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★ DON IDDON'S

DIARY *

The Dangerous Trend Of Closed Doors

W

down on the

I think it unlikely that there 'Now York. way or another, usually the worst

could be a cataclysmle crash like HEN I arrived at way.

itat of 1929. There Is a whole dovicra the court-house In

of regulatory Here the New York County series Foley Square here Lawyers' Association is trying to curbing reckless speculation, and there were about 100 people tell the papers how to report the public liself has largely

nows. Not long ago turned thumbs outside. A cop said: "Break crime It up. Move on," but the Judge Francis Valente closed his stock market and put its money court-room to Press and public into savings banks and property. crowd didn't move.

during the Mickey Jelke case. And now McCarthy is putting up the barricades. It is a dangerous trend.

The policeman said to me: "They are waiting for Joe- It's been like this all week."

arc

Even so, I am surprised that McCarthy has kept Senator strictly off the subject of dollars Now that his own and cents. and cu

declared to be Anances hax

reproach, perhaps he beyond will have a few thousand words to say on how to maintain per- petual prosperity and put a new car in every garage.

Yet McCarthy. himself Ten minutes later "Joe"-more never been riding higher, wider, or more handsome. Frequently formally known as United States

accused of fraud," election law Senator Joseph McCarthy violations, and possible misuse of stepped out of a taxi-cab tooking funds, he has just been com- cloared by Attorney- ft and bronzed with. West Indian pletely

General Brownell, sunshine.

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No

All vigour

lie waved to the crowd and they let out a roar, "Hullo, Joe. Attaboy. You show 'em." They were all McCarthy well-wishers

wonder the scmptor is all rushed forward to and they

vigour and jutting-law de- touch him as he strode into the

termination. The tide flows his court-house to preside over his

way and he is being emari hearings into Communism, into enough to be inore moderate spying, into pabotage, into plots and restrained. and conspiracies against nailon, into everything will, and does, keep him on the front page day after day.

the

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which I am sometimes told that

write about McCarthy too much. If I am to write about the United States, then I must write

The crowd which greeted the about McCarthy-he is hardly senator a couple of hours later -ever out of the headlines. was smaller und less enthusiastic. It consisted of newspapermen, and McCarthy described what had happened inside the court- house at least, his version.

Closed doors

THIS has

11 has been utterly unlike

the autumn during

past few weeks. The weather has been perfect is June in October. Every day the sky is bright blue and the city basks in warm sunshine.

Women are going around al- luringly bare-baked and mea are still wearing tropical suite and Palm Beach Jackets.

Dizzy spells

U known for several years, is REER-Gerion, whom I have back in New York. Grcer will

My friends in Washington tell stay here two weeks and then ge me that McCarthy and his ally, to England, Scotland, and Ireland

have received

to talk to university and college Senator Jenner, Almost 208,000 letters in the past

students ok the Allming of month-which is more mail than is being delivered at the White Shakespeare's plays. House.

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that I am rather surprised the two senators have not turned been happening their attention to the national wages and almost every day. McCarthy economy, runs his own Press service. No prices-the problems which are representative

ony news worrying President Eisenhower agency or any newspaper is per in his tour of the Middle West

to "cover" the mited inside

and the Southwest. hearings which are held behind closed doorn.

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What we get we get from McCarthy. This

hardly freedom of the Press; but it is

there

was

Buoyant

came

the senator's method and it is TT was in October, 24 years ago,

co- that the great crash Toociving the grudging operation of newspaper owners Panic hit the stock market on and editors--for the time being. October 24, 1929, and although

• brief rally, the I am glad to say there are rumblings of revolt. The Press Street bankers shoring up the has taken some bodyblows in shares, the bottom fell out on this hemisphere in recent years, Black Tuesday, October 28, and Journalists are be in four short days the face of and some ginning to wonder if it is entirely America was changed and the immung here in the US.,

boom was dead.

Muzzled

Greer is an M. A. She plays Caesar's wife in her latest film, which probably has something to the subject of her do with British talking tour...

·Huddersfield - bern Mason has been

James having dizzy spells and has not been able to

appear at the studio for "A Star

is Bom." Judy Garland, much

thinner and much prettier after strict dieting, is working like the juvenile she used to be.

If the remake is as good as the original. "A Star is Born" will satisfy me.

Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn will co-star on Broad- way next spring.

