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AMERICAN COLUMN
OUT OF THE SUN, INTO THE HEAT
Washington newspaper story reading at- LEAVE the red-hot every word with absorbed
tention. It turned out to be the sunshine of Florida and
report of the day's proceedings return to Washington at the Newbold Morris hear- where
find the at- ings.
I
even
hearing,
nation's capital.
can say
<f
his
Was
HOW the Communists are working to capture the good will of London's
students: A report by
$ the
ROBERT KINGSLEY
crow flies,
: Prague is roughly
650 miles from the centre of London's quarter in Blooms-
ΟΙ
Their d'blad inoughtless
towards
the
menners they meet from the English varies.
The West Indians, I was told, particularly those from Jamaica, regarded themselves as English and were quickly able to sort out the situation Those from the Enst regarded English people who showed signa of colour- consciousness with sensible, con-
THE LONELY HEART...
& THE FRIENDLY GIRL
with
chips'.on expecting
their
rebuffa.
the most deeply sensitive and most easily hurt.
mosphere red-hot with NEW YORK, counsel for some of the most bitter Alger
H Erant ex-Sice student invective I ever remember Department official now in gastbury.
Laird in the ter parjury, requests a
Crial for his dient. He says He But воме coloured has fresh evidence showing that In the Senate - we
have the battered old Hiss typewriter students at London Univer- Senator Walter George,
Priscilla sity might be pardoned if Roughly two-thirds of them they first come. It is ter- arrive wife Georgia, chairman nt. the on which
was said to have copled out at times they felt Prague are "aponsored," which is rible. There seems to be shoulders Finance Committee, turning on
was more accessible to
to say they have been to nothing to do at all except tempt. The West Africans were his Democratie boss, President top secret documents
laboriously constructed
varying degrees hand- walkt
the up and down Triman, with the mest un fake,
by semeone and then "planted" them than Richmond parliamentary words:-
picked for their academic streets."
As would he expected, the The most charitable thing I dhe ale where it was found. Cockfosters,
For Prague is the front in their own countries.
accomplishments or promise about his personal THE POLITICAL dust seitles
Loneliness is n high card in Left-wing element in the Univer- character and personal integri-
The office from which
hand, the Communists'
slty contains Communists, white ty is 'No comment,' but he is in New Hampshire. And many
there are country political experts say that
lonely student is introduced to
There' make a the poorest advocate of a cause,
sbly strengthened by the twin ganda to students this side look after them.
not seem to cause the embarrass-point of attending functions→
and so on)- the world has ever produced."
ment or prove the absolute lectures, debates upset. They are "Truman Must of the Iron Curtain; the
The other third consists barrier
in suburban that they know will be attended THIEN there is the amazing Ge" and "Taft Can't Win."
headquarters of the Inter-
coloured students. They Newbold Morris, the President's
ONE FEATURE of the Eisen-national Union of Students of hopefuls who come here social circles. The girls, trained by "graft chaser," who produces
on their own, some properly to be so, are friendly; they are strike up acquaintances.
rarely immoral, they are doing the function they invite their yet another of the rowdiest hower campaign I haven't yet jis.nlso in Prague.
the large num-
qualified educationally, many a job for the party. verbal brawls heard in months seen gressed
not qualified at all. It is at the Senate committee hear- ber of woman who are ardent-
among this last group that ings about his law firm's con- ly throwing themselves into his meetion with a surplus tanker camp. Undoubtedly the, guis
ke Ike.
Communists find their best THE FUSSERS hunting. A boy who comes
two
the
this
in
good, bad, or Indifferent, that Elogans have been immeasur-Cominform directs propu- various organisations that mixed clubs where colour does and coloured.
deal.
versity.
it might
After
new "friends" 10 canteens or cafes or refectories. There they start their polemics. And very often they overdo it and bore their audiences.
