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Prayers for Peace

THE KING AND QUEEN leaving St. Paul's Cathedral with the Lord Mayor of London. Sir Frank Bowater, after, altending Day of National Prayer service. Prayers for blessings on the Allied arms were said in all cathedrals, churches and chapels in the country.

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20. mistaken for enemy, aircraft-an Air Force aeroplane brought Nov. 29. me from London to Paris the other day, says a correspondent.

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At the English end there was a And, yet it is strange, to compare Nov. 28. feeling of

nervous tension; at Le the France of to-day with the France Bourget things seemed more lively of four months ago. Then, she was The British Customs officials who still hoping against hope that the war went through my books and paperk and private letters seemed a trific might yet be avoided. There was a Two of my most useful pos- strange earnestness about the French Nov. 30. sessions were detained for further and the young French generation Cas Nov. 30. investigation: u book un strategy by they looked into the future. Parly Nov. 30. French general and an Anglo-politles were at a standstill.

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snappealingly-"This is

the Com- the Russo-German puci, You do appreciate the position?

munists had that one did not feel like arguing.

become discredited. It was much easier at Le Bourget. People were not interested in parly The French Customs were not much politics nor in Parliament, and all interested in-the-luggage, and even parties-were-losing-in-membership. let Afty cigarettes pass without the Instead a fundamental unity was usual short one used to get p1 Calais coming into being, France was be and Boulogne.

motor-couch ginning to think seriously of her then look us into Paris, and along a future: Giraudoux wrote a destiny long street that seemed half deserted. of France, and with the burden, At one street-corner there was still "The Frenchman with his immense the remains of a political poster un-cultural heritage is becoming a re- species in Europe. nouncing a Doriot meeting clearly antively rare

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thing of the past. Near Le Bourget What is to be done about it?" there were strips of paper on all the

France was becoming conscious windows, and all down the road of her mission in Europe conscious large proportion of the smaller shops were closed with a label outside: "Ferme proprietaire mobolise."

of her position as the stronghold to- gether with England of European civilisation.

The People's Attitude

Unanimous Facting What are the people saying about

The unprecedented

of Vogue their! it? The old women shake heads and any, “What a misfortune!"ries Peguy, a very great writer, And this war is to the French people general public, was

but until then scarely known to the 0.05 Studio Comments on Recent

was a sign of the ..Eventa.

a misfortune, endangering the lives times. Il faut que France continue' of millions of people, upsetting and Charles Peguy wrote shortly before 9.15 London Relay-News Sum-

unsettling the lives of millions of being killed on the Marne in 1914. Fonry.

9.30 London Relay-"Cards on tha

The Drummer and the Cock; Tom's homes. And yet everybody knows More than anyone he believed in the Table."

'that it could not be helped, that this mission, the Christian mission, of 9.45 Gershwin---An American Ingone to lilo; Boney was a warrior.. war could not be avoided; that if ever France. This vogue of Peguy's had Faria

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12.23 Dance Programme by Juanne

For the last three years France Government and published on July 20.03 Songs by Stuart Robertson Llossas and His Orchestra and Victor had been in a constant state of plan. 20, almost exactly a

month before (Bass-Baritone).

Silvester and His Ballroom Orches with one partial mobilisation follow the outbreak of war. The important Aboard The Windjammer-Medley tra,

upon another ahnost at regular reform of the Daladier Government of Sen Shanties; Intro: A-roving;

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that it could not go on any longer. rate was to be checked by the war the drunken Sallor; Hullabaloo Baley;;

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waving, but with the firm conviction Yet, despite this passionate desire that it was necessary. Their feelings, shown by France to live and to "con- as somebody remarked, were those tinue," or rather because of it, France of villagers getting together to put accepted the war unanimously. The out a fire or to chase a band of men joined their regiments without rubbers, who had for a long time any ideological guidance from any been terrorising the neighbourhood, I party; it was in any case in no sense The cholce lay between the accep-1on ideological war; by invading tance of months or years of hardship Bohemia and. by making his pact and the vassalisation of France, with with Russia Hitler had killed all that her destruction as an independent Ideology which in France had been nation, Somebody rentarked the the source of sa much hositation, and other day "We shall not share the much division. Hitler himself fate of the Czechs and the Poles."

This is not precisely a "war alm";

but it is ample reason for the war..

had made that issue crystal clear; what France was Aghting now was

In war for her own existence.

WOMEN HOLD UP TROOP TRAIN

Istanbul. German Commercial Treaty, the Tur- A REFUGEE who has just arrived, kiah Government utinourices that the from Vienna told. recently how export of Turkish foodstuffs is to be

controlled, women held up an Austrian troop completely train, says a correspondent.

It is understood that.:

itlese: exports He himself saw them lle on the will now be deflected to the Ailles. rails to stop the train.

At first Turkish, traders,, now at For three hours the Gestapo fought the beginning of the important senso the women before the train could for the export of talsins and. ngs, had resume its journey,

feared ruin through the closure of Following the expiry of the Turco-the German market.

