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MEN, WOMEN AND MEMORIES
One of the factors which are responsible for American criti- cism of Britain, and which may complicate the Washington talks, is the breakdown-or, at least, partial breakdown-of bi-partisanship in American foreign policy.
By ATTICUS
Joseph Bolgeri By
several thousand feel, a wing of his aircraft broke off.
Finding his passenger unable to free him- self, he remained at the controla until the plane hit the ground and was smashed to pleces. This self- sacrifice earned the Distinguished Flying Cross which he now wears. Film Fan
talent naturally
received every Admiral George Henderson, chief encouragement under that Ape of staff to Admiral Conolly; Rear- and Admiral musician Mr. "Boris" Ord,
Cornwell himself-all still their own planes on duty,
Admiral Cornwell gained his The Bishop Of Lontion, who sailed wings 25 years
and spent for New York ago,
yesterday, will nearly the whole wor la carriera
preach in Chicago, Denver, You in the Pacific. He is lucky to be Angeles, San Francico and Seat alive, for in 1920 he survived an
le in the course of the Congress amazing accident when, flying at
Church Union, of the Amorican of which he is to be the principal - speaker. The Union is similar, I understand,
Anglo- Catholic Congress, in the aims of which Dr. Wand is deeply Inter
Lord Harewood was in a way Until the elections last Novem- an honorary (and musical) mem- ber bi-partisanship worked very
her of the College froin his ear- Vanden Heat youth.
For from 1923 on Senator successfully. berg.. the chief Republican expert words a feature of every King's on foreign affairs, was the chair-Combination Room party, after man of the Foreign Relations the Founder's Feast on December Committee, and his
co-operation 6, was the singing by the Tutor, with the State Department won
of a congratulatory ode on Lord cordial and regular. Now he has Harewood's birth. been replaced as chairman of the This
only annoni ceremony Foreign Relations Committee by censed when the
subject of the Senator Connally, who is a De
odo himselt came up to King's. mocrat, and his relations with
It is said, however, that its chant- Mr. Dean Acheron
once been are forma?
like tune has at fount and infrequent.
voluntary in rard as an organ
Without elaborating the in-Chapel. fluence of CRUSO
on effect. I mere- MAIL ly chronicle the fact that today
JYKES--To Claire, wife of Don
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Senator
Vandenberg is not only
a severe critic of the State De
Friend Of Byrd
partment's policy in China, box New Zealanders, who know him
Admiral that now openly opposed to Press- well, will regret dent Truman's Bit of Arms Aid Richard Byrd has had to cancel for Europe.
hin projected expedition to the for Byrd has made Antarctic. his base there on many previous aceasings, and when he was last in Wellington he was presented
Scott's with Captain mounted walking-stick.
to England who A newcomer knows Byrd well in Rear Admiral Dilbert Comwell, who took the famous explorer to the Ross Boa fee barrier in the winter of 1940- 47.
now At-
confidently, There is, 1 sert nu Englishman who knows Sen. Hykes, son, Willam Rig- jator Vandenberg and who does recognise in him outstanding wity, Queen Mary
it
qualities
No of statesmanship. pital on September 6,
binme can attach to him for a «ituation which was bound to arise once the spirit, if indeed bipartisan
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DEATH
Felix Maurice, member LK Stock Exchange. patori away petefully yea Terday, 4th September 1999, Funeral Jewish cemetery (0- day, 7 September 1949 3.30 p.m.
SECURITY MEASURES
not the rules, of the game had been altered.
Cambridge Undergraduate
I made an obvious slip recently Harewood
in saying that Lord at
was an undergraduate at Oxford.
silver.
Almiral Cornwy, was
Pills Give Janet A Boost
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Good Morning!
A contemporary's weather re- ports provide endless variety, day fter day. Take an extruet from yesterday's efter:
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"Sunshine....10.8 hours. "Total since.Jan, 1-1471.8 mm.
57.94 ina.
"Bed bugs were chiefly respon- sible for the sit-down strike."
One would have imagined that, on the eputrary, they would have made the blokes stand up very, Smartly.
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"Revised "coeds to be ready for distribution in 1950."
Put me dawn for one.
