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UNKNOWNSLAND
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15, 1949.
"Wouldn't surprise me if this was a put-up job-you all gotting flu the same wook as motor transport goes on strike,"
Sitting on
Fence....by
Sweep, "ow do
you think things
are gittin along now?
"Not so dusly," I said,
·
"I see the Paris conference
started off nice and friendly."
"That's right.”
"Accordin to the papers. littig
old Vyshinsky was laughin, and
alec."
NATHANIEL GUBBINS
everybody looked appy and Travels by J. Swift. If the and to give you a true, word jolly"
Which makes F nice rights are still available can you plcture of a cat's living condi- change."
please let me have a reading tions in our cultured Mother Very
copy and your terms for this "Though I don't reckon it was firm?
Russia.. fair of one of them there little old reporters to say ho come Into the conference lookia liko a crocodile."
"It certainly wasn't,"
"I suppose a man can ave a laugh and a joke without hein called a crocodile."
"I ope so."
"After all, there's plenty of $13 that ain't exactly
painting."
"Plenty."
oil
aspersions on pre-
"With no sent company."
"Thank you." "And if you're going to start, callin people crocodiles when they're only tryin to give you a friendly smile, it ain't goin to elp much."
That's right." "Because we don't know what this ere little old Vrshinsky's loughin-at-you
"We certainly don't." "And if you think them there little old Communists love any body but a Communist, you're kiddin yourself."
true."
Dark, bearded medium built, dome-headed, 385-year-old poet and playwright, W. Shakespear,
Interview yealer
sold in, an day:
•
the
period, 1.703; of malé issue (estimated), 5,800; Eccat-grand- children born of male and female Issue, during the period 1938-43, 8,431.
TO IRAN, THE COLD WAR IS AN OLD STORY
By GEORGE H. PIPAL
HE cold war is nn.old The threat
which" (Lenin'g
T story to Iran, which is government feared disappeared
potentially the richest coun- Soviet Russia is found tho before the decade was out, but try in the Middle East and clause a useful expedient for has a 1,500-mile frontier polley objectives ever since. with Russia.
It was first used in 1941, when Soviet and British troops
Bridgchend to the Persian occupied Iran to use the coun Gulf and Suez Canal, entrance try as an Allied bridge for de- to the Indian Ocean, crossroads
livery of U.S. lend-lenso
of ancient Orient trade routes, supplies to Russla via the Per- fran has faced repeated threnta
alan Gulf. of invasion throughout Its 6,000- year history.
In a world divided into At. lantic and Soviet spheres of in. fluence, Iran today is facing west, but maintaining its indo pendence with stubborn
courage.
In 1840, wecks after a United Nations deadline expired, Soviet troops were persuaded to pull out with a promise of an oll concession. They were con vinced they had left a puppet government in the largest pro- vince, Azerbaijan.
Iran is the only country in
ONE-DAY BATTLE the world which Soviet forces hova .occupled and inter left But Iranian Premier Ahmed without installing
Chavam Es-Sulianeh surprised permanent puppet government. That was the world. His troops reoccupled accomplished by
by Persian
politi-
province after a one- cal skill and the moral pressuro
***** day battle with the pro of the United Nations. But it is
Communist forces. source of more worry than consolation in Teheran.
#
One top Iranian omelot de scribed ita foreign situation follows:
the
Then Ghavum's victually handpicked Majlis (parliament), without a dissenting vole, re- pudiated als promise of an oil as concession to Russia.
When Russia recovered from that "American polley
setback, it resumed the In the offensive by charging that the Middle East is our greatest con- American training mission of 40 officerá was attempting to
cern.
"The
Americans have, rein- transform Irun into a *strategie forced the dam halfway across base threatening the USSR." the river: Greece and Turkey completely unfounded-United
Iran rejected the charges
have been secured by U.S. Press. military aid. This means in- creased pressure on the side of the dar which has not been reinforced-Iran."
INDEPENDENT PATH
Yet, treading its almost inde- pendent path between the two Olga Fluffsky gave D the
spheres, Iran has never made i Fatherland 800 cats, including an official request for American -grandchildren, who destroyed military guarantees. Tho 8,000 mice. Both heroine cats government has hired and pald were decorated with the Order cash for a small U.S. military of Lenin before, they died.
