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GUARD OF ́HONOUR
FOOD FACTS
The Belgians are eating as
Well
N
as prewar
BRUSSELS.
THE ATLANTIC PACT
IT'S RISKY
TO WRITE
A
NOVEL
By FREDERICK COOK
NEW YORK.
TF it's a quiet life you want, never write
a novel. It might turn out to be an other Gone With the Wind. Then you will nover know, another moment's real peace,
You will turn overnight from a happy nonentity to a world celebrity, with all the disadvantages as well as the money. People- will telophone you years afterwards, often in the middle of the night; your mall will!
O. 21, Rue de Pyretres, in the Brussels suburb of Boitsfort, is one of those little two-storey houses of which there are rows and rows in Brussels and rows and rows in Wembley, or Willesden- Mr Mazijn (a pools fan), his wife and daughter-together a typical except that these houses in Boitsfort are prettier and built with more imagination,
No. 21 has a lawn in front with shrubs And Japanese cherry trees which flower In spring. useful vegetable plat at the back. No. 21 looks exactly like its neighbours.
I called there in between visiting the Belgina Ministry of Economic Affairs and a host of other offices where experts deol with! economic policies and Agures,
For at No. 21 live the Mazlins, father and mother and 14-year- old daughter-about as average a Belgian family as you will And anywhere,
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WANTED to see and hear for myself how people like the Mazlins are getting along in this country which has led the way in Europe by abolishing ration- ing and food subsidies,
Antoine Mazijn is a printer, earning about £0 a week, of which £7 is left when taxes and social dues have been taken off.
I had met him the day before bent over "the stone" In the printing shop of one of Brussels' biggest Flemish newspapers, putting the last touches to the front page.
I told Mazijn that it had been said by a very high authority in Britain that Belgian workers are worse of today than before rationing was dropped, because prices in Belgium are so high, In this British expert's opinion, that the Belgians cannot afford to ent, and that British workers are doing better on their rations than the Belgian workers,
Antoine Mazijn's reaction was the same as that of all other Belgians, highly and lowly placed, to whom I had told this and, for that matter, of the British residents, too, with whom I discussed the great man's affirmation.
He roared with laughter. "Come out to my home and talk to the wife," he said.
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THAT invitation, however, did not stop this candy-haired, frail-looking
With man
the friendly eyes from giving me there and then a picture of the unrationed cating he was doing himself-an
which made me wonder enviously how anyone could put down so much and look so thin..
account
To gist of what he told me was that: (1) he and his family are eating more plentifully and with more variation than they were when food was still on
coupons in Belgium. Above all that they are eating more meat than before, and mure butter: (2) that they are spending more on food now than last year, although for many things chocolate and margarine, down since rationing was aban- Instance--prices have
doned,
for
come
The reason was, he said, that they were doing now what they had been unable to do under rationing-the Mazijns
were enting as much and as well as they did before the war,
eggs or meat, Or perhaps the wife will cook up
a dish of macaroni done in butter with tomato, eggs and a cream cheese sauce poured over it. Do you know that? It is delicious."
Delicious it certainly is. When I called at Mazijn's home the macaroni was in the oven just about ready for lunch. Mime. Mazijn, a typical Flemish house- wife, insisted on my tasting this. and a wonderful dish of leeks she was cooking in bulter.
Her household expenses sho told me, average about £20 a Mazijn Insisted that he and month, and they include such his family were no better off items as shoemaker, trams, sub- than
the majority of Belgian scription to the syndicate, and workers, none of whom got less health insurance. Rent comes than 900 francs (£5 105.) a to £4 a month. What is left week. Most of them got about goes in paying for clothes and the same as he did, and some, a school for her daughter, Chris- bit more.
"When I am
on the day shift at the printing shop," said Mazijn, "I do not have much breakfast. I have! a cup of coffee and milkwe drink an awful lot of coffee and
tiane.
