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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 1941

The Indianapolis Times

SECOND SECTION

Hoosier Vagabond

(Ernie Pyle returned from London a few days ago

clipper.

Following is one of several articles based on material he gathered while there.)

AS YOU KNOW, the literary find-of-the-century who produces these imperishable columns has been back on American soil now for more than a week. He has spent that week catching his breath and pondering the fate of the returned traveler who never

gets a chance to sleep. In the meantime. the week has been filled up with those spare-tire columns he carried back from London with him But now that the breath is caught and the body in repose, the first thing I want to do is get myself written back to America. It is not easy to leave England. There are a great many goodbys to say, and your favorite girls bring you such enchanting farewell gifts as tiny porcelain pigs. And tha the floor maid at the hotel—the

one with no chin who mothered me almost to distraction—had to start weeping when I told her goodby.

I told everybody that it wasn't goodby forever, that I would be back again.

And it is true that I

want to go back, for there is something about leaving England in wartime that you can’t bear,

Since baggage weight

on the planes is limited,

I left all my books and about half my scant supply

of clothes in London.

The books are in storage for

picking up after the war; the clothes I gave to some

hoy

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A Mere Four-Day Delay

By Ernie Pyle

The other was Dr. Louis Wolfson, a Boston plastic surgeon who has been helping in British hospitals. In those four days of enforced waiting we all got to know each other quite intimately. We shared a common agony. We pecame brothers under the skin. Before departure day finally arrived, those seven dispusted men were taking turns holding the little

baby all day long. They say the English have no sense of humor, but it was an Englishman's humor that Kept us all from going nuts. He was with the Foreign Office, and his humor was of the dead-pan, cynical variety. Each morning we'd make up a pool of bets on whetn>r we'd get avay that day or not. Being a hopeless fellow, T always bet we wouldn't go. So I won three days, and lost only on the last day. Even on the last morning we almost didn't go. We were all in the plane, and had taxied far out into the bay for the take-off. And then the palne turned around and taxied back. We had had about all we could take. It had been engine trouble before. What now, we thought? It turned out to be a small matter—merely an air raid. The captain said there were German planes all over the first 100 miles of our course. n

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Lisbon, at Last! We finally did get clearance at 11 in the morning. When we were halfway to Lisbon, I finally decided we were actually going. We were seven hours and 10 minutes on the trip. It was smooth and delightful all the way. The steward took the blackout panes off the windows when we were two hours out. We saw a couple of fishing boats

off the Spanish coast, but never saw any planes. | There is much conjecture over whether or not] there is an agreement between the warring nations! about immunity for these air liners that run to!

We went by train to a coas#al city, and stayed that night in a hotel. We were to leave by flying boat for Lisbon the next morning. They had us up at 5 a. m. We drove through piich

Lisbon. I think there must be. The British pilots say they have seen German planes but have never been shot at.

Both Sides of

What Nazis Fear Most: U. S. Naval and Merchant Ships in British Convoys

Joe Alex Morris, United Press foreign news editor, and Lyle C. Wilson, Washington bureau manager, today conclude their parallel series on conditions inside Britain and Germany.

By LYLE C. WILSON (Copyright, 1941, by United Press.)

GERMANS EXPECT American-made bombers to be overhead this spring and are digging in against that

eventuality,

But the real anxiety in Germany is to keep

American naval and merchant ships out of the British convoy system. Lunching with two Foreign Office officials during Congressional action on the Lease-Lend Bill, I found them pleased that the legislation as then drawn contained what they regarded as these three

favorable provisions:

1. It forbade U. S. Naval convoys to Great Britain.

2. It forbade American merchant ships to enter convoy service. 3. It provided for repeal by simple majority of President Roosevelt's lend-lease powers. ‘In that conversation and frequently elsewhere in Germany I got the impression that if Hitler has the United States and the

darkness

immigration then, when everything was finished and we were all ready to start, they announced a half hour's delay.

And then an hour.

to the and

marine base. For three hours the customs men questioned us. And

And then—I knew all the time

1L was coming—a delay of 24 hours! We all drove gloomily back to the hotel we had

never expected to see again.

