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OR six months I have been watch- ing the stormy overture to what may prove to be the final act in Four Power Occupation in. Aus-

An Iron Curtain, every bit as rigid and effective as its German counterpart. is slowly, almost imperceptibly, but re- morselessly falling across the middle of Austria.

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Sitting On The Fence

By..... NATHANIEL GUBBINS

According to the Chicago Tribune, the hunting ecoson In

Britain, ending this month, will have cost more than £1,000,000. The coat of killing each fox is estimated at £1,000.

"Riding la the best exercise for the liver." A riding master In Interview.

TALLY ho, tally ho,

T

river.

away we go, Over the fence

and

and

It may cost money, but

don't cher know

business, and at the same time boost the "popularity" of the People's Demoericy.

In addition, the Russians are

draining systematically

the Austrian economy of as much

+

Then br X put D Y into a trance, fold him he had not paid the bill, and made him write out another cheque-for

£200.

"You will forget all about this when you wako, you Blthy- minded beast," Dr X told Dr Y.

Dr Y did forget, but the counterfoll in his cheque book told him what had happened.

Therefore, when Dr X called for a consultation on the follow- ing Tuesday, Dr Y played the spme trick on him for £500.

After months of this nonsense, they realised that if they didn't do Bomething drastic they would

It's so jolly good for the either ruin each other or go

go,

liver.

Jigety Jog In our huntin togs.

We ride with horse and hound, Tally ho, tally ho and away we If it costs a million pound. Tally ho, tally ho and away we

10.

You hear the rabble mutter At the price of meat and the

price of tea,

And the price of eggs and

bulter,

If i costs a million pounds to

kill

DUPİLATİTANİEth@nikdogila.

We feel too it to bother a bit,

Jigety, igety jog.

Jigely, jlgety, jigety jog

They talk of war with Russia Bumpety over the field and bog They said the same of Prussia Jigety Jog in our huntin togs We're It to face the foe And foot the bill and make the At a thousand pounds a go. At a thousand pounds & go, a go Fordin the stream and river Tally-hotally-ho, tally-ho,

tally ho

kill

It's so jolly good for the liver Jigety, ligety, jigety jog

No time to get the hump No time to think in our huntin

pink

Bumpety, bumpety bump.

Dog fox.

Mind over matter

Asked by counsel if he had consulted another psychiatrist an the case, Dr Van Pelt. specialist in medical hypnosis, said:

too There

many psychiatrists coming to me for treatment for me to have asked their opinion."

are

DR GUBBINS, the Fleet Street

quack, writes:-

mod.

a

every

So they both consulted another psychiatrist, Dr 24 who was smarter than either of them.

Dr Z put them both in a trance, made them go to their banks, draw a cheque on "Self" for £25,000′ without using the counterfoils, and bring the money back to his surgery.

Then he told them to forget they had ever seen or heard of him, bought a luxury yacht, and "welt" of "a" WETKI" ETNIES"

Here comes the

bride

TOMMY MANVILLE, 58, heir

to an asbestos fortune, who hopes to divorce his eighth wife and marry his ninth, Miss Ruth Webb, an American night club' singer, told New York reporters: I don't know Miss Webb very well. I have only had lunch with her once or twice."

This sort of thing happens so America that em- often In barrassing scenes like

the following must be commonplace.

Let me see. What's your name again?

Darling. Surely you re- member?

And don't call me darling. I got no time for girls who call me pet names on first acquaint- ance.

You're telling me you think this is our first meeting.

You stand there and say you don't remember · giving me lunch?

And as it falls the orchestra plays,' The buton is in the capable hands of portly, wily General Swiridov, Russian High Commissioner, and commander of Red Army forces deployed. across the broad plains of ing a series of "drop curtains,"

designed to stifle "reaction" in Eastern Austria and Hun-

her own zone, to weaken the gary.

Gradual suppression of East power of Austrian officials in

to West trade inside Aux This fortnightly Eastern Austria, and to cut off

and trade between Eastern and West- tla. Numerous materials meeting

em Austria, In readiness for the finished goods are subject to

I am telling you, And what's ne the Americans put in under when the Iron Curtain Russian licences before they Marshall aid The Austrian day His orchestra:

mare I know that line of talk Communist Party. the Red proper clamps down, codemo.

