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DON IDDON'S DIARY
TOWN OF BIG MONEY
Mo
AND LUXURY CARS
Greenwich, Connecticut,
Tuesday. TORE people have more money in this area than any com- munity of similar aize any where in the world. At least, that is the claim that is made for Greenwich,-and I don't see any reason to doubt it.
and
'Ike'
could lose
Even if most Americans
want him
by ROBERT E. SHERWOOD Dramatist; biographer: and close associate
of American statesmon
HE greatest living his started by Roosevelt--and
torian, Arnold Toyn- panded by the Truman Ad- ministration, and that is the bee, arrived in Now her reason why his candidacy York the other day and ex- is vigorously opposed by power- pressed the thought that he ful elements in his own party would like to have a vote in and why he may fall bo gain the nomination, despite the up- this year's presidential elec- surge or popular enthusiasm tlon, since all Englishmen his favour. have so great a stake in the outcome. ・・
His Words brought home to all of us Americans the
A MATTER
OF MYSTERY
You may well hale, "If mont
unappetising fact that this publican votera make it clear they want him to be their a-candidate, how can he be
he.
The answer lies in the peculiar complex processes of.
year we are voting not reslilents of remote com- stopped? munities in New Hampshire or South Dakota but reluctant citizens of the world.
THE WORD
FOR UNITY
ns and
American party politics.
If you ask me.to tell you in-n! few words what these processes. are, 1 must confess uiter, in- ability to do so.
I have been anÀ. American
The political pot has come to lizer since birth, 50 years ago, months and I still don't understand our the bolting point six
roulcal
conventions, and. before the election for
don't think anyone else does, main reasons,
cither,
two
One is that this is the frat national - declion in 24 years
in which the incumbent Pr dent is not himself à runner,
alier, can be summed-up-
The
in one three-letter word: ake
TAFI KEEPS ON TRYING
The formidable. Republican opposition to Elsenhowice - la
To many mutilons of Amerted by Senator Rebert A, Taft,
cans those three letters
national unify" and that what Amerleans
spell
ts
crave incst
fervently.
DIFFERENCES
ARE SLIGHT
who has been trying unsuccess- fully for 12 years to reach the Borling post.
This is undoubtedly its lust chance.
BackingTaftsre then
Brigade of reconcilables, tho
General Eisenhower has cap- perennial haters of Roosevelt,
To commute from the riided that the announcement was made on both sides unprecedented, de Harbour, and all such measures
gree
Jast ar.
It has become fashionable to which is one of the greatest the first sip there is the impas- sioned harangue: The country live m Connecticut, the nutmeg appesis of Robert Tatt. is being wrecked and ruined. I State:
It was while I was on this four tured the popular imagination and Truman, who opposed all of the political. uld for Britain before Pearl hope, they realise that in Eng-
have never been.
one's New in Washington that the Govern-ence to
the Marshall Plan since the land. We
Those crooks super Buburbs to
had suspended all credit Had he not decided
With them is a solid body of nearer disasier. in Washington and New York York office is to wear a smart ment
snab label. A ldt of ifttle peo restrictions on motorcars, tele January: to prodaim himself a
citizens who with modest incomes have vision sets, furniture, and other Republican, he would now be conservative I have said mildly: "I thought moved out into tiny, cramped consumer goods, effective im- the odds-on favourite for the sincerely believe that the only to get the Democrats out nomination--which way Democrátic the country had never been more houses and become the new mediately.
every doctrinal issue, foreign and domestic. the ten Also in the Taft faction," is
two
MacArthur, General Douglas
there's got to be a change." pie
prosperous, peak employment, country gentlemen. They, too, Connecticut's reaction was gives you a pretty fair idea of is to oppose them on
huge wages, record savings at are. Taft men with some Eisen- home. And abroad you are in-hower exceptions, and they are quick. It was an obylous intl row light are the
to climb into the push middle slowed lately, and here was partiae race Chould be between who might exalodo all over the struggling like trapped animals depression move. Business had differences between disputably the No. 1 Power"
classes.
ynob fever.
the
newspaper and radio people.
The old aristocracy of this
"shot in the arm," a, potent stimulant to prevent, the boom frem sagging.
If
ke and any one of the seven American scene if the opportune leading Denveratie onmoment arrive the campaign will be conducted
on a reasonably high plane,
DON'T WANT BICKERING
Over
the
TWO SOLDIERS,
TWO ENEMIES
“The”
he personal eamity between MacArthur and Eisenhower id-
The Cadillacs, Lincolns, and Bucks are lined two-deep out- This is the signal for your side the stations that dot the hostess, to be stricken witter- railway line from here, to West
es apoplexy.. "Inflation, fibery, At the bottom of the pyramid part. They glide bumper to corruption, Hving above the are the Polish and Italian immi-
Now a man can buy a car or bumper along the streets
national Income, and so weak grants and their children, who swoop in procession to the coun- abroad we can't even clean up a work in the towns and the 4 suite of furniture without any
the down payment at all. Advertise iry clubs.
