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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 1952.
Revolution in the Zuider Zee
(From A Correspondent)
Amsterdam. Feb; 28.
REVOLUTION
A threatening the small
Dutch is'e of Marken in the Zuider Zee. It will be a revolution of young people who wish to overthrow the power of the old and old- fushioned people who now reign over the late.
The Isle of Marken is well known to
tourist every visiting Holland. For visit- ors to Amsterdam seldom forget to make the two- hour bout trip to Murken to see the small wooden flaher- men's houses and the in- habitants still dressed in clothes of three centuries ago,
and all wearing the famous Dutch wooden clogs.
Life by the side of the Zur Zie, imaver, is not picturesque as it looks.
Ts old people who rigu
the isle over
want to keep Matton strict and sober; no cinemas, no outings during the week-end, and Saturday church meetings for young people— even though they would prefer a drink in the local inn.
But Marken custom does not allow bak. On Sunday ull shops
are closed, and nobody to sell anything to dares
the many visitors.
NAUGHTY BOYS
A decision of the municipality made the youngsters rebel. The Council decided that boys and girls under 18 are not allowed To be in the streets after 18 p.m. unless they are accompanied by. their parents. The that some naughty boys recently ottery Icosened the rope boat and the boat was floating in the harbour next morning when people wanted to cross to Amsterdam.
reason was
A that the municipality de- cided that all youngsters had to stay at home between 11 p.m. and local policeman could have i
T
PROPAGANDA
AGAINST
WESTERN DEMOCRACY
"OUR POOR LITTL REPLY FOR WESTERN DEMOCRA
00, GOODY! HERE'S SOMETHING WE CAN CUT!
World Cæfaright Byattungement dich Daily dieṛaid.
Rush Hour
FOR THE MEN WHO WANT TO BE PRESIDENT......
On the Road to Chicago
New York.
HE political pot begins
to simmer in America. The men who are
going to matter when boil-
pass from
FREDERICK COOK
the pialnest
ing point is reached in comes, it will be Chicago next July-that's possible tip-off on what he when the major parties pick thinks of his party's chances. It their champions for the he should run and my guess is that he tollit mean-he Presidential joust - are
is confident the Republicans can coming more clearly into be beaten down again. If not, focus,
that he has his doubts and will There are surprises already. let somebody else have a go. ON THE REPUBLICÁN · And who will that be? 9IDE, Eisenhower Is receding That much is certain. And Taft is coming to the fore, fast, People on both sides are saying "Maybe we've been under mau to watch."
some
SITTING ON THE FENCE
By
B'
UDGET
Nathaniel. Gubbins
DAY, and what is the news to cheer you up before you know the worst?
Well, my dear suckers,・ Hitler has been seen again, this time in Austria; Ger. many has been given per-> mission to carry out re- search on atomic weapons; it has been reported that Dr Franz Richter, leader of the neo-Nazis, is really Fritz Hitler's. Ex- Roesler,
gauleiter in
assistant
Saxony.
"Sharp, ain't you?" "Can be."
"You look too good for this place,"
"Why?' Is it a home for naughty girls?"
"I mean, you look sort of * refined."
That's whot the foreman at ho hy last place saft. Pity wasn't rénned, too."
“I'm not that kind of fore- man."
"That's what he said.”
I just want you to be happy here. Dlà he say that, 1000
"No. He sold he wanted to make my work a pleasure."
And did he?"
The truth is, of course, that the Hitler seen in Austria la really my old wartime Bocho
"Not with Colonel-General-Captain - Lanco down my neck."
von Stinkentrouser,
Corporal
while Richter, or Roesler,
is
his friend and collaborator in organising
many,
Heathy for Ger-
Schmellingpantz.
At
Doktor VOR
this very moment cur. tains are drawn over the win- dows of a fat in the Stinken-
just off hausenstrasse,
the Middenheapenplatz.
Behind them, Stinkentrouser and Schmellingpantz are plan- ning war against Britain in 1982.
Give us our Navy
62
THEN there
Is the Home Guard flop.
As an ex-Home Guardsman,
him breathing
"Are we poing tu be friends?"
"Depends what you mean by friends."
"Fond of the pletures?" "Musicals and westerns."
"Did the other foreman take you to the pictures?* "When his wife was st whist drive."
"My telle's going whist drive tonight." "Fancy."
"There's
·
the Plaza.
musical ,a
to 4
on at
"Sounds like Fato, don't it?"
"Meet you there at O.K.?"
"Sults me."
0.30
"That's a date, then. What
I
was-
are you laughing at?" "Talking of films, thinking This is where I came in
last Fragrant minute
son he had in mind. At Vineen is still on top of his form and only one rung removed from the top of the American Jadder. He will stay in his I have been asked why there
Court Supremo
chair unless is so much reluctance to join higher spot for this fine body of old men. Or, Truman has him. And there is only one. if you prefer it, this splendid
KEFAUVER'S compaign in corps of fine old bodles.
old For one thing the fine Sintesis going down to many the grass
roots in approved bodies who volunteered American style, and he has time are mostly full of rhou- gained
strength. Sure matism. sign that Truman thinks him And another thing. Fine' old learned all about worth stopping is the President's privates w decision to send Senator Bob arms drill and the parts of a Oklahoma into the ride in 1814, and again in 1040, Nebraska primary on April 1 to don't want to learn about it for battle against him as a down the third time in 1952.
