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TERK HITLER was fifty yester-
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There is another man who used to celebrate his birthdays in Berlin with great pomp and glory-the mighty ruler of a mighty nation.
But for twenty years he has been spending them in lonely exile in Doorn, forgotten by the world.
The man who plunged the world into war, has learned his lesson. Foreign papers, please copy. Spain
THE report goes that Mussolini
will withdraw his troops from Spain on May 16, after three post- ponements. We do not know yet whether there is to be another post- ponement.
But in any case, Mussolini does not hold all the cards in Spain. There are several other factors in the situation to be considered.
In France there are Spanish Re- publican soldiers all dressed up and with nowhere to go. It is true that they have no arms, no ammunition. no airplanes, no tanke, no big guns. But neither did Franco when he started that civil war, and the mer- chants of death enn always provide them.
Again, Italy is a long way from Spain. Her line of communication runs past 250 British and French warships that have not been massed for nothing.
And Germany is a long, long way from Spain, too. Just as far from Spain as France was from Czecho- Slovakia Inst month.
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method of consultation shall be the method adopted to deal with any. questions that may con- cern our two countries, and we are determined to continue our efforts to remove possible sources of differ. ences and thus to contribute to as- sure the pence of Europe."
That is a little pledge made by Signor Mussolini and Mr. Neville Chamberlain last October. Both countries claim that they adhere to that agreement.
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JERUSALEM, Apr. 20—A Jewish supernumerary policeman was killed, and five Injured when lorry, in which they were travelling, struck a Iand mine near a town, west of
Jerusalem to-day-Reuter,
It's simple. I have been listening to what women are saying.
First let us listen-in to women in the North.
They are humble women. Some of them are trying to make a good life for their fami- Ites on small weekly incomes.
But they are proud and brave women, too, and they get a good laugh when they read about the Jitterbugs. For their part they have never met one. Quite innocently they imagine that all the fitterbugs live in Lon- дод.
That isn't fair, of course, but can you blame them when they don't know Londoners per- sonally?
FTER seven years in London with only a few flying visits to Scotland and the North of England I went up to Lancashire and Yorkshire recently,
Mrs. Amy Brown, who runs a small hat shop in Lancashire town, was full of a grand philo. sophy about life.
"I think all the frightening talk that is going on at present is a terrible thing." she said, as she marked down a new, season's hat from 8s. 11d. to 0s. 11d.
"I may as well get rid of it even at a cut price," she explained, "' as keep it till it's out of fashion. "Hats aren't selling as well these days. Folks seem to be spending their spare cash on tins of con- densed milk and tins of soup and sardines 'just in caso.
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Mrs. Brown laughed cheerfully. "Well, I suppose that's a good thing. It means more food in the country stored in private larders Instand of being concentrated in huge central depots, but it makes business a bit top-sided if you know what I mean."
Mrs. Brown snapped shut her till. She had taken exactly twelve and tenpence for the day's trad- ing, which amounted to three hats Bold.
What I say," she said with
vigour, is that If folks would onts start thinking about cheerful things and talking brightly about the future it would be a lot better for us all."
N Scotland it takes a big national event to -switch
woman's
thoughts off spring cleaning at this time of year.
My mother, who lives in Glas- gow, writes the local gossip in her weekly letters to me...
"We were just saying the other day that when the spring comes everybody will feel much brighter, Down our street most of the neighbours have begun spring cleaning and Mrs. McGowan was asking me if I was arranging my spare room as a dormitory for children fa case there was another criats.
"She wanted me to buy single beds for the children, for she said that is what she is doing. Do you think I should? I don't think we should be so sure there is going to be another crials. Maybe the dic- tators and people who cause all the trouble will feel a bit more cheerful when the brighter weather comes.
"They are saying here that they wish it were possible to have an exhibition. like the Bellahouston Park exhibition every year. It was nice hearing all the foreigners talking in their own languages.
"I don't know anybody who is feeling really nervy about things, but they are sorry that nothing is being done for the unemployed.
"We get nice young men round the door every day trying to sell buttons and bootlaces. I think It is a shame so little is being done for them.
"Do you think Mr. Chamberlain la a good man? Sometimes I think he is and then other times I feel that I distrust him."
M
RS. A. and Mrs. B, aro total strangers to me They live in Bucking- hamshire, and play golf on good days and bridge on dull days.
We travelled up to town in the same carriago the other day, and they were saying that the new fashions are, too funny for words, because what woman in her senses wants to walk about looking as
"I know, because I have been listening to them."
though her petticoat was hanging down.
They were quite worried about Fashions and the servant it. problem seemed to have them ilcked,
Mra, A. looked about 55. She was stout and cheerful. "My husband was telling me that somebody wants men to give their wives wages, and he says if that becomes law he will give me two pounds a week.
"I must find out who these women are and write to them. It's a ridiculous Idea. I didn't get married to get a job, and, anyway, It would be awful if we had to take set wages every week."
Mrs. B. laughed, and tucked her fur closet round her neck,
"I think wages for wives aro necessary," she had told Mr. B., "because some men. don't give their wives any definite amount each week, and that makes life unendurable for the women who don't know where the money is coming from to pay the food bills. the rent and the light.
'My daughter was telling me all about it the other day, Dr. Edith Summerskill, you know the woman doctor who is a Labour MP., was tolling her that some men earn- ing small wages keep most of the.. money to themselves, and their wives live in a state of constant
To-day's. Thought- THE best counsel is that of
woman.
--CALDERON.
A WAR OF WORDS
A DEADLY war is being fought,
engulfing This Creeping Barrage
Of Propaganda
It has already achieved great victories. Apart from much material wealth and from ac- quiring millions of new subjects for the victors this war is enslaving and enfeebling the minds and the will power of hundreds of millions of men and women.
fear that they won't get any money at all some weeks.
