1941-06-10 — Page 4

IN DARKEST HAMPSHIRE

"Le my bath ready, Hawkins?" "Not quits, Sir.They've just dusting it.”

* A gesture of old world courtesy, no doubt, but was it really necessary ?"

* Very macessory indeed, Sir, me it hape pare to be a hip-bath which has lain mama pears in the coach-house. His Lordship rarely entertains.”'

"His Lordship's notions of hospital. ity are not of this century. He seemed to think he had a sacred duty to lay me low bendsth the table. I marve! that I'm here to tell the tale."

“Yet in some ways Hit Lordship is

well abreast of modern thought. Thu Bottle of Rose'i Lénu Juicy, Sir, in your

TOON...

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Placed there by His Lordship's own hand, wine. And a very refresh ing drink following upon a one-sidal battle with his Lordship's decan{£ts."

"Yes, Sir, and Rose's has still further cirture. It is justiy renowned for arti hilating the after-effects of alcohol, vulgarly known at morningt efter." "So that's why l'a still alive and kicking? Well, well, one lives and learna. Go and ball the kettle for my bath. I don't want to miss my breakfast."

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June⋅

GRIN AND BEAR IT ·

10, 1941.

By Lichty Hitler Pounds At the Gates

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Rallied Colonies

Of

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Interesting observations on the war operations and potentials In the Middle East by one of the most widely respected American political correspon- dents. Mrs McCormick acted as European corres- pondent for the "New York Times" for marty years, and is an authority on European affairs. '

By Anne O'Hare McCormick

"The Oriental in a very old Arabs. While the pipe line child," wrote Gertrude Bell after from the Kirkuk oil fields to the port of Haift is reported cut. her first journey to the Near the Premier who headed the East. She went on to note State before Rashid Ali's coup what every traveller fecla who d'etat has issued a manifesto in

the name of the six-year-old · tries to understand the strange King calling for a cessation of world cast of. Suez, a world at hostilities and a return to cou-, once static and nomadic, rooted stitutional government. in Genesis yet formless as the

Important Factor moving landscape of the desert.

"Their statecraft consists of If the call is heeded it will be more important than a tempor- guesses, often shrewd enough, ary stoppage in the flow of oll at the results that may spring or the result of the fighting be- from the clash of unknown tween the British troops and Rashid Ali's men. It will mean forces, of which the strength that the pro-German politicians and the aim are but dimly ap- can get no direct military help prehended; their wisdom is that from Germany in time to save of men whose channels of in- for an Arab rising has met no themselves, and that the signal formation and standards of response in the neighbouring comparison are different from States.

ours, and who bring a different very significant. In villages

And this would imply something

and

FRENCH FORCES are now side by side with their set of preconceptions to bear camps scattered from Alexan- FBritish comrades in arms in Syria. It cannot be doubted upon the problems Inid before thin the 40,000,000 Amb -

dretta to Gulf of Aden are some-

though they have known many rulers, and disliked most of them. they have never experienced Ger- man rule. They are impressed by force, they have lost the little econo- Sooner or later, it was inevi- have been saturated with Nazi and mic security they once had, they

Ancient Roots

which way lies the sympathies of the greater part of the popu- lation of this mandated territory. Neutral observers in the Mid-them." dle East have during the past few months reported that Nazis and Nazi methods are decidedly unpopular there, and the deser- tions by French and colonial troops, who crossed into Palestine. to join the Allies, are proof of some of their statements.

This new stroke places the colonies which have rallied to the table that this conflict should Fascist propaganda. With standards - cali of Free France in important perspective, and it will be in-spread to that subcontinent and preconceptions different from

ours. teresting to look at their position.

they have been watching and

Led little

The Free French colonies represent a territory six times the which lies between the Black wel by the cliques of test our quests.

