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While report from America and soms of those old theatrical sayJunior is now plaguing his; daggers with blades that dis- sister with such educational appear into the handle,' which toys as the Gib}sh-Rây: Des...) an imaginative youngster might trustor war and post-war | adapt", "as Commando knivės, weapon developmïent seem to There are also a few crude have left the English nursery wooden sub-machine guns, but pretty cold.
* | no rifles or nice new things like The main reason is the cur- / bazookús..." rent shortage of tuys and The Library materials... for making, toys. The nursery library has Although there are still not acquired little from. World War enough to meet demands there. You can find one or two are more toys than last year werks such as "Calling All Arms but more than three-quarters of)(with 130 Illustrations)" and a the toy-maker's output is ear boys book on the naval war, marked for export and ideas then "Little Allies (Fairy and and blue-prints, like some of folk tales) of 14 nations" and those intended for grimmer "Savictbus" seem to owe some purpuses, are becoming obsoleter thing to recent history, but before they go into production.generally the old stuff children getting toys developed boys and girls goes on in much Only in a few lines are fairies, animals and, adverturous from 1939-45 weapons afid in the same way.
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No reason has been adduced for the decision by the Chinese Government to close the principal, ports of North China to foreign shipping, perhaps because there is no reason that can be adequately justified. Presumably, it purports to fall into line with the recent restrictions upon imports, inas- much as the purpose could be to conserve China's foreign currency these the air-minded child is holdings. Such protection as streets better off than the one might possibly be afforded is, with nautical ideas or the very however, su clearly more than off. poor third, whose passion is the
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SPENDING
THE LOAN
By RANDOLPH CHURCHILL
What are the British going to do with the money? Why do they put so much? This was
most difficult to an swer or all the questiona diverted, at the sponsors of the F Américan loan to Britain duz- ng its stormy passage through pagriss, Bernard M. Baruch was the most influential or all the critics. On one occasion, In
· 1945, when he was visiting Engand as the "personal" re«, presentative of President Roose velt, Mr. Baruch asked this very question at a meeting of the British Cabinet which he had been invited to attend. The repy he got was far from com prehensive.
BARCLAY ON BRIDGE
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strength, in care he spened will
starce. Consequently, wheh Nort such a bolding as dealer or sec and hand, as he did in this in did double the opponents' 5-Dia
HAS HE PASSED YET?
understands how your problem EVERY clear-thinking bidder has changed if your partner had a chance to open the bidding, but monds, South was in dread that passed. In such a case, if you are his partner was expecting him & in third hand rusition and hold a hand with less than your average fersive tricks, which
afurnish at least a couple of de
one-fourth share of all the hauoré possess. strength in the deck, you know
Let us see, then, how Britain has made use of the loan, Out cf the total $3,750,000,000 available, she has so far drawn only $100,000,000, And it is estimated that she will draw another. $150,000,000 by the end
f this year
Many Americans, and some ptimistic Englishmen as well hought that part of the money might be used to. raise the 'British", standard of living and to alleviate the present austerity, This led many Americanista fear that Britain would purę. chase goods which are in short supply in the United States and so enecurage inflation,
Raw Materials
Some of the money admitted already reduced wartime rations. y has been used to maintain the
Warlike Jigsaw puzzles are almost none: in, a large col- lection I saw only two that had anything to do with the Ser vices. Among games of the the "Snakes and Ladders" and "Mancpoly" where I felt pretty sure of seeing an "Alamein" "Normandy" or "Battle Britain", I was told there was nothing to sell that wasn't there. set by the interference with what! For the future RA-typel to sell in 1989. parts that if no stronger case can of build-your-own scale mudel a big shop, which should have is even now a mere trickle of ex- there is a magnificent collection Even the conjuror's section of be made our, it fails to stand up aeroplanes, from the homely been a certainty for Radar and. to the test. China's right to con- Wellington to the exotic Ster-Atomic tricks, there was nothing trol her coastal shipping rights in movik, the dashing Spitfire of the sort. True, there is an her own way and at her own dis-Mark I and Mark In to the Atomic Rope Trick, but it is The criticisin, which is apparently screaming Hellcat to the gentle cut- rope that mysteriously-be- Horsa glider, the fiery Typhoon comes-whole-again business; shared by Chinese business and to the stately Lysander, and also, advertised under heading banking circles in Shanghai, arises before Christmas the range of of "Spring Goods" were adver- not from the decision to ban for- ict-planes is expected to eign shipping services in North lude the record-breaking (Self Locking)" which might "Stringe of Sausages
