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FAIRY GODMOTHER RECEIVES

QUEER REQUESTS

REQUESTS FOR HELP

By Antony Terry

German

up. The

OWCO a bureaux,

pre

10'a day compensation for every

day he spent during the war in

an internment camp in Sallabury

Good Morning

"Conditions in London manay

Rhodesia. He claims he spent market improve."

nearly eight years there.

nurse

Another came from s

"parlia a job ns who wanted mentary midwife" attached

Bonn Parliament,

"One

They were pound to in tune.

to

at Man returning, homa late niglit falls 40 feet down a cliffaldo

never

Still, he probably felt he'd had drop too much.

knows when I might be wanted," without injury.

sho wrote.

To many thousands of West Germans the Bonn, Parliament of the Federal Republic is just another fairy godmother. And through every sound, and I am, are refusing to pay they see that role personified slowly going mad, I am out of German Government by Frau Louise Albertz, 49-work and we have no money. If debt to the marriage

only someone would pay the fare who are helping to stabilise so- could get away from this clely in a wobbling world." 82817year-old head of the Petitions we

Warlike toys Committee of 27 MPs, upon hell." whom 100,000 letters of appeal Frau Albertz passed the letter

Sho petitions Many of railway ad-

An Essen man offered a sug-a have descended in the first 11 to the

of Europe's ministration who gave the man technical applications connected gestion to stop women drinking montha lifo

Apropos these Commo anti-war - free rail ticket for his wife and with patent rights, and these are so much coffee, and to cut down

passed on to the appropriate the extensive coffee muggling petitions, most of us would like youngest democratic assem- himself. HK$72.00

An old age pensioner also auc- committee. But everyone gets an from the Soviet Zone, ils pro- to give the Kremlin a peace of Most of the requests are sim-ceeded with his request for cus- acknowledgement from the Bonn posal was to mix into the coffee our mind.

a chemical which would make i ple pleas for income tax rebates toma duty to be waived on a gift "wishing well."

One

Frau anyone who drank it stek. request which

them-

Free nations scoff at the Bear Some requests cancel but the bulging files in Frau of tobacco. from his brother" in

Albertz was glad to further was Albertz's department also con- America.

and aclves out. For instance, the re- idea of appeasement, But most of the letters she re- from women's associations tain a varied assortment of un- usual and tragic and even in- celves are on a lighter level. youth leagues all over Germany, presentative of the ex-Nazi Otta

in living Canada, marriage calling for a ban on warlike toys. Strasser, now geniously based appeals for help. The manageress

Donn Parlin- It onded

with Bonn's 400 MPs rer's" return to Perhaps the queerest applica-bureau asked the

ment to rescind a law of 1881 after a stormy debate, passing tion is that of Herr Fritz Knaller which laid down that those who law forbidding shops to sell toy be lifted." Another coronadeni doctor's recent actions. an officer in the Kaiser's Army found ..

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ACKNOWLEDGMENT

Mrs. Alex. Leslie wishes to thank all friends for their expres sions of sympathy, letters and flowers sent on the occasion of her recent most grievous loss.

HUE AND CRY

Peking's propaganda of- fensive has now been extend- ed to Hong Kong. The latest outburst by Peking Radio embraces a variety of minor incidents over the past three or four months, most of which have already been dealt with. The official Communist paper

bly.

He claims he in-

at a

n

for the ban

on his

The

10

Get-

Strasser

ser should never husbands and wives tommy-guns, tanks, "atom bomb- asked that

allowed to set foot on In World L vented

for which through those channels were not ers," and other gadgets likely to be a machine-gun.

revive miftoriam in the youth of man soll ogain. Fortunately for

Frau Albertz, the matter is on he never received compensation. compelled to pay the fee.

"We are faced with catastrophe," Germany.

Thousands of the The

requests for the British, U.S., and French wrote. manageress His first claim was made in 1920.

discovered the received

clearly occupation authorities to decide, has

quite One man asked for and not the Bann Government.

and was lost in the pigeon holca the of the German Government of public that day. At various times in existence of this law and they "y-one." the next 13 years he revived his application.

