.
Mikolajczyk explains
to me what 'pressure' means in practice Sefton Delmer's. NEWSMAP
N the tile time sinco he landed in England, Mr Mikołajczyk, the leader of the Polish Peasant 'Party, has beon frequently quoted as say ing that the Polish Communists are going all out to establish the total domination of their party.
Mr Mikolajczyk has now given me a detailed picture of how this is being done,
1
They are seeking to establish the One-Party State. Com- munist Deputy-Premier Gomulka has demanded the Jusion of the
Communist Socialist and
Parties, Socialists who oppose this move are being arrested.
2
No opposition ins Parlament will be tolerated. Already to day speeches crilicising the Govern ment in a "damaging why" are te-
ATO
Gorman
The dunces
the miners of the British-controlled Rhloe and Rulir. They are produc- ing only 57 percent in a manshift of what they produced before the war. Still, this 57 percent is already a lot better than their figures of a year ago.
A dangerous example WE have always been told that a
cardinal object of Britain's policy the in Germany is to re-establish rule of law in that country, and to i restore among the Germans their
one-time respect for pledges, con-
tracta and treatles.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1947.
DAB
AND FLOUNDER
EXCISE.LAUNCH,
by Walter
It's fun being
Bernard
Wicksteed
N the books of the Ministry of National In- surance at Newcastle we are recorded as FAM 2847699 and we get an endowment of a week.
They think they know all about us up there. They have our ages written down and where we were born and married, the Post Office we use and where we live.
was therefore surprised when 5s. found that both the BriUsh and the American military government ve issued an ordinance authorities have which
(1) legalises and encourages a unilateral repudiation of contract, And (2) is based on the Nazi prin- ciple
that the necessity of the State knows no law.
This ordinance-No. 02-lays down that all debts shall be paid in paper marks and that it is illegal to
demand or receive payment at
vic-
can
never
Orubka Morawski caused him to be Umised who foresaw the possibility put my slippers, and
I
an-
But the most important thing of. all is something they have nothing
2847000 is a about. FAM
happy family.
Just as
fo wrong many things with us as with everyone else we know, and we frequently get Ing censored out of the parilamen- gold rate or in foreign Currency, noyed at them. The laps tary record-the equivalent of Han- even though the
the contract between sard-by the Speaker. A
creditor protest the
and debtor may
have drip and the doors sudden
me off their hinges. ly come against this by Socialist lender specifically stipulated this.
And where
I've Thus all those creditors are
the speaking of a devaluation of
eat is for ever having kit- of the mark nod apologise with the
tens. Every third letter we consent of the debtor
get is a bill and our queues and promise to behave himselt In established that they should be re-
Kamp- future.
are the longest in pald In marks equivalent to a cer-
slead. jafn weight of fine gold.
But
in FAM I can imagine no surer way of un-
confidence in have one застуда great enterprise dermining German from the Polish economy.
honest
between commerce
the tage. We know how near we have All busi-
been to disaster and how lucky we nesses have to re-register with the
are to be a family at all. Ministry of Trade and Industry be-
Just how lucky will now tell fore December 31. Only a limited number will be
temporarily banned from publicly. He has had to
3 A great drive is being made to
છ્યું.
eliminate private
cerns.
5
Lo
Zones.
Attention Mr Mack
you.
2047000
ndvan-
The first of a now sorles taking you into the heart. of a family who find it
good to be alive in 1947.
HE WAS LOOKING
FOR A THRONE
By John Clarke
LIGHT front the big stained-
You approach it by a stone stair- glass windows speckled case whose walls are lined with such the old man's sccdy mackintosh by Sir Christopher Wren and Crom- fascinating trivia (documents signed with colour as he sat hunched well, spectacles worn by a con of up, absorbed, over n pilo of George III.) that unless you are books that lay about him on the you intended to visit the library at strong willed you are apt to forget
library table.
n}1,
Jests And Jeers
Even the .coloured lighing could not make the old man look, impros- alve; but through his veins coursed blood he was sure was blue. From his study of the books before him he hoped to prove, to himself at any rate, that he was directly descended from the Plantagenets, that ho had some claim to the British throne.
Quile
number of the regular visitors to the City of London's Guildhall Library, which houses the Scottish Reel! world's most consive collec- tion of books,
Now you
understand why the
prints and The announcement that our local drawings of London, spend their radio stations are to extend their spare time trying to prove that they broadcasting hours will no doubt be nra descended from Royalty. An welcomed by fans with erecchies of even greater number pay regular enthusiasm, visits to pore through
documents which, they hope, may prove them: hetra to fortunes.
