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A Car To

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Drive To The White House

By RODNEY CAMPBELL

New York.

WHEN Henry Krajewski

became Poor Man's candidate for the U.S. Presi- his dency,

painted he streamlined roadster red, white and blue, with silver stars and yellow dalsies. Then he offered to fight 'a charity bout with Two-Ton Tony Galento.

In the first address of his olection campaign, he told a press conference at his home town of Secaucus, New Jer- sey: "I can beat that guy Galento's ears off."

to

the answer.

So Henry went home to the he runs on Secaucus Lavern Road. Mrs Krajewski was out- side on the doorstep.

AFRICA

LIBYA

Miles

CARO

STINE

SAUD!

EGYPT

ARABIA

AKSLO-

EGYPTIAN

SUDAN

UGANDA

KENYA

A land where the unexpected always happens

Pot Luck With The Caid

By Sir GERALD BARRY

tran

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by DON TAYLOR

possibilities

THE country of "The business

Odd Things That crocodile shooting.

be. Happen" has

the world's front-page country.

come

THE PRIZE

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of kneeling position

with the night cold.

feet.

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stiff

They

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She was only thawed out by fires being lit round her.

The Sudan is the land schoolboy strikes

national..

Even the animals of the had to be alded to their Sudan are news.

And on Jebel Marra, at In front of me, as I write, Jawa, an old, woman was That country is the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. It is the story of a hippo found frozen stiff beside to it and is a key to the Middle East which whiled away a spare an ice-bound waterhole! HIS is simply the story yard, partly open

a partly giving on to it through situation. For there will be hour by chasing the inhabi- with of supper

v'ndows with decorated W

settlement of the Suez tants of a village round the no The challenge was phoned

Moroccan Caid, or re- grills on its threshold as problem, no agreement with streets.

Imagine passed by two serving malas, Galento on the apot.gional chieftain.

until the Sudan Egypt held who

before By

A leopard (was he in "Never hoida da bum," was yourself back in the world one

large sliver bowl to wash 1n, question is settled.

league with the local head- where from of the Arabian Nights..

the other a silver kettle

mon?) kept a team of have become a The trouble with

which she poured warm water. ablutions

Government audit officials pastime. went about my

Strike leaders are ex- Morocco, indeed, is that it is

besieged in a house for the there might king

closed pelled, schools are so like the fairy tales and dejentely, think

best part of a day.

but the strikes go on. the travelogues, and that be some degree of ceremonint

FAROUK calls himself the

.The

have. workers had a hearty wash and no non-

"King of the Sudan." this sense of cheap unreality, but I matted the initiated takes some days to wear off. sonst. So when the performance

the at

But the real "uncrowned sooth-. vis Snake charmers and

I did likewise; in of the dinner,

the Sudan perform sayers really do the market places; storks do one needs it then, having plek-king" of

sentinel on elty ed one's way with one's fingers Governor-General Sir Robert out of sight... indeed stand

George Howe, the brilliant do trundle on through nine courses. walls; cornels,

in

should working-man's son who won Only the right hand and off the stage just as

and only his way from elementary ilassan, and the sun really does be used for eating,

Angers and the set in the desert in a dazzle of the first two

It is a curious sight to the Foreign Office.

school to Cambridge and on pink and orange,

thumb.

Bil After some days the sense the first time one sees It, Born to diplomacy, Henry

re these fingers stabbing and fer- unreality begins to be

meat. He was brought up in a worked out

for reting about among the a compromise-in

for the form of a new statlon wagon. placed by a deep, respect

the usulent | terrace house-now his ad, people. fumbles Then Mrs Krajewski said it was the landscape and its

dress is "The Palace, Khar- all-right for him to run for And if you are so fortunate as pieces.

toum." go to dine with a Cald she was to President, and soon telling the local reporters

"No well, the last illusions vanish, comment" if she had been The thing is real ali right; of between the any date, almost, memoirs swotting up the

tenth and twentieth centuries- President Truman,

In every presidential election although the sense of wonder

Prica Introduces

her may never wholly leave you. America

For instance, we arrived in an amazed candidates to

the Bleckest of motor-cars after i' There

always world.

13 Prohibition candidate, usually a

through

"I got a house to run and five kida, and a husband to take care of and I don't want be no First Lady," she yelled at him, down from his as he stepped

"And I'm not sensational car. going to ride in that thing, either."

year

cram

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God's Will candidate, sometimes

en Alcohol-plus-Combling ad-

2 tspen

venturer

a

handful

of votes and a loud of publicity.

