One scene in all the upheaval of! evactition and: people hurriedly geting to distant countries vividly re-exis the play "Idiot's Delight" in Which a troupe of dancers is marooned ona mountain by the outbreak: fof war. Seventeen chorus girls of the last English theatrical company in Germany were at Leipzig two days before Hitler attacked Poland. the British consul's advice they stood Rot upon the order of their going. but they' had to change trains 19 times In Germany and Holland and again and again. were kept waiting for Hours while trains full of troops and uns went by. They had little cat and for the most part, when travelling, had to sit on their luggage ju the train corridors, The climas of hardship. was that although they were paid £6-a week in Germany, they were only allowed to bring' 16s 8d."(10 marks) each out of the country.
The enrolling of women for war work of all kinds goes on at a great peace. Anyone with special kknow-Tedge suchos women barristers and women architects is cure of a good job. "Languages pay remarkably well 'A girl who knows Polish can simply ame her own price.
'There is plenty of humour to be extracted fom. these anxious days. 'The lady who has got herself made head of our local reception committee might" be described" in' Solomon's prose as "a. fair woman which is without "discretion." "She flops in= cessantly and cannot leave anyone to their job without interfering. When the outbreak of war was declarea this morning she rapped the table and said, "Listen to me, all of you, This is important, If the air ald signal sounds you must all go. Out into the woods and lie down."
And this is a safely district to which several hundred mothers and children Have been sent. One particularly {Mleiont woman murmured "Don't be such a damned foo Bathed By Baronet The evacuation which went marvellously on Friday got bitched up by troop movements yesterday. In our village, only 20 miles from Water-Joo, we waited till pin. before any children appeared. An" apocryphal story went round that a train full fof mothers and children bound for us was reported two stations off at midday after which nothing more was ever heard of it. Tt appeared to have: run right off the map.
Some of the children are having new experiences. A cheerful and wealthy' baronet in our village has been planted with zine boys and a schoolmaster. The frst evening, -he announced that the boys would be bathed in rotation three at a time each night by himself and the master. Beginning with the three smallest he asked when they had last been bathed. They couldn't remember. They took the ordeal very well, but when each was presented with a towel to himself they were simply shattered," Never before had they seen such a thing. "In bed, it was! nearly five minutes before they could get to sleep for thinking of it, The Queen Inspects Queen Elizabeth enjoys a joke with officers of the Merchant Ser-Tice'
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