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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY,"" SEPTEMBER
1953.
SPARE A COPPER JOIN A PARADE
GILES enjoys a two-in-one view of the news
Tocil
provided by police about police
WOMEN -P.E.S--TOUGH GIRLS NOT, WANTED Yard seeks gentle touch
large boots, red facon, lick their pencils, and drink beor,"
I
IN
EAST BERLIN
By Colin Lawson
TWO news items guaran- -chief of women police, car- and atrip cartoons are
to bring little' fled
headline which always dull and cafish, have whoops of joy from all those went: In my line of business who creep like alugs, through the
Berlin, Aug. 26. H-bomb stories in 20-odd
YELL, this week. I national newspapers on wet
first Thank you, Scotland Yard, Monday mornings looking
Communist parade and for supplying such delight demonstration. I heard to hear of no more repara. opposite of eager, for inspiration for a gag to appear on wet Tucaday and the second, a complaint ful domestic material which Communist Party Secretions, smaller occupation eved, whole-hearted mornings. The first, sup from a police college that has nothing to do with tary Ulbricht demand: no costs, and a chance to stand munists. plied by Scotland Yard's. "Policemen in films, radio, bombs or politics.
W took part in my
on our own feet but we
Adenauer's Government is com- · *| pensating Jews why buffered indor Hitler). (S1x ml}tion=lost"
their lives, the rest,, their pro
starry, Derly),
Commns were paying the Cours
He added that the West Ger-
3,450,000,000 marks. (£280,000,- more compensation be paid must wait and see if all the Linden it was noticeable that World Organisation this amount 000). (Adenauer has promised Walking down 'the Unter den to pay Israel and the Jewish, for Jews who lost every promises are carried out, of thousands of people, completely over the next 12 years). thing under Hitler.
course.
GROTEWOHL
TIRED
AND he went on to demand
disinterested in the demonstra- tken, were It was in East Berlin,
wallding the other way to the assembly square, where 70,000 of the faith-- ful,were called by order
They neither glanced, right to say "Hoch" instead of
nor left, took no notice of the Hitler's "Hell" in the vast
ROTEWOHL Was the street loudspeakers booming out. that England and-America Marx-Engels square. · They first speaker. There were They were interested only in should cancel all debts, already {"hoched” the agreement no cheers except when the their own business which seem scaled down by the Allies, reached between Russia three "hocha" were ordered potato sot home as soon as owed by Germany-post, pro
possible.
and wartime debts." and Red Germany last at the end of his speech.
Even before Grotewohl Of course, these demands got There was clapping, but I finished, knots of people who the biggest hand-clops. noticed that about one in had become "separated from Ulbricht thundered on again
weekend.
:
were
who away.
Last time I was in an three people did not clap. their brigades slipped quietly for another hour. By then, the East Berlin demonstration And many of those with the real workers had
to the other. clapped
ane foot When Untricht spoke more people had got tired and shuffled, half- moved off under the watching They, seemed glad when the hearted.
eyes of the police who lined Risen out of the Ruins" sdund East German National Anthem There were a. number of the route. elderly women, I observed,
ed, and they could shuffle back Then Ulbricht demanded the to their own ruins in bamb as I edged into the middle of scrapping of the recent agree blasted and not yet repaired the crowd. They looked the ment under which Dr East Berlin.
the 200,000 who revolt ed against their Commun- Ist bosses. That was some thing like # demonstra tion
What should I report to East German President Pieck, Prime Minister Grotewohl and Party boxs Ulbricht of what I saw and heard?
Alas, I can tell them; with truth that the crowd! And thank you, police the blame for this misconception only kind of countrymen they was neither so boisterous college. But from one cartoonist of our policemen to the Holly know sind calls everyone "Zur.""
enthusiastle as nor
the However, China who is convinced that the way wood film manufacturers, who, South
because we believe
and loud- Morning Post be draws policemen is absolutely of course, have never seen
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correct, sometimes to a point of real British polleeman, and flattery (no reference to feet), the B.B.C., which has seen only when we want only two, I pro- may I defend my contemporaries two kinds of policemen – one mise to draw them in future as who do draw them with large with a b moustache and an near as possible 40',the require- boots, licking pencils, with red eternal "Bow Bells" accent, and monts laid down by the police faces, and drinking beer? I pass the other
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BRIEFCASES
PLENTY COMES TO THE
LAND OF FAMINE
-but millions will still go hungry
From JAMES LEASOR
and Province fnced starvation
Burma offered the Indian Government half a million tone of rice at 30 rupees per indund (a maund is about Bölb, and a rupee approximately 13. 80.) although the ruling market price
India refused the offer with the Burmese aro
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New Delhi.. hos ay Tilgation system, the FOR the first time in as crops were bad. WALKED with 250 men
Flong as anyone can re- I
They reached their worst two and women who came member, India has no food years ago, when tena of from the middle of East problem. There is so much thousands of people in Bihar Berlin to join up with the rice and wheat in the coun- were reduced to eating grass. is about half this, main body in Unter den try that the Food Minister,
America rushed 2,000,000 tons thanks, and Linden.
