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"No. Marle-there's not much of a clue from Gromyko's pad, either.”

London Express Service

A MAN LIVES IN

VERY

night 53- year-old President Gottwald of Czecho- slovakin leaves the former royal palace of Hradchin, in Prague-one

of the loveliest castles in Europe-and walks, closely guarded, to small house in the grounds 300

| away.

yards

By

·

WHO

FEAR.

JOSEPH JOSTEN

A former collaborator of Jan Masaryk

and colleague of

Dr

Clementis.

Czechoslovakia

M

HAS MORRISON

GOT WHAT

IT TAKES?

R ERNEST BEVIN

If Our Erule was among the has stepped down last of the Cleth Cap Social- the from the great office ist. Our 'Er was among

of the Homburg Hat

of Foreign Secretary and Mr first Herbert Morrison stepped Brigade. Morrison was born a up to it.

There

Manager.

Truc, it also took him some time to arrive. His father was a London babby, and to Young.

tho Hopeful he bequeathed cheerful cockney good temper of "Move-along-there please."

are smiles all round, cordial handshakes, and more or-less aincere wishes of "Good luck," which is proper. All the same, Ernie loathes 'Erb.

I expect

a howl of protest from the more genteel arbiters of political taste for using this harsh word. However, it to the to honest one.

Our 'Erb waver aspired to be the Artist In Politics: ho almed

be the Engineer. Others

movo might seek to

men's hearts on great Occasions; ho

Born in poverty, the son of a preferred mastering how to widowed village midwife, Bevin keep the machine moving on rose by his own courage, ima- all occasions.

gination, and intelligence to

the effective dominance of the

Colleague Aneurin Bevan

trade union movement of Bri- once uncomradely described him talo.

third-rato. Tammany Boss." For onco an under-

There were some casualties

18

"A

en the road to power. One was statement, Morrison is a first- rate party boss, He permits Ben Tillett, the hero of the

"fathered" Our

I over Ernie openly resented For it is from among this type "Docker's Tanner" strike in the himself camilles, but not feads. that Gottwald and

Com-eighties, who hts

'Erb's treatment of him as a munists fear that the greatest Ernie as a dockers' official.

"new boy" in' politics, 'Erb challenge to their rule of terror will come.

Thirty years later, as tho never obviously hit back. "Dockers' K.C.,” Erle What of Clementis, the did even better than deposed Foreign Minister?

Ben. He beat Tillett

A big trial in Czechoslovakia has been in view ever since the summer of 1049, and Clementis was the most obvious choice for #t.

great

to the postwar leader- of the ship Transport and

ort and General Workers' Union.

Hla direct interven- tions in polities were

by

FRANK OWEN

ns · ៧.

'Erb has courage as weti

He

WILE

A conscientious

objector in 1914. His

disability (he lost the night of his right eye

when three days old)

would have secured

Cockiness

But it la skill in the steel grip was set up in

"A good candidate for the next rare, but not less deadly. He his rejection from military ser- For, such is the state of of the secret police, who at times three years ago.

courtroom confessional in Eas-drove old George Lansbury, the vice.

pacifist, from

from the Jeadership of tension in the Czech capital amount to half of all those pre-

tern Europe is the Czech Foreign The figure, I can reveal, is today, Gottwald no longer seat at meetings, or as officials

nearer 250,000. For the party Minister, Mr Clementis," wrote the Labour Party in the Sanc-

the Economist on Octobe: 22, tions v. Italy issue of 1030 with MORRISON also served in

phrase: "He has M Churchill's feels secure in the palace in exposed administrative posi- members, now numbering over 1049.

the vitriolic 2,000,000, were

too Ewollen

hawked his conscience from at nights. Its size prevents tions, or workers at the airport.

conference it being adequately' guard-

quickly during the Communists* bid for power. "Deviationista" ed.

are being weeded out.

The forced labour camps run "LEMENTIS M into hundreds, and ΣΚΟΤΟ вге being built.

★ 'SABOTAGE'

IN the speech which brought an

end to month-long specula tions as to the whereabouts of Dr Clementis, the former Foreign Minister, Gottwald said:-

warn

"It is our duty to those who listen less to the voler of thoir hearts than to the Voice' of America. Our Security Police know how to deal with this type of people and can count on the full understanding of the public."

It is significant that when the newspapers of the world gave prominence to Gottwald's dis- "mashed plot," closure of

★ HEADLINE

to do

Government in to conference Uke 1940, as Home Secretary, He pretty unpopular an offering. I set fire to the had

things, such as locking people faggots."

and closing newspapers down, and shirked neither.

