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PROPHECIES FOR 1949 The Department of Dominions Relations solves the problem of How To fix Eire both in and out of the Commonwealth.
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INSTALMENT 20:
EISENHOWER WAS MY BOSS
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By KAY SUMMERSBY
the week leading up to the surrender, neither I nor anyone else at Supreme Head- quarters had time for conjectures about the future. The war might end at any minute of any hour; perhaps with the next telephone call to our office. We were proportionately busy.
Like everyone else around the world, I spent overy free moment planning V-E Day celebra- tions. The girls and I set up a big reception, to ba held at our WAC house. We named May G as the date; that seemed safe enough. And I suggested another kind of party to General Elsenhower.
The latter started from a casual conversa- tion in the officers' mess. I heard one of the lieutenants across from me remark; "Seems sort of funny that I'll finish out the war without sce- ing the Supremo Commander."
I looked up. "Don't you work here at SHAEF?
WITH THE YEAR'S PUBLICITY SCOOP, A 54-YEAR-OLD JOINS 'THE OLD MEN OF SUCCESS'
HO looks forward with
a gleam in the eye to the onslaught of 19497 Why,
the old men and the the in- very young-with betweens mostly cowering like dogs expecting a kick.
never
It seems a time when every- one is too young at 50. The been greybeards have ispryer, surer, more optimistic, richer in that essential for the non-neurotic life-an abounding faith and hope in the future.
If you had to compile a personal Honours List to match this year's official one, you would find it hard to pick half a dozen men in the thirties to challenge the Old Guard.
There is SOMEREST MAUG- HAM, for example, bobbing to happily from first-night supper party, vowing he will never write another book and then quictly putting into the bookshops yet another best- seller. His latest comment on his juniors: "They never seem to know what they are saying. They just talk to keep the conversation alive."
An overnight vision of half a
continent raising millions of cattle. THERE
なめ
and all done with a magie formula- begins to recede. The new drug takes its place
important advance. but one among others in a slow battle where total victory Is not yet within our grasp.
Around
the CX laboratories there are some sour faces among that the the selentists who realise worst service you can do to 1 discovery is to averrate it.
But
was something Ball SYDNEY WOODERSON fired a new at Earl's Court-a Sportsman's gun and the spotlight picked out MACDONALD BAILEY running round the hall in the shorts he wore at the Olymple Games. After that the scene changed to a conglomera- tion of footballers, ise-hockey players and, curiously. someone giving a demonstration of the breast stroke.
for Mr Rogerson antry- THOUGH cide is indeed the wonder-formula; with it he has shown the young publicists how to do their job.
to the old dogs
A toast, then, who refuse to sit by the firo and azily thump their tails; but instead. go out a-hunting and come back with the bones!
the CHEL BEA ARTS BALL Committee a quite fussy about the clothes its guests wear (according to the ticket
pure are definitely not allowed), the Albert Hall gathering tends to get
The most-seen-about-town tonst- master HAKOLD DEAN left his red coat at home and went, as a dinner- dancing guest, to The Bull at East Sheen.
AN
odd-Job waiter who buttles at race meetings got a job with the PRINCESS
ROYAL's house party at Newmarket this year. Like all the other walters, he got a Chrisimas card from her.
His wife opened it, took
one look at the signature, and said: "John, you've got some
explain- ing to do. Just who is this Mary7"
"Ever since London," he replied.
"I was down in Algiers with AFHQ, too."
"And you mean to tell me you've never seen. General Elsenhower?"
He looked at my nide Insignia, then calmarcastically: "Well, we- can't all be aides, you know,"
Back in the office. I told the General of my falk in the mess,
"There must be dozens of officers right here in headquarters who've never seen you, let alone niet you,"* I added. "How about having some sort of open house, or a' cocktail party, before SHAEF breaks up?"
Tense Waiting
HE sow the reasoning behind my iden and, foregoing his normal reaction to social events, decided to party, Colonels and stage such a general officers would be excluded, ns he had met most of them. Guests would rango from Ileutenant-colonel down to warrant officer, the who'd never had an opportunity to meet their Commanding General, or
vice versa.
men
"That's a very good idea, Kay," he said. "We'll certainly do if right after the oficial surrender." OUR political prophets should
On May 4, Monly mot "the Ger- Lubeck. Meanwhile, at take their crystal balls along to the SHAEF, General Eisenhower learned Admiral Doanitz apparently Oxford University Player's produc- that tion of the 1st Quarta (1603) Intended to make an overall surren-
mans
Birthday greetings, too, to E. ar. had some difficulty keeping in place "Hamlet" in Baker-street's Rudolf de alternoon we waited tensely
FORSTER, by consent even of most of his fellow writers our finest novelist. He is 70. Long esteemed by few-the precious few-in 1025 he surprised himself by joining the best-seller brigade with "A Passage to India." But since then-too often silence.
