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DON
IDDON'S
DIARY * NRW 1 QR
Feeling Against Russia Runs Fever High
| THE OLYMPIC GAMES
FASTER, HIGHER,
I
K
Anth
STRONGER
rapes. We waże -
and
After a crash in the Olympic with our valiant high-jumper eveling two foreign competitors Dorothy Tyler, that the bearing were down. One of them was laid of children does not prevent out cold. The other had though woman from beating the world. breath to shout: Assassint Assna- Britain's deeds were not undis- This is a city accustomed to cinema circuits are cold-should-Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, and
That is not quite the Olymple events; we were in the final or tinguished. We won two rowing violence.
Jering our product.
Charles Boyer all It does not tremble when the
arrived to-spirit; it does not if the sym-the hockey the semi-final of the Picket lines organised by a gether from Europe.
bolism of the Flame of pure sport. football, two finals of the boxing, cement-encased corpse of a hood- fanatical outfit called the Sons of Gable has rushed on to Holly-now extinguished after a memor- We had two runners in the finals lum is tossed into the East River. Liberty are thrown around thea- wood, cutting short his holiday able fortnight. H.K.$18.00 It remains unperturbed when
of the two tres where British ima
The Games of the 14th Olym-.
apriat gangster is mown down In
Caro as a result of his father's sudden the avheduled for showing, and there death. Gable sen, ways retus-pinct are over. The youth of the the marathon walk. We won a
second
In the marathon, third o H.X.$36.00 telephone booth of a drug store. is an ambitious plan to wrecked financial help from his son, world-and some of the middle-
by bullets from a sawn-off shot-the opening of Arthur Rank's and and even turned down present. Red-have striven
and were runners- | yachting class, on field and up in two cycling events William Shakespeare's "Hamlet." They were very devoted to each track, in flood, in sail-boats and bantams-weight weight-lifting.
The Sons of Liberty say they other.
aklife, on horseback and en cycles, Of all the events in water find pre not connected with
ny. London's Old Vic Zibolat organisation, but will company is due in New York in for the thing called Renown.
Theatre with sword and javelin and rific, on land I suppose that we shail continue their boycolt activities January, which makes everyone
remember two things for as lon "until the British cease all their happy, Sir Cedric Hardwicks and instigation of fire Arabs in Pales-Dame Edith Evans will head the | tine?"
company. The players had a tri- The campaign against our flimsumphant six weeks' stay on is not limited to, New York. Broadway two years ago. There are boycott movements in Chicago, Detroit, and San Fran- cisco As eil. The aim of the Sons of L erty in to drive Bri- out of American
STATE OF THE UNION
"Master
gtan.
Its police always carry rovol- vers and occasionally use them.
Yet for the past few days the elty has throbbed with anger and fear.
The people have talked in indignation and apprehension.
Bed to
Headline Jump
:
!
return
to Russia,
that
Daughters Too
and girls,
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'The Fan' Pair
Britain's George
Madeleine Carroll are paired to- Sanders Anel gether for the first time in 12 years in "The Fan." Last pleture they made together. was "Lloyd's of London."
By IAN COSTER
who proved,
When the horsemen took their Koen, the woman mounts over the jumps of the os memory holds, that beautiful- Prix des Nations at Wembley ly judged. long-striding win by on the last day, three fings were brown, ex-pilot Arthur Wint x hoisted the Greek, the British, the 400 metres, and that incredi- und the Finnish (for the next ble heart-bursting finish of the Games are in Helsinki in 1952). good Czech soldier Zatopek in
Then the Flame, brought from the 5,000 metres. Greece, was doused and the Ban-
But The Grass.. of the Five Rings lowered,
The games were a success..
The expression Race" has ominous associa- tions. It recalls the evil and Reason for this wave of In- ill-starred foundations
on security mi horror is the des- which Hitler built his Reich, perate leap by a little Red school-
from Today, in a country which is mistress
the third-floor member of the British window of the big Russian Con- pletures Commonwealth, such prin-
sulate in the heart of Manhattan, business.
