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THE INTERMENT OF THE

DEMOCRATIC

New York, July 13,

PARTY

Mr.

Truman

THE NON-STOP AIR-LIFT

BRIAN CONNELL WRITES ANOTHER CHAPTER IN THE BERLIN STORY

the

In the Art 10 minutes as I sat placements in the air-lift, some writing this article in the Daily thing like 400,000 Berliners Lof Mall ofica in Berlin 14800,000 workers in the Western great four-engined Skymasters sector) will find themselves out thundered over the top of the of work. building.

But under all this duress The walls shonk.

morale My electric citizens'

remoinszk light made a funny little buzzing high, noise in

other

We must its fitting. All.

face the sobering sounds are shut out while the thought that only three years af- American A Trying Period

planes pass. You ter Belsen was liberated the Ger- can't oven hear yourself speak. mans have become our Allies in

This goes on in half-hour bursts new struggie. He, with Secretary

nil any and all night. The sheer Marahall's aid, will dieet for magnitude of the cperation leaves eign policy.

There is a 10ft-high neon-next six months.

on the remains in charge-Commander- This is the strangest and forg-eyed, paper mache asa est funeral I have attended for Bellevue Stratford Hotel, Intely In-Chief and No. 1 man in the some time.

rubber Republican United States until next January. occupied by elephant which sagged and leak- ed during Dewey's Convention.

The suspense and excitemen!

} get-together, of the Republican when there was wide-open Beld, are lacking.

The mourners are pretending H.K.$18.00 to be celebrants, the cortega is decked with bunting, and the Ir- H.K.$30.00 reverent crowd is cheering, blow- and waving hats.in ing horne, HK$72.00 the air.

What is happening is the In- terment of the Democratic Party. It called the Democratic Convention, and the business at hand is listed as the nomination of a Presidential candidate.

DEFEAT AND DEMOCRACY

a

the

H

#

'A Good Woke' '

of

State

you stunted, me now the Amerly cane are going to put 70 more Skymasters on the run to Tem- telhet (already costing them 225,- 000 dollars a day).

The Food-For-All Run

It must be costing the British huge daily sum at Gatow, too, max we are going to add R.A.F. bombers in the Dakotas and the Yorks,

What

with

arc We

In the meantime, those planes

which are again dentening me re-

main the arbiters of tho' situation. Before winter hinders the opera- tion some other solution Has to be found.

SOVIET SAYS NO AGAIN

The sad truth is, however, that

when he speaks his voice will carry little conviction.

About to be evicted from the been Ten thousand Elks have

White House and replaced by meeting in the city during the Wate But no one is deluded. Within past fow days, and several new tenant, he will hardly br

have able to command the world's at few hours-tomorrow night hundred of them seem to Japanese postwar expecta- President Harry Truman will be stayed on. The Elks say

fention. It will be a trying perlud they HA

for Britain and the Western tions are sometimes a little "chosen" to lead the Democrats enjoy a good wake.

Powers during the next. fo as-ngainst the Republicans in

The elty is not so crowded as months, even though Dewey has breathtaking. The cool

fortnight sumption that the United November election.

ago, and since Eisen-months, even howe

withdrew hotel cancella- pledged bi-partisan altitude fo-

ward the Marshall Plan. States, as a sort of belated

The Panic Party

tions have deluged registration There will be the smoke an Eļ

stare,

accomplishing partner in the Anti-Comin-

desks. Even Hollywood

Presidential cam

this staggering outlay of tern Pact, must now under-

who usually turn up at Conven-bottle of the

foreign issues. men, machines, and money? There is hardly a man or wo- tions because of the publicity in-paign obscuring write Japanese economic re-

in Philadelphin, Well, contrary to the expectations This week Philadelphia who

volved, are

are shunning this affair. covery with a minimum of believes he, or they, have even

with the Berlin siege critical and

of a number of people, we are Up to today the Democrats had the Russions defiant, there has control puts the rewards of an outside chance. They are 50-not achieved very much. They not been much talk about the

ing through the motions out of defeat rather high.

wrangling over have been

Convention The loyalty, ari party desperation,

platforin

and trying to make up Soviet threat.

quarrels and vain hope of patronage. the

their minds to include full civil Hall, with its rights for Negroes in the Party trigue and self-seeking, is a long, just necept dehydrated potatoes tians drawn up here last April Instead of fresh enes, For that by the 55-nation Conference on long way from world-realities.

has Its own crisis and ដ menns a saving eo 700 tons a day Freedom of Information, the The Southerners (white-there

from absorbed by it. I have heard farn Froight are no coloured delegates

With the ovenleg of Fassberg United Nations announced here.

