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DARK VICTORY
What use are guns in the new kind of war.
ELDOM in my Parliamentary life have I felt a greater sense of unreality than during the Defence Debate upon which we have been engaged. We had before
118 the Government's White Paper, showing, in general and in parti- cular, the Defence Plans on which the Goverement are engaged. We discussed the strength of the Navy, the Army and the Air Force. We counted ships, and airplanes, 'and soldiers. And all of us knew who the potential enemy was,
POLITI NEV
by
Communist-controlled. Through these bodies numbers of people are in- fected with the germs of Commu- nism, and gradually become, fellow- travellers.
tho
Parallel with the development of the "Front organisations goes penetration of the trade unions. Communists are instructed to join the union appropriate to their craft or Industry, and to take an active part in trade union work.
They make themselves the mouth- pieces of the grievances of their worknistes and become acceptable to them not as Communiats, but as trade union workers.
But what made the debate so unreal was that that potential
Most trade unlonists allend enemy had, only a few days
their branch meetings very before. conquered I whole
badly. But the Communists will country. And it had done so
turn up in, force, By this means. a handful of Communists can get without moving a`ship, an air-
control of the branch. Through plane, a gun, or a single soldiers
the branch they sond delegates Overnight, Czechoslovakia, a
to the Annual Conference, and model democratic State, had
there, working with other Com- munists from other branches, they become # totalitarian Com other untries of south-eastern get a number of seats оп tho munist State, a part, like all the Europe, of the Russian bloc, Executive Committee..
divorced from the West. of Soon the union is under strong which it had always been, influence,
THE SLOT MACHINE DISCOVERS AMERICA
NEW YORK, HEN Hero of Alexandria invented the first known coin - operated vendiffg machine in 200 BC crude de- vice which dispensed a portion
what a huge industry he anticipating.
WRS,
By Evelyn Webber
KURINČERNOCTURNUSTAVATTENRACIN
future. "Food
and drink can
+1
shuts
W. J. Brown, MP
Later it is captured. culturally and economically, a Thereafter it becomes a pawn in constituent element. Its fron- the hands of Communist head- tiers seated, and its people quarters, doomed to live here-nfter behind.
the iron curtain of the police IN polities, the Communist Party States.
cats into the Socialist Party.from
This new kind of war makes all the left. Concealed Communists purely military discussions on Join the Socialists and bore from defence, such as we have had, almost within. an irrelevance. And this new kind
of war is on-all over Europe, and
They make themselves the mouth- in our own country, too. We had pleces of the discontent which the better familiarise ourselves with its Left always feels against the Right technique.
of the Socialist Party, They force Issues and widen breaches.
small
of the
"of Ministries:
of the
moment the
aro The
Machines serving complete hot meals and sandwiches are mammath affairs. They are expected to revo- tutionise Amerien's eating habits, Equipped with an electronle
After some years, the Communist Grill ricetronic beam cooks it so quickly T they tient food in a few seconds. The THE core of the Communist Party Party has ceased to be a tiny party. I becomes a party second to the every
country be that no flavour is lost-a principle highly trained, paid, full-time body Then it demands a share
is a small, Socialists, whom it helps into power. of holy water for five drachmas dispensed this way," he says, "and similar to that of freezing foods-and of conspirators. Sheltering under the
he probably did not dream so can a complete hot lunch."
will deliver it plying hot and.scaled democratic-tradition-of-free-speechPower, and gets a certain number
transparent paper.
they, establish a party. In the be- The control of these Ministries Culn-in-the-slot petrol pumps are The automatic coffee vendor's sucunpopular.
