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HUMOUR IN CRISIS LONDON, Aug. 30. The lighter side of the crisis is seen in London pictorial newspapers. Besides devoting pages to every phase of the grim war preparations—armed sentries patrolling the railway stations, marching troops, cheering crowds watching Ministers coming and going in Downing street, and splinterproof steel 'pillboxes erected outside Buckingham Palace —they also feature photographs of amusing incidents. One is of a smiling byide at Hampstead affixing a placard on the bonnet of her car outside the church, reading, ’’Not to-day. Hitler. This is my day.” A large print'ed, sign was posted on the notice-board of a church in South London, reading: “If your knees knock, kneel on them.” An itinerant artist set Hammersmith laughing with three charcoaled drawings on sandbags outside- an hotel, caricaturing Mr. Chamberlain, Herr Hitler, and also Mr: Chamberlain’s famous umbrella.
j Haili Sellassie, the dispossessed Emperor of Abyssania, emerges from obscurity by being photographed attending a conference of Bible students at i Swansea.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20040, 12 September 1939, Page 15
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163LIGHTER SIDE Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20040, 12 September 1939, Page 15
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