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7HENEVER
G.V.R. THOMPSON REPORTS THE AMERICAN SCENE
A WAR FOR FOURPENCE
'NEW YORK.
AMERICAN LABOUR is getting ready to go on the
again.
Union leaders are preparing for an offensive to win another round of pay rises-tholt fourth since the war.. And if they don't get them, they will strike. Thely goal: An extra 4d, an hour,
Labour's argument is that almost all the gains have been cancelled out by inflation.
A The Government has backed that argument. report says that wages have jumped $3 percent since Japan surrendered, and that the cost of living in the same time has gone up 38 percent.
So this time Labour is asking something different- n rise to bo absorbed from employers' pronts and not from incrended prices.
PRESIDENT TRUMAN'S famous back porch made news. His political rivals who tried to stop him adding this to the back of the While House are to have a permanent reminder that President Truman gets his way. The Treasury announces it has re-designed its $20 note. And the new note, which shows a back vlow of the mansion, shows the porch.
SEFTON DELMER'S
NEWSMAP
JAYMAKING becomes an
HAY!
un-
necessary job, claimed Ameri con agricultural experts, because of a new grass just discovered in Ken- Lucky. Suiter's Grass, as it is call- ed after the farmer who developed it, sinys green, highly nutritious, and palatable (to cattle) summer and winter in mild climates,
IN HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, a
smile was worth a dollar the other day. In honour of "Smile Day," an organisation called the Op- timists Club, handed out dollars. to the thousand citizens wearing the brightest smiles.
All preparations for evacua- days of their occupation. As a con~'
The new inflation, however, has Koren's 50,000-strong taken the heart out of the Chinese. PUT IN NEWARK, Now Jersey, tion have been made. Wives Bequence,
constabulary, like every
other Everywhere even among Chang's they called the police when Mrs
in SEOUL, Kores.
and families have been
here. sent branch of the South Korean Ad supporters
Seoul-the Holen Weiss began giving awar passers-by because I am in an homo, and the forces themselves ministration, was honeycombed by Chinese are saying, "What does it $100 notes to
matter whether the Communists they probably need the money American-occupied coun- reduced from 40,000. this Communist cells.
rule or the anil-Communists Lef try I make a point of August to around 15,000 today. I want the Americans.to. leave the stronger-side take, power. And more than I do. The police locked getting myself invited to the
If things go as planned, the, us at least a token force here," said let us be done with all this. Aghting er up for sanity tests.
get down to some peaceful TN FROM ENGLAND, Sir Amos PX-the Nanf-type store where only Americans left here will the Premier, "say between 5,000' and and
10,000
That would dis- trade and reconstruction," men.
Ayra, chairman of the American soldiers can buy any- be civilian advisers '(whose help courage the Communists and give us
building Conference, told New thing from a bar of chocolate to in administering the country time to consolidate.""
York's naval. architects that British a cabin-trunk or a motor car. 1 the South Korean Government
productivity has decreased because go to look and feast on long
"the worker who used to get a man's breakfast of steaks or chops now forgotten plenty at low prices.
eats his weekly bacon 'ration in one meal."
་
for American intervention in the
You have there psychological I confess I rather doubt whether foundation which makes it difficult is expected to request) plus a the presence of a small token force largish delegation of economic. of Americans would deter the China war to be successful...
200,000-strong North Korean Com- and financial technicians here munist army and Its South Korea But there was not plenty to to supervise the use of the 150 guerilla fighters for long. greet me when I visited the PX here in Scou!. Only the ground floor of the three-storey build- ing was still being kept open. And even here the shelves were as empty as in Europe's hungriest capitals.
In the mess, where I live-as in all other American messes here whisky and cigarettes are carefully rationed.. Gin is out- altogether. Beer is an exquisite rarity.
You ask, is Uncle Sam going bankrupt? No, he is not going bankrupt. He is just getting out. Or, anyhow he thinks he is.
The truth is that the US. Chiefs of Staff have written off Korea, the only territory in the Pacifle area where the U.S. and Russia have a common frontier.
́SIGNIFICANT
THE AMERICANS
ARE GETTING OUT OF KOREA
OUTER
MONGOUA
MANCEURIA
C. HINAN
HONGKONG
million dollars allocated by the IT is a significant decision for it U.S. for the economic rehabili-
lights up American policy in tation of South Korea. the whole of this Eastern
theatre of the conflict between I said "It is a biggish "ip
In fact, there are several. They the Soviet and the Western are reflections of similar pros and world.
cons which policy-makers, in the West and the U.S. must how be weighing as regards China.
JAPAN.
I believe they will start up their planned ottack in the South as soon as the Soviet Troops Pull out of North Korea, fresing the Soviet from International responsibility
thus
10x
North Korean action. On the present. schedule the date would lasunry. 1.
Thecision over , China even more complicated and dim- cult. The trouble that things there are moving much faster than any- one had anticipated. In 60 days the
Communists who had up to now re- frained from occupying towns have seized six key centres in Manchuria and North and Central China.
Ship-
Nevertheless, experts Bice General MacArthur-ho urges the aban- | 11ASHINGTON OFFICIALS have donment of Korea are urging the W
begun working on a plan to 115. Government to help Chlong set up a "Sandhurst" for airmen. Kal-shek with large-scale supplies of arms, equipment They say it is not too late yet, that the Communist armles are not well equipped, that a modern force could wipe them out easily.
for
CHAMPAGNE and officers
And they point out that if China goes the scene will be set not only drive in a new Commúnist Southeast Asia, but for Communist expansion ints India, Afghanistan, Ferala,
and up to the very back doors of Europe.
