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nitalSDA. DECBMBEIR 28th, 1,90
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T/fm,,,797.0t4orxOF WAR - British Coltunbla, . Nova - Scotia a.nd
° Prinee'VdwardIslaud
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Britain's Ananeierti and „peonnmists
lave bad too ,nnieli eXperlence to be
„
stamped by tile question s.till heard
eoinqtimeain. this eaantry, though perf'
Imps less frequently than a year or„tWo
ago': 11 so.,nauch meney."ean he tenlid
for war. *b.", eaBflo it he fonhci for
PeaCethne,„Aurposest The Manchester
GOard1a0, diSeussieg a White Pallet,
ieened, hy, the 'British Governmeut, re-
, ters to two questions often raised in
ptiblie debate. Will this country be
hi-ipeveri.shed by the warr 'Will it be
peeeinie, to spend as muqb iu Peace -
Hine OXL werthy obiictives as we have
Ie .SPent in wartime on defineer
'Writer goes On to say:.
,•The ,untiwers given to both ques-
tions are much affeeted.by the fact
that .we have drawn heavily op
accumulated capital to finance the
War, and :,tbat new capital. must
. first be . tieceraulated over many
fears to come before we een again
our out elicit large • wy-Ith for
some great national purti. se.
Early in -,the _ war - .it ;was
°nee said' that An state of the
additiOns to the national,
were paying for the warlfere and
• _:-___A=Ow_tyivr and eon-
•M'thole Story ahd as the Kar went
On it became, less '04. The con-
tributions made by -increased out -pit .
and reduced tonsumptiob • ,:•
have been prodigiOus, ha -they,
• would ° not have been sufficient. We
have also net' to sell out the best.
•. of our overseas investments and
• to use ,,the resources of Empire
• .and other COuntriei by giving them
,enormous - claims on our ,future
.productive resmirees.- This leaves
• out the great contribution -made
by lend-lease imports. •, •
Capital at home has been equally
itnedown.. The -White Paper gives
.some examples on page 39i7-hotises1
Irieforfe8; and 'machinery not kept - - -
to make- eiplanatiOnS;
rePair, etc.,—and points outthftt
.
the greater 'Art of the physical ; will be an. interesting
pinion,.
The German' cereeb u a
rude awakening to anyoneought
the war was So hear 't the
Apled armies could oc
According' to what Iva ife
from German ()deers t
recent days , the Na
recapture,Paria-.4an r
4' to these of Britain; but consideration date flied for that eve
should•tenvinee any thoughtful person: eucn power Of recover
„ .
•
'-fhtit the wastage �f war could not go on would, be ready to ta
"r';terras;
'indefinitely and that instead of a con- This of course xs.not a a1 • `line With
, tinuance of the heavy expenditures of the planS of the Al ies. They Will
vvartime.Which have given an appear- ,aecept nothing but u9od tional sur-
luice. of "geed times" there must be a render, and_Gerrwany 764 be quite
• ._periOd Of retrenchment in order that long way \ yet from t se itien, of
. lost ground :may be. recovered; Per- despair4in which it -woo d; eld to that
haps, only a small proportionofour demand. „ At the same ;'eneiny
• peopleviewWith any great concern the 'may by the effort it it, n king so
enormous • addition made to our public 'exhaust its strength and ornces that
• debt during the, war years; if the rest the end may Come mo
think of it at all, they regard it as it bad' maintained a purel defensive
'.seinethies.e fo tlie Government, not position. The fighting ,' ahead of the.
then:1E1'am% t� worry about; ',Stet -Win -Allies bt harderi,t)but' tlie final
it that dent le never paid the interest victory may come4*.soefi?. Imight
. _
charges remain, as a burden for tax- otherwisehaveVeen
Payers to carry, and the 'carrying of
• that huden, will -affect. every. Man,
"wcuinan _arid- child in the. country
Whether' he or She knows it or not.
We have dealt here only.with dollars
and cents i This, of course, is ,not the
whole picture.. These , war years have
hoped treanadianS it -sense ot-grea
things accomplished which if carried'
into theyears of _peace will 'help t�
retrieve' die Material losses. Canada is
•• a, ranclr greater country in the eyds of
theWorld-thatt it was five years agd.
