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ITALIAN MONARCHY

Don Iddon's Dlary

Patient Public Suspects Distortion Of Values

The political egg hatches a that a man famous as a humani-] Sunday clothes, and during the maximum of words, but a mini- tarian, Henry Agard Wallace, apring the U.S. has poured

the food past Vice-President, present Secro- about £500,000,000 on finery, frip- mum of action, oyer crisis, and revival of criticism tary of Commerce, and future pories, and just plain clothes. of alleged British "Imperialism." President in his own view, should

Shop-Eyed The American people are and choose this time to rebuke the

Some malca, encouraged by the ing it impossible to got excited British Empire instead of lending

Iran

to Indignant over his energies Anding for the spectacle of Michael Arlen, Sir

Aubrey

Raymond Smith, and Franco Spain, and they are famished.

Massey carrylag walking-sticks. cynical of Poland's ventriloquist's

are buying gold-knobbed dummy act.

but there's litte ease of swagger in their handling of them.

over

от

Wallace, in a major speech; now ays publicly what he's been say ¡SAYS

ing privately for some time: "Aside from language and

literary tradition, common liter

with have no more Communistic Russia." Imperialistic England than with

in common

D

Wa

These are harsh, ignoble words, Senator

Civil War Foar Oficially, the United States is Victor Emmanuel's farewell

considering all charges against letter to Umberto, the contents of Spain with meticulous

care, bus which were disclosed in Rome on neither State Secretary Byrnes Sunday, contributes little to an nor our man, Sir Alexander. Čado- understanding of the man and his gan, wants a wholesale severance motives. His abdication from the of diplomatic relations with the for the Spanish Government, throne to which he succeeded 46 simple reason that they fear ci! years ago merely gives formal war, with Communiam finally

Ma sanction to existing facts for he moving in and taking ever ceased to occupy it, for practical

No one here has forgiven, or purposes, two years ago. Indeed, forgotten, Franco's crime calen-world for nearly a quarter of a century, dar, but most people find it im- since Mussolini's "March on possible to imagine that Spain in Rome,"

a tends to attack France or endan- influence

his

monarch had been imperceptible, ger world peace.

The revelations of atom-

splitting and plotting Inside Spain by Nazi scientists are generally expected to turn out to be damp quibs sputtering in the mire of power-politics.

The patient public feels there is distortion of values when Spain gets so much headline attention and the shrinking stomachs of Europe and Asia so little.

Call To Fast

co-

and, coming fast after Claude Pepper's donunciation, of promises." have the odour of con- "British hypocrisy and broken spiracy,

The American people are roject- ing offcial advice that the new

organisation should

ba

called UN instead of UNO, UN a grunt and a nothing. UNO is the name,

Odds On Loan These facta should also be stu- died this week:

Odds on the Loan being autho- rised are now three to one. By the tige we get the credit it will almost bo time to pay it back.

It is superbly appropriate that UNO, established to promote world stability, should have a for- mer gyroscope factory as its head- quarters and that a skating rink hould be the scene of some of its dellberations.

BY THE

THE WAY

By BEACHCOMBER

canes,

Shirts are practically unobtain able, and the New Yorker points that it's impossible now to find out thatalled niiet more as well as

Kowever, it's been a

an

women's week. The alogan is:

will Your eyes the dizzy show of frenzied, flower- pop when you shop. Ours are slightly bloodshot from ed creations, lampshade lunacios, frilled fezes and fancy work, tor tured toques, and capering clowns

сара.

Coats have a "Come hither" look, while at night style demanda

the neck and shoulders throat fully into view, with dresses cut off one' shoulder or off both.

Mike In The Money The baseball season has started and the forth-

with a flourish, coming fight between Joe Louis and Billy Conn, with seats at £20 each, will begin a new golden age of sport.

The winner, of course, will be who is Jacobs, promoter Mike

fisti- making money hand over cuffs.

And the housing shortage wor- sens, so that returning Service men, doubling up with their rela- tives, any: "I went to war, was, no fun: but life with an in- law is worse than a gun."

and the end of his reign will be the occasion, in his own country as elsewhere, for some faint pity, but not the faintest regret. In significant in stature and appear- ance, simple and scholarly in his tastes, physically courageous, as jhe showed in the battles of the

First World War, King Victor! -unfortunately for him and for It is only the old brass-volcurli the Italian people had neither enemies of international

Anyway, the Russian effort to the will-power nor the judgment operation-the Hearats, Patter- turn Hunter College into a little seem to required for the responsibilities of sons, and McCormicks who are rei schoolhouse doesn't the throne. It was, in fact, Mus- shouting that Prohibition is on its have succeeded.

way hack, that the American Ration points are not necessary solini who for more than 20 years citizen is being robbed of his bear for, shopping hore, but patience, Entertainment has now become New York's second biggest busi- made every decision. The coup for the doubtful privilege of send-persistence, and fortitudo help. d'etat which placed the Duce in ing bread to foreigners, attuned 'and's clothes atorial has been and the pleasure whirl gets gid- are hard to get ness (the first is the retail trade), power was not resisted by King to the situation is the cull of some diverted to women's

More appropriate and

coats and dier. Victor, nor did he stand effective clergymen here for a national day dresses that it's said women have Even the roaring '20's never ly in his overweening Minister's of fasting to dramatise the taken the clothes off men's backs produced money-making like this.

Even so, there's been a great Fortunately, the Individual

por- way at any point until Italy found world's distress.

plenty capital on formers are being paid itself utterly defeated and the In view of all this, it's strange splurge of American

and that box-office luro Frank Fascist leaders were divided

Sinatra has signed a five-year against one another. In his de-

contract guaranteeing him a mini- mum of a $1,500,000 whether he fence it may be urged that the

or not, Since words now mean what-in Kensington and said, jovial makes pictures"

Gary Cooper

becomes the King followed the only course open to a consitutional monarch. ever a speaker wishes them to ly. "A pint of bitter off the ice,

star highest-paid per productiun But a more determined constitu- mean, there is no harm in call- miss," "Yes," said the barmaid, tional monarch who disliked Musing a match everlasting because "A thousand miles off the ice, in the world with $500,000 for a

single film. thousand my lad." The second occasion д

The xtudios

told to shon gang- solini as heartily as King Victor It may strike

was in a Surrey public-house. A ster movies *87 harmful It may last heavy smokers a very pompous gentleman enter-America's prestige abroad, have METROPOLE DANCE RESTAURANT undoubtedly did would have found times."

the means of replacing him, or month, or it may not. So it ised and said, in a haughty tone, how plunged into

cycle of else have abdicated voluatarily as everlasting. I prefer the "Anybody been in asking for highly charged, sex-saturated pay- re-chological Alme, raw and harsh, a protest before the nation. How Strabismus cigarette, which is me?" "Two black women," far the King personally approved alight when you buy it, and will plied the barmaid, to the huge but great profit yielders. Tho. Churches protest, but go unheard. Deanna Stays In the Abyssinian adventure, the smoke for ever-that is, for half enjoyment of the drinkers. subservient pact with Germany an hour, unless you allow it to A Note On The Violin

A Cremona violin, made by and the fatal war against the gout. -

What Tosti Forgot Niccolo Amati, was sold for Allies remains doubtful, but in all!

"Falling sock and fading 1,200 guineas the other day. To these steps he acquiesced, no doubt

*** tree,"

the "ignerant ene violin looks in the hope of safeguarding the

Sang Tonti in despair. and sounds very much like an- Throne for his dynasty. His

"Goodbye, summer, goodbye," other. And everybody knows tardy rejection of the Fascist re-

said he,.

the story of the wealthy vul- and others is Dorothy gime when it was already doomed!

But a blackbird sitting garian who married a violinist, who declares her three-month-old did not prevent him from being t

there

and anid to her, "Now, myeon is her best production; Gene Raymand, Jeanette Macdonald, much identified with its personally

Chirped, "Atta. Tosti! Why dear, you can afford a

Durbin, Deanna

and Lana Turner failure, and he was ill-advised not

bigger violin." But why are the are also in town. to abdicate immediately at the

thing you old instruments so much finer in

Raymond, who had tone than the present-day ones? war record, says no one knows "The socks that fall in a- The main reason is that the his name now but he doesn't mind,

tumn time

varnish used was better, and as his wife, Jeanette Macdonald, However, he "Need a Thorogrip Garter- mere care was taken in drying is still

to being caled Mr. it in the sun, and it is careful would object to b In Passing,

varnishing which influences the Macdonald.

