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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1948.
ESTATE ∙AGENTS,
"He's just bought three blocks of flats, two hotels and a chain of stores and he wants to pay CASH!"
FOUR YEARS AFTER THE "NIGHTS OF TERROR
Berlin is still living
January 1944.
40% of Berlin is paralysed
on its shoestrings
BERLIN, Jan. 28.
By SELKIRK PANTON
N this last week of January four years ago 5,000 tons of Allied bombs were
So the Berliners who live head Hussars prancing bravely down dropped on Berlin. That was the among their ruins sometimes the Unter den Linden. Of the time rent beginning of the all-out irrationally feel that it might when it was bright and they were able to rattle 11. and frighten people. "blitz" pounding that within a be a good thing if the leaders The young girls because it is fairy year reduced Berlin
a of the Great Powers now busily tale they read about in books. to
The main Am allowing in memory.
shaking verbal fists in one an-
Russian sector, not 60 rich In other's faces were to have a cinemas, is u
of Berlin's cow," which
documentary, "Mon- meeting on one
shows "The develop- rubble fields,
ment of Moscow as the political,
More than one-third of the city was laid in acres of dust and rubble and twisted metal. Not one building escaped some mark of the bombs or their splinters.
Cameron in De Valeraland!
DUBLIN, Jun-29.
Nhis country where, as the authorities-tell you, the in- evitable is the one thing that never happens, and the only safe bet is the long chance, they are two-thirds through a General Election which may suddenly pull the Seat of State from under the longest-lived Government in Europe.
war,
Showing off
the
For today, nearly three years cultural, and industrial centre of the after Germany quit the
Soviet Union." Berlin is still a stricken city, a ravaged and recumbent giant with only a flicker of life in its body
So slow
THE Berliner is better off than -most Germans scattered in the ones. Berlin is an "Allled shop window," with euch of the four Allies striving to boost its particu-
The
Berliners have
ar brand of "democracy," 3,000,000
Ger-
THERE has been a vast im-
provement since we came higher basic rations than the into the city in July 1945. Now mans elsewhere mal, more impor- electricity, gus, and water sup- tant, they always get the full ration. There are only 27,000 able-bodied plies work. Trams and trains
unemployed. are running.
In
still
of
in
- Industrial output has doubled But to any one Hving here it is a' the past two years, but is progress as slow ns the day-by-day mizerably small-a total value growth of sick child.
only about £5,000,000 a month. The Most striking to us is the lightning death rate has dropped from 51.5 to growth of the
birth rate is down and patchy 17.3. But the runk rubbleweed of black inarket
to 0.7. And Instead of three from 10 opulence, cabarets, vicious aight persons on the average sharing one Mr MacBride is every romanti-haunts, and flashy dress and antique room there is now an average of one
of a Dublin politician-
salons apart. shops,
room for each Berliner. cist's idea member of the Senior Bor, ex-1.R.A. There is no tiew building going on.
Crime stil! flourishes, but on leader, zealous Republican, with All the Berliners energy goes into much reduced sente. Last year every aspect of that richly mingled ontching and mending and scraping battles with the underwork Berlin
610 casualties; revolutionary literary, anarchist-
43 for bare essentials, moving heaps police suttered artistic. Bar-and-barricadea back-of rubble, pulling down dangerous policemen were killed. British ground that seems essential to Irish ruins.
In their sector, the polities.
new "master race" Up and down the Kurfuerstein producing Thinking
some that, perhaps.
Germans The truly encouraging thing
themselves.
ure faced the lamm, on both sides of the Astor everywhere with notices in German, un- His father was executed by
16th-century "Closeri about the unpredictable Irish is abstracted border-smuggler had
lo Germans, the 16 Rising: his ineina, you get an accountably checked out without his British offer that they always behave as ex- stock-in-trade, a guest reported the mother is the celebrated and beauti- ook. Glass is short, so shops have must not use this toilet." "Forbidden pected. It took a people of discovery to the management, who ful Maude Conne, famous Sinn Fei-ny windows with no space for big for Germans." traditional political instability replied: "Sure, now, and you're not ner, friend of the poet Yents.
to worry: fat's where we keep the to keep one Administration in
hotel supply." power for 15 solid years.
Deciding that Mr De Valera must go, the Opposition opposes him with the kind of resolute solidarity that splits itself into duncing fragments so many that Mr De Valera is almost certain to return with the largest party.
This done, they will chisel his majority so that he cannot pos sibly govern, so that to all in
ing for another five years.
