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VERNON BARTLETT'S Spanish journey onds (on a mischievous note) at Algeciras

Armada defeat is avenged

~at the dining-room doors

meet another car of the land was Spanish, and with the help of tons of soil dug out of the bowels of the Rock during the war.

T carrying a G.B. plate

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A few world in fascinating

are miles away to the South the mountains of Africa. A those few miles to the North, of Spain.

around in

same

Except in Madrid, I saw

And here and only four on the thousand miles of road from north to Gibraltar, there in the Bouth between San Sebas- kind of conflict between the of local nationalism interests tian and Granada and from and in ornational strategy a you find in Hongkong, Port Said west to east between

and Singapore. tugal and the Pyrenees.

Por

Should the Spaniards one day withhold their labour and their

But near Malaga you notice change. That so many of the ears you meet should be Bri- Supplies, they could create the tish is not astonishing, for the srme land of difcukiss as the has Egypians have created in the British mator industry

still Canal Zone. done well in Spain (and better in Portugal, where it

has easily outdone all rivals). Material gains

сага

ex

That there are more than elsewhere might be plained by the fact that here it of most whereas is warm,

bitterly Spain in winter is a cold plateau over 2,300 fest above sea level.

how-

What is remarkable, ever, is that all the cars have the letters G.B.Z. on their Cors from number plates.

Gibraltar, owned

Want to escape

the

Materially, of course, Spaniards gain from British cwnership of the Rock.

Much of the money spent on the Back reaches Spanish poc- kets in the form of wages "or"

lot more tourist traffe. A comes from a beneficent kind of smuggling.

CLASS TICKET

| SOMEWARE CISE

SOLUTION TO THE SERETSE MIXUP

World Copyright. By arrangement with Daily Herald.

Gets Star

Eisenhower

Film The

Treatment

OLITICALLY and mili-

P tarily General Elsen-

Hundreds of British visitors with by people to Gibraltar go home

suits of anxious to get away for a few Spanish ten-guinea

clothes; hundreds of thousands hours from the Rück.

of English cigarettes find their

hower is the man of the Spanish binck way into market. And nobody seems to the moment.

for this be much the worse unorthodox exchange of goods in a tariff-bound world,

Whether

On a Sunday every little bay and Cadiz, between Malaga -every-placa..with an tional view, has its G.B.Z. cor,

nie basket.

-excep-

the

One can understand this do sire to escape from this fantas tie mass of stone, for military reasons have led to such a con- centration at its foot or on its lower slopes that one must de- velop claustrophobia.

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All Europe, all the United States, and no doubt all the leaders of the East, are watching anxiously to see which way he will go in the next few weeks.

by Hugh Dundas

The general's face is pink and tan; his skin is glossy;

That description from the third page sets the style for

right to be proud of him too. And that is really the message of his book.

Eisenhower, one of the human be- outstanding

man with his mobile, decisive grin is ings of all time, an intense- practically as broad as the ly individual and when with its children and its pie Spaniards will rise against this

English Channel, and his strong-likes and dislikes, is biatau affront to their national be

friendly eyes are so bright wrapped up in transparent a sea-blue that they look paper tied with pink ribbon, glowing, gossy, and prac- outside pride, how a confict can

matters

like spoonfuls of it

tically infallible, and thus avoided, are

Will it be to Washington, the scope of this article, for I a confilet of

presented for inspection by am fascinated by

RS President of the U.S.A.1 a different kihd.

The Spaniards are as indivi-Or will he stay in Europe as

voters in the U.S. presiden- tial election. dualistic as the Indomitably supreme military defender the 166 which follow.

old ladies and ex-of the West?

In all those pages Gun- It was not always thus. Right British

No writer could have ther says nothing about in the middle of the town is an colonels who-with with its Government House, its bought with British sterling chosen a more auspicious General Eisenhower which oasis dating from another age, slanal help of Spanish pesetas

the moment to publish'a book on has not been anld before. for information about Elson- with of Spain dignified cathedral, its early Gibraltar-have invaded Victorian officers' quarters, its park quiet little cometery in which tweeds and their library books, the man. And here it is to- the men who died at Trafalgar

are easily outnumbered by the vielims of "malignant fever,"

P. C. disguise

In those days there was Hanger as there was

the last

to defend it.

Hungry queue

the occa-

this

day...

"EISENHOWER,"* There emerges no clear pic- by John Gunther, the com- ture of the man, either as a affairs soldier on as a politician, but In India a Malaya or East mentator on world Africa, British habits and cus-who has been getting inside a hazy print of someone who toms have been imposed upon everything and everybody is almost too good to live, no the local inhabitants, with only

during such modifications as the Bri-since his "Inside Europe"

in tich themselves have chosen to put the wind up the world in

1936.

Southern

been

JUST FOLKS

DO NOTS

Terrible Tawm Is In A Fix

From R. M. MacColl Washington, Republicans are

THE

A playing a naughty trick on Democrat Senator Tom ("Terrible Tawm") Con- nally, 76-year-old cigur- smoking chairman of the important Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

floor

Lately "Tawm" has become hla more and more tealy, and

Ale Senate outbursts on and in committee are increasing. y intemperieuse he faces

This

д

1 Dean

very tough fight for re-election back in Texas, where his op-

depicting him ag ponent spineless adherent of Acheson's foreign policies.

