The one person who seems to have got any joy out of this miserable war is Princess Helen, now Queen Mother of Rumania, Since hor virtual exile from Rumania, her enforced divorce from King Ca*ol (which was. probably rear misfortune) and. worst of all liber separation from her beloved son she has boon living a dreary existence in a villa at Fiesole near Florence only pleasure in the year bein' the short summer holiday which Prine Michael was allowed to spend with her, generally In Switzerland She had & pension from Rumania and also from Greece. But money would have been in any ease the least of Wer cares, Nature seems to have to east her for a different rOle from that ado lay, for hein nut witty, besides heine flected good-looking. "wet sadness hav been her lot ever since her mar quietly serving tea and food. You Fomember Thackeray's Charlotte, who Went on cutting bread-anda lat is what the Charlottes of the salvation and Church Armies do, no matter how hot the corner in which they have pitched their caravan, The hospitals and all their crews, doctors, nurses, probationers, domes: ties and all, deserve a tribute. Hitler seems to have a special hatred for hospitals—natural enough in the use of -bombi citizens of London, if there are the means at hand of saving their lives?
ind several major London hospitals have been hit up to date. Yet in some superhuman way they keep Being. Coal cellars are cleared out X-ray and operating apparatus is lngerly carried down tottering stalreases to basements, foods, medicines even sunray treatment ate somehow contrived, AN St. Thomas's Hospital {wo bombs wiped out three wings Yet even the out-patient department as well as the care of ward patients ned Germ:
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ward inthe basement, well said the Germans did tat they dle! not do so much able as they do Now she has come buck in triumph When she arrived at Bucharest Last day coach drawn by six mille white horses and decorated—wit! flowers wae waiting to receive her fand Kino Michael looking his best it the uniform of a Rumanian general beastly Nazi of som rudimentary sense who under happier cone
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