greater part of the credit so far of the British people. But the China, but Hom the conviction Meteor To accommodate these have received some inspiration
Irawn has been spent on raw Saturday, 21st der that, imposed at this time, it will models, some of which fly, the from the immortal Boya link
materials, such as petrol, cotton Monday, 2314 Dee. teret not to China's, benefit, but enthusiast can buy bangars and Rut I was told that most of the
and steel, to supply Britain's DONGRONG-PANGKOK-SINGAPORE Thursday, 26th Dec: her detriment. The under- other airfield üttings, including new ideas were pigeon-holed
ndustries. With these raw standing reception given by for- fables and chairs with aircrew because manufacturers simply
he didn't materials available to lier, en or about Thursday, 26th Dec.eign firms to the import restric- taking tea
couldn't get around to making
Britain will regain her position The warship fancier, can get the essential gadgets. Agents:
tions, serious as they are to many plenty of model warships, many Keeping the war out of the the opponents have more of spot, after his partner's business earn her daily bread and, h
Anything South did in this a solvent nation, will be able simall concerns with outstanding of which claim to be to scale nursery day or may not be the balance of power. It is there gasss as to how much of the debe in a position to pay the HONG KONG CANTON EXPORT CO., LTD. comments, derived from re- but few of them will. sail, even good thing, but it's a little hard fore universally
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cognition of the fact that drastic in a bath tub. They are mostly on Father when he wants to sound to open the bidding third to do. As it developed, the 5-Dia- tually, to repay the capi.al.
recognized As fensive, work North expected hir. interest on the loan and, even- steps were essential to reduce the "waterline models", that is they demonstrate just how things hand with less than two high card monds could have been set by Though it has been disap heavy deficit in China's balance stop short at the waterline were when he won his 1939-15 tricks if you have considerable means of ose trick by Southpointing for the British public of payments. A necessary corollary They range from finger-long, Star.
suit length, especially a two suit-hearts and two by North in dia was an intensive, effort by the badly finished specimens to Chinese authorities to stimulate sleek, plastic assemble yourself the export trade, with resort if scale models, the latest of which necessary to subsidies. The latest Tribal and Javelin class order affecting foreign shipping turrets, pom-poms, davits and destroyers, complete with guns, represents the process in reverse, searchlights which can for the Eircumstances make it moved about to fit into a battle
trade will further diminish in
The Minister of State, Mr. consequence. The campaign of But the would-be soldiers, if Hector McNeil, backed up oc- Chinese shipping interests, keen to wants to be up-to-date, willcupation policies in Japan yes- establish a complete monopoly of probably have to be content with terday in the Commons. China's carrying trade would a jeep this Christmas, Any merit more sympathetic, attention were they in a position to main tain services full and sufficient for all today's requirements. In point of fact, no attempt has been put up even the pretence that this is so. To parody another observer," Chitta's ought to come to mean something more than the sovereign right to cut off her nose to spite her face.
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VUMUS London, Dec. 19.
er. Your partner, if sound, will be monds. But South couldn't know that here has been no improve- wary about counting on you for that. He thought he was makingment in the standard of living, your full share of honor strength. the choice between two evils when and-though there are complaints
he
took out the double into about Fresident of the Board of Hearts He got set four tricks Trade Sir Stafford Cripps with two in spades plus a rull, policy of "austerity, for aus- then two in clubs and Snally the terity's sake," there is no doubt heart A, costing his side 700 that. Chancellor of the Ex- pointy.
chequer Hugh Dalton's policy i much to be applauded. And though the Labour Government can be criticized on many scores, it deserves praise for resisting the temptation to gain, easy Popularity by using the loan, to purchase the extra food and manufactured foods which have been absent from the British market for so long.
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More Than Needed?
But if Britain has used","so ittle of the loan up till now, dues that not show that it was more than she needed? The North-Southmswer in that there are nationa
If West leads the heart winning, why should South no against South's 4-Spades, the then discard a club on the beert
The Law On Treasure Trove
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over the sterling area with huge credits in London which spite of the success of Britain's must somehow be met, And in export drive, she has so- for only been able to satisfy thead ereditors to a very limited ex- tentie loan; however, puts her in a much stronger position.'.
