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CALLING THE BLUFF
In the pre-atomic age the British, French, and American joint proposal for the return
THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, APRIL 2, 1948.
Europe's fortunes hang upon the American Presidential election this year as vitally as upon Marshall Aid next month. No man. yet knows who will sit in the world's most powerful seat in No- vember, but Alexander Clifford presents here a reporter's-eye view of the race now being run to reach the White House.
A Dark Horse For President?
- So
There is a peculiar fog gather- Stassen is. * burly. jovial well as Dewey, and the two may ing round the American political American (three quarters end in deadlock again this year. weather. But every issue is seen German,
eighth through it and is coloured or dis- Norwegian) who has been thrice rounds,
Czech, eighth Stassen will fade out in the early torted by it.
it is Governor of Minnesota. Ho was shadowy dark horses
among the the first Republican candidate in may have to look for America's that you And it will grow thicker and the ring this time and he work- next President. thicker until Tuesday, Novembered hardest to sell himself to the 2, when it will be abruptly dis- electors. He has antagonised, his pelled. The new President will
be elected..
The fog is the process of whit- tling down the population of the United States to two or thrES possibilities and then persuading the population to choose one of them. Already it is quite a thick fog.
The process is so complicated, often so passionate, that it will dominate the political life of the nation all this year.
To understand it
at all you
of Trieste to Italy would have must keep certain facts firmly in been called a "bombshell."
mind. Even now it must have ex-
First. Democrats and Repub-
By Alexander Clifford
party bigwigs in various ways, but he has considerable strength in the country. He is not, how- ever, Dewey's chief rival.
Amarica in 'his hands,
THE SPIV IS BUSY
GERMANY
IN
The Sply has his counterpart in | ma. of coffee, or six hundrod every land, and here he has been cigarettes. called the Swingheini, from hi
By this time, the Swingheinis noctural habits of dancing negro || had" found o good restaurant contortions in stuffy night clubs where there was chicken · OT run by fugitive. S.S. men.
beefsteaks on the menu, and fresh The Swingheini wears his hair eggs and caviar. long like the Spiv, but his They wanted ten thousand shoulders are not so padded. lle Reichsmarks for the rug, and it sports ex-Wehrmacht boots and was touch-and-go between
tight-fitting
Russlan captain grey
smug:
out
Was
By IAN COLVIN
a
and an Ameri- . - can enlisted mat. The Russian promised to come
back next day
The Forgers
Fult The favourite outsider today is worsted that fine, stolid, statesmanlike gled figure Arthur Vandenberg, Ho is Saxony-It so senatorial
he oven looks a part of a bale Hittle Hollywood, but his adroit intended for reparations to the with more paper money; but his handling of the European Re-U.S.S.R. covery Programme Bill in the
ear broke down. The Q.1. drove The Swingheinis got together up in a jeep with ten cartons of Senate has shown him as a poll in a cellar when the war was cigarettes. He won the day, ticlan of real staturo. Most over. They started with a camera people would feel safe with which
they sold to a drunken Russian soldier Zor 50,000 But Vandenberg has been coy-Relchmarks. He had been robbing ly reluctant about nomination.
bank' in action. That gave them Kapitali
Having made pals with an en- ger in Italy, forging U.S. Scrip. terprising private soldier in the the dollar occupation currency. the ingenious idea of giving him the summer of 1943, they hit open This
Relchmarks 10 go and toothpaste, soap and chocolate in the NAAFI
That sold to the ellents of the
Star Or Squib 'Next comes a more spectacular |Agure-General Douglas Mac-
Arthur.
That position is held by a bal-
No one knows anything about with a his domestic programme-he has
They are Taft.
Falling Short
+
.
against him.
д
price
paid
the
in
The Swingheinis, through Displaced Persons camps Berlin, got in touch with a for-
until the
opened great vistas, Americans discoverod buy froud and converted overnight to
a new issue.
