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DON IDDON'S DIARY
T three o'clock in the
A morning there was an
imperative knock on
the door of my hotel room and then the door opened.
As I struggled out, of sleep I heard a
"You must man say: keep your door locked at night- I'm the security officer, the
I said it was tough on people trying to sleep, but I locked the
from ****+++++ WASHINGTON
STALIN's REPORTERS
Mickey, the millionaire's daughter, works with the team sending news to Moscow about life in the decadent West
NEW YORK. VILLIAM QÁTIS, head of the Prague office of an American news agency, wondered if it were true that Vladimir Clementis, the former Czech Foreign Minister, had really disappeared.
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He went around asking questions. That, say the Czechs, was espionage. Now they have gaoled him for 10 years.
Things are done differently in the U.S.A. On the floor of the skyscraper building in the Radio City. there is a much larger office with a larger staff, whose door is always left open so that the big picture of Stalin on the wall can beam down the corridor.
Dollar-short British, French
and Dutch papers get along with from FREDERICK COOK Ave reporters at most in the United States. But not the
women
Russians. In New York Tass has
of 15. And it has another and a stoff of bureau in Washington.
Nominally thewerk
boss of the
Ivan
Jean Montgomery Euphemia Virden, both
Americans.
Larry Todd is now the State
Soviet news netwerk In the Department reporter with, his United States is self-effacing, own offee in the Department's poker-faced
Beglove, modernistic Press Room, Jean' who arrived in 1944. But the Montgomery is assigned to the man who really makes Tass work Capitol, Miss Virden to general
aima
an American-44-year-old Harry Freeman, quiet, hard- news.
Early last year, while discuss- Washington has become
legs working and friendly, He worked
once on America's Daily Worker ing American strategic. raw, more sophisticated
and has been with Toss for 20 before the House Foreign Affairs Today there
Committee, General Marshall ore multitudes pretty, well dressed, Freeman speaks no Russian. He nodded towards red-haired Jean. well-groomed
Montgomery, busy taking notes women every writes and files his despatches in at the Press deak, and said: Most of these English. Translation is done in witness this young lady here
years.
where in town. are Government girls-there are Moscow. 200,000 females employed by the U.S., in Washington-and women outnumber men five to four in this city.
Jean
or
radios
you don't see her type at such meetings in the Soviet Union." Freeman cables
The General was being gallant, between 8,000 and 15,000 words Jean, though by no means un-. house detective, end that is the and many of the journalists are sold: "I do not expect to hear The women seen to be able to to Russia each working day. His attractive, is hardly young. She hotel rule. This is touch
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heavily on is 45. constantly moving out of an lee- gratitude to the Americans for match the men when it comes despatches
of Daughter
a well-to-do town."
to drinking, and the charge government announcements, full It's human nature
sh: had д that Washington is the heaviest texts of omeloi speeches, finan- architect,
minor box into a hot-box, out of air- their help.
technical and business government job at one time, and conditioned hotel rooms or not to be grateful and it's un- drinking city in Ambrica, which clal.
reports.
for a spell worked in Wall Street. means the world, is unfor- Into sweltering public derstandable that there should
Esther be bitterness and envy when we tunately true.
His chief assistant is
That job folded when her Shields, fifty-year-old wife of broker employer went to a Daily Worker staff member. for fleecing his clients. have so much here."
The rest of the New York team Montgomery witched to Tass are a publicity-shy mixture of Russians and Americans who do le fraternising with other members of the New York Press,
offices
and meeting
places.
door and went back to bed..
Everyone has been telling me rooms what a lough town Washington, Schizophrenia is bound to set in. is. Mr Jack Lait, the editor of All day and every day, for t This was mild stuff from the the New York Mirror, has least two months of the year, usually venomous O'Donnell, so I just announced in print that the the Washington resident per thought I would pick out some petually slips in and out of an strangers to see how the British cesspool capital is
Burma measured up in their oyes. drunkenness, debauchery, munt- Alaskan Highway to a
+ A+ the National Press Club. cipal corruption and public Read and back again.
Despite this intolerable clima-, bag I talked to a colonel. apathy, protected crime, hood-
He said: "I was in Sallsbury lumism, racketeering, pander- lic condition, we, the British,
are receiving a reasonable deal during the war, and then I was ing, and plundering."
