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AMERICA TICKS- BUT A BIT UNEASILY

by R. M. MacCOLL

WASHINGTON. What is wrong? Well, trying COMING into the New to pin-point it as far as possible

1 would say:- Year-a New Year in

range of hills.

of that A BASIC DREAD which she must elect

third world war that is hang- herself a new President or decide to keep on Mr Tru- ing in the sky, just over the next man--America will present to Mr Churchill a gigantic paradox between the facts of her national life and the mood of her people.

A

WRETCHED FEELING

that the Korean war is being fumbled. America likes to go all out-at games, at work, in peace,

or in war.

THE NAGGING FEELING What are THE FACTS? Un-

that the force of time and precedented prosperity, enormous

bave which can circumstances

thrust wealth, an economy

1ise thanks to the genius of greatness upon America and that American engineers and business never again will she be able to "'free- iraders, to inect challenge upon lend the old, carefree,

existence that was

challenge

And a sheer golden wheeling" food, of natural hers plenty-f resources, of space and people and things.

Surh, to the outward Americk

A FAIRLY GENERAL, vague and unformulated al- eye, is lack of conscience about some of the Uings that are happening in

right public life

here in the USA.

as

America's backbone, in peace And steel. is WHT, in

Industry is America's steel flaming, restless giant.

Already her blast furnaces are than 100 inore Dut pouring malion tons of steel year. But that

good enough is not America

for

It is expanding twice as fast Ds it did in the days of the last

war

Even a Dillinger out here can

a national hero, but the man-in- the-street has really been rocked by the scandal of the racketeer. ing income tax inspectors.

1

So-we wait

M: CHURCHILL

CHARNING BIRDS OFF A TREES

DONKEYS HIND WATER A TALK

And so remember, Harry, hum say No,' 'Possibly,' and `I'll think it over."'

S

Sitting on the Fence....by

HEN Father Christ-

mas called at The Sea Nest, rubbing his hands with an eye on the cocktail cabinet, he was not offered hospitality but shown B newspaper cutting which reported the opinion of a schoolteacher

was

NATHANIEL GUBBINS

"No doubt some of them be- had not

beards

with snow not

only on high ground and low ground, but down the back of your neck as well. Scarcity of fuel will mean many running noses.

MARCH will be almost un bearable,

with east winds moon-

ing round the house, father moan- ing about the coming Budget, mother moaning about the price of food, and the children man- ing with feverish colds.

APRIL, traditionally month a month of of hope, wil be despair, particularly on Budget will be Day. There

more eggs, but most taxpayers will be too

trod Korean soll for more than an hour before the in certain circumstances become that no child over five be- leve in my existence, though my

lieves in him any more. appearance either puzzles them good tire dame came along in At one time. the shape of Yow Mee Ow, a "I am not at all surprised," or terrifies them.

WELC almost slit-eyed, slinky, hep cat with a he said. "Now the world is full when of obvious miracles, Like tele- universal, I probably reminded streamlined chassis second unly vision, nobody believes in mira- them of their dear old grand- to yours, Honey Puss

It was just too bad she had a sick to eat them. fathers. Now grandfathers are cles, least of all the children.

"Of course,

many years ago, mostly clean shaven and spright- half-starved Chinese boy lend

a silly called Mee No Chow when there were big chimneys in ly, I appear to them as most houses, a stupid child would old man.

that

"Or a frightening old man.""" 1 could drop down believe

"Not only a frightening old

Well, Sugar, 1 am an Ameri- old frightening 3 them without hurting myself, though the smarter ones often man, asked how I managed to cover foreign man, because they have can and I try to be fair to gooks never seen an Englishman ke and chinks and all them dopes. I could "Now most houses have small me. And English children begin What's more, I wanted to get the whole country in a night.

him out of the way so age."

THIS

But most

could have big political repercussions in this year's presidential election. Vast new communities spring Americans will tell you when it up out of marshland and meadow comes to politics that only one Truman, if the at the bidding of the steel- man can beal masters. Today's turnip feld President chooses to run again will be tomorrow's shopping next summer centre for the workers.

So rich

اله

THE

but

MAY, the merry month, will be s

unadulterated period of misery with higher taxes, higher prices, and higher words between Only the Russia and The Rest.

happy. birds will be

be Flaming JUNE will month of flaming tempers, as It is the month when dock work- will ers always strike. Food

that

chimneys, or are heated mainly to dis rust foreigners at an early make a pass at the damne. So 1 pile up at the docks, but most

too ill with influenza, owing to people won't care as they will be the bitter north-east wirkis

JULY is the month of the when most people

In

will be no

And that one man is our friend by electric fires, they just don't

"How do you think you'll gave him my K ration and told believe a man of my size could

him to suram. General Eisenhower.

do it.

strike them this year?” In fact, knowing little

was just teaching Yow Mee "As the modern child keeps Ow that square dance movement If there was not this matter boys who live in large blocks of

abreast of the news, they'll prob- In Swing Your Honey I am go Dog Days, look Now let ULK

of the Atlantic Powers' Supreme flats have realised for years that

ably think I'm The Abominable Ing to teach you, when up should seem stupid and half dead. PEOPLE. Lately, 1 have Command and the feeling com- nobody epuld climb down such

