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LONDON'S A DRAMA THAT NEVER ENDS
W
IIO would live in
London by choice? By BEVERLEY BAXTER, MP.
But then who would not live in London by choice? Those are-parallel questions which knock at the door of the mind with the regularity of postmen.
than men had ever
the earth stood before,
This is a film that will girdle the world an honest film that
eschews heroics
and achieves
Hun.
WAY OF A WIFE IN WOOMERA
By Chapman Pincher
WOOMERA. responded to an early March THE small, forbidding day in her native Doncas-
square of Australian ter.
desert called Wooniera
should be fit for only n She said nothing about penal settlement by normal the summer when the Bun Pivilised standards.
heats the air under the cor- rugated iron roofs, of the There is no spiked wall bungalows to 110 degrees. 1ound it, but the parched Or of the nights when the red clay stretching for air gets so cold that kan- hundreds of miles on all garoos come out of the sides offers no reason for scrubby mulga bushes to escape from the compound, warm themselves on bitu- ronda which retain Yet more than 400 their beat R little longer Women from British, and than the desert.
Australian towns have
settled in this artificial
oasis with every outward
sign of enjoying it. Thoy
ure the wiven of the selen-
men
No Mention
Mra Laycock said she
Lists and other men working was grateful for the
dry-
on the rocket ranges near ness of the air which by.
enables her to bring in washing after only a few The more I saw of the minutes on the line. Ske desolate ranges during, A did not mention the days tour of them the more when the wind whips up I was convinced that the the powdered clay into u
of the whole choking dust stormi £60,000,000 defence project scars the half-bald lawns,
sucerss
which
depends on these wives. germinated only after
a olyc
months of patient water-
Given time the scientists ing. She said nothing and' technicians will ultimately problems of intercepting enemy bombers with gulded All that can be done to anti-aircraft rockets. But it make life tolerable for will be such a long job that these pioneers is being few of them would stay in done. The authorities have such dreary country without piped the companionship of their Murray River 300 miles wives and families.
of the plagues of desert the
Bics.
Pre-fab Homes
evening paper staffs were cr- Orientalism, * nddr dered to their pests of duty of ilitude to the Chinese pirate ray of
verisim berolam. This is the story no
but men
of man. six a.m. to garner the circula- ancestor.
Common senza with its limita- harvest. There is fierce
tions would say that the ! tion
# "Read this memorandum," he five hundred feet of the ascent empotition these days among the newspapers, and a prize said. "It will prove absolutely holds nothing of value to the fight all exeltes the pulses of that Evans never murdered his human race. There is no magic But there are some days, the British. Incidentally the wife and baby. Christie did mineral hidden in the snows, no especially in the late BBC decided not to brand of course, The Home Secretary elixir 13 heal the sick, no secret autumn when one has a cast the affair owing to must agree to a debate."
hugged by the mountain and "lack of public interest." There wild desire to escape. must be Usually the weather has atisfying
hidden to the plains.
something to do with it. There is nothing like an early November mist to put ideas in a Londoner's head, Somewhere else there is a streng antiseptic wind from the sea.
Somewhere else
first coy appearance.
H
Then why London? With the adaptability
the English language, we have invented a new omnibus word "smog." which combines the demerits of Perhaps "make" and "fog". we shall have music hall songs with the refrain:
not
water from the.
nway. They are planting trees which, with continual watering, should give some shade in ten years' time.
There is a small elnema,
A
A swimming
I felt the significant story theatre, hospital, and alt-con- of Woomeru all in the village ditioned school, itself rather than at the pool is nearly completed. launching platforms or on
But these amenities would the cratered ranges. If the wives were unwilling to put oon lose their attraction with- out the determination of the with the rigours of
wives to Inake comfortable Woomern the whole rocket homes in a country naturally project would fold up.
unsuited to white. people and devoid of local domestic help.
பற
someliding highly That is the trouble with capital In living in the punishment. What is hung can clouds remote from all human never be unhung. Bing and his
SINGLE DAY will legalistic colleagues ocnloot.
rest until the debate takes place. At Earls Court there were
You cannot limit such achieve great crowds at the Motor Show. Mr Aneurin Bevan wulks ment ns this to logle. Mani is You can buy a new car for pensively by us. Napoleon was the ruler of the universe. From
300-plus purchase tax of a general in his early twenties, the creation of the first man the So I sought out some of universe has been a challenge these women in their neat use When I say that you Pitt was Prime Minister even can buy it, you
the must not take earlier, Bevan has been
this handsome new car, but of the last twenty years,
must be served first,
of dignity
MUST HE ROT?
It was
and he the zen and democratic se dictatorship.
