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GLOBAL AID
With 7 speed almost unknown in peacetime, Pre- sident Truman
yesterday signed the US$6,000,000,000 "Stop Russia" foreign aid bill, making it law less than 24 hours after Congress rushed it through to final approval. "This measure," he told the world in 1 statement, "is America's answer to the chal- Jenge facing the free world today."
This, after 10 months of
global ald
THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, APRIL 8, 1948.
[Sunday Was
Spoiled By An R.A.F. Raid
One can hardly buy an orange today without answering one of those absurd questionnaires. It is high time this was stopped.
King Boris [of Bulgaria, earlier described by Goebbels DJ A aly, crafty fellow] expressed a wish to talk with me at leisure.
Our talk, which was intended to take only 20 minutes; lasted more than two hours.
The king in extraordinarily charming, and has returned from the Fuehrer full of new ideas, suggestions, and enterprises,
Boris is an impassioned devotee of Hitler's genlus as a leader; he really looks upon him as a sort of emissary of God.
He shows the greatest under- Blanding for my work. I am redly surprised at how much he knows. Indeed, he even told me that he uses the argumenta advanced in my articles in all hiu diplomatic negotiations.
People's King
He
He is a real people's king. travels Incognito through Bul- garian villages to learn about the sentiment, of the people.
He is very happy that the Fuchrer docs not expect more of factor in the Balkans,
him than to be a
stabilising
truly astonishing with what love and devollen he stands behind the Fuchrer,
I
Goebbels Diary
ing and the "Cross of Triumph" by Bera Notker could be sayed.
St. Jacob's Church, St. Cathe Meseum are unharmed, and the rine's Church. and St. Ann's city library and archives have been saved.
the Holy unscathedi,
of The Hospital Ghost also remains The Burg Gate and the Holsten Gate are st131 standing. St. Aegidia's Church is only slightly damaged.
The most important big patri- clan houses have all been des troyed.
A secret report from the Unit ed States claims an extra- ordinarily bad situation obtains in the Soviet Union.
Stalin can scarcely master the food problem. Marale has sunk far below zero. I don't belleve this report is too pessimistle.
We must not place too great hopes on developments in France. I consider the French people sick and worm-caten.
The French must be put on ice,
As soon as you flatter them, they misinterpret it.
March 30: MacArthur in being streets.
war.
former
on the
(Lord) Hallfox, E Viceroy of India, spoke Indian question at a dinner ist New York.
The situation in Greece is pretty desperate.
us trouble these days.
During a rold we found that
15 per cent. of all the women arrested had v.D. and most of these had syphilis.
We must certainly do something,
burg
CARNIVAL
By Dick Turner
DON, 1900 BV MEA DERVIOR, 990. V. M, RED,
"You mean that after years of taking priceless, medically tested ingredients, the chemicals in my body are worth only 97 cents?”
"One-Man Crime Wave" Caught
By IAN COLVIN
own
The food situation has dave- a real catastrophe. loped into Untold number of men and wo- If all hands of States in Europe
The Keep them on tenterhonks and men are dying of hunger. were as open-minded and ready they will sce TEAKON much Italians have taken rigorous pos- session of the country, and the to support the new order, prac sooner.
Apr11 tirely nothing could obstruct the
3: Observers in the Germans are only fifth wheels to way of the future Europe. |United States 'report that there the cart.
March 29: Our navy Journals isn't the slightest enthusiasm for
We are certainly muking great debating, is an unprecedented have asked me to let them have the war, Roosevelt announced sacrifices to maintain the friend- that he intends to engender en-ship of our southern ally on be- programme for my editorials a little earller.
