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They Can't Lick WHAT THE

the British

Sense of Humour

WAR is a grim business, and the "vadaptation was mind these raids, but I wish to

SOVIET LEADERS TOLD ME

By Arthur Wauters

When Germany attacked the

it would certainly gag time joke is an adaptation of an goodness they wouldn't come at Soviots I called to mind conver most of us if it were not for the old favourite:

lunch time. It's just thought- antions which I had had with Soviet statesmen during my travela in Russia. .

happy fact that the national Office boy: "Please, sir, could less !" sense of humour comes to our I have to-morrow afternoon off?”. rescue. But there is more to it

Employer: "Your grand-

than just a general sharpening mother, I suppose? ?" of the community funny bone; Individually

wo become more

imore appreciative of others' jump." jokes. We all realise the truth of, the old ditty:

"A bit of humour now and

then

Is relished by the best of

men l''

Yet

on

We are, one of them told me, the How those Britishers can helre of the French Revolution and we shall escape a repelition of their acnse of mistakes. There will be no Ther- "take it!" With a Office boy: "Exactly, sir. humour second to none in the mider for Communist Russia. There. will be no imitation of the Girondins ready to crack jokes, as well as She's making her first parachute world, they are stoutly and im- who had pushed on a war outside the pregnably armoured. And no-country in order to take people's at where is their drollery more intention off the difficulties within.

The man who told me this was shot. evidence than in their placard- by Stalin with many others. Look next at "tailored" jokes, ing. It has become a new war-

It is perfectly true that the that is, war incidents that have time art, each trying to outdo his Russians have not attempted to been seized upon by the whimsy

Russia I the only country in the world ruled by signs. artists and turned into full neighbour in laugh-producing export Communism at bayonet point. Communist Govern- fledged anecdotes. For instance,

ment. This is not the case as far as A Dover rooming house proprietor Fascism and Totalitarion Govern- there is the one about the British This may seem an eccentric pilot who got lost and landed at puts a card in his window as soon ments are concerned for they have

as a vacancy occurs. The card in-succeeded in taking over the direc

considerable number of state of affairs when war is such Curragh in Kildare,

variably reads: "Nice rooms with tion of a

The conflict between Trot- a horrible experience; we should

facing Growled the

Irish every tough

convenience,

the nations. a pubile sky and Stalin was based entirely laugh less instead of more.

who

him: enemy." A placard in sergeant

greeted

this difference of basic idealogy. there is a psychological basis to "Twould fit ye better to thank building in one of the ralded suburbs The latter wished to perfect the it. Laughter is a type of "de- God you're not a dead man, for a of London used to read: "Don't Socialist State within Russia in peace fence mechanism." As Kobold corpse ye'd surely be, landing worry-It may never happen." After and the former only believed in the warning, only a very sharp attack the plnenrd triumph of Communism if it were Knight assures us, "a sense of like this without humour is like Medea's magic for our anti-aircraft gun is after reappeared with a slight change: brought about by world revotullon. ointment, which quickly heals going to Dublin for repair be- "Don't worry-Hiller has missed us

Soviet Russia has attempted to re-. every wound and renders one cause young Mick here jammed again.”

it blazing into a flock of wild One night a bomb fell in the cen-

entirely self-contained. She immune." Few things assuage geese that came overhead last tre of a street in the shopping dis- main

trict, blowing out all the plate glass has, as far as possible, remained burdened minds as much as Saturday night."

has windows in the nearby stores. One outside military confllets. She THE prefix "pecial to the Telegraph hearty laughter; a person with-

In Then there is the "tailored" proprietor Immediately put up a noi fully succeeded in this latter alm. out a sense of humour is with-

joke about the young officer re. sign: "Open as usual." His com- The Communist Parties

better. His sign read: "More open full the Munich agreement. They out one strong shield against turning from leave abroad. He petitor across the street went one Democratic countries exploited to the

denounced

capitulation the butterings of outraged for- was just about to take his place than usual!" A South Londen bar-

in an air liner when a girl ran ber, after the upper part of his shop weakness of Chamberlain and Dala- up and asked the passengers if had been blown away by a born, dier, but when they found them- they quickly put into any one of them would be kind nailed the following notice on his selves face to face with identical door: "I have had a close shave application a peace policy. This at In this respect the British enough to sell her their seat as what about you?"

one time reached the level of fawning on Gennany. people are perhaps the best her mother was dangerously ill armoured. There may be jokes and the liner was full up.

