Close Up (Jul-Nov 1927)

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Do not miss th CIVILIANS by Bryher "What part have civilians in war ?" It is this questicn asked ty the author that rcakts c realise here is not a searchlight merel}-, but an cx3--aceteline flame burning to the veT\ heart Wartime England. "So war began withcheering and ended with drunkenness. What about Berlin ? What tlie defeated ? What for all of to-morrow ? There was nothing to do for those not drunl-: \ to go to bed. As they had gone to bed on August the Fourth. There was a lot of ruin in 1 tween. Where did the old code lead ? Be a good wife, be a good mother, be a good citizen 1 to this — drunken men cheering in a war, drunken women cheering out a war. Isobcdy carii nobody responsible. People dying, even civilians dj'ing". Or again : "Your King and Country Need You, screamed the posters. Well they were learning n what king and countrj' was. "You bloody bastard,. .' ' the sergeant began, and the cane descer ed again, full between a horse's ears. The rest of the sentence was lest in the jingling cf the rei Children in prams sat and watched "the soldiers"... "It's a shame," scmecne in the cro^ yelled... "Not so good for recruiting to do that in the open," an cfficer was saying. ... T recruits galloped along the Row. On hoardings black robed mothers with white hair prodc their sons toward baj'onets." This is a vivid and remorseless book of the War, unique in every wa}'. A great book. Fri 7 shillings and sixpence. als( By E. L. Black WHY DO THEY LIKE IT Other be FKOM ANY OF THE CLOSE UP AGENTS OR DIRECT FROM POOL RIANT CHATEAU TERRITET SUISSE