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... A War Newsletter^ No. XI 32-H St. Bride Street, E.C. 4 Wednesday, November 15, 1939. IN THE BEER CELLAR.-- Not even my loathing for Hitler and all his gangsters will allow me to approve of assassination or bomb-throwing. It is a vile and invariably ineffective political weapon which hoists the assassin and his faction on their own petard. Hitler in my view is better dead and in His good time ...
... ave N. A Problem In Urgent, f74W j Jl A Need of _ .Solution j^,l v lL WHEN the Government planned, as early as Septem- ber, 1938, the evacuation of schoolchildren from danger areas it was assumed that all parents would take advantage of the imposing scheme. Together with the children attending school, mothers with the younger children were also invited to leave their homes for the safety of ...
... NAVAL GUNNERS, ,„d In Training, Man the Varied Pieces of To-day Above Sighting a big anti-aircraft gun On left Loading a useful gun at a naval training school ashore Above Fisting a shell into a 4-in. gun at a naval aunnerv school On left The expert hand on H.M.S. Revenge sights a twin Lewis gun on board the big 29,150-ton battleship HELMETED AND GAS-MASKED, THESE MEN AT THE GUNNERY SCHOOL ...
... jONDONS FIRE L FIGHTERS REHEARSE LONDON'S FIRE SERVICE HAVE A VERY BIG REHEARSAL AND PUT HOSES AND PUMPS TO REAL TESTS Some 1 ,500 officers and firemen with 300 trailers and fire floats attacked six imaginary outbreaks of fire with great skill and gusto. On right A temporary control station at work at Blackfriars WEARING THEIR GAS PROTEC TION HELMETS AND HOODS The men of London's Fire Service ...
... PHILIP PAGE ON THE THEATRE Humour did not exactly run away with Runaway Love at its first per formance at the Saville Theatre, though probably by this time it has been worked up into a more hilarious affair. My chief reason for finding a good deal of it somewhat depress ing was the personal and partly prejudiced one that musically it was pervaded by a distressing instrumen t Last Week's Three ...
... The Dominions and the Sinews of War What They Can Provide in the Way of Fighting Planes and the Pilots to Man Them The War in the Air Described by CHARLES G. GREY (formerly Editor of The Aeroplane) JUST at the moment people here are much interested in what the Dominions are going to do in air war. There is no doubt that Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Canada are full out to have a go ...
... LAST week when my hostess in the country exclaimed with a note of exasperation: Even rationing seems to have fallen through! she was venting the general feeling of anti-climax which has us all in a mire of petty annovance and inertia. ...
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