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Every Wednesday in the Telegraph:

Sitting on the Fence

Ever since I can remember reading anything about India. Gandhi has been fasting because somebody or other is not be- having as Gandhi would like him to behave,

Of course, fasting, to a man like Gandhi, doesn't amount to much. Never a big eater, he does no more than switch from dates and goat's milk to orange, julee and water,

Then, according to reports, he makes himself comfy on a divan, invites the reporters and radio men, announces that he is going to fast unto death (again), while -secretaries hand out detalla of his pulse beats, heart beats, blood pressure, and propressiuc acidosis, couard, one supposes, through tack fo a square meal,

ezt thing 2018

hear about Gandhi is that he is back on the nid dates and goat's mille, has pat on his best Icin cloth, and is feeling fine. This happy state of affairs is brought about be cause the simple Indians

tans are

TH

sorry their naughtiness has made Uncle Gandhi po hungry. So they promise to behave proper- fit the next time, when the whole pantomime starts all over again.

1/

In other words, pubtle fasting. with plenty of publicity, achieves results

in India.

Would achieve results in Britain?

St

* * *

Unele Nat went on a fast, would strikers go back to work? Would the export

be

drive Molotov clinnge?

accelerated? Would

say "Yes" for

Maybe, with the right kind of publicity. Maybe not..

The loud-speaker publicity in every factory would be on these Camilar lines :—

First day

by NATHANIEL

GUBBINS

When you were eating this A reporter game to interview him good breakfast did you think of yesterday, and this morning, on the this man Gubbins who refused front page of that reporter's news

boiled egg only eight weeks paper, is the headline:-"Crumbs old because he wants you to Found in Fasting Man's Bed." produce more for export?

Today, in the factory, you will ent the best dinner the country can provide outside the black market, but Gubbins will not cat his dinner.

At home your neat, clean table will be set for supper. Perhaps there will be some delicious Spam on the table. Perhaps there will be the ap petising smell of grilling kip- pers.

But there will be nothing on a tray for this man Gulbits. who is lying on his divan and is now so hungry that he could eat a dried egg omelette staffed with whale meat..

* *

Well, folks, it's still a free country Anyway, you can still think and say what you like. So you are entitled to believe anything you like. So, What about believing me rather than

that mean reporter?

The story of the whisky bottle ક ક્ષ simple, human story. The doctors sald Gubbins needed simulant. They recommended a small whisky. It wasn't their fault that Gubbins drank the bottle while they were out of the room. And can you blame him for doing it after ail his privations?

And the gnawed chop bones? A- other simple human story.

Gubbins is very fond of pussy eats. In fact he is fond of all four-footed: furry creatures, except ant-caters So he asited that his weekly meat ratlon might be cooked and fed to a pussy cat who comes to visit him every day.

Satisfed? You're not?

Maybe that accounts for the great number of letters received calling Cubbins a dirty fraud,

Sixth

day

VICTORY, at last, folles. Not for

nothing has this brave man

Gubbins risked death by starvation,

to save the country.

Yesterday

one

The other morning a little girl known that one Hitle, girl In

morning it became called at the house where Gubbins title factory turned out one extra s fasting. She was 1 pretty, box of matches.

golden-haired child blue eyes were filled

and her big

So. released from his Vow. with tears, Gabbins, looking fine and dandy She was crying because her hero after his ordeal, is getting outside à was hungry and nobody was trying black market steak and onions and to help him out by working harder Qint of stout.

Well, bless you, girlie, for that in the factories.

extra box of matches. Kat Cubbins publietty agency sign- This is the

int elf. And Bend luck, postwar workers,

Could she see her hero? Why, of The blood pressure of Gub- course she could. We asked her bins is still as high as usual, upstairs, I suppose we should have though, maybe, it will go down searched her first. We didn't know because we won't let him have what she carried hidden under her any whisky either. His pulse punny. beats are still strong, but, boy, how his acidosis is coming along, thanks to lack of nourish

ment.