**
My friends of long standing have warned, me to be hore careful where I wonder night.
All these dreadful things rasy be true, but nothing fearful or even disconcerting has happened to me.
The hot-and-cold
HQ of Europe's
new Santa Claus
but Marine
Why they booze
THE reasons for
are sending them longs for the trap-
of Missouri.
gaol
Miss
After four years in New York she moved to Washington, where today she covers debales of the legislative chambers with zeal
and efficiency.
She lives with her mother who'
not docs
share her political enthusiasms. They do not discuss her work.
AS
the gar- gantuan drinking are long Uness, nerve strain, and the dreadful quality of the water To meet and of them is
depressing experience. As one of that comes from the inps.
But I am here to praise Wash- my colleagues said: "If you ask ington, not to bewait its booz-them how cold it gets in Moscow ing.
in January they have to check The low-makers are sober, with head-office before they dare in Plymouth for upright men at least most of tell you." a dime; I liked the time. They are certainly In Washington the Boss of Smiling, tense Euphemia it there, and I'm overworked and underpaid, Tass operations is chunky, curly- Virden-known
Mickey-la looking forward and after they have voted yet halrod Mikhall Fedorov, who, the daughter of an Ohio mil- to another visit, another ten or. a hundred mil- for a Russian, is almost garrulous. lionaire Industrialist. She was But we are not lions to Europe they go back to He even unbends occasionally a brilliant if unconventional sending all the their little flats or hotel rooms over, a vodka to such an extent student at the fashionable Sarah dollars becatise and count their own few dollars. that some of the newspaper Lawrence college. we like you. We President Truman himself crowd call him Mike..
When she joined Tass at the Fedorov is living proct that for age of 22 there was a futors. Her I have seen the Washington
to help defend
Russia book experience IS not father was at that time a special statistics on drinking and crime
ourselves.-— Mr. Truman has not made any what counts in a foreign cor- assistant to the Commerce, the highest in the country per
His qualifications Department. There were demands capita-and no doubt they are from the Press and the politi A Navy commander agreed, dramatic news during my visit. respondent accurate. but crime must be clans.
off There has been the routine include a degree as an aeronau that he quit but he stayed. Mr captain let
Fress conference with thetical engineer and Ave years in Truman told him his faith in him taking a holiday during my I went to see Charles Camp- some abuse. I excused him, routine, rather false questions, the Soviet aircraft Industry, was unshaken.
bell, of the British Information as he'd been stewing on duty in but that is all. I think there
dollers In the Non-Russlan Most people here seem to be Services. Mr Campbell said:
many cat-and-dried Intent on giving money away, "We are out of the valley of 100deg, heat out at the Pentagon are too
It is Fedorov, and not the New Russion fold deny to a man or loo abuse. The fuss about alleged (Warce) and the air-con- Press conferences,
many York men, to whom American woman that they are Communist. no: taking 1%
mimeographed handouts and British shipments to Red Chinu ditioning had gone wrong.
minds turn when they consider "We are not allowed to belong to
The reply is always the same- releases in Washington.
the plight of William. Cutis. For Giving away money has died down. We have been ntore popular we are not at
Still I like it
while Oatls is behind bars for any political party, It's a rule asking questions that all news of the office, t the merciless heat- Now the peak of our popularity, but
TADITOR Jack Lait says: "It is mer aske, Fedorov, attends Mr No dollar famine seems to we are moving along a plateau York is refrigerator of good will."
A
the world's greatest bureau-Truman's Press conferences ask embarrass the operations of Tass. compared 10 this city-the
Mr Campbell likes his geo-
cracy, hump-backed and bow-log all the questions he likes and Observers who know American statesmen, day after day, have
legged under tons of laws and sending off to Moscow whatever rents and who can compule the been pleading and urging for graphical expressions, and I re-
endless regulations stately he chooses. more tens of millions of dollars port him straight.
concentration camp
Second in command to Fedorov Tass costs Stalin not less than of cold
is to be sent to Europe.
