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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 1980.

"LITTLE PARIS" BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN

Budapest, Hungary's capl- tal, is today one of Europe's gayest cities, a little Paris be- hind the Iron Curtain.

Gipsy orchestras and jazz bands play

from smart cafes on the banks of the Danube, and in res- taurants where food in pre-war abundance ia served in the famous highly-spiced Hungarian

Before the

-By David Lee-

Already they are being

forced

Good Mornings

to sell their produce at unecono- | Datustons of grandour, mic prices to the co-operatives. "Man gaoled for impersonating Now, the Hungarian Communist public servant." government plans to take away Myrtle thinks he is more in the land they gave to the pea- need of psychiatric treatment. sants, and set up collective farms,

With

than half the more

working on the land, Cammes are population Hungary's Stalin, Matyas Rakes, (called by the peasants, "Bur- gonya Fetu", potato head") will have to take strong measures to enforce collectivisation.

war all this rich, middle-class with nationalisation earth was in the hands of a few of all businesses employing more fabulously wealthy land-owners; than four people. Small one-man one half of the productive soil of businesses found it impossible to

of obtain raw materials or supplies Russian-style. Hungary was in the hands

2,000 people. about

to compete with the government A post-war land reform pro- co-operatives,

up the largo At present the ordinary worker gramme broke estates, and some 700,000 poor, is not badly off. He carns a good

found landless peasants

them-wage and gets cheap food and

the factory In latest urchin cut and newest selves overnight owners of small clothes from

operatives. Paris "looks", throng the wide, forms, boulevards that are ablaze with neon lights and crammed large cars,

style.

be

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ACKNOWLEDGMENT

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attendance at the funeral and floral tributes on the occasion of their sad bereavement.

CRIPPS SAYS NO The core of the Budget speech by the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Tuesday

of

Attractive Hungarian

Furope. Slace

worhen,

Although most parties support- Com- with the programme, the

munists took credit for the land

Food plentiful

-03

He

On

Nationalist

general says the Chusan trying to opportune moment for their next

invasion.

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"Horror aims blamed for dental trouble."

Tooth 'em that hath shall be

AR is Stillwell.

"Tokyo Boy Sent To U.S. To

munists seized power three yea pick up. Also, for their "re- member of a Communist organi-hile the gipsy orchestras Remove Peanut."

is not unprepared. street corner, in pairs, every

the brown-uniformed are seen security police. Hungarians today chillin." Yet Hungary is well behind reform scheme, and won a tem-

finest street. Food is plentiful, and reason- avoid Budapest's the Iron Curtain, in the heart of porary popularity with the pea-

abiy-priced for the Hungarian Andrassy Boulevard, for it is now Russian-controlled Eastern Gants.

This move wiped out Hungary's worker. But there is a anag; to the home of the AVD, the Com- rich. Today former land-owners hold a job you need a red card. munist secret

police, the Hungarian Com~

work at any odd Job they can To obtain that you must be a

to play for Hungary's Easy now, G'mo. This isn't a ago

they have purposely kept up education," they must "volun- sation. Without · A Job a man new aristocracy, the highly-paid new attempt to oust you from the

Communist bossca and this gay front.

wives and Main reason was for Budapest teer" to go out every day for three cannot use the co-operatives and

hours to act as an attractive show ng song subscriptions for the must buy on the outside market fashionably-dressed

Worker" where bacon costs seven times as lady-friends, still giving Budapest window for Communism to Wes "Szabadt Nep",

Hungarian

a Western look. much as in the co-operatives, and tern Europeans, who have found Free People").

where a plece of soap costs three visit it easier to obtain vises to

times as much. Hungary than for any other satel lite country.

Then the Reds wished to curry favour with the pleasure-loving Hungarians while they carried out first phases of the munist plan for Hungary,

Com-

Honeymoon over

which

means

Next the Communista an- nihilated the industrial rich and

Now it is the peasants'

They make

turn.

But there is every that the Hungarian is almost over.

their U.N.

