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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1953.
U.S.A. buys bases in Spain, hey ho
by GILES
you can always
count on
Art's TAILOR
London Express Service
IN A TOWN
V
ISITING eurd in hand, walked into the panelled oflice
f Rear Admiral.
Francisco Nunez, Chief of Staff at Cartagem, one of Spain's naval Inses on the Mediterraneun.
SPANISH
LITTLE WITH SENOR
No hot dogs and no juke boxes,
easy dates
no easy
only fre water and soil drinks,
with senoritas
Where did
everyone
little box, Joe, let's have e
What, Juke-box?
JOE
"Finally this Spanish charac- ler I got to know introduced me to his cousin. I asked her out to the movies they're showing a fitn Errol Flynn nude about 12 years ago--and the says okay.
"But, Joe, when I mcel her at the movie theatre-she's got admural recalls with a shudder, RENE MacCOLL? Put a nickel in the juke
her old mother along with her." Expert observers Are
be Cartagena may
strate- certain that heavily forti- Ant the "grey-bai ert alde
pically at the top of the list. At fied Cartagena, · with its adds that there Was rumoured
Escombreras, next door, slants harbour to be a bottle of come in the now touring Spain wit m Jukebox superh untural
In the outskirts of Cartagena e of Europe's most important harsh mo's sick bay, but this was not to investigate the
vil refineries guarded by
Tommy gunners situation tains, will be one of the
following the appearance of the
in olive-green uniforms patrol French touring car I was in the walls of Cartagena's ar- spots the Americans will Back in Madril, United States
ames at the pact with Ameri- ca tremendous excitement. Fenal. And civilians are firmly Prople rushed from their kept out of the roads leading choose as a base under the Ambassador
ca, sends his third boures to inspeet 1.
leaving the mountain-top string- of the newly con- impressed on mu that it is und
report. He cables the old and the luftem to fes-
points down near the harbotir. the windows. Stray ears
' from Cartagena. are searce in Cartagena,
terms
forthcoming.
planned to station American
cluded pact between Spain in on the Spanish buses in and the United States,
any great quantity. Admiral Nunez.
Air suututrons clean-shaven moti was wetting "rotated" al short
one
shart.
be will intervals, sullors will Troops invariably wear vivilian clothes way from their bases, and the ver "ixel Americans will
the backwards" not tu. upset touchy Spaniards on questions of sovereignty or prestige.
a white dull anilorie, and, as I entered, one of hu A.D. was hastly attening up the collar of the admiral's jacket. which hart
been opened for greater comfort
In the humid office.
Flanked by his two nides---
ofler a crappy-featured with greying hair, the other a Jinsome Hollywood type complete with sunton and Clark Gable moustache-the admirni
vely to my Jistened impassively
And I hear it the Ameri- the for his comment UN quest
cans are going to put their men forthcoming!
arrival u! the through a special three months" American base party.. and "orientation" course before they
come to Spain.
whether he looked forward to this new collaboration.
A course
back there and they served, it warn,"
I visited the feel yacht-har- bour un to sugge fun of Ad-
mirai Nunez.
FLASH FORWARD:
Sinall
"ley.
Far cry
go
crew-
Jou! Why do there people stare at us like this? Do they think we're nuts or something? Ain't
But the Americans are going they never seen an automobile
Joc." before? I don't
to find it a very "lar cry from The young girts
girls many of Muin Street, um bicade-conform strictly Perhaps Cartagena will learn. A pleasant spa, to Spanish etiquette. They walk Perhaps the next time I with the rea lapping under
arm-in- back there I will find in twas or threes, or yachta Viswedub n
atin with their mothers. Ac- cuts and blue jeans, I have an bobbing at their incorings.
qualatanetship must be aT- den that they could learn fast. When I arrived the place was ranged, if at all, with the ut
For, when I got out of the full of people drinking aperitif.. But by the time I had finished most punctilio. draer 1, was alone. Everyone PLASH FORWARD; else went home on the stroke of Joo! I've just about wore my 10. It was like the transtorma reif cut trying to date up these ften seene in a pantomime. Labcs. Some of them are pretty
FLASH FORWARD: "Hey, nice
they Icokers--but town gives me the give you the brush-off.
But all the same....Knowing Joe! this "I have alsolutely no feelings America and Americans as I In the matter at all. I hold no opinion. 1. do my duty. I do do, the imper of even a few.
hundred. free-wheeling.
free-
or
what i am told," he observed, spending Americans on a spot
Cadiz like Cartagena (or Ferrol) is going to have roughly The
a minor ⚫same result s
I
Unenthusiastic
tornado.
For Cartagena is fairly far off the beaten track. It is in a
suggested that without harsh and forlorn corner of barren getting on to controversial poli- Spain, surrounded by tical ground, he might like to plains punctuated by lend and
mines,
windmills say something indicating polite zine.
arrival of the worked by sails which are un pleasure at the
furled as for a ship.
