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THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 1948.

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(Imagino trying to escape from politics poar Triesto..!)

by SEFTON DELMER

TRIESTE,

"Afraid we can't go there," said THE waiter pulled up the the professor. "It is Triests tor- blind and threw open the rllory all right, but it belongs to window. Sunshine, blue the Yugoslav zone, and the Yugs nky, blue sep-and an American don't allow anyone in, only Tries- lines. That is, chaps to whom they cruiser.

have given special paste. Nor, of The cruiser, said the waiter course, do we allow people from who is very political, had come their zone Into ours without a pass. to see that the Yugo-slavs did Afraid of infiltration."

not seize Trieste before it could Why they stay

be given back to Italy.

S

The cruiser had tied up during CO we set off in the opposite direc the night at the wharf beneathi tion. And soon-the Free Tor-

my balcony. And here it was ritory of Teleste is not very large If you do not include the Yugoslav By W. J. BROWN, M.P. now, pushing its cool, grey nose zone-we were at the frontier post into my breakfast tray of hard- showing our passports to the blue-

TODAY I HEARTILY PRAISE MR MCNEIL

we

the

boiled eggs and coffee.

One egg was colour- ed olive green-like. the carabinieri police," said the waiter who is not only political but poetical. The other was crimson—"like the Communists," said the waiter.

TRIESTE

fear lives horo

on the border...

uniformed Trieste police and the olive-uniformed Italians before crossing Into Italy.

the

But even in Italy I found that the house walls were still covered in crudely painted Slovene slogans praising Tito and democratie Yugoslavia. They had first been put up at the end of the war, when all this country had been under partisan control. "Why don't they

paint slogans out?" I asked.

"They are afraid," explained the professor. And there is another thing. These people are still not sure that they will not suddenly The become part of Yugoslavia. Communists assure them that, des- pite the Peace Treaty, sooner about

fater all this arca will be handed over by Italy to the Yugs."

OMETIMES this column Shinwell is very garbled in speech, believe it to be the best In criticises Ministers. Some What he meant to may, in that sen- world.

I could see there was tence, was, "I read in the newspapers times it instructs them. Some the most distorted and garbled ver- evidence

I have rend every word of the going to be no Easter given before the Royal holiday from polities in times it praises them.

slons of what I say.")

Commission on the Press. And Trieste. And then, just as the first Today praises, heartily

and

Then, last December, had I have renched the Arm conclusion procession was marching by with without reservation, Mr. Hector Mr. Wilson, the President of the that there is no defect in the Press band blaring and banners held aloft, McNeil. At the United Nations Board of Trade, saying. "Reporters as we now know it that would not came a call from the professor. He conference now being held in alt there and scribble every word be made worse by the hotch-potchas a brand new export model Geneva about freedom of infor- you say in the hope that you are of ill-considered and half-thought-Austin Ten and this being Trieste mation he has made a great going to make Gome frightful out suggestions made to that august and not London-all the petrol he utterance on behalf of the British bloomer,

acets. and don't report you if body. Press. It deserves immortality. you do not."

With a free Press,

What about a run out into the cvils beget "The British people," said Mr. And finally, a couple of years their

ho said: "What Where own romedy.

the hills?" McNe!!, "regard restrictive

"Our 'Erb" (nt that ve ago,

time Government 13 "author. censor, getting away from the situation for Press practices as Fascist," as also preparing the ground for a Royal publisher, prosecutor, judge and a few hours?" "the abominable and vicious Commission on the Press} was jury in Press matters"-or

But, of course, we could not get even which process by

a Government saying: "Suppression, misrepre- where It seeks to impose restric- with us all the way.

the situation. It was away from Inventions these things Hons on Press

For Trieste, constitutes itself at once the author, sentation,

practices-there is the censor, the publisher, the hoppen day by day, and constitute no remedy for the vastly

which the Communists" call the worse Jury" a disgrace to journalism. prosecutor the Judge and

evils that follow in their train.

