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HITCH-HIKING IN GERMANY

BY

MARGARET

This year is Festival Your in Britain. Hore correspondents reveal that, while some countries aro overshadowed by war foars, others are planning, like Britain, to make 1951 a year of trado exhibitions and festivities.

Spotlight On Festival Year

TAROM Ian Stanbury, There will also be the "Exhib!--

-X

Qx- the

Hamburg-West Ger- tion of Humorists", the "Televi

sion show" (nothing to do with many

has planned 28

radio show) and the hibitions and trade fairs for "Exhibition for Women Artists." 1961. None is national or Government-sponsored..

The largest are Han- over's "German Industries Fair" (divided into a trade fair from February 28 to March 4, and a technical fair from April 29 to May 8), Frankfurt Spring Fair,

from March 11 to 16, and Cologne's Spring Fair, from February 18 to March 6.

With the number and scat of exhibitions remaining below prewar standards, West Ger mang Is still far

from being cxhibition-minded. Nex

Next year,

however, manufacturers hope

Por Family

TROM Patrick Nicholson. Otta-

wa.-Statistics predlet that the average Canadian will take- his family to three agricultural exhibitions, trado fairs, and home town anniversaries during 1951.

One family in four will tem-

porarily lose a child during the round of the exhibitions, one- family in two will receive a prize at the fun fair (anything reltes), and one family in two from a car to a packet of eign-

from silver bowls to red rosettes will receive mementoes varying: in the more serious contests.

Most of the exhibitions 'will

to benent from the backwash of stress farming, for the land still

visited the

who

provides one-third of Canada's: have people with their living.

American val of Britain.

The Bonn

Government In the eyes of the business. nelther controls nor subsidises world Canada's most important exhibitions, although certain exhibition of next year will "Land" Governments volo undoubtedly be the International credits to exhibition committees. Trade Fair. Canada is the third in theory, can organise largest trading nation In the exhibitions, although in fact the world, and, every year, sellers directions como from the from 30 countries( the majority Executive Committee of Ger- 01 them from Britain) and man Exhibition and Trade Fairs buyers from at least 60 countries. Ltd, in Frankfurt, an organisa- Bock to the International Trade tion maintaining the closest con- Fair. tact with trado committees throughout the country,

MCNEILL F

would blame that

Paris "Birthday"

From Kay Murray. New America York. Although

HAVE

no love for that's my life since I was a less, her subsequent comments

the kid. If I stay the "autobahns,"

now, it's the rather contradicted this, for she famous motor roads of uranium mines for me or the quoted instance after instance People's Police. I've had of the tireless propaganda with

has a steady variety of exhibi- Germany, Sooner or enough hard labour, thanks, and which the East German Govern-

tions planned for 1951 thousands later they exert a subile I've had enough

soldiering most attempts, in many ways

the FROM Henry Thody. Paris... of Americans thanks to influence on those who too."

successfully, to

to mould the rising

The highlight of France's campaigning of the European Judging by the travel

1 broad

listened to numbers generation. As their on

exhibition year of 1931 will be Travel Commission-are having the who

come over the frontier,

stories of

of children in the lowest asphalt surface. Most

an average of four hundred

class registered automatically still on

the Festival of Paris, to cele- their attention focused on the other side of the brate the city's 2,000th birthday. Festival of Britain. motorists fall a prey to the day, there seem to be a great as "ttle Pioneers," of high frontier.

Although historians аге not school desire to speed, but the many who have nothing to lose sch boys and girls who could cout

certain that 1051 is the exact Bargain Rates By leaving. What they gain in not matriculate

Yet who unless

Year for the celebrations, long grey band of road the West is harder to say. This record in the F.D.J. (the poli- baggard young man for moving Parisians are all set to make the TOURISTS are being offered broken as far as the eye young man said he wanted to

tical youth movement) was while he could. Yesterday most of what promises to be a the inducement of bargain satisfactory, can see, undisturbed by any be free. So do hundreds

of every

subject united Germany had menuced gay occasion.

shipping rates and return air of other homeless tori

distorted and exploited 33 A the peace of the world.

