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· UNITED NATION

"PALESTINE COMMISSIDA

COMING (AND GOING) EVENTS

AN AUSTRALIAN IN BRITAIN Challenges whiTEHALL-

MASS EMIGRATION

-YES...or NO?

NE of the peculiar fen- tures of the Labour Government, somewhat disappointing to n Socialist like myself, is their refusal to make up their minds for them-

by ALAN WOOD

Was

other places, most of all to Australia.

S

The man who may succeed Truman

By SKENE CATLING

.NEW YORK. TATE elections which-... gulde the States delegates In voting for a presiden- tial candidato at the Republican National Convention in June have, so far, put Minnesota's ex-Governor Harold Edward Stussen as an equal favourite at least with New York's. Governor, Tom Dewey, and Ohio's Senator Taft..

Stassen's smashing victories in Wisconsin and Nebraska have turned all cyca on him.

Hitherto the party bosses have refused to take his chances too seriously. But now he has forced himself upon their notice

he may well become the next President of the United States. Harold Stassen has brought a new style in campaigning.

Instead of delivering a care. fully prepared speech (probably one written by somebody else) and then going round kissing -- the babies, Stassen prefers meetings at which he talks with, as well as to, the voters and argues with them:

Ho

encourages Questions never dodges one.

and

spite

STASSEN

Seven and seven-eighths hats, size 12 shoeJ.

of his warning

•

that he

He is always intensely in earnest, would hold office for only "Let's face. the issues,” might be months. called his metto. He believes in thrashing out a subject.

RAN FARM AT 14

four

When that period elapsed-It was

in 1942 he joined the US. Navy.

He became Admiral Halsey's fing offeer and later assistant chief of staff in the Pacific.

You could hardly call that a confident, precise declaration of policy. But perhaps it is the

After 27 months of active service best we can hope for, as the ile belloves that ordinary, people

have common sense enough to back Stassen retired with the rank of first timid

that indication

the right course of action If only captain and four decorations.

all the Mr Socialist leaders may venture they are told

to depart from the policy Mrace the issues." Churchill has formulated.

Once again, it selves. Оле would expect Churchill who took the lead, Socialists to keep ahead of ruling out (1) and appealing to Conservatives: instead, they young Englishmen to stay at trail

I have no space to discuss the belatedly behind Mr home.

arguments against mass Churchill.

Lord Beaverbrook promptly emigration; the subject is too took the opposite line, urging big. I am simply saying that

allowed they should be

to it ought to be discussed. freely, emigrate..

frankly and urgently.

now

at

1

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..

remove

main

Ho belleves A

facts-and

What does Stassen look like? of mixed Czech-German-Nor- democracy. He wegian-Danish blood, he is slow,

incher-weight 15 stone.

and. shun Government ownership Iko believes in capitalism. "We should massive, deliberate; height & foot 8

He has an enormous head the plague," he says.

wears a hat size seven and seven- He has never been rich-ho is eighths. Shoes size 12. still paying off the mortgage on his Minnesota home.

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maching.

In foreign affairs, Mr Beyin

Hair sandy and thinning. Eych. announced from the start that

large and ginger. He thinks before

for as long. his policy was a "continuation"

He has the backing in his election he speaks, sometimes of Churchill's; and he is still

campaign of the so-called "Min- as a minute or so.

HE LIKES MILK to which following

nobody Churchill, having

A little plain speaking might nesota Fund." So once again the Govern-

He is a Baptist, non-sinoker,. the

£250. may failed

subscribe more than arrived

to itself having

drinker-ho liker milk something ment,

Some 10,000 Stassenites have sub- moderate almost indistinguishable from formulate a policy of their own, difficulties.

best a great reader, especially of scribed an average of £10 each. the Fulton Speech.

have to choose between 'follow-

What's worrying Whitehall?.

Stassen also belleyes in the United books he thinks will give him, uso- ful information, and he writes his ing. Churchill Churchill

the Marshall plan. went

following What have they got on their Nations and straight Beaverbrook.

He likes using of Ho is against secret negotiations, own speeches.

dictating ahead with proposals for a

minds? Are they afraid Western Union; Mr Bevin,

Australia taking off all the fit the U. N. veto, und Communism (at

Не is n a crack shot, was captain. TOO POLITE after years of do-nothing in-

young men and leaving the old any rate in the United States).

What is Stassen's background? of his university's rifle team which Born and bred on his father's won three decision, has now formed

national championships. AT T the moment they seem to for Britain to support? Western Alliance. But his

That's a reasonable point; 40-acre farm-market gardening He likes fishing, swimming, walk- be following Churchill.

reasonable in rural West St. Paul, the third of ing, playing chess, are allegiance to Churchill has not They don't say so explicitly yet. Australians

Hia wifey Esther, his childhood been unwavering: there was a (The time-lag between "Mr people; of course they would four sons, he raised rabbits and

an Churchill laying down a policy agree to take a quota of older icons as a small boy and in the sweetheart, is unassuming, amiable,

and the Government definitely

summer ran a fruit and vegetable plainly dressed. She uses almost no stand by the roadside,

make up and likes picnics,

Her chief interests in life seem. And what about the British adopting it is usually about

to bo her husband's

career and National Debt which emigrants two years.) But they are would leave behind them? Well,

bringing up their two children, boy and

12, a giri-Glen And in economic affairs, the concentrating all their efforts it's fair enough for Australia to father was ill, so for one year thu

Kathleen, six. Government still dither about on policy (2), the export drive; take over a proportion of that, too. (According to Press reports she has

HIS ENEMIES the most important decision and they do nothing to

already offered to do so, In a

Stasson has guts. the choice between exporting courage emigration.

private letter from the Australian

When he was a county attorney people and exporting goods.

