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Written and Directed by SIDNEY GILLIAT
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"It's a great pity that Churchill can't leave the planning of defence to the Party of Planning,”
THE FINEST
THAT
GREAT man was Jan Christinan Smuts. His
•heart
Was
after bouts of
which followed
strained By
influenza
his hung
trouble in June and July
this year.
Walter Billa
age,
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The
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ORSON
TYRONE
Harring
POWER WELLES
་
He was 80 in
years
full of honours, of accomplishment
and
Was EL
stalwart soldier, statesman,
n shrewd stimulating
The
and guile. Smuts
SMUTS
FRANK OWEN
London Express Gorice
DREAM HAD
Smuts went back 10
But
Sitting On The Fence®
By
•
.. Nathaniel Gubbins
"Intellectual group beginning camping kelkday, have room fot anc. Need not be intelectual, but knowledge of tenis, cooking Appreciated.“Advt.
T
the Communists, it is very un- fortunate for him that he always acems to be away somewhere when there'sa mbotage the Navy. He was on his holidays
HE scene is a rain- when something went wrong with the aircraft carrier sodden field-in Sussex. Thoccur. Your uncle grilled Tent poles and canvas him when we came back ankl him the receipted bill have been unloaded from a told
from a boarding house at Herne lorry.
Bay was a fake.
Tall, thin men in shorts, He is also surpected of having showing long, hairy legs, a
private radio transmitter
blows raspberries throughout the war
CUG.
and open-necked shirts, re- which vealing large Adam's apples, whenever tiss happens your are in earnest conversation uncle rushen round to his house with half-naked women to catch him red-handed.
It on
wearing sandals and neck was again unfortunate that
occasion the Ironmonger
laces of coloured wooden one bends,
was taking his wireless set to pieces: Of course, your uncle
to Scotland Yari wroto
that
"What's the extra one?" they evening. are asking. "Man or woman?"
"Woman."
"I hope the foot van light a
Are. My feet are wet."
Emily's nerves are worse than "I hope she can it up tents. at any time during the war. I nearly stunned myself with a When she is not digging a fox pole."
hole for herself In the garden
"I'd be grateful if the cren- she lies quaking in bed, reading ture could boil some potatoes or the offclat ARP, handbook on open a tin. I've eat my fingers atomic flashes and burnt. When read that Ught-coloured to ribbons,"
clothes are a better protection
"Tx
dark, the gave all her that her struggling than through the gate with a huge black things to the charwoman (1 suppose It doesn't matter portmanteau?”
what happens to her) and now "I suppose ro, Hello, there." goes about completely hidden in
white draperies like a ghost. "Oh, hello.. On, that bag's the heavy." The within
South
new Now, suddenly, a great opportunity
fur service and Africa to become Prime Minis- unfolded. A fresh ter
Ants, then a world: Konour
to figure, thought too frequently in project Campain was
He forpol wres! from the enemy German ef the world. East Africa (the land we now parish of South Atrien. call Tanganyika). The very parish threw him out assignment
soller Ove statesmant
for
12
year of the victory. He did not become Prime Minis- ter @cain until a new world him back catastrophe brought
Bonar Lal, the Conservative to the hem. leader, was serving, as Colonial Secretary in Asquith's Coali- intelligent young tion Government.
Count this for glory, that in for He was chief was appointing Churchill. Lord those grim days of 1939, when
the all-powerful var fell upon us once You do not often quick to mulerstand and a war Minister, although he was Smuts fed his nation into
thinker, s most. stencious Commando
person.
get all that together.
Kitchener,
more,
the
Florrio came round to tra and told us there is no hope for anybody if the balloon goes up. She said the Rusgan won't bother to drop atomic bombs on the cities, but will drop them in the sea all round us. These good will cause chorious hot tida) waves which will sweep acros Britain and boli u all alive like lobsteru,
You didn't really need it, you A rucksack's
know. enough."
"I had to bring my books."
"Books?"
*
By "Yes, I've brought Shake- upon our side. pretty stout sup struggle
Africa had again | speare. „Shaw, Chaucer's Canter- porter of the Generais Trade 1948 South
Smut-as Enginedbury Tales, and Pushkin." hard also nodded his torgotten
You'll be glad to hear that from forged Churchill. He foll
"You needn't worry about that dear, darling Forgy's still with taciturn "Yes."
the Premiership.
