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CIRENAICA RETREAT

POPULAR reaction to the British withdrawals from Cirenaica has perforce leaned towards puzzlement mixed with some anxiety. What do they portend? has been the question generally asked. It is impossi ble to give an emphatic answer, but certain points can be, and should-be-taken-into-considera-

tion.

THE

April 10, 1941..

An Easter Message By A. J. CRONIN

Author of "Hatter's Castle." etc.

TN those days when my medical practice took me through the grimy alleys and dingy one- roomed tenements of the slums of a grent city, I had a patient who has ever since lived in my recollection.

She was an Irishwoman, past fifty, worn, beshawled, wrinkled as a walnut, raddled with work und misfortune and sickness.

If-ever anyone had learned by heart the bitter lesson of the poor, surely it was she. And now, at the end of a life of unbelievable vicissitude, she lay stricken with a lingering, incurable disease... tuberculosis of the thront.

A harrowing picture, and one I might have spared you, save for the fact that it provides me with a parable.

LIGHT

OF THE

WORLD

of their dojection. All light was gone, all hope seemed lost!

Then came the cry: "Christ is risen! The days of darkness and defeat are past! Christ is risen from the dead!"

BETTE DAVIS

and

CHARLES BOYER

in

ALL THIS

AND HEAVEN

TOO

Sarialised by Harry Loo From the Novel By

RACHEL FIELD

And so, this Easter, above all times, we have the invitation to open our hearts to this ever- lasting light, to cast out the

THE STORY SO FAR: Mademoi- gloomy shadows of despair. To selle Henriette, governces in a titled let Christ arise, not in the stereo-Parisian family, is tried for the mur typed lip service of clamorous, acquitted. Through the aid

der of her employer's wife, and of Henry conflicting creeds, not in plati- Field, a young American preacher, tudes invoked to suit. the policies she gets a position in an exclusive of politicians, but in sweet tran- New York girls school. Her pupils quillity, secretly, within

iscover her past and taunt her. She is tempted to resign but Field induces breasts.

her to face them, and by telling them

er story, to

They win their respect. listen breathlessly as she tells of her trip to Paris-the meeting with young Field-and of the Duke and Duchess

Make no mistake.... present chaos is no novelty.

Our

this

MANKIND, through the ages, and their children and of the inaone has known war before, and jealousy of the Duchess. Mile. Hen- For this old woman made no life, sweeping mankind irrevoc. cruelty, torture, oppression, the rtette saves the life of the youngest, moan about her wretchedness. ably to its doom.

ghastly stalemate of siege, the but incurs the hatred of the Duchers. While she and her children are away horrors of famine and of plague. the Duke takes his daughter to the Whenever, on my professional Humanity, bloody beneath re-

And mankind has survived. theatre and the governess accom- visits, I attempted a word of peated bludgeonings of fate, Mankind has endured these hor-panies them. The dailies blare the awkward sympathy... making bound by the chains of tyranny, a truce with my conscience, as befuddled by the fog of battle, rors, not of its own seeking; has story and the Duchess sees it.

struggled from the pits into she had always a bemused by the crass ineptitude, which, with cheering and with

it were.

to witness the breaking of un- other dawn.

CHAPTER IV

state of blind fury at reading

the her aged father,

Marechal Sebastiant-Abbe Gallard, her con-

her fessor-and

younger children, their arrival the children rushed hep- and Raynald. On Isabelle, Berthe ply to their beloved Mile. Henriette,

"Ever since you have come here,"

TILE Trenx "Special to the Telegraph smile, a bright shake of her the lying promises of its leaders, drums, it has been led, has MADAME LA DUCHESSE, in a head, and the same incorrigible can see no farther than this near emerged, triumphant, marching the papers, at once left Corsica for unconquerable reply:

horizon. Humanity, in short, has onwards to a gentler era, aher Paris home-and with her came "Ah, now, doctor! What's lost the power to hope!

period of recovery and peace. your worry? Sure, there's al. And so, to-day, it would appear

In a universe where star light as though the dictum of my old takes a hundred million years to ways to-morrow!”

it wasn't her courage that slum woman holds a message: a travel to this planet, time cannot struck me though God knows special, precious message, am- she had enough of that! Nor plified and reinforced by this be measured by the pinpricks of

one man's allotted span.

who shortly after was summoned to the gloomily magnificent chamber of yet her wry, invincible deter- present season of the year. mination, expressed with the

"There's always to-morrow!" HITLER-like Hannibal, Attila, confronted by the lady of the house, the Duchess, where she was sternly flowery romanticism of her race, THAT, indeed, is a thought all who sought to dominate the

Napoleon, Ghengis Khan, and her father, and her priest. which is appropriate to any Earth, each in his petty day of the Duchess began with baleful eyes Eastertide: when Nature holds pillage and destruction acclaim and voice, "you have carried on 2. It was something deeper, its breath in expectation... not ed as Moloch, Precursor of Mil- deliberate campaign to steal away rarer: the shining practice of a in fearfulness, but in joyfulness lennium... is no more than all that you dared plan this latest insult! from me everything I love! But, oh, virtue so neglected, so'forgotten, and hope.

illusion, a fleeting irritation, a That while I was away you flaunted it has ceased almost, to exist.

