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targe standar of living but salt s
merBure of social
Justice
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Colombo, the chief interest is bound to be in the concrete ing. been the same questions which it will be India. discussing.
For But it is proper most dilleult step in the "bera- completing the last and to try to take also a long tion" of india, the British fabour range view, and to remember Government deserves
treat Perhaps historians
wlil what an extrordinary thing | credit.
sny it is that the conference is
that is
handling of Tudin best Achievement. Some people in England who with symixtliy real significance of theor
socialisin ddsire Conference is that in a drama-election of the Labour
Govern to demonstrations of the new ment simply because
they feel The Commonwealth 11 The
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Soundest is perhaps cather Testart with the Anglo-Saronnor 14 the Conservatives. Borutons on the basis of h solute votrality. Cryin is
The old Bullish Empire has Party has a reactionary fringe an experties are inhibited.
Conservative Bun tipulerated. In its place has]
the venenger leaders have Cove the new Cunimbnwerth shaban jual piztureship feiples of the Cunionwealth
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The fram, have clin.appeared from the reeds I nearly impossible to get out to a bus during the rush hours unless une has been trained in the Commandos. In the evening especially, this requires the most rugged physique and sun offer disregard for one's awid othes peuple's life and Iumb This was particularly noticeable on Thursday night, when a steady drizzle caught The re so many unprepared
sult was the assembly of a toulling mawoi people at each taxi-stand in the centre of the umbrella-waving esty, and lines along every pavement.
Some prople trekked Trint- lessly from one taxi-rank te another, for a solid hour, in vain. Dinner or other engage- ments ut a distance had to be called off. Clerical and other workers and wives trying to get home from shopping, had to wait and wait and wait in order to gel transport to their destinations. At the stand outskle the Post Office one
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as seen as Mr Attlee wwer noked thal the real neufority of the citizens
must be hoped that the ton- of this servative
governmenta my Commonwealth sur Acuant
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NEW in Austraila and Club Two there years alto,
Zealand have similarly Ut the Asians in the Cominonwealdi Sett hemel vern subject peuples,
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Trouble for
Russia
By DAVID LEE,
Good Morning
"Soda Blast threate Arrow."
Flying
Sounds just like Myrtle when The's Hinding out the whisky at one of her own parties.
lend
118
A
thin
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You can entity highbrow « hy
their eyçüröws,
and equality,
In their Insistence
Wonian sues éleptingt The tusk berdre ui În should "explaitt private person
mümmoth case,”, sald defending they are o fri the masses, moral ground, The Communist
Russia faces fresh trouble counsel, never to forget that Inders are often ascetic and
in the Balkins-this time in client cannot see why complainant Ho trunk call was ever made. My puritan-unything but materialist. The objection to the Communist Albania, a country, little | should want to zoo him" is that, in the pursult of their larger than Wales, and at alms, they are ready to sacrifice present in the Russian camp.
They everything else.
The retiring dairyman who wan sacfifico
There is every indication that prikked for his excellent results liberty. tolerance, and humari dignity. They build a state which old, ex-schoolmaster and wartime owe it all to udders," he said.
Albanio's dictator, the 41-yeur refused to take any eredit. turns men into half-men in the
partisan leader, General Enver sense that human nature in dis-Rodja, is about to switch his all- forted and many of the test huegiance from the Cominform to "Romulo suffers from, throat
Tito,
Infection." For General Rodja is feeling I thought that anything less Poverty among masses the pressure from all directions, than
poisoning His intest worry is the powerful | regonted
nows in The Aan the British Commonwealth Greek Army mussed on the tron Philippines. offer a re 'which is more attrat-i tfer. Atol the Greek gedifos in- five than that bekimi the Ironside Albania are a growing em- Curtain" Certainly it does so of borrmanent. ready to its upper clames.
