1951-01-19 — Page 7

THE

ПHE Liberte came up the river before the winter dawn, and as the passengers shivered on deck, all Manhattan sudden- ly seemed to burst into light as the great sky-·

POOR OLD WELFARE STATE

UP TO YOU, MATE

THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 1951.

Continuing

CORL INDUSTRY

World Capright. By arrangement with Dolly Heruts.

RICHEST

THE

IN

By PROFESSOR D.

scrapers were invaded by done, the traffle problem in New cleaners and other early York is dominated by the fact birds and the lights were that Manhattan is an island, so switched on.

CITY WORLD

W.

BROGAN

The destroyers of the old And it is still very much a buildings, the makers of new sellers' market. Not only is ones, every day reveal more of there a boom, but the threat of traffic is funnelled to the bridges the island's rocky framework; restrictions is still in the air. and tunnels. But the chequer- great holes are sunk into the It was a wonderful sight, board pattern of the streets has rock and then filled

up with

The sellers' market is reflected even to those who had often its share in the congestion, for prodigious speed.

in the service, ranging from the that (apart

There is

the glittering new haughty to the willing but in- seen New York, and in- it means

Broadway) there

no dia- skyscraper "300 Park Avenue, competent. are credible to those who had

gonals; unless you are going yet it is a few months since not.

traight North and South

or they wrecked its predecessor, As we all know, there is no East and West, your taxi at the charming old Murray Hill business like show business, but It was hours later that we son

of it is apparently must swing across Hotel. And before being fully one branch Anally got through the immigra- the trafe to the alarm

alterations not too healthy, for it has been of the occupied, extensive tion services and the Customs passenger or of any pedestrian we being made in 100 Park found necessary to plaster some and were thrown Into

the who is confidently crossing on Avenue.

of the great movie houses with whirlpool of New York trafic. the traffic light

the legend, "The movies are It was less than eight months

better than ever." since I had last been in this elty, but I had forgotten what the traffic was like and, in any case. the traffic had worse, much worte,

become

some

Strangling

So, at first sight, the richest city in the world seems to be dying of congestion, strangling. Cars, pressed bonnet to tall, in its own complexity. waited for the trame

lights; The second is that it is being drivers hooted or swore or rapidly pulled down. Every- shouted; then came the green, 2 where, the racket of the house dash forward and then another breaker's drill balters at the hold-up. Huge trucks dominat- ed the trame, and, parked out ear, reinforced often enough by the blasts of the men digging side stores and omees, made foundations. For Manhattan 19 whole blocks impassable.

not only an island, it is a very Whatever is done or has been rocky island indeed,

The girls may be

called

up

From NEWELL ROGERS

NEW YORK. Yankee Stadium and ran the at New York's largest OREA is probably going horses K to give the American racecourses a close second. But players and horses made money. woman fall equality with The dinosaurs have a £27,000

deficit,

It would not surprise me to learn that a building has been torn down before ever being oc- cupled. It is easy to get lost even in districts you know wall, since all the landmarks may be removed and replaced in a few months.

The reason is, of course, tele vision. This is the most re- markable phenomenon since the Arst animated pictures. The current alm of American domes- No, Manhattan is not dying, tic industry is to have two tele- nor is the traffic jam likely to vision sets in every home, at grow less. Yet, this addition to least. congestion, which wise

it is a sign of boom times. might deplore, is welcomed, for.

And to have a television mast! Little openings are insertd in the hoardings

which surround on your home is a "must." There the new constructions, so that are, of course, atories

of un- the sidewalk superintendents," American characters who put the spectators who want to see up the masts but forget to buy how things are going, can do so sets!

at their leisure,

men

A "Must"

Yet despite television, Times

H

It WASN'T Fun Finding Out BERNARD WICKSTEED'S STRAIGHT-TO-THE-HEART

DIARY

OW we laughed when Ho's a short, stocky man, the Turks arrived in white haired, and as wrinkled Korea. Not being old such narrow, Oriental slits that as a little gnome. His eyes aro enough to remember Galli- you'd think he was asleep if it poli as more than a name, wasn't for his thumbs, which he

twiddles all the time. BOMO of us thought of

When the lee broke he started Turkey as just another of answering questions in such

those token countries which belong to tho United Nations Organisation.

There was one Turkish war correspondent who even brought his wife out with him. There was also the smiling Hille man we called Berk, the Turk.

Ho couldn't speak a word of English, and wrote his first despatch home in Turkish. The American Army Signals people handling our mes- mages at that time refused to take it unless it was translated into English.

who were

Sungman Rhee,

A

So a Norwegian who know German offered to be interpre high-pitched voice that it took ter, and the two of them finally me a while to realise he was produced the following memor- talking English able despatch: "I am in Seoul Bigned Berk.”

