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WAR MAKES DEMOCRACY

By J. B. Priestley

During the war of 1914-1918 tion was bound to produce a it was confidently predicted that good deal of friction, I have a class distinctions would rapidly feeling that far more good than disappear and that the end of harm will have been done in the the, war would see Britain far end by evacuation, that we shall more democratic and equalitari- come out of this war a people an. This prophecy was not ful-possessing far more self-know- alled. There were, of course, ledge and tolerance than we had many changes after 1918, nota- when we went into it. bly in the status of women, but Then again, young children the real democracy and the have been evacuated from the equalitarian society had big cities and spread all over been promised did not appear. Britain. In many instances, There was one good reason such children are being cared why that war could not change for by women who up to now the structura of our society, and have known little about the class that was that although it de- of folk to which these children manded prodigious efforts on the belong. I write "belong" but it part of all the countries engaged would be more accurate to write in it and "sacrificed millions of "belonged," in the past tense, lives, it was still not the "total because these children are now

We

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By PHILLIDA HUGHES

There's a joke going round evacuate and and a refuge for that the Army in England ought the bombed-Mr. *Smith, Mr to be knitting comforts for the Jones and Mr Robinson in their ,civilians, and certainly Mr white collars and their dark Smith, Mr Jones and Mr Robin- coats have to be on the eight- son could do with a few com- fifteen * next morning. ・ “And forts. Most of them have left they don't get paid!" cry our their nice little villas in the dan soldiers on leave. Gosh! why. ger, areas and have acquired the regular Army just wouldn't other little villas, although not do it, they wouldn't work so nice, for their wives and fami- hard!. lies in the safer areas, twenty miles or so from London,

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This altered mode of living Mr Smith, Mr Jones and Mr has turned our white collared Robinson begin to look older. black suited City workers into

It's noticeable, and the way they what the Americans call com- But then we must, too. It isn't have of falling asleep in chairs.

reared

muters, and as the eight-fifteen up in the morning, and the five patriotic to buy too many_cos- fifteen home at night, rarely run beauty aids was the suggestion metica-threepence a week on on time, Mr Smith, Mr Jones and Mr Robinson spend the of one widely-read newspaper greater part of their day getting and heads that they have up to work and home again.. If

under the caressing they use cars they follow the fingers of Antoine de Paris are new war-time code of giving lifts now at the mercy of the Village whenever asked and are some girl with her curling irons and times taken so far out of their her passion for bobby pins. way that there's barely time for Faces that have relied for years an evening meal before getting Elizabeth Arden in Bond Street on the tender ministrations of into uniform and attending a (there is now a special Elizabeth Home Guard parade, or bayonet Arden air-raid shelter in May- practice, or a lecture given by a

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Dunkirk veteran, or a lesson in fair for those who must continue machine gunnery,

working in London) are showing the result of months of separa- tion. Chins may be up. Con- Last night the Man of the tours are definitely down. House took three times us long as usual to get home. No time to cat. Got to clean rifle and The Man of the House has just buttons and be on parade at come in from bayonet practice U.S. AND THE WAR ́

eight o'clock. We rush to make with five tired and hungry coffee, fill flasks, cut sandwiches, friends at heel. The house looks THERE are increasing signs

Sounds of cursing from the bed like an arsenal with all their that the United States is swiftly

room invites a head round the weapons. You can hardly move moving towards belligerent nc-

door and offer of help. The Man for khaki overcoats flung about of the House is sitting on the the hall. tion on behalf of the de-

side of the bed, trying to fasten Violet and I make coffee, dis- mocracies against the Axis

with cold fingers some newly pense bread, pickles and the yet Powers. Not only are President

issued leather gaiters that won't unrationed cheese. I listen fas- meet by an inch.

