RED WOOING OF Ministers On
WEST
GERMANY
Borlin, March 18.
Gorman Communists last night launched a cam- paign to woo all Germany into the Soviet orbit. The keynote of their campaign is a call for a unifled Germany. The Communists seek to control Germany by creating an Eastern German state. They wont Western Germany to join this pro- jected Communist-led' state.
Guillotine Used. On Steel Bill
of
London, March 17. Amid Conservative cries "Reichstag" and loud Govern- ment cheers. the committee stage of the Government's Bil to nationalise the iron and steel industry came to an abrupt end today when the "guillotine" fell, leaving 44 amendments still to be discussed.
the
pel
in the committee stage atendiments are discussed the His debuted by the Govern-
mes: 1 is used when the Gov crament considers the Oppost- tion is unnecessarily prolonging the discussion,
The Bill was debated In the Standing Committee- stall committee representing all parties in proportion to their Porļiainen - fary strength.
Divisions on the 44 remain- amendments were punctuat- ing
ed by Opposition observations such as "What a disgrace." The Bill will go back to the full House of Commons, later to be passed to the House of Lords. -Reuter.
CONCESSIONS TO TOURISTS
While they are setting up an East German constitution, the Communists are accusing the Western powers of splitting the nation by establishing a West German state.
Communists appear to be speed- ing up their programine to create their own state in the East before the Western powers mursch their own state in the West.
Communist propaganda that if all Germany unites under the East German constitution, Soviet troops will withdrawn, leaving Gertnany "free."
bints
Nevertheless the only support the pinn is expected to draw in the West is from party embers tharusives.
Communist
Nuschko's Failure
Coolie's Lot
Landon, March 17, The Reverend Donald Goper, a well-known Mathod- lut Minister and one at the
of the tounders
Ordor of Christian Witness, told hera today of rickshaw coolies in Ceylon who carry people. round in little cart, spit
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DIARY
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U.S. And British Socialism
Americans are becoming re- This furious exchange has put In Child's restaurants (the blood #t-30-and-are-dead-at-conciled to the idea that Britain's - snap-and-life-into the air. It equivalent of Britain's Lyons Socialists, will remain in power. has lifted the gloom about pos-chain) prices have been cut up sible depression and chased away to ten per cent. Clothes have During the
past few days the confusion surrounding the been slashed ten to niteen per more has been printed and Atlantic. Pact spoken about the Labour Gov- crament than at any time' since. their election victory.
Mr. Soper, speaking at
Church Counell Con. Free grose, said: "The Commun- ists did not preach to them. They said: "If you vote for us, we will amash every rick. shaw in Colombo the day wo got into power."
"Do you wonder that for every one rickshaw ccolla In the Methodist Church thora are 20 carrying red banners and voting for the Commun. Ists?"-Router.
ATLANTIC FLYER GETS OFF
Paris, March 17.
A Paris military tribunal to- night Requitted Lieutenant- Colonel Dieudonne Costes, first minn to By from Paris to New York.
wartime spying charges.
A stunt pilot. Paul Cavailles, was also
similar sequitted of
East Gorman The proposed Doneiltution must be ratified by the Communist-led by the People's Council of East Ger. many. This
foregone can. clusion,
The Council bold its nest sex-
charges. The consitu, sion on Thurselay, tion is to come before the full Cousell on Friday. A vate may come on Saturday,
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Communists say the Hussinos presumably would be willing to sign a peace treaty with a "Peo ple's Democrncy, That is Com munist terminology Tox Com- munist-led untion.
Ollo Nuschke, Chairman of the People's Connell, recently toured Western Germany advocating unity-under the East Germai constitution. The aim of his trip was to get German political lenti- ers to reject the proposed West German constitution. Els trip Talect.
London, March 17. The Government
in- has creased from £35 to £50 the annual amount British' tourists may spond in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, including the Faroes, France, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Spain and Switzerland.
Mr. Glenvil Hali. Financial West Berlin's anti-Communist
Secretary to the Treasury,
Berlin Request Nuschke promised that Soviet neempation troops would leave West Germany joined the "Peo ple's Democracy" of East Ger-
muly.
an-Government on Thursday adopted
nounced this concession In the resolution again asking that House of Commons today.
