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JOHN
MORGAN-PRICE-WYNN SUTTON-YOUNG
A. METEO.GOLDWYN MAYER PRES
AMBITION
LONDON.
TOW I begin to under-
N
stand why Franco has
A 'crown' on his
outlived Hitler. After wife's head and
a fortnight of watching him
close-up I
in
return
Lo
London seized with wonder a handful of new
This is a man who dreams
up his politics them true.
and makes coins provide the clues...
I saw him come ashore
his
visit famous (on
away.
to
by Charles Foley,
flag- 40
furious
to Lisbon to see the Chudiito orrive was Don Juan, Spain's rightful king.
"Franco has long teased Juan with promises. Ilc has even Laken Juan's young hair to Maurid to be educated as a true Spanish prince.
Don Juan watched the Spanish feet sail in. He was willing to meet privately the man who has
throne kept his
warm for so But Francs long, so very long. abruptly ank lo see Jun.
he did not wani
THE FUTURE
а
In Madrid, on my way home, they
me In gave
change handful of shining coins carry- Ing the lewend: "Francisco
Grace of God."
Lisbon. Suddenly after two Crowd (fifty OT
As ordered. the faler alarma, he was a yard wearing Spaniards around en- Spanlarda "stayed, played, Franco Chudilo of Spain by the
microphone): Brown, laughing, other
Franco, won," all with ten men. But the Incident showed both Portuguese vigorous, he wrung the frail Franco, Franco, ad itb.
aregard for Spnish pride and hand of President Carmotn us if he was greeting his
Franco's determination nothing mas his purpose. dearest friend.
A few hundred notabilities surrounded France. The quiet mullitude were pressed back by police on the distant sides of a squate 200 yards across.
Five Franco put
out a pro thousand silen; soldiers packed
of the squ.FC. In a few the centre digious effort. minutes he had warmed up the mound carried cemo to be the
on
SITTING ON
THE FENCE
by ... NATHANIEL GUBBINS
WRITER in a maga zino saya the
Com- munist campaign to interrupt conversations- with Marxist propaganda has failed in Britain be- cause the British aro 80 bored by politics:
Comrade, do not tell us more
Ol Mare, that hairy foreign
bore,
Spare us details of his lijo, His works and habits, home
and wife. Leave us to our skitties, pal, And please forget
Kapital.
Das
Comrade, bore us not to tear, The book has lived a hundred
years.
A book which, if not DUCT-
rated,
You must admit, at least,
dated.
Ex
Comrade. we don't give α
dombak
How the Workers work in
Omsk,
Conditions may be good OT
bad
For all we care in Stalingrad. And as for Plinsk and Plonsk
and final Comrade Communist,
stinsk.
No more Lenin,
Trotsky.
they
no more
dlagun. Dad was worried
bout , my poer appellie. Life had BO
meaning for me till one day sympathetic neighbour "Why not try Tulopept "Now I sing at my tackle a
work, can
•
..
day's washing with good heart, and eat Daďa railone
By well as my own.”
How are you doing, Dad?
Austerity mottoes MR ANTHONY EDEN, refer-
ring to another austerity speech by Sir Stafford Cripps. Biri:
The first half-hour provided a weries of pious exhortations which might have served as mottoes i be drawn out of a Christmas cracker,"
There is still time for motto- wrllers to take the hint for Christmas 1040.
When you're out of work
don't hollar, Work harder now to earn
dollar.
Make merry now,
trlve
A
tomorrow
To ginger up the export drive. Hey-ho, the merry-o
A kiss beneath the mistletoe Hark. hark the Christmas
chime
You'll soon be working aver
time,
ilark! The factory bell 1
hear is call
A merry Christmas to you all.
At lunch
Thanks, dear comrade, thanks 46 WELL,
a lotsku.
Bob's
worth
hin
what do you think
of the situation now?” What ifustion?” "The polltient situation."
Terer think about it."