jealous size of France and one-seventh of her population. They com-Sea and the Red. There the men, what they do will represent prise the New Hebrides, Chad, the French Cameroons, Ubangi-human story began, on the gray Shari, Middle Congo, the French Establishments in India, New plains, of Asia Minor, in the,

ans on the outcome of this E. The trouble in Iraq is only a straw Valley of the Euphrates, in the to gauge its direction more surely

in a great wind. We should be

Caledonia and Gabon,

able

THE AFRICAN GROUP OF COLONIES, situated half waste lands beyond the Jordan, if we knew the answers to three questions. The first suggested by Tiway between the Cope of Cones, situated and the apocalyptic struggle for brief dispatch from London an- antic Ocean a coastline of 1,000 kilometres where there are a power was bound at last to has been released after months of de- nouncing that Harry St John Philby number of modern ports with good facilities.

shake not only the Western tention under "defence regulations." The group of colonies constituting French Equatorial Africá}

Mr Philby was on special duty as a and the Cameroons binds together British West Africa and Eastworld, the edifice of industrial British political agent in Baghdad Africa, forming a block right across the continent from the Red civilisation, but the ancient during the last war. After the war Sea to the Atlantic.

roots whence stems the tangled over as adviser to the native Kovernment In Mesopotamia and It is evident that apart from the actual support which the history of man.

Trans-Jordan. He was a ¡collabora At some point tar of T. E. Lawrence, knows Arabla Free French equatorial empire can contribute to the Allied war. effort by the virtue of its resources, Germany now finds Lerself the battle had to return to the better

than

any living foreigner and deprived of certain products of which her industry was in great original field of Armageddon, Englishman ever permitted to live in was famous for years as the only need.

Special mention should be made of New Caledonia and the Not only the Balkan peninsula Meces. Why was he interned and

why is he now released, nickel, lead, chromium and iron ore which she exports to the and the Iberian peninsula but British Empire: Gabon sends woods which are used in the con- the-Arabian peninsula had to: struction of aeroplanes, and Chad sends cotton. Plumbago and choose between Hitler and the wolfram are obtained from the Cameroons, as well as iron and mica.

alternative of Hitler.

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Clue-to-Policy

The answer to that question would be a clue to British policy since the war started. The next centres in the attitude of Ibn Saud, King of So far the fight going on in Saudi Arabia. He is the strong man

in the Arab world; in so far as there

TRITORY, a central organisation called the "Council of ment

10 GOVERN THE AFFAIRS OF THIS VAST TER-Iraq seems to be a local engage

It is spreading within tribes and kingdoms of this inco-

is any primacy among the disparate herent people, he is the leader. Ibn

morale at the sticking place. Defence of the Free French Empire" was created in October 1940 the Iraqi borders, and a few Saud is supposed to be a friend of

at Brazzaville by General de Gaulle. The Council, which was Mr Winant has seen the bombed officially recognised by the British Government in January, con- vague incidents have occurred the British, and if he takes sides in areas, and noted how

sists of the commanders-in-chief of the Free French Forces, the in Syria and Palestine, but be very great.

an Arab chawdown, his influence will Governors of the most important colonies and also of persons re- there is nothing to indicate any is hidden in the cautious mind of mothers and home makers there

The answer to the third question presenting those moral values which found their expression in have faced unmorciful dienster,

the Free French movement.

general movement among the Ismet Inonu, Premier and virtual and shown, not less than their men in the fighting Services, the staying-power of their race.

'on more and more is demanded of the country's women-kind; and whatever is demanded is

How Britain Is Adding To Her Merchant Fleet

Ships

From Factories

By A Shipping Correspondent

being given. Mr Winant bids war-time shipbuilding program- with up-to-date plant for as- ́ ́Series' Shipbuilding

dictator of Turkey. Supposing that

and

to

worked out

A

It

the time is past when the Turks Imight have helped the British, what is their policy toward their former subjects and their alliance with Iran Women are being confronted

Afghanistan? By abolishing the caliphate and the symbolic fez with dangers and sacrifices

and

Turkey gave up

the which have never

yashmak, before pre-

Leadership "of Isicum, but can she rem main passive to the threat of Ger sented themselves in the same

man domination of the Arab world? form and in the same degree;

There

is also a fourth question, Taking a leaf from the Book during the slump of a decade built" or unseaworthy, as the brought to the fore by reports that and they have risen nobly to of Father Noah, British ship- ago.

