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THE BURDENS

RECOVERY

END OF THE HOLIDAY

NOW WE

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RITAIN has reached the great crisis. Have no doubt about that. Have

no doubt about this also-we. must make a serious effort to pull ourselves together or to- gether we shall be pulled down. Now what are the causes of our plight?

We found ourselves in war completely unprepared.

We had to pour our wealth away and exhaust much of our strength to win that war.

A very large section of the British population decided that with the election of a Socialist Government we had automati- cally entered the millennium in which work did not matter uny more. If you needed money, you had merely to hang out your stocking and Santa Cinus would fill it.

DOLLAR-HEAVEN

No help to us

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Greek Soldiers Discontented

“By ROBERT C. MILLER

(United Press Staff Correspondent)

WITH THE GREEK FRONTIER ARMY, Aug. 31.-There is universal discontent in the Grock Army, particularly in the lower ranks.

Many of the junior officers blame politics for keeping them in uniform. The other ranks are embittered because their two-year terms of service have extended into three and even four years, with no immediate prospects of returning to civilian life..

None doubts the necessity of maintaining 48 large an armed force as possible in the present crisis, but the number one question in every- body's mind is "When am I going to got out?"

The brass is unhappy at Greece's allies. They believe more aid should be forthcoming, particularly from England and the United States. Everyone here regards the. undeclared border Warfare as a conflict between Russian Com- munism and Anglo-American democracy, with the Greek army doing the fighting,

One colonel put it very bluntly. I compli mented him upon the almost miraculous growth of the Greek army from a nondescript force two

years ago to a well-equipped, modern-armed power, pointing out the obvious fact that practi- cally everything the Greeks had was given them by the British.

TESTING TIME

by... JOHN GORDON

Add to these the fact that the mines on the feet when we cannot plek of our manhood is wasting its even run our own time marching

mines at home up and down the with any rent success? ruins of Europe when it would be infinitely better employed marching

This horde of controllers in Ger- through the Industrial gates

their typists, clerks, at many with home, and it is little wonder that chauffeurs and servants should be of all the victorious nations of the brought home and added to the pro- war we have done the worst in the duction army. way of recovery since pract came.

All we need to leave are a few able men in the key places to walcḥ what the Germans are doing.

If Amerien, deeply concerned about her Middle East bastions, decides that she must take Palestine under her wing as well as Turkey and pleasure." Greece, then we should say "With

We can no longer carly there staggering burdens. We have our own house and our own Empire to put in order.

His attitude was that so far Brl- tain had done all right by the Greeks but that she hadn't done anywhere near far enough.

"Why," he asked, "can't a country which can equip and arm big, coun- tries ke France and outfit her own huge armies, give more than a smal share which we Greeks have re- ceived.

"The Americans,” he added, “have enemy country of Italy to insure her left enough material in the former

while we who mightily prosperliy

helped Lo win ihe war are struggling for our very existence."

The colonel didn't think the pre- sent American loan to Greece would go very far in buying armaments, but he "hoped" them would be more and bigger loans in the future."

The vast majority of the funlor officers atc reservists. Their

As for conscription, what is the use or purpose of it if, as Mr. Beyin says, we are not to have a war for 20 years? We need conscription In loudest complaint is that fellow war. It is an unnecessary and kill-"friends" In the right government and ing burden in peace.

with political "pull"

oflees Through the greatest years of our serving

offlees have been demobilised after

their

time, while they history the safety and strength of continue to be regarded as essential Britain rested on professional fight to the country's security. to hold command of the seas, and a ing Services-a Navy strong enough small, highly trained, long-service Anny which could defend our island of everyone's

while we raised a national force.

The Air Force now

shares The responsibility of keeping the scus with the Novy.

Britain has reached the moment when it must give the most serious thought to the plight it is in.

Are we going to continue to waste our rapidly diminishing strength in poking our nose business instead of looking after our' own?

into

ABSENT MEN

Hundreds of thousands

We have at this moment--accord- ing to the last estimate.I have seen printed something like 120,000 Servicemen in Germany, 18,000 in Austria, 60.000 in Italy, a few thou sand in Greece and a few thousand more la Japan.

In any case, if we have done our industrial destruction work properly, the Germons ought to be in no con- dition to threaten is for 20 years, und Mr. Bevin has declared his bellef that there will be no maior war in that time.

The loudest walls come from the other ranks perhaps because there are so many more of them. Somo the infantrymen have been toting guns for four years or more on a "temporary" basis.

"Don't forget," one of them cau- tioned, "most of us have been in so Inng we are unfit for any productive -We cannot, as a relatively small work.

we have married and Germany cost us nation, compete with

have children. Continental many of us

Wo £100,000,000 a year-roughly Is. in Force as weli."

srmies and keep Navy and Air thought the war would be over in the £ of the income tax.

And with the civilian army we should bring home the Servicemen.

Our Forces in

The Army we need is not a vast but here it is 1947. and I'm

lol

fighting a war, Right now

now we are better off than

o! ready to step on for at least we have good clothes on people, the Continent in the first weeks of a War

our backs and plenty of good food. but the most modern and which is more than can be said for effcient defensive force we can plon the majority of our civilians. But In precious dollars. It becomes 1 of long-service professional troops. what about the future?"

