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*You must explain to Fido in simple doggie languago, that he's not the only one who's disenchanted with our Government's 'moat policy."

The Alexanders Will Bring Back A Bit Of Canada To

V

Ottawa. ALEXAN- DER of Tunis buckled on his skis for his last-after- on Ottawa's winter playground and said: "It is said that my family is leaving Canada."

noon

"Nightingales"

of

By PATRICK NICHOLSON

One-third of the 200,000 miles Eletric mixers, an orange have become thoroughly Cona- Lord Alexander nas travelled squeezer and quick-heating pans dianised. People here are as fond vast have made the kitchen a dream of them as all the Alexanders came to thiy since he country has been in his private labour-saving. The scullery are of the tension-free outdoor

hes been converted into a Cana- life in Canada. railway coaches-at a cost tight shalings a mile.

dian breakfast "neck" with pink and green walls, to save miles of unnecessary walking with plates and dishes each year.

The bronzed, athletic Field Marshal and his two sons are en- thusiastic fishermen. The big game and bird shooting have favourite sport-and "I often help with the dish- been his washing myself, boasts Lord helped to fill the viceregal lar- Alexander. "But it'd be a bore der. to have to do it every day," he

His Excellency's most striking addi-not having become a com

the of Canada is impression pletely Canadian husband.

rapid development during his time here of its industries und He abundant natural resources.

Six months ago this most

17 Another £15,000 is granted to popular of Canada's British Governors - General X his large office staff, while £9,000 coVETY such incidental had planned to stay on here expantes es telephones and teles last year) and at least until his 19-year-old graphs (£780 daughter Rose had finished office supplies (£2,000).

Canadian university, Under present Bri.ish taxation her.

re- scales it would need the income course. Then he would

cf a multi-millionaire to provide tire to the life of a country this Arabian Nights standard of

the 12 living costing £100,000 a gentleman among wooded

around without taxes and rales.

his "Nightingales,"

The curtains and chal: cover In spite of is nine bedrooms. English home at Chalfont bathrooms and 3 reception- dags are all bright, gay Canadian new fabrics. Most of the bedrooms St Giles, 29 miles north rooms, "Nightingales" wall

Viscount nec as modest as his Cabinet were painted by the west of London.

Minister's salary of £4,000 a himself and year (les x) which will hard- their moving-in holiday ly exceed the £10 a day he will summer. always draw as a Field Marshal.

acres

new.

"I can't think of any job I could do in Britain in peacetime," he had said, "But if war came, I might be called back."

Life Of Splendour

Now he has altered his plans and allowed himself be called back from viceregal splendour to serve Defence

to

his country #8

Minister at home,

year

But some Canadian Idess have made his English house a marly pertec, home. For a start, there is a radiator in every room. "I'm fraid I couldn't live in a house without central beating, after six years in Canada," Lady Alexan- der confesses.

Bright and Gay

is sure that a great future is in store for Canada. If he were a young man, he says, he would choose to make his life here.

DS

Beverley Baxter

RACE FOR ENCHANTMENT

NASSAU

AMAICA and Nassau are both set like jewcla in the Carib bean, separated by a mere two hours' flight and properly described by their publicists as ENCHANT

ED.

Yot there are sharp psycho- logical and physiological dif- ferences between them. Nassau, capital of the Bahamas, has limited beach accommodation and no industries save that of serving the tourist,

There arc neither death iluties ner income tax, and there is even a casino ·(not exclusively for visitors and well MAICA

50

affelally recognised) which is

is an al- together different proposition. It has deep rivers, Tolling lands, hilla, abundant farin'

glistening fields of augar cone, and fruit trees every- where. Income fax and death duties are levied in due season,

the and

bathing

beaches are abundant and

glorious.

Jamaica has

elected

pariwhich not very emcient,

and

some people say there is corrup llon in the island. Parliament

at

Nassau is unpopu- larly elected and

Is both efficient and honest..

There 15 ΠΟ

to Toney made in

be

Nassau by the

де

roam

Da

they are Aberdeen. Angus and the best herd on the island.

Lord Northampton cin with his wife over 4,500 acres

the and contemplate not only

he view but the fact that they making 10 percen their investment; and that Its value is going up all the time.

Even Iver Novello's paratively

nt modest place alontego Bay has been sold to Sir Bernard Docker at slightly. less than £10,000, although the original price, only two years ngo, was £10,000. Koel Coward used to jest that Ivor had to stand on the dining-room table 1 glimpse the sea.

com-

Catching up

ECENTLY the

American

Government advanced more

than £7,000,000 of project money for the development of. bauxite. A new million-dollar hotel in balng rushed to com pletion in Montego Bay, fol- lowing another hotel in which the purchasers pald £8,000 an acre for the site.

