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WOMEN'S H.G CATERING DIY.
"Vera, that M.P. who said that women Home Guards were 'a glorious gift for comedians and cartoonists who are
just about exhausting the subject of the Home Guard' was dead right."
An
By Beverley
Baxter
COTIVIE
"T
London Express Service
Evening at the Soviet Embassy
investigated on arrival?
She
that my staunch Tory col with a happy face and a colora- days when the French Ambassa
www soprano >1 frie Irague, Colonel Cuthbert qulity. Charge Alport, M.P.. was going, so d'Allaires of the the Soviet
Embassy cepted.
would be glad of the pre- sence of Mr and Mrs Bever- iry Baxter at a recital to be given by Nadezhda Kazan- 1sova, People's Artist of the Russian Socialist Federa- tion of Soviet Republies, and the Stalin Prize Winner."'
So read the invitation which reached my house,
invitation
35231 はぐー
Music is AUD;VETRA |
It's so like Berlin, you expect a new Hitler
a
by WILLIAM HAMSHER
TEHERAN.
IVING in Teheran these
Berlin back in 1932, just when Hitler was coming to power.
Mossadegh is facing the biggest challenge since that day last May when he tot- tered up the steps in the his Majlis, dashed away tears, and vowed by the 99 names of Allah that he would win for Persia the oil income of £300,000 a day.
Many A tear has been shed since then, and many a mile flown in search of loans and allies. But just how much cash is coming Into the coffer? None.
SMASHED UP
Now, newspapers which have criticised Mossadegh for fils failure have been smashed up.
Hitler's Brown Shirts would have
Imade a neater, quicker job of the wrecking and the
newsprint burning.
Bai Mos: adegh's hooligans are young yet.
Persia's troubles are all due, rays
wily Mossadegh, to the foreigner. (Hitler used to say
Honest inquiries about when the Persian might expect to rulleet the ail money-now that' the "clawing criminals of the British of company are ousted --are met with windy explana- tions
The
G
usual ne is that since eminent These cruminals claws
growing all the time, they still reach far into Persia.
The world of diplomary has world,! was a comfortable look- by the F.B.I.
woman changed since the Elizabethan language, but so is cruelty Then learned in. I radda; ke-basemed
Perhaps I should discuss crystal dor to the British Court wrote all this with
10 his Government (Hat the American columnist Westbrok Huguenot massacre in Paris was Pegler, who, like Count Smori- At first her low notes were the vilest erime see the cruel- tork in "Plekwick Papers," has marred by a tremolo, but this fixion of Christ.
When she let her appeared. voce go full out it was impres- sve. I don't know what Stalin's qualities as a music crilic may or but he made no mistake in
Not strangers
THE
A bridge?
not entirely among awording this year's People's morning after the
munist that destroys
human
come to
thick- de-
So the British are "elearly to study conditions J blame for those Plots." And Britain. Mr Pegler is a
then they "financed the news- set man with a vigorous
papers too." nunciatory style and a serious face which unexpectedly break, into an attractive smile.
Politically he is so far to the Right that Sir Waldron Smithers could only talk to him in sign language.
Second thoughts
What is there about Com- WHEN he dined at my house be dignity and exalts lying to compared to the Roosevelts the
indicated quite clearly that
respectable
HAIL, PAKISTAN!
Morsadegh's Ministers were hysterically delighted when Pakistan was elected a member of the Security Council. This means, they aver, that Persia is bound to sway the Security.
she comes before the
again.
And Mossadegh always
Council
has
Farouk (Remember when Hitler velled "Forward the Fatherland: stand The Finn and Slovaky shoulder to shoulder with us"?) Yel the Persian oppos!tlon
Mossadegh could topple
party JE were
at the embassy
I read strangers
Prize, whatever that may mean, some screaming headlines ill There was Sydney Silverman.
to Madame Kazantseva.
the Daily Worker based on the who had just returned 1 The
trial of live Canadian nuns by after il live-day Commons
Afterwards the voska appeared the Chinese Communists. The Mr Pegler believes in Colonel there Suspension,
was that and we mixed Of casy terms facts behind this trial," wrote McCormick, Wall Street, Ameri- genial Left-wing Wil Emrys with the embassy officials
this odd newspaper, "amount ca isolationism, and the Council in her favour it ever Flugters. who marri
Keir
to the worst case of cruelty to wickedness of the Roosevelts. Conversation Hardie's daughter; there
was limited by Wis
children the difficulties of language, but foul, abscene words were wril- These in history." Geoffrey Bing. who hangs away I had not been to the So- the Socialist benchus with was assured in halting Eng-
ten and printed by Britons, val Embassy since
good effect: and there was Johush over and over again that after the matts - M.lis. the New Zealand Russia did not want war, and in night shortly Munich period. when a lot Rhieles Scholar thow father of return I assured my hosts over Neville five sons), who was expelled for and over again in fluent English
Borgias were supreme virtue? including of us,
hus extreme! Views by the that Britain did not want war.
