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Spain Faces
DON IDDON'S DIARY Worst Winter
PREFACE this column
with the assertion that Miss Margaret Truman is the world' most gifted singer. It is a sensible pre-
caut.ex.
Having now avoided possibic Presidential threats of a broken
blackened noso,
and cyen, amashed ribs I can get on with my report on America.
Why is President Truman's What low? bolling-point so nado him write such an abusive lister to the music critic of the Washington Post?
• No punches pulled in the
great U.S. slanging match No expense spared in the Christmas shopping spree
trast another Cowles enterprize, the magazine Quick, a Lillipu- tian lollipop for bird brains, Is making millions.
Of course, austerity may bo waiting in the wings, but I sec no signs. The city shines in luxury. The women walk in silks and satins cushioned against the cold by mink,
Going to the dog
T here, a 24-carat gold film,
trim-
WHERE ja a new gold cloth The Attlee visit has increased making a lot of Americans be-
which transformis fabrics into our standing as partners and lieve that the world war wil
shining armour. Lovely to look helped to calm the hysteria, but not take place next weelt.
wonderful to wear. still the American air is full of
His appearance on the screens at, and The allegedly pallid thunder.
stocking at mast cinemas is received here There are jewels on Allles are
being pummelled an unenthusiastle silence, but rhinestones en nylons, hang- by the
порито The answer is sheer nervous mercilemly
only the Idiot-fringe are sug- ing hearts, tiny flowers Mr Truman can no Press. It seems we all strain. longer abide criticlam He has "run-out powder at the ready." Beating that the Attlee-Truman ming anides. The girls glitter conferences were not worth more brightly than Christrada himself We have cold and dragging foot, while worked and worn
trees, and the trend to targe has become a headlong runh. ragged. His advisers are rug weak knees, no spine, and little
Come doesn't write intestinal fortitude. The French
The dogs are smart too- gesting that he any more letters without con- are being called more offensive
only £6 for a neat little
collar sulting his Cabinet, and docs names than we are,
tan jacket with valvot
Attings not indulge in off-the-cuff an-
and special brass
for awers to questions at his regu
the precious poodle. The prices have not crept yet towards the kennel.
passion for Naturally, the pleasure before the worst hap- the entertain- pens is flling ment houses, It's more difficult to get a theatre seat thon 0 chair at Lake Success. Night life thrives,
|At 2.30; 5.15, or Press conferences,
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Letterheads
Personal
The letter offering to punch
post's the Washinton
Paul lumo on the nose was one of several similar efforts Mr Tru- man has dashed off in recent weeks,
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Then the apology FREQUENTLY be sends notes blazing with anger and abuse to owners of newspapers, chair
business men of corporations, men, and industrialists when he finds himself at odds with them. Usually, in the public interest, the people who receive the let ters fle them away and don't let them leak into print.
Generally a Presidential letter the first of apology follows angry note,
Recently Mr. Truman told a was Press conference that he really going to "bust loose" on the reportera one of these days. Today he is doing that.
The furious letter to the music critic perhaps doesn't matter: angry, hasty comments on the atom bomb, International rein- tions, and the Korean situation do.
jobs.
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It is a strange way to build up confidence and trust and loyalty Among Allies.
Of course, these generous, im- petuous, most likeable juveniles all trurl equally harsh epithets at each other.
Mrs Roosevelt, Dean Acheson, and the President himself are the target for limitless Billings- gate. Even General MacArthur,
who has been above and beyond criticism for so long here, is now being attacked.
.
There is a tumultuous national argument building up over Mac- Arthur, but as it is an American family row, better keep out.
This is the time of wilful do- struction of idols. J. Edgar Hoover, head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and public hero for 20 years or more, is suddenly being slapped in the face and kicked in the shins by a self-styled Liberal.
of
A book, "The Federal Burequ by Máx Investigation," Lowenthal, a lawyer, is gunning for the head G-man and takes deadly aim. The friends of furious and the Hoover are brawl' over the book is almost as perce as the row rúging about MacArthur.
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in
again Clemcat, and bring Winston with you.
Despite the crisis, or perhaps Christmas of it, the because delirium is even more feverish. Many Americans are acting as if this is their Last Christmas be fore the great debacle. They determined ta have D scor gigantie spree, a shopping orgy to dwarf anything ever rung up by the cash-registers."