.Its .industriar Capacity ha 'Increased
• 'vastly, and itsagricultural production'
1MS-shown What. our 1=7i:rem-Carr do.
when Markets for th-eir products are
• avallable. In. the years, tocome, if
thrift and good sense prevail, Canada's,
newcomers
• who may be added, should be able to
Inaintain the high standing, which their:
Wartime record at home and abroad
has, earned for this. BarainiOn;
,
That the, troubleS in Greece 1111,,*cv'
hobo() a first:class iSsup *.evidenced„
by .the Visit toAthens of Priine Minister
OAurcUtil and FOreign SCCretari Eden,
wlio are:-eonferring , with both :of the
rival r' Greek .parties in an effortt to
settle their diftereneete No. matter
where. the blame may Ile tot the'sita-
ation, .has placed Britain. an
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FOIL OS1FER OF LAZY MEAlOWS.
By Ham .T Route
• cuitti*mits
It takes a Christmas tree:taput the
spice. Of festivity into the holiday': It
seems to set the Mood fon thee whOle
thing. I hate to think Of the Places'
-where there' will not he. a Christmas
tree this, year.. Some plakes of „NOM
simplY can't afford it, .and, that is
redection on aii.the rest Of .us, Other
places where there eau be, butisn't,
must be t refieetion on the people-theta-
•seives. .` '
Willa • was written on the 'day that
Mrs. Ilan asked me too get her a tree.
VivietraaS has come and gone since
'Owl) and it was a baPPY °Oast*.
There was a\gentle snow drifting down;
on the morning that I went baele to the
reforested strip to get. a spruce tree.
Patricia Ann of (4:nose came with me,
Current
Views on the War
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A 1•114W l'.€11)ERA
STA
PIO or the formation of a 'SOW
Balkan , state.--tederated
UgoslavIa—
was announcvmotti,eiallY from Bloseow.
lest wecii. neW.'10b0Pter in Balkan'
_ _ _
and Voropean historY had begun.
Scarcely a month had paesed since the the re,geneY WoUld automatically end.
Bed ArMY.,entered "Belgrade. SapPere: With this plan in hie pocketSritish.-
with a cabinet of twenty-eigbt mem-
bore, hielinling the governors of the
sIx (Dottie -Us. Tito would probably be
Prime, Minister. Until.Yugoslavie was
fully liberated Xing l'eter'e interest
would be protected, by a regency. It
Zugoslata voted against Xing Peter'S
tetOrn, 'rite OXPeeted they would,
had romoVed. '4270 Onex-
ploded. bombs, 76;298, live. German
shells, most of. the' -hidden. IGerniert,
soldiers. . Partitian boys *drilled In
streets over Whiclf stretched benners,
eMbIazOned With new xngosiavia,8 red
star ,and Bluetit's
supported kiabasieh *flew, not to.
London for the approval ot.Pehne, Min.-
iSter Winston Oiroreltill, but to Moseow
for Stalitee (1.1C' After -three days of
Kremliel, co/item:100K statin approved:
Said the . official :Soviet coramuelque
XugoslavitVe Tito Stated side by side Ilerueeratic Uational. forces . , . and to
Big Ploture$ of Xtils4103 Stalin and Siibasieh'e efforts .to unite air truly
liaininer and sickle. :aavriSab:1. T, loli . And. Verne, Milliater
"06 . Soviet Government welcomes
Create 4 .demoeraticr,tederative ,Ttige,-
Promptly , Marshal Tito prof:1110d
amnesty to all tlie Chetnik tolloWerti
of General Afihallevich (against when)
he had fought since 1942) who sur-
rendered before January 15. Tito also
ordered 2,000 industrial * and com-
mercial enterprises, . several banks and
80,090 ferias nationalized; •
from every onop, window. 'The grey,.
clad . troops of the. ,Red Army rolled
ceaselessly Unveil. the, Hungarian 'trent'
it In . . and she was determined that we should
about thiltr. Der e,
Russian airplanes roared
in U.S. lend-lease trucks. Overhead
A the gate Of the royal palace
shabby - PartiSans mounted
desirable light and given Britftlit's 'ea down ttle big pine at the end of 1 . : ' .
enemieS an opportunity of WItieh they s
the potato field. It stands
- ' feet high 'and she refused to believe guard. But the "Paltiee was an empty
will Ake full• advantage', for the
turtheranee o tbeY o'Vvn pRrpOs,es..
