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A QUEEN

goes

to

war

BY PETER LYNE

To-day, for the second time as Queen, Her Majesty celebrates her birthday in a wartime setting. Her shar- ing of the samo privations and danger Inspires her sub- jects, and the relationship between rulor and people aisumes a new significance. In this picture, the 'Quean is soon shaking hands with an old lady who had been bambed, out, while touring 5 provincial -town with the King aftor a sovero raid.

There was a case recently where the Queen Inspected shelters a London. The authorities had a con- fractor supply clean' bedding for the occasion which was removed again WILH as the Queen's visit ity out

hose authorities would not over.

had any thanks from the Royal visitor

sitor if the facts hnd been known Lu ner was no doubt a meaning act, but King and Queen alke want to see the real thing, not -stage version. And. In this genuine desire they are increasingly getting their own way.

well-

Some people say the war has made the King and Queen. In view of tlic Breat services they rendered in peacetime, this remark rounds unfair. It would be more Just to say that war has remade, the King and Queen Fo that roles for them ore assured in the new order to come.

In the matter of the continuity of the throne, the Queen has a respon- sibility as a motlier which is greatly increased by the war. In this she is in the with all the other mothers in Britain except that her daughters are in direct succession to the Crown. THE PRINCESSES

How much shall the young Prin-

Britain feels that the Nazis other part of the country. But shells being made, aeroplane parts

like those which wrought have o made thetical blunder by the very nature of her work coming off the conveyor, torpedoes

A deliberately bombing Bucking- takes her into the danger zones the Italian Navy at Taranto being cessen be allowed to see and hear of ham Palace. The sight of rather than away from them assembled. But it's the girls at the the war?. Such a problem faces the "Buck House" badly damaged, Every care is taken, of course, benches whom she is most intent on Koyal family heads just as it does with courtyard pitted by bomb that she, should not be exposed studying, just as it is the bombed-out other fathers and mouliers.

The upbringing of Princess Eliza- ed areas she visits who command her craters, brought a feeling of to peril; her movements are not women and children in the devastai-

But attention.

beth, heiress-presumptive and now at to those whose announced in advance.

the impressionable age of 15, is con- solidarity.

never has & Queen of England

There are thrills in her wartine sidered particularly important. It is, of Cabinet con- humbler homes lay in ruins.

life and she learns many close in fact, a matter Pictures of King George and been more, in the front line of Queen Elizabeth picking their battle than Queen Elizabeth is secrets. She climbs into the cock sideration. The wartime policy is to

finest bomber--the keep the Princesses out of the

e plc- possible. Their way through the broken glass to-day-not even her famous pit of Brilam's

as much a Elizabeth, who Short-Sterling. An offeer explains ture

are understood to favour and smashed masonry of their predecessor. own home have undoubtedly earned everlasting fame for re- the controls, bomb sights, guns, and paling between the Victorian strict-

other equipment. She sees photo- played a definite part in main viewing her troops at Tilbury gruples of bomb damage achieved in ness of Edwards VII's youth, which night before. Shc said to have been responsible for taining British morale at its before the attempted Spanish Germany the

of the Dulce uniformly high level. Moreover, invasion some 350 years ago, talks with the men who carry out its subsequent fondness for pleasure,

Good the attacks. But the home front is and the freedom

Windsor's adolescence, spent in the THE situation in the Far East is Their Majesties' readiness to go But after the review,

fierce glare of the limelight, which The eager way women and child mude him restless and discontented becoming so complex and involving out looking for the war gained Queen Bess retired from the her main emcern.

reu in the poorest parts of the East later. such important issues to Britain that new reality when they had their scene of action. It would appear to be high time that

own bomb atories to tell.

End clamour round her amid their. QUEEN'S PROBLEMS

en- Wartime absence of the Princesses ruined boines for a word of a Minister of Far Eastern Affairs should be appointed in the Home

One of the most poignant

the Elizabeth of couragement and a joke, shows how from the news has led Nazi pro- Government. There is, of course, a Far

ine episodes recorded was the visit, Admittedly Eastern Department of

government, tween sovereign and people. On the of the United States. But church- responsibilities of

hand, women, of other

In the various goers of a country parish near Lon- Foreign Office, but its machinations of the King and Queen to centuries ago had to bear more of cluse can be the understanding be paganda to locate them in the safety remain mysterious and its effective-damaged Westminster Abbey, the

somewhat doubtful.

and food rations which beset clothes ncss

the creation of such

post and its occupation by an outstanding

con-

STATESMAN NEEDED

in policy-making and restoring some of our prestige and power where we su sndly need it.

come.

On the very spot where they but she had none of the vexations branches of women's war organisa- don knoiv how false is that Goebbels Unless something spectacular Ilke were crowned four years earlier the Elizabeth of to-day. Good Queen tions, who are closer to the Queen's claim.

