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CHANGES BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN
Hoven years
By Joseph Harsch
At the Polish railroad stations
A an' the way to Wak, s Bow
+
Same Story
"AM one of several report- Communism, and physical China; but there are still gurues
in the Bulchers' shops. ers who went eastward depression,
Then we went on to Poland, after the
Geneva The Iron Curtain then was again by train. These People's Conference in the hope of dam, and the water level was Democracles are different from
high on the Communist side and each other, sometimes in um finding, behind the
Iron low
on our alde. The dom. pected ways. Czech propoganda Curtain, the oxplanation of might have burst at any mo- posters always mention the what happened at Geneva.ment and Western Europe would Soviet Union, Polish propaganda I think I have found the have boun flooded almost over posters do not, And there were
night by the tide sweeplag outs, not so many of them. answer I was seeking. It wards front Moscow.
the The Iron Curtain is still lies. I belleve, in enormous change which dam today but the pressure on several foman Catholic priests no longer comes from the in full clerical garb, wallding it have made in East. It comes from our side and briskly and unselfconsalously, I
the the pressures on op- the pressure is very grent, and had seen none in Czechoslovakia. the Communist countries know posite sides of the Curtain.
When I last crossed that that the dam will not hold in- definitely against this Mising barrier. in 1949 it was, in pressure from the West. They
But the story ether they
on the farm- reality, the defence line of face two choices:
· We were the West, and it was being les
wait until the pressure lands was the same.
the dam, or they can eight hours from the borders to held with some difficulty, try to reduce
Warstw on the train und, we the pressure The Marshall Plan had not letting a controlled flow through saw not one single piece yet really begun to work, the dam. This is my conclusion form machinery nothing but from my own trip behind the Scythe, and women binding and the North Atlantic Alliance Curtain and my theory of what shocking the groin. And no just being formed; lay behind the Geneva Con motor transport on the high- ways at all until wo drew near. Western Europe was worm- ference.
Warsaw. Vienna.. eaten with fear, disunity, My trip sturled
We crossed the Curtain on uttle stream;
railway bridge over
then a 'ploughed strip, three. barbed-wire fences, and we were In Czechoslovakia. From the border to Prague we counted exactly four lorries, two buses, 18 passenger cars, and |seven motor-bicycles.
WILM
From Film Star To Iron Man Eden
L
London
he
By SIR BEVERLEY BAXTER, M.P.
have religious objections never looked less like a man to diverer, there is no question That Ellen is a far better of destiny.
Prime Minister with his new wife his side
he than by would have been with Beatrice Beckett, his first wife.
mind mixed metaphors, he who
can
In
Wrong. Too
by
folds-umething
of
Over and over again in these Countries you ask yourself: Where is the result of all the boasted Industrialisation?"! п Poland Warsaw itself.
the answer is partly Warsaw in the show, place of Eastern European Communism. It has been made to rise from the ashes left by Hitler's Storm Troopers, and it has risen impressively.
Then, as a
repórter
talks with a visit and mon
Communist Poles and
Western
Ami the was wrong there, too. Czechos diplomats, three big foots about alovakia
is the most. heavily Poland, after seven years of in- 'tensive Communist pressure,
To bring some sunshine into industrialised country in Eastern begin to emerge.,.The Govern».
this shadowed picture
114
Europe, but where, were ' the tractors and reapers and com-
the
or
ment has ware war on threw
the Roman Catholic record that the mighty TUC at tires which Communist pesters ancient. Polish insillutions.
conference show taking the toll out of the peasant, its annual autumn showed a commendable realism, life of the worker? Men were. Church, and the inclination Its leaders are sont, patriotic cutting grain with scythes and the Polish labourer to men, and they know tint if full women were binding the sheaves the state has hurt tim employment (which now exists) and putting them up in shocks
by hand. is recklessly exploited by the
Progue puzzled me, too. I had workers it can turn swiftly into
even it severní tumes befon mass unemployment.
First when the Germans had
.ment has
SECTI
such a
ONG long ago there used to ! ધ base
work ball pitcher in the USA who was culled
all three of these Institutions, but it has "Iron Man" McGinnity. Per
the haps that is not the way to
yet to break any one of three. The peasant still own spell his name but it is near
One more recollection and
and tuis 80 percent of the farm enough. Not only did
land: the Church still holds the ihe pitch regularly for his team we shall leave the past to
This period of full employ-been in it for two years at the loyalty of 95 percent of drift beginning of the war and al people; the labourer quits
hia but was always ready to take the historians. It happened the in the smoke room on
many good things condour Iel
Job when he likes and movVCI over in any emergency
from the mines that we have ready taken
but it was better then; on to another. The Communist evening that Eden was Lu us
on record that situation.
