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DON

IDDON'S

DIARY

Capitol Turned Into An Electioneering Hall

of Mayor

GIBRALTAR'S NIGHTLY KEYS CEREMONY

of

10

It

was in

By H. BURGE

an

pro-

Опе

the most famous days from function

the Ragged Staff army band Gate to stationed in Gibraltar is to take which

the Waterport "Gate, part in the "Ceremony

of the Square

is just "off Casemater Ксуд This

and very is not unlike the third gate, the

tho near to The "special" part

Keys Ceremony at the Tower of molished in 1927, The Outpost Landport, de- of this two men agreeing, apparently, Commons has not dissuaded it London, though special Bession of the United about everything: by threats of

Its origin States Congress may clude you.

from the belief that the Social- different.

in Platoon is already formed up on Tize

new "bombings" slego of Berlin

of the United Ista dtimate plan is to take over

the parade ground when the Port and Nations headquarters. to Joit it the entire British Alm industry.. Europe's economic plight are not into pence netion; by the burying H.K.$10.00 on the agenda. Instead, the re-

1704 that forces

Sergeant and his party arrive, under the command of Sir George with the Provost Marshal, and O'Dwyer'n luctunt law-makers, sweating in against Tammany Hall; by the nationalisation would mean even on the Rock, and captured it. In Jutant of whichever Unit is

The American film elty thinks Rooke hatchet H.K.$30.00

mado a surprise attack the Commanding Ofcer and Ad- their seersucker suits, are to dia-outcry against salacious adver- more strenuous competition for this same year, and again in 1727, viding the Outpost Platoon, lo II.X.$72.00 cuss inflation, to which the coun- tising-near nude moticis in por- pletures for a time, then the Spanish forces attempted to rBand marches to its position in

ity appears to have surrendered fume, fingerle, and beer layouts; drying up

their respective positions, The unconditionally.

of talent, art, and tukd If, but were by the announcement that itquor Ideas in British celluloid under During

unsuccesful. Civil rights,

the latter part of the the centre of the parade ground, which In plain consumption has grown

faster the patiod hand of bureauerary, century, in 1779, language means

than the population since repent; the oppression and by the headlong dive of the chiefs to Britain's 45 per cent. laid

Spanish opposite the saluting base, while made

the Port Sergeant with his Escort The attitude of American film to oust the British forces, and segregation

more determined of the Ameri-

elfor! can Negro, displaced persons, and

alock market.

and proceeds along to the left flank and VAN NOSTRAND—at St. Teresa's housing all these problems have

quota is less belligerent. Talk of 1783-four years that, according at ease by the Adjutant, to await slegte to Gibraltar until of the Outpost Platoon, and halts Hospital on August 9, 1948, been plaguing Congress, for

boycott has been dropped

The whole parade is now stood to Nicky, wife of 5.E. Vanlong time.

bitterness is evaporating.

records in the Gibraltar the arrival of His Excellency the Nostrand, a son.

Museura, must have been most Governor with the keys.. The Broadway and Hollywond interesting, though uncomfortable entertainment industry, squeezed the Great Slege, and when it was Royal Salute slump is causing some panic. The ones This period

is known ns by increased costs and shrinking finally ended, the Governor of which the Adjutant reports the On the arrival of the Governor is Kivon, after attendance, has melted to pre- the time, General Sir George parade. The Fort Sergeant then war proportions.

Eliott, took steps to make the marches across Fortress impregnable.

to the saluting Danny Kaye, desperate to re-

base, receives the keys from the is position in front of the Escort. Governor, and marches back to

The whole parade is then stood

BIRTH

OLYMPIC GAMES

0

Interest in the Olymple Games is intense and almost all Ameri- can sports, writers In London But President Harry Truman, complain, apparently

with rea- desperate for votes, says they son, of our lack of showmanship, must be thrashed out now. Ac-publicity organisation, und Icept tually the Capitol has been turn public relations. |ed into an electioneering hall, with Republicans and Democrats battling each other for the pub-

le's favour.

Peace

The Neutral Look One big

that the United The fact States team has carried off the unofficial world cham- pionship at the Olympic lost.

Somehow the war crisis has got Last week men were villeg Games occasions no surprise. their guns. This week they are On the contrary, all things waving olive branches. considered. it would be has been declared by the Presl startling if she failed

dent, the Secretary of State, and to

even the generals. maintain athletic dominance in all such international meetings. What has attract- ed much attention, naturally,

reason for a more is the contribution made to sober approach to the Derlin issue wards American success by is the unhappy belief here that negro sprinters. Most amaz- "Lot you and him fight" attitude large parts of Europe are taking ing performance, perhaps, it the Russo-American quarrel- was that of Dillard, of Ohio, the you being the U.S. and the who failed to make the him being Russia, American

team in his

for speciality, hurdling, and then America sering others putting on beat the world at the 100- for the Imetre dash.

it is not amused.

