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DAME GOOSE'S KITCHEN
THE GARREN OPEN YOUR MOUTHĖS and SHUT YOUR EYES
AND SEE WHAT WINSTON SENDS YOU- TT-BITS GOOD, FOR A CHRISTMAS PUP
OF SAWDUST TO DISTEND YOU
FOLLY PUBLIS Motor Hubbard she went to the cupboard
To get the poor dog red meat,
But when she got there the spboord was chary
And so the poordat blood Treat
CHORUS OPHOUSEWIVES
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HURRAH FOR WINSTON HURRAK AND 3 HIPS! HEICHO FOR THE DAYS OF BOUNTEOUS CRIPPS!
LOW'S CHRistmas PANTO
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22. 1951.
This Year It's a
Not-so-gay
TRADE
By HENRY
PARIS !!
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Europe's seset
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Churchill's New
Shake-up Man Luxury
DESK
By ANDREW WILSON
soon.
at the BBC Group on Raw Materials and ot
Economie and Fiannal Wurk will be empty
ing Group-helped to swell the The man who usually
sits total. dapper there, 52-year-old, Major-General Sir Ian Jacob, is going on a job for Mr Churchill.
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More staff was exiled in for
Defence Production Board,
a new Ocean Shipping Planning Beard and 41h international staff, working in London, Tut the
He is to report o the Council itsolf. behind-the-scenes
working The purely military organisa
buri.
. Growing.
of the North Atlantic ton has done nothing but in- Treaty Organisation. Mr crease from the day NATO was Churchill wants to increase efficiency and cut down size. Five Munisines, all in..mately Connected with NATO the De fence Ministry, the Foreign Offer ant the Service Ministries a İMA about H. but li said blun by
"We can say nothing." Only the AB.C would
con fess "He is to a goa for the Cabonet
Growing
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good cuts, umbrellas; THEY For Along Parisian me hicker is the uw rute week-end.
'p in Montmartre here is more wringing of hands. At night spots where HE the sunmr it res, at least 35 for a porr bottle of con-
FORGERIES
avats
Same unknown Frez-man Sour Col ..[ しない Iwe shown a line Callie sense of Fraser's Scotland Yard.
uur in the nex allotment of
kers
All komen MPs End they are thang lorkers aan meni.
pulsory buisbiy to watch Take abat the ong cut-ang-
Many Baght-wing. Sonalst bathing de Gaullists met nuw
disqus. Seviais.. An Muris at
a tared floor show, visitors es Bre P welcome it
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that all
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brandy and-soda.
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(banana his seat in the Assembly for the ikkly doused with Kirsh and set Best time alight.
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An then cut.
He then tells you
have fooled the world's
art experts
Chest pamungs Je forgeries.
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MARY lea lung Fur
Commissioner Clot's department hps trackst
Be toppers
has Sunken" fifteen big cases, and Sore! 200 ranvasses, as of which
keemmate hes oflice
A
art
TREA
VIDACUM.
CANNED!
Canne i snads are now un sale France, and with much for wires a packet of craply shells. The French housewife beats the Tim, pops a shad into each shell, gds butter an.i garlic. Chen puts a wishful into a hot
VON.
He macle Further euses. Today a Briton ordering found this was he manevi seat. Aga the usher steak tume! straight forward
was difficult. and chips is given VIP
Manstey Lamuntre them saf treatment.
"Monsieur. 1 and the new Minis- Butchers and grocers in their fer of Spot, haven't started to Much as the French denounce avverslackest tool shops, cunugh phy set but you already want canning a a) Americanation 1o make British housewife to send me off the hold!!
** Live French rusine, wee,
Tinned
are themselves shedding The Average Frenchman snails are popular. tours over customers' resistance dreams of owning his own res- "Just the thing when unex -
taurant, AS lo new prIOUS.
call," Engbahnen peated visitors keny
Yuy
the
In numerals lingerie shops thunk of Having their own little house wives. French visitors, we i idle asstarts stand by shelves shop.
hope. packe! With black seamed
nylons now the ani upwards a
pan
Much f
sten price
spiral is due to new Government
Laxps
Petrol has
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been increased
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DO
YOU KNOW?
total or 50, Ba. D ID you know that in Briain December 26 was a festival leag
before the people were converted to Christianity? A famous threepence hadfoenny) has been a E
vigarettes.
historian memed Bede recursis that "the ancient peoples of the Alan up
Lego ele, tasty, Angli began the year on the 25th of December," and regarded public transport (the equivalent that might as a sacred one.
of 3) twowany bus fare in
Britain cosis sixpence in Paris).
