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MYSTERY

SMARY GHOUL

My point of view

By ERNEST THURTLE, MP

WHAT is the moral of the

painful memory? Surely that the executives of all unions shoukl speed up the machinery for the settlement of grievances.

In almost every

the reason given for these unhappy affairs is delay in dealing with grievances. And facts have been adduced to support the

contention.

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do not want deliberately to make the

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Next Change: "JUNGLE CAVALCADE”.

A quickening of the machinery of negotiation would help them in all three matters.

Lo

ORD MONTGOMERY is, we know, a remarkable personality, By all accounts his visit to Moscow was a great success.

However much or little diplomatic significance it may have had, it should certainly help to promole good feeling between the Russlan and British armies.

Bul the way of friendship with Russia is hard.

Right on the heels of the Montgo- mery fraternisation comes the dis turbing article from the

Russian

official Pravda, making the astonish-

NNIE

They paved the way for the Royal tour

HOLLIDAY

is u dumpy. greyhaired spinster,

By WARWICK CHARLTON

middle-aged and hard-working. EONARD

She lives with her sister in Dudley-drive, Morden, Surrey. She has never travelled outside England, and sees little prospect of ever doing so, and yet she is thinking of South Africa, and in her mind she travels there the royal tour.

Oli

LEWIS has worrying about mops,

Jn

Then Abe, the mayor, broke over the telephone to tell me: "I am hoping to present my son, Jonalban

And been the vinit to the battlefields of Lady. cups, smalth; March 20 when they will en

camp beds and Kings. He has been ter the elty of Durban; March 27 worrying about there and other when they will travel through the things for the last five months. He native terrory of Swaziland to the is in charge of the outside recording great game reserves of the Kruger

staff of the BBC and he has made ) National Park, all the arrangements for us to hear what the royal tour sounds like on Its 25,000-mile journey.

David, to the Royal Family. You know, the citizens of Cape Town are so proud that the mother city of South Africa will be the first to receive the visitors.

"You know, this visit is going to be a great thing politically for South Afrles-all parties, all races, all colours are united to welcome them. To us the Royal Family represent the people of England: in all their alldignity and with all the happiness of

family life!"

Many weeks and months later you will be listening to a radio play and hear sound effects wild animals Bee Hive-lone, Ilford, Essex, where rearing, the cheers of a crowd, the Leonard lives with his wife and songs of native warriors, and seven-year-old son, saw little of him these, too, will be part of the bag while was doing his back-room Leonard and his men will have gain- part of the royal Lour. He psed on the royal tour through the through the 4-page Itinerary of Dominion of South Africa. the royal programme and he says:

Sitting at her work bench she thinks of Table Mountain as the royal visitors will see it; cover ed with its froth of clouds, its massive wooded slopes gleaming a score of different colours.

Then Annie shakes herself from

ол working:

sewing, tacking,

"What a plun! Do you know what the King and Queen and the two

AL 3.1

they will leave the town hall machining. Shie mude the dresses the Princesses will be doing on April 247 Queen will wearys Annic, is the board the Vanguard for England. At on the royal tour.in Cape Town. At 3.50 they will romance of my

"My work," Sffic."

Twenty-three years age she came, a young girl, to work for the creators of the Queen's fashions. To-day she is one

of their most expert workers, and for seven years has been entrusted with the job of making the Queen's clothes.

A Secret

the

Fay's Annie. "It

"Of course,"

wouldn't do for me to talk too

4 o'clock they will be leaving."

Leonard has flited out three mobile recording units for the tour. They are self-contained homes and work- shops.

of

You rarely hear the names Leonard and his kind, but they are the technicians who brought the war In sound to your radio at home. And when you listen to the cheering crowds greeting the battleship Van- guard and its royal visitors during the first hectic days in Cape Town. Leonord and his team will be re-

cording it all.

Abe's job

Mthinking of a long time ago. and Queen and the two Princesses. Soon they will be receiving the King

Abo

Bloomberg, respected Cape Town solicitor, and his wife Mirlam

[IRIAM and Abe Bloomberg are

will be the first people to welcome the Royal Family to South Africa.

Abe is the Mayor of Cape Town, Mirlam. his wife, the mayoress. Both their parents emigrated from Rursla 50 years ago to South Africa to start a now life in a new world. To-dny Abe and Miriam are the first citizens of Cape Town.

Abe says:

"The evening the family party arrives there will be procession through the principal Etriels. There will ba state ban- quet at the City Hall."

a

ar-

46, much about my job. But I do feel proud to think of all the admiring eyes that will look at my handiwork.

