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Sitting on the
Nursery rhyme
"People must learn to love me. President Peron.
I love little Peron, his beef
is so nice,
And if I don't hurt him he'll
sell me a slice.
I won't pull his leg, or call
him a pig,
Then rations from butchers
will be twice as big,
Back to work
L
IKE the miners (and who can blame them?)
back to
Fence....
NATHANIEL GUBBINO
at the dictation of a couple of revolutionaries.
Then you must be prepared for internal troubles during 1951.
Happy days
It is
get them, they are likely to make you very ill, particularly after your severe attacks of in- will be fluenza. The weather terrible, too. During this month; Vyshinsky will say "All I want is peace."
if a general election has not already occurred, JULY is a likely month for this poculiar
WHATS GOING ON
by EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE
STEEPLECHASE being crowned by lumps of
A partnership gaining masonry.
much pubile affection In June, the Dean and Chap-
ter launched an appoal, wistful-
is that between the Queen ly asked for a quarter of a and trainer Peter Cazalet, million pounds.
who used to look after Lord Now I report that they already Mildmay's horses.,
£120,000, nearly every
have
came from a
Many feared that the fatal penny from Yorkshiremen.
Half a crown accident to, her star. 'chaser, Manaveen, would furn the woman whose husband proposed Queen from her now found
on top of the centre tower in 1080, enthusiasm for the sport,
But I am told'sha in as keenns ever-keen enough, anyway, to drive in bitter weather from
Sandringham to Kempton Park to watch Manicou win on Boxing Day.
Now, I bellevc, Cazalet looking out for some young horses to add to her string.
s
. Another partnership which hos
this season grown up between father and
son.
Is
A
to her
One snag seems likely to hold back the work. Sald Mr Peter Ferrey, organising secretary of the fund:
"Our great concern is the lack. of stonemasons. It is apparently a dying trade."
On skis
HIGH UP in the Alps, on the
above
20 For slopes
Zermatt, men and women are
new amateur slar is rising in British
tho
west-18-year-old Michael training to challenge the aces of Scudamore, who first rode under the snow countries at their own National Hunt rules nine months game-on skis.
They are looking ahead to and
season's Olympics, 20 next
they
know that they must
ago, and has already ridden 12 winners and been placed times.
Most of the horses he rides practise hard if Britain is to do when wo are trained by his father on the better than in 1948, farm which they run together at were lost or nearly last in most Much Dewchurch, Hereford- events.
form of misery. Still tottering shire,
The short cut
Outstanding among the women are two sisters, Sheens (22) and Vora (21) Macklutosh, nieces of the Duke of Hamilton- father was one of the pro-
from your two attacks of flu and with the eggs giving out, you will be involved in bitter argu-
A FEW WEEKS ago I told Their ments with friends and possibly cracked on the nose by some of how the frat soldier to be saved best allers Britain ever them. The entire chorus
at by penicillin during the war duced.
Among the men, fnir-haired, The Kremlin will shout "All we was the Hon. William McGowan,
whose father, Lord McGowan, 21-year-old Sandy Whitelaw is want is peace."
wes head of Imperial Chemical our hope. He has the advantage
to school in Industries, then beginning to of having been
Switzerland, but apart from that produce the drug.
☆
But Sandy
Most people think about holl-i I can now give more details of he is an intrepid skier. And one
time this extraordinary story.
of the most enthusiastic. days in AUGUST. This
Four and a half years ago we I.C.I. Quite by chance, an you can think again. With most!
were in Cortina together on a of your money spent on arma- representative in Cairo told a In APRIL, when people of the ments, you can stay at home senior R.A.F. Staff officer of hot summer's day. Skling was I was slow in getting OLD Moore Gubbins, the world
famous astrologer, offers northern hemisphere are usually and listen to the bad news of Bill McGowan's plight-he was months away.
insisted that I aituation, then at the point of death. International work after the his usual unreliable prophecies made cheerful by the sound of the
bird song and the for the New Year,
sight of which usually gets worse wheni Christmas holidays.
The I. C. I. man was sure that should plod up one of the steep- blossom, the defence Budget the harvests are in. Mr First there was the job of I the weather
Wu only penicillin could save him, est runs with him to show him experts say will knock most taxpayers out the Chinese Communist, will But it was needed at once, the the lie of the land. clearing up the desk, covered, as JANUARY will be cold.
nearest stock was in Scotland, it was, with appeals to feed the likely to be mild. If they say for the count. Stalin will say say "All I want is pledes."
again. "All I want is peace."
