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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1952.
A new light is turned on
America's election by-
NATHANIEL GUBBINS
THE
American scene, political or otherwise, always bawilders. Recently we followed the fortunes of Senator Nixon, Republican candidate for the Vice-Presidency.
·
I thought that sort of thing. like dressing for dinner in the jungle, was not done any more because even the lesser breeds
to
£110 were beginning
.in- Joke, thus weakening the visible links that bind the Em- pire together and making u all look rather silly.
FICC
Bul Rudo Pravo, official newspaper, of to have Czechoslovakia, stems found a possible explanation.
One day we learned that he was lower than the Conserva- Communist tive vermin in England. When he was accused of accepting expenses from businesS men, many a sneer about American politicians was muttered under moustaches in the London
gree
Next morning tho moustaches curled in
rey munze
ment. According to reports from Mr Eisenhower's eloction train, Senator Nixon was a no- tional hero.
As their owners read on, the grey moustaches were tugged, gnawed and many almost pull- ed out by their roots.
Commenting on an advertise- ment in The Times which aak- ed for a tutor with a Scottish accent to instruct an intelll- Gent parrot, Rude Pravo says:---
~British capitalists are st present, earning so much money making armamenis that any one of them - cân afford to employ a tutor for his parrps. No wonder is is hard to find new teachers for schoolchildren in Bri- taln."
And no wonder the startled heard been natives of the Amazon
dear the "Eton Bosting Song" rear- ed across the silent river,
For it appeared that Senator
had character Nixon's changed overnight by little doggie.
*
ก
It was probably not the volca of Mr Sebastian Snow at all, but the mocking volcs of a parrot who had been, educated at Eton by some rich beast in
armaments racket and the "sent down" for shouting vul- abuse at the Head an gar speech day.
Americans who had hated the Senator on Monday morn- ing loved him on Tuesday even- ing after a television broadcast in which he said:
have been ac-
If parrots, educated at Har- accepting gifts,
to the jungle row. By back le one that
wearing foolish Uttie straw That is a
bats slanted over their Cocker
the whole pubile school tradi- tlon will break down.
"I TRAY cused of
but
there
won't give upphite" black and
pantet sent to my family all the way from Texas. My Hittle girlie, Tricia, calls him Checkera You know how kids love dogs, and I tran- na say we're gonna keep
And when the tears and laughter of the greatest nation
the
beaks,
Meet Dr. Blunt
ONCE again
Mra Fussy breeches called on jolly old Dr Blunt to ask advice about her husband,
Comings
BONG NO 88
·HIKON
[PLING DO
And, let that little experience be a warning to us, gentlemen."
It's a
a cold, War-for those
Camp Valcka,
near Nuremberg.
For the Sieg Heiling Brown-
shirts have gone from Valeka. Around me are refugees from
the Iron Curtain countries-
HERE is a battle. 4,220 of them."
T
London Express Service
Cold who flee
from Stalin
going on here. It is Here they are, men and The shack, an ometal told me, This year mainly as o re-
since the blockado of Berlin. As the score stands today, we look like losing it.
to the trea world
the first eight
the most important women, who left everything was the reception barracks; the suit of the news from Valcko cold-war battle they owned behind them, risked place where new arrivals are and other places of that kind, Western Europe has seen their lives to make their way lodged before more permanent and the clever use made of it by
quarters have been found for the Communist propagandists
only
40 in
Czecha have arrived in They crept across the barbed them in the camp.
the the wire no-man's-land where dis- I could not imagine a more months. on earth have died down, I
covery means death.
disheartening and unappetising I believe we are making this wanna say, Senator, that if the
I feel oppressed and mess of the battle of Valcka for spaniel had been run as a Re-
In contrast to the Berlin,
And where has it landed them? welcome.
In demoralised myself, as I watch two renzons. publican candidate right from "What's wrong with him blockade, this battle is being In Canada? In Australia?
THE FIRST is one I have In South these listless men and women. start, tho Democrats now?" snarled the doctor, who
United States? OR without the wouldn't have had a chance.
By right these escapers, should found to be underlying all our Millions may have shouted "I was tired of the sight of Mrs Carried
Fussybreeches,
publicity. In fact, without Africa? No, they have landed in
And here they remain. form an elle. Valcks.
They should present weaknesses in the old like Ike," and millions more
Many "He looks terrible," said Mrs anyone taking much notice "I'm madial for Adlal."
any have been here for as be the vanguard of Western War a general let-up and slack-
But the
as four years. No one political wartare against Stalin, thing of effort has followed the whole lot would Fussybreeches.
