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they pared with
Just about The
uncle (ribbontvil muncele) gazed
peasant co-operatives inlight turn into Soviets,
at the cost of
peasants.
Flogging: can we keep order without it?
BY W.J. BROWN
London.
conscription,
tho
(through NE of the curses of transfer of Industrial workers,
partisan controversy is bombing nud evacuation) than even the war of 1814-18, from that it over-simplifies which in 1038 we had somewhat all issues. Thus the Lords recovered.
have been discuing a A generation is growing to mutter on which feeling manhood whose childhood was runs high in Britain, and bereft of the normal security of on which the partisans are home and the normal control- very active. It is "Should the father. corporal punishment for certain categories of crime be reintroduced? Shall we bring back the cat and the birch?"
That is a gross
simplification. The
over
real
issue is: "How shall we
deal with crine ?"- much
n
DESERTERS
A
THAT is not a short-term, but
long-term problem. generation brought up amid the destruction of property and life on an unprecedented scale is not at to be impressed with the eneredness of either.
Next there in the problem of |wider matter, of which the the wartime deserter, forced to Tive underground and offen by issue of whether to whip or criminal means, because
not to whip is only One cannot aspect,
be
П
lawfully acquire identity card or a ration book, without diretosing his past. Tho
fused.
A shortage of police.
We are 4,000 short in London
as a whole.
Nobody likes the idea of poller favour an amnesty here, flogging. But most of us but Government have so far re- feel that it would do no Next. shoringen and high harm to youths who prices have Jent an increased which bludgeon old age pensioners value to the proceeds of theft.
The ideal way of dealing with I drove out to Monte Rotondo of 92, or pour paraflin on a
to prevent to see there the model E- poor squirrel's coat and crime is, of course,
in Italy they call him "lord ment take any of my land they the valley
The prople acted. Down into operative started five years ago then set it alight, or stone it. How? Through the pollec? many broken cat to death in a sandpit. But all over the country there is of The earth"is to be violate the Constitution." apartes, hammers, and picks to head, when the land was seized
richest Coloured portraits uf stripped
repairs in dis from the Government by 1,000 or commit any one of the innumerable horrors of estates by the Italian father (white imperial), and his riplment groups
which we read in the papers, alone, and probably 20,000 short
over the country A group of Communists werd Government. to end
the down <at> their 24-year-olik They demanded wages for the working on what looked like if they experienced a little And as for the policemen wo "green
Wär"--between Lelong, who worker 15 hours ammorti.
dismantled tasik. Fared with this upside-down unrolled along the ground, ex-others.
The tricks of the pain they--inflict on pensants and landowners day.
Th com- threatens to which
young! prince rotus "rike, and the danger that the
posed
markings in Russian frivolities and dressing up, la people would keep the land, script. I was, they clained, a
country where Communist or Torlonia has had to pay.
present from Stalingrad, and THE QUESTION Losses will be inflicted on
Janisera fook dapper and wear
what the comrades Land reform all landed proprietors-who gold watches. Torlonia wears a
has been has exactly tened by the offensive to seize
AS with the proposed aholi- telf.
In these days of full employ- suit, worg own nearly half Italy-but cheap, ready-made
and plough uncultivated proper-
tion of punishment, we ment and social security in old no one will suffer more hoes, and a unioctal watch,
fas.
feel let the criminals start ege, men are not drawn to the than Prince
he has a brain for Though severely
been Stern action has now
police force as they used to be. TN a cavern below the castle first! balt this movement; I were their other treasures--a
by the prospect His refusal to business like a lightning calent- taken to
of regular Torlonia.
The question must be posed, employment and a pension at | co-operate in landl reforms ator, he could not work out for first, beemure it allows the Com superb new American combine-tus:
situation the end. claim credit for has angered the Govern me what he puts into his estate munists to
harvester. another bought in the country, compared with the millions he foreing the reform; second, be-
granted the second-hand, an Italian Breda imitations on other methods of ment.
takes out.
cause 1 hus created 1,000 tractor,
mechanical harrow.