einated to their talk and the Roosevelt's henchmen-Colonel

"Do the War Office think we're Man of the House says how odd Stimson, Colonel Knox, Mr Cor-

a lot of bloody dwarfs?" he

it was to see business men wear- ing glasses, no longer young, and dell Hull and leaders of the

rages. Senate and House of Representa-

night. I'll have them stretched ried meal, making faces at a row Ssssh! Don't wear them to hiccoughing slightly after a hur-

tives-demanding action by the

to-morrow. Off you go and I'll of sandbags hanging in an empty country which may lead directly war" that we know now. It spending impressionable years have hot soup ready when you sergeant-major to make strange schoolroom, encouraged by their took all the young men away.to in surroundings quite foreign to return. Even if there isn't serve in the armies, and set their parents, and acquiring hu-date to be kept for the Home cries and yells. Their sergeant- these demands are receiving the young women new tasks, such bits unknown in their former Guard they have to turn out in majo-of whom they think the world is our gardener in his approval of the majority of as driving lorries or working on homes. All this must produce uniform every time there is an

the land, but the general struc- some very profound changes. America's influential news-

ture of society remained what papers.

to open conflict with Hitler, but

it was. When the young men,

Workers' Mobilisation

1919, they found all the familiar formation of our national life. There

air raid. Might as well wear spare time. they growl. uniform all day and sleep in it,

* Hark! there goes the siren.. The United States has al- too weary to begin agitating for But evacuation and billeting only And however late up they are Oh, must you go out again? Yes, ready taken certain steps which, reforms, returned to civil life in represent the beginning of this trans- at night-directing traffic, look of course you must. Take care old compartments and divisions is, of course, the army, which is calling for time bombs, keeping an of yourself. Perhaps it won't of our social life waiting for ing upon young men from all classes, eye on suspicious characters and be a long raid.

throwing them together, and keeping unscreened lights, crawling And so to bed, setting the them. Nothing had happened them in close contact. We had that, through the ruins of recently alarm clock in time for bath and during the four and a half years hov to break down those stout old now and more important the bombed houses and helping to breakfast and the eight-fifteen.

mobilisation and movement of workers. Labour's powers of compulsion are to But now we are in a "total be more widely used, as if people war", in which nobody is re- from more than one class and not just the working class alone-will be cognised as being outside the sent, perhaps in many cases after combatant zone, where there is

essential war Industries. Whether we like it or not, we are course, we no civilian life in the old sense training, to supply labour for the les. Already, of have girls with widely differing social backgrounds working

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more is

Everyone Is In It It looks now, when the Ministry of

if Hitler was quite certain of his position, would have been suf- ficient to have called for a show-down by this time. The Cash and Carry Bill, the Lend | partitions. and Lease measure and the frantic efforts of the United States to arm herself are all directed against Hitler and his colleagues. Germany has since issued a warning that any ships found carrying materials to Britain, no matter what flag it flies, will be subject to attack by U-boats or aeroplanes. It is

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FROM THE LABORATORIES

Milk, coal dust and

measles test

XPERIMENTS of immediate tried out the theory on rabbits.

all up to the neck in the war. together on the land or in the A.R.P. The result is that a kind of un- services. But now both men and milk more rich in butter-fats into the lungs of one group of planned and unheralded revolu- women may find themselves sharing this challenge which the Ad-iton is taking place before our course of training or a bench and sugar have been made by rabbits and keeping another ministration at Washington de- sires to accept by the use of the very eyes, simply because the munition works with fellow workers Dr S. J. Folley, of the National "control" group free of the dust. American navy for convoying effort demands more and more which the social self-consciousness

constant gearing up of our war very different social type, I be- Institute of Dairying, at Read- he injected both group with a

lleve that after an early period, ining.

Icthal dose of T.B. gorms. work.

At first disappointed by find- changes. These are, of course, of the people concerned will be most

None of the rabbits who had To Britain and her empire, changes for wartime only, and in evidence, the sheer common in- ing that injections of Stil bocs- not been coal-dusted survived; now waging a desperate strug. I do not say that most of them terest and shared outlook of people trol completely cut off, instead of the other group nearly all out- gle against the powerful Nazi will survive the war.

deing the same hard work together of increasing, 1 cow's milk war machine, America's growing even more certain that the pre-projudices and former misunder- found that with a much lesser so to do so...

