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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1951.

"I can only suggest that if we've called you up as a rear-gunner there has been a ghastly mistake.”

London Express Service

THEY FLEE FROM $1000

THE

By R. M. McColl

NEW YORK.

HE land of the almighty dollar? Money talks? Not for Mrs Katherin Brkijacic, a Yugoslav,

She landed in New York on a Sunday with her 11-year-old daughter, and proudly clutch- ing a 1,000-dollar bill,

Nobody would touch the thing, Taximen drove off in horror. Restaurant proprietors waved it away, Finally, a charitable society got credit for mother and daughter in an hotel.

Monday, and the banks open.

Surely-

Mrs Brkijacle's troubles were ended. But no.

The first bank she went into said it had not got its "measuring board" handy. (A measuring board la a, device for determining whether torn bills are still Valld currency.) Mrs Brkljacle's note was brand new, so the measur Ing board did not really seem to be called for.

To

Americans Start Pull In Their

In Their Belts

WAB

Okt

Another bank said it liked the note just fine --but could not cash it “until it has been cleared by the Government Reserve Bank."

Finally, the Government Reserve people did agree to accept it,

Said Mrs Brkljacic: "What do they have 1,000-dollar bills for 1 you can't spend them?"

DACK into the "great debate" comes a great American.

The debate is on whether America shall stand fully with her friends in Europe or retreat into

President Hoover's Ex brand of isolationism,

The man is Senator Arthur Vandenberg, of Michigan,

Two years ago Vandenberg underwent a severo lung opera- tlon. Ever since he has chafed Hate within his home at Grand Rapids,

forbidden by popular doctors. Now, although

ness,

but

the

"What we need here furs for the rest. Luxury living and perhaps living up to its name. Perhaps. 1 said: THE train journey from

аге petals -

they living are being what is needed is what the New is an outstanding British Agure out crowns or beims-mere vella longing to get back into har- West Virginia back to comfortable

from to put over the British case and and in the United Yorker calls "freedom whittled down

sheath like. New York was an or- States. Americans, cushioned speech." There is so much talk regard, and I'm not talking just Dresses

need Necklines are so low you would still shake their heads. Vanden-

berg is coming back, the magazine about the Festival. We for so long by their wealth and hereabouts that

think materials were rationed. of anti- someone ilk Mountbatteri, a

is whatsoever

He is a Republican, and thus

• Industrial Ingenuity against reports the wearing

nominally opposed to Truman The elaborately equipped the home front, are feeling the nonsense.

harsh suffering and sacrifice on hearing devices to shut out the personality who makes news, But nothing commands features and front rationed-yet.

politically. But he has always Streamliner (there

In entertainment, British plans been a staunch supporter squeeze. There's still a long

Out at Lake Success the call covers, someone with magnetism cinema aboard) way to go before austerity on

hold the American for the Festival are impressing most of Truman's foreign policy. both De. even #

for carphones has lesseneda who can

His prestige among bola es broke down.

Gore Booth American showmen. The line- All heating the British model is reached.

Today audience." most interesting sign.

disinterested- went of and we were

Now that listened but did not comment. up reads like the Who's Who of mocrats and Republicans is un- Complaints are surprisingly the lake, is murky.

China has been Can Britain Spare Mountbatten show business, and even Holly-assailable, His marooned for five hours at few. Only the Isolationists are Communist

him? It is wood and Broadway would have ness and integrity, are bywords. woe, branded an aggressor after tho or someone like

He plans to reach Washington down with

one dificulty in matching it. Our Pennsylvania, weighed Harrisburg,

Not Important.

just as Congress starts discuss- Particularly ex-President Her most flerce wrangle, no one is very bert Hoover.

doing the least thing about it. American in a hundred knows stars should lure the dollars.

in near-zero weather.

the

gentiments

| strikers.

More than a taste

Mr Hoover's return engage- ment was one of the most ex-

out death to the

free

Mr

DON IDDON'S DIARY

NEW YORK: TUESDAY-

Ing

over to

of

soldiers

American more

Europe. And even if he is yet not

I see reports that no Britishing the eructal question of sand- "big name" is considered capable of alling the London Palladium twice nightly. Can this be true? Why not try a British star?

