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FREDERICK COOK asks
W
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DOES REARMAMENT IMPERIL POINT 4?
NEW YORK, all non-military expendiment rather than decrease U.S. embassy in the country con- were taught how to operate a -HAT happens now tures. The administrators the Point Four budget. In curand, working with emales of turning plough and a five-tooth- the requesting Goverment, ed cultivador. A simple Point Four? of Point Four know that for my opinion, the causes Secondly, it in forwarded to thresher mado It possible for With a fast-rearm them the testing time will which brought the pro- Washington with the "evaluation" the farmer to thresh his crop
“in three instead of seven days. ing
America come in April, when Con- gramme into being exist to of the embassy
As - In the third phase, ง "doubling the number she gress debates the money day more than ever.
In the first thought of" every other they want to spend. A long as there is disease and seened by Pot Four's own feriliser wir sonrothing new. staff up to the Administrator and A few at a time Holmes per week adding
'farmer to try of hard fight is expected in the hunger in the world Point by any other US Government sunded the rows
it. noughts to all prior concep- Foreign Affairs and Foreign Four will be necessary." department involved. Then it is Then he introduced DDT and a pest contrôl pro- Committees tions of defence spending Relations
Point Four had its birth ted in with what is known of launched
United Nations or other inter-gramme for the first ime in what are the chances for the both houses, before the in President Truman's in- national projects for the region that part of Asia.
Tho
project
afoot by develop the world's back- are again on the House and “ugural address on January, before agreements are Homes Holmos (a former State
of
great Truman project to Appropriations Committees
Meantime Point Four is going ahead on the assump tion that one way or another it will get the "green light.” More-Necessary
Mrs. Lane
("I'M NO KILL-JOY')
wants to
boss
WOMAN of the WEEK
clean up London
THE name of Marthe Richard is known throughout the length and breadth of France. She was a spy for the Allies in both world wars, and became a Paris municipal councillor. But what made her a celebrity was the campaign which started there seven years ago and which ended in the closing of the officially "tolerated" houses of prostitution in France.
concerned.
set
20, 1949, when he outlined
signed between the requesting agricultural official in North this country's foreign policy-
country and the U.S.A., detalled Carolina where the stammers in terms of four major operational plans are drawn and are little less oppressive than courses of action.
estimates made of the money India's) is now being rapidly expanded. Several more US. technicians
preparing to leave for the United Provinces
ukseded.
Not Charity said:
Defining the fourth of these, Mr Truman -We must embark on a bold
дго
Minister,
areas needing development." for her dollars.
Experience with the Point It is the most realistle and
and
turies arxi Sec no reason
to
American postall
| POCKET-CARTOON
by OSBERT LANCASTER
"I say, Vicar, I've just thought jup a wizard leg pull-I'm going to write a MADLY Left- wing letter to my M.Piandilgn
it Hewlett Johnson'11"
He Found Tomb Of Mentemhet
to ensure city in
But
MAJESTIC PYLON
But nobody belleved Princo Mentemhet's tomb has
and temple would exist on such a pro-
ward regions with infusions-Senate floor. af American dollars and technical help?
"Pretty good," think the men who run Point Four.
They take the view that
Officials of both EC.A. and to join him. the worse the world situa-
Tho programma hunched tion becomes the greater The extent of the expan- new programme for making Point Four are regularly under the need for Point Four, sion planned is illustrated the benefits of our scientific tuck in the U.S.A. from people around Mahewa is only one of who are appalled to read of the five already formally approved They believe that it is a by the figures: In the cur- advances and industrial pro- large sums it is proposed to for India. Others are now in Anal discussion stage in hundred times more neces- rent fiscal year, approprin- gress available for the im, spend in places they themselves the
his original point out that in
High hopes are held in sary now. Few here are in- tions for Point Four equalled provement and growth of have never heard of. The officials New Delhi.
far under-developed BTERS..
message the President used the Washington for the Point Four clined to quarrel with them $34,500,000. Plans so
announced call for about I believe that we should phrase in co-operation with agreement signed last month in this.
to make available
other nations" and that this peace-
ds in Delhi by the American Am- But an impressive amount $100,000,000 in 1951.
how the proferred assistance bassador, Mr Loy Henderson, By MARGARET GILRUTH of opposition is building up,
Dr Henry Garland Ben- loving peoples the benefits works out. Only a proportion of and India's Foreign
of technical the bill is finally borne by the Sir Girja Bajpai,
CAIRO. based in the fear that even nett, President of Oklahoma of our store
College and re knowledge in order to help American taxpayer. rich and industrially-power- State
In Burma TN the centuries before Christ, The Point Four people wish it aspira- ful America can over-reach tently-appointed
of them realise their
a vast metropolis lay niong to be amembered that what "The agreement", sald Dr
head of Point the face of a peaked line of tions for a better life... herself.
