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"Hoots Toots! If it wasna' for the laddie's Topnot he might be Mister

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HOLIDAYS AT HOME-HERBERT MORRISON'S

PRIVATE LINSELL

THE

World Copyright, By arrangement with Batty leid

CASE OF

PRIVATE LINSELL

Privato Linsell the Black

band against the highly complicated legal learning

not

to the circumstances when killing is or is justified?

This case illustrates

in

bold relief the superiority

Sitting On The Fence

By... Nathaniel Gubbins

Among the many problema presented by renders to busy editors Inst week was; "Dur- ing my holidays I am going to look over one of the man-

THEY call me Tommy Basket

cos I nvn't got a name,

I don't know when me Mn was, though I know it was a shame.

sies opened to visitors for Tu Civvy Street they neered at

2s. 6d. The duchess sells re- freshments in the garden. Should I tip her or not?"

RE'S tuppence for yourself," said the visitor, after a cup

lof tea and a bun.

"Oli, reativ," fald the duchess.

"Go on. Take #. Swallow your pride

"Puising proud.

Not really,"

sald the duchess.

"Tuppence cre and tuppence there. It all mounts up, don't

"Of course," said the duchess. # only wanted to say

"You don't ave to thank mr. You done very nicely. Every- tlink nice and elean, and ser- vice with a smile,"

"Thank you. But same

all the

"I know ow you feel. You've ad your butlers and your foot- men, and now you nye to tako Ups from the likes of me. 1 know all about It."

"Do you?" sald the duches "And don't go and make a beast of yourself," said the visi- tor, walking away.

Housewives'

choice

In New York they have been measuring the number of miles a housewife walks In

a week.

With labour- raving gadgets Mrs Schwim- inter walked 15.09 miles: without gudgels Mrs Magel wiked 18.75 miles.

DOUND the kitchen table,

Ro

Up and ridwen the stairs, Barging round the bedroom, Dusting round the chairs, in and out the larder,

Have a cup of tea,

Tramp, tramp, tramping

All the day-that's me, Talk about your

hikers

It was started by Article of the English Common Law Watch sentry who killed a 8 of the Nuremberg Charter, rule over that recently de

deprived admirals veloped as a result of trials German policoman-has now which

generals such as for war crimes, which Bri- been set free. This article and

the Lish military courts are was written while he was Bacdler and Keitel of still waiting to know whether defence of superior orders, apparently anxious to copy.

of ex- The consequences he would be sentenced, and Gradually it has been

still tended down the hierarchy, new rule are Insleed terri-Trump, tramp, tramping discussed the points present a challenge to justice. until

-By- CHARLES

SHELLEY

the

And your mountalicers, Soldiers on a route march

Get a lot of chicers.

Nothing for the housewife,

Never makes Jusa,

All the day--that's us. Ought to have a scrocant

Standing at the sink, "Pick-em-up, housewife,

Seven

days' clink,

it reached "other fying. runks." Now it has been applied, in an honourable but

Suppose, for example, in bomber future war, a misplaced sense. of justice. not merely to our ex-enemies pilot were ordered to blitz

an enemy city which hel

110 contained

but also to our own men.

21

Seven days detention.

Idle on parade,,

That's how a soldier-

And a housewife's made."

Right, left, right,

Open cli light,

Private Linsell fired shots suspected into the back of a German military objective. Under lorry which had ignored the Linsell ruling he would Left, right (pick-em-up), his order. as a sentry, to Beetl to satisfy himself raters boiling our, lle ordered one of the stop. In so doing he killed that the city did in fact

Lin contain military objectives Ten tutcs fall out, "It is quite obvious that farm hands to fetch a cer- a German policeman. no soldier and no sailor can tain bridle. The farm hand sell said quite frankly that before he took off. If, in Ten minute break.

He thereupon or he shot to kill. carry with him a library of delayed. International Law, or have dered the soldier to fire at immediate access to a pro- the farm hand. The soldier fessor in that subject who fired and killed. can tell him whether or not

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JOHN WAYNE

IN

SANDS OF

t.

S

order

In bold relief AMONG other defences, he pleaded the "shoot-to-

order

A nice cup of tra- of spite

exhaustive re- And a piece of cake. searches, he was still in doubt, he would be justified, Tommy Basket

ny compelled, to disobey.

the Military

Would

was illegal Linwell could not Rovenge-and after

attitude towards "People's ged because of that feeling of

me.

rod publicans would NANORO,

But now l'an dressed in uniform

It's "Ave one on the 'ouse."

It was "Tommy this and Tommy that and Tom, who's your dad?"

But It's "Bless you, Mr Nam:et, sir." when things are lookin' bad,

when things are lookin' bad, my

hops, when things are lookin' bad.

It's "Blanton, Mr Basket sir."

when things are lookin' bad.

I don't want no one's blessing and I don't want no one's drinks;

A solidler nin't no cadger and

civilian wallop slinks;

I may be legitimate, but baskets

ave their pride; They'll only buy

when the trooper's on tide.

wallop

the

It was "Tommy this and Tommy

bon, your bride,"

TJITTL

toas not a

But it's "Beer (pr Mr Basket1 when the trooper's on the tide,

When the Tooper's on the tide, my boys, the trooper's on the tide.

It's "Brer for Mr Basket” when

the troopers on the tide.

1

life,

never ad much social though girls would give the eye.

But when they card about my other shame they'd look the wye!

