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IS IT E
TO ROB. MUSEUMS?:
stranger in Room 92
by
ROBERT GLENTON
No one stopped mo or glanced twice.
Back inside the museum X paked an official what pre- Ho con- COTLAND YARD, This crime makes the nine- cautions were taken.
museum robbery in firmed what the attendant hdd- Whitehall, and custo- teenth
the last three years. In that time told me." dians of Britain's also Buckingham Palace has
I then saw Mr T, R. Parkin, heirlooms are greatly wor- been unlawfully entered five
times-and Mariborough House the superintendent, I told him ried.
twice.
alt-what I had done. He said: "You would never have got For once more it has been Thero was a theft from the away with it. There are other demonstrated how easy it is. Tower of London, and the safeguards, but of course I shall to plunder. London's Stone of Scone was taken from not tell you what they are.".
museums.
Recently some men with two ladders broke into the National Maritimo Museum and stole a hat plume which once belonged to Nelson. It was ornamented with 300 diamonds.
Sitting on the
TR ERNEST DAVIES, British delegate to the Four Power con- ference of Deputy Foreign Ministers which has been arguing
with Comrade Gromyko for longer than I can remember, is reported. ns saying: "We don't want a breakdown, but we can't sit here indefinitely and go We are all almost crazy. mental already."
Fence....b
NATHANIEL GUBBING
Well, yes.
Do the mousy ones have blue eyes or brown eyes?
rather see the If he would Russian delegate go mad first,, he should lake the advice of his six-year-old daughter, to
who recently wrote to Sally,
himi
Dear Daddy,
I hope you are having a good time in Paris. If you can Mr come home, bring me Gromyko.
After an hour of cross-ques- · tloning by A six-year-old, Comrade would be ready for the strait jacket.
there millions and
Are millions of little girls in Russia?
Millions and millions. How many millions?
Well, I don't know exactly.
My daddy-says-you-know-all- the answers.
Shall we say 20,000,0001 What are their names?
Oh, they all have diferent
names.
Twenty million Christian names?
Weil, no.
different
Some have the same names. Many thousands, for instance, are called Olga. How many thousands?
I would say about 100,000.
Don't you know exactly?
I haven't the figures with
me at the moment.
Some blue, some brown.. How many brown?
I don't know.
Have they all got mummles
look after them?
Most of them.
And daddies?
•
They have one daddy who looks after them all, Only one daddy? Who's that?
The great Father Stalin, Fancy being the father of more than 20,000,000 little girls,
Food News
JUST JUST the time of year for cold salmon and cucumber, dear, isn't it?
un unearned incomes?
be hubby will never know the difference.
Really, dear?
Worker hits - out
"It workers in American fac tories are reported lazy and dimeuit they are enn to the company' ellale for a vitarain declancy check-up, and ques- Lioned about their childhood by
from psychiatrist.” — Cabin, New York,
"HAD
in bit of trouble, ch, Schultzburger!"
"Yeah, I guers so, doc." "What happened?”
"Oh, I just busted the fore- man on the note, doc."
"That all?"
"That's all, doc." "Why did you slug the fore- man, Schultzburger?"
the Because he's "Why? lowest, meanest, dirtiest son of a...
"Did he ever boat you up when you were a kid, Schultz- burger?".
"Yeah. Pienny."
"Any hard feelings?"
"For beating me up? Why, no, doc. A saint would have beaten me up when I was a kid.”
"Didn't you slug the foreman because
your poppa slugged you?"
"I'm telling you, I lugged the foreman because he's the lowest, meanest, dirtiest so11 | of a..."
"Pipe down on that stuff, Schultzburger. If you don't hate your poppa you must hate your
momma."
"You leave outa this,"
עזה
.
momma
"You identified this foreman with your momma because she was low and mean dike him."
"Watch your step, doc.”
"What's more,
Westminster Abbey,
I told him what Information Scotland Yard, the Brigade of
I had been given. Judging by Guards, the Ytomen at the his indignation at his stail 1 Tower and patrolling attendants had learned a lot, if not all. have been unable to prevent these incidents. Complicated Half an hour later I revisit- systems of alarm bells, secret ed Room 92. There were two “I asked - them rys, patrolling dogs and steel warders there. grilles have failed,
questions about the night pre-
And these offences have not cautions. They gave me informa- tion which If would bo been the work of a highly organised gang. They have been very wrong to publish. With the greatest freedom 7 Inspected committed by
schoolboyt, the doors, the walls, and the drunks, lunatics and potty wiring round the room. thloves, students and professors,
То
fest the precautions against thieves I went
to the
A difficult job
Victoria and Albert Museum. MR Parkin told me,, "Protect Front the catalogue I knew that L
4
Ing a museum is a very We can't restrict in Room 92 there was a show difficult job.
treasure.
the public from seeing the exhi- case of Spanish
treat everyone diamonds and gold and large bits. We can't
who comes in as a potential emeralds.
criminal, "But
constantly, Inside I asked. the first atten-
we aro dant I saw what daytime pre- reviewing our safeguards."
