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SAPPING PRIVATE ENTERPRISE AND INITIATIVE, I CALL IT "
Every Wednesday in the Telegraph:
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Sitting on the Fence
Continuing the remarks offered here to foreign visitors on what to expect in Britain.
time the British
Apeople prided themselves
on their manners.
They were glad they were not formally polite like the Germans, extravagantly polite like the French, or just plain crazy like the Spaniards, whose courtesy is reputed to be so embarrassing that a visitor hesitates to admire anything in a Spanish house in case it is given to him on
on the spot.
by NATHANIEL
GUBBINS
We also feel that we have done more than our share in saving
The result of this was that the
JUDY, THE ONLY POW DOG
By Sydney Redwood ELEVEN-YEAR-OLD Judy, much-travelled
and much-publicised pedigree pointer bitch, one time mascot of Royal Navy gunboats, twice torpedoed in Far Eastern waters, and who had some remarkable adventures when she was the only dog registered as a prisoner of war in Japaneso hands, axperienced her first taste of air travol recently.
She left Britain by B.O.A.C. aircraft from Blackbushe airport with her owner, ex-LAC Frank Williams, who is on his way to Tanganyika to work on the Ground Nuts scheme,
Frank and Judy have been inseparable since they teamed up in Medan POW Camp in 1942. She had previously been mascot of HMS Gnat and Grasshopper, the latter being destroyed by enemy action while she was sailing from Singa pore to Java. Judy and the crew reached a small, uninhabited. island, where the bitch first distinguished herself by locating the only fresh water spring on the island.
THEY escaped in a Chinese Junk and reached Sumatra, only to fall into the hands of the enemy. They were brought to Medan, where Frank shared his meagre ration of rice with Judy, and thus made a friend for life.
Many prisoners in the camp owed their life to Judy, who had an uncanny Instinct for scenting danger and giving the alarm when polsonous makes, scorpions and alligators came nosing around, and she also had an Inspiring effect on their morale. "If the old bitch can hang on for release, then I can make it too," they used to say when conditions became even worse than usual.
WOR
But Judy also owed her life, to Frank. It was he who had her registered as an offelal POW one English noses are usually red, not
day the Camp Commandant always because of over-indulgenco drunk, and talked the guards out In alcohol. English teetotallers often of killing her on various occasions. have redder noses than the alcohoWhen the prisoners were transferred lies. This is caused by east winds from Sumatra to Singapore, Frank and indigestion.
Customs
was ordered to leave her behind, but he muggled her through the guards in osack strapped to his back, the big dog remaining per- fectly still, without so much as a
As a foreign visitor you most any whimper, for hours.
startled any day in almost
part of England to come across à
of group
half-dressed angular. British females dancing in a garden to music thumped out on a plano,
They
will have fixed smiles
on
THEIR ships was torpedoed in the Straits of Malacca, and they were in the sea for several hours before. the Japanese fished them out, and moved them from camp to camp
face with the Commandant who had
"British good manners sprang from civilisation, only to be abused for ji undeveloped jaw couldn't find room their faces, flowers or wreaths in a natural gentleness and o genuine that our good intentions have been for the growing teeth, which either their hair, and. their naked limbs until, one day, they came face to
desire to be helpful in a practical way,
although the expression of these feelings took different forms
misunderstood,
of
Then he had a set of dentures made exactly like the originals and sill looked like a rabbit.
traditions
ordered Judy's destruction months earlier. This Ume, he commanded that only should she be killed,
not
the but that made to eat her.
priconers should be The whole camp co-operated in hiding her until VỪ
Day arrived.
Frank's difficulties were not yet over. No pets were considered for smuggled on board the troopship, and her presence was only revealed when they reached the Mediter- on the last stage of the Journey home.
*
bunched up in the front of the will be all goose pimples on account mouth producing the well-known of the cold. bloodless revolution in which poll owner so much misery that he had, cause of our clothing shortage, they
We are also passing through a English' rabbit face, or caused the
At first you may think that, be- in different parts of the islands. teline Fard sneered at instead
In Southern England the visitor shot. We
shor the lot pulled out. are maddened by
themselves arc dancing to keep would feel that, although nobody tages, frustrated by restrictions, and
warm. Or you might think they are took the slightest interest in his feel like criminals every time wa
Just screwy like the rest of the popu- existence, everybody was determined ent a square meal or wear a new
lation. to put up a good show, Southern suit of clothes. English hospitality was rather like
As a matter of fact they will be having a tea party on an iceberg That is why people stare at your The answer to all this is that ye olde folk lore folk, keeping up ye repatriation, BO sho had to be
Polar plate in restaurants and clubs to seo foreigners could with polile and benevolent
cat white bread olde
in yo olde bears.
you have been favoured; why without looking like fiddles and countryside, come hall and snow In Northern England, after they they make personal remarks about had given you a good look over and your appearance and feel the quality rabbits; also portraits painted of and helle and bloudie high water." decided
Or you might walk into a village rancan that you didn't stink after of your cont-the sort of thing only Englishmen when they were cating all, the welcome would be hearty, people interested in the trade did at real bread and gnawing lumps of and see what you belleve to be a even boisterous.
one time.
meat often revealed the fiddle face. sex maniac at large.