Dr Van Pelt's observation not too. Pretending to know a guy can be sont to other parts of

Of the output from the rich Russian- ing over half the population to the country. The Russians are Zistersdorf oilfields Press, and powerful,

northeast only reveals the ridiculous state you never seen. licences on on radio a life similar to that of Eastern withholding. R.A.V.A.G.

as controlled

of Vienna,

well 03 vast of affairs now existing in higher Germany. In Vienna.

ever-increasing scale..

of station

quantities

scarce raw medical circles, but reminds me This is how the curtains drop:

Dr X, Six

materials and goods made in of the

case of months ago the

Large-scale extension of the the U.S.I.A. factories, 85 per-psychiatrist, credited

who went general,

with

"Land reform" crushing of nationalism and de-1

closely

U.S.L.A. shop systém. Al- cent are whisked off to Russia Tuesday and Thursday to con following the pattern fam ready there' are over 400 of and her satellites, mocratic aspirations in Hungary. Hlor

sult another psychiatrist, Dr Y. in Communist launched a vicious and unpre countries, aimed at dispossess stores, which sell products made of materials

satellite these Communist general goods Despite precautions, quantities about his father fixation. cedented attack on the Western

imported under

Dr Y went to consult Dr X. (Including the in fuctorles taken over by the ERP. 2d are finding their Powers and the Austrian Gov- ing landowners

State) and farmers.

overy Wednesday and Friday Russians as ex-enemy property, way into the Ruselan maw.

Against all these measures about his mother fixation.

Just what I thought, Block- Progressive curtailment of and tobacco, spirits and food-

stuffs smuggled "legally" into the Austrian Government

On each occasion they used mall. Listen, sister. It'a girls. Austrian civic and police Austria behind the Iron Curtain, powerless. It can

you that are only stand hypnotism, and, while in a like

debouching authority by Russian Town-

firm and defiant, encouraging trance, revealed minds sa dis our youth and besmirching the majors, who frequently Inter- at cut-throat prices.

10 dety their People

gusting that they vene to protect rowdy Austrian

soon hated fair name of America. "berators" as best they can. the sight of each other.

Why, you big tramp, vou. agitators from justice,

Now, the Russian bear, bristling for long behind its Czech and Hungaring tubs, ap- bears at last to have decided to

I got influence So the next time Dr Y went move forward and swallow its

for treatment Dr X and 1'il call section of Austria is completely to Dr X as it has already swallowed the gave him a bill for £100, which now and have you and your kind of Eastern half of Germany. Dr Y paid at once by cheque,

ernment.

Accusations

TIS four pecusations were:

His

1. The Western Powers were "remilitarising" their zones.

ing

2. The West was not

Russian Maw

Arms pay no

Prohibition of the free Press.

50 More than

Austrian, carry- Swiss and West German news AS U.S.I.A. out the "de-Nazification" papers have been banned, while axes, and no duty is paid on clauses of the Control Agree- Austrian mayors are forced to the "imparted" goods, the Rus- subscribe to: Communist and slams are able to drive ordinary 3. Russia was the real cham- Red Army newspapers and to Austrian shopkeepers out pion of the Austrian people, de- fending them against a "govern.

ment.

ment in chains, shackled to Western Imperialism."

זי

4. The Western Powers were exploiting Austria, while Russia was the only one carrying

out

the "etter and the spirit" of the

Control Agreement,

Since then the brass and wind

sections of the augmented Com-

Its

THE LONDON STAGE: BY RONALD ROPER

AS AMERICANS VIEW ELIZABETH

BHer Majesty might Cynics or 80

admirably played by Peggy Elizabeth."

London, Apr. 3. The role of the neurotic and the thunder of applause as the while not a soul mentioned the fell on "The Young sirge play his presence next munist orchestra have been go-DUT for Court mourning, often pathetic. Mary Tudar is curtain

day, three young televiewers ing full blast,

volunteered in sucession that Funtastic, reports of "secret

They took infinite pains with Dial M was "mashing," "a underground aircraft factories," have dispensed with a royal away with coundrels of both the historical background to the corker and that "them who

vast military camps and tradition which seems to schemes and ammunition dumps," "Arma- ment factories in the British avoid first-nights at the exca have loomed humiliatingly play and, as Alon Dent reminds haven't got TV don't know what

large in history. Psychologists: us, it is all to the good that the they're missing." "Austrian Army being theatre and taken the op- re more likely to see that it has opisode should have been written

Was not the Television, reflects Mr Dent, trained by British and Ameri-portunity of seeing. "The been moulded as much by the by Americans. cans," are the dally fare in the Young Elizabeth."

