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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1948.

LeMay: Air Strategist

"I'll Go Out And Show You"

By DOUGLAS LARSEN ·

Sitting on the

Fence

ELL cor sufferin arch- said the

W bishops,

Sweep, "if that don't take the Untley and Palmer."

"What do?" I asked.

"Why, cor stuff me with dried cpgs," said the Sworp, "accordin to the

there papers

ere lite ola athletes' ave to prove their sex nt the next Olymples. Cor luvaduek, It makes you think, don't it?”

"It certainly do."

"For all we know," said the Sweep, 'Kome of thesa cre little American Negroes may soon be doin female impersonations and jumpin over urdles with the ladies... stone,n

,me blimey."

"Stone mc, too," I said.

men "It's ard enough for white to beat theso ere little old: Negroes Bald the of times," at the best Sweep, but if they're goin' to git

races the ladies'

I reckon America might as well ave the next Olympics to crself."

Into

"Erc, ere," I said.

by NATHANIEL GUBBINS

"After all." said the Sweep, "life's

There's an full of compensations. othar Test match and another good Id to look forward to over week-end."

"So there 18.* "The skin orf your nose," the Sweep,

The skin orl yourn."

Of course, the intellectuals were in favour and the True Blues against. dis- The True Blues said it was the gusting, and the intellectuals snid

It was better to be disgusting thre dead. Then a True Blue shouted that said as a naked game of whist with the present intellectuals would be worse than death, she would rather have war thon nudism even if it meant the end of everything.

Letter from an aunt

been

The gardener, whe asking us for money to buy coples Buys of Kari Marx for Eton boys, My dear Boy,

he won't bother to fatten a cockerel LORRIE came round to tea (last for Christmas as there won't be a

of the fish spread) and told us Christmas-for us, anyway. that the Russians have for hypnotising whole nations by radio and invading countries when everybody is asleep except deat people and those who don't listen

A scheme

Your loving,

AUNT MAUD.

"All the same, you don't want to to the radio. She also said that all Party conversation

stari parkin because we aven't won Russian food, like tinned crab,

everythink."

"I aint riarlcin."

full of germs that give you botulism as part of a plan to poison everybody and make the world safe for Con munism.

"Wo ought to reckon ourselves lucky these ere little old Olympics

Naturally this upset hungry Emily, went ort without anybody all who had just taken a large mouth- shot."

.

DECAUSE the Russians have ruined my hollday I spend my evenings: sticking pins into Molotov's photo- Kraph."

"I expect Freud has a word for

ful of fish spread sandwich-she had that somewhere."

while'. to go upstairs to lie down

"My husband says it all Com- "Too true."

Florrie finished her sandwiches, and

were paycho-analysed and Force He has a kind of ironic humour.

"Because If rome little old Turk has refused ever since to listen to munists

ven freed of their hatreds and frustra-- not even On a raid over Germany one day

old Bolivian anything on the radio,

nows, tluns they'd probably all join the when LeMay was pilot, a rear gun-ad shot soine little ner shouted into the Intercom that they'd ave boycotted British goods Stuart Hibberd reading the

in casc

he turns out to be a Salvation Army, which, if anything, In a flat in the Argentine."

she might be worse," his guns wouldn't work.

When I told her hypnotist. valce LeMay replied:

would be better off hypnotised with Russians

WHENEVER the U.S. Alr

itself with a particularly dimeult assignment on its hands, chunky, cigar-smoking Lieutenant- usually General Curtis E. LeMay gets the coll

present world In terms of the

of the USAF crisis, leadership

tough Strategic Air Command is a

LeMay, assignment. That is why who is 12 this November, has just been given that job.

LeMay pulled his first big job for

look

"That's going to make you pretty sily when the 100's start com- ing in. isn't it?"

Again when LeMay returned to his base in Guam one day he found his side excitedly clutching new or- promo- ders, giving the General

"They would an all."

★

Us

"Margaret's father's, sent a tele-

than"

facing the practically alone, she went to bed gram of congratulation to Smertenko for two days with tea and aspirin: for organising a boycott of Scotch

whisky in America." Your Uncle Fred is in a perpetual

"So far as weather is concerned. state of rage about Berlin and has

What with moro ment ever in office. partly because he can get whisky at his London club and partly floods, droughts, the worst winter to badger the War Ofice to let him in 50 years, and now rain spoiling cronies their best harvest, they must begin and his old Home Guard

through the to wonder if Conservatives have a Bight a food convoy

pull in heaven." Russian lines.

the Air Force during the early bomb- tion. The side sold: "What'll I do ready with these ere little old South spent many days and nights in town, this must be the unluckiest Gover

ing of Europe. It was he who de- cided that. casualties and enemy planes notwithstanding, a bomber couldn't vary from 11s course during the last few minutes of a bombing run, if a target was to be bombed effectively. He discovered this by personally flying missions over tar- Cak full of plano Rets with his holes,

His order putting this into effect wen him the nickname "Old Iron- pants." But nicknames have never bothered him. And no mission on which he has ever sent his men'was ever too tough for him. He flew the famous raid on the Messerschmitt among plant in Germany in 1943, many others; sometimes he flew as pilot, co-pilot, navigator, or obser-

vex..