Meanwhile Princess Elizabeth is Sadness 3,000 dresses even in wartime, and these days seems unconsciously to be

their bearing on British policy in fore the High Altar.

The Increasing sonage occurs 500n, Britain will er- they now stood amid debris bo- Bess is reported to have had some social strata, tell me that the Queen

War seems to have closed the gap years to

even closeness of Anglo-American rela- tinue to follow Japan's lead out here revealed in that scene caught so many pairs of shoes that she left surrounded by a more queenly auro. learning lessons which may have instead of taking the native the imagination of their them behind wherever she stayed.

The present Queen has very alt- between lowest and highest

theoretical training for the jects, for the British have come teren; problems, which have necessi- more than it has between intermedi- tions is made an important factor in

that her two ate sections of society. Perhaps it is her to realise how wanton destruc-

her decision Lated It is pretty obvious now that tion hurta most when there is daughters, Princess Elizabeth and that the poorest find it easier to be throne. The American Constitution,

Is among her special subjects. Japanese

will never leave Indo- personal association with what Princess Margaret Rose, shall go natural. And so Royalty throws off as well as 'the British Constitution, China or China unless expelled by

of sixty-six their ration within is destroyed. Therefore the without stockings in order to keep its reserve. force or withdrawn by a revolution! | King and Queen, by the un- ary government in Japan. Imposed our sanctions on Japan rivalled breadth of their associa

-week-we-did-not-c expect Japan-tions, must, in one way, be

the

When we

this! expected

·last- to say: "We never We will straightway withdraw." In fact we knew that Japan would continue her occupation of the coun- try perfectly sure of herself.

Ars! While we are discarding our flery words for asbestos paper the Japanese are restraining their resent-

widest open to grief.

GENUINE ADMIRATION

coupons for all clothes.

She herself, from being used to a "very large selection of outfits, Inrgely because society precedent expected it of her, is now wearing her dresses! and hats over and over again.

In other words, the Queen, lice

Hence the admiration for the

As for entering, the Queen recently courage of Their Majesties' war- told Lord Woolton, Minister of Food, time bearing; and hence the "We find it such a help to have n ment at sanctions while they con- «enuineness of Scottish dock. Good joint once a week at the Palace."|| solidate their

in Indo-China. position Then they will take the initiative workers shouting, "Good old again. This

Thailand. Liz," as the Queen recently the great majority of British house- economical and satisfactory to spend Britain must have a statesman on walked virtually unguarded and wives, has discovered that it is most

equivalent the spot in the Far East to Air Chlef Marshal Brooke-Pop- unafraid in areas where Com- the greater part of the week's meat ham in the milltary field, capable

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CONTRACT How to Play

BRIDGE

How to Win

JOSEPHINE CULBERTSON

Correct Timing

HAND in the recent World sary to conceded a club trick in order Olympic contest ad- to clear the club suit, they will have of working with single purpose to a

How much has the life of two. The royal household is for- A Bridge

in single end. At the moment it would

tunate, like other large families,

mirably brought out the Importance the opportunity to collect their dia- appear that the reports on our large Queen Elizabeth changed with being able to buy good-sized joints. of timing in the play of many deals, mond trick for the defeat of the con-

tract. the Far Interests in

Enst are largely

the war? Probably as much as Undoubtedly it is the small family!

South dealer. self-cancelling at Whitehall; fear of

any other woman's in the which finds the meat ration losing something here causing us to

country. Out of her engage- irksome. caution exercise

there until all in- terests and principles are endan- ment book have been ruled all

Something beyond repair. gered

the usual

of round must be sacrificed and the Britons

nctivities. In their place are on the Far East have recently said they are prepared to face the music.

Elephant Shot In England

On elephant has been shot in England but only because it was alling.

It belonged to a local zoo, and the

to be shot.

social

CATERING ELASTIC

AJ42

Neither side vulnerable:

AKT

29863

0164

A9853 A4

O QJ 10 6

N WE

708

S

0104

KQJ 10

OAKS

Q83

AAJ62

♡ 762 0872 4K 10 D

There is only one propitious plan to avoid the diomond loser. That is for declarer, before touching trumps, to lead

a spade to dummy's king. East wins and returns a diamond, declarer winning aked: the better Now the club be Anesse must not is to chance, by far,

the

a club lead ace and return a

directly spade for the finesse to the ten-spot. True,

if this loses to the jack, de- but down an extra trick,

clarer fmificant compared with

this is

the fact that successful spade Anesse will virtually insure the contract.

keepers decided that it would have North England, workshops on other Cabinet Ministers pay frequent, bidding was directed by the Olymple Declarer trick the opponents cun

They appealed to the Canadian headquarters for assistance and it was suggested that Lord Tweedsmuir -son of the late Governor-General of Canada and now a captain at the Canadian Corps

Clydeside."