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BULGARIA

Bulgaria now appears to have been forced to the cross-roads: is she going to declare war

Lune.

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the

all the

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But the prize for seizing upon the exigencies of war and whimsically

All these efforts, however, have turning them to good account came The young officer gave up his from a London flower-seller follow-not been able to preserve them from are as funeral psalms compared scat and wired his C.O.: "Given ing the British anti-rumour cam- war, They are now within the sphere

in Berlin and Rome; but they

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means sequiescence to the Axis, ishing nonsense dished up in

or is she going to retain neutra- lity which will be a defeat for Hitler's policy.

London by the whimsy artists

of the nation. And the saints be praise for that!

By Charles Clay

come

paign. This stout-hearted lady put of hostilities. The Communist slogan up a placard over her posies, It of "Imperialist War" has vanished. read: "Don't talk in your sleep. It cannot be used again for a long there may be a jerry under your time by Communist propagan liels in bed, Say it with flowers, Instead," the world. Stalin, who hos

claimed to be a complete of Lenin, was obliged by force of circumstances to fight. He could not allow Germany to seize his agricul- Humour is an intangible but berth to girl. Returning by next No wonder an old man, placidly tural products, his mineral riches stout defence in war. We may plane." The reply ho received painting his house during an air and, above all, his oll, which sup- "Congratulations. Your raid, mildly replied when told to plies his motorised army and agricul expect to endure the hardships ran:

down to safety: "Bombs? 1 ture.

Leninism and the horrors of conflict longer next confinement will be in thought it was the wind shaking my the ladder!" No

when Wonder blushing bride said "I do" during s

Leninism believed that it-would be These jokes, and literally hun- violent raid on London which did best, by giving up territory every if we have a joke or two to take refuge in. The lilt of laughter, dreds more like them, circulating not interrupt the marriage cremor time-that-it became necessary, to allow the great Capitalist countries marked: Th

This is n

to wear themselves out through con- a good storit" even sad laughter, is invaluable, among Britain's civilian and the bridegroom grinned and re-

military population, are a power- No wonder a certain English lady niet so that, profiting by their weak- For this reason an examina- ful benison. They cheer and en- in her very late seventies, receiving ness at the end of such a war, the years ago comes into this cate-tion for British war humour may liven spirits. There is no doubt a cable from an American friend Communists could spread among have lessons for us. What is its that they have been in large part suggesting she visit the United States them destroying the spends mong pattern? What sequences?

Bulgaria has had a most un- fortunate history most of it step-marked by wrong decisions by its leaders at fateful mo- ments. Even the choice be- tween Constantinople and Rome -the Greek Orthodox Church and Roman Catholicism-made by the first Boris one thousand

gory for it paved the way-for- religious dissension which split from the Bulgarian Empire Al- bania and Macedonia. After £ short period of Turkish rule the Bulgars rose again to independence but from 1396 to 1878. they endured the op- presssive demands of the Turks

and with less spiritual casualty,

are its

is the work of the jokesmiths who either concoct war jokes out

barracks."

to

when accept

the British for the duration,"

promptly re-and-attempt-to-establish-Communist con- responsible for

ability to take it." Familiar plied: "Hearty thanks charming in- Governments. vitation, hope

To-day Russia, like the other coun- with such conscious drollery, the ultimate victory is secured!"

tries, is exposed to the same exhaus- There is something tremendously tion which results from world war- There are four kinds of British become unconsciously

inspiring In such high-spiritedness fare. In the face of an implecable enemy. British war humour: First there droll!

