The Wastern Powers having met the Soviet or all points for the sake of peace, Moscow finds itself
in the impossible position :of having to withdraw from
Eastern Germany. "We've
been framed! "says Malenkov.
OLO LOW'S ALMANACK-
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 1954.
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PROPHECIES FOR 1954
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So any
That is not as simple as my third trip to America, and it sounds. In New York nt my very first they are, understandably,
pread attempt. I finally got to not too
of their Brooklyn. And I learned underground stations.
have nol something on the trip that they do I did not know when I brightly coloured signs. started. There are 71
1 finally solved this find- quare miles of Brooklyn.
the-subway
game by call That, of course, is why a taxi and asking the to the nearly every one you know driver to take me İ: New York Wax born right station. Naturally he There. You have got to be took me to the wrong one when 1 eventually prely smart to be born in and New York or miss being found the right line, natur- ally I took the wrong train, larn in Hruoklyn.
But deep in the heart of New York's most-mention- ed suburb is the most fan- tastic store In the world. Don't Thats why i went.
hink it was easy, though.
Brooklyn. 1 WAM
I meant A subway ride.
BEVERLEY BAXTER SAYS
ONE THING ABOUT
T
HERE is only an and rob hum
thing certain about night. the year
THIS
serp by He is to choose 1954 - it between the unity or the will be interesting. friendship of the Western Perhaps one might vendur · world. and either A
a little further into prophrey destroy him, and declare that it will unusually interesting. any rate why not flatter the brat while we are at it!
M
14
IS
Apt adjective
FOUND myself at Mat- bush. Flatbush was aj- parently part of Brooklyn, but just as apparently not the part I wanted.
EVE PERRICK
takes the Tube (oh, all right, call it the Subway) to Brooklyn
To cut a long and sordid story shert, I managed to myself from extricate Flatbush mud came to Franklin
(still Avenue Brooklyn) and finally reach
ed
inv objective -the Indies'-wear
as Lehmann.
Before
huk
Store
ness of Islington, Brixton, or while they joined the dress Hammersmith. AND was hunt upstairs.
there 4 whole day without
The second floor (frst floor in
hearing a soul say "dem bolds," although it is true that all the our language) was the particular make for, I had been policemen I spoke to did have place to
advised. Bo Irish accents.
I made
my way past on immense tapestry and
Right now. Stül with me? iwo huge thrones, "al carved On to the shopping.
stone, crimsoni plush, and much Now all I'd heard about this gilding on the first landing, to fantastle women's world known the floor reserved for women as Lochmatins had been from only. u110 of the leading New York
dress manufacturers,
He had told me how Mra Lochmanu, now 74, but still the terror of Seventh Avenue
The delvers
(Whe
IMMEDIATELY saw why no wholesale clothing showTUDIN
men were allowed upstairs in trea of New York), whenever
Lochmanns, she foyed there on a buying
There, under the crystal trip, had started the place way and out of the rack:, staggering chandeliers, diving in
back in the Depression.
.
store known Surplus stocks
wo go in, perhaps
I
quality better
that
the
word "sordid." It seems ta't,
CERTAIN NEW YEAR
Goethe. Il also gave us Bismarck, Frederick Wilhelm II the Great, Kaiser
Hitler. and the Austrian-born Three times in living memory Twice, by she invaded France. her besotted arrogance, she has plunged the whole world into war.
But AurLGE
will do atupad that go to you the chantra, Mendelssohn und Berause of the which you are now emplt to things a 1984,
Let not usk fur ternal pressure from organized masters
such because
un groups she will probably lover gratitude
But date down the
S (Alt + uber emolien Malaya until the workers on the perhaps we might hope that you plant: from will be so talis paid will remember.“ that they with her pe once more
There is nothing very proud firet For the
time in for Communten and revolution.
such about
It or exciting attitude. Parents never goi
The best thing that could Wall Street will exert In history the democracies are
reminding their happen-and none the worse if there much influence Are maúvance.
in Washington, anything by
children that they because it is impossible—would grown-up war Bussia would President Euenhower will "nand were a
sacrifleed for them, fect and be to emigrate the whole Ger- that he IS Д Commander-1- **) inflict terrible damage ON
brought them man population. They make the West, but Russia her from those he commands. But that devastating vulgarism "So except in their own country.