Captain Edward Molyneux

is building a house here and nightly surveys it in his tropical

dinner suit, New comes that

Gladys Cooper

bas also pur- chased Bome land.

In fact, Jamalea is catching up the tourist despite

the long start of

Nassau, and there is a ting Apa excitement

this year os if a treasure trove dis- had been

Perhaps

covered.

it his,

Then

alen

except hotels, shops and by

and

trading estate. real

xists for wealthy tourists from Britain, America,

Canada

in

It

the

MONTEGO BAY,

·JAMAICA

Bang

and

That is at

once

ic: Jam-

to

become

the Blessed Island,

-land of

souci, the

of Joy

traveller.,

But pride of the natives?

the appeal of Nassau and its problem. enchanted islands do not worry uuduly about the future.

"Project money" that is, money from other countries built up Nassau but neglected Jamaica. Now it is flowing to Jamalen in an ever increasing "My children have grown up abundance, and I am delighted to discover that so much of it young Canadians and are his family during very unhappy at the thought of is from Britain..

who Harold Mitchell, leaving," he admits.

of the was vice-chairman

and went "I don't sound English, do I?" Conservative Party

1945 "It wasn't much of a holiday," 12-year-okl Brian Alexander down to defeat in the

Ottawa bolocaust, was consoled with a baronetcy, and then discovered admits "Nanny Turner, who anxiously asked at his

Jamaica. ÄL Harzow

18th-century Fixteen-year-old He has a fine Shane has been kidded out of house which he restered, and mixture of his Canadian accent. But both 5,000 acres divided into sugar,

democratic boys want to go on to McGill Alexanders University.

has been with the

last

Alexanders school

for twelve years. "Everyone worked from dawn till dusic."

With their special dignity and - the touch, the popular

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Until the middle

The eye-specialist lifted

of the bandage from the in- February he will remain in jured eye of the four-year- Rideau Hall, his official re-old girl; and sidence here. It is run by problem.

A

Mr Morgan warned- against

eyes during other i:eatment. saw his blindness

staff

more numerous If he continued treating than its 28 principal rooms. the damaged eye he might The 85 acres of private save it. But if treatment parkland round it are dotted | failed the other eye might with private houses for be involved.

ᎦᏥ

the

and the

Inaritimacy

and Пliteracy. ore deep shadows on Jamaican life. These people are children ΟΙ of the sun who ask little life and are not over-fond of wonderful work. They make

chlid- cervants and they have a

caures like cheerfulness which one to wonder if it is worth while to civilise them until they lose the gift of such laughter.

MANY native lads would home- rather loaf in their made conecz and dive for shillings than sit at a factory bench. The girls with their rather graceful walk would

on of fruit COTTU baskets their heads than labour in a cetton mill. But in the hills. and in the small settlements their lives are often primitive that any hope of progress seems impossible."

and The political Parties the trade unions are spreading unrest, and in Jamaica storms DHE Marquis of Northampton have a habit of coming up

cucenu 3, and cattle. It is said the that he paid £73,000 for estate, and that he could now sell it for double-which must take some of the sting out of his electoral defeat.

At 'Harmony'

Tis another Englishman who swiftly. But perhaps

In

in

and the now of project money ONE: Cortisone does not cure has augmented his wealth

will His house,

which, increase of tourist traffic eye ailments. It protects the the sun.

for a considerable jike Sir Harold's,

of postpone is east

time the necessity of answer- Montego Bay, has the lovely TWO: It does not relleve name of "Harmony," which is ing the question: "What is the

not disturbed even by the moo- long-standing eye defects,

ing of 1,200 head of cattle, for

THREE: It is not yet certain that the drug will generally provent "sympathetle inflamma- tlon."

Doctors must always move cautiously in such a serious field,

his equerries, quarters for Should he take that risk? his aides, Mounties' _guard-| Or should he remove the in- rooms, greenhouses, jured eye immediately and train, Infection and "shock" from But, in spite of the warnings, garages, offices, a cricket be certain of preventing a damaged eye seem to travel Mr Gayer Morgan's carefully pavilion and studio.

an artist's total blindnces?

W

often

The Hall and grounds are kept up by the Cana- dian Government, which also supplies the blaze of electric lighting and, the fuel necessary for keeping damaged eye. the interlor at a summer- like 70 degrees while win- ter's 50 degrees of frost freeze the private skating and curling rinks outside.