It is as if an Individual, adre. ly preased by his creditors,
more
To a question whether "reac way, it will be a good one be- tionary and treacherous ele- cause model jeeps, wooden or ments were regaining control, metal, pull-on-a-string or clock Mr. McNeil observed that the
(Dealer: South. East-West val--H. 10,8 work, all seem to be as sturdily Japanese Government was
DJ 9.3.2 nerable.) built as their full-size prototypes elected by a Democratic process South and there are some very good and said, "It would be unneces-
Yest North East CQ 6 -DOL·
30 Pass pedal-cur jeeps, complete with ary to interfere with this.
4D. Pass .5D movable windscreen, spare wheel Democratic procesa
to cause
Pass --Pass Db Pass sovereignty and jerrican, but like Daddy's the Allied Council to intervene.
Pass Pass Dbl new car-if, he's got one-theyAsked if industry is being! Here was a case of opening an are rather austere and they are restored to relatives of former hand which would make a sound a bit hard to sit on
owners, he said that "proper original bid if South were third An American firm is putting care" has been taken in deal hand and the first two players had scale-model. tanks with movable ing with persons once associatger his partner might later make
Fassed. But there was great dan MR. BROOKE turrets on the market: they are ed with the military regime a business double, eaunting on him
precision-made thodels of Sher- Associated Press.
for his full share of, defenzivé LATE London's explanation of the others, costing from .68, 6d. to mana, Tigers, Churchills and attempt to prevent Mr. Anthony 12s. 6d, and are very effective Brooke from entering Sarawak for staging battle-scenes, but affords no convincing reason why the tracks don't turn and it is Hong Kong should be dragged unlikely that there will be many into the contest. Neither does it on the market before Christmas. indicate why Singapore's attitude Toy soldiers will be completely should appear to be in direct con- absent from this year's stock- flict with the instructions sent to inge. The reason is that the Hong Kong In essence, it is a
Government just will not re lease lead to make toy soldiers (small affair signifying nothing for the home market. One of
at least as far as the local au-
London's biggest-toy shops re thorities are concerned. Unofficial ports that customers are not ly, no doubt, they would be as bothering them unduly glad to see, Mr. Anthony Brooke soldiers instead they are leaving the Colony as the "Rajah clamouring for electric trains of weapons, gold personal orra- discovered, by mounds and Mildenhall Treasure came close porarily financially embarrassed Muda" would be to proceed on and
other
mechanical bys nents and silver dishes. In filled with funeral gifts, ints such a house, which had been. If anyone in the United States his way. Possibly, too, they would which, like the soldiers, they 1940 it became known that a Norway, Sweden, Scotland, and already excavated and proved to fears that the British are be inclined to agree that if the can't have e
reat hoard, of 4th century the Isle of Man Acglo-Saxon her small two-roomed cottage. luxurlating on.
