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London Express Service

DON IDDON'S DIARY|

In Room 501 The Faces

Are Wearing Big Smiles

New-York, Tuesday.. MONSTANTLY I am en- countering the gentle men from Tass, the Russian news agency, They work in Room 501 in the Associated Press building and I work in Room 605 on the floor above.

We meet in the corridors and in the lift and eye one another warily.

Reglov Bolshakov,

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There are Mr Ivan unk! Mr Georgi

There are Messrs Paul Fisunov, Nikolai Karev, Nikolái Nikitin.

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and, most impressive of

Leonkl Vasiljevitch Sorokin.

Says_bankor.

business Biddlecombe:__ American_

men

The British play "Women of

Chevalier, champagne-oh

crisis

and a

SYDNEY SMITH

has trouble in finding 'La Crisc"

Paris, Mar. 5. the fact that the Administra AURICE Chevalier on is broke; that the French people hold four times the gold end rezerves of the Bank of France, ebout as much foreign reserver as the whole of next your's American military

M and his team of

"artists" today in vite me to chat with them over a glass of champagne back-stage.

and economic ald.

The occasion is the launching As well, about 100 million ot s

typical Perislan revus worth of taxes will not be desperately put, in which the collected this year, producers have invested £100,--

000,

The

also

In France the police do not management of the bave the authority to prosecuto Folies Bergere say they would in cases of tax evasion or cur- be glad of my company rency manipulation. The worst Tomorrow-more champagne that can happen to a French- for the opening of a new Folles man defrauding the tax collec- which has cost £102,000 to tors or cheating on the foreign produce.

exchange market is that he is

Its piece de resistance, they called before the Ministry of promise, is the Nymphs Bath, Finance and offered a "trans- in which 0 glass swimming notion, # word that is the pool, 30 ft. long, will rise from same in French and English.

stage, to reveal a dancer

inc

with

not

no

no more aerlous clothes It means no public disgrace-- than any average nymph.

Bow-street, no Old Bailey, There has

been the o investigation, and no pubil- 2ightest dithculty in anding elty, no shame. So French tax the investors to gamble £202,- evasion is the order of the day. 000 on these two

Just try to pay shows, now

your land- They are both already ally lord or garage man with a booked. Did someone murmur cheque instead of cash. You Crisis?

might as well park the car in the Spring has come early to

street and sleep in it. Paris, and the boulevard cafes Because no one takes are just beginning to edge out any more. along the pavements to cope with the growing crowds of browsing Parisians. Cate owners will get a bill this month for £208,000 extra pavement rent at rates ranging from £4 10 £12 a squaro yard.

Crisis?

papers.

No interest

cheques

No paying

LTHOUGH the great salaried

classes pay taxes, like us, because salaries are declared and taxed at source, there are 15,000,000 farmers and their familles who declare no taxes, "It's no use sending out here sanall advertisements in news- Twilight, presented by Jack But-of-course-there-is-a-and on whom no Government Bmoteurs who haven't the papers and magazines, and Hylton, has opened. It doesn't crisis. It says so in the news has yet dared impose efficient slightest idea about the Ameri- underneath, the pictures

tax collection. They are asked, cap- exactly illuminate the entire can market."

tions say that Mr John Doakes, season, but 1 give the women

Instead, for an agreed "forfeit." of Milwaukee, found his visit full marks for effort. ta the BIF in 1951 quite a suc-

They represent one-third of voters In every election, cous and he intends to go there The two "Cleopatras" of the OR the French people, how the again.

courted

by desperately

the Oliviers wil STOSS $1,000,000, ever, the word has ex- but producer Gilbert Miller hausted its atarums. It has Communists on the Left, and, the do Gaullista on the will still lose money. He deflated desperation to dreari- today, Right. doesn't care-he already has neas. As the front-page head-

There has never yet been plenty of money, and now he line, it is an invitation tourn has added prestige.

{D the entertainments columns Government strong enough to

the latest

black market challenge the French flashes in the financial pages. to pay for taxes. who are "La Crise" is the most boring

the tinselled word in the French language Jus today.

And from an unusual quarter coincs some sound advice. Mr Douglas Fairbanks writes to me trem Hollywood about "the paradox presented by trade re-

Feeble stult. Not inspired, lations between Britain and the not vigorous, most pedestrian. United States."

મ

Mr Fairbanks who is also economic student.

is on actor political

and

good He:c. also, there is a deal of talk about dollars. It seems that Mayor Impellitter! in City's working out New York budget made a slight mistake.

The mayor said there would be a $30,000,000 deficit as far AIRBANKS quotes from a

sub-. as the buses, trams, and speech he made recently ways were concemed.

indus-

to

ог

Gertrude Lawrence asics ne that to deny an absurd story the Oliviers would play in Miss Lawrence's "The King and 1."

