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In Search of Fame
And Family
In the Argentine
THE ENCHANTED LIFE
BY Mary Main. (Harcourt, Brace
& Co.; $3.)
Reviewed by
THERESA CARMODY

In the l800s a young Englishman
could go to the Argentine and make
a name and fortune for himself
Luke Munroe with his wife and
three sons took the journey, and
'sThe Enchanted Life" is its chroni-
Gle. The sons marry and establish
their own families, and though the
Munroes, remain a clan with their
yearly gatherings there Is an in
evitable cleavage between the Latin
and the English branches.
The story revolves mainly around
the three granddaughters Of the
English Munroes, Bonita, Christine
and Caroline, three conflicting per-
sonalities. Christine wants wealth
place and comforts. and she mar
.ries the man who can give them to
her. Bonita, more adventurous
spends the war years in England
is caught up in its emotional stress
and return home after disastrous
affair with an RAF pilot.
Caroline is really the problem
child, however, and she is the prin-
cipal figure of the story. A lonely,
painfully shy creature, she lives in
world of her own and grows up
struggling to adjust to reality. 1t
seems doubtful that she will make
it, but marriage gives her some de-
gree of self-confidence, though it,
too, brings its special Illustrations.
In the person Of Caroline the au-
thor has dug most deeply into per-
sonality. that of a gentle, poetic in
troyert who is as baf1ling to herself
as to those near her.
This latest novel by Mary Main
is written effortlessly by a woman
who knows intimately her people
and her scene, which is understand
able in view of the fact that Mrs.
Main was born and reared in Ar
gentina. the daughter of English
parents.
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Reviewed by
COURTENAY PLASKITT.

Reviewed by
COURTENAY PLASKITT.
Mr.. Partridge recreates the strug-
giles Of building the Croton aque-
duct and presents good picture of
New York City about q hundred
years ago, but he falls short of OBJ
tanning much interest from his
reader.
David Wakeman, as the engineer
Of the aqueduct, suffers many dis
appointments and hardships and
these make the chief. substance of
the book. Araminta and Jepsie In
the feminine leads are unconvinc-
ing.
Many famous names are brought
into the story-James Fenimore
Cooper. Horace Greeley, Washing
ton Irving-but they do not visit
these pages with ease.
Mr.. Partridge presents much in
the way Of historic fact. It is toe
bad that more dynamic narrative
could not have supported it.
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ne LoLO hI oI Z MT AM
BY Burgess Johnson. (Bobbs Mer-
rill;; $2.50.J
Reviewed by
IRVING LASH.
y Lower level cussing, consisting
largely of pungent four-letter OBJ
scenities, snatched at random and
flung without aim, differs little to-
day from the primitive age when
man, an ornery cuss, blew off steam
by pounding his chest and bowling
all the harsh offensive noises his
tongue, teeth and lips could form.
This sort Of thing, reports the
scholarly author, Is merely q symp-
tom of speech disease ''' no more
effective than the hiccups and much
EPless entertaining" and Is deplorable
when such a wealth of colorful,
high-voltage language is available to
the person who really has occasion
to resort to invective.
Just as Henry Mencken is lifting
the stone from every conceivable
arrangement of vowels and conso-
nants in the American language at
large, so Is DR.. Johnson, a college
professor no less, exploring the
origin and development of the finer,
more fiowery phrases of profanity
the kind that ripple along to Gre
scendo when handled by an expert.
A mule skinner is apt to regard
this as q lot Of damn foolishness.
But the fellow who aspires to vent
his spleen in jet-propelled, yet
Onteel, manner can take lesson hre.
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Carr Novel Has
An Entirely New
Surprise Waiting

THE ROOM BEYOND
BY Robert Spencer Carr. fAp-
pleton -Century-CrottS, Inc; 49,
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tfatlons viii show
you how 10 make any
piece Of furniture look
like new-vhsther it's
4 simple end table =
an upholstered sofa
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Feminine Beauty
And BIockmoiI
In London Town

