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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1953.

U.S.A. buys bases in Spain, hey ho

by GILES

you can always

count on

Art's TAILOR

London Express Service

IN A TOWN

V

ISITING eurd in hand, walked into the panelled oflice

f Rear Admiral.

Francisco Nunez, Chief of Staff at Cartagem, one of Spain's naval Inses on the Mediterraneun.

SPANISH

LITTLE WITH SENOR

No hot dogs and no juke boxes,

easy dates

no easy

only fre water and soil drinks,

with senoritas

Where did

everyone

little box, Joe, let's have e

What, Juke-box?

JOE

"Finally this Spanish charac- ler I got to know introduced me to his cousin. I asked her out to the movies they're showing a fitn Errol Flynn nude about 12 years ago--and the says okay.

"But, Joe, when I mcel her at the movie theatre-she's got admural recalls with a shudder, RENE MacCOLL? Put a nickel in the juke

her old mother along with her." Expert observers Are

be Cartagena may

strate- certain that heavily forti- Ant the "grey-bai ert alde

pically at the top of the list. At fied Cartagena, · with its adds that there Was rumoured

Escombreras, next door, slants harbour to be a bottle of come in the now touring Spain wit m Jukebox superh untural

In the outskirts of Cartagena e of Europe's most important harsh mo's sick bay, but this was not to investigate the

vil refineries guarded by

Tommy gunners situation tains, will be one of the

following the appearance of the

in olive-green uniforms patrol French touring car I was in the walls of Cartagena's ar- spots the Americans will Back in Madril, United States

ames at the pact with Ameri- ca tremendous excitement. Fenal. And civilians are firmly Prople rushed from their kept out of the roads leading choose as a base under the Ambassador

ca, sends his third boures to inspeet 1.

leaving the mountain-top string- of the newly con- impressed on mu that it is und

report. He cables the old and the luftem to fes-

points down near the harbotir. the windows. Stray ears

' from Cartagena. are searce in Cartagena,

terms

forthcoming.

planned to station American

cluded pact between Spain in on the Spanish buses in and the United States,

any great quantity. Admiral Nunez.

Air suututrons clean-shaven moti was wetting "rotated" al short

one

shart.

be will intervals, sullors will Troops invariably wear vivilian clothes way from their bases, and the ver "ixel Americans will

the backwards" not tu. upset touchy Spaniards on questions of sovereignty or prestige.

a white dull anilorie, and, as I entered, one of hu A.D. was hastly attening up the collar of the admiral's jacket. which hart

been opened for greater comfort

In the humid office.

Flanked by his two nides---

ofler a crappy-featured with greying hair, the other a Jinsome Hollywood type complete with sunton and Clark Gable moustache-the admirni

vely to my Jistened impassively

And I hear it the Ameri- the for his comment UN quest

cans are going to put their men forthcoming!

arrival u! the through a special three months" American base party.. and "orientation" course before they

come to Spain.

whether he looked forward to this new collaboration.

A course

back there and they served, it warn,"

I visited the feel yacht-har- bour un to sugge fun of Ad-

mirai Nunez.

FLASH FORWARD:

Sinall

"ley.

Far cry

go

crew-

Jou! Why do there people stare at us like this? Do they think we're nuts or something? Ain't

But the Americans are going they never seen an automobile

Joc." before? I don't

to find it a very "lar cry from The young girts

girls many of Muin Street, um bicade-conform strictly Perhaps Cartagena will learn. A pleasant spa, to Spanish etiquette. They walk Perhaps the next time I with the rea lapping under

arm-in- back there I will find in twas or threes, or yachta Viswedub n

atin with their mothers. Ac- cuts and blue jeans, I have an bobbing at their incorings.

qualatanetship must be aT- den that they could learn fast. When I arrived the place was ranged, if at all, with the ut

For, when I got out of the full of people drinking aperitif.. But by the time I had finished most punctilio. draer 1, was alone. Everyone PLASH FORWARD; else went home on the stroke of Joo! I've just about wore my 10. It was like the transtorma reif cut trying to date up these ften seene in a pantomime. Labcs. Some of them are pretty

FLASH FORWARD: "Hey, nice

they Icokers--but town gives me the give you the brush-off.

But all the same....Knowing Joe! this "I have alsolutely no feelings America and Americans as I In the matter at all. I hold no opinion. 1. do my duty. I do do, the imper of even a few.

hundred. free-wheeling.

free-

or

what i am told," he observed, spending Americans on a spot

Cadiz like Cartagena (or Ferrol) is going to have roughly The

a minor ⚫same result s

I

Unenthusiastic

tornado.

For Cartagena is fairly far off the beaten track. It is in a

suggested that without harsh and forlorn corner of barren getting on to controversial poli- Spain, surrounded by tical ground, he might like to plains punctuated by lend and

mines,

windmills say something indicating polite zine.

arrival of the worked by sails which are un pleasure at the

furled as for a ship.

