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The Eagle Says "Thank You”
66
By JOHN ASHWIN
two
T. isn't often that Bri- have n way of outliving oven tain gets a bouquet their own obituary writers. from across the Atlan- America ban now Kot to the tic. All too frequently in sdge of wondering Just whether recent months the
the US. polley of pumping over £7 billion dollara into Britain's great countries have said life stream since the end
ut some hard things about World War II is paying off. A cach other. On our side arge section of America's public there have been Press cameliam have only gone to chore believes that all the billions of
TO
paigns about the "bad in- up # tottering Empire "already fluence" of U.S. Service- doomed by the inexorable men in their spare hours in changes in world patterns dance halls and night clubs, trode and military power." In the States columnists Slinging back an answer, the shrieked that the only Plimmers recall the case of the thing that Britain wanted. British planter in Malaya who read in a Washington dispatch from America was more
that the British were "dragging she would
their
feet money which
in Korea." The planter never pay back.
had just had half his rubber trees burned by Chinese Now, however, comes A Communiais. His workers were bouquet which in the next being terrorised and slaughter- rd and only a week before his few weeks
will do Anglo- brother, his wife and their file American relations a lot girl had been burned to death more good than all the con- by Reds. So let's take a look at ferences and diplomatie Malaya. say the Plimmers, statements in the world.
Under the headline "It's Time To Take A Look At What We Get From Bri- munists in a five-year-old shoot-
"Britain is still aghting Com
tnin," two Americans have ing wor. Her stake- and just written an article that America's-le not tin and rub- acts as a refreshing tonie ber alone. Malaya straddles a after far too much bicker- world cromroads. If the British ing in both countries.
ne were to break, Malaya'n capture by Communists might mean the loss of all Southeast Asia, and Korea would become a sidertow.
A Miss Charlotte and a Mr Denis Plimmer set out to say "thank you Britain" la no uncertain terms. "In peace and "Today Britain's armed forces in war, in booms and depres- total more than a million sions, the 50 million inhabitants proportionately slightly higher of Great Britain have triumph than America's. No more than ed over incredible obstacles to half our servicemen are on duty maintain their indomitable
outside Amorken. Eight out of 10 as a keystone of our Britons are serving oversees.
"Án
Pastern civilisation."
on
to
*.
the
coo-
"Besides, Malaya
#3
New York, Tuesday. entrance. About 50 people, prodding from some of us, the although her hit show
Russians, shuffled British forces, General Templer, Evening With Beatrice Lillie"
and Korea URING the past few obviously
slowly inside to sign the big and the RA.F. get full tribule looks
Jun as if it could
they are stationed at 17 danger days I have listened to visitors" boolt of
Sir Cedric dark-red for "fighting a full-fledged war Broadway for ever.
points as highly charged Anthony Eden, leather, A
was against Communist guerillas that Hardwicke has been given per
Hongkong, Gibrallar, Malta, Richard Butler, Sir Gladwyn bustled outside by two servants. has cost thousands of lives and mission by Acton Equity
That and by two Americans Cyprus and the Suez Canal. It millions of dollars't appear in "Horses
Mid-
whilchit the Royal Navy Jebb, Trygve Lie, and Lady
is only a start. Warming to Is No. 480, Park Avenue is an
stream." The actors' union
their theme the Plimmers add watches over our own ships ur Astor, but if any of them impressive town house, formerly Aunut time.
waived its six-month restriction that although Britain may face they pass through the Canal." knows what's going to a millionaire's residence. The
un alien actors.
น crisis today, crises are The Lion-admiring Flimmers "Brilaln happen in Russia, they are hall, now crepe-draped, is lofty
I had a drink with Sarah nothing new "to a people whose headline a lot more:
ships rolled back
hose. Contributes the biggest annour. Churchill the other evening, tiny not telling.
business The Prino Minister's daughter menace of the Spanish Armada, ed force of all countries to the
European Command. has not suffered as a result is one of the most sought-after who alone smashed the
the tinental might of Napoleon and Centurion Britain has the finest who hurled defiance at Hitler heavy tank in the West The of Stalin's death. New Yorkers television entertainers have been Jamming the newsreel
in cinemas, boolng the appearance
Ballerina Alicia Markova, who while all the world wondered." RAF is today the best equipped and most powerful air arm in of Britain's on the comes from London,
survival value, Western
(or every Europe of the Russian leaders
liken us to an (but not too loudly), signed for a telecast series after the Plimmers
dollar
we send Britain Wo Iceberg-"their real survival
two dollars' worth get back and clapping the appearance of the Coronation.
