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Wogs

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I didn't say anybody was a

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off chop

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An stonishingly high . for three months' ward work with a romantic pen? Possibly. But to Daphne du Maurier, a slim. youth fi and good-looking 44, it means--in hard cash-pre- cisely nothing.

Cat - great grandmother Alars Anne Clarke, whose etched Brauty

Jung is on 1hr

room

of momeupdece, was that Duke York's mistress who sold rom- missions in the Duke's regiment Peninst her old age. Her witty answers Ju the subsequent inystry tonİK the Lou- public doners' minds off the Duke's misdemeanours.

Then there was grandfather 1. She munte.! the money, George du Maurier. artist of less, taxes, for herself, she would Punch, and author of "Trilby. have receved

of the who incidentally. also put the

1.300

& 4,000 which Americans pald proceds of his novel inte a trust fund--in his case for his for Bim as smal rights of he intest

"My novel.

Cowen granddaughters, this Daphne and Rachel."

Angela, her sister. From this they received £61100 each when they came of age

She knew that while she was writing "My Cousin, Barne?" she would receive prarfrally nothing to the work, because of Luxes

And so as she wrote

the Bio Figgals tt'''

ber 19-year-old

and the secand Tessit

1

in the shadow of the brilliant sluge success of her father, Sir she muut Gelald, Daphine grew up, as she 128,000) says a paradoxical shy girl, who onughter liked to withdraw into herself.

rights

She grew, without any con serous striving, from the girl of to bury herself 21 who liked upstairs writing short stories into world-winner with her fourth

2000 to Bus 14-year old younger daughter Flavia. 1 be held bust for thern.

THEIR FUTURE IS SECURE

N

NOT a penny The 1 her her- Mass Mauser has

she

the isolation of knowing that is one of the few people today who has made the dure strue for her children

For her children, but not for herself! Her only capital is in her head. There 15 never stored vhough against the day when her type- writer

longer may no money-spinner.

ncome

be и

"And that," she will tell you. How "might happen any day.

say when this :11-and it studied the is a gift, I never

can

business[ producing best-

sellers will leave me When in

I hope my daughters (with their trust funds) won't disown me like King

Lear's"

Yet to this paradoxical and world-famous author, money in everyday life means little.

To her neighbours and to the villagers in the remote Corner of Cornwall where she lives the she is a mystery year round wuman.

A HERMIT-LIKE EXISTENCE

THEY know

1LR

" always dif resent and resist any sort of in- trusions that cut into the time I liked 10 spend alone," she told

nie.

In that sol- tuce she likes to escape to the vivialy- imagine i manufactured world of her romance.

Daphne du Maurier

ما

No, I didn't.

It's calling people Wogs all and Wops that causes this trouble. You ought to be ashamed of yourself.

Daphne du Maurier

Yes, you did.

I say I didn't.

In Aeries an amazed psy- chiatrist has just discovered You've no right to call me something known to ordinary hog before I've even mentioned the food cuts. What are we go- ing to do about the dollar Rap? Export more and Import less until it shrinks. Who stinks?

I said elrinks. What's more. I don't expect that sort of language from a gentleman. Where were you

educated?

Exon

was my old school. won't be called an old fool, either.

ז

folk for centuries. that ch!)- Iren prefer stories about bad peuple to stories about good people

Therefore, it seems that muny well-meaning, industrious girls are wasting their time in Bloomrbury attics writing cosy Isles for tiny tots.

Most of these stories begin:—

"Come to tea, children," cried Nanny, poking the nursery fire said old school, SCHOOL. into a cheerful blaze.

SCHOOL

"Ooh, lovely," cried the chil- Fool. fool yourself. First you dren as they sat down to a well- call me a bog, then you say laden table. stink Now I'm an old fool. What do you think I'm paying you for?

I don't know. I'm sunk. Of course you're drunk. And the sooner you get out of here the better.

out

Double

one

asked

"Can I have jam on my cake as it's my birthday?" Little Johnny.

"Certainly,"

smiled Nanny, spreading jam thickly on a slice. of cake.

If the Bloomsbury girls want bigger sales their stories should

A wite who frequently stayed

midnight stated in a divorce court that they were

"Come both interested

to tea. children." mainly in daris.

croaked the witch in Nanny's clothing as

hid an she

with another man tintil after begin

film folk, having fun with her MY love she may be short beneath her apron.

in fact trend, Gertrude Lawrence.

a "natural" as a story-teller. a woman whose love of solitude or "escapism,” as she agrees il might be called, turns tu gold.