Sellors are extremely interest-thusiasm by military parades. Europe and Asia-America'set in them and agree with them He might just as well have cle- half of the Axis.
phants biggest aid operation since the completely, I am happy.
march through the Prostitution in Berlin is causing wartime lend-lease. Russia
praised more and more in the Aprit 4: The English clolm is pledged to wreck the whole United States like a general la they dropped one thousand-pound thing if she can and diplomats the movies.
brmbs on Luebeck. The damage expect rough Russian counter-
am having this gentleman.19 really enormous, I have been action,
taken down a few pegs by our shown a newsreg) of the destruc- propaganda services. The Ameri- tion. It is horrible.
about it at once. In the long run They have caught Flannelfuss asked a brother officer to sleep in The gigantic task of shor-cons are trying to blow him up Thank God, it is a North Ger we ennnot possibly avoid setting-Walter Binglersen-the one-his house when he went on leave. ing up Western Europe, the into the greatest general of this man population, which, on the up
"red-light district" in the man crime wave, so called be|When the watch-keeping, officer Middle East and
whole, is much China
All he really has to show in Germans. In the auther than the Reich capital like those in Ham-cause he used to leave his boots woke up one morates is
Nuremberg, and other In the garden two houses away cigarettes and wallet had gone against Russia will start this the way of heroic deeds or cast.
long work in jus stockinged feet. from the beside table. Iarpo cities. morning on a
his relatively high-speed achievements is
Nevertheless, We can't get
simply cannot organise and
Lieut.-Colonel Joshua Owner, "That was a tickilah job," sald brief resistance on Corregidor. emergency schedule. The
away from the fact that the Eng-administer a city of four milllons of Public Safety, was losing sicep Plannelfuss smiling: "it made Imagine what the Americans lish air raids have increased
over Flannelfuas as night U.S. State Department pre- would do if they had a Diet) or scope
atter me unensy when he turned over and Importance: It. they in accordance with the
night the reports came in: Air in his sleep." sumably will be in charge at Rommel! This shows how
can be continued for weelistions of bourgeois morality.
Commodore Walle's blue great- "Please. Mum, the burglar's the start. Five nations stand modest we really are in our along these lines, they might
Politeness
had been taken from the come." announced the house- propaganda.
quite conceivably have a do to benefit from the very first
Captain N. V. Dickinson, mald, and into Mrs. Dickinson's April 9: I find it necessary to Senior Naval Officer, missed two house ittele Flannelfuss, in hand- moralising effect on the popula- expenditures. They are Italy,
tlon.
start a new campaign for greater comeras, and Brigadier W. R. N. cuffs, was led by the police to France, Austria, Greece and
politeness in public life.
In the streets, in buses and Inney" Hinde, the Deputy Mill check his story. A stolen great- the Netherlands, where the
restaurants and theatres, extre- silver swiped. These are only a ankles. She wished that she had Governor, had his family coat. muffled him down to his need is great and the dollar
mely coarse language has gra- few of the Flannelfuss cases, her camera back, if only to supply low. First shipments
dually become
general.
Flanneltuss lived in the Rus-photograph him. to them under the new law
This is bad for the nerves and ston sector of Berlin. "Safe by "Yes, these were all my jobs," probably will be food, fuel I therefore ordered our propa-
cannot be tolerated any longer. day in Tom Tiddler's ground," said Flannelfuss proudly, run- In be reversed to some
April 11: A black day for the observed the Colonel. and some industrial materials. Randa In the conflict between Russia extent. We are now taking the people line that the German and the Western Powers, won't be greatly disappointed if Italy's situation is considered compromise is worked out in the most critical at the mo- ment.
A Danger India within about a fortnight Cripps is hoping for success in He is proceeding rather cleverly, and there is a danger that he may actually succeed in attach apron strings.
ing India once more to England's
Indio.
The Sunday has thoroughly spoiled by an tionally heavy air rald R.A.F. on Luebeck.
He
news
still opposes publishing,
April 5: The Foreign Office about the torpedoing of Norwe glan ships which were trying to go from Sweden to England.
concep-
tפן
pcg:
tary
'Wispy Little Man'
tonne nad
he
saw a
The Foreign Office claims that negotiations are under which will make Swedish polley way harden one way or the other.
ning his finger, down some 48 burglaries committed in. British The Swedes seriously intend to chemy. The Americans must ad- resist actively if the British at-They now have nothing more; to The wispy take the last u
have evacuated Bataan.
houses' within about six weeks. The wispy German of How was he caught? thck Sweden:
ck forins to be seen whether defend in the Philippines except derground train into the British suffering from insomnia
A Control Commission officer this will actually happen.
