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Something

-NLIKE

the popular

song, the Boat Train

Useful

was cold insido. Ad- By Beverley Baxter, MP

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with the punch

dinod at her London fist with her and her then husband. Mr Ernest Simpson. Having thus established the fact that she knew the form she then talked of New York, France, her ex- Perhaps you saw him in the periences at Nassau in the war

Hc

the ox- when the Windsors were at parachutist who was chosen by Government House, and world M. G. M. to play the part of the events. armless man in the

It was valy, Intelligent con- Best Years of Our Lives." War took his hands from him, but versation, In which nothing was sold that could not be re-

mittedly, it was cold outside as well, but not so congealed. Yet there were

Uke a boxer

at least

and defies the laws of equill- cinema. three people on

brium. On the whole, he is a board the train who did not cherry pessimist. In all my sixty give a tinker's cuss about odd crossing, I cannot remem- the temperature. We were her as eward who did not pro. three British M.P.'s escap- phosy dirty weather ahead. ing for a apell from the treadmill of Westminster.

The Queen Mary was in no hurry to leave, for ships still have to wait for the tide. In fact, we did not depart until next morning, which seemed an odd performance, and even then the Old Lady did not strain hersdif,

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Alm "Tho.

could not take his courage.

It was the last night Lefore prated in the most acdate news- She looked reaching New York that Meric paper in the world. bo Oberon, the film star, asked me well, she dressed well and sho

a tell" to

private dinner

party talked well. With all due In was giving gone sho

Verandah Grill.

On this particular voyago my felaw fairly beamed with bad :ognorâcations end urged me to have a full breakfast, cause "you never

huvo must Something wrong because the sea remalne throughout in a gentle mood, with frequent coquetry from

the sun.

can

the

Miss Oberon is a woman of considerable charm and a sur- prising degree of erudition. For example, there was an arts con- lest on board in which we had to answer 20 questions about famou

books, paintings sculpture. I scored heavily 0:1 THERE is still a majelie the authorship of David Copper-

The People

and

modesty, I think I listened well

and for once I wanted to listen. Later the conversation at the table became general.

Lively Man

FTER dinner the Duke took

Wo Werd geing first to Cherbourg to pick Up •some passengers, including the Duke

Duchess and

Windsor. of Fillcen

the Duke folemnity about the sea, even feld, but most of the other 10 years ago

if oplanes hop back and fort! got away from me like a large a comer where we remained as if the Atlantic were no big fish. Yet Miss Oberon answer- than a lake. But in the end it ed all twenty questions correct-

on board is the people

stood on the dock of a destroyer as he watched the fading coast. line of the country of which he had ruled for so le a time. He was 'on, his way to Franco to begin the life of Royal exile.

And now from France he was

ter about to stop on British ritory once more a movable, rea-going affair, but none the less Briush territory. The rain swept against

and the docks, the sea was grimm, grey

and

OF GARDENING BOOKS only

Together with

6

PACKETS OF SEEDS

TWO DOLLARS

6

The Duke and Duchess must have come aboard, although no one seemed have sighted then not set to Queen Mary

got down to the geting to New York.

business of

No Parallel

H the ocean in a comfortable

EACH

STILL TIME TO PLANT FOR PRESENT SEASON S. C. M. POST

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KOWLOON

and at KELLY AND WALSH LTD., Chafer Road and BETTER HOMES & GARDENS, 19, Chungking Arcado.

*

who

make a verage, and wo were ly and won the prize.

me aside and we sat down

for more than on hour. In my

บ

Almo 1 have written lens of thousands of words about him. first as a boyish I saw him rot a bad lo on the Queen Years Ogo she married officer in the First World War. Mary. There was Lord Barnby, Alexander Kords, the Hungarian Then in the years that followed who rushes madly around the nim producer, who is now a Bri I saw and heard him on many world proclaiming the superiori tish Knight. She loved him very ty of British goods, aided and

coat.

