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E.
EAVE New York for
a fortnight and what happens? The British dismissed as Bo much wall-papor when I took-off for Texan and Mexico, is now strenuously sought
after,
The telephone rings constant- ly in the Dilly Mail office here. "What about the £7 Bound to go up, isn't it? Heard about the flow of gold to England? Quite a come-bock.”
The financial expert of the Associated Press comes in and expresses his high opinion of the £. The Wall Street Journal inquires about a possible three- dollar rate for storlizig.
Tourists line up at the coun- ters of Cook's and the American Express
agencies in Fifth- Avenue. They want £'s.
The
in the
nonciers downtown are market for £'s. The
New York, Tuesday
A
Hora the mood is for solt- success in "Call Me Madam," discipline and for self-criticism, musical satire on Perle Mesta, Distillers have been asked to cut though the show could be bat- ter. Merman is magnificent sing- their production of whisky by 15 ing *Tho Homcas with the per cent.. and spending on race- Mostes' on the Ball." And Mr courses, dance halls, amusement Mesta will probably be pro- porks, and cinemas has been' moted from Minister to an Am- eurbed. Instalment buying has bassadorship. bean plashed.
Lily Pons abandoning opera- tio digilty, is taking on Merman
manner,
Best Friend" and going through burlesque routing with wiggling hips, and seductive posturės show her versatliity—or some- thing.
thb
All of a sudden the £amtida Area Giris
singing
Mr Truman's Democrats, ex- and the sale of perts in barter office, profesa and despair
that theft opponents have been pro- mising political Jobs for services rendered or challenges withdrawn.
has become popular
Mr Dewey's Republicans, pkilled in the "x" and the ebm promise, doclaro dheir outrage at their rivals raffling rewards,
York.
to
The British play "Daphne Laureola burring Exlith Evans and Übcil Párkor, will be with- drawn next wook-too expen-
Prices are now completely out of hand and there is even fright- oning talk of the flight from the dollar. It is not a flight but a somewhat hurried departure. slydi. Actually the dollar is worth about half its value of ten years ago.
en
is being promoted and praised Political deals hero are Inflation floats up to the strato
as colld, stable, and safe.
Bogart's aim
ia
BOGART Voters borad Naturally the workers are de- HUMPHREY
completely unperturbed at manding wage increases, and they are getting five to ton per being barred from the Stork and THE city is not
tough, and robust as it used But as soon as their pay
ucent, boosts from count to coast. El Mofced night clubs Etre. "It takes a long time to develop a to be. When politicians begin to despised, denounced, beaten have conselences something are fattened the mer- repulsive character like mine down currency
of the United strange has happened to Now ing again. The vicious circle to get barred from
pump up the cost of live you've got to wark at it. I plan Madison- Kingdom and the sterling area
has become a nightmare and in- quare Garden."
evitable. They are always with ophore. us. I find no anger among the Every time a spokesman in voters. They are bored by the serial story,, Will Harry Truman Is all rather like a lurid London denies that any revalua- blather. They want houses, Dave Miss America from a fale tion of the £ at a higher level dollar that rings true and buys worse than death? Is there time President Truman and General Hoard around town: Now that Bority for is cpatemplated there are m. › hard,
themselves to snatch the heroine to safety MacArthur have met, a non- mediate crica of "Ah! the and for the country.
batore disaster? Bag next week's 'aggression pack is expected. ahrowd British-always were
Particularly they would like ripping lastalment or, better, financial wizards. Denlais mean the real reason for the Truman-
buy pounds. nothing; you can bet your bot MgoArthur meeting, and the tom dollar that sterling's going true story of what went on at up,"
Wake.
Bob Hope says evening gowns gut more daring all the time- the front is now daring the back.
clans act because they feel the Footnote: Too many politi-
heat, not see the light.
Uncle Sam has Gurpassed Atlas-he is carrying the world, of the nation's wealth, have the his pockets.
The women, with 70 per cent. with ali the world's hands in most to lose. They suggest one Ploasant change
Mr Truman is Commander- plain solution-more production, in-Chief and the boss. Why did And they are right.
fly a 13,000-mile "THAT. FORSYTE WOMAN” is so nice to come home to he have to
a roscate atmosphere, round trip to seo the hired help, It is stimulating to be considered however distinguished and bril solvent again. For months I
Ilant the help might bet have been handled with con- summate care by my American resign? friends, treated delicately as the impoverished representative of
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such
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Now my standing is restored. I have £'s, and I might even be able to lend dollars.
