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WHO IS THIS MAN ROME FIDDLES,
ITALY BURNS
1935
DEWEY?
021
Potentially the next President of the United States, Thomas Dewey is only 45 years of age. He jumped into fame as New York's
racket-buster,
ond
BxX- the
feld.
to
Little "Vespa motor, scooters phut-phut in
round every corner at 100 miles in their thousands
were to the gallon, small. now Flats and Lancia's jam-tus Traffic, and Alfa-Romeos have spectacular
his fellow-members and some of the landowners and industrialists I met in other parts of Italy.
Never in my life have I Heard such vicious, unreasoning, and the
now
and Maseratis, surely the world's mus! beautiful cars, gargle up and down. Mussolini's autostrade like dying bombs with. wheels.
/
with
Vallay Of Wealth
cross-
"De Gasperi is a good: chap, [brokën Apthnine-spine are now Mr. Thomas E. Dewey, who was alleged syndicato polley racket] Mr. Dewey went back to Al- you know," the Dukh said to me securely joined together again - nominated Republlem Présidén- and its official protection.
new stone and concrofo bang-beaten but not forgotten. "Knew his place. Not a bit like with tial candidate yesterday, got his In 1037, Mr. Dewey was dratt-In his campaign for re-election those Fascist fellows who were arches, and the mounds of rub- frst big chance in polities from our Fusion, City Fusion and | long-range war, with the Federal Here. Why; He hasn't even ap. (now matched' by the colonies
ed by the Republicans, American in 1948, he waged con!!tuous always trying to gate-crash. Inble which were once villages are Democrat. Mr. Dewey was an obscure Progressive parties as a candi-dovernment. He attacked Preplied to become a member
uthity stone collages which have Federal attorney in
in the Circolo grown up in the next. date for New York County Dia- when
We were sitting Truman repeatedly sident the Democratic Govether, Mr. trict
He was elected described Attorney.
della Caccia, Rome's most administration
Shirts and sulle and pots club.
pots and clusiva
In housed. Herbert-H-Leliman,ploked him by a malakity of more than 200 atic of supreme Incompetence beautiful-
nahs stuff the shops, a
and stalls as special prosecutor to rid New 000 votes high figure in fam-
-Burghose Palace,
and the main square of every-town- Mr.
was born in Owos- | *" York City of. organized crime. many Hall's „stronghold.
so, Mi
Michigan March 24, 1002. 15e Duke, a former Governor and village offer, everything from Until then, Mr. Dewey's activities The following year
General of Eritrea and Itailan cheap fruit, and vegetables was He was graduated from the Uni-
his motor tyres and sun, glasses. in politics had been confined to nominated Republican candidate versity of Michigan and from the Somaliland, was giving me
views on italian, politles. School. "Columbia) · Law
"Mind you,” he was. saying, In 1929, he married Frances any of us had suspected that Bileen Hutt of Sherman, Toxas,
the Christian Democrats whom he met while they were
going to got such a big Both studying in New York.
They have two sons, Thomas jority, home of us would
voted for them.. E. Dewey, Jr.,
Jr. and John.
Now the Conservatives have of average size, Mr. Dewey's practically no representation in most pronounced fncini charac
Parliament, anu we have
no teristics are bl famed brush moustache and round, brown eyes, means of tempering the Govern When making a speech, his most mont's plans for reform." characteristic gesture is to on- Dospite The Claud! phasize a point by riking on lis But the Duke was a benign ringing door bells for his Repuh- for Governor to run against Leh-toes, leaning forward and point-Liberal compared with some lienn district captain.
man. Dewey lost by 64,384 votes, ing his Index finger. With is appointment as special but his enimpaign resulted in the prosecutor, Mr. Dewey became an Republicans being restored to top Changed Isolationist overnight national figure. He place on the ballot and the Re- jumped from New York County publicans won control of both When away from his duties at District
Presidential cat- In 1941, Mr. Dewey was nimed he relaxes on his 480-acre farm didate. He „piled
the State's up the modern generation, Rone highest majority when
chairman of the first USO cam-at Pawling, N.Y. He plays golf he For them
was patgn, with a gual of US$10,078.- In the 90' and softball, and for so grotesque that re-elected Governor in 1840.
