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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, APRIL - 22, 1953. ~/
DON'T BREATHE
ANYBODY.
10
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'PURCE DOCTORS SET
FREE
BRITISH EMBASSY
NOT TO
DE EVICTED
AMERICAN, JOURNALISTS GIVEN VISAS
CHUIKOV SUGGESTS AIR SAFETY TALKS
AMNESTY TO RUSSIAN PRISONERS
VISHINSKY TO AGREES
·U.N.O. SECRETARY-GENERAL
BERUN RESTRICTIONS
EASED
WAITING FOR THE K.O..
Nathaniel Gubbins
NE advantage of the elder Lord's Taverners will not mean. But hang it all, a diap cold war, now relax- need the rosy make-up.
ing with "nods and becks and wreathed smiles" (John Milton, in case you didn't know), was that Rus- sian diplomats maintained a dignified silence, unless they were insulting somebody.
They might have been as dumb as they look. On the other hand, because they were not allowed to speak freely, briliant witticisms may have been stifled-in their throats by orders from Moscow.
But now that Mr Gromyko has made
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Pass The Sandwiches
to
a
hus to consider the ladies on an occasion like that, I mean,
Letter From A Stomach
Y. Dear Stomach,
According
report. to American girls, anxious know evRTY detali of the
"quealed with M Sir Miles Thomas, chief of Coronation, delight when they learned at a British Information Burrait that some peers and peeresses may carry sandwiches in their coronets."
ELL, there you are, you see. Americans just don't under-
stand.
Andrel
After all, what's so funny. cory
about carrying sandwiches in a crack about our weather, wo
coronet? I mean, you're a long know the worst. He
said: "Your British weather over time at a coronation without a Faster was terrible. Why don't spot of fodder, and you've got
to carry it somewhere, you put it in order? In Moscow
ticularly as peers' robes don't It was warm and sunny."
Which is about as unfunny as usually have pockets. the worst gug ever uttered by the unfunniest British comedion at a suburban smoking concert.
par-
And even if they did, a chap would look a bit of an outsider with packets of grub bulging out of them. I mean, it simply isn't donc.
the B.O.A.C., har said that on the Comet airliner's trip 10 Takuu
and back stomachs flew so fast that their meal times were gravely upset.
They took an early breakfast. in London, and arrived in early Tokyo at another breakfast-time,
they when were expecting a late dinner.
On the return trip, they arrived in London expecting late lunch, and found it was time for yet another carly breakfast.
"They Have Their Exits"...
Third Day
THE JACKBOOTS CAME NEARER AND NEARER
T
taken
We heard HE British dental of- +++++++++++*H*** flung open and
German votres, I turned อต cer treated my gums. Yesterday Colonel Neave told my cide against the wall of the As he applied a lotion how, a8 a lieutenant in a
my Aut
clicck against the 10 wooden floor. The stomping I blurted out my news to British battery ordered him. He smiled and calmly make a Inst stand before of jackboots on the boards was deafening. Nearer and nearer shook my hand as he sum- Dunkirk in 1940, he wax they came until we could hear moned the next patient, wounded.
prisoner, throaty breathing. My heart they wero Norman Forbes, from the marched to Germany and beat wildly, for waiting-room. Buck in the eventually taken to an old looking under the beds. Two
rows away from us the strup waiting-room the sentry Polish
XX. ing of boots stopped. There fort-Stalag still gazed without ex- From here he planned to was grunting, bul the footsteps pression at the window. escape to Russia from the began to dis away. The door
centre -(which he was slammed. Five minutes passed, I look- dental
Three days later we sald
and shook hands ed at my watch and at was regularly attending for good.
good-bye with F.-O. with everyone in the hut. c'even o'clock rose from my treatment)
to leave thota chair and pronounced the Norman Forbes, an R.A.F. was sorry
fighter pilol.
staunch and kindly people.
At six a.m. on April 10 a magic word:
party of 150 men assembled near the main gate. Forbes and 1, mingling with them were counted and marched away, singing "Ro
the Barrel" and
tintil "Quartermaster's Stores"
tvere beyond the plie forests and halling at a largo ferm.
"Abort."
Out
wa
the
Here bunks had been pre- The sentry glance in my discution with indifference and pared for us and cups of tea noided woodenly. I stepped were ready. We were to hide outside where the two sentries here until the search had died still lounged by the corner of down and the hue and cry was the hut. They did not look my over. Then, after an interval
a small alert British we could go out with som way for prisoner with long, black hair party working in the woods and flowing beneath his cap and side (scape, whiskers
them showing
U.S.M noon Shortly after
the among the farm buildings. Our His Thornborough shin ng object. rome
Into came
Alled mattress group enthusiastic salesmanship was hut. He was loughing. "Coma
1
wat
Here the party split up into small groups for different tasks
编
covers
part of the escape plan. Swiftly outside and see something good. With hay and straw from
reached the lavatory, removed Take a brush
and pall each great barn. my overcoat and placed it in and pretend to be hut orderiles and mix with the crowd by tho of wire."
hia
space
beneath the TOO!.
lathered up a few pieces
Forbes,
wood and waited for
He came quickly, placed
Overcoat beside mine and took
By
up his share of wood. Another AIREY NEAVE,
short, tense wait.
