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of
DON IDDON'S DIARY
Mr
TRUMAN STILL
HAS BOUNCE
Truman,
one
It
WHILE people in temperale In 1948, the all men decided W
elimes are usually able to to install six distillation units take araple supplies of "cool then the largest ever designed water" for granted, other to provide a total of 600,000 countries are not so lucky. And gallons of fresh water daily
1,200,000
Ballons one of these is the fabulously from 1,290,000
When he left, grinning and hair and a trigger temper, He New York, Tuesday, President in action. He had come brackish salt oil-rich sheikhdom of Kuwait, brac salt water drawn from
way from Key West, self-confident, the man next to is up for re-election this year ind he has his ear to the great- on the sun-scorched
SI hadn't seen the all the Persian the Persian Gulf. Some of this Gulf. For that tiny territory fresh water was used at once.
President for several Florida, to give a little talk to me said: "I wis take plenty to
roots. Every time a microphone fresa
Some Was fed into reservoirs
is within a mile of him, Senator will. has no natural supplies of
weeks I went along to 3,500 high school and junior Est Harry Truman down "~ water whatsoever. Until recent against the "hot weather sea-
Connally bellows: "We can't go the Waldorf-Astoria college editors youths and
The President has not yet re- en giving and giving to Europe ly, ul.
water supplies were son" beginning in April-when
vealed whether he will гин ferried in by dhow from a broad the
for ever and over without end, aim Is to have a stored to get a good look at him girls ranging from 14 to 20.
informe- at least 20,000,000 the other day. reck the Shalt al-Arab- rescrve
and again, but the Inside spruce
This is deeply embarrassing which flows into the Gult at a gallons in hand.
smart in blue suit, white shirt, tion, said to come from some-
to the Truman Administration, whose sister once knew a point higher up the cons.
However, that is by no Harry Truman looked fine and dark blue tie, Was іл fellow whose brother took out because Connally is supposed to incana the end
of the story, and dandy, bronzed and engaging form, He had по the While House Then
switchboard be lined up on the Administra- foured in Thanks oil was
to Kuwail's royalty
Is that
side, but no The President script and apparently no notes. operelor,
President tan's
ona, dare Kuwait-and the olf men's first revenues from oil production,
bouncing.
run ¡f Senator
clamp down can Connally, who need was water.
the Sheikh has initiated a pro- does not often come to New He just talked from his heart Truman will
has the gift of landing on the Initially
front page two or three times.. for installing a State Halt York, as security measures about Russia, newspaper pub- Taft is the Republican ean- shared-the-jest..
Plani that
and editors, adout didale...
a week. supplies. shipped in by the water
are difficult. We have more fishers
Jennings Bryan, and Harry Truman only admits dhows. Then, as their operations will provide alicly one million
and this
gallons supply and props later, expanded
fresh water dally, than our share of what the William
that Tufi is his favourite oppo- system proved inadequate, they million gallons a day.
up to five police call "nuts and hood- youth and the future.
lums."
He captured the children, and allion, and he wants to beat him organised a fresh-water tanker
because
that Taft everything The experience the oll
of freight
eight service. Soon,
most of the adults. If he was standa for is against everything Iri installing and All of 57th Street and most at all worried about his defeat that Mr Truman has done and tankers one a 10,000 tonner
their own plant hus of Park Avenue were stripped
ever anyone gets too out of But been
fully placed
at
hand the finger the of traffle and were pretty bare by Senator Estes Kefauver in tried to do.
is the Now Hampshire primary
pointed | before long, even the tankers Sheikh's disposal. Before long, of people, as Mr Truman came
The same mysterious inform- aercas the Atlantic at the town, but were unable to keep pace with everyone in Kuwalt may enjoy to
there were no election he did not show it. He
ant,
or a relative who knows shavan, shorn. boon
gouged, and talked better than Kefauver and, someone who delivers the pews- clipped British taxpayer, which-hitherto has incidents. consumption.. Machines, insepara
απε Scnator Robert Taft combined, able from the task of oil pro-. been an, undreamed-of luxury
papers at the White House, says the question asked: "How and his folksy personality came that Mr Truman has not much would you like to get the com- duction, had even more copious cool, clear water in abundance
first than their masters,
on tap.
across like Will Rogers,
heart for running against Gen plete tax treatment on the eral Elsenhower, should the British model?" general get the nomination, be-
Actually our Budget has im- he likes Ike and Ike's
the Americans 18 policies are very similar to pressed Truman's,
sound, sare, and as restoring Incentive. It has won more praice than ll the share the-poverty Socialist, schemes,
were shuttling berween Kuw and the
Shatt-al-Arab.
distillation
of
.
I got a good place in the Waldorf ballroom to watch the
Part 4 Of An Astonishing Interview
:
WHY DID LITVINOV TAKE THE RISK?
