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"Mister Speed be restored,

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of the shortages be ignored controls be abolished, That the country may

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BY THE WAY

by Beachcomber GIRLS," writes one of those hunian light-

houses who flash their warnings to the young, "girls should never trust a man who tries to ingratiate himself with them at short notice." Oh, girls, you all know the type. He pays your know tram-fare with a leer, and before. you where you are he has told you that he was in the cavalry and has offered you a drled-egg-flip- aundno (with syrup). "I do not accept meals from strangers," you say, with downcast eyes. "Surely I'm not a stranger," says he softly, add- ing-Mabel." My name is Mias Truscott," you' reply with a cold glance, "and here is the penny Hal That knocks you paid for my tram ticket." him out! Well, done, my dear! Now, home to Ma, before another of them starts to do'his stuff. 'Tibetan Moonflower' (XXII.)

THE briefest study of the document showed

our two heroes that they had exchanged 76,432 waterproof typewriter covers for a yak- farm attached to the Monastery of Fanga Lul, a free pass for the Dung Odeon, and a snapshot of Dingi-Poos opening a bazaar at Fongi-Mo. The two officials sat staring in front of them in "It's gloomy silenco. Presently Egham sald, monstrous. I'll never trust her again." "It was her beauty that made us blind," said Mince. her "Don't talk bosh," said Egham, "It was brandy." . "I suppose she'll marry that land- owner-or the merchant," said Mince. "That's

FIELD-MARSHAL VISCOUNT MONTGOMERY talks on the human problem of making an army victorious

in war

IS THIS THE WAY

10 win

the

ALAMEIN OF PEACE?

BELIEVE we are at the

what beginning of

the

Elizabethans called 'n stir

over England."

I think we are about to make

by JOHN

RDON

chief

that

men's

out of the question," said the pilot, who so far had not spoken a word. "And what do you know about it?" asked Egham "I'm with withering scorn.

her husband," replied the sulky pilot.

"Far away in Dung, Dingi- roos laughed her low, gurgling laugh (like the Ganges com- ing out of a gorge,' as, an In- dian Prince had once said to her).

"Now," she said to Moompi, "we've got rid of my husband When and the two boobies. we've disposed of the land- owner and the merchant you may show in that charming Nepalese gentleman farmer.".

(THE END) Freedom for prisoners

"L

First, what has been the obstacle to our recovery?

All too clearly we can sce from one cause or another minds have

and become twisted warped. From that root disease

killing US.

HAVE nothing but praise," said Mrs. Wretch. "for the campaign

to educate the German prisoners in another of those sudden fateful How in three weeks he was able was to tnice part in the invasion of Springs most of the malaise that is freedom and democracy by allow- ing them to ride in buses, go to Too many of us are disinclined to alms, and

lectures "I told them simply, frankly, and give an honest return in work

*attend for freedom and democracy,"

memorable

changes-which so often in our to hurt it at Rommel in the first of Normandy. history have demonstrated to those shattering blows which in due all the world that we are an un-me, in Montgomery's conquerable people no matter phrase. "hit him for six.

Now how did Montgomery achieve how heavy the blows Fate may that miraculous tranformation? rain upon us.

Quite suddenly, as he retold old story in that quiet but sure and I saw that emphatic way of his,

J

the

Why do believe that? For no better reason than that there is a fext,of it in the air. If in the days before Alamein. there you are sensitive to public emotions; was the answer to the problem of Britain's recovery for which my you cannot escape II.

mind was searching.

For some days I have been motor- ing slowly through the lovely by ways of England from the North to the South.

ol

I have talked with a wide variety people in i wide variety of places.

note runs

through

First, get your army

right

"A battle," Montgomery said, "la

fully the job ahead of them. I explained how it was to be done, the wages we draw.

That is the cause of most slack- and why. I let them in no doubt ing. It is the cause of most absen- about the certainty of their victory, because I

teeism, had none myself. "When I knew that I had secured their full confidence, I knew battle was won, although it had not begun.

the

It his destroyed that pride of craftsmanship that made our goods the lgbest in quality in all the world.

It has caused the coal famine and "New, however, meticulously you plan a

a battle you must at all

responsible in a very large de- times it be prepared for fluctuations of for- gree both for the housing shortage time, both good and bad. To meet and the increasing cost of living. them your army inust be a flexible machine.

"So when I had put the human problem, right, I then made flexibi ity my second objective.

Freedom within the general plan

Cease folly of class

warfare

What is the cure?

STARS LEAD

WEDDING INVASION

on

On November 18 the Queen Mary lands with more film stars

It isn't really higher wages, more than have ever invaded Britain social insurances, longer holidays.or at one time. They are going to anything of that sort. We have

vast all been unsuccessful.

can

anchor in the

have listened to the talk in the won before you fight H. First you little village Ims where the real decide how it is to be fought. Then heart of England beats, and in the you plan how it will be fought your spacious, though now rather empty. But the key to everything is your

way and not the enemy's. majestic hotels.

tried them all and in turn they have see the Royal wedding. Maha- The accents and the words may army.

"To attain flexibility in a

rajahs are flying to Britain. differ somewhat, except perhaps in "You must. before battle, get machine like an army, you must vigour and strength: but the same your army right. You can have-all-give all persible freedom and initia Monty Alamein Prescription, To Belgium and Switzerland. Two The real and only cure is to apply Large parties are crossing from alf the talk. the men you calculate to be neces- tive to every ofleer, and, indeed, treat the national liness as a human boatloads of visitors from England is stirring again. Change is mary, you can have a thousand guns even to every lance-corporal, sub-

contact Sweden will problem and to get direct coming.

ean, Ject only to the broad general plan. between leadership and the indivi-Thames. and two thousand tanks, you we have all the equipment and all the which must be thoroughly under- dual worker, so that the one There is a realisation that have made grievous mistaken; a de- supply lines you destre, but will stood by every oflcer and man-be inspire the other with complete con-

There will be at least ten termination that we must now pre- lack the most vital quality, the only fore the battle begins.

