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THE RED WHO CHALLENGES
THE MEN IN MOSCOW
A small gate in a garden. wall is all that the public sees of the Belgrade villa of Marshal Tito.
When the gate was opened in reply to my ring it revealed no mansion, only the kind of 12 roomed house and medium-sized garden that can be seen any day In the suburbs of British towns,
There were two sentries by the gate, two near the house; no Ati news contributione to be barbed wire. no tommy guns. On addressed to Editor-in-ChiBT.
the verandah was Tito's famous dog Tiger, a half-breed Alsotión) which was captured, from the Germans during the war and has been with Tito ever since.
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A young officer led me through BRITAIN'S WAR OF the house to the room where Tito lvas waiting. The room vas large RECOVERY
but homely. There
nothing to indicate that the Communist
The recent report of the Economic Co-operation Ad- ministration pald striking tribute to the extent of Bri tain's recovery from the war: Industrial output in Westerd Europe as a whole is 24 per cent above pre-war; in the United Kingdom it is 50 per cent above. Production in Western Europe is 8 per cent above last year's level; in the U.K, it is 10 per cent up. The Labour organ, the "Daily Herald" was not slow to as sert that these vital facts are "a complete vindication of British policy".
The contrast between 1945 and 1950, it is true, is drama- tle. At the end of the war all British Industries were geared to war needs. The export trade was a shadow of its former self. The ad- verse trade balance was co- lossal. There was a huge Budget deficit. Nearly all things of every-day need were closely rationed, and nearly everything was scarce or un- obtainable. Children hardly knew what a shell-egg was or what an orange looked like. Few economists then believed that within five years so great a recovery would be made..
It would not have been made without the magnificent help of the United States, and of the Commonwealth, as the Labour paper freely admits. Still, it remains true that this help could not have performed the miracle alone. Recovery was brought about by a great
national effort and what was, on the whole, a wise national policy. Either must have
metal worker, who has become loader of Yugoslavia surrounds himself with luxury.
By Phyllis Auty
As we talked. Tito smoked at now has some experience in these succession of cigarettes, pushing matters. them down into his pipe-shaped cigarette holder of ebony inlafel with sliver.
In pre-war Yugoslavia he was a secret Communist agent. Dur ing the war the Germans puta He has the reputation of enjoy-price on his head, and now the ing food, drink, and the good Russians have called on the things of life in moderation. does not look like a self-indulgent from power.
He Yugoslav people to remove him man. His health and vitality are
The man whose job is to pro- remarkable.
fect Tito is Alexander Rankovic,] Mänister of the Interior.
hatira.
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previously and criticise the Gov- cmment openly and without fear of arrest.
Ho
ning
"Japangea. quialls for Hong Kong."
Sometimes I quait for it myself.
The Grand Hotel in Shanghai
These changes may have come because this year Tito feels ho is more Armly in the middle. certainly gives the impression of being confident of access,
Hel Bald repeatedly that he did not has been taken over as a recrea expect war in the near future,}
tional centre for Industrial and emphasised, that, given pence
workers, and sufficient trade with the West, Yugoslavia can pull through received the news quietly.
Vicki Boum Is said to have
alone.
People behind him "Over 00
nor
I should say he is an idealist, determined to do what he thinks is good for the majority of Yugo slavs even if it means sacrifices from them and dangers for him- self.
As we talked his alert aftention| never seemned to Ang. I also saw
Ia Tito a great man? I came him take the march, past at the Dark, sleek, young looking for May Day parade for four solid his 40 odd yearn; he is is. Certainly he is not a power
away with the impression that he Long before the end, known and nover gives inter-loving maniac like Hitler. diplomats and visitors were dis- views. His friends say he is shy. appearing for quiet refreshment a nice man with a nasty job. He pleasure-loving rogue like Goring. and a smoke. Not so Tito. is certainly thorough and ruthless,
and has the reputation of arrest "He stood firm and erect, clopped ing too many people rather than first Yugoslav-made let any dangerous enemy escape. when the tankes went by, smiled and waved
I asked Tito it police power when the peasants stopped to Rope at him, made fokes with were not execssive.. Ho sald that those beside him, and wes as after the post-war revolution in Like the rest of the Yugoslavs fresh at the and as at the Yugoslavin-which he claimed to he is tough, courageous, indepen
one of the most bloodless, in dent that is why he has the I already knew what Tito beginning. looked ice. His plcture is on
Elatory-they were necessary to majority behind him, show in every town and village of assassination, but he does not
Tito may be in constant danger protect the State. in Yugoslavia.