Yours pass quickly for men of cludes destiny when pqwor them. Bevan loves to talk in private about the ancient Greek Perhaps it is the dramatists.
of the gods that malignancy fascinates him.
mustenance,
Succeeding
A
The wives are succeeding
τα him. From the Boll he
and from pre-fab homes set in streets the buds are making their me too literally. You can order enfant terrible of Parliament for wrest made a pathway to which curl snake fashion to
orurse the overseas purchaser wants to put on the long pants the unknown. Every year, every counter the dust raised by magnificently. They are rebt- decade, every century Intensified "willle-willles" miniature ing so many fine children--112
between him and desert whirlwinds. I found per year is the average the struggle
birth- He harnessed the the universe. tides, he hewed the forests, he they were far from discon- role that in this rocket-age "city" the most commonly seen form of transport is the pram. brought minerals as well as food tented.
earth, he even from the good! defied the loneliness of the skies
Many are getting intense
For the children too the desert and gave men wings.
the satisfaction from the in- provides
difficulties. Something lost behind
special
high- timate community life which There are no walks-the It! Muus rangcs, go and And bantam with a Van Dyke beard its ageless
At the Festival-Hall, a little-Everest had to be conquered. close confinement has forced way linking Woomera with the
defiance
launching sites is scaled no WAS A on them. walked on to the platform and challenge which had to be met.
day trips to the seaside, and nơ
They resting. I have seldom been so moved
quickly with the magle of his baton
Their philosophy and cease to be excited by the sight made his orchestra play like by a film. By contrast. It makes
loves of Hollywood they have plenty of time for of a kangaroo or giant wedge- angels. At least that is what I the
em like the romances thinking -- is
But, simple and talled eagle. am told. Sir Thomas Beecham pictures seem
7 years of age, addicted to of the barnyard. Because of sufficient. "Our place is admirable mothers, they
of conquering
Mount this was happening a gout, and is still among the five the
conductor's in
the Everest man himself has added here with our husbands and making the best of things. famous British actor faced the greatest
we are determined to make inches to his stature.. magistrate at Bow Street Police world.
the beat of it," No other Station.
But when he talles about the he Icaves clone more to give dignity and critics of London importance to the
yes to weep London them only
What a theatre.
It was in recognition with. What a rebel of that fact that a knighthood iconoclast! What a fenius! was bestowed on him this year.
A returned prisoner. from Korea is court martialled in London for cowardice and sen- "Wandering in the sang
tenced to a year's imprisonment, Just me and my dog."
Oscar Wilde who sud The day was soggy in more that all trials are trials for one's ways than one. It opened with Üfe. Would justice not have an unofficial strike of peirol been satisfied with branding distribution workers in London. the wretched fellow and dis One of the characteristics of missing him from the service? selenec is that It can bring Must he ra in prison for a normal life to a standstill. We year? live, move and have our being In petrol. Take it away from us and we are like the ship wrecked sailor on the raft who has drunk his last drop of fresh water.
THE RUSH
the
While
actor has
All day we rushed to
"Drunk and importuning.""" garage; to All our ears to burst- The ghost of Oscar Wilde walked ing point. The garage atten- again. The newspapers carried dants were very decent about it the story without comment and They did not charge a pany without any attempt to scusa- extra, and gave preference to finalise . There was па
their
SO MUCH··
I would have loved to have been there, but the trouble with London is that it offers so much
pic clients. Just to cheer us up condemnation, no plen for to so mahy. Therefore I chose we were told that in 48 hours understanding, no defence. Here Cinema for the gala opening of ustend to go to the Warner the bus services would have to was a tragedy greater than he stop. What is the trouble? A had ever played upon the stage. the Everest expedition Alm, parently there was some dispute
under the direct patronage about non-union Inbour, My At the House of Commons the the Queen and the Duke of own bellet is that it is due to Government benches were at Edinburgh.
the smog.
most deserted, -Was it absenteeism? Were we weary
In the midai of all this 1 of debate so soon after the re- telegram arrives at my house. It is from the Kights of assembling of Parliameni?
my
constituency No. There was a reason for
the empty spaces.
Upstairs, in commillee large
room,
of
Mahid
like
their
are
.
I saw one group of boys with cricket stumps set up on a stretch of craggy clay strewn
tuts. As a bowler sent down a
Who would live in London? Perhaps on balance I must
Now take Mrs Nancy with boulders the size of cocon- take my stand with Dr John- son who said that the man who was tired of London was tired Laycock, for example.. She bail it threw up a cloud cf red. of life. In what I have written was keen to talk about the dust in the eight-year-old bats- here I have told something of brilliant spring sunahine man's face.
