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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, MARCH 25, 1940.

WESTERN UNION

Hearly twelve months after the signing

of the Brussels Treaty there are few signs of

a common defence mechanism.

BRUSSELS

ATLANTIC

PACT

PLENTY OF GENERALS,BUT WHERE ARE THE TROOPS ?

NEW YORK.

WEEK from Sunday 256 people I have

never met are drop. ping in for tea at my place and each of them will hand me £2. Or, at least, that is what they told me at the strange little party for nine I went to last night.

World Copyright,

They've got me in the pyramid gamble

C. V. R. THOMPSON cables a day-by-day forecast of his chances of getting rich quick in the craziest dollar dream on earth.

acted as if I had caid I were Robert Mitchum.

"I'll put you right through."

SUNDAY NIGHT: 1 am a number nine like Mrs Mc Cutcheon now, and I give a eight brand new party for

the traders with pyramids.

Say you wanted to live in Israel-

S

HOW CAN A

MAN PROVE

THAT HE IS JEWISH

by BERNARD WICKSTEED

been just as frightened as real Jow. And if they had over found out that my grandmother's name was Solly (which it was) It would have been idle to havo explained that Bho was the daughter of a Unitarian minister (which is also true).

for

If you are eligible as a jew pogrom purposes. (even though you are not one), are

you also eligible for a visa to Israel? To test the matter

I went along to the London. headquarters of the Israeli Provisional Government, in Manchester square. the Government of

To bo

did honest, t

not Iarnel has turned down actually pose as a Jew and apply Mr Stanley. It won't let for, a visa, but I asked what

if I did.. him in though he claims would happen

"Supposing," I said, "I told that he has the automatic you my real name was Wick right to enter the country stein, would you let me in?”. because he is a Jew. What- The official looked at me hard ever happens to him in the for a moment or two and then end, his case is likely to have said: "Yes, we probably would.

And

here's another point. a lasting influence on the During the British mandate of Constitution of the new Palestino the Jews were alwayn State.

saying that we had no right exclude any Jew from entering Among the fascinating ques- the country. But now they aro tions it raises is this: How do In charge themselves they have found out that there are some you prove that you are a jew?

In the past the problem has you have to excludo-those who tended to be the other way collaborated with the Germans, round. Thousands of proplo alive for instance.

In Germany and Poland today owe their ability to prove that

they were not Jews. A

NO REASONS

There, is nothing in the But now the situation has provisional Constitution which changed. The proclamation of allows them to do this, but they the new State said: "Israel will have done it. As with Mr bo open to Jews from all Stanley, hey have given no countries,"

The draft Constitu- reasons. They just haven't grant- tion goes further and says ed the visas. That is why some "Israel shall admit every Jew of his advisers have suggested were preoccupied who desires to settle within is that Stanley should smuggle himself into the country and test

territories."

And an actor reported that

Supposing, illon Mr Stanley. Broadway, always impatient you were a Jew who did desiro for quick results, had speeded to settle in Israel. it up so that a pyramid club went through all is phases in 12 hours instead of 12 days.

the matter out there in the courts.

(You might At this moment there is a like the idea of all that sunshine committee sitting in Tel-Aviv and the oranges) How would trying to devise a formula that you sel about proving you had will get the right?

1

them

out of this

rituation...

There's nothing to show on a If Mr Stanley had been before British passport. A birth n court and convicted of some- certificate doesn't say if you're a thing it would be easy for them

After about 40 calls I found a newspaperman named Richard Manson who had not yet Jew or not, Joined a club. I began my salce talk. He interrupted me.

FACE VALUE

to find an excuse for keeping him out. But he hasn't.

Apart from going bankrupt, all

he has done to give evidenco

I know + man (not Mr before a tribunal, and you've got: "Listen," he said, "I used to Stanicy) who is in just this to find some better excuse than

ful the hostess and the she said. And in a few minutes number twelves, each of whom he a mathematician and, be dilemma. He hasn't even a birth that for denying a man his.

pays me a dollur.