SILONE
The prince does not know of the decision to seize his estates. When the Minister of Agricul- ture, Sighor Segni, rang his up. WHEN I lift the prince's musty W office I had eaten up an he sent this reply: "Princes are
hour of his time value--about ust called to the telephone."
overlooking 60 of his £1,500 a day in- In a penthouse Rome I talked with the lovely come. young Duchess of Torlonia, who Have up Alm career to marry the prince's cousin.
"So the prince is to be dis- possessed?" she said, "Well, 110 one will be sorry. He is a man
DUCHESS OF TORLONIA "No one will be sorry."
I doubt whether the perisants' Magna Carta, which demands prodigies of reclamation as well the resettling of 250,000 estates, could families ou blg have been produced but for two Things
The indstency of America, which regards the scheme us vital to a slable Europe, and the, fact that 20 years ago à peasant. [ Inazio Silone, wrote At liont
ITALY
ВТАННО
YUGOSLAVIA
PONTAMARA
| MONTENOTOKIÐ
LAKE FUCINO
want..
TREASURES
Granted
the
a pinbright. punishment, ought corporal
punishment to be reintroduced,
have, a lot of their time is In enforcing the myriad rot
tions to which we are subject, and of which the number, and sometimes the character, is such as to diminish respect for law
NEW RECRUITS
TWO
things
would
attract more recrulte. One is Illo Hosi, Communist leader or can we do without it? of the Peasant Front, sat in his Opponents of flogging rest higher pay to compensate for the ofre in Rome under a gold-themselves on the report of a irregular hours and the six-day embroidered red banner
Committee In week which is so often a seven- and Departmental talked proudly of his 1,000 co- 1938, which unanimously recom- day week. The other is more operatives all over Italy with ended its abolition, and on the houses for policemen. their 250,000 prasant members, fact that when it was abolished.
Sir Stafford Cripps forbids more than the recent modest Mr Bevan forbids le, and the second. The understang
I believe the Italian Govern-abotition was not, in the months ment is at last in earnest. Land that immediately ensued, fol- lowed by a rise in the crine-rate proposals are tabled.
for offences for which flogging But this is no final solution. ad previously been applied, will thus continue. The population will grow at the I would observe, as to this, When crimes rate of 1,000,000 in ten year-that since 1030, we have had a
are committed they must be punished,
But and emigration has stopped,
war. That war involved the how? By imprisonment? break-up of more homes
Very well-but the prison population today is roughly twice what it
was before tha war. And apart from some Borstal-prisons-without-bars no new prisons have been built.
So some r
2.000 prisoners are
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HICK TOWN IS CHIC ́ TOWN "Fontamara," which
J
brought home to the world how
forgotten southern half of
DALLAS, Texas, better drezzed 'thari" any I have other big fashion change, It is being accommodated three in o Italy lives.
a secret, of course, and they sell. This involves much greater Silente, how
prosperous T the jewellery counter seen in America.
expect it to sweep the country risk of concerted action against literary mati, looked in at my | AL I watched Jim Russell, Well, the solution of that
offlcers than when prison hotel recently to give me in 20 times over a millionaire mystery is that at least half of introduction to his friend from oil, pay out £10,000 in them shop at Neiman-Marcus. nothing sold in their or dated, and greater risk that
And it sells only the world's best, whether it's a thrre-guinea
Fontomara. I should see the village, he said.
lollars for a diamond.
One hundred miles over the mountains from Home and you drop right into the village. Fontanara mocks the tourist Italy of pretty village girls und | 23,000 mink wine. Its soil is dry.
rubber ordered by post.
In the fur department 1 found them sending off a
coat which
wife had
The first Torlonia drained the real lake of Fucine and took over the 40,000 fertile Arres
who has yet to learn how to live."
She swept back a torrent of underneath. chestnut half as the said this.
