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OF THE BBC

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IN KOREA

ARREST OF COMMUNIST

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FRANCE

NICE QUIET SUMMER WE'RE HAVING, MISSUS

BOER WAR REOPENED IN SOUTH AFRICA

Warid Copyright. By strangeman? with Lady Herafė,

IS

WILLIAM HALEY

NO the Phantom of Port- land Place becomes the Dean of Printing House Square. At some time be fore the end of the year the Sir William Haloy, BBC's £7,500-a-year Direct tor General, will leave Broadcasting House to be come the editor of The Times at An unspecified salary.

Haley and the war-turneu Britich radio into à vast undır- taking with more programmes,

more money and more listeners

than evor before,

CITY WITH A PAST

Chicago, Tuesday.

and its

MOVES ON

by GEORGE CAMPEY

He carried this into his now!- paper life, As an editor he hus banded the newspaper's money with great care.. Yet Haley hus Haley could ban jokes about always been an intense family the Coronation Stone; but he procerved a balance of political man. The "ruthless" editor of broadcasting,. He was conscious his Manchester days would re- of his power as head of the turn to his home at Disley, Cheshire, to indulge his favourite broadcasting empire,

hobby, reading. And But he 'docs not look thu nabob. You could pass him could read in any circumstances.. the street without a second He could lie on the carpeted study there and glance; and that would pleate floor of his hum. For he is not given to read contentedly much Docial intercorso, He children-he has four-crawled mus

takes an occasional sherry as if

it is distasteful, Yet he can be about him like ants. affable and has a quiet humoui,

while

Haley

his

I saw Haley helping to save

When the publicity offices of the Manchester Guardian office during a ferce air raid on Mon- the BBC moved into nosv premises in Cavendish Place Sir chester; and I saw him on his a Pacific tour for William noticed the patch of return from

Reuters. He had lost weight; garden outside the path and said to me: "You see, we have his clothes hung about him. a garden path to lead you up." NO LEGENDS

But today he has rerouped that weight. He tops 12 stona. again.

At a recent dinner he ex- As the broadcasting boss there main industries-Iron plained his dinner jacket in are no legends about Haley are those who machinery, butchery, stead of tails by saying: "After either. There

T is 98 degrees in the Chicago, where the candidatesments, petroleum refining, three days with a White Paper have found him distant. And

shade and Chicago, while not quite pro-

strate from the heat. is for President will be chosen,

slightly subdued:

almost three years since I was last In the elty. which is described variously as Queen of the Lakes, Gom of the Prairies, Windy City, Goliath of and less pollte the Mid-West,

nanics.

Chicago, the brass volcod burrel-bollied, two-fisted tough town, is becoming elegant. I am alaying in the Conrad Hilton Hotel, which is the largest in

says: 'Forget those gangsters'

overtaken of the

The place was bedlam, when It could be the heat-wave or suddenly Eisenhower arrived.

the maturing There was a clatter of dishes,

to have stems Someone broke a glass. Several

but coples Chicago, dropped their knives and forks, and then ve hastily formed a paper which I have sean keem little line so that we could be rather anemic, presented to the general.

Eisenhowor stood In an the world (of course). There alcove, smiling and nodding, a convention of confectioners When it was my turn to shake taking

place anxi everyone his hand, my host murmured; SCITY to be wearing a Palm Beach suit, a

pale

flower

DON IDDON'S

yellow in his buttonhole, und two-tone shoes, The barber's shop, almost as

Olympic, big

having their

their and

125 rnên

manicured minssaged.