The
Then there is the infiltration of weakness of the Commonwealth Yugoslav agents, dully crossing countries, especially of India, the frontier under enver or dark- stint che Tasker of the poloplanets, or being dropped by para-
the they chute poverty
from Yugoslav airforce they cannot really be classed as planes. the ampeet, is thus i partnership citizens They do not really take Belgrade, these agents have ur-
With liberal funds fepo Eastern and Western peoples, part in their national elvisation.ganised a strong inti-Hodja un- who are united in the wish loj As long as that euntinues, they derground movement amont Al- preserve the deals which the will support Baby mavement Commonwealth Jas vane to which promises a change. uymbolise that is, personal and national freedom. tolerant, the The problem for the Comanon - raile
the of low
anti-milliarist) wenith 'm Assa The mam uxplanation t
is therefore to Hitituria, and the the enemostates of the fat force.
mirdanum use | organise of Track Mr Benidsford, that die
Thmaganisaton se re formity which
will Rucntered hacking trous Baquen dock of gold at the est f organisation, of the Fatherl Large Buen!
journalist, wenith
Common- stich a standard of living for the tetrist circles which bad huge rainbow. has taken place at རྔུ॰- ༢༢)Ti
overally "How autta
the muges of people that there is thoment when hrt msdependence is a complex
Leta international) no longer a danger of royala stray She got it in the Tate steel of a very different kind is pre-onary outbreak as the result
sheer hunger and despair wall she owed 11 to the name paring on offensive against AND
If the Asian enuntras of 1
robbery Following the Commtals vic- Commonwealth can do this, and
Pesally, but by no megro lenst (surprised it gang hom the tory in China, the Communiads escape the dator of revoluten, important. Albania is Trellogg The thirt ******* # 10 leng line of Eng- have established the Far Lehren who reported Impera Cominform at Paling This will offer a dtvilisation which
Bastin which they How stumt, thesemnat pinch of Tollowing the bank and “mmediately disarmed * Bat when ni) 15 stel, it was almost certantly launchi
Comustorm's lockade of Yugos
The watchinen"?
Gandhi's work"
The 11 intent was to become tree Today, instead of are willing, anime, to gunnur en-operate sith the Briten peoples of Commonwealth How has
Et
1
for lunt"
Gandhi's work
multitude% who weal
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This u a fur nemessenent Ge rruson why India can now speinte with Great Britai that, during: India's long shuple for freedom, neither the Ini
nationalists, nor the British Gốc. crnnent ever went to extremes, 'Chere
were many
unfortunate incidents and much bitterness. But Where was tittle blund. There were few executions
and assassinations. Ench cognised that the other sincere unul wan guided by prins ciples which were to be respect. ed. The task was to bring them together in buibling the instite- turm of self-governing Inditu. That tank was on the whole sue- ersafully accomplished
The experiencs of Pakistan and Ceylon hun, beaully speak
Partnership
stood the the w
its
The Cortonwealth,
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| live in such
economie
D
bania'r two largest tribes
They have more space
On the face
In which to raise then,
When things aruize them
The bunk minager whin u-ty; chocked 10, tehơm that a toward bad been 'offered
Itis In addition to the pro-Tio an- company stoleg engh, hus THOW derground there is a strong move- | arisinunded that it is quite vormen. ment favouring the return of pr- Just another of Die difficultés Kit Zog. This organisation has encountered
B when Chhung?
In Joferests
Intense
belme the N
Albania (
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Economic pinch comment ou at at the thor of the
You
bet w''''!
when you reach the bandits
entrer The
kan)
much inore attractive than Ur Invi
I had always thought that these gn for winning all Ava to narrow civilisatie! of Soviet
1 at her stellites have alert guard-men at the Cominunism. It will be a citah, completely Tasted to fulfil their banks, carrying Crimcin War Nation which combines what Brennanie obligation to Albanjk carbines (unloaded) behind. their 1w philosophies enn-bert in the
brral democratie The latest Greek army sucresses, hacks, would have been proot fut much other in Asia. This is tradition borrowed from 190 cutting Albonin's corridor tongainst anything except, perhaps,
Philophy of the Compan West and the traditional spiritual
Combiformist Buharth, have 1- a couple of blind paralyties, wraith
There is the philosophy leas of India, which have been ated the comtry of Marxism It would be wrong revived and stated in modern Albania, the most primitive and
Marxism is say that
petroliermi by Muhutava Ganethi
backward country in Europe to- day, is in na condition to remain isolated,
In
Where
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By Antony Terry
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sixth as much, la the cause of
[or
Every side of life The mondy question affects
Before the war Albania leaned up the Italian reonany, with Zog faking loans in exchange for
•
·
"Towels may be smaljer." Ab, these little things sent to dry si
"No telephone in the house?”
