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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
WEDNESDAY, JULY 14, 1948.
GILES takes his family to the ball game
**If things like this keep happening to Vera I'm afr
-ing to develop a dreadful un-American complex.”
Every Wednesday in the Telegraph:
Sitting on the
Being 80me further advice offered to foreign tourists after they have read the booklet issued by The Travel Association telling them what to expect and what to do when in Britain.
☆
✩
The weather
Fence
by NATHANIEL
GUBBINS
wrong
The people in front of the queue, HIS has been the stock of course, don't want the bus that
joke of the English for has stopped. It was the as long as most people number. The 'one with their num- can remember, and was the ber on it went by long ago at full main topic of conversation until speed. there was a food shortage.
It is still the only safe approach If you are brave enough to start a conversation with a stranger.
If you make a more intimate or personal approach the conversation (if you can call it such) will end exactly where it began.
The Travel Association suys the weather in England is much better than most people think, and quotes sunshine Agures to prove it.
As a matter of fact the weather In England is controlled by a fiend who takes an unnatural pleasure in ruining girls' hats, frocks and hair-dos and giving under-dressed men pneumonia and over-dressed men prickly heat.
This fend will turn on the sun- shine in the morning, lure you out In your summer clothes, wait until you are too far away from the hotel to run back and change, and then fill up all the cabs and buses with people and pour buckets of rainwater over you. In an extra bad mood it will throw 'sleet and snow at you as well.
*
and sensible underclothes
F
Meanwhile, you want to board the run You bus that has stopped.
past
the forward in the gutter queue, but when you reach the rear end of the bus the conductor bare your entrance with his arm, rings the bell, and the bus roars off with out you.
they still shrink from conversa- tion with strangers, not because they are discourteous or unfriendly, but because they are terrified of bélag bored.
Israeli Is Badly Off Financially
By K. C. THALER
United Press Staff Correspondent TAR operations have cost the young Jewish republic U.S.$20,000 per hour, according to Israelf sources.
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War and defence expenditure at present consumo some two-thirds of the total budget, the sources added. They declined, however, to give an overall figure of expenses to dato.
Financial and economic foundations have beon seriously shaken. Economic plans. for the future of Israel will have to be reshaped on the basin of long-term planning and on the assump- tion of substantial United States financial assis tance, the sources suggested.
Tentative estimates put the requirements for the next few years at well over $1,000,000,000, of which at least half, is expected to come from abroad by way of credits, loans and investments.
| ARGE-SCALE industrial development will mark the Immediate future once the political Issue has been resolved, For some time to come imports will con- siderably exceed exports, Jewish sources added.
The settling of additional Immigrants and their integration into Israeli economy will absorb several hundred million dollars, each immi- grant accounting for the need copital Investment of between
sharply at each other, malm you with their luggage and golf bare, glare at you if you occupy a corner reat, but otherwise Ignore you. If you start a conversation with them they will stare at you till you stop, blushing and confused.
Dabout
Tipping
ON'T bellove all that nonsense the British being too proud to take tips, They'll take anything. If you get as for as Scotland they'll probably take the pants off you, too."
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U.S.$2,000 and $2,500.
Palestine income under the British Government was budgeted as littlo under U.S.$100,000,000, coming most- ly from the Israeli part out of taxes and customs.
Estimates are that Israeli will be able to also some $250,000,000 out of savings and other Internal sources to cover war expenses and a similar amount from' private Jewish sources abroad for Investment purposes.
cover
Brea.
Vital Importa aro now being financed partly out of so-called United States gift dollars to purchases from the dollar Imports from the sterling area are to be paid for with sterling accruing from current Israell exports, Pales- tino's sterling balances of some $100,000,000 were blocked by Britain lost February...
DELEASES for individual transat- I tions are conditional on proof to the British authorities that the funds are required "for a proper "purpose" and that payment cannot be out of current sterling earnings. Official sources said exports are con- tinuing though they are impeded by hostilities and lack of transportation.
met
You will find that you are not only supposed to tip taxi-drivers, but also the mon who gets you the taxi. You may also have to tip somebody who opens the door of the taxi when you get out.
Late at night you won't get n Development plans crivisage ex- metal doorman, pansion of food, textile and So, as a foreigner, you will be
were And that whichever laxi unless you tip the amazed to
established or enlarged during the signals with the taxi-drivers, drawer an Englishman comes out of ecause he has come arrangement by industries, many of which
war. There also may be tho. re- he won't speak to you if he can
opening of the diamond cutting in- dustry, which has been closing down possibly avoid it.
as a result of political troubles. In do 1948 the Industry exported cut Barmen expect Upa, and so barmaids now that women have be- diamonds mostly to the United States
You also up to the value of $22.
$22,000,000. come emancipated.
economic and Dependence on close notices saying arc
with where there
trade relations
neighbouring "Tipping strictly prohibited."
is not denied. hotels arc concerned, Arab countries So far as you tip the staff every time you see sources admitted that the economic
ne of them.
Even some of the life of Israeli will be largely in- one
a tip if it's big fluenced by those relations. It co- will take guests. enough.
operation with Arab states is not After the Kaiser's war it was sold attained, Jewish Industry would be of the French that the President of limited to a narrow home market, powerful If he came out of the top drawer, France expected a tip, like every-while overseas exports would face
heavy competition from he will usually be accompanied by body else.
We're not as bad as that yet. We competitors in the advanced indus-
trial countries. a bodyguard of others also out of the top drawer. They will bark haven't got a President, anyway.