Whatever happens to him now He said: "We are now getting his name will go down to history prised to see that he is exactly! looks as if he loses any sleep over
Įt. He must be used to danger, more moderato in these matters. as the first leader of a Communist ke his most handsome portraits since for 30 years his life has been I too had noticed that people talk State to challenge the power of
his head is a gift to any photo-
freely this grapher and needs no touching threatened. He says modestly helmnoro
year thani Moscow.
up.
He looks younger
But I was sur-
He is on the short side, not
more than 5ft 7in., stocky and solid but not fat. His fair, wavy hair is going grey, and his steely blue eyes have a look of strong
determination,
He looks n
good 10 years
younger than his age, which is Just $8. What the photographs cannot convey is the force and
manner
SHE SAID: "FIND ME
A SWORD SWALLOWER"
At luncheon in Arienzo, school. He had a new pair off long to Leonide Massino.
From
servicemen and women enjoyed the lovely evening - kindly provided by Mr.. conditioned place does give you Of course, having an Bir. prestige with your gueste.
"Too
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states a }
Anyone living next door to practising soprano will hasten to
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Some beer on the market is said to be an insult to any discriminating drinker,
But the insult is swallowed,
霉
Unreasonable the occupant of the electric chair who wanted the prison chaplain to hold his hand,.
who
Topay or was it turvy?
"Then it spread to Liz, clapped a hand over her mouth above blue eyes that watered with silent laughter."
A man protested against a fine
driving with
onc
Bald a good clutch. was essential for changing gear.
two the lofty heights they looked like imposed for tality of his presence. Yet he within a stone's throw of patent leather shoes every
weeks. The housemaster wrote three pebbles in a blue allkrm round his sweetheart. He seemed to make no effort to he Tiberius's flour mill, I met to his father about it, but the old handkerchief.
His impressive.
was Donald Downes, who was chap wrote back and sald. his quiet, natural and friendly.
We came to Victři about noon an officer in American in- son could have as many pairs of
as 1 patent leather shoes as he liked." and,
had been reading We sat at a round table and telligence during the war,
Hillary St. George Saunder's for an hour and a quarter talked and later a journalist. about Yugoslavia's problems Tito
The turkey and the
noble and moving story of the Commandos, I searched ́along answered all my questions with-
the steep, glowing shoreline for signs of the awful days between September and 18, 1043,
out hesitation.
He said, rather disparagingly. He seemed right "I had an idea, so gave up igent, and with facts and figures on top of things, confident, Intel- Journalism.
of his finger-tips.
"I found there were scores of
He told me he has had some
brandy
CAPRI.
their
"Eviction oreer refused."" Sounds the sort of thing that ought to be refused.
Recipe. Ever tried soft soap for wiping out dirty looks?
I was told a nice story here of
The sun shone down upon the couple in Capri yellow, pink, and white houses Myrtle wants to know it the who pride themselves on
of Vietri village" and on the Yorkshire Moors are quite na cooking.
"green copper donie of the black as those she saw in Spain. church," as on the morning when No. 41 (Royal Merine) Com- mando seized the viaducts at the mouth of the defile,
travel agents in Rome, but no American He knows what he wants for White-you-are-staying in Rome Yugoslavia, and appears. realist agency, so I began cho." enough to understand the full difficulties of his position. The comfortable pair of old shoes he wos wearing seemed to symbolise the fact that he has his feet firmly on the ground. They con- trasted oddly with his very smart double-breasted grey lounge mult.