Americans Prewar Moods political situation" in Sarawak is
Roman silver, now known as
The treasure could not have charity, let him go to Englund Frequent Trans-Pacific Flights to SA in 45 Hours Flying Time to demonstrate his available, but they are pre-war boet discovered in 1942 at West [such that his arrival there would There are one or two forta the Mildenhall Treasure, had
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absence. It is steel and cotton that this was dot a case of a tie reason for the concealment Britain is buying from 'America ng Sutton, Hoo Itself It was clear History is not silent as to machine tools and tractors, that,
croon concealing a treasure of valgables in the later half not refrigerators and auto, o for which he intended to recf the 4th century. Disastrous mobiles, nylon stockings and
the next world. The coroner with an invasion of Pict, Scot accept this state of affairs is a,z turn: It was concealed for use wars starting on a large scale radios. That the British people hade therefore, to declare that and Saxon barbarians in 865-7 tribute to their character, and a
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In the last six years two been buried in the vesse or table plate of this period have succeeded in raising a substan great finds of ancient treasure cat, it was a case of ship burial, been found in Eastern England. tial loud from his bank. Once in Britain have, drawn public such as is known to have been All round the margins of the thin fact in krown, his creditors attention to the question of widely practised in the Dark East Anglian. Fens (marelics). immediately become national and private rights in Ages. In all the lands of and in the Fons themselves patient; and in the breathing such matters. Both discoveries western Europe where the finds of this kind are discover space thus afforded him, he can were made in East Anglia, in pagan Vikings made their set-ed. The treasures, usually reorganize, his business and act the county of Suffolk. A great tlements ship burial was prac made of pewter, were evidently himself up in a solid basis once Anglo-Saxon galley was ex- tised. It is well established. Fencealed in time of trouble more. So it is with Britain, cavated af Sutton Hoo, on the outh in the Saga writings and These finds are often mude The Empire is an enormus trad the burial chamber lay a mass for Deben Estuary: Araídships Inby detta! finds of ships, in the vicinity of the altes of ing concern which, though far Ships and boats have been koman-British houses, The from being bankrupt, is tem
convictions about freedom of models, in design à mixture of, Kow village near the town choice, it is somewhat odd to, find the medieval and the Foreign Midcphall: aBritish democratic and labour to the young man who wants to
Legion types and not much usé Coroner To Be Told Government at so much pains to reconstruct the West Wall or England's law is that when THE DE LA RAMA ST EAMSHIP CO., INC. may, it is surely not the feapon where Line. And anyway; the local coroner must me prohibit his entry. Be that as it the Mareth Ends of gold or silver are made sibility, of the Hong Kong Gov-coldiers to attack and defend it? formed...He must hold an in ernment to interfere, a point The artillery expert can have quest on the nature of the dis. which the Singapore statement a few guns, but they are pre-covery, in much the same way seems to emphasise. It rather looks war models of field, siege and as he must hold an inquiry int as though we are on the wrong AA design and often of un- the nature of a death of it was not "treasure trave." A.D. finally, wrecked die pro bodes well for the future 0112 end of a process of passing the specified types. None the less, human being which has occur
Daddy, they are better than the red in unusual circumstances: By English law, the Sutton olle you had when you were a Any person who wilfully conHog trensure belonged to the boy because same not only shoot ceals the discovery of a trexoner of the land on which It land became settled by Anglo-important, for it is now the AFRICANS OBJECT pellets right across the sitting sure or the knowledge of such was found. In this case the Saxon peasant farmers. In the castory of England to recom room but fire a cap simul a discovery, is breaking the owner did not hesitate and years which followed. This ex- penee the finder with the es
banded the treasure over intact plain, beik why the treasurestimated market value of the Johannesburg: Dec 19 taneously are breect loading law - The coroner has to deter into the keeping of the nation were concealed and also why find Itself The find becomes The African National Congress and have ingenious gadgets for nine has sent a message to Britain's fixing bearings and, elevation. Whether the find is treasure. Had the owner been less public their owners never recovered the property of the State, but King and Queen, asking them to But if you want a 17-pounder that is whether it is gold or spirited the Sutton Hoo treasure them. They died in battle or the ander is rewarded most stay away from the U
the Union of or a 7.2 gun-how you'll just sitzer whether it was conceal could have been dispersed are murdered by the invaders liberally for his discovery silni South Africa as long as pon have to walthed by someone who intended to Fourth Century Silver The third point was oney to this case the market valge, fs
freedegi⠀⠀ Another pre-war toy, you can return for it; whether the The Mildenhall Treasure Indive. The owner was not dificult to estimate, but it ruuter not enjoy we to-known who found it been buried in the ground, but kouw-There were names, auch approach thousands of un le was disclosed at a meet-
meet throys a strong beam fram and whether any attempt was from the evidence, it was clear pitted and Puscentin, en bruling of 500 Africans and Indians tarch-battery Juice Its fun, made to conceal the find that it had not accompanied a raved on some of the ellver, With the final points" bow-
Transvaal Indian be a
bet no centis had the alightest, joined in agreeing to boycott father to-cimse the beam round mailer of considerable difficulty comparison with other finde dent who they may have been, which would no doubt afect the royal visit bakrinks
The group represent 90 per the roomWar toy hearer In the case of the Sutton Hoo that the silver dated from the Finder's Recompense this question of payment to the cent of Bouth Africa's population lifesizer are in very short sun ship it was clear that, whether latter part of the 4th century It was easy to say, who found finder. In the old days of
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