Look on
this and this....
middle-class commuters. 10 Socialist Party in 1949. Chamberlain, turned up
Outside those I have men- The buxuni
Mr soprano at the
Pegler writes a regular celebrate the anniversary
Hardly a collection likely to toned there was no one there embassy with the voice
of a column for 200 American news- of the Revelation.
embarrass our hosts by bursting whom I had ever seen before. Muscovite Galli-Curci pleasur- papers, ani he hits hard.
get together. They ате splli Stalin's portrait beamed into "Rule. Britannia!"
Lakes a The staff of the Soviet Embassy ing us with her music. Five gather that he
poor into any factions. future, the Russians had are marooned in their handsome helpless Canadian
of view of our economic sisters
And, of course. they from the top of the stair-
being paraded before but experts have been doing | frightened. no formal dress was all over us. We were in mufti, house, grimly apart from the life mercy
Any Majlis member WHEN.
but all the embassy officials and people of Britain. Perhaps screaming Communist Chinese that for a thousand years.
who voted against a Mossadegh Word, and a number of
On demanding torture and it does not matter, for one must mobs
second thoughts
And I had vote of confidence might Jong-haired British guests The Persian Ambassador was assume that their reports to death for their Christian service better not tell him about
bimself knifed, within minutes. to little children,
night behind the Iron Curtain
There the parallel with smoked pipes as though to frmally garbed, and my wife, Moscow are not objective but in
noles these things, tells strict conformity with the party How can we build a bridge in London.
Hitler's under-cover thugs is prove not only their poli- who
me that the ambassador's lady line.
of understanding between these
--(London Express Service) complete. tical but social emancipa- wore a Persian lamb coat, а
tion.
Sartorially
tre in dinner jackets.
Persian lamb hat, and a Persian
50
None of us anticipated red rose. that within a few months The Bulgarian Minister also Russia and Germany would grauzd the gathering, and
did the deputy mayoress ol !sign the infamous non- gatlant Stalingrad, who locked aggression part that gave like a good woman and probably Hitler the "All clear" for is one.
go. Buxom winner
GI not to wag the question.
bis war.
To go that Would aires'
a visit
we
my
Sitting on
Fence.... by
UTURE Home Guardsmen are fortu- nate that Mr Shin-
to Million- FIRST of all had some well's amendment to the Row in Kensington piuno numbers by a Russian Home Guard Bill to include mark me as a fellow travel tails, and then the buxom prize women in the force
gentleman
immaculate
ler? New York soon shall I be entertain us with her songs.
was
As I am sailing for winner came on the scene to reduced to a comparatively NATHANIEL GUBBINS
From R. M. MacColl
Ike's Deadline
FEBRUARY 1 is the deadline her current vehicle 'Nina' were for Eisenhower. For by then, bad. She is quite right."
WILAT do you do if you find say his most powerfu) political backers, the general will have a dud atemic bomb? Answer: to declare whether he is going Don't touch it Just tell the for the Presidency or not.
police.
harmless clause admitting
them as unarmed cooks ly across, to her left shoulder the bombing sergeant. "I
and telephonists.
in one movement, gripping the safer in the Commandos." heel of the bult with her left
felt
To a nervous man like your hand and steadying the rifle Dinner at Eight
Uncle Nat it has always with her right. seemned dangerous enough
to
trust 05-year-old grandfathers On the command "Three' with firearms and explosives she cuts her right hand smart- unless they were Regular time- ly away to her right side, keep- serving soldiers,
ing her thumb in line with the ream of her trousers.
Bui if 65-year-old
bad mothers
been have been
Grand- armed,
a
LIFE in a boiler factory sums For posing this question-and training would up for the American the worst getting the answer 12-year-old nightmare. kind of noisy surroundings. But Barbara Blair, of Trenton, New 232 employees in the giant Jersey, is awarded special Beth them Steel Company'a gold medal by the local shipyard ut Hoboken, New Jer- Defence authorities.
the
Civi
Alright, there you are
A Boston, U.B.. fudge Ima a divorce granted a woman because her husband read crime stories When they were dining OUT.
ON'T you want to see
the
DON
At this moment you in rcar rank may have had it, chum.
