JACOBY on BRIDGE
THEY tell the story about
wicked bridge player who wta condemned to play through- out eternity with nothing but nine and ten card heart suits und a partner who would insist on spades.
Of course, after a few cons he might lean to give up and let his partner play the hand at a reasonable comtract, but I doubt it. Most bridge players feel that a seven card sult hould be bld Indefinitely, no that there is no stopping them when they hold a nine carder. Today's hand looks as if it 1s stocked for East and West. With 18 points between them they can inake three no-trump, i but needless to say they drop out of the bidding after West's opening diamond bid.
From then on it is a question of just how [ North and South will go in bidding their
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West
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seven card suits against one another and if they get beyond the two level whether or not East and West will go into the doubling business.
When the hand was actually Empire played in the Desert Regionals those North-South piry who stopped at the three level and went down one un- doubled came close to lepi, but one pair actually managed in stop at two spades and wound
up with a plus score,
It wasn't any great oil. South had his are of clubs stuck in back of the queen and North Just didn't feel like bidding.
THE CHINA MAIL,
SATURDAY, JANUARY 21, 1961.
JACKYS DIARY
Last THURSDAY WE WENT of Visited my GRAMMAP To Cat DINNER,
BY
JACKY Mendelsohn Shess my Grammer on
My 3
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After WE SOT FINISHED KISSING ONE of other "WE STARTED into Eat The Dinner. Which
GROMmar HAD REPAIRED FOR US,
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ase 33%
My Mother's Sipe,
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WHICH MEANS
IN CASE MOMMY
of Daddy
get in a
Fights She Sticks
We ATE LOTSA good'
Up for
MOMMY
Stuff
Like Rusted TURKEY WITH / CRAMP-BERRY SOURCE F | CANDID Sweep Potatoes, !
Surely Prince
man
AT
to
go
She for So X-CITED She Started in Kissing EVERY
She Even Kissed MOMMY WHOSE A
GIRL!
Body
PITTY Soon it was TIME To go HOME
So Grammar STARTED in Kissing
Again!
Kiss
Philip is the
Moscow
to
T the present time the Royal Family will be drawing up its list of engage- ments for the year. We know, from the biography of George VI, that this programme will be most carefully scrutinised.
A balance will be kept bc- tween different interests and
between different parts of the greater than the British Exlubi VACARD Sense country. Unsuitable organisation held in New York last year, tions will be struck off. There It will also be a more in- jawill be a proper allowance of portant occasion. The achieve- visits Europe and to the ments of British Industry are known in America, though may- Commonwealth.
Most ef these arrangements be not so well known as they Pass are made discreetly and call for should be.
Q-The bidding har been: South Wert North
Pana
24
Fast
1 34
Pasa
0 ▼
?
You, South, hold:
East
Pass
Poss
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What do you do? A-Fans. You can be sure that your partner does not hold the ace of diamonds so that seven Just won't make.
TODAY'S QUESTION Instead of bidding alx hearta your partner has bid ive dia. munds. You read this ns an ace showing bid. What do you do?
Answer on Monday
no comment, except perhaps that the Royal Family,tries to do too much.
But there is one event which
1
A new era
3
These objections reat on Trade Fair could be the begin-
era in Anglo- misunderstanding of Soviet ning of a new
scelety. Though Soviet Russla Soviet relations.
Who is to open the Trade Fair lacks many of the institutions Who is to reach which we regard as essential for in Mcscow?
ccross the Iron Curtain and political, freedom, it is far from speak for Britain on this unique being a country in which public
casion? The answer stands opinion counts for nothing. out for all to see: who bet Prince Philip?
opened
Отп
the entrary, the Soviet rulers engage in a constant campaign to influence public opinion. They know that they can succeed only if they carry their people along with them. The Trade Fair can have a lasting effect on Soviet opinion If it is presented in the right way.
good
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The alternative will be one of her Majesty's Ministers, They are no doubt worthy men. Some the Queen and her private ad- The Russians think that we of them are even
competent visers may overlook. Yet it are sull living in the fog-ridden speakers. Yet none of them, stands cut as one of the most days of Dickens, with our work- important events of the year, lug class population crowded into except the Prime Minister, could rise to the height of this oc- and clamours to be put at the slums, They rank us not only casion.
