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can have a gabordine suit-made. -in-24-hours for £B:_and_first clasa British export" tweeds, woollens and worsteds made up into suits costing between £10

ment old-timers." with the ami- what goes on inside the shopping,

communities and £15 able snobbery of a social systém baskels of British

pratly oversens la to study my break- now crumbling, live in much the same style. They might fast teny,

with their firma have is arge about their leaves, pay a few ex- fra pounds a month rent, und run their own ear-but they share all the other advantages,

But read on, before you start packing your bags.

These conditions apply to Khar toum. For a start, Will remind you if you did not know before) But most of the British bush that the yearly average Tempera-robed, white turbarie Sudanese

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nearer Canton and our own border. One centre after an- other falls in what is known as China's civil war, and Na- tionalist government depart- ments have been hastily murgarine on evacuating from the danger stice of tomi;

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By Guy Ramsey

have

If you want a little more the breakfast

1 you wan Britain to

a few murel There is no duubt what-dollars in her Transatlantic {

won! soever that Mao Tse-tung's bank account: 1 you

a whole to troops now dominate most of Western Europe as

Buy British rather than Buying the country, and are soon like- ly to be in control of every city from. Manchuria to the border of Indo-China. But just where are the battles that some foreign correspondents so vividly portray at long dis- tance! As far as available in- formation can tell, they are non-existent. This is really aw phony war.

ROOIT.

The plant which will gam for Britons sa travisť

a thing as an exten "mad" of merge anel gain for Britain so vast a thing as something like a million pound worth of dollars every year !!-- believe it or 18-not u

butter churn her a margarine thekuty

Golden Slime Take a glance at a

No one seems willing to dis- cuss this obvious truth. It is but unul sarhry. In the interests of a lot of peo- ple to pretend that a life and death struggle is now going crude all thick, greyish-black on between the forces of goods stime that comes swirling and evil. The adjectives, of course, are interchangeable, depending on your standpoint. You pays your money and you takes your choice.

Com-

out of The underworld, often thousands of feet below the sur- face of the earth.

That is the raw material which seves in at one end of the Slan- low "sausage machine,"

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the room, the

aard) and linens (58.

dress,

Buttering

I see that Eire is suffering front an Ulster.

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"Simulated Air Attack 'K Set Saturday."

Myrtle hopes it's unt the smart

Probably with evil intent, o correspondent sends us u clipping

* follows:

British wives complain about of ready made the shortage

But Mine day, at Khartoum's' best dresses and summer suits. (29x. dny, all in) hatol, held inest of them have Greek dress- two fish cutles, two patata eniten,

at their disposal, willing makers two eggs, three rashers of bacon, enough to yunsup British cottons

iced (98. a toast, butter, us of grapeftalt, sugar, milk anil tex.

This wil.give you an idea of "Rents of the big "frat class" how Khartoum's British can eat Covernment houses in tree-lined Kilehener Avenue, alongside the if they want to. But before the dusky, white Nile, with their chit or nine roons, veranclalis, stabling and gardenr, do not exceed £3 walter had left

week.

"...Born in New South Wales ver of protective fee. This des

came to Hour buiter had melted around its sil-

Their occupants, top-ranking, in 1875, Donald cent. That is enough to

pite the big ceiling fan, eddying €1,000-a-year civil servants, keep Kong in 1902 from Sydney, and istot most DI

the warm (110 degrees) dump as many as six servants--cooks, got a job on the 'China Mail be your

(60 per cent humidity) air above houseboys and gardeners-nt aenuse its editor insisted on hat- straight away.

wage bill which need not exceeding one teetotal reporter." The the last 50 days, Khartoum my table,

And that will give you an 12 a trouth. A really good nas

Just 40 sandstorms losting

swirling, 5,000-feel iden, too, of the conditions in cook is considered well paid ul.

"Sining Reported Falling in lars, with

£1 a week. high sand clouds blocking out the which Khartoum's British have to.

North West." Down on the £500-n-year level,!

Be much more interesting if it' walls of heat Altering eal-it they want to. Thy: ༣༧༤1

Men's clothes are cheap prab-house rents are in low as £1 a through donways and windows,

except So in us start all over again ably because

for a few week-but the serving "strength" was reported talling in the South evenings

winter remains at three or four. from the begianlor-remember-cool ing that the good things of life months, chiri sleaves and shorts do not come rustly these days, by day, shirt sleeves and light- slacks by night, is the

enjur

the

whelber at home or in the Sudan, „ormal dress. If you are will.