glening St is small and highly it uses to Job, Communists into und operating a busy garages, So. cess lles in the ingenious manner in
positions of authority. The State Today the coin-in-the-slot business are mechanical libraries, where 2 which each cup is individually brew- la one of the biggest in this country
Nevertheless, there are, in every machine is corrupted from within. of 140 millions. Now you can buy book may be bought from n selection ed. The machine is loaded
with country, enough men with a chip on from the sleek, shiny modern of 20 displayed, by inserting the up- small tablets of coffee, with sugar their shoulder, a grievance against
and milk added "to taste." When here machines
a shoe-shine. the propriate coin. The machine selling
life, coin Is
a hatred of society-enough THEN at the right inserted, the tablet of morning paper, a hot cup of coffee nylons delivers them in
the different kind indicated drops into
men whom the allenist would have party and the Communist-con- or a pair of nylons,
grinder, no difficulty in recognising us patho- trolled unions go into petion. Non- sizes, and the one. which polishes hot water is added and, to prevent
ejected You can send a telegram; or, for shoes presumably itnows the differ- the customers from getting burned logical cases-to give the party some Communist element are
A plot is measure of support. But with from the Government. by lifting the hot cup too soon, an these the party cannot get very far. suitably Is. 3d. In the slot. write yourself ence between a shoe and u sock.
discovered to discredit electric-eye device In- C259,000 worth of air-travel
Then comes the period of Mechanical haberdashers for men, mechanism when
"Action committees" the them surance. You can even see and hear
the cup is ap- "Front" organisations. There are all formed to take over factories. three-minute musical comedy are being installed throughout the proached.
sorts of issues arising from time to unlons are used to stage demons- while you shave with a coin-operate country. "The man of tomorrow el sterilised razor. And you
time on which large numbers of trations. can won't have shopping troubles," say Britain interested
people feel strongly.
Civil war The party
is threatened. cook yourself a hot-dog, hamburger the producers. "He will be able to
creates organisations to cater for Beneses and Masaryks of social de- or other sandwich. complete with
"Manufacturers in Britain are be- buy his shirts, socks and
Another State mocracy collapse. other mustard, in nine seconds
coming conscious of the rapidly de- clothes from the automatic salesman. veloping
has been captured. coin-in-the-slot business All that is necessary is put in
and all. Then the purgo begins, not Com- a here," said one industry spokesman. munist organisations. Their names liberty dies. Thereafter discon- coln and dial the size."
"Some of them-including a famous alding-machine company-have al-
are designed to attract the unwary. tent is treason, to be dealt with camp and. In the last two years the vending-
this
the by the concentration too. ready sent their representatives here There will be a society for machine industry has grown so Machines selling groceries, butter to try to buy our music, amuse-
"Defence of Civil Liberties"; a the ring squad. And Russio, rapidly from the familiar gum aud and finned foods, cereals and biscults ment and vending machines.
"League Against Imperialism; on which has not Bred a shot, has won peanut offerings that men in the are already operating in several
"Anglo-Soviet Friendship Society.nother battle. business don'! quite know them- blocks of flats here. One huge "They found that the British 100 "Committee for the Defence of selves now where it is going. In grocery chain has planned 24-hour percent duty. combined with the Freedom," and what not. 1047 they seld. 1250,000,000 worll automalle annexes for customers purchase price of about £250, for u of goods through coin-in-the-slot who work late or run short.
drink machine, and much more for a methods. By 1950, the experts pre-
jake-box, was too large an invest diet, the cure will be £1,250,000,000
Observing that one out of every ment for the business they expected yearly,
four persons leaving the cinema here to do." stops at the coin machine in the Footnote. Despite these won- One executive visualises complete foyer to get a drink, one Company ders, the Americans still do not restaurants run with only one wal- now have a machine which mixes have stamp machines such as tresy to restock the machines and raft drinks practically any way
the
every little village in England pos- clear the tables in the very near consulter -wishes.
sesses at its post office.
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£1,250,000,000 a
year
Ilousewives
in are
Stalin's Man-in-Prague has had a tough
job
them.
Ostensibly these
fire
The
as
Such bodies give the Communists Tof war, ships, kuns, airplanes and the fechnique of this new kind
the opportunity of establishing soldiers are largely irrelevant, contact with considerable bodies of Irrelevant as a pistol would be to people, who, not being Communists, the operations of the death-walch and unwilling to join Communist beetle. organisations, are deceived into We reed, not only external de- joining bodies
which are in fact fence, but internal disinfection.
BY
-
THE WAY
by Beachcomber
DEFINITELY,"
said
Velvette, "you
Mr Persians beamed. "Ekehulah!" they threo cried. "Ha-lin very good, manurel". shouted Ashura. "Mast certainly control that plank."
