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They Can't Lick WHAT THE

the

British

Sense of Humour

WAR

SOVIET LEADERS TOLD ME

By Arthur Wauters

FAR is a grim business, and Another "whole cloth" war- mind these raids, but I wish to When Germany attacked the it would certainly gag time joke is an adaptation of an goodness they wouldn't come at Soviets I called to mind conver- most of us if it were not for the old favourite:

lunch time. It's just thought-sations which I had had with Soviet statesmen during my happy fact that the national

Office boy: "Picase, sir, could less!”

travels in Russia. sense of humour comes to our I have to-morrow afternoon off ?" rescue. But there is more to it

Employer: "Your than just a general sharpening mother, I suppose ?**

then

more

grand-

The man who told me this was shot

It Is

We are, one of them told me, the How those Britishers can helra of the French Revolution and we shall escape a repetition of their "take it With a sensc of of the community funny bone;

mistakes. There will be no

Thor- Individually

we become

Office boy: "Exactly, sir. humour second to none in the midor 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-wh

who

had pushed on a war outside the more appreciative of others' jump."

pregnably armoured. And no-country in order to take people's at- jokes. We all realise the truth

where is their drollery more intention off the difficulties within. of the old ditty:

evidence than in their placard- by Stalin with many others. Look next nt "tailored" jokes, ing. It has become a now war- “A bit of humour now and that is, war incidents that have time art, each trying to outdo his Russians have not attempted to perfectly true that the been seized upon by the whimsy neighbour in laugh-producing export Communlam at bayonet point. Russia is the only country in the In relished by the best of artists and turned into full-

signs.

world ruled by a Communist Govern- fledged anecdotes. For instance,

ment. This is not the case as for ne men!"

there is the one about the British A Dover rooming house proprietor Fasciam and Totalitarian Govern- This may seem an eccentric pilot who got lost and landed at puts a card in his window an soon ments are concerned for they have state of affairs when war is such Curragh in Kildare,

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

a considerable number of tion of of virintly reads: "Nice rooms with tions Stalin' was, based entirely a horrible experience; we should

Growled

The conflict between Trot- the tough Irish every convenience,

the

· facing laugh less instead of more.

sergeant who greeted him: enemy." A placard In public

on this difference

nce of basic ideology. there is a psychological basis to "Twould fit ye batter to thank building in one of the raided suburbs The Intter 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 Russin in peace fence mechanism." As Kobold corpse ye'd surely be, landing worry-It may never happen." After and the former only belleved in the triumph, of Communism if it were Knight assures us, "a sense of like this without warning, only a very sharp attack the placard humour is like Medea's magic for our anti-aircraft gun is after reappeared with a slight change: brought about by world revolution. ointment, which quickly heals going to Dublin for repair be- "Don't worry-Hitler has missed us every wound and'renders one use young Mick here jammed again."

it blazing into a flock of wild One night a bomb fell in the cen- immune." Few things assuage geese that came overhead last tre of a street in the shopping dis- main entirely self-contained. She burdened minds as much as Saturday night."

trict, blowing out all the plate glass has, as far as possible, remzined

conflicts. She has, hearty laughter; a person with-

windows in the nearby stores. One outside milltary

not fully succeeded in this latter alm, Then there is the "tailored" proprietor Immediately, put on The Communist Parties in all the out a sense of humour is with-

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The

Hongkong Telegraph.

Tuesday, Sept. 23, 1941. Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 26015

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BULGARIA

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

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Yet

A

in an air liner when a girl ran her, after the upper part of his shop up and asked the passengers if had been blown away by a bomb, any one of them would be kind alled the following notice on his door: "I have had a close shave. In this respect the British enough to sell her their seat as what about you?" people are perhaps the best her mother was dangerously ill armoured. There may be jokes and the liner was full up. in Berlin and Rome; but they The young officer gave up his are as funeral psalms compared seat and wired his CO.: "Given to the salubrious stuff and nour ishing nonsenso dished up in

or is she going to retain neutra-London by the whimsy artists lity which will be a defeat for of the nation. And the saints be Hitler's policy.

praise for that!

A

is the work of the jokesmiths

By Charles Clay

.

But the prize for seizing upon the exigencies of war and whimsically turning them to good account earne from a London flower-seller follow- ing the British anti-rumour cam- paign. This stout-hearted lady put up a placard over her posies. It read: "Don't talk in your sleep, there may be a jerry under your bed. Say it with flowers, instead."

the

sky and

Peace Policy

Soviet Russia has attempted to re-

Democratic countries exploited to the full the

the Munich agreement. They the copilulation and denounced weakness of Chamberlain and Dain-

face with identical dier, but when they found them- selves face to

culties they quickly put into application a peace policy. This at one time reached the level of fawning on Germany.

All these efforts, however, hove not been able to preserve them from war. They are now within the sphere of hostilities. The Communist slogan of "Imperialist War has vanished. It cannot be used again for a long in time by Communist propagandists the world, Stalin, who has

always claimed to be

to be a complete follower of Lenin, was obliged by force of circumstances to fight. He could not allow Germany to seize his agricul- tural products, his mineral riches

Leninism

Bulgaria has had a most un--| Humour is an intangible but berth to girl. Returning by next No wonder an old man, placidly fortunate history most of it | stout defence in war. We may plane." The reply he received palating his house during an air and, above all, his oll, which sup- step-marked by wrong decisions expect to endure the hardships ran: "Congratulations. Your raid, mildly replied when told to pites his motorised army and agricul-

thought it was the wind shaking my by its leaders at fateful mo- and the horrors of conflict longer next confinement will be in come down to safety: "Bombs? I ture.

ladder!" No wonder when the ments. Even the choice be- and with less spiritual casualty, barracks."

