Berlin's Legalised Black Market
By JOHN MCDERMOTT THE Russian sector of
Berlin has a legal binck market run by the govern- ment which is virtually put- Ling private business houses into bankruptcy.
A stroll through one of these shop-call-
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Our Insurance every village. cover everybody, industry by with hia bell of the gap between the limou“, industry, with employer and
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The latter are modern. marks at about one to six, they
machines from are able to try almost anything opulent stu slightly cheaper rate tha America. They career down In the stores.
the side drives, or slew their way through the par-
Typical Prices
A few typical prices of goods
in "21"
leopard skin cont turks, women's sho Fast marks, dresses
More
prosperity.
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The the ritzy are Jush.
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the sunshine
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no
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his prido
was
about during that
he stopa, very poor; it is not difficult to
And
"poor quarters" In the city you do see beggars in the streets.
But the poverty lacka squa- and pleasure seemed to sweat aer many police. So lor.
in the out of him. There is colour THERE
paris; there
In Spain-big poorest
The resistent corresponden! ridles, who feeth behind smiles, the catchy of a British леизрпрет with plug-uglies 174
street
of corners, tunes
the bare-footed inclined to be cour
carrying their Here they are all traffic polies, Asherwomen
neutrality Portugal'a Hatly fellows
the mostly, and the baskets of gleaming sliver sh
He interl wor rovalver they upon
Even the though their heads.
the people Backed the strapped beggars are not badly clothed.
Allies therO had been "high- are securely
Thic £10
insting on duly, smoke
impression They
ups" who would have prefer- But The red a German victory". excitable. officious, but hardly one of a general content
Portuguese have no interest he too praised many
features ever unfriendly.
There is much evidence of in their country, a prido in of the Salazar regime.
fashionable their achievement.' it sense of
"They's visit shopping purpose that sends most hotels,
Luxuries urs from the democracies away almost as firmly apologetle for
29 Amerienn rlgar- the regime
the democrats on are atneked
every who live there.
You can't help being in- kiosk shelf, Nylons, perfumes,
chocolates, creamy pressed by their happineÍS. fewellery:
confectionery tropical fruith;
No Nonsense paleis-gleaming chunks of decaderitly to and to coloured French cheese; chom- BUT it is a dictatorship. The like, to show
whisky-all sings and commodities the British dream here in profusion, Kad He whistles
about are SAVO VARIAerses in less than a
unrationed ("But, oh my dear, Janet
the prices!" ns the tweed-clad from Westminster He swings perilously on the counters
crowded trams and moaned in my hearing). Invariably
themselves seem The people And on the urges the driver on
You soon
hear prosperous. driver goes, hell-bent, it seems,
reels dazzle the eye.
British and ettus
row mazes in the old town. 2,100 Falso consciencelessly that 200-300 Londoners, used to priority from 150
for the pedestrian, are to 350 East marios, coffee, 40 Fast maries per pourel, butter, $5 Mustpeechless with Indignation. The patron pedestrian has no marks per pound, han, 50 East
tights he jumps for 11, scuttling huge, marks her jour
# making it his cheerfully. own print of benar the parlemonlum.
Long queues stand before the coffee counter awaiting a chance To purchase the much-sought- after commodity which in West- en Bern costs 14 West marks (US$4.75) per pound, including 30 the newelty tax of almost percent
All items sold in “HÓ" stare
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LADY who lives
on
Pine Avenue in Mon- treal recently sent me 11 story about two sisters. She asked me not to use their names and, as you will see, the request is reasonable enough.
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BILLY
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We haven't enough money married."
for that," said Miriam,
We
And
Thol spring the girls rented "Nobody would pay what the a small store in a town on the store is worth," said the elder Gaspe Peninsula and' stocked it. sister."
with general merchandise. And.
in the course of the next few The following year, however,
pagne
and
hams,
the
dictator
0 Salazar,
ex-professor
after
mak takes.
They
mundë e lot of money selling wolfram
at their pricc during
the
WHT
They're Latins: They
ot
SALAZAR
off. Result: Dr Antonio o
flood Ouvern
softly- A
of luxury im- spoken, shy economics.
borts, the erection of The army gave him his die- Intorship there than 20 years grandlake aro
16 years of "de pubile works, they had left
Portugal when mocracy"
have should bankrupt and politically cx- hausted after a series of riots been securing -and assassinations and a reign their standards of living.
administrative
"It's still a rich man's country. Irrespon
tram driver earns £10 a A isibility.
a skilled worker £10 a month. Salazar. with the help of a
They can't live well secret police, and unhindered montli by
civil on that-not with olive oil at about any nonsense
iltre, Ash five ilberties, cleaned up the coun- five shillings try's fanees and administra- shillings a kilo. Result: A lot of them hold down two jobs. and brought back
Except that in stabluty Grad national con- As In Spain.
ometrs Adence the country had not Spain It's the
and Civil servants who live known for decades.
oflcers Here the army During the war, he assured best.
and bureaucrats, aro chiefly the its prosperity by amassing
their jobs. who double To- vnes enviable foreign credits,
"the new Good Points day he is building
HIS regime doesn't favour Portugal."
