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LEFTISTS RUSHING THINGS IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA

BY THE "DAILY TELEGRAPH” MILITARY CORRESPONDENT

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the Rhineland we my en be erected in a few weeks and which rentat weather, corro

companion Peter Almnek, of the Suffolk Regiment, and mysel sion and can be kept clean with drove acroen Central Europe, stop- a damp on, are the outcome of

ping at Wienbaden, Nuremberg, an experiment by British rail-

Salzburg and Linz. From Linz we ways.

went by way Plywond-1:and sheets

of Kromau in the of iran Sudeten borderined to Pliaen. At are elipped together to make the each of these stages we received halla of walling rou8,

grent hospitality from the Ameri- wd stores. Insulating materials

And we came to Prague. intrudured into these factory unde

In Prague we had the good for walls

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Thick

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indeed, is about the first Czechers' term one learns in Prague.

THE LEFT'S FLYING START

counell-Zavodni Badas been sot up with statutory respon- Bibilities.

These councils are elected as fol lows: U.R.O. prepares a single list of candidates and presents it to the staff, who must either swallow most of the staff walow it. Whe it or reject if in toto. Invariably

In theory, the committees neu all composed equally of the four Left, Clericals, Czech Democrats, recognised marties-from Right to Social Democrats and Communists, four-fifths In practice.

have swallowed.

however, the two council is elected. parties of the left got off with a flying lart, In the early days of liberation the local committees were guilty of many excesses. The position is improving. but they Still rut the administration Hebenzin and Moravia, regnising or ignoring the authority of the largely the spirit never them. erateal invernment and Fourts

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To these 160 members are added 10 chosen from the Central Contr eil of Trade Unions (0.8021 and

A week is a short time in which to appraise the lpes and fears of natum. Selarredd

twostheee, however sa olioased with

ansotas, whether national ar private, were many of th from turnt, youth end gymn

that a farbarity nastie Coeties, and 100 with some at lead of the prished by the Stavak National Camel, was almost thrust upon me

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make about Ін revalgionary aimm: while youth and gymnastic societies, unfortunately, brought

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These councils look after the health, wages and conditions of service of the staff: In auch mnt- tera they sien da extremely gand work. Their rights extend much further, however, particularly in concerns which have not been na tiosalised

They have a voler in industrial planning, regulation If output.

dance and fretary administration.

has the right to attend all business meetings and Al p prove the derisions of the board of directors. They can lastret bei Tess corresinsdence an book 4. and deanani explanations. In fact they can interfere with the man at the wheel can every pesniiske SIX casion.

NOT AN ELETED ROLEX

First, let us rensader the pro as their membres, wire for fits blem of the Carchoslovak State. It yeRTH in Nar, world, are all to Peraident Benes

apt to model themselves upon the Uzeelustovak

will

Bader Augend, if only in order a Czechoslovakin Terras free and indlogers

get their own back from former There are

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And Communists. The Slovak meme berm in curasciturner all conte from pretty fur tot

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Fliers In Red Hands

Peiping, Deo. 14. Marine sources to-day said Chinese Communists are halat--- ing the only two known aur. vivors of the air-plane crană during the "show of force" by marina dive-bombera at

Den. 8.

These acercoe said that no. potiations have already begun for the return of tho marins fliers whose identity and the location where they are being held have not been released.A sauciated Proga,

BRIDGE NOTES

To-day's hand-ta une wo kaw at a woll-known club in New York:

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Dresses Made Of Flax

A big post-war boom in the prepared for by Northern Ire Irish #nen industry is land manufacturers.

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When the raw material is re- leased, so many orders will hove to be fulfilled for the British American markets that ster linen mills will be worl ing nt

for several top speed years. So much for the plight of indus Linea sheets, tablecloths, and try. Capital is in to better case.

handkerchiefs are fret in popu Huring the war the Germans food

Clarity for domestic use, with Reichs marka

Ulster designers also aim al With

Protektorat cashing in" on the utilisation crowns SAT TO crow us to the Reichsmark). There

also of linen for chic dresa creationes, Czech and Slovak crowns afrendy By means of a new process an virculation. Everyone hat Ulster textile manufactured en money to burn, in there were few tirely from Bax has been evolv goods to buy, so inflation was uned which can be cheaply mad controlled. Annesturnee, eur

into the latest 21" rency reform became an admittest feminine attice which is guar- types of Due of its main tasks will be to

necessity. The beeroyal law which will 1214

The form it has taken is this, Janteed to retain its newnews for regulate the elections to the per

