1950-10-28 — Page 6

I spoko

to Jean

Simmons

by

Atlantic

phono

I

A fine

romance, my friend,

this is...

by DAVID

"The company insisted."...

LEWIN

"Of course income tax is the snag.""...

١٠

New York. "We said then, To, bluzes with everything we'l

#tet engaged"."

**Could you get a seord through to Mummy?"

TALKED to Jean Sim- mons on the phone to Hollywood the other night. She told me the whole background story to that terme, dry statement

Now I contend that at this point the thing to do was to their inathera. No doubt tell they wanted lo. But It didn't work out that way. In the

from the London office of a well-known mysterious manner Hollywood film company Hollywood took charge.

same time.

"Our Amerlenn companies which said: "Stewart

Insisted that the news break on Granger is to marry Jean both sides of the Atlantic at the They sent out the Simmons."

cables."

I ask you! Is there a release date on romance!

Is there an embargo

What a on anotion! way to view a love-nffair?

was told not to phone Mummy ret, Jiminy couldn't tell his mother either. I know how she must have felt."

It was a story in which star billing love had no Jean did not use the word once. Of course, she

was

excited and happy- "tremendously happy."

But there was worry, too. Worry about how her mother Track home in Cheviot-gardena, Cricklewood, had heard the - from the morning

puters.

כדוגW

an

I know how the felt too. ま spoke to Mrs Simmons and che sain: "I won't believe it." But then Mrs Simmons has no ex- perience of Hollywood

about what her So Jran Sragon had to ask friends were thinking: about me its London 10 phone

extraordinary uch

everything "Mummy" and say an nouncement of marriage.

Worry About when the wedding could be arranged-

and where.

And worry about what we all worry about-income tax.

Yes, on the day of her pu← #agement the young Miss Sim- ions talked about income tax!

"Thot's what hax

Is right. And they will be married when...

She's sweet

MEME is omething else - Jenn

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1950.

CUMMINGS' SOCIAL COMMENTARY NO. 2

How to lose friends and offend peaple

antique boere-

soă a soul under” 28:""

"Da-arling

old old friend ...not for over two years

would you mind postpone

Wednesday

le.. etc."

Hela-

"Fistag bomb? Uvily speaking, pretty amall beer now in Manchester la . . .*

"I must say, Bosemary, the

humour in life play singularly bad taste."

I do hope you won't mind, but I've persuaded Finel to come "and_hein me, as well-from Tues- day neti."

** We know you wouldn't mind us bringing Boxer, Truffles, Rover. and Ituugh."

London Express Service

T

Palestine: Will There Be War?

By KENNETH

•

MACAULAY

NICOSIA (Cyprus). ensily over their shoulders, an Arab Legionnaire keeping WO armies are prae- stand on guard.

sentry duly on the wall.

But to

I stood besldo that sume tising war this morn- The two men hold tiny

sentry the other day. ing in the narrow bowls of fragile china and reach him I had been forced to land once known as Pales sip their sada, the bitter travel nearly 700 miles to skirt tine. Israel has mobilised to unsweetened coffee that the the barbed wire barrier which test her invasion defences. bedouins brew and serve separates the Jewish and Arab

wirls of the city.

rare brandy.

Military regulations forbid entry

In the plains of Jordan, even more sparingly than far from prying eyes,

The older man alts the Jordan. Arab Legion prepares its autumn

way he likes best-with MIRNOCHVTES-

the for

from Israel direct into The journey has to be made by flying to Cyprus and then taking another plane to an arm Beirut, and a third plane-to also to test its preparedness camel_saddle' as

rest. Even then one can 800 Amman. against invasion.

What does Jew fear from "It is at times when Jor. that he is short and stocky, Arab, Arab from Jew? Look dan believes that Israel is with bushy eyebrows and first at the rift of hatred and

applying the pressure and with grey in his short stupicion

multiplying

the pinpricks

beard.

that two old friends go out Jordan's King

into the silence and

star.

E to ready to talk about the

.THROUGH THE

EYES OF AN ARAB

Experts In Amman · belleve

light of the desert to talk H iniquities of Israel as be that Israel may one day make a

things over.

sees them, for he is Abdullah Ibn glant pincer movement down Men of the Arab Legion, Al Hussein, descendant of the the Jordan valley from the north their automatic rifles slung Prophet Mahomet and 70-year- and up along the shores of the

old ruler of the Kingdom-of-Did-Sea Jordan.