Still the same,

DAN

can

strong enough for the hurly- a full-dress debete, burly of everybody agrees that in pri- talks with dissenting Re- vate ANNY KAYE, now in New publicans his great influence * final help to produce York breaking attendance "yes"

SHOCKED horror among the recards, is busily planning his

to London,

old New Spectacular playboys down in trip

for flamboyant success has not gone to his Orleans • Ju

Frank Clancy, sheriff of Jeffer- platinum-blond head,

hos suddenly County, son

on all gambling

clamped down on Anglo-American Stop Angle

Huge leicles formed between the coaches, women wept and children walled. We huddled traordinary performances of his together wrapped in blankets, fe. He called it the speech of The dazzling array of buttons his life, but if followed it would

spoli in the sleeping compartments, world. which earlier, at the touch of had alld beds out of

Am Hoover made it clear that be a änger. recesses, made wash-basins ap- considered America's participa- The delegates sit on their hands. the name of the British

is over, finished, bassador, Sir Oliver Franks, produced tion in the last war a great mis- The subject pear and disappear,

although he has done a tremen- He had no word of done with. light and heat, and kept the air take.

dous, back-breaking job behind 10 comfort

for the clean and fresh, refused

or support

Our Sir Gladwyn Jebb and the scenes, work. Apparently they shared Atlantic Fact Ailles, but instead

Austin are any America's Warren

Edward G. Robinson is in the railway embraced Japan and God walking in step of

again, the Needed also is an Englishman patted Franco on the head, and

in his parish. rift has been in front of the scenes, an Envoy market for British art treasures, kissed Chiang Kai-shek.

New Orleans people When over, and there

are to hold the spotlight and the His art collection is one of the in the world and he

on the roulette holping Europe, look the other papered

Lord Lothian did it, Anest

want a whirl way, and listen to the Germans, some encouraging words for the attention.

"The picture-collecting want soldiers

it-Lord RYE march Lord Our

Halifax did

outside the city wheels they go habit is like the drug habit-you limits. the Japanese and the Spaniards. British.

There they find glitter- across some American newsreels, Mountbatten could do it.

can't live without it." charts THERE were angry arguments

and

casinos and night If and when the Russians and newspaper print throughout the train, but o

he would tables showing comparative Certainly there is increased

On Broadway also the old doing rearing business. here, despite Mr young sergeant put us all in our march across Europe

the Russians (and the sacrifices of the Allies, and we harmony place when he said: "This will bomb

It Hoover. St Valentine's Day, and masters boom-four Shaw plays, nearly all these gambling spats in "Clancy's Kingdom." plays, and are

Says Clancy, who wears a cow- do everyone good. You've all overrun Europeans) until they do not come off so badly.

have all had

Don't be seems that British information New York stores were dressed three Shakespeare -had-it-too-soft. Now you are

suit in his office: "I'm loo perturbed by

by this selfish services have been galvanised up with bright red beart-shaped two Ibsen. having a taste of austerity."

Mr into action. abandonment.

gifts with Cuold Bgurines and

Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Charles through taking the rap for the counsel of

Laughton, and Charles Boyer gamblers." -It-looks-as-if-we-are-going-to-Hoover has not a tenth_of_the_ I met Mr Gore-Booth, our pink ribbons and bows.

are currently-doing better-on have

than more

following of General Elsen- chief information officer, taste,

Spring fashions are already on the San Francisco stage than on hower. It is 22 years judging by the vast new arma-

since other night. He said: "You've

shoes and was elected

to any been critical lately, particularly display-jewelled ment programme and the pro- Hoover

about our publicity drive for the champagne mink for the rich, posed 20 percent increase in office.

rhinestone shoes and Imitation The Great Debate is not Festival-any suggestions?" Laxes.

a

BRITISH

WOMAN'S

3

AS A SLAVE IN A

London...

HREE years of terror

THE

(BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT)

the

YEARS HAREM

the screen,

Britain's Richard Greene, now in New York, is upset by reports

1

ing

boy

יד -

clubs

And

Additional - note- of--gloom: It.

has happened just before Mardi Gras, New Orleans traditional glant binge.

BLIND GIRLS are being ro- that he criticised Mexico City.cruited as typists by the US. "I never criticised Mexico City, Government It, tried 30 as an he says, I did, and I am not experiment, which was "highly successful." Salaries range from upset.

£954 When comedian Robert Lewis £883 to

yearly. WHEN Corporal Earl Booth, was told by a waiter that he could be served with anything of the US Fifth Cavalry Divi- that

swims he replied: "Bringelon, sitting in a snowy foxhole In Korea, received a demand me Esther Williams,”

At Lake Success the United for £7 76. 3d, on an old grocer's my baby, a ruse on the part of States is delighted that Britain bili, he sent back a bundle of the Australian woman doctor, is not only standing on her own North Korean money in pay- solemnly went him a receipt for "But outside the hospital, my feet but is no longer treading ment. The collecting agency has confusing history with Korean money has depreciat-

abductor had set his gang to on American toes.

Footnote The Isolationists 19, 9d., pointing out that North

Fortunately they

have ended for a 85- slavery, or are hidden and 11- After that any attempt to get away was met with the threat year-old British woman treated and cannot be traced.

of the husband that he would keep watch.

weat to sleep, and a rescue are when she stepped ashore at Bhopal, a Moslem state, ac- take her child away,

! squad headed by a white man hysteria. Tilbury, carrying her 16- eeded to the new India, and as

"In a lane near the house got into the hospital and rescued month-old baby from the P a result rioting was severe.

a barred window me and the child, We were mish- The Nawab's palace was un- there was

a waiting car anick & O liner Strathmore,

der siege for a time. Mrs Doris lighting the zenana," Mra Butler ed Into

would some promptly moved to a village 65 It was Calcutta- born Mrs Butler was still in the palace as continued. Here Doris Butler's first sight of Enge, and was desperate for a times sit, hopelessly looking out miles away."

