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Friell
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BAKER PRESS
KONFERENCE
"Hollywood wants them for a film series, but I can tell you gentlemen that their ambition is just to settle down and be good housewives."
SUMMIT
"You listen to Doctor Adenauer test, ovoid heights ond better not have any more visitors."
LEOPOLD
TO MOVE Too much influence Forse family)
"Funny, I'd like to move for the opposite reason."
THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JUNE 8, 1950...
I LIVE IN UNEASY ST., W.10: PART 2 Be careful
HE door opened softly and
THE
slowly and the street lamp ran a glance of yellow light over the West Indian Inside.
"Your notice says you've got a room
lo let," I said.
"Yes," he said. "It's a nice room, I get Padily."
Paddy was a little, qulek-tongued Irishman, whose face for many years must have been childishly pretty-and still had great charm.
"You're alone, aren't you," he sold. "You haven't got boy friend or anything and I hadn't. We don't want any street girls. They only make trouble," he said as he led me up the stairs.
His objection was a practical, not a mural one.
Tumultuous
We passed light-rimined doors behind whielt multuous juz
trezord players the BBC had Legh long sloup). There was a bayrle on one of the landings.
Paddy switched on a light. TNG single beds, so grozny ihat
their heads they leant together like love-birds.
how you walk
at
"They're smashing. No trouble at all," he told cheerfully. He had 28 of them in the house now
and never a cross word. 1 caint where the bath was in the basement-and with the word "Good night. Good rest," I was lef antong the cock- reaches.
Very ขว A mouse with tympanist ambitions started bent it cut among the granя the "kitchen" vapboard.
I didn't know I had slept
10
in
at
night
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"See you at Westbourne Park station at 0.15," he said.
I felt a panz of guilt when he came through the ticket barrier, calm and smiling us ever. thought of Nigeria where I had repotted the Queen's visit in
Once a sweet factory-now
We passed the huge poster
it is a club with 17,000 members
NOUIS CLUB
that screamed "Mosley Speaks that man behind the bar don't they thought W.10 would be like He's Coming,"
Giving date and want us in his pub."
place. Sir Oswold's face still Failed fatly through the Fed pant that a frenzied hand had danged all over it.
Anther large wall inscription in Artesian Road was flatly in- formative: "Mosley liked Hiller."
Tall chimney
We
10
in ten years me. "The Bri- fish will never change. Always Mr Bambo told me he would they bating us," said Mr Bambo never take a white woman Ja his car or be seen in the street Mr Pearce (who had the thylbus struggle und swayed all, what with the clickings and 1950. I remembered the laugh
with
police her. "The
im curious Idea that the West rustlings of a billion tiny fest
nedlately wanted thunder of the kindness and galety, of and the tin
know Indians had been shipped here mouse until at 4.20 I realised 1 Lagos. And I was ashame! to
where you got cur, and whether at the expense of the British had Jart bren wakened by a part of
bring someone who had been
you living on that woman." Government) said he thought blackard.
that hospitality and That calm, clear
in W.10 you don't gel the they would have all gone home Michael, optimistic pray. renz through. e aiety here.
of the doubt, by then. saliloquizing away 20001.
rough decent benest had reached
Michael had already seen that, and one, believed that educa- 1ton and tolerance and better those cream and grey Ilving conditions though we were in the greenest ravel of streets where the fruita yllew painted archway with the
would have corner of Surrey,
of Empire, education, adventure words "New St Louls Club Bul
alds wall. Jaguars and even Benileys being made things much better, The desert day stretched bo- and high hope are going slowly scrawled 11 the fore
driven by Negroes with hard- I wandered
a ruble-strewn AurCBi out, rotten. "You still don't trust me, th breakfasted on the listless diet
fated tales of an unmistakable It was dusk and they advised and tail factory chimney set you?" luughed,
Michael and mo not të 'be seen taking hie
that makes English urban life in
solitarily among torn wails was profession at their side?
in the streets together after meaning.
The poorer rections worthwhile in the world.
the least
the entrance to the club.
dark. A sad but wise end to our evening. But we took it- And I rang up Michael.
to the
"Now you'll caly be needing the one bed, and he to hita- self.
rwn bound ten for the week,
"And no me Then," he said. Visitors you understand."
Сате
He brought clean sheets and watched me while I made the We chatted "about Silgo, bed.
[rom, where he
The weather, even the Summit con- ference. Finally, we swopped key callons. He
asked me what I did. (I said I was Art arist.) And i asked him about the West Indians,
RUNAWAY LOVERS
A Shock In Store When They Cross From England To Scotland
THE
drainpipe
THE youngstar in the leather jacket and trousers pushed the cigarette into the corner of his mouth and said, "You want the Fow-down on Gretna, boy?"
It was not the clipped imita- tion Americanism that shook me, My inforinant" xait he was Arly 14,
the
By A Special Correspondent
are
In from neighbouring villaess Border, they can be married und town) is representative fler conforming with Scottish of a street-corner We which low Led residing tuce weeks is reminiscent of the larges there in the northern hall of Kuropean cities following the the United Kingdom.