it•
• -
By the Will of the late Sir Willi*
Mnlock, rwhiett, disposes , of an state
Of 'more than., *000,000, Prime Min-
ister MackenZle Xing' receives a be-
queSt of $50,000. if Was` Sir -William
sleigh the horses shied when a rabbit
who intrtgaced Mr..King to public life :4 e
vounced across the laneway and 'she-
ajohcbtecgOintniniPrtcoec. crowd
dr i nt , ef and o r e is tt erde q us 1p:a
be a trifle large for the living -room at I.iondon, might neva- live there- again.
int emp,w4hinege. INpoexint t:4,dcirolixthgaligt :encl.: symbol, "Young lang Peter, exiled' in
. She settled ,. quite peacefully' for a Fascist Youth , Congress chanted:
Lazy, Meadows. „. Bo% and 'Orli of the Serbian Anti -
"We don't want Peter, We want Tito."
Said Tito: "01413alkan differences win
never again appear in .tni -Balkan/0
about pity of them for the Christmas Pot three weeks the., Partisan .N4 -
tree market. Coiningback on the bob- tiOnal 'Liberation Committee had been.
- •
busy creating, on paper, the new tuffo-
-slavia.. Twite! Tito hist furive,t0
Moseow, conferredIVIth Stalin and the
People's 'Commissar for, Poreign At-,
lairs,' M. Molotov. Last week a pia
„for the reorganization of YugoSlavia
was-vvo ved. •,
Yugoslavia would consist of . six;
federated, antonomous districts (Ser..
bid:, Croatia, ' Slovenia, Bosnia -Herz -
be has been guide,. , eounsellor and
friend • through. ell' the intervening
years, and net iitLaid.,.4.1 ejected
beyond his own .' like; for ,We, imagine
that even a Prime Minister,' too Imsy,
Wanted to know, of course, whether, it
were Peter :Rabbit or not. Then the
;questions started about where rabbits
spend Christmas and if Santa Clang'
fills their . stockings and if they eat
candy , . and on .and on until we
perhaps to spend lavishly, 1 May finelreeched the house.
' ' .,.. ' Our Christmas was like youTs 'ill()
use for a bit of. money. , beyond the - . -- ' .
salary_ he gets'• from 1..,.n .tocierai doubt, a very happy one, for Patricia
. •- , , Ann at least.- War tOuched it by the
tleasul.y. ' bsenee-of - .
• ••
;
during the day I kept Wondering if he
were well and if in - that distant spot
there tould' be a touch of christreas
festivity.
• Tiller!. the guests were gone 'and ,the
little,.?galdenaired ,•girl • was tucked
into bed hugging her - new ' doll and
Sleeping dreams, touched with magic,
Mrs. Phirand I sat watching!the dying
beech ',and maple .embers in the old
stove. The gay parcels Were gone and
a.:certain .amount of .papers and ribbon
4nd old •seals were scattered around
the 'floor. The glory of the. .da) wee
fading, but the tree, looking just a little
tired -and wilted. like .some. ancient.
'monarch whose reign is °almost ' over, -:,
1
till.geemed_to.dominate_Ithe_vidtgre-
-OhristmafP4eems to he---ene,„-resPite
from this mad, - selfish: world :we live in.
Plitui 'forgets big owngreediness long
enough to remember others, -.crams
hiP1Seit vvith, enjoyment doing it; and
then goes backto the Old "dog eat deg"
'IgslicY that governs his life" for the rest
of the year. AVe cairat* least be thank-
toryful that Cliristmas and What it stands
--a* for liesn'rbeen• eliininated.from all the
world. . Maybe -some -day 'we'll reallie
isoner in: the folly Of it all and lathe Christmas
, was , to spirit,into our daily lives. ••
. .
being .tii, ' Another Christmas has come and
., •
, The C.C.P.... lias , announced its in-
tention of petting up a candidate in the
North Greyly -election. The'.nierebers
of that ---,party. are. quite Witthintheir
righ14 in'scedeing; but it will introduce
a coMplieatiOn which. IS P. abably not
welcomed by either of the .10it Or parties.
LibeiaidNirill fear that they,: tervention
of the third Candidate viill.fOrlt ti) thefr
disadvantage; the ContierVatives, May
, .,, . •
calculate that it hurts tigit, candidate,
It might be that the t, itdcandidate
will win -and leave both the oid parties
ii.--aniriCinieTit
test o 'Public
war damage suffered has still, to
be made 'geed in the future. Many
other elements (seen as loft ex-
port :Markets)...come into, this
i,h4ance43beet„ and the plain result
• is that we have'ehausted net only
a large part of thei,national capital
but also much of the means of
earning future wealth. -. • Recen,-
,streetien.' will be; uphill work and
there is no short eat.
