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PARIS

Those in the know here now say that

the Americans have dropped the Marshall Plan

PARIS.

F none of that Marshall Plan help ever.comes through, If all the hard work of Sir Oliver Franks and the rest of the Paris Conference exports turns out to have boen wasted, you can blame it on two things. First, that the conference was held in Paris. Second, that Mr William Clayton, U.S. Economic Under-Secretary, had to come to Paris to visit the conference.

A friend of mine here in Paris has told me how ho mot Clayton in one of the smartest, most delicious, and He saw most expensive of the Paris restaurants. Clayton's eyes popping out of his head at the Lucullinn profligacy of the dishes being served, not only to him, but at all the tables.

And, alas for the conference of Europe's 10 suppli cants, Mr Clayton's fellow diners were not dollar-rich Americans, Egyptian millionaires, wealthy Argentinos, or Swiss. They were the same Parisians who always go to these places because they know what is good and don't mind spending EG per head to get it.

The very next day gift-horse Clayton decided to look his French beneficiary in the mouth.

"Are you sure." he asked the experts, "that you have checked the French demand for grain shipments with all due care? I observe that the wheat-growing arca in France is today 30 percent less than in 1939. That is no doubt splendid

for the

farmers who want

French

to sell

more meat and butter on the

black market. But Congress will never approve."

Of course, he was told that lack of tractors, agricultural implements. and fertilisers was in part responsible for French farmers converting to pasture.

But one query started him on a whole chain of others. Clayton asked for cuts by thousands of millions dollars in the estimated cost

of

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1947.

ADOLF BEVIN

atom bomier

Sefton Delmer's

NEWSMAP

to the U.S. of the scheme.

Even when he got the cuts he was not happy.

Then he yet the help they ask, wille around behind their curtain, and so certain less virtuous countries such the Poles have cancelled the British

Auddenly had a brilliant idea.

as Britain will still have a deficit Ambassador's authority.

But

Could not the committee pre- even after Marshall pare a plan which would make with in 1951. no provision for American help

uid

Yes, despite the immense

done

im-

at all but just show Europe portance of the scheme to Europe,

in despite the loss

prestige iis

doing its best to help itself abandonment would involve for the with its own resources?

This was too much, however, for even the most appeasement- minded of the experts.

DON'T suggest that if the conference had been held in Geneva or London it would auto- matically have been a success. There is much that makes Mar- shall aid difficult to put over, apart from the psychological effect French gastronomy has on Mr Clayton.

when even

our Wartaw Embassy kept its own aircraft in Poland things were always happen- ing to prevent a fight. The aircraft would get itself arrested a mistake, of courED OF, 拉找 Onco happened when I was in it, a tyre would blow 1.5. vis-a-vin Russia, I advise any on a nall mysteriously shed on the one who is basing his plans on runway.

Ho Marshal ald to be careful. would do well to plan again, and without the American billions-in fact, to do as Mr Clayton gloomily suggested. POSTSCRIPT: "Outside help" is the shape of heavy timber sup- ports appropriately enough helped to prop up the walls of the Grand Palais exhibition hall where the conference was being held.

inside Tooma committice

There draped in sackcloth. no lack of cigarette ashes.

on

A man with two jobs

In

•

The wero Was

De Gaulle says war

in 3 years

WINSTON. "MCNEIL

MARSHALL

PLOT

ONE CARICATURIST TO ANOTHER

WATCH de Gaulle. From his homel

"Take 'am,Vishinsky.

i can't compela with a master

like you?

[Copyright in all Countries

NO THOUGHT OF POLITICS

By Candidus”

DERHAPS the most disquieting aspect in the world today is the almost wilful tendency to brush aside to ignore--the seriousness of world politica. In England, ten thousand times more thought is given to the forecasting of football results than to devoting thought to the future of the world.

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Government tolerates the former-a mass form of gambling which in itself tends to under- mine economic stability. Millions of pounds are involved, and it cannot be said that the State benefits. Government fails, however, to take any concrete steps to educate the masses politically. Of course, some may assert that the socialistic doctrine is a form of education. It seems about time that the masses should be warned that another and greater war ia probable unless the people themselves are made aware of their responsibilities.

The peace of the world, for which the last war was waged, and during which millions died, ia as far from realisation as over it was. Indeed, if you follow world events at all, you must realise that war appears to be more likely than peace. Unless the people are given guidance along sane and logical lines of reasoning, their complacency may be rudely disturbed.

CHICAGO PUTS THE HEAT

ON THE UNDERWORLD

By ROBERT T. LOUGHRAN

“HICAGO'S hoodlums put their pearl grey hats in mothballs and went into hiding when the pallee declared on open season" on the city's underworld for the first time in 12 years.