Chief experted to take orders shed them.
to muturity and responsibility. admirable citizus everywhere self would be reduced to # 1 predict that this yet what?" applice
year vast horrifie graveyard, head of us he will become less nations as well as to families ut Therefore it would seem a of a compromiser and more of a reasonable deduction that leader
Kremlin will not make American people placed in him far along the never unding war on a grand scale in the flight of days. To dream is
Philosophers have always contended that man is for- tunate in not brong alde to see into the future. Since we are such stuff.as dreams ar· mude (11. it is perhaps A well that we cannot ser
nometimes
know.
better than
Yet I cannot
year 1951.
Recep; the
MALENKOV
But will she wage
an Again, booking into the crystal,
It I see no fluttering dove.
ponce?
philosophy that the distant tomorrow is hidden by impenetraide curtain. has been said in
relation
A despotre form of govern-
to human life that charac ment can ter is destiny. Most
The faith that the
WILS metinetively right, I sincerely believe that this will be proved to the eyes of history
1954.
10
familles of
MEANING
Never did cust a vote of ordinary parents and children. Westminster so unwillingly as when we, the Tories, decided to But what else rearm Germany. could we do? The decision was ours, but it was the threat from The other day I lunched at the the Krumlin that gave us no Will Germany, us the option. Ecyplinu Embassy in Lenxlon central
Com- power between
Yet strains will increase be- Actually there were two former munist Russia and the capitalist tween Amerien aunch Great Soesalad Minitom. there as well Western world, b force for Arterit There are Americans Dak Stokes an 1 John Strachey Mobility? Or will she, like a
Et spust munos who want to End the othe Tury. The
rutte, snille flest on alle and wenken Britain's world power Amkissador made It perfectly then the other and Hnally sell
lear while expreling her to be a full
that he
very deep her favours to the highest bid- ally in acience.
love for the British, but if ant
der? Juve were to cornuto (as he
come from any Jealousy nor any
M
Thus do we gaze Into the crystal, and thus die we ponder. Like the old hymn, we do not ask to see the distant Perhaps it it only man's blind
only hold down 1 I suggest that the British hoped) then we should get tho of people if it convinces them that Government will become in- hell out of Egypt. Those were us have keen men whose the outside world is planning creasingly tough in its dealings not his words but they expressed
or that the with the USA. Their to destroy them,
This will not his exact meaning. future is written on faces.
"He will go far," outside world is collapsing be-
cause it will not adopt the same desire of the old aristocrat 10 A few days before, or "He will come to a sticky way of life as the people living regain the glories of other days, normal peregrinations of politi- kim go on end," are the platitudes of under the despotic system. But Great Britain will say in en lite, 1 attended a reception plain English to America: "You at the Spanish Embassy and had chat with the
day to day prophecy.
всепе
in the faith in the future, that makes
If Malenkov took the gamble cannot weaken our economy and, a mest friendly, of friendship with the West and at the same time, ask us to Ambassador. It seems that the allowed the free minggling of his people with ours, he would
Therefore, I do not think that the mewling anti Apewling infant 1954 is en- Bed that Lyrommy cannet, and scives in the maller of defence." is very deep.
The The dare not breathe urely unpredictable,
asberty. I did, it would die poor little blighter is subject to the Influences of fish panting out its life
heredity £19 any other baby.
TROUBLE
new
hesita-
on dry land.
air of
UNENDING
There is no
need to bother
PLATFORM
keep on persunting his people looking into the crystal in order Bustuni, leader of the Opposition accept it.
the Lebanese
Ume to time as a result,
buf
if it
Will be dark in
PROPHECY
1
Forgive us our treappasser de we forgive them that trespass against us.
