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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JULY 19, 1951.

ÚT PATIENTS

"I wish you people wouldn't cross your fingers' so tightly' whenever anybody mentions peaco negotiations."

NEW

Princess

YORK

Elizabeth

Prince Philip were to drive down Broadway they would

he given a greeting which recep- would make recent.

tions and parades here look like the merest shoulder- shrug.

The Princess and the of Edinburgh will

Duke

the

to spend a few days in United States after they have completed their Canadian tour, Possibly the enormous popu larity and respect which Prin

Elizabeth Ignites in cess

not hearts are American realised by the British autho- rities.

DON IDDON'S DIARY

proud Everywhere there

frenzy

13

programme.

HAVE YOU HAS COLORADO BRETLES

[ HOT AIR

London Express Service

TUESDAY

chains widely

silver bracelets, sliver and bangles. More worn than gold-and cheaper.

Latest definition of a youth- ful Agure-Something you when you ask u woman

age.

Clark Gable, who good vehicle, may Lancelot in "Knights

needs play

of

get her

IAIN COLQUHOUN concludes his series, "How Strong" Is♫l

Russia ?***

A GIGANTIC

FRAUD

OLITICALLY, the strength of this opposition. In

PU.S.S.R. boars many very many ways many sections

of the characteris of the Soviet citizens are much.、 tica of a whited sepulchre, better off thru over they were

Czarist In

days-and thesu It has much of the facade

form the only standard of of a liberal social demo-

comparison which they have. behind that cracy, but

empty form lle the realities of the secret police and the concentration camp.

In form the Soviet Union 18 governed by representatives freely elected. In fact it is ruled by the dictatorship of the Communist Party.

•

of If the meaningless facade

the the Soviet Constitution, periodic elections and the in- of the numerable activities

local central,

and regional Sovieta disappeared today, the practical existence of the Soviet citizen

be would hardly

changed.

Workers may well faco savage punishment if they go absent or if they fall to meet their production stints. But, on the other hand, they are looked after if they are sick. They have holidays with pay. Their children

are educated efficiently than more

their The fathers were.

throat of the labour camp can. hardly be than the reality of

worse

slavery:

Society is so far from class- less in the Soviet Union that thous ds upon thousands of people have been given a per- In the regime. bo the factory. who can now earn

may

Formally, Soviet low does not conal stake allow its citizens to be con- These may demned without fair trial, Ac- managers tually, by official decree, the 40 to 60 times the wages of a

Or they of Commission the skilled worker. Special M.V.D., without ever bringing be the minor party officials, tho him near a court, can condemn clerical workers, fenchers, fore- him to deportation or to the men or tractor drivers who en- labour camps.

joy a score or so of little prl- vileges.

unions Formally, the trade are powerful, In reality their power is exercised over the worker, not in his behalf.

The regime relics on these. They live among the vast mass of the people and from it they They their ranks. replenish

und hope. Formally, the Soviet Union is

represent stability the land where the workers and They are responsible quite as peasants have come to power. much as the organised Com- In fact, between 1937 and 1950 munists for making the Soviet the number of workers in the Unlon tick, Supreme Soviet tell from 4

to 35 Sir percent the the number of

civil servants Sen from 31 percent

would 24 percent to 18 percent. The from the Soviet peoples, the

per

and It would be unreasonable to percent pearants from expect a spontaneous upheaval do- as they are by have increased minated

the by to 47

police and leavened

have They may privileged. Borne reasons to revolt; but they also have many not to. and very little chance to do it.

on

A

The

at Disagreement

the top chance of might provide modifying and moderating the regime. There is A cerlain amount of quarrelling going on now in the Politbureau. younger members appear to be trying

thrust themselves lo be coming up forward. end against Malenkov and Molotov In the process.

is such Round Table." Olivier of building that be better casting. Mack be invited tower, are now rather

of it. I admire them for their

them the earth lumps and the hard nelt would preside soon over a cent. lack of envy. Many of live in tiny, cramped, suffoco Manhattan rock shudders. reunion of his old stors-Harold

rooms, and

Louise ting apartments,

The American churches, too, Lloyd, Buster Keaton.

Fazenda, Sally Ellers, Gloria tenements surrounding the UN building. They show greet for have launched a great building Swanson, and Chester Conklin:

It cannot be supposed that bearance.

he discovered them.

the Russian people are unaware of the gigantle fraud which is My own family does not.

Maurice Evans, who once being

them. perpetrated the There is a mild crisis in

dry-cleaning establish- Nor can it be

assumed that Iddon household. Afler spend

ran a ment in Islington, will play they like it. A vist to New York and

Caesar in "Androcles and the Washington, such as that car- ing two and a half months in

I call progress. Lion." This and England my two daughters do

Opposition to the regime has the King ried out by

Manhattan. Hfe in

Jean Simmons and Robert always been strongest among 1999, would give not like Queen in

Newton will co-star. They miss the English country

the peasants, who still remem great joy to the Americans.

jakes

ber the deportations, the mas- side, the lanes and the

the fields.

starvation of When asked recently to pose sacres and and the bright green There have, been some

for bathing-costume pictures days when collectivisation was fortunate reparts here

visit to US. They miss the pageantry

The Miss Simmons sald

modestly: being forced upon them, lined "Princess's

London.

their don't think I om equipped higher degree of collectivisation banned," which have made me

-wife

Ands also My

is being forced upon them now have which and shudder

New for it.” American way of life

and there is evidence tint this aroused American ire.

hard, and irksome after

is being resisted passively. tain.

