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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1954.
RED PROPAGANDA IN THE BATH
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gave muntat watchfulness, special publicity to the coup. It published the names of all the arrested men and accused them of being sples.
All but one of the prisoners have now been released without a shred of evidence being covered against them.
dis-
During last summer's election campaign the Chancellór hún- self in his speeches accused
of Boolalist Opposition number
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candidates of being in the pay of Moscow and the Soviet Zone Government.
and names Ho gave their detalls of the payments. He and is party claimed that they bad documents to prove the charges.
the after Now, six months elections, couple of para- graphs, tucked away in insignif- cant positions, announce to the German publie that the German Chancellor has apologised to these candidates whom he facked so libellously.
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ad
Dr Adenauer handsomely mits tha; he was the victim of forged documenta
And everybody seems quite happy and ready to let him get away with it.
No charge
THE appalling thing is
that
we British are not really in
THE COSMIC CRUSADERS
They see soccer
OF
THE ADVENTURE
SPACE TRAVEL By G V. E. Thompson, Dobson. 10s. 6d. 253 pages. FLIGHT INTO. SPACE. By Jonathan Norton Leonard. Sidgwick and Jackson, 12. 68. 245 pagos,
T
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on the moon
by George Malcolm Thomson
as be
The blue eyes of von Braun HIS year Space Travel glow, says Leonard, like those of
celebrates its i Toulonie warlord ninetieth birthday. It describes the grand oulilaes of is French by nationality. the project, while lesser thinkers to praeileal German by annexation and devote themselves
the need to adorn dotalis, C... American by adoption.
the crews' quarters of the space- Ninety yours ago I was born station with plctures of pin-up
tempered,
purt- tanical,
This Paris
in the Inventive mind of a bad girls.
anti-British,
unsuccessful
Looking
frot
stockbroker named Jules Verne, Thompson, a
ilmid phase in space travel,
to the Moon."
the
author of
fiction
J
readership.
serious ex-
the
would moon
arc
be
PARADE
100,000.
Husbands are sugarbag brussieres-the garb in RUNAWAY disappearing in which she greeted the new
the United year, HUSBANDS Sister at a faster
before. They
some
Lar
TO
per-
rate than ever
are and came back apparently un- running away farmed. It is 238,657 miles to wives and families, the moon. The space men have short periods, others a long way to go yet.
manently.
One authority the US, DIPLOMATIC DIVERSIONS.|National Desertion Bureau --
By
Peyrefitte, estimates that the number Roger
of Thames and Hudson. husbands who will be reported missing this year will be nearly 12s. 6d. 279 pages.
100,000.
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OLIVER Indian ballad-
from their CALYPSO Calypsos, it seeins, are not the Bole of West preserve
mongers. Sierra Leone has its share of them. And to at Jemsk оле of these gentlemen this column fees obliged to swise its hai. He has lashed off a calypso about of all unlikely subjects—Mr Oilver
la The Bureau, and called Georges is posted to Athens
commercial agencies, help wives reproduced in full in the latest Colonial Offee literary produc→ where, as Frenchmen will, he is search for their husbands, and quickly
"Sierra Leone". tion,
What It the frequently find them. acquainted with
syntax lacks in scanning and political and amorous situation,
A husband who has been it more than makes up in verve. which has features markedly different from Paris.
gone longer than six months, Sample, however, in neider traced and
Chorus: seldom returns voluntarily to his
"Welcome to the Secretary of wife.
FRENCH diplomat A
turous love
may be
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number of Ang "Lyttelton elton.
