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# THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 1955.
THE GREAT INVASION
BY STATESMEN
New York, Tuesday. EW
YORK
and
Washington have never known such "scurrying around by diplo
mats, such a prolonged, de- tailed talk marathon among” statesmen, for a decade. The police department here even admits to being nervous.
men
Squads of detectives, Secret Service
and motor-cycle escorts have been assigned to the Foreign Ministers of the
DON
DIARY
Big Four and to Chancellor settlement of the
Konrad Adenauer.
Mr Stephen Kennedy, Chief Inspector of New York's police department, says: "We will do everything to ensure the safely and convenience of the visiting statesmen..
There will be ade quate detective details who will visitors about the accompany
certainly free of strikes. The
strives here guaranteeing three
or
They are alive to all the angles theatres have been crowded,
because of public relations.
mainly
the wel weather. It has been more like November than June during the past few days.
The other evening there was the Western Hemisphere semi- final contest for Miss Speedbird.
Forest
Hundreds of people turned up at Paul has mag- the Seminole Hills, and
Commander vist nificent comeback and has been Whitehead the bearded English- voted Mr season man who is known es Mr
star the Mun! Schweppes and has by far the wind."
best-krown English face in the United States, Danton Walker, the New York Daily News columnist, and myself were the judges.
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Unanimous
the best actor of the by drama critics here. in Inherit tire
Alce Templeton, the blind British pianist is starting in a weekly television series here which demonstrates his gift for, musical sathe.
Betty Hutton, back from Aus tralia,
the says: "It's
mast motor-car "UR decision was unanimous fabulous place and the people the winner: Miss Jean are so out-going "and so sweet years of labour peace is making Forkin, of Chiengo, who is now that there are no hotels at all Americans wonder when in London ready to compete in Syndey. There's no exchange Britain's crippling railway tie-up the final.
of money there yet, but when is going to end.
some American money moves in and invests hotels things will hum.
I found in Canada as well as here very blunt criticism of the railway walk-out. We have
is
Rebert Montgomery says President Eisenhower Tund
I was surprised that more English girls did not compete in the Miss Speedbird confest.
done ourselves no good in the frank in ascribing his enormous
Commander Whitehead
against the nation.
advertising man David Ogilvy, radio and TV werk and do a whole-time job in the White the president of Ogilvy Benson House as Eisenhower's advisor. and Mather, a New York agency formed six years ago.
the city and stand guard when U.S. and Canada by this strike fame here to the young British in he will give up all his
they pause."
"Adequate"
means about 12
cops to each politician.
A visit to London next month by President Eisenhower seems more and more likely.
› Criticism
amacag Presi- LONDON is among the art he has told friends he would like "to stop over briefly to confer with Sir Anthong Eden and Premier Edger Faure before the Geneva contorence with Marshal Bulganin.
If
Trans-Canada Air Lines are not too pleased with my com- ments in last week's Diary com- plaining about the lack of per- sonal showmanship between company and passenger.
U.S. advertising experts call Oelvy a genius. Certainly he has taught the Americans, who The-Montreal office tells me are the great experts in adver- 'that frequently the picts of tising and publicity, many les-
Lack to touch t
sons. He has added the Oglivy their planes
subtlety and skill to over the loudspeth compassengers
one of the most competitive American airlines. is done on
professions in the world. showmanship and similar be used on the Viscount soon.
will
He used to be Second Secretary at the British Embassy in Wash- ington. Now he is one of the res. masters of Madison Avenue and I expect him to make a million for himself he has already made several millions for others.
My life lately seems to be bound up with aeroplanes. BOAC are putting on a tre- goes to menicus publicity drive her the President London he will make a major and challenging and in some speech, which will be televised instances surpassing, the Ameri- and broadcast, stating the cans at the business of selling American case and clearing up themselves and their line. misunderstandings which have
·BOAC дге doing peak
Crowded
hampered the Western Alliance business and have done a great ALTHOUGH
prestige here. season The President will leave be- deal for British hind him
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From Newell Rogers
New York, party of English colonists land-
ed. One was Wdark room and JAVE your hand in
from Stratford on-Avon,
IN THE
A BABY
THE
Another famous author tells a tale Is it FACT or
to keep you guessing.
FICTION? Find the answer tomorrow
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INDECENT, I CALL IT
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DARK
BOUDREAMIN
CRIED
Drawing
by
4
KOOLMAN
HE attack went off When the men had finish-
much
easier than eddigging themselves in, I unyone had dared decided to go and have to expect, because look around the farmhouse the main body of the Ger- to see what I could find. If mans had withdrawn during was mainly food that I was. the night. They had left & after, for we had not eaten rearguard a spandau post well during the past weeks. -in the olive grove, but
their
the abandoned men had readily thrown up arms, and when we reached
Ransacked
the farmhouse we found The ground floor had been ransacked. The the place completely de- completely
cupboards were empty,
and serted. Or so it seemed. the furniture was all down and- America's new table lamps N English
covered
with cigarette burns. Tooked There were the remains it
03 though the light up. Another wave and Aatties, tall, greying
used the irs of last night's meal on the Germans must have they go cut. It is done Nancy Sweet-Escott, has
billet for quite with an electronic beam. tained her U.S. licence to own kitchen table: a half-empty place as On the wall above
long time, Price $27 and up.
