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WHAT GENTLEMEN

WHO

or what is the Imperial Polley Group, which for some years has issued periodically memor anda on foreign affairs and is now producing monthly annotations on

the war?

In order to get first-hand informaB- lion en subject which has been exercising the minds of a good many people in Britain I went to the of fice of the Group and had a talk with Mr. Kenneth de Courcy, the chief executive in this political en- terprise.

THESE UP TO?

The leading members of the Imperial Policy Group are Lord Phillimore, Mr. Kenneth do Courcy, Lord Mansfield, Mr.

Victor Raikes, M.P.

By A. J. Cummings

into

imony countries in order to

our reports."

"This," I said, "must have cost a pretty penny.”

How Britain Feeds Her Soldiers

The Army will in future have fresh vegetables gather information on which to base five days a week. Lord Woolton, Minister of Food, said that he had approached the three Ser- vices on the matter, in view of the present surplus of green vegetables, and that the Secretary of State for War had boon the first to respond.

Mr. de Courcy replied: "Yes, it

ell. But we were rich young men who could afford to do it. I may say that our predictions, founded on first-hand inquiries, have been only too well fulfilled. We were the first told him that I had re-

to point out that filler's Germany

Britain's become ceived letters from recipients of the is self-supporting. I draft out the would

greatest Monthly News Letter, he calls It, memorandum myself and it is then menace; and Incidentally, at a later who appeared to be suspielous of the submitted for revision to my editorial period, we came to the conclusion character and purpose of the ar- committee."

and reported that France, for various "How did this Group." I naked, reasons, would make 蘊 Kanisation

separate "roine into existence?"

peace with Germany, This view was received with scepticism in official

Mr.

quarters."

"It was formed," repiled Mr. de de Courcy Is a rich, well. Courcy, "shortly after the first Na-

"In a recent News Letter," I said, informed, highly intelligent, urbane tional Government came into exis-

references to the Englishman of early middle age and tence in 1931. There were many "you have some an agreeable conversationalist, He young Conservatives in that Parlla Petain Government which might be brushed aside at once the suggestion ment who knew little about affairs taken as an indication of sympathy that there could be any sinister or and some of us had the idea of get- with Pelain's point of view." ulterior motive in the work of his ting them together in order to think

**The context," Mr. de Courry Group. On the contrary, he pointed out such problems as the distressed out, it was an open and perfectly dis- areas, Imperiul economics, naval air replied, "shows this to be a false Impression. Pelain, in my opinion. Interested attempt to educate the and questions of foreign policy."

behaved very badly, though the evil pubite in current affairs.

"A kind of ginger group" I sug- genlus is Laval, a very dangerous "The News Letter," he said, "'ns I gested.

Let me say at once, so that well know, in approved of and wel- "Yes," he said, "something of that there may be no misunderstanding, comed by people of all parties to kind. But as events developed in that this Group supports with abso~ whom it is sent. We issue sixteen Europe we concentrated our attention lute fidelity the policy of Mr. Chur- thousand per month and the project on foreign policy and sent observers chill and that its single-minded alm

Nazi Wane

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May

in Balkans

By VERNON BARTLETT

ITALIAN propaganda against Greece, accused of responsibility for "the horrible murder of this patriot," Daout Hodja-actually an Albanian bandit on whose head a price was put some 20 years ago-again keep the Balkans in the forefront of the news.

The Italians gave it to be understood that they would demand the extradition of the two assassins, now under arrest in Greece.

Instead of that demand, there has been a violent Press at tack, which included a tactless reference by the official Stefani News Agency to a similar incident in 1923, which ended with Mussolini's occupation of Corfu. No reminder could do more to stiffen Greek resistance to Itallan demands.

man.

Is to obtain a complete military vic- tory over our enemies, Germany and Italy."

In answer to further questions, Mr. de Courcy denied emphatically that there was any intention on the part of the Imperial Policy Group to ad- vocate a settlement between a Right Wing Gennany and a Conservative Western

added

the way Dope in order to switch

Russia; and he

that his friends in the Group, many of them devout Churchmen, had been horrified by the Nazi attempts to des- troy the Christian religion and to set up in its place a kind of Paganism.