But

when until recently, Terrible Tawm" went too dar In a Senate speech, he could afterwards "edit out the most outspoken bits before the speech went into Congressional records. But now the Republicans get hold of a verbatim tran- script of the original, and then of their number geta up ors and re-reads it to the Senate. And "Tawm" is powerless to edit the speech of

any other member.

Attorney

IN PHILADELPHIA District-

Richardson Dil worth says he knows for a fact that gambling is-by-no-00118. extinct. How can he be certain? Seems his telephone rang in the City Hall, and when he picked it up, a voice said: "Hey, Joe, what was the result of the fifth at Gulfstream?"

WHEN I DROVE out to a millionaire's resort called Gibson Island, 20 miles south of Baltimore on Chesapeake Bay, policeman stopped me at the the other day, a heavily armed only entrance to the estate,

"could

He and his colleagues are on duty all the time and I I was visiting had given the only get in because the people full particulars policeman about me,

Satisfied,

he handed

my

how to get to my friend's house. THE Washington Post refers to Marlene Dietrichga "that beloved baritone."

chauffeur a map, showing just

DO NOT TURN to Gunther

ONFUSING little item from Chap named Hollywood: hower the wartime general.

Max Showalter left Broadway a few months back for a flim with

Twentieth, contrast You will find nothing new and well known,

Century-Fox. He made one film, caly little which is old

DO NOT TURN to Gunther "Song In My Heart," under his Then some master information about Eisen-real name.

for

.and

as

Casey

hower the post-war Chic! of mind decided he must hence-

础 known Staff of the U.S. Army. You forth be will learn only that he did a lot Adams So he's made another Alm, "My Wife's Best Friend," nt travelling.

The two films will Mr A.

showing pretty well DO NOT TURN to Gunther be

about Eisen-simultaneously. for information ly balanced by a counter EVERY opinion is discreet- opinion. If Eisenhower is hewer the President of Colum re- first and foremost a general, bla University, You will learn the next paragraph assures that he was not howling

really his fault, For this book is as pene you that he is the most success," but that this was not trating as the gaze of a civilian-minded

AND DO NOT TURN Д

An account Gunther - lor

the present-day Eisenhower Supreme Commander in Europe. You will visit the Elsenhowers at home near Paris (only "very close frienda" ore invited, but Gunther was there).

guns war-from

But

ini the mountains above Algeciras, adept.

not 50

likes Has he got inside Eisen- across the Bay. In those days

occurred Spain. The Englishmen it would never have

to dine at eight or carlier: the hower? I would say that the this that

positions have Lo anybody pregnable Hock could be ren- Spaniard, at ten or after.

British habits have been ac

versed. But in dered useless without aircraft

cepted on Gibraltar, Algeciras, in full view of the where In those days Gibraltar was Hock and in an hotel. not busy enough to attract the most of the visitors are Bri- sycophant at his idol; as ever, breathed. If he is

the uncompromising tens of thousands of Spanish tish,

dally Spaniards have graclously per- workers who now troop

frontier mitted o compromise. Spanish the post

Few things have given

them guards and the Gibraltese dis-

as so high a respect for successfully guised- most

(much as I abhor their cauing London policemen,

hours) as the sight of the hun-

In those days

necessary, as it is now,

me

-man who

convincing as the character Liberal he, leans to conserva- study of a film star written tiam. If he is single-minded,

he sees all points of view. by a publicity agent.

SO GLOSSY

to of

ERE is a renewed slump in the textile and clothing in- -and now the military orders dustries. Civilian orders atlll lug are fast fading too.

THE

ARMY Quartermasters

T Corps has been conducting a survey of the likes and Wallkes of the troops.

Seems the soldier of 1952 pre- fers turkey to all other meat, and detests stenk included, And if he is a citizen of

bacon with turnips, Favourite the world he is also above

You will see the general In

vegembles: sliced tomatoes and not gry, humiliated and impatient It was tre. British septuagenarians queue-GUNTHER gushes. He gets everything an American, a

American. ("just his office, swinging a golf club buttered corn on the cob.

Pet peeve: Asparagus and candled parsnips. inadequate sketch of the most right off to a description humble which would embarrass a folks") from Abilene, Kan- as he talks You will get an beauty queen.

sas-and mighty proud of Intricate international military it. Mr Gunther's lust words headquarters ever set up. nre that America, has 4

quently to cle: the road from Ing up in their Algeciras hotel order for the dining room doors to the Rock to Spain,in that machines can land on the be opened as the clock strikes airfield that has been built on nine.

Twice daily, at lunch-time elther side of it-with the can- nivance of the Spaniards, who and at dinner-time, the defeat

that most of the Armada is avenged. might have claimed

#EISENHOWER ** Hamilton), 108. dd.

(ilamish

MADAME G.I. HAS GONE OUT

OF

BUSINESS

By SYDNEY SMITH

sold

But you will get no real idea of the size and complexity or the work which Elsenhower is doing.