☆

along this nerve-link, producing worded statement adds up to the what doctors call "sympathetic most encouraging news for years Inflammation."

in the fight against blindnes,

to

future for my daughter and my son?"

MR PROBE FACES

DO YOU SLIDE? THE

AN INQUIRY

From R. M. MacCOLL WASHINGTON.

the

Taylor asked the colonel how he

Somehow cortisone recms

HE man President Tru- telt when the bomb went away, after six long months of living HEN

faced with prevent this.

man directed to probe with

secret, Tibbetin this. terrible

"It may be that many eyes

Government departments replied: "It was a great relief".

HIS EYES flashing furiously, dilemma, surgeons which previously would have

and cut out corruption now take away the been considered irritable, and

United Mineworkors, speaks in faces an investigation into John L. Lewis, chief of the which would have been removed

a Senate committee investigat as a precauzienary measure, will

the partment.

ing safety conditions in

denounces the Now there is real hope now be saved," the surgeon, Mr

the working of his own de Oswald Gayer Morgan, told

Attorney-Ceneral mines. He that in the near future this Guy's Hospital doctora.

If you slide Howard McGrath, He and his. "chameful slaughter," and is

privilege disabling and disfiguring, He backed up this statement on to a chair as shown in the once have been under attacke granted by the overado of

the left the friction since tax scandala, Involving fors the unusual longer, bo sy case-reports of severni dif- akcatch on

some of his staff, were disclosed questioning other witnesses.

Later, Lewis apologised. "A

step

may no

necessary,

High Standard With a few drops of a

colourless liquid, specialists

ferent eye diseases.

SO TINY.

MOST OF US do not know how to sit down properly and that is why we slouch, says Scoth muscle exper: T. Mc- Clurg Anderson. His argument?

. He

last month were bitter. very lot of men.. have died in the

The attacks bitter. Congressman John Bymes, mines he thunderous'y ex- A Republican, even called for plained, and you will pardon McGrath's replacement on

the me, I am sure, if I have indicat

ed by my attitude that I want ground that he will not, or can-

provent any more from not, provide proper direction of the Justles Department in deal dying.

BROAD SMILES at the Ing with coses of alleged fraud

But President Truman would Justice Department, in Washing- have none of it. He said bluntly ten, where a 14-year battle: to Hollywood's mammoth

McGrath.

Then Congressmen stopped in business (as part of the inte Seven members at the House trust laws of America), endi, in

victory, were, ap- Judiciary Committee

Approved is a plan whereby to investigate the pointed administration of the Attorney Loews Incorporated will be panies, one making the films General's omico and the Justice plit into two separate com- Department.

other owning COLONEL Paul Tibbetts, who and the dropped the first atom botüb on Hiroshima, da in Hollywood Similar epily have already who heen approved for R.KQ., coaching Robert Taylor, **in his first-rate "uman Kinetics will impersonate him in fim Fataricunt, Warners, and Twen "and"". Analysing Body

(lieinamum, sia.)..

he dit not intend to remove movie-makers out of the batre

His Excellency was one may be able to protect a Mr Gayer Morgan has also of the highest-paid Britons sound eye so securely that found that the drug prevents the. in the world. The Governor-they will be able to give donation of the non-trans-

parent tissue which often deve General's tax-free salary of prolonged treatment to an ops in a damaged eye and per £17,500 and travelling and injured eye with little risk. manently impairs its sight, even

when the injury is cured. entertainment allowance of

The Hiquid is the new £18,000 a year pay his

But rheumatism drag cortisone. In certain cases it also helps between your clothes and the

to prevent glaucoma, the painful house-keeping bills.

spine, must rage these are heavy from the A mungeon who has tried it on pressure caused by too much fuld. at tilts your hips so that your glittering balls and recep- several patients at a London in the eyeball;

To avoid this your hips should Only minute quantities of the be moving forwards as they con tlops he gives and from hospital has reported hopeful re-

drug are needed for cach case. not the scat, as shown in the eftertainment of Royalty, sults,

So, though cortisone is scarce, second sketch. The pull on your Presidents, Prime Minis tora, American generala and

its use in serious eye, ailments clothes will then make slouching other V.I.P.s who constant

should not be long delayed,, ly fill the eight guest-rooms of the Commonwealth's most lavish private hófél,

He found that a few drops of cortisone greatly reduced the severe swelling and inflamma ton with which the human eye respotids to Injury,a munkah

The nerves from the two eyes mile batory they reach the

The drug causes no unpleasant after-effects, as sometimes-hop- gens when much larger are given for themation.

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