When you add to that that we are permanent force supplying the Germang with half their food and paying for most of it.

charge_we_simply cannot afford_to

in Palestine we have probably continue. another 80,000.

Even that is by no means

But "Ah," they say to us, "What the happens if we go? The Russians us grand total. We have also in Ger- will take over."

many some 25,900 civilians on the

The Government, at the same time, decided that if only the United States would lend sufficient dollars we could back without bothering too much about the facts of life.

Unfortunately the U.S. lent us the money.

Unfortunate

sit staff of e British Control Commis- slon drawing salaries with houses and extras thrown in on a scale that makes them regard home like the workhouse,

they will never be inet.

Who paya? In theory Germany, ly the money is now nearly but in fact the British faxpayer. exhausted. And unfortunately We are keping the bills. They it hasn't done us a bit of good. may one day be presented to the Germans, but you con bet every loan that On the contrary, by our pledges dollar of the American to make sterling debts convertible into dollars on request and by hog- tying ourselves by the

notorious do? Artide Nine so that we cannot even move food we need from the larders of the Empire to the homeland's kitchens, we have brought disaster upon us.

UNDER OUR CLOAK Nations in cotton wool

At the Бате time Govern- ment hus taken the whole world under its sentimental "élook.

Something over £100,000,000 R our desperately needed

year

of

wealth is being poured out to wrap

Germans, Italians, Austrians, and heaven knows how many more na

tions in cotton wool..

And we have a first-class war on ̧ . vur hands in Palestine.

NANCY

She Has a Gripe

DEPARTMENT STORE

FREE SAMPLES

IN OUR. FOOD

DEPT

FIX A DATE

And march out

BY THE WAY

by Beachcomber

bac

and

some of tho

DID not know until a few of the sea, exploding ten times a days ago that the Yogi minute; atomic strato-supersonic people ate their food off the bombs, loaded with deadly

teria; which will go round Well, I don't think it would do us floor. The idea of Yoga being round the world in ever diminishing very much harm if they did, because to become indifferent to

the circles, of her occasional external world, Russia, in spite

discharging radio-active bellicosity and

and to muse particles of germ impregnated dy- constant obdurany, is in no condition to night a war for quietly. I do not see that it namle-these are

very long time.

matters what you eat off. You dreams that may soon come true. can be just as indifferent if you Give my love to the scientists. And I do not think Russia would climb a ladder and cut off the The anti-social cad .be given the opportunity. What And what do these boys and girls happened in Greece when we decld- ceiling.

"The old sca-faring spirit of our

Tace. They run Germany for the ed to step out? The Americans In Fleat-street they tell the talo

The British toue of freedom in went in.

of a reporter who, during a heal-

our bones. wave,

sent out on the usual Call What will happen if we decide to job of trying an egg on the sunny pull up the stakes In Germany pavement. A Yogi who was passing You will And, I think, that theby sat down beside him in silence.

Thus roared the dauntless lion,. Americans will go in again.

Thinking this was a new form of And then an ugly story reared its

MT JONCE. quile a crowd The the Germans appreciate their

And I'm all for it. We have been queue.

assembled work? Indeed no. A chief, burgo holding babies for too many nations fried the reporter got up and went and sut down. When the egg was master of Hamburg has sald: far too long for our own well being. "German

But the crowd remained He Lureaucracy

bad It is time we dropped a few of them away. enough, but yours is even worse," in other lapa.

unlit dusk, when the Yogi stopped That he is not exaggerating is

meditating America is deeply evident from the state of the

Interested in Motto for a connoisseur Palestine. British zone.

So Interested that the bullets

Germans,

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DON'T WANT US Let Germans do it

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us to meet the crisis face w face";

hend,

And there are twelve 'inspectors

to confirm it,

patched the side-wall of a broken shed..

Without a leauce to obtain

permit.

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that shoot down British (Supplied by the National Gallery In passing The Germans could 'run their soldiers, and perhaps even the ropes cleaning "experts."}

SEEING woman with a faco affairs much better themselves:

that hang them when they are I've got a Glotto always merry, like a horse, I recalled with foully murdered, are paid for by and bright... They would get the work done pubile subscriptions raised through Recovery which we can't. They would deal

with their own' work-shlea. Which we certainly don't. They would

be fought where we are sentimental

and soft,

What is the good of us saying that we must stay to put the Rühr conl

PICKLES

American newspaper advertisements. RATTLESHIPS that will

-A

deligh. A. G. Macdonell's remark hurtle distinguish

about the horse-faced lady who was probably intelligent enough to When we asked America to share through the pir

a capital M from. the responsibility for the mandata sound: rocket-submarines

faster than capital O on the music-hall stage. In Palestine with us she declined.

capable It comes in "How Like An Angel, of climbing vertically out We should fix a dale on which water to a height of 30,000 feet in laugher than you will flad in a of the which contains more wit and. our troops wil march out of Pales five seconds; radio-controlled mines dorin humorous authors of today

which wil dart about the surface nfl rolled into a lump...

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