* ☆ *
THE primary
of purpose
the Guildhall Library, which had a bad time from bombing during the war and is now being reconstituted, is not, of
course, to claimants to thronen or legaters. Its purpose ja
Marriage is a wonderful thing for young people, anys a writer. Yes, no family is complete without it.
It was a big Hollywood luncheon. All through the meal, a certala Alm mogul kept extolling the fine quali- - ties of hils absent, wife.
"What a woman", he exclaimed, asalat either "My wife is
graceful
She always
and site, charming,
The City with as compreheidensers tastefully, and she is a won-
11 derful
When
cook.
for
A great woman?"" commercial and historical reference
ho Anally stopped ful. And trying to be happy with service as possible. To that end a breath, the young actress scaled what we've got is the way I and the staff of between 30 and 40 are kept next to him suddenly spoke. family do it.
hard at
ork and an item work
of We have a roof and what the £30,000 oppenta annually on the moths have left of our pre-war fur- debit side of
the
Corporation's niture, I have masses of books and balance sheet. a fishing rod and a fellowship for the zoo. I have a mother-in-law that I like and six tomato plants and a man who fills out my Income tax returns.
My wife sometimes sings as she works in the house, and her smiles
the Dick
later
cord The Library was founded over 500 years ago with money left to Corporation by Lord Mayor Whittington; none other. Its books were chained to their places and used in the main by divinity students. A hundred
FCBTS the Protector Somerset, short of furnishings
for Somerset House, be which he was then building, grabbed books the lot. Only one of those
returned to the library-a was over
in metrical version of the Bible manuscript, by Peter de Riga. I came back 20 years ago.
win us more from the grocer than Krumbles. So why shouldn't I happy?
*
Another, few abeonds, another gulp of water and my wife Anna would have been a widow. My eldest son
SCARED STIFF · Philip would have been deprived for ever of the pleasure he gets from
DON'T think there is anyone who driving me mad with his questions. H And the baby who earns
cannot get some benefit us our five bob endowment would not have this philosophy, because we are
of us lucky to be here. as existed at all,
and the
During the war my plane was
"well,
Yankee
SUPPOSING....
---
In the early 19th century the Library was revived; the building which houses it now is 19th century
from
oll
100.
bomba
the
fact
If the invasion started and the Thames became a battlefront
accepted. Appli- BULGAR friends of Mr John Mack cants must depoalt with their appll- and champion of Bulgaria's new re-to the bottom-with me
MP. for Newcastle-under-Lyme shot down into the sea and it dived Before the war we had a spank- I thought of this when our baby
car. Now catlon a' sum equivalent to 25 per- gime.
we was born this July, and I remem- ing Great told him that Sofia was pilot inside. If anyone had seca us haven't even a bicycle. We used to bered that other July in 1940 when cent of their June turnover--with anxious to name one of its streets go in. which they didn't because it have one of those modern flats with our first one arrived. The no guarantee that it will be grant- after him. But they were mistaken, was 11.20 at night, they would have a hall porter and with fancy tiles in were falling then, and the old Indies SIDE GLANCES
The Mayor of Sofia informa me that said:
"Well, they're
had " or the bathroom. Now all we've got who ran the nursing home had built "so far, there has been no question words to that effect. Co-operative Societies of renaming
street after 3
John 4 Retall
room out of softs and encyclopedias. But the Lord was looking on. if are some rooms in a house and a half a pathetle shelter in the drawing-
shine of the front door. are being turned Into State con- tion: "However, one section of
Mack." He adds by way of consoln nobody else was, and two minutes At опс time my friends could get
One wenry man had come back the later un bobbed the pilot, alive and Scotch when they called. Now they from Dunkirk and everyone talked -National Library, equipped with well. Three minutes after that up
are lucky if
If there's rum. We never
hung around of Invasion, I furnished by Mrr came too, extremely unwell but Commissions, consisting of com- English books
spent a
week-end in town could we also alive. munists, are calling on private Mack, will bear his name."
help it. Now, with rare exceptions, nursing home all day because it was persons, "checking u whether Herr Whitewash
The memory of those minutes un- the furthest we ever get is the lake on the north side of the river and
bur flat was on the south. they are paying Bullicient taxes.
ter the sea is happily growing dim. in Regent's Park. They are also visiting farms
I would like it to be otherwise PHILIP REEMTSMA, the German but I remember how I gulped for check whether the peasants are de- tobacco king who once gave his air and found only water. how I told but remembering the sallent
by the fighting armies. I was scar- Livering their produce. Peasants pay friend Hitter a million marks to help myself to be enim but beat amundut FANI 2847608 still exists, these taitht be cut off from the other two taxes in kind at a rate fixed by the finance his Nazi propaganda, has in a frenzy until, with glazed eyes drawbacks seem nothing at all.
ed stiff. longer saw, my commissions. This is arbitrary and been released from internment.
that no
struggles
But this July.....this ilme. has led to farmers' strikes in the
well, how could anyone in our post- Any day now he is due to go be- grew as aimless as the spasms of a Poznan district.
fore a German de-Nazification panel chicken with its head chopped off. Then, for a lucid half-second.
