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GERALD SCHEFF
BRITON in Belgium is liable to be stopped in the street and asked: "Why doesn't your Government let the tourists come here?"
Belgians puzzled
nre
that Britons are allowed to spend £35 in the ex-enemy countries of Italy and Austria, and in Spain, but not a penny with the little Ally, of two wars.
Belgian hoteliers asked me:
he
oui
we
"A that Sir Stafford Cripps will not
come because let your people does not. want them to see prosperity and the quick way recovered from the war as a result of the policy of Incentives for the workers?"
Away from the seaside Belgium remains an oasis of well-being on
drab Continent,
In Brussels the women Bre better dressed than last year and the men just a shade more sleek
Yet Belgian shops are packed and contented.
British with
exporta toothpaste to typewriters.
from
All along this off-the-ration, over-the-counter coastline - three hours by boat away from Dover-there are shop-windows such as those in Britain have not seen for years.
There are millions of English cigarettes, mounds of whipped cream and tender steaks,
The streets are brilliantly lit, with American limousines and British cars everywhere-but there are no tourista,
-Premier-Spaak- says he has done everything possible to per- suade Sir Stafford Cripps to lift the British bun.
150,000 'out'
M. Camille Elleboudt, prest- dent of the Belgian Seaside Hoteliers' Association, wrote Sir Stafford saying: "More than 150,000 hotel workers will be thrown out of work if some thing is not done."
Two final offers are being made to Britain-the rat a £1,000,000 interest-free loan repayable in 20 years; the second the offer of an order for six merchant ships from British yards.
The proprietor of an Ostend hotel with 120 bedrooms has today two Kuests. He spent £30,000 on re furnishing for an expected rush of British visitors.
Not a guest
A large hotel at Heyst is without a. guest because its directors Con- tracted to place all the rooms at the
The Belgians laugh at stories, that their wealth is derived from uranium found in the Congo. They attribute it to hard work and free-
dom for Initiative.
High prices
This does not mean that Belglum
is a paradise for all.
Employers tolk of # coming crisis and complain of a crippling
"sociol 104 percent.
security" levy they must pay on top of wages. Workers grumble at the cost of Ilving.
Prices are high. Bulter is 45. 74 a lb, and n. 21b. loaf nearly is. -- In-a-food-store prices for- tinned. foods are: Newfoundland lobster, s.; Hungarian chicken glantine is. 48. a small tin; soups, Is, smoked salmon, 4s. 3d.; Norwegian herrings. 15. Ud.
Cream pastries are 9d, each in the smallest cafe while small but exotic layer cake may cost 12s. 6d.
6s. a 1b. toffee
Buy
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Round One to Reynaud But now the gamble
PARIS, Aug. 16.
TURKEY:
MOSCOW in wooing Turkey.
DON'T seem to be able to go the rounds of my parish these days without finding everything closed down the Ambassador Lavrichiev has moment I get into a town. given orders to his staff in An- karn to drop the old policy of dour Isolation.
In Istanbul last week-end the Orient Express had hardly pulled in than the shutters went p for the Mohammedan feast
of Bairam.
Soviet diplomats as a result of their new orders are going out to parties and restaurants, not sticking in their homes as Here I am now in Paris, and they used to. They are all again everything is closed. smiles and friendliness. Even They are having a bank holi Lavrichiev's family has been day. Any tourists who arrived mobilised for the operation. after 4 p.m. on Thursday are Living next to the Soviet Em. out of luck. They will not be bassy in Ankara is a Turkish able to cash their £35 until the family with two small boys banks open again on Tuesday, about the age of the two small sons of Ambassador Lavrichiey. The other day the two small Turks reported that the two
* * *
The only people not on holi- small Russians had come out day are the politicians. The 17 houses and had shyly offered to into the field between their
BULGARIA:
delegates of the O.E.E.C. (Or- ganisation for European Econo- play with them. mic Co-operation) are meeting here daily, Many of them are Now for the other side of the complaining that their coun- tries are getting far too little Britain's Treasury Is **Rym→ patbelle" towards the Belgian rea-out of the 4,875 million dollars side hoteliers, but says that no way now being allocated for the first
of arranging year of Marshall aid, and that He has been playing e tricky game trying to keep in with both Stalin not coat France and Britain are getting and Tito. And I don't think he is
through with it yet.
has yet been found tourism which would
Britain some of her slender gold too much.
reserves.
An official sald: "A loan from The delegates Belgium would merely be putting are grumbling so off the evil day of repayment. The hard that they are offer of an order for ships to bo
putting in built in Britain is more acceptable, even but the trouble is that our yards have big contracts on hand and there are long delays,"
INTRODUCING-
"Why not? ----They said we could wear collars and then!"
-THE CHUTER
SUIT
by VICTOR TODDINGTON
ECISION to give Britain's police- men a New Look is no passing whim of a police Christian Dior.
DE
Every policeman in the country
High-class shops on the Brussels boulevards display men's felt hats at 23 to £4 each; women's leather
below the rank of inspector bandbags from £5 to £20; lizard-
Invited to express his opinion, more skin shoes at £18 a pair; poplin than 88 per cent did so. Only 9.8 shirts for £2.
per cent wanted to keep the closed neck jacket. This is how the others
Toilet articles from Britain are voted: shockingly expensive, while our toffees are priced at ds. a lb.
