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DON IDDON'S

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The British Ain't Too

Popular Just Now

again.

playland, a whirligig and

car-the

off "The British ain't too popular months. He zatso?" and finally he lips me

the

MOUNTBATTEN AND DUKE OF EDINBURGH

London, June 21.

The Duke of Edinburgh and his uncle, Earl Mount- botten of Burma, are expected to be introduced 'simultaneously to the House of Lords under

their new titlos in the next three wooks. The Duke of Edinburgh, it-is-understood, has been--

waiting for the return of Lord Mountbatten, who, today relinquished office as Governor- General of India, so that his uncle might be present when he took his seat.

Prince Philip was created Duke of Edinburgh on the eve of his marriage to Princess Elizabeth. Lord Mountbatten- then a Viscount-was created Earl Mountbatten in August, 1047. when he “directed, the transfer of power to India and Pakistan.

It i

Edinburgh's

Slovak Priests Dismissed

Gloucester, brother of King Father Plojhan, of the People's George.

The holiday is over and the Britain. Each week one or the And even when I said our tele- green laries of England 3,000 other sails into New York Har phones and railways and roads miles away.

bour

and Britain Bulla, with might be better Mr. Rains sald The change Is abrupt

Imperiously: "I like them, that and them." harsh. Always I takes me days

On health: "A good digestion | way." to get, settled

and this and a well-trained conscience are I.K.$18.00] time is worse than ever. the secrets-1 have both."

The Greatest Mail. New York-feems a circus city-Or-sport-wish-we-had-a- H.K.$30.00 an enormous wonderland and really good heavy-weight to win During the voyage I finally got championship. but on Bri-down to the Jellers which my II.K.$72.00 rousel. Its noise is deafening, tain's present, diet it's not likely two articles on Britain brought

its lights blind and dbzźle. we will produce ane."

about. It will take some weeks There is a reek of popcorn and There were not many great answer them all as, roosting peanuts

due to and petrol numes on the passenger list. Sir

some reason not clear to me, fumes as the car crosses Broad- Ralph Richardson

wee around nothing I have ever written has. WOMEN'S PLACE

way from the waterfront and

with his wife and small

resulted in such an avalanche of Peers, by constitutional 'Cus- heads to the office in Rockefeller and sometimes, he and I would mail.

tom, are introduced to the House play table tennis.

two Sponsors of Hong

which Centre.

I won't tire you with the de-of Lords by Kong

The driver seems

But Sir Ralph is surly, and

Prague, June 21. à discrect tails, but you should know that equal rank: almost resents

of any

Czechoslovak Minister break when I talk about the trip to man and wary of headlines. It out of the hundreds of letters

The Duke DT with a narrow conventional- Britain he says: "Yeah" and "la is his first trip to Hollywood and sent to me only i were hostile.

sponsors will bo the Duke of Health. Father Josef Plohan, ism and would rather see its

he will be there two and a half Sixteen of these were from So- Norfolk, who ranke first In

and three Slovak priests have is not excited or chalists who accused me of being precedence womankind

English been relieved of their church resorting to

among here just now."

overly enthusiastic about the hireling of the Rothermere

pears not of Royal blood, and, duties for taking part in poll- bridge and mahjong parties Reluctantly he tells me why— | Iden.

Press, presenting the Tory view

expects:1, the Duke of les. than

themselves cennlving with

Arabs, not And there was Claude Rains. busying

point, and the other three were the US. on Mr. Ralns paced the boat or sun playing ball with

fram about civic

has affairs

Conservatives, dismayed Palestine. spending Marshall Aid deck, morose and sombre, alone

that I had said that their party the naturally viewed

ac-money on blocking the Jews, in his slouch hat, puffing a cigar,

was "frequently fullle and foot like Caesar tivities of the H.K. Council saying one thing and doing the looking sometimes

ling," of Women with fairly com- opposite. "Bevin's running the but mostly Hke Claude Rains.

State Department." plete lack of favour. Almost As naturally, the Council,

The rest-something like 700, getting off 10 a somewhat

It is all rubbish, but his news- Finally approached him and many from women-were proud

wonderful impetuous start, has made papers, the New York Post and Introduced myself. He hungered ond

letters. They number of mistakes, in ad- P.M..