If he came out of the bottom According to the strict code of drawer he will be deeply suspicious with your foreign the queues, you must resume your of any conversational approach, and plate in the rear, sometimes behind If you persist
have accent he will think you are a spy. a lot of other people who
middle out of the If he came
will whole Joined up, and walch the
you will drawer
any remark from thing happen over and over again.
cause him .extreme embarrassment. which he will reveal by In his scat, staring desperately out of the window like a caged animal, or hiding his face behind a news- paper.
The bus wanted by the people in bus front never stops, and the wanted by, the people in the rear never waits for them. •
You might say it is like a night-
nightmare. mare, but then It is
The people waiting for a bus, in- cluding you, are all sleep-walkers. Many have been there for weeks.
The best thing you can do is wake up and walk.
Or you might travel by tube (local pronunciation choob).
The
C.V.R. THOMPSON reports the U.S. scene
NEW YORK..
Rule 10: No senator may impule cording companies have been getting Bingers with expert mouth-organ FRS FRANCES SWADESH to other senators motives, unworthy around the ban by providing their Mis a New York housewife
of senators.
accompaniments.
who does not belleve in scription.
con-
The London choobs are supposed to be the finest in the world-and so they are if you need exercise.
The Senate's President lold a dis- mayed Taylor to sit down. Quickly By the time you have descended
the Senate voted the Conscription The next day the fend will in a lift or escalator, Walked a
law. Embarrassed Mrs begin the morning with snow and quarter of a mile to the trains and
So although she is nursing her Bill into an east wind, and when you are arrived at the wrong platform.
chicken- Swadesh back in New York said: "I out for the day in winter woollies walked back and arrived at the two children, down with
will' right platform, "fought your way into pox, she sent off an anti-conscrip- did not intend to do that. I am
in Washington. start a heat wave and smash all the train, changed at Oxford Circus, lon telegram to Senator Gien Taylor very, very sorry."
and walked another quarter of a mile to another. train, walked to
Only a few hours before It is one of the reasons why the the lift or escalator to come up for Congress adjournment, the Senate started up again in the mountains English, who Invented
many air, you might as well have walked still had to vote on a Bill to con of Colorado, but with jeeps instead things, from boxing to railway the whole distance by road.
script 225,000 men between 10 and of mules, and compressors instead of picks. This time the prospectors 23.
are looking for carnotite, yellowish are the old-timers threw away. It contains uranium.
sunshine records for 50 years.
engines, riso invented colonies.
Transport
nudist
cab in
the train
:
Hoarse
TOMES: American clubwomen
were scandalised to hear this at their national convention from Cornelia Otis Skinner, authoress and actress: "American clubwomen are just frustrated in their love lives. Let's not kid ourselves, girls. It won't
men."
the FRONT PAGE: A gold rush has much fun trying to get along without
to
HOW: Tho National Theatre in Washington will become a cinema In
Senators can speak on Bills
as
rather than submit to a Broadway actors' ultimatum to admit Negroes long as their voices last and they
Johnny Green, Britain's Frank to COCIALLY the English come out of observo the Senate's rules of order
Sinatra, will change his name three drawers-top drawer, and no one can tell them to shut
because there is an PINION: Columnist George Barry Green
Dinah IF you want to stop a
Sokolsky dramatises a fact that American Johnny Green... London you can either throw middle drawer, and bottom drawer. up. So Senator Taylor had decided
When travelling on British rail-to talk the Conscription Bill yourself in front of one, like on ways it is
gets too little publicity-that not all Shore to go to London in mid- as well to remember death.
subscribe to the August, Danny Kaye in November. Indian in front of a juggernaut, or this,
American Jewe aro the trains because, as yell in what you believe to be an
and red-eyed, he had present Hate
Britain movement, and and in the summer, overcrowded American accent.
ticket inspectors can't set through spoken for 13 hours and 13 minutes Sokolsky, an American Jew, says CAMUEL GOLDWYN made
Swadesh's message of Britain is doing more than could be
shortest and most cloquent If you happen to be an American the corridors to inspect tickets, you when Mrs
expected to take in D.P.s from you just yell.
are likely to meet them all. In one encouragement reached him,
Europe, and he praises the British speech the film folk had ever heard As most of the cabs will be full carriage whether you travel ist or Hard-up for speech-making
Europe's needy. Pointing to of Americans anyway (who have third class.
material, he started to read her tele system of absorbing them instead of at a banquet to raise funds for "Citizens can congratulate letting them become minorities, as lavish portions on the table, he said: hired them for the day), the next In fact, it is more sensible to buy gram:
In America. honest
"Gentlemen. People in Europe are thing to do is to join a bus queue. a third-class ticket, because most of themselves on having one
starving," and sat down. If a bus happens to stop at a the first-class seats will be occupied senator who respects his duty to bus stop, which is rather unusual, by third class passengers. you will and that the peoplo in Although the travelling English
"Mr President," Interrupted
M MUSIC: The
mouth organ henceforth officially recognised
ja
the
*tho
front of the queue will refuse to have become a lttle more loquaciouSenator Owen Brewster, who knows as a musical instrument in the U.S. SPEAKERS, lecturing a
get on it.
As a foreigner you will think they are crazy. And 30 they Bre. Everybody in the country is-crazy, · You ain't seen nothing yet.
NANCY
Fish Story
since the war-
THOSE BIG FISH ARE MEAN---ALWAYS; CHASING
THAT LITTLE
ONS
"Mind the window up?? “Not a bit.”
"Thanks, Lovely day." MYCE
group of travelling salcamen new diguity to the going abroad, warned them in New the Senate's rules by heart, "ask It owes its
their seat Musicians Union, which has banned York today not to dwell in that Senator Taylor take his
foreigners on all the under Rule 10 because of language all musiclans, except singers, from sales talks to
Re-wealth America possosISES. making gramophone records. unworthy of a senator."
-FANI
BUSHMILLER,
By Ernie Bushmiller
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