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WIDESPREAD PURGE PROCEEDING IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA

BELGRADE HITTING BACK

Belgrade, October 6. Yugoslavia disclosed tonight the expulsion of eight Polish and five Czechoslovakian diplomats in the quarrel between the Russian-led Cominform and Marshal Tito's independent government

A statement-issued through the Ministry of Information plainly pointed out that the action was taken in retaliation for similar steps by the Soviet satellites recent days.

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It marked increasing diplomatic pressure in the controversy to supplement the economic boycott which Russia and its satellites have applied against Yugoslavia as part of their 17-month-old campaign to unseat Marshal Tito and his lieutenants.

The following is the text of the announcement:

"Giving effect to the plan which is being carried out against Yugoslavia and her diplomatic representatives on the ground of criminal forgeries and falsehoods of the Budapest trial by the bloc of East

countries. the Polish Government, simultaneously with the renunciation of its treaty of friendship, expelled from Poland eight officials of the Yugoslav Embassy in Warsaw."

(The statement then named the eight Yugoslays who included the Counsellor and the Military At- Lache.)

"The same measures, and for The same reasons, were taken by the Czechoslovakian Government against the officials of the Yugos- lav Embassy in

in Prague."

Prague, October 6.

|Road and rail traffic to and from Prague is being checked tonight as police comb the city making widespread arrests and investigations, Roads have been watched all this week and every traveller has to satisfy the police about his identity.

As the measures were taken. first-hand sources reported con- (tinuing arrests.

Some persons who had been had questioned said that they

talk" been given stern "don't warningsarmoyan

- Just what is happening is not clear, but shooting incidents have occurred and many administra- tive chiefs in the Ministeries are under arrest or held for investi. gation

Everything suggests that vigorous purge is going on and hundreds--at least-of persons suspected of unreliability are be ing picked up by the police.

Hysteria in Prague Multiplying reports of arrests purges, mysterious disappear. ances and more shooting incid ents circulated in Prague tonights

So many

loca! residents and sources outside Prague have now reported the disappearance

relatives that it is friends and now evident that arrests number many hundreds.

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Reports of arrests come from Pea- widely acattered sources.

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be suffering from some degree of hysteria

Oficial sources

are silent but

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there can be no doubt that extensive purge is going on in the Ministries where department chiefs are being replaced,

Tito Only six days ago the Government ordered the expulsion of nine members of the Hungarian Legation in Belgrade within 24 hours, leaving only three diplo

The purge goes beyond the that usual of

investigations. Anyone country-including the Minister- under suspicion is being arrest- here to carry on the strictly cold ed, even if the only cause normal exchanges between the some connection in the distant two countries.

past with the vaguest Wester

matic representatives

Cannibalism Practised In Basutoland

Port Elizabeth, -October. 6.

A South African cleric, the Venerable

Frank Amor, claima

iD that cannibalism practiced in the British pra. tectorate of Basutoland..

He

öf told a conference Anglican missionaries here that blood from ritual mur. der victims is used in cir- cumcision ceremonies and cannibalism is practised in Initiation "schools."—_____

tome

Reuter.

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1945,

DON IDDON'S

DIARY

City Of Dreadful Anxiety

In the beginning it was all celluloid and capers. I asked for a single room and bath at the Beverly Hills hotel and was al- lotted a bungalow.

I was unpacking my bags when the telephone rang and a husky voice said: "Is the Prince there? This is Georgette.”

I said I was no prince, but aj British newspaperman.

"From the London Times?" said the busky voice invitingly. I said from The Daily Mail, and rung of

For the first few hours every thing was undiluted Hollywood Press agents telephoned--perhaps lunch with Louis B. Mayer could be arranged. What about meet- ing the Warner brothers? Did I need a studio car? Would I like cocktails with a group of Metro stars?

Telegrams arrived proposing inspection tours, interviews, con- sultations, nights on the town.

And after several days" here · I · am stuck with that conclusidh.

Hollywood is not what you expect It is not sinful, sensa tional, glamorous, or particularly exciting It is a small, luxuri- cus town of towering palms, riotous red hibiscus, green lawns, bright blue skies, and

golden sunshine,

Films From Belts

It is also a factory town, churning out entertainment from the scattered mass-production.

belts in Culver City, Burbank, and Beverly Hills itself.

What surprises me is not that many of Hollywood's Alzas are mediocre, but that Hollywood contrives to turn out quite number of worth-while Alms.

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The producers, directors, wri- ters, technicans, and the players themselves are cut off from the main stream of life. They Live

in a rainbow-tinted village. They take in each others washing. moving in a tightly restricted circle.

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They do not visit down-town Los Angeles except to catch raid East once in a wille They do.not visit San Francisco, only a few hours away. They swim It is a sunset strip with indit-in a small golden badany leaving ferent night clubs mainly 6lled their mink coats on the bank. with tourists

and the servants

of the stars. It is a Californian

This is where talent withers town full of lovely girls working and nerves go raw.

The as waitresses, shop girls, clerks, sumption of barbiturates to woo maids, cooks, drug-store assis sleep at night and benzedrine to tants, and handsome men work-keep awake during the day is ing as waiters, garage attend-higher here per capita than any- ants, clerks.

where else in the country, which means the world.

