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STALIN PLANS A NEW BUFFER STATE

Half a million "Slava" Hy-

ing between the Elbe and the By ANTHONY TERRY

to go back behind the Iron Cur tuin,

Good Blo

So the Aussies, like the Kiwis, Oder are being forged into a

The fact that the Russians are aren't going to Labour any more. new Soviet-sponsored "re-"Now Timo").

finding it harder to get along Organisers of the police (beg and printed a porting their plans for a Wend, without the Germans may ad pardon, welfare) state in Britain 32312 public" plumb. in the middle

large number of leadets, and republie, are themselves going count for their sudden effusivo- are hurriedly preparing pamphlets of Germany, which will books. They made Rusalon and to face one of Stalin's population ness towards the new Communist saying that the antl-lynching reach from Just South of Wandish the official languages moves which they will not like. government of Eastern Germany laws will, will be in force next Berlin down to

According to reports from East- and the many promises which year. the Czech and appointed a Red Army Colo-

Russians are have been made to the Germans nel to set up their "cultural or-ern Germany the frontier.

ganisations. The name Wend now definitely going ahead with recently Stalin's alm is a "buffer was changed to "Sorb" which is their plans to resettle Germano | The effect on the Germans has state" between Poland and Ger- of Slav origin, and all place in the Sudetenland in an effort so far been negligible. Not one mony, using the "Wends" as the names were altered to Wendish. to get the moribund Czech glass) in ten is likely to exchange a job buffer, a people of Glay extrac-

Industry back on its feet.

In the Wost for the uncertainties on who live in the picturesque

The Industry has never been of Uving under a Communist fen country South East of Berlin

able to turn out goods of pre-war "cultural officer in n("resettle- known as the "Spreewald,"

At Arst sight one would not

quality since the Germans left, ment paradise." taking the "know-how" with But os for, as the Wends are them. Now they are being invited concerned there are unmistakable to back. But many have mean- signs that Stalin means to make! time set up business in the West his promise of a "Slav Republic, and few are likely to be willing in Central Europe come true,

3 months moning One Year All new contributians to be addressed to Editor-in-Chief. Advertisements and Business com- munications should be addressed to the Company CHINA MAIL

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THE ELECTORAL RHYTHM.

Nearly everybody who has had anything to say about the Australian elections has said

say they were oversuited for the

I the Russians can in fact weld the Wends (or, Sorba) into a Slav state Inside Germany it will only be the first of bly population switches which the Soviet govern- ment is planning for this part of job of "buffer." Their houses Europe, are built on poles aboveD the rivers and they

about 11,000,000 move everywhere by punt, in the ab sence or roads. Even their children go to "water school" by boat, and the cattle are "water- one" when they go out to pas-

ture.

of

Asiatic

have

of

i with both eyes on the Unit-They have lived here for near-

relle ed Kingdom. Non-Socialists ly a thousand years, n

conquerors. with one accord urge the Bri- waves tish Conservatives: "Gu thou and do kewise." The basic issues are much the same in Britain 77111110739.

Next on Stalin's 1st are the Germana evacuated from the areas behind the Oder- Noisse Polish frontier after the war, In an ailempt to grab back those who have not yet succeeded in escaping to safety in the West, Communista

the Eastern Zone

soon."

pro-

have started a big "resettlement schomo". Meeting In Saxony re- cently under the lendership of to now they Up into the rest of Germany with Ulbricht, they appointed a

merged the Politburo chief, Walter out difficulty and have been al-

lan-paganda officer to visit the camps lowed to keep their awn

and homes where the refugees are Further South, away as in the two Do-guage,

staying in the Soviet Zone, with from the fen district, they livo In all of them the the lives of ordinary farmers.

orders to tell them that they would be cinin

back people are fed up with con-

"going

home The Russians however trol and regimentation there are no fewer than half a

They were promised they would which hesets them from dawn million of these Wends willing to

be given farms or "other suitable Communist to dusk. The ultimate ques- Republic under Soviet guidance. they would agree to go back. The Stav work" In what is now Poland, if tion, of course, is whether the The last official count of thu

effect of the first few lectures of State shall control the people population was 20

aro

this kind to the refugees was to the people control the what the present day figure is no Those who knew

when there were some 30,000.