U.S. naval forces in Cartagena.

But he maintained a strict lack of enthusiasm. "Do I look forward to co-operation with the Americans? Ah, I have abso- lutely nothing to say.”

I

There was a patise, and the grey-haired wide, seeing that was looking nonplussed, came to the rescue.

and

"Hey.

car

boys

They

to have a a look at the vlow, A Kong of ragged little appeared from nowhere. rushed at me crying in English Very "Americans! Americans! rich. Money please."

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of blank-walled houses,

mass

The submarines and cruisers reitling in the harbour seem to be visitants froin another cen tury.

sun-

"Behold!" he said, making an elaborate gesture as though shine, the white-jacketed marines

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In the elenr Spanish

entry outy on

olcanders

AMERICA COLUMN

from NEWELL ROGERS

Amazons

who stand for

no

The speaker is Judge Julius H. Minder, America's foremost mender of broken marriages.

nonsense about divorce, divorce Next July his model

On 10 mile square Botel low goes into effect in Illinois courts. Then a resident will file Tergo near Formosa, women's but rule

absolute. They decide

will

No

declaration of S. everything.

must wait 60

Meanwhile Judge

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from

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depths they fish or just look at the sights,

AILLIONS of Americans addresssen this month. Reason-leases on flats expire on October 1 and tenanis shift around.

M changed home

During 1953 some 30,000,000

of them will shift to new homes, Why are Americans, so rest- less, especially the young people. between 18 and 34?-They want better Jobs, better homes.

Men move more frequently

than women.

"NTANCY

outside the he were sheathing a sword.

"Suppose we meardered to Captain-General's house march talk to each couple. Sometimes judges. When a woman has had he speaks softly, sometimes he enough of a husband she just then of back and forth against a glow- make such a gesture,

them background of

a tongue-lushing, ays "Olt with you" and away N elves course we must do it. There is

And 75 percent

of them go he goes. no choice pa dur part-orders and bougainvillas.

And as I wandered about the heme to give marriage another

Sone matriarchs bave had 10 are ordara."

town I found my inind guiding try.

or 15 husbands, Another

Then

ffa tas, saved pouse,

bundheds of into a series of "flach farvard

The women get the best fali, ventured to ask if they are

Boulen

Asher- aware that America's is a "dry" to the time when the Ameri-marriager. He had no

rute for happiness. "Mrs Mind- d woe to a bungler of a TRA

The man. If he has no fish he gets lustantly the spell is cans, have arrived.

er and I have our lights," boken. All is animation.

tult one couple. "But we think not even one wife.

1

The grey-haired aldu elaps his

to hands his temples and rocks his head from side to side in mock diamny. Tomato juice! Tomato juice!" he cries, And the admiral, unbending, chimes in ruefully with "Chen- Colat"

Parade

of the children (they have three), so we stick 1. out.

"Soon the arugment is for gotten."

Imports will where all of SCOTCH Cartagena turns out

atepped up five to seven pr. around traditional Spanish parade bo O'Leary says.

This narrow little street, the

Calle Major, is

be

tho VALENTINE,

who honey-haired starlet clalined that she secretly mar- of Cooch ried the Maharajah

taken tho Behar. In 1940, hao vows of a Yogi cloister.

Brown-haired now, the risen at 6 am, in her room at the Self-Reliantion Fellowship. It

a luxurious California -The woman explorer is Mrs is on Carveth Wells, wife of a British estate with bungalows and cloft- born explorer, who lived in the lera. Malayan jungle for six years to. survey a railway route.

T least 15,000 Americans

swdown every evening for the cunt next year, importer Edward A A expect to spend this week-

tables

in

For 45 minutes she prays and meilitates, folns other Yogl devotees in chapel, ests break- fast, and does Yogi exercises.

Nancy says: "I am called a Renunclate. After seven years I shall be a Sister.

"I am very happy."

It turns out at only a couple of weeks ago Cartagena played fore late dinner. No wheeled Shipments have increased by and under water.

They are amateur "frommer" host to some destroyers of the traffic is allowed in it, and the more than 6,000,000 gallons a

They have spent £90 for diving Sixth Fleet. The Spanish blacie-uniformed chocblocks do year since the war. U.S. brow was invited to lunch on a roaring irade among the cafe Washington to Justice lungs equipment which mit Department has begun a fall them to plop down as far as board.

Things started off promisingly FLASH FORWARD: "Hey, scale investigation of the domes 300 foct

Equipmont Includes com with some excellent aperiifs Joel This is the main stem here, e liquor industry.

presed air innk, face mask. but there were served in a club but you can't find a hamburger

houla no place. And WOMAN explorer is off to harpoon apdard or crossbows out at night With the actual meal or a ashore,

-an Island of Oriental Down in the ponceale told him so on one of the destroyer, the say, I asked for a glass of milk

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A detectivo, mys two burglars

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