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URDAY, OCTOBER
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"THE PATIENT IS OUT OF DANGER (WE HOPE)
SEFTON
DELMER
is back from a tour of Red Germany with a news slant
Imagine BRIGHTON run by (AR) Communists
T
to
FOR
BERLIN. day places are avaliable in imagine trade union Homes this year
all allotted to those chosen out of
Brighton with its hotels boarding-houses
William Hickeyed from Hollands
ONCE ABOARD THE LUGGER AND THE OYSTER WAS MINE
London, changes its gox from time Esen looked rough ma
We were/ oddly enough, when we got out of calmar waters. Now, Iboped the car at Whitstable, that taskiing gang
watching.
Harbour. The beats weAT MILEY CAMRY Mroup, came awaging drunkenly at their more Bottles of champagne and moorings. Out at sea-and more crates of stout. that was where we were had a pull at the dodge, going every wave was quite a small affair. A "Jenife creamed at the creat. A which runs along the so-bed strong wind tugged at our net behind to hold the catch. Up thay canges About 200 coats.
1 had the. · first ano opened. It was delicious. Brinler than they are in the restaurants. The nesh was plump and paid- erchi in colour.
"Huh!" said a Incal with darislon, Are you going out there with the party that's going to dredge oysters?">
A
hard, cloth and a A dwindling band
give my cap
mauden), twist
"Huta!!" "wald the ancient Nelly Giles, who is 08 and has manainer, "you're all going to opened moto then 51 million got wet. It's orrible out them, vyslera, groped in her bag and
got enough lifebelts pulled out her knife
on the
A great, character, Nelly, She "Oh!" % said " jauntily "we works for Emmy and Sid shan't need lifebelts." But as I willlams, who run a restaurant Cross and wire World Copyright by arrangement with the Manchester Guardian made my way to the oyster-abeds
near Charing I did think, a little about life-
giving the party.” belts:
to turn for shore,
The pier at Heringsdorf "restricted"-after all, even a could look like a holidaymaker. That is "Solidarity Homes fo
the background: " 2
a tenth of an average worker's beach of Heringsdorf they just monthly salary is "what, cach, ignored them. guest pays for a 13-day holiday.
And that includes' all enter tainment, a private bathing hut on the beach, theatre, dancing, and, music-hall.
Later that evening. I attended a dance at Solidarity House most enjoyable affair with a musical clown, on amateur conjurer, and an excellent band charge is the some
I tried a little plebiscite with whether the trade unionist stays may dancing. partners hair In the maulting glory' of dresser from Erfurt, an appren- Solidarity, in the expropriated tite in a machine tool works, a luxury villa of bonker Bleich-typist. roeder or like me, is put into
The
But
Black velvet
to
тем
I was forty to have found our We all scomed
Gen-logs. Even the Pekingese who had come on the trip, in the sheds they had "Dimcult to ret men for this everything ready" make a job," said Ted Luckhurst, who
1, 10, landlubber happy in a trip en is and the Skylark. There the bottles were champagne, stout, sherry, and gin. With boxes of little chees'.ɛnvourlés.
I settled for black velvet
that marvellous mixture
stout and champagne,
of
After one pines I looked out
has
nont his life over bryster-bods. They don't un open-air job want to iryd there daya. The pay is between £6 13. and £7. They con carn that in
A job ashore Standing cloogide him, was the cort of. man that hos the smacks `for con- manned
through the windows of the office turies. His name was Harry and sald to an old salt, "Just a farman.
A tough, wenther-
Uitlo choppy, isn't it?""
beaten man who family har Whitstable for many After a second was walking been, in
on the tumbers with around
generations. wlint
hood was a Jomblower
In orbent calm down I was saying.
Tang of the sea
We clambered, down the stairs
Ho was hend, aboard one of and walked out to the quayside. Lipton's Shamrocks and filped Some had
borrowed rubber to mil her scross the Atlanție, boots, Others, like Brian Reece
I was just waiting to have a and mysair, tucked their trousers word with
ancient those into their socks.
mariners when we got ashore. They had all disappeared.
I went back to the oyster- lurtch was ready. steds where A lunch under the rafters.
An oyster-barrel for a chair. Two more for each guest as a one of oysters, +dozens
bread and Nab the thin "miserable |
100 Often In
The walls were furled as we were going out under power. And the crew all in black oll skins had fitted up ropes round the decks to stop us joining the oysters on the rea-bed.
and 4,000,000 trade union members, thego German holiday-makers finirdost outspoken answer won't 'arf all be sick."
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That ancient mariner
Dozens and ledgings which must have begu "Why don't you really like
There were about a dazeis Wonderful brown, the Heringsdort, equivalent For Fine KaV.2? (KV.P. " the
abadd first. That ancient stuff you get "Sea View" (two minutes from initials under which the People's women in the party. They went bitters. the sea).
turret up amin. London. But good thick slices Amazingly, the. It was the
were mariner had,
on this with the butter well spread. You really going Frankly,
ty to talk. I had expected quite rand
Molly, in her Sunday best, ate the trip?" he said with a leer. "You gave mo
smoked salmon, fow of his cronies The man who has opened And then and I think it sums up
of oysters has never and they
oño In her life...."I what the other two were turned up
ind laughed among gitting
K.V.P. muttered
don't think I'd like them," she she
themselves. rabb ese
said,
said.. "And besides, they! don't really belong to us. get 薛 to be a A few of those 700,000
pretty miserable I think I am not far off had Try to imagine the whole seaside holiday, some of those lot. I
expected almost interpreting her as meaning that everyone in East Germany to she resented these German tell be of Brighton and its neigh- get to Heringsdorf; and a very
be browned-off (or, if you volunteer soldiers as the tools ancient mariner bouring resorts turned into few stay at the Solidarity.
