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Jeep and a pile of American "K" rations on what was to be my first post-1939 trip through Western Germany.
We spent a week motor ing through the Rhineland
Ruhr making and the survey for the Foreign Office on where and how to set up newspapers for the popula tion of occupied Germany.
in
At the end of the trip we finished up in Frankfort. And here I am now on this sunny May Day of 1949 sit- ting in that same Frankfort again at the end of another week of travelling Western Germany and over much of the same road of four years ago.
Just as I did then, I find myself looking up from A typewriter to gaze across at
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group,
munority
TWO MEN AND A GIRL ROPED OFF FROM THE WORLD
by CHARLES FOLEY
Milan, Apr. 20. paratus for curlig asthma by' WO young men and a supersonic vibrations
girl took it in turns to
Czechoslovakia ‚und' Poland showed what the Cominform sit behind a 12ft. plece could do (even if some of the of rope at the Palace of Na- most impressive exhibits, when tions in Milan.
picked up, Wêre "Made in Italy underneath.) Nation representing Great Britain at the Inter after nation. floor after oor- national Trade
Fair, which still no Britain. new all-ume The barrier
They were
Ins sel up
world record for such affairs.
T
After office hours the British A laat we found it. Way up vice-consul. Mr Willam Cor- beyond Egypt and Paklatan,
smaller than nish, dropped in to buy them
either, grotesquely in between Colombin an lee-cream. Because the two jammed men and the air are borrowed and the Republic of Halti. In
the back of from his office thero 15 по опо
beyond is
is a section size of a dentist's waiting- else to do the job.
room and Outside the
similar in
decor. battle raged along 22-mile On the walls a. Union Jack front line of exhibition stands. under the words Gran Bretagna
Informazioni Commerciall, A where the postwar produels of
(Indian), iwo Carpet
tables 32 nations are competing sido
(Italian) with trade leaflets by side.
(British), and across the whole Threo
the 12ft. ropo.
горе
barrier
million people. In cluding 20,000 foreign buyers, have milled through the fair in
moved
Of the thousands who pass. a day" have the the last fortnight. In the big peritapa 40 hotels of Milan, valets and temerity to chaffer across the barrier. For about fat necks. hard on money-codging CX- Yes, during these few months chambermaids have been hempen And with them the old Ger- pedition to New York. Erhurd it almost seems as though West bundled out of their attics to half of these visitors, after man arrogance and querulous- hopes to get big American in- Germany is beginning to
room Go make
screening," the barrier is ru for tycoons from
(and instanly replaced Dominions. vestments for German
the indus- through a social and political In Bonn, where I went to try,
Last night I found my bath behind them). visit the German politicians Important above all is the
evolution not unliko that room occupied by an American Here, and here alone, a ist making the new Constitution, I disillusioning
of
which followed the collapse of girt buyer; in thousands of of British exhibits can be acca. heard complaint after com- crisis on the German public, the German boom in the 1920s private homes throughout the It. produced in typescript,
and coming as it does no a
and led to cold
the end of the city and its neighbouring towns looked at and put bacis in the plaint of Allied injuries injustices to Germany, and shower afer the warm optimism Weimar Republic — and thetravellers from Iron Curtain drawer. British plots against the Ger- that went with the boomi
countries Inst coming of Hitler,
settes. August and September.
Everywhere I found Germans,
man export programme.
Sefton Delmer's NEWS MAP
•
effect
this
and particularly German women,
Cross Wanted
on the seek repose
No one from the Board of Trade has set foot in the city, but the limit set for telling the The search
world about Britain's “miracle way £100, plus SAW in Munich a play, an "XPORT or die" is once of recovery"
more the slogan, and in the hire of the furniture. The anti-Nazi play.
called this spirit we set out today to total effect is that of a country full of bitter dis- The Devil's General." It is
Reo displayed the fruits of which is too proud to fight or appointment with th greatest theatrical success Britain's struggles.
too poor to compete. their rulers. They since the war. I myself felt
Why the rope? all complain of how the Germans thrilled with the "expensive
"Feople were taking leaflets excitement at seeing actors in
and wo bureaucracy" in-
Arm. "I walk all day. I want a Across the way crates can't replace the old German Air Force blue
an English motor-cycle. I want troduced in the
Where the of pamphlets are picked up by
oh visitors Oh.
who stream through the £4,000 Canadian :section).
The Man beat down. A Turkish buver clutched my
Nations.
the
The Institute
OR strangers bold enough to peer over the rope, the
pot
in
At 2.30, 5.15. party for the departing Unemployment Whalers Are Now Homeward Bound
All parties, Left-wing
So- naine of de-Nazlileation and gain and the Knight's Crosses. 300 molor-cycles.
