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January 8, 1941.

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"EUROPE'S LUNG".

BREATHES DE LUXE AIR

MONTE

MOVES

By Henry Buckley

LISBON.

To honeysuckle fills HE fragrant perfume

the night air in the gardens of Estoril Casino. It is not a pretty building as seen from outside. It was designed and bullt by two Frenchmen. Jourde and Paul Reynes, and the French do not like clean, straight lines.

But inside you forget that the outside is all corners, for the restaurant, with its spacious dance floor, is plea- sant and airy, and it has the biggest plate glass windows I ever saw anywhere.

From them you can look out over the moon-lit Bay of Cascaes and see the Atlantic rollers pound the beach and see the twinkling lights of the pilot ship in the background.

"Europe's lung" they call this little corner of the Con- tinent, where life still goes on with some pretence of nor- mality, where you can have all the petrol you want and sugar is not rationed, and whisky cheaper than at home. Lisbon to-day is the cross- roads of Europe, and Estoril, just fifteen miles away, houses the elite of the travellers who come and go.

THE

THE party of men in dinner dress sitting over in one corner of the casino restaurant are oil men. They have been having a con- ference in the Hotel Palacio down near the station for the Inst few days,

If you knew what they had decided on you might have an inkling of how the war will go, for so much depends on this liquid gold. The grey-haired oil king at the head of the table is rated as one of the six richest men in Britain.

The group of heavily built, solid Swiss citizens at a table nearby, who have obviously dined heartily, have come to Lisbon from Switzerland to shop for their nation. There is no more individual buying, the Swiss Government pur- chases and distributes the goods when it can get them.

These are some of the

Swiss smartest

business brains, and their job is a heavy one. They must find sellers, pay in gold, get per- mission for the goods to pass the British control-if they are articles not available in Portugal-and then they must usa endless ingenuity to trans- port the merchandise across a Spain whose rolling stock was' ruined by tho civil war, and then over the disorganised railway system of unoccupied France to the frontier, and Into Switzerland by motor truck.

TALL Frenchinan

rough-looking Dutchman

A and a short, stocky,

CARLO WEST

watch the dancers as if there were no more important thing in the world to do. The Frenchman arrived in Paris. from the Baltic fifty years ago, a penniless youth, and to- day he is reputed to be worth well over £5,000,000. He is a refugee; off to New York.

The Dutchman is one of the best-known gold dealers in Europe. He talks in terms of gold bricks-a brick weighs 400ozs. and sells at about £8 an ounce to-day, so I am told. If you were, to ask him how much gold you would need to send from Zurich to New York. to pay a debt there in Argen- tine paper pesos, he would gaze up at the ceiling for a few minutes and then he would tell you exactly how many bricks you would need and what transport, insurance, loss of interest during trans- port, would cost you. Com- pared with his French col- league he is a man of modest means: he is worth about one million sterling.

TEXT door to the res-

Narin is the gamb-

ling hall where you have the choice of losing your money at roulette, French Bank, or -if you are ready to gumble real money-at baccarat. A Jackey bars the way to the baccarat table; you must give your name there and some in- dication of being a person of substance.

The keen-faced woman with glasses who sits at the far end of the table is familiar figure there and at most casinos in Europe. The wife of a mil- lionaire Balkans bankers, her face changes not at all whet- her she wins or loses two or three hundred pounds at a sitting.

can

The roulette tables Aro more democratic. You

play as little as two escudos fifty-sevenpence.

And if you put it in the middle of a square and the number comes up you will get back thirty- five times sevenpence, which makes just £1 03. 5d. that rarely happens.

But

A Central European cou- ple, man and wife, both with paper and pencil, are playing very carefully. They do not look rich, possibly they hope to make some money to help. them on their way. He has drawn an elaborate chart. They bet only on the red, colour, two shillings at a time, and ge! back

their investment if a red number whis instead of a black I hope they win. But people rare- ly do when they need the money.

· The distinguished figure in even- ing dress accompanied by two charming young Portuguese wo- men In a well-known German writer

these clover and one of

young people sent hither and thither by Herr von Ribbentrop, And it may be my mistake, but it doon look to mo na if the tall, in- telligent-looking Englishman play- ing at table number one is really paying far more attention to the movements of the visitor from Ber-

In than he is to his game. He is going to lose an awful lot of money unless the German gdes soon, I am afraid.