"I wore radio oracles, for company and declaimed:

heart. They

for and Gabriel was born in Brixton, I've never spoke passionately

Britain dition to its successes such as the pressure which result-Healter, have given him the low-felt sadder about leaving Eng- and of Britain,

Innd, though I've been an Ameri- I am not supposed

'to be a down and he believes it. being called

Later I see the

can clilzen for black,

good many settimental mon, but would you

if I said advertisements. years now. My wife and daugh-mind

am deeply upon to serve on local juries whole page

never been to Eng-moved by these messages, that a for the first time in the British Crown dipped in Jewish tet, who'd

blood and polished with Arab land before, love the country. I response such as there has been oil.... British block peace in practically had to drag them to my Journey home is the re-

faboard. I must make Holy Land."

many porter's greatest reward 7 Anyway. I say more trips. I've never met with

it now.

You a. pleasant arrival

There's nothing tell me to speak up for Britain. even though my friends and col- such kindness."

I shall. and drinks leagues are there with greetings wrong with our lot."

More and gossip. and more I have the impression that Coney Island or Blackpool's South Shore has moved In on

ed in women

He says it with the air of л victim of a conspiracy and sucks his big cigar noisily.

and his

Waller Winchell

It is not

bold,

Inhabiting the house of nonsense. There is the bewildering maze

with the people trying to find their way out.

Colony's history. By and

the move large, however, ment has developed

most encouragingly and the women of the Colony who have par- ticipated in its work have bad the reward and satisfac- tion of sound accomplish-Manhattan. ment, A considerable Ox- 'There are the politicians pansion of the scope of the mounting the merry-go-round or Council's activities is now planned, and the conference shortly to be held at Govern-

There is the scenic railway. ment House promises to be

the water-chute and toboggan something of a revelation to slide which public opinion rides. those without experience of When I left New York the talk the work of similar Women's had been of war with Russia. Councils in other parts of the Now the talk is of trouble with Britain, of cutting Marshall money (no one reems to know Feminist energies along we have yet to receive the first cent). I speak to my friend these lines have; of course, Robert Blake, and be thanks me expressed themselves most for my two letters

On England, vigorously in the United and says: "I wish everyone on States, to such an extent as both sides of the ocean would be to inspire writers to mock-as blunt." I wish so too.

For-it-quito-clear, despite. ery and cartoonists to highly the brief time that I have been

world.

Sorry To Leave

Earl

Party, was Minister of Health in Mountbatten's are not yet known.

sponsors Dr. Klement Gottwald'ş Cabinet Presumably set up after the February erlis he will make the necessary ar-and retained his post in Mr. An-

after his return The Greatest Reward London on Wednesday,

rangements

to tonin Papotosky's mainly Com- munist Cabinet formed last week. Informed quarters say there is

The suspension followed pub- still a possibility that Earl Uication of a Mountbatten might take his scat first and be presented in his new ealing the warning issued by the

The Archbishopra letter.

Prague, re- rank when the Duke of Edin Bishop's Conference before the burgh is presented, but that the

elections that priests should not dual ceremony is the more like-

seck ly,---Reuter,

from tho

DO NOT HAVE TO

BE GOOD

COOKS

London, June 20,

“British women today learned that they do not have to be good cooks, chaste, or oven physically attractive to catch husbands.

Courtmartial

amusing caricatures. It is back, that our name, our record, Adjourned

interesting therefore to read our sacritice, our

championship

Hamburg, June 22 The third British court mar The crossing from England in tial" in connection with the al- the Queen Mary was one of the laged 18 treatment of German most enjoyable 1 have

ever internees in Bad Nandorf Inter- Commodore C. G. Mrogation centre will be transfer mace.

London friend red from Hamburg to

In fact, British women refuse

a

2-Colour Radar

System

Nutley, N.J., June 20. A new-type two-colour radar system, listed as "a tremendous advance in the field of aerial navigation, has been developed by the International Telephone and Telegraph Company.

The new system. which ne- curately plots the course of an airplane as a moving green dat

the

type

to

of

political office because their lay power of

punishment

Priestly

dicted with their Fald the

Buspension of Father Plofhan may be followed by fur ther measures if in the next few

months he fails to leave his ministerial office and resign his seat in the National Assembly.

