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Sitting on the

'ELL," said the Sweep, what do you think of the world situation?"

"Not much," I said.

"No more do 1." said the Sween. "In fact, if you was to arsk me I would say it was pretty umpty."

"Untu's, the word," I said. "Whoever end the peace would

be

be worse than the war knew what

talking about." wan "He certainly did."

"During the war," said the Sween, "you did know who you was fightin and what you was e-doin of. Now you don't know where you are."

"You certainly don't."

"All the same," said the Sweep, "you don't ave to worry about them there little old Russians."

"Don't 17"

"They may be copyin Hittle old Illor,

but they ain't such good liars B.S them there little old Gërmans.”

"Oh?"

I said. "Cor stone the crows," said the Sweep.

"even a man of your in- telligence can see through them."

"Thanks." I said

"If you was to arsk me I would ERY ther was just simple."

"Go on?"

Fence

by NATHANIEL GUBBINS

It was said once more on Putney Heath by Mrs Yvonne Redway to a masked gunman who stuck revolver in her back.

world if the world's tyrants had been married to quiet English girls with debunking voices instead of to hero

read worshippers who

profound wisdom into every bit of rubbish. "Don't be silly," she said, and he they uttered and regarded all the stupid things they did as strokes of genius.

bolled..

When you come to think of it. "Don't be silly" is the most devastat- ing remark a woman can make to

A man..

There he is trying to make a pass at her or shoot her. He feels pretty big in either case.

In the first, he is the great lover.

irresistible. fascinating.

almost

To-go-no-further back than Hliler. Suppose he had married a quiet do- termined gld reared in an English girl to whom showing vicarage, a off and making an exhibition of one- self would be a greater crime than swiping a tanner out of the collection plate?

Consider him rehearsing one of those speeches to her.

IN AND OUT OF PARLIAMENT

By Ernest Thurtle, M.P.

GRIM- document is Sir Stafford Cripps.

A Economic Survey.

It will cheer up nobody, for its muin message is that the nation must look forward to an uphill struggle to maintain even existing standarde,

Sir Stafford Cripps has clearly. forsworn all soothing words. Indiced, he appears to be employing the Churchill war technique to the problems of peace.

Only instead of "blood and sweat and tears" he offers the nation a protracted period of struggle, with a continuance of shortages, 08 8. condition not of triumph but merely of survival,

FOR a people who have suffered much in the last decade these aro hard, unpleasant tidings.

Yet, if it is the truth we want, this appears to be it. The doubt is whether the people will stand disagreeable truth in peace as well as they did in war.

struu, trying to live her life too fast, und seeking escape from reality in non-stop galety.

Before her nervous breakdown she began her day at 7 a.m. flying at the cord of your Unele Nat's dressing gown while he was making teu.

For Sir Stafford himself this stark realism is an effective Insurance against attacks by opponents on the ground that he has deceived the people · by false optimism. :

He scorned even to hold up the gloomy survey' for a day or 30 until the North Croydon by- election was over.

THE by-election result was a

nasty jolt for Labour. Earlier hopes of AUCCOBR vanished in the closing stages of the contest, but it was not ex- pected that our assault on the

After a saucer of milk, grilled fish,seat would fail by anything like or bolled lights she would then sweep so wide a margin. from the kitchen

the table and dining-room table all impedimenta, such as milk bottles, knives, forks and spoons, cups and saucers, vases. magazines and books.

the decks

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Having cleared action she would then sharpèn her the best furniture and claws on begin her mad half-hour.

of a

'Mr Nicolson" cannot fairly be blamed for the failure of his mission. After all he did in- crease the Labour vote.---

Maybe this attractive man is a better philosopher and writer than he is a politician.

But a candidate, like a wife, must be taken for better or This would take the form

cannot be steeplechase across the chairs, sl worge Virtues and short- ing across the table on her tall and comings (if any) a game of squash against the wall separated. with a ping pong ball.

be

After that the newspapers would

attacked and torn to

blts and there would be a great deal of rush- ing round the house and up and down the stairs with dattened cars and waving tall.

"Ere they are,” said the Sween. "accusin perole of things they're

Just when he got to that well- tein to do theirselves as if it was frightening the hopes) in his single- known bit about lebensraum and the somethink new. Cor luvnduck, we

With short intervals occasioned by minded determination to overcome frustration of German ambitions by

sticer exhaustion this would go on lenow that drill backwards."

resistance which, In his vanity, He the wicked democracies, he would all day until she was shut up for the "We do." "Though perans you and me ain't believes is no more than play-acting. have glanced round for approval just night.

in time to see the cold, critical store supposed to belleve it."

In the second, he is the desperado. behind the rhining glasses and heur "Peraps not."

the bad man, wanted by the police, the dead-pan voice say: "Don't be ruthless, resourceful, terrifying silly." willing to risk his neck to win a lying from a society which fears _and_hates_hlm.

"For all you know," said the Sween, "all these ere Bes are meant for them there little old Russian

peasants" I "Zaid.

"And as them that can read are only allowed to read what they're told I expect they swallow It ole."

"expect so."

"But you don't want to

start aneerin at them for that," said the

Sweep.

"aint sacerin," I saia,

of the "With all your readin paners you wouldn't know much if little old Arthur Orner was Com- missar of the Press"

"I certainly wouldn't.”

"All you'd read about would be what a wonderful man little

Arthur Omer was."

ok!