Need for imports
He spoke of Yugoslavia's dimculties since her split with Russia, of the need for more im ports from the West and of the methods being used to develop what he called "Socialist Demo- cracy" In Yugoslavia.
strange requests for help.
Once he had to buy a seven- teenth century Dutch room with furniture and a fountain and ship it. to Oklahoma,
Another day he had to And guides for a party of doctors who spoke nothing but Persian, ·
-By- Hector Bolitho
But the gun
of 1930 shonc They cosseted and fattened a on a peaceful Vietri, I found a young furkey for killing. When potter at his wheel and an artist the day of executipa came, the painting donkeys on an earthen- wife insisted that a turkey should ware plate, always be given a glass of bran-
dy before it is killed, so the Vietri dozed in peace, and her husband held the unhappy bird wounds seemed healed.
There was no sign of the 5th Army....not a ghost, nor a mark
they could I find to show that had ever been hère.
He hos produced Turkish typists, Russian dentists, a novel at 3 am, for a diplomat suffering from insomnia, and a swallower for
sword while she poured the liquor down a woman from its throat. Boston who had never seen one.
It suddenly became lively, flew Donald told me that among his from the villa, over the terrace guides are "A Duchess and a and over the Mediterraneon, wealthy young Venetian who
Then I turned back to Viotri | loves
Four fishing boats put off; and climbed the slope of the Pass
came, lights were of La Molina, focused on the water and, after
I asked him how this system failed without the other. The differed from present-day gover- He job was no easy one. It meant ment in Corrwmunist Russia, hard work and the acceptance/replied that the Soviet Union 15 guides simply because he
becoming more and more сеп-
paused by the first great
-some hours of searching, the bird curve-in-the-road-and-stood-thero
of unpleasant but necessary tralised, but his plan for Yugo-Rome and wants other people to evening austerities. But it has been slavia is to decentralise govern- love it, too." done, and Britain is now far ment, cut-out-bureaucracy--and-- nearer her goal of economic give more power to the people. Independence, of standing on
Conversation piece
NAPLES.
Conversation overheard at a
Bettled
and
at
was brought back-and killed.
The economics of
Holy Year
ROME.
He said the celebration has As the boy camo near I saw frightened away the rich tourists that his head was covered by a and that it takes the spending of very old, green beret.
GREEK
DECLARE STRIKE
CHILDREN 100 pligrims to make up for what
he called, rather unkindly: "One Mrs. Bounder-Jones, from Slous City."
дте
a long time, allenco. Then, from the lower bend in the road, a woman climbed towards me; à her own feet, which she is due ble exports, and the beginning restaurant table in Naples: "Here
bent, slow woman, with a bundle of sticks as high to reach when Marshall Ald of dividends on the large we were, stranded for the dura
as herself, swaying above her weary head. ends in 1952.
post-war investments in capi- tion. There was nothing else to
I talked with a. businessman At her heels was The improvement in the tal goods, are helping things do but read, so my wife and I
cheeky, conditions of living has also along. The sterling markets, through literature.
down
wont right who moans sadly about the effect happy Italian boy perhaps sovan of Anno Santo (Holy Year) on years old. He trailed a stick in been accompanied by a however, are the chief thing,
the tourist trade in Rome, and the dust, where the warriors once notable relaxation in political both in sustaining full em-ravian in the place; a queer sort surprising facts.
"There was another old Har- he supported his sighs with some passed when the world was on
Urc. tensions. The "Yorkshire ployment and in the renewal of chap. I remember him Post" recalls, that in 1947 of "the sense of power which there were people who could Britons missed so much." Half]- seriously ask if history was the world's trade is still car- not going to repeat itself. They ried on in sterling. wondered if the floods and drought of that year might not lead to a disastrous short- age of food-as disastrous as that of 1847, which contribut- ed largely to the revolutionary movements of the following year; and they feared that a triumph of Communism in 1948 might correspond to the upheavals of a century earlier. These fears were not fulfilled, and the Marshall Plan had much to do with that.