1982 there July Snowman in a dressing-down."

come Mee No Chow with half a Saturday on successive been,

mon to most of us that Eisena complicated system of ventila-

"And are you?”

dozen Chinese mogs refreshed by "seem" about it. They will be in two spots outside hower ought to stay on in the tion, even without a sack." marings,

stupid and half dead, in Europe, I

But "Of course.

don't tell Krations and full of fight. serve to give job he is doing New York which

AUGUST, the holiday month, but they No kiddin, Sugar, anybody. I don't want to frighten

eame on in waves to recapture will be so awful I hardly like the grown ups.”

the dame, and as fast as they to tell you about it, except that mowed them down with the harvest will be ruined, as

they hardly usual. left-right-left till had an ear between them

us a glimpse of the Americans would give quite a sizable sum themselves.

for the fun of reporting a pre- the set-lo between sidential One was the Washington

suburb of Falls general and the former major, dormitory

Church.

the

across

America

the Potomac

rich but Anyway Hiver in Virginia. The other was worried, strong but apprehensive, the township

Boyertown will heave a sigh of relief when

3,000 and (population between

the lines are clearly drawn in of Philadel- 4,000), north-west

that close-approaching contest of Pennsylvania. phia, in

1982. struck afresh by the I was sheer richness of the scene by limitless goods in the by the jammed markets, and procession of vast new cars that edged along bumper to bumper. Nobody appeared to pause even briefly over prices. The few women who were not so well and newly dressed as the average paid over £3, £4, or £5 for the week-end groceries without bat- ting an eye.

Ah

to

""But there must be thou- sands of children who still be- iteve in you?"

"Thousands pretend to, partly please their parents, but mainly because the cunning Uttle creatures know that belief in me опе extra present. means an from their own father and one from me.

about the

"What fives?

Manhattan Mouser

2

letter from

under DEING

Dhattan Mouser, New York his English sweetheart,

me, London!

Mr. Baedeker's new guide recalls an earlier edition half a century ago...when beer was 2d a glass THE irrepressible Baede-

This back on up. It is

Baedeker

cat, to

Lottie,

came

If you try to "look on the Maybe I won't get a Purple bright side" in SEPTEMBER, Heart for this, but it has taught you will soon have the grin to trust a gook and wiped off your fate with sternal Man- me bever

there is

no foreign chatter about war, fuel cuts, and also that

of Christmas turkeys will be country like England, Home and an autumn Budget. A shortage Beauty, the last being you.

a food reporter Keep that tail waving, Sugar mentioned by

anxious to be first with the bad Cat. I am on my way.

newe

OCTOBER will be do terrible I don't think I mention

Hiya Sugar Puss, Before I board the liner which will bring me to my Honey Cat on Christmas Eve, let me tell you briefly of my adventures in Korea, where I went as

or

may-

Happy New Year

that

Fag, frost, and financial worry

people in bed that we many shall seem like a country of 50,000,000 Dr Mossadeghs.

My charts show nothing at all for DECEMBER. So, perhaps, there won't be one.

1952 to

OLD MOORE GUBBINS, the oot with an American outfit.

discredited astrologer, offers in NOVEMBER will put and As you know good chow

his usual predictions for the a good time dame are the two

New Year. things I look for when I go

JANUARY will be a dreary I get places and don't care if

tight, but 1951: "An average them peacefully,

hard month, with money the And the birth-rate goes,

most people sober as a conse- bounding up

at a second-way. and

charge for lunch the

I was OK. for chow because quence. Food, fuck, and tempers class restaurant (excluding tips) whole Amerlean

will all be short. changing the

Good the regimental cook approach to home-building, be-scene. The Arst Guide to is 58. for dinner 7s. 6d.

FEBRUARY will be

even everybody, idea of a two-child London since before the English cookery, which has at buddy from the time he was a cause the

worze. The weather will be foul, family is 83 dated 25 the war has just been publish- least the merit of simplicity, must chef on Broadway, and my paws Charleston.

Unemployment? It has been ed. It is thinner with the be looked for mainly in the City."

fabulous decade.

are

square

по problem for a full and passing years, but there is The actual still all that old zeal for figure ab

which means little- wringing the last drop of hovers about the 1,759,000 mark

there -but then

over history from every 00,000,000 Americans in Jobs. foot of pavement.

The 1,750,000 are largely the

I talked to Otto Baedeker unemployables,

won't the works," or the dude, for there is about it. Stocky, blond- a labour shortage here.

moustached, 25 years old, he is the great-grandson of Karl Baedeker, who brought

So troubled

So here is America as Mr out the original guide in

Churchill will and it-the Coblenz in 1829. new world Power, prosperous and strong, and apparently get- He now sits amid towering and rows of books in publisher Sir Stanley Unwin's office in Museum

ting more

prosperous stronger all the time.