MISTRESS GLORY
BY Susan Morley. (Dial; s3J
Reviewed by
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The Struggle Behind
New York City's
Water Supply

BY Bellamy Partridge. (Cro,Dell,
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Four-Letter Words
Snotched at Random
FIunq Without Aim

THE LOST ART OF PROFANITY
BY Burgess Johnson. (Bobbs Mer-
! rill:. S2.5OJ
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Skeleton in the
(Wnam Morrow double his
Co.; $500
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Nothing Shame
About ThisNew
BromfieId Book

THE WILD COUNTRY
BY Louis Bromfield. Harper &
Bros, S2.75J
Reviewed by
HENRY LYON.
Evening star., 1948-12-21

"You GOTTA STAY HAPPY" a Uni
yersal-International release. Rampant
Tunberg, directed by II. c. Potter, adapted
from the story by Robert Carson. At the
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Hollywood:
Tall ROsalind.
Picks Co.Stars
By Tape.Line
By SheiIoh Grohom

Gene Terney returns here on
February / and her first movie fol-
lowing her arrival will be on q loan.
out to Paramount for the weirdly
titled II Married a Dead Man."
Rosalind Russell has q date to
measure Glenn Ford and, II he is
tall enough for the very tall Roz,
Glenn will be her next husband
in the picture titled MY Next Hus-
band" "Or," says Roz's real hubby,
Fred Brisson, do you think Glenn's
face is too babyish looking?"
Bob Hope and Bing Crosby may
never make another picture to-
gether. That includes their very
successful road" movies. TITS too
expensive to have Bob and Bing in
the same picture" was told by a
producer at Paramount. "The bud
get would leave no profit for the
studio"
Marueen O'Hara gives her deci-
sion this week about whether she
feels well enough to star on Broad.
way for Martin Gosch in Bridget" {"
Tom brakes engagement to
Gloria Hayel-"is' not completely
o1," says Tom, "but 1t isn't as def
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does not get them safely away
from the gags on which Potter
spins his picture. These include the
trained chimpanzee travelling by air,
the southern couple on their honey
moon, the escaping embezzler, and
when the plane Is forced down, an
Oklahoma farm home whose owners
have enough children to stock two
orphanages.
Stewart and Miss Fontaine are
sufficiently substantial at their busi-
ness to get few recognizably hon.
est moments into the frivolous es-
sence Of you Gotta Stay Happy"
On the whole, his is the better
job. probably because it is the
easier. OF the two principal roles,
his is the more serious one of rep
resenting an old war pilot getting
into the business Of being a sue
cessful air freight line operator.
Men of this type have little time
for poor little rich girls. They can
look reasonably solid in giving the
latter the brushof1, and Stewart
does.
Miss Fontaine's f1ibberty-gibbet is
another acting problem altogether.
In the first place, there have been
so many cinema heroines just like
her that the Russians probably
think no other type exists in this
country. Naturally, there Is little
Miss Fontaine can do to freshen up
this tired character. She does the
best she can, which Is better than
most actresses can do, but it still
is not enough.
The gayety of you Gotta Stay
Happy" is pretty forced, and un-
likely to prove contagious unless
you are feeling completely nonsen-
sical yourself.
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Furies." from a story by Niven
Busch, as well as in "Thelma Jor.
dan" Couldn't happen to a bette,
actor
Cary Grant and Ann Sheridan
have run into more bad weather ir
Germany and now they will no.
finish II Was a Male War Bride
until the end of February.
Marie Wilson is dieting to make
sure Of the role of Irma in Hal
Wallis my Friend Irma." I un-
derstand Hal Is now reshaping the
script to throw most Of 1t to those
comedy boys, Dean Martin and
Jerry Lewis. It's their motion pic
ture debut and they want to start
off with a bang.
Dorothy Kristen is talking q deal
with Gene Mann Of the Greek The
ater here, to star for him next
summer in New Moon"
Barbara Ann Scott, Canadian ice
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The latter is almost sheer mimi
cry of the sort of thing Jean Arthur
used to do, even down to such de-
tail as Miss Fontaine talking occa-
sionally through what seems small
