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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1961,
Reporter-on-the-spot STANLEY GALE
discovers the secret gap in Berlin
UNDERCOVER CARGO
CHECKPOINTS CAN'T STOP
THE EAST-WEST TRADE
From STANLEY GALE: Berlin,
THERE is a gap in the ever-bigger barricades of Berlin -a TRADE gap. Despite the deep bitterness, West still trades with East. Both from Berlin and Western Germany the goods go in and out by rail, waterway, and motorway through the checkpoints in the barriers.
In September West Germany's exports to the East were the highest for any month this year-at 70,131 tons.
The West German Cov- ernment conducts it on an “under-cover" basis. It is by no means secret - but either is it shouted about and it is not mentioned in
the stacks of propaganda Germany. He has also threaten- booklets.
ed to halt his own exports
inter-zone truding organisation, A total two-way trade of £180
says if it was stopped the lkoll hood is that the Communists
would shut the supply route cor- ridors into West Berlin from West Germany.
They are under the control of the East German Communists.
million,
The size of this East-West trade is growing all the time. Over 10 years it has increased five-fold. And this kind of trade
negotiated at Government level -has apparently not been lessen-
Trade has become one of the ed since the barricades went up. most powerful weapons in the
But the barricades have armoury of the West. It has so for prevented any interference affected retail trade in West Ber- This has fallen by 10 per with the Berlin supply corridors, R.
cent-28. in the £-since they Into West Germany and West went up Berlin from the Communist zone comes mainly coal for heat- ing. plus 011 azd chemicals
material, Also building chinery, textiles, and some food.
Growing
ma-
It is not only small shop-
keepers who have been hit. The cutting off of 80,000 Eastern workers has caused a big labour problem, and shortage of workers means loss of production-a very costly business.
It is not just a matter of 80,000 workers. For when the barri- From West Berlin and West cades went up they also had the Germany Into the Soviet zone effect of causing some West Ber- go iron and steel, glass, lenses, liners to "evacuate." In October instruments, and chemicals,
2,090 propic came into Berlin from West Germany-but 11,000 nations for trading with Russia But the trade goes on, Dr Near enough, the cash value went out. and its satellites, especially East Kurt Leopold, head of the West's is 1,000 million marks each way. -(London Express Service).
to
East Germany in retullation for Chancellerine barricades.
West German Adenauer has criticised other
VERDICT ON A TYCOON
Mrs Freddie
Freddie Laker talks
Laker talks frankly
about the man who took a swipe
at B.E.A. and came off best
MR
—
tion
R FREDDIE LAKER, buoyant boss of Peter the independent British United Airways, Transatlantic licence granted to took time off from triumph and important appeal. reports the other day to consider another kind of report altogether: one from his wife, on what she thinks of him.
He listened to it, in his Piccadilly office, enthralled.
He even forgot for a bit about
his company's triumphant swipe at British European Airways: about the granting of licorices which, subject to appeal, now allow HUA to
compete 6.1] some DEA. routes and to pe up new routes.
His waistcoat
Every wife thinks she knows her husband, but do husbands
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1
by
wife says that
every both
after the war, you haven't "Your changed at all—for better or for eight to 12 months you
don't speak. This is a quarrel and you know it's serious Freddie because she calls you instead of darling.
worse.
"You st money from
to try
borrow ber, bui when
she tries to borrow back you
haven't you
any .you
say
need
This whole thing lasts about
still can't speak any foreign 12 hours and she can't remem language, but you don't to because everywhere you go in the world people know at
what you
once
give it to you."
The
now because want and
His quarrels
man
ber the last time or what it was about. But
the she's afraid next time is going to start right of all this she's been saying about you."
Freddie Laker went buoyantly
tantly beaming, but
on
at
the same time looked cautious. He said: "It depends what else she said."
I told him. "She says that for plenty, you're a wonderful hus- all your faults, and you've got
Thorneycroft, the Avia- Minister. cancelled
Cunard Eagle, after a B.O.A.C.
who has The phone talk ended. I went order, who was somehow born £25,000,000-worth of planes on
in Canterbury with a cockney band." "She says that although you accent he has never tried "Did she really?" asked started out together with a £40 to lose, accepted all this Freddie Lakor. And he stopped gratuity when you came out of criticism without much argu- beaming and looked astonished. the Air Transport Auxiliary ment.
on:
Merrick Winn Women
always agree with the verdict? 1 was now testing out.
This
Frederick Alfred Laker
Laker agree with what Joan his wife for 19 years and mother of his two children, had
to say?
"Your wife," I reported, "says
you won't wear waistcoat or
a
their
And finally I sald:
-{London Expreas Servic#),
making
presence felt
Kuala Lumpur.
version campaign and the Gov- ernment, using its vist powers the Internal Security Act, arrested seven Socialist Front officials the other day in the Federal capital.
in the coldest The emancipated woman of Malaya is slowly under
catching up with her better half and in some cases has surpassed him.
even
vest weather, that you leave your clothes in a heap, then grumble when they aren't pressed."
The ex-scrap merchant who,
st 30, new controls airway com-
panies worth £17,000,000, put both feet on his three-phone desk and scratched his ankles, thinking.
"Exaggerated," he said. "True, I'm not the tidiest man. But no, not in a heapt
The
middle phone rang. Freddie Laker. who owne 2
Those arrested under the act can be detained for any length
of time and never appear in
Although at the moment there are no women ministers in the cabinet, there are quite a number of women Members of Parliament and a number of political parties have their court, women sections. The area in which women lead is in the social welfare field where they have an unrivalled monopoly.