SSSS
D.S.O., O.B.E., M.C.
CORDES and I worked under British the direction of a corporal who whispered direc- ilons to us. The born had doors
at either end. One was fastened
by a padlock, but the other, least in use, was held in position only by a wooden cross-bar TALL Brilish sergeant
twined with wire: Betore! the We followed him scross tho pacing carelessly beside the
loosening the wire so that the lavatery whistled softly. At the parade ground, trying to look midday meal I saw the corporal
orderlies to the barbed
door would
casily. open signol I walked as naturally as like
When the ratlon lorry drew pussible behind the hut and wire in front of the Komman- Our escape had been round its far wall out of the dantur.
hour before. up beside us two men hidden At the discovered
down view of the sentries.
us. a crowd of British Inside jumped awicily roadway I was joined by Forbes Around
and and disappeared in the crowd, soldiers were laughing and we began to talk and laugh
Ger. It was unnoticed by the guard towards the shouting alles at the we walked entrance of the compound on mans.
as
GA
that the number of the work- but ing party had increased to 152. the other side carrying our bits In the roadway, silent
our fellow We planned to hide in the barn of wood to give the impression grinning. stood
when the party marched back Furious Ger- that we were employed on some dental patients.
to the camp at exactly the same No mans
stamped No one shouted.
around them. strength as it had left in the errand.
showed from one even looked in our direction. Revolver butts
rifies morning. We were now dressed in our unbuttoned holsters and
Late in the afternoon. when battle-dresses without badges of were hold at the ready. Aglinted
no Germans were in the burn rank, trying to become absorbed German officers gesticulated at
the corporal stood by the open We the crestfallen sentries, In the mass of prisoners.
Then came the sound of dogs door and nodded. Up we climb- walked up a jane fenced with
high into along the road ed towards the roof, posts and wire and reached the barking and
the hay, and burrowed, boneath main gate. A sentry armed swung a formidable column of
of the barn, with a bayonet talked casually SS, men with tommy guns and the cross-beams
Police leading Alsatian We lay there luxuriously for an with a British corporal Re Field
Faccinated, we watched hour, glanced at us unintelligently, dogs.
march Rway pursuers
German Then and it seemed the corporal gave our us a faint wink as we passed towards the fort.
of the I slept peacefully in my bunk the hay I caught a through into the haven the problem would be appre-compound.
and early next morning com field-grey uniform. clated.
Sergeant Major parade for the whole of the repeated the world"Nichtal Company
Orderlies detalled
The German was not satisfied the Green camp. Thornborough, of
stood with
clean clean out the huts were usually and I felt that he was gazing up Howards,
this parade, but o into the roof. uniform and shining boots at excused the door of one of the huis. He this morning all the huts were
As many of the stomachs rebelled, your comments on
SIR,
But it, the order has come
In reply to your undated from Moscow; "Fraternise with
But if you carry the stuff in the British, and make jokes they understand," there will soon be your coronet, it doesn't show. letter, I have to inform you And when there's a bit of a that I have given serious con- awkward
with scenes British diplomats of the old break for lunch, you can get sideration to the problem
use the stomachs in the jet age. in a quiet corner, and thing as a small table on your knees.
sume
school at the Russian Embassy:
It
You like your cigar?
good, Thanks.
Oh, Jolly goo
You amell the kipper?
The kipper?
who has been compared with fat, bleway, orrible, ch?
LISZT
BUSONI
and
RACHMANINOFF
will give two recitals
on
FRIDAY,
24th APRIL, 1953,
(Originally scheduled for Wednesday. 22nd April, 1953)
at
7 P.M. and 9.30 P.M.
at the
EMPIRE THEATRE King's Road, Tol. 70103 Town Rooking Office side lane, Shell House. YOU CAN HEAR AND SEE KENTNER FROM ANY SEAT IN OUR THEATRE.
Of course, coronels
of
Stomachs obliged to travel frequently may find that they are not will hardly ever catch up with
usually big enough to carry lunch-time or dinner-time, and much. So you would have to will be doomed to a perpetual Very suck to sandwiches. I mean, dlot of porridge and bacon and
you can't have a sort of picnic eggs. with knives and fock# and
is chicken and salad and all that,
It is nailed under the table.
state, It smell bad. English. Very funny, ha?
Oh, very funny. Ha, na. Your mother-in-law-she
For one thing, the Ironmon My mother-in-law? Do you
gery would rattle a bit, and also mean the duchess?
I mean, you Yes.
of course, But she is Be rather heavy. vulgar, ougly, stupid and talk, don't want to go about like a talk, talk and chew the fat, or Covent Garden porter balancing
a basket on his head. is it the cud, yes?
I think I'd better be going now,
Who was that lady I seen you with last night?
I beg your pardon?
