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Flect-street
A CONFESSION
By Frank Owen
econo- But
call this The Liberal, of course, would; (and the most sensible ballyhoo: it will.
have nationalised the mines, in mic), ideas reside there. Fleet-street, lives, and thrives,| 1927. Hlad i been done, he today, they are "our." on liberty; not to any licence, reckons that by now the minera". I hope not tomorrow. Long nay it!
honeymoon with the Govern 'What are aro arguing about? ment would be over, and that Two sets of men are arguing. this fine chap would be sighing not two sets of ideas. for the Good Old Days.
For I think we do not abuse At The cynical. Rentimental. fundamental "ei-be" of Our Village in one of the chief, and Inst, bastions of freedom in this world.
Don't tell me that the place cannot also, on occasion, be a jungle. I have lived here for 20 years; and there are worke places than jungles.
Now I wish to pay tribute to a very great man in our street. He wAR Jimmy Dunn, ц re porter. Now he's dead.
Jimmy
the Press
would
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The Sociallat (if he sits, for. a coal constituency). is probably already casting about for a method of bringing, the personal touch into a bureaucratiited in- dustry.
Since we are committed to this system, both in the mince and since January 1,) in trans- port, we all sincerely hope it will work out effectively.
two
only up.
J
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An imense, brond, and com. mon territory les before all parties,
We cannot have a Coalition of Parties.
. But we can hare a Coalition of Purpose.
What! Back to the Whigs and the Tories?
Well, it was a civilised form of government. Both parties spoke in the same terms. And today, all parties here in Britain arg talking in the same terma.
a mixture of Tory paternaliam, Liberal maternalism, and So. cinlist Aunt Fannviam.
1
CARNIVAL
By Dick Turner
• BOPR. 1967 BY NEA BERVICE, HIG. T. SL. RES. D. IL. FAT, OFF.
"Use your left! You're making me look like a dope!"
BARCLAY ON BRIDGE
ABY SHEPARD AR
BARCLAY
The revival of discussion about the organisation and programmes of ZBW may, at least, serve the tactical purpose of re-emphasising
The advent of a great man the need for setting up an inde-
He got the news.
such as General Bill Slim on pendent body to investigate the Newspapers (oddly enough, the railway situation is one of We are trying to run a demo- great system and make recommendations Mr. Herber: Morrison) really do 1948's great hopes. Slim has cratic country with two
live on news; That is why we the supreme genius of common main parties, “ench; thoroughly Jon future planning and policy. are still in business.
чепке. And, this man has also aware that either may have to The existing set-up was good.
Dann WILS not
other tremendous gifts Rume the responsiblilty of enough twenty years ago, when special Something.or.Other." gats and nbsolute Integrity. | government at any hour. It radio was in its infancy, but these He was. like Northeliffe him- Every soldier who served with makes both of 'em think! are wrong days in which to adoptself, a reporter. JimmyDann him knowa R.
Today our political system is the attitude that we must be con- was a Great Reporter. tent to du our best with what | wanted N-wal
I should here make plain my we've pot. One needs only think If all the fools who now at- own view on our political set-
It still works. Let's try, by back for a few days to discover thek
On July 26, 1946, long argument, even 'abuse, to make comincing argument in support of understand this simple fact, all
enough ago. I wrote here: "It work still better.. the contention that the develop would be well:
This last thing in the world hnd better hoist my own colours. But in this memorable cen.) ment at ZBW and ZEK with the
un old-fashioned Glad-tury of liberty in Europe; gond
"THE AUTHORITY ON AUTHORITIES" pupose of making them "The which a reporter wishes to have I am
sa denial. They never denied atonian-Libera}, with Voice of Britain" in this part of Jimmy.
slight readers, remember this, and al- Docs any craftamun Syndicalist lenninge. I do tro ways: the world is a post-war necessity. In this
Merrile Talia, why hey won at not world want
Governments. to have u like any
WHEN TO SEEK I rea-
Liberty in won by a handful
all of the national events, made his Cotating a powerful and eft accond-rate article sent back to lise that they are necessary, like of idealista in a multitude of
A SPLIT
contract at the other tabit. The de- cient wireless broadcasting service him for comment, or complaint? the draine; but they don't ap- contented slaves, and—..
cided that West's fead of the heart in Hong hong cannot guaranter
peal to me personally."