(LEMENTIS Must Know He The Labour Party elected up

and Clement Attive as leader, Trial Execution," was a headline in the New York Herald-Tribune on December 18, 1949.

and

Loyalty

URING the

Du Churchill

Many dislike

Morrison's cockiness; few doubt his capa-

WET, under city. When Ramsay MacDonald deserting his old ship in Minister of was B Labour and National Service, 1931, he paid him a compliment Bevin was a "democratie dieta- not extended to all the rest of tor" of organised labour. Bevin his late Socialist Cabinet, In- got workers to do what possibly viting him to join his new No-

to the "bread rationing," and the "thousands in Red purge," Radio Prague amormond, as its leading Groups of three Communist news, that "Workers of Czecho- agents attached to each national Clementis, successor to tragic slovakia, in response to President committee, or local Soviet, says Masaryk I knew them both, Gottwald's appeal, have decided who should fill them.

and well-is a shrewd analyst, to increase their output.

These men and women are the commentator - Journalist, "Six thousand tons of coke all-powerful masters of the lawyer, above the set target will be pro- people. duced in Kladno," and "The

According to what we have only an autocratic dictatorship women of Czechoslovakia have Without their consent no one treard from President Gottwald, could otherwise have done, Ho

Lloyd George shared Mac- expressed their satisfaction over can change a job, obtain higher he is koned to Rajk (former came out of the war himself a

Donald's estimate, both of them broad rationing, securing a fair education for children, marry or Hungarian Foreign Minister, who potential Prime Minister,

me in. even change a flat. These mas- was executed) and Trajco Kostov

But Bevin remained steadfast and him. He said to deal for everyone."

those days: "If I were ters can and very often do (former Bulgarian Prime Minis veto everything.

tor, who was executed), which 10 Attlee, though at least once

forming a Coalition Govern- sup brings him uncomfortably car (In 1947) he could have

ment again there is only one Most of the young intelligentsia to the shadow of the gallows.

planted him. Bevin's strength is his loyalty to his friends-as man on that Front Bench whom have no other choice than to take

I would want--Morrison," -(London Express Service) his weakness in his fidelity to up manual labour.

lus grudges.

Will Morrison make a better

It has been stated that 160,000 Communist Party members were Then Clottwald admitted: either screened or punged in the Wages have risen much more greatest vetting of the popula- quickly than output, Trains are tion since the People's Democracy running late, and there have been too many transport dis-. asters. And he stressed: "Trans- port is especially vulnerable to! enemy sabotage and diversion!"

The regime's greatest failure. | is," of course, in-the-sphere-of bread and flour economy. It was the only tople on which the President was almost apologetic. To provide a smoke-screen for all those fallures, the President raised his voice towards the end

PERON'S PRIVATE ENEMY No. 1

U

NEW YORK.

P on the top floor.of. the six-storey build- ing housing South America's most respected of La Prensa newspaper, Buenos Aires, is a little with soundproof room

of his speech and announced that polished mahogany floor.

Dr Clementis, together with two prominent party members, had been found to be in the pay of Western Powers....

★ DISCONTENT

WH

They d'Armes.

call it

the Salle

There in the cld days angry readers who imagined them.. selves slighted in its columas could demand satisfaction,

Dot

HOM does Gottwald fear? by a libel suit, but by n duel with the editor or by arrange- And why?

ment even with the offending reporter.

Beneath the surface and barely auppressed by the machine gun, this once happy republic Is soothing with discontent.

The Salle d'Armes has not been used Intely-though the carefully polished sworda aro

is deep in alill there. But La Prensa's odi-

Czechoslovakia economie difficulties.

It has tor. Dr Alberto Gainza Paz, has

and of

failed to fill its economic Five on his hands the biggest duel Year Planı It is riddled by of his life. His opponent who opposition groups, lange

so far has won every move but small, both inside and outside the still has not found the opening Commmist Party. It is exhaust for a fatal thrust, is Argentina's od by ever-increasing Sovie: demands speedier, deliveries.

for more goods and

POCKET CARTOON

by OSBERT. LANCASTER

dictator, Peron.

A

The Wrecker

¡T sicke for Gainza Faz Anot only the existence

of

Dr.

PAZ

by Frederick Cook

But one Monday 1,300 worker, voted to resume publication. Seven hundred of them were

tional Cabinet.

