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THE MUDLARKS

1951.

WHY have they BANNED CHEVALIER?

PARIS.

P\HE, refusul of the United States Government to grant

a visa to Maurice Chevaller has caused little sur- prise in Paris. Chevalier was said to have signed the Communist-sponsored Stockholm "Pence" Appeal, to have sung at Communist fetes, and to have supported the Party in other ways,

from SAM WHITE

For the

What happened to Lltar? nearly four years after Liberation he remained jobless because any appearance of his on a public stage threatened a Communist riot.

Lifar has only recently been able to resume his professional career, but his appearances are still Interrupted by demonstra- tions and occasional strikes of Communist stage-hands,"

His case is not excep- tional. The singer Yves Montand was refused à visn

munists" likely to apply for

Those not directly threatened some time ago. A score of

visns in the future.

were suborned by more subtle French

and stage

means. The Communist Party Ан for appearances on in France are a great national stars are known to figure

force. They are the Communist platforms -

largest in the French in the American Embassy's purely as entertainers of Plent

Parliament, and polled 6,000,000 "Black Book" of "Cafe Com- course stars Οἱ such vates at the last elections.

screen

Sitting on the Fence....by

A Russian

nim, "Ballerina," tells the story of two artists who but deviate from Communfàm, return to the party line through love.

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1 am ashamed, too, Natusha. I for- got about the Five Year Plan till I saw you crying.

NATHANIEL GUBBINA

may

trichloride be why Joe Donkes, the

in the bread to make the loaves whiter,

well-known American, rang personal call.

What did my tears remind T you of, Ivan?

HAT you, Nat?

Sure is, Joe,

Where

did

you

蘊

gel that

of the new dam at Stalino phoney American accent, Nat?

From the American films, Jac.

gorsk,

Oh, Ivan..

When you were rude to me that night I thought of Com- rade Gromyko, who is so won- derfully rude 10 everybody. And your low, vibrant volce, Natasha, what did that remind

me of?

Something exciting, Ivan?

Yes. The whining wheels of the new factory al Omsk..

Ivan, I shall cry again. You speak so beautifully,

1 saw

But it was not until you dancing that I knew that love and the party line were the same thing. In your grace- ful yet aggressive movement, your defiant gestures, I saw the grim resolution of our leaders to defy the dogs-and-cannibals of capitalism. In other words, Natasha, I saw you as one of our new tanks.

Not our heavy tanks, Ivan, Don't say that.

How are you doin over there? Oh, fine, Jou It's stopped raining.

Since when, Nat? Since last October.

Can't be doin the crops any good, Nut..

If you believe what you read, we're not having any crops this year,

What was the result, Nat?

Why. Joc apart from driving dogs mad, the doctor said it killed 250,000 people. Looks like another simplifica- tion, Nat,

stature as Edith Piaf and a hundred others rendily and regularly accept invitations to do so.

Why? Most of them are with nut any political convictions and many could look forward to profitable dollar contracts in the minutes. The news spread. The U.S.A. Why should they risk s reputation of Chez Lottle was misunderstanding about their

political sympathies?

made.

When threo rabbiis had been stewed in the same wate

new dish was created by the master cheta pot au feu, garnished with canned pilchards and thickened with breadcrumbs.

The next day a three-course Juncheon was served to eager customers. Filling all available- kitchen space they sat down to pot

au feu, hareng grille and pouding toploca glace, left dver in the refrigerator,

THE answer makes a curious

story of blackmail, crude Press-agentry and cupidity. It adds up to an impressive tribute to the power of the Communist Party in France.

In some

cases the support given to the Party by French stage and screen stars is the result of blackmail and nothing

more.

THEY control a powerful Press Trust. It runs two big circulation morning papers in Paris, a popular Paris evening paper, a dozen provincial dailles circulation week- 1 big | and soveral

stage and screen reviews. The powerful Communist Press will flatter only those who support the Party, and attack those who don't. In short, a popular French star who does not "play

lies and monthlies including

ball" with the Party risks get- ng bad notices in a large section

of the French Preas,

Finally, there are those stars- a small minority--who are con- vinced Communists. Among thom is the singer Yves Montand.

He sets an example by singing songs

A with

strong pro- pagandist favour. Montand's most popular song at the moment is a ballad telling the sad story many of a singer who refuses to sing the kind of songs "that please the rich."

