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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 1980.
"LITTLE PARIS" BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN
Budapest, Hungary's capl- tal, is today one of Europe's gayest cities, a little Paris be- hind the Iron Curtain.
Gipsy orchestras and jazz bands play
from smart cafes on the banks of the Danube, and in res- taurants where food in pre-war abundance ia served in the famous highly-spiced Hungarian
Before the
-By David Lee-
Already they are being
forced
Good Mornings
to sell their produce at unecono- | Datustons of grandour, mic prices to the co-operatives. "Man gaoled for impersonating Now, the Hungarian Communist public servant." government plans to take away Myrtle thinks he is more in the land they gave to the pea- need of psychiatric treatment. sants, and set up collective farms,
With
than half the more
working on the land, Cammes are population Hungary's Stalin, Matyas Rakes, (called by the peasants, "Bur- gonya Fetu", potato head") will have to take strong measures to enforce collectivisation.
war all this rich, middle-class with nationalisation earth was in the hands of a few of all businesses employing more fabulously wealthy land-owners; than four people. Small one-man one half of the productive soil of businesses found it impossible to
of obtain raw materials or supplies Russian-style. Hungary was in the hands
2,000 people. about
to compete with the government A post-war land reform pro- co-operatives,
up the largo At present the ordinary worker gramme broke estates, and some 700,000 poor, is not badly off. He carns a good
found landless peasants
them-wage and gets cheap food and
the factory In latest urchin cut and newest selves overnight owners of small clothes from
operatives. Paris "looks", throng the wide, forms, boulevards that are ablaze with neon lights and crammed large cars,
style.
be
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attendance at the funeral and floral tributes on the occasion of their sad bereavement.
CRIPPS SAYS NO The core of the Budget speech by the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Tuesday
of
Attractive Hungarian
Furope. Slace
worhen,
Although most parties support- Com- with the programme, the
munists took credit for the land
Food plentiful
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He
On
Nationalist
general says the Chusan trying to opportune moment for their next
invasion.
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"Horror aims blamed for dental trouble."
Tooth 'em that hath shall be
AR is Stillwell.
"Tokyo Boy Sent To U.S. To
munists seized power three yea pick up. Also, for their "re- member of a Communist organi-hile the gipsy orchestras Remove Peanut."
is not unprepared. street corner, in pairs, every
the brown-uniformed are seen security police. Hungarians today chillin." Yet Hungary is well behind reform scheme, and won a tem-
finest street. Food is plentiful, and reason- avoid Budapest's the Iron Curtain, in the heart of porary popularity with the pea-
abiy-priced for the Hungarian Andrassy Boulevard, for it is now Russian-controlled Eastern Gants.
This move wiped out Hungary's worker. But there is a anag; to the home of the AVD, the Com- rich. Today former land-owners hold a job you need a red card. munist secret
police, the Hungarian Com~
work at any odd Job they can To obtain that you must be a
to play for Hungary's Easy now, G'mo. This isn't a ago
they have purposely kept up education," they must "volun- sation. Without · A Job a man new aristocracy, the highly-paid new attempt to oust you from the
Communist bossca and this gay front.
wives and Main reason was for Budapest teer" to go out every day for three cannot use the co-operatives and
hours to act as an attractive show ng song subscriptions for the must buy on the outside market fashionably-dressed
Worker" where bacon costs seven times as lady-friends, still giving Budapest window for Communism to Wes "Szabadt Nep",
Hungarian
a Western look. much as in the co-operatives, and tern Europeans, who have found Free People").
where a plece of soap costs three visit it easier to obtain vises to
times as much. Hungary than for any other satel lite country.
Then the Reds wished to curry favour with the pleasure-loving Hungarians while they carried out first phases of the munist plan for Hungary,
Com-
Honeymoon over
which
means
Next the Communista an- nihilated the industrial rich and
Now it is the peasants'
They make
turn.
But there is every that the Hungarian is almost over.
their U.N.