mouthful of emeralds. Some remi-
niscent notes of this type are help
full to a picture, but in the case of
You Gotta Stay Happy" 1t is al
most sure to leave everyone think
ing Miss Arthur got there first.
Robert Carson's popular magazine
serial about capricious heiress and
a deadly serious young air freight
executive sets the frame of the
Palaces romantic fable. Consider
ing its basic intimacy, Carson's
story is rather rangy. It starts on
Park avenue, stops off in Chicago
and at an Oklahoma farmhouse,
and ends up in a Burbank, Cal. air
port shack.
All this represents good. solid
American geography, than which no
geography is happier, but in the
process of being retouched by Holly
wood 1t loses most of its sponta-
neous charm. Everyone in the huge
area Just becomes another standard
movie performer. giving his all to
the cliche of the moment.
Miss Fontaine and Stewart do not
succumb easily to this sort of thing,
but it gets them ultimately in al
most every sequence of You Gotta
Stay Happy"
Sometimes, they look as if they
were about to snap: How?
H. c. Potter, who just polished
Maxwell Anderson's play to Broad
way hit proportions, directed You
Gotta Stay Happy" His approach
to it is that of man suspicious of
the quality of his material who de-
cides to do what he can about
extending the quantity.
This is evident in the fact that
for the first 40 minutes. the comedy
remains firmly fixed In q couple Of
bedrooms. During this interval, the
principals are put through the STAN
dard routine of this situation, the
mans effort to get sleep on divan
in the living room while the girl
keeps borrowing his sleeping tablets
so she can spend comfortable as
well as respectable night in the
adjoining boudoir.
This situation has been in more
farces than a Census Bureau could
count, but it is used as a spring.
board for the subsequent action of
"You Gotta Stay Happy"
Once the hero and heroine get
under way. they hop his airplane
bound for the West Coast. Even this
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mite as it was" I asked him who
gets custody Of the beautiful dia-
mond engagement ring. Gloria
still has it," says Tom.
Frank Sinatra receives 5000 q
night for four nights at the Beach
comber in Miami, which Frank
sandwiches in between Christmas
and the new year. We should all
get a $4,000. sandwich like that!
Robert Mitchum and his Dorothy
will emerge from their seclusion to
give a party for so friends on New
Years eve.
Lloyd Nolan spent the week end
entertaining vets at the Long Beach
Naval Hospital. It would be nice
II more stars would do likewise.
Rita johnson looks Just like she
used to before her accident, but her
business manager tells me it will
still be another six months before
she can work in pictures. Her agent
Is more optimistic. saying, some
time after the first of the year"
I guess it's up to Rita's doctor to
decide. Meanwhile. she is dating
some Of her old boy friends-espe-
cially Mike McCausland.
Barbara Stanwyck gets a repeat
performance from Wendell Corey
who Is now teamed with her in "The
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alsER.BETHEsDA ~. y, ~,:; t.. Ave.
VICTOR MATURE, RICHARD coNTE In
"CRY OF THE CITY"
At LILO. AIS. $50. 7:25. 9:35 PM.
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Where and When
Current Theoter Attractions
and Time of Showing

Observation-Disclosures of Chris
topher Blake; l:30, $3.50, 5:35, 1885
and 9:45 pm.
Capitol-"The Countess of Monte
Cristo"; II am, 1855, 4:35, tbs and
$50 pm: Stage shows: 1:05, 3:45,
6:25 and 9:05 pm.
CoIumbia-"The Three Musket-
eers"; 1880 am, 2, Abs, 7:10 and
9;45 pm.
Dupont-"The Room Upstairs: l.,
2::35. 4:25, Sis, 8 and s:55 pm.
Hippodrome-"spy in Black; .,
$40 and 8:15 pm.
Keith't"Last Days Of Pompei";;
10 am, 1:10, 4:25, 7:35 and 1880
pm.
Litte-"Hamlet":; 7:so and $50
pm.
Observation-Disclosures; 11:35
am, $40, $40, TAO and 9:45 pm.
National-"Red Shoes; 2:30 and
$3.50 pm.
PaIace-"You Gotta Stay Happy;
10:45 am, 1855, 3:05, 5:15, 7:25
and 9:40 pm.
Playhouse - Hamlet; 2:30 and
$50 pm.
Pix-"Gangs of Chicago; 2:10,
ABS, 7 and 900 pm.
Trans-Lux - News and shorts.
Continuous from 1918 am.
Warner-"Decision of Christopher
Blake; HAS am, 1:45, $50, 5:55,
1855 and 10 pm.
Evening star., 1948-12-21
Triangle Club Show
Is a Gay Addition
To Musical List
By Horry Macarthur

