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TRIESTE,
· THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1953.
GILES ALONGSIDE THE NEWS
TITO.
PELLA AND LUCE
decisive 'careers
Nume
By George Weller
Rome. coup or the worst boner in post-
war affairs.
TO. Pella and Clare
Mr Luce A.mly claim Boothe Lucé are 10 that she alone othered the day facing the most formula giving Trieste to what
days uf their she calls "full" Italian sovereign
Reeelving newsmen in a 7.000
molish mort-length dark-blue American and British troops dress, with a huge red rose and
packing Are
evacuate alt-one pa to
Chee Lucy Trieste.
attributed the Trieste folution Having ruting Big Arst un- to three Americats ambassa- well as British col- disguised retback in prestige, fors" 19 Marshal Tito, Yugoslavia's leagues,
She bruche 1 of 7% теле
congerutula, president,
matur2 and warned danger as possible for a Com-
heurern to await Inilan murart dictator in power.
reactions
Her dents of authorship were because taken with heavy d
banker
stand
Italy's premier, mountaineer
Giuseppe Pelia, is rum pling his reddish hair about how handle 200 Communist-ne
sixt deputies
surdry
B
is known that this embagay has working intensely since 1 to clear the Trieste rond-
been
Sept.
Fascists who insist that. Italy seek from the path to Europen
MARSHAL TITO
unity.
were
Wille
rowds angry We Aern Embersies In Belgrade, diplomate were nervous trying to chart Tito's counterstejas. Since Tit Teknotted
relations lus
with Ruda al its satellites Last month, his
of Joken paws repra are limited.
Hot Spot
Yugoslavia will place its casc before the United Nations,
This step puts Tito's Bellar allts, Turkey und Greger 011 the hot aunt of whether to sup- port Aira mnd antagonise Italy, abandon him and thereis doom the three-power military acement still rewailing negotia- tion,
1750 I kept the Joining the North
door lo Atlantic
should have got all Trimie, not Alliance tar Cerar 1 expected simply the bigger half.
w to slam it, Without enouncing his claims
But Felin ory? his presteerNOU, Alride de Gasperi, are ala to urbaa Trieste, Tilo is ex- that the sunning themselves in prav
to denrund
from all certre parties and mess. American turnish fresh proofs rightist: except the hard core of "gally" by increased are of diehard nationalists,
When the shock of his din- the American Embassy, silver-haired Clare Boothe Luce, comillure has passed, however, Jelly controlled, with only six Tito is not likely to throw him- months' diplomatic experloges self into Soviet Premker
behind her, 18 waiting with Malenkov's arms, it is fel, crossed fingers to see whether His kellest move is to in- she has pulled off the biggest crease efforts to find neutralist
By Appointment Wine Merchants,
र
to The Late
allies in the Middle East and
Aslo.
Pella is not going overboard vet in thanking the Amerlenny and British for Trieste, because offelally Italy is getting only helf a lost. Italy's policy maing anchored officially to the American-British-French pro. mils of 1948.
Under this promise-made in embarmugs the Italian Com- munists before Stalin denounced Tho-the three powers pledged Italy both halves of Trieste.
Italy's Communists, who for ne years have been howling that Trieste 15
Anglo- "military American
base," Mortcow's echoing
broadcasts, have ignored fuifliment of be Trieste
demands evacuated.
that
Instend, they have pounded the Beltish and Americans for having "overridden the halian chambe And abandoned the tripartite plodge."
Pelia's immerlinte task is self- Ing "beration" to Trieste citizia in face of Tho's warning that Trieste will muffer economievily,
Theo
probably right.
CUISEPPE PELLA
Spontaneous Joy was con. when Trieste spicuously absent learned its defrocked status as Just another Italian city,
While shuddering at any legal link with Tito, Triestinos have rejoiced as a sort of Tangiers, For near
nearly a decade they have subsidised by been gloriously everybody: Washington,
lo even, Belgrade,
and
Gome
Rome extent.
Trieste port, already waning
King George VI
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* DON IDDON'S DIARY
THES
London Express Bervice
*
This British Comeback Flabbergasts America
New York, Tuesday. ROM this distance Sir Winston Churchill, Mr Eden, and the Con- servatives look and sound like Confidence Unlimited.
