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SATURDAY, MAY 29, 1948.
What Do You Think Of Love-In This Heat?
BY RALPH . SHAW
alore,
bus.
the
bites severely
Ruridoubledly is. Notice his eyca, IN any place that has
respectable climate, a young something like a kipper on a Ush-
They have a lixed, glassy person's fancy is now turning to monger's slab-only not so Intelli- empyreal thoughts of love, gently illumined. His hair has not Hin socks Here, of course, the average beon combed for days,
shirt's on back are odd. His
to swain at this time of the year front. Ilo's muttering to himself. is more concerned with the Aht he's just walked under a elinging qualities of his precious And he's still staring a litle more bottle of prickly heat lotion glassy this time. He's probably the than he is with the charm of machinations of his inamorata to a
unrequited type, reduced by local damsels. And, if the state of all drip and no dryness. local bellen posRoss Comph This type is dangerous. It (which, indeed, they do), he's when accosted. Leave it
alone. far too busy trying to remuvo. Take that young damsel over there the itch from his midriff to in the corger, bually filling her ten notice it to any marked degree, cup from the flower vase in All of which is lamentable 'coa centre of the table, She's got
badly. Can you hear her sigh? there's nothing like love to Horrible, isn't it? Just look at her make the world go round and, now. Why, she's spread her sand- at the same time, to dispel all wiches on her lap and is chewing the lable napkint Doesn't notice It, thoughts about the high cost of though. Sure sign. She's the wistful living.
type. Just soughs like n zephyr all As an expert on the symptoms of day and thinks of that burly, big lovesickness which, like measter, is brite who's teaching her how to cary to catch and dimcult to get rid swim. of, I shall tell you how to recognise those poor mortals who have been ND theros the-secretarial type. well and truly bitten by the love A When they get ¦ bitten, then watch your correspondence. Here's at example of letter to Mr Long- Overlew typed by a damsel suffer- ing the pangs of spring fever:
bug.
First of all there's the young male. He walks as if he is in a daze whilch, on second thoughts, he
TRIESTE: THE TOWN THAT TITO WANTED
THE
T
Mussolint wasted no time in ex-
call the looking an offence to speak Slovene and prosperous Trieste cafe proprietor Cront languages. shook me warmly by the hand. Never before had we set eyes on one another but to him I, an Englishman, was o friend.
I WAS
The sun-lanned working mun lounging in the doorway gave a con- temptuous look. To him something of an interloper in the narrow path which he wanted to traverse.
this
In that scene you have a picture of contemporary feeling in apparently gay city where food Alls the
the restaurants, clothing shops, wine the cafes and suspicion the air,
Economically the people who walk the Via del Corse have greater pur- chasing freedom then the Englishman has who strolls in London's Oxford Street, but politically they are in a stranglehold.
the
For a long time they have waited with apprehension for the arrival of could bring badly In who needed peace to this city.
Under the terms of the original Julian Peace Treaty, the appoint- ment of a governor to the Inter-
would have national zone
macant the arrival of a strong man to selle
let the
democratic upsets and vernment work its way to the sur- ξονι face without too much bloodshed. He could not have been an English- mati, American, Italian or Yugoslav the Treaty banned these nation- thought in alities-but Trieste
Been have
it
WIS he might
Norwegian,
H
No Strong Man
2
tending this persecution despite re- peated protests from Yugoslavia, and when that country collapsed Early in this Inst war, he extended
his Fascist methods into Yugoslavin
itself.
occupled
In 1941 the Yugoslav peasantry rose, and, in the form of the Slovene National Liberation Front, began organised resistance to the Italians. This resistance was later extended to the Germans when they Venezia Giulla, where they hurriedly appointed non-Fascist Italians and quisling Croats to the official posts.
By 1943 it became obvious to the under- onlooking world that this ground rising was based on the Communist hierachy established by Tito in Yugoslavia, whose decreca passed down to the liberation villages. Dammulitees in lawns and
It was not surprising that they met clements Auti-Fascist opposition. from Italy were springing up, al- though not with the same degree or high-powered organisation,
473
40 days'
terror.
Some were dispensed with; in their place 10,000 Italians were deported to local administrative councils were Yugoslavia; there were robberies set up under an area president. The and rapes, and generally the people result was seen immediately. All wished "liberation" had something Slovene elements refused to co- operate and set about a system of more peaceful about it.
press attacks on the Allied occupa the Italian population. tion, which were aimed to intimidate
-To Belgrade went General Morgan, Alexander's Chief of Staff, to confirm the agreement between the Fleid Marshal and Tite, to find himself up against a brick wall. Tito, having "conquered" Venezia Giulia, had decided to go back on his promises and to agree only to use of lines of communication from Italy Into Austria,
Protests followed from the British and American Governments, and a Alexander himself few days later went to Belgrade on what proved to be a fruitiess nussion. In Trieste, meanwhile, Yugoslav armour-such ns it. was-paraded the streets, pre- sumably with the intention of letting the
boss. people know who was No sooner had the column passed than a British armoured car would appear, and everyone felt much happier.