For then, the earth is awaken gnat alighting-for-an-instant-on your hold over my husband in public.. Nowadays we are gorged with ing, Lambs frisk in the green a glacier, when viewed from the for the King and all Paris to see!" a diet of faith and charitya pastures, the trees put forth standpoint of eternity. stodgy diet, devoid of vitamins! their buds. The birds sing again, The human soul, imbued with Madamel I resent this slander as

From the pulpits of Christen- spring flowers break upon the hope, is indestructible. No wea-much or more than you do." dom we are urged to believe in mossy freshness of the wood pon forged by man or devil can God, to love our highly unlovable land banks; Sap runs anew in ever vanquish it. neighbours as ourselves.

the willow shoots, yellow catkins Amidst the savagery and nod in the breeze, the rivers fill beastliness of war, the heels of

"I admit nothing, Madame. If you the sound and the fury of music.

out the seeds of nobility and believe facts-in this house, which is the exhortations, the world lies

Now life is everywhere, a truth. Beyond the insane tumult infested by Mme. Maillard, and your bathed in Stygian despair. sense of brightness and of light, of the conflict there lies the pro-known." Here

other

spies, my every movement la

the Duchess Down in the dark corners of Light, indeed... Ah! That mise of the skies.

called from the room and her ancient many human hearts lies the is the koy for which we blindly Gentleness and kindness are father insisted that should the gover- morbid certainty that this bar- seek.

immortal. The tyrant's bones barism, this lunatic convulsion The very name of Easter, from will one day rot, and from that of a power-drunk autocracy- the Saxon Eostre, emblem of festering corruption will apring call it what you wish-is the light, betokens the true signi- an Easter snowdrop. final horror, the cataclysm which ficance of the festival, the re- Remember, remember, on the marks the twilight of the world, birth of hope in the souls of men, darkest day of all, Christ will an avalanche annihilating all On Good Friday, the peoples rise again in the hearts of men! that is good and beautiful in of creation touched the abyss There is always to-morrow.

It musi be remembered that Britain, in her Mediterranean and African campaign has been_faced with three responsibilities. Firstly, the safeguarding of Egypt; secondly, the destruction of the Italian empire in East Africa: thirdly, the needs of our Balkon Allies. It has been im- to conduct that campaign possible

three factors collectively.

Hence, brilliant offensive in the Western Desert in which Graziant's huge and splendidly cauler

equipped army was rouled, to be a prelude both

"Please let me speak for myself,

"Do you realise what this slander

as you call it, imples?"

"It is all too clear "Then you admit it."

43

without taking cognisance of these AND through it all, through the lush meadows with their tramping armies cannot stamp don't choose to believe me, you must

the

had of tul completion of the

to the

campaign in East Africa which has Onnily destroyed the Italian empire, and to the release of certain troops for the impending Balkans war.

It now seems clear that General Wavell set himself a time-table to which he and his troops have adhered will almost miraculous precision His skilful disposition or troops and his strategy cannot be challenged, and because he has proved his worth, confidence in his judgment, remaina unimpaired.

The knowledge that Nazi mechan- ised and infantry forces in

сол- siderable numbers have been able to land in Tripoll from Sicily is unpala- table, and it would be unrealise to ignore the potential danger of the present advance by Axis forces in Cirenalea. But this, of itself, docs not necessarily change the essentials of the Mediterranean and Middle East aituation. The original Wavell ad- vance in North Africa was primarily and almost exclusively for the pur- pose of crushing and defeating an army: It was not designed to capture and hold comparatively unimportant desert wasles, and harbours which had been blasted beyond usefulness. The purpose was accomplished; the threat to Egypt was dissolved and the ent reduction of the rest of OverBODA possessions

realised.

The withdrawals from Clrenaica are obviously strategical in design; they are costing us but little i men or materials; meanwhile the British Command can make ils plons for full resistance in its own time and choos- ing its own place. The successful con- clusion, of the East African campaign lu cartain to release for usa

elsewhere thousands of "blooded"

Britlah soldiers, whose awn equipment has been reinforced by huge quanilles of coptured material; and it is conceiva- ble that there will be the men who will stop the Axis advance in North Africa when and where it is desired. It is in this perspective that the British withdenwols" from Cirenaica should be viewed.