Californian, not French-is now being sold in frozen cubes. Just put a cube in a glass and wait for it to mell,
STASSEN,
...
even
who cam- TAROLD
paigned two years to become Republican candidate for President and got nowhere, is starting cariler this time. His backers have. announced-Just under four years from the next Presidential election- that Stassen is avaliable again.
Now Moscow Switches
The Roles
By GEORGE CAMPEY
A
S the party line about to change? (who listens to Him?) the low-down
Hitherto the sinister Agures. on their new health scheme. behind World War Threo have been. These are some of the points he
in the eyes of Moscow radio, the made in his broadenst: Americans and Mr Churchill:
Now, new note has crept into the The instigators Soviet theme tong. of the new war are the "British. erialsts" and the Americans are their catspaws.
carda, Now it is entirely on the that they will attempt to
exploit
Listen to this editorial broadcant from Moscow: "The US. expon. the present confualon with an at-
the role of are assignext tempt to attack and overwhelm the slonists
of there of General Fu Tso-y! and executants
[British Im forces link the Communist guerilla armies perialist] designs against the In- in Central China around Tsinan and
China and Man-
And it is particularly impor- tant at the present moment, when the military and economic Most important "ir" is the Ameri- Kalteng, with the Communist main teresis of the people. collapse of Chiang Kai-shek can political conscience. And there armies in North China faces the American an extremely able gead to prod churlu.
ft in the person of venerable white- policy-makers with decisions haired Singman Rhee, President of they have been hoping for the last three years to put off.
the South Korean Republic, who looks and speaks like a kindly old Red Indian chief.
LAN
It. Ho
BREAKDOWN
claimants
The Right Labourites virredTM dered to the "capitalist Medicab Association" without even a aght.
Iron Curtain-rnisers:
In a talk entitled "The Common People are always on the side of, the USSR, Dr Hewlett Johnson andi Bernard Shaw were given as exam- ples of the common folk.
A broadcast of Finland ..referred to Lord Halifax as "tie, present·· head of the BBC"
Patent medicines are cheaply made from secret recipes largely in American or by British, firms under contract with American monopolies 3. Quackery still exists in Britain and "the
united in quacks are something like a
modieval guildP",
4-Young doctors are being subsidised by tho Government to "The British Tories, having "experiment with the health of the outlived their day, are
no longer poor." on the decrepit British relying Empire. but are banking on, the aggressive U.S. monopolists,
"They hope, by imposing the role TF they succeed in doing so then of anti-Soviet battering ram on the On Korea, as far as the mill-
months American A low
to world tary are concerned, the decision
their own When I called up on him in the it will be only
before they cross the Yangtseklang supremacy. to improve has been comparatively simple. vast Japanese-built capitol, he did and enter the main plain of China. shaky position as a result, ot a The experts have laid it down not make any bones about
holds that the Americans are com-
And that, in the view of the ex-Soviet-U.S. conflict." that in the event of an armed mitted to support South Korea and perts, would probably be the end of But America will benefit from this **The Wall showdown with the Soviets, the demands that they leave occupation the Chiang Kai-shek regime.
militant co-operation.
politicians," went on in U.S. forces in Korea would be forces here, regardless of the Soviet Fu Tso-yi is the ablest, toughest, Street
and most successful general on the out on a limb.
anti-Communist side. I saw him broadcast. "are exploiting the cold To make Korea defensible
The history of the Dulles repart ara responsible for the There was a simple military auster getting their claws into the British
counds like. Danny Kaye's Lobby. Our country. They ty and discipline about them which colonies."
This statement was notable not cong ture of money, materin!, and Partition of
The trouble is it to not the mill-
from the.. its divergence parallel
It
a Czech Korea north of the 38th effort in building airfields and red that the Soviet should nepy impressed me.
was discovered by brought only for tory situation which has
journalist in Paris, who sent. If to communications. The strategic They cannat just abandon ug now
his paper in Prague, where it was Importance of Korea' is not less us to be overrun by the about the present disaster so much parly line but for its reference to
Soviet Union's Northern satellites." as the economic, administrative, and the British Empire,
breakdown sufficient to warrant this.
psychological
After that profound revelation. picked up by the Telepress Agency, transmitted it to Tass, who Chiang Kai-shek regime,
Zvavich is passed it on to Moscow radio,, whi Singman Rhee also cald, and the Fall of Mukden had long been another from the inventive mind of who
Zvavich the Terrible. and in samo allegation was later, repeated foreseen and anticipated,
severe blow the professor who knows all the broadcast it to whoever listens to nie by his Promler und Defence itself is not, such
Now he has And there was no neutral business.
·Mister, that the Americans had despite the loss of troops and equip answers. He has already killed oft Mtscow radio. insisted on
Usteners man mixed up in. It. giving hin -British non-discrimination ment, and the freeing of Communist the British Empire. against the Communists in the early armica for an attack on the South. been
ovacuation of the North.
Mr
John Foster Dulles, was reported to have offered the Tories in Britain $1,500,000 (£275,000), to beat the make propaganda to
would require a large expendi- to the Americans" he said, "not wa and his troops when I was in Peking. war against USSR as a means of Socialist Party at the next election.
So the U.S. chiefs have made up their minds to get out of Korea and fall back on Ameria's new No. 1 base in the For East -Japan.
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