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DON DES DOW

IDDON'S

DIARY

KICKING A GIFT HORSE

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IN THE TEETH

The Rejuvenation Of St. Paul's

in

London, August 16. well's men destroyed what they Masons, chiselling away "dam considered anungodly orna- aged stones at St Paul's Cathe-mentation. of medloval

Gothle dral here in the early stages of its cathedrals. restoration after war damage, can Craftsmen for most part aro hardly keep pace with the cut designing lighter windows and thrust of argument about the keeping with modern architec Aboard the US Bounty there rivet guns pound holes into steel as technical adviser and super and women on Ludgate Hill.

future of the Cathedral by menture. Editors

"For most of our commis- is now open inik of disaster. girders for new man-made peaks. visor

alons we have to forget tradition," Reporters & General Office 32312 Commander Tryman, pacing the

for # screen Most of my mull from Austra- Lauder's life story..

version of

Powell said. (four lines)

The Dean and the Chapter of bridge, tongue-Inshing the crew, Ha, New Zeanurtd, and

The stained glass age of the the Cathedral, the artists, sculptors 17th-18th Century South forecasts

crash

He is still in the unless the Africa, where various newspapers view.

American

tradition has ship's

and architects on the Cathedral's made, way Britain's greatest musle-Advisory Board and the members in keeping company curries out his print this Diary, stresses Empire hall stor.

way for workmanship more orders,

with modern life. kolidarity. The war scaro has H.K.$18.00 Some of his lieutenants say

Now everyone along Broadway of the Royal Fine Art Commis-Clear glass windows with decora vanished.

and in Hollywood wants to get alon will make the final decisions.tive painting in gray monochrome amash-up is inevitable, anyway, H.K.$30.00 but I will be less severe it Mr.

into the Palladium net. Television Views

But the Cathedral belongs no to rich hues of medieval coloured are suggested as an alternative Truman's Instructions are obeyed.

Benny's success has paved the

less to city typists, Janitors and glass in St. Paul's. H.K.$72.00

why for Beltv, Hutton to Bountys no mutiny"yet in the The entertainment news is al- there, and there isn't a comedian who work in the City. Pride of glass design

gooffee cleaners and but there is seething die- most completely dominated

others who It may be that a new school content. For more than a week television, and I have the uneasy feu

by or singer in the whole of Amert-possession has been intensißed evolved to modify the a wrangle has continund, with feeling that we who invented it chance to play the Palladium.

who would leap at each man trying to shout down are being left behind. the other.

The ship could hardly be un- to take a chance, are pouring The Americans, always ready happler, its course scarcely more millions of dollars into television crratie.

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on

THE TEST

film

Jack

That Tax Trouble

with his

the

may have

to be

modern

hundred fold since many of these trend to traditional architecture. people had

thoused incendiary.Reuter. bombs and had helped to quench fires which had threatened to destroy the building in the ralda of World War II.

which had

The angriest and most destruc-development and research,

Bing Crosby doubts whether he live

What are we doing? What is will people aboard arc the the British

go to England to make Government doing? "Brigadoon." Tas trouble is the tiscuss the technical details of a While architects and engineers Southerns indulging in thing called a filibuster, which Is Mr. Harold Wilson on the job? anag Ding is proving himself to the

It will be ironical if the Am- still the biggest box-office in the

reredos mess talking to death all sug-

remove the ericans, who made a multi-bil-business.

towered over the #estions for practical action.

Iton dollar Industry out of flims Waltz" and "Road to Rio" makeunopied after which, they feel, "Emperor choir and replace !! with 7 One of the major factors special session of Congress will while we hesitated and fumbled ing more money than other ple- Christopher Wren had intended,

It is now quite clear that the In the conflict of the Powers be top and a fallure. Nothing and Igged, should do the same tures.

the stained ginss windows are be- with television. German issues is the to be done abost inflation, the

The frings continue in Holly-duction end of the Bim business cafe inbles,

Gary Cooper is trying the pro-ing widely discussed over City economic and political situa- Negroes, displaced persons, hour wood. Three thousand tion in Germany itself. Lasting, or anything rise.

workers have been sucked in the By mid-August Congressmen year at the Moscow and Lon- and Senators

Several big bud- past fortnight; back inget pictures have been scrapped. don meetings of the Council their home districts peddling

The film city is again trying to of Foreign Ministers, as in promises and binmung the quinous deed at the Paris meeting of cost of living an everyone but urge its Radicals. It has pro- 1946, it was plain that the

Progressive Party of Henry Wal- Russians were confident that

lace, which accuses most pro In The Teeth the Western Zones were on

ducers of applying pressure and censorship to block screening of the verge of an economic col- Some experts, seeking niibis.adult or controversial pictures.

themselves.

