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RECENT MAJOR STRIKES IN U.S. CAUSE CONCERN
By FRANK OLIVER
The great strikes in the cool and stool · industries
which were beginning to cripple
American
industry settled. Everything in full swing for Christmas is the slogan.
But thoughtful Americans are beginning to wonder where all these crises in labour - manage- ment relations are leading and are wondering if they are entering the land of Welfare State by a back door.
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Carmen And The Russians
It seems it is less the music By GORDON YOUNG
than the accompanying advertise- ments that people object lo. The company elvins that 90 per cent uf the fees ke it, and have plaus in hund for adding tele- Vision to trun-evr equipment.
Canine Fashions
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With winter nights drawing in. Moscow a show nessun is in fu wing-and more than over this yen nearly every show in a gild- bed pill of propaganda,
overy In every
Thore's amasage In movie and a, pulsinte php, Hul Muscovites can take 17, and theatres and cinemas #re packed just the same,
Fan Mail For The German President
By ANTONY TERRY
West Germany's newly appointed President is get- ling a fanmailvalmost as big as Hitler's. Thousands of women write weekly to the 65-year-
old President offering him advice on every aspect of his private life, and telling him how to "run Germony." Most of them do not realise that a President in a democratic state has little say in what should be done. Houss's admirers still regard him as а
kind of "Fuehrer."
New York isn't entirely taken
grave up with
maiters either. Invitutions tre out calling the Peas and init rented people 10 a
Even the cias,len have been ry - Ticus, quiet and grey-haired, Ipulation from the staff asking the best miels lunch in one of
kind of fashion
furbished to give them the rightsworn most of the letters him whether it would not be possible for a different
to have some softer wolf. The only ones he does not for them politien twist. Se in Carmen,” how. It hit by any dreas de
those from a vost mattresses as the beds which had heard of running of the Great Opern, the answer are rigoer you have ever
heroine is shown as a poor work stumber of crunks, chiefly tud- been used by the "convalescent" Lecause the title of the show is:
were too hord for "What the well-Bessed dog wie gini vietinised by capitalism, natrologers, who offer him ruwaymen
musicni-comedy "pjallible" methods of predicting sleep! Landor's Dogs
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at the Operate Theatre as a hi- ing sultre on muar American
to refuger Las un vote and is governed and
from serial taxed
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The 100 Men From Napoleon's Isle
BY G. D. K. McCORMICK
Two lonely outposts--one a pretty village in the heart of Oxfordshire, the other a tiny island Atlantic-havo boan linked in the South
Duns Tow
in a remarkable experiment. (population 188) is helping to solve the un- employment problem of St. Heleno (popula- tion 4,745).
Few people outside the me "funainen have found one way
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would mun heve of MARSAT H Helenu 1 St
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Pioneer Village
Allogether, 100 St Helenata nre being sent to work on farms ina) Initain Setwell, near Benity, and Gayton, in Warwickshire, are the two other place, sulgetes for this experiment.
HFC-
The same up the skinders in pressions of Brian They bike that wak, are thrillest by the shops - alan wandows are as good as 16 Theatre to them
they Anding the dist acquaintance The British winter hard going.
hillings and sixpence is Ther lot to pay for cigarettes paired to . 41. they pay to St. Helen. British beer does nut excite them. "Watery," says one. "We Feeter Puni punch, but thufis expensive, too?!...
Thit they have their own cook and can indulge oeenstonally in their exotic island dishes-stuffed red peppers and spiced vegetable 214-5.
