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Sitting on Fence
T was a year ago almost
to the day that
your
Uncle Nat left the Nest
in Surrey for the Sen Nest in Kent.
Last week, the Surrey Nest, better known fis Tottering Towers, was revisited.
So, of course, was the local, the duck pond, the village green, and the golf club, once a Home Guard headquarters where your Uncle and Home Guard chum, Bally Budgen, used to anore on tho floor until awakened by the corporal of the for another two guard
hours'
stamping and cursing under the
trees.
Toltering Towers was not entered,
observed from but it was
the outside, and your Uncle wondered
Iron Curtain
goes up -on Romeo
From RICHARD MCMILLAN
BERLIN, July 15-While the Rusalana smart of Britain and tighton the "hate" blockade, at the Soviet- controlled Slate Opera in Russian Berlin last night it was Shake- spearean love” drama-Romeo and Jullet.
by NATHANIEL
GUBBINS
new
if it was happier with its occupant, evidently home-lover that
A
and keen gardener. And a keen could judge by father, too, if one the pram on the porch and the pai- tering of Hittle fect on the stairs.
★
Tottering Towers can no longer be described as such. It appears to totter no more. Iis red roof has been mended, its walls white washed, and its garden gate and doors are bright with blue paint.
In fact the red, white, and blue colour
patriotic scheme looks so that a stranger might think it was occupied by John Bull himself,
buttons,
the
Yet somehow your Uncle feels of these things will nonc happen again.
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Gibraltar'sdit Nightly Keys Ceremony
By H. BURGE
NE of the most famous functions of an army band stationed in Gibraltar is to take part in the "Ceremony of the Keys." This is not unlike the Keys Ceremony at the Tower of London, though it'origin is different.
It was in 1704, that forces under the command of Sir George Booke made a surprise attack on the Rock, and captured it. In this same year, and again in 1727, Spanish forces attempted to retake it, but were unsuc cessful. During the latter part of the century, in 1770, the Spanish made a more determined effort to oust the British forces, and inid alege to Gibraltar until 1783- four years that, according to records in the Gibraltar Museum, must have been most Interesting, though un- comfortable ones! This period is known as the Gren Slege, and when it was finally ended, the Governor of the time, General Sir George Ellott, took steps to make the Fortress impregnabla..
To lessen the risk of the Rock being captured by a sudden coup-de-main, the Governor decided that the three main gates of the Fortress would be locked each evening at sunset, and would remain locked until the following morning. Half an hour, before sunsc the Rock Gun was fired, to warn all aliens and non- residents" of the imminent closing of the gates.
A Key Sergeant" was appointed, who was respon- sible for collecting the keys of the three gates from the Governor, and who, escorted by an armed guard and the drums of one of the regiments stationed on the Rock, locked the gates, and personally returned the keys to the Governor, for safe keeping during the night. -
But now all the ducks have gone, presumably into the stomachs of local inhabitants, or, long ago, into the black market.
Local
LOCAL pub was first called a A
"local" in print here, though it had long been a term used by the general public.
and
Бате
The local referred to was the White Hart in Chipstead, Surrey.
After more than 40 years it is still kept scrupulously clean
by the highly respectable landlord, Mr. Frank Adams, a one He feels that the new occupant armed ex-sailor, born in Devon will see that the windows are wind-
It was hero that somebody like proof; that his wife would always the Man in a
first Pub was have the marmalade pots covered, encountered with his, "No, I'm
The Governor of that time "at- tached so much importance to the closing of the Fortress that he always wore the keys on his sword belt." (As each key is about nine inches long, one must applaud this action as being most commendable- devotion to duty)..
BAND PARADE
The
The present ceremony is carried out each Wednesday, the various units stationed on the Rock provid- Ing the Escort to the Keys, and the
Outpost Platoon, in rotation. Key Sergennt, (now known as the the Escort to the Fort Sergeant), Keys, and the Band parade Alameda Gardens, which is distance from Casemates Squar where the largest part of the cere mony is performed.
nt
some
In marching from the Gardens to the paraue ground, the party follows
same route ins roughly the
that taken by the Key Sergeant In earlier days from the Bagged Staff Gate to the Waterport Gale, which is just off Casemates Square and very near- to the third gale, the Landport, de- molished in 1927,
and
ground his
when not in use; that sparrows a liar. It was on a Wednesday,marches to its position in the centre
would be evicted from the raka gutters at once, and that the four- engined bomber moths would be turned back from their objectives by an anti-aircraft barrage of insecticide.
