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THE SUNDAY POST-HERALD
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arrives
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NEGRO corporal, But no flags fly said: "Yes, it is really shameful installations
Matthias
nearly 7ft. tall, wear-
of Bordeaux M. Chaban-Delmas, map of American forces, and in Southwest that we have to try to play (France. down the very thing we should
American help. But what can
Faced with this map the
Hoover for the Advance be shouting from the rooftops Americana anile and say that
-ing a bolge half-cont
as soft and thick as a blan- GuardofAmerica's you do? It is from Paris that with so many confessed Com-
ket,
pauses
in the main
a move must come. Such half- munista
street of Bordeaux to take Peace Army...8ays nut bands."
heartedness plays into Commu- and buliding the camps the
a cigar from his lips. and blow far and wide a philoвO-
(phic cloud of smoke."
So this, he
вестя to
HUGO
be thinking, in Bordeaux, CHARTERIS tablished. They suggested that unions to
France. Well, that's O.K. by him, if it's O.K. by Bor- deaux.
unloading tho boats
map had no excuse for being. Inaccurate. American officials explained But if the Americans сал how it had taken soveral joke about Communist dockers months of negotiation with the unloading American arma the French Government before
Their the Communist chiefs can't. Bordeaux dumps could be es appeals to members of Red throw the stuff in part of the agreement eventually the sea or to refuse to unload signed had dealt with publicity it have been ineffective.
or, rather, the restriction of
Arms are duo But these perconal remarks it-in order that Left-Wing opinion in France should not But is it OK. by Bor- are all writion in French, so deaux? The passers-by, on much.
they don't trouble Matthias be stirred..
HE material unloaded to date Tis mainly for the American the whole, do not even treat STATIONERY, WRITING PADS, ENVELOPES, SUNDRY him to a stare. They are for being assured that it was dim- 2,000 of them in the area) bave with the first consignment
Certainly, American soldiers forces in Germany, but soon I went to the dump, after In Bordeaux (there are only a ship will arrive at La Polllec the moment (no kinder cult to approach without being specific orders to "make them Atlantic Pact generalisation is possible) arrested by the French guards, selves scarce's never to congre- for the men of Fontainebleau. apathetic to his presence, counted for the case with which vehicles. The cargoes are
Perhaps the heavy rain agate either themselves or their Already an enclosed camp has And yet this sloppily grace- I turned down the road to the loaded at a lonely quay at Le near La Rochelle. Probably they un- been prepared to receive them ful, dark corporal in his pig- "Explosive Area" and trundled Marquis, standing in waste land will be kept discreetly skin gloves is a rather his between steamrollers, embryonic at the mouth of the Garonne, 20 sight.. toric figure.
hangars, bulldozers, excavatora, klometres from Bordeaux- and castles of ammunition. This where no one will see. at last was something like it. Now for reality This was Blg.
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H
TTE has
paper never
arms, the
of
topla
out of
The Communists themselves could not have devised anything In spite of this discretion the more effective than the way in which the first carnest of Eure- A sentry stopped the car onee Communist local come to build the to insist that beyond
day pass without some
pean Defence in the Bordeaux where lets a road. Before he came
there proceed: Cigarette lighters and "Army of Occupation." were meetings of Ministers, of women. generals and Ananelers, there has been Fontainebleau and jamborees of Staff officers arranging Western Defence on
It had to be paper.
on paper hecause that was the only place where Western Defence had any reality.
little of dump down the he stood two things could never disparaging story about the area is being "played down."
and
Russia knows
commen DERHAPS there was guards. A percentage
sense in the laxity of the ol the Frenchmen making the dump are avowed Communists. What they know, Russia knows.
But now this surprising figure in the main street of Bordeaux- is in process of putting that straight because the little ol
Some of them, having lunch dump 70 kilometres down the in the local village of Captieux,
were not road at Le Poteau would cover opinion. The dump made good afraid to give their
said, but
work now, they
the Acton Golders
Green- Blackfriars triangle that is half w of Greater London with ease. wha sort of work would
And it is one of several similar Defence was just two
It make later? Western
words to them. What
more hap-
dumps serving the American forces in Germany or waiting to receive Atlantic Pact armas. poned last time and the time before and the time before that? Some days..ago Matthias was. All Western Defence, was it? front-page news in the local Pass the red wine.. Communist dally Les Nouvelles, He Was photographed with other coloured soldiers making the camp in the rain. The cap tion explained that the -white officers were cowering in their
tents while Matthias built an Imperialist springboard under compulsion.
Easy approach
The innkeeper nhnself shakes
a sceptical head. Captleux has
Since the vast dump at Le Poteau is not yet in a photogenie condition. Les Nouvelles has contented itself by publishing a
S
Matthias Hoover in the main street will need to know soon- and definitely-that it is "O.K by Bordeaux," for, as little ol': Napoleon said: "The morale is to the physical as ten is to one."
