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DECEMBER 18, 1946.
An Bft. Oln. bronze status of Nels on, in the uniform which he was wearing at the time of his death at Trafalgar, la to be erected in Portsmouth, probably in the contre of the proposed new Cathedral Groan.
Sculptor. F. Brook Hitch, FRBB, ls seen working on
model at his London studio.
the
THE WAY TO DEAL WITH PALESTINE
by "CRITIC
to
BRITAIN is in Palestine
carry out the terms of a mandate which exists in black and white in the form of 28 numbered a preamble und articles.
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For ever and ever HOLLYWOOD
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T the gates of most of the you may be sure I have already "I reckon the play would great studios there hangs place where "Forever Amber" is
made my pilgrimage to the about 20 per cent, rowriting, which
do."
readily use any stick to hand to beat a dog with.
-
I should be very happy to "nowadays an old bit of tar-going through a slow and dignifled
clue 'to this paulin innocent us a housewife's process of birth. I found that the There I feel is the
im has now been in proditelion amazing continent. It is populated apron and likewise torn.
for so long that they call it "Forever by single-minded people who will and Ever Amber." The tear's the thing. Behind the tear there lurks a camera and behind the camera there lurks a man.. It Is his job to photograph for legal evidence the curious activities of the studia strikers and picketers. The judges won't take still photographs: they have to move.
Now the picketers know all about this. When they feet about to be up to something they flash pocket mirrors at the tear in the tarpaulin to over-expose the film. The studios retallate by hanging more tarpaulin, The rigging up more cameras. battle grows.
I'
Not cloan
is not what you would call a-cican fight. Some of the picketers hang lengths of ship's chain down Inside their trousers so that when they stick out a leg they can easily break the shin of the fellow trying to cross their line.
They drive around at night tossing little band-made bombs in through the windows of homes of carpenters | and other studio workmen who are blacklegging.
Perhaps this
little duel
when
In the
I spent a whole afternoon on the set where the two great stars of to dny, Cornel Wilde and Linda Darnell, were playing a scene. Miss Darnell had to say to Mr Wilde: "Oh, Bruce, you don't think the King will really hang you, will be?"
Wilde: "I doubt it, my dear, but he seems to set a great store by our red-headed friend."
Darnell: "I hate her. She is the cause of all this trouble,"
After four hours they still hadn't got it right, which makes me think that the official estimate of year's shooting to be completed in February is a modesty.
Kress.
Mr Hecht believes passionately that to-day presents a better op- portunity than ever before in history to make a nation out of the Jews. To excito America to that idea he will attack Britain. In Britain he' will attack somebody else.
you
He said: "It was a shame British had to get in the way." He sald also later: "The only people Own who attack ma here are my
the Jowa, It only people, Englishman would attack me....
on
I said quite firmly that I had written that there was English blood.
was a gallant his hands. "It But do not think there is anything piece and I thank you for it" he tackadaisical about this royal pro- said mournfully.
her Miss Dornell, who les Blonde hair dye looks like a lemon [,. On droamers meringue pie and quite as edible, working with o hand cold.
sun shines all the NODE out to Palm Springs, where was
year which has turned to mastoid trouble..
round.
KRESKIVEMINTE PARADISIONEERING JANUARITIMEDIARE
A further report from PAUL HOLT
CONRADESCRIVEZALICA
Through the endless orange groves and mammoth vineyards, the shacks and diners and motor hotels, through James M. Cain country until the de- sert began, and then the now- Rockies Bernardino capped San
all fringed a shrill blue sky, and nature mounted massive, and the shadows became black as a tiger's yawn,
onc and the skyline with
could throw rhrug of its shoulder
man away. you
sun is not important consider the nation-wide struggle.
of the existing non-Jewish com-that is coming over coal, but I find munities? Or, would this also be a
it a clear Anger signpost. It ex- breach of the mandate?
plains much.
(3) Are we legally bound to The American nation, fresh from confer Immediate self-government an orgy of self-expression in the upon Palestine when the Arabs de- lepubilean landslide of November mand 1, as they do, even if the 5, is now starting out on a kind of Zionists oppose it, as they do?
twentieth-century witch hunt.
Unt!! there is
unequivocal
מה
It is perfectly clear that in our 7.15 & 9.15 p.m. attempt to give effect to this docu- pronouncement on these questions, ment we do not satisfy the Ameri-t is not possible. justly to criticise cans and fall (for different and British policy in Palestine, for it is not possible to show wherein we are opposite reasons) to win the approval in error. of the Russians. We do not please the Arabs and we antagonise the Zionista Nor, if truth be told, do we find much ground for self-con- gratulation in the business. THE MANDATE
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THE
common sense of the situation strongly supports the view that Britain should now hand back the
mandate to the United Nallons 03 hele-at-law of the defunct League of or Nations, so that some wiser. stronger, or harsher power may have the chance to improve upon our
efforis.
can such But from whom pronouncement emanate?
THE ANSWER
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Justice.
That is clear enough. But if it is urged that the Court is not a suitable body for determining issues of poll- tical rather than judicial Interpreta tion, then we may have recourse to the Trusteeship Committee of the
three questions to them.
Fear of Russia, of Britain have been in this
hate.
She was having hourly doses of penicillin and saying "Oh, Bruce, you don't think the King will really hand you?" once every half hour.
She drunk tea, as did most of the
propic Dn the set, and seemed content.
Palm Springs is a desert seitle- ment, a trading post. It looks like Khartoum in the afternoon -except for those great 11,000/1, mountains.