Bachdad-on-Thames.
Tomorrow the curtain will
the story of a single day in which permits her and her 17-year-old daughter Janice rise again, London is a drama to walk stockingless and in cotton frocks on what cor- that never ends.
HOW COME
"
"Poor kids," I remarked to an Australlon workman, "It's a pitches like this that Bradmana are made," he replied.
THE CHILDREN
ARE BETTER BEHAVED? ·
By LES ARMOUR
the
until he
Under orders we were all in our places by 8.15 p.m., although the Royal patrons were not due until nine. However, we had the services of a military band, Columbus in
which gave us that mellow
London. which would delight any teachers today have abandone and reuds;
"Merrio
and the emme, the strap masterpiece known as England".
[F you hear about an insur- child. Mock it if you ke
bellowing volcs in favour of a "Members Holy Cross Counell &
rection against the 201 Knights St. Cumba pro- Churchill and Eden. were dis- for its unashamed glorification
sup the British Englishman, but teachers in Yorkshire's West
There were boys in the human, friendly approach. foundly shocked news persecu- cussing Egypt with their
Instead of beating the far out tion Catholics
the music has an enduring and Riding, don't be surprised. bad old days who kicked and Cardinal porters.
was completely
has surring quality. What a pity Primate Poland request you private, and so for there ма
with clods, and heaved behaves himself; they make him urge Her Majesty's Government been no leak to the newspapers. Covent Garden did not provide But the revolt will be led by headmasters, belted them of the little bounder
representations As one who was present I shall a super "Merrie England" as the parents, not kiddies.
Coronalan plece at the Opera
their boots at the school WANT to behave. Polish Government to cease this content myself with the solema House instead of the Inglorious The Riding's headmasters, clock,
Soft words, explanations, and
can encouragement warming up to the honeyed Just before nino o'clock
Today' "denpito broken wonders.. of the Education voices special are lights concentrate
homes, couldn't - care - Jesa sociologista, on the front of the circle. The Committee's
been talking high parents, and too much poc trumpeters on the stage are at have- the ready—and so is the band treason..
ket money," these things just don't happen. In the pit
make strong
violation of human rights and
that pronouncement
foreign Gloriana.“.
to restere religious freedom.". affairs would not be so dificult if it were not for the foreigners.
BRILLIANT
away
from
the
Slowly the Queen and the
the 236,000
I hate all forms of persecu- tion whether it is inflicted upon clerics or by clorics, but how can one penetrate the Iron Cur- tain? Poland might be on an- other planet as far as we are Coming
They say concerned. However, I chall, talk it over with some of my meeting I am confronted by that Duke of Edinburgh come in to children in the Riding today fellow MP's who concentrate brillant legalistic Socialist MP, the tribute of the National those countries of Europe which Creoffrey Bing, Q.C. Mr Bingham. How young she looks are far easier to control pathetically young. than their predecessors to benovalence conceals proudly boasts that a ancor Wife, daughter, sister, mother 10, 15, or even 20 years from our gazo.
Chinese pirate, although and Queen. Her uties as a WOS D In Fleet Street the news sometimes he reduces him to a woman are many. The Duke, 480.
Ho is a captain, Бе
alim and handsome, combines In papers were preparing to flood
with brilliant..
pleader
an his manner.
the warmth of aị the town with the description of the Turpin fight in New York. Dbsolute gealus for getting husband with the deference of a ginning. For reasons beyond our con round the rules of debate.
there
consort.
And that is only the be-
If little Johnny ever gets
Of course,
work
to teachers of 1933 have an custer time of it. Today's curricula are designed to INTEREST the 'child, not to ram "what's good for him" down his throat.
1
The interested' child has no "Head-teachers questioned desire to chuck boot at the were overwhelmingly of the clock-or to heave a clod of the view that school discipline head. la for better today than it was 10 years ago."
How come?
FOOTNOTE: More than half of the Riding's : 1,414 head- masters reported that they didn't have a cane in the school ́And, branching... into Juvenilu de-
trol Mr Turoin's Bght at 10 When he speaks he smilingly t Then the lights go out, and hold of the report thero Well, parents with weak linquency, one sidded: “I wonder. o'clock at night was at 3 o'clock shows a lot of teeth and always after a rather long "short" wo will be hell to pay. The
/hearis pre advised not to how many of us would have In the morning in London. waves his papers by his car as come to the pictured story of heads sight a raft of in read this, but the plain fact of escaped the juvenile counts i
The morning papers could if they were a fan, Whether the horces who conquered
seems to be that they'd existed in your time," not do much about it, so the this is conscious or unconscious Everest and stood higher above cidents out of the dim past the matter