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ASPECTS OF WAR LIFE

HOW TO HANDLE TROUBLEMAKERS.--Recruits' to the Corps of Military Pollee. In trajulog at a Northern Conimand depot being shown how to disarm an assallant armed with a bludgeon,

ONE OF THE new three-in-one bunks which are being made for pubile shelters.

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William Hickeye Chances

What the footman

Y

saw

JET another new Army publication has been sent

me.

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

Some weeks ago I noticed n news magazine produced by the 2nd Bin. London Irish

Rifles. Thia 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 Licut 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 even in the

holds good, 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 Nazl pretentious- ness and German fetishism that ench Embassy footman 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, tails. 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.

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

other

To Mulqueen, Ribbentrop and his wife seemed "very severe and dis- tant." They always had breakfast in bed.

"If the pay bad not been so good I doubt it I should hove carried on" because none of the 20 oth

servants spoke English. The Japanese Ambassader al- way's tipped the servant who helped him upstairs half-n-crown. "Sometimes members of the Hit- ler Youth would visit the Embassy whilst on holiday, and there would be much grumbling when their hobnailed boots were heard clatter- ing all over the polished surfaces,"

INOR crisis at table:-

remember

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. called

of Peace for Italy

ONE of the

many my- aleries of the War that is dit- ferent from

other

war's is

all

the attitude of

By CANDIDUS

Germany to the Italian invasion of Greece and the continuing In- difference of Hitler to the setback This jackal has sustained there.

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

Be that as it may, it is fairly obvious that Hitier refuses to fight Mussolini's war, which Mussolini, under the himiner blows of the RA.F. and the Navy, is Anding it increasingly difficult to fight him- self.

In ways that are dark and for tricks that are vain, the heathen Chinese of Bret Harte's poem could tench the Germans nothing, and it is conceivable that the Axis part- ners have hatched a scheme be- tween themselves, of which the Nazi's apparent disinterestedness in the Greek compaign is a part,

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

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TITLER is extremely anxious to secure the co-operation of France for his "new" doubt" in Europe.

Mussolini, who has all the greed of his pensant' origin, is equally · anxious to carve up the French Empire and to acquird the largest slice of It,

I Her allowed Mussolini to have this way, all likelihood of French co-operation would be over. -Ile-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 tot would influence Hit- ler, who has a long memory,

The Fuehrer does not forgel— very few Germans have forgotten Italy's double-cross of Imperial

Germany in

1015. Moreover, the Germ

and the Italians have never hud

much use fur each other. The Italian people hate the Germans and

the

Germans despise the Italians.

NEITHER Hitler nor the. Ger-

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

Nobody, I imagine, knows that better than Mussolini does, and the Duce must surely wonder if the. cold shouldering of Italy in the Molotoy-Hitler conversations is not

calculated

辘

that

move to "rub it in"

he is the very junior partner in the Axis, who will be shown the door when Hitler's use for n juckal Is over.

For these various reasons I am inclined to regard with less than ordinary scepticism rumours that Mussolini 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 ils past errors and

malist Mussolini

can bo

tlin

that Codlin's

friend, not Short, the entire aspect of the war would be changed in a flosli,

The

threat to Egypt would be removed at once, which would ilberate our Mediterrancan Fleet from

om its present preoccupations in that quarter and our Naval forces operating in the Atlantic would re- ceive reinforcements so powerful that beating the U-boats and the commerce ralders would soon be an accomplished fact.

*

AFTER that, the blockade could

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

Those are the possibilities—they 'are no more than that of the future, which may or not come to pass. But amid so much that, is doubtful, one thing at least is cer- tain that if Mussolini did with- draw from the Axis, in no part of the world would the move be so popular as in Italy itself.

"WHO'S YEHUDI?”

IS NEW

CRAZE

Yehudi?" The Thousands of people through-

Wer his cryptic out the states are putting the

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 sillin is. Here are some typical and crazier than the "Little examples: Audrey," "Knock Knock," and "Confucius-He Say" epide

mics.

thought only Jews wore bowler hats."

The article ends with the out- break of war:/"I was called up on a Friday, and had some last drinks with the staff, who were very sad. We promised not to shoot each other.

"I'remember the chief clerk ask- Ing me to urganise the black-out. I smiled and showed him my call- ing-up notice."

me over and asked me why I, TOO, want Rome bombed--but

I had not served him. Mr Cham- berlain then said he would like some vegetables and took large both, helpings. of

Whilch made things very awkward for me. I can only think that he was pre- occupied."

DIRKSEN took Mulqueen to his

estate in Germany.

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

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"He is the guy who holds up strapless bathing-suita 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- tween the lines of the unwritten law."

Nobody gives the right answer-that Yehudi does not exist.

Actually, it started when' a comedian оп the American

radio innocently asked the ques- tion during a broadcast. It so only one building in Rome. It is a whacking great target a tickled the listeners that they glittering-white, gigantic wedding began to write in and 'phone for

the vul- enice of a place, perhaps:

rope, the answer. building garest Kadar che to Victor Europe; the 230ft tall, 4431t wide, begun in. 1885, unvelled in 1911. Baedeker, lackfully, calls it "an inevitable feature in every view of the city." 1. too, and mildly amused by a one...

Joke but only, so far, by o about Italian naval cowardice.

It is said that Sir Aldo Castel- lani, famous Fascist doctor (now deprived of his knighthood), was consulted by oo Italian admiral.

He advised a sen-voyage.

Tho harassed comedian has found his own answer. "Ask Yehudi's cutle," he says, and when they ask "Who's Yehudi's cutie?" he replies, "Ask Yehu- di."

The craze has not reached our shores yet, but it is likely

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