A West Indian from Trinidad, who is a "fresher" studying told me of the science,
His name was A. R, Rai, and
or four of "There are three them come to the hostel where live when we have lectures, Two
From Prague, the Com- munists reach out to win the good will of the young men and women from West 011 Disregarding the card
VIVIEN LEIGH and Marlon
Africa, the West Indies, here from Africa, say, Other clubs offer other induce- which his wife had written in
the tempestuous block capitals "Keep your shirt Brando,
" cest car" em, a probably Malaya and elsewhere, who without his matriculation, ments-strange "degrees to be on!" Morris really lets go.
are studying at London Uni- yet hoping to find a place hod for the membership fee, He accuse the Senators of going to make a film together Jack Warner wanta and gain.
in a university hard-pressed perhaps, or a promise of finan- him having "diseased minds,"
in co-star for
to accommodate those pro- clal help in an emergency.. complains of the vile ama- then to
"Black Ivory," all Rbout the
easily plentiful supply of Soviet Iltero perly qualified, very sphere in Washington."
is either folsted upon accepts the Communist line ture How is it done? In Bri- that he is barred because of students free or sold at excced-
ingly low prices. his colour. tain as a whole, there
In fact, the coloured student probably 500 students and
need not feel lonely. There are the 'IT'S TERRIBLE' apprentices from
probably more facilities for him India
than for a homesick Colonies, 5,000 from and Pakistan, and another
Com- from the North of England. But
these facilities for making IT'S SIMPLE 5,000 from countries such
for friends have a depressing ten- The as Burma and Persia. great majority of these R. M. MacCOLL work in and about London.
(re- ousted Cuban the President Carlos Prio), In Now Yerk Daily News: "Pro awarded right to scram."
TOUCH: HUMAN THE Washington liquor shops #re selling respectable whisky at 1s. a bottle--but only two to a cus-
Then he shoul Senator efter's of a Frenchman to win HAND-PICKED Richard Nixon, 40-year-old Re- an American bride. publican: "When you're 20 or 30 FAVOURITE HEADLINE years okler, maybe you'll be ferring to the more like a gentleman."
"Childish"--"Emotionally un- Important job" - At for this counter the enraged Senilers. INCIDENTALLY, on the plane from Key West into Miami, I found myself sitting just Le- hind one of President Truman's .tomer. 1op White House advisers, John Stesman. He was engrossed in
pre
+
To that extent, munism is n dogma failures.
.
student
dency to be over-organised and what I would call institutional.
he
ere doing law, I know, one is a doctor of medicine. They talk and talk, and if all they talk is all they have to offer students I can't see students being very interested."
A "youth festival" to be held "But there are other means
In Sheffield at Whlisun" "Is "now of exploitation open to the A chaplain concerned with the being planned. Apparently it Communists. Said a mature welfare of coloured students will be an imitation of the inter- and thoughtful man from tummed up the English attitude national spree fer students that to them. "It is either," he said, the Communists staged in Berlin
ease of fear, frigidity, last summer.
Concluding This Report Of An Astonishing Interview the Gold Coast, D. A. Pup-to
LITVINOV'S WARNING WAS A STATE SECRET
F
By Richard C. Hottelet
the
not
lampu, of Adowa, who is ignorance and insensitivity to
Lonely students at a loose end doing post-graduate work their feelings or, and this is on the languages of his own equally bad, a fussing, gushing, in London over Whitsun may be
What is
tempted to go to Sheffield. patronising attitude. country, but who was, 1
wanted is for them to be treated Whether they do or not is a few years ago, himself
as ordinary boys away from matter that will be deelded,.very "fresher" here: "I can't home. The more they are treated largely, by Londoners themacives. Let Londeners make the coloured tell you what the loneliness like English boys the better."
students feel at home in Britain, The way to defeat the Com-
Is that people who are new Some students arrive here not here from Africa feel when knowing, what to expect; some munists is as simple as that.
he sat
The Folies-neither art nor culture
But What Engineering !
