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LOOK OUT! SALOME'S AFTER JOHN'S NEAD AGAIN!
Truman picks
match
Frederick Cook
tells why Harriman
is
a
man to watch
Word Copyrigh By arrangement weich Daily Herald,
the
o
man
to
Kremlin
Lake Hopklas he doesn't inox Petsche reared with delight and strong. He warmt always about ever since has signed his letter to the Harrimans: "Affect intinie- to cave in under the load ne
ly yours, Peaches" carries. But unlike Hopkina he, does not,
On
Verdict
Strachey
by W. J. BROWN
He Impitel that the Schu-
HEY discuss strange fear of nationalisation and was questions in Parlia Intended to set up a barrier their ment sometimes. The against the control of
basle Industrlen by the peoples other day the question was of Europe. It was d device, "When is a Plot not a "under the guise of inter- Plot ?"
nationalism," to put British in- dustries in the hands of "an The charge was that Mr
irresponsible body without Strachey had described the democratle controls" answerable Schuman Plan, produced by to no Government and 210 the Foreign Minister of n Parliament. friendly stato and cordially welcomed, with reserva- man Pian was inspired by tions, by the Government capitalist interests in Europe
of which the Government of of which Mr Strachey in the countries concerned in the member, as "a Plot."
Not Plan were presumably. the at all, said Mr Strachey. What he described as a Plot was, he said, not the Schu- man Plan, but the political manoeuvres of the wicked Torics about the Schuman Plan.
chable
contelous or unconselous agents. He said that it would eight or nint men, "if it would help the shareholders." to close down pits and plants in Britain regardless of the effect on the workers. He said many other things.
THAT WORD
Sir David Maxwell Fyfe and Mr Churchill laboured hard to show that the word Plot could only apply to the Schuman Plan, and for Mr Strachey's ex- planation there was only his word, unhappily unconfirmed by the Press Association (which,
Unfortunately Mr Stra- chey had circulated to the Press the notes of the In these circumstances it does seem to me to matter speech in which the refer not ence to the Plot occurred, whether he added, or did not add, that it was a "Plot!" Hay- and
:LI authority on ing described all the salicat words, if on nothing else, I features of a Plot it is perhaps affirm most solemnly that, tautological to add that it is If words mean anything at one! all, it was the Schuman Plan to which the word "Plot" undoubtedly applied, Not at all, sul Mr Strachey; The notes were only notes, and before the note containing the word Plot. Mr Strachey had inserted, in his rendering of the speech, a reference to the wick- ed Tories. So Torics and not the Schuman Plan that the world Plot re- ferred. Said the Press Associo- tion, there was no such inser tion. Said the Prime Minister, he accepted Mr Strachey's word though, of course, no attack on the Press was intended or im- plied. Said Mr Hynd, all this was part of a vendetta against Mr Stracheyl
the
PLAN-OR NOT
ilarriman says his linguistic talents are nil "My French is He is up every morning be all right apart from the verba," fere seven with a buling brief- he says. But friends with ser cute propped on his bed. He grasp of the language tell him other parts of
What do I any? I say that I reads papers white shaving and there are some eating. At Baschtime his at such on which he's more than couldn't care less, and that it
not
two hoots mutter does metic wife Marie
little rocky, never known
what to
whether the insertion was made In Paris, Harriman had his or not.
It is the general cou- which tent of the
that mat- flee in the
speech Napoleon got Tear Alexander's ters. surrender terms.
expect.
Ho
NEW YORK. Harriman is a rerlous man. His laugh but Bellom. TIE announcement it. le
hours or play are apt to prove self is very brief: W. deadly serious as his houts may have asked half a dozen quests and arrive with a dozen Averell Harriman has of work if shorter,
of more. The talk LA always At 37 he was rated one been appointed special assis-
world's six bezt polo busines tant to the President on for the eign affairs. But to those playera. Now he has given up
riding. At 45 he learned
Mister Peaches
room in
for the boueßt of the uniritia- ted, I may explain is a wholly non-party organisation which exists to supply news to papers of all political complexions). Mr Clement Davies datted the "l's"
and crossed the "t's."
Mr Quistin Hon said of that explanation that he did not believe a word of it...
But what surprised me more the than the explanation was Prime Minister's acceptance of it. In the bad old days there used to be a doctrine which governed the conduct of Minis- ters. It was called the doctrine of collective Cabinet responsi blity. The idea of it was that a decision by a Government was binding on all its members. If a member could not "slompch" a Cabinet decision, he was ex- If I refer to an AS n pected to resign and make his "IL is a constant remainder," "twister," If I indicate that he position clear to the House. Po used to say "that we take nu in undoubtedly a scoundrel, if dictation from uny Tar I say that his character 15 THE RIGHT WAY of in- Russian or otherwise."
acquisitive, formality come from Mra In Washington, in his new matters little, it seems to me,
And whether the He loathes formal occasions, THE only touches
explana- Harriman (picture above) prefers rather sloppy clothes Martiman, no respecter of big job, the theme is still the same, whether I mention, In addition, tion be accepted or not, whether in the mun to watch when off duty. Harriman has
This is the man the Kremlin that he is a thief. In the speech the word Plot applied to the mes or Imposing forei if
Mr Strachey made at Flan, or to some English Parlia atmost will do well to keep in mind if which again, the Roosevelt trick of absorbing titles. Once Harriman cornes
when he they are thinking the thoughts Colchester, he damned the mentarians, the whole. content He would be to Truman tir most complex technical unta choked on his oyster
Schuman Plan in particular and of the speech at Colchester was with the (World Copyright Reserved-London all such plans in general. That utterly irreconcilable
of the Government Plan, he said, was inspired by decision
endorsed by Parliament lo welcome" the Plan. to praise the French Initiative In pro- tlucing It, and to promise to take part in discussions on it at a later stage.
who know America there is ski and now he ska with the big news behind it.
war
champions,
what Harry Hopkins was to a few minutes and ancaoring beard his wife address Maurice America hopes they are not..
the Sallent facts firmly
Roosevelt.
