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It's Maedchen. In Uniform From Now On

From WILLIAM HAMSHER

Berlin. THE East German purges has caught up with

for Clothing Kultur" to decide styles for every- thing, from overconta to underclothing. Only models which the new Kultur sanctions will go on sale,

Elegance is out. It will be. "Macklchen in Uniform" for the Red Zone from now on, Luxury wrap-over couts are banned to save material, and a general absence of frills will save factory time by emphasising simple straightforward patterns.

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This extension to one more province of the dreary sameness of life in the Red Zone is an attempt to end muddle in the East German textile industry -n muddle which has put more names on the purge llat.

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Already the Communists have asked Willy Peter Konzok, state secretary in the Light Industry Ministry, to explain shortages, misfits and bad quality.

Amongst other things, a purge committee wants to know why winter models will not be on sale in East Berlin until the spring, and why summer

frocks reached the display windows just in time for Christ-

Іпак.

The committee confront- ed ministry ofReials, with reporta from Communist snoopers-including one in- dignant account from a girl worker who smashed her! factory target and won her. self a winter sports holiday. But when she got to Ober. hoť, In the Thuringian Forest, she found plenty of awimsuits to be bud-but no.ski trousers,

work

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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 1953. ·

វា

What do you know

about FISH?

RUSSIAN

"Looks like the British, 'Americans, and Russians will have to start saying nice things about each other again.”

THE WOMAN WITH

A BILLION DOLLARS

A

RITAIN

woman

YEAR

TO SPEND

Washington. The whole department (And A

remembers will probably be re.

in

to

career

Weakness For Hats)

And woman.

pleture does not lie.

She is a quick thinker, enjoy's organising herself and other people, is candid but not to the point of tactlesmoss.

- London Express Servicn

from Evolyn IRONS

with her husband, her children and her collections of Georgian silver and paintings, Mrs Hobby might have settled down for a rest. But no. Immediately she was back at the paper.

When Eisenhower picked her for

administration

sho

was co-editor and co-proprietor of the Post with her husband. She bussed the affairs of the paper

grey-walled,

... call

she

olao

Twice the Reds have re- jected Konzók's explana-

Mrs Oveta Culp organised and renamed RO Lions for these errors and

Hobby

as a small, that she becomes America's Pensively elegant clothes, encient. She wrote a book on bus shortcomings. He was to neat

khaki first-ever Secretary of Wel- she is the picture of the parlimentary law. Mr Chairs furnished office, oddsomely is still a schout the Post's radio and television Then the textbook:

became the that self-criticism must go uniform with a decorative fare. with a seat in the poised, successful American man," which

which the legal clerk of the State banking station and sat on innumer- deeper, it was no good just kep-type hat. That was cabinet. President Truman

department and out came an- admitting shortages, bad during the war, when she tried to introduce legisla

other book, this time on codi- able contmittees (subjects rang- co-ordinate all

ing the local symphony and disorganisation went over to see the ATS tion

fying the state's banking laws.

to alcoholism). without going into the at work, getting tips on health and welfare into one

Aller her marriage in 1931 orchestra.

"You can how to run

me allberul the American post,

she worked on her husband's but failed because

republican,"

n" she sa paper as a book reviewer. He was told also that men WAACS. The WAAC hat Congress

She has put

on record in his Ministry were "too was her own design.

feared that proud" to take notes of They called her "The Mra lobby's workers' requirements.

Little Colonel, which was prede- over the rank she hid is director d'essor, Now suggestions for coming the

have of the Himculties

Oscar R. been agreed-but with a direct women's

Ewing, had Implication that unless Herr

dreams of social-

causes.

127,000-strong army that she

Konzok produces result, satis- built up from scratch.

factory to the Reds, the least

After the war little was

he enn hope for is the sack, heard of her outside ised medi-

POCKET CARTOON

by Osbert Lancaster

AMERICA

NE

|| "The Purge Season seems to be starting early this year!"*

America. But it surprised cine. nobody whea General Eisenhower picked her for

TRUMAN'S BID

Generul Eisen-

MES HOBBY

Since she was 20 she has been in one excecutive post or other and she has done pretty well in all of them,

STREAMLINING

There was a time when she went to work as a clerk on a WHORTLY before the war she leading Texas newspaper, the was appointed executive vice- Houston Post, but then she married her boss, proprietor and editor William Pettus Hobby.

Now 74, Mr Hobby Rels 13

lines listing his achievements in

the American Who's Who, while

his wife's career rates 41 lines.

HER LAW BOOK

president of the Post. They said at the time that the job was created for her "to give her the

to do what she did any

She streamlined the depart ments, improved the format, put

as "believing in free enterprise, but not exploitation, believing in social security, but not to

initiative and self-reliance

where it..

