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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1948,

Don

Iddon's

Diary

The Now World's New Year resolutions are to shun vodka. "go steady" with the faithful and rollable Britannia, and re- ANTI-SMUGGLING | duce its own inflated waistline.

PACT

The first two resolutions will propably be carried out with

PICTURE OF THE AMERICAN SCENE

The first move to achieve this . has been to re more of the studioa", beat Writers because `of their Left views. This will only get Hollywood left at the post.

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Errol Flynn has plenty to celebrate. He has just signed the film city's most fabulous contract1,000,000 income guaranteed over the next 15 years. And they used to call him Error Flynn.

So the all-important all-Am Greer Garson wants to do a erlcan item on the 1948 agenda "Good-bye, Mrs. Chipa" film, is to clamp down on soaring inking the title right out of our prices and coste, to shed super-mouth. Buous fat, and deflate infintion.

Loretta Young, brimming ever with impressions of Bri-

The Great Fall Lain, will give no more parties or presents-a!! her spare Hong Kong's willingness to few lapses, because the Rux- In New York we are still dig-money will go for food parcels meet China in a co-operative spirit algn drink produces such proging ourselves out of the great for Britain. could hardly be more clearly de- diglous hangovers and Briton-new. The heavens opened and Paulette Goddard and hun- monstrated than in the new Anti-ta has proved herself a brave, overwhelmed the town, and it band Burgess Meredith will Smuggling Agreement announced self-reliant, as well as beauti-will take weeks to get trans- take £500 worth of food with from Nanking Rather more deful lady.

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Huge banks and drifts of snow continue to block mont cross-town streets and many avenuea.

The great fall lies heavy over Manhattan and the entire State, and all the digging and drilling The American figure is be- and shovelling of tens of thou- coming gross and unmanage-sands of snow-removal men has able, and Uncle Sam is begin-eut only a pathway and trenches ning to resemble a balloon man, for traffic and pedestrians.

them for friends in Britain on their next trip.

Out Of Focus

Zionist groups are complain- ing that nowo-reel cutâte are cut off from covering recent vents in the Holy Land. They never did cover them. They distorted them.

The Diary awards for the year follow:

Best films shown here: "Odd Man Out," "Boomerang," "Body

to an Alaskan town, relying on aleighs drawn by horses and huskies, on a skeleton servical of buses and subways, a hand- Tandy. fut of taxis, on the determina- tion and staming of workers trusting to their legs to carry them to their jobs."

Snow Barriers

Hundrede

of the great

Palestine's Strange Conflict

CARNIVAL

By Dick Turtier

COPR. THEY BY NEA BERVICE, ICT, ACREST US. K TAYT,DİZ.

got my start when one day my wife says, "Willyum, of

all th clowns I over seen, you take th' cake!!! voi

Ex-King Michael's Princess

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BY JOHN FISHER

Here she Princess, on the, the Axio, with the

result that

had heard till she came to the ment confiscated his estates.

ai Nan, who was then 16, went Royal Weddling In London month ago Princess Anne-An- with her mother to New York, toinette-Francoise-Charlotte of and there studied commercial Bourbon-Para-the girl who art. Then she Joined her

who ran is partly the cause of King mother,.

a smart hat Michael's abdication.

shop. Later she drove an am- bulance for the French Red

quiet; the girl of whom nobody the French and Italian Govern

Twenty-four years old, long- Cross. legged with fino, perhaps beautiful, features, dark curly Today Anne, her mother, and hair, and big brown eyes, she Prince Rene live in a small vilia makes you wonder A Hittle In a prosperous suburb to the whether the other eligible Euro- north of Copenhagen; Prince pean Princes weren't some Rete still travels abroad a good what slow in lotting King deal. Michael beat them to it with his proposal.

tail is probably essential to sound But the third resolution is analysis, but there is sufficient in-going to be difficult to keep. formation in the cabled summary Each day the swollen cor. to suggest that the British au poration gets bigger, bursting thorities have leaned over back. Its waistcoat buttons, straining wards to assist China in carrying the tight belt already close to out a task which, normally, would its last notch. be regarded as China's entire te possibility, and that the Agree as su completely one-sided tasking all and giving nothing) timt all it means for Hong Kong is the necessity for imposing a set Even his best friends are tell. Excavatora, snow ploughs. of pettifogging regulations to ing him about this corpuletice bull-dozers have merely scratch- and Soul."