Danzig of 1940, is, like Berlin, one of the key junctions between the Communists and the non-Communist West.

in Press matters. That Was finely sald. But Mr. McNell had more to say,

The

thu

Like

com-

SUGGEST that the Press of con- Now, as betewen these conflicting free expression

"That looks a nice bit of country," voices among Ministers, I take mission flicting views" -said he~"|5

should

summon Mr.I sald, pointing up the road towards life-blood of British Journalism, my stand with Hector McNeil. McNell as its next and last witness a range of hills about half a mile When the Dally Herald goes wrong

him, I do not think the and then stop wasting the public away, when we were thinking of Press in perfect. it is corrected by the Dally Herald.

But I moncy.

starting. When the Daily Herald goes wrong or even right-it is corrected by the Daily Worker. But whe corrects Pravdu??

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MR. MCNEIL even had a word to

MR.

I say on the Subject of Press monopoly, and on the bold, und barons of the Press.

world has taken it as a model."

British

Pound-note gamblers

make Riviera

Н

look tame

by ROBERT

NASSAU.

о

DOUGLAS

Near by is the residence of the

British Empire, "They were told the Colony could not make a habit licensing gambling. So the Bahu- nina Club has been given a virtual monopoly.

A strange fact is that this Colonial Government, which is so benevolent

or

On our 50-mile outing we made a stop at the little hilltop village of San Florian.. I would have wanted to stop thero anyhow, the place looked co unbelievably like a colour Alm with its vine-covered cottages nestling among orchards of pink- blossomed peach trees.

The conversion

WE

found the old

priest-a Slovene at his house taking a few minutes off between services. When we came in he was standing: on his dining-room table trying to fix a bulb in the electric lamp. Ho got down and hospitably gave Us wine.

A year ago, the priest told us he spoke German and Italian ns well as Slovene many of the people in his parish would have voted for the Popular Front. But on Septein- ber 13 last year an imoprtant event

to Mr. Mackenzle and Mr. Dineen, took place, The Yugoslav frontier, gets no rovenue of all from their | which up to then had been 30 miles' club. It is evidently unwilling to collect any of the proceeds of gam- bling.

special ordinance

away from San Florian at a nearest point, moved up to the village.

Their friends and neighbours in the valley had become Yugoslavs, and the village now had a close-up view of conditions on the other

"Monopoly in the British Press," he said, "is more apparent than real. For the fearful Press barons are never found in one club." True. Sometimes they even get thrown out of the clubs they art in-like Lord Beaverbrook from the Carlton. Mr. McNell concluded by saying: "The British Press is not perfect And for three hundred years it has been subjected to criticism. But7OMEN in evening gowns, Governor, whose, despatches to re-

And it takes good care, Ino, to the fact remains that much of the W

bright lights, spinning gularly to the Colonial Oflec. And exclude Bahamians from the Baha roulette wheels, desperate,

wouldn't Mr. Creech Jones be horri mian Club. The ex- cited chutter-these and the Aed if he discovered somebody, had for Mr. Mackenzie and Mr. Dincen OW this speech, when I read it, other Monte Carlo-like ingre- opened a casino next door to him tells them to keep out both residents side of the Iron Curtain. As a re- NOW

In Whitehall?

and infants. bucked me up no end. Had dients that make gambling a

And if they have any doubt about -been-ut Geneva I should have glamorous pursuit are here for The gambling den is called the whether a visitor la a Bahamian broken into spontaneous and em-

I talked with the villagers. I did Bahamian Club. It has been In or not they have instructions to ask not ask them how they were going phatic applause.

Bahamian existence as a club for nearly 30 ether the

Attorney-to vole in the elections. I asked: years, and for a large part of that General or Colonial Secretary for a uma the two Americans have been ruling. Thus the Nassau Govern- the valley are better off now that "Do you think your neighbours in

coming to Nassau every ment protects its own from the they are part of Yugoslavia, or aro welcome fis temptation that prevail in the house conditions much as they were be- patrons to the fun,

on the hill.

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For I am a journalist; and also an

All this you can find in the British Englishman; and it is good that I Empire-free from the travel re- and my brothers of the craft should strictions which may make Monte be so strongly and splendidly de-fruit. And all this you Carlo itself forbidden

But when Mr. McNeil has finished can enjoy without any Als Job at Geneva there is another fear of the police break- job for him to do at home.

Ing up the party.

fended.

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For here in Nassau two Americans-Mr Willard

Mackenzie and Lir Frank Dingen-are running well-regulated gaming

casino.

year

0.3.A.