Is
While finding time for senti- beyond
mental friendship with a young German diplomat and adven- British enthusiast, who became
The average age of the run- for his ambossa- thinks of planetary coloujaallon, dor's
America away husband In piece of Ramboyant
daughter, Georges clumsily named "From the Earth pointing out that, among other moving fast up the professional about 40. Most men at that age, uttractions, a football Kame on ladder, collecting decorations at says one authority, feel that fe and That La passing them by, most record speed. Then a moment's Now space travel is the theme interesting to watch, for the ball rudeness to an influential page- only radical of what many students believe would frequently
change in bo kicked boy in the International Club environment can give a sense of A position to complain. For Sir be
to
the fastest growing w Ivone Kirkpatrick,
his downfall and de- really living. permanent section
soine 200 feet of
upwards, while leads to the
рівуста would be able to parture, head today of the Foreign Ofice, steadily mounting onderst
lenp up the same was guilty of much
20 feet or ĐÓ. Its fanatically
for
But It
thought that Such
tricks the High
thane kind of thing when, ELS
Ponents look with kindly con- gravity or the luck of it-wilt Georges has tasted all that Ula SMART Commissioner just year, he
tempt on the ploncering
In the Greek capital has to offer, from | BAB-OON arrest of neo-Verne, who ent authorised the
the Parthenon at dawn to his imaginary play on the space men, Nazi Dr Werner Naumisian
space station, where gravity will scandalous orgy in the French VI travellers to the
moon inside of suspicion
Chang a
be con Nuzi
completely absent until shell fred from
Embassy. gigantic unless) it X conspiracy against the safety of
be aruficia cannon (to the
air, according to our occupation forces.
Diplomatic Diversions 16 not circulate cynical, near-witty, quite shame, to the AGUER
warm air with because
It not be less,
bo wil!
searched lighter than cold; men who diligently for sly references to
cautiously fall asleep will find the living. that the air expelled from their
strils will not like propelling them neross the room.
Special publicity was arranged for the arresta
by the Foreign Office in London, Naumann and his alleged fellow-conspira-
were kept incommunicado! for several months.
fors
Then they were passed Germans who released Not word
more hus heard
charge of any brought against them.
to the them
been being
DOWN
1 Abound (4)
ACROSS
1 Extreme fear (6).
5 Mad (5).
2 Incursion (4).
3 Leave out (4).
8 Lako (4).
Bring to light (6).
11 Heals (5).
4 Sell (6)
5 Hermit (7).
& Scolded (7).
12 Item (8).
14 Tumble (4)
10 Purloin (B).
18 Conscious of (5).
19 Flock (4)
20 Rogue (8).
24 Unsolled (0)
26 Material (8).
20 Welsh name (4).
27 Relieved (0),
28 Motive (6).
7
Scatters (7).
10
Free (5),
13 Handcuff (7),
14 Secures (7).
15 Erudite (?).
17 Entertain (5).
in Cavalryman (0).
2) Chastise (4).
22 Meadows (4)
23 Before long (4).
YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD, ---Across: 1 Bulky, 4 Semmps,
8 Sagged, 10 Astir, 12 Litter, 14 Matador, 17 Note, 19 Cabinet,
20 Deduced, 22 Onus, 23 Selecta, 27 Revere, 20 Geese, 30 Down: 1 Besom, 2 Light, 3 Yield, Savage, 31 Desert, 32 Spell,
5 Cout, 6 Matron, 7 Street, 9 Diocese, I Senile, 13 Traders, 15 Amen, 16 Amuses, 18 Test, 20 Dogged, 21 Duress, 24 cups, 25 Chuse. 20 Shell, 28 Veer.
Valuable?
TJOREIGN OFFICE men
that the whole thing was valuable propaganda in showing The Germans what the Nazis were up to, and that we would not let them get away with 11.
Jules
A
cost of which ard,
stingy Britain alone refused to contribute. according
Anglophobe Verne).
Gravity's tricks
Verne might have known, say the modern space-travel experts, that the only way to reach the moon is by
rocket. Just bow
Viln
ሰ
One of its characters, u mili- all a rocket, tary attache, believes that
French diplomats sultor from erotic mania. It is a delusion that Roger Peyreftte's novel of high life and low living will do
ttle to undermine.
