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EYMOUR ROBERTSONStory of the R.C.A.F. Copyright 1952
H INSTALMENT
re of times during the
meal Graydon stifled an
to rise from his chair and
bara where she sat. The
she showed in turtling
versation while he fumb-
answers to her father's
s was little short of mir-
For they had hardly
eir places before Colonel
his interest in the Middle
awakened by the receipt
n's letters, opened up the
of the desert campaigns.
11 very puzzling to me,''
essed, "and those fellows
to explain it over the
only make it more con -
What's your opinion, my
by can't we consolidate
? You've been out there.
you can tell me."
tried to remember some-
what he had read about
ting in the Western Des-
ell," he 'began, hesitat-
"We were pretty short of
armor--er--heavy tanks and that
stuff."
"We had Freyberg's division,"
he was reminded.
"Mmm-yes." Who on earth
was Freyberg? The name sound-
ed Dutch. Probably he was a
South African general.
"They call the New Zealanders
'Kiwis' don't they?" Barbara cut
in. "On account of the neti': e
bird, I suppose."
Jack cast .a grateful glance a-
cross the table. "We .were short
of aircraft, too," he mumbled.
"But I'm afraid, sire I'm terribly
ignorant of army matters."
"That's natural." Colonel Hay-
ley agreed. "But there was e c-
cellent co-operation between the
services wasn't there?"
"Oh, yes! What I meant
was—"
"You wouldn't know much
about the Navy, either." Barbara
came to his rescue a second time.
"Did I tell you, father, what Bill
told me last night? . They're ar-
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9-10-11-b
ranging for .Army and Air Fo''ce
officers to spend their leaves 011
ships now—so that the service's
can get better acquainted. Isn't
it a splendid plan? I'd love to go
for a cruise on a corvette!"
"Nonsense, my dear! Quite
impractical. The ship would
never stay in home waters.
You'd no sooner get aboard than
she'd be ordered to Borneo—or—
to Murmansk."
"How thrilling!"
The .Colonel returned to his or-
iginal topic, "Lack of armour,
eh? Haulm. I wonder if that's
the whole story. Tell me, what's
the Ninth Army doing?"
Graydon winced. Was there a
Ninth Army somewhere? He
evaded the question by asking Mrs.
Hayley to pass the salt.
"And I've often wondered why
they replaced Wavell with Aucn-
inleck. I know Sir Claude, was
with him in India. I should have
thought he'd be more valuable
there than in western desert.
What did the soldiers think?"
"Oh, we didn't hear much,"
Jack confessed. "Some gossip,
and—"
"Gossip? What sort of gossip?"
With the Colonel's eyes direct-
ly on him, Graydon felt once
more as if he were an AC2 stand-
ing hatless in the Orderly Roorn.
He cleared his throat. It was Mrs.
Hayley who interrupted this
time.
"Barbara has a friend in the
Canadian Navy," she said, "Lieut.
Brandham. His home is in Oak -
vale, but that's not in the part of
Canada where you live, is it
Clarence?"
"It's not so far away, Aunt Ada,"
Jack replied carelessly. He was
thinking of his own home and
completely forgetting that the
Hydes lived hi southern Saskatch-
ewan.
"Not as you reckon distance,"
Barbara said quickly. "What's
a mere two thousand miles to a
Canadian?"
Cplonel Hayley made no effort
to conceal a frown. He was ob-
viously nettled as these recur-
ring asides. Jack gathered the im-
pression that he was also men-
tally deploring the abysmal ignor-
ance of airmen in general.
"You can tell me a bit about
the Gyppo's attitude though. They
were damned unfriendly in the
20's. What about this fellow, Far-
ouk? Is he .with us or against
us?"
"He—er—he's the sort who'd
like to be on the winning side,"
Jack ventured. "When Rommel
appeared to be winning he—"
"The Queen is very beautiful,
isn't she?" Barbara asked. "I
mean to say, her pictures show
that. Dark and romantic. Lil;e
Cleopatra perhaps?"
"I was not talking about the
Queen of Egypt, my dear!" Col-
onel Hayley tried to give his
daughter a reproving frown but
his sternness vanished as soon as
his eyes turned toward lier.
There was no doubt about Barb-
ara's place in his affections. His
next question was concerned with
reasons for the fall of Tobruk.
"Oh, that was a bit of a ball -
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up," Jack admitted. "Rommel
came up fast and 1 guess he
caught our side napping."
"I wonder if this fellow Role-
mel is as good as some people
think," the Colonel mumbled.
There must be shocking ineffic-
iency on our side,"
"Minna."
"We can't fight desert warfare
using the methods of the. Somme
or Passchendaele,". Colonel Hay-
ley grumbled. "seems to me
we're always preparing for the
day before yesterday when we
should be thinking of tomor-
row—"
"Oh, about tomorrow, Clarry!"
Again Barbara cut into the dia-
logue. "What say we walk round
by Carisbrook Castle? We used
to have grand fun up there, Peter
and you and me. They've still
got that little donkey on the well -
rope. Of course it's not the same
donkey, but -e"
"My dear, I'm sure Clarence
has seen enough damned donkeys
to do him the rest of his life!
And I do wish you'd not interrupt
me!"
"Then I wish you'd stop talk-
ing shop, father!" she retorted.
"Clarry is on leave, you know.
He may be too polite to remind
you, but I'm not." •
"Jove! I'd quite forgotten
that," the Colonel said, contrite-
ly. "Babs is quite right. Very
inconsiderate of me, my boy. 1
know you'd rather talk about
Canada—oh—about winter sports
and things. You must miss them
over here."