POSTSCRIPT to the above. Even motor-cars seem to snub the years. More and more people who normally are in the luxury class on the road are refusing to pay the grotesque double purchase-tax on models costing more than £1,000.
QUEEN MARY still uses д Daimler belonging to King George NOVELLO- Rolls
V.; and IVOR owner has had the car repainleti.
Among the philosophers there is BERTRAND RUSSELL, at 76 tumbling out of an aeroplane, and letting fly with comments The old maroon colour, Inmiliar to on the world which the younger thousands of theatre-goers. has been public men no longer dare to changed to black. voice.
Try to find in business u man with the drive of LORD McGOWAN (74),
name
And down at Westminster, of course, only one man's comes to mind to be bracketed with the word "vitality."
Where is there an actress not a glamour-girl who merely decorates EL stage, but an actress who acts to match EDITH EVANS
SYBIL THORNDIKE (or for that matter an actress who isn't envious of DOROTHY WARD- a Principal Boy at 58)?
or
And now it again one of the old hands who has pulled off the publicity scoop of the year, ROGER- SON is the name. Sydney Rogerson, Director of Public Relations for Imperial Chemical Industries.
In his
55th year Rogerson appearently has persuaded Jour- fifths of the national newspapers. that his firm had developed a new drug which within a few years would rid Africa of the tratse menaco and almost put the Argentine put of business as a meat producer.
There
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must be magle in Roger son's technique. For rarely have so many newspapers accepted uncritically claims on such a scale from a commercial firm on such slender evidence, too.
Now, of course, after all the hullabaloo comes the sober reckon- ing.
NANCY
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IT
was not merely the supply of whisky which ran out on London's
New Year's Eve. London's supply of genuine Scots pipers, was also. Inadequate,
Pirbright
Barracks in
SUITCY,
the H.Q. of the 1st Battalion Scots
u little
out of hand. VALERIE HODSON, leading the first-line of British film stars on a night out,
the peach-and silver sart to her pseudo-Indian outfit.
There were, however, one or two the normal West End scene.
noted absentees from
Pine-Major ROE did the honoura in the Channel Isles instead of the more expected places.
Steiner
Hall.
Reason:
Peter Parker
in
Hamict is played by for Monty's call. Air Chief Marshal General in his (Chairman of the Tedder joined the
Butch, up from Paris. Labour Club). He stabs tiny office; rambiur
(I'olonius Cor
thor felned me in my office. We waited versions), who is John May, editor and waited. of the magazine, Oxford Tory. The only 'Liberal in the east is Derek Holroyde. Ie the chief grave- digger.
15
C.V.R. Thompson Reports
The American Scene
NEW YORK. IN SKITTISH MOOD New York's weather bureau, promising good driving weather for New Year's Eve, sald: Everything will be all right as long as the alcohol is in the ca radiators, and not the drivers."
A MAN who gave America a new trade and the world a new phrase died allmost un noticed in an obscure Florida fishing village.
tho
His name was William McCoy, his age was 71. and his home to last was the beloved schooner which at one time hall the U.S. Navy was trying to capture.
For McCoy was the Brst American
the lo. practise
profitable American trade of bootlegging. A
once
Guards the official source-sent out eight of their thirteen (the others night-spots-and then shut up shop.month or so after Prohibition cams were on leave) to the West End
AROUND the hotets
GROSVENOR HOUSE ushering-in with
in he bought his schooner, with o
capacity for 10,000 cases of liquor,
and went off to Bahamian waters to
did the pick up his illegal cargo. a clown repre- Thus he became the founder
Row."
OF
senting 1918 and a girl dancer as-what-later-become-famous-an-Run the New Year.
time-honoured (there
Miami then
all
famous over
The SAVOY employed both The McCoy prided himself on selling were pipers nothing but genuine "uncut" Scotch and drummers in all three of their whisky. His boat becane
first in hotel
the original. group-and Soon after midnight diners in their America.
room trooped Customers would always ask for restaurant and grill
"the real McCoy," an apt pliruse around the corridors to the Fair in the River Room, GERTRUDE LAW. which has now become a cliche. RENCE shied the first ball at the
But just as he died McCoy's boast ARTHUR that he started that phrase coconuts-unsuccessfully. ASKEY asked to be allowed to challenged. A once famous star in stand at the half-way line because the Wild West shows, Colonel Tim McCoy, claimed he was the real of his size.
