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JOHN STRACHEY'S OTHER ISLAND
By The Rt. Hon. WILLIAM MABANE
The morc comfortable
UNITED KINGDOM trend of developments in the
1998 Cattle. Lean Berlin crisis-the renewal of Stores No. direct discussions in Berlin Cattle, Fat No. with a view to restoration of Fat sheep and lambs No.. four-power control and the
Mutton and optimistic tone of reports Jamb Cwt. from Moscow--lends fresh Poultry, support to those who in spite No. D! the 'scares' of recent Poultry, deod weeks have never taken the Eggs Gt. Hun- danger of war seriously. dreds
Chief reason for disbelief Bacon and Ham
cwt.
in the bogey has been the change in the strategic posi-
tion of the USSR.
war
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AN ANGLE ON PALESTINE
The Palestine war is an all-guns have replied to British gun- British affair with both Arabs re
with the best Midlands and Jews using British supplies, manufactured ammunition on the military procedure and nati- Bghting fronts. British slogans.
chilly blasts of the world mar. ducers' co-operatives, There are
are chased
a
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That wider conception
ngreement
far-
the
the
National
economic storm.
By ROBERT C. MILLER
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"Only Two"
The Aral
the British
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the
John Drummond Reports On prenant of war way
US Scene The
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Calculated in terms of calories divorced. Bad was made worse to achieve, with attractive prices the Brlion's dist, may be ade- by the polley pursued by succes as the raward. It would include tered with prewar posters urging from sergeants Instructing them Rookies, drilling in Iraq and The Isreal capitol is still plas Israel receive the same training quate, but
it is certainly dull.sive Eire Governments of build- longterm guarantees, The Eire the
the arts To improve it, the male needs ing up un-economic secondary farmer. no less than the home, tish Jews to kick out the "Bri-In
ot war that has are more meat, poultry, bacon.dustries behind a tarift.
invaders," Arab demonstra- descended directly from Sand eggs and butter. These are pre-
farmer, cannot be expected to tions in Transforilan and Egypt hurst, A
richer the risk of increasing
vocabulary, cisely the foods which Eire can mained
his are led British polloy to buy
by zealots demanding however, enables A Bedouin export.. Decouse of faults on food in the
be the same thing in Arabic. both sides of the Channel: ex- neat
market-lves in four of tosin markata or police who control the Arab de- for the former civilian with for cheapest
The noncom to express his contempt from the Argentine or of ports are far les
unremunerative prices. II.K.$18.00 should be. Equally
than they Uguay, bacon
In monstrations wear English made grenter from Denmark return we should require satis-alterms, received British train than an Englishman or a Jew.
beauty, und emphasis no source ar Ilolland, eggs from Denmark, factory assurances that the doing and operate on an organisa could be so rapidly developed to Holland 1.K.$30.00
god Poland, poultry fiele
ficiencies
of Eire farming should tional pattern identical to that
Buck-Passing supply our needs at no dollar from Hungary cr
be made, good. The deplorably used throughout England. Jugoslavia~ { bo cost, and to the immense benefit regardless of the fact that war low productivity of the land of
The buck-parting and paper- ILK.$72.00
of both countries.
would cut off such supplies or which Mr. Dillon speaks can
The trucks-pardon me, lorries work have hem incorporated in- Agriculturally Fire
be-entrying today in make their procurement difficult, made good
supplies for both to both Arab und Jewish units a condition
only with drainage, Arabs and Jews are mostly Eng-without the slightest loss of effi- of serious
decline, risky and costly. As a result, fertilisers, feeding If this language seems strong it Eire had no security in the only tarm machinery. We should un-equipment, particularly the jeeps, sides require the same number stuffs and lish made. Even the American ciency. Quartermasters on both is no stronger thon that used by market of any practient conse- dertake to Mr. Dillon, the new and vigorous quence, and, with no certainty of supplies.
divert the necessary came into Arab and Jewish hands of multiple forms before releas The fertility of the land." he ducts, the Elre farmer lacked in the output of the paasant farmer
Minister of Agriculture.
remunerative sulo for ble pro- in Eire holdings are small and said, "has reached a degree of centive to develop. Beyond degradation lower than had been the home farmer, who is hat can be effectively brought into
his commerce known for a hundred years."
only by the wide-through British middlemen. Thoing equipment, the spread
reports development of pro-British-trained Arab Legion pur- weighed, baled and fled away in Then And Now
its American equipment Telaviv, Caire and London with ket, looked on Irish Imports with already some croamerics, Statistics confra Mr. Dillon's
some with pounds sterling, while the the same loving care, and both words. The reduction in the ex-not enough, the recurrent poli- enough.
no friendly eye.. If that were bacon factories, but by no means Jews bought up large quantities aides employ proportionate num- portable surplus since 1038 L
Again, we should re-¦ of motorised equipment trom | bera of clarks even more marked than in total al conflicts did not predispose quire assurances that a complete the British at surplus property clarks) seeking saray plastres and production, and, as the following try to oconomic co-operation.
the Government of alther coun- and coherent marketing organ- sales held in Palestine prior to violations of rules. figures show, the decline in ex-
isation would be created, and, the evacuation.
