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THE
BY THE WAY
by Beachcomber
MY recent note about tattooists brought me
thousands of letters from the interior (as op- posed to the exterior) of China. All my Chineso renders remind me courteously that a tattooist not long before the war bought n stall for a first- night. The play bored him, so he tattooed "I Love Captain Horsecroft on the bare back of the lady in front of him. During the interval the lady's husband, with the help of a mirror, drew her attention to this audacious caption. "I can't think how it got there," she said. The husband was about to create a scene when the tattooist confessed that he was the author of the legend. The husband and he had been at Repton together. and the whole affair passed off amicably. Tall storey
FIFTEEN-STOREY prefabricated flats to save
space. To save space for whom? For the very tall, thin people who will occupy them...
As there will be no floors or ceilings, a very, very tall man will be able to stick through from one flat to another, and if the flats are made as thin as possible, even a thin man need have no- body beside him. "But," queried a publicist, "nobody is likely to be tall enough to occupy Af- teen storeys. Therefore, as there are no floors or ceilings, about fourteen storeys will be pure waste of space." "Not at all," riposted an expert. "People can hang on to the walls." "Their legs dangling?" "Yes, their legs dangling. Or they could fix smali wedges into the walls, on which to stand. It would only be a matter of applying for two licences." Rapprochement
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are
their three.
of
USSIA obviously would Russian wife, Clara, and of like to drop the subject, son, Nicholas, now going on but millions of sentimental They exchange the latest news, and recently got their hends together and
Britons outraged
over a letter from Shura, wife constantly reminding the William Greenhaigh. She was wait- Soviet Union that it is holding ing in Moscow, but her latest letler within its borders 15 wives of said: "I am being sent to Archangel
help me now. Greenhalgh had made the rounds of all Russian authorities In Lon- For two years the English den, so he hopped over to Paris to husbands, back from military ask for a visa so that he might visit
emer Moscow to handle whatever
be confronting secined to Shuri. He said that he was told to
apply for a visa sext Spring.”
Other Worries
and diplomatic service in the Soviet Union, have been trying to bring the Russian girls they married to homes in the United Kingdom.
goney
by
ALVIN STEINKOPF
Molotov comes to London for
Vyshinsky's answer gave the hus-IMSIE SLOPCORNER is to be bands a new idea. Häll suggested YEMiss Unesco 1947. Dressed as an
his that he and perhaps others of Elizabethan cen-captain, she will group be given permission to visit tour the Ruhr district of Germany, the displaced persons camps, ascer-
and recile passages from Tennyson's tain by interviews whether any are "Idylls of the King." Her mother
said: held against their will and help them
"7 sald always say I do so think to return to their old homes if theyif this had been done before, there wish to do so. The suggestion is, would have been no war." among others, being considered.
Slopcorner, the
very
Mr
proud
not There is a great deal of specula- father, said: "What next?" Mimsie, when interviewed, said: "It's all tion in the press and elsewhere as the to the reasons for the reluctance of very thrilling," Big Four Foreign Ministers' con- the Russians to permit 15 obscure My italics ference this month, they expect to women to proceed to England. The
mind him and his delegation
all argument that Russia needs olten and as emphatically as pos- available workers is considered, but sible of their 15 wives in Russia. Hail fifteen women are not many. said that they will attempt to inter- view Molotov.
ks
the
Historical Parallel
NOTHER explanation, advanced
Russion visitors hear about wives the moment they leave their
When Vyshinsky. A in ships or planes.
sant meeting of the United Nations.
some communications
on his way to America for the pre- newspapers, Is that Russia,
lo
in
115 in Every conceivable approach Ar their meetings, the husbands held a press conference, the first ternational affairs, docs wish to obtain the necessary travel have other worries, Five of the question fired at him was about the not
send abroad persona who documents has been tried. and 15 wives have children. The other Wives the Soviets refuse to release. to
10 recently were informed that they
might bear tales or speak with in- "I am far more interested." he
of. up to now has failed.
must pay the usual Russian tax for answered, "in the 150,000 Russians mate and accurate Information
internal conditions. The answer invariably has being childless-about £50 a year in the British zone of Germany-
A letter to The Times recalled been "no." It has not been It is not easy at the moment to send who have not yet been released."
Russia. The reaction of British editorial that there is a historical parallel. A just a thoughtless refusal by a non-convertible sterling to
So, a delegation of husbands visited columns and pubile. leaders was Danish ambassador married a Rus- busy bureaucrat. It is policy. the Foreign Once to ge whether prompt. It was admitted that sian woman and sought permission
the
who
The British husbands, aided by the British Government could pay there" Was Latvians,
Estonians, to take her to his home. The ftus- their government, have pushed the tax in some way.
Lithuanians and undoubtedly some sian Foreign Ofller, according to the to The Times, their petition right up to the
Bevin Russians in the British zone.
conununication. Foreign Secretary Ernest
British Presidium of
But, the situations, it was argued, answered as follows: Supreme was sympathetic, but the
A Foreign "Inasmuch as it is not customary Soviet, highest, authority in the Government could not help to pay, were not at all similar.
that throughout our dominions that free The husbands made other efforts. Offee spokesman pointed out Union.. The answer,
dise people should be given into servi- which
They sent a petition to King George the great majority of Eastern must have passed the review VI, knowing perfectly well as they placed persons in the British zone tude, not only our own subjects but
war. the people of other countries of Generalissimo Stalin him- did that he is quite powerless in the were not Russians before the
They pester everyone at The Morning Advertiser added: "All are in our dominions, and since the self, was the familiar "no." matter.
in question can be a wife Vyascheslav Molotov, Minister the Russian Embassy; they look up of them are completely free to re-
and argue with every visitor from turn to the Soviet Union, and some for us loo, it is not ating that we
50, But the should send her
into servitude for Foreign Affairs, and his de- Russia, send messages with everyone of them have done
away to your embassador." puty, Andrei Vyshinsky, have going to Russia, and talk to Members majority have no desire to go."
