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DON IDDON'S
DIARY
The British Ain't Too
Popular Just Now
again.
playland, a whirligig and
car-the
off "The British ain't too popular months. He zatso?" and finally he lips me
the
MOUNTBATTEN AND DUKE OF EDINBURGH
London, June 21.
The Duke of Edinburgh and his uncle, Earl Mount- botten of Burma, are expected to be introduced 'simultaneously to the House of Lords under
their new titlos in the next three wooks. The Duke of Edinburgh, it-is-understood, has been--
waiting for the return of Lord Mountbatten, who, today relinquished office as Governor- General of India, so that his uncle might be present when he took his seat.
Prince Philip was created Duke of Edinburgh on the eve of his marriage to Princess Elizabeth. Lord Mountbatten- then a Viscount-was created Earl Mountbatten in August, 1047. when he “directed, the transfer of power to India and Pakistan.
It i
Edinburgh's
Slovak Priests Dismissed
Gloucester, brother of King Father Plojhan, of the People's George.
The holiday is over and the Britain. Each week one or the And even when I said our tele- green laries of England 3,000 other sails into New York Har phones and railways and roads miles away.
bour
and Britain Bulla, with might be better Mr. Rains sald The change Is abrupt
Imperiously: "I like them, that and them." harsh. Always I takes me days
On health: "A good digestion | way." to get, settled
and this and a well-trained conscience are I.K.$18.00] time is worse than ever. the secrets-1 have both."
The Greatest Mail. New York-feems a circus city-Or-sport-wish-we-had-a- H.K.$30.00 an enormous wonderland and really good heavy-weight to win During the voyage I finally got championship. but on Bri-down to the Jellers which my II.K.$72.00 rousel. Its noise is deafening, tain's present, diet it's not likely two articles on Britain brought
its lights blind and dbzźle. we will produce ane."
about. It will take some weeks There is a reek of popcorn and There were not many great answer them all as, roosting peanuts
due to and petrol numes on the passenger list. Sir
some reason not clear to me, fumes as the car crosses Broad- Ralph Richardson
wee around nothing I have ever written has. WOMEN'S PLACE
way from the waterfront and
with his wife and small
resulted in such an avalanche of Peers, by constitutional 'Cus- heads to the office in Rockefeller and sometimes, he and I would mail.
tom, are introduced to the House play table tennis.
two Sponsors of Hong
which Centre.
I won't tire you with the de-of Lords by Kong
The driver seems
But Sir Ralph is surly, and
Prague, June 21. à discrect tails, but you should know that equal rank: almost resents
of any
Czechoslovak Minister break when I talk about the trip to man and wary of headlines. It out of the hundreds of letters
The Duke DT with a narrow conventional- Britain he says: "Yeah" and "la is his first trip to Hollywood and sent to me only i were hostile.
sponsors will bo the Duke of Health. Father Josef Plohan, ism and would rather see its
he will be there two and a half Sixteen of these were from So- Norfolk, who ranke first In
and three Slovak priests have is not excited or chalists who accused me of being precedence womankind
English been relieved of their church resorting to
among here just now."
overly enthusiastic about the hireling of the Rothermere
pears not of Royal blood, and, duties for taking part in poll- bridge and mahjong parties Reluctantly he tells me why— | Iden.
Press, presenting the Tory view
expects:1, the Duke of les. than
themselves cennlving with
Arabs, not And there was Claude Rains. busying
point, and the other three were the US. on Mr. Ralns paced the boat or sun playing ball with
fram about civic
has affairs
Conservatives, dismayed Palestine. spending Marshall Aid deck, morose and sombre, alone
that I had said that their party the naturally viewed
ac-money on blocking the Jews, in his slouch hat, puffing a cigar,
was "frequently fullle and foot like Caesar tivities of the H.K. Council saying one thing and doing the looking sometimes
ling," of Women with fairly com- opposite. "Bevin's running the but mostly Hke Claude Rains.
State Department." plete lack of favour. Almost As naturally, the Council,
The rest-something like 700, getting off 10 a somewhat
It is all rubbish, but his news- Finally approached him and many from women-were proud
wonderful impetuous start, has made papers, the New York Post and Introduced myself. He hungered ond
letters. They number of mistakes, in ad- P.M..