today. the South) are against this brand more about the lack of funds to

campaign nrfield, In the British zone, for of Democracy, but the White finance a Democratie

The three Conventions were do- have the shipment of 400 tons of coal signed to guarasice of (most House is putting on pressure.

the rich

freedom to pockets) In padlocked their

thar day, the Americans and our- about Berlin.

man

in

It is therefore refreshing to find an article by Yasaka For weeks post they have been Takagi, Librarian of Tokyo in a panic. They have implored University, In the current General Elsenhower to lead them issue of "Foreign Affairs," and save, them, and have been

alven a curt "No". which stresses another con- sideration.

of

As a "conservative liberal" known integrity, Dr. Takagi sees farther than the orthodox Japanese case for American-stimulated econe coalition

needs Protestant

made

eyes

nt

raciul

督

Sticking By Him

the

gross

blueprint.

The

1

are

site

mon

The Little Victims

The ery is: "God help the Democrats", and it is dunned in everyone's ears,

ringing in enough food for the Western Berliners.

Geneva! July 28, Soviet Russia has rejected the

are

re being met. The people must three international Conven-

Stecks are steady and rations,

selves are on the way to cover-gather and transmit news and re- ing the actual minimum dally ceive and import information, and consumption of 1,400 tons,

We have coal rincks for three and a half weeks on hand..

The

to provide Governments with a means to correct false

sald the

reports. In a letter to the United No- Once we get above this figure lons Secretary General, the So- we can start pumping sewage to viet Deputy Foreign Minister, M. Conventions disposal plunta Instead of Vyahinsky, sald All the thunderous oratory of dumping it all in the Havel Lake, were unsatisfactory because they the nominating speakers seems in the west of the city.

did not prohibit the advocacy of like empty gas. The snake dances |

Fascism and aggression in, any and waving banners, the

form, or

Rre

LANE NORCOTT

Glimpses into the world of tomorrow

No. 12: How to change your residence..

1

bani

More Light

our

the dissemination, of

racial, putional or religious hat- red or contempt.

did

US War Manoeuvres

They have Supreme Court Justice William Douglas, but he has looked the

that You must remember other way.

They have held mutinous meet-the Democrats' ranks here

Ku-Klux-Klanners and apostles Ings, damning Harry Truman,

of white supremacy. They, per- and tried to form an unholy

haps

more than South- of reactionary

Truman. mic recovery which he pre-erners, disaffected Labour leaders, lion, linte Hor any other fuc-

President himself

behaving aloof in Washington, sents briefly and deftly. He distraught Liberals, and

minority groups,

a position with sces also beyond the case for

dignity in a great of acute embarrassment. He may 30th July. Friday. relaxation of controls which

not even come to Philadelphia in accept. the nomination, but moro- he likewise presents, with the argument that self-gov-

playing, the crooning and cavort. All their frenzied efforts have ly voice acceptance by radio.

As far as we are concerned, ing appear absurd against the ernment cannot be imposed failed. They aro stack with Mr.

We shall get more than

He also complained the Conven- on a people by an army of Truman, and after

in the big questions are what hape background of Berlin,

Those, ndellty

surely,

tlous children present four hours of light be- stick-pens next and how does it af- apparently are

not prohibit the dis- occupation.

feet Britain after Mr. Truman is playing hopscotch in a kinder- tween six and eight o'clock in the semination of false and distorted

nine and He sees that basic reformsing by him.

garten. The sooner the Conven- morning and

eleven Me, Truman will not be ditch-nominated.

information, forbid intervention in Truman Well, whatever

does tlon is over the beller. cannot take deep root ined or bounced. He is titular head

which are o'clock at night, and the Gormans matters

essentially Footnote The Democratie will be able to boil more than within the domestic jurisdiction Japan, which has never of the Party and, by Harry! he not do and Dewey does, the Pre-)

the three cups of ersatz coffee of any State, nor guarantee the known a Renaissance or ais going to get the Democratic sident remains the same for the Party split is no wisecrack.

day which the present gus ration extension to colonial territories of Reformation, until a funda- nods.

allows them.

the freedoms

the Philadelphia this week provides

conveyed by mental respect for the in-

In some parts of the city the Conventions, one of the great paradoxes of

on In the small power comes

Poland has also told the dividual is born there. And politics. Harry Truman has al-

hours and housewives have to United Nations that it cannot ac- he adds specifically:

ways tried to please the Party.

His

andt

National Milk Distributora, the get up and cook the day's food at cept the present text.-Reuter, Japan

policy was harmony

Shell-Egg Allotment Officer three o'clock in the morning. team work. He would carry out Christianity, with emphasis the Party's wishes. He has tried

(Albumen Intake Dept. of Min. Life is pretty hard on the Ber- on the teachings of Christ, to do it. He has remained an

of "Food), the Taps Limitation Liners Just now. The partial ex- Asacasor of the National Water | tension of currency reform in the not on institutionalism. ordinary, simple, modest Middle-

Board, the Senior Domestic Western

sectors has hit the There are now small, scat-Westerner,

exact replica.