Minister for Immigration.)

at the time of the great depression. tho mo tarzan were on strike THE CHOICE

and at one meeting someone asked what they could do with the coun- ty attorney.

time when he talked of Empire Customs Union and looked like following Lord Beaverbrook instead.

BRITAIN'S problem

.

is

simple: it is an island with more people than food to feed them. Which leaves this cholec:

en

They are far too polite to tell Australia: "You want millions of emigrants. well, you're not going to get them here if we can help it: we need all our manpower ourselves."

folk.

THEY ARE EAGER

A YEAR IN BED He finished school at 14 His boy Stassen ran the family farm.

At 15 he entered the University of Minnesota and helped pay his way he working as a Pullman cor conductor on the raliway.

Jaw

He graduated from university aged 20. At 22 he got his Bachelor of Laws degree, started a business-and collapsed, through overwork, with tuberculosis.

"Lynch him!" was the cry,

P

and

He has had a remarkably success-nation sitting at the back un-

NCE these points have been thrashed out freely and openly once the British Government have

He had to spend a year in bed.

strode on the platform and made up their minds what their

Introduced himself. emigration policy is, We can getful career. He is 41. If elected

violence will have to stop," "This On the contrary, they are down to the other problems raised

President this year ho will be the he said calmly. "But I'll try to gat most sympathetic to Australia; by deliberately planning a Britain

youngest Chief Executive in United you a better price for your milk." 1.-Mass emigration to they loyally carry out the letter with fewer people in it.

States history.

He did. countries like Australia, where of the existing emigration planned emigration polley which

He was youngest Governor of Stasson is essentially a middle. there is more food than there agreement; they did nothing to would strengthen the whole Em-Minnesota in that Staio's history of-the-road man

the age of 31. He has been And he has a way of reaching: are people to eat it.

stop Australia, for instance, pire: Australia is willing and cager: at

twice re-elected-the third time in his destination. carrying off 800 much-needed only Whitehall hangs back. builders.

"

There is a chance

now for

But in the long run Britain PROSPECTS

has the whip hand. She owns

FOR FRANCE ARE BOOMING

France is now in the grip of an extraordinary sporting revival. Attendances at sporting events are-

2. An attempt to struggle back to the position 50 years ago, when Britain had enough exports to buy food for her surplus population.

the ships. And last year only PARIS-The- cataclysmic poli-

By SAM WHITE There are other possibilities, 22,997 emigrants found pas-

tical horoscope General de Loo, like (3)-growing more food sages. (Offact by 17,222 Gaulle cast for France Home since VE day. France is now well breaking all records. nt home; (4) developing new people who left Australia, time ago is now doing damage on the road to complete recovery.

High on the list of sporting markets in places like South- mainly to come to Britain.) to his reputation as a prophet. Every blast furnace is working East Europe.

at full pressure, thanks to an abun- attractions was the six-day blcyclo Government, dance of coal and steel,

race which ended recently at the Yet there are signs that the The Schuman Theso policies arc not Government are not quite satis instead of disintegrating, have Heavy industries and the textile Velodrome d'Hiver, Paris's Madison... mutually exclusive. But there fed with this compromise half-grown stronger and more con production figures.

industry have passed their prowar Suare-garden.

This annual event is a rare and in a definite clash between the hearted approach. One voice fident, Instead of a Com- First fruits of recovery, in terms colourful mixture of sport, circus frat two: you must decide has been raised against it.

Eighteen riders. Amunist "Ides of March,"

musle-hall, pre- of reduced prices, should be seen and sooner or later whether you are hesitant voice... It belongs to dicted so confidently by the shortly.

1 spinning around a 250-yeard track going to encourage people 18 go Mr Dalton, and this is what he General's spokesman, the month

Only two possibilities threaten for six days and nights with brief to Australia or go into the said:

passed off almost without inci- French recovery-war and a Com- Intervals for real may seem a itilo undermanned export indus-

munist victory in the Italian elec- monotonous, but the French love it tlons

Apart from the cyclists there are On both these dangers the trics.

In the long run I don't think dent. we will be able to carry such a Now, with French economy for French viewpoint is sturally opti- bands, songs by music-hall stars, harvest and mistic. And Italy has turned down and celebrities from every walk of sipping champagne on the rim large population as at presented by a bumper

Marshall aid, the shadows cast by the Reds. is more important than the We ought definitely to let our both the Communist dragon and the Furthermore the Foreign Omee of the track.

Up in the gallery the fans alt up

and night,

munching stock political argument be minds run along the line of No. 1 dragon killer are shrinking feel that the time is now ripe and

Four-Power day now tween capitalism and Socialism. thought that there ought to be rapidly.

In fact, the prospect for Franco Conference, which it is thought here occasional garlic-laden sandwich, in It will have to be made whether a substantial movement of are so rosy that they constitute the would have more than a fair chance feats of endurance rivalling that of

the cyclists. Britain goes Socialist or not. population from this island to best news to come out of Europe of success.

The choice between the two

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Beauty and the Beast

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