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BERLIN.
E rule of the British Generals in Germany, five years
after Hitler's defeat, in over.
That to Britons In Ger-
Germans many, and both sides of the Iron Cur- tain, is the meaning of the Foreign Office announce. ment that General Sir Brinn Hubert Robertson has been taken from his post of British High Com- missioner in Germany to
become British Commander
in-Chief Middle East.
And the appointment of
over from brass hats
ONE YEAR LATER, BRITAIN FOLLOWS THE U.S. LEAD IN RUNNING GERMANY
by
Selkirk Panton
Governor and then High
But still tongues are wagging: Why h he accepted the Middle East? Many reasons are given, but there are two which may be valid.
Mr Bevin. In a long talk with Sir Brian at the Foreign Office may have told him that The British Government desires have a first-class administrator in charge of the vital Middle
ta
East with its allields should
A peerage?
his successor confirm it. Commissioner in Germany the Bart-West cold war hecome
Sir Ivone Kirkpatrick, for the past two and a half hotter. chief of the Foreign Office, years, Robertson, now 53, German political depart had the most important meut. HOW to become post any Englishman hnd British High Commissioner outside the
United King- He
enjoyed Germany, is a profes. dom. siond career diplomat. powers of a viceroy.
in
So nearly one year after the Americans "eiviliani- sed" their administration, the British follow suit,
Sir Ivane is an expert on Germany, and he knows the
Everyone said he
WAN
DIR DRIAN may also have thei son's elegire 10 enp his the father's fame. As British High
Commissioner
Garag
now a civilamised post--he could Ar not become a fold-marshal. But the Middle Erst that prospect is open to him.
evin's blue-eyed boy in Ger- an active officer, controlling nunny, and had the
complete confidence and
support of the Forrign Secretary,
Now why is he giving up at this pump sant power
03 the nly British "viceroy" left te
Then, too, he might change his barometer for the peerage Field-Marshal Lord Rubertion 1 of Berlin).
that this might happen. It
the world for a purely military Perhaps Mr Bevin has hinted Germans well. He served na job as Commander-in-Chief would not be the first time. But First Secretary at the Middle East? British Embassy in Berlin
in the Hitler appeasement
era from 1933-8. I saw him
in Munich when Mr Cham- berlain came to make his peace with Hitler.
Back
So, here where we started--Berlin, 1938.
Two reasons
TE is a man who would refuse what he might consider a less important post. He commot be fooled around with.
to
And he is not "married" the British Army. When INN father, Field-Marshal Sir Wil- lam Robertson - "the
field.
to become Fanker
But the generats are not the only people wondering marshalled En 1933, Sir
in Germany. Germans and Trian threw up his Army career, Britons are trying to find went to South Africa and be
Came managing lirector ot the answer to the
Dunlops there. question-Why is Robert- son going so suddenly?
On the face of it his re- moval from Germany-to
Then in the war he
became
one of Britain's greatest Army
tministrators.
We shall have la wait Until June when the hand-over takes place.
London Express Servico,
NATIONAL
CHILDRENS SAFETY WEEK
MOTORISTS.
CAREFULLY DRIVE
CHILDREN
USE YOUR
CROSSINGS
SALES
"This week the practice of certain undesirables referring to boys suho use the crossing as 'Cissy' will ceuse.",
banish
London Express Service
SPAIN may
its bullrings
49
POWERFUL cam to surrender a sport so paign to outlaw bull- powerfully established fighting is being wag- football in Britain. haded in Spain this Eastertitle.
Vehemently British officials
in Bonn denied that he
the Middle East looks like been "fred" or "ileprived of his Spain is the one country in The Bullfighters' Union
demotion.
A s Military st."
CANADA
BY L.W.
