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POLITICS IN CABARETS

CLEVER MOVE IN VIENNA

PEOPLE OF TEMPERAMENT

Vienna.

The Austrian people and the Austrian government-despite the dictatorship has not lost its sense of humour.

FASHION NOTES

New Fashions In Colour Contrast

BATHING SUITS

AUGUST

No discussion of colour la com- plote without a word or two about. the new. fashion for colour con- trast. Expressions of this vogue are seen in such examples as a red coat worn with a black dress, a green blouse with a skirt, a purple skirt with a pink

This is revealed in the Govern-blouse, &c. &c. mont's refusal to ban soveral clever anti-Government political cabarets which have sprung up like

mushrooms over Vienna.

These small cafe-cabarets, (nons of them can

accept more than 49 guests because of the theatre tax) draw steady crowds who come to laugh at veiled jokes against the Fascist and dictatorial regimes presently existing in Europe,

One of the most successful is the tiny ABC cabaret in a dingy

brown

OFFICIAL SECRETS

GOVERNMENT'S POLICY ATTACKED

SUPPRESSING LETTERS

(By a Correspondent))

In 1932 there were vague threats made in the House of Lords that Mr. Lloyd George might find him- self in prison for two years if he persisted in making revelations about what had transpired in the Cabinet,

Mr. Lloyd George replied defi-

For evening, the off-shades are as good as ever, especially a dull ivory "tuak"--and, in the very off whites, amber is exceedingly chic. There is a now-old blue, and string, so smart this summer for evening,antly: which should continue as autumn fashion.

Shade Smartness

an

"If partial disclosures of the kind of transactions which occurr- ed during the time. I was head of the Government were made again, To achieve amartness, the im- I would, without any hesitation, take the responsibility of publish- portant thing is the shade.

ing the whole of the transactions.

The new "wimming suits are old cafe. Here a small group of quite interesting. They are in unemployed and young artists have the most gay and cheerful colours. thrown together a series of pro- The lobster colour-so much grammes which in certain other lovelier in reality than it sounds dictatorial governments would gets, one of the leaders, and

turquoise comes in second.

them all thrown into gaól.

.

The Government knows these cabarets exist, but it does nothing about it. Why?

•

The answer can be found in the temperament of the Austrian people, They love a good joke, and laugh- ing even at the governments considered a good safety-valve.

Even supporters of the present government can heartily laugh at the government's attempts to be atern, authoritarian and dictatorial, These are qualities which are rather foreign to the Austrian character.

HOW THEY START The growth of these cabarets was a, natural consequence of the strict censorship of newspapers and magazines. They started modestly and when they saw the government did not object they became more and more bold.

There is alac, for the fair girl, a leafgreen swimming suit in thick ribbed knitting with criss- cross straps over the shoulder blades, and an elastic at the waist to keep the backless suit taut and trim.

Masses of gay gingham checked woollen jerseys make into pretty little sults, and there are other delicious things in cherry and coral and astral blue.

See to it that your figure is good enough to dispense with a skirt to your bathing suit. If you little consider that you have over much avoirdupois around hips and abdomen you can wear an elastic belt,

A

He will find, for instance, some eight volumes in which a Primo Minister and a King who ruled the

"I know what was said about the liability of two years' imprison- ment. It would be rather a now thing if the House of Lords could imprison a member of the House of Commons."

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Unhappily neither the Duke of Wellington nor Lord Nelson is in a position to reply to the Attorney- General's "Hush!" with a Lloyd Ice House Street, Georgian "Booh!" for the truculent Duke passed away in 1862 and Nelson nearly 50 years earlier.

But the position raised by this retrospective application of the Ometal Secrets Act is an extremely odd one, and the possibilities which have dawned since the authorities forbade the sale of the Duke of Wellington's and Lord Nelson's letters, appear almost unlimited.

TREASON ONLY

First of all the facts. The OM- clal Secrets Act was passed in 1911. It superseded the Act of 1889, be- fore which dato ΠΟ "Oficial Secrets" machinery had existed at all.

·

The fact that these cabarets exist | country at the end of the eighteenth ago.there was no authority for pro-

and the fact that Austrians are an easy-going, humour-loving people make many observers believe Aus never become an exact southern neigbours,--United Press. counterpart of its western and

trin will

·

century disport themselves in the most shameless public in manner, revealing official trans actions to the common herd as if full stops or commas. they were no more shameful than

He will find-if he does not,

In other words, until 50 years secuting a citizen for the disclosure of offfelal information unless that disclosure definitely constituted an act of treason. You were either a traitor or you weren't, and it is ua- likely that Nelson who won Trafalgar, or the Duke of Welling- ton who won Waterloo, or, Mr. Lloyd George, who has sometimes and the Duke of Wellington-that | been credited with the victory of Mr. Disraell's editors disclose the Allies in the Great War, would most amazing exchange of letters have been successfully convicted of with the Queen of England on mat- high treason. ters of the gravest public import-. highly compromising, in some particulare, to the dignity and impartiality of the throrie.

