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THE VOICE FROM BEYOND

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My No. 2 and I had taken off from an aircraft carrier to try out a new sight. We each carried practice bombs and the idea was to make alternate dives on un aluminium flare which I had dropped as target.

On reaching our height, I waved No. 2 away to await his turn, eased the stick forward and put her into

an almost vertical dive.

was

Down-down--down-at 500 I pressed the release, pulled up into a steep climbing tum, and looking over my shoulder saw a white puff of smoke in the middle of the flare. A bull's eye. Money for old rope. I glanced up and there No. 2 heeling over into his dive. There he went screaming down and heading straight for the tar- now, Don't leave it too late 100-200-Look out" Crash!

As I circled over the spot, a wheel and a few bits of wreck age

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DID IT HAPPEN?

defect due to the unusually steep spring dive.

were

ranean.

There he went - screaming down and heading straight for

CRASH! the target

could help, that I couldn't very

well refuse."

Shorty

Did this tale really happen? Is It FACT or FICTION? All the stories in this series could be true-but can YOU pick out the truth ? Answer to this story will be published tomorrow.

look

"I tried desperately to

Even then I thought little of like someono who had never it. It was only a small plate, allow for seen an aeroplane in his life, just big enough to but it was no good.

Mother minor adjustments without re- was already pointing to me and moving the whole cowling, but nodding.

. stronger locking device obviously required. Just one of the inevitable teething troubles one expects in any new type of aircraft.

"The medium seemed to sense what was going on in splie of her closed eyes. 'Would you like to ask a question?'

"At that

was

At the same time, regulations that all aircraft must

I would moment have given anything to be able decreed

10

Winky

up

some innocuous

for

question calling 40 easy non-committal but the

pught which had been up-

permost in our minds seemed out blot to everything else."

What went wrong?

wriggled uncomfort- ably in his chair. "I won cruise to the Mediter- strange sort of set-up," he went on "Mostly old Indies except girl, For the second time in their A few days later there was a for one rather attractive

door and there who turned out to be the my service all aircraft of that par- knock at

medium.

a while After a

they grounded stood Shorty nervously twid- dimmed the lights and she went ticular type

No. 2, lling his cap, "Could he speak off into a trance. Everyone else while I and my new

leaned forward expectantly, but long pauso dur- "Shorty" made exhaustive tests to me in private?"

I sat back in my corner trying ing which the hard not

to appear sceptical, girl swayed to and at the same time longing tu and get the whole thing over and started to done with.

to try to find out what had gone Belag so soon after the leave

period I naturally

suspected woman trouble, but far from it "It's about the crust,"

wrong.

But we could prove nothing, and again we out our Again

dives, nireraft through similar but they took it as good as gold without a sign of any structural

fine art.

He didn't seem to want to go on, but after I'd settled him in a chair and given him a cigar ette, he took a big gulp and out it came.

A trance

"died

wenkness.

Eventually the powers that be

possible came to the only conclusion, "human error," and the no-fying ban was removed. Months went by during which we developed dive-bombing to a

"My father," he said, No further incidents.

the same years ago and since then And yet, in spite of all evidence, nothing could persuade my mother has become a terribly me that No. 2 had had a black- keen spiritualist, and is always

CITOT of trying to get in touch. out or had made an

that work she persuaded me to go to Judgment-he just wasn't

a seance. I didn't want to a bit. sort.

dis- I don't understand those sort of We finished the cruise, embarked for a short leave, then things, but she was so keen on

the lden and so certain that mechanical flew back

I flew back to the

aircraft one of the carrier and made worst deck-landings on record.

That night, as I tossed and turned in my bunk, I sill couldn't believe it was true. Not only was No. 2 a great personal friend but 2 Arst-class pilot with hs cool a brain as you could find in the Fleet Air Arm. The very thought of his having misjudged

height his absurd, there could only be one solution

some

Was

ΟΠ

board

for the

Last

There was a

shake.

fro .and

very and

"It was a bit hot and I think "He's i must have dozed off. Anyhow,

suddenly felt mother digging it's very dim-

at me.

TICW

ap-

by.

