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No-drink City
sums up the first dry year
By
JAMES
BOMBAY,
LEASÓR
from the bosom of the sea. HEN the ruins break Large boats, packed with booze,
over this burning territory.
come up from Goa in Portuguese They dump their city (they are due cargo over the side and mark three weeks from now) it the position with a float.
will become the wettest in In the darkness fishing boats the world-but at this collect it and bring it ashore in moment it is the driest. deserted creeks. There it is Reason: Bombay is brating the end of its year of total prohibition.
either buried for future disposal cele- or poured into false petrol tanks first on cars, or into inner tubes or into bottles quaintly labelled lighter fuel and polson.
Celebration is, perhaps, hardly
1. MUSSOLINI
President Peron has been recommended for the Nobel Peace Prize because of
hla
"justicialist principles" and principle of "spiritual armiament." The man
dis.
who
made the suggestion: A Peron deputy, Virgillo Filippo, Vir- gillo cited the President's efforts for social security, his magnificent "appeal. for peace, and the announcement he has just made of hiy
spiritual principle of
dis. ASTRONE, in declaring alomio energy obtained by Argentine methods will employed for peacefal pur Buils."
that
-(London Express Service.)
They play to work better
From R. M. MacCOLL
A
Touts offer black whisky in the correct word in a city where big hotels for 75 rupees (£5) even a wedding toast is drunk 12s. 6d.) a bottle, about three in fizzy temonade. But at least times the normal price.
NEW YORK. some citizens have cause for re- Before prohibition many la- They are the boot bourers lived mainly on dried Joicing.
MERICAN Big Business leggers, than whom no
class is fish and toddy, a leen drink
long ago decided that it currently more successful.
made by tapping palm trees and is Good Business to keep the Twelve months back. these fermenting the juice in the sun. characters were lowly liftmen, porters, and sweepers - the lowest Indian caste of all.
Inspection This, of course, is now illegal, Now they live in sea-front but they still like the taste so houses in Marine Drive, have much that the while American roadsters, and makes a watery imitation-palm Government their wives 1,000-rupec (£75) tree juice that has not stood in saris. They owe their sudden the sun.
employee happy.
/
creation programmes which cover everything from baseball and bowling to chess
tourna ments and mammoth Christmas are parties,
affluence in the absurd prohibi- It is called neera, and efforts tion policy started as a sop to by the people to take it home Gandhi's words.
and sun it themselves Once he said that if he had thwarted, as it must be drunk at self-government for one hour the place of sale. only, his first act would be to
The cost of this absurd cam- ban foreign liquor.. Hence, total prohibition In Bombay and palen so far is 12,000,000 rupees (£900,000) löst in revenue and Madras, and one dry day a week tourist irade, about one-fifth of In Delhi.
Bombay's total revenue,
Also, crime is violently in- creasing. Half of Bombay's police are on the look-out for Westerners who want n drink stills and secret drinking. All -curiously referred to officially roads in and out of the city have as addicts have to queue for police blocks and all travellers hours in a steamy office to an are inspected. swer a questionnaire..
Questionnaire
The other day, returning in a
The questionnaire includes
car from a bathe at Juhu Beach, such non-drinking questions as 15 miles out, I had the experl- where they were brought Pence of breathing hard in a and their monthly income. After.. due bureaucratic delay they may Policeman's face while he smell be awarded one to four units for ed my breath for alcohol, What one month, which means a maxi-performance, mum of four bottles of gin.
An appeal may be made on medical grounds, but the Direc-
as the late Sid: Fick would have said,
Not met any
CAESAR
NAPOLEON
PERON
'QUEEN' RUTH AFTER A YEAR
The Khamas are happy in London
THAT has the frat able lo
W
to
withstand ex-
year of banish- African sun.
bosure to the burning
ment front Be- Ruth Khama lives to- chuanaland done day in a furnished three-
floor maisonnet e modest street
"Queen" Ruth, the London business girl whose marriage to African chief Seretse Khama caused one of the hottest racial contro- versies ever to rage within the Empire.
Sho retorted with blistering protestations when the Govern ment exiled Khama from his country because he had married а white woman. Recently Jacqueline, the Khomas' brown- first sinned baby, had her birthday, and turned the spot- light back on all that.
Rent's Peak,
ས
in a near Re- From the
wall of the little sitting room Д picture looks down-a young African reaplendent ia what appears to be the fulf- dress
of the uniform Household Cavalry, stond- Ing beside seated figure in a bush evencroble hat: Sorelse's father and randfather, both Ва- mangwate chiefs.
