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MIDDLE EAST WEST AFRICA
DON
IDDON'S
DIARY
"Showdown" Talk In The United States
a
Mr. Mok Kon Song and family capital American, British, or
fender grateful thanks to all
Russian-might ignite the dyna
for mite. hat, however, Is a risk
friends and relations floral tributes, expression of Rympathy and much help in their recent bereavement.
Room In The Inns
a
weeks,
TOP MALAY REDS ESCAPE
And
By HARRY MILLER
Aero); the bordello has been accepted the offer of its services. Lut while had handed
Heavy Firing
back been
Youth Organisation
The Malayan Communist Party, formed the nucleus of the m banned together with three of its (cently formed "Malayan People's satellite organisations, was form-Anti-British Army" which is be- ed in Singapore in 1920. It washind the present terrorism. not recognised by the Govern-leuder was
Its The American capital, crossing climb the popularity pells gradu-p
ment, but its inituence gradually killed in a gun battle by the po- Lay Yow, recently 24354 its fingers and holding its breath, Jally during the next few months. hay ambitions to become Gover-
In Manhattan Mayor O'Dwyer extended along the believes that by being ready to
Peninsula. lice. 32312 risk war with Russia it will save publicans on the spot.
Trained At the moment he has the Re-nor of New York State; there is sent to expound Communist doc-
propagandists were After the liberation of Malaya, The peace.
He has a public outery against wire-
the M.P.A.J.A. was praised by trines,
Europeans This is showdown week in the now he says: "Here's your chance ly where trivial offences are con-rated by the Singapore Special members, led by Lau Yew, came
read their party programme, and tapping by the police, particular on the agents of the party in resisting the Japanese.
were Lord Mountbatten for its services United States, and the humid air
Ten is full of terribly, familiar words
to carry it out."
He knows the people are wine-per cent; a big baseball shake-up
Corned; rallway fares are up 17 Branch after shadowing -"ultimatum, fem stapid, acute ing under inflation and will tell has taken place, with rival man-
for to London to take part in the H.K.$18.00 crisis,
Victory parade. The party uneasiness, danger-Congress to do something about agers changing places (it is as if
remained under aus „
cover until the Japanese attacked Services Comrades Association. The Army then became the ex- H.K.$30.00 All Washington knows that the in
it. If they do not, he at least is
and Chelsea
Malaya, when clear.
the Government Ostensibly it lind no in the
swapped embarked upon H.K.$72.00 country has
weapons, comble, but there is resoluto be-swirling rise in prices week after proval of the law, and aylon lin- effelent
it is Inflation-the sinister, restored to Reno with full apparty members organised a most
Under the Japanese occupation, weapons known to have let that it will come off, that the week-which is the big domestic gerie, gossamer
Inrued by the British it had col- Berlin challenge will be met and issue.
resistance The cost
light, brightly so broken withoul fighting.
of everything coloured is being bought by auf So, after the war, they felt the fpaign and during the Japanese movement,lected many in the Malayan com- Nerves ACKNOWLEDGMENT only big fear is that some trigger-skyscraping spiral continues
from pins to planos is at an all-the girls. are steady, und the time peak,
party had perhaps carmed a legal occupation, Many fear if the The latest witticism is: A roll-position and it became an open happy hot-head in the German crash is inevitable.
ing store gathers no boss.
organisation. 1: sprea
spread its influence among
The M.P.A.J.A. had a weekly labourers. particularly in the publication,
"The That,
trade unions, obtaining control of Friend,"
Combatant's published Int which Government officials and
than 70 Biote the
Kunin per cent.
Lumpur. It is well known that the nilitary
The next move was to intro- here com
A new economy campaign hos
the reason for the formation of In Atlantic City, the American started in Hollywood, the second secretaries, quite ready to take.
duce its own presidentz and Blackpool, there is blight.
the Association was to retain the The in less than a year, and drastic. nm Impressed by the calm-hotel lounges and cocktail bars The reason is that profits have at two days ago these "leaders" ship is unofficially estimated at and it is significant wartime organisation. Meraber- ness and the unanimity, These are deserted, the night clubs and slipped people seem entirely a different restaurants only a quarter full.
