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HAS ITS EFFECT ON GILES

"Don't think I'm an alarmist, but once they start muching about having "frontier incidents' you can usually say to yourself, 'Lily, me girl, you've had it."

R. M. MacColl Mr. Fleming

pays a

return

visit to the heart of America's

wheat belt

celebrates the boom

SEFTON DELMER'S

NEWS MAP

I hope Moscow is

a New Deal for diplomats

London, Aug. 23.

Moscow talks have done an enormous

relation to ours. ***

NLY now after three service-even if they end in failure. Most of my 20 years as a newB- weeks of talks has the paper reporter have been spent in public been allowed a foreign countries in the study of glimpse of what has been going foreign peoples and their affairs in on in Moscow.

My work has constantly brouglat Even this peep at the cards me in contact with members of our has been given only because foreign service as far as the abili- the Russians decided the noge. ty and integrity of its personnel are tiations had broken down, and concerned, I say our foreign service

is the best in the world. began putting out their version In the Soviet-controlled Berlin

The danger : radio and newspapers.

bave noticed dangerous symptoms of

years.

Until then it was secret BUT, in all frankness. I diplomacy at its topmost secret. deterioration during the last three Reporters were kept icily at a distance. The world public was If this deterioration is allowed to not allowed to hear so much as continue and I hope the new trend n whisper of what was being shows that it is not-it may well discussed. And that although in our political armoury to Impo- reduce this most important weapon the future life and happiness of tence. hundreds of millions of citizens Mr Bevin's fear of offending the may depend on these discus- Left-wingers of his party has had a direct effect on the members of Blong.

the foreign service. It worked out Do I disapprove of this in different ways. secrecy? On the contrary, I years ago I to have the men if I want to get "How will you vole for President welcome it.

In November?" visited Farmer George the house built."

If theso negotiations have Coyote skins hang on the walls in Fleming in the heart of the old house; a mute testimony to "Probably for Truman." (Thin is broken down and that is how America's wheat belt to see the changes of fortune_possible in surprising. for Nebraska is a rock-things look to me-it is not how life was treating him and this strange, swirling America. For ribbed Republican State. But since because we did not adopt the nature treating the harvest. 15 years ago, during the great de- I last saw him Farmer George has kind of offen diplomacy we

pression. Farmer George was forced been elected county

SIDNEY, Nebraska.

UST two

commissioner

to pad his meagre income by shoot on a Democratic "licket.")..

not a Government ing coyoles bounty on their skins. He Gmiles In the evening we drove back to tolerantly at the thought today.

town from the farm and dropped Farmer

not in at a local club. George is envied

The barman only architecturally for his

new told us that "Every Saturday right house,

but alan technically for its now I serve more drinks then last

Implements, farm

He has New Year's Eve. I'm plumb wore new succeeded in

brand-new a

Out," Canadian

giant 16-footer, one of the first to be sold south of the border.

Bine,

Slot machines stood massed, al-

Thanks to the world food shortage, coupled with the C vertiginous boom in America, life then was treating Farmer George with great solicitude.

How now? What is George Fleming-prototype of the men who this year have harvested

though gambling is frowned on by yet another of America's fan-

He bought this for about £1,250 the ante. There was an elaborate tastic bumper crops (official "List price, that is. Those Canadian new "three-way" slot machine big estimate 1,289 million bushels fellows don't seem to fool with as

radio-gramophone. Its of wheat)-saying and thinking black market stuff and next day "jackpot" is £18. of his own life and of the received an offer of £1,800 for it.,

Jackpot last week-end, and a queue dimly realised world beyond?

Car premiums of others lining up with their silver dollars and half dollars to have a

Dws so long it interfered the dancers in the next room.

Farmer George and the

A new

thousands of other American H has also got

lorry and a de luxo American

Farmer Georges have still “got

Three lucky

gamblers hit the

with

went in for at the Paris peace conference of 1916.

There the delegates preferred to harangue the public gallery instead of bargaining and com- promising-as they might have done had the negotiations been private. They publicly took up positions from which they could not withdraw without loss of prestige.

The Moscow talks of 1947 were not much better.

}

One was this, Socialist M.Ps went travelling abroad. They visited the Iron Curtain countries. They came back with bitter Communist-inspired reproaches for our envoys there and secured them of being reactionaries incapable of understanding the pro- gressive regimes set up in these

Countries.

One after another, our ambassa- dors, Ministers, and heads of mds- slons in these Iron Curtain States were removed from their posts and Bent elsewhere."

I don't think it is surprising in the circumstances that already there are some British diplomate careful their social conduct, their despatches, ing to what they bellovo will be and their proposals of action acconi- politically most pleasing at home.

of their careers who are framing

An example.

True, there was no gallery. None Iron Curtain capital I found the successor of a removed "re- The Press was excluded from actionary had ordered his staff to the debates. But instead each avoid all contact with members of farm

delegation had public relations the country's anti-Communist op- officers in attendance who gave position.

Ав a consequence, in that particu- arophead coupe for his own use.

us reportera a verbatira of

lar capital Britain has been losing In America, feverish and

the information which the opposition dwindled elsewhere

perhaps ephemeral So that again the conference be- could give them. The Foreign Office, here in the whent belt they

boom of unspoken fear of another came a hustings. No delegate Mr Bovin, and the Cabinet have staggering.

war, I am carrying back with me

complete picture. been getting an unnecessarily in- out his indigