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DON
IDDON'S
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DIARY
WANTED: A SENSE OF
PROPORTION
moves
are a
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Variety Revival
APPLE ISLAND'S NEW FRUITS
By ARTHUR MORLEY
The green little "apple island,
Australian authorities have not Tasmails, has excellent poster overlooked this souren of power. now of becoming British
A recent survey was made by the pire's centre for research into Standards Association of Austra- long-ranga weapons, supersonic lla, who fouild that the whole altezett and general sorehautical island soomed expressly designed engineering.
by nature to produce electricity. The interior highlands, thousands Tile quiet, nibdulated voice of Actually the most dramatic re- were behaving like Idiots and During a recent visit, Sir. Ben of teat high, were broken up by Britain is needed ngy.
strictions are necessary to pre- tools and that Britain was the Lockipelser, probably Britain's
capaciouklakos, they found, all Subscription Rates:
Eardrums are bruised by the vent a crash. The Black Market Jews' best friend, has written to leading Aviation rasearch scient-reeding swift rivers. HK.$18.00 | the growl of the Bear and the lo automobiles is flagrant. I the Editor of the Qverasia Pally | Int, selected Tasmania as one of H.K.$84.00 | scream of the Engle.' The quar-need a new convertiblo coupe.Mail. He
claims he was mis- the low spots within the Com- The Association estimated that H.I.$72.00 rel, rapidly degenerating into To get the model I want I'm quoted and that the remarks at mabawabith, capable" of "becoming known water resources could a brawl, between Russia and the asked to pay £400 over the listributed to him have caused him the laboratory of British AvI4 provide 1,750,000 horsepower: United States Jo jarring and price. I shall stick to my a lot of trouble.
raore than the forescuable te Juvenile.
seven-year-old faithful.
Jessel made his comments to HP and scientific defence. It has dragged on for months,
me in Frank Falumbo's night Three British scientists from quirements of local industry and Easy To Spot back-
club in Philadelphia and this week it became
the pro- the staff of Lieutenant-General the British projdet put together. alley behaviour with Russla There
lot of visitors sence of Palumbo James Brough, Bir Jolin Evetts, Director of the
The whole of Tasmania al- shouting insults and America pouring into New York, rubber and Alan Waters, of the New WINCH-The husband of the late telling the Soviet Consul-General, seekers and gawkers gazing at York Daily Mall staff, and two British Arrer's roket range in
Inspected Tas-ready uses hydroelectric power. Mr. Nera Isabel Winch, Jacob Lomaklı, to get out of the the
Generating plants already bullt tall towers, dodging the show girls. Actually, as this is a Australin, have wishes to thank all friends | U.3.
speeding taxicabs, sipping beors family newspaper, I toned down pian sites.
or building will kupply a total of and pro- for their sincere
his remarks. express-
br Another violent row two morosely in Broadway bars.
The Tasmanian State Govarn-487.000 horse POWER, slons of sympathy to his re-
and the Soviet Ambassador You can always spot an out-
ment is pleased, but not surpris-liminary plans are being prepar could conceivably, be given his of-towner. He looks healthier,
ed by the State Government to ed. marching papers.
hamess the lower waters of the more slowly, is more This is ripe opportunity for polite.
The little island, with a total Derwent. Envious of the Palladium's the volce of experience to be Very few British are arriving, spectacular success, producera population of less than 250,000 heard. Britain, world leader and the handful who have slippen are trying to revive vaudeville is making such giant strides to- This project, sometime in the for so long, has for more know out have scarcely two dollars in New
that its York They hope towards industrialleation
future, will give another 900,000, ledge of international affairs and
together. ruby how to guide them than The It is the Continentals, jewelled bring back the famous Palace people openly beast that unother horse power, raiskig the total to
Theatre on Broadway ai the generation will give it one of the nearly 800,000 horse power. United States or Russia. If ever
who Πανα the great American vaudeville show-biggest collections of factories in our skill and poise and centuries and arrogant.
pinco. Danny Kaye, supported the Southern Hemisphere. were money. They jam the Plaza and
swank restaurants, complaining of by six other star acts, would play old ability as peace-maker needed it is now.
deal The two heavy-weights are food and service and the crude there if the
They are arranged. throwing punches wildly. und American way of life.