"I do"

Leninism belleved that it would be These jokes, and literally hun- blushing bride said " do duri did tween Constantinople and Rome if we have a joke or two to take

every best, by giving up territory time that I became the Greek Orthodox Church refuge in. The lilt of laughter, dreds more like them, circulating not interrupt

necessary, to re-allow the great Capitalist countries and Roman Catholicism-made

good start!" even sad laughter, iş invaluable, among Britain's civilian and the bridegroom grinned, enny

to wear themselves out through con- military population, are a power. marked: "This is a

No wonder a by the first Boris one thousand

certain English lady For this reason an examina ful benison. They cheer and en. In her very late seventies, receiving nesa at the end of such a war, the fict so that, proflling by their weak- years ago_comes_into_this_cate-tion for British war humour may-liven spirits. Thore is no doubt a cable from an American friend Communists could spread--among- gory for it paved the way for have lessons for us.

What is its that they have been in large part suggesting she visit the United States them destroying the social structure for the British "for the duration," promptly re and attempt to establish Communist religious dissension which split

pattern? What are its con- responsible

ability to take it." Familiar plled: "Hearty thanks charming in- Governments. from the Bulgarian Empire Al-

vitation, hope to accept when sequences?

with such conscious drollery, the ultimate victory is secured!" bania and Macedonia.

To-day Russia, like the other coun- After

trics, is exposed to the same exhaus- There short period of Turkish

are four kinds of British become unconsciously

There is something tremendously tlon which results from world war- Inspiring in such high-spiritedness fare. rule the Bulgara rose again British war humour: First there droll!

In the face of an implacable enemy. Simple, spontaneous, stirring, these to independence but from 1396

Russin has also known a Thermidor to 1878 they endured the op- who either concoct war jokes out 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 presssive demands of the Turks 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, lo snap. Their in the future evolution of operations. manent period of history which and "tailor" them into full- business of illuminating nearly a national sense of humour is their

hundred square miles of ocean. most powerful defence. must seem to them still as hor-fledged anecdotes.

That, of course, was right and Good cheer is the basis of an in- rific as anything the Nazis.

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

sciously droll incidents that hap with satisfaction; ships at sea ability to laugh is the basis of good cheer. Let us therefore strongly With the aid of Russia this pen and circulate as war stories had to be guided from the shoals, fortify ourselves with laughter. This

blackout.or no blackout.

Is one case where he who laughs.first stupifying, stultifying and bar- in their own right. Thirdly, barous period came to an end and Bulgaria regained her in- dependence. She endured the vicissitudes of Balkan politics until the Great War when she elected to fight with the Central Powers and suffered in the peace treaty considerable di- minution of territory to gratify Rumanía, Turkey, Greece and Yugo-Slavia,

vantage of wartime conditions.

.

When Trotsky succeeded, after brilliant victories, in destroying the White Russlans and chasing the Al- iled armies from the New Europe the objective factors for "n Bona- partiste attemp!" were in embryo. Trotsky did not wish at that time to make use of the high prestige which he enjoyed.

GRIN AND BEAR IT

there are funny remarks made And then the warden suddenly will also laugh last-and loudest. during moments of excitement. stiffened. What did he see? And, finally, there are the With a resounding oath he rush- inimitable British placards and ed down to the shore, comman- notices taking humorous ad- decred a boat and plunged through the waves towards the lighthouse, Coming within hail- ing distance, he bawled out! Look first at samples of the through a megaphone, jokesmith's art, One of their The keeper thrust his head best "whole cloth" jukes is about over the rim of the towering a young sergeant who asked the structure. "Man," shouted the sergeant-major for advice in warden,, "don't you know this is framing a charge for which there a blackout and you're supposed was no example in King's Regu- to pull your window blinds

down?"

Bulgaria does not want to fight Turkey. If her people were consulted they would bolations: satisfied that their old enemy

"What was the man doing, 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

major: tinue in their peaceful peasant

troops from Namsos left his

ways. The last country in the "Flirting with a girl in the engine room and went on deck

world they would want to fight is Russia.

park, sir."

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

during a fierce Nazi bomb atfuck on his ship. He thought he could be of more use up top than However, Bulgaria is another

down below. He was. He did tremendous work carrying am- country where the bulk of the

munition to the trawler's one people have no say in their af-

anti-aircraft-gun. And as he fairs. Boris has been dictator for baro existence as an inde- trotted from shell box to gun, reckless of the bombs falling all since he ousted the cliques who pendent unit.

around his ship, the second hummed round the Government

If she elects for the Axis she engineer sang "Pennies From -reactionaries, anti-peasant will have sold her soul for tem- Heaven.". bodies, pro-Fascists movements,porary gain and the hate of rovisionist groups, republicans. Russians 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 wocks." 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 mouth- of that final throw? the struggle ing her hand-

oast town-restaurant: I don't

By Lichty

ou win, Adele-They DID have shoes in all these boxei