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What was expected all along has now occurred; M. Gromyko, Soviet delegate to the United Nations Security Council has charged that the presence of United States marines in China creates a state of affairs which might lead to international tric tion. The intermittent campaign
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An olive branch clutched tightly in its bill, the dove of peace flew cooing round Europe, but found nowhere to alight and rest its tired wings after seven years of endless flying.
Russia was trying to torpedo UNC by first prying it away from America, and then letting the ghost of Geneva walk. It wants Big Four, rule--no more, no less..
had
America let out news that it a new military secret which put "gold" to the atom bomb.
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-Britain announced the can-
Diary
Theatrical-luminaries, includ ing", the matinee idol - Ivor Novello, have formed a-Board of Judges to award the annual equivalent of Oscars for the in best stage performances Britain each year.
A new stage star, 27-year- old Eileen Herlic, of Ginsgow a typist who came to London with 436has made good.
In
French the translated play "Eagle Has Two Heads” she has one speech in the first act, lasting 21 minutes and the audience is sorry when it ends.
The double-headed eagle has cellation of the man-piloted justified itself by turning- úp
jet-this double-headed penny......“ thousand-miles-an-hour
plane, and readers between the lines were left to believe that it was working on sub- stitute, equally fast, which could be flown by radar."
US Secretary of State (Mr. Byrnes) went to Germany to
By GORDON GILMOUR
support British idene for integrated Rhineland on western side of the iron Lain.
And The Lady
Is A Diplomat Britain has acknowledged the importance of ladies in diplomney..
Because the holders of all the important posts in the Middle East are bachelors, the Foreign Office has solved the Embassy's social problem by an appointing Miss Mary Priepe as "social secretary," with the status of official hostess.
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the cur-
She is an attractive young woman in the twenties, with experience in the Lisbon Em- Lassy, where diplomacy the same needed during the war.
up
presence of American forces in China indicated that this would happen sooner or later, and after Russia failed in a similar attack against Britain and the Greek Government, it was natural to expect that China and the United States would next be singled our for attention. The fact of the matter is that the American force are in China at the request of,
In London, insiders said, and with the consent of the Gov- "Why shouldn't we build ernment of that country,-in-a Germany army when cidentally the only government of Russians are doing the China which the Soviet overtly on their side? recognizes. It would be time! They were posing a theory, enough for M. Gromyko to take but firmly believed that the the step he has it the Chinese Russians were carrying out Government has asked for the such a plan with their useful withdrawal of the forces now in tool, von. Paulus, the "Goat of
Stalingrad." their country, and the United ! States had failed to meet that re-. quest. That not being the case it is dillcult to see exactly what ground the Soviet Government has to stand on,
E
was
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"Why shouldn't we have honorary degrees? Haven't we got thousands of constituents going to college under the G. 1. Bill of Rights?".
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Our Threatened Values
--common
The publisher and occasion-untü 1999, he watched with ruthless- ally the author of these books hatred the growing was Victor Gollancz, wealthy meas of the Soviet regime; how unnecessary Socialist. He made his publica. he thought it tions the
chief channel for and dangerous, But he was in the prepared to tolerate,, those. methods for the eventual end they would bring. Year after "The end,. year, he thought:
left-wing propaganda For ten-and-a-tanner; milady
Beauty Culture
"For some years now, the, reiterates, that the only hope Good As Walking
bookstalls of England have been for the world, is to strengthen This is a part of London few generously decorated and splash- the Western way life against Londoners know about
ed with the brightest yellow. the encroachment of the East- "As you lie back in a special Before the general election last ern or Russian way. He is not Jy constructed wickerwork
year, the positive spate of these anti-Soviet but, in cradle, pure translucent white canary-colored volumes threaten with many others, the methods On The Rocky
wax is poured on your body. ed to oust all other literature employed by the Communist Then your wax-coated body is from the shops, and flashy Party to attain their ends have Road To Feace
wrapped in layers of grease- covers were to be seen all over revolted him. He is now begin- President Truman tried to proof paper, and disappears in the country. Some of them caning to doubt those very ends. still overworked tongues in to a cocoon of downy blankets.joyed enormous Bales.
