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Birthday

HERR HITLER was fifty yester

day.

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 15, 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 sirplanes, no tanks, no big guns. But neither did France when he started that civil war, and the mer. chants of death can 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 last month.

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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 peace of Europe."

That is a little pledge made by Signor Mussolini and Mr. Nevillo Chamberlain last October. Both countries claim that they adhere to that agreement.

It may prove the reason why there will be no war in Europe.

JERUSALEM, Apr, 20-—A Jewish supernumerary policeman was killed, and Ave injured when a torry, in which they were travelling, struck à tand mine near. a town went of Jerusalem to-day-Reuter

What the women of

are saying..

by.

MARY FERGUSON

"HEY can't scare women with any of their talk about what might hap- pen 'in the future. How do I know?

It's simple. I have been listening to what women are saying.

First let us liaten-in to women in the North.

women.

They are humble Some of them are trying to make a good life for their fami- lics on small weekly incomes.

But they are proud and brave women, too, and they got a good laugh when they read about the jitterbugs. For their part they have never met one. Quite innocently they imagine that all the Jitterbugs live in Lon- don.

That isn't fair, of course, but can you blame them when they don't know Londoners per- sonally?

seven years in

A London with only a few

and the North of England I went up to Lancashire and Yorkshire recently.

Mrs. Amy Brown, who runs & small hat shop in a 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." aho said, as sho marked down a new season's lat from 8s, 11d. to 6s. 11d.

'I may as well get rid of it evon at a cut price," she explained, "as keep it tu 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 case,

Mrs. Brown laughed cheerfully. "Well, I suppose that's a good thing. It means mote food in the country stored in private lardera Instead of being concentrated in huga central depots, but it makes business a bit lop-sided if you know what I mean.":

Mrs. Brown snapped abut her till. She had taken exactly twelve and tenpence for the day's trad- ing, which amounted to three bata sold.

"What I say," she said with.

vigour, "is that if folks would only start thinking about obecná things and talking brightly abo the future it would be a lot batigr for us all."

N Scotland #takan hig national ovent switch а Womad thoughts off spring cleaning this time of year.

My mother, who lives in Chingie gow, writes the local gossip in kết 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 in case there was another crisis.

"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 crisis. Maybe the e- tators and people who causo bil the trouble will feel a bit more cheerful when Mad brighter weather comes.

"They are saying here that they wish it were possible to have an oxhibition like the Bellahouston Park exhibition every year. It was nice bearing 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 nico young man 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 is a good man? Sometimes I think he is and then other times I feel that I distrust him."

M

RS. A. and Mrs. B. are 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.

It,

They were quite worried about Fashions and the servant problem seemed to have them Loked.

Mrs. A. looked about 55. She was stout and cheerful. "My husband was telling me that somebody · wants men to give their wives wages, and ho says if that becomes law he will give me two pounds a wook.

"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 got warea every week.'

Mra. B. laughed, and tucked her. fur closer zound her neck.

"I think wages for wives are 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 Summerskii, you know the woman doctor who is a Labour MP., Was telling her that some men earn- ing small wages keep most of the money to themselves, and their wives live in a state of constant

Today's Thought- THE best counsel is that of

woman.

--CALDERON.

A WAR OF WORDS

A

DEADLY war is being fought.

It has already achieved great

Barrage

victories, Apart from enguiting This Creeping

Of Propaganda

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 milions of men and women.

It

are

.

fear that they won't get any money" at all some weeks.

"It's all right for women Nike us- to say we don't want wages."

OING back to the Lancashire women and what they are saying.

I remember being struck by their absorption in the future, and chances of work for their children. A friend of Gracie Fields in Rochdale was saying, "We've got to think about the futuro of the young folks. I wish something could be done to get them into jobs with some futuro in them.

"You know they are losing heart up here, for the youngsters are saying they want to go away 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 now factories up here and give the young ones a chance to got work near their own homes."

O

NE of my neighbours. WILS saying this for some reason or other she couldn't be bothered to read romances any more..