By Oct. 31 every citizen had to a ten years' pariod. manent National Assembly of the

all his cash. [ deposit in his bank

To boost the quality of 14. future. What sort of law, then, is

savings books, instances and ter's linen goods it has the Provisional Assembly now

From Nux. I only session likely to pass?

sharer.

one suggested that a bevy of beauty. currency has been legal tender; it (abiuld go to Britain The first thing to realise about

and the ix the new Czechoslovak crownUS.A, in the form of six Ulster it is this: it 100 members were not civeted.

undue preKes) at 200 to the pound alert- munist Ministers, an All were nominated.

queens selected From beauty Un Nov. 1 every depositor 160 of them by an intricate pro

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500 Kes. Thereafter he

Wench of the six Counties of of selection front the bent Na

Thus legislature and executive reclved

Ireland to Northern could draw nothing more unless he hoth have u tional Committees in Bohemia aru. AB this at a time, too, when

stuge strong bi to the

was a wake-earner, or could show attractive display of Jinen- Mornvin, which had been formed there is a national trend of option that he was either an employer of made goods.

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liberation for

labour or unfit for work. purposes both of resistance amt of away from the extreme Left. government. Toniny these Tal committees still bulk large enough to obscure the whole politfest hari. thing zan; the name "Narodni Vyborzech lands, and particularly to Prague, in the guise of liberators

to be hailed with joy and grati tude unbounded: Rumia then was "the great Shay brother." How did Malinovsky's men respond? Their behaviour was such that love turn. ed to hatred.

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Such, then, is the compusilion of the Provisional Assembly will pass the electoral law. At the wane time it so banner that the Communanesi, «till contains six Coin.

The cause of this trend? Why, The Russians came to these

In due courne Kuniev's troops of better quality and with more iden of discipline replaced Malinovsky's. As their hatred grew less fierce in consequence, the Czechs contempt increased for what they were quick to recognise as an interior civilisation.

To-day the great majority long

The deposita in the banks are now being examined. Depositors those of them, that in. without racial or political stigma quired to show by their tax re-

are res

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80 PACKETS OF CAMELS

Lam Hons. widow. 34, was charged before Lt. Nigel yoster. day with the unlawful possession.

of 80 packets of Camel cigarettes.

turns whether or not they held their investments before Dec. 31, Accused, who was arrested in 1938. Thear who can give proof front of the Sun Sun Hotel on are lucky: they will have merely Wednesday, pleaded that she did to pay a capital jevy on a sliding not know the cigarettes were mill- scale, which will leave them a holdtary property,

ing of 500,000 Kes ($2,000) as The carettes were ordered to the permissible maximum. Those be restored to the 11.9. Authorities who cannot will be subject to even and the woman was fined $25. more savage confiscation.

INCENTIVE TO EARN

Such in the currency reform now

in progress, Economically, its aims

to be rid of the Russians. Indeed, are admirable. These ains are: they long to be altogether unsters in their own house. As to bat, they know that. as soon as the Russians go, the Americans will go likewise.

1. To ascertain how much money in in circulation,

In consequence of all this, the extremist elements temporarily in power in the Provisional Assembly and Government are in a hurry. Their time is likely to be short. They know

that, if the led Army hould go. the natural, caution of the Czech

people would no longer operate to slay the swing of the pendulum. Before the pendulum can swing too far they are dater- mined to cash in.

Hence the fear of the moderate Czech Democrata that the extre mista may contrive a rigged elec tion after one or another of the patterns in

Enstern Vogue in Europe; the presentation, say, of a single list of candidates chosen by "acclamation"-sinister word- or elso an enforced coalition to nullify the probable majority of Centre and Right.

HASTY NATIONALISATION

Hence, too, the precipitato and wholesale nationalisation af indus- try that has now taken place; a measure which, the moderates

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But the game was far from unbial. dable Neth' send bid should have been four hearts, taller than just three Tvertn What set of haut could South have with which there would be g play for game? The fault lay North's udenlanBug of what was "arpeet myle,"

An alarabig number of good (hut not quite expert) players think it crude to bid a game bluntly and directly. They "edge up on the game by using as many direct bids na ibmy can think of, a though game were the last thing they had in mind. After a suitable Boom of this refined dallying, they graciously consent to hid a game.

All of Chat, of course, is far tenan export style. The expert dalties when be Deeds information; but when he has that information he wastes no time in preliminaries:

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porcent. for pann," bcore 100 per cent, for three hearts,

Czechoslovakia has other major Pans 2. To cancel the large holdings problems on her hands.