Point Four, told me in
they are about is co-operation,, H. G. Bennett,
And they think Four, "creates a magnificent limestone hilla overshadowing In both houses of Con- Washington: "The present and in co-operation with not charity.
other nations we should that from America's point of opportunity for two great na- the Nile as it neared it's more gress, voices are now heard world situation certainly
for their
remole reaches, mutual progress and well-being. in favour of deep cuts into makes it necessary to aug. foster capital investment in view she is getting bargain value tions to work together
During the last 80 years, Out of that brief message Four Programme is teaching the practical way of bringing out
about 500 tombs and temples sprang a world-wide operation. American administratora man two peoples together in grow have been uncovered. Now the genuinely anxious to do good in ing understanding and res- Many Projects
name of another archaeologist, the world-a great deal about
pect" the diflculties and responsiblll- For the people of Burma. Zacharia Ghoneim, has been The rebuilding of A pre- ties of his relations with other however, Point Four may yet revenied. He is an Egyptian. historic irrigation system in people.
prove a somewhat mixed bless from Alexandria, and it is to Ceylon, survey's of
Said a spokesman for the his credit that Saudi- A major lesson has already
the imposing Arabia's sandy wastelands for been learned by the administra- Point Four headquarters
If the tomb of Mentemhet was found. possible dam sites, new high- tors of Point Four in India. It Washington recently: ways in central Africa, public is that, while they may need Burmese want a sewerage sys-
Mentemhet, said: to .have health programmes in the post- economie help and appreciate it, tem for Rangoon, we will show
a Negro, was a famous holes of South America all the people of other countries do them how to build it. And we been
will also show them how to set prince in the heyday of Thebes these and a great variety of not want to be Americans. other projects are included in
They do not
understand or up a tax system so that they He was made governor of the emos either
already especially admire the American can collect, and schemes
how
the reign of King the
way of life. They want such that the money collected
Taharqa, in the 26th dynasty, authorised or planned.
A hundred and one separate help as is forthcoming fitted in reaches the Government". projects have been formally ap with their own scheme of things, American drains and efficient and his wife was known as a proved. They touch 20 countries which they developed over cen- tax-collecting may not appeal (Chantress for the God Amun. in the Near East, Middle East change in fundamentals.
everyone in Burma. Burma is fast developing into Latin America, southern Asie
one of -Knew-Better
the busiest scenes of tropical Africa, Major ones
activity in among those so far approved
Mr Horace Holmes, who has Asia. The
Ilan are in Iran, Liberia and Brazil,
been a consultant with the allocated $1,750,000 for the pur In addition applications aro
Indian Government for the past chase of cotton thread in for 170 more schemes of great two years working on improve further $81,000 for antibiotics is a majestic pylon of crude diversity, really
brick-the entrance to the tomb just a very
Point Four is run by an office ment of food supplies, has just su
visit as penlelllin. Point Four
of Mentembet, Here the has sent or is sending soon a housewife"), with another and Mrs Laine hopes she is no
of the State Department known gone East again after a not dissimilar mission.
busybody, but busy woman' she
woman but as the "Technical Co-operation things Washington come of port engineer to assist in the must be abandoned; a donkey-
Cross to She was the only woman in a undoubtedly is. team of 11 who, beaded by the to do the shopping, so dous Administration," with Dr Ben- the things he has learned as well repair of Rangoon Harbour, a path is used to
he first went out, Mr in malaria control and preven- Behind the pylon, there is a
medical specialist; two experts temple itself. Bishop of London and including all the family cooking, too, nett as its head. But officials of
Holmes Was Designed to 0 Lords Samuel and Stamp, met having domestic help for house-E.C.A-the "Marshall Plan"
tlon; three top sanitation en- Home Secretary Chuter Ede at work only.
have a large hand too in the poverty-trielom region of the gineers and two en'omologists stairway leading first to a vest- "But I hardly ever manage to operation of extending U.S. aid United Provinces near Mahewa, to work on the House of Commons and
ibule, then to a subterranean Insect extermina-
hall. This, of huge dimensions, demanded new laws to discour- get a quiet evening at home to the less advanced parts of The prospects, he found, were tion.
has
a roof supported by four age "the vice that is blatantly she. "My husband
highly discouraging. Most of the does't the earth.