Increase the Dow Westwards,

the Issue one knows, but there is no dusted methods feared they would be Russian that 500,000 is grossly exo forcibly "resettled" as they had rated, In an attempt to boos! the numbers of their new Re- public the Russians are cloverly their Inta de-

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State. The immediate doesn't go as far as that. It is rather a matter of emphasis within the two extremics.

form a new

years

bringing the Wends, with

This in turn is vitally affect ed by the economic condition picturesque costumes, of the particular State con-claring themselves "Slavs,"

cerned.

Australia is one of

the most prosperous countries anywhere. Most of the con-

of

been forcibly evicted three years go. But the temptation to listen le Communist promises is great, especially for those who have famtites and face an uncertalu future In Western Germany, if

they escape. Subversive Doctrines

Among the

nise.

"encouragements"

Picked Wend

should earn doctrines.

Tito's

Boom Town Won't

On Spree Go

By MCKENZIE PORTER

And the

In the Inst 150 years Edmonton, stems from farming. the biggest city in the province of phlegmatic agrarian workers, doa- Alberta, Canada, has had a fur cended from early Central Euro- boom, a gold boom, a land boom, pean settlers, ignore the derricks a sliver boom and a war boom. which now tower less than five ealm born of long experience, out Club.

Now she is getting fat, with a miles from Edmonton Country

"Greeks to be freed.” Oh? I hadn't heard the Amerl- cans were leaving. Excess Story.

Thirty years ago a young Englishmon arrived in Hong Kong, completely broke. still completely broke.

Y

Ho la

This Yunnan governor who Communists in a "Joined the coupo" is likely to be told that a bullock cart should be good enough, for all ebmrades in the Now China.

The British government has sold is entire surplus stock of Algerian wine to Germany. The purpose to which it is to bo put

Germana -romuina by the

mystory..

My niece. Ermyntrude Played a Chopin. Etude In the nude.

This dismayed her Aunt Lucy. So, instead, sho played

Debussy-

She wasn't chussy.

"Another U.B.S. Greatest Pro- duction!"

one Wot-only

exclamation

of the biggest boom of all—an oil One of there farm men. John boom.

Rebus, got £60,000 down payment Every day £25,000 worth of all for oil rights on his tiny farm mark for this terrificent super- loam around the city, yet the deep ties. Sure he has bought a new Never mind. maybe next week at bubbles up from the warm, black and a guarantee of fabulous royal movie? Business will be colossal, stupendous, unprecedented. 2143 underground well, have scarcely truck. But his life has not been scratched.

changed. He hasn't even painted will be beiter. In ten years the gushers will the old barn yet. supply the whole of Canada with Another Gottlieb Wiedman, native patrol-with some left over gots £40 a day from one oil com to sell to the United States. Ex-pany for the riches under his pas perts believe that sooner or later ture. In the last three years his Edmonton ell will replace the only celebration has been a week's dwindling Texas oil as the motive holiday in Grand Prairie, 400 power for millions of North miles away. American machines and automo- ! Hero and

bilas.

م

Honour where hondur la Jaw.

"It look

many many rabbits years to write the Talmud."

One plot after another to seizd folled. This Chiang has been shows, according to one "Inde- pendent" source, that the Ad- mirallesimo has not really plotted hiq copybook.

"Beautiful Christmas gifts open Saturday afternoons and Sundays until Christmas."