Corregidor.... been
sector every night and The whole United States is in about in the dark, looking for. ghost Into the garden of the wander small grey figure stealing like a In any case, that is the impres-. excepsion they are now trying to give turmoil. The halo they gave houses with the well-known cre- neighbouring houso, appropriate by the us. The new law is a broader
Consequently, it is extra- MacArthur is fading. ordinarily dimcult to comment
chintz curtains, and ly enough that of Mr. K. D. Treas measure than the President
I was informed of the serious-omcialty
We
are naturally going to seize Union Jacks painted on the sure, the Chief Legal offeer of originally asked for but,ress of the situation by a long-wanting to surrender the Nor- averrated character whom New
on their insolence in upon this opportunity. This much gnles
Berlin, who was away on leave. Flannelfuss worked with a dia- Resourceful Red Cap except in one point, is in line distance call from Kaufmann wegian ships under their control York only a few days ago was mond on window pones; with
believes to the Engilsh The Administration's The gauleiter].
that no German elty has ever be- I now consider it necessary to standing
atili
sell us the trying to sell
out-would let himself in pack a suit- The stalwart in pyjamas dial- foreign policy recommenda- fore been attacked su severely let the German publie know the
genius of tions to Congress.
the Redcaps, were there. Three unmasked completely ins ruin with it.
Next morning he would catch times they searched the house exception is a provision in part chaotle
Tair raids on Malta.
I have received-confdential in the Russian sector, where he
our propaganda.
the first underground train back and found no sign of the intruder? the section on aid for China. Immediately afterwards the
It was pitch dark outside. The formation to the effect that the disposed of his haul in Congress ruled that out of the
the bare steep files offered, no foot- Pope has appealed to the Spanish Polish-Jewish quarter because hold even for a Flannelfuss, The to | US$463,000,000 assigned
China for the next 12 months, US$125,000,000 may be 'spent for military equipment.
For Greece and Turkey the law authorises an expenditure during the 12 months of | US$275,000,000 military equipment. Both these coun- tries will get their economic help as members seventeen cooperating Euro- pean Nations (including Western Germany) in the Marshall Plan, or European Recovery Programme.
The one from the air. Conditions are in orsons for the daily and nightly) will now hs of the century. case and slip out to a neighbour- i led 02, and with ten minutes
in
Fuehrer called
me from G.HQ. He took the matter of caring for bomb-damaged areas out of interior and conferred sweeping the hands of the Ministry of the powers on me.
"Not Interested We should frankly tell the German people that we are not but merely in interfering as far interested in conquering Malta,
bishops to ensure in ali cireum- these shopkeepers are of Polish M.Ps scratched their heads, and the war. It is clear nonsense for fered with by the German police. withdrew his men into the shrub- stances that Spain clays out of nationality and cannot be Inter- then the resourceful Corporal
the
as possible with the supply lines 4 spiritual and ecclesiastical One night Flanneltuss couldn't bery all round the house. They By midnight everything was for North Africa. Which is the power to meddle so much in poll- quite squeeze through the win-strained their eyes up at the dim arranged that could possiblly, be truth anyhow,
dow bars into a house. He un-outline of military done.
questions.
chimney pots, Dorothy Thompson (the Ametleal and March 31: Cripps has marie rican columelst) delivered an April 13: The Fuchrer approv-dressed in the garden, passed his Minutes later Flannelfuss, stand- public the British plan for the absolutely insane speech against ed my speech for his birthday clothes, in through the window ing flat against a chimney stack
just managed Hitler.
to pass moved n hair's-breadth, without a single change and feels and prelfleation of India.