Embo the freedom I thought I means of escape,

Toen Land. She landed Almost do-

could never know again.

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where I was forcibly converted. For mouths Mr Tanner in George Tanner, who now

her

Her brother-in-law, Mr lives and averal white in London, has put the full facts

Two days later the European stitute, In the old frock sho A Moalam chauffeur, pretend at last I managed to attract who had organised the rescue left for Bombay, ostensibly on possesses, har only luggage a ing that he was going to save the attention of an Indian carpet business. At a secret rendezvous fat tin trunk and a battered the girl,

gave her a bhoorka saller who proved friendly. He

Duris and blue hat bag.

(native dress), in which she agreed to smuggle notes and he picked up managed to get out of the palace letters from me to my brother baby and took them with him to the Hirb Commissioner'S Moslem A fugitive from

and into one of the Nawab's 'in law in England and also to

Office. The High Commissioner zenana (horem) in far away

heard her story with amazement Bhopal, where she had been im state cars. That was the begin the few friends I had in India.

ning of the end, prisoned for, nearly three years

"The letters reached their, and promptly got things moving. after being kidnapped from the

destination and the carpet seller

The following day Doris was palace of the Nawab of Bhopal, "Instead of being helped to was able to obtain small sums put on board the Strathmore and she,hik come here to sock re- freedom I was taken to a Mos- of money which he spent. dress for harrofs which few lam house and thrown into a necessities for me and passed sailed safely. white women have experienced zenana with other abducted through the barred window in and survived.

women,

Mira Butler told me. the night.” Doris Huzroy, daughter of a Welsh outfitter and his Danish to Islam and, under the threat wife, has lived all her life in of murder, forcibly married ac Engin nat India. After an unhappy mar- cording to Islamic rites to the friends in Bhopal had been by- of this amazing story before the ing to trace the missing girl. High Comndisioner for India, ringe to Mr Alfred Butler, a man who had abducted me,'

As soon as the messages from who is taking the matter un policeman. he went to live wtih was kept in the zenana, a the shuttered zenana

reached with the Commonwealth Re- her brother-in-law and sister, close prisoner, watched night them they went into action. lations Office. He is aslding for Meand Mrs George who had an hotel in Sanner, and day by a huge black Nubian Instructions were sent by them criminal proceedings to be taken

But the Tanners returned to that none of the women got out on to the aptive girl.

woman, whose job it was to see to the carpet seller and passed against Mrs Butler's abductor. England, and in May 1947 Mrs into the open. Butler obtained a post as HIIT- sery governess toine-infant:... “My_life was a constant hell Princesa Mahshano, daughter of, of nea

near-slányation and ill usage. At last, pretending to be ill, ments can be made to find her [the „Nawab - and, Begum ofil was bomini regularly, and one she was transferred to a zenana a job and arrange for the wel-

Australian fare of 10-month-old Peter Bhopal.

PRANO my fingers is crippled as a hospital where

* rosult of this mistreatment. The woman doctor befriended her her son by her forced marriage. Kama tak tada akh other women in the zenana, all and tried to move her to the Mrs Butler said: "I have cóme

of Indians or Moslems, hated me house of some railway officials. India and Pakistan in August and vented their spite in every But the plot falled. New leak over here hoping that something

amur 47: possible way.

od back to her Moelem husband, can be done to get me justice. and as the party, left the

Then came the partition

1047.

on

He met Mrs Butler at Tilbury and took her to a place where she will remain until arrange-

At the time there wore wide»....... “I was trenfed like the lowest pitat, a gang surrounded the But I do not. know how. I am)

going to live. I would take any hard spread slots throughout the type of native woman and had Boris was recaptured and taken kind of work, howe country. Thousands of worsen to do all the work about the back to prison, baby Peter with me: If. I cannot which would enable me to keep were abducted by... both des

sides, bouse. The piber wires did all Hindi and Mosion in

bokh

the, could to make my life a "We tried the same trick find something to do, Peter wil crans, forcible

said: "I have to go into an Institution. CONVOTION fol

@gain," Mr Butler troll lowed. Many thousands of these fire „Bullor is will witling Ingood, alokom once more and my brother-in-law George, has women have been rescued, do talk arout ibeir cruellyandle; was moved with the child to-done dvayitlog-A man can do, many of them with their chil- At last Pater, the son of thàgabe wensonhospital-There 1 bulbw.osdesk cood.to.keep mi meng Ind many, bá verdad in: fapood - "imkon

born wwe driained liîn a ward with and my baby??angii,

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