But even the British have not ports to the United Kingdom is
New Outlook perhaps no less iraportant, that
convinced the Arabs that there is almost startling.
Since the war there has not effective steps would be taken to
a place in the ermy for women, EXPORTS FROM EIRE TO THE been, as there should have been and inefficient farming methods.
remove suspicion of large-scale
Former British citizens are Except for a few nurseS and
reliat diretting military' eperations a completely new orientation of
organisations composed 1947 outlook. A new Government in The Real Solution
both sides. The British Govern- fargely of Christian Arabs, Mos- Eire provides the possibility
of a
ment's statement that only two lem women have been rejected 470,080 330,397 new stort. In Mr. Dillon's
There is another obstacle to British army officers were direct- from the war. The Jews, how- 141,440 51,915 sighted declaration of agricultural overcome. Our own Ministry of Ing Arab Legion 'activities in ever, have evan improved upon
polley new spirit of
Agriculture, under of realism
some torror Palestine 'was correct.
The the British WAAPS, WHENS and 291,570
breathes. It remains for him to from
Farmers' dozens of others were in subor other auxiliary forces. No Eng-
А Норве at ishinan would conrider
of translate worde into deeds, but Union, are, if not hostile, no bet-dinate positions.
gentle- 23,078,
he cannot do it siene. He needs ter than non-belligerent-an at- Commons Inquiry concerning the manly to allow a girl into a bat- the co-operation of the Govern. titude based on memories of the British officers with the Haganah tle which is still considered C15,140 78,274 ment of the United Kingdom In bad old days when our own would have been equally emman's domain. In Israci Bex 18 providing a murket that is rea-farmers wore the orphans of the barrassing as the vast majority unknown in war and women 101,753 122,012 Lonably secure.
Today, surely, of Israci's officers are also former serve equally as telephone opera- The recent trade
will members of agreement the fear that those times
Army. tors and machine-gunners. The 2.232,221 1,311,272 breaks no
Admittedly they are all of the Hagunah Infuntry has Just as new, ground. It is return is groundless, concerned mainly with the prices Old political quarrels between Hobrew faith, but their Pales- many feminine fort sluggers pro-. 554,632 Nil and conditions, of sale of existing i
the United Kingdom tinlan passports issued by the portionately as the paymaster's in 285,623 NI production. It embodies .DO pre
in some danger of being re- British Government differ only office, and the feeder" "man" on <i If we were receiving even the specie plan for
sing vived. Many of these quarrels slightly from those carried Increasing MAY
by t machine-gun is more thpi It was 1938 exports from Eire our con- quantity, nor any long-term plan originated in economic distress. their Christian Lreihren leading likely to be e bobby soxer. one thing for Russia to condition would be a great deal bet-of development. Ye! wore
Their solution is more likely to the Arabs.
Not In The Manual template the possibility of tor. The 1938 #gures are, how- agreement widened in its con- be found through the 'economic The only thing that looks more
than a British MP is Treatment of when Moscow could ever, very far below the Irish ception, the retinn would be tar prosperity of the Irish farmer British count on the military sup-clared his belle?
potential. Mr. Dillon has de- greater and more immediate than a prosperity which he can re-Haganah MP, even including the by the Arabs has crented pro- in the from the ground-nuts scheme in cognise as dependent on full co-mannerisms and behaviour. Ex-bioma unanswered in any British port of the Yugoslav and course of the next five years we East Africa, or from the bacon operation with the Unlied King-cept for the katta and slightly war
manual. Legion Colonels Czech armies.
dom. The strategic shifts of the less Anglo-Sax physical char-At:
Abdulla It became can confidently look forward to scheme in Queenstand. -
Bey post-war period and the
chang- acteristics, Tratsjordan's quite another when the re- an expansion in the volume of Wider Conception
mill-women captured in the Old City, liability of those armies to least.twenty-five per cent. of
output which will represent at
ed direction of the flow of agri-tary police are just other peas in knowing full well that most of would cultural production open a new the
them were Aghters. Whon cri- Russia was thrown into ques-existing volume,
Pod. und
and linking opportunity to draw Eire
arms and ammunt-tired for his action the Arab ::. tion: None of this means sequential Increase of close
acon- require
on price with quantity and setting the United Kinglum closer to- tien are predominantly of Bri-commander threw up his hands. that war has not been a day- une hundred
tish manufacture, and per cent. in the targets for the Irish producersi gether.
