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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, MAY 31, 1954.

AROUND THE PARIS BOULEVARDS WITH STEPHEN COULTER

GAMBLING IS ON

AND UP-IT'S A

Paris.

1

THE UP BOOM!

Paris clergy to drop their experiment of minding picsta out 05 workers in factories and as slum dwellers with the poorest.

PA mannequin," sold she, "must have the sort of Agure that every customer dreams

celebrated Bouglione has trappers work- Schlaparelli, THE click of the roulette ing for him in three continente, dress designer,

bourd, the cries of They send most of their cap- home by nie-including croupiers, echo louder Buros

fewer cilm in France. The rustle of elephants-because lottery tickets is like a high away and food costs less, wind through poplars. Oh, to win a million is the dream of more and more French people. Bere we are in the midst of

M 18-carat gambling boom!

Lates returns show that gamblers re losing the equivalent of nearly £500,000

a month all the year round

Seventy odd priests have re- her own. Her finest attribute fused to give up this new must be her bust. Shoulder ersade. The Vatican ใส don't count--they can be shaped adamant, and has turned down at will. But a good bust 25

The whole dress appeals by French cardinals. A irreplaceable.

tune mit set by the Vatican is depends on It." Het

thortly to expire.

Boglione anys prices aro To help running high this year. one importer, M. Robert Henr beast hire has started a wild puu chuse scheme. I You

red of having a crocodile ur vulture about the house you rak Jack It kes and relien 11. Hat miranime 301) would in the Bobably have got rid of your

PRIESTS v. VATICAN

Will the worker priests obey or defy the Holy Sce? They

holding secret The French Catholic Church are

meetings ferment is in its rentest

for almost daily. The whole pain- years. Already there has been ful dispute could produce the A nice piece of desluclive in outlery <t the way the worst Catholic schlain of

French modern times,

inether-in-law.

on the green bize tables of thinking comes from Mine Else Valen

the casinos f France

Counting winners

19

money-back punters, total of stakes thrown down much more.

one Casino outside i Paris, gamblers emptied | their pockets of £855,000 in 12 months. In Cannes they parted with £862,000; in Nice £884,000,

The

State National Lottery İN paying £21,500,000 every week in) winnings, which means that the French spend the colossal sum of £35,800,000 a week buying lottery tickets. Who said "Chatico" hasn't a solid gold lining?

has urthered

-HOW'S WINSTON WEATHERING THE CARES OF STATE?

M GLADSTONE

"My dear fellow you do look tired! tlave few weckn

away and I'll look after your

Ministry for you,' London Express Service

Beverley Baxter tells the remarkable story of Douglas Bader

"I'm ambitious-I tell you ! want to make a big political carcer for myself"

LEGLESS, HE STILL TRIED TO ESCAPE

p.

-

and retreat and they told him Beaverbrook had become

so in blunt language.

the

Was

Minister of Aircraft Production "Go und, although my part

sinal indeed, I had become vutits. Controller of Aircraft Fuctory will be Co-operation. Suffice 10 take it that my job was to keep

"No stamina I Why, after the early age of 82 he govor became Prime Minister again.”

TEN YEAR PLAN

"Perhaps I'll retire when I've completed this plan and then to write some really bin memoirs."

- What really worries me is if the Deputy Prime Minister retires before I do."

MAZ East Berlin's

HE machine was a

ug School at

Wittering. He +|||||||||||++++ lun! AVRO and #

few every day and was full of

NOTE: This is the second confidence in fact he was 50

"I'm sorry." said Bacher. pilot friend of his

pleased with his

in and progres

final portion of the to the tailors in Norwich named Ross was If everything that he invited

story of Group Captain morrow and order now the other cockpit. "Shall I volunteer RA.F. waltrees

guarantee the bills start

her

Douglas (named Thelmug who had been Douglas Bader of the R.A.F.

paid! Now relax and JOKE OF THE WEEK asked Ross. Bader shook his at his old headquarters to come

thead. "No." he answered. The French Ministry of "Just turn on your switches War's current offeinl list of and leave everything to me, military equipment contains ll do it," one page headed "obsolete

nwkwardly

say the

A# a result of a flying easy. Tell me about the night- factorles working seven days

to

him of

and seven nights a week with

respite

rest or

for tho

afr

to London for dinner and accident before tho Hitlor ing." dance. She came and they d

He was discovering the art of no his two **** war

legs ware

Fis if they must have dance even

leadership.

praise was workers. He was

love amputated one above the swift, his blume was harsh, but looked oil. with life again anel now he was knee and the other just above all he inspired a sense of 16 hove with a girl.

