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U.S. AND THE WAR

the

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

WAR MAKES DEMOCRACY

By J. B. Priestley

CHINS

UP

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DOWN

By PHILLIDA

HUGHES

There's a joke going round ovacuate 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- conts 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 nequired the regular Army just wouldn't other little villas, although not do it, they wouldn't work · so so nice, for their wives and fami- hard! lles in the safer areas twenty miles or so from London,

This altered mode of living

Mr Smith, Mr Jones and Mr

has turned our white collared Robinson begin to look older. It's noticeable, and the way they black suited City workers into what the Americans call com-

have of falling asleep in chaire. 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- metics threepence a week on fifteen home at night, rarely run on time, Mr Smith, Mr Jones beauty aida was the suggestion and Mr Robinson spend the of one widely-read newspaper greater part of their day getting reared under the

-and heads that they have enrossing

up to work and home again. If

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 girl with her curling irons and whenever asked and are some-

her passion for bobby pins. times taken so far out of their way that there's barely time for Faces that have relied for years an evening meat before getting on the tender ministrations of Elizabeth Arden in Bond Street into uniform and attending (there is now a special Elizabeth Home Guard parade, or bayonet Arden air-raid shelter in May- practice, or a lecture given by a Dunkirk veteran, or a lesson in machine gunnery.

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fair for those who must continue working in London) are showing the result of months of separa- tion. Chins may be up. Con- tours are definitely down.

During the war of 1914-1918 tion was bound to produce a

Last night the Man of the it was confidently predicted that good deal of friction, I have a House took three times as long as usual to get home. No time class distinctions would rapidly feeling that far more good than

The Man of the House has just Got to clean rifle and disappear and that the end of harm will have been done in the to eat.

parade at come in from bayonet practice the war would see Britain far end by evacuation, that we shall buttons and be on more democratic and equalitari- come out of this war a people eight o'clock. We rush to make with five tired and hungry an. This prophecy was not ful- possessing far more self-know- coffee, fill flasks, cut sandwiches, friends at heel. The house looks THERE are increasing signs alled. There were, of course, ledge and tolerance than we had Sounds of cursing from the bed like an arsenal with all their that the United States is swiftly many changes after 1918, nota- when we went into it.

room invites a head round the weapons. You can hardly move

moving towards belligerent ac-

bly in the status of women, but Then again, young children door and offer of help. The Man for khaki overcoats flung about the real democracy and the have been evacuated from the of the House is sitting on the the hall. tion

Violet and I make coffee, dis- on behalf of the de-equalitarian society we had big cities and spread all over side of the bed trying to fasten mocracies against Axis been promised did not appear. Britain. In

with cold fingers some newly pense bread, pickles and the yet many instances, Powers. Not only are President There was one good reason such children are being cared issued leather gaiters that won't unrationed cheese. I listen fas-

meet by an inch.

cinated to their talk and the 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 "Do the War Office think we're Man of the House says how odd it was to see business men wear- Stimson, Colonel Knox, Mr Cor- that was that, although it de- of folk to which these children a lot of bloody dwarfs?" he

ing glasses, no longer young, and dell Hall and lenders of the manded prodigious efforts on the belong: I write "belong" but it rages.

part of all the countries engaged would be more accurate to write Ssssh! Don't wear them to hiccoughing slightly after a hur- Senate and House of Representa-in it and sacrificed millions of "belonged," in the past tense, night. I'll have them stretched ried meal, making faces at a row tives-demanding action by the lives, it was still not the "total because these children are now 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 schoolroom, encouraged by their return. Even if there isn't a sergeant-major to make strange 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-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 major of whom they think the 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. nir raid. Might as well wear spare time. America's influential news-

ture of society remained what

☆ uniform all day and sleep in it,

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papers.

they growl.

Hark! there goes the siren. And however late up they are Oh, must you go out again?" "Yes, at night-directing traffic, look of course you must. Take care ing for time bombs, keeping an of yourself. Perhaps it won't eye on suspicious characters and be a long raid. unscreened lights, crawling And so to bed, setting the through the ruins of recently alarm clock in time for bath and bombed houses and helping to breakfast and the eight-fifteen.

The United States_has_nl ready taken certain steps which, 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 und Lease measure and the frantic efforts of the United Slates to arm herself are all directed - against Hitler and his

Workers' Mobilisation

it was. When the young men, too weary to begin agitating for But evacuation_and_billeting only reforms, returned to civil life in represent the beginning of this trans- 1919, they found all the familiar formation of our national life, here old compartments and divisions is, of course, the army, which is call- of our social life waiting for ing upon young men from all classes, throwing them together, and keeping them. Nothing had happened them in close contact. We had that, during the four and a half years however, in the last war. What is to break down those stout old new and more important is the

mobilisation and movement partitions.

workers,

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

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 colleagues, Germany has since combatant zone, where there is perhaps in many cases ofter! issued a warning that any ships no civilian life in the old sense. essential war industries. Already, of training, to supply labour for the found carrying materials to Britain, no matter what flag it Whether we like it or not, we are course, we have girls with widely all up to the neck in the war. flies, will be subject to attack by The result is that a kind of un- U-boats or aeroplanes. It is

work.

