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CHARLES CHAPLIN

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In*Monsieur Verdoux”.

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P

Ed even more

pecullar bysteria

of laughter-

and a strange fore story that burt.

*MONSIEUR VERDOUX*

Fystorical LAUGHTERI

Haunting WOMANCE!

Shocking DRAMA!

CHARLES CHAPLIN in "MONSIEUR VERDOUX"

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HARTHA RAYE

1100LL, ELBONE ROBERT LIWIA • and writing but ita Sen 1 my STARI YU HAD

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Churchill Talks of Labour "haja; but the Tories will join in no steps to the atmosphere of Estliamentary Crisis.

CAD, SIR, CHURCHILL IS RIGHT. THOSE DASHED LABOUR PEOPLE SHOULD BE PUT UP AGAINST A WALL AND THE HATE SHOT OUT OF 'EM.

STATE OF THE 'CLASS-WAR

THE

Rene Cran

LAWYERS ARE LEAVING

WESTMINSTER

Election losers have a song in their hearts,

says CHARLES RAY

THE CURTAIN WENT UP ON DUNKIRK

T

by GORDON HOLMAN

sent to France to work were being pushed into the line. The and men went in singing, although

EN years ago, a light Navy, the Merchant Navy

Bittle ship took of 5,000 they had the support of only wooden frontier bar- the

five guns to every two miles of rier swung aside and 53,000 and 84,000 men?

front. There wan not u single British armoured cars, Before that sunny day in reconnaissance aircraft

British moved Ar the German corridor manned by the 12th Royal May when the

forward Into Belgium, the lengthened, na the gap between Lancers, clattered from the only contact with the Germans British and French forces grew, cobbled roads of Frnuce in- had been in the Saar, where ecoks, batmen and elecks joined British units went for a brict "chairborne" intelligence officers to Belgium.

spell of duty.

On ou

Belgium,

in the Ahting ine.

After eight weary months,

A sergeant of the 50th Divi- own front facing o the British Expeditionary Force

and apparently dis- sion had a bright idea. Ile found was on its way to meet the quiet

some plates and put them down Beltish enemy. The "phony war was interested

Then he and his Boldiers Inboured all through in the road. over. In front was Dunkirkt.

waited until the Now two men, Licut-colonel the hard winter to improve the companions

date of the crews of six German tanks hal Ewan

Butler and Major J. defotices,

round the mines," Selby Bradford,

who

were German attack, 400 pili-boxes gathered officers in the BEF in had been complated, 40 miles They shot them all and burned have written

prepared the unks.

junior

By the

hole of anti-tank ditch 1940,

and a vast system of "Кеср

the Memory

Green (Ilutchinson 125. Gd.), which munication built up. relates the whole story of that 1939 winter and of the events that culminated on the heach

Dunkirk.

are

startling;

Their facts their close-ups of the Brillah,

L'OM-

By May 23, the BEF WIS down to half rations, and Lord Gort had put himself on quarter rations. The glorious defence of Calais by two

Kifte regular Battalions, the Territorial 77HAT happens to the WHEN the sick and the senite

Queen Victoria's Rides and defeated candidate

must come in ambulances

was al- He supply situation was bad, small foren of tanks, for

Parliament? to vole it is not an excite liable

Ammumtion was desperate ready taking place.

At night, the oll fires in Dun- Loklier most moving.

ly short 20 were predictors kirk made a great glow in the How does he view his fail. to commend itself to the Party one of its healthy sup-

From the first, things were for unti-aircraft batteries, anti-' ure, and how do his ambi, that

A libel

not cry for Lord Gort, VC and tank ung porters must appear m

and signal lamps. sky. tions stand for the future?

triple DSO, who took the BEF When the German attack came, Into the River Deule, NAAFI action, say, at Carlisle Assizes.

to France, in September 1039.

O our feld-guns had no armour emptied the BEF'S liquor cup- On the other hand, when a

Hegarded in Britain' the viereing shells whatever, say the piles for a were members of the Guvern- |

year. Sald an on-

hau

was two author

Those Commander-in-Chief, be engaged counsel

looker dismally,

Door on solicitur

ment, inside

the Cabinet and to the French no more than Rbcl action at

the ruddy fish are going to have a out of it. The present Govern- the commander

of a single The only "anks" were It is not an ment,

Including Bie English my in a group of armies. light vehicles of the 1st

directly Tank Brigade, law oficer, has He

Heneral 1 Armoured two of them, Sir and Vircount

Its few

not

013

Army

permanent lung-over

rest of their lives."