DIARY

Of course,

别

textiles, bedding, confectionery, thought I would wear there are those who have found printing and publishing, and black tie.".

him the opposite, furniture-cach do more than! £40,000,000-worth of business annually.

born

Melting pot

And he is not above a radio gog. At the samo dimmer he described the world's most hard- hearted man as "the one who put a tinstack on the electric chair,"

a

10

HIS COUP

On one occasion he 'was dis- cussing the variety world with member of his staff, who had As a journalist Haley created gone to Haley's office over the procers which CHICAGO is a Colossus,

In legends. Manchester, door of Broadcasting House to prodigy of brute strength, where he edited the

Evening receive his ten-year bonus. Had stupendous town. The mixture News, he would be at his desk this man, asked Haley, ever In the melting pot bubbles and long before his staff, He would seen Grock? seethes. There DIO 350,000 play table tennis with the office

No, said the man, he had out, Negroes here, 120,000 foreign-boys-ard try to win. He wrote Chicago is EO

fine book review Poles, 80,000 foreign-

column Whereupon The Director. 10,000 Italians, under a nom-de-plume and was General astonished his minion prosperous, enjoying such pro- born Germans,

annoyed, it is sald, when his with a demonstration of one digious booms, that Chicagoans 60,000 Russians, 50,000 Swedes, identity was accidentally re- of Grock's acts; balancing

it dificult may find

to get 30,000 Czechs, and 25,000 Aus- vealed. angry about anything. There is trians. Most of them turn out peak, employment here and good Chicagoans, record incomes. The bell-boy told me: "If a man can't make living in Chiengo,.ho can't make one anywhere la, iho world. Chicago, has everything

* Chicago certainly has plenty, full From 'London." Elsenhower Is the biggest meat city nalls sald: "London, chi You know in the world and the greatest faces I was

Its cchtre. in your part of the railway

10,000 world just a few days ago," He factories" output is second only said it proudly like a Middle to that of the New York area, The bars have become fancy West business man who has pocktail lounges and are called just come back from his first, Garden Rooms and Old Southern trip to Europe. Rotreats. The carpets are so thick they must be mounted on foam rubber,

Then he added: "I listened

to

a broadcast by a British

nice things After several days deep in the reporter caying heart of Kansas I feel a bit of about me-were you the one?"

a rough-neck, out of place in

this mirrored palace. In Abilene,

I said I was, and Eisenhower

in the beer palaces you drink beamed and talked.

I.

Grown up

one.

off the

n

athletleally оп n chair. That At that time, as the Man- was the remote, unemotionai chester Guardian recalls, Haley Haley indulging an enthusiasm, had a reputation for ruthless- He had a great admiration for occasionally there

ness. As a member of the Grock. are racini clashes, there ap- Manchester Guardian staff pears to be less discrimina-remember the apprehension with Times Haley achieves a personal

Although

I

In becoming the editor of The

on than in New York. I have which his appointment as joint. seen coloured people and white managing director was viewed. Soup. Thirty-two years ago he

Many on

that staff thought asked for a job on The Times, eating and drinking side by Haley's influence would be felt was made telephonist and

married the editorial side of the ma

forelan editor's secretary, Now The Times have But it never was. 'paper.

asked him to return as editor.

side In restaurants and bars, This would be an unusual sight in Manhattan. Chicago reaches out its hand and takes every- body in.

SOVIET

men

on the

Haley is a man who has al- Haley is the kind of man to ways lived carefully.

IMPERIALISM

savour that situation."

AND

THE KAZAK TRADITION

by Sir Olaf Caroe

Since the end of the Second World War, the Kremlin has pursued its policy of eliminating the culture and national pride of the Central Asian Republies, in particular, the Kazak. This article by Sir Olaf Caroe exposes the various Kremlin man- oeuvres to erase national traditions and Aslan pride Sir Olaf and subordinate all to "the party line." Caroe is an authority on the Central Asian peoples and his article makes its point about the effect of Soviet control on Muslim peoples sufficiently clear.'

