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DON IDDON'S DIARY

New York, Tuesday. OMEGA my friends are weary " Like Ike" buttons in their lapels. Thousands of

Ter

These

emblems are being made and there will be

stickers Eisenhower wundgereens of motor-cars.

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thi athl

for

1 "We Want

1

start here

like

Eisenhower is

buttonholed

for President

now forecast stick: a national clamour and demand that The General run for the Pre- sideney it will be almost im- possible for him to look the dher way The Eisenhower ixem

is launched and think and we one can halt it. ing questions,

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it to be a tumultuous listing

<- Ure election

Yout

may

12

Calga

Se started

think

setur tunely

Sites He that

It loves to

am the jump on everything.

Carendy it

lie 18

Stuart Bacables a signing papers, date past residence before cowboy evangelist who believes they were allowed to walk round the world's froubles will engi on their own American soif,

Jovar

if the

demon drink

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aver. 17:0 crowd, wouch, anyw.y. had come to see

iho

ENTA was full of snobs big Even they knew it

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Storm In The Penny Pool

By GEOFFREY MORTLOCK

ALTA'S plan to raise "Lotto" similar to the American

revenue

State Haying by

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Numbers"--and the

Tombola (housey-

football pools instead imuse tickets keep D whole

of inerving axes

must talked-if and contra pott versial issu or the isol today.

epartment

Views clasi)

PINION in Mula is sharply alvired on the subject of the atroduction of football pools. Mony teel tut State gambling

A Bill to legalize this revenue-raising project ix now being pushed through Malta's Parliament. It will establish "Magofo Pools" has alreais gave Ta

pr. has 16. a dumsy contraction for aditio of Ste ponds will Mata Guveranent Forecast evlat Tik

Pools, an organisation to be a line

managed anti guaranteed by

the Malta Government.

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enough-- th. the

inistrative

On the ther han any

welzeme las n popular

at meparty ularly the Maltese

Despite intens.ve position, its thail in

When MP. was the 8:11.

the b. anost certa.h to be passel. But it wont go though many intend to ase uuja tions

qu moral svoumla There tea

*** 17:

Malia

without a lung and wolly belie

it the Bu Ja pusse, State or plan

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swg by the

will be nols New Year, und beiore the end of

tornetu a gambling and thai

heint

istani

excess gambling can

the seuson it is estimate) that cuase real hardship which mor! the Malta Ex. hequer

shouls that outweigh any gain from ucnent to the extent of £25,000.

For a start, there will be

penny

severa

Br fish

all rok were

'am-

points

prol only, but later banner in Multy in 1947 Owing uther variations will be ended to complaints that they Permutations unt combinations urted with the bucal Government will be allowable, but they will lottery. be worked out beforehand by a Government department, A staker will buy blocks of permu- tations, the number to be fixed by the department

Triplicate entries!

THE

Smaller prizes

LARGE number of the Mal- Lese งามve: done football pois in the past, and they look forward to renewing the weekly flutter. But wistfully they

THE pools system is crit:ised comment that the prizes will not be as large as in the United Kingdom pools.

entries

could

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Says dockyard worker George Camri: "We are unlikely to get WIDES a repetition of the good we had an English pools. The Government shouldn't run their but should aflow uwa pools.

a commission basis.

money and the Government without a would get revenue big outlay."

as being unwieldy and un-

Pool duly complicate..

must be submitted in a typically ww oot geuri Dur Audrey Hep-mureaucratic style triplicate. har did her best. In "üigi"-

This

Da 1

enough But oflimal

La permutations, though

druma And the English mportation he purchased direct

the To Dorothy, Sony," whies | Government department, will opened cond dosed: la t week, require to be submitted in quin- English pools to operate here on We should A further criticism is was utterly unsuitable for antuplicate. American audience. Feeble and that a considerable proportion then have the chance of winning

with only Ronald of

big of the lake money Howral, astonishingly like his swallowed up in administrative fatto Lehe. adding to his re- costs.