Children under 15 wil be al lowed a reduceri sum of £35, There will be. Mr. Glenvil Hall adder, an extra Hilowance currency, equivalent to £10 a a year, to chable inotorists to go to their destinations by car instead of, by train.
Replying to questions, Mr. Glenvilo Hall said: "We would be very pleased to include Yugo slavia. Consideration is being given to that matter now."
Reuter,
the Western sectors of Berlin be included in the West German state.
re
Western milltary Governora have already vetoed this
Berin is an latand in quest side the Soviet occupation zene. Ernst Reuter, Mayor, of West Berlin, flies to Washington on Friday to uftend three-day of American Mayora conference starting next week.
As he left, he said: "We will never give in. It's too cold in Siberia." Associated Press.
Awaiting you at Home
Arranged
By
A NEW CAR from the
Costes denied having given In-
aircraft com- formation about ponents to Germons and having worked for the German counter. espionage service in North Africa. Cavailles, his fellow defendant, said he wroked with the Germans for only one reason-to escape to
United States. the
At Motz, Eastern France, military tribunal tonight ao. quitted Pierre Culioll of betray- ing fellow members of the Rs. alatance to the Germans,
The Socialist success at South Hammersmith has provoked commentators to dismiss the Conservatives as a Briilsh variety of the Republic Party here political has-beens know-how..
Jacking
The U.S. does not pretend to assert for certain what is wrong with Britain's Tories, but it be- Beves they need an overhaul as badly as Mr. Dewey's party.
of
The American attitude la oue embarrassed sympathy--for
Eden,
sh
Charges Dropped
The fall in prices continues, but it is very gradual, and the falat-hearts are perking up and saying that perhaps it is merely a levelling off and not a slump,
And the outcry against pulling all the teeth of the Atlantic Pact has been so nalay that the mo- lars will remain untouched.
American interest in the Bri- tish view of the slumplet and the Past talks is considerable. The magazine Newsweek accuses me of cabling a "flesh-creeping story," and the New York Times dispatch from London says I'm
ippant."
cerit,
Women Waiting
But women are still reluctant to buy. Perhaps they are walt- ing for the latest 'version of The Look.
Apparently skirts aren't to be so long or so full, · Sixteen inches off the floor is the newest edict. There are no new laws about American women's hala. They remain beyond the law.
A couple of American readers | have written. in and said that while I have talked about the wide-open night life in Chicago Most people's nerves are nu- Mr. Churchill, and, alas, for Mr.parently on edge,
and the honky-tohk striptease and in the section of the French quarter of opinion of America's Elder New Orleans, I have been over- Statesman Bernard Baruch, ox-looking the racy and risque in
New York. pressed to writer Robert Ruark, the whole world is suffering from The readers are right. *Just total emotional Instability.
block
away from the Dally Malt's New York office is Fifty- second Street. Between Fifth and Sixth Avenues-the latter Is officially called the Avenue The Americas, but no one knows I by that name is a collection of brassy and blousy night spots. Burlesque is supposed to be bar. ned in New York, but it thrives la these tawdry little cip joints. There are strippers and snake dancers,
The old charges that the Bri- people are demonstrating the runkest Ingratitude to their wor-time leader and flirting with The handmaiden of Communism have been dropped.
p
Certainly New York feels in- secure at the moment. The city has been lying under the threat of an electricity and gas strike by the Consolidated 'Edison em-
This country does not like the ployees that would have cut off Labour Government any more light, heat, and power and turn- than it did when they took office, but it respects winner, thinks Chat the
Conservati like the Republicans, have got Into the habit and rut of fallure, And as the United States has to du business with Britain it proposes to get along with Mr. Attlee's group as well as possi- ble and as long as necessary.
Hero-worship for Mr. Chur- chlil remains, and probably has never been higher. Americans aren't finding fault with the great war chief, and their rene-
here of
tion to British hints cabled to
newspapers
moves
to
Culioli said that when the Get- mans arrested him, he told them than the pseu- nothing more
from the Conservative donyms of the Resistance leaders, oust him which they already knew from the leadership is one of indignation paper: they had found on him.inged with outrage. Revter.
Revised Plans For Germany
Whatever may be wrong with
the Tories, It isn't Mr. Churchill
in American eyes,
It is curious and touching to " Bride
Are such an outbreak' of New
humph
and bride-
World solicitude concerning our groom are hurling the
- political affairs.
com-
"wedding presents...."