Long way yet
it could be done; what the cost
The probien of the disposal would be; what the risks would
the space garbage enguges be: these are topics which are
Were architects.
t simply discussed with awe-inspiring coolness bay
dedicated cited, the space station would the
be surrounded by a Uterary crusaders at
of faithful cloud seininated garbage.
cosmic
Soon brut
State
"Here's what we'd llko to mention
"For his most attention,
Immediate
"If we'd be given a date, "With the very great Mister Lyttelton.
Verac:
have
"It would be good more and more tarmac roads,
"And bridges instead of these many ferries,
"Because it's bad to struggle re- with our loaded lorries"
An Abrican who went out baboon hunting La
from covering in hospitui
he wound
when suffered baboon SHOT HIM.
OLD
was BEST
Irritated by the spate
how psychologists on to bring up children, a
Kusenga Nkalalyashi explain- WAYS of advice from modern ed in Salisbury that he aiming at the enbriing baboon when the animal jumped down headmaster has had some words from its tree, wrested the gun
to say on his own account. out of his hands and jolted the trigger.
SLICHT INCREASE
Burglars Mohan Boukouma and Haj Cherif op FLIGHT IN THE WINTER. pealed in a Paris court because By Juergen Thorwald. they thought their one-year Hutchinson. 12s. 6d. 255 sentences were too stif
thin dis-
pages.
This
BU
He The judge didn't agree. pent them both to gaol for life.
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Mr A. E. Eling, the headmaster of a councii school in Taunton, was addressing a meeting of Taunton Rotarians.
the And he said thai when
ccm.c to his eleven-year-olds school he makes them repeat after him on their first day:
"I come to this school to work and learn something;"
thie school lu "I come to do as I am told."
clear There was, he said, a difference between tree dis- cipline-which was excellent nd licence masquerading free discipline.
himseit no
for Second GODDESS Bellona, tho World War. It
"A boy left to purports to LOCKED UP goddess of war, lve a factual account, garn
might have been more grows into a decent, an inspiration to the Romans, sensible adult than a
plot of but she has been only a pain in land left to itself grows into a the neck to Austraila's bureau- garden."
tourism. suy
Their high priest Is Teutonic retinue," says Leonard, "will be THIS the most appalling
and tech- amalgam of mystic
and will spot the book which hus anneying Dr Wernher vun nician named
from the sharpness of astronomical ob- emerged to whom. Britalti owes Braun
servation," its brief and disagreeable wat-
ime acquaintance with the V2 Bhat, as Von Braun says, in a ed with u wealth of rocket,
German accent which detail,
in of what happened "Enthusiasm East Prussia when the Russian armics swept over it in 1845. It
not for great Is
the squeamish and not
For for young people, what it describes is an orgy of murder and rape.
the As
necessary
every
1 deny this.
that
fairel I say
Von Braun, formerly head of resists criticism, very contrary is
is the case,
the V2 project, now works for and faith Are long as the German Chancellor,
the U.S. Army Ordnance on ingredients of British diplomats, and German
He are guided missile development. Isolier ond newspapers
project." д A circle allowed to outrage the essential Inspires
of American elements of individual liberty
Thunktris who, as Leonard tells in The render may, at Arst, and the rule of law in this way, his trenehuntly written book, regard his study of space travel Behind the nightmare of East we can never expect Germans grapple with problems of space books ON D Journey to the Prussia, lay Hitler's invasion of to develop any true sense of navigation, the establishment of furthest borders of science and Russia. Fight in the Winter is
the democracy and respect for a satellite
in mind slation in space (es- sunity He will bear
a sermon preached on the text: Cont Wo timated rights of their fellow-men.
been one 4,000 million that there his only
"For they have sown the wind, are making them ripe to be re- dollars) as the first step on the space traveller, so far, a white and they shall reap the whlel- Nazified.
moon-trip.
mouse which ascender 36 miles wind."
