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This Is Another Winter Problem
IF WE LOSE HUNGER
FIGHT IN
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By James McDowall
Communion in western Germany, | In Hamburg, the other great in and controlled and millions of Ger dintrial centre, belles Dusseldorf, mans, whatever their religious con of the Zone, the pleture has been victions, cannot stomach that, much the same.
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Most of them are veterans of the
have Weimar days, and thes emerged with surprising vitality after fifteen years of ruthiram repression, to lead their menthers with equity and objectivity.
DEATH
POWELL-PHOEBE (nee To Yee Hing), dearly beloved wife of Ambrose and mother of
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By Dick Turner
MEANINK
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party
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The Communist have undealably of action. powerful milasprings Alto Many
of them There, in the Rubr. Commun.veterans of the Weimar reglna
There is not a single man of any infiltration foto the unions proper 521
Importance in the party today who been negligible.
didn't suffer in a concentration camp of thirteen Of the leaders
They were the head and front of union ta, the city, only one is a
wance to Iller inside Ger the realwance ix one of the
to drati Communist, and his
Many were done many, re-minor organisations.
of all German groups, they Hat In the works councils they suffered must under Hitlerism and have gained sent, and in some big the Gestapo. plants a majority. Their hold on the peacefully
councils is increasing, though slowly suffer again, and this also is an iden They are determined they will not Communist power and influence which appeals t here have been exaggerated both by some British administrators and the other German political partien,
The Social Democrats, in partien- inr, tend to grow hysterical on the "Red threat" subject and take the with deadly seriousness,
Jennifer, passed after a prolonged illness on Monday, November 17th, 1947, at 11, Scares Avenue, Hamuntin, Kowloon,
For two years the unions have heen the chief German stabilising forre la the British Zone-which is why the Cornmaiers have tunneled desperately from below in on attempt to undermine them.
The main Communist successes have been won in the works councils and their committees.
SOVIET WORRIES
When M. Molotov delivers a public harangue at An interna.
in the Ruhr they are strongly tional gathering, its main purpose presentest on the councils, their repre- is normally to provide prosentation tends to increase, but they suiversally paganda material for Communist are not by any means
preduminen in shis fieht, parties outside Russia. When,
The fond troubles of April and however
last May Favoured Communism, Red
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in
the Moscow censes or works council elections in
Rus creased along with party member- usually ship. Kerently, with some improve ment in the food situation, the trend has been slightly the ainer way.
werk' perch to Soviet. he addresses sian audience, it may be assumed that his principai object is to fo the perhaps ua certain flame of Soviet enthu siasm.
For this purpose le can
statements permit himself
100 Years Ago
That threat has caused one highly interesting phenomenon in the Ruhr
many Germans,
nat con. But these Germans are vinced that Communism is the best
has way to avoid a new Hterism
Communist propaganda great deal of work to do before it the elle Communist philosophy to Cirrman people.
In The Cellar Numerically, the "KPD are small an unofficial alliance bererti Suit is clottiful if they have more cial Democrats and Christian lemo erats inside the big industrial plants to oppose the growth of Communism Brick gain new members for them selves.
In this fight they have adopted the Communist-invented cell as the comi bat wait,
The tendery bas only recently! developed, and If it is successful in Its immediate aim, it night well lead 10
party cooperation
higher level.
tricily
are
tup
then 70,000 members in the whole are very short of goud Zane. They party, workers, but those they have are tireless, efficient, Intelligent.
They know they have no chang
at ibr
of the at the moment trades union structure, so aliey a breaking
in the ellas. Any local unrest they immediately seize on and claim as their work, Their influence on the Ruhr food demonstrations of the spring was not
with being.
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North's 2-Hearts that he could protect This would be political develop. prarly great as it was credited ARGUING IS FUTILE since South should have known from "A man convinced against his will the side with a takenut if the clubs
Mill." *ame opinion
doubled. That bid from South ment of the first importance-possibly
7 e was, in fact, plenty to make is the emergence of a great democratic the the disrastened and demon- Nowhere does that apply more aptly would have resulted in a grand stam ble and a reversal of the depressing station-minded-and still without then at the bridge table. It is logical contract at clubs, with no chance of Gerinan political tendency fur the
a finger the Communist lifting
to enough to tell your partner what your being set. af indefiniic fission
parties Into the pot.
Then West cut in and insisted-E own logic was that caused you to do maller groups, none of them capable
Con what you did, and to state what you should have bid 6-Spades instead of Neboly need worry about
Wer would of large-scale political leadership or
munist influence in Western Gerthink you would have done if you doubling, whereupon rising above their
limited
had wat in his chair and held his have raised to 7-Spades. East then many at the moment, party a, which
cilin. Isually
Rationa Are slowly increasing band. But you can seldom he dead took his torn, hammering at West for of 6-Hearts Another straw in the
wind a though still below the nominal level, sure about the second part of that not taking out the double
or 7-Spades. (From the files of the "Ching been recent anxiety of the Social De- the weather is warm, the harvest In any event, what's the use of up into either 6-Spades
mocrats, expecially in the Ruhr and Rhineland, to assure Catholicism that promises to be better than was ex-setting him. for the next hand, since pleading that he could not rell: What's You cannot alter what has happened, and had any fit for him and that pected.
