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MARSHALL PLAN
PROGRESS
By Nicholas Carroll
Ax the third anniversary of Warsaw's liberation from
years of German occupation ap proaches, the spotlight has been
In other felds the year has A
Recently The Sunday brought significant changes.
thrown on Poland again by the Times Representative
intest political trial theru, in- volving charges of treason ngainst a former British Embassy woman employes.
For a country doubly docimated
In Warsaw
year ago banditry was rifs, andi
Now bandits aro only place by car was unwire. practically non-existent, following last the political ampenty of spring which brought many thou Aands of men from the woods. Poland is sometimes described as an "iron curtain" country, but in by all atrociously barbarous war-post-war Poland. In the indus-, time rule, Poland's recovery in | trial sphere the story is of stent.her case, if there is such a cur
Invisible. Foreign cor- Lain, mest spheres, with the notablo ly accelerating progress based on respondents can go where they exception of certain aspects of wall worked out three-year planlike and write what they like, Justice, has been striking. To intended as prelude to a wider though the home Press is subject have lived in Poland for the past and much longer term "bing to a complete and clover censor- year is to have witnessed sign-print" for reconstruction, in ship. ficant far-reaching developments which private enterprise looks in its choquered history, The like playing an ever diminishing year nas soen a wall-managed role.
Secret Police
one
election on the modern Eastern European "no.doubt-about-the-
Yet while visitors have wide Poland has trade agreements freedom of movement there are result lines, followed by with over thirty countries, Great some things they rarely see. The agreement between Sena-steady growth in the influenca Britain included, though her ties instance, it is virtually impossible For tor Vandenberg, chairman of the self-confidence of the Com with the Soviet and the Eastern to visit a prison. It is only oc. munist elements of the nominally European countries are the closest casionally, and usually acciden Senate Foreign Relations Com-four party Government, helved by and most cordial, Greeco and mittee, and President Truman, the Polish variety of the tradi. Spain are the only countries in tally from an ex-inmate, that:
European
can get whereby the total target figure of tional Eastern
secret Europe with which she has no
frightening A glimpse, US$17,000,000,000 has been remarkable strengthening of econliberation days UNRRA help.
police.
It has seen, too, a re-trade relations.
In early put and tragie, Into the dark winge of the brightly-t Pollah atare, maved from the Marshall Plan omic stability,
to based
where | legislation as submitted to Con on possession of the rich Silesian did much to aid her arduous climb ale grimly in the shadows.
primarly the value of some #120 millioned "V.BG of the widely fear- or accurity police oper gress might have caused some con- coalfields, which
maay mean a from the complete commercial At one period of the year it Strmation in Europe if the reason relatively early hardening of the and cultural prostration to which was thought that the Polish
country's soft currency. for the decision had not been cleanly understood.
The Hill as amended will con- secrate the principle of a four- yran European
recovery pro gramme and retain the figure of 16.8 billion dollars as the appro- priation for the first 15 months from April 1 next.
mushroom-lika
new
the infamous German occupation
Coal Production
policy of ultimate extermination Socialists, with their tradition of When I arrived in Poland Just reduced her a prestration be no sturdy Independence, might coun
ter-balanca tho moro extreme over a year ago i suffered the means improved by the passage tendencies sickening shock of Warsaw's un- of victorious
of the Communists, Russian troops equalled devastation-surpassing through the land.
but their leaders have thrown in with anything Germany
their lot whole-heartedly Allow~! can
[their Soviet-inspired comrades and that every visitor experiences on
have been first seeing
right-wing elements it. The city has,
vigorously eliminated from the however, changed out of all re- cognition in
The present Government a party. в усаг Blocks of flats have risen from hopelessay realised the economic and
rubble and coalfield.
political valua of the Silesian The object of the removal of looking tangles" of
With Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, Consequently the main the Peasant Party leader, man- premises the total target figure from the twisted girders,
Industrial effort has been exerted oeuvred out of the way as a Bill to facilitate the passage of for Ministries have grown with there, and Polish coal is now political factor in the country. It the Bill through Congress.
speed, and a large coming out of the earth at The fleet of taxis has ousted recupa
that the Catholic now seems device adopted takes account of tion-time riskshaws and brought rate of sixty million tons a year, Church is the only opponent left nearly a third of it being ex-facing a Government in which to droshky the tact, in Senator Vandenberg's lean times
deported. Suffering still from war Communists
control such im. Old streets have been cleared and was, "that it is impossible to
Foreign anticipate what the conditions of new roads driven through acres time abuse by the German man- poztant Ministries
of broken brick and cement.
agements, shortage of machinery, Home Detence, the world may be in the succeed.
