Some months ago a new barman as 'ordinary constables. They had in our local pub treated my husband no plans for any nara-milit.rv riot and a friend of ours to a most in. control corps. i phoned the Home triguing bit of information about his Office. They were similarly aghast. plans: he was, he said, only working "You are willing to give me a catein the pub for a short interval be- gorical denial then, that such a squad tween military service and the is being formed?" Yes, they were. beginning of his new career with the Our barman was now long gone My police force. He had only recently information was too thin lor me to completed his army service, a part continue much further of which had been spent in Hong Then came that spate of headlines Kong. He rocounted how having left about planned extremist violence al the SATmTr HE HAD BEEN AP. the October rally. The Times, in PROACHED BY THE POLICE who an uncharacteristically contradictory were interested in recruiting him, account claimed both that it was a they said, for their new riot control fact that police secret agents had dis. squad. They were particularly in- covered an arms cache, ta nnt terested in him, they explained. that Scotland Yard had officially because of his riot control experience denied having held secret investigain Hong Kong. They were especially tions with such findings. Who else anxious to recruit as many former but the police, of course, could have military personnel as possible. Tad h mnlan hl Tima attracted by the job securDEAR FIDEL:
Black DwarfBlack Dwarf Vol. 13, No. 5, 22 September 1968
MISSING BARMAN?
The scan: v13-n5-22-sep-1968.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)
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