Today From April cross traffic, reduces me to thousands

to December, trips and now have the chance at off-season a top-gear isolationist and Germans in Weriern Germany, means of political propaganda, a divided Germany seems even every quarter of the city, from to fly to Britain

dangerous. What so do thousands of foreign re. it seemed to me that the clock. more

was Montmartre to the markets of rates for large parties. lulls my mind into a torpor, fugees.

to be? All the Halles, will have its own had toen put back fifteen years the end of it all

For those who finally tire of Why

about Ger- worry

and that I

the was in the Germany

Travel unanswerable questions re- fete, with dancing in the streets, the festival itself, the of 1935 again with the Nazis EMPTY PLACE

garding the many? The war

future beat is long

through cooking contests, window-box Commission reminds them that firmly in the saddle. The little my brain as I drove along the displays, and other attractions. "It's always festival time in since over, new buildings

deaconess might have guessed wido

Instead of a festival ground, Britate," and that they will have vide autobahn, fulled by the are rising from the ruins, YET so far their freedom my thoughts. "It's the same long, straight band of road, the the Seine and the streets of Paris countless fairs and smaller

does not seem to amount old antichrist," the shops are full, and on to much more than freedom

sho said with quiet felds, the steady throb of will be used for carnivals telling exhibitions to visit. Brighton to sparse finality, as she got out the engine as mile after mile the story of the city's history, and love are billed as "the twin either side of the road the ait in a wretched camp and of the car. I watched her go. I travelled west. But now it Street-corner orchestras will resorts of Southern England," hedgeless fields of Nieder- walt for the catastrophe which a brave little figure. It was seemed rather lonely all by play the Paris song, to be chosen and Torquay as "Queen of the suchsen show evidence of a everyone convinced will good there were such as her myself.

by Maurice Chevalier, and there

English Riviera." eventually come. | well-saved harvest.

I hoped my

will be fun fairs in the squares, Fifty

hitch-hiker would be luckier,

France's list of other exhibla American tourists will be able to miles along the autobahn as

tions during 1951 is probably the live in luxury hotels in London stopped the car and has a soporific effect on the watched him tramp down the

In Europe, ranging from for as little as 24s to £2 12s a longest "First European Exhibition of liveliest conscience, which road towards Hanover.

Agricultural Machinery" to the day. Smaller hotels will only may explain the disinclina- His departure and the empty

"Exhibition of love, wine, and charge the equivalent of 15s 9d tion I feel while driving been spied by another traveller, place in the car had already along it to pick up hitch and there was no escape from

hikers.

LIKE MAGIC

Lo

INSIDE INFORMATION By MERCURY

CIVIL and U.S. military technical details of the cyclo-

police in Japan are tron.

隐 Korean

the little middle-aged woman who was marching towards me.

to tako her searching for Meekly I agreed some forty miles farther.

Un a recent journey, however, fortunately, she sald, she could sabotage group known there

for the ft. have landed near Kure. was something of not offer to pay such calm indifference

had not a penny left, she She in tho half-hearted handwave of a explained volubly, having paid

a local guide

10N

to conduct her

•

to

Expect increased commando young man who sat by the side safely over the frontier. She raids on the Chinese mainlarid

too came from "over there." A by Chiang Kai-shek's army. fortnight before she had

of the road that on a momen tary Impulse I pulled up.

The

expression on his face en caught by

like magic and he came

to the side of the car,

Where

at

•

tempted to cross by herself and A joint China-Soviet scienti-

the frontier fic

mission has discovered, police. Forrty-eight hours in uranium in West Tibet. did he want to go? "Hanover." the lock-up and all her money "All right, jump in. I'm going taken away. So this time when farther." He threw a rucksack

*

..

ma "guido" murmured an offer Stocks of Soviet-built radar in behind him and settled him- of of self in the seat, a decent enough railway station near the fron-arrived at Shanghal

his services as she left the equipment and jet aircraft have looking young man. "I never tier in the East zone

Bri- expected to get a Hit in tish car," he remarked. Why cepted. "But

д

mo

she ac

am so anxious to see her."

BRAVE FIGURE

Д

•

Japanese prisoners of war, working under Soviet

super- vision,

are building new air flelds near Shanghai.