。 BY PETER LAWRENCE
In
the the meantimic
Allied Military Government, realising that the people of Giulia, and not the occupying soldiers, should be encouraged to maintain discipline, recruited a local police force, officer ed by British and Americans, and organised on Metropolitan Police
lines. It numbers over 5,000.
It has more than once proved its usefulness in breaking up the mass demonstrations which take place in the Plazza del Unita, the central
cquare.
Police Busy Again
But a state of tense atmosphere prevalled, particularly when it was realised that our gun positions out-
"picked off" by brought a days, side Trieste were
Tito's artillery.
Moreover, they were divided into two camps the Garibaldi partisana and the Osoppo-but they did form
opposition in the early ripwever, the Garibaldi, being Com-
walked over munist, eventually Tito, leaving the Osuppo, who were backed by
Inilan Action, the Socialist, Liberal and Christian De- mocratie parties, to fend for them- selves,
ΤΟ
After a good deal of pressure from high Allled levels, agreement was
it reached. Venezia Glulta.
was decided, would be divided into two zones; on one side of the dividing line-the Morgan line would be to men, and on the other all of Tito's, less a few thousand who would come under the Aliled Military Com into northern wonder. Italy, ready to occupy Venezia, still 10. And technically ones. He
Italian, only
E would have arrived to find the Union Jack and Stars and Stripes fying from the main buildings and the sign of the hummer and sickle painted on the smaller would have found the Italian middle classes ready to cheer him and the . Slovene peasantry preparing to demonstrate in anger. For Inter-
Is almost
cos-
national Trieste mopolitan, and at least two native languages cut across the streets in disharmony.
While this was happening the staunch, battle-grimed but victorious troops of the Fifth and Eighth Armies advanced
Tito's men in possession.
In public Tile had announced that no Yugoslav Clans would be made until the Deare conference, but lol of "arranging" to privately a Tito's benent had been going on.
of
under
*
the
Darling Mr Long-Overdew--11 has come to our nolice Darling Harry that your account for
ten cases of Darling Harry supplied by Darling Harry on the tenth of last month has probably escaped your Attention Darling Harry. We should ས་་་ ter grateful if you would kindly send a cheque to Dorling Harry without delay as the present cost of Darling Harry is terrific-Yours forever Ambergrese."
Bet you can't guess the name of her boy friend. Henry is right!
And then there's the type that goes either Bithery-or poetiel You know the sort of things: "Roses are red, violets are blue, you love me and I love you." Wet, isn't it? Or thin one: "Maisie, Maisie, I am hazy. Maisie, Maisle, you drive me crazy. Mairie, Maisie, I love your way-sle, Maisie, Maisie, see me
today-sle." And on ad nauseam.
co on
That slight sound you heard was Will Shake speare turning around to have a look at the poet,
tree now,
And then there's the big he-mon type who beats his chest like King Kong whenever his passion frült 1ཐ appears. They should use him sequence at M:G.M. Look, he's up a nolsca off in the next corthquake Wonderful what spring spring gives a person! He'll probably batter himself senseless be- fore the night's over. And so, we'd better leave him up a tree with his rippling muscles sticking out like chapel hat-pega.
THE
this:
HEN there's the type that goes ali TT is only when agllators become too
Introspective and mutters lo boisterous that they have to be curbed, but as some of the demon-himself all day long. He's probably strators are Italians, whose activities reciting his proposal, something like wero severely
quashed
"Darling—or should I say Dearest? Yugoslav jurisdiction, their feelings It doesn't matter much. Or does it? can be appreciated.
Well, I'll compromise and say No sooner have subsided, how-
Sweetest. Ah! that's nice, ever, than the Slovene
elements Sweetest, you have made me slek come out to demonstrate against the
Now, I
she'll wonder if Italians, and the police have to get take offence at that. Perhaps I'd
not busy again. But these police have better say Sweetest,
you have of Justice hitherto made me sick. form
And so he unknown in Venezia Giulia-dribbles to himself all day long. And, Justice not always appreciated by when the right moment comes to the Tite press. In this they are not pop the question, he says-precisely alone. Allled troops and the mill-nothing!
But, after all, love is a wonderful tary police in particulor
hing. It has launched ships, they tinually libelled.
When they are-called-upon to tell-me.-Thero's certainly enough. break up a Communist disturbance grease on some of our women's face to oil the silpways!. And it's won they are accused of Gestapo methods, of letting the guilty go free and battles-and lost em! That last re-
mark was most uncalled for, On treating the innocent Slovenes..
But love can be horrible, too, Just the other side, the Italian-press has Schicklegruber! developed a craze for printing lurid
take the Praying Mantis with the husbands. stories of the alleged behaviour of
wonderful appetite for with British and American troops
Poor saps, they line up in rows to woo her and what happens? She cats 'em, one by one as they come forward. And still they queue up, Beals me.
are con-
On June 13, 1945, the Allled Millary Government moved into Trieste and, to the profound relief of the population, the Yugoslav Italian girls. In point of fuel, both troops moved out. The 40 days British and American troops who get on well together, behave well in Giulia, and, where the press has under the control of the come Military Governinenl action has been taken.