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It is becoming increasingly indication evident that, in round numbers, who honeymoon the people in the Colony

don't mind

total paying taxci

000,000.

rain over NY

make rain

the

Two small clouds over New, plane, The plane will 'sced' The pilot will case his planef over a fat cumulus cloud, and Mexico which Doctor Langmuir cloud with dry ice and from then seven pounds on we hope, the waterproof and at the touch of a trigger will sprinkled with Today the Hungarian honey-bombard it with a tiny shower worth of silver lodide smoke last the umbrella will come into their of the sky- moon is almost over, and the gay of white pellets. A few hours summer, produced in the same owa on the streets country is being rapidly moulded

Exactly how a cloud can boj more some 320 thousand million into the dull, hard life of a Com- later, the parched land below day enough rain to all them and scraper elly, munist satellite.

will be hissing with rain. That gallons altogether.

made to rain was originally quite clear, but so many experiments have produced contradictory re- sults that no scientist will now coms

The half-gay, half-sad gipsy music barely drowns the growing murmur of discontent from nine. million Hungarians, This is one of

is what Mayor O'Dwyer of New York,hopes, anyway.

was given in a single charac- the Hune of the reasons why with the plating position

a

of

By

John Jarrett

himself to explain how it

Basically the

still

procedure

of water

•

Blake sentenced for burgling on amusement park's takings is believed to be a Luna tiek.

4

no

The bee is such a busy soul; He has

time for birth control. And that is why In times like

these There are so many sons-of-bres.

Agency report from Taipeh evinces surpris0 that the Nationalists" "smashing victory" In Hainan was

longer no "The silence, BOYA mentioned.

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being

It's

"

Lays heavy rain can be don't like conditions in the world's

For six months now. New York has been running neck and neck of water- Communist Gov- rationing, a

the writer, "was ominous." and

I Doctor Langmuir says his 'dry depends on the fact that a cloud

wouldn't say that. now changed its in, the land of plenty, teristic sentence. All the at-ernment has

world's the

vapour fee' should take the credit, but is collection In this official city tractive suggestions put for former moderate attitude to Bri- chief executive

legitimate imprisoning

biggest dry-patch

weather

droplets are bureaus

held in suspension. The probably just that the KMT feels ward for remission of taxes, British businessman, and da spring of 1950, William O'Dwyer sceptical. The terrible thing about dry lee seeded in the cloud has you shouldn't fool all of the said Sir Stafford Cripps, must manding the reduction of the Bri- has been thirstly seeking relief trying to prove the value of rain- the effect of freezing these drop- agencies all of the time.

jets. and the cloud then releases be firmly set to one side. Hetish legntion which is, the Hun- for his loudly complaining charge, making in that someone can al-

them. Doctor Irving Langmuir, garlan Communists allege, a cen-

On their way downwards Pasa manis. ways turn round afterwards and did mark down income-tax

of espionage.

Nobel Prize-winning scientist has say: "Well, it looked like rain if the temperature is right-they rates for the lower groups by The

The Hungarian Communists long claimed that artificial rain-

anyway," Science has not yet melt into rain.

With Ideal conditions Doctor sixpence and a shilling. This want the West's diplomats to making is the answer to drought, been able to prove the opposite. leave the country before they and, to the extent of voting some in effect means lower taxesnck down on the peasants, and £20,000 for six months of re for men who work overtime,

with that

it, New York's military preparations periment and is therefore an incentive against Yugoslavia may be car-civic authorities have been per« to more production rather Hed out in secret.

sunded by him. than an actual relief.

The Russians in Hungary are New York's reservoirs hold at For the rest, it is the mix- already reported to be lengthen-present about half the water they and metalling strate should. A little while ago, they ammunition up the Danube. and a muddy ground at the bot- Russian officers have been in- fom of the small reservoirs was

Into the Hungarian being played in by small boys. troduced

rmy down to battalion level.

This military activity is seen as being aimed at Marshal Tito's Yugoslavia. In the event of on attack,

from Hungary

RD

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Secmi that, after several decades, the International Trans- port Workers have decided they

No quibbling

anywhere at a cost of third largest merchant navy, seven and six for every

Another cold war, with a coffin 40,000 Those it. However, New York is worried square miles rained on. enough not to quibble, and two ideal conditions are not easy to water department engineers and And. Moreover, few scientists are a met. expert are setting up field happy at being forced to play headquarters on top of some local with clouds before they know all

clouds, If they

want to know about what and when they, spot a likely one they are doing.

