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"Here we are, girls, tired, · lack-lustre faces, waxy with too much starch and wistful for lack of proteins, says our beloved cousins across the ocean."

Every Wednesday in the Telegraph:

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EAR Loretta Young.

It seems a shame to have

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by NATHANIEL GUBBINS

crack at you after you have aroused the indigna- tion of half the British Press bernuse you are reported in have said, in an interview, that "we looked tired and drained of feeling," that "a business exceu- tive was patching the soles of his shoes with cardboard" and that "a shipping reporter was wearing a beard because he couldn't buy any razor blades."

For all I know you may have mention it. As everybody knows, u business executive must be properly been misinformed. But

you dressed. Otherwise he gets no busi- Like ness. can't blame me for that.

This last explanation revolutionary that I

sounds so way, In New York. They are not hesitate 10

only bored. They are starved of Vitamins A and D (contained in butter). They have also lost what ever faith they had in human nature. It may also explain why you didn't get a "bite of bacon." Maybe the chef's children were biting your bit. But you mustn't Judge England by the people you meet in smart hotels, Miss Young. Very few Englishmen work in them and very few English- men have enough money to live in

the late Will Rogers,. I only 1 don't know how your business know what I read in the papers, executives in America would react to

a situation like this, Miss Young.

They'd think we'd gone crazy, er sump'n.

In the hotel

First of all, I would like to say that the shipping reporter won't get sympathy from any- body. Most shipping reporters (in fact most reporters) look hetter when their faces are So far as looking "tired and hilden by something, even if it is only a beard.

I

drained of feeling", is concerned, them. you're certainly right, if you're r ferring to quests in an expensive London hotel.

So far as I'm concerned,

In fact, I've never seen them look think they would all look better any different at any time. I will go in masks. Either journalism further and say they looked just like never attracts handsome men that in the smart hotels of Paris and or journalism does something to New York before the war. them when they're young,~-- --~---

"Nounds” cun-atay-in-a-smart hotel where without looking tired and Moreover, I think somebody drifined of feeling after the first few was being funny with you about days. the razor blades. 1 think it is.

Some of them have hangovers more likely that the shipping Some of them are acquifing hangs reporter was trying to look avers. Most of them dislike or dis literary. Was he wearing green trust each other. corduroy trousers, too?

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But you have shocked us all with this stuff about a business executive going around in shoes patched with cardboard. This really hurts.

There was a time, of course, when few people cared if the children of the poor went arounti with cord- board sales to their shoes, or, for that matter. no shoes at all.

This went on for hundreds of years without attracting much attention from distinguished visitors, or even from

natives. who distinguished ught to have known better.

reporter, it must mean one of three things.

1. The

All of them are them who are bored and all of

wondering how paying bills are much money the head waiter will druin it of them before they cun escape.

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In London, of course, it's slightly worse, because the guests who have handed over their ration books are also wondering what has happened their butter ration, cheese ration, and sugar ration.

They know they get their mar- They can gurine ratlon all right. taste it. They may get part of their cheese ration if the heat walter has had something in advance.

Invitation

FROM AMERICA:

A NAVY IN MOTHBALLS

By C. V. R. Thompson

NEW YORK. TOW the U.S. Is not satisfied with its navy-

N729 ships, including 19 battleships.

It is "all in mothballa," Congressmen complained, and they estimated it would tsk 00 days for a first- cluss American feet to put to sea.

Congresnan Harry, Sheppard, a.iending member of the Appropriations Committee, blamed It all on his "sinfint" colleagues.

Because of cuts, he said, the navy has had to lay up ships it wanted to keep in operation.

He has announced he will fight for more money for the navy.

Said he "I think it's foolish to practise Iniso economy on our national defènco until things are moro settled in the world, and UNO is in a position to handle anything that may arise internationally."

T.

is a safe bet now that Tories will be running the U.S. at least until 1050.

