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WISH I COULD START
HIM ON SOMETHING LIGHTER
1951.
THE TUSSLE FOR PERSIA'S OIL:
I reckon it's more than sunshine that keeps the
oil bubbling
Persian spirits, I still believe the oil nationalization vote has start- ed-up something which 114 stronger than a momentary_ro- action to Bunshine budding blossoms and coloured evm.
There are two possible courses The other leads towards-of-development, as I see it
By Sefton Delmer
TEHERAN, Mar. 19.
Clement
HAVE before me the furrowed browed
Attice, and its inscription reads: front page of Asnal The road on which walked
devotees.
THINGS will go on as they are doing. The oil commis alan will reassemble in April, of Kashani's gunmen will out-
(Tho' Guilds), a news- Hajir and Razmara," paper run by sympathisers Not a pleasant picture to greet after the New Year recess. Fear of Persia's terrorist Moslem Hussein Ala at his breakfast weigh the advice of foreign
An enormous this morning, just before Properts. The oil commission will photomontage cartoon takes senting his Cabinet to the Majlis. put up a scheme to Parliament For Hajir (murdered on Octo- on how to put through nation- up two thirds of the page.
ber 21, 1939) and Razmara (k- allsation, even though i knows It shows the now Premier, ed March 7) were assassinated it is hopeless. Parliament will Hussein Ala, In 0 double by devotees. Razmara died_after_accept Rt.
ugainst the oil breasted lounge sult, standing plumping
nationalisation project, "undecided-at-a-forked road.
The road on the left, marked "The road which leads to the people," shows a Persian, beggar maid protected by the scimitar flourishing Lion of Persia.
Sitting on the
"The grocer calls me duck.
The butcher calls me dearla."
The Hahmonger calls me love."
I don't ke 11."-Letter Woman, columnist.
D
to
O not call me "dcarie,"
butcher.
Do not call me "love"
Like the common people,
butcher,
I am far above; Once, with meat unration-
ed, butcher
You ate humble pie- "A leg of English lamb
madam?
Madam buy, buy, buy,"
for
Do not call me "duckie," grocer,
Though I'm out of luck.
I cannot give big orders'
Nor
1
"dear""
от
I am not your duck;
I your "dearle," "Love" or "sweetle ple"
Just because your shop is full
of
Things I mustn't buy,
You behind the slab,
Fence....by
NATHANIEL
CAN
The British will appeal to UNO, and find-themselves up
Probably the cartoon was just against the Asia-for-the-Asiatics a gentle reminder to Ala that he bloc, must stick to the bargain he made with Kashani, head of the Moslom devotees,
Whatever its outcome, this development is ideally suited, in
But it is typical of the cam- all its stages, to Communist and paign of terror and threats now Seviot political exploitation. going on.
or his successor will
Warning!
2 ALA,
prodalm a state of martial inw, either with or without the Majlis. They will stop the terror arresting Kashani and his
MAJLIS deputies were tele- by
lleutenants. of
of
the CVC
and
One thing is sure. The place now held by Kashani and his
phoned Thursday's debate and warned The oil company will then of the consequences if they stay continue to milot the increased from the House and royalties it is now reserving to egg once a month, the teacups ed away
the without handles,
teapots thus rabotaged nationalisation. the Government so as to enable without spouts.
During the debate the Press to go ahead with plans for
the economic development and public galleries were filled backward Persin. They could buy as souvenirs with Moslem devotee milliants the old shirts discarded by Lord who frequently cheered Gubbins, and now used as over-shouted Interruptions. alls by Lady Gubbins when she
Next to me sat a young priest terrorists would be quickly oc- does the washing up, the old GUBBINS
shrunken socks full of holes, who nad been present at my cupled by the Communists.
They will have no difficulty in which Lady Gubbins borrowed talk with his leader Kashani. He from Lord Gubbins to keep her addressed the House almost as keeping the nationalisation cam- test warm during the fuel culs, frequently as the National Front paign going. the greasy mackintosh,originally men on the floor.
but owned by Lord Gubbins, which is now used by all mem- bers of the family, and is never hanging in the hall when Lord Gubbins wants it.
I have another biscuit? the water tank dry, choke your
self with biscuits, and I hope You've just had another,
your bed will be full of crumbs,
I mean another to go to bed with?
You've had the one to go to bed with.
I mean another one to take up to bed with me.
You can have that tomorrow morning.
But if I took it up now I could still have it in the morning.
You can have another biscuit in the morning, but not now,
Why?
Because I say 80.
But what's the difference be-
I like crumbs in my bed.
Stately home
Majlis The
the. president, equivalent of the House of Com- mons Speaker, refrained from reading the British Note.
'Over,
soon'
For an extra fee, they could ORD. GIFFORD, discussing shown the cupboard where
The Stately Homes of Eng- Lord Gubbins is obliged to keep OR a couple of days last week land Tours," Bald people pre- his handkerchiefs locked up in Ala, supported by the chief visit houses that are case the family has a cold, and of police and the army chief of ferred to
drawer where he staff, was considering the pro- lived in rather than those run the secret by the National Trust. Americans keeps his pipe cleaners in case clamation of a state of martial particularly liked to be shown they are used as hair curlers. the walking stick and hat used and worn by "his lordship."