·Nevertheless, tho cautions were taken. I was told
Victorin of patrolling warders, of tele- and Albert Museum has been phones to a control room, of robbed twice since the war. alarm bells which would ring causing two attendants to close the main doors immediately.
Dozen ways
NOWING
Room
s. the with
its
Britis! fabulous
Then there Museum collections of works of art.
Recently thieves broke in
and stole five lead coffins 1,000 this, I visited years old. It was after this that 92. An, atiendant it was discovered a lock was In his presence I missing. A key made to fit that stood there. inspected the jewellery and the lock would open nearly every Now the locks are being showcase for electric wiring door. In the museum. and grilles."I found none.
changed, but it is only chance The warder moved away. It that it is not too late,
was easy to tell by the creaking
of his boots when he was out Elaborate_methods of sight and a long way away.
waited $2 seconds and he did HERE not reappear
of
THE
There are great metal screens
mui could have removed the feet away.
are fantastically elaborate methods of guard. The showense loss; I had ing the Crown Jewels in the been told, was tough but not Tower of London. I'd say the unbreakable and there are n foreman has some physical dozen ways known to a criminal which crash down if even the resemblance to your momina.** piercing It quickly and protective glass is touched. A quietly, In ten seconds he strong armed guard is only a "That
gorilla like
Recently momma? Why, doc, you four- jewellery. It was compact and
the defences were strengthened further, and the eyed son of a gun, you've not large.
are said to be safe asked for what the foreman
jewels got and here it comes"
There are warnings in the against every attack, including de- "I'm
did that, museum forbidding the pubile bombs. The most secret SOFTY you
never been re parcels. So with fences have carry Schultzburger. I shall have to handkerchiefs, newspapers and vealed. report you us anti-social matchboxes I filled my pockets But still two men got into through excessive vitamin in- "Fond of him; Schultzburger?" take and recommend smaller they bulged suspiciously the Tower grounds not so lung
large. Hurrying, but not run- ning,
I passed five warders 40 and stole the and was outside the main door in 22 seconds.
con the
Of course, dear. But who afford real salmon with present rate of taxation
Is
"O.K., O.K. Schultzburger.
your poppa atill alive?" -
"Certainty is."
"Sure 1 (1775
He's the portions grandest poppa ‘a
guy ever had."
at the factory
cafeleria."
(London Express ServicM.)
Have you ever trled mock salmon, dear?
No, dear.
1. read all about it in the papers. You emply your tin of, salmon into a basin, Grade B is i quite cheap, dear.
Yes, dear.
Then you boli same potatoes, mash them with half a cup of milk, dab of margarine,
the yolk of one egg.
Yes, dear.
Then you
and
Mrs.
B
to
SURATGAR (the poet's wife
UT for the chance of
her meeting and fall-
ing in love with a
take half a slale handsome young Persian brown loaf, pull out the inside, I poet, when they were both
crumble
Are little Russian girls dark it's soggy. or fair? :
Some are dark, some fair. How many are fair?
Ten million's
Exactly?
Yer.
from Louden
THE OIL MEN
She observes
the
LF
radio set,
Governor's
(London Express Service.}
SIZES UP
the differenco
country and to find friends among their Persian fellow- workers, they might have be- come Britain's most effective ambbasadora in the Middle East. "The company self had not it and add water till University students in Lon- that her oil is the heritage of
"unbelievably only adopted an intransigent don, the odds are that Olive this and succeeding generations, between
as precious to her as the irre- luxurious" houses provided by attitude in the earlier "negotia- Hepburn, Manchester-born
placeable heirlooms of an im- the ubiquitous "Kumpanee" tions, but had paid 'uttle aften- poverished aristocrat Night (who furnish employees with tion to the behaviour of its and Yorkshire-bred, would have become a typical Eng- and day, month by month, year everything from bables cots to British employees, too many of
housewife fish
a Mrs. by year, the precious stream adults' coffins) for their top men, whom, being engineers, simply, Miniver, perhaps, or a Mrs dows through the refinery and and the humble little houses in with no great cultural back Dale.
