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FLASHPOINT: BERLIN

T

Berlin. D the people of Enst Berlin, happy workers in a people's democra tie paradise, comes onco again the sledge hammer, just two weeks after they were told "The days of the sledge-hammer are over.”

Focus

on

Europe's nowest crisis

All this was

necessary, clumsy in a city which hears to

through the archways of the

new work.

three were left

Suddenly, history is made in Berlin The East Berliner, peering much and knows so such of the streets-and today COLIN LAWSON, Brandenburger Tor, sees & the Reds in the face of the German - speaking foreign reporter,

uprising-

tells you just what lies behind and pair of shoes costs £10 they demands they ahead of a turning-point development Western

tral Government.

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In an economy where a

1. TO GIVE IN to workers'

Includo fren, BLO down the street a elections, and the resignations of

Ulbricht and Grotowohl. economy where better shoes cost 80s.

2. TO RESIGN and make way And hardly was the ink for another Government, on four main instructions from the cen- chief General Chulkov. And dry on the Communist Press 3. TO CRUSH the revolt rutti-

This it was he who in April re- announcement of the new lessly. ONE: Expansion of heavy meant simply that whatever turned to Moscow to talk reforms than yet another

were deemed with Malenkov.

decree came from the East From those talks came German Cabinet. It said One and two would have been TWO: Collective farming. necessary to carry out the

But, the martial law, and the THREE: Liquidation of programme would be order- the reforms announced re- simply: "Output must be in fast admissions of failure.

for. There cently.

creased by another ten per- ban on meetings, and the curfew, Their aim WBS two cent."

all leave the workers with о ed, not asked could be no arguments. Obey

fold-a

demonstration of -or else.

That decree-in an area where moral victory.

What happens now? The Rui→ gcodwill towards the West a worker who fails to reach his and to quieten the unrest in target is lucky to get any money slane, make no doubt of it, would at all after finca and deductions be happy enough to sacrifice their sparked off mouldering resent- stooges Ulbricht and Grotewohl. ment.

But that alone would not douse

For this is what the decree from the Russian military commander, General founded Dibrowa, announcing a state planks:- of siege in East Berlin, no gatherings of more than industry. three persons and a curfew from nine to five, means.

For the moment, the Reds have beaten off the uprising ngainst them and the East German Communist Govern- ment.

the middle classes and small privato frms,

FOUR: Rearmament.

measures

*

But the economy of East With this programme Germany, already tottering But the terrible problem came a warning-increase towards collapse, could not the Soviet zone.

to afford re- sustain the new programme.

For one day the East Berliner the fire.

The Russians, with the eyes of Millions of East Germany remains. output so as

have fled from

tried to burst his bonds. He filled For East Berlin is the armament without lowering

oppressive measures into It was

Semionov who Unter den Linden, the Marx- the world on their only possesion Engels Platz, and the dreary which Western eyes can really gaping hole in the Iron Cur- standards of life,

West Berlin; millions of issued instructions to the steels round the Government's inspect. must be thinking tain. Its 1,200,000 inhabi-

tons of goods go to Russia Eastern Press to cease centres with shouts of protest and furiously what their next step tants cause more headaches

when physical attacks on Communist should be. It was preceded by the without an equal return in "gutter language” to Red Russia "than all the

members. Party

Back to rigid controls and na speaking of the West. And

This strike was a spontaneous armed police force at the elbow other satellites put together. ominous phrase: "We shall goods or cash.

Semionov, waR the main it was the Communist Party outburrt against a miserable way of every worker? Or face-saving the Thus one year ago came build a dictatorship of the

architect of the programme. papers on his orders who of government and an even more measures to damp down

flames? the new policy, which was to proletariat."

Either way the Russians no build up Communism in And for the East Ger- He was political adviser to announced "the days of the miserable way of life

meant only, the Russian commander-in- sledge-hammer are over." Control Commission have been the losers. East Germany. It was mans this has

NEWELL ROGERS' AMERICA_COLUMN POCKET CARTOON

THEY WANT TO SEE

DEA

HER MAJESTY

New York. trial Organisations, is the most EAR MADAM-May it intemperate critic of the Taft- please your Majesty to Hartley law." know there will be a very special tour of industrial women to visit country this summer....

So

Said the Chicago magistrate: Queen Meyers, leader of 143 factory "Personally I like TV.

your

JUDGE CHARLES FLEMING granted Mrs Arthur Anderson on Injunction to prevent husband from third TV set.

her

smoshing

her

the letter to begins a

written by

Irene

and office girls working General Electric, at Wayne, Indiana.

bul for some people do have an allergy

some 1урса of Fort Ogalust

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The letter is a request: would be a dream fuiflled for the girls if they could see your Majesty."

They have been saving up for three years, and they have hired two airliners to y to London on July 25.

HALF of the U.S. merchant | navy is tied up by a seamen's strike for higher pay.

Involved are about 750 ships, including the 63,000-ton super- liner United States. In which 43,000 seamen work.

It means more business for British liners anti freighters if the tie-up lasta for long.

