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DON IDDON'S DIARY Chicago No
No Longer
Hates The British
Chicago, Tuesday. Berry-who is due here next The elty's finances, like thond
THE wind off Lake Michigan was bleak and bitter when I rived in Chicago, but the hospitality was warm.
month,
of New York, are in a bad way Mr Berry is trying to Interest due to Incompetence, and the Chicago in Bath and is succeed reform movement never seems aring. There are to be travel dis- to get moving.
plays in the store windows I told people I wouldn't write urging Chicagoans to visit Bath, much about crime and gangs- There is to be formal opening ters, because Chicagoans are of the new Bath Room at the tired of having their Ambassador East Hotel.
described
Every time I get a chance I visit this city. It is á husky giant of a town, Burging with energy and life, a rampageous, roister. ing place of big muscles, big money, big business, and big achievement. It is more representative of America than any other city in its cockiness and vigour, its high power and high presa-
aure.
A
city
43 a hangout for
Bro
ט
200
New links are being forged hoodlums, but the gang between the old English water- stili here. Th
They have neither Ing place and the glittering power. nor the blood-thiretincen ultra-modern American drinking of the old At
the old Al Capone mob, but place. I had never stayed in they still wield large infic
Pe influence this part of Chiengo before and and they still carry guns. WAT
for hardly
prepared
While I have been here- Nath Room, the Sarah Chicago satoons or pubs stopped Beau Siddons Walk,
the Battery, buying and selling Budweiser Beer because they were told by and the Parade.
Mayor Berry is going to be the mobsters that there would treated like a visiting potentate, be trouble if they did. The
is good which
business for Anheuser Busch Britain and particularly for which brews Budweiser, www.
to'd to pay off the mob, or new.
Company,
lose, ita
Still at it
Chlengo has the reputation of Bath. being rather critical of the n
young Mr Byfield said: Copone syndicale, or British and has been called the "You could hardly come across Chicago market. cltadel of Isolationism, but the more pre-British feeling than anti-British and Isolatiunist tlus." Bald: "Of course, you days are now as dead a Blg B Thompson.
From Bath ARNEST Byfeld, justor, whose Blather made the Pump Reco
Internationally famous as the meeting place for celebrities, met me and whisked me along the gold coust. It is Mr Byfield's view that there is now no more pro-British town on earth than Chiengo, unless it is London, England,
It seems there is conside:- asle excitement here over the forthcoming visit of the Mayor of Bath, England Mr Alleyne
Russia Preaches Peace
But Expands War
London.
-OSCOW. has already ·
matched
M
President
Bases
must
"How "ar this expantion bercas af essentially aggressive, and how far it is a reaction to
Eisenhower's deciy Patrick Maitland, MPP NATO's retion, designed in turn
sion to appoint a
frontier.
Tho establishment of this
the Bolkars,
director of psychulogical broadcasts which are 30 miles el the Norwegion warfare. Indeed the Soviet intended for foreign con- Government, which directed sumption are being warned the press and radio to stop not of an imminent aggres calling Mr Churchill a war sive war by the United monger the day he returned States, but of the outbreak to office, has done little else of pence and conciliation. than attack the Elsenhower This, of course, is ʼn well- Administration since the wrapped parcel.
of the Presidential
day Election.
1 meci postwar Russian policy,
difficult to calculate.
ALLOCATIONS
scis Treaty in 1948 (Britain,
xt
have Colonel
McCormick
and his Chicago Tribune"
I had the impression on read. THE surprising and chilling fact is that Anheuser Busch Ing the famous paper
which 19 did not bring the complaint to the bible of the Middle West, the authorities or polico-the that possibly the colonci or his company said it would handic leader writers have mellowed, the matter on its own. There are, of course, the unini The matter has been handled. coloured cartoons on the front Budweiser Beer is being sold page showing a bedraggled John gain. Bull wying to put the equeeze on Uncle Sam for more money, but they have little Impact.
Other 'hates'
“Does
Faid to a local reporter: this sort of terrorism
happen often?" And ho saki:|
"Too often."
and
བ
cultural centres?
The thugs are still in business in Chicago and, from what I AT the moment the colonel's hear, likely to remain so for a
Tribune seem rather pre- long time. necunied with trousers or pants. But my local reporter says: Headlines proclaim: "Aldrich "It's all a question of emphasis. Vows he'll
not wear knee. For every crook there are breaches." "Conant, ciad in striped pants, cal
calls on Heuss, sund, maybe ten thousand, honest men. Why don't you There ม something about write about our museums and striped tr:users and about musle bretches (despite Becu Nash) The gangs are our business, which
raises the hackles anyway," of Chicagoans.