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It is becoming increasingly indication evident that, in round numbers, who honeymoon the people in the Colony
don't mind
total paying taxci
000,000.
rain over NY
make rain
the
Two small clouds over New, plane, The plane will 'sced' The pilot will case his planef over a fat cumulus cloud, and Mexico which Doctor Langmuir cloud with dry ice and from then seven pounds on we hope, the waterproof and at the touch of a trigger will sprinkled with Today the Hungarian honey-bombard it with a tiny shower worth of silver lodide smoke last the umbrella will come into their of the sky- moon is almost over, and the gay of white pellets. A few hours summer, produced in the same owa on the streets country is being rapidly moulded
Exactly how a cloud can boj more some 320 thousand million into the dull, hard life of a Com- later, the parched land below day enough rain to all them and scraper elly, munist satellite.
will be hissing with rain. That gallons altogether.
made to rain was originally quite clear, but so many experiments have produced contradictory re- sults that no scientist will now coms
The half-gay, half-sad gipsy music barely drowns the growing murmur of discontent from nine. million Hungarians, This is one of
is what Mayor O'Dwyer of New York,hopes, anyway.
was given in a single charac- the Hune of the reasons why with the plating position
a
of
By
John Jarrett
himself to explain how it
Basically the
still
procedure
of water
•
Blake sentenced for burgling on amusement park's takings is believed to be a Luna tiek.
4
no
The bee is such a busy soul; He has
time for birth control. And that is why In times like
these There are so many sons-of-bres.
Agency report from Taipeh evinces surpris0 that the Nationalists" "smashing victory" In Hainan was
longer no "The silence, BOYA mentioned.
•
being
It's
"
Lays heavy rain can be don't like conditions in the world's
For six months now. New York has been running neck and neck of water- Communist Gov- rationing, a
the writer, "was ominous." and
I Doctor Langmuir says his 'dry depends on the fact that a cloud
wouldn't say that. now changed its in, the land of plenty, teristic sentence. All the at-ernment has
world's the
vapour fee' should take the credit, but is collection In this official city tractive suggestions put for former moderate attitude to Bri- chief executive
legitimate imprisoning
biggest dry-patch
weather
droplets are bureaus
held in suspension. The probably just that the KMT feels ward for remission of taxes, British businessman, and da spring of 1950, William O'Dwyer sceptical. The terrible thing about dry lee seeded in the cloud has you shouldn't fool all of the said Sir Stafford Cripps, must manding the reduction of the Bri- has been thirstly seeking relief trying to prove the value of rain- the effect of freezing these drop- agencies all of the time.
jets. and the cloud then releases be firmly set to one side. Hetish legntion which is, the Hun- for his loudly complaining charge, making in that someone can al-
them. Doctor Irving Langmuir, garlan Communists allege, a cen-
On their way downwards Pasa manis. ways turn round afterwards and did mark down income-tax
of espionage.
Nobel Prize-winning scientist has say: "Well, it looked like rain if the temperature is right-they rates for the lower groups by The
The Hungarian Communists long claimed that artificial rain-
anyway," Science has not yet melt into rain.
With Ideal conditions Doctor sixpence and a shilling. This want the West's diplomats to making is the answer to drought, been able to prove the opposite. leave the country before they and, to the extent of voting some in effect means lower taxesnck down on the peasants, and £20,000 for six months of re for men who work overtime,
with that
it, New York's military preparations periment and is therefore an incentive against Yugoslavia may be car-civic authorities have been per« to more production rather Hed out in secret.
sunded by him. than an actual relief.
The Russians in Hungary are New York's reservoirs hold at For the rest, it is the mix- already reported to be lengthen-present about half the water they and metalling strate should. A little while ago, they ammunition up the Danube. and a muddy ground at the bot- Russian officers have been in- fom of the small reservoirs was
Into the Hungarian being played in by small boys. troduced
rmy down to battalion level.
This military activity is seen as being aimed at Marshal Tito's Yugoslavia. In the event of on attack,
from Hungary
RD
•
Secmi that, after several decades, the International Trans- port Workers have decided they
No quibbling
anywhere at a cost of third largest merchant navy, seven and six for every
Another cold war, with a coffin 40,000 Those it. However, New York is worried square miles rained on. enough not to quibble, and two ideal conditions are not easy to water department engineers and And. Moreover, few scientists are a met. expert are setting up field happy at being forced to play headquarters on top of some local with clouds before they know all
clouds, If they
want to know about what and when they, spot a likely one they are doing.