Stores jammed
counters no
away as
:
tar-
And the most feted pair o
THE spending is recklessly Broadway pre Mr and Mrs Rox extravagant. The people are Harrison, the fabulous hus- throwing their money on to the band-and-wife team who have if it were tram- made John van Druten's "Bell, tickets, buying goods and gifts Book, and Candle" blaze. at any price. They are finging Another British pair, Michael
if they
and Pamela Berry, have been their dollars
to the lighting up
Hollywood. The expected to be shifted atomie shelters in Denver and Ronald
Coimans were their the Rockles by Now Year.
hosts at the Alm city's most successful party for days.
Flora Robson continues to decorate the theatrical
scasot and is spending most of money sending hams and par- Herbert Wilcox are two of our cels home. Anna Neagle
best ambasadors,
it. The
All buyer-resistance seems to have collapsed, so the merchants are charging murderous prices and getting away with stores are packed from opening closing hour, and every to avenue is jaramed
men, women, and children carrying parcels.
with
her
and
1s
The biggest hit on television (after Sir Gladwyn Jebb) Jimmy Durante.
The Alm czar Eric Johnston i
only now cars. Only enough formed Danny Kaye and Ed-
I do not blame them for these excessos The predictions of what ife is to be like in 1951 has had his contract extended are dire and blood-chilling. Only for five years, although als two dozen pairs of nylons per deat still has three rears to female. Only 2in. thick steaks. run.
of 8. 5,000,000, instead
General MacArthur has in-
petrol to drive 1,000 miles per ward G. Robinson
that their day. Only two television sets and trip to Korea has been can- military position three radies per home. Only one celled-the ice-cream sodas and strawberry million billion chocolate-malied is too critical.
undes.
Latest song hit
that
Since
War
Madrid.
Soaring living costs and a continued drought have left Spain facing this winter in the worst economic condition since the civil war, according to informed quarters.
ro-
These sources, who two been receiving in the past. And months ago thought Spain the release by President Truman. er the $62,500,000 Congressional had weathered the worst of loan will help more. her postwar economic
But
some observerS cession, were frankly alarm-placing Spain's overall recovery
needs at between $700,000,00 ed over the present, in-and $1,000,000,000, fow belleve flationary trend.
the loan can do more than par- dally moet the nation's most urgent needs in agriculture and possibly indusky,
Prices of eggs, butter, bread, sugar and other such basle food items have risen as much as 30 percent in the last few weeks. Price tags are being changed 'upward dally.
POWER IS PROBLEM
A slight rise in food prices at this time of the year was normal for Spain, but observers describ- ed the current upward spiral as inflation in its most dangerous form.
If the current draught con- tinues, bringing with it further Inflation of prices, these quarters fear the nation's industry may come near a standstill.
Nowhere in Spain today is in- dustry operating
more than 10- bours week on regular power, they sald. To continue opera-
Guards To Get New Uniforms
It is expected that soon the Guards will be resplen- dont in new ceremonial uni- forms.
This was announced, at tion, factories are forced to use recent dinner of the Oxfordshire
makeshift
branch of the Grenadier Guards power exponsive, arrangements, thus adding to Comrades' Association by Colonel Lieutenant- E.H. production costs,
Colonel Spanish reservoirs registered Co
GUIDE the Grena-
un increase instead of a decline dler Guards, who said: "We are last week for the first time since just about to get our new full June. But it was only a
dress and it is about time, too, two ar percent rise, leaving the overall for our old ones were getting to Rituation still critica).
greasy slage pu
LIVING COSTS
the
and were more or less worn out."
Commenting on the difficulty Informed quarters said living of replacing the bearskin head-
dress, the Colonel said: "Appar costs between January and Sep-ently it is no longer profitable to tember of this year increased by shoot bears or whatever animal 10 percent, as opposed to a aprit is that provides the material mai increase during the period for them and there has of about two percent.
some
or
been
dimculty, but I am told
Food prices rose even higher during October, but during the bat arrangements have been past weeks they have literally made to get some sort of ersaiz
uilllly bearskins." soared.
The Guards are likely to wear Much of the current Inflation wolfskins when their present is attributed to a delayed result bearskins headdress needs
of last spring's general wage in-replacement because bears are orenses of about 40 percent. not
shot in
Most prowa inflationary wave followed the
bearskins were bought from 1048 general round of wage Russia, North America and some creases,
from Canada. The Russians are A mid-year survey of Spain's not exporting them now, and economic condition indicated the bear-trapping in Canada and country had hit rock bottom in America is not what it used the postwar alump early this be. Changing fashions have had year but foreign trade figures their effect on demand, too, for showed the trend had been ro-women no longer wear the fur
any more.
