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Arst
Sitting On The Fence
By
Nathaniel
"When I was 20 I wondered why girls were interested only in men, films and clothes. Now I am 30, despite intellectual abillies and love of beauty. I am completely alone."-Letter to e editor.
he
ASKED him what thought of Brahms, He anid "I couldn't say.”
I asked him what his interests
were;
His favourite poem, play.
I asked him what his reading
Wis.
Good fellon? Economics? He said he liked Wild Western
tales
And picture paper comles,
I took him to a concert once,
A symphony in F. He wriggled on his
seat and
coughed
And sold it made him deat.
1 dragged him to the
100,
opera,
But when the tenor sang
He said, "What's this? A comte
turn?
"Why not the Crazy Gang?"
the country
walked him in
Lancs
To smell
nowers.
the
sweet
wild
Of birds and beasts and herbs
and trees
I talked for hours and hours. He clamped my waist and kissed
my hair
And called
dear.
me names
most
1 sald "I'm not that kind of
giri."
no
He said, "Let's have a beer." The girl he married has
brains, She's never heard of Brahms, But she has "oomph"
has "1"
and sho
And she has rounded arms. Her empty head is shining gold, Her rounded arms are filled With all
this clever the love girl With empty arms has killed.
Gubbins
with an iron ball.
Splendid.
I said a good-length ball was ane pitched on a mine laid over- night by an under-privileged and starving groundsman. Then things got rather beastly.
Beastly, Carraway?
They thought a maiden over was d nort of cricketer's sweet- heart. Over to you, so to speak. they tried to bribe me to play for the Moscow Dynamites,
What sort of bribe, Carra- way?
Well, they offered me all the wine wanted and all the... well, all the...
What, Carraway?
All the girls I wanted,
Good heavens, Carraway. Yosi refused, of course?
Naturally, Russian wine even worse than the beer in the pavilion.
It's
your money
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Well played, Sir "Money for now battleplanes
war
It is possible to argue that
CCORDING to a correspon HE Soviet Govern Washington, and probably in consideration of a bargain that
be offered next month the West has this advantage so A dent in a local paper, there But as for the ment's
in
some and to which the three Western long as it refrains from re- is still among us a tiny band of proposition,
Once the faithful convinced that I expected hurd thinking has to be done nations should prepare a con- militarising Germany.
would piny German army is made--whether only foreigners certed attitude in advance.
the menace of The attitude of the Germans it is for the whole country or cricket a four-Power conference on If this is a bargain offered by
the two-thirds DOW in would disappear from the world Germany pose a problem in the Russians, then it is presum- themselves is difficult to arrive for
a bargain from which ut. One of the most reliable re- Western hands-it will have a for ever. the three Western capitals. ably
calculate they will even- porters in Germany, M. Georges de facto sovereignty of its
Let us assume for a moment The slow conversations be- they
Western Penchenter of Le Monde,
that cannot be gainsaid. gain. If the last November with the
accept
from
the the offer, then porled
Berlin recently As
Weimar period, that the Russians have
up cricket Soviet proposition of a four-
would be governed acceptance implies con- that the Berliner was becoming Germany
They want to learn more fidence that the Soviet Union more interested in the outcome by the generals of the "Black has miscalulated. They must ot negotiations between East Reichswehr." And Democracy about the game, so they have Such kidnapped an English cricketer, certain in mind that the and West. The German was in- will go down the drain. slons and pointed the eagerness bargain offered by the Russians clined to ask what he had to a regime might and its affinities handsome Jack Carraway. Ox-
Lan
Power
conference confined 10 Germany. Since then the wo succeeding Soviet notes liuve
indicated substantial conces-
tually Alites. their
be
of Moscow to hold discussions would in the end be more pro- "on the basis of the
Potsdam ftable to the West
Agreement" concerning
the
future of Germany and other
problems
presume
efforts in
We can
EAST HINTS
lese
own
in
In adopting the political with Moscow,
laken
ford and England all-rounder, who has now escaped and is giving evidence before an as- tonished committee of the M.C.C.
and military system that has existed in Austria for six years. BETTER HEART For in Austria military occupa
ND it can be argued, too, tion continues, but there 4
that once the rearmament of of central and freely elected fram other recent FROM the point of view
Red Western Germany is forgotten propaganda, the Russians are Austrlan government.
countries the
of Western diplomy making a point that will be Army police operate within but Europe will be in better heart They wanted to know if I be
as well,
Soviet
that the Kremlia
anxious to have the Western anst
the the West. Powers postpone plans for rearmament of Germany.