After reading the above, it is hoped that you will discard the false glitter of a
bourgeois economy -offered by the American cat, Manhattan Mou
mission to train its troops and plus material on credit. gendarmerie, and obtained sur- token training, however, has in-
That
creased the nominal threat of
Russian invasion and occupa-
tion.
GARLIC ON THE NOGGIN
##
By JOHN ROSENBURG MEN who are worried about
down
falling hair should cut their before-dinner
on
"A
I see the cat Manhaken Mou- ser, and the degenerate dogs and ser mentions the luxury ash Cannibals, governing a crum-
Iran has long been 'harassed by the hot and cold wars of Martinis, rub a little garlic on cans of New York, where a cat bling Fascist State.
Buccessive Russian governments their noggins and exercise may find sardine tins half full You are offcially invited to After the Bolsheviks game to regularly. of sardines, discarded chops, visit our glorious Mother Russia power, they signed a treaty of
That is part of the advice half-eaten steaks, and
meaty and learn, at first hand, what friendship with Iran, promising proffered by Florence M. Doyle, chicken bones.
true freedom and democracy to end forever the
New York scalp specialist. imperialist are like under the benevolent aggression of the Czars.
"Heavy drinking and dietary In Russia this would be re- and watchful eye of our great. But the treaty of 1921 con- excesses of almost any kind aro
leader, Joseph Stalin, and histained a trick clause.
apt to cause a person to Jose garded as "criminal waste and kindly commissars...
It provided that the Soviet his hair" Miss Doyle said. sabotage by enemies of the
have the diet deficiency, government "thall
on the other people. Those responsible would
right to take its troops into hand, also may be sent to the Siberian mines.
Mogsky, Cat Commissar.
Persian territory in order to take for such a condition,sponsible
military
She said if a person expect- Lottie has air-mailed a copy the interests of self-defence" ed to keep his hair, he must stay of the letter to Manhattan Mau-should a White Russian counter-in-good physical condition.
"This rule is particularly im- portant for men who live seden- tary lives," afio said. "I find that the less active a person is the more inclined he is to bald-
In glorious Mother Russia there is nothing in the ash cans
"O that I, like J. Swift, could have my copyright defended by such sweet gentlemen, as these.
"For, in truth, they are no more ignorant than the little mousy men who peer and pry into the work I have done with my hand and brain and make a mockery of it; who change the lines hammered and shoped to but ash. beauty on the anvil of my mind with sweating brow, or leave them out to make some hideous wound In the pattern of my poetry, who stain.mino-honour. with Innuendos and say, How Mouser refers to "swell"diamės" could he have written this and on Broadway, to your "gwell written that? And this, too, chassis,” and calls you his about the Courts of kings? Was "honey cat" and "sugar puss.") he not a butcher's boy?"
I see that the cat 'Manhattan
In Russia, such terms would
luvaduck, they don't "To such dull minds without seem to love theirselves very imagination there is no under be regarded as vulgar and bour- much if you can judge by these standing imagination in geols. Any
"Go on?"
of
"
ent using them
sor.
(Signed)
necessary
measures
---(London Express Service)
revolutionary asserable. Iranian soil.
• n
ALL-OUT WAR OF FILMS IS COMING
By FREDERICK COOK
you can't open an American be the ones to do all the giv-
best."
nt
Cleanliness Needed
Miss Doyle sald the condition of the scalp was even more im- portant than that of the body,
"The scalp must be kept clears
all times,"
"she said. "How- ever, it is not wise to wash the hair more than once every two ere purges. So you can't ex- "others; still less understanding would be instructed to appear
weeks. Water is bad for the pect them to love a little old If a poor poet was of slowly before the Commissar of Cul-
NEW YORK. no reason at all why we should hair and scalp. When washing. capitalist like you."
birth and humble man of no ture, who would point out that
the hate, use a good shampoo- "Like me?"
education.
the words "honey" and "sugar” paper these days, from the Ing.
and not ordinary face soop." "The
people they're only
To keep the scalp from he- properly fond of is workin men "So they must needs call me a must be used only when refer- Hollywood Reporter to Broad-
Hollywood's way's own Variety and the stold'
plight is in coming dry, she advocated the like meself."
