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Re rene ee . Chapter 16 the time they reached the RY B Club Pelican, Susan was again gay and carefree. The mu- sical show had been perfect. With just a word, Steve had managed to get the others seated so that only two seats on the aisle re- mained for him and Susan. Oddly enough, Mrs. Tremont was al- ready in the seat on the other side of Susan and, without knowing how it had been man- aged, Susan was grateful. It weuld have been too much to sit through the show between John and Steve! As it was, there was no mo- ment when reality seemed any less glamorous than the show on the stage. Susan watched it and listened to the songs with the giowing feeling that they were beautiful. But even more thrilling was Steve's hand on hers, his shoulder lightly against her own, his flowers throwing a screen of fragrance about them. As the men checked their hats at the club, Bella Gaines man- aged to introduce a more earthy note. “I suppose you go around to places like this all the time,” she said to Susan, contriving to con- vey her disapproval] of the prac- tice. Susan did not answer immedi- ately. She glanced at the small vestibule with its hushed and homelike atmosphere, and peered beyond Bella into the series of small rooms that opened one into another, like the rooms in a pri- vate house. It seemed not too glamorous, she thought, for a place as famous as Club Pelican. But she managed a shrug for Bella as she answered the girl's question. “It gets to be something of a bore, after a while,” she said dis- tantly. She was not conscious of Bella again for the rest of the evening. In fact. the whole Club Pelican seemed only a background for Steve—charming, handsome, wonderful Steve, who in turn secmed to see only her, She even managed to dance with John and smile at him, with- —_—, -—-—-—— a 5 ia nea as THE KEY WEST CITIZEN . --- ee tte out losing that feeling that she and Steve were together—apart from all this. Later, she danced with Jack Mansfield, and said with sur- prise: “You dance beautifully! I mean, I didn't expect—” She broke off, embarrassed, but Mans- field seemed pleased, and fin- ished for her: “I know. Ellen seems much more talented than me. And she is, too,” he added loyally. Howard Cranston returned from the bar, where he had been most of the time, and claimed Susan for the next dance. Try as hard as she might, she could think of no polite way to refuse. After all, she was the hotess. It was obvious, even to her inexpe- rienced eye, that his moments at the bar had not been wasted. His hand, hot and damp, clasped her closely, and he barged through the dancers in a way that brooked no interference. The orchestra was Y gies one of the tunes they’d heard on the stage, and Cranston hummed along vigor- ously, if a little off key. “What say we give these others the slip?” he murmured when he recovered from a near-collision with a tall, distinguished-look- ing couple, “No—I—we couldn't: do that,” Susan stammered, too embar- rassed at their erratic progress around the dance floor te care what he’d said. Cranston’s hand pressed more tightly against her” wails} She could feel his lips -brushing her “Mrs. Gaines told me. about your—-er~-trouble,” he said. deli- cately. “I like a woman of the world, someone with a little ex- perience. I’ve been around, girlie.” Susan finally managed to bring one down to Cranston’s level. “What trouble did Bella ‘tell you about?” she inquired. .cau- tiously. “Oh, about the four kids, and how you're not as young as you look,” Cranston gaid vaguely. “But as I say, that’s okay wit me. I like women with ' expegi- ence.” Susan thought fast. “Did Bella say anything about Three World Army Plans Now Before. U.N. Council AKE SUCCESS, New York.—How large an army does it take 4 to police the world? How many men, guns, ships and airplanes must be held: "immediately available’ by Members of the United Nations in! order to enable U.N. to “take urgent military measures . . maintain or restore international peace and security” in the.c of aggressive acts which cannot be stopped by non-mili means? - to ase tary mn ee a ee ree my husband?” she demanded crisply. j “But he’s dead, ain’t he?” In his excitement, Cranston lapsed into the colloquial. Susan taughed, “He'd amused to hear you say that!” She herself was amused at how quickly his embrace loos- ened, and how the perspiration rolled down his temple. It: was almost worth telling such a lie, just to see the man squirm! He was obviously relieved when the music stopped and they started back to the table. eo would have enjoyed the moment more if she could have seen Steve. But he seemed nowhere around. With a tod’ té Mrs. Tremont, she started toward the powder room. and, as she crossed the vestibule, she saw Steve. He was enveloped in an ermine stole worn by a dashing brunette. Steve’s back was toward Susan, and the girl was apparently - ob- jivious to everyone else, inelud- ing her sleek but unimportant- fooking escort. Pe an "Steve, darling!” She took. her full, over-rouged lips from. him, but kept her hdnds on his shoul- ders. oyu “I heard you, had a mese 6f funny people with you. Don’t you want to be rescued? It must he ghastly. Oh, my ‘dear, ~we've missed you so, Really, Stevie, my sweet, this sort -of--thing -deesn't look too good, If | .were ,the jealous type, |. might. beaut’ op Long Island with a gun!” .- “Don't be silly, Linda.” Steve sounded amused. “And ‘stop necking me in- public. T’H-mash your. green orchids,” Susan stumbled down.