As the enemy does not ap. the-line Truman Democrat.
The result there will tell the pear to be at the gate, there is
come of the New
But, in my view, the chief Hampshire on hit the national spotlight primary · who
poor recruiting is 11, where reason for March
American an that with the televised crime com-
(in hin Kefauver
fur cap the fear his racoon and accompanied by his pretty general will be given command
the Home Guard. British-born wife) has been pounding away at the "moral
If this is likely to be true, I Rheu- a promise. decay and growing corruption will make
not,
I will enlist and matics or inside our Government"
in the H.G.
under not
mentioning Mr Truman egeln
American
if America command once by name.
will give us back our Navy.
Give us
TRUMAN'S NO
It will assuredly not be the busy-as-a-benver Senator from
am, so that the soiltary estimating Bob Tatt. He's the Tennessee, Mr Estes Kefauver. Upsters much. So will the out-also the lack of incentive.
watching them.
The young people of Marken, numbering about 500, are now revolting against their curfew.
mittee hearings. For Kefauver,
good night's sleep Instead of ON THE DEMOCRATIC at still anybody's guess, And 11 will remain so until we the President cherishes a cordial know where Truman stands, alike. And what the man in he runs don't write him off. the White House says when it
well win again. It he He may
cames to
to his
successor that chooses to retire, he can plek goes on the convention floor. his Own successor Is party Likellest bet: versatile FRED standord hearer. And the VINSON, Truman's oldest friend be FRED and most trusted adviser, top chaners are it will VINSON
·and: not Illinois trouble-shooter for the Demo- Governor ADLAI STEVENSON, crats these 15 years past.
Twenty-three years
They are preparing for the with the coming election and, support of their relations, they hope to throw out the old Coun cillors and elect brighter ones,
The youngsters want their freedom to be in the open when they like, and they also want to be allowed to do some business with visitors on Sunday.
consists of The municipality seven persons, three of whom voted against the curfew.
HENNESSY
IKE'S SLIDE What's the matter with the Sen
EISENHOWER campaign? The day he admitted he was a 'Re- publican and hinted that he, would run it hit Amerlen like thunderclap. "I like The" clubs up everywhere. But
his chances
TV SPREE
Quite clear, already, what-
a Con--ever happens at the local popu- * Federal Judge, larky contests known as Slate of the Treasury, primaries and whoever is pleked that this to go to Chicago, is and now Assistant, President, Chief Justice of the United election of 1852 is going to be TV event Amerten the
greatest Vinson knows the three-
Some 60 million American Is seen yet. stool of
will
the party watch
ment as no. other man. Poringa! Chicago over some
He stepped in to damp - down spru the rat has set in. In-
the Ares of personal feuds siders in both camps are agreed it was they called to halt in- side the Supreme Court bench. that unless he comes home soon flationary wage spirals, to hold
fights hard, and
down -milk prices, to get an ex- ure nil,
plan pension Ike's best friends turn out to Serviceman's
Congress that. be his direşt foes.
through the While he
F.D.I would sign. devotes himself to duty in
In 1948, when Truman almost. 60 turned his
sent a personal,envay to Moscow less to talk with Stalin, it was Vin- each
Paris, they have campaign into third-rate vaude- it grows plainer ville, and every day that elections are not by remote control, or by "bandwagon shows" in Madison Square Garden.
TAFT, born and bred to politics, a President's son, a wise old campaigner if ever there was one, senses this and stumps the country day in, day out, winning friends and influencing
tacking delegates people, behind in every corner of the
land.
ол
The Taft formula is simple,
the
18 mlillon sels and all-out efforts are being made already to ensure that coverage is ex- tended to such partout U.S.A. 013 Ere still without it.
Television manufacturers themselves will put money to sponsor the planned hours, of programmes; not than 3,000,000 dollars for of the major networks.
the
PARIS NEWSLETTER
"If we could talk with Bowers and trees, no doubt they would confide in us like children. telling us their secret · fears From a women's magazine.
ALWAYS talk to daffodils and bluebells in the wood. I know that they would ди
swer me it only flowere could.
But daffodils they' don't, reply
when I call out "Hello,
heads as They only shake their golden.
to my
"No,
I'd like to talk to all, the trees
asic and
them lots
things
If pixies wake them
night and dance
of
up In
at fairy
But all the trees seem bored with me when I call out "Hello"
their
rings; back our Navy, our
jolly boys in blue.
You can
Guard,
have the
Home
and damn good luck to you.
We will be your doughboys,
we won't make a fuss,
*
They sigh and stretch
mighty arms as it to say "Heigh-ho."
You might muck up the I've tried to learn the secret
do you can't
the
Navy, bus much to 19.
Workers' playtime
Writing to a columnist, a girl in a factory Diks: "Can you help me to develop the apt phrase and with men light, amusing talk colleagues?"