Burma has also made formal Plan mind.
head- villagers
columns, From here you pene- demonstrated
half starved, application were in
The Marshall main
Ho is most co-opera-
for tho ald of liberate
and streets and residential arcas,"
a court. It has an elegant quarters in Washington put up
with American housing tive,"
experts to disease and parasites. "The
to the Land help solve the For some years Mrs Lane has the money for technical schemes
c-passage leading overcrowding
right and left, to niches adorn WANTED: PURGE been chairman of the North in-countries coming under their swarmed, with sacred cows," be problem-in-Rangoon:
the
ed with statues of Mentemhot Paddington Women Conserva-
the Point
State 'authority';
Four ported back to
Tin Output Department. "These were allow
and his wife. WITH them she asked for an tives. And since it was found- people take care
of those noted to wander unchecked,
The total aid-to-Burma pro- Immediate purge of the ed a few months ago she has covered by E.C.A. In the edu
One of the finest sights in pavement strollers encroaching been busily engaged in cleaning cational field, Point Four sup- competing with the people for
amount to be the Mentemhot temple are the gramme will the meagre drops." more and more widely beyond up the borough's shady spots plements the work of EC.A. Mr Holmes now better than tween $8,000,000 and $10,000,000 ten chapels running along the
As one official
it: put
in the first year of Point Four. north and south walls, to interfere with Roform "The objectives are the same, cows. He had been warned in
Innumerable
pro-out of rock. Those C11 The two organisations are pro- advance. He let them strictly
grammes are being
pressed for-north side were left unfinished, interest eceding to the same goal, down alone but defeated them The largest in terri-
the tories she ex-roads which are often more or end by persuading the villagers major US.
that have long been lavishly decorated with colour-
interests such as ed less parallel."
Inscriptions and reliefs: to grow new types of
not eat. road network is
the nobleman. is planned, Carefully sidestepping
local in taboos
Philippines. and the customs
in the of
FORTY TIMES
with Manila, in-
Running reclification of certain
right along as one suitable for Point Four wheat. In the first season it taxation
walls of one are hieroglyphics Inequities to which Fielded 43 porcent more than the Washington has objected. "But" repeating, for forty times, the
sald
names of Osiris, type previously grown.
man Four "we Dead, and Ra, God of the Sun. are getting ready Another Winner
there. We have & five-year
At the other end of the court, to its own determination; and The next year, whole villa- programme of technical and at either side of the exit door- Put it up to £60, 2. It must further the under- ges clamoured for seed. When economic aid for the restoration she says, with up lying objective of the
Pro Holmes, now gaining their con- of Philippine Industrice and the here are two stairways vesinking into the earth. One to 14 days' im-gramme by improving the living, fidence, showed the formers introduction of new ODES",
was never finished, but the the people
In Malaya assistance to the other with of how to rotate their wheat with
its walls covered ped soil-improving under-developed
the extent of $500,000 legumes,
in being with litanies of the sun, leads. by enabling
the building of to chambers not yet explored. them to yield went up to 65 percent better granted for
poten- than the old seed.
roads and "to assist the Gov- in disorderly realise more fully the
With potatoes, tialities of their own resources,
Point Four ernment authorities to take house when the
There is another court to be- both human and material. stored amother winner. A newly- more effective security
immense mea-excavated,
subler-.. police raid it. Fine
When an application for aid introduced variety yielded 112 stres." Now roads would shor-ranean places to be penetrated both of them up to is made, it passes through five percent
more than the type ten distances in central Malaya-possibly during this digging- the general reputation of Lon- £60 for a first offence, or give clearly defined stops towards previously cultivated.
by as much as 70 miles. Ameri-season, which. ends in May, don when the town is on view them up to a fortnight in pri- final approval. Fast it is in Machinery fallowed. Villa- can interest langely, stems from when oppressive heat makes : to Festival visitors this summer, son:
vedigated by officials of the gors who had never seen one a desire to increase tin output. work intolerable.
And now in London along
Councillor comes
Elsie Mrs
Lane, of Paddington (I by EVELYN IRONS
for
for
house perg
OUT
ordinary
Moral
the West End into the further as an active member of the Umits of Paddington, Westmin- Paddington ster and Pimlico; and for the Council. doubling trebling of fines "I have always been
and
#disorderly ed in social reform,"
plains.