Then the quiet voice says: "Don't be silly" and the great lover and the wicked desperado are reduced in to the status of naughty ⚫ moment little boys.

In that moment the years flash back, and they are both about seven years old trying to frighten their mothers with a pop-gun.

They remember their mothers said exactly the same thing in the same. quiet voice.

*

* All this will make thoughtful, broody types wonder what would "And ow wicked everybody else have happened to the history of the Wila but im and is pals."

"That's right,"

"Too true."

"And maybe after a time you'd

to swallow !!"

begiMaube

"If you didn't swallow it," said the Sweep, "you'd soon be swallow- Ing bread and soup once a day in a labour camp."

"Probably,"

I said. "With 12 hours work out of 24 and no back answers."

"I daresay."

"A nice change from your little

bit of typin," said the Sween.

"Very nice," I said.

"The skin or your nose.”

"The skin orf journ."

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Don't be silly

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Th

*

The quiet room where she is This would have shaken better resting now, doped with luminal, is, _nien. than Hitler. The specchies of course, your Uncle Nat's room. would never have been made. Theis would have been no war.

As the veterinary surgeon said she mustn't be excited in any way, your Unele is afraid even to rustle a plece of paper,

Of course, it's too late now, but if the entire Russian Cabinet had been married to girls reared in English vicarages saying: "Don't be silly,"

they opened every time mouths, the world would be a happier nent. place live in today,

He Is nervous of using a pencil their in case she is attracted by the move

Report on Lottie

ADY MEGAN LLOYD GEORGE'S the InternR- withdrawal from tional Women's Day movement, on the ground that it was being used by Communists, directed renewed attention to the widespread "under cover" activities of the Kremlin dis- ciples.

They have started, or infiltrated into, a great variety of organisa- in tions, Ostensibly non-political

which they contrive to character,

or less control or Influence more from behind the scenes, for their own political purposes.

*

PART of this technique is to have,

as leading supporters of these bodies, a certain number of well- known people whom nobody would. suspect of Communist views or as-

He has removed the cord from his sociations. dressing-gown.

ON medical advice Lottie, the devil much longer he will swallow Lottie's

And he feels that If this goes on ruminal pills before he

goes nuts himself.

cut, has been ordered a week's rest in a quiet room.

Like many girls of the postwar

A further bulletin may be issued

is nervous period, she

and highly later.

*

BY THE WAY by Beachcomber

RISTAN BERNARD, who In full swing

of our THE

died the other day in Paris, THE soft notes, of the was one of the wits time.

famous

Barcarolle rent the air gently.

the

called Velvetle. The music ceased but the see-saw went on,

Spread your coke thinly

says he has seen butter His from coke.

These people lend their names from the most worthy, motives, but they are unwittingly used as stooges. Years ago the Labour Party published a pamphlet entitled The Communist Solar System, which was neat exposure of this propaganda

stealth and stratagem.

by

Now that the Communists are openly menacing the national well- being, an up-to-dato edition of this debunking publication would serve a useful purpose.

COME deeds are far more cloquent than any words. The Masaryk suicide is such a deed.

It was he who said of a former friend who cut him in the street, aid Velvet gloomily, "See-saw and "Its nutritive value is stated to be that swift plunge to death,

But it is a

In

It is painful to contemplate the On the stage

three Persians

PROFESSOR of Fuel Technology torture which must have gone on played see-saw. They ignored the

made in the mind of this Czech demo-. music completely and laughed and

comment was, crat before he was driven to take "It's no good."' chattered loudly.

vain

now will the Communists "He is so changed he doesn't re- ballet won't mix.

"he high, but its flavour is as yet dis- cognise me" and he who, when asked shouted from the stalls. "Yes, yes,

Mis, yes, tasteful" Probably it is still too claim that ligis coup was not an forty francs, by a taxi-driver for a ho. YES!" shouted back the Trio. near coke, and too far away from outrage on democracy,

The desperato deed of Masaryk, a pleasant change now do ballet." short journey, replied, "Gel in. I'll "We

roared butter. an itude to find someone admitting that what a man who, se all his friends testify, striking I might be interesting to know drive you there myself for twenty." Kazbulah,

yelled Riza is

is crammed with beneficent chemi- loved life with great intersity, tells for it might not, according to One day found the stairs of his "Hoonting mooths,"

cols is not his eyes and workman mughan, shading

the roverso. taste) how many crimes have been apartment blocked by a

as was proved they llc.

The supremo tragedy of this AT 2.30. 5.20,1 prevented; bow many villains have who was carrying down an enormous searching the horizon. "Where are quite the necessarily nice to eat, the world beyond equivocation that

clock on his back.

that many of its been frustrated, how many

"Why can't you Hoobiganiera?" grunted Ashura, as by the Government Regional Zoning peradoes vanquished, how mclse?" said Bernard.

wear a wrist-watch, like everybody he shifted the, plank on lils belly. Taster; who, on hearing that birds generation, is 7.20 & 9.20 p.m. prdent wolves made to look foolish

nests contained huge quantities of finest spirits, crodied in liberty like they When ane "Poolerdees and Hurlates,"

chorus. "O manager, magalanide H, choked himself with Masaryk, And themselves confronted in the drawing-room after ten by the of his plays falled he sent a seat erled in

or death. quiet voice of an English girl to a friend with this note, "Come send hon they dauneris, we like to a redstart's nest on the outskirts of with the cruel choles of servitude saying, Don't be silly."

The place is deserted." be baying a hordiunce: "Stop, stop!". Honiton.

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