LATEST CURTAIN MATERIALS

Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27641, 23 April 1955, Page 6

LATEST CURTAIN MATERIALS

LBy WHIM WHAM) No "Bamboo curtain” existed round ~ said Mr Chou En-lai, and invited delegates to the conference to visit China at any time, adding: "There t™J >eo . ple wh 2. are s Pr e a<Ung a smokescreen to smother us."—News item. It is an Iron Curtain (as every Schoolboy knows) Which separates the Soviet and its Satellites Fromthe y est (or Rest >. and very _ Little shows Through it. It oughtn’t to be there, by Rights. J N °. Children, there isn’t a REAL Iron Wall Surrounding these Territories, but if you doubt,/ As Some do, whether there’s Anything there at all, You just try to get in, and you’ll soon find out.

Of course, according to Honourable Chou En-lai, There’s no Bamboozling, not even the Ghost of a Curtain: The Great Pall of China is all his oriental Eye. Honourable Foreign Devils are not so certain. Frankly I couldn’t be sure, myself, you never Can tell these Days What’s going on over the Way. There’s always a Curtain, a Cloak or some other clever Arrangement for hiding the Where- • abouts of the Play. There’s the great Pinus Curtain, or Wellington Blind. You can’t see It either, but it’s there all the Same. Police Chief Sid’s not letting on What’s behind. That’s how it is, you Jokers; it’s all in the Gamd: You pays your Taxes and you takes your Medicine. You may or you may not know as Much as you might. So get a Box of nice dry Sand to bury your Head in And don’t worry—Everything’s going to turn out all right.