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were not notified. And then the police suggest that the whole Incident will bo forgotten it Mr B. will try to remember and

400 Wives Ask Same Question

From THOMAS CLAYTON

Cairo.

VERY airmail brings

E more letiers to huB

bands from the 400 British wives flown home to the U.K. Inst May when the situation in Egypt looked like getting tough.

All the lettera, usk the same question: When do you think we will be able to rejoin you? The husbanda are still unable to give a

definite answer.

They know Cairo will re- main the Middle East's

crisis city so long as the Suez Canal Zono problem re- mains an Anglo-Egyptian storm centre.

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The wives were evacuated, · on British Embassy •ndvico after the breakdown of the talks. The decision was prompted by the spate of "hate Britain" speeches fol- lowing the May 6 walk-out by the Egyptians from the talks.

Black Saturday Naguib's young officers' outbursta became fiery"; enough to revive memories of 1951's Black Saturday, when anti-Britain moba burnt, looted and killed 17

'people in Cairo. 1

Since flying home the wives have read that Cairo has been quite calm. So they are asking When?" It is not money that is their No. 1 problem; the firms which ordered husbands to reid their families home are paying. separation allowances.

people were moving about. Woman on another woman's am, the attic,

wondered what could see possibly have induced them to easing two Marks in West ccatis exploitation" Included state of publle opinions in the No place like your own home."

12:093

the

Out of a

The Decision

or

The class soon

she was

dolor what will value his help. But Me B. feeling the "pinstro pinch". IÁ:

Almost Relief

One of the groups 1 The vist majorly of "uese ple had their ration cards mosphere while they were in quite the same

foren of

But

It is the husbands who are their wives' absence.

Two afternoons' golding be came four or five when the wives it. And even a few drinks afterwards come

expensive in

a city where Imported beers sell at 13. Bd, and a small whisky and

soda, 38.*

The husbands are also often dining out in restaurants where a modest meal costs 15 shillings.

Watching Closely

Zone situation as closely as on

in call it "the re- fugee stream". I

It is the difficulty of finding" a saw it first from a

and she man report the things he hears Lastly there were the very another, of some alleged crime Soviet Union,

in England. One wite cases indeed;

of aged to correct slow-moving capitalistic exploitation"

some of the people say. No, no, not spying home

informing nothing so nutshelled the problem in a grosser untruths In the text or below was a gravelled court- elderly people, mccy of them the cdd job man, having

Mr letter "It is hateful living with yard, and in it groups of walking with sticks; a blind ol! Nazi emblem in a drawer in books about the Western world, melodramatic and absurd.

B. must understand that the relatives-no matter how kind→→→ or, in one case. For instance, she did not con-

Party and the Government are out of suitcases. I am for ever. the fact that British

genuinely concerned about the saying "Don't" to the children. "Everyone you can

German money-enough to buy from this window, is a re- leave famillar places and people, two

freeing of India. three packets of the f

They Democratic Republic. fugee from the Soviet Western Germany living on din cigarettes,

the

Everyone OPTICAL CO. Everything for the Modeller". Zone", said an official stand- charity of strangers.

left Berlin,

big very quick-but because thee is wise, and a man of honour, they so he avoids the slippery total Soviet Zone population of refugee, wave would be of liked and respected her they slope and makes for West Berlin. crafts, Model Engines, Modeling. beside me.

New arrivals in West marhly 15 million, half moon people like pensioners whose did not give her away. As she It would be wrong to base Boats, Model Race Car Kits,

ecme through refugees have

mu with some one's picture of the Soviet Zone Model Jotex' Qutilis, Berlin have to pass through since Berlin was divided in 1940, incomes have been reduced al- herself told

"My class behaved entirely on the reports of ro 16 separate offices before slipping Pay for what you get and get

sootor most to starvation level. Many pride:

fugees. They are the rejected what you pay for.

they stand chance of boundaries unnoticed among the such people have already come splendidly."

human material of Communism, being recognised as genuine crowds of Berliners going to or through in the refugee stream. who stayed behind,

the despairing minority for whom exile seerned the only refugees, deserving of off- from their work. Why? I spent of those

many have survived so far only a fortnigh! trying to find out. the West cial help from

because they own their houses

hope. The rest have stayed be

to build some and can let a few roams,

hind, and tried authorities. The German

because a part-time job THE headmaster used to come sort of life for themselves under

of THE

To judge people in the courtyard were

small moribund business

info the classroom from time the new conditions. being processed through the

some kind helps to eke out the to time, and r did various in- by all accounts, they grumble a

So they are watching the Canal machine, so to speak.

NE Iden must be got rid of tiny pension.

speelors. They found nothing good deal when they dare, But on May 1, 1953 all such actively wrong, though the at- they don't see Communism from

angle as the ambassador.

They have not been chcered noticed consisted of a couple people did not become refugees

refugees. token away, under general there must have been pretty

by the speeches of Egypt's young with two children-boys- as a matter of principle, or sa a

Eastern Germany is not the a. dark communigal protest "gainst racasure affecting Individuals electric. the man wearing

But, in the end, the Party only country in which Comi-soldier-rulers during the recent They were opposed connected with private business

celebrating turned decent, the anniversary

five-day festivities blue peaked cap and a to Communian, certainly, but no and trade, and their families. cell among the school staff be- munism has

of Naguib's double breasted overcoat one swarts to leave home, After that date.

their only came suspicious. And one day well-meaning people into "re

When dawn coup last July 23. There of food, was the free a new girl appeared in class, au Mueller told me her story,

jected human material".