Load-uk not into temptation but deliver us from evil,
Thine is the Kingdom, power and the glory.
the
axsume equal status with your admiration of Spain for Britain
in fact, I we Yet there was one Man, long only give back long ago British would
who travelled to a Gibraltar to Spain and clear out, Mount and gave to his few the concordat would be com- hundred hearers
political plete.
philosophy that has survived to this day, although mankind, in A few days later Mr Emile its arrogance. still refuses to Therefore Mr Malenkov has to
Here were the main Parliament, planks of his platform: that the West is collapsing and, to see if there
in Britain's Colonial Invited me to his presence. An of the same tine, planning war doings
Forgive 18 our debts as we ngainst the Soviel. Even if Empire. Of course there will be Arab, he was educated at Com-
and in the unending, Under the brige,
process forgive our debtors, washed down with vodka, that trouble ritsin the Colonint developed an almost unbelievable So, without any
must be pretty hard to take.
Thy will be done on earth as territories have developed to the love of the British people. Now tion, we can say that 1954 I predict then That Mr point where they are not merely that British capital has developed it is in Heaven
to achieve self the oilfields of Arabia, he thinks
Glue us this day our daily will be a year of trouble, Malenkov will and 1954 a very determined
Would disappointment, upheaval troublesome effair, and that our Kavernment but may want com- that if only the British
leave Arabla the strained from plete independence.
love of the bread. and frustration, Nothing nerves will be
people there for Great Britain
deoper than
the can be more certain than
The British have a reply to would be But let us look on the sunny this, even continue that science will
Out of deepest sea. KANDITS
to find
and better side. Here is our great friend date. Rightly or wrongly this is
United the British case: and ally, the mighty
"In the 18th methods of prolonging life States of America. Shakespeare and 19th centuries wo founded and ending it. On the said that the evil that men do the Empire by the skill of our other hand science will not lives after them. True enough→
We nibintained the
Thus foresee that In 1954 docs the good For Explorers.
Empire be able to cure the common
safety of the
by the there will be a great desire in example, the whole civilised strength of our arms. In the cokl.
many territories that the British world owes a deep debt to Mr economie sphere we made should withdraw into their little was not only an appeal to the Truman as the greatest little Britain a market for your raw island and maintain a popula- Spirit but a political document Let បទ: look into the man of modern times.
material, and Wo made the
tlon
on natural of the utmost importance. When of 50 millions Colonies a market for our manu-
which could not mankind has followed those factured goods.
We resources This did wo
has been pro- wo possibly sustain more than 20 precepts there maintain a population rising to millions. Again with the spirit grem When mankind has rën millions ΟΧΙ An island of prophecy upon me, I predict fected them there has been Never have wisdom, possessing raw materials that the British, will do no ruch suffering, failure and darkness. magnanimity and self-interest
some agriculture, a lot of except between been so splendidly knit together coal nad an abundance of nah, thing.
I cannot see the distant scene Washington and London as under his
Now let us look at the-con- for more than a few stope, no administration. Now you would like, to be given
of Marshall complete freedom, but while we tinent of Europe for a moment matter how
I gazo
into the Canada, on the other hand, Compare his plan
undoubtedly have a deep res- that conilnent. which
has crystal. Some day, perhaps, the will
proclaimed the Aid at the end of the user war ponsibility towards you we have enriched and bedevilled the story human race will realize that it be
with the similar situation In country of the future. 1918 when the Administration at an oven million Britishers the beginning of time. Perhaps that peace on earth will only be greater responsibility of the human race almost from is one family, one bread, und Youth in Canada's oldest Washington declared that war to
Island which has it is as well to remember that attained when there is goodwill tradition, and long may it debts were more sacred than living on an
to Europe The world not the natural resources
la here to human sacrince.
stay, no matter
among men. romain 40.