"I wore radio oracles, for company and declaimed:
heart. They
for and Gabriel was born in Brixton, I've never spoke passionately
Britain dition to its successes such as the pressure which result-Healter, have given him the low-felt sadder about leaving Eng- and of Britain,
Innd, though I've been an Ameri- I am not supposed
'to be a down and he believes it. being called
Later I see the
can clilzen for black,
good many settimental mon, but would you
if I said advertisements. years now. My wife and daugh-mind
am deeply upon to serve on local juries whole page
never been to Eng-moved by these messages, that a for the first time in the British Crown dipped in Jewish tet, who'd
blood and polished with Arab land before, love the country. I response such as there has been oil.... British block peace in practically had to drag them to my Journey home is the re-
faboard. I must make Holy Land."
many porter's greatest reward 7 Anyway. I say more trips. I've never met with
it now.
You a. pleasant arrival
There's nothing tell me to speak up for Britain. even though my friends and col- such kindness."
I shall. and drinks leagues are there with greetings wrong with our lot."
More and gossip. and more I have the impression that Coney Island or Blackpool's South Shore has moved In on
ed in women
He says it with the air of л victim of a conspiracy and sucks his big cigar noisily.
and his
Waller Winchell
It is not
bold,
Inhabiting the house of nonsense. There is the bewildering maze
with the people trying to find their way out.
Colony's history. By and
the move large, however, ment has developed
most encouragingly and the women of the Colony who have par- ticipated in its work have bad the reward and satisfac- tion of sound accomplish-Manhattan. ment, A considerable Ox- 'There are the politicians pansion of the scope of the mounting the merry-go-round or Council's activities is now planned, and the conference shortly to be held at Govern-
There is the scenic railway. ment House promises to be
the water-chute and toboggan something of a revelation to slide which public opinion rides. those without experience of When I left New York the talk the work of similar Women's had been of war with Russia. Councils in other parts of the Now the talk is of trouble with Britain, of cutting Marshall money (no one reems to know Feminist energies along we have yet to receive the first cent). I speak to my friend these lines have; of course, Robert Blake, and be thanks me expressed themselves most for my two letters
On England, vigorously in the United and says: "I wish everyone on States, to such an extent as both sides of the ocean would be to inspire writers to mock-as blunt." I wish so too.
For-it-quito-clear, despite. ery and cartoonists to highly the brief time that I have been
world.
Sorry To Leave
Earl
Party, was Minister of Health in Mountbatten's are not yet known.
sponsors Dr. Klement Gottwald'ş Cabinet Presumably set up after the February erlis he will make the necessary ar-and retained his post in Mr. An-
after his return The Greatest Reward London on Wednesday,
rangements
to tonin Papotosky's mainly Com- munist Cabinet formed last week. Informed quarters say there is
The suspension followed pub- still a possibility that Earl Uication of a Mountbatten might take his scat first and be presented in his new ealing the warning issued by the
The Archbishopra letter.
Prague, re- rank when the Duke of Edin Bishop's Conference before the burgh is presented, but that the
elections that priests should not dual ceremony is the more like-
seck ly,---Reuter,
from tho
DO NOT HAVE TO
BE GOOD
COOKS
London, June 20,
“British women today learned that they do not have to be good cooks, chaste, or oven physically attractive to catch husbands.
Courtmartial
amusing caricatures. It is back, that our name, our record, Adjourned
interesting therefore to read our sacritice, our
championship
Hamburg, June 22 The third British court mar The crossing from England in tial" in connection with the al- the Queen Mary was one of the laged 18 treatment of German most enjoyable 1 have
ever internees in Bad Nandorf Inter- Commodore C. G. Mrogation centre will be transfer mace.
London friend red from Hamburg to
In fact, British women refuse
a
2-Colour Radar
System
Nutley, N.J., June 20. A new-type two-colour radar system, listed as "a tremendous advance in the field of aerial navigation, has been developed by the International Telephone and Telegraph Company.
The new system. which ne- curately plots the course of an airplane as a moving green dat
the
type
to
of
political office because their lay power of
punishment
Priestly
dicted with their Fald the
Buspension of Father Plofhan may be followed by fur ther measures if in the next few
months he fails to leave his ministerial office and resign his seat in the National Assembly.