WIR be

voked new.

getlari by the new

The Question

Colonial Health Sub Standard

Lake Success, August 18. Colonial territories, in-.

ngain.

Playwright Clifford Odets, back in New York after five years in Hollywood,

SAYS: "The

Holly- wood movie is usually born on

Shall these be of richly colour-habited by about 170,003,000 of the nione floor

B bankts stained glass-in keeping with people scattered through a mouth full of dings and nickels. tradition or shall they be of atropical it exists only as the celebration lighter and more modern design? world, are suffering from sub- belt around the

0712

lapse. Their tactics, were are putting the blame for the All three parties--the Demo- Peggy Ashcroft, and Ian Hunter the stained glass lay scattered on fight and prevent disease, the

based on

use of

G

of cold, canny investment."

The British success "Edward, My Son" will

health This is a question which has standard

conditions cpen here been awaiting an answer since and, the lack of doctors and September 30. Robert Morley, the sod morning in 1941 when medical equipment needed to that assumption.sky-scraping prices on the Euro-crats, Republicnus, and Progres-will co-star.

make wide Recovery Programme. They siver wilf Every move towards separate are saying

the Cathedral lawn-bright frag Combined annual incomes action by the Western Powers were not loaded drawn with goods paigns.

that if the Bounty ms in their Presidential cam- Betty Grable and Harry James which had held the former diu-bers today.

oments amid the soft tangled lead United Nations told its nem- is over 1,000,000 dollars, She was met by vehement pro-and gear and advisory technicians President Truman hos polso started at five dollars a week. mond panes.

In a special report to the Gen- tests, by charges of "dismem-for fordigher I would all be and charm before the cameras.

eral Assembly on health stan- Charles Laughter says he has plain sailing.

The original stained glass win- dards in 63 bering Germany" and

withough his voice is harsh and

island avens and by

could no:.ul.

good actor who tows In St. Paul's were nearly groups under This trend of thought

never met Thomas F. Dewey is en wasn't modest about his talents, nil

culcalal adminis- menacing suggestions of an make it awkward for Britain and vient, calm, but

memorials to rather cold. He cannot have met many ac-They were paid for but of pri-

individuals.tration, the report declared that international crisis unless the the Continent. Already enthu-Wallace is nervous and embar-tors.

high

infant mortality rates policy of

vate funds in the days when there "sensitive rebuilding the slasm for doling out ald whole-rassed.

indicators of Walter Columnist sale is being qualifed, and reac-

poor West, economically and poli-tion in some British quarters to he the screen presence of

None of the three candidates under a new radio contract, will

Winchell, was money to spare for such pur-pubile health" were "practical-

poses, the receive 1,000 dollars per minute-

Ly aniversal." tically, were abandoned. If the American programme for late President Roosevelt.

Suppiles of almost every kind both four-Power action and speeding-up British production

were needed to fight disease in the territories, the report added. any effective action by the angered and huri Americans.

Here is three Western Powers could

Doustry

breaking ait International lending records In be prevented then economic

and spending, and sending itself collapse would come quickly.iftery and haggard over the pos- A situation could be created builty of

of economic collapse; and with

what happens? 11 suggests send- Western. Powers would be unable to ing experts to back up its dollars and its goods, wistfully expecting cope.

A "revolutionary a polite thank you Instead situation" would arise A there are shouts of "Affront and demand for unity with a

insult." comparatively,

which the

Eastern Zone would be un- prosperous

answerable.

This is hardly the time to kick gift horse in the teeth.

Lauder's 'Farewell'

So Sir Harry Louder may make the U.S. Hollywood wants him set another farewell appearance

yes, minute-for his broadcasts. His not earnings are now close to two-thirds of a million a year.

Footnote: Perhaps UNO should move to Wembley, where war, pistol-shot starta, a race, not a

BURMA REBELS

REPULSED

Rangoon, August 16.

Artistry in stained glass was n flourishing craft. At the end of the 19th-Century, many familles were carrying on a work which ahad been handed down for gen-

crations.