Someone asked him what he was going to do with all the A couple of days later the two prisoners of war in South of them produced another joint Korean hands, and he said: effort which said: "I am now in "They're a big problem. They Seoul two days. Everyone asks: cat lot of food much needed Where are the Turks? Signed by others. But we can't tell Bark."

them all, oan we

His face wrinkled into a sort Laugh? We nearly died. But of smile, and ho twiddled his a few weeks later we changed thumbs more violently than our tune. When the history of ever. I I'd been one of his Korea comes to be written the prisoners. I'd have written my Turks will merit one of the most will at once. glorious chapters.

When one of their battalions JUST ag'everybody asked Berk was fighting near the Chongchon about his Turks so everyone River the order came through to in Hampstead ask me about the retire. "Retire?" said the ageing Americans.

general who'd fought the British at

Kut el Amara. "No. We'll advance." And advance they did with bayonets.

The Turks, like the

Australians, have old-fashioned ideas about bayo- nets. They believe they are for stick- ing into the enemy and not for opening cans of asparagus.

Several days later

into I

the Turkish correspon- dent

had who

out his brought wife. I met them both

tent

the in

THE BOYS

WHO STILL

BELIEVE IN

BAYONETS

an of

I was queueing up

for the

American officer at Kimpo alr- meat on Saturday and one of field. They had been with the my neighbours said: "Is it true Turks when they were. sur that they won't get out of their rounded and escaped from the trucks and fight? Is it true that

they can't march?" traps disguised as Koreans.

Questions like that are a bit It was an epic story they told of a

irap, you know, because if round the rousing stove, but I you give a straight "Yes" as the And the note about it in my answer you are liable to create diary ends: "Funnily enough the the wrong Impression. others weren't interested. They spent the enening reading the funnies,"

A minute-and nobody spoke

sort of a

to

It is quite true the average American soldier docs prefer riding

mraching. Who doesn't? But if you've evir lived in America you'll know that they're just the same home

An American won't go to post

a letter at the bottom of the road unless he can do it by automobile.

For the New Yorker handle Square, the centre of the older W Syngman Rhee, the Presi- accou

belleves,

batiment vn, tout va."

Now York Noise

amusement industries, still roars and blazes. There seem to be more sky signs than ever, and the crowds who pack Broadway on Saturday nights are thicker The boom does nothing te than ever. They mave, talkin diminish the great curse of New loudly and happily; they crowd York-noise. You can lie in the lobby of the Astor; they all bed near a subway line and feel the amusement arcades. the vibration mixing with the And among those crowds you hooting of cabs and the incessunt see, more and more numerous, the marines, the hum that reveals that New Yoris the sailors,

the soldiers. toes to bed. And

And

realise that steam pours up from the heat- this country is fighting a great street war, is suffering terrible losses, faees the prospect of PUBLISHERS, says literary ing systems below the

have level as if the city was about to and that among the cheerful being conscripted into the armed agent Scott Meredith, forces and factories and on to made offers for a novel written and not been in New York's "Roaring Forties" are many who

fire.

young men milling round the farms under a plan model- 50 years ago by a then unknown I 1ed сп Britain's wartime English author. The novel department stores for a long in no very long time will be in

action and national service,

author-Win-me. In the crowds of purpose the Marines who broke out of no doubt emulating ful women can be seen a few harassed men, but these stores the Korea trap. are almost exclusively feminine New York is a lot more than at any rate at this time of the mere commercialised lights and

noise. So is America.

men.

She

"Savrela."

"The

She was an ex-captain" in stronger than nine years ago.

ble.

sion of these times.??

never

you

the

suppose this outlook on life for the fact that, in dent of the Republic of Korea? spite of all their other magni- I went to see him ones.

ficent equipment, they haven't a pair of boots for marching. My diary says: "Saw S. R. Ho

You

remember those boots lives in a palace with a green with straps above the ankle roof and his clock is 14 hours that they wore in the last show? just."

Well, they're still wearing them We all went

in, Korea They're fine for furnished in Western style, and general service, but not for a sat round in a circle with our forced march. notebooks waiting for the pre-

Again and again I've put in

diary: "God bless sident. The clock on the wall my sald five o'clock, but it was British Army boots.” really only half-past three.

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into a

room

circle with us, and for a full a side door and sat down in the

minute nobody said a word.

Presently he came in through

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We thought he was going to say something and he thought

the other hand I don't we were. So we all sat there in ON

think you'll find a single silence, looking at each other, British soldier and wondering when something doesn't praise the Americans for out there who was going to happen.

their warm-hearted generosity.

Holy Year Profit And Loss

By Jonny Nicholson

even

Meties? Rations? Candy?

They give the stuff away to our fellows with such abandon you would think every G. I. had a Marshall aid plan of his own.

This generosity got me into trouble with our chaps in an indirect sort of way. I cabled home that in their Christmas parcels they would like tea and yet more tea.

true when WGS

I cabled, but before the parcels arrived there had been some incredible happenings at Pyongyang.

And the girls shudder over it, ston Churchill. In the first poll on the ques-

only ton

BHORTAGES? Yes, labour one among Fifth Avenue secretaries and college will be short even though the girls voted for the British plan, labour force

9,000,000 year.