The Americans are not merely impressed they are slightly flabbergasted to see Britain quietly reassum- ing, or at least reaching for, work! Idadership.
I was pleased to see the pres- could de tɔ the United States Gulara has
ot claimed too
ge newspapers here published "Operation Candour" became much attention, but those who the Churchill and Eden speeches "Operation Confusion."
in full and printed long
Intelligent Interpretations editorial comment.
and
We
and Public officials, Including Cabinet Ministers, fell Over themselves making contru What ean President
Eisen- dietory statements about the however and lils Administration utom and hydrogen bombs, be thinking as they see the were told one day that we could Western world teadership slip all be wiped out. We were told the next that we could not be There are more and more re- wiped out. ports that Mr. Eisenhower does
One man, Val Peterson, head not relish being President.
the Civit
Ada Defence
atomic wa"-
from their grasp?
We all know he only accepted of After all, it was only two or the neminution most reluctantly ministration, sald three years ago, the tena .of
was inevitable and and imagined he could be above fare
the thousands of words were being and beyond poilties. But It "whole book" in modern wen- cabled here from London quot hasn't turned out like that, and tons would be thrown against ing the
well-known "informed friends say that
he is disilu- the U.S. Lources" and
"unimpeachable stoned with authorities" that
the trickery and on deal-making that
are politics' bedfellows
the rocks,
we were
The man left on the spot more even than Tlto, Pella and Luce I even remember read.tig a
Ike stops it
have read or heared about it are Impressed.
07
Stupid tnik of "cringing appeasement"
the part OI America's allles-imagine any- necustne Sir Winston Churchill, of cringing or ap- peasement--has diminished.
ore
The one fear
THE ordinary Americans; par- I Beforly pareras of small children, have naturally been very much occupled with the kidnap-murder of six-your-old Bobby Greentease rather than with great world issues,
Of his first 253 day's AR
Police and the F.B.I. 15 Trieste's Moscow-trained | much-advertised series in the President, Mr Elsenhower spent 43 away from the White House.
fear that the Greenlerse case Communist leader Vittorio Scripps - Howard newspapers Ho
of is troubled with painful Charice
ECRETARY
Defence might spark other abductions, Vidale.
called "The Story of Once He
Wilson sald Actually, since passage of the some- Vidale was deported from the Great Nation," Well, fancy bursts, and this health
would take three years before Lindbergh Law, which gives the tlines the
anxious subject of United States in 1937 over the that.
the. Rússians had discussion...
sufficient F.B.I. jurisdiction and autho- defence of Clarence Darrow, and
There har -been- qulto ̈
The President, always a rell-bombs and acroplanes to deliver rises the death penalty, there still speaks American alang change. Mr Walter Lippmanu,
them in an attack here. Various has only been a handful of kid-
alty which makes the danap thugs hesitate-nothing else.
despite his Moscow training and who has always had faith and Flous nan, is more devout than malor and minor offlelals joined nappings, It is the death peri-
Spanish civil war service.
remained constant, now
Vidale has been leading some write: "Churchill is saving the 8,000 party cardholders in agitat-grand alliance," and the thought ing for "Imperialists" to leuve ful agree with him. Trieste.
they
As troops depart, taking many blonde Trieste brides with them,
also
Vidalc's remove eminence as
independent An leuder answerable only Lo Moscow.
Becoming only another vog in
Balanced comment
IPPMANN
can
that the United States, "for various reasons, largely internal,
the Italian Communist Party's has been forced to suspend its
past week
everyone
Tu
Among parents I know, one is letting his young children go out alone since the Green- lease mystery ended in sicken- ing tragedy.
daughter
NOSING INTO NOISE By J. W. Taylor
flats in all Britain
Nhave and such noisy oc
cupanta as three blocks. at Abbotts Langley, and never was there such scant respect for the peace and quiet of the neighbours.