always seems to ile B Messrs Eden and Butler
Tallulah Bankhead won't write value
of striking
al- power. They hidden two-thirds below the another book. She says; unly mildly).
though World War II blod which is why experts Britain white she has supported to surface, didn't ask Gertrude Ederle Bea Lille,
did have so often counted them out or Lady Peel, is swim the Channel twice,
only to and that the British
many
the
Press conferences, 'speeches, I went up the spiral staircase talks on the side have yielded to a large flowered reception e. The distinguished visitors room, where a pleturo of Statin to the United States are not hung. Mirrors and lights were making forecasts.
also draped in black. By contrast, Americans themselves are say- After a quick circle of the Admiral Standley, lounge I was asked politely to Ing plenty.
United States Am- one-time
pass on to make room.. I left. bassador to the Soviet, flatly forecasts revolution Inside Russia, and he is joined in his view by other retired admirals und generals,
Closer now
screen
(but
US.
Alexander Kerensky, former STALIN'S death undoubtedly going home for the Coronation, they?"
Russlan Premier and now u
aided the Eden Butler
US citizen. says positively mission. The British and Ameri- that Georgi
was cans automatically moved closer Haienkov hand-picked by Stalin and the together as the news came from new Soviet Government will "in the Kremlin. essence be the same" as before Stolin's death,
John, Foster Dulles declares that Stalin's death has increased the world's chances of peace.
The Voice of America has begun
that to shout shrilly wholesale death purges will take place inside the Soviet, that most fenders now in power are doomed, and urges Stalin's followers to desert or face dead- ly reprisals.
Strong medicine
.
Mr Eden and Mr Butler both stressed "We want nothing for ourselves" as soon as they first Inet the Press aboard the Queen Elizabeth, and they kept on
that thema stressing
the ali time.
Despite the vague communi- que, I rate the mission a success,
So a new aristocracy, the en pensc Decount spenders, has taken over the Colony, the "21" the Stork Club, the Voisin, and El Morocco.
Tourism pays.
In
has been
SILENCE TAKES OVER A HOME OF SOVIET PROPAGANDA
I make a lonely call
at a lonely house
Belgrade.
HAVE just visited
what is perhaps the.
loneliest house in all
of
the
rooms
Russian one today.
Then came 1948 and To's break with the Kremtin, Instant
by R. M. MacCOLL
STALIN TOO
of
flowers
F
us
and
in the
a Machell plan of her own to assist rations needier than herself.
Finally, the Flimmers sign oft with ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄paragraph—that "win moke
even the most Union Jacle-conscious among us dis- tinctly embarrassed:
"America's stake in Britain is in those tangible intangibles necessary to world which
wants to
to live without fear.
"America's stake in Britain is the Mother of Parliaments, the me
prace and
and beauty of an English of
the village
of
of
the
POCKET CARTOON
Hesitantly be escorted Incidentally, Washington 60-
modest collection to a
great voice ciety Is booming again-it was
photographs pinned to a display Churchill and the language of a great house-party week-end- and the champagne Rows. It is
board. These showed Interiors Shakespeare. The scream of the and exteriors of new buildings jet planes and the pages of also flowing in New York, but
in Moscow.
Dickens. God's mighty" houses mainly
on expense accounts.
unts southeast Europe--the grey overcont and ค severe
I pointed to one which showed of Westminster and Canterbury, LL this
Under the Involved Income-tax strong medicine A
regulations here American Arms Soviet Union's Centre of hairdo, who looked murprised the steel framework of a tall The vast breathing sprawl of makes me shudder slightly.
She said building in process of construc- London and the quiet downlands
tion something in Russian and I
and remarked: "Sky- By far the most sensible remark actually save money by allow- Culture here in the middle at having company.
and the grey meas which Brilish of the week comes from Senator ing their representatives of busy Belgrade.
salesmen
responded smilingly in English SCCUDET travelling "I agents,
Time was, in the halcyon days and French, which gol
defeat Robert Taft, who says:
He brightened. Yes, yes, sky-seamen have guarded since the don't know, I just don't know. executives-to sign the tabe at
soon after the war, when the nowhere.
scraper," he replied. For us it shattering
'invincible Spanish Armada, the most expensive restaurants.. I'd only be guessing."
place was jammed with eager Finally she gestured for me to is a neverscrob."