he did not wish to lose a spade and This morning a fast boat ar-they have no quarrel with it.
fclub trick he could ret the heart rived from Mandao, The same evening it left that port ita pass-ngers rose upon the crew and robbed them, as well 08 others on board, of everything valuable.
wild to be taken seriously ele. where. It would be absurd, for instance, to suggest to any but a Soviet audience that Britain in 1940 was saved from invasion by the Soviet armies going over to the offensive
18 months Fome later, It would be stupid to expect even Russia's atellites to believe that "after the war only Mail") the Soviet Union adhered faith fully to the agreements concluded in Potsdam and_Yalta"; yet_it can be believed in Russia. So, too, when Egypt has broken off negotiations for revising a treaty freely agreed a decade ago, M.
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But neither the food nor coal situa- tion is satisfactory or axiured, and the there is much disquiet over future, and, in particular, over, the And in the Ruhr-Rhine area the dismantling of Industry. Catholic Church must be reckone-l These factors, plus another bitter, SK 105 with in everything.
the [hungry winter, might reverse H None It is opposed to Communism, the political situation,
DAKQJS millions of good Catholics are op
hold The union leaders could not
76432 posed too. Religious feeling is relttheir members indefinitely. If they Notic
replaced by nationalist on their loftuence under the stress forced ur feeling.
of bad conditions, Commyalım would Germans detest and distrust Russia. grow rapidly.
On after consideration, caused Molotov
tell his can
in ignorant millions that "Egypt is by a boat being so readly struggling for her independence," attendance to convey away the plunder, with the thieves (which and when the United States is by the bye appeared to include already evacuating Greenland, M, at least 15 of the passtagers) PD" of the
The German Communist Party, the And with Communists 'In the seas
Molotov et alk sternly about the boatmen suppose that, it Denmark's inability to regain must have been a premeditated sovereignty over that dependency. undertaking; some three or four No fantasy about the outside (amongst whom was the Cap- world can, indeed, be too far-lain of the boat) were severely wounded, but fortunately none fetched for the Soviet masses to
mortally, I believe, since they are cut offį from contacts with the real con-}
ditions of other countries. It is In noticing the arrival of the possible to reassure them that the "Lady Salo", our reporter was Soviet Union alone behaves un-| misinformed in stating that shej selfishly in contrast with the put into als port to procure a wicked imperialists outside. No European crew.. need to inention the
We have since been informed 300,000 square miles of territory acquired that in the passage down
China sea the vessel was
the
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South had the last say. He philoso phixed that his side was extremely fortunate and should be thankful. He pointed out that the opponents, with thele top-ranking spade suit, were in position to take the ball away at any time for a grand slam, but that lo stead North and South run away with the points.
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Pandemonium In
Paris Chamber
Paris, Nov. 17.
Stormy scenes marked the election of General Charles de Gaulle's brother, Pierre, as Mayor of Paris, which took place today in the Paris Municipal Council.
Bucharest, Nov. 17. the romantic side of the quee There is much speculation tion was whether Mihai had about the status of young King come as a Prince. Charming to Mihai here in Roumania, where woo Elizabeth's younger sister, he wears the dignity of Princess Margaret. monarch and the Communists. Among the diplomatic corps, govern. his people.
some wondered
whether po- Now in London for the wed-litical reasons. may have ding.of Princess Elizabeth and prompted Mihai, to leave Rou- for one
of the infrequent manía for the first time alace developed Britain. One can re the "Occan
The English merchant veancl
Queen, Captain gatherings of European royal he became King in 1940 to at- mark how Soviet production in James Sutherland, on a voyage 5. King Mihai is the only tend a state occasion which has general has just caught up to the from China bound to London, monafch enthroned in the Rus little in, common with the pre-war level, while failing to struck on a shoal to the east-in one of influence. He is affairs of Communist-dominat- the last of the rulers of the ill-fed countries. There have bean observe that production in Bri-1 ward of the island of
Linga,
reports that he might not “re- tain has well passed the 1939 and an hour afterwards went to fated House of Hohenzollern.
Do the Russians like him? turn to Roumania. output and in the United States. pieces; so that the passages That is a question frequently Mihal himself has branded
has vastly exceeded and crew consisting of, besides
asked here. He wears the high them untrue. However, recent pre-war figures. Why are these female servant, four passengers victory, and at a recent Rus- tightened the Communist grip
captain, his wife and
in Sovjet decoration, the Order of events
Roumania have comforting utterances so neces and fourteen sailors who had! sary for M. Molotov to make r
barely time to get into the slan Embassy reception he was on that country. Jullu Manta the disciplined Soviet citizen-boats in which they arrived the centre of attraction, He has been sentenced for life to 300.-
M. Plorto de Gaullo received and are they wholly successful? three days later at Mintok.
is one of the few Roumanians prison at the "high treason"
the votes of 51 of the :00 Coun- 250.-
The answer is perhaps in ihar, The cargo consisted of 100 ever to get an exit and reentry trial of himself and 18 asso- Every week-day there
clllors.