• .Conditions in Canada„are not_parallel
3
,IP
• The new power at once., began . to
expand. Yugoslav* :')/feeedOnitgle
lii-
slsted that:Yugoslavia's new iVifiteden-
lan . district *should 'include net only
Bulgarian Macedonia but Greek -*co.
donitt, the richest of all: 'Greek pro-
ces and including the big Aegean
Port of. Salonika. And .Pr. gmodiaka.
Tito' e Foreign Minister, had exchanged
sharp words with Italy's" Count Carlo
orza -over Yugeolay.claires to Trieste,
atria and . Gorizia, awarded to Italy
after'World War L "
,
If the plans for a federated Yugo -
Stevie Went' through, it would emerge.
as*, the strongest state in the „Balkans
°goyim, Moxitenegro, Macedonia), each A ilatirant Federation to include Bul-
with lissom' locat government, schools, garia ,and, guinania was a likely - next
ustointie--Over the six, -weal govern: step. Before -the -4;W Threeemet-agein,-,
inehts Would be a central -governMent. Russia's pelittal-. control of the
Balkans .would 1)e consolidated,
(Chicago).
BRITA/NS WAR Enota
VOr orabattl*1 lritain, the time had
come to tell the world Its tale ot total
mobilisation. Britain Witt it 144 week
in a Government White Paper, wrap-
ping . in dispassionate statistics the
iZbole story Of what war had dole to
ti4eciwvittirse;-r'vaute. oMplied4 the data
people, W.401- the Peeple had done in
which His lattiest$11 Stationery Office
iseued, under the title; '"Statistics* Re-
lating to the War-StCert et' the United
Kingdom." The London observer bed
e better deScr1400n; "Xlere at length is
the eritlithetie at blood, the vhemietry:
And dsgielaltiratildeelutv7,Qaullsttri?et sweeper In
the City of Landon, „sumo:tied UP; "WS
about time -we,bloody'Airees 'ad a leole.
The liiceS of ,Bill Bradshaw :and: his
friends had been mobilized. for "war
with, a totalitY .Undreamed of In 1018.
Prem a matepopulation of 22 million
no less .than,.5Ye. million were serving
Or had Served in --the armed .forcesee
,57 per cent, of all mentrolli eighteen_
to forty. This high ,degree. Of Male
-
Mobilisation was.made" possible by the
fact that went= in, their turn, had been
(for the first time in 1,3ritain,s history)
-CompOlsorily mobilized , for auxiliary
war services, for ,civiljefenfie or /Or
war industry, • Ot , 16 million women
'3g=eraclillf°10unft,ewetret! thPle
,. more Lhan
7 e
VOUrfartaliggV
41; -
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sti
gone,• Let's hope that the •vacant
-Ito- show
•- EDITORIAL NOTES
A :Happy; New ioar* to all !I,
The *elusion (in the Toronta.tra ii C
,liplaW) of -a ,!=erause .making tit-obligar
tory for ,Westriana to give heed signals
before lurning cornerS is indicatiVeief
:an....unreatgoning .mattite for meaningless,
reform. Stiebi, dictutit Is nothing less
than' utterly silly..—Windsor Star;
And it seernentzeessarY:to lair once
more that nothing resemblinglsueA4
'preivisifoa- was or is in Jim Toronto
01039.'.. --Toronto
,1
places 3v111 be •filled .before another
one Comes .around, and that, the places
which -will never Walled haven't been..
emptied in Vain. • -
FOLITIOAL HISTORY
_ •
OF NORTH GREY
The Widesifietid, interest .in the im-
portant by-eleetion to- beheld 111 Grey
North on February,,,, in :Which': the
lion. A. G. L. McNaughton, Minister
of National Defence, will seek election
to the Dominion House of Parliament,
,has called forth in the editorial
columns of The Owen *Sound Sue:.