Dinner At Sea

"Recall him to the nation's service

(0-4

clothe Prince of Hearts, so the British

In that period when a queen in her own right, but Mary I approached our con- did he was

Court Aculd not versation with the conviction the rank of "Your that I would soon find evidened abetted by his pretty American much but forgot that she wife, I would never be sur- and so they divorced. But they beloved of the people that, even give her prised to find Bamby wearing a are good friends still a fact at the marriage of his brother Royal Highness." Curly to the of the deterioration thened

of such a the kind-eyed girl Duke, Mrs Van Simmers, but be the result which proves

either a lot or Albert to Union Jack in place of a waist-

Edward from Scotland, it was nothing.

not to the Duchess. Her friends perience? who nearly stole the scene. In spoke openly about the rigid

Let me state at once that this sed trade unionism of Royalty. As the House of Commons he used trad to sit behind the clock in the for

as the Paloce was con- is not what happened. I do not ond first row of the gallery

cerned, she was Q blackleg. want to appear in this article follow cur deliberations with When the Duke wrote his as a sycophant of a cynic but obvious interest,

memoirs, the very akies of England frowned. It could not only to set down the truth have happened. In good Queen it appeared to me. Instead of Victoria's golden days.

stagnation от

deterioration I found in the Duke a lively, and In "The Mikado" the son of penetrating mind,

Then there was that my old boy, General Wade Hayes, who has been in every war since the Romans, and is preparing

for

T any rate we assembled at the next. He lives in London, A8.30 in the Smoke Rocen for where we think so much of him cocktails, being five in number

If Louis XIV of France and that we made him a member of

and just altogether.

then the the

then Edward Sun King, the Carlton Club, which is

other two guests exclusively for members of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor.

was the Sun Prince. His youth arrived, the Conservativo Party,

lingered beyond his years as if To a journalist and a politician he was loth to lose touch with Who is this smiling, young nothing is really embarrassing, the young who had died in the fellow with the wistfully pretty yet it seemed to me that there war.

Someone introduced were

about publie

On

this

Then

carc

but his

own, he had

a sense of

the

of

the No Precedent

the Emperor, disguised ás a humour with a nice edge to it, wanderlog minstrel, describes and a knowledge of contem- himself na "ig thing of shreds porary political personalities pleasant to roll

the w and ecoto has no occasion. Readers may remem

warning and patches." Edward VIII had which could not have teen more headlines in the become a wandering Duke. On acute if he were still a regular state room, where every morn- But he has no hands. Instead ber my abdication article, which shadows .....

loaded the dice heavily against foreign press his constant his travels in every country visitor to the House of Com- ing the clock goes back an hour. he has two hooka, His eyes are 10a

and association with Ernest Simp there There is a god-like satisfaction steady, and

is always the Duchess of Windsor

to meet mons. about telling your watch

gossip finds its that that frank, disarming smile, caused a good deal of interest son's wife..

at the time. Two years later tongue, but the British press the flunkeyLm of snobs, it is lying, and that it is sine Shall we pretend that he just when I included the article in loyally if stupidly publishes half-concented sneer o'clock and not ten as its hands the same or other mich? No he

my book "Westminster Watch- nothing the death of King snart sets, the cheap familiar- contend.

does not play-that way.

tower" the Duke demanded a

a George V .... Long Live King

Ity of those who delight In Abdication He waits

the with Edward VIIII Also,

Duke of Windsor seeing gots tumbled from the about a British steward which armless people and find out how drawal of the band the wh

grappling with the public has no parallel. An American science Is steward will give good service problem. "You are ahead of us bogle "pology but withdrew the begins the life of a Noyal exile, pedestals, the sorrow of decent is of the record. You must -

men and women that he had which had just been sent

What of the woman whom put aside the Crema which that in England," he says, "because to the newspapers for review. but we feet instinctively

destiny and heredity had placed a perfect he had married? he is dreaming of a gaz station it is under the control of the Not, you will agree,

Ministry of Pensions,

upon his head. In prologue to a dinner at sea. West, and that America there in the Middle

Every year the Duchess has are competing his heart is not in the job.

in the alx best

of limelight At dinner I sat next to the been included

Sixteen years manufacturers with patents that

of the recalled the dressed women

world, and deepening shadows! Do FAR English steward looks cannot be pooled. It's bad. I'm Duchess and she us if ho was born on a ship. going to fight that."

occasion when my wife and I `In the world of fashion, she is you. wonder that on the Queen and has never been ashore for more than a few days in his life. When it is rough he rolls

there

Celebrity Concert

something

to talk

HELEN TRAUBEL

(Soprano)

Monday, 19th January, 1953, at 9.30 p.m. Tuesday, 20th January, 1953, at 9.30 p.m. EMPIRE THEATRE

Suleldlo (La Cloconda) Ponchielli

(King's Road, Telephone No. 70103)

PROGRAMME

20TH JANUARY, 1953.

the

CRIME SHEET

In 1952 the face of the crook has changed.