Why Easter Eggs and

Hot Cross Buns

Maundy Thursday, 100,

the

the

Was

pess go, it would only give credence to the ugly gossip. He said that from. then on his daughter and son-in-law would be seen together oftener, until the rumours died away.

stay but

Mlle. Henriette agreed

she came out she heard the frenzied voice of the Duchess. "And

it is not enough that you humiliate me at home, without doing it in public? Is it not enough that she is my chlidren's governess, without making, her your companion?" Henriette hurried past she heard the volce now shrill and pleading. "Have pity on me, Theo. It you have done this to punish me, believe me I am well corrected! Come back to me."

Mile, Henriette was in her room

in a tumult of agitation and packing to leave, when the Duke appeared,

To suppress an established custom is twenty-five sovereigns were substitut- It was impossible not to comply with his handsome face drawn and bag- notoriously difficult, and this fact war, ed. recognised by the early Christian] On

the request very modestly made by a gard. "Mademoiselle" he said des- fathers. Thus, Instead of trying toį Sovereign used to wash the feet of the several of them under twenty. I wish-

the set of nymphs in their best apparel, and perately, "you mustn't gol” ' abolish the heathen festival of Eastre, poor. At Greenwich, in 1872, Queen ed to see all the ceremony, and seated "You shouldn't come here now, a Saxun goddess, they wisely preferred Elizabeth washed the feet of thirty-nine myself accordingly. to imbue the feast with a new and poor people. The number was govern lifted me from the ground, turned the trouble."

The group then Monsieur!. There is already enough Christian spirit. And so it comesed by the reign of a monarch. This chair about, and I had the felicity of a about that the tradition of Easter washing ceremony was last performed salute from each. I told them up- reaches back to pagan times,

by James (L

"I beg of you to remember the posed that there was a fee for each Further examples of this early Chris- The tradition behind the old Easter due upon the occasion and was answer children. Raynald who owes you tion polley connection with Easter custom of "heaving" obscure, ed in the affirmative, and having anti-hia life. Louise, Isabelle, Berthe, are not wanting. Our hot cross buns "Heaving" was practised more parti- fled the damsels in this respect they who have learned to trust you!". at Easter are cakes which the Saxons cularly in Lancashire. Straffordshire withdrew to heave others. At this had in honour of their goddess Eostre. and Warwick. It is said originally time I had never heard of the custom, "They are young-they will for- The Christian clergy, who were un- to have typified

Resurrection, but on Inquiry I found that on Easter get," she answered In passionate de- able to prevent the people from eating, and

custom prevailed until Monday, between nine and ten, the fence, "There are some things timt Bought expol the paganism by mark the beginning of the eighteenth con- men heave the women In the same it is useless to fight against, Mon- Ing them with the Cross,

tury. By then, however, it had become manner, as on Tuesday, between tile alour, and one of them is another Again, the Eastern egg carries on a so rough and vulgar a pastime as to be same hours, the women the men," festival tradition which has had its forbidden by the magistrates. In Brillant lighting was a feature of the It will be better for all of us. She woman's Jealousy! She hates mel Brand's "Popular Antiquitie Kearly Christian ritual at Easter, A- counterpart in all parts of the pagan description of the practice by a Me cording to Home, the Parchal Taper at will be happier! And perhaps, in

Thomas Loggan, of Basinghall-street, is Westminster Abbey weighed three time, you and she In mediaeval times the "peace egg" quoted:

hundred pounds.

"Never." was presented by each monk to friends,

"I was altling alone last Easter neighbour or stranger, early in the Tuesday, at breakfast at the Talbot, in Festive ballet was that connected with

But perhaps the most curious Eastor "Sho, Joves you, Monsieur." morning of Easter Day, with the bless- Shrewsbury, when I was surprised by the "dancing sun."

"Soon aftar dawn

"What kind, of love that drives mo Ing of "Pax vobiscum."

the entrance of all the French servants on Easter Day, it was asserted, the to madness!" On Maundy Thursday tradition de- of the house handing in an armchair, sun could be seen dancing in the hea. I shouldn't have presumed to creed that the monarch should dis-lined with white and decorated with vens in honour of the Resurrection speak of love, at all, Monsieur. I tribute gifts of gold, frankincense, and ribbons and favours of different The traditions from which this boller have no right, and I ask you to for- myrrh amongst the poor at the Chapel colours, 1 asked them what they want arose must surely have been of great at it.

world.

Royal, St. James's,

Dut as the yearsed; their answer was that they came antiquity stretching back, perhaps, la passed these offerings gradually dexen-| to heave me,. It was the custom of the the days of sunworship. At any rate, He pleaded in the name of the chil- orated in value, until in 1800, at the place on that morning, and they hoped the Iden of the dancing sun was widely | dren and she consented to stay on "suggestion of tha Prince Consort that I would take a seat in their chair, accepted.

(To be continued on Saturday).