"It's all right for women like us to say we don't want wages."
G
to
OING back
the Lancashire women and what they are saying.
I reaisaber being struck by their autorption in the future and. cliances of work for their children.. A. friend of. Gracie Fields in Rochdale was saying. "We've got. to think about the future of the young folks. I wish something could be done to get them into Jobs with some future in them.
You know they are losing heart up here, for the youngsters are saying they want to go awày to the Southern towns where the new factories are opening up.
"It would be a good thing if the Government would start some of their new factories up here and give the young ones a chance to get work near their own homes."
O
NE of my neighbours was saying, that for
some reason or other- sho couldn't be bothered to read romances any more..
I wish samo novellitTM would write a novel about the life, we are living to-day. in. houses in. small country towns and in the suburbs," she said.: "Bo far as I' can see nobody is bothering to make a story about us, I want to read about a woman like myself who is alone. all day,doing the housework, planning how to make a few pounds cover a lot of ex-
enses.
"Romantic love stuf seems 80 silly just now when we are all planning a new type of future for ourselves and our children.“
Normally my neighbour is not a serious woman. She is the bustling. ignorance of it. They are told only she talks seriously, although quite busy type of housewife. To-day the good things and told ad nauseam cheerfully, about the fact that a
The speeches of Hitler and
Mussolini are pueans of praise for steady change is coming over the what they have done. They are the lives of the people in this country. boastings of what they are going to "We shall have somo tremendous do. They are denunciations of the decisions to make quite soon," she democracies. So with every news sald to me," and I do hope we are paper article, every official brood-wise and make good decisions."
Mayor of the most remote town. cost, every speech, every official from When asked what kind of decl- Goebbels or Gayda down to the slons, she replied: "Oh, you know what I mean: We must stop being their own regime. They pour scorn of our own families.
They glorify their own country and selfish and thinking only in terms and ridicule on France, Great Britain,
We must
L
IVING in Tiber-street, Islington, N., Mrs. Tren- dio, is, saying to her
Samuel Hoare' remarked, there are shot has been fred; in which not a listening to all the hot music of the It is a war in which not a single many people in Europe to-day who sit single bomb has been dropped. It is scares and alarms, and who wait for at war of words.
the crash which they believe is to Some time back Sir Samuel Hoare destroy us launched a
all. They have fallen powerful against those who have brought this paganda sent out day by day, week ing upon every little fault or weak-
broadside under the creeping barrage of pro and the United States, cleverly seiz- think in terms of nations," form of warfare to a high art, who by week, month by month, from the have applied It with relentless totalitarian nationa. energy and unscrupulous determina-it Hits Both Ways
ness and magnifying it before the eyes of their people. tion, and have reaped from it well-
If Hitler builds a motor highway nigh incredible successes
across Germany, not only all Germany Take the problem which to-day The British Home Secretary coun- torments the nights and days
knows but also the whole world. But tered that creeping barrage of pro- millions of British men and women of if the German raliways have to curtail paganda which threatens to
their services because of the poor
ter, isn't it? Just think what fun engulf the problem of aerial Invasion. many people-not excluding our own
Doubtless it -In a creeping paralysis.
condition of their rolling stock and you can have in it in the summer It may be right for res the lack of replacements not one per- time if we make it a summer- ponsible statesmen to warn us that son in a thousand is made aware of house, and put some flowers in it. Resistance Broken
we are no longer an island nation, the fact. that our frontlers are on the Rhine,
We can make it comfortable with Such Information is certainly no Bow has this state of affairs been that the acroplane has modified the part of the panegyrics emanating
some chairs and maybe a table." brought about? It does exist; no one security we once found in a strong from the Nazi propagandist machine. can deny that.
Navy. It is due simply and solely to sheer The menace from the air is a very the democracies. Yet the dissemina- What is more, it is not broadcast by weight of words. Those words pro-rect menace. He would be
a tool ton of such information would coun- duce events. The Nazl conquests who, despised it. But what we are ter much of the German propaganda, wero achieved by the propaganda apt apt to overlook is that it is aas would the facts about the scarcity machine-by words. The troops universal menace. It is not directed of capital and or raw material in the simply marched in to take posesion solely against France and Britain. Relch. after the propagandista had broken The threat to Berlin is every whit na -down every obstacle and all resis- great as it is to Paris or London.
tance,
The peopics of the democracies are
Counting Our Blessings
children: "That's a nice steel shel-
A
ND now, what am 1. saying?
that I would like to give a talk I said to the B.B.C. about the way in which Lan- cashire folks are facing up to the bad times they are having,
I said I could give a bright,
talk, showing
that
What we have, seen in Austria, continually being told of the tremen- The Prime Minister has said that hopeful Czecho-Slovakia, and Memel, con dous preparations for war in the it was a good thing sometimes to although the people up there are- also be-seen In every corner of Lotalitarian countries. They are also "count your blessings." Anyone who Europe and Africa which Herr Hitler, told that their own arrangements to did so in this country, he added,ving in tragic times so far as the declares by word of mouth and the counter these preparations, aro for whether employer, worker, man, or staple industry, cotton, la con-.. written word must become part of the from perfect, that there is tremen- woman, would find that there was cerned, yet they are remaining. German Reich.
dous leeway to make up.
very much to be grateful for in the proud, industrious and wonder- More important still, we can see it That does not happen in derinany conditions here as compared with the fully brave..⠀⠀ The B.B.C. thought vitzerland, in avery. European anywhere, the people of the dictator in France and Belgium, Denmark and or in Italy. If there is a deficiency conditions in most other countries. such a talk wouldn't be cheerful
Never were truer words spoken. enough. You see they don't know nation, including our own. An Sir.. countries aro kept in blissful
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