•

The Singapore police force will be recognised from White-

Expect

*

a military

alliance soon between Persin, Iraq and

+

Russian Intelligence officers arc learning Swahill. Soviet plans to oust Europeans from Africa are being speeded up.

•

•

West Germany is setting up its own secret service with a lawyer as its chief.

•

West German firms are bid- ding top prices for cargo and passenger ships.

•

The Bonn Government offers them tax rebate if they help muster the new merchant navy.

·

•

Denmark has been naked by countries to Atlantic Fact strengthen her garrison troops In Germany.

Hungarian high court judges will in future be elected, not appointed,

Control of jurisdicilon thus passes from the courts to the Communist Party.

•

thirty marks is a lot of money," she sighed. "I not?" sald I. He looked at me only came because my mother quizzically under his peaked is ill here in the West and I

They tell us the British cap. hate Germans," he replied. "Where is it you cume from asked. "Magdeburg then?" I way," was the vague answer.

I was clear that my new com- hall. There was a pause. Magde- panion was anxious to talk burg is in the Russian zone. of conditions beyond the fron- Nine out of ten of the hitch- tler and I settled myself to

come hear a spate of Indignant de Turkey. hlicers on the autobahn from the Russian zone. Some scription

of Kite under come over to visit relatives, Russian-controlled regime. She some come to do a brisk black had, perhaps, more reason than market trade, BOMO evine to many others to feel the totall stay. All

to tarian yoke, for the was have of them mako the frontier crossing

Lutheran deaconess, employed illegally, dodging

by the Church to give school the German children the frontier police

religious instruc- through the tion which may no longer be Belda

The population of Minusinak, panion had

schools. Her atomic energy centre in Siberis, got over without given in

FRIZ with the has increased in ten years from any difculty. "Do you intend

na ardour of the religious fighter. 20,000 to 150,000. to go back?" I asked, "Not Try as it would, she said, the I can help it." Curiosity over State could not quench the zeal came my disinclination to talk of the Church. Sho

Professor Hertz, German there is always a feeling that proudly of the classes the held atom expert captured by Sovlot thono who come over the

rts of odd hours and in troops in 1945, has been killed the at all trontier como from another all sorts of odd places, to which in explosion at Zamgu, slom world. "Why?" I asked in the children come voluntarily bomb factory in the Caucasus. He shrugged his shoulders. "Now that it is hard for them, "Two years in the Wehrmacht the young people discover an on the Eastern Front, six years attraction

A Soviet directive intercepted in Czechoslovakia orders the Forty Soviet laboratories, un- Roman Catholic faith there to der chief scientist Pavlov, ure. end A

by April, 1953. It will- now working on bacteriological affect 85 percent of the popu warfare research.

and

woods. My

com-

* conversation

tho

told me

•

in religion," the South Africa has sent a lend as a prisoner of war in Rusla deaconess remarked. Neverthe ing scientist to Britain to study

POP

lation

·

•

Pandit Nehru is assisting ex- King Tribhuvana, his guest in Delhi, to write a new constitu- tion for Nepal, modelled on the United Kingdom's.

*

The British Government had agreed to release by 1052 Ismael's sterling balances, totall- ing £14,000,000 held in Britain.

•

But she will not permit Israel to use the money to buy Middle Enst oll.

Local yokel

MANY POACHERS

ABROAD IN THE

NO SIR!

DISTRICT

NONE ABROAD ALL DE LIVING HERS

IN THE

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tobacco."

"I've got enough to worry about without worrying about paying for accident insurance."

London Ksuress Service.

Devaluation will mean that

to 21s a day.

Finally, even if the London hotels are full, the sight-seeing American will be able to stay with a family. Already 2,000 householders have volunteered hospitality through the Travel Commission,

Basle Profit

FROM Hugo Kuranda. Zurich.

-The only outstanding Swiss fair is the Trade Fair at Basle, which opens in April.

Those attending this fair (95 percent of the 500,000 visitors expected will be Swiss) will make their visit purely a busi

ness one.

Even 50, the Bosle trade fair La paying proposition.

Privately organised, under Government supervision, the in profis increase every year, spite of the fact that the fair costs £100,000 to present.

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