Jew of

them

The

The Temple, London, where barristers carry their practices, gives an un- to appear in a expected answer to these Carlisle Assizes, questions.

acres excuse liable to commend itse and Scottish hok more also-rams of the to the solicitor that his counsel found place for only 10 members subcrdinate to General Game- even mounting a cannon

in at Westminster. last election-Tories, Social- must clock

With the use of fast transport, ists and Liberals-than ang other aren a thousand times uning, and about three hours its size.

a bosanna

deep a night a barrister-MI may for a time paste over the space between these two stools, And from it cruoked lanes, but, sooner rather

than later, its squares ated gardens rise must fall between, with fervency

uf thanksgiving for the blessing nf defeat, and the sound of Roles of breasts being beaten" as their owners promise them- Geives never, never, again to Ary to win their case before the electorate,

When a candidate

defeated meets an

Their Dilemma

Thi

of the Bar: Stafford Crippa Jowitt, are in the Cabinet.

This illustrates a recent ten- deney which has operated inde- pendently of

the development of Parliament into a legislation faictory in which everyone works overtime.

was

lin;

another French cane between them.

army

Division arrived

In France too late to take any part in the fighting.

little air

ND so the beaches

for the

and the cording to the Germans, wits to trap

A German spy might have Fummed up the IAF in France as "the contemptible foree." Early in 1940, it mus- finally the almost encircled came Gutt tered 10 fighter squadrons, si army. UEN the time

squadrons, eight

There was had to decide whether to Blenheim

shelling, bumbing, follow his French superiors rquadrons of Battles and five of

aircraft of all machine-munalng to be put up with the blind faith of a soldier Lysanders-450

line strength with while more and more men or take the immerely greater types. The front

cands. A stood at be gathered in the soft The Socialists in power haveponsibility of trying to save of the Luftwaffe

that Britain tween 4,000 and 5,000 aircraft, cricket bat and stumps came the only position holds muen

use white tt break outside

The odds-10 to one. the hand'nt that time, treater interest and Importance bad

the British Even when the decision w13 than merely providing an oppot- lawyers ring in the distribution

On the ground, the face had moved into their tunity for the unsympathetic of politent favours. The Trade made practically in many to laugh at the dilemma Union Otela! comes first, and, of orders from the Cabinet des ahead of Brussels.

Then livered in person by the Chief

came

the news MP cal- of a highly embarrassed few. It after him, a new phenomenon of the Imperial General Staff break-through

German by is mor may indicate the unbaracing

in the English political scene- |

hope to save armour Gort could only

in the The MP of a pair of horses, law and

Ardennes, of small craft, 46,000 of the more than perachutists and pics, Some the other polities, that have traditionally the University intellectual.

300.000 men

under his com- of the latter wert reported to have come down dressed 201 Aild foresho

the nuns acle of Dunkirk when, un

consecutive days,

barrister

league, his greeting than usually cheerful.

nows this means that is thinking

"There

but for run as a team The marvellous gond sense of with marked

in British life,

The rewards for the lawyer consequences on who reaches

the top

of the mand, muy constituency go I," and the the atmosphere and policies of tree

in politics are still quite member grinds his tooth with the British ystem of govern- ttractive enough

rare.

Their Scaffold

ment.

19 enslave the endeavour of the most am- bitions and most self-confident of young barristers,

Int feudal times the lawyer stood with the cleric at the right of iterate kings and batons who wielded power. and WECH parliamentary govern

ment

carry

came the lawyer trans- your:

The office of Lord Chancellor Attorney General both with them £10,000 a The Solicitor - General But for the the men--and they are

rather would But it was with the rice of majority-wi

as barristers popular democracy in the 19th have their cake rcaffold, littered with the dead century that the lawyers, in than bread and butter as back- and dying corpses of once pre great number,

the came to

imperaibility of perous practices.

The law

tables makes fare in pollues.

They will the royal route through which their choice easy. Political preferment has meant a ma

renounce enke and could

by the ent Come professional disaster. mau glitering prizes on his talents claim to be Prime Minister.

imply cannot combine mam alone: by the force of his oratory, bership of the 1950 Partioment the

his brain. clarity of with an netive practice in thu

resource, appearance and courts.

unlimited appetite for work.