Once again JAMES CAMERON Is In the centre of an unusual political battle-this time just across the Irish Channel
Amang such distractions one must try to seize the writhing ends of the frish political rope. For the visitor
get over the initial haunting prese-
New revivalism
a
are
"Germans
| displays. Most of them are ground
Over a British bus shelter acar my. lour shops, and above. them are
home (yes, we have our own buses { burned-out wrecks.
"forbidden to Germans") there 15 These are black market shops written: "Not to be used by German IN Glann na Poblachta MacBride where only one in a thousand Ber- civilians."
has got the makings, they say, of finers can buy. But--if you are on
They can get wet. They are the the black market-you can buiy news Untouchables. This "muster revivalism. It hasewellery ur the most elegant ornn race" attitude new Irish
is of youngish
having such nucleus
professional
ments, but nothing to cat, and little psychological effect on British boys Επ men. Progressives without faith
to wear.
in Berlin that some parents have the split and fractious Labour moye.
sent them back to school in England, ment, political chauvinists who say
to get "democralised." Dev
hos
lost whatever palc radicalism he had.
than-jovial giant.
has to face the
Their star NOW, three years after the last heavy day raid, they still seem
Now
Ruin complex
#1
It was Clann's two recent by-elec-| dazed and made stupid by the tion victories that caused this elec-bombs.
DRITISH doctors here worry; about And yet, cold and mostly hungry, these logs, and also about the ton, not due until 1949.
Against this De Valera, that less-Berliners que happily for
sours high rate of nervous depression and in get into one of the nourishing other paychiatrie troubles among the tents they can keep the fun go- this's name too euss. First he must disadvantages of 15 years in office. "pera houses, theatres or cinemas.
British troops and civiliana. They All day today they queued in the blame the ruins and the artiflcis life Pupation with 1000; there is an urge le recently taxed.cinemas and fees frost outside the Astor fema
on Britons are forced to live in Berlin the Kurfuerstendom, which As one to whom no political in spend far too much the among feynically received by those who re
call that Dey neither drinks nor goes twinkled
once among a beaten, dispirited, and un- the delit Was
delicatessen. That puts Taiz
brightly as Berlin's the to the movies). He just took off boulevard of luxury life, and is still
Star happy pro
people. in poor shape for studying
That is why no one here, least of 174
test light brightest in Berlin's gloom. All the Berliners...is.. celebrating the rations of six parties and assorted restrictions on coal (that is, if £7 u independents juling for 117 seats is not considered a restrictiThey were waiting to see the fourth dearly trady DI those 6,000 ant keeping some 450 candidates in most every bit Des are that colour film of the royal wedding, the tons of bombs.
ጌ። murdering greatest box office
success Berlin
That. 100 has had. More than 150,000 Ber- would like to see
is why people here Bevin, Marshall, liners have seen it so far.
mt Molotov spend a week or The old women
Ao beenuse
it discussing on a Berlin rubble leid queens and Little Willie's Death's- muy more bombs.
fantasy comes amiss, I ready for a good start. The -Dublin-plane-fa-short- trip-but, on ocension, a gay one) provid- ed two companions.
the air.
Compulsory education.
The dalled chorus against him
50
The truth surely is that praction!- First, a wan but happy trish- ty n Englishman knows or care: man returning from a business what the Irish elections are about cries that Dev will never be tough brings back memories of kings and before anybody thinks of dropping
no solid nourishment except the olives from the bottoms of dry martinis, who was hastening back to the fleshpots for a re- storing steak.
"Down
ከጓ
The other, whose simple bug
(1) a sword-stick. gage was
man, frue to form, tends to start and (2) a Spanish gultar, was approving of John Bull shout the on his way to a croft in County the everyone else stops. Louth in order, it seems, to learn Russian. It WAH, ΠΟ doubt, a typical enough com-
7.20 & 9.20 p.m. ¡pany.
M-G-M's NEW SINGING DANCING DELIGHT
FROM THE SAME PRODUCER AND DIRECTOR WHO GAVE YOU
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Filled with breath-taking momente-
with delightful surprises-with laughte ter-with songi Thrillingly lovelyl
IN TECHNICOLOR]
YOLANDA
and THE THIEF
Believe nothing
Looking ahead
There Is no! much to the
Gladstonian Liberal
clearly told
BY THE WAY
at
by Beachcomber
YING in his cosy dining- Zimbabwe. The kn men have
14.
tought the elephants to stampede on Railway-
needed such
а
scene for "Gipsy
trip during which he had taken anyway. It is all very well to say enough with the big interests, be- they should: Irish politics are stricts cause now he is a big interest him- ly domestic. and revolve carnesily self. That, they say, is what 15 round intimate questions which our years of power does for a man who demented Europe has not had time was a broth of a rebel once. Those 15 years have taken the froth off to remember since the Coru Laws.
