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CRIPPS IS

Reds Busy In Latin America

By Richard G. Massock

LATIN America has become a front in the "cold war"! between the East and the West, in the opinion of the Chilean Government.

Diplomatic observers believe the Com- munists, are trying to profit from political and social unrest in many Central and South Ameri- can Republics to prevent the formation of“ an' anti-Russian bloc in the Western Hemisphere.

Communista may have overplayed their hand in the revolutionary rioting in Bogota," Colombia, but the danger of Communist-inspired trouble persists, the informants say -

There have been reports of Communist plot- ting from various Latin American countries. The Communiats are blamed for much of the violence in Bogota's riots, in which 300 persons were reported killed.

They are accused of trying to wreck trains and power plants in Chile. In Brazil, the federal- police blame the Communists for the recent ex- plosion at an army arsenal. They say the blast was intended. as the beginning of a Communist plot for a "second Bogota" in Rio De Janeiro on May day.

WATCHING THIS

ISLAND

PARADISE

OUR years ago, Guernsey was entering its fifth year

under the German Jack- boot-starving, desolate, almost without hope of ever being liberated. Today, this Mediter ranean island in the English Channel is the Utopia for London's tired business men who want to emigrate without leaving the British Isles.

By R. G. Bennett

The resident In his new car will the rest at 6s. A married man about £20, while in England ho And the narrow roads something of getting £400 a year would only pay a nightmare for the first few trips, would pay nearer £40. but they lead to cuffs which hang- a sweeping mass of green shrubbery -over a sea for deeper in its shades of blue than is found round Eng- land.

MANY ARRESTS TWENTY-FOUR persons lost their lives in the ex- plosion. The police arrested 80 persons Including two: former army officers, An-

was

than the total wartime population tónio, Rollemberg and Trifino (about 25,000 Islanders fled to Eng- Correa. Both mon are Com- land before the occupation). By munists. Rollemberg VE-Day the garrison was 11,000 charged with being the leader strong or weak, for the Germans, of the alleged plot. Corren is

almost like the islanders, were

a former Brazilian Congress- starving-and they surrendered to 25 British soldiers who landed from a man. destroyer,

been

Communists are fighting in Costa They are said to As a result of the damage, houses Rica's civil war.

prices have have started out by supporting the are scarce and their

of hand. The Englishman's son, on reaching rocketed. Private building is allow-Government but apparently got out How many bullets have been the age of 18, must go into the armed, but materials are strictly con- ed forces. Guernsey, like the Isle trolled. of Man, has no conscription, although

Every paradise has its drawbacks. fired and flames lighted by Com- curiously enough before the war It

is scarce. Wages are slow in catch-Some Informants believe the num The old capital of St. Peter Port was the only place in the British. Rents are high, for land on an island munists in Bogola and elsewhere?

Isles where military service was

was because it ing up on present-day living coats ber of incidents may be exaggerat- gets ed. But they doubt that the danger (a greenhouse worker now is still cobble-streeted, but the shop compulsory. That

over-emphasised. windows somehow take the breath then had a millia with an unbroken away, particularly the breath of the record since the year 900 (William 24.15s, a week, a vast improvement of Communist disorder has

German occupation years). The Board of Trade. The finest examples the Conqueror'a D-Day minus 160 on prewar days). of Britain's export, china-beautiful broke up that record. In design and colouring-best quality women's underwear and household goods have price tags that, would take the smlic of the face of a VOU only pay ve shillings for a dog

you London store manager. There is no licence (Britain, 7s. 6d.) but a purchase tax.

tax not seen in England is the an- one on push bikes of 2s. 6d. a number The only link Sir Stafford Cripps nual

cycle must carry 18 Each Bomee, the Board of Trade and the has with the Channel Islands Ministry of Supply officials working through the Home Office, which acts plato below the saddle.

