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SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 1954.

PARADE The Count Bowed

| Japanesć.

GETTING The world will have so unusual any longer. Japanese BIGGER

to revise ita im- are growing bigger every day. pression of the Diet is doing the trick. Thoy are drinking more milk and Last week, the fast-thinking eating more wheat. trade expart of the "itle yellow And that, says Mr Kitabara, men" arrived in Wellington, He is why he is dickering for 1,000 is handsome H. Kitahara and prize Jersey cows from New he stands Oft. 11⁄2 inches in his· Zealand. stockinged feet.

Questioned about his height,

ho replied that it really wasn't MYSTERY

BAC

A British Crossword Puzzle

23 24

26

28

29

30

33

ACROSS

3 Encourage (4).

7 Desire eagerly (5).

8 Musical Instrument (4).

2 Settles up (4).

10 Gives up work (7).

12 Wound mark (4).

18 Mortality (5).

18 Twofold (4).

15 Vacant (5).

21 Crawl (5),

22 Victim (4).

23 Drawingroom (5).

20 Dishgures (4).

20 Controller (7).

30 Spare (4).

31 Cat (4).

32 Donger (5).

33 Disorder (4).

12 13

16

19

20

DOWN

1 Heavenly body (8).

4 Brag (5),

Ah,

HALF A LIFE. By Count Benckendorff. Richards Press, 25s. 319 pages.

'INDAUNTED by an im-

perfect alliance with the English language, Count Benckendorff recalls the first 43 years of his life -as scion of an aristocratic house, at once Russian and cosmopolitan..

the joys of Wherever he went he found being a diplomat well-placed relatives; his father was Russian ambassador in At a check-point on the London, but the German and Dutch-German border, odiolals Austrian ambassadors were also were horrifled when a diplomatic his connections; when the Jap- pouch for Chancellor Adenauer's anese made him a prisoner after office burst open.

the fall of Port Arthur, why, if Out tumbled some of the his first cousin, Count Hatzfeldt, "Important dispatches" from the was not in the German Embassy West German offices in London. in Tokyol They included tea, coffee, cocoa, chocolates and liquor-all things with a heavy import duty,

Ject to checks.

But the West German foreign office is busy investigating.

« änd said

goodbye to the

home of his fathers

NEW BOOKS

Count Benckandorf. from the pectrait by

Anthony Devas..

by GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON

to

con

post times and wish you good picture galleries, sneaking away Revolution came to Russia; speed in God's name.

from Socialist with it, an end of all noble

Congresses Benckendorff, on behalf of his visit the Louvre or the Tato, Ho Customs men could only stand dort Yet, when Bencken- family and himself, thanked was a graphic war-reporter, a called on official business them for the past and wished journalist with an enthusiasın by with

ith their mouths open, to see the Bolshevik Foreign them good luck. Both parties for his craft. From his Siberian Diplomatic pouches are not sub- Commissar In Moscow, the first bowed from the waist. He left prison cell he wrote of his

greeting of that formidable TVm

the home of his fathers.

Budden, sharp longing for the volutionary was "How is Aunt Such was the Red Revolution lovellest thing the world Helena?"

Commissar as seen by a Russian nobleman offer, the smell of the printing

in the Tambov province. About Ink of a fresh_newspaper." noble the same time, 800 miles to the Arrogant, yet with a flaw in

Bolsheviks murdered his east, tho

Balt confidence; ruthless About the Revolution, Benck-

Tsor and his family. Russia rather than brutal, he naively endorff will hardly permit him-

to Bea that when you self to utter a harsh word. Even was vast enough to house many fallod

revolutions at once. Bencken- grasp power you should appear the dreaded Cheka prisons were derif gives, not a steady survey, to have It forced on you. not black as they have been but casual, illuminating glimpses painted.

of one of them.

MAKING Proof that Nature

IT UP

follies

does her best to alleviate Man's Gerraany from

comes

whore statistics show that ever

since the end of the war more boys than girls have been born.