And that, my children,

went on for four straight days.

and seven men. icans

Inside Indianapolis (And “Our Town”)

Major Carl Helphinstine.

One was man who has lived

There were 10 of us altogether—two women, a baby, Only two besides myself were Amer-

of Cleveland, a many years.

Albert Y. Gowen,

in England

IT WAS A SWELL IDEA that some of the boys in the Selective Service office thought up to “April fool”

But it was the major who

was chuckling when it was all over

The Major is a Hoosier of long

enough to fool Major Helphinstine but

standing with a

dread of being transferred to some out-of-the-way place. So his fellow workers went to no little trouble to secure an official Army transfer form They filled out “transferring” the Major to the Panama Canali Zone. But to make it. “official” somebody had to sign a general's name None of the conspirators was willing to “forge” the signature for fear the general might hear about it. Then someone thought of spelling the general's name to fix

the papers

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nobody could be accused of forgery. This resulted in further wrangling and before matters got any farther the cat was out of the bag. the Major knew what went on, and April 1 was just April 1 at Selective Service headquarters.

The Air Services Beckon

FOUR

SOCIALLY

PROMINENT Indianapolis

vouths have heeded the call to the colors

Robert Trimble, of the Trimble Oil family, plans

leave tomorrow for Canada where he will seek admission to the Canadian Royal Air Force.

Taylor Wilson, of the Wilson Milk Co. family,

and

Washington

WASHINGTON, April 2.—From now on those who to understand what is happening and where we are going will be well advised to pay less attention to what is being said and more to what 1s being done. Actions and not words are telling the real story. The

courage—action and more action.” cruisers and destroyers

real story is that we are moving

with ever increasing speed on a course of undeclared and, thus far, bloodless war, Seizure over the last week-end of some 65 Italian, German and Danish merchant ships in American ports is only the latest and most spectacular of these revealing actions. This is the kind of action President Roosevelt had in mind when he said in his Jackson Day address that it had become more than ever clear that the time called for “courage and more Recently we sent Presumably

to Australia.

they are remaining for the time being within quick

reach of Singapore

The fact that this was called a

“o0od-will” cruise does not subtract from its impor-

tance as a military move.

While Japanese Foreign

Minister Matsuoka listened in Berlin to Herr Hitler his thoughts must have strayed frequently to those

American warships

in the Far Pacific and to the

meaning of their presence. as the outrunners of the great U. 8. Pacific Fleet which in the judgment of

experts

the

mightiest

array of naval force ever

assembled in one unit,

‘Peace Through Courage’ Furthermore, strengthening England's island defense but are capable of bracing Jugoslavia and Greece, and are permit-

ting Mediterranean and African campaigns which are on

the point

the British

at It

foreshadowing told the country of the need for “courage and more

My Day

WASHINGTON, Tuesday -—-We

inflicting is probable that something more

the lend-lease

powers are not onl)

to pursue with more daring the

Italy was he

decisive defeat upon President Roosevelt than this when

had a smooth

flight from Mobile, Ala, to Greensboro, N, C., but I must say that getting up at 4:45 a. m., seemed a I was much impressed to be greeted at

trifie early!

Hotel King Cotton by the proprietor and his daughter,

now ald to Gen.

who allowed us to go to bed for several hours. The poor Secret Service man, however, who had met us and arranged to motor us to Fayetteville, said he had had no sleep because everyone was telephoning him to find out if we could drive 30 to 50 miles off our route to see some point of interest. We proceeded leisurely by motor to Fayetteville and as we went, through Ft. Bragg we picked up Maj. Eugene Harrison, one of our former White House aids who Devers. When the President's

train pulled in we had a few minutes before he got off and I had a chance to admire the tan acquired

all

the fishermen

of his party. The President

looks not, only tanned but very must rested and is in fine spirits. The Governor of North Carolina and Mrs. Broughten came in his car soon after the President arrived.

But none of us was concerned about danger, and we were a happy and contented ten who landed on] the muddy waters of the Tagus River in Lisbon late that sununy afternoon. We walked up the long long pier to the customs building, and as we walked a factory whistle in the distance started its quitting-hour wail. Three of us, walking together, all started to say it at the very same instant. We started to say “There che goes , . .” and then we three remembered, and stopped suddenly. and grinned sheepishly at each other. For they don’t have air-raid sirens in Portugal —at least not yet.

