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I "parted the bead curtain that dripped from the archway of the lounge, traversed jungle of potted palms, and approached the Bay Window. There were some five or six old and oldish ladies sitting around in grandfather
chairs,
their feet supported on bead- encrusted footstools. Some were still at their coffee, the one next to me on my left had her knit.
out Two were equipped ting out. with car-trumpets, which lay on what-not tables beside them. to make it clear that conversa- tion would not be welcome. One, under the loop of the right. hand curtain, was fast asleep.
..
So restful
I sat down. In ecurse of time
coffee was brought to me. I
By LOUIS GOLDING
SIXTY this year, Louis
Golding has about
50 publications behind him. Last year he com pleted a five-volume, million-word opus about one woman— Elsie Sil-
ver,
Magnolia Street (1932) established his pitch as an outstanding novelist, but his first book was a collection of poems- Sorrows of War
which appeared in 1919, the year of the party in this story.
Educated at Manches- ter Grammar School and Queen's College, Ox- ford, Colding has A travelled widely. bachelor,
he finds talking and listening particularly recreative.
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Then Beryl pulled her hand back and, as she had threatened, slapped Jane's
started out at one place, every body drank a good deal more than was good for them, then they went off to another place, and drank more. Then another place, and they drank still more, Oh what days they were, and ob what nights! Oh those Bright Young People, so soon to be come so old, so old!
Well. As I said, Jane was giving a party in her house near Horsham, all those long years ago. And among the guests was a lady named Beryl. And this Beryl had already been to a party or two before she arrived at Jane's party. And, to put no fine point on it, this Beryl was
smoked a cigarette, encouraged, turned hers to mine. Once again already more than half-seas.
Tess
by the presence here and there a tiny tame spurted.
I know you," she said, "I've of ash-trays. It was nice to be alone after all the hard talking met you somewhere before." I had been involved in all day. "Yes, madam," followed, Curiously, the ladies did not "Of course we've met,”
alone make me feel any than I might have felt if they had
not been there. They seemed as totally unaware
as of each other. It was all me very nice and restful.
of
Then, just when I was going off into a half-doze, д voice addressed me.
Young man," it said, "could
I use your lighter?
over,
cheek good and hard.
hour later, It was decided that it was time to move off to the next party. Everybody rushed out to their cars, There was a great cranking up of cranks and starting up of starters, And the party duly crashed off to the next meeting place. Everybody was radiant,
But when they got to destination, it was found
their
Nuremberg Has Seen Changes
By Norman Lindhürst Nuremberg. THE Palace of Justice in
this one-time Nazi shrine was the end of the road for most of the sur. viving Nazi bigwigs rounded up by the Allied forces ten years ago.
Today,
the same "palace"" houses. the American Army's Post Exchange (NAAFI) gystem, the U.S. Court of Restitut Appeal, an office of the US em capce Programine a Jewish chapal, the U.S." Air Force his- torical research division--and a rod and gun club,»
In a sense the transformation that has taken
in the
place
tenancy of this weird, cavernous building symbolises the in- credible changes that have cccurred in Germany in the de- cade since the war ended
The Nazi horror today seems: as remote to the Germans as ' musty page of medieval history. Today, the Germans and most Americans of the former occu- | pation forces are only distantly aware of the momentous diplo matic moves now taking place,
BASIC LAWS
The Palace of Justice building was begun in September 1909 and completed in July 1916. Its dimensions are om an extra- ordinary scale. and several seemingly endless corridors wind their way over a four- mile.circuit.
Carved on the wall of the main building entrance ard statues of famous German lawyers" who helped to frame many of Germany's basic laws. { Some of the laws promulgated by these barristers date back to 1200 AD and, in some cass still on the books today.
Directly across the street from the Palace of Justice çan be seen the bombed-out ruins. of Hitler's Bavariar. military headquarters.
In a small building back of the Palace, surrounded by a high
major war wall, the
criminals that stood trial in 1948 were executed. This area now used as a German prison.
the
Prior to World War Two, the Palace of Justice was the seat of the Nuremberg Court of Appeals for Central Franconia.
From November 20, 1945 to
1. 1948.
Inter- October 1 national Military Tribunal, com- posed of representatives of the Allied Occupation Powers, sat Itin session in the Palace of Jus
tice, and during this period 22 defendants
起 appeared
the
querulous voice arose from the depths of the farthest an- chair under the loop of the righthand curtain,
"Jane!" said the voice.
dear? What is **Yes. asked Jane solicitously.
"Isn't it time for my blue allergy s?"
court.
DEATH PENALTY
"Yes, dear!" She removed a that little phial from the handbag.
Of the indictments brought against the 22, 12 received the Beryl had got there before them. "Here they are, Beryl, dear!" She was the sort of driver who. She went over to Beryl's chair, death penalty, several received and winked. But the wink was life sentences and the rest
sentences ranging from 10 to 2 for me, not Beryl.
"The flies!" murmured Jane, years. Among those "Time flies!"
can do that
sort of thing..........
till something happens to them Then, they don't do anything. more,
Beryl, I cay, was there, Beryl was waiting for them. Her eye fell on poor Jaze,
Hallo!" said Beryl, omin- ously.
"Hallo" said Jane, as non- committally as she could.
I could slap your silly face!" declared Beryl,
WORLD COPTRIGHT. RESERVED
DID IT REALLY HAPPEN?