Hitler's advent and World War II brought him the curt reply from the Nazis to "wait until the war is over-we have more im- porlant things to think about." Herr Knaller started hla plication on Its Courte when the Bann Government was formed last year. As "a specta! affer" he mentioned his willing- ness to accept a new 28 h.p. mo-

ото

Britain is acting the fool over Spain

in Canton is also said to have unlikely. Warned him he was ers the Atlantic Ocean for

Apathetic

FC-

From his position he could con- trol the Western entrance to the Mediterranean, and he was unong the first to fight Communism in Europe.

"in"

on

By John Fisher

They

.

govertiment Burmese Seagrave Implications in tho

Russia still maintains that she is only an innocent bystander in the Far East conflict.

The Korean war is one of the few things she does not claim to have invented.

•

Frank Sinatre, of all people, ls to star in a Bernard Shaw play.

"

That's nothing to make a song about.

"Three babies, of quadruplets said better."

It never occurred to me before wint does one call the children of quadruplets?

•

It seems that Malik wants to She, too, had an opportunity in stir up a

Rau over India's May last year, to reverse the attitude at the UN. United Nations decision. This

was when the matter was debated

*

*

from: taken In the Political Committee of the "Simples General Assembly, What did the churns thowed percentages ut British representative do 7 He added water of 32 and five por cent. Milk taken from the cows was found, to be genuine."

abstained from voting.

with

To have voted for full relation Spain would, we were after- wards told, have implied that we were in favour of the Franco re-

nonsense gime. But what

When a short time ago we re-

Miss, nothing, these chaps.

.

Those of us hoping that nothing will happen to prevent our next leave would like to book on the All Red rout..

.

To one big man in Western] believe so from the British atti- their Left wing tendencies, and

Russin, whose Europe the phrase "Atlantic tude to other countries, such as disregarded the resolution.

Governments are are now once more represented Pact" means absolutely noth- far more dictatorial than Franco's. in Madrid. tor car in full settlement of his

ing. That man is General What, then is the reason?

'Nonsense' claim

UN Action. Frau Albertz, the "fairy god- Franco, whose country bord-

Officially it is the result of a Unlied Nations resolution intro- get his car but said. hundreds of miles. Your application has been pass-

duced in 1040 by the French de- Franco has a peacetime army joined in the hue and cryed to the appropriate quarter." establishment of 100,000 men and legate to the United Nations at a

that and to have asserted

New Herr Kneller, has 548 let. could provide some 18 divisions time when there were Commu- "these incidents expose the ters of that sort. They represent from Spain. itself, plus four from existence of a deliberate plan his efforts over the fast 30 years. Spanish Morocco. to infringe upon China's

Not all the hopefuls who write sovereign rights." That charge

to Frou Alberiz, however, have reminds us of the shrill cries of student street demonstra-Herr Knaller's distinguished

Yet, so far from being cord. In

a country like Ger tors. It cannot be sustained.

many, war torn and with 9,000,- the Atlantic Fact, he is still in nists in the French Government. this? Accidents can happen, 000 homeless, Jobless refugees the diplomatie "dog-house" as for This resolution ruled that Franco

that recognition, the letters Frau Albertz as Britain is concerned, and Bri- was a "potential danger to world cognised Communist China, we though even if an aircraft or many

gets nte pathetic.

A man wrote tain has at this moment in Madrid peace and recommended that the were assured

United Nations Powers should diplomatie relations and the ilke

African who Young. South two did happen to invade the from Berlin recently, and asked not a full Ambassador but a incre withdraw their Ambassadors from did not imply approval of a re-

gime.

flopped as a prizefighter is now border air-which has not if the Bonn Government would Charge d'Affaires.

Spain.

In fact, as one Foreign Office making a career in astronomy. been admitted it had no

pay his fore for him to spend a

From the start there was a good oneist openly said to me, "You He still has his eyes fixed: on in the country.