I have discovered that a rough

but sound magthod of finding outing to risk the local tailoring you

vances

3.

Pakistan And Britain

By "WINDRUSH”

Britain.

January

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According to a report, Mao is awarding full Marx to the Red armies for their drive on Canton.

A contemporary reported yes- terday that "ready-wide patches old at novelty counters may be use as patches."

Well, there's no tow against st...

What are the wife wives shy- Ing?

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this enthusiasm has qow vanish | Indian Ocean region is that eae) { vechere are only free open-air | wanted a preted egg. fricd

cabarets of

to

tough Italian

R cricket club and

Movements of most members Of of the British community, then, three are restricted to two or

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"NCUN Seck Permission to Close,"

What--olk four of them at

cnce?

But out at the other end come an, Mr. Liaquat All. Khan, is a most if Hussla gains a point of hotels, the cabarets, the club, Foreign Ministers' conferences."

war

Importance

have covered the same ter-ince it cleans things, is a product with India over Kashmir, and t Of Goethe

rain in one-tenth of the time.

-It has

single, restaurant, the cinemas.

Entertaining at home Is the base of Aocial life....the same fuges, the same houses.

Are these Britons content? It

"Mr. Bevin said he still hoped something would come out of the

-If only a few foreign minis ters.

-

It was Perkins first speech, all depends on whether, having and he wanted to end With a set the total of the advantages of striking warning. He could have

Juxury And outward

comfort talked about locking the stable against the total of the disad door after the horse had been the Khartourn sut- ctolen, but that was too etnon- vantages of

They have struck ling,

balance place, c wanted something of persqual happiness.

Most of them have, I think.

So he shouted: "Don't, 1 beg But a reasonable version of the of you don't wait till the was probably house takes fre before you sum- majority opinion

better,

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No Income Tax There is no income tax in the Sudan. Salaries and government cost of living allowance (max)- mum, £100 a year) are tax-free. too, All Rovernment officiais, qualify for 30 days home leave, with pay, in each 12 months of service after, their first year. And the Sudan Government pays their air fare home. American, you should give a

That is one side of the picture On the ather, apart from the Those food pricer. grateful glance at a vast new

€4,000,000 scientific factory Pakistan, the largest Moslem Hong Kong in Informal economic which will be going full blast state in the world, is full of grie- and social co-operation. The exis-weather (and do not forget the the lowest "win- even tence of the Commonwealth does weather: against Great

way Impede these ter Average Amnporature.

up istin usually, This is a reversal of its former not in any mood. When it became indepen- | countries from playing their part

the degrees. in the Myrtle's little doce, dine, is dent two years ago it proclaimed in the more comprehensive sys-aroundt

Khartoum offers rather partial to ponched eggs, 30 One of the greatest] glade mark) with enthusinum its desire to re- tem, the UN.

the nations of the

the way of "big when she visited her antimother Precious inain in the Commonwealth. But dangers for

entertaiment.

recently she announced that she may reire Into parochial isolation. "The Prime Minister of Pakis- But through the Commonwealth cinemas showing old films. There water, for breakfast. tan is shortly to visit Moscow. they will remain members of a in no theatre-only two roof-top This is a gesture to ruis in how world socfety.

a type familiar dissatisfed Pakiston now feels Mr. Liaquat Ali Khan's gesture Middle East ex-Servicemen, uni An opponent, desertben Arty

to Moscow is disturbing to on of with London.

Tite Pakistan newspapers are those who believe that the Com-table for the low quality of Fadden us the Australian parlia

of their drinks, and the cal- ways asking what benefit Pakis-monwealth has still a great part their entertainment, the dubinus ment's mest sellish member. tan gains from membership to play, to the beneilt of all its ness of

piracy of their Pakistani meinbers. Commonwealth. the

At the moment the culated

Hungarian, Greek and feels that it has been ignored by

gesture is no more than o gesture. the rest of the Commonwealth. The best way of dealing with Pa-hostesses.