John ."'een-

Police Commissioner Prendergast ordered tinuous" war on the hoodlums activities, which range from run- ning gambling rooms to solling bottled water to night clubs.

Not since tha days when "Scarface" Al Capone's

syndi- cite terrorised Chicago's gang- land have police been ordered on an all-out hunt for under- world characters. This new war on the "hoods," many of them former "disciples" of Capone, WAS declared as the result of testimony given at a Civil Ser vice Commission hearing of churges against two police officers.

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policemen to go out and do the

He ordered that all "known "hoodlumns" be arrested on sight. He was even contemplat- ing sending out a secret "hood- lum squad" of 10 or 20 hand- picked detectives to track down the underworld characters.

the

Assistant State Attorney Wil- bert F.

Crowley said it WAS going to be a concentrated drive, and Sherif Elmer Walsh saki spread hunt would be throughout Cook county.

But

hoodlums mast of the either were out of town, doing the resort circuit, or wer in hiding, waiting for "things to cool off." They shed their grey bats, white silk shirts and patent trade leather shoes, long the mark of Chicago gangstera,

circulating, no they were knew about it.

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one

The officers accused authorities It appeared that the "hoods" of railroading" policemen who would stay out of circulation for ot well-known

as the result arrest

time, some gangsters.

Prendergast's orders for unre- Prendergast got "fighting mad"

lenting war on rackets. and responded by telling

the

in the Haute Marne he is going to make a great bid at the coming. French municipal elections. He is fighting these elections because unless something unexpected happens IEMENS HEZRETASTASES: BALZANORAMAN ANATALIONU they are the last French elections) until 1950 and he will not have an- other chance of testing his strength.

In larger communes Proportional Representation will be in force. This, it is thought, may favour de Gaulle, who has few personality candidates capable of winning direct election, but whose personal popu- larity may attract many to vote the

he heads.

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The clean-up campaign came a direct result of the hear- ing of charges ngainst police Capt Thomas Connelly and Lt. William Drury. They are fight- ing charges that they conspired to bring about false indictments accused of against three men

Sr. shooting James M. Ragen, racing information czar.

Ragen was wounded by known assailants on June 24, 1040, and died two months later, Announcement of the war on days gangsters came just two ufler State Attorney William Tuohy had released a transcript of his questioning of Jack Guzik, reported her to a good share of Al Capone's "business ventures," about Ragon's death,

Before he died, Ragen dieiated a lengthy statement in which ho charged that Guzik and other.

trying syndicate members were to "muscle in" on his business, the dissemination of horse race handbooks-United to results

Press.

CAMINTERNACHTANGANACHAMALEDICA

WHY THERE'S NO

ONE IN INDIA

RUSSIA. is of course, the

A recent

great enigma.

of the current appreciation

situntion, especially with regard to the United States and Russia, has been written by Cyril Falls, Chichele Professor of the His- tory of War, Oxford. Saya Falls: "The United States will champion those ideals upon which it places so much im- portance in its own social life, and will leave it to the world to judge between them and those #of Soviet Russia."

American ideals, as practised in the United States, are open to the whole world to understand and judge, The came, unfortunately, cannot be said about Russia, whose great country is In the greater part a closed book, jealously guarded against the eyes of other nations who wish to observe for themselves the effect of Russian ideology amongst the Russian masses. If the Russian form of Government is ideal, and at the same time pre- serves and guards the rights of the Individua), why should there be any desire to hide it from the rest of the world?

We do know that Russia appears to be determined to spread her doc irines throughout the world, and we also know that many freedom-loving nations do not desire Russian ister- ference in their internal and do- mestic affairs.

NYRIL Falls analyses the position

very succinctly in the following: "Although our own polley need not and should not be slavishly modelled also have had proof that subservience upon that of the United States, we lo Russian demands wins us no res- So it was left-still unsolved. The peet, and that the glossing

over of conclusion must be unproven. The Russian provocations icads only to their Increase. Firmness may not accepted theory must be discounted

it appear to have paid big dividends so --possibly something was seen, far, but in the long run is likely to may have been the balancing pole prove more profitable than appease trick of the juggler with a boy sit-ment. There is no cause for ex- ting on top. And-growing like the treme pessimism, but at the same fisherman's story became the Rope time it would be perilous to allow concern over the financial-and-ccv- nomic state of the country to allnd Trick.

