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'EGOTISTICAL'
SIR
London Express Service
MALCOLM
SECOND. ARTICLE IN THE SERIES
THE BALKANS REVISITED The Problems Of Marshal Tito
BELGRADE. THAT, scents new
W
one
today," said Yugoslav Minister
to me, "will seem old within three months," Certainly no other country in Europe is passing through such rapid and bewildering changes.
In the process of defend- ing themselves against the Cominform the Yugoslav Communists are evolving a blend of Marxism orthodox than that of the Russians and of Liberalism based upon the capitalist law of supply and demand.
more
What the outcome will be I don't pretend to know; one of the immediate consequen- ces is that Ministers who a year ago would shun social contact with the "Fascist
imperialists" of the Western
World have become sible and amiable.
you
acces-
By VERNON BARTLETT
power has been centralised and all initiative has there- by been killed; Yugoslavia has seen the danger in time, and is now the only faithful exponent of the Marxist
doctrine.
Even the old slogan, "workers of
building could begin on any serious scale.
But the attempt to conform with Moscow's polley for Com- -munist States cost the Yugo :
terrible price. The slave a skeletons can no longer be hid- den in cupboards by censorship or secret pollet,
росс
One, Immense and forlorn.: standa by the road leading into It Belgrade from the airfield. is the skeleton of the Praesl- dium, or Cabinet offices, which was half-built in the
wag
more
the world, ostentatious days of the Com
unist
dictatorship but has un last year. And it is only one been left untouched for the
unite," which has been out of fashion for some time, in
Communist countries, re of several large but unfinished appeared on the May Day buildings dolted aboni Bel-
grade.
programme, as though to proclaim that the "devia- tionists" are not to be found Tie skeletons? One is that in this country.
Marshal Tito is driven to change his policy in this way
He
by both economic and ideo- logical considerations, must retain the confidence of his Communist Party and he must find a new and better way of filling his people's for stomachs,
to
cannot talk one of them ten minutes without be- ing told that the Stute is "withering away," as fore cast by Marx and Engels, whose immense and bearded portraits were carried by the dozen in Belgrade's May Day procession. In Russia, the Minister will explain, all
CAMPBELL
wife's frank facts about
husband
by: ROBERT GLENTON
S
it
HOULD a wife tell the most perfect
frank facts about her son of a --husband-and-modify-is-possible --to-
the public admiration meet."
for him as a man?
There were Dorothy Lady Campbell bitter quarrels has taken the risk,
with his first
The second of Sir Malcolm Wife. She left him after Campbell's three wives, she
little more has now told the story of 20
than ↑ year years' life with the man the
when she world adulated as the God
found that all of Speed. And she has been he really loved astonishingly frank.
WRS himself,
The man the public knew so well with his hatchet- fuced grin had very different facets to his
Although there are more consumer goods in the shop windows than there were two years ago-including such bourgeois articles as per- fumes and ice-cream cornets -the prices are fantastic and they are still rising.
*
MIE reasons for these expen-
inefficient planning, accentuated Government by a bad drought, has left the without the exchange needed to foreign Import paint and Attings that casinot be manufactured at home.
Another reason, which is prob- ably the main weakness of all.. the Communist States, is that the backward peasant cannot be changed in the space of n few months into an cfcient artisan.
Jis polilles may become easier to control when he joins the Industrial proletariat, but his work becomes unbelievably shoddy.
uncom-
A good plumber is. mon In Belgrade as a palm tree in the Salioru.
So the Yugoslave have turned to the writings of Marx justifica- EVEN the workers in the and have found the
tion for reversing the stream of labour from the village to the town,
to
highest ration categories cannot live reasonably on their rations; they have to
The State must "wither earn extra money. so that
away," and peasants who were they can buy food in the encouraged to come to Bel- "free" market at many times grade two or three years ago. the controlled prices. The their land or to work in the
arc now urged to return lucky ones find part-time mines. Neither prospect attracts jobs, some have a room they them. can let, some hire out their furniture to members of the THE withering process is still diplomatic corps. But in a less agreeable to the Stale,. country where a fairly good officials. Last month the num
of Ministers in both the suit costs a senior civil ser- Federal and the Republican vant about five months' Governments
roughly salary no government could halved as a precaution against
what
Marshal Tito has referred expect to be popular. Incl
bureaucratism, ono
bers
always, hedged about with: inhibitions and prohibitions.
The same air of restraint dentally, at the official rate called
to as "the infectious disease pervaded the daily life of of exchange and in the ot the worst enemies of the children. The things they "free" market, a must not do far outnumber: electric bulb would cost me dismissal of thousands of civil
40-watt Socialism."