Good-hearted station ometats I was Any Gretin Green,
rud of the war. Local inhabitants
unan police so their best for the investigate Scotland, to
animous. Gretna Green "scandal of the
They deplore the at- young couples. One official said 10naway marriages" in which titude of some sections of the he had often taken a fatherly in tole in trying to persuade them young English or fuevign couples Seefish and Engish Fress who cannot obtain parental con- sunt seek to take advantage of Scottish Jaw. (Seultish Jaw permits 17 youngster to wel without the consent of parents if the youngster in question is over : English law stipulates the age of 21).
WARTIME
building up Gretna Green and to return home, advising them that Creing was not what they imagined,
the analys.
ILL CLAD
These huurder-line Scots are lurally proud of their village,
But when the youngsters carry on? What is ahead of them? What is their life to be for unes pleturesque, but currently the three weeks in which they by the arrival of mus! establish residence in cheapened tommervle) undertakings and Scotland? nike boxes,
They catch the bus for a nine- South of
from Carlisle in Border. int mile journey Carlisle, England, you can see England to Gretna Green in the young couples any day and Seolland. At Gretna, acconimag Some- huddled dution is hord to And. week, night of the Bgether at the railway station times they are taken into aiready Tiny are 1 eind, more often overcrowded homes. then not without luggage, with
the
After a full day and night in Gretna Green I found that the Bajority of the people who live there are opposed to these run- away marriages. I also found that most of the glamour stories one reads about the runaways are false and shut Greina any few shillings in their
eertainly no romantic paradise en which to start a marriage.
In fact, the boy for the Inte Jacket
fand Niere
are dozens of them, coming
park. L.
Or they can pitch tents on a piece of vacant ground. Their "dream fe" is There's even
4 "Cupid's #out to begin. They have Collage," where the young braken their Journey from the people can board and feed south.
themselves. When they resume that journey and cross the nearby
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We turned into the sordid
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yard
Optimistic
We crossed a footbridge where "Ban all Niggers" was scrawled in while alongside other well- considered statements like
It had been a sweet factory like Terry Dene.'
but now was re-tuored, painted Well-you," said one of ami juke-buxed for its eleven
I had seen plenty of those in perhaps over-sensitivo
in states by now, my short time of residence bunch of Teddy Boys to Michael thousand members. The num-
were ber was startling
W10. A ip to the pavemenis I saw him to the station and passed. There PS we
Will, if we go in a pub wa of Mayfair would ensure as I walked back alone to my Michael (or so I holl call plenty of stares and commentis,
then don't get elvility," said the pro- second look at those bitter cockroaches I felt that curious noru habituated him) sa Nigerian felend. In- Bul
n they'd prietor, Senegalese called blondes,
knew though As
that well accurity of the totally solitary. telligent, highly educated, can hostile,
simply made up their minds to See Bamo. They pretend enough and so did Mr Bambo. It would not have done to have and kind.
€1 We asked Mr Bambo, and his exposed Michael any danger. "Will you spend an evening make it diell whenever they act to see us when we crder
laugh. general secretary, Mr Emmanuel But what was to be done?. with me lu, W.30," I asked. Ife saw s black man and a white dink. Then somebody'
Su gradually we get the dea Pearce (from geria) what
-London Express Setulée). understood what my motive was. woman together.
Then
My
Weekend
Has
Really
The Mail's Air Reporter sees Russia's most startling new challenge
Coming into service next year, the fantastic 500-mph Tu 114.
Shaken Me
BY PETER WOON
MOSCOW.
i
verled military aircraft and, as makers.. And intourist chiefs in the Tu104, the navigator slis say many more far-off cities in the "bomb-almer's position” and resorts will be
opened as
in the glass nose-cone.
invaluable
the programme to build bun dreds of now hotels progresses. But it makes an civil airliner, handsomely atted British European Aleways' and out and capable of flying from the Government are greatly very short and rough runways— helping all this. It is our inter- including grass. And it is Government air agreement Fophisticated, which has never which has been used for draft- been true of this country's pre- vious airliners.
more
ing agreements with other Western countries on' air rights. The Moscow Is even
Our instrument landing sy5* It is significant.
B elvit tem is going into Moscow Air- machine from first to last port. And now our . Decca There are fresh-air vents and navigation aid Is-to-be used individual lights Inset on the luggage rack
Victorian (no
We have even offered dur
Tu104).
Royce jet-prop engines, for manufacture under lcence, and And coming lato service next we know that the Dart's long year will be the fantastic Tu114, overhaul life is one thing tho 500-miles-an-hour, 200-senter Russians' own engines have so that could fly NON-STOP from for not achieved. Moscow to New York In 10 hours.
There's no doubt that in their WAS SITTING in one of the plush velvet seals that, six abreast, lined nist few days, if they pies the spacious, pastel-decorated cabin of the new prop-jet airliner.
I pared to admit it the couples
Can Ret a ghock. The majority are pressed a button and a light cunningly rose from the chair-back over my seo proud to call it shoulder and precisely lit my newspaper,d-pressed another and grass-and-ring fetras in thermausty successful Rolls-
a day and go home,
CELEBRITIES?
radio, concealed in the headrest, came on with music from a local radio station. The crew tunes in the scts to the nearest station in flight. This Their money runs out. they may come back to the is an idea that gadget-hungry British or American airline men would city or Carlisle and tramp the
envy. But this is not a Western plane. It in Russian. And I am sitting streets looking for a job.