GOO.
The drive, which took Mr. recreation- reads history, biogra- they are not even funny.
Mr. Dewey's public career be-Dewey aéross the country, netted phies and detective thrillers, The intention is to prune
Kan in 1931 when, nt the age of US$10,000,000.
As Governor of New York, he Mr. Dewey made a strong bid has been an exftilent administra- away all such legislation that 29, he was appointed chief assist- ant U.S. Attorney for the Southetn
for the Republican nomination in for and surrounded himself with has died on Britain.
district of New York, Subsequent- For instance, an Act deally, an executive head of the office convention landslide for the late
1949, but was swept aside by aaɓle mèn.
Mr. Dewey wns formerly an ing with the watering of of U.S. Attorney, he personally Wehuell Wilikle. Two years later isolationist who has changed to "working classes" os I did among number of Piccadilly is to be repealed. conducted Investigations which he came back and became the advocating
ting broad U.3. participa And an Act laying a toll on
the conviction of many first Republican Governor of New tion in world affairs. He favours these liberal and irresponsible work on the side.
And this figure would be vast- "Illustrisimi." aqual attention to problemt at the With cloud the size
of ty
Was industry increased if Sunday traffic over a London racketeers, dishonest officials, ex-York in 20 years.
Orient, admission of Tion of
from of dispinced 8,000,000 Communist Bsts on the freed Not Forgotten
extant sonic still bridge is to be annulled. A measure affecting 'standing
persons to the US, the Taien of horizon and the living standards Fascist labour decrees, requiring Mr. Dewey became Republican Western Europe, the Truman Doc-of In 1933, Mr. Dewey received an candidate for President in 1844. trine of containing Communism, sull approximating to what
poor Italians in the south them to continue employing re-
the dundant personnel. on the pillory" is also to go: interim appointment as U.S. Al-but Franklin D. Roosevelt ran-up a strong-national-defence and uni-Phoenicians must have found..
White-collar workers have all of which is exceedingly torney for the Southern district 25,610,948 votes Against welcome. The legal system the younger man ever named to 22,180,528 and the electoral vote cal trade agreements and most any suggestion of social reform
his versal military training, recipro- thess characters seem to regard hard struggle, and personal ser- when must always be the better that post.
3985,
Mc. was overwhelmingly for Mr. New Deal Socist reforms.-United
as a personal affront, appointed him for a periodical cutting-out prosecutor to combat racketeering
special Roosevelt. of the deadwood of out-dated
in New York City, his reputation laws.
spread from coast to coast. His In Britain, however, not sensational drive against criminals surprisingly, the question is
ter " being raised:
Why stop there?
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of them highly amusing to then to Governor and | branches of the State Legislature. † the Governor's éxecutive mansion, vituperative criticism of
no
The British people longer use the pillory and offences, against the Sabbath and penalisation of Sabbath travellers are not now en-
forced in the British Isles, although there have been vexatious searchings Into legal archives to produce an ancient offence' to meet pecu- liar circumstances.
seem,
That might well however, to be less important than the further step of eliminating many, of the minor regulations which have grown up with the years, and so untidily that the Metropolitan Police Com- missioner, Sir Harold Scott, was constrained to, write in his last annual report:..
venting seriolis črime." .
led to
tortionists and stock swindlers.
Lehman
Youngest Ever
In
won him the title of "rocket-bus-
Dewey supporters wasted no time in capitalizing on the "rac- ket-buster" title. When he sought his first elective public office--- District Attorney of Manhattan--
his campaign managers worked up
a radio beries that compared with some of radio's
best detective thrillers.
The very nature of Mr. Dewey's next racket-busting assignment stirred publicity and glamour. New York
merchant were being taken for millions of dollars a year in Mr. Deway tore in shakedowns.
and did not stop. When he
п
Press.
GENERAL CLAY GIVES
-Brian Connall Paints An Interesting
Picture
A
It-
In the fabulously fertile valley of the Po, Italy's wealthy "con- tadi?", watch over triple-crop- ping fold-lines of fruit trocs,
vines
growing on trees, and alrendy ripening wheat waving between the trunks.
