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Suddenly it's Laughs.......
Suddenly It's Love...
“A Pörömóunt Picturs starring
And she's only got 24 hours to win her hubby back!
Suddenly, It's Spring"
Paulette Goddard Fred MacMurray
Badrul Carry-Arleen. When a Mitchell Leisen praction
SOUTH AFRICA
"MIRANDA -BUTCHER "Sarvice with
BEEF L "Heat from rom starpy
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“What, no monopoly !"
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France is happy
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PARIS.
WAS returning to France after three days in Lon- don. "Do you have fun in Paris?" asked the Americɗn business man sitting beside me in the train, to Folke, stone..
4
by
JOAN
HARRISON
But, so far, the situation has been described 69 "aligfitly worrying, but not catustrophle. It is not expected to cause any difference in the food situation
"Yes. It is fun to live in a this year. country where people seem glad to be alive," said.
Right now France is on a wave of prosperity. It has kept the same Government in power for eight months.
"
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'British tourists this year will not, however, And that prosper ous France is very much chea- per on their pockets than it was last year.. The tourist hotels are still expensive. It is in the smaller places in the country Prices that the difference Is more
noticeable.
There is no rationlig except for coffee and sugar. have dropped slightly.
TOURIST BOOM
A reasonable peusion in the South of France with room, two road meals a day and wine, now coats on an average 14s,
In London I was appalled at the rise in the cost of living
I saw my mother pay 5s. for a pound of tomatoes which over here cost 2s. 6d..
,
For some things, visitors will find prices slightly cheaper than Englund;
others much higher.
for
MOOD OF MOMENT
Taxis
in Paris
THE GREAT PROBLEM
Will I be
Germany is a paradise of paradox..not so surprising, perhaps, in a country which ever since V-E Day has been the battleground of conflict- ing ways of living, And which now, as the Berlin blockade is ending, faces a. tough problem of rebirth..
will I be
one-or will twins?
SEFTON DELMER'S NEWSMAP
N two weeks spent A small, corps of non-Com If Erhardt's proposal
travelling around Ger- munist Germans has been sent, accepted, the French will invest to the West with these argu- thens dollars, not In France, have found ments and even
with specific but in Germany. They will put
the money into the
many, I more believe-it-or-nots than proposals.
I find in a normal six months
of European travel.
Not surprising, you say, in a
Country which still does not! know the outcome of the East-
**
dustries of the Uhineland and
The French RTED
the Ruhr
inin
thus ob-
an authoritativè, volce In- the control of Germany's key
sot badlyngeded
Dr Singer, pro-Soviet leader industries, while the Germans West tussle over her future, of the non-Communist Christian would whether she will be ona nation Democratie, Union In Soviet-money. -or. twins. But because of
in interest.
over
1.
5.
4
recent
But most of all, the Germans that the paradoxes lose nothing occuplet Leipzig, is one of them..
hope that if the scheme goes lon Saarbrucken he had
talk with Bavarian de through the French will no What do you think of this puly Premier Joseph Muller, longer object to the expansion Significant Soviet pledges in of German industry well be- for NUMBER. ONE? Socialist Britain is squabbling with free return for West German colla yund the limits set by enterprise America
boration in a united and pro- ogreements. the
I have little doubt that
that this Soviet break-up of industrial cartels.
Germany, which Dr And it is Socialist Britain that Singer passed to Muller are: scheme fascinates the French.
approve of the Is on the side of the monopolists.
The Soviet Union will. I would You can see the paradox in guarantee Germany's Western scheme myself if Britain and the, British Anaricial and Industrial action In the dispute over frontiers. It will reject
were associated with matches. You remember the cession of Kehl fopposite Stras interests story.....
bourg) to the French, demand 11. the return of the Saarland and Then British voices would Way back In the twenties, the territories recently ceded to Swedish, maleh king Ivar Kreuger made a deal with the 2 The Soviet Union is ready long after the present.. Ruhr Welmar Republic. His com- to
to discuss the modification of statute is dead.
Holland.
also have a say in the Rubr
The riddle of
committed Germany. will not answer the HOW long. I wonder, will the
main street
of the little-
in the manufacture of matches ers...but the Germans must pany was given the monopoly Germany's new Eastern fronti for Germany on condition that guarantee strictest secrecy. For word certain revenues were regulatly it is imperative that no paid into the German treasury, of them should reach Russia's AN ALLIED HERO
East European satellites. Kreuger committed suicide. 2. The Soviet Union, in order The Weimar Republle commit- to safeguard a future
united cost threeted suicide. Hier times what one would pay in suicide. But the match mono- creation of a. West German re- Bavarian town of Frelsing London Third-class travel in poly in modified form, lived on.
public with
the establishment keep its present name: Captain England" · Is comfortable, in
of Ab
An East
German republic Strasse-which la NUM-
BER FIVE on my list? not for another two years. France it does not bear thinking about.