They
were used by the Building Research Section of the Government's Depart- ment of Scientific and. In- dustrial Research
ex- perimental laboratories in an effort to find the secret of less noise.
some-
And proceedings were thing Uko this: A man in hob- nailed boots clamped around with only pauses to bang away with a hammer to the accom paniment of nimast censeless whistling; loudspeakers bellowed in one room and were recorded at 30 points in others; men in carpet slippers shuffled about on bare boards and hob-nailed ones mon blew whistles;
of four
two- hammers set to
blows
didnt of
rapping pound work
banging ton
A
second. thor rubber hammer- heads wore substituted, follow- ed by ebonile heads, heavy shorp and dull thuds and cracks alike belon
graphis
for vibration noise,
Then the search tumed to materials to defeat the din. Common ones were granulatert
cord, felt and fibre board. More unusual were glass silk, slog, wool. rubber pads. Helping out were double walls, false ceilings and the revolutionary "floating floor."
New Means
Tests such as these are icad- ing to the discovery of new rucans of keeping heres quieter. for science shows that it is possible and practical to dim the din
of this modern age.
They need to be. Surveys taken in five large elties reveal that fat dwellers in modern blocks have most noises to com- door slamming, plain of radios heard through 18 inches of brick wall, water cisterns, conversation, babies crying, tenants going up
down stairways.
Fifty-seven percent of people in such flats suffer from neigh- bour noise, compared with only 25 percent in
older and
and
type Gats a mere 27 percent of those who live in houses.
Sleep broken by noise is a simBar story. In new flats, mostly of prewar construction, the percentage was 62; in flats,
converted chiefly large houses, it was 26; in houses only 21.
old
Researchers sought the reasons that make noises cling to ritwer buildings. Sound whisks through the air at 1,100 feet per second; through steel, wood and brick it flies at 15,000 feet per second. And they found that intruding nolars bustled blithely along the
of continuous lines the ritid aleel-frame and contrute flata eracted with such pride in the 1930's...
sick.
Noisy Office
and
ever. He spends several hourn each week in private devotions, in the babel.
Finally, the President barred All Cabinet meetings are opened with prayers. He never inisses further talk from the blubber- Thurch unless he is ill, and mouths and issued a statement more and more in his speeches himself which, unfortunately,
one sull confused. left
Nolses in office, factory refers to divine guidance.
The majority opinion here is The public, showing much
streets were also tackled. There more common that he will not seek the Prest- more
sense and
was not one word about nolso stroint
It has ciency again.
that the politicians,
beon my custom to tor when the management were The point nut
has been refused to get H-bomb jitters
eight-year-old my
troubled in one place about 27 particularly trubiccome for the red went about their business take the dog for a walk along girls out of 200 daily reporting
After a great deal of corning President.
or to buy cows- an honest dollar the avere
BICK. Noise experts covered the of advance talk about "Opera and then sending a corsiderable papers and cigarettes for me at bare walls with maps, had type- tion Candour-telling the peo slice of it to Europe and Asta. the corner shop. No longer, writers set on felt pads, tyres
With
this ple the brutal facts about tho
on. Children up to 11 years and all
going
put on troby wheels
and older, all hydrogen bomb and
Britain's firm action in British
over the country are
asbestos fibre sprayed on the now being escorted to school by cellings and the sick parade father, mother, or friends. dropped to six a day.
There is to crime so hideou as that against a child-trust,
Investigations showed that the noisy office is worse than
tho ing. Innocent, wholly vulner-buty streets, the former with able. Parents are asking: "How 40 decibels shall we protect our chlidren?”
of noise Interalty and they demand an answer,,
Colour bár goes
big wheels, Vidale's demotion | leadership of the free world," paralels that of his deadliest and the readers sadly nod their
neads enemy, Tito.
what it
IF THE SURRENDER TAKES PLACE,
SOON THE
WILL
N 16 square miles of
rocky Egyptian desert lies the key to the Suez talks 15
THE DANCE FLOOR
BE ALL
DESERT
By Ralph Walling
tory, at El Alamein, and here square today
for
Thred thousand highly qualified (echnical
5,000 has been comparatively quiet and trooper evations keep the depot just Hut" such a success in London, Broadway. "The Little
1kolding over.
miles which combine vast reality of a retreat from over- Is made at the rate of seven the exports ad gloamily.
tary storehouse and
an
to
It is self-contained
Uerder Egyptian Army control, has been received coolly. With- Ico against the water and electric power. the is up
1 out Robert Morley the play has
military storehouses with cas responsibilities.
and a half tons a day. In addi- would go back to the desert lost its magle and seems tediour
probably in six months, What the The Waldorf-Astoria Hotel married
quarters, For Tel-d-Kebir is the mill- tion to the morried quarters, schools, and clubs one with
workshop schools, and clubs, it has its sand does not not and mother, confident that Noel Coward will of the disputed Canal Zone.