George Wildhack, are in Madison, Wis., trying to win places in the Navy Air Corps. William Rockwood Jr.. of the Rockwood Manufacturing Co. family, has applied to the Army Air Corps ground school division. What, Efficiency, Too? THE DEMOCRATIC COUNTY cently had what it describes as a perience.” Rep. Louis Ludlow wrote he could place three of the party faithful in Washington, D. C., jobs operating | a certain type of business machine. The party's list of job seekers was dissected bu not one of the thousands of applicants could run the machine,

Oh Hum

THE REPUBLICAN PARTY chieftains have just] about given up hope of salvaging the State Industrial] Board. They abolished the Board by an Act of jie) G. O. P.-controlled Legislature. And then they didn't get their bill creating a new board Schricker in time to avoid a pocket veto Result: The Governor, as chief executive, probably | will be able to fulfill the functions of the Board in any way he chooses. i

Well? |

The camera really caught up with our camera-shy' mayor yesterday. The “birdies”

COMMITTEE re“brand new ex-

to Governor

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were clicking all,

around him at a smoke demonstration in the morning. | In the afternoon, he had to pose for three publicity |

pictures. Quoth he:

world guessing, so does Mr. Roosevelt have Germany pondering deeply what will be his next move. If my luncheon companions could have been assured also that German and Italian merchant vessels moored in American ports would be kept out of the British life-line, their attitude toward the Lease-Lend Bill would have been even more complacent. Over coffee and cigarets, I heard again the confident story that was being told in Germany this winter— that the 1941 blockade would choke Great Britain and end the war.

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Believe U. S. Imperialistic

A GREAT MANY Germans seem to believe that the United States would welcome control

over Canada and even Australia and New Zealand. Suggestion that we do not desire to partition the British Empire usually were met with mixed doubt and astonishment. A non-official German whose long association with high party members gave his words empha-

CRITICIZE U. S.

Blame Us for Latin America Troubles in Propaganda To Argentines. By ALLEN HADEN

and The Chicago Daily News, Inc. BUENOS AIRES, March 24.— (By

Clipper) —Germain-paid presses in

“I can't see how this could be for the public good.” Argentina daily print thousands of

pamphlets, comic strips and other

| material (not including newspapers)

By Raymond Clapper

courage-—action and more action.” among voying of goods to Britain will be undertaken soon. | This is the step that will require courage on the part | of the Administration. because it means the risk of}

action hostilities—to which a considerable section of | yostcard vender,

public opinion is still opposed. Evidently President Roosevelt country should not

It is the belief responsible almost all informed persons here that con-|troubles.

allow love of peace to prevent nocently

attacking Great Britain. The heat is now being turned on Uncle Sam. A “disclosure” has just been made

here “proving” the United States for Latin

It is dome verv politely. When you buy a newspaper. the newsboy whispers with the air of a Parisian “Want to see something interesting?” And into your

believes that this newspaper he slips a pamphlet, in-

called “Germany and

it from doing whatever may be necessary to achieve|Ibero-America.”

the “total victory” which he has set as the national! aim,

said that those who attempt to exploit the natural years

Fifteen short chapters tell vou

In his Jackson Day speech President Roosevelt | that American policy in the last 20

has enslaved all “Ibero-

America’s |

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love of Americans for peace are actually serving the | Americans,” and if Germany is only |

most brutal warmongers of all time.

Although they allowed to win this war a new era

represent themselves as pacifists, Mr. Roosevelt said, | wil] dawn.

they are either agents of naziism or else its unwitting | tools. Peace for America, he said, will be achieved not through weakness but through courage.