The Dionnes
The Dlonne quintuplets, shy, sweet, and unsophisticated, have
Had MacArthur threatened to been in town, singing "The Side- walks of New York," and hemmed in and harassed by es- corts of motor-cycles.
Anyone would think that rutard of separate
Christmas Preview
Although the Christmas season is nearly a month away, youngsters can visit Santa- Cloná at a nearer North Pole; this one is on Whiteface Mountain, near Wilmington, N.Y. The children are helping Mother Hubbard to feed a reindeer at Santa's workshop, which has been visited by more than 500,000 children and adults. (Acme).
GREEKS ASK OF FORMER
ATHENS.
FAVOUR ENEMY
By MICHAEL MANNING
a country on the rocks- man sovereign hardly able to pay for his round States had met, and I expect The quintuplets are free · of the two Powers to exchange artifice. They have been beau- Ambassadors at any moment, tifully brought up and they Mr Truman is said to have majorette who prances down. shame overy stenting, drum- acted "ke an insurance sales- the avenues here. 'They are man who has at last signed up dressed an important prospect,"
with almost austoro and MacArthur "appeared dublous
severity.
smokers for 10 years) is left to shilling. "You cannot complain over the extent of the coverage."
the lives of rot in Greek storehouses, and if the German Army does not Fashion experts here are ap-
unless Greece finds customers pay," he was told. palled. They say that glitter and 180,000 families, the for it soon, there will be much colour, satin and sparkle, dla- Greek Government is today poverty among the Greeks--one in Greece in 1944 marked the The landing of British troope monds (real or make-believe) officially asking favours in every seven-who depend-end of Dr Hess's career in this WELL, the American public that challenge the stars are the from a German they at one
upon this product for their country.
assistants He and his vogue for The the premium. pays
Hving, pubile is paying more and more fastened on to the skin by suc- criminal.
flow to Germany with look is to wear Jewels time labelled
top- Finding no other way out, the when Hitler
ranking German officers, aut Greek Government set them Greek Bureau of War Criminals was defeated the
The dollars would obviously come in handy for the politi clans. They need them for the pay-offs and the deals which are the outstanding feature of the current election campaign..
It seems that every candidate
Pay, pay, pay
is involved in some transaction
the clear.
and arrangement. No one is in
and it is beginning to hurt tion. America cannot foot all the bills The "Ironclad and unbreakable" There never has been such agreements have descended like generosity. Fifteen thousand snowstorms on the party plat million pounds in foreign aid forms.
since the war.
.
the
autumn.
The
To
save
18
War
of
tradition.
But
Indiscreet letters testifying to all over the world all the time, thank you." They have been America, Britain, and several the German smoker and repej asked the Allies for their ex-
quintuplets say: "No, And the Greaks complain that selves to reconquer the taste of the most welcome visitors New other countries are responsible the invasion of
Virginian York has had for a long time. for forcing them to an act of
tobacco. Broadway and Hollywood humiliation.
But the German official with LIVES AT STAKE have, of course, offered all sorts
whom they had to deal cop- of lures and inducements, but Before the war. half
recently everything had cerning the import of tobacco
to be cancelled. The very lives the quintuplets are not interes-Greece's exported tobacco went in Western Germany was a Dr of 130,000 Greek familles were ted. Anyway, the entertainment to Germany, and the Germans Hess, whose extradition was de at stake the same families who competition is fierce just now. lked the taste of cigarettes manded by the Greek Bureau of were ruined by Dr Hess during Ethel Merman is ♫ strident mande from it.
War Criminals for alleged the war. The Greek Govern crimes in Greece during the ment had to make a courageous German occupation.
SIMPLE PROCESS
A British Crossword Puzzle
Dunce
ACROSS
Yowns Discontinuo meetings
Free
Dzym
11 Came out
13
Worldly
18 Yellowish
10 Bë rèpentëð
10 Oppressivo deinand
20 Destroyed
21 Anger!
DOWN
1 Headquarters of regiment 2-Primary
a Rule prescribed
4 Lubricate
A Lavish
0: Used
Greed frugally
10 Handcuffs
12 Communication
13 Sufferer for a cause 14 Tallied
FLYING WAR WOUNDED FROM KOREA
But after the war, the taste of the German smoker changed in favour of American Virginian Eigarettes, smuggled into that country.
they were
for the
move.