South

North West iv Puss 2 d. ZNT Pas av 4 Pans • Раз

East Pass Pasa Pass

is only fair to point out that the play of this deal involves consider

While the Royal Household keepsi to normal such entries as: "Visit com- as strictly as possible munal feeding centres in heavily rationing, Its catering, like that of damaged South London area No. 10 Downing Street, and other are households of extra-national impor- meals where makeshift

Palace of a restaurant. Bu

Buckingham being served for homeless at 2d., tance, is necessarily as clastic as that 4d., and Gd." "Salvation Army may have any number of people Canteens coming round to Buck- perhaps 24 Indian offers serving

If King Haakon Ingham Palace for inspection." the RAF-to tea.

slaya, when he calls round for his

In this particular deal, since the Obviously, the suggested line of play "Tour aircraft factories in Mid- letters, he can hardly be expected to

be discarded

queen. on the spade lands, shipyards in Northwest produce his own lumps of sugar from only point revolved around the pro- succeeds. Declarer's spade ten wins estate in his pocket. Winston Churchill and per play at a four heart contract, the and now dummy's last diamond can knocks out the trump ecc England, housing

and only tri calla at the Palace. Every Minister Committee, as follows:

Ser

take after that is the club king. of the Crown, every diplomat, vice chief, Dominion and Colonial, representative, wi

who up or re SHE GOES ALONE

takes

nt. is

able risk. For one thing, the spade is received linquishes an appoint from Wendell

finesse may lose; for another, South Coventry, Bristol, Birming other visitors range ham, Salford, Southampton, Willikle to Cockney Coster.

rected, in other words, he was called third round club ruff by the oppo

However, there is only one from the King for bravery in fritain who had hunted clephants in Plymouth, Merseyside, have all Buster Cain, who received a modal West's opening lead also was di- must expose himself to it possible

Sometimes the Africa was beat qualified for the task. been visited.

Lally, was wearing collar and tie for rect lead of the diamond queen. Do- An anti-lánk rife was prepared, | Queen is accompanied by the intense air raid, and who. Incidens upon to make the obvious,and cor- rnative (playing for the singleton time when he proudly clarer's problems now resolves itself or doubleton club king in West's to a fight against losing one trick in hand) and on simple probabilities, but he used an ordinary Service rifle. King; sometimes sho goes alone. the first

every suit. He can scarcely avoid the spade finesse has more in its Often the Pioneer Corps is marched up to the Palace.

To-morrow's Hand shovelling away debris before One way and another, there is al conceding to the spade and trump her feet. She smells acrid ways something to calf at Buck aces, nor is there much

South dealer. fumes of still smoldering build- House. and at the Royal Family's playing the club sult without lors But the inasmuch as his would require the ings. She hears that all-too- realdence outsido London.

hand. The real "crux, then, Jonathan familiar tinkle and crash of Queen is well aware of other people's highly fortunate position of exactly

constant contact with widely varying Oliver Tollemache Blow, 21, was broken glass being cleared, the food dimculties as a result of her king-singleton or K-x in West's

scrape of shovels, the sudden sections of the community. She asks avoid losing a diamond.

Declarer cannot hope to discard blast of dynamite removing a girl nt a factory bench if she has structures which cannot be re- any complaints about food. The girl his diamond on dummy's fourth palrod. Dust fills the air, answers that corned beef gets rather club, because the time element is Coping atones and tiles come crashing down as the demolition squads work overhead.

Mushrooms Stolen By Officer

When Second Lieut fined £50 at Leeds for stealing a basket of mushrooms from a raliway atation, the name of his regiment was not disclosed and the police would not give his address,

The prosecuting solicitor bald Blow was been to put his coat on a barrow containing mushrooms. When lifted his cont he picked up also basket of mushrooms,

ho

a

The defence was that Blow did not

monotonous.

an

chance of

favour,

♡9653

Nellher side vulnerable.

13 10

-400

.OKJ82

K 1054 ♡ J7 O ABD +Q1054

against it. The opening lead knocks currying H," replies the out one of his diamond stoppers and take out the adverse trumps, When Queen. "It can be done quite in before he can run clubs, he must expensively."

the opponenta win with the heart second stopper;

Queen Elizabeth may be in It is the human side of what she ace, tifey will return a diamond and London, at the family residence sees on her tours that interests fler knock out South's tho know that he had picked up Just outalde London, or any Majesty most. She watches 12-inch then, since it will probably be neces

basket...

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4A821 ОЛКО92 ◇ 100 4A84.

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09764

KJ7

How should this hand be bid?