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New York, Tuesday. President Eisenhower is, cutting slightly neidulous 5 treatment. ACYS, which is right, left, and centro. He is from the wayward Prose, Should Katherine Cornell, and all about

biggest store, has a on

lopping of York for conferences and in- the critics but appeared, to huge sale of English imports $5,000,000,000 from his arma- sist upon a news black-out and please the public.

of the Press the -"Below today's wholesale menta budget and wielding the the barring

reaction would be hostile. cost," the announcement axe oll along the line, says--and I don't think our.

These moves are welcomed by I've had quite a few letters goods have been selling as

Australia and Now well as they might.

mhost people, and the President's from popularity is bigh and mounting. Zooland lately, Eric Dumbleton, A British motor-car dis- Mr. Eisenhower, after earlier editor of the Auckland Star, has now expanded writes that interest in the royal tributor called on me the floundering,

visit is mounting to "fervour." other day and asked for help, his public and Press reations.

He asks what, Americans think He Bald: "I am in charge For the first time in history, about the royal tour.

I

of sales for

but I am despair. beginning to Americans like bright colours in their cars, and I've told Coventry this over and over again, but all I get are black and grey and brown cars.

the full recorded text of his Press conference was broadcast

to the American people, Ike, in other words, hald his Press con- ference in the American living

room.

Ike and the Press

-"When I complain, my boss друз What's good enough for Australia and Now Zealand is good enough for the U.S.-any- SOON

have

LARK GABLE is holding out. against signing a new com

After con- tract with M-Q-M, for onces In London Gable still wants to choose his and hare

own film stories.

Greer Garson is going to again to make "The of the Journeying Boy." from the Michael Innos novel.

Frankly, it has been reported England

Case here, tucked away sounilly obscurely except by the picture magazinos. There was far morę

in the American Press about the Canadian trip when the Queen wan Princess.

Holiday bookings along Broad- way in this spangled city are good, according to showmen. "Oh Men, Oh Women," starring a rejuvenated Franchot Tono, is a

way you sell only a few thousand

new hit and likely to last. Just a few days' produc-

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tion.'

"What

they don't realise at home is that I and others like me could sell far more cars and products if we what the Americans applied want."

other British

Sharp_economy

AM inclined to agree. I

I have been trying out some

American cars this past week or two and have noticed that even reasonably priced

the President plans to his Press conference the public wil televised so that be able to see as well as hear him in action with the Press.

Newsreels are being cn- couraged, publishers and editors are being woood and wan

The

old rule transcript, calling for use of the third person when quoting the President, is to be scrapped. These pro great gains from the newspaperman's point of view.

And, curiously, they come just when Sir Winston Churchill is models have suggesting

that it might be automatic gear-change, electric-

посезату to have greater ally operated windows and seats, and that power steering and secrecy-to keep the Press out

(two wonderful of international conferences-at power brakes

cost developments) don't

too future big and little meetings.

much extra.

I have attended many Press

of British care for the price." This is an exaggera handling

Artericars today want big value for small outlay. Economy is sharp in the

Winston

W

aa

Deborah Kerr will star in the Graham Aiming of

Greene's The End of the

Affair," but will go to London first in her. play "Ton and Sympathy."

Zoa-Zsa Gabor says: "During all our marriage George Sanders and I had only one thing in common - We both loved George,"

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American scientists score a great new succes

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Chapter 39 of Sir Winston Churchill's "Triumph And Tragedy'

"

SPLIT OVER POLAND'S

the

NEW

FRONTIERS

..

E did not recur to there along its course to that more than two million were mines. Russia herself was short

Poland

of coal and was buying it from still there. [at Czechoslovakia. Potsdam] till our

Stalin thereupon challenged Poland, " Mr Truman recalled that

the Hero Mr Truman supported Agures, saying that fifth meeting, on we had agreed to divide Germans had called

up many me. It seemed, he said, to be Some American manufacturers claim they offer twice the value conferences, and there is no one July 21. The Soviet delega. Germany Into four

The an accomplished fact that East zones men from these regions.

rest had fled. Not

had been given to attion wanted Poland's wes- of occupation, based on her rest

巋 single Germany two-thirds approaching Sir

them and gulding tern frontier to run to 1987 frontiera. The British which he proposed to give to the treated separately when it came

the area Poland, German remained

but it could not be tion; but I don't see the all-out them. But the Prime Minister the west of Swinemunde, as and the Americans had

Poics.

The Germans had quitted to reparations and supplies. He effort by all our motor-car men has never relished them as did far

Oder river, moved their troops back their lands between the Oder was quite ready to discuss to grazer the Roosevelt and Truman, and as leaving Stettin on the Polish into their that is needed

but and the Vistula. The Poles were Poland's western Boundary, even new zones, dollars.