eetrg :foilowin! political history of
tbe riding:
For ;the last half-century:VorttrGrey
has always been regarded as `stood
•-,,fightinz--4;-4-ground,!:" ---ta,,-.the--results of
elections show. • '• • •
In 1891:the late James Masson (Con-
servative) represented the *riding. He
resigned in 1896 to accept appointment
as county judge in .Huron county and:
.in the general election'that year the
.late John "Clark (Liberal) Was elected
'by a .srnall thafofity. in,tm by-election
.that santeyear, feIlOWing. Mr: Clark's
:deat,Lt. fjon„yejlilarir Paterson, Min
.ister Custoras-in their new, Laiiner
Governine‘ht, Was elected:by what was
then considered a Substantial majority
—424. ,
• The general election of 1900 saw the
late Dr. E. 11. Horsey(Liberal) Winner
after another hard fight—his majority,.
to the hest of our recollection, wag 31
or thereabouts—and the by-election in
IOV,,after.:his tragic death, savV North
Grey's political. complexion change
with the late T. 1. Thomteil (Conserva-
tive) winner by 235. .
In 1904, W. P. Telford, father Of the -
inexidiet for NorthGreywho has just
tendered hls resignation, was elected in
a general election by 23 otes. ' 1998
Saw the riding swing tojile' conserva-
tive colunin 'With' the election of W. S.
Aliddiebro' by IA ,Votes. 11e was re.
'turned in 1011 and again in 1911, (thiS.
tinle as a supporter 'of • the Union "Gov-
erenierit) "representilig North/Grey; and.
In 192-1,-":31r..MiddiFehro having dropped
out Of .adtlye polities, the late Matthew.
4. Duncan', (Conservative) wa e
suc-
cessfulin 'a three -cornered, fight. •
, Duncan :was reelected in. 192,50' but,
in 1926: W1, P. Telford brought the
riding back to the -Liberal to14' 1930
Saw _victor C. Porte604 swine North
Grey to the Conservatives. In 1935
and 1040, however, W. P. Telford ,was
elected bv substantial majoritlei,• the
mo cant 'being 1701 over his nearest
opponent. • ,
This outline ',does net represent an
absolutely:accurate pleture, as „NOttit
Grey ,was .redistributed fcdlowlng
Censuses; but it isiwe think, sufficiatly
accurate, considering thenumber of
yea)* it has been held by' the two
parties and' the closeness of the' votes
on lrianY, peeasions, to silo* that -Nerth
Grey—Grey North aS It. 18 called now
is What anyonetaii safegt designate.a
good .1ighting ground.
.A DAY OF E
It would not be, at alt1 .,..lt ',we,' • •
Took one Whole day tiO I e .0ih rately ;
To leave the ceaselessrt and seek
' a lane
And walk its peaceful-,. . , Tyed length
a_Oaln, _ .._•,,:______
ha tiff:6T
With thoUghts' attunt,
'
growing things—I 11 '
To hear the feathered,
. * wings; • ,, , t rushes'
temeuftied_by a *ague n :Scheme;
e ;stream,
To stand in silenee . b '0
To hearken to the wil . he grass
As over it the 0.0ft* e . pass;
4 A- to bear.
.fro. bring out'. scattere
We really see the .sk i e hill;
To have an evening , prayer-
fulcgrace, ' .
To give attention to : . *Ord „
0 d one'S
To i note the smile u ;.
faec-.--- --.--- --
i ave „truly
And try to show th .
. heard;, • .
To gain a calm in wh ,''a sago
.Speak from the fra itl Me- old
' , elasele'S page, •
And 1...fnderneath ttt ' Of the
,
stars • '
Leek iipivard from i 111
i 'alfits
, .scars. '
We would face da better
"' - Mood •
ietiide
,For living one brigh d
wntx:.
It I
These lines Were sent one by the
Sut--10. Day AssoCiation (Canada) '
With..its Ohristnaas card. ..
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Nit
'Etti
-MED- IS AGAIN trEGENT
• As the Aghting onthe battle be-.
Comes more intenSe, the teed. Of: Waste
ptiPer grove, "mid ,the prOblem shoWS
But isn't there somefhing Wolfed -1n no signs of imniedinte solution. Even
tha belief' tlitit e'4":011t° Is capable of °f I when the war, in Europe ends, eneree
. ..
"tureasoning manialfr ' , monk quantities of food, equipinent, and
4, iii, ,* .; medical sOPPlieS will still be needed
, The OW itsikte, of at fled ot,604 lu overseas for .our service'. mon and for
.. .