He describes how, from 1919 The allegation that the exist- "God's Own Country" by an You feel acids and impurities ing state of affairs between the appeal for an end to war talk stream from your skin." Chinese
Government and the But the spate of words radio
This is part of a new stream presence of U.S. forces mighted across the Atlantic only in-lined beauty culture for those
creased.
who have two guineas or up- lead to international friction is That Britain was trying to wards. interesting and perhaps signifi- keep out of trouble was obvious cant. With whom can there from the withdrawal of troops can stand barefooted in two possibly be friction? Between from
Athens before King small baths filled with water China and the United States? George of the Hellenes return-and connected with an electric Obviously not. Then between ed.
battery. The battery" is swit whom is there likely to be this Turks increased the Darched on and a slight current the United danelles tension with reports causes the client involuntarily American and to rise and fall on her toes, States and Soviet Russia? Not that British unless it is the desire of the Turkish fleets would hold com- thus slimming her ankles, and country. Mr. Gollancz himself Soviet, uninvited by China, to that the Russians should rend
Lined exercises, They intended feet...
came to represent to many a It is equivalent to several sort of prophet of the move an increasing interest in this. They also read Dr. Inge's miles of walking-an ancientment little father of Social Chinese affairs. There
most statement that top Nazi war habit that should have been iam, if not of Communism. certainly can be no friction be criminals should be released done away with, anyhow
These books were the spearhead tween Britain
and
the United "with the brand of Cain or For another half-guines, of the propaganda which ever- States in this matter, nor has their foreheads."...
30threw the Churchill government there as yet been any suggestion
20 in 1945. that France is interested one way or the other. It is, therefore, not true that there is any danger of international friction with regard to China unless Soviet Russia her- self desires to create it, and the conclusion to be drawn is that the complaint is ill-founded in fact,
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By RANDOLPH CHURCHILL
the full flowering.of Wester values, remains; the means will change; the state will
to wither away."
begin
that
But in 1939, came an abrupt awakening: "It was the shock. of the Nazi-Soviet pact, I think, because it was this supreme instance of evil means... made me face the fact that I had been wrong in my timism and that a society can not be brought into being by doing just those things which it is the very purpose of the in- tended society to abolish for ever."
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Now Mr. Gollancz has written and published a new book, "Our Threatened Values," as yellow
How many others have ex- ever on the outside but dif ferent within. The book has perienced the same disillusion- caused a considerable stir in ment as Mr. Gollancz?. John Britain, particularly in intel- Strachey, present Minister of lectual and leftist circles. It is Food, suffered in much the same way. The shock of the an impassioned appeal on be They have passed a resolution half of the rights of the indi- Ribbentrop-Molotov agreement on to the borough council, de vidual. It is well written and caused him to leave the Com- manding the ejectment of pro- obviously sincere; in places. munist Party. Mr. Gollancz Food parcels are arriving. по
Those four words tell senders prietors of premises running it is very moving. Mr. Gollancz remains a Socialist, but he is penny pin-machines, peep-shows shows that, without "respect what he calls a "higher So has been happening before? little boys too small to reach government a piece of good news. What (with special Box-stands for of personality!" no system of cialist." He supports the pre- Many parcels have been so long them). delayed that their disappear ance has become almost cer- tain.
Food Parcels Arriving Now
One aspect of this interpreta-' tion of the United Nations' Charter is that, if it is allowed to prevail, no Government is master in its own country, Government shall be allowed to decide what type of assistance from another nation it requires. Greece apparently still decides that the mission on which British troops were invited into Greece has not yet been concluded. That Recent publicity has brought is a matter on which Greek judg- a remedy. There is stricter con- ment must be supreme. The trol and watchfulness with the same applies to China, where, result that thieving has been and again it must be emphasized made more difficult. None of it is the ruling of the only the recipients here have the that any Chinese Government which the thefts have occurred in Aus-
slightest suspicion Kremlin recognizes that the mis traban ports or on ships. sion on which American forces More space is now being were asked to come to China has found in ships for partels, not yet been completed. There is one other thought which arises in this connection. With the iron veil in eastern Europe hiding so effectively what it is suspected is going on, how far are these all round attacks by the Soviet to be regarded as a squidlike cffusion to distract the attention of the world from the manner in which the
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can bring hap- sent Government in England piness to mankind and that as the legger of two evils. These store-owners are buck- freedom of the Individual - Is ing a 210,000,000-a-year indus- essential to the peace
of the He condemns the Potsdam... try which has concessions in world.
agreement as economically dia- every block of London town Up till now, he says, Western astrous to Germany and likely and every holiday resort and civilization has been moving to cause a futurė war. He pier in the land.