"THY
By RICHARD C. HOTTELET
did Maxim The resigned certainty in his on history. He won diplomatic failed to dent the Soviet armies. Litvinov take his manner when he assured me that recognition of the United States Stalin ence again felt vigorous. to the In August 1943 is recalled in 1933 and admission life in his hands he would have no influence on
Litvinov. He foreign policy, and the vehe- League of Nations in 1934. to warn the mence with which he described signed nce-aggression
This time a more decent ob- pacts with Weat against Stalin's policy himself as a private citizen when every one of Russia's European saurity awalled the old
I left, reasonably suggest that he and Asiatic neighbours except paigne. He was kicked upstate couldn't be that Russia
knew
his carter had just come Japan, and paved the way for to become Deputy Foreign Mints- trusted?
to an end.
muiuml assistance treaties with ter under Molotov. He had But these
cam-
trai
cause
A
Not too long THEN there is the indispu
able fact that Elserhower might be a very hard men
beat.
(D
If It is not certain what,Harry. Truman will do, it is crystal clear what General Eisenhower is doing. He is running for he is worth.
all
But how long can Eisenhower go on being a general serving the President and NATO in Europe and at the same time be candidate running against Truman or Truman's nominee? Not too long. The call to come back home is strong, and may be irresistible.
to
Our Budget praised
DEPORTS on the British A Budget help a little. When- '
New York is as much pre- occupied with crime ng with money at the moment, When I
from New Hamp got back shire I was astonished to seb with posters: trucks plastered "Help to Find the Killer Help Find Arnold Schuster's Killest
Over Turn
Information to: Police Department, Priest. Minister, or Robbi."
The newspaper New York Journal American
shouted:
Reward,"
oditorial and the writers talked about a reign of lesor.
38,000-dollar (about £13,6001
Every detective and patrol- man is at the look-out, for the assassin of Schuster, whose tip to the police resulted in Willo Sutton, the bank-robber known ne "The Acter," being arrested,
He knew the risk he was
I hope the campaign will not external details France end Czechoslovakia. nething to do, and no voice i
He had for years.been demand- policy.
become too undignified. It is ali running. If the facts were leave much unexplained. I was
But he knew that as long as right for Senator Kefauver published while he lived a complete stranger to Litvinov. thg world disarmament.
We had no mutual friends. Neither Litvinov nor his gov- he was in office he was available wear his coonskin cap and go New York is accustomed to
liko Daniel they would be his. death
crime, but this cold-blooded Το be sure,
I was correspen- ernment had sprouted halos in for use again if the Soviet line around looking warrant. If they were made dent of the Columbia Broadcast those years. Their foreign policy should change. He had become Boone, but one can tire of ec- killing has raised its hackdos known after he died, he ing System. But for
for all he knew
was hard necessity. The Comin in his own mind, as probably in centric headpieces. Senator Taft There has been a barrage of would be cursed in Soviet might have been working for term had been unable to provoke Stalin's doo, and in the world's, has been posing holding a cow threatening letters even were has been sent to Judge Samuel the secret police, or been a world revolution. Internally the the symbol of Soviet willingness boy stetson as if it
and Harold Leibowitz-and several. peoplo history as the renegade who fellow traveler who would hear regime staggered from one crisis to live with the West on a rea- smoking bomb,
Stansen has been rigged out in are betrayed
24-hour being given. the
his story Kremlin's th astonishment. Barring these
coldly and spread it to EnoLiver.
Indian feathers, but don't let guards. plans,
The struggle for succession,
*
us get too cute or comy; hazards, I could have been in the Five Year Plan, collectivisa-
The gangster is on the tengo. again in New York, and polica
about explanations
"madmen and tunatles" do not sound very convincing.
•
and history-maker for the Sovjet Union, finally
Minister
.turned his back on his party and
on
have
1.
scrmble, tolerant basis.
was
#
to
N BROADWAY business 15
looking up. Four new plays open this week-"Flight Едура" "One Bright pay,The Long Watch" and reo Wishes for Jamie." This is a great rush after the loggard past weeks,
reloved of his post as Deputy Several times during that November he became Ambassa- He was fully prepared to risk The squcezo', hurts long time since one of our
My only conclusion is this:
sença. The consequences for alon of agriculture, famine and In February 1940 Stalin had
The New Hampshire voters Maxim Litvinov, old bolshevik him would have been no less the purges of the thirties kept arounced several more Five were serious and sabor, and the Ambassador, Foreign
fidel. Even more to the point, the country in bloody convul- Year Plans. They meant no other constituents seem in '. the Litvinov never lowered his voice slons.
conversion to peace production
same mood. during our conversation.
