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The Security Council of the United Nations is faced with an- other potential source of friction by M. Gromyko's yeto of the Evatt resolution on Spain. The general temper of the discussion: ensured rejection of the British amendment, based upon the argu- ment that Spain's internal politics are a domestic matter and that the breaking off of diplomatic re- | lations now would serve no practi- cal purpose. It night, however, have been expected that the So- viet delegate would accept the anajority feeling, (nine votes

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By Dick Turner

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BUT CRICKET IS A BANQUET

COMMANDOS "RAID" BRITAIN

Anyone out at sea looking on i

Shooting battle scenes be to the shores of St. Margaret's came a matter of comproniise

Dover, Bay, near

must have and co-operation. The director wondered what tho hell was to the officers in charge if the happening. It looked as if the troops what he wanted. They war, finished almost a year ago, agreed, or made suggestions had started up again.

based on their battlo experience, The white cbulk cliffs of the and then passed the orders on shoreline were floodlit with the to the men. When lights, cam- hard brilliant light of an are

eras and such were ready the lamp. Through the shattered director blow his whistle and houses of a tiny war-battered the men went into action. village at the foot of the cliffs it was never as easy as that, leapt shadowy- figures carrying mortars, rifles. Bren and Tom- my guns. A yellow-grey smoke rolled belchingly down the street. bursts of small arme fire

cracked out siacatta from the

By

But

CAPT. C. W. SMITH

houses, bombs exploded, and for something invariably went masonry flew violently into the wrong. Back would come the air. As if to crown the whole troops to be met by their pals fantastic scene a huge German standing by shouting jeeringly, Radar net stood on the top of "You'll never make Clark those Dover Cliffs, looking odd- Gables." Swearing softing but ly out of place as it started out good naturedly about "bloody on to the English Channel. shambles," they would form up There was obviously some-and have another go.-on an thing "phoney" about this bat-average four or five times be tle that raged in the village, fore a successful take" was For further down the beach a minde.

Acenes.

group of people stood contented- But film making had its ly warming themselves around a bright moments, especially for Úrazier, and on a nearby break- fifteen of the paratroops he had water apparently oblivious to previously spent a fortnight what was going on, sat n mixed down at Denham Studies doing bunch of British paratroopers Interior

One para- and "German" soldiers idly trooper, "Tuffy" described it as throwing stones into the sen "amashing." and if you have one that the main issue be pust-

Top-Secret

ever heard that word apcken in poned until September, an ar-

Keen eyes would have soon the soft sing song Welsh voice, titude which was in accord with}

found a simple solution to it all, you will know that everything the recommendations of the fact-

for tucked away in the shadows was fixed up very nicely, thank finding sub-committee. The sub-

Lord Inverchapel, the new Bri-, have prevented anyone from as50-

wore two movie cameras busily you. "Smashing was also the | committee (on which Britain was Lish Ambassador to tae United elating the game with duliness.

at work The production unit word "Taffy" used to describe anali nevor forget how, when

of the Two Cities film represented) endorsed the States, sent a shudder through the

the director of the film, l'eter "Top

Ustinoy, recently, demobbad joint Jeclaration by

Secret" story, partly factual, Britain, frames of cricketers all the world rst visited Lord's between forty over when son arriving on Ameri-nd lifty years age, it was as if 1 France and the United States,

can sell the other day, he ex- had strayed into an earthly pars partly fleitional of the making from the Army, whom he met pressed the opinion that cricket The green of the

pitch.

110t

which last March condeinned the Franco regime

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43

red

and expressed in the dullest game ever invented, white of the players and of Radar-was on location. Time at Denham. I readiness to recognise any piter- Yet Lord Inverchupel was 2b of the ball made a picture of on- gative interim Spanish Govern-viously right. Any game is dull chantment-the same three colours

it

delight the eye in watching und, you don't like

that ment pledged to restore freedoin. | cricket is the longest of all a

a game of

of billiards. In cricket on It pointed to the large army gemes, it must also be the dullest un puspicious day, however, we have also the gold of the sun and maintained by Franco and the for those who are bored by it,

and yet the blue of the sky. existence of a rival body calling If you hate football,

are compelled for some reason to itself the "Spanish Republican

attend football match.

1 Government in exile"

to

as sources

By ROBERT LYND

you

I don't know at what other game you will find the colours of hap- piness in so great a profusion.