Harriman and the Russian know one another well from hist days as Ambassador to Moscow. thing in coin- They have one mon. They dislike each other cordially and they respret one another almost as keenly.
Harriman 16 the man of whom Mr Vyshinsky sald testly one day,
**Hie is the only capitalist I ever net who makes nny sense." For Vyshinaicy's lightning-quick tricky legal min Harriman holds a high regard.
Source Of Ideas
WHAT sort of man is Hard-
WHAT or of man, angling.
mincl.
his Fetsche, France's
Minister. as Mister
Finance Praches.
Brumas worries like Jack
B
Spratt
By CRAVEN HILL
London,
The two bears eut once a day, Usually in the early morning, RINGING up Brumas inside their "bedroom," and be- has brought a prob fare they are allowed out on the lem to the Zoo.
For terraces.
handsome. He inherited one of Brumas, now 7 months
It is expected, however, that
America'a biggest rallroads old, like many a child, will the pair will take their meals the Union Pacific, from hinot eat what's good for her. in public before autumn. father, who built it. At 22, The little polar bear cub has after the American equivalenty
of Eton and BaDlol. Harriman Jack Sprutt's tastes she might have settled down to a will eat no fat.
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"Rations for Brumas now con-
lolstered chairs,
polo ponies, week-end yachting partien.
sist of Gib, of horse meat a day. and about 2lb. of it being fat," Head- Instead, he went out laboured as a ganger on the keeper Bruce Smith told me.
A SOLUTION has been fourkl
A
to another Zoo problem-a plague of cockroaches in the reptile house,
Several dozch small wali Izards are to be set free. The
zurds
They
are harmless. lile coelcroaches and are allied But the trouble it, she never at catching them.
the foot we put
Visitors may ate the lizards
tracks of the railroad he would one day own. He worked as a clerk in the Union Pacifle eats offices: and what is more to the down for her, leaving mostly running loose, but it is unlikely that they will be able to touch Ivy which mother
point, he lived on his wages.
the fut
At sa ho hides behind promptly clears up herself, after then-the lizards are too swift. somewhat diffident, thy manner, she has eaten her own rations of
ja ferocious appetite for work, 14b.
He is n
amount of fat la
AND problem for the Zoo
non-stop dynamo of "A certain energy and a constant source of essential in the diet of a young not to be there. new original idean,
If the animynd polar bear, but, ho appearance In personal
won't eat it, there is no known has been called a mixture of Ray Milland and Gary Cooper, method of persuading her to do
The Russian-controlled news papera in Eastern Europe never miss an opportunity to gibe at him for this or to remind him
Carroll that Madeleine
her
is the tortoise who ought
The tortoise cught to be al on the Gold Coast, Takoradi,
the pet of an Army officer, Captain Jamieson. where it was
A
black-necked Bet. din "Fatty concentrates carefully spitting cobra, one of the most mixed with the meat may be deadly snakes in Africa, was the solution.
seen near Captain Jamieson. "But we do not want to adopt It was
CO.
once
listed him among handsomest men. managed to live this down,
chased and look "ten these measures" yo, especially shelter in the box in which the He has na Brumas is in such
kept his good captain
pet Lord condition."
Derby tortola
NANCY
Well Done
I'M DIGGING WHY A WELL
?
I HEAR IF YOU STAND AT
THE BOTTOM OF A WELL, YOU CAN SEE STARS
IN THE .
DAYTIME
Ernten Service).
uninhibitedly
the Zoo-she is
ખાન નો
it
Not that Mr Strachey is not entified to his views, of course. But if he believes what he saiį! nt Colchesler. hls place is the debate on the Schuman Plan would have been with that bright young Tory who damned
the whole thing lock, stock and barrel, and not with the Govern- ment which asited the House to "welcome" it. But all that the Prime Minister found it possible to say about the speech, apart from the word Plot-was that some of Mr Strachey's entes were "unfortunate"
night be misunderstood," and that it was desirable to be very careful in speaking on foreign. affairs.
refer- and
SUMMING-UP
"Unfortunato" I regard
15
a triumph of understatement. and "misunderstood" as being the wrong word altogether. If anyone spoke of
as the Minister of War spoke of the Schumun Plan I should nat "misunderstand."
should
understand only too well.
Sull, you cannot expect a Minister who survived the groundnuts fasco to resign over a little matter of whether the word Plot occurred in this con- nection
ar that. And In a Government where the do minant principle that all hang together for fear of hanging separately. no one can well be dismissed.
at the end of arrived So I report that
the debate nothing was lost-
Ministers must
Brumas makes a meal out of paper.
Captain Jamieson decided snake and fortotipo the snake was too dangerous to safely.
Now the Zoo are wondering save honour, re-crate.
So the box was boarded up whether they should return the (World Copyright Itaarrved-London- and flown ta London. Both tortoise.
By Erale Bushaniller
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