119 1 military concessions In Ripped
Albania. After the war, prios to
the American visitor. you speak to people?" the Cominform-Tilo split. Yugos "We Just go up to
bullt
Recently, through Italian and i French channels, Tito in under- slood to bave offered General. | Hodjh; Immediate deliveries of
Yugoslav [ood and materials 4f. Albanin will join him in his stand
gainst Moscow.
•
them,"
Boy
that the
luvia supplied Albania's needs, explained Myrtle's grandfather, Yugoslavia exported six thousand "open Our mouths, and There is no barbed wire or] to buy furniture in the Govern-different commodities to Albania somathing. It works, too." pillboxes where "the Iron nient-run shops in the Soviet sec last year, including 25,000 tons of Curtain" cuts across Berlin finds she
A typist from West Berlin wheat and one-and-a-half million! She said: "Everything about
can inly Ave-piece pairs of shoes.
you is phoney. Even your teeth, nowadays. In fact trams bedroom suite for the equivalent Although 90 per cent of the po- which look false, are your own." trundle over the East-West of £10.
pulation work on the land, agri- methods are so primi- But the Berliner who is un-cultural
Myrtio romarks given demarcation line without any lucky enough to Britain, points. In
work in the live that Albania remains a food-trouble with similar circumstances, those trouble so long as the current Soviet sector gets paid his wages importing country.
being punctual The country that nobody is there to appreciate waiting would have taken is on.
in East marks roughly the has rich forest resources, yet Im-it. their turns, and voluntarily..
some number as the West sector ports Umber; abumlaut petroleum But as the driver and conductor worker, but only worth a sixth deposita, yeu importa petrol. It is too much to expect here get out at the bottom of the Pot much, as stated I tshs If Delore the war the Italians | without somebody
factories, in au- damerstrasse and hand over to an 14 man who lives" in the City of
drilled wells, thurity, whether police, or Bast Zehe driver and his mate, the London gut pald & with a inch drained swamps, but it made lit company official, being at with a clang.
Iron Curtain" comes down as a man who lives in Hammer le Impression upon the Indolent
smt for doing the same 'jab,'
Albanian. He still lives without! hand to provide the Inspira- Every facet of life here is consi Evon Vore off in Berlin, is efforts Ulon-and, if necessary, com- plented by the two currencies, man who works (and paid) sleeping in the sun while his wild pulsion, If inspectors had West marks and East marics, in the Eastern rector and liven does the work in this Moslem
which look like lasting
another in the Western sector,, where his country. been on duty, handing num-winter.
rosit and every other expense hered tickets or slips to each The fact that Fast Marks, have to be paid in the high-valued party as
Russians and they arrived, the though the
their Weat marks. Communist chaus would have been avoid they are the same value, as West
government claim took part, with his visiting ed. Some such action sed
marks, are actually worth only guests, in a farcical and exas-
the elementary responsibility of this misery which still every side of life: A business Russians inside Albaula may have Only the presence of many perating chase up and down, of the companies,
exists in this unendingly compll-man who lives in the British sec prevented Hodjn from throwing hither and thither, which
As things were, every taxi ente efty. put the errant taxi in
tor of Berlin cannot telephone n left full of people going gener- a
The human tragedy which is friend in the Soviet zone of Gur- superior class to the
pro- ally in the same direction-Tight behind the East-West cur many unless he deposita a sun to India la quicis to make peace verbal goose. Some
were the driver knowing he would | huirdressers in the Western parts noctor trunk telephone exchange with Tito, the Albanian tribesmon
rency nuddle made four Bertin cover his calls with the East- lucky in the chase-they got get the benefit, if not the cons of the vity commit suicide 're- It o man is
may make it for him. taxi in
taken ill in the A few minutes,pany. The temptations arecently Their customers walked Eastern,"
Nelther event would be wel-) sector the cannot become in Moscow. Others, no less enterprising only too obvious, and the al-out and went for a two-penny taken to a Wast sector hospital but perhaps less inconsiderate, titude, of the drivers made fave a wash and set. It costs contributions in West marks.
La ride into the Soviet sector to unless he 'prys his health scheme had to wait for an hour or them more obvious stil sixth as much down there..