75 per cent
disappeared into the jungle. compared
between 4,000 and 10,000. More than 100 trade unions are breed, from the clowns who only
with last year's. Atlantic City used to be one of
The new now lenderless and awuit guid-
Democratic Youth The biggest axe is being wield-ance from the Government. a few days ago were cartwheel- the gayest resorts in the world, ed by Howard Hughes, new bess
League was principally a Chi- ing at the Democratie and Repub- the haven of tired business aen of R.K.O.,
nese youth organisation, formed llean conventions.
and not the most and unflring blondes, the homof
Jamaican-Born
in M March, 1946. It acknowledged And so it seems Saturday's men and women, but the car- big
They
በጅሮ actually
association with the Communist the same of beauty parades
popular man in the world. The The head conventions, ftrings are ruthless.
of the Communist Party. Since the present emer- gallantry has become Tues-nival highjinks are now out of gallants.
sponders, gomblers, and M.-G.-M. is also handing hin-was Liew Yit-Fun, Jamaica-born
Party in the Malayan Federation geney it has gone underground day's renege. One squeal their systems. They are putting chill, and the head waiters and Press, Hollywood has started on mother. He is now serving two and the identity of its leader are
Now it is feeling the dreds their hats. Tired of a bad son of a Chinese father and white the terrorists.
and is known to be supporting from the hotel interests-politics aside temporarily until the bar-tenders and the show ambitious publicity offensive and years imprisonment for seditious unknown.
Its memberships which would have been just
the Berlin crisis is resolved.. girls-some of the prettlest in is sending representatives to call articles in the party's newspaper as loud if the proposed cuts
America-will tell you that the on newspapers which priot hos- "Min Sheng Pau." were half as drastic as they
money has dried up. People are tile articles about the illm capit-
of the outlawed parties, was the counting their were-and the whole posi
had nickels and a).
a reputation I doubt whether this will orator and
as an offspring of the Malay youth or The harshest critics.of the Pre-making one glass of beer last for work. tion has been surrendered.sidential decision to call a special
a personality which ganisation outlawed by the Gov Sensational coses like held the simple labourers an hour.
Carole Landis's suicide, harm the heard him.
crnment in July at year. Shocked by its own temerity, session of Congress for July 26 been overpraised and publicised.
Of course, all these places huve film-makers' prestige. the Government has (at least are conceding that it will be a You must have seen hundreds of
The Maloyan People's Anti-principally made up of Malays
Membership of PETA
was Japanese Army was the military and Indonesians. Its lender and temporarily) cancelled its wise precnution to have all hands
wing of the Comiaunist Party. It membership are not known. newsreels attempt to
available should the big trouble establish more
glorifying Atlantle City, and perhaps thought wist- reasonable standards in local come.
Britain,
fully of some tima spending
Doctors in of course,
is being holiday there.
Angeles are hotel rates and has referred smiled on and embraced warmly your
You can save now rationing sleeping pills and the entire issue back
your fure. to as a stalwart Ally. It is pleasant
issuing prescriptions for barbitur- Committee
The for
re-examina-to be an Englishman in America
is merely a chain of ates reluctantly. town
Curious how tion:
big hotels A more
even again, and
and excellent night. tragedy has touched, the Carols astounding pressing thanks upon us and say-boa
strangers are clubs and restaurants fronting Earl Carroll all diest tragi-
Carole Landis, faux pas
Carole Lom- it is difficult to fing how
boardwalk which
of baru. imagine.
British air bases are available to plunks hammered together. There cally. This judgment upon the the American
Superfortresses.
are two indifferent plers, proud- Government's action in sus-feeble and inadequate word for places the resort is unimpressive.
To me "convenical"
ly proclaimed to be "steel." Com-ed to England, writes to say he seems
our pared with pending the new hotel rates our boldness
best watering expects to be in New York short- and loyalty
That is good news. muy possibly be condemned generoalty. I only hope, if the and
James Mason has bad throat
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Smiling Through
convenient it Is that
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consists
A
Waugh Pangs
Los
Leo Genn, with whom I cross-
Mayor To Governor? infection, but will soon be down
to work in Hollywood now has won his court case. One," Just published here, Evelyn Waugh's "The fmade Hollywood wince.
Loved Ins
He's The Whisper
St. Paul's
At
Primarily...of course. the the event of war Britain will be/sunbeams between you and
one
ant
NO
one-st the
to feel shocked and perchance National Press Club, In the hotel,
Washington.
ing from
a horrid attack
off the
до
He
RED THREAT
who
PETA, the initials of another
DANGER GREATER IN EUROPE
New York, August 2.
While the Communist danger in Asia must not be discounted, the dangor in Western Europe is of more immediato importance, says the Herald-Tribune.
The paper was commenting long duration, concluding: "While on the statement by Burmese neither the Importance of Asla Foreign Minister U Tin Tut or the Communist threat there that Communists in Asia act.should he minimised,
It is ro- in accordance with a continent-cognised that the dangers in West- wide. plan.
ern Europe are more grave at the moment."United Press.
The editorial said that Tut's "assertion
while
the
LABOUR EXPERTS TO MEET
Washington, August 2,
aggrieved at the size of the lounges, at the private partles ther all those steps were really ("The pictures are part of the completely dominated) United States Embassies in Lon
say:
will Britain do?"
What
to do."
