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Sitting

N, Gubbins, Esq., hold- ing long conversations with N. Gubbins, Esq., was one of the remark. able, features of one re- cent evening, when N. Gubbins, Eng,, was alone in the Nest.

Before there revealing dialogues, fade from the memory and are lost to posterity they have been written down here faithfully as possible.

Le alone."

ELL, here you are, alone."

"So are you."

"You always wanted to

"So did you."

your column

on the

Fence

by NATHANIEL

GUBBINS

"Did you have to mention that after last night?**

"One has to face facts." "But not in the morning." "What would you like for lunch?" "After the frying pans, nothing." "We have some santines."

"You said that deliberately." "I ady everything deliberately." "I'm going for a walk." "So am 1."

"Have you any money?"

"How do you like it?" "How do you?" "Have you started

yet as much pour

column as

One of

"Does it cost money to walk now?" "You know perfectly well what 1 mean"

"

tet's get this straight. us has got to write a column."

"You write it."

"Have you seen anything funny in the_papers?"

"There was + headline 'Atom Bombs Will Be Cheaper?"

"Do you think that's funny?" "No."

Then why did you mention it?" "I thought it might appeal to your distorted sense of humour."

"Don't let's quarrel

with each other. Anything else?"

"The black marketeers of Rome have sent a deputation to the Italian Minister of the Interior to complain about police interference."

St?

"That sounds rather good, doesn't

"Doer it?"

'What are you going to write about that?"

"Nothing. What are you?" "Nothing."

"Let's skip it"

"O.K."

66 XJHENtlid we

"Wh

washing up?"

"I don't remember,"

Idat

do

any

"This morning I counted seven

A minute

"There are no ciran cups." "It wouldn't take wash up a couple."

"One,"

"Oh, I forgot, One, then,"

10

"Shut up,

it you?"

"Well, cheese, then." "Toasted?"

"If somebody toasts it.”

"I suppose if somebody turned on the electric heater and drew the cur- tains somebody else could toast cherse?"

"What do you mean by 'somebody else? Are you going crazy?"

“Maybe."

"Go and toast cheese."

"There are no clean plotes? "Well, wash a couple. I mean one,'

"No."

"Though you might as well wash you want the radio on?" up two while you're about it."

"Who said I was going to wash up anything?"

With a little hot water you coucht have done the lot in twenty minutes."

"So could you."

"Including the dirty plates and the frying pans."

"Will you be quiet about frying panst"

"No." "You're like

A

"I SUPPOSE you feel hungry harping on one thing.“

now?"

"A bit"

**If you'd gone round to the but- cher, as I told you, we could have had our week's rations."

"Ration."

"At least a couple of chops each."' "Between us."

"All right, then, between us. If you'd gone to the fishmonger toe could have had fried fish."

"If you had gone to the fishmonger we could have had fried fish."

ried in what?"

"In those filthy frying pans.” "You said that deliberately.” "I say everything deliberately." "You deserve to have sardines." "Shut up."

"I'm not going to have any lunch.” "Nor am I."

"I'm going to have a nap.”

"So am I

"Good night, then."

"It isn't night. It's afternoon."

"Good afternoon, then, damn you.”

dirty plates (big ones) and five "HULLO."

small

"I counted eight dirty cups and Faucers, cleven dirty spoons, nine dirty knives, six dirty forks and three disgusting frying pans full of grease."

"Kubo.**

"Isn't it dark?**

"What did you expect it to be at 5.30 pm."

"What shall we do now?" "Have some tea?"

"Well, I'dɑ,"

"Well, I don't"

"Well, say I do."

"Well, I say I don't"

"All right, all riphit. Don't let's quarrel about that."

"How I pity the Siamese twins." "They're dead now, anyway.”

mirror?"

"Must you stare at yourself in the:

"Muat you?"

woman, always.

"Anu

at me.'

"So are you, always arguing." "Nag, ng, R."

"Chatter, chatter, chatter?

F course, we might have and a fire if somebody had done the rates."

"We might have had a fire if some- body had brought in some coul."

"I can't do everything." "Neither can I."

"Besides. I have a column to think about,"

"So have 1."

"Well, why don't you something?"

"Why don't you?"

"WHATS THAT?”

"What's what?”

out

think

"I thought I heard something," "Who's windy about burglars?" "Can's I say "What's that?' with

E called windy?"

were always windy."

"So were you."

"What's for supper?** "Cold pudding."

"I hate cold pudding."

"So do I."

"Then, why did you mention 11?" "To make you feel sick." "What else is there?" "Sardines,"

AFTER TOTAL WAR-

California.

TERRORISM

the

Jews and Indonesians both seek to

their

and Service "demonstrate

strength potential nuisance value; both use new

4

POCKET CARTOON

"Do you remember those good old days in the desSTĂ, when tre used to lomo for

Help t

BY THE WAY

by Beachcomber

the Government benches, whên,

don't put your tongue out FRANTIC cheering broke out on in answer to a question from an Minister Opposition member, some

pist yours out at me."

"Yours is coated."

"So is yours?"