Usually

keep

it a secret that Through them you will travel In

Miriam says: "I rum thinking make the Queen's dressta because sound through the Cape hinderland, about clothes. If the Queen

want everybody in Morden might

the vineyards and farms. You will rives In the morning it will be a me to make for them if they knew. be linked with the pageantry of hot summer's day, and I can just "'ll go to the cinema and see the February 21 and when the King wer something cool. For the ban- newareets of the royal tour and I'll opens the South African Parliament quet I can wear an evening frock.

delivers have a special thrill when I see the ¦ and

'a speech from the It is really difficult to get "clothes Queen wearing one of the dresses throne; March 13 when the royal here--the sort of clothes that can

party will be in semi-tropical Natal; be worn at a state function." have made for her."

HE LEADS 4,000

TO SOUTH POLE

H

ing suggestion that Mr Bevin by his LTE is the only man to have HE refused promotion from leu- recent broadcast on British foreign flown over both North and tenant commander to rear admiral polley, had in effect repudiated the South Poles..

Anglo-Russian Alliance.

He has been after his fight over the North Pole In 1925 because it would delay the officially cited 22 times for

promotion of fellow offlcers senior Tho charge has been mild-

con- to him. He Anolly accepted it on ly and politely robutted an bravery and conspicuous

by

the retired list after public demand m. Such muted language is in anonymous Foreign Ofice

spokes-duct.

following his flight over the South adequaio, and will not impress the

Pole, four years later. Russians.

The distortion of the meaning of the Foreign Secretary's words is grotesque, and should ba denounced accordingly.

To adapt a celebrated remark of the Duke of Wellington, A news- paper which belleves that will be lieve any darned thing.

A

throughout an entire Antarctic win- HE stayed alone in a 9 x 13ft, hut

ten five "best-seller" travel books. ter of perpetual night. He has writ-

HE is 58-year-old Rear-Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, to-day com- mander of the biggest assault ever made on a Polar region.

HE

HE served in the last war on active flying duty in the Pacific. He is the only man to hold the five highest US decorations.

Four thousand men. 12 slips and Rear-Admiral Richard Byrd are making the greatest over assault on the South Pole.

shocs-but leaves nothing to chance in preparing his expeditions. Says "A Mitawber is soon brought hard in the Polar regions."

up

HE attributes his success to hard: work rather than unusual ability. He drives his men at top speed, but works harder himself. He has the has said: "Of all the con-highest concern for human life. If tinents, Antarctica is the fairest, great risks are essential, he takes white and unspoiled, spacious and them. HE austere, fashioned in the clean anti- Judges the weaknesses of men GENERAL election has taken cotic quarries of an ice age." He by closo self-analysis. He deelded his winter vigil, he once locked him-

believes immense deposits of coal to man an advance weather base in and minerals lle in the mountains the shadow of the South Pole alone, there under the ice crust. But he because he was convinced that two says: "Such are the difficulties of

men could not remain friends jam

HE is now making his four trip med together for seven months in a reaching them, they might as well-

worst condi-to "Antarctica at the head of 4,000 be on the moon."

tiny shack under the tions on earth.

men and 12 ships, Including an air- HE is dreamy-he once appeared craft carrier, a submarine and des- on naval parade in yellow civilian troyers.

place in Poland. According to the Yalta Agreement of the three Great Powers this was to be a "free and unfettered" election, but reports make clear that it was nothing of the kind.

The fact is that the Polish Government, under Communist con Ja

trol, is using all its resources to

stifle and handleap opposition, and this made the election a mockery so far as freedom to express opinion is concerned.

E looks on Antarctica mainly as base for studying weather, the Northern Lights, and the mechanism of on ice age in action.

HE uses tractors, airplanes, helicop- ters. but snys the Eskimo husky is absolutely rellable still the one means of Pelar travel.

It may be asited: What is the use of worrying about this undemo- cratle terrorism? What can Britain HE has named hundreds of thou- and America do when they see the sands of square miles of the earth's

Yolta Agreement thus flouted? surface after his wife Marie, whom Probably nothing, except make he married when he was 27. protests which will be ignored.

Yet in the interests of truth our people should not be duped believing that the Polish

into

election

Rupert and Ninky-29

was anything but a hollow and tragic farce.

Helpless we may be to right the wrong. But let us not be fooled as well.

war,

THE Duchess of Atholl, in the THE

days of the Spanish civil was a great champlon of the Re- publican side.

So strongly did she feel that theirs was the side of freedom that, Con- servalive though she was, she re- signed her sent in Parliament on the issue.

