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HITLER AND BALKANS

THE slage is being set for the first military opposition to Hit- ler in his quest for the "peace ful" subjugation of the whole of southeast Europe. First move was Yugo-Slavia's repudiation

PRIVATE LIFE.. OF A PRIVATE

Moustache Parade

Further extract from the diary

IN

of # journalist turned soldier,

IN this place, men are men. They have upper lips as spiky ns 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 is 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.

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The man who told me about it is an old regular soldier. "He used to sleep wiv 's old moustache in n little bag like a 'ammock," he said.

He himself had been trying to ratse a similar proof of virility for years, but the thin, sandy soil of his Up yielded nothing but fluff.

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

He affected a row of bristles in the shape of an eyebrow, which the Lad 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 find nothing to say-didn't know what to call it. He simply sald; "Shave this morning?"

Siberia replied: "Yes, sir."

Then the R.S.M., shaking his head undly, said:

11.

if

"Cut it off or grow it, ch?

Good.

April 4. 1941.

SHRUNK

FASCISM

AR'S MASHTUB

PARIS

THE

WINDRAM ROBINSON

UNDER GERMANS

By Polly Peabody

In France aux Allemands. shops. These men, 'denied all are scratched walls and luxuries for so long, who had not

"Do something about that mous-

The Parisians of to-day and "Vive Churchill, a.mort Hit- But most enjoyed by all Hit- tache, son. Cut it off, or else prow

Don't leave it hanging about as are prisoners of war under ler!" as well as "Vichy a vendu lur'a followers are the Paris it doesn't know whether it's coin- ing or

the vigilant watch of an Koing." Siberi

suld "Yes, sir," and a dark army of gaolers. They can window-panes; and under cover seen a well-furnished store for glint in said:

cune, into his little bright eyes. Later,

hardly call anything their of darkness anti-British posters years, became inflicted with a buying craze which bordered on own, and their enemy is the aré torn down.

But the iron grip is tighten silk stockings, silk underwear, hysteria. Stocks of perfumes, arbiter of their every action. At first the French were ing, and severe punishments are fura, etc., have been almost en stunned by the blow of sud- inflicted for any infringement of tirely exhausted. Many shops, the rules or for any apparently which are not allowed to close, den defeat. They blamed.

unfriendly attitude. Many of remain open with empty coun

The ingenious Parisians have nocent person is shot in his place found ways of escape from many

I shall grow it till I make Old Bill look like a chorus boy."

So he went out and bought a tube of moustache-pomade, and paced the jhut feeling his Ep.

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of the tri-Power pact signed by widnes made a vast commotion over

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

་་ ་

her former Premier and Foreign his shaving. He lathered his pink felt, betrayed them, and culprit cannot be found some in- Minister; then followed reported free until he was hung with a kind cursed their own blindness and the local community heavily unfamiliar difficulties which, are ' (and not officially denied) re- 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 franes. Paris cinemas of them is the problem of trans- are closed for weeks when Axis portation. Taxis and buses no

of Father Christmas beard of white

Jathered.

He wel his safety-razor, grasped last years.

himself by the left ear, scraped off Now the reaction has set personalities are hissed on the longer exist. Cycling or walk.

scap, and said "Aha!"

We looked at him. "Mmm-

mmm!" he said. "There's nothing in. They have learned their screen.

lesson under the pressure_of_

-like sh

13.

ports of the mussing 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 brushless cream.... Maybe I'll get sult, they are determined to one o' them thur cut-throats.. resist their invader with the You get a cleaner shave with one o'

And only weapons left at their them thur cut-throats. bottle that thur lotion away the burn. nur wen to take command their wit and their intelligence. The Ger- mans have conquered the country, but they have not conquered the people, for they have utterly failed to understand the French men- tality.

a shave to liven u man up," He contorted his face very hideous-

the German boot. As a re- and got rid of more suds. "One day I'll try some of that thur

concentrate armies on the other side of the frontiers. Since then events have been moving in- exorably towards a final show- down.

11 look, Silence?"

"Smooth as an egg."

as

The Kid's face was, in fact, How's the ash coming, one asked.

smooth as an egg.

tube

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The writer of this article is a young American who has

after many adventures just reached London

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.

„ALIMENTARZIARISTIMMARANT GRILLJONUZUNUZ

ing is the only substitute.. As bicycles are few, it is not un 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 still greatly mistrusted by the French, a system of barter has sprung up in Paris. A few eggs

are exchanged for knitting wool, oil, a plece of soap for almost

a few lumps of coal for a little

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

Mussolini, thoroughly alarmed at the prospect of a belligerent Yugo-Slavia, aided by British men and materials, on the op-

"What tashi?" asked Old Silence, posite side of the Adriatic Sea, rather astonished.