T the end of the year the staff of Scotland Yard's Map Room

on

folded up the charts which, hour by long hour, they had been recording the

| trend of crime in 1952.

Two things can be read with certainty in them:

The face of crime is changing;

and

The horizons expanding.

of crime

are

Add these two factors together and you

of the

WHAT has become those matter-of-füct" charts — army of criminals once absorb The chances of citizens going ed in black-market activity? about their lawful occasions unharmed deteriorated.

have

PROGRAMME -

· 19TH JANUARY, 1953.

1.

1. I pray to thee

Strattner

1. The heavens are telling

2. Marla Cradle Song

Beethoven Schubert

2. Dry ye not, oh tearsl

Beethoven

3. Joyful and tearful

get a third that can also be read from

3. I love you

Beethoven

"Claerchen Lieder"

4. My heart ever faithful

Bach

4. The druma lourily beating

"Cherchen Lieder"

Beethoven

Beethoven

2.

2.

Adieu Foret

Tchaikowsky

Jeanne D'Arc

3.

3.

Schubert

1. Aufenthalt

9. Der Schmied

Schubert Brohms

0.

4. Wie Melodien zieht es mir Brahms

Cacolle

2. Wie sich der Augefeln 3. Der Alas

Schubert Schubert Schubert

Strauss

4. Morgen

Intermission.

5. Meine Liebe ist grun

Intermission.

Wagner

Wagner

1. Seligkeit

2. Nacht und Traume

Einsam in truben logen Wagner

(Lohengrin)

1. Die teurs Haifa

Tannhouser

2. Du bist' c'er Louz

Walkure

Negro Spiritual

1. Were you there

Negro Spiritual

2. Steal away

3. Song of Love

A.. Irig

8. Morning

La Forge Daniel Wolf

Oleý Speaka

1. Deep River

2. Swing Low

J. Love went a'riding.

4. Lord Randel

5. to the holly

ADMISSION: $15.00, $10.00, $5.00'

Strauss Hugo Wolft

Negro Spiritual Negro Spiritual Frank Bridge. English Folk Song Words by

Shakespere -- Tigestrite

Tickets not called for half an hour before the recital will be zold,

Our underground car park is free to patrons.

· PRESENTED BY HARRY ODELL

HOW do thousands

now sharply

exist who once lived-and lived well on the fact that essen- True, ten thousand arrests tial commodities were scarce? had been made last yet with

WHAT new activity occupies ried out the wholesale hijacking True, this figure has been of lorries, the, mass thefts of achieved in spite of the fact food, clothes, and nylon stock- that the police are 2,504 men ings in their thousands?

1938 strength, and in

the aid of 95,000 "999" calls in the hands which formerly car

the, Metropolitan Police area.

below

Like every other market the

spite of the fact that there are basic operating principle of the many new postwar housing sites to be pafrolled and pro- crime bourse is one of supply

and demand. tected.

Where?

This is best shown on the front page of Scotland Yard's own newspaper, Dally Informa- Цолз.

PERCY HOSKINS, famous crime reporter and author of "No Hiding Place," the book about. Scotland Yard, takes a Yard's-eye

of the view

way crime in Britain has switched its pattern

robbery of registered mail-an attack upon a wages messenger, ‚a handbag snatched from an 80-year-old woman....

I

NEVER once did he say, "This not publish this."

Yet he talked with gom- pleto candour about personali- ies in Britain. Ho spoko

Df the Queen with genuino affec- tion, and oven enthusiasm. Ho sees in her the embodiment of the spirit of Renaissance that. Is stirring

In England. There I draw the curtain. The rest 19

silence,

except for one more sentence. Even when ho frankly appraised the personalities who crowd to the centre of the stage in London Society today, he never uttered a bitter or a re- sentful word.