THIS
sort of thing, yar? "You the new o.. here?". "What did you think I was? The oldest inhabitant?"
MADAME ALPHAND, `THE DIPLOMAT'S WIFE, CAUSES
A
and unashamedly old-fashioned: the "Here Laddy and somewhere clse tomorrow." Already the tall
MINOR
A STIR AMONG THE DIPLOMATS
Paris.
diplomatic SHOULD
storm has blown up in
French Foreign Office
over a night club singer.
and slender senator from Ohio The
elegant
blue-eyed
of
he looks like a small-town pro- blonde with a husky voice fessor has covered more. ihan is the wife of one 35,000 miles. And he sill has France's leading diplomats, 20,000 to go.
SHE SING?
failed to come up to scratch i What respect.
VICHY, 1952
19
VICHY, the French health re-. sort in Central France, likely to be transformed
soon
as a result of elaborate plans to convert It Into a US army cupply base,
At least 1,000 U.S. troops will be stationed there; an airfield
Herve Alphand, who holda humble past. It is most em with three-mile runway will
TOO COLD?
As 负 candidate he is no Press
delight. agent's
Stm somewhat diffident, still shy, stili
PROFIT AND LOSS TNO'S départure
has provoked Mme. Alphand has won fame tatting up of deures by "cold." He does not slap backs and dollars in the U.S. for her French Finance Ministry,
ambassadorial rank and re- barrassing for them."
the. presents France. on North Atlantic Treaty Or- ganisation,
nleht
ill at ease and inclined to be
casily
cilmb
be constructed on is outsicirts: It is, also planned to build a large military hospital in the from Parls
are going on some swift between the French Govern-
the ment
and US. militery authorities. or memorise first names singing Now she has received
Two large hotels which havo at the first introductions, nor
On the cabit side, there is the been closed since the liberation down often from then, offer from a London
cost of prefabricated buildings, the Hotel du Pare and sho Intellectual plane where he is
isub. Should she accept?
at the Chaillot. Paláce which Hotel Thermal will probably most at home to talk with the No, says M. fassig, French housed UNO-£1,300,000..... be used as army billeti. bucolic friendliness of Harry
DRUG IT'S AN IDEA Truman or a Wendell L. Willkie, Ambassador in London--and his
On to credit side it is esti eviews are supported by many mated that UNO delegates and FRENCH tourist organisations Isut those who
Qual d'Orsay officials. him in action this last Jew
their staffs pent two million have approached the British weeks out on the West Coast, in The matter is being hotly de- pounds to feed, house and enter- Travel Association, suggesting a the Plains States and in the bated between those who feel toin themselves; and another method of meeting the problem Industrial cities of the East that Mms, Alghand's career as a one million pounds on clothes, of they all say the same thing: night club singer is her own travel and gifts.
On the ove of UNO's "depar“ ⠀ dure,it was found that.
10.
Anurlets.
for
Currency restrictions Their plan. British tourists afair, and those who consider it California
ing to France should be asked EARL WARDEN
an affront to diplomatie dignity, Ihns muda ́un yet. hardly a
Hippie
dain for which they would draw on the Republican peol, And Says Mme. Alphand of it all: cations had failed to fulfil their 40 deposit a lump sum in Bri-
a social obligations, by throwing a
francs
in France. The HAROLD STASSEN, none at "It coms. I have created
"plan all. Barring last-ballat develop precedent in reverse. Many cocidalt party. Among the de- would take the form of a "com
Lebanon, Australia, ments at the Chicago conven- diplomats have married night Cultera:
pensatory
y operation with freland, Bolivia and Frenchmen doing the game "krị- both can be safely written club singers and converted them Inracl,
into dignified diplomats wives, Portugal.
France and drawing an equiva ~All Republicpn_eyes are on On the other hand my orample TRUMAN. There are signs from dipir.mate wife to night Shrewd diplomatie observers tent sum in pounds in Balain, that he means to run. And algus clubevinger: reminds many noted with interest that pot
SAM-WHITE thắt be won't. When his decision | diplomats 200 Wives of their more single Iron Curtain' country bag.
fears of daisies grass,
in
when
whirring
pit-a-pat. mowers
If Uny hearts
pass;
Without a word, when evening
comes, they shut their eyes $0 tight
As if 1
away.
to say "Oh, go Goodnight, goodnight, good- night.
But once I dreamt the flowers talked, and all the trees 08 well,
I
sald "Go to
said "Hello, dear daffodils":,.
and they hell."
"Good evening daisies, dear," I said, "Dear Hilles by the pool."
A thousand little voices cried "Shut up, shut up, you
fool."
"Oh tell me darling trees,”
esked, "what is your secret drend?
"The saw, the knife, the wood- man's axe that struck dear friend dead?"
a
cruel
"The forest fire, the
frost that calls for winter logs?
"Oh whisper, trees, and tell me all." I think they answer- ed "Dogs."
London Expreta, Service}
POCKET CARTOON
by OSBERT
NCASTER
* Let's 'ringkap the Foratos
Osics and Tell 'em that