WHAT’S ON YOUR MIND?

HQ Highlights, Issue 7, 4 March 1944, Page 1

WHAT’S ON YOUR MIND?

Having srueceasfully completed two actions which included the surr-ounding’-and cutting off Qf a mere twenty odd thousand Japs, we are:now settling Beran to a period of inactivity* Naturally our thoughts•turn to that ever important question — 7 --Leave with '’Wine, women, and song. Already some’of us have’ conjured. up mental pictures of long happy days spent in the old and ancient sport of ‘pub-crawling* with it’s close associate ’elbow-exercising’ ♦ T ’HI£R. T? Beer flowing like water —unlimited quantities —what a thought! Stories to feed the "suckers” * (statistics . -state one is born every minute) are being prepared in anticipation of the times when cash runs low and thirsts run high. ’’SONG,of course will'be provided after a .few pots have been sunk. "WOMSN’hWe’ll see —we have reason to believe the Marines got in first. ’ . - Anyway it’s great to day-dream in this’ fashion, and it doesn’t cost a cent - boosts the old morale and all that sort of thing you know. But' wait; there’s' a fly in the ointment. • Who mentioned leave in the first ■ •place? A bit of wishful thinking does no harmjit’s a soldier’s privilege) but so far no one of any authority has mentioned a word about leave, And here’s an awful thought, don’t want to dispirit you, but what' if we do get leave and have to snend it in New Caledonia!! —The Editor.