Informed quarters tonight did not preclude the possibility of ex- communication.-Reuter,
ers
Belgium Reform Measures
2-Removal of legislative pow
made to break the strike- wave earlier this year; the Government undertakes
3-Before the end of this year to
Issue a further 600,000,000-Franca worth of "recruitment tickets"
in a recent book by Geoffry of the right and the just are not the Amerl- getting through to Gorer, a British anthropo- cans. It is time they did. logist, a rousing defence of what he terms "these mothers of grown sons" with their eagerness for good causes.
They are, he says, many and admirable hits his steward this wecky stated today, colour, not fond of children, per-plane was lost on the convenings lost er damaged during the of them, civically conscious that the dry Martin's Rhine. Army stated
are the best in Stokes mokes and conscientious; they are the world, and I won't deny it. imbued with
Illingworth
18 A
close
Brussels, June 21. In a nationwide poll by Bri-sically unattractive and un-on an amber screen, was demon-
Workers in every section of tain's Federation of Psycho- popular with his family, while strated when the company uthe Belgian industry will bene-
velled its new 300 foot micro logists, British men said they "chastity is not regarded as an
wave transmission tower at its fit by many of the social re- would marry a woman even if important-issue any longer".
British men,
Federal Telecommunications lab forms announced tonight fol- who she were a poor cook, phy
have long oratories here.
lowing the final talks which hold the whip hand in marrige,
Also shown was an electronic settled the six-day strike of learned through the poll that tape men which indicates 200,000 metal workers, Britain's
2,000,000
measure "surplus
distance
of an airplane
These reforms include: women" were getting particular in their choice of husbands. No within-a-tenth of a mile from a 1-Double "holiday pay longer is it a case of "Too many
and radar
the electronic workers for one week in every fixel women chasing too few men.'
point.
year; The Company said the new- to murry 12 kinds of men: drun tape measure can be applied to kards, men of lower intelligence both commercial and military or moral standards, emotionally work is being done under mili- aviation, although part of the unstable dishonest, from feeble-mhided family, economical- lary contract.
The two colour radar sccurate ly unstable, undependable, whom they do not love but who lovely plotted
the progress of an to permit Belgians to replace trace of the personal and household belong- them, incompatible, of different aircraft when all
ilonal one-colour screen.-Asso- | war; The court which is trying manently ill.
Many women Colonel Robin
declared they ciated Press. Lieutenant
man though he genuine, if
bustling. Stephens, formerly of the Indian would marry a packed
was a honvy. smoker and had with Army, adjourned today. often provincial and imprac-booming
catapults sparks,
resumed been guilty of previous sex re- The hearing will be tical, idealism, untainted His American guests when I was
ho was Men insist only that the officer stated. with the amorality of the there in his quarters, seemed in London about Friday, the staff lationships-providing
by his dyna- male world-of-business; if little nonplussed
The defendant, formerly Com- prospective wife will not balet
living од
with in-laws-or be! they are convinced of the They sat silent and subdued manding Officer of the centre, ion years older-United Press. rightness of their cause they while he talked. The comma hus, pleaded not guilty to two 21-year-old Chinese woman. will give their time, money,dore has views on most matter kurges. The first alleged heal Tit-hing, was taken to Queen
Bangkok, June 21, ordered the confinement of a and energy unstintingly.
At a protest meeting against and is not reluctant to express German in conditions of undue Mary Hospital from 1 Balign the newly designated Xuan goy-
The hardship. Also, in the May issue of
listed Terrace, ground floor, about 10,20 On Britain: "We are pulling the Women's Home Com-out of our troubles. We have eight instances of alleged negian, yesterday suffering from the rnment in Indo-China here by Her Nguyen duc Quy, President of panion, James
Madison the great intangibles-character, ence in supervising the adminis-effects of lysol polsoning. Wood, President Emeritus of experience, patience, determina tration of the prison.-Associat-condition last night was stated to the Vietnam delegation In Slam,
ed Press,
expressed the belief that the tion. We are not called 'Great'
Slámese government would 're
Illingworth
is
energy.
man He
mics.
them.
Stephens College, tells of Britain for nothing."./
his plans for a new type of
college for women of matur- Prestige-Builders
er years whose lives may
On the Queen Mary and Queen
prestige- builders
for
soem "aimless and often Elizabeth: "These two ships are useless" because they have gigantic reared their familles. Speaking of the revolution- ary decisions that
face UN Guards
society, he declares of
women:
With their accumulated Leave For
experience and wisdom they
are the ones best fitted to do
the job, since the problems
of the community, the nation,
Palestine
the.
in
Mr.