If that's all they want, may
I suggest that millions of dollars might be earned if The Sea Nest,
law.
Discipline
NOMETHING of the Commu- nists open and - above- ground
organisation was seen
the day before yesterday when attended of the
Communist-sponsored Ascocia
on Against the Exploitation of
Oil Company." Persia by the British Imperialist
It was impressive. The crowds on the square in front of parlla- were marshalled by But the young Shah, whose ment assent they had to have, would armlet-wearing officials who had
them in complete control. not play.
Groups of trained cheer- My frlands here, who have loaders stood in strategle parts If Americans care to come on lived in Persia for many years, of the square roaring out their
I am not your "love" or "dearic" tween you giving me one in the the family seat of Lord Gubbins, Sunday at lunch time they could take it all. very philosophically, cheers and slogans in that same "Ducks" or "darling” I'm still morning and me taking one up formed part of the Stately figure of Lord Gubbins carving before," these old Persia hands have heard so often in Warsaw
paying
Through the nose for dab, Keep your "ducks" for lower
orders
Call them what you wish
I had a chop for dinner You could keep your fish.
Butcher, I am not your "dearie"
Nor your "honey bunch" Even if I cannot order
Fillet steak for lunch. Grocer, I am not your "sweetla"
Not for ham or Jam.
You are still a grocer, grocer,,
I am still mad-am,
Awful child, M.P.
with
"For the next two or three months we shall harry the life out of the Government division
division...We attor shall make them alt up day and night....Wo shall try to wear them out."-Reported speech by Mr Robert Boothby, M.P., se Hanstead, Surrey.
All of which reminds me of The Awful Child when she was young. Her methods were much the mme.
now to cat in the morning?
The diference is that instead of eating it in the morning you would eat it in bed now.
But I am not in bed now.~~ But if you were, you would. Would what?
Eat it in bed,
Are you tired?
YCI.
Very Ured? Very, Well, can I biscuit?
No.
Homes of Erigland tour?
Here the eager wisliors could see the ancient hat long dis carded by Lord Gubbins because Lady Gibbins said it was in- sanitary, the ash stick his lord ship uses when he has gout, and his old tweed jacket, "Moth'e Relish," which, since 1930, has
see the stately, aristocratie we've seen this sort of thing well-disciplined unison which I
the meat ration like a surgeon keep-telling mo.
and Budapest and the Eastern performing a delicate operation, with Lottle the Devil Cat on his
"You wait until after Noruz" sector af Berlin.
Young men went round the shoulder, and Lady Gubbins (the Persian New Year). "Things
each will simmer down. The all crowd collecting signatures to a hiding the portions on plate with generous helpings of commission will call in foreign "peace" appeal decorated with Warsaw edition of the experts who, If they are any use the vegetables
at all, will point out all the Im- Picasso dove,
the cartoonist Yes, I think possibilities of
1 But
poor Hussein Ala's picture miss-
Afterwards, they could buy the ancient carving kalfe and
the
scheme." see it as part of the
been revered as a national relic. fork, as they are not much, use general anti- Western revolt of who marked up those roads in to anybody in Britain, even the Asiatic people, set in motion ed out the most important sign
For the ridiculous sum of one dollar they could sit on the old settee, bought long ago on the have another never never, where Sally the Cat nursed 120 kittens, and where her successor, Lottie the Dovi Cat, sleeps, and has tried unsuccessfully to entertain dis- potting friends to
Not if I promise I won't cat it reputable till tomorrow?
parties,
No.
if
the bundles weren't coming when
off.
the British hurriedly
of all facing Persin today-the scrambled out of India.
Even if the Moslem New Year road to Moscow and "discipline." -(London Express Service) holidays help to caim the excited
-London Express Service).
SEVEN RESTLESS
MEN
In the kitchen china cupboard EVEN restless men who valued their liberty so Well, can I have a drink of they could see the last remain- ing family egg cup, cracked in water?
several places, and used by Lord dearly that they deliberate- Gubbins during the war, whenly risked what Anthony he was lucky enough to get an Eden, as Foreign Secretary,
If you will leave me along for five minutes you can drink
SLEEP-how long
can an MP keep awake?
Ps are being kept out of
By A DOCTOR.
1.
JAMES LEASOR catches up with them to find out what they are doing with the freedom they risked 'butchery' to get .......
"Pop" Green, the ""daddy" of them all, who was 52 years young when he was shot down. off Denmark in 1940 as a tall gunner-what happened to him?. He runs a one-man car-hire at Chichester, hopes business for a busy Easter....
later called "a cold-blooded times himself; on the ninth he act of butchery" are today reached the lines in Italy just adding up the fruits of armistice. seven years'- freedom.
an ten hours before the Italian
The seven were in a group of 76 who tunnelled their way out
What has freedom given him?
