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STRASBOURG.

THREE years of Washington and now

three months in Paris. What has been the Impact on me? A few days away in Strasbourg has given me time to ponder the point.

I can start my answer with an all too | solid fact. I have put on exactly a stone

since I left the United States last spring.

In the capital which bore the Marshall plan I used to grab a quick lunch costing 2s. 6d-and coffee. Then back-but quickly to one's desk.

In this I was at one with most Washingtonians from Senators to lypists, Lunch, like life, was

lunch cober; like life, wis earnest, Minutes were counted as well as pennies,

And what of the capital which supports the organisation of European Economic Co-opera- lon? I eye the elpck with agony na the honds close upon 12 noon. When that happens, I know all too well that Monsieur X of the Ministry and all his colleagues will not be available again on

the telephone before 3.30 pm.

That great French Institution of lunch will have taken over.

nut

Steaks, solės

stops. up

An attractive_little_boy

in a Palm Beach suit:

He Says

He'll

Save The

Soul Of Britain

By Edwin Roth

LONDON.

ROM Indiana, USA to London has come America's latest export. --- 14-year-old hot-gospeller David Walker, known as "Little David, the Miracle Boy."" Claiming divine healing powers, ho hos como to save the soul of Britain, and to heal Britain's sick and mailmed.

A tall order? Not for little David. He and Ray- mond G. Hoekstra, founder of the Calvary Tabernacle, Indiana, who is David's teacher and manager, claim that at the age of 10, David spent five hours in heaven. There ho was told to return to earth to preach and heal the Bick.

At

Arzt his parenla were tirade, ล stertorous breath. sceptical. But after he had and another fow hundred Koho on hunger-strike, they words of scripture quotations. allowed him to start preaching The audience, in a mass trance, and healing. Guided by Hook- ways ecstatically and shouts stra, he has been preaching Hallelujah. With a high leap. and healing over since. In David Lings off his cont and America, thousands of fol- continues dancing and shriek- lowers teslify to his powers ing in a sweat-drenched thirt.' and, incidentally, mako offer- ings to enable him to carry on

his work.

ing

--

Exhausted

Come with me to his meet-minutes, he calms down, be

THEN suddenly, after 26

at the Kingsway Hall. Tho circular hall Is crowded comes an attractive, but rather Hoek- with 1,700 people. Many are exhausted boy again,

coal and shabbily dressed working class stra hands him his

Eick and maimed to men and women, mainly mem- felt the bers

marshal of various small

into

orderly tigious secta and

Sitting among them

re- missions. "prayer line"

platform. the the что

to. troop Deross Special cuses

blind, the deaf and durib, the first. then ordinary epileptics, paralysed and the malmed. neurotics and minor ailments.

Д

A' Jolly-looking

clerical collar munity

singing

Minister In Among the first is Mias

leads com- Minnio of rousing dington. hymns for 45 minutes. hymns Increase in Handclapping and "Hallelujah" from gregation interrupt ing.

G.

James, of Pad- Sho has been blind The for nine years. David lays bla fervour, handa en her eyes, prays fer- of vently. Hundreds bow their the con- heads, moan and weep. the sing-

"Your sight

returning. your alght is returning," shouls David, and takes his hands off her eyes. There is indescrib- ablo disappointment on her face.

"Only believe"

tri

The other day I bought a taurant cost me £2-including radio. It took an awfully long steaks, sole, strawberries, cheese, line. I knew exactly what a good bottle of Burgundy, wanted; I had my money all brandy, and coffee. ready in my hand and 1 meant

In Washington few lunchers THEN Raymond Hoekstra,

an off-white Palm Beach sult, to walk in, point to the model 1 al even diners-out dream of steps before hod chosen, and then leave ordering wine. It is a question Amid more shouts of "Halle man. David and his followers

the microphone.

"Pray some more," shouts a smartly, with it tucked under af a couple of cocktails before lujah" ho tells how Little continue

Suddenly praying. from then on David went to heaven, how the woman's face lights up, and

Little David was told to heal the embraces David.

my arm.

blind see and

the meal, and No luck! Monsieur who owned -water. If you do want in

boltle you can get one of the sick, how Little David the shop likes to do business the French way. The model Collforio's more hideous offer has made the

had first to be lovings costing 178. Gd., compared the lome walk. ingly examined by with an admirable Bordeaux ot all present, includ- Eurgundy for about 63.