This must have involved the ed those that were permitted 348. and a bicycle about servants, who Lose not only them, and there is no doubt
£140!
their salories, but also they suffered a sense of
which, To put all the blame for privileged ration cards frustration."
raise in a Communist State, these prices on the Govern--the-manual-worker, the party---
Sir Malcolm ̄ ̄ ̄ suffered ̄ ̄|
series of disastrous setbacks in his world speed attempts. He was injured in two air crashes and every possible thing went wrong,
members:-
But Lady Campbell re- He refused to show any signs of defeatism and buoy ed up all around him by an exhibition of cheery will to fast cars, and campbell at the toneel of Bluebird on Loch Lomond
Su Malcolm Campbell with Dorothy Lady win through. publicity.
"If only he had been able time Campbell decided he to carry that same spirit known only to his naracter, ringe took place. Dorothy would like to go horse-riding, into all his life and actions, His new wife reminded how much happier would he him of the guests. He re- have been and how much
"He returned," says Lady ride"-and off he went.
later after everyone had be- Campbell, "almost an hour
gun to make semi-audible remarks about the absence of their host...
In 1920 the second mar-
Campbell is proud of her timate friends and his wives. husband's greatness, his ab
Dorothy Campbell was
only a girl when she first solute refusal to be beaton. plied: "I MUST go for a happier would his family-life |
met him at Brooklands in and his capacity for endless work as, year by year, he' 1912. Malcolm Campbell was captured, lost, and recap 27 and his car had just tured the world's speed re- crashed badly.
cords on land and water. But she tells, too, how erra- tic he was.
Lady Campbell says:- "I remember marvelling how any man who had just looked death squarely in the face could remain so utterly calm and unconcerned.
"I had the impresson that here was a man quite out of the ordinary. I had never encountered such self abnegation."
Owed - Great Deal
Bitterly hard
I
"It is hard, in some ways bitterly hard, to recall those human weaknesses, which in private. life often, went a long way to discount those qualities of heart, and mind which lead men to great- neas."
The next year Malcolm
Malcolm Campbell upheld Campbell married his first the prestige of his country wife. She was a wealthy well and worthily. But there woman, and to her he owed was another side to his per a great deal, for she bought sonality..... him the racing cars he could nover have afforded.
have turned out!"
After 20 Years
After 20 years, his second marriage came to an end.
"We had not been married very long before I was forced to the realisation that there was another woman in his life.
Poland ulone
industries, 80
are
and
the
Dre
his Ministera
ment is, of course, unfair. member and the civil servant Among the allied countries so far above people who
not considered to be of much have tic may suffered more during the
national importance.
that It will be seen, then, war. One million seven hun-Marshal Tito is faced by grave dred thousand Yugoslavs lost difficulties, their lives. Forty percent are the first to admit that they still groping after solutions of the inopitale, 100 percent indeed, of the mining equipment and lines were destroyed or badly 45 percent of the rallway
efforts deserve to bo
with
sympathy, for damaged. It took two years they seem to be part of that to clean away the rubble of most difficult of uill political Belgrade, by hand and in experiments, peasant carts, before
Travel and
ship
"Unfortunately, others fol- by
lowed and I came acrosa letters from women of such a character ns to leave no doubt as to the relationship existing between writer and addressee."
"He came in in riding kit, with a curt 'Shan't be long,' went upstairs and changed, and then joined the party to be the charming host he knew so well how to be."
She found it impossible to keep a servant in the house for more than a few weeks: Malcolm would bring two or three mechanics, in their After the divorce Sir Mali- working clothes into the colm married again, but his house and demand food for third wife left after three them a couple of hours after months, and a year later dinner was ready..
that marriage was also dis- "It was no use protesting," . solved. "It was not long before it my house, and I'll do as I wife, who, was, with him says Lady Campbell. "It's It was Dorothy, his second came home to me," Lady damned well like in it!" was until he died, on New Year's Says his second wife:- Campbell says, "that. I had all the satisfaction to be "Unfortunately, that mar- married a man who suffered "got."
After telling so frankly of riage was not a success. from what may best be The Children From his earliest days the described as a temperament.
the private life of Sir Mal- had, beon' egotistical,' “One of the first dis With the two children, it colm, she ends with these
words: supremely selfish, and on-coveries was that he would was alsó difficult. tirely self-centred..
go his own way and was no
"May God rest his soul. "Not that he had no finer regarder of either persons or all children, and especially of "For if ever a man earned points. He had He could circumstances, his own. But he did not like and deserved by strenuous be kind, considerate, and A few days after their their ways of expressing life his eternal reat, it is generous." Someone once marriage the Campbells ar their appreciation of the Thesextracts, ara Malcolm 'Campbell.”....:: told him; «! You, are either, ranged a little celebration. joya of boing alivo."-" tho most charming person There were to be, about 20, op ""His children had parties 'one can meet or you are the guests. Almost at the arrival of course, but thosen were
"He was genuinely fond of
Eve, 1948
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