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By W. A. CRUMLEY
BEVERLY BAXTER, MP,
now
touring the USA, writes from New York a pungent commentary on the contemporary American
scene.
Supper at 3 a.m.? No trouble
at all. sir
tween
midnight and seven
A...
PRINCESS ELIZABETH and Princess Margaret wel baptised by King Neptune and his Court when they cross the Equator in the battleship Van- guard,
All the dresses, wigs and props for the "Crossing the Line" ceremony have been taken aboard secretly.
"The ceremony will be carried out with all its traditional pantomime Only on we neared the Ritz-Carl-pagne? But of course....This is interest to the British telephone ser- and good humour," says an Admiral- ton did he depart in any way from hotel and this is New York, where ty souvenir booklet about the royal bi semi-ambassadorial manner. people frequently stay up after visit to South Africa, published by without turning round he auid, 'clock.. the Stationery Office.
"What are you Limeys doing with your Empire over there? Are you breaking it up?"
I put in F personal call to An HE taxi driver taking us to neon served in your rooms.
huncheon served in your room?" I ofeial in Washington. "Hang on, the hotel entered into im-opened the window another inch to piense," she said. The next moment mediate conversation with my clear my head. Then my eye cough I was spenting to him. companion and myself, desirous a sign over the writing table.
When it was all over I not by the of knowing whether we had please ask for floor waiter by tele-open window ruminating nostalgical- voyaged well, how England was phone,"
ly upon happy days in London when getting on, and hoping that we What country! What a city? Do would have a pleasant visit as you mean to say that at three in the one could dial away the lazy hour with that delightful uncertainty of morning опе can have supper or breakfast well as a Happy New Year.
or rundwiches or cham- the result which adds such human
vice.
The Princesses, leaving Britaln for the Arst time, embarked with the King and Queen in the Vanguard yesterday. They sail to-day, escorted by the aircraft carrier Impincable, the trulaers Cleopatra and Diadem, and the destroyer St. James's
17 DAYS AT SEA No calls will be made on the Voyage to Cape Town. In the 17 days it will take the Royal Family will have:
FOR LIVING: A self-contained flat, aft on the upper deck, with twa altting rooms, dining roon, zeveni bedrooms, Ave bathrooms, kitchen, office and private telephone ex- change.
Normally it would be the quarteys of the admiral and his staff.
FOR ENTERTAINMENT: Ex- hibition flying by the implacable's tennis on the 60 airplanes, duck
tournu- quarter, deck; deck hockey ments by the crew: the latest tas.
And in the crew's dining hall there: will be Tomboin-"housey, housey"-- at 8.45 each evening.
FOR WORK: Radio telephones and telegraphs will keep the King in contact with Whitehall.
One day's steaming north of the Equator, the Home Fleet escort will be relieved by the cruiser Nigeria, flagship of the South Atlantic station, Later, two British sloops and thee South African frigates will escort the Vanguard to Cape Town.
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MY DEAH---- I JUST
FLEW IN FROM CANADA TODAY-- LOVELY TRIP
I told him that Anthony Eden was in the car behind us, and that he would be better able to answer that somewlint technical question. wouldn't break it up if I was you,” he suid,
r
Nervous wrocks?
was three o'clock
I willen reached my mom in the after- noon, and I telephoned "service" to know whether I could get lunch in the restaurant. "Certainly, sir," said
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The next morning I made fifteen telephone calls from my room, the girl operator (perhaps she was plural but it always seemed the same voice) never wearying In her promptness and courtesy. Feeling ashamed for bothering her so much, the calls be gan to produce fils dinlogue between | world,
us.
"No trouble at all, sir." "Would you mind G-4219?"
"Not at all, sir."
A young Englishman nodded. "I was the head of the Incitement Do partment," he said. That's the worst' of English humour. Actually, ho was an infantry officer out there. But now
៤៧០ our American Irlend proof pari-tiue straight from the soldier's mouth,
* Well-wishers
ONE night I lalked with a Big
Industrialist, in fact, nothing less than a Steel Magnate.
We have our troubles," he said, but it is one thing to fry experl- ments on a country like ours, when It is strong, and quite another to do it when it is weak, like Britain. We all want to see Britain pull through and when this loan is used up we'll still want to help her.
"But it's going to be hard to do that if you people go on with your State Trading. We like competition with Individuals, but State Trading is different. If your Government persists in that polley then we would eventually have to do the same thing and we just don't like the idea of changing over to State Trading.
"The American is funny sort of
to help an cuss. He wants friend, but not if the old friend in- tends to use the money to put him out of business."
old
Everybody knows that the Ameri- cans are nervous wrecks, that prices are sky-rocketing, that the dollar la so dizzy that it will soon go over the cliff, that free enterprise is chao- tic, aut of date, and that the crash is only delayed by Americans living on their war-time fat and because I asked him what he thought we
11 there is seller's market in the ought to do. "That's not, for me to say," he answered. "Of course, you Government. might change your Have a High Ball?"