There Ir in partioular it feels that in its kistan's grievances in to bring the quarrel with India over Kash Kashmir war to an end. India tennis some golt and racing in mir, it has not received from the may well consider whether the season. Cut at The other end comes, of

the Commonwealth

support time has not come for a general 31- But all that actually has course you knew this re

which it deserves.

reconciliation with Pakistan., petrol you cannotį The Prime Minister of Pakis- all countries. India stands to lose happened is that the Comedy-the

Al munists have moved with in-

very shrewd and moderate man entry into South Asia. · credible slowness from the

a lot of things which, at that if he is now bent on making the borders of sight, you would wither know gesture of visiting Moscow, it is Yangise to the

for magine. For extinde:

how a sign of

strong public Despite Kwanglung.

What the oil industry pedantic, opinion in Pakistan must be. munication difficulties, the ally calls "detergent" and you Pakistan is very anxious aboul average Western army would and I eat snap, or its equivilent, its future. I still fears

of wil.

fears thut it may also be attack- A tom of petroleum hydrocar-ed by Afghanistan in a pincar However, the relatively, un bon produces the equivalent of movement. Hence its desire to

By "WINDRUSH" trained rabble under the ham- | iwe fus or fits normally used in and foreign friends-If necessary mer and sickle, with poor soup. This therefore Trees the in Russia.

Recently, all the London armaments and little Tand, two fans to put between bread Mr. Liaquat Ali Khan has ask-

celebrated an ed what good is the Common- newspapers have gradually come within and Jam

Another unexpected product is wealth if it does not see that jus- event which happened 200 sight of their destination-be-bug-powder--or, if you want to tice is done in quarrels between years ago. It was not a given to me by a pretty, honey. man the firemen." cause there was nothing to be official about it, "insecticides its members. This question raises

It was the blonde. Newcastle girl, 22-year-

Green old Mes, Dolores

(who) point of principle political event.

tell me that frult mer- They an important fungichles, and soll fumigants," stop them.

her Junior Sudan Govern- chunts are rogurdid universally with From a Western point of Gottle further and you about the future of the Common- birth of the German poet wit

will hear of something eailed wealth.

'Goethe.

ment official husband, makes up as a "topping" lol; that bakers view it is difficult to see why solvents." A solvent is

Is some-

The Commonwealth is a con-

Why is Goothe se'much honour- a married couple more typical of are confirmed pafers, but knead the Nationalists have bother thing like water-a fluid tuit stantly changing thing.

all the dough they make; that. It is worth an awful lot these dentists live luxuriously passed through many existences.ed today? He was a poot, lie most) when she said: ed to form armies at all. Tradi- dissolves other things in it.

from But as you ennnot make solu- Today it is working out a new made no mighty scientific invon- tionally, of course, their pos.

which system. The Commonwealth Con-ons. He was not a political tea- days to have a home of your own hand to mouth; and that tyre re-

der. He was not a revolutionary, and the sort of life you liko to pairers will attend anyone's blow session has given face to those th-in-water of things

water will not dissolve, you have ference last April was a turning Though he worked for many years go with it."

out and then give them the air. topside, and their existencer you want such a solution point in this development. It mayan a civil servant, it was in in something: well be

be that it would be to the

to the dwarf state of 750 square miles gave excellent opportunities to dissolve them

all its members if it with a population of well under to a few appointees to make

There's that stuff called acetone, evolved a machinery for arbitrat 100,000. Why is his name fortunds by graft. But they

ing between them if they quarrel, famous as that of Marx or of the were not intended to give bat

as India and Pakistan have done great inventors who have trans- tle. At any rate, they have This is a notable solvent, used over Kashmir. Such a machine) formed our civilisation?

The answer is that he wrele not done so for a long time. to hold in suspension the stuff would not be dmcult to devise.'

one supreme political play which One cannot blame the poor, used for acoplane dopes, paint

Important Question has been.considered by three gon- ill-fed, Incredibly poorly paid photographic film, celluloid, The important question is whe=| erațions to give at least a partial soldiery. They can make leather cloth, rayon, explosives, ther the Commonwealth should answer to the fundamental ques first-rate fighters, as has been lacquer (like the cellulose that also enforce an arbitration award tons which every man at some proved time and again, if they gives your car its lustrous colour). If one or both the parties in a stage of his life must ask himself. There are a number of these dispute are unwilling to accept What is the aim of human life? get even a minimum of good solvents produced from gil, und it. The nature of the Common- Why am I here? What must I do leadership and fair play,

saved? That play was so valuable are those which will wealth is to be a free association to be There has, however, been emerge from Stanlow that thes of member states, working vety Faust. no leadership. It is utterly will save

of, some Intimately, with one another, but the Import dollars' 5,000,000

£1,250,000 working on a purely voluntary many rather as Confucius stood futile for the KMT to come