Can you put up a ten!?" us. If he had been a man now.
preciate the generous deal which victorious Britain enerally a a soldier- propused to his defeated Smuts was
people. statesman; he realised in actual life the dream of so
He and his great leader nany soldiers and of So
Botha took the He had General many statesmen.
uf "Commen- offer
self-government Caesar's rund
The man taries," and meant to be like after the war.
LI. G.: 'NO'
wda
in-
"Oh, no, I nearly strangled stend of a dog, he would now I saw him last a few months ngo in Cape Town under the myself trying to do that when I be about 100, but we keep him Are you on Emily's meat ruilion (che misty peak of Table Moun- tes in the Brownies.
always feels sick ut mealtimes) Lloyd George, then tain, which he had climbed so fond of Back?"
and he still has enough spirit He had all the old dy- preparing to make his bid often.
So "Never mind about Bach. Can to bite her legs under the table, magical charm, war lender- ñamje,
though she doesn't muffer much as his teeth are retting long The much did he remind me of his you light a camp fire?"
"Oh, no. I couldn't do that, and loose. of Mari- own former comrade, and he content own old leader, Lloyd George.
I nearly burned myself to death of a bat-
doing that when I was in the He said many wise things. Brownies."
15 The wisest; "A man's wife
who said "No,"
descendant Was gifted
him. There was another who made this offer, on be for The supreme young man in England at half of the Liberal Govern ship,
those days. that time who had the same ment of iden. His name was Win- Winston Churchill. He had borough had to xton Churchill. History was been captured by the Boers, with the command to tangle these two men and had escaped from them on on the Western Front. together.
this . By
time, had
my
Then somebody proposed always above him. She is the
'IF ONLY...
for Smuts
the vacan! East steam in the kettle." 1907, African
command. Kitchener Smuts fought against us Churchill
become a "No! My generals are not in the Boer War. He was Under-Secretary for the willing serve under Mister one of the best and fiercest Colonies in Campbell. Smuts." of the anti-British. He led Bannerman's Liberal Gor-
IJE was worried about H colour war in South Africa, Law firmly said, the roving cavalry Com- crnment.
hal Also, he
But Bonar
for the man was # Liberal. Yest So Smuts got the job. mandos who broke through -
already blotted his copy-
He went Two years later
to But a greater dread lay' upon the British blockhouse
book with
Tory England,
a political his heart. not 15 lines. They kept that war
"If I Agure,
but as a milliary hero. dichards by saying: two years 1.00 going for
Would He was feted everywhere. had been a Boer 1 long.
have been in the field with their brave urmny."
'COMMANDOS'
In
sume
the
1s
The gardener still reads Kari Marx in the tool shed and 15: "Blast the Brownies. Can you now learning Russian when he boil potatoes or open a tin of should be lifting the potatoes. He thinks he will be commissar bully?"
I couldn't do that, of our avenue on the day" "Oh, no.
and might have to order I might cut my violin Anger."
Russian firing squad to shoot us
"Your what
"You see,
as bourgeoise reactionaries.
Your loving.
Aunt Maud..
Indian Harley-s
-street
**In Jamuna. Kashmir, witch doctors have opened a clinie."- From the NEWE.
I've brought my violin with me.” the "50 you've brought your
violin, have you?"
"Oh, yes. I couldn't miss the chance of playing before intel- When the lectuals like you. Inoon
comes up I will play
desert "The
marching Chopin to you."
"You won't." south." he cried to me, holding Fur the rest of the war up his eloquent, warning hands. Smuts was the politician, not "Sand may overwhelm us."
cat He was the the soldier. 19141 this ong
political pigeons. Smuls August
feared that the bap- hazard! method of Boer and recognition of a Church had to wait until the next war before his turn came NEARLY half a century sensible
Jater Winston Chur- gullant enemy was justitiel. to be the tum-cat among those Negro cultivation of a potential-southing in the moonlight,"
ly fruitful and would end In "There's no moon tonight." for the difference in drugs and fearful tragedy. "Yet 1: chill, who also had served in There was a moment when pigeons.