Satpalev-to give him his Russian cognomen the pre- sident of the Kazak Academy

of Science, has been sub jected to particulat blame

this although he Russlan

His presidency

and

wife

haa

has indeed continued at the pricó of his admission in

a puble scasion that his Academy, and particularly its Institute Language and Literature, had been gulity of encouraging "grosa political errors in the presonta- tion of history, poetry and dramaTM

out of a bottle and only get a record for a few minutes, but! glass when you ask for

the line bohind WOB getting

THE lot of the tribes- Here, if you drink out of a

of Kazakistan, will be tossed out restless and I had to move on. bottle you

This is the clot close-up on to Michigan Avenue.

the largest and most I've had of Dwight Eisenhower,

northerly of the five Central It is one thing to sit in

Asian Soviet Republics, is a man Press box and watch make a speech, or to attend a being made harsher by the SAID to the Chicago Sun- Press conference. It is another avowed Soviet policy to a few inches of destroy nomadism, so hard Times man who was show- to be within

I thought the general ing me round: "You're getting him.

for a distatorship to tax and Ho is awfully chi-chi here, aren't looked rather tired.

control. The country, whose you??? He said: "Look, this is being run ragged.

limits coincide roughly with the fourth largest metropolis in

He

too is almost We're grown up.

warm the steppes of Asin east of the world.

too

100 generous, We are adult. We have culture hearted,

the Urals and the Aral Sea, -forget the gangster stuff: it's eager to take advice. When ho

Is on his own, doing what has been in Russian occupa- over and done with.”

more with no pre-tion for

than 200 comes naturally, Chicagoans are sensitive about pared text, he is brilliantly years, during which period

town's roputation as 4 effective and as magnetic as Finful elly. They want to forget Franklin Delano Roosevelt. His it has been colonised large- Al Capone, Big Bill Thomp views are liberal, his judgmently by Soviet and Ukranian son, Hinky Dink Kenna, the sound,

peasants who now constitute graft and the killings,

about half the population. 5 But when he reads out Violent crime has subalded, statement which is the pooled

The epic tradition of the and the little Caesars have been effort of his counsellors and

Kine Kazaks symbolised in the Republican Party profes- Sarl Khan who declared war on pushed off their thrones. notice

on the

street posters alonals he is stilted and not Russia in 1837 and was the hero gradually replaced by policies velour, but low patter, extolling knee. Names are published of min which say "Dollars for Decency very convincing.

of the national resistance move designed to persuade these races violence and brigandage. The who stubbornly proclaim their cleaner Join the eltizens for

the

Chicago."

Fow 'Like Ike'

mornent At the

they are in more interested, however, national politics than in the TF the Republicans will leave

I municipal merry-go-round. This it to like to be his natural, is the Presidential Convention convincing, alert seif, they will city. Next month the Democrata be doing themselves and the as and the Republicans meet here

general a favour, to pick their candidates,

the Eisenhower time-coming' ot

Abilene,

It is right here in Tho Tribune calls itself the mystic, Ahmad Yesevi). Chicago where the decision world's greatest newspaper, Ayill be made,”

Pravda cites a recantation by one Shayakhrnetov, one of the Institute's omolais, "objectly ad- mitting his neglect of ideological questions, and regretting, that in the reactionery Kine Sari as a. en article he had dared to claim

hero of the Kazak people. But even these diatribes in the Soviet (batyr Press Indicate that among the longer

But after the purges of 1930 tended to the ballads and epics and 1937 there was a move in a in praise of legendary heroes,

Policlas contrary direction

of between

The Qoblandy-batyr, separatism, as various non-Slav *ICOS bad means hero) was no

Kazoks, stand in official positions, one

far enough, and were pacan of national virtue and are those who will not bow the

the standpoint

the

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wanted of Great Kremlin

more faith that they are creative, fero decadent verses with Individualis-

artists who will not conform to tle descriptions of the hero, his the Party line, and of others who horses and his cattle, no delight will not suffer their own bellets in the brautier of nature, no more to be gainsaid.;

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Soviet to with mot ment,

until

Russia, quite encouragement

suited Kremlin recently policy temporarily to stimulato the individual national pride of

