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Vol. 1 "PERMANENT PICTURE. RECORD OF THE SECOND “GREAT wan “Wo. 4 at (Alla a a Sie of THE whee TEMS RATE (AU ste ante, uae ae SEWN Ie The New B.E.F, Marches Away Sattings from My Wartime Diary jn, your evening paper ‘Out, 731" end the newt time you look ® Black Oui, 75." How quiclly the wights ato drawing in| Even so the hour for Blsek-Out ‘Seems to me to eto the side of eetboess. Pegs 4 “Dawn ot 9 ann" aries me os 4 gcd iden FF mah oho wonder what adn wy wih in sortime. Summertime It Ihe moet berefcest cue, aod Proibition in USIR’the mont unviss ind to heat today that Summertime hg, been extended unt November 1 Jone in December": sh, see tha only posible! 4 The efionts of a cetin Sunday popes to provide Sar-time "fn for ta reader sto desoatingly pate Tie gent batons fo clowns of ‘Were te not won, by bene als, bt by boing no atleast by yg Ta be terious 48 One good result ofthe blacsout jo tur aur eve to the ploey of the bowers." A benutfal ‘les night of stares a5 R.LCS. ot it, has been on Siow qultefrequenily of lc Bat wal sae te Conlin hn fon to en he rnc Sis tht sed ibe en el Sco fn expert wat not beliantly successful Perhaps the aul was in mysll-dear rates and notin the star chact Uae ceriadnense ghetto Somes ler stra LF aed leg opel ge make ae ch ticoaste fou just couldn't tah Scene orton te Cn Cot meter errs 4& During the two anda half seaet intensive fombing bombarding. and sniping of Madrid » vale end fie wat uneble t y ot Dublishing. bat be opened tro obs fd did enotmous burners, His publish ing office woe, fines os Ki Sand for two and a hall se Franco's men’ could ‘tol sdvance that distance! foddenlyqusteed down Few; but tn eday of twa, shot of ibe Wl the’ lant revived aun, and the evening inne ‘which, fad "been suspended, were re Somed whh most encaurging rs He get va tied oth Wiles ese er frequently itening to cach browdeaet from oon to eidnght fed hesing 9 depresing repetton of the not very informative bulletins from the ‘Minsty of Information. [row pntent pil wil the noen nd ine clock broaasta «end ile eneugh see, konts from ci. “Ta. hones snd steady dated sana oh ed ea he actin uae ae Tere, an an eter and eset nail an re wader atts aoeaels Sia unig aonbine ett uel ifsc eng apne sand the false, exten let me add he Wat Uuesred BY THE EDITOR “TO. MAKE QUITE SURE tat every feader gets hie copy of “The W: Iilstrated "equity each week nde ane thing te Delp. "Wood ‘pulp, from” which, made, comes’ ftom overseas. ingiag 3 may, fr valable eargo space may frst 'for more urgent things, auch 5 “in order fo avald any wastage of wnagents ; 4 vu papee is r Arelordered than are actualy’ sold thes i hela dead Tis tthe newsagent Sn ener you will make guile sure of our eopy, and will'grealy help your hhewsaget. tentition ot gnc and then cae the burs ae, the Censor tela ur all re mnt not do and then lets us uae, out owen fodgemot ia breaking the impracticable reultions he has Sotned for ut 46 The proper ide ie that every editor should be [is oven sigrous censor and sok to avoid the prin ing of anything that could coorevably help the pens, “That's what [did throushout al the yeare tf the Great War, nd em endeavour ng to de again day. 3" War fiters Clipe Show Bir" es heading i New Yark theatrical weedy, One can et least fuessat the meaing ofthe jargon. ook forward to another fort Irom the tame source now that Tepan ard Russia hate aheken hans over Man- alto. sad the ly 8 fu eastern Poland? That wil sare make Wat Hiters Sale al Noo York much more iter, 4 When I heard the news om the noon broadest hat Une Red Army had invaded Polond to bring “ila 14 dene, only Va tke te knew (tober i, 1030 to that mach-tortured and 1 sex to eb and you ete the subject sagusited the in egrnmon despite the sustained ying of Hitler to ‘the contrary) janine hands ogunat the democracies! Wea funny weil “Russia's eniely sla intrest in “pacilyng” Pola wil add to the length of the war. The Soviat Bosse aro00 heen on, resing te let provinces of the ‘Teast Prope the Nez on Pesfng tcc crn yo hve ed the Pronian Tmperait Ab The ce 1d shdbere’ig, thd St, Toads disrict are many and reassuring. A few yards from my fat i one for seven hundred pereons in 2 rrificent.seven-sorey. building, which has just reconly. been completed and ie el une tenented. "Nothing but a direct hit would disturb thore sheltering in its ‘concreie depths 2,00 the other hand, the cellas of my own fuilding’ were condemned) monthe ago by the Westminder nrveyor of wnnile (or ghee ial nice td the paleainengg at ‘whatever hasbeen done to. Smprove them 2 Thaler and if the lege seer or the water mata brat ove by were to he cracked, the cellars would be leaded out before you ve time toy "von Ribbenton ®t 4 Talking about sewers, ther’ going to he iat of teouble im hitherta tranquil wlosea whose primitive sanitation ealapees under tho le fee i ok ace the other day "7 SME Ne #4 Tm the omar of tno chacmng old house fo a Downland village w! there is hb, general Aranage An seinary comitserven both, Rouse, bts about. doren evacuees (horid word Hive ‘ben’ thre "upon the unfortunste tenon the iaddenly icresed tai on the esp wil ‘rave cncesve andthe sata owt of ting vil cat up mont of the thsurdly inadequate llwatce whic the fone eve fo erence and expense to which they ate 10 Tnconertlycondermed 1 sead todey, about o " Pinee of Novels” 2° "King of Story-Tellers” and." The Greatest Living, Novel all in two. pares of, the seme papet! ‘To be qute fone, these phrases made tne fainly sick and made me sigh for the eae departed days of teary ics: But in the days of ae sve ent Tt therm pas. They mean solitdeia the long i Euroa Sd” Te feces ot ieee dt Fin a oat Papas eure See eae ene Soran ere Beco Ghee Gael 4 An esteemed trend ol mine ie the ing publics «tly. Heisa whole: hearted admirer of all things Engng ‘And yet under stress of propagands ie journals ‘ae. sometimes dibrared ~ rastyanti-Eoglisheanicature. Look atthe fcample T hive clipped wet here [e | ot fanny, merely plsphemous. And | Repel ele Mee peteeiel eereaell ges ae salves be Aen Oclober Th, 1999, The Wer Maseatad 7 Vol, 1 A Permanent Picture Record of the Second Great War No, 4

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