Informed quarters tonight did not preclude the possibility of ex- communication.-Reuter,

ers

Belgium Reform Measures

2-Removal of legislative pow

made to break the strike- wave earlier this year; the Government undertakes

3-Before the end of this year to

Issue a further 600,000,000-Franca worth of "recruitment tickets"

in a recent book by Geoffry of the right and the just are not the Amerl- getting through to Gorer, a British anthropo- cans. It is time they did. logist, a rousing defence of what he terms "these mothers of grown sons" with their eagerness for good causes.

They are, he says, many and admirable hits his steward this wecky stated today, colour, not fond of children, per-plane was lost on the convenings lost er damaged during the of them, civically conscious that the dry Martin's Rhine. Army stated

are the best in Stokes mokes and conscientious; they are the world, and I won't deny it. imbued with

Illingworth

18 A

close

Brussels, June 21. In a nationwide poll by Bri-sically unattractive and un-on an amber screen, was demon-

Workers in every section of tain's Federation of Psycho- popular with his family, while strated when the company uthe Belgian industry will bene-

velled its new 300 foot micro logists, British men said they "chastity is not regarded as an

wave transmission tower at its fit by many of the social re- would marry a woman even if important-issue any longer".

British men,

Federal Telecommunications lab forms announced tonight fol- who she were a poor cook, phy

have long oratories here.

lowing the final talks which hold the whip hand in marrige,

Also shown was an electronic settled the six-day strike of learned through the poll that tape men which indicates 200,000 metal workers, Britain's

2,000,000

measure "surplus

distance

of an airplane

These reforms include: women" were getting particular in their choice of husbands. No within-a-tenth of a mile from a 1-Double "holiday pay longer is it a case of "Too many

and radar

the electronic workers for one week in every fixel women chasing too few men.'

point.

year; The Company said the new- to murry 12 kinds of men: drun tape measure can be applied to kards, men of lower intelligence both commercial and military or moral standards, emotionally work is being done under mili- aviation, although part of the unstable dishonest, from feeble-mhided family, economical- lary contract.

The two colour radar sccurate ly unstable, undependable, whom they do not love but who lovely plotted

the progress of an to permit Belgians to replace trace of the personal and household belong- them, incompatible, of different aircraft when all

ilonal one-colour screen.-Asso- | war; The court which is trying manently ill.

Many women Colonel Robin

declared they ciated Press. Lieutenant

man though he genuine, if

bustling. Stephens, formerly of the Indian would marry a packed

was a honvy. smoker and had with Army, adjourned today. often provincial and imprac-booming

catapults sparks,

resumed been guilty of previous sex re- The hearing will be tical, idealism, untainted His American guests when I was

ho was Men insist only that the officer stated. with the amorality of the there in his quarters, seemed in London about Friday, the staff lationships-providing

by his dyna- male world-of-business; if little nonplussed

The defendant, formerly Com- prospective wife will not balet

living од

with in-laws-or be! they are convinced of the They sat silent and subdued manding Officer of the centre, ion years older-United Press. rightness of their cause they while he talked. The comma hus, pleaded not guilty to two 21-year-old Chinese woman. will give their time, money,dore has views on most matter kurges. The first alleged heal Tit-hing, was taken to Queen

Bangkok, June 21, ordered the confinement of a and energy unstintingly.

At a protest meeting against and is not reluctant to express German in conditions of undue Mary Hospital from 1 Balign the newly designated Xuan goy-

The hardship. Also, in the May issue of

listed Terrace, ground floor, about 10,20 On Britain: "We are pulling the Women's Home Com-out of our troubles. We have eight instances of alleged negian, yesterday suffering from the rnment in Indo-China here by Her Nguyen duc Quy, President of panion, James

Madison the great intangibles-character, ence in supervising the adminis-effects of lysol polsoning. Wood, President Emeritus of experience, patience, determina tration of the prison.-Associat-condition last night was stated to the Vietnam delegation In Slam,

ed Press,

expressed the belief that the tion. We are not called 'Great'

Slámese government would 're

Illingworth

is

energy.

man He

mics.

them.

Stephens College, tells of Britain for nothing."./

his plans for a new type of

college for women of matur- Prestige-Builders

er years whose lives may

On the Queen Mary and Queen

prestige- builders

for

soem "aimless and often Elizabeth: "These two ships are useless" because they have gigantic reared their familles. Speaking of the revolution- ary decisions that

face UN Guards

society, he declares of

women:

With their accumulated Leave For

experience and wisdom they

are the ones best fitted to do

the job, since the problems

of the community, the nation,

Palestine

the.

in

Mr.

