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THE NEW HITLERS.
Twenty million puzzled. Germans rubbed their oyca when they read in their news- papers, that Britain was all steamed-up about their food 32312 coming off the ration
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MCFADZEAN-To Professor and Mrs. McFadzean, on 22nd February, 'at til Queen Mary Hospital, a daughter,
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By Antony Teay!
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But he rushed Adenauer into out of a population of 40 million. the de-rationing: announcement Bome think Germany, 1 living little too fast and the Allied, High far beyond her means for a Commissioneri reminded him bomb-amushed, ruined country. Most amazed or all were thosharply that; they, sill have a Ray German, housewives, who, for th Cermany's
But Germans have hope economic life, the past year," have been leaving
Governmen this Junt started their ration books in the kitchen Now it is up to Adenouer ta ten-year building-proprim drawer when they went out alop convince the British, and, especi, which plans to great four million ping.
ally, the Americans, who pay the houses by 1000. They are put |Bill; that "Germans are not (na ting up 250,000 houses this year Germans who read... Mr. many suspect).
eating their Strachey's Ust of, "exorbitant | Marshall Ald: food prices" in Germany rang me punk
up and asked: "Doesn't your But In the meantime, the Food Minister know he is quot- average German' is working hard, ing the prices of rationed foods is living better than at any time In Germany before the de- since the war, and is grateful for ratloning announcement brought a chance to do so. them down-by 30 per cent in How does the average German's adrie 'cases?"
life compare with his counterpart in Britain?
The fuss that has followed Premier, Adenauer's, premature de-rationing announcement las mystifled most Germans, Who know, that food has been off the ration in everything but the name for more than a year,
CAREY-AL Queen
All that well-meaning Adenauer Charlottes Hospital, London, an
Feb-wanted to do was to save print
Ing millions of ration cards, that ruary 21st, 1950, to Joon (nge Gregory) wife of RM. Carey, no one was going to use, As nowa a son, Patrick Ronald. Bath well.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
WEW MANA) an if
Fookes, FOOKES, Mrs. Lola
wklow of the late Mr. B. Fooke wishes to express grateful thanks to all who tendered sympathy and as- sistance in her and beredve ment,
.
DR. JESSUP IN DELHI
£4 to spend
miner.
HA
Growing gang
A
BUCCESS.
Backed when the joch ment found out, Be Parliament and won
Fanatical
All mail and rare(males).
I.... noted with considerable interest, yesterday, that DOACT chaliman arrived" herë "allend of
Barder
Richter: represents the millions time. Yes-1 "sald "ahtpd". of Nazl-minded Germans who time."
still yearn for the good old daya ander the chror, with
People near the Russlan Germany, over-running Europe, in Turkey, have boon excitad is sewly-formed Reich Party by a long cred cloud on the cialms miftion:
supporters, horizon. We have precisely, the
samo
trouble in this part of the Many of them come from the world. British Zone, and are fanatical
Me and fovica, Hitler supporters even now. Myrtos arandfather saya he has
What with toxop and
and probably has more.
Richter knows he can, count on
The money is, voted, the plan will absorb, many workless, and their support and the support of no Interest in the British election, one can rely on it that the Germillions more Germans long but ho thinks a Tory win would mant wal Work hard to make the ho continues to demand a new be capital. *
German army, a
greater Reich, M scheme
Chao I know, in Toky? Was and goes on, talking, about, Ger- Meanwhile, fostering the latest many never having lost the war. recently offered a bottle labelled
"Scatch Wrisky". Nag-wagging, · jack-boot- menta Fertile soil for men like Richtor
lly of the Germans, is a growing the oight million refugees wouldn't take the wrisk..
He was wise, however, und gang of would-bo: Hitlers, pro from the Soviet Zone and what minent among whom is, school new Poland. Dispossessed, master M.P. Dr. Franz Richter, bitter, they have nothing to lose complete even to the moustache.
Take а Ruhr average wage is £7 a week; rent for two rooms, £1; lighting and Well-meaning, British educay violence and they hope they fuel, 10; health insurance and tors in Germany thought Richter have something to gain, tax, £110.; so that he has £4, a súltable' subject for a month's"," left to spend.
speelat
Omch Re-educa Germans 'at Wil
With meat now at 2s.. 1d, per at the Forritish tion"-course el off-rationing reached. the Jb., bullar Js. 6d. per lb., sugar tion Centre" for
goods began to appear on (sull officially rationed) 10d, per ton Park, Bucke the counter. The process started by currency, reform; 18 months ngo was complete.
shops,
Let no one be in any doubl there is plenty of food in West Germany.