New York, June 20. and the world are only ex-
Tho 40 United Nations pansions of the problems of security guards who
are to the family. If women have assist the mediator, Count reared children successfully Bernadotte, in Palestine, left they know why; if they fail La Guardia airfield for the ed they know what their Middle East last night. mistakes were.
They were inspected by
Lie,
Secretary- Trygve Dr. Wood points out that General of the United Nations, at present well-meant who told them: "I am confident feminine energies, through you will do your duty clubs and otherwise, are too cause of peace."
The group included only seven often dissipated in feverish, non-Americans,
coming sporadic activity which burns from Norway, Sweden, Denmark out enthusiasm before de-France, China 'and Australia.
The contingent, dressed in the finite gains have been made.
United Nations grey
uniform, Women need to learn patient were issued with revolvers, but it persistence-and-realiamin was stated that it was not known the face of the immense whether they would carry them in
Palestine.Router. practical problems confront-
ing society. But men need
these
Eire
the
to learn to rate at their true Shannon Airport, Eiro
June 21. Eamon de Valera, ex-Premier
value the open-mindedness Eire, arrived here today from arid Idealism women can Rome after a world tour, which bring to these same pro- Included India, Australia and blems.
New Zealand. Reuter,
.
CARNIVAL
DƏFİL, 1949
second
sorry.
be serious.
AND
"Traitorous" Elements
Vietnamese in Slam, their leader,
gard General Xuan's government
as a "French puppet administra-
the Complete overhaul of present income tax
scule and.. raising the
minimum taxable wage level; and,
5-Speeding the
passage
through Parliament structural reforms of the nation's economic organisation which will represent the workers in the management of industrial plants,—Reutér,“
Nazi Loot As Reparations
Frankfurt, Junio, 21. American commercial airline
By Dick Turner tion" and would therefore boy planes are making two dally
GOODS
WIN YOUR GROCERIES
sald reveld of her! She's wrockin' the layout with that nie-meenfo-minos-mo system of hers!"*
cott it.
Quy described General
Xuan
flights from Frankfurt to Britain
and his followers as "traitorous with cargoes forming part of £15 elements" and sald that any ne
million .worth of Nazi-looted
tivities of General Xuan's up goldbars and coins to be melted down and I distributed as repara- porters in Siam would be against | Ulons, Stam's national interests.
One of the speakers road
The gold, ranging in origin from 300-year-old Spanish coins declaration by President Ho Chi to the melted-down gold, tooth Minh which concluded: "The Go
vernment of the Democratic Rellings of murdered concentration public of Vietnam reserves the camp inmates, has been stored, in
the Fight to Judge these trato American operated Reichsbank foreign depository vault of the (General Xuan and associates) in conformity with the legal code of here. the Vietnam state.
Established 盘 looted by the
"In the name of the Govern- | Nazla: from their victims during
ment and the people of the Re-the. Hitler regime, the gold will
pubile, I hereby declare null and after melting down serve al vola any agreement which may | parations,—Reuter,
be signed by these puppets with
any foreign power." United
Press.
INTERNATIONAL
AIR CONTROL
CLERMONT FERRAND STRIKE
Paris, June 21
4
Geneva, Jund 21. No settlement was in sight to- The International Civil Aviation day of the week-old strike at the organisation, which ended. Its Borgougnan rubber, factory). In second plenary assembly here to- Clermont Ferrand, central, Franen day, has budgeted for an expendiabantra of last week's battle be ture of Canadian $2,049,685 in tween strikers and police. 1949. It also decided to set up The local representatives of the 12-man Air Navigation Commis Trade Union Federation told fac sion: to supervise the technical tory workers today that a draft the Ber- Aspects of International air trans- agreement, presented blade bur port and approved a legal conven- gougnan management,
lon to safeguard the interests of relealed. This, instead of grant- idernand- buyers of aircraft for International ing the minimum wage alt services
ed, proposed to subsidise the fac Some 250 delegates and obeer. tory cooperative stores so that vers from 44 nations attended the workers could buy goods cheaper Conference, which. lasted three than in the shops of the town--
Router, weeks.—Reuter,“