Here in secret pallos the million- nires and film folk toast their ample bodies, and dream the day away be- alde a blue swimming pool.
Cornel Wilde, a vest young man with a small and urgent face, is only
Sharp at 3.30 the sun is down be- interested at the moment in Lord The witches
Byron. His researches into the lifehind the jagged mountain, and then of the poet are endless, and he is they all scurry indoors to their gin rummy and Bourbon-old-fashioned. determined to
to sell the studion his
It is too far to climb up that moun- own Byron version for himself to
toin, so next year they plan a the THE trade unions are the witches.det
distrust play in. 1 think he will make it. forgotten
may seem odd to you that 1 £4,000,000 project to bring New
Mr snow down to the millionaires for Indus-should call Miss Darnell and and a trialists
taxi-drivers, Wilde
two great stars of to-day. them to ski. movie
moguls and barten But it is true. Yesterday's stars are ders all any the same thing to me-not remembered. "We've got to, put the working man David Selznick, who made "Gone back to work and stop thin gangster with The Wind," is still trying to Garbo to appear with business."
persuade Gregory Peck and Ann Todd in the
Hitchcock picture, "The She couldn't hear a ward and so new Paradine Case."
filled in the lime screaming back to Selznick was talking to the cur- London that the sun was shining. reht young male of the town, Guy the water was warm and the sky Madison. "How'd you like to act was blue. with Garbo?" he said to the new arrival to fame.
wizards
26 .of 110 mandate A provides the answer: any dispute
And it was. I'm sure, the little relating to the interpretation or the men, the small shopkeepers, and not The application of any provision of the the vast pressure groups or mandate shall be submitted to the industrial public relations Permanent Court of International who voted the Republicans in.
It will be interesting to see how far this hate wave coes up the beach.
Americans to-day yell 'fted" much as the Nazis yelled "Jew," and they have now reached a stage of thought where any sentiment Left of centre Meantime, because this is Holly- severe in ita logic. Yet even to such waverers It And, when their ruling has been wood, the game is played out her
Indians fashion and riven, it will be for Britain to deter-cowboys and is obvious that the present position mine whether she can, with a clear people are getting hurt.
Only Inside the studios themselves | cannot continue and that, by one conscience and a confidence in her
there calm. Metro is cathedral- method or another, we must get to own power, operate the mandate onlke, Twentieth Century-Fox like a
with better terms
great car factory, Paramount, possi- the problem. the terins laid down. mandate itself
past influence Fortunately, tho
If she can, well and good. If she bly due to the
characters called affords a simple approach to the cannot, her proper course will be certain
plainly defined.
and Hope, Is one long guffaw.
Some people, however, hesitate to United Nations. We can present the called "un-American."
espouse a policy ED
issuc.
PATH OF DUTY
WHAT is
I
at dispute between Britain and her critics? Essen- the interpretation of the tally, It mandate. It is alleged that Britain is not carrying out her plain duty.
Propaganda in the United States, speeches to the Trusteeship Com mmittee of the Uruted Nations, and bomb outrages in Palestine-all are nesigned to make the path or duty plainer to our eyes. well, what our adty unuer. the manaate?
HOME FOR JEWS
THE preamble states
mandatory responsible Palestine.
for.
is
"Garbo? I beg your pardon, never heard of her," youth quite honestly.
answered the
On a play
While I was drearing by a pool, came stripped and sleepy, a call through from London. It was for Misa Ann Told, who was then, busy swimming.
Suddenly the 'phone catro eloar. and she heard a volce saying crossly: "It is cold and foggy here"---at which the 'phone went suddenly dead.
On a robuko
You're
heard an old Hollywood man on reaching Hollywood was to course, one of my first duties DINING with Phyllis Calvert I seek out Ben Hecht, the man whoy sharply to her. "Stop
looking thoughtful. For heaven's wrote the anti-British play about cake look gay!'". Palestine. "A Flag Is Born'
Believe me,
It is true Mr Hecht wishes to bring the play to London. He has written to Winston Churchill of asking for his blessing, which he Crosby conndently expects 10 receive
shortly.
According To Culbertson
(Copyright, 1946, by Ely Culbertson)
North-South missed u laydown it did not convey the right sort of Game in to-day's deal because South, in the one bid he was able to make, gavo a very bad description of his holding.
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In our endeavours to give concreto Lid yu meuning to this pissago Wi
given offence in turn to Araus Jews. Our troops e os peen shot at uy bou it may ou that, lacking the wisdom of incu who look upon the problem rem afar, we have falled to interpret the mandato accurately. We should seek enlightenment.
In post-war conditions, that means we ought to cddress three questions
to a competent authority:
(1) Does the stated purpose of the mandato compel us to convert Palestine into a Jewish State, as the extremer Zionists appear to wish? Or does it, in fact, forbid us to do
(2) Doos it mean that, when atrocious sufferings are Inflicted on European Jewry by their enemies, and ours, wo are bound to admit 100,000 aurvivors of the massacro, to Palestine, Irrespective of the feelings.
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message to North. A bid of this port carries a well denned request that partner do one of four things: (1) Bld three no trump if he can stop the suit bid by the enemy and has couple of other scattered honours. Obviously, North could not stop the diamonds, hence this bid was out. (2) Kalce the overcali. For this, At and
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Thus, South's choice of bids was more of a warning against spader and hearts than an invitation, and North was correct in passing. The fault lay in the fact that South It is true that South's jump from neglected to double one diamond, in one diamond to three clubs was a the very: hope, thuat North could sirong bid, especially vulnerable, but respond in spades.
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