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PALESTINE

FROM AUSTERITY

By M. B..

Postwar England, now strug- gling with the largest re- habilitation schedule in ite his- lory, is still living in the war- time atmosphere of shortages, permit regulations and austerity. Just fifteen months after the Prospects of a compromise be-war with Germany ended and tween the British and American forty eight million Britons at Palestine emerge home celebrated an anticipated viewpoints on when tension is near breaking goodbye to the enforced drab- ness of the last five years, an ali hoped, [point. It may still be

round picture of life in London therefore: that a negotiated settle and the provinces shows little! ment will be possible. With cer-change.

federal itain modifications the

made there, medical dieticians on the abort rations, is of fats, eggs,

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When 7. M. BED. U. & PAY, OFF.

Duck Turner

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TO-DAY IN EUROPE

By RANDOLPH CHURCHILL

It's just four months since I was last in Madrid. These four months have witnessed a re- markable transformation in the Spanish political scene.

The Franco regime, which in web- March seemed extremely bly, in now more secure than

at any time since Franco neized The carefully con- power. structed coalition of monar- liberala and chiste, generals.

moderato republicans,

which

the re-

the re-

was actively planning moval of Franco and storation of the Spanish monar- chy, has fallen apart. day there's no active movement against Franco at all.

And to-

This remarkable change has been brought about solely by tho clumsiness of France's enemies. In the same way that Gea, Juan Peron of Argentina wan helped by the ham-fisted diplomacy of Spruille Braden of State Depart- the American

ment, Franço has been firmly propped on his tottering throne. by the folly of the Polish and, above all. the French Comran- nists. If there were any grati- would tude in politics, Peron erect a statue of Mr. Braden in Buenos Aires, and Tranco

By SYDNEY CARROLL would erect two in Madrid-

He Will Live

us one

20

as new

For Ever

one of Dr. Oscar Lange. Polish delegate to the United Nations Security Council, and one of Maurice Thorez. French Com- munist leader:

and

Heading the main shortages

order are:

food, plan has been accepted by Pre-list in this sident Truman, and this many in-clothing coupon allotments and fluence both the Jews and the living accommodation.

The food Bituation in the Arabs against flat refusal to at-

publie statements rent the proposed conference in United, Kingdom. according to Londen. As appeared in the car recently by eminent b stages of the recent Palestine, advisers and

Truman had prolonged Debate, Presidem qualms about the experts' plan i grave. Lack accepted by the British Govern-1 glucose and ment are the big- ment, The surprise at his at-gest worries still to be solved titude is itself surpising. After by Britain's present Minister of Food John Strachey. Starch, in all, the experts almost wholly dis- the form of potatoes and bread carded the Report of the Anglo- is the main stand-by of the Fruit of Anierican Committee to which British daily diet. and to the immigration proposals any kind in a rarity.

in Bri- In the restaurants jef which in particular-the Fre-

sident had deeply committed him-tain today the Government.im-

Spaniards have always react- self. It is, moreover, very dif- posed restriction which limited meal charges to fuve phillinga ficult for anybody who has not

Too few of the contributors ed violently against foreign in- **Life is too long," says i

have terference in their affairs. And had the close and painful experi-per head during the war, has been lifted. But although meal

Cain in Shaw's "Back To to this notable gesture

bitter problem which has ence of the

prices have risen slightly ac

"One tires of taken out Mr. Shaw's teeth for they have particularly Methuselah."" been our unhappy lot, to apprecording to individual cliental

as genuine. But as Shaw has ence under both Louis XIV and ciate both its changing and its patronage, the quantity of food everything. There is nothing him. They have accepted them memories of French Interfer- new under the sun." I think,

Ru seldom used them for biting Napoleon. So the fact that features. The per-served at each meal has not and

however, the quaint idea of permanent

as what there is still the ruling of a

presenting a man on his nine-people and solely to aid cor- foreign opposition to the Fran- led by France manent features, such

course, but not

tieth birthday with a tribute rect articulation that is hardly co regimo was Mr. Morrison calls the "irrecon- fish or ment

notices, to be wondered at.

was especially unfortunate. And cilable" antagonism between Jews both.

£8 I, too, can declare that G.B.S. [the additional fact that the only As it is not possible in Bri- volume of adulatory

kind to his has been very

me support for this foreign inter- which and Arabs, cause solutions which

obituary, in

vention came from Russian and seem almost self-evident to those tain to-day for a family to live each of them fit to serve

entirely on its weekly rations an

theology, ecuno- When I sat opposite to him on of Philosophy, a number unfamiliar with the problem to be without eating

all my im-trous. quite unworkable. The changing meals outside the home, the reg- mice, politics, critical activi- the executive of the National Polish Communists was disas- devastating Anyone but a political half- features, such as the drift into laurant trade has boomed, and ties, plays and everything else Theatre he met terrorism so greatly accentuated proprietors are calling for more about him are smothered in pertinences with

"practical" suggestions with come of these manoeuvres. Nine- must be since the Anglo-American Com-releases of food from the home compliments by contemporary wit and geniality, froze all my wit could have foreseen the out-

celebritica,

relentless logic and eventually ty percent of all Spaniards hate drove

into mo

Frenchmen retirement, foreigners, mittee's Report, are liable to make larder.