conservatively minded had pre-Washington is working-out a plat New Yards For Old

Bend the height of the grim emer-builders are about to fabricate

food shipments to * dicted.p

to Algiers ships inland..

and Morocco, with the object of stif gency. If they had flinched or

The plan will thus make use

Weygand tening General- As evidence of this it may be out against: Nazi pressure. This is holding

failed, no valour, however shin-

This they are doing with not only of factory facilities at pointed out that the "Standard also a sign that the hungry Arabs ing, could have avalled to hold inspired the builder the ser importance, but also of in Britain more than twenty trade prograted States and rench

precisely same object as present engaged on work of les A" and "Standard B ships built under French rule are restive. the front. As the struggle goes original Ark, namely, to make waterside sites for which years ago are still in service, North Africa after the fall of France

secure against disaster all man useful purpose has long been and change hands, when they might have saved the situation.

sought. "ner of men and beasts.

come on the market, which is may even yet, but Hitler La already nt the gate of the Arab peninsula, The British Admiralty, in Steps have already been taken seldom, at high prices.

and the question he provokes sounds short, as part of its gigantic to equip these derelict yards.

like the stroke of a clock showing. how late the hour is and how nar- me, has decided to adopt "presembling the pre-fabricated Since those days, of course, a row is a world in which we live next ho was directly addressing, to

fabrication" methods in the parts.

experience has been door to the Arabs. gained with standardised shipbuild- building of merchant ships. The vessels to be built will methods of the last war were not yards specialising in certain types

ing. Although the mass-production make it their duty to interpret This means that the vessels will be of a standard design, especi- continued under normal conditions, of tonnage. to the women of America the be built in sections at ordinary ally adapted to working under recent years have seen the growth Solving The U-Boat Problem place in the war that is held by steelworks inland, and thence the convoy system, with a carry shipbuilding, whereby & design of new scheme will present no insur

transported to assembly yards ing capacity of about 8,000 tons. vessel, proved to be eficient for mountable

With this experiènce; - then, the the women of Britain. No

on the coast or on the great The pre-fabricated parts will be particular trade has been repeated hipbuilders. better service could be rendered rivers.

of rolled steel, und "frilla" will many -Uimos, or more richly deserved.—LD.T.

Several of Britain's largest be cut down to a minimum. This tendency towards ..the les in the removal of limitations steel constructional firms, whose Lessons From Last War economy of standardisation Arat Which conditions output to tha normal work includes the build- The now scheme is reminis- when, with vacant berths and orders

showed itself during the slump shipyards. For the new scheme maximum capacity of the country's ing of bridges, viaducts, largo cent of that adopted during the few and far between, certain or factories into widely-separated. ship

virtually

converts Jorga Inland buildings, and so on, are taking last war, When, similar. mass builders worked out designs for actor part in this novel scheme, production methods were used and economical ships and laid yard components, and It is anticipated that it will for building ships in Britain. hope of finding a buyer before the country at the

them down "on spec," that is, in the greatly the total building

copacked- tho

same time be possible to deal with at least Despite a good deal of criticism ships were completed, th

|ing up production. one-third of the components of in its early days the plan worked Despite bad times, then pravall an iden from Father Noah, has tapped A. Thus Great Britain, by 'borrowing sách ship outside the usual ship exceedingly well, for not only ing for bhipping, these Vessels were an entirely now? "and" "inenleulably' building centres. The work of was output greatly increased, snapped up readily, and when times valuable source of merchant tonnage

led out at shipyards dismantled was not in the loast Jerzy zar many of the chipak urned out by bomber. assembly, moreover, will be car but the tonnage so constructed improved some of these early, to meet and counter the menace of

speculative designs formed; the band the U-boat and the long-range.

his own country-women, whom

Fragrant Garden Of Memory

All - the-year-round flowering shrubs are to be the garden-loving Dame Margaret Lloyd George's liv

Ing memorial in the gardens, of her home, Brynawelon, Cricciell

The shrubs are to be planted in a garden of remembrance which, Mr Lloyd George has ordered to be do- signed. It is to have an iron gate bearing the letter."M

of what might be dalled "scrios!"

problems for Britiah

The supreme virtue of the profect

of