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cosal

backgrounds working

of a

on the land or in the A.R.P.

cannot be restored when pesce Another Leveller

comes. The changes have gone

world is our gardener in his

FROM THE LABORATORIES

Milk, coal dust and measles test

EX

EXPERIMENTS of immediate tried out the theory on rabbits. importance on how to make After spraying anthracito dust But now both men and milk more rich in butter-fats into the lungs of one group of this challenge which the Ad-planned and unheralded revolu- women may and themselves sharing and sugar have been made by rabbits and keeping another ministration at Washington de- tion is taking place before our a course of training or a bench in a 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,

constant gearing up of our war lieve that after an early period, in ing.

a very different social type. I be Institute of Dairying, at Read- he injected both group with a

lethal dose of T.B. germ. American navy for convoying effort demands more and more which the social self-consciousness At first disappointed by find-

None of the rabbits who had 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; 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.

doing the same hard work together of increasing, a cow's milk

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 war machine, America's growing

even more certain that the pre- prejudices and former misunder- found that with a much lesser go to do so.... weight of public opinion in

war structure of our society standings. favour of intervention comes ns

quantity of the hormone the idea worked. The milk yield, with a great stimulant. More and

out being affected in quantity, step more it is felt that such

There is yet another equalising and would not only turn the scales

prepared to submit their children shall probably notice its influence far sugars.

to an attack of measles, in the cause definitely against the Axis, but

It must be admitted that in more in a few months time than wa

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 on appeal from the New Jersey

health authorities, number strength of Japan's alliance with understanding created among 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. waw

widely in the

it. That is obvious,

whey-a by-product after the measles Injected into them, Now what will wipe out these dif-

Half of the children were first in- shows herself to be more prudent failure to appoint liaison officers, ferences more effectively than any casein has been subtracted for, than adventurous,, it will come preferably sensible women with thing else is a very thorough and say, the making of cloth and the jected with a new anti-measles vac

cine prepared by Dra Stokes as no great surprise.

experience as social workers, to comprehensive system of rationing, fats for (any) butter.

which tends to equalise expenditure Japan has not only been com- interpret the guests, usally wo- and at the same time limit the chalco fermentation it is possible to of

By varying the processes of Rake, of New

others just had (although, of promised by her long-drawn men from the poorer quarters of of the buyer. A severely rationed war with China, but her inability the big cities, and their hos- people are compelled, whether they produce either a coloured wine, tack or of complications was guarded to end that campaign has given teases, often middle-class people like it or not, all to live on more or like sherry, or a white, sauterne against by immediate treatment).

in small towns and villages, to less the same scale. We are not yet type, with a. 15 per cent. alcohol

a severely rationed people-it is content.

too far for that. Many of the levelling interest at work, though we became much richer. in fats and many; mothers would be barriers are down for good.

tested to the full, and if Japan This was partly due to the want to spend in which they production of a'white wine, from youngsters to have a fow shots of

Britain and the United States

Fo

US.A.

and

The

In

Of those who had been Injected: with the vaccine most failed to con- valuable time to strengthen their each other. Although this generally felt that wo need more

tract the illness, and those who did *

and it in so· mid form us to be defensive resources in the Far general shake-up of the popula- rationing-but it is certain that there

will Enst, Neither is it likely that

be more rationing before there

nimost harmless. To prepare the is less. Honte the equallsing and MOR years there has been o

'first the Japanese, as a nation, have China holds a key position in

Influence. levelling

fertile han cultivated on vague idea that there might cine, the measles virus very much stomach to cross any such conflict.

Finally, total war conditions-en-be order to decrease ita virulence. swords with the western demo- Japan must be regarding pecially those designed to meet dan- qualities in coal-dust to account ments: le oby.

The importance of these experi-

when obviour

It cracies. Only

is known those wholly America's ever-closer alliance ser the Home Guard, fire-watching bind to realities 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 16,000 enough to suggest that "Britain ing apprehension; ovents in the out and nelle must inevitably very rare among coal-minere. enses of measles were reported in

abolish

the distinctions many of and the United States together, future may well force her to re-tween our classes, and already there, as superstition than fact until prone to leave its sufferers with par

But the Idea drifted on more England, and could not successfully wage a pudiate the Axis, for the alter-are many signs that this is happen- Welsh Professor S. L. Cummins Drelove nel take and cautious

Stokes war on more than one front; native,

and are with Ing. We are already more of a true open warfare

(with their claim;"stats" "they, will hot: 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 gitt boestrol: a synthette pre-publish the medical fact all tur corned, the point is given added can be anything but consoling to nght for democracy, Which Is it puration of pestrene; the female sex har experiments on emphasis in the knowledge that her.

should be.

dhavs proven-their-Andi

that

this disease

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