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Album Series No. 329

TWENTY-FIVE years ago a Concerto No. 2 in F minor (Chopin)...... Alfred Cortot with:-political outrage in a relatively John Barbirolli's Orchestra Album No. 330 Symphony No. 86 in D Major (Haydn) London Symphony Orch. obscure town in Eastern Europe The Hundred Kisses (D'elanger} Ballet Suite

set in train a series of diplomatic London Philharmonic Orchestra Conducted By-Antal Dorati manoeuvres which ended in a The Dancing Years-(Ivor Novello's Latest Drury Lane Success) four years' carnage into which With:-Mary Ellis-Ivor Novello-Olive Gilbert and Roma Beaumont the British Empire was dragged Rondo from "Haffner" Serenade (Mozart) .......Fritz Kreisler on August 4. Ballade No. 3 in A Flat Major (Chopin) .. Benno Moiseiwitsch Historians have long since [censed to assign to one man or even to one country alone the slow descent into the maelstrom which nation after nation made

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-Strube in the "Daily Express”.

"Rotten bomb-makers,

whoever

they

are'

THOSE SIX WORDS

SUM

They can't sink the * Stooge

thin way

"

UP UP BRITAIN

-for Walter Davenport,

HA

Indies.

probably cat

tnu.

and the bowler

If this sumo pitcher were to let any one or series of ones make as many as ten runs off him in an innings he'd be soit to the nearest glue factory.

And when I envision the St. Louis Cardinals, who, as for as I can see, approximate those West Indies boys in this cricket league, quitting in the middle of a batting rally for tea at four o'clock, everything clear to me.

becomes

ND there'd have been no

spectator asleep in Ameri-.

ea as was a ruddy gentleman just behind me. And no baseball fari would have been doing crossword puzzles, nor reading a Lite of Dou- klas Halg, nor fooling around with pocket chess-board, stymied for ponent's Queen's gambit attack two hours by his imaginary op

All these things I saw at Lord's.

American journalist, star FEINENCEREREAFduring the summer weeks of

writer for "Collier's Weekly," CLMASINA 1914, but there is fair evidence

U.S. 2,800,000 circulation magazine -if not conclusive-that the landslide might have been pre- A BRITISH battleship of 26,-TTAVING spent ten days was apologised to by a gentleman in the queue who increly brushed my vented had the minds whichland Harbour.

500 tons is laid up in Port- in London I quite natur- arm. directed Berlin and Viennn been

She has got a shell-hole botowally know precisely what. In America there wouldn't be I also saw what i was informed was an appeal to the umpire about being certain that Britain would be the water-line, and it was made England is going to do in queue; there'd be a riot,

At home, the gentleman would hit by the ball. have asked me to get the hell off, If you're beaned by the pitcher drawn into the massed combat. by one of our own Navy's big-the next six months or so.

gest guns.

It all became apparent to his foot and I'd have asked him who in the States, even on the leg, you.

free ride the hell he was shoving; and four get u

to first base. In In spite of the shell-hole she is me after a week, which even cops would have answered us. Germany refused to believe the

cricket you're out. despatches of her able represente Atlantic. You see, she is un- an Englishman will agree is

affont and could probably cross

But It was the argument that re- tative in London, Prince sinkable-but-let-me-tell-the-tule nimble.

INSIDE the grounds or park vealed the fate of England to me.

there would have been nu The litter spoke gently, obnost Lichnowsky, repeatedly warning

umpire who It usually takes us American pale young men who needed hair. deferentially, to the About eight o'clock one morning her that the British Empire recently I woke up in Gib, and get journalists all of a fortnight to cuts lugging signs about telling us made a ruling. And that was that. In the States both teams would the fright of my life............

discover all the secrets of the wnd who for the boys from the West have been pushing the

who was going to play for England

umpire could not be isolated, as the A British battleship was moving Empire.

around, stepping on his feet (with slowly in. Her plates were streaked

We always depart astonished at German war party hoped, from with rust, Her molnmast

leather spikes) and talking in loud voices There'd have been a general European conflict. broken slump. She had no gun tur- the man of your Prime Minis lunged guy from Hell's Kitchen tell- about his personal affairs-to say

unterter, Foreign Offer, Air Ministry and Ing us through a megaphone.

nothing of certain peculiarities in rels. There were holes

his immediate ancestry, The indefiniteness of Britain's starboard side. A prim destroyer

escorted her. pledges, the division of opinion in the 1914 Cabinet, the sharp internal strife over Home Rule, all gavo some colour to the hopes of those Germans who believed in an isolationist Britain. To- day Britain is a prey to internal strife (as caused by the I.R.A.) only to an infinitesimal degree compared with 1914; she has made not a vague Entente butful fashion.