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"Airlineschero to resume Kun- ming hops,"
No. Myrtle, this is not a Chinese version of the 'Jitterbug.
shall
not be surprised to hear that Dr. Wand has taken the op- rortunity, when he reaches the Holly- Pacifle count, of visiting wood. He is a great impoer, as TODIE MER. Wand; and when in Lon- the cinema just By J. BARCLAY-BARR don goes to
across Putney Bridge from
once a fort It took
a two-year-old girl ham Palace about" Saturday night, on
afternoons. Janet Wheelwright, of Leeds He once told nis of his admiration to focus the lime-light of for
"1949 Garson
Bette and
2,000 Greer
Nash 600, done and of his schoolboy miles, excellent condition. Whut eight years been 赴 closely pleasure in fast moving "West-offer!"
Yes, sir! public interest on what has for guarded secret of the fighting ern films. Services.
When Janet swallowed Fome anti-exhaustion tablets belonging to her brother home on leave from Central Africa, and for 27 hours "blew her top off," curiosity was rife as to the origin and nature of the "Pep Pills."
Davis,
St. Andrews
Under Fire
41
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Friend of mine bought a new car on his leave in England. Thi following day he stopped in a A nalable Philippir against the no-parking
street in London proposal new golf rules has just while his wife went in shopping. In the warm afternoon sun he teen fired by Mr. Robert Harris,
to sleep, to be who won the Amateur Champion dropped oft
awakened by tall policeman They belong to what is known ship in 1925 at the age of 43.
who remarked loftily, "For what infuriate Two, in particular. as the "booster" group of drugs,
you to aley) it's going to cust Is the him. First, for an unplayable Ule, whose effect L.c., drugs
here, you could have had a roum direct opposite of the barbituries, it is proposed that the player can
at the Savoy." or sedatives. "Boosters" do just play anther shot from where he Serviern
what the word suggests. They are last hit the ball.
but
that no a cerebral stimulant; as such they counteract tiredness and/or de- pression; they make people very inuch alive and awake.
tache at the US then commanding th Essex class earrier Philippine Sea.
senior
find It is unusual to
own of "our afflecrs
but no fewer piloting aircraft.
in fact, he was at Cambridge, at than thre American Ang officers in London-Hear King's College, where his musical, Bow serving
The Army's Like A Giant Jellyfish
By SELBY BRADFORD
From
The security of Western Europe-if not, indeed, of the book, however, a German, or, for
any Service telephone
that matter, a Russian, can de- world-depends so much on the system of National Service duce the fact that it contains an armoured division, an infantry into as introduced
England! division,
and certain other for- that the problem of the life and mations such as brigade groups, conditions of the National Ser-
individual vice
as un man becomes lost in the far greater "Does National Service
one:
The case of the Nationalist army officer who was not per- mitted to enter the Colony on his way to Taiwan was the first intimation most people had of the law banning Chin- ese military personnel in uni- form unless prior permission is granted by the Hong Kong government. We cannot un- derstand why this regulation was not properly publicised some time ago. The only ex- planation would seem to be the time-worn adage of "let's say as little as possible about these tricky matters."
The official attitude of secrecy, · នយ deeply rooted here, seldom achieves its pur- The facts pose, however. usually come out eventually, often with undesirable celat. sometimes with the unfortun-
From next year onwards the ate and possibly unjustified "conscript" soldier, on completing impression that the authori-his 10 months' training, must com- ties have been "unmasked." pulsorily serve four years in the
Territorials. In point of fact, few people could object to the ban in question. It is fairly general practice in the colonies to ban the presence or passage of other countries' men in uni- form.
It is simply because of our proximity to China that her troops are the only ones af- fected. With the probably imminent end of the civil war, we might have crowds of ragged soldiers streets, an embarrassment in more ways than one. And as the Commissioner of Police said, they can still come here if they wear civilian clothes.
on our
work?"
Personally, I am absolutely con- vinced that it
does not, I also um certain that it is in itself a menuce to the efficiency of the British Army.
In most cases, I think, he will go into this the Reserve Army of England-unwillingly recalling
all the worst moments of his 18 months "Regular" service.
Lack Enthusiasm
men at least Four out of five wil lack the enthusiasm-the "volunteer" spirit of the old Ter- ritorials. without whom the last two world wars might well have been lost.
That is a problem of tomorrow. It might not be so serious if one could report honestly that the Rhine Army was as highly train- ed and as efficient as "The Old Contemptibles" of 1014 or
the BEF of 1030.
Frankly, it just is NOT.
It spreads over the British zone of Germany and into Berlin like aglant jellyfish.