It's the old trick-exactly the It is humiliating and Irritating very happy about it.
through the eight-lach gup by "There he la," the shout went upstairs same that England tried during that such idiotle females, whose April 14: In the near future the skin of his torso. Insido he and the MPs roared world War I. after the war brains can consist only of straw, we intend to provide the Eastern dressed again, collected, his tak-again like a rugby pack.
ings and left by the front door. "Flannelluss will peer no more be given dominion have the right to speak at all in Front with large of the India will
quantities of Colonel MacQueen, of Canada, | through the chintz curtains,
The US$5,300,000,000 au thorised for the Marshall Plan will be available for expenditure over the next four and a quarter years but
it is expected to be used up
in the 12 months beginning
April 1. Early next year Congress will review the whole operation and decide how much more money may be needed.
status, but it will be for in-public against an historic figure mosquito netting. dividual States of India to decide of the greatness of the Fuehrer. whether to join or not.
plague The Liosquito
Whe
I have proposed to the Fuchrer simply unbearable for the soldiers | That makes it possible for that he should forbid German just summer. England elther not to keep her soldiers to visit the Pope. Those
serious
these
really become a
things for obvious
Gluttony
-
Day for
I am going to try to send Dr. Patrol 29es ad excursions that all our foreign language I had a long talk with Dr. Lev
a politlen weapon, if it seems enter the Government. In a few promise at all, which is most visits have
opportune he uses li cynically and days as Prime Minister.
The L likely, or, alteratively, to play public danger.
In tremendous advantage for us." off one Indian State against the The Pope is elever enough to here is creating a lot of bad
Gluttony in foreign missions, unscrupulously.
Too Loudly
April 18 Roosevelt, delivered a other and thereby condemn the use
speech in which' he said the wår propaganda. That's why this blood.
April 15: Tatekawa, the Japan- was Ikely to last two or three entire plan to sterility.
It is quite clear that this mess evil must be stopped.
Thus a reception was recently ese Ambassador in Soviet Russin years. has been cooked up in Churchill's April &t I discussed the possi-held in the Croalian Legation at spoke too loudy in Tokyo about Nevertheless he still believes kitchen.
bilities of camouflaging our Im-which 1,000 of our people pro- condition in the Soviet Union.frmly in victory. His arzu.. from pleasant. Eighty per cent, the eyes of all international macht stuffed their bellies.
The situation at Luebeck is far pending offensive. Unfortunate-minent in State, party, and Wehr-Our Ambassador objected, and as ments to support this view are of the old part of the city must observers are turned towards the This is so unworthy and shame office has censured him and called
a result the Japanese Foreign very thin and without substance. (April-17: Our arms and muni- be considered lost. Stupendous southern sector of our Eastorn less that something must be done
hifin to
to order.
tons situation is exceptionally numbers of works of art have Front; in other words, to the against it. follen victime to the British craze very point where the first offen-
Interrogation of English pri- strained. On the other side, how- for destruction.
demanded that the Foreign sive action is to take place. Office abould reduce diplomats, soners of war at St. Nazaire in ever, things are undoubtedly the April 1: I cannot Imagine that The task of German proparations and especially cut the England has been more effective for some alarm.
dicate that our propaganda in same. Nevertheless there is caliso Churchill expected a real opera-ganda, will therefore consist of allocation of petrol down drasti-than we imagined. The measure the President tional success at St. Nazaire. The focusing International attention
We took the matter of arme man on the street felt the need on either the central or northem recently been getting themselves tion, however, to news than to tightly and now have to
cally since certain diplomats have The English pay more atten- and munitions production far too signed appropriated no funds for some sort of offensive action, front. and the Administration must and so, although very
with whom argument. I conclude from this it. go before Congress soon and sacrifices were involved. Cher Kriegk, a journalist well known they go on
chill started it as a propaganda in Germany, to the central into the country
broadcasts, ask for, the actual cash.
especially those beam- Ho told me his Impressions o. affair...