Two hundred yards across the more. The excrcise may have There is also the question of The West sector hairdressers line in the Soviet sector is the been good for the body but public hire cars being forbid that life Just was not worth living shoddy chain store, where West dould not compete. They decided first HO hóp, ti sort of taxed the temper.
den to pick up fares en route, any longer after struggling for sector housewives swarm There was not a single in- Whether this is held to be four years to
to do get on their feet their shopping
They can sell spector
ngafn, other company ridiculous or otherwise in orThey are not the only ones. their West nak. In the many official on duty at these taxi dinary times, some special ex. Many West Berlin shops are feet-vided in the Western sectors. currency-changing bootha pro- stands. Nor was any police ception seems called for ining the pluch because their custo- This is good business at constable visible. One stalwart such an emergency as the pre-mers are slipping arross the line six to one,
nourly Weihaiwei man could have sent, Many walked out of to do their shopping. It is obvi
· Friction at high Tovels dilsed in ously good business done a lot to control this the central area towards Wan West sector inhabitant. He gels manipulation. the railways are Tor the this queer atmosphero of currency anarchy. In these,special chat, in the hope of picking paid in West marks and his Russian-controlled and they try conditions the companies own-' up a taxi there. There were in worth six times as much to grab as many West marks as ing and operating these pleaty of them rushing along
West sector stations. they can off the passengers in vehicles ought to send their pukka taxis, not hire cars own representatives to take and most of them empty, with it churge in co-operation with their "Vacant Indicator] the police. As it was, every illuminated, but not one time a taxi returned there was would stop is, of course,
0
or
a frenzied rush towards it more profitable for
There were several mlahaps,
Only
if he crosses the line. feeling of loyalty to their own cople prevents many more doln
:
Currency trouble the Western Rectors. The renson
But they are reluctant to pay their workers (int. West ·rflutica even those who live and work in
Is that the Communists desper- The conductor who handa la ately need West marka to Anthre the tram over at the Paladamerplatz their operations in the Western drivers to return, to the taxi- does so because the money has to zonos of Germany, and they don't on the slippery surface that stands and pick up several in be kept separate to avold "cur-like to have to buy them at xix
rency trouble.". might have had serious re-dividuals going to separate which cost 20 pronnigs in the as many West marks as the Wes- Atrum Flo to one. 50 they argue and keep sults. The taxi drivers took destinations. But that surely Western sectors costs 20 pfennigstern allles will lot them.
fiendish dolight in rushing is not the pointebitis dinne Just the same in the Eastern, Doc= Another cause of high Idysl Lors, only it is, paid in different friction is the Eastern zone travel past the out-stretchied, hands- Wo repent that it is the duty money. If the tram delvers and agency which has refused to pay at full speed until they of the companies to stop, as conductora went from one curds West sector telephone : "Lill, renche the particular, point for as they con this abuse of roney to another tho thway Tobrisals had to be Instituted they had picked upon Groups the public. Ammatter, too, authorities would never put their bafore the money was reluctantly
accounts straight, Pont produced, were always preferred to iu- in which the police, authori But, oven, this does not provent Despite their frequent » nonor- dividuals, Sometimes there ties might well extend their the passenger who takes in 20 tions that everyone in the Soviet were half a dozen people responsibilities. They have supfennitt fore on the Euston zone is having a wonderful time clinging to the handles anbeen, helping the bus com right across the Western sectors Blusions. Apart from the high tinder mo side of the Ung" from Stravelling the Communists are both sides or trying to get on panics to control the crowds with this Lickit, which only cont unemployment in the Western the running board.
A at the bus terminals, and with him the oquivalent of 51 Hortor life is much cualer thare, Everybody has said all there good difect. They do not pronnige by Western Inbaey, Tu By much so that Flo Russian (man who wants to take in trgu Intourlat restaurant in the. Sovit Biotön which nourished in art and lungimeals of for. the days of the blockdda, and msich dolark and Bwinky: roncs, basandw
Is to be said about quques have Alas, there is now some tobo and in 1981
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the man to supervise near the line walks toto the Soviet bus stop in the same sector, and name likost worth weg, but the taxi, Juan Edet markiSENKANTERNS
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