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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JULY 27,

1949.

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Being further advice supplementary to CL booklet issued in New

York to Americans going abroad.

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THE booklet says: "IŁ

T

NATHANIEL GURBINS

is rare to find drun- in the native quarters, fitting kenness outside the glasses and saying "Cheers U.S. in any but the lowest or "Cheerlo" and "Ectually yes" or "Ectually no" in muttered specimens."

undertone.

+

But it will be a long time

before he is invited to their kraals to meet the squaws and taste the strange native cook- inni.

com

the bowler walks back to have another go.

Tho attack bogins on the lipstick and gunpowder world of.

Those fabulous

du Ponts

WASHINGTON. in his country sent at Nemours, LICK-minded United some 50 miles from Paris.

States Attorney- But people * Iittle mord General Tom Clark prosale will tell you that is preparing to

poverty-strjekten little girl best part of a million pounds named Anue de Montchanin to. bust

in went to live in a Poria back

street with her watchmaklog

America.

use

tho

cartels up

Is first action, which is brothers. And across the street expected to take years to lived another humble

argue, is against America's maker named du Pont. greatest industrial giant-

watch-

They married and to them

du Pont de Nemours & Co., was born a non who became owners of a dozen major the Sicur of the official story.

concerns, part-owners of

General Mators, the world's

greatest motor-car makers.

Clark has just filed a sult

Growth in war

In Chicago's Federal Court THE whole family fled France against du Ponts, His alm:

after the evolution. Sleur

To divide their holdings into Samuel was an old man now and had become Cliizen du at least four parts.

Port. They arrived in Amerlea Mr Crawford II. Greene- on New Year's Day. 1809-sea- When a Test match is on this walt, president of E. I. du sick, hungry, dispirited. lasts from 11 .m. till 6.30 pan. Pont de Nemours and Com- with intervals for lunch and tea. pany, in a 1,000-word letter

You don't have to switch on again after lunch.

Women

to

Arst munition

Two years later these amaz- shareholders, has de- ing du Ponts had set up their factory at scribed the Government Brandywine near Wilmington, move to break up the du in Delaware. It was done on Pont industrial organisation President Jefferson's orders, as "a direct threat to the and the first du Pont gunpowder

when the

Long after the umpire had "RE careful with women."

This injunction the nation's ability to advance blasted out of an American gun staffed the piece of paper booklet does not mean don't drop in peace and survive in was fred in 1813,

relief his pocket, the mentators went en talking about it until this Ilstener began to wonder if it was a erleket match or a paper chase.

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So far as England is con- cerned, the operative word in the sentence is "find."

There arr plenty of low specimens in this country roli American will have something listens he will probably believe Ing about the pavements sing to write home 10 Mommo ing, but this does not mean about.

they are the only people in the country who are drunk. There are thousands of others, but they are noticeable.

Americans

often complain

If and when this happens the

Customs

"CONFO

CONFORM with local cus- toms," advises the bauk-

sec

that the English are cold and let. reserved. They attempt a con- This does not mean that the versation in n bar with an visitor is obliged to Englishman, who does not re- cricket match, join in a folk ply.

dance at the vicar's tea party, or help the Toddy Man to kiss all the charwomen in Little

day,

is

of the

Tiddley on Maundering Tues

The first time an American

that something is going to hap- pen almost at once, This will be due to the skill of the com- mentators in making as much as possible out of everything.

A

For instance, although bowler may bowl all day without taking a wicket, this is (roughly) how each ball is described by an Englishman working himself up Into a state of unnatural excite ment:~~-

"A is going to bowl to B. He is walking back now to measure his run. One, two, three

a woman if you happen to be carrying one. It means the other thing.

English women are usually as plain and wholesome as English dinner, though there are, a few exceptions, who are ex- tremely beautiful.

You needn't worry about the beautiful ones.

war." He denied all charges. Brillsh attacked Delaware Bay.

Giant net

Just over one hundred years later another du Pont buasted that two of every

five shells in World

fired by the Allleg concerns War 1. wero propelled by du

THE du. Pont

enmesh everything Pont powder. Probably they you touch in American life When that war began the are already married and most of from lipstick to gunpowder. firm's assets were £18 million. them stay married..