To check the black market the
U.S. Army started barter shops, the so that the middleman would not for it.
plunder both the poverty stricken Rhine Army took a long time Germans and the green enlisted to get wise to what the Swing-men belnis had started, and by the time that the Army Council; Issued BAFSV or occupation cur. rency.
about £24,000,000 in NAAFI goods had gone down the drain.
ploded unpleasantly in they are not two groups clean- voleed man from Ohio
aro not political parties. dish, rimless-spectacled, harsh- Kremlin. In other quarters, ke divided on political, economic, mouth like a letter-box-Robert|been abroad for eight years. He Swingklub at forty times however, the sound has been and social theories. caster on the car, and has simply rival gangs.
is greatly admired, but he is also brought in its train hope, reas- It is true that the Democrats
greatly "hated. There is so far surance, and satisfaction.
no organisation working for him, [claim to stand for the under-dog For a long time such strokes ning, while the Republicans call many suspect he remains isolas
and some measure
but a gpup of G.Ls have start- of State plan-
to work Taft is an ex-Isolationist and ed a club in Chicago have been the prerogative of
for completely free enterprise the totalitarians. Germany and in the past) isolationism. tionist at heart.
He is an imponderable quan- sprang them on us for six Becond. Americana will be He has been fighting for a lty. He might sweep the coun- years, and Russia has been fol-choosing personally one man to smaller Marshall Plan.
try. He might be a damp squib. and all! lowing the Nazi example since Premier. And, according to their and honesty won't let him see shadowy possibilities
be both their President and their his
boasted intellectual clarity There arc other even more 1945.
rigid 18th-century Constitution, Now it is our turn. We nothing
that it is no good throwing a horses Joseph Martin, but death
The Swingheinis took a can remove 20 ft. rope to a man drowning of the House of Representatives; window and began to trade have made a demand-and by him from his post for four years. 30 ft. from the shore.
Governor Warren, of California: openly, Frau so doing have shaken clear of
the Senator Saltonstall. the
There will widow of a General Staff offleer, doubt and confusion!
Taft, whose strength lies in the be more at 1 before we get and so she had her pension stop which have dogged us for
Mid-West, is an old rival of through.
ped by an Allled decree. Dewey's. nearly three years.
Rather than starve, she took a and November Persian rug to the Swingheinls] today who anything can happen--and prob- and they gave her three thousand
at least as Jably will.
marks for it, or the price of six
war.
A Tribal War,
So this is no ordinary process.
There are many
|Health Of
I am glad that during the past weeks I always sent material 10 G.H.G. that interested the Fuch- ree from the purely human side. especially items about art and cultural life from which he is completely cut off, although in normal times they are one of his maln preoccupations.
Towards noon I had my first,
Between now
dark
Speaker
Trade Openly
shop
Braun
Goebbels Diary
Trieste, in fact, marks a It is a kind of national Jamboree turning-point in the post-war conducted on lines of the strict- think Taft is doing
est folklore. It is the two rival game of power-politics and factions in the tribe contending diplomacy. It may yet prove to choose a chieftain. to have stopped the drift to This year there are two special circumstances. The Arst is the Yet it was no more than we Democrat empire which Roosevelt
incipient collapse of the great Hitler were entitled to expect. The built up and held together by the declarations of President his own personality. The second Truman and Mr. Marshall, the emergence of a genuine
third party. that they would not stand
Roosevelt tolerated no other by and see freedom extin-personalities in his empire, and guished in one country after now without him it is crumbling. another.
Today the Democrats have Mr. Truman to offer Russia may have thought
and only Mr. Truman. that such statements meant as him, but they've nothing else.