So the war-talkers come tongue-tied.

the

It is

new experience

make-up, dressing

e-belligerent role, and

have be-

tossed away their tantrums and They have are shuffing towards the confer- ence table.

realigns its forces. Kind words Tension has relaxed as the U.S. for Britain, which more and more seems the

sanest and soundest place in the world, are now being churned out wholesale and even the Socialists, are being patted on the back.

The Long Fade-Out

Hollywood forecasts nationall- sation of British Alms, with all thrown behind Harold Wilson's statement to the the Treasury our productions.

the'

power of

WELL, WELL

Nanking, August 9. Chungking, which produces such strange stories as the girl who did not eat for nine years-unt|| Питате caught her ralding a pantry--has a new cnc.

Tourists visiting "Fairy Cayo" педр the wartime capital, heard a faint voice and dropped a knotted rope into a 100-foot pit. Up climbed A torhouso boy, Chang Fu-sheng, who an- nounced he lost his footing and tumbled into the hole 18 days before.

Explaining his lack of ap. parent injuries and well-fad appearance, Chang recalled dimly that while in a tranco = boautiful girl dressed his wounds, tended him, And brought him the best food ha had ever eaton,--Associated Pros.

ond

"A Nipping Air” '

10

tho

B sudden

Quick March

tum to Britain in another en- To lessen the risk of the Rock gagement, has found. Hollywood being captured by A ict-down sinco his Lontion coup-de-mein, the Governor de-at ense by the Adjutant. triumph. He says British audi-elded that the three main gates ences are the most appreciative of the Fortress would be locked in the world.

each evening at sunset, and would remain locked until the following inorning. Half an hour before At this point the Band again sunset the Rock Gun was fired, takes a more active part in the to warn Boston censors

"all aliens and ens and are scissoring:

proceedings. In slow time, and residenta" Laurence Olivier's "Hamlet," al

imming

playing the Slow March of claiming that

closing of the gules. Shake Sergeant"

A "Key whichever Unit parta of

"Кеу

is an parade, speare are obscene.

was appointed, who marches across the parade Was responsible for collecting ground. At the for end it you the keys of the three gates from countermarches, proceeds past

Governor, and who, the cars,

the saluting base to the other end

Drive-in cinemas, where watch films from parked

of the

Me

are being denounced by Church by an armed guard and the groups as passion ple

on the Rock, locked

of one of the regimentsB

of the square, again countor-/ marches. and breaks into

the gates, quick march. The above pro-

Washington is closing down its and personally returned the keys cedure is then repeated, in quick National Theatre, leaving the to the Governor, for safe keeping time, and on reaching its original American capital without a legi- during the night. The Governor position. It is halted, and turned timate house at all, because the of that time "attached so much left to face the saluting base. management won't allow Negroes importance to the closing of the

Fortress that he always were Incredible that

the keys on his swordbelt"

to play there. coloured artists are not allowed

now calls the attention, gives the

The Adjutant (As parade to

on the Washington stage-Incre-coch key is about nine inches command "Slope Arms," and the dible.

long, one must applaud this brass section of the Band action

as being a most nemdable devotion to duty.)

Hedy Lamarr, back from Paris, says: "The city was full of now Cadillacs but had no oranges."

Stories of giddy extravagance- In the French capital have jarred Marshall Aid dispensers here.

Over a period of recent Olympic Games, American negroes have starred in the sprints, broad jump and, often, high jump and short runs. At Berlin in 1936, the great Jesse Owens won the 100 metres, 200 metres and broad jump, setting Olympic records in the latter two. Not since 1928 has the Olym- We are popular once again with championship in the all but inflamed Zionists and the sprints been won except by Glucon army of Henry Wallase American negroes, and they band is an advantage. Henry the

To be disliked by Mr. Wallace's ****************** 'temperature. have also taken recent Olym- pic championships at

is against the Marshall Mystic is the Plan, against anyone staying in 400-metre and 100-metre Berlin except Russians, against the State Department, Foreign Office, the While House, and 10,

pic

runs.

There have been many Downing-Strect. speculative "explanations"

for this extraordinary per- formance, all

satisfy, either

mart

privileges

for

men

elected

and

Now they say coming eventa cast their Press agents before.

