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TIFE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JULY 10, 1961.

Runaways on the little

Berlin.

IT is like any city

centre Underground line anywhere in the world on a sultry, sunny, Sunday afternoon. Calm, quiet, almost somnolent.

But on the U-Bahn fine which links East and West Berlin one passenger in every right is refugee heading for sancteary in the West.

the

And no doubt some people in gorish sports clothes sitting around me in the coun- partment as 1 journeyed from East to West today were on there way to freedom from Communist Tule.

For the little, vellow

under- ground traits are the favourite means of extape.

The threat

This railway, with its stations bearing names like Mars Engel-platz, is one of the mam reasons why Khrushchev talked tough to the Western allies abat Briin. 1 has devided that the flow of refugers must stop And he has two good yn

Soni

yellow train

THEY'RE ONE REASON FOR

KHRUSHCHEV TALKING TOUGH

By RENE MACCOLL

ance as individuals. They were mainly uld people of anall con-

Now about 65 per cent of the refugees are in the 15 to 25 age pouD,

The continued drain of Luck you!! 2334223 and wane would, it allowed to continue indenitely, enastitute body blow to the East German remony, which is already rocky, To hit the refugee drain the Eart German Glavernment en do one two things: Either stage them getting late West Berlin in the thret places, or stop The Western authorities flying them over to Weed Germany.

The net plan is impractic attle;

too it weitd Intre many extra inen.

thr

But one setivile where Communist prestige is tak-

nominally an intolerable beating Ransians still ing in the eyes of the world because operate with the West ceuld be

Germans 2,000,000 Fast

have used to advantage — the Air crossed the border. Every week Suity Committer controlling all between 4,000 and 5,000 Open, fights in and out of Berlin.

H Mr Women, and children

Ksigns his ge over..

peace openly demonstrating that they Treaty with East Germany there prefer the West.

would be an opportunity for two East Germans to replace die Hussian officers on the Coma- mallee,

Even muz serious is the threat to Ehe Germany's manpower.

There was a time when} the refugees were

And what would happen if of little import- the East Germans, given conti-

dence by the peace treaty, “ang- gest that the Trapethaf it- feld be clused down as unsuit- able and that instead Schoenefeld airfield, in the East Zone, be Lyed?

The strength

present

By controlling the lefteld, and by their

contro) over road and ennal travel also, East German President Ulbricht and his men would at lust be able to half the flow to freedom. What is the strength behind Ulbricht?

and

thEast Germany the Russians have got between 300,000 400,000 crack troops with plen-

if armour.

West Berlin, Britain muster about 3.000 troops; byance has the same; and there tre about 5,000 Americans.

If you wonder how long that lot would hold out if the kissing had to stop, 1 can only say that 1 was gravely informed that "it regarded as essentially a trip- wire operation.' Pity the luck- less trip-wire!

The wealth

The West Berliners, in spite of Khrushches threats, are having the time of their lives. I Harold Macmillon thinks that Bratalo bas never had it pond, he ought to sce what Jus on around here.

JEAN CAMPBELL'S

NEW YORK NEWSLETTER

60

Huge numbers of splendidly zones know very well that drmased people crowd the shops because of its concentration of and movies, jam the restaurants people from both armed campa and hotels, pour into the night the one eity in the world which

blocks clubs. Skyscraper

of will never get an A- or u new flats are everywhere. The H-bomb dropped on il by any- boulevards are Jammed with

ne is Berlin. Lrand-new cara

The spy game, although still not to be meered ot, no longer enjoys quile the luch buom Lines of yore.

But the pickings can still be zich. Just the other day 1 famed "spook," as they are technically known, retired to a £25,000 property which he had acquired on the pickings from his furtive Inbours.

At the other end of the sente, souane like a hurable railway worker could readily pick up a quiet tour or five quid a month on the side by a spot of spying. Security precautions, however, are formidable. When I called at -British military government 11.q. at the sports stadium there were sentries and barriera across the roadway and 1 was ordered to produce my passport before they would even let me into the place,

In view of the activities of Mr George Blake right here in Berlin not long ago. I could not help feeling that this case of locking the stable doors after you know what.

Was ☺

Now let me leave you with this laughable thought-there is no civil detentee organisation in either West or East Berlin. Because the Berliners of both.

—(London Express Service),

POCKET CARTOON BY FRIELL

Why should you and I fork out for these little

tin gods?

by

LORD MORRISON

OF LAMBETH

The arrange

Why, then, should people coming here from abroad to serve on international bodies be granted such exemption? They are free send their children to London County Council Or provincial schools. The 01her arc Íocal government services free to them, And BO arc national community services, in- cluding our costly National Health Service,

It would not matter so much if such arrangements stopped at ambassadors. But we are living in a more complicated wortel, where international bodies increasing

are

And the wholesale granting of privileges to bodies far removed from diplomacy, sometimes in volving Injustice to the ordinary British citizen, is going much

I'M getting rather tired that countries.

of the way the Gov. eats are reciprocal.

