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INSIDE

apparently strike the aver- age German at all.

Direct enthusiasm for the the war can be observed but seldom. Little is known of

Material

which marks the Ger- the grain harvest being The poorest card-holders what is happening in the As a rule soldiers do small on account of the make a business of selling war. man outlook. It was at

rainy summer.

"points" on their cards to not come home on leave; the frontier station. A man, arrived by train Food that is put on show others economically better their relatives seldom get to with his wife, caught consists largely of coffee- placed. Until recently tulle know whether they are alive

fallen - soldier. sight of a keg of butter surrogates, soup extracts, and lace also were not in- or dead, and it is forbidden dried roots for soup making, cluded in the rationed list, to wear mourning for a on the platform and and substitutes for whipped but have just been added to burst out, "Look, cream. With the exception the system, the number of cares appear to engage the Grethe! What a pity of cellular-wool and milk "points" on the clothing thoughts of people more camera, fabrics from Holland there cards being simultaneously than what the Fuhrer and haven't my

increased to 150. The ad- his associates have on hand. There is a whole keg of are few novelties.

vantage is but small as the When watching news reels butter, and abroad they "How

can you expect price in "points" of various at the cinema and the dean- more of us? We are a items has been raised too; lation of enemy lands, with say we have none."

country at war," is the ex- the "points" for a dress hav- the "manly" German airmen It may be there is a cuse offered by tradesmen. ing jumped from 40 up to smiling sadistically as they point to their work, the 60, for example. good deal of butter in A widely advertised new

people remain quite passive, Germany; there are a stocking is said to be im- To conclude, as some are no clapping, no ovations, number of countries pregnated to resist rain and inclined to do, that on ac- nothing of the chauvinistic from which it can be the attacks of gnats or mos- count of the scarcity of com- passion one might have ex- squeezed; but such an quitoes. "They should also modities the Germans will pected from the propaganda argument from an ob- be impregnated against lad- be unable to tide over the orgies of the Press. It is as ders," whispered an Aus- winter would be excessive if they are oppressed bomb- server, obviously seri- trian woman maliciously. optimism. It is not easy to raiding and cannot easily ous, who see a keg of The special meaning of her probe the heart of a German forget them. butter in a country of remark lay in the fact that of the Third Reich, but the 80,000,000 people and the German ration of stock- living requirements of the #1 9078 Ko-Ko--Fox Trot.......... Duke Ellington and His Famous Orehi. | JOBANNESSEN.—At War Memorial

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WARTIME

year.

Yet, although real en- thusiasm is absent, it would be wrong to conclude there is any spirit of capitulation or defeatism. The German has, either by nature or up- bringing, a perverse ten-

the dulling effects of ings is only three pairs a common man are well known dency to submit to and "en- to be small. Talks even with joy" privation, to obey with- reflexion. Obedience Nazi propaganda.

old acquaintances in Ger- out It is possible still to keep many do not yield much gives him a good conscience, In spite of the keg of

In whether he is serving a use- above the hunger line, result in these times. butter there is certainly though only few demands what they say you recognise ful purpose or not.

great scarcity of

can really be satisfied, but to phrases from the newspaper These leanings have been general commodities in manage on what the cloth- or the wireless, and it is sel- cultivated by the Nazi re- Germany. Butter ra-ing cards allow requires dom you can find an indivi- gime, which has at the same tions are 125 grammes clever artistry or recourse dual voice break through. time exploited his proneness [about 1⁄4lb.] a week, to to hoards laid up in advance. This is partly due to terror to a sort of philosophical of the Gestapo and partly to idealism. The State is for which may be added 30 For the war year just past the inability of the masses to the German something of in-

oz.] grammes [1

of the clothing cards had 100) U.S. “WAR” Budget

cooking fats. The meat points," Of these a dress withstand seven years of trinsic value, almost a mys- knocked off 40 at one stroke, propaganda and preserve tie personality. It is the individuality of reasoning god Moloch, entitled to re- PRESIDENT Roosevelt yes-ration is 500 grammes a man's suit 60, an overcoat

quire everything from his terday produced what is virtual-[about 1 lb.] a week, in- 80, a pair of stockings six to power.

If you hear a word of option to give anything in re- citizens without the obliga- ly a war budget. "The budget eluding sausage. Poul-eight and 20 metres of

I transmit is a reflection of a try and bird-flesh in darning wool cancelled out position, you may be sure world at war," declared the Pre-general is not on cards, one point. The card must you have an Austrian before turn.

also serve for footwear and you, or perhaps a Sudeten In this respect the Aus- sident, adding "it is safe only to but it is practically un- the soling of old shoes, for German, for these have not trian and the. Czech are dif- prepare for total defence." This obtainable in the towns. bed sheets, and towels; so it yet been SO thoroughly ferent and are before, for: is-America's answer_to___the}.