Part of the day she is the ordinary wite and mother that she might
QUEEN OF THE BAMANGWATOS inve been,
this. girl
Ruth Khama, jacquelino who was born in Blackheath, played lacrosse at her Eltham but she tries to pick it up (she school, drove lorries as an acting has no textbook) from her fanec-corporal in the wartime husband. WAAF bicame a Lloyd's under- Big, broad-shouldered Seretec, due to take his law Anals writers' clerk.
WOMAN OF THE WEEK
by Evelyn Irons
a holiday break from Ho maintains his
a week she goes The thron are just back from brief holiday in Cornwall;
ico skating in a
Bayswater with touring in the brown 32 bp Ford brought from
The controversy is not dead, And this year, says W. H. As far as Ruth is concerned it Edmund, recreation director of is merely dormant for another a huge tyre and rubber concern, three years and ten months. industry is spending 500 million Then comes the end of the dollars-easily a record-on re-ve years ban on Sereise and Sho baths and feeds Jackie, as a barrister in September, is
hia white "Queen," when the helps the maid with the house having Government must decide work,
cooks her husband's his studies. whether
on the £1,000 year they are to assume evening meal. ("I love cook- family power
by the Government over the Bamangwatos or not.
100,000 ing, particularly French dishes promised
for the duration of his
Лlvo with lots of herbs and garlic.")
years' banishment. Today Ruth
Two evenings None of the 20,000 firms winch has mellowed pour out the
her dollars for fun in
com- the Edmund ex-| monta on begrudge them.
a worker does colour bar.. The plains: "What
A. girl friend American after he leaves the factory has year has healed
While
Seretse of the a strong bearing on the way hef some
plays table ten- WAAF experience, likes to take anger and bit-
nis because, a turn at driving but finds the does his job next day.
terness which was her natural she says, anyone who has been car amallish after the big RAF
lorries. accustomed "A man who plays baseball in reaction to the events leading up the evening will be able to turn to her husband's election from must exercise to keep fit.
to playing games Unlike most girls she doesn't a better day's work than the Africa. But she is inflexibly
who kills his time in a set on returning to Bechuanaland care
for pictures, prefere as wife of the Bamangwato chiet, plays. Unlike every other girl. She avers that the two of she studies battling Russia's Mallic at UNO them can be a power for pro- queen. Sir Gladwyn Jebb was the hero
gress there. of millions of Americans who watched him breathlessly on TV.
tavern."
LAST YEAR, when he was
But now Jebb himself has
voiced a growing trend among 1QU
ANGER GOES.
African
Africa
Ruth, remembering her
NO REBUFFS
VERYWHERE they went, in
en-
M to be an
Subs and inns and villages, the Khamas were recognised, Each day she and Seretse met with no rebuffs and instead read and work together, dis were welcomed by the pubile. cuss ideas for the welfare of In London where 2 years ago the Bamangwatos. They meet
faced hostile stares and ------ UIETLY dressed in a flannel-
grey wool jersey dress and many Africans, often have them they
they to dinner at their house, Her offensive remarks, UNO men who think that the sheerest nylons, the forme
on counter no more trouble, current reading-a book goings-on may be over-pub- Ruth Williams does not look racial clashes in South Africa; lictsed, Too much microphone conspicuously different from
another on the differences be What about the upbringing lor of Prohibition, though a non- I wanted to ask Bombay's and TV "eye," says Jebb. And other
of wives of £1,000-a-year tween India and Paklatan. medical man, can either quash er Minister for Excise and Recon- now Dr Grayston Kirk,
Hively tile Jackie? No vicemen in London. She is calm,
tutors and governesses, for her. Front it.
She keeps up with most She will go to "the ordinary So much for the official means struction, L. M. Patel, one of the president of Columbia Univer-poised, ready to handle social
keenest prohibitionists,sity, says UNO is being "ham-situations competently. Her red writings on North and South school." In Bechuanaland, this of getting drink. They
never city's
reads the means a Christian school. Both gold hair is awept back from a African problems, the how things were going, but he strung" by publicity. rich, but
bundies of South made has left on a tour to see for him-
African Khama parents are Christians: THE Sustain MacArthur Com-high, intelligent forehead. self.
that arrive from Jacquelino Tebogo was mittee, headed by Mrs Gloss One oddity-her parti-colour- newspapers
friends Seretse's christened in the Church as Backyard brewers operate in He left behind a statement, Edwards, of New York, pald 300 cd eyes. The left is clear grey, African
England on the last day of last every street in the kitchens of though, saying: "It gives me tollars to hire Carnegie Hall for the right splashed with brown. homeland. wealthy householders, where great pleasure to and ex-addicts its fest meeting. The hall holds Her complexion is clear,—100, The -Bechuana- language year, underpald servants augment without exception stating they 2,700 people. Thirty-nine turn- and pale. But in the year she spoken there is almost impor (World Copyright Rezervačnos their meagre Incomes by running were immensely
benefited dueled up.