But agreements are being ernment is granting dip. made for more and more inter- ton tar

The brake should be put on. rational organisations connected lomatic or other pri- with trading

and economic, 1 may be said that some of vileges to more and more rather than diplomatic, affairs, these agreements were made by In some cases it goes so far the Labour Government, of international organisa-

as to establish that members of which I was a member. I plead a foreign misston, and, indeed, guilty. their wives, cannot be sued for damages, or even prosecuted for

crime,

Tin

Connell's Truc, the privileges are in a more Holted

BERLIN

RUSHICHEV

SPEAKS

tions.

RESSH

-ima sudced be tou young to understand, father, but still fail to see the validity of the premise that the signing of a peace treaty means a

grave danger, at war/"

London Exp". Saretoa.

Heiress Joanne makes

New York.

THOSE petty play-

mates of the post-

war world, philosophy

and publicity, have a

tiny new star arising has had

up with

father

two wives and the but Joanne had friends, law- with mannies in far away nur-

here. His name is Dr reigning Mrs Walsh Was won y and a determined spirit. series,

Vivian Charles Walsh.

at peril.

He is Dublin-bom and Lon-

MANIA

dun schooled, le is 34

old and teaching at the versity of Bute,

Unl- will publish his text book on moral philosophy in mid-August. 11 is called Seareily, and Evil,

He has explained that the book will deal with the fronthers between 201412

nic

and tragedy-not in the high- ly chnical Anglo-Saxon man- ner but in the modem French- Camus-style.

The cloctor, known to his friends as Don is musty- dusly scholar. He believes in a

ה

sandy-haired with the soft Jeish

She married her

Caroline devotes her life to Sha is

languid,

philosopher slow.

her child but she still reads and thinks enough to be able to con beauty of 21 bruge voiced American called Joanne. She tells me that

Today the young couple are article to Encounter.

tribule an occasional penetrating she has leaned to understand staying in Warner's New York The Clkowitzes will be stay- pisilosophy, but not occan rac-

in the best

Ing with Caroline's aunt, Donagh, ing

aper, and, fi la

bedroom the pride of in the lovely white house, Lug-

Turbulent

Do

must told me that I kvarn to be a ship's cook so I set out to praelise sex cooking on fand. I got completely drunk, wobbly. so my legs were all and then tried to turn out a Jull course dinner. It was no lite of action and adventure.

goal. I was never sent to the The cover of his philosophy Hulley." book shows him at raucy sailing ship.

suo in a

To cook...

Don is a veteran of many an vrean race, Like our revers

apar-raent,

emutand, a dark-haired baby of many a merry and mad les- girl called Winifred Anne tivity during the last 20 years. Macauley.

Qunagh, like so many Irish women of this century and last, prefers the company of artists and intellectuals Brendan Behan and John Huston are two of her favourite guests.

INCIDENTAL INTELLI. GENCE. New York lawyers

Don would like to divide his life between England and Amer- en. " find I rather provincial do anything else nowadays," he says.

Home soon have at inst discovered that peo-

It almost seems that we can't make any agreement with any other country without giving ila representatives here some start!- ing privileges.

But the latest case is a de grid.

th

scent to the ridiculous.

Recently in both Houses of Purliament we were asked

1671 upprove

vider whereby Immunities and privileges were renewed for an international body known as the Tin Council, Why should these people be treated like Bittle fin gods?

From the explanation of Lord Lansdowne th the flouse af Lords 1 gathered that the

foreign staff of the organisation be required to pay

would not taxes,

More

And that, except gu fut 赶际 the offices would directly bene- fit from local government sex- vkes, rates would not have to be paid.

I would not, Lord Lansdowne sak, have to pay that part of The rates which covers, for Instance, education. public baths, and pauper burials,

Exemption

But what sort of argument 5 there that these people should not be required tu pay rates

services that do not directly benelt them?

If that applied to the rest of us, a lot of people could ctalin Exemption from paying rates.

Apply it to me. I pay the education rate of the Lostdon Comly Council, and for some other services, from which I get no direct benent. Bxcept for a Ite evening-class work my education inished when I lef! clementary school. I have no children at school.

But if, because of this, I try lu exempt myself from paying the education rate, I shall get no sympathy from the counél,

from

fellow my citizens either-tor they would have to make up the difference.

NoDe

Complicated

Anyway, Ten glad to pay rates,

You and 1 will have to make up, out of our own pockets, the taxes and rates which are not paid by these folk from abroadt. Now diplomatic immunity and Unlike so many women mar-privileges is understandable for rled to giganticnlly rich men →→ ambassadors and the higher for I belfere the community gets her husband is said to be worth members of their staffs. And we more than £40 million-she de-

to votes herself untiringly

aget cause, and her cause is-peace.

Anne beltevas passionately m co-existence and well she might, for in the Soviet Union she is loved 1ke a female Yuri. When

that if the men did nothing to bring about prace she would see what she could do to rally wo- men to the cause,

And now with Vienna and the sour and unrelenting taste of Its aftermath, she has kept her word.

Anne told

good value for its money from similar concessions from the local government services.

However. I did not like them then and I am now free to say. as I did in the House of Lordi that I do not like them now.

One noble lord asked me if i would prefer the Tin Council to go somewhere else.

