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Berlin, December 12. Since Russia fooled the world by using her second- string army in the Finnish war of 1939, people have boon chary of criticising Marshal Stalin's military machine.
HEROES
INDIA-PI DRAFT TREATY COMPLETED
CZECH-SOVIET TEXTILE DEAL
Prague, December (13
M. Ludwig Kalinn, director of the Czech Stato texillo combine, today announced a 4,500 million crown (£22,500,000) textile deal with the Soviet Union-the biggest single deal in the history of Czechoslovak foreign trade.
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The Soviet Union will supply 16,000 tons of raw colion will receive 8,000 to 10,000 tons of finished textile products from Czechoslovakia in payment.
Manila, December 12, A draft treaty of friendship between India and
Russin will also furnish 1,500 This correspondent is no exception. But for the last pines was complcted
the Philip tons of wool, 100 tons of camel
yesterday few days he has been walking through the
on technical levels.
hair, 500 tons of flux fibre, 150 After approval of the agree. tons of jute, 60 tans of ankmal Soviet sector of this partitioned city, goggling
ment by the two governments, hair and 60 million crowns worth at men and officers who seem to bear no re-
the treaty will be signed in Waof sking for hot-making. shington by Ambassador Joaquin Prague newspapers today em lation to the almost legendary heroes who
M. Elizalde and The Indian Emphasised that the present Soviet- bassy triumphed over the Germon Wehrmacht.
Czech talks in Moscow were tak- Dr. J. M. Shrinngess, India's ing place on the fifth anniversary! Must newspaperien whoį. American officers, incidentally, Vice Minister of Commerce, and of the signing of the Soviet-Czech: have seen the Russians here at say reports of Russian raping of Under Secretary of Foreign Affriendship pact of 1943 and pro- close range have about the same German girls are highly exagger-fts Feline Neri arranged terms dieted new steps to reinforce the
of the agreement.-Associated friendship of the two countries- apinion. If the shabby troopsated, but they probably have the
Presa
Reuter. of edge on the rest of the occupying Russia are the pick of Stalin's troops when it comes to hurrylug
courtship along. men-as they are sometimes saith to be- raises the in- teresting question of what sort of troops are stationed closer to Mascow where the West can- not see them. But there again, Marshal Stalin may be trying to foul the West,
in
this Western outpost
Urgent Business
The lower of his furvra may hurve been withdrawn to herein, to be replaced by men and boys--mostly the latter-one sees trudging through the streets4 of their spesor, in worn greg-bkn overevals and never looking very koppy in daylight, I have yet ta new one of thein snute.
The nondescript troops Stalin has acen lo station in this showcase for the West are not the only signs that might hark back to 1939.
At Katson airfield, most Rup- aian transport is the horse and wagon, and Americans who have driven through tong Rus-
⚫lan occupied stretches have been equally mystified the
at the apparent lack of trucks, com. mand care and other vehicles.
Even planes which have been Inanoeuvring from. the airfields over Brandenburg, Kot- Russian
sen and Perleberg are suspicious- ly old-fashioned-Ynks and PO- 2s, which the American pilots call hewing machines.
They ride stiffly in little au- tomobiles or march
along as though bound on urgent bual. ness, without friendly curiosity for Americans, British French.
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This could be more of Stalin's Allied intelligence spxxofing. knows he has jet planes, at least the of which equals and pos- sibly surpasses the American P. In fact, they know a good dunl of what lles behind facade Russia
the presents to the But right now most of it is top secret.-United Press,
The American military intellig-
that the Russian 80. ence suspects Aroops are not as well fed or bil-
leted as their wartime allies and that bathing facilities certainly West. ate mare Hoitend 104,
topa deal the theuns
RAY
Most Americans
directly wab
they
me not such bnd fellows when you get to know them undi
That they have teal Pespert"
some of the Soviet officers,
the Russian rank and fie, one officer said, "They're much
individually, but there's so darn many of them,"
American
not se
Reports Exaggerate Occasionally Russians wander hito De Angle-American sectors
in seurelt of frivolity and son-
SOUTH AFRICAN CRISIS
Civil Rights Tussle
Looming In Congress
Washington, December 12. The job of getting the civil rights legislation through the Congress without causing new rifts in the Democratic Party appeared today as the hardest chore facing Vice-President elect Albon W. Barkley, Some Southern
Democrats. | possibility discussed was to let who are certain that some civil the pall tax and lynching billa rights legislation is sure to be ride through if fale employment pressed this me, feel that Mr. Practices legislation $55 soft- Barkley is the only person in
pedalled. the world who can do the job Safe Mandate -it
it can be done at all.
Senator Harry F. Byrd, one One of Mr. Barkley's big jobs of the leaders of the Southern as Vice-President will be to get bloe, said he doubted that Pre- administration bills through the sident Truman and Mr. Barkley Senate without stepping on 100 could make such an agreement many toes, However, the party even if they wanted to. He anfd compromise on the racial ques-
that "many new members of tion has just about disappeared. Congress who were elected with Mr. Truman and Mr. Barkley will have a considerablyafe mandate to go through
with his ieglstation
cosią,' Anticipating that both "com.
And promise
"adjustment" will fall.
Southern the mocrats are looking for Par Ilamentary rufes that they have every filibuster weapon avaliable.
"Adjustment“
Mr. Barkley
President and Truman are Armly committed to the civil rights section in the Democratic platform which split the November
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