"Aka spent" in Bechuanaland it was sibly difficult for à European, London Express Service.) home-made stills.
to prohibition, and that their They
soak a handful of sugar homes were more happy and molasses in water, ferment it, peaceful than at any time be- and distil it. This takes time fore. Many of them had been and also smells, so they accele- pble to pay off their long-stand- rate the brewing by throwing ing debts." Into the brew-pot a handful of ammonium chloride.
mnde unofficial
ways. hundreds wealthy.
anyone
have
Dumped cargo
at
For myself I have not so far mel any of these happy people-- only a number of characters prowling in dark corners who have
booze offered me The production of the drink is fabulous prices, quickened alarmingly, but the
Perhaps they are ex-addicts product does no good to โรง
trying to pay off their long- drinker's stomach.
in Bombay's Housewives complain that fish standing debts
Is hard to buy. The Ashermen easiest way.
are after more lucrative hauls -{London Express Service,)
If it's a case of QUALITY.
then it's a case
of
Carlsberg
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DEATH PLOT BOYS SET
A NATION ARGUING
Can you imagine this
happening here?
PARIS.
DAY after day, for more
than a week, the stuffy courtroom of the little town
of Melun has filled with a
from
SAM WHITE
that ho not only inspired the Then the two boys were sen- envy of his two schoolmates tenced Panconl - to '10 yours" but dazzled Nicole,
solitary confinement for shoot- ing Guyader, Potit to five years Day after day Guyader told for aiding him by getting the them tales of the fortunes he gun.
was making from deals in rugs
and armaments of his eveninga Solitary confinement is the in Montmartre night clubs and third most severe sentence, a of his plans to kidnap a Rus- French court can impose. It. sian general in the event of a entalis confinement in a small
Ponconi-bespectacled, thick- Russian invasion of France and cell after prison working hours, fashionable Parisian crowd. uipped, the schoolboy intellec- floo to Morocco to set up a wittiout any of the small luxuries granted to other long- term 'prisoners,
They have been listening to tual with exotic literary tastes "mequis."
In the case of Panconi and Petit the sentence is largely a
a murder trial which has grip--at with his head bowed.
Nicole, engrossed in her role pod all France. As wilneas
Petit-square-headed, tough, as "femme fatale," told Pan- after withess has gone into the the habitual truant at school cont that if he were only box, the sudience of society whose reading did not go bo- "man" like Guyader perhaps formal one, women, authors, stage and yand Julea Veme - gazed she would take some notico of sereen stars have hoard a story fixedly but furtively at each him, of adolescent day dreams which witness.
became a terrible reality when they led to murder.
..
They have already spont
But then Guyader told her nearly three years in prison The prosecution case brought she was not smart enough for swatting trial. It is thought
G
brassy
slow.
kn the
a third actor in the drama, him, she enticed Pelit by tell that Poult will be released after The two accused were still young enough to be tried ing him how easy it would be a year and Fanconi, after threa Claude Ponconl and Bernard by a juvenile court 15-year- to rob Guyader, the last Fan- or four years, Fellt, both 17 when they plot oki Nicole, vamp of their sixth cond she would be his if only They are now, Uable to be ted the murder of their fellow form at school and now dove Guyader were out of the way.
Alain Guyader in a loped into
conscripted student
into the French forest three years ago.
witted and physically not un- The phy-acting which had serve their sentence
army and they will probably Had they been tried shortly attractive young woman of 18,
produced the. murder was hard labour battalions of a matched by the histrionios of French military detention bar the murder, the would have been heard by a It was for her that Pantoni wiincases and counsel, Only the
racks. juvenile court. But French shot Guyader with a gun atolon judge obviously deeply affec Justice moves slowly. The trial by Petit from her polico-inspector ted remained aloof from the
the adolescents, who are now father.
Jostling for the ilmelight. young men opened only recently.
after
Caso
But the contral problem remains unsolved by the trial. Are parents, teachers and a
which every
of the
houze
caso revealed that the No "performance matchod sele postwar society・ to be The pubile have followed it murder. came as a climax to a. that of Nicole. The girl alter allotted their share with passionate, IM uncasy” jong period of intense schoolë nated her gilb draibis and blame? Interest. For the boys who sat boy play acting in which cocasional impertinences with That is the great unanswered In the dock with a look of Gurader set the pace. He posed well spaced #ainting ats. She question
the hold in França is debating to- resigned bewilderment had a black marketoor with a fainted four limon In aped with grofosque adellly suite in a Paris hotel and a course of half an hour, and day, the manner and mogula of steing of mistrosrow. He, played - Bandy: allowed herself to be || (mfortą, Copyright Reserved«ni many of ingir, aldera un role with sich.conylulon carried feet first from the box.
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