As soon us below it.

10 Efficiency He has to face dedication.

they truc The machine was in the he was an R.A P. pilot ngat be

expression the futuro

3 cripple,

night Day after day, items." It is divided into twoj air. Bader booked down

If a plot faltered would propere at

patriotism. The CO. clared his throat learning how to walk on or mude a mistake he was let night At Inst the ILA.F. could neat coluni, On the left, the familiar seen and fell

The instructors at artificial limbs

and defend the coast no longer. The bat

Squadron re- ting down the "in stock." On the right, a happiness greater than he the Central Fiving School all

were Sometimes his Squadrons

brought back the country. Use a stick "being

manufactured!" had över known before. He say thấy you fly pretty

well, fusing

tongue was cruel but suddenly from the coast to the London Obsolete?

oakl Bv! He could fly! he said, "but unfortunately we

||||||||||| he would be gentle, human and area and the doomed Germans, understanding. The Bader legend knowing nothing of this, made a Despite the fates he was not can't pass you it for Bytog be-

cause there's nothing in King's dun for a job in the tropics was taking form.

day!!ght nitack upon the To be earthbesarul....

The slaughter was Regulations which covers your but he explained that his lega He was lucky in his Adjutant, Metropolis.

When the fight ended ease."

would bar him from that. An an over-age British M.P., Peter terrific.

in the Luftwaffe was finished. The born company selling spirit MacDonald who was

anci

to Battle of Britain was over, migroted Kovernment Canada but had

about was uffered to teach him the job and England. Peler, now Sir Peter. Battle of Germany pay him £200 a year while he has been a personal friend of to begin.

ot in century. Mad with joy Bader led his

ANIMAL WORLD

to

"must have a medical

Talking

Firmin board." he said to his host Bouglione on the subject of that night. "I was hoping word animals the other day, that you might send

to them that I actually hason tigers for learned

flown again. It's simple. It's be. circuses and zoos are

nothing." rare. coming increasingly "Anybody can get hold of a lion or a zebra-Afrien is full of them." he said. "But take entebing. tigers Besides, they are fragile."

+

Aviation

airlines

'Miracle Mile'

By

Norman Lindhurst

Bonn,

Ein Berlin tre huge sporting e

The Allee.

AST Berlin looks drab,

until you hit Stalin

across

I tried to photograph Stalle from behind, wishing to catchi street in the background, But the police stopped me.

the

you send are there to be tested dinner, proposed to her and was man of

moment he Adjutant he was to bring wise been a normal man, but his legs backwardness in their sector Alec.

*

his

give

PROPAGANDA

"Make all the pictures you or sido.!! This broad Avenue used wish from the front jearned. hood Badenta

turned cold.

mine for a

quely

roar, please. That is prohibited," There was one thing beyond le 15

casual, Squadron over Cerimony again to be Frankfurter Allee, they said. "But nane from the This Wag

death il

senieace!

His market value wns

and

oddly and again and then he was shot, But the East German Com- gentle

Red and white discipline anjele be doubt. Boling

propaganda He would have In his own way he is a down.

been munist regime, unable to He took Thelma out to curiously

banners festoon the solidly" The next day he left Sasso's shouted Then why the hell did 200!

man of the world and as Bader's pinned down and died if he had cope with the misery and capitalistic facades of Stalin house to at his forme stand where cricket match was to

the "I'm sorry," said

older accepted. At that

a second-hand car and judgment to owned

the

unbridled broke away from him and he seltoet nara.

were so keen t

of Berlin, needed a pro- he played between the

had £2 in the bank.

genlus of his young Commanding was able to crawl out. ajut the old dogs

Baler bat have

I'm terribly a shot at it.

the most fortunate de Oficer. 11 Win

The Germans knew about himpaganda gimmick. So they 1 t {w!Tk*

but felt terry.

cision of his life. Gentle, wise,

and treated him chivalrously at bought made-in-Moscow awkward and ill at vare You Bader understood. They hust

first. They sent word by neutra Stalin Allee.