Charles Laughton, who hasn't unless we net, a lot of innocent disliked.
been to England för ten years, Britoin itself is being given a bystanders are going to get hurt.
will soon be en route there. only Britaip can settle and solve good deal of newspaper and
Hollywood's Hedda of it fingazine space-not all the feud,
wel-favourable. Tourists and cor- elects these ten as the film city's Here the people would
Just back from richest women: Miry Pickford,
the war years, the principle of aluminium undertaking" is being come some honourable way out respondents
scedy and Norma Shearer, Marion Davies, strategic the nerve-racking wrangle.) Europe say we aro
Sonja Henle, Shirley Temple.
Commonwealth ver at a cost of £3,000,000
In WW absorb an estimated 60,000 ment. This is the funda- and normality.
ferim, and gloomy, and the people
It could into undernourished.
tering, they felt I was horse power. The State Governi mental cause of the misery
both, Pauletto" Goddard, Grota homely, Sid military chief, Infuriating omle- Garbo, and Irene Dunno. Mest desirable to put all the Comment has already invested 212,
000,000 in generating power and of France. It is essential for Red spyings is becoming tedious true. but the
and it occurs to them that itlesion made reason for of them have over $2,000,000
here is the rige ench, with rene Dunne alout monwealth's strategie eggs in the British requirement austerity. her survival that she should objectivity is called for. recover her political health. Perhaps the United States and that Britain is poor because the the wealthiest close to $10,000-one basket.
great defence and Avia- easily be met. France's recovery is essen-
Britain have spies also, and al-shot the works fighting world
They made their money before of understand that the removal of 100,000 horsepower could tjan projects from the United tial not only to herself but though, of course, ours aro gal yranny.
lant and daring
She became poor honourably, the big income tax days: secret agents
Footnote: Brljain is needed to Kiniam has become a matter of Why Work Is Delayed to Europe. Russia is ob- risking their lives' dally. while not because of prodigal extrava-
out of the Rod-komo urgency. She became poor large set America
woods.
They are growing for more The Government at the mo viously not slow to take ad- tussia's representatives are das gances.
and
saving other peoples' akcina. thieving y
workmen d quickly than a generally reáils- mont has 2,000 vantage of this terrific weak-turdly plotters
wrongdoers, there could be two The ingratitude is wounding.
already are making line hydro-electric projects, many of best-seller, and How can
Number one united sides to the story. a
Bartph
British cool whom are engaged on the great Western Europe come into Anyway. Americans- would by far the best book the war has
Tand
resources.
Clark Dam. This will store 243,- The size the projects may be 000 acre being with this instability at prefer a different thriller. They produced is "The Naked and the
feet and give another would like someone to change Dead," by Norman Maller. Bril
gauged from the report that Sir 21,000 horse power. the record-some soft music.ant-buy it.
John Evetta exneris are seeking All work is being delayed please, maestro,
The tasks facing M. Schu- man's new Government in France are a truce to party differences, a cessation of strikes, and the translation of the programme of econo- mic recovery from paper into fact. But all these things are useless and, indeed, im- possible, without a return to
of
could be "Strategic Dispersal"
Hopper
Power of auch magnitude 1s Important, by world" standards.
Already major Industrial un destokings are being attracted to little Island, förmet rustle
la
centro of British research from and now noted mainly for its the United Kingdom to one of the Most Important, gróat Dominions is not new. During
A
confidence in the Govern- They crave for a period of calm babby, our country run down Norma Talmudge, Corinne Gred by British WAS Accept set up on the side of the Toni
ness.
its centre?
most
t
Even
the Investigation
Yorks begon Celebration
n
much
Film 'Chiller
000 worth of property.
ANSWER TO ANTARCTICA
and
13
Bite in Tasmania at which dat by shortage of men
ficient electricity is avaliable to
critical materials. But generale 100,000 Horse power for s
Tasmanian U
oficials Teel that their start.
presant natalled capacity of 254 - The eventual requirement is 000 horse power is suficient to estimated now at 200,000 horse siprt the British aviation and power; and such estimates have a périmental centra. habit of "growing y
Cheap Power
and
and ex
French political irrespon-
Recently New sibility has recently been de-
The Russian spy serial is be monstrated on two of the but no one is very excited about makers here.
its Golden Jubllec
zinning to worry the mová- Richard Walsh, dangerous occasions: There's an exposition at the President of the International the previous Schuman Gov- Grand Central Palace, with vari
Alliance of Theatrical Stage` Ern- displaying industries ernment fell at crucial ous
2
Sployees, hus chilled the film hlbits, and atomic cheray'e moment during the confer-
on show is blood by asserting that
More power "They claim, will ngace-time USAK are
there's a well-organised plat of ence on the Western Union; on the fourth floor. The bomb stooges of Moscow to seize con
ba available when the centre ex the Marie Government was is not being displayed.
pands sumclently to peed it. trel of the nation's screens." By Edward V. Roberts modest. doubt it.