Anthony

Kimmins

KEMMINS

CAPTAIN ANTHONY

'spent both world wars in the Navy and tinished off the last as Chief of Haret Information in the Pocific. between, he wrote Whlie Parents Sleep and other mleys, mad he has daca produced and directed such films es Mine Qwa Executioner and The Captain's Paradiso. Fifty rour this year, he has a wife and heo children and lives in Kensington. He was awarded the QA in 1946.

always be grounded while any modified- Von' is put in hand. A few days later we were back in the air and the trifle Was banished from my mind.

But now months

later,

as Shorty alam- med my cabin door, every de tail of that dive on Northoli carpe rushing back, Could that bo the answer?

I ran up to the hangar and

climbed

Yes,

the

carry the

ne in the ribs and found to my cult

my aircraft. horror that everyone was look-parently something.... I can't into

would moke out what came loose lipstream

plate mighty close to the wind- He's very indistinct,' droned ...and hit. him.'"

screen, and if one was leaning a medium, so I think he can the noi thier a short

Shorty got up from his chair bit to one side.... time ago. Yes, something to do and picked up his cap.

The aircraft log books, in with flying

..he seems to

"It sounds

so durned dilly which every detail of modifice- salch in think there is someone in this

cold blood. tions and so on are entered, had room who used to fly with now

But I thought you'd like to been returned, to our shore bane,. know." him."

so there was nothing for it bui Shorty stubbed out his

to curb my impaticoce until we cigarette. "No wonder the old

flow off at the end of the cruise, fadies were all looking at me. I was the only possible.'

LOVE, KHRUSHCHEV, AND COMRADE KOVACS

HUMOUR BEHIND THE

IRON CURTAIN

INCE the visit of the

Soviet delegation headed

By JOHN CLEWS

love. In was taboo, vas quite

And with that he was gone.

And what did I And? First

As the door closed I sat very still. Why the devil hadn't I that due to wear, No. 2's engine thought of this before? Why hadn't

cowling had been replaced just I remembered the first before the accident, And Beyond-,

time those particular

were grounded? +

aircraft

ly and far more important that the replacement cowling drawn from the ship's stores had I had been ferrying one of been one of a batch of assorbed the earliest to come out of the epares sont direct from

the

makers for deck-landing accept makers to the aircraft carrier. once trials, and my route

had what's more, that particular taken me over Northolt, then an batch of stores had been in RAF fighter station.

transit at the time the modifica- tion was ordered,'

:

New toy

"

He just wast that sort,

WORLD COPYRIGHT, RESERVED

DID IT REALLY HAPPEN?

YES

NO

I loft it at that. There seemed no has just turned up in Hungary.

point in trying to find a At a party meeting the lecturer

It was a lovely day, and as

scapegoat, and I am sure No. 2 was assuring the audience that looked down at the airfield I would have hated me to do so, Nikita by

-Comrade Kovacs

But did he timidly the Communists were producing knew

want to tell us to

that all the RAF pilots an old subject

the back of the more goods at lower prices. But would be looking up at this new what happened? walked from President Stalin's Khrushchev to

days this

his Fleet then

room and asked: "If there are one listener kept shalding

Air Arm typé and making Your guess is as good as mine, Tito in Yugoslavia, a story Courtship

sultably caustic remarks. "All-But personally I have always has been going the rounds seriously presented as the sulter really so many cows, where is head in disagement. Finally

pressing his claim with pro-

the beat and the milk? If there the lecturer old stand it no right, I'd show 'em," I said to felt a warm glow in my firm in Polish circles. According duction success, while his be is really so much poultry, where longer. He leaned over and myself, and to the best of my conviction that he didn't make

An adroit

are the eggs?" The party sece asked: "Why do you keep disability put her through her an error of judgment, · to this story, Khrushchev ved parried with

further output

Lary. declared the meeting at en agreeing like this?"

paces, finishing with a steep had a length of English cloth challenge to a

competition.

end and said the would answer

"Well," came the reply, dive and beat-up of the tarmac. which he wanted making up

Now this is changed, and

this most valuable comment the "whenever I go

round the Into a suit. Well known for Szpilki can hit

out at the following weck

shops. there are fewer goods As the speed mounted and his corpulence, he went to a zealous but short-sighted party

At the next meeting the party then over."

the flying wires started screamt- ques-

make a serious mis- Ing there was a sudden, com- "You Moscow tailor's for a fitting. secretary who storms at a girl

comrade:

"Don't try to get out secretary answered the

He take, Comrade," replied thepletely unexpected "swish." After measuring him, the of it, Comrade. You have dis- tions of Comrade Kovacs.

