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DON IDDON'S
DIARY
U.S. Looking
Looking Round
For The Next Move
Germans Flee The Soviet Zone
By IAN COLVIN
"Western Mail" Correspondent
BERLIN (By, Mail). To ally or not to ally? That cavalcade of candidates, though felück of top-náme stars to town. Berlin, the international city is the sixty-four dollar question. the feld is thinning out. Up Due here are Bing Crosby, Edgar of refuge in the middle of the Whether to rest easy on President front and going strong is the Bergen. Jack Benny, Al Jolson, Soviet zone, is steadily crowd- Truman's promise of support for Lochinvar from the West, Repub-Charles Boyer to make personal ing up with Germans who have Western Union or how out a def kan Harold Stassen, 41, and full appearances ond, they hope, pled from their homes and chn inite military guarantee.
af flaming energy. He has lasted sonal successes. New York is not Digesting the Italian election and left stricken the hopes of ever-impressed.
go no further because of "Rus- results, the US looks around for General Douglas MacArthur, who The dim clly itself is getting slan interference with the west- whit next to tackle.
mutters behind the bamboo eur-much more serious, So far there have been only tain in Japan.
cutting out ward bound trains. the high links and glamour and For the Soviet zone is under- words of comfort and He has mauled and bloodied concentrating on the serious side going what can be called the. sympathy for the Five-Power Thomas Dewey and wounded of film making. British empeti-purge of the small. men intend- Pact signed at Brussele. Tirere Robert Taft. Watch him run. tion could be the reason. fint heen no nove to prepore af That's Stassen, that was.
ed to break the two independ-, treaty obligating the U.S. to go Hour Of The Press
ent parties, Christian Demo- to war to defend any Western
However, just when we were crats and Liberals. without European nation,
Personally, it has been a rellef doing well on Broadway, "The martyrising their leaders. Most here think The Senate for me, after bogging down in Rats of Norway," an oldle by There is besides a constant would not ratify such a treaty if hundred campaign speeches, to Keith Winter, opened and got the increase of police supervision it were placed before 1. There attend the great conference of most brutal going over Irom
and
who run
Winter Blast
"The
star with Douglas Fairbanks
The Waiting-Room
Is n holding-back stance, a "Let editors and publishers in Man- everybody. When we send plays and social espionage, and the George
And John (Bull) do " hatten,
Soviet Military Administration) here let's make them
Rood ones, attitude.
This is a wonderful week for The town was inuch kinder to is forming a personal register Ma
ane seems to have grasped the Press, particularly the the British film
October of the chemical and engineering: the simple fact that the present Anglo-American Press. In the Man," starring John Mills, Dally, industries with full names and struente is not like the fast-that Waldorf-Astoria are gathered the Mail film award winner. Eng-addresses, in an attempt to ar- the U.S. next time will not be men
America's news-land's Richard Greene, unhappy rest the inevitable flight of granted the luxury-and-privilege papers, the men who own them,af Twentieth-Century, will co- talent from the Saviotaxatame of making up her mind whether write them, and, edit them. to fight while others
The Associated Press, the largest junior in a Universal release. arc being pounded to the canvas.
news-gathering organisation in Leo Genn writes to tell me he The U.S. holds the world cham- the world, is 100 years old this will be travelling back with me plonship and will have to put on week, a cause for rejoicing among in the Que
Queen Elizabeth
An afternoon in the waiting- the gloves herself,
all lovers of freedom of expres- 20th, and and immie-
and probably Cary Grant roum, of a German welfare or dintely, if comes to a fight,
slon.
also.
more stars, the better ganisation sorting out Germana Currently, she is not acting al-
Lord Rotherisere, as guest of the shipboard Diary
from the Soviet zone showed) together like
Grant's next lending Indy will this assortment of cases:→ * champlon.
honour of the Associated Press, or adopting the best policy to the delivered the principal speech be
It was a noble occasion, bring- Betsy Drake, who played in "Deep has tied to escape from the So
newcomer from
England.
An industrin! chemist who Times-square, New York, and Are The Roots" in London. Fleet-street, London, closer than
Mary Pickford hopes to minkeviet register, and from the ralol ever together
"Sorrell and Son" and "Rain" in of shop stewards in his instory.[
A youth escaping direction to salt mine.
up other battlers on her side.
For instance, Britain has asked over and over again for atomie bins from, the US. She has asked for assistance in building Sensitive Films
Yet, as all Britain knows and alt America seems to have forgot ten, the bomb was developed by British and Canadian as well as American scientists,
Turnabout
England,
Return Turns
on the
Tony Martin is due in London appear In the Palladium Parade, When op we carry out
A housemaid ordered to spy
her mistress.
up a stockpile.
Hollywood which still has an The answer has been No, a Inferiority. complex regarding thousand times no. In fact, the Broadway, is arguing again with to 1.5. Is Kot even keeping Britain New York. informed of latest atomic energy
A radio artife ordered to Film producers, directors, sincs some reverse Lend-Lease-Tomy spy on her microphone, collea developments.
are Insisting that New York critics Handley, Max Milier. Sic Field, Rues. are players. They say that the news-a week along Broadway?
prejudiced against screen etc.. appearing at 10,000-dollars A farmer who was head of papers are high-hat, the public
the local Christian Democrat cynical, and the city hostile.
