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even so traditionally re- served a people as the Eng- lish-into a nation of con- versationalists.

It was observed in Eng- land during the early days of the Great War that strangers were everywhere talking to each other in the railway trains.

Men who, since their boy- hood, had looked on every newcomer into their rail- way compartment as 21 hated intruder, now entered eagerly into conversation

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America and Europe

ANYONE who has read the revela

tions in the war-tline memoirs

sitting opposite to them, even though he had "hore" written all over him.

People Crisis

"...an occasion for staring at the outside of Buckingham Palace."

Picture taken during a previous crisis.

you have only to go on a Satur-- day to any of the great football. grounds in any part of England.

How long did he think the public disaster men are more ordinary man feel rather help wat would last? Were the conscious of their community less and also rather restless: Germans walking into a trap? than at normal times. They are and he can partly get rid both Did he believe it was true that no longer divided into sects and of his sense of helplessness unid the Russians had been seen on parties as they witness the of his restlessness in the com- their way through England to havoc wrought by a great gule pany of other people. Belgium?

or the devastation of a flooded

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-R. L.

What is to be seen there does not mean that the ordinary man is indifferent to the crisis. Not, indeed, that even Longing for reassurance, the city. For the moment, in their

ut It merely means that man- ordinary man felt more certain awe and, no doubt, in their times of crisis the ordinary especially the ordinary man-

man's thoughts are preoccupied cannot live by crises alone. in his optimism if it was con- curiosity-they are brothers.

with the crisis during all his firmed by a watery-eyed little

It is this sense of community waking hours. man with a weak chin whose that, at time of crisis, takes opinions in time of peace would men into the streets. At such

I imagine there were thou- not have been thought worth times they feel more at home in sands of Englishmen who for- listening to. man

a crowd than at their own fire- got for a few moments that there was such a thing as a The little man became an sides. echo-

crisis when they read the head- convincingly mega- I am sure even the public line in their papers: "England's phoned echo-of

own houses are more crowded as Collapse," the reference being, hopes. That was very cheer- the result of the news from of course, to cricket. The or- ing.

Europe. People feel somehow dinary man, even during a Men did not talk more freely that in the loquacious company crisis, has a way of remaining than usual, however, merely in of other people it would be as normal in his interests as the order to confirm their hopes easier to make up their minds crisis will let him. and prove the emptiness of as to what the Government their fears. They talked be- ought to do, or are going to do.

and letters of the late Colonel House, President Wilson's right-hand who was

instrumental in bringing the United States into the

Great War, will see a great similarity in United States policy to-day with that of the period just before America declared war on Germany.

President Roosevelt's prace plea to Germany and Italy are parallel with a similar plea by President Wilson in 1016. Colonel House has revealed in his Memoirs that this appeal was inade at the suggestion of the British Government. It needs no intelligence to see in the week-end inove to place Hitler and Mussolini in awkward positions a similar genesis; especially when President Roosevelt's appeal is coupled with the sudden urdering of the entire U.S. Fleet to the Pacifle, a move that can only be Interpreted as a U.S. warning to "Japan that it will not only be Ameri- can interests that will be protected in the Pacific If war should come to Europe.

by

The United States bas 11 solld isplationist group which, though disadvantage placed somewhat at a

the knowledge that the Totalitarian threat is not only lo Europe, is bevertheless by no means

Apart qulescent.

from the

Isolationists there are the paclist and neutrality groups, who are in the

some position as the Isolationists in the present crisis. Then again there are the Germanophiles and Italophiles

a not inconsiderable group when It is considered that of the 13,300,000

cause

one's

beneath their surface calm they were more excited than usual.

I

REMEMBER during

the first month of the

Dodie, Let's Get Married'

-So they til--and here's the story tok in Dodie's own way.

New York. THE secret murringe of Miss Dodle Smith, playwrighi, who wrote "Autumn Crocus," "Ser- vice," and "Call it a Day," and her business manager, Mr. Alec Beesley, was revealed by her friends in New York recently.

It is best to tell the story of thei-

war taking a walk on Hamp-romance in the way Miss Smith ANY people even de stead Heath and seeing a very might write il:- MANY

cided that this was an serious-looking young man ap

Or

ACT 1.

In a toy store in London attractive business as buyer for the store. Enter Alec Beesley, efficient crisp- voiced advertising manager for the

मे HEIGHTENED excite occasion for going and staring prouching from the opposite

ment usually secks at the outside of Buckingham direction with a very serious- Miss Dodle Smith is going about her relief in words. Heightened Palace.

No. 10 Downing looking girl on his arm: excitement turns a few men and Street. This gave them a sense women into pocts. It turns the of being at the very capital of rest of the community into the crisis. -Here-for-the-mo-his-appearance-that-the-war They look at each other; they are. talkers.

ment was the centre of the was the

instantly both interested. They go out together. They become friends. world.

ACT II.

are

You would have judged from store.