חברתיי
for
any
of
"There we were ready UP till just recently a happy anything, rendy for
hyrrochondrine like myse encrifice in the national in- could not only get his pills for terests, and what happened?" nothing but could add to
"About what?" rare en'lection of patent medi-
Anancial crisia, cine ilterature at the same cost. Now each bottle wrapped in
rourse, I thought
going be ar mething dramatic, its litre leaflet will cost about something that would stir the
shilling. So far as I am con-
nation to its depths, didn't cerned it will be worth 11,
You?"
•
10
"No."
was
*
"What's the use of saving on these n'ggling things, E
little bit here and a little bit there? Why not sweep them mil the way?"
For me there is nothing more down in bed and reach for my delightful than to snuggle
book crammed with the pamphlets describing the inner of tho body, the ngoples of people tortured bry acids and undigested fats, and the terrible doom advancing on those who bo't their food and worry over trifles,
workings to let
THE FACADE
single-handed, Bul FRANCO to the wOTIO
Loar o nil Lisbon. Vision: Franco gels Into President Carmona's
In clmost all resprets Generalissimo already enjoys the roval prerogative with much more than the royal power.
**Who?" "W these offelnis.' All thes
What ero unproductive people. He and his wife move from
they doing, anyway?"
"I don't know." is one palace to another. At the
"Well, I'll tell you, Sitting on Opera in Lisbon, gaining ground in his race San Carlos
Best of all my collection are their backsides all day stopping Franco
doing (see picture) those which tell the first person people
from
things. to win Ameriena support before Sencra the regime collapses, Behind wore
new tiara so large, 50 story of some unhappy house That's a nice job, isn't it?"
mistook it dazzling, that some the paper-thin economic facade
“Very nice. hold drudge full of poison and Irm told, there is nothing that for a crown.
relf-pity: 700 million dollars will not curo,
"I What is Franco's ambition? carne from
a group of welcoming ad- mirals and generals. He
Hispano- was a fountain of charm. Surzu, They ar to move vif, his first then halt opposite a cluster of It was positively
fg wavers. TOJ DA yelow personal appearance world stage and he acted as spurring them to frenzy, (Cur. Among those who if the applause of the world Franco winds down tho amber Estoril, that exiles playground, bullet-proof window, plucks rang in his ears.
Carmona by the sleeve, and if ono- bursts into animated, a ded, cov reation. Cameramen rush forward, led by a Swedish blonde, and shoot for n full five
minutes before the car goes on.
Hollywood could learn from the Caudillo. There is the self-made ruler of Д bankrupt nation boycotted by the rest; he takes a hack
Sound and vision make a state meeting and trans-
triumphal fie-up: the effect and forms it into a great occa- not the substance is the thing alon.
But Franco brought to Lisbon mara than
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time Cripps devalued, and on That was the situation at the Septembr 21 Salazar, telling no one, followed suit.
Ona day we may sco A Francisco I of Spain.
-London Express Service)
Dr. Tromp
hausework was broken by and dreaded washing day I wIE detied up and could hardly about. I never slept and always pushed my plate away in
"And what's £250,000,000?" **£250.000.000, I suppose.” "Nothing but a denbite. And they call it saving. They know
(Continued on Paro 6).
THE CHAPMAN PINCHER COLUMN
was a cynic until-
SCIENTIST who set out to ex- pose water-divining-locating un- derground streams by means of a has forked twig-as mumbo-jumbo, ended after ten years' study convinced that it works.
In a 534-page research report, just published he claims:-.
through the skin. This affects the nervous system which in turn makes the muscles twitch.
The rod serves to magnify this movement, and puts the forearm muscles under tension,
an official US. report has settled it with a definite Yes
BR KOBERT BACHER; of Los Alamos, the New Mexico atom station where all the bomb re- search and manufacture was done during the war, has told e Congress committe
"British scientists had general accoss to all the Information developed at Los Alamos, Go
thorough and com
they had Hord Tramp tes the skin as the piele knowledge of all the likellest detector, because a bomb work. They have all the diviner's sensitivity a.ems to know-how depend on the electrical re atomic weapons"
need:d
to make
sistance of his skin. Any diviner found this statement, which The existence of a human When enough current
was can increase his sensitivity by has so far escaped public notice, sensitivity to underground switched on to set up a week rinsing his hands in salt water in the dull-looking 2,000-page on the Iberian pact, which callswater can be demonstrated by magnetic weld the tip of the twig or weak sulphuric acid.