Fastern Front for a week, and This naturally The bill did, however, au- But as the English were chased after that despatch him to For-criticism by the publieed to England, must be changed sentiment among the people and
Diplomats thorise an advance of US home, with bloody heads (in sotugal with exact instructions...
should adjust them the time for long
fundamentally. This is no
This is no longer showed he bad some pretty strong theres to attempt to selves, to the general wages of am particularly
discussions. illusions; I cured him effectively
stressing of these. $1,000,000,000 from the RFC far as they got home at all), hole is
will presumably think twice in divert attention, into another, the country. They have no right nows to finance the Initial aid to future before setting out on such direction, by spreading rumours to
nèwa` ́in the foreign language Dr. Ley hasn't the faintest ink. five the lives of drones at our Europe and US$100,000,000 to ventures.
will don't know yet whether he expense, more especially when denting services, but amling of what's happening- get the goods going to the ton is to be drafted on a very
The Russian:' civilian popula-will succeed, but in any case they represent Powers which are seeing to it that nown, items, are the people, although he is con
Kriegk is talkative enough to
properly slanted. Middle East and China so large scale to work in Germany. carry out a task of this kind fighting the war on our side.
"I have, received an
an exhaustive there will be no delay on that
The Americans have launched port about internal That means, of course, they with a certain virtuosity a naval building programme in in Sweden.
conditions must be fed better than Russian Hunger In Russia score in starting the opera prisoners have been so far. Also, April 7 From Lisbon nows-that | which we know what to think] reason for this is our weak diplo;} Into the most sensation
the columns of the neutral Press Sentiment for the Reich hhas fully.OR of course, they must be given the Internal situation in the Seque. But
is nothing short of grote decreased. I believe the chief certain privileges, or their per formance will not be satisfac- viet Union to desperate. Hunger of American statletleri say tory,
is rampant to an unimaginable
Churchill delivered his spooch Apr 2. Fortunately the des- degrees de tar in the Ilouse during the after- truction, of works of art. at Unless Stalin · soon? ́úchiaves) noon, visit.His (language""fa" ox- Luebeck has not reached -quíte military successes on a huge scale, i ceptionally mode'te ballevole The Church ghetorted by Float operating in the "-Méditer-
Nevertheless,... · X.
GOING DOWN
-among
- stantly travelling about? among.
plants and, factories.
I considered it my duty
eyes, and did
·did so
18:Laval is
to
open
w
mysterious personality of present of course, it can't be denied day international politics,
In Norway are
are hav- considerable Ing
ensmý powers worry, mora
ljen rondy: have visions of the Trenen
asrancan, with the Italian and the
Gorman deets
Swedish sentiment, flockend, more about him. “They," al
A French Air Force pilot, fly- † the proportions which we had at the Soviet system is doomed 10th English: moralo is insupstyle to me as a goitro” ⠀
seoma and Quisling,
Wiesbaden, Apr. 39.
ing in formation with 14 other | first feared:
coltapes. There is no doubt some St. Mary's Church has been truth in this analysing way retien at the core planes over Germany, today balled
The Eng out to avoid a possible collision completely destroyed, and with it April 8 I complained about lan can stand a lot of beating with the other planes, when his the great organ, this allats and the exceptionally poor reporting before they become rebellious and would have been better if They see Malth and Alexandria
lumber falled,
♪ had taken: Sweden: 100, dur- lost etceters,, M the fantous painting.The Dance on Vio Betten attack on BL. Na notice things y Toe pliot found himself, flyink of Deaths changed mini
*** Shg our campaign in the North, MA Only the little tabernacle, and
Conception My place of the riglish people ingestional exliance TU WATANZAN Only Reader knows everything taxes his imperturbability by Vichy Situation that is happening within the navy, bragging and even his naive iring Who Fichter) hours only-part
upside down in a thick, cloud, two paintings by Overbeck were | Pletal"15222ssed the bus (pom © Churchill: certainly, is the moutli»' This: State has no right to new April 181 At the northern end"
said, after landing. He para= salvaged from this chuted 7,000 feet through heavy Nothing could be
Clouda, Hiplano e crea
miles northwest ok!
Ian Peter's Church. rttgart = |& the cathedra
*truved:
church
It and otharan only, ademail t
of théromitral Kanterní Tronts tha have been infiniging ppzy 4 The situation in Vichy has now, inqy som fman, regards atlie boen clarifed "mough is to "allow | propa, Jon hunkitis cont" thatER/"MIL÷likelihood #Layal
a
loud.