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DON DES DOW
IDDON'S
DIARY
KICKING A GIFT HORSE
*
·
IN THE TEETH
The Rejuvenation Of St. Paul's
in
London, August 16. well's men destroyed what they Masons, chiselling away "dam considered anungodly orna- aged stones at St Paul's Cathe-mentation. of medloval
Gothle dral here in the early stages of its cathedrals. restoration after war damage, can Craftsmen for most part aro hardly keep pace with the cut designing lighter windows and thrust of argument about the keeping with modern architec Aboard the US Bounty there rivet guns pound holes into steel as technical adviser and super and women on Ludgate Hill.
future of the Cathedral by menture. Editors
"For most of our commis- is now open inik of disaster. girders for new man-made peaks. visor
alons we have to forget tradition," Reporters & General Office 32312 Commander Tryman, pacing the
for # screen Most of my mull from Austra- Lauder's life story..
version of
Powell said. (four lines)
The Dean and the Chapter of bridge, tongue-Inshing the crew, Ha, New Zeanurtd, and
The stained glass age of the the Cathedral, the artists, sculptors 17th-18th Century South forecasts
crash
He is still in the unless the Africa, where various newspapers view.
American
tradition has ship's
and architects on the Cathedral's made, way Britain's greatest musle-Advisory Board and the members in keeping company curries out his print this Diary, stresses Empire hall stor.
way for workmanship more orders,
with modern life. kolidarity. The war scaro has H.K.$18.00 Some of his lieutenants say
Now everyone along Broadway of the Royal Fine Art Commis-Clear glass windows with decora vanished.
and in Hollywood wants to get alon will make the final decisions.tive painting in gray monochrome amash-up is inevitable, anyway, H.K.$30.00 but I will be less severe it Mr.
into the Palladium net. Television Views
But the Cathedral belongs no to rich hues of medieval coloured are suggested as an alternative Truman's Instructions are obeyed.
Benny's success has paved the
less to city typists, Janitors and glass in St. Paul's. H.K.$72.00
why for Beltv, Hutton to Bountys no mutiny"yet in the The entertainment news is al- there, and there isn't a comedian who work in the City. Pride of glass design
gooffee cleaners and but there is seething die- most completely dominated
others who It may be that a new school content. For more than a week television, and I have the uneasy feu
by or singer in the whole of Amert-possession has been intensißed evolved to modify the a wrangle has continund, with feeling that we who invented it chance to play the Palladium.
who would leap at each man trying to shout down are being left behind. the other.
The ship could hardly be un- to take a chance, are pouring The Americans, always ready happler, its course scarcely more millions of dollars into television crratie.
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Hospital on August 16, 1948. to ARA, wife of James F. G. Fotheringham, a daughter.
on
THE TEST
film
Jack
That Tax Trouble
with his
the
may have
to be
modern
hundred fold since many of these trend to traditional architecture. people had
thoused incendiary.Reuter. bombs and had helped to quench fires which had threatened to destroy the building in the ralda of World War II.
which had
The angriest and most destruc-development and research,
Bing Crosby doubts whether he live
What are we doing? What is will people aboard arc the the British
go to England to make Government doing? "Brigadoon." Tas trouble is the tiscuss the technical details of a While architects and engineers Southerns indulging in thing called a filibuster, which Is Mr. Harold Wilson on the job? anag Ding is proving himself to the
It will be ironical if the Am- still the biggest box-office in the
reredos mess talking to death all sug-
remove the ericans, who made a multi-bil-business.
towered over the #estions for practical action.
Iton dollar Industry out of flims Waltz" and "Road to Rio" makeunopied after which, they feel, "Emperor choir and replace !! with 7 One of the major factors special session of Congress will while we hesitated and fumbled ing more money than other ple- Christopher Wren had intended,
It is now quite clear that the In the conflict of the Powers be top and a fallure. Nothing and Igged, should do the same tures.
the stained ginss windows are be- with television. German issues is the to be done abost inflation, the
The frings continue in Holly-duction end of the Bim business cafe inbles,
Gary Cooper is trying the pro-ing widely discussed over City economic and political situa- Negroes, displaced persons, hour wood. Three thousand tion in Germany itself. Lasting, or anything rise.
workers have been sucked in the By mid-August Congressmen year at the Moscow and Lon- and Senators
Several big bud- past fortnight; back inget pictures have been scrapped. don meetings of the Council their home districts peddling
The film city is again trying to of Foreign Ministers, as in promises and binmung the quinous deed at the Paris meeting of cost of living an everyone but urge its Radicals. It has pro- 1946, it was plain that the
Progressive Party of Henry Wal- Russians were confident that
lace, which accuses most pro In The Teeth the Western Zones were on
ducers of applying pressure and censorship to block screening of the verge of an economic col- Some experts, seeking niibis.adult or controversial pictures.
themselves.
