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行洋原中·理代總 G.K.

Mussolini In Atom Reports

Made Public

Montreal

Church Mural

has atom.

ports

Quarrel Founded A Hospital

In

HOMAS Guy, born in Southwark

In 1015, was the ton of a lighter- le was apprenticed to a bookseller. He saved hard and in a few years set up on his own.

BOOKS

by

George Malcolm Thombon

Not a

novel

-a pamphlet

in fiction form

I would not be enough to any that Arthur Koestler's Thieves in the Night (Macmillan, 10s. Gd.) is a dis- appointing novel by a talented novelist. Is it a novel ut all?

It is a passionate political pamphlot thrown into fiction form.

It is also, I judge, a personal record similarly disguised.

The subject of the record 19 the creation in Palestine of Ezra's Tower, a new settlement of Jewish colonists.

The subject of the pamphlet Is Zionism and the moving, dreadful

He became rich by importing illegal bibles from Holland. As history of the Jews in our time. fortune grew le speculated on the Stock Exchange and was concerned in the "South Sea Bubble." Unlike many others he sold his stock at the right time and made nearly £500,000, a huge fortune in those days.

He was courting one of his scr-

vants and plans had been made for before the marriage. A few days the wedding he ordered a contractor to repair a section of the paving in

front of his house.

He marked out the area he wanted repairing and went off to business. The

maidservant now A broken asked outside this area and stone the men to repair that as well.

When Guy came home he was angry that his orders had been ex cerded that he broke off his en- gagement, and devoted his huge for-

to charity.

וייותו

The narrative covers the years im- mediately before the war, the period of the Arab Revolt and the White Paper which set an upper limit on Jewish immigration and restricted Jewish land purchases, It was be fore the Great Massnere: yet the shadow of that most horrifying event falls ncross the pages.

W

•

WHEN the novellat turns politi- cian, he is one weapon at his disposal which, clumsily used, makes him ridiculous, and, unfairly makes him dangerous.

used,

- LIBRARY

LIST

The Happy

Prisoner

Montea Dickens (Michael Joseph, 10% 66.). Novel. Light in treatment, Intelij. Kent in perception; an engaging tale of an officer recovering from wounds, of bi family. whichi Includes one loutish and neurntia sister, and of his turke, Consistently enter. tertaining.

*

*

'The Breaking of the Heals: Franch Ashton (Daken,

6d.). Novel Scienüße romance as ambitious sa early Wells; but without the imaginative firo required to mustata the reader's conviction,

abstruse paychological technique. mab-consciowa zamory” of Henry Malville is taken #re before back to b

history

E

*

* European Witness: Stephen Spender (Hamish Hamilton, 10% od.), Spender travelled in Ger many a year ago; he visited France. The impressions made on this seneltive mind arn of real relevance at " time when mien ask; What should bo dono with Germany?

He may legitimately give drama- tic and emotional colour to what At the age of 70 he leased some would otherwise be mere argument, land, cleared it and had a hospital Biri be may

also distort his built. *This 14 London's famous render's judgment by presenting the Guy's Hospital. A few years later characters on one side as attractive

dirxl

Jeft the

hospital and virtuous and those on the other Joseph, his central character, who £210.000.

Jie

and

He left other large sums to various | charles and shared £60,000 be. tween his relatives,

Yet during his lifetime he

as mean and despicable.

The Arab and British characters tre very different matter; the one corrupt and abominable, the other shallow, prejudiced, conceited, Mer sticks, all of them, stock figures 'from Koestler's pamphlet rather than people in Joseph's story.

IT

→

would be unfair to expect

DUMB-BELLS

DO YOU BELIEVE IN EARLY

I DONT

KNOW, I WAS

MARRIAGES?/MARRIED

IN THE AFTERNOON

Koestler, its feelings reluctantly MCKENNEY

yet passionately

engaged

Zlonist side, to give a balanced plc- fure.

"The "cross-bench mind." the pali- teal agnovile, makes a poor novelist. As his terrorist Baumann says, "We cannot afford to see the other man's point." Hui it is important that on the other side, there suld be a man, and not an Aunt Sally.

