Police Detail To Stand Watch As Hawaiian Sugar Due In New York
Drain On Dollar Reserves
London, August 10 'fic l Indon financial quarters believer day that New York
that the report
sunt collër Sterling Area- gold
would panbably fall by Fuction £100,000,000 duraig the current quarter would prove Fabetuntudly accinate,
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They renalled that forecasts from the Cati sentress last quar- tryed a tall of £70,880,000 were pover admired entirel when offi→ mal been rijsclusent a top of
the June 30 the Stenting Areas Deserye stood at 4404,000,000).
Any fin
lp at the rade Pressed today would mean that the godd and stolla vererves wendel t cately wipta out lay
31-x year
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Now York, August 18.
A special police detail will be on hand at a Brooklyn dock tomorrow for the arrival of the first cargo of Hawaiian sugar to reach the mainland since the CIO Longshoremen's striko started in the island 109 days ago.
The detail of 10 policemen and a sergeant will be alert for any signs of trouble should an attempt . be made to unload the cargo of the ss Steel
Flyer.
They were assigned to the job following reports that a group at
piekris nf the striking Inter-
Longshoremen's J Rational.
Lio Wwthousemen's Union
har bren Now here from Hawal to
lempt to prevent unloading Leaders of the East: Dockworkers Union, how ing a wage conference here, have pledged that they will urge their | members to
unlond
hold
Any ship From Dawid putting in at 201 Eastern port and have condem- Tred the Hawaiian dock strike as Communist-Tec
Clashes Feared
Syrian Still Very Much Alive
Beirut, August 18. Colonel Sammi Himetawi, 65-year- nid leadey at the Syrian coup d'etat in which President Husni Zatim was executed last week- txi, tonight denler reports of his own death.
Speaking to a reporter by tele- phone, he said, "Never felt better
in my life, nor in better security."
Rumours that the Syrian Army leader, who after the week-end roup turned the Government över to the former President Hashem Atassi Pasha, had been shot in re- prisul for the execution have been
current in Cairo for several days,
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, 1949.
DON
No one has told me yet to keep my fingers out of the ti. I have not been asked to move along when standing outside United States Treasury.
IDDON'S
DIARY
but the place hasn't changed.
The iden WAS to keep down It is probably the most Im drinking in the capital. It hasn't portant and Influential city on succeeded. There is more drink- theearth just now, yet it hardly looks | Ing per capita in Washington
the part.
than anywhere else in the world.
The white House is atlli wide open to
a Press anyone with cord and the silver is not hid- den or the furniture лailed to
siphaning off several
New York dwarfs, Chiengo Cocktail parties
There are Los
has far move vitality, Philadel-
more culture, phis has the floor when a visiting Eng-Angeles more glamour, and Fort Knox has the gold. But all of shman drops in.
them and all the world look to After
Washington. billion dollars we are still wel- in the capital of the United States,,
atas, although Sona- tors tell me that the present British Government in not go
come
more.
yashington ni Wants paying guests. Everyone and his grand- mother, except the Russians have lined up here holding out their hands and their hats. Usually we have been
of at the head
the
It is here, in this stemming tree- lined, marble-pillared Southern that the decisions are made. country town of 1,200,000 people
This authority gone to its head. Washington has few airs and graces.
When you stop out of the train at the Union Station opposite the the Capitol you great dome of aro bundled into a taxi along with three
or four strangers
trivaller, cannot have a
perpetual cocktail parties at Embassies, Legations, restaurants, in private and public rooms. The city rides « tidal wave of Highballs, Martinis, Manhat tans,
Old-fashioneds, Daiquiris,
Rum Punches, Mint Julepe, Plan tar's Punches.
And according to a local survey women are drinking more than John Tristani, maitra men. d'hotel of the Wardman Park, says: "At private parties it's not rare for a woman to have 10 to 15 drinks an evening."
women are
www.
Others say that Washington getting "drunkener and drunkener." This generalisa
We have been theregulus destination is near your tion is unfair, for tona of thou
queue. romittance men, staked, financed; set up in business over and over again.