Liberty can be destroyed by an Paying the percentages in the 18 to the third trick was for the pur- that the news and views put out | We like our Royal Commis.
That standy.
equal handful of resolute ideal- bedrock foundation. of good bridge. pose of leaving, hintself a smaller the Press. We regardl from it will be instantly accepted sion on
deplore that today the ata making a greater multitude in both the bidding and the play card than East for the fourth heart!
to East's band. It is exemplified no more clearly than trick, an a re-entry to by the audience to which they are them as the animals at the Zoo Liberal Partyy is not a challeng- of slaves.
the ing force. All the finest socini addressed. But that is no excuse regard the visitors from for a weary defeatism: still less country. They come, and look! at us, and go away, Occasion- for not snaking the attempt.
There is of course no warranty ex-Keeper Priestley points
out a peculiarly vicious creat-j for singling out any individual as ure, who turns out to like sugar. responsible for the backwardness What did the visitors find out of ZBW.. As a Government-about us that was not administered system, it has
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GOOD MORNING!
The Tracking Down
Desert Smugglers
By J. L. HAYS
Say
follow the rules of the govern For an adult people, if there ment game, and it must necessarily is anything -more absurd (be. cunfine its expenditures to the cause it is more pompous than figure allotted in the annual bud the American probe into the
The camel caravan - come out fcamel lay beside the road, ita however, been Movies, it is the British probe from behind the grey vell of rain driver, grey-faced and It has, Ret.
anxious, into the Press.
and flying sand, and straggled to with his hands in the air. treated far too long as the Cin-
...
in the option of a declarer to favur Why did West do that? Mr. Elis de- a finesse-ordinarily a 50-50 chance cided it was so that last could lead even diamond through South. Hence ་་འ་ against trying for the break of six ovistanding cards in West probably had the diamond K suit, against which the oude are ap- and the finesse would fail. So, from
three proximately 60 to 40., But develop the fourth trick on, he mu
arly clubs, leaving the A in duming, tok bidding or the early,
tips a thirst, which East won quite likely to break evenly, unblocked, used his A on the dia
ments in the
play can show either that the suit two top spader, gav We had
that the finesse is quite likely to Hoie. That alters the odds by some important amount.
Six If busy "journalist M.P," a halt before the group of dust small sealed tins, recovered from derella of the public services, with who sell an occasional article in stained tents of the Palestine the animal's stomach, ware on S. Q 10 + a general insistence
Polico frontier that it shall Fleet-street really want to probe
control post. the desk of the Sergeant who H. A 10 6 5 not become a charge on the pub- the "publicity
Ahend stretched the road to had shot it. And, in the tins, he D. K‚Į " racket," why Egypt over the dim Sinal Desert, knew was hashish,
C. 5 4 2 lie. In actual fact, the figures don't they take the lid off (a) empty and lonely, the sand toss-
This was how the hashish produced by the Postmaster- the film industry, (b) the Ing across its black surface like smugglers latest trick was, dis-
surf over a bench.
covered. | General on Monday strongly sug- B.B.C.?
But there will be new The British Sergeant looked up tricks--and avon. Becaure in the from the trestle table and asked richi valleys of the Lebanon and his Arab
1047's hashish crop is al. Syria replied the ready being gathered in: and
far north as Paris and Rome nerable).
gest that the Government is turn. Maybe they also want ing ZBW into a source of re-write an occasional script. venue. Twenty-two thousand
to
Moving around the country ]ckey, I "Passports on the terraced fields of Southern licences produce a sum at least meet people who defiantly pro-Arab and winked:
Alwah
well or Aneurin Bevan.
The
water
9. 7 6 5 2 II. B 4.
