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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, AUGUST 14, 1948.

"Now what's the matter with 'om?'

UNINMAT

STATE OFY

-From Giles in the United States

SEFTON DELMER'S

NEWS MAP

BUDAPEST, Aug. 2. Do not think I have ever had

4t many delightfai official Invitations in ORG

week-end as have been pouring in on me this crisis week-end in Budapest.

A

for

that

matter

anxious to see this three-mile gary, miniature railway operated everywhere else in Communisi entirely by children for children. Southeastern Europe.

Tito in Yugoslavia depends on them in his fight against the Cominform. He roused the peasants"

fear of the loss of

American Column

By Newell Rogers

This Year Of

Plenty Plus

NEW YORK, Aug. 4.

OOD news from the Great Plains. If the fine weather holds farmers will harvest the largest crops in history.

In the southwest the wheat harvest is so great that grain is being piled on commons and in parks.

So Washington offers 76,000,000 bushels more than planned for shipment abroad..

The maize crop is magnificent. Farmers have so much maize that, they are starting to feed more chickens, pigs, and cattle. That will mean more eggs, steaks, and bacon to share with Britain and the world,'

Maybe we CILIA end rationing for people abroad, the farmers say hopefully. And the prices of some furm products are beginning to go down.

Britain may soon be able to make her dollars huy more at Uncle Sam's grocery store. THE Englishman's most pernicious traft is

class-consciousness, historian Henry Steele) Commager tells Americn.

In a village smithy the young blacksinith leather apron over his bare, brown, shirtless body-stopped blowing the bellows to confirm that about the Government's new policy. the villagers here were anxious They feared the loss of their land."

ان

1 of

After a year

teachlug. Cambridge he jobs the army American writers who for a century and a hall have wrestled with the question-What is an Englishurmu?

In the Atlantic Monthly, Com- mager replies; "Half a score of public schools, with Dartmouth and Sandhurst. dominate England socially.

"While politieally the English have de. achieved as great a degree of moerney as my other people, the Englishman is branded on the tongue with his class mark.

The English do not revolt readily enough against bad laws and regula tons. They are infatuated with com- mon sense." And there is more than this to

Commager's Englishmen... "They know the best of all nations, but remain true to their own.

delights in "Every Englishman French cooking, but none permits his chef to imitate it. All the Food The village schoolmaster confirmed Ministry's propaganda has falled to a smaller that the pensants, angry at the small introduce experiments la cooking

amount at produce they had been allowed to retain, had in some cases attacked the controllers. But there of was no concerted movement, he said. I enemies.

I particularly wanted to visit the railway because part of it runs through the Budapest golf their land. Coninform, he told course, and I am told that the them, is demanding the collee. renetionary comments of golf ivisation of your farms. The events of the day-what playing Western diplomats Fears that Tildy might do of them? Non - Communist when their lift proves inade, the same thing President Tildy forced to re- sign; his son-in-law held in gaol accased of having sold diploma tic cyphers to a foreign Power while he was Hungarian Minis- ter in Cairo: the President's wife deprived of her pussport and questioned for hours by the political police-no matter, hos pitality must be.

A

quate and the balls force-land scale with the Hungarian per on the young pioneers' railway sants have led to his elimina track are as good as anything tion.

There is a split over peasant policy among

the Hungarian Com of Arst-hand investigation: --- ,munist leaders. They are at issue on the speed with which collectivisa- tion should be pushed.

Tito is given a new chance

it-quickly boys have won.

"Tender and kind, the English are. when aroused, the most belligeren!

friends And

bast men-gond

"On the whole, the English My conclusion from this little bit approve of themselves, as well they

Honour.

tenacity, mny.

courage, pluck, ability, practicality, fortitude, hive ever been con-integrity-these

English traits.