"He always toes," "sald have shouted "I'm crackers
doctor. "Nobody but a beauty *Chaker","" and a dog would
could
do anything seems to know about it.. specialist President of have been
the
that. What elso?” good old
USA for
Arst about resis as if his stomach's the time.
full of knives: What would -cause that, doctor?
"Knives," said the doctor, "if ..he's been swallowing knives,"
Good health
"SMI
on
MILING Sayed Sir Abdel Rahman el Mahdi, leader
of the Independenco Party in tho Sudan, has arrived in London forble-health.
From the news,]
tho
"And he feels as if his chest Is full of hot coals, What do
matter you think's the
with him?”
human
He has arrived just in time, The first autumn colds are due "Either he has indigestion in in October. Later on, the Bri- a big way," said the doctor, "or Ush Influenza virus, taking ahe has turned into a mean ativantage of our steel foundry." weakened condition, will knock "But what shall I do, doc- thousands of citizens out for at 10 It's indigestion you
ten days.
least
cim
Blunt,
If el Mahdi stays long, there give him bismuth; if not, send wipe him to Vickers-Armstrongs for will be the fuel cuis to the smile off his faco and the a repair job," said Dr Noveraber togs to give him slamming the surgery door be
hind Mrs Fussybreeches.
bronchitis,
in
East winda will hit him the back and give him Abro- sitis. Or they may give him Jaundice. A northeast winti may hit him sideways and give him both.
and
If he stays until December, ho may get toughened up have nothing worse than lum- bago, sciatica, gout, # secund go of fiu, and chronle catarrh.
But if he's still around at Christmas, and sunfles again a an unexpected spell of mild weather, he should remember our cheerful old saying: "A green Christmas makes a full churchyard."
1
Tonic talk
--{London Express Service)
of it as far as I tan see: riving here today, I am told, .We should have seized hold of roller at the failure of the
Nobody who should
do
home
Instead....?
to subject us to a
With this slackening of effort has come an increased unreadi- ness
to make sacrifices such as
can expect to get out inside them and nursed them to be an Russians eight months-and then only if example for their kinsfolk at shooting war, I did not myself. Not, that he or she is very young.
Many look like being hero for is, until my car drove past the life unless something is done to gaunt, grim ruins of Hitler's. *** Nuremberg Rally Stadium into this vast barrack town where he used to house his visiting host of Storm Troopers and Hitler
Youth.
Report by SEFTON DELMER
The refugees themselves do not disguise their disappoint ment. Almost the first thing! I saw on entering the gate was an ugly-looking, dilapidated black 'shack.
break the red-tape curtain of in- Well, just think of the impact would be involved by raising
and But what I have seen and difference
immigration of the stories" these men and Immigration quotas in the United bars the way of women can tell who have been States or subsidising the im- learned since then has convinced quotes that
migration of new escapees. me that what is happening here these brave people to a new life. here since 1948 and 1949.
~THE SECOND is that there is In Valcka-and the other campa
Even if they do not write home still no co-ordination of the in Germany and Austria like it
about the conditions in the camp, overall cold-wax policy in the is liable to destroy the con-
the mere fact that after all these, political and psychological fields. fidence of Stalin's oppressed
years their letters are still com- satellites European
No central decision has ever In the
ing from a camp and not from a Western world.
home of their own must have its yet been given whether escapees should be encouraged to come effect In the cold-war struggle bo- Scrawled in whitewash on its
across to us or not. There is, in tween the Kremlin and ourselves roited wooden weatherboards Viceslav Sedlacek is one of fact, no organisation which could Czechs, the Poles, Hungarians, chose freedom," it said. "Look just arrived. for the heart and soul of the was a message in English: "We three young Czechs who have give a central decision...
here after cutting The lack of this do-ordination and other East Europeans, defeat in!"
their way through a patch of as I shall show in dater dès- in this battle of Valcka
being felt at electribed wire classed by the patches--is not I did, And then got out again Communists as impassable. He Valcke alone. as quickly as I could.
`escaped after his father had been arrested as the local leader of the Benes Party,
con
mean a setback from which it would take years to recover.
By CHAPMAN PINCHER
ONE DAY, WOMEN MAY 'BANK' A SPARE FACE
THE woman, of 'tomorrow THE
may look searchingly into her mirror on her 40th birthday and decide that
Do you ever wake up in the the time has come to cover
morning feeling billous her face with the spare com and depressed? Do you that life has nothing to offer she was 17.
teel plexion she sot aside when and that your wife is just a white man's burden?
-
If you feel like that, remain Her plastic surgeon will take it calm and try to
to reason things out of cold storage and after a out.
few weeks, in a nursing home Your billousness is probably the woman will emerge with a your own fault, and your wife really rejuvenated face. would probably have been just as great a burden to either a Zulu or an albino.
