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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JULY 16, · 1953.

DON IDDON'S DIARY ★ EVEN THIS CLOUD

HAS ITS SILVER DOLLAR LINING

New York, Tuesday. 47 REW PEARSON, the year,

percent

higher than last Canada ond Britala balancing and even the most their Budgets. confident manufacturers are sy- well-known forecaster ng "There is a limit to what the we?" say the politicians led by In print and on the public can absorb." air, says one of the biggest

D

One remedy

At the beginning of the year news stories in the world they were saying the sky, or the is the depression stratosphere, was the limit. The today cloud in the United States, second-hand car glut is janmming Pearson is occasionally sen--the showrooms and blocking the

Blow of new car sales, sational as a crystal-ball gazer, and the American public

him about pays £36,000 per year for his WHATS to be done about it? says: "Make the prophecies.

Instalment buying plare less striel. Loosen up on the credit, give the customer more for less money."

I think if he substituted the words

"mild recession" for "depression" he would be more accurate this time.

There are some signs of a

declive in business and other big cities, and in the Madison country too. On Upper Avenue, near where 1 Hve, several shops have shut down, and not just for the su

Suulner,

Detri!

And it is the banks who fin-

Some were in the luxury class -antique stores, interior de- corating

establishments, X- pensive beauty parlours ratering ounces to the carriage trade, but others were pastry-shops and ironton- Lers.

won't stretch

it

If they can do it, why can't

Senator Robert Taft, and add: "No more ald, or damned lille from now on."

You must not imagine because of the squall clouds that `New York is beginning to look any poorer. The big fancy conver tibles and town curs block the

cones. The women dressed elaborately-- and expert- sively.

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The men are dapper in their nylon shirts, Palm Beach sults, and coconut straws, and the bars are doing big business In hut-weather drinks,

That is, in -mid-Manhattan.

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The people who live at the endle of the island haven't as

It is ance the hire-purchage never- inuch to be happy about. New York

that almost all plans, and they never

won't a uslon budge. The bankers are alarm Americans live

comfort. Every summer you might ex- ed already by the extended credit and

tend a thought to the millions who swelter in the ferocious further.

wat here, try to sleep in bak- There are other signs of a mild recession. Food prices are which have no air conditioning, ing apartments and tonements

down. The Government un-

cat mediocre and often tasteless thut

there has been food at drug-store counters, and from work in drop of five percent from the ride t

I say jammed buses and dirty subway peak prices last August.

it is more like eight percent.

trains. Beef is down, although a good The superintendent of my

steak still costs around 255, in a says: "People apartment building

decent restaurant. are just not spending as much

vner of u owner

restaurant money on things they don't need. where t

oflen lunch tells me Dollars are tighter. Tips are, The country is up to its eyes down Mere people are taking buses and the subway instead of and ears in food, and particular

in wheat. Did you know we taxis-It's readjustment, 1 in

*

need only 500,000,000 bushels of suppose."

wheat 6 year, and this year's Production will total about 1,750,000,000 bushels?" I said I didn't know.

Chilly for them

HE coldest chili is being felt

THE

in the motor-car industry.

A

The

Clothes are cheaper. carpets and furniture.

The

So are

Unhappy timing

is bad luck that the rat IT

signs of a 'recession should when the United cole just States appears to be floundering

the free world loader.

Malcolm Muir, the president of Newsweek magazine, whom I have known for me time and whose judgment i respect, came

back from Europe the other day

and said what lot of people have been thinking for some Now there should be no time: "Europeans do not have or calamity- the faith in American states- manship they once had. Ameri- can prestige is at an all-fine low."

Why the lots of faith? Be- cause of McCarthy, cause of the witch- the book-burnings,

the growth of intoler- hunts, ance, the vacuum in Washing ton, the belligerence of some retired generals, the confusion

deposit, and drive away in a just raking them it.

now

arc

Cadillac. Dealers slashing the prices expensive cars, and the bottom has fallen out of the used-var market.