I called on Prince Torlonia, bis fabulous one of
Not in
FONTEMARA
man's
2
C.V.R. THOMPSON
on tour
In the original creations section of the dress depart- ment I waited while R mother picked out a £200 frock for her daughter cashmere sweater from Britain
pensants on the output of 48 of the the empty space AR feudal-world's top designers.
ณ
dozen
palaces, which he lets. Not in PONTAMARA and
Jakeside villages rave from wardrobes containing a 300-ruinen "original" from
any of the 20 blocks of flats which he owns In Reme
16,000 Not work to
Paris.
THE MARCUSES BOAST that prisoners are separately accom-
whether 11 costs 10s, or £10,000, what the sentence will do to a is in bad taste.
The salesgirls wear none of prisoner is not to reform him, but to complete his criminal those urmal little black frock" education. but clothes so spectular that at Educa J thought they were mannequins.
They buy their clothes at discount.
fit
tho
Like the police forces, prison service is grossly under- manned, and for much the same reasons, But the Home Secre- Mary has refused prison officers even the modest increase given
the police.
Public warm about the crime
wave is fully justified, Night- watchmen, bank clerks, book- Ing-office elerk's. cinem managers even women in their
DETERRENT
Tire Marcuses have trained them how to make the most of their money, and it helps when they are serving customers who are not millionaires wives. TDWARD, one of the brothers, pointed to Ane English china on his desk and said: "We own homes are not safe. can tell all we can get. So many of the finest clothes "It is the same with cashmere That are made come Into the sweaters. And in our men's
of the suits are THAT corporal punishment is a deterrent I make no doubt. A Dallas
can made of an that
It deterred me. The Government examine in one room what a
manufacturers
are have no doubt either. For it "Soine New York woman could see making specially light material
preserves corporal punishment tor
Gur climate. only by going to 50 shops.
"We also use a lot of British for attacks on warders.
When you have THE FOUR BROTHERS who shirting material. But no made have seen, a strong man fall of ve scen, as I
Anest do not like the long tails on the level of a permanent moron start British shirts, and the manu- by a prisoner driving a pair of facturers will not adopt the cloth-cutting sheara into his styles we like."
brain, you think the Govern
In house furnishings I saw a lons of this "hick town" shop. store 50 pish material.
£200
tor
woman
in the ground house on the estate, which he does not visit since he style tenants of tiny holdings, was shot and wounded by share-croppers, or day labourers,
a
"Do you remember."
they But in a peasant last year. little
with poked me, "the hlerarchy of the, office. business chained doors, where he eats, book Foniamura?" It is the same sleeps, and has his counting today.
Green guards patrol the good Prince Toriania,
valley on which who look earth in the over after his father's death Fontamara kazes. three years ago, is the Inost There is a poster of Danny tion for Americans as Hampton up all the world's strikingly commonplace young Kaye among the ruins.
house.
man
woman
pav occasional table.
And, mind you, today was not an unusual one in the routine of Neiman-Marcus, д which is as big a tourist attrne-
Court in London, or the Louvre In Paris--and much more fun.
shop THE
run this store do not just up men's shirta. American men life and intelligence reduced to
clothes.
They also
of
To It:
fashions. I have ever been technical- has been added, in the Inst week, "Death to ly privileged to interview a menacing slogan:
It is the proud cluim privileged because he will the Torlonias."
that they wore nobody. not even Government Fenring he might lose his officials, about his vast estates, estate Prince Torlonia cut down Marcus was a mystery.
or Holly out why in ahead of New York to find ine "My peasants?"
said on repair work to roads, canals, wanted
New wood, isharply. THAY are not
hick town by eo hnd bridges. Unemployment Dallas--n badly off. All this trouble is rose to 4,000 in ten villages. York standards-the women are Now they are working on an-
NANCY
Puffectly Obvious
OH, DEAR-**
LET'S SEE
NOW---
I CAN'T REMEMBER WHAT I WAS SUPPOSED
TO BUY
WHAT
WAS
IT ?
WHAT SENT ME to Neiman- Dallas women
I the New Look two months
By Ernie Bushmiller
THAT'S IT
A DOZEN DOUGHNUTS
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