An

The book would have been better as a novel, more persuasive as argument, if Koestler had matched his vigorous gallery of Jews with an equally convincing, equally observed set of Arab and portraits.

well-

British

The problem of Palestine derives s Intensity from the fact that it is a conflict between right and right. There are times when, for Koestler's reader, it appears to be a struggle between a harsh good and a rather silly evil.

O

ON BRIDGE

Never Be Certain Suit Will, Break

By WILLIAM E, McKENNEY

IILE in the South some time ago, I met A. L, Gotthelf again. Gotthelf is a former New Yorker who has spent quite a while in Uncle Sam's Army, He has had little opportunity to play in the major tournaments, and so he docu But when die doen play, he can be not have a great many Master Points.

counted showing.

upon to make a good

When Gotthelf gave me today's hand, which he ran teroas while be was in the Army, he said, "Probably neither you nor your readers will believe this really happened. It

A STRUGGLE, too, in which the looks like a cooked-up hand, but it

good is justifled in using methods of evil.

the is just the way we dealt it out. I picked up the South hand and was

The Race, the Land, the Anthem- what language is this?"

Ja half-Jewish (and presumably, The philosophy of the Stern autobiographical) finds his Group, into which Joseph is drawSTI al Ezra's Tower how does it differ from that of the

Nazis?" generally

Koestler is too subile an artist and partly too honest a man to perpetrate any fellow-colonists could thing so crude as this, Nobody could physically repulsive and be seen eating his lunch out of auccise him of seeking to win new distasteful. newspaper spread on the shop coun-admirers for the Jewish people by depleting them in too rosy a light.

ter.

From Hore And There:

LOVE CLINICS

Stockholm.-Swedish married men are the world's lousiest lovers, an official Swedish mixed commission in- Women quiring into the matter has just declared. members of the commission score male Swedes as sexual analphabets. Nagging wives also are runners-up as divorce cause. Swedish authorities now plan to establish lave clinics where these defects can be remedied by proper instruction.

n

South Wales conl city, a 150th anni-

The ceremony, so well described He dislikes their rawner,

by Koestler, in which a youth is their

Initiated into this terrorist cult-does intensity, their dialectical violcnee, it not bear some resemblance their puritanism. "Sometimes," he ceremonies of Hitler Jugend and records in his diary, I feel that I Falange? must get drunk, or 1 can't alond our virtues any longer."

Even their devotion to their children the most important "pro- duce" of the colony-comes

under hls. condemnation. Ile hates

"the streak of the over-ripe race in him- self."

Self-hatred. he decides, is. the Jew's patriotism. "I became n So- cialist because i hated the poor, and I became a Hebrew because I hated the Yid."

DISCRIMINATION Cape Town.---Members of the versary stamp and stamp coizelves Students Representative Council of a new stamp, howler, which it is AT times he seems to doubt the Natal University have resigned be expected will become valuable. The value of the whole Zionist en- cause the new charter showed racial stamp bears a portrait purporting torprise, mements when the staring

1! discrimination,

provided 21 he Lleutenant John Shortland, dis- moxieniem of Tel-Avily

oppresses separate council for non-Eurogrons. Coverer of Port Hurter on which him, and when the

peasant The University Senate refuses 4 Nowenstle stands. Disgusted his-youth of Zinium. *he lorde modify the charter

torians have pointed out that the Tarzan" dumb and heavy, appears lo that of the discoverer's" a contrast to their highly-grung perent rather than as a biological ---ANOTHER SAUCER-

A DEAL

La Ruenelle.--A French convict father. atīva dietorshow his prison director

The

dvance:

We can sense.

new

they

It is a incrit in Koestler that he does not linch from questions so uz- comfortable, even if his own attitude to them seems equivocal.

CHESS PROBLEM

1

&

By A. K. ELWORTHY Black, 6 pieces.

White, 8 pieces.

5

惩

White to vinu and mate in two.

Solutio 22 10 Thursday's problem:

1. 1-86, any; 2, Q. R. B, or.Kt

mater.