He would like to say "Good luck" to every worker in every factory and hopes they're

WORKERS of Britain. This enjoying their food.

morning a man named Gub-

bins refused to eat breakfast. Sometimes he does this beenuse

Third day

he can't face it. But this morn- FOLKS, if you could see this man

ing he did it for the sake of the country.

Gubbins this morning I am sure Foil would feel sorry for him. You would put out that little extra effort which would allow him start on a hit of margarine toast, if nothing else.

ealise he has drunk nothing

even

Iris

OWN

to

No, folks, it wasn't a bomb. She wasn't the innocent child emissary of some secret socicly sworn to dea- troy Gubbins.

It was a sandwich hidden under her pinny-the sandwich she was suppwed to have Jor her lunch at school,

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A letter from America

Which way, Mr. Truman?

by

NEW YORK.

a guip. But he is stil waiting for TIS critics can no longer ac

GERALD JOHNSON

Today he won't eat his din-

evidence that you are increasing your H cuse Secretary Marshall of ner. He won't eat his tea. He

output, and it was during a struggle.gnoring the United Nations, won't eat his supper. Tomorrow I have to admit that he's looking with this little child-he is only

even though his recognition will be the same. And the day better than anybody has ever seen string enough to struggle with a consisted of dumping a hatful after that. And the day after. him look before. This may be be little child now-it was during a And every day after that until water for three days, which is an hefere the child could get a bite at gunisation's lap.

but struggle (not to grab the sandwich of hand grenades into the Or- you all produce more, for the all-time record for him. You can it, bu! to ward off temptation) that; The immediate response in export drive.

even see the colour of his eyes, the crumbs came to be in the bed. Today he is not suffering forgotten.

which

bad wife

this country was confused, but The Gubbins pulse is still fairly there is widespread relief that

content of But, folks, he's so hungry now strong. The acid

his at least someone has taken # caused by over-indulgence be that he could eat the dog's dinner spending his time reading good books definite stand on something.

vlomach is 08.5 percent. le 15 fore his fast. But tomorrow and ke 11. Will nobody produce

cheek to the General Marshall's language his stomach will recover and one more little thing a day so that and turns the other

Gabbing may be released from his down with the message. Why the fession that this country has who slapped him can be understood. But his con- will be crying out for food.

But he won't touch it, folks. The blood pressure's coming down, hell don't you get up and do some suffered diplomatic defeat pre- Not till every man in every folks, though the pulse is weaker. work yourself, you lazy hum?"

sumably means the end of the factory and every little girl in And acidosis? To every factory is producing

Truman doctrine.

much except from acidosis

more.

Are you going to see this man starve or are you going to produce more to save us from bankruptcy?

Second day

vow?

factory worker

Fifth day

.

Marshall had no hand in the fortnulation of that policy of con-

use his own and water-in-me-to-top-up-all-the-

"I have enough acki brave words:

batturies In all the motor cars scheduled for the export drive." You read your papers again this

morning, folks? Well. why fainment. It was framed before he

took office, and although like to say that he not? There is no oner educator in has tried to make it work in Greece freely forgives the hearties woman moderni ilmes

than the morning it is doubtful that he ever had factory worker who wrote in asking newspaper. for the points in his ration book.

He would

Fourth day

Therefore, I suppose you read an- other front-page story by this mean reporter, who says he saw a plate

much faith in .

LITTLE HITLERS

may be expected to adopt tactics of evasion and delay and in that case useless. Most of the opposition to an extra session would indeed be prompt action to meet the European crisis is passive.

It is based on Inertia, cynical dis- belief and some lingering remnants of isolationist tradition rather than un active

of a contrary support polley.

JEWS AND . IRISH

BUT there is one uplive element 'to which reference was made in the Marshall speech,

This is Jewish opinion.

Jewish hatred of Britain has been inflamed by the "Exodus" affair to a point at which it offers a serious handicap lo man in Secretary Marshall's position.

