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'WELL, PERSIA'S TAKEN THE OIL, EGYPT WANTS THE SUDAN, AND CUBA WANTS'
THE HAVANA RAILWAY-WHAT SAY WE CLAIM THE FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN ?"
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STARS BIG TAX
By FREDERICK
new
ediet away. TOUGH has gone out from America's income-tax
COOK
THE FIRST OF THREE ARTICLES:
THE BALKANS REVISITED Trieste Has Become
Port Of
By
VERNON
BARTLETT
TRIESTE.
Prosperity
THE Free Territory of Trieste, Mr Gromyko solemnly assures his fellow-deputies in the Palais Rose in Paris, has been con- verted into so important an Anglo-American naval and military base that it must forbidden lands of Yugo- units based on Trieste. It appear as a special item on slavia or of Yugoslav-con- happens that two American the agenda for the Foreign trolled Zone B.
destroyers are alongside the Ministers.
quay.
fro.
Streat scene in Triasta-pretty girts and fively boys cheer the British and American flags
But luxurious cars glide
But even Mr Gromyko
A few cargo steamers lie along this road, past cafes at anchor in the bay, and that ure crowded with could scarcely maintain that sailing boats skim to and cheerful holiday-makers. every port at which
Why does Mr Gromyko courtesy call thereby auto- couple of war vessels paid a make allegations that are somatically became
a naval
There is only one road out of the Free Territory patently absurd? Why did the magnificent coast road not the Western deputies to Italy-all other roads at once invite him to spend lend in a few miles to bar a few days here as their riers, beyond which lie the guest?
FACE THE SQUEEZE
The house of Joanne Dru
(formerly married to Dick Haymes and now the wife
tax man on a suit filed in Miss Davis alone. 1949 claiming 80,000 dollars worth died in 1943. income-tax on money earn-
Is dimculties
Farns
base.
Still cut off
♫
What of the military A Rome Communist
Perhaps I can supply Mr side? Gromyko with some infor- paper, as proof that Trieste mation, since I have been has become a military base, on foot or by launch prints the sad case of a local farmer whose field has been through the immense port from end to end.
"completely overturned by .. the trends of Anglo-Ameri- British naval personnel? can tanks." Including clerical officers
and domestic staff it num- bers 111
no
But the fact remains that at time have the British or American forces exceeded the 5,000 each to which they are entitled under the peace treaty - with Italy.
one can
Not defenceless
The Free Territory itself or the Yugoslave NEW YORK. admittance were ordered ed in 1942-43. The suit is a Also far from clear of tax is not entirely defenceless speak with less certainly, for Errol Flynn it possesses one wooden their Zone B, which covers complicated matter under when he and Lit! Damita were Fishery Patrol ship, armed three-fifths of the entire Free California's community pro- dollars annually and to with one Oerlikon gun for population), is still cut off from
divorced, he agreed to pay her
Territory (with ono-fifth of the
un- meet the tax due on that sun. use against the porpoises the city and part of Trieste. perty law, and is still
tax men aettled. The Government The
ruled that the that play havoc with the money ho pald in laxes was
But it is at least improbable claimed that Miss Davis's income for Lill-Damita, too, and fishermen's nets.
that Marshal Tito has felt it Half a dozen small land- advisable to keep many troops 011 the Adriatic white the ex-husband, Arthur Farns he must pay tax on that su worth, assigned to her his
ing cruft relies of the war, Rumanian, Bulgarian and Ham- community property right
may be seen cruising about garian frontiers of his country
little are in such danger, to half her income, and that
the buy, providing a
the training of variety in
men to the Hollywood stars, who owe thousands in back taxes: "Pay up or be sold
is being of John Ireland) A dozen or more up." glamorous Hollywood man- sold for unpaid taxes. She sions formerly occupied by and Mr Ireland were given big-name stars have already until May 15 to vacute. been seized and auctioned The Government seized the off. Other stars, threatened
When he recently successfully
with seizure, have sold their place on a lien for 24,000 thereafter the whole income, Appeals to be "paying tax on the troops.
palatial residences private- ly, paid the tax collector. and are now living in more modest quarters.
dollars.
SAID Miss Dru: "We are
now looking for a place to rent big enough to house Latest to face loss of her our five children. In addi home is Veronica Lake,--tion-to-losing-the-house,-I the Bureau am also paying a huge pro- against whom of Internal Revenue are portion of my current earn- claiming 62,000 dollars. ings to wipe out the tax Collector Robert Riddell, of debt run up during my marriage to Mr Haymes. I the Treasury's Los Angeles reckon I am keeping only "Miss about six percent of what I bureau,, told me: Lake and her, husband, An- earn."
FLYNN.. tox Miss LAXE MILL DAYIS
A 10% o tax $62,000
380,000
Mile, DARRIEUX" "King_COLI
$15,000
$248,000
dre Toth, were given 20 days in which to pay taxes owed, or the place would be sold.
including earnings as an ac- tress, became taxable to
LADY THEM
sued for retrial of his action to reduce the alimony payments, Flynn was held by the Court of
tax, ad infinitury,'
(World Copyright Reserved.- London Expicas Service.)
'HAW HAW' LAUGH BUT
By RUSSELL SPURR viewer constantly and in de-
But there repair shops and
are no naval no naval
MAKES LISTEN
The truth is that the Fred Territory has become prosper- ous in its own right.