The Subject of Convoys Thus far in the long course of our deepening intervention a clear line of demarkation has been main- | tained. might bring us into physical encounter force. The Administration has advocated no measure that would risk such a collision. A few weeks ago, when asked about convoying, President Roosevelt said that might mean shooting, |

We have refrained from any action which | America.” with Axis | talks sbout the whole Latin Amer-

ican continent, the title somehow excludes the Brazilians, who should

Brazilians Excluded The word “Ibero-America” is a

Though the pamphlet

be called “Lusitanians.” Brazilians

{curious one for Germans to use. | | Iberia is the old name for Spain. It| lis equivalent in English to “Spanish |

which was something we wished to avoid. Although are derived from Portugal and the |

he has said nothing since to directly alter that posi-| tion there has been a notable change toward a more! aggressive tone since the Lend-Lease Bill was passed. He has indicated that he thought the time for argument as to our policy had passed. He has called for national unity in support of actions necessary for | “total victory.” Over the week-end Senator Wheeler, Rep. Fish and President Hutchins of the University of Chicago were on the radio with speeches in emphatic resistance against going any further. Mr. Roosevelt has the choice of inviting further debate by seeking Conaressional approval of new policy steps. or of attempting to ignore the opposition by taking executive steps. Which course he will follow is not yet clear.

old name for Portugal is Lusitania.

Anything goes when you are trying to prove the other fellow is no good. On Calle Florida, Buenos Aires’ main shopping street, the newsboy flipped a vivid book at me. It is called “England, Trafficker in Slaves and Enslaver.” Ernst A. Olbert, the author, recounts the long struggle to end slavery. The newsboy passed it over quickly. “Hide it,” he urges me, “too dangerous.” It costs 10 cents. As a present he throws in a pamphlet called “The British Empire.”

By Eleanor Roosevelt

| Then Mrs. Broughton, Miss Thompson and I, with | Maj. Harrison got into one car while the President, the Governor, the Mayor and Gen. Devers headed the procession in an open car. We drove down the main street to the old court house, built on arches in the old days so the slave market could be held underneath the building. The drive through Ft. Bragg was extraordinarily interesting. They have expanded rapidly. In fact, I heard the general say they put up a building of some kind every 32 minutes! The camp stretches 25 miles in length and 11 miles across. The equipment is adequate for training, so the men are Kept very busy. A great effort is being made to provide occupation at the camp for them during leisure hours. There is an athletic program, and a group of hostesses plan entertain-

ments in the recreation rooms. In addition, there are three movie theaters running two shows a day. | Fayetteville is a comparatively small city and this | sudden addition of 65,000 men certainly has straine every facility they have. On the whole, the health of the boys seems to | be about normal. When they were living in tents] It was a trifle better than when they moved into barracks, but that is almost always true.

are described in full detail. 300,000 Copies a Week

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This gives a vic- |

| stances like the opium war in China, |

The Germans distribute around |

300,000 copies of this propaganda a week in 100 varieties, ranging from reprints of speeches by Der Fuehrer

| to vearjerkers on how sorry the Ger-

man airmen are to bomb peaceful English villages into rubble. One pamphlet entitled “Blockaded Blockaders” states that Germany is not blockaded at all, but gets all the food she needs and wants from conquered countries. A daily news-

sis, especially urged that the United States should welcome the addition of British dominions to its domain. To a suggestion that bringing great agricultural and livestock states into our economic system would pile difficulties on domestic problems we have not solved, he replied: “That is the trouble with your democratic system. You approach such problems backward. The way to deal with it would he to establish vour political system first and then adjust the economy of the states involved.” n n

Fear Convoys Most

I HEARD NO intimation in Germany that the provision of bombers to the R. A. F., the supply of munitions and food stuffs to Great Britain would so seriously interfere with immediate German war strategy as to require a Wilhelmstrasse re-examination of German-American relations. It was only on the question of American naval and merchant ships actually entering the British convoy system that Germans winced. Uniformly they ridiculed my questions about an invasion of the Western Hemisphere, insisting that what they hoped for in return for recognition of the Monroe Doctrine was recognition of German domination of the European continent. Time after time

LEAFLETS British Lab

By JOE ALEX MORRIS (Copyright, 1941, by United Press.)