As for the game itself, what a

Kaille

the twenty- for them had slipped back. four years of his life, Peter Dover was no longer Dover but has been playwright, fim script- a part of the French Coast, and writer, actor, director and priv- ate in the Royal Sussex Regi- the "battle" on the shore was script-made version of a comment. Perhaps most will re- bined operation raid on German member him as the cafe proprie- equipment assembled tor in "The Way Ahead of which he was part-author, and But the men

"playing sol-as one of the commentators in diers" were

genuine troops "The True Glory." some hundred odd Royal Marine

Pain In Neck and Army Para- A heavy,

radar there.

bent upon the Security Council as Wimbledon during the lawn-tennia des bowling was less excit-genuine raid on German Radur 4 lanco-corporal leaned out of

F

season,

•

Verity's

Peter

of international friction, which in

shambling, lumpy expressed the belief will recur.

brief human excellence it Commandos

into play strength, dating, troopora, mostly veterans of fellow, Peter in battledress must But it distinguished between the

wisdom, imperturbaility, graec, | Africa, Italy', France and have been a pain in the neck to swiftness and humour potential menace to international

For amon Arnheim.

them, there his sergeant-major when he then. peace, which the Franco regime

was little glamour in this film joined in 1942. He was still a The spectacle of a Jessop's bat extra work. As a change it was private when he was asked to actually offers, and an "im

know that the agony will be over

ting as he knocks the ball about fun but for the most part it write and direct "Top Secret" mminent" menace which is does not in about an hour and a half.

in pursuit, apparently, of a short

was a "dead loss." Hands were some six or seven months ago. so far offer. Unters, therefore, if, hating cricket, you are com-

pelled to sit through a cricketlife and a merry one provides ont

of the excitements of the it could be judged (as the Polish match, the agony may be pro-

torn on wire and rubble, several He tells an amusing story of the imperturbable caution of 't were badly bruised by falling his trip to Malvern where he reservation to the report sug longed for three whole days er. E. Warner as he wins the masonry, most were sorked to was sent to pick up background

Test match, timelpas gests) that even a potential threat in

for county championship for Mid- the skin in the beach landing material for the film. On the demands a peace

common eternity if necessary.

dlesex by waiting, despite the and evacuation scenes,

day he was due to go be stood am myself simple seul who, barrackers, for the hittable ball breach of diplomatic and economic

outside his home dressed in his John Timothy though

never having been able

provides

the grace of the relations under the terms of the to play any gaine well, finds

Critically watching the film- baggy uniform waiting for trans- strokes of a Charter, it is difficult to see that almost any game exciting. I ad-ney in whose hands the bat seems wolley, or a Macart-

ing was Capt. John Timothy, port which he was told would any fresh action was or is incum-mit that if I had a ticket for to become a veritable willow pry. C. and two Bara, a paratroop take him there. Up the street

another.

officer who had taken part on a swept a large saloon staff car. championship

I would whole. The sub-committee's

rather give it away than make useing in one sense than those flerte epipment, the highly success the window and motioned him. recommendation that the General of it. But I have never found

you. Do you know Assembly in September should even Wimbledon what you would precipitations of Gregory, but he ful Bruneval raid of February, "Past,

made cricket a lovelier game-1942. For the last

three where number 32 is? Peter mild- urge members to break off diplo-call dull.

why even I, who am not an ex- matic relations with Franco dyes

nert and cannot follow the finer months he had been acting asly pointed a finger at his home. technical adviser on the film. "Oh. Do you know this ore not really carry as any farther, difficult to please. I know a man

Some people, however, are more points of the game, onjoy watch-

Besides. correcting small mis- Ustinov bloke" Neckly ing cricket. but it seems a wiser procedure of genius whose boyhood ambition

takes like actors wearing their pointed to himself. than to require immediate action,

In the horrid allence that fol- it was to become a professional If cricket is a dull game, how equipment wrongly or giving unless obvious advantages were Association footballer and who yet is it that Englishmen pezsisted in incorrect fire orders, he advised lowed the baggy private got, into looks on the Oxford and Cam- playing an early form tit though the film directors on the battle the back of the car and settled ber of States have already ceased finitely dreary succession of stop-the law to two years' imprison of opinion arose.

of n staff vehicle, to have diplomatic relations with

scrums and lineouts. Pages for

ment and Ane of 102 Mon do

But the fun didn't finish What was good film was often Spain and have urged their fel I know other, men-fairly intol- not risk two years' imprisonment bad

battle tactics, In the there. Arriving at Malvern, a dull game. low-members of the United Na-ligent men, too, though you may to play a

It was apparently only in 1749 shooting of an evacuation scene the car stopped outside a huge tions do likewise. British And this hard to believo-who

think horse-racing dull.

that it was decided that ericket paratroops had to bring back Officers Mess. Inside the ball radar feelings towards Franco, bitter

captured

and Army The only fault that I, on the

equipment paced high RAF wna, not an illegál

game. The

With timorous through the village to the land- Officers. during the war and contemptuous other hand, have to find with

court declared, on the contrary,

amusement Peter stood quietly now, have certainly not been Rugby and racing is that for a that it "was a very manly gur

ing craft waiting on the beach. The film directors planned to on one side waiting for some- mollified by his recent extraordin-man of my age they are too exeit- not bad in itself, but only in the

rushing madly thing happen. Finally ary boast that he had "favoured g-more excruciatingly exciting use made of it by betting more have the men

than the Deadwood.