On the clothing front there is and original as all Shaw's ovn solutions which scem practicable

Mr. S. Winsten, the editor leaving me convinced of my Communists. To wave all these which are

his company, ex-three red rags simultaneously (Hutchinson, futility in even to the familiar one day quite an increasing demand for non-conceptions.

austerity garments

in front of the Spanish bull impracticable the next. In so far, beginning to be slowly turned of G.B.S.

anticipated death. tinguished by his eloquence.

He permitted me the privi-seems to have been the ultimate however, as Mr. Truman's hesita-out by British manufacturers, 218.) has ting was based upon his uncon-The six monthly coupon allow He has gathered a goodly col-

lection of estimates of his lege of producing for the first acme of political boobydom.

The recent international at- cealed desire for the immediate ance, still at its mengre war-

time his one-act play "The Six many distinguished

Open Air tack on Franco was so Il-con- but failed to of Calale" under admission of 100,000 Jews. it time size has made Britons at idol by

cynics have single opinion Theatre conditions that might trived that some does not seem well founded. The home careful buyers. And with men of letters

have killed it but didn't. And suggested

the Kremlin, austerity give jexperts'. plan provides for their the lifting of many

Why did he not ask the Hon. never shall I forget the skill despairing of creating a Com- would rather admission within a year, assuming restrictions by the Government from a well-known womun

the austerity garments are pil-

about and good humour with which munist Spain, that their plan as a whole is ating up in the

warehouses be Mrs. Alfred Lyttelton

It is "Androcles and the Lion." He that was truly democratic. This cepted. It can hardly be sup-cause women buyers, in particu- Shaw's work on the National he directed my production of have a Franco Spain than one to me the point of view is not as far- posed that there is any bogging at lor,

are determined to leave Theatre

tactful and fetched as might be supposed. the American share of its cust. austerity wardrobes far behind. į true Clare Winsten has made proved himself a couple of line drawings of shrewdest, most

The Communists have great Moreover, it is useless to charge Women's shoes, which had to

him, but surely a letter from knowledgeable stage director I to the Austerity

of need of Fascists. The Commu- ever met. He is, any scheme with not being agree-conform

Rose Macaulay on his position have

course, the Ancat dramaticnist doctrine is essentially des able to either side, because con- fashions laid down by the Board

In literature or a note on his

critic that ever was.

tructive, rather than creative. from Dilys

It's founded on hate rather ditions are such that no scheme of Trade during the war are

In prica work with films their can meet that objection. The ex gradually increasing

But what a paradox he is than love. But it's impossible to standard Powell might have varied they perts' plan really holds the field and losing

for masculine monotony? price styles. Austerity

Had I myself been requested A multiplication table of para-create an atmosphere of hatred today as a basis of advance to women's shoes during the war

to add to this cloud of incense doxes! A denouncer of capita in a vacumn. Therefore, it's aa- that the Communista Prices now and Sir Staf was £1.5.- a pair.

so very liem whose efficiency in hand-tural wards a solution.

that of should attack Franco and say about that vary from

1.15.- up- should have done ford Cripps has declared

much in the same way as Sirling, capital exceeds

He any Undershaft. A ramping that he is a "Fascist beast." But any plan for a unitary State "is wards

Socialist whose whole career if Franco were not there, they Owing to the shortage in the Max Beerbohma has done.

Rome one else a not now possible, whatever it may

theso non-austerity has written:

has been a triumph for indivi- would cell have been a few months ago." shop of

No great man at the moment morning queurs

age of rtualism, an Irishman who has "Fascist beast."

years spent seventy

out of The Communist vocabulary, Nobody, however, pretends that styles, early

is extremely the experts' plan will be agreeable are to be seen every day round of his reaching the

very ninety away from Ireland, who though limited,

at Ayot St, flexible, and some one who is to either side, and even the Gov-the fashionable shoe quarters of ninety should be offered any

Piccadilly and Oxford Street, thing but praise. And

though I am of G.B.S. prefers to live ernment's hopes that either side and the non-austerity quota of fond

a dramatist who made his way the Soviet Union" may easily will share in discussions of it may shoes allowed by the Board of and immensely kind though he Lawrence instead of Kilkenny, today "as important friend of in the theatre by being do-be a "revolting Fascist swino" miration for his genius

are the nor- prove fatal to the plan. It wouldTrade for sale by the shops ie has always been to me, my ad-

more fiantly undramatic, a philoso- tomorrow. Such only show once again that a solu-quickly exhausted.

that any-mally accepted amenities Lack of living accommodation during fifty years and tion cannot be generated from

out of Soviet diplomacy. the will to Short of having a Communist within Palestine, but must be im in Britain, caused by bombing been mharred for me by dissent pher who believes posed

without, There, and shortage of manpower for from almost any view he holds thing can be created

enough, create is strong

an Spain, it's very nice for Stalin atheistical Christian, a new to have a man like Franco in however, arises the large question building, ie a number one head about anything...I was al- nothing if only