The Duke of Windsor will not be

In a power again Britain Wrongly, tragically, he renounced the Crown which bore too heavily upon his tem ples. He will not come home even for

the Coronation of his niece because - and it is convenient reason there is no

of an ex-king procedent of Britain attending the corona- tion of a tuccessor

And since

Д

his wife will not be given a iktle of equal dignity with his, he will remain an exile.

Ho last the battle with Bald- win, and the Archbishop of Canterbury, and as a result ho lost his throne.

The total value of property 'stolen in London In 1951 was £3,743,500 and only 14 per-

Ho left the battle for peaca cent of it was recovered. Lost in which he might have played

•

The main black market has year's Ogure is in the same a vital role. All those things gono. The big-time receiver- region.

must have pierced his heart ane detected in 1947 was found

and added to the darkness of

coal.

want one.

Much To Give

control 16

The big time receiver of the the night. distributing contres in provincial cities-no old black market days may longer exists.

have ceased to function in the Now the bland face which grand manner, once wore the persuasive ·Bul It is clear from these smile of a bargainer now dons figures of stolen property that a mask, The hand which the crook finds little difficulty welded the jemmy now grips a in locating a "fence when heYI am certain that he has won his secret battle with himself. He has not Icat his love. And even the face

of the of country, he has not allowed "fence" t changing

bitterness to poison his mind, Remember how, in the old and he has not lost his faith in books and films, he used to be the great mission of Britain and portrayed as a sinister charac- the British community ter running his racket under tions, cover of a dubious East End shop? That was true, once.

THAT tax

of na

men at Scotland Yard THE

Dre not the only people who have. their fingers permanently

Then why should we not use - on the puke of crime.

lum? Let him go as Governor There are other experts who, if anything.

|to Konya-or some such trouble posscas a more

So 'respectable'

spot where, na a son of kings nceurals minute-to-minute

and man with a love · för knowledge of the state of the

DUT in-some recent cases the pride and perhaps a new enge crime

humanity, fie could bring a new market. BUT, in spite of these achieve- Five years ago this journal,

B These are the insurance

middleman of crime, the mino-end they cre real which goes out from Whitehall assessors-the men who invest "wholesaler"

of community to the different In the stolen-ces. The Duke of Windsor |áchievement-there is cach night, to police forces all gate the claims of the robbed goods trade, has proved to be a hus too much to give to the shadow over those charts, with over the country, featured householder, who try to recover man living respectably In a world to be content with the their neat figures and revealing Items like there

(but more frequently have to cathedral city.

ento aristocracy (ef ¦ Paris, and lines; the shadow

So Action lags behind truth. New York. with the cosh, the man in à One million coupons stolen replace the stolen goods, who mask.

Petroleum Board's are most conscious of the fact. But crime never lags far behind from the

country, where the cary money is. offices in Glasgow...Eighteen that, throughout

He made no mention of these Cash, as I have indicated, things to me. The Idea of The cosh and the mask: these, hundred

books, and only 10 percent of stolen pro xalion

breeds crime and the cosh. rocalling him to the nation's aro the outward proof that, 394,000. clothing coupons miss- perty is ever recovered.

They will foll

But big money Involves big service come to my mind after last year in Britain, the face ing from the food office at

Guildford... Nine million the purchase tax plays its part planning and demands big die ship fund arrived and we of crime changed.

cigarettes hijacked from a lorry. In the crime wave, Remove measures to meet the challenge were all decanted into the mad, on the Great North Road.... the tax from Why has it changed?

certain articles to the law,

glittering Babel Vol. Now York, and they slump on the crline How big is the inenace I shall with its audacious towers, Ala Look at the same paga sokay, market. That is one reason describe tomorrow in the second teeming crowds, and the orezy th. It is a story of cash, why: Jewels Gand" `furs, retain instalment of my Crime Sheet symphony of the trafletsoored and after cosh AND cash, A their underworld value.

for 1952.

only for horns.

of the boy

To -- answer

this involver asking three

question

Liite Shinzu,

the

you