Sons of Old Nassau along the
route Of this years annual Triangle
Club musical, "All in Favor" can
be Of good cheer. They will find
that this seasons addition to the
long line Of student shows Is, In
addition to being an occasion for
Princeton reunion wherever it
pauses, a corking entertainment.
"All in Favor" turned out, at the
launching Of its road tour last
night in Lisner Auditorium, to be
fast, funny, melodic and zestfully
played.
The spectacle of young men get
ting themselves up as chorus girls
often proves more appealing to those
who know them than to more dis
interested bystanders. The Triangle
members engaged here, however,
have attained something consider
ably beyond an entertainment for
old grads and friends of old grads.
This chorus line of Princeton pref
ties is q masterpiece of atrocious
char enthusiastically purveyed.
The boys run through, with more
agility than grace, a whole string
Of varied assaults upon the art of
the dance, probably reaching q high
point in q can-can that Is, In its
own way, completely as spectacular
q moment as the can-can provided
when the Ballet Russo discovered
1t.
"All In Favor" has q plot. It is
concerned with the grating Mayor
Of Elmblight, Kansas, who wants
to stay in office, and an upright
widow. who wants to replace him
with honest government. Written
by Edward H. Tuck, Francis s.
Hartley, jr., Kennedy williams and
Thomas H. Middleton, jr., the book
boasts lot of comedy, ranging from
old vaudeville to new contemporary
CT want you to get out and vote
tomorrow; you know what happens
when YOU don't get out and vote.")
The plot, however, and fairly
enough, is not much more than an
excuse for introducing singing,
dancing, comedy sketches and
minstrel show. Almost all of these
are introduced on q wave of lusty
e n siasm. Individual con-
that stand out include1
those of Mr.. Hartley, as q gusty
speakeasy proprietress; Vincent r.
Smith, jr., as the good government
Mr.. Middleton, as the Wild
ows daughter; Robert G. Aber-
nathy, as the young Princetonian
enswooned by her, and Harry E.
Yerkes, as the mayor.
Musically, "All in Favor" has
been made pleasant to the ear by
Walter Clemons, w. Hamlin Neely,
jr.; Chalmers r. Callahan, Mr..
and Mr.. Tuck. Moving
the Moon" (Mr. Nicely and Mr..
Tuck) sounds like a ballad you
might be hearing more of. Charles
E. Fehon's settings are artful, good
humored and attractive. The whole
thing has been whipped together
and given Q professional polish by
Ted Fetter and Buddy Lewis,
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Yanks Abroad
BY the Assoeiotsd Press

HOLLYWOOD.
Danny Kaye, back from five days
in Rome, told fellow workers on the
Happy Times" set: "The Excelsior
Hotel was so full of Americans that
if a stray italian wandered into the
lobby he was looked upon as q for
eigner."
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;kating champ now turned profess
ional. Is saying mo" to all movie
ffers, as of now. I gather that
then the price reaches something
like 100000 the lady will say Eyes" "
Peggy Ryan is lending her very
small son to Donald O'Connor for
his picture, Baby Makes Three, q"
a thank-you to Don for lending
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Palace Opens Yuletide Farce
With FOntaine and Stewart
By Joy Cormody

waiting for its Christmas Of
ferng today joan Fonane and James Stewart
Gotta Happy Naturally
of Miss Fontane and Stewart who always at
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THE EVENING STAR Washington, D. c. "A-23
Il.

