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CONTINENT
S the bus from the There
airport shot us with
incredible кресй
is a spirit of
spirit of fight
Europe,
through the outskirts into and hope in
the centre of Rome, it came
to momentary halt in
a
front of a floodlit fountain.
Thi water gleamed and arkled and sprayed over the crowds taking an after-dinner stroll.
Fountains play
"There is Italy for you,” said
# voice behind me. This dily is suffering from a water short nge. but the fountains play just the same. The Indians would rather have it that way."
* AMID THE light, colour, and movement of the Rome streets my mind shot back to the night before when, at mid- night, I strolled along a street In In Bonn, Germany, where Bloodlights were playing on n half-finished building illuminat- Ing a gang of workmen going nhead at full speed on n night rhift to get their new Govern- inent building finished as quick- ly as possible.
The week before I had stood on the fourteenth floor of a sky- scraper in Brussels listening to n Belginn economist say:-
"Evey zuz wants certain things out of fe. Here in we believe that he Belgium
do have them. We ..should
believe in organising not shortages, but in getting rid of shortages, And to do that a man must be free to eat as
play and he likes likes."
Driving power
he
The same human element The driving power behind-the- Marshall plan statistics the free economy of the monetary understanding ut plan-the people's needs and what makes them tick over.
*IN JUST over a fortnight I Jave flown in a elrole over Europe, from France to Belgium, Holland, Germany, and Italy.
M
says
JOAN BARRISON
fabout £17). Mrs "Genchtkait~bewa Hmited--only by the where a car could be prices. a month on £15 103. Linds
delivered in a few weeks, and food; and they pay a pre-war
where taxation was compara- rental of L'1 17. Bd. a month.
tively low.
For three years Mr Genchi, * MAURICE SCHAFF is to balance his budget, has, work-chauffeur carning # 'net in
od at night translating articles, This brings him in another 12,000 Hire (£) a month.
Out of this he has to
pay tax, heating for the winter, and clothe his family.
come of about £10 a week.
His wife Georgette spends £0 a week on food for herself. her husband, and their two chlidren aged five and four.
Their rent is the equivalent of £0 a month for a six-room- ed apartment. Maurice's income tax is about 55. a week.
300,000 follow the man with a 'Musso Look'
ROME.
N the open-air terrace restaurant in the centre of Rome the guitar-singer had been strumming Neapolitan songs
for American tourista.
From one corner an Italian woman with
(in, style,
if not in
a deadpan face and off-the-shoulder dress physique) tossed A 10,000-liro (25)
note to him to play a Fascist march.
Ile obliged until a rather em- barrassed restaurant manager, his суса OM the American tourists who might take offence, signalled to him to stop.
Few people in Italy have five- pound notes to throw ̈around. But many can, and do, join the new Italian National Socialist Movement, which boasts of a signed party membership of 300,000.
Its probable strength lɛ' A million people grouped around the personality of yet another new "leader." This time it is 35-year-old Giorgio Almirante.
Old Type
TWO years ago, Almirante wan an unknown journalist who During the past three months had once worked for Musso- butter, sugar, and cheese, cigar-n's Ministry of Propaganda. ettes, and sweets have come on free sale, with prices Tizing slightly.
"The average Dutch family
is Anding butter expensive al 4s, a pound.
ALMIRANTE speska...
He was in Milen in 1945, and ning up a notice in a newspaper was simply a question of pin- after the death of Mussolini he office, Supporters grow, and L hid out for two years working then got the permission of the as a labourer.
Ministry of the Interior to form When he judged it safe, he a new political party. The meat ration is about 2lbenme back to Rome, and was
'Our aim is to resurrect past ก head per week, and costs subsequently banished to a camp Italian glory and to give young about 45. Bd. a pound.
for circulating alleged Fascist
veople a purpose in life. We Released In 1947, propaganda. he started the now flourishing are not out to cause civil war in slovimento Sociale Italiano with Italy, but we will fight the Com-
munists if they attack us,” five people.
4
it
GERMANY'S EXPORTS are
for half paying
of what costs to run the country.
The other holt is being pald, nine-tenths by American dol
anil the other one-tenth by lura
The upkeep of Germany Is sill costing a million dollars
(£250,000) a day.