MAID FIRST RAID HEN the US. Air Force doelded

first about these, sir?"

"Be sure you file them properly." was LeMay's inconic reply.

FAVOURITE LINE TEMAY'S reputation among the

men who have served under him Is as a hard taskmaster. But he has always tempered his orders with a human quality which increased their effectiveness

His favourite last line after any briefing was:

"Now if you don't understand this

"There's been enough trouble al- American boxers who coem to ave been gittin their stomachs in an up roar about nothink."

"That's right."

"Too many steaks I expect," sald the Sweep,

"Quite likely," I said...

with dogs, "I's just the same operation, say so now; and I'll go out sald the Sweep, "Give em too much and show you how to do it myself." meat and they start yappin

This statement was backed up mappin." by the fact, of course, that he did Just that, many times.

"Too true,"

and

He thinks the airborne supply "Of course the Russians totil hove method nothing but another Munich a WONDERFUL harvest.”: in disguiso and belloves that if the Russians, who are so fond of shooting.

"Margaret's father thinks Smer people, were shot up themselves they tenko ought to be decorated, with he thinks of himself as commander couraged to stop Americans drinking of the Arst convoy.

Scotch whisky altogether." would come to their scuses. Naturally an O.B.E. so that he would be en

You will bo pleased to hear that

"As. English weather seems to run poor darling Porgy has become a in seven-year cycles, we shan't have father at least wo think he's the another good summer till 1954, dự can't expect father of six puppies born to the which time nobody will have any ·

"Though you foreigners to be'ave like us."

0

"You certainly can't,”

When he Araf got a group of Biers to England he was cautioning them about getting into tavern brawis and fights. "But if you do get into fight," be added as an afterthought, "be damn sure you don't get Hick- cd. oho, on November 15, 1906.

LeMay was born in Columbus, studled engineering at Ohio

State University and was commissioned in the US. Air Force after graduation from Kelly Field, Texas. He served

Ho

Wto try out shuttle bombing over Europe, LeMay got the job. From a base in England he made the Best such raid, against Regensburg in Germany, landing in Africa..

While LeMay was busy with the Nazis, the B-29, America's aerial flight instructor-for-several hope against Japan, was being put into operation from bases in China, -out to run the LeMay was sent show.

But the way to really hit. Japan with the Superforts was from the

Islands. Late in Marianas

1944, that operation was, started. A few again months later, LeMay moved

and began running the B-299 from Some- Salpan, Tinian and Guam, what infrequent, high-altitude at-

almost tacks became

every-doy,

lower level affairs.

It was the combat version of the tactics he set up to beat the Berlin "Iron- blockade this year, where pants" set up "Gen. Lelay's Coal and Feed Service" and worked his planes, ils lers and his ground crews on a rush-hour schedule, just as he had worked all hands against the Japs.

"It wouldn't be natural"

"No"

“So...don't let's ear any

little dog next door. Nothing else

could

bad, He

"I don't know how women can

explain his interest in the money, so it won't matter." event or his pride in the achieve- ment, which, after all, is not expect to be popular when they're was so exeliodd on the always creating shortages of men's day they were born that he bit things. When shampoos were un- Emily three times before breakfast, obtainable they bought up shaving

The whist club Intellectuals

soap. Now cigaretten aro short at daggers drawn again with the they're buying up pipe tobacco," Impoverished Gentlewomen's True,

AND

Blue Conservative Association. This "Margaret's father says if we more time because some American nudist gave Smertenko a title and he could “

war change that awful nama to the Eart years. But his specialty was always grumbling from you. Ave another said there would be no more

and the for the road and make your miser- if everybody went about naked as of Drambule he would stop all ex- precision navigation. That is basis for his great. interest in long-able life appy."

there would be no uniforms to show ports of whisky to America,

we could drink it all ourselves." "Thanks," I sold,

which side was which. range bombing.

I

Mr Attlee's health: The

CAN now give the full facts on Mr Attlee's state of health.

facts

And not without success. In the.

It is he whom the Torles mum Ho has fallen to safety first. And

he has dispirited his followers last four years he has built himself. an unassaliable, position In meet at the next election.