With his 30,000 or 40,000 licen month (1,900. lire to the 2, but their puréBosing power is th Italian workmen greater) probably gots mord for his money than his British counter- part, 1te-can- certainly afford more B1, But He is much lens
of his position.
has 2,000,000 unemployed.
way are really in a bad
In spite of the a Enancially,
large tonishing "ddles" which
manage to
Taille
Italy
who
Athens
tem
A
vants and agricultural labourera get a pittance which explains Pomp And Propaganda the Communist preponderance in In- In Rome they greet British and "Red" Tuscany, where the American visitors with a bedlam habitants are up in arms against of system 1,000-year-old constant the propaganda and a
"mezzadria," whereby tenant and stream is showered on our
tho share have landlord
produce presentatives there. "You PLAIN WARNING
had no land reform in your equally.
Walls Of 'Death' countries," we are told, "why do Heidelberg, June 24.
And today,
the Florence, you countenance is introduction General Lucius D. Clay, American Military Gover- here?"
of Italy, the town of har in Berlin, said today that nothing short of of the capital, one long round Galileo and Glotto, has a Com- ten parties, bridge parties, munist mayor, and every square ~a-shooting-war-could-drive-the Americans from cocktail parties, and lunch and inch of its walls, as indeed those is lathor- Berlin.
dinner parties in luxurious spart of most Italian towns, ments, where from behind great ed in provocative slogans call- The Military Governor is here for a conference with marble renaissance cradles filled ing
almost for the death footmen ap- with lilies, verled foo
everyone troop commanders and he told reporters that par with trays ladea with every President Truman and the Pope. from de Gasper! 10 "they connot drive us out of Berlin with any-dad of drink staggering, and so half her imports with
Italy barely manages to cover exports. pomb is thing short of a war.
the
conversation: smug glee Too many of her quality pro-
war-time back- their two
ducts, cars, textiles, and machin- leave them sitting ary cost too much to proluca to stabs should
derisive cackles atba saleable 'on the world market so pretty:
ot on having let some corner
the home market swallows to some mad them up, and the
Government historic palace American förla rónt di £2,000 relies on American charity for
the rest endeavour por year
"Pay taxes?-But, my dear, all
to escope one has to do is to give a large from this vicious circle, and draw tip to the collector and he scales off Italy's idle millions, do Gas- the assessment right down."
periplaining a vast networks Southern "Have you seen Count Bo-and-of public works for
Cadillac There
are Italy, Irrigation and hydro-elec- Britain's only hope lay in 80's now
and easy-buildings, and a break-up of the lity through Empire develop-n
buys big “latifundia” with absentos
to carry them out on schedule."
"Our plans for a West Gor-have been used at once. It can went to court, he had an iron-man Government were made work if anybody wants to make clad case.
Of 73 cases, he had sothetime ago. and we propose it work."-United Prass, 72 convictions.
"не
successfully prosecuted He said that the new tension. large-group-of-loan-sharks who does not mean that United Sintes had terrorizing part of the reinforcements will be brought tained convictions against, pro- plans for any increase," he said. Industry, then ob-to Germany. "I khow of no eurer Charles (Lucky) Luciano and his underworld hencemen; Arthur (Dutch Schultz) Flegen- heimer and his restaurant-tribute Tucketeers, and otherk.—-
had been needle trades
Rising Star
· General" | Olay said that group of Jat fighter pishes due to arrive in Germany доп will not strengthen the formék fore ̄ ̄ ̄but ̄ ̄ wi replace Mustang group.
Britain's Only Hope
Liverpool, Jung 24.
The
18
hgt.
80
In
an
the economic expansion and stabi-anly three like it in the world."trie projects, new roads
-Dollars?""But too
Terribly expensive, of landlords.. He said that the situation will ment and Empire cooperation, one just goes out and
them.
"A depleted police force" must divert much of its Mr. Dewey's political star as- energy to the enforcement cended still higher when he prufusal to order American families Secretary of State for India,
not cause him to alter his re- Mr. Leopold Amery, former course.” of regulations of all kinds, secuted James J. (Jimmy) Hines, to leave Berlin, but his offer to declared here today.
