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"OF COURSE HE CAN SMILE

London Express Service

All sympathy dies when it's treachery

The Rosenbergs—in a patrol-wagon on their way to jail.

bergs' small children, amply reported and photographed, 11. virtually shrugged off.

The British attitude? Ameri- can reaction to the way Wo have chosen to handle security matters since the war runs all the way from blank astonish- ment through mild irritation to blazing resentment.

Few Americans can begin to understand why Dr Alan Nuna May was given only a ten-year sentence, and was allowed time off for good behaviour.

R. M. MacCOLL EXPLAINS THE

His emergenca from gaol as a free man Just before the Rosenbergs aro due to die is a crunching conci- only to

SEEMING CONTRADICTION OF A NATION BLIND TO ALL APPEALS TO SAVE THE ROSENBERGS

CROSS the Atlantic as The question far dence which serves I write this, the transcends the imme highlight the varying methods of sombre story of Julius date fate of two unhappy the two Western allies. and Ethel Rosenberg, the aples. For the Rosenberg There Is resentment too over husband-and-wife team of story is closely interwoven the sentence meted out by dedicated Communist spies, with the story of America to Klaus-Fuchs (he--was is almost at the climax.

part of the today. And

same big spy-ring it lights up as the Rosenbergs); suspicion luridly the contrasts and over the flight of Professor Within £ few.

days, differences which obtain be- Bruno Pontecorvo, the natur tween contemporary Britain who is thought to have gone to allsed British nuclear physicist, and America.

perhaps hours, the last de cision will be taken whether ur not they must go to the electric chair at Sing Sing Prison.

Moscow.

In the death sentence on And Although tho new the Rosenbergs you

McCarran Act (which makes may sec put bluntly—almost compulsory the "screening" by Every possible legal plea

brutally

American immigration officers difference of IL has been made on their

of the crews aboard all British approach to behalf. The painstaking

the whole ships putting into American American judicial system problem of Communism and ports) may strike many here in has repeatedly weighed the joint battle against the England as an almost fantastic

evidence on which was based the decision to condemn this pair to death for war- time espionage.

Enst.

Resentment

or at least mildly humorous procedure, for the Americans it is no laughing matter.

The American reasons things this way: "A Communist is the same thing as an enemy agent,

Nothing now remains to THE Rosenbergs, awaiting There is no such thing as an give the Rosenbergs cause death in their separate mateur Communist or a ham- for lingering hope save the cells, are part of the story Red is a gooled Red."

less Communist. The only good petition for presidential of Churchill's going to see clemency filed by their at- President-elect Eisenhower And, from there it is a thin torneys.

before the new man had dividing line from making_that even got to the White remark read "...it a dead Red.“ An accident of history House. They are part of causes this plea to fall at a the story of Stalin's im- monient

when the presi- placable endeavour to drive dency of the United States Britain' and America apart. is being hunded on from one man te another. But the odils are against a last- minute reprieve.

Contrasts

The plain fact is that America has long since con- sidered herself at war with the U.S.S.R.

situation is absorbing casualties

enough.

Conviction

J-

Why They Flee From The East

H

B

A FARMER says: "They were going

to arrest me becouse

· had not

able to the impossible

demanded

of # farms**

A WOMAN anys) "A

neighbour mine was given six years' panak servi, Jude for having in her "potsession 71ib of coffee and 1,000 cigarettes. W. decided to get out before they went for u too.

SEFTON DELMER

Berlin. only of what is going on in dron

·ERMANN MATERN, Curtain Berlin and Iron Curtain

East Germany's Soviet world generally.

Germany but in the whole of the poetic looking Even Grotewohl, the theoretical

about his future.

purger-in-chief, Is No. 1 bass of Germany, is worried himself being purged.

"I cm is a dificult position Scent orders have been faucd myself." he said to his Supply to two leading Soviet zone Minister Haman when Heman

dailier "Publish nothing by or went to make his last protest about Comrade

before being aerted for treason. Matern until further notice."

It's pitiful

Warnings to ignore any re- commendations, directives, orders.

Dr C- quests that may have gone out in the name of Maten have been passed to key parly officials down

Hermann

. Matern

to the district level.

You can Just Imagine the shock this latest and highly symptom. atle plece of purge news hus given the Eastern German party bosses big and small. Already, they are trombling with appre- hension for their own individual fates.