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MORAL FORCE
of view.
tent
What happened, old man?
usual questioning. Oh, the
ΤΟΠΕ sympathetically heard in Soviet
haved in the Atlantic Pact and There are so many ther: is no equivalent to the to defend themselves. doubly-in-Britain and France oppressive East German But the supreme argument if my father was a capitalist.
for going into these negotiations,
impudence. What Damned The three Western Govern- in Belgium and Holland, about Government.
which certainly ought to be ments face a decision which the wisdom, and justice; and
allowed to open in Poris as did you say?- Western rearming they must take now, before the sense
(which Inevitably THIS reporter emphasised that soon as possible, is that for the I said I didn't know anything talks begin. They must declae Germany
attitude of the Western first time for five years the about the Atlantic Pact, but whether there is any bargain means putting some Nazis back he enunating from the Kremlin in command), that many will German politician at Bonn, of Russians want to negotiate that my father, Lord Carraway, was a brutal millionaire; own- political party, did not much that they are willing to that would persuade them to say automatically, "We should any
of go to this conference and wo necessarily coincide with the make preliminary concessions. ing hundreds of black slaves. forgo the rearmament
fact in itself means that Western
the should accept any Soviet bar current general German point This Germany.
the Western Powers--if they Did they swallow it? Se gain that reverses German re- Powers do not Western
Hook, Une, and sinker. can agree, all three-would go The advantage of reaching a hove
Good-o. What else? is any offer the armament as well in the East
the conference with some make which will as in the estern Zones".
temporary settlement with the to
of Russia in
They wanted to know what I told them deter them from
But rearming
there is a danger in Soviet Union on the matter of demands
that a hat-trick, was for concessions,
match. thinking this Germany, then they not
argument Germany
can only be based change Western
course and on
the may in the end turn out to when a team had lost an assumption that should
numbers and one blank find reason for not at through, its logical
shuffled in hot. The were a renewed council of depending, Instead, os emotion. Western Powers have a moral te to our moral advantage,
asked to
The fact that the Russians want force that will weigh with There are It could be that we are
member of Ministers,
should conference
not who drew the blank was Germans, and that furthermore this several reasons available-in- give up great material strength
advantage. ire verbal mere
Russians have under make the United States afraid hot before a howling mob of cluding the flagrant build-up of for
The
conceived programme дя
going. Rather. It should
bloodthirsty aristocrats, satelite armies.
the Petersburg is that the estimated this moral force. We of
must be convinced that there is make the United States aware To go to the meeting and to in
Army could number turn down propositions offered German by the Soviet Union that are, 130,000 men by the end of this an ideological consanguinity be that, for the first time in five tween Germans and Western years, it now has a strong bar- number half and in a year,
a Europeans
that will in the raining position in Europe and cordance with Western demoera-million by the end of 1952. In end, outweigh all evil, nation that therefore it should go to alist ΟΙ commercial tempta- the conference expecting good le principle would be the worst 1953 the West German Army
to me of it. possible way. It must be clear would be a really formidable tions from the East. that if "The West" goes to renewed conference
It may be that an unarmed on Ger-
unified with free mony and Austria it is seeking Germany, a setilement and anxious to elections, could be overthrown and one. Otherwise, it will be by a carefully prepared armed this is surely the Soviet Union that will ex- uprising: but
ad- doubtful unless the Rushunis tract all the propaganda
from the vantago
manoeuvre lengthy can
Allied forces THE richest refugees in the world are on
T the run. out of the
And country, there not something surprising
on
the face of them,
manoeuvre.
THE PROBLEM
the
all parties in Eastern Germany
and,
after an interim period.
free electionă. The conditions
force.
а
the foring
team then
That's the stuff to give 'em. Go on.
I told them a leg break was when you broke a batsman's leg
"Warships going to sea.". When you've pald your income.
tax
See what you've put by Have no doubt, draw it out
And kiss your dough good-
byc.
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You who will not furn, Squeeze another afteen bob Little though you earn; After paying purchase tax
Feeling you've been done Threepence over twenty bob
In nineteen-sixty-one,
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Mother in the queue Five and threepence proff then
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|POCKET CARTOON
by OSBERT-LANCASTER-
But, darling. Len't that frightfully unlucky-like. walking under a ladder or
something 7
THE TREASURE CARAVAN
A train of overladen mules,
in the hints that have, been put carrying a fantastic treasure, stumble over
the
ESCAPES DOWN
ROAD OF GOLD
bulilon reilea and
over Asin, carrying
"Our orders were to push on
as fast as we could. It was the most gruelling ride of my life."