And when I seemed doubt- seven other guests all talked at once to reassure me.

Had not Mike, the gar- bage man, won £87 only yesterday? And Wood, the builder, In New Canaan, got £1257

I was getting instructions to go to a large white house on High Ridge-road, just beyond May nt Live o'clocke Apple-road, And take a dollar with me.

"Mr Lewis sent me," I said to the coloured maid who an swered the door of the large white house. The hostess, Mrs

Did not I hear about Toots McCutcheon, greeted me as if Shor, President Truman's were Winston Churchill. She favourite restaurateur, wine looked at the ning enough to pay for his hand. "Oh, yes," she said, "Mt new restaurant?

Lewis is a

chart in

number eleven."

her

And how about Walter At the club

Pidgeon out in Hollywood getting away with a coolTM million?

So here I am a member of a pyramid club, the get rich-quick craze which is threatening to stop all other business in New York and its suburbs,

IN her drawing-room were seven other guests, I recognis- ed only Charlie, the man who delivers groceries. Others were a secretary, a labourer, a free- lance writer, a bartender, and two housewives.

some was

And if I am a great deal

some than more honourable pyramid club members. I take those eight dollars to the num- ber one ma on the pyramid. And 205 other number nines take him their eight dollars to make the grand total of $2,048.

MONDAY NIGHT, and every

ono

lieve me, this thing is crazy. Do certificate, because they did not new-found racial rights

At the moment, Israel can you know how many people issue them in the part of Austria

offer little to its immigrants but: will have to join just your where he was born.

He fied to England before the hard work, austerity and a

But own private little club for you pogroms began, so he has never spiritual tonic.

supposing to get pald off-4,194,304.

There would be such That's half the population of He does not belong to any New York.

Jewish religious organisation. So get there that you might witness what is the man to do? How can the curiously reversed process of he claim his rights? Because he consulates filled with barred or looks like one?

bogus Jews trying to get visas,

the

Mediterrancan a If the passport officer has to and in grant visas on those tema all Jewish navy battling with fleets.

might pass of blockade runners crammed

full of Gentile adventurers. through. I might myself.

That committee in Tel-Aviv Cartoonists who draw me in

look moro has certainly got something to profile muke me Jewish than anyone I know, think about. However it decides,.

lived in Europe during the affaire Stanley is bound to friend-Mr Had a

the

Nazi terror I would have influence Its low-making.

been in a concentration camp. it stellen oil or a rush to..

"And there are not enough children and monkeys in this world to pay

men,

women,

now going on in this city."

night for a week I sweat it off all the pyramids that are kinds of Gentlics out at home, going up notch every night (if no one. breaks the chain).

So far. I have lost a dollar. the price of 89 telephone calls,

probably

SUNDAY WEEK: I cash in and --(if dillo.),

But with 10 days to go, have already reached a crisis. I have just made my 88th -tele phone call, and I have not found one, let alone two, new victims to take along to friend Lewis's party.

the

Lewis.

GIs Can Find It So Lonely

Far From Juke-box Land

My first prospect was cashier in the drugstore of my office skerper. She laughed at me." et ve propositions We were served coffee and

Bushy Park, Middlesex. a minute" she said. "I am in doughnuts. There

two clubs already and I haven't was a long walk from the

IT conversation about what In- time for any more." It had all sounded

80 teresting people you met at sir

Emte. All i Bad to do was to these pyramid clubs. And then rattend à party, pay a dollar, to business.

find two more people to pay

a dollar, give a small party Wa each bald Mrs McCat- myself, and then just sit theon a dollar, and we cuch back and wait for my 2,048 dollars (£512) to roll in 12 days later.

On the phone

I was simple at first. I tele-

cot a chat as complicated as anything Sir Stafford Cripps

thought up.

