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Army

"ET another new

publication has been sent

(I pass them all on to one of the organisations which are collecting & cataloguing war documents.)

Some weeks ago I noticed a news magazine produced by the 2nd Btn, London Irish Rifles. This apparently prompted the 1st Btn of the same regiment to start their own magazine.

It is called The Ordinary Fellow (you recognise the quotation? George V). But the editor, 2nd Lieut J. R. Strick, writes: "We do not want to make it a collection of hockey notes & battalion gossip we aim at something more than that. Most of us have had some very odd ex- periences. send in what you like

the law of libel

holds good, even In the Army."

LEAST ordinary, most in-

teresting, personal record in the first issue is that of Piper Mulqueen, who was a footman at the German Em- bassy in London under Rib- bentrop and Dirksen and won some fame early in the war by "rescuing" the Embassy chow.

It is typical of Nazi pretentious- neus and German fetishim that ench Embassy foolman had to have six different uniforms: in the morning they wore light brown Jacket, dark trousers; in the after- noon, dark. blue; in the evening, talls. In addition they had brown walking-out uniform "complete

with the German eagle."

"It amused me," says Mulqueen, "to see my Territorial kit hanging In the same cupboard..

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I hope a copy of this magazine reaches Ribbentrop. Employers rarely get chance of seeing themselves as their servants see them. (How startled some of the old ladies of Belgravia & Torquay would be to glimpse the hatred smouldering below the bland domestic obsequlousness that sur- rounds thein.)

To Mulqueen, Ribbentrop and bis wife seemed "very severe and dis- tant." They always had breakfast in bed. "If the pay had not been so good I doubt if I should have carried on" because none of the 20 other servants

spoke English The

Japanese Ambassador pi- ways tipped the servant, who helped him upstairs half-n-crown. "Sometimes members of the Ifit- ler Youth would visit the Embassy whilst on holiday, and there would be much grumbling when their hobnalled boots were heard clatter- ing all over the polished surfaces."

MINORTM crisis at table--

One occasion when Dr Dirksen was Ambassador, and Mr Chamberlain was on his right at dinner. I had to serve the potatoes and cabbage both of which the Prime Minister re- fused. A minute later, Dr Dirksen who had noticed his empty plate,

Mremember

of

Chances Peace

for Italy

NE of the- my my- steries of the War that

-

By CANDIDUS

ferent from all

other WATE Is the attitude of Germany to the Italian invasion of Greece and the continuing in- difference of Hitler to the setback his Jackal has sustained there.

It has been said often and, truly enough in the past that the Italians are fighting itler's war, even if their help has been help only in the Plekwickian and Halion sense.

Be that as it may, it is fairly obvious that Ifiler refuses to fight Mussolini's war, which Mussolint, under the hammer blows of the R.A.F. and the Navy, I finding It increasingly difleult to fight him- self.

In ways that are dark and for tricks that are vain, the heathen Chinese of Bret Harle's poem could teach the Germans nothing, and it is conceivable that the Axis part- ners have fatched a scheme be- tween themselves, of which the Nazi's apparent disinterestedness In the Greek campaign is a part.

On the other hand, It is not out of the question that Hitler is de- liberately refusing to back up his ally in furtherance of his own de- signs.

[ITLER is extremely anxious to

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secure the co-operation of France for his "new doubl" in Europe.

Mussolini, who has all the greed of his peasant origin, is equally anxious to carve up the French Empire and to acquird the largest slice of it.

If Hitler allowed Mussolini to have his way, all likelihood of French co-operation would be over. He has to choose between the two, and the Indications are that he has elected to have France on his side, In arriving at that decision, It Is not only the facts of the present 'situation that would influence Hit-

ler, who has a long memory.

The Fuchree does not forget-- very few Germans have forgotten -Italy's double-cross of Imperial

Germany in 1915. Moreover, the Germans and the Italians have never had much usc for cach other. The Italian people hate the Germans and the Germanis despise the Italians.

YEITHER Hitler nor the Ger-

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mans at large would weep if Italy found herself in a bad fix.

Nobody, I msgine, knows that better than Mussolini docs, and the Duce must surely wonder if the cold shouldering of Italy in the Molotov-Hitler conversations is not a calculated move to "rub it in" that he is the very junior partner

the

Axis, who will be shown the door when Hitler's use for a Jackal

over.

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For these various reusons I am Inclined to regard with less than ordinary scepticism rumours that Mussolin! contemplates making overtures for peace, especially as he is absolutely incapable of wag- Ing a

long war. Here

is

a great chance for our diplomacy to redeem its past errors and maladroliness. If Mussolini

can be persuaded that Codlin's the friend, not Short, the entire aspect

ect of the war would be changed in a fash. The threat to

to Egypt would be removed at once, which would liberate our Mediterranean Fleet from its present preoccupations in that quarter and our Naval forces operating in the Atlantle would re- ceive reinforcements so powerful' that beating the U-boats and the commerce raiders would soon be an accomplished fact,

AFTER that, the blockade..could

really be made a stranglehold on Germany, and we could con- -centrate-nil-our-military-activities- on the Reich in the air, at sen, and, ultimately, on land.

are

Those are the possiblities-they no more than that of the future, which may or not come to poss. But amid so much that is doubtful, one thing at least is cer- tain that it Mussolini did with- draw from the Axis, in no part of

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"WHO'S YEHUDI?"

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Yehudi?" The Thousands of

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question is a new craze which riddle to each other, and the is sweeping the United States answers outmatch each other in and threatens to become bigger silliness. Here are some typical and crazier than the "Little examples: Audrey," "Knock Knock," and "Confucius-He Say" epide- mics.

thought only Jews wore bowler hals."

The article ends with the out-

break of war: "I was called up on

"He is the guy who holds up strapless bathing-suits and evening gowns."

"He's the man who makes rimless glasses with invisible lenses for the little man who wasn't there so he can read be-

n Friday, and had some last drinks | tween the lines of the unwritten

with the staff, who were very sud.

. We promised not to shoot each

other.

law."

Nobody gives. the right

"I remember the chief clerk ask-answer-that Yehudi does not

Ing me to organise the black-out. I smiled and showed him my call- ing-up notice."

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called me over and asked me why I, TOO, want Rome bombed-but radio innocently asked the ques-

I had not served him. Mr Chum- beriain then sald he would like some vegetables and took largo helpings of both, which made things very awkward for me. can only think that he was pre- occupied."

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only one, building in Romnc.

tion during a broadcast. It so It is a whacking great targeta tickled the listeners that they glittering-white, gigantic wedding-began to write in and 'phone for cake of a place, perhaps the vul- the answer,

I

Monument to Victor Emmanuel II,

garest building in Europe; the

1825

IRKSEN took Mulqueen to his

estate in Germany.

He liked the friendly people in the inn there. "They would come miles" to get Engilah elgarettes. "I came in for a lot of joking be- cause I wore a bowler hat, which they called in Judenhelm. They

230ft tall, 443ft wide, begun in found his own answer. "Ask The harassed comedian hus unveiled in 1911. Baedeker.

feature fails

it "an inevitable Yehudi's cutie," he says, and In every view of the city," when they ask "Who's Yehudi's 1, too, and mildly amused

cutic?" he replies, "Ask Yehu- Joke but only, so far,

di.?

by onc about Italian naval cowardice.

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It is said that Sir Aldo Castel-The crazo has, not reached lani, famous Fuscist doctor (now deprived of his knighthood), w consulted by an Italian admiral.

lle advised a sea-voyage.

our shores yet, but it is likely to be among our winter epido- mics.

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