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THREE
SILENT
"Doctor! Some unusual symptoms about Comrade Malenkav's heart."
WHY
200,000
GERMANY'S
M
YES-FOR THE ABBEY
BUT WHAT OF ASCOT?
M
London. being overcome by the feeling They are very hospitable,
under eloso pricom, on the whold arm.
moderate, and in the wako communication of, Tito's vait to
RS FLEUR that they aro
COWLES, who will military escort.
A pollte
be one of President reaches mo from Dwight Eisenhower's per don domestic
д
agency saying will certainly reign.
creased requirements
Lon- atmosphere of great
arc The chorus of
Britain an cordiality
righteous
sonal representatives in the that "very special efforts Abbey for the Coronation being made to meet your in- pledges from Continental hotel- in the keepers that no 18. further Service, has been married way of staff for hospitality and from their
tha nollon of raising twice.
charges (row
It is to be hoped, therefore, that she does not plan to stay on for Ascot, since this might lead to embarrassment. (The Royal Enclosure st remains adamant to about
forbidding is lawn divorced persons).
Eisenhower
than
Si Britons will have, more
R.M.MacColl's
COLUMN
spending money has
for me an unconvincing ring.
Maybe they really mean it. Maybe the vorlous nationni hotel associations really will could scarcely entertaining in this Coronation clamp down. But I would have cald that for the run-of-the- have nominated a more strong- Year."
Rather unexpectedly, the note milf Continental hoteller to re- for the ly contrasting leard
an ex-air com- slat this temptation would be Abbey, Its other members are Is signed by
The modore of the RAF. One can about the same thing as *x- General George Catlett Plan) Marshall, General Omar imagine him Issuing Instrue peeting a rabbit to look after
Earl tions to his well-trained girls juley plece of lettuce for you
over. the week-end... "And remember, növer the ciockory."
As Leslie Henson remarked On Ty not long ago; "It's not Sir Gerald Kelly likely
'MALVINAS'
Bradley. and Governor Warren, of California
prang
One part of Europe which enlarged allowance
Mrs Cowles and handsome, florld Governar Warren are dynamic, colorful, and storm your ing lalkars. The two generals will enable you to reach com- fortably and enjoy when you are grey, taciturn, reserved.
Is the Dalmatlan The lady and the governor get there" will be able to turn to ench coast. The Yugoslavs are agog plenty of British vialtors
other for spritely small talk for whenever they are in danger of this cummer.
FLED
SOVIET
▪▪▪▪▪▪▪▪▪▪▪▪▪▪▪▪▪▪▪▪▪▪▪ By Evelyn Anderson
4
now
man Was
FROM ZONE
Most seem
RENEWED trouble over con-
filleting claims to those various Antarctic islands re- -minds me of a minor { ++
understanding when I was. Buenos Aires two years backet. I was birolling through the streets of the capital, with an Argentinian acquaintance. when became aware that groups or youths kept chanting something, about "Malvinns.”
Finally I said: "This Malvinas [teems to be a very popular 'giri around_ here." My friend lopke led em
"Well, ho embarrassed! said, "the fact la that these people spot you as an English- man and they are making n small political demonstration:~ You see, Malulnas is our name for the Falkland Islands” AS NO CHARGE P
branded in the local paper ne inveterate enemies of Socialism, refugees have They did not wall for the sequel.
Not all the Identity
West Road, my engine-down stories of this kind to tell (and THE other day, on the Great not all the stories they tell are veloped neurasthenic symptoms
one true, although necessarily learns quickly to distinguish which seemed to threaten tolal what rings true and collapse. I got the car into t wayside garage. Three minutes' between what rings false). to have come, not because they search produced the troubles
The time of two mechanics were in any immediate danger loose wire. of arrest, but because they were afraid of tomorrow, or the day was stated to be 25, 0d: Tab at the rather princely stipend acuto danger, they would after, when there might be an three minutes. This works out longer be able to get away. The of £10 each for an eight-hour..
day, ar £50 each for a f possibility of danger is ever pre-day week. sent. Every one of them seems convinced that anything might happen at any moment and that there is nothing one can do
Hs land bunks coveted seats on a plane to take on a flimsy pretext. ORE than two han- children sleep at night,
His wife dred thousand people has just arrived when I paid ny them West and they hoped to was expropriated.
visit. Everyone stood around.
<hance to earn their and children were evicted from
their home. Their have fled from the excitedly watching the bunks living.
cards were taken away, which 0 reasoned The Soviet zone of Ger- going up in two or three tiers.
acant that they would s lenger Heimatvertriebener
be able to travel, many within the past twelve one of the first visible signs of refugee, a
(person driven from his home-
That was the signal. They months. Before the zonal Pers.