her his wife, Gwenn O'Connor, for
Peggy's picture, Shamrock Hill"
Did you get all that straight?
(Released by North American Newspaper
Alliance.)
Evening star., 1948-04-11
Political Stock Has
Sogged Fast in
Six Months
By Gould Lincoln

Harry S. Truman, the 32d Presi-
dent, of the United States, six
months ago was virtually the un-
disputed candidate for the Demo-
cratic presidential nomination of
1913. Today his right to the nomi-
nation to succeed himself has been
harshly challenged.
The Democrats of the solid
South" have banded together to
deny him the nomination-and If
he should win-to deny him election.
Alarmed over the apparent low ebh
of Mr.. Truman's political fortunes,
some of the bosses of big city Demo-
cratic machines and Democrats in
the great agricultural States of the
Midwest, also are shooting at the
man in the White House.
Evening star., 1948-04-11
By Robert N. Cool

The recent offer to return Trieste proposed by
United States Britain and April Italian
elections has ceneed attention the prewar
colonies
Ihese African domains which his grandose
creams OF empire being administered
o the terms OF the Italian treaty the Big
settle the future of the colonies before September goes
before the United Nations General Assembly,
Considerable sentiment
Italy at least placing ya usehp
promised the Arabs of
returned to italian rule That
when Rommes Africa threaten
ing Alexandria.
Now with the Arab League the Palestine
appears disposed to honor its pledge to the full.
Russia Can Afford to Be Generous
Unlike Trieste the
the easwest struggle which
The Soviet Union already is favong
ship of Libya "for reasonable period"
Long rebufed in its postwar
strategic Lbyan Russia afford point
much the western had little by surprise
Of Trieste
Currently the Big -Four pondering
the question The western particularly
United States sensitive to
united independent Lbya least Egyptian truseehip
France like Russia willing Italy
colonial under United Nations auspices
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Italy Wants Her A frican Colonies Back

italian naturally colonies argu
that they obtained legimately" long
and that emigration outlet needed Italy
people 'r'
The colonies themselves particularly
italian Somaiand Arcas
inhabited square
miles Eritrea hes jumping place for Mussoini
Ethiopia in 1886 has only 86O0 1874 miles, while
Lbyathe largest colonycovers $4,000 square miles
colonists.
y. S. Air Force Reopenng Wartime Field
Iay II Dodecanese Islands
ed to Greece under the terms Of the treaty
Though Lbya comprising the Italian provinces Trpoh
tana and Cyrenaica has little intrinsic importance has gained
strategic in the wake growing world rivalries
The United States Air its wartime aeld
Meaha Tpo Dahran Arabia,
bombers could deep
Union
Arab nationaism has forced Britain troops
traditional bases the Eastern Mediterranean mainland But
Cyprus becoming British stronghold
Both Cyprus and Malta Btains Central Mediterranean base
close to Lbya and they form pattern flank
Though the jewel of Mussolns African empire Ethiopia
turned independence after being liberated by British during
invited the international admin
raon of Tange March Britain and France asked Italy
participate governing opposite
Gibraltar.
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Misfortune Dissipotes Trunnons Leqocy
Election Now Seems
Unlikely if Not
impossible