Footnote: People who call this a cold, wor are poor judges of

SIAM'S. GROWING RICE CAPACITY

RELIEF

NEEDS

IN ASIA

In

Bangkok, August 9.

In

com-a fanfare.

Every Wednesday

This is immediatez »

followed by Retreat the cornels.

1

reat played by All the mavemento of the parade are so timed that retrent is sounded at six o'clock, ried out each Wednesday, the lowered.

The present ceremony is car-Gun is fired, and all flags are and on tho Brat note the Rock

various Units stationed on the Rock providing the Escort to the

As the last note Keys, and the Outpost Platoon, dies away the offfeer in charge of of Retreat rotation. The Key Sergeant the outpost platoon turns them (now known a

the Port Ser-to the right, and they march past geant), the Escort to the Keys, the saluting base to the tune of and the Band parade at Alameda their Regimental March, follow- Gardens, which is some distance ed from Casemates

a distance by the Port wheed at Square, where Sergeant and the Escort. the largest part of the ceremony Platoon marches is performed. In marching from squa

right off the the Gardens to

the square, through

Waterport the same route as that taken by challenged by ground, the party follows roughly Gate, but as the Escort to the approaches the gate it is the Key Sergeant in

the sentry, who. carlier-

it to halt. The Escort is ordera halted, whereupon the sentry cnlle, "Who goes there?" and re-

the

answer. "The Keys." Koyu?" criés the sentry,

the

parade

New Zealand Air Crash

The

on rerelying the answer from the Port Sergeant, "King George's Keys," calls out, "Pass, King George's Keya; all is well,"

The Escort then steps off again, and marches up to the main door Wellington, August 9,

of the gate, The Port Sergeant, The heir presumptive to the the doors, which are then locked

assisted by James Robert Haldane Makgill, Salute is then given by the Escort the sentrles, closes Makgilf baronetcy, Richard Cu

by means of the keys.

A Royal was killed in a'Dakota plang to the Keys, and the which crashed on a high ridge Anthem is played by the in Marlborough this morning,

The Black Look failing to because of As Wallace holds no

Within the next two or three years, Siam will be able obvious fallacy or undemon-oflce he is playing little part in to export. 1,500,000 tons of rice annually, the strability. Some track and although many of the issues, par- the spectat session of Congress,

Ministry of Commerce-announced today.” field students point out that ticularly the Negro question, are more American negroes are ready-made

Despite increased production, (effect "for a long time." Rea- genuine going out for track and fleld, Liberal.

however, the Ministry said son for this is that production which is probably true but The simple truth, and it is ter- that international control of increases have not kept step Inconclusive, because negroes American, is that the Negro here,

ribly unpalatable to the white rice will probably remain in with population increases are still starring out of all whether in Southern or Northern

among the rice-cating peoples proportion to the number of States, is treated as subhuman..

of the world, the Ministry said. Rice needs for the world today competitors. Some hold that You cnnno! glosa

over the

total 10,000,000 tons yearly. American negroes often have facts. In the South the coloured langer Achilles tendons or slave, a person to be kicked in is not much better than a

The Ministry pointed out that muscles better adapted to the gutter, barred, banned, bash-

order to help fulall these needs, Siam-must te able to ex- these competitions, but weed. In the enlightened North he

On the completion port at least 2,080,000 tons, Burma

of this have not seen this authorita-

in & NBT0 ghetto. Hven

6,000,000 tons and Indo-China near the north-west coast of the Band, the whole marching past

The ridge is un isolated spot and the Port

ceremony the Escort to the tively stated.

These coloured Another un-women are citizens of the U.S.,

2,020,000 tons.

Sergeant rejoin the South Island of New Zealand. provable theory has plausibi-but dented almost all the rights

the Governor to the, Main Street, In its relevan, the Ministry lity: there seems an indubitand

M. Makgili was co-pilot. The them. They continue to the Con- Bald that Burma's rice exports pilot, Mr. Murdo Campbell Macvent, the Governor's

where the Outpost platoon joins of citizenship. able negro gift of rhythm, They are not allowed to eat in

are at present two or which unquestionably enters same bars,

three Leod, only other occupant of the where the Keys are returned to New York, August 9. the same restaurants, drink at the

times higher than Biam'e.

Residence, The United Nations, us a into perfection of running hotels or apartment houses as the should devote more time and

plane, was killed. stay

added that production in both was the younger brother of Sir him in a simple ceremony. at the same humanitarian organisation,

Mr. Makgill TRANS-ABIATIC_AIRLINES (SIAM) LTD athletes have shown at least

countries is only half of pre- Donald, 12th Baronet. and jumping form, and negro white man.