WAR HAS PUSHED politics and social evolution into the background in Great Britain. The British Labor Party, returned to a place of power in order to present a united front against a foreign foe, finds itself a prisoner of circumstances if not of the Conservative majority. The Conservatives, while admitting the necessity of some concessions under war-time pressure, are the majority party and have based their war effort on the principle of maintaining as much as possible of the existing system. Two names—Bevin and Beaverbrook—illustrate how these opposing political forces have been neutralized at least for the duration of the war and emphasize the danger of predicting Britain's social and economic status after the war. n

Beaverbrook and Bevin

QUALIFIED OBSERVERS In England today take the position that the terrific rate of destruction and the billions of dollars expended for war purposes must result in economic disruption that will give way to important social changes, depending on how long the war lasts. Some will tell you that soon the capitalistic system will be finished. But that time has not yet come in England. The forces of change may be building up under the surface. The progress of the war may bring drastic changes later. But so far it has merely buried the normal social and political struggle behind a united war front. Ernest Bevin, Labor Minister, represents this unity for the Socialists and Lord Beaverbrook, Minister of Aircraft Production, for the Conservatives, Both are powerful figures in the British Cabinet, Bevin is backed by the trades unions. Beaverbrook is a political lone wolf who has enhanced his personal popularity.

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Germans are glad Lease-Lend Bill kept

I heard Germans say that they could not understand American anxiety over the occupation of Czechoslovakia, that they considered readjustment of the German political and economic boundaries to be none of the business of Americans at all. »

Post-War Plans Outlined SEVERAL POINTS of German policy repeatedly were emphasized in official public statements and in private conversations: 1. Great Britain must be humbled to disestablish the “balance of power” policy under which she has shared the domination of Europe since the Napoleonic Wars. 2. Germany colonial empire. 3. Germany will have none of the gold standard as a post-war basis of national trade. Germany for the time being at least has cracked the balance of power foundation upon which

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& Lord Beaverbrook . .. will he be Prime Minister some day?

And the future of each may depend on his success or failure in promoting the national war effort—not on his war-time political or social views. n on

Moscow Link Resented

ALTHOUGH THE WAR might have been expected to produce conditions in which Communist and Socialist philosophies would flourish, circumstances have nullified such agitation to a great extent. The Conservatives hold a majority control in Parliament and have taken advantage of a situation in which any opposition group that initiates a political struggle over social problems or any other problems is in grave danger of arousing public enmity on the grounds that nothing must interfere with the war effort. Any political battle at this time for important social changes might result in a disastrous setback for labor

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British foreign policy was based. The larger European nations with which Great Britain might find partnership in opposition to German expansion have joined the Axis, as in the case of Italy, or have become captive states, as in the case of France, leaving only Greece and Jugoslavia and Turkey within the sphere of British influence, # #

Deride Gold Standard

GERMAN PLANS for colonial empire include restoration of areas lost in World War I and

the integration into the new order of colonies—French colonies for instance—of other European states. It would not be necessary, I was told, actually to transfer to Germany the colonial possessions of other continental states. They simply become a part of the New Order's raw materials pool. Nazi plans for colonial empire are developing coincident with prosecution

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Furthermore. the attitude of Soviet Russia has aroused intense resentment among all classes in Britain and that anger has been reflected in the public attitude toward Communists and to a lesser extent toward the Laborites, who had always favored close relations with Moscow,

Workers Fare Better

THERE IS ANOTHER side to the picture. however, and Bevin keeps it awlays in mind. Wages are up, probably 20 per cent generally, and there is a shortage of capable labor. The cost of living is up at least 15 per cent but the

Government, is using its drastic powers to prevent a vicious circle rising wages and living costs and the lot of the working class is definitely improved from an economic standpoint. But from Bevin's viewpoint there is a far more important gain for labor. Social change, he believes, is being prepared for in almost every piece of war-time legislation. One measure will contain the machinery for broadening of the education system; another will control speculation in bombed urban land sites; still another will lay the basis for rebuilding the slums. When these are eventually fitted together the picture of progress will be more apparent, according to this viewpoint, and the unified war effort will not be hampered.

Beaverbrook's Star Rises

‘THERE HAS BEEN much talk that Bevin is the future “strong man” of British socialism, but since his entry into the Cabinet, that idea has been less frequently mentioned. The possibility that

Bevin will be Prime Minister one day is not overlooked by experienced political observers but they can conceive of Beaverbrook prof-

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letter from the Germany Embassy |

circulates free.

| The Germans spend $250,000 per |

month on propaganda in Argentina alone. The British spend less, since

q the majority of the Argentine press favors Allied views, anyway.

