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U.S. AND THE WAR

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ficient to have called for show-down by this time. The Cash and Carry Bill, the Lend and Lense 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 fing it flies, will be subject to attack by U-boats or aeroplanes. It is this challenge which the Ad- ministration at Washington de- sires to accept by the use of the American navy för convoying work.

Author of "The Good Companions,” “Adam, in Moon shine" and other novels, Mr Priestley has for some time past conducted a regular broadcast commentary for the B.B.C.

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WAR MAKES DEMOCRACY

By J. B. Priestley

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Everyone Is In It looks now, when the Ministry of

CHINS UP CONTOURS

DOWN

By PHILLIDA HUGHES

There's a joke_going_round evacuato and find 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 fow 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 so nice, for their wives and faml- hard! Iles in the safer areas twenty

miles or so from London.

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Mr. Smith, Mr Jones and Mr

This altered mode of living has turned our white collared Robinson begin to look older. black suited City workers into It's noticeable, and the way they have of falling asleep in chairs. what the Americans call com- muters, and as the eight-fifteen But then we must, too. It isn't up in the morning, and the five- patriotic to buy too many cos fifteen home at night, rarely run beauty aids was the suggestion motics-threepence week bn on time, Mr Smith, Mr. Jones and Mr Robinson spend the of one widely-read nowapaper greater part of their day getting and heads that they have the caressing up to work and home again. If reared under 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 giri 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 on the tender ministrations of into uniform and attending a

Elizabeth Arden in Bond Street Home Guard parade, or bayonet (there is now a special Elizabeth Arden air-raid shelter in May- practice, or a lecture given by a Dunkirk veteran, or a lesson in fair for those who must continue working in London) are showing machine gunnery.

the result of months of ecpara- tion. Chins may be up. Cor. tours are definitely down.

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Last night the Man of the House took three times as 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 eight o'clock. We rush to make with five tired and hungry coffee, fill flasks, cut sandwiches. friends at heel. The house looks Sounds of cursing from the bed like an arsenal with all their room invites a head round the weapons. You can hardly move. door and offer of help. The Man for khaki overcoats flung about of the House is sitting on the the hall.

Violet and I make coffee, dis- side of the bed trying to fasten with cold fingers some newly pense bread, pickles and the yet issued leather gaiters that won't unrationed cheese. I listen fas- cinated to their talk, and the meet by an inch.

"Do the War Omce think we're Man of the House says how odd a lot of bloody dwarfs?" ho it was to see business men wear- ing glasses, no longer young, and rages.

Sassh! Don't wear them to- hiccoughing slightly after a hur night. I'll have them stretched ried meal, making faces at a row to-morrow. Off you go and I'll of sandbage hanging in an empty have hot soup ready when you schoolroom, encouraged by their sergeant-major to make strange return. Even if there isn't a date to be kept for the Home cries and yells. Their sergeant- Guard they have to turn out in major of whom they think the world is our gardener in his uniform every time there is an

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

Hark! there goes the siren. And however late up they are Oh, must you go out again? Yea,

at night-directing traffic, look- of course you must. Take care ing for time bombs, keeping air of yourself. Perhaps it won't eye on-suspicious characters-and-be a long-rald,

lights, crawling And so to bed, setting the unscreened through the ruins of recently alarm clock in time for bath and bombed houses and helping to breakfast and the eight-fifteen.

FROM THE LABORATORIES

Milk, coal dust and

measles test

"XPERIMENTS of immediate tried out the theory on rabbits.

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 This prophecy was not ful- possessing far more self-know- THERE are increasing signs filled. There were, of course, ledge and tolerance than we had that the United States is swiftly many changes after 1918, nota- when we went into it. moving towards belligerent, ac-

bly in the status of women, but Then again, young children the real democracy and the have been evacuated from the tion on behalf of the de- equalitarian society We had big cities and spread all over mocracies against the Axis been promised did not appear. Britain. In many instances. Powers. Not only are President

There was one good reason such children are being cared why that war could not change for by women who up to now Roosevelt's henchmen-Colonel the structure of our society, and have known little about the class Stimson, Colonel Knox, Mr Cor- that was that although it de- of folk to which these children dell Hull and leaders of the manded prodigious efforts on the belong. I write "belong" but it part of all the countries engaged would be more accurate to write Senate and House of Representa-in it and sacrificed millions of "belonged," in the past tense, = |tives-demanding action by the lives, it was still not the "total because these children are now country which may lead directly war" that we know now. It spending impressionable years to open conflict with Hitler, but took all the young men away to in surroundings quite foreign to serve in the armies, and set their parents, and acquiring ha- these demands are receiving the young women new tasks, such bits unknown in their former approval of the majority of as driving lorries or working on homes. All this must produce

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

ture of society remained what

Workers' Mobilisation papers.

it was. When the young men, The United States has al- too weary to begin agitating for But evacuation and billeting, only ready taken certain stops which, reforms, returned to civil life in represent the beginning of this trans- 1919, they found all the familiar formation of our national life. There if Hitler was quite certain of his--old-compartments-and-divisions of course, the army, which is call- position, would have been suf- of our social life waiting for ing upon young men from all classes, throwing them together, and keeping a them. Nothing had happened them in close contact. We had that, during the four and a half years however, in the lost war. What is to break down those stout old new and

more important the and movement of mobilisation partitions.

workers.

