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World Cupright by arrangement with Daily Herald.

Miss Jane Graham comes

back from Prague

workers, as at the open-cas! mine 'in Sokolov and at the saw- mi in Marianske Lazne.

DOES WHAT SHE SAW AND FOUND OUT Very, or almost deserted of

OK HOLIDAY THERE MEAN A NEAT SUCCESS FOR MR. ARTHUR HORNER?

FOR

BEN GURION

The man who showers his lond with taxes goes back to power at key point in the Middle East

by JON KIMCHE

OR the second time in their three years of exis

tence, the people of Israel have returned David Ben Gurion to Parliament ns head of their largest party. That is what Israel's second General Election was about. All other issues promoted by the 17 'parties were really irrelevant.

What mattered was what the voters, and particularly the quarter of a million new! immigrants, thought of the 65-year-old leader of Israel's Labour Party.

Ra

He is not engy to under- stand. Ben Gurion used to run, his trade union machinery ruthlessly as Ernest Bevin In his. heyday. Now. he runs his party with the same firmness, At the same time he is an un- ashamed intellectual speaking seven or eight languages, who taught himself classical Greek when he was in his middle Oftles.

BOOKS FIRST

Ben Gurion offended some

went to

.

......

English Jews by his lack of Unton boss-and ''Intellectual," orthodoxy when he England last winter. He by-

passed" London and the diplo- with the Arabs. At that time malic protocol; he gave no re- he had barely 5,000 armed and ceptions and made no Zlonist trained soldiers at his disposal. speeches. He went straight to the Mitre in Oxford and from there to Blackwells Book

shop.

This is the man whom Israel elected. For it is has again his wur record that won him This election and the belief There he browsed and that he will. yet, vindicate-his bought some 2400 worth of domestic policy as he did his books Greek philosophy claim for a Jewish Staic. He primarily. The fow friends has not yet done so... whom he received found him To many Israelis, poriteular- In a room siting amid stacks ly the merchants and the well- of books. His conversation was to-do, it will seem as if they full of his discoveries of rare have elected Pharaoh to rule over, them. For Ben Gurlon has transformed the golden tioned. He said afterwards economic days of the Mandate.

Income Tax,

Purchase Tax, perfect -Excise duties on cigarettes and alcohol have reached British proportions and in some places even exceeded them, to the cost of the "Ingathering of the Exiles," Ben Gurion's most in effective slogan.

wer

volumes and about new ideas on philosophy. Politics neither considered nor men-

that it had been a hollday.

No one dreamed of suggesting. that the workers might have been kept deliberately from the scene in order that the party should have no chance of talking to any "I foond. Fer that would have Mias Graham adus:

but the hand-picked trades ccption.

same party the the

of youths peniste presented to them by meant nothing less than

and maidens at the stallen doing Adi, Polist and Co., à Efting of the Iron Curtain.

later. What in fact: takes place un- the same thing a weekt der the auspices of "Progressive But this time they were swarm When the Bellish party visited: Jane Graham ·

a collective farm outside Maring- Teurs" today is the exact reverse lag ever a party of Germans,"

ske Lazne no one asked what had LONDON. of any such sanguine expecta-

At every meal they are sub happened to the four Crech NOW far, I wonder, nre tions.

all prospective jected to propaganda speeches farming families who had stayed ID London members

the of

with clenched screened, aften from Mrs Pollit, who, in out of the collective when the tourists are carefully

a addion to explanations of what other 27 in the district joined ét. exécutive of the Bus Miss Graham, not even

they have seen and are going to Nor did anyone ses at to com- National Union of Mine- trade unionist, slipped through.

Masy applicants are found un- ces, gives them ile bulletins of ment on the fact that many of Lho house iri the formerly workers aware that they suitable and turned away with world news,

they have allowed themselves to the information

You will be interested to hear Sudeten-German villages that the tours

the following items of news," saw were being left empty and become the stooges in a ere "already fully booked."

sald Mrs Poil at lunch on the allowed to rot, Com- major operation of

third day of the trip.

H

munist political warfare? And all for the

somewhat

nebulous prospect of collect- ing a promised £40,000 gift from Czechoslovakia.

If they have any doubts about it, I suggest they have a talk, as I have just done, with Miss Jane Graham, of 103, Great Russell Street, London, W.C.1.

by SEFTON DELMER

As for travelling freely in

.:

**The British," said Miss Her Hims were: A workers' Grebam, "seemed to be trying "rising" in Lanoshite; truce to outdo the Communials in the talks in Kucsong: and; as a orthodoxy of their views and in special treat, the shooting down the completeness, of their en- of seven out of a group of eight thusiasm, US, planes that had flown over China,

The rauction cf the lunchery Czechoslovakia, these tourists was a tribute to the eflcimney of are given a bulk visa, said Miss the screening. They rose to their Graham.

feet and screamed with joy.

"It was specially explained to Miss Graham is cae of the 300 British tourists who have just us that this meant that we had returned from a fortnight's holi to stick together in one party as day in Czechoslovakia. (Price our papers were not valid when £37 10s, Inclusive of. fares and we were just by ourselves." everything.)

From the moment they arrive they become objects of Commu- pls propaganda and instruments

visit of

Hers was the first of four parties which

to aro Czechoslovakia

This under the auspices of the Com- munist-run "Progressive Tours Travel Agency, and with the blessing of the National Union of Mine-workers.