WHAT KOREA COST

D

THE

ID you, I wonder, see

that recent newsreel

shot of Stalin's

has to ask mother. His a

thing to ak over a spokesman Jacob Malik out been Transatlantic phone.

when the Americans nt

KREMLIN

By CHARLES FOLEY

holding it all up. Can we be cuction ruchter Lake Success passed round that bridal pien

her mother: "Do you

Luxed

In

both Britain and put to

America? We've cot to find aprove

country-the

Kremlin will

able to show the world

eust of US, liberation.

The other man sits com- fortably and orientalwise on the rug-a square cut and powerful figure whom one could imagine as the colonel of a Highland re- giment.

former

10

He is Sir Alec Kirkbride,

intelligence officer Lawrence of Arabia, and the British Minister in the Jordan capital of Amman,

for

They have been friends nearly 30 years, and as Abduljah

rose

in stature as a king 50 Kirkbride rose in the diplomatic

ISRAEL

AVIVA

10

HUBRI DEA

SEA

It is not so surprising, then,

be service of his country from the junior

secretary assistant resident, and then Minister.

Today, is Abdullaby's felend, Racial hatred against the Sir Alee la the most powerful whites will be found in Korea, servant of the British Crowa In of metaire belleve that the broad lines of Red China will be antagonised the Middle East. the table a Soviet tommy presents t open interven the picture form a fairly true of Aued units on her frontiers; that when he has a decision to

and frightened by the arrivati a 1950- date on in Koren, an assize at her gun, with Jenil Simmons

arms with Britain and America, reflection of what the Kremts the Russians people themselves make which may involve peace She has been stamp, which was captured

will be energised by the Ameri-or be working in Hollywood and I mother will.

In Palestine, King must film in London. If he were sweet all the ume I've known from the North Koreans?

con milltary "threat" to Vladi Abdulich could seek out his old

call on vostok.

friend and in both places through Jimmy, I hope she approves. taxed

future Mrs being

counsel. home here it would be terrible. doesn't want this

100 Sir Alec's hands are strong, incomes a Hollywood nffair." our And of

also are course

sensitivo but they might be joined for taxation."

nut abat. that.

IT

ת

Jany would

-

"To blazes'

seems

they have been worrying about it for weeks. Back In January, when sie had her 21st birthday

and Stewart Granger flew in from first discussed a

The

hopes

Granger

to be called

wood!

engagement. who says so is tud."

Then what A pity it's been lecked out to look like one!

• Her mother's answer London: "Yes. I

in

war.

victors

That Proof

Allied

belleves.

Korea was a detail in so vast in sweep of policy, a detall. I 13 easy, after the event, to sco whuic The Kremlin nuscai

urit

We should not rejoice com There 15 little

rca-

war

Miles

him for

City Barrior

JORDAN

JORDAN'S BULGE (#ḥnded on

the map) balloons Into Itači fwhite on the mop)

This would pinch out the great Jordanian bulgo (Sea map) containing some of the Arab kingdom's nest agricul- tural land,

Over Russia's most impassive

to us diplomat eyed the weapon I think she knows what that with something approaching Top prize

for the

on to believe that the Krem enough to hold the thin threads ~can~~~mean.—Vigorously flic.

denies that this was a "Hoily-horror. He removed his ear-

in Korea is the culated,

in has departed a hair's breadth of restraint-and-wisdom-on-

the sword of war is war the very

from Lenin's dogma that evil!"

the which Anyone phones"Hear no

between Israel and South Korea had been almost hundreds of millions of Orien-muspended you could almost hear him last thing Stall wants.

publicly written off by America tals must fati within its sphere, Jordan. think aloud-and refused

It means that we have the as indefensible. A big Com- to talk any more.

initiative for once.

It means munist

But there is enough to trained

show! army, that the Americans may march

Kremlia has been

IT is only after visiting both that very task, that the

thrown on the defensive, even approve, it Comrade Malik was not play to the borders of Asintic Rus equipped for

countries that one in able to of Inescapable logic that Israel of incomo within her 071 "But, oh, the shemozzzle of wasn't Jean's fault but it was acting. In spite of brave words and there, under the wails was paired to cross the Paralle in its thinking

liberate their compatriots to Paris may lie vin Pelting, see how strained those threads must secure for herself a source the wrong way for me to hear from Moscow and bold threats of Vindivostok, put on trial and and

have beconto. but since the Kurea war there; So they waited. Then they it...

from Peking the Kremlin hai hang the North

is

A fortnight ago in Jerusalem economy. London and Washington, New City I stood looking across Bhied nway

It is inconceivable to from everything pets of the Kremlin.

the niet again two weeks

besides Calcutta, on the way.