Permit Officer of the National citizens hard They are suppos- tered groups of followers of even to the snappy bow tle and

Clllzeas,, other than directed Electricity Board, the Resident ed to get 25 per cent. of their gleaming steel-rimmed spectacles,

Domestic Rubble Overseer of pay in the Western marks, but Christ in Japan, quietly and of a thousand Harry Trumans mobile workers, are not permitted

The National Coat Board, the tems are unable to lay hands on seriously working in differ- gathered in the Convention Hall to change their residences, except

Local Sub-Prefect in the most exceptional circum-

of the enough currency to meet the de- ent walks of life; and this now,

O.B.V.NU. (M.VE), the Public mand. is a hopeful sign, for only The Party, which used to

But the

result has been strange, atanes, such as the demolition of

Contenter of National Carriers ΑΠ entire district by order of a

Nor can additional food now! feel Minister or the conversion of a

and Removers Domestic Dint be bought on the Black Market, the deliberate and resolute the whiplash of the aristocratic rathedral city to a dormitory or acceptance of Christianity Roosevelt, but nominated

him exporting town. Biter can bring a consciousness of automatically, Convention

The total collapse of a-prefab- Düties Bureau, and, the Dame- Commander of the National has no time for the ricated dwelling is NOT

consl- individuality.

Convention,

Cinemas and newspapers in the Wives' Protection Corps. humble

fre- dered to be "an exceptional cir- Truman who has This is both a hope and aquently fawned around it.

Since 1959 only two Changs- Western sector can only be paid cumstance" within the meaning of stern measure of the dis- It is true they will vote for the Act (The Restrictions of the f-Residence Permits have been for in Western morks.

known to be granted, although tance to be travelled by him probably on the Arst ballot People's Movements Act of 19591. Japan before it achieves de- tomorrow night, but that is be- The test case here is that of some may have been stolen from waiting limousines-one in 1902 cause there is no one else. They Citizen-Worker DB/807/K3, who at the other. 1971. And the мостасу.

have been spurned by Elsen- early in 1908 occupied No. 4,703 hower, abandoned by Wallace, in a long line of approved clerks after, unfortunately, was issued Australia's Race : Ignored by Secretary of

De-semi-temporary dwellings, known too late, the supplicant having ar Nye's Stretch, which ran frondled without notifying the proper Forestal

authorities In 1968. fence Barrier

I am surprised, after all the Stevenage northwards,

(Isrued by the Lane - Norcott When this structure, which was to.

Second-Sight Bureau, Dept. I... For a century and a half, thrashing about, the appeals already over three years old.

Cave 7, Knock Thrice And Ask college professors, collapsed in the night, Citizen

For Madame Calamity.J Supreme Court Judges to

run, Worker DB/807/K3 sought per- building, their country on a that no Democrat has sent an mission to move into No. 17,821, "whites only" basis. They sos to Mr. Churchill. are firmly exclusionist. in He is British, of course, which then being completed in Royston. His application was declined, after as could be a handicap, but

tending to encourage their policy toward Aslatic air his mother was an American vagrancy, and a new prefabricat immigration, and give every and he is as popular here as ined dwelling was erected over his sign of continuing so. Just Britain.

family in 20 minutes 18 seconds the other day, the Tromigra- A litle matter of a passport feat which won for the fore- tion Minister, Mr. Calwell, could surely be arranged, some nan (Ganger LY/9021/X) the Silkin Medal, Fifth In the coveted rejected a proposal that Aus- slight adjustment made tralia admit Asiatics

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Komes Already the lack troopers in sunual war

known as "Camid." employment.

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HANDSHAKE SHOOK AUSTRALIA

Sydney, July 26,

for the games, which are held to indoctrinate future Army, and Navy officers in the art of amphi-, bloua landings. They will be held In the Chesapeake Bay-Norfolk area from August 9-21,

A feature attraction will be, ■ - spectacular "D-Day" landing br August 20 at Camp Pendleton near Virginia Beach, which the

Seven members of Australia's House of Representa- public have been invited to ob

tives shook hands with Emperor Hirohito in Burve-United Press A Tokyo last wook and that action is still rocking ~Australía.........

groups.

quota figure would satisfy He would be a maiden's prayer Excuse Cards, and Berting Wor- any Asiatic nation.