Eisenhower is beginning to do.

side, then up the river Oder apparently the

Soviet cultivating them, and they were though it could only be settled to let the Germana at the Peace Conference, but he of the Government had given the not likely For the Arst time for severni to the estuary

come back.

was not prepared to me sections

given Germany of

away American air. months Sir Winston is receiving Western Neisae, and from Poles a zone of their own

piecemeal. without consulting us. Un- less this zone counted

Stalin persisted that only the part of Germany how could to leave the westem Contier Poles could cultivate these areas.

Russlans were short we settle reparations and to the Peace Conference, buler, labour and there were no Ger- all the other German ques- peralsted.

deserved compensation for the mans. We could either stop all tions?

land east of the Curzon Line production or let the Poles do it, The Poles had lost a valuable Stalin denied giving the Poles which she was going to lose to basin to Russia, Q zone of their own. He Russia, but she was now claim- declared that the Soviet Govern- ing more than she had given up. taken the Silestan one in its ment had not been able to stop If there were three

or four place. them.

The German population millen Poles cast of the Curzon had retreated westwards with Line, then room should be made the German armies. Only the in the west,

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AS THE President still wanted us

Poland,

А

of

and had

sald Saxony," (iv) The British had grave meral

vast Stalin. scrupics about

"About 40 percent of its hard movements of population. We could.

from Silesia," I of coal accept a transfer Germans from Eastern Gor- answered.

from "No,

came

menta

many equal in number to the At this point, Mr Truman read Poles from EastCTZE Poland us

nf the the crucial passage transferred from cast of the Yalta declaration, namely: Curzon Lindsay 2 million to The three heads of Govern-

@transfer 3 million; but of 8 million or 9 million Ger- mans, which was what the Polish request involved, was 100 many and would bo entirely wrong.

information about

(v) The the number of Germans in the disputed areas was not agreed. ed. The Soviet Government said that they had All

The gone. British Government believed that great numbers, running into milions, were still there. We, of course,

had not been able to check these figures on.

the spot, but we must accept them until they were shown to be wrong.

consider eastern frontier abould

that

the Poland Curzon

of follow the Line, with digressions from it In some regions of ye to eight kilometres in favour of Poland. They recognise that Poland must recalve substantial fic- cessions at territory the north and west.

от

They feel that the opinion of the 'rew Polish Provisional Government of National Unity should be sought in due course

the

of these extent

that the final cessions, and delimitation of the western frontier of Poland should thereafter awalt the Peace Conference,

Stalin atill insisted that Ger- many could get enough fuel POINTED out that Poles had from the Ruhr and the Rhine- Polcs remained. The Soviet So considerable a movement

always worked in the Silesion Land and that there were AD THIS, the suid, was what Pre- armies need someone ad- of population

to

would shock the mines, and I did not object to Germans left in the territorysident Roosevelt, Stalia and minister their rear areas. They people of Great Britain, but

I had decided, and he himself were not accustomed to fight move of 84 million would be their doing so as agents of the which the Foles had occupied.

Russian Government, but I did Considerable discussion was in complete accord with it. and clear territory and set up more than I could defend. Com- object to Silesia being treated as followed

about referring Five countries were now occupy. their own administration at the pensation should bear some re- though it were already part of whole matter to the Council of ing Germany instead of four. It

time, Why not let the lation to loss. It would do Poland.

Foreign Ministers. The President wo Poland no good to acquire so Stalin persisted that it was sald he could not understand would have been easy clough ought to keep to the much extra territory,

to have agreed upon a zone far zones we agreed at Yalta," said at the Germans had run away impossible to upset the present why it was so urgent. It could Poland, but he did not like the

The Germans not be finally settled till then

WIO the Poles had occupied this As the Russians ad-e most useful and helpful dis- Three." He understood. Stalin's

some H Polo do it?

the

consulting the Big

the President. "If we don't, re- from it, they should be allowed state of affairs.

themselves had been short of Peace Conference. We had had area without parations and all sorts of other to go back. The Poles had no jabo into Germany they had cussion, and the best course was dificulties, and he understand matters will be difficult to right to risk a catastrophe In unnend

feeding Germany. We did not found

settle

It run

the war

land. We can't compel them to

or at least we

the

At Teheran, he mid, Roosevelt

snow and

not

over, Mr Roosevelt and I had

"And for the British as well, po not have a Und which the Rumlens and the circumstances."

not

industries employing to remit the question to the mine. It was the way in which wo

are not worried about want to be left with a vast Ger-

forcibly

deported Italians, Bul- Foreign Ministers.