There is evidence too, from

But that is probably about sources, of passive all that they will accomplish. resistance to the adult educa- There have been disagreements tion programmes and of a cer-

before in the highest ranks of tain amount of disobedience the Soviet hierarchy, but they within the Communist youth have not loosened its grip on urganisation. There are traces, the country.

Timely gesture

that a superb opportunity helping them can be From the view-

point

of high

un- head-

Politics it would A visit by

be

an inspired stroke of diplo-

of

years During the past five nearly £300,000,000 worth of been religious buildings have built. They are of all denami- nations, of all creeds and three cults. During the first

churches months of this year

about worth and synagogues

bullt. £35,000,000 were the churches are increasing hot, following, particularly in, Bri-, York, striving to make

law-abiding ekly, they seem to be succeeding,

Silver proferred OR this, of course, some thanks

86.

more

At a and

no

Sharman Douglas is carrying on with her pubilety job, al- though she and Jean Simmons

Tonger

close Russian Buch

London hit

fre

friends.

A

to

These disagreements seem to have caused the postponement of the Party Congress which was due to be held in 1948,

for a saircut miscioner Thomas Murphy, the_OLORES Gray, who was a hit too. of more active opposition war; and especially defeat-

"war"

Myself-I struggle along, set ANGLO-AMERICAN relations thing down again slowly. 1 sect Sunday harmonious finding it difficult to get used

for to paying is. for a ignored, newspaper, Bd. for a local, tele

phone cali,

are due to Police Com-

75,-for-a Somehow £20 man with the Keystone Cop in London, Intends to stay among the remnants of a week seems a hell of a lot to moustache and the bowler hat hiere a long time and do like-time partisan bands, particular in a war, would in fact provide

ly In the Ukraine. Estonin, Latvia and Lithuania. a maid; £2 of the gas-light era. Mr Mur- wise on Broadway.

phy has done a good job clean- Alfred Hitchcock, who

too, that when gradually

We know, Amert- canised, and is finding plots the Germans advanced Into the Ukraine they found many Rus. and hard to find, says: "Where can

that

slans willing to side with them you get flm stories

against the Soviets until the better than today's headlines?"

atrocities started. his Why not base your pictures on New the news?

macy to

have

the royal couple

Day

cross the border the Princess 10s, for a steak. Ing up the city's police force, becoming

and get a glimpse

the

זנד

strikes me DS

the but unfortunately, he now de being

and paris to become a judge. high alde,

£3 10%, n week command a higher salary,

garage

of .scene.

U.S.

The

Princess

would give

and

the

Duke

*ar appearS

my Ex-

cessive.

could

call on

Food

*prices

Murphy has even Impact on fashions, and York's more during shops sport bowlers on the Murphy about four times model. Some other brave

females

with are appearing

left

women

and

the White House Americans

and perhaps also.

visit the new

headquarters of

the United

Na-

New

Great joy

tlona in York. No one would be more

welcome.

The big, green glasshouse on needs New York's East River distinguished visitors.

the truce talks in Korea, it is In the doldrums,

in the

as high as those

England - In appear to me pleated paper umbrellas unreasonable. wearing men's bow-les.

I am annoyed that my rent is twice what I would have to pay for a similar fat in London.

Despite I tell you the Englishman, particularly one with a good job, can live twice as well in money England on half the the American recelves in his pay envelope. I repeat what I Bald in london-there are mil-

I went there the other day

It i and looked around,

massive magnificent building, A towering slice of steel and

their

Brisb

glass 38 storeys high, dominat lions here who live in worse Ing the eastern end of 42nd- conditions than street. The ground floor has counterparts.

0

to

are a

the

The other fushion

popularity of

THE

are

The March of Time series of Alms is to be discontinued. to a dead hall, Time comes but not for the first time.

FOOTNOTE: The cease-fire in Korea should be applied news is merely to guns but to silver- writers and longues.

the only possible opportunity

in for liberal elemenia

the U.S.S.R, to raise their heads in effective opposition,

Politically, Russia's stake in peace is very high. If she is to use war at all as an instru- ment of policy it must be a sudden war of quick success, Russian prisoners, under giving no opportunities for sub- General Vlasov, fought for the versive elements to be stirred Germans and a Itassian divi- up within her borders, sion formed for

of the Western Festung. Europa.

a time part

for the West, defences of The lesson

therefore,. is again prepared- ness, for 11 Is against the pre- There is little doubt, there, pared opponent that war

quick not fore; that many Russians dis most unlikely to win

therefore most type-like the regime, But it is casy success and is

to make far too much of the unlikely to be started.

