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HITLER AND BALKANS

PRIVATE LIFE OF A PRIVATE

Moustache Parade

T

Further extract from the diary of a. journalist

· turned soldier.

this place, men are men.: They have upper lips as epiky as cacti.

There are soldiers in this camp who have not kissed a wo- man since childhood, for fear of stabbing her through the cheeks with the waxed ends of their stiletto-like moustachios.

There la' a tale of a sergeant-major whose moustache, through thirty- five years of twisting and waxing, grew into a kind of horney substance with which, if enraged, he could rip people open.

#

The man who told me about it is. an old regular soldier. "He used to sleep wiv 'Is old moustache in a little bag like a 'ammock," he said,. to He himself had been trying raise a similar proof of virility for years, but the thin, sandy soll of his lip yielded nothing but fuf.

We had not been in our new camp twenty-four hours before the foreign recruit, whom we call Siberia was, as they say, "Stopped for his mous .Lache,"

He affected a row of bristles in the ampe of an eyebrow, which the Tad from the Elephant and Castle de scribed as "Nine 'airs and a nit."

*

The Regimental Sergeant Major-

a fatherly kind of man about whom the most insatiable grouser can and nothing to say-didn't know what to call it. He simply said: "Shave this morning?"

Siberia replied: "Yes, sir."

Then the R.S.M., shaking his head sadly, sald:

"Do something about that moun- tache, son. Cut it off, or else grow

SHRUNK

FASCIO

FUB

PARIS UNDER

THE

GERMANS

By Polly Peabody

The Parisians of to-day and "Vive Churchill, a mort Hit-

But most enjoyed by all Hit-

it. Don't leave it hanging about as are prisoners of war under ler!" as well as "Vichy a vendu ler's followers are the Paris la France aux Allemands ," shops. These men, denied all

if it doesn't know whether it's com the vigilant watch of an are scratched on walls and luxuries for so long, who had not

ing or going."

Siberia said "Yes, sir," and a dark

glint, come into his little bright eyes. army of gaolers. They can window-panes; and under cover seen a well-furnished store for Later, he said:

•

cut it off or grow it, ch? Good. hardly call anything their of darkness anti-British posters years, became inflicted with: a buying craze which bordered on THE stage is being set for the

I shall grow it till I make Old Blown, and their enemy is the are torn down.

hysteria. Stocks of perfumes, But the iron grip is tighten- silk stockings, silk underwear, first military opposition to Hit- look like a chorus boy."

So he went out and bought a tube arbiter of their every action. ler in his quest for the "peace-of moustache-pomade, and paced the At first the French were ing, and severe punishments are furs, etc., have been almost en- ful" subjugation of the whole of hut feeling his lip.

stunned by the blow of sud- inflicted for any infringement of tirely exhausted. Many shops, southeast Europe. First move

den defeat. They blamed the rules or for any apparently which are not allowed to close. unfriendly attitude. Many of remain open with empty coun- was Yugo-Slavia's repudiation

Next morning, the Kid from their leaders, who had, they fenders are shot. When the ters and barren shelves.

The ingenious Parisians have of the tri-Power pact signed by widnes made a vast commotion over felt, betrayed them, and culprit cannot be found some in- her former Premier and Foreign his shaving. He lathered his pink

face until he was hung with a kind cursed their own blindness nocent person is shot in his place found ways of escape from many and the local community heavily unfamiliar difficulties which are Minister; then followed re-or Father Christmas board of white

suds. But he left his upper lip un- and the mistakes of these fined in sums ranging up to a now inflicted upon them, One. million franca. Paris cinemas of them is the problem of trans-. ported (and not officially

lathered.

are closed for weeks when Axis portation, Taxis and buses no denied) "massing of British armed forces on Yugo-Slavia's southern frontier, and simul- taneously Yugo-Slavia rushed troops to her Rumanian, Hun- garian and Bulgarian borders, while the Nazis proceeded to concentrate armies on the other side of the frontiers. Since then events have been moving in- exorably towards a final show- down.

He wet his safely-razor, grasped last years. himself by the left ear, Beraped off Now the reaction has set personalities are hissed on the longer exist. Cycling or walk- cap, and sold "Ahal"

nimum" he said.

There's nothing

Hot rid of more sud...

brushless cream.. Maybe I'll get

screen.

We looked at him. Mmmmin. They have learned their." like a shave to liven a man up." lesson under the pressure of

He contorted his face very hideous-the German boot. As a re The writer of this thur gult, they are determined to article is a young resist their invader with the American who has And a only weapons left at their

Well, how does away the burn. it look, Silence?" ".*

"Smooth as on cgg."

one o' them thur cut-throats... You get a cleaner shave with one o them thur cut-throats..

bottle o' that thur lotion to take command their wit and their intelligence. The Ger- mans have conquered the

The Kid's face was, in fact, as How's me tash mingent country, but they have not

smooth

asked.

egg-a fried egg.

"What, tash?" asked Old Silence,

rather astonished,

conquered the people, for they have utterly failed to understand the French men- tality.

Mussolini, thoroughly alarmed at the prospect of a belligerent Yugo-Slavia, aided by British men and materials, on the op- posite side of the Adriatic Sea, has apparently appointed himself

To-day Paris is a sad and de- mediator between Belgrade and Berlin; Hitler, adopting his now

"Wipe it when you've finished," pressing sight. It is more re- the Kid from Widnes, Heminiscent of a garrison town transparent tactics, is filling his bustled into the hut, borrowed a than one of the world's most

of mirror from a Corporal, and ex- stories newspapers, with

cities.