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Did you know that the Best Mr Christmas was named after Those new taxes are mainly the greatest of all annual Christian feasts? Besides people bear- needed to offset unwise Governing this uncommon came, there are many named Noel, Nowell, ment spending.
and Yule.
REVOLUTION
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Did you know that the turkey, which is an American bird, is short for turkey-cock, a name originally applied to the guinea-
A revolution there is no fowl, which was often imported into Europe through Turkish other word for it-ls in progress territory?
among the great unwashed of
the studios, garrels aná caves of
the Paris Left Book.
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Did you know that the term Santa Claus is from the Dutch Hero live the students the Stat Klaas, for Saint Nicholas, the saint who first sent Christmas coming Sartres, Picassos, Matis-presente when he did not want those who received them to know Dos, the future ganduses.
from whom they came? Now, over in Si Germain des
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Pres, where the mention of soap Did you know that the very early Christmas puddings WOTE has the same shocking effect as probably nothing but haggle, or the entrails of the pig or other rum at a temperance gathering, animal stuffed with meat that had been minced, flavoured and somconc ная started * new mixed with oatmeal before being boiled? elogan.
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"You don't have to have t Did you know that the custom of using holly and other green heard and a dirty shirt to be a plants for decorating buildings at Christmas is said to be a rello Renlus they declare.
of the old days in Germany (or what ds now Germany), when il A group of students, the was the practice to hang the interiors of dwellings with ever- "Young
Authors United," have launched a campaign against the greens as a refuge for the wood spirits from the cold weather? It doctrine that dirty geensin arias considered lucky to get these spirits to enter and dwell in hair below the coat collar are one's house during the winter months. part and parcel of a brilliant imlad or
Did you a doft touch of the
that the block people of the tiny Brilish dalatudi brush.
of Barbados, In the West Indies, parade in,great bande up and These "Young Authors! "re-down the capital town of Bridgetown on Christmas Eve? Some, wendy toured S7 Gomain perch-of them drem in gorgeous uniforms, and form a body known ed on the top of all trods, proudly on the Land Navy, and every one carries some kind of -equipped with DDT guns, moth-barmer and sings at the top of his or her volve
knaw
Is Just seven months since NATO had its last shake-up. But already there is lot ter
Jan to report on
Two big committees were tins - solved in May
The Defence Committee (of Delen Min-
-ters) and the Financial and
Committee tof Finance May- asters) The lapping fune
tions absorbed
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Sir lan
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Supreme Coutal
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But although at high NATO was streamline Banising staff was not.
NATO'S @inunistrative Ares larger. A new Finance and Economic Board was
formel secretaries,
NO wonder that Mr Esen, on
his visit tar the interim: NATO conference in Home, was shocked to find over 404 of als of all nations attending a fun ton officially designed for only
the highest
representatives
the 12 countries.
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Sir lan brings la lus new, temporary job one of the keơn est brains which has ever served the Army.
In 1939.
40. he iame Assistant Military Se retary the War Cabinet.
Lu
Churchill, when he took offre mase So lan one ul sust ninate consultants, ne İvised
at Big Threy meetings
Now he becues the of the Chu:bull
second
Drachis chPUS the first was Lord Cherwelly tu be valet back into service as a Shake-up: Man sin.e the riec-
Friends onze predicted for Sir lan the rank of his fathes, Fiel!- Marshal Sa (laui Jacub, bu! after the 1915 election defeat of Churchill he left the Army for broalcasting.
bu
Now the
pre fiction may revived--and perhaps justide
For a right-hand military maz of Churchill's will not be tied to Staff from two more "d the B.B.C. (where he bossed Ive commullees-an Advisory the Overseas Services for tong
with executives. typts and telephonists.
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$12.00
$10.00
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