us to the less favourable aspects of me the international altuation. A steady and consistent foreign policy, not exaggerating the dangers and It was a long job. Inspectors were

laying quite so much stress upon the inevitability of destiny......but on the other hand shunning com- What you are supposed to see, it sent out, and about three thousand it could be done, is this: The con- alleged witnesses of the Indian Rope

never been juror works in the open air entirely Trick, were interrogated. Many of by a fakir who one fine day stood in placency,

the desert. A tremendous crowd essential than at this hour." surrounded by his patient audience these people professed to possess the had gathered-the rope was thrown -he takes a coll of rope and throws

De Gaulle, I am told, believes N

The truth seems to be that Marshall and his advisers plunged into this reconstruction and aid project somewhat im- pulsively. Only now are they beginning to realise what A NIR MARK TURNER, Financial "colousally" ̄ ̄ expensive and com-

Adviser

Germany to the plicated scheme it is-and must Foreign Office, now Washington needs be. They have become for the Germany talk, has caused

comment by rejoining the private that wür between Soviet Russia and scared of it. And there is no banking firm of Robert Benson and the West us inevitable within the doubt that the atmosphere of Co. while he still at the Foreign next three years. He wants France Paris aggravates their fear of Office. The old debate has started to be ready for it. And he believes

can be a he is the man to make her ready, appearing in the eyes of their up rgain whether a man

and public

+1 fellow-countrymen to have been private enterpriser

Many time.. servant at the same "played for suckers by a set of take the view that Sir Mark is liable slick Europeans."

to be hampered in both his activi- Theoretically, they want to ties by excessively scrupulous care present a cold business proposi- to confuse his functions.

tion to Congress,

It would then be up to Con- gress to decide whether the plan could really make Europe pro- ductive and prosperous again by the end of 1951, and whe ther the estimated cost would be worth it to the U.S.

BUT

not

WARSA

Embassy loses its airplane

bon

Russians

take up the tracks UNLIKE de Gaulle, the Russians do

seem to ix contemplating [ war-anyhow, not for the near future. They have just given orders for a further large amount of rails and railway installations to be torn of Europe the up in the Soviet zone of Germany British Ambassador has his own and shipped to Russia,

IN many capitais

airplane. But no longer in Warsaw. If you expect war you do not of carrying

The

UT in practice the American British

advisers have been so án- xious to make the report palatable to Congress, so many cooks have been at it, demand- ing alterations and additions, that the final product is in danger not only of looking over-

like the remove your means flying troops to the front.

Russians did not

aircraft Embassy

BY THE WAY by Beachcomber

cooked, but of being over-VERY conceivable cooked.

Over-cooked to the

human story. If you would escape to tha

Tibetan Bun-parched

hinterland.

drowsy alr with

о doubt the greatest mystery white magic is being practised-de- in the world is the secret of the cided to make a full scale investira- Indian Rope Trick. I think the lion. reason is simple-It has probably never been performed.

I'm reminded of a yarn told by a conjuror who travelled far-ho should go farther.

He said his tricks were taught him

return but he didn't.

has

not

more

it in the air. It works all right, ret-one woman maid it was done in the air-the boy climbed--he was THERE are too many people who the rope stays put suspended in a by the use of a long thin bag din supposed to vertical position-perfectly straight. guised as a rope. The bag had a zip Being a fakir la Then a boy assistant climbs the rope fastener down the side. When

FRANCIS WHITE arrives at

this conclusion, after än analysis

of

the Indian Rope Trick

a

fall back on the worn-out and good way of busl- dangerous dictum that no matter nese, he had another boy-so he sent what happens "Britain will muddle him up, and he didn't come back. through." The sooner that is scrap- The crowd grew restless, thousands ped, and we get down to some serious of them. At last the fakir thought thinking, the better. The matter of he'd better climb the rope to see what form of government the peoples what was wrong not the top, so up of the world should take is a subject which should be discussed widely he went; but he didn't come back, which The crowd began to talk together amongst those most concerned the they decided they, too, should.ascend people. It is not a question of party until he reaches the top, the magic long cane was stuck in the bag it the rope-so, one by one, the whole politics, but of international politics. audience climbed up, and now be-And at the back of all is the vital Indivi- spell or incantation is cast by the was supposed to extend into the air. lieve it or not there is no one left question-Peace or War?" conjuror, the boy

duni freedom or inarticulate masses?” vanlahes. Soon, pieces of this charming lad begin to She didn't say how the boy was to in Indial

always. Eventually the fall out of the sky-a truly and sight, vanish-us Undaunted, the conjuror collects the evidence was collected and the great- odds and ends-he makes sume night came--the stage was all set. they're all there, and puts them in a sack. Another word and the ad emerges from the sack completely unharmed. Yes, a staggering trick if it's ever been done.