I do not think they neces-. English motor-cycles? clalists and Right-wing Chris- democracy.
fect." tian Democrats aliko, aro · try-
sarily yearn for a return of the my ing to show themselves to the More dangerous still is the Swastika. But they want some Wo trudged through torrid boulevards phat public as nationalist champions effect of all this. on German kind of cross, some kind of or-exhibition of non-collaboration.
young men the generation of der for sacrifica.
acres of machinery, chemicals, returned soldiers and on the
plastics, textiles, with all too Yes, on the face of things, 12 million refugees, from the The elements all seem to be seldom a British trade mark only "informazione" visible is a Germany would appear to be Eastern territories-annexed by there. Only the voles of the tucked away under the tile or Poster directing them to the mnking o phenomenal come-"the Russians, Poles, and now Leader is lacking.
An British Institute in Millans a foreign selling agency. the jagged facade of the back. And in many ways she Czechs,
accepted the suggestion Perhaps
It will come to bej bomb-gutted building oppo- 15.
hour's wacis, another
produced six
180 with tremors. But although British The young men find that all heard this autumn If the econo-
my Turkish friend
could But beware. When I visited. site, trying to sort out men-
whose the Jobs in the Administration mic crisis gets worse: Above were somewhere to be found.
British motor-cycle at tally the litter of twisted my economist friends
At last, the Palect of the And
French
exhibition. Very on a girders and rusting bed. Job it is to study the trend of and vast Civil Service are go- all, it may come if the Control
enterprise German trade, I found them ing to the old-timers, many of Commission devolves, as it has
floor with Millan knows the Institute. them Nazla.
promised to do, most of its filled the ground floor with apprehensive.
Through a stately courtyard, Children are playing there
The more optimistic of them.
The refugees, first to be dis. powers to a West German Go-surpassing elegance, Germany
blazoned its recovery with 300 up a marble staircare decorated West German sold that there
vernment and were storms missed as redundant and, first
exhibits: from Berlin-made with statues, beats the heart of among the debris,
In the ahead. The majority claimed to have their industries closed parliament.
Hero" is lel- machines down out by Bhitish British culture. hotel restaurant downstairs that the blizzard in already down, are rapidly becoming a
sure. Hera is -(London Express Service) | pir-lif!
richness to a Hamburg, ap- the German waiters are here..
For receptions to important people ("neadem i «,!! not clearing after last night's
trade"), the Chandelier Room, reflects a thousand glittering
For lights.
other meetings there is the Pompeian Room.. Crimson damask cream—and not water, as is popularly sup-gold.
but its Dosed,
hot breath Many of them have come with-
A "very adequate" in the last 12 months.
bilingua), an orifice in stoff,
supplemented ing rapidly since last spring. working from floating fac- Most fleets spend. the first elected through
the top of them more recently still.
of its head when it by lecturers from Britain. And before the season surfaces from
rooms than we a dive. When space="more The stallon across the way, when Marshall supplies of raw tories have started their few weeks
coming in homeward voyage from An- whates. These toothed creatures factory ship, hauled,
proper by catching sperm killed, they are lowered to the can use." for one. Its roof still has no materials 'started glass, that's true. But the rubble has not got beyond the point tarctic waters after many are 40 feet.
up the Now is the British Council December. That
to 50 feet. long. of 1949 has, beon
bring in the cleared reached in
Germany's weeks of whale hunting, but are smaller than the other slipway in the vessel's broad, satisfied
kann, me but equare slern and away. New brickwork can be was 64 percent of
cut up on Milanese to see the Royal Wed- 1030 output.
Any day now they will tie mala species, and from them the fiensing deck,
ding
In the film theatre. to. como sperm oll and spermacell. A pause has set in, Tho de-up and land whalement for At the same
turn the pages of The Con- time the crews Cholce meat steaks are taken naiseur and Horizon in the marvel at
7.20 & 9.30
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OPINS
Lana TURNER
JAMES CRAIG JOHN HODIAK
“A ROSIRTLI LEONARD -
WOMAN OF THE YEAR"
Katharin Hepburn
American general.
It all
-seems-just like 1945,
[INEMPLOYMENT
has in-
"But there are plenty of
creased in the last five
changes here all the same, months by 300,000 to 1,250,000. THE three British pelagic
seen.