We also discussed General de

He asked those who had a sur- and baking industries, and desirable interests of the national plus of vegetables in their own in the

health. gardens not to let them go to waste, but to give them

The experiments were still in pro- away. Their local hospital would be decided what particular

gress, and

it was not yet definitely form, or amount, of calcium would be added. very glad of them.

one of Lord The synthetic vitamin B1 was ab- I war alleged by Woolton's audience at a Press con- solutely identical with the product of ference that a large price ring was the natural wheat berry, Professor

in Drummond continued. North-west London,

operating among greengrocers One letter in the Lancet implied

was по

He said in reply that he would be that it might be rather dangerous to very glad to be given any Informa- give too much of a particular vitamin; tion concerning the existetice of price but It was fair to say that, with one rings that were keeping up prices of exception, there

ovidence frult or of any other food commodity, whatever that any of the vitamins "We shall have no hesitation in deal caused the slightest harm if given in Ing with those rings if they are doses hundreds or thousands of times against the interests of the public," greater than would normally be pre- he added.

sent in food,

Speaking of the surplus of plums, The exception was vitamin D. used Lord Woolton expressed the hope that for treating rickets in children; and the retail price of pluma would not with that no ill-effect was noted

go up because sugar was being re- until the dose was so fantastically leased for home jam-making. There large as to be of no practical kn- was no reason why the price should portance. rise, and he hoped the public would This white bread fortified, with bear that in mind in buying plums, calcium and vitamin B1 would in any Professor J. C. Drummond, at Lord event not be the only bread aval- Woolton's invitation, spolce on the able; the public would be free to

to new white bread by the addit the and bread

Proximaling to

Gaulle's position in this country and the near future. But those and other

It can be sald, however, that Mr., medical men which have appeared in,Calcium was to be added on the

the part Franco's Spain may play in Government's decision

vitamin B1 and calcium. matters were "off the record."

Replying to letters from

. two

long-extraction of the wholemeal type.

recommendation of the committee, de Courcy was at pains to convey the Lancet, questioning the wisdom and as a result of experiments made Professor Drummond by the Medical Research Council. the impression that the Group takes of the step a realistic as well as a patriotic view sald that it was taken on the advice I would not have the slightest fil- of the war in all its aspects and that of the Scientific Food Policy Com- effect on health, nor would it in the it is not interested in any solution mitee, recently set up by the Gov-slightest way interfere with the pro- which does not involve the complete errent

duction of bread by the baker, Interests of Health military defeat of the enemy.

Those who had had the opportunity My last question was to ask thei The committee had based its re- ot eating the fortified bread could not on a general con- distinguish it, either by eye or by I believe the Albanian Minister of but would also like to satisfy Bul-number of Members of Parliament commendation

demands who still belong to the Group. Mr. sensus of opinion among the leading taste, from the loat we were getting Hungarian Justice has demanded the extradi- garlan

de Courey says 70 M.P.s take the experts on nutrition, reinforced by to-day, The present national straight- us bread of tion of the two men. There is no against Rumanla as long as they do

News Letter and about 'ten Conser-experiments designed to assure that run our was giving

was practient extremely high quality--much better doubt at all that the incident could not fight for them.

vative members are on the executive the recommendation committee,

from the standpoint of the milling than the ordinary peace-time bread.

be easily settled if there the desire to do so on either side.

Tension Increased

It is doubled by diplomats in Lon- don whether the Italians are prepar-. ing an attack on Greece or whether

and

Russia's Desire

Russia would like to see a strong Russophile Bulgaria, as long as she does not have to fight on Bulgaria's behalt.

One may therefore expect a bitter diplomatic battle, but not bloodshed.

AN ARMY OF FREE FRENCHMEN

By Brigadier General John Charteris, C.M.G., D.S.O. the reported risings in Albania can The probable results will be a lessen

The Army of Free Frenchmen was to many of us who saw be very effective. But obviously German Induence, an increase their manoeuvres a mirror of the past, and to all of us a hope for tension is increased by these in- log cidents at a time when the Balkans of hatred and distrust of the Italians, the future. are fevered by the Bulgarian and an increase of Russian influence, and Hungarian determination to Bring revival of confidence in Turkey

ΠΟΥ

France of the past, Its glory dimmed “only temporarily by the frailty of its politicians and the futility of a few generals.

They were few in numbers, only It was pleasing to those of us These were the French we were the seed from which may spring the about frontier changes at Rumanis's and Great Britain, two countries who had fought alongside the accustomed to, the French who fought harvests of another great French which have no particular ambitions French Army in the Great War the Valee d'Eafer, on the heights of at Chateau-Thierry, at Verdun, in in the Balkans except to prevent the The Balkans are important and domination there by any one Great to see this admirable sample of Laretto cheery, resolute, eficient, sure, what à French army can be. and friendly. They represent the dangerous because there are no Power,

expense.

longer only two Great Powers-Italy and Germany-interested in their! fate, Russia also desires the Bul- garian frontiers to be enlarged, and whereas two Governments" "could egree on spheres of influence it is Improbable that three can do so.

Britain Sympathises Great Britain also sympathises "with Bulgaria's claim to the Dobrud- 3,taken from her in 1913 after the Halkan War. The claims can be justfed on ethnographical, economic and geographical grounds. Half the population is Bulgarian and less than puo quarter, is Rumanian Bulgaria has far more need than, Rumania of the wheat that grows there

The Bumánian auggestion that there should be an @Interchanges, of populations is not likely to be ac Cepted since there are more Bul- garians in Humania then-Rumanians in, Bulgariat

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