A ninety-minute air journey from London airport, and they touch down on this picturesque land where there The is no surtax or capital levy.

can pay is five highest tax they shillings in the pound. Cigarettes are only 18. d. for 20, spirits half their London prices, and a new car can be delivered in three weeks.

Today they rush, for tomorrow they may be too late.

Non-Austerity Ways

DEHIND the doors

of the Home

Administration

If the Communists are not starling In the business world, white- collar jobs are limited and promotion trouble, they seem to take a leading elow. Banic clerks, fed up with part when trouble breaks out. The waiting for dead man's shoes, often Chilean Government says the Com- throw up their local posts and trans-munists purty's basic alm is to keep fer to London, only to find that the Latin American nations out of an Increased fare and other costs. case the "cold war" develops into a higher pay does not compensate for anil-Soviet bloc, weaken them

shooting war, and undermine them' gain for an eventual chance to power for the Communists selves.

Boys And Girls

out Bir Stafford Cripps' export or as liaison between the local States Guernsey's States is of one party. AND young girls have to be content

To the Londoner, the free and easy Independence of the Channel Islands

use the

Puts Her Foot Down

-But

pot difficult to find. was through the Home Offee that monother with a mess of deputies natural charm which has survived against

Becond

Holiday Traffic

Under The Germans

braten

and

AVOWED AIM

irt

them-

Latin

to marry the boy next door

TLE well as alri for boy friends, only, although it has no particular dio drive are wondering just how parlament and His Majesty's Gov.

15 Onice polliical following. Thero [10

HILE asked the Pan-American much longer the Channel Islands erniment. It was the Home

with can get away

their non- which suggested that the people Prime Minister. but a Chairman friends, are limited on an island.

British rationing

whose duties are about equal to

for those who have retired, Conference in Bogola to adopt a austerity ways. And not without should reasons, for if England dies, these system, and for obvious reasons the those of the Speaker of the House of and for the holidny-maker, there are resolution recommending that all Commons. Ho is called the Bailin. few more pleasant spots, Safe the American republics collaborate little islands cannot hope to survive. States ogreed.

and, with twelve Jurats (or judges). bathing, plenty of fishing, suring on in suppressing "subversive activi administers discipline in the more the long stretches of sandy shores ties." Chile's avowed alm is to line cases before the Royal Court and hospitality. The people have a up Western Hemisphere nations what.. she calls Sovict Russia's Afth column. comes as something of a shock, but the reason

the Ministry of Fuel suggested and douzenlers and parish rectors the German intrusion.

the laws which

Brazil and Paraguay already have At times the island has à festivel Despite the changing map of Europe that Guernsey, like England, might. they also discuss

Con-outlawed Communism. Other coun- throughout successive wars, the lates

largest of like to abolish the basle petrol ration have to have the King's approval (Guernsey is the

and again the States agreed, but not before they are finally adopted. The spirit comparable to many

tinental resorts, particularly during tries may follow sult. the four principal ones) hal until January 31 of this year, "an a King always approved them.

the battle of flowers when the most

Knowing the Communist party to managed to remain dutifying all-contribution to the Mother Country's Some of these lowe have not been beautiful blooms are bulit into dis-

of action, Дл organisation io England's kings without

for centuries. They are plays, paraded before the crowds and be nileglance to her governments. The contribution to the dollar shortage."

these blows lying down. Chile has British Chancellor can bombard his For months after Britain has laid up altered

demand. Before the late war

laughter and music.

taken the leadership in trying to budget box as much as he likes, but its cars the islanders drove on plea changed only when circumstances then torn to shreds in the evening of Chileans do not expect it to take farmer, was murdered by his house-

In this old world island of weather form a Western Hemisphere front he cannot force a penny out of the sure trips.

their Own Islanders. They make

can go on making keeper, and after she had been con-

granite farm houses

against Communizm because Presi- Sir Stafford laws and apply their own taxes.

rocky coves, there is a modern touch dent Gabriel Gonzalez Videla says suggestions but Guernsey does not demned to death it was found that

throughout she agrees, but not infrequently she lion. The law was changed and she that seems unexpected. Next to the Chile was to be the springboard for have to say yes. Over many things island law demanded a public execu-

United States of America there are insurrection

America. more telephones for the population And the then

any other country. AND, what causes Sir Stafford even puts her foot down. And what can was sent to the mainland.