was no hint of Egypt modifying which ended just below the furniture, friends and Job, to source

tint free an uncertain future in a shops But free shop prices, transferred for no obvious rea- she was speaking not just for her Zone demands. waist. "That's

strange place. Almost every much higher than ration prices, son from another school

But the Aroble papers are farmer," soid the official. refugee had decided in the end are wildly beyond the reach of She was a fanatical member of herself or for other East Ger-

man teachers. She was speaking taking an optimistic "They usually dress like to come West because of some small Incomes.

the Communist youth organisa definite event, something which

tion, the F.D.J. And whenever also on behalf of her colleagues plugging the re-start of the talks that".

had convinced him that be

Frau Mueller ventured on des in half a dozen countries from by the middle. of August,

Britain's neogtiating team- mo The woman had the same personally had

tolerable

licate ground, her face lit up Poland to Bulgaria, chers sturdy, peasant look, and future to hope for in the Soviet

and she began gerly to take who have undergone the same meantime patiently awaiting for the official added: "Most of Zone,

notes of what Frau Mueller similar experiences but who Nagulb to make a move to re come to Berlin and start the talks-if ho* *really To bezh with, there are the

sald. As

As Frau Mueller put it; cannot the peasants make for Ber- members of those social classes VERYONE knew that these. We had a traitor among us, peak for themselves.

desires agreement. lin when they're turned off which the rugine has marked people of limited means Wo couldn't trust each other

down for their land".

dies bruotion, 10:

for would have to become refugees any more". example, the Independent, or starve. But a new factor bas

It was almost a relief for her farmers. Private traders and now emerged. It is clear that

when she was sacked a low No Breadwinner But, stond of

manufacturers are also docmed many places the food is weeks later without notice, on nationalising there In the free shops for the ground that she was an their undertakings by publishing those who can afford to buy at enemy of the anti-Fascist THIS family group told its a series of demens pretest free shop prices. So the fairly order". Three days after that

Zone Government to

well-to-do are also swelling she was on her way to West own story, but many of work more gradually and less wer

the refugee stream. No one Berlin. the others did not. For directly.

knows jet how big this latest The pattern of Frau Mueller's instance, the

11 First, the authorities Lake woman with

wove is going to be.

case is fairly typical.. Long be- decision in three small children at her mediate target

private-the im-

These people arc

really fore she was dismissed, the will be, say, economie refugece hunger re by skirts, followed

of the regime had pressuro contractors in the an hauburg district owning, 1

not political fugees-and

at modo her acutely unhappy. But, elderly couple, obviously the

three grandparents. "No bread or more lorries. But the people all. The people who come near as in most cases, it took more not simply toldest to being political refugees than that to turn her into a re- winner in that family", concerned are

Frau direct personal crisis. of ers. They cannot stay out Instead, the economic and

trouble by keeping the

their have a tax inspectors move in,

the Mueller iceer her job; the small mouths

manufacturer becomes con- they are begin to find fault. One arm shut-in class

Arm pected

vinced that he is about to be to praise Invishly

the small arrear of income the bread has

the. lorry driver regime. And if one loathes and arrested; winner, the father of the tax. Another committed

very crashes into a lamp post, and comes West rather than face a dimcult thing to do. three children? What had "conomic sabotage" by paying despises It, this is

the

more drivers

than the happened, to him? And- maximum wage fixed by the

Take Frau Mueller, a war prison sentence for "economale sabotage". The elderly couple, moving on who was the State. The inspectors are under widow who started training as flying on the borderline of a teacher in 1040. The schools starvation, are evicted from

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Very Difficult

not

commented my friend. "I'm that they are to be expcom the real sense are the teach- fugee. There has to be some

afraid they may hard time".'

Where was

and and

+

solitary, slim, self-possessed orders to find something wrong; were one of the few sectors their single room. Where else woman carrying all her if they cannot, they must use worldly goods in a raffia their imagination.

shopping. bag? "Probably a

school-teacher", suggested New Wave

my friend the official," "We

were

have been made, ch

a

con-

in

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Slippery Slope

been whether or

that the Communials denazified are they to go, except to West at all thoroughly, and there Beriln? were plenty of teaching posts vacant. So, after a short train- ing course, Frau. Mueller got a post

Oberschule, get quite a lot of them, THE venially for "economic secondary school. She was especially before the start sabotage may be 10 or 20 pleasant, rather quiet woman

and, though her

COMETIMES the personal crisis economie of a new term”. ·

years in prison. So, after

may

have been takes the form of a cholce- few 'arresta

not to collaborate And then there

the remaining haulage

I am sure the children

regime. Mr A. has. three youths of 17 or 18 tractors in the district draw liked her and wanted to learn with the

her been talked into becoming a apparently treating. the the logical conclusion and begin from her. She enjoyed whole thing as an advón to make their way to West work too-until the regime be candidato-member of the SED

this gan to communise the cur- Party. Now at the time for (Socialist Unity) or Communist ture My friend thought Berlin Each campaign of t

riculum

My full membership has come, je A few months ago'.

step West to avoid being re the hotel-keepers.

ΑΠΑΙΤΗ. various was the "Curren!

cannot refuse without:com cruited Into the Communist reasons, mostly milltary, the period, though history and take and he shrinks from it.

decided to army the so-called Peo- the holiday resorts awkward too. But she found away

were often promising himself, so he runs evacuate geography.”, lesSOTIB · Wyndhain Street, Hong Kong de Sallsbury Road, Kowloon ple's Police. We often retong the Baile const: Bo the that there were ways of skater B. gods into minor trouble 80 or 100 young men like hotel-koperatiere were, va ing rather lights over, some of with the poller Blend, wared that in ʼn week".

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