ย a 60-kilometre drive

I

More and more

And a bative reports that · he chased a man-eating lion nothing to learn from the is down the road until it was. West. Labourers recently turned up with a huge snake they found in a The official comment on train. On the strength of this says: "His story is this "occupational hazard" being treated with some re they demanded a rise in

.. pav. servation."

TOO HOT, TOo

COLD

climate, too, can It is a time to nollee hands. Extraordinary people THE

always be relied on to noticed that those of an in- always seem to be turning keep up the country's re- tellectual-looking young Arab sitting opposite me

patation.

nearly

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Yet, in the midst of this ferment of Westerni- sation, large tracts of the Ike sprawling Sudan are the Empire of Kipling's day,

BLOODSHED

tribesmen from

the

were the up in the Sudan, Four officers most beautiful I could remem-

of the

CAT Recently a

broke BORDER incidents-with on ber ever having seen

I learnt afterwards that Ethiopian Air Force arrived down in the desert, and man. he was a particularly brillian: there recently. It is odd, but the passengers the dark to come suddenly up doctor.

Nine courses the first anvians. un a village street Hined from end to end, twp to the entire roasted lamb, one

shortly after, on with Arabs

rach table, its ribs

And, of all things, they the Wadi Barei, camels bustness, had come to look into the became immobilised in rough its parched side. It is hurdly on elegant tearing off

they were all Scandina. perished from heat and Congo, Ethiopia, or Uganda

Henry in the first in the feld-viding street-lighting by

He is also the fral this year. man tu run on the Poor Man's

wav- ing acetylene torches head-high. The French general in com-

to

·bursting

ticket, as such, in history. He mand of the area was the guest to eat discres email enough

is also the Arst candidate who has opened his campaign for the peer man by buying himself a new car. Soon

of there were' scores

crantes knocking at Henry's door asking if they could be Vice- President.

"

"I got all these guys together," said Henry the next day, and questioned them on their views.

sounded of them onc O.K.-until he said he wanted a two-day work week. He was too radical. So I finally picked another guy who wants to give a bottle of milk a day to every kid in this country—and not to any of those foreigners."

The

་

influence of this new potential. Veep, Frank Jenkins

nu

this time

Tot

Bones, If they come your American

you dump way,

unself- consciously on the table. But no one cats very much of any one dish there is so much

of

more to come.

Vast peaks and plateaux food are carried away virtual- Iv uneroded, presumably to feed the shouting multitudes who, for a couple of hours now, have been working up an ap- petlic outside.

roasted lamb a

After the

*cms

the

you are only

thirst. Yet,

-occur regularly.

Spears are blooded, cap tives are ancient

dragged off, insults a.re

avenged, cattle are driven

away.

The country has just

Column, by R. M. MacColl had its record year of pros-

Tough Questions

For

the

The General

life,

perity.

The great Gezira cotton been an scheme has

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of the night and the Cald had from aummoned his followers far and near to do him honour White avenue They came, and Word content merely to watch or to

example of what can be hold aloft their hissing fares

done by co-operation be- drums, They sang, they beat

tween Government, conducted choruses, they they shouted, and cried aloud.

peasant, and private enter- chilly As we stood in the

prise. roadway waiting for the

Britain's record here is general's party to assemble, we

good.

Right now, had a glimpse of another white

close-robed, sweet pastry flavoured with al-TF you want to know what Secretary of State in George

the Legislative monds and cinnamon. But do

toughly unsenti Kaufman's "First Lady" and I's Assembly of Sudan are debating women bearing brightly coloured standards, not be m'sted: leading down

we have laid before them, to a pink and beginring, Next a dish of chicken mental American is think a sharp satire on Washington the self-government constitution

cooked with olives, toma- ing about the respective

It was annoying to Farouk→→ green courtyard with a glimpse toes and thin grilled potatoes: merits of Taft and Eisen-, to be an Americon income for Egypt's idea was to make of orange and banana trees.

then more mution, this time ho wer 45 potential inx inspector, Daniel Bolich, the Sudan her virtual colony.jp We will pass directly into with french beans and the boi-

so investigating Congressmen are But, instead, the Sudan will the tanqueling chamber and

et archokos; then mut- Presidents, 1 cannot do bet. fok, used to spend £11.58. on decide her own future--whether sit on divans or stools just ton yet again, but now as a ter than quote you the his shirts-ordering them by the she links up at all with raised above the level of by name, apparently lay behind floor. On this-account the cell- sweet dish, with onions, raisins editorial from the toughly dezen-£3 Ba. per tie, and £gues her own way, or links with

Britain and the Empire.. ng. being the part of the room and splees-four ment courses unsentimental New York 35. for pyjamas,

When I was in the Sudan is regarded, most often

the

Cous-cous most exquisitely decorated.

