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The Army Found It Most Demoralising
Perhaps the most demoralis- soya link catable and this is what he means by the word. ing experience ever faced by how he did it. He minced up Huis certain that wheri a unit the British Army was the soya. the link with onions, cheese is badly fed it is not because the link. For breakfast after break and boiled rice and then fried food.. is bad but because the fast this monstrosity used to the result. This dish was eaten cooks do not use it well. "Be- appear and disappear quickly with great appetite by men who lieve me" he says "the Army into the swill bins. There was previously had only to see a gets much better food than une cook in the army, how-soya link to throw it away un- civilians and there is no excuse ever, who mastered the secret tasted. When one of them was for a bad meal". Both he and of how to make the thing naked what he had been eating his former boss Vandersluys eatable. He was QMSI Jean he replied "the best fishcakes tee that they would much Guiget who is now working in I've ever had in the Army" ather be cooking in the Army the palatial kitchens of the Yet another soya dish which now than in the Berkeler Berkey Hotel in Piccadilly, proved successful was cut up. where life is a censeless He is a British subject of links fried in currey powder struggles to produce a good French parentage who learned with dumplings.
meal from very little. He has his art near Marseilles and, be-
a message for his o'd students Gulget's. watchword for Army who he wishes luck and hopes cooks is "improvisation" and to meet again when rations are these are just two examples of a thing of the past."
fore the
war, cooked at the famous Golf Hotel at Gleneagles. He joined the army in 1039 and went straight into the cook, house where he was appalled by the mentality of the average army cook of those carly days. "They did not realiso they were feeding British soldiers" he says "but dished up the stuff as if they were feeding a lot of pigs."
Biggest Racket In Britain
with
the!
It is an oddity of political life that in the 20th Century the political leaders of the totalitarian countries seem to be far more ori- ginal in their political terminology than most of theit, counterparts in the great
democracies. In de- mocratic countries there is a sad lack of imagination in political
Despite the criticism of Mr. came and the news thai invective. The propagandists of Guiget did not stay long in John Strachey and the views exhibition would not go on a the Left usually rely for their ef- England but went to the Wes- about food rationing, housing provincial, tour made the queues fects on terming their opponents tern Desert where he cooked is still the number one problem evch longer: hence the Deven). "reactionaries" or "fascists"" the for the 50 Div. Workshops. not only in Londen but all over ber. closing date. The exhibition. propagandists of the Right are This was a mobile H. Q. and Britain. I have had first hand
will be closed on Christmas Dey content to dismiss their opponents called for a lot of improvisa- experience of this accommoda- when the staff will take a resi as "Reds" or "Communists." The tion. The petrol and sand cooker tien racket and you can take after dealing with hundreds. é terms of abuse which Hitler re-
was the most practical and easy it from me, that all you have thousands of visitors. served for his most-hated enemies also managed to evolve a very exaggerated. It is not an un- form of cooking, but Gulget read about overcharging is nol at least had some piquancy. He serviceable field oven out of common thing for a man called them "Liberal Marxists." petrol tins, which when used to have to share a room.
The Communists are, of course, line a trench dug in the sand, seven others at something like C-54 "SKYMASTER” 4 ENGINED PLANE far more fertile in their inventive a very effective five. The chief 2 week each, and although
probem faced by ccok in the genius. Only very crude and 5th Army was how to vary the By JOHN SHIPTON Hong Kong-Monila
politically uninstructed Cominevitable bully beef and M. and Hong Kong--Shanghai
munists make much use of the V. It was not for nothing that rent tribunals have certainly Hong Kong-Bangkok
term "Fascist." The deadliest the unit christened Guiget "the done good Hong Kong Singapore
work in cutting enemies of the Soviet regime are camouflage expert." One of his rents according to accommoda- NEXT DEPARTURES:
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with some onions and mix it landlord and the tenant. Tuesday, 17th Democrats like Ernest Bevin are HONGKONG-BANGKOK-SINGAPORE Thursday, 19th Dec. normally termed "Petty Bourgeois when fried, looked like a rissole into a paste with flour which,
For example, I know of a HONGKONG-SHANGHAI
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turn of his king is usually called storms which invariably left all
up now, the tenant being faced 3rd floor. French Bank Building, Telephone No. 28800
Stalin recently valunteered an in- There was very little one with Christmas almost upon us teresting addition to the Com-ould do about that" Guiget
And there are thousands of munist vocabulary of demonology. In answer to Hugh Baillie's ques lays which particularly amused
Another episode of his desert people in the same predicament, tion, "What in your opinion is the Suiget cccurred at El Adem. most serious threat to peace in
on the highest the whole world?" he replied that the danger came from "the incen- diaries of war." mferring
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"Here's one from Sampson again, suggesting we give hin a day off!"