There were "ecmmon rooms,"
all deckied to leave. The whole territories cast border was sealed off, about, too, on each floor of the build- land) as the exiles from the
former Germun
village went, some eighty Singly or in 8,000 refugees arrived each Ing, but as they were es set of the Oder-Neisse line are
bure of even a single stick
officially called. He had started peasant familles. But furniture, month in the West,
most of the people
labourer itt groups they made their way to Berlin, travelling by different towards the end of May spent their days as well as their 09 on agricultural
When he had to on the East here, he trekked to Meck-
routes, some by day and some "dead zone" was nights, huddled together 1962, a
ere,
Why lose their land anyway. established along the whole bunks or pallasses of the dormi leve
while they lenburg and settled in a small by night. They were going to tories, Only once in border which
not try to save their skins?. separates would venture out into the village near Parchim,
most cherished his ∙most. There Eastern Germany from the ankle-deep slush of the courtyard
fresh air, a dream came true. Thanks to the reform he was West, so that only the Berlin for a breath of
mement of blessed loneliness or postivar land
small plece of land of "gap" remained as a pos- a puff or two freem a cigarette, given
econcenically divided into two or his own and some livestock. Ho sible escape route.
worked hard and, at first, sus- even three pieces.
Ccsshaps.
he had a series Some of his pigs died. That meant he would ba to full his delivery
The immediate consequence was a panicky increase in the rumber of refugees. The month- ly figures jumped to about 18,000 and remained at that level until
uf
Who Are They?
Shabbily Clothed
w35
of
Then
quota of meat. Delivery quotas,
Second Mishap-
It Was Illegal
N
elderly woman
from
A Goerlitz told me the story of
her husband's arrest.
the
t
He was
about it.
!
Matter Of Luck
по
I know of one or two courte tries where they would have
"No charge for, rd telding-
n service. All you get on the Great West load is the slightly- tronic offer of a formal receipt,.. DON'T WORRY
As the Queen roso to leave the narrow platform at the ceremony's end. ho started cum- bersomely to try to get the leg out of her way.
Queen Mary halled the clerle! cal ctruggles with a twinkling, "Don't worry, dean shalt not fall over th
any of the men seemed to have he would be unable to fulfil his had only gone to buy the cake one of my pals
delivery quota of milk. This as a favour to his customers to I came
an innkeeper. One afternoon, a few weeks back, some of his customers had asked for cake.
building QUEEN MARY could always APART from the bunks or pal- unable
during the war,"
temper her classle them he went actese the road to worker from Leipzig told me. the end of the year. Then it was Allasses, the blankets, plate,
He had no cake, but to oblige: "IT'S much like the bombs explained, are fixed for re
w'th a kindly humour. Years. umoured that the Berlin gap, spoon,
fork
and knife, with
Government-owned "H. O. "They did not fail according to ago, as a cub reporter, was every area, every village and too, was to be closed. Prepara- which everyone is issued on en-
They are fixed shop" where unrationed
You could never covering an East End hostel every farm,
goods any rules.
it should be your opening. tions were made for the erection tering
The
price far above figure out why carp, there
goods. The ronds and nothing they could either in well in advance of the harvest are sold at
Among those on the platform barriers on
He house rather than your neigh- a cake there and bour's that got hit. It's just the harvest good or bad and bought some
was a church dignitary railway lines leading into Berlin, dividually or jointly call their and must be fulled, whether that of rationed
who, nedidents sold it to his customers at the matter of luck. Even Colonel owing to a diability, had to sit Eastern zone own. Most of them had arrived Technically, the
he fully scaled off at with nothing but the clothes irrespective of any
same price which he himself Waller Spitzbart (a nickname
|lcz outstretched. could
now notice.
Only that that may occur. Only the they were wearing.
had to
Day.
for Ulbricht) may one day get moment's
momen
routing way could they avold
Only in the neck." He paused for order remained to be given the suspicion of the police-that-
But that was illegal. the Government-owned H. O a moment and then he added: Reactions were immediate, In
ullowed to charge r
I hope he shops are January, the number of refugees their journey to Berlin was more
theso
prices. Private will he will. arriving in West Berlin increased than a day's excursion. Even a
changes with neighbours, he individuals must sell their goods I asked him why he had filed. to 25,000. In the short month of small sulfcare might have made RY on, ingenious series of ex-
much lower price even if "Oh," he replied vaguely, "I got February their number jumped the traveller too conspicuous.
Without exception, they were managed for a time to "cover at
loss. Then bit tight one night and seem they do co at a to 41,000.
shabbily clothed and shod. Their up" for the loss of his pigs. But the suits and dresses were made of then a second mishap occurred Innkeeper had not thought of to have shouted things that After all, this was not aren't even healthy to whisper. thin, often threadbare material, one of his cows got in and hot that.
He I can't remember myself. But THEY CAN'T READ and so far as I could see, hardly to be slaughtered That meant an ordinary business deal.
warned me. So
INF
TN Kew Gardens a young WHO are these refugees and
away.
Frenchman pauses to read Underwear
worker nolice A woman textile save them the trouble of going
which begins: "INO why do they come? An East an overcoat.
But that did not from Chemnitz told me she had BIRDSNESTING." Glancing up "So you see," he concluded, themselves. Gennan newspaper, which I read hanging up for drying on long time no neighbour could help.
at the many neats visible in in Berlin, described than as a lines fixed across the hall. Most
him.