There is the sound of applause other successful first night for play- wright Miss Dodie Smith, the girl

one subject of his thoughts, but what he was Bay- You will always notice that the more exciting the occasion I have never myself been able ing to the girl as I passed them

was: "I tell you what I like from a theatre audience. It is an the easier it is to get into con- to take any satisfaction in star cold bacon." versation with strangers. You ing for a long stretch of time

much

more likely, for at a familiar building merely I doubt whether human be- who used to buy toys for a store. example, to find yourself talk- because it was sensationally in ings could get through their ing to the stranger who is the news. Thousands of people crises so well if even in critical anything she wants for herself.

times they did not occasionally says to Alee Beesley, He who used sitting beside you at the boxing do so, however,

let their minds wander to to match than to find yourself

Possibly most of them go be- talking to the stranger who is cause they know so many other sitting beside you in a bus. people will be there. There is That is because the atmos- nothing like a crowd for draw phere of a boxing match is--as ing a crowd, à rule-so much more exciting

foreign-born residents of the United than the atmosphere of a bus.

States, 1,608,814 are Germans, 1,700,- 420 Italians and 370,914 Austrians,

What none of these groups renilse

The same thing happens on occasions of accident or disaster, I am sure that thousands of Londoners found themselves talking to strangera as they the Crystal Palace

blazing.

This may be partly explained by the fact that in presence of

bellove that those Americans who have their fingers on its diplomatic and political pulse can see the writ- Ing on the wall. Recent events sug- gest that collaboration between Pre- sident Roosevelt and the Democracies in Europe is as close lo-day as it was between President Wilson and the Allies in the early stages of the Great War. Few Americans would admit that such collaboration existed in 1014-1010: few Americans admit that it exists to-day. ''*

is that, as was frankly admitted in the Memoirs of three of America's ablest men of the Great War period-watched President Wilson, Colonel House and Mr. Walter Page (the latter, a violent Anglophile, was war-time Ambas- sador to the Court of St. James'), a throat to Great Britain or France In a threat to the United States. What- ever may be the inclinations of that part of the American people repre- sented by the Isolationists, the paci- fists and the Anglophobes, there is not the slightest doubt but that a war between Democracy, as repre- sented by Britain and France, and Totalitarianism, as represented by Germany, Italy or Japan, will force America on to the side of the former an an 'active partner. It is interesting to know that the decision to assure an Allied victory in the Great War was made by the United States On early as 1915 and, although America did not enter, the war until 1017, it is a fact, revealed by both President Wilson and Colonel House, that Great Britain was informed as early as 1910 that Amerlen would enter on the Allied side if Britain requested her assistance. The request was never made by Britain; by 1917 publie opinion in the United States had be- come so bitter against the Central Powers that American participation became a foregone conclusion.

To what extent publie opinion has been revolted by recent aggression in Europe it is hard to estimate, but we

It is probable thut secrecy BUC- ceeded in prolonging the Great War, since it is hardly possible that Ger- many would have ignored the early efforts at a termination of hostilities had she known that the United States was Irrévocably committed to the Allied cause. Similarly, secrecy to- day may lead the prototypes of the militarlats of a quarter of a century

ngo to acts of during which may plunge the world into catastrophe, ! and which might well be averted if they are quite frankly told that aggression will be met with the com bined force of all the world's de- mocracies.

Now she has enough money to buy need a business manager," she be her superior become her'

thoughts of cold bacon. I am employee. ACT III. suro Dr. Johnson would have approved of that young man.

If you wish to see how the The fact is, a crisis that is ordinary man refuses to allow beyond his control makes the himself to become crisis-ridden,

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in New York, in cold, crisp March. Miss Dodie Smilth, with her Rolls Royce, her dog, and her business manager, has come for the produc tion of her latest play, "Dear Octo- pus."

The play has a short run; it closes. "Let's get married," abys Alec Beesley.

They decide not to tell a soul that

America."

By Lichty they are married "somewhere in

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"Dutch Jonca is a holdout this year-Since he moved outa' the

neighbourhood he won't sign a contract to play ball ¿

unless we pay h të carfare quer!”

They leave New York with their dog in the Rolls Royce, and set out on a world-wide honeymoo3.

Woman's Cartwheel Hat Holds Up Court

A WOMAN'S black, cartwheel

brimmed hat, which hid her face as she gave evidence, was commented on by Mr. Registrar Friend at Clerkenwell County Court, B.C., recently. The registrar have not only got said: "This won't do, you kno

know.. I

to hear your evidence, I have also got, to see your face and study your demeanour as you give it.:

"But your hat keeps all view, of your face from_me.”

The woman, Miss. Majories Mose- Hey, manageress of a public house in Liverpool-road, London, N., smiled apologetically.

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Then the solicitor, examining her suggested:

་ ་ ་

"Listen to my questions, but keep your eyes on the registrar:?!

That solved the problem, and the

case went on.

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