My secret vow
and
"Could you get me 2-3789?"
Did I say that everyone knows "I certainly could, sir."
These things to be true? Everyone, "Could I troubir you to call 3- that is, but the Americans.
Maybe it
in because of the New X!!TH a dignified reticence I ac- 64087
Yorkers hungover from New Year's
cepted the drink. As a tour- calling Eve, but I cannot find anyone in ing Britisher I have taken a secret
New York Who knowE that he is vow that while in the USA finished or even doomed. For one Canada I shall not utter or cause to thing, the American, with his genius be uttered, or encourage by munner, for adapting words, has discovered silence or even a raising of the eye- "Recession.
The word "slump" la brow, any disparagement of his as out of date as "sklubo." America Majesty's Government. might have a crash but she will never Instead, I carried the war to him: again have a slump. And just now "Aren't you for more they tell me they are having a Re- trouble?" cession. It's a good thing," say. "You see, prices went up too far when the controls came off, so we had to have a altake-out."
Scotland Yard
is mechanised
by-
ROBERT HOARE
OUNG girls, euch with
Y punch, Finse helped
mechanise crime detection Scotland Yard.
they
in
Inbour
He noddext. "Lots of it," ho said, You "But America can handle it. noticed, I hope, that the country went Republican a few weeks back, That was n vole for capitalism be- cause that's. the American way of
I told them how much better We did this kind of thing in Britain un- life." der an all-wise Government. We eoncentrating. and what type of
price and stuck in it, f affences he 13
committing. They Oxed at show the strength of the force in guess that's all right, too," they say each division, the numbers off duty dreamily,, "but over here the publle through illness or accident, and the brings down the price by just keep- black spots for road crashes, acci-ing its cash in a pants pocket." to dents and deaths.
These Amerleans are really a very thick-headed ruce.. Why doesn't Sir Stafford Cripps come aver instead of always going to India?
a
at
arc
The red, the green, the black, or the blue may mean change in dis- More police may be positions. moved from one area to another, the burgist от
Working in relays in S2 Statistical Branch-they use and, unknown to machines which punch dozens housebreaker, extra guards may be of holes in each of a million clas-out in the streets. sification cards. They clearing the path leading to a new scientific way of catching crooks and preventing crime in Central London and the outer divisions.
They examine thousands of reports on various types of crime, traffic, sickness, und the unlice strength-in a few small rooms on the top floor of the Old Building, The basic secret is pencil marks which they make on a printed card
AT A GLANCE
the
One of them which I saw dealt with shopbreaking. There WDS a ine through Shop Breaking, and then a cross, the number of division, sub-division, and slation where it happened, the code number of the local authority, the fact that It was a taller's shop, that clothing stolen, the time at which it Was happened, the value of goods stolen (00). the fact that arrested, and the manner in which the arrest was achieved (after chaze by an area wireless car crew). A card covered with pencil telts eventually tells at a glance the trend of crime in London, and guides the activities of the men who make the arrest.
a man
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The "punching" girls. using machines rather like a typewriter with only half a keyboard on the right-hand side, put a hole through each pencilled word at high speed. Mistakes? The machine never lles, but a slip is noted by the girl glan- clng at a mirror fitted at the back and giving her a clear picture of her punches.
A printing, counting, and sorting machine builds up the crime story of 36 facts on card by dealing with 400 cards every minute.
10.
That's as far as mechanisation can
Sheets of figures go before the de- {partmeni chlež, Mr Stanley J. Hobson (who started at the Yard 32 years ago as a boy elerk).
Mr Hobson believes that what the eye sees it remembers. He has to of relate and corrEINLO the story crime each inunth, as simply as pos- sible, from the mass of Bgures and facts.
Mr Hobson has extended his de- cards, sheets, And partment from graphs to manimoth maps.
fle has created a Scotland Yard War Boom. Like n general moving his divisions or brigades to a battle, Sir Harold Scott, the Commissioner, can take a lift downstairs and make switches in the organisation by moving a Bug or two."
Within six months there will be 20,000 flags, on maps ranged on 35ft.- long boards, covering the 700 square miles controlled by the Metropolitan force. A glance at the story telling graphur and a slow walk through the Map House of Battle HQ will reveal the whole shifung pattern of crime.
So a hole in a card, a blob of colour on a graph, and a flag on a map can trip up a crookt.
Fascist soldiers
Dawn of free press
D
AM fold there is a wave of min
British sentiment which, as taatal,
is illogical and not very violent.
is
China?