They don't all like little as many which preceded His nearest rivals are charac- them. If so, she must have ters like "Kissing Big Jim Foland in the afternoon my second, not have regarded as possible.
of several hours with the This winter put not been startled by this democra-som, naive six-foot eight Gov-talk
only the ernor of Alabama, who automa-
They. touched tic initiative, for her policy cally kisses
ma German Wehrmacht but expect- has been to drown all except ever he sees them.
pretty girls when deeply,
Supreme Commander ally its under a cruel strain. Communist action in a sea of Mr. Truman is in trouble with
the southern
because he words.
gentry Of course, this act of states-has introduced the Civ zove El, which threatens to improve manship is accompanied by the
status
the coloured popula of risks. Yugoslav national pride tion in the South.
Mr. Truman may have bad and prestige are bound up to an extraordinary degree in trouble with New York's vast
Jewish population.
Trieste.
Sooner than give up his por tion Marshal Tito might de- cide to fight. In that event
-Lost Heritage?
Many Democrats have already the Free Territory of Trieste walked out him to follow could play the same part in Henry Wallace's "Third Party."
ΟΤΙ
Fuehrer.
Fuehrer's Health
It is nothing short of a miracle Our greeting was extremely cordial.
that we stood it. It is too early One notice how happy the Fuehrer is Fuehrer suffered during these
cannot fail to to welcome one of his old col-
to appreciate fully what the
Jaborators, and especially to be months.
He told me he would later able to say in complete privacy have occasion to talk and possi- all those things that he can't tell bly write about all this.
a larger circle.
The Fuehrer's healthy appear-
Highest Intensity
WDS
Odd Junk
The Swingheinls got their giris funk, and muscled in there, too, to stand in the queues with odd
The barter shop with its sign "only 50 bs. of coffee accepted from any customer in one day" is closing down; but the Swing- heints will find fresh fields.
The Swingheinis think of the trunks full of reichsmacks that they have amassed. Soviet Russin is their best friend at the moment in postponing currency reform:. but when it does come, ah, what beartburning!
This is the nightmare hanging over the Swingheintal
Brauchitsch's Disobedience
The Fuehrer was in a frame of mind to agres completely with my proposals for a тоге drastically all-out war effort.
all
T needed merely to touch lightly on a theme and I had at once gained my point. Every- thing I proposed was accepted by Item and without
Item
objection.
Fumed: With Anger
told
the Fuehrer about Streccius of Vienna in connec tion with the forged Moelders *** letter.
He simply fumed with anger. He asked me to prepare a writ- ten report for him, and he wil then throw Streccius out without warning.
As a matter of fact, he did not. even know this iudicrous general. Unfortunately nothing can
be undertaken against Macken-
the case. He told me that re- would not be possible to survive happy he is about the long dura- sen. 1948 as the Free City of Dan-jin many directions the Roosevel! From he has not been very well the enemy's assaults, with his tion of the winter-a winter that leaders of the Wehrmacht has
zig played in 1939. It could there's only Truman to lead what diness.
heritage is vanishing. And to fight off severe attacks of gid- Inst
be the curtain-raiser to World remains. Wer.
every
there mean so much to him.
ance is rather misleading. Super-. The war has reached its high- Acially he seems to be in the est intensity since the end of very best physical shape.
November. Sometimes, tho Actually, however; that
nat Fuehrer said he, feared it simply "
he fought Invariably, however,
His opinion about various time to ime he has had off
ounce of
will and
came so suddenly and is depart-changed fundamentally. Ho does' The long winter has time he succeeded in coming out
ing so unwillingly.
not think as much of the, gene- affected his spiritual condition in on
I told him about Vienna, Graz, role as he did. So here's one thing you can be
in on top. Thank God the German and Linz. way that has left its markpeople learned about.
He admitted how, only n
Unfortunately I had to com- But it is highly unlikely pretty certain about in this Pre-
The Fuehrer, I recall, never fraction of all this.
deeply he yearns to return to plain about Dr., Ley. The pub- that this will happen. Even sidental election: Truman will be cared much for winter. In the
beautiful places This shows how right it is to
which city which he is conducting to the Democrat nominee. You can if Tito is mad enough to resist be almost equally certain that he (FARE)
for instance, he could daya, hold
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Increase production is most in- the people the heavlest the demand by fighting he won't get any further than that people in spring could look for those of a spiritual nature.well aware that the German pec-
The Fuehrer has no misgivings opportune, especially the war, especially about sentiment at home. He is moment of reduced food rations. this AMOY
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of action.
was
The Little Man....