a high average age among the and Education. That the Goten miners, and other difficulties, pro ment realises his has been made Resilience ing four years.” It further re-
Auction runs at about ninety per quite clear. The naming of the lieves the
Congress,
cent. of the pre-war norm. Com-two Polish cardinals in the latest whose term expires this year,
Achieved partly by the naturalpetitive working on Stakhanov political trial as having received
from energy and india-rubber resilience lines his much publicised Polish Information.
tho from the embarrassment of com- of the
illegal cheerful. "Warszawlak," opposito number is called Patrow underground is only the most
next November (at the same voluntary contributions 10 a recent production,
signs of an impending conflict. time as the Presidential election) fund
present
the
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Security,
CARNIVAL
By Dick Turner
"Tanks for`d' pardon, Warden, but 1 ain't leavin" Karm till I got proof you destroyed all dem wanted-dead-or-"
Palestine In State Of Anarchy
By Edward Curtis
or Jewish Palestine now lives in a vir- dominantly Arab tual state of anarchy with the towns, residents buy only, neces- and American supreme law being "an eye for sities. Brilleh
have discovered
tirring the Congress elected partly by voluntary and inski has done much to atimulate recent of a series of warning uncertainly. Simple things now garine supplies are held by the
the
for rebuilding and that to be elected in Novem-lifting of certain restrictions on capital, partly by a temporary ber, 1950, to a four-year total, private entorprise, the rapid re amal appropriations for which creation of Warsaw is symptoma
the better things in would still have to be voted by tle of all
the Congress of the day.
It is fully appreciated in Bri- tisht quarters that the U.S. Ad- ministration is keenly desirous of securing passage of the Bill by Congress in good time and is in lavour of total American aid up to in uwn estimate of 17 billion dollars. The political ways and means of attaining this end is an Aurican domestic question of which the Administration be the judge.
must
At the same time it is felt that
100 Years Ago
(From the files of the "China Mail")
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At
Last We Know
Or Do We?
MUSEL
an eye and a tooth for a tooth." housewives
For the people in this biblical that what little beef is left in land-the Jews, Arabs, British In the hands of the Arabs and and others-life stumbles on most of the butter and mar-
are difficult. For many the Jews.
Supply services have almost daily ride to work is a danger ous adventure in an armoured broken down, Road Convoys bug.
are allacked and train tracks Mail service is uncertain and are blasted. Imports choke the often non-existent,' First the main part of Haifa for lack of Jefish and then the Arab post safe transport throughout - the office workers, demanding more country."
guards and security measures, Meanwhile, whole areas live refused to work Some mail in a state of siege. In-tho. old has been lost to train 'robbers. city of Jerusalem about 1,500 Home life for many residents orthodox Jews are cut off by of Palestine has become..ohoa surrounding sniper-infested Thousanda Arab area. The Jews are sup
which of families left their homes beplied by daily convoys
sometimes fail to reach them. cause they lived in the "wrong"
The no man's land between districts, Speeding vans piled
move,
in the spirit world and had ask were buried in Shakespeare's all this has occurred in a coun- out the residential district
Percy Allen, former drama conclusive proof that the Earl] gritle of the Christian Selence of Oxford and William Shake- Monitor, added a startling note speare were the chief collabora continuous to one of Britain's most hallow- tors. He quotes Francis Bacon ed literary controversies by re as stating that, while he read porting in a book published to the drafts of the playa, he did
not take any actual hand in the high with furniture of Jews Arab Jaffa and Jewish Tel- writing..
feaving Arab sections or of Avly from Jerusalem come un- BY ROBERT
Allen prefaces his book with Arabs leaving Jewish districts der 'aniper fire.
At night in Jerusalem, pistol- a sonnet which lie Hays war are a common sight. especially written for him by Neighbours no longer know packing patrols of Araba and there should be a fresh spur to We waited with becoming day that he had contacted Wil-Shakespeare He claims that the names of those who live Jews make movement Hazard- sputters and the 10 nations forming the Comference on our more learned
Con-liam Shakespeare, the Earl of play manuscripts whose where-next door. They know only if ous. Gunfire mitter of European
Economic tempuraries for the exposition
of Exford and Sir Francis Bacon abouts are another literary they are Jews or Arabs. And bangs intermittently through same scheme of Municipal Govern Co operation to press on with ment adjusted to the wants
ed them bluntly: schemes for co-ordination of their peculiar circumstances of this
tomb at Stratford-on-Avon with try where housing already is mostly in, former mixed quar- ters or along their boundaries. respective reconstruction
but UN they have both been pro-munity
"Who wrote the plays attrithe manuscript of "Hamlet" on short."
Business in mixed areas is Explosions of scare bombs and grammes. The 16 nations' obselves reluctantly obliged to take it
Bilent apon the
question, we are our-buted to William Shakespeare?" the auther's besom.
The blank deadgrenades are commonplace. jective was
He adds, however, that he impossible. defined by Mr.