"Well, I'm doing nothing real-
For Major Johnny Dodge, a distant kinsman of Churaill and American by birth, who served with the British Army in both world wars, five years in the bag," plus five escapes, have given a now philosophy.
"We never had a cross word this pig of in there. We learned respect for
Three men only of the 70 the break from Stalog Luft III.
of Stalag Luft III. in March 1944. 17, except feeding There is little reliable evidence All but three were recaptured. mine and some chickens, I found human nature and for the in- about how long a man can re- Forty-seven were shot as a peace of mind in that camp. dividual"
The candidate main alivo without sleeping at reprisal. Hitler had threatened Now I'm enjoying it.” all A Chinese criminal is said to shoot the lot. to have been tortured to death
The fantastic story of their. escaped back to England after EFORE the war, "The Arttul by being kept awaks, and to have lasted 19 days. People who years of tunnelling, the forging Two are now abroad. The third, Dodger" to use his camp, have voluntarily deprived them- of hundreds of maps and passes a blond Norwegian giant called nickname swam the Hellespont (no direct result) was of compasses and Jens Muller, is a captain to the and selves of sleep in scientific in-the making vestigations have remained civilian euits, is told by one of awake. fairly easily for two or them, Australian Paul Brickhill, Scandinavian Airlines Service, adopted as Tory
Jens out of the sky." three days, or even longer, in his book "The Great Escape Said a friend: "You'll never keep Gillingham. provided they kept moving, but (Faber, 10s, 6d.). they tended to become Irritable unreasonable as the ex-
night just now, and the chance comes along, even if it is periment continued, and also unbrought to these men? :
he wants to be asleep?
steady on their feet.
Still flying
...
candidate for
His first task on his return: to try to win the seat at the 1045 clection. Ho lost by 1,856 votes.
What have the years between. relax completely whenever the n
AST man out of the tunąci Now he divides his time be- Parliamentary air is loud only for a few minutes.
Every night a light burns late mouth on that day in 1944 tween the Cit-where he is a in a front office on Southend's
Wing Commander Roy partner in a stockbroking firm with complaints from the These lucky individuals usual-
London-road. By it, Frank St Was
He was captured in his Knightsbridge flat, and his Government benches about by fall deeply asleep without
This condition As soon as they were permit John Travis, a dapper Rhodesian, Langitis.. effort. the effects of these late much
Afterwards, his greatest friend Says The Dodger: "I learned rapidly
diminishes after the ted to relax their muscles such works out the quarterly accounts his first few steps to freedom, 18-ton yacht at Littlehampton. hours.
in the camp, Tom Kirby-Green, are da by sitting down-they fell of his estate agency.
a tolerance behind the wire I or two. They first hour
certainly He was the Stalag's chief was killed.
nover used to have. I think we're' How murely harm does it do usually bright in the mornings, asleep. Anyone seriously in need
in contradistinction to the light of sleep will almost do a man to be kept awake when sleepers, who may attain deep snooze off for hours on end, even escape engineer. He made bel-
alcop only u morning ap. when sitting up is, say, a crowd lows from kitbags to pump fresh. When Langlois came home, to all prisoners in one way or un- air to the tunneliers; a printing called on his friend's widow and other. Prisoners caged by our Maddened railway carriage.
press from aj bit of blanket told her about it all They be jobs, by our familles, by I shall not attempt a political proactice.
He is still in the IAF. He sails answer to that question. But the
"In the Bag" we had a Wel- Most of us have suffered from Fortunately loss of sleep, is wrapped round a roller; a, saw came friends, and later married, and conventions. medical view can be put plainly the effects of lack of sleep at remedied quite easily. A long from an old gramophone spring for a new duty tour-to Egypt
fare State oquality and enough,
ane time or another, and usually period of rest is not required,
security, food and beds provided, and no worries. But we longed There is no substitute for they have not been as bad as for body and mind are usually He said: "I guess it was just with his wife in the next few
"back to normal after a fleep of ignorance that made us attempt days. we had expected.
The camp'e senior officer, Air- for freedom to live or die in our aloop, which is positive bodily
thought of making them if we'd than Curiously enough, experiments little more than ordinary length these things. We wouldn't have
Commodore Martin Massey, who own way. I think there's a process and much more mere rest. The average time have shown that loss of deep Lot me add a daal word of had proper workshops and back had to tell the prisoners the ter moral there somewhere.... and has a stimulant effect not unlike comfort, der elderly MPH (and real craftsmen. We just did our rible bows of the shootings up spent in sleep is oven.
stimulation of
now out of the RAF, He three-quarter hours per day, the mittending
divides his time between but there are very wide in alcohol (which is really do others) who are kept unwilling best.
premunt). For a me, the in 17 out of bed. They are not so dividual variations.
Peace of mind liboly, to be stricken down by
pleasant cottage at Croyde, in dividual gives the anayew
miles west North Devon, and his mothas mental icsis just as stoommully some of sao muddenly fatal damonas--cerebral haemoryEANT2
NE HUNDRED
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one of the loading escape plan- and | Cranwende and wondentu Trooped the Lavaluable he is dolo slio of being able to long adler
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