100 yards of no-man's land at Arabs that the people of Israel the Old City. There I cuuld see can be dependent for ever on -(London Express Service)

free gift dollars from America, „Or that they will for ever bo content to put up with their present pioneering austerity,

Africa, they wedding.

that birthday!"

MORE THE

THE

T

thut

up

ago In

LONDON. young man

-(London Express Service)

AND

MORE ON

NEVER-NEVER

re-

dressing the store window said: "Put Gs-a-week showcard

In front. Leave cash price ticket on back of the settee."

He has learned

shopping lesson:

Profits for one

nation-wide

He needs it to keep

Korean pup- In the south.

If something like that hap- pens, then the crash of Soviet prestige will echo round the world.

THE

'A detail'

United Nations? One could count on confusion, Americnti military interven- But it will not be the end, or tion was n thunderbolt. The even the beginning of the end North Koreans fought on, with of Russia's Far East programme. Russia behind them, so they

thought, and very nearly won.

road to

going

"The Lenin said: near- firm of eredit tailors jumped and replenish stocks for

cus- Paris Hoes via Peking and Last your Irom

tu ly 15 months before the £97,000 150,000, and in their general lomers can pay back as much Calcutta," manager's view:-

as he has paid out. "From Plymouth to Dundee He cannot get there are five customers now to from the bank manager. every three earlier in the year banks lake their cue from the phrase. the who

wanted their sults

frowns on Treasury which

the

1050 the Envy terms

sell furniture more readily to

day than at

any other

time

since the end of the war.

Add up the explanations of sell and the the men who families who buy, and this is the answer:

to

"More people have got idea now that it is belter hove goods in the home than money in the bank."

Lenin's road

To the Arb, It seems no matter

C.V.R. Thompson reports the

the U.S. scene

NEW YORK.

turern and

his backingsophy of the Kremlin is locical Russians woude hter Planes FOLLYWOOD, upon the but C.B.S.

to ensure the victory.

and

military and

The inskle this nut-shell of a

whole the political phila-

But even with every chance of an Amèrican Dunkirk, the

not lend

OTI

hire-purchase trading.

By

James

Smaller manufacturers might have helped the shop-

who

keeper by giving him

longer

Fly to him are just as

Bartlett

114111-11

Immutable

And

the

I urging of its chief men.

Arab supports this fear by pointing to the rosignation of Premier Ben Gurion's Socialist conlition Government. The reason: disagreement over economic polley.

Now look

all TV companies, fear

at the fabric of

..THROUGH THE EYES OF A JEW will be cut Isract explains her defensive down to seven hours by a now preparations in a sentence; We which naro surrounded by a potentially 110-passenger plaue American

now hostile Mosiem popülution of 15,000,000; our own people at the moment do not number more than 1,500,000.

tor, Eric Johnston, thinks it FLYING TIME between New the other day, when has found a way to make it. York and London Allies were striking for self Communist-proof. the North Korean capital, their wistful Government

credit on the goods they sup-COVIET thinking is based on trom Stalln--a

badly

three pillors of Marrist wishes. money theory, immutable as doom.—

rectived eable of good

One

1

WESTERN

betrays

Kremlin

The bosses want every-

star one, from

to extra, testing in California. from producer to script swear a loyalty ma-girl, to The Soviet propaganda "imperialism" chine

doath or get out.

1 company

is in decay,

quiet.

hit. They cannot get themselves from the banks or

the finance houses.

The general manager of

of these finance houses Com- the credit. At present prices, of

almented: "Quite apart from the course, a sult has become

view, you can't of a most something

capital Treasury's

115 for lending Dur People arrel.

who can

still blume

to the big organisa. Communlsın afford to pay £20 or so

for money

and milder. almost look one

it that ions. It means less risk

less cost than if we spread way,"

around to a lot of small Arms."

The reason is simple: The £ That bought 20 chillings' worth of goods in 1945 now buys only 16 chillings worth, Instead of depreciating in value with age, many

exaids-cars are

оть

The real "vletim" of this na-

Their

12

excuse a good Lional switch of habit is the worth more than thrifty woman who has always

hated to owe anything. they were last year.