His solution

You will understand if I forget before bankers and

are tralists in New York: "If less the names, but the faces familiar.

New Yorkers, accustomed to than one-half of one percent debts, said: "$30,000,000, is that of our American national in- all? Not sɔ bad. Why, we are

ex- practically breaking even." come is voted to increase

need ware ports it would offset the

Piano player

But

of

The

acrosa

nudiences

the

the French people? Because lands of the west.

those

formers

who spectacles

who

con

are

The desperate paper machina- tians of the French Administra. justify today a £100,000 gam tion to pay its day-by-day bills ble on a new Paris show-ho remind me more of the Shang- keep

cafes spread out Bund at its worst than of per the pavements and the lunched the other

day with hal

devices ol

glittering major boulevarda ր Michael Truman, who produced the

France's own, not the trickle A European Power. "The Lavender Hill Mob.'

of tourists. of {Devaluation the franc, and scholarly most sensitive

They pre the Little Rich

the Recently I have noticed that

man who is more interested in now almost inevitable sooner or

industrial the craftsmanship than box-later this year, will not fail to people from

the plains of the north,

rich the Tass correspondents

have its influence on the valleys of Burgundy, the corn almost as big and certainly as for further foreign aid grants." Then Mayor Impellitter office. Our top producers such

Why does not all this touch red as a London bus and hard

In other words, there would came cut with another state- as Truman should be allowed to amiles on their faces. They

happy about be no need for Marshall Plans, ment. The deficit was $87,500,- make more trips here. were obviously

000, not $30,000,000-just an Loans, credits, and straight gifts something.

if the United States would er, everyone is Human

fallible, forget it. spend less than cae-half of one perent of its insome an buy- ing goods from Europe.

and This is big

important not news. Is it known in Washing- tell me the reason, but I ton? Is it known in London? "da

10 not need

be Father Brown to know that the news from London is making

·

Easy to guess.

NAT

NATURALLY, they

happy.

do

bo Fairbanks, who ought to them in Congress and never mind the movies, says: "We must some- how permit the recipients of time Every

Britain's our philanthropy to carn their Socialists open their

mouths own way to sell us the Foods and wlter the Jatest anti- we have helped them to make. Amirizarism the Tuss men True foreign ald must eventual- raise a toust. They love al ly become foreign trade." mist everything Mr Aneurin Bevan says, and, lately, have found Mr Altice's referen- have been big-business week. Sir Patrick Hennessy, do- cus to the United States almost

nuty charmin cf the Ford Es pleasurable,

Mater Company In Britain

before to see mg and dropped in

I wonder if Mr Aleo

they Altogether

tals

seems

to

his followers realise that every salling home. He had been in time they make a speech mast Detroit and around and

about

of the text is cabled here. It the Unlied States.. He talked

14 dapped out on the tickers in and I listened:

all the bureaux here--including

the Tess burczu.

They work harder

Any minute I expect to hear

don't want in any way to

But New Yorkers are not for- getting it. The mayor has sim- ply made a $37,500,000 mistake. Oh, Impy! What an embarrass

ment.

tour.

a

of

Rue

No shivers?

the boulevard

the crisis is in the Ministries of The Americans are enthusias- Finance and Foreign Affairs,

the tle about "Royal

and Journey,"

French people have of been allowed to belleve for too For them crises begin, and THESE are the French people. feature Alm full-length Queen Elizabeth and the Duke long that even in a crisis

as now, their

end, in the vaults of personal should Canada, of Edinburgh touring

interests are not Identified with the

aloof, sombre,grey-stone It is

Louis XIV building which is And so they should be.

in the excellent end infinitely less lir- those of their Government.

Finance Ministry This nation of individualists the ing than actually making the AI

cannot yet associate. Its private

Paris. de Rivoli, stores of

States That is why gold, United They say here that Mr Trudeliars, Swiss francs and ster- cafes man will probably, run again ing notes with the bankruptcy Strasbourg,

and for the Presidency-a man with of its own Government. INTERTAINMENT receipts a plano never wants to move.

te down mainly be- Causa frezik unow

Fasinote for Socialisis: Ex- and then- dcrstorms kept

people In- porting insults to the doors glued to their radio and States will not import television sets.

for Brilain.