It is fall that Britain's other The telebrations are brought down at an equally and New Yorkers can be for- Hollywood Is the citadel ci
Washington, September d.
Tasmania is the one apot in great requirement for its research crucial moment during the given for overlooking them. No Capitalism, the home of expen- On the wall of' a'ragm. In the Moscow negoliations.
ong of the few centre, isolation, is filled by Tase It is banners, no bunting, hrase sive enterprise, 30 world of Rádi-State Department hangs a mapots in the Commonwealth, shp-mania.
no Mall Ideal calism that difficult not to remember baits. The Daily
has scrapped plans with one remarkable characteris-able of supplying this Womendous There is food for reflection in to produce even a handful ofte. No maffer which way you quantity of power that at the time of the An-Home Exhibition is
this proposal to establish a great qufokly more grandiose enterprise. Liberal pictures exposing racial, hang it, It is always right side up-nepply. The answer is hydro- centre of British experiment and schluss in 1938, when Haler
discrimination.
electric power generated by the engineering on the fringes of th marched into Austria, there
The blight on Broadway seems Not In The 'Mood
It is a map of the Aptoretic short, swift rivers that plunge icy Antarctic Ocean; on the last to hove Ufted. Box-office re- was no government-in-Paris had hoped for something receipts are up. perhaps because continent. Almost dally experts from the State's central moun- substantial land mass before the,
South Pole. All that M. Schuman can sembling. New York's World's of the wet weather, and show Rather around it, trying to gure tains to the sea,
an answer to a problem that is We are being count on with any certainty Fair. Instead
men are less loomy. is his own Mouvement Reserved a meagre side-show.
Fourteen plays, seven, of them topsy Turvy in more ways than Perhaps it is because the city musicals, are currently
playing, one publicaine Populaire Party officials realise that the public and although this figure com- A few weeks ago, the United and a few small groups. If would frown on any
extravag-pares
unfavourably with the States sent notes to seven powers the Socialists withhold their ance in view of the vanishing line-up. in London, it's more than suggesting maybe all together
value of the dollar. support, one
most producers forecast.
they could figure out some form more French Twenty-eight percent. of Thore's talk at 8,000,000 dol- of international management for Government will crash. American familles are
lork
being invested in, 87 new the 6,000,000 square miles of Their conduct will depand spending more than their
- shows when the season is in full South Polar regions, on the extent to which they ones. They're going more deep-swing, hut the word is chiefly The American experts made no
ly into debt week after week, from hucksters. realise that
spcalis proposals. So far the economieiccording to Government statistics,
body has answered the Reply To George
United condition of France is de- It's an alarming trend, and
purchase have This week tho Didry's ne
States note. generating continuously and curbs on hire
been introduced to stem bank euracy has
guestloned.. been
One American expert suggested that every new government ruptcy. This won'! lick Infla George Jessel, who, told me re- the
International control proposed will have an even harder |tion, but it might help calm it. cently that some Zionists here task than its predecessor.
There can only be two beneficiaries of the present state of political irrespon sibility-General de Gaulle and the Communists, and the advent of either to power might precipitate something like a civil war.
now
JAPANESE TO BE GIVEN ARMS?
Tokyo, September 6,
.110-
•
It Will Take A Civil
War To
Decide
By James E. Roper but since then American ar
Have been disappointed by tourish manner the Kor- Seoul, September 6,
san warped the reins of govern- Hores, a country which sought man ot Antarctic might lake gde già government of its own for £000: The biggest blow in the Walted now has wond it may Stales view was Dr. Rhea's first United Nations trustee-Leko a V4 War 16 decide which cabinet which one American
**This would leave the mat- will rule. ter on it. stands until the United
ships.
any
clashes.
pick Each alde, seems willing to sght, authority, described ha "about the velop yalions could explore and de-Only the restraining infidence of Worst that could have been
resources that may be the American and Russian, accu- Dr. Rhee, an aged rationalist found in the Antarefić.