BARCLAY ON BRIDGE By Shepard Barclay "The Authority on Authorities":
LIKE SEPARATE
DEALS
game is over constitutes cne
Sometimes
Another declarer led the dia- mond 2 to the second trick. Bast playing the 6 and South the Q. The diamond A was laid down on a long-shet chance to drop the which failed, South then
tricks,
came through
from table to table as an in- Kibitzing either by moving terceting deal travels, or via the
oatmortem reviews when the save up by leading a diamond of the finest ingredients of carts, giving the defense six
to Eust, who duplicate bridge. the slightest variation in hid-clarera led the diamond 2 to the ding or play produces results 83
The two most skillful. de-
thing you were watching a played the G. put on the 7, the 8 different that you would almost second trick and, when East series of separate deals instead the heart & to the K. After the Wining. One West returned
club K, the diamond 10 brought the Kand A, then the rest of the eult, plus clubs to give
at declarer 10 tricks." When the other able. declarer let West have the first diamond with the 8, West was smart cuong to reckon what was camiing so quickly cashed two top spades and his heart A to hold South to exnětly game, tertby getting Weste a pretty ..good match-point score, Beating
the extra-trick, fellows:
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to Nut Mills, of Nat Mills an
Bobbie, is the only pantomime dame in London this year. Ale plays the title role in Mott mine which Emile Littler es- Goose" at the Casino, a panto-
pared with the 10,000 such a Tintes has.cost £20,000, in- proxiuction would have cost pre- war. puntomime appearance. He told
It is Nat. Mills' first- me the other day that aug with his wife he was looking forward to the Casino show as their great partnership. abeing one of the milestones in thing is certain that this anther big London success.. famous burlesque team will be
December 20. It has 1 cast of
The Casino Show opens on of the same one, 100, including Stanley Holloway and O'Gorman Brothers; 32 juveniles (aged 14) and a chorus, of 40. But with only 4 DADOS Coléhé? appeared in authority that in London's East cadilly Hayride (Sid Field) is cne pantomime London will not short of entertainment. "Pic he cookhouse and peremptorily.End alone up to 20 people at the Prince of Wales; Coch- demanded a five course dinner share the same house and que rane, Big Ben" at the Ade 54 for the same evening suggest gas cooker. Indeed, many pl "Grand National Night" to Winston Churchill and those when Guiget expostulated families, at their wit's end for (Hermione Baddeley and Lualic
hors d'oeuvres, soup,
and accommodation, are readily fall- Banke) at the Apollo; "Sweet chicken as the first three de-ing victims to numerous racest and Lowest" at the Ambas icacies. "All they got was soup Leteers. Among them are what saders; The Night and the and M & V Pie," says Guiget, is known as "house farmers." Laughter" (Bud Flanagari at It is curious how the pattera "And they liked it." of events which led up to World
They buy large properties and let cut single rooms for as a period of heetie much as 3 a week. So it seems self so soon after the end of
cocking on the mov, during the am one of the lucky one hostilities. Today, as then, there retreat to Alamein Guiget went Despite all this Mr. Aneurin is only one power that might con lo cook for a period at the Bevan, Minister of Health, is ceivably threaten the peace of the RACC base at Amariya just convinced that housing will not world. Today, as then, it is a outside Alexandria "We had a be a major issue at the next totalitarian power headed by a chance to show what we could general election. He must Le monolithic dictator who is sup do there" he says. "Almost and a super optimist. At least two ported by an elite one-party system kind of food was obtainable, million houses are wanted in that is based upon a population but I never managed to get the the next four year to meet sa immunized from all outside troops to eat eggplant, some- only present requirements from opinion and information that it Berkeley would like to get now."
thing our customers at the a building Isbour force es-
timated to behalf can he told anything by its leaders.
a million From Amariya Guiget went men. This is rather a gloomy The word of the Kremlin is the as instructor to the Paiforce picture of the housing sitta only word for the Russian people, School of Cookery in Iraq.. His tien in Britain, but I am happy and no matter how contradictory commending officer, Captain to record there is a brighter statements may be they are ac- Frank Vandersluys, is also a side to the housing situation in cepted and believed. The Soviet chef at the Berkeley where he Britain. It is a bonus scheme regime, like that of Hitler, worked for twelve years before for builders by which It is boy- fortified by terroristic secret the war. The school turned out ed to speed the new houses. On about three thousand students the first job where the scheme palice at ligne, and pursues white Guiget was nakedly revealed policy of world there. Each course lasted six feld. The new schema is x- instructing was tried output jumped three- domination abroad. And now, just weeks and catered not only for pected to start on a nationwide 29 Hitler used to denounce British cooks, but Indian, baeis early in the new year" Churchill as a "war-monger" for Iraquis of the Iraqui Levies, drawing attention to German re- and even civilian cooks employ-
ia none other than your old friend-Norman armament," "Stalin, angered ared by the British Army, Both Trade leaders are confident
Caley, quote Churchill's exposure of the Com- Vandersluys and Guiget agree the bonus will not mean increas url of the Middle East un- inunist menace, flings out the that the training given at a ed costs, claiming that the quote. He is to tour with the show which was seen by thou school of this type is far bet- vasily increased output will sands of troops in the desert epither "incendiary." The Com munists, like the Nazis, have also ter than the average training cancel out the extra wages coat, quote "Middle East Varieties" written down in great, detail in life in these ration infested national production council con-Let me Out" Jack Lister, and received by a cook in civilian Members of. the Trade's
unquote and he's still crying books-most of them as badly times. The students did all the tend that written as "Mein Kampf"the cooking for the camp.