"I know British
Hogopah, belong to
he replied, "but what ger over the past few weeks, volume of our exports." Ro-
could we do? It's better to send It continues to be a danger, inent would be,
marble though such a develop-
them home than to try to treat Mr. Dillon's and in one sense the danger ustimate
them, as prisoners wor. bolh in time and
Why might be increased by the quantity is conservative.
inside of month they would become such a nuisance most of changes in the basic inter- Roots Of Trouble
our time would spent pacify-... national situations which The roots of the trouble lle
them, I know. I am should have the reverse ten-deep. The wor certainly
married man."--United Press. dency. A country which has tributed materially to the dim- been strong and suddenly plier of feeding stuffs, fertilisers 61st Street now has a constant and denounced the current Conkeepers' efforts
culties of Irish agriculture. Sup-
Now York's sinister house on the Communist altuation hero, į guns. discovers its strength ebbing and farm machinery
at conservation | seriously hindered. The decline
inquiries away can become panicky.
stream of callers. Good-natured, gressional
tor the Commissioner Perry B. Duryea It has been a considered zannet, however, be attributed to cops have been on the alert night second time as red herrings.
told me that more illegal venison to, und day since Mrs. Oksana Step- llo erred in bad company will end up on local tables this factor in all western calcula- recent a cause. The
basic
anovna Kosenkina's crumpled Several correspondents from Lon-year than during the peak of tions these days that Moscow could be traced back over body landed in. the courtyard of don are going about with red the wartime meat-shortages.
the centuries, but, to go back no the Russian Consulate there with if you'l! pardon the word-faces might be more willing to farther than 1924, the economic a thud that was heard around after bitterly slanging, the taston. of Christchurch, alias Miss And pretty Miss Mary Wool- take risks just now than it consequences of the Treaty were the world.
timony given in Washington as New Zealand, who has reached
London, August 31. would have two or three wholly bad in that two essential-
of trouble-makers, tactless rubbish.
Major T.C. Rogerson, AX- ly
here on her round-the-world trip. cutering adviser to the 18th Corps months ago. An ebbing of
complementary economies crackpots included, have quietly
Price War mainly
won't help to l British larders-formerly #gricultural, the been steered away from the pos
the 7th Armoured. strength produces, sensitivé-other mainly
The President has other wor-
on her return. Industrial-were sibility of another, if more minor,
Division and the criginal "Desert ness and could cause des-
international incident. Most of ries. Housekeeper Mary Sharp as a stunt to raise
She was picked for the jaunt Rais-will advrnce and retire
money for nearly 1,400 miles within peration. It has been ob.
them seemingly wanted to dump at the White House in dishing up food parcels to Britain and this three reasonably doubtful that the something or other at the Rus-a lot of meat-leaf and fish these is what she told New York news
дпун just for dinner. vious in the protracted. Ber- Czech Army is at this time sian doorstep!
days to keep within her budget. papers.
lying from fun for the first lin crisis that the utmost care an effective fighting weapon been like that near No. 10 Down- Truman eats steak only twice land so we can send food to Bri- Rooms, London, on September 23. For five days the scene has Like most Americans, Harry S. has been exercised to avoid for Russia.
"We are rationed in New Zea- reunion of the Corps headquar
ters officers at the Connaught: It would have ing-street during a Cabinet crisis week unless he settles for taln. But if you dine out back any step which might have to be reorganised from the Movie cameras mounted on trucks Whale-steak at 14. 8d. a pound.
he home you have to give up, on the 800 attending Only now is the American of your ration coupons. If you sians that sense of despera effective weapon.
ture of the official long black Current cars affected by the Russians and locks of
He has set up his own imports- tion.
timidity The policy planners estimates are that if war driven by square-headed silent Britain's whale meat of last year. You don't have to give up any lives, at Via Appiani with is
and disgust in London all you need is moness had no intention of giving were to come this autumn,men with shaving-brush haircuts. An experimental 0,0001b, were coupons. That's Moscow a feeling that it was more Czech soldiers would
flown in to Seattle from a whal black market flourishes. I will ing the Italian campaign.-Reu- Police Guard
terrible. The Italian wife, whom ho met dur- ing stalion at Fort Hardy, Bri- have to tell the folks back home." ter. being pushed into a corner. desert to the western allies The crowds grew and dwindled fish Columbia, and distributed
But so long as western than would fight with the according to the hour and the by plane. diplomacy is thus successful, Red Army. In other words,
Istest newspaper headlines.