Ahmed Kidwai --- a worried of wheat to India and at the hawiding their, rice in Ceylon, Most carried briefcases in man when I saw him two end of the famine, year the which they had taken their years ago at the time of the country had three quarters of a midday meal of sandwiches. Bihar, famine is now tour million tons of wheat left over. Most appeared to be clerks ing the country saying: and indoor workers. There"We have so much, wheat was a distinct absence of the we don't know what to do ice and millet, and the Robl or industrial and building with it.”
workers.
There were the banners calling for a
peace con- ference, friendship with Russia, destruction of Adenauer and the European Defence Community and all the rest of the familiar slogans......
Said an elderly man in a "Of shabby
grey suit: course
we are all pleased
This happy and exceptional has not come stato of affairs about by any marvel of plan- ning or organisation. It is all due to one thing rain,
India has had more rain this last year than at any time since the war, and the rice and wheat crops have thrived accordingly. *For the past five years the rolny seasons had been slight and as less than one-fifth India's total, agricultural
Corsica Running Out Of Cash To Feed The
Paris. NHE exiled Sultan ať TMorocco
42-year-old Sidi Mohammed. Ben Yous- sef, with four of his wives. four princesses and two princes, is gravely, atraining the resources of Ajaccio, capital of Corsica.
The Prefect of Corsica- the departmental governor M. Marcel Savreux, who hns hoved his own family upstairs to leave six rooms vacant for the Sultan's family and three servants, thirteen in all -- has sent an S.0.S. to Paris to say that hela running out of cash to feed the exiles..
The call went through to Minister of the Interior M. Martinaud-Deplat.
au-
By SYDNEY SMITH
Sultan
of
Innd
India has two main harvests - the Kharif or winter' crop of
crop of wheat and summor barley.
For the past two years these have been unusually good this year, for the fist time ever on record, the country is refusing foreign offers of rice.
The First Time
At
Burma › Anxious
the Burmese Embassy an official told me that Burma is most anxious to sell, ""even at a. loss." This anxiety is increas→ ed by the fact that America is likely to buy less since the Korean truce,
Should Burma·be unable to find enough buyers then that country 'could
face a serious Anancial crisis.
Before the war Burma, which
A Food Ministry official told me: "For the first time we then-had-a-considerable income- have told
from all exports-not restarted and Slam, China, Purma, "Thanks for your offers since exported about 3,500,000 of rice, but we don't want it, tons of rice every year, and keps about as much again for her own Sell it clewhtre."
Burma, where on the banks needs.
of the Irrawaddy Delta alone Now Burma is so riddled with 10,000 square miles are given bandit gangs and general unrest over to growing rice, would be that she produces only about glad to do this. Her
is urgent,
this
to.
Lell
half economy is mainly balanced by exporting Her ce quantity every year. rice and teak, and the bidding It is strange, rad irony that is not too keen for either. while, for the first time, India Since 1947 Burma has been has a food surplus, probably Just selling rice to India at about as many people will be 10 double the ruling market rates, hungry as ever. Food is therea pleading that she needed the in plenty
but
the money to buy casia for her own rehabilitation, it is not.
Unemployment and the cost of prefect'a establishment bar-. family and another "fifty India has been glad to buy be
ex-cause, at this price, she was living are still rising. And what ren from the kitchen garden more people who are
nob satisfaction do. full warehouses to the poultry run.
pected to include a fow of assured of supplies, But
this year.
give if your stomach; is empty? the Sultan's concubines and Harassed M. Savreux many servants." iden of says he has no
Two ancient chateaux, the judicial status of his royal guests detained? the Chateau de Campo in
deported? -under house the south-centre of arrest? ----or just guests? island, and the Chateau de Quenza near, the southwest Says M., Savreux with tip of the island, are fine Corsican charm and favoured as the next-like- discretion: "I only know liest temporary, homes for that I have been asked to this - moat politically- respect the traditions of embarrassing family.. courtesy, hospitality__and generosity of France,"
the
But those traditions are being enforced around the old, rambling stone-terraced Both chateaux are inland,. palace of Lantivy, by the isolated and epally policed. strongest forces of police But wherever the Sultan and military police the and his family go in Corul- island has seen for a long ca, say Paris authorities time;
It won't bo for long. And they are all armed. Corsica is not far enough away from too many
Moroccans, French, Spanish Said the Minister: "Un-
and Tangier nationalists, limited spending. is
who etil regard Ben Yous The Sultan and his sof as their legal temporal thorised. They must be family have not even put a and spiritual ruler. treated well."
foot in the spacious palm- Replied tho Prefect: shaded garden. "But how can I
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there
At night the only light
is only £60 official: cash in the building.comes from in the French possession of
left to carry us through
to the end of the month the Sultan's own room. In
tan, underwand he has not
The French Government is understood to be preparing per manent exile for him somewhere well cost of the Nilo-perhaps
Taliiti in the Pacific: The: Sul- exile he never sloops in resig
politically a resigned were pro- the dark. -More
potentially explosive mised at once. But in the Meanwhile, two Foreign for the French. any part meantime the Sultan and Office officials from Paris the Mediterranean, with its dan
gerous Arab, tiatlonalist 3 saso¬ his family, who are not have arrived in Corsien to cations homile to France, from letting, exile apoll good apshunt for better accommoda-- Camblance to Cairo) is too close] petites"---havo / Daten tha hon for the Blind he for rent,
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