Paris'
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NE hundred and sixty thousand pounds worth
Thaze 43 scenes are magnif- cently handled by 89 hard- and 'en- varking electricians
ORMER Russian were direct answers to questions stand. He carriet a newspaper Foreign Minister about some of the most pressing which he unfolded us
international problems.
down. Maxím Litvinov was,
Litvinov had made it clear For the rest of the evening 1 not never once saw him take his eyes politically speaking, that Soviet behaviour was
When several an odd series of enntankerous, off that paber. the Soviet Klaus Fuchs.
The information betrayed unpredictable acts, but a solid times he prudently raised one
chain of policy. It was not
not hand to vote you with the other by Fuchs advanced the de- based on misunderstanding but deputies, Litvinov laid the new
his desk
and continued the Soviet on velopment of
deliberate conclusion paper on
earth Is
big to read. To appreciate the full atom bomb. Litvinov's that the warning to me that the enough to permit the Communist flavour of this silent demonstra- non-Communist worlds to tion, one must know how little and
spangled. feathered gives him a kiss and a Soviet could not be trusted live side by side. Litvinov dis- the four-page Pravda or Izvestia tourist bait was cast with ticket on the underground and
back and has to tay, and how incredibly
with the or appeased hastened and pelled Soviet propaganiz
a strictly Parisian. "boum" says "Come
other £25 next year." .strengthened the Western encouraged American statesmen dull that is.
Grands Boule- The following week tele- along the resolve to block Soviet to follow their convictions,
office for vards,
They know something about James Byrnes by that time phoned. Litvinov's This came at
the cost of living, apparently aggression.
had
the another appointment, but no illusions Gbout
told he was on vacation. On It was the 28th Folly of these French, a time when delay or doubt Russians. His own offer of
Folies Bergeres trenty to disarm and August 23 the announcement of
the might have made future 25-year containment impossible.
demilitarise Germany, designed his dismissal as Deputy Foreign naturally the costliest, most satirical picture of the "average cach to gl
demanded Minimes appeare; in Pravio. give Moscow its
It is difficult, and for an
outsider perhaps impossible, to Mplote had been rejected by
tell what decisions were made
His views
have been
and what plans were dropped ander the impact of Litvinov's words. Yet this much can be said. top-level reference in the U.S. State Department ever since he outlined them to me on June
18, 1940.
05
Wns
TN the winter of 1046, Ambas-
of
free
read
a back-513ge,
"les gils" wear ten and a hell miles of gorgtous material and fathoms of feathera almest half the time.
the
either
of
what
Gilded girl cages pop out
rocf. Hyvolving stages, snow scenes and metalight--de- The United Nations plece is 'a Anildy wet pools succeeded with astonishing He, European of 1000,"
ap- rabidity. brilliant of show business porently, will chew gum, tweak
is certainly is not culture. out of hard.
extravaganzas,
indelicately, drink cola,
It may not be ait. But books called "Blook in the engineeringi Important problems such atomic control were still open, sader Smith saw him trudging
The new star of the show, Geraniums," dance the rumba, however. Publie
a 22-year-old lovely who be and shout most of the time un-
row of the intelligibly. the United States, ts in Britain along a country road wearing his gan in the back
Menard, where, insisted and elsewhere,
nudes at 10, Yvonne that old grey Foreign Office overcoat. diplomats its
approach the As far as I know, Litvinov never has been promoted to clothe. Soviet Union with open minds again apoke with an American or
She is, even more, probably not and be niways prepared to go on Englishman,
with any Wedom foreigner. seeing and they let her speak more than half way.
In his public life Litvinov had a few lines now, too. deserved very well of the regime, and he had never figured in internal polities. It was said that
*
They have been pored over Lime and agalu 23 different problems have arisen. Litvinov
and Tr ic worth may have been ignored
the Lossed in10 carelessly
strict secrecy Kremlin's ash
he Litvinov interview
con.