Once she was a battleship in the definite pledges on a wider scale Grand Fleet. Then they stripped her of everything except her engines. than ever before. Nor are her

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And the crowd would have joined.

And the lads who were going to A day at Lord's watching a lot of A few minutes Inter I was at the husky white guys from Lancashire play would have been out there in

THIS Is, of course, merely Naval Intelligence Department with and other parts trying to subdue a tossing the ball around, indulging in Int of coal-black fellows from the batting practice and warning each a night's growth of whiskers on my West Indies gave me the fundamen- other to lay off their blondes, who learned of England's future. There face, and an excited pulse.

would have been sitting in the stands are certain things I found out to

a sketch of what I have

I fell in love with Roslo.

"It's the old Centurion," they told Lal low-down.

An evening in Rosie's bar gave cating hot dogs and looking blondely reveal. But it's a swell place, and me, And so it was-shot to bits for

me the rest Rosie's place would be vague.

If, in the States, the umpteenth Ume

a lot on Park-avenue.

Nothing like that crowd at Lord's bowler were to hand would be tolerated in America. 1 to the umpire, the

She is the only ship of her kind in the worki; has been for ninc

years.

than

The Admiralty call her a "target vessel. She's a bit more that. The Navy, Army and R.A.F. have got a soft spot for her. She is a stooge for all three Services.

They knock her about in a fright-

They put new-fangled

fear into

in mind on the extent of her her, though, costing thousands, and responsibilities or on tha gave her a permanent destroyer es-

cort, the Shikari, country's willingness to face. Her Job is to play tag with shells and bombs, with the help of Sulkeri. warfare if war should come. A complement of 270 take her to There can be no doubt, no chosen spots, where the big new

of the Fleet are runs

waiting for ambiguity, no misunderstanding.her.

Centurion's captain gives the or- Yet voices aro raised in der "Abandon shipl" Shilkar! comes Germany to proclaim that alongside and takes off every living creature, including the cat. And, Britain's pledges of action will without a soul on board, Centurion

begins to do her stuff. Her screws turn and the cruises away at about sixteen knols.

never be fulfilled if Horr Hitler can only be ingenious enough

She is a robot ship. About three- to find a way to disguise

quarters of a mile away is the Shi- aggression as something else.kari, and aboard her is the Cen- He hos his band

Danzig, it is supposed, will turion's captain.

on the Centurion's controls and

voluntarily "come home to the moves them by remote control.

Although the shells used against Reich" on grounds of "self-her rim holes ten feet square in her, [determination."

they cannot blow her up. They're It is interesting to converge filled with salt, not high explosive, That's to give them the required with Germans in Hongkong. weight.

How she keeps afloat, is a deep There is not one here who be-ecret, all the same. It's the thing lieves that war will come to that gets foreign aples into trouble. Europe. But all are equally Some say she is filled with cork. Others say it's a complicated ar- emphatic that Danzig will

rangement of water-tight compart- return to Germany,

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LITERANATOR

The whole attitude of that crowd ut Rosie's was something like that of the gentleman who, at the news- reel of the homecoming of their Majesties, sat in utter and apparent- iy incurable silence until just as they arrived inside the courtyard of Buckingham Palace-the bat of one of the princesses blew off,

He stroked his moustache twice, and, turning to his lady, said: "See that m'dear; rather good, what?"

Another revealing thing was the comment of the crowd in Piccadilly- circus the morning after the latest bombings. Off-hand I recall most rendily the elderly, retired brigadier- looking man who said: "Rotten bomb-makers, whoever they are." That's all he said.

.

day

ND there was

riding down Fleet-street being wel- comed by the City,

Anture War and Queen

Out of the door of the Lord Mayor's coach, at a nice rakish an~ gic,

was the great golden which he probably uses to open

mace

Guildhall windows with,

I asked what it was A gentle- man noting probably that I was not an Englishman, helped me out. "Aow, just something to hang la 'nt on when it gets lot."

This is not all there is to my ob. nervations, but I've got to get back trnin to Rosie's before the boat lenves from Waterloo.

After all, there's not a great deal of Important difference between you English and us Yankees,

There is some difference, of course. Like Tony Galento, who is about to bo murdered-and like it—we holler: "We can lick them lugs.**

You juga any it to yoursėlves,

A little more noise at Lord's and

a few more beers at Rosie's and I'd feel right at home-God bless It.

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