After the Liberation French stars found themselves in the embarrassing position of

That evening the cher served his masterpieces four-course dinner beginning with pato de You've got something there, poisson

toast au

dripping. Joe, If we kill of the popula- followed by Tele de Morue tion at that rate u'll soon l'eau (boiled cod's head to have no housing problem. you), the now famous Lapin aand most tar-seeing of Resistance What's all this about you la Maison, and fromage stockpiling sulphur? -

It's for defence ngainst aggression, Nat. Does it affect

you any?

Yeah. Plenny. It's used to manufacture margarine, So if you have all the sulphur we have no margarine.

Well, that certainly docs

Why, that's just too bad, Nat. simplify things, If you don't I'll see what we can do about have any crops you don't have it to worry about then any more. What do you pay for a sult of clothes now, Nat?

Thanks a lot, Joe,

You're welcome, Nal. We I haven't paid for a suit for can't have you, in the front line some time, Joe.

against Communism with no margarine to sprend on your poisoned bread.

་

Chez Lottie

"ET" eat at Lottie's"

Well, that simplifies things, too, doesn't it, Nat?

Certainly does, Joe. What's the price of steaks

This is the cry that has over there?

gone up from all the cats with- in a mile of The Sea Nest since Why, Joe, that's just another your Uncle Nat was obliged to: simplification. It's 10 long take up cat-cookery when he since. I had one that I can't was alone for a few days. remember

No, Natasha. Our new light tanks. But as you grow older you shall be my heavy tank. Together we shall rumble down the years, strong in our faith. scornful of our enemies, till suppose world Communism is achieved, bread?

Personal

call

Transatlantic telephone con- versations between representa- live Britons and Americans to discuss domestic conditions have been reported recently, This

That sure is tough, Net. I Chez Lottle started quietly. No Like most famous, restaurants, you get plenty of

customers appeared on the first day, but soon the fragrant

being open to collaboration charges. At the time the Com- The ballad ends with Montand munists were the best organised broken, unemployed. groups. Just as they went about Montand is a long way from etranger au dustbin, or uncat-seizing. printing-presses and the the breadline yet. He is among able

rescued best Foreign-cheese

office buildings, so they the three too paid music hall went about seizing names..

and cabaret stars in France. from the dustbin.

Now the family has returned the restaurant has been closed, But hungry customers howling in the garden may take heart.

singers deal

To the compromised stars they Other popular themes with offered in best gangster fashion fellow-travelling their "Protection" if they made with anti-American or anti-war certain declarations, agreed to themes.,

The moment chef Gubbins is lend their talents to Party

A Communist Alm magazine alone again Chez Lottie causes, and made cash donations recently published-a list of French stars who have signed the Stockholm appeal. They numbered 84.

left will reopen, perhaps in time lo-Party funds, for the arrival of Manhattan A majority of those approached Mouser, American Bowery cat,in this way yielded. Some did for the Festival of Britain, not. Among them,was the

-(London Express Service) ballet star Serge Lifar.

His knowing look may be a fluke...

HOUGH most mothers will deny it, the

new-born child has no personality...

Psychologists have watched babies

behaviour.

We certainly get plenty of emell of Lapin a la Maison from birth, and have recorded every detail of bread, Joe. But I read some (plain bolled rabbit) reached their

of it's every twitching nose. In the nothing distinctive about the infant persona- They could, recognise

ities during the first four months..

most

where that poisoned.

district. Not a Communist plot, Nat?

By lunch time the next day No A doctor at an inquest half a dozen furry faces ap-

over here said the authorities peared at windows and doors,

been putting nitrogen The food disappeared in a few

have

A baby inherits the raw materials from which its personality will be formed.

Definite persona-

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lity features have PERSONALITY TYPISTS WHO WENT 'RED' usually developed

MILLION German Com-

the Soviet zone.

There is one basic test: could the comrade be com- pletely trusted to fight for the Kremlin. if the call came?

organisations" - the German-

one.

Stalin

At six

when a child is six a further research report by CHAPMAN. PINCHER

Recordings of "brainwaves" marged to make a reasonably munists are being From KURT NEIDHARDT, Soviet Friendship League is months old. Before then, his

knowing look may be a minule electrical charges which stable character. "screened" by party tri- who escaped recently from The league will give full op-ukė,

can be picked up from the sealp

But sometimes they fail to bunals in session all over the Soviet zone, where he was portunity for its members to

by machine-show that these

separate are mix, and eventually developments an editor of the East German show complete acceptance of

personality months some due to changes going on inside into two groups forming two dis- Communist News Agency

and all his work bables are placid and con- the nervous system.

tinct personalties. This dis- will give instructions, too, on

treasing mental disorder, called latest party lines.

tented, others restless and Those left in the party must enterprising.