Sir Stafford do? He can stop sup-

ambulances are equipped with trans- more concern, they come plies, but in so doing he risks up- Britain's export market, The Lon- getting the two-way system of ex- doner can wall three or four years ports. For Guernsey exports, too.. HAT did the Germans do to this milling and receiving radios so that for a new car. The Guernseyman She sells cattle and tomatoes. Her island? Little moral damage to a doctor can be contacted direct from con just phone a garage and

cattle trade is restricted owing

laboratora-apart from the young order is met.

the milk shortage, and only a few the people. There were so few col the scene of an accident. Guernsey's sister inland, Jersey, a cows can leave the island each year, girls who consorted with the In- larger, has its own government and,

But her, tomato trado grows. In Vading troops and produced under because of its vast holiday traffic, is 1940 she sent 33,000 tons to England. 200 climate children during the the best known. It vies easily with and last year 35,304 tons in 6,007,081 Government decided that no action the majority of Britain's tourist re- twelve-pound baskets. Those

Communist Interna sorts, and has thus managed to lose muntoes are wanted in England-but should be taken. But to the island thousands a year, because! in this authorities accused the two Yugo much of its individuality.

they could go to France. In addition itself, the material damage was huge, sunny Island climate they need to alavs of operating under the direc

The cliffs will always bei honey- bus less fuel to heat their green-on of the flowers and grapes and their way to

who, and in fomenting labour strikes in ably the ordinary farmers

Chile, Guernsey, responsible for the ad- og frult markets, which combed with tunnels, bullt to link houses. The porest men are prob- tional Organisation, the Cominform.. ministration of Alderney Sark and saves buying from overseas.

dozens of concrete forts. Dill through lack of space, have to im tho

Of boxes and gun positions, most

port so much of their feeding stuffs. little Herm. Jethou and Brechou as

ten

As in Brazil, the Chilean Govern- thousand them. made by the well as her own thirty squaro miles,

Income Tax

Imported European slave workers

The most contented are the bus-ment- alleged that the Communists is more old world and has a greater

ness people who have retired there were planning a May, day coup., Do-.

Barrior sense of responsibility.

But that contentment will probably fence Minister Gullermo during the early daye. A largo underground hospital still contains in its thick walls the bodies of those go if Sir Stafford Cripps decides to has ordered all members of Chilo's beautiful china, the new curpots and on anyone who attacks them or at-

circu the latest cars will disappear from tempts revolutionary acts. A matoes as well as breeding cows. could not alter the income tax.

the Allied planes which flew overhead the shop windows.

lar to the armed forces said Thus there are only two large hotels

A single islander gets an allow but plenty of small homely ones, no

For the first time since 1000 order was issued because the "Go- holiday camps but thousands of ance of £125, a married man £200, could count on a reception equal to each child. One that put up by any fortress in the

tho Channel by a Communist plot Associated. greenhouses which spread themselves with £50 for

own way with

Pross. At 2.30, 5.30,

aver avaliable plots of land without eighth of all earned Income up to world. For the island was one large British Government would have got vernment's stability is threatened" upsetting the natural beauty of the £150 is allowed: free, and ofthe military camp and at times contained is

remainder 2135 is taxable at 2s. 6d. 22,000 soldiers, five thousand more islands. 7.30 & 9.30 p.m. island.

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SEVERED RELATIONS HILE broke diplomatic relation

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A few days · Chilean coal fields. fruit growers are the wealthiest. with Chilo because of the expulsion all the islanders the tomato and earlier Yugoslavia severed relations Their trade brings them in profits of two Yugoslav diplomats. Chilean

of

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