At the next table is a star Indio speaker of Columbia Broadcasting

you will have heard his quiet, effective volce many time from

You

various European capitala if tune into the American broadensts regularly. He is going back to see ten month-old twins who won't re- cognise the papa who put then in n boat at Cherbourg five months ago. A well-known movietone newa reel operator is altting with him.

I used to be a common sa

ing that if you sat long enough on the terrace of the Cafe de la Paix on the Place de l'Opera in Parks you would see the whole world go by. That is nearly true to-day

of Estoril Casino. Only those were gladder days.

To-day we are watching the col- lopse of a Europe which will never be the same again, no matter what turn the war takes. It is the at- mosphere of a rainly autumn day.

One of

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FUNNY SIDE UP

FINGER

By Abner Dean

Co by Exitod Poviure Spudiente, dur.

साद

"Oh, General, I'm knitting a sweater for Junior-what size will he be next month?”

of the things

we are

fighting for is to be able to

SAY

WHAT

WE THINK

GAN we have a little sanity

CIAN the subject of Mr

H. G. Wells? He went to A woman looks

America to speak his mind about this war. His outlook has not coincided with the more conventional iden of pro- paganda that should be fed to the Americans. Therefore Mr Wells should not have been granted an exit permit,

By this confession in the House of Commons we are to use exit permits as a form of censorship. Yet our censor- ship is based on information to the enemy and not expres- sion of opinion.

Mr Wells has given away no great military secrets, no de- tails of defence. He has call- ed a few generals fools, and, under the present struggle for freedom of speech, he is en- titled to do so. He has been called an agnostic, and simi- larly we claim to fight for freedom of faith, religious or otherwise.

The accusation that he is alien- ating American sympathy for our cause is a foolish one. Mr Wells is greatly respected in America, and I am suffelenlly confident of American sympathy to believe that it can be left to judge for itself.

In our propaganda to the United States there has been too much of this attitude of "beads for the natives." The American' public is an enlightened one, bred on facts. It is not taken in by the fairy picture of heroles that a number of people would wish to give it.

at the

war-by

HILDE MARCHANT

grades of opinion and outlook. The Americans are not entirely a race of nitwits.

NOTHER sweet story about n dear lady who was giv- ing party and suddenly un- nounced to her friends, "Now look, Mr So-and-So, un American, is coming up. Let's not talk about our fears, shall we? It makes such a bad impression."

Nuts! To all whom it may con- cern-I am frightened, and have sufficient imagination to know the on my house damage n bomb would

a make. Only mummy would pretend otherwise. Let's tell the Americans we don't like bombs, but we can at least behave well under them.

To support my point, let me tell you of a comment from Mr Ralph Ingersoll, the American proprietor of the news-

thing "One

that paper P.M. pleases me here is that I can go anywhore, seo anything, say any- thing without being challenged. And belleve me, you have nothing to hide from the American publle."

Let us live up to that tribute.

SUGGESTION for shelters. We might do credit to our.

comes from a crime.,ro- friends by presenting them all porter friend of mine. Why not

the Old The murderer's cell at Bailey? He points out that there are hundred cells in the Old Bailey, pleasantly furnished with ston! and chair and mattress, empty, with a strong steel door for protection.

The murderer's cell is slightly imore privileged than the rest, it is three times the size, and a man and wife and children could rest there quite comfortably. There ure large rooms at the end of the cells fitted with gus and water.

I think for those who are not squeamish it would be an excellent iden to spend the night in the rondemned.cell and come out alive in the morning. Many have come out to die.

Evans of the Broke might in- vestigate these cells. By some strange feature of the war they are nearly always empty.

WH

WHAT is this little game the Post Office'ls playing? A friend wanted to send a telegrum to her husband and she was told it would take a long time, but she could pay sixpence extra to send It priority. She paid, and It nrrived in half an hour.

Priority is usually reserved for

connected messages

with somo wartime service. It has now been opened to the public because tele- groms were taking hours. It la sixpence for the privilege of get- ting your telegram put on the top of the pile.

Speed should be a normal ser- vice of telegrams-not to be, pald for at e premium.

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