PHELPS-ORIEN
can
resembles rather than perpetuates ancient Rome,
I scene
awny,
That is
the Mariposa,
the butterfly
He alts and
challenges
his
from
cape
ahead of
ndversary
a sports track the front, keeping his
that lowly ficking just
the bull's hors, moving ever the spirit of backwards
as the animal ad- vances. His cape wipes the face of the beast. That in the mover Veronica.
which this inhumane sport insists on X100 per fight
the has reigned supreme for for
meanest pier- centuries. In 226 arenas former, and ace matadors C.V.R. THOMPSON ON TOUR during 20-week season, like Rafael Llorente
1,600 bulls
5.000 earn £30,000. 'andl
A trumpet blows und
the horses meet their deaths.
show begins. First, the parade. Juan Belmonte, a classic The pareant of the picadors,
upright on their padded horses, Or if, with his cape, he can Today more than 1.000,- performer, once signed
20 fights at penons lying: the banderilleros caure the animal to move back- 000 opponents of the sport, contract for
the maladors and the cuadril wards and forwards, turning leagued under the Spanish £1,500 each, but now
theas, their assistants, a cavalende and returning, applause spatters stars - Luis gleaming
and silver, around the tiers, Federation of Humane Sn- topmost
in gold
If he can bull to run right cieties, have signed a mani- Morales, Marcial Lalanda, yellow and purple, as swinging ease the
in the music they march past around him, experts clap with festo appealing to General Lorenza Garza get an the President.
Kusta,
low, there are he in slow, tries of derision. Or something
Bullets Write Welcome
E
UNITED STATES
SNYDER
TEXAS
MEXCO BURY OF MALK
sewers,
Franco to outlaw the bull- average fee ring.
First phase
h
es wrong. The matador runs.
intants dodging
hither
SNYDER, Texas.
£300 of
10 VEN on last
three out year's
£500 för killing maps of Texas, Snyder chews up ten black efgars a day
of the six bolls in an after-
and thither, attempting to de- is just a little black dot. Its in trying to solve all his other
tract the bull's attention. Horns At least
famous noon — one
and few bulls Just
average matader is too crash against the wooden bar- population is given as 4,000, problems not enough
Bocherito,
minutes. THE not enough matador.
has longer than 20 tint enough roads.
highly riitled to risk danger, rier split second after the its livelihood as farming.
schools, not enough poltermen, emerged fron retirement An ace fighter, Legartijo, He knows to a split second how matador has skipped behind it. Well, today I
not enough hospitals not
will coment to evento denounce, his old profes, slew 5,000 bulls in 1,700 long a crowd Snyder, and it is time they enough undertakers.
sion, and now his scarlet high-priced fights. changed all that.
AFTER DARK I am advised cape hangs in the head
117
in
For, believe me, there is to keep indoors, even office of the Anti-Bullfight Blood and sand ached by the bull, and thus taunting, bobbing manikins.
Thr is only a fent,
I men whom the
more traille right now in indoors
Jure of binck League. the
main square than have ever seen in Piccadilly old has brought to Snyder are
Circus.
minules to cross
as
fight
intratiuees the oddest feature of
attitude
death,
the
Now more work with the watch a demonstration of pure technique. lic can judge to a cape. The bull seems a strange- breath the pitch of exhuestion ly dimilled figure amid the
time the end.
Now the matador returns. It's & breath-catching
Standing close to the bull, he at the Plaza Toros as the ment known Jocally
"Lough
taunts his victim. There is AL dusty small-town ASTONISHING organisa dour open and the bull runs
silence in the sunshine as the hombres,"
to the mammoth tions like the Salamanca but, snorting yet, apparently hull In When work in over there are arenas
"placed" and slands It has Just taken me ten still no amusements for them. 40,000-seat bullring in Bar- women fans club take up little startled by the sunlight
the matador-an directly facing and the nose of the band, This for one street in And so, although Snyder celona. weekly
at whole locks of seats
before essential one piece, and 1 am staging dry town, they drink, and drink diences total 800,000, how. weeks on end. Behind the alighting. The bull has to
toman can make his charge of Only in dus one way 1 nm in de Snyder hard.
an affluent blood- undergo a perter of painful National Bank until the rush And when these men drink ever, and they are unlikely scenes
they like to play with re-
stock industry breeds 2.00 provocations before he consents may the bull receive the coup de grace and the matador must hard
Jaunch his sword in over the |pedigree 1,200-lb. bulls for to be annoyed.