Home-grown meat production will give all Germans 18, oz. of unrationed meat at open market prices every week during 1980 last year, under rationing, they could get only "12: oz.); eggs; are arbund 20. each. In the shops
And not only, food, is plentiful. Radio sets are to be had on instal- ments from £15 upward, and
has although Germany no tele- vision yct, there is talk of bulld Inga transmitter within the next
years:
Some quiet wisdom will no doubt be found at the end of the twisting and turning road along which the non-Com-trol and free economy," Dr.
Germany's apostle of "no cona
Ludwig Erhardt... Minister of
to, and bacon Șs. 4d. per lb., life Unfortunately 11 Richter: spent is not cheap. Shopping
for an average family there!
Outnumbered;
Richter has hopes of forming them into a new German Wehr- macht to re-conquer the "lost German territories.'
A nasty Sassenach, type suggests that the reason Scotsmen intre so well to the bagpipes is that they're trying to get away from the sound.
formimitless information.
I tec a US court in Germany. has rehtenced a soldier, to 20 years imprisonment, and also to be discharged from
'from the Army.
Some women, says o beauty Others just run to fat.
collecting news Paper
Hlutir secreti of three In West Germany costs weapons pever Bot beyond But fortunately outnumbering £30 week.
fitte
themile still a large proportion of l'expert, run to 'slinį, Result: few,
Germans have Back in his village school, war-weary men and women, who money for clothes, especially when Richter taught the children no eke out a living in the holes left
democracy, but made them chant hy bombs. a moderate sult costs £20,
Worrying the economists are "Germany would have won the the steeply rising unemployment war it her secret weapons had figures, now nearly two million been ready, sooner."
Russia and the Antarctic
Russia is beginning to, in
agreement betwoon Britain and
munist nations are making geonomics, is the man who herest herself in the Antarctic. these South American nations.
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The Russians will seek a sector
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By Edward Bishop
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Britain active
They do not sce, the luxury restaurants which are springing up in the big Ruhr cfiles. Nor do they see the fun of fighting another war. All they want is enough food to
cal ;
And one can understand why they support Premier Adenauer, who has managed to give it "to" them, though, the bill, has not yet kpen" presented.
New Munich
Mantless Röger.
Roger,
Our lodger,
Eats piled-up plates
Of peas and beans And nuts and dates.
Muys it's quite in creer: She calls him our herbaceous
Boarder
"Grenades at funeral," No, my bpy, it wasn't Manila or Saigon. They, have their
ments
blea downdependence move-
in Asmara Too Bureaucratia Peter Pan.
But since "Red agents among When Russia starts to stir up their slow, and thoughtful ruled the shops and got Premier the white wastes would be as cone trouble. I doubt whether this
British civil service applicants way. Much of it will perhaps Adenauer to the point where he spicuous's blood on showman's peace will hat lang. These
were asked to write an essay on be derived from Dr. Jessup's was prepared to announce the nose, the Kremlin will advance tations have had their eyes on
A new look-the building of or course they do, and especially whether they belloved in fairles. Russia's territorial claims through the Antarctic for years, and it meeting with Pandit Nehru in end of rationing.
United Nations channels with may amuse them to have a well- over 7,000 new shops-is in fairy godmothers-the hard- New Delhi, for this will be the
Veneer of legality."
backed opportunity for poking fun transforming bomb-battered working, long-suffering taxpayers. most fateful of all the Ameri- the same lines as General
at the "British Lion, .: in Japan can Ambassador's talks since MicArthur,
Munich into one of Ger- in the Southern ice-cap. Not Meanwhile, it is well to under-many's most attractive post art of keeping a horse between Myrtle says that riding is the he began his tour of Asia. His would give direction and sup; Because they visit to rescue stand the armunds upon which
yourself and the ground. approach to it has been very port to the Aisan nations con minority of polar bears which Britain, claims rights over these war shopping centres.
Christopher. Phillips reports]||||| tactful The Communist cerned. Non-Communist
that this burst of "enthusiastic threat to South-East Asia, he Asians want to be on the side
shop building promises to be aro of Bavaria's most important, re- said, is very real. But his of the United States, he as
constructioj moves ridice this war, task was to find out what the serted. This is precisely what
With an eye to this year's countries concerned them-Dr. Jessup is trying to find
won't be happy until they receivof dependencies. They follow the tourist trade the Bavarian au selves wished to have. They out and without the dubious their full rights as Goviet bears usual International practice thorities, have Alled in most of might seek cultural, military help of preconceived convicor any such nonsense.. Not," This is: 1. Discover the territory the gaps torn by Allied bombs. Now, long rows' of large win- covet.aunex it formally, by letter dowed single floor modern shops imagine because they and political assistance, and if tions:" they made such requests, President Quirino, who has thousands of square miles of joy batent 3. administrata,
give the city an almost prosperous is of america would consider them; taken the lead in the attempt on their own door stopposi There was a recent example of air. Nor is it nordly, an on the He added that no actual de- to create a Pacific Pact, has winter. Territorial ambition is this technique shortly before surface." look of prosperity.
