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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1955.
NATHANIEL GUBBINS
T the request of
Gubbins, Esq., stomach made the fol-
N.
hir
lowing speech to gathering of tums:
Ladies and gentlemen,
fi
I rise (cheers and laughter)-- nu Joke intended can REBUTE you rise to say a few words of comfort to my long-suffer - ing brother and sisters wher once more ure enduring Box- ing Day, our woest 24 hours of the year.
gentlemen. I 40071 Lules and
not going into the nauseating +371 details of our indeal not giving you percentages of our average acid content, nor shal measure The Niagara of alkalines that paring down IPET
have come
attempt to correct the balance and make us ready to endure more suffering.
I shall attempt, with you -
mission, to ease your unhappy situation by suggesting to you
"Don't be vulgar," said The Sparrow.
for such treatment, they have taken their medicine like men. (Loud cheers.) Another word about the child stomachs how I tight as
atuffed with legs?
A
"Vulgar?" asked his wife, tear starting in her eye. "What's vulgar about your own wito's
don't wont to hear about
that's all," sald The Sparrow, "If you must make a fool of yourself, why not wear drain-pipe Jeans like the smart sparrows?"
tile dru chocolate and rtch enko. (Cries of "Poor little things") them, Whatever they may be auffering today, ladies and gentlemen, let us think of it as a prepara - tion for aterner things to rome, for Boxing Days some of us will never see (the very oki stomach. weeping: never want to see another"'). and let us go forward together, Kiving an example to youth adverally, of of courage in patience and endurance in the face of fearful odds. Ladies and gentlemen, let
that forget British tunachs, (Loud and urolonged cheers.)
2/43°29'
The Sparrows
We Bre
Nest, bright with he bits of coloured papier and form ends of Christ- mas crackers found in dustbins Boxing Day, would have
happy placR Spurrow had not been suffering froth a seasonal hangover.
Deet (
that our day of sacrifice mast THE Sparrow's be borne ebeerfully. its 19-21 That those who unwittingly abuse us shall enjoy #brief
their from Trapite
lanlatasa When
unwittingly I I say mean that our tormentors are not wicked men and women They are good-hearted, well- meaning people who, In the laudable spirit of stood will, have allowed their enthusiasın to overcome their discretion. Therefore, Faces and gentle- l_ emulate their
Let us spirit of good will make the rest of their fun- day a teasant as we con
17101,
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The
His wife, bouncing about The Next and humming out of tune. was roping he would observe the Any pak purple slacks
she was wearing for the first
nk But The Sparrow, pedickosti buk Intries! far the fragment of a Sunday news- topter took no notice.
hope you won't mints have ing old rust worm today 0.5 we had it hot yesterday, she Ankl kicking one claw high In the air as she rested her tall table nek myself against the doll's house
shall to support
I know this is full (A voice, "You're telang us") Al- though full of (ps. pardon me).
گریده
all worms on a morning like chin." said The Sparrow, gran- his little ing as he turned aranhair
· What's
with the WHOTEL morangos wife asked. "And don't ask silly tons," shouted The SparroW.
"I love Boxing Day," said his wife, with all the cooking done and everything. That's why I'm
wearing my new clothes
ques-
have to face pink guns fol- For heaven's sake, don't talk lowed by cold Turkey today ta voice: "You're lucky. 1 shall have to face cold, fut **
despite the fact that ara still dealing inadequately with a surfeit
brandy- Boked Christmas pudding (A voice. "I'm still struggling with
< pal marke lead.") But I shall face if
ladies and gentlemen what fight back my nausea at the tables, the buffet,
1 the bars shall never surrender (Cries of "Good old Tum "}
She kicked the other claw in the air Then she performed a small dance, turning round two One word about lody stomachs, tire times and ending with
Tis my
"God youth
(A very old stomach hiles indies were moderate at all
inciteling Christmas But the stems of life today hus given them the appetites of men. I think there are severn Judy stomachs present who have had to dent with double whiskies, and one whe will have to do the same to- night. (Cries of "Shame ") Gentlemen, let us pay tribute to Their Kallantry (Hear henr.) Let us remember that although rafare
in- Bever tended these delicate flowers
a little bow before the miniature mirror
"Who the devil do you think you are?" snarled The Sparrow.
Margot Fonteyn?"
"1 was wondering if you like my new sharks," said his wife.
well, you can stop wonder- ing."
The Sparrow, sold don't."
"I think they're ever so nice." said his wife "And no warm as warm."
"You couldn't have anything much warm than warm," said The Sparrow.
"And
leg's
they keep your so cosy in the wind."