The terrifle German man-

For the Foreign vas Tchicherin, another relation.

no

power losses in the war reduced With one young Cheka agent the German male to a rela-

dis he had the most friendly tively scarce commodity. 50cussion and

So

aminble much so that there were nearly rivalry for the favours of a fas- throw million more women than cinating prima ballerina of the men in 1945. Since that

ת

the

the

the

So, for all his foresight, which PROPHET ARMED: enabled him as early as 1304 THE

to deduce that Lenin's outipok TROTSKY: 1879-1921.

would lead to the Stalinist dic- By Isaac Deutscher, Ox- tatorship, Trotsky WEE out- ford. 30%. 540 pages. manoeuvred by the "marose,

yellowed-eyed" Georgian. dat, Bolshoi Theatre, then convalese THE bumbling old Russia of

In the hour of crisis, the gifts however, male births have been log in a mental home.

The Tears, easily hood- that gave him distinction among outnumbering female births by In the summer of 1818 Benck- winked.. was still more easily the drab paladins of Bolshevism over 14,000 a year. The ratio endorff, whose polities

had stirred up into blind, bearliko

Wit culture, of births to deaths has also always been

cosmopolitanism Liberal, was in- rages. Trotsky Was its most became his enemies. been reversed and now the vited by a Soviet in the Tamboy effective good.

Through the necessary, dreary West German

is population

where province,

family Lev Davidovich Bronstein, son jungle of doctrinal squabbles going up by 250,000 a year. estate was situated, to tum of a tough, well-to-do, ploneer- among exiled Socialists, Deu-

and take up residence in

ing Jewish farmer, acquired in tscher follows Trotsky's life to ancestral mansion. He was pro-

the course of his dedicated life its apotheosis in the succeeding mised two shares of the

con- eleven pseudonyms; only crises of the revolution. The Ascated land and the post of "Trotsky"

has survived to fame, story, as he sees it, is a tragedy People's Justice.

Impatiently enduring im of human pride. On the last He accepted, uneuslly; did prisonment, exile and hardship, page the hero ́stands trturn- everything possible to make he became at lost the second, phunt. himself unobtrusive. One day but most brilliant, leader of the Nemeals lies ahead, an agitator from the central Russian Revolution. He brought government turned up in the to his tasks trict, with two attendant

hags; More important, officialdoma moss meeting was summoned pointed out, was the fact that to which Benckendor W39 they used "unsportsmanlike" | invited. tactics. They caught the fish with garden” forks.

2 Remainder (7).

Rise and fall (4).

NOT SPORTING

Ashing had to whopping £75 Wellington.

Three New Zealanders out for a little spare time cough up a Aino in

6 Bean (4).

9 Chime (4).

Harvests (5).

13 Imitate (4).

14 Beams (4).

10 Bird (5).

17 Drosa (4).

18 Expensive (4).

20 Threatened (7).

22 Scheme (4),

24 Accumulate (5).

29 Send (8).

27 Laly (4).

28 Bung (4).

THURSDAY'S CROSSWORD,--Across: 1 Frocks, 7 Spot, 9 Flair, 10 Essay, 11 Erst, 13 Despondent, 15 Type, 18 Gear, 19 Surrenders, 22 Acts, 24 Heirs, 25 Mould, 20 Torn. 27 Sudden. Down: 2 Roams, Cargo, 4 Steady, 5 Assented, & Toys, 8 Party, 12 Tiers. 13 Dogma, 14 Perusing, 17 Aster, 18 Crista, 20 Nomad, 21 Elude, 22 Char.

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

* YOU COULD HAVE BOUGHT A ROAST OF

BEEF FOR THE PRICE O THAT LILY... ALMOST/"

HOW COME YOU GET CREDIT FOR LAYIN' THESE EGGS PA

WHO, MES

I WOULDN'T

BE CAUGHT DEAD MARCIN' A GAUDY TWING LIKE THAT!

COALING BY CENTRAL PRATURES CORP, THE WORLD RIGHTS SERV

They caught 13 trout "out of season"but that was the lesser of their crimes.