American seamen already got for higher wages than foreign

· compeillors. An able-bodied deck-man gets a basic pay of $302 (108) monthly.

grammes,"

pro-

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college

Kent

ABSENT - MINDED professor James R. F.

Syracuse, was arrested near New York, for speeding to the

raffle court to answer to charge of speeding.

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by OSBERT LANCASTER

"Alas, mon capitaine, poor Aristide has just been called back to Paris to form a Government!

ELECTRICKERY

IN

UNNECESSARY DANGER?

The tactles of the Russian

I SHOULD HAVE

MY DAY WITH THE NAVY

by BEVERLEY ‡BAXTER, M.P.

is

KNOWN

... an aircraft - carrier is like a haystack

lined the come the command, and with London. and the sailors

ad officer on (or were thrown upon the wings of one o'clock in the tell us what was going on. the wind. morning. The house is quiet, He explained that the stands. I took off my yachting cap attention. No one reprimanded the telephone has gone to that had been built were and stood silly and ellently to alcep, there is no traffic on actually facing the wrong me but it was probably a near the street and the only way, but that we were not thing. Bound one hears is the to worry. scratch of pen on paper.

Tvantage in writing at the loudspeaker starter to hat) in rhythm, the three chcers

Admiralty to attend the It. great sail past at Spithead, and I was one of many who accepted with zest,

In July.

It was a beautiful sight: na the convoy made its way! The The current, he said, wind whipped the waters into An additional satisfaction would soon start to turn us a dancing rhythm and the sun i made the old port lika is that I can rest my feet, around so that we would be in the west was so golden that There was for I have just returned facing the right way in good Venice from Portsmouth after a time. Unfortunately there magie in the air.

And afterwards came the ty past headed by a squadron of long day with Her Majesty's was a boisterous wind that ARE GADGETS PUTTING Fleet. MP's and members of had other views. The more haverplanes. Formation followed so swiftly, passing the House of Lords were the current tried to turn us, formation

from normal planes to the BRITAIN'S PILOTS courteously invited by the the more the wind prevented weird whistling jets, that one could only wonder where and how all took off.

they It required four tenders to absorb US

W bandoned ship and made fo land. T route we passed by the magni- We were asked to state AN aireraft-corrier," said one ficent, sinister Russian, eruiger A of the oflcers to me. "Is 11ks with its crew crowding the whether we would prefer an

picosura ocean liner and spend the a haystack." I agreed, but had no deck. We smiled with.

at the elegant Italian, training night on board, or an air des what he meant. But at con

the crew ..knd craft-carrier which would ever argue with a naval officer, ship in which

The loudspeaker then informed saluted the Queen by scrambl get rid of us as soon as the us that a request had been made Ing up the rigging in the fashion

tug to of other days. Queen had sailed by. I to the admiral to allow chose the ocean liner. The tum our nose in the right direc- tion. We would have to walt Admiralty said they were but the assumption was that the sorry, and attached me to tug would appear in plenty of the aircraft-carrier Perseus. time.

the. Gloster

⚫ THERE WAS a plane ornati, ● A report from The plane was one of Britain's company said that the plane had HOLLYWOOD, 'beset by un- top secret super-priority fighters; not broken up in flight and that ibere had been no structural or employment, has heard

one the Gloster Javelin Peter mechanical fallure. They cheering bit of news: in the Lawrence, one of the country's thought the crash was connected 99,017 cinemas throughout the most promising test pilote, was with a failure in the complex world, 74 percent of the total wilted. screening time is taken up by

U.S. Aims.

A WATERSPOUT has been addekl to the epidemic of tornadoes In the landlocked TN our Mid-West.

gadgetry.

By Derek Dempster

IN efforts to make

planes more efficient end It whisked down the broat Mississippi River for nearly ten safer for our pilots are we minutes before going up into not going too far in cram- a big black cloud. Then itming them with complex vanished, without doing much gadgetry? damage.

court"

mats their training home is their discipline.

They multiply the diflculty crews, of training maintenance

maintenance and increase the problem under combat condi tions in the leid. (About 2,000 men are needed to keep a wing of 48 planes in flying trăm tri the field.)

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After a pause the loudspeaker WE had gone by the Eplerdid ship that France bath sent and A crowded train rushed again took on the task of bring us to Portsmouth, and on ing light to the dark spaces of approached the American super an equally crowded ferry we our mind. It explained that cruiser Baltimore. Her deck was I think we are,

all the ships thrawn up to make lined with the crow and them To date, the planes in servier Much lighter

set out to find the magni- the lane through which the something happened, something SENTENCING three youths with the R.A.F. ure compara-

gripped ficent Perseus. It was Queon must pass would are unpremeditated

the heart. We were only for disorderly conduct at the Lively simple ploces of Brooklyn baseball

Mode THE Sabre is crammed with lunch-time, and the sea air their 21-gun salutemom single pandescript ferry crowded, to stadium, machinery. But the

a sprightly synchronised command....

the gills Judge Abner Surpless said: planes that

gadgets. So are the Hunters, had given us

and we must have aro coming into

"Actually," said the voice, they looked like a choir enjoying "This case makes me feel

We service

to Ay at supersonic the Javelins, the Swifts, and all

will appear to be firing at nautical pienie, plag should have spanking speeds deep in enemy territory the planes that are coming into appetite.

different times because it takes Yet for somo reason the machine attached to cach

are turning into a problema for service..

an interval for sound to travel. Americans broke into a cheer. our plists.