If
smoke is dropped silver (on the right sort of duy), they
"Before you accopt their walling or fired (yes, the pellets can be invitation," a friend warned me. will 'phone orders to a
fired from a Verey pistol) in the think you ought to know wrong part of the Eloud, then they've just had three reels of
preventative may even have a
cine films of the baby returned effect and # cloud that was about
ture as before, with an intys as well as moving were down to one third capacity, mountains to watch
crease here and there in the less palatable ingredients. In- dustrialists presented with fat "cumshaw" cheques are to deliver half the amounts to the State in a retroactive measure.
Ric
forces The tax on petrol would be the spearhead to ad- goes up, but the ration goes up vance across the flat plains to with it. Food subsidies are towards Belgrade. stay as they are, so the onus Hungary fell into the lap of the of breaking the "wage freeze" Communtata, while licking its will remain with the rebels war wounds, without the average who have been trying to kick Hungarian realising it. As men
bers of a coalition government over the traces. More houses in 1947, the Reds soon swallowed -are-to-be-built as a result of the other parties, starting with the restoration of the building the Socialists, and have reigned cuts made during the econo my wave. That is about the only concession made to the electorate, in what was ex-
more he has refused to play politics and has shown those
sinice.
Biggest asset
Hungary is
В mostly
asset
Millions abroad are in the Scots family
By William Power
we were not looking about us.
folk.
But
Deeply based
the
"What makes those red marks
"Glasses." on your nose?"
"How many?"
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to rain will not do so. On the from the developers." other hand, If the section of cloud that is treated is chemically ready to be triggered, then only two pellets will be suficient to create a fairly heavy rain.
Pro and Con
In the few cases where rala making has been completely suc-
According to Euckd, one line never touches parallel another. Who'd be a parallel line?
heating a drought in any part- create a cular territory might drought elsewhere. On the inter-
and vegetable des
lawsults
a commer-
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Late on a summer evening, actual problems and the danger ago, four young of her becoming merely "ane many years
and a geographical Scots were standing close-to-auld sang" "gether on the deck-of-a-little expression... upriver steamer on the Thames. A An almost solitary figure was cessful, there have already been national scale thero-could-be------
is complications. The repercussions Three were employed in Lon- Theodore Napier, a well-off Scot-Indications that not everyone
immense, involving tish sheep-farmer in Australia, going to say thank you. Farmers, could be
and don; I was on a visit.
political We had enjoyed our day's who came home to fan the dying as always, will be divided; the civil
against, and
over "ownership" crop ramble in the storied pleasances flame of Scottish patriolism. He soft fruit growers
be One thing is certalo. If this growers for, Car-washers will pected to be, but is not, an rolling plain. Its biggest around Richmond and Staines, was duly ridiculed by "sensible" the "electioneering" Budget. is the rich black soll of its farm- but we had forgotten all that, and
few years before the pleased and outdoor sports pro- rainmaking becomes sensed a change. A friend moters furious.
proposition it will open up a lands. Hungary's rod peppers We were crooning old Scots war,
of mine in South Africu, who had It is obvious, too, that a cloud big feld for bad advertising. No worth It is impossible to begrudge (paprikas), Ane fruits and grape songs to one another, and talking been one of that little group on ariifically made to disgorge rain airborne publicity agent the Chancellor the admiration from which comes the potent as if in a collective dream, about
country hia he deserves for his cold, un-sweet Tokay wine, are famous Tweedside and the Highlands, everything he could lay hands on might later on have given that the chance of accompanying the
the Thames steamer, was reading over one part of the
expense account would miss compromising courage. Once throughout Europe.
Claverhouse and the '45.-
That kind of thing was and is about the National Movement in rain quite normally to another deluge his Arm has created with
Scotland and asking me why the part of the country.
a sky-written flourish for all to echoed, thousands of times over, Scots people were not taking One area could be accused of see: "Whatever your politics, we Spartan qualities of severe this truly magnificent achieve-in all the lands throughout which proper charge of their own coun-stealing another orea's rain, and reign over you."" rectitude which have taken ment. The pound ster- Scotland's exiles are scattered. try.