But I am will put an end to a whole host of supply, by later experiments he that did die of it took a year or grow the disease and the fow

weight of public opinion in favour of intervention comes as a great stimulant. More and more it is felt that such a step would not only turn the scales definitely against the Axis, but would do much to stabilise the

war structure of our society standings. cannot be restored when peace Another Leveller comes. The changes have gone too far for that, Many of the

There is yet another equalising and barriers are down for good.

levelling interest at work, though we shall probably notice Its influence for It must be admitted that in more in a few months time than we the carlier stages of evacuation, do now. The various social classes differ widely in the amount of money

augars.

situation in the Far East. The there was perhaps more they have to spent, and also differ diet scem endless. Latost is the health authorities, a. number

understanding created among

of

shots of

quantity of the hormone the idea worked. The milk yield, with- out being affected in quantity, became much richer in fats and How many mothers would be prepared to submit their children to an attack of measles.lit the causo The possibilities of what a cow of research?--Recently, in answer to can produce from a simple grass such an appeal from the New Jersey strength of Japan's alliance with the Axis may very soon be the classes than understanding widely in the way in which they production of a white wine, from women sent forth their healthy

youngsters to have a few tested to the full, and if Japan This was partly due to the Not the spell wipe out the us whoy a by-product after the mensies injected into them. shows herself to be more prudent failure to appoint linison officers, ferences more effectively rough and say, the making of cloth, and the jected with a new anti-measles vac casein his been subtracted for, Hair or the children were first in- than adventurous, it will come preferably sensible women with thing else is a very thorough as no great surprise.

Zelno, prepared by Drs. Stokes and experience as social workers, to comprehensive system of rationing, fats for (say) butter.

which tends to equalise expenditure By varying the processes of Rake, of New Jersey, USA. The Japan has not only been com-interpret the guests, usully wo- and at the same time limit the choice fermentation It is possible to others just had measles (although, of promised by her long-drawn men from the poorer quarters of of the buyer. A savethether they produce either a coloured wine, tack or of complications was

rationed

course, uny danger of a severe al- war with China, but her inability the big cities, and their hos- people are compelled,

resta Buarded

want to

what

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against

with

immediate treat injected to end that campaign has given tesses, often, middle-class people like it or not, ail to live on more or like sherry, or a white, sauterne

Of those who had been Britain and the United States in small towns and villages, to less the same scale. We are not yet type, with a 15 per cent. alcohol

a severely rationed peoploits content.

the vaccino most falled to con valuable time to strengthen their each other. Although this generally felt that we need more

tract the illness, and those who did defensive resources in the Far general shake-up of the popula- rationing-but.It is certain that there

and it in so mild a form as to be East. Neither is it likely that

will be more rationing before there

ΤΟ almost harmless. To prepare the the Japanese, as a nation, have China holds a key position in is less, Hence the equalising and FOR years there has been a vaccine, the measles virus is first

levelling influence. very much stomach to cross any such conflict.

vague idea that there might cultivated on fertile hen egg, la Finally, total war conditions-ca- be something connected with the

order: to decrease in virulence. swords with the westorni demo- Japan must be regarding pecially those designed to meet meet

· (whèn it, in ọknown cracies. Only those wholly America's ever-closer alliance ger-the-Ilema quard, are watching qualities in coal-dust to account, he importance of these export- blind to realitics would be bold with the democracies with grow and so forth, all the life of black for the fact that tuberculosis is that in one week in January 10,000

cases of enough to suggest that Britain ing apprehension; events in the abolish many of the distinctions be

shelters must inevitably very rare among coal-miners.

measles were reported in and the United States together, future may well force her to ro- tween our classes, and already there as superstition than fact until prone to leave.

But the iden drifted on more England, and that this disease is

its. sufferers could not successfully wage a pudiate the Axis, for the alter-are many signs that, this la happen-

Stokes and Rake: are cautious war on more than one front; native, open warfare with ing We are already, more Delete Welsh Professor S. L. Cummins manent weaknesses and so far as the Orient is con- Britain and the United States, to the world, that we were about to democracy than when we announced

with their claim, state they will not #gtit boarivoli, a simthetic, pre» publish the medical facts, until für- corned, the point is given added can be anything but consoling to aght for democracy. Which lay as it paration of pestrone, the female sex her wrote and

on wider scale, emphasis in the knowledge that her.

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