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After what happened at his home the other night, Mossadeg complained of the difficulty of finding peace and quiet. Arrangements are being made to move him

To an oil well

SOMETHING AFOOT IN IRAN

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WHAT THE SHOPGIRL SAID TO MRS TITO

M

Belgrade.

ARSHAL TITO,

with whom I spent

by R. M. MacCOLL

a British Yugoslavia

··

away

has

consumer

The Harry Lime theme from Third Mar" is the lm "The still fashionable here. The hotel dance band plays it faster than You can imagine. It sounds like a pleasant hour the

candlelabra hung in the entrance approached that of other day, is not al hall and

a one-step trying to run colossal wool tapestry town, but cars in

from Itself.

In the post all a gloomy, brooding type. In Tito's study seem rather at are very, few.

year there with the note of He has a quick sense of variance

comfortable suburbin struit

uit by Everyone scema to smoke beer a tremendous improvement humour, and laughs merrily. most of the other trappinga.

the supply of incessantly mlid Macedonian Back in 1951 he had to The interview is conducted cigarettes, and in a quiet way's goods. Shop windows now on

a fairly serious side in deep armchairs.

informally. You sit side undergo

by great deal of slivovitz gets crammed with all manner of On a shifted

throughout the day. This things the sight of which would, operation. When he came

low, table between you are is Yugoslav plum brandy, but it until 1952, have caused crowds out of the anesthetic, the cigarettes and drinks, Near by is no good to me because I can- to collect on the pavements.

But

the only such crowd I first thing he said to his are the stenographer and off- not stand the smell, which re-

have seer was inspecting some Interpreter, cia!

Professor minds me of old motor tyres. astonished

Potnicki.

enamel pols and pans. "How glad Stalin would The professor is not one of have been if the operation the impassive school of inter- had failed."

pitters. He really flings him- self into his job, waving back And he finds it uproarious to recall an incident in Paris in 1987, long before he

nurses

Was:

FIERY

STUFF

NATHANIEL

: GUBBINS

"After only ano grenadine and one sirop at the Cafe de in Paix, I wanted to talk to every body in Paris. because they seemed so friendly. Even the ntern gendarinelled under his big moustache and heit sp the traffic for silly lo me."—" Excited part writing to d mapa - gine about her frit visit to Paris.

NE grenadine and one

alrop.

world; because somewhere in the hidden hedgerows sparrows were busy building Httle homes for little familes to come; and because somewhere in a mall, insanitary cottage try the duck- pond old Mr Gargle, stricken by springtime gout, wan roaring curses at his terrified family,

Anyway, we knew that spring WOR not far off, becauso wa Two little drinks and I could sce the date on our blow my top,

calendar. We are not a lot of fools.

Two little drinks in gay

Parce,

Ooh, what a life for silly

little me.

Silly little me in a day rafe, Toujours, toujours, toujours

gol,

Silly little me can't come to

harm With a wink and D smile

from a bold gendarme.

To all who pass in the street

I say, Je puit, je sulo, je suit

Anglais.

Bon jour, bon jour, comment

ca va?

Ooh le, ooh la, ooh la-la.

Doh la-la- to the bold

gendarme,

Ooh la-la when they pinch

my arm,

Ooh la-la don't pinch so hard And two Ooh-las

plcture card.

Are you a pig?

SINCE 1040 the chief tople of

Conversation in this country has been food. Now that de- rationing # being stowly achieved, what are your 接 actions to this new freedom?

In the following quiz, devised by your loving Uncle, You can find out whether you are a piz or not.

(1) When you pick up your maining newspaper, what do your read first: (a) headlines of important newa?; (b) pictures and cartoons?; (e) food news?

(2) Theatres and elnemas are deivable Insitutions, because: (a) they give employment to ค to your large number of people; (b) they provide culture and/or entertainment for the masses; (e) you can now buy off-the- ratlan chocolate at eliter, munch your way through three octy or two feature film3, cartoon and the newsreel.

One more, one inore,

more skrop,

опе

One more strop, onc more

hicop; Dops, mon oncle, et ma foi, Pardon, pardon, pardonnez-

mot.

But san fairy an and tou-

jours gal,

Je suis jo sule, je Buly

Anglais,

Les sirops, grenadine tres

bon,

But Goh In-la l'addi-tion, One grenadine and two sirops, Three little drinks and I'm

the tops:

Three little drinks in gay

Parce,

Ooh, what a life for silly

little me.

Countryman's Diary

and

'(3) What do you think about first when you wake in the morning: (a) your sins?;

(b) the

day's work ahead?; (e) your breakfast?

(4) When you propose mar- ringe to a git), is it because: (B) she has a beautiful face?; (b) she has a beautiful mind?; (c) she is a beautiful cook?