WIR be
voked new.
getlari by the new
The Question
Colonial Health Sub Standard
Lake Success, August 18. Colonial territories, in-.
ngain.
Playwright Clifford Odets, back in New York after five years in Hollywood,
SAYS: "The
Holly- wood movie is usually born on
Shall these be of richly colour-habited by about 170,003,000 of the nione floor
B bankts stained glass-in keeping with people scattered through a mouth full of dings and nickels. tradition or shall they be of atropical it exists only as the celebration lighter and more modern design? world, are suffering from sub- belt around the
0712
lapse. Their tactics, were are putting the blame for the All three parties--the Demo- Peggy Ashcroft, and Ian Hunter the stained glass lay scattered on fight and prevent disease, the
based on
use of
G
of cold, canny investment."
The British success "Edward, My Son" will
health This is a question which has standard
conditions cpen here been awaiting an answer since and, the lack of doctors and September 30. Robert Morley, the sod morning in 1941 when medical equipment needed to that assumption.sky-scraping prices on the Euro-crats, Republicnus, and Progres-will co-star.
make wide Recovery Programme. They siver wilf Every move towards separate are saying
the Cathedral lawn-bright frag Combined annual incomes action by the Western Powers were not loaded drawn with goods paigns.
that if the Bounty ms in their Presidential cam- Betty Grable and Harry James which had held the former diu-bers today.
oments amid the soft tangled lead United Nations told its nem- is over 1,000,000 dollars, She was met by vehement pro-and gear and advisory technicians President Truman hos polso started at five dollars a week. mond panes.
In a special report to the Gen- tests, by charges of "dismem-for fordigher I would all be and charm before the cameras.
eral Assembly on health stan- Charles Laughter says he has plain sailing.
The original stained glass win- dards in 63 bering Germany" and
withough his voice is harsh and
island avens and by
could no:.ul.
good actor who tows In St. Paul's were nearly groups under This trend of thought
never met Thomas F. Dewey is en wasn't modest about his talents, nil
culcalal adminis- menacing suggestions of an make it awkward for Britain and vient, calm, but
memorials to rather cold. He cannot have met many ac-They were paid for but of pri-
individuals.tration, the report declared that international crisis unless the the Continent. Already enthu-Wallace is nervous and embar-tors.
high
infant mortality rates policy of
vate funds in the days when there "sensitive rebuilding the slasm for doling out ald whole-rassed.
indicators of Walter Columnist sale is being qualifed, and reac-
poor West, economically and poli-tion in some British quarters to he the screen presence of
None of the three candidates under a new radio contract, will
Winchell, was money to spare for such pur-pubile health" were "practical-
poses, the receive 1,000 dollars per minute-
Ly aniversal." tically, were abandoned. If the American programme for late President Roosevelt.
Suppiles of almost every kind both four-Power action and speeding-up British production
were needed to fight disease in the territories, the report added. any effective action by the angered and huri Americans.
Here is three Western Powers could
Doustry
breaking ait International lending records In be prevented then economic
and spending, and sending itself collapse would come quickly.iftery and haggard over the pos- A situation could be created builty of
of economic collapse; and with
what happens? 11 suggests send- Western. Powers would be unable to ing experts to back up its dollars and its goods, wistfully expecting cope.
A "revolutionary a polite thank you Instead situation" would arise A there are shouts of "Affront and demand for unity with a
insult." comparatively,
which the
Eastern Zone would be un- prosperous
answerable.
This is hardly the time to kick gift horse in the teeth.
Lauder's 'Farewell'
So Sir Harry Louder may make the U.S. Hollywood wants him set another farewell appearance
yes, minute-for his broadcasts. His not earnings are now close to two-thirds of a million a year.
Footnote: Perhaps UNO should move to Wembley, where war, pistol-shot starta, a race, not a
BURMA REBELS
REPULSED
Rangoon, August 16.
Artistry in stained glass was n flourishing craft. At the end of the 19th-Century, many familles were carrying on a work which ahad been handed down for gen-
crations.