It Labour's powers of compulsion are to But now we are in a "total be more widely used, as if people

more from

than one class and not war" in which nobody is just the working clasa atone---will be cognised as being outside the sent, perhaps in many cases after combatant zone, where there is training, to supply labour for the no civilian life in the old sense, essential war industries.

Already, Whether we like it or not, we are course, we have

Kirls

irls with widely all up to the neck in the war. together on the land or in the A.R.P. differing social backgrounds working 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 sharit and sugar have been made by rabbits and keeping another tion is taking place before our a course of training or a bench. in "Dr S. J. Folley, of the National "control" group free of the dust, very eyes, simply because the of a very different social type. I be Institute of Dairying, at Read- ho injected both group with a constant gearing up of our war lieve that after an early period, in ing

lethal dose of T.B. germs. effort demands more and more which the social self-consciousness At first disappointed by find- changes. These are, of course, of the people concerned will be most To Britain and her empire, changes for wartime only, and in evidence, the sheer common in- ing that injections of Stil boes not been coal-dusted survived;

terest and shared outlook of people trol completely cut off, instead! now waging a desperate strug- I do not say that most of them doing be same hard work together of increasing, a cow's milk of the other group nearly all out gle against the powerful Nazi war machine, America's growing 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

It must be admitted that in more in a few months time than wo. The possibilities of what a cow of research? Recently, in answer to would do much to stabilise the the earlier stages of evacuation, do now. The various social classes situation in the Far East. The there was perhaps more mis differ widely in the amount of money can produce from a simple grass such an appeal from the Now Jersey strength of Japan's alliance with understanding created among widely in the way in which they production of a white wine, from youngsters to have a few shots of they have to spend, and also differ diet seem endless. Latest is the women sent forth their healthy the Axis may very soon be the classes than understanding want to spend it. That is obvious. tested to the full, and if Japan This was partly due to the Now what will wipe out these dif whey a by-product after the measles injected into them. shows herself to be more prudent failure to appoint liaison officers, ferences more effectively

de cascin has been subtracted for, Half of the children were first in- than any than adventurous, it will come preferably sensible women with thing elso is a very thorough and say, the muking of cloth and the jetted with a new anti-mensies vac- cine prepared by Dra Stokes and as no great surprise.

of rationing, fats for (any) butter. experience as social workers, to comprehends to equalise expenditure

which Japan has not only been com- interpret the guests, usally wo- und

By varying the processen of Rako, of New Jersey, USA. The at the same" time limit the cholec

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

course, any danger of a sovero at- whether

produce either a coloured wine, tack or of complications was guarded war with China, but her inability the big cities, there box people are competed rely at the to end that campaign has given tesses, often middle-class people like it or not, alt to live on more or like sherry, or a white, sauterne against by immediate treatment).

Of those who had been-injected Britain and the United States in small towns and villages, to leas the same scale. We are not yet type, with a 16 per cent. alcohol with the vaccina most failed to con- a severely rationed people-it in valuable time to strengthen their cach other. Although

felt that we need more

tract the flinct a form as to be.

and those who did defensive resources in the Far general shake-up of the popula

And it in so * East. Neither is it likely that

almost harmless. To prepare the NOR years there has been a vaccine, the measles virus the Japanese, as a nation, have China holds a key position in

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cultivated on fertile hen eggs, in vague idea that there might very much stomach to cross any such conflict. swords with the western demo- Japan must be regarding

those designed to meet dan- cracies. Only

qualities in coal-dust to account ents is obvious when it is known those wholly America's ever-closer allianco

Home Guard, fire-watching blind to realities would be bold with the democracies with grow- und so forth tersumust inevitably very rare among coal-miners. cases of mensies were enough to suggest that Britain ing apprehension; events in the abolish many of the distinctions be-

and that this But the idea drifted on more England, and and the United States together, future may well force her to re-tween our classes, and already there-

with could not successfully wage a pudiate the Axis, for the alter-re many signs that this is happen Welsh Professor S. L. Cummins Dis Stokes and Rake are cautious

na superstition than fact until prone to leave its sufferers

marient weaknesses of ear or lungr war on more than one front; native, open warfare with Ing. We are already more of by true democracy than when wo announced

with their claim, state they will not and so far na the Orient is con- Britain and the United States, to the world that we were about to Sill boestrolio a sinthetle pre- publish the medical facts until fur cerned, the point is given added can be anything but consoling to fight for democracy. Which is as it paration of pestrone, the female sex that experiments, on a wider, scale, emphasis in the knowledge that | her.

have proved their findings.

munition works with fellow

workers

E importance on how to make alter praying anthracite dust

None of the rabbits who had

will survive the war.

grew the disease and the few 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 even more certain that the pre- prejudices and former misunder- found that with a much lesser war structure of our society standings.

quantity of the hormong the iden 90 to do so. cannot be restored when peace Another Leveller worked. The milk yield, with-

* comes. The changes have, gone. There is yet mother equalising and out being affected in quantity, row many mothers would be too far for that. Many of the velling interest at work, though we became much richer in fats and H prepared to submit their children barriers are down for good.

shall probably notice its influence far | augars.

this ing-but it is certain that there

will

In

more rationing before there

Hence the equalising influenco.

and

content;

to an attack of measles in the cause

health authorities,

number

of

first

Manal war conditions-es-be

something connected with the urder to decrease its virviamente

and

should b

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The Importance of these experi-

all the life of black for the fact that tuberculosis is that in one week in Ja

hormone.

15,000

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