The scope of the problem was disclosed by the United Nations report in a series of statistical studies, based mostly on informa-, tion submitted periodically hy ny There is still a Council of Glass

deven United Nations members Painters. There is still one or

with colonial possessions-Great two master craftsmen, but there Beltain, the United States, Is probably less than a dozen France, Belgium, Australia, New skilled glass-workers left in Lon- Zealund and the Netherlands. don. Those who are sill work-Reuter.

ing are nearly all over 70 and

few young men are coming along

to take their place,

Charles

Burmese Government forces have repulsed heavy at-

The master glass pointer family tradition goes back

for many tacks by several hundred insurgents ot two centuries. For years, one of the points 55 and 30 miles north of Rangoon, a master erafismen

today, Government communique announced tonight, worked Twenty-five insurgents were killed, many woundemade for St. Paul's. He

and a large quantity of arms captured, it added.

the trains

north of

George.

Christopher Powell, for a firm which had

the

of $1.

windows of the Michael and St.

Modern Studies

the windows being restored, he Asked about the prospects of said: "There isn't time to under- take this soling and heciing work' in these days."

which are

"

MARITIME UNIONS ACCUSED

Washington, August 16.

The National Labour Re- lattons Board. examiner, today. accused the CIO Maritime Unions of violating the Taft- shipping firms Hartley law by insisting that union hiring.".

depend on

Apart from this Anglo-Ameri- The German can squall and squawk it hos masses, led by the Commun-been on engaging week. 1st Party,

Blonde sples, queen would take over Soviet

bees of espionage, control.

desperate And the outcome bearded men, Red terrorists, and would be 11 Communist-atom-bomb fichers

apparently dominated "united Ger-clutter the land and have been many"

cround for years penetraling White House and practically run- But events, as so often be-

the Government, ning fore, have disappointed these There, never has been such a calculations. The Russians et-up outside of Oppenbelt Rangoon and Mandalay, aus- Prom just

The train service between Burma Rifles deserted, and seized. It is a full-blow had not foreseen or had noted thriller, a lurid caps and rob.pended since the situation be- They jumped on trucks and drove Rangoon. Abelieved that after the failure vers melodrama. I confess I am came critical last week

of the London meeting the unable to take this penny dread-resumed,

was fast for Rangoon, but were halled being by loyal troops halt way on the three Western Powers would ful seriously. It has a phony escorted by armed guard. They road at Letpadan. Over 300 troops go forward resolutely with reek. Hip Kirby could clean up will not run at night.

of the 3rd Burma Rifles from Mingladon de- their own plans for essential the whole case in a few days:

omer service with Basserted and tried to join other de- The steamer

The ruling was handed down reforms, nor had they ima- have moved back after

In New York, to which we sein, 90 miles west of Rangoon, serters, but the Air Force attack

as Federal mediators stepped up gined

being and two olher ports on the Delta, that the

Modern studies,

.efforts to their reforms, bitten by

head of two deserting mosquitoes, deafened was also resumed.

against both

groups much smaller than those of threats of shipping strikes which coupled with the first instal- by birdsong and insect clamour,

"Some Karen members of broke

the

up the impending Rangoon former centuries, cannot accom-could paralyse Fast and Gulf ments of

Invasion. "Marshall Ald", and stricken with poison ivy at Union of Military Polled at in-

Oyster Bay, it has mostly been a sein, a suburb of Rangoon, do were never endangered by the restoration work. would have such an immedi-week of

Government-held ar fields which will be necessary for such

modate the damaged material Coast shipping.

It was not certain what effect, ate effect.

parades and military serted with their arms,

allegedly

if any, the ruling would have by Communist persuaded But today they are con-

on these efforts. The examiner, We had more than 1,000 war-paganda that the present strug- pro-

In Sunday's 1ghting, Govern- It is unlikely that St. Paul's Mr. Wallace Royster, made the fronted by the spectacle of a planes thowing the Eagle's wings gle is a Burmese issue alone and ent troops retook Twante with will have ita, windows restored ruling against the National Mari- Western Germany no longer mercial airport in the world.

over Idlewild, the largest com- that the Karens should keep Press.

no resistance-Reuter and United Trom richly coloured pieces as ime Union and American Radio staggering to a collapse but

aloof," the Government communi-

had happened when Oliver Crom- Association. Both had insisted showing definite signs of re-and their stunt flying was superb.

The RAF. niso participated, que added.

that operators on ships plying Reliable reports

from

from Gulf and Atlantic ports Bas-

bo covery, Industrial produc- It is still very hot in Manhat-

sein said that the situation there i

hired through union halls. tion is now 50 per cent of London has been, and here we ton, but apparently not so hot as

had improved but did not

Mr. Royster did not rulo that prewar against less than 40 have

mention Its outlying districts

the hiring hells themselves vio air-conditioning limitless

where Government forces are

lated the labour law. But be per cent a year ago. And as quantities of unrationed tropical reported

sald, unions must to be carrying out 215.- more fuel and more food he clothes, and all the fresh fruit,

mopping up operations. come available it should in drinks we can consume.

vegetables, and heat-wave iced 400.- crease even more rapidly.