ominously. "You don't know whether I saw it or tailor said: "I am sorry, honoured the name of our or said that Hungary had 1,270,000 speaker

whistled Comrade Khrushchev, but ganisation. I myself saw Com- cows, whose meat went to the should go round the shope less Just heard it, something-a quile

while the and rend the

more small something-had papers

post my head. A moment later are too big for the rade Pietrzyk secretly squeezing workers' canteens,

milk wont to the hospitals. Hur carefully,"

had forgotten all about it in length. I cannot fit you."

gary had 6,800,000 pigs, the pork

the thrill of showing off my new Travel Around two after Khrush-

from which went to the con- A day or

toy, and it wasn't until I landed, the eggs of chev had arrived in Belgrade he

sumers, Similarly, Some of these jokes travel the 18 million hens went to the Curtain story of all comes from: pointed out that an inspection But perhaps the best Iron and one of my ground crew took the material to a Yugo around, for it is common prac- slav tailor and again asked to tice for

market. East European

« scientific meeting in Britain plate on the engine cowling was be fitted, explaining that his

The party secretary ended bis where a British Communist missing, that I remembered the Moscow tallor had found him satirical papers, such as Szpilki

in Rumania, to re- speech and asked if there were sympathiser, explaining or Urzica

West Belgrade talior too big. The

have happened. measured the cloth and then print cartoons from the Soviet any more questions. A voice Bhat Europeans attacked of incident and gured what must Krokodil without revealing the shouted from the rear: "Now we German rearmament but never looked him

and down. fact. Thus up

the Krokodil story know where the meat, mitic and that in Eastern Germany, sald "You may be a big person in about the man looking at a eggs are, but what wo don't that different countries had dif- Moscow," he said, "but you are dilapidated bullding. asking know is where

Comrade ferent social conventions and only a small person here. I a

is not a convention in coun- will have no difficulty in fitting when was it going to be re- Kovacs."

another story of this tries of Eastern Europe paired only to receive the reply that it had just been built, has nature started in Poland and criticise their Governments." You"

so far appeared in one or two joke, complete with the original East European papers as a local Russian picture!

you

Off The Record

This sort of joke is quite de Anitely off the record, but there are many like it. Humour be-

your

hand....

the

There is no doubt that the

hind the Iron Curtain is a very "underground" jokes also get interesting-and funny-thing, There are two kinds of jokes, carried across the borders, es- ofcial and unofelal. Official pecially as they are repeated In the programmes of the anti- Jokes have a purpose. They are barbed, and aimed at minor in- Communist Radio Free Europe, dividuals and deficiencies. They whose broadensts from Munich never

attack official polletes, have many clandestine listeners for that

forbidden

In all the Iron Curtain coun- in Communist society, but they do tries. In fact, there is quite a

Yet

Different

ZILCH, ZUMSI

GO TO SCHOOL

From JAMÈS COOPER

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nummer.

to

five

reveal many weaknesses be basis for the admittedly apocry-TF JOHN has zumsi sloogies o'clock shadow at three pm, in sides being, often, very phal story of the little girl who

taken WEB humorous.

Into the Turda station

know her

Pogonatomist: on expert on

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and James has zilch, how

For instance, the

Polish Street

in many slopgles do they have beards, polico satirical paper: Szpilki, recently Bucharest.

together? The answer is "She is lost," said the police gerf sloogles.

} IN ONE DAY 72 New York lampooned the notorious rigidity

policemen have resimed to of many minor Communist man, "she doesn't

No, this is not gibberish. It_La ofcials in

a dialogue between name or where her parents live.

Starting pay £28 a wook, is two of them in which one said, What shall we do?" The duty-a new method of teaching arith become fremen.

metic being tried at Dearborn the same but firemen can take "and thus, according to party onscription might be broadcast High School, Mic

officer suggested that directives, you should act in-

School principal Otto Olsen has pare-time jobs forbidden to the radio. Overhearing, dependently, develop the inilla- over

that the old-fashioned polloemen. tios with them....'

rades, If you want to send a turns

over the radio, send it apples and James one of have an average score of 108, To which the other replied: report Yes, Comrade,

but with res to Radio Free Europe. It's the fuse pupils because they think pect to the Independence of only station my parents listen action. when will we receive to!" dincatives on this topic from

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