Best actor: John Milla; best the mountainous know hamper shipping companies, plus and obesity, and the only solu-ed at t possible complications that tion seems a drastic diet. more pile. The most mechanised city actress: Joan Crawford, for and stringent self-in the world has been reduced making a wonderful come-back may go with the activities of the exercise,

Best play: "A Street-car Maritimes

discipline. Chinese

Customs

Named Desire." the Colony, duplicating within

Best stage actress: Jessica President Truman has al- those of our own preventive ser-ready recommended stern price controls, drastic profit slasher, The thinking that rules such and rationing, but Congress, committed to year-end sprees, deprecating observations might be ordered the barman to set them modified, in the special circum-up again for drinks all round. stances, were it possible to point to sume measure of reciprocity by After the Feast... China in other fields. As for in-i stance a curb on such crude mani- New year's night's celebration, arteries in the city itself and festations of mischievous provoca however, was definitely set as the leading to and from it are still tiveness that produce inevitably last big whoop-and-wallow blocked and barricaded by solid the inspiration for such lawless orgy, and after that the law-10ft-high walls of now. Thou- defiance as caused Monday's un-makera moan to get down to

of cars, abandoned by sends fortunate incident in the Kowloon

their drivers, have been swal City area. Instead, we seem to They need to. As the stomachlowed by the show. est no more for our pains than has bulged the dollar has fie joint signature of a documerit shrunk. It is now wafer-thin, are marooned, and ambulances is a strange conflict in which one is high-spirited, with a sense of wealthy, and Princess Anne is

In the suburbs many families;

Palestine's undeclared Holy War "Nan," as the family call her, comfortably off, but not such 15 the Anti-Smuggling buying only half of what it did

and fire-engines

get or the 1.000 "fronts might le Agreement une day and diploma- before the war.

thiough even to the heart Every month during 1947 its Manhattan,

of between two floors of an apart. humour and a distaste for the not in the city's 'smart tic support for squatters,

inent house where troops wear kind of stiff functions often You do not see her around much tars, and hooligans the next. purchasing power decreased.

uniforma ranging from cast-off GI] thrust on to royalty. She is dancing, er playing tennie." and today the cost of living in 1 have been very impressed khakis to old evening dress It is not that we regret, er 15 per cent. higher than at the by the spirit and will of Now can have their choice

A woman friend of the Prin- and adept at giving imitations of her of three friends and enemies,

cess's anys that she is a real grudge, anything that is contained in the new agreement. Whether This affects all. Each time to help each other.

begluning of the year.

Yorkers. Everyone has tried armies on either side.

Princess Anne But in the daily cat and mouse

was born in "mother's girl," and has been Hong Kong stands to gain in any prices go up here the net value

fighting, hit and run sniping. Paris and grew up' there with brought up very quietly. Houses have been thrown bombing and killing both sides three brothers-Jacques, an old- Her style in dress matches way is a matter of the smallest of the Marshall Plan goes down, open to strangers for the night are slowly working out fronter brother, and Michel and this description. She wears importance. But it would be

Cinemas have been turned into and with it the partition" the Andre, who are younger, flat heels and uses little make- nice to feel that our gestures of

dormitories, soup kitchens have Holted Nations ordered.

In a colour test for blue blood up; her clothes might almost goodwill were not so liable to be

At present the on been established in police sta

well defined only rewarded by frequent slaps in the

tions and barracks, hotels, have #ghting areas are the vid city of her family come high. Anne's be utility and she prefers going

Jerusalem where Arabe laid siege father, Prince Rene of Bourbon- round without a hat. face,

set up beds in their lounges, to the Jewish ghetto and in the Parma, the 18th of 18 children

Michael arrived at Claridges and there has been no wrang- no man's land between Jaffa and of Duke Robert of Parma, is a in London for the Royal Wed. ling over payment.

.Tel-Aviv, :

direct descendant of the great ding three days before she did, Even the Palestine Syrian bor- Louis XIV. of France.

They had never seen one der is held in dispute between

Anne's mother, formerly Prin- other before. neuthurtles of the two concess Margaret of Denmark, was To a friend Michael repeated tries and Palestine · Government

one of the first remarks which During World War II, the Princess Anne made to him. It Prince, who had many friends in was: "What a pity that you England, spoke publicly against should have to be a King."

agita-

Reversal on China?

Has Secretary Marshall cone back un General Marshall? Doë. the Secretary's proposal of $300,- [000,000 Aid for Ching

mean ♫

business.

100 Years Ago

(From the Site of the "China Mail")

cannot

Trial By Ordeal

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a mild, milk-and-water celobga-

By ELIAV SIMON

You

The Paradox.