"I'm simply fascinated with ice
hockey." The ' surprising state-
ment came. from Mrs. Hayley. "I
started listening to the games on
the wireless last year and—"
"You did!" Jack was delighted.
Immediately he plunged into a de-
tailed discussion of the game, of
the standing of the clubs in the
NHL and the comparative prow-
ess of players of the Maple Leafs
and Canadians. Colonel Hayley
was soon hopelessly mystified.
In the library, during the hour
following the meal and after the
Colonel had vainly tried to stifle
a deep yawn, his wife said to
Graydon.
"I do hope you're not finding it
slow here, Clarence. It's a shame
we cannot show you more of the
Island, but we've so little petrol.
Still, it's nice you and Barbara
get on so well." She smiled. "You
didn't always you know."
"Would you care for a night-
cap, Clarry?" the girl asked sud-
denly. "I know father's ready."
"Make it a short one, my dear,'
the Colonel suggested.
"I'll 'fix them now." Barbara
hastened from the room and,
when she returned bearing a tray
with glasses and a partially -
filled decanter, she announced that
her father was wanted on the
telephone. Colonel Hayley step-
ped across the threshold and took
the receiver from its place on the
console table. They heard hire
say: "Colonel Hayley speaks . . .
Right! Ah, hold on a jiffy."
The door closed. The remain-
der of his conversation was lost
to the group seated in the library,
(To be continued)
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RCAF PERSONALS
Our apologies for an error in re-
porting two parties in honour of
Mrs. Win Kelly, last week. The
Wednesday night euchre club pre-
sented her with an individual tea
service at the home of Mrs. R. Mc-
Lennan. The neighbours farewell
party, at which Mrs. Kelly receiv-
ed a nice chenille rug, was held at
the home of Mrs. C. Pinnell, and
joint hostesses were Mrs. J. Pater-
son and Mrs. Bernice Smith.
F/O F. R. McDonald
Becomes Assistant
To Adjutant
F/O F. R. McDonald has been
transferred to RCAF Station,
Clinton, to assume the duties of
assistant to F/O Jack Brown,
Station Adjutant, F/O McDonald
was born in Ottawa, educated in
Hamilton and enlisted in the
RCAF in 1943. He later transfer-
red to the Canadian Army in
November of 1944 and was dis-
charged in October 1945. He at-
tended McMaster University from
September 1946 to 1948 and took a
General Arts Course.
In May 1949 he enlisted in the
RCAF, later trained at Clinton as
a Radio Officer and was subse-
quently posted to RCAF Station,
Summerside, PEI, and later to
Greenwood, N.S, F/O McDonald
was a member of 405 Maritime
Squadron until his posting to the
Air, Armament School' in Trenton
in 1953. He has recently been
posted to Clinton for an administ-
rative tour. Administrative tours
are part of the career plan for
junior officers and usually follow a
period of flying as an instructor
or member of a squadron aircrew.
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depicting the method of making
accurate maps of paeviously un-
charted territory.
Members are reminded that the
next meeting will be held March
16, and urged to attend and bring
along a new member. This will
be a bingo party.
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THECaL11Prt SPORTS COLUMN
&wet 7eipeedeut
It may be atrifle early in this year of
grace to start picking any "moats" or "bests"
along the sports trail. So we'll settle, right
now, for a somewhat shaded "most", to Avery
Brundage, the high potentate of amateur
sport in America, as the "most daring" gentle-
man of the -year to date.
It happened this way:
There was some discussion among amateur leaders to the
general effect that when the next Olympic Games are held in
Melbourne, Australia, in 1956, they should be cut down to fit
the size of the sponsoring country's ability to take care of
the world's greatest athletic celebration.
The high cost of everything—food, transportation, equip-
ment—in view of the ever-increasing number of athletes and
officials involved, and the ever-expanding sports programs,
was the cause of this debate. For Finland sustained a. heavy
loss, last summer in its Olympic venture.
So the daring Mr. Brundage, practically taking his ath-
letic, if not his human life in his hands, tossed. a bomb into
the debate by suggesting that the women's events be dropped
from the Olympic program. He suggested separate Olympic
Games for the women athletes, which, of course, could mean
that women's participation in the Olympics was ended. For
what nation would care to take the financial gamble of staging
an Olympic meet for . women only?
The girl athletes will scream in fury if any such effort is
made, for the competitions, engaging girls only, in a comparat-
ively few years, has become a very definite and colorful part
of the big Games. Of course, Mr. Brundage in self-defense—
of which we believe he will need a great deal—could retort by
pointing to history. For, more than 2,000 years ago the wom-
en's Olympics were separate from the men's game, which
women were not even permitted to view!
But times have changed ,since then. Women have be-
come, steadily, a more important factor in the sports world,
and to sprinting, diving, swimming, figure -skating, and other
Olympic events, they have made a very definite contribution
not only of feminine pulchritude, but of real athletic qualities.
Mr. Brundage will find himself the centre of a great upheaval
if he seriously undertakes to enforce this man-made idea.
Our own notion is that Olympic transportation and other
expenses could be sharply cut by every nation, including our
own, if the teams included only those athletes who have prov-
en they can equal the best Olympic standards, and have a real
tions might reduce the size of each nation's Olympic team
chance of scoring points. Then, too, regional or zone competi'.
There were no fewer than 69 countries represented at Helsinki.
Literally scores of athletes, male and female, verging on
mediocrity by Olympic standards, get on board for the ride,
every Olympic year. It's this excess baggage which runs up
costs, not the presence alone of the girl athletes, bless their
little hearts.
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