Henry Wallace, ultra-Leftist, has made that clear. A 1,000-1 outsider in the Presidential race, Wallace has proved strong enough in New York to make Prest- dent Truman an outsider, too,

To beat the Republican Torles, Trumon must win New York. To do it, he relies on a political that has never been beaten.

machine

But in a Bronx by-election Wallneo beat that machine so soundly that is boss. Edward Flynn, will be sucked.

They don't wear cardboard soles on their shoes, though they may have done so when they were children. You can buy.all the razor blades you want in any of the shops which sell them.

If you accept the offer, and bring your emergency ration card, you will at least get your rations. As I'm one of your admirers you can have my bacon ration as well, if you like.

And if you're still hungry it would be a pleasure to take you to the local hotel, which will treat you more

and fairly

with more

genuine courtesy than I have over found in smart London' hotels,

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Or you could come shopping with me. On most days we could buy we wouldn't starve on flat. plenty of fish. You must admit that

'Although potatoes are rationed we enough vegetables. We can get could also buy frull, efther fresh or in cans using up some of your points, of course.

After that we could go round to

ration like Canadian tomato juice, the grocer's and, buy things off the Aish spreads and "minced fish fried in,oll."

But I don't think you'd like that. I tried it once and certainly felt fired

THY not stay with us next time und drained of feeling. And sick,

you, come over?

WH

We live right on the sea front, not far from a coal mine. On erlain days you can see the coast of France "from our window, though--have never discovered the advantage of

that..

But there would be some' ad- vantage in seeing some real people. As it is partly a mining cominunity, you would see a cross-section of ther British Isles, Englishmen, Welshmen.

and Scotsmen.

Because nobody would dare to stent their rations, even if they got the chance, and because they are not living in stuffy rooms full of bores, they look anything but tired and drained of feeling. You should see them on a Sattidy night.

100.

If you stayed for the week-end and threw in your ration book with joint for Sunday dinner. joint for sure have quite a nice little

Wallace got his man in by (1) concentrated Communist support: (2) cleverly exploiting the Jews' anger with Trumin over his hesitancy in helping the Palestine Zionists.

In the real fight next November there will not be enough Communists of Jews in New York to win Wallace this vital city. But his success in the Bronx proved to his and the Torles' satisfaction that there 'enough to cut into Truman's votes.

are

ONE-WOMAN battle against the MacArthur for President move- ment 13 being fought the general's first wife, Mrs. Alf Bellberg. Every week she gives the Pross i now wisecrack against her, ex-husband. Latest If he is a presidential dark horse, he is in the last round-up. ARNOLD TOYNBEE, the British professor, whose profound. "Study of History" may outsell "Gone with the Wind" in the U.S.. arrived to In American's about lecture history.... NEW

Empire Building is to lose its tillo-inc world's highest man-made structuro. The new candidate is a radio tower in Des Moines, Iowa, being built which will be 1,630 feet high, 280 feet more than the 100-storey Empire State,

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A £4,000 PRIZE to the scientist

who develops the best defence against the atom bomb was with- drawn by the man who offered it. Charles Kettering, Inventor. Some one, Kettering would not say who, told him to drop his plan, Reuson: A successful defence would destroy the bomb's diplomatic value. AMERICAN BLANG, expressive us

it is, cun sumetimes trouhie. Take the cuse of Sidney Zlotmek, a Washington furrier. He advertised fur coats for sale for 497 A G. "potatoesslang for dollars.

I. bought two bushels of potatoes, took them to Zlotnick and demanded a fur coat for his wife. He got it.,

FTER inking a look at UNO, Earl

Anierica, said: "1 cannot help feel- Lloyd George, now lecturing in that God never meant the Tower of Babel to be a success."

Lottle, the devil cal, would eithering have most of your portion or tear your nylons to bits, but that would be better thur. having your rations stolen in London and wearing your nerves to bits.

who

And what about these factory girls work? are fainting at their They certainly fainted at their work at one time. They were swented and worked in unhealthy factories.