The boulevard resounds to 118mos cad was pudly been rertain that he would fail selfless and understanding, this

agencies that if the R.A.F. would

the blare of music and pro- Buglione, one of the luggest) cheered But the game had lost the test. That Ix why they girl was to bring pence to

She was to be turbulent soul,

Bader had the gift of leader- send a pair of artificial legs for

would They never intended twilight, dusk and moonlight in wild

For a stretch of about a mile paganda pep talks from loud- In its favour because he AUTOPAR

Fanci to sent hat.

lached human ship but

ex him the Luftwaffe

on old Frankfurter Allee, the speakers hooked to every lamp- Europe,

20 have someone run for him and him to y agula. truining

The the lite of a man who loved

With MacDonald at the plane a safe passage, perlence. Civvy Street! What 20 lt not del Indo-Chinesar

anzei Tigers

R.A.F. He

procured another pair of German Reds have put together post: at the air that he would make his less pirinen in peace time? A nerec gales and the glare of the his elbow he learned a lot. ।+જ્ panthers 1

And

"Boost 10

come found that his Squadron was legs but did not trust the Luft- a glittering oasis in the midst

work norms...Defeat Thew lifes

in of the rubble pllo that is East

of Pavilions Sous trois, l'arts.

the the European Army prose of mere Incessantly against his temples. year for any paragraphs about earthly things she contrived in also

not properly equipped and he walle. In a furious

German planes Berin.

warmongers...Fight for German also found that his request for which cleven The medical examination was Tamous people he act inct.

legs no were shot down, Budler's

unification...* some mysterious way

essential supplies brought Asurprisingly lavourable and be Unilevers offered him £200 a

Stalin Allee is a show street, Whereupon he look were dropped and duly deliver- was posted to the Central Fly- year white he trained in Lon some money out of their meagre results.

ed to earnings.

him whereupon he something to hearten and spur

There are some 7,000 persons but escaped

was on the wavering party

rank living in Hitler marches Into Poland! Deculiarly Baderish decision.

Stalin Allee's 2,808 He sent

a message to head- promptly

and file. It is meant to impress flats of two to four rooms. This The British Parliament is

quarters

ters saying: "I have ground caught. War in

of summoned!

clite

population consiste Now our story nars its cluse, outsiders as an astonishing feat ed my flight because they

In

Bader prison camp matter only of hours!

and not equipped for combat." "We are putting you on

Who Insolence!

an hour's Such

was gave the Germans

escapes, indispensable list, Beder's this upstart who dared to send peace. He employers, "so

1.

BOW

"A tret 18 worth between £500 and £1.000 tamed. Han fetches only £300."

now

I was in

price n

Those words pended newspaper offered him 1200 town "y

aspect o Colo

vepared

sun.

to the

to save

J'ou won't

แ

ontr

be

called up, couldn't do it. you fly."

At any rate

They'll never let

але

organised

declared

battle

that

never of "Socialist reconstruction." faithful party hacks

The Red "miracle mile" is "activists." the Commandant, lined with almost solid blocks of

Consumer goods are scarce in such a message to the moguls at mocked

But most of the Air Marshal bullied the Sergeants, threatened eight-storey apartment buildings. East Berlin. You headquarters?

the heroic reprisals,

he Or. the street level are smart akimpy supply of luxury goods "Stuffy" Dowding, head of the Air Force the would report the Commandant shops, selling everything from goes to Stalin. Alles. If you can't get it on Stalin Alles, "Take my name off the list," Battle of Britain, sent for him. to the Allies and inspired his television sets to fish. aid Bader. "I'm going to have ader was unrepentant. Worse comrades. "We are at war with

than that, he was deflant. Dow- these Germans,"

a try."

to

in

STARTLING

Horsecarts ellp-clop the asphalt boulevard past tho few luxury shops. There are motor cars to be seen, con- sidering that Stalin Alice

down

is

side

he said, "und

Stalin Alice is a boulevard East Berlin stores don't have it, contracts. Driving Close observers will notles sent letters and messages ding read him n lecture and we must make their lives un-ot weird

flam- Stalin Allee's But in the end he there, you pass through streets cracks in to everyone he knew in the then followed it up with auch bearable." Royal Air Fores. Some of the torrent of supplies that Bader was fair enough to say: "Some lined with rubble piles and boyant facade of prosperity and

decent shells of bomb-blasted buildings, well-being. messages were ingratiating, some hardly knew what to do with of these Germans were

fellows. And actually one or Suddenly you round a bend in downright rude. At last he got them.

had a sense of the street two of them a telegram ordering him

But still there was no

war: humour." report.

"The Battle of France,"

said ended. The Churchill, "has Battle

of Britain will shortly Bader agreed com- At the other side of the table begin."

Up ahead like an apparition, the fanciest street in Bast sat his old Commandant

the pletely.