They sprak an English which sounds strange to w It is the English of the eighteenth
with old-fashioned tury landed pleturesque phrases,
cen
Tew shuITEN to be the scheme. plonger village lay this 21 Title more wurkers
han a harukiť, perhaps th with aparturesque old church. at torey so- 11 of the St. Helenans no more etest b trgaten pacaly an of the amemtes than they would get in 11:44:33 """ - 1" 3: 11
The South Atlantic orse,
tough. 28-year-old, FRven-haired Edward Fowler, leader of the party: "The chance tas. It poi only mem a lot to glves 100 men work, but it pro- vileg up with
beller pay
and weighty test: Waslususton | wides there is headed discusspot of conditions than we get it home.
who ore home of
21 over get the wage of 24 14s, a week fixed by the Oxfordshire
It is not surprising, St. Helena Agri- cultural Committee.
pust, but home is an island
these wages, when there was work-
k—no apparent future, unless and that wasn't often averaged young men bring hime some new only 25s. a weed"
Not everyone.
however,
this country. these
public aqtiv to deside
whether
music shall constitite to perm upon
the heads t
travellers
city's trateados
in the be 11 these cars were 31ted with radio receivers ilet. Indagaakers Nu
de to work that people could
to la strains of eurent song hits and hone ma klaseng to the noise of Ixogie-woogle
Nov pubar heating new bring held to see if thes shuntld con- tinue. The Wartungtottan, wine
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ideas. Edward Fuwler is the natural One of the poorest of Britain's leader of the party. He the tmperial outposts, its total only one who has been to Bri- venue in 1039 was only £15,000 tain before. During the war he served in the British Army and Tought in Italy. He is married and has three children.
less
than the salary of a star. Without recond-rate. film grants from the British Govern- ment there is little hope of de- velopment.
For a dream holiday St. Helena
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Mom Juli-Beitiah of the current shows is Sergel Mikhalkov's plug,
The President smiled. "Gentle men," kurs, WRITE, why don't you Some point out that Hitler vins do, as I do? Every evening in a believer in the stars but in 'thu çon belugs me to the door of th und Turtled to observe the advies house. › I enter thé frgat;door kn of his "antzu 'advisors" and no walk round the building until came to griel. They offer fool-find myself at the back door. There my car picks me up again
Bohr, where Apend the night,
"I Want to Go Home," now pack - proof suggestions, horoscopes and
ing the Center Children's Thea-even alternative governments and lakes me to a small hotel ot
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bared on the current constellation. I about the Eastern units who live iti tia-
Heuss knows the "pilosophical placed-person camps in the Bri- [crant" is a German phenomenon tish zone of Germany and who, and doesn't waste his Vi say the Russians, just long to get them. But. for the Berlin back to the Soviet Union.
whe washer woman
offered As the critle of "Soviet Woman" wa
wash his shirts free of charge pats it: "Fenim the play we learn 99%
an advertisement o show vmione. the cricity,
Rnd that we Berliners are not down mockery employest hy the Anglo- und
because cut"
abe American typocrites to poison the
thought Heuss's shirt collar look- of thered "oo free, truth-loving
spirit
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untidy" in a magazine Soviet children.
"They are slapped in the fuceraph, the President has 4
answer. He explaing Every word that he had not enough shirts to say in censored; they send them to Berlin each week
but would try and see that his ellars looked tldier in future
and kicked about.
they
apled n in their bedrooms."
Gollant Major
Hero of the play is a Hed Army
Major officer,
Dobrynin, who comes to "bernte" the chlidrens from the British clutches.
He gels nightly applause for
his big scene wer he tells "M: Cook and Mr. Scott,” representa - tives of the British Mitary Gov ernment. "To tear a child away from home and to compel him to forget his native tongue that is
A hairdresser wrote to Heuss trum Cologne recently pointing out that the President's hair-qui was obviously unsuited to a man of his age and position.
"Your
Cut To Age
It's much more comfortable, and really not too expensive."
Red Tape For Swiss Tourists
to
With the end of the summer comes the end of the tourist sen son and from Switzerland the | disheartening news that due | nothing more than a surplus of redtope, Britain has apparently lost thousands of
Svlya good franes.
Reading his papers in Geneva, eprrespondent Victor Bankey has discovered that hundreds of Swiss tourists pressing through Britaly on their way to Ireland, would that of have liked to have spent a week hairstyle is young man, I can cut your hair or more in Britain, but were told, to be in keeping with your post-politely, but firmly, that this was the kind of thatnanity which tion as the head of the greaust not allowed. cripples a child for life."