OTH the rage of the victor

of the ferred himself and his influence trus £7,000 a year. und the pleasure Vanquished flow from the game to Parliament. realisation: that for barristers Westminster the promoted t Bustings have changed into

A

There were a few barristers

of foresight who realised that this situation might arise, and never, in consequence, stood a the election.

ber in the

Widnes. vance

that

Was

Denchers, the esting at both

Who

three

all

TS

positions

into

the men waited. The Navy arrived the de- Wolfhound steamed stroyer into Dunkirk through

a spatter of bullets and bombs

on May 26. Then came the armada of

When the last boat left at midnight or June 2, British loctors remained behind with the wounded who could not be

By May 17, half-trained Bri- moved. the fish battalions that had been

-(London Express Service!

NEVER SAY 'LAH-LAH'

TO A WILD ELEPHANT

By JAMES BARTLETT

in- do is one of a few animals that

trunk.

What can a

an elephant more telligent than a dog? an elephant will lash at with its log James Howard

Williams

Master Or? thinks so. After working trained ele-

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lives about the same age

the Burma jungle for phant do? It

Tory more about elephants than as a man, und

less any other white man.

an

:

A Few Names Twill be all to the geon, nearly 25 years, he knows

TT

for the

Party, which lias done than the Socialists to escape

the

its

an

"Not even a really good sheep-

can compare with elephant in Intelligence," says Janes Wams in his new book "Elephant Bill" (Hart-Davis. 183) out now.

EXAMPLES:

If an elephant wants to rernich its back ji dous not always rub against a tree. It might pick up a long stick and If scratch with that instead. the stick is not long enough the around for elephant will look

a longer one.

the

If It pull up some KraGG up by the roots lump

foot until all the dirt is

of carth,

working life extends nbout During the war, as elephant from

he its 20th to its One of them is Mr Christo- is necessary only to cite a form the Lawyer's embrace.

few names of the living

A party must give evidence adviser to the Hill Anny,

pleked up

nickname 55th year. pher Shawecora, KC brother of and from the recently dead to by the personalities of those Elephant Bill." An elephant, he By the time Sir Hartley, and Socialist mem- appreciate the strengthi

of who

wield the decisive in- says, is the most lovable and it last Parliament for this connection:

is 25, the Str Station

fluence in its counsels that saracious of all beasts, He announced in ad- Cripps; Lord

Simon; Viscount stands,

well-trained as it claims, for the

elephant in the teak forests of which comes Birkenhead; Arquith; road national interest. professional Juwiit; his

He respects them so much that Burna ean understand about 24 with a commitments prevented hit Haldane; -Carson; Hullsham.

when he was demobbed he separato words of command, clephant will snack this against All these first made their marks And it cannot but fail to: from seeking re-election.

sought out more than 400 of apart from the signals or foot ite

If water is handy For the majority the tempta, as lawyers before they rose give a true reflection of that them in Burma so that he could aids of its rider. These are Bur- shaken off.

to great political office.

interest when it is dominated

RICGO words like Hmilt (Sit he will wash it clean. They advanced nobly to the This Is apart from the scores by men of one background, say goodbye to them,

down), Tuli (Stand up), Lah-lah Young clephonts wear one stamp of mind and all of fray. and those who gained or less crainent but still well-

But in all his years in the (Come on). Digo lah (Come wooden bell around their necks, their objective

"Elephant Bur" now have the known names of lawyers who them uncertain how to divide jungle

has here), and Yoo-you (Pull),

They often plug up these bells outstanding careers thin clock between worship as always owned a dog too. He has alternative of resigning, or not have had

half-century of the competing shrines of their had ID of them in all. (Panthers, An elephant does not work with mud and clay so that the standing for re-election, as Mr in

mistress, the law, John Maude, KC, Tory mem- British politics,

and their leopards, and shakes

mechanically like many animals. clapper will not ring when they ber for Exeter, intends to do. As late as the time of the master, the people.

dor's life in the jungle a short It never stops learning: it is want to steni from a grove of

cultivated bananas al night. out thinking

things For waving goodbye to the Jaw National Government, in 1931, World Copyright Reserved-one.) A dog is an essential com- always

through their prison-bars. nearly 40 members of the Bar London Express Service.)

penton in a lovely life. But a fresh,

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ROBERT

the nation!

MAYO BENNETT HUTTON

· D'ANDREA – RICHARD ROBER .................... RICHARD BARE

the last

NANCY

Matter Over Mind

IT'S NO

USE --

make

I'VE

TRIED

TO KID MYSELF**

By Ernio Bushmiller

BUT IT STILL TASTES LIKE SPINACH

-FANIZ

BUSHMILLTAL

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