NASSAU

Of course, they would be locked up or deported if they did it in Bri- tain. But in this part of the Em- pire things are different.

Mr.

to

Its legal status is clear enough, for the Bahamas penal code was amended in 1938 to permit Governor-in-Council

The

Baffled men

sult, they are almost solidly anti- Communist.

fore?"

Work is life'

THERE is another prohibition-Im- to THE exempt any person, club, posed this time by Mr Mackenzie ONLY one of the people I asked-

and Mr. Dineen

a tall, sallow-faced Italian Com-. or charitable organisation

themselves. You munist in dirty blus overalls-in- from the ban that applies must gamble in evening clothes.sisted that the neighbours in the Osty the focals

throughout the Empire Whother this is a test of mohey or valley were better of today than pstea the thellfa

on keeping a gaming manuers is not stated.

they had been. "They have work," house.

You can have good food and dan- he said, "and where there is work The Bahamian Club enjoys such eine at the club. But, of course,

there is life." exemption.

most visitors go for the gambling, But the Slovenes were all sure The

premises are owned by Mr. which is carried on in both pounds that the peasants in the valley were Frederick Sigrist, a wealthy Eng- and dollars. When you win, you much worse off today. lishman who has been investing a are pald in whatever currency you lot of money in the Bahamas In staked. That is an Important re- recent years. He bought the place gulation, too, and the promoters during the war, at time when the obey it. club was closed down.

Mackenzie and Mr. Dineen are esteemed members of the com- munity. They conduct their bucl- ness with scrupulous regard for the law-such as Is and there can be no criticism of them.

FOR there is a certain diparity of emphasis, not to say divergence of view, between what he so greatly said at Geneva to the foreigners, and what some of his colleagues say le England to the natives.

G.S. Thus, Mr

Lindgren, MP, (who, swearing to his constituents before election that that he would never, no never, interfere with the 7.20 & 9.20 p.m. Friendly Societies, proceeded as soon as he took office, to take over those some Friendly Societies) speaks in very different ton

tones. "The Preas-sald

talking of civil aviation on March 10 last "takes one-tenth fact, nine-tenths misstaternent misrepresentation and

and wrong emphasis.

completely confuses the fzzue.”

Another

Minister, Mr. A. V Alexander, cald,

a couple of days wheel or baccarat table. before this speech of Mr. Lindgren's "Any deterioration in the world because of what is supposed to be the power and strength of the Royal Navy is....due to the malice of the Press,"

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DEOFLE are flocking here this year from Britain, Canada, and the United States to share the thrills Mackenzie-Dineen roulette

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The Nassau

Currency Controller Mr. Mackenzie and Mr. Dineen had a little trouble in starting up

has another problem. For these when they renewed their lease after days, whenever British and U. S. the war,

of the Colony's tourists-particularly the gambling politicians thought at the time that t-set together with money in their hands, some black market dealings are inevitable.

Some

a casino might not be quite the The winter tourist season is at its thing for Nassau after all, height, and every night Nassau pro- But their licence was renewed duces a great crowd of gamblers. In the end. And now nobody in any Stakes are high. Many patrons who responsible position seems to mind stay till dawn are in reckless mood. about the Bahamas being the only Some transactioris make Riviera British territory in my knowledge AST October Mr. Shinwell was

where gaming is officially "blessed, Thin extraordinary proceeding. saying, "I read the most dis- takes place not in some backstreet

No rivals torted and garbled

versions premises but in a large, luxuriously. WHEN other enterprising Ameri of what I say in the newspapers." appointed building that stands pro- cans thought about building (The trouble is, of course, that Mr.minently on the hill behind Nassau. bigger and better casinos for

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Mr. Mackenzie and Mr. Dineen have bright and glittering prospects the in years to come.

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A bricklayer of San Fiorian told me that he had gone to the other side in September last year with his wife and children thinking there would be much for him to do there. "They paid me 148 diners a day," he said, "but a kilogramme of bread

cost 130 dinara.”

That, however, he insisted, was. not the worst. "Everyone there is afraid to talk, afraid even to think." He and his wife and children had managed to escape. Many others had tried and been caught.

When the time. comes for the Italian elections I shall watch with particular interest how this group of Slovenes In Venezia Giulla, on the borders of Trieste, vate. For they are the only Slavs not yet behind the Iron Curtain.

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