It had been done that mattered reparations," said Stalin. man population who were eut garians, and othor

The United

"Very well," said Stalin, States will get off from their sources of food.

other nationalities, Russians, and including

bound ourselves. of Yalta to поле anyhow,"

Mr The Ruhr was in our zone, and answered

Ukrainians. When the Red Truman, but they will also try it enough

consult the Polish Government, food could not be rain

PROTESTED that i was very This has been done. Army

these foreign arrived,

We can to avoid paying anything." found for the inhabitants we inbour

urgent. Grievances would re either approve their proposals or "Nothing definite was fixed at should have conditions like the labourers had gone home.

Enormous numbers of men had máln unremedied. The Poles Yalla ..about the western German concentration camps.

fruntier," said Stalin. "None of

"Germarry has always had to been mobilised in Germany, and who had assigned to themselves summon them to the Conference assigned to this to hear what they have to sav

We ought to scitio, the matter us are bound;"

Import food," said Stalfri, "Let most of them were either killed or had been

or captured. The vast German area would be digging them here, but as we cannot her buy it from Poland."

industries had had few German selver in and making themselves then It had betten go to tha His Majesty's Government,

"can never

workers, admit

but depended on masters. The Conference ought

Council of Foreign Ministers" THIS was true. The President I answered,

should did not think we that East German territory over foreign labour, which had now to make some sort of a decision, said the

war has become melted away. They must either, or at we stood.

I had wanted the frontirato could settle the matter how.

along the river Odor to Pollsh."

Bh. But Poles inhabit in be closed down or the Poles must would have to wait for the Peace sald Stalin, and cultivate the be given a chance to run them. It was no use asking the Poles un Conference.

What had happened was not to a discussion with the Council where the Eastern Naisse foined it, while he had insisted on the "It will be still more difficult," and bread and give it away the result of deliberate policy of Foreign Ministers in London line of the Western Neisso, Morte sald Stalin, "to restore a German to the Germans" protested events. And only the Germans are now

a spontaneous course of the three in the meantimalanned but

Powers could administration

to leave Stettin and that these wero not normal "You can use a Polish one in

were to blame for it. He agreed the whole burden of fuel and Four

times. zone of occupation in

remain, Brodau on the German side of that the Polish Government's food problems would Germany," said the President.

proposals would make difficut- and would fall particularly on the the frontier. Were we to settle

the question or put it off "That is all very well," was

ties for Germany.

British, whose zone had poor "If the President," he added,

supplies and Stalin's answer, "but the Ger- THE Poles were apparently self-

food lation

largest thinks anyone Is to blame, It mans have fled and the natural ng Silesian coal to Sweden, I interjected. · But 'Stalin 'said

not so much the Polos as the and indeed the only solution is while Great Britain was having he did not mind I making diffoul- to set up a friendly administra- the worst fuel shortage of any ties for the Germans. It was Polish

authorities could pro- "I understand your point, and tion of Poles, This does not time during the war. Food and his policy, and it would stop visionally occupy as Poles, and that is exactly what 1.

us to any particular fuel from the Germany of the the starling another war. It gree that west of that line ang aawored Mr. Truman. boundary, and if the Conference 1937 frontlers should be avail was better to make dificulties Poles would be working as the cannot agree about one, it can able for all Germans within for Germans than for Poles, and stents of the Soviet Govern« : romain in

them, irrespective of the zone in the less industry in Germany ment? We agreed that the new "Can

interrupted. which they lived.

the more markets for Britain, Poland should advance St MEANWHILE I had pondered Thees are

are very important areas

western frontier to what might AA over these questions and I Stalin naked who was to pro- Germany for

duce the conl. The Germans

called the line of the Oder. now said that wo should invite Who

produce the grain?" were not producing it, but the

The difference between Stalin the Poles to come to the Con countered

Stalin. "There is Poles were. The German pro- WHEN we met next day, on

on and my nobody left in plough the land prietors of the Silesian coalfield. Sunday, July 23, we were anyzolt was how far this forence at kace, Bigin and the

extension should-reach.

Firesident agreed, and we resolved except Poles,

had fled.

came back, no heater agreement. I repeated The words "line of the Oder to send them be 0 Print What has become of the Ger the Poles would probably hang, and emphasised the more im- had been used at Teheran. This On July 24 and 25 the margt we both anked.

portant reasons why he was not an exact expression, but Minister and the Foreign

Secretary saw the I reminded him of his remaric Majssty's Government could not the Briush delegation had a line. Se "They have Bod

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