£20,000 house and тасе- horses and five farms, said: In the professions, women "There ought to be a day's are slowly catching up with phone silence once a week, then men and there are not only we'd all get some work done" women doctors and journ- He answ
answered it. And talked. alists in the country but I went on:
"Your
wife says
women engineers and archi- you talk too much and that you SBY she talks too much. She tects. also says you often accuse her
of talking nonsense." This "little man"
now grown!
But in the field of business, women have hardly made a dent
One runs. big enough to fight monopolies except for a few.
Airways is now lorry transport company in the one-third the size of B.E.A capital employing 50 workers,
British United
seemed a little defensive about this.
"Do I tell her she talks non-
sense?" Then he brightened.
"But all women talk nonsensë...
predominantly male,
Deputy
MALAYAN NEWSLETTER FROM GREGORY WONG
of a Negri Sembilan legal firm staff must
sometimes. Besides they're an The management of the com- whose lower grade undisciplined lot in my house-pany is headed by a woman be among the best paid in the the only place I get discipline is who is called the "governing country. here, in the office."
.
His fuses
director." She is paid $1,470
tho
The
PARIS
-on the day the food
went cold
I
by Richard Kilian
Paris.
DROVE through a weird city recently.
It was Paris, but not the Paris I know so well,
There were no electric lights -the power men were on strike. даз There was no gas-the workers were striking too.
The nationai shut-down started at 6 am, and as I drove I could see only the flickering lights of candles and alcohol lamps in the city's windows.
Everything was quiet. At the Gare St. Lazare there were
001
noisy engines-the rallwaymen were on strike too.
Cinemas failed to open. Tele- vision screens were
dead: Wintry gloom slipped quietly through French capital.
every crack into the
SO ENGLISH
An
In my office the phone rang. It was a colleague at Limoges. Said he: "I have just seen Englishman in the lobby of an hotel reading the Daily Express by candle-light.. Isn't that just like the English!"
Taxi-drivers, butchers; dust- men, underground and bus em- ployees, even airport men were striking
The authorities feared traffic jams. But there was none. For the French turned the day into paid holiday ... but a holi- day without heat, without cinemas or theatres. Even the race meting at Auteuil; ...♥ was cancelled.
too
At There was bloodshed least three people were killed by motor-cars as they made through the bustess
More blood was spilled when Parisians rooted out old- fashioned razurefromtathel bathroom cupboards in a forced candle light watch-over:from electric shavela u mart
their streets.
Way
EMERGENCY
Gourmets struggled in the half-light provided by an emer
to ent expelf- gency generator sive luncheons li the grillroom of the Fitel du Crillon. But
there were French fried
potees on the incre
"How can we cook frites with- out gas, Monsieur?" said the There are no frites in the whole of France."
walter
But there were. At Mexim's, charcoal stoves glowed warmly to maintain prestige.
However, millions of hours millions of of labour, Bad. pounds worth to Olaoduction were lost, STB 2
Christian Dior's patch alons have suffered in the same way, as the cafe on the corner. No one has escaped,
And more and more strikes are threatened this winter, with workers in nationalised Indus- Government said that tries wanting a bigger share in "secret arrested were believed to the prosperity which has Alled connections with the pockets of private company. illegal Communist organisa- employees/AM PO tions which are directly con~ trolled by the Malayan Com- munist Party,"
The Government stressed that the detentions were not because of their Socialist Front activities.
According
Front
to
CAUGHT
This is the third strike of gas and electricity men since the summer holidays ended,
Rallwaymen have stopped work four times since May, Socialist coalition of the Only hospitals end jails were Labour Party of Malaya and given emergency supplies by the the Party Rayaat (People's electricians union, Party)~~more than 100 mera- A lot of
of motorists who tried to bers of the Front have
been
beat the themselves
by driving to arrested in the past four years.
work found thems ves caught. They forgot that they would have to fill up with patrol, and that pumps work by electricity.
So they abandoned their bars and left them standing by the roadside, REMODEL
The Front told the Govern ment that it wanted the de- tainees to be brought before an open court for trial
field workers,"
RAIN
Until this is done, we be leve that these acts of thes An office boy gets $380 Government are meant to sub (M) a montis, while her deputy, higher than an ordinary clerks vert our party by removing its
are organisery and a man who is managing director,
wille two women cleaners, is paid $1,270,
who spend half an hour six the Front said, Lower down the scale women days a week sweeping, dusting Again I went on:
waste paper "She says are making their presence felt and emptying she never knows When you're and some of them manage to baskets get $85 a month,
the coming home, meals are a night- earn more than the men, doinghe report also tells of
employees of a Kuala Lumpur mare, she gets lonely without the same jobs. you, you'll only mend
In a tin mine hi the Federal rong firm getting free food, under
protest even though capital, the women workers accommodation, hair oil, soap, othbrushes, haircuts and you're a brilliant engineer." Learn
an average of $100
indry Sald Freddie Laker: "Do you month against the men's $00. know what time she wanted me Similarly on three other mites to mend a fuse the other night? in Selangor state, women born Twenty past twelvál She said more than the men - $120 either I did it or sho'd get the mantly against $100, esse electrician in."),
by the men
Z'
fuse
Then he added, honestly, "Still, she had been on about if for a week.
The lext-mia phone rang, Freddie Laker answered, dip-
Best paid
ping biscuits in his too, Hớp „started – em
had no lunch. The talk seer
to be about whether" «I
European Alaya Wil appont against the new linenses This is a worryMED appoal, bearing in mind;
Blipples Glad they
+
Subversion, and
infiltration
The mansoon season is here again and although so far there have been no death the fierce rain storms have flooded roRCE,
(London" Express Hervice)
...