Suspect too

PUT do not think that though 1 glout over the confusion and shock senong the comrades I an callous about the human suffering that goes with the new Stalin terror.

What i have seen here as I go around the barracks housing refugees--they have been pour

Scelallan, he has decreed, must be achieved without further delay.

to frame people on charges in- And he is getting his polico velving sentences of penal ser- these people are fleeing. vitude and death. That is why

Still, shattering #s those things are, shattering as the

ffering in these barracks, the picture is generally encourag- ing because it shows up the essential weakness of the Soviet system, a weakness which is going to increase and spread.

My hunch

ALL his life as a ruler Stalin ternal contradictions. will bring! has lak it down that in-

about the inevitable collapse of

ing in at the rate of between 000 the Western world-hastened by and 800 a day for the last four Soviet shove, weeks is something I hope I Today inexorable laws of shall forget, but I fear never human nature and economies shall,

are turning the tables on hlm. The stench In the ghusly The great Soviet machine is camp an the Salzufer, where showing cracks, 1,400 people have been frammed into the barely

repaired bomb ruins ‘of an cid factory.

The tile girl, sick with

Matern, the man who was foes, lying on the bare

with odd bits of other

make

responsible for all inquiries people's clothing thrown into ideological and political over her to warm her in her purity of the comrades, is sud- shivering fever.... denly discovered to be a traitor, a hireling of the West, why then everyone who has been passed as sound by him or his underlings. who has followed a Matern directive, anyone who has sought to cultivate the great man, attended his lectures in the Political Academy, may become suspect too.

angone

Consider this--and believe me, Berlin, bomb ruins and all, is today the biggest tonic I have known since the war.

A TRADER says: **} _am_a_jew; } hats office in our local Jewish com munity. They wanted me to on my brethren and sign a denunciation of Zionism of * toof of the Wen. ↑ got nut **

pu

The

For

no mistake, Stalin's house-cleaning is not it is my hunch that Stalin confined to his party chiefs or ready and truly fears that these quislings,

cracks are large enough for the It is hifling ordinary common secret agencies of the West to folk, the artisans, farmers, small exploit, and accomplish the little men who normally r shopkeepers, and mechanics- disintegration of his monolith.

Even without an atom, bomb. main untouched by the ups and Before I make up my mind downs of the politicians. It is whether he is right and give retting them as well.

you my full report on the pattern of these cracks and what

The edict

bringing them about, I am going to look at the Soviet world fm another angle, from a place which in the past I have found to be remarkably produc-

-London Express Service)

The glimpse it offers of that- tered nerves among the high-ups, STALIN han given orders to the rivalries, confusion, and con- eradicate the last remnants tradictions, to use a Stalinist of bourgeois private in- tive in accurate information. phrase, is typical, I am sure, not

dividualism and capitalism.

The Duke of Windsor

plans his home

Paris.

OR the first time since

of Windsor was reluctant to leave Europe this winter for his annual visit to the United States. The reason: he is designing a home for himself in France.

PARIS

NEWSLETTER from SAM WHITE

·

Premier

Rene Mayer; I am not interested in politics.

A British Treasury. official. one of a party invited by the French Government: I don't know how ordinary people can do it on the Treasury, allowance.

•

and quarters for the Duke and Hon hall, large dining-room

Playwright. Armand Salacrou: Duchess, The furthest wing Vices are more faithful- than While the Duke and Duchess of the house will provide two friends-you keep them longer. are in the United States they in the grounds will provide two.

guest rooms and a new building are in touch with two architects

in France who are converting more.

sketches

•

Biologist Jean Herlands ' It's less natural to admire a hard-

President of the Paris Pork Butchers Federation; Taxation of pork is the obsolete arm of

spineless Government.

A QUEEN'S JOB

the 18th-century Moulin Aubert, A barn is being converted zoma besom than, a handsome in the beautiful valley of the Into a summer dining room. An - beard. Chevreuse near Paris, into a outhouse will be made into a home for them,

study and "gardening hend- The two architects-American quarters" for the Duke. Eight Barry Dierks, a "elose friend of bathrooms will be installed. the Duke and Duchess, and Before he teft France the former De Gaullist intelligence Duke visited the house almost officer Franz Jourdain are every day, supervising detalls of working from a *TLASS of carefully-drawn scale

the plans. The lay-out of the done by the Duke, and dettes gardens has been planned en- THIRTY-YEAR-OLD Queen irdly by him. In the words of