I know. It was no lddy.
wife.
was
It
your I really must go now, if you' excuse me, It's all been fright- fully 'Jolly,
wait until But you must your cigar cxplode. Ah, there
tache
go, and half your mous
swith her. I not that very-funny-frightfully-jolly?
Frightfully.
And as for salad, it's simply mayonnaisu la out. I mean, difficult enough in a hamper, but if you carry it in your hat, so to speak, you're going to look a bit odd if it gets out of the con- tainer and runs down your face
the problems,
If the time-tables are changed. they may find lunch' always coming down without breakfasts or dinners; or dinners always coming down without lunches or breakfasts.
Even worse, much-travelled stomachs, doomed to perpetual breakfasts by the time-fable and owned by certain persons given to self-indulgence (no names, no pack drill), may hd nothing but coffee and toast coming down for weeks on end,
When stomachs can fly round the world in 24 hours, I presume time in their aircraft will re- main constant, it moving with the earth's spin. And if the ot One of
speed of the aircraft is the same course, is crumbs. If you use as the speed of the earth's re- the coronel as a small table, as I volutions, I suppose they will mild, a fow crumbs, and probe never get anywhere...... ably bits of meat and chicken,
01
Forbes and I, lying on out.
grinned, shook us both by the suddenly cleared. hand and took us to the end of the long hut between rows of backs two-tiered metal beds.
beneath two beds, waited. The hut door Wis
we
talking to the corpora Impce
heard
#
Through The Corporal
Tomorrow: Lost and Bawildered.
MORE PEACE MOVES SOON
TO COME, SAY DIPLOMATS
T
Jane Melivaine is the first woman to return to BENQ the West and report after a visit to Russia. Here is
her
despatch
the now
from
Berlin.
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pores we saw what the Russlan HE new mystery in been given a public build-up 23
who Stalin's successor, and they wont wanted us to see-docs, not give Kremlin the really rules Russia and der whether there is now under one the picture of Immense way life and death struggle strength, which Russia iries to the Russians have between Malenkov ond Beria. present to the West.
When I was able to look un- why
der the Red carpot laid downs launched their peace offen- the security chief, for absolute,
in pover sive has diplomats
Everywhere I went in and for us, I could see the dust and our cracks like the horrifying alght Moscow during Moscow dumbfounded to around
seven-day say I saw pictures of of women prisoners working day.
But one of the few things Stalls and Lenin. I saw under the steely-eyed directions only one picture of Malenkov, of torunygun toting guards
It was at the big Moscow col with police dogs. about which there is some
Cars of tin: agreement is that there inay lostive farm.. 30 miles east of Pictures of Stein,
the Stalin auto soon be important new Rus- Moscow.
Lenin, Malenkov, and Melotov.
Our visit to the sian moves, including an were grouped on the wall. I saw worlas, the Russiane pride and offer to conclude the long- none of Beria.
Joy, was not impressive by There is a feeling in Moscow. Detroit Austrian peace that Stalin's successors have any are certain to get into it. And. Therefore, if their journey debated
standards. when you put the thing on, begins at 4.30 pm they will treaty.
taken the opportunity provided. again, the stuff is certain to get bo travelling nowhere;. for.op-
by his death to correct what one The Russians best cáis aro tinny. The Soviet plane In parently no purpose, in an air-
Dupont Coalways No picture of Beria diplomat described as a "deeper which we travelled tronk Fin OR the Coronation. Test into your hair.
ale situation" dacior Russia: woman,
10 Moscow had "tracks hape chosen to wear a black Of course, it's all right for ner where
tea-time
This diplomat suggested that land These diplomats, many of dotted green chartreuse sult, a peers who are bald. They can
feline the now rulers may have felt which exposed the airframe, un-- In those, nightmarish circum- whom have spent a plain large black straw hat, and, brush it away with one hand. remembering three colours fon But if pecrosses go about after stances, let us hope that stomachs studying Russias, emphasised Stalls, palleles were propelling comfortably to view.
that they do not know the Budia towards was that he was Derpite; dontilky CBA tho smartness; an enormous crimson lunch with crumbs and bits of of the future will get better
answers to the startling develops too tonlle to change and that comptiness of Mohitimke with- my shoulder. Roty ment and chicken in their hair, teas than those borved day on
ments which have followed Russia is still too hackward in out pool facts Western diplo make-up with crimson lipsticle they're going to look a bit ropey British Hallwayɛ. A
Stalin's death, duririally for an All-out war in mats are convinced og one thing. One of the chilet aguros in this the near future. In short, they there has been defnite change in the. butward atanow The only thing to do is for the
7 remain, Sir, faithfully,
mystery is Premier: Malenkos are buying cleno.rs In the Lord's Tavern, club peer to carry, an extra nosebag
himsen. Some diplomats are ins What I saw in our way--and, sphere in atom tley will provide several colours for, the membib. I. mon. it.)
leigană se to why he has got remembering that for meat pur=23 (Conilned) for ammeinews, but some of us may be a bit of a tight ft,
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