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THE HONGKONG - TELEGRAPII, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1948.
Palestine
U.S.ELECTIONS
UNITED NATIONS DAY-AN AIRING FOR BABÝ
won CoR FIRE Wronment 114 Etean Standard
Sefton They watch
Delmer's
(delayed)
NEWSMAP and sweat in Siam crow's nest
One Yennn Yenan-trained
emissary, young Communist Dr
Hong, is now touring 9inm 113 Halson officer.
Its installation in Bangkok shows BANGKOK.
1. the impurtance attached to Bangkok: NTIL...I met. Fedor.
thought I was the hottest, and Slam as an observation post.
I am not suggesting that the super-
Hong is part of the network. of most
most secrecy, of which perspiring Fedor is perspiring,
victim, means that the Soviet ugents which Communist Yenan has mosquito-bitten, and most un- a comfortable European fish out Legation is a nest of conspirators sent out wherever there are Chineng
creeping out nightly from there to in Southeast Asin. set South-east Asia aflame, Moscow does not make things as easy as that for the Westerners.
of water in all Bangkok. And then I saw Fedor.
the score
Yeban:
CHINA
BURMA
C.V.R. THOMPSON REPORTS
THE AMERICAN SCENE
NO MONEY TO BURN
NEW YORK.
WASHINGTON disclosed tonight that Amerien's
richest men have turned niggardly,
A list of contributions to the presidentluf election campaign shows that every American millionaire, except one, Was for Governor. Tain Dewey.
But they backed their fancy with sums which to them were paltry, instead of with the millions they poured inló thể fight against F.D.It.
Samples: John D. Rockefeller, the world's richest man, £250; Alfred Sloan, the motor magnate, £750; Ernest Weir, the steel magnate, £500.0
Indeed,
Hollywood and Broadway put them to shame, Sm Goldwyn rending e cheque for, £750, and producer By Rose one for £005.
The one milionaire who backed President Truman with his cheque bool: was Chicago's Marshall Field (£850 from him and £500 from his wife).
Cordell Hull, F.DR.'s Foreign Secretary, sent Truman £25.
BECAUSE New Yorkers won't go to church church- men #nnounce they will bring the church to the New Yorkers. Four Protestant - groups - will -open chain of churches in vaennt shops and conduct serviens für, choppers.
Wa stress uniformi. WAVES, "Amérien's Wrens, will soon be issued with Designed by a Parts couturier, it will consist of a full-length blue skirt, a while blouse and block tie, and a mess Mucket. Accessories—a erescent = shaped dindern henddress, envelope-style bag with a gold button,
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Fly In Field Marshal Pribul is well
his aware that he and country have, overnight, become a vital strategle area in this internal Communist conflict.
For Soviet Minister Nemtchino there is a headache in this. For al- though Yenan appears to be follow a large
many Coming the general Communist directive He was sitting in
Certainly there are American motor car, parked in
and as yel the Yenan leaders are.suspected of munists using neutral, a row of other cars whose non-Communist, Siam as a base, but Titlam and Imperialist ambitions on
Pribal is building up his own non- Communist trade union at the ex- diplomatic masters were, like they are operating Independently of their own.
pense of the Communists. Moreover, the Chinese Com- Fedor's, attending an official the Soviet Legation.
the Bangkok munisis in Malaya and clewhere are The function of
Above all, he is giving his country function in the vast Siamese
legation is to keep palace beyond.
for taking their orders from Yenan, via, prosperity. He has obtained from the this theatre. In fact, Nemtching has Hongkong, and Bangkok. Moscow's British Government high priority as when I last direct orders are going only to for the purchase of locomotives and Poor Fedor in his car looked the same job here
New Delhi and rolling-stock-essential Io: the hotter, more perspiring, and saw him in Paris, where he was. Indonesia-via
point in the transport of rice from inland-and more uncomfortable than I have Ambassador Bogomolav's right-hand Bangkok-junction
Southeast Asian war. map...
he will pay for it with the sterling Fedor
bis rice experts are carning for him. ever felt. Above all,
Nemtchinot then was reputed to Le It anything is started by the looked sulky and miserable? )
10 the Communists in this vital Bangkok And, as I scu it-perhaps with
the optimism →→ how Thorez and the area, it will be the Chinese who incurable wanna go home was written all sending long despatches
Kremlin on over him.
