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· THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JULY 25, 1951.

"I remember it well-that year when England won the Middleweight Championship of the World—someone started negotiations for arrangements for talks on the possibility of a conference to decide an agenda for a basis for an agreement on a ceasefire."

Sitting

Thirty years ago my cm-

ployees touched their caps to

me

and said 'Good morning.

sir or 'Good morning. Mr B.

on

* Fence....by

Now they nod their heads and

say "Good moming, cock'." --

Complaint by

Yorkshire bulider.

隳 73-year-old

THERE was a time, not

T

long ago, when all my working chaps

caps.

E.,"

NATHANIEL GUBBING

First "Cook House" is never A. In a rationed country Would say, "Good morn-

because sounded, either,

all anybody but a fool would cal ing, Mr

and the troops, including the anything available so long 13 gravely touch their bugler, have breakfast served It's wholesome. But if you in bod by the so-called don't fancy your meat ration Women's Army Corps.

these days send it on to me. When I arrived in bowler 'at

"Lights Out" Ja always

Q. What should i drink? they'd stand to let

me sounded, though, in the circum- stances, it takes on a new sig- pass-

for They 'ad respect

bowler nificance. 'ats, for chaps who pald the bross.

"Good morning, chaps," I'd say to them, "I see you're on your jobs, "For them that cares for extra work there's always exira bobs.

In the British Army "Show a leg"

shouted at sleepy soldiers in the morning by im- patient N.C.O.s waiting for a parade to begin..

London Express Bervice

the

We can't afford things like that, dear. Have you ever tried mock trife?

No dear,

read about it in a maga zine. Instead of buying expen- sive sponge fingers you use up

your stale bread.

State bread, dear?

Yes, dear. You cut the stale bread into dainty slices and make a very thin custard with powder and watered milk.

Watered mlik, dear? A. Delicate people find that spirits overheat the

blood in Of course, dear.. Only a thin hot weather. As I am not de- custard would soak into stalo Ilcate, you can send your whis- bread. ky on to me, too.

I see, dear,

Q. How do I keep cool the day time?

it

A.

All done on a shoestring, Paris

steers them away

L.

from Britain by 6.1.

PARIS,

N the principle that averybody loves an old lady, especially when she is gay, Paris this year is celebrating her 2,000th birthday, and making à pro- fit out of it.

"No, Paris," said Jean.

"How old are we?" some- one asked.

a

"We are 2,000 years old in

who has 1951," said Jean, taste for round numbers. Ho wrote the French scenario for "The Private Lives of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun.”

Ho said he could ret the

She has floodlit her beautiful architecture, backing of historians, if that bedecked her boulevards and was necessary. There was little bridges with flowers, and direct testimony as to what opened her arına.

was happening on the banks of the Seine Way back in 'thie The tourists have come B.C. years. tripping in, complaining, It "Well, WO haven't is true, about prices that 'money," someone said. are as high as the Eiffel

"I do it on what you give Tower, but continuing to me." sald Jean.

any

him ZAVO

30,000,000 francs, which is £30,000

spend their money crazily. They

The result is that this out the cost of one of Elsa

year France has had its Maxwell's super biggest tourist season, and parties.

Marin

received

birthday

another

bank cash boxes are loaded. with more dollars, pounds, £30,000, from the chamber of kronen, ребов, marks, commerce, and that was all.. zlotys, and even roubles than Paris has seen since the war.

The festival is largely the work of tall, dark, hand- some and imaginative screen writer Jean Marin, who draws a £15-a-week salary as a municipal councillor.

Forty-one-year-old Jean,

They gave him a room in the city hall 09 Jarge as a train compartment and, with a staff which nover exceeded ten people, he planned his first step birthday party for 2,000

of Paris's oldest inhabitants.

Ballyhoo

THE city went in for an emoTM tional binge,

who has a voice like Charles shared by butchers, vintners, accordionists, who Boyer and a catering in- bakers, and stinct like Joseph Lyons, supplied the wherewithal for had the idea in April 1950, the old folks' feast. and sold it to the sceptical city fathers.

The "Bimillonaire" Was launched on a flood of senti- mental ballyhoo which spread round the world.

us;

was

psychological one. "People kept saying to 'What can you do with so little money? It almost gave us an Inferiorlly complex,”

They were casting wor- ried eyes in the direction of Jean said his firat problem the Festival of Britain, and do some fast Then you buy a little bottle they had to of sherry flavouring and sprin-thinking. kle a few drops in the custard.

Yes, dear,

Then you cover each slice of

retired, according to your posi jam, place in glass dish, pour tion there; it you do it at the custard over and allow to he wrote the scenario for home, the children will be fase cool. After that you make the film "The Battle for cinated, but demoralised

Heavy Water," which is set life.