Almost abnormal and the mentally it as best play ever written about may. In the end fill the theatre Abraham Lincoln by Drinkwater? and even sooner the cinema. But, Communist Press and

he takes comfort from the con- RA.V.A.G.

radio,

certainly she would like to by the crafty and the able.

vielion that it won't do so in his lifetime.

Zone,"

on the

a.s

le on

isn't often that a critic will

•

All were carefully designed see Mary Morris, in red Heavy though the burden of to bolster up a Russian "case" tresses Henry VIII's Monarchy

yot may against all eventualities,

daughter, proclaimed Queen Elizabeth II, she at least has been

"I would go further and sug- In reply, Austrian non-Com- of England at the age of sparta the life of intrigue and band: it to the BBC that a Tounist newspapers and the

fear which from the televised play is to be preferred est," he adds, "that it won't be American Wiener Kurier havá || 25 on the stage of the beginning were the lot of her to the real thing in the theatre, until about the year 2000-

though

startingly disproved with facts, figures and New Theatre.

lustrious predecessor, whom The other night there was a good pictures each Communist bogy

into opportunity of making a com- pointed out the other day that this is only 48 years ahead(- as it appeared.

That is as far as this excellent circumstances often forsed

the parison, not between the same that we should really seriously play takes us in the life of the hypocrisy in the cause

different media but envisage such o digressing and Arst Elizabeth. It is far enough heart.

England she had so deeply of play

of

.. between two thrillers.

someone

in

War of Words

to do more than hint that the young puss was to grow up into

blessedly remate possibility."

as formidable a nithrone. graced.

feling as

"Stately Homes," well directed

and goted, though it was at Swiss Cottage, has a plot about

53

IN this war of words the British

are at, a disadvantage. U

***

PAD

One ought not, perhaps, to Miss Morris is an Ideal actress Other character studies in this rugged as it could be mainly one of the audience at a

ale tob for the part, with plenty of play are carefully portrayed by concerned with improbable 1ke the Americans, we have no

and Robert bery by equally improbable Chekhov play that they didn't daily newspaper in the German "presence" verve and wit. She Godfrey Kenton language in which we can de- even caught and forgiven Alkins, who also took part in its guests while a great house is know whether to treat it as and the Hoiculous or sublime, but that public fand ourselves,

by Katherine Parr (Margaretta earlier presentation by the Re- open to the

dilemma presented by Scott), the last, of Henry's wives, pertory Players. But for the hostess is conveniently absent. can be a Our Information services have

"Uncle Vanya at the Arts Club in

Adimcult compromising scene with first time it has been seen in "Dial M for Murder," on TV, co

climax to rely on the 'help and good-

despite an element of

of improb- will of the Americans and the Lord Thomas Seymour (Joseph London by its American author about' 'the manner in pomnes in the third not where

nor Dowling and husband Francy Letton, who which a husband bargains with Vanya (Cyril Luckman, who was incidentally saw the inside of Dalesman to strangle his wife, Anron in "The Firstborn) shoot London theatre before any of achieved a remarkable sense of st but misses his brother-in-law. Since The Cherry Orchard's and "Ivanov," "this la the third the traditional outdoor sights. awareas and reality. They must have reckoned their

To one who saw both pro- Chekhov play in a new, transla bumpy crossing of the Atlantic. worth while when, they heard ductions, it was significant that, tion by J, P. Davies,

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Men are the noblest of God's on the triunds of economy. reaturer, zuys the Queen-to-be, While preparing ter "can" "and women are most fortuinto against the West, Russia is stag in being necessary to thern."

020

Jennette

bor

Lunch? I wouldn't give you, a bag of peanuts.

And I suppose you don't re- member asking me to marry you?

at City Hall

the mayor right

run out of town.

Say, are you getting married tomorrow?

I certainly am.

What's the name of the bride?

I just forget at the moment.

Would this letter in your own handwriting help? See. It begins "My own darling..." Well, for crying out loud. So

is you after all.

I say it is. See you in church tomorrow,

I'll be there.

You better bc. O. K darling?

Yeah, O. K darling.

(London Express · Service)

POCKET CARTOON BOSBERT LANCASTER

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