Canada in I now estimated at,
DO- is ' 'I' 1 t . ' •
e ler o diatressed nations. • Moste„ if
$41/.14 , utillions.- wheat conOltuting paper ia:!044t °Df4petilr_."eosl,'M/allinelit'44 "(1111I'e
. *Wit one-third of the whole. Thie is , ' reeiiic 'in thi '.'bOt(14 ne1;11Ytitin4:114's .ed •
„ WINS $10 PRIZE
' * new high. ligare, beink *1st; miutini , to save all .Chsri:tniams caltitonse, :ifigitet
..„,„ 4,..,„ ,„,,,„ ..,,,.,.. -.... ........ ......—.... i containers, .brown wrapping Pal)cr and A Huron resident appears -in the list
;2;11 "Jat;tt 407;6;:i whic,,1 . _, 1 other waste paper gvery pound.
poli • eondueted by, the Ontario Liberal
rimate j.atxtu runt: . , ,will of pri2e-winriers ,ini the public opinion
, a ototy ef the splendid Witt effort on - ...
''. i tee tells I hop, , ,..,
, News, in the' person of Mary Kennedy,
the farm trent. 14askateliewen tveied .,,,,.._ PLANT FOOD 1":* . ' ' l'i 1., 111011:1pe'i,4iift8eatoProithir'ty*.:1101(#rel°21reas0S1%**Ir;'
1011 10,414110* is ordor Of' lastnii.nd ' 7*"" ihne" fQIInd in *161 °g;811'" — voting Liberal oand invited readers to
vidgat
be tolkal of oilAcid ' cpa 'cell 0(4' iga ,Ilt f°0(1.' Vhe ' 0101-10 select ten ,in order of preference. 'Phe
lutosto. ,.. mboidd he ,cri.mbed, soaked in it little couteSt drew 1300 entries from ali,Parte
water for a ' clay or tiro, Ilse the of,,, 'Ontario, the winner of the first
stra441 liquid to wt -'r the *ants. Prise, ii. $rOft Yletory bond, being IX A,
This 'wilt tolvttoa, VS good Icsitgli, -Catneron. of Wianotiek, near Ottawa.
arti
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goriee.' Of 'the balance,- many Were
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keeping house for thosreobnized. "
Merely keeping house had become
vastly. -difficult! One. of, every three.
houses had been destroyed Or damaged
by, bombs; only the mosturgent of
minor ,repairs could he • made, little
furniture could be •;.- replaced. The
"austerity" table had only one-third
as much 'butter as in 1939, two-thirds ,
as much meatfless-than halt as many
eggs, less than half ,as ,..nituch fresh
fruit. •• . ,-•
'The -reason, food -importing Britain
well known, was that ,dry, came %en -
flack*Oi
•PIT for
Most people tail to
eeriousness of a hell
The atitekea, twiteheai twingea
are 'bad enough and cause aroat Bat -
:feria& but biwk ot thet be:4;404
and the 'cease of it oil is the dis-
ordered kidneys mug
ing througk the hack.
vain in the)** is
cry' for help, Go ••to
be the
ta..tt Warn- (I'
idifaeye
assistance,
ciet a be* of. 3)0(nt's E1141n0y P1110,
remedy for ibaskishie Said gat:
,kidneys.
4,3)nan'a" to‘re.. put up * an
oblong grey' box with oar trade
Marti a ‘,4)Sapie ,Lestoi on tho
•*Is • °
fuse aubstita* Get
lipulotira Oe.. *..Tessaik Ong
'lag into 'United Xingdflon Ports had
been cut from 55 inlilion to 20 inililon
tons a year. , Loss of •0111 .(11,643,000
glues tona between Sep her 1939. and '
44731141W 1944)- and.,the 4 ands of war _
manafacturing were the pain reasons.
In- nve, years,' Britain's ?arsenals' had
produced 8% militon Jflac11ne and'sub-
machine guns, "each. far Wore complex -
than the rifles -oft earlier Wars.
craft factories, whlch bu2It only forty-
one bat,'" bombers 44 ,1940,' the. year .
of the Battle of Britain, .were buildhlg'
'Wein- at the -rate of 5,800 a year In 1944.
(The'" inanufactuzeof ammunition
Winston Churchill rejoiced to note:
war/ up to all :drawable demanda.).
. Amid the sombre tables of vanishing
export trade, AtWindling foreign ." hat,
ane and pyramiding debts, were "
even darker. In ,five years thii
kingdom, with a poPulationlittle
3nore than. -onethirtt-ttatt.bt
had suffered BS inany casnaftiesrozn
its armed forces alone—as had. the ,
,
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