Journalism here, despite

Most of all, it is an artificial It was confusion and chaos and

town too much for me. 1 abandoned

Almost everyone is put

th: the bungalow and went to see ting on an act. The bartender 400 or so resident correspondents, confides to you that he still has is sterile. The two biggest Attention seems to have been James Mason.

and makes his guild card Mäson lives in

a powers in print are two mature a sprawling capecially paid

to former

elaborate four-ladies who do not pretend to members

Spanish-type house slightly small- Martini with of non-Communist

than

ishes, not like a real bartender," write. Castle. Windsor

They put down on paper political parties.

waited in the great hall for the but like, one in a Alm.

litle items about marriages and great man and

divorces and casting and call the result a colum

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Sequel To Trial Of Rajk

One theory is that the Buda- pest trial Laszlo Rajk, which evidence was given of Czechoslovakia, conspiracy in may have set events in motion.

Foreign observers also consi- dered that the action may have been hastened by the following factors:

1) Discovery of an arms dump in Hradec Kralove last month.

(2) Last Saturday's killings in which three men were shot dead and others injured by tommy- qua fire from 3 mysterious "black car."

(3) Suspicion of incendiar- ism in *ང་

a fire which, on Monday night destroyed a large building near the Ministry of the Inter for-Reuter,

The action today reduced theor Trotsky sympathies. Cominform's diplomatic repre- Communists with warko sentation here to a new low. Western associations are affectco. It left for Czechoslovakia and officially listed

Poland only one diplomat cach to carry on the ex- changes between their countries and Yugoslavia, most of which have been the passing of sharply worded notes protesting

each other's policies.-Associated Press.

BISHOP BURIED

Londos, October 6. The body of Archbishop Peter Amigo, Roman Catholic Bishop of Southwark, London, for 45 of his 85 years, was buried today within the walls of his bomb- ruined Cathedral after a Requiem

Cathedral

Many

Massificands of or

Catholics and

Professional Men

For example, a new chief has been appointed to the press sec. tion at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in which there has been a number of Communists others associated with the war- time Czechoslovak Government in Londen.

and

But the arrests Ku beyond Ministry ог Communist Party circles.

Literally. dozens 01 private

report the sources

disappear- ance of lawyers, no longer al

ter and lining the Funeral route others,

evidently to pay homage to Amigo, many hundreds, who whose title of Archbishop was a punished economically

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ENVOYS MEET IN LONDON

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the window at a swimming pool lift with

stared through

lightly smaller than pentine.

the Ser

Ten minutes passed, and then down the wide staircase, came a procession.

Bundles For Baby

First Pamela Kellino, Mason's wife, carrying bundles of baby

then clothes:

Mason himself, carrying their baby, Portland; and bringing up the rear Mason's aide and friend, Johnny Monahan, carrying a tray of baby foods, milks and lotions.

The

procession swept past into 3 living room slightly smaller than the ballroom at Buckingham Palace. I followed, accepted a drink, and said: "Tell me about Hollywood."

Mason said: "You can either praise it or attack it. There are no half measures. We like it; we have lots of good friends. Studios are very efficient, quick-

than the British. It's all. right here."

Stars Left Alone

Pamela said: "It's a good Belgrade. October 6.. The coming meeting in London People

place for a film star to live.

don't of American diplomats serving pester you.

botter you behind the Iron Curtain is ex-

They're used to pected here to show the Western stars, and it's a wonderful place world's attitude towards Yugosla- via and its tussle with the Comin form.

to the

to

personal honour from the Pope.-left meanwhile in personal free-questions here, acknowledged that Reiter

dom.

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The conference, which was an- Roman lowed to practice, of profession-nounced today by the US. State

al and business men thrown out

Department to start on October 24, dinary people were at Westmins of their usual occupations and will be attended by Cavendish

Cannon, US. Ambassador to Yugo numbering

and

the

envoy's had been slavia,

Cominforme but

countries. Mr. Cannon, in response the State Department had asked him to submit a list of subjects upon which the diplomatic con- ference could take action but he declined disclose details.

However, it appears obvious that the Brit and foremost of these subjects will be the question of how far the Western world should go in extending aid to Marshal Tito's Government An its 17- months-old fight for "equal rights" with the Communist states. Mr. Cannon said that the London conference will be an exclusively American affair,

Prague To Take Over Churches

Prague, October ́6.

The Czechoslovak Government has fixed November 1 as the date for taking over control of all churches.

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However, it seems likely from

The date is included in a draft Bohus Cernocky, a leader bill, setting out. the Government's the pro-Government "Catholic here that British diplomats from plans, the text of which was dis-Action," and Josef Plojhar, Mine the Foreign Office will be called tributed to members of the As-ister of Health

into consultation before the talks sembly.

Czechoslovak newspapers and Ceske Budejovice, said that the tish economic policy toward Yugo-

are ended. M Plothar, in a speech at

So far United States and Bri- radio today issued new warnings religious question

must not be slavia has operated in general to the Catholic hierarchy about used to split the possible consequences if they

people "Subversives and reactionaries Press.

terms on a joint basis.--Associated continue their opposition to the must remember that we all stand plans for establishing a Depart behind (President) Comrade Kle ment of State

to control all

ment Gottwald, guaranteeing that churches.