Couldn't 1 just have a peek, on Tuesdays and Thursdays too?

there is an. odd colourful personality. Hal Straight, publisher of the Edmon Cheapest Heat

ton Journal, is reputed to mix Edmonton is the luckiest town apple blossom perfume with his in Canada. Under her green Ink In apringtime. Once he hired lawns run Canda's 'greatest cool Jehovah's

Witnesses to parade mines, their galleries extending through bla composing room at beyond the city limits. Edmonton press time carrying the placarda:

It's inter than you think 17

"Spud" Arsenault, prospec- tor, who picked up a mere £2,500,000 for a handful of gold bathing suit and start deting.", claims at Yellowknife, lives in ane room in the basement of the Corona drives the lift for fun, gravely

Pool Of Labour What the Russlane want is a truts there were irksome be- offered them are better food. pool of labour with which to run trips to Pragic, the industrial areas and coalmines cause they were regarded as better jobs,

other Communis IT.

of Silesia, among the largost in unnecessary.

Britain's Warraw and

capitals, "cultural autonomy," Europe. The Polish miners have sarrier plight The aspect and vacancies universities in proved incapable of working the changes. Many are not only The Popular Democracies for 36-foot scams at anything like necessary but imperative for Wends who show academie pre-fuil capacity. The Russians now survival and solvency. That s

students wish they had not been so hasty who were sent to Belgrade uni- In turning out the Germans in housewives get the cheapest heat quite a large-sized difference.

versity a year ago что being 1945.

in the world from unlimite Then there is the question¦ brought home in CRSO they But what this resettlement of natural gases. Farmers in the subversive Germans behind the Oder-Neisse Edmonton area have never known the political pendulum, The process of change in a

line does mean is that the famous in crop failure. And up in the Stalin's plans for the Wends go "frontier of Pence" between North-West Territories, a Iow free democracy is a slow nue. long way back, When the Poland and Germany is likely to hours flight away, pioneers are At widely-spaced intervals Russians entered in 1946 they become a bit blurred if there are prizing the lid off A Caliph's the swing is violent, and the only enslaved Slav nation In the line. The Russians have re-fish.

had plans ready for liberating Germans living on both sides of ransom in uranium, gold, fur and scillations become steadier the world." They formed

arently, even been hinting at a In ten years the population of unt equilibrium, or a dead- Communist propaganda for the possible "revision" of the frontier this prairie city has jumped from Jock, is reached, then it Wends called the "Demovina"

in favour of Germany.

00,000 to 146,000. Forty times and overlaid the country with a swings violently once more.

The Czechs, who are loudly more building is going on now network of local branches That is the normal rhythm-cells."

and welcoming the Wends Say than in 1939.

brothers and sisters the rhythm followed in both, They brought the New Zealand and Austra-newspaper called lian elections, though it was

mons.

out I Wend "Nova Doba"

as

and sup-

But the city main income, still

Get me a front row, pont.”

A news Item states. Esther William's wants to

shed her

•

Wite many "take" over.” Hotel. Somatimas he

What d'you mean, "may"

picking up ten cent tips from the

patrona.

only

fortune out of Juke-boxes and Jim Louis, a Chineno, made a built the most expensive home in Edmonton. In his garden Syri ans who grow rich in the for

Canada's put up trade Mohammedan mosque,

Baron Drives Truck Baron Huene, who stands 6ft Gin, tall and once served in the Tzar of Russia's Imperial Guard, drives a truck through the city then streeta-

Dawson Creek Goes To Press

By WILLIAM STEVENSON

"Japaneso receives Nobel prize” No, you're quite right. It 'when't the peace prize:

go on being a gigantic frontier post on the verge of the fast- developing North, Some £2,500,- 000 in gold, £1,000,000 in furs and £500,000 in dish enters the elty avery your. - The same value goes back worth in sleds, dog teams, canoes, grub-stakes, - dia- mood drills and mining machin ary.

Gateway To Riches

Exactly 520 yards up the | singlu uights carousal,

Lord Rodney, beefy Engilah- dust-shrouded, 1,522-mile jong vanish for another three months.