"I wish some novelist would write a novel about the life we are living to-day in houses in small country towns and in the suburbs," she said. "So 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 housewerk, planning how to make a few pounds cover a lot of ex-

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"Romantic love stuff seems 60 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. busy type of housewife. To-day

ignorance of it. They are told only she talks seriously, although quite the good things and told ad nauseam cheerfully, about the fact that a

The

of Hitler and steady change is coming over the of praise for lives of the people in this country. what they have done. They are thWe shall have some tremendous boastings of what they are going to

Mussolini are pacans

speeches

do. They are denunciations of the decisions to make quite soon," ahe democracies. So with every news said to me, "and I do hope we are Samuel Hoare remarked, there

paper article, every official broad-wise and make good decisions." shot has been fired; in which not a listening to all the hot musle of the Mayor of the most remote town.

is a war in which not a single many people in Europe to-day who all cast, every speech, every official from When asked what kind of deci-

Goebbels or Gayda down to single

the alona, she replied: "Oh, you know bomb has been dropped. It is reares and alarms, and who wait for

what I mean. We must stop being a war of words.

the crash which they believe is to their own regime. They pour scom of our own families.

They glorify their own country and selfish and thinking only in terms Some time

back Sir Samuel Hoare destroy us all. They have fallen launched

We must A powerful broadside under the creeping barrage of pro- and ridicule on France, Great Britain, think in terms of nations," against those who have brought this paganda sent out day by day, week and the United States, cleverly seiz- form of warfare to a high art, who by week, month by month, from the have appiled it with relentless totalitarian nations. energy and unscrupulous determina-t Hits Both Ways tion, and have reaped from it well-

incrédible successes.

Take the problem which to-day

ing upon every little fault or weak- ness and magnifying it before the eyes of their people.

If itler bulids a motor highway across Germany, not only ail Germany

L

IVING in Tiber-street, Islington, N., Mrs., Tron- die, is saying to her

ghritish Home Secretary coun- torments the nights and days. of knows it but also the whole world. But children: "That's a nice steel shel---

tered that creeping barrage of pro- paganda which threatens to engulf many people--not excluding our own

In a creeping paralysis. Resistance Broken

millions of British men and women- their services because of the poorter, isn't it? Just think what fun

If the German railways have to curtail the problem of aerial invasion.

condition of their rolling slock and you can have in it in the summer Doubtless it

it may be right for res- the lack of replacements not one per time if we make it a summer- ponsible statesmen to worn us that son in a thousand is made aware of house, arid put some flowers in it. ve are no longer an Island nation, the fact.

We can make it comfortable with that our frontlers are on the Rhine; that the aeroplane has modified the part of the panegyrics emanating

Such information is certainly no some chairs and maybe a table." security we once found in a strong from the Nazi propagandist machine. Navy.

What is more, it is not broadcast by tion of such information would coun- ter much of the German' propaganda, as would the facts about the scarcity of capital and or raw inaterial in the Reich.

Counting Our Blessinga

How has this state of affairs been brought about? It does exist; no one can deny that.

It is due simply and solely to sheer The menace from the air is a very the democracles. Yet the dissemina- weight of words. Those words prerent menace. He would be a tool duce events. The Nazi conquesta? who despised it. But what we are were achieved by the propaganda apt apt to overloolt is that it is a machine-by

ops universal menace. It is not directed words. The simply marched in to take possession: solely against Franco and Britain. after, the propagandists had broken The threat to Berlin is every whit us down every obstacle and all resis- great us it is to Paris or London. tonco,

The peoples of the democracles are

Σ.

ND now, what, am L saying?

I said to the B.B.C.. that I would like to give a talk about the way in which Lan- cashiro folks are facing up to the bad times they am having.

Bold I could give a What yo have seen in Austria, continually being told of the tremen- The Prime Minister has said this hopeful

A bright, Czecho-Slovakia, and

talk, showing that Memel, can dous preparations for wat in the it was a good thing, sometimes to although the people up they are also be seen In every corner of totalitarian countries. They are also "count your blessings. Anyone who living in tragie tlines ac far as the Europe and Africa which Herr Hitler, told that their own arrangements to did so in this country, he added, staple industry, cotton, is con- declares by word of mouth and the counter these preparations are far whetlier, employer, worker, man, or writen word must become part of the from perfect, that there, le remen, 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

conditions here na compared with the fully brave. The B.3.0, thought- in France and Belgium, Denmark and

conditions In most other countries.

such a talk (wouldn't be cheerful Switzerland, In every European

Never were truer worda spoken. enough. You see they don't know nation, including our

As Sir.

PLEASE Turn To Pago 4.

what women are saying.

own,

That does not happen in Germany or in Italy. If there is a deficiency anywhere, the people of the dictator countries als kopt ini blissful