Mr Cumri seems to hav. "gob In a full English League feat- putpumpe

I have check- ball season it is hopes that the seme!hing" here. State

and on his suggestion, will junols

swell

ed up The Colony's

here is the evidence in support £39,000. revenue by

Figures compiled by Gambling thus be omnes one of

2 10:41 the largest sources of revenue in agent of a British pools company for every £1.000 show that the island, proviting even more

Maltese

pool hunters staked by than income tax receipts.

The hall-million sterling pronted. Under the old system the £1,500 in dividends was earn- annually from gambling amounts

Multo Government got £13 te almost one-tenth of the total revenue. A national lottery, from postal orders and stamps sold to coupon allers, and more un quarterly on the lines of an Irish Sweepstake with the top money was paid to the Maltese j dividends than was actually weekly prize of £13,000.

staked.

Sul

On the evidener so far mitted las rason, neither New York nur Leuron is thowing up cred John Chapman, the expert, Fax- that English and American, theatres are bankrupt. Of course, is everyone else these days. Better with films WE

are doing much better i

Clouded The

17., and Yolina" ieu the British pro-

had far less trenbic myself aided Marted Tather

Humulen, who procalm, that 幅広い United busting in the United States

merely a wing my pass for he was an abenholic until he sew The the light, wants the U.S. to go as the oval tour of Canada.

the dus is. bene Judging by realised at once that dry an getting the officials 14

Title York of New

1 sce sevue regal race of that This is the season of the cocktail party Sprog

winter Terad Batumi we also the seasons of the cock- tal party, but the guzzing Is grates during the months be- fore Caristmas.

there

sucti

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would dream radica! Already no m Christmas, Junip

Gul alor Fifth Avenue

Br carrying love Chistmas wreaths studded signment

steel blue. and

These security measures" green Die bultes outside the stores, well

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with

squad of red Santas alued. stucks of cumson trimmed

white fur diver

1 vers

practice

of

art

are

being

2L:༢ even

but meant,

The gaggers and censors and in the suppressors and proberg

and pursuing

perhaps

liberals. genuine getting persecuting Calces et one's self is pursued, Half of Hollywood and much ef arc frightened. be celebrating Broadway

will soon

summer.

Cocktail flood

OHOP in en many of this

Fatherings and give a

Gourge Sanders, now in New York, when asked about recon- euation with Sari Gator, says "Who can tell?"

Elizabeth Taylor and Michael Wilding are very much together when and wit probably many they are free.

Tichard Nex who was married to Greer Garson.

-star with Paulette Goddard

Paphrad." and "Babes of

Meridi Sir Charles

once

will

บ will

Richard Greene tells me be is in his television pro- happ

hw visit myself. But. frankly. I am tring Peris. of them. Apparently no Amer-

Py hut can finn, na manufactured pre-

entertainer, duct. nu new

or hired hand con

The without the launched

: Christmas ir.. midsummer. Actors are being tossed cut of Faster at Christmas, and July radio and television shows for the Fourth (Independence Day) the most doubtful of political

the spring.

reasons. The stage door is shut Thu all-out hustle and go tight to the Left-Wingers.

Elmer pelling seem to me to be getting

and official Rice, producer

is fighting back. ganda. I cady tupe the Ameri- playwright,

in

old

dry Martin in Manhattan. the

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con statesmen and generais do and says: "I don't care what the Scotch and rye highball and not

apply these

Chamber of an actor's political beliefs are. le Commerce lovelies to the The only question is--Cun Russians. After all, other act?"

tient.

pourer, painstaking. I have been in England long experienced, cooler, and calmer enough this year to know that. beple are involved.

with all cur shortcomings, our

An

Getting us ready

There

and

i ramme here in New York. Both and Richards have wern well of still look in their twenties.

entertain- By far the best of ment and art here is the reading

Hell" "Don Jurn

by The city throbs with cocktail of Shaw's parties. It is Frenched with Charles Boyer, Sir Cedric Hard-

of wicke Charles Laughton. is no shortage of them.