The British-Government resisted This was written, said the comma- vetoed the pleas of husbands of Parliament.
'They
another all suggestions that they should be nication to The Times, In the year are preparing and denied the prayers of the
1500.-Associated Press. Minister forced to go. Russian girls who want to join scheme. When the men they married.
"The lonellest women in the world," a London headline called them.
Regarding their plight, and vain- ly casting about for something to try next, Major Mayhew. Under- Secretary for Foreign Affairs, said in the House of Commons: "We are knocking at a flrmly closed door."
Bart Winterlon, also speaking in the House of Commons, said: "It's Just a drop in the ocean of the world's miseries, But nevertheless, 1, although a politician, am horrified by the cruelly indicted on these people,"
National Concern
ALTHOUGH every approach seems
in
closed, the British keep on try- Ling. The petitions of the 15 husbands, have become a national concern, ranking high on any listing of toples under the heading of Anglo-Russian relations. It remains a live subject
newspapers and in Parliament There was even a suggestion be- fore Parliament adjourned that the plight of the Russian wives would lake on the aspect of an international Issue. There is strong support for the suggestion that the United Nations Human Rights Commission take an interest and introduce lato a projected international code, of human rights the right of any indi- vidual to leave any country,
inve
The 15 desolate husbands been drawn together in what amounts to 41 club. They anect frequently in the London flat of one of them, Alfred Hall, a clerk uf the London Coily Council. Hall shows the latest photograph of his
Foreign
woman
LITTLE cutting that lies before- me brings tears of laughter to my eyes. It is an inducement held out to British women to emigrate to California, to make
a happy marriage, It goes on: Californian marriage laws are very generous to women and divorce is easy-80 much so that there were four divorces to each five marriages in Los Angeles County last year.
That makes England sound very unprogressive.
Is there a dentist in the house?"
'MID-ATLANTIC MET."
Basil Cardew explains how a weather ship
came to be the
temperature,
THE umbitious idea which way, Sweden one these show pressure,
a height of placed a "met," (or melco- from France; and one from Belum and humidity up to rological) ship in mid-Atlantic and Holland together. Elre and Por-50,000 fect.
tugal agreed to help with money. Apart from an echo sounder and
ond While the Americans are propar- Loran
the gyro compass, Weather Observer carries beacons ing their weather shis they are us ing naval ciners for the job. It was to guldo Transatlantic aircraft and tis typo e ship that stond by the other rescue alds for plines or ship-
tched American 117 bout. The ping in distress. 2500-ton C.S. cutter has a crew of and four weather expats akunid.
was born in Montreal just 13 months ago.
It was a brave and humane plan.
The nations flying the Atlan- tic between Iceland and the southern point of Spain arrang- ed to span this 1,800 miles of ocean with a network of, floating "island."
These ships should be ready to save life and aid
parking ground for a crashed Atlantic fliers.
NANCY Yenh-Explain That!
LOAFING AGAIN==~ YOU'RE THE LAZIEST BOY I KNOW,
SLUGGO
WHAT
OF
IT?
Boeing recently
BALLOON COMPARTMENT!
RISTRUMENT PREPARATION
Ten nations agreed to supply and maintain the rescue ships. Seven were to come from the United States; one from the US. and Canada joint- By: two from Britain; one from Nor-
CREW OF 50
Flair has provided the only rea! weather ship-so far. In: Brst left London's Shadwell Jan Inst July to take up station 390 miles west of Ireland
The ship can keep radio contact with the shore at ranges up to 600 miles and with shipping and aircraft in flight. A radar direction-finder is also
installed. For rescio work the Weather Observer carries two petrol-driven 30ft. lifeboate, cach capable of carrying 60 people."
VOLUNTEERS
staff of the British Melcord-
Britain's first vessel is a 1,400-ton The weather office a small ex-corvette of the Flower class, re-
room just about on the water-line, named Weather Observer. Stripped
the port side. It has a large of her war trimmings and grey platting table and a laboratory-like paint, she is now a vivid yellow. series of scientific apparatus. Tho She is 2004; long, has a speed of 10 "met", duties are carried out by and carries a crew of 60 in four observers, all volunteers from
seven meteorological experts the and 13 radar and radio technicians.
The Weather Obsorver does In command of Britain's first monthly tour. At three-hourly in weather ship is 35-year-old Captain
on duty she sends a tervals while
N. F. Ismel, a crippled D..S. Č., a rndig
the Lo
Alr U-beat hunter during the war. Most commentary Ministry's central broadcasting office of his crow are ex-naval and mer-
Dunstable, Bedfordshire, on chant seamen, Atlantic weather,
MIT, & RADIO OFFICERS' CABINS
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YOU OUGHT TO LEARN SOMETHING FROM THESE ANTS-- THEY'RE ALWAYS WORKING
THEY'RE THE BUSIEST LITTLE INSECTS IN THE WHOLE WORLD
logical Ofee.
When the weather ship scheme is
Every six hours a hydrogen in fall operation there will be 20 Alled balloon Is released which ships maintaining a night and day gives automatic signals, by radio. Arvice throughout the year,
By Ernie Bushmiller
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