recalcitrant Russians. The Wallace
speech, which Mr.. Wallace insisted
Mr.. Truman had okayed, finally
brought the Secretary of Com
merce's custer from the cabinet.
Incidentally, it has made it in
creasingly difficult to deal with the
Russians.
The final contribution made by
Mr.. Wallace to the predicament in
which the President now finds him.
self is the drive for new political
party with Mr.. Wallace as its presi-
Dental candidate. Born of hate,
Wallace's candidacy has made Mr..
Trumans election improbable il not
impossible. It started a movement
last winter among some Democrats
to find another presidential candi-
date Mr.. Wallace's bid for the Negro
vote in Northern and Western in
dustrial centers is believed to have
had much to do with President
Truman's drastic demand upon
Congress for his civil rights pro-
gram, a program that has driven
Southern Democrats into a. frenzy.
Faced With Vital Questions
In the three years since Mr.. Tru-
man became Presidents he has been
faced with questions of tremendous
Importance. 1t was his decision that
sent atomic bombs hurtling down on
Hiroshima and Nagasaki, bringing
the war with Japan to an end many
months earlier than had been
thought possible-and saving prob
ably thousands of American lives.
He took leading part-as Presi-
dent of the United States-in the
formation of the United Nations,
committing this country to a policy
of organized international co-opera-
ton. He forced the abandonment
of railroad strike by threatening
to draft the workers into the armed
forces. He halted John L. Lewis,
president of the United Mine Work
ers, in his tracks by firmly calling
for an injunction to end a coal
strike in the winter of 1857. He
adopted the Roosevelt New Deal pro-
gram of social legislation-and add
ed to it. He vetoed the Taft Hartley
Labor Act and three times he vetoed
Republican bills to reduce income
taxes. His last veto, of course, was
overriden.
These acts Of Mr.. Truman have
brought him acclaim and oppro-
brium. The net result has been to
lose him the support of both radi-
Gals and conservatives. In 1916, SO
low was Mr.. Truman in the regard
of Democrats, that he was kept out
of the congressional campaign
which incidentally went heavily
against the Democrats. But after
the Republican Congress had taken
(See LINCOLN, Page Cay
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ances from the Roosevelt admin
istration was Henry A. Wallace,
Secretary of Commerce. 1t was
most unfortunate inheritance. Mr.
Wallace had been Vice President
and had ardently desired to be
President. His ambition had been
thwarted by Mr.. Truman. His ad-
vice to Mr.. Truman was that wages
could be increased, now that war
was over, without increasing prices.
Mr.. Truman echoed this belief. He
lost what support he had had from
conservatives. Industrial disturb
ances played their full part in de-
laying the transition from war to
peace economy and recovery. Mr..
Truman fought to retain price con-
trols-whose end was demanded by
a people who were tired of being
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controlled. The controls were end
ed and prices mounted. This was
Mr.. Wallace's first contribution to
the political undoing of Mr.. Tru-
man.
Mr.. Wallace's second contribu-
ton came when he undertook to
formulate a different foreign policy
although he was in no way con-
nected with international political
affairs. He made a speech in New
York-supposed to be the opening
of the 1916 campaign for the re-
election of a Democratic Congress.
Mr.. Wallace's new policy was one
of Soviet Russian appeasement. 1t
nearly brought about the resigna-
ton of Secretary of State Byrnes-
in Europe at the time struggling TO
get some firm agreements with the
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volunteer Carabinieri, many serve
shorter terms. Italy calls up about
10000 every four months.
SWITzERLAND--All able-bodied
men from 90 to 50 are required to
serve an average of 20 days a year.
From 80 to 48 they do go days. Dur
ing the war Switzerland modified
more than 100000 men, but has
dispensed now with standing army
and depends entirely on its civilian
soldier" system. Military reserves
are required to keep up rife prac-
tice.
Swedes Bracket 20.47
SWEDEN-A universal military
training law applies to all physically
fit men from 20 to Al. The training
period at 20 is Is months, but those
inducted last year got only 8. The
army is made up of $4,000 of the
20-year-olds, 10000 regulars, $3.50
omcefS ana 2,l10 noncOrnS. sweden
also has a voluntary home guard
whose strength is secret.
NORWAY-All fit men between
20 and As are subject to military
training in peacetime. In wartime
the range is 18 to IS. The COM
pulsory one year of service takes
place when a man is 81, and 10000
are now on duty. Norway is reor-
ganizing its home guard from the
forces which opposed the Germans
during the war. No figures on its
size have been made public.
DENMARK-Men may be con-
scripted at 81 for a year of service.
The classes of 1925 and 1926 are on
duty now. There has been no recent