"What can you expect with the or something feplied: life you lead?"

"What about your life?" "Instead of sleeping all afternoon you might have been writing a book or something."

"You can't write a book in afternoon."

"You can start one."

"You can start a column, too.” "You can do your grates." "You can get in your coal.” "You can do your washing-up.” "Boo, boo, boo."

"Doo to you, too."

M-poing for a walk.""

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"The same walk as you took this morning?"

"Why shouldn't I lake the same walk as I took this morning?"

"Remember the column. It's your dead line' to-morrow."

"It's your dead line, too."

"I didn't suggest going out."

Is a

The honourable Member for Footle has asked why, if, as Socialists, we condemn and deplore monopoly, we favour monopoly in the Trade Union' movement. The answer is," . con-. tinued this gadget, in ʼn ringing volce. "that the Unions are moving towards monopoly only in the sense that

of ours this great country monopoly. And I think I, may say, spooking for this House and for the whole country, that she is my lady love, she la my dove, my baby love, she is the Lily of Laguna".---.. but at that point the whole House rose and sang to the full pitch of Its lungs. Many wept as strong mon weep with tearing sobs from the belly.

In passing

“Anyway, I'm not staying here OCCASIONALLY you will meet

alone.

I thought you wanted

alonc.

"Shut up."

ᄆ

someboby who, to show ho is in to be touch with what is going on outside England, will make n cautious ro-

ference 10 Existentialism. *This

"Are you going to make our beds dreary balderdash is No more a

before you go?"

"Bed."

"All

"No."

philosophy than wan dadaism, and

right. Bed. Well, are you?" it is far less amusing. It is the out-

You'll never do it when

come back,”

"Yes, I shall."

"With blankets and sheets round you, like the Dance of Seven Vells."

come of a gloomy mood attractive you to unhealthy-minded young people

about

and the only fun it provides is in all the pretentious discussions the Sartre and his set which

our own

highbrows carry on, For informa- tion about the English branch write to the Nothing Society (President,, Mr, E. L. Nemo, nuthor of "Does

in argument ny well as arms. The "FIVE to twelve, Are you going Life Exlat?").

Jewish

Resistance, for example, argues that the country ruled by British officials appointed by the Colonial Oce and not answerable publicly to anyone. There is no legislative or other assembly; the strongest censorship is imposed on and the low courts are the Presa: guided by a series of emergency-laws that make the wartime 18b powers look pathetically mild.

The war pressure.

terrorist Have the examples; here also was the political occasion to support his opinion that history moves too slowly; it needs a kick,

FERRORISM fights back. In some Burmese and many others served in

and Special 20 countries it has become a Commando regular Instrument of polities during Operations. They learnt the the last 12 months; It ranges from technique, they saw ita efficacy the Asturian anti-Franco mequie war and they touched up the new in Spain

anti-Communist method to suit local requirements in to the

the so-called peace. The dynamite for maquis of the Banderoval on

Eastern Slovakla and the new terrorism was prepared: frontier of Poland, and it is as wide apart in only the occasion to set it alight was alm and method as the Jewish wanting-and that not for long.

This new terrorism has Palestine and .

become Haganah in Ku-Klux-Klan riding again in the measure of democracy's difficul- ties and failures. It developed must rapidly in those countries where This terrorism is a new and dis- there was least chance of political turbing force in the political life of expression and legitimate the world to-day. It is scarcely at It was no longer conducted by small all related to the old terrorism of anarchist protesting against tyranny without immediate political ends. It is also generally distinct from the violence employed for a coup d'etat by dictators like Pilsudski or Primo de Rivera and by the Nazi and Fascist Parties to maintain themselves in power.

the

terrorism has

in

By "LIBERATOR”

in

THE OBSERVER (LONDON)

movements rarely call

Own SUCCESSCA. Terrorist

The Labour Government is face to face with this situation in Pales- tine. They and the Jewish leaders have still time to draw back from the fatal rond to ominously re- sembling that which began in Dublin Castle 30 years ago.

Terrorism Is This post-war

not easily terrifled. It gets worse as fact emerged from those practices

reprisals occur. Moreover, It feeds natural to total war which justified minorities, isolated in a sea of hos- EPHE

Area and ulty. It became highly organised, the means by the end,

halt after atom bombing. commando raiding, disciplined and based generally on the forcible transfer of populations, the bulk of the population in the achieving their first objectives; they all elevated the righteousness of the areas where it operated. But per- drive on to total victory and moral Nor is it easy to keep rc- end and established the consequent haps the outstanding departure from ruin. justice of the means. The terrorist the past was the change of political prisals in hand.

The British garrison in Palestine alm. took the hint.

The war did more than merely

The new terrorism, as exemplified to-day is more than twice as large In 1010: the that in Ireland 34 stimulate the idea of terrorism: it by the Indo-Nationalists in Java and Jewish Resistance Movement provided also the technical training the Jewish Resistance Movement in estimated to be at least three times and the mechanical means for a new Palestine, differed essentially from larger in active members than was and formidable type of pressure. Its the methods employed by the Stern the I.R.A. The dangers of a tragie cradle was the Middle East.