(5) Think of the best dinner you ever had in your life. Was It memorable because: (a) you wore with people you liked ; (b) # commemorated * special event?; (c) you liked the cool- ing?

(6) What is your idea of the best way of spending an evening: (a) having a party?; (b) going to bed early with a And most people in Belgrade

book?; (c) eating? - now appear well shod. This is

sward Now longHICK fog hid the hedgerow, significant because for

yourself two coppice, mend and meadow, marks for every answer honestly years after the war the sight of and forth as he talks, and the Yugoslavs are a tough lot streets was not uncomms di

We in the countryside could not given to the above. BUT any lingering doubts that adults walking barefoot in the

see the first tiny buds on the If your score is between 10 bursting into laughter when

Tito

were removed when I saw a

but we and 12 under heading (c), you And then, when shoes did be- branches of the trees, cracks a joke.

type knew that spring was not for are a pig. If it is 18 you are a Tito likes to play Viennese mom give his five-year-old son a come available, the same

and off, because we could hear the filthy pig.

birds coughing as they tried to He was staying in a tiny which was given to him a year out

Danube,"

the accordion swallowed the flery stuff with women; sometimes the customer

a blink.

had to accept an odd pair of

offer their morning hymn of Montmartre hotel at the

differing alzes. time of the state visit of King George VI.

gained international fame. waltzes, such D3 the "Blue swig of slivovitz. The moppet had to do for both men

The Surete men started to

comb the hotels for undesir-

on

ugo,

ONE TOOT

HAVE a superb view of this

"Very

But if you don't drink slivovitz you And yourself confronted with something called antique Scottish whisky fabri- cated in Yugoslavia." A couple of slugs of that and you feel as

of ads of suddenly much more antique yourself, remains ob-

Fot

has Belgrade

a Charlie Chaplin Street and # cross roads called London-although nobody seems to know why.

TIP-OFF HABIT

praise to the blue sky that was Take a letter

invisible and to the sun

was not shining.

that

We knew that spring was not far off, because somewhere to NE crushing Balken hold-over ONE

our left or right (or was t from the old days: the police behind us, or in to plainclothes tip-off men who in- fest the lobbles of the hotels.

Although Western visitors are treated with warmth and official policy has long since called sur- veillance off foreigners from the dica friendly nations, the habit hard,

ables and persons whose I self-saine Danube from my passports were out of order. window in Belgrado's Hotel Tito, who is due to lunch Moscow, but it with the Queen at Bucking stately unblue.

Yugoslavia is a peasant nn ham Palace during his tion and proud of it. Even on scheduled visit this month, the main streets of the capital you see women in brilliantly departed hurriedly.

coloured peasant garb and men Shops and Government build-

Nursing along glass of in baggy trousers and Turkish- ings alike are open from seven, HIS WIFE

styled shoes with curled up until two. Aller that everyone slivovitz for hours on end and prints. They walk around calls it a day,.

casting a professionally beady eye at all who come and go, among the conservatively dress- WHILE Tito is London, his ed townspeople quito unself- To get a driving licence you these poedy tipsters nowadays

have to pass a lest. One foreign have slim pickings. pretty new wife, Jovanka, conselously.

Traffic signalling is a novel embassy here simply sends its An American friend explained will be in Paris buying clothes,

visual, but doorkeeper, a massive Serbian, it thus: "Somebody just forgot Jovanka moves about

in always done on the horn. As who posses test after test on bo to pass the word down the line Belgrade without any escort.

you. approach & point-duty half of newcomers. Nobody Ro

пе to these boys. They don't know The other day when she was

policeman on his little platform, for has noticed anything incon- the polley got changed. They buying some hats, one rather you give one too! If you want gruous in the fact that the pottile, think that they are still doing extreme spring model caught

wife of one official in their bit" described on her licence her fancy, but she put it aside to go straight on, two to turn blonde

Before I leave I must ask ono wistfully, saying: "I am afraid right, and three left.

Obviously this would lead to weighing 10 atones and being six of them to join me in a glass of husband would not

chaos if the density of traffic feet tall.

that antique Scottish whisky.

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The shop girl, who had no idea who her customer was, re- plied:

Don't "Oh! nonsense. take any notice of what your husband says."

SUN-TANNED

FOR a man of 61, Tito looked

In Arst-class condition, if a

affair

JABU ***

Powerful is the

Everest magnet

SO

bit bulky. He could easily pass for youthful 50. And he THE British Mount money spent, the hullabaloo? might just have returned from Everest expedition is 1 exhibitionism, a couple of weeks at Miami Heach so rich is his tam,

cra

His king for elgorette hold- shaped like miniature pipes; from which the cigarette sticks up at an angle, has start ed a fashion in Yugoslavia although those one sces about in the streets and cafes made of polished wood and not, like Tito's, of gold.