That is what led her to go tu Mr Chuter Ede and urge him to back a Bill to raise the penalties for prostitution. A
In particular docs Mrs Lane want to see the end of open soliciung in the
roads off ·Elgin Avenue, Maida Vale where she lives. Sho would clear the area of malo "kerb-craw-
also
lers!!
who pester
girls cars.
from their
Such goings-on In North Padding- ton are not good, she asserts, either for the children of local householders (They are bound
to wonder what the
women are hanging
Mn. LANE..
about for") or for la lust a housewife.
maximum- fine of
40s. for sollelting is too low in her opinion: it has not been changed for more than a CCT- tury.
Two Conditions
as taught.
infested
the sacred
and adigious scale. At ground level
which the cows would the Republic of Liberis, where | covering the funerary
There aro two fundamental centuries, he got conditions governing
Qut
1s
and
the the more daring village farmerah compromise" to be
Where
out
cluding
a handful of assistance selection of a particular project to plant a new kind of Indian
help. Theso are;
1. It must represent the free choice of the country concerned and be in its interest according
both the
woman and the man found areas
priconment, Punish ally
a
The Hongkong Society for the women. She is fiftyish, silm, effective vice squads, but that
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Mrs Lane's views on vice aro Mrs Lane is a great bellever uncompromising. But in appear in policewomen as upholders of anco sho ús the mildest of morality, saying that they make
blue-eyed, with wavy blonde there not boo few of them. And hair that is beginning to turn she won't have the list-footed ash-grey. She drinks only oc- kind. was pleased," said
chain of air bases for casionally and does not smoke, she, "when the Home Secretary
The U.S. Army is developing Western defence is being con- a but offers
us he wanted attractive
parachute a. guest sherry and bold
whielt lands cigarettes likes dancing, uses girls to join the police. Women right of India to keep garri
ink Crete.
Boldiers En à make-up ("I hope I'm ho kill who jeer at the plain ones will sons in Gartok and other od Mr Gordon-Walker, Minis
The Pretoria government ask-
tainer. joy.")
like a telling-off from the good-
Turkey is building a strategic -lookers,"
Commonwealth Reln road network near her borders
Under frontier outposts on Tibetan ter for NO BUSYBODY
soil.
tions, for the three British with Russia and improving agreement, the Polish army has.. 'IMMORAL'
protectorates as the price of 3,000 miles of road with U.S. invites East CHE has been Tied A
liquarter (ofu contury toʻl
imagine that
This weakens Indian hold continuing Dominion status, financial aid.
• Cal business man: thoir only DOES Mrs Launc
on Kashmir. Relations be-
U.S. aid will finance the min- chlid, a mon now. 22, in niso In her, represivo •ImensurCa
Membership for Yugoslavia business.
will banish vice from London? tween India and China are and Spain will be proposed to ing of 300,000,000 tons of low-
answers candidly growing worse.
Council of Europe by grade iron ore in Norway for
The Colonial Secretary will Mrs Lane was born in Souto "As long as human nature stays
Treaty countries. visit East Africa Benelux countries at the"" next {" East London: went to a London the way it is, there will be
in April to
socondary school:
ntudy local conditions. afterwards
Chinese consulates in India Strasbourg Assembly.
The US, coal, industry has took a
customers for it. course in eccrotarial
aro being enlarged and used to.
been told that it may have to Chinese troops in Foemons training and was a civil service. The most we can hope to do support the Communist party.
Russia bon told the. Western sport a much as 10,000,000 are being good with modern clerk in the Ministry of Labour is to clear our public roads of Indian security officers are Powers that there can be no tons of' cock do Western Edrope American weapons. until she switched to private the parado of streetwalkers and watching the movementy of, the discussion on a global basis" at
this year. secretarial work, She did not to make it more dimeult to open Chinese missions.
the Court of Foreign Minio- ! PREDNA give up her job when who mar hotties for thein. Even if they are
ter unions. Ming Thesting is no Ar London maitary chip) lis Thp. Czochi Chief of Pollifical riod: I
47, Verely under Jonding a taniece for a company secretary to i aro only driven underground,
Security presented.
full OWNOTS n soningbod will be done, the Property
dross Tarfuriat Army ball armst Paddington ("I um, fall in Prascent open doleration," "mutt
There will be no Supreme during the Fordynk favour of married women worice end, London, is intting to be the
Taval. Commatider in the Low (14 hoopy the minds solve de inmor city in Harrope."
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