YES
Put your tick In above and keep
NO
the the
Rather a spot until tomorrow, when
There
П
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were Goering, Hess, INC von Schirach Funk
Doenite,
Speer and von Neur The International Court convicted the defendants con- sisted of judges from the US. England, France and Russia. Court President was Lord tice Lawrence of England - Today," as you enter the 200 space spectator courtroom, your at-i
attracted to the panel tention is
the statues over the entrance door
way and upon the wall of
the scale of Justice and the hour glass.
answer wi be given, to-
new story by Adam and Eve, was a hush. Really it gether with was rather a spot for poor Jane. Geoffrey Household She couldn't keep on taking it Did yesterday's story by Stanley
permitted Mon actually all the time, She herself a few words.
Then something went wrong with the works inside Beryl's brain-pan, Suddenly she turned on Jane, her hostess, There happened to be a lull in the "Where was it?" She banged tumult, so Beryl's words were the back of her fist on her fore terribly loud and clear,
"You're a coward!" exclaimed head. "Where was it?"
"It was a long time ago," I. Beryl. "I hate you!”
Then she of contributed. "I'm sure
"Oh!" said Jane. that."
said, "Oh!" again, After all, us both there isn't very much else you Then it came to simultaneously,
can say in reply to that sort of thing to someone who is a guest "If it would please you, Beryl, "You're Jane!" I exclaimed, "You're Louis!" she affirmed. in your house, Particularly when to slap my face," she said quietly; then slap it. But I Isn't that strange the someone's a lady. I came to myself with a start, Well!
warn you. You are no longer my Certainly. By all means," I After all these years!”
Poor Jane guest. I want you to know that stammered, it was the old lady- "Strange!" I repeated, with
I ran a private ju-jitsu club sitting nearest
me on my left considerable emphasis, I looked who had addressed me. She had from chair to chair in the bay
"We all know you scutiled during my last year at Roedean... put her Imitting down on the
window, the sleepy old ladies, off to Ireland during the war!" We did a little boxing, too. do anything dily, table between-us, I was aware I was embarrassed, even a little knitting, the ear-trumpets. proclaimed Beryl, (We all knew And if you
that Jane had done some in. Beryl, I'll sock you on the point "Strange!" shocked, as- a clergyman had
"Well, you know how it is credibly gallant hush-hush bo of your impertinent Jaw?"
Jane walted. Everybody suggested a pint in the middle of
health," continued waited. You could have heard, a service, I flicked the flame out Jane murmured. She tapped her in France). "You look the pic- of my lighter and held it to the heart significantly, "You've got ture of
Beryl, "So it wasn't for health as they say, a pin drop. Then to slow down some time!" which was lady's cigarette,
rensons you went to Ireland?” -- Beryl pulled her hand back, and lodged as firmly in her mouth as
It was all very uncomfortable, in the Cleopatra's Needle
-Have a drink, everybody!"
Jane said not a single word Bald Jane, hoping the awkward. Embankment,
"Don't 1 know?" I said
*moment would lie down and die. She had said all the intended to
But it did not. ⠀⠀
say. She clenched her fist, and lugubriously.
*Don't talk nonsense!" she
Beryl was still at it. "You delivered, a left hook on the reproved me. "You're years want people to understand you point of Beryl's jaw with the France when you strength and precision of a Len younger than me!" She changed went to the subject abruptly, "It was actually went to Ireland. Harvey, Down, went Beryl, out
"Thank you," she said, I was
firm as the cigaretle, Then for a moment. I turned my eyes to hers. In that same moment she
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What a night!
Jane to say something.
as she had threatened, slapped Jane's check good and hard,
inert as a pillow.
"How about a drink?" asked the new host,
'Don't tell me!
night,
itt Jumping You're, wasn't
not only a coward! for the count. The servants frogs, what a night it was!" She "You're a liar!" w
came forward, lifted Beryl, add suddenly started roaring with It really was time for poor carried her upstairs quiet and laughter, Ha, ha, hal Ha, ha, hat The crystal lustres in the Look here, Beryl," she ob- chandeller tinkled. No wonder served, “You're a guest under (I said to myself) the other my roof, So there's not a thing: "A jolly good idea!” sald ladies keep their ear-trumpets
can do about it. "Pipe down, everybody. Everybody had a on the table,
drink That was a great party; A please, will you, Beryl?" And indeed it was a night. In
Beryl did not pipe down,
too the words of a much later idlom, "You're not only, a liar," she what a performance! The story proclaimed, "You're a thief! goes back to the spring of 1919. You've stolen my handbag!" (I Yes, as long ago as that. It hap should say at once that Beryl's "What are you thinking. pened at a party in Jane's handbag was found a Lew of?" asked the charming grey- house in the country, near Hor minutes later. It was upstairs haired lady in the sacred sham. Jane used to be a great where Beryl had left italong Bay Window, there in the one for giving parties, and this with her hat and cost,) decoroUS redential hotel in party looked like being the party Jane behand irreproachably. Scarborough, "Don't tell me!" to end parties. As a matter of She did nothing more than the said "I know!" fact, as it turned out, it was the bite her 3ps and start a cigarette, Chose were the days party to begin parties, the crazy though her hands trembled a murmured. staggering parties of the 1920s, little, Some guests urrived at "Those were the days!"" The parties of those days that moment. Some guests went repeated Jane What brings didn't take place under a single on Beryl passed out of the pic you to these parts?" she asked. Foot, They perambulated. They ture, About three quarters of an I was about to tell her when
happen? YES.
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