A
the grotesque spectacle of Bri- away,
and it had again been gay and fly to America for an operas considerable section of the tain importing coal. No wonder lively and well stocked in 1947, Government in Poland has not It is too much to expect tion. No longer did he look Conservative Party would have the Parliamentary
ás meant no respite for Eden and that the British ever. heard like a film star Foreign preferred Rab Butler
"Eden his Ministers. of McGinnity, but if they Secretary. He was so thin Churchill's had they might well bestow that his clothes hung on him has been Foreign Secretary po the title of Iron Man Eden like on
long, that he will always be on our Prime Minister. face was drawn and his eyes engrossed in foreign affairs Ho will never apply, himselt to the home front? That was the case against him.
It is doubtful whether Sir Anthony has really had a day off since he became Prime Minister (except for
a short bout of flu),
und
a scarecrow,
were lustreless.
*
His
With
equal
put
kuccessor.
decisively
peasant Church... or
recess has
the new regime was just get-
and not bad, yet in 1949 whom yet, dared to move
against worker, ting storled
ways. Clotties are shabbier,
On Defensive
WHAT then is the
picture on which Minister Eden 'guzes?
It is different now, in small
people walk more slowly, talk
that includes Saturdays and HB said goodbye and then summit conference, which gave and that can only be done by a
walked out a worn and the world an atmosphere of virtual rationing of the home notices
one
less, in lower torras, shop win- I have a feeling, which I can- dows have the drab look which not prove, but a feeling as a when reporter, that the tide, has turned economic seems to be travitable
Prime the labels on goods are printed in Poland against the regime: in People's Democracy printing that it is on the defensive, that shops and the displays are ar- 'It dare not return to the offen- The very opposite has proved
Somehow he must force aranged by employees of the sive on those three main In
dermal fronts of the battle be- true. Except for the famous, sharp incrotuse of exports, state.
the new Communist twoor thing Then, another
regime and the ancient irutitu- the enormous increase Somehow he must in the number of bookshops buttons of Foland. Sundays. Indeed he might ̈
that Czechoslovalda I know The Sir peace,
Eden has concentrated market." figure. use the same words as weary
sibility in the ranks of or customers. I saw no one inside has been hurt by Communism, Bonar Law who, during his Galahad of Foreign Affairs on the economic and industrial create a new sense of respon-scarcely in the number of their
of the nation. Ad- ganised labour without taking a bookshop but many people in that it and its people are iwell off; I am sure that brief Premiership, said: "A looked like Don Quixote problems
The Government says this is be- pressure on day in which there is only without his spear. Even if mittedly he could hardly have from it the basic right to strike.queues outside barchers shops, twel
else because Somehow he must reduce the cause the Czech people have, countries from the West is for one crisis is almost like a the operation proved suc done anything
cessful he would never have from the very beginning of hls spending of money in the home learned to eat more meat, Twice greater than the pressure day off."
so that manufacturers this year. they have had ship wards. the strength to lead the Premiership he has had to face market
stock market booms, will have to adventure into. the ments of pork, all the way from Actually Sir Anthony Party and the Government, strikes,
the draining of gold reserves, outside world. must have nearly had a day
2
and falling pro-
Eden must also tum his eyes his duction.
to Britain's Colonial Empire, There is virtually no unem- with all its dimculties, Its op- Britain except portunities, and its racial prob-
css the
the Communist
out-
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“NOCTAMBULISM”
IN SPAIN
clear in September because The operation was success rising prices he flow out to the Farn, ful, and he did resume borough Air Show in a heli-, work. at the Foreign Office, copter and then went up for but his clothes hung loosely ployment. In
on his thin body, as Punch where there is seasonal adjust- lens. He might also have to consider the Canadian markel 17-minute flight in
Up and up go the was good enough to point ment
where
抽 such slow progress Vulcan bomber,
and up go the out in a cruel cartoon,when wages, up
dividends,
the being made by British manu- up and up go the facturere. Eden went to the Geneva total working days Jost by Conference.
strikes, up and up go the num- Will Eden' be able to stand ber of people who spend their the strain, as Churchill, did In What is health?' Can a £100 travel allowance on the the years of fato that marked
VER since I first came young children is one of the EVR Join I have been mostrid ud ved
repulsive his Premiership?
textures of Churchill, Continent.
course, like David Lloyd Georges shocked by the persistent clear always enjoyed the priceless
ADMITTEDLY with experi- man will himself to it?
to
By A Special Correspondent
Madrid. This night wandering by
Iden
a
he did a whistle-stop this summer, "I am off for of his associates in the war he by keeping them out of bed, which one, jasks sucso
a
enced men in the cockpit, Hero is the same Eden to- he took over the controls day who does not seem
gift of being able to go to but unintentional cruelty unco in which a wide sqetion or Ind baper and rolled the Vulcan like a know the meaning of fat-
sleep whenever his wished and which Spanish parents in the public is living
declared. "Whats
arch
Thes fighter. After that he flew gue. In the General Elec..