Gang or by the numerous other repetition of history on a far larger scale are obvious and now it is n Labour Government claiming to be progressive, and not a reactionary tyrant, that has to frame policy.

The new terrorism will not eradicated by force. There must be removal of its deeper causes. But, meanwhile, it probably remains as true as when Shaw first put the words into the mouth, of Caesar: "Can Romo do less than alay the slayers....and so, on to the end of hlatory, murder shall breed murder, always in the name of right and honour and peace, until, the gods are tired of blood and create a race that can understand. Must we wait for the gods to grow aweary of the crimes and follies of mankind?

There Lawrence had first tested cilques of terrorista in Eastern the efficacy of blowing up bridges Errope, Egypt, and elsewhere. and causing dislocation without in exponents, unlike EAM in Greece, viting undue reprisals. By 1936 the are

not

waging civil

war Palestine Arabs had materially deve- against a section of their own popu- loped and improved Lawrence's lation, and unlike the Irish in 1920 earlier techniqué, and it was from they are, not alming so far at this experience, according to the general conquest and driving out the official history of "Combined Opera- öccupying Power. tions," that Sir John Dull and Colonel For the first time in its history this D. W. Clarke evolved tho" first In- type of terrorizm, is operating' on dependent Companies that were to clearly thoughtout military prin- become the Commando troops. ciples, and seeks only limited objec- Lives; it is, in fact, a form of pres- sure on the Government called la because of the absence, as the ter rorist claims, of any other form of The development did not end ·peiitical Instrument verving the sume there. Jows, Poles, Javanese, purpose."

It was that experience also that led. Wingate to the creation of the .Chindits and the French to form the

Maquis,

NANCY

Just by Dumb Luck

I HATE BEING A

LITTLE 'SHRIMP--- I WISH I COULD

BE TALL

I'LL TRY THE WISHING

STONE IN THE PARK

I WANT TO

BE THE

TALLEST KID

IN MY CLASS

THE WISHING

STONE

JAM-39

NANCY-- YOUR HOMEWORK IS AWFUL

be

to have another?" "If you insist." "I'm not insisting. P'm asking." "All right, if you must." "It's not a qucation of must." "You'll never do your column." "You'll never do your grates." "You'll never get in your coal." "You'll never do your washing-up" you going to have just one?"

"So am I." "Why are you pouring out two?" "You said you were going to have

*

of then you are crazy. Crazy, crazy, crazy."

"I'm not so crazy.. Not this time." "Well, no. Perhaps not."

"You don't seem so bad now." "You don't seem so bad now." "Well, here's to you!" "Well, here's to you!”

News in brief

·A·

SHRIKE which built its nest in

0 dummy melon at St. Ives has not moved for eight days. ` .4 baker's boy was cautioned at Chep- stow for leaving coils of gilt wire on

a tramline. It was afterwards oscertained that his mother was washerwoman Giving the name of Grant, Pontypridd philatelist entered a dairy by a back window. When questioned he said he was a member of on anti-milk league.. Braces made of rosin led to the arrest

of a violinist in Bad-Stensch,.

An catrici In the Basle Zoo swallow. ornaments ed a quantity of brass and laid a small trombone. .A mun with Blb. of fish, in the lining of his bat has disappeared from Scho.

CROSSWORD

Across

1. Chip Megan makes,up to in a

#fervescent way. (B)

1. It measures tho density of the

ale. (us

11. Certainly no drunkard ir be in

(0)

12. The deceiver uses op TO ADYAD

tags. 13)

13. With the centre abstracted. 151 15. Once and again. (3)

18. The golden eagle is this sort of

bird. (4)

20. Dover pronet

Often remuita from a wouɛd. 14) 45. The catchy part of a hornet. 135

Enostentatiously, (6)

Bee 1 Down,

27. How I lead the mermaid, (2)

Down

J and 28. Ornamental forma off

10, 0)

circular windows-to some theyị13. Lends support any pictures. (0) 1 Beem like a giri, (9) Are Just Areworks.

of

feething trouble, 131 23. Juer und extra, für

2. It may be noise but is not 21. Beginning

the "done thing' when some

stande yoji & drink. (7)

8. Fortifying. (3)

5. This 'meter measures alc. (4)

. Before the end of a there. B Mosteras, Kos, "thr

nalukan at yesterday's pundle, —Açrossr

4. More miserable than a mop. (4)14. Peninsula: 6. Dille: V OB; fa, svergi man; 15. žiemi 34, Tainu 15. Fouth: 17′′ Hedeneweg 21, Bank; QV AKU DA jgkany, 25, Bee. 1 Dawn Daenal and 125. Patient meetings; 2. Editar; A {Nivadust *, feruin. Borin-rest, or dorad (71).jpg Dimin: 10. Lank; 11. Anti: 16:

Lik. Bing; 19. RENT 250, VI 10. troë

9. Young kittiwaken. (8) 10. Unending, 477 14. Retreat., Talk is terríbis anger. 151

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