During the fairs in Leip-is easy to imagine what cowed-as-have-Germans of one thing, less easily in- challenge of the Totalitarians.

fluenced by Nazi propagan- . Between June 1941 and June Zig and Vienna, to which straits a man reaches before the Reich proper. 1942 the United States expects foreigners had been in- deciding on an overcoat or a

to spend over G$10,000,000,000 vited, chicken could be new suit.

un national defence. Over and

"We

da. never thought it would be so under Ger- But just on account of the above that, unspecified expendi- found at the restaurants The purchase of shoes is many," said a Sudeten Ger- German's peculiar mentality tures are to be made on behalf here and there, and the

of the Allied cause. "The mat-meatless days were also

ter of providing munitions for suspended, though rein-

Democracies - defending troduced

the

themselves against attack must

be considered immediately," after.

immediately.

GERMANY

subject also

-which an outsider can

never

fully comprehend however much he may try it is impossible to predict. how he will react to the com- ing war.

winter. There

to another man guest of the fair one must be a limit somewhere, Milk is almost impossible formality." The petitioner evening when wine had beyond which he can not be to obtain; adults are allowed must make a petition in eased his tongue a little; "if herded, but where is the only skimmed milk and in writing to the local authori. We had known that, we limit? very small quantities; cream ties and testify that he has should never have supported has not been seen for a year, no more than one pair. An

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STRONG pressure ls to be put on the Government by members

Government for the use of naval hases in Elre.

stated President Roosevelt in his budget message, thereby re- aflirming his pledge made earlier this week to give Britain aid to the limit short of going to war.

Thus have the dictator nations -one swaggering and boastful, also neither coffee nor tea, indefinite period. elapses be Another visitor to the fair the other tottering and dispirit- ed, the third cautious, suspicious except what soldiers send fore the appeal is granted, declared that discontent was -succeeded in arraying against occupied countries; children petitioner must be prepared Bavaria ever since the "at- for a visit by the house ins- tempt" in Munich which is themselves the two most power-are entitled to a hecto-

pector to verify the state of believed there to have been The ful nations of the world.

gramme [between 3 oz. and

his wardrobe. If the visit engineered by Hitler him- biter is about to be bit. The 4oz.] of chocolate, so long shows him or her to have self, partly to revive his United States industry and as the supply lasts; there several suits, dresses, sets of sunken popularity had part of all political parties to secure or anything ly in order to get rid of trou-an agreement with the Elreann finance are to be used to their are scarcely any vegetables underwear, capacity in a common fight or fruit to be had. You more than a good Nazi blesome companions. against what the Americans may go from greengrocer to should have, some of it may be taken away and no com- When this is achieved the anything but potatoes, cab-pensation given. As nobody themselves mostly by the re- which Britain should not have

greengrocer without finding spectacular output of the Nazi bage-heads, and green toma- knows what the limit is, flexion that the war is a been called on to shoulder led at war industry during the past toes. Crops have been poor, most of the citizens go as

long as possible before tak- matter for Hitler, that he once to many conferences behind eight years will be made to ap-

knows best, that in a fort the scenes. ing the risk of asking for night it will all be over. Ap- There is no doubt the Government pear trifling.

The knowledge is sufficient to have decided to oppose with all new shoes; and this is popu

how long they have been necessary to regain strike terror into the hearts of the resources at their command, larly believed to be the real parently they do not realise would have the fullest support from the Axis partners. When two and his fate is sealed.

object of the Nazi shoe and talking about this fortnight. which anti-U-boat action can be or- nations like Britain and the The message behind President wardrobe inspection system. To the well-trained masses a

Bargaining U.S.A. are aroused to fight a Roosevelt's budget, is an assur-

Luxuries are not formally single day may appear as a But the difficulties are fully recog- total. war, there can be only one ance never to permit the aggrca- result the crushing of those sor nations to obtain that banned, however. Furs and thousand years and a thou-nised. No politician tokos seriously responsible for that war. Ilit-domination of the world which silks are still offered for sale sand years as a day. If one a suggestion that the bases should be ler may have his plans, his they seek: The challenge to without cards, but they are meets criticism at all, it does taken back, and that force should be But it is thought that some are: subtle manoeuvres, his clever Hitler and his partners is un- very dear. Quite a number not concern Hitler person- propaganda, but the two great-mistakeable, and provides for of elegant silver foxes may ally. That he may be re-rangement for their temporary leaz

political advantages to Eire'in return, est dofenders of the system them an ominous opening to the be seen here and there in the sponsible in any way for in, or for their sale to. Britain, with

streets.

present conditions does not may be the way out. which Hitler is trying to smash - year, 1041.

But such tones are not frequent. People console

Mr Churchill's reference to the loss of the bases as a burden.

ganised.

for any action considered the bases from

used if necessary,