The rallying cry.
with the hustings. John Bull!" has got a fatuous sound to it today: "anti-Britishism is longer much of an issue. The frish- technique of electioneering now but
tedious hull a slinging-around of the charge of Communism. Wherever ane goes in the world political subtlety bus descended to that; from dwellings Knightsbridge, five the slightest provocation, as they observation here it seems that any-year-old Mrs Clopett, spinster, Lips," the life story of Anthony one who professes the views of # of 16. Apple-drive. Colchester. Trollope. In this film is chown also
me how her niece, Sir the weird, slow, ceremonial HE great bond Dev hud with his mild THE
dance people that he kept them out bore it all is.
draws his pay in roubles. What a Edward Towell, a bricklayer's of the Ilibilis, which it is hoped to of the war-is o powerful sentimen-
mate, dived off the spire of popularise in American dance halls (al hold on a nation that would Right Meanwhile the Dublin scene can Hendon anyone in order to stay neutral. never be anything but richly merry: storm next July.
Cathedral in a show the "Desert Kraal." When 4
stampede of elephants is and
expected But the progressive Irishman is is a city of mighty chann, with a
swam the Ahahas make a lot of elephants 10 look
at ahead certain exhausting quality in its hos-ashore Honiton skating out hearted Dubliners is that instead of back-at the rising costs, pitality.
of mud, and dump them all round the villages. The theory is one must believe nothing, one at the steady drain of Irish man-
that when the real elephants sco nd- has ever heard; the Troubles power oversens, at last year's
what they take to be their fellow- verse trade balance of more than are over; life is a quiet thing £81,000,000, at the over-industriali-
elephants, they will stop to fraternise. HAVE been long enough in Ire Indeed, election or no. This in sation which, say Dev's opponents, is
But it has never happened yet. land to know better, but if you spite of the fact that for the no way to run an agricultural coun-
want a guess; on February 4 De past week the rattle of letha try.
Valera, whose majority has always gunfire has been fairly steady All around De Valera's Finnna heen slender, will be returned with
manoeuvring the, the largest party. He will be un in the back-blocks, with rooftop Fail Party are
ethers-Fine Gael, the Farmers able to form a Government chases, Bren guns in the alley, Party, the National Labour and without the help of the Right-Fine and a cop on every corner. Labour Parties, and a sizzling fringe Cal-or the Left-Labour, and he
of Independents (Proporilonal Re- is against a Coalition. presentation naturally helps splin- icr-groups and isolated crank nomi- nees); And, with a, flourish of the new. broom-Clann n Poblachta and the White Hope Mr Sean Mac- Bride.
FIRST warning from all open inclined, for once,
Nothing to do with the election, of course. Nor, In a city whole only shortage appears to be tobacco, should it be surprising to find, In an hotel room, a chest picked with about 12,000 cigarettes,
starring
Lucille
ASTAIRE-BREMER
FRANK MORGAN
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Margaret LOCKWOOD
Dennis PRICE
'JASSY "
Patricia ROC
Basil SYDNEY
IN TECHNICOLOR
NANCY
Strictly la Character:
YOU'RE A LAZY.
LOAFER
WHY DON'T YOU GET UP AND MAKE A SNOWMAN LIKE THE OTHER BOYS ?
My guess
rink.
Mrs Clopett's little grandfather. eved 204, witnessed this moving spectacle from chimney of the Com Exchange at Grimsby, whence you had come with her son's grand- daughter. Edgar Gray, who was an ironmonger's mother named Myra Lucas, including Harry.
how many mistakes are there in the above? Send your replies to the School of Psychological Analysis. The Penic. Hongkong.
in passing JOKES
OKES about social gaffes always -recall that archbooby, Mme. Grand, whom Talleyrand married. Robinson in England, On being introduced to Sir George sbe said, "Where Is your man Friday?" Thinking of her blunders, Talley- rand sold: "A clever Woman Conti- me he will not be there, too. RightSTAMPEDES of wild elephants are promises her husband; a stupid or Left, as the case may be.
becoming More common, in woman only compromises herself," Up the Rebels, anyway, whoever Ahahaland, owing to the presence of This has the air of a profound res they are.
m-units up country, on the lower mark, but is sheer nonsense.
As for Mr MacBride, do not tell
Old days in Ahahaland
By Ernie Bushmiller
OH, AWRIGHT
HE EVEN MAKES
BALD SPOTS!
LAZY SNOWMEN
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