For the other Ministries this should be said. In the last war control of food, light, heat and business generally, came upon us gradually and faultily. To avoid waste and confusion, as it was hoped, the control was clapped on full force at once. All, schemes therefore, we were told, bad been fully prepared (I am quoting in paraphrase "The Times") too little use or mone at all has been made of the great experienced organizations like Billinsgate, Smithfield and Mincing Lane, and dictatorial powers were put in the hands of numerous people of no practical experience. Arrangements will be revised and ironed out as time goes on, hut at present the public irritation is intense.
We know so little of what is going on in the war and there has been so much restriction of all normal activities, that the public has little else to talk about. At the Palladium a revue entitled "The Little Dog Laughed," beats the war drum with great vigour and effect. One great Success is the lunch-time coneens in ihe National Gallery, now stripped of its pictures, organize? by Miss Myra Hess the pianist. Entrance is only a stilling; the music is all chosen from the old favourites—Beethoven, Mozart, Schubert, Brahms (what an ironical, tragic circumstance it is that for all the greatest music one turns to y.
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