"You can count on England. You can almost set your watch by her."

visila New

THERE is certainly

hostility 13 siderable

amung the peasants to the Com- munist Government, and fear of its policy,

past has organised them-su-- well. that in the last free election In 1945

WHEN

TRUMAN

Work's International All Ех-

George

to keep him

Would I like to atteml cocktail party for the opening of

The peasants have

no position, officials hope a luxury hotel on the Margaret

organisation for enforcing in the reviewing stand long enough Island? How about visiting a

their grievances. The to see the aerobatics of the R.A.F.

after mass press conference on the Hun the Berlin Kommandaturn pro- through in Hungary, The do- Smallholder's Party, which in the jet

Vampires manoeuvres,

annoeuvres. Saya aviation editor garian aluminium Industry?duced in its day.

in Carroll simply must see the ceremonial

I Instead, persunded opening of the rebuilt Margaret

So it is expected that Rakosi, Hungarian Bridge-there will be a pie- Boldiszar.

Foreign Hungary's No. 1 Communist, turesque procession of factory Under-Secretary for workers with banners.

Affairs, to lend me a car and an who was for moderation, will interpreter. Thus equipped be removed from the direction drove out in the sweltering heat of internal Hungarian affairs. ment. for little political exploration in the countryside among the peasants.

Children's Railway

BUT I turned them all down.

even 11 visit to the Dess children's railway. And I must

***

M. Acting

For the peasants are at the I did and do still-feel hub of all that happens in Hun

Cease Fire Army is

best paid

of all

By SYDNEY SMITH

Zoltan Vas, the young and all tam capable financial wizard of Hungarian Communists, the who supported Rakosi in advis. ing a go-slow line, is now in Moscow for trade talks. It is thought likely he will remain there.

The Peasants

smashed

with

the

The Peasant Party will not sup- port hostility against the Govern-

demon-

TheJournal

fosten whisk- R.A.F. crowd can they won a 56 percent. majority, is American: "Admirers insist that the HOW finally

brooms 10 the bottom of their dismissal of Tildy.

Vampires and sweep the runway in n low-level pass. This would be cut- ting it te ne, but they are going to give hair-raising stration." THE U.S. ARMY wants to make drought its secret weapon. They are studying methods of mass-bomb- ing clouds with dry ice to make the give up their rain before they reach enemy frontiers.

The Roman Catholic Church might possibly organise resistance at some future date. but I rather doubt . and in any case the peasants are weak and disunited among them.

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But is it entirely fanciful that help may come for the oppressed the New York Herald Tribune Jesse 703 Bank of East Asin Bldg., peasants of Southeastern Europe Abramson cables: "A small Fress from insido the ranks of the office fit for the fortnightly meeting appressors themselves. from within of the Polytechnie Ifarriers has beeri failing to disseminate Olymple news."

THE first man I spoke to on the Communist Party?

tour was the Com- my munist nanager of 11 Co-

Could Be Hero

like FLYING MOTOR-CAR, A the one at the Daily Express

schoolmaster talking with op-market next year for £823 15s. proval of conditions In Yugoslavia.

operative, who sat at the nevi FOUND the blacksmith and the Gatwick Air Pageant, will go on the

in

THE best-paid army in the equivalent of two R.A.F. squadrons table to mine for lunch

world, of 300 UNO Cease of twin-engined planes, including Keczemet, the place where the

ten for reconnaissance, ns well as Fire Enforcement men, is mov two observer helicopters.

apricot brandy comes from. ing back to its observer posi-

These planes Are an bon-slop ile was tions in the Jew-Arab battle

enthusiastic about communication and supply FUDS -between observers at Ifalfa. Tel the Government's policy, but he

Ativ. Amman, Damascus. Beirut, According to the headquarters and Cairo. They

admitted that only the poorest cost the same

One of the peasants back it..