No surprise

Afterwards..

CZECHS have so far been re- ported as having paid £800 of the £40,000 to the White- haven fund,

They could now well afford to pay many times that amount for THAT Miss Graham miesed the magnificent propaganda they

was any scnre of eltidsme getting. among the British visitors.

"Progressive Tours" party 'did not seem to cesur to anyone number two has just begun Es os peculiar," said Miss Graham, trip. Two more will follow this

50 faw Czech- i was late in the evening," "that there were summer

summer... we workers staying at this spa says Miss Graham, when arrived at Marianske Lazne, the, in fact, it was the Czech trades

.. And, as. Mrs Harry Pollt and proudly said: "The men Czech spa where we were told unipists Blackpool-

women who go on these toura we were going to have, exactly

"One big ecercation centre we to Czechoslovakia, will go back the same kind of holiday as or-

visited the Leningrad was to Britain and tell in school, dinary Czech trades unionis's..

workshops,, Hospitals and mines "A brass band was waiting to completely empty." play us in A party of Czech Nor did anyone show any signs doubt it all sounded fro youth brigadiers swarmed all of surprise when the factories. Nandy 18 months ago over us chanting We want the party vislied were felther many will have seen as cleanly when Arthur Herner, the miners peace. They pressed bunches of closed for the holidays so that as Miss Jane Graham.. aceretary, flest put the "Progres flowers on us and wrung our no workers were present), as at the glass factory in Karlovy: sive Tours" scheme before his hands. It was starting." executive.

The scheme

He had at last found a way,

he told them, of transferring to Britnin the £40,000 subscribed by Czech miners for the victims of the Whitehaven ph disaster 'in Britain.

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Her cigarette-ends su

From Frederick Cook:

surprise

*(The "Progressive Touts" agency, said Mr. Horner, would arrange trips to Czechoslovakia. But, Instead of the money paid: BS) NEW YORK. Judy is the girl who won a ance, been backstage othe by the British tourists being sent \WENTY million tele, round the world, six com world's largest cimme N

news. new. She had appeared, en plete cutfits of stylish to. Czechoslovalday it would e mairy free! And it would be vision watchers heard clothes and £800 spending reels, posed for press photograph

on to a parapet used to pay the outstanding the other night from a amfl- money by taking first place in era, £40,000 to the Cumberland ing 20-year-old London Me Hank's comptation for the 100 ft. above the street. for Area branch of the Ediners,

typist what really impresses itle of Miss Festival of Britain, more pictures, toured New York Linion.

They are moving her from from one end to the other. by the visitor to New York for continent to continent so fast car, the first time In her case that she had only one day in

“New York, zin it was not the food. It was

Screened

TOW, of

N be more desirable timun of to

fres access to Czechoslovakia was the cigarette, ends.

olimbed

She had visited the United Nations, been guest of honour

nothing could not the high buildings or Hardened experis to the art of cocktail party, made stre

British tourla's should be given

batters fell out one by one be farred on a midnight radio fore her packed 10 hours were show,

girl they could not; ike Judy

and be allowed to travel around or Judy Bien, from Cam Sfreely without prescribed

"Konsington," But eddy next moi having den Hin Houd imposed

and without **nd' cacurts op them by the authorities.

nothing lustre Dotweary Lindab

P. And, perhaps, that was what more than the

members of Ure executive antid here people ord

'glavo.comrede: HornerBod

to proceed with the

Tandon you THA

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turned down ste

the English

in

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MELLOWED

pay

England and have always exercised, an ex- traordinary attraction on this Jew, who was born in Poland under the Tsar, educated Palestine and

Constantinoble under the Ottoman Sultan and Allenby's fought, as

one of

01 soldiers for the liberation

· 10 But on the wider seene his the land of, which he was

power will help pre- return to become Prime Minister.

those who seek, some order. in cfeely 30 years later.

the Middle East, Ben Gurion Before the withdrawal has mellowed with power the His the British he would. speuk eld resentment

against teoth about British

modified. It is sald In mod Bevia and British policy in rit

that General Sir Brian Robertson, Palestine, Then he would sud- after his recent tour of denly switch to the days when the Middle East, thought that at a young soldier he went on Ben Gurion was one of the leave to London during the few men in power in the Mid- 1914-18 war and affirm

how dle East on whose word Bri- great an Impression London tain could depend with its quiet order had made on him.

ARMY OF 5,000

man Meanwhile, the little with silvery_hair_returns to the small two-storeyed bunga- low in the heart of Tel-Aviv met with his wife, whom he He came into a violent con when the nursed him during flct with Ernest Bovin,, Thel the 1914-18 war. His son, once talk ended with Ben a Major in the British Army, Gurion energetically thumping is now one of Israel's leading Mr Bovin's massive Foreign police officials and married, to Ofice desic and in forthright an Engiith giri.

adding undiplomatic language words to suit the action..

last

On

in

Rssumed.

His daughter studies Bevin, probably more than Europe under an any other man, impelled Ben name for he wants none of' Gurion along the course of the publicity that goes today to the with the name of Ben Gurion. unbending: opposition British unul the State of Israel But at home he remains B.G. had been formed. This called to his associates; Hanzgakein for strong will, for Ben Gurion the old man-to his secretaries, know how weak he was at the and Ben Gurion to those who

tho of

war either fear or faolise bim. critical moment

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