-Bullet-grey amined his face; grabbed Siberia's delightful

in, said: "Widnes, lend us your At this point, Old Meanie, rushing ruzor."

sald

just reached London after many adventures in war-time Europe, She spent the last three months before her departure for Eng- land working in the American Red Cross

·Hospital in Paris.

ing is the only substitute. As bicycles are few, it is notʼun- usual to see a man pedalling hard with his wife in a little trailer. behind.

With most of the shops empty and the German occupation mark

French, a system of. barter has still greatly mistrusted by the sprung up in Paris. A few ezga a few lumps of coal for a little are exchanged for knitting wool, oil, a piece of soap for almost anything. The acute shortage of food taxes the skill of the French, cook, who, without the necessary ingredients, still feels he must save his reputation.

Shortage Of Food

Food cards are issued and ra- For the Germans, this Paris There are long waiting lines in tions are growing smaller. that for so many years has been the streets outside the markets. hailed as the "Becca of Joie de Housewives often stand in the

alleged Yugo-Slav atrocities tube of

of moustache-pomade, and plas- cars roar up and down the Vivre," and which was to be the cold for hours, only to return upon the Germans. Equally tered his upper lip with it.

"A tash should bo trained," he ad. Champs Elysees; troops crowd shining trophy of their drive to home empty-handed. significant, though perhaps less "I'm going to grow a proper tash, a the pavements; sentries, salut- the West, is a disappointment. obvious in design, is the visit of colonel's fash, all brushed up, like,"

The iron discipline of the Ger- Mr Anthony. Eden and General The Corporal said, "Mind you don't ing and heel clicking, stand at Since the day when 187, aero- Sir John Dill to Belgrade, and grow that tash too long, or it'll get attention at the doors of hotels planes were shot down over Eng man army has made itself felt. in your gas-mask and suffocate you." and apartment houses which land, dancing has been stopped. Speed and efficiency have become not to be ignored in these poll- The Kid from Widnes looked grave. have been requisitioned by the restaurante and night clubs. To policemen were given long white Notices of this were posted in the mode in Paris, Fronch

tical-cum- military manoeuvres

army of occupation. The Swas- add to the gloom, Nazis were gloves to direct the traffic in was the recent overture by

tika flies over every famous forbidden to associate with Gorman style. In restaurants, Turkey to Yugo-Slavia indicat-

building in the city as a bitter French women. The gaiety hás erstwhile slow waiters fairly and constant reminder of the ing willingness to implement an

German triumph. alliance suggested some time ago, but which was then cold: shouldered.

Then Old Menule came back, and said, "Funny, kn?"

"What d'you mean, funny?" asked the Kid.

"That razor."

"You fussy git," said the Kid from Widnes. "If It's good enough for me, It's good enough for you.

iti

Yeah? Well, It's got no blade in

"Oh," said the Kid from Widnes.

War On The Walls

gone out of Paris, and the bitter sprinted from table to kitchen. cold and shortage of food add German rules must be obeyed. to the depression. A few night. Any lingering after curfew hour clubs are kept open specially for lands the offender in pollshing. the Germans; and there they sit Nazi boots or peeling potatoes waged-not a spectacular war watching the shadow of an ex- A woman who crosses an avenue Yet in Farie is a war being drinking bad champagne and until five o'clock in the morning. but efficient in its purpose. It pected lightning

war

grow outside the pedestrian zone was,

The implication behind all this is that Hitler's days of over- running the smaller nations by brutal intimidation are ended, He has been brought to a jolting and unexpected full stop in his enable Britain to set up valuable air bases for attacks on vital industrial quest for easy conquest of south Nazi cities in the east; it would spell castern Europe. If he wishes to the final overthrow of Mussolini in progrcas any further,vable, it portunities for wholesale sabotage Hitler's

it would offer splendid op versation-theso undermine all herded together in large trucks, fight, and it is conceivable, in view of his pronounced plans re- by antagonisite. Rumarlans and Bul-The thousands of posters which of these expeditions. Another France still lives. The people garding the battle of the Atlan, garlans; and even If his armica suc- paper the walls of the city serve big moment is the morning now look to the future, with the tic, that a war front in the Yugo-Slavia, it would cost them as an outlet for a growing anger. parades over the whole length of great hope that Britain and the Balkans la the very last thing he de- heavily in men and materials, net- The Parisians never miss an oc- the goose-stepping Nazis and British Empire, their Allies and/ sires. The reasons are crystal clear; ther of which would Hitler find easy casion to scratch sarcastic con- the sound of heavy German their friends, will triumph, and ments above the very words that music, the Parisians turn their that they themselves may still not inconsiderable part of his Luft- War in the Balkans does not pre- are supposed to win over their heads to avoid looking at a ple- be able to play a part in the walle · from `, their main feld of I sent a very healthy prospect for allegiance, "Vive De Gaullel” ture which breaks their hearts overthrow of the hated Bocho. J operations western Europe; it would Germany

is the war of scribbles on the darker and longer.

na a lesson, escorted back and walls, of hisses and catcalls In

forth ten times by a Nazi official. Sightseeing is one of the ma- Aray of light from a window in the darkness of the theatre and cinema, of knowing smiles, of jor pastimen for the army of oc a black-out may bring a revolver subtle double meanings in con- cupation. They tour the town bullet through one of the panes.

ceeded. In making some progress in

It would entail the diversion of 'n to replace,

propaganda

efforts. Napoleon's tomb in the highlight Yet the soul of Paris and of

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