"The situation
No the problem should be pre- out by the leaders of the East the roof of the world along the Road of
German Republic -Herr Gold from Tibet to India. sented now and answered at Grotewohl, in particular? It is
The bulging mule packs contain for- Once. The
Cabinet British spent a meeting discussing the odd to hear of a Communist
boss suggesting he should him tunes in gold ingots, in precious stones Issue recently. Comparable d
self abandon absolute power net in heavy Tibetan platinum mountings, heart-searchings are doubticar in
in part of Germany in ex in beautifully woven Lhasa progress in Paris and Washing change for leadership
Lama himself. The 17-****...................... of the carpets worth £50. a square tan. Here is the problem. The Communist Soviet
A sold and black lacquered RUSSELL SPURR Foreign Minister Opposition in the inch and used for covering year-old priest-king rides in Government may offer
"We're whole of Germany-for that Ger would unification
Dzasa Surkang told me. chairs. of
surrounded by undoubtedly be
palanquin
********* till trying to make peace, but many on the political basis nc
After the wealthy come silk-robed nobles on prane- *******
we hardly know where to be- cegled
by the West There result of the poll,
the monks. with the trea- ing ponies.
But they fed before it as gin." would be political liberty for
NEW PLAN
The Dalai Lama's molter, sures of dozens of ancient A huge male train loaded people are doing today all
to Tibetans as the same known OOKED at in that way Herr monasteries. Their precious with
Is that too Grotowohl's conciliatory re-relles, carried in gold caskets sacred treasures, valued at more pitiful bundles and wearing the "Mother," said: "We only want
much to ask nowadaya?” would be, on the Russian side, marks seem suspicious. It can beneath a huge, gilded um- than one million sterling, winds same beaten looks of blank to live in nee
behind bim through flower- bewilderment and despair, abandonment of plans to es bo explained that Communist
Millionaire wool trader Drung tablish the “22 boosted brigades" leaders
bystanders alled, pine-dringed valleys. of brella, the bidding
The wealthy vanguard of this Yik never had faith in the Com- All around ride sharp-eyed
Chinese always en-munlata. caravansern) are for the Atlantic Pact and, on Moscow and that, if Moscone bowing to the dust as tho
The JD soldier the Western side, the disband- "had decided the East German cortege passes..
shaggy woollen endless
"Everyone sees through their of the East German Repubile was not akiing
town of Kalimpong. Behind come porters jackets
talk of liberating the country.. Security Police. Are the three cause, it has ordered
Princess Metol in case of a surprise attack.
of Sikkim, a What they don't see are the Rus- Western Powers prepared
; tconnicians to Grotowohl to change his tune struggling under borte American rifles coming Dew camped near the Indian border wanted Tibet," he said.
retreat buffer state between India and slan geologists and The Dalat Lama's Holy Books (delicately accept
bargain on" those just as he is doing, **
accompanying... the Itrackingg terms!
But then we must presune painted on lacquered slivers brought headlong fight. Every Tibet, told me:
one who could turned bis face
forces, prospecting
for oil The Soviet Government would Moscow has found a new world of bamboo), bojewelled on from Tibet towards Yatung "The Chumbi Valley was filled
tranfum, prpparing ditca
for with little groups of people airfielde probably like to go even further plan-coneflation in the West,
not heading for, India. “ withdrawal of and the onward march in the prayer wheels and priceless and India and offer the
The latest refugdes are Boviet forces in exchange for Esat. Such matters carry us hand-painted silk banners the withdrawal of Allled: forces into the realm of astrological depicting Buddha and scones wealthy, They are peasants and The woodhor was cold though amall traders who know little of the sun was blazing. Many elder from Germany. We can be speculation far from the sub from his life...
the ugly Rod shadow spreading ly folk were taken ilk on pretty certain that this second feet inder discrasing which is a
Last comes the Dalai across their land.
way. bargain would be unacceptable very hardheaded and practical
ment
tho
Herr
bring
trail
with
the
P
we Tibolans feck that with so much at stake the tree world might have done more to aid us, the especially our old friend
British
the