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This is the New Poland
SEFTON DELMER
THE REVOLT OF 1956
PAID OFF IN FREEDOM
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"Fine, Elmer-but just one wook too late!”
Cummings
~(London Express Serulcc).
THE TRAGIC SIDE
OF LONDON
THE case of Sir
Bentley Purchase,
who in his time has unravelled 50 many mysteries, mostly of death and violence, is worth your attention for a moment,
Bentley
the meti
famous coronor in Britnin Be
This is the man who has delved
into it more than any other
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By J. W. M THOMPSON
has been surting out the tangles unruly hair with its schoolboy left by Londoners' sudden eut bir hardly a touch of grey. dents for 30 years. He re-
tires in September.
He is physically hardy the
I expect most people sharp never wears an overcoat in any my feeling that coroner's senson) and slow to tire. He
job hop di mal (11. They likes to get up al 4.30 in the would supree,
with ma, fbrt morning so as to drive to Lon-
Si Bentley would vefire with don chead of the traffle.
a huge sense of relief.
turns out that this
Is
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the
Then we talked about his life's work. Nearly 800 Inquests
year: about 3,500 deaths Investigated annually, that means. Over his 38 years of it,
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appreciation of the obvious dangers. People driving just loo fast to be in control if circumstances suddenly CATTL adverse.
That doesn't mezn
really fast, of course. ittle bit too fast."
Heretical
SIR BENTLEY PURCHASE... a high-octane sense of comedy golg Just #
the
REPORTS
SEFTON DELMER, our chief Foreign Affairs reporter, takes another look at Europe's most controversial arca - Westorn Poland. Thoso formor German provinces were handed to Poland after the war. Now Adenauer's Germang want them back. Delmer saw those lands just after the war when they had been wrecked by Allied "bombs. Ho visited them again in 1956 at the time of the Poznan riots. Today he finds a country rebuilt and repaired.
Warsaw.
TOLD you yesterday why I thought Britain should be more friendly to the thriving Poles. Now I want to tell you more about the new-look Poland, which is resisting subtle German propaganda for the return of the German territories handed over to her after the war.
It has always been a theory of mine that riots and risings don't pay-not behind the Iron Curtain. Well, I know better now,
A fortnight of travelling up and down the Poland of 1950 has shown me that the desperate revolt of the people of Poznan, which I witnessed just three years ago, has more than repaid all the courage and sacrifice that went into it even though it was ruthlessly crushed,
The reforms
Introduced in
lis wake by Comminist Party Secretary Vindi lov Gomulika-he was put in powe as a result of the rising--have uplifted the whole enuntry.
The contrast with the gloom und dreumess that ruled when 1 was last here in 1958 is over whelming.
ever
Now look
and better dressed toa.
FRANSA
POLAND
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London Express Service.
"Afier October 1058," he said, "private enterprise 11
small undertakings like this was
once
more permitted. But I have to pay higher taxes than the State concerns.”
In 1916 I constantly came DCROSS Russian troops. This
time I have seen fewer Red Army men in Poland than I sec American soldiers and air- men in Britain.
Big jobs
1
Creates change of all: the Poles no longer live in fear of that midnight knock on the door: The Secret Police have had their powers severely curbed.
Gomulko has seen to that. He spent seven years in prison himself as a guest of the Secret Police.
Thousands of Sceret Police have been sacked. Many have become waiters. Quite a few are driving taxis,
The Arst mate of a
trawler
WES showing me ruunt his
I
the purged.
"I think doctors should be on their guard all the time about supplying people with much of these drugs. I don'! suggest they aren't careful, of course." The people in the streets walk a grand tukal of perhaps 20,005 Inquests.
with a bounce and a confidence Not long ago Sir Bentley was For many, familarity with would have thought impossible What eights did it give him, asked to give his advice to these drugs has dimmed their then.
For Sir
Bentley. It
We had a long talk about his wondered, Into the changing designers on how to make cars dangers.
patterns of London life? He safer in accidents. He told employed day after day in all wrong.
Sir Bentley has so occupation, and his exceptional thought aboul il, and then, them he was not in favour of probing the wrecked yes in
Fitting i aranged his retirement that he career will hate up a quer country strange the cellar which has dies enacted before him, he drivers could get into accidents part, the perifs remain sharp The girls are prettier than brand-new Polish-built boat.
from all the dramas and truge- making cars so sale that the which they played their deadly coroner's appointment at been his private retreat in
The drew three threads which with relative impunity,
and teal. Temple for thirty years. Ipswich.
He would hate to give it all
To call on him there, I har? an inky corridor. I told him. the other day, negatinted 13. that this seemed rather extru- vercame the guzand of a vener- BAN-CookeT and groped ordinary that I would have ble expected the life in hen depres- blindly towards a shouted wel-
come from Sir Bentley. sing one. Ite seemed astonished.
41 was lying Iris hirt- "Depressing he raid, simast
battered bewildered. "Oh. no 1 have steeVES
sofa never found that. Never, The 100m, when I had adapted "A coroner has to be able to myself to the gloom, was, 1 sew, I eculd Ert on eras with anyone at all, in a splendid" riutter. alvelutely anyone, fanmediately, not see it clearly enough to de- Tk at. And then, you cide whether it more positively in, there is an awful lot of cesed Charles Dickens or tho $51isfaction in elesing up the world of Sherlock Holmes.
the order. antidiness and Getting things straight.