He was bom at Bournemouth, their share of heart.

study to, feeding Asia's hun-

England. Goes Marching Ongry millions, the New York only 800,000 1,100,000 to 1935 and then entered commer

While Slam is able to export educated at Harrow, served in the

Royal Air Force Over

from 1939 to and. beyond the

Herald Tribune" declareding twice that amount.

rice at present, Eurma is export- Negro-Caucasian' comparison man's dog. Their jobs are invari-

They live worse than the white in a recent leading article,

cial flying. in American athletics, It is ably mental-shoe-shining, office bave disclosed that the population 60,00les within

United Nations investigations

Burma will be able to send 3,- also interesting to note the cleaning, carrying bags, labour of rico-cating countries has been countries within the next few before coming to New Zealand and He was two years with Imperi- rice to defelt at Airways and Hillman Airways kind of things at which ing, street cleaning. Americans at large excel in Negroes in the U.S., and they are

There are more than 12,000,000 increasing twice as fast as rice years whereus Siam will be able joining the Cook Strait Airways.

production, sold the the Olympic Games, which on the march. Congress is now against land in Eastern and South-

to send only half that tonnage. He was aged 51 and had two "The pressure follow a rather set pattern: calica to do

population United Press

children-Associated Press something they usually dominate the them. The odds are it won't.

about ern Asia is so heavy that most sprints, jumping, pole vault able to do much about indation, paper stated, "and most of them

And

of the people there live on a diet odds that it will be close to the starvation level," the Ing, short runs and certain the other great domestic issue, die young,”*** weight events calling for are also microscopic despite the bursts of energy.

In the President's fighting message to running events calling for day. starhina, they are seldom in

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through such methods as irriga- Tomorrow relief may be found tion, use of better seeds, insect control or improved methods of storage, but "there is no prospect taken an Olympic 1,500-

whatever of n solution solely In New York local nows has

through increased production." metre run since 1908; they been

The problem should be of in made by the have never taken

Dewey-terest for political, as well as hu

competition. They have not Dewey Eye-To-Eyė.

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Paris, August 9.

The French National Assembly continued through-

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out today its debate on a bill to give the Fin- once Minister, M. Paul Reynaud, specialmets and Indigestion.palne. I recom- powers to avert

France's economic danger.

a 6,000- Elzenhower conference, with the manitarian reasons, the article metre or 10,000-metre run, a 3,000-metre steeplechase,

continued.

The growing strength of the bies belleved tonight would witil tomorrow morning-Reuter.

A final vote, which the lob-Legal experti al cross-country or, since 1908, cans

affirmed, how lean temperamentally atrocious living condition, that approve the bill was not ex-ever, that the words "to recast

Rods In Asia' is based in part on a marathon,

This has caused some for older peoples to less spec- as they are, exceedingly attrac-of tomorrow...

to flashy performance, and make Communire promises; false pected before the early hours the whole of the fiscal codes and eign athletes to refer to tacular tests. Being general- tive."

texta were so wide in their im Americans as

plications that the Finance "acrobats" ly uninterested in certain Birth control would run into rather than athletes, which events, Americans do not

M. Reynaud's victory seemed Minister would have no dimeuity strong religious prejudios, so assured tonight following an in raising the extra revente "ha is one way of putting it. train for them as certain

would not be practicablo, de agreement with leaders of the noede before the end of the The objective explanation is other peoples do. Whatever It obviously would be unsuit- groups on a new form of words

clared, the paper;, "adding that pro-Government Parliamentary to

the national probably cultural Outside the reasons, it is plain enough able for impoverished oquntries for the clause dealing with a re- of special competition, that America's world athletic The United Nations and its elem

After voting the f with few phyalolana."

· fent clauso. of form of the whole French tax the special powers, bill dealing Americane go almost every-supremacy is not general but agencies should make a thorough

with there;

of the civil and where with harnessed motive specialised, and that but for study of the problem "not merely

The new phrasing would with adjourned until 8,00 sim car

militar nower, *; while ⠀⠀ cyclists and negro, athletes the margin 10 and temporary grellez buts to draw his power to change the I was not yet known

GMT. Mikora in Europe are deve-might well be a good deal the Tribune; e-Ansociated tax, this maintaining Parlia midnight or then bendiouned zook long turra solution," omclude rate of taxation for any given the debate would continue after Hoping endurance. Ameri- lesz,

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