New York, June 20. and the world are only ex-

Tho 40 United Nations pansions of the problems of security guards who

are to the family. If women have assist the mediator, Count reared children successfully Bernadotte, in Palestine, left they know why; if they fail La Guardia airfield for the ed they know what their Middle East last night. mistakes were.

They were inspected by

Lie,

Secretary- Trygve Dr. Wood points out that General of the United Nations, at present well-meant who told them: "I am confident feminine energies, through you will do your duty clubs and otherwise, are too cause of peace."

The group included only seven often dissipated in feverish, non-Americans,

coming sporadic activity which burns from Norway, Sweden, Denmark out enthusiasm before de-France, China 'and Australia.

The contingent, dressed in the finite gains have been made.

United Nations grey

uniform, Women need to learn patient were issued with revolvers, but it persistence-and-realiamin was stated that it was not known the face of the immense whether they would carry them in

Palestine.Router. practical problems confront-

ing society. But men need

these

Eire

the

to learn to rate at their true Shannon Airport, Eiro

June 21. Eamon de Valera, ex-Premier

value the open-mindedness Eire, arrived here today from arid Idealism women can Rome after a world tour, which bring to these same pro- Included India, Australia and blems.

New Zealand. Reuter,

.

CARNIVAL

DƏFİL, 1949

second

sorry.

be serious.

AND

"Traitorous" Elements

Vietnamese in Slam, their leader,

gard General Xuan's government

as a "French puppet administra-

the Complete overhaul of present income tax

scule and.. raising the

minimum taxable wage level; and,

5-Speeding the

passage

through Parliament structural reforms of the nation's economic organisation which will represent the workers in the management of industrial plants,—Reutér,“

Nazi Loot As Reparations

Frankfurt, Junio, 21. American commercial airline

By Dick Turner tion" and would therefore boy planes are making two dally

GOODS

WIN YOUR GROCERIES

sald reveld of her! She's wrockin' the layout with that nie-meenfo-minos-mo system of hers!"*

cott it.

Quy described General

Xuan

flights from Frankfurt to Britain

and his followers as "traitorous with cargoes forming part of £15 elements" and sald that any ne

million .worth of Nazi-looted

tivities of General Xuan's up goldbars and coins to be melted down and I distributed as repara- porters in Siam would be against | Ulons, Stam's national interests.

One of the speakers road

The gold, ranging in origin from 300-year-old Spanish coins declaration by President Ho Chi to the melted-down gold, tooth Minh which concluded: "The Go

vernment of the Democratic Rellings of murdered concentration public of Vietnam reserves the camp inmates, has been stored, in

the Fight to Judge these trato American operated Reichsbank foreign depository vault of the (General Xuan and associates) in conformity with the legal code of here. the Vietnam state.

Established 盘 looted by the

"In the name of the Govern- | Nazla: from their victims during

ment and the people of the Re-the. Hitler regime, the gold will

pubile, I hereby declare null and after melting down serve al vola any agreement which may | parations,—Reuter,

be signed by these puppets with

any foreign power." United

Press.

INTERNATIONAL

AIR CONTROL

CLERMONT FERRAND STRIKE

Paris, June 21

4

Geneva, Jund 21. No settlement was in sight to- The International Civil Aviation day of the week-old strike at the organisation, which ended. Its Borgougnan rubber, factory). In second plenary assembly here to- Clermont Ferrand, central, Franen day, has budgeted for an expendiabantra of last week's battle be ture of Canadian $2,049,685 in tween strikers and police. 1949. It also decided to set up The local representatives of the 12-man Air Navigation Commis Trade Union Federation told fac sion: to supervise the technical tory workers today that a draft the Ber- Aspects of International air trans- agreement, presented blade bur port and approved a legal conven- gougnan management,

lon to safeguard the interests of relealed. This, instead of grant- idernand- buyers of aircraft for International ing the minimum wage alt services

ed, proposed to subsidise the fac Some 250 delegates and obeer. tory cooperative stores so that vers from 44 nations attended the workers could buy goods cheaper Conference, which. lasted three than in the shops of the town--

Router, weeks.—Reuter,“