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IT WONT BE LONG NOW

World Copyright.

This is a tale of

GREED & DOUBLE-DEALING

Buenos Aires, Mar, 21.

H

ERE among the flesh- pols one heard of yet another British meat cut as a thing almost to intelligibly far away-and negligible.

This is the land of meat; one sers it, smells . cats it, argues ik. Right now that Just two-

weeks penn'orth for many browning on grills, turning on spits, lying on tables, and being tipped casually into dustbins oli around.

Yet there are meat ships sail- ing away, empty; the great. frigorifices of Buenes Aires are packing no flesh for Britain to алу.

A

by

JAMES CAMERON

William Hickey

London,

tenant, who has replaced the orthodox gentry" among the

WHO will spare a riders to hounds.

for

GRETTON -his

the bar of the George Hotel at Melton is a hunting print of 1035,

Underneath

F

plece of Victorian wishful-

life and hard times?

His lordship -- the 46- thinking: "Let us suppose our- year-old director of one of selves at Ashby Pasture in the the famous Burton brewery baticston's hounds

Quorn country, with Mr Os-

companies-is trying to morning in the first fine

week of

struggle along on £800,000, February, and at least 200 well- all that is left after death mounted men by the cover'a duties of the £2 million his

In father left him in 1947.

the first week of February, 1049, there were not more than to out with the Quorn-and the

With that sum Lord Gretton is doing his best to maintain tenant farmers outdid the landed Stapleford Park, Melton Mow- bray, in the heart of the hunting country.

gentry by Ave oric,

Are the ordinary people heré- Like the Mountbattens before abouts cast down by this chill hm, he is finding it tough going. Quern?

wind which blows over Fifty gardeners and servants, Not much. 600 acres of grazing land, and a further 3,400 acres sub-tet to

tenant farmers, constitute a high LESSON upkeep bl. His neighbours in DONALD BAILEY, lecturing to in modesty; SIR the hunting county look on bis the Supply Ministry, had to labours with sympathy. They refer about 100 tunes to his

famous bridge. Each time he satd, formally, "The Balley Bridge," never once slipped into "my bridge,"

TO TOWN

come the too, aro finding that an English- man'a castle is not always his most highly paid brains of the British composing world-they most easily run home.

In nearby Belvoir Castle the the five of Uiem-for a lesson in manke £50,000 a year between

let)

There was ARTHUR BLISS. who composed the famous ballet "Miracle in the

Gorbals": WILLIAM

(Henry V, and Ham- WALTON, with his new bridge. floppy-tied RAWSTHORNE, sergeant whose violin concerto is now an American. rngel

"precious" HUM-

F

the

ex

and the currency of the Argen- ting is the peso, And much | DUKE AND DUCHESS OF cocon-coloured water will now RUTLAND live in a small suite music-making. down the Rio de in Plata before the rest of the place is packed any Marshall dollars flow down with Government records, the Calle Cangalle of Buenos

where Syston Lodge, Aires.

CHURCHILL has often stayed, five miles

away, is now owned

Argentine by the

Iron Works, Holweli If the Argentinos had shown

ALAN Craven

erstwhile R Lodge, another Any signs of behaving lice well-meaning world citizens, stately home, is a country club. Army

Lord Gretton's plight is one could wap for the deplor-sonal. His father left EY SEARLE, who puts on able chaos of their economy.

No figures have

072-and the estate duties pay- been pub.

able

(£2,507,803) were nearly for six months: the coun

£300,000 above that figure.

And all because of the "miss onte Miranda kept the books in his head. The rigid system

ing million." This all squares up with the of export-imports Imposed In The arch-Ander Miranda, the operatie political conceit of 1947 goes on, there is practically corpulent little multi-million- John Sunday Peron and his no flow of trade at all, aire who ran

the Argentine's finances as a sideline to his own tinplate business, claimed vague- ly drought, labour trouble.

The Argentine's EXCUSES— when, in her mood of inordinate national conceit, she bothered to make any--were offhand and specious.