At the resultant by-election she and has not yet got back to Westminster.

lost,

The duchess (n courageous woman) now fights the battle

of

the Pollah opposition parties. Her stand, as in the case of Spain, is for frotdom and democracy,

But, nins,

circumstances aller cates. When she fought for Sponish democracy our Communists delight. ed in her.

Now her fight for democracy in Poland leaves them cold.

Running to where the plane has landed, Rupert sees a little figure like a Boy Scout alighting just Edward described. "Oh, please," he cries, who are you? Where are you from? Have you got my donkey Ninky ?" The little figure stares." Donkey Ninky ?" he mys * did find *.donkey yesterday with flowers all over him, but you weren't there Is his name Ninky? How topping!" "Yes, but he's mine," says Rupert anxiously. "Where is hela he still in your little plane over there?"

NANCY Let That De a Lesson!

OH, SLUGGO0-- · COULD YAŞLEND ME A NICKEL ?:

SURE, GUS

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED,

SLUGGO --- YOU SHOULDN'T BE LENDING MONEY

TO PEOPLE

AW--

ENJOY IT

HE Is still human enough, how- to make mistakes. During ver

self out of his shelter in a blizzard. Only

the chance discovery of a spade outside saved him from death by freezing.

According To Culbertson

(Copyright, 1947, by Ely Culbertson)

It isn't usually a good idea for a, making bridge player to go star-gazing while he's bidding a slam hand, bul in to- day's deal North's mental lapse had a good result.

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South a final decision,

his partner couldn't imagine what meant but decided it must indicate a strong hand, so, he tried the grand slam. East cautiously refrained from doubling, hoping to defeat spades but not confident of ceiling

trump seven no

seven

West opened the ten of diamonds, and

dummy won with the jack. De- clarer

looked at the dummy disgusted.

ly

for a moment and then tried the spade

finesse. When West discarded

a hear, South did some thinking.

careful

Clearly he would have to lead Clearly dummy's two remaining spades for finesses; and then he would have to a third time, to be oblo enter dummy to lead through at the twelfth trick. He could get three additional entries to dummy only by taking a fincase in clubs at the appropriate time.

Having planned his play, South cashed the top hearts, entered dummy with a diamond and took a second spade fittesse. He then successfully finessed dummy's club jack and look

on

a third spade finesse. Next he enter North responded correctly to foured dummy, with club ace, discard- no trump, according to the black-ed the loving heart on 'n top diamond wood convention, but when South and then discarded the club king. then made another conventional bid, the fourth good diamond. With only five no trump, North forgot that hot two cards in each hand, dummy was was using Blackwood. His proper res-on lead; and South was able to take ponse was six diamonds, but North

trumpless trump finesse through bid six no trump, thinking he was East to mako his grand slam,

YOU'LL NEVER GET RICH THAT

WAY

By Ernie Bushmiller

LOOK WHAT'S HAPPENED TO THAT POOR MAN FROM LENDING

HIS MONEY

LOANS $300

UP TO

..

17 BY ETHET

He'll "bat'.

ERRAM. the supreme gentle- man's gentleman, is the King's valet. He packed the scores of uniforms, orders and decoratlans for the four.

Tall and good-looking, Jerram hag the figure of a Guardsman and that is what he was during the war. When his time 'came to be called up in 1940 he went Inlo the Guards and Inter, when he became a ser- geant, he was posted to the King as balanan.

He went with the King on his visit la the battlefields of North Africa. For the South African tour, Jerram will pack the tropical drill his mas- ter wore in North Africa.

pare

Formalities on this tour will be simplified. That makes Jerram's Joba ile easier. The King will often wear morning dress and South Africans who do not possess it will be able to wear less formal attire.

With particular packed the King's lounge which are bulls and greys. thlales Jerram, "will probably fashions in men's tailoring and in- crease the world demand for Yor- shire woollens." And the thought pleases Jerram.

Used to it

Jerrun zulis, "These," set

HEF OF STAFF for the four is Sir Alan Lascelles, Private Secretary to the King. He has planned the visit from start to finish.

He is used to the complexities of such journeys. He was knighted by the King on the train between Niagara and Washington on the Canadian tour and the royal to the White House.

visit

This is not the first time Alan Lascelles-tho King eills him Tommy-has packed, his bags en roule

went for South Africa; he there before when he was Assistant Private Secretary to the Duke of Windsor,

However trying he finds his part of the tour he will not lose his prise of humour. Once he was asked by an American newspaper man: “Are you related to Lord Harewood?"

"I am," said Lascelles., "How?" said the reporter. "Quite legitimately," said Las- celles.

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