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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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