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That Makes 48 TIMES-GAZETTE rRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1951 By Al Capp HOW DOES YO LIKE A TASTE O YORE OWN ONNATCHE! MEDICINE. ""~ NOW, SCOOT RAL BACK TO YORE. SNAKES, BATS, AN' FLEAS ~ AN' LEAVE US HOOMIN BEANS ALONE" Ene Sis ania. MAH WHOLE LIFE DEPENDS ON THIS GIVE ME 24 HOURS T' THINK IT OVER - FREE. TO MARRY YOU, DAISY MAE. WILL YOU P THE MAGICIAN : 7 AG & MEANWHILE -- NOT FAR AWAY ~ MAH WHOLE LIFE DEPENDS ON THIS GIVE ME 24 HOURS T' THINK IT OVER EVERYBODY UNMASK! SNAP IT UP/ AEP eee _ GOSH, ONLY $1.38 7 You POOR Guy J | YOU'D BETTER KEEP ir) AND CASPER [I | YES . IM , CASPER. EXPECTING A DID YOU BUZZ JY a= TIM TYLER'S LUCK : TAKING OUT GOLLY, THATS THE FIRST TIME THE BOSS EVER LAVE ME AN ORDER LIKE THAT! IS IT POSSIBLE HE'S EXPECTING A VISIT FROM THAT YOUNG DAME HE'S BEEN THE PHONE IS RINGING =-= FLL LEAVE THE SOAP RIGHT HERE IN THE HALL FOR YOU MEANWHILE, HI 'SLAMBO, TRAILING BY ONE IN THE FLIES HNOME-RUN RACE, OUT..7TRIPLES ... STRIKES GLES . YEAH, ZERO --IM TERRIBLE GLAD TO fe BE WITH YOU AGAIN, TOO -- BUY, HONEST, I HATED TO LEAVE LITTLE ROSE ALL y ALONE IN THAT BiG ) HOSPITAL-- WE JUST WONT KNOW IF SHE'LL BE ABLE TO SEE OR IF SHE'LL BE BLIND, UNTIL THEY KIN TAKE- BANDAGES OFF = AN' WE FINAL |' ¥" THE DOCTOR SEZ MAVBE (TLL BE SUNDAY -- MAYBE LATER AN' THERE JUST AIN'T NOTHIN' WE KIN DO BUT WAIT AN' Zn a POOR 'S MAMA AN' DADDY CAN'T HARDLY SLEEP OR EAT ~ ALL THEY DO IS JUST WAIT BY THE TELEPHONE] ; AN' KEEP SAYIN' QUIET LITTLE PRAYERS DEEP DOWN INSIOE ~ Ex-Pelizh Diplomat Serves In Ottawa Civil Service Ottawa (CP) -- Friendly, soft- spoken, 56-year-old Victor Pod- oski, one of the first diplomats from an Iron Curtain country to. refuse to serve under a Russian-dminated government in his homeland, works quietly in a small, simply-furnished Canadian government office. ~The former Polish minister to Canada abandoned the plush dip- ognition was withdrawn from the Polisl. government in exile and post- 2. Po became a Russian satellite He could not, he said recently in an interview, serve any country, totalitarian or democratic, which trie.. to impose its will on Poland. lomatic service in 1945 when rec- Now a Canadian citizen, he would similarly oppose any country at tempting to dominate his adgppted Canada, Simple. honesty and self-respect prompted a spontaneous refusal of an offer in 1945 to represent the Russian-dominated government of Poland somewhere abroad, he said. His refusal ended 24 years in the | aiplomatic service, but he has never regretted his decision. However, he does become annoyed when he sees his name linked with sqme of the other Poles who have left the diplo- matic service rather than return to Communist-controlled Warsaw. SEES BIG DIFFERENCE There is a vast difference, he said, between the men who chose could not honestly serve a foreign power dominating their homeland. Mr. Podoski maintains "friendly relations" with those who "chose decency and self-respect" but he has no relations whatsoever with those who chose only personal freedom. He cannot understand, he said, why it took some diplomats three, four or five years to realize that Russia was urging oppressive meth- ods t oimpose a political and social system on Poland in the interest of Moscow. While serving the wrong cause, these men enjoyed the high salaries of the diplomatic or consular corps. In many cases they -decided to leave the diplomatic or consular corps and seek refuge in a free country orily on the eve of being recalled to Poland. Mr. Podoski chose Canada as his adopted land because he had de- veloped a "deep affection" for this country while 'as Polish consul general and later minister to Canada from 1939 to 1944, In 1944, he married Murial Crocket of Fredericton, daughter of the late freedom and those who -- O. 8. Crocket, former justice of the Supreme Court of Cesnada. They have one daughter, Cecylia-Clarine, born in England in 1945. The switch from the status of a Ligh-ranking diplomat--he served in Warsaw, London, Moscow, Wash- ington and Ottawa--was not made without cost to Mr. Podoski, who s; 'aks and writes Polish, English, French, Russian, Ukrainian and German, : FINANCIAL SAFRIFICE While declining *o give exact figures, 'he said that his present income is about one-sixth of what he would be receiving had he re- mained in the diplomatic corps. "In the choice between becoming a moral cripple or keeping my head erect, the price as not too high, ho said. ( » After the last war--in December, ° 1946--he began working in the Cane dian government annuities branch, He has been there since. He became a Canadian December, 1947, but like many an- other immigrant' has retained a "deep affection for my mother country." . JOE PALOOKA A Matter of " Life an' Det"! By Ham Fisher MR. ENOCH WENT OUT TO PLAY... MR, > WAIT A MINUTE... TELL "™M... AMOS... 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