West Germany has two years in which to collect all the Mar-
It is called that in honour of shall aid she can and then foin the American tank commander up with Russin.
who accepted Freising's surren- And, belleve it or not, plenty der, much to the relief of Its of Germon Industrialists are in- alarmed citizens, and then be- came its first Military Gov. crnor.
What the French call "esprit" and the English "morale" is a very intangible, thing,
There have been no ER day (700 francs) as against £i achs, Jittle hope, a Govern sive Communist strikes for more
than six months. The lost year (1,000 francs). tourist industry is booming. The A good meal in a medium franc is stabilising Itself on the class
restaurant will cost you. free market. Marcel Cerdan is 10s. head with wine, but for winning all his fights.
that you will get hors d'oeuvre, meat and Vegetables, cheese, The Frenchman, for the first it, and coffee, with half timo since postwar years, ig now able to say, with a reason-
bottle of wine per person. able amount of truth, "Service as before the war, madam."
This change began to be.ap- parent at the beginning of 1040. Nineteen hundred and forty- dight had passed out in a wave of wholesale strikes. But the Communists were never able to pull off a' general strike.
Forecasts of good crops and better. food supplies began to filter through to the workers. Bread came off the ration. The 1ide began to turn.
buller.
In France the mood of the moment is changeable. as it rests very largely on full stom- that can be grumbled at, ment
not necessarily cursed, and but the ability to put away just a
lo monty every All these things combined are giving the Frenchman a greater feeling of happiness.
-[London Express Service)
week.
C. V. R. THOMPSON REPORTS The American Scene
*
Now the Americans, stung by the comments of their visiting Congressmen that they had done nothing about breaking up the cartels, are determined to start by breaking up the match monopoly.
But the 'British-rightly see- a threat to the ing in this whole principle of State owner-
Oghting ship of industry-re tooth and wall to preserve the monopoly. With It they hope to keep alfve the possibilliy that German Industry may one day be turned over to Sočlails1 German monopoliais.
Who will win? My money is on the Americans.
The case of
A SOVIET BARGAIN
:
the of the
terested.
The story of
4
I do not know how far this aircet name springs from n genuine sense of gratitude, or
WANTED HUSBANDS how far from calculating.
German desire to flatter their easily flattered 'American over-
most fashionable boulevard, lords. .the.. 'Kurfürstendamm,
But I did notice that the stards a kiosk-paradox NUM- Captain Snow Stratac sign-plate. BER THREE.
This klosk, my
was only a piece of very lem- German porery-looking 'palnied wood, friends claim, should be nas against the steel and enamel. great comfort ́ ́and reassurance of the neighbouring". General to all Frenchmen, who fear the von Nogel Strasse. revival of a strong and aggres-, My guide made no secret of
ve Germany.
his
disdain for the name, Plastered all over the out-; "Humiliating," he called "10"
BELIEVE-IT-OR-NOT. NUM- side of the kiosk are advertise. bad taste-lacking in national FF TO BRITAIN for the firstD. BER TWO: The Russians ments from German women, dignity New York FF ETIMISM____is_breaking_
time in 24 years, Governor are telling the Germans, "It is and. girls desperately. clamour- out all over America in Tom Dewey of New York, the all the fault of Ule Commu- ing for a husband.
The voice of Torles' head, man in America, nists," Not the Russian Com-
Cupla inside the box told ma spite of official warnings, to refuses to admit that he will munists, mind you, but
business was good. "wait and seė” ... So see Winston Churchill. But he German Communists
THE WANDERERS. Rapidly, meat becams slightly
The Americans have Socialist Unity Party.
Why should this kiosk be of cheaper, vegetables dropped in much so that Washington is
they can tin anything. This is all part of the new, comfort to Frenchmen? Bc- price owing to a glut, and the afraid the Sensing the Atti Arra announces that laned Soviet Jine which accore parles cause it is t symplem of Ger- MY guide was a member of
farmlands of Norgiandy around ratifying 'At- live lobsters are now available, and preceded—the lifting of many's postwar predicament--
class of Germans whom COMMENCING TO-MORROW: "THE LAUGHING LADY" began to burst with the promise lantic Pact until early
the Berlin blockade. The idea the vast excess of marriageable you will And from now on of abundant milk, cheese, and autumn-if then.... Every AVEN BRITISHI VISITORS to is to make the West German women over marriageable men playing an ever more Impor
Socialists and,
all, the and the fall in the national lant and have to w
perilous rolo-not one is giving the credit to America would
West German fight-wingers
of birthrate. The dollar went on the free the air-lift, which nine-and put up n. £250 bond. repayable
only in German polities, but i the Christian Democratic Union market and promptly the franca-half out of every ten on departure under a new plan believe thint Russia is ready for American experts have calcu- European politics as a whole began to, slabilise.
to tighten up Immigration loop-
a new policy of collaboration lated, that at most 300,000 The binck market alaried to American show.... There is gros. Resolution passed by and thus torpedo the new U.S. one year from now, and that SIX. For he was an anti-Nazi,...