And always we have turned up with the same worn alibi: "The Capitalist money just slipped through our Sociallat fingora- now another little loan wouldn't do us any harm."
Washington's Answer "Nothing doing."
A Cool Drink
singlo one thing every Senator and Congressmau hero wants to do is to go home. They are sick of the baked and burning capital, tired of their sweating little hotel rooms, weary of the
It was feared that. should the CIO union men attempt tu Interfere with
The unloading, clashes might break out with the AFL dockers who control Sa Staford Crapan, at a press
East Coast
operations. Following
the - --
Meanwhile, in San Franeisen, Just qouters
(10) Longshoremen Headquarters lestes, fold newsmen that he exortay incest that CEO suga preted the chain to cutioun at
workers in North Atlantic states: dog the Erst pew weeks but would refuse frast
10 han le few, if any, outside of tal vireles
shipment from strike-bound espected Eliot d would rumtimon
The longshoremen Hawaii an even higher safe fut full
gured that they had recrived there mostly.
the following telegram from Meyer Stern, director of District Six of the CIO United Packing- Bouse Worked
Difficult To Cut
10culty in coacting the 25 fr cent cut in Britain's dollar Import programee may be Partly responsible for today's Gloomy forecast. Many of the cuts will apparently not begin to operate until the end of the year
Others, for example the purchase 01 aluminium from
Canada, are proving extremely difficult for Britain to work at
i without laying herself open to the accusation of breaking contracts.
Probably, however. The largest fnelor will eventually be found to be continued hold-up of
United States purchases of Ster- ling Area garis in the belief that
3 hove just advised all susir locats in this district to refuse to handle flawałian sugar, Local 400 at Boston has already re- plied and advised me that they will let De sugar rot before re-
1. I expect that other locals will follow suit"-United Press.
Meanwhile it is reported from Damascus that a 30-mem-humid legislative chambers. They ber committee has been nomin- want to recess,
to to gut back ated to draft a new Constitu their "constituencles," mend their tion for Syria, it was learned political fences, and take a long,
officially here today.
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announeed after Was
the coup last Sunday that a Constitu- ent Assembly would be elected to draw up the Constitution.
The Committee's draft will be subject to ratification by the new Parlament,
new
Syrja The
Premmer. Bustem Atasat, told a Turkish
press delegation today that Syria's
relations with Turkey were most friendly, and that the new Cabi-
net did not intend to diminish the current strong ties between the two countries.-Reuter.
Bombs Explode In Forest Fire
La Rochelle, France, August 15.
Sterling devaluation ust happen Twelve thousand aircraft bombs dispersed round
3001.
Unofficia! London financial quarters hope that the Washing- ton discusions curly onxt montli will prove sufficiently successfui to give renewed confidence is Sterling- whatever level.- Reuter.
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Bedonca-Bussac Airfield in the Charente Mari- time Department of South Western France were exploding one by one today as a forest fire swept through pine woods surrounding the airfield.
Huge columns of smoke rose as 450-lb. bombs exploded. The explosions could be heard 30
miles away.
Between 7,000 and 8.000 tons
of explosives were reported be in the dump.
All
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available troops and forest fire-Bghters in the region were summoned to the spot and fre brigades in Bordeaux, La Rochelle, Rochefort and Saintes were alerted.
plane circled over the area directing the operations by radio, At La Rochelle, North East of forest Marseilles, still another Are, fanned by strong winds, was being fought by Air Force men, Aremen and civilians,
The evacuation_ of women and children from a radius of six miles round La Rochelle Airfield was ordered and gendanne; re- quisitioned all available vehicles to get them away.
Traffic was stopped on
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Only President Truman's insistence and their scr.s0 of political responsibility are keep- ing the crumpled, exhausted, over- at their job, worked lawmakers but they are half-hearted about it. They have lost the inclination ment much farther. Every man in
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taxi to himself.
