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SUICIDE SQUADRON,

ANTON WALBROOK

SALLY GRAY

Sefton Delmer's

NEWSMAP

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PARIS, Dec. 1 FRENCH politician I know has put what he calls a "yeilleuse" on his bedside table-a tiny electric night-lamp showing a faint blue light. And although he is not an extravagant man

or prone to seeing things in the dark, he keeps that lamp on all night.

"That way," he says, "I know what is happening as soon as I open my eyes. If the light is on,, I can go to sleep again. But If I find it is out. I shall get dressed at once and leave the house.

"For if the light goes out that means that the Com- munists have called out the power station, and that means the Government will have to put soldiers in to work the power station.

The Communists are bound to resist that, and voila, do not we have open civil war. If there is civil war I want to be caught at home in my bed."

Never-

"Now, I believe my-nervous-politician-friend-is-taking... a somewhat over-dramatic view of the situation. theless, I, too, have taken to switching on the lights at odd hours of the night ever since the Government put its new decrees before the Chamber of Deputies and the Com- munists started their filibuster against them.

For though I do not anticipate any shooting or civil war, I am convinced these next days are going to be of

decisive significance in the battle now being fought out in France, as it is being fought

ut. in Italy.

And the outcome of that battle- the the same old battle between Communists and the Westerners leil by the Americans-is of vital portance to you and me and all of worse, better or for us who, for

depend for much of our brend and butter on the prosperity of the West- ern World.

On or off-the Hights will show which way things are going. They will help to reveal-

list

power:

Whether the Communist hold

labour is organised over

them to and

strong enough for

Government

defy the

on in France the cam- carry paign against Western capita

will show

"OH, GOOD! "ALL READY TO FIGHT THE ARABS,EH 7" *NO-ALL READY TO FIGHT PEOPLE WHO WANT ME TO FIGHT THE ARABS

PALESTINE DAY AT THE U.N.

France learns

the language

of the lights

In that case it will depend on how effectively mid how tactfully the Government uses its now powers and the troops it is hurtlediy

By Low

IN AND OUT OF PARLIAMENT

By ERNEST THURTLE, M.P.

HERE is considerable dis- But when morale cracks and

appointment at the

even atout- un defections begin, nouncement that the withdrawal hearted leadership must inclino of British troops from Palestine

will not be completed before to despair, August next.

Some desert to the Right,

Mr Tom como over to

Earlier official statements had some to the Left, created the impression that the Horabin has WHETHER to climb down now, Government had decided upon Labour, and his indignant, local

effect of the Govern-withdrawal much wait for the

sooner than party invites him to resign. ment's anti-strike decrees to pene- mobilis- trate the

thethis. consciousness of "worker" while preserving the Com- action further tnunist forces for inter.

Certainly up to the present sup- have strike seems to port of the been far from

for complete and from enthusiastic. And that despite the fact that the people asked

to

De Gaulle? .

democracy. It

the whether they

undermine enn country with strike after strike, and in create -volutionary situation which they might themselves seize

Government Whether the

two ship. though based on the parties most heavily defeated in the recent municipal elec- tions has enough auther.ty ing by rail from his trip to Moscow. this victory for Schuman, if it comes, and is strong enough to fight yesterday, must have been disgust upsel de Gaulle? the Communists and restore stabled when he arrived at the French

frontier to find that he could lity:

sur-

Perhaps his change is not prising, for he was always to the Left of his party,

But rumour has it (I know the of lying) that with a famous Liberal likely to follow in the Horubin footsteps.

Disappointment will, I pre- dict, change to indignation if, after all, withdrawal is so de- Jayed that the task of keeping the peace while an unpopular Jade has a habit strike are suffering extreme hard- Mve already made their deci-operation falis

is being put into someone Y view is that the Communists UNO policy

upon already mame is stun to abandon the fight. Would sorely tried British soldiers.

There are on record many official assurances that such an unfortunate situation would not be allowed to arise.