common cheat now I am dead ring to the foods honey and old Wall Street Journal, with essence just the same as Den- use of olive or castor oil, and defenceless, belleving
Dr. the harm's
Shepherds Bush. "In most cases," she would take another's work and sugar, and not used to describe out finding stories about
Holly-tinued, "a man's hairline begins put my name to it; and give the one's personal appreciation of a pitiful plight of British Dim la Studios are closing in
wood too. A dustry.
thousand people to recede because of lack of they she cat's charms. credit of my fancy to one
are on relief. The whole star-stimulation at the roots of the think should have it-Bacon, a
Bitter tears are being If this kindly warning
shed spangled machine is grinding hair. To avold this, the scalp the Court, an gentleman of
should be vigorously massaged educated man, one of their own ignored, the offending cat is sent for the people out of work and slower and slower.
every day. The use of certain: kind."
to a concentration camp in the the failure of our flims to make
with stimulants will help too. Ono Arctic Circle (rations one small
me tonight and you will find the of the best stimulants I know cod's head a month) to cool his I am no authority on the dif position is exactly the same as of is. garlic. It can be pur- ardour, and to prevent him con- ferent types of tears, but I it was a couple of years ago. chased in processed form, com..
that Here and there a fine American pletely deodorised."! - taminating cats who have ac- have a distinct feeling
maln a slightly crocodile Alm. But in
screens of cepted without question the cul- there is
quality about some of these. ail the choice houses filed with fured Soviet way of life.
remakes and with revivals of
little
"And like them there old German rallway strikers," said the Sweep. "Cor sufferin archbishops, they give them love all
right-with tommy
guns.
"They did an all."
"That's why they never
дус
no strikes in Russia. If you drop your plek and shovel over there you've ad it."
"You ave on all."
"So don't you start talkin to
me about Karl Marx."
"I neve ave."
"And so far as this ere con ference is
is concerned, keep your
fingers crossed."
"All right."
"The skin orf your
nase,
sald the Sweep.
"The skin, orf yourn,"
W. Shakespear,
Esq.
Paws over The Curtain
OTTIE the cat has received the following letter from a correspondent, Russian. Commissar Mogsky.
Comrade,
Cat
From its agents in tho United States of America the Politbureau has obtained details of correspondence which has passed recently between you and the American cat, Manhat- tan Mauser.
money.
tremendous ·
'Walk down Broadway
Baldness Increasing
con-
In Russia, a shio cat is not) Could it be just a coincidence years-old pictures that were Miss Doyle said that baldness: admired for her chassis, but that on the eve of top-level mediocre even when they were often was caused by flness, eye- for her kitten output and the talks in Washington between now.
strain, worry, overwork and number of mico caught in a our Mr Rank, Sir Alexander
said hats hypertension. 'She' Korda and Sir Henry French, You will still have to search unless they were very Ught, did year.
suddenly being over- for the British films. They are not affect hair growth we ard whelmed by a tide of solicitude hidden away in the little "holes
She said baldness is à moro for British movies?...
in the wall, the arty theatres frequent today than ever before. seating a few hundred, or It is These stories, Broadway in suburban houses a 10s, taxi-ridemen in their early 20s, us com
now common among Among our great Russlan sho cats were Hereine of the Soviet siders belleve, all add up to ale away on a vet night."
pared to 30 a generation ago." Union, Katinka Pusskin, and thing: the most
Even Radio City Music: Hail Occupation and climate also- Heroine of the Soviet Union, effort is going to be made to IN Parilament it was stateä As Manhattan Mouser's let Olga Fluffsky.
bring us to smash that quota, has been running a remake of affect the hairline, she said. She that Macrallian, the tera have no doubt given. you
get those frozen pounds thawed "Little Women." But there is observed that baldness ranked: publishers, had received the fol- some false Impressions of the To quote from vital statis-out, open wide our doors to no room along the big street for this way among various · Job.
holders: lowing letter from the copyright luxury living conditions of catetics already published:
American films and give as "Beátt of the Antarctic/
But our films are still doing section of the Central Office of in a rapidly disintegrating - Information:
capitalist State controlled by
Kittens born to Katinka Puss- The above-named publishers a y nie al
To this and Hollywood will "Red Shoes!' is, now fifth on the and degenerate in during the period 1934-43, are interested in the Polish lan- oligarchy, I have been instruct 132; grandchildren born of turn on everything. But the list of box-offied best-sellers in
there is 22 cities. guageRghts for Gulliver's ed to correct those impressions female issue during the sume fact of the matter is
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