Riowly_forward, with ever-in-thinks that Churchill, as a The mighty penny will fight creasing regard for Christian "warm-hearted romantic," gave for is freedom.
virtues; the progression has way to Stalin, "the cold realist." Derwhen the was an the wa
been interrupted again, and Unless the Potsdam agreement again, but the forward move is modified and the whole ad- Las been there. Now, however, ministration of Germany radic he fears that our values have ally altered, Mr. Gollancz fears become debased, that we are that Communism will take over. A competitor in the BBC in grave danger of starting The danger would then be this Forfeita Quiz was asked how back along a path that leads We would be faced with long he would be married at to cruelty and injustice. Moscow-Berlin-Paris axis, with his diamond anniversary. He
England hanging precariously replied, "Seventy-five years," The Potsdam agreement and to the edge of Europe, the last and won 10 I wonder the present food situation in remaining, bastion of "Western war between whether the ten shillings was Europe are the main pegs on values." And docked from the quiz master's which his argument hangn. He Amerian and to "Soviet bloc
quite clearly divides Western would become far more pro- pay.
civilization from Eastern. He bable,
Leaves From A Notebook
In Fetter-lane, near "The Sun's" London office, a motorist was carefully pouring, petrol into the tank from a bottle of cigarette lighter fuel, coating His journey must have been really necessary, as petrol this way works out at 24/- a gallon. It is cheaper to buy coupons, 20
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The Mystery Of / Monty's Despatch Holmes and Watson inform me that there is something peculiar about the timing of Field-Marshai, Lord Montgo 'mery's 'despatch on the Euro
pean campaign London Gazette.ublished in Earl Haig covered the last
What, then, is Mr. Gollancz' Soviet is prosecuting its expan sionist policits in other parts of seven months of the previous
lilled, it was decided by ballot remedy? He has two. One is the world? It is a matter on which way with a 25,000-word des
that the market town of Dere that we seek closer understand- there can be plenty of speculation weeks of the armistice, and patch, completed within six
harn (Norfolk), with a popu- ing with France. The other is lation of 6000 should raise that we aim at saving as much 217,000 and bulid ten homes of Germany as possible for because of the manner in which
Introduction to Field-Marshal
for servicemen. Only 35 sub Western civilisation by creating the Soviet and its satellites man- Montgomery's reads:
scribed and the total raised economic prosperity and foster- age to keep secret what they are "Submitted to the Secretary
as 4440.
ing democratic self-Government about.
of State for War on Jung 1,
In our zone, whatever other. 1946, by Field-Marshal the An English friend returned A parrot, christened Peter, people may be doing in theira." Viscount Montgomery of Ala from Ireland, having found the 12 years ago, by its owner, One more quotation from the méin, KCB, CB, DSO. food neither so good horse Peggy Jude of Gloucester book. Mr. Gollancz says that, Monty became a GOP in plentiful as he expected. When Terrace, London, has laid three while we should not buy peace 1945. The Gazette is hanging, he asked the waiter about it eggs, Now they're bolli Peggy at any price, to avoid war its head over the printer's be got the reply, "It will be
should be our all but anal alm Deserts will be made fertile, We should be prepared to fight error in such a famous docu all right again when the ment, hins
locusts have gone home." There the Arctie will be made habit for our values, but only as are more English ration dod- able, and trips to the moon will last resort. He goes on "The gers in Ireland now than Irish. take from two to four days if Boviet Union is the only coun- British scientiafs Ideas for an iry In the world today that atomic-powered spaceship gen could conceivably be held to crate Then, maybe, we can have both the will and the control the weather
power to wage aggressive war "
AIR AGREEMENT.
Landau, Oct. 13. France and Turkey have signed a reciprocal air navigation agree- ment on the lines of the agrees ments previously concluded be tween Turkey and Great Britain, the United States and Sweden. But Holmes asks: Why has Ankara radio said today. Air the War Minister withheld pub routes covered by the agreement Heation of the 20,000-word. are Paris to Ankara via Marseilles, despatch for three months?" Tunisia to Tripoli vis, Beirut and This was giving Ralph In Paris to Ankora via. Haly
gersoll too much start Reuter.
To express thanks for do liverance from war in which none of the townspeople were