When Mrs. Oksana Kosenkina ciples are again in the as- chose freedom by jumping from cendant.
Such is the only her prison she dronintised the
I think if this vicious boycott conclusion to be drawn from Lasur between the US. and the continues it is a matter for For-
U.S.S.R. She
Bob Hope is locking around for in the choir sung Sir Alan Her- the recent news from
spotlighted South brutalities of the Soviet system.
eign Offee and State Department new gag willers. He has justbert's words, "Let Us Be Glad." And no one is more pleased: than Africa.
It was said Mrs. Kosenkina and conferences-followed by action, fired six. Following my item in to the tune of the "Londonderry Sir Arthur Elvin, monarch of South Africa, like the Unit- another Russian schoolteacher,
Most of the parnding member Inst week's diary,
Wembley, who Billy Rose Air."
financed them. to take over the New And there is no reason why we "Thanks to the weather and the ed States, is one of the Mikhail Samarin, were too terri-of the Sons of Liberty are youths offered
Some of them carry
carry York Metropolitan
at should not be glad, because the Pre
Press Opera
and our staff,"
he says, "new" countries—a land mass they knew too much and that the copies of the Dally Workor. They make it pay. No decision yet.
Goines have been a great success. "we're all right." colonised and developed by Soviet Consular
are the familar adolescent dupes Lauritz Melchior plans his own The Good Hosts.
For the victor and for the Europeans. Although
Bit Opera company if the Metropoli-
defeated, those who have broken the were to get them out see in most big cities.
we cannot exploitation of the soil and of the
laugh them nway. tan fails to open.
Britain has risen from her aus- their hearts and, sometimes, their terity and proved that we have heads in the great endeavour of They are losing us good money Today the Red the mineral resources falls an international figure and than good will.
Bchoolmistress
Footnote The Russion spy the will, not the rations, to the Games, there is an epitaph by far short of that attained in battle over her custody an inter-
ring, thought to be a red her- Bght and There is a batch of big filin ring, now looks more like a Rest And as the Olymple president,
swim, row and run. A. E. Hotisman: the United States, there is national incident.
names in New York just now. octopus,
"And early though the laurels much in common between
Sigeld Edstrom, has said, we were 11 is the
grawe most sensational story
good hosts. the two countries. They are to
In Appear In American news- on the same path of develop. Papers for years and has shocked alarmed the American peo- ment; and to some extent ple
and
morn
thon the suicide of they have the same problems. Masaryk or the seige of Berlin. The early British colonists It happened on New York's imported Negro slave labour, pavements, on the city's doorstep, shipped under brutal condi- and it has horrified the public, I tions from Africa,
am not exaggerating. This single to work incident has
worsened Russo-
officials here
WILHELMINA CHEERED BY HUGE CROWDS
Amsterdam, August 30.
their plantations in Virginia. American relations more than all Silver-haired Queen Wilhelmina, ruler of the Dutch The American slaves have the defiance of Molotov andi
long been freed: but the Vishinsky and the long wrangle
over
Berlin.
social problem remains. In
The feeling against Russia is! South Africa too, a similar fever-high, and social problem exists.
it
there is utter and complete conviction that the
Empire for 50 years, entered her capital this afternoon to the cheers of more than half a million subjects.
She drove through flower-|
It will surely be aggravated Russlans are conspiring day and strewn streets in
Wrong Again
the outskirts
A
the route
They
Buick
Lawyer's Death Leap
found, one to his wife and an- other to his associates in the firm
At that magnificant opening spectacle it was the duty of Don
It withers quicker than the
rowo."
Laurel wreaths arc
out of
Finlay, our veteran hurdler, to fashion; silver-gilt medals will take the Oath for all competitors mrnish, but the youth of 1948 "desirous of participating have met and sent a glow around in them in the true spirit of the world.
sportsmanship." perhaps It sound-
ed better in the original French,
Though
Till-Piece
.
tull Olympic allen-
but it is poor English. It could have been simplied to: "we dance-figures and takings will swear to run true and fight fair," not be released for several weeks, There was little ill-feeling exlion mark and the amount pald the uttendances topped the mil cept after some of the boxing.
events. The Aghaters, with one for seats is estimated to be near- or two tearful exceptions, seceply 2000,000; 420,000 programmer ted the decisions, good or bad, have been sold at 18. cach, yield- with
a shrug and a smile.
ing £21,000.