If

smoke is dropped silver (on the right sort of duy), they

"Before you accopt their walling or fired (yes, the pellets can be invitation," a friend warned me. will 'phone orders to a

fired from a Verey pistol) in the think you ought to know wrong part of the Eloud, then they've just had three reels of

preventative may even have a

cine films of the baby returned effect and # cloud that was about

ture as before, with an intys as well as moving were down to one third capacity, mountains to watch

crease here and there in the less palatable ingredients. In- dustrialists presented with fat "cumshaw" cheques are to deliver half the amounts to the State in a retroactive measure.

Ric

forces The tax on petrol would be the spearhead to ad- goes up, but the ration goes up vance across the flat plains to with it. Food subsidies are towards Belgrade. stay as they are, so the onus Hungary fell into the lap of the of breaking the "wage freeze" Communtata, while licking its will remain with the rebels war wounds, without the average who have been trying to kick Hungarian realising it. As men

bers of a coalition government over the traces. More houses in 1947, the Reds soon swallowed -are-to-be-built as a result of the other parties, starting with the restoration of the building the Socialists, and have reigned cuts made during the econo my wave. That is about the only concession made to the electorate, in what was ex-

more he has refused to play politics and has shown those

sinice.

Biggest asset

Hungary is

В mostly

asset

Millions abroad are in the Scots family

By William Power

we were not looking about us.

folk.

But

Deeply based

the

"What makes those red marks

"Glasses." on your nose?"

"How many?"

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to rain will not do so. On the from the developers." other hand, If the section of cloud that is treated is chemically ready to be triggered, then only two pellets will be suficient to create a fairly heavy rain.

Pro and Con

In the few cases where rala making has been completely suc-

According to Euckd, one line never touches parallel another. Who'd be a parallel line?

heating a drought in any part- create a cular territory might drought elsewhere. On the inter-

and vegetable des

lawsults

a commer-

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Late on a summer evening, actual problems and the danger ago, four young of her becoming merely "ane many years

and a geographical Scots were standing close-to-auld sang" "gether on the deck-of-a-little expression... upriver steamer on the Thames. A An almost solitary figure was cessful, there have already been national scale thero-could-be------

is complications. The repercussions Three were employed in Lon- Theodore Napier, a well-off Scot-Indications that not everyone

immense, involving tish sheep-farmer in Australia, going to say thank you. Farmers, could be

and don; I was on a visit.

political We had enjoyed our day's who came home to fan the dying as always, will be divided; the civil

against, and

over "ownership" crop ramble in the storied pleasances flame of Scottish patriolism. He soft fruit growers

be One thing is certalo. If this growers for, Car-washers will pected to be, but is not, an rolling plain. Its biggest around Richmond and Staines, was duly ridiculed by "sensible" the "electioneering" Budget. is the rich black soll of its farm- but we had forgotten all that, and

few years before the pleased and outdoor sports pro- rainmaking becomes sensed a change. A friend moters furious.

proposition it will open up a lands. Hungary's rod peppers We were crooning old Scots war,

of mine in South Africu, who had It is obvious, too, that a cloud big feld for bad advertising. No worth It is impossible to begrudge (paprikas), Ane fruits and grape songs to one another, and talking been one of that little group on ariifically made to disgorge rain airborne publicity agent the Chancellor the admiration from which comes the potent as if in a collective dream, about

country hia he deserves for his cold, un-sweet Tokay wine, are famous Tweedside and the Highlands, everything he could lay hands on might later on have given that the chance of accompanying the

the Thames steamer, was reading over one part of the

expense account would miss compromising courage. Once throughout Europe.

Claverhouse and the '45.-

That kind of thing was and is about the National Movement in rain quite normally to another deluge his Arm has created with

Scotland and asking me why the part of the country.

a sky-written flourish for all to echoed, thousands of times over, Scots people were not taking One area could be accused of see: "Whatever your politics, we Spartan qualities of severe this truly magnificent achieve-in all the lands throughout which proper charge of their own coun-stealing another orea's rain, and reign over you."" rectitude which have taken ment. The pound ster- Scotland's exiles are scattered. try.