Most efficient
The port is now carrying the normal trade of an increasingly large hinterland. It has become by fur the best-equipped and most efficient outlet for Middle and South-Eastern Europe.
This the temporary Is be- coming the permanent. Zones A and B were to have been governed, the first by the British and the Americans and the second, by the Yugoslavs, only until the Great Powers coult agree upon a governor to rule There is a catch in her voice the entire Territory. THE voice is cultured and
as she asks: slightly
It fall, husky,
But no such paragon exists, "Why don't those poor boys go Zone B has been entirely b-- brings, or seems to bring, a When Lady Haw How has
home and leave the oppressed sorbed into the Yugoslav breath of Knightsbridge, done her share, the language peoples to establish a free de- economy, Zone A prospers only
broadcasters London, to the radio sets of tinues the attack in 18 Eastern
steps in and con- mocracy?"
because it is a Free Port,
Under a British general and
Southeast Asia.
Why not indeed-and hand But it does languages. All at a time when not reach Southeast Asia the British Broadcasting Cor- several million Malays, Chinese an Anglo-American administra
and Indians and one of the tion Trieste has not become from that elegant and poration-the only patent radio
counter-force in Asia-may have richest lanks in the East to the naval base; instead it has be fashionable quarter of to curtail its Oriental
tender "democratie" methods of come the work's most success- a few thousand Communist fut experiment in international Southwest London. It comes missions for reasons of economy. thugs........? from Russin.
It deplores the lot of the un- fortunate Asians "till fighting
trans-
Experts believe the Commu--
nist propaganda servies is being | Wannabelen rebroadast from a relay station
to break the Imperialist yoke, somewhere in Asia. It certainly
comes
There is a
and the British boys "wasted in
through better than Biting far from their homes to Lendon; better even than the suppress Aslan freedom.""
BC relay station in Ceylon. BBC The tones
alleged Analysis of Lady Haw Haw's American cam
camilles in Korea- broadcasts reveals the current "according to Pyongyang re- Communist line. When Danielle Durrieux ports" and drop with reverence great deal about "peace"-the arrived back in Hollywood | at mention of Marshal Stalin. fashionable. Cominform catch-
This is the voice of Moscow- word. some weeks ago from at "Lady Haw Haw" as the Usteners call her. She got the France, for the first time in name directly Russia stopped up "It was put up for auc- 14 years, she was met by a the radio propaganda war six or tion on May 7. A bid of tax collector's bill for 15,-seven weeks ago. 65,000 dollars would have 000 dollars said to be due cleared everything. But not one bid was forthcoming. on her earnings from "The. So the place was withdrawn Rage of Paris" made in and held for future offer- 1937.
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The word has, of course, as le meaning as 'democracy" in the Russian vocabulary, but It is repeated with an hypnotic regularity which must eventual- ly penetrate more obtuse brains. "Peace" figured 33 times in a Off wont the nasal, strident recent 108-word item, and that commentators, on
the is a fair average, came broadcasting belle with the sad, sympathetic voice and the
listening,
She has an intimate
wheedling. manner. People ☆ * Miss Darrieux claims that laughed but listened. They are her studio agreed at that Lady How Haw saw to that. VERONICA Lake's home is time to pay her 40,000 dol-which makes listeners feel each
a rambling ranch-style house on an estate of 24 lars and the tax due on that word is meant for them,
weryone be-
approach
acres. There are three bed amount. The studio paid which assumes
She has halve vagueness
groom.
Lurid Details
Alleged Anglo American atrocities are another favourite. The hard detalls sound funny to the well-informed, speciality is the Big Lic.
Her
The other day she announced:
"Indonesian.nationalists calde
ed Dutch colonial troops in the Sourabaya area, killed a large number and captured quantities
Who is she trying to decaiva?
rooms, each with dressing the tax. But, on examining lleves nothing but the Russian room and bathroom. There her return, the Government case. She presents the case with
n vividness and a conviction that Is stabling for five horses men declared a further 16-is making mug Westem pro- of arms and ammunition." All- and a separate house for the 000 dollars to be due and pagandists sit up with a start. other successful blow against
Radio Hamburg in the time of Imperialium placed an attachment for Hiter and Lord How How Some weeks ago, Govern-,' that amount on the money never rožež out such a stream The Dutch have grantod sex-
of abuse against Britain and ment mon seized the man- she will get from "Rich, Americacr did it so subtly. A Rovement to Java. Their last troops sailed for home 14 months sion of Negro singer Nat Young and Pretty" which is barrage of recrimina ago. Are Asians, supposed to
Hon and distortion is coming believe such stories "King" Cole, for back taxes she is making now.
across the other from
As this Russia, of 248,000 dollars. Colo
aimed at opening ok sores and put out? Lady Haw Haw appar
piece of fiction which she has came to an arrangement, ·
storting new ones,
ently thinks howover, and, the guards Just before leaving for
No ancient grievance is too,
She weeps orocodile fears over who had been posted over London, Miss Bette Davis malf to be overlooked. The In-
dian smrtiny, anti-Britlab oglia the British defence forces in the property to forbid him conferred with tho, income on before. Independence, are Malaya.
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