By HAROLD K. MILKS
There is, for example, the mili- tant Zionist section, which la ns de-
Foreign correspondents whose beat tennined to cause trouble in Pales- time as it is not to go and live there. sometimes speculate on quiet nights Nanking, the Chinese capital, In the Queen Elizabeth there were the probable reaction of their many returning delegates to the Washington colleagues if Congress Zionist Europem conterence, One was off imits to all newsmen dur- sweet little middle-aged Jewish Jug its sessions; if President Harry American woman was good enough Truman never held a press con- to explain to some of us both the ference, hnd no spokesman, and only abic cause and the cure of the Palestinian the luckfest correspondents were
to meet him briefly-probable for "You British are nice people," she formal ten-upon their initial arrival said, "but it wouldn't pay you if the or final departure from Washington; cabinet sessions were closed and Jews The Jews and the Arabs would get riiscussions released
and the Arabs were friends. closely guarded and any decisions or only to the along fine if left to themselves. staunchest pro-government news- That's why the British only send
if reporters were aulamatical- papers; soldiers who are Fascist-minded or
ly harred from scheduled sessions of are members of Sir Oswald Mosley's the nation's highest omelat bodies. organisation...."
trouble.
According To Culbertson
a
The Kuomintang's "Government by neercey", buill up over the years since the revolution, made its first major concession to the tree circula- ̈tion of ̈oment news during the Fo
cent
National Assembly for the adoption of a Constitution. Repor- of all and correspondents nationalities were allowed to witness only the regular sessions but reason, he proceeded to slaughter meetings of the presidium as well as, a contract which, despite the short-certain committees. ness of South's trump suit, could have been fulfilled in two or three 00- different ways.
(Copyright, 1946, by Ely, Culbertson)
The slam contract in to-day's deal was bid in error-but it should have been made!
South, denler North-South vulnerable and part-score."
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MORE CONFOUNDED This development raised hopes that the end is nearing for West correctly continued with a situation wherein the greater per- low diamond. (East would either rentage of news in this capital la ruff or produce the diamond queen) "second-hand," and obtained from Declarer ruffed and led a heart to sources present at official sessions the queen, then apparently resolved who themselves frequently take to get as many tricks as possible advantage of the policy of secrecy to before trouble set in, deliberately
give correspondents only their side ruffed
Bast
another diamond.
hastity rid his hand of a heart. Now of the plcture.
This policy of scercey only results when declarer led to the heart see in making the confused Chinese and returned another diamond, East situation more so, officials
agreed discarded his last heart. Declarer to-day. overtook the spade king with the ace Nowhere in the world are such and cashed the jack and nine. For- phrases as "it is learned", "informed Bources" and "usually reliable ri- tunately, the trumps broke, but un- fortunately, declarer had neatly formnant" to overworked as they are eye-witness blacked himself in the heart suit, and in Nanking where an
such 1 commonplace now, though the heart jack was ready account of
accurrence as a meeting of the to drop on the king, the play was in dummy. The best South could do Supreme National Defence Counril - which or one of the Five Tuans was return to the heart king, cash
the National Government is form the ace-king of clubs, and concede
still unknown. the inst tricit.
As mentioned, the hand could have One of bids been made in several ways. This remarkable series was attributable to the fact that good way was to ruff the second
had made
diamond, mistake 21 South
ond, cash the club ace, ruff a arranging his hand and thought he club with the nine-spot, return to had five spades and only four clubs. the heart king, then ruff a second | It was not until after the opening club with the spade ace. After that, lend of the diamond king had been the space jack could be overtaken Graphs convey the meaning of his made that South discovered his error, and the adverse trumps drawn. De research work to the men responsible Apparently, lie was struck with her elurer would cash this remaining for planning the police network ror to find that what he had thought club hanout, then enter dummy with Graphs in six colours hanging in his was a powerful trump was actually a heart. The drop of the heart Jack
show where the criminal is an insignificant club. Whatever his would give South his twelfth trick.
room
THE GRAPHS.
I FLY OUT TO MY DAD'S
RANCH EVERY WEEK--
I LOVE TO FLY
By Ernio Bushmiller
I DON'T SUPPOSE
OH,
YOU'VE EVER
YES
FLOWN
HAVE
Officials and correspondents alike are hopeful under the constitutional government due within this year, that China's people, rough the medium of news correspondents and newspapers, will be able to recalve a first-hand picture of governmental activities.
The policy of secrecy is by means limited to President Chiang Kai-shek's government. It la equal- ly true within the opposition and political groups,--Asso- minority
elated Press.
JANIY
BUSHMILLER.
When You Feel Tired and Restless
tako
Elliotts Nerve
and
Brain Tonic
On Salo at All Disponsarios"
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