DAVID LANGDON CARTOON

a

In the. chair was the late Lord,

him was Ampthill-around galaxy of talent-ex-Viceroys-ex- Governors of Indian Provinces- This yarn has travelled down learned magicians--witnesses

the called for the prosecution.

a patient aesthete miss "Tibetan Moong, do not the centuries, improving as

Not long ago totted up the

number of miles

And

ས

CURS

years pass. It turned up first of all in China- about 1355-the man who'

were

the

activity seems to be watch where only the yak-bells, fill the point of having lost all value to ed and reported on today, Europe and any attraction for Congress.

reported the happening said it effect- An export hypnotist killed There may be something of the Hammond has run between wickets Theatrical gossip

ed him so much he had to

have theory, that mass hypnotism was used same kind in Mr Marshall's mind. In his long cricketing career.

Mme, another drink. The emphasis en-he alleged that a crowd could not I read Significantly

enough, he did not only the other day

Kodiva Oyul, was

the guest the word another suggests he may mention his favourite child in his football team had eaten 400hat a THE Turkish dramatis!

of Inter- have been the ancestor of Colonel be-hypnotised-Then, someone for latest speech. Nor are the American in a week. This is welcome proof of the Women's League

the defence-he said ho'd seen the Cultural Reciprocity and Chinstrap,

trick performed....but....it was that the great moss of the people national Paris talking any more t high-ups of the Marshall Plan. They tolle of ought to feel that it is better, fed World Artistle Relations (a branch the "Marshall Approach.”

Two hundred years afterwards the narrow street, the houses on a much than ever before. Those who could of the WB.L.T.N.R.S.V.D.E.W.J.M. milder kettle of fish. I am not not bear to think of a footballer P. AAS., or GADNO, as it is cali-story turned up in Germany-this side, having verandahs.

which caused a alone in suspecting that the decision going without an egg.

be presented

Morgue isn't surprising-imagination is pos- former used fuel A somebody has remarked: Her latest play. "Toriure," is to

sibly a weakness of that race. Then smoke screen so it wasn't possible to call the committee's report

where the Eskimo Ballet really arrived at the place which to see the top of the rope. The condi- Theatre, draft report, with the suggestion "A

hay just concluded a successful two became its home India....it then tons were not in accordance weeks, under the marterly direc became known to everyone us the

the rules. Another man said he had tion of the great choreographer Indian Rope Trick. Otto Filth,

seen the trick, but had arrived late India has produced some pretty when the rope was already extended. good magicians, but none of them He must have left a little early as

A

dozen.

sent in 33

footballer leads a dog's life thut further reports will be needed today--the Jucky fellow." before anything Is submitted to Con- stress, has all the marks of a pallte Tibetan Moonflower'

and gradual funeral of the whole rohome.

SOME of the

foxler

cannot

I

HAVE bought the rights of a new

serial for this column-another Tail-piece tale of the mysterious Dingl-Poos Colonel and tier luckicas adoron

at the

induced to Inquire into the (2) of regulation 10, or under sub-

4 Each The per-

IF YOU CANNOT SEE

WHAT YOU' WANT IN THE WINDOW

with

no

In these regulations, the expres botter, of course, than Western con- well. brethren Egham. It is the story of how a sion "question" shall include any Hirors. I can put my hand on Eng-

A collector of books said that in among the 10 think so too, secret visit was made to Tibet by matters which may, under paragraph Hishmen who can not only duplicate

the proviso to paragraph fakiry' tricks but can balite the best his whole library of fifteen thousand They are already trying to get off the Colonel and his secretary, Mr. (a) of

b- wizards that India can produce,

on Magic there was the collective bandwagon and nea D. J.

British *whether

paragraph (c) of paragraph (2) of Takon all round, bailing these boys books they

of exchanging

vers for regulation

Army trick. Then several Indian 11, of the Washington to give them

a little

typewriter covers for

ving muations

by the of wizardry.

officers took the standi They'd Marshall Plan dll on their very own. large

quantities of health-giving

of Minister, and the expression "decide

The day came when the Magic offered large rewards to anyone who That, I suspect, is why the French ji-beans. The Nuil folds and the Italians are no anxious to Tibet are owned by Dingi-Pods, any question in regulation 2 shall Circle Occult Committed these are would come forward to perform the remained experts who investigate all pheno- Illusion-but the money demonstrate that they will be com- and love, tempered by negotiations, be construed accordingly.

(Omeli tralia),

mena to satisfy the Council that only intact. plately self-apporting by 1951 is the theme of this wildly exciting

be determine, Cipal re of their own game is no mean piece evidence supporting the story of the