Communist leader Thorez, return-

per- Whether the only alternative fecily well have proceeded to Parts to Communist dictatorships by train, and that he did not treed optimisti- the sem Authoritarian the car which had been General de Gaulle, victor of cally sent to meet him. the municipal elections.

Pay question

TWO things make me believe that this coming week ought to give us a good idea of how the battle is ping to turn out, although it is not actually going to be the end of the Battle.

In the first place, everyone work- ing here had a pay day this week end, whether they were paid by the week, the fortnight, or the That is important. For in the unions do not distribute pay.

*

Shouki that happen "Ichabod" might indeed be scrawled across the drooping banners political party.

✰

of a once-great

*

was good to be in a peaceful House of Cominons the other evening when the second reading of

From the conversations I have bad with important Gaullists I think not Their leader calculates that even Schuman triumphs now it will not be long before the old weakness of į the present regime, which does not allow a majority to any one clear Is M. Thorez' express

no palley, asserts itself once more. by

The coalition made all A GOOD man struggling with means the only train still running,

up of

adversity is said to make and the number of railway workers parties with differing ideas and in- returning to work has been steadily terests, will break up, and then, de the gods weep.

the police remove Gaulle thinks, the country will have Mr Clem Davies, the sincere the National Public Assistance Bill increasing. as

friends say that if the Com- and able leader of the Liberal passed without a division.

must

moving. Mr Ancurin Bevan, in munists defeat Schuman this time Parliamentary Party,

this ente this mensure, in n speech which for At the St Lazare station -talke:

strike, surely come within by a successful general were

quietly restruined yet Was de gory. his counter-measures, to alway workers who

despite carrying on: The-Grst man Gaulle will be in by Christus

I prefer not to make a guess. Lett is hard enough to lead-a-ezultant, was in cllect conducting. station porter, said: "I cannot afford.

us first see what happens tids week party in a forlorn fight when the burial service of the old Poor to strike, I need the pay, therefore

and whether my friend's night-light it is united and its spirits arc Law, born three centuries ago in I do not strike."

stays un or not.

Communist sit-down groups from the to turn to him. locomotive sheds.

month. France

The driver and male of an elec- strike trle train wifich had just come in said: "We are not striking, because this is a purely political strike. The like strike is against France."

been Some categories of workers,

Both men said they had

Bul the post-office clerks, elvil servants and teachers, who are paid by the struck off their union lista. montii, may have hesitated up to now that did not worry them. to obey the strike orders of Communist bosses beenuse they dil necessary for a man to belong

their lose noi want to

month's a union to work."

them wages. Now they have got and they are free to strike-if they want to.

If they do not strike, that means the Communists have lost their hold over this important class.

Not secret

ก

Y

to

high.

BY THE WAY

by Beachcomber

the

hin

Elizabethton England.

It says much for the way the social conselence of the country has changed that no dissentient voice was raised against the proposal.

In the course of the years much

ness

of the old law, and maby worthy people within

living

memory, but no longer with us, worked hard in that cause.

thrown bacle into HE Strabismus Rocket should be T their France," said the driver, "it is no!

stands almost ready for CR, my representative on the East has been done to soften the harsh- the great attempt to reach the Coust sends me this cutting: moon. The Doctor is awaiting To prevent fish, rotting on the final weather reports from the quays, fishermen threw back large

the quantities

other day. The stratosphere.

mayor, who superintended the work,

One listened and felt a certain HAD

drink in a large cafe

Meanwhile the people of Wag was just in time to rescue a politi motor-gling Parva, staring over the roped cian from a pile of fish. Asked how regret that fate had not permitted near the big Renault car, Inetory, which is a nationalised enclosure, can see the great black he recognised him among the fish, these people, such an the Wobbs and

monster, balanced

huge the mayor said: "He

was the only George Lansbury, stanchions set In concrete, und the Secondly, the new Prime Minis-

"The strike goes on," said a mainting its blunt nozzle at the sky, one wearing a hat." It was after-bours brought to Anal fruition. ter, hard-mouthed Robert Schupan, in a leather cont.

wards discovered that the politician "It was decided

as though it already sniffed the whom the Commanists call a Prus by a show of hands,"

The Doctor will be ac had gone bad some months ago, and sian atd Bochic because he

"How would it be." I asked him.unur air.