BROADWAY showman
rence Langner hopes that the new Shakespeare centre at Stratford, on the Housatonic in Connecticut, will improve the English of young actors. Andİ that they in turn will go on TV example and set an
in
pronun clation for the children.
and train
widow in her
steeplechase horses tin of sardines,
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3 Las casino
a bowl of the freplace there was a very
was
a
On the Arst floor there, were
She is training Counterfeit and sauerkraut, some beans in fatherly-looking portrait Canterbury for entry in the
Hitler, srd Law United ants at Belmont race oil, and a bottle of cognac shed at the back of the house in the lavatory- track in the autumn. At $50,- Sergeant Stevenson
someone had stuck a picture of America's 000, it is
richest very pleased at finding the Mussolini, with moustache 'chase.
bottle. He picked it off the and spectacles drawn in with table and took a long pull red pencil. Y USING dry ice BY
at it; but a moment later he Vegas gambling produced "a London fog" on its was being sick in the yard three bedrooms. One of the beds stage. It was part of an act because some funny. Ger- had been rather clumsily booby-
trapped; so, after this, "called "So This is London." man had filled it up with careful enough about opening Langner is a director of the centre, which inculdes an
The fog had vanished by the something which certainly doors and walk- ing on loose academy for actors under John
steps. Burrell, former boss of the Old-time Noel Coward came on to was not cognac. Vic in London. Its new $300,- sing to the gamblers such time- "Mad Dogs 000 Globe Theatre is ready, and honoured hits as its first season opens on July 12 and Englishmen." with "Julius Caesar."
I was
I heard an unexpected" ́naita ... toma- where in that stable a child was crying.
Digging in
The walls of the third bed- room wero plastered
By.
with
The celebrity-studded
Hollywood's The Globe stands on the audience,
Judy
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Garland among then, "received him with thunderous applause. artillery would start pelting tures of cabaret girls in various The critics hail Noel as "a the farmhouse as 'soon as conditions of and stunning success.”
they saw that the spandau dishabille, and post had been overrun, so the occupant of we got the men spread out the
cut them out in a vineyard below the and pasted them skyline and started them together in curious posi. digging themselves in.
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It is his first appearance in a U.S. night club, and he is paid $40,000 a week for two shows a night for four weeks.
room had
THED INDIAN chief Chester
Diabo, secretary of the The mosquitoes never let From the bed. North American Indian Brother-up for a moment -- they rooms I went up hood, says: "We are sick of were so fat and complacent to the loft. On TV's Indians."
that they never even tried the floor
were TOWS
there of
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STANLEY
1150REMEASUREN MEDITERRA
MOSS
JN I Met by Moonlight, Williams Stanley Mass told the thrilling story of how he captured
• German generot Crate. In War of Shadows he described bis fater adventures as o parachutist. secret agent in Crete, Greece and Stam. This is the veteran who came home from Latvia, to join the Coldstream Guards when war broke out and
was a major at 22.
At 33, be firms with his vila-Polish Countess: Zesia Tarnowska-on a form in Ireland. They
**** have two children.
cor- pens, nor even any harness equipment on the walls.
a
were two
casks
The sergeant was a family man, and I reckoned he would be able to handle this situation a good deal more competently
than 1. But, before I had time
DID IT HAPPEN?
child was still cring in the hay-box, and te foai was feeding yet instinctively trying to struggle to its feet, and the girl continued to coax it in whisper.
Very quietly
A
left the stable very quietly, just, as I had entered, then stood for a while in the yard wondering what to do The
Germans,
taken
supposed.
had
husband.
her away together with the mare which.. had borne the foal and the rest of the farm's cattle and provisions, OT perhaps, thought, there
A
was Mo •hitsm
bard, but a German or 1/201 Italian soldier. And that man;
whoever he was, might be dead.
I had no wish to satisfy my curiosity, because wanted to remember the scene just as I had left it, without explai
tions or complications. I
of all the rotten things that had been happening just recently all the death and misery, and then I thought of the girl feed- ing that faal in the stable, and I told myself that I had never seen anything quite so good or so strangely beautiful in all my ILE.
Presently I decided what to do, so I crossed a bean-patch, and went down to the vineyard where the men were now sitting in their slit-trenches eating a bully hash.
Sergeant Stevenson!"
called. "I'd like to have word with you."