Communists were doing. He did not will do it. And that means that perspiring chauffeur Fedor may yet a chance of losing have a chance to become accustomed intervene in French strikes. They Moscow stands were the business of Thorez
her observation point in Slam.
to the heat of Star,
car
The other chauffeurs in the diplomats'..
park were Siamese or Chinese. All of them were wearing smart white uniforms. Fair-haired Fedor was the solitary European. His uniform 'was a blue shirt and a pair of dirty, crumpled-up khaki
trousers.
The other chauffeurs were talking, and laughing together, while Fedor sat apart. It was plain it was Fedor they were talking and laughing about.
•
man.
Our "ally
SHOULD not, in fact, be sur
prised Nemtchino himself re- commended the present surprising Soviet policy of "go slow in Slam." Surprising because:
(1) It conflicts with the genera tendency of the Soviet to hot up revolution and anti-West cam paigns everywhere;
IN
SPAIN:
pour.
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single
WASHINGTON asked Americans
W
to give up thinking that the atom bomb would win 1 war in duys, or even weeks. Its wartime une, said an army spokesman, would be strategic (like the bombing af Germany during World War II.). rather then tactical.
Darned by
OLLARS FOR BRITAIN will be a Christmas card bearing Winston Churchill's signa- fure. Published by on Engli bookseller in New York, the cards will sell for 15. d. ench.
ON
IN THE VERY DAY that the Anglo-American Productivity Council met to help British Industry with American "know-how." An American newspaper, the New York Herald Tribune, paid this tribute to British know-how during the war: "On balance, Great Britain achieved moro out of her resources and population than any other nation fighting on either side.".
THREE STUDENTS
and
at Michiga State College have been expelled BCVLT1 disciplined after on inquiry into gambling in the college on football pools, which are hanneri in most States.
JOBS for typists will be scarcer if;
automatic typewriters, demon- strated in New York today entch on. One machine, on the ployer-pla roll principle, types a letter without
It can do about 200° being touched. a day.
Just a Niagara
MADRID.
as the lights go on. ET us walk down the Gran
We can start from my hotel. which standa
three years
on a site where ago was a Civil War ruin. Today it soars up 12 storeys, a £3 million vision of terracotta. splendour, with restaurant and swimming pool on the roof.
of luxury
by CHARLES FOLEY
Vin, so
(2) Slam's Government, as bei wispy little 5ft. Dins. strong nan, Field-Marshal Fribul, assured me.
Never have there been so many And here is the British-American "considers Slam .03 one of the
lotteries going on at every corner club with its shabby chairs and Iron curtain Western nations In the present
confilet with the Communist East";
of the Gran
many avid cretonne curtains, the only homely faces. Next week's draw gives place in all Madrid. Outside the £150,000 to the, first prize winner pesta spends its busy way. AU BUT Fedor could do nothing
(3) Slam's 800,000 tons a year rice
Here we make our way about it. For when the So exports are now the last source of
alone. through
Molinero's restaurant four men sit for Southeast a legation rice
Asla. viet Union set up.
Non-stop wealth is poured into down at, the next table. They eat The a fashionable throng, some of Latin here in Bangkok on May, 4 they disturbances in Burma and Indo- elegance. Each apartment in the the national gamble, deftly skimmed fish, eggs, rice, sucking plg, and a cream. They provided the regulation Iron China have alredy eliminated these Emperor Hotel is a film star's sulte by the Government, and poured out tower of cake and
countries as rice exporters,
in sandalwood and gilt, with damask again.
drink wine, coffee, and brandy. Curtain 40-room hotel, in which
hangings, crystal chandellers, the
They, pay £10 and have gone off At the the Soviet Minister, Nemtchino,
latest in Empire, furniture..
to a cabaret-all Inside 20 minutes. has established himself with 37
door, in ultramarine and gold, the
Now it is 11 p.m. The hundred other Soviet citizens. It is now
Emperor himself watts to greet you
blazing cinemas fill up for the last house
and will not empty until being surrounded with Bang-
nearly 2 a.m. kok'a costliest piece of barbed wire.