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In the spring you had to coax scaremongering and whetdie mud any over the howling about the decline which list price to get a brand-new Pearson calls a depression cloud. reat corporations are be- top-class car, Not so now. man can walk into a Broadway ginning to compete strenuously modest for the customer's dollars instead show-room, my 4

of

The mammoti

firms plan to more on Spend ten percent

newspapers, advertising in the magazines, radio, television, and direct mail

mail catalogues than they in Korea,

They plan are bringing only did last your,

relentless sales battle. It demanded a few months ago. should be an interesting six

convinced that

the the super-boom tapering-off of

due to psychological partly reason. The Government defeit of nearly 8.500.000,000 dollars There is a good deal of worry (the highest ever in peace-time) automobile has jolted the Americans, who Detroit, capital. The new car output is not lon; ago were reading about

Used cars

three-quarters, and in some in- meet their competitors hen3-on No wonder. People here

atanecy two-thirds, of the price

I rang up an executive I know He said: of General Motors.

The used car dealers will just have to get used to taking smaller profits,the lush days are over."

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Headlines, here read "Rigid' “Stánd di' U.S. Disturbing Bri-

oy to me: "The British aren't beginning to crumple up to the Commies, are they?" and there Pas been some criticism of America's Idol, Sir Winston Churchill (despite his illness), wanting to explore the possibilities of meeting Malen-

ov These

the worries that plague Americans,

for

are

Mad about Harry

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THE TRAIL LEADS

was

TO LONDON

WORRIED Dr Klaus

By Stanley Burch

statue... and repeat the whole business, The next top would be to get Greenglass. Into Czechoslovakia.

He didn't carry out the

conspiracy came in June. But another man in the ring performed the first

Fuchs drove from Los Alamos past the tawny shrubs and the tall cactus along the road without a and easy" co-operation which So Fuchs passed out of the signpost. Fresh in his British and American scientists picture of the Rosenberg-Gold- scheme beforo the round-up memory-and in his awe-enterprise prevailed no longer, for four years.

hind enjoyed right through the Greenglass-Russian the first blinding Fuchs told Gold (as the courler atomic flash he had watch later described the talk),

By now the British counter stage. ed at Alamogordo.

Many departments which had spionage were reporting ladica- Morton formerly been "readily acces ions that the Russians were in

Sobell flew into sible, to him were now closed possession of much-atomic Mexico-to be sent back and As a result his superiors in the thought a Western secret,

information which had been picked up on the United States would probably have to return to co-operate with Scotland Yard the Rosenbergs (he claimed he British team had advised him he ... men crossed the Atlantic charged as a co-conspirator with ant side by walling F.B.I. men and

to England very soon.

Now it was September 19, 1945, York. It is obvious that nothing past the mud adobe houses

and he was heading for Santa Fe. and no one will ever get Mr

the sleeping dogs of its narrow Trunan down.

wisting strcels he weaved, to the big church on the outskirts.

He told us: "I've always sold that the Republican Party is a party of special privilege and interest."

a man

To taxi-drivers who yelled to him "Run again, Harry and you will make it easy," Mr Truman just smiled and waved and looked like

who might Fun ugain.

Mr Truman says: "I will be cussed and discussed at the next General Election at least," At the moment he is being more discussed. than cussed.

There waited the dark chubby mon, whole name he didn't know.

But to them he had been shipping atomic secrets for a year-Harry Gold, or "Dave from Pittsburgh."

RENDEZVOUS

A pud, dramatie seiting for

more

But Fuchs was much worried about Ecmething else.

British forces had goi to Kiet

d of the Red Army. And in dossier by the Kiel there was a very complete

Gestapo" upon Fuchs, who, as the Icader of the university student group, had "fought the a sordid rendezvous, this Sonia Nazi

storm Fe. Second oldest city in the troopers in the Unlled States, it stands under a streets of Kiel' The start of the holiday sea-mountain range that slows so

was "very sen drove millions from the city, red at sunset that it was called greatly troubled and the Broadway entertain Sangre de Cristo (Blood of test the British ment sector has been fairly Christ) by the first Spaniards Intelligence light qulet.

when they came up from Mexico .on the dossier The second Coronation ilm. centuries past to build their had becom "Elizabeth is Queen," which is glorious coloured churches among aware of his by

as good as "A the ageless Indians.

