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TOURNAMENT

NURSES

GLIDE

Jump!

UNDER THE VAST ROOF OF OLYMPIA ROYAL TO EARTH BY PARACHUTE

rays

**All vary. brilliant, very

and nostalgic,

pre-trar Cameron, describing the Touren ment, But when the RAF staged its parachute act, a war- trained generation, was brought back with a jump to the present.

READT TO

∙HALF WAY

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The Army-what an impresario!

by JAMES CAMERON

It

the kind of grace becoming to experts who know how to do more than one thing well.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 6, 1949.

A couple of peers would pep up this business

S

LONDON.

SHI Keep this under your hat, but I'm a spy. My mission is to mingle with American tour- ists and find out what they want to see in Britain

Once our Government has this secret in its hands it can lay plans to lure moro and more of them over here and so use their dollars to bridge the gap, win the peace, or whatever it is wo have to do to save the coun- try.

That's why, had you looked in a motor-coach standing in Leicester-square one day re- cently, you would have noticed Among the Americans inside a short fat man with square spectacles and a cigar. It was 1. doing London in a day, and trying to look as if I came from Oshkosh, Wis.

Artie

Why all the subterfuge? Well, it's my experience that Ameri- cans, contrary to a widespread belief, are extremely polite.

Do today's children get the same kick out of the Tourna-

Most of them wouldn't dream ment as their lewy-eyed

thelr uncles,

complaining about who

the SCC

whoin of thing in terms of long ago? treatment in England while There seems to be a critical they were still her guests. So it's no good going up to them and asking if they are getting over herc. want what they They'd only say "Yes" what- ever they really, thought, and

agc.

brilliant. was all very

The six-year-old beside me vary nostalgic and prewar-the was enraptured-by the R.A.F. Musical Rides, the Gymnastics, police dogs. The 18-year-old

the Massed Drums, mathema behind was regretful and keep their grumbies till they got- tical displays of square-bashing disillusioned; of the age which home.

in excelsis, ali directed with a will be satisfied with nothing The first point the master stagecraft and understanding short ol a Mark IV. atom of arena-dimensions that is not bomb. learned in a couple of months.

You can't kid them with There is still, now, the Redskins now. The guns," said Navy Field-Gun Competition, the lad despondently, "were \\7 HATEVER the Army pink lads to whom even the which I well remember as a obsolescent in 1018."

Estimates this year inst war is something to read drooling tol still ng crashing may be, they are ten bob too about.

GJ

spy looked for was the tourists' reaction to their English guide.

1

Fast pattor

more like an The dashing acrobats and thudding nnd full of But if the function-of-armies

was no on the motor-cyles (12 to one admirably bogus emulation Is to look magnificent and stir American guldo than a low. That small token, I

on occasion) are all new though the sweating mariners

melancholy 4

pride In one's college don is to Danny Kaye, out that fecl, should be debited

to intake: only ave were in the

are now apparently about 20 Income tax, this is a splendid (Afterwards I found the Signaller Who Fell Off. 1948 team.

years younger.

thing for an imperfect world. he was a don. A lot of them in their spare Bike His

Yet the Household Cavalry at the Royal

It cleaves stoutly to the days are doing this With the exception of the when armies

were gay and time now.) Tournament this year, and ! somehow seems to ride

thought the horses remembered R.A.F. parachute-training act. knights were bold, and it pro- Over in the waterloo; there is a deathless the whole thing very carefully jects its own personal glamour them appear to be radio come ed in doubt: that soldiers ness about archale uniforms. bears little relation to the final with a skill that is, in its way, dians carning are human and not, like How fantastic, for instance, do purpose of soldiering.

matchless. The Army as im- the puttees and tunics of 1017 their Show, immortal.

look against the polished

But it has non-

genuinely excit- presario is superb. When the Army goes in sense of the Guards!

ing

emciency, movement and

thus proved what had seem

for show-business, it does a job that should be a lesson" to us all. Make it big,

make it loud, make it bright, and aim for the ten-year- old trade.

-(London Express Service)

Portrait Of A Brave Man

W THAT would you do if

man.

you were

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..

in

+

States most of.

an extra dollar or two, They seem to be chosen for the speed at which they can rattic off statistics and in- terlard them with wisecracks that have nothing to do with the matter in hand.

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'Er, or, er'

different

WAS

our

I remember one of them in Chicago who opened up as Yet White Is no Communist. follows: "Now then, folks, my In fact, he 15

op nome ja Mark. strongly

Anything you Negro By Peter Stursberg posed to

their

methods and wanna know just shoot and That includes every Lon-

maintains that Communists are Mark will give you the answer. doner within earshot of a with skin so light that any-

His autobiography, "A Man using the colour problem in the You bet." which leaves one who did not know the brass-band,

published by United States for

their own fact would mistake you for Called White,

Gollancz at 18s today, very few people out.

Is as political ends. + n white man-especially if absorbing as any thriller. In- When he was a boy of thir The production of the you lived in the United evitably it is the history of the

his father teen, White and famous Joust this year, as States, where racial pre- NAACP and the Negro struggle knelt behind darkened win- usual, makes most of our judico is so strong?