answer to the awful Democratickers who have been issued, with

The Australian parliamen- hito. The General resisted all Until the British took itlemine, and would undoubtedly a Green. Leisure Badge) we give tary, delegation and Hirohito appeals on behalf of the Em-

trounce Dowoy and Warren and a list of the authorities whose had been roundly denounced peror's dignity and safety. over, Australia lay open for carry.every State in the Union. sunctions are required before a

bandits were likely to bump settlement

Oriental ..by

formal "Plea The Diary's candidate is Win submitted

to Move can be by a steadily increasing sec- to the Controller tion of the Australian press as off Hirohito, the Japanese police peoples. For whatever reaston, and down with narrow n General of State Homes for the well as various

Bot the conquering army, should war veteran tionalism. son, they did not elect to

worry-that is the General's 'at- Philadelphia itself, not very

titudo."-United Press. pioneer It.

White men much

impressed with the settled and developed Aus-publicans two weeks ago, is even tralla's fertile areas by their less taken with the Democrats. own grit and muscle. They The same tags and welcome did not import coolie labours drip from the main street, but the elephant mascot, of the to help them (as the United Republican Party has been States did in' 'constructing placed by the donkey roascol~- the Western railroads), and most appropriate of the Do- since they have no resident mocratic Party Asiatic population to speak

TO-

More Cuts

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Shanghal, July 20,

The press claims the Austra lians visit to the Emperor was "improper" · as, were the hand- shakes exchanged.

Hirohito is being blasted be- cause no allegedly told the de- legation ho wanted to come to Australia to apologise personally for war atrocities, “JU „Press agency later, cirotulatod a denial] of the alleged remarks, but the delegation. Insisted that was what the Emperor - såld.

Split In

Italian

Labour

Colonial

League's

Protest

St. John's, Newfoundland,

July 20.

A protest sent by the Now foundland. Longue for Respon- sible Government to leading Canadian and British politi

Winston claps, including Mr. Churchill and

dir.... Anthony":

Eden, may prevent confedera- Rome, July 26.tion with Conadas e

In

of, it must be conceded that every country of Europe.

Italy's labour forces were The League, protested ... ngain Australians owe no moral The people of Asia will A further reductian in domes-]

split into two hostile factions any negotiations for Newfound- obligation to allow one to not be inclined to think so, te ale line services, possibly to The Sydney Telegraph sald: today-the largest Communist land's confederation with Canada,

but in scientific, fact the Aus-20 per cent of normal opera grow.

As to the argument that tralians are doing them no tions, was indicated by, China's We do not want to trample on controlled but the newest get- being conducted except, through n the faces of the Japanese pea- ting Catholic and Government properly elected Newfoundland

Governmen Australia is largely empty disservice; the Asiatic over two major airlines, the China pie as they in their barbaric bacising, y {wg

The Communist majorite Abandenmienda could National Aviation Corporation fashion would have trampled

bt the contedera and Asia is heavily over population problem

Hon plan was thought to be more COIL's Executivo - Committee populated, that is true, but never be permanently solved and the Central Air Transport on ours. But we do not avant men custos, tandoned efforts likely, in view of Canada's hope

Corporation. population students are the by filling up the Australian

who represent us to give Jan to save labour unity and in ef that a decision to enter the Cana A spokesman of the air lines anese leaders the slightest or | first to admit that migration | desort, even granting stressed the inevitablity of more pression that out sense of out- fect told Christian Democrats and dian confederation would be

larger majority of peoples from an over- dubious theory that that de restricted Bights should the rage is passing and that they Catholic Labour AOLI) leaders backed by

than populated area does not solve sert could be made habit- Ministry of Communications fall: can datisfy us with a low box to go ahead and form your own the rectus referendum has

'80 KOTITAN union the problem of overpopula-able. The only thing that to "came through" in solving the and smirking so so

problem.

Republicans and Labour Social Three-polls have still not been tion.

No sooner do the will solve it is the mathe Domestle Operations of CNAC The politicians would have it, however, fear withdrawal of declared and the complete count migrant depart than thematical solution of contriving and CATC: recently droppon an pleased Australfatis much more Christian, Democrats, and AOLI is not expected before: Thursday, svunge of 40 per cent on all if they had, behaved lika, Gen workets will further weaken" but no substantial change, is ex- gepe they leave begin to all a birth rate in such relation routes following the air lines in a CAH, Hobertson of the Brf COIL and-Commimist major-pected in the presentefigures of up with now population. It to the death rate as to bring ability, to meet normal petrol reh Commonwealth Occupation fly and place Consmuntala in vir 12,293 for confederation; und 71,- ʼn a law of nature and has a lessening, instead of an ex- quirements with foreign exchange Torces, who declined to provide tuil-complete control--Amcclnt-074 for responsible Coverament been demonstrated in almost, punding; „population

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