It is not a super-state to China in the past. His ideas out with their periodical ex-worth of solvents from the United basis. There

of is no central organi

have impregnated the German You would scarcely think that Commonwealth government with people. But there is also a strug- cuses or ballyhoo about the

coercive pawers. world fight against demo-oil was any use to food-process

gle against them. For Goethe was It suits most of the members, na crude nationailst. Goethe has cracy. If the free

world ing-except in lubricating the of the Commonwealth, at least at come to symbolise the "other" or

machinery used for bottling or should go down before the canning; but a substance called this stage, that this systems should higher" Germany, which is what Kremlin barbarians, a major isopropyl alcohol (no relation to now contains a number of coun- coming, but has not yet achieved.

continue. "The Commonwealth

Germany has the capability-of-be- part of the blame will be laid

beer or whisky) dehydrates trles which have only recently Goethe was the grandson of a at the, door of Nationalist starch and gelatine; and the same gained their independence. They rich trinkeeper and the son of a

stuff is used in extracting the would be very cautious about re=:] essence of vanilla or oranges.

lawyer.

was born in Frank- If they had made even one

maining as members of the Comfurt on August 28, 1740. That For My Lady

monwealth if they had hanging ally then was a little like Hong or two courageous stands

Anyone familiar with the tang over them the threat of coercion Kong today. It was a great inter- against the enemy, battering of petrol of the sickly smell of off by the rest of the Commonwealth national Commercial centre. Gee- them with everything they would instinctively "include all when they fall into disputes. had, driving them back from out" of perfume; but the scent you

This means that the Common- Went to the University, prac-

Iced law for a few years,

or 27. became time to time with heavy buy for your wife, the tollet-wealth should continue to evold

the use of force in all its internal, then, at the age louses, people overseas would water she uses after washing-up, affairs. It must not use force ivy counsellor to the Grand

of Weimar, who have stood up and cheered-ie varnish on her nails-even the even to see that Justice is done lotion you put on (when you

One of thổ king which,} between its member states. and hurried forward with ma- remember) the bald patch in the terial aid.

fond belief. It will cure it-all course this does not also mean abounded-in 18th Contury Ger Instead, they tried feeding these are made possible by "Sol- that the Commonwealth will not many. He remained in this em in certain circumstances use force playment for 55 years, dying in vents" deriving utimately from newspaper- correspondents the greasy muck that comes out in its external relations Ohe mar to the spring of 1833 pt. who were refused access to of the ground.

non- the pro of 92, of the purposes of the Com

Common

Many Books, the so-called front with stories Dyes, the fluid in hydraulic wealth is to be a sécurity club and

Puring his long e Goethe about "rushing up three crack brakes, the transparent material which operates automatically divisions" to such and such a from which aircraft windshields without the elaborate procedure

books, de plaget every spacely- alactured from products Of The Commonwealth is attacked with pipetra de la salantis

out giving provocation, the ethers van poet. He was one of armies being rushed about in oll Industry. China? Marching slowly and Stonlow, with its miles of pipes must come to its vald. A recent the just arian scholars in Gor- But by Europy today be Its 4,000 considered statement by Mr. due respect to our colleagues, tanks (where the Government State for Commonwent Adaire, long love affairs ar for his wri who really have had barriers stored its patrol during the war), suports that Belvin would ings. sreat deal is known about to face in the way of factual, ira Shall enterprise.

come to thewald of Pakistan

each of these. No atter poet's first-hand reportage, we think The company is spending £6,- it were the volim by unprovoked fire has been to well documentod.

000,000 on research this year aggression by Afghanistan,

"Goeftio's "main" leaching was that more" enterprising newsmen so by 1880 Britons may swall ba No Impediment {{{E}as \@/binieks digian tó of- would have found ways and sitting on a chuire playing bridge

Is Commonwealth, loudly perience life with the utmost 15- means of going up and seeing with cards and (for all I know) bound together likely to be of analyse van da expence It for themselves what was hap drinking a cocktail all made out much use of Interest to the coup in the dereld Waybil

of a can of, olisi pening.

tries of South Asia? Nobody cari solenge see how the Commonwealth will Hla too late now, hov

the

China,

else.

for instance: stuff that smells of fruit.

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