The MIG is, as far as I know, Wrens Astray But don't worry. It is simul. Again and again they cheered We have no such planes in

taneous firing.”

ps we made our humblo WOMEN, says former

US service today, let alone lested stripped down to its underwear

We decided not to worry. Eut Suddenly

realised..... Ambassador (to Luxemburg) in combat. But the Americans and can outclimb, out-accelerate

50 just as everything seemed ready these were our friends, our Perle Mesta, are natural diplo- have been flying Sabre jets in the Sabre at high altitude.

In the Korea for the past three years, Why? Because it is thousands

Wrens who there came word that permis near kinsmen. Language, his- and their pilots are worried by of pounds lighter. It is not were to assist in got slon had been refused for the 'tory and humanity had mada "How many hours a day does the

planes'

hoplexy is crammed with equipment thatting the lunch ready and bad affair all round but our at each "It was tho tug to turn us. This seemed aus alles who would always, ba They have to use great equipment,

my it a woman

ofthe the most moving. serving it went astray and guide and counsellor an tact in dealing with her family more of a hindrance than an

asset, and the neighbours?" .

If the Javelin crashed in the did not arrive. By that time microphone assured us that the day.

tide was doing is Job pretty By sheer The pilots have so many cricket ground because of its

British doggedness SQUEALS of Porky Pig and knobs and buttons to push that complicated electrickery," as there were 1,200 guests on and we would ree every- we fought our way, to the rail- In the heat of combat they can pilots call the electronic equip board (not all of them legis- thing though not as quickly is way station and boarded, a quacks of Daffy Duck его

train,

where a single waiter silenced

the Warner forget to select the right one, ment in their planca, are we lators) and the struggle for had been planned. In

accomplished the Impossible by Brothers

That may mean the end of a doing right to load our planes cartoon studio 1a

serving a meal to me hundred Hollywood, More than 70 car plane, although it has not been with it, if in the long run it is food proved a great loveller. toonists are out of work. Thit by enemy fire..

going to give us more trouble

However, the sun W&B

London, than it is worth? When they go back Sylves.

don't think so. I feel that shining and we forgot

Now the long days over. ter, the evil cat, and Tweety.

elso in the TuIEN, bonover, our mentor. The beautiful Persėtis, in frock- the canary, probably will ap-THESE American pilote and you can win more quickly and everything pear in depth..

many ILA.F. pilota who have save more pilots by using light,

Scene:

that took chi or more serious tone, Ing at anchor in company with magnificent been flying the latest types of hish performance fighters.

its sister ships from all over our eyes, He wished to impress upon us that produce in spread before following quantify and gain their victories i Special, stands had been when our ship saluted the Queen the world. tion were THE STATE DEPARTMENT seroplane back up their com- These

with the

with three cheers wo were not But If has called a halt to the burn-pleats

If my through fighting performance erected on deck and each of to take any part in it. It had

fquched by.. tho Cu aceful ing of books Communist arguments

by

GADGETS odd weight to rother Utan through their

our of liners and yachts authors in for, away US, in-

their planes and reduce numerous complicated gadgets us had a reserved seat, to be done in the proper manner splendour formation offices,

accctoration, and, and security devicen

Therefore in comfort wo in other words by the crew and fighting vessels, I find my. the alde of the ship.mlad returning to thioed But it is doing a quick job their climb,

We have an acropline of this could, fenst our eyes on the manoeuvrability .come, of its own of burning up.com

GADGETS make the pilot'i type - under construction in coast line of the Isle of we could stand up and that was arrogant fets that swept acrose all. Personally, I, felt that it the skies with high-pitched pamphlets. They were Sup- posed to explain to foreigners job more compileated. In Britain. It has been nicknamed Wight and on the ships of was damned docent of him to let whine like the wind in the the Tall-Harley labour

wires on a frosty night law contrat, a pilot's job should be the Gnat became of its size, its

made us simple as possible, so slings and its speed, and

every size and shape that us do that much" moj k

But all this WRE forgatton which governa strikes.

Wore they passing a sentence So far only mild Interest has were crowded in the famous when the processional ships of death

upon the plekidid But they aroused the wrath that he can concentrate on hig of trade union leaders by in main task--the destruction of boon taken in it. Yet it could be stretch of water.

'were soon approaching,

creatures lying at anchor bes falsc accuss the enemy.

built in far greater accuracies and

quintile

Our crew were ordered to low? I do not - know ju tha GADETS oblige the service and in a much shorter time and tions,

By that time the crow of stand to attention, and we answer, but the question,

•Sample:

"Walter Heather, to spend more umo and, as a much cheaper price than

- thosd with, compler · gadgetry, Perscus wore in their places, civilians rose in unison. Then pounding at my mind. head of the Congress of: Indus) money on training pilots.

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Arguments

:

can

be

More Serious of us between Fortsmouth and