For the past century in Bri-
Even the dead do not rest in unaffected and do up.
was told by Oxford that it was fronts of shuttered shops warn Ernest Bevin, Britain's Foreign distrust of our capacity to deal with tain, learned groups have bark hot worth opening the tomb be a passerby he is in dangerous peace, The Jews are making to Minister, in his recent speech to it. We may do good, however, ifed various Elizabethan" noble-
now cemetery farther down the the Association of American cor-only as pioneers in clearing the men and writers as the actual capse the priceless manuscripts country,
slopes of the Mount of Olives Breakdown respondents in London, as intended round, and removing some of the author
which would be worth mil misapprehension Shakespeare's plays add poems
Hons to collectors--hda been In both the Jewish and Arab to shorten the distance funeral "to luliit the claim made upon.
which tances and
have already beset the plain on the ground that Shakespeare damaged by damp United districts business still struggles corteges must go through Arab them—namely that they should question...
Press.
to exist, but except in the pre-super fire, himself was an unlearned coun- held each other and the world While we maintain that a popular so that aid coming
Institution is called for to administry bumpkin who became a from the ter the local affairs of the Colony, passable actor and moneylender U.S.A. will be supplementary we do not for one minute insinuate but never had the knowledge or and will help us to make a great that these affairs are unjustly ad ability to write the greatest sicemi ui the recovery
of very shilling of her from works in the language. Europe."
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At least one Government độ partment has been split into ab 'Arab section and a Jewish sec- tion. Many business firms, re- Co-ordination and co-operation for, and no men can pretend to say groups back Bacon, the Earl of The three most important.
port that Arab and Jewish en- is taking place among the to na-to the contrary.
ployees refuse to work together.
··| Oxford and the Earl of Derby.
An American
of tions themselves and under the It is true we see before our eyes a The Earl of Rutland also has argis of the United Nations
hop to 5-Diamonds when a more con Jerusalem firm said Arab enf proportion of that revenue some supporters. 300.-
servative blilder would have tried a ployees wanted to establish a Economic Commission ongoing (to the pockets of parties who me apertalks with Eliza-
single raïne to 4-Diamonds. Will branch in the Arab quorigra "of 250-Europe.
give no sort value for it, but
It is seldom good idea to match Notth had a bare opening bid op the Jews asked to open a Jewish bethans," Allon says he Avil Thus the
that is an Customs
ordained by Powers tacted Shipkespeare Bacon and up two extremist off the same kind paste, au opening bid situation Union beyond our 400.-
reach, and there Study Group of the C.EE.C.
Oxford through Mrs: Hester derbidders they will play trafenty of neither disguise or dishonesty
they thì both i'ah• Furaally producing game in some de. quarter office,
A Hagana source said the inects again in Brussels on Jan- the mode of doing it—lt is a public | Dowden, an: “automatic script game hands at mete pair
натре ls, in a minor requir game, ing 1 tricks.
ced sit can take, hold and defend is one of those abuses controla allegedly guide her pen to say, meeting questionnaires were sentity and
when
Bonk played them just so high, a Jewish State in partitioned 120.but to secute data which would
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the and write whatever messages they sell opponética the wide and handsome his he bid them Palestine, but that it will take province 300-nable them at their next meet rediens,
any Municipal system to they wish to transmit. detract from them, without adequard and was shot full of lick as well two or three years and will cont
Because of this unprecedent
to term He was the clubs tea, laid down many more lives. ing to discuss the possibility of Neither find
ither have we any fault to love od sicces to new sources on the der fourth will feet too high on nested, the dargondo, finessed the youny, Jewess who rectal of inveterain over-bid througbe receiv a common tariff.
A conninte tariff is probably prnment. They apper to us to be dispute, Allen sald, he now lots of dealt, thereby sacrificing the heart;f. scored the heart K. Jed to
both competent and the most decisive item in the men, and to do their duty thorough mysteries in addition to author evels, besides taking some
hardworking able to solve several other points that could: 'scort at lower that spade K, disbarded his low club, gence officer through several
badd
sgars of working in the anti- study of this problem because ity, in their respective Department ship of the poems, and plays. an defeated
datablished, led to the spade A ngir break favours
zliky stage cleared explained Hagana's optimism
Late Customs Union Also under the surely be fairer to point out
particular abuse or incompetency, the Indy's of the sonnets fr actual- the deglacer, the latter type can beat truhips with the diamond A, rufted She and it was bore the Charter of
and vice veria. the club/6 with il diamond ruled expectation that the United the Internationaler it be corrected, than to indulge ly the Virgin Queen, Elizabeth; the fut
the spade 4 with the diamond 10. States would come to the ald Trade Organisation a Cultoms la sweeping and unsupported dis by whom, ho adds, the Earl of
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then rebred the "dummy's last Union tarif irvel must not be paragement........
Oxford had an illegitimate son
of the Jaws by exerting econo- D. A 10 9 8
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the Earl of Southampton,
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