At this point, Old Mennie, rushing has apparently appointed himself

in, said: "Widnes, lend us your mediator between Belgrade and razor."

To-day Paris is a sad and de- Berlin: Hitler, adopting his now "Wipe it when you've finished," pressing sight. It is more re-

Food cards are issued and ra- sakd the Kid from transparent tactics, is filling his bustled into the hut, borrowed a than one of the world's most Widnes. He miniscent of a garrison town

For the Germans, this Paris There are long waiting lines in tions Are growing smaller. newspapers with stories of mirror from a Corporal, and ox-

that for so many years has been the streets outside the markets. alleged Yugo-Slav

cities. Bullet-grey atrocities amned his face;

of moustache-pom Siberia's delightful

hailed as the "Mecca of Joie de Housewives often stand in the 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. significant, though perhaps less a going to grow a proper tash, a the pavements; sentries, salut- the West, is a disappointment.

"A tash should be trained," he said. Champs Elysees; troops crowd shining trophy of their drive to home empty-handed. obvious in design, is the visit of colonel's tash, all brushed up, like." Mr Anthony Eden and General Sir John Dill to Belgrade, and not to be ignored in these poll- tical-cum- military manoeuvres was the recent overture by Turkey to Yugo-Slavia indicat- ing willingness to implement an alliance suggested some time ago, but which was then cold- shouldered.

in your gas-mask ond suffocate you.”

The iron discipline of the Ger-

The Corporal said, "Mind you don't ing and heel clicking, stand at Since the day when 187 aero- row 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. The Kid from Widnes looked grave, and apartment houses which land, dancing has been stopped. Speed and efficiency have become Notices of this were posted in the mode in Paris, French have been requisitioned by the army of occupation. The Swas- add to the gloom, Nazis were gloves to direct the traffic in restaurants and night clubs. To policemen were given long white tika flies over every famous

Then Old Meanie came back, and said, "Funny, ha?".

"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."

it!"

"Yeah? Well, it's got no blade in

"Oh," said the Kid from Widnes.

building in the city as a bitter French women.

forbidden to associate with German style. In restaurants,

and constant reminder of the | German triumph.

War On The Walls

is the war of scribbles on the darker and longer. war

walls, of hissea and catcalls in

The gaiety has erstwhile slow waiters fairly 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 polishing The implication behind all this is that Hitler's days of over-

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 Paris is a war being drinking bad champagne and until five o'clock in the morning. running the smaller nations by

but efficient in its purpose. It pected lightning brutal intimidation aro ended.

grow outside the pedestrian zone was, He has been brought to a jolting

as a lesson, escorted back and and unexpected full stop in his cuable Britain to set up valuable alr the darkness of the theatre and Sightseeing is one of the ma- A ray of light from a window in forth ten times by a Nazi official. quest for easy conquest of south-bases for attacks on vital Industrial cinema, of knowing smiles, of jor pastimes for the army of oc- a black-out may bring a revolver eastern Europe. If he wishes to the frat overthrow of Mussolini in subtle double meanings in. con- cupation. They tour the town bullet through one of the panes. progress any further, ho must Albania; it would offer splendid op versation-these undermine all herded together in large trucks. fight, and it is conceivable, in portunities for wholesale sabotage Hitler's propaganda efforts. Napoleon's tomb is the highlight Yet the soul of Paris and of view of his pronounced plans re- by antagonistic Rumanians and Bul-The thousands of posters which of these expeditions. Another France still lives. The people garding the battle of the Atlan- en mating some prosesspaper the walls of the city serve big moment is the morning now look to the future with the

in making progress In tic that a war front in the Yugo-Slavin, it would cost them as an outlet for a growing anger. parades over the whole length of great hope that Britain and the Balkang is the very last thing he de- heavily in men and materials, nel-The Parisians never miss an oc- the goose-stepping Nazis and British Empire, their Allica and it would entail the diversion of a of which would Hitler find easy casion to scratch sarcastic com- the sound of heavy German their friends, will triumph, and War in the Balkans does not pre-ments above the very words that music, the Parisians turn their that they themselves may still sent a very healthy prospect for are supposed to win over their heads to avoid looking at a plc. be able to play a part in the Germany.

allegiance, "Vivo Do Gaullet ture which breaks their hearts. overthrow of the hated Boche.

sires. The reasons are crystal clear:

not inconsiderable part of his. Luft-

walfo from their main field of operations-western Europe; it would

Nazi cities in the cast; it would spell

to replace.