How has this farcical situation deal of opposition significance than the week somewhere

to the idea. will not get full diplomatic rela- the stars. "I have

just returned from accidental crossing of the land

return pow arisen 7. Is it because of Franco's Some Powers, Including Britain, tions with Franco as long as this five years lu

activities during the Spanish civil felt that the move, if curried out (Labour) Government is in border by patrols. As to the

camp," he wrote. "My wife and war when he set up what is ad- would be ineffective and, in fact, "Concord" affair, the des- are living in a wooden hut mittedly a dictatorship?

so it has proved, for the boyesti troyer was fred on first. Pre- with 30 other people, We have This can hardly be so, since

privacy s the walls Jel

long after the end of the civil war. viously the same Chinese

and up to the end of World War batteries had shelled several

Madrid. unarmed merchant ships of an entry permit can land in Britain kept an Ambassador in Is it then because of Franco's three different nationalities. China. Indeed in most ports It would be impossible for the restrictions even on ship's attitude during Hitler's war? It any ship to enter ports any-officers have no parallel any so, Britain is showing a poor rea

soning, because she has since where in the world if it be- where else except in the made peace not only with Italy but with many other countries I came the habit of all States to Soviet Union.

who fought us during the war. interpret the rights of ter-

Docs the British Government But many other countries, par. ritorial waters in this fashion.

dictator still 7 One can hardly group, subsequently sloughed off to Franco because he is a ticularly in the Latin American

more

no

.

Farcical

has increased rather than reduced Franco's Influence over his coun- trymen,

this there Apart from

have been doubts whether the United Nations are empowered to deal in nations who are this way with

Britain respected the majorty only patential dangers to peace.

the General Assembly vote of members and withdrew her Am bassador.

Slaughter in the West End

power,

Not recognising the Spanish

Ambassador is just one more of

the prejudices of Mr. Bevin (who at one Ume did not wish to recog- as the existence of the State of Israel).

Britain's policy by which she maintains

Charge d'Affaires in of an Embassay without having Madrid in order to get the benefits: the courtesy to provide an Am- bassador Inspires most Spaniards with a supreme contempt.

Defence bases

When the subject was discuss- ed last month in Parliament, Mr. Attlee cast doubts on the contri- bution which Spain-could make to: Atlantic defence. He gave this as a good reason for not re- appointing оп

to Ambassador Spain.

But even on this materialistic basls I doubt if the Fareign Office policy is the right one. For the relations sooner full diplomatic

Admittedly, a contrast could be made between the absolute Even when a country is at freedom of other days and wor--and so far as we know the safeguards imposed at Chitials not at war--the mea-present. The times are dif- sures taken to safeguard ter- fercnt-very different. There ritorial rights do not call for is perhaps a natural disposi- indiscriminate shelling of any tion to put returned students craft in sight. Indeed, no in transit in rather a special in fact special measures are. normal- category. That was ly taken at all in peacetime observed. Stateless and other refugees are to enforce these rights, which alien I.R.O. in the local instance should given no such privileges. If in fact be applied to none but they come by aircraft, they! The little woman who sells, favourites. I get a lot of fun out Nationalist warships or trans- are held on the airfield and matches opposite the Ambas of my murders. Managers have

told me: 'Nobody else can the next plane.sadors Theatre shook her head with a nicer smile than yours!" ports. There is no plan to sent off on violate

They were right. The man who China's sovereign They are not permitted to and sighed when she read the

has played Sweeney Todd 2,000 rights no plan at all. Net- land from ships, even if they bills for the new play:

I she did so Franco the out- Hermione Baddeley and Henry times and murdered Maria Marten ther is there any intention, do have relatives ashore. We

1,000 performances looks sider could soon become, one of rather like planned or unplanned, to do are simply stating the facts Kendall in "For Love or Money for

...with Tod Slaughter.

Inge

50,

Incidents within the Colony do not come within the cate gory of Chinese sovereign rights. These

are

By Cecil Wilson

aro resumed with Spain, the sooner worthwhile defence bases Britain could easily raise the could be set up there. matter again at the coming meet- ing of the United Nations General Assembly which opens at Lake Success in September.

-not arguing that this is per- "poor old Tod!" she said. "Hel Deane a younger and gayet the favourites..

He is, off stage, as unmurder fectly right, proper and de- must be broke to come down to

this."

ous as you could imagine. cent.