I said No. London is the centre of the International lin market,

Why?

But have we got to the point where we have to pay Inter- national organisations to set up their headquarters in Britain, by relieving them of rates and taxes at the expense of the rest of us?

As I told their Lordships, every other capitalist organisa- on in the kingdom, so für as it cannot evade them, pays taxes. Why should the Tin Council be exempt?

I begged the Government to trike back the exemption order and let the Tin Council be

1

self-respecting body, paying is

Way.

Their Lordships didn't seem my particularly happy about protest. I spoke with some in- dignation.

For I feel that these people should not be allowed to come along and claim this charity, this Poor Law relief, ke pau- purk-at the expense of the British taxpayer.

-(London Express Servics).

A GIVE-AWAY SIGN

ON

YOUR

Invited GATE

TEL

that

she

ple who seek “quickie" divorces In Mexico should remarry in of Dufferin's Mexico rather The Marquess Bul

not elder sister, rough seas should

than trying to has found 200 U.S. women from the beautiful and trouble Joaune, she has bad ‘a

marry in another country where the Middle West born in count- mysterious

Caroline. In Lady turbulent voyage for her years. travelling to Ireland

the validity of the Mexican di- ries now behind the Iron Curtain with her The father, J. Artlur Warner husband, Israel

vorce can be challenged.

who wish to be friends with tho Citkowitz and millionaire Rnancier who deals her year-old daughter, Katrina, In everything from pipe lines to for lite sumour.

race

year

tracks, did not want his

Caroline now lives in Green-

only child to marry a £3,200-a-wich Village and in spite of her assistant professor from Guinness fortune looks after her eu Bertrand Russell Your artole the sans,

daughter by herself, which is an wives - Don believes in the Re did everything man example to her friends in Eng- delights of marriage. At 34, he can do to prevent the marriage, land who bring up their children

For peace

peoples now living behind the

Iron Curtain.

You can get a glimpse of every man's personality in the name he chooses for his house.

Another

live

man who

In Brixham, In

went to Temperance-street. Devon, gently thumbed his nose at society with the choice of "Hongover Hall"

Take, for instance, roly-poly Culin

"Mon Repos" Cowdrey, the brilliant Nour" and

England hardly

who

led

gainst Australia in the second Test at Lord's

It

We British have an obsolute mania tor Choosing piquant names for vur dwellings. goes without saying that "Chez are the most fashionable these days. who (and

Now you have to have

Hall" renowned gimmick, like "Hungry

(chosen by the once-rich and İlsted in Debretf's) or "Engles Nest" (owned, if you hadn't guessed already, by a family called Engle and their brood).

Like the retired sea captain broamin" and acttled in- who avoided the commonplace

stead for "Duneruzin.'

WAS there ever such as A

a cheeky choice for a house name

Internationally as that is

for his amazing ability to given by a British milk- snatch half an hour's rest, doze, man's wife and her rich pop, steep, klp or zizz at will).

He calls his house "Kipper." ny green neres of her Cleve- American lover to their land farm, Arcadio, all these home in Surrey?

A retired doctor, living in Norfolk, called one of the oldest After a blazing affair in Paris inedical puns out of retirement they've called their home Chez and selected "Bedside Munor" Sweetie Pie.

By his address.

So she has invited to the sun-

Mrs Cyrus Eaton has flaxen women

plus the wives of the hair which falls to her waist. Ambassadors from the Iron Cur- She is 39 years old and confined taln countries. by pollo to life in a wheelchair. -(London Express Service).

IF BRITAIN GOES INTO EUROPE... The Horrors in Store for Continentals

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**Mon Dieu ! Le brown Windsor soup, lo tvaŭ dans le ‘ole, and le pudding quot]"

MOTERWERKE

"Gott in Aimme!, Herr Direktor! The Loa- break of the Imported British Workbrei.***

"God save our gracious Common Market! Long live our noble

Common Markok 1 *

Le Moulin Rouge, Blancs

Bar du Centre

FERME

"Nom d'un nóm ? Za licensing hoare!”

Striptease Anglais

“Nebody coplă recuso France of being narrow- minded--mans, Veniment, foo much 12*

Dept

conthel

Commiger

Net **Tim is the end! even under the Occupation did the Germano šaku aWAY our fundamental rights?”

London Express Berrico,

If you found a house called "Sugarloaf," what would you look for in the owner? A gen- tle nature? Something estep- tally kind and sentimental?

As a matter of fact, that is the name of the house formerly owned by the present Lord Chlef Justice of England, Zord Parker.

I live in one of the few slicets left in suburban Londón where there are no numbers,

only names.

STUMPED

Personally, I don't want a number for my house. But I freely admit I was completely stumped when we were `nsked to choose its name.

after a

In the end we settled for my doughter's tuggestion. Wo called it "Woolacombe," Davon seaside resort where she' had the best · donkey rides of her to.

Flim star Dirk Bogarde calis. his,homo "Drummer's Yard.”

Orginal? Not really. He has a period-piece drummer boy standing in the forecquirt

Irene Gow

-(London Exprma Zervice),