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could change them if you "Black like," said his wife, Jeans would be heaven" "I have other ideas
sald The Sparrow. heaven," hopplint to the front door.
Tree Topa "Not that awful
his wife, Club again?" naked the tear rolling down her beak. "No," said The Sparrow, fly- Other straight to MK
The Sparrow's Nest.
The Other Sparrow, in black, light-fitting Jenna, was lying on her toy Bottee, a cocktall glass in her claw. A scrap of scarlet ribun round her neck served as and a knotted handkerchief matched beak.
the Hipstick on her
✩
Hangover."
morning, **Good snit The Other Sparrow. "Can I offer a cure?"
"Your beauty in a cure anything.
wald The Sparrow "Does that
mean you don't need a cocktail?**
Certainly
not," puid The Sparrow, accepting a ginss
brimming
"You hak as if you'd had a
shock
"I have."
suit The Sparrow. My wife in trousers."
"Old-fashioned Turn - ups?" asked The Other Sparrow.
"Yes," said The Sparrow. "Colour"
"Purple."
"Have another drink?" satd The Other Sparrow.
"Thanks," said The Sparrow. "She must wear black Jeans mine." era ic The Other
like Sparrow.
"Never, never, never," shout- ed The Sparrow. "It would be a hideous caricature of some- thing unspeakably lovely."
"You mustn't insult your wife
here," said The Other Sparrow.
"You're so big, so generous, so kind," said The Sparrow.
"Let's see what a little kind- ness will do for shock," said The Other Sparrow. making rootzi for him on the settee. "Care to stay for lunch? There's only
cold roast worm.”
"Delicious.** said The Spar- resting his head on her row, little feathered chest.
[World copyright]
POCKET CARTOON By OSBERT LANCASTER
PREMIERE
"I thought you told me that George was
FINES
at the Smithfield this wook."
London Express Service
Remember the man
who set
the first
T
one off!
HE
Presidency of Staten
the United
is not only the most powerful job in the world but also the loneliest. Harry S. Truman, in his book of memoirs published recently, stresses this lone- linesa.
no
He
he says
always listened to what his Cabinet had to say about any given ultimate problem-but the responsibility was his alone. And more frightful responsibility could have come the way of any Presi- dent-let alone a President who had got the job by accident when his predeces- Hor died in office-than that of deciding about the atom bomb.
The year Truman had
Cummings
TRUMAN: I was the Man on a Tiger
By RENE MacCOLL
THIS is Year 10 of the Atomic Age.
A YEAR which--with the "blanket bomb❞— is culminating in a new upsurge of the atom- bomb race between Russia and the West; and which-with the opening of the first British atom-power plant-also marks the real start of Atoms for Peace.
A YEAR in which, appropriately, comes the personal story of The Man who Made The Decision That Gave the Order That Pressed The Button That Dropped The Bomb That Made The World Atomic.
He deliberately
be-
and against a target which is top secret. We who know
show would clearly
Its what it is would appreciate
your not looking." devastating strength."
Truman adds? I had long Technical demonstrations or dress rehearsals were known Stimson to be out. The enemy should be great American patriot "I'll take you at your word,” hit hard and right away.
"The Anal decision," I told him. "I'll stop the writes Truman, "of where investigation."
A
and when to use the bomb A year later Truman not he Let there only knew the secret - was up to me.
be no mistake about it. I used it.
bomb as A regarded the
weapon,
military
and
never had any doubt that it ahould be used. The top military advisers to
the
President recommended its
LIKABLE
ADMIRE Truman. Through most of his two
President I was use, and when I talked to terms as Churchill he unhesitatingly covering Washington for told me he favoured the use the Daily Express. The news that it was out that Churchill "natural of the A-bomb if it might I studied him, reported ready reached Truman ly knew about the project aid to end the war."
him, grew fond of him. during the Potsdam
Con- from the beginning,"
A list of four cities Was He is an extraordinarily ference. Truman mentioned cause Britain and the US. drawn up, all of them places likable human being. He extremely af- 1945. Was
something about it to Stalin had pooled their knowledge of first-class military im is normally
freely to make it possible.) portance. been in the at a party.
They were fable. He can display a White House only three
The scientists recommend- Hiroshima, Kokuro, Naga- tigerish temper, as when he months. He was Mr Aver played it down, and Stalin
to Truman that the Baki, and Nilgata. age Man from Missouri, failing to understand its ed
ав said bomb be used as soon projected into a place of importance-jokingly unrivalled power.
that he hoped the Ameri. possible. cans would "make good use They recommended also used thia
the that it should be against
E all know which wero WE of
the two unlucky ones- Japanese."