But the balance-sheet a success.
The Games were
of the
The Latin motto, painted at one Olympic organisers is not cx- end of the Stadium, "Citius Apected to show a large "bonus" tlus Fortius" (Faster, higher,; for British stronger) lived up to; records cul. Heavy
Never Disgraced
Britain was
beaten in most never
amateur athletics, expenses increased the original estimated of £400,000 to
organise the Games.
and un
DISPUTE OVER PI AIR ROUTES
by the present policy of the night with spics and agents and limousine to her Palace, where Malan Government. "Apart-the U.S.
stooges here to wreck and ruin later this week she will sign heid" means segregation-but
Today in this country there is Papers of abdication.
Her daughter, Princess Juliana, really mcans white as much fear and hatred of Rus- supremacy at all costs, Ital as there was of Germany_in
automatically succeed her.
Through tear-dimmed eyes, the
New York, August 30. The So- was on this ticket that Malan the middle of the war.
The organisers are silent un vlet is tonthed.
popular
The Police reported that Mr. events, but Sovereign waved at the
disgraced. the exact détails.. "They will not made his chief appeal to the
vast throngs who packed every Roswell May, 51, prominent Stout McCorquodale ran like s be released until the whole situa- electors. The position of the
square inch of the five kiloiome- Society lawyer, leaped to his lion, and the wee Scots lassletion is known and everything has Europeans in the Union is
tre route from the railway station death early today from his Cathle Gibson proved that her been accounted for," It was stated hard enough. But whereas
to pay homage to thele monarch office on the 30th floor of the heart was almost as big as her yesterday. The Presidential election cam- Queen Wilhelmina reached the
Equitable Life building. Smuts believed that white palgn is directly affected by the flug-bedecked railway station on
self in that final burst over the Biggest financial gain has been 400 | 400 metres in the pool. could work with black, Malan case of Mrs. Kosenkinn.
Silm, from tourists here for the Games Mr. Muy's body was found on Pre-
of Amsterdam at the pavement at 3.30 am. A note Gardiner sped over the hurdles to to £4,000,000 in Britain's shops,
ballet-dancer dainty once agaiy finds 3.02 p.m. after an hour-long trip in his pocket directed the police to lose by a touch from that pheno-hotels, and restaurants, and his Nationalist support himself bucking public opinion.
sident Truman
Maureen spending an estimated £3,000,000 ers believe that black must
from The Hague aboard a four-his office where two notes were menon, Aying Fanny Blankers- travelling. coach royal train. work for white. Smuts took Twice he has described the in- Thousands
ds lined some steps towards impray-quiry into espionage as a redentch a glimpse of the Queen. ing the social lot of the the melodrama in New York has the square in front of the Palace.
herring to be laughed of. But More than 100,000 packed into Walicer,
of Breakley, Platt, Gilchrist and 8,000,000 natives: these have apparently made a monkey of his to-greet- the Queen. She went ey
The Police said that the attor been reversed.
opinions, and gleeful Republicans into the palace immediately and York social register, was inst scen Who is listed in the New Moreover, South Africa are proclaiming themselves a few minutes Inter appeared by his wife when he has not got one racial pro- champions of the anti-Communist the first floor balcony with Prin-home on Sunday morning to go to left their blem: she has two. Into the as a blind man and a boob.
movement and branding Truman ress Juliana, her husband, and his office. Mrs. May told the
four children. Union, as into Malaya, and
In all of this Britalh has been earlier today incognito from their in poor 'Health recently and had The
arrived police that her husband had been Burma, the abundant popula-scarcely mentioned. My Ameri- summer home. tion of India has spilled over.
just recovered from pneumonia — can friends have asked me about
United Press. There are between 250,000 | British reaction to the Soviet spy and 300,000 Indians, of whom sensation, but I have said that a third live
are preoccupied with food, in Durban,clothing, and shelter, the funda
The Queen, who celebrates her 68th birthday tomorrow, Materially they are well off:mentals of keeping alive.
spent most of the summer: but politically they are
painting and riding horseback
Bogota, Colombia, August 30.