A delight

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THE TROUT THAT WAS

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A PARTY MEMBER

By Fred

Manor

Kirkenes, Norway. meringat some NEASINESS

exists shelves.

in NATO circles over

Soviet developments

A pistol, carelessly

kitchen greeting.

in the Arctic. Yet, at first on the hall, cast the sight, the Arctic iron cur- sinister role

upon

The Russians answer with similar gestures. Not a word is uttered. In winter only

hung a few yards of thick ice may separate the two patrols, but, so the Norwegians aro only far as this concerned, it might be Martians are moving along tho

tain 1s ax peaceful as idyllic domestic scene. But who the Sleeping Beauty's the pistol was a mere sym- opposite bank.

bol like the invisible castle,

iron curtain running along

no

dugout

Once Prosperous

There is no barbed wire the cottage's backyard. here, no visible gun em-

The man hammering at A little upstream is a form plucements,

of the that grows the northernmost trenches. People even fish the shelves was one

Here, 30 in the Pasvik River, 200 Norwegian border police, tomatoes in Europe.

120-mile- miles inland from the Arclie who patrol the miles north of the Arctic

long Norwegian - Soviet Ocean, Isaac Isaacson carefully Circle, where the river's

he prods along his precious, plants, deepest points form the boundary. He told me

felt as

if he were patrol- grown in an ingenious hothouse. frontier between Norway

ling the edge of a vast

Mr Isaacson told me about the desert. and the Soviet Union.

changes which have occurred here since the Iron curtain was rung down on the river in 1045,

Nothing ever stirs the opposite

Severni people are asking A NEW play. "The Tea-house of the August Moon"-what "Could it happen again? Could

a cumbersome title-has just disaster strike so swiftly and opened, and It is a' delight. John

Evans, who used to adorn the completely muzzled, and the today?"

London stage, produced. great La Prensa now echoes the

says not. The best cvičenca voice of its master, President

I have

going through been Cuba has strict news. At the moment the stock market

(there some letters. Nigel Bruce, who So has is buoyant and strong paper censorship.

last month died the other week, wrote to Bollvin.

newspapers of was a bad period

Peru, when stocks reached their lowest me over the years. It was his Brazil, Paraguay, Venezuela, and the Dominican point of the year, but that now ambition to retire in England, A Republic are all shackled in one seems remote).

THE Argentine newspapers are remorselessly-in-Wall-Street-Patrick-wrote-it-and--Mourlee 125 yards from Russia, & bank of the river.

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(Russian) Until then, what is now Russia -It 19 had been Finland. And the over Finnish bank had been dotted un with as many prosperous farms as the Norwegian side. At that time nobody

atten

At one spot, some 100 yards from the river and

delightful cottage stands

the kind of peace, solitary in the woods, It

there; that is such an is almost like an illustra- mistakable hall-mark tion from some fairy tale, the Communist regime: the As I entered it, a blond

peace of a cemetery. baby was crawling on the floor, and a man was ham-

A

OF CONCERT

By Patrick Maitland, M.P.

Im

into a Middle East

agreement

Over In Russia

of

Pald

much

lon to international frontiera. It was one happy family, a gay and

prosperous district. In those days Mr Isaacson hád known the opposite shore as ho knows his own farmyard.

But it all changed in 1946.

"Nothing ever happens

smiled the border The iron curtain not only 10 here,"

moved the Finnish friends, but guard contentedly.. "No

it also brought unemployment thefts. No traffic acel and misery to the Norwegian dents. No drunks. And certainly no smuggling frontier incidents."

side. During all these past. or yours the farmer has never seen a single civilian on the Soviet bank, now forever desolate and deserted.

The pistol? For use against a rabid dog, perhaps or a weasel

is gratifying to Karachi, andar a wounded reindeer.

Looking at a new Soylet town on the slope beyond the river, and at a busy highway connect- We walked from the coltage Ing the town with, the hinter- towards the river. A man was land of Russia, I asked the

guards: "Surely, St border

to cross the somebody wished frontier, he could do it fairly carlly?"

all the more so since it would offend New Delhi. ing incapacity to discharge

Middle Eastashing there, a comrade of the For when the neutral functions effective-

As an alternative," then, an-

border guard. The man cast his Defence Organkulion Wha prospect that Pakistan by the ly, is being

ilne wide, Turkey is the promoter. It is under active discussion, Pandit Pakistan with something might join a projected Middle other suggestion is being aired:

East Delance Organisation.

emphatic. that the former Nehru's views were mit forward

"Over in Russia again," the Treaty of Peace, He argued that MEDO would border guard rebuked him. invitation. Saadabad That, if euch an

been given, would which was a treaty of con-

bo a tailpiece to NATO. There- For,

as Pakistan faces had ever

and hearts of sultation

non-aggression,

fore it would lend sooper ar A trout blt.almost immediate- difficult decisions about her have gladdened the