Tottering Towers tollers no more. The Nest is under control,
Duck pond
siting down to Sunday dinner in his, I was in the road leading from blue cont with
the duck pond to the church dandling his children on his white that your Unele imagined Mrs:-Eliza knee breeches, or mowing his lawn Min, the voluptuous charwoman, in his Union Jack waistcoat.
met Mr. Bumbling, the sex-hungry village handyman, every Friday night at six o'clock sharp.
When your Uncle Nat was there the tennis lawn was used for almost In happler anything but tennis,
She would be wearing a new bow days it was used for garden parties, in her bonnet (chars wore bonnets and during the war as a miniaturo at one time), and behind her ears rifle range.
there would be a touch of a new perfume called "Meet Me Tonight
I was one of the audience. It was a Bovlet ballet based on the famous love tragedy ballet which has been all the rage in Moscow and has been brought here to keep the minds of both the Russians and the
During the summer It was usually Germans in their sector distructed covered by the half-naked bodies from the more worrying business of relatives burning in the sun, and going on between Moscow, London, in the winter with deck chairs, Washington and Paris.
garden seats, and books left to rot in the rain.
So while the world awalled the publication of Stalin's reply to the West, about 2,000 people sat in the State Opera gripped with rapture at the spectacle of Shakespeare set to colour and brought to life by the most gifted of Russian ballet dancers, including the famed afterina, Nolascha Trofimewa, a vision of grace and benuty.
The 'Angel of Borlin' Juliet was so light, so lovely, and so alluring that it was evident how she has become known as tite "Angel of Soviet Bertin."
There was not a boiled shirt in the whole audience, who led every. scat in the brilliantly-lit theatre,
There were russet checked, peasant-looking Russlans with their wives, Soviet mothers with
plump daughtera, pretty blonda German girls, German fathers and mothers, and Berlin working folk; for
tho State Opera is a magnet to
every Berliner.
one
Now it is smooth and so neally
that cut wouldn't dare to grow there.
feels a dandelion
At the back of the Nest the jungle has been cleared and young veg- ctables are sprouting.
In the front the broken steps leading from the garden gale to the front door, down which your Uncle often sprawled in the dark, have been mended and made safe,
Hedges are clipped, grass verges mown, fruit trees are all in blossom.
་་
Maybe some things will remain the same: The same winds will whistle through the windows unless they have been renewed or repaired.
Descendants of the same wasps
drown gloriously in glasses of beer..
in Dreamland.”
...
The Outpost Platoon is
nlready formed
I up on the parado when the Port Sergeant and party arrive, with the Provost Mar- shal, and the Commanding Officer
Adjutant of whichever Unit is. providing the Outpost Platoon, In their respective positions. The Band
of the parade ground, opposite the saluting base, while the Port Ser- ugeant with his Escort proceeds along his to the left flank of the Dalpost Platoon, and halts. The whole parado la now stood at ease by the Adjutant, to await the arrival Its Excellency the Governor with the keys.
not a Thursday,"
It was here that the fiction the interminable tales of daughters Vi and Marge, of their unsuccessful love affairs and their strange appetites, "Vi, who can't eat eggs, and Marge, who can't eat flsh," was invented.
Vi, it may be remembered, would "go off into a faint like a dead thing" at the sight of an CHA. and one mouthful of fish would produce revolving knives in Margo's stomach.
Well, the man rather like the Man in a Pub has gone, but the pub and Mr. Frank. Adams remain, looking much the same as they did in the 1920's.
ROYAL SALUTE
of
On the arrival of the Governor a Royal Salute is given, after which The Adjutant reports on
parade.
The Port Sergeant then marches across-to-tho-saluting- -receives
and
the keys from the Governor, matches back to his position in front of the Escort. The whole parade is then stood at case by the Adjutant.