Relying on a clause of a law) of 1945 which provided leniency When the Germans occupied for the Communists who had American tobacco producers Greece, Dr Hess thought it ad- tölten part in the firmed upris- Srasped this opportunity
to visable to set up a "business" of ing, the Cabinet Council decided conquer the German market, his own. With the assistance of to exonerate Dr Hees and two und oust the Greek product nine Germans who were em of his "assistants' since, accop
ils predominant position. ployed in tobacco concerns in ing to the law, "important tas "Every packet of American Greece, he established what they tional issues were involved." cigarettes a GI gives his Ger- called "the monopoly
When the decision was ap- man girl friend helps to con- collection of tobacco for the proved, and duly notified to the First military hospital deman onc Greek family of needs of the German
Army
persons concerned - including by As In the United Kingdom to tobacco growers to death
allowed to wear the astounded officials of the be used by British war me.
starvation," a Greek official told the uniforms of German officers, Greek Bureau of War Criminals the process was very simple. -the Greek Deputy Prime casualties from Korea will
Dr Hess and his party toured Minister, Apart from the loss be the RAF hospital at German
Mr George Palan- of the the country, which they knew dreau, was informed that he market, Britain and well, and, it Wroughton, near Swindon. other
is alleged, forced countries which were
was expected at Bonn, where Greece's customers, before the Greek tobacco growers
Into he would negotiate with Dr Hess lies war now buy their tobacco from tions meant prison.
handing over this stocks. Oblec-
for the
A of Greek the Turkey, where it is cheaper, half though not of the same ne south of Greece they removed who crowded the Bureau
district in 4 small
the But Greek tobacco growers ride quality.
of tobacco 22,000 tons
stored War Criminals to demand ex- there. One of the producers, planations sald
We who was forced at the point of rather starve than ask favours would a gun, to hand over bis £5,000 of him. If he dares come to worth of stock, received one Greece we'll kill him,”
This 500-bed hospital
in
the heart of Wiltshire countryside, nn hourly ambulance
from
علم
hom.
Transport
Com terminus
in From Wroughton, calls
will go out to other hospitals,
LEFT TO ROT The last two years' production RAF, RN, Army and civil, ref Greek tobacco, amounting to questing the acceptance of the some 100,000 tons (enough" ta patients as soon as they are cover the needs considered fit for transfer, for
Wroughton RAF hospital la vir-
titally a singing
post" for over-
| Bean ·ensualties. to 80 beds Achievement
are held in constant readiness
to receive all dirborne
orne patients.
Most casualties to arrivo in the United Kingdom since routine air evacuation began, | 12 monilis
'Greek
In
tobacco to
SIDE GLANCES
By Galbraith
Of
Czech Doctors
Prague, Nov. 20. Czechoslovakia's Slate Health pars ago, have been me cfical and surgical cases from Institute has, perfected a met- Germany. Increasing numbers hod of recovering regenerating have been down from the Midstreptomycin from the urine of die East, and recently a regular patients treated with the service was inaugurated from drug, Recording to a claim Singapore.
made by the Prague Dews Service patients from, Tokyo paper Svobodone Slovo.
been taken by sea. to. About a third of the total Singapore and down on from amount given to a patient can Kingdom four or five days later, re-use under the new process, there, arriving in the United [be regenerated 'end älterød for
tanded to Tokyo, so that casual-loss of the drug was reduced les from Korça may reach from about 45 to 15 percent- England fnoré, quickly,
Router.
have
10 Subsequently 17 Shrink. WEDNESDAY'S CROSSWORD--Across: 1 Bios, 4 Creminte, 8 Acre: Cram, 10 Amiable, 11 Pen, 12 Haul, 14 Stutter, if Edged, 19 Bria, 23 Pay-roll, 30 Epce, 27 Limu, 28 Cabinet, 29 Elhu, 30 Grow, 31 Referee, 32 Stow. Down 3 Inroad, but the airlift tas now been ex the paper said, so that the final Sample, 4 Crane, 5 Remote, 6 Meant, 7 Tulle, 12 Heap, 18 Ugly, 15 Trip, 10. Rake, 10 Allege, 20 Ranowe, 21- Sedaty, 23 Amaze, 24 Raiso, · 24 · Litro.
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