for as long or short a back to London and resum- tion
FRIEND of Eden's said to him as was availabic. To the horror flict on young children children doirar. It ed his normal work.
tour of the country, he ap-
a holiday to Austria." Eden ru. also had the gift of going with night after night, until the when one sees tiny speatutes times only a few webka, pld! plied tersely: "Austria is too out sleep all night if it was early hours. of the morning, only a few years old and some- The development of Eden peared twice on television;
In fact, foreign necessary,
Wherever you go in Madrid breathing the foul air of popular from the pin-up boy of he spoke at endless public popular.
see children five or alx cinemas. has become a serious
What does Eden do for
The streets, at a te hou at foreign affairs (when he in- meetings, and, in such in travel
tervals -were left, he item in Britain's 'economy.
creation? He does not play golf years old and often younger night offen the, spectacle of
playing boisterously in troduced the soft black hat
directed publicity and policy.
Then there was the orgy of nor does he ride to hounds street until long after midnight; children, who should have been and striped trousers to an
of his bad-tempered father did in and, of cinema shows, which in bed and basicep hours belo hire-purchase. The admiring world) is an as-
privato
cars this August was the spacious days of the start at 11 p.m. and do not end being dragged along by thir tonishing story.
for ahead of the same period Sometimes he plays tennis be last year. Nor is the spending, cause it gives him exercise with until 1.30 a.mt. at the earliest, of the audience invariably includes expenditure the minimum
plenty of
of women Spree confined to cars. Every time, but his real outdoor re-
going up--wages, costs,
My niemory goes back to the day on which he made.
back bench
ILH
sale
Eden surveyed the scent and
kota, So
up
re- you
carrying bables which are frequently just a few weeks old,
These late-night hoplis
are
all the more surprising in country where everyone seems to have a somewhat
exaggerated
parents.
DIFFICULT TO SOLVE
It is realised that this the ter-problem will be difficult to solve, although Informacigach believes it can be done by a campaign, to tech that young children
shonum. 330.
newspaper contends
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his first appearance in the IN all this we must give things bla by that every creation is the same as Adam.
aome credit to his wife, thing is going up? Everything He loves gardening. Commons following his re- whom he married, three but production.
: signation from the Foreign years ago. Let there be no Office in 1938. The House mistake about it-there was said, samo pretty tough things
affection for children of should be in the open air in Pan was thinly attended and little enthusiasm in the to his colleagues. British manu- Eden sat next to me on Conservative Party at the tactus colla anding it easier E dots not play cards but hs ago, but it has obviously, never daytime and that they should
HE as a private time when he married Sir to sell at home than in the il reads and he occasionally occurred to the average Spanish rest at night.
better parent that children should be But the
the question of young member. I asked him if he Winston Churchill's niece more competitive foreign mar paints, which ho doon
the was going to speak and he at a Registry Office. It was rate to make
evening, bank thar. Hitjor but not as well as tucked up in bed early in the ha
or that a healthy children at cinemas and other borrowing
more Churchill Then he likes to
entertalaments con nodded in affirmation,
true that the marriage dimcult. Up went, the amount walk at dusk in the loafy growing child needs a long late-night
night's sloup,
amply-and vary
further a united two great political of the initial deposit on instal- lanes of the countryside Then he whispered
CAMPAIGN LAUNCHED CA strange confession "I am families, but the Archbishop ment purchases. Out went in
to the banks to Therfore let us and our structions
campaign always terrified when I speak of Canterbury would not clamp down on overdrafts by study of Britain's Prime Mini-com
ster and his difficulties with this particule form of cruelly to Is not, liable for youngsters in this place," he said. In solemniso it at Westminster cept for industrial purposes onl obscrvation. Eden has children" has now been launch- fact, there was so little In Abbey., Tho Church does not
Edon was cracking, the whip cnostnons courage. an infinite terest that when he did distinguish between tho, in and the, stoelo Market, omuiated capacity; for hard work, and / od in Madrid with the object or - becsukó for a child or julx speak in the debate the nocent and the guilty in the Humpty Dumpty by having a whilò:fully aware of his place l'educating parents in what the months, or even more, no alm
mental d'ation to chlidren. attendance wax Increasca matter of divorce.
great fall He then adopted the in history he nevty Indulge in organisor call their "funda- holds the smallest interest. It is
Today?" he or Dia and sell-dramatisation
un editorial urtible support clear Into the is complete master of the comers of Indus Government and his position in the campaign, the influential
vále
by only half a dozen or s0 Eden's first wife was benútia hit. MP' who attolled in from ful and wealthy, but she loath Turtherm the smoko room,bu qaad dd political ilmne day) kontrukdejak
Nor was it a particular Clarisen Spencer Churcht
ly good speech, Eden washed i politics in bur blood andar nervous, he rushed his loved the battle of frie
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