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By Paul Holt

Three Ways To Keep A Dictator In Business

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A man from Madrid was tell- King Umberto, his son, has "America has a food surplus. ing me how Franco keeps his 20 days to go before the Italian Her difficulty in not one of good popularity with the Spanish nation deeldo whether to keep will, but of ability to act. Sho people.

him on.

can't collect her surplus, First he warmly welcomed King George of the Hellenca I believe that there would be the appointment of three new has been told Greece may want a surplus of lard in America, cardinals by the Pope. This him back after September 1. but if we want it we shall have has ensured him the

Regent Charles of Brussels is to send our traders, who used enthusiasm of the priesthood. coming to London to look for a to import lard, to go to find

Second, he allows the generala British bride.

It. The collection of foodstuffs of the army a small but steady Juan of Spain and Leopold of | by Governments is breaking rake-off from the black market. the Belgians are anug in Swit- down."

Third, he has instituted the zerland. Their countries might Yes, Lord Woolton. But system of week-end trips to call for them, but they don't would the trader, when he had Madrid, all expenses paid, and think so.

smelt out the Inrd for himself, new uniform once a year for Definitely out. are Zog of meekly band it back to the

Albania and army N.C.O..

Peter of Yugo Ministry of Food to ration for slavia.

us? You would, sir. But then, As King Albert of the Eel-you are an exceptional grocer. gians once said: "Il y a beau coup de chomage dans mon

Let's Pretend metler." (There's plenty of men "Great Fun, Mnke believe stood off in my trade, just now). | you are in New York. Envelope and letterhead of New York Uncontrolled!

hotel sent. You write and re-

Thus he has the Church and the army catered for.

there.

I mention these grisly details just in case you are thinking of starting a Fascist State your self. Niccolo Machiavelli set it all out some centuries ago in "The Prince."

us.

pro-

readers

For Shame

In

Within the limits of what is possible, the leading nations of the world are mobilising in a co-

As for the people, they don't operative effort to fight off

complain. They regard the boss famine. By no means all has yet much as the Germans used to been done that can be done; there look on Goering a gangster, but is still scope for greater contribu- gallant and gay. They are not tions from some of the more badly fed or paid. Out of the

A shiny little Franco

daily called favoured countries; there are still 2,000,000 Republicana

Price Zs. Sd."—Advertisemea. savings to be made even in Hong threw into jail 30,000 are still The Hollywood Reporter, which turn. We mall in New York.

The rest died or have makes the breakfast-time read- in West London paper. Kong, The

It- prospect muse

been released. If they are alive ing for all the big film

Embezzlers, absconding solici- main bleak for the world until they are too cowed to lift their ducers, has been writing about tors, wife-murderers. black- there have been two or three

eyes above the pavement.

The editor is breaking the mallera and other practical jok- good harvests. War and drought

ers should note this attractive offer. combined have so reduced food

news to his worried production and food stocks that

that some of the new British several very lean years are in

films are taking more money at than their

We should be ashamed of escapable. The task of prevent

British box-offices best productions. The reason ourselves, the way we go on ing immediate and widespread

in not that British films are nagging at these Land Girls. Spy Film Hero disaster obviously has top priority,

better, but that "there is no Elther they are frec-born There is one Englishman in story control in England at workers employed by free enter- and the conference called by the

This ins led, the prise-in which E it is Food and Agriculture Organisa- Spain who would make a perfect present.” tion of the United Nations, in hero for a spy film. Ho la editor thinks, to an out-burst absurd to tell them what time ut the British of sex, sadism and toughness into come in at night or what clase association with, the main clerk, I think,"

All day long he sits; British filma.

kind of stockings to wear. Or is relief organisations, will have the Embassy.

"Truc, there at his files.

a British clue they are war workers or present crisis very much in mind.