The scope of the problem was disclosed by the United Nations report in a series of statistical studies, based mostly on informa-, tion submitted periodically hy ny There is still a Council of Glass
deven United Nations members Painters. There is still one or
with colonial possessions-Great two master craftsmen, but there Beltain, the United States, Is probably less than a dozen France, Belgium, Australia, New skilled glass-workers left in Lon- Zealund and the Netherlands. don. Those who are sill work-Reuter.
ing are nearly all over 70 and
few young men are coming along
to take their place,
Charles
Burmese Government forces have repulsed heavy at-
The master glass pointer family tradition goes back
for many tacks by several hundred insurgents ot two centuries. For years, one of the points 55 and 30 miles north of Rangoon, a master erafismen
today, Government communique announced tonight, worked Twenty-five insurgents were killed, many woundemade for St. Paul's. He
and a large quantity of arms captured, it added.
the trains
north of
George.
Christopher Powell, for a firm which had
the
of $1.
windows of the Michael and St.
Modern Studies
the windows being restored, he Asked about the prospects of said: "There isn't time to under- take this soling and heciing work' in these days."
which are
"
MARITIME UNIONS ACCUSED
Washington, August 16.
The National Labour Re- lattons Board. examiner, today. accused the CIO Maritime Unions of violating the Taft- shipping firms Hartley law by insisting that union hiring.".
depend on
Apart from this Anglo-Ameri- The German can squall and squawk it hos masses, led by the Commun-been on engaging week. 1st Party,
Blonde sples, queen would take over Soviet
bees of espionage, control.
desperate And the outcome bearded men, Red terrorists, and would be 11 Communist-atom-bomb fichers
apparently dominated "united Ger-clutter the land and have been many"
cround for years penetraling White House and practically run- But events, as so often be-
the Government, ning fore, have disappointed these There, never has been such a calculations. The Russians et-up outside of Oppenbelt Rangoon and Mandalay, aus- Prom just
The train service between Burma Rifles deserted, and seized. It is a full-blow had not foreseen or had noted thriller, a lurid caps and rob.pended since the situation be- They jumped on trucks and drove Rangoon. Abelieved that after the failure vers melodrama. I confess I am came critical last week
of the London meeting the unable to take this penny dread-resumed,
was fast for Rangoon, but were halled being by loyal troops halt way on the three Western Powers would ful seriously. It has a phony escorted by armed guard. They road at Letpadan. Over 300 troops go forward resolutely with reek. Hip Kirby could clean up will not run at night.
of the 3rd Burma Rifles from Mingladon de- their own plans for essential the whole case in a few days:
omer service with Basserted and tried to join other de- The steamer
The ruling was handed down reforms, nor had they ima- have moved back after
In New York, to which we sein, 90 miles west of Rangoon, serters, but the Air Force attack
as Federal mediators stepped up gined
being and two olher ports on the Delta, that the
Modern studies,
.efforts to their reforms, bitten by
head of two deserting mosquitoes, deafened was also resumed.
against both
groups much smaller than those of threats of shipping strikes which coupled with the first instal- by birdsong and insect clamour,
"Some Karen members of broke
the
up the impending Rangoon former centuries, cannot accom-could paralyse Fast and Gulf ments of
Invasion. "Marshall Ald", and stricken with poison ivy at Union of Military Polled at in-
Oyster Bay, it has mostly been a sein, a suburb of Rangoon, do were never endangered by the restoration work. would have such an immedi-week of
Government-held ar fields which will be necessary for such
modate the damaged material Coast shipping.
It was not certain what effect, ate effect.
parades and military serted with their arms,
allegedly
if any, the ruling would have by Communist persuaded But today they are con-
on these efforts. The examiner, We had more than 1,000 war-paganda that the present strug- pro-
In Sunday's 1ghting, Govern- It is unlikely that St. Paul's Mr. Wallace Royster, made the fronted by the spectacle of a planes thowing the Eagle's wings gle is a Burmese issue alone and ent troops retook Twante with will have ita, windows restored ruling against the National Mari- Western Germany no longer mercial airport in the world.
over Idlewild, the largest com- that the Karens should keep Press.
no resistance-Reuter and United Trom richly coloured pieces as ime Union and American Radio staggering to a collapse but
aloof," the Government communi-
had happened when Oliver Crom- Association. Both had insisted showing definite signs of re-and their stunt flying was superb.