-quality, indeed, that will give you You cannot obviously have people pare to unmake them:

certain victory.

How can we achieve Dat? Surely royal personages from the Con... running off at tangents and endan- "What is that quality?"

in the way Montgomery has always, tinent of Europe. gering the entire tactical plan of the achieved it by establishing such an "I would describe it," the Field- battle.

intimate contact from the top of the Setting the spirit of the grand Marshal went on, "simply as the

occasion, all Lonson's leading hotels The "But you must make every man, nation to the bottom as will make us human touch.

however small his I gather from the quite surprising

responsibilities feel again that we are one people, bave planned gala nights. "In a speech I made once i said may be in unanimity with which certain views that making an army was not mere- battle, as free as possible to use his one victory to win.

relation to the whole with one comninon battle to fight, and Savoy has created a "Wedding Bells" cocktail. The May Fair, popular the were expressed in

every ly

with big industrialists from. matter of supplies, as so many Intlative to seize an opportunity or When we get the minds of men conversation that the country is people think, but a holistic problem. to meet an emergency. forming definite opinions on

right, what should be our next step? urth, has a £3-a-head dinner and that Nobody seemed to understand what

dance with champagne and brandy "It all boils down to the human Surely here again Montgomery's re-

thrown in. point, opinions Into which I do not that meant.

problem of drawing the best out of cipe holds the scoret, "Do you know what holism every

man by getting his mind

A meeting at

end of

a journey

Where have we gone wrong?

Foment.

almost

Propose to enter more deeply at 131ns? It means that the whole of right before the battle starts.

nd Arength again?

idence again.

Make the production machine But how must we change? What an organisation is something infinite-

"It seems to me so in every phase flexible. Let the initiative of ind!- vidual men have as free play as must we change? What is the cure ly greater than merely the sum of of life.

possible right down the line from the that will set us on the road to health its constituent parts.

"Whether you run a vast national board room to the bench. "In simpler words an army has to be given mind the I was seeking in my

a soul. The giving to it business, or even only two servants. Make the workshops virile living to organisms and not merely buildings of a soul is turning answer to these questions.

not an equipment in your house-it is possible

have two servants at all these days Alled with human coys. over and over again all I had heard problem, but a human problem.

isn't the real secret of Success Give men pride in simply this:

"First, to secure the confidence of their jobs

those you are directing:

of the talk around me, when to wards the end of the journey I found myself unexpectedly with Field- Marshal Montgomery. We talked of E of the now legendary battle Alamein.

"Therefore, problems I had

of

all the

urgent to tackle when I

Eighth

We spoke of that tremendous day assumed command of the

"Secondly, to give them under- stand, not to

·

Women guests at the Abbey will banish austerity for the day. Muny have chosen to wear almost ankie lengut frocks in crimson, claret, midnight blue, and purple.

Prices For Scats

Let people get on without the route, so even the privileged

the job

1

when this strange tingling anyotic of Army, the first was to give each in- am so that they become just cogs country would have as

in 韭 machine, but to encourage them electrifying an effect on the health

The great story is told again

for the minds of the men.

to £75

never

Fewer than 1,000 windows over- have scant or the moneyed will chance to pay homage In comfort, for seats from I in certain that the restoration although he offers

have of a large ensure of freedom to the 12 guineas cramp all free- production and trading brains of the censed.

swift and

At its Princess's brightest hour the populace of Britain wants to go A$ Montgomery's

But the Government's Junketing. Eighth

damping-down orders have confused both the London County Council very considerably and Westminster City Council, with- of running the In whose domain lies the procession.

Neither authority can give a lead.

Yet indicationg

Was

why,

workers at a job the final purpose Army.

Cost

a general plummeted to the desert dividual man in it pride in his job, to use their initiative at all times so of the nation

Moses confidence in himself and his leaders, that, lastead of being merely routine human touch had upon the from the clouds like a new into the midst of a shaken, despen- an understanding of what he dent artny which had little hope of being called upon to do, and

of which they may only vaguely un-. And it would and a certainty of victory. life and less of victory.

"So I put the problems of supply derstand, you make them enger, reduce the and equipment second. I went first proud, intelligent collaborators in a nation, with advaninge to the per-

common effort?" "I chose na my key officers men As I listened to the Field-Marshal, kes of the taxpayer.

am sure beyond any doubt that 7.20.& 9.20 p.m.

1 Is history now how in a maiter who understood that human problem I thought Isn't that the secret we the workers

could lek any econo- of hours Montgomery electrified that and shared my convictions about are seeking in Britain today? I think is blizzard that may hit us if we set about the business of inspiring How in a mailer of days he im-

about them to do it. Take the points he makes "Then I made it my business to

Apply them to the Recovery may be an economic bued it with a confidence that was see, and speak to every individual Alamein. eventually to make it one of the man in the Eighth Army, as I later national problem. They t like a problem, but the way to achieve it greatest armies of all time.

saw and talked to every man who glove.

sharpened their desirel

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Nothing Like Being Prepared

OVER, TO TH' CIRCUS

I WAS OVER THERE YESTERDAY AND HAD

TO SIT BACK OF

A POLE

It is,

is to treat it as a human problem..

By Ernie Bushmiller

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