"very strong Queen is Crowned," has arrived A fine place for a day of free Communist rather belatedly here and "Project Y," whose International background and been well received. But why brains had just triumphed in ties."

their fantastic quest to unlock Die long delay in showing !!?

the annihilating power of the The Hollywood wisecrack is that the film town. is suffering from 3-Dementia and TV tre- mens. It will probably reeaver,

no means

as

atom.

But Fuchs didn't expect to see

it much more. The open "free

Smithsonian Has An Island

in

wus "kidnapped" frontier).

across the

in the international hunt.

The trial led to London and.. Harwell. On February 2, 1950. Klaus Fuchs was arrested, after described as fully as he could In London, Fuchs had confessing all,

The shockwave the mystery courier he had of the exposure dealt

and American rocked the centre detective work led to Gold. He of the plot in confessed, nemod others. On New York.

June 15 F.B.1. agents came to

WHEN SPIES MEET: "Fuchs was to be carry- ing five books bound with

string...."

by

withi

Julius Rosen- Greenglass's flat, searched it to berg hurried the last corner of his trunks and

round to his arrested him...

brother-in-law,

David Green- He confessed 100, and the Fluss, the spying knock on Rosenberg's door came

machinist

from soon after.

Los Alamos, and

"YouT-

Fold: member the who

5 CHARGED

Month

after

man came to gee you in Al- buquerque? Well, Fucha

month, while was, ulso Julius und Ethel Rosenberg sat one of his con- silent and stolid in their cells tacts. You'll

proclaiming complete Innocence, have leave

the Greenglasses and Gold were the country.

dictaling

statements, revising Another blow. followed.

them and signing them with relays of FDI. men and typists. Greea To the Government's attorneys ut length went an immense

the

"

versus

Together Santa Fe, he and Gold worked out another of the "recognition" stratagems

Rosenberg showed which "someone" could make glass a newspaper with contact with the scientist when pleture of a man just arrested detailed melodramalle blueprint he got back to London:

in America for espionage. of the great conspiracy. "This," he said, "is the man "Beginning on the Art Satur- who saw you in Albuquerque." day of every month after it had it was a pleture of Harry Gold.

March 0, 1951-almost been determined that Fuchs had

seven years after D-day when. returned" (as Gold called it) "at Julius Rosenberg' gave Green- the plot was alleged to have a stop on the British subway glass 5,000 dollars and made started in the skyscraper (underground) in London called in memorise a plan to escape

Federal courthouse of New Paddington Crescent, possibly from Americu and

the Clerk of the Court Teddington Crescent, at 8 pm..

reach York, Fuchs was to be on the street at Curtain. He was to slip across of

conctuary behind Iron proclaimed: "The United States

America Though life on this six-square-the underground; the street level.

Julius Rosenberg. mile island is somewhat more

the easy border into Mexico as

Ethel Rosenberg, crowded than in the

Anatoli Yakovlev, also known as average

"a tourist" and write to the jungle, killing or capturing an

Soviet Ambassador there a letter John, David Greenglass and animal or even plucking a wild-

signed "I Jackson" and making Morton Sobell." Nower is strictly forbidden..

A remark favourable 'le was to be carrying five. Soviet Union's position. the Panama Canal Zone, life The only man-made altera-books bound with string and goes on much the same as it did tions'on' the entire island are a supported by two fingers of one Three days later, at five in, and agree to communicate, 10,000 years ago. Every form of few trails used by naturalists hand; he was to be carrying in the afternoon, he was to go to deliver and transmit to a foreign Jungle alte exists there, them red and native guides familiar with bucks is the other hand. His the Plaza de la Colon and look Government, to wit, the Union chiggars bo bou-constrictors. Of the haunts of wild creatures. contact, whoever that would be, at the statue of Christopher of Soviet Socialist Republies and the mammals," reptiles, birds. In addition, a small laboratory was to be carrying a copy of a Columbus. When a man camo representatives 'arid and amphibians that live in clase has been set upon of the little you have heard this."

ngents Bennett Cert book, 'Slos me clearing

up close to him he would say thereof, directly

and

Indirectly harmony on the island scientists

a jen provide

That's a magnificent statue, have Alscovered hundreds of jungle tops for naturalists on two points here. His Tube cauulful statues in Paris." The Unlied States of America,

documents, writings, and the contact would reply notes and Information relating (Gold's memory contudo

ngs, sketches, species heretofore unknown.

there are much more to use national defence of the all over the e world.

