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- GLENN FORD
KILLED
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the 8.3. SECRET SERI
THE UNDERCOVER MAN
* NINA FOCH - WHEE
power--and likes it
BERLIN.
THERE is an air of hangover in A NEW ANXIETY BESETS THE Berlin, not alcoholically but po ALLIES IN EUROPE: WILL THE TWO GERMANYS NOW DRIVE RUSSIA AND
tienlly. The ghosts of the gume- stepping soldiers, the torchlight prores sions, the floodlights and searchlights, the battling mass of near-hysterical Ber- THE WESTERN ALLIES TO COMPETE liners, the regimented youth, and the lomp, tomp, bomp of lands rehas again. IN THE RACE TO GIVE FREEDOM 7
I began on the night the Com munist Berliners celelænted the election
of 73-year-old ex-carpenter Wilhelm Pieck A first Communist Presi
dent of the
Republic.
East German
For the, it was like sedag in memory distorted by nightore are
*
By Selkirk Panton
ads, even with the German Viet frompes
Chaumentar a
fet sent res 14
thing
THEY wa chuot to the Pola
of the pre-war years 1 spent et dar Agreement as 1 basis Ferlin--of a spotlightest Pactured for the treatment of Germany ranting from his balcony, and land possibly for further Povan sending off his blind and obe Power meetings. dient troops first to Czerbo- slovakia, thm to Poland Art. nearly, to Britain
There is 110 doubt that the Berliners loved every moment of 11. That was the most frighten - Ing thing.
THEY will not trust the Ger
4!1 Communist Govern end too far. nur give it too much jewer
3
THEY will not entup down a at new blockade of Berlin,
Berlin politielatis, the Run- islaus, and the Western Powers least not in the nunediate ru
are trylog to sort out what has fure happened. how they stand now and in the future.
That is why Vassill Sendonov is happy, hangover or not. He This is what has happened
Is the architect of the new Slave", He is the Soviet political advise The Communist-run People's with the rank of Soviet ambass Cauneti--will; no mandate from sadør, soon to be the first an the 18,000,000 In the Soviet zone bassador necredited to any Ger
turned itself into a parliament man Government since the war and set up a few "German De- mocratic Republic." It used the word "democratie" so that there should be no mistake in any- body's mind.
n
It there is no opposition Everything is cut and dried and unanimous.
Germany now has two reptib- Nes,
two parliaments, and two governments, both daiming to represent the German people. It would not surprise me, any day now, were one or both to suggest sending a German bassador to the Court of St James.
Promised
-
First move
from all Germany weathena vega from Berlin within
week
A ondual wart tre.ely bed wreseeri The Sovi
the new State van propesori
ורו דוג
They wait
L'ACED With These
FACE, way these prople
of the Soviet zone would wel- come. The non-C'omunun'at lead- ers gave in and agreed to join The new Government
Semionov has not kept all his promises -- yel. He prefers to dangle them before the polit!- ching and their Communist fel- low Ministers like a carrot be. tore a donkey
What is certain is that Seini- oney will not withdraw Soviet troops from Germany until he cun trust this Government to re- min Communist,
He cannot count on that until he can trust the People's Police of the Soviet zone, which is or- gnaised on a semi-military basis.
more factom
for themselves
They will want to throw out the Allied occupation alalute, the Rubr authority, and all the other things that now bind them.
They will gan The Run alans are going: why don't you
tors?"
The riddle
SEMIONOV,
He
n elever min mt likely to be hurried MARY even wonder whether that Soviet Union can control the forces It is unleashiut my Ger many
Even the new President, hero of the demonstrations, la retting kteas of les personal imporlaner. He has chosen as his presiden- und palace the 200-year-old hun-
ling castle the Hohenzollerns
at Pankow in East Berlin.
The West Berliners are calling? him Kaiser Wilhelm the Third,
-¡London Kapras Service)
He had a shovel for sale
So this Briton drove 5,500 miles
across Canada to sell it
TR GORDON L. JACK-
M
SON, of Ware, Herts," had a British mc- chanical shovel to sell. He thought it would sell Canada;
In
so ho took, it to the Toronto Exhibition. But ho found the Canadians were not buying.
So he planned a door-to- door sales drive #across Canada with his Canadian representative, Jimmy Love, born in Enfield, Middlesex.
Crossed Rockies
He bought hire-purchase, for £1,700, a Canadian-bullt trac- for and A low-loading trailer.. On to the trailer he loaded his
shovel and his Bri- tish-made light car.
The salesmen- ndventurers went
to
Port Arthur, Win- nipeg, Ragina, Calgary, Edmonton, Saskatoon, Leth- bridge, crossed the Rockles 5,000 ft and fetched up Vancouver in 40 days
קטן
In time for the Pack-
Ac Exhibition at Hastings Park.
11 took us n week to get to Vancouver from Lethbridge across the Rockies," Mr Jackson told me.
"Our most exelting journey was nmick- night trip down the Harrow winding roai of Fraser Canyon, from Vancouver.
100 miles
'Salesmanship'
rood
Mr Gordon L. Jackson
British had it in you. salesmanship."
This in
"We estimate that our trip has put 15 percent, on our export
tules, Bald Mr Jackson, "Dur- Ing the
past year our export
vehicles over 30 ft. long, and business expanded 117 per-
our
trac.or and trailer
cent,
extended
37 1. for
we had
We sell Dur mechanical Jeitet permission from the pro- shovel in the States for 4,600 Vibejd wapinees. They would dollars, which 19 under the
only allow us lu drive it night" American price,"
At every is op in their 6,500- mile Journey HET OGS Canada they enlied on the their
CREDIT-PIECE.