This is just part of the tightening up process of self protection, like the ordinan- ces relating to the registra- tion of persons and the ex- pulsion of undesirables. There You can hear the skirt of pipes are still many questions in Dusseldorf or Berlin. You about these left unanswered stumble on a battalion of the Grenadiers a immaculate and in the public mind, and with the
here as well trained as ever, in accustomed wall of the heathlands of Westphalia. silence there seems little wey of finding out until the Battle Honours measures are actually put
into
You find a vast
towns
And
practice. Apparently You find regiments in overlooked by the authorities, whose name they bear proudly as
a battle honour on their colours. as suggested at the time-in these columns, is what is to bakeries, travelling shops,
You get lost in a maze of mobile
be done with our undesir- units of such ilk. ables if Communist China re-
organisation fuses to have them. We will which outwardly suggests that it is controlling a far-flung fighting be interested to hear the force capable of living up to its answer to that one.
name and then, looking a little the jellyfish reappears. deeper, You prod it and it "squelches,"
There is no spine there and the substance is a sheer illusion.
It is obviously impossible to give in detail the Order of Battle of the Rhine Army.
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BRITAIN AS HOST It now looks as if 1949 is going to be a record year for foreign travel to Britain. Even last year's high @gures have been exceeded, and other good things which she there has been a conspicuous can offer. increase in the
.000.
Many Varieties There are many varieties of "booster" drugs as I discovered on a visit to the Wellcome Foundation in Euston-road, London, and talk- ed to one of its staff of research chemists;, but the parent of most
over-
penalty stroke shall be added to
The danger his score.
of this rule is that it will often profit a
player to make a really bad shot.
ny, into a bush 20 yards from the tee-rather than a fairly bad shot of 180 yards just off the fair. way.
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"Vondon...see the dancers, in all their primitive fury. (Sator- day nights only.)--From v bodi- let any Haiti."
flow convenient....
" a husband separates from
with but they ure nol disilkes his S:condly, Mr. Harris the permission now to be given divorced, can he take the bathtub of the house they OWB it Jolutly?"
Is he handy with tools?
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in a drug named, pharmaceutical-at the cost of a penalty shot for "push. serapa, or ly, amphetamine. A
A goller variant of this drug is methylamphetamine, spoon" the ball into a playable lle. Pushing or scraping the ball And that, either on its own or in
and, if you combination with pheno-barbitone not a golf shot,
permit him to push the ball to- and hyoscine (they are added to
penalty shot, counter in some measure
wards the hole for boosting effects), is precisely what will he stop short of pushing the the "Pep Pilis" consist of.
ball in the hole?
1 to not think Mr. Harris exag pro- Methylamphetamine was
gerates when he claims that i duced as a result of Wellcome re- search laboratories working, golfers allow the new rules to be other British chemists were, at the That may be suffelent to deter request of the Government at the come the law, "the old course of St. Andrews will be threatened an aggressor, but I am personally beginning of the last war to find a
with the destruction of its domin- convinced that the Army com- drug which could be used in very ion and power as the scoptro“
There BCCNIR mander would be far hoppler to special circumstances to counter-
live Regular act fatigue resulting either from of the game."
why the be controlling the
relaxation of divisions which made up the ori- over-long hours of duty or sleep-reason inul HER of 1914 or the 10 mix-lessness due to Service conditions. discipline should benefit golf any Its origin is the ephedra plant more than it has benelited the ed divisions that at least were- available when Hitler gave the (hertee ephedrine), which grows Army.
mainly in China And India. word "go" on May 10, 1940.
Methylamphetamine is, in fact, e by-product of the manufacture of ephedrine from the parent plant. I was in 1040 that it was first supplied to the Admiralty, War Office, and Air Ministry in the form of tablets.
System's Fault
The old BEF was little, but good. The Rhine Army in less and-(1 leave the word unsaid),
It is not the fault of units, of offeers, or NCOs, nor of the staff. Nor of the training, Nor of the unfortunate National Service man
himself.
It is the whole system which is hopelessly at fault."
Try to imagine what it is like, to endeavour to weld cohesion in a battalion in which two out of every three men don't want to be Boldiers and are only counting the days until they can get out.
So far this article may have ap- peared to be purely destructive. Now to reverse the procedure. what is the solution?
Ask any senior officer or NCO the question and he will answer you something on these lines:
1.
Reduce National. Service to six months' intensive training at
home and then release the man to serve out his remaining 3 years Territorial Service,
2. Make the Army' sufficiently attractive to encourage the right type of young man to enter it for his lifetime's profession.