Washington. THE Smithsonian Institution, haven for fossils, shells, and relies of the dead past, includes In its demain a tropical land,

On Barro Colorado Island,” In

in a

section

living and

HUNT BEGINS

to

the

Barro Colorado is all that rewith 20 years of study, behind presumably meant Morning on man would give him a passport

Istation names don't exist and he

more money to fee to

The charge: "That they did conspire, kombing, confederate

TOMORROWIND

mains of an old hilltop above Waben when the Chagos River them, the Smithsonian people are Crescent, one short stop, drown and was demmed in form plan able to report that, for all their Easton, And the real site of the Stockholm. Lake. About 25 years ago, the Andings, scientists are still a long Lock American collection of kalon was set aside us a wildlife way from solving the complicated funny stories was Try and Stop atter stand under: another THE END OF THE STORY Thero he would wille another THE TRIAL, THE CHAIR.: mysteries: of jungle life! :/ Ma")

preserve for acientifle study.

TEA FOR STRONG TEETH

By CHAPMAN PINCHER

~HILDREN who start drinking ten carly, are likely to grow up with better teeth.

The reason is that a cup of ten contains about one part in a million of a chemical called sodium fluoride and lengthy tests in Britain and America show

that if a child geta that much fluoride it suffers much less from tooth decay.

This is disclosed in a report by a British mission that studied American experiments.

The report recommends that tlay amount of fluoride should be added to British water sup- plics as in some American ellien,

The chemical-it is similar to ordinary salt, and would be lusteless-ls already found In sumclent amount in some na-. tural water.

that

There is no evidence Auoride can stop tooth decay. once has begun.

LAURA STARS

A BEAUTIFUL two-year-old girl called Laura stars in a tear-Jerking film being shown to doctors and nurses throughout Britain. Her

rated performance is terrifle" because her tears and

tantrums are completely natural. The film is a real-life record of Lmiro's feelings during eight days she spent in hospital to undergo a minor operation.

The audience sees her fretting for her mother. I sees her affection for her mother fade aa she begins to

to believe she has been abandoned.

Psychologists argue that many abnormalities of later life are dur to mental injuries" received in the first four years of childhood. The scientific inquiry for which this firm was made-by psychologist James Robertson is designed to test that ballet and. to discover what could be effects it done to prevent such they exist.

Laura's case history will be followed up for many years by doctors of the Tavistock Clinic to see if the short time that sho was deprived of her mother's care will have any lasting eftecis on her mind.

So far there has been some evidence of deep-seated anxiety. When shown a sequence of the film six months after leaving hospital, Laura cried angrily: "Where were you, Mummy7 Where were you?"

A MAN'S LIFE FROM the moment ho is born mon has a for tougher fight to stay alive than a woman. according to a new analysis of accidents published.

He.

has a much bigger chance

of being scalded as a baby, hit on the head as a toddler, run in middle life,

over in his teens, and drowned The only way in which women suffer a bigger propor- tion of fatal injuries is through falls-for which high heels may he mainly to blame.

PARTY. GAME

THERE is a brand-new party

gome thought out by Lon don doctors: Get two objects which are identical in Bizo, shape, and weight-two glass covers from preserving jars, two foreign coins, or even Iwo cricket balls will do.

Blindfold your guests in turn, and put one of the objects in cach of their hands. Then ask them which object is the bigger. Most of those who are right- handed will say that the object in the left hand is larger, The left-handers will over-estiminto the size of the object in their right hand,

DI A. McPherson and.. S. Renfrew, who discovered this no human tendency, found explanation for it.

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