Americans think is an all-holes being discussed in Con with them in a united Germany, Germans will bo born in any phrases was paradox' NUMBER hot the ansual convention of New sponsored anti-Soviet, anti- by 1980 the German population itely refused to leave the Roman long the boulevards trying in weather (98 degrees in the York's Catholic ex-Servicemen Communist West German re- will have fallen from its pre- Cathole Church which asked to
"The practice of members Midale West today) than of calling each other
war: total of 80 million to 40 do to go out of kuusiness.
'comrade'
do so by the Nazis." million. will be discontinued."
In other words-the Germans But he was also a refugee Then, a month a, milk, but-the cold war. ter, cheese, and fats cante off
are no longer multiplying more one of-12 million who have the ratios.
rapidly than the French, as settled in West Germany after they did before the wars of being expelled by Russians, 1870, 1914, and 1999. Soon they Foles, Czechs Hungarians') i
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LESLIE DWYER
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lose its grip. The shally gentlemen
to
the talk of
public.
use of the well-Work
a devout Catholic, who had pub-
nounces that the second There was now no talk of im- FOR THE FIRST TIME in A CHAIN of U.S. teashops an- pending political crisis. General papers have banner-lines. On salo in" the toyshops Derlin; like Ambassader Semian will have ceased to; outhumber Yugoslavās diskAKERNA A
weeks New York's new cup of coffee is on the house."
that de Gaulle, to whom the French are not political ur interna- started to turn again when they lepal.
a home permanent wave set for They are
about the dolls and miniature gangster's became frightened :began, to he
quads (two girls, two boys) weapons assembled in a box born to a Wall-street clerk's wife, 27-year-old Mrs Ethet marked "Murder Set."" Collins....Another. "healthy"
Authoritative 'Russians
thero
The technique of
Mr Averell. Harriman, Udent Truman's pet economist, Dr.the faundice he caught in due to the Pur doing. They are WUDING FRANCE.
much less important.
情夜.
A FEW SNAGS
書盗
-BETTY GRABLE in '-
of
to them.
Was
horno was in: the Sudetenland. And 60 today... Nazi h
phrases come easily to him. He is thinking in terms of nationalism. He is. σκετε είνα Alled with the rancour
of tho dispossessed an oday target for any new Hitler
who may along.
como.j
What is true of him applies
nov and his deputies Ivanov and Tulpanoy, have been telling West Germats and non-Com- munist East Germons:
These policies you dislike in our zone, price drop is forecast by Presi- HOW BUSINESS: Because of they are not o
overzealousness and preg roving ambassador to the Mar- Edwin Nourse,
Pidity
the German Com- who adds re England, Cary Grant has been shall Plan countries, comment-
diet of ice listen
Our amiant su lics are, however, notorious with evor greater, forco to the
to MATHEMATICS and statis- ed a few weeks ago in an off-assuringly: "We have not fallen put on a year's the-record talk with journalists out of bed yet on anything." cream sodas, but no whisky and change all that now and work by unreliable where human ne millions of other refugees, De
roda, Broadway critics hail on "his amazing‘furni shout inj
the return of the Fred Astaire with Germans who put Ger- Ings are concerned. not. Imagine, either that
So the Germans are prepare are old folk many first. For our interests DENVER DRUG STORE ad-: Ginger Rogers portnership
Will die vertises a sale of postage The Barkleys of Broadway" are as identical today as they in another way of reassuring soon, taking their
were after the 1914-18 war." There are, of course, a few stamps three three-cent stamps (The Gay Barkleys In Eng
As I saw fort myself in the snings on the horizon, chlet for only eight cents. TV may land) as the greatest rap- They go on to point out the paradox NUMBER FOURLY
German. among them is the drought of cut the divorce rate, kays a Lou prochement since America and dangers to Germany of alliance
economics boss, camps visited, they are strong Erhardt, now and lusty_rdost of them and THE MOST UP-TO-DATE THEATRE ON THE MAINLAND the past few months, which has Angeles survey, the theory bo Russia began trying to patch up with the West when her na- Ludwig
Wwith))) (many caused the Minister of Agriculing that It keeps the family at their gilarrels: Danny Kaye's tural export markets and raw Washington, is trying to per ture to forecast a very mediocre home, so cutting down the risks next Hollywood aim will be a material sourceslle in the unde the Americans to give ion after them
fot estrangement, erop of cattle foods.
comedy thriller.
Soviet-dominated East.
The French a large dollar loan, (
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