There is (?) of crow.n9 in Germany and else the "battle of the winter," which where, which

were transferred | will go hard for all if the Red from Czechoslovakia late in the Army continues to batten on the war when the mark had become land, and will go hardest for the suspect

Slovaką and

children Every workman has large

make the people work. everywhere.

There is the quarrel with Po- laid by. Hitherto he has said to himself. "Soun this money will be

land over Teschen, on an equit valueless. What's the good of Czechoslovakia's future sulle enty able solution of which depends earning more of it? Let's spend in coal and steel. what we've got in idleness and etart working when the new inoncy copies along."

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There is the future of the Bude- tone-nearly 8,000,000 of them --- who farm Bome of the best land and run some of the most prosper.

QUESTION

Today your are Howard Schenken's

4. To curtail the black market. 5. To permit of a punitive levyous industries in the country, but partner and, with neither side vulner- on war profits.

Unfortunately, however, polit- cal Ideology seems to have used the reform ne an instrument to sweep away practiently all capital irres

who must none the less find some-able, you hold: where else to go, and the lesser problem of the Hungarian in Slovakia, which may be solved by an exchange of populations.

BRITAIN'S PACT

WITH FRANCE

LONDON, DEC. 13.

maintain with reason, should have THE FRANCO-BRITISH AGREEMENTS ON SYRIA, LE- awaited the elections.

On Oct. 24 the President-with .evident reluctance-signed the

sweeping decreos which have na-FT tionalised all largo concerns both In industry and in the food and drink trades, together with Insur anco companies, foint stock banks and cinemas. Mining, ail and armament concorns are complete- ly nationalised; in other industries the small owner may carry on for the present,

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BANON AND THE NEAR EAST WERE SIGNED IN LONDON THIS MORNING.

IS UNDERSTOOD THAT THE AGREEMENTS PROVIDE FOR THE FOLLOWING: FIRSTLY, JOINT CONSUL- TATION ANd agreemENT ON THE CONDITIONS OF REGROUPING AND EVACUATING OF BRITISH AND FRENCH TROOPS FROM SYRIA.

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Chungking. Dec. 13. Contral Nows agency reported to-day that thousands of Formo-

who formerly served technicians with the Japanese air forco would bo utilized in similar work by the Chincoe air force. Associated Press.

Chungking, Dec. 13.

A Foreign Office spokesman to-

Secondly, a closer alignment ¡tion. Both Governments have of French and British policy in good that henceforth they will the Near East with the object help one another on all questions day denied Chiness press reports National administratorA of permanently eliminating all affecting the Middle Eat In that France had requested delay pointed by the local committeen or differences of policy between cluding Egypt, Palestine, Trans in the withdrawal of Chinese the Central. Council of Trade the British and French. At Syria and Lebanon.

Jordania, Saudi Arabia, Iran, forces from northern Indo-China, Unions (U.R.O.) are to take over the same time, provlalon is he

A substantial part of tho thicse nationalised properties; maak ing made. for the last. British interfore in any way with each area has already withdrawn- Both countries undertake nat to Chinese occupation units in that experienco vivea no grounds to ex- and French soldiers to leave others catablished interests. pect efficiency. Compensation, is

Associated Press. The

Anglo-French agreements

to be paid to expropriated owners Syria on the same day. who are without political or racial The date and tempo of the on Syria, Lebanon and the Near stigma, but such compensation will evacuation of Syria, will be fixed East, signed in London to-day, certainly be included in the as-: at joint Anglo-French military

are warmly welcomed in Paris as sessment for the capital love to consultations.

putting an end to the difficulties which I rofor, below.

which have voxel Franco-British Tho Anglo-French military relations since the end of the

War. It agreement implies that the per first World

is huped manont security of Syria. Lo- hero that the new agreements banon and the whole of the Middle will result in abolishing Anglo- Nor is precipitate nationalita-East will in futurs depend on the French rivalry in the Near East tion, the only handicap which has security of the United Nations.

in the same way an the agreement boen. Innored. on industrial ro MUTUAL CONSULTATION

of 1904 put an end to Anglo- covery. In overy Industry, firm, The political agreement is an French rivalry in Egypt and business or establishment, a work-'agreement for mutual consulta Morocco-Reuter,

WORKERS' COUNCILS

Washington, Dee. 13. The House to-day approved legislation for of Representatives applying the 1934 Anti-Rackoleor- ing Act to labour unions.

Earlier President Truman had confidently naid that he expects Congress to pass his labour law by Christmas. He has appointed fact-finding board to Inquire Into the General Motors strike...--- Anopciated Press.