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While Russia politically has been in a state of flux and transition since Stalin died, one firm change has been established in the field of news. Russia is reporting the world news more speedily and commenting on it more quickly.
Broadly speaking, Russia is able any time from midnight also reporting the news a trife | Moscow' time, less tendentiously than in Stalin's days.
REFLECT TREND
Sovlet newspapers reflect the trend. By Western standards they remain' full But and heavily political.
to the Russian man in the sireet they present a cleaner picture of the non- Communist world Stalln allowed them to celve.
.
This arrangement meant that news was often available ta them before it was broadcast by Moscow radio. Under the pre- vious system, Moscow-radio or Tass, the Soviet official news
"broken" agency, had always the big news.
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cuctalions from
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and departments Difices back from night to day work. But of
Elected
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Of Future
newspaper.
course, the
news agency radio men still worked at night:
did the Western newsmen
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time
Today's Press release arrange- ments seem designed to ensure the
for possible Press complete without Russia's views all round
the globe.
The midnight Moscow Today, Stalin is mentioned release suits newspapers in the buried underground far beneath from une to time in a historical United States
Mr Brian Anstey told the some-European or political context and
(morning newspapers) Royal Institute of Chartered. lanes with 1 quotation from and the Far East (evening
Surveyors his ideal city of the him to justify current policy. newspapers).
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and
or
Western
at
The highest officers of the of the Order Knights of Malta, who have come, from
all parts of the
world, rathered
Dew
aver-
in their historic Villa Magistrale, built on the Aventine Hill. looking Rome, to elect the order. head of their Wearing their colourful full London. May 3, dress uniform the Knights
architect A.. London
sald
first attended Mass in their that cities of the yesterday
celebrated Saint Sabina Chapel, and future should be built on three
then retired Lo levels with essential industries the great room in the Villa secret Magistraje for their them
The long delayed conclave.
due to a einction wis
conflict between the knights and the Holy See, which was settled following a Special Cardinals -committee, who were able to The solve the problems. newly elected head of the Order is the Marquis Ernesto Paterno Castillo di Careses.
Level 1. Underground, served
and containing air conditioned store-houses and factories, robot fed and watafund.
But no contemporary leader- But me and again within future would be built on three not even Nikita S. Khrushchev, the past few months the Soviet levels. They would be: the powerful First Secretary of Press chiefs have been speeding by its own rood and rail system the Sovies Communist Party, up news releases even further. Hand
Premier certainly not
Since Marshal Bulganin took Nikolai Bulganin dominates over
Premier in February the Soviet Press, today.
been this year, there have Seviet newspapers remain series of major news releases by "ideological"—but i a some- Moscow Radio
Tass what lesser degree than they around nine p.m. Moscow time were under Stalin.
(1800 GMT).
And on this new deal. Moscow Even the make-up of some
has improved and radio is again beating the newspapers
has Western Press corps in Moscow. the most striking change
-China Mail Special. streamlined been in the more layout of the weekly magazines like Ogonyok (Russia's nearest equivalent to the glossy Ameri- can magazine), and Krokodil. the political-humorous journal.
STUDY NEWS
The Kremlin has no such title as Chief Public Rela- tlons Officer. Nevertheless, some top Soviet official ap- pears to be si work studying the best strategic times for the release of news to the
the West and
world at targe.
Thus, editorial writers and propagandists in Russia appear
scope today to have a greater for individual initiative within
of the framework
accepted policy Soviet
For most of the postwar era, Stalin and the Kremlin oficials worked throughout half the night. Foreign correspondents in Moscow slept-and read the news in Pravda and Izvestia the next morning.
Today, the Kremlin officials the work office hours" and foreign correspondents stay up
all night.
SUNDAY POST-HERALO Space for
commercial advertising should be changing not later than noon on Wednesdays.
booked
In fact, the picture started
izz the last months of Stalin's life. Until the latter part of 1952, Western correspondents in Moscow had
were
in
the
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MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
ÎN THE WARENDUSE, MANDRAKE IS STILL INVISIBLE TO TINY AND SLUG
FERDINAND
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THESE ARE THE FAMOUS KERN PAINTINGS STOLEN FROM THE MUSEUM.
YEAH-STOLEN BY YOU NO DOUBT. COME
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Picture shows: the scene in the election room of the Villa Magistrale prior to the voting, (Left to right) Lieut Col Guy Elwes (Great Britain); Prince Guy de Polignac (France); Count dza Alcacovas and (Portugal). Express Photo.
WHO'S THE OLD WATCHMAN TALKIN' TOT LI CAN'T SEE ANY BODY!
Flood Heroes
DIRECTED AID AS WATER WASHED THEIR BOOTS
Sydney, May 3. "Ham" (amateur) radiomen, crouching for hours
over their heated sets" while floods threatened their homes and their lives, were the heroes of the February New South Wales flood disaster.
As the brown waters engulfed thousands of, miles of the State, the amateur operators remained on the air. Their laconic messages directed rescuers to the helpless and brought food to the hungry.
FRANCE TO work, comprising about
BUILD
A-PLANTS
Strasbourg. May 3.
Finance
Minister
France's Pierre Pilimtin expressed the
that his hope,,today
country would soon have atomic power plants and atomic-propelled ships at her disposal,
But, said the Minister in an interview to the
Strasbourg Daily, La Nouvel Alsacien, "I would not want us to manufac ture atomic bombs."