a silm, pink-complexioned £100,000 a year. And this talees satellite Mr Dean Acheson Secretary of
monuments and hot mammas,"
Myself, I like Washington and American of middle-age, Lorry no account
Todd, who ran the office, for reporters-the Poles, for instance, State, has spent gruelling hours
I am deeply, grateful to th before Senate committees trying
years until Moscow sent Fedorov known around the UNO press Footnote: Without Washington out to supplant him. Ap
room as "The demi-Tas1:8," to prove that the United States
the Western World would be The rest of the Washington must spend 25,000,000,000 dal
washed up.
siaff consists of two remarkable lars during the next three years on arming and bolstering Euro- prons,
visit.
off
Simultaneously, some politi- clans were trying to cut Acheson's pay.
General George Marshall, the Secretary of Defence, pounded the hot desks
has and
The city is crowded to the rafters with tourists, uniformedl men, business men, and lobby- ists, that strange breed with limitless expense accounts who are here to influence voles and
hare contracts.
My friend Charles Nichols, the СПУ of I saw, John O'Donnell, the Canadian journalist, British-balling Washington col- Washington: "This is where we in, brief-cases and umnist of the New York Dally came
Mr O'Donnell, who is uniforms, just like during the News. contemplating a trip to Europe war."
It is largely the same scene, to kick the Europeans around a
thero arc little on their home ground, but
differences.
.
cable and radio tolls estimule that
of
the
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what a sinful, city this in. will tion. Mr Borman tall, herited from his father. In only war can break the sing its prises. ..
stooping, white-haired and Reading he worked in a Soviet hold on Russia," says the Washington is a beautiful city. Washington, is a stately city 78 years old-likes his new biscuit factory. "I invented Princess.
The Princess married Prince and August get the feeling that Od in the shops) get a table. Dmitri Galitzine, former officer they have chosen the wrong Those paying es 6d for a bottle in the Imperial Cavalry, as her
time, second husband 22 years ago, in Bulgaria. They lived at the
One of the fow new playe house from and the only one in English-to its inception.
be scan in Paris, now is The Madeleie they are saying TN the British Bank near the Prince Dmitri, composer of Good Old Days,” at the. Amer!-'. religious
tow musle, 'died
tourists than last four, can Summer Theatre, installed gear are coming to change months ago."
In the Vieux Colombier (Old Iravellers · cheques. On a 20- What solutions have these
Good Old Days" is set in the France this season. Not so crisis?
main des Fres, where the Ex- one car with a GB plate. istentialists come from. ***The
You might therefore thinkc that fewer Britons are coming to Middle West in 1933, 1
According to the French Com- of sweeping avenues, magnin home. But he still thinks several new kinds of Eng. "Not waź-revolution from This play, by Meyer Levin, missariat-General of Tourism cent Government buildings, of Reading, Berks, where he lish biscuits," he said with inside says Mr Borman
author of the first aim to be total for the season is 800,000 to are many more. Estimated green parke, fino monuments, lived in a six-roomed house prido, as we talked in the Blonde, French-born Princess made in Palestine, has had a 100,000, against 570,000 Last worthy to be the world capital in School Terrace until he flagged hall of the Manor, mother-in-law founded the in- about 60 people were in the whose bad Press. It deserves it. Only
They have totted up the which it undoubtedly is becom- moved to Paris in 1947 to beneath a glant of portrait siltution with Miss Paget, now thenire the night I was there ing to the Riviera: 30,251 in the of English people: go- be near his children.
of Tagr Alexander III. He runs the place, Its greatest shortcoming is item de climate in midsummer. The He was a corporal in the also wrote poems in EngShe showed me the Tsar's red and tow stayed for the last act. first six months of this year. In velvet throne from the Russian Evert daring discussions on 1060 at the same, period the mid-ninety temperature, com- Reading Home Guard. Now ish, had four volumes Embassy in Paris, treasured at free love and contraceptive Solution of the paradox-
total was 20,930, bined with drenching humidity,
falled to fascinate them. makes every day in July and he is one of 200 people end. published in London at his the Manor.
many Britons are avoiding There is only one French girl paris and going direct to the A doctor and eight riureca August the cruellest form of Ing their days in the house own expense.
look after the 80 bedridden in the cast. The rms of the resorts; Paris, is too expensivo. torture.
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