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KCR . PATROLS

Canton, August 10. Armoured

car patrulling, of the Canton-Kowloon Railway line

London, August 10, ` The adverse effects of cur-but the feverish pace of the city from the

Bosil Henry Liddell Hart, one" of Britain's foremost rency reform have been less is now near danger point. New Office, are feared missing in a

military commentators, today accusod Britain than 240.-

A

lifeboat which sailed in a heavy

of "needlest cruelty” and “caf and mouse treat- The steep, if temporary, rise in drill by

brightly coloured taxis gale on Friday to Alquada Light-

Jike bumble-bees 350,- unemployment

ment" of thred former German Field Marshals. house, near Rangoon. was anti-Aight. The buli-dozers

A launch has been sent to the gouge

Both the German section of von Brauchitsch and Eric von cipated. In fact, in the great out great chunks of earth and the lighthouse to find out what has the Foreign Office and the War Maristein. 350.- Ruhr industrial area, with its

happened to the party as they Office refused to comment or Brauchtisch was taken back to has begun 4,000,000 workers, the num-ticipated and which may nected to return at the ex- explain the treatment of the Germany from a British prison the foreruitiorural patol. 95.- ber of unemployed only rose compel drastic changes of named Wealey, but no other do-not deny Liddell Hart's accusa and Manstein, followed a work of the Une. The Carton-Hankow

ilme.

The European is three men, although they did camp a month ago. Rundstedt schedule covered a wide section from 123,000ythonly at policy. Not by reliable, ac tails of his identity were frame-lons, which were printed in prison carps three months after form of call protection May to 156,000 at the end of counts is the political situa-

later. All were diately available. July.

the Landon Times. Rangoon Temained tion by any means satisfue-

Armly in

the last of other high ranking The three Marshals concerned Cermans were sent back to their were in July reported to shave At the

Government hands today follow-

The Railway authorities here same time, the tory from the Russian point ing major successes in an Air Gerd von Rundstedt, Walter Lomeland. economic situation in the of view. Unreat and open Force bombardment of Commun Soviet Zone has become not. criticism are growing. It has

"They were kept in suspense for the K.CE line well as asked for armoured, sur patrols ixt Insurgents. better but

close on the time when ground, forces for the pro-" worse.

Fall The been thought, necessary to

Small scale

and-iniand

they were nt. last sent home," draining off of its resources postpone the local elections, fence to the city whichs had been [shipping" truffle restored confid-

Mr. Liddell Hart sold in a letter

tection of the route-Repler, is beginning to show effects. for fear, of their results.

to, the Times. The way in cut off since last Wednesday. The taking of reparations This then is the overall

Previous warnings for European from current production, the picture.

get at

Ieust-orie Until now the realdents to requisitioning of food both Soviet

Canton, August 16... week's supply of food in case ut Government

This cat and mouse 'treet- has a new blockade are now co-sleeping sickness to invade Can- for "export" and for the worked on the assumption aldered not necessary.

That it is not impossible for mont le still belog pursued in army of occupation have not that the Western Zones were

regard to the three Field Mars Kachin

ton as well as Hong Kong and ahala only lowered the standard of unstable, the Eastern Zone

troops foWW Into Macao

among our prisoners," Rangoon from the

is the opinion expressed Mr. Liddell Hart declared. All living: they have dislocated stable. That assumption has

frentier by a spokesman of the local areas in the past four days, bealth authorities,.

are now in a British milltary the economy of the zone.ceased to have any validity

have saved the tension.-L. the Canton Daily Sun. pro

atcording, to prison near Ludeburg, he said. That does not mean that It does not in a favourite

tenant. General Smith Dun hai This spokesman is

All three of these high Gor been given from hand in all the blation deusity of When the Generals, were taken the Soviet Zone is about to phrase of M. Molotov's

officers-are he added. military mattars, replacing the collapse. It does mean that correspond with reality".

defenes ministry, authority

three cities as a source of to Germany it was reported the Soviet authorities there Will the Kremlin changs ita

which had been orificio dangerv

were being sent home, Bar, Lady are faced by a situation policy to meet these changed The attuation turned-criticnt homes, and to avoid ping too going to their homes and fami

advised people dell Hart said. The public, na- Air Attacks

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