POSTSCRIPTS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 67, 16 September 1943, Page 4

POSTSCRIPTS

Chronicle and Comment

BY PERCY FLAGE

"Lord Haw-Haw": "There, are two guarantees, for me sufficient: the greatness of Adolf Hitler, and the Greater Glory of the Almighty God. * * * "There is no Giraud or de Gaulle army," said General Giraud to British reporters last month. "There is only one army—the French army. * * * Editor Michael Foot (London "Evening Standard"): "If Wendell Willkie should ever enter the White House he has decided at least not to clamber in through the back window." * * *, AFTER THE.WAR. Japan has been having a grand rubber spree, building even ships of it, and now cheers up Berlin with word that 1,000,000 tons of stockpile will be waiting for it—after the war, writes the 'Frisco "Chronicle." The Germans will need it to build mats to dance on. If Japan's loot of Malaya does not provide mats thick enough, the U.S. might contribute some. Our synthetic plants will be going full blast at the end of next year. * DENTAL* CORPS. It was a field-marshal's toothache in the 1914-18 war that led to a properly-equipped dental corps being organised in the British Army. That is the story, as told by the Director of Dental Services in the Canadian Army. In the last war there were three dentists only attached to each division, about one to each 6000 men. One day Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig got toothache and asked for a dentist. "But you know, sir," he was told, "that the Army has few dentists." "I don't care how many dentists we've got. I want some relief. Get me a dentist/ Haig said. Four dentists were rourided up and the Field-Marshal had his treatment. That was the start of the British Dental Corps. « » * PARLIAMENT HISTORY. Consider the progress, as it is called, of parliamentary >istory. Every parliament begins well and ends badly. Ai new parliament is always animated to a certain extent by generous enthusiasm, and inspired by that enthusiasm it generally does a certain amount of good work. But the apathy and ineptitude of the members soon begin to produce their effect, and the parliament degenerates until it is dissolved amidst universal condemnation,- if not contempt. Then a new parliament is elected and runs a similar course. Thus are forged one by one the links in the chain of parliamentary evolu--W.B. # * ♦ NAVAL CADET. Hero of tender age, Scarce had you turned a page Of the fair Book of Life, ere it was ended: As bud by autumn nipped, Closed youth's sweet manuscript, Dust once again to dust descended. For all your tender years, Amidst your mother's tears Still must there be one glowing thought of pride for her, And those less fortunate Must envy you your fate So to have served your Land and to, have died for her. —NOEL M. CORBETT. * * *

INFORMATION.

In reply to "Arc Light"— Dorothy Thompson, the American, commentator, wrote of Hitler thus: He is five feet ten inches tall. . . . He is hollow-chested, slightly round-should-ered, stands badly, has—or had-—a protuberant. . . . He has nervous, vulgar hands. His .complexion is sallow, his skin is thin, and his face pulls down to a suggestion of jowls about the long chin. . . . His hair is soft, fine, and. lank, and a very dark brown. . . . His mouth is his worst feature. It is almost lipless, and the teeth turn slightly inward. . . . His only remarkable feature are his eyes. They are unforgettable. They are not bright blue . . . they are a blue-grey.