"terror" was over.
Before many weeks passed, it be The Yugoslav National Council cane obvious that the administra had ratified resolutions passed by tive officials Tito had left behind to Americans No man to fill the bill has been the Slovene and Croat liberation work the British and
were Inefficient, and their services found. Strong men cannot be pleked committees that the provinces up at a moment's notice, and even Gorizia, Triesto and Istria be incor- if they
could, it now scemS the porated into Yugoslavia, despite the moment has passed.
fact that the populations of the ports The coast road,
which edges its of Trieste and Fiume were mainly way along the Adriatic from the Fallan.
direction of Venice, leaves the flat- ness of
the Italian plains for the
barren but more majestic beauty of
1945 Meeting
fand which divides Yugoslavia from F the Allied advance in Italy, de- hill Venezia Giulia, that wedge of IELD Marshal Alexander, leading
the Italian mainland.
For centuries possession of 'Giulio has been, disputed by central European powers. After the break- down of the Roman Empire it suf fered the general fortune of Istria, and Trieste underwent a more or less independent existence until its capture by Venice in 1202.
For the next 180 years the port .suffered repeated conflicts with the Italian city until the whole area
came under Leopold of Austria in 1382. Apart from odd moments of Independence, so it remained until 1914. Together with Fluma, It was the main outlet to the Mediterranean .for the old Austro-Hungarian Empire, Its growth jealously watched by Italy.
Venezia Giulia
cided he must get maiters straighten- ed out with Tilo, and in February 1945, they met. It was agreed that the Allies would occupy the Trieste area, and that the Military Govern- ment would operate, using the ex- isting Yugoslav administration where It proved efficient.
.
It was also agreed that the Allies would have the use of certain routes Into Austria..
Meanwhile, the troops of both sides battled on against the Germans. Tito's general staff claimed the fall of Trieste on April 30, although for some strange reason hia radio was still calling on the Triestini to rise as Inte:as May 1,
About that time New
Zealand troops, hended by the British Army's 12th Royal Lancers, crossed the River Isonzo into "liberated" Venezia
was
FTER World War One, victorious Guild to fight clashes with German A Serbia gained control of those outposts. At Monfalcones the Gur- states which today form, the new render
received of 7,000 Yugoslavia, but under the Treaty of prisoners, and by
3 part of by May 3 Our men found Tilo's everywhere,
Rapallo in 1921 Venezia Giulla, with Trieste city was occupied.
Its largo Slovene peasantry, passed
to Italy, to become forever a thorn and there were strained relationshipu,
not only between them and the in
In the side of Yugoslavia.
The Italians took a census, which habitants, but between the British
and Eastern Alics as well.
Their methods were not
showed that out
out of 920,150 Inhobi- tants there
were
$31,087 Italians,
unlike
:92,600 Serbo-Croats," 258,044 those of the Russians liberated. Slovenes, 4,183 Austrians and 32,234 cities. The Italian Council of Na- other.... nationals. The Yugoalats
of tional Liberation, composed disputed, the figures, and today, they
underground workers Who had still claim ·000,000 Slovenes under struck · · hard. at the Germana, Italian rule.
were walling in the city hall to greet the Yugoslav
Immediately disbanded.
From the start of their new owner- ship, the Italians suppressed all They were
Goldlers.
Slovene riational; political, religious and many atrasts were made. That and cultural activities, and it became was the start of what the Triestini
(Continued on Pazo, 14)
•
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It's now time to rub on my prick- ly heat lotion, so I'll pipe down and give somebody else a chance to get Tomo news into the paper.
Dam-buster Wallis is
building a sky-lab at
Brooklands
"STRATOSPHERE 195.PIGRENS,
LADROSPURAC
CHAPMAN - PINCHER explains
ON THE once-famous and now almost dorelict Brooklands race track workmen are busy on strange steel giant. It is the dream of ace-selentist Barnes Neville Wallis (left), the inventor of the mine which blasted the Ruhr dams. In it clentisia hope to solve the problem of opening up the stratosphere as tho mala al- way for Britain's future giant jet- Uners.
.......... What Goes On Inside
2 night in the stratosphere presents special PRESSDILISED CABINS are not new. But problema, Just as the air inside an inlated tyre forces its way through a weak spot, so the Oxygen in a pressurised cabin tries to escape into space. To design entiņa sata. enough fat the stratosphere is an casential step towards the
BIGGEST of its kind in the world, the laboratory is a steel tank fitted with powerful air-drying. refrigeraung, and vacuum devices, which reproduce conditions prevailing 13 miles up. The stratosphero is the ideal flying zone for jet planea, for it is free from storms of lightning. There is so uttle moisturo that. planes cannot see up, and wind resistance 15. much smaller. But the air there is too thin, too dry,super-speed air travel of the future. With the and too cold to sustain human Ilio. So the cabin of discoveries they will make in the stratosphere the stratosphere airüner will have to be a sealed chamber controlling its own air conditions.
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