German bullding gangs Arc a working on day and night shifts, but the buildings going up are mostly official Buildings and shops, Houses still Ing behind.
Best meal
For 10s. In France you can meal than now got a betler anywhere else in Europe,
Old Talk
On first acquaintance, Aimi- ❘rante is not a very inspiring
personality lie is a clim man THE work are familiar to watched who have of middle height, with thinning & those
bright blue political developments in post- black hair, rather eyes, and a high-pitched volee war Italy. Asked if his party which can rise to a shrlli bellow. had the same aims as the former Italian Fascist party, Almirante People had told me that be replied:- resembled the young Mussolini,
"Of course, our aima orc but I could not see it. His followers, filled with nostalgia Forcist, but then Italy
Our potential for what they refer to as "Italy's Fascist country,
is great. We will wait for the past glory," see him through
ously right moment, then nothing will haze of sentiment and aroused political emotion.
stop us."
Was i
The Italian Government, DC- At a party rally two weeke customed to such movements; ngo thousands of supporter Jet-well-alone rolled up to listen to Almirante. adopting a
ts
Genchi, a Communist, admits that prices havo stablised since 1047
policy. It lets the party mem-. and In the past two
years have dropped to n reason able level; that he is living well, and belter than he did in 1945.
HERE IS the story of Jean de Beauchamp and his English wife living just outside Brussels,
Worked at night
Three-and-a-half years ago Jean was demobilised from the RAF. At 23 he had a young wife to support, and a baby son. Ho went to work for a Arm making farm-machinery-and
household aluminium
equip- ment.
Working in a factory during the day for 18 months he spent three boum every oven- ing five days a week at a night school taking gineering course,
an en-
He and his wife had a small studio on the seventh floor of a Brussels apartment houtz.
There was no running water tight. * and money was rather
But they worked hard building a home piece by pivo and ate well.
When the baby
year was a old, Dorothy, his wife, took a
looked after the baby during the
In all these countries, meh part-time job and his mother ravaged by war, there is a spirit of fight and hope-even in day. Germany.
caling
well,
People aro and can buy almost anything they like, but the cost of living is high.
Many of the
lower income are inding it hard to groups "urrive," as the French say.
*
BUT A large majority are way out... Anding their own the head of the family works at Iwo jobs instead of one, work- ing a 14 or 15-hour day-but with a good meal at the end of
It.
Or his wife goes out to work
A better job
With the knowledge gained at night school he was able to get a betler job with an agency selling machinery.
Just over a year ogo they were able to rent an old farm- house near Brussels for £6 a
month, an average rental for an unfurnished house or apartment in Belgium.
Jean is neling as sofe agent for an English frm of farm machinery manufacturers and has been able to buy a amall Jorry.
He and his wife pay £2 5s, a month to a Brussels store to give them a fund to draw on for clothes for Mrs Schaff and
the children..
A day's menu
of
They also pay a rental £2 35. a month for a washing machine (American import),
Here is a typical day's menu of the Schaff household:
BREAKFAST: Coffee, rolla butter, and Jam..
LUNCII: Tomatoes stuffed "with" shrimps-in-mayonnaise, pound of beefsteak at 65. a pound and about two pounds of fried potatoes, salad and a sweet--more often than not a cream made with
eres and milk served with fresh cream.
For their evening meal they' were having, the day I saw them, tomato soup, roast veal and potatoes, a cooked salad in a white cream caure, and rice tart.
# THE AVERAGE Amsterdam ents well, more
concerned in zomewhere to live.
family in but is inding
A heavy toll
That came 10s, would buy a meal for three if you bought it In the markets and cooked it at home.
You can buy a good steak, enough for one person, for 10d.
IN THE markets tomatoes were telling at 44d. a 1 peaches from the South of France at 15. alb., a large knuckle of balling hom cost 58. French beans were Od. a lb., a pot of fresh cream 18, and butter war from about 28. d. alb, upwards,
bers do more or less what they like unless the Fascist pro- poganda in too open.