My hairdresser ing his wife and brother-in-law. charged me just over 28. d. for a haircut, shampoo, and fric- Next it must be tion. In Washington I had le compared with the fork out 14s, plus tip. other modela оп view. Then I was

The author-and his wife's

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WASHINGTON.

PALES

Jid, por lb.

Bread Grilling steak

4/3

Stewing steak

8/3

270 per lb. 2/- per lb.

Afilk..

1/31

sd.* per quart

(Camembert)

4/3

1/3jd, each

Coffee

3/0

2/8 per lb.

Bd. per rake

Cheese

Soap ...

Pasteurised, homogenised, and do livered to your doorstep in sterile carrozis. "Non-Pasteurised and you save to fetch it yourself in tins.

"Get

my

Bridling gorgon®

called on to furnish

a detailed descrip-

in

Paris

Cheap-and good

"Sho can seč!” shops Hock- stru. And through the hall goes the cry. "A miraclel A

At a signa), all rise and miracle! Hallelujah!"

David's signature sing Little tune. "Only Bellove, Only Believe, All things are possible, Only Believe."

Disillusion

MISS James walks off in a "All those who belleve that state of ecstogy. But Avo reporters all things are possible I you minutes later, when believe, sing with your right questior her outside the hall, Brins uplifted," shouls Hock the bitter iruth dawns on her. cat really stra. Nearly all the people Sho can see only the flashes of tion of the room in IF you want to

wellt lift their right arms, swaying, light still

outlines which I proposed to Install 1. After can take you to some restaurants ecstatic expressions on their figures she could see before.

Men and women faces.

bayo that we got down to where you can lunch (soup or

down tears

their running business,

hors d'œuvre,, a really good steak with fried potatoes and

cheese or fruit, and a

arc

you

cheaply--but

talking or reading papers.

star attraction

and dim

DI

Then there is the deaf woman. faces. And as they aling, the On the stage she claims to hear, A walks quietly walks off smiling radiantly.

reporter shouts at her behind her back, where she cannot read his Little David is an unusually lips-and she cannot hear him.

10

Some cripples throw away" their crutches. when David tells. them "You are cured. You won't need them any more." They walk off the stage unaided, but. be pick up the crutches again a few minutes later. Many admit that:

सेकु

DS

Salvation first

:

"B

þUT bofore there can

healing, there must be salvation." he shouts. "Salvation must come first.

healed bo saved.

A

they could always walk a few You cannot steps without them,

paralysed girl unicas του Bro

meeting. to the Come forward, kneel brought 100 miles of 17 has been

Hopefully she in prayor and be saved."

she watches while David lays his hands on her Dozens of men and women useless legs and all around pray go to kricel before the plat- fervently. But when she tries to form. Lättlo David kneels rise, she cannot. Another effort, down at a chair on the plal- a look of horrible disappoint- form, burying his face in his ment-and she collapsed in a hands. Hockstra asks all to dead faint.

I placed my money on the coun- half-bottle of wine) for as little on the stage. tor. All the large botte

as 23. 3d. notes were held up. But the tablecloths or of attractive boy with bite eyes Suddenly she realises that her mo Portland, Oregon. to the light ("Nothing personal, please", (3,000 miles away), Monsieur understands, but the paper, and there is no coffee. and very fair, wavy hair. He hearing is no better, and while off-white Paim hundreds still shout Hallelujah too wours an "Yes sir, hold the line." Two counterfeiters

becoming Why? Because," explains Ar-

the

hoss Beach sult. In a man's voice she breaks down in uncontroll- minutes later there was the sinfully adept").

waiter, "the nand, made a scientific survey. Heho greets hia audience, tells able hysterica. Pacific Coast to talk to me.

Then a big form was pro found that if he served coffee them how Christ Personally

receipt, While

a told The would lose about £275

bim to preach and (If my man lind skipped dis- duced-my LIVERYTHING slows down or obligingly to Texas, Canada, or walled the whole page was

year. Why? Because customers heal. Many of the shops Mexico, then with what charm- Inboriously covered with would linger over their meals, their shutters.