If you are unfortunate enough not to got
an air-conditioned room than you roast and swelter and sizzle in the climate in the world.
worst summer
on
the
The
sands of the ment typists and Gov- ernment workers who decorate town and outnumber men by two to one cannot afford the liquor.
Night life is sprightlier than it appears |
the surface. cocktail lounges
and saloons are All your time in Washington is spent jostling the multitudes. supposed to close at 2 am, and most of them do, but Washington The capital, now full of tourists, is always crowded and has been is dotted with afterhour drinking since the frenzied war days, when clubs where imbibers have their the city was called
supposed to the only on bottles or are lunatle asylum ran by the in-have. The bottle party is as big an
institution as it is in London,
The President looka Over a quarter of the popula- tion are Negroes, and wherever ordinarily fit and confident.
the other day. drivo
a Press stately along the
Cazzlin he was in
form, throwing avenues, past the great concreto
off wisecracks like sparks. Government buildings and
He's bronzed, lean, and bubbling grandiose memorials, you nee the coloured folk.
with good humour. He obviously
liberties of the New York Negro.
They are not granted the ravels in his job.
This
is the South, süh, and the their coloured had better keep place.
mates.
you
The slums are as bad as Lon. don's East End, and they're not limited to one section of the city.
They have spread like a plague. fere the Negroes and a wnatter- ing of "poor whites" live.
President
huif vilice here, from the
The city which finances down, is an anti-Socialist. There the world, which pours out money the by the billion, hasn't bothered to Cabinet or on the Congressional appropriate a few dollars for a Committees.
pot of point and a bit of timber for its own impoverished.
No Socialists There are no Socialists in the White House, the Treasury, the War and Navy Departments, or the Senate, and only a doubtful handful with Labour leonings in the State Department and the House of Representatives itself.
Almost all the politicians here awe their positions to lifelong adherence to the Capitalist system and B lifelong opposition to Socialist schemes. They have nothing in common politically with Britain's Labour Govern- mont.
There are no deep friendships between members of the Ameri can Cabinet and the British Cabinet. Exchanges of personal, there intimate notes, such as wero between
Roosevelt and Churchill do not take place roads in the area, electele cur
between Truman and Attlgo. rent was cut off, and railway
Dean Acheson hardly knows traffic between Bordeaux nd
Ernest Bevin Secretary to the La Rochelle was interrupted.
is the Treasury John Snyder Trains wore stopped outside
direct antithesis of Sir Stafford the danger zona.
Cripps. The bombs, of American origio,
Louis Secretary of Defence Bedenne- htt been stored at Bassac since the end of the war.
Johnson isn't acquainted with Mr. Shinwell. Aneurin Bevan The Prefect of the Department had several times asked for them hasn't got a pal along the entire to be removed,
Polomuc.
strangers, and
An hour after the first explo- Whitehall and Washington are about the only slon two fire engines and three
reason they nod when they see lorry leads of troops left Bor- deaux, followed by other troops each other is their mutual fear of from neighbouring military air- Russia. fields and from Bordeaux Itself.
Help WAS also sent from
Cogane.
General Chassin, Air Force Commander of the region, whs directing operations from Bor- deaux. Reuter.
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People of Washington are not allowed to stand at bars to drink unless they happen to be members of the Press Club, which has not merely bars but brass rails for your feet. Otherwise, drinking must be done sitting in cocktail lounges or in one's own quarters.
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The big local sensation here is the purchase of the thriving
Washington Timer Herald" newspaper by Colonel Bertle Mic- Cormick, the old Britain-balter.
The colonel has put his hand- some 28-year-old niece, Mrs. Max- Well Miller, in charge, but he is
the boss
and
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"I've been
trying for a long time to get into Washington
the United States. Now I'm sending the. United States to Washington."
His acquisition of the "Wash ington Times Herald incans an- other shrill anti-British voice in the capital.
HEARD AROUND TOWN: France is making her comeback in complete anarchy, while Eng- land is going down in perfect order.
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