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MARRIAGE VOGUE GROWS AMONG UNDERGRADUATES
By Robert Kingsley
London.
BUDGET HIGHER
to
The aranta which students LEXANDER LYON is receive probably contribute
the vague for marriage while at
1
20-year-old student the university. In the days
reading law at London University. He is in
when parents paid for the
of his majority
fathers would
second year at University
students, most have jibbed at the thought of also supporting u
College, and he is a typical daughter-in-law. Some grants, representative, of that post- though WAT University pheno- education menun, the student who gets married.
In the years immediately after the war, London, like other universities, received a large number of students who had married while in the Forces and either began
on
not those of county
authorities, maka allowances for married students, student, Marit A chemistry Williams, for Instance receives £300 a year. It la paid under the Further Education Training Scheine awarded to men
who en were called up to the Services or volunteered before Septem- or Williams's £380, ber 1947.
wite I paid for his. £120 Patricia, £40 for their Brsl
or resumed their studies child, aged five, and £37 for
chilld, demobilisation. They their second were generally older by year-old.
a three-
several years than students HER COMPLAINTS
normally are.
The ex-Service married men have mostly gone down now. Their place has been taken by mea who have married during the course of their university careers.
What is life like for thesa "young married" of the univer
to
WIL
WILLIAMS is 28, and served in the Fleet Air Arm in the inst war. He married in 1940. and is in his anal year at the university, from which he hopes to go into a jeb as industrial chemist.
an
"My wife's only complaints sity To find out, I talked about being married to three students-husbands and, südent" he said, "are that the one student-wife at University would like more money, and she College.
sometimes gets ted up with raz Alexander Lyon was one of having to work in the evenings. the three men. He and his wife I suppose we get to a cinema or other kind of a shaw some Hilda both come from Leeds.
ένα about once in
months." and last year They married
He and his family are shortly now make their home in a two-
leave u Croydon room flat (sharing a kitchen) having
10
at Crouch Hill, N, 8, that costs flat with a rental of 21s, for one them £216 a year.
because
or six years, said Lyon.
£180 A YEAR
foundi
for them by the local
"I find I can usually work at home after about seven in the evening, when the children YON, like the majority of have gone to bed," he said, "but the week-ends are sometimes o students, ro- present-day
his bit of n trial." ceives a grant fowards university
education.
In his He has done vacation
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in wher
Ww.
DEMAND FOR HIGHER WAGES
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"CAREFUL,RAB! IF ALL GOES WELL YOU SHOULD JUST BEAT YOURSELF."
DOUBLE FOR THE BIG RACE
THE
Word Court. Dy Nerumpemont with Dasty Herald
BATTLE
IS ON FOR NATO FUNDS
By O. H. BRANDON
gress-the battle for the NATO funds,
£
Losing Battle
Big Czech Purge Is Held Up
From
Sebastian Pratt
Belgrade, Mar. 20. Tin Prague are THE big purge trials due.
being
held up bocatase Vladimir Clementis, 50 year old former Foreign Minister in the Red Czech Government and some of his associates now held in prison charged with plotting against tho regime, have. refused to confess.
This information comes from # highly authentic source, a former assistant and friend who was with Clementis the week-end of his arrest in February 1951 and who himself later. fied from Prague,
Several times since, Prague Radio has said the trials would begin "short- ly," but according to the sources still in Czecho slovakin with whom this in- formant-now In Yugo→ slavia is able to keep, un- derground contact:
ckl
"Clementis has made only the. #nationalist admission deviations' which the Czech Inadequate, teaders rejected as
and quer since then has defled his accusers and stubbornly re- fused to acknowledge his guilt on charges of espionage by the West and treachery."
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Many other highly-placed many, is more likely to in- Communism should the excluded Washington.
Communist officials arrested the same lime as fnction, about small The other,
particular EL "We
delicate Clementis in maintains that in married
It council' where the rent will beHE United States Ad- fluence Congress in the from American aid.
now opposite direction. ministration is
international looked as though if we waited -369-a-week. The new flat will
-balance-between Communism group of forme: fighting what may
The latest Russian offer, and democracy of economically Brigadists in Spain-are ant I had a healthy Insome also be farther out from London
become the biggest battle we might have to wait for ave and fures will cost Williams 5.
unaoubtedly; was chiefly backward countries, the United scribed as "denying all accusa- a day.
in the 1952 session of Con-
the States should demonstrate its tions and by their resolute be designed to forestall military integration of Ger- good will by generosity without haviour upset all the
tions for the trials." strings, West 88 many into the And when the smoke of agreed on at Lisbon, but it
All these prisoners, including Clementis, are still being held battle will have cleared-if may also have been timed
under heavy guard in a special Is any experience
to coincide with the opening work past
The State Department has prison comprising a number of
villas converted case 1 comes from the local as a railway porter and he spent guidance then Congress of the foreign-ald debate.
a losing battle outside Frague on the road to eduration authority in York- last summer working in a can-will have slashed at least
and other strings Melnik Congress, in fact, is like- been fighting
night against these ning factory.
where day, and and is worth £180 1
£445 millions off President
has attached to aid and
inquisition is of tuition
proceeding their Next summer, Williams exclusive
Truman's request for £2,800 ly to interpret the new Rus- Congress
dollar foreign sian move us an indication Balls in the past, and this yearder the direct supervision out
Acsa under
a high omelal of the Soviet rnillions in
that war is less likely, that the
dimcult.
M.V.D. (Secret Follce) recently aid.