Bon why Bevin was no very Ernie lacked?

good Foreign Secretary.

He carried them into Foreign Foreign Secretary than Bevin?

Has Erb

got anything that Affairs, which is one good rea-

Does he know any more of foreign affairs and the great tides of economic and Apart from his paper he has Other statesmen's differences social change, and the human that swirl around only one absorbing Interest from his policy he regarded as passions classical music, He owns one-of a personal-vendetta; he had so them?... the world's finest gramophones many of his own. Nobody has

for him and ever boon so "stabbed in the Possibly, no great knowledge built especially

of per back" (his phrase) as Ernest. but perhaps more willingness to thousands of albums

learn. Probably, more steady. formances by the world's best

This Corsican concept of health and vigour. Certainly, orchestras. He lives in a mo- dernistic 12-year-old three-floor public business, which is ad- a lesser burden of the years. house a few minutes from his mittedly rough enough, cloud- Bovin was born in 1881. Morri- office and the Presidential cd his judgment. He quarrelled son in 1808, Palace which

virtually are neighbours. The house brick built and painted a gleaming white, is lavishly furnished la the style of an English country place.

Morning Swim

EFORE Peroofs ban Paz used

BE

with both Jawa and Arabs, Germans and French, Indians and Pakistania.

to. frm

And it seven years seems a dcúce of a lot. aven when you

it

mean may

2 But he held

the are young, friendship of America, and he mighty lot more especially to o certainly tried hard for the convalescing man, when you Nobody have passed the milestone, that friendship of Russia. ever doubted Ernest Bevin's 5RYS:- devotion to his own country, "From There to Here: 70." which ho always set above

to drive in his American car party. to his office for A short staff conference, where the work of the leader writers Was

debated

He left at eight, drove home, and took a swim. An omes messenger would be waiting with page proofs as he stepped from his pool, Nothing went into La Prensa's editorial page without his personal approval.

im-

In his news columns Paz de- mands only two things:

and partiality

securacy. For his readers, he

buys Britain's Reuter service and America's United Press, maintaining only bureaux of his two overseas GWD --- one in Montevideo, Plate, one in Geneva.

hie newspaper but the princinte on their way to work on Tues- Uruguay, Just across the river

of Press freedom throughout day when suddenly gang hood-

one-sided lums opened fire,

Argentina. Peron's

killing one fight with Paz is being closely worker. Then they set fire to watched here in the United the paper's delivery trucks States-nowhere more so. while armed police stood by and

laughed.

Ever since Puron took offen five years ago he has shown a marked dislike for newspaper men who refimet to be yea-men. Particular object of his die favour, has been La Prenso, against which a whole series of sometimes novel wrecking tactics has been brought to bour.

At one time Peron took away

Police occupied the office that night to "protect". It, and Dr Paz. the man-against Peron, was formally charged with violating national security law,'-

· Answering a telephone inquiry from New York, he said guard- edly that he knew nothing, about charges against him be

Its newsprint and distributert it yond what had been published

among

He from his

Paz is tall, grey-haired and distinguished. He has eight children, five of them sons, and fourteen grand-children. Inherited La Prensa father, who had founded it in 1809. He served his apprentice- ship in all departments, and for some years was a junior in the leader-writing rooins,

Missing: 6 Mon

sort of thing La Prensa in up against is illustrated by brand-now

United States in 1947. It roach-

as so

papers who showed in Argentina and overscas, As the story of its readler sppreciation, of the he inng off he added significant pro, This was bought in the benefits of Peronism,

ly, however: "But thank you ed Buenos Aires in safety. To for your interest in the matter." day it still stands - uncrated in "Two" months ago the. Péron=" becked now vendors union de A handsome, scholarly man of the paper's garage, manded · ond-fifth of La atty, Alberto Galuza Paz A Shortage of labour" Prones's classified advertising mulil-millionaire, with a faste

for Savile Row suity not only far prevented Perve from gran edits but owne La Fronsa (Than the required Government permit to bavo át tursiden. "Of course, this was, redised. Fross),

About six men would be needed

handle the paper.

though he has never practivedi gentina's manpower Threatened by the news It is more than dianly, thayyi, that they just cannot be found. Tizkiors, the printers wing: "on – hài cươe aver cumon to trial ben troria do Copyright

→will condunt file own detenca, de

· revenue,

That the : unloa: would not. Pazo, doctorata" "is in for a week. Bo-delicate is Are

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