She never works. a plan, Her ideas come unhurriedly as walks about her woods broading about a house she has seen or an 10n. She never torres the pace to bring out a navel more quickly than once every two or three years, nor writes to commission.

she

unti

flat

Or tall She may be dark or fair My love may wear a

cloth

kitchen

To bind her brassy hair

I care not if she's fat or thin Her figure wide or narrow For, oh my love, my darling

love She Pirmos a pretty arrout.

Mu

love long

|

We

she never talks of

When we walk out at nights of wood and metal talk darts

And darts with

flights

feathered

We talk of battles

Jost With gle and

plenty"

and

uxe

"O-o-o-a-b l-lovely," quaver- ed the frightened children as they sat down to an empty tuble.

c-caite

"C-can I h-have 3-jam on my little ..?" began poor

Before he could mention his birthday the witch had swung her axe and chopped his head off.

"That'll teach you to be, a greedy little beast," cackled Namy "Anybody else want jam on their cake?"

-(London Express Service)

She lives in the London only when attending some rare and imperative function with her husband or for the rehearsals of her plays.

But she never feels happy until she.

Johnny. back in the Mena- billy woods again being as I found, the complete paradox, talking and looking like Soelety woman for all her cor- duroys and jumper, and for all she insists upon withdrawing from Society. THREE MONTHS

She

have would, she says, TO WRITE

lived this kind of life even if CHE sets the ideas mature for a her

novels hadn't been SO tong time and then takes only successful. three months, at six hours a And she is, at this moment, day and no early rising) to put enjoying her solitude and her the 109,000 words an to paper. romantic escape-world and She writes "us it comes," spells ready to set the whole mad. Then, in her own right as the "lamentably," and never re- house of taxation by the ears guccessful and uncommonly at- writes.

again. tractive woman novelist, or as Bul when the three months The slim, youthful-looking

novel are finished, "I and attractive blonde is, as the wife of the famous first ail- and the burne general, nury Comptroller need about a year to recover. It's write, sitting in her hut in the of the Household Elizabeth, she might have taken

to Princess like having a baby. The mine woods enjoying her writing and to be cleared of all the rot allowing the thought to in- to the Society treadmill. characters and background and trude that when her manuscript But Mrs Mary Anne Clarke's much that never gets into the is finished a whole army of pub- great-great-granddaughter pre- story.

lishing and magazine account- She takes my heart by storm fers the corduroy slacks and After a longjabat Mena- ants, film costing and producing My love with cloth about her seclusion of Meuabilly, and is bly, she will Tive herself a experts, income tax consultants content for company to have her mental shake-up with a strictly and inland revenue officials will A pudding may resemble. husband at week-ends and the limited three weeks of New start a fresh battle over her But oh, my love our game has children during holidays.

York, meeting publishers and dream-filled head.

won

Dovel.

has

Suppose you suddenly

your tax man was a

Hpayers feel if you sud- ably grafters.

how

a.

"sighs

The night I missed the double

tro

And she the double twenty,

My love, my love, my darling

love

INSIDE Information

A

N

By MERCURY

invitation

to Mr Chur- Marshal Stalin when the British Prime Minister returns from

My love when she's in form With steady eye and cunning is

hand

head

found out found crook

chill from

likely

Washington. Stalin, who is i and conserving his strength, will esk Mr Churchill to Russia, and not travel to meet him,

General Eisenhower,

in his conference with President Tru- man, obtained

high priority for arms for Europe second only to the Korean war, Home defence of the U.S. will have to welt.

US. Congressmen have urged the President to send the new atomic, artillery to Europe. This weapon,

first reported in February 1950, is

210 W

more

•

•

The claim that Russian steel

thet

ID:

NEW YORK. of corruption in place of public who may themselves be dis-

off- What are some of the tricks highly developed than is would you

tax- trust, that all officials are prob- honest,

or avaricious, easily of the crooks? It is a long.cially admitted, * swayed. The opportunity-and long list, ranging from "shaking Hardly a day goes by with- thus the temptation--is ever- down" rich, but

easily in- British sales of gold reserves denly found that your out another sordid chapter present;

timidated, immigrant business this year, have exceeded those income tax collector was a in this shameful story cropping

men to "selling insurance" to of any other country. Mexico up in the headlines. The other The Truman Administration delinquent taxpayers who have and Uruguay are next biggest crook?

day we read: “Truman removes

The "insur sellers. repeatedly refused to make been caught out. Well, that's

Americans tax chief of the Justice Depart- 65 of the key collectors' posts ance" is simply a cover-up for ber

the feel today as man after man in ment." "heartbroken" Theron Civil Service jobs. They remain hush-money.