They pointed out that a similar bersarge enough num
The Reds look on Britain's chanco
MESSES. Wu and Vysliinsky RESIDENT TRUMAN'S Must be having a very wrathful exuptions are being exceeded by largo numbers of happy line. At least they are Americans There is quite helds given the plaik thuth flikt
the Americans are ferocious I tell you the American way of anging match. Perhaps it is
casting life is going to be tough. The THE Song
is sweeping time the British stepped for aghters and they are
a most U.S. is going to, be really up the nation is a hollow ward quietly and reassumed their own diatribes in
strange pitch.
against it, atruggling along number called "The Thing"- world leadership, or shouldéhod
with a mere 89 percent of the at the top of the hit parade, at least half the burden. Wo World War II. talk hus
world's refrigerators, vacuum and Ughtly salacious. Christ are more fitted by temperament, diminished. Whatever the Prime
machines, mas tunes competing with the training, and experience for such Minister did or did not do, he cleaners, washing and luxury yachts.
carola are "Christmas in Kil- bás somehow succeeded
Send And the lame duck Congress larney" just quacks,“ There la vagun one To Ma
Blue Chem" Versed by the end of May, talk of freezing prices and "When It's Christmas On The
REGISTERED PROGRESS.
ALTERNATIVE SKINS and "The Boogle-
the As a result, wages, but inflation is so obesa Range,"
January that the good old days are be Woogle Santa Claus." I will
through May tally showed an Alternative sking for head- ginning, to menn last week, take the carols.
overall foreign trade balance dress have been shown to the favourable to Spain for the first Guards. One was black dye time in years.
sheepskin, curly as astrakhan, Spain also registered progress but they seemed to prefer the during the first half of the year more traditional appearance of in other Belds. Tishing and fish the wolfskin, which has shorter packing, though still badly off, hair than the bearicin, but i increased In volume and value similar in looks. Since however A Guardsman's bearaldin lasta 15. over 1942. Agricultural tlon, though far below pre-civil years, the change is not expected. war levels, was up slightly over to take place for about five. last year Mine output showed years
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About the only luxury that Diet Note: When a man looks people have given up since the at a woman straight in the eve crisis is the Invish fashion it's time she did. something magazine, Flair Flair is finished about her figure.
and the beauteous Fleur Footnote for the Prealdent: Cowles has announced that Don't write and don't telegraph publication has ceased. By con- your punches.
Use
Hospital To
Mechanical Heart On Human Beings
A surgeon announced in Cleveland, Ohio, that a now mechanical heart is ready for trial on human beings. If it works it will open a new era of chost and lung surgory and may even bring human beings back from death.
It is being kept ready in | veins, The steel lung gives the operating room at oxygen to the blood, Hahnemann Hospital, Phila- the human heart pulses bright A special pump no larger than delphia, waiting for the first rod, fetreshed blood back into need of it, and Dr. Charles the affery. The machine CAD all blood Bailey, renowned heart sür- completely detour geon of Hahnemann Medical around the body's own heart college.
The mechanical heart's first use will probably be to, try to révive a person whose heart has stopped beating-one who is clinienlly dead
and, lungs...
This means surgeons could' open a bloodless living heart with time and clear vision for new and better kinds of heart operations
This worked successfully, on dogs, koeping one dog alive för 71 minutes while the spiro heart circulated its blood, Dr Balley told the Ohio Chapter of the American
College of Chest Physicianą.
Dr Bailey think it will work and also thinks it could have saved Al Jolson, famed singer who died October 23 from a blood clot blocking his heart,
A compact glass-encaocxi
The dog's own heart took machine the size of a small con- sole radio substitutes for both over the job again when the heart and runga.
Through machine was disconnected, and plastic tubou it draws dark red the dog, recovered completely, wante-laden blood from the the surgoon saldi.
a general, increase over the rat A military, tailor estimates. half of 1949, despite the lundi- that at present-day prices tunics Rall-for 80 offleers and 1,722 Guards- cap of obsolete equipment. way reconstruction registered men would cost round abouk- some badly
but £16,000. In 1930 Guardsmen's needed progress was held up by a shortage of trousers cost under £1 per pair, It has now risen at least 150 The scarlet beaver cloth of a
foreign is all took place! percent in price.
But these
before the current devastating
drought set in, and before lying) Guaresa's tunic is of special
costs began their upward spiral.
AMERICAN AID
and resembles thick, "hunting pink" in texture. Before the war it was made in Stroud. Today it is almost out of production. When it was avall- able,
the
cost of cutting an
On the other side of the lodger, the recent United States action lifting the countervejling dúty. on Spanish almonds will mean NCO's tunic worked out at an estimated $2,000,000 yearly £4.23.6d. For an officer the
sho has not figure was approximately £40. for Spain which
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