The pleader opens the first hers from the front. the market, and thousands
phase of the duel, edging his more are imported.
horse Beurer, his long lance raised. Prodded, pricked, per- Come with me to a bull haps the bull charges, worrying fight. Visiting Madrid re- the padding around the horse, half lifting the the famous sometimes cently, I saw
animal on his horns. Sunday afternoon show at derllicros
follow
where
hour is over,
The bank is a good place to waivers. slay, myway. It is so crowded So far, fortunately, most of In town that they say I will have to float a loan to get my thing better than a tent to sleep in tonight.
DESIDES. It is comforting to be so near to £5,000,000 which
Is what banker Hubbard takes once a month from this ex- backwoods town.
In
ip
their target practice has been at the expense of nothing more animate than the "Welcome to Snyder" sign at the city limits. The words "Where the cotton grows and the of flows" are out In bullet- neally pleked holes.
POR
The 200 farmers still come in see him regularly. But no longer do they ask for a loan.
Now they are bringing him D more money-£1,000 month each.
ог
And in case you are wonder ing what has come over Snyder, the answer is black gold-oil, so much oil that they are opening up new wells every week,
They are buliding all night in Snyder, which has become n elty overnight.
But it takes time to build even the most makeshift home. And there are still 8,000 people men, women, and bables-living in caravana.
H
NOR THE FIRST TIME in an oil ful, the men who have in the made all the money Snyder boom are the farmers who originally owned the land. It all happened so fast that the speculators who rushed into town to bilk them out of their holdings did not have time to make their dents.
The speculators are pouring back again today. That is be- cause of a new rumour that ol a likely to be found in a 40,000- mere tract 30 miles from here,
POSTSCRIPT. I ат not sleeping in a tent tonight. A speculator, who thinks I am a with a few of those "rube" 40,000 acres, has just got into conversation with me.
[OUSES are the chief problem He believes I have come to facing the once-genial town to make a deal. And so I mayor, Forrest Sears, who now can have his bed.
NANCY
Falling Love
I HATE SNOW
BRRRR---SNOW AGAIN-
I HATE
SNOW
London Express ServsOR,
FLASH--BECAUSE
OF THE BLIZZARD ALL SCHOOLS WILL
BE CLOSED TOMORROW
1/2
These
Final stroke
Suddenly The ban THE crowd waits.
the man runs forward, leaps the 35,000-seater Plaza dart-throwers may be mandors sword has been driven Into the upward. A swift flash and the
Toros.
Price from 2s. 6d. in the making or
up.
sometimes
In
to 358, the seats are book. even matadors of faine. the hill. The dying animal
ed
one
weeks beforehand eaming costume,
forward, a feathered the best on the shady side either hand,
of the arena, where one's
eyes cannot bo dazzled
by the sun:
the cheapest
in the highest sunshine
gallery.
a The
bull's massive neck, almost to dances halls, shivers, fails to its knees. dart in And still it liven until another man comes forward to dispatch it with a knife.
The Charge
is blood, a more darker stain
Through the long afternoon, with Intermisamis of music, catcalls and cheers, the bulls face death.
NOW, for the first time, there amid Blood and wond! The on the brown hide of the bull, sharing nothing with the flame
In Spain, the arguments of phrase comes to mind cloaks now brought into play. the "sportsmen" and the hu- yet the colouring is
cloaks whirl and sway, manitarians reach new fever symphony. The
bult yellow The
charges, enraged, heat. Bullighting han already sand of the arena shades
panting heavily yet often still been abolished twice before by seeming puzzled,
earlier political regimen, only into the brown wood of And so at last, the matador to make a comeback. This set the safety alley; the advances, his short sword con- a precedent, and today the snl-
cented beneath his cape, orange lamps above it off-
He mal lovera claims that, amid the stando set the sombre-clad modern him, awaiting the charge, and even a brute beast deserves a ptill, his cape behind horrors of this modern world, audience. The atmosphere at the last moment swings swift and humans end
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