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Frederick Ellis Looks/ At
A CITY WHERE DESPAIR HAS NO ADDRESS
NEW YORK. HAVE just been rending 14 pifex of joba vacant in the New York Times.
I
Column after column of jobs: Halesmen-to-scientists, office boys-to-boss jobs, Wages of £17 10s. for the office boy to £10,500 a year for a sales director.
Does that sound like a de- pression? Does that look ne though American industry in about to totter?
You will find few signs of York, depression in New except the threat to raise the price of a cup of coffee from 8d. to 10d. And there is little talk of de pression either. True, no-
You can get a car for £568 upwards. And you get a lot of cur for that.
New York's streets aro choked with cars--big, chromium plated, dazzling models, Taxis of violent hues screech up the wide streets, making Fifth Avenue a sort of Silverstono, You really bellove that every American owne # car.
And the quickest lesson any Christopher Columbus learns is not to crces the road until the traffic lights halt this tearing
stream of cars.
But, oh, the cost of living Wages may seem high by Bri- fish pay packets, but the price of life is even higher.
In my modest hotel 1 can get for bacon-and-egg breakfast
129. Od. I get the same thing for da. 6. routi nl the drug store food on the right, tooth- paste on the left.
dear.
body expects 1954 to be That is the yardstick of the super-falted boom of portees. Everything clsc 13 1953. But there is no equally
So no wonder Americans holidaying in Bri- despair.
tain think things are cheap.
ONE TOPIC
Cracked n Wall Street operator: "If Note #k anybody if a depression. is coming you might just well ask if he is ม De- mocrat or a Republican."
ALM
Only the Democrats, their party out of power after 20 years, are talking depres- sion. And they hope that If they talk long enough und loud enough it will carry them back to office.
TWO BAROMETERS
NEW York has
de-
ITERE they talk of only OC HERE talk of o
AL- though Moscow is thousands of miles away from New York, almost expect to run into Malen- kov m ritzy Park Avenue. And with
For snow on his boots. the Temperatures are often down 10 22 degrees below freezing point.
You cannot talk with anyone in this city for more than a few minutes before they get un to Communalsın.
cab-
For
IRE
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A NIGHT OUT TO
W
RED
BERLIN.
E are off to sample the joys of night life in the Demo- cratic Sector of Greater Berlin, which is what the Russians prefer to call their chunk of the former German capital.
Brokers, businesi men, drivers, soda jerkers (they pour two
out the soft drinks), rieli men, pression barometers poor men-they all have а the
Commles Stock Market and the deadly rest of the night clubs like the swell El They talk as though the country Reds Reds with Morocco and the Stork is overrun
everywhere Reds under the Club. Nelther does well beds, Reds on the brain. with
a depression round
old I am no politician, but the corner, Wall Street is
West German taxi-drivers Joe McCarthy, the nation's chief on the up and up, and, the Red-hunter, is in the national | in a row stoutly refuso El Morocco, where a good hero class among these anti-consider the project. steak costs 35s., is turning Rests in New York. customers
every away
night.
And Chore signs.
On Park
'SHELTER END'
about other THERE is an hysteria are
the town, symbolised by the Avenue, starting yellow air-raid shelter the Bond Street of New signs familiar in wartime Brl- York, the demolition squads taln. are tearing down A 25- storey block of fals make way for an office sky. Yot the flats were scraper.
to
But right at the outset We encounter a hitch. Four
to
In vain we assure them that for the duration of the Foreign Ministers'. con- ference everyone in the Eastern sector is all smiles. They say no-the risk having their taxicabs con- fiscated is too big.
of
RENE
MUSIC
MacCOLL
samples cafe society behind That Curtain
Arc
bill, equivalent of the bobbysoxer wine through ង and sits drinkding
straw.
a thousand bands in
palaces the
a
Chinese brandy that brings the teurs to my eyes.
Now the floor is clear and a fancy dress competition is in progress. The partielpants--all girls--walic slowly round the fables and every now and then оле of the watching crowd hands his vote slip to the girl who has captured his fancy,
FLASHBACK ΤΟ
Presently he pays his wishes
ux goodnight,
THE leaves with his wife.
Running Their places
The band is indistinguishable WESTERN SECTOR. instantly from
one of Berlin's best restaurants taken by a young couple who thousand dance
(he started it in 1920) is Edwin entwine their arms, round cach world over-puce dinner jackets, managed in hotel on the atte of Roesch, who from 1903 to 1911 other's neck, gaze wordlessly crimson bow-ties, into each
false lapel the present Unilever House at and olher's eyes,
made of carnations slp red Georgian and
feathers, Blackfriars Bridge. occasionally
in front of each Instru- wine.
visitors' mentalist a cardboard plaque saved from looting
book, displaying
and blitz, the band's name-
has page after page of history Fred's.
among its signatures.