Father 'Joe' could be starving Chinese, Invitations to it will be mild, look out for
The taxpayers will
In SEPTEMBER there will be und no official action recover
TWO CHILDREN'S stories r write free articles for magazines, snow, hall, sleet, frost. During a request to compose verses for "All I want is peace.”
this month Stalin will
say consciousness in the merry month no eggs at all. If there's still taken to get it to Cairo.
Then the R. A.F. officer. went have this week from behind the charade (no fee), a demand to
of MAY, with no money left to no meat agreement, you'll have FEBRUARY,
•che
iri detail, for he Father Christmas is a small- influenza spend at the Festival of Bri- to live on oysters and roast pea- into action. What he did may Iron Curtain. They show that
cocks. In OCTOBER the oysters not be told give an opinion on a list a month, will live up to its reputa tain. Russin will begin spring and peacocks will give out, so flagrantly ignored the "usual time guy compared with Joseph written by a 13-year-old girl, an
killers tion. Russian activities will all manoeuvres at several places at appeal to provide humane kell for the newspapers with abnormally: once. Molotov will repeat "All you'll have to live on caylar and But, early one morning, a The first from Rumania. T
ler depressing news which you can we want is prace."
we shall be croalding at each friend of his in the Air Ministry have a reproduction of a picture- under to help the
der read in bed with a high tempera-
was wanted, and widely circulated this Christmas: privileged doggles of Asia, and ture during savage fuel cuts, in flaming JUNE If they hit of turkeys we may never get why.
East winds are always probable other in the fog about the price knew what a lot of smelly chicken bones
among the Rumanian young, During this month Molotov will
He contacted Lord McGowen. Jeft
Com- your weak im Mr Ho, the Hindonesian Lottie the Devil Cat, who
It shows a benevolent Stalin by
"All I want is must have
third a meat agreement
pesor," caten her
poverished condition, you
same day a packet of accepting flowers from adoring are munist, will say "Hail Hi want That Christmas dinner in my room.
is not likely to get another dose of his pleace,"
penicillin travelled by air from children. something worse.
Hendon, thence by Then there was trouble with signed with the Argentine by u. Maybe
For DECEMBER Old Moore Scotland to Tum and Liver. After working MARCH, there will be hardly Russia will start
naval Gubbins
despatch rider to another air- "Stalin wish only cggs. As manceUVICS. Stalin, Molotov, another merry
field in the South of England, friend," and Christmas and overtime for three days they anything to eat but
may eggs will have and Vyshinsky will say "All we say "Pesce to hall I want, too, and thence, in a tunic pocket, where the message were reluctant to snap back into most
travelled a long way before you want is peacă.” form.
money
Dr Gubbins, their chief medical adviser, sent down dose after dose of soothera and stimulants alternately, with the result that both were in a state of revolt by Thursday.
Dialling TUM
HULLO, Is that my stomach
to
of the
INSIDE
GENERAL
Gruenther,
of Staff to
you
and
you
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·
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Canada Is providing arms and equipment for one Dutch division in payment of wartime costs incurred in Holland.
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An important meeting of the Politburo has decided to
the Middle East in 1851.
generals who Are you holding a pistol at my recently deserted to the hing. Coment civil war in Europe and
have been taken to Washing- ton.
hend?
would if I had one, Don't tell me you've both joined a trade union.
for
*
Mao Tse-tung was informed of this before he agreed to at-
British and American ship- We have considered striking ping experts have worked out
48-hour work, but as you a plan to pool their oll tankers tack In Korea. a must be nourished on Sunday, in emergency, we have fixed it at 50 hours.
You mean I can send things down for eight hours a day only?
That is our final decision. Suppose I have breakfast at
8 a.m. Can't I send anything down ofter 4 pm.?
1
WA
You can stagger your hours. So I can still have three meals day?
Of course,
Then what's the difference?
I think you are aware we are
not striking against the intake of too much food.
I see.
•
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The Dollar Exports Board set up to promote British trade .with the US. will be abolished
in March.
channels."
to Cairo.
Stalin.
Underneath
are the
words
4
best is the children's
ruled space
be
written out, copy-book style.
Next morning the doctors had
The second story is from East it. One man's initiative and Germany, where a woman, Frau courage in flouting regulations→→→ Elsa Zafsser, has been appointed brought fe to William Mc- Under-Secretary to the Minister Gowan.
of Education.
Pride of York
Frau Zaleser's promotion has been rapid. Not long ago she ww# · an elementary school
GOOD NEW YEAR tidings teacher. for Yorkshiremen: by their
York Minister.