The Philippines and China inemorandum this morning to the paríahs. Malan has now de- Meatless Week - sport she still
Philippine enjoy connection
An important development in have been negotiating toward a
Department of For- cided to abolish the right of
through her secluded estate in Colombia rioting was forecast to landing rights in the absence of Canton as a compromise instead with Jast April's temporary agreement regarding eign Affairs, asking the retention
of the status Indians to vote for and sit in
Eastern Holland.
quo and offering Some housewives here are simi-
day. the Union Parliament and larly engaged After an exciting
Judge Francisco J. Guzman
a formal air pact. With her, travelled her lady-said a Government enquiry is
of Amoy. the Natal Provincial Council. two hours' reading about spies, in-waiting, Jonkvrouwe de Beat- on the threshold of something, ed to land in Manlia and
Chinese planes are now allow- Omeluts of the Department of they still have their own and fort, the Marshal of the Court, important." This takes away the sop their husbands' dinner to think Baron
the Foreign Affairs, the Civil Aero- Philippine Government insists nautics Administration and Hardenbrock, Smuts promised the Indians about.
navol adjutant, Lieutenant van of Liberal Senor Jorge E. Galtan. ed to land in Amoy. The Chi-Philippine Airlines are scheduled
The enquiry is into the killing that Philippine planes be allow- when they were forbidden to This week there has been
Loetzelaer and two private secre
to meet tomorrow in order to whose shooting touched off a purchase land in certain dis- fullscale boycott against the pur- tartes.
nese Government says Amoy la discuss the short
Chinese rebellion. The
proposal. international Women have
rebellion not an
port and, But tricts: but it is all part of picketed butchers' shops, pushing ed speed through the neat, com- meetings of the Inter-American traffic on an international scale. Chinese plan was highly unlikely.
it was The train travelled at a reduc- cost 1,500 lives and delayed the therefore, is
understood that unable to handle Philippines acceptance of the Malan's segregation policy, baby carriages carrying banners pact Dutch countryside. Farmers conference-Associated Press. of which the logical conclu- clamouring that prices be cut. and villagers started lining the
The Chinese Legation sent United Press. slon is that the Indians Nearly 200,000 New York women route before
Fairness In The Air dawn to colch a should be sent back to India, have agreed not to buy most for glimpse of their Queen. The vil
If, however, Malan wants at least one week.
There have been protests also bunting
Inge stations were decorated with white supremacy, he is going against the general rise in the Queen and buge pictures of Wilhelmina with the
I we
chose of meat.
68th Birthday
van
her
a very odd way about it. cost of living. Many people have dates "1898-1948"-the years of For he has recently abolished scrapped plans for holidays her reign.
simply because they cannot afford
1
the schemes started by Gen- them, and hotel managers, in coat and gray hat, waved to the The Queen, wearing a velvet eral Smuts to encourage Bri- hundreds of resorts complain of crowds trom tish immigration into the the worst season since the war.
Pross. Union. So, while his Gov- ernment is doing its best to exacerbate native and Indian
Film Black-out
or both.
NO CONNECTION
WITH UN
BOGOTA RIOTS
Executive Secretary, Mr. Emilio Abello, said to-
Manila, August 30.
day that the Philippine Government was "not disposed" to accept the Chinese proposal to make Conton the landing point for Philippine' Airlines planes instead of Amoy.
UN ORDER DRAWS
A BLANK
+
Jerusalem, August 30.