'Ekchulah" shouted Rim- plecse. "Pardon, please," replied mughan. "Long live manure! Three
must
tor manure!" shouted Ashura, "it is they dancers cheerings
Kazbulah. And they cavorted and. which to be controlled, Sec
pranced round the embarrassed Mr was a deputy. And by the time that how what occurred. We do not Velvette: "I think," said Pylates to Hitler marched into Czechoslovakia move. We await signals to Orestes. "Velvette is going mad.". Gottwald his party. He had to flee.
"Ekchulah!" small breeches and a gentleman
TAIFTY - TWO-YEAR-OLD
by SEFTOR Klement Gottwald. Com-
DELMER munist Premier. of Czecho- alovakin, is set a tougher task in
Gottwald has had to march warlly.
He fled to Moscow, where he be-in a nightdress begun to leaping Home life Communising his country than And he is just the man for march-
so near to my faced his colleagues in Yugo- ing warily. For Gottwald is a typi- came chairman of the Czech national up and down
so I laugh, so 41 slavia. Poland,
cal Czech bourgeois, slow spoken committee, which later joined forces belly, he yes, Hungary,
"IT'S nel as dimcult as it looks," with Dr Benes. (who flew to Russia plonk is shifted and 'catch
as the man Bald when bit from Britain for the purpose).
the Rumania and Bulgaria.
hippopotamus. A person bang on a leg, so he falls he
writer to a paper has been boasting down." "I know, I know," re- that he "once saw Together with Benes,
Gladstone." I Gottwald returned to Czechoslovakia in the
plied Mr Velvette, "but one does Gladstone was there when this man.
What is
had become the leader of begun, when, lo, a lady with For answer came a ringing cry of
In Poland,
Hungary, Rumania, and Bulgaria, Soviet troops
shrewd-minded,
thoughtful and
thick-set.
He likes singing Czech folk songs
R
were not daringly out on his own like wake of the Soviet armies, and when 80 feel that this plank must not happened to be about, what was the there to help things along. In Yugo- saloist Tito, but sofely in company his party obtained 33 percent of the interfere with, the dancers" dimculty in seeing him?
slavia Communists had organised with a lot of friends.
the revolt against the Germans, and they had Communised much of the country in the process.
,
Since His Teens
votes in the 1946 Gottwald .become Prime
really interesting is to think that general election "Sir manager. please," said there are people living today who Minister. Kazbulah angrily, "when hoon have seen Miss Elizabeth Grable, And many thought the time had dereds of persona in mad whose swimming pool is fed on clothings onterfere with hus, we alternate days with warm reindeer's nilik and hot champagne, each being honterfere back for how can changed twice a day by old Negro restraining his more impetuous col-crowd pushing amongst
see-saw be playing with a long mammles, who drain and renil by way leagues.
Our pressing a gold electric button in the Moorish power-house. How dif- plonk ho yes?":
ferent from Gladstone's bath! Ekchulah
For all that he is a revolutionary. And he has been 4 revolutionary ever since his tecns.
he
But from Czechoslovakia the Soviet armies withdrew in the au- tumn of 1945. And by May of last
He first became a Socialist back before World War I. when year the main Communist terror
to # Joiner in weapon had been silenced-the Com- was apprentleed munist-rigged people's tribunals Vicunu which "tried" alleged collaborators.
come for him to seize power.
But Gottwald moved
carefully,
the
Now, after the breakdown of Big Four Conference, and with After the 1914-18 war, when the speed-up orders from Moscow in his TEMPERS were rising. Rizainus- Communists split from the Socialist portfolio, Gottwald has abandoned han began to mutier, "You From then on only the established Democrats, the young factory worker his walk-warily palley.
three," said Mr Velvette, "scem to law
couris could try a man in Ux-soldier Gottwald became che of
forget that it is the ballet that wo Czechoslovakin, and Dr Drtina, the the foundation members of the Czech forestall the spring elections which important people, actually." At the He has taken things by storm, to must think of. The dancers are the of Justice was no Com- Communist Party. They gave him mony observers prophesied would sound of, the well-known_word the
a.newspaper to run. By 1920 he bring defeat to his, party.
frowns became smiles. The three,
Minister munist.
Interlude
The last time I visited Ilkleyi
For a drink and a song and a
chat, We bellowed that old moorland
chorus:
"Bat little round wickerwork
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