The Archive · 1940

Goods Not Confiscated

In the present case this ha: certainly been done, as an examination of the recent Order clearly shows. Under that Order, the neutral ship incurs no penalty. It is merely required to discharge goods which it has laden in a German port, or which are of German origin or ownership.

Even these goods are not confiscated; they are only to be detained to the end of the war. Moreover, works. (c) K x B. 16, Q—Rich, K Kil, N. Q x Pen K moves, 18. B counter-attack; otherwise Q—B?

KS-—eurtains. (d) Hoping for vould be more obstinate. keeping his P on the KKt P. (e) Looks decisive. but the fifteen-year-old Canuck has li al) taped out. (f) K—Q2. 24. Q x Peh K—B3, 25. N—Koch, winning the Q; or K—B, 24 R—Koch one mates shortly, (g) K y. P losing the Q by R—Kich. (h) K x P. 28 Kget K moves, 29. R ind the Q comes down on Q2— goods which became neutral property or which were ordered and paid for before a certain date, are to be released; goods which include not more than 25 per cent. of German labour or materials will be regarded as of neutral origin; and finally. it Has been announced that if any special case of hardship is not covered by these generous exceptions, special consideration shall be given to it.

Mr. Winston Churchill on taking over at the Admiralty at the outbreak of war, was handed an official pass which he promptly tore up with the remark: "My face is my fortune." It "was inconceivable that anyone could be unfamiliar with the features of the First Lord of the Admiralty.

Yet Mr. Churchill is one of many famous public men who occasionally, when going on a journey, endeavour to conceal their identity by travelling incognito. Recently he visited the industrial Northeast of England as Mr. Johnson, though his ruse failed to protect him from publicity.

I am reminded of the- occasion when he adopted another commonplace name for a similar purpose, but with no more success. Calling himself Mr. Brown, he toured New York just before the Prohibition law was · repealed. Guided by a Mr. Gallagher he arranged to visit a fashionable speak-easy. Both of them forgot the heavily armed police escort, which had orders to accompany the distinguished English politician wherever he went.

So formidable was the sizes of the escort that their arrival at the speak easy was mistaken for a raid, and the proprietor refused to open the door. Eventually, after explana-

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