'Grey Cardinal' They will tell you how Am- at the expense of its primary a Tammany Hall political bons; fly women and children of Am-
erica
As Don Luigi Sturzo, the little do simply must
Bonte- P. Richard (Dixie) Davis, attor-erican familics out of the task of detecting and pre-ney for New York criminals, and still held it they wished to leave, business men here, he said that cariduks position
Speaking as President of the thing to stop these dreadful chair-riden prical who sits in a religious foundation in Rome city Empire Industrica Austiciation to Russians. But of their own pre pouring
articles out polemical several others implicated in ah
changing Britain would be faceti
cet with some world there secins to be no for the newspapers, and who is like sheer disaster when realisation. Their particular brand the "eminence grise"
Democratie Party, sald aid came to an cid.
Christian bf selfish insouciance apparently Asked about the confused cur-
incredible that we did not die but with the Bourton's to me when I saw him:
"We must tackle the economic rency situation in which Bolb should have committed ourselves; and Romanoffs
problett before we can kolye the the Russian money and the new to the American polley-of-india- War Stars Hoaled-
social problem. Until there is deutschemark-backed by the criminate.competition. Surely there a superficial observer Italy work-and-prosperity-for-all-we-- Western Powers apparently will obvious policy would have been.
Britons Murdered
Currency Position
In England, as in Hong Kong, there are stores of re- gulations of this type which may be in the public inter- eat. But it never appears to have been made anybody's business to check over them regularly to make sure.
Officialdom can always find time and reason for the
Rangoon, June 24. fimposition of new regulations Mr. H. J. Forbes, British and restrictions, even when manager of a coffee estate in it is apparent from the out- the Shan States, northeast CARNIVAL sel that their major effect will be to create opportunity
for another racket. And once a new Order has reach ed the "Gazette,” officialdom will always hang on to the powers obtained with grim determination
In Burma
Burma, and his wite, worc murdered by gangsters on the hight of June 19, according to of Burma" today, the semi-offcial New Times
ана
shot them wane they were
About 30 men, armed · with submachine guns, attacked the Forbes résidente hi Chauh wa although trying to give the olst, the pa- changing circumstances may per told. have removed the need for The police a investigating regulation, without-eliminhthe murders..
ing its irksomeness. · Thère- the Now Times commented;
"I hoped that there is no ech are scores of requirements nection between the murders at of law and order of to Chatingwa and the organised at- piffling a nature that they tempt which is taking place in could be cut away profitably Mblay at the extermination of bèchuse they are worth Europeans employed in planta
Henk." helther the time for the cost of enforcement.
The Government is never
The baper, which implied that the Forbes mitrder was the out- comb of the Communist Insurrec Lion, adBed: "As In Burtin:
fearoh to suppos
to be expected to do any there is no
thing along thete line of its that the majority of the people. bwn volition. It is, there-in Bingapore and Malaya are in- fore, the business' of the clined towards public to challenge whenever
it runs up against þétty re gulations which cause annoy- ance and lack any compen- dating value to the commun. Ity.
RAILWAY DISPUTE:
Reuter,
Communism.”
PM NOW THE STAR
New York, June 23. The Slar, formerly PM, ap- pared, on: New York" siebels: "104 day with a new format, in tabloid sita, ni a morning, newspaper.
The paper's new owners, Bart. ley Crim San Francisco law White Houre efforts to break yer, and Joseph Barnes, former the stalemated. railroad" dispute |"Jones who moves to the Tech Today, 'anded again with "no ap-announced that the raceflifting Dhekiable progress."*'. United was only one of many projected
·Press.
Chan United Prom,
Washington, June B)
seemed
of the
the cannot hope to remedy the Eleav
aged in allah life. Esbri (Continued on Page 7)
to have won be circulated in Berlin, he said at the end of the war to have would teen
war. that this did not worry him. cbavched an Empire conference Where, ¿vory Bildêe was orien
"There are plenty of places in to pián a policy of expañaion bod kailered the vertebran of the world whefe two currencies development.”—Reuter.
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