Anne O'Hare McCormick, whose brilliant column in the the United States the leading government's
Greece and in challenging the "New York Times" has long internationalist Power while manding that Greek primers be been one of the best things in Britain is drawn back into used "without deletions"" }- those contemporary journalism, isolationism, will not last. But! used at present omit the part-en- wrote from London recently there is, of course, in this mat-map showing Cyprus ins part of of the arrival of the Allies in
titled "Enslaved Cyprus" and aj that the country's rising tide ter the old island initiñct at Greece. Reuter. of confidence in the future is work again amidst · Labour's as striking as anything on the concern for its own "pro- British scene. Since the war," gramme and` prejudices.. she says, the British have Whether under Conserva- tended to emphasize; even to tives or under Labour, Britain exaggerate, their "decline" in "cannot avoid being drawn into the world. They rather liked the new currents forcing all to boast of their poverty and nations into larger systems. to speak of themselves as a In the end she will not let the Prime Minister, Dr. Antonio think. 3 can say, we cared second-class Power, a depen- Europe organize without her, de Oliveira Salazar, was disclosed for them as best we could. But dont on the United States. for ab the struggle for exis-****
when the English authorities Seven, men appeared in court arrived-they, gave the poor old Now they begin tó glimpse the tence relaxes and the feeling possibility of regaining their of power revives, Britain's de here charged with plotting a ro- ladiestin of bully beef and a former position, and a notesire to recover het old place in planned a bombs attempt on the buses and, I am sorry to say wr volution: They were saldṣio hayo; blanket kach, put them on motor of the old assurance creeps the world will prove stronger Prime Minister's life, and to have have not heard of them since."! Into the conversation. Sir than the pull of insularity, been armed with "war weapons”, e Stafford Crippa is now less a Indeed, all that is needed now The Government had not pre- An old green beret. symbol of austerity than a is a formula" which will not viously disclosed the revolution. Por su p dispenser of cheer and that's commit hor, in advance, and a plan. The charge sald the men
VIETNI. saying a lot. Davaluation, the avoid the signing of a bank for three years. The trial was ad- Vietri Out in the water lar from Positano to: bad been planning the uprising . 1. dröve American boom, mora invísl choque,
journed until October 19,--Reuter, the three small falalide, that bo-
.The stalemate in Parlia- ment imposes a strain on initiative, especially in the do- main of international policy. There has been endless, dis- cussion about Labour's hand- ling of the Schuman Plan,
He told me that the hotels in but bungling and unctuous as
Rome have skyrocketed their it was, in the end it is likely
prices. In spite of Government to come out well. The return- Two of the strikes have been, orders, by charging 50 per centi ing sense of world power is officially confirmed. The gov- extra for dogs, and as, much as contradicted, says the cor- were the result of "gross insub-which, ho moaned: "Never arrives ernment has said the dismissals 450 liras a day extra for heating, respondent, by the tendency ordination in sending the Greek in the rooms because the radi to self-absorption. The strange Minister of Education a memo-stors are so antique,” reversal of history that makes randum in favour of a union with authority by do-
Nicosia, June 24. Greek school children in fivo I said: "But surely there village elementary schools were flocks of American-Irish coming reported today to have declared over." He answered. "Yes, but the dismissal notlees given by the and careful." one-day strikes, protesting against the American-Irish are unspendy Government to seven manber of the pan-Cypriot Teachers As- sociation Committee.
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DISCOVERED IN PORTUGAL
Allies and the old women
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FLORENCE,
I met a Fiorentine who talked
Florence at the end of the war. I asked him, "How" did. ther behave towards you?" and be answered, "They could not have been more charming, but wha
we resented was the way thes treated the English-residents,
"We had one or two hundred Lisbon,June 24." dear old English ladies living in A plot to overthrow the Portu- Florence during the war, oxlled guese Government and assassinate and poor ***,
here today.
Hange
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