↓
the
Manila, August 30. "The Times," in an
editorial entitled "Fairness in the Air," today said the request by the Philippines for suspension of China National Aviation Corpora- tion flights between Manila" end Amoy until the Chinese Govern- ment grants Philippine `commer~- cial planes the right to maintain a Manila-Amoy service "is inently justiflable and should be maintained to the last.".
em-
It said" the "Phillippines WIS Under the plan, all military barred from Amoy on the personnel, and arms and equip-specious excuse that Amoy is not an *International airport',, yet ment were to be moved from CNAC planes taking off from the zone and fixed military in this purely · locol- aisport - can stallations destroyed,
conduct träffle with tho.... Philip".
her train-Ualled There was no response when United Nations obser
vers in Jerusalem today called on Jews and Arabs to withdraw from positions surrounding the Red Cross centres. ¿ feeling, the white population Just when I thought the anti-
The
Arab Legion is receiving no recruitment. British campaign whipped up by
today claimed Jewish truce violations Of course, he may want the Zionists here had collapsed other supplies of fresh blood of British films is growing.
came the news that the boycott
throughout the past 24 hours in Shanghal. August 31.
this' area where the south Red -from Germany, for exam- A careful survey has been The magazine "Unlled Nations] Cross-sector was due to be- ple. We do not know. We made by staff members of Variety World", which recently carried come a demilitarised neutral
Mr. James Lide, chief code pines according te. the. Chinese accept that Malan hates the magazine, and their findings will an article predicting the fall, of zone at noon GMT.
clerk of the United States Con- view British, but he also hates her grieve or infuriate you the Chinese Government, is a A Legion spokesmari gald that sulate in *Jerusalemi,
We see no reciprocity, no falt was shot Communism. And by native
private publication and It has been established that nothing to do with the United back by anti-aircraft fire after today as he was
has a fast Jewish aircraft was turned and slightly, wounded in the leg play here."--United Press. yepression he is doing, his | the boycott is having · deadly Nations, Dt. P. Chu I-ting, Direc best to encourage the growth effect. Britis revenue has been for of the United Nations ving over the Mount of Olives two other Americans towards the and the Sheikh Jarrah sectors. consular building. An Arab slashed just when prospects were formation Centre in Shanghai, The Arab spokesman declared alper was believed responsible. good and wete netting 65,000 said in a statement lest night.
that Jewish attacks on Arab vil- dollars weekly.
Chu'a statement Tokyo,, August 30.
It was reliably learned in Calro was lagen" South of Jerusalem, were Several British Alms have been A contract to export 4,000 withdrawn
derpatch from repulsed, while three Jews who today that prompted, by from American Lako Success quoting the "United tried to infiltrate through Arab Polliical Committes will mont the Arab League
Schectady, NY August 30. tons of galvanized iron sheets screens notably Sir Alexander Nations World" as stating that lines were shot dead.
A man drowned on Saturday: from Japan to the Philippines, Korta's "An Ideal Husband" and "revolt is expected by the Doublethe Holy City was to become
at Bludon, Syria, on September ទ The Red Cross zone' South of to co-ordinate Arab polley at the tiled today as Mahmoud
An nearby Lake Echo 'was Inden- worth approximately US$10,000 "Mind Own Executioner," and Tenth."
United Nations General Assom Gamal 20, son of the Egyptian has been concluded between four Herbert. Wilcox Piccadilly In The article
to neutral area today after accept bly in Paris later in the month. Philippine trade .concerns and cident."
have cited many rumours, most tance by the Jews and Arabs of It is reported that Count Foika Sanator: Abbas El Gamal of Japanese Government'a The huge chain of cinemas of which originated in Hongkong United Nations plan to check Bernadotte will meet the Politicalo son was a student with the Board of Trade, it was learned, known as Louw, which has and stated that leftist politicians the sporadle fighting in Jerusalem Committee's Inner Council after deneral Electric Company and Delivery is scheduled to begin tie-up with M-G-, has not run there are in league with the Com which had threatened to extend his return from Sweden to h was due to enter Harvard in
British Bim for months. Other munista.--Reuter.
through the whole of Palestine. headquarters at Thode-Neuter, fortnight-Associated Press.
of that force.
the
next month--Reuter.
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walking with
SENATOR'S SON DROWNED
Cairo:
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