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HANDED TO HIM ON A PLATE

By WILLIAM BARKLEY

LONDON.

OUGHT to get my type- writer ribbons siit for boasting. Or I ought to be made to cat my own words

as a punishment-except that' I might find them very nourish- ing in the absence of chops and steaks.

on

A man

(Copyright in Alt Countries s

WHY PAY

SOLDIERS TO

WASTE TIME?

By GEOFFRY BING

(Socialist M.P. for Hornchurch)

OUR Armed Forces are great dollar spenders.

This year the three Services are budgeting

to buy £22 millions of petrol, all fuel and lubri- cants.

The Forces need huge quantities of the goods required for export. They uso capital equipment In short supply, and they require tremendous areas of agricultural land for training..

Transport will be our greatest problem this winter. The three Services are planning to spend £73 millions on movements.

By 1950 we cannot hope to have many more than 600,000 men and women under arms, includ: ing the conscripts. At present, the Forces are 1,200,000 strong. Why do we need those extra 600,0007

For garrisons abroad? That would make sense if our Servicemen were abroad today, but the great majority of them are not. At this moment we have probably 800,000 men and women under arms in Britain. Even the 400,000 at present abroad are to be reduced to 300,000 by next March.

with a ticket

to get us out of pawn

Anyhow, here was I bragging

She is negotiating with neighbour- that I got as far as Manchester in countries agreements which may recess soon take the surplus of her 34.000,- and Brighton in the pretty good going near 000 catile. nationalised railways-when I

Socialist

who met

M.P. travelled 17.000 miles in South America.

"

Seventeen

thou.!

That

"In Ave years we shall probably be unlucky," says my Socialist.

"What do we do?" I ask.

"If we are to remain free, and influential," my Socialist

British

For training, then? But out of the 1,200,000 in the Forces today only 150,000 have served for less than six months and of these some 30,000 will be volunteers with previous Ser- vice experience.

Then are our Forces at home re- serves for overseas?

We have neither the ships nor the aircraft nor the vehicles to moellise such a force, let alone the petrol, the ammunition or the stores to maintain it in the field.

THE present size of our Forces-

THE

greater in proportion to our popu- lation than those of any other coun- try in the world-appears to be fixed solely by one calculation: the max!- mum rate of run-down.

cries The foundation are there, becomes clear, At home if now

Evans. Ideological Stanley

Think of the says the Socialist, int

In the Prime Minister's words, "It incentives are not sufficient.

£80,000,000 worth of gold from that

creating without Grand ex-enemy General Smuts.s very difficult

Tun-down chaos to accelerate, this from Aus-more than within a limited amount Think of the devotion

New Zealand [at one-time.". tralia, Canada, and

"It is useless asking the people to produce more, export more. and enjoy less with no object other than to maintain present austerities," says Stanley Evans.

of

to the land that gave them. charaeler, and ideals.

birth,

"Their devotion did not end like

abashes one. I asked him me, "our only hope is the speedy de- Elizabethan buccaneers, destroyed by the others abruptly, when their own

velopment

of the Colonial

Bald

"With British guts and enterprise we will emulate the example of our nations kinsmen who created new

the and prosperity out of forests and plains of the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand,

But basing demobilisation on maximuni rále of run-down will land us in serious trouble by the end of run-down next year. Working the minimum of about 840,000 men and theory we shall have to maintain" a women in the Forces until December

them.

31, 1948. But in fact we cannot get

Even If we keep up the

present rate of recruiting, which is doubtful, virgin we shall have at the most 445,000 re- sulara by December 1948, According to the Government's promise in the only "call-up" White Paper, the conscripts still serving on that date 1947-48, "Out of the trials of today we will will be those enlisted in build a third and more glorious Em-and at the most they will number pire, a Communwealth of free people, only 300,000, for the mutual good of all,"

He looks back the way wo have fed, come and sees the foundations

up by the British greatness, laid tells

George III. and the "And how,"

and the folly of

of the

American skins were safe, but still continues,"

he says. "are the Argentinos and the Dominion Commonwealth. The title breakaway Brazilianos and the Venezuelans deeds of the Commonwealth must Colonie

merchants The

of gloom

second and the natives of that land not be bartered for a hatful of dol-

reduction of American Britain was anished. But a lars and

us Deint- which suffers, like us, under a tariffs on dolls' eyes."

period of greatness began ed with Clive and the opening of Ministry of Fuel and Power,

These words as good as give you Eastern markets to our cotton, fron, meaning Chile?"

the man's name. No one else on the and steel. On which this Socialist did a Sociallst back benches can speak like tale unfold.

that. You are right first Is Stanley Evans (M.P. Wednesbury). It is an undeniable fact, he goes on. that the £1,000,000,000 export mar- ket on which Cripps depends to pay is AMERICA, he says, for imports could fold up like

[ French knife. experiencing today Revolution and an Industrial Revo- lution at the

time. South same

A British planned ceonomy is built plentiful American political platforms daily on shifting sands until a proclaim, "More food means better supply of oil, copper, cotton, timber, warkers." Everywhere the poor are and wool for our faclories is assured becoming stomach-conscious. Just from non-dollar sources, when the workers have more money to buy beef, boots, and grains

Two revolutions

Sour

NOUT!!