But Miranda, who eventually turned out to be too fantastic a Annncler even for Perop, was not telling the truth. gentine has not got the meat to honour her contract because: (A) SHE is eating it herself:

The Ar-

Before explaining why. 1 might say that this is all a good (B) SHE is flogging it on deal odder to write than you

side to other customers; might think. For the visitor to. Burnos Aires life, 1s full ot doubts and hazards.

the and

and

Even if he avoids politicnt trouble

disaster chrapes from the world's most terrifying traffic, he has still to face the ordeal of the eating house.

over

Argentine has been selling meat on the hool Andes to Chile. She has ein; tied her balance before she has try bliterly assumes that mag- paid off.

Eva, good, Indy, the Ineffable who does not like the British gringos, and would love to and a market to replace them.

The United States has almost refused to buy Argentine meal, and the shady deals with thê Continent are part of the come. back.

Meanwhile, Brilain, which ate 2,700,000 tons of beef 10 years ago, when her population was 47 million, now has a popula tion of three million more cating 600,000 tons less.

lshed

For the first baron slipped up in estimating the date of his own death. lle gave his sori shares in the brewery, worth over £1 million during his life-

line.

those Third Programme recitals, and ELIZABETH LUTYENE, LUTYENS, who thinks up com- daughter of the late SIR EDWIN

pliented

modernistie preludes while cooking the meals for her five children.

What brought them away from the composing bench? An opera at the Albert Hall called by an Austrian ALBAN BERG.

It

But he left it too late med

"WOZZECK,"

murders

mist Army recruit

In the past the Argentine at- ways sold to Britain three times more than she bought from us, the gifts were made within five now nothing comes in from Bri-years of his death and were sounds simple when you read. tatn at all.

Therefore able to duty. The the

Plot: present buron had to pay up.

hls sweetheart from And so Lord Gretton roams Jealousy, then throws himself in his estate-tall, forld, wearing a pond. But the music! It Is -tting, soft white collars, an 12-toned, which means that it old-fashioned tepin-and a wor- has no recognizable harmony,. and it walls and streams like a O the meat Britain was ex-rled look.

dervish dance. pecting has not turned up be-

S

Not being sold

cause it was being eaten here, Lord Grelion sadly ruminates What did the high-toned? been." quintet think of it? "Fascinat- because it has been sold out-over the "might have side, and because there is no "If," he says, "I had been a ing but complicated," they said delectable element of goodwill lover of gay living on the grand in the artists bar at, the end, scale, I should have got through Dut lots of the 4,000 members of

in the transaction at all.

a good deal of the £1,000,000 before this and what's spent the Treasury could not have

had."

do not console him.

**

Even the pleasures of the hunt He does not hunt with the Cottesmore, the paying audience looked But stunned at first, then stayed to dyer" Stapleford clap for ten minutes.

One of the hardest things to (c) SHE is in the frame of find out in this

Somewhere, between national- city of argutism and, necessity, there must mind to be difficult and to ment and impesses is what drive a high bargain with a happening to the Anglo-Argen- be a better way of doing busi

tine trade talks which have been ness than that. hard-pressed Britain.

going on since February 22.

And for me now there awaits which meets at his door.

tenpenn'orth the shadow. of baffled no coupon, no Englishmen are still scattered only the prospect, the intimidat-Park is yet another threat to the around their committeesing-challenge-just-once-more of hunting-folk Already it is the working farmer, often their own Buenos Aires. but from their a baby beef a la cabana. offices comes only faint troubled hum, of which the only distinguishable words are “beef" and "dollars."

They eat more

of THE Argentines, who adore

The Argentinos are even now

stocks producing enormous magnificent meat, and live on practically nothing else.

meat, are now themselves

more After consuming rather

than

a few days of wonderment, the four times what they export. stranger's emotions change from deilght to doubt, to despair. eventually to a terrible dread of on yet being asked to lunch another

section of monstrous

ox.

One Ands eneself in n situa- lon talor-made for Sefton Dei- iner--it is exactly the reverse

There is a Government sub- sidy for home consumption meat, and steers are now being killed off at 300 kilos instead of going to the frigorificos at the export weight of 500 kilos.

The tie knots

The inference is that they are getting nowhere fast,

Lack of faith

year commercial

agreement.

