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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

THE REASON

a new PORTUGAL'S shrewd Premier face. He might have flown

r bad long known

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"INTRIGUE"

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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.

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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