Мсте than this, there is tup of the list.
far behind America, but behind
ground for believin and other European Prince Philip In May the British Trade Fair Germany
the that the political leaders are British Exhibition in New York not the only men of power Is to be held in Mcscow. This countries. will be the greatest display ever For the first time they will last year. He was an cutsland- Soviet Russia. nor even per- made by British Industry net see what modern Britain is like ing success, bringing fresh ideas hapa the mcat powerful at British publicity. It will be and what we really can do. The and a fresh eye to his contacts alt.
with Americans of all classes,
He can repeat this success in Moscow. He can tell the Husslans the truth about our scientific and industrial develop- ments. He can dispel their pre- conceived picture of a Britain Soviet dozing into decay,
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We know that there are obstacles to be overcome. The Russians will And it hard to believe that Π royal prince understands the problems of the modern world.
Shadows
The Royal Family too will find it hard to take the plunge. Though Soviet Russia is officially recognised, though there is
The experts
Mr Khrushchev
speaks for Russia when he appears at foreign gather- Ins. But when internal affairs are being settled he is only one of a team.
The men who count then ore the directors of the great trusts,
who between them Tun the nationalised indus- tries. They know Hitle about They International `diplomacy, rarely visit foreign countries. Absorbed in their job.
the rest of the world hardly exists for them,
If they were invited to a lecture on life in modern Britain Soviet Ambassador in London, and though Mr Khrushchev him- they would probably not go. Or self has been received by the lecture if they went at all.
through the they would sleep Queen, there are sull shadows
Arst cousin the
from the past.
But they will go to the British During the Bolshevik revo- Trade Fair. They will judge lution Nicholas II, the things there with an eye as ex- Russian Czar, was murdered. pert as that of our industrial He was
of leaders. They will be inpressed, George V. And our King was They will pay lite attention to reluctant to receive a Soviet an opening speech by ECITO Ambassador, though bie professional politician. They reluctance was overcome.
will think that they are merely natural, lening to Mr Khrushchev, or But all this happened more one of his aldes, ell over again. than 40 years ngo. There
The feeling was
aside,
these old
comes a Ume when
They will maybe not listen to resentments must be put Princo Philip es a prince. But they will listen to him'es a man, English arcople were equally the can truly be the ambassador Indignant at the execution of of international understanding King Louis XVI during the and good will. French Revolution. Yet 60 years
later
Queen
Victorin visited
Edward VII revolutionised re-
between Britain and
France. And the father of Intions
the man who received her, France when he visited Paris in King Louts Philippe, had 1003. The recent private himself voted for the death of holiday xx Princess Mar- #aret is evidence that the Royal |Louis XVI.
Soviet Russia is no longer a Family has decided to let by country in revolutionary" lur- kones de bygones so far os Ire- moil. It is a settled and power- land is concerned.
ful State, which we are eager to
draw fully into world
affairs,
Surely the time has
come
The visit of Prince Philip when we can do the same with would be a powerful contribu Soviet Russla. A representative of British royally has visited tion to this end.
capital in the Objections may be raised of nearly every -a-practient- kind: Soviet Rusalaworld. Muscow bands to-bo. we know, is a dictatorship. arow added to the list, then can the Trade Fair achieve any real results? Will it help be, in any case, a great occasion. The British Trade Fair will
•
By
A.J.P. TAYLOR
THE
THE
Kiss
1900, King Feturns Syn-fik de, Int.
World sights reserved.
PS:
Like You Can See, GRAMMARS Like To Kiss a Lot.
But other Wize Their o.k.
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