Dender as so rotten that many Ash had cut companied by Professor AT 2.30 5.20, born in Alsace, is gombling on the "if there was a secret ballot?"

success of the highly controversial Two-thirds would vote against." gast, the eminent authority on thau im on the quay.

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"TARZAN and HUNTRESS" "Starring JOHNNY WEISSMULLER

he is

was

rushing

laws anti-strike through Parliament.

Schuman and his supporters hope that these laws will cause the re- turn of a large number of workers who joined the strike only because

of the Com they were munisia.

afrald

Their rights

cuncern.

between

*

"Well, why don't they just go maturgics from Basingstoke Univer. Not much progress to report | PARTY reaction

cal strike.'

arkl

*

to see their in-

to

★

the

Dalton aftale confirms my bellef that sity,

lecturer In back to work?" I asked.

metaphysica at the

will be back in the Government "The Communists have occupied automatic

Colorado Springs Institute, Sir Ar- QUET pressed a button and shout the ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer

ed. "Send a fire in before many months have postco works." the wor

"Would you be pleased if the cher Tatham, tie barometrist,

of schedules," The feeling that he is good re nationalisation Ing Unesco.

Fald Suct, "what have you in our a man to lose from the Ministerial Government sent troops or military Professor Alban Trowie, represent- And in came That Thecretary.

of team is as strong as the sympathy to remove them?"

Nathionalithathion files?" "Yes, we want to get back to First editions

the girl felt for him personally, and that repented work. This really just a politi- THE fuss about first editions has Thedulth?"

"and don't is saying much. There it was, the same always amused me. First "Yes," snarled Suet,

ithn't th-th-

One by-product of the incident replied the, phrase again.

worth thtammer." Yes, it looks na though the bly editions of my own books are ex- thiammer." "It

the Press in Yet a. dozen,

nervously, "idth a lithp." "Skip it, in the Labour ranks is a feeling of the Communist offensive will turn into ceedingly rare already, and

about tourpence

for TP is possible, however, that

and talk of need new decrees will have the oppo-

believe I could be getting as much said Suot rudely, for that mild man resentment, against a big Communist retreat.

u - dozen if my

vile temper. "Who?" ask- general, was in a sixpence They are ta difficult dilemma, general effect. They are so site

what?" restricting facilities hitherto enjoyed secretary. "Who to ed the publishers had.only taken care must decide between two

Suct.

don't under- by lobby correspondents. that, they appear to make all strikes and

were courses:-

Miss sald

Golightly. get a few coples printed with my end.". illegal. Mony workers who hitherto lukewarm in supporting WHETHER to risk all in carrying initials wrong or with a misplaced

"Neither of us ever. understands," facing strikes

and

tis the comma on the By-leaf. political on the what they held to be a

Suct.. "That's why groaned of Government forces here and now in strike organised at the bidding

madhouse. Miss A nasty occurrence

place like o risk weather and

room the Cominform organisation

the bitter cold may

the EFERRING to my conviction that Golightly, frowning left the Join it now in order to defend their even greater unpopularity for

small politicians on holliday on tiptoe. elementary right to strike.

Communists; or

NANCY

A Matter of Taste

NANCY--AREN'T.

THESE THE

PICTURES THAT

WERE IN YOUR ROOM ?

YES,

MA'M

05

WHY DID YOU TAKE THEM OUT OF THE FRAMES ?

I LIKE MY NEW

WALLPAPER BETTER THAN THE PICTURES

By Ernie Bushmiller.

Ecerétary

It,"

i do not believe that anything that has yet happened establishes a case for such repressive action, and take the view that the good sense of the House will be against it.

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