So I will say nothing more "We are down-to-earth people about Capone and company. here can't abide. fuss and The casual visitor never comos Fancy Dens," said my walter, into contact with them, A and then, surprisingly, quoted friend of mine, Richard Greene, Carl Sandburg's description of the actor, who is appearing Chicago:
ago: The stormy, husky, here in the play "Dial M for brawling city of the big Murder," and who has 'been taking me around a little, said: I will not quarrel with the "I've been here for weeks.
a wonderful description, although I think Chicago's
place. there Is too much emphasis You read about trouble, but sometimes on the roughness and never see it," the toughness,
I agree. I pm a Chicago- This is a beautiful city and booster myself and particularly I know of few more breath as ile elly becomes more and taking sights than the view more Internationally minded, from the lake shore and outer drives around five on a winter
shoulders,"
croon
Tariffs, taxes
network of airfields has had te whence percussions in
labourers have been THE Ave signatories to the Brus-ever I am not here to switched to the Arctic or sub France, Luxembourg, Belgium the Colossus of America's heart of all tariffs, including the ten M HENRY FORD'S speech lullables came to Chicago, calling for the cancellation Aretle bases.
and Holland) began their own land, to see how the city and per Of comparable interest is the
cent on the import common air base
programme its current
of the expansion
people were feeling about foreign cars, is
still echoing No in 1050 at a cost of £30,000,000. the new Elsenhower Adminis- through the canyons of Chicago. Russian alrera industry
The liberal Chicago Sun and The story destined for than thirty heavy forging In September 1951 Canada and tration:
presses, according to latest in the United States joined in 3 They are feeling fine. Over Timer, run
by Britain's good foreigners runs this way: formation, have been installed second phase, costing them and over I've been wid: "Elsen- friends the Marshall Fields, is The Russian doctors' The power of the USSR, in the past year in alreraft £73,000,000. Italy, Norway and hower is going to make a great, crusading for bigger and better
President, He's started right trade "plot" is,
at Komsomolsk, Dermark agreed at the Lisbon
and maybe some ald as of course, the together with that of the factories
Kiev, Leningrad, product of many converging "democratic camp," to say Irkutsk, Krasnoyarsk, Voroshilov, last February to a third phase
Kulbyshev, Conference of the NATO Council and he will run things right. well.
clean up the mess In There is enthusiasm for
tear- needs. The chief among nothing of the supporting Teensk and Kharborovsk. These of this common programme cost- Washington."
ing the tariffs down. There is them is the desire of the "Peace Movement" in the presses, which stamp out whole ing £142,000,000. A fourth phase Chicagoans are very much also enthusiasm for tearing enable a will cost £157,000,000. In De- aware of the mess in Washing- the taxes down. I have heard Army leaders to gather in- capitalist countries, and the sections of airframe,
great increase in output by cember the ΝΑΤΟ Council ton, because they have quite a more here about the need for fluence at present held by "national liberation move eliminating a multitude of small, agreed to allocate and authorise mass in Chicago itself—a mess cutting income-tax than in New the Secret Police. But ments" in the colonial areas delicate, but single operations. £70,000,000 of this sum.
which defies cleaning.
York City. alongside the purge, with on which Western capitalism its elaborate evolution of depends for its raw fresh argument and new materials, all combine to charges, there goes a notice- restrain the dogs of war. able intensification of ter- ror propaganda to intimi- date the Soviet people.
ter
PROGRAMME
One respected commenta- INDEED, says Moscow, the on Radio Moscow, M. American people them- Inozomtsev, has recently selves, to say nothing of been brought to the micro- anti-American feelings in phone specifically to de- Western Europe, will all signate the United States combine to enforce the as the centre of the world's popular wish for pence. counter-revolutionary
pre-
parations. Other speakers The facts, viewed objec all of them censored-have tively, are quite different. A
He'll
CHARLES FOLEY FINDS A BIT OF ENGLAND IN FORMOSA
MR LARKY AND MR
X
KEEP THE FLAG FLYING
Не
spokesman in the main square
Taipeh, Formosa. Jaland that Britain will have no Looking at this picture, and George Yeh is an old friend FOUND
the driving through an English part of?
noisy, ed England-did he not present cheerful city of Taipoh, it is the panda Ming to the London garden in the heart of and his staff work up sometimes easy to forget that Zoo7 Formosa. And there, rickety stairs leading to the an Ideological war is raging streaming in the Pacific office of Chilang's Government over our heads. been accusing the United programme for expanding breeze, Was a big Union of the capital. Taipeh. States Government of de air bases in Russia and East Jack. This is the garden Ilberately conditioning their Europe, comparable with of the British Consul оп people for an aggressive the "Infrastructure" system Chiang Kai-shek's island. of NATO, is all but realised. A silver ten-set gleamed in Latest intelligence reports his drawing room.
wur:
PROPAGANDA
NE radio commentator ONE
who ja particularly respected among Russian listeners, M. Shrygin, has been picking out examples
in London, taken together,
suggest that a whole system
And the
to
Consul; Mr
1.10.
