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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, ÁPRIL 26, 1956.

34 YEARS DIVIDED LLOYD' GEORGE FROM TRUMAN, YET BOTH FACED THE SAME CRISIS:

THEIR PROBLEM

WAS A HERO

By

Robert Blake

of Una

his

final speeches,

HE publication of the fum

second

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election backed by the Izolotionist and "China ist" parties (groups It is perhaps not without which, oddly enough, Inrgely Mr

malice that My Truman quotes overlap) and who had struggled

the war Truman's memoirs * cum- General Eisenhower's direlaimer throughout

against pletes ente

Japan to induce Washington to most pittiral ambitions in 1948: of the

“The neerEFANY und wise look

then West, Eart rather important historical docu-

Truman with scarcely subordination of the military treated ments of modern times. Not

1 the ervil power will be veiled contempl. only is it a revealing self.

Treat sustolar.ti when life-long A meeting at Wake island did

abstain not

motters. The professional soldiers

improve portrait of a great man but

£10732 seeking high political general as Truman notes with – il contains a vast amoul

out cemment, greeted him wear. finner information about

ing in unbuttoned shirt and "a eap That had evidently seen The pripal decisions in American and international

those tur. polities during bulent years.

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with the dis and to Greece

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Appeal

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before him, different il enemy, he believed that the key 1. Aerici dorination lay 361 Europe. and that any major

trans

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London Express Service

WHAT A SURPRISING CHANGE IN THE MORALE.

(I SAID MORALE)

OF MY SALLY BOWLES

the

Twenty years ago a young Englishman named Christopher Isherwood' wrote a house. She had moved. The series of stories about life in the Ger many that went Nazi. A character in house was now Aurrounded by houses where thre these stories the determinedly immoral Sally Bowles has since (through the white

garden had been. hit play "I Am A Camera") come to symbolise the atmosphere of THAT

Further

beside Germany. THIS WEEK another young Englishman, George Gale, has been

away observing life-as-it-is-lived in the present Germany; exploring the human husband had taken a new house. woods the woman and her motives that have brought about its "miracle" prosperity and (to Britain) dangerously high production, Like Isherwood, he has gone as a “human camera"; like Isherwood he has built his picture around a portrait of A GIRL. In 1950 coffee was like gold and

REPORT ON THE GERMAN *MIRACLE'

by GEORGE GALE

She made me a cup of coffee.

when it was used it only colour- od the water. The coffee sho made me today wae strong.

She talked about Germany. "Yes, it is for better now. but it looks better than it is. My sister has to live on £10 a

Bally

WILA

Bowles: This: the 1930 version...

this girl. She did not kill her.

A man who sells rice crispies She self after all. Instead, she month,

said, too, that it was a "mirocie." married the big blond man, who

I asked them all why. The man "You remember the people in who sells rice crispies sald has now got himself a iné and flourishing business

cotlago down Golling the

"Well, now, first it in the help flowers,

Herr, who once had thou- of the Western States, especial- sands of acres in Pomerants, ly of the United States. And

Gottingen was clever and pretty, but would SAT

the have been happy to char. among

was quite without hope. tumbling bottles of champagne and beer and the girl beside me said: "Is there any reason why I shouldn't kill my- self?"

My face was flour-white, there was soot beneath my eyes. My greased hair dropped around my neek. It was festival time, fancy- dress time, the time for ensy statements.

The girl said: "If you were me would you kill yourself?"

I thought about it. The girl had

her lost all her family, brome, her possessions. She came from Danzig but

was now a

refugee in Gottingen where we the Harry were talking while

Lime theme twanged.

She had no money. She be- longed to a professional. Irmily,

Also she was in love with a great big blond German with a leather cost who had done very well on the black market and was (ke myself) a student at the university.

They are prosperous.

the road?

They He is still alive, but will never

are doing well. I don't suppose get a job. Will never have any then it is our working. The way She did not

think the big she ever thinks of killing herself troney again. There are millions we work. We work very hard, of refugees who are too old, or and we can sell everything we tog broken, to get jobs." blond man was in love with her these fine days. because he was always chasing It after, other women and because something similar has happened almost looks as though

he beat her.

SUCCESS

"But it is much better?"

to Germany. It has, suddenly queried. beccene the biggest the postwar world. thoughts of suicide

success of "Oh yes;

Instead of

it's better.

and death, everything is so doar...."

It is now flowers for the living.

"The shop window is good, in't it?” sald the woman came to Gottinger to see.