Pandemonium broke out in the 6.100 visa since the war for his visit clates of the Peasant Party.place in 400.-"undue respect for the West" poculs of tortoiseshell,
Canterbury Cathedral
Counell Chamber as M. Dossua which M. Molotov denounces. peculs of gambler, 268 peculs of to London, accompanied by his Anna Pauker, a leading Com- one of the simplest and most
domanded. the Dow, Mayor's res munist in 600 mother,
the Balkans, has moving Soon after 1918 there was an mother o'pearl shells and
of all remembrance signation and called the members He is under the limitations been installed as Roumania's ceremonies.
of General de Gaulle's Rally of American song bemoaning the peculs gutta percha.
The captain entertaining an of a
constitutional monarch, | Foreign Minister. She is re At 11 o'clock a drummer or the French People, to which M. difficulty of getting men.."back on
opinion that some part of this but he has fought many a ported to keep pictures of Sta a boy of the band of The Buffs Ples de Gaulle belonge the farm, how that they've see valuable cargo might still be delaying action against the lin and Lenin in her office, but goca Into the Warriors
which holds 62 seats on the Parce." The astonished envy saved, the Government schooner present Communist-dominated not of Mihali Associated into page, or the Book of cih, Vichyites, and collaborators," with which Soviet troops regard and "two" gunboata were. even ruined Berlin or shattered mediately despatched to Vienna is notorious among other place where the disaster occupying forces." This is the poned. real basis of that, respect for the known. West which M. Molotov finde worryingly persistent. On the
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Fair-haired, 26 years old and Condemned dimple-cheeked, he is an herole figure in the eyes of the Rou
London, Nov. 17,
The Buffs' Book Of Life
takes
Steel-helmeted Mobile Guards and extra police stood guard out- side the Council Chamber as flery - arguments Inside during the meet- ing exploded into a bedlam of shouting and dosk” banging.
and
Life. In that book, which is ința The Rally Councillors foplied glass-fronted case on a lectern, with cries of "Back to Moscow" are the names of about 6000 and both sides shouted, and, bang- officers and men of The Buffs their desks above the rain who lost their lives in World clanging of the Chairman's bell..
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and
War
for the beavy guard," but it waY went election. No reason was given generally considered to be a pre- ̈ caution against any violence such a
other hand, the true Stalinist he points out that the Soviet Union, liever, convinced by the official by-designing a series of further manian peasantry-His-popu-The murders toiture, rape, dia turns a page locks the caso, puts The Council met for the first gospel of Soviet might and five-year plans, shows some con- larity is not that of an figurement of bodies and other on its hat and picks up his time since the De Gaullet land salutes the book and slide in last month's municipal Western malice, must often ask.fidence in the coinuance of dinary politician, and would be horrible atrocities committed on cane, himself why the Red Army is peace. Stalin himself made the uncult to destroy. Givon wise bath aides in Greece wore utter-marches off. The ceremony not already extending its civilis same point in a speech in Feb and impartial advisers, holy, condemned by the British Gov-on right through World ernment and deeply shocking" Two, even when bombe ing mission. To teply that Rus ruary last year; he thought Rus might succeed in keeping him to British opinion, the Under- dropping. as decurred last Wednesday, in sin is exhausted would be had for a might require three new Five solf above the political turmoil. Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Another book is being prepar- Marseilles, when Communist morale. So M. Molotov las de Year plans to "be insured He appears popular too with Mr. Christopher Mayhow. stated ed with the names of Buffs who led crowd attacked the City Ball, clared that there is no secret against any eventuality, Put many members of the prestat amid cheers in the House of died in World War Twoonly beat up the Do: Gaullist mayer
Government recently Deputies Commons" to-day about the atomic bomb, and that more plainly, Russia would cheered him wildly in Parlia Mr. Mayhew, who was reply third of the number lost in and frood two Communist prison, co-operation between the Soviet prefer not to enter another war ment
mga ing to questions;:: said it was 1014-18 and of Canadians of ers from an adjoining court room.
were
REUTER VETERAN
system and a very different for perhaps 15 years. This is Diplomatic Puzzle monaconate uggest that Queen's Own Rifles: st: Canada
monstrous Bri- The Buffs allied regiment, the-euter, tem is perfectly possible. This no guarantee of a 15 years peace. When King Mihal flow into responsible for these atrocities and Dates who were Hilled should be true, though, as Mr nor a definite threat of war in London on Saturday to attend Regarding suggestions for the while serving with The Buffo Byrnes lately recalled, it was said 15 year time, But there is no Princess Elizabeth's wedding withdrawal of the British mill-it will reat on the other aldo of more emphatically by Stalin in reason to disbelieve M-Molotoy this-wook, ha represented try and pollcollons from the lectern, relation to the Nazla." While M. when he -- cotoforts his fellow diplomație, and romantic pumile. puss Molotov does not fail to rescat comminars with "hints that: war. He arrived,lu his own plans the customary rigmarole, about lia not, despite the alleged-war with Queen Helent his "ckpitalist
Whe mongers, fast round the cofner, and the Ducht of Das
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