Skeleton

CLUES ACROSS

a cuche where he claimed gold in- Parls, arts in the little vll-

But Koestler's neute, unloving de- #ods worth £248,000

hidden lage of were

Breuil-de-Vouharte, neur

ineation of Joseph's brethren does provided he is set free and give five Charente, have reported seeing 2 percent of the total amount. The flying saucer "four dimes bigger than not estrange the render's sympathy. sincwy, convict declared that he heard about the inoon." phenomenon was After all, the people are the hiding place in a prison where reported to have been seen "elreting individualised characters; and he bad been held with Vichy round in the sity for at least half-un-serve an ideal, the appeal of which officers. Sald he: "The Ave percent hour! I ask for will allow me to live

.HELP YOURSELF Copenhagen.-The Danish Adven- peacefully in my tiny village.

RECORD LION

ture Club invited members to a lun- } Johannesburg-George Horton, of cheon at which were served curried Kalerno, Northern Rhodesia, has rattlesnakes freshly imported from shot the world's record lion. It Worlds. Britain is taking the covers measures 12 ft. 3 ins, compared with record held by Roland the previous The figure of Mussolini astride off. more information about the Dis was 11 ft. 3 in. here that the Government plans to

A second list of 25 re- B Handsome buy horse

SOAP FREE

call a special session of Parliament from the Government's Jobannesburg-When four whales this autumn to consider the world- emerged

were washed up on a South African wide dollar and economic crisis, on atomic energy celipse in the huge fresco of the secret files

beach and died, local residents rush the session is held, it will take place and related subjects has just to them and sliced off lumps of after Prime Minister Mackenzie King Church of Notre Dame De La been released by the Ministry of blubber and balled it down to make returns

"Commonwealthi from the soap, which How it came about was related by Supply.

has been scarce for Prime Ministers' talks in London in Fr. S. Chelt of the Notre Dame

many months owing to shortage of November following the marriage of Parish.

fats,

Princess Elizabeth. The normal re- FOR STAMP COLLECTORS gular session of Parliament is not Melbourne. The Australian post scheduled phul early February next oillee has given Newcastle, New year, otherwise..

from

Defence, Montreal.

#нeven-year

A first list, containing 75 reports, In 1927, the heads of the parish, was released in March, copies being members of the Servites de Marie

obtainable on loan by interested order, engaged Montreal artist Guido responsible workers.

reports are issued

in

from

Nincher to paint a mural. Ho be. The new gan his five-year project by painting the form of enlarged prints the Virgin Mother and a chorus of microfins, or, as an alternative, fms angels, and then, to symbolise thecould be supplied if desired. glorification of mankind, added the

Aquires of the Pope, Cardinals and The copyright of all such docu- the r

great of the Church, past andments a vested in the Crown, and present.

copies may not be made nor extracts

In 1920, when the Hallan Govern-published without permission. ment and the Vatican concluded the Lateran Concordat

The Ministry of Supply says that recognising the authority of the Holy See in Vaticant is hoped that HM. Stationery State, Nincherl sought to Immorta-ice will also be in a position short- lise the event. He painted in the iv to supply documents of American head of the Italian Government, origin on atomic energy, and appli- Mussolini, and several other Italian cations for these will in consider dendiers.

ed.

the come,

1030

are

to March

When the war parishioners had firenten cilmb to the dated from June.

The reports now released nural and cover the figure of the 1947-Aciated Press. Duce with paper.

This summer the paper began to peel and hang in unsightly atrips. The parishioners hired a contractor. Mussolini emerged, brighter

now than any of the other figures from the application of water used to remove the paper-Associated Press.

ARE YOU SURE? ANSWERS

Questions on Page 9

4.

1. Five. Attlee is the execption. CROSSWORD SOLUTION. 2. John London McAdam, inventor of macadamised roads. 3. Capt Webb, Solution of Thursday's puzzle: who died attempting to swim rapida Across: 1 and 5 Down, Bird's-eye balow Niagara Falls, 1883.

The view; 6, Revolver: 10, Avalanche; aardvark, which comes from South 11, Zeit 13, Crew: 13, Reagent; Afrlea, 5. Cages for hawks, where 13, Mash; 17, Whoa; 19. Norm; they were kept while they mewed, 21, Airt: 22, Meed; 23 Sle; 24, or mouited. 0. Seven. 7. London. Test: 23 Ranch. Down: 1, Brazil There is no public cinema within the nut: 2, Doll; 3, Slaughter; 4, Ye; City limits. 8. G. O. Allen, Sir Pel- 4, Soe 1,

Iam Warner, A. P. Freeman, Elias Across: 7, Evermore; 8. Vase; 0, Hendren, Don Bradman. 9. Albert Rhetoric; 14, Watch; 10, Arms; Chevaller. 10. Willam the

Con- 10, His; 20, Mot;:21, Ada.......

queror,

EMERGENCY MEETING? Ottawa--Speculation

Rupert and the Jumping Fish-41

NANCY

Pardon Me!