Jack Buchanan is all set for association. four weeks in the play "Harvey" Further, they claim the gap be-here, and I hope he clicks. tween what New York critics say Hollywood
Desire for Freedom sny's "secretaries AL Inst the nation, and are good pletures and what audi- rule the world." Meaning Spere- particularly New York, with its sush to pay money to see is widen-
ences in the wide-open spaces tary Marshall, of course.
Germans Pre moving in Falestine problem, is coming
The difference between repor-greater numbers this winter around to the bellef that America The only response-so-far-is-that reporters when talking to ather, and the steady addition
ing.
ters and columnists is said to be than in the easier summer wen will have to contribute troops to nonchninnt shoulder shrug from girl talk about her, but colum of 4.500 a month to the British n joint pence-keeping army in the Holy Land.
the local hatchet mer with two nists talk about themselves. The delightful theory that Bri-seals on the aisle.
Footnote. Let us start agreeing, tain could be persuadent to con- wood, is
To try to right matters Holly-ver what is right,, ; ighting? tinue indefinitely as the
therefore sending a bull's-
over what is Inft. eye target for both Jew and Arab bullets has been scrapped.
own
The American taxpayers' biggest worry after the harum- Scarum war seure remains infla sion.
moor-
The cost-of-living balloon bas. now torn loose from its ings, and only an explosion will bring it
down. And not D
politician seems to care.
The Presidential election mono- polises their minds and there are nu grey cells left, to absorb other matters.
Never have so many men want- Dr.
ed to be President. Everyone ex-{ cep! Eisenhower seems to be run-, ning and stumbling and limping
the race.
a
Te necupy the White House is laudable ambition, but it is also a man-killing job. Doctors say being President automatically cuts five years of a man's life.
Most men have broken down or died under the strain.
These facts are not stopping the
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Colombo Doctor's
Appeal In Defamation Case
London, May 3.
M. G. Perara, of Colòmbo, a Coylonese practi- tioner and distiller of arrack, today appealed to the Privy Council against the decision of a dis-
zone is a problem in itself.
The Soviet zone, slightly the larger, lina
*population diminishing from 16,000,000 And keeps the British zone po. pulation rising beyond 23,000,- DUO.
Wher it was” inndowners, 18- dustrialists, and Nazis, the So- vict Military Administration was glad to be rid of them; but now men with clean political records and brains, youth and; technical skill are fleeing, and that despite a standard of liv ing and berties left intention- ally higher than in the Soviet Union.
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The American rehabilitation plan for Western Germany is worrying the Communists im-
trict judge dismissing his case against the Coy-mensely, and has added to the Ion Daily News for an allegedly defamatory
statement.
unrest of the population. Yet the desire for freedom is at the Mr.GO. Slade, for Dr. of the distillery "owned by Dr would have happened 14 years root of this unrest... It is what
had contracts with the Govern Perara, said that the doctor Ferara,
ago if Hitler had failed to cap- One of the appendices to the ture the whole of Germany and ment for the supply of arrack
following set about establishing himself report contained the in 1941. Rumours were cur- rent in Ceylon that bribes had Pages: "Dr. Perora, who gave in five provinces-only.
evidence been offered to and accepted by in frankness and pretended
was completely lacking that members of the State Council. he knew very much less about the A committee of enquiry was transaction that he actually did." appointed.
The report was published on
his
EASTER WEEK CELEBRATION
Dr. Peraragave evidence in May.... 19, 1943, Mr. Slade con-
Tokyo, May 3, camera. The commissioner made tinued, and the evidence showed Japanese and Russian members report to the Governor in that it was on sale to the public. of the Greek Orthodox Church April, 1943. He found that in Coples were sent free of charge here are celebrating Easter week certain cases bribery had been to the newspapers and the pas in two factions-pro and anti- going on' though not in the case sage complained of was publish- | Russian.
ed by the Ceylon Daily News. The groups staged similar 'mid- A district judge found that the night services Inst Saturday words were defamatory but that night, anti-Russians meeting in privilege was attached to publica- the striking Greek
Orthodox tion by reason of the commission Church with its green-hued and being a judicin tribunal. One of onion shaped dome and pro- the contentions of Dr. Perara Russians gathering in a small would be that no privilege could bare room on the second, floor of be attached to a report. which the building on the church pre- formed-the-form of proceedings mises.
Clarence
House
Protest
London, May 3.
A protest against the spend ing of £50,000 on modernising Clarence House, which is to be|- the. London home of. Princess) Elizabeth and the Duko of Edinburgh, "at time when hundreds of thousands of peo- ple are desperately in need of homes", was made in the House of Commons today at question, time by Mr. Ronald Chamber- lain (Labour)..
Mr. Charles Key, Minister of Works, replied that the money was being spent on such things as central heating and wiring for electricity,
hold in camera,
which the commission decided to In both places Japanese and
Russian choirs intoned the moy The hearing was gurned.ing ritual of the Easter service Reuter.
Associated Press.
Appeal For New U.S. Foreign Policy
Washington, May 2.
Twelve prominent educators, clergymen and civic leaders today issued an appeal for a now Unit- od States foreign policy based on an all-out drive to secure world government and universal· disarmament.
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