The amateurs' emergency net- Then, on the night of 130 February 24. Mr Wall called the stations in New South Wales controller to report that the and the neighbouring States of town had lost its fight. He told Queensland and Victoria, came how water was lapping through on the air immediately the the" foor of his shack; adding waters cut Fost Office telephone that it would be caly a matter lines and washed out roads and of minutes before the power railways.
would fall.
LINK OPEN For about a week February
operators
from 24, the amateur kept open the
was
As he was finishing his mess
his station went off the air, Another
age,
group of amateurs manned station VK2NX in the Hunter Valley and for 48 hours. their home-made radio was key link in the direction of hell copter and boat rescues which" Mr saved many lives.
only communications link between
50 flood- some isolated towns and the rest of New South Wales. A typical operator
H. Wall, whose station
The overworked set finally cluister VK2IC raises
of
broke down, but its operators aerials above the small western patched it up and were on the
Wales New South
tov.n of
with. air again within a day Nabri
fresh calls for help. When
the usually placid
ACCORDING TO PLAN Namol River became overnight
The New
*South Wales. a rampaging food, VK2JC went
emergency on the air with the story of the
radio network came on to the air accord- He believed that because of town's battle for survival.
Ing to a plan which the Mr Wail sent messages' telling France's important scientific ad-
Wireless Institute of Aus- waters
rising vance close co-operation in the how the
tamalla had drawn up in research field and the establish- round the town and where the
preparation for a national His ment of a joint European pool worst danger spots were.
emergency. ing of resources would help us radio directed rescuers and re- reach first
to place."-France- lief workers
worst Presse.
pressed areas.
He stressed France's deter- mination to forge ahead in the devclopment of atomic energy
for peaceful uses,
By Lee Falk and Phil Davis
I DON'T KNOW MAYBE HE'S DOTTY BLOFFING
BUT I'LL GET RID
OF HIM --NOW!
| CONTINUED-
By Mik
I WAS HANGING UP CLOTHES AND THE LINE FELL DOWN
DON'T CRY--- REMEMBER THE OLD
SAYING-
[INTO EACH
LIFE SOME. RAYON MUST FALL
By Ernie Bushmiller
JOHNNY HAZARD
• "SNAP HUNTER”......THAT NAME RINGS A BELL'T SURE IT. REMEMBER? I'VE SEEN YOUR PHOTOS IN NEARLY EVERY NEWSPAPER AND MAGAZINE
„IN THE WORLD!
YOU AND YOUR CAMERAS
COVERED THE CEASE-FIRE
IN KOREA THE FRACAS AT:
DIEN BIEN PHU THE TALK-TALK AT GENEVAL IN SHORT, YOU'VE COVERED
EVERYTHING
LANIL
BUSHMILLESTA
By Frank Robbing
EVERYTHING FROM MISS UNIVERSE EATING MUSHROOMS MARSALA......ID AN
BOMB MUSHROOM EATING UP THE UNIVERSEX SOU MIGHT SAY I'VE BEEN AROUND, CHUM? HOW LE YOU HAVE
ONE LUMP OR TWO F
TALK
ABOUT
MAGIC!
Have you seen
were
the the
Admiral
AIR CONDITIONERS
AND REFRIGERATORS
TASMANIAL
THE JAM THAT MADE TASMANIA FAMOUS".
DAIRY BOX
MILK CHOCOLATE
this situation
calls for
Can Miguel
At Newcastle, nearest city to flood-devastated Hunter Valley, the Government Post Office cleared a special room for the handling of the messages from amateurs.
The network relayed complete
the on
varying picture the floods to the rescue controllers in the various districts, enabling them to send servicemen, police or surfboat crews where they were most wanted and to order drops of supplies from the air where the need was greatest.
BROUGHT TO NOTICE
This work done by the "ham" in this emergency has brought the need for adequate emergency links. to the public notice and the Post Office has started pre- paring
plans for its own, Blood radio network.
The Postmaster General, Mr Hubert Anthony, was one of the first official visitors to the Bood-devastated towns and be brought back the
promise of immediate investigation
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He said that experience dur- ing the floods showed that two- way radio links between the most important centres were A "vital necessity" over the whole of the New South Wales- Queensland river system, where the danger of flooding is always very real.
Australia's "hams" hepe that the floods will have demonstra- fed to the Government radio control officers the value of encouraging amateur trans- missions. For years, amateur radio-men have claimed that restrictions on broadcasting in Australia
more irksome than in any other country in the democratic world.
are
They complain that the Past "Hight" with the Issue
of frequencies for amateurs and also keeps the power of Aus- tralian stations well below the which amateurs in
output Britain, Canada and the United States are allowed to
There
use
are alag severe restrictions on
the carriage of messages over the amateur transmitters. Feel- ing ran high during the flood emergency
ncy when the Post Office reminded the operators
of these
order
went out saying that the amateurs must not accept even urgent private messages which the Post Office could not transmit unless the senders of the messages handed them in at Post Offices and paid the usual Post Office fees.
OFFICIAL REPLY
The official reply to this was given by the De- 'puty": "Director -- General:. Post, and Telegraphis · Lor Victoria, Mr P Van Thott, Who
explained: "In EMETTESLOY, we · expect : the yamateurs, to make their.
facilities available to the satherflies · conteniling
messages
were
ere to take private this could easily: hold
up urgent polica and other messages to the detrimenter the whole workzaam. WOZIC which the amateurs do in times Joe emergency ile tímagnif
the but after careful thought regulation was framed in the public interest."--China Special