Rarely before has there been such interest. Occasionally it is
with the cynical Chupied ment that there'll always be fed the place into " highway- Socialist England as long as men's paradise." there's a Capitalist America to sustain it.
London, March 17. The British delegates to the three-power Occupation Statute
This Jaundiced sentiment was Conference, have substantially approved the revised United Increased, of
course, the olher States proposals for tri-zonal day when Christopher Mayhew, administration of West Germany Affairs, said out loud that Bri- Under-Secretary for Foreign when a West German Govern-
tain's ment comes into being.
pleted.
The French Foreign Ofea has
revised proposals,
not completed its study of the
was now
com.
recovery
At the present time Mr. Tru-
This gigantic tle-up and black- out, threatened for days, is now cancelled. •But New Yorkers keep their fingers crossed.
Bakery Dispute ..
formers.
M
bubble and fan per- The girls are not nak- ed, but nearly so. Very few nu- tive New Yorkers or people who have lived here for
sonic time frequent the places.
the tourist traps.
They
arc
The food is poor,
the liquor doubtful, but every night these little bespangled basements iure the customers.
There is no clean-up cam- paign such as I saw in New Or- leans. The Jokes are
blue and deep purple. The acts bawdy. or plain-clothas
If poilcemen detectives drop in I have seen them. The tumultuous city
not
Jurgely Ignores Futy-second Street-the sexiest thoroughfare in Manhattan.
Hollywood Axe
1
Hollywood continues to wield the axe with vigour. During the past
few months salaries have been cut savagely, and even the big names have been compelled to accept slashes.
The film city's backlog of un- released pictures, la very
big. According to Variety Magazine there are 147 flims worth £30,- 000,000 awaiting.
The stir caused by the showing and the withdrawal of Britain's
A Bakery lock-out, which has cut down bread supplies by 70 man isn't standing for any non-per cent also plagues the elly, "Oliver Twist" in Berlin still Not all the news is so grim. lingers on. It was a tremendous sense from anywhere. It's almost The conference, originally ox-like an election campaign again. that it is cutting the prices of idea is firmly implanted in Am- General Motors' announcement front-page story here, and the pected to last only a week when The President is breathing: fre ''
its cars by £10 to £2 10, has erican heads that the plcture is begun two months ago. Is not and tossing earthy language all
started to re-
trend. expected
re-assemble until round Washington (now they call from pina to planos is becoming
Everything and-Semitic. after the week-end.
If the "Swear Deal").
Chances of the showing of When It meets it still has fo
cheaper. His threat of making a fight-
"Oliver Twist" in American resolve the deadlock over the ing tour throughout the country again for the fourth
The living cost has dropped
cinemas could be further post- composition of the Germon to
straight poned by the hullabaloo in Ber- rouse the people against an- Supreme Court and the French other do-nothing, Congress is not Clothes
month, and the fall will continue. fin. the special idle. The President is bristling really slid." claim to continue
prices have and food
Business is a Iittle brisker French administration of the with belilgerence. The post- German Rhine port of Kehl, op- election honeymoon with
Con- A few months ago restaurant along Broadway in the theatres and cinemas und in the night posite Strassbourg-Reuter.
gress is definitely over, and the owners and the head wallers of clubs. bride and groom are hurling the Twenty One, The Pavilion, The and fresh young talent. There the Stork Club, El Morocco, But the town needs new names STALIN HOST. wedding presents at each other. Colony, Toots Shors, and less is not much about. The biggest TO KOREANS
exalled places were czars of the personalities of New York night Enjoying. Brawl
cafes and kings of the kitchen. life today are Mac West, in "Dia- Now even people who aren't mond Lil," which Radio Moscow said today that The voters are thoroughly en celebrities or sucker are wel here 20 years ago, and Tallulah first opened Stalin entertained at dinner at joying the brawl. They are egg-
comed by them. Food charges Bankhead in "Private Lives," the Kremlin the Government de-ing
on both sides, shouting in hotels like The Plaza, Ritz
which is almost as old. legation of the Korean People's "Creeping Socialist" or "Gallop Carlton, Sherry Netherlands, St.
From this FOOTNOTE:
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tance it looka as if the Con- Ave to ten per servatives are not only out of lolov, Gromyko and Vyshinaky worse at the Republicans i
luck but out of date. United Press.
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17.
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