MONG the

papera. The Soviet war

on the

month-old

IS THE AGE of chivalry dead

So up to the age of 40, Israeil York? Tapl in New

is the question put by columnist Frank na must serve two years in the Yes, forces. Then they go into the And it is the text of the Kingdon. His answer:

Writes her "My blood boils reserved, where they uo 30 days' lerritorial service a year, plus

full-blooded men

blushed for my

the same for The service is women between the ages of 18 Atu 24. married women getcepted.

IMPERIALISM Trust,

In Warraw, Leipzig, Prague, Cath they want all film workers by ifa nature,

be replaced by news of Korea has moved on to to approve: "In the echo of our when I see

crush. I have of the news-soldiers I affirm that I will bear have women aside in a subwayne Gay a month on paraues. nothing the back pages and

immensely longtrue faith and all allegiance to despatches have the United States of Americo dried up. Brief communiques and that I will serve them "It we can voluntarily THERE is a naturni amalty nre sandwiched between at-

the strong don't

it is impossible for men.or between the U.S.S.R. and treks

honestly and faithfully against clly where Marshall pina

puch the weak around, we shail] women of military age to leave tho vast populations of In- and

Americus all their enemies whomsoever.

Shave

heud start towardane country.

Students panning and the other atrocities."

of the same "I hold Stalin and the Soviet getting a world

a career which might be of ser. people dia, China, 1,353

Asiatic lands which must

Union responsible for the war kind."

vice to the State are excused. who have gone bankrupting them all into the Soviet The result in that customers She may have been savingt

In Korea. I support the resist-

[80, with few exceptions, Jornet nine months furnishing stores, motor her money for years

that during the Arst NO

sphere.

ance of the United States and

a bourn from which no imm- radio thr could pay cash down for a of this year there is the recur- showrooms, tailors' and

PROMISE from Congressman Since World War II, events

the United Nations against thik ring excuse: dealers shops will sign 4,000,- washing machine.

Carl Vinson, head of the Ann-grant ever returns, "I would have been all right in Asta have gone far to full

act of imperialist aggression. cd Services Committed: 000 hire-purchase agreements

with

the Lenin's predictions.

Nin-house collections, the interest-have never quite if I could have collected

"History having proved that "America will never sermp caught up with the rising price money owing."

factory-shifts and other schemes Marxism, Leninism, and Stall- defences again." customers First-and always In Every day more of the washing machine.

propaganda spotlight lant North Koreans.

to aid, and publicise, the tal-nism lead inevitably to totall Meanwhile Mrs Smith, her are lured from small shops to Soviet

tariani, I repudiate their Is China. Everything in is next-door. business

neighbour, who big stores by "easy terms."

teachings as I do those of every The old scandals of pre-war new Red China is "glorious,"

form of dictatorship." The

What are the consequences The Imperialist puppet Chiang of the Soviet failure to sustain

two thousand million

this year compared with bare ly 2.000,000 in 1048.

Listen to Mr MacNeil Greig,

of the Hire Purchase Trade As

ociation: "More

hays. down on hire-purchase

But her savings-even

hos pent

the

the

No confusion

TO more is heard of house- extra

DISMAY among

costs. They must turn to hire He's worried piece suite whipped away from with the aid of the Sovicts.

coming from the professional never seeins to be able to save class, the black-coat workers," a penny, does have a washing days are being forgotten.

They used to look inchine. She got it two years ire Purchase Act of 1938 pro- Kai-shek, on whom Wall Street their champlons in the field?

before ago on the "never-never," and icets the 1950 customer. the war. But

A housewife no longer their calories now she owns the thing.

been vanquished three-pounds, has to watch her precious have not kept up with living

her because she cannot pay the

two or last

three

pounds "We have seen A complete WHAT do the National Sav- owing on it. Instalments

ings people say about this no longer mount up to nearly retail fast-growing "life-on-tick" double the actual cash price.

vhilosophy that

purchase now to get the things they need.

reversal in our trade," says director of a chain of

D

seems

to

its

Suspicion

o the Arab, tear finds ground cliy BANNED by Boston, a

for suspicion in everything Lamous for its censorship: Ajucross the uneasy border.