America

dows, guns in band, to defend row fancy West End regisecure

Timo after time, White, like their lives against a white mob. college don, bless his heart.

modern

went This was Pimpernel,

ho mumbled, "Er. er, Walter White is just such a a

the Atlanta

cr. during look like dabblers. The

His skin is white, his down to the south to get the role of 1000.

warming up, we are now-er-- Services have, of course, the eyes are blue, his hair is blond. all-important

evidence of a

passing the-cr-city walls built advantage — the slickest As he says, the. traits of his lynching,

by the er Romans in er, er.. Posing as a white 'would direction, the loudest race are nowhere visible upon man, he

Induco the

It was then, he says, that he The exact date was lost in the drunken toughs and Klu Klux

roar of City traffic, because, - drums, the widest tumblers, him.

America, all on longterm contract Each year, Walter White says Klansmen to boast about their realised that he was a Negro, unlike the guides in

bloody deeds.

'human' being marked for with no

competitive that some 12,000 while-skinned

a microphone. Often he was in danger, and. persecution so that those with he had not been supplied with Negroes in the United States management, and a

Con disappear. Their absence can once he missed being lynched, white skins could always feel

"Can't hear a word he says." tinuity of performance that not be explained by death or himself when word got around superior. And he adds:

teacher from is pretty well heraldic by Immigration. They have passed that l was a yellow agger:

"I was glad I was not one of whispored the aubmerged themselves in the passing for a white"

those whose story is, in the Wichita, Kansas, who sat next white race for the sake of After telling of a recent or history of the world, a record to me. "But he's real cute. Dɔ

currence in Columbia, Tennes- of bloodshed,

and you suppose ho's a lord?” rapine The Old Tilt Hall of security.

Most of these people are of tee, when white "peace ofl-

pillage. Olympia, dressed with

great importance. Some, care and policemen not only. "I was glad that my mind follow "Suggest all guides be new coat of tan-bark, is once however, are members of Con- murdered Negroes, looted their and spielt were part of the recruited from aristocracy and again something between gress, Some are organisers of homes, but machine-gunned the

fully hand round visiting cards at that had not A dirt movements "to livery-stable and

koep the whole Negro district, White awakened, and who, therefore start of tour." Negroes in their place."

had

before them track.

remarks:

"Ironie emphasis was given opportunity to write a record Think of the thrill that It shows

the episode

widely- of virtue as ooctenordinary chdurance. 1 of White did not pass. Instead heralded insistence during the

teacher from Wichita. It sho tochnique

tho genera-he

As Whiter points out, all race got back home and told all the became an outstanding period by: Secretary James Armageddon" memorandum to would have given the little young Negro leader and head of the Bymcs tions how suddenly

that the rights. of prejudice is founded on one of others that, she had been shown Association for those mounted gallants soom to National

the minorities In the Balkans the most absurd fallacies of our round London by a peer wo'd the. Coloured should be guaranteed in demo-, ime-the ballef that there is a have the entire ba; under the pompous cufrasses Advancement of and plumes are quite obviously | People (NAACP),

cratic fashion."

(Continned on Pags. 13)

here next year.

now.

once

over

more

the

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The spy made a note of this os

school

!

BERNARD

WICKSTEED

is on tour again—this time in the uniform of a tourist to Britain. He is finding out whether the visitors from overseas are going home as satisfied customers.

Here is Report No. 1

And if the peers won't play? Well, we'll make them. "Dollars for Dukes" should bo our slogan, not "Hunger with Haulcur." After all, now that Thomas Cook's is nationalised, turning our aristocrats fato civil servants is only another step.

When I was in India GA American honeymoon couple at my hotel heard that I might be going to SCO the Iocal maharajah and offered " thousand dollars if I could get them an introduction.

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"I'd wait here three months get, un Invite from a maharajah," said tho bride. which just goes to show.. An- other thing we could exploit is our gardening. The greater part of. America is so hot and dry in the summer that good gardens are a luxury. Here they are everywhere.

Driving through the City we passed several beautiful ones bulit. among the bomb Kitep. One of them, full of roses, hollyhocles, and delphiniums, made the teacher from Wichita Losp with admiration. "I'd have come to see that alone," she said.

THE

High spoed

MIE guide, lost in a discourge on the history of City guilds, didn't even pause to point it out.

Incidentally, it we'd been really cunning we'd have kept one bombed building just as it was, with the rubble and wall- paper and splintered furniture still in place. It would have given the tourists batter idea and 'something 10 talk about when they got home.

And so to the Tower of London, with tho spy In their midst still undetected. The Tower and Westminster

Abbey have, top priority with American tourists, and rightly, for the whole history of Eng- land is concentrated in their walls.

But if history is concentrated there, 50 Are the visilors, Going round with a guide is Hke playing golf on a crowded links. You have to rush through at top speed to avoid being overtaken and swamped by the party behind.

"Sherilere" murmured tho don as we left, having done the Tower in one hour flat.

Queen Mary turned up at the Tower the other day and asked to see the Crown Jewels. Some of them she has worn herself, but in between coronations sho has to join the general crush

to look at them.

In a daze

she sald they weren't displayed in some place where people had more room to see.

AFTERWARDIf it was

St Paul's (crypt closed), the National Gallery (history of European. painting in 30 minutes), and the British Muscum (most of it stili shut up) followed the Tower at such breathtaking speed that the spy was as dazed and bemused as the tourists themselves,

Comparing notes afterwards. the teacher from Wichita said the part she remembered best was seeing the Lowers in Queen Mary's drawing-room window at the back Marlborough House. That wag | really something.

The most disappointed man was a Bullder from Milwaukee. He wanted to sco buildings put up by Mr Bevan, not William the Conqueror and gir Christopher Wren. Today ho going on a trip to Windsor, not to see the Castle, but to got Д glimpse of building estates on the way.

Something's gone wrong when that's the boat we can do for

him.

over

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