RADAR FOR SWEDEN IS HELD UP

typical some £85 million which the forces. example of the woolly rhetorle Argentine holds in Britain. with which Peron involves les politics and economies.

From SELKIRK PANTON in Stockholm

for their

guarantees

THERE

is a clash of opinion to explain the RITA HAYWORTH flop in the "Loves of Carmen" | taken "off after three lukewarm weeks in the West End.

ON OUR LEFT, The Moralists: who interpret it as public dis- approval for the star's spectacu- far sprees before instead of after› her marriage to the man she travelled with.

ON OUR RIGHT,

The So- Called Realists who say simply:

her in a good one and they'll roll up all right, morals or no. morals."

alone

General Feron approves high- THEY are discussing, or sup

pused to be discussing a Ave-BRITAIN has delayed de- Fact, are believed to have re- "Dreadful Blm--that's all. Pui of that In England; In Buenos ly of this. He has already made

livery

Americon of millions of celved Aires the visitor entrcats people a speech saying he would rather They have aa' background for pounds' worth of radar of top rearmament priorily. to whisper the name of a res his people at their fill of meat their wrangling a presumable equipment which the Swedes taurant where, at a price, there and exported only 10 percent of lack of good faith in the Argen-want

General Jung, Sweden's Com- is no chance whatever of getting their production, instead of 30 bine, and that credit balance of

The Realists have a strong armed mander-in-Chief, warned: "Our case, "Carmen" took a towel- percent, as HOW any steak,

need for supplies in peace andling from the critics. Practi-

cally direct miltury help in war The Swedes have had no ex-

among them MOSLEY at least planation for the delay. But makes it clear that neutrality LEONARD This sterling credit has the they believe there are three must not be allowed to isolate Praised by faint dans.

The Realists point also to Mr- faculty of maddening the Argen- | reasons for it-- Incidentally, British people tine finnneters to

Mitchum's

Cigarette high degree, here seldom refer to Juan Since the Argentine is other- 1. America's policy that arms Domingo Peron by name.

He wise

in a pitiable economie should not be supplied to neu- is known allusively, by a straight mess, in the red to the United tral European States and to translation of his first two names, as John Sunday. This is odd dollars, they hug and worry the Pack

States to the tune of 300 million those who stay out of the Allon- enough this sterling balanco as only cash asset..

Now, this is all very well for the Argentinos personat morale, but very bad for their national economic integrity.

Scrap of paper

THIRTEEN months

ago

the

JE

phenomenon well Argentine Republic signed known in countries with with Britain the Andes Agree- many ears as the Argentine. ment. Under this she under- took to deliver to the United Kingdom 420,000 tons of meat by the end of March, for which we undertook to pay £10 mi- lion in advance at the price of 10d. the kilo (2 1-5lb.),

The end of March is in sight, and now we know that the Ar- gentine is going to shortweight us by more than 70,000 tons.

NANCY

BOY... I FEEL MEAN TODAY

They

as their

cry constantly that it The other reason why John must be made available in dol- Sunday's Government, living as lars; for a week very little has it does in a world of lunatle come out of the trade talks but economics, has failed in the Bri- shrill squeal for convertibl tish meat contract is that she ty. has been selling elsewhere-to Belgium, Italy, Holland-with-

reference out

This, of course, will not occur;

2. American criticism of Dri- tain for selling Vampire jat Oghters to Sweden.

.3. A recent statement

by

Swedish Defence Minister Vougt that in wartime Sweden might Bupplied by have to uce arms Britain and America to shoot down British and U.S. planes violating her neutrality.

to whether she it may take long enough before Both Norway and Denmark, could still do that and Honour that fact is faced that the cur- desperately In need of arms. rency of Britain is the pound, and both Joining the Atlantic

her obligations to Britain.

Caught on the Fly

I JUST FEEL

ONE WAY

LIKE PICKING ON SOMEONE

By Ernie Bushmiller.

us from the West."

NORWAY

SWEDEN

MURMANSK

LENINGRAD

DILO

CHELSTOKE

STOCKHOLM

Miles

GU.S.S.R

200

Case.

whom.

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the adjective

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