Edmonton Airport, the biggest Stan Carnell, native of Shef- man, runs his potatons to market Alaskan Highway stands A

a lad of from a farm at Fort Saskatche In Canade, recorded 10,000 take

offs last year. Many of those. mid-twenties, blow into town Not long ago an antique dealer were, charter planes carrying mile trap Ïine he rented up farms found 10 grandfather Yukon, Alasks and Great Bear Under the Dawson Creek "Stars" banner are gathered alains. In six years of working the roof on

Pine Pass in the Rocky Moun- clocks. Rain dripped through the Lake whore, in 1980, Gilbert Lat

to Sheraton, Hepple- Bino discovered the uranium that Yorkabireman, at Lancastrian and government-owned line, he made white and Chippendale furniture, packed the wallup into, the atom a young women from Reading.

wate feeding out of Queen bomb. For a year new they have been a small business. But just what Ash girl immigrants who aide of Edmonton's split-person-

enough cash from pelts to start entro dlakes.

Farmers form the dominant weekly, kind of business, he wasn't sure. Becking through their greed-coloured newspaper to Barbara Fletcher had the fail to find a husband against the ality. Deeply religious, and Non- bring prosperity back to a com- answer. The 30-year-old woman competition of Toronto and Mon- conformist, they belong to 60 munity which began the war with from Reading, Berks, came to treat typists and shop assistants different creeds, many of them 600 inhabitants, boosted this to 3,000 and is now down to 1,500 the same reason that prompted where they like among the oilmen. matter how much the oflmen wans Canada early in the last war for head out for Edmonton and pick obscure, all forvent. Thus, no Canadian, Swedes and Indians. her tivo partners-b restless desire Although all may give Edmon to paint the town red they are

Bolton-born Frank Bedford

to find a different, adventurous fon an industrial aspect during subdued by the plety of the landed arrived first. The 47-year-old life. She found it, oddly enough, the next 10 years the city must i rattlery, printer who served his appren-writing editorials for the Peace ticeship with Bolton "Evening Uver "Block News". But she News" was attracted by talic of get mad at lack of interest taken big money late in the war to in local atfairs. "Mile Zero" of the Alaskan High-

square, wooden hut bravely field, who left there

to come West in the wan. good for Dawson Creek-The after selling his rights in the 25-visiting and of Edmonton's poorer prospectors to Yellow-knife, the flaunting the slogan: "If it's 25 years Star is for. 12."

a bit slower in the first case. an Independent Liberal This law of the pendulum (6,707) polled a total of 22,099 is one of the supreme justifi- against the Labour candidate's cations of a system of elec-| 24,304. In the by-election tions which, untidy and even last week the chief Opposition unseemly as it may sometimes candidate called himself Con- seem, nevertheless works ex-servative and National Liberal traordinarily well.

and polled 19,313. Aa Inde The New Zealand Labour pendent Liberal polled 2,882. Government had 14 years of The Labourites were down office and the Australian Gov- about 1,000 but the combined ernment eight years, before Opposition poli remained they fell. The British Labour stationary. That's a very slight Government has still to com- swing of the pendulum indeed, plete its

first term. The and, coming as it does after Labour Party went into the 35 successive Labour victories last General Election with 164 at by-elections, is even more seats in the House of Com- discouraging to Tory hopes It emerged from the than the defeats of the La- poils with 393 seats. It was bourites in the two Dominions a drastic verdict which almost are encouraging. exactly reversed the respec- Britain has had a bigger tive positions of the Labour dose of Socialism by far than and Conservative Parties. The Australia has had. Her people Conservatives went into that had to go through the greatest election with 358 seats and ordeal in their history in the Mille Zero" or Dawson Creek

A Flea Bite came out of it with 189. The six years of war, and then to (locals pronounce It "Crick"), Is