What the Hong Kong au-

She was thinking of all those "Why, I hadn't the heart to kill chickens wife and I used years at the Brixton and Elephant the chick

my referred thoritles are

determined to and Castle Theatres, when Tod to keep in

In Surrey he says. do-and rightly-is to prevent slaughter's was the big name had to get the gardener to do it." Yet consider his lurid life of trouble and disorder. The above the title. Then he was not

main wonder is not that so few in- Just one of the stare. He was the stage crimean some of those

shuddersome labels.

indeed, occur

cidents, mostly very trivial star.

In fact, whether it was "Marin during the Marten" or any other old blood border checks, but that there curdler, he was practically the are not far more. The move!| play. *- • ment of several thousand people a day is really con

Doing nicely

to

The

"ham."

"I

the

to as "measures of oppression against the Chinese people." It is true certain Trade Union leaders have been deported.

title was often innocuous enough.

might Plain "Maria Marten" If it is persecution to send these men back to their own

have meant anything, but the afterthought, "or the Murder in the Red Barn," left no doubts. It country, where they have the

was the same with "Raymond and benefits of living under the

But the matchsellers need not Agnes, or the Bleeding Nun of new dispensation, the local

worry. The blackest-hearted vil-

Lindenburg." Government must plead siderable, and in many cases lain who ever darkened a stage is What they want. guilty. In point of fact two in the past desperate people still doing very nicely. And "coming down

this"

Your chair-clutching, whisky' million and more Chinese are who lacked documents tried living here in a degree of unauthorised means of get means simply that at 65 he is ba- pouring, conversational moderns

probably' dismiss And we have ginning a West End career, after would freedom from oppression of ting across.

"Tod giving any sort no longer enjoyed just had one striking illustra- nearly half a century of murder- Slaughter school

vinces and London suburbs. the nudlenes what they want. except by a privileged min-tion of what a single criminal most foully around the pro-Slaughter prefers to call it

This time, though, the well- He has played in every kind of ority in their own country, with a gun can do. A great host of them have The truth is that this at-named Mr. Slaughter will spill no theatre and at-up show in pretty come here, and stay on des- tack on Hong Kong has less blood. Jordan Lawrence's "new well every town and village in in a new non-lethal light as Mr. never known two audiences react pite the cost of living and to do with our own misdeeds, play in an old way" presents him the country and he says he has lack of suitable, work, ex-insignificant enough in all Playbill, a 17th-century theatrical alike. pressly because of this.

conscience, than with the cast proprietor who has a way with "I've always begun by playing dead straight, and then, if the As to the latest complaint, of the Communist political women, instead of doing away

with them.

the performance regarding the students in countenance, and recent transit to China from the events in Korea and Formosa. ""Treasuro

mosily they took United States, the measures Peking will not remedy, Crimus of Burkand "The accordingly.

wife taken were those usually, ap remove its own presingy of the New Theatre in 1931, (The seriously, make that night

weeks! Wonderful!"), it will bej Lyos, who's put up with me for plied to aliens who come ficulties as a result of its pro- teen mundem every day for seven East Lynho'. When my here without an entry visa. Russian policy by seeking a Tod's first Wont End appearance 20 years) said: "You don't love In fact the authorities scapegoat here. No doubt alince he became an actor, at 16 in me, do you?' and I replied: "I've Wrecker of Men" at West always loved you a woman stretched a point and allow the decision to send British repool 10 years go next Jumped up in the gallery and ed those who have relatives troops to Korea is embarrass April

he means mimi. Ha's a lar here to land. The others ing not to Chipa's national

Once in the were simply escorted on to interests, of course, but to the to stay. But, if need be, he could he wasn't being funny. "She Shumchun. It is hard to see policy to which Peking has take any play from his blood was speaking from the heart*;.

after 24 hours: Mormors is going to and the out to it again i where a charge of persecution hitherto been committed. A strained repertoire of 840 and four the glant of the barn- bright light of the West End lies in such circumstances. change of that orientation rend-through. Nobody who fails to possess i would work wonders. His favourite? They are sil fairly shek, stire bas

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