The

Intruder harangued the peasants on the theme of "blood-sucking_alave-owners and of exploiters," whereupon one IMPORTED Officials sorting the local Soviet officials told documents in the him to shut up and, turning SUPPORT

Benckendorf Alexandria palace apologetically. to

of ono of ex-king Farouk's said: alatera recently found invoices "Constantine Alexandrovich, for £800 worth of "falsies."

you see for yourself that you They declined to comment on must leave us for the time the and-or to say which of being. We never had any Farouk's sisters needed so much quarrel with you or your fathers support.

The Easter Parade

“WELL?

...THE APPRAISERS... ESTIMATING THE COST OF EACH OTHERS HATS, FURS AND DRESSES.... AND, INCIDENTALLY, THE KUS- BANDS INCOMES. THE MEN WILL BE CALCULATING HOW TO PAY FOR.THE STOFF.

historical imagination: con- sciously influenced by reading; he waged the Russian revolu- tion with the ald of quotations from the

Eurench;

п

A

outlook; he despised the "Scythian" Blove, while remaining deeply Rus elan in nostalgia;

1+

LIBRARY LIST

Conrad. Dent. 7s. 6d. 289 pares.

Set of Six A

By Joseph

Note for connoisseurs: Latest to join the collected edition, this

contains volume

(with Ανα others) one of Conrad's most glorious feats..

of comic-heroic

"The story-telling,

Duelt period, Napoleon; theme, the leud - long, meaningless a genous for improvisation; between

two gallant officers; a taste for tyranny, an apt length, about 28,000 words. tude for war, Improved by study.

a gift for stinging phrase: the Tsar was

"Ureless that hangman."

Ho was a devoted husband either, and we thank you for and father; loved women கால்

BU KEMP

STARRETT

·NO ONE'LL NOTICE

IT ANYWAY....

IN CHURCH YOU'LL BE

SITTING OA IT AND

YOUR TOP- COAT WILL

HIDE IT...."

THE FIVE-YEAR-OLD BLUE SERGE IN THE EASTER. PARADE WILL. ATTRACT NO MORE ATTENTION THAN A PLEA ON AN ELEPHANT.

THERE'LL BE TRE

FOLKS WHO'LL"- GO TO CHURCH -

ON EASTER NO MATTER HOW

MUCK IT HURTS,

AND THERELL BE A

· LOT OF MUTTERING- BY THE MEN ADOIT

WOMENS" HAT.

MOSTLY

BLASPHEMOUS

ito

Bless This House. By Norah Lofia Michael Jomph. 12s. 6d. 305 pages.

A novel of tender Imagination which pursues through the cene turies the life-story of a house built in the England. of Elizabeth 1, and of the people who cama to dwell in it.

DAKCE

• Lucky Jim. By Kingsley Amis.

Gollance. 12. #d. 256

Rarest of joys, a really funny novel. The anxieties and pre- dicaments of Jim Dixon, his adventures with love and beer at a provincial university, told with enormous gusto.

BARBS

By HAL COCHRAN

There is always one drew- back for the fellow in a budding love affair. The blooming ex- pense.

A native of India has a mustacho 64 Inches long. Wo hope he enjoys his soup,

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Most people liko silverware that matches, but it gets, mono- tonous going to the same restzu- rant all the time.

•

A writer contends that most girls haven't Day - particular view on kissing. Is that, be cause they don't keep thair суса ореп

·

Having grown daughters 'Is what makes a lot of fatheri slaves to fashion,

•

The only trouble with a saro thing is the uncertainty.

Vaca

You'd be surprised at how many people got two tions their own and while the boss is away

Mixing drinks doen't bring as much trouble as mixing drunks.

Some teen-agers nood a good balt before they learn to buckle down.

.

Many people profes cheaber alarm clocks. There's 'chance they <won't ring,

IF YOU BUY HER COME BULBS 1URS KASTE BLOOMING OBESE WOLL GET BLAREDI THEY DON'T. BLOGSOK, TE TIMG. (AND TIKY MORT

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