Mock Devonshire cream, in Norway. dear?

One way is to go about In the Peralan Army "Show naked, but if you do this in a leg" is shouted at sleepy the streets,

the police will girls in the evening by im- make a fuss; if you do it in "Tha'll not regret it if the does patient officers waiting for the the office, you will be fired, or bread with a thin scraping its 900th birthday in 1950 perts. Every section of Paris

dance to begin.

an extra bit for me;

"If the looks after us," I said,

"then we'll look after thee."

T'other day, when I

To keep cool

arrived, W

still in me bowler_at

WHENEVER Dr Gubbins,

the Fleet Street quack. night? To see the chaps on building offers advice here on how

site, you could ave knock- ed me fal;

They didn't touch their caps at all, though one did nod is 'ead, "Good morning, cock," they said to me, "Good MOT- ing, cock," they said.

I've done my

stand the today;

to

keep cool in hot weather, the temperature drops several

for

your mock Devonshire cream.

at

So simple, dear. some warmed margarine

You mix

white sugar, shape into yellow blobs and dot generous ly over the mustard.

with thick

Sounds delicious, deer,

Q. How do i keep cool

A. The best way is to sleep de- in a bath of cold water. If you will grees, northeast gales are pre- have a weak heart you dicled, and snow falls on high probably be dead in the mora- ing. But you wanted to keep ground.

cool, didn't you?

But, as his absurd patients ob- never tire of reading the vlous, he will take the risk of apolling their summer by deal- best to under- ing with a few questions any

working chaps child could answer.

Q. What should I cat 17

I know that brass for extra the hot weather?

work means extra tax to

pay.

When Brst they scoffed at bow-

ler at it gave me quite a shock,

But that were nowt compared

to shame

I felt when they forgot

name

And said, "Good

cock."

me

morning,

MAIN

Food news The magazine says "hubby

will

never

WHAT'S he having for a difference."

hot weather sweet, and dear? Strawberries cream?

know

the

Really, dear?

--(London Express Service.)

STRANDS OF THE

S Mr Averell Harri-

man

came flying across the Atlantic and Mediterranean he spent

most of his time reading. Military

Intelligence

A READER

writes:

respondent writes:

British

There are

held

It just may be that Jean got a glimmer of the idea from Oslo's celebration of

the

What he did was to place problem squarely on the, city's merchants and show ex- was challenged to compete in putting on a display illustrating some aspect of French history,

The city which USE9 its store windows 18 mittature art galleries knew how to do it. From the lush nude figureTM On cheap of the Goddess of the Seine to

the spice and colour WHEN he Quatorze and his ladies and in the Napoleon and his loves-it was Paris City all on display. Council and sald: "Let's have a birthday party," the reception was cool.

rose

"Whose? Joan of Arc's?" la councillor asked.

PERSIAN TANGLE

By G. WARD PRICE.

to tire

British Case

of Louis

When 'the' show windows be- came

too a little

undressed,

the "Bimilenaire" fluttered a modest municipal eyelash, but · did not interfere.

was

The beauty contest of Left Bank models

certainly the most candid ever seen, making the Bikini-clad beauties of the Riviera competitions look like old-fashioned clothes- horses,

પ

Nice day

JEAN confessed

For the benefit of Paris's That is the stage at which we 2,000 YCATE,

students thelr traditionni have now arrived, nearly twenty multiplied

wild festivities, and tourists years later, In 1933 the British W were able to look shocked at Government carried the dispute crowds of scantily clad men Council of the League and women "Romans," who the cafes and left tealed so-strongly to the Persian greatest industrial centre in the of Nations Lord Simen set forth took over

pay for the What was the subject monarch that live concession was Middle East as a result of the the British case, but, before any the spectators to that so closely engaged his cancelled in the following year. arrangements that the Company, action.could be taken, it was drinks.

With the co-operation of the when backed by the British Govern announced that the Iranian Go- But those were days attention? Why, the com

with the semi- vernment and the AXOC. hadj army and every old-time history "Last plicated

of the the British Government growled ment, made

player in Paris, the entered into negotiations, with bugle Aercely any British subject nomad tribes. week your ṇavat corres- Iranian oll industry, on aufered damage at the hands of The Anglo-Persion Oll Cam- the result that, on May 28, 1933, Seine was turned into a river pondent gave us the low down whose latest upheaval he a foreign State. The concession pay, as it was then called, got a new concession was signed of light and noise, while ali on the Persian Navy. Can your military correspondent was sent by President Tru- was at least partial's restored, into its strids just in time for securing a much larger share of the beautiful architecture and

and, as extra compensation, the the First Great Wer, in which it the profits for dran, but pro- bridges were floodlit. tell us something about theman to report.

right to found the Imporlat rendered inestimable service to longing the Company's mining Persian Army?

the Allies. It was one of Win- rights by thirty years.

