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||||DON IDDON'S DIARY IT'S ALL OVER

BAR THE SAILING!

T

New York, Tuesday. I would have thought that the on a wall-over, Senator Ro- Mr Harold HE new American United Blates had already won bert the riband.

100 percent, liner, the United The publicity build-up has sure-fire, double-barrelled, all-

Kerr and Stassen are also

the-way winners,

But who is going to lose? No

one-lt, just can't happen here.

States, is tied up at been terrifle, almost overwhelm- her Now York dock, pg. Before the ship has evo lifted and never has so much fuss lantic ero sing the claims are been made of a great lady, all-encompassing. She is lovely to look at, de Charles Sawyer, Secretary Elenhower hus started no lightful to know and splen- fire, no tidal wave. There,

Anyway; nothing has turned out exactly as planned. General

alet-down ond a

did to sail in

There are parties, receptions, ship ever built is so beautiful,

of Inspection. so fast, so cafe, so useful."

Staten Is truly the first lady of has bong the Elsenhower

the sea. No other passenger Ka

dances, tours

And then on Thursday, July 3,

the United States will start her

dash across the Atlantic,

I expect to be aboard report- ing the maiden voyage, which

Eulogy in planty

announces

partore

contrast the clericish, colourless Robert Taft has sud- denly assumed dazzling hucs and is throwing off sparks guz- rounded by bevies of "Belles for Bob."

everyone here says will break captain, Commodore Hai-

Manning,

Who is the most serene person гу and the record

capture the

this is the world's fastest liner. In the bewildering politicnt. Blue Alband and any other

So do the United States Lines, circus? President Harry S. green, purple, pink, or Techal which operate. het A dozen Truman. coloured trophies that are avail- able. In fact, if I hadn't been keeping a firm eye on the news,

The Flying Saucer is blown right out of the sky

I Solve The Mystery

of

the

Portsmouth Road

London.

·OTORISTS driving

along

M

an

English

high road have had their windscreens smashed when no living soul was .Frighteningly loud

near.

By James Dow

Scotland Yard are explosions have been heard This is not surprising

агод

of

Margaret's choice

admirals, vice-atimirals, rear- admirals, commodores, captains have proclaimed the

there is noth- ing to touch her.

says he has not backed any It is obvious that Hollywood particular candidate yet. must have had a hand directing But his daughter Margaret, the orchestra in this preditious whose heart belongs to Daddy, prelude. We are informed the is wearing an Averell Harriman. United States is super-colossal, button on her dress. gigantic, world-breaking, mam

moth, and marvellous.

More eulogy has been poured

Our Averell is showing an un- down to play the campaign plano expected strength. When he sat

on the handsome US. vessel be- they laughed but they stayed to

fore she has even left the start cheer.

All he needs is some pretty

|ing-post than was lavished on the de Havilland Comet after she crossed the finishing line in Robert Taft get away with the girls. I am surprised he let Johannesburg.

way

But It Is

This, perhaps, is the American chorus line.

In town at the same time as an intriguing the "Belles for Bob" were con development in Press and public didates for the tile of "Miss, relations. Possibly it is better Universe." The Miss Universe

to

secure,

"Mirage" reflections, either crow when the triumph 18 contest is the biggest beauty,

Well, it will be a worth-while pageant ever hold duet and we cannot grumble if Misses Belgium, the United States wins the Blue dia

land, France,

of lights from the ground or of the moon, can be caused in the Byer of warm air. Like a boy playing with a mirror, "diacs of light" can appear to sweep across

the hravens great speeds,

and the Eng- Greece

Israel, Italy, No

Africa, Sweden,

these band for a little while. Per- Suay, and the United States

D

haps we have had too much of our own way on blue water for too long.

and

fabulously fair,

fully fashioned,

generously However, I should like to see endowed. Also they are beaut!- the Queen Elizabeth, which is ful

Eddies of air stærred by widens baffled.

the This

And aircraft might cause reflections iz the possible mischief-making.

the pilot the up- it leads to one astonishing fact that would give

that he ta Impression thrown up by these investiga-

being faster than the Queen Mary, Mr Harriman and the Demo- *buzzed"

by glowing bodies move the record up to give the crats missed a chance by letting to tions.

United States a which he could report fying

run for her the smiling, Bob Taft lure the $70,000,000 worth of money.

This

women's vote. shouting practice of

am glad to report that Bri- molor-car manufacturers "Hoorny, I've won" before the th re-contest has actually begun is here are more enterprising. A dential candidates as well as the at the disposal of the,, besiaty shipping men..

loud

atmospheric inversion

Reproducing atmospheric con- tiong in a basement cellar, Dr Monzel created moving dying saucers.

Fresh reports of these it was Is that, too, just a coincidence? flections with the shape of the being carried out by the Prea!- feet of trim British cars was put

links them with the baffling RUSH OF AIR

About

space-ships,

تاه

ihe

WHAT are we to make of all

-They can't ~lose !

contestants and truffle was stop ped at Rockefeller Plaza. If the citizens stared more at the girls than at the cars, that is natural enough.

Not to hinder

in various parts of the astonhing new theory is country with no traceable held.