She had beETI 1050 rooms

WELL, I thought about this girl, I could not see any particular reason why she should kill herself, and said so.

A week later I learned that she had attempted suleide, and I suppose I was more flattered. In than ashamed.

CAKES

make."

schoolteacher said:

"It is alzo because we have not had very much in the way of defence to pay for. All our factories can But make things to sell in the shops,

And we work hard be chance,

Well, it may

but the first Germana I saw working they were digging a ditch the alzflold-wera. stop- ping to gard, as idly as any

CHE talked as a British house English readmen, the passing of

wife, would talk.

traffic.

S"

my landlady were rationed

"But whetever and she had to open her, fat

you

my, sent to her by the obviously it is much better," I

said. -lodgings office. She got me.

went back to the flat, which I have just come back to

asked about was the ground floor of a big Gottingen,

That was in the spring of to people 1950, in Gottingen,

'I LOVE LUCY'

THEN

IT'S I LIKE IKE'

From JAMES COOPER

New York And, after

all,

PARTY plans for a live-in at Gettysburg took less be found."

were

~

three minutes,.......

Then I saw some men building a house, and they were discuss ing football in a big lot at tha foot of a ladder. + cult or people on fixed in- chance,

'yes. But it is very

also it may only be but most people any comes, and pensioners, and so here what they say in England.

And anyway there are far that you can't mvo, that taxes too many pensioners of one sort

Ta too heavy, that ther are or another and then there are nothing to look forward to for all these refugot. They come work for but better or more TV. in, but they cannot work.”

"Who is better?" I asked... "Germany is better, and the

they we

GUILTY

1 In Germany 1boy ink

people who make things, and sell things. They are better. And THE difference is the "miracle."

In the factories. workers They are better, But they buy there has been a miracky. Or at so much on hire purchase that any rate my landlady, the they cannot go on strike for waiter, and the man who wolls

of Lincoln's know where everyone else could, fear-

losing Treir washing rice crispies all think there haa machines."

been a miracle. And they don't The streels are full of new expect it to lost either. PUZZED 2.—Parly lines in German cars; the cake shops And there are the millions of minute presidential

B Tablona, Utah, have been bulgo with rich, elaborate cakes, rofugees, whom nobody likes bo- election campaign this year

CHOW shopping on Broadway, fitted with, a device that cuts off My landlady has a new house, cause they aro expénalve and announced recently. Britain Jack Hylton has even local calls after four and does not have to take in because they are dreadfully No more lengthy speeches; had no fewer than nine Now minutes.

lodgers any more. There is even poor. talks of, reducing income taxe no more harangues-thanka York offers for his West End

They try not to think about They these things too much. to TV.

revue "La Plume de ma Tanie." PROGRESS on the first an It is marvellous.

16niversary of the Balk I went to the cellar under- foel guilty about them, just as Vaccine Basil O'Connor, of the neath the town hall which I re- they feel guilty about their With 840 miora TV

JAMBLER Elmer Perry, aged U.S. Polio Foundation, says membered always as full and acc. Bo Instead, they talic stations than at the last G 01, was shot dead, while there will be enough vaccine bouncy. It was flat and emply, of the "miralco" of the Germans

1. talked do the walter, who economy election four years ago, talking to a woman friend In his this summer to halve paralytic

Perhaps it a miracle, Por they plan to canvass car, in Beverly Hills, California, pollo cares and to reduce them said he did not make any more

his old asociate to. " negligible, numbers, in now than he did, 30 years ago, hape a miradio, saved that girl I through the living-room near, where

when," everything was much" not with six years ago from, racketeer Bugsy' Stegoi' 1857.

・Was screens, Cost: $25,000,000.

slain' neveral years ago,

chosper. But

killing PENDING - One repart" 'I

Germany is doing Very I don't believe in miracle lever Unished reading: well. And some people are doing don yet know why Germany Their appeals will follow auch top shows as "Dragnet and at BUZZED 1-The 200 people of UNO,"Age and she patterns of van well. The peace who are in doing so well. But I do know Love Lucy-but they must last Virginia City, Nevada, have mortalitypal beginæ : @Edenly, wing Chings You Ces, we are that the girl, married becolte only ave minutes, tuy fear turned down a plan to instal death should occur at the end of cohort of wrything in Gee-blond, German, instead of Milling viewers, will switch to another dial telephones because with a more or lea lengthy period many that people who will things beband mit now le paver short channel otherwinkel

"out" operators, no one would of law.

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