They'd make my fags and drink my drinks, but after that I'd and That when it come to walkin

Uwan

fall "Tommy out, be'ind."

it was "Tommy this and Tommy that, and who's your dad, you Hur?"

But it's "Picase to wall in

front, sir,"

when the guns begin to fire, When the

puns begin

to fire, boys, the guns begin to Are, "Mir Basket, walk in front, sir,"

when the guns begin to firo.

Little Sadie

After the wife of an Okin- hom farmer had been awarded a gold medal for having 37 children, a family re-count revealed that ber total output was 38. THINK back, Mom. Don't you THINK

remember little Sadie? Little Sadie? Did I have a little girl called Sadic?

Sure you did, Mom. She had blue eyes and golden hair.

Twenty-three of you had blue eyes and golden hair. That don't

rip any.

But little Sadie had measles. Mom.

So did nineteen others,

she have croup, too?

She sure did, Mom.

Did

So did the whole durn lot of

cough, chicken pox and muinps. you. And you all had whooping So what?

Well, Mom, Uttie Sadle

Sadie wasn't exactly sho Was [After Kipling's "Tommy screwey, Mom, but

Atletoes.

kinda queer.

Why, pol durn it, you're all "kinda queer. How queer

this here Sadie?

The legality of the cap ki" orders of his regi. Courts, who have put him legitimate children has chan- a particular command is a tain's

TALS highly

The deputy Judge in this position, then acquit war in the air. They feel the ment. doubtful. Nevertheless, the

Advocate-General is report him of a charge of disobey-children are needed to Aght

National Funny Morning News soldier was acquitted of a

ed as having ruled that if ing orders? "If, in

paper. 10 directed the Judge charge of murder.

"shoot-to-kil" the Advocate in the any doubtful case a soldier "Peleus" trini, in was, entitled to judge for

others, which, among

a himself, to consider the eir- German sailor was sentenced cumstances of the case, and to be shot for obeying the to hesitate in obeying the orders of his commanding orders given to him, that according to particular cir-

on the sur- would be subversive of all cumstances, of which officer to fire vivors of a British mer military discipline."

chantman.

trine that superior

orders

Great confusion

shelter behind it.

"shoot-to-kill" A

not be.legal, may or may

order

ET us admit that this is n

wrong. In order to sweep criminals into the net of war

high-ranking of number 2

the Allied officers, a German

At-in thought sentry may know nothing. Powers

If, in the circumstances of event, unnecessarily--to weaken the well-tried defence of superior Linsell's cuse, it was ille- orders. Their action wan

Yet by gradual exten- sions of the modern doc- THE Court proceeded to gal, the officer who issued how misplacer as that defence endorse the rule as laid it should be punished. But never avalled urlsoner if the such an order cannot be order was obviously illegal, as in

the concentration-camp down in the Army's

obviously illegal to the or indeed in the "Peleus" trial. are no defence to a charge Military Manual as it then sentry who is expected of war crimes, the position

Now we are holst with that by which soldiers obey it. He may well not stood,

In order when a

to give the is rapidly arising

he appearance of "fair shares," we have started to mutilate our be as essential to a soklier unless they

own time-honoured law, as a rifle or a helmet.

to

library or a professor will must obey all commands be told of the extreme im- pelard,

are quite ob

They must oboy

THE law of England was Inid down plainly in 1900 in a case arising out of the South African war.

viously illegal.

knew,

portance of the object is guarding.

For all Linsell Whatever International

Let us have the courage Law may now say, however there might have been a much the Military Manual store, of atomic material admit, before it is too late, that lorry two wrongs do not make a right. behind him, and the

The new rule was sown in a been changed, may have

How could he

to get at it.

always with revenge,

we are

that is still the law of Eng might have been desperate dark bed of revenge, and, as land and would be so ad be expected, in the agony threatened with its bitter fruit. ministered in our criminal of the moment, to weigh But cannot

courts.

in other But A British captain took a soldier with him to there in a state examine a suspicious farm, confusion,

NANCY'

Back in the Picture

TRY

THIS VANISHING CREAM

I THINK I'LL

.this

wе break up the unknown importance sequence? Must Private Linsell be sacrificed to save someone tribunals of his charge and the un- else's price?

determination of of great known

on the one

his opponent

(World Copyright Reserved-London Express Service) 864

IVE VANISHED---- I'M GONE--- I'VE

DISAPPEARED

By Ernie Bushmiller

I TOOK THE

MIRROR OUT TO CLEAN IT

POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER

12 r

"in mupentom, it reactionary and deplorably unprogressive move, which is certain to perpetuate out moded class distinctions that are entirely out of place in the "entury of the common coun

BALD SPOTS!

tuns

You remember when all the chickens died, Mom, and you found liquid cement in the corn mash?

Yeah. I remember,

That was little Sndie, Mom. So that was little Sadle, huh? And you remember, Mom, one Independence night, there was fireworks under your bed and you caught night?

That was little Sadie, too? Yeah, that was little Sadle, The dear little girl, happened

What's

forgotten it,

her now? Perhaps you've

once bought Mom, but Poppa

blast come some dynamite rocks. And little Sadio was ow- ful fond of matches, Mom, And she thought a bonfro of dyna- inite a swell des

... and the

kind blowed up. Mom.

Oh, poor little Sadie, Why did you have to tell me such an awful thing, you ciuct, wicked boy?

Don't cry, Mom.

I shall cry. I'm entitled to cry. Haven't f lost my dear little Sadie and nobody told 'me a thing about it?

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