He knows the names, occupa- Board of Corisors in London," State-directed workers. But the F.A.O. was set up with tions and hide-outs of 14,000 he writes, "but they, like all which case they are entitled to

bodies there, are full gratuities. a more far-reaching purpose German Nazis who found refuge governing

pictures nothing less than to organise and with Franco. Some of the big treating all British

At present the poor girls have safeguard the world's food sup- ones come to him now to bribe with a benevolence that permits only one solution to their mis- information about the London producer to getery. To marry the boys. And plies for all future time. It him with

there are too many farmers' sounds a mammoth task, but it their pals. The information all away with anything.

The licentious English, of wives around already for that be accomplished if in this goes in his files,

Cast For Humour course, are accretly hatching a to work. Goodness, how sad Holly Mardi Gras for June, though to -che-nations-can-be-prevailed-upon wood has bought for production fool the foreigner they will call to work together. F.A.O. is now he two greatest examples of it a Victory Parade. embarking on what Sir John modern American hamorous

The Exception Boyd Orr, in an interview the writing-"The Private Life of Lord Woolton, just home from day called "Operation Walter Mitty," a short story by America-where he too has been Joseph." It is going to take a James Thurber, and "Life with having a look into the food world view of food-to collect Father," by the late Clarence situation--delivers this remark-

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For so long now a favourite quotation with Americans has been: "My country, righ or wrong, but still my country." British diplomats in America the tag. They have adapted say now: "My country. Right or Left; but still-my country."

TO SET WOMEN FREE

Mr. Silkin's Parhumentary re- forence last woels to the Reilly Plan calls attention to 4 plan- ning proposal of immense signi- ficance, especially to women.

com-

The proposal is for munal meals service which would Sir Hartley Shawcross in the supply complete family meals in Commons indignantly denies & insulated containera, relieving mounting lack of morality in housewives either permanently our brides, although he does not or occasionally of the repetitive challenge the figures of the tasks of shopping, cooking and divorce crisis which is about washing-up.

our cars.

Some critics have said that

to relieve the housewife of the perpetual round of shopping, cooking and washing up is to "destroy family life."

By L. Wolfe

the aid of a

My reply is that true family life can never depend on the virtual servitude of the house- wife and mother; and that not only family life, but the family itself is, in fact, being destroy- cd before our eyes for lack of the facilities proposed in the For, of course, the containers Reilly Plan There is only one thing to do with the dirty dishes would be As to the management of the to put marriage back on its feet colested after cach meal and menis service in the community. and ultimately reclaim morality, taken back to ng cemura kit-centre, I need only say that the Copenhagen, June 4. Make marriage terribly hard to chen to be washed up by m-fret working unit, for experi- Newspapermen should partici-get into-and terribly easy to

chinery.

mental purposes, is now being naso in the United Nations to en-

Such a meals service could be aure that the freedom of the get out of

Imagine the result. The

established in any existing press is embodied in the organi young couples would have time neighbourhood, out the best tion's framework, journalist toid the opening session to think and think before they setting for it is the layout plan organised with

went to the registrar. And the designed by Sir Charles Reilly well-known professional chef of the International Federation of Journalists yesterday.

threat that the knot could be and described by himself in the with some years of hotel ex- Speaking before negamen from cut in five minutes would make "Daily Herald" last year.

perience. 20 nations, Mr. Archibald Ken- many a shrewish young wife

The essence of this plan is On the basis of demonstra- yon, aesistant editor of the "York- and thoughtless husband hold that neighbourhoods aro rcs- tions which I have scen, I can

ire Evening Post" and Presid her tongue, mind his manners.

tricted to a maximum of 1,200 testify that, under such direc ent of the Federation, said that i Royalty Line-Up Inhabitants, and are for the Lion, meals of a very high the United Nations, discusaing A slightly bearish tone is mest part ballt, not in streets, standard can be produced from the Royalty market but In A number of "village present food rations and un- greens" ranged bike the petals of rationed foodstuffs in ample just at this moment.