OOK at it this way. Supposing tion be anything but happy? which will have to decide whether
Every night young Philip eays ta 4 you were trapped in a plane at this former
associate of Ley, my mind cleared and sight
outside the bottom of the sea and you had prayers aloud and my wife and I. Goering and Himmler is it to re-back. Miraculously I was
In some blind and for- to make a pact with the devil be- kneeling by the bed, repeat sume control of his tobacco business. the prison.
could get out. What after him. They run something.llke to elect their own men. Unrest you among industrial workers resulted To this end he is now spending all tuitous way, with God as the only for you
promise, os your this: lils time collecting what-the-Ger-witness, my dying kicks had push- would you not
-thank-you for all the Lodz
things therE week tans call "Persil
are....and the from monials
Impeccable anti-in the plane and back to life again. another chance at life?
I had to make no such promises, good and the beautiful....and the Nazis, which are to whitewash his
SECONDS....
because it was the Lord and not the food and all the nice people....the a past
and prove that at heart he was
you see what I mean when
anyone firemen....and thank you, Dear The betting in Hamburg is that he say we have something to be you'll agree that the least
can do in such a case is to be grate- Lord, for letting me go to the party happy about. will pass.
this afternoon and please make me not so naughty...and thank you for the sun and the beds and the chairs and
and for letting me play all day without my shirt or. Amen." Could you put it better? I am aure I couldn't. And yet there are people
golne stand
about who say they cannot
why
anyone should want to have children in these times.
laken
Trade unions have bein over by Communal The workers have not been allowed
in a sit-down strike in the
lextile works which insted This was in protest against Government attempt to inroduce
the
come
Tetters"-lesti-ed me through an unsuspected gap lungs ached for air in return for and-
hour day on Sunday and a six- always fiercely opposed to the Nazis.
The administration of schools
and universities has been taken over by Communists nominated by the Government. Anyone wishing
an
-his-
to become a student must pass examination in recent Polish tory. Only those giving politically acceptable answers are passed.
Certainly, this picture given by Mr Mikołajczyk makes it as though Poland should win Cominform Stales-the race to
me
look the
Standing in for Paul Holt (on holiday) is
them
I devil: who let me out. But I think milkman and the bus driver and the
ST. JOHN COOPER
Thinking Aloud
the first satellite (after Yugoslavia) WENT out the other day soon-it's the
to establish total Communism.
+
MARI
MARIA HULIEWICZ,
escaped with Mikołajczyk
was arrested by the Czechs
who but and
mos! exclting
age club whom I shall call Fred Wilkins, there's ever been and I wouldn't because it isn't his name, went out
and met some of his old minesweep and bought myself a pair of
miss it for worlds." shoes. The man in the shop I've got a silly feeling that I'm Ing crew one lunch time and as was wrapped them up in brown paper getting old and a little bit frighten- expected, he got a little drunk. and handed them to me, and I ed. And I'll exchange all the atom power in the world for a shoe box. suddenly realised how difficult
One big enough to get into. life has become for healthy, or-
"handed over to the Poles, was mak-dinary children.
ing a irip she had made again and
again during the war.
Then she was.n
I
Nature's Spivs
He says the only thing he remem- bers, on leaving the ninth pub was that somebody wald: "Back Dolittle at Folkestone" In the four fifteen
Polish Underground, travelling back hood. They were the basis of all Eyres and found her with Victor in the street and said to himself: "Well,
or wherever it was, Do yourself a HAVE # Ittle hearts-ease to bit of good, it can't go wrong. Make There are no more shoo-boxes, offer, Mr Auer, of America, and yourself a bit of money." and shoe-boxes were one of the Miss Annette Eyres, of London,
walked along Wilkina says he courier for the more important things of my child- Mr Auer flew over to marry Miss and forth across Nazi-occupied my model theatres, they
why not-why not make myself made her arms. Victor is a Persian cat.
few Europe between Britain and Poland. penny peep-shows, and forts for toy There were pictures of Victor
all bit of money-make myself a soldlers. My whole museum be-housed in
was over the walls, and Miss Eyres had bobs a few quid-have a go-good them the fint arrow- obviously
old whatshisname-make myself a dedicated a large hunk heads, the dried bat, and the piece of her life to Viator,
bit of money-can't go wrong." of Zeppelin shot down at Cuffley all
and Mr Auer. doesn't like cats,
So he decided to telephone his). had their own compartments.
he is reported to have said: "That bookmaker but he found he had here's another thing. How eat is stupid." After
Miss lot of dimculty getting the tuppenco can children be expected to
kept getting stuck in the
She was never caught then cause she never took any chances.