little shirt-tail front like Korea." factories (don't mention Everyone looks very prosper-
word to the drawing room ex- ments in the local newspapers the matrons
Flash back quisites), who seem free of the make it quite clear. You can ous, particularly
buy
Foreign polles, would not be one of the most significant that car at once. Up to
under-the-surface elements In and belles with their fancy.
to pay. No axed an issue of political strife. hair-styles (bleached streaks in
IT is absurd to get involved in And adding colour and excite. three years
blackguarding blonde hair), the
This is a long, story, going elaborate their
arguments of this sort, but ment to the entire community down payments, no compulsory There would be no bickering the present situation. their. clothes and. Jewellery.
mutual security programme, the back to the Philippine Islands, writers and artists, insurance. Low bank rates." difficult to avold them. The rock are self-assurance and post Only, ribbed Republicans of these hush
Borrowers welcome North Atlantic Treaty Organisa- 15 years ago, when MacArthur tion, the United Nations in had the rank of fald marshal Here is the Gold Coast.
British in Malaya, and Eisenhower was his alde, 49 minutes by train from New counties are convinced the cours
hour try is not merely going to the part of New England look down
ONTROLS on building. have Korea, the
the Sudan, Sutz,
or the with the rank of major, York to Greenwich, one
U been relaxed. Loans dogs but is being eaten alive by their noses upon the intruders
Neither will admit, this: Are French in Indo-China. the Invasion on and blame to Westport, and not
Curbs are being
enmity publicly; both have ad- by road along the magnificent' them.
of course, this is the area Megers Roosevelt and Truman easy to get,
lifted from civilian, Industries. The vast majority of the mitted it privately in no, uncer Merritt Parkway.
where Franklin Roosevelt was, and the Democrats.
Slates and cities can borrow all American people don't want tain terms. they want from the Federal such, Vickerings.
fastalemate developk1 ̈ bg- rumoured to be burned regularly
and Taft in Whether or not they like the tween Eisenhower Government, which in turn is
present world situation (and, the Republican convention to borrowing from the people.
obviously, they don't like. It months hence, MacArthur might The US, to back on the never-any more than you do)- they make the melodramatic op never project, the instalment
know new
situation pearance which could stop the system, the hire-purchase plan,
exists and they want a President and force the nomination of a I do not know if it is sound of stature and strength to copa-compromise candidate.
In which case, you can look polley or not. No one knows, with it.'
and Eisenhower is deeply. com for another Democratie victory Connecticut has its double
mitted to the foreign policies next November, is, keeping its fingers crossed.
more
Death, taxes, the New Deal, the War, the Fair Deal, and the post-war period do not seem to
have dented the wealth of lower
New England,
in effigy.
Obvious target.
-
York's
You could not call it progres sive politically. If you hint at EELING seems to run mues higher In the wood- Republican depressions in the
glades
and
fragrant past these charming people flash ed Wild women.
back with talk of Democratic gardens of Connecticut than Nthe surface this is Taft Wars in the past, present, and in the slums of New
future.
Lower East side. Of course, here teri oy, I have seen more
Oh, what a ferocious political the people have more to lose. simply which say
Even the most restrained, feel posters
battle it is going to be in the in- "Robert Taft for President" on famed months before Novem- that the United States is spend
ing too much and giving away car windscreens and back win-
bert dows than in all New York.
What troubles me about the too much. Greenwich Darien-Westport axis As an Englishman I have been .Is the acute sense of insecurity, an obvious target. When I was you would think that the lovely getting, my car alled up at | countryside, the blue bays of
New Canaan filling on the
The Senator may not want to be the rich man's candidate and probably does not relish such a tag, but the big bank balances will be voting for him.
to
I did not come here to listen talk about the election, but
the sound, the rich possessions garage owner began to talk. "You know cannot understand. houses, cars, boats, station- "You're Englan," he said, yes wagons, clothes, and money find. Why is she still sq it is impossible to escape it. the bank would yield some
It seems a pity in this green tolace of soul and peace of mind, broke? The war was over lone land decked with blossom, per-
Just the reverse is true. ago. Why does she need all
handouts?" wrangle fumed with flowers, to about the campaign, but every These garden spots are jumping these garden parly and tennis tea is with anxiety and tremulous with
trepidation. ike a political convention,
said: "Britain is poor be- cause she put everything she had
that the
M. PICHETTE'S "PIECE"
SETS PARIS FIGHTING
From SYDNEY
SMITH
Paris. Pichetic's "piece"-It is not an reading of a Goldier's, love to beat Titler, sold everything.THE French Government pera, although it has a cherus; letter and the fuellades of the Tharement 29,000 to it is not a ballet, although it
ballet, although it caution squads A The women are the most feree, The Infection „terms "even to mortgaged everything, while the|
All the while on the slage They invite you for cock- have soread to people in the United States was still neutral produce a "play" by a:28 it is not a play because it has capers a character dressed like talls, but beford you have taken lower-income groups.