1

The United States has always had nucleus of Anglophoblu amone

the more fonntical Irish.

They

a

give trouble whenever reasonable arrangement with Great Britain is proposed.

Now

been that they have inforced by four million Jews apocalyptic fury by the

stirred

to

re-

Cause

(LOOD morning, folks. 1 sup- THE blood pressure of the hern containing two gnawed chop bones appeal to the United Nations --deportations they will-give-more........................

T pose you all had a

good

Gubbins has gone up this breakfast this morning? That morning, folks. This is nothing to do with his patriotic fast, but has, is, as good as conditions will no doubt, been caused by a cruel

report published in the Priss.

allow.

on Gubbins's bed and an empty whisky bottle under it?

Well, once again he was telling the truth. But what was the story be hind the evidence of his eyes?

BY THE WAY by Beachcomber

NOTE that it has been sug- gested that the Government should issue directions to the police to force people to walk on one side of the pavement.

But surely it would save the over- worked police a lot of trouble if

those only

holding pedestrian

licences were allowed to use the The licences would be pavements

And high

American Liberals may be some-

is consistent with his own plan trouble than ever and may which envisages the organisation of serious embarrassment.

In de- The task before Secretary Mar- the Western Demperacles tance of freedom rather thun the shall is dmcult and complicated.

He

the desperate percelves of Little a palisade crection of Hillers

perimeter of urgency of the situation, but tut along, the

his chief purcelves it is not certain. Russia which was the basis of the Russ doctrine. Truman

PLACID PRESIDENT WHILE the economy of Europe Truman was failing to pleces was making his way lelsurely back from an orchid-hunting expedition to Brazil.

The battleship Missouri, in which int ho travelled, was, of course,

Washington, constant touch with and the President was kept inform- ed, but if he was disturbed no hint

what

perturbed by the vigour of the Secretary's language, but they can- not oppose his appeal to the United Nations.

Conservative opinion also will

over all, in the haze the Potato Division of the Minis-accept the declaration, except for a of summer,

A chain of pyluna road. They reared their fabulous heads

in the sunlight.

Beauty springing from English

loam.

of Food........"

Up the non-viscounts! "THE clust

war,"

growing."

anys

small

group of bitter Isolationists. The great question is the attude of the President,

Truman was certainly

consulted

my before the Secretary spoke and cer-

paper, "is

of it reached the public. iny tainly gave his approvat, but it does we hope, then, for a revival of the not necessarily follow that he will Oh, vision that haunts the hungry old song which contained the im-

exitel

mortal lines: Oh, poet's dream of home!

issued to those who could give a Eternal vigilance is

reason for wanting to us

Che

pavement,

J. P.

after a schoolmaster Er civil servant

had given them a certiflente

7 took that

the price of potatoes

jace between my hands, And used it like a football in the

Bircel.

Viscount's

good character, subject always, of T first thing I saw in an English Perhaps he didn't love her

prper on my return will not controlling authority. COUISO, to the approval of a central perhaps

Л

thin

the vigorous and consistent givo support that Marshall needs.

To date Truman has not given consistent and vigorous support to anything.

TAFT'S MEN

TT is almost certain now that an extra session of Congress will be seem funny in few IN the Journal de Geneve 1 found called to deal with the dollar crisis days' time, but it made me laugh

commonsense little love in Europe. A great deal. It was a letter poern, which loses in translation. It would be quite certain except to Towzer's Three-pennorth (the

My lover lives in San-Tehung Pou, for the attitude of the members re- Funderer), and it said:

I live in

in Pe-Si-Hon

presented by Senator Taft, who de You can easily see one placa from clared that he sees.

for no need the other,

an extra sension.

If he comes to. Washington con- vinced that his errand is useless he

"Although I have been in the streamlet past, and will remain when neces

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Trumon spoke, hastily when the and has had Greek crisis erose, cause to regret it ever since.

Perhaps he to resolved not to re- peat that mistake.

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