swim- Eraft end craftiness will reach out agree to play there this winter own hepithi, cinemas,
in an engagement, aimlar dance floor perfumed by Ita size is staggering. It is ming pools, sports grounds, and to grab
Robbers Over now are not his one at the Cafe de Paris in flowers from 13 sunken equipped to mobise ten dit roller-skating rink.
deformed by the depot's existing London, but no confrmation sions at the start of a war and garden.
defences-perimeter minefields, comes from Noel. Anyway, if maintain twice that number Its disperal elsewhere in the high barbed wire fencer, search-ho wants £3,000 a week or su Tel-el-Kebir is the name. while war loals.
Middle Eart would present a light, look-out and combat clogs, he can have it. Here Britain won a batte 71 Storts
are stacked the problem, 19 deterioration end one full infarty brigade, Racial bog:egation, which years bya,* here the made eer- open and in half-acre brick disaster. Experts on the spor
hos been practisett a long tain, 80 years later, of the vic-zheds rerved by roads and say it is nirendy running down. Grands have onders to shoot Ume & Washington's cinemas light railways 100 miles long. This is because hundreds of pidit prowlers without warning.
and theatres, is on its way out, * In 1882 a British force under Lord Vast stock piles of small arm, skilled Egyptiary artisans have Yet ono, Ahmed the Way, has Negroes are no longer being re- Wolseley - routed * 38,000 Egyptian radios, and clothing are col- been intimidated into leaving the penetrated the defences 16 timer, fused admission. About time. soldiers led by the army upstart Arabi Paihia ond restored The footed there, as well as seem- depot. The lost labour force has sometimes unserepving his wooden Elsa Maxwell reports that Khedive Taußk to power.
ingly unending ranks of guns, not been replaced as it could be dng av trailing it through the playwright Frederick Lonsiste vehicles and wiring.
In part pt least by loyal do concell him trackr.
connects the disappearance of Sudanese.
The depot is not on the bele- Burgess and Maclean with the Shipment of repair work, back phone-the lond line has been softening Russian attitude to workshops, with
to Britain and th Tripol par- dug up too many times and a wards the West, but offer no quaro forb of
"world's culbely vehicles, has increased copper msing stolen and nok at details. are the
enormously this yent, I was told, a pound a foot. So the depoti has
$5.
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floor space, largest.
Paul Muni returns to the
In four war years they over- ont pection of the to love in touch with the rest stage in R. C. Sherriff's "Home
depot.
10
of the Cana? Zane by tedio a houted 52,000 Taklion, * 33,000'
Seven," re-tilled here as a I saw machine tools standing cosppich rider. enginer, '19,000. tennaborc
Yoichis is the hub of a cluster film, and an excellent one, as vehicles, 0,000 gums, 1880 tanks and idle in their concre
"Murder on Monday" aärring bexdia
of garrisons crxi air bases that and armoured cars and count-
Ralph Richardson. Even en Egyptian contractor Ins, cost Belain £50,000,000 less machine
small guns and
found it had to beneft by a your to run for the benefit of her bongan He bought up the huge Exmpiro and the free world--and Today
Tel-el-Kebir has the tank comelery for more Egipt no more than her hurt permanent look of a depot £200,000, and aboștinge of labour, pride, which toole more than a docatie: zlowed, dovas collection of his Who will stop the drift bedora to establish.
hata to cruwi,
It is too imbo?
arms.
Rudolf, Bing starts his fourth season as the director of the Metropolitan Opera. His succes has been phenomenal and he stande na: nonsense.fromm dire {- prima donna,
against
"The⋅
Intter's
sixty decibels. A punch press ham- mers out 100 decibels-well over the limit of 85 at which
ordinary voices can be heard. At 110 decibels the sound of
hoing becomes feeling. Beyond it hear- ing is damaged if the ears are assaulted for a long time,
Some 43 percent of rivetters have
deances in both cors, compared to six to nine percent of workers in quieter trades. Eor plugs are a partial remedy, but the workers will not wear them because they do rot like them.
POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER
"Don't blame me, Wilbur, -I told you not to wear your bifocals.“
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