'International tension may
further and that Of the £2,800 millions, about brought from Moscow to brcale Officials would sigh with slacken
of one-third is for economic aid. down the prisoners' unexpected A reduction relief now if they could be therefore
It is on the latter that Congress resistance. that the cuts foreign aid would not be is planning to use its surgical quite sure would not be bigger in the too risky. end.
Burden of Proof
shire,
will
examination fces. His wife run into a problem that
The
year
works in a shop, and he works worries all married students
He during the vacations. has who depend on grants as their
main worked as a dusiman at £6 a
source of income. week, as labourer, and, lost grants, usually paid in advance Christmas, as a railway porter at the beginning of each term, when he received, £12 a week. do not ever the vacation
follows the lost term. There is therefore a dimeult gap between the end of term and the lime when examination results are known.
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LIVING AT HOME
FRANK CARMODY,
who is
the
Certainly the unexpected y successful Lisbon con- ference greatly improved the atmosphere here first.
at
will fight
be
по
a few
miles
attractive wife Clementis's knife.
Lida whom the Czech Party There is a general teeling in sent to the United States
her
Congress that after four years 1949 with a pledge for
without a secret police escort.
of Marshall Ald the European husband's immunity from ar
politlen! Alles should be able to do rest if he avoided a
home Another handicap for the without it. Senator Taft is one "scandal" by returning
of the foremost advocates of a is still at liberty, but it has not Administration is Mr Ache- complete stoppage of economic allowed her to leave her house son's seemingly irreparable aid to Europe.
here. Al- But the French Cabinet unpopularity
Britain's stake in the passage
A report that Rudolf Slansky, certainly of the Bill is about 800 million crisis was h dash of cold though, he has water, and there is the ob- helped conspicuously to ad- dollars. A handsome gift. If the former secretary-general of the the United States' Bill were cut, naturally Britain's Party arrested last November, vious danger that those vanco Elephant politicians who hate to see role of leadership in the share would also suffer. But the has been moved to Moscow is
Conservative Government's de- not confirmed. Audrey Carmody Mr Acheson, the Secretary world, he has been unable to termined efforts not only to see
Slansky Is stated ad the other studying. Theology when
his own role of Ha ICarmament programme
through
to but also put its major principal of the pending iho to undermine Gen. Eisen- leadership at home,
own house in order, no doubt trials which will rank as
23, reading French ond hoping to enter the civil set- vice, was probably the most
placed of fortunately students to whom I talked. He and his wife, Audrey, whom he married Inst year, live with her parents at the and Castle.
Was they mel, now she is a school- teacher, and their income, with
of State, succeed, who want advance
her salary and his gront, comes hower at home and who, Mr Harriman, who shares will have considerable influence biggest in the Communist world to about £10 104, a week.
Imiddle thirties. Last, there was the student- anyway, dislike too many with him the ton of persuading on the apportioning of Britain's since the Moscow trials of the
the mutual alice of dollar aid, 22-year-old wltc,
international commitments, Congress to pass Shella
programme, has Robertson, who lives with her ex-student husband in Beleize Park. Mrs Robertson is reading history, as her husband was until he joined the civil service last year. Her grant was drop- ped from £30 to £40 when she married, but her husband earns nearly £500 a year.
"We just about hold our own," she said, "but we don't seo how, starting like this, we shall ever be able to put any
a
money. together to save for proper home." At the moment they pay 32s. Od. week rent.
ESSAY FIRST
ytudies at
WHEN she has finished her the university, Mts Robertson goes home, gets on with the housework and makes a meal for her husband each evening. But of the rivul cialmg of academic and house work she says "If I have an estay to do, that comes first." And her total verdict: "I'm much happier married."
There is no official university view.
upon the desirability
of otherwise
marriga students. Those who aro against out that it usually It point involves vacation Jobs, which may mean no aludying and no proper relaxation during vaca- tions.
But ma
many single students are forced for economic reasons to take on in-nqzdamie werk in vacations.
or
for
acmarried students, for
their part, contend that their lives are more settled, and wasto less time than they otherwise might in taking wiris out to dances, the elnema and
will use the instability of assistance
certainly been much less the the French Government and target of partisan political the general clamour for attacks, but Mr Taft still
members 2 sharp political economies throughout the
speech which the mutual aid country here as an excuse administrator delivered against to undermine Mr Truman's the Senator at the Inst election. foreign policies,
Very Sensitive
With the Administration thus weakened, more of the burden
Taikoo
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the Europe to
Congressional calendar is dimoult, Parliaments have much in without a French
to
especially Government common under their skins, that would be strong enough Like others, the U.S. Con- reforms on the country it badly impose those political and facel gress approves of the Lisbon needs for its out and its Allies' agreements, appreciates the good."
Alpurt
actual .made in the progress unification of Europe. But financial appropriations, another
be about the Hress will spending money is another equally face battle with Con- called "strings" It likes to at- tach to foreign aid Bs.
matter.
from
the
Two Factions
7
20-
With a presidential, cam- paign under way, the most popular demands are for re- duced governmental spend- ing, and no higher taxes, While some of the provisions and Congress is. very sen. written into the Mutual Defenes sitive to these demands.
Act
were essential safeguards for the distribution of money,
Also in the past the others failed to make allowance for the super-sensitive nation- Kremlin has frequently, at allem of some of America's' crucial moments, been the attics, and seven potentially unconscious ally of the Ad-endly nations for this reason
rejected the proffered help. ministrative efforts in get Mexico was one which refused ting more, money out of to accept American aid, while Congress by precipitating though greatly in need of dollars, Indonesian Government,
some threatening act. But theyMascow has been lying low ditions written into the Bilby fell because it accepted the con-
for some time...
Congress.
There are
so on. The trend seems likely to last as long as educational grants make marriage feasible.
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