The first clue was given cause. Windows have been me by an Air Ministry official On each occasion when wind- broken, tiles dislodged with while putting forward a feasible screens were shattered on the out apparent reason.

explanation of the

ex Portsmouth road there was, in many fact, an These scemingly unre-plosions being heard in

overhead. lated happenings are

parts of Britain. now. causing deep discussions in like

"a gasometer blowing up" Meanwhile, what about those scientific circles. They are reached Uxbridge Air Control Dying saucers? They, too, have UNKNOWN LATER...ATQUodown

right cut of the from wide. coming to be regarded as a fr

All the exhaustive theorising this? Well, we have now strange new mystery of the Albans the explosions coincided with the aupersonic age. A striking dying of new De Havilland jets and other worlds" solved the mysteries of the theory now being advanced on tests overhead.

Inquiry have been convincingly Portsmouth road and of the exploded. And the two cases flying saucers. Are we on the saloors

and chattered wind- varge of other, perhaps greater. screens have

amazing mysteries? Have we stumbled upon His was also true of previous emnity. an amazing natural pheno- simitar loud

Flying faster than bangs. The

Dr Donald H. Me el, Har- "breaking to menon new the era of possible explanation now given vand profesor of ast.o-physics, pilots

have penetrated to alrcraft flying at has demonstrated how ди in new physical world. They must sure to win. I'm positive, per recently purchased Br

Britich faster-than-sound flight? was that an

accelerating speeds and breaking Do supersonic aircraft cata-

have received messages from Sir, and reflections to explore this great unknown Averell Harriman is also sure William Rootes, Mr pulting through the air at vacuum in the air.

sky much as hot air before they realise any more to win. Senator Estes Kefauver Lyons, Mr Bertie Henly, and speeds release The rush of air filling

the the

above desert sand creates unpredictable energies or is

a certainty, Governor Earl others. There have been cables the plane's wake forces, or "air devils" of vacuum in

mirages.

devils!

Warren is a cinch, Adlai Steven and letters, all of them sug- which we still know little or-ta

causes a report like a thunder-

gesting that I was being rather clap. One seronautles writer.

unkind and not helping the nothing7

describing the tragic end of

dollar drive. Even hard-headed police Gooffrey De Havilland, spake officers began to wonder if of "A "yammering sound wave that clung like a banshee to his supernatural forces

were aircraft

and finally tore it the apart."

story of the flying saucers.

enormous

not .at work on Portsmouth road near Esher

in Surrey,

--

ENATOR Robert Toft, who has been in town beaming and bobbing and bubbling, sayı: "I'm sure to win. Nothing can is obvious that our motor-car stop

nie,

people are Victory, triumph,

more pleased the sound and success." General Dwight Elsen- with the girls than they are hower, rather worn and I was having trouble with my with me. Since I reported that hurt and puzzled, says:

the sound barrier might cause a datoris images

version Тауст of Worm eir take the scientista with them lain,"

But might not that sound like Blast from wave, coming

man-made

It started 18 months ago the night of the

Meteor, have the force to do

HITLER'S GENERAL NOW

SPIES FOR DOLLARS

:(From A Special Correspondent)

Bonn.

when the windscreen of a damage at a distance? car driven by radio commen- In East Anglia, where many

Richard tator

Dimbleby jets' are flying, reports have was smashed, apparently by been accumulating of windows being shattered. One cottager a bullet. There was no other old me

his of a section of the road and thatched traffic on

roof being lifted and no loose stone about, said deposited 30 yards away as

a whirlwind had hit his house, Mr Dimbleby.

It covers what in my view The London-Portsmouth road, where the mischief has been 18 some of the most dan happening to motorists, passes gerous political high ex-

whicre

daster-than-sound today..

NO TRACE

B

Schellenberg.

car I

William

But surely a man, and cer- tainly a journalist, must report honestly

on the shortcomings as well as the virtues of our products.

I was trying to help us carn dollars, not to hinder the dollar drive,

For the record, the car is now performing magnificently, i treatly admired, and is proving everything that the manufac turers claim everyone happy?

for

IB

20 within half a mile of an airfield plosive in. Western Eurone The American Intelligence stantial reserve which would some of the money for city slum

new

aircraft are tested.

speeds they are setting up "waves" that can smash wind- Radio cars had been on screens

on the

road several the sceno immediately after thousand feet below? the shooting. Police doga

had trailed the hedgerows.

COINCIDENCE

had been found. The road theory to zerodynamics experts.

former

a

*

**

He had the key to the The Americans supply the

11. Now WATCH out for a name espionage network built by fun. They are giving Gehler Soon, unfortunately, it will be

$3,500,000 a year (£1,250,000). is going to spell Canaris, Himmler, and BY

elever business Ucals necessary to be a rich man to Gehlen is able to, multiply this una car here. New York City trouble with a capital T.

took sum to many times its original out of the motorists by a five-to has just gouged over $8,000,000 The Americans Gehlen prisoner. He did not

ten-dollar stamp tax on every values believed he has already cat.