But
must have had the satisfaction of knowing that the highest American officials consulted him respectfully and often.
☆
FROM the moment I told the
or
of
course of
opinion
in
worth
*
noting
the
in which
hos
the
he lived in Morrow quietly and
New nude star is a
young
Nor-
from
Vive le mecanismo. my verdict.
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given a second-class funeral with One of the latter, John the customary Soviet tal-
telse author, In two and a half hours, 41 time
and fantastic Davies, was for a brief
fast-moving His body Iny in state
by Blate in the
take you last year exposed to the fatuous conference hall of the Foreign proceeded story at the American Em-
vicious accusation of in ome, surrounded by wreaths
aths from full-fledged railway trains bassy, the Litvinov Interview was cecurity and disloyalty in the and flowers. A military band in the Gare St. Lazare to the
stalo secret,
dirges.
When the smoky depths of a vast oplum played funeral I Ambassador
the to consulted
crystal funeral procession was organised, den and up Walter Bedell Smith fashed before I went to sco Lat it was led by three young For gates of a Negro Heaven.. It to Secretary of State James vinov. Ono indiscreet word eign Office men carrying, on
The oplum den is a Byrnes, who was then in Paris from Davies, and tha meet small exccrked pillows, Litvinov's discussing questions like Trieste, Ing would never have taken. Order of Lenin, Order of the never seen east of the Seine,
and the Negro Heaven the Italian colonies and the place. After the event we dis- Red Banner of Labour and future of Germany,
with cussed the material at length Medal for the Valiant, a run- strictly the foyer of a, Ritz
run amok. Soviet Foreign Minister Molo before it went off to the Secretary of-the-m!}] wartime decora- tov. Mr Byrnes Icept, the docus of State.
Uion. ment in his private safe. In An Inderellon by Davies then Washington,
orders were Elven would have sent Litvinov to the
treated as a utmest urgency.
leber.
John
broadside attack.
Davies
slcy or Alexandra
as far as its substance is cor- occasion was a pession of the puty Foreign Ministers Gromyko,
Men :liko George Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR
kind
While they aro building
some of these scenes, there is time for two rather interesting to keep this message out of secret police execution cellar. Yet
little sidelights on the orches- the ordinary secret ales and to the old man apparently diet 2
old col- tra edge of the stage. One la make it available only to actual death ave and had NONE of Livinov's
leagues-Malaky, Troyanov", called, rather spitefully £28" handful of men at the top.
Kollontay(Foreign trave), allowance. for Latvinos's warning did not I saw Litvinov again about a came to his funeral. The highest Buitonia) and the other United come as a staggering surprise, week after our conversation. The ranking mourners were
De Nations."
Mark well Zorin and Gusev cerned.
the first. Tho Kennan and Charles Bohlen the Russian Soviet, Federal Som The trony was completo. The Frenchman's idea of "un An- had for years been reporting stallat Repundle, largest of the 10 robots of the Soviet system | glais," green pork-ple hat and estimate of republies. It mot in the vast St were burying a free spirit. They tweed jacket staggers bellowing Soviet Intentions But I am Andrew's Hail of the Great did not know that Litvinov had into Paris. In a few swift told that influential quarters in Kremlin Palace, Bila a huge prepared himself an obituary moves he mixes his drinks and
Pravda would never loses his allowance. the State Department quite room, a good 600 foot long, 200 which apart from Alger. His had feet wide and 35 feet high. print, and that he had left a honestly been discounting their Whon Litvinov came into the heritage of scorn which Josef reports as reflecting embittered hall, he took me notion of the Stalin, now that he knows it, "Moscowitis. Inustle bit ombled down the will never forget.
It way Impossible for any nose-coloured arrpet to his desi(Cosurions 10% bu United honest man to discount Lit in the second row, in the middle, Feature Fundici Ing.
front of the speaker's
(THE END). more, bora just vinov. What I
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