Like Fedor, all the servants are Soviet Russians, while all the other embassies and legs- tlons employ Asiatica. So Fedor in the only white chauffeur in this baking land.
The Soviet diplomats do not even lift the Iron Curtain to do their marketing, Poor Fedor is sent out daily for their food to a pension kept by a couple of elderly Russian refugees.
These
considerations, however, moy havb been overruled by Nemichino's anxiety to see Statt preserved as a
kind of neutral Switzerland.
The screen THE Communists of Indo-China, Malaya, Indonesia, and Burma as a supply base for need Slam shipments from the West, as a leave
they can camp to which frontier when weary of fighting, us a couriers' staging point, and as a Liaison base and signals centre.
cross the
All of this Slam certainly is n the present time,
EASY MONEY
THE bill will be what the Spaniards used to call "la dolorosa," or the sorrowful on seems to give a tinker's cuss for bills in Madrid.
AT THE GAMES
At pelota and the peselas fly. games played in courts under street level there la Bedlam, spec- tators screwing their bels Into wooden balls and hurling them at shouting bookies, bets that run up
But nobody, to £4,000 oring is stunning. Acero")-but that
The cost of
but
only for the foreigner,
What would we like to see? There is "The Iron Curtain" ("El Veló de '.
is too political Along for our mood.
by
the Gran Via sweeps the ride of Down the Grand Via Niagara pleasure seekers, joined first
course. 80,009 from the brand new of easy money takes its
foot Ask any of 90 British delegates to ball stadium and 16,000 from the the International Hotel Congress brand new buil-ring, the pesetas who are now trailing back to as burning to be spent. tonished Customs with the impedi- menta
Around the corner they are show- ing "Gentleman's Agreement," the film the Spanish censor didn't ban after all. It only proves that Mr Eric Johnston, the movie politician, who spent two hours with Franco the other day, did not just talk-mill- tary based.
Drop new into Chicate's. Chicote's of Spanish Hospitality-
has a famous drinking museum The little wooden shack hotels y matadors' cloaks in gold and silver, the side of mosquito-infested canali varnished hals and mantillas, maybe with n bottle of everything from even with a few anecdotes about everywhere in the world. You may or -Ortega And yourself, next to hide, behind an exterior of playing bables and smiling old men, the real food. presence of socrat
Thoy roared through a wock of Luis Vazquez, who, while sipping ND S Chinese agents,
banquets one alone, had 40 dishes. Veuve Clicquot, wiil negligently A clubs and the Telefonica, a nicy-
new plan.or
of a Soviet cuation coinciding as 11' or pass on to a conference elsewher. and 24 wines, and the party cost show you n. £2,000 cheque for his
does with the Communist uprisings Bometimach
these
them
ring.
THE NEW SONG
we pass by the night Now do not misunderstand me. here to tie up the
Americans Undoubtedly! the establishment campaign, purchase arms, sell
nothing. 11 edst Madrid afternoon's appearance in the bull eper for which the
nro owed à bill of several million clandestiric £15,000.
dollars, we hear the beat of Madrid's A bell peals out to stop all traffic-new song hit, The cow that gives Where does the money come from? In Bunha, Malaya, Indonesia, Indo travellers are on their way to New
From War. pronis of neutrality, a light flashes, the crowd stops, and the milk. Where's the cow that, China, and even in the Philippines, Delhi, or Prague, or Moscow itself.
from fat State contracts-but that is up comes the latest marvel-ong of find But most are off to Hongkong en marks new Soviet Interest
politics from raft on an herole 00-a real London bus, but blue, of gives the milk?" ambitions in this vast and fimportant route for Yenan Fu, Capital of Com-
course, instead of red.. raw material producing area.
munist China.
scale, and from the lotteries.
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