The Soviet regime desperately despite the abject misery of the
people. needed and wanted security from Russian
Instead, 031 Of course, the last week has.. the loyalties of a lifetime.
outside pressure while it destroy-
concentrated Chengy
been income-tax payment week, Broadway speed-up Only
could Litvinov
He must have been at least as ed its opponents at home. Once heavy industry and war produe-which is enough to make any. given a full explanation for the mindful as I that Moscow walle the punges were over and after-
tion.
one feel grim. strange interview, he gave me in have cars. As it turned out he a short breathing spell, Stalin The evidence suggests that en 1948, which I have recounted in was quite safe, but the risk he felt vigorous enough to dismiss June 18 Litvinov was dismissed On average a third of the previous chapters, But his life took was enormous. He accepted Litvinov.
for good. He must have known national Income goes in taxes, and the interview itself susceti calmly and with dignity. Molotov took over, and the then that he would never be direct and hidden. On the theory a personal tragedy matching the
This was probably Litvinov's polley of collective security gave called again. Stalin would have that what you don't see doesn't scale of his decision.
last chance to be heard. My way to the Stalln-Hitler alliance no further use for remeone who hurt you, the hidden taxes have really been slapped, right across appointment with him had been and the tactles of turning. Rus- genuinely believed the U.S.S.R. made before his dismissal as De ain's, capitalist enemies of all could live with the Wertem the board-on bread and milk, The first solid clue came two puty Foreign Minister. He was complexions against each other,
on beef and coal, on motor-cars world. months later. On August 23, not likely ever again to have ́ a
itvinov's hopes et a better
and radio sets, on cigarettes and
The new British film "Marry. every 1946, Pravda printed a brief long conversation with a Wes-
had been centroyed by the liquor on just about
Me," with Derek Bond, ̈ ̈Guy: notice by email type on its back tener, and ho was determined
thing. When Hitler Invaded Russia in regime he had helped to create.
Middleton, and Norn Swine. page to the effect that Maxim to be heard.
June 1041, Latvinoy was swiftly and strengthen, His spirit had
burne, got poor review. It's a Maximovich Litvinov a been.
Back brought
to favour.
bpen killed by the Kremlin. Iri
pictures receiver thumbs down Foreign Minister that Feodos half gore to go. But if I mis dar to Washington, and for the physical death to send the world
at pauses in the discussion,
citizen Custy and Jakob Malik had judged this unique opportimiy next two years he was doing an urgent warming. He still wore I put through
frem the critica the wringer,.. bron promoted do that rank.
Gregory Peck's next film will He in my desire not to overdo a business to his own specialty, no halo, hat by no means been There was nothing more.
oblivion
good thing, Litvinov held me White Russia rocked under H converted to Western democracy, and is beginning to howl. Taxes be made in England, and he i went into
without
have Increased fivefold since moving, kis - wife back by going
14 was in all Wellbood his 1038, sevenfold since 1920, and children over there. kind wand. He
have had to say: With what to las's blows and the Germans He would not
drove to the Valga and the sheer humanity which moves are 20 times those of 1010. Why? expected 'ont,
kivart
his action must Caucarus, Litvinov pleaded the him to cry out in alt against Oh why? asks thie, wage-eamer, Decislye I happened It is probably hist 1 Jupports have been his personal sense of cause of the conuertitle comition the Soviet machine's design to digging into his pocket, or oven Ellen Tany's letter to Bernard, he had received the first notice tragedy. Litvinov had never been and urget intressed assistance to dominate the globe. to
1. believe he had the satisfac or a reliable warning of his dis milk and water idealist, He was Russia in tire common struggle,
There is no doubt in my mind, tion of knowing, before he died, halt beat rough and operator. mind. Here he who preferred results to pretty that Litvinov was sincere, But that the West as longer trusted over the deck, the quick cuming tonnyulas, but all, his Lee, Tre Dredel was rat, The tide of war of papers ing ladleated nervousness and had his fashion served one in Russia began to turn of
Feature Syndicate, Inc.), pation. The closet windows broad Heal. He had, believed in Stalingrea in the Winter of 1982 (Copyright, list by Unitat and the bright fire in the fire the revolution as the painful Stalin waited autouply to 100 place as I svakted into the room birth of a batter life, how much bite Hitler had left on that bristering hot day, shotid After 1030, People's Com for the summer volkensive In have told me that privets papers missor for Foreign Affairs July the Germans maximum werp hurriedly being burned. Muslim Lalyimby left his impeint effort against the Kung plENE
Tomorrow EFECT OF LEAVINOV INTERVIEW ON US. STATE DEPARTMENT
ls, being
Fandythrée
Sarah Churchill's reading of
dipping into debt, to pay the show shows that she has in- herited her father's talent for speaking.
collector,
The answers are involved and conflicting One politician, Sena- tor. Tom Connally, of Texas, is 'saying the 'most;\;
At lost a good newspaper nimi bas opened "Deadune USA..” -starring", "Humphrey,^« Bogart. 4. This epochos sozmo velation to la: newspaper, reality,” and “ Lacko: Chairman of the Senate Forelm that "Stop, the preace, clear Relations Committee, He has the front
nonserro
Tawm Connally
Dago"
an imposing leonine mana of Hollywood usually delights in.