An Instance was the sudden sob-stuff about roses or nightin- such groups as the Kozaks,

grey-beards who closed their eyes Urboles, Turunens and Kirghiz substitution on the eve of World gates, no more plotures of aged means of breaking down War II of a Cyrillle for a Latin to pray. These were "foreign to any common Turkic or Islamic alphabet in all these provinces, the Restboils tastes of the Soviet sentiment that might unite the The war delayed the implemen. prope Chicago itself is not going peoples of what had been known tation of cultural policies, though

The very virulence, of, the My Sun-Times man says: "overboard for Eisenhower, in the Tsarist era. us Russian it greatly hastered the move. In particular, "distorted" views Inspired Press demonstrates that "Never mind the primary elec- There are very few "I Like Ike" Turkistan (the Soviet regime has inant of industry, and Russians, of Kazak, Azeri, or Turkmen his in Turkistan, and in Caucasta, continuts to exista tions and the pledged delegates signs, and Senator Taft has the eliminated the name: Turkistan into the non-Slav, provinces of tery were to be condemned. There there

the U.S.S.R. and

must be critical comment on such national pride in nchleyemont. map except as the all the malarkey of the powerful support of the Chicago from the past few weeks. Disregard even Tribune.

name of one town once known

stuff. The anthologies must be There is still evidence of a tradi- Finally, the attitude of the ay Yese the shrine

revised. Lot writers and artista tion inked with the heaves of of the Kremlin to such sentiments as turn to the herole labours of

national history which will not Kazak, Uzbek or Azeri pride of miners, metal-workers... cotton be submerged. This old lore lives.

unequivocally growers and

And, engineers.

on in the hearts of people who 'announced" In' n Pravda article above all, ict them remember

have learned to transmit their published on December 20, 1950. their Russian, big brother and inspiration by minstrelsy and No longer were such men as comradeship (in Soviet Ideals, other word of mouth. Poctis and prox works Kine Sari to figure as national without thought to spare for a Its volco-which is the voice extolling as national heroes the heroes: their resistance to the separate world and a tradition

It is well to remember that Governor Dewey, on his recent of the anti-British, 200 percent, men of Turkic stock, west and Tearlet conqueror was no longer dead and gone. For one thing, I had the

American Colonel Berile Me-cast of the Carplan, who had seen as a splendid, dimcult, it

return from a journey in Asia," honour of a brief personal chat Cormick--is strident. Often the struggled against the establish unsuccessful enterprise, Hence

spoke earnestly on the theme that -with the general at a private

ment of a Trorist Imperium in forth such actions were dubbed ';

nations ars. a chrick, voice riposto

the Western the other day. And most.

their countries at first found as futile realetanca by a lesser

danger of losing the war for the of the guests were Elacohower's o colonel's Tribune has favour with the Academies of breed to inevitable, absorption. Since then Soviet Academies of minds of men. He urged on the

The friends, All were well-wishers.

General Solence set up by the Kremlin, We were Jammed in the little or no time for

the republican really,

Those who dared to praise the Selence bave been deluged by a West a policy of Asia for the

stream of press vituperation and Arlans and not the Russlany, and. living-room: of

modest Elsenhower. It is the ftehlot to in

meer at the Tribute and call provincial centres of the non-heroes of the resistance were exhortion on these fines. Their the need for a deep respect for house-about 180. men

These guilty of ideological distortion, directors, and indeed the Minis», Asian, culture, and prido, Thia

·women, balancing pintos of its support the kiss of death, Slav Soviet Empire.

to control them, surely, is the answer to the A Caucasia and food from the turret table but I have met several Middies were included in anthologies, bourgeois nationalism, 4ers suppored our knees and holding glamor Westerners and many Chicagoan, and quoted by authority with patriarchol feudal beller, and 20 tave been targets for unceasing or

on, This •, condemnation ex- critiélan. Kanysh Imantasvich Turkinan, in our hands..

approval; wito cheristisko Tribune, S

und although it is far from

successful-news-

I am willing to put aside the that, it is certainly one of the primaries if my friend insists world's most but nothing is going to maice

papers, me disregard Eisenhower's

home-coming.

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