three immediate Bill Budd, formerly with RNSA, Some effects of a bonus scheme will in, the Middle East, are as50- particulars of how they propose to times in heat of 116 in the be; a tremendous speed-up in ciated with the show, conquer the world and establish shade, and were given the most all types of building work; par- their own enduring world dicta-thorough grounding in the ticularly housing; the smashing torship!
elementary side of cookery, as of a huge black market in the Mirror" at the Odeon, Marble But it is not only, the dictators we as many useful Ups in building trade; and, the rebirta Arch. Olivia de Havilland playa who repeat themselves. The de Army standard equals, if it is out the nation's industries. She rises to heights of charac
the art of improvisation: The of a "Dunkirk spirit" through and its a case of all Havilland."} npc of those (win sister, roles. mocracies follow their example. not better than, that of peace- Builders and trade leaders anterisation without the aid of And just as it was almost im- time learners today" says in favour of this bonus schone possible before World War II to Guiget: "Learners, to start off and if it will help to case the make-up and as you'll have persuade anyone to read "Mein with, do net have so
many serious housing situation the uessed there's a psychiatric Kampf and take it seriously, so ratlon difficulties, and they zooner it is put into action the angle today it is an effort wholly wasted get thorough basic knowledge of better.
Book of the week"Horned to persuade anyone to read the cooking. All they need is in- To turn to a somewhat ra Pigeon" by George Millar. It textbooks in which Mark and terest and keenness to ensure lated subject. The "Britain-Can-ells of a post-war Austrian Engels proclaimed, and Lenin and that they got a really good job Make It exhibition is still at vulle and the relationship? si on leaving the Army. Good Traeting huge crowds to th
various inhabitants German. Stalin ratified, the precise mea cooka areata premium "in Victoria and Albert Museum in French, and American. It in sures, by which the entire world clvvy street
South Kensington. I was amaz died with skill
more than exciting story "han- ed end amused the other day
CA 10 7.3 (Dealer: West. East-West- the Coliseum; "Vanity Fair vulnerable). (Claire Luce) at the Camely, West North East
South "Is your Honeymoon Really 1H Pass Pass INT 72. Necessary (Ralph Lynn the Duke of York's;
at Pass 2NT Pass BNT and Punishment (John Glel alest bidding, but No Trump That was some of the fun- gud at the Globe; "Perchance game contracts were reached. S
Follow the Girls" (Askey) is a bunch of tables in a big du- to Dream" at the Hippodrome: by one means er another, at #6 2 Majesty's: "High Time" (Natrlicate, with North of South as
DAJO72} CKS Tackley) Palladium; "Under the declarer, with varying outcomes. Courier (Cicely Courtnedge) At feur, South was the declarer, Phenix; "Skin of our Teeth and in each instance the dia (Vivien Leigh) Piccadillymond play was different follow- "Our Betters" (Dorothy Dicking the heart 8 lend to the J. soul Playhouse; "Fifty Fifty" (Harry Green) Strand: and diamond 2. East unsoundly play One of these declarers led the The Shephard Show" at the ing the and the Q winning, Princes. There you you're lucky enough to be in 10 was covered by the K and A. are, if After the club. K, the diamond London for Christmas you can clearing the sult, which was Pay your money and take your then run, plus three more clubs.
to give South 10 tricks.
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shall be reduced to the ant-licaptinued instructing when I hear a conductor cal!
civilization that prevails in Rus Guiget
choice.
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If West, acared away from a opers the heart 2, how should diamond lead by B cue-bid, South try for all the tricks at 6-Spades without jeopardizing his 'contract?
his first Londen appearance, I THE NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE, LTD.
Film of the week" "Dark
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The parallel between the year Haghdad until he returned Can Make It Exhibition; this
in the aweltering heat of cut "Next stop for the "Britain GERMANS STAY IN
CANADA 1935 and the year 1946 is so ex-home on Python shortly before one for the end of the queue. traordinary as to encourage the his release in October last year. Many provincial people who al- defeatist point of view, that the While in Meng be officiated as ways flock to London for
Ottawa, Dec., 14.4. parallel will continue. But the chef on many important occa- Christmas will now be able to ... The Canadian Cabinet ... has men in the Kremlin are spacious the Emir Abbullah of It has been decided to extend prisoners of war will be allow sions including a state dinner visit Britain's shop window; for decided that: certain.... German enough to know that history never Transjordanis and the British the exhibition until Decembered to remain, in Canada repeats itself exactly, and that Ambassador Sir there is at least a chance this time Cornwalls. He also made a to close at the end of October, over 2,000 prisoners due to Kinghan| 81. Originally it was scheduled | I was believed that 200 of that the free peoples of the world birthday cake for the boy king The crowds, however, did not leave Canada this month, will will awake to the dangers that Feisal of Iraq His greatest fall off and the closing date was be allowed to stay, presumably confront them before it is too late. feat, however, was making the timed for November. Bell they as farra workers-Beuter.
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