The brainwave pattern is com- split mind or dual personality, Some are The same hour that a Russian also serve art apprenticeship.

plex and haphazard until a child seems to be increasing through-

out the civilised world, plane-set-him-down-at-a-Tied The-training-course for them sociable, being happy when is five years old. Arthy airfield on the outskirtas more advanced, more strangers are making a fusy ***

As a healthy child grows, and When one half of a split"der= of Berlin, Ulbricht ordered a strenuous, too. conference of party officials.

of them. Others are uneasy the different units in the brain bonality takes control of con Local committees of the party

half is unfamiliar when

people work together more efficiently, sciousness the other -made up of those who have Ulbrichi taliasd for two hours won status as teachers will nurse them.

the brainwave pattern useally driven out. So one side of the his newest about

becomes simpler. It is normally mind is usually unaware of what directive. mark the progress of each up- is known Stalln

to have told prentice in a bookdet which will

These early signs seem to like an adult's by the time the the other half does. This is the

child is. 14.

explanation of the genuine inevi. Ulbricht that two moves

must record the number of

"Jekyll-and-Hyde" typë, be made in Germany; ---

attended in the week. Absence be fairly reliable guides to

There is convincing evidence two TO RID the party ranks of from successiva lectures future temperament. The

to show that people who do not A: NEW ONE. fivo main traita or in- have an adult type of brainwave Government typlats, will require to be explained.

and shop-

gredients, which normally pattern have immature person- THE GENIUS.

develop in each personality alities,

Inquiry into the comrades fitness to continue in member ship is not the only aim of the purge. Its wider purpose is to condition party members to re- gard Stalin's plans of imperialist conquest as sacred and table.

aro

The new Communist parties

to be thoroughly in- 1

doctrinated with the idea that

the

Stalin is the sun and centre of girl secretaries,

history.

儒

lectures

But it: will show, him » RE á

pigmy beside Stalin, whosd and good: fellowship. ubricht

- gave, orders for the genius changed one mixth of the “screening. The party. bership card became

mom-carth; not to mention the post-

IF The Socialist gulo, into the most treasured

BUT

QUT. the personality does not always split into good and evil halves.

the universe, not only the keeper who flocked to join in Greatest living thinker and order, to keep their jobs or teaching: will representare Assertiveness, Stability, This immaturity usually shows scientist, but the greatest in make life easier for themselves; Lenin as revolutionary, as Persistence, Sensitivity, and itself as uncontrollable temper

THE If he is all these, it follows 2 TO BUILD up a party of the founder of the Soviet Slate Spontaneity, the quality Many men who have committed

A healthy personality usually motiveless murders on budden seis in its mature form between that he is also the greatest go with Stalinist ideas.

the revolutionario imbued and as a man who achieved that makes for sociability impulse had, when doctors tested the ages of 25 and 30, erdi"not" only "of the next wor

thom, brainwave patterns typiéni but the list- war and all the

of children,

Psychologists can measiro wars preceding it.

How much people are set in their While a healthy child ways they call..., this rigidity_ developing his distinctivetem by seeing how well they can. these traits independently character by developing will ways. bo cherished, apparently, ako Stalinist attempt to change his and in a different order of his own. the ration cards.

tory go test the disciplined assertiveness arises first, a school after the age of eight a child's Nobody's personality ever sota. Coin-

historian of the future will per child may be a bully. If sensi, unpubolty to suggestion take completely. Your personality minist" of, the Soviet s000,- Now the membership card mit himself, no doubt whatever ytty temporarily predominates playgo y venga wwstoday to alightly different from the little Lenin "of East Germ has to

unt Simin (was not • Lgain's he muy be a cry baby, Hardco

maktabanyesterday MalAdd lyout:will cha 19L-Munake, subnity devaloys, inte" ngoblia ) By the Ume a begliby boy or - diuprent, again tomorrow.

me pain through a delinquent miri.de: 29: the main ingrédients personality hava, usually

being

It is, in fact, Lenin who is

Mirgod. DA,

MOVES VAUTERU

„ULBRICHT, -trim-bearded ? top:

Monohy Obralikaa MOKURORT is extension, of: the // WFERENT: Children develop perament, he also strengthens his learn to do old tasks, in new

directive back to Berlin when ficorythomi

Thoso

Tests show that.