-the-kall, corgbling at the corsage on. ner jacket. If must have cost himw a pretty penny, of thought. bitter- ‘ ly, to buy both green orchids and gardenias. What was it John Bates had said? - we Oh, yes. John had sai “Same day he'll meet a girl who adds i... Well, Steve had met. her. But during the last four hours: she, ener had made the mistake of orgetting that the girl Steve pad met added up to—Linda, Murchi- son > a (Te be centineed) % a DIES IN” CEMETERY ™’ HARBOURTON, N. Jt; The pilot of a Corsuir fighter plane, apparently seeking a landing, -hit a utility pole, sheared “Off the plane's wings and fell into a pear- by cemetery."He was killed in pthe crash and” explosion, which followed. ts | I) LT RIT I ae ae coud Keep it Dark Fe, When a society leader. iy, an Eastern city was first told about the theory of evolution, she pro- | tested. : { “Descended * fromi apes! My And finally, where are these men, tanks, ships and airplanes ‘gear, we will hope it is not tgue to come from? Are they to be supplied by those nations which But if it is, let us pray that: it can most readily spare men or# ships, or are they to be con-| tributed on an equal basis by ail those countries who are in- terested in “maintaining peace and security'’? These only of the Military are a few questions with which the Staff Committee of the Nations has been struggling for something more than a year. They involve difficultics with which the conumittee hus only recently come | to grips—even while vou and I concerning ourselves with and similar mys- were flving teries hich staff of Saucers Military Staff Committee of the permanent mem- ot the Security Council representatives”—in othe: of the top military men Sig Five ’—hbegan its work soon U.N. set its first meeting where the General As then meeting in its organizational session. When moved to the United States, committer the Atlantic and set up headquarters in New York, it has mecting regularly ever since the confidential na- ot the facts the committee haus to deal, been private, official information the committee has in the form of short month- iy statements and a tew reports to the Security Council Nonetheless. it eret tnat it most it ha bers then Ol Words, OF tne: almost up Ii London, sembly Was first UN. the uA ds ads Wads held also crossed } > where peen Secause of { ie Ol Thi mans h > meetings huve and the only } from COnyye has been no se. the committee has heen tusk difficult and that. other components of been handicupped not the newness of its job, by the fact that the “unanimity” of the ma- who took the m Creating U.N. has sometimes been strained. There h heen ditfer ences between the “Big Five’ on number political. social and by ut also hope da to) fon poWers le acl ave a of ecOnOnNueE Questions and so, Nat- urally. in the militarv field. too. Moreover. the committee itself is composed of men whose military thinking and background vary considcrably, and the countries they represent differ in their re- sources, traditions and. technical facilities. These differences, nat- rally. have been reflected in each of the members’ approach to f planning a “world po f1)) grag. nd Licey he e Bos Swe United | Ini with 4 made the committee’s task: any easier. Thus it was hardly surprising that, when the Military Staff {Committee Was asked by the Se- feurity, Council (tou whom it. re- jports) to submit preliminary esti- mates as to the over-all size of the forces that would be: vequired, committee members found them- psclves unable to agree. Its mem- ibers differed not onlv to the Isize of the forces which they {thought would be required — to ,protect the world from = aggres- jsion, but also us to the manner in iW hich these forces Were to be ds >) Supplied. is composed of the “Chiefs , As a result, not one but three estimates were submitted to the Security Council by the commit tee’s Chairman for June, General Joseph T ted States. They were drawn up. respectively, by the Delegations France, the United and the United State: though differing in endorsed the Kingdom, and the Soviet Union itself unable to submit any estimate at all until certain othe: upon. Lurgest of lar is. that United States, might require the carmarking for use of nearly 1.000,- together with 3800 and fight planes, a three battleships and 200 other fiehting vesscls. plus enough other craft to ‘quickly, needed, and at 6 ions. Such a ol China, al- details United SUIT plan of the declared questions had been agrecd bs the estimates, by thie submitted Wpmediate 000 men bomber ‘fleet ahout some ‘ Wnerevel least assault divi force would be the equal or su- , perior of anv single army force employed War Il French Ol ao ‘suult Woi hel The bs j trast, 4 somewhat smaller ground army and a nav- al considerably weake: destrovers and submarines (18 to 24 und 12 respectively, as against during estimate envisages LOolce McNarney of the Uni- | Kingdom, | which it is thought | land ; COM- | in ; imay not become generally ‘known.” Broce ere sipdacshis | somewhat smaller than -those -contained in the French ¢stimate. ‘All three estimates, howeves) én- ‘Vision that reserve forces . would be made available to support -the jinitial “U. N. task force’ ‘if ‘the ‘need should arise. As to the method of raising these forces. the Committee sub- ,mitted several points of, view, ranging from the U.S. opinion that each country should contribute what it could most readily sup- iply to the Sovict Union's sugges- tion that gach of the “Big Five” ‘should contribute exactly the ‘same number of men, ships. air- |planes and other units. It ‘this disagreement which the So viet delegation declared made it ‘appear impossible to submit even preliminary numerical estimates | at this time. There gencral agreement, however, that all lother member countries, even ithe smallest, should contribute, lin case of need, whatever they Was Was icould. Tentative they are Council, as these proposals certan to give the which 1s res- j Ponsible for the final decision, fmany a difficult moment in the Tmnonths to come. For the time. be the Council is still discus- sing the question of whether or ‘not it should instruct the Staff ‘Committee to work out its plans in a more detailed fashion—a task that it be difficult un- til questions as to the method of ivaising national contingents have ibeen settled in) principle: Even then. there will remain the prob- ‘lem of obtaining appreval for any Boast poecurity png, Mav iplan gencrally agreed upon from ithe national egislatures of the Member countries. Nevertheless. the fact remains that. for the first time, the “world j police force’ iz something more than a vague phrase without sub- istance. and that the world has 'been given at least a tentative the U. S.’s 84 and 90). It also calls {picture as to what such a force for only 1275 combat planes—-less inate Most posals i dom. which calis for 8 to 12 armv modest. of all the pro- ‘might look like. Even than one-third of the U. S. esti- [liminary estimates are these pre- giving the something on; and concurred and work members to consider s that of the United King- ;both the Security Council and the ‘Staff Committee may be expect- divisons (against 20 envisioned ed to make full use ol the oP hv the U. S. and 16 by France) portunity auring the’ coming and for air end naval contingent, months , “