Sefton Delmer's
Mme. Mazijn gave me a list (or prices from
her
local storca "Of course," she sald, "to be able to 'livo 1.9 we do you have to shop Shop carefully.. There nere competition again among the den shops and you "bava to make sure that you are slices of bread and an egg, boil- buying at the right prico, at the ed or fried."
right time."
NEWSMAP
Ket through bouton makin 21b. a
nind two large
My wife," he continued, as though apologising for this economy, "only cooks ment in butter, and of course, pastry in butter, but vegetables and eggs she does mostly in margarine,
Belgian family from Brussels.
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bo 80 heavy it has to be delivered- by the Backful; you will have to become practically an inter- national lawyer to cope with. your copyright problems.
This and a lot more is what' writing a best-sciler (probably the best-best-seller of them all) has meant to Margaret Mitchell, most of whose Gone With the Wind came to life between 1020 and 1030 and was first pub- listed in 1838.
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THIS IS PECCY'
'Now, 13 years Inter, At has handsomely passed Uncle Tom's Cabin as the widest-selling piece of fiction ever published. There are those in the American liter ary world who suspect that it is overhauling the Bible itself in: point of sales volume,
Margaret Mitchell was a staf“ feature writer on her home- town newspaper, the Atlanta Journal, in Georgia, when aho started to write her story.. She wrote and re-wrote for years.
In 1030 talent scout for the New York offices of the Mac- millan Company spent a couple of days in Atlanta looking for new authors, Friends told him he ought to meet Peggy Mit-- chell, then a girl in her Iwen-.
·The statisticians charged with There are other prices, how-tis, the wife of John Marsh,. working out the Belgian cost- ever-controlled articles from a local advertising an of-living 'Index confirm, too, the
He said he would like to. picture Mazlin had given me of
An hour
or so later his hotel. life in ration-free Belgium to-
room telephone rang. day.
Inn's voice said:
"This I'm Peggy Mitchell. stairs. The talent scout, Mr H..
And, indeed, to a West Euro- pean there is nothing startling about it.
which the subsidy has been re-
have gone moved-that
up. usually by the exact amount of the subsidy.
Are the Dutch happy over their new freedom? Not all of
rapid canvass
A wo-
ds: down-
S. Latham, found a tiny woman the biggest manuscript he had. sitting on a
a divan and beside her
ever seen, towering in two stacks. almost up to her shoulders. FIVE-ROOM FLAT Margaret Mitchell and her One was the wife of a husband still live in a five-room
For Belgium's recovery of her them. In pre-war standard of living is Amsterdam housewives I met part of the general phenomenon two who were displeased. of West Europe's great food re- covery.
The
Mr
I have so far been through labourer with a family of six. flat in Atlanta. Their only ser
ic van!
a negro cook. four different countries since 1. She used to sell ber sweet cou- set out on this inquiry, Four, pons, she told me, and buy bread business side of her book was taken care of until three years that is, if you will allow me to with what she got for them. ago, when he became ill, by treat the Soviet zone of Ger- "I did not have to spend a penny Mursh. Now a full-time secre many as a country distinct and
the nn breed then," she said. "Now tary keeps separate from West Germany.
I have to buy the bread, and Margaret Mitchell the children
asking for tweeis as well."
Only in one country, the So- viet zone, did I find people still queueing and fighting for food. talking of It Incessantly and still going hungry.
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TN Holland I found grent difference. When I arrived there in the old days they used to hand-me-a-bunch of ration. tickets at the airport. They do
are
records and
makes the decisions.
She confessed today that sho has not read her book since she excitedly thumbed through the The widow of a civil servant first complimentary copy 13: living on a small fixed income years ago.
also feared the fluctuating prices. "I simply haven't had time," she said. "I'm a little discon-- She preferred the fixed prices certed and somewhat amazed at: and Axed rations of the past,
its success, for after all both Scarlett O'Hara und Rhett Butler
fundamentally dishonest:
and
aro
-Havenroved-of-
always both of them, even disliked The book is popular
not bother about that any more. BUT I found these two women
to be the exception. Every-nowadays with teen-agers, I'm
fald.
When I was that age (she.
For Holland is well on her way one else whom I talked to wel- to abandoning rationing alto-comed the approaching return is in her early forties now) my Here are some of the prices gether. In order to prepare
to freedom from rationing. on her shopping list.
herself for, economic union with free trading, unrationed Bal- Government gium, the Dutch
MEAT: best quality roasting beef, 28. 11d, n lb. Boiling beef with bone, 15. 2d, n lb. Mutton chops, 1. 3d. a lb. Shoulder of mutton, without bone, 1s Od. a b. Rump steak without bone, 1s. 10d. a Ib. Beef kidneys. Od. ib. Sheep's liver, 8d. a lb.
"I take a half-litre (roughly four-fiths of a pint) of coffer with me, and four good, thick slices of bread and butter, and something to go with the bread. I mostly have egg, bacon, or a cold omelette or a piece of meat or some cheese. At midday BACON: salt or smoked, 35. have a snack in the newspaper Bd. a ib. BUTTER from 4s. 1d. canteen, for which I pay ten to da. Bd. a I., depending on francs (18: 28.) a month. The quailly. MARGARINE; 2a. id. a firm pays the rest." (NOTE.— lb. EGGS: 2d, ench. MILK 10d. The firm pays is. 9d, a head for 14 pints approx. Thick, extra for every meal served, fresh CREAM 25, Bd. for the their accountants informed same quantity.
me).
"It is n good meal," said Mazijn, with relish,
"with
п
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coup, a dish of six to eight good Co much for M. and Mme. potatoes on it, and some veget-Mazija. Since I left them I have been busy checking with abies, and a plece of meat.
"The family at home сле meat almost every day for their other people to see how far their
story is normal. midday meal, though not on Fridays, of course. When they do not have ment they have sh or eggs, often eggs and bacon."
IN the evening? M. Mazijn
From the young taxi-driver earning £o a week on which to keep himself and his wife-all confirm it.
The white-aproned waitress served те a plentiful
continued: "We usually eat who
at six o'clockt-1.got off at four. three-course Junch, including a We have a dish of potatoes most rump sicak, for 5s, 4d. confirms days with some vegetables or it.
1
NANCY
Raising the Proof
LET'S HAVE SPINACH
FOR LUNCH
NO... I DON'T LIKE
IT
BUT SPINACH
WILL MAKE YOU GROW TALLER
AW-- I DON'T
BELIEVE DAT
**EUZIMANELISA
+
has pledged itself to end all rationing by January 1 next year,
Most of them are looking for-
now
parents would never have al-- lowed me to read a book of that sort."
•
•
too much food in America......
ward to the raising of Dutch WORRIES are mounting about: Balaries to the Belgian level, Bumper crops of almost every agreed recently as part of the thing are in sight and, with economic union of the the Government committed to Eggs, flour, sugar, bisculls,
most and Benelux group. For with these maintain floors under Jam, chocolate, sweets,
tax authorities are con- macaroni are all free again and higher wages they hope to buy pr cf points. Only butter, mar- more of the good things now cerned about the burden..
seems garine, cheese, meat, rice, and coming on the market every- Biggest problem, it coffee are still rationed.
where.
will be wheat. Salmon likely packers are warrying about the: growing popularity of tunn, A. flood of wh'sky is predicted tor the first time since the war,
What is more, Holland is also, dropping the system of food, subsidies.
Thus they save.300 guilders (£20,037,000).
million
prob-
ably more. First result of this is
to be a reduction in the income tax on lower and middle range incomes..
arg in Tolland, too, prices "beginning to drop s a con- the removal of sequence of controls and the stimulus of frea competition.
to
NATIONAL HOSPITALS BOARD
Grocers are even trying under-bld each other on sugar, eggs, and biscuits. All have got cheaper. The big chain stores are even offering at 10 percent. rebate once more,
By Ernie Bushmiller
SEE--- I TOLD YOU
SPINACH WILL MAKE
YOU GROW TALLER
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