Fertile Soil
His main and most popular
nes are a demand for the re- turm of Italy's former colonies and an explanation that Italy's defeat in war was Just "bad luck" at one stage in the battle. TM spite of an appearance of Almirante and his followers prosperity In Italy, there is still regard Germany as an ally some ferille soll for new parties. and Russia and America 45 There are, for example, two enemies of Italy. million unemployed, and a large percentage of disgruntled Com In the hobby of the munists here are looking for a
House
where of Commons, new object of political devotion's Almirante is now an MP for a Rome suburb, there is little sup- The Pope's edlet announcing port for his utterances.
of Catholic excommunication
Ho is as yet "just another Church scho" in an Italy trying to
found at the end of my tour of Belgium, Holland, Ger- many, and Italy that my 1,000 francs (1) In France would Communists from the
Italy-for-the-
go a lot further than its equi-might-act-as-nup-to-the-forget. valent of 170 Belgian francs, 10 MS.I.. Dulch guilders, 13 German Italians policy. marks, or 2,000 Italian lire.
-(London Express Service)
In
its
"When I started the party 1947," Almirante told me,
"It
Italian
Joan Harrison .
-(Lowden Express Services
C.V.R. Thompson Reports
The American
NEW YORK.
Scene
York's vacant seat in an autumn
For months poets and writers Governor of New York and ex- TWO Congress men are to have water. Whether it boss of UNIRA, to neck New
poetry, and if to Blooding move for an inquiry in- Pound should have, been given by-election.
to the £250 Library of the prize. Congress award for the best American poetry in 1948.
In the big cities iwo house.
Bomb damage and took a heavy toll of flats and houses in Holland, particularly There are or three familles to a
The Dutch Government has a system of subsidies whoroby a family can build a house, the mortgage being held by the Government, repayable at a low rate of interest.
This scheme gives priority to with Jorge people bombed-out familles.
But a family without priority may buy or rent a houseboat.
All over the 40 canals encir eling Amsterdam they can be seen, smali and compact, with two living-rooms, bathroom, Most of their success was due kitchen, and running hot water, In Rome I mot Colombo to hard work, but they had Genclil, a civil servant, married, been living in a country where THE DUTCH Government with a 12-year-old daughter they had always been well fed, aims to have all food off ra Hla salary is 34,000 lire a month where the buying of furniture tion by the end of the year.
1o make a dual income.
NANCY.
Frozen Assets
OH, NANCY --- OUR NEW HOME FREEZER CAME
-TODAY
YES--- I KNOW
IT'S GOING TO BE QUITE A -MONEY-SAVER-
NOT FOR ME IT
ISN'T
CAMERA TRICKS will give Danny Kayo three heads in ME, TOO, has come to Britain,
rays the New York World a new picture. Each bead will meaning that the sing a different song. But the Telegram, It was given to 63-year-old Ezra Pound last February. From Tory platform is too much like trio will sing in harmony.
of the Socialiste. Some Italy, Pound brondeast as Musso- that
Americans believe Republican CLUMP OR NOT, Ink's Haw-haw during the wor.
(Tory) Tom Dewey lost last are
Americons
on
the
move.
Car
He escaped a treason trial by years Presidential election by dealers and petrol stations were plaform too much the only two major kinds of re- being adjudged Insane. For the standing on
tail business to increase males in June.
part three years he has been in ke Truman's, a Washington mental home,
His winning poem, "Pisan NOT A STAR. but the man
rent control,
who makes stars, signed 'a ANGERED by
A landlord J. F. Balloy shot'
Cantos," begun in gool and Onished in the mental home,
contract new
today. He is contains what seems to be a
highest-paid and küled tenant Bill Hayes, wounded Hayes's wife, and com- dirgo for Mussolini
and his Hollywood's
worker, Louis B. Mayer. Last mitted suicide. The Rent Con- mistress, Clara Petacci:-
held trol Offles refused to allow him his pay packet year The enormous tragedy of the £185,250.
to turn out the Hayes family. dream
Bailey left a note: "This la not first a free country any moré,. bộ the
Stalin might as well tako-over." Jewish faith
A few hours after the shooting. to Congress will a court ruled US rent control to
Lehman, ex-be illegal..
In the peasant's beat shoulders, MBITION. to Manes! Manes! was tanned A
Senator of and stufcd, Thus Ben and La Clara at ever elected
Milano."
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