Munich will never be repeated came Patriotic priests are going with priests, the people," he said.

Two of the warnings from excommunicated

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PAIR TONIC

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STOPS LOSS

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M Cernocity, who has been named by Churc

Church sources as a likely candidate for a high post- tion in the new Church De-

artment,

said in a broadcast that the hierarchy should remember

that Czechoslovakia was supported by Russia and other friendly States.

This was "a guarantee that even with il fever late, te reaction will never succeed, in enslaving our people."

The newspaper. "Lidove Noving" said that

RED ARMY WAR GAMES START

Bezlin, October 6, The Berlin Headquarters of the anti-Communist Independent Trade Union Federation (the UGO) reported tonight that all railwaymen in the Soviet Zone had had their leave cancelled be cause of extensive Russian Army manoelivres East of the River

able

The reports said that all avell

railwaymen had been called

on to deal with an increased num the "Vaticanoer of trains taking Bassian and its servants in Czechoslovakia troops from Gerdauen in East are well aware of the failure of their political incitement.

Prussia (now provisionally part The of Poland) to the Soviet Zone.

Church powers, by terror and Meanwhile, Russian troops not

threats, forced the priests to

refuse the proposed

Cabinet

The

Pesterday

extend in the manoeuvres are

realistic battle Beenes ap-only a few hundred yards from the British sector boundary for

proved the draft text of the new

Bill, giving

the Government their new film, The Battle of power to control all Cimuth Berlin." Reuter. affairs, to administer Church pro- perty, appoint or discha

clergymen,

and

priests

their

salarles These powers are to be

Ottawa, October 6.

wielded by a new Department of The world wheat arop this year. State under a Cabinet Minister, is expected to be five per cent less The Church authorities have than last year declared

(6,400,000,000 their uncompromising bushels), hat slightly above the rejection of the proposals-Ret-pre-war average, according to

Canadian Bureau statistics.

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lots of them." Lo bring up a baby. I wish I'd

The baby crawled

along the foor towards me, staring with Mason erooned baby talk in her unblinking eyes at

iny tie

general direction,

I hoisted the infant Mason hasn't changed.

He has shaken Hollywood and is displacing Gable as its king I went to dine with Deborah Kerr and her husband Anthony Bartley.

The elevator girl works the Airtatious ostentation, not like a real lift girl, but like Joan Blondell in a musical

The bead waiter, who resem- bles Charles Boyer, plays Boyer as he hands you the menu and recommends the roast beef,

Wherever I have been io hotel lounges. in the stars' homes and the extras' rooming houses, in the swank cales and the cheap lunch rooms, every- one seemed to be playing a part playing it with passion, pathos, or light comedy as the cecasion seemed to demand.

No one seems to wear a neat blue or grey suit except your columnist Women are in sear-

let slacks and halters, their eyes invisible behind smoked glasses, the men in padded sports coats, Hawaiian shirts, gabardine trou- sers, their eyes invisible behind smoked glasses.

Perhaps people wear these glasses because they do not care _to_sec_what-is-around-them.-

Their infuence is gigantic and the stars fawn on them.

Not Thinking

I find that in this dispatch 1 have not given you Hollywood's answer to the question which in- spired this assignment-What are Americans really thinking?

The answer is that in Holly- wood they are not. They are not thinking about Anglo-Ameri- can relations except in so far as they affect the film industry. They are not thinking about Britain's inancial crisis -- De.. valuation? Who?-except in the sense that it might affect Holly- wood's receipts.

They are not thinking about Russia except in the narrow view of possible Communist in filtration in the studios.

They are thinking about films, movies, the cinema. They are the be-all

of and the end-all Hollywood's life

dreadful

2m

Perhaps they are frightened to Footnote: This is the city of

1 anxiety, and take a hard, long look at life. For this is a city of dreadful anxiety.

Names Are Worry

The stars walk in apprehen- sion that they will soon be dim- about billing (the size of their med. They worry about money.

quees), about their rivals, their nazes On screes and

bosses, their wives or husbands, their mistresses or lovers, and about their social status.

The spoiled children of Holly- wood are not happy. They live in an earthquake atmosphere.

They have to put on a front, Their house is on Pacific flaunt 5shtail Cadillacs, swim- Palisades, on the blue ocean it-ming pools, big houses, elaborate

It is a beautiful house, wardrobes. quiet and restful, with a vivid green lawn and floodlit trees.

Again a baby appeared, totter- ing along the drawing-room flose Melanie, daughter and pride and joy of the Bartleys.

I went through the hoisting routine

knee and thought isn't the Hollywood I'd been led to expect,

this

the

world's

largest

market

Gossip poilutes the good. Cali- fornian air. In the space of half an hour at a party

the other night I was told that a famous star hadn't yet paid the builder for the extra wing he'd had added to his house two years ago, that another famous

star who looks the picture of health had been an alcoholic for years.

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