A third of qur, economy was based on our overseas irwest-year-old author who says no story; it la not a concert the man who broke that Monte He M6 Evil ments, and these were liqui-his theatrical philosophy is, although it has some wonderful Carlo bank,
music can only be explained Genius" delighting in destruow dated. We have always had Above. all I aim to move by this simple summary of its tion and distress. to import food we cannot
NO PLACE NEAR
THE FRONT
FFICIAL
From R. M. MacCOLL
is O'Brien, in the act of breaking O pondering recommenulations, into a hop, Gure cu pre acons the van while being taken to
men
feed more than halt the popular people to hell with the three parts:
Part One-The Nightmare: tion without buying foo
food?*
plot." The garage man. was Бутра-
The result was a city of poet falls asleep and dreams of the atomic war On the rough
Part Two: A long verse mono- thetic but unconvinced. He had baffled, enraged, outraged, scaffolding of the stage marches logue colled The Awakened never heard about the oversens
enthusiastic a herd of headless, faceless Word" explaining whạt136 is Investments.
being sold, though caustic and
tubos for about.
he did know Britain had fought critics and a box office being robots with metal
heads -- the "Chotr ·at the Part Three: A 45-minute leve
4
alone. It is astonishing how stormed by a fascinated Masses. They are accompanied
ttle is known of the sacrifices public. and struggle and the uphil fight
And it is all about a pródue- being made in Britain.
tion with these remarkable- qualities: salesman Views of a
It is called "Nuclei" it has! To the desperate miming of a forgotten and the "Eyll Gentus DROPPED into a lunch-rozm | no plot, só curtain" and scenery priest, a lawyes; a peasant, and is confounded NEERAU
made of steel scaffolding and u
by the "Choir of the Oppressed." poem the Human Heaven
which lovers stroll among the metal scenery while the moving sculpture on wire ways in: back atago breezes as all war 15
the
sent from Tokyo by Lieut.
the station, Colonel Alice Gritsavage,
But realising that O'Brien Colonel Alice, chief of the
frem. The
background of little lost No commerctat Army Nurse Corps of the Far might be demired
on the Boston Post Road moving, sculpture swung on red people, the audience is denten take one sourisic on the tie. Eastern Command, says malo foter, breauys he did mot sit at the
Cos Cob. After a few bright aursés ought to replace women back to guard his prison preliminaries the man next to steel wires.
od by the noises of wer from nights showing of this produc
tion. The French Goverime Garcia gave himself up.
30. loudspeakers. in forward areas.
TRAFFIC chief's nightmare me at the counter offered the
They are so placed that some through its Ministry of "In Oriental warfare,
not nuties have no place near the suddenly comes all too true. View that the United States
times it seems the sound has no Arts, is congratulating scading The French go on
from
ils bourageous gesture. batlla
- front,"
Government's direction, it seems to come sha
contends. The master control of Washing could
millions dollars abroad ja-
of
NAISON!" Fʊpular Theatre, ingido one's head; ni m
up for
another "Those, in the Korean lighting on's traffle lights falls and for
long hours
all the lights (definitely· ·, travelliert salesman where it is being shown it is
Sometimes,
an, of 2,000 sents each, an are:a, Jiability and hazard to two
.... He was
10g/puthiers themselves and to the troops" show red. Ugly scenes at the and said
atom's plane passes overticad Says young
clearly follow. its
course
ho lives telephoneless's in There are enough trained creas-roads as infuriated logjams
majorists try to cross one 110 dollars a week about £85. United Nations in the Palais do you can clo male nurses fu the U.S. to meet of
The taxes, he said, were killing Chaillot has been hung with from the back of the theatre to remote i top-flour fut
know what the show. 30 Icudspeakers. give the stage.
a hlm. the army's needs, and if they another's paths. are brought in it would help: EN you think of prefabs
sirens. I call it a dramatic wis
is typical 61 "rtereophople background" of We hear the plane,
"moving (o zellove the shortage of women you probably don't conjure hundreds of thousands
round
in rever" It is the bombs, the crashings of public safety tras nurses'clrevhere, -
up luxur Well, the really Americans. There is a recoll
women, the cry of a lost child critics are so furtous or silen JOHN GARCIA, aged 25, of glossy prefab jobs are available ing, if not a revolt, against the anterided to be the rounds of an buildings the screaming of But whatever. No calls th
Author Henri Pichette, Ext for a mother, the howling and thusiastic about Ik hatit lanka New York, may be a buy now in America for £8,000. perpetual shoring-up of Europe' tenttallet, Dasalas, has written barking of frightened dom, the Fike swords or pistols in the Bar, but he is a gentleman at That lucludes dour
his printee to cut down all its werden, despre: It is promise electric
Texts of executed hostages, the now. heart. Arrested by a tremly on two bathroogna,
listed policeman, ---Micha'qi
kitch
salesman
bedrooms, economy,
expenditure and lower taxes drine couplets.