At last came peace and Boder coms a massive skyscraper pile Berlin,, and the wide the In

meantime ho was returned home. Cudet School

Cranwell. al

He was given of stone and concrete. The walks are all but deserted.. "What do you want, Douglas?" studying and perfecting the art

a first rate appointment by the effect is starting and, of course, Bader smiled and then his jawy of leadership. He himself never Shell Oil Company and pro-it was meant to be

The state owned shops have (or drinks) alcohol in

lots of sales people, but not stiffened, Passionately he plead drank ed for the chance to fly. any form. But when his pilote Codext to fly himself around the

Then you drive down a broad very many customers; and tho the went to the pub in the town at world, using the acroplane like

a bicycle

For comfort he had boulevard, The Innes 111 do my best," said

are items you see in the show- older

nights he joined them. As long his lovely wife, for companion-separated by a wide grass cases you may not be able to Ider man.

a thousand good A few weeks later he had as they did not drink so much ship a

friends planted traffle islands On either buy inside the shop. unfit for passed all his tests and became that they would be

understanding his dog and side 100m the great, blocks at no for recreation golf and dancing, huddings. They

IRONY have, fancy a Spitfire pilot. But the phoney service next day he took

It might have ended there but fienden, with wide terraces and war was on and there was peace exception. He was determined on earth even if peaco slept that when the fight came as it

an Australian novelist its must he would not only be to write Bader's life story.

The balconies.

Towards the north-end, of officer but author, Paul Brickhül, himself

Stalini Allee is a huge bill- their commanding

In reality the structures are board sign. It is a propaganda. an airman, who was also

shot job.lona commend his book "Reach For

with pillow.

sword beneath

A new Hurricane Squadron their friend.

formed and Bader

wid

-was

given the command. They are

a strange lot of chapa" ho was

told. "Most of the ground crew Then one

morning. como

for

decided

down, has done a brilliant cimply brick. But they look like sign showing West Berlin under

bobsug the brick is

But the

The Sky" not only for the store direly Biton by the ima pall of darkness.

workers taku happy

their: a but the manner in which it is pesive facades of a tile-like sun is shining in East Berlin as

slona.

families on a' state-paid vaca- Aro English, so are three or messige from headquarters that told.

tion. four of the pilots, but the rest a German pione had been The other night I joined Sir In the second block is a small VIL Aro wild Canadians. And if sighted and would Bador's Pete: MacDonald for dinner at park. Close to the sidewalk la A. dog belonging to the there's one thing that Canadians Squadron go up? There was the House of Commons. His other a status of the deal dictator: happy son of one of the happy are allergic too, It's commanding heavy mist and rain. It was guests were Douglas Bader and in real life, Jomph Stalin stood workers. inger on the West to risk a his wife. For the first time in ponsething like five feet, six Berlin soctor boundary to rew officers."

stupidly recklows That night one of his pilots squadron under such conditions our requaintanceship Bader seem-ches. But he does much better love himself in the direction

to ed comparatively subdued. The in stone, towering in herole of West said to his pal: "Have you seen and Bader sent a message

book had sold 120,000 coples in proportions over this avenue.

German Chancellor our new C.0.7. 10 hasn't any that effect.

Konrad Adenauer and a group The Reds thoughtfully have of Nazi generals. going to make a provided a wreath of artificial Adenauer and' the' -'gerieräis? of it

with the brilliant flowers for the base of Stalin's just stare glumly, at the happy may say young Bhakespearlan actor in ue. You can pass on a workers.

We won't sce much of The equadron was one thing, the first him."

But what about himself? Ha deoply There was a lot wrong with went into the air in his Hur-

Halil Brand he was

the kundron, including too ricane, found the Clerman and film

much individualism. Nor were hot hím đmaniication. I Richard Burton as the star; "I'm freeding · day, but Stalin's 16 there are" happy"" "workers,

the pilots particularly piensoči at that. It was having a CO. whose only claim do not rule that out altogether training Burton how to work as dowers look as fresh and cheer-

For the

to fame was that he had broken but more likely it was his if he had no legs," said Bader, as the banign ungure in in Berlin, however,

realisation that he could not risk "I's dashed hard work but he's stone, h

'not, on, Blalin. Alleo, his lega in an accident.

Bader barked at them and his Squadron for a single kill. getting better at it. What about

supreme irony of sialo Alts said that they were cutty So came the Battle of Britain another game of golf, sir?? Just so no one, will not rundy. In that harm itärtsd:16. looking lot. That was a mine in which the fate of civilisation Confound the fellow. But I ideas, Btality & Falakid is guarded. 17-anti-Rad riots while

and night by twp@pollow- Ikone wildfire, through take. They had lost nearly all rested upon the Brillah: Ale must say, this time he had the 35 their kit in the Dunkirk Little Forom A Caračima), named,thos to RTVSAN