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
"OH DEAR! "THAT MUST BE THE
POT HOLDER I'VE BEEN
LOOKING FOR /*
-I
"STAY FOR DINNER AND TAKE POTLUCK“
SHE SAID.
"MIGHTY HANDY
CHICKEN COOP/
́SCRAMBLED —
MEDIUM WELL-DONE/
SUNNY-
SIDE UP/S
کے
What's Cooking?
"SOMEDAY EVERYBODY
IS GOING TO GET AN
EGG SHAMPOO /*
"SOFT-
BOILED!
COM. 1994 BY GENERAL FEATURES
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CORP. TH WORLD RIGHTS RESERVED.
COOKING SUNDAY DINNER IS A PICNIC COMPARED TO THE BREAKFAST EGO RIOT,
SOME PEOPLE DON'T CARE HOW THEY HAVE THEIR EGGS AS LONG AS THEY'RE "POACHED UNIT
TRY TO IMPRESS CERTAIN GUESTS WITH A GOURMETS DINNER, AND A TABLE THATS A WORK OF ART
AND THEN
WELL, LET'S HANG ON THE FEEDBAG/
IT TOOK ALL THESE BOX TOPS -AND NOW
HE WONY TAKE IT
OFF LONG ENOUGH "TO EAT✓
"
UMMM BOY/
LOOKS GOOD-
WHAT IS IT?“
crats.
BY
HARRY
Other than her headdress, the statue wears no clothes.
In
Mr Eling, furthermore, makes sure that the boy learns quickly
who is the boss;
"When a boy comes to my And Canberra's wags delight room I wlli have him knock at adding strange arrays of the door, stand with his hands undeawear.
out of his pockels and say Now she has been locked in 'Sir."
Memorial. a vault in the War The bureaucrats didn't want the Queen to arrive to find her in
WEINERT
"IT'S DOGGIES"
DELIGHT--
WANT SOME ?*
HEADED FOR THE DOG HOUSE THE FIRST CULINARY COMPLIMENT
HE'S HANDED HER IN YEARS.
CRUNCH – CRACK
AT HOME THEY CAN'T EAT THIS AND
CAN'T EAT THAT- BUT AT THE MOVIES YUM-YUM.
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Tropped between lines, A HEAD five-year-old Jub-
bulpore porter's thought fast when he saw express train coming at him. He lay Bat on his back and let the rain pass over hlm emerging smiling and unharmed.
NOW WHAT?
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A man in Bikaner State who has been on a fast-to-death In protest against government wheat policy since January 28 was arrestedi last week and charged with attempted suicide. In gaol he is fasting in pro- test against dis imprisonment.
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Foreign shipbuilders, LESSON solclung orders ironi Russia should study recent Finnish experience in this field. After three years of building dry cargo vessels and tankers for Russia and for China, Finland's glont "Valmet" ship yarda are IOW completely bankrupt. Up to the end of Last year, the shipyards lost £3 million on the Soviet orders.
To build the Russian abipa, the "Valimat" Corporation has used up all its share capital, and has no funds to service the £4 million loan taken out to finance
tho
orders. The "Valmet" Corporation is con- trolled by the Finnish Govern- ment, which has now appointed a Commission to inquire into the Soviet-inspired" "depres-. alon,"
One apparent explanation: Russia places the orders but when it comes to payment, she offers money from Finnish war reparation funds af 1947 prices--- the year when the reparations were made.
HARD The days of the Com- WORK mundet glamour boy, the high-powered record-breaking Stakunovite are numbered," "A new system of "hard labour," devised: in Rusia and known nothe "Khozraschot Method of Con- trol,” is to be introduced in all Soviet Satellites by, the end of this year.
The scheme will mean that: every workshop, every depart- ment, must have its own plan, showing production - taalca utillantion, of machines, sumption of raw mabicials, fuel, power and tools, produo- _ison - costa `and a schama reducing them; the "mumb
"THE CHARACTER WHO SAID: YIF YOU CAN REA YOU CAN.