Remember, little things
This frightening prospect is opened up by astonishing ex- are periments now in progress at sent
to try us; und if your University College, London. wife doesn't happen to be * little thing." you ... must bave
Scientists there have found courage and bear it like a man. that skin removed for grafting every operations can be kept alive in Remember, too, that thing, even the worms in the a deep freezer for at least four garden, has a message of love months and probably indennitaly and hope for us all. And don't if it has first been sooked in forget your morning.exercives, glycerine,"
And
Professor Peter Medawar and girl without a spare complexion Dr R. E. Billingham are carry will later lose her man,"
out this research for two then--who knows? the idea Immediate purposes)—__
might catch on.
UP TO SCRATCH
The future
ī
Viceala in tail, strong, only 26 BUT the battle of Valcka need years old, and a trained elec D not be given up as lost. It trical mechanles. I found him can still be won it many firm looking at the notice, board to decisions are taken, pr see if there was any chance of "a (1) 20 Responsibility both his being recruited to the new financial and political for the American Army Labour Corps," - reception of these escapees must ate be taken out of the hands of the He said: "I wanted to emigrate who quite naturally to Australia. The selection
every new arrival as an board accepted me. But at the increased burden on the German last minute the Australian consul economy. Instead, they should turned me down. He gave no become the responsibility of the reason."
NATO Powers generally:
5d. an hour
(2) A long-term policy should be laid down for, their, resettle ment, The younger ones could THE only work which people be excruited into legions attached THE
Should like the. carpenter and to the NATO armies, electrician can get is around the they wish to serve in theme
(3) Figorous differentiation ly on badly burned people to WHEN you scratch the palma camp. For this they are paid 1 olve emergency coverage.
of your hands to satisfy an mark 80 (roughly 35 d.), for an must be introduced between these itch you use much shorter eight-hour day,N
To speed, the setting tip of skin-graft "banks”—-—-reserves which could be used immediate-
་་
new cold-war escapées and the old displaced persons who were
It takes 400 hours of work for left stranded in the West In the
A graft taken from another strokes than when you scratch person quickly dies. But while the back of your neck. working with rabbita Modawar found that the life of such a ·The reason:-The body is clothes from the camp, manage- graft can be prolonged if the divided into long and short ment drug cortisone is given at the scratching, areas, depending on of refuges funds rupplled by the same time.
the camp to purchase a mult of wake of the German breakdown.
The food provided out.
--is
poor,
very
ין
Scrutiny
ASCAFEES, should be given,
the concentration --of-sensitive | German-- Government every kind of preferential nerve endings in the skin was for os the food and living-
Where nerve endings are
(short)
dry up the stream of escapees if them.
But under no c
no circumstancon
from Iron Curtali“ Europe."
Last
The possibility of using this important finding in human plastic surgery is now being comparatively few, all in the conditions in Valcks go runs treatment I am well aware that middle of the back and on the the general; verdict, "we might among them there are certain to investigated,
upper arm, a long scratch is just as well have remained under besome Communist agents de our Soviet masters. Things are liberately planted on as sa wel aordinary criminals fleeing no better here.".
from: justice. T
It should not be To provide a new way of needed to give reller, studying how and why the
On the face, hands, and back
Valcks has already done more beyond our security experts skin grows old
of the ankle, where nerve end- than any other single factor to it, them. The scientists propose to re- ings are numerous, a move patches of skin from scratch is enough. 'young rabbits, store it, and graft
your chcapecs were still dooding must we go on leaving the fate it back on when they are older. DON'T LISTEN.
aeroes in their thousands of valuable allies of the West to the haphazard :)oodi:, in- They spread alam among the dividual decision of the German They will then be able to
TER Experimenta with Courtuart Becurity chiste la authorities. study the difference between the
guinea plas US acientists Bedience to Stalin, thanks (
fagrant manifestation of jou k
No longer and AT first I was astonished to judunky b
akin which has aged naturally A read that Mr/Sebastian The experiments have been aid that which has been are convinced that prolonged
exposure to Jet-engine notes and, solidarity to the West. They we if we do! was als Snow, the English explorer restricted to rabbits so far, but state of suspended animation will damage the human brought valuable information limo but all bus "sang the “Eton Bosting: Bong the scientiate believe. that the AMATAN DAN from his sleeping-bagu arte a results could also be applied to. It may be that future fashion whateve Ale Force authorities here about conditions in their ovat "dimoult diy on the, Amazon, human pellente.
Inexperts will plug the theme" "A" may say,
Old school parrot exactly the same as one made
A graft made with it looks from skin which has been fresh- ly removal