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is neither crubs por Jews have

A Danish friend told me on the telephone: "The family are

Bet

BARCLAY ON BRIDGE

By SHEPARD BARCLAY

"THE AUTHORITY ON AUTHORITIES"

CONFIDENCE

PRICELESS

Among all the miseta a partnership

pionship circles as one of the most accurate, careful and thorough of all bidders and players.

"After The artifice) ·1-Club-opener, cas possess, the mast valuable is showing at least three quick-teleke justified mutual confidence. It is vital | plus and the 1-Diamond, denying to efficient bidding and effective de-two, the bidding prozeded natural- The

paradox in the Holy play. And, the

2-8pades bid was

"supreme commands.”

Easion enable you to clean up whole foost bidders. In view of this, and the Najada, Fuluwa er. Hyriya aan opponent has doubled a contracted two five-card: majors. Mr. Van.. An Arabi dan belong to either men of points by redoubling after the bidding opposite him that show dew to Hagana, Irgun of the reached by real partnership bidding. Stern Gang.

frience in Brim enough, I can on or in. The 2-5pat opening 2-3 pasal by

We used to wonder during spokesman said "I would surprise a niece of Queen Alexandra. the war how New York would no one If Syrians caught in what have stood up to bombing. The is believed to be Palestine terri past few days experience shows for Care there in the honest be- sharp reversal of the recent Unit-

It would have endured the orier that it is, Syttan territory."

The armies are unrecognisable. ed States tendency to keep "hands We are glad to learn that "the deal as London 'did."

The Arab underground wears off" in the Chinese civil war-a Hongkong and Cangon Steam

The cost of this whiteat of either Rotich Bedouin dress or AMOY

HK$180,- | tendency largely based

Company's Steamer Christmas weeks will probably American uniforms bought from on the Packet General's own realistic findings? "Canton” shews considerable run into £10,000,000 in lost disposar dumps in Egypt Hagona members wear anything from CANTON sem vexx Mon. Tues. Thurs. Fri. & Sat. 35,

Clearly not. The sum is trifl. improvement in her speed under business, but no one has worked khaki shorts to a queer combina Saturday THUNGKING

300.-ing as compared with what would the alterations she has recently it out yet.

Hon of old evening, clothes. Of course, the big blizzard Neither side has badges or /in. 280-be needed to shore up the Nan undergone.

king Government against the in-

The chief of these has been wrecked most New Yorkers signias.

There are no open cities. There plans for New Year's Eve -400- Frèrnal ́as' well as external causes the addition of five feet to her. There was no need to bar are no combatants.

atem, which allows the Engine: 200.- of economic chaos.

power to be excried more ad. windows in Times-square offer Jow, br Arab or pro-Jew It is best understood as a half- vantageously than when she ar

or pra Arab. 350.-

coriton off Forty-Second-street. hearted attempt to slow up the rived. The water is now level

"Mounted police were 120-present process

of disintegration and undisturbed at the entering required to control the roistor with die added political advan slag of the paddle wheels, whilst orr and rakehells. It looked like tage of issunging uninformed or before it was shown up misinformed American opinion waves on either side of For the rest, there is scandal

tion fn Manhattan, which holds that what is good for venel and, of course, created in Washington over politielage Europe is good for Chini.“

making intfuls or prolt over The situations are vastly differ-

When the vessel steamed grain (yow they talk about the ent. For every possible "thole" down the Thames the revuls grain, not the brain, trust Even withful thinkers on both in Europe, China has a hundred tons of her Engines nover ex-

"Bongo, Bongo, 1 don't want It has produced no careful plan ceded 17 per minute, whereas to leave the Congo" is the new for self-help, as the nations phrti- under the alterations made a hit time. cipating in the Marshall Plan Whampoa they frequently The latest slogan, in view posstalon of arms is unishable 5 J74 have. It has no modern, healthy amount to 80% and are never the weather, Is Winter Cake comomic base to be "restored." less than 27 At this spoed, All," und exueria, announge, that The Export-Import Bank last the tremulous motion, felt more che-quarter of all edible food in year held back $500.00 or less in all steamers, is in the the U.S. Is thrown into the gar

"Canton" vory" "Trifling.

huge pail, which certainly is loan earmarked for China he cause the Chinese Givernynent very bigh speed but averages

The vessel has not attained food for thought. ( tent en could furnish no guarantee that 94 mules fanét tide, and 12

So They Spy the money would go into promiles with it she shows tive and useful projects

gally increased rate to what Hollywood, whi Ninking antwer; of coupe, is the possessed when she fret that it is a civil war on its hidiy came to

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