You can see the signature of
notorious Ernst
FREEZING
make our way to
ET'S leave them to it, and, passing on the stairs a big oil painting of Stalingrad being rebuilt, night club. Every office block, every
Although the temperature is hotel, has its "sheller end." But
At last we find a willing far below freezing, there is 1 should hate to be the driver and, after
in
a 20- group
of shivering citizens alleged shelter, say, up on
the minute journey,
here we waiting 37th floor
patiently of any skyscraper built only 25 years ago when an old-fashioned
at block- are
the neon-lighted street outside the night club, Bul offices earn more buster fell, let alone an atom Budapest Restaurant in the which
hus got the house-full notice up. money, so down with the bomb.
middle of Stalin Avenue flats.
The place is packed.
You can trace all this hysteria back to Pearl Harbour. Then
But
111
Д
the
taxlman muiters
uniformed chucker-out, who lets
Fis
A heavily-built man wear- ing the sort of suit favoured by Chleage mobsters in
the the 1920's approaches with a rather threatening air and taps me on the shoulder. How now? A challenge? But no all he wants is lo inform me politely that there is whitewash on my sleeve.
Berlin
Roehm,
Елит Почти
ROEHM ...died 1934. "purged" by Hitter In 1934.
MERRYMAKING. And under it, Himmler's name....
have a chat. Ho tells me
те that he wishes
I inform him
don't make the same mistake dining quietly, the standard reach the dance room you walk likes England too.
a dank and gloomy barn. To can at which he says that he
sure."
"Auslander" (foreigner) to the Weve is a "commissar" and Just heres the way, in the Japs caught the Americans of smartly turned out Red cries from those who have been America well.
Except for a sprinkling us silp inside-amid plaintive assures the lush Waldorf-Astoria "with their pants down." Hotel, the vast General A rich banker said: "You Army officers, who are waiting. The interior resembles that I am English, not Ameri- Motors Corporation (Chev. rolet, Buick, Cadillac) is holding
1954 n show of models. Car-crazy Ameri- cans storm the hotel all day to get a look at the goes round the block and inside it like a Rugby scrum.
cara.
The
queue
twice-you just have to be of dress-especially among through
the women-is Sure of everything but them-
not stimu lating.
selves.
WEATHER NOTE The tem-
ice-
perature in New York has been so low that the Axetle the shipping lanes clear in New breaker vezel Westwind keeps
York's Hudson River,
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HIMMLER died 1946. #shabby, concrele "Politics?" he says. "Ah, and you know what happened tunnel, for all the world like an there is a time and place for to him, underground passage at a dis- everything, everything. Now is Says Mr Roesch today: "Tites used sports stadium.
The time for merrymaking." were a nondescript lot, those Here the customers are much And over to the crowded bar Nazis. They preferred beer to
The Easi Cermen we go together for a glass of wine,"
Alexander The Great Had
The women have dumpy, shapeless figures, and their younger. home made. clothes look as if they are
One or two! aro wearing a sketchy semblance of evening dress, but they manage to look in this finery as if they are taking part in a Christmas charade. The whole scene is of the greatest respect- ability and unquenchable provincialism.
MIXTURE
Ices In His "NAAFI"
Srefrigerators
By J. W. TAYLOR
the
Jeo.
ALES of ice-cream and of
dimp stores, so fact that liquid ammonia wit for Alexander dispatched hundreds "boll" at a temperature below preserving food have steadi- of slaves to climbs the neigh the freezing point of water and
bouninse mourstains A HUNGARIAN gipsy ly increased in
and bring was an Invention of the nine- the last back cooling snow from orchestra is playing few years, perpetuating a summit with which to freeze a
the teenth century. Up till 1873, scientist, with great abandon.
when Faraday, the usage that has an age-long sure of honey and fruit made this great discovery, the Rather unexpectedly it history. So long, in fact, These early "loes were said to food entailed the use of natural Juice for the refreshment of all commonest method of freezing mingles nostalgic waltz that historians are not be very tasty. tunes of the importal" era quite certain who first The. with such capitallatic fav-made ice cream.
Royal Charles's of Marco Polo, the famous 19th- ourites as "Whispering."
They Engiant were rather partial to century Venetian explorer found have decided it was not the the frozen "Kornily brick", as it We offer to share a table British, nor the Americans, auch chol, Gerakio Thain, a cifles. His memoirs record that milk being sold from VARTIO. Chanies I gave his barrows in the streets of Chinero with another, couple, anor the Italians, although pension of £20 as a reward for this delicacy had been known. In middle-aged man and wife. they suspect that the latter an lee-cream recipe, an con- China for a thousand years. After we have ordered our brought their knowledge of dilions that he loept the detaile Marco took the recipe back with caviar, steaks, and Hun- ice-cream making to Eng a secret. After the unfortunate him to Venice, and thus did the garian champagne, the land a hundred years ago.