The Durbin has locked herself The victory of the barmaids tone of the violin more than

her hotel suite, and la saying Glasgow over the tee you' would think.

nothing.

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The Prince now becomes the representative of the monarchy with little in his favour beyond: a historical sentiment' for, the House which unified Italy and a reputation for having been non friend of the Duce. Whether be

is to reigh will be decided by the Italian referendum next month."

IRAQ AND PALESTINE

Baghdad, May 19. Towilk Al Suwaidi, premier of Iraq, said on Sunday that he

MILITARY RACE MEETING understood Hussia to be opposed

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to the recommendations of the Anglo-American inquiry committee for the admission of an additional 100,000 Jows in Palestino.

"I don't have definite informa- tion, Suwaldi said "but it is said Russia opponca

the.

Teport,"

Suwaldi denied published ports that the new Turko-Tragi tresty provides for Iraq's cognition of Turkey's annexation of Alexandretta. ···

re-

"Such a ropart is groundless,"

be declaredAssociated Press.

PALESTINE NINVITATION

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forget:

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a man came into a public-house them..

World Socialist Conference

Clacton-on-Sea, May 20.

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'over

London

The International Socialist Conference, which ended in this

sea-side resort today, decided.to establish a bureau for mutual contact and information among the world's Socialists and to reconvene 'next October, again in Britain, to consider, more permanent stops for re- gular exchanga, jedna

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In New York, Oscar Ham- merstein II, becomes Broadway's first citizen, with six straight. hits running simultaneously, mak- ing Billy Rose blush and brienpet:: Todd nod. Seeing

"the Hammerstein' shows Lamour,

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brilliant

Lana Turner is in the throes of a new romance.

Paulette Goddard and Margaret, Sallavan will soon be en route for London

Nool Coward should drop over here and ask President Truman to pubiicisa British films.

Gertrude Lawrence, with whom I had a farewell drink last night, has organised a Food for Britain Drive, and she and all her friends Are sending parcels. More Laurels for Lawrence.

Florence Desmond is, clicking hore.

- Goldy Locks The latest Hollywood make-up trick is gold dust on the hair and eyelashes of spun glass.

The week's film is "Dovation."

with Ida Luping and Olivia do Havilland. It will stir no com- The week's play is "Carmen" bargain and

In the meantime, Britain's Labour Party, which sent four-Jones revival. A

ministers to attend the conference, will take charge blessing. of the London office.

The third major decision of the cuss, sending a delegation to delegates, who came from 20 Moscow for talks stop decided countries, including Canada, New on at previous conference which

and Palos has not, so far, boon carried out tine, was ta'

The book of the week is "Night and the City" by Gerald Kerah. Mom Able Than Caino (James), Astor Oil

Items: The Boston Globe says. what the American wants todgy is

Zealand, and younaasarence Professor: Harold Laski, one of | house to live in and a moter-

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There will be a Special Cash Swoop on the Stewards". Cup, tickets for which ($2) may be obtained at the Office, of the Hong Kong fockey Club, Exchange Building, First floor,

The Palatine Higha Commit, parisserstroma the. Spanish pro- ! together with the usund Through" numbers (810) including sier Geveral Sir Alan Cunningham Invitations for this meet. Blain' deleater to the con- to way repeats to the

Lady Astor a chance in the Stewards: Cup Sweep.

Many thum, has invited this Arab Higher ing, will be sent out by the French ference, told reporter today Public · Enclosure $1.- including Tax Committes and the Jawish,

The the tower Lilm today Bocalists and Britain' Labour i tha he would resign his chair United Bistes: "You should

Great Britain.* Astor oil for the the Party well as other parties manship of the Labour Party's on your knees in gratitude spokespan Indicated that the Members Enclosure 38-

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