The weather wins

of Paris Lille Lyons,

Metz,

Marseilles, Bordeaux are still cram- med with individualists..

the They do not feel

cold breeze of crises from the Rue

No cash United JUGGLING with figures does de Rivoll chilling their own not explain much any more. warm spring sunlight,

dollars

but this time it does add up to

~London Express Service)

"RUSSIAN PONTECORVO" WAS

A HOAX THAT FAILED

Lleutenant-Colonel Fedjo

the "Inside revelations"; and as; D result of a chance remarit passed by a German security agent the truth emerged, The story of the faice "Pontecorva! After careful questioning, which the Russians wanted to Dritish officials discovered that sell was to have been used to the mysterious, atomic Colonel Anance Communist propaganda. Astachov was alleged to have in West Germany, and to have by served the double purpose of officers of the Yugoslay military misleading Brifth and Ameri whole

and then flown mission,

by can authorities, atomic secret

to see courler plane Marshal Tito.

ho

The Song of the Volga Boat-. 6/Eme Americanised, but fake. "Russian Pontecorvo" was a top atom selenust who been smuggled. Into Berlin

man" coming from Room 501 as

the Russians relish the newest we can learn a lot Socialist allegations against the United States,

Berlin. * SOVIET attempt to Nicolajevitsch Astachov. A Soviet verempha

According to this report from the a mystery atomic scient- disliked the Red regime Americans.

But the drive must ist who was reported to was anxious to tell the inside story of Russia's come from the top, frem

the have escaped from the So- heat executives, roon find its way down through viet Union with vital in- an address in Philadelphia soon. il branches. The Americans formation has been ex- If he coem't change his tune are werking harder than we are posed after three months of he will find the most enthusias there's no doubt about that painstaking work by British lie section of his audience Tass in my mind. They get things and U.S. security officials in men and Provda prople.

Mr Atlee is due to deliver

and it wil

'done faster. They have blue- priris and charts and Remember Me Attlee, Phila- beard illustrations before

black, Germany.

em-

By ANTHONY TERRY

and

Artechov's job, it was ex- plained. was to "discover the uranium" In Yugoslavia.

delphia is known as "The City barking upon a plan and they the Russians hoped not only to Intelligence afficials because he known as the "Pontecorvo my- trial at Bow

of Brotherly Love"

I am still involved in reper- cussions from my recent com- menta on, the dollar "drive"

on

Wis

don't linger interminably aver lunch discussing it.

mislead British and US, in- state enterprise."

"I intend to send more

of

here. The British Board of my chaps over here to study Trade representative has been their methods."

on the telephone and I am usk- ed to draw up some concrete suggestions.

Dollar seekers

-bänker friend of mine from

propor executive; «irection

Correct. Sir Patrick thinks that with Intensive effort mnd we

can increase our production by at least 10 percent.

1

I am glad that a lot of im-

people pertant

thơ things up and alirring ;,

aro

stirring

A London, Edward Biddlesomber selves,

telligence with false figures Soviet atomic strength but to

Finally one of the Germans

years ago.

An Allied offelal said:

The man who is credited with idea first is the Soviet zone's top Communist pro- paganda expert, the "Goebbels" Puzzled British and US. of progress, but did not wish to

East Germany, Professor officials exchanged notes for Gerhart Elster, who was ent or American several weeks on what became back home by Britain after a If their plan had succeeded meet any British

Street several "opposed to all forms of stery"

It was even suggested that ho raise funds for Communist pro- had had secret meetings with who claimed he had Interview- "Wo are now certain that paganda by selling the scientist's US. atom scientists Dr Robert ed "Astachoy started trying to Colonel Astachov, the 'escaped escape story" to newspapers in Oppenheimer, Dr Lee Dudridge, Bell the "Inside story of Russia's Soviet scientist with vital in Western Europe.

Dr Charles Lauriston, and Dr Pontecorvo" to British and US, formation to divulge,

existed at all. Waller G: Whitman, who newspapers. happened to be in Europe at the

>>"Of courze 'there may be “a time.

Russian atom. "boffin some. The first' rumours of the non-

where in Russla by this name, existent "scientist", who was Brita omolale who invest

It contained the name, át. but he has not crossed· ibe 'Iron- mysteriously described as "one, gated the cose

German from the Soviet zone Curtain yet, and if in doubtful of Russia's top uranium geolo-struck by the fact that while one of Germany who had previously after all this fuss if he ever gists were whispered to Ger- Genman alleged he had met the tried to sell misleading scrops of The whole Investigation has mans living in the British, sec Russian Pontecorvo in Berlin, Information about East Ger

∙nt once were

never.

has been in the office, urging

for of Berlin last December by no-one could actually produce many a uranium, mines to Allied cost a lot of time and trouble. that British schools be out up I see that the British Indus-other Germans Ilving In the him, nor any of the reports he oficials who had refused; dé but it has shown one thing wit for kabilar-cookers, and tries. Fair people, are doing Soviet zone.

was fald to have written giving have anything to do with him," any "Russians come West for specialist courtós · taken. by something, but I don't think As a result o Homburg news the exact production, figures of the

[poillical refuge they cannot so manufacturers and the NCIS MLICH of their : schvertising."- paper published a story report Sovint uranium mines in Eaut This put the authorities on easily get through the security they dispatch tiore,

They are printing pictures of ing the "escape to the West of Germany and Crochoslovakɗa, the trail of the real authors, of, mesh."