新 and Bank of Iran was thrown in. many twists The unreliable military cor turns in its romantic record, in Baron Reuter's nasociates sion Churchill's far-sighted maa-. which the first name is that of were unsuccessful in finding oil, mures, as First Lord of the Ad- de Reuter, the but they did blaze the troll for amiralty, to secure for the British

that he fixed the As a fighting force the Per-Baron Julius

founder of the famous DEWB- slan Army will not bear com

others, among whom a French- Government a majority share-

actual birthday It is on this concession that centenary parison with any military form agency whose

in 1892, holding in the concern. bas man, M. de Morgan,

the British case in the present for July 8 in a rather arbitrary Just been

in ation of the last war in Memorable as that achievement terranean olifield on the border. London reported the existence of a sub-

After 1018, relations between dispute is based, for, by article fashion. "If Paris was born, cluding the

have been Anglo-Persian. Home

Company 21 of that document, the Iranian why should it not WBS,

the Baron made yet an- between Persia and Meson the

declared

that Government

born on a soft summer day?" and the Persian Government other mark on history for he potamia.

not be Persian was the first man to This is not because

the "This concession shall became strained, because

The city fathers know they soldiers lack courage, but be profit in the troubled waters of

Government, realising for the annulled by the Government,

Tho Perolan military Persia and may indeed be re- the

first time the great value of and the terms therein contained are an a good thing. High

Command, like their garded

Laid the

the concession it had granted, shall not be altered either by small investment has multiplied

mightily in tourist bualnem naval High Command, consider foundation of the present ob

This in turn aroused the in- demanded a larger share to the general or special legislation." teresh of an Australan Anancier Company's proflis..

What Dr Moussadeq's Go-meant

Ono estimate is that it has female society essential to the situation there.

an increase of moro vernment claims to have done, than £50,000,000 In Customs. comfort of troops.

In the year 1872, having be. William Knox Arcy, who had

Tension lasted ili 1932, in however, in deflance of the

Jean come a prominent world gure already made a fortune out of

has not yet seen the Corps, as the result of his news-gather-cold-mining For £20,000 in which year the Iranian Govern- specite pledge given, in 1923, 1

and a similar amount in ment annoured the cancella to

"I am trave obliterated the entire Festival of Britain. log enterprise, the Baron, who hares, paid to the Iranian Go- son of the Company's conces Company and it consenton by hoping to go before it is over," form

rash harems and become dancing was a British subject though of

t of German-Jewish origin, got a vernment, he got from the Shah.

Government protested,

what can be done, when there A moved tionallas all Iranian oil concessión. 00 work the mineral a 80-yess concession to extract . Then, as now, the British inurriedly-passed law to my he said. I would lover,

oil arowwhere in Persia, with

navel VOKICIE exchanged this deposits of Persia on terms that the exceptions of her five most strongly-worded notes with fraas been treats as of no value. FOOTNOTE: Cœtur in hú

is some real As might be expected..

money to spend," The guarantee it gave in 1938 camaraderie between the sexes were almost prospector's

northern provinces. He also, and inally, appealed to the interferes with training, under dream...

the mole

right of lying Court of International Justice The Iranian Government has res "Commentaries" says that mines discipline, and makes It gave him the exclusive got

pudiated la... own undertaking || Paris, a fortified · town then right to exploit all the natural pipelines,

at The Hague) (in physical Atress a joke.

if this violation of the sanctity called Lutetia, was burned in resances of Iran, with, the ex-D'Arcy's Arm found its firsh

the Iranian of

of contract were allowed to the Gallic War of Independence, coptions of gold liver and oliguster in 1908, ant set it Then, es now, precious stones What considers sex to the aimcult task of ex- Government argued that the prevalt I would in future, be 51: B.C. So it FERME that there In the Fersion Army, zo-Bon the Jaron gave, to the Shah Craoting and rodning öll in a dimite did not concert intre impossible for any commercial some toon there MORE with volle it moversouded, he is not recorded wild coundary where the Persian nato Gur

prive to operator 2,000 years ago. ASIA cause might wake off- This was too good to the Government could not keep or internal matter between itself merker with any foreign govertim ours sleeping off a sherbert:ing. The "Rusin'-Dovernment, pres ser, et krun Newhich became d'the acid the Compan

Guard.

cause

Per-

The result is that the sian Women's Army

like the Persian, Wrens,

girls for, the

the entertainment.

officers and other ranks

having 18

Ash for

Sole Right

ment whatsoever."