I see, dear. Add the potato mash and the wet breadcrumbs to the salmon, and squeeze it all together in your fingers.
Squeeze it, dear?
And ten millions dark?
Yes, dear: Then you shape it! Yes..
into the form of a fish, add an Aren't there any with mousy other dab of margarine, pop it coloured hair?
into the oven and serve cold,
Lots of themL Then altogether there must be more than 20,000,000 little „Russian girls?
KUITONO BRSOD SERVICE.
་
out to the waiting' ships. No pairlot can Being possessed of a lively watch this steady intellectual curiosity, she might drain without asking for a time have entered one of himself whether his is indeed, the professions and then have country married professional man and getting an equitable" Sounds delicious, dear. settled down to the rigours of quid pro quo."
running a home in the suburbs
Then the skilled, The paper says if you stick in of a provincial elty.
abjective observer the eye should a caper where
speaks. "A visit to Abadan and the oll
should folda vince any but most blased opinion that Iranian Oil Company has been some-
more thing
than
179
KEN HATVE947 BYSKIES FORT
my budget problem: I just spend every
enby 1 lay: ·handa
Instead, Miss Hepburn, in the face of family discouragement, went out to Teheran and after Hving for three months in Per ala, became Mes Lottali Suratgar and a Persian herself.
*
tho
con
Anglo-
which the workers ground, were all too ready to make their homes. ride' the 'high horse aniong
servience.
home
of
Abadan
"But," she writes, people long accustomed to sub- the (Perelan)
worker
སྐྱ་
la vastly "Today," Mrs Suratgar notes, superior to anything "there is ample evidence that
he could hope for in the company is aware of its past any other town or mistakes, for
In village
Persia,
every possible encouragement is given to Its The most he could British amployees to study tře attain clsewhere an and literaturo "of
Language would be a costly people among whom they work. little room and a But the damage.
done
-the
over. share in the com- quarter of a century is not easy munal watertank to repair, and
wonders across the yard, or in whether this change of heart --- MRS. SURATCAR¿he villages,
one
may not have come too late to an ex- mud-hut, whereas, In Abadan influence the Persian attitude.".
has iwo, or three
Now in an exhilarating book Olive Suratgar has set down her plolter. That Persia has so far he
And the Persian people today experiences.
failed to profit from this ex- rooms with large electric fans,
are "suspicious by nature and Mrs Suratgar has a chapter on smple le due to no fault of the running water in his kitchen, a
increasingly politically minded. Persian oil in her book and one company, but rather to that age shower-bath in his own to they are inclined to look for
yard, and a small, garden: "to an Persian houses, servants and old paralysis which, since the which the company has carted overture of friendship, to accept ulterior motives behind every. batha; he has one on the Per abdication of Reza Shah (during friable salt-free soll and which concessions as signs of weakness alan army and another on kitchens and cooks. Upon each the last war), has again crept he is encouraged to cultivals by and thus be led on to make sill of these subjects the brings to into the sinews of the body the offer of annual gardening further demanda." bear the shrewdly perceptive
1
Discaso is held at bay in Abadan, and leisure is lavishly catered for, but-and here Mrs Suratger quotes the remark of highly placed Persian, with which she agrees:
As a Persian, Mrs Suratgar run all projects; there is lack of sees ille future for Persian money, lack of specialists, and Fortians work better, directed than directing.
ge of a housewife out mar pollile and into every depart prizes." keting in a strange town on ment of state, Mrs Suratgar did eye over which it would be dif- not visit Abadan until after the ficult, one feels, to pull wool war. She finds the roads of the with success.
oll town "strangely, tidy and the She sees both sides of a ques Davements seemed bare till we tion. On oll, for instance, as realised that we were missing s Peralan by adoption, she can the brooks and the litter of write Il Perala seems over bricks and garbage that deface the company had allowed woman puls her finger on the splendid opportunity to allp by, basic cause of the trouble when anxious, it must be remembered most, Peralar stresis, people if in the early days of the cons she writes the single sentence:
and were going about their business cession, they had taken paine to‘-The Perelana admire success.” Pos in the Wilderness by Olys - with ar sir" of purpose, that learn, the Persian language, to
Edward
Hugh Cloland
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astonished us.”
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