Their weddings when they in a product of engineering skill that is a revelation..........and a challenge Like place nre unimposing
in a field in which we thought we were supreme...* witnesses bre affairs. Often breught in at the last moment,
The airliner was called They do not know each other
Then it is back home to some- the Ukraine. where in England, or somewhere in Europe if they are from the lenge that is Continent, with a. too-offen- unenviable scrapbook of a start may well be
the West.
You
Target
In
the last few days..this co-operation has brought swift rewards. Now the lussians have promised there will ba no inore delays in Issuing visas to Britons. They have agreed to the unprecedented opening of a Western airline office by BEA in the heart of Moscow.
This chal-throwing out a challengo Plan calls for reconstruction or symbolised which could shake the air- building of 90 airporis.
What does it all mean? Just Certainly they have the air this. The Russians are right up crucial to minded Americans as much
as the Sputnik. As well as craft. The ranks of speedy, with us in civil aviation. to a new life.
ourselves.
twin-jet Tu 101's hustling in and You will occasionally read of
out of the city's Vnukovo air- The politically important, air-
They have evon-agroud to the glamour! weddings.
The gadgets and the In three days here the port-there are seven
the attractions of services liner market, historically almost advertise
and know how it goes; "Millionaire's aircraft were ample evi- supremely confident Soviet air each way daily to Leningrad 9 monopoly of British
Russia in the bourgeois. capi- is manufacturers, Son Flees To Gretna With dence that Russla hus be men have talked about alone and they are heavily load American
the Factory Girl,"
not just a
elvil skles as never before, I cd-are not exceptional.
plainly their target. A big sales talist Press of the West. major I spoke to people who has come
have spoken to the bosses of seen it all, who had housed such military Power
but a Aeroliol, to designers, and to "eulebritles."
major commercial power in chiefs of the Intourist travel One lady told me: "They the air, with a fleet of agency.. were happy to sleep, in a shack
at the bottom of the garden, planes that match any in Belleve me, most of the reports the West. ere phoney.
There was a case of a rich mom's son who stayed with TC. I caught him, putting foreign coine in the gar
metar deliberately, too."
In one summer at Gret
there were 133 marriages. And
the number is mounting.
Expansion
They have been extraordinari-
Impressive
offensive har storted.
Confidence
Aircraft production-and the Russians have already got. 50 Ukraines arid 30 Moscows.
The Sputnik established tho in service as well as more than 200 Tu10's-is one side of it. Soviet Union on equal technical West, giving Airline operation both intern footing with the ally and in the International Its people a nów, bold confidence, Now in the elvil air they network is another.
present a new challenge-onio
The US wer opened up by ly open, boldly informative. the railroad. Well, the Russians ore doing it with the airplane. Under questioning, vital facts It is massively organised. and figures that have for years been hidden behind the Iron And the now equipment iz
I Well, with this new London- that meets us right on our own Impressive. Curtain poured out. So far wo tremendously
"Inspected both · the Moscow bervice the Russians are ground in straightforward com- es not confirm the accuracy of closely Consider those ingenious att they say, but I have seen Ukraine and the Moscow, 100- now tying to 24 foreign coun- petition. ideas along with the great enough to be immediately sails, seaters dying at 400 miles an tries and have their eyes firmly
There has never been any- hour at what is claimed to be fixed on the Atlantic, the Pack- jet fleet which the Russian fed by the greater part of it.
dc, and right round the world thing quite like it before. The I suppose they will still con- airline, Aeroflot, is now
They say that last year Acro- quite exceptionally low cost.
Backing it up.is a tremendour stakes are high and the Fursions tinue until one day, which must operating
with its flat carried 15,000,000° pasen- They match anything the scheme to bring in foreign mean to win them: Ireslitbly dawn, young English fantastic plans for expan gora. That is double the total of West has to offer. And to tourists."
But this in peaceful compell- couples and young couples from ferelem paris will wake up to sion throughout the Union the West's biggest operatora, Moscow at least HAS been
offered to the Belgians at half There will be half a million ton, And I for one welcome the the realisation that to step of and westwards" .with American Airlinca,
they price of its direct com- of them in the Soviet Union this struggle in airliner buttons a the 'bus, at Grelna is not to the" ́aleek," Western-style And by 1005 the Russians
more powerful weapons of war. arrivo in u romanilo paradiso~~ Jiines of the new "Mosení -reckón they will have it up politors, the American Electra year, including about. 7,000. Bri- much-needed, relief from
tish and 10,000 Americans. and British Vanguar and that this corner of Beètland,
Places The "Biseria are being the any case, it is certainly at any rate, is far from being proplet and you realles than were down throughout the Fairyland.
that Russian aviation is us. last year. The Seven-year practice, the Ukraine is a roh- opened to foreign holiday going to be worth watching
more 50,000,000, — 10,000,000
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