аге

now in India.

physical exercise ridiculous Imita?

carried

or mere 10

If the unlikely happens and all goes well, the Union Younghusband had his on- Jack

Butter from swers. He was never in doubt. The East had touched his Christ- earth's highest point by lanity with mysticlan. Coronation Day.

may

there was a field of daffodils.

We had seen them there the wished day before, and had them a gay Good Morning when they nodded their golden heads to us as we passed.

We knew that spring was not far off, because somewhere, un the grassy verge of a winding lane we might be treading (or might not), yellow crocuses

and peeping at us, thought how sad it, was

were

Ofice space is so eramped in the City of London that girl typists are almost sitting on laga to do their work-Sir Harold Webbe, M.P.

you take that letter now, Miss XT

But there's nowhere tà sit,

Mr Y.

What's wrong with my knee,

X1

Miss

Really, Mr Y.

Comty, Miss X?

Ever 10, Mr Y.

Then take a letter, Miss X. May 1 call you Dulcie?

Good gracious; next, Mr V7

whatever

"I have to thank you for your we erteamed order of the seventh

What could not see each other through ultimo, and to say...." the fog, assuming we were in shall I may, Duicler

Whatever

you the right lane.

like, I'm sure, Mr Y. "And to say on got bodi eyes."-

We knew that spring was not far off, because somewhere, in pretty a misty meadow, the lambs avere leaping for the joy of being alive in a cold, white

EVEREST : Will it be conquered by Coronation Day?

Oxygen. he scored. It might|

à success to selence, but

Mohammedan-all of whom he had with him. They afi wanted give to be good. know they were man would have lost a chance of expected to be good, and, in their knowing hungel. (The Swiss, We had fought his way to readiness to give their lives for with oxygen, went only 100 feet It would not be there long forbidden Lhasa and won over the expedition, they were good, higher than six British climbers

the hostile Tibetans with his “in-

without oxygen.) before the raging jet exibility of purpose, absolute

He found that the more keyedi I was struck by the few stream" that lashes the top straight dealing, and absolute up he was to great enterprises security measures taken around

the deeper grew his insight; Tito's suburban villa. A couple would lift it into the upper juice."

the mare hardened he was out lottered outside air, or shred it. But even. of policemen

3PM

the door, which is opened for that would be long enough poos, probing the Brat Ruman became inwardly.

Pursuing Government pur- wardly, the more sensitive he you by a military guard. An- to realise the dream of Sir advances into China, he had other guard salutes apply Francis Younghusband, the crossed Himalayan passes 20,000

It is 60 years sines Young you get out of the car. And then you stroll up some stone tough little frontiersman, feet and more up, and alone had husband Searned that Everest steps and are received by Tito's whose original Inspiration is explored the Chinese border might be climbed. He had to secretary.

An unusual feature of Tito's still, year after year, put drawing-room is

n tall glass ting these expeditions to caso filled with specimens of their task. minerals and ores from various parts of Yugoslavia. These aro

tands and deserts.

In the acclimatisation of the body to high altitudes," he saw a symbol of the acclimatisation of the soud to the clemal. The climber must not only have

Physical fitness but a tenacious to extremities of endeavour, to it ready to drive the body walt 30 years before he could Today in the Outward Bound propose to the Royal Geograph mountain school in Cumberland, He knew what it was to come leal Society, as its unident, working lads are finding, in the work, of the trust's chairman, down from an ice-covered pass that Everest should be climbed.

Mr. Spencer Summers, M.P., that with bloodshot eyes, blistered

He put the inevitable question, boys will give much, it much is His biography* `ralaes the old features, cracked knuckles, cut all carefully labelled, which question: Is it worth it? Is is hands, and many brakes, and himwife "What use? And an demanded of them,

Impression of worth the good lives, risked, the yet foot t

on of clatis* Biddle and, brim #kvered. "No use...but there is

unque tormbly much good in als was muscum rather than a private

eilmbing Mount Everest. The faith. home, I TUR

• FRANCIS:

"YOUNGHUSBAND.' Potted shrubs stand in various

He found a like spirit among accomplishment.will elevate KLÄN, KCLE, 1863-1909, ...... by

Confucion, the humar, spirit. "The vast wrought-iron | Georgs Beaver (John BUITRY, 284. Hindu,

gives the

*

"

Buddhist,

Younghusband's

Thomas Wilson,

"Oo's got boo eyes," Mr Y? "And hair like honey, and a

smile as warm and bright as a June morning.”

I don't think you ought to say that to Mr Glapiron, of Glapiron Bumbleberry Sons and Glapiron, Mr Y. might take it funny.

He

am saying it to you. Dulele,

I love you.

Please don't squeeze my waist so hard, My Y.

Dulele, will you

Norman?

cali MG

There's a time and place for everything, Mr Y.

(London Expreze Service)

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