Russia has also known a Thermidor Simple, spontaneous, stirring, these A zealous ARP warden, during reactions to disaster and death prove which cost the lives of a very large above all things that the British number of Officers. We do not know of whole cloth, as the saying is, a blackout, saw the lighthouse have a resilience that will be hard, how far this factor will have effect in a dark and as it seemed per- or who seize upon war incidents on Barra Head going about its if not impossible, to snap. Their in the future evolution of operations. When Trotsky succeeded, after manent period of history which and "tailor", them into full- business of Illuminating nearly a national sense of humour is their

hundred aquare miles of ocean, most powerful defence.

brilliant victories, in destroying the * must seem to them still as hor-fledged anecdotes.

That, of course, was right and Good cheer is the basis of an in- White Russlans and chasing the Al- rific ая anything the Nazis

Then there are actual uncon- proper, and the warden nodded flexible determination to win, and lind armies from the New Europe can conjure up.

sciously droll incidents that hap with satisfaction; ships at sea ability to laugh is the basis of good the objective factors for a Bonn- cheer. Let us therefore strongly partiste attempt" were in embryo. With the aid of Russia this pen and circulate as war stories had to be guided from the shoals, fortify ourselves with laughter. Thin Trotsky did not wish at that time to is one case where he who laughs first make use of the high prestige which will also laugh last-and loudest. he enjoyed. stupifying, stultifying and bar- in their own right. Thirdly, blackout or no blackout.

And then the warden suddenly barous period came to an end there are funny remarks made and Bulgaria regained her in during moments of excitement. stiffened. What did he see? the With a resounding oath he rush- dependence. She endured the And, finally, there are

inimitable British placards and ed down to the shore, comman-| vicissitudes of Balkan politics notices taking humorous ad deered boat and plunged until the Great War when she vantage of wartime conditions. through the waves towards the elected to fight with the Central

lighthouse, Coming within hail- Powers and suffered in the

ing distance, he bawled out peace treaty considerable di-

Look first at samples of the through a megaphone. minution of territory to gratify jokesmith's art. One of their The keeper thrust his head Rumania, Turkey, Greece and best "whole cloth" jokes is about over the rim of the towering Yugo-Slavia.

a young sergeant who asked the structure. "Man," shouted the Bulgarin does not want to sergeant-major for advice in warden, "don't you know this is framing a charge for which there a blackout and you're supposed fight Turkey. If her people was no example in King's Rogu- to pull your window blinds were consulted they would bolations: satisfied that their old onemy

A second engineer serving on a was no longer a menace to them; they would want to con- exactly?" asked the sergeant trawler during the evacuation of

tinue in their peaceful pensant ways. Tho, last country in the world they would want to fight Is Russia.

"What was the man doing,

major.

down?"

troops from Namsos left his "Flirting with a girl in the engine room and went on deck. during a fierce Nazi bomb attack, on his ship. He thought he park, sir."

could be of more use up top than down below. He was. He did munition to the trawlor's one tremendous work carrying am- anti-aircraft gun. And as he for bare existence as an indo- trotted from shell box to gun, pendent unit.

"Well," said the sergeant major solemnly, "charge him with impersonating an officer.".

However, Bulgaria is another country where the bulk of the people have no say in their af-. faira. Boris has been dictator

reckless of the bombs falling all since he ousted the cliques who

around his ship, the second hummed round the Government

If she clects for the Axis sho angineer sang "Ponnies From -reactionaries, anti peasant will have sold her soul for tem- Heaven." bodies, pro-Fascists movements, porary gain and the hate of revisionist groups, republicans. Russlans and Turks: the alter- A bomb dropped in a south Bulgaria sold herself into Axis native is to defy the Axis to England river and a local angler hands trying at first to off-set turn her from neutrality and to exclaimed indignantly: This the Balkan Entente, then to re- rely on the unstable conditions will upset the fish for weeks." In southeastern Europe and Hit- Sald a British commercial tain her neutrality and now, ler's unconsolidated gains to traveller, throwing his napkin back to the wall, she thinks only keep the Axis hordes from fore angrily on the table in a south- east town restaurant: "I don't of that Anal throw: the struggle ing her hand,SI

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

have shoes in all those boxes!

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