Wherever two or three Scots by

From many other Scots there him to the fore, and dope so ling is back again as the birth or parentage arg

gathered much to maintain and inspire world's chief commercial cur- together, they form a Burns Club have been communications of a

similar kind. the same qualities among the rency, and it is going farther or Caledonian Society and hold hard-pressed British taxpayer. yet. Britain can take solid the appropriate festivals, with

rites It The battle of recovery is as pride in what has already all the traditional

said that the actual or possible stern in its way as any of the been achieved, and regard adherents number nearly 20 What we at home. had failed to realise was that the Scottish wars the nation has fought, with confidence its ability to millions

The Sects are the most clannish sentiment of the Scots abroad and even more fateful in its surmount the further trials

word indicates that must come with increas of people ago. The clan system the affairs of their adopted coun- was deeply based. But they had consequences.

the main reason. The reward is on its way.ed competition.

was once universal in Scotland, tries to attend to

and they as Britain at the moment is in A £4,000 million Budget, surviving even under feudalism. perhaps without sufficient

that Scots at kome-w

e-were overall balance, and probably nevertheless, is a staggering We all belong to historic clans or

after homeland affairs. has an overall surplus, with sum. There is a ceiling on the families, which mean

thing; hence the interest of Scots. There may also have been a the rest of the world. Deva-food subsidies, and the Na-

feeling, in some quarters, that a luation, said the Chancellor, tional Health Ministry has

national revival was hopeless, and that Scotland was only an ances- has gone better than expect been told that it must not Welding Influence

tral ed. Exports for the first quar- again exceed its Estimates.

memory and a "country of the mind ter of the year were 10 per But the country still suffers And there

are is also the welding

There are signa already that cent, above those of the first from over-administration, and and inspiring influence, unique in recent events in Scotland have quarter of 1949 and are still there appears to be no at- the world, of Burns, the most awakened a new hope and on expanding. Receipts from tempt at all to cut down the national and most international up-to-date interest among Scots throughout the world To them visible exports for 1950 may immense structure of bureau-of poets. reach £2,000 millions-some cracy built up during and In the utterances. of her entias the national coming alive of Scot-

since Culloden

em, love of Scotland land must seem a thrilling mir- £200 millions more than last after the war. The Chancellor takes on a wistful polguancy. One acle, like that of Galatea in year. Though imports cost has had to provide for heavy can almost forget James Mhor old Grock tale. Scottish occasions celebrations will take on more, it is hoped to convert demands from the spending roads, bis dying ostiest form aut parte

request a set an overall trade deficit of £70 Departments, and in view of of pipes with which to console

topical

exiles will respond to the Nell invitation fr million into an overall surplus the international situation himself to prophetle of about £50 million this nothing can be done just now

moving poem. They will literature, the note te year. The dollar reserves are to cut down on the armed sounded in anonymous poemia come in their thousands to see, of nation- Hike the Canadian Boat Bong, and not a more cenotaph still low, but higher than a services,

by exiles like Goddes, Emollett, hood-not merely the ruined year ago, and dollar sales But on the whole, the Bud-Layden, Pringle; Cunningham, homes of the vanished races now exceed the rate of dollar get speech shows the rising Stevenson, Reid, Charles Murray, but live continuing Scotland, earnings before devaluation health and strength of the na- Frederick Niven organising itself for a worthy

there [[national futura- tion, its courage and fortitude,Yearly, in pre-war days, there nation

R

the same

abroad in their genealogies. The Scots are one great family.

美

our.

visit of members of the This looks

summed up in the striking its singular sense

of clans of America,

The extent of recovery is statement that one-half of the world's International trade and commerce is now carried

sibility, and its preparedness,

in peace as in war, to battle

being a High

the

year: for: Scotland. Scotlandjhe honour, af | those

desis were rational costume 7 and ready.

will give a through this most trying age travelling direct to the Cirdery In

Scotton welcome to thede on in Sterling. The hard in that spirit of determination of our co

alised to be a cynical, bou

Ower the Borderi working people of Britain and sacrifice which has made the Bootin nument at Boots and Overseas partners with 12 and the Government self the British people to

outside for Bcotland. Not many of In the rebuilding must be given full marks for force in history.

ham soused, "ware of Scotland's national Zions

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