"It has," said a Now York Moscow will have increasing here is a second satellite sleeved individual
One of the biggest saw a shirt- | chef, "ike flavour of a choles
han stand firmly steer which reasons for refraining from army which is not a reliable in front of the building and lot around the waterfront too long!" boon hanging war, which are inherent in element.
loose a Bow. of invective in a The housewives' boycott the changes taking place in Less is known about the rins of admiration from parked Texas, is making slow telephone- rich Irish brogue which drew beef buying, which began in the Russian sphere of influ- Polish Army. It may be taxi drivers, no mean men with by-telephone progress across the that by this time a fairly re- a cuss word themselves. He was nation, ... but Americans are For one thing, the Yugo- liable Communist
led around the corner by-two dreaming-up their own ways, to j slav Army is no longer re-corps has been trained. But
policemen-and turned free.
beat the high prices. . . ... Another visitor managed to
Friends' drive us 20 miles Into garded as a reliable Russian it is to be doubted that thethout something about Jan the country at the week-end now! ally in case of war. It is a ranks in the Polish Army Masaryk in Prague and Mrs. Where we can buy luscious corn big army as Balkan armies would fight either willingly who was going to be next? His fresh lettuce and apples straight Kosenkinn in New York. and the cob, tomatoes that don't tasio ilko processed sponges, go-by far the best in any of or effectively against western departure was more hurried. the satellite-zone." At the armies.
Comments In einugias at the from the farmer for exactly half present moment, Yugoslav Further, there is increas from the "House of the Shadows"
showing of the "freedom leap'? [of the prevailing shop prices. foreign policy is making a ing evidence that Yugoslavia centred around the brutal way
. Food Parcels great show of being as is not the only Iron Curtain in which unidentified Russians were warned today to guard the loyal as ever to Moscow. country where ideological ragged the moaning woman in State's 350,000 deer against-hard But behind the show disagreement has hobbled
the fact that Yugo the officiency of Communist for tried: vainly to push her way
When the Russian woman doessed husbanda slavia is no longer controlled control."The Party" is be into the ambidance; a woman directly by Moscow guiding loved to be split in Hungary Missed as they did in the pid- seated behind me Instenight
EUROPEAN MP,'s strings. It is not axiomatic and Czechoslovakia between time melodramas
MEET that the Yugoslav Army the "Old Communists"-men "Sea what's in her little block would march If the Red like Prime Minister Gottwald on the screen, Just as the children bag", she wamed the policeman
Interlaken, Switzerland,
bos August 31. Army did. There is increas- and Foreign Minister Kloat the matinees once shouted
Delegates from 710 European ing reason to think that Bel-mentis-and the "Young "Mind your back, mister" when Parliaments meeting unofficial grade would be inclined, in Communists"-a new crop of the villain appeared behind the ly here today were expected to case of war, to maintain tougher young men who are unsuspecting cowboy heroff th some variant of rautrality just now emerging in the quarters and found the cost of stituent Assembly for a West
I checked with police head-propare a project for a Con perhaps something like the upper levels. It will not be maintaining the spalice guards arropean Federation. "non-belligerency practised considered surprising if with comes out of the American tax= |«Over 200 delanates - were ex- by Franco Spain during the in the next few months there payer pocketsessing the pacted to attend four day cont last war.
Vital Moment: ference of are extensivo purges of the
*the European Parlia- The Czech Army is also "Old Communista" in these Kosenkina incident happened: dal pieni drawn up mainly
For the leaders of America theatery Union to discuss being deleted from estimates two countries. Such purges a vital psychological moment.
British: member of of the Russian order of might make for stronger and The frightened 11:21 Russian Farlisinent,/RW.G, Magkeny, battle. The Czech Govern-more effective Communist woman the world had never slepias contatos detalled pro- ment is undoubtedly under control in future years. But President Truman more then urembly bramatturanor
heart about two wenke, agoTlOST POSSE Cor penyeülds a Copailtuant tight Moscow-reins. But the they hardly make the satel handful of votes in the Novantes, mica, deletan, the Netherlands numbor gf officer defections litos into effective allies for election
Har a dramatie - decision was Italy pikanten
one
were
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Despite all the game-
Long Way For "Rats' Reunion
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