The ing

doggedness

sundae- copperplate handwriting At last I business men, the politicians, the voiced operator would help me could go? No, no. "My angel,

n sald Monsieur, turning to his it to they push off as soon bureaucrats flock out in drove to track him down. "It's

they finish. wife, to their favourite restaurants,

"some stampy, 12 pleasure.")

please," There they settle back with

"We figure on three or four sels of haunches in cach chair at sensuous sighs to the important

Six receipt stamps were lov- this restaurant for each meal moment of the day. The sheer

Ingly licked, stuck one after the. With coffee, it would be only weight

of food is overwhelmly, TN France one's daily brush other.

receipt, on the

and one or two." Anything you want cooked in with the telephone is a bide. Monsieur's name and the date (How about that, America? butter is yours-steaks, soles ous penance. A bridling gorgon were wrillen separately on Has the Gallup Poll been called lobsters, prawns, hams, moun snarís, "I am listening."

cash...

Shor to by Toots fried One beats about the bush with potatoes, on ΑΣΤΥ of pates few lomo courtesies, And (FLASHBACK: "This is the haunches yet? barlous as anything known' be then, timidly: "Could I please one you want brother? Fine.” A fore the war, kidneys,

duck.

Last, formality....... have Strasbourg" (300 miles quick count. "Yes, it's all here, roast chicken, lazy pyramids of

Enjoy yourself, brother, and strawberries (name your kind) way instead of 3,000). with cream or drenched

pray for those being saved. as it was in the USA. Save "Before Little David gives liqueurs,

me from the

and forms hugg, mosaic a

a collection you his message, cheeses from fertile Erance.

formalities, the red tape. and will be taken"

"W!! ushers stand An now here comes the som meller. A half-bottle of while profound mistrust, even hatred. I thought that whatever serie. The hours I have spent for a with the fish? And with the

And the lifts! Several times a else I might be leaving behind with the police since I reached fore

Paris! steak monsieur, some Burgundy? day, in the building where I me, the roaring heat of a

interest in Their passionate an work. with

coffee,

I walk up and down tour Washington summer

would be Armagnac?

longish flights of stairs.

one certainty. But this year my maternal grandmother. Tow (FLASHBACK to a vision of Although tiring. this is pru Paris has done Its best to dupli- tenderly they inquirs after her America's Secretary of State, dent. Often I can hear a faint. cate it...

first name and place of birth. ban day. Afr Dean Acheson lunching on fur-away howling, like

Short tempers and long

BAs and Dos every please gentlemen-lesz maternal / Platform to preach. the "Blueplate special," price shees lamenting in some

for humidity.

Frandmother, and a little mere few minutes, be screams 'and England, and in America he gote 91, 2d., in that modest Washing gotten bog. These are luckless

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And

And

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count

A mocking laugh greets this, come back and see us again," I WISH life was as simple here "Three hours delay." Why?

Oh, the heat! One is never told....

The attitude of the French

towards the telephone is one of WHEN I called from America what the French call La Tracas Hoekstra.

WHE

A announces

The takings

FTER the meeting Little David, perspiring and with moment in prayer be- his suit crumpled, retired to the taking the collection." backroom. David retires to rest a little, "What were the lokings?” aska while a hymn is sung and the a reporter. David smiles for- collection bags Jingle around.

glvingly and replies, "I am not. Little David returns to the interested in money," ho merely shouts, but after a

Gradually

At first

ho

ton restaurant not long ago.) passengers stuck in the lift be- But where Washington is pre- Then I may stop casting back screeches

works himself into a frenzy,

ол

be

for

Talking of the telephones tween two floors.

which

you

no

French lifts, are ke

Hoekstra explains: “David does not get paid for coming to

no salaty, but only the offerings

of people to whom he ministers. We have built up an educational pared for heat, Paris, Uke ward glances at the U.S.A. leaping up and down, quiver fund of $10,300 for him. He is my

his arms into E3-The man who soldi me❘ing, throwing prehis London, never is. In Washing-

bunting his pupil a the Calvary Christian call Monsieur X terie monsters dying of senile ton there were air-conditioners that radio has just pulled up on the air, almost able to

which 300 deeny.

roarsely School In Indiana, the next three hours or

with in my office and in the bedrooms hus-bleyele outside the house. lungs

founded: When he is not work.. so-oh dear OH, dear.

(FLASHBACK to those ex-

of my home

He says he wants to come in and shrieked words a minute.

ing, he and his family stay with How 1 year for the U.S. press elevators in the R.C.A

The rhythm is perfect and mo et my parsonage in Incilano, An ex- help mo play it. telephone system! In Wash Building,

70 New York

What about. prices?

shrieksed for which my church pays." A nover falters. Ington I used to lift my receiver. floors in a few seconds).

cellent meal' for four in a res-

-London Erpres Service)

NANCY

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