ANTI-DAZZLE care to go back earlier than Nelson

MOVE

NEW RULES FOR MOTORISTS

ROAD SAFETY MEASURES

London.

The Minister of Transport's now anti-dazzle regulations for motor car headlights were issued recently In draft form for incorporation in the Road Vehicles Lighting Regu- lations, 1935.

anco,

But to pursue to their logical conclusion the interesting possi- bilities opened up by the Attorney- Genoral's action in forbidding pub- lication of Wellington's lettera, it is clear that he will not have finish- ed when he has purged the British Museum. For history books exist in every school in the country, and among the disclosures in these seditious volumes is a story origin- ally emanating, we must suppose, from the nobles or some other Gov crnment oflletal who was present at King Canute's little experiment with the waves.

ceeding six watts in power whilat the car is stopped on a road.

It la pointed out that dazzling headlights on motor vehicles are not only a common cause of acci- denta, but are also a source of in- convenience to all road users. The new regulations provide that from April 19, 1936, the beam of any electric lamp exceeding six There is also to be a maximum watts in power fitted to a motor height at which front lights are vehicle shall either be permanent to be carried. The regulations ly deflected or capable of deflection provide that the height shall not to auch an extent that It is Incap exceed five feet from the ground able of dazzling anyone 'standing and that if the rear rod light is on the same horizonal plane as the higher than three feet six inches vehicle at a greater distance than from the ground, a red reflector 25 feet from the lamp, and whose and white patch, as used on eye-level is not less than 3 feet 6 bicycles, shall be carried at or be inches above that plane.

low that height

The Act of 1911 makea a crime

of any revelation of their official activities in language which, verbose and pregnant with legal elaboration as it is, remains for all that strangely obscure.

For if anyone is liable to prosecu- tion for passing on "to any person, other than a person to whom he is authorised to communicate it.. any note, document, or information ...which he has obtained owing holds or has held office under His to his position as a person who Majesty" it would seem that no ex- official would be safe in opening his mouth about his activities at all.

As for putting pen to paper, the fate of so many memoirs by former statesmen and diplomats is itself proof of how risky such a hobby has become.

FOREIGN TO TRADITION

All this, it needs to be repeated, is essentially a modern develop ment foreign to the tradition of English government.

That is why its retrospective application seems so odd.

If the Attorney-General would care to apply for a reader's ticket at the. British Muscum and spend an afternoon in the Reading Room The new regulations also den! The draft regulations have been I can promise to unearth for him with the practice of leaving vehi-prepared by the Minister in con- such a harvest of venerably bound cles stationary with their lamps sultation with the Transport Ad-crimes as will make his hair stand The draft regulations pro- visory Council and the Committee (Continued on Previous Column.) hibit the use of electric lamps ex- on Road Safety.

on,

SALESMAN SAM

on end.

'Sam 'Queers It

OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS

Across

1 Tho tackle that begins with a

раз.

4 If you put the drug in front of the horse, you may be alming high, but you won't make it awallow it.

0 A silk Investment made by a company in duplicate, on end... 10 Many collectors of old china like

thoso chipped.

12 We make her acquaintance in

Pirate."

13

mpiro a letter carried that the ancients thought cured insanity, (or course, it was Just a plant).

16 Another plant.

16 A fragrant gum known to 17 You must either put in a well-

Crossword scivery. known plant (wo are horti- cultural to-day, aren't we?) after six, or facs the alternativo. 22 Not the way in which book-

make keepers

entry of

course.

24 The fit-out that le, largely, a

joke. 27 It might seem that the baker.

needed this gentle animal.

28 Arriving shortly in nativo quarters--such was the tale. 31 Hero, in Scotland, the atmo.

sphere lavory clear.

32 It is more usual, at Oxford, for

■ student paying for his food. 28 Understood by the musician from the beginning (two words, 2, 4). 84 This is less usual as a visitor. 35 Anke little corner for a *.holiday,

Down

...

1 Part of this vegetable, I hear, is found growing outside many theatres.

2 The sort of hotel for the thirsty, 3 Here one must have profound

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6 In Wales, look you never see cast

a leok. on

6 Yes, it's 6, but it's a nine arrangement, however silly it looks.

7 A figure having equal angios.

Go on, is it? Yes. 8. that's true..

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19 frult of giving a

challenge to the young. 20 I call it gum.

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23 It goes up and down in a bird. 25 An unusual stance,

20 Gives one slight shiver.

29 Look out for this in the forest:

there's trouble afoot.

30 The girl who might have become Queen of Franco, but didn't.

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