The red to Her what though

HUMAN TOUCH; When I recently I nsired an old soldier It says: role-

"The strongest lan- There are perhaps 40 of us,

After this comes the "We will, if elected, help sup- squatting in pariles

of six brated cous-cous, which koka guage in Eisenhower's North he thought about the mob of ambition to port the unfortunate who cannot round low tables and suddenly as though it ought to be del Atlantic Treaty report is used to people who will descend on country.

themselves instead of all of us help

arc transfixed to-

cious but somehow taates of express a warning that the U.S. Washington to see the cherry) ex- wasting food on people who do gether, storing at that

particular except nothing in

cannot prid will nut bear inde- blossom, not

it deserve

in foreign

quisitely involved celling.

main money and terse: nuts and

unsweetened finitely the dry

material burdens due time stab

of West countries that in

Nine courses sem

semolina. (For this a spoon is us in the back; and use the security for

If you ever thought so, you sonceded.) Then bread, butter European. defence that in the money for social

and dellelous honey (back to long run we can help only those retirement of anyone at the age would never again make

who help themselves, then almonds, be- angers again); of 55,"

mistake of supposing that

walnuts, dates. Finally, Granges Kenry

Is a big, beaming, cause the Arabs may live sim- likable candidate, popular in his ply they are a simple people the size of watermelons, bana-

ond apples. the district, particularly

mind capable of with the Only

So pot-fuck with the. children.

America will forget nicest complexities could have

draws to a close. The when the election is all over conecived that design.

back for On the threshold of the ben- ewers come

stretching

whole course, but water, and the

wards Jashings length of one side of a court- very sweet and (to me)

very

the first foreign policy statement of the Krajewski ticket, which was published with the solemnity

White Paper:

of

him

the

in all.

nas

Daily News.

"We don't know. though, whether a President Eisenhower would be as blunt and hard- Cald holled in backing up these sen- silver timents as we are virtually cer- hand tain a President Taft would be, "That is possibly the most after.

important

fora question which tea, Elsenhower will have to make very his intentions clear before any patriatle American can conscien-

and gone, but without him and aucting chamber-a long. hlan washing. Nothing to drink, of

"crazy the other

candidates" American elections wouldn't be room half as much fun.

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I have chosen to -make light of the meal as the sim-lously vote for him." plest way to digest it, it was in UDOLPH HALLEY, muni- truth a most sumptuous affair, cipal president of New York elegantly and sprucely serve City, says the reason why rae- on tables of beautiful injaid keleers are stronger today than woods by relays of servingut any time since prohibition maids clothed in the most redays is because they are helped markable array of garments and by "decent people" who are too head-dresses.

opathetic to bestir themselves.

A

Our handsome, cultured host" now bid us dispone ourscives DEPARTMENT of carplay under the arches of the inner criticism. I must say, for the courtyard while his dancers per- | capital of the world's ment formed for our pleasure. opulent country, Washington

Then "luxury". puts on o

dim welcome These particular Berber das- for Very Important People.

Highlight of the decorations cera, male and female soparnte- ly, were exceedingly energetic for the arrival of Queen Juliana were the two fire brigade curs and apparently inexhaustible.

which always do duty on such It was now one o'clock the morning, and time for us occasions, their fadders extended and joined to form a "triumphal

to move,

in

The African night looked arch," down disdainfully on our beau-

Lul motor-cars parked under M188 HELEN

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there

GAHAGAN

(Mrs Melvyn. Douglas) - used

the pepper Aroes-and were the women lined up with to be an actress. Then she got elected to Congress, as a Repres hiede banners to 'give good-

sentative from California, and bye.

And there were the clustered pent: three glamorous years in white lines of human flares.

Washington.

Defeated for re-election twe They must have been waiting around, in that sharp night air, years ago, she has been on the for six hours at least.

const since but now sho

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So back to a "luxury hotel," coming back to Washington. Ha and the West.

la going to play the wife of a

with Egypt,

take over the

"Take over us?" · ho said. his comment was "When you British go we'll in-

"They must be nuts,"

Whiteness

corporate Egypt in the Sudan."

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