She and Bedford bold Stan, two Liberal factions fared sustain a burden of controls, 400 miles North of Edmonton and Camell the idea of a newspaper. badly, but the total poll of regimentation, and austerity lan Railways. From it springs the early days of last your's hot the end of steel for North Alber Their enterprise was born in the Conservatives and. Liberals equally unexampled. The - 133,000,000 dollar unpaved. Alaa summer. At first it hit Dayson was practically the same as patient may look upon the kan highway which pierces the Creek with all the impact of a that of the Labour Party:.. contradictions of hardship and heart of strategically-Important les-bile on a steer's hide. The flimsy green newspaper, printed In Australia the two Opposi loyalty to Party as signs of a Alask

"I arrived when US. contractors on an ancient flat-bed press tion Parties got together and sheep-like if not a broken were paying men 1,000 dollars a housed in a cramped wooden hut, proirio: farmer's fought the election separately spirit. A more dispassionate, trip to truck materials through meant little to but almost as a united body. study will show that the Brito White-horse, 910 miles away! tired after a day's hard riding The Dominions, according to tish can take it in peace as in said Bedford. "A man could bor-into the Rocky Mountain foothills row, the cash for a truck and at Truckers, worried about dwindl critics of Socialism, have set war while they are convinced the end of a month, he was ing supply runs to US, military QUTEM(S” BING, GROUND-FLODA (UPP; STAR, TERRY), BARTEL, FOSSERO two ce United Kingdom to

two encouraging examples it is necessary.

mede."

bants Alaska, had Uitlo lime They have to take more ]:

for community interests, follow. A lot of us who don't than others, as they had to Swollen Population. Maybe it was Dab's editorials," says Carnell "Maybe it was that claim any Party affiliations do in the war, because their Dawson Creek is still a vital Crick folk got to like us. Hy feel much the same way about circumstances are less for the town's swollen population of thickens. Whatever it was: we stage and forwarding centre. But highly-flavoured Yorkshire accet it. But the example of the tunate. And it is quite pro-young men who all became began making an Impression Our former Opposition Parties in bable there is a more than truckers during that period of editorials flayed all that stood in Australia in getting really lingering gratitude to the easy, pickings, is now off-balance, close together for the elec- Labour Government for the What we need now says Bed the way of the Crick's progress soon we were reporting the tion is likely to be overlook great social, and other reformsford, is a mass invastort of young doings of every single person

farming furiiles from the South here! ed...

It carried through. The people Up here, we haven't had a There was plenty It has been said that the voted for these things in 1843 crop fallare yet. The climate is There are drug-stores" at "Milo free half of the world regards after all. And it looks det's ideal farming country, but feans standards with their Jule-

hot by day and cool by night. | Zero;"; faithful to: North Amer Mr. Churchill as their saviour, though they wont change folk get the notion we're way up boxes and neon lights. But the and the other half looks to their Government (till "the" | In the wilds sort of cowboy poopla are sull the tough, hard- him for deliverance. They country is out of the wood country without very many cow hitting folk of plonger stock bo don't have a vote in Britain, They grin a little, groan much Bedford Uked that sort of every adult male carries and boys." So heath, their good manners.. And however. And the British more, but in their hearts climate, so he stayed in this knows how to use gu Liberals whose gaze is too they know they have | dusty, bustlingry, brwn 2: twitero | From their vantage point often concentrated on their to put up with more typical "Western" woodframe opposite the railhead and at the great past, are an uncorpcion than others because that buildings expose to the dirt roads root of the Alankan Highway, the krodern si pinte-glass i windows | English trid-keep-up-to-date with able time a-dying. In the last in their unhappy but inescap-stocked will rannionable, wacos, the traffic. When a sudden stop- general election at Southable, lot. And they want to Her liked the fodd mixture of ping-up supplies to US, barca Bradford there was no Con seethe economic e criada swaggering cowboys moving in was ifmst!l reported truckers Lorrodeos; the. Indilans | Wen, the bulk of new contrable. servative candidate. A Na-through as they saw the war from Foare River reservations for which US, outfits had berg Honal Liberal. 302); andỉ throu

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