But nothing remains "sous le main"the Belgian equivalent of "under-the-counter." Sugar is the only commodity still rationed, but it can be bought freely..
'White, Lady'
Open necked jacket nil the year round-40.6 per cent.
Open neck in summer, closed in winter-40.0 per cent,
an extra meeting today. Some say
CAN'T help feeling that we may soon be hearing some dramatic news about Georgi Dimitrov, Bulgaria's veteran Communist leader.
SEFTON DELMER:S:
the grumbling will NEWSMAP
end in rejection of the
allocation
scheme, the
way
When I was on my through Sofa Dimitrov was on holiday. Staying with him and his family during
this acation Dingoytcheva, the Bulgarian woman Communist. This is signideant.
is in
WAB.
For Drogoytchova in disgrace with By Moscow's
orders.
breakdown of the plan in its Moscow, first stage, and discord among Dragoytcheva, one of the oldest and most senior of the Sofa party, the Marshall nations.
was thrown out of the Bulgarian This would supply the Krem- Politburo after she, like Tito, had lin with further encouraging taken up the cause of the peasants. evidence of Western disunion. She publicly opposed the collectivi- Russian stubbornness in the sation of their land demanded by Moscow talks would be stiffen- high up as Dimitrov
Stalin. Now, even Communists as.
ed.
do not as a rule dare to defy Moscow by openly associating with Q Communist In diagrace.
The politicians of the French Parliament are also in Paris thie week-end hard at work. To my mind, this holiday party Their efforts, however, should
jenda
colour to reports that Dimitrov seriously considered joining Tito in have a better effect on Moscow, his
his rebellion
and setting up the For they are signing the blank Bulgar-Yugoslav republie they had. cheque demanded by Finance agreed on, despite Moscow's dis- Minister Reynaud everyone with the Cominform.
pleasure and despite Tito's trouble
here is agreed that the-
Some people even say that he is. Enabling Bill will receive its sti condidering a rebellion_of_this.. second reading without a hitch kind next week.
that
The facts are that, afier Mos- This should assure
cow's public rebuff to Dimitrov in when Moscow rojected France is safe from another Dimitrov's declaration about the des Government crisis at least until sirability of a Balkan federation. December 10, when Reynaud and, too, after the serious trouble has to put his financial pro-
had begun in March between Tito and the Cominform,
Dimitrov made gramme before the Assembly two separate approaches to Tito.
Most probably, so I am told, The first was in April, when
it will last well into next year. Dimitrov in a public statement said. In fact, one French politician, terred to a general Balkan union, that Moscow's declaration had re-
union:
Yugoslavia and
to whose judgment I have but not to the South Slav learned to attach faith, insists proposed between that this new Government is Bulgaria, going to prove the strongest, the most efficient, and most durable France has seen since the war.
* *
A few weeks later Dimitrov, on. The Marshall allocation dis his way through Yugoslavia to.
Prague wanted to stop off pute, however, is a dangerous Belgrade to see Tile and snag. For Reynaud's plan of talk with him.
in
have 庭
Q Con-
financial and economic reform, But Tito apparently himself did Already the London policeman 13 with which he means to put an not dare at that time to enter on talking of his "Chater suit. But it end to the race between the anything that looked like is likely to be 1930 before he wears rising
spiratorial gesture. He refrained In general, Belgians pay less rent
cost of living and from meeting Dimitrov himself and than people do in Britain.
Their it.
workers' wages, depends on confined himself to sending his cigarettes are is. for 20, and beer is
There are sumelent supplies at France being given the 1,000 Foreign Minister. 7d. a glass.
the Receiver's Stores at Lambeth to million dollars allocated to her
Dimitroy took this amiss. After last another two years.
the Cominform crisis had broken for the coming year.
and all pictures of Tilo had been This is what the well-dressed! If Reynaud docan't get this removed from Bulgarian London policeman will wear:
1,000 million dollars there will buildings and the
of AT 2.30, 5.20, | disposal of a British agency,
Marshal Tilo Before boarding the boat Princo Open - neeked single breasted be strikes, disorders, and the scratched off the M. Gustave Nellins, controller of Baudouin
Boulevard in Sofia, the Bulgarian to go home I shared a jacket of Liverpool serge will stop new Government, despite the Communat Party went into, retreat casinos at Knocke, Ostend and mammoth icecream which
the collar, neck cuts taken out Chaudefontaine, told me that he has Belgians call "White Lady."
of vote of the Assembly, will be for whole:: Here gorge; Ave large chromium-plated. spent £250,000 in Ostend alone is the recipe:-
buttons and holes on front; four as weak and as fragile as the Issued their statement. since the war.
small chromium-plated buttons and holes for shoulder straps and pocket Alapa.
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MARK HELLINGER TELLS IT THE "KILLERS" WAY!
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For the casino at Knocke huge chandeliers and lush lemman-coloured draperies wero imported from Venice. Two new night clubs were opened, one a "champagne only."
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ICE
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previous French Government.
(Editor's Note: The Govern ment of Andre Marie resigned at the end of last week becauer" the Socialista would not agree to Reynaud's plan).
By Ernie Bushmiller
Week
name
public
Tito
before they.
the
When it came it contained a harsh
pharago erlucising leadership of the party for vain- glorious Belt-willed ness and luxurious Uving," a charge which could only have been directed at Dimitrov himself
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