Wherever two or three Scots by
From many other Scots there him to the fore, and dope so ling is back again as the birth or parentage arg
gathered much to maintain and inspire world's chief commercial cur- together, they form a Burns Club have been communications of a
similar kind. the same qualities among the rency, and it is going farther or Caledonian Society and hold hard-pressed British taxpayer. yet. Britain can take solid the appropriate festivals, with
rites It The battle of recovery is as pride in what has already all the traditional
said that the actual or possible stern in its way as any of the been achieved, and regard adherents number nearly 20 What we at home. had failed to realise was that the Scottish wars the nation has fought, with confidence its ability to millions
The Sects are the most clannish sentiment of the Scots abroad and even more fateful in its surmount the further trials
word indicates that must come with increas of people ago. The clan system the affairs of their adopted coun- was deeply based. But they had consequences.
the main reason. The reward is on its way.ed competition.
was once universal in Scotland, tries to attend to
and they as Britain at the moment is in A £4,000 million Budget, surviving even under feudalism. perhaps without sufficient
that Scots at kome-w
e-were overall balance, and probably nevertheless, is a staggering We all belong to historic clans or
after homeland affairs. has an overall surplus, with sum. There is a ceiling on the families, which mean
thing; hence the interest of Scots. There may also have been a the rest of the world. Deva-food subsidies, and the Na-
feeling, in some quarters, that a luation, said the Chancellor, tional Health Ministry has
national revival was hopeless, and that Scotland was only an ances- has gone better than expect been told that it must not Welding Influence
tral ed. Exports for the first quar- again exceed its Estimates.
memory and a "country of the mind ter of the year were 10 per But the country still suffers And there
are is also the welding
There are signa already that cent, above those of the first from over-administration, and and inspiring influence, unique in recent events in Scotland have quarter of 1949 and are still there appears to be no at- the world, of Burns, the most awakened a new hope and on expanding. Receipts from tempt at all to cut down the national and most international up-to-date interest among Scots throughout the world To them visible exports for 1950 may immense structure of bureau-of poets. reach £2,000 millions-some cracy built up during and In the utterances. of her entias the national coming alive of Scot-
since Culloden
em, love of Scotland land must seem a thrilling mir- £200 millions more than last after the war. The Chancellor takes on a wistful polguancy. One acle, like that of Galatea in year. Though imports cost has had to provide for heavy can almost forget James Mhor old Grock tale. Scottish occasions celebrations will take on more, it is hoped to convert demands from the spending roads, bis dying ostiest form aut parte
request a set an overall trade deficit of £70 Departments, and in view of of pipes with which to console
topical
exiles will respond to the Nell invitation fr million into an overall surplus the international situation himself to prophetle of about £50 million this nothing can be done just now
moving poem. They will literature, the note te year. The dollar reserves are to cut down on the armed sounded in anonymous poemia come in their thousands to see, of nation- Hike the Canadian Boat Bong, and not a more cenotaph still low, but higher than a services,
by exiles like Goddes, Emollett, hood-not merely the ruined year ago, and dollar sales But on the whole, the Bud-Layden, Pringle; Cunningham, homes of the vanished races now exceed the rate of dollar get speech shows the rising Stevenson, Reid, Charles Murray, but live continuing Scotland, earnings before devaluation health and strength of the na- Frederick Niven organising itself for a worthy
there [[national futura- tion, its courage and fortitude,Yearly, in pre-war days, there nation
R
the same
abroad in their genealogies. The Scots are one great family.
美
our.
visit of members of the This looks
summed up in the striking its singular sense
of clans of America,
The extent of recovery is statement that one-half of the world's International trade and commerce is now carried
sibility, and its preparedness,
in peace as in war, to battle
being a High
the
year: for: Scotland. Scotlandjhe honour, af | those
desis were rational costume 7 and ready.
will give a through this most trying age travelling direct to the Cirdery In
Scotton welcome to thede on in Sterling. The hard in that spirit of determination of our co
alised to be a cynical, bou
Ower the Borderi working people of Britain and sacrifice which has made the Bootin nument at Boots and Overseas partners with 12 and the Government self the British people to
outside for Bcotland. Not many of In the rebuilding must be given full marks for force in history.
ham soused, "ware of Scotland's national Zions
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