In
as over-simplification. The positions had been reversed, that inside story would undoubt-America would have been simi- edly disclose that the Gov-
larly big-hearted and audacious. As I have been on the move,
There has ernment, at its higher levels, from Britain of possible neutral-news is limited this week.
been no
whisper my New York and entertainment has felt compelled to move ity, all aid short of war, bundles correct somewhat pre. for America, Lend-Lease, or cash cipitate action. But a public
and carry. which is less concerned with
We have not hedged or com- the technique of procedure Russo-American
promised or muttered that 0
wer
1101 Was than with the results that our fight, or indicated that we are produced
will concede might care to wait for oth own the Government very few
Pearl Harbour. We have gone
seems repson- able," the Herald-Tribune is in- marks for its handling of this States, and I trust that they are
ali the way
with the United
clined to believe that the master affair.
grateful.
Don't look down
plan originated not In Calcutta, there's the floor? If I dropped a needles Tut says, but rather in Mos They might remember that is nothing but space and aloping from here would it issue over the week-end was
rigtit cow. thy through the floor? Do you between
take the gun and the tessellated floor a hundred feet those pictures right under the Govern-rockets, not 3,000 miles from the below. You are probably suffer when you want to clean them?""
ceiling
The paper commented: "With-
A meeting of American labour ment and the more import-scene of
in Asia the morale of each of the experts will be held in Paris from guerilia movements is improved Inbour problems in relation to the hoter
Bill twists his tweed cap in interests.
tomorrow to August All
discuss I Amed to these opin-fliquid legs and wondering whe-his Angers hotels were probably entitled ons by, my
and glances upwardments in other Asiatic
by knowledge of similar move. last fow days in
nations ropean Recovery Programme, There also is a By DELL WILLIAMS
United States Staic possibility of
Depart- those Asiatic Reds who are doment disclosed today. rate reductions announced.says:
minated by the Russians (not all The labour att
attaches of the No-one questions that they All
don, Paris, Rome, Berlin, Athens are "This is what you and worth the trouble. were drastic and in some in-bandon the hard-won principle pering Gallery
ceiling you know. You'd have tong used to compel the British, and Brussels, the labour advisers. other words, you are, in take the dome apart to get then send soldiers and supplies to Asla ministration, Let us not the visitor's paradise: the Whis-down."
the French and the stances astonishingly so. It
Dutch tn of the Economic Cooperation Ad- is not without its special
of self-determination.
at St. Paul's
that might be used to strengthen American trade
representatives of Cathedral. Washington itself is hot a significance, however, that bigger, more
unions An eerie voice suddenly
Western Europe." ·
and steamy sweat-box where the cuts were great-and
The editorial
officers of the Department added, however, Labour will attend the meeting. of laundry shop even than terrupts your thoughts.... and
that changes in Asia wil bo.of Reuter, est the outery was least.
Philadelphia.
福 complete.
When he whispers against the There was
here stay a squawk, yes, midsummer, and
work Low like to Your Introduction
here during person. He is small, dark,
You
have met the "whisper" in wall his voice is carried right
round but with the first shock over, men filtering into the city are
the Congress doesn't mind heights.
the Gallery......ond is lost at a doorway a few feet from a good many of the opera-cursing their luck.
So-If you're опе of those
him. Bill has never heard hi tors were prepared, so we
people who leave teethmarks on
valce up there. About the only cool gather, to adapt themselves The little
be President Truman cliff or
your heart when you look over He can frighten you with his
theatre
balcony knowledge of St. Paul's, Ho to the new conditions impos- suit has come back from Phila" don't expect sympathy from Bill quietly informed
ал American ed by the Quartering Au-delphia rather pick on Phila- Dowall, the man who tells you visitor that "No, you are misin- thority. The bigger hotels, self. After being reviled and al- the whole history of St. Paul's formed. There is no bigger cathe- on the other hand, with their most refected, he told the party with your left ear pressed to the ond
as you cringe against the wall dral in America. This is the sec possibly stronger case, gave off.
and the voters where they got stone-work to hear what he is Peter's, Rome, is larger and...." largest in the world St. notice of their intention to He
saying. fight not merely by announc- triumph and showed he had more wear
a great won
personal Most of St. Paul's
He disappears into a list of oficials
facts and, figures which leave you ing the employment of legal guts than a fiddle-string factory. Bill secins to favour informality gowns or uniforms, but
gasping."...the dome of aid, but in certain Instances Few think he can defeat Thomas for his job. A pair of flannels and by so restricting the amen- proved that he can lick apathy just about right for a man who
E. Dewey, but he certainly has a tweed jacket somehow ities and services available and
seem to their guests that the situa-being'a haberdasher, but now his
and disloyalty.