NAMED AT AUBURN WASHINGTON, April 2 (U. P). —The Postoffice Department today

We drove slowly, watching them perform their announced appointment of Donald |

usual tasks. "Young America.”

I could not help being impressed by P. Sprott as acting postmaster at Auburn, Ind,

HOLD EVERYTHING

1 BY NI

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“The record with the hiccups is the vice president, and the one with the bad cough is the sales manager.”

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COURT AID ATTACKS SCHRICKER'S SUIT

Times Special LEBANON, Ind., April 2.— Mrs. Marjorie Kinnaird, Republican reporter of the Supreme and Appellate Courts, charged last night that Governor Henry Schricker’'s court attacks on G. O. P. “ripper” legislation was a violation of his campaign promises. Speaking before the Women's Republican Club, Mrs. Kinnaird lauded the action of the Republican-con-trolled General Assembly, stating that it had been planned by ‘some of the best legal talent in Indiana” and that there is ‘no doubt about its constitutionality.” “Will Governor Schricker,” she said, “give the people a hint as to who will be the power behind his Administration if his appeal to the courts to declare the constructive program of the Republican Legislature unconstitutional is upheld? Will it be the same powers that influenced the McNutt and Townsend Administrations?

AUTO INJURIES FATAL

COLUMBIA CITY, Ind. April 2 (U. P.).—Fred Thompson, 4l-year-old South Whitley auto salesman,

March 24 when his car turned over

in a ditch.

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died last night of injuries received |

these U. S. warships out of convoys.

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of the war. Young Germans are making colonization a in schools which teach African lan=guages, geography, agriculture and agronomy. In place of the gold standard, Germany operates on a standard of work or production. No one need misunderstand Germany's intentions with respect to gold, In his latest speech Hitler said: “We did not want anyone in the United States or in England to give us gold. They can keep it. But we will not tolerate New York bankers dictating German trade policies. We will have the economy best suited to Germany. Our currency is the German people’s currency and its interests will be paramount.” Other officials were much more pointed in their comment on gold. “Gold or metal is the currency of backward peoples,” I was told, “the currency of such people as Indians or Chinese.”

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iting by his reputation as a “gogetter” to build a political following that would enable him to take advantage of any breaks that the war may bring. Beaverbrook has emerged rapidly. And the Conservatives have given no indication as yet that British capitalism is ready to roll over and expire. The Conservatives explain it this way: The British people are naturally conservative and they have a huge stake—insurance groups, social benefits, building societies, small investments and stable wages — in maintaining a steady, evolving society. Moderate changes must come and are already starting. But there will be no sudden social or economic overturn in Britain. There will be better, more widespread educational opportunities for all after the war. The 100 per cent profits tax and death duties are leveling off the peaks of wealth and the dole system must be replaced by a plan of work on post-war reconstruction that pays men for work instead of idleness,

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Capitalism to Remain

SOME CONCESSIONS. such as nationalization of the railroads. may be necessary after the war, But capitalism, broken up into much smaller units than at present, will remain in Britain. There are the arguments. When and if a change comes, circum=stances that cannot now be foreseen will obviously guide the people’s decision, but a strong and clever man may help them make up their minds. Bevin came up from the Bristol docks with a reputation for strength, but many people in England will tell you not to sell Beaverbrook short, He came up the hard way, too,

THE END.

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

[What is the singular of dice? 2—In whichh of Charles Dickens’ novels is the character “Uriah Heep"? 3—What word is the name of a religious sect, a salt container and a vessel for mixing drinks? 4—The Bermudas is a continent, a peninsula or a group of islands? 5—Atmospheric pressure at zea level is about 15, 30 or 45 pounds per square inch?

|6—What great naval base is called

the “Cross Roads of the Far East”? T—To be eligible for retirement benefits under the Social Security Act must one be an American citizen? 8—Did Francis Scott Key write the words, the music, or both, of

“The Star-Spangled Banner”?

Answers —Die, 2—"David Copperfield.” 3—Shaker. 4—A group of islands. 6—Singapore, T—No. 8—Words only,

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