16 APRIL 1942, Page 4

The old lady who had been blitzed applied urgently to

relevant local authority for a bedstead. She was sympatheti received and assured that the committee would grant her one due course. "But I want it now," she protested. "I've got foul' to sleep on." "That's quite all right," came the emollient ast.or "The committee will make its grant retrospective." jots.