Mr Jack- son, just back from Canada, is mayor and pulling a tractor and trailer city engineer and demonstrated qut there, and hopes. to make
shovel to elvic author- 100 dollars proft quarry uwnicг8, and all
ties.
men.
Alan Brockbank
you
-fLondon Express Service)
One civic chief told Mr Jack- 500:
"We didn't know
THE ROBOT
SMOKER PLUMPS
FOR THE CIGARETTE
By CHAPMAN PINCHER
Of these 200.000 police aboutHE amoke from average-strength
100 a month flee to the West. German So, with the help of Communists, a now "Reichs-
CEMIGNOV in 47, and always smiling mostly with his mouth only. People here Hy wehr being all along the that with his panchy gure he lines of the 100,000 army allow Joks like a German, behaves like a Frenchman, talks like an cd Germany after the Englishınan, Dut he thinks war like a Russian.
pipe tobacco contains ap to three times as much poisonous nicotine
as cigarette smoke, scientists announce.
This discovery, made during experi- 1914-18 menta with a robot smoking apparatus at under the Trealy of Oxford University, goes far towards dis- Versailles.
proving the common belief that pipe- it was nothing but officers and smoking is healthier than the cigarette The establishment of the East NCC14. Hitler was able to take
habit. State was his trump card in the this hard core of superbly train- East-West struggle for Germany, ed men and expand it into a
But the experiments also show that Before he could play it he bad 2,000,000 man
within no fit smoker is likely to absorb nicotine to win two tricka,
three years,
in harmful quantities. The Russians will not leave He had to win over Russian until they have made this Reicha
Even when all the smoke from a colleagues to his policy, and to wehr- or "Police Squads," nelgarette in inhaled less than half the persunde the non-Communist the 20,000 members are called- nicotine-content is absorbed
murgeols party in the Soviel
ענווינה
the new democratic republic
פא
SMOKING
Not quite the actual machine.....BY ARTIE
that, while
mixture-
DFR
one
ounce
their sponsored State zone to enter a communist-run strong enough to impose order into the blood, the scientists for a few moments as it would Association-show
in ONCER
had been born in n Com Government-without elections, and to resist any West German-Mr Harold W. Ling and attempt to nust the Communist Dr Christopher Wynn Parry
-report.
All
munist test tube, the Russians produced their promises. they have done so far is to march step by step slightly be hind the Western Allies.
new
Government.
Fearful
if held in a smoker's hand.
of pipe
Each lest went
to 3/1000ths of ou for ten yields up Iminutes.
by which timo the ounce of nicotine in the smoke, cigarette was smoked down to
an ounce of cigarettes produces half-inch stub.
only 1/1000th.
War
was then
Semionov began by tackling the non-Communist politicians They refused to in the East.
The pipe smoker who does Join any Government unless free
The amoka drawn In not inhalo still absorbs enough elections on party lines-Instead
Weight for weight, cigar nicotine through the membranes condensed to a liquid in a long They have abolished the So- of on a bloc list were held at
of the mouth and throat to raise U-shaped tube cooled by ru smoke-even from the Chur- viet military aŭministration, and once,
THE non-Communist East Ger the pulse rate and blood pre- ning water. Any which escap chili type-contains only slight- handed over all administrative Semionov refused. It was too man politicians are uneasy.
ed the tube was trapped in a functions to the
German big a risk. The vote, no matter They think they may be able to sure, they say.
flask,
ly more nicotine than cigarette Government.
Communist winds as how carefully controlled, might tame the 3
The robot was designed 10 The total weight of the nico- smoke, have been overwhelmingly_anti- Papen and Schacht vainly
the smoke
STUD They have created their own Communist even in the Soviet thought they could cage the smoke in as human a way as tine in
NOTE-Nicotine, control commission to see that ne
Air was gently suck- carefully determined. Nazis when they joined their possible.
colourless olly quid, must not ed by means of a pump the now Government carries out
be confused with tobacco tar, Semionov had an alternative. Government in 1933. the provisions of the Potsdam He promised them everything if Life for them will be ensler If through a lighted cigaretto at-
Cigars tried too
which stains a smoker's fingera Agreement and all Four-Power they would join in the new Semionov abandons his go-slow ted in a holder. The scientists
Pipes..lled with various to- In sufficient strength it is one agreements on Germany.
Government and
It will then be the and off so that the air was bacco mixtures were then tested of the most rapid and power- promises.
ful poisons known, acting That is the most important tlon for a year put off an elec policy and keeps some of his kept switching the pump en
on the robot. Later, cigars were directly on the nervous system. fact to emerge from the speech!- viet Union would recognise turn of the Western Allies to drawn through in puds, fying and fog-waving.
the дони republic at once, worry.
After every
'the puff Russians have made it would sign-
The Germans in the West will 3 peace treaty, that they are walking and
withdraw So be sure to demand more and garette was allowed. to burn ed
1.
The
clear
NANCY
2011e.
Leaf It to Her
BOY --- HOW I HATE TO RAKE UP ·
LEAVES
would
HEY, TOMMY-WHY,
DON'T YOU
PLAY IN MY YARD ?
By Ernie Bushmer
ATTA BOY ---KEEP RIDING AROUND
used.
Results of the tests-publish. It has no medical uses,
by the British Medical
(London Expreja. Service)..
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