Muslim League should, be revived and

later to the creations of Unitedly, and the fisherman landed a successive future constitutional rela- governments which do not pro- proved. It led Turkey, Iraq,

Stoles basno in Pokiston. This nice fish, covered with rod spols, pacifism and Crown claim

neutrality Persia and Afghanistan.

would compromise Indian tionship with the

Bloomsbury quite the

neutrality, Now in rokiccable and Commonwealth, resent with

fervour ments arige. These are Delhi. centred upon India's claim to be a Great Power and Pandit Nehru's claim to play a leading role in world affairs. Above all, there is

bath Yan honourable ACCOTTS-

insiris were the right one-

to place her hope in the NATO -Commonwealth system

Sometimes Worry

Thick woods slope towards the Russian bank. The river is

"A Party member," he not very deep, and none too wide. Moreover, during the declared.

winter it is frozen tilck, and

The trout continued to bite, the entire landscape It was more a slaughter than a veloped in darkness for elgliteon

hours out of the twenty-four, sport. This was anly natural..

cast, on the

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And yet nobody, ever

comos

Government The Turkish have now proposed in Teheran and Baghdad that a mutual aid tronly could be concluded. The felty this time los in Persia, General Zahedi's power

But in Karachi the glamour No Hino: is ever Ostablished: is by no means On the contrary, the present indeed, it in surprising that in of coutralism and paclism

Gov-Soviet side of the river. No Soviet across. Minister, Dr foreign relations he has, already pracibed by the Indian & senso that those claims Pakistani Prime

many bom so bold. But to has said comment and Army are starting guard emulates his Norwegian

Ono explanation Is that the Kuselans have erected have been helped forward Mohammed All, and

provinces. And is more than a suppressed hope rolax over a few hours' fishing electrified fence running be the northern this is more than Premier Mos- that of the end of the door in that pleasant stream, which is tween the town and the river 14 selected photographic by Britain without regard others, would heartily welcome in pubile that he would protect to wear a tarnished look. There opposite number and comedian

for Pakistani feelings.

modation botgroen Britain and

admit will be found that Faldstar's less than 28 yards wide here. sadegh was ready to

bank. But no precautions, how- views of Hong Kong &

Egypt. and on agreement on might even be" neccasury,

ever thorough, could koop a Kowloon

Seemingly," oven the Soviet determined refugee from cross- general Middle East defence In,

and

not trusted loing this border. which Pakistan could jodes. including matching envelopes

rather than in a combination police are devoted to pacificiam uxcept in approach so close to the frontier bo These cards

when off duly.

And to the alternative.co may

The present embarrassment

Britain's ideas,

relation to Koshmir, part But Turlour, how diso _ap- overprinted with personal of the Indian Government re- two yours old, bat Egypt, the

planation is that the 15,000 now In the 18 months of his tour, Soviet immigrants, brought into greetings.

Paldistanla the over other Arab States and Turkoty pronchod Pakisjon in a tenta- ;.

and Paciotani If that hope can be foard of duty In? this area, the the fundra, have no real dentro woening pride as it seemed in night john with France, the Eve shton Karacht, with which Indis first United States and Britains in Ministers, who have been visk and if Poldaten out with Bel Norwegian border policeman of to leave their cosintay. In other ing Cairo, how been to Ankara fish sympathy be drawn into a

acquaintance had never words that the Arctic is being concluded a friendship treaty treninga regional courtly a Un Pezulas, position can reassuring Middle Eastern cop my with the Afghans, who ': WERG harrying and bothering the pot, have remained an image be more clearly appraised there cent, would much past the exchanged aan de word with a populated by selected, Hardized

Egypt has been the problem., is, of course, litió practical Prime Minebear

eral panty to postpone ince the Norwegian patrol may chichester Northwest, Frontier. Next, It For acting an accommodation ariat com bu atranged.

finitely the drapalation of con- a glimpse of a Soviet patrol on This may be ono room why recalled how Pandit Nahru; in the Canal Zone, any wich

poobility-edfitrional aspiretiorm into a re-the other side of the river. The Me Isomcion, and NATO, sumo- Yet do renewied great

Norwegians ralow thote hazide in Ulmel, worry, made his vieww known and, wo accord would confront

that Pokladem would be invited publicary, forme de tomy, fully in Karnchi about practical difficulison,

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