Arens,

}

of the £6,000-n-yeur commander, to run as a European ale ne.. the. mediator Count Bernadotte,

Negroes,

this army against .. war—for !s In front of the Kig David troubles they were now. having

t army even to its skle-arms of Hotel, Jerusalem's UNO HQ., UNO

was that AL U.S. Colts,' 'white-painted trucks doormen since cease-itre began to face, he said, and ulr squadrons-is now to cost have included

Chinese, number of the peasants who you and me and the rest of the French, Belglans, Danes, and United Nations peoples £180,000 Americans, all better paid than the had been given land in the post- dully, to postpone further executions overage British Army mujor.

war shareout had saved money between Jews and Arabs,

In Jerusalem, soon to be and now wanted to buy land This is the price for a restless Bernadotie's headquarters if the and unstable cease-fire, gambled new truce holds. is the centre from neighbours who had not,

or a final negotiated seltlement of UNO's own radio communication done so well. Between Jewish and Arnb armies, service--a huge independent net-

It is not a surprising one la anyone work fuking öll Arab' and Jewish This must not be," said the who has seen this incredible Peace caplials as well ns mobile field Army at work In Palestine.

observers along 500 miles of frontman from line.

the co-op. "They will not be allowed to buy. We sopismust protect the weaker pea

head-sants."

In smartly cut grey gabardine uniforms, with black peaked Jerusalem and gay and while cops and the gilt-inurelled ticated Tel Aviv, where the Kuete badge of the United Nations, the Dan Hotel is UNO Army most Junior recrulis of the Pence quarters, are two. of the places Army-and they are all new re- in Palestine where the penco Troops crults to the job-get minimum pay are kings-with cartons of cigarettes ers in a field, only one of whom

I spoke to some barefooted labour

Tito fooks like becoming the hero JAMES NIVEN, nged two, almost missed his fourth Transatlantic of the peasants. So far he is not championing those outside Yugo- crossing today. In Hollywood, his father, David Niven, was told the stavia or appealing for their support. Britannic sailed at 3.30 The

p.m. He still claims to be an orthodox Nivens arrived in New York by train Communist, just as Martin Luther at 9:30a.m. with hours to spare to always denied that he was a hereile, get their permit to re-enter the U.S.. but found that the Billannic smiled They raced up the But if Tito sees the peasants of a 10.30 am

other

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Balkan countries looking gangplank at 10.20 .m.

CONGRESSMEN towards him, and his own Oght | DEPUBLICAN against de Cominform becomes still are pleased with Washington's more bitter, I would not regard it. Red, spy hunt. They think it

оп mind as Impossible that he steps into the taking the public's

that they du shoes of the great peasant leader Truman's demand

Romething about the high cost of Stamboliski.

Ilving.

TRUMAN'S SUPPORTERS say the The great Bulgarian was the leader not only of the Bulgarian peasants, spy hunt sensations are somu.

but of pensants throughout South-times phoney. eastern Europe,

Much was made of the report that the spy ring got the Washington inte

of D Day. But злук

Roosevelt supplied the D Day It would be casy for Tito to begin dale to Stalin two months ahead of Yet Communists take the his agitation tomorrow. He has only time.

put eat suitable radio propaganda Red scare seriously. At their Nation in Hungarian and Bulgarian. Osten-Congress in New York they forbid

delegates. sibly it would be directed to the photographers to take pictures of Hungarian and Bulgarian minorities

Is elected President would be TF DEWEY

1 John Foster Dulles will be Secretary of State. Under a quiet agreement in Washington Secretary of State Morahall will keep Dulles informed of all moves in the Mos- will thus cow-Berlin affair. There bo no break in foreign polley whether Truman or Dewey is elected in

of £430 a year, with an overseas to offer and dollars to spend and an old, toothless man in a tattered In Yugoslavia, but it and danger allowance of £3 188, attractive New Look companioni pair of shorts--had land of his own. Hatened to by raillions outside. a day-all in dollars. As well there with whom they can spend them. are family allowances.

None of them had heard that Tildy belleve the effect in Hungary would But if they can keep this peace had resigned. But they knew Tildy be electric. But inr above salarles and our £180,000-a-day expenses will and they were sorry. Tildy was n uniforms in Count Bernadotte's finvo an even more significant

of lives in man they trusted. Yes, the Govern expenses are three American des- value than the saving troyers for constal control, 160 the Holy Land. It will

30 trailers, and the at the price.

trucks and

be cheap mont control were hard on the

peasants.

But here is M. Doldiszor asking me to come out and drink some apricot brandy. Yes, thank you,1 don't mind if I do.

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