And the du Ponts them- When it ended, they were near-

World

It is the plain and wholesome ones who are a menace. They selves are liable to turn up y £80 million. When

men, and anywhere. There are 128 of War II, ended the assets were

nearly £400 million. speclulise in lonely especially lonely American men. them in the various com-

They will listen pop-eyed for hours to tales about the cdo panics they control.

you haven't got, never tire of But whatever they do, the remarks Mom made and the

Tom Clark wants to smash photographs of Junior.

Profit in peace

Like the rest of the population, up the financial giant which Bu they are determined, patient, they have defiantly woven with what was going to hap- single-minded. They will listen for themselves.

to you in the streets, in the fields, on the beaches and at the

this munition-making was small beer compared

pen after World War One. First, du Ponts sent out their buying up paint and varnish factories.

Then they bought

men

it might be seven, eight, nino... Afteen, cinema. They will never give in. Twice they have fought themstivés, more than a quarter

Test

Ho

This is not because he unfriendly. It is

because he can't reply. He is plastered.

As most Englishmen

All the same, high, as distinct from the low, worth while aceing

sixteen, seventeen, poces. 41 type behave in this way lo- (cricket)

match if the visitor turns. He begins with a walk. words foreigners, an American fa staying long enough. It Now he runs. Yes, he runs. He may ask, "Are they all drunk, would provide

material for runs to bowl He's running up

And HE BOWLS." another long letter to Mom. now.

The insular English believe (Shout.)

then?"

The answer is "Yes."

Language

the only clean

that foreigners are unable to "Heck," thinks the American, appreciate cricket because it is, "What's cookin now? Murder?"

In- game left

Usually nothing's cooking. The go further, "Try to deed, they

They batsman lets the ball go by in THE booklet urges:

bellove it remains clean only case he gets caught off it, and pick up at least a few

because foreigners Jerve 11 words-of-the-.-language.............This

alone." is always flattering native."

THE

to

the

A Test match is n gama cricket between an all England "Few" is the operative word team and a team from one of here.

the Dominions. If an American meets no- It lasts many days in the body but those included in the hope of arriving at a result, type depicted above, picking but this rarely happens unless up a few words will be the they go on playing in what work of a life-time.

were once known as timelesa Tests.

It is stating the obvious to say that if a man is incapable

of uttering even one, word you can't pick it up.

| right on asking questions.

As the English uro also

their

known for

doggedness,

his victim will eventually force.

In cricket, "Umeless" does not mean world without end. It means enough time for 20

Cricket

money to

C.V.R.

The du Ponts are waiting, Attorney-Generals in cartel battles.

hare in General Motors. Money was coming in fast now.

But if you want to know the brutal truth it is this!

They don't believe you have a G.Is have been here

So in 1925 the du Ponts ranch.

Who are these due Ponts? before you. They hate the sound

bought up the ploneer plastic of Momma and they loathe the

Their own semi-official his company. A year later the No- sight of Junior.

They just want to get out of tory will tell you that in 1730 tonai Ammonia Company went the Two years later rationed 12

country

with Samuel du Pont, later Inspector- down.

ftreat Grastelli Chemical

Come marriage lines.

General of Commerce to Louis re XVI, was born and later be- pany; then a pigment company; came Sieur du Pont, and lived then a cellulose firm. A com

pany that made ceramic colours and peroxides-was-next, then- another pigment compa

company and a dye company. And, finally, Remington Arms Company.

-London Express Service)

Thompson Reports

The American Scene

The du Ponts started spray- ing cellulose on to car bodles. The du Ponts saw a future in rayon. They poured money in- to it and money came pouring back.

Com- D

"Today they claim they. can make a plastic diamond you will mistake for a real one Vice-President Alben Barkley, stage and screen jobs since he

but the du Pont ladies stlik falsely called hower, two other generals, the Communism President Truman's top adviser, was

wear the real thing. Cinrk Clifford, General Elsen- munist. Sald he: "It is not

to protest against conl unt!!

The du Ponta broke

down they usual Senators, and a few am- a lynching."

made clothes and chemi

chemical

fertilisers

from it. bassadors have accepted.

