The Finance Ministry has the next largest number of white washedNazia followed by the Customis Serviso and the Foreign Office

The Bonn Government m maken. haste to explain that none of the Nazia

in government service, is “danmerous They are, in Live malt

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