This time she thought che way
safe with the Czechs. It was her Arat mistake.
PRA
Top miners
DRAISE the British miner. As an individual worker he is doing better, man for man, than any other miner in Europe,
The European Coal Organisation
Europe's miners today with
average output per tween 1935 and 1933.
manshift bo
And
make Eyres
which
birthday pen-wipers for aunts with in slauried his face and he left into the slot, and then this
fingers -dialing
out tailor'e pattern books, or sticky Now, I maintain that nobody with holes, so he decided to send a tele- calendars for uncles without those the sense to fly to marry such agram, but the pencil was chained to books of wallpaper samples? pretty girl as Misa Eyrea would be the post-office desk and that seem- y's price for a Tato sugar box foolish enough to say that cats were ed to be a reflection on his honesty Today's is around Bs., if you con get one. stupid, Cals are not stupid, they and he wouldn't use it on The housing problem for rabbits are the smartest trick of the animal ciple. and white mice must be as acute as world. Cats are Nature's Spive,
Bevan's
prin-
I feel sure that Mr Auer was And so he dictated the tolegrom
and
Ho
whose headquarters are in London,, The most obsolete book on my wrongly reported. Undoubtedly to the nice Post Office girl. It said: keep a set of statisties which com-
It's "Twenty pounds each way on Do- pare the output per manshift of bookshelves is "A Hundred und One what he said was: "That catt
Wilkins," Mako." stupid," meaning that it was stupid little signed Fred their Things a Clever Boy Can
However clever he is he can't make to make such a fuss over a darn eat then he went home and wasn't at all one-tenth of them unless he's will that could look after itself anyway, popular, so he went to bed. ing to lay out a couple pounds on. In fact, that Mles Eyres (not the
pound
The next morning he felt shock- The latest figures show that no raw material for a "serviceable pen cat) was stupid--no reflection on the ing, and his family hated him.
cat at all. country's miners are yet producing rack and photo frame for your den."
crawled down and looked at tho as much, individually, as they did: The other night I gave my 14-year- Of course nobody resents a little papers, and Dolittle hadn't before the war, But closest to his old boy halt a crown, or maybe he honest personal criliciam, least of all placed. He'd lost prewar production tho British won it off me at cribbage, I've for- Miss Eyres (she looks such a nice couldn't afford to lose 40 ahillings. minen ule, la today producing D5 rotten, I supposed that he was going girl in the picture), as long as it He felt terrible, it was the
pots. I do morning he had over had, the futuro percent of his average output be to spend it on sticky sweets, and told isn't directed at their
hlm twden 1935 and 1938.
not to make himself nick. "I hope they come to an understand was dark blue. can't," he said, "no points left." inj.
Isold,. "What So glad to have helped.. work to beast,"
Next comes the German miner off the French-controlled coal mines frija
to live in."
the Saur with 08 percent, then the "What!"" he said. "I wouldn't have Czecha willi 79 percent, the “Dutch been born in any other look what with 75 percent, the Belgians and we've got fot planes and rockets.
the Poles with 79 percent each. new railway, locos, and atom power
been
£10 and ho
worst
He just managed to reach the club. because he wanted to cry on the barman's shoulder, and on the notice board was a telegram addressed to Fred Wilkins....Club, London, and a poignant little story inside it said, "Twenty pounds each to report. À member of my way Dolittle signed Fred Wiltins,"
True story.
I
HAVE
The only thing I have to add just now is "Thank you, Dear Lord, for letting me live to hear such a prayer and may I never cense to be grateful.”
"Please do me a favour,” she said. "Elther stop talking about your wife or take your hand off my knee,”
From "The Moran'a Dictionary:" Allergy-something written in a country churchyard.
Bedlam-Insomnia.
Defeat-what a person walks with. Fetish-plump. Cynic-disappointed sinner.
Claustrophobla--aversion to Christ-
mas,
Epitaph:
Hore lies a lady who forgot her
part
While doing her turn upon a
elreus cart.
One day, amid a thunder of
applause,
She placed the lion's head
between her jaws.
By Galbraith
COPIL 1943 Y NYA SERVICE, IND. T. M. REQ, U, B. FAT, Orr,
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