# war of 1939 was made inevitable maintain more than 20 million. how often we may wish that
would drown itself in the soa, Until then we must hopa bod blunders of people, The biggest problem will by the American
work and bulid, every man to 1010. bo Russia. Let no one
"And may,wo way to our older In 1934 Germany will move his ability and every, men to his envy Mr Malenkov, for he Let us in the year 1054 thank children-Canadians, Australians.rulentlessly towards Ita future consciarice, for each of us is a New Zealanders that it without the least idea of what creature of destiny, and each of has the number one tough God that America has come of and
age. Truman's swift answer to was British exploration, the that future may be Germany us must play our part -- even job of the worki. Two
Korea the threat
made ssorifice of British
world, as though history will in
blood and gave Luther to tho
will never record. things terrify him by day Christendom a coherent whole. the genius of Drilith politics well af Wagner, Beethoven, our names.
crystal more closely. I
800
trouble coming from Germany, Russia, China, France, Egypt and perhaps Ireland. There will be mis- understandings
COHERENT
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110
The Sermon on the Mount
tiptest adjective to describe the New York subway.
1
MIE lady from Brooklyn
learned, had had the idea
of buying up at the bargain-ent prices all the surplus stocks of
were
15 shabby. smelly, and women's clothes, which strewn with litter. Warning then unsellable in the ordinary
thai noties proclaim
Prople way. who throw rubbish around will be prosecuted. I gathered there must be many fugitives from Justice rling Whnso trn After an hour or so in them you
begin to feel rather like a criminal yourself.
on
across the slippery marble floors carrying piles of dresses and suits and coats, were hundreds of women in their underwear.
The way to shop here was to strip to your stip, hide the clothes you came in, and sturi deiving.
follower the rules, but I was not vory good at this sort of game.
in the rst place, the sight of 1 load
of ladies wandering
She and the store had gone around wearing bra, panties,
hats from there BO
mado me *mulały that today B Lochmanns
Irysterical. had becomu the
Socond, I came up against a loading spot for all the clothes that the foremost dre's house, hazard which can only safely bo negotiated by veteran bargain themselves **** found
hunters of the New York stores. All two-piece outfits (liko
in America stuck with.
Let me at the same time kill
about Brooklyn-so often and Lochmanns you
I' Jay that
of string. I never quite got the hang of getting into the things
a couple of tube impressionH In layman's language in sutls and jackel-and-dress could And ensembles) have the garments so wrongly described as New dres that would cost you £70 tied together with a long plece York's Streatham,
on Fifth Avenue marked down If I can be compared with a 10 £25. London
So In Brooklyn and Loch- without trying to superficially
beurs KOMC
manns journeyed not the ordi- myself. resemblance to the grey gaudi-
nary bargain-basement Lypes (they don'; O for anythar. h-quer than 25 usually) but
Wolfiez with
نام
POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER
thosc
expensive tustes in clothes and a deep- rooted sense of economy.
Even briefed with this bit of historical datum I was still somewhat staggered when I saw the place. •
There,
garrotto
Hands off
O i gave up my personal plan D
of bringing back allve from Brooklyn the biggest bargain ever captured single-handed, and just watched the others.
of
I
at the corner of ů dingy, lower-class street cheap-looking shops and grimy houses let off in flats, slood the emporium..
Lavish gilding
ITS decor can best be described
DS
had a good look round, though, and was by then only slightly surprised to And on one of the tacks a fabulous outfit consisting of a long and full- skirted ball-gown with a moich- ing long and full-skirted cont, both made entirely of iridescent requins. The price for the two was £270,
the sort of thing that
"Good heavens," I exclaimed, might emerge If Louis B. Mayer and asked the saleswoman what and the architect of Lyons was the original pre-Brooklyn
Corner Houses got together on price.
the plans for a Renaissance-type
palace. It was built of black
In it
She said she believed it had marble, lavishly trimmed with been made for a well-known actress to wear at a premiere gikled wrought iron,
"A-N-E-U-RI possible, Posshard, that we're the victims of some vulgar hoax F**
Immediately inside the front and had cost £1,000...and would door two enormous bronze lions I please keep my hatids
this section were covered with the children ofothes In their mothers had parked there were all priceless,
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