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LONDON
ROUND-UP
a general scramble by everybody
for whatever they wanted"
The Communist-organised squat- <*>
ters at one block of flats got a
shock and were incensed to find
that unofficial squatters had joined
in. jeopardising their closed shop
exclusivity.
Food Parcels
THE hubbub in the newspapers
about missing or delayed
parcels from Australia pro
voked by a stream of indig
;nant senders and non-recipients,
has had striking results. Parcels
posted even six months ago and as
recently as a few weeks ago are
now arriving to the accompaniment
of apologetic Government assur
ances that there really has been no
confiscation.
What matters most is that the
Government belatedly is beginning
to realise the serious effects of
bungling and. indifference on Do
minion opinion. I myself heard
responsible officials reply some
months ago when asked whether
they really understood the psycho
logical importance of gift schemes,
that "this whole parcel business
was a damned nuisance." They
even indicated that they would
have been glad if it could have been
dropped, but were just a little
scared of the consequences.
They are now having second
thoughts. But if the Food Minis
ter (Mr. Strachey) and some of his
Ministerial colleagues had a proper
understanding of the Dominions'
spirit and thought, they would
make official Government pro
nouncements of thnnire hi keepine
with the profound appreciation of
the British people as shown in the
deluge of letters ceaselessly reach
ing the London offices of Austra
lian newspapers.
Man's Fashions
(P you're interested in wearing
in King William street what
the bowler-hatted boys are
wearing in Bond street, this is
what Saville Row's 30-guinea
tailors prescribe for you:—
Semi-bandmaster trousers and
two-inch turn-ups.
Jackets one and a half inches
longer and three front of jacket
buttons set closer together.
There's apparently no point in
either fashion, but they are de
manded.
There's also a craze among dressy
men for "suppression." which in
tailoring language means "hugging |
the figure to accentuate the athletic
line."
Chests are fuller, and shoulders
are squared, high and narrower.
On The Record
THINGS just said:—
An up-to-date survey of
history by an American
- columnist—-From Adam to
the atom."
A British farmer examining bis
fields saturated by incessant rain
for weeks—"Storms have so badly
flattened the com that the spar
rows are having to kneel to eat
it."
Conservative MP Harold Mac
millan's suggestion that his party
should change its name to Demo
cratic Party is described by the
"Daily Mail" as having made an
echo "as resounding as that
caused by a pancake falling on a
damp pavement."
Says 72 - year - old monocled
Somerset Maugham—who has just
returned to London after six years
in the United States—after learn
ing that Russia had banned some
of his works as "undesirable"—"As!
I never got any royalties from Rus
sia. I can bear it with a good deal;
of fortitude." I
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