Selwyn House School - Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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Sl-,LWYN HOl'Slz SCHOOI. NIAG.-XZINIQ The The The The The The The The The The The The The The The The The The The and C P Y P I-1 C P Y P Y ln W , C IJ Y li ln C F TE .: Shall I risk five hundred francs at Hrst F illitnentpmne. The time: .-Xugust Ind., WSU. The place: The Casino at Monte Carlo. IJI'1lllIlllf.f !Jt'I'.l'0I1llt' f ,-X croupier. An exiled prince. I-X young lady. An elderly gentleman. lThe scene opens as the Croupier is about to spez1k.l .: lfaites vos jeux. I.es jeux sont faits... Rien ne va plus I ' I have been playing for two hours without success. .I..: money back. .: I am not interested in little sumsg I need a fortune. .G.: Surely you do not expect to 'beat the bank '? .: So, noir, pair. Have you tried odd or even F You don't win much, but you can vun yo r - There I go again with a loss. I have only one thousand francs left ii Have you ever had someone tell you of 21 lucky number ? .L.. Oh, yes, years ago. Some gypsy in my should be. .I..: Why not fry betting on that number F it .: l have stopped believing in such things. ' .L.: .lust the same, I would try, ifI were you. .: lfaites vos -ieux... .I n .L.: I would stake seven hundred. Li .. n . .: Go ahead, take the young la1dy's advice. right I .: Rien ne va plus . ..... .. Yingt-et-un . . . Rouge et impair .G.: Your highness, I am happy for you I The curtain falls as the exiled prince and the young lady leave the membering number twenty-one I A. T., If T331 country told me that tvsentx one Good-bye, fortune! Here you go on number twenty-one, and may you y va Casino h zppw UVFH

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FOR THE SCHOOL YEAR 1940-1941 .ifriendfr Uoife f znnjie tofrieizdfr ear. To .fongf like there Lore alone .fetx the lee-v: 'Tix tha: the leaves of the re5pon,vi:'e free Choir the ytill, tangent n11zr1nm'.v ofthe deic, Re-greelin g the warm earth-heart whenee they drew, .1 .ferret bonrdon - lrnlv, not ,vo heard .15 apperfeieed- the Il7'6lllII-flIOI!g'hl.V of a bird, .iwakening in the woodland rill-born mirl, I1'hen drowxing starr to da-zen-.fhowerf whisper Hix! l The year in Jplendom' dier its phcenix-death, lHow pare itx shroud if .fhriz-en by 1l'inter',v breath l l. Still roinef the .vong of-faith lo all who hear A .1 song of promife - pledgingfnll and elear That Love, like Natare'J brave perennial plant, Knowx times of wire repoxal, and ,vhall want .Vo wealth offoliage, or bloom, orfruit llfhen the new .ran Shall elarion gloriously, .lwahel Lise, love and -work again, .J New Year if begun. C. T. A., COct0ber, 19-1-OD Lyric: a song, reflecting the personal thoughts and feelings of the writer. lDictionary 9. R. Browning, to Benson. YVhich class of my poems do you like best, Archbishop ? Ed. Cantuar. Your lyrics. R. B. lboundingl. Lyrics! I've got deskfuls of them l Lyric: Melodic verbiage 8: vaporous meaning. lC.T..-LJ Ulu a hinlin. How ran .meh .rounds eonzefroin a pieee of wood llfith four .vtringr .rtretehed aerors a wooden bridge? How fan .rome hor-.re-hair, lightened to a bow, Bring melodies and theinerforth to the ear? .ind 'vet thir mart ha ve been a free that .ftood .ilnong .fo man-v other: on a ridge: .ind some bold woodrznan, eliznbingfronz below, Whistling as brave a tune as now I hear, Lyred his axe, and felled it to the ground. Lind in that death a lozfelier lie waxfound. J. S. C., Form 6. l?-ll

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FOR THE SCHOOL YEAR 1940- 19-fl Igritaiifs Svetret Serbia. Today, when our lafmpire is fighting for its life, how many of us give thought to the men who are working in the far corners of the Farth to keep Britain's finger tips on the nerve centres of the YYorld F There is no British secret-service as such. There are seven intelligence divi- sions- the Foreign Ofiice, the XYar Office, the Home Otiice, the Admiralty, the Air Mi- nistry, the Board of Trade, and the Colonial Office. Sometimes absence of coordination leads to disconcerting conflicts. Several years ago the XYar Orifice and the Foreign Ofhce were found to be fighting a little war against each other. Each was arming and paying a rival Arab chieftain, thinking that a foreign power was behind the other I The Foreign Ofiice Intelligence Department is probably the best of the seven secret- services. Its men are sent out to work, when and where the regular British diplomats can no longer function. They work for or against a treaty, or a change in government, in which London must not be involved officially. Some of these most valuable men are private persons. Intelligence chiefs discover them in their clubs and appeal to their patriotism and love of adventure. One of these men is a retired insurance broker, who has done much business in Central Furope, and knows well the bewilderingly complex intrigues among the Balkna countries. Whenever any crisis looms, he is off to see about his investments I Unlike the French and German agents, who are trained in everything, from recogn- izing ship silhouettes to picking locks, the British receive no formal training in their spy business. Their method is to progress from simple assignments to more difficult ones. From the Iyar OHice go the crack men of the Service. Iiquipped with forged pass- ports, they go into Germany, France, Russia, or where ever they are sent. They get their orders from embassy, letter-box, and field agent, who may more, say, Number 3-I from his job at Aden to a small shop in Bombay, or Number 576 from a saloon in Cape Town to a tugboat at Lisbon. These agents come under the title of Special Intelligence. These experts have to watch continually for false rumours and for plans purposely played into their hands by enemy agents. For instance, the Germans let out that part of the West VVall had not yet received its full complement of artillery, hoping that the Allies would attack at this point. But another British agent reported that Krupp had -iust sent a number of very powerful guns to that very sector. It was up to Special Intelligence to find out which report was correct. During peacetime the various intelligence services are greatly helped by the globe- trotting Englishman's habit of letter-writing. The Fnglish do not go around spying for the fun of it, as do the Japanese, but if they see anything interesting they write home about it. It was a casual traveller who stumbled across Italian missionaries surveying strategic points in Ethiopia long before there was any intimation that the Duce was interested. A new problem for the counter-espionage division is the refugee. Thousands have streamed into England from Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia and Poland with credentials l23l