Paul The Arabs sen portrait of

Laruel's great Thul, Hollywood hopes, will full-length

In-gathering of her acattered stop all lalk in Washington that Robeson, the Negro zinget.

people as more than a fulllment it is a hotbed of Rod propa- Why Mayor John Hinea did of Zionist idealism. It la also.

for good measure it: "EL philosophies their allea, ganda. And

(pro- they say, the mass importation eat and west, over the fate of the studios are talking of putting Communist) are destructive to of manpower, ripe for military

service and ready a "People's Democracy aban-on a super-colossal patriotic dis- tio principles of our land."

to fight die doned to the wolves.

play on America's chief patrio-

homeland's battles. ile holiday, the Fourth of July. Robeson's reply: "Behind

Proot? The watchful eyes of thin, hysterical screen of anti-Jordan pick out Israel's new Communism a combination of

farms. These are being built up goliticians and gangsters have

at fruin tented colliemenis feverish speed, and are not ine

can

No more heard

\X/ITH China thus torn away the Tron

BURNING curiosity, in all

Curtain lands,

to

Unless, of course, she is buy-VY from the West, it was axio- know what caused the US.S.Rand TV companies threatened to unlted to fleece the people "

Karnishers. "Nearly seven out threaten their own thrift cam- ing more

than £100-worth. of ten customers pald, cash a Ininn?

The Act does not protect her matle that the lesser Oriental to it to loss of face. couple of years ago. Now seven

National savings have been then.

12 over

..

cn-

A:

filed by radio LAWSUITS

hold up the arrival of colour TV

variably sited, say the Araba, inations should develop success- out of ten pay for their furni- falling by £2,000,000 a week.

to the best indefinitely.

agricultural ad- LAME of hope ΑΣΚΟΠΗΣ

TENANTS tree by instalments.

But most of the men in the tul revolution in closest contact

in New York At first

vantage. But Lord Mackintosh, the cav- re-purchase business are con- with Russia's struggle against the bat Czechs, Poles, and we found that they wanted

With Government approval athe

"borated" populations the. Columbla

"Now, "nestling on the sununits Broadcasting Co. may now be forced by law to Ings chief, says: "People aren't vinced that "the bad old prae- "Imperialist warmongers." spread

mid-are solid communal homes and stop playing canista at paymenta

who, tow listen to the B.B.C. bad planned to start months. Now they want two sible. They are just reverting

colour night. Magistrate Frances Lob-farmsteads so sold that they more spendthrif or irrespon- tices are dead."

The Independence given to and the "Volce of America" telecasts which could not be rich upheld They reckon that one or two India, Pakistan, Burma, Ceylon, broadcasts as eagerly as they picked up by any of the 12,000 cause the game's complications

this new rule be would withstand a siego, years

to prewar spending habits.” scandals would quickly

The Israelis say; 000, black and white sets nów in The people most worrled by courage M.P.s to demand that the Philippines is rushed did, perhaps, in 1940.

These asido, Suits too

Western

use. As a result, sales of black grouse so many heated argu-have bullt ourselves a home and all the new hire-purchase de the £100 limit be raised

10 "police.

Etates" behind a na- What comfort can the Krem- and while sets/all-over the

brought husbandry to the top of monds are the small shup- £500,

tionalist facade.

บท find in the

hill. ruins of its country are alumping. WHILE women are busy with keepers.

policy?

・A PRAYER for the dedich-: The Arabs siya, “Looki Thero their weekly payments on To handle a steady furnover to many goodsɔlodny costing How much of that Kremlin

And the suits challenged the tion of UNO's skyscraper head. they have vacuum cleaners and electric of £100 a week from cus- five times their 1038 price. vision of the East in due By encouraging the North right of the Government to quarters will be written

banding tomers who take his goods on And so many more non-cash to misinformation? How much Koreans to fight on-ibus fore, make a decision, which would UNQ # request by New York's They are, of course bolts over monthly instalments for hire-purchase, a small" trader customers taking an interest in is (withful thinking? How ing the Allies to occupy and allegedly cause "irreparable in: Remine... Catholic Cardinal tight. And both men, afraid.

must-have £2,500 behind him, the laws of Never-Never Land much-li propaganda?) Experta petapa. devastate the whole | jury? to the public, manuface spelfinaS JEAN

icon, the man

aurits.

That seems reasonable-with

BO

ments,

fortross,

"Here we

bullt themselves a