November 28, 1939.

Amazing Story of Wealthy German Girl WOMAN (REFUGEE)

TO

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This astonishing story of a German maid's adventures In England was sent to a London newspaper by a woman reader who wishes to remain anony- mous

When you think of a German refurce you imagine, possibly, a girl with a hunted took in her eyes, and a few shillings in Jer #ahz][b##

Blle drage a cardboard sulteaso containing all the clothes. tho OWNE-- Door walf grioved at the parting from her own people buí crateful for the shelter of British home.

"

That was my idea of a German re- fugee until I took Fraulein Schmidt into my house, says u reporter in Lontion paper. Schmidt is not her real stanic. I must disguise. every- identity thing that could give her away, but I will bide nothing else.

I am a respectable middle-class Englishwoman-one of thousands who have been moved by pity to give shelter 10

Nezl refugees from persecution.

Postcard - After Elover Days

that he When a relative told me had received a letter from a German woman, the wife of a former Govern- ment oficial, asking if he knew of a British household that could receive a-German girl of 19, of partly Jewish origin, 1 said that I would take the } girl.

I learned that I must employ the girl as a domestic servant and pay her 155. a week and her board. Although I was told that 10 she had never been trained any sort of work, I agreed. That was last December. March 14 the girl had not arrived; so I wrote to her mother In Germany and asked when I might expect her. Three days later a police sergeant knocked at my door.

"I should like to have a talk with! Fraulein Schmidt," he said.

"She

not here." I replied,; astonished. "So far as I know, shej is still in Germany."

ia

She has landed at e British port," said the sergeant. I have been asked to explain why her arrival here has not been reported."

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AQUAGAL—No, I Aquagal "at the New York Fair Aquacado Eleanor La next year will be

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the She post on the resignation of Eleanor Holm, at end of season, who will marry Billy Rose

struggled with nine trunks and suit- On the eleventh lay after her cases, there stepped from the tax a arrival in England I received a post- tall, handsome young woman, neatly card from her: "I have arrived, but expensively dressed. Meet me at the station." My hus- band went to meet her.

"Rutes? 1 Only Break Thom"

Half an hour Inter a taxicab luden She smiled as she greeted me, but with luggage pulled up at my door. I told her at once of the policeman's While my husband and the driver call. Then she laughed.

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"RULES!" SHE EXCLAIMED,

"I DON'T READ RULES. ONLY BREAK. THEM."

I could see nothing to laugh at. When I asked her, later that day. how she had managed to bring so much luggage, which included a portable gramophone, she replied:

"Oh, I have four, more trunks at my uncle's place in London. He arranged everything for me I didn't even have to come Customs. Two through ', the officials from London met me at the docksland made every- thing easy for me.

"My uncle, you know, was formerly a very high ofletal in Berlin and now is an importan!” man In' London. He knows- several of your Members a! Parliament:

The rl did not look, Jewish. I lastced her how much Jewish-do

was in her, and she said one.

She sinyed with me five months. On Aug. 12 she took a holiday and went to London. From her uncle's address he wrote to me.-

Under the Nazl laws I could not return to Germany, which fias this Intention to expel all people of Jewish origin.

Jewish

It seemed she could be refugee or net, as it suited her. And

peasant. she was certainly

"I was enthusiastically for Bler at first," she said "but Ach! when I see what he has done to the good people of Germany. I hate him and all his gang. Ho is mad, and his neurologist' is always with lalɛb..

"He has many doubles, and already some have suffered for him. One was poisoned, another shot."

And here is something that puzzles me greatly. Why was this girl so Inquisitive about factories and other big works in our district? She wanted to go Through the works where my husband held a responsible position, but I told her it could not be done.

That's

pity," she said, dis- appointed. "I wanted to take photo- graphs and see everything. In Nor- way I always did that."

"IT'S A QUEER. HOBBY," I SAID, "FOR A GIRL OF 19,"

LIKE SUCH THINGS." SHE SAID, AND- ASKED WHERE ARMED GUARDS AT THE WORKS AND WHETHER ANY ENTRANCE WAS LEFT

UNGUARDED.

Jewellery In Easter Eggs There were no jewellery or furs in her luggage when she arrived, but a little later she came in with a box of Uny chocolate Easter eggs and show- ed me with great gled how cunningly her mother had hidden- pieces of BVEZAVEN | jewellery in the tin foil and chocolate. They included a diamond ring 150 years old,

EVERYTHING TIDS GIRL TOLD ME ABOUT THE EVENTS OF THIS SUMMER HAS COME TO PASS.

"It Hitler does not die before August," she said, over and over Logain, "then in August -dreadful

things will happen."

The girl left my house suddenly in the middle of August. A few days before that I offered to let her go to London for a few days, but she said she did not wish to go.

Then she heard from her uncle and became frantically cager to go. What did they know

Since her departure I have learn- ed that she told people she was go- Ing to Paris. I do know, that she has a visa. for... South: Amerfoan country, but she is still in London, with her uncle) -

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