HER HATS

oll

WITH all her brisk and snappy emelency, Mrs Hobby has a woakness. hats. The story that she never The weakness is

hat

He takes it kindly. Asked what

a women's editor on the staff. it was like

wears the same hat twice is not to have a famous

Then in 1941 "No different.

she went to quite true, but it is nearly so. wife, he said, the biggest administration hower is said to favour She's always

as been famous to Washington unpaid public In her WAAC uniform ready job ever offered to a woman the overhaul, with

rciations officer in the War De- to sail for England during the a me." since Roosevelt made considerable expansion of

partment for three months. She war, she ordered an extrava-. her Houston slayed four years, creating and gant Frances Perkins his Labour the voluntary health in-

commanding America's first army, milliner. She was certain that Secretary 20 years ago. To- aurance scheme. And Con-

for women, was given the she would never be out of corps day she steps into office-

But rank of colonel,, was the first uniform during her stay. gress would have по VETA'S forty-eight birthday American woman to receive the she took a hat just the same. and back into the interna- fears about "Mrs Hobby's was January 19, Perhaps it is Distinguished Service Medal In And when Elsenhower On- tional headlines.

having socialistic ideas. She a symbol of her precise and tidy wartime.

nounced her great new appoint- disapproves of State birthdays are on that date, too. storey family

mind that both her children's

At home in the big. three ment, Mrs Hobby was in a medicine.

house Meanwhile,

In Texos beauty parlour, Daughter Jessica, who is at although Ewing had no school near Washington, AS Federal Security Ad- such privilege, the General 16; for con William, reporter an ministrator she will be has asked Mrs Hobby to the family newspaper, it was Minister of Health-plus. "sit In" at cabinet meet- Mrs Hobby was born In

In her new office, Mrs ings.

Texas, acquired un carly Hobby (the Culp is her

prospect of her taste for the low through maiden name) will handle big part in

to her the first reading legal reports

lawyer father. more money than any Republican administration At 20, already a graduate of woman in American his for 20 years does not shake Texas University Law School, tory. Her yearly outgoings Mrs Hobby. Nothing shakes she entered the Texas legislature will be in the region of her. With her sleek, closely. and became assistant city at- £300 million (nearly a bil- waved hair, trimly plucked orney in Houston.

From the first she felt Im- lion dollars).

eyebrows, quietly and ex- peiled to tell others how to be

The

his coming-of-age.

พวง

When MPs Met For 2s A Day

Ο

UT-OF-DATE methods miry tracks. In the immense seats near the draughly great, on this initial experiment in Only five representative government, the of conducting business wutlands on either side lurk door of the hall. in the House is one subject, unwary

earls Leicester, Gloucester, citizens and burgesses became ed danger and death for the

traveller, not only. Norfolk, Oxford and Derby men of consequence. Their for debate by the recent re- from wolves and wild bears, were summoned, with 18 petitions had to be heard and assembled Parliament at but footpads and desperate bärons.

their goodwill secured, so that The clergy had a big say, at slowly

from this historic Westminster, exactly 687 fugitives from justice, as well

as malcontents of the civit this time. One set of rits January assembly the Com- years after its predecessors

went out to the Archbishop of moners became a power

that met to form the first real Thus it was that representa York, the Bishops of Durham. had to bo cansulted and regu- Parliament of England on tives arrived at Westminster and Carlisle, ten abbots, ning lar Parliaments January 20, 1265,

On that grey January morn ing of 1203, the Great Parlia- inent had very different busi ness before them over

wor

'PRINCE'S RELEASE ·

sovereigns.

became a

Hall-a building pretty much prior from the North of Eng- necessity. to all' successive the same now as it was in the land and ten bishops and four hazardous déans from the Bouth; with

AUGUST CRADLE 13th century-after

65 The legislation of the 1265 journeys, travelling rough and more writs to follow for which hard. Not a few fell victims other abbots, 20

priors, and Parliament falled to heal tho the heads of military

Edward feuds. Finally Prince to worry. Fighting was going by the wayside.

"Procedura of the men went to war against Leicester on with the Scots, the Welsh

went in accordance, with borderlands were ravaged by The biggest question before

an who died on the battlefeld of elent tradition; the Saxon and Eveshamn the following August, bandits, and England was torn the 1265 Parliament was the Norman kings having held by civil war. King Henry II proposed release of the Prince. with their chief men what the but not before he had skilful- was but a puppet in the hands De Montfort agreed to it, sub former called

"Deep

Speech" Bet the seeds of constitu

tional government which were of a medieval Cromwell in ject to certain conditions. Par- the form of Simon de Mont- ment went on to do that and what the Norman clerks, to come to fruition later. Thirty

"or fort, Eart Leicester: Vir-

Byears afterwards Edward --con all qu

tunity

quarrels

to be sworn

1

Latin, termed !n

between the rival colloquim" or colloquy.Out-frmeil the principles for which' the State; de factions were to be mutually of the Deepis Speech of de de Montfort had fought againat head of Maritfort held Prince Edward, candoned under penalty of out Montfort and the advice given his father. Mineir the

to the throne a lavery, and that Magna Carta to him by those who heard thus in that Westminster prisoner as he called the Par- and the Forest Charter were

in the Great Parliament, de Hall, chilly yet august. cradlo lament

nt together,

to by everyone bate arose, and policy was of World's most enduring 9. DANGER AND DEATH concerned.

Constitution, de Montfort' FORDONEC to this call Representatives of this formulated.

had embryo House of Commons,

HIGH COUNSELSD "model „Parliament”? : firmly es- tablished by Royal Writ the “their Journeys from

were later to receive.ex-

(Although many Commoners ideas of supre remole corners

at penses of two shillings a day; left high counsel to their Partamentary di classes of Faigland weeks, beforehand in assembled in Council with the "superiors," so such thing as a classes toomed fazable, of the order:

er to getto, the Royal great lords and mitred fathers voto at that time being known, iritation of regal power and Palace among the marshes, of of the Churchi, no doubt sitting they became air eseriilat part Westminster in time Travel apart in accordance with sta of Parlement. Despite the of the right to lovy taxa Licar by sepach and burcback was - tion - and

rank

the lesser ambitious and determined k do

JEW TAYLOR over little more than rough, notables probably occupying Montfort keeping warm hand,

Spioneer, MPS

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NO!

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IT'S A HERRING!

I didn't

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