A triumph Fiquor.

Scotch is available at Agnes Moorehead.

triumph right February and a liquor stores all over town at £2 when it opened in California last a bottle and gin at £1 a bottle pulitkaj

for dimate is

Whoever invented the cocktail across the country, it opens again in New York on Thursday. adult, tolerant, and civilised.

FOOTNOTE.Americans of shoes, party certainly was asking for a We may be short

headache. feel on the have our

No Red channels US black lists, I hope, for us.

THINK 1, as a resident here, but we am being rushed and pushed grund

a bit too much. There is to be afern-bomb extra-special air-aid test the time and dale the previous ones have al- been published before- way hand. But this next one is supe

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more

Awaiting a lead

course, the United States is obviusy waiting for a to come 25 a sudden rad, but as no one here seems shock, and

the real thing, for to have get his sights fixed we all the citizens know.

STC still relying on Mr Chur-

So we are being conditioned chill. The US. can hardly with: chilling advertisements wait until January. entitled "lf Ivan moves to- Wherever go, and I move night showing very Russian- around a 'fair artcunt. I am out of being asked what is Mr Chur- looking gents peering bumbers' cockpits, and we are chill going to propose, rot what being gwen pop-talks in the he is going to ask for. At a with United session newspapers and on the radio.

overthrow

crowded

83 Y

This is a lamentable season on that the world's most beloved Broadway. I went to the mink capital is United States money.

TWO VERY

IT

the

POCKET CARTOON

by OSBERT LANCASTER

I'm

- Darling,

absolutel OUT-belleve it or not the Russian delegate spoke tor three and a quarter hours proving that Stalin tuvented Canasta #"

Not borne out

THUS, the Government case

THUS

up

for banning British pools in Malta and

State setting pools -- keep the money in the island is not borne out,

A British pools promoter pro- the Government posed that

by should introduce a scheme which the pools company paid len per cent. commission, and

that the Government should impose a sixpenny stamp duty on all coupons, but the offer was refused.

British

Servicemen in Malta welcome the new pools plan but they would prefer British ⚫

to a foral pools in preference

since Government

monopoly,

be dividends would obviously

smaller maner

has

The Mulla Government not announced the prize distri- bution system, or the percentage reserved for revenue, but it is Intended that expenses should be covered before prizes distributed.

are

GALLANT GENTLEMEN

-AND A TRULY BRAVE

Ismailia.

J. L.

By

HAYS

cry as dust and stones fell on them.

down

WOMAN

They dashed through gunfire

to a flat occupied by a sergeant Clearty it was only a matter of the Royal Corps of Signals. was Sunday afternoon

It was then five o'clock, and of moments before the blazing in Ismailia. Two Bri-

that guns of the screaming, laughing Britons sheltered in tish officers, three wives and

bolted and shuttered flat until police found their marks.

early next morning. Clegg and his

garage was three children strolled out

Opposite the Captain John

Outside

the In

sunshine In addition, almost all work- States, Canadian, and New- to visit the shops.

small son decided to stay and heap of bricks and stones by a

Dougle Wharton and Henry in the city are foundland business men several

the ear. but Mrs Clegg half-completed house, ing journalist's

end of the sternuon clean By the

Major Wharton ordered the Sneiling fought it out until they being asked 10 sign loyally suggested that the Prime the officers were dead and the joined the others.

children to make a dropped women and maths to quality for credentials Minister is going to come

out wives and children saved from

10th for it So they get out, three children

desh

while he and Flying- needed to cover this "oir raid. with some ambitious grandiose the builets of the Egyptian The oath states, among other plan for Anglo-American union, police by the gallantry and in front three women and tw Officer Snelling held off the things:

Egyptians, who were beginning "I do swear to affirm 1 sald 10 the

of one of the women. fficers bebind. Americans: high spirit

Major Wharton's Sten-gun

their barracks

When British patrols found that I do not advocate, roe am "And if he did, what would This is their story:

the pavements to set them next morning both had or an affiliate of you do?" And they said: "Why, a member

Cieres and tucked under his arm, Flying- The Snellings,

right hand and Officer Stelling's

clearer fleld of fire.

been hit by rifle bullets and friends any organisation. group, or if it would keep down Com-Whartons - oid

The women and children buckshot many times. combination of persona

Their killers had emplied that munism it would certainly be neighbours in a block of British near his pistol butt.