The RAF. niso participated, que added.
that operators on ships plying Reliable reports
from
from Gulf and Atlantic ports Bas-
bo covery, Industrial produc- It is still very hot in Manhat-
sein said that the situation there i
hired through union halls. tion is now 50 per cent of London has been, and here we ton, but apparently not so hot as
had improved but did not
Mr. Royster did not rulo that prewar against less than 40 have
mention Its outlying districts
the hiring hells themselves vio air-conditioning limitless
where Government forces are
lated the labour law. But be per cent a year ago. And as quantities of unrationed tropical reported
sald, unions must to be carrying out 215.- more fuel and more food he clothes, and all the fresh fruit,
mopping up operations. come available it should in drinks we can consume.
vegetables, and heat-wave iced 400.- crease even more rapidly.
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Canton, August 10. Armoured
car patrulling, of the Canton-Kowloon Railway line
London, August 10, ` The adverse effects of cur-but the feverish pace of the city from the
Bosil Henry Liddell Hart, one" of Britain's foremost rency reform have been less is now near danger point. New Office, are feared missing in a
military commentators, today accusod Britain than 240.-
A
lifeboat which sailed in a heavy
of "needlest cruelty” and “caf and mouse treat- The steep, if temporary, rise in drill by
brightly coloured taxis gale on Friday to Alquada Light-
Jike bumble-bees 350,- unemployment
ment" of thred former German Field Marshals. house, near Rangoon. was anti-Aight. The buli-dozers
A launch has been sent to the gouge
Both the German section of von Brauchitsch and Eric von cipated. In fact, in the great out great chunks of earth and the lighthouse to find out what has the Foreign Office and the War Maristein. 350.- Ruhr industrial area, with its
happened to the party as they Office refused to comment or Brauchtisch was taken back to has begun 4,000,000 workers, the num-ticipated and which may nected to return at the ex- explain the treatment of the Germany from a British prison the foreruitiorural patol. 95.- ber of unemployed only rose compel drastic changes of named Wealey, but no other do-not deny Liddell Hart's accusa and Manstein, followed a work of the Une. The Carton-Hankow
ilme.
The European is three men, although they did camp a month ago. Rundstedt schedule covered a wide section from 123,000ythonly at policy. Not by reliable, ac tails of his identity were frame-lons, which were printed in prison carps three months after form of call protection May to 156,000 at the end of counts is the political situa-
later. All were diately available. July.
the Landon Times. Rangoon Temained tion by any means satisfue-
Armly in
the last of other high ranking The three Marshals concerned Cermans were sent back to their were in July reported to shave At the
Government hands today follow-
The Railway authorities here same time, the tory from the Russian point ing major successes in an Air Gerd von Rundstedt, Walter Lomeland. economic situation in the of view. Unreat and open Force bombardment of Commun Soviet Zone has become not. criticism are growing. It has
"They were kept in suspense for the K.CE line well as asked for armoured, sur patrols ixt Insurgents. better but
close on the time when ground, forces for the pro-" worse.
Fall The been thought, necessary to
Small scale
and-iniand
they were nt. last sent home," draining off of its resources postpone the local elections, fence to the city whichs had been [shipping" truffle restored confid-
Mr. Liddell Hart sold in a letter
tection of the route-Repler, is beginning to show effects. for fear, of their results.
to, the Times. The way in cut off since last Wednesday. The taking of reparations This then is the overall
Previous warnings for European from current production, the picture.
get at
Ieust-orie Until now the realdents to requisitioning of food both Soviet
Canton, August 16... week's supply of food in case ut Government
This cat and mouse 'treet- has a new blockade are now co-sleeping sickness to invade Can- for "export" and for the worked on the assumption aldered not necessary.
That it is not impossible for mont le still belog pursued in army of occupation have not that the Western Zones were
regard to the three Field Mars Kachin
ton as well as Hong Kong and ahala only lowered the standard of unstable, the Eastern Zone
troops foWW Into Macao
among our prisoners," Rangoon from the
is the opinion expressed Mr. Liddell Hart declared. All living: they have dislocated stable. That assumption has
frentier by a spokesman of the local areas in the past four days, bealth authorities,.
are now in a British milltary the economy of the zone.ceased to have any validity
have saved the tension.-L. the Canton Daily Sun. pro
atcording, to prison near Ludeburg, he said. That does not mean that It does not in a favourite
tenant. General Smith Dun hai This spokesman is
All three of these high Gor been given from hand in all the blation deusity of When the Generals, were taken the Soviet Zone is about to phrase of M. Molotov's
officers-are he added. military mattars, replacing the collapse. It does mean that correspond with reality".
defenes ministry, authority
three cities as a source of to Germany it was reported the Soviet authorities there Will the Kremlin changs ita
which had been orificio dangerv
were being sent home, Bar, Lady are faced by a situation policy to meet these changed The attuation turned-criticnt homes, and to avoid ping too going to their homes and fami
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