At this point the Band again takes. a more active part in the proceed- ings. In slow me, and playing the Slow March of whichever unit is on Parade, it marches across the parade ground. At the far end it counter-
The same pictures of admirals and lesser sailors are on the walls, and the same black beret sits at the same Jaunty angle on Mr. Adams's head.
marches, proceeds past the soluting To your Uncle Nat this beret was base to the other end of the square, the symbol of the deflance of again countermarches, and breaks Goaded Into reckless extravaganer Chipstead to Hitler during the war. into a quick march. The above pro- by the maddening smell, Mr. Flaming Messerschmitts might drop cedure is then repeated, in quick Bumbling would then escort Mrs.
all round the pub, bombs drop near time, and on reaching its original Mifin to the local, where he would it and flying bombs buzz over it and position it is halted, and turned left buy her bottle after bottle of cut out their engines. nourishing stout till the gay
to face the saluting base, r
The Adjutant
the Whatever happened, Frank: Adams
now!calis hospitablo daily help invited him
went on serving his customers, his parade to attention, gives the com- to her little house for a supper of
mand "Slope Arms," and the brass beret rakishly over one car, nover cold bolled belly of pork and bubble closing his doors for one licensed This is immediately followed by
section of the Band plays a fanfare.. and squeak.
hour, and never even bothering to Retreat, played by the cornets. All go outside to see what was going on. the movements, of the parade
If Hiller's Idea was intimidation, so timed that Retreat is sounded at he was wasting his time so far as six o'clock, and on the first noto
the Rock Gun is lired, and all flags. Frank Adams was concerned.
and
But there the tortured handyman always found his rival, the postman (preferred by Mrs. Min because he "was "larky and sporty") waiting with more nourishing stout ready for a dance or à romp.
LAST NOTE
Except for shortages, business was are lowered. and
as usual and time was Ume. You were outside the doors on the last stroke of ten rald on or no rald on. After which Mr. Adams would lock up, wash his glasses with his one hand, and "go' up to` bed. Ho didn't believe in shelters,
And, puretually at midnight, Mra, Miffin's back hair would come down. Soon afterwards the jolly postman would go home to his wife and 12 children and Mr. Bumbling to his lonely lodgings.
Of course, no such people existed, but the duck pond did and still does.
At one time it was a pleasure to watch the ducks and their tiny Sparrows may suit rear familles families sailing in convoy, father in In the rain gutters, and
moths, front and mother covering the rear; liko four-engined- bombers,
or wheeling and manoeuvring ns still zoom through the bedrooma
on one
like battleships and their summer nights."
escorting, destroyers."
It was the simplest thing in the world to get my sent. I went to a may All the marmalade pots and Berlin theatre agency in the British arca. They telephoned tho State Opera, and my reservation was made. I took a British official car as far as the British-Soviet boundary, left the car on our side (for the driver was forbidden to cross), and walked,
NANCY
Time-Savers
EVERYONE USES OUR LAWN FOR A |SHORT=CUT
EVEN THE DOOS AND CATS USE OUR PLACE FOR A SHORT-CUT
aro
tho
As the last note of Retreat dies away the officer in charge of the Outpost, Pintoon turns, them to the right, and they march past
tune of Weir saluting base to the Regimental March. followed at a distance by the Fort Sergeant and the Escort. The Platoon marches right off the square, through the
Escort- And while your Uncle was there Waterport Gate, but as the
It on his nostalgic visit who should to the Keys approaches the gate walk in but a smallish, dark man is challenged by the sentry, who or with merry unrk eyes, his happy ders it to halt. The Escort is halted, face black with soot; and who
whereupon the sentry calls, "Who thero?" and receives, the roared with laughter at the sight oes of your Uncle, called for a pint and cried the sentry, and on
The Keys." "Whose Keys?" recelving shouted, "Cor stone the crowe"?
the answer from the Port Sergeant, It was the same old pub, with the "King George's Koys,” calls out, same old landlord and the same old | "Pass, King's Keys; all is well.” Sweep in it.
By Ernie Bushmiller
BALD SPOTS!
answer.
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