POCKET CARTOON

by OSBERT LANÇASTER

I told him I possessed a copy of the 1900 guide to London, Otto smiled, sighed: "That makes in- teresting reading." I agreed.

Thres and a half pages of old guide are theatres in the enough to make old critics shed tears into their brandy and lapse into a whole evening of anecdote Majesty's and Mr about Her Beerbohm Tree.

"London possesses about 50 theatres and about 500 music- halls."

was my

A happy Christmas

-(London Express Service)

INSIDE INFORMATION

LONDON.

WESTERN observers ex-

L

By MERCURY

con-

they would agree to make bases available liz wartime if the British withdraw from Egypt

pect that unless the be Supreme Commander of the and Fraq now. The Allies, aware cease-fire talks in Korea North Atlantic, but will remark that the Suez Canal Zone is cen be vulnerable to surprise airborne make progress soon, an all- that the appointment

dispensed with altogether, as attack, will not agree to evacua- out attempt will be made shown by experience in the last tion. Lyceum Theatre, Shakespearlan with masser jet fighters to war. *

of Nearly 500,000 bottles pieces, comedies, etc. (Sir Henry sweep U.N. sir forces out of

A new scheme for France and Irving and Miss Ellen Terry.)" the Korean peninsula.

other Schuman-Plan countries to Danish whisky have been sold "Wyndham's Theatre, Charing-

enter the Commonwealth is being to Britain in the past year. Comedies and

These observers believe canvassed in Paris and West Danish whisky, distilled with the cross Road, with a roof garden and elevator.

minster. There is consternation etistance of Scottish experts, (Mr Charles society pieces.

that German gun teams among West European politi- win be in strong competition and Miss The paradox is in the minds Street, Bloomsbury. He handles Wyndham

Mary

using .88 flak are respon clans at signs that the British with Scotch in European coun-

thies hext of her people. For I think the London end of the family Moore.)"

Karl is hundreds

for the increasing are standing aside from of thousands of business while cousin

Baedeker 1931 has a bare page | sible

tmental planning.

Twenty Communist leaders Americans are troubled today. busy travelling in Germany and a half of theatres, six music number of Allied planes

Scandinavian countries revising editions over there.

halls, and not a word about Sir

General Eisenhower has pro- from

Gennany for Laurence Olivier, Mr Gielgud or being brought down.

posed to Mr Eder that senior have gone to East Mr Guinness.

All atomic establishments in British staff officers should hold special training. In 1900 ladies were recom-* mended to wear a thick veil Britain will be taken from the high posts at the HQ of the I is a pasaport to a faded age, when crossing the Atlantic, even Ministry of Supply and put un new European army, even if Persia wiki make a new hp. der the direct supervision of there are no British troops la proach to Britain, offering to pay compensation in oil for Anglo- Iranian assets, if a figure can be to gaslight and hansoms, to beer. In summer.

most hotels smoking is Lord Cherwell, Mr Churchill's the command

adviser OF -atomic at 11⁄2d oysters at 2s.. td.

Best seller of all American agree research, dozen, to the gay blades who prohibited except in the Smoking personal

Christmas cards has been the hovered hopefully round stage

useful adjunct to most

Britain's security services will reproduction of Mr Churchill's ouses in the central parts of doors always ready to raise a

not to move his Cairo Ambas huzzah for a passing chorus girl. London is a cab

whistle, one be overhauled soon as a sequel Academy picture "The Blue Foreign Secretary has decided blast upon, which, summenaa

to the Pontecorvo case and other Room",

dor for Abe time being. Any - missing diplomats, Important four wheeler, two a hansom."

The international port of cemor, would have to melonow- Perhaps

ape the nearest BARDE- new appointments will follow,

Tangler, is the main clearing leige Farouk King of the Baedeker 1951 is just as much KER 1961 gets to this is

to join the house for moms shipped, secretly 5udin ely wearold a show- a social commentary. Here in

Byria has “Public Houses or taverni Are

to Arab League terrorism Hun America wants to a Mediterranean

dreds of rides have been stolen down at limited

moment, 150 present-day London with all its no longer taboo to ladies, In bom scars, aid får helter-skelter the private or saloon bar the

Russia is using 10,000 German from Great arsenals, too,

has discover rush-hour pinned to paper. But, company i

in more

and the reaned Lanterne wrisoner to build des the A £1,000,000 order for twenty abbazia deposi mengakeda of Alpping

liquor lightly dates ar zilen aeroplane assembly plants in the pases of the old book,...

Gloster night fighters has come anger in nyl would go to a City pul gay blades,

plan the bansom. Yet Unde

from Denmark, G Our Wie known, I so years someone,

ANGRENET armed with mini-hew Hate

OVER

can

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All Ministries are completing ker may plek a 1951 edition from the proposals for stall cute anni nd will present them

Anu Ameriones aupreme // com~ mand in the Middle Test is now curtainty, Turkey, his pressed

Mr Dean Acheson, UB.

this.

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