Christmas, 1047, when the South Visiting the new shops, in cision had been made at the stated that He is against any not the answer.
African frigate Transvaal left Munich, tourists will find it the Bangkok Conference
attempt to link South-East The answer, to by mind, lies in Capetown, para secret mission, traders of Munich have worked The worst possible policyAstro a military alliance, the Kremlin's clever policy of Then, if January, 1940, it was hard to put their very best, selec- would be to try and impose because he refuses to involve ringing, the changes, among the pnounced that the Transvaal's tons forward There is plenty of everything and in the confoo- trouble spots First you organisé mladion:"had"bailed to дпрохо upon Asian countries any sort his country, in any war-ex-a bit of bother in Nigeria, then Pimbo Edward Island in the tresy shops richest of cakes. Everything from Khellgs- of aid or alliance, they do not oept, presumably, pre of sheer you switch, to the Gold Coast South Indian Ocean. ****
berg marzipan 10: Limz Larts and seek. It would be more than self-defence. He wants the Meanwhile, you keep Malaya
Nuremberg-honey-caka › metely futile it would be Pact limited to purposes of warm and Juggle up the odd dock
rationed and prices are striko, in. Australia. And all th fatal. Next in order comics cultural, political, and econo- of course, is ancillary to major
abla, In Antarctica, Captain Cook Explain the Bavarian sha aid that cannot be turned to mic, co-operation Problems underground developments effective use but will be of defence would, of course, Europe and let va face it took passession of South Georgia keepers: "Our motto has
and the South Sandwich group in Retail or Die." In the factorses, ' the" Brita
With Munich's shop's 1775. South Shetland was dis-1 merely squandered or simply come within the special ar-
mines, the docks..
covered and taken possession by totalling 20,000 for outs turned over to the other side. rangements deriving from the
Captain William Smith in 1819, of 800,000 and with' It would be better to wait for close relations, between the
stresmlood countin two or three years rather than Philippines and the United Strange doings.
Powell in 1821. - › The
the Falklandotter huge supplie patent for out comments that there bem.
commodities; our corr witness another repetition, in States
Exactly two years ago dependencies Burma or Siam or anywhere That seems to provide a February, 1948 there were soine on July 21, 1908 and amended on few signs of this cise in Aria, of the China ex-reasonable basis for the time extraordinary. Internationini hap- March 26, 1917.. perience
being, and oven Pandit Nehru pening way down Sour in the me A global view cannot ignore could hardly sde much objec-blows worse than a few snowballs only visitors to the dependeheles Antarctic - As, It turned out no· Uniui 50 or 60 years ago, the the balance kept by the in-tion to it, in spite of his refusal were exchanged, but the "Inci were explorers, scalars, and finitely stronger position of to be aligned with any ideo-dents had the makings of real whalers. But for the past the free democracies in West-logical bloc. The military trouble.
Hot Brie Governor of the 5. hhà been -- tetivo ern Europe when considering pins still remains in the For the Kremlin, nothing, would „Falkland Islands makes an annual their weaknus "in the Far purely doméstic, spheres. No be simpler than for professional roquine visit, southwards, ' and East. Ifirless solid than frontiers have been crossed by trouble organisers to relise hot travelling magistrates visit the it seems, who shall say that organised boules of troops, Passions over the cold continent, islands, where the last oficial (because it would be a matter of consus reported only 708, men and the claffis now being ad- mild it is hardly likely it will rousing South American feelings, one women to be living, vanced for the Communist happen in the near future, which traditionally mapa bloc in the Far East are more even in search of rice. It is predictable asta conger direct solid? Strength at the top possible It will he Hatiper and weakness below are apt to Meanwhile, the three peaceful Britain, har a great Interest, in Antarcile 1. Degause of her cancel each other out, and objects on which Président the pretence is never an efective Quiting would base co-opera the Parkland Islands and the sym
colonial Bossensions, in the arogan substitute for truth.--
tion are quite enough to go bh Falkland dependencies, At this ago she issued o colourful poslaga The--interventionists are with
moment, there prozornia i hap stamp On the face of the stamp thrusting out their diminished A Fact on such lines-would penings in the far South which there is a map which embraces bring the Antarctigʻ romantically the Argentine Antarctic sector." ichins and clamouring for ac-attract für wide öğmberthigfins, the fibwa. *
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