"Then will recite Pushkin in treatment, the eline is much the needn't happen." he cried. *If
the dark, Nobody can under- tame as those in England, the Boer War as a cerres- the newly constituted Union
the Meanwhile, Lloyd Lecorge only we were wise enough."
stand Pushkin ercept in
Apart from the ordinary pondent, puid Smuts and his of South Africa might have
dark. prize to low the broken away. But Botha took his hard-riding troopers
extras for I left the Grand Old "Listen, everybody. Pack all charges there are
almost everything, from newt's finest compliment.
Smuts held the young walked him off to South Wales
A Man of South Africa (Ou that stuff in the torry."
wings Dominion firm. Together, usual, the miners were having Haas, Old Boss, 113 hin "Before you to, please listen blood and braised bat's
called }:im) Ito my Ophelia. Then you can for the treatment of lumbago, to the essence of bolled rats for He named as "Command they suppressed the Boer the dirty end of the stick, but followers
you carnal argue took the trait to the north, up tell me if I'm going to be a and they conquer- in wartime
curing squints and warts. os" the crack troops of a revolt
"Get up and at the long,
rolling roads where great actress or not," German South-West "bout tra
to them
as an Empire the deer and the antelope (and "I can tell you now. pent defiant Britain, then only ed
leader," said Lloyd George.
ភាគ the lions, iraffes, ele the hotel everybody." able to raid in midnight Africa.
phants, and monkeys) piny. forays the Nizi-occupied
consts of Europe.
Smuts had been a lawyer.
OPPORTUNITY
10 settle a niners' strike.
He
Smuts did better. The whole he said, with world knows,"
Wien
and
And there, at Victoria Falls, that irresistible smile, "that in the heart of Africa, pouring
of Song in majesty, and might, is the Land Wales
over the longest and sang waste
the lovellest lip of Nature in
Perhaps, at heart, he always N autumn, 1915. Fame Well, let's SING!" They
beckoned again Certainly,
to and that was the end of At strike.
remained one, he could always see both Smots and Churchill. sides of a ense. Or argue that time Churchill y elther.
under a shadow because of
There was another,
titis
1
⚫ work, I Saw enough water to
make Africa fertile,
and
that
the gathering disaster of different, moment when he ad-
dressed a Glasgow audience. £t giant river? Why don't we
*Chopin is so
Testful. 10
Back to
Letter from
an
aunt
My Dear Dog,
As the War Office won't answer your Uncle Fred's letters demanding the re-formation of the Home Guard, he la concen trating nil kin energles on local Com-
Jand Jest his great frst World War, and already the problem"? Why don't we hounding down
munists and fellow travellers.
Jamma
correspondent
Mwrites to ray that, except
Also extra are spells cast on relative and other cnemies, though charges vary according to the performance.
For instance, the beneficiary under the will of a rich uncle can have him struck dead by remote control for a few annos and
small commission on the takings.
The big money made by specialists who can turn a gar- rulous aunt into a crocodile or rhinoceros,
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The common practice of pay-
for unpopular
Why don't we harness
the courage to tackle At 28. he was President the Dardanelles campaign. was in the last months of the "have Kruger's State Attorney. le
German Army was reeling set our hearts to do the right as First Lord of the
defeat. Smuts aid,
and the splendid thing for From "Oom Paul" he got position
You
As you might expect, the iron- ing big money Cannot brat Africa? this advice: "The way to the Admiralty, and waited feet.
monger, who had a commission matrons to be turned into rogue final with Brother Boche in the field." He
in the local H.G.s la your uncle's she elephants has now been, 101- bidden because the last one deal with your opponent is only for the
negotiated suggesting
Why don't we make come chief victim. from Gallipoli
As most people wrecked the clinic. to was to smack him hard on one drawal
No other politican In true the finest of all the dreams know the ironmonger is no more peace. to the trenches us Britain would have dared to of Jan Christian Smutst cheek, and rub him gently on go off
than a mild Socialist and hates a soldier.
ie it, or have survived il. the other."
--(London Express Service)
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