Now, in world short af food, - they are better fed than many of

them were in a world of plenty.

NEW LOOK for British goods A is being designed by u U.5, in-, dustrial architect, Raymond Loewy, famed among other things for his desert home, which has a swimming- pool in the middle of the sitting- room. Loewy 15 concentraung un British cooking

stoves, plumbing, and business machines. CONGRESS'S

COMMITTEE which keeps hunting for Com- munists is

sts is threatening to look into the greeng card industry. The If they fainted it was probably reason: It has found a Valentine because they heard the Government with the traditional heart surround- won't give way on the importationed by children's alphabetical blocks,

the letters of which spell "Lenin.“ of American Alms.

BY THE WAY by Beachcomber

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of the word allergic.

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eighty,

courteous Persians "we had YOU have to go to a modern are dressed in Greek costume, with three

their the honour of meeting at your At a word from Mr Velvette bouse" would be more at home in heads. Considering that the sugar ration is big enough for anybody but a polur

the orchestra strikes up. The dance the Circus than in the ballet. Thu uch twelve red bearded dwarfs arrived af wasps, they bear or a swarm

Its real meaning, already forgotten begins, Ashura is laughing so much

and while Unless, this business executive was wonder why they get no more than outside medical circles, is that having taches one of the chorus a gentle, un, and immediately

the plank.shifts

the conversation was going. sideways, and

rong the bell another humorist, like the shipping one lump of sugar in their coffee. used the same treatment twice on catch

overbalances,

from

hle

ho heard study

when be wrong, but they a patient, you get a different reaction tap on the hip. She stumbles for- for tea. Colonel Wretch was emerging They many Huspect thal the chef, the head the second time. from the one, you ward into Orestes, who

and send her "Walter Rissoles for Iphigenia business executive has walier, or somebody with absolute got the first time. It is now used dragging with him Pylades, whose Eddiedel Edel shout to the worn out his shoes before their time power in the hotel world is a thief, to mean a dislike of fish or ballet hurtling into the well of the At the sight of the Frums

Rizamughan,

"May I have springing to orchestra,

Gillygolile roared, because he has no petrol allowance. taking home. what he can of their or anything else. As my dictionary hurtling Into can't get a taxi, and can't get on a rations and selling the rest to the puts it, "Antipathetic to (antipathetic orene

the rescue, gets slap in the face. bloater with my tea, Commandant?" to blondes, bullets or prunes),"

hat stand of the

in bus. London bus drivers are now wide boys who can dispose of it.

He steps back, knocking Kazbulah Anselmo was ot bus

rabbits from abstracting expert al

past driving

sideways into Iphigenia, who again the queues su expert that some of them Well, Miss Young, this naturally Iphigenia down twice.

talls into the orchestra pit, Velvette hats. As the Colonel entered the to about without any passengers at makes them feel sore at everybody.

Orestes and stops the rehearsal.

drawing-room, Molonay Tubilder borst fired a toy pistol at him, ánd all.

especially as they know that if they the foreground don't tip the man who hus robbed

Pylades, with Iphigenia, and the 2. IIe couldn't get into the coupon them they'll get even less..

Chorus grouped round them. In the More fun at Wretch Manor, Scorpion de Reoftrouser, extracted/ black market.

It explains why guests In smart Hackground, Ashurn, with the plank, MEANWHILE, for away at Wretch from his mouth a string of flagi. may look a little painted crimson, laid across his belly. Manor, à deputation from Wug- "This dance is ours," cried Gutter- 3. The

Government must have London hotels

tired and

little nore At either end, waiting to mount, well's Circus was waiting on Mrs Form Guttergormton; encircling Mrs allocated shoe leather to the children more rather than to business executives, drained of feeling than they do, | Kazbulah and Rizamughan. All three Wretch, to persuade her that the Wretch's waist

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