11 zise became clear that Sir Bentley is one of those favoured nen tinoble to And anything in the worl! depressing for long.
He bubbles with a breezy, He is GB, but his boyish energY" ·
a
"It's rather nice here, en' 1 raid. Sir Bentley comfort- in A boisterously bly and bachelor sort of way, it was.
wife neveT sces My
it, of ccuse," he added, unnecessarily. as we admired the housewife's nightmare all around us.
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Desperation
a
"I don't want to see alec pads And yet in his own person he of soft rubber fer a driver to disproves
notion that bang his head on in a crash," he coroners are melancholy fellows. told me.
He remains "I would rather see a
lively, informal, There was the near-disap- ponlard Axed there, pointing at entertaining and powered by
him, so that he knew what high-octane sense of comedy. pearance of the once-plentiful would happen to
ja an Or poor accident." cases of "eclt-neglect," people, that is, lving lives of
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Then he turned to the quest To balance this, Sir Bentley tion of dangerous drugs. has looked on at the emergence of two new kinds of death: "from
drugs.
Sir
Bentley
"The barbiturate sedative the motor car, and from modern drugs are so common now," he said, "thot A Health Service hus been a patient almost
thinks he isn't motorist since 1908. He helped being treated right unless he is in draft the first Highway Code. He still covers big" milenges in liu pre-war Ford. He hog watched the whole terrible toll of life on the roads grow from
nothing.
What has it taught him? "IL seems very simple, I suppose." he said. "But the biggest single cause of fatal accidents, us Judge it, is merely a lack of
ARTIE
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Dismay
And you should see them rock naked: "Do you have a political
rolling or listening to Polish commisar on board to see
spuls, all new since my last line?" visit.
calypsos in their cellar night- you all tee the correct party
Even the shop windows show the new look. They have far inore goods to offer and of a better quality.
He Juoks back with, dismay lo Prices are still inntastically the very rare occasions when high, Even so, a surprisingly his humour has
number betrayed hing
of folk have when a suicide's managed to buy themselves the In court S relative said: "I thought it was private maturecars and motor- the last thing he would do." cycles now coming on to the and Sir Bentley unthinkingly market, answered: "Well, it was, too."
He grimmed. "Political com- missars," he said, "went cut in October 1954."
To
Rare troops
the director
of
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The judiciary, too, has bech Poles today can feel
trial.
nobly sure of getting a folr
Most of the political prisonera have been released from the gaole-with them the men and women sentenced for their part In the Poznan rising.
I have met several old Polish friends whom I had given up hopo of over seeing again.
engineering college I put the
They were gooled because "Do question:
your students they served with the British have to pass on examination in during the war and were there Micrxist-Leninist theoy Leone fore suspected by the Hussions
of being Western ugents. they are admitted her?"
a great victory And they know
the
He replied: "That used to be
after October 1956."
Peznce was Ever since January 1921, he for the Poles.
Some of thom have been has been condueling London it. inquçats with his highly personal
rule, but it was dropped given big jobs with considerable When I ask after one of the
responsibility and influence. blend of briskness, Īvindhas and given a few tablets.
breezy lect.
resented Aller September, more
institutions "That is all very well, but the someone else will have to rule imposed by the Russian and The owner of a private enter- fact that these drugs have the daily drama of St Pancros their Communist stooges after prise restaurant said he had produced a very simple, painless coroner's court. A strange life, the war I almost invariably get been closed down in 1947 and form of suicide:
"Oh, and we are perhaps, certainly a useful one the answer: that stopped then allowed to open up in getting a lot of cases.
--(London Express Service). in October 1956."
September 1957.
NEWSAGEN
I have been free to move wherever 1 pleasy over b
aval ports like Swinoujscle, the former German U-boat base of Swinemuende.
Only in two aspects trave I found a tendency on the part of Gomulka and his Polilbureau to go back on this remarkable new deat. And in both, I fancy, they are playing sute so as nct to alarm the Russians. One is Press censorship. It has been lightened up again.
Bridgehead
"We cannot have Communist intellectuals openly preaching anti-Communist heresies," was told. "Some of them were getting badly out of line, you know.
The other is the Church, It looks as though the cuthorities are regretting the concessiono they made to the Roman Catho- Ile Church when a peace Waa patched up between Gomulka and Cardinal Vyshinsky late in 1050.
A
number of the young priests have been arrested. More and more obstacles pro being put in the way of priests giving religious Instruction in schools for the children of parents who want them to have It-the most important of the concessions. made by Gomulka to the cardinal.
Another
hits decrea
tho Church financially. "It, rudes that the Church must pay a to crippling 60 per cent tax the State onits revenues-
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"We're all right now-they've sold Vorn six grozs of postcards of the town hall in cero' thoy're out of print after
this week.
-—(London Expreız Service),
including collvotions and donations.
This new post-Foznan Poland, for all is now deal, is a Communist State firmly welded into the military system of the Soviet 'blor.
But the Poles themselves are the most important bridgehead [of the West and Western: ideas 'behind 'the, Iron_Curlzin,
·~(London -Express Service),