In the stables
I
The sergeant had been lying
someone gun.
to decide what to do, I beard on his belly, sighting a Bren another noise, like
He scrambled to his feet, breathing heavily. It came from brushed down his battle-dress, the end of the stable farthest and came over to join me,
away from where I had found
the baby, and whereas the first "There's a little business Ta sound
had been disarmingly like you to cope with," I told identidable, this one was some him. "It's in the stables." how greedy, almost menicing.
s?" he
"Mopping up, Taking my pistol from its asked. "Shall 1 fake some men holster, I advanced
with me?" on tip-toe, and I was very glad that the baby kept on crying because it pointed when I told him na it
He looked a Little disip comed
the crackling noise
which my boots were. making
In the straw.
would not be necessary to take
"It's
t guessed that any men with him. whoever was doing the heavy job for a family man," I said,
breathing had not heard me
He eyed me dublously, smiled,
entering the stable, and I felt I would give them quite a sur-then picked up his tommy-gun or prise when I reached the corner and went off towards the tarm
of that last pen,
buildings, without asking any further questions.
the
"They stand around, arms to move out of the way lemons, all neat folded, looking sour, unable to when you swatted them-ly spaced along crack the warpaint with a smile and the black earth was the boards, and
"Real Indians are happy, sodden after three days and per there
as nights of constant drizzle. of olive oil, a bulie of peppers, " I opened the door very care- They laugh. It riles me
But it was t, who got a few bunches of dried fully, because I thought it might surprise.
I never saw the girl again, much as when someone calls my But, at least, digging was and
but heard that she had been from the have been booby-trapped; but wife 's squaw."
easy, and we were already corn-cobe hanging
taken back'. to ›:"B" before I had ever put a foot I speaked around the corner Echelon with her child. And "We are proud to be Indians in position by the time the ceiling. That was all but we want to be known for bombardment started. Down in the yard again, I saw cross the threshold. I heard a with the pistol raised and later that afternoon I noticed very unexpected noise. Some whole lot of challenging phrases Sergeant Stevenson speaking what we are, not something, dut
that there were two outhouses, where in that stable a child was ready on my lips and suddenly some time of canned air out
1 One looked like a barn,
the crying
I saw the girl sitting there with of the platoon truck and dis a new-born foal in the straw. other a stable. I tried the barn
of a comic book"
weather
Very angry
;
1
She had pulled down the draws appearing with them into the first. There was nothing in it. Once inside, I stood still a from one of her shoulders, and stables. FTER months of investiga- A tion the U.S. Weather Bureau has announced its failure One of the shells-landed save a heap of straw which had moment wondering where the the doal, its neck thrust for WORLD COPYRIGHT RESERVED
been padded down in a corner sound was coming from and ward to find any evidence that atomic right in the farmyard, and to make someone a bed.
then I traced, it to a hay-box from her breast.
was feeding hungrily bomb explosions affect the all the little birds they
quite close
lose to where I was
DID IT REALLY HAPPEN? looked like sparrows, but
Once upon a time there had standing. It was a very small
She had not seen me,st been a chimney in the building, three weeks old, and someone seemed for she
Child, perhaps no more than
was facing Slight effects within a few weren't which had been but now there was only a hole had wapped a towel around if away from where I stood; and Efects sheltering in the purple in the roof where it had fallen and put it in a tangerine-box 331 watched, she continued to
bougainvillea, came flutter in, and the floor was strewn
with
bricks, plaster, ing out, very noisily and
and twigs Song the hay. from the Jackdaws nest which JATMAKER Harry Ley ex- angry. But most of the must have come down with the The hard way.
pressed pained astonishment shells went over the crest of pot. There was nothing else in on learning at a Congressional the hill and must have land- the barn, so I crossed the yard hearing that he got $5,089 more
miles of the blast, yes, far away, no,
HATM
one, hand, "Horner,
feed the foal, holding upita head with ing forelegs down with the and coaxing it in whispered With long black haie wing down her back, she sat dalling
there shivering in the chill of
frightened of small children-covered, skin was blue-white- lasted for half an hour, then meshed window, I guessed from, albeit I have since, learned the colour of a duck's egz Buddenly it stopped, and all what I saw that the building better, the hard way and when ap
Suddenly, I found myself the little binds came chir had been a thoroughly looted I saw this one I delt like calling
so the rest of the form. There for Sergeant Stevesson to come feeling quite helpless, ruping back to the creeper appeared to be no cattle, in the and beg.
naither what to say
for making military cars than ed a long way behind the to the stables.
ed a long way bombardment. Looking to through a wire I had always been very early morning, and her un-
he ought
So Senator John McClellan whipped out a cheque made out to the U.S. Treasy for $5,089,
Lev algnod 1.
mowing do. The
YES
NO
Put your tick In the spAGO above and keep the panel until tomorrow when the answer will be given to- gether with another story by LOUIS GOLDING
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