They are playing now with the

NEW YORK. batsmen to be bowled caught the title of Washing NEW CLAIMANT to The American is advised to stumped, or run out twice, or persevere. He is advised to until such time when no more ton's No. 1 hostess has

cold stare in the spectators will pay ignore the bloodshot blue eyes and keep watch the game.

emerged.

The title is vacant or AN ENGLISHI VISITOR_ to D Carl Klein, of Brooklyn, fresh air. They have got nylon. BLIND until alx months ago, iden of plucking plastics from shortly because A New York, 27-year-old Mrs now says that he is not sure to the stage where other textile will be

standing open- couple of words through the COME idea of the speed of Mrs Perle Mesta, who has Cynthia Holloway, of London, whether he is grateful for the niakers are

which restored his mouthed, wondering what mogle be obtained held it since her friends the is shaking the Americans con- "miracle"" heayy moustache, if he dies in

unlike sight.

Juggernaut has overtaken them. the attempt,

by listening to a radio com- Trumans went to the White Viction

Sold be: "I have discovered The couple of words will be mentary on a Test match. House, is off to become US America, is a man's...country.

that it's the blind who really either Ectually

Since they discovered that ree. People in the world of the yes" DX Commenting on cricket. Minister to Luxemburg. "Ectually no,"

Holloway which mean probably the most difficult job

assistant blind are unselfish. There is no tho "Yes" and

world, "No" respectively. in

because,

for The challenger, Mrs Morris the comment Cafritz, is unlike most of her It might be supposed that a hours on end, man so handicapped would be ators have hardly anything rivals in that she is young and glad to reply in monosyllables to comment on.

That is why glamorous, leaving out the redundant word there are always three of them. "ectually."

The others take over when the

cricket may

Mro

thnt

of

Britain,

is

APPEAL

servant Judith Coplon

Expert aid

IT of course, who have done

manager

A Government pushing around. Other blind TT is not the du Ponts alone, owned firm holding jet engine people are eager to help. patents, they have hounded her

"In the outside world it's all this it is the French, Ger- like a top celebrity.

every mari for himself. People man, British, and American are grasping and shoving. If scientists they have had work- But she is like them in that

by former civil you weep, you weep alone." Ing for them. But this is not the English first is exhausted talking about she has plenty of aggressive- ness, ambition, and money ther way", The English way is the nothing.

The Vanderbilts and Rocke- hard way.

American As an

In desperation they read the husband is a millionaire estate against her conviction as a spy PLUNGING NECKLINES are fellers are left

for the Russians may be taken making the

Anancially far writer has already pointed out, score card over and over again, agent).

to the public as well as to the woman look like a

American behind the £1,000 million con- even the bedside lamp-switches describe the appearance of the

chorus girl cerns of the du Pont family. And Mrs Mesta, during her courts. Her lawyer, Archibald, British hotels aro pinyers, and sometimes fill in the

In the Folies Bergere. com- But that is the kind of com- placed in such a position that time making dirty cracks about tenure, of the "championship Palmer, plans to re-enact her plained Helen Rose, Hollywood parisan the dis Ponts do not

always thought

Cafritz recent Washington trial in a fashion designer.

particularly wish to boast about On one occasion a plece of dangerous enough as a possible series of TV programmes be- Having, got so far in social paper blew across the pitch. This rival to exclude her from all fore a jury of ordinary people. Intercourse with tho. English was dramatic that the com- her parties.

The proliminary and

thic

engagement acquired

limited mentator on duty at the time д ́on the incident as knowledge of the local patois, seized

with which Mrs Catritz will the American can then spend drowning man is supposed to fight for, the title is a steak a folly evening with the natives clutch at a straw.

you have to get out of bed to the spectators, switch them off.

NANCY

· Eficiency. Expert

OUT

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party.

Sho predicted the fad will right now. not last because the well-

profera to-be-i groomed, woman from Canada on the best-dressed, instead of OMPLAINT

Lee, Broadway's top Negro. the best undressed, fashion actor: Ilo has lost several good lists.

By Ernie Bushmer

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