Consternation in Madrid. The Spaniards had apparently relied
experiments,
for consultation between the two neighbours, for warning of such Most people have this a move. It took ten days to
sensitivity developed to some restore financial order.
degree.
Spanish losses rn to millions,
them. Tho PTOLESSON
He would take But Franco was made toperiments which would prove similar risults when pageantry and, with both swallow a further humiliation. his claims if confirmed by other eyes on America, make it The Sunday before he reached workers. politics.
minute
*
report of the Congress heurings. jerked sharply downwards. This
The leakage has annoyed the Diviners did better when their M.1.5 mon, I and. But I can so suggested that the diviner had akin was well insulated from the some good coming out of it. a mere Mussolini this
some hitherto unrecorded seas)- soil by thick-soled boots. They The excuse that the Ameri- would be vanity. Not
tivity.
put up a poor know, barefooted. cans picked our atomic brains in Franco. He was not just
for their bomb research, then Tests with other diviners, 113-- To suggest that the most denied us the results, has too visiting a neighbour; he was France, bolling with fury, sud-2 It can be explained scientia-
cally without being received na a guest of denly found the long-awaited second sight.”
invoking ing bent wires instead of twigs, Fuccessful diviners are just those long served to hide the reasons
showed that they
could also people with the clammiest hands for the Government's slow pro honour by Britain's oldest invitation to Lisbon on his desk.
zeems far-fetched. But I have gress. The cicntist-PROFESSOR detect minute ally, a member of the Mar- He could not both quarrel with
changes in the kept a completely open mind 8. W. TROMP. 4 shall plan and the Atlantic Salazar and accept It
Dutch strength of the magnetism round on divining ever since War Office Move Along, Please geologist-bas carried out ex- Pact.
claims tests proved that cogs can aet.ct hiddert land-mines by some
EVEN the materest electric currents were applied to not involve
mysterious means which does
sight,
sound, or lika fellow-creatures to come too a diviner's skin.
scent.
FETER Charts, made by a portable 1 heart-brat
Yes, We Know
A Thames Embankment gull recorder, of diviner's reactions when passing
resents any trespass Into the over underground water, showed
A TOP-LEVEL British territory extending for one gull's *
defence secret has been body-length all round It. The that the human body un- disclosed by
ducks the Americans, elegant tufted
of St consciously detects some sensa- it is the answer to the question: James's Park are even mostler. tion whether a "magic" rod is Has the Government full detalls Their come-no-nearer distance carried or not.
of how to design and assemble is more than two body-lengths. Least particular are the star- The professor
suggests that an atomic bomb?
lngs which roost in twittering For four years Ministers have thousands in Trafalgar Square. presence of underground repeatedly refused to give the A breast-width is all they ask,
influences
body answer on security grounds. Now
[London Mapress Service):
Lisbon the basis of friendship was due to be laid on the fcqt- First, a professional diviner, ball
feld. The BBC should study tech arrived
Atletico blindfolded and with his ears Madrid to play the Sporting|plugged with cotton wool, was nique at Franco's school. He had Club of Fortugal.
an electric apparatus ked near the whole apparatus of propa-
e twin in the while holding ganda ticking over in advance. At the airport the Portuguese divining position (see sketch), picked out It happened, in sober fact, like police
Madrid's this:
£20,000 inside right, Ben Barck. They refused to let him Badio Commentator (reading land on political grounds. of prepared script. just behind
* Under the title "Psychicat
me); and now, in a tornado of Outraged, the Spanish team Phyefcs," price £3. Distributed cheers, the Chief of the Spanish prepared to get back into their by Cleaver-Hume Press, Lide some physical force related to
the Elsevier Publishing the State moves on. The crowd is plane. Then came a curt message for dellrious...
Company.
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NANCY
from Franco.
Genlus Head'
THAT'S PROF STROODLE TH BIG SCIENTIST ---
WHAT A BRAIN HE MUST HAVE
LOOK AT THAT WRINKLED BROW--- THAT MEANS LOTS
OF BRAINS
WRINKLES
MEANS BRAINS?
SURE
water
the
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