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POLITICS IN CABARETS

CLEVER MOVE

VIENNA

PEOPLE OF TEMPERAMENT.

רין,

Vienna..

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

This is revealed In "the Govern- ment's rofpaal to ban several clever anti-Government political cabarets which have sprung up like mushrooms over Vienna.

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Those small cafe-cabarets (none them can sccept more than 49. guests because of the theatre 'tax) draw steady crowds who come to laugh at volled jokes against the Fascist and dictatorial regimes: presently existing in Europe.

FRIDAY, AUGUST,

1985

FASHION NOTES

New Fashione

Colour Contrast

BATHING SUITS

No discussion of colour is com plete 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 s brown skirt, a purple skirt with a pink | blouse, de, &c.

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

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OFFICIAL SECRETS

GOVERNMENT'S POLICY ATTACKED

SUPPRESSING. LETTERS

(By a Correspondeni))

In 1982 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 defl- antly;

"If partial disclosures of the kind of transactions which occurr- ed during the time I was head of the Government were made again, To achie smartness, the im- I would, without any hesitation, One of the most successful is portant thing is the shade.

take the responsibility of publish the tiny ABC cabaret in a dingy

ing the whole of the transactions. old cafe. Here a small group of quite interesting. They are in The new swimming suits are

"I know what was said about the unemployed and young artists have the most gay and cheerful colours. liability of two years' imprison- thrown together a series of pro- The lobster colour--so muchment. It would be rather a new grammes which in certain other loveller in reality than it sounds thing if the House of Lords could dictatorial governments world getde one of the leaders, and imprison a member of the House them all thrown into guol,

of "Commons.” turquoise comes in second..

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-oven at the government-la | considered a good safety-valve.

Evon supporters of the present government can heartily laugh at the government's attempts to be stern, 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 moro and more bold.

The fact that these cabarets exist and the fact that Austrians are an

There is miso, for the fair girl, a leafgreen swimming auit 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 inte pretty little suits, 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 skirt to your bathing suit. If you consider that you have a little over much avoirdupois around hips and abdomen you, can wear an elastic belt,

in

He will find, for instance, some eight volumes in which a Prime country at the end of the eighteenth Minister and a King who ruled the easy-going, humour-loving people century, disport themselves make many observers believe Aus-public in the most shameless manner, revealing official trans- never become an exact actions to the common herd as if counterpart of its western and they were no more shameful than southern neigbours,-United Press. full stops or commas."

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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, 1936.

He will find if he does not care to go back earlier than Nelson and the Duke of Wellington-that Mr.

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Unhappily neither the Duke of Wellington nor Lord Nelson is in a position to reply to the Attorney Ios. House Street. General's "Hush!" with a Lloyd Georgian "Booh!" for the truculent ***********

1852 and Duke passed away in Nelson nearly 50 years carlier.

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

TREASON ONLY·

First of all the facts. The OM- cial Secrets Act was passed in 1911. It superseded the Act of 1889,.be- fore which dato no "Omcial Secreta" machinery had existed at all.

ago there was no authority for pro- In other words; until 50 years

secuting a citizen for the disclosure of official information unless that disclosure definitely constituted an act of treason. You were either u traitor or you weren't, and it is un- likely that Nelson who' won Trafalgar, or the Duke of Welling- ton who won Waterloo, or Mr. Lloyd George, who has sometimes been credited with the victory of

Disraeli'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,

The Act of 1911 makes a crime

tera of the gravest public import- ance, highly compromising, in some particulars, to the dignity of any revelation of their official

activities and Impartiality of the throne.

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,

But to pursue to their logical conclusion the interesting poaal- bilities opened up by the Attorney- General's action in forbidding pub lication of Wellington's letters, it is clear that he will not have finish-

other than a person to whom he is ed when he has purged the British authorised to communicate it.. Museum. For history books exist any note, document, or Information in every school in the country, and to his position as a person who which he has obtained owing among the disclosures in these seditious volumes is a story origin. holds or has hold office under His ally emanating, we must suppose, official would be safe in opening his Majesty it would seem that no ex- from the nobles or some other Gov-mouth about his activities at all. ornment official who was present at King Canuta's little experiment with the waves.

OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS

Across

1 The tackle that begins with a

pass.

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

9 A slik investment aide by a company in duplicate, on and. 10 Many collectors of old china like

these chippod.

12 We make her acquaintance in

"The Pirate."

13 Satan's empire

letter carried

Tel. 24848.

regard for a swindle over an allowance.

G In Wales, look you never see cast

on 'a leek. 6 Yes, It's 6, but it's a mine

arrangement, however silly it. Looks

7 A figure having equaiangles.

Go on, is it? Yes.

8 that's true.

11 A good cutter for a youngster,” 14 Lead by a copper,

18 The country In south-west

Paradise.

19 This is the fruit of giving »

challenge to the young I call

It gram

that the ancients thought cured

15 Another plant.

insanity. (Of course, it д 20 just a plant).

10 A fragrant gum known to

crossword solvers.

17 You must either put in a well- known plant (we are horti. cultural to-day, aren't we?) After

the

make

As for putting pen to paper, the fate of so many memoirs by former 24 ser six, or face the alternative. way in which book- statesmen and diplomats is itself

keepers

an entry of proof of how risky such a hobby 24 The fit-out that is, largely, has become.

It is pointed out that dazzling headlights on motor vehicles aro not only a common cause of accl- dents, but are also a source of in- convenience to all road users. The new regulations provide that from April 10, 1930, the beam of any electric lamp exceeding six There is also to be a maximum watta in power fitted to a motor height at which front lights are is essentially a modern develop vehicle shall either be permanent- to be carried. The regulations

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

FOREIGN TO TRADITION

All this, it needs to be repeated,

ly deflected or capable of deflection provide that the height shall not ment foreign to the tradition of to such an extent that it is incap oxceed five feet from the ground English government, able of dazzling anyone standing and-that-if-the-rear-red-light-is. on the same horizonal plane as the vehicle at a greater distance than 25 feet from the lamp, and whose eye-level is not less than 3 feet 6 inches above that plane.

higher than three feet six inches from the ground, a red reflector and white patch, as used. on bicycles, shall be carried at or be low that height."

The new regulations also deat

The draft regulations have been with the practice of leaving vehi-prepared by the Minister in con- cles stationary with their lamps sultation with the Transport: Ad- on. The draft regulations provisory Counell and the Committee hibit the use of electric lamps ex on Road Safety.

SALESMAN SAM

course.

joko.

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27 It might seem that the baker

needed this gentle animal.

31 Here, in Scotland, tho 28 Arriving shortly In native quarters such was the tale.

atnio- sphere is very cleat.

32 It

holiday.

..

is more usual, at Oxford, for That is why its retrospective 33 Understood by the musician from

a student paying for his food. application seems so odd.

the beginning (two words, 2, 4). If the Attorney-General would 34 This is less usual as a visitor. care to apply for a reader's ticket 35 A nice little corner for a at the British Museum and spend an afternoon in the Reading Room such a harvest of venerably bound I can promise to unearth for him crimes as will make his hair stand (Continued on Previous Column.) on end,

Sam Queers. It

Down

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

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

vary,

23 It goes up and down in 'a' bird. 25 An unusual stanos. 28 Gives one a slight shiver. 29 Look out for this in, the forest:

there's trouble afoot.

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

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