THE most banal headline (re- ferring to the Truman state- ment): "Bombshell is dropped." And most regrettable misprint: "For months, pasi Truman has played a rat and mouse mama with the reporters."

SO WOBBLY

HERE'S a change a TV pro

gramme which tries to deal THERE

only remains

and one with crime soberly

It is enlled reason for turning to the objectively.

as information "Foursquare Court

apartment, a place of grotesque his lawyer. Down in Marseilles, American contraband.

dig fea- ly modern silk-covered furni- where

on the book: its value turo, pink mirrors and diffused cigarettes were

the police and guidance on the problems tures former convicts, wearing lighting, not for from Mont- streets, in baskets,

black eye masks to shield their captured ten tons in a single of the moment,

Identities,

Боло who have martre's Place Pigalle,

swoop,

straight.

Its tenant was a plump, over- dressed Corsican, with a penci

Ten-

Paris. fair-haired boy from FAMOUS little woman nessee, went back to his with an enormous black father's farm. canvas shopping bag has disappeared from my quar- tler,

She was pretty, with a dark, straight fringe above

Wul Elzenhower, run for From the Place Pigalle the President this year? Should he What will all along the run for President?

defence tie-pin and a sparkling sapphire panic is racing on the fat little Anger of his yacht, basins of the South of happen to Europe's

one of France, to Tangier, and to Bor-build-up if he dous or does not? What are his chances of being right hand. Ho

elected? contraband.deaux. The heut is really on.

about 40 Parts bosses.

Was

*

I still recommend that you do Gunther, even not turn to

clearly

How do I know the sad little though his book has on story of Mmo. G.I., the tiny cog been written with the presiden-

the great industry. being tial election in view. fought by M. Pinay?

of opinion.

He preferred it to Mme.

Four weeks ago-it was the G.I.'s idea of settling down

Bame week Mme, G,I. received in a nice little bistro on the nether letter from Tennessee

"Come loyally insisting: northern outskirts of Paris.

over, honey"-another character, in

It may influence the American owner For the next year, or op her a 60-year-old tannery

Because I have found out that voter. It merely confuses me.

the her pule, powdered face. business slumped the PX called Antoine Pinay, came into

cho 18-03 qver-the simple In his efforts to keep She padded on her rounds in were almost all closed, and there the picture.

always were few American troops laft

accepted the symbol of the times. Mme. G.1. general acceptable to the great- slippers,

M. Pinny had carpet

fob of is in gaol. I have just seen her est number of people, Gunther delicate and unstable

in the women's makes him wobble gingerly wearing a black jacket with in Paris,

Thon, suddenly, Mmc. G.L's Prime Minister of France, with police dossier n check skirt.

trade boomed again. All at the task of presenting a Budget prison of La Petite Rocquette. down the broadest possible road

to sell at which might be acceptable, "Along with such colourful Shyly she would open the once she was able

Caption," And that is not like Eisen- black shopping bag and offer heavily cut prices seven brands

'of Engilsh and American One of his Immediate plans Upis cs: "Jo-Jo the

was to avold increased taxes by Johnny Comel," "Mile, Luckyhower, who is nothing. If not for sale canned beans and

cigarettes,

war on tax evasion and many score more, Mme. forthright: an all-out pork, chewing gum, U.S.

and fiscal fraud, which he be G.. was rounded, up last week

SO UNWORTHY and given an 18-day sentence. Army issuo soap, tooth

"lieved could save the country

When she comes out that paste, and tooth brushes

2000 million a year.

S an election pamphlet the success. book may be a But as commentary" of five tons of cigarettes was for good-on the £600 fine. Last year she paid 1,000,000 seized on the main road south, And they are saying in our situation of world importance franes deposit, roughly £1,000, of Paris at the Porte d'Orleans. quartier: "Eh, Bien, perhaps this and as a picture of a very great on just the little bistro she At dawn next morning in one

akip oft to Tennessee, that poor

It is unworthy of Gunther fancied might tempt the boy of many swift ralds the fab time she will have the sense to man it is a failure.

And it is oven, more unworthy back from Tennessee, Corsican near the Place Pigalle This Ame, G.."

(London Express Beice) ‹ of Elsenhower. Mima, GA. used to collect her was hauled by the police from wares from a vulgar, glittering hia plak silk sheets shouting for

With. 24 hours notice sho and American cigarettes. could deliver 300, 1,000-prac

Cashmere She was married to an fically any number you liked. One night a week ago a load bistro in the clouds will be gone

Bouquet Soap

Adorns your skin with the fragrance men lovel

American noldier, she said, and they were selling their PX rations to save money.

Someone called her "Mme. G.I." one day, and it stuck.

Then her husband, a tall,

on Ta

E HUMAN TOUCH, Mra Anna Rosenberg has the grim job of Assistant Secretary of Defence. But a famous New York milliner reports that, Anna has "enough pretty hats to open a dat shop of her own."

- For Heaven's sake stay home; Clutterback- Do you want to be' described as a misguidez.. missie carrying warfare 7.

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