Emperor Hirohito has a flower Thu

community supply. round a been excused responsibility for centre. It is from there that stayed with the chef in Japanese war crimes. Nor will the meals service, among others, question-Mr. Ilario Offredi→→→ he be called to give evidence. would operate..

for a time,

the raw materials, watched the processes the Down The Sink!

of preparation, and ate It is easy to see how the exist meals. And I found them more. ence of an efficient meala ner than satisfactory In quantity, vice on the proposed lines in any quality and variety. area would-influence the lives

Moreover, I was enabled to of all the housewives of that check up on the precise coat of area and, through them, the rest all items that enter into the of its population.

and it was

the press, without participation

of the broas, muld be playing noted in Hamlet without the Prince of Denmark."--Associated Presa.

Prague, June 4.

An artificial meat, made from King Victor Emmanuel har ra yeast, "torula utilis," soun will done a wonderful job house- be sold to Czechoslovaks, ac.hunting. Already he is installed cording to the ministry of in- in a palace King Farouk has

lent him, formation-Associated Press.

BY THE WAY

By BEACHCOMBER

wages and

fuci,

At present, the overwhelming preparation of meals, including majority of housewives are tied proved that a meals service run to the kitchen, whether they are | by an experienced chef could

Ventreguicunel O horror piled, to be taken in small doses. Dipping on horror! Some meddling Jacka- into it at random ore. finds such napes has gono and spoilt the whole beautiful future..

į gems as "Hearst, H. J., Hearst, good or bad cooks and whether supply three excellent meals per We had been promised that if W. S.,", and at oncó the scone they like or dislike cooking, and day for less than ten shillings we were good we should all fly lives before one's eyes. One sooms the associated chores. faster than sound. And now

to have known these Haarsts in-l This menas, in effect, that! Per head per week,

Incredible as this may sound, someone has invented a way of timately, and, one is sorry to part nearly half the nation's brains similar reaults have been making sound travel faster than with them. It la a relief to one and labour power goes down the achieved by somo keen and hitherto. So to beat sound we to come across a work, in which sink.

capable school cooks, must travel, even faster than wo there are no violent excitements. But once the housewife is Of course, the idea of supply- thought we should have to. What Ono's nerves are rested Ons is able to obtain the family's meals ing to individuals and families 1s the uap

now of a jet plane lulled by the drowsy sound of in- from a reliable centre, she will meals in Insulated containers is that lags behind sound, like a numerable names humming in the be tied to the kitchen only at not now. It has been done at dirty: Fascist reactionary? Is that tired mind's hinterland like boes her own choice; that is, if her least since the beginning of the democracy?. No.

among clover on a June

affor Fly With Threadgold's on One's only criticism is that talent lies in that direction. contary by restaurants in Buda-

When travelling. faster than

sound In a stratosphere-racket-jet, Acquire,

bofore leaving the ground, A Thorogrip Garteretto. For this is the age of endeavour,

The future belongs to “kêu, S "And there's nothing the least bit

In a sacks that falla zover, a

the book is profaced with an syranco that all the characters are real people. Burely there would bodo point in a fictitious list of Imaginary exbmon.

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› Mrs. Wretch Again

Otherwise, she will be free to pest, Vienna, Paris, Berlin and go to work and earn money, or elsewhere, devote her time and energies to The only now features of the local or national politics, or to Reilly Flan aro that it must be any other pursu!t for which she on a fairly considerable scale is best fitted by temperament, and must be run on communal, Intellect and training... non-profit-making lines,

If abo bas young children, tho A communal: mosiseoryico Mrs. Wretch wellas: The, barbed | Refily. Plan provides a 24-hour prosents, many minor advant- wire which, is now being used to nursery, where they oro, looked | agpa, lika, fuel saving. But its keep people out of: Gardens" shosild: "Be,

after by exports, vandring i grantest advantago" lles : In Vin- b Event the whounowite and itiating a way of life in which imidtler who chooses; toʻktay at the intelligence and ability of one" would's take, Advantage of the y blaen "ware "non-stroplifed