prefer it, redded-up) with the of Soviet and not German going to is natural 'ome." was a taste of the sea on my SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST. LTD. regimentation of their so-called interests. Democratic Republic.
because they have been per manently taken over by the trades unions.
at the East German seaside
about a vast holiday camp virtual- For make no mistake
Ап East German worker ly reserved for trade union it,
Just havo his holluay
members, and their families. cannot
where and when he chooseя
Imagine everything else
He either
he goes where
1s
fortunate enough to be sent or in the place controlled either ho has to stay home.
by the State
å trade or unlon organisation
-the
ance
119ed 10
be the most
Is the Solidarity still luxurious? The paint 18 peeling from dance halls, the shops, the the outside walls, the lift has down, there are no restaurants, even the cockle broken and souvenir kloska.
carpets on the flour. And if It is not too As I opened the door to what much of a strain try to exquisite of restaurants, I was imagine, on top of all this, hit by a wave of stale cabbage a battery of loud-speakers and potato, waitresses booming away all day long noisily slopping some kind of a
stow
from huge aluminium from every conceivable, and bowls into the guests' plates, inconceivable vantage point
not luxurious. But on beach and prom. a con No tinuous
of certainly cheap.
programme
music interlarded with poli
tical pep talks.
:
I
That is exactly what found last week in Herings- dorf.
'Paradise'
were
visit
For before I made, this trip I had taken the trouble to Berlin reception camps for East zone refugees, who were still coming in at the rate of more than
week 2,000 a
rother than remain a moment longer in the People's Paradise.
rc
Yet these trade unionists in Heringsdorf and in other sorts along the const looked to me just as cheery and gay as the hoildaymakers I used to see in Baltic resorts in the past,
1
7
So improved
HAVE been observing, the life of the workers at work as well as at play. And there is no doubt that, materially, things have vastly improved sinco I was in the East zone five years back.
Just as I was going down to the. Bont Lesile Henson turned
There were speeches, una rehearsed, guity spaedies' that' lecks so much like a fish had a tang of the sea air about
right
said the them,
And all the way home there
+
just
A great day!
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But that black velvet is black lips, ... magid. I climbed down with mee. We cast ofL.; And soon tense:
va were heading out of harbour. The spray It was glorious.
and again
编 came running on to the deck and ran around our feet.
But F. 107. was enjoying her- salf. And so was
Whitstabic I a lovely sight from the sta A low line of timber buildings, The gap between East and neat and clean. Time has made the littla port West is no longer so much little difference to:
As we made our way to fils against the Soviet zone that its
beds
Austin Major rulers cannot afford to lift the oyster-
told me about
tho Iron Curtain and let-West Gardner
of an oyster's life. Germany see what life is like difficulties
How the American borer,
which them.
It is in the political come over about 80
30 years ago,
One important difference
Ales all its various forms borta s hole in the oyster's shell. did note. It is a significant. Bela, one. This was the attitude of the of pressure, favouritism, and. How the starfish will grip hold
the
wratched, malluse holidaymakers to the occasional distrimination that go with the of soldier and saller from East Communist insistence
on con- suck the life out of 1....
And he told me what I had Germany's Soviet-equipped and formity, that life in the Soviet
suspected, but had tried not to East German
union Soviet-directed army and navy. zone is still unbearable. tradé
Unbearable to the point of believe that when you eat an holidays are the cheapest and
oyster-it is alive, best Value I have ever come In the old days, the Germans flight,
I call an oyster
Not across anywhere. Thirty marks would have been all over them-
that it is neuter in gender. Bur age". is. roughly £3 if you ignore the selves to make much of their..
complicated. ridiculous rate of exchange) or "brave boys." This time on the
MONDAY: What happens to justice?
Soup Kitchens in Theatreland
London.
NTO this high summer of
1954--the most prog-
By James Leasor
They bought equipment on the hire-purchase, cash coffee registers, and
WITH n Soviet visa in my
passport, an East Ger man Foreign Office official to escort me, and an official car to transport me, I drove perous months London has that soup served in coloured They added salade and machines. Now, Instead of into this Baltic seaside re seen for a decade comes an bowls could mean business. omelettes to the menu, and one waitress, they employ sort which used to be the echo from the years of de- He discussed the scheme now they use 1,000 eggs a seven, and instead of gloomy Brighton of Berlin but now pression of the thirties with friends. Three of week, serve 100 people a prophecies their weekly both branchèn them, also in their twenties day, and are open from turnover. after the fall of the Trob goup kitchens.. Curtain is only the Brighton Then there were vans Susan Dennis from a dress 10.30 s.m. until midnight.PAROD of East Berlin.
with cauldrons of bubbling house, Antony Furnivall
I
was taken atraight hot soup ladled out in from the City, and Jack Pia, Says Susan Dennis, &
to an enormous "Workers: charity with hunks of bread who had once worked at the dark-haired, pretty girl with
Paradise”- called Solidarity House.
It took mo
to the down-and-out and the Savoy-agreed to come in sala
with him unemployed.
Now soup kitchens have
several moved up west to theatre-
minutes before I identified land Soho, Knightsbridge,
It was the old
Attintle, which, whòn
Plastin Heringsdor
still farmous 08
Chelsen, They are now and gay and fashionable,
business brai
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