A Government's Bureau of Caudle had been "engaging in ed as political appointments-re- General's wife (her husband the

Then there WAS Mrs Anne production equals is General Sir Douglus Brown- Internal Revenue (income tax outside activities," which were words for party hacks. Finally, ing), who lives a hermit-like collection) resigns under pres not specifled.

in the face of the mounting hue Serge, who is a niece of William Europe is false. The USSR produces 21,000,000 tons of steet indicted And, as I write, comes this and cry, Truman gave in on McAdoo, who was Treasury if sure, gels suspended, existence Menobilly

yearly. Secretary under President Wil- entertaining, and always Lolite by a grand jury, or even in some statement: "The resignation of this point.

cases tries suicide. A worried refusals to all bazaar openings.

At Mensbilly House, which is American public asks where It

all

to end. going of the Mander-

Jokes about British income ten a penny, but behind it all we don't actively dislike the chaps and certainly anyone would

a smaller

at

ley of

central

unly

there is no

a small tax men staff, no excretory and car.

DO

The car is lacking by choice.

are

"I wouldn't have any excuse don't think

for not going to see people or ever dream of Impugning their

for not attending things," Miss professional integrity.

du Maurier explained.

She has walled herself in with privacy. The woods and estate

Sorry Story

R. M. MacCOLL

examlans the sudden wave

of corruption charges la U.S.

Daniel

Inter-

tonight by

John

Bon.

The Prime Minister has ruled Bolich, Here are some of the salaries;

Mrs Serge, the tax auditor in

that no more requests for ans 1ong

a James Finnegan, chief collector

even for friendly high off at St. Louis, Missouri (under a New York district, thought out supplies,

Powers, can be considered until cial of the Grand Jury indictment), 9,376 a profitable scheme.

Cheques for refunds to non- February. Bureau of dollars (£3,950).

existent "taxpayers who had

The British Treasury is con- nal Re-

James Smyth, of San Fran- paid too much were mailed off

accommodation addresses sldering raising another dollar. loan from the Reconstruction Manure, was Cisco (suspended), #,778 dollars to

(£3,135).

Denia Delaney of and cashed.

New towns come under sus- Finance Corporation, now that announced, Boston (Indicted by Grand

picion as the net of corruption the 1040 dollar loan has been Jury), 0,376 dollars (£3,330). Dun-

repaid. James Olson, a supervisor of drage across the land. Com- the New York Alcohol Tax Unit Y, then, to imagine the dis

meslom or (resigned after a Congress com- Election issue Israel has offered Halfa to: she walks in every day, are un- astrous effect on public morale of Internal Revenue, without mound he was drawing

Britain and U.S. as naval baso tended, have returned atmost to as, in city, after elty, right across

comment, Mr Bolich gave DE 0,000 dollars (2,107) year THE effects of all this are, and H.Q. of the new Allled their natural and not unlovely this huge country, the mon who alth as the reason for his from a business Arm), got 8,179 state,

people's money action.

dollars (£2,920) in solary. may well turn into one of the offer has been turned down for df offending the Aráb The house and the hut where are found to be dishonest.

red-hottest issues in next year's fear "More than 25 resignations, People here were restless she works with only a typo

John Dunlap, the Bureau's Presidential election, writer, deck and oil stove for enough, anyway, at the lden of discharges, or suspensions, have

Many thoughtful people, lay- furnishings-look out on no a big boost in taxes. Now the taiten place in the internal re- head, points out that it is by far

The US military mission venue service in recent months,” the biggest single business in men as well as church leaders, "What, pay human activity save the Channel tendency is to say:

There are three banie reasons the world today. It is taking in are deeply troubled. For it seems Spain has made a secret report more just so that these birds for its unpleasant state of 91,000 million dollars (£21,765, to them that the spirit of grab to Washington that no Spanish. shipping...

con grab 117 No, thanks.

uffaits...

714,203) a year, and

dealing it-while-you-can, what-in-it-naval bases offered to the Allies This is not only Lady Brown- From New York to San Fran

Dy present-day American with 80,000,000 citizens,

for-rae? I-wanna-get-mine, are acceptable, with the excep ing's way of keeping Daphine clsco and St. Louis to Doston,

etandards the revenue: men But It has only doubled its rampant In America since the tion of Cadien du Maurier concentrated on her the sorry story unfolds.

staff since 1014, when it raked war, his brolight the nation, work. It is the way she likes Bach new revelation adds to are not too well paid; to live.

the general ring of condidends It needs no' great ingenuity in a mere 360 million dollars in this Case of the Crooked Tax

a frightening cross-leve ́lipped Auto Persia uncretly and to a cynical feeling, all too for a man in authority to (£138,714,300) from a pinting Men to

roads of moral integrity. ensy to accept in an atmosphere take advantage of taxpayers 300,000 taxpayers.

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