What qualities fitted her for
It is considered that dolin: own generosity they are saving so sudden a leap to the top of without help from the board.
be high enough
exports will
the tree? The best-behind the A year ago, notices were Iron Curtain. posted round the building ward- Her husband is head of the Soviet agents hope to ascer-ing visitors to keep clear. The Soviet-controlled
falling down and Police, walls were from German taln
sightseers were in danger of whether Heligoland' is properly demilitarised.
German
•
squatters
engineers are de. veloping fighter aircraft with: rocket acceleration for Russia at Komsomolsk factories.
Full consultation on the atom bomb, begun by Churchill and
People's
-(London Express Service)
From NEWELL ROGERS
EVEN THE STARS BUY BRITISH
CREEN
Wilde
NEW YORK.
stars
Mr Churchill will ask Mr Attlee to make a fuller state- ment to the House on co-opera- tion with the US, on atomic Britain will be the Arst affairs.
one. year's victories tet lo Power Greete may adopt emergency
to possess
1,000 mph
Cornel 1000. He did it in spite of in- legislation on the American Oghter aircraft.
juries received in the first fall pattern.
and Joe E. of his career a few weeks ago. Russia to China has asked
among the
But Culmone Wag down- The Argentine Government transfer naval patrol boats to Roosevelt in 1843, has not been Brown are
resumed since the Fuchs case. 18,000 Americans who hearted. His 19-year-old rival, has surprised British negotia- the Chinese flog.
Shoemaker, few to in Willie cara bought British tors by quoting the exact size
Britain may order four hun-
Axgua Calientes, Mexico, and of Britain's meat stocks.
And actress Ginger rode his 308ir winner, 1950.
which drod Sabre jet fighters from Canada.
Rogers got a British sports was named Bust Out. So they car for Christmans.
tied for championship-
Britain's
/ Mao Tre-tung fears деге Chiang by commando ralds Kai-shek on his exposed south
Leakages of secret informa- tlon in London
coast. suspected.
ure
have honours.
Russian MIG15 jets, which The British Board of Trade * Detroit factories have just first appeared in Korea, have ig perturbed at continued boen given orders for military been sighted exercising in the had their best year ever. They eldics have ended. By law,
purchase of raw materials and equipment During part of the holidays semi-finished goods by visiting 000. things
buyers. Although were coming down almost American
this carns dollars, raw material non-stop.
stocks for But I sat down medicines.
British Medicines, unless prescribed are dwindling. by a competent authority, only caure further chaos.
A
»
J
totalling £250,000- Berlin air corridor.
cold
1940.
+
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Socialist Members of Parta-
Burmese guerillas are being trained in China.
In factories ment expect a capital levy
the Budget.
•
Russian
rear-admiral, is appointed
An important group
favours post to Socialist Party in paning steel nationalisation.
Whether you like it or not, I Shorokhov, refuse to change my way of life command the Polish Navy
POP
WHY IS THE
BOILER OUT
· NO
COKE
ME
WHY DIDN'T you TELL
BEFORE
bought
British
EGG AND POTATO sub-
car salesmen have
4,000 cars more than in
the Government had to buy Canadians
nearly what the farmers had to sell, 50,000 more
models and it could not resell them to housewives below the high than in 1949.
So the farmers General MacArthur is ex-
In the New Year the motor retail price. pected to prohibit all exports car. dollar-earners ought to be produced mountains of surplus The ess and potatoes. At able to sell every model that is eggs Japan to China.
murplus is now 3,000 million. present only trade in strategic shipped across the Atlantic. materials is banned.
Detroit is cutting back pro- HOLLYWOOD cannot duction because of war work, member
4 year when inste And most American cars cost stare got divorces than in 1950. more.
But in Reno, the divorce But two worries chat shadows capitol, 21,701 couples were across their hopes:-
in the from
· Kitchen nuts!
BECAUSE WE HAD SONG
BEFORE
They
+
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the
married compared with fear that manufac 4,500 who got divorced, ' 14urers are going to have to
ENGLISH TEACHERS are announce that Americans must going to write a new grammar, |pay more der British models which will permit the use of because Atlantic shipping "shall" and "will" and "who". costs: hava rison 20
interchangeably. percent and "whom” and production costs are on They my the old, rules create the rise at home.
an "anxiety neurosis" among not sure of speaking
2 The
correctly.
fear that
defence Drople work in Britain' is going to cut back car output there, too. THE FIRST TV college for. RING THE BELL WAI the adults, televised froin. a Pilla name of the 38th winner rid- delphia station, with professors den
18-year-old Jockey lent by: 17 schools, will open
Jos Cuidione in Cuba in 1900, with
to equal a racetrack record of, phonics.”