I hope the authorfiles w use remain a prisoner for long. succeeded in plling up a sub- last January,

enable him to carry on inde- chiefs were much impressed

pendently should the Ameri-

clearance. similar cases had been

with his ideas and the docu- cans cease to support him.

Last week seven people burn- reported to the police. All Is it possible that when The name is spelt Gehlen mentation he was able to The material. collected by ed to death in a New York fire- but one of the cases had climbing or diving at great

Gehlen, I am told, I of first trap tenement and a survey and is pronounced Gale-enn. put at their disposal.

class occurred in, daylight,

value. The interpretation shows that 50,000 New York Ten years ago this was

of it, done by Gehlen's skilled families live in unsafe, Bre the name of one of Hitler's

analysts at their headquarters hazard, derelict dwellings. ablest staff officers. General

in Munich has impressed not They set him up in a only the Americans but British British illusion Gehlen was the Chief of the anti-Soviet Espionage De- little office of his own. He and French experts as well. No trace of a mad gunman yes, it is possible. There is no partment in Hitler's was allowed to plek out

Tis the big British and the European illusion that most. or a boy with an air gun doubt about that. I put the Military Intelligence Head-

small staff

The danger of the organisa-Americans live in the film-star Gehlen's network already. to-This is the bunk. There are was specially swept to re- They believe such damage might quarters. "Chief of the Do- Abwehr officers (Admiral tien lies in the future. For fashion, coddled mestar feasibly be caused in freak con- partment of Foreign Armies Canaris's German Intelif day has become an immense hundreds of thousands here, who move any loose surface that lons. They Boggle, however, East" was his official title. gence Service).

underground power In Ger have a hard

brutal ond Most of these men, needless many. It has key men in all making a living. might be playing 'strange at the coincidence of so many

happening

to say, were on the same tricks.

equippet with German Government offices, in Biltish Elizabethan

stylen good anti-Nazi records.

the pelice, in newspapers, rádlo Since then three other cases stretch of road.

Within a few weeks Geblen stations, trades

weeping the Am

American women's But I can also explain that

fashion have occurred all on the same

world and leading Today Gehien is the name was providing excellent reports where in fact. coincidence. stretch

road between

The thesay WDS

They have

American derigners are prowling aven penetrated Kingston and Cobham in Eng- given to me by meteorologist of a secret organisation of on Soviet miltary and political

Adenauer Government's the museums for ideas and Iri land's pleasant county. Hot David Bowen that the "sound immense and ever-growing activities in the Eastern Zone the

wave of the aircraft, ricochet power.

of Germany.

now Secret Police office, at troducing the farthingale or SUTTCY.

The Americans, delighted with tingly called "Office, for the

the ruff, the feathered hoops, the In some cases a small hole bound again and again from the

ting the

off the ground, might re-

When the Hitler armica his work, were only loo-ready Protection of the Consulution velves but the gauntlet, was reported in the windscreen. k under particular

stockings. atoso collapsed in 1945 General to let him expand both his For the present the dehlen At other times it was as if the

In entertainment, the summer spheric condilons known as in- Gehlen managed to escape staff and the scope of his ac organisatie is, only using glass suddenly frosted over

tivilles.

underground power to expand theatre has taken over from with minule cracks.

westwards with the most As he expanded, plenty of its influence still further, get Broadway and Edward Everett Horton becomes the star of the misalle been found. Bcotland Hogben, a leading Industrial

S.D. men (Himmler's Secret tions, and cover ex-Nazis and straw-hot

circuit. The

barns Yard took away, the car door scientist, agree this is a new of his department.

Service organisation) crept in 8.8. mon from any

dre #persecu- busy with touring troupes. of vehicle which appeared field which has been very little. He kept in his control to his staff where they enjoy»

Joan Rice, who was a London to have been hit by a ricochet lavestigated. Dr Hegten found many of the top secret late ed full protection.

Gchlin othing rkticulous" about

for political star as Maid (Marion in Walt Ding bulloi.

of German agents planted Today deles is the head of not himself, I am told, la waltress three years ago, will No trace of a bullet nor clear Bowen's theory.

nn espionage

organization power. His hope is to become Disney's story of Robin Hoodi in the Soviet Union and the which lies agents in all parts the Intelligence chief of the Miss Rice proof that there had been a In other words, when bullet was found. Teste with layer of warm ale covers the eastern neighbour States of the world. Mány "sources" Europcarı “AIRY -

1040, Miss a 177 air gun showed that a cooler air below, the air dovil" which subsequently became which had been planted in Hit sut, there are many ex-Nazis New York and

Hollywood windscreen could not be smash- might start a mad dance like o

ter, and pro-Hitler days have and ex-officers high up in his now rate Alec Guinness us costly. tho satellites of Soviet begun, to work again for machine who are ambitious. the most popular and, most ver. ed even at such short range as lightning streak across a section

of the countryside,

Gehlen.

They represent a real danger. ratlle of Brfush stars, Ave yards,

of

versions.

unions

But in no single case has a Fysicists Rich as Dr.L.Important of the secret files former Nazis, 5.6. men and its members into strategle posi-

one

Russia.

and

struggle

shoes

Lyons

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