Throughout the country, other into And how will the Tortes face up to Sir Stafford when the battle Tory candidates follow Mr Lloyd's Transport. House. They

example. ́are reassuring. His is joined? duodenal ulcer is responding to Some of them will be in dug... It is musical chairs with the treatment and hig health is good.

general outs.

difference that the people who play Lame are looking for soft For there has been nothing like this

When the time came for the Air Force to drop the first atomic bomb, LeMay was put in executive charge of the operation as Chief of Staff of the then U.S. Army Strategic Air Forces. After the war it was LeMay who had the job of getting the vital, long-range research programme of the U.S. Air Force under way.

I predict that he will be fill and Birmingham scale. ready for full duties by Christmas. DEAD-PAN EXPRESSION

My good news about Mr Attles What sort of guidance does Mr NOBODY can accuse LeMay of ever should be welcomed by the Tories. Lloyd offer to his rank and file?

having talked himself into any of For Mr Attlee is by way of being The guidance of defealism. the promotions which have maden Tory favourite, and he is clearly Mr Lloyd him one of the youngest officers of the darling of the Liberals. his rank in the US. Air Force. He

In fact, Mr Attice is a wiry the Tory retreat from unsafe con- seals.

To the runaway Tories I com- fellow. His blood pressure is normal stituencies since the Israelites left

Egypt.

merd a song

from Gay's opera and his lungs and heart are in fine fottle for a man of his age.

Enter Mr Geoffrey Lloyd, one "Polly

the "Derpair leads to battle, no courage

as great. Dermatitis of the feet continues to time Petroleum Secretary in give him some trouble, and, he still wartime Coalition Government, and

the nowadays

man to whom They must conquer or die who've has to hobble around In slippers.

Torles look for no retreat. But he hobbles around quite Birmingham

No retreat. effectively. Except, of course, in guidance. For he is President of

No retreat, the afternoon when he goes to bed the Birmingham Conservative As

sociation, which

NO

controls 13 They must conquer or die who've

no Petreat." Title of the tune is "We've cheated the parson."

While the Tories run, the Social- docs not propose to its wrangle. For the redistribution means that there fight again the Ladywood Division of constituencies

too many Socialist M.P.s of Birmingham which he lost to the ste

chasing too few seats. generally wears a dead-pon expres- His popularity with his own Socialists in 1945. sion and seldom opens his mouth followers is not so pronounced.

So some of them will be init unless he has something important

standing after the next election.

to say.

One of his staff once said: "Le- May talks in such a low voice, we all have bent cora"

At a party in England a lady who had been watching him enjoy the affair in Atenco asked him he ever said anything. LeMay replied:

"Lady, if you talk all the time, you'll never learn anything."

NANCY

For polis of public opinion show

to

He has moved himself, bag, bag- that while Tories and Liberals are Kage, and Industriál Charter, more satisfied with Mr Attlee than the neighbouring Tory division of with the Government, Socialista are Moseley,

Moseley, under the redistribution more satisfied with the Government

of seats, becomes part of the new than with the Prime Minister,

And meanwhile he will continue King's Norton Division. But awhile as tula leader of the should be-amate Tory seat. Socialists. But the real power has passed to Sir Stafford Cripps.

Where a Yawn Would Be Upsetting

M

GIVE you the name of a politician to watch. It is that of Mr Mor- Can Phillips, 40-year-old secretary it of the Socialist Party.

Mr Phillips is a man of great How our. Birmingham leader has ability. He uses, his ability mainly fallon. He has fallen. to security, on behalf of Mr Morgan Philips.

By Ernie Bushmiller

BUSMALLET

BALO SPOTS!

As

the party secretary, he gets £1.200 a year.

ho

But Mr Phillips, it is said, has higher ambitions. He considers that would be more useful to the Socialist Party if he were in Parlia- ment, and more useful still if he were in the Cabinet.

I do not blame Mr Phillips if ho has an eye on a Cabinet post.

What are the qualifications of Me:.. Phillips for office?

Ho is Д Arst-class political organiser. Some say he is a better". election organiser than Mr Herbert Morrison.

So you may be sure Mr Morrison,

the ambitions of Mr will oppose Phillips.

For the entry Into the Cabinet of Mr Morgan Phillips would

mcan: the end of the era of Mr Herbert Morrison.

When Mr Phillips makes his bid for office he will not lack support.

He has the personal friendship of Mr Jim Griffiths, the present chait- man of the Socialist Party, and of Mr Sam Watson, who will be the f party's next chairman.

These are good strategical friend- ships for an ambitious man to have.

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