Lives Uke a gentleman steeple tion threatened
There are still jokes about his jact. to develop into a crisis. This doubtless Salesman who is standing, up to new title is the Demon Necktie was the factor which bore Stalin. He is Battling Harry the most heavily in Influence Belligerent Bantam
upon the Government: All the way round, it has been
a most unhappy business. The appointment of
acems to
and
man
man
In ice-cream
Climbing Through
It Sounds A Lot
in-
An:
St
a lot.
BRITISH TRADING WITH ARGENTINA
London, August 2. Informed British quarters today predicted that the visit in Britain of Don Juan Jose Vistalli would result in' increased trade between Britain, and Argentina.
Faul's weighs about 2,000 tons; tish Industries for a wide range special
They expected orders to Brl-with the rank of Ambassador on the cross, ball and lantern weigh of industrial equipment for the touring British Industries.
misalon, is at present about 700 tons.
Argentine's five-year plan fol- He has already visited the about 70,000 tons--a little
"Over all the building weighs lowing a report to President leading plant producing the Intest less Paron by Vistalli on the latter's television and radar equipment. fhan the tonnage of the liner return.
Today he is scheduled to in- Queen Mary". It sounds A Bit Difficult
Beotland's hydro-electria Vistalli, who arrived in Lon-spect From the Whispering Gallery fon as the guest of the British scheme and meet at a dinner it looks a lot more than that. ciovernment at the end of July leading Scottish industrialists,
His tour
includes a visit to thurrow to the North British locomotive
works At Glasgow where locomotives are at present under construction for the Argen- tine, and the Vickers-Armstrong shipbuilding yard.
Other plants to be visited are Metropolitan Vickers, leading
works Lancashire, grain_elevator erecTM. in
Heights mean nothing to him, but he admits that it was "a hli dimeult" when he had to clam- I ilk an underdog" and so do bor
vertical up the
ladders the Americans. I expect Mr. leading to the ball at the top of Truman, after hitting bottom, to the Cathedral dome.
Tho
ball you can sea It clearly from the foot of Lud-
TOJO BECOMING A NATIONAL HERO
textile machinery Melbounce, August 2. General Tojo, after his trial as a war criminal, had torcid Chester, Standard motor become almost a 'national haro, said Mac Works and the De Havilland Mahon Ball, former British Commonwealth Vitali
aircraft plant at Hatfield,
is due to loave representative on the Allied Control Council Buenos Aires on August 21.
United Press. in Tokyo.
having
for
special committee to go, into the problem anew la posalbiy public interest. The Gov-ate-hill is closed to the pub- the best way out in the cir-ernment has, of course, in- ile now, but before the war B cumstances. It is, however, dicated its views clearly once
the man who led the in- to be hoped that the com- this point. Had it not been the narrow trap in the bottom
nocent to the heights through| mittee will be apprised of felt that gross profiteering of the ball. the fact that the Govern was being practised in the
"I'm thin", he apologises. "But ment considers the matter to hotel business, there would it was just as well. The fat ones be one of urgency and will | have been
could never no necesalty to trap. I've known them try to gat, through that be asked for quick results, invest the Quartering Au-set in sideways". It's strong-claim by Frank White in the made a great success of a difi It might too be considered thority with special powers minded man who can talk about New York Herald Tribune that cult job as Chairman of the War
Mr Ball was commenting on in Japan regarded appropriate to emphasize that for dealing with it. With mnastics with a 3001t. drop bathe Japanese war trimestrials Crime ding nat the Government holds that that factor kept well to the Bill likes the visitors. I have been one of the most ex- have helped to prevent Tojo bo cuts in hotel rates are forefront, there could still be uke averyone else who has penalve propaganda failures coming a hero, but it must be "Speeding up the trials would justified on the known facts, hope that satisfactory re- lot to do with them-Ands that over charged to American tax conceded that there and that the essence of the sults might be achieved. they ask the strangest questions; payers or preverjany trials are very different from lands and the Anglo-American „Frankfurt,” August 2... task required of the Coin- There is, however, der the evil sprite out?" asked a hearilly with the substance of "Tracing lines of political res: 900,000 trade sargent here, to political Representatives of the Nether "Are those stald's narrow to keep Mr. Ball said: “I agres vary trials for direct, acts of cruelty. mittes is to decide not who greater, prospect that the oute Chinaman, state
what Mr. White says, but I would punability in country like Ja-days
KOBES ĐÔGuynnay reached, a' $154,- ther, but to what extent, re-come will be more drearWould a penny bounce Lack like to say that Sir Wiliam Webb pan taka very delicate and dim-nouncement said, Associated ductions are required, in the than dramatic,
an Anglo-American to tho Gallery If I threw it to Pof Australia was on every sidef cult task."--Assorted Press. Props.
low.
m300ft/
HOLLAND TRADES WITH GERMANY