the

countryside is being stripped of its

labour by the lure of the towns and

Ume. It

Empire food

a

Future in Africa

Rock-like

RODAY, with the granting of an

to India and the dependence

Since average wastage in the first Socialist Government's Colonial De-

six weeks is over four percent, 15,000 velopment scheme, a third more con-

will disappear during their primary experience training and judging by structive and honourable era in our

another 45,000 at least will be re- is about to begin. Imperial history

QUILT himself on no shifting sand, teased before their time for various "There

be territorica must

in but on the country most, rock- reasons, So we shall in any event Africa, that will feed the herds of like. Stanley Evans is, none the less be let down by the rate-of-run-down cattle and grow the wheat and maize a sand merchant, who laughs sourly theory to the tune of 100,000. we must have. We will make the when described as a sand and gravel

merchant.

a rose! The alternative is to be in sand which for a quarter of a cen-

vast African continent blossom like His commodity is One moulding WHAT should we do then? Why we must have ample raw

not reorganise our Forces now the higher wages to be found. there. A materials, too, for what he calls-pawn to the Americans for the rest-tury has opened like, doors.of... thes. as to reach as soon as possible the

steel industry to him.

total of 600,000 to which we must be "You Europeans have a war every

South our bellies. New Zealand and Aus- of our life and that is an impossible five minutes." they say in

Lately ho

acquired, the weekly forced ultimately? America, and then we are cut off train, he emphasises, already supply position for a proud nation.

newspaper Birmingham Town Crier, It would mean a severe but tem- Britain with more meat than USA from yo manufactures. We are

"Britain will play a full part in in which he denounced the Ameri-porary disorganisation in the Army to isn't it better going to make our own manufactures and the Argentine put together at

Loan the also voted against it in and RAF. But much lower prices.

restoring the economy and unity of parliament) and advocated the cause In future,"

face the possibility of military con- So agricultural production

to fusion this year than the certainty of Canada ships wheat for Liverpool Europe. But our first duly is to our of Empire down, factories go up. Less and less at Bs. 4d. a bushel compared with own young people who, after gazing Brelton Woods.

economic and military disaster next On then, with him, to the Third year? food for export. Fewer platefuls the USA 12s, 4d. New Zealand, in so long on the sordid squabbles of

town That is what must happen if we for us of ye olde Englishe beete addition to supplying half our but- European diplomacy, will and new Empire, Oyez, oyez! Hear the

vast possibilities crier's bell Charge, Evans, charge! insist in keeping forces which roamed the pampas. Argentine ter ration, sells us cheese at 11d. a inspiration in the now consumes 80 percent of her beef. lb. where the USA demands 2s.

of the Commonwealth,'

On, Stanley, on!.

beyond our economic strength.

goes

BY THE WAY by Beachcomber

of zenamas to

talking CANNOT quite understand was

the slippery." And then suddenly, we I this.

a stall of are watching Abdul-Dhabdhab and A resident of Appleby Sultana. when she saw

being shown round writes to say that her grand- bananas and asked what they were. Ismall Salad

"Bananas," said Disraeli. "Like an electric are furnace works at father was working at the Cry me?" queries the Sultana, who was Nether Sickening, stal Palace when the Sultana deceived by the similar sound of the made her visit, and that it was words. "No," sald Disraeli, "not Among the new books not Henry James who was with quite that." "What, then?" insisted her, but Disraeli himself; and the Sultans, "Oh, nothing." that he said bananas and not sultanas.

This is contradicted by a Mrs. Ferguson, who says: "I often heard

say that

Disimoli.

sald

remove

remember this eccentric old peer coming to dinner at my grandfather's house with his hat They wore snuff-coloured

crammed with charcoal. A footmen

10 breeches used

the charcoal temporarily, and then replace it Niw method of photographing when the old fellow went home. ty father, the late Arthur Shardie. A under water, peems to be carried the hat in his hand, the

the Sultan asked about about to fill what is called in the wrong way up,

to prevent the zenanas, and hat the Treasurer National Liberal Club "a long-felt charcoal from falling out. thought she meant other Sultanas. want." Get ready for a picture of (From "Eighty Years In The Shires," und took to

her the booth called eels returning at dusk to their Turkish Delight, where

strong

by Ludy McAwphall.). man in a fez tore up packs of cards spawning-grounds, which will be and balanced cannon-balls on his reproduced in slow-motion on the A queer case

man Lady neck, rolling them along his arms, screen, while That Voice comments: with a woman in red trousers hand-

under the caudal fins, you will see

are you.. his ing him a bit of wire. There was

these little creatures breathing In lollipop? nothing about bananas."

I look Lady Cabatanicial: Do Bermudin they breathe twice as fast Disraeli and the Sultana

as a lobster, by means of more than like his lollipop?

Magistrate: Please answer yest or On the other hand a Miss Findle 112,500 pores in the skin. Their

writes from Stavingly to say transparent larvae have cag-shaped no.

Lady Cabsianleigh: I-am-not that her uncle, Archdeacon Nurchett, teeth, with which they chew marine

wonder they was told by his mother that Disraeli grasses. No

are his lolipop.

NANCY Egging Her On

I THINK I'LL

BECOME A BABY SITTER AND MAKE SOME,

MONEY

Cabstanleigh:

" you watch the gil-openings called me his lollipop..

FOR HIRE

WORLD'S

CHAMPEEN

BABY SITTER

And Magistrate:

This

can

as the

alternative

which aro

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A native Australian war club. (8)

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(7)

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The time to make smonda ?

9. A well-known Kipling word.

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