They passed under a rallway advocate,

finished iauts--hau the

Services of something to think about,"

their pockets, ripped off their over the yellow, dusty the Government of the United

There is no doubt that Anglo- Sunday lunch when they heard bridge into French Square. Fir hesitated. Bullets were singing States by force or violence."

won the French and Belgian American relations, and particu- police loudspeaker vans bellow- ing broke out nearby.

Major Wharton pushed his Then small, dark-haired Mars medal ribbons (Major, Wharton certainly don't advocate any larly

through the silent streets: public Telations, are ing thr

Croix de Guerre in World War such thing (Do you, mother?) sounder and more cordial The town is now in bounds. party into what appeared to be Wharton took over. Then there is another sentence now

Mr Churchill

You may,. that

to out and do some quiet side-street but it led

Then they had dragged their is

Ismailia's boxlike public about broring "true faith and back. In

shopping."

Quietly she coaxed them, bodies through the streets to be short alleg anco to the Constitu- works and with a tow

The women had not been out- health building--the temporary

"Run fast. of shouting: short sen-

some hundreds barracks of

Don't photographed for Calro news- tion of the United States. As I tences he has strengthened our week. Eagerly they reached for

for nearly uide their flats

Egyptian police "reservists". worry, they won't hit you," as papers. bear faith and allegiance to the role in the partarship.

The aleel-helmeted pollce,. in one by one-the two wonten in Inside the flat Mary and Mea Brilish Crown It is obviously Until the

and without their summer frocks, the amall Snelling hoped and prayed. recent Churchill shopping baskets and hats. The not meant for me. But I hope statement almost all Americans children skipped with excite broadlight

warning,

It was not until late next day opened fire on them boys in coloured shirts an I will not be put down as thought that they were doing

from over a mud wall with shot Khalt thorts they ran across after atmod escorts had tüken Communist if I skip that part. Britain

and eauk behind the cover of them back to their fate--that guns and rifles. great big favour by

their Major Wharton and Flying- the stones and bricks, Mary Wharton slipped a suede having air and atom-bomb baros

Then she ran herself, os her husbands were dead Much too intense in the British Isles. Now Mr windbreaker jacket over her Officer Snelling moved fast.

and Flying they had died. Churchill has made them sto summer dress, and her husband, They ordered the women and husband's Sten A and pronouncements strikes States un even bigger favour by MAC, aware of the Egypt satinst the closed steel shutters at the Sayplane, closing us.

this signing of plodges that Britain is doing the United Major R. II. "Dougle" Wharton, children to fialien themselvea Officer Snelling's pistol barked

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forw

mont;

into

rona

they know for cortadow

Then Lieutenant Colonel Menuar, Major Wharton's Posti-

me as being too intense. I went permitting the bases to be there. tinn "arms-snatching clipped of garage, and then stationed But, the new cover, provided manding officer, went to Major

two Whartoni's 'flation 41, 191 to meet a friend, an American Against Mr Churchill's stature its Sten-gun to a dog-chain themselves at each corner-end, little enfety, and it wa

French boys,

He told eagerly ainall

me: "Mary imply clizen, at La Guardia Airport, the home-grown personalities which he Insigned around his weapons vidy.

But the Egyptian fre began beckoning from an.alley-mouth, sold, I suppose you've done to the outer evening, and he and look comparatively.

walet. imally nil the other passengers had The prohibitionist party have Flying Omeer Henry Snelling clipping the plaster above their who Onally led the women and tell me the worst? All I could

hoads and the children began to children to wafety.

do was to nod." quite a long time of it awer nominated a Prosisenial candi-buckled on fils pistoi balt.

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