What are the dollar-and-cent Actually the greatest guessing
visitors and all was smiles and enter and I stood walling while "Well," I said, "it looks like values of such things to a world
house of the decade has now
a very inc neverscrob." Kame
lorment?
the What was bon-homie; and in those days the she murmured into begun and every last one of us
Apart from this modest col-in maintained telephone. is in the deep dark.
public reading
nere by Britain and
And the United
lection of photographs the only assessed value of Montgomery and Alexander at Alamein....0% .Here in Now York and in
States were
were almost as deserted as
wares he had to offer were some
the cliffs all the RAF's few over Washington, where I spent the
Ruslan books under
of England?" week-end, the first jubilanco
Thank I was lunching in "81" the
you, Charlotte and has vanished.
My
American
But was there nothing in any
Plimmer. Wo Nothing In Denka
would an overcoat Indoors, for the for other day and scarcely anyone
SAW why she was wearing table, friends denounce Mr Lle
ly there followed a transforma“, ulace was apparently unheated, other language?
or. German never, never dare say so much calling Stalin "an outstanding was paying his bill la cath.
Lon
scene almost as startling as I stood in a large hall
with English, French, statesman." My Washington
that in
Christmas
door no, no-is only in Russian, ourselves. pantomime. ornate mirrors, its host cald: "Mr Lester Pearson
a picase," he said. Overnight the Soviet Centre fell thoughtfully provided with [Canadian Foreign Minister and
silent
and came to resemble spittoon or two.
THE WORKS President of the United Nations
something out of a ghost town. off at one end was an enor- General Assembly] should re-
NEW Russian cockiall has
By contrast the British and mous bust of Stalin draped in sign."
boen Introduced in the American braries found them- red and black, said: "Why?" My host said: better establishments called an selves
Banket by THESE meagre exhibits took up unheard of baskets enjoying
only one small corner of the "Because he called Stalin
"Ivan the Terrible." It is a popularity and the Belgrado dramatically illuminated.
ground floor hall. One could only indomitable leader."
of the citizenry clamoured for Enguisti Miss Dig, or whatever her guess at what the rest This has been the week of the successor to the "Bloody Mary, which is vodka and tomato
was, hovered near me, spacious and silent house con- great lack of restraint. Some
the Terrible is language books, magazines, and name
pamphlets,
a picture of polite perspicacity. tained. words would have been better Juice. "Ivan
also vodka and tomato juice,
highly-
I notleed that there was o left unsaid, unwritten, unprinted but more vodka and less tomato dropping into the Soviet Centre disconcerting air of brooding passenger lift as well as a stair-
at least, in my opinion. I am surprised that the Rus-
as I did today. It is patrolled hush hanging over the whole case. Up there on those upper fluors might there not perchance round the clock by alert police, place.
A small, dark, pale man with be lurking a profusion of other who take a good hard look at notices which Stalin's passing
melancholy eyes and
"close" emperial which had win there received here, decided to open in the United States and is not
and
Beglected and unsought for 10 appeared their New York headquarters at a dollar-curner for the Russians anyone seeking to enter,
.But my clothes proclaim the cropped, hair as Scotch whisky is for the
fragmentary long that the officials had far- fact that I am a foreigner, and greeted 600, Park Avenue to the public.
English. I walk past this building al- Britaši.
the police made no comment.
As the purpose of my visit golfen its very existence?.
Might there be a dusty model most every day on my way to
QUIET DECAY
dawned on him he appeared to of the new Leningrad, perhaps? work. It is always guarded and
be thunderstruck. Again and Or, starting to yellow a little at the door is always closed, ex-
again he said: "But you wish the edges, huge charts depicting cept to the Russians themselves and this year all records will be YOU go off one of the main informations about the Soviet the increase in output of the coal or to a calling diplomat.
broken. Rubber from Malyn is
siroots of Belgrado to find a Union?" also high up the list of dollar-large portico affair with a short This visitant from the outer my informant insisted that cammers, and I uns delighted to fight of stone steps leading up world, this sudden rush of I had seen the works. "Is all,
all the months yes please, he remarked. see that the Natural Rubber to the main entrance. It might business after Bureau of Washington, DC, is have once belonged to come suc of silence and neglect, seemed now giving the Briti Malaya way that impression open to any who wanted to credit for their role in Malaya. nowadays it gives an pay their condolences, I dropped
of sadness and quiet decay and | in, not of course to tender any The Bureatt is publishing the slaps have not been cleaned
condolences, but merely to have huge advertisements reproduce in a long time. a look round.
I rang, and the 'glass-fronted a ing its newspaper Natural' Rub... Two New York policaman ber News, and, lo and behold, door was opened by a fresh swung their batons idly at the after all these years, and womal faced young" woman" wearing a cultural information.
juice.
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But did I realise that this was My hunch is that that is one cultural centre? Precisely, Ruslan who would wilingly
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Belgrado for a neverstrob.
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