In Europe. A German
„Instead, of, boing encouraged to Says "Sovint
Women"
"The President needs a German hair-remain on long as ppanible, they mothers in the audience, secretly cut,' the hairdresser wrote. wiping away their tears,
John Heussanswered politely, but here warned-even to the extent of seeing the warning slamped their children in loud approval still uses the same hairdresser. ! on their pamports that they had only three days In which to cross Britain.
nation
to
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of the major's fory words."
As "My. Cook," the Sovlet Lats ¡of German14 write player 2. Sughin "masterfullyHauss risking, for jobs. But few conveys the cynicism and ulter have the enterprise, of the young Nor were the authorities edá. satisfaction of à man who in 114 | mån from a town in Bavaria whe|tent, talput awvogelthale trei tape manner of holding a clear, in the offered himself for the post of after that. Even if:Swing) tourists arrogant way he protrudes his Deputy President "as I notice were taking a holiday in Britain; thick, up, in his flowery tirades, this post has not been filled yet." Ahey had, to answer questions, as tries to Imitate his inspirer, He enclosed phoice to prove his to the purpose pf, their trip, the Churchill."
suitability for the job.
[friends they were going to visit Dt. the Sull running
Lenia
and the amount of money they Theatre in another anti-Western
had to spend. play, ""The House In a Site Street," which "exposes" espion-a age by Anglo-Saxon dipomats in Moscow.
On Safe Ground
Heuss has problems outside an- swering his fanmail. He lives in
vast,
cold All of which will at least hpvd uncomfortable, sprawling Victorian house, on the shown the Swiss why so many
which outskirts of Bonn
was Britons-go. abroad::In the summiher. convalescent formerly used as a home, for sick, railwaymen. Well- meaning, Germans thought it was
a suitable house for their Presi- But playwright 5. Vishnevsky has found one' man it's ante todent, to live in. portray as an unquilinodhern, Stalin himself is the main figure Hours and his staff, cannot du of his new play. "The Unforget- much about moving as space ly table 1919," "at the Maly Theatre, short in the new capital of
•But recently which shows how the Marshal Federal Germany. subdued as anti-revolutionary Heuss's secretary bondada de plot in the naval fortress of Kronstadt.
won
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Two top Soviet artists, com-
for food poser Dmitri Sjostakovitch bns workers clamouring director Sergel Gerasimov (who while, meat and coffee are thrown a Lenin award for "The into the sea by capitalists who offers all the colour and romance Young Guard, have collaborat want higher prices. of treasure islands. But the ques-nd Jn a
Meanwhile, Moscow heaves a brickbat at a British Alm-the one we made about what "Izves tla" calls the absurd expedition of Captain Scott to the South Pole John Mills as Captain Scott, says the paper, was just. "impersonal and-Horing.""."
der this scheme," he told the "we can send mure money home to our families than we used to earn in a week. We live chos-
new long documentary ply--it costs us 30s, a week in a tion is: Will the islanders, when nim, "Peuce Shall Conquer War" hostel
we they the village-und
return, supply
new which boosts Moscow's current still manage to have something ideus neodrii to change the while propaganda campaign against to spend on ourselves."
elephant of the colonies into a those "American warmongers." prosperous territory?
Typical scenes: The Statug bf Liberty, against a background of barbed wire and trols; hungry
In
the
Saye Harold Phillips: "Seeing Britain for the first time JAS Given the chance, I think they been a wonderful adventure after will. the life on
on our thy Island,"
The islanders will remain in Britain for two years, an official of the Ministry of Agriculture told me. They will be guaranteed employment.
"We have had .no complaints
from them," added the offieini, "and the farmers who, have er ployed them speak highly of their work. The experiment ja oroving highly successful.”
When I asked whether the Ideg was to train the men so that they could
Fo back to home and find guaranteed em ck to their islanc the Ministry ployment
spokesman replied "There is no, loubt they hate hoon impressed by our agricultural methods and belleys that
them the When they
chance of a new
Duna. Tow didn't quite know what to make, of, the invasion" of the islanders, at first. But the
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