Showpiece
The showpiece among these
of air bases In Northern Jacobs-Larkcom, was, cat- to his vice-consuls) telephones of Confucius and the collected is the island of Quemoy, which
Siberin, the Arctic Islands ing lettuce sandwiches. north of Russia, and in Sakhalin, in the Pacific, has now been finished.
con
Meanwhile, the war goes on. Not the war the world has been The areaded streets are hung keyed up to expect, but the war On the door is a placard lanterns.
at night with gold and crimson of island-hopping by Chiang's Here Americana men, who have quite a percen "Royal Naval Office."
stepping stones right up cepted and boarded on its way beef with chopsticks.
When a Beltlah ship is inter cluster round a brazier and of
learn to cook shavings of raw against the mainland.
Red China, this is what happens.
There are last week's Now Mr Jacobs-Larkcom ("Larky" York magazines, the teachings
Commander X.
specchics, marked down, of Commander X, who is never President Chiang Kai-thek,
challenges the whole might of Red China from a couple of The odd thing
In uniform, has many about it is scen
Yea that Mr Jaccbs-Larkcom
fritada among Chlang's raval
in Formosa even the miles away.AVANTER If a Nationalist war- generalissimo has been "pro-It is a mall, bare paid of have no oficial contact with officers. Chiang's Government. So what ship Is responsible for the sessed," as the Americans say, stony land shaped like a dumb- according to Mrs Curl These are designed primarily, is he doing on Formosa? boarding they are usually proud into the semblance of a const-bell,"
tutional Head of State,
Rankin. of what he calls official Gov- the reports suggest, to match, if
Well, Formosa is a province
She is thepleted wife of True,
there ar ernment propaganda in the not to beat, the power located of China. Everybody
Arrees
American Ambassador gency powers, but the facade of the United States promising the at Canadian and United States about that. The fact that the
democratie government- has designate and she has visited American people that, of bases on Canadian and Green provincial governor, Mr K. C. Commander X reports back been neatly fitted over the the island with magroup of
s.s Nationalist whose to Larky. He drives round to really they themselves and territory. Soviet bombers Wu, ecurse,
singid-party Chinesq;ladies" taking, cheer to are now motioned on the rub. Government Britain does not see his old friend, Mr Wu. Next State.
the troops. will be spared heavy loases Arctic late of Nova Zemlya, and recognie has not worried Mr day Mr Eden can tell the House
• Over lunchéon è "Mes Honkin "next time...
at least two squadrons have Jucobs-Larkom at all.
that her Majesty's Government It is said that Chiang is a told me: "I(expected to fixt been identified there. Canadian And, of course, the fact that has made a vigorous pricat reformed character, a Cromwell fren living in tents or holes in On the other hand broad- and American aircraft, patrol Mr Wu plays a double role as American Embassy
Altogether. apart from the who has sloughed off the car the ground. Note,61 (f it.
establishi cast propaganda, destined ling the polar regions,
is ment which runs into hundreds,
They have bullt, comfortable abla ruption of the mainland Jacobs-Larkcom's Britain has as outside Mr not for Russian listeners but sighted Soviet planes on patrol Chiang's Cabinet adviser
barracks and a big hall-in big mission on Puritan reaction -- has been official knowledge. for foreign countries, has
the island as any other nation, carried to such lengths that Mr which, they entertained usu
Some of the Chinese ladies Norwegian reports, reaching been working to a contrary
Formosa is the most orderly, Georgo Yth, the Foreign Minis
and the fer, assured me that his spend returned with English camera directive. Expert analysis London have put the number regarded as natural in Formosa, the most peaceful,
of airfields In the Murmánsk And where do you supporo most prosperous area in South- ing allowance is less than one yeaters they had bought shows that foreign listeners area at 30-a mubstantial In-Commander ... X,.-our
Plunder of the pirates, Service East-Aula. Most of the progress half the cost to those of Moscow Radio's crease. Five of theas are within - Attacht, is working on this 'la due to the Amoriesos,
Kho Bicycle-rickshaw boys,
too.
hive
This plaborate protenen is
Orderly
are some emer-
of the
Me