TO AVOID COLDS, I WOULD ADVISE ALL GIRLS TO WEAR A BANDANA ON THE

HEAD

growing

Rupert is so sure that hla idea is right that he urges the merboy to get out of the fresh water part of the island and down to the sea, but without success. **I'm too weak for anything," whispers the little creature. "D'you think you could life me, Rupert? I don't like being carried by the sea serpent," So Rupert puts his arms round bis neck and gives a heave and starts the dangerous descent over the rocka with the merboy an his back. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED,

SOUNDS SILLY, BUT I'LL TRY

IT

STANIE-

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1. 1 "Orent

Expecta Lions favourite story 7

4. Baying bad

tho about A public vahi- cle tra Jetter ?

8. Stops

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work- ing And Rok to bed. 11. 0 o Опо

batter than Anttows aboard ship apparently..

13. flow our name in NY gio charm. 14. RC -

trumenta

should rat turn dat

10. If a worker loses his head hila Jon is to make for smooth bro- Kress.

10. Defensive call

of primitiva Inali 7 two words).

17. May's always after this. IB. The spirit of an 1 Zingari

eleven.

10. Nothing Joaned alter six

Outrageous

22. Very shaky lotter to a vilingo'

in Davonshire. In the absence of Mary,

23. May be worn by sattors, or the

Entors themselves.

24. The chap inside. put his foot down the wrong way when *teeping.

35. Don' heeled over in,

Dum moct of way.

CLUES DOWN

pomp-

1. The onnonita of soft-contred 7

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Dealer

Gotthelf

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4000

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vul.. Bouth West North BA Pann. Pass

Opening-10

East

Poss

25

Eoing to open with a two-bld, but I decided that six spades was the best bld. After all, the boys In the Army are not bridge experts."

Gotthelf won the opening diamond lend with the king and Immediatsiy laid down the king of trumps. Then, be suddenly realized that It the spades broke badly, he would have to lose a club trick. Therefore, he had to protect against a bad breaic in spades.

He casher the

ace and king of hearts and led the ace of diamonds, trumping it in dummy with the six of spades. That's right, he trumped this nwn

ace. Now The led the uuren of hearts, on which he dis- fearded his three of clubs:-

He relummed to his hand with the ace of clubs and cashed his high spare. Then all he had to do was ta concede a spade trick.

Good card players never take it for granted that a sult is going to break. They provide against bad

breaks.

Crossword

2. He is itabin to be asked to give

an explanation.

J. Honest endeavour produced this

weapon.

5. Dandy Aghter in the R.A.P.

d. Well-informed in the letting

lac.

7. Spoke vaguely on to the brand hat having confused the side.

0. What you do if you've put thin

puzzle all wrong 7.

proditced Spanish in Savoy.

10. Bausage

by the

11. fo'should 'win come fuct from public property-but not on Baturday

12. As regards the proof, we will

nge the rogue.

40. Another name for a country from which we mag gat praise. 21. Have you found in one

attemot? That clover!

By Ernie Bushmiller

HEY--- HE SAID BANDANA

OH.

Din

QOLVERS of the skeleton Cross- word are required to fit in

black

fursd Chite juures aunibers as well as the words. 210 39 * tur. Liners in three black squares have been. given.

The pattern is symmetrical. Thr two sides tunce" such villier und. the top and batiana naives entre. Nati You can therefore 12 17 seven more black sipitures at once to correspond with titeke given.

No words or fewer ti23 rec letters are used.

since there is a clue tubetec › 11 bath Down and Scons here must be a black square ühine that Humbered 11 and three other black squares in correspond[112 positions in the puzzin

Deivellous of this sort can be made from a study of the clues in which ausgrains reveal the numbers of letters i certain solu- tion words.

Reasoning in tabs way you can build up the puzzle na you wive the elues.

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