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shades so that she may choose the tint to be applied. This alone may evidently be a matter for protracted cogitation. There are, shades of blue, some for blondes, for instance, no fewer than ten

some for the greying, some, for

7, Garrick Street, London, W.C.2. the white-haired; or you may like (if la "dachshund brown" rinse Notice To Contributors. All communications intended for it goes with your eyes), or per- publication should be addressed to haps a "mauve top tint, strange- the Editor, and be accompanied by ly becoming to the woman who the Writer's Name and Address, is going grey," or again, "a mist- ed pink-mauve" which can make not necessarily for insertion but as

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Hong Kong, Friday, August 19, 1938. THE TRUTH AT LAST?

ears are now once more worn---

most women, it seems, have for- gotten how to show their beauti- ful ears, and now that their hair ears, is pinned up and off the they feel "almost undressed"; also scalps, long neglected for fear of disturbing the "perm,” In most discussions on the

are now worn clean, for "once Spanish war, whether public or more fashion decrees that women private, there comes a point when may do for their own heads what the supporter of Franco, unable they do for their dogs." These to deny the overwhelming sup-glimpses into a strange, daft eriority of foreign aid on the re-world seem to throw some light bel side, unable to persuade his on why, the girl friend is nor- opponent that it was the Basques mally hours late for any such who burnt Guernica in a fit of humdrum appointment as dance temper, unable to explain why

or dinner.

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the Moors should be defending Christianity in Spain, exclaims The New B.B.C. Chief with all the certainty of pre- judice: "Well, at any rate, the

Those who know Professor Russians intervened first." It is

Ogilvie the newly appointed Dir- not, from any point of view, a

ector-General of the B.B.C. des- good argument and it happenscribe him in the London press as not to be true. There is no a man with a fine brain, a clear-

evidence to support it such as

was supplied on the other side, sighted, broad understanding, a for instance, by the official in-personality of much charm, and quiry into the three Italian aero-a will that usually gets its way planes which crashed in French by consent.

An eminent North of Ireland territory on July 17, 1986, -on

their way

to Spanish Morocco. man has said of him that he is Indeed, it is hardly an argument "liked by the Belfast people, and at all, but an article of faith, a no more can be said of any man dogma, which has been repeated than that." He is also said to so often that it is sometimes be-be sure of his knowledge and lieved. Out of darkness, how-jaware of where it stops. He has ever, came forth light, and out of no complexes to prevent his Italy has now come refutation. learning the B.B.C. and its..my- In an article celebrating (the steries as quickly as they can be word is accurate) the second an-learned. Personally he is a dis-

tall niversary of the Spanish war the tinguished-looking man, industrious Signor Gayda has but not of the stature of his boasted (again the word is accur-

his left predecessor,without ate) that Italy, so far from in-arm, which he lost in the war. Russian aid to the Spanish Gov- Scotsman, but he has had the tervening after and because of Like Sir John Reith, he is a ernment, gave assistance to the further advantage of four years rebels from the very beginning. in Belfast. He is not known to Signor Gayda is said to be his have broadcast himself, except master's voice, and Signor Mus-possibly from the B.B.C.'s North- solini, if anyone, should know. ern Ireland station. It seems English supporters of Franco, that a new broom, fine and friend-. thus unfairly deprived of their ly, is arriving at Broadcasting moral comforter, may, and no House. doubt will, fall back on the argu- ment that if the Russians were not the first to intervene milit arily, at least they were the

A suggestion in a German off- first to intervene politically. That cial journal that “given ” names" also is untrue and can be refut should be restricted to two would en without the aid of Signor be welcomed elsewhere by some Gayda. But (for are we not all who have had a heavy burden Englishmen and believers in laid upon them at the baptismal air play?) we may grant them font. A few years · ago. time to collect their faculties if American father claimed to have not their facts.

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Strange Daft World

String of Names

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achieved "the longest ever" by giving his child sixteen, names Unfortunately his claim was un- warranted, for in 1882 a mis- As we all know, a woman's guided Englishman inflicted on work is never done, and it seems his daughter a name for every reasonable to believe more than letter in the alphabet-Anna ever that this must be so after Bertha Cecilia Diana Emily reading the latest effusion by a Fanny, and so on to the final well-known fashion writer. "Wo- (but, in view of the gender, in- men's Heads Assume a New Im-appropriate) Zena. portance" her headline informs For a string of strange baptis- us. - Women, she writes, are more mal names it might be difficult to afraid of offending their hair-beat those borne by a member of dressers than their husbands; all the Tollemache family Lyulph engagements are put aside for Yderallo Odin'" "Néstor Egbert ppointment for a cut, wash Lyonel Toedmag Hugh Breffen- A new hairdressing wyse Saxon - Esa Orme "Nevil described where ent |Dysart Plantagenet Tollemache

rinsing Tollemache!