A GIRL Named Judy
by BILLY ROSE
everyone and his Aunt Esmerelda know 8,
seen a thing or two. It was a there's no business like French camp in 1914-18, a show business for the for- bombing range in the thirties-tunate few who make the then a German, and finally a British, dump. Now it was an grade. But- American dump. What next?
only
further
In 1940 a stage-struck lass No attempt is made in the from Nebraska named Juay way of publicity to combat this Peters moved into a New York notice that the apathy or to welcome the Ame-boarding house of Times money she could expect would THEN, the next day, the force, ricans and their depots. The Square and began looking for be train fare back to Nebrasko. Df which he is one two- Rugger international, 35-year- work in the theatre. As per And so, to keep body and thousandth, was damned as the old Resistance general. Deputy usual, she was average bright, hopes alive, the would-be "Second Army of Occupation." to the Assembly, and Lord Mayor round of face, figure and eye, Helen Hayes went back 10
KNIGHTS-ERRANT
OF MALTA
By ROBERT SHEARER
C
and determined to make her waiting on tables.
mark on the 45th Street mar- Last April, after three grim
quees.
years of scratch-as-scratch-
A few months later, thanks canning, Judy was handed the script of Keith Winter's old to a stage manager who took a hit, The Shining Hour, by the shine to her, she got her first director of a summer stock part-a three-line role in two-act play that lasted four company. He performances.
*
year after
asited her
bone up on the part of Judy Linden-a typical fur girl whose accent was pure mid- West, and
and whose face THE 3,000 Italians who and number of converted
Agure were more silo than sex. are members of the Savoy Marchetti three-engined
bombers. In future, when bound OR solid and sobering aristocratic
with- Knights of on their errands of mercy, they
The audition went off that, Judy
and hesitation Malta have offered their will fly the flag
eating the Knights made the rounds,
the out hitch ar charitable services to the of Malta-a white cross on a usual health salads and wait- Judy was in the heaven above
blood-red background.
ing on table to pay for her seventh when the director com- Government in the develop-
furnished
plimented her on how well she (after a fashion)
her ment of a Mediterranean
room. It was heart and arch- read her lines. He told "These planes are available breaking work, but
definitely air-sea rescue organisation.
it finally he'd let her know now," the Admiral said, "to
pald off when the Big Chance the following day and she went pick up SOS signals from ships
lead back to her ane-room-and- The offer has been ac- or planes in dificulties off the came along-e second
in a Shaw revival. cepted, and the Knights are Italian coast, and are ready to hoping to add A little of take off any time of the day The day after the play open- their own lustre to the Air night within a fairly limilled ed out of town, Judy wired
range from the coast to carry her folks they wouldn't Force pliots by whom medical supplies, blankets, to help her
have THE next night the landlady
and more,
smelled gas, but by rescue work has hitherto clothes, and so on.
when iheatre crilic
Judy George time the police arrived been done.
Jean Nathan singled her
out
Was dead. On the bed by her "There will be a doctor for mention in his review the side was the
The script of "Italy is a member of an aboard every aircraft from now farm girl figured it was all Shining Hour opened to the international body -con- on, and if heavy seas prevent over but the movie offers.
stituted at Geneva after the the occan, parachutes will be planes landing on the surface of war to help planes and used to sond supplies down. ships in difficulties," ex- plained a retired admiral,
ONE
NE swell
any
notice, however,
ย
doth not star make, and who is one of the moving · "As
a matter of fact very when the play closed_aller
signals are
ever run of three months, Judy had spirits behind the liaison fow distress between the Knights and picked up by an aircraft in to go back to job hunting. the Air Force.
light in the Mediterranean.
By this time her family, fed There are four very powerful up with her show business stations on the Italian mainland shenanigans, had
put her which pick these signals up
ke lightning.
"Besides being responsible for a large section of tho Mediterranean, Italy is also
"Orders generally go out from responsible for an area of
these points to an army unit, a the Adriatic Sea. I don't ship, a carabinieri post or per- know whether Tito is haps even to frontler guards, member of the Geneva depending on where a plane Convention or not, but at has crashed or
foundered. the moment we are cover- ng for him, too, so far as I know."
"P
a vessel has
"Obviously within such an organisation' the help that the Knights of Malta can give is somewhat limited, but we will contribute a little improvement to the organisation, here
And there. The Ong in ours, and, "in
The Knights of Malta be onging to the 900-year-old me, maybe we'll get some Catholic order of Saint really modern planes and new John of Jerusalera, do not equipment all round." have very great financin!
resources to allow them to
Today the main function of
the Knights of Malta is to give,
Hovelop an Independent air arat-aid to mutterers in time of
sea
The island whose.
rescue group of their war. own. As a matter of fact all they bear
them
was wrested from by Napoleon in 1789.
the pilota who will be used Nearly half a century intor the in future will be members Knights set up, their headquar- of the regular Air Forco tors in Rome, from which city! patrols, just as they have their activities continuo to be
directed. been in the past.
Nor is the order so exclusive Planes used for this rescue as it was in previous centuries. work, How amount to about 80 Even the nights bave to admit rather did and slow sapienes that time: marches: on.
DF-92
LEMON
bath to wait.
the
scene in Act Two where Judy Linden, the farm girl, takes her own life.
The cops, looking for a sui- cide motive, didn't have far to look. On the dresser was П note from the director: "Sorry, honey. You read the part fine,.
the but I'm afraid you're not type."
(World Copyright Retervaḍ-- London Erprasa Service),
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