Real McCoy, He said he was bill- ed that way after so many linitators stole his act,
Only the sophistlented Nightin- gale had to lie un to its name and sing In Berkeley-square. Vocalist was HUTCHI, who brought extra bandkerchief. to along an cope with the occasion,
Amit the
mad rush, the mad- dest was made by pantomime dome FRANKLYN, BENNETT. He had to change from tils Palladium finalo multi-tiered crinoline to the less- complicated nichtshirt in which he does his "point number in the EMBASSY floor show:
Strictly for the Birds
AT 2.30, 5.20,
7,30 & 9.30 P.M.
I WISH THESE BIRDS WERENT SO FOND OF ME
Affairs of an Amoraus Bobby-Soxer,
A Glamorous Lady Judge, A Bewildered Bachelor! "ROMANTIC BEACKMAIL, FA
kini #wthof pays off in lacons FA CARY GRANT •MYRNA LOY-SHIRLET TEMPLE The Bachelor i Bobby Soxer
RUDY VALLSE- RAY COLLINS - HARRY ZUTENPORT - JURIMET '
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NOTHER ATTEMPT is to be made to make Americans drink more tea. The latest approach is campaign to persunde restaurants to give up
of "improper methods" making tea by putting a calico bag of tea in a culd pot and pouring warm water on it.
The phone rang about 7 pm. I answered it. It was Monty.
Butch and I cavesdropped shame- lessly through the open door. The ceremony had gone through, but it was not the all-fronts surrender,
There wasn't much work being done in our red schoolhouse when I. arrived the next morning. Most of us sat around talking about the sur- render ceremony, which was to take place in the War Room.
The Nazis arrived shortly after 5. p.m.
met by two British officers.
escorted SHAEF, and
to a washroom.
frem
Finally, Beetle come in. The surrender, he said, would be. postponed until at least the follow- ing day.
Nelthar Admiral you Friedeburg nor the German War Ones colonel with him was authorised to make a surrender.
No reply could be expected, Bectio added, until tomorrow.
Nazis Arrive
THE following day, May 6, We
earned
Doonitz was sending General Gustav Jodi, German Chief' of Staff, to Rheims with the neces- Its sary
authority for a surrender. Freddie de Guingand was escorting Jodl and his olde.
PRO-ZIONIST though it is, the New York Star begged Zionist readers to give up boycotting British goods. Said the Star: The have people of the United States no desire to harm the people of the United Kingdom for what are ad- mittedly grave errors made by use British Foreign Ofee. On the con- peace-loving of that country must trary, the intelligent,
they can play INOTG Influential role in shaping their country's foreign policy."
peopened so
be
FATHER DIVINE, the Negro who
claims he is God, will soon be driving around Harlem in a new ear with an electric sign flashing the word "Penee" on each door.
of
SU
zent
A survey CHOW BUSINESS:
American cinemas shows that sex and crime films have been
of being overdone that Instead "euro-fire" they are now "box office
Опа пещерарет polson." its opera and theatre critics to the sultant, and G. E Cleaver, from the
Benjamin Board of Trade, with a whole Broadway opening of
Lucretia Britten's "The Rape of ultra-modern non-utility caso of
moro "No furniture, British
orders, Result: The first said it was American
second a play than an opera; the picnse,
they ask the
that it was mora an opera thân, a trade. They are just in America to see if better-paid Americans would play.....New Year's Eve bookings pay out dollars, and plenty of them, in Broadway's night clubs were for their goods.
down nearly 50 percent.
I'LL GET MY DOG-- HE'LL · KEEP THEM
AWAY
By Ernie Bushmiller
They arrived in Jale afternoon. Jodi and his aide joined Admiral von Friedeburg and the German War Oflee colonel; they conferrça. alone' for quite a while, then, about I p.m., entered Beetle's office for the
conference.
The Anal hitch came when the- Germans, playing for time to with- draw units from the Russian front.. asked for an adjournment of 48 hours before signing the final sur- render: this time was necessary, they contended, to permit communi cation with their outlying forces.. General Elsenhower replied firmly—- unless the Germans agreed to his? terms Immediately, he would break off all negotiations and seal his lines so no more Germans could get through.
By this time It was about nine o'clock. Our party was well under- way at the, WAC house-so we all reception. Ac- adjourned to the tually, the party wasn't very nhan- doned or gay, for no one was able. to ignore the event about to take- place In the schoolhouse.
The Rheims champagne disappeared, sur- prisingly slowly, although one of the- Russian officers, attempilng to drink. (Continued on Page 5):
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