SUPER-TULIP IN THE DESERT

MERICA'S newest atom years giving birds intelligence

A bomb is exploded. Une feats.

23

THE CHAPMAN. PINCHER COLUMN

•

huge black-and-white square But the meat allotment, the

His results suggest that par- in smooth stone, the celling is

streamlined second later a gigantic fiery the as lofty a cathedral's, and motor-cars,

tulip springs out of the rots are as good of mathematies escalators and kitchens, the bathrooms?

Nevada desert. bright chromo

mary "well educated hot here It's often too express lifts move swiftly be-

Like previous A-bombs ex- women. tween floors.

eat meat; motor-cara

ground. the

At his laboratory in Munster, nuisance in New York and you ploded near the

kit- burst arst took the form of a can't live your life, in a

Then Frofesor Otto Koehler taught chen-many of them are vary truge, white-hot tin hat. ordinary, anyway or fit from as it lifted from the ground, like his pot parrot Geler to solve this

a hot-air balloon, it expanded mathematics? puzzle-

At Noxingham Oeneral Hos- one bathroom to another.

inlo scarlet fireball.

Rising rapidly, the ball suck- ed wo

crippled with rheumat a sta-Nike column of different number of spots pain- view for less than two seconds. pital a 15-year-old boy, badly black dust and smoke. Then, as ted on its lid were laid out in Human beings-even expert thaths, has been restored 10 it bolled out further, it's edges

mathematiclan could nat frayed like the petals of a ragged tulip.

Very impressive, except that no one seemed to be doing any work.

Inside a few clerks dozed at their desks, half a dozen visitors mat on benches resting their

Why do I stay? Because the Press foot, and even in section reporters stared glumly have a job to do.

at handouts and wrote nothing. Church activity

Malik gone

I

AIR Gladwyn Jobb and Ameri- IT has been a week wicked for

Seconds later, when the still

woman's left hand. And Geler The drugs are still producing did not do his counting aloud. astonishing results, and doctors The professor timed the, are slowly teaming how to ed to assess the number of spots, quen208. parrot to see how long it need control their unpleasant conso- on a card. It got the number the card was on

Five small boxes each with a night when

a row (see sketch).

**

❤

Ar-

time.

count the spots in such a short health by cortirone, after aft So Koehler tested them other treatments failed. Now

to see what was the biggest one small Infection every fort-

The parrot, was then shown, a number of spots the nerves, which probably dery crown struck a layer cl ca's' Warren Austin have accounts for the above bill of warmer adr a few hundred feet headquarters. Mr Jakob Malik we have no bread owing to a the mushroom cloud which hea of pots as one of the boxes, courting them, not appeared often at the now complaints. Here in New York above, it flattened out to fort card bearing the same number immediately recognise without has departed for Moscow. bakers' strike, and cake, which becoms Ute symbol of atomic Geler's task was to recognise

noting is not very edible, is a

poor threat.

A telegraph operatorit until substitute. our gloom, Badd: they have installed the bar in tho delegates' founge and then

start to move,"

things

I

the

without Without bread, and circuses-there is no Festival Think we might miso there, only a rather tiresome more action in the big glasa convention of Shriners house when the air-condition people are making do with ing is installed. It was 102 de paredes, drab and dull after of the grees behind the hot glass win the glitter and colour

**called. Here dows when

Household Cavalry of London. tomatoes would have sprouted men and orchids, bloomed, but men mtroly: willfed.

2.

NewYorkarą, at den Now

* towards the antcavagant, peuco

they could hight is keeping him f

At the Bristol Royal Infirmary doctors have restored a woman's Most of the people put up sight by injecting ACTH. She suffering from a.kkiney WOR the mumber of spots on the card, exsetly the same core as the

explain which affected her waddle up to the box bearing parrot.

eyes co seyrrely the could barely. the came number of spots, "and

Unelt man learned to give tel light from darkners. 1 the lid with its besk.:

numbers names he was no bet-

"There was

unexpected ter at counting them a parrot." and astonishing Improvement" in the patient's vision," Dr George Korhler concludes

mars reports, "After 14 days she could read, fairly small British print.”

THE CASE OF THE COUNTING PARROT.

THE belief ar it opener the correct box that parrote a rewarding nut popped out of Grato a hole. An automatic artn Jess wish touched the bird Vghtly on the .no

are

more back giving it a fright when it native wit opened the wrong one, than

RHEUMATISM CURE.

WARNINGB. by

dicaload Association proctors Retailing at £1,400 an cunce,

Emophobe After a few frights Geler about the after-effects of the ACTH is about 85 times drører

-Londonosítása. Esrules);

Deprived of public plcaniros,

Yorkers are a working E52 furiously. in: the inflsyned 'tem- been disproved by a German of spots up to sobre more and OTH; do not mean that than gold,

professor who has spent seven then the number of fingers on the new treatments have depped,

rect has learned to: "cosan?? any number anti-rheumatien: devce obrtison