Slow work

of

"You are now number twel- so much the boss threatened to even see a gum-chewing GI. Are us for tying up the tele- explained Mrs. McCut ves,"

phones, and all this week, we cheen. "and 50 write your

members Trying to find arc name at the bottom of the for the boss." pyramid,"

J

Instead serious-looking

thero

Wero

ho

By EVELYN WEBBER said, "Apart from tle, job of

the

"We have eight rooms," heating, we love the place,

wife My

manages station

rows past

In command is sit. Major- Food? and sedate houses,

the General Leon Johnson, hero of beautifully, on our rations"

These, bought at the camp squatters near Hampton the Plosti oilfields raids. He

with American.. commissary, Court, to reach Bushy Park, served in England during

money [used exclusively here), new headquarters of the war, and won the DFC.

have been imposed to nvold the "Most of my men are like possibility of a black market.

"They corps of secretaries employ-And when I got here there I APPROACHED a few of the US. Air Forces in Britain.

me, says the general. Radio the 05-storey

including ed in

wartime Britain in

Each person, were no juke boxes, no were in

nilowed llb. of Building next down here," popping coca-cola caps, and and they asked to come back, children, is ed at me wearily. "Look

ment per day: a dozen eggs, a week; llb. of cheese per day; said a spokeswoman, all last no pin-up girls. I didn't They like it here.". week we played the pyramids

"But some of its are very 300 cigarettes weekly: a pound cold in theco O.D. shacks" of butter, weekly. 300 (Order of the Day RAF huts),

Some types of chocolate and Americans sald one of the general's staff.

soap flakes are rationed. So is

packeis Li ("please call us alrmen,, even Cone from Buchy Park is the chewing gum-10

of wartime, week. attitude though we don't fly") occupy rakish telephoning ing about five acres of buildings Most of the men here

"Much of it is British food, Air married, with their wives and

for export, Major RAF the from rented

billets and earmarked

Corrigan said, Transport Command (who still families living in work in their own headquarters more coming.

With the major. I toured the put such alongside). [

Enlisted men get E5 to 40 The late has

a car driven by a of park in exclusive weck n

pay, TONIGHT: I take two. new load em the telephone company

When they, find British Army ex-zergeant. In At Bushy Park during the allowances.

they pay £6 Os, a the busy Post Exchango (Noo) were serving members to a party my friend that you sometimes have, to wait ten minutes to get a fina

Officers pay English girls Lewis is giving, and if they

groceries and pouring coffee. from one exchange, to another.war the Americans established rooms wach pay him a dollar I go up And then many business offices a huge base. Now, with four week and more.

About 100 Britons, paid by what a notch in the pyramid to the have put a fortnight's ban on U.S. Air Force operational and more than £8 Bs.

"Rents are high here," com-

the Air Ministry; work for the acroplanes of the ail outgoing and incoining per-training depois in Britain to

ment the Americans.

drive. Lewis was number eleven position.

here 25 to Americans sonal calls so that they can get maintain

Berlin airlift (the first time in

One of Botho work done.

then. 32-year-old their nine service cars (average history, a major Power has established bases in the country Major T. Corrigan, has found a calary £6 a. week, plus over- andi rost cooking A friend in Wail-street-he of another major Power in home for his wife and two time), the

old hunting typing. They may buy non- turned me down too-said that peace-time) this small area will children in an

Henry VIII.

Exchange, trading on the Stock Exchange be their permanent headquar- lodge that once was used by rationed items. In the Post: lind slowed down because all ters

Then I began not seem

New York. quite so For this is any slow work.

phoned a friend of mino named Lewis. Number engaged.

It dki An hour leltir I got an answer. "Sorry," said a girl's voice, simple now. "Mr Lewis is engaged all tho

routine, week."

My protesta were answered with an irritable: "Please don't tle up our lines."

Persistently I asked kind of ense Mr handling. "It's not a case," said the girl, "we're playing the pyramid clubs."

"TOMORROW NIGHT: I play Hottie and become A number fen if I can chivvy' those two new members of mine to pro duce yet another two members girl 'ench.

I explained that was what wanted to speak to Mr Lewis about. Immediately the

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