I. 8 4 J
CLA 87 &
S. J 9 1
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H. K 7 3 2
W.ED. 10 6 5 2
8
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1. Q9
D. A Q
C. K QJ 10
Dealer: South, Neither side yul-
West
North Pans 3 NT
East
the
mond return, led to the club A and scored the spade 7 for the Rame trick.
Your Next Question Why do fine players say a granit slam is the easiest contract of all to play, when it is the right enn- trbet, that u imali slam is the next | easiest, that a gazite in still' harder,
and that a part-scure contract in the
harilest of all?
A New
Scientific Theory
$20,000 in excess of the broadcast-claim themselves Tory, Liberal. The Sergeant looked again at and from Algiers through the South ing vote of about $150,000:
Socialist. They Rre all very the telephone message from Sudan and Egypt and up to 2 NT On the safe assumption that re firm about it too,
Headquarters in Jerusalem and Istanbul, in Turkey, the drug- venue from this source will tend When I ask 'em WHY, the called: "Okay, Bill, get crack-addict "customers are ready to This deal illustrated the logic used steadily to increase, there is a fon starts.
ing."
pay-to pay dearly in money, and in important spots by some of the From the back of the tent a ltimately in mind and body world's
very finest players, You show me an intelligent, bored Royal Engineers. sapper for a pinch of the brown powder against those who are nearly but not strong case for far-sighted plans for expansion..
patriotic Tory; take me, then, groped his way out to the leading in their cigarettes and
quite as good. It came in a' cham No revolution is necessary. A to a Liberal who is the same; camel. Ho carried A mine pipes.
Hashish, a four-feet high, limp. pionship team game in which greater measure of independence and then bring on a "rabld. So-detector.
"Try This One" Hashish, a four-foot high, Emp. bidding was identical at both tables.
anıl sa were the first three tricks.. Soma new evidence to sup from the general administrative calist," such as Emanuel Shin-
homp-like plant, is easily grown West led the heart 3 to the K. Eastport a theory that the sun and constable duletly moved. machine, the, willingness of Gov-
We will then, all ait down to the safety catch on his rifle to for easy money. Profitolan 2 to the and A, then West the planets: like tho earth; were
the ernment to add a subsidy to the gather and argue things out "Fire." The Sergeant drow his Both in Syria and the Lebanon
acre may be as high as 14,000. 10 the Q. receipts from licence fees, would, with three men who deeply love revolver and laid it on the table, there are alws against growing
born out of huge clouds of A one table the declarer, noting cosmic dust and gas was deb in shart time, we believe, provide their country and its people.
The Supper clamped the disk of it. But, it seams, little is done that he had four certain teleks incribed by Dr. Fred L. Whipple his detector against-the-under- a satisfactory answer to all the
club, two in spades and one each of the Harvard College Ob- belly of the leading camel.
But the smugglers make even in the red suits, saw two ways to critics. But the matter urgently
Tell them to bring the camels bigger money. In Egypt, the try for the ninth trick, One was to servatory. calls for examination along a new
one the mines is. 1047 up
by ono,"
ordered the readiest "wholesale market, it play for the split is upades to line of approach: and the best (he would have done it himself Sergeant.
10 for 50 pound. By the up a thirteener, The other was way to ensure that is, we suggest,
in 1948) but for not running
There was a burst of excited time it gets to the actual smokers fince the diamond Q. He attempt this new National Service
chattering from the Arab drivers in Cairo, Paris, or Marseilles, ited the fatter and, when it failed, he the appointment of a small com-
is worth anything up
was down one. to £250 well as might be, Dammit, Sir! huddling against their animals. mission.
Five times he Bopper called paund, Bad show!
"Okay." Five times the Ser geant jerked his thumb.
British-police Palestine, where no, bashish a grown, is the cross-fiscated your way," he told the
roads of the hashih smugglers worth £80,000 drivers.
world. Through the Holy Land hotel. And, last March, from an Thỏ theory is that q'star and. passes the 'bulk of the trafic. overturned British Army enter its plancta are formed from a But at the sixth "damol the But the Palestino Police Nari tainment
#1 lonely cloud of dust and gas which Sapper said: "Try*this one.” catles Branch has its triumphs desert road near Gaza they took muy originally be thousands of Fifteen minutes later a dead Only a few 'daya ngʊ they con-l hashish and opium worth £45,000. billions of miles. in radius.