Dicli than

£10 on it,"

from the village towards the Colonel spotting him, breezed up the Allied nations" and even penny dreadfuis

my school days

Cricket, however, has not need cameras positioned at the end with a sort of "wall, what can "saved Britain." There are, after Cricket, is, of course, no good even the excitement of betting of the steet. Quietly it was we do for you young man" at- all, limits to the preening and exelting as Rugby or racing. No to keep it alive. After all, though pointed out that in previous titude. Neckly Peter explained

going like

like pneumatic drills with may tolerate in a tottering dicta put intermission for three days on tor. But the distaste and (to use end. If cricket were as continu: ously exciting Rugby everybody Mr. Bevin's word) detestation who played it or watched it would ables man (or boy) to knock a bat; the slow pace of the wounded. felt for Franco and his regime in become a

nervous

wreck. this country are insufficient mo

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+

apparent. It is true that a numbridge-Rugby match as an-in anyone doing so was liable under-scenes, and often differences himself into the ample luxuries

to

even.

of my

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to

1

fawning which a sense of humour one could bear to have his mulus born to trouble, he is als cines men had been wounded. that he was toying there. Com-

yan

tives to prompt us to military in- Aport from the question of ux-summer's day.

born to knock a ball of some kind The or other about with the foot or

ovacuation, therefore, plicatione, "Surely not?" "There the hand or a piece of wood, And would not be in a rushing rabble was a nice big camp for him cricket is the only game that en

but would be carried out to sult five miles down the road," and so on. The bulky figure stood about through the length of

his ground Insisting that he was at the right address. "Ah woll, most irregular, let's see,"

Ustinov win on the guest list. A few minutes Inter relaxing on When Mra. Wollett opened her the bed of his private suite with I door to a knock, expecting to see bath and lavatory attached, the later she had not seen for Peter the Private, contentedly sineteen years, it was only a thought of the Group Captains Colvington, whom she had never obligingly doubling-up in single rooms, and of the many days he had spent lying on hard billet floors.

Its comparatively slow progress magistrate. The sally was greeted terference, and it is doubtful whecitement, however, I should have is not a vice but a virtue. Other by hearty laughter, in which two-and aure, enough the name.P. ther the steps proposed would dis. thought that the beauty of a field games are mere packs in congly mon joined.

Cricket is a banquet. of cricketers on a fluo day would mariann.

BY THE WAY

By BEACHCOMBER

lodge him. They might even have a contrary effect. Those countries which are foremost in urging common action by the United Nations' appear, as a rulę, The efforts of, scientists to pro- | for the job. to disregard the really appalling duce larger Izult must be balanced "Well began the Director, possibilities implicit in yet another by the efforts of other scientists and at that moment his oye fel on, the, taut socks of the young civil war in Spain. It is not sim to produce smaller fruit.

If we are to have blackcurranta nian, and a slow emile spread ply a question of installing a free the size of melons wo must have over his face. Silently he raised Republican regime. Dr. "Negrin melons the size of blackcurrants. In trouser-leg. The young man and his followers have so far fail. Even so, no fruit must bo tao grinned.

big.

Gat ed to win the support even of the

A cumbersome gooseberry

said the Director. FOLLO exiled Spanish Socialists. Shill less which had to be hauled on to a threadgold's Thorogrip

arry by crane would defeat "That's it, sir," said the young

ita one mind with the own ends, whatever is own endirinn, raising his trouser-leg, are they of Monarchists, themselves divided. may be. What the ordinary man "The job's

said the Franco's survival to date appear's wil nak is, large fruit neces- Director.

And they went out arm-in-arm rally more tasty than amal! to exploit differences of opinion rexit?" That being a repetionary to lunch.

in the outside world. These dif- question, and an insult to tho ferences of opinion, however, are modern worship of rare buik, not upon his merits, but upon the there will be no answer. best practical means of removing Parable For The

him without needless bloodshed: 27. prolonged chaos: What he is real-

ly exploiting is the disunity sumont Spaniards themselves, whose ven: dettas prolong the deadlock.

Ambitions -

on

mot.

Song

Datos are plentiful.

(Evening paper.). The arab is a happy lad

And hope down lover's Jano When he has got a date at an

Oasis, teith a jane. Chorus: Wallo, walls, walla,

walla, walld

toon

Most of the paratroopers and commandos-at-St. Margaret's Bay nover went to Denham.

film The highlights of their career was the sleeping In on the following morning, the oddl spot of chatter with the village girls watching the filming, the occasional tot of rum dolled out the to them when they wore soaked there depicted emerging to the skin, and the nightly ar

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