(2) Joint trusteeship under the tion forces prevented gėrious | patriot; has studied governmenta around the world but when' bé United Nailors with the frust But it was the United States picked his own cabinet he paid powers being those who now have and Russia who split Korea into of political debts instead of claims in Antarelles. The trouble two rival camps and set the stage ing to Belect competent governs Speculation that Japan would be permitted to re-
here is that the United Nations for violence to begin
ment officials. As soon as tha has no joint: tiusteeship machin- One of Korea's governments is cabinet members were named, a arm if the international situation continued to
ery. Russia has blocked it.
sponsored by the United Blates. lot of their worsen has increased in Tokyo as a result of
(3) Joint administration, by the The other by Russit. Each claims The fact that the Colonial
General MacArthur's recent statement that the
dave.clalma juridiction, over all Koratal-trious politic#f
to win control of the Ame saven powers Office has found it necessary,
and the United States. The United though ne
nether, can, weld its in- ed forces despite United to issue a statement reject-
country had become "an assot upon which the
State
by virtue of extended ex- Aucico across the thirty-eighth warning that the Korean army ing the suggestion that the free world may confidently count."
on, has perhaps, more claim parallel which divides the country must be a truly national army. FromAntarctica
But it will take the best Ameri United Nations has any right
Commenting
General existence might be considered anyone else, huj, has voiced no or songs, ightist, government of Dr. from the South Koreanis:than
HAVA FIDO two watertight occup can-Flo and a lot more help of control
or supervision
ficial calm and recoghilles none, the as a stronghold for the penca ne of the MacArthur's statement, over the affairs
nowspaper Chika Nippon said of the Oriont, it was a matter There is some Indication that
The Colonies
on
to
which
zones.
Colonial Empire, is another today that although Japan' of course that mobilisationTM of the United States "adventi Syngman Rhee in the American, selves if the south fi,to be ready
DS
become a platform for mud-Russia which are then pro- "ily** should be relied upon nitration, falls through, there for a bepresent of
Korean
occupation zone was elected on for the anti-Rad struggle symptom of the intolerable
its military potentiality should this Just coures. But Jolstad-May-10 with United Nations Com come-United Fress.
""blatory mixtion" observing la elections: state of international rela-
not, been notálie for crea-Rússis refused to permit the elec tions. Obviously.. British party behind them in the limited to cruckgency cases.trations of recent
good losing among the fans that land in North Korea, The newspaper suggested that governing powers. colonies cannot be entrusted colonies and no influence,
But the United States clains, the to committees which have sending lists of grievances to the country's military patentla-
all the people of is a suggestion that the United
Laffist governm s get in With the seven Biber The paper Shin Yüra sald think States
was elected although the situation Japan power and was settled tippbrarily it could trouble would occur as soon a the Occupation Forces withdrew, Red:Manaco
carto wail be foreseen that political of the subcontinent.
..
chim top
The
North
with, Volera rolling y
CATALINA HITS MOUNTAIN
"EGRALIS fes which the.com, Rberts
:Oslo, September §. the South Polar of
Thirteen were killed, when à region might be strategically im- munist welected. The Communists portant söion dayi And There are claim they conducted an under- Norwegian Air foren Chínloa one lowitade minasală. TE there groutdalections the American Aying Soat grashed in thick fog 19. any uranium, the State De-zonego, that the lip cover a mountainside putade.Ber- pariment does not know about it. ment could represent all Kores
These rival, arguments will b4 | Igh."-42älpligt and one; aber Thay fade god thing about the warle inalopate In the words pramted to the Uglied Nations man kete rescued serious of "one-Unliad (Blates authority, General
maoting, fr|inituredano VETS.GDE PRrticularly prossing Patisalhis
problema Jalled Press.
slinging contests and poli- duced by the Russian dele-only as a fast resort. tical wrangling. On all gate before the UN conimit- committees dealing with fees. colonies an alignment has Tho Mandates Commission taken place between the of the League of Nations Western Powers on the one was much better constituted hand and Russia and her Its members were not gov satellites on the other, whoernment-spokesmen but in were ready to balt Western dependent colonial experts The menace of Communists imperialism and stir up who were prepared to ert in a country which has up army colonial revolt
wherever else their own governo defend itself should be keenly,
felt. possible.
ments. Responsible critic
"Japan
firds -',hersciful in —No gavernment which fam could be invaluable, je
position-to-ponter: aeriquialy-over. takes some pride in. its ad the Brigh Gayernment Eher 'future COUTBA and bar (con- ministration can be expected which can be blamed Because nection with all of Eait“-Asia, to tolerate for long such cri- such critielsin is lacking. he paper added. ticism on many detailed sub-While Britain must promote eats from people who have self-government. In the no contact with the problem Colonies as effectively as has
The fact that Japan must exist without self defence minkės, problems which modifrontic tan more difficult and perplexing w at all and no direct-respon- been achieved in India it is There are the first
comments on the posùDITCH ibility for the "Implementa« uniortunate that the idea of Japanese e armament (the de tion or diftcome of their elstons There - have alread hould have been so abused Horan, habod bo
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