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The discussions held in London last week between an Iraqi Gov- ernment.delegation and the British Government, which resulted in 350-the initialling on Saturday of the text of a new Anglo-Iraqi Treaty 120.of Alliance, were noteworthy for 300, the extreme cordiality with which the conveniations were imbued Land the satisfaction shared by both
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Over a period of tens of mil- lions of years, the cloud would (Reporter from Correspondents do for a hard time" in the sum oral different varieties, two or shrink or condense as streams
Hound the Globa); unli} [mer,, according to a forecast by three types of pre-war Italien;" Through the Window this week a woman astrologer.i
one post-1948 Itellan, and the of dust and gas moving about An lavention which promises very come the quavering voices ̧of: The latest and most up-to-date 1943-4 kind lasted by, the Allied in the cloud collided with each It does not seci inappropriate to exténalecly to supersede the copying French astrologers, who, having banking focliity is reported re: Occupation Authorities.
other. The process would spoed emphise, the readiness with which machine, and to be of great impor-studied the courses of the stars cently by correspondent
up with the cloud contracting w 2 for next
that there Ceell Clark' in"Mexico City, who assure us
As 1 lira is worth about one much faster as it grew smaller, the British Government responded tabee a commercial-men as
to resiplents
and visitors in has just been tropical will be no war in 1948. How tells me that the Bancó de Com-half of one dariliing-the cost D and-
the final collapse into a to the desire of the Iragi Gɔvern-cour
evor Paris Correspondent Kenneth mercio have just opened the first printing anything less than the new star might come relatively Countries ment to obtain.a revision of some The principal agent in this im-Therburn adds that they add of their "Service in your car 10 lira note is far greater than
so It la quickly. of the provisions of the Anglo-provement, is a new description of loud and sinister Butit to branches Inthe-millionaires its own face value,
colony of Chapultepec Heights, write puzzling why the Italian Iraqi Treaty of Alliance of 1039 writing Int which is said, from its this soothing prognostication,
1949,
Issue! The now evidence, for....the enduring qualities,
*.they say, “will be load.
Her all the difficulties of And Government continues to be extensively with worries and catastrophes ing a place to leave your car and which should, have remained in used in
theory, is mathematical calcula- them. and In tropical countries, force until October 1957 and con-bottle of which is sufficient for the of all kinds. The most critical queueing at the cashier's window So in a wave of patristic entha llons of the original diameters tains no provision for its revision writing of 30,000 letters. All docu- Beriod for the world Will he be are dispensed with
siaani, they are withdrawing, from that the planets would have to before 1953k ang malak
menu written, with the fuld add twod March 18, and March 25 This new bank is a one storied circulation linqtor flawed by the possens, before their final con In agreeing now to bring the
In France, March and ¡April will building, standing. In its own Allied Occupation Authorities! by very
rapid and be months burdened with an at beautiful gardens. You drive in
denation, and the amount or In conclusion let me help to 1936 Treaty up to date, the Bri- tish Goverident-have bects outney may copy all his business will bo-xife
this means, a person on sphere of self-destruction.w-Up right up to the cashier's window, explode the theory that Brits heat that would be generated on heavals, suicides "and", epidemics hand without "moving – from the fasloits, always! lag behind, Cor- the planets for a short period'
Puntalicomawili, driving-deaf hand in your cheque respondent Edward Howe, tells of time, ne months or [tuated_by the basic principlej Jetfera" without † encumbering; himself (tako. tlaco sin^the spring "amanvtto" the cashier, receive the cash me that's; thể """British Tor METANCHIO VARIE
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consistendy." The boat on a few. of good understanding”į, batween time; and trouble, al the two countriesen, Itvis insthin
About Marshall, Stalin, dhe ne switch on, the radio and queue winding sirests in new police would burn off the atmorphere by ropes and Hot Herionaly a cool makes spending
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