U.S. naval forces in Cartagena.
But he maintained a strict lack of enthusiasm. "Do I look forward to co-operation with the Americans? Ah, I have abso- lutely nothing to say.”
I
There was a patise, and the grey-haired wide, seeing that was looking nonplussed, came to the rescue.
and
"Hey.
car
boys
They
to have a a look at the vlow, A Kong of ragged little appeared from nowhere. rushed at me crying in English Very "Americans! Americans! rich. Money please."
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of blank-walled houses,
mass
The submarines and cruisers reitling in the harbour seem to be visitants froin another cen tury.
sun-
"Behold!" he said, making an elaborate gesture as though shine, the white-jacketed marines
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In the elenr Spanish
entry outy on
olcanders
AMERICA COLUMN
from NEWELL ROGERS
Amazons
who stand for
no
The speaker is Judge Julius H. Minder, America's foremost mender of broken marriages.
nonsense about divorce, divorce Next July his model
On 10 mile square Botel low goes into effect in Illinois courts. Then a resident will file Tergo near Formosa, women's but rule
absolute. They decide
will
No
declaration of S. everything.
must wait 60
Meanwhile Judge
AG{19052
from
male
depths they fish or just look at the sights,
AILLIONS of Americans addresssen this month. Reason-leases on flats expire on October 1 and tenanis shift around.
M changed home
During 1953 some 30,000,000
of them will shift to new homes, Why are Americans, so rest- less, especially the young people. between 18 and 34?-They want better Jobs, better homes.
Men move more frequently
than women.
"NTANCY
outside the he were sheathing a sword.
"Suppose we meardered to Captain-General's house march talk to each couple. Sometimes judges. When a woman has had he speaks softly, sometimes he enough of a husband she just then of back and forth against a glow- make such a gesture,
them background of
a tongue-lushing, ays "Olt with you" and away N elves course we must do it. There is
And 75 percent
of them go he goes. no choice pa dur part-orders and bougainvillas.
And as I wandered about the heme to give marriage another
Sone matriarchs bave had 10 are ordara."
town I found my inind guiding try.
or 15 husbands, Another
Then
ffa tas, saved pouse,
bundheds of into a series of "flach farvard
The women get the best fali, ventured to ask if they are
Boulen
Asher- aware that America's is a "dry" to the time when the Ameri-marriager. He had no
rute for happiness. "Mrs Mind- d woe to a bungler of a TRA
The man. If he has no fish he gets lustantly the spell is cans, have arrived.
er and I have our lights," boken. All is animation.
tult one couple. "But we think not even one wife.
1
The grey-haired aldu elaps his
to hands his temples and rocks his head from side to side in mock diamny. Tomato juice! Tomato juice!" he cries, And the admiral, unbending, chimes in ruefully with "Chen- Colat"
Parade
of the children (they have three), so we stick 1. out.
"Soon the arugment is for gotten."
Imports will where all of SCOTCH Cartagena turns out
atepped up five to seven pr. around traditional Spanish parade bo O'Leary says.
This narrow little street, the
Calle Major, is
be
tho VALENTINE,
who honey-haired starlet clalined that she secretly mar- of Cooch ried the Maharajah
taken tho Behar. In 1940, hao vows of a Yogi cloister.
Brown-haired now, the risen at 6 am, in her room at the Self-Reliantion Fellowship. It
a luxurious California -The woman explorer is Mrs is on Carveth Wells, wife of a British estate with bungalows and cloft- born explorer, who lived in the lera. Malayan jungle for six years to. survey a railway route.
T least 15,000 Americans
swdown every evening for the cunt next year, importer Edward A A expect to spend this week-
tables
in
For 45 minutes she prays and meilitates, folns other Yogl devotees in chapel, ests break- fast, and does Yogi exercises.
Nancy says: "I am called a Renunclate. After seven years I shall be a Sister.
"I am very happy."
It turns out at only a couple of weeks ago Cartagena played fore late dinner. No wheeled Shipments have increased by and under water.
They are amateur "frommer" host to some destroyers of the traffic is allowed in it, and the more than 6,000,000 gallons a
They have spent £90 for diving Sixth Fleet. The Spanish blacie-uniformed chocblocks do year since the war. U.S. brow was invited to lunch on a roaring irade among the cafe Washington to Justice lungs equipment which mit Department has begun a fall them to plop down as far as board.
Things started off promisingly FLASH FORWARD: "Hey, scale investigation of the domes 300 foct
Equipmont Includes com with some excellent aperiifs Joel This is the main stem here, e liquor industry.
presed air innk, face mask. but there were served in a club but you can't find a hamburger
houla no place. And WOMAN explorer is off to harpoon apdard or crossbows out at night With the actual meal or a ashore,
-an Island of Oriental Down in the ponceale told him so on one of the destroyer, the say, I asked for a glass of milk
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A detectivo, mys two burglars
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