The weight of the riße and bayonet will be too much for on Granny's left hand. It will erme crashing over her shoulder and you will be lucky slope if you don't lose an eye.
the
numbers. Bayonels
guard Palace
More jllery sill would have been the day the old ladies paraded at the bombing range to throw live hand grenades.
"Got
the your pin out?" bombing sergeant asks a shak- ing grahay. "Right. Prepare to throw...Throw."
Incu, dear?
the
Can't you see I'm reading? Taking soup, dear?
No, thanks. They've found the body.
What body, dear?
Of the murdered woman, of course.
Would you like a llet of steak, dear?
No, thanks.
tratt
and for all.
I
Trouble is, they can
the
once
never
are
Do you
have pheasant, either mind if we go home, dear?
Go home? We've only just come out
I'm feeling rather faint, dear.
Just like a woman to spoil un evening when a man's enjoying himself.
Christmas Carol
"Small gentlemen up to three inches taller in our own be spoke
shoo......" -- Advertise-
ment
OME, cheer up little gentle- men, may nothing you dismay
I wish you joy and happiness this coming Christmas Day Fer then, in shining shoes be- spoke, with added inches three
Your tile hand may reach the top of any Christmas tree,
Oh, lucky little gentlemen, no
more to skip and hop
which
Christmas
To grab at richer prizes
are always at the top,
For life is like a
tree my lille gentles all;
kinder to strong, the handsome and the tall.
There was a The world p of blood from
They bashed
the
the
library!.
her
head in.
I don't think I'll have a steak, either.
No more my little gentlemen shall lovely women frowni
The murderer must have On gallant little gentlemen; no dragged it through the hall,
more shall they look down! - With
sey, are sting for 5.000.000 HUGE STOCKS of Scotch in parade In the Drill Hall. dollars £1,750,000) damages. New York's bursting warehouses You are earning to They say the noise is so awful a million gallons more than arms by that they have ali gone more last year. Reasons: Britain's have been fixed in case cr less deaf.
dollar drive, brisk Canadian H.G. has to take over competition, and the effort
to duties at Buckingham IN RICHMOND, Virginis, the "beat" the November 1 tax rise again. So wake yourself up. Moderator of the General E
- which, wns spolled by the Assembly of the South Presby dock strike.
You are in the rear rank and terian Church, the Rev. J. R.
A PHRASE which has passed old Mrs Rumpus, mother of six McCain, urged that women be into the classics of Americana is and grandmother of four, is in accepted as church elders and deacona in order to help "match "Say It ain't so, Joe." The front of you.
wards were uttered by a weep of Communistle fervour
ing small boy back in 1910, and On the command "One" old adherents."
- they were addressed to his hero, Mrs Rumpus cants / flie: rifle IN gentle ironical vein, the a baseball player called "Shoe smartly, up on her, right-side,
"Sho's dropped 11,"" shouts New York Herald-Tribune's less Joe Jackson,
"Down, every- eatching the small of the butt the observer. dramatic eritic Walter Kerr Ains, it was so. Jackson was in her right hand (we hope), body," writes of "Nins," the Glorlu declared guilty of having helped steadying the rifle with her
gentlemen, ca, After four seconds there is a dear? Swanson comedy tist opened on "throw" the World (baseball) left and sticking the bayonet bang, and at least one
gollarit gentles smil Broadway: "Now that actresses Series in one of the biggest clean through her grey perm vscancy in the Home Guard.
more.. No, thanks. It had been, Lake Cinderellas dancing at the
there three weeks, have taken to reviewing their sports sensations in American
Fairy Prince's bullyingtoddl What had, doar? own shows from out of town, history, and he was barred for
So nagu to doff the maglo shoo
tint like 'gines alippere chane A little gentleman abad, his borrowed inthes gone issu
»Londen: Kupreme Keruter)
When, the 'drill sergeant has "Who's next?" asked the ol Here is not too much work left life, New, in Greenville, South disentangled the hair from the nerver
for a drama reporter to do. Careline, aged 68 and maintain bayonet, he let given the or "Old Granny Rumpus,” some- Gloria, Swanson anounced from ing his Innocence to the last, der "Two" whereupon old are body shouts. Philadelphis that the Udes in. Shoslom Jos la den,
મ
Rumpus carries the tine marta on her I'm resigning."
of
past the gun room," out the kitchen door, and into the orchard.
Dragged what, dear?
half-armuseit callous, grimace, with haughty - look adkance
When gallant little gentlemen are pleading for a dance.
The body, of course. Would you fancy pheasant. Oh, tragic
I keep on telling you, The body. It must have been Tretty high. Well, no. I don't think I'