The Trieste move
You must turn to the Repub- alicans to find the winner-and the shrewed stroke of politics, uncertainties. A Republican will timed to have the maximum jalmost certainly be President. effect upon the Italian ele Thomas Dewey, stubby, black- On paper today it is probably tions of April 18. It has cer-moustached Governor of New tainly placed Russia in. an York, who looks like the little {man on top of the wedding cake,"
awkward dilemma.
If she refuses the demand according to one witty Washing- she will lose any chance of ton hostess. He is leading the winning Italy for Commun-eld on present form.
But form can change overnight ism. If she agrees, she will in those, elections, "Tiny" straws incur, the ill-will of her floating hither and, thither in the favourite satellite, Yoguslavia, wind can alter everything.
LORD HAMBLEDON
DEAD
In 1944 Dewey, as Republican nominee against Roosevelt, got 40 per cent of the nation's votes. |Hia ogé la 45 and his record -is
axcellent.
And he has done well in the London, Mar. 31...
only real test of opinion so far Lord Hambledon, Governing the Now Director. of W. H. Smith, and mary,
Hampshire
Pri
Son, operators of... a nation-wide A primary is purely a party. chain of newsagents and station-election within a Biate to decide ers shops, died today following what delegates that State will an operation. G
Lord Hambledor, 44, and to the National Party Con- chairman of the Council of the vention The National Conven- Royal College of Art and chair nominee, and the nation decides
tion decides
onse the party's man of King's College Hospital
In 1980-be signed what?” was
between different nomina mif
· reported to be the largest double In New Hampshire als
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never
understand
CARNIVAL
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.
some burdens of
MEA'S WEAR
covered with
By Dick Turner
The Ukraine.
at
We then talked over a Rum-
Wor
about only in terms of the Ho. has made of the Italian people whatever it I'don't
as possible to make of them. share the Fuchrer's optimism that we shall succeed himself. I noted that he has al- Then the Fuehrer spoke about within a reasonable time in get ready become quite ting worth-while supplies out of that merely talking about the grey and the Ukraine. We lack the man cares of the winter makes him
the organisation, and
power, especially
this
decided to how
the
weakened for the "-front in, and · catus=
the transport, to do seem to have aged very much...
The Fuehrer described to me The Fuchrer has
close we were duri rule with a stricter hand hence- past months to a
winter. Had he forth. I told him of individual
where justice had mis- would have cave
one "moment, only carried. These matched his own trophe ended that would have observations. He is now deter- mined to invoke the most drastic into the shade.
put the Napoleonie, disaster far
cases
Millions of fine soldiers would
measures
proposed passing a law that whoever violates the commonly have been exposed to death by known principles of National So-hunger and cold, and in all like- cialistic leadership should be tion the intelligentile would lihood our workers not to · FORD= punished with imprisonment, or have been led into slaverybo
in very serious cases with death.
Under-Cowardly. Wretch
Brauchitsch bears a great deal
In 'the Ministry of Ju«- tice, who has headed German of responsibility for this. The Justice, always ratuses--my re- Fuehre spoke of him only in quests on the ground that there
of contempt. Avain, no legal basis for action. terms
cowardly wretch who could not The proposed law much less, thaise, would create that
martappraise the altuation It sential that the Mint By hit constant interference try of Justice: be placed in new and consistent disobedience he hands. I proposed": the President completely spoiled, this entire of the People's Court Thierack, plan for the temp campai who certainly it won't tumble of it was doelgrad with not, become the mistise murt darlly by the use
Fok the The Winbrecy had a plan that Stale, but must be the servant of was bound Foto and
over
Siate
polley
and
hat be really
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