King's execution, Tissain is said Italians have their feat taste of man engages us in talk,
to have returned to Paris and a product they were later to sold the recipe 14 was for develop with such success speaking passable English.
multi-coloured ice-ordem, the recipe being bought by Neopolitans cafe owner hence
Thirsty Taste
He gives it as his opinion, and in a loud voice too, wo thousand years ago, Historians have it that over that There aren't many Alecsander the Great was partial real Communists here in to the diah" during his many Eastern Germany. Socialists, rodiering campaign, and wha yes. Communists, no. We modern "NAAZTIA
"hubs - thers don't like the Reds and II we ever get a chance to prove it there will be no mistake made.
This cooms rather odd
SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST. LTD. ho doesn't lower His voic
Wyndham St
and there is no lookin hle shoulder as he
to the
frozen
French Court
Historians would, be wary to ́A ̈peváñteenth-century edulu deny the suggestion: that. valent of the modren household French Introduced, rator, war Introduced by to England), althou lés 31 when he had as "fice hold any
fructed; In St James.
fact
marine.
WHO WILL THE NEXT POPE BE?
Cardinal from Stalin's home might be chosen......But if a prophecy came true, there would be a sailor Pope.
BY MICHAEL DERRICK
HETHER the Pope Mainchy's Prophecy is "Pastor in in good health Angelicus," the Angelle Shep- or bad, there is herd, and most of those who always speculation about have seen him will say that the who his successor will be.
The successar of the present
tillo fits him well.
ct
B
Today Roman Catholics Pope, according to this cata- everywhere are praying for logue, is to be "Pastor and Shepherd the full return to health of Naula"-a
clue that Pius XII. But the gossips of Sallor. Here is a
limits the choice considerably. and compare
Rome make lists of those Cardinals whom they judge to be papabile, or suitable · can- didates for election..
to the throne of St Peter.
Cardinal Grifin, the Arch- of Westminster, served bishop One of the Cardinals, nów living in Rome was bom in in the Royal Naval Air Service Soviet territory---
during the 1014 war, before he Georgia, where Stalin wns
went to study for the priest- born-and
hood; although I may be there are some who think that
whether this he may be chosen to succeed justines his description
thought doubtful
48 a sailor. Cardinal Güray, полу He is Gregory Peter XV, Archbishop of Sydney, Australia, Cardin Agaginian, Aimentan was a sailor who served as a
wireless ravat Patriarch of Clicin. Still under
operator Gallipoll. sixty, the bearded Cardinal is a magnificent figure who could occupy the pupal throne with impressive dignity.
at
But perhaps the word "Sailor" is simply meant to show that the new Popo will have
side of
More probable, however, is cross the scas, and will come the choice of yet another from the other
tho Italian Pope to succeed Plus ocean. Perhaps he will be one unprecedentedly largo XII. Vory few seriously think of the it will be an American.
rumber of Cardinals at present to be found in Latin America.
for
Many speak of the Cardinal of Bologna, Glacomo Cardinal Some of the mottoes n St. Lercaro. He is sometimes called Malachy's Prophecy have prov- the Don Camillo of the Sacred cd plausible. The one College, because of his enter- Benedict XV, who was Pope prising handling 'D
relations through the years of the 1914 with the Communist mayor of war and the Bolshevik Revolu- that city..
think
tion was "Religio Depopulata" -Religion Laid Wastea pre- phecy made true by Lenin,
Pius VI, whom Napoleon's troops kidnapped and carried off "Peregrinus to France, was
of Giuseppe, Apostolus postoile Wan
Siri, Archbishop, of derci,"
who was Pope
Others Cardinal Genoa.
At 47 Cardinal Siri is when the House of Savoy look of the rat the Papal States and then the youngest, member Sacred College and likely, my the city of Romo (com tha some, to be not the next Pope but the next but one.
But the more credulous, 1 they want to speculate about the identity of the next Pope, tum to a curious, document known as the Prophecy of St Malachy. This is a long series of Lalin mottoes, said to de- scribe cach Pope from Celestine II in the middle of the 12th century until the end of the world,
papacy, had the malto "Crux de cruce," a cross from the cross-and the emblem" of the
1ouse of Savoy was a cross.
at
But despite auch coincidences, It has been fairly conclusi-rely that the prophecies of shown St Malachy are a forgery, mode the end of the sixteenth century in an attempt to secure the election to the papacy of a If this document is accepted particular Cardinal for whom as authentic and reliable pro-
An obviously suitable molto phecy.
the present Pope will was inserted at the appropriate have .only six successors. In place in the series, " other words, the world may be St Malachy, whose name was *xpected to come to an end in thus taken in vain, was Arch- about 100 years' time. But no bishop of Armagh and Primate 'one need start worrying for his of Ireland in the twelfth cen- the tury. He introduced the Cister- because grand-children, Catholic Church does not attach clan Order to Ireland, where it any importance to tho pro- flourishes to this day, and diod phecies of St Malachy, well in the arms of St Bernard, who known as they have been for was the virtual founder of that three and a half centuries. Order, But St Bernard made no reference to the supposed For the present Pope, Plus fet of prophetic riddles. when XII, the motto given in St e wrote the life or St Malachy.
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