Pay Questions
Distribution was guarded.
carefully
These "booster" tablets,, with & maximum daily dosage of Ave to 10 mgm. (le, one to two tab- lets).
have an effect of stimulation, of ilvening the perceptions, and of giving a feeling of alertness for eight to nine hours after being taken. They have the advantage of not causing sleeplessness when their cllect has worn off. The effect commences about half hour after taking
An
no
Sporting Rejoinder
in Sedgefield a constituency where the Durham miner uppre- clates a candidate who shares hi own sporting interests, Lieuten- ant-Colonel J. E. S. Walford is making good headway for the Conservatives,
At one of his recent meetings a heckler shouted"Will the can- didate tell us what he thinks this country needs most in the way of immediate priorities?" With- out hesitation the Conservative candidate raid-Immediato pri orities? Certainly Rain, Two Test Match class, and bowict of Test
& NEW
New Government Colonel
Walford was a fine all-round cricketer in his Army
'Extreme Measure' days a fast medium bowler who could awing the ball disconcert- They have no ill or after-ef-ingly late. He played several fects if taken in normal doses as
matches for Worcestershire in the would be prescribed by docter,
twenties. His wife is also a Con- and they are not habit-forming
servative candidato; she is stand- But as in the case of the Services.
ing for nearby Darlington.. they should never be taken over. an extended period as a daily dosage or regarded os a regular counter to depression or fatigue.
"They are, in fact, an extreme
moet an measure to
extreme case," a Wimpole Street specialist told me. "They should only be re- garded as such." And sufferers from cardiac troubles, from coro- ary disease, or insomnia should never on any account take these "Pep Pils" based on ampheta- mine.
The "booster" tablets have been Improved since first made in 1940 in that now they act more quickly and their effect lasts longer; in many cases up to 12 hours.
That last is the kernel of every one's thoughts on the subject. It
A Wellcome Foundation chemist requirea elaboration later. I am as convinced that it would not in- told me: "On & normal, untired, volve the Treasury in great cost tuned-up person the pills will as I am certain that the Revised have little or no effect and cer- Pay Regulations, designed to im-tainly no improvement. It is when Service conditions, and the person is subnormal through prove which in a number of cases have fatigue or depression; in cases of officer's pay by as acuto alcoholism; drug addiction: reduced an
epilepsy; abnormal desire for must us 10 shillings a day, also
sleep; or anxiety-neurosis that the require an immediate overhaul.
We have wandered far from the drug has its effect, which is case of the individual Service iman the case of the correct dose-10 a National False the mental condition of the here. This, though, Service Army. repeat what I individual from subaormal to the
not normal datum line." have said before: "It does work."
The sooner we get something that. does, the beiter--for our.. selves and the world.
COLLEGE OF EUROPE
Must Sign Register There "Pep Pills" can be bought by elvillans at chemist's without necessarily having a doctor'an- scription. The person will have. to sign the poison register and ho or she must be known personally so the chemist.
nuniber of Recent reports show; how- Americans, who in one way ever, that much could be
For the usual brand or variety and another are estimated to done to make U.K. hos-
Bruges, September 5, of the amphetamine or methyl- havé brought in US$10,000,- pitality more attractive. The The College of Europe-the amphetamine tablets-they can be limitation on the price and core of a future fully-fledged Uni- obtained under a wide variation All this reflects the material number of courses of restau-versity of Europe will be in- of trade names, but differ with one In September 20 in this exception only in strength and success of the post-war drive rant meals, the high cost of augusted le Flemish town. slightly at that bottle of 20 to make foreign tourist traffic wines and spirits; the restric- Bruges, was chosen as Europe's tablets or "Pep Pills costs 4s. 6d. an important source of na- tions on service enforced by cultural centre by the Cultúrni: The emphasis, however, by Council of doctors in all this if on looking tional income. Most visitors the new catering wages law, Committee of the
on these "Pep Pille" as something come from countries gastre should be removed before.mong those expected to attend to be taken only under medich
Europe, earlier this year. TENA nomically superior, since the next year. Not only foreign- the opening are M. Paul. Henri supervision and to rely on less war to Britain. The old ers, but Britons, will be glad | Spaak President of the Council abnormal, cures for tiredness. country may therefore feel to see them go, and far from of Europe, M. Paul Van Zeeland, Leave the tablets to shipwrecked flattered that so many think | hampe the country's Belgian Foreign Minister, Berior naval men who were given them liftin e Cil Restaurants buses females or "awarestart Abey fell interue after
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