America's Wrens

Housing? There are 4,250.000 Others sald: "If we have to more places to live in cities go, we will go gracefully. But than there were nine years ago. we want to volunteer.".

Nylons! Reserve slocks ore Meanwhile, the girls are going seven times greater than fo 10 get into war-conscious 1942. Whisky? Stocks twice clothes, Skirts will got shorter us large, Food? Harvests are and norrower-if that is posal- a third above prewer, and 1931

goals are still higher,

Komo. ning on the exchange rates, rosaries and religious souvenirs. But Fifth Avenue's fashion

material AVIATION. Warplane pro- THE

results dictators decreo that the girls

of the rationing of foreign Cur- The official souvenir shops Rome's Holy Year can only rency to stop muat

trying look duction is going up, fvc-fold

to

people travelling round St Peter's must als0 economic conditions have done very well to look ever 1950. And so is hover-be surmised, because the Vati- abroad, glamorous and try

And if its finances throughout the world, the Iron one could pick pretty and fresh. Said one plane production-from 100 last can never makes

out one man fashion creator: "Women have your to 500 already under con-known. But permanent to help us escape from the ten- tract. They are for battlefield percent increase in alt 30 Curtain, the shortage of ships, who had profited in 1956 per

people who do not haps it is Signor Giordani, who rescue ond anti-submarine the 5,000 Vatican employees like

It owns several to use acroplanes."

souvenir shops, work,

has been announced“

hotel and and has uppealed to Italian

the concession for WIRE-TAFFING should be

who had photographing group audiences restaurant keepers CRIME. The Baker

The Economic Street lagalised to track

Co-operation raised their prices to down Red

with "do nothing

the Pope, and the sola gave £1,000, that is not in accordance with photographic rights on the root spics,

the Congressional Irregulars a club dedicated to Administration suyn Committee

tho

towards Un-American

greatness of Sherlock 000

building

and the high aims of the Anno of St Peter's. Activities.

Holmes-ruised money for acquipping pilgrime bostels and Santo." Maque in London, They were hotels. Here food and lodging

available TV% fret "candid eye" test going to put it in the restaurant were

at non-profit Hotellers who confused pil- But most people would agros. screening of Oklahoma's State

Dr Watson

prices. Hundreds where

of pilgrims grims with rich tourists fright that the only real profiteering 18 supposed Legislature in action caught one to have met the man who in- who arrived on foot, with their ened away many middle-in- has been done by the Pataccart stamped by come might-have-been pilgrims, and the Borcatuoli. The Patar- provincial MP. asleep and troduced him to Holmes until cards correctly another reading a paper.

they heard with Indignation priests en route, became the The Government Tourist Agency cari buy clay statues for about that the place is now a milk-gucata of the Vatican for five appealed to them to lower their

150

lire

cách. dip them in gold POODLE OWNERS are angry, bar. Posmbly it may go up at days.

soluilon and resell prices. The batellers explain- or marble The poodle Club. deerees that the bombed gap they regard as

ed that they were being under them at, anything from 5,000 only poodica wearing

Five million the the "sito of Holmes's flat.

pilgrims were cut by the pilgrim hotels and 50,000, lire. The Bartatuoll Continental cut-ruff in front,

optimistically expected. Rather refused. Hence, there was no the bag snatchers have shaved back, and, pompons....

TV: The experts who get over three million came. Two-1950 edition of the Year Book the clearest proft, for they may be shown at dog shows, paid for advising on viewers thirds of these were, Italian. for Italian Hotels.

need, no workshopá" or respect- Such dictation, if not the cut housówiło turn on the set with number of; the Holy. Your of habita are arguing: Does the But, this was still ten times the

abla clothes, nothing but the Probably the only people trick of a trade which can be who have materially proffed cast FREHISTORIC animals, the did not do the dishes first? Or The Holy Year begun

no by the Holy car have been a learnt in Naples. There are about 200 Boraluoll dinosaurs, at the Natural His- does she turn it on with a badly that the oficial. Vatican the inhabitants of itiile villages thought to be in: Home. Only tory Mitem, drew more spec- feeling that she has earned the newspaper,

Osservatore Roko Loreto, mert Azkona, who 640 bags were officially report intore than baseball playara at right by doing the dishes, first? mano, blamed the lean begins devate themæelyes to making i

Medcatulene gly

OT

is regarded as un-American.

a feeling of guilt because she 1000,

to

mado

It

When it was known that the city was to be abandoned the Americans threw open their stores to the British.

You can imagine how quickly the word

went round! Every British trucks that could be spared was pressed into service for the grandest bit of looting in the war. And all perfectly legal.

Boldes rations there typowrlters, tents, sleeping bags and several thousand ofMeera' raincoata. But the greatest haul of all was tea-cases and cases,

So you can imagine how popular I was when the Christ- parts arrived all of them 'stuffed 'with TEAM

TOMORROW

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