He will look very much like a English noses are normally either exam That is to say he wilON arrival in Britain, after the snub. or aquiline the sub-usually be a mild looking, middle-aged man Quarantine Kennels, Judy enjoyed regulation stay at Hackbridge belonging to the broader faced ple- wearing a big moustache and belan, the aquiline to the
aher deserved share of the limelight. narrow bowler hat.
She became the only dog_member faced patrician. But the English are
of the Returned British Prisoners Now the under-dog has become such a mixture of races and classes
of War Association, was awarded top-dog he has lost all sympathy, that you often find an aquiline nose He has become the target of all on a broad, plebelan face, and а the wasted ammunition being fired off snub nose on a narrow, patrician in the fleres rearguard action of the
face. dispossessed.
Although they would tell you over and over again that they were just plain folk and boast of a frankness which often amounted to rudeness, this frankness was the frankness of a friend who would be sorry when you had gone, wrlie to you regularly, and send you Christmas cards.
✰
Class hatred is also intensified.
While the under-dog-remained the under-dog, he enjoyed a certain amount of sympathy, so long as he didn't make too much fuss.
臨 ☆
In Scotland, where it takes them longer to find out whether you stink or not, you would have found more genuine friendship than anywhere cise in Britain, providing you de- served it and were prepared to wait for it say, 10 or 20 years.
One small class has remained the They would tell you they
same as if nothing has happened. wero mean and overwhelm you with hox You will meet them mostly in the pitality; tell you they had no sense lounges of country hotels
They are usually elderly women
of humour and Immediately prove who read private correspondence to that they had.
But their kindness to the stranger each other theo of their voices was always tinged with pity and an lounge like mountaineers yelling at yell at each other across the air of vague disapproval. They were
from opposite peaks Borry for you that you were not each other Scottish, and appeared to believa Like this: that, because of this handicap, there LETTER?"
"DID YOU READ must be something wrong with you.
"NO." even if it was not apparent.
"SHE'S
ANGELA'S
VERY HAPPY AT
You will see him kissing every woman in his path and even climb ing up ladders to force his hairy em- brace on screaming girls leaning out of windows,
sex
Don't be alarmed. He's no This makes the last group look maniac. He's the Tutti man taking more like rabbits than ever, except his toll of local beauty according that their noses don't twitch.
10 some custom or other.
the
Dickin Medal (popularly known as the "Animals" VC"), and even barked her joy in a BBC Victory Day, Programme. Frank himself received the White Cross of St. Giles in recognition of his bravery in bringing Judy safely through her ordeals.
C.V.R. THOMPSON reports the U.S. scene
al
One reason. Senator Lodge differs so diametrically from his grand- father: He served as a major with
It was old Senator Henry Cabot would rather have chewing gum than Lodge who made the U.S. Isolationlat tips." after World War L
NEW YORK. Missouri I was in four of the dirtiest OR all his pains, President fights a white man ever had."
Truman does not look like getting New York's Jewish vote ISOLATIONISTS, cut to install on the Eighth Army in Libya.
"American First President in after all.
November, are fuming
the IFE IN LONDON, according to a The Hechtists, the New York Post grandson of the man still revered New York columnist: "Walters columnist Waller Winchell, and all
as their first apostle,
in the luxurious West End) hotel' the other New York terrorists by remote control, are again out for his blood, "GOOD."
The trouble is, they say in effect, "LOVELY FOOD. MEAT TWICE that by leaving the Palestine situa A DAY."
tion for UNO to settle he is knuck- "GOOD."
iing under to Britain. "AND HER FEET MUCH BET- Sald the New TER."
York Post: "Mr President we once fought a war to "OH, GOOD,"
win our independence from Britain. 'Shall it be sold by future historians that Harry S. Truman micceeded in reforming the
U.S. as a British Crown Colony"
In Wales and Ireland they showed BOURNEMOUTH." you the same hospitality, the same kindness, the same genuine desire to
make the stronger feel at home with this difference: they showed
It with charm. They are the only people in these islands capable of turaing on charm at will, or of giving you the impression that you have raade an Impression, however dull and stupid you may be.
哦
Since 1930 British manners have
THE
Appearance
average English face is long and narrow like a fiddle.
8
New
And it is young
(40) Senator TEXAS, a State delighting in super- Henry Cabot Lodge who, is doing
tatives, has long envied exactly the opposite now.
York its Empire State Bullding, the For he has grabbed the most world's highest (1,2481t.). Now Hous- important back scenes job of the ton, In Texas, has announced plans to acquire a new group of supcrla- Republican, 'or · Tory, Party.
tives. At a cost of £6,000,000 the city will erect a bullding 1,300ft high, with 140 storeys. It will house the world's largest department store,
7.10 & 9.45 p.m. I changed a lot. None of the above to have appeared soon after the AFOR the Negro vote, President man will have to follow,
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As chairman of lis Resolutions Committee he is not worrying about whom they pick to run for President, His task is to pick the policy that theatre, and hotel. The English fiddle face is supposed
Truman, ibe self-announced Ha is quietly forming that policy millers took all the
about to op- As nations can always be
nourishment champion of the Negroes, made an before the Isolationists have a chance. WITII CONGRESS com- out of our bread to make it white, Impromptu speech in California that to bite at it.
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