(1) A ache for Britain's Minister of ways distracted between

the next beat by whom a solution can be in-Health Aneurin Bevan. There emotions about him: posed. Mr. Churchill recently are official and unofficial wait- wish that he had never heen Don Quixote, a man who has Madrid. It's

a hope that ho spent years of his life in tilt thing. So long as Franco rules c. The first of ing at the opposite sex as in Madrid, it's impossible for to admit argued, what many have long felt, ing lists in every part of the bor that such a costly and thankless country numbering hundreds of wor

these two wishes I retract. To whole while adoring innumer-France and Britain effort can no longer be left to thousands.

Newly-weds in Britain to-day the second one I warmly ad-able single and married mem-Spain into the Western bloc. Britain alone, particularly when

here. Certainly he will live hers of it to the point of de-That's why It's freely stated in Spain today that Franco's beat those who might help criticise who are lucky enough to find a

What a man! And still full friend in Marshal Stalin. This from the sidelines. His proposal home are faced with an expen- for ever in the consciousness lirious infatuation.

alve problem in furnishing. Now of future ages. that, failing American co-opera-furniture, except the utility

Do you really admire Įtion, we should give notice to type, is not being made or im-

quit Palestine and resign Our ported into Britain. Second- teeth? sald Shaw to. an over- mandate to the United Nations hand furniture, unless it is on- zealous admirer from China, tis novel Undoubtedly such a tique is price-controlled. This, Well, do so at closer quarters |

for course would have been more was done to prevent the fantas-And he took them out of his timely and less exposed to criti-tic prices which dealers began mouth and offered them

ask in the early years of the Inspection. cism if taken immediately after the war and before the outbreak

Becond hand furniture now in

· from

joi terrorism, But Mr. Churchill

war.

(2)

7-95

Committee?

has

two

my

*

that

of

of life and hope after ninety may seem somewhat odd, but years of dreares and delusions, lono must always remember the still not tired of making little adage, "Politica make strange

of clay, af bedfellows." mammoths out

of myriads of words, spinning lovely fancy tapestries words, words.

A tremendous figure, a social phenomenon and one who like Shakespeare, is not for an age

out

but for all time

*

BRITISH ORDER TO REGISTER

Berlin, Aug. 13. Officers of the German arm. ed forces and techalclans were today ordered to register at

sixty units. the shops in Britain shows that home are allowed is not, we imagine, advocating a dining room Buite may cost Thirty of these units can be:

I am glad I'm not a post. rolice stations throughout the policy of scuttle.. What he pro- from £30 to £100: a bedroom used immediately but the other

No official reason was givan, poses is, in fact, a 'way of forcing eulte from £50 to 140 and two. thirty must be kept until some At least the sort of poot who British Zone.

Holborn that a cottage in

Blums but the order was believed to bot the rest of the world to concern arm chairs and a settece about unspecified future date when pays nine shillings a week for

the B. of T. announces

Control Commie- itself with a problem which, if 490.

of manpower. Utility furniture a steletly they may be used according to without lavatory or bathroom, part of the but one sink. The sort of poet klon's reylew allowed to drift along, may

wartime necessity introduced available supplies. threaten far more than the strate-for economy in materials and

One of the most welcome pre-who. Buffers. from nathma, gets Router

Joan, gic framework of the Empire; labour is not recommended for Bents for married couples in mixed up with Mimi, Belty,

war has Daphne, Denise, Kay, what may well be at issue is that long or hard wear. The style is Britain during the

and countless THORN (Grey Walls, 98. 6d.) abandon peace which experience has shown simple and the range of designs been and still is, that of towels Jackie, Julin to be indivisible. We may still amall. The idea was to produce and tencloths for these also other lovelies, and for whom will with gusto and

personal clothing Aphrodite rides above the reveal without any repressions

and.. hope that President Truman's necessary articles at a reason require

moon, for whom "overything all his passing thoughts

him compromise may show that the ablo price; and there is no pur-coupons

Carpets are expensive in Bri- must and in a poem or it is many of his secret_actions.

and tug-Secret, did I say? For co-operation of the United States chase tax. But the wood used

is poorly seasoned and likely to tain compared to per war rates. paltry, unoriginal

nothing appears to be secret, a plan will be forthcoming in

warp. To obtain this utility There is an average increase of nant."

Have you a fancy to read nothing sacred. His favourite which, in the last analysis, is much furniture, all applicants must £10 on carpet lengths of three the same at any which a wider first got the: permission of the foot by two fost since 1989. the autobiography of this kind term of abuso is a reflection amount is propor- of gent? Then Mr. Wrey on the legality of other's birthe. authority international

Gardinor's would Board of Trade in London. This extra

THE DARK I do not and that pootical. Ladopt.

Each couple starting their first tionate to all sizes of carpets,