Alexandra of Yugoslavia, instructions given them by the one of the local

wife of King Peter, has taken gardenera Duchess.

employed: "He was just like a job in Paris with a Orm of OTHER PEOPLE'S

hend gardener to us. He knew dress designers. exactly what he wanted and Her boss: Yugoslav Hyacintho Novak, who designs women's WER since the abdication the the best way of getting it"

overcoats,

fors and tailored Windsors have lived

Details of the decorations are In rented houses and rented villas being planned by the Duchess the contract: "Queen Alexandre suits. Her Job, according to among other people's furniture. and will be started until her will accort

her patronage to unpretentious Moulin return,

M. Novak's establishment

BALLERINA TO WED DON to be married-Ballerina

Ludmila Teherino, to in dustrialist M. Raymond Rby. Before her marriago Ludmilia will appear in a ballot by Orson Welles, in which sho plays a trigid beauty encased in a block of ice.

The

to

recreate n

A

JYSTERIA? No, I don't think

so. What America as a nation feels and feels very deeply... Aubert, with its tiled roof, FOOTNOTE. The house is about the Communist nenace to- Georgian porch and soild rural only 10 minutes drive from day is a solid conviction. I think

architecture, is

is leased by them France's oldest, most beautiful that it is no more hysteria than for nine years with an option golf course, La Boulie, The was our own convulsive effort of buying it outright after or Duke's golf scores, incidentally, There is no time for sym- to gird for a possible Nazi

during that period,

have dropped from the high 90's It is a house the Duke has to the low 80's. pathy, for a woman whose invasion in 1940.

long treachery may have helped

Wanted: ho took it. And:30

the McCarran Act, instantly when its owner, the THE human aspect of this to cause 120,000 American which many Ameri ins think is

MAN BITES LION portrait painter Driand, a per- in the Korean Ladly drawn

ronal friend, told the Duke he up and

DVERTISEMENT of the was prepared to lease it. Just A week: The execution of war; whose treachery un- considered, at least gives the

The stafa Paris a woman on any charge is' doubtedly helped, Russia, country the feeling that some-

how strong is the Duke's desire newspaper Le Monde carries the invariably

home may be following advertisement: J. C. & matter for the feared and hated ad. thing is being done.

gathered from the fact that a D'Ahetze, the only shirt-maker soul-searching in emotional versary, to catch up

great deal of the furniture from who has ever bitten a llon" A start has been made. Some- America.

quickly, so frighteningly where, anchow, Uncle Sam is

Fort Belvedere, and many of response to the Duke's personal possessions has quickly, on the secrets of starting to guard the ramparts But that a woman and the A-bomb.

sali mementoes, will be shipped a bit more carefully.

to France carly to the spring, hor husband should faco

And those of us who see the death together for espion In America when I left future of world peace resting an America whose a friendly, but frank Anglo- age, under an Act of 1917; it the that the capionage was com people will normally sign American association, must, hope mitted in wartime on behalf petitions at the drop of that the two nations can find not of an enemy but of hat sympathy for the common ground on the cold war. Russia, then one of Ameri- Rosenbergs was practically ca's chief alles in the Hitler non-existent.

all this led to fierce controversy.

i

B0

ON THE RECORD

sale in Paris is a record for one hour which plays, the advertisement in which actor Sacha Gultry been overwhelming an solliequiars on his

"average of 100 callers daily thou. "I have destroyed And to perfecting the Moulin, working out of M. D'Ahcize the the last will z

but no one has yet succeeded in the Duke is devoting all the low, where and when" of his have made to thang people made. It would Cathusiasm and ́skilled 'know- ledge which he brought to the

happy that I would have bou modernising of Fort Belvedere.

lieved I ought to kill myself."

All human beings are come- DUKE IN GARDEN

dians Except

-u. fow-sttors.?" "Ono san cry for two [a_mernor- | #TUE outer aspect of the house -Statesman Edouard Herriot, but it is. Imposible ablo victory in 1953 if he but, on Alssilan-born former

will Even the last visit to the himself presented with a ready the interior of the Z-shaped Minister Robert Beltuman; "Tho- that it is other

People who made broach. Let it be denied Building is being carefully man does not even speak make you laugh, but you cry Death House of "the Rosen- Ele

remedalled to provide a recep- German with, a French accent, over yourrait ??

Staller

cinim

Q

THEY SAID IT UOTES of the week-Elder

two rest is