He was
to force her into sentenced to
one of the nearby trees, ho remarks bunch of capitalist speculators of the pieces looked
over to clear out."
schools for the training "Manifestly ignored. Geo--they He smiled indulgently at my three years' prison. Ho criminals and pronteers. I te- and over again.
tried
of political functionaries.
nest on all sides." (Continued on Page 7 Col. 4) called that description as I ap
of the people were sit- question whether he could not
one of the proached the bleak, grimy build- ting or lying with their blankets have proved that none of these on the business. Then one day
war-damaged, scantily wrapped around them waiting accidents was his fault.
ssi" (State Security Service). repaired forme: factory-which for their only set of underwear there, accidents don't happen. Glass St
Serves as one of Berlin's to dry. A few of them talked We either do as we are told or He suggested that she should
Some women
were we are saboteurs. We could not supply him with regular reports 75 emergency camps for East together. German refugees.
But most of them possibly risk staying in the on the conversations of all her customers. "We've got your staring circumstances." The camp ites near
to do nothing, Criminal Court, in one of the vacantly into the air, waiting He showed me a cutting from husband, you know," he added seemed to hesitate. worst-bombed parts of the city, until It was time to report
It was A few hours later she left for in his wallet. he carried in ruins and rubble heaps. It is run must visit or take a turn
with the need for
old
Was
and exploiters, spivs and kulake, thin, many of them mendend "we just had no choice. We had help him. Someone denounced escaped because they had tried
ing-a
nay
the old
Some
"Over
His
wife
amidst vast streiches of desolate one of the many authoriiles the a Communist newspaper, which when she
ot
nowspapers,
Cross-section
at
dated
nor
ta
carry
January 16, and dealt here was another farmer, a
starper
bby d a tiny staff of Red Cross sis- potato peeling or camp cleaning lers and helpers. This camp. Not one of them was ading. vigilance in the cou copied, re- minded man than the first, who
ke the others, is badly over- They neither had books crowded There is a shortage nearly everything from drugs and and bandages to chairs tables. Many of the refugees are ill without beds, eleeping on tin, straw-alled mattresses concrete floors.
on
In one of the dormitories, where about 150 wemon
SALESMEN
真賣麵
and
-
A rougher and more politically pamgraph, which 1 ferred to "numerous cases of had already made his acquain sabotage, Including the daraag- tance with a Communist gaol.
The He was a 3eral-minded ing of farm machinery,
the firing of dividualist who hated the Rus poisoning of
ho was elected TF these were the "kulaks", the barns and the dis- sians from the depth of his soul. · burgomaster of a mall country "exploiters" and "prontos, organisation of transport and After the war
consumer suppiles."
"Despite all this evidence," town in Brandenburg. In Eastom Germany must look the article continued, "there are like. But in fact, es I was
wondered what other people
to learn, they were people from still blind and deaf citizens, even
the personnel of the
No Onions
all walks of life, workers and Government and Security ser- COON afterwards, a Russian
artisans, poor wealthy farmers,
peasants civil
servants
and small bus actor
from
men
and vices,
who indulge in tobomeer ordered him to deliver jectivity who keep on looking several tons of onions to the teachers for natural causes lightning, Soviet occupation troops. There and students,
artists, faulty wiring or an outbreak were no onions, and perhaps he and soldiers. They had como
disease. They accept did not try particularly hard to every district of the zone of and women; young and old everything they are told at its get hold of any. He was tried and middle-nged the statin face value and will not under for sabotage and sentenced to tician's dream of a true cross start that with this attitude Acteon years' hard labour. After they aid and abct the enemies three years he was amnestled. section of the population.
A pleasant and Intelligent, of Sociallam, and they seem He moved to a village not very most astonished when they are far from Berlin, where he was looking young farmer with noatly dressed wife and a pretty afterwards called to account as given a small piece of land anal worked as one of the new settlerz little girl of, about five, invited accessories after the crime" me to sit down with them on
For a while all went well. their bunk. He apologised for
Then, a few months ago, the first being unable to offer me a more
propagandists appeared request- comfortable seat. The little girl 70u soo what I mean?" the ing the villagers to get together tried, vainly to make a screwed-
farmer arked me
and ezt up a collective farm. A up piece of paper bounce like a he returned the cutting to meeting was held. The former rubber ball. The woman seniled his wallet. Ho
told burgoniaster spoke against: 1. Fadly
"Maybe, one day soon, me of another village, not Everyone supported him.A we can buy her a feel bail, fer from where he used to second meeting, ended with the
They were among the com- live. Thore, they had tried to some negative roulet paratively fortunate. They had set up a soluntary collective Two days inter a recruiting already completed the many farm, but none of the peasants officer called, requesting his son exacting formalities. They had would come in.
to join the Volkspolizei. He re-
Sudden Arrest
then
da
gained their official recognition wil fatter, all persuasion had funds. The fauser, supported, his na bona fide refugees, and were failed, one of them was refusal. Again, two days later, only waiting on then suddenly arrested and indicted both Cattier and mota were
Party
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