THIS You should see modern Lis-
its army or its bureau- There is, for instance,
That's one of its n magnificent, Stadium,
The best point of all is Salazar, himself. No or- struction on the high road to
dictatori He forbida dinary Esterli. Some day, they hope
home will be the
Uon
hip.. No one heard her cries, and when a neighbour found her in the morning pneumonia | bon. had set i Three days later, Uhe doctors and drugs notwithstand-open-air ing, she was dead.
Miriam never
cracy.
marble-floored con- good points,
went back to it the store again and her sister's Olymple Games. funeral was the most elaborate
at
£15
of an
homes,
which
after
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army
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towering into the cral hospital,
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he has accomplished. the bronze
And and that year-end, when
the
they're stin 224- sisters balanced their books they remains and a carved tombstone sunshine and space. In 1812 widower, whom I
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Tho Op- Vermont university
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It is s 25 course: position, such shall call Henri Odette, led
Д sterling and left a small legacy to his than they figured to be able to marked the final resting place. ("the most expensive
But it turned out there was engineering,
The new state hous- That year"). daughters who had been keeps spend the rest of their lives.
organise The Communista ing house for him in
Encarnacao - and control the woolly-headed A week after the funeral
"What's the point in making nothing faal about it.
want to end the Idealists who well-lit, spacious, eminently
Communists It's the sisters sat down to discuss their any more?" asked Louise. "Let spring, Miriam made a strange ing blocks
sell out and
take a trip to request of the local authorities scientifically designed
regime. she wanted permission to dir civilised, commanding a rent future.
who hold back democracy," move it after that, inter Louise's body and said California. "I'd like to travel,"
This is a soft dictatorship, 3 Who knows to Callfornia. When permission of £3 to £4 a month,
ownership Louise, the younger of the two, maybe Mexico.
bolt a Portugal itself, A couple "and see, some of the places we might meet
was granted, the collin was put brings
they pad the horns fellows
ke and we've been reading about."
set on a special aeroplane, and years
Miriam went along to supervise Perfume Of Flowers bulls at the bullfights so
there will be no killing, its reburial.
N. the outskirts
thero of the city blood; where
is less there
are "workers' es heat in the sun, less ico tates," each with its own pri- the wind than in Spain; where mary school, its church, - the people are plumper, eating food, highly-spichd FEW months later, with brary, playing grounds, clinic. moro
of an influential The houses are well separated drinking sweeter wines; where another dis-and irregularly spaced. Clean the very language, a kind of
A pertime of flowers is ing the Castillan thunder.. Was shipped to mille
in the air.
The Backbone ́average, year's earnings. Mexico City.
Trindade, departmental · · The last time my correspon officiu, talked Whereupon the man opened a
igures Ba' wo GROUP of peasant dancers store a street away and, for the dent in Montreal heard of the drove about
Our car, rodo
The girls wora passed us. next five years, the girls worked old lady she had snipped
Arst-class Toad coloured bodices and aprons, the the clock around to stand off through
red. tape and easily on the
between "lines of flowering the men the red stocking-caps NE day, A Car with
regulation of Mexico, and the wett White-walled
trees... his competition.
houses of the country. They stopped Florida licence pulled up
bronze coffin was on its way to were ablaze with rambler to buy drinks, and some of the There were red lilies Lisbonenses joined them; jok- and a couple of good-looking
brawny, sweaty men came in to buy some tin-
And that's all there is to this in the gardens We slid back ing with the ned goods.-
story, except it seems rearon- the roof and let the sunshine youtha, grinning at the girls... When they were gone, Louisa N 1939, thôir rival went out able to assume that come beat upon us..
That's the backbone of Por- today an sald to her older sister: "Let's of business,
declared. my friend and when the where in the world
"Schools, hospitals, insurance tugal,"
they of "And close down for a month this,
know it Hard- winter and to Miami where war boom started up the follow-uneasy coffin in resting in what-these are the It's warm. It might be fun to ing your the sisters again en- ever happens to be the cemetery modern Portugal," he enthused working good-hearted,
And equally faa
unambitious, the exact English he was provident, reasonable to assume that on a
"iliteracy BO proud of usa some of that lipstick wo larged the store to keep up with of the moment.
has progressive, with hardly any They have in stocks."
the demand;
senze at all. One night two Januaries ago, nearby hotel porch a rich old been a big problem. Soon it political "People would start trading elsewhere and forget us, and Louise, now in her 50's, set out lady is rocking away, wondering will be one no longer, Twenty koop Salazar in office because Mirjam get along for home. While taking what place her little sister years ago we had 60 percent he looks after them.
would like to visit next.
literncy. Today: every village comes from the country A decade later, the store was a short-cut across an ley field, would
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No. 1, Ice House Street.
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