(Truman points "without specific warning
but Nagasaki received the second A bomb ever dropped in anger only because the weather over Niigata was
by Harry (Bodder and
"Year of Decisions,”
Truman Stoughton, 303.).
You need good
THE KELLY RULES for lone girls on the European Continent: eyesight, a goodly supply of money, a chaperon within safe, whistling distance,
IT'S ROMANTIC, BUT A KISS IN
THE STREET IS A
SPAIN, land of the legend,
By Margaret
Kelly
CRIME
IRONIC
too thick.
sat down and dashed off a notably intemperate letter to a music critic who had been unfriendly about his daughter Margaret's sing- ing.
Above all, the man has courage.
When the great Franklin Roosevelt died suddenly on April 12, 1945, catapulting Vice-President Truman into On August 6, 1946, while
the world's No. 1 job-with Truman WAS on his way the world still convulsed by home, from Potsdam, aboard
the U.S. heavy cruiser war-few people felt that Augusta, he received the the new incumbent would do
even middling well. news of Hiroshima.
Greated by the White He was eating lunch with the members of the Augusto House correspondents, he course, no girl in her right mind crew on the lower deck. turned to them with sober would wander alone at night through dimly lit alleyways.
&
"I was greatly moved humility (Truman A great deal has been said I said to the group of sailors devout man) with the about young girls travelling around me: "This is the words: "Boys, if you ever alone on the Continent. It's greatest thing in history, pray-pray for me now. difficult to generalise even dise island in the sapphire the cheaper nightclubs, are first Discreetly and subtly, romance this subject Personally I think It's time for us to go
and
00
CHALLENGE
of generations beautiful women and suc- cession of harsh govern- and they advance towards you The proprietor explained it was with their clackety-clack-clack. a machine for refuelling your ments. Majorca, their para-
But the floor shows, even in potrol lighter, Mediterranean, with moon- class, at 2 a.m. It's the abounds in the island. Where it's wister to go in pairs,
they If. light bathing in crystal quintessence of luxury to watch we have back porches,
atraining
olve performers
every have benign palm and waters and nightclubs muscle in their fiery flamenco trees.
and has a good knowledge of There is this wonderfully To succeed such a Titan as suit every purse.
while you relax smugly with on Necking in the street is the language, I see no reason iced coffee.
great affront to the community, why she shouldn't go off on her ironic footnote to the story so much so that the guilty par- own. The Continent is not in-of the A bomb:-The man dous and daunting challenge tics, when found, are flood. And habited by headhunters..
to
I had my all of it, and never thought I could become so tired lof the sound of castanets. Go into any cafe for a quiet drink,
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a giri visited That is the Truman' quote Continental town frequently that I like best of all.
1
a
Roosevelt was a tremen-
who took the decision to use In Itself alone. But to take. it had been, back in 1944, over in all the fury and dis- The clubs, which are mostly the crime appears in the new-
chairman of the United array, the crowding prob out-of-doors, have marble or papers-eg, "Senora A was at concrete floors, and the dance found kissing Miguel B
States. Senate's committee lems and incessant, But trouble could befall play continuously. This Avenida C."
overtaken by lons to investigate the American clamorous necessity for makes for cramp in the unides One native explained that girl who,
and having poor war effort!".
quick decisions on vital mat and long sessions with the same, I intut not compare the food to ca
in Spaniard, who, in garlic-laden French or
Truman, scenting rockless ters affecting millions of Italian cooicing, knowledge of the district,
wittingly makes a date with breath, compares your eyes to I wouldn't dream of it.
a type whose counterpart in her Waste in some big buildings, people everywhere, present the star
French and Italian online is
she would. im sent Investigators along. ed by that world of a decido Since the translation fumps good to excellent; Spanish food own country
was enough to from Spanish to French and is fair to poisonous, and it mediately classify as undesir At once Henry L. Stimson; ago that
then Secretary for War, make the bravest quail, finally to English, your eyes have strikes the strong mightily be able
Having
visited most of the rushed to see him.
"Being a shed their sparkle as you crawl fore making a last-minuto, at-
President" [back to your table."
tack on the weaic
Continental countries the Kelly Senator Truman," said Harry Truman once said, "is In one cate 1 put 10 vente Info. By tradition, Benores, do not males are short and simple, vix Stimson earnestly, "I can't like a man riding a tirer. what looked like perfume walk alone in the streetsink you need a food erant, caz, your minds him is, but He has to keep going of be machine, held my handker-night, although this pesotice in goomy supply of mousy and chired amiderneath and very nowned upon in the main chaperon whinin key to links aqulet of some oily, rubetétines and bellitty lit streets. But, of distance,
It's the greatest project in swallowed"
The history of the world. It Harry kept going.