German industrial produc- Some tion, which has been expand-
Most Important
MOST Important of all, from
explorations—those
By J. W. TAYLOR
to
41
F
teaching.
mand for goods trucks from the the table, whaleoil for fats, look out for schools of baleen out of the middle of the back, reading-room, to West German railway system, whale-liver for vitamin A wholes, noting the direction and the remainder of the talks on the Lake Poets in the which in October Jast amounted and sperm oil for lipsticks, of their travels, besides watch- eftcase is submitted to a pro- Tea-Room, the platforms inside trains to a total of 373,000 trucks, had hair lotions, face creams and like creatures the whales eat, There are over
for the small, cess for the extraction of oil. Notices Invite "worthy” are now running, plentifully, dropped to 278,000 in March, although normally this demand smoothly, punctually
should increase in spring.
candles.
Wirelessed news has received from the
From dawn on
The square in front of the station, like the streets of ali
been Everywhere shops are finding the West, German.towas 1 have
captains this last week, it impossible to sell their goods. been through
big industries that some of the whales taken Orders to the
aro clear of debris at last and
500
crowded with largely German Are being cancelled.. Factories have been very well develop whalers, go to A, concentrating ciher vessels, these form fleets
The
or
of
cases.
ارد.
tender
the
2.
men in the as an indication of the Hke- crew of n
foreigners to go to England Ilhood of whales being at hund. Most of the expeditions have British taxpayer, to attend 25
modern factor ship.
and without cost except to the ten or a dozen whale catchers different summer
schools and Utile steamships of 300-500
on the inter- tons-from which the
university courses wartime nationally fixed drie the corvctics were developed. With cunging
from the Co Movement in Britain (ot are closing down or going on some of them measuring over
Loughborough), to,
Civilisa tramc.
holf-time.
20 fest, and weighing more on the blue and fin type of 20 or more ships, with shops which were either closed, by, bombing.
Even supplies sent into Ger-than 100 tons. Their Jarvest is: These two main kinds
Oxford).
The value of these sub- empted in 1945 by proprietors many under Marshall atd are expected to be superior to that baleens are toothless and take crews exceeding 1,000 in some ti af Ancient Greece, (at of last Bodson's British ex their food through the baleen,
kind
One British expedition has a sidised courses is anything. be- anxious not to sell fireplace- not finding purchasers.
peditions which brought back. a
of filter in the lower goods for worthless paper able
This German
accompanying the face tween £20 and £65. crisis is pronearly 700,000 barrels of whale- jaw, as they swim with mouths marks have been rebuilt and duced by the "application to pil alone. The total world pro- open: Blue whales, the largest tory ship to house a floating The inquiry aro filled,
Germany of the sume de-
SI left the Counell's palace The mark, thanks to last fintionary money policy, and the duction for the season was 2,- mammals in the world, consort cannery. Here the whalement is in parties of two or three, the and efficient as any on land. canned by methods up-to-date
A the noonday hush was Year's currency reform, has re- same system of punitive tax-
slightly smaller fin - whales gained its purchasing power tion of the thrifty elements in Although by international moving in shoals of up to a Soon it will bring home for broken by an Italian inquiring (no rope barrier here) whether the first time a cargo of whate and the shops have everything. the community which Sir Staf- agreement the actual whaling dozen. Food in variety
English he would learn and plenty, ford Cripps
ment caught and freshly canned the is following In season lasts only three and a furniture, clothing. typewriters, Britain. But the effect of the half months, beginning
*The whales at times lead at sea in the Antarctic. The from the Institute would do ranieras, china, porcelain, lino pelicy has been more rapid December 15, the whalers, the hunters on chese often now ended season was fixed when he joined his uncle in leum.
21
New York, carpets, spectacles,
pots and more acute in Germany, leave Europe carly in October lasting several hours before the to last months, but as it
that a toto and pans, and refrigerators - As a
of wartime and return round about May, gunner gets per enough to was reckoned They have
(and the loss of 94 During whaling activilles, the shoot the harpoon from the 10,000 blue whale unlis-two Council everything,
in percent of its liquid capital crews work very hard in 12 bows of the vessel. The pre fin whales count as one bl
desfet onsequence
fact, that
people can under, the Currency reform hour shifts, but they are well sence of whales is usually first unit were captured, it has want, who have gone as hun measures), Germany has not fed and do not lack. such sup signalled by the man in the been shortened by nearly a Italians swallow. It only to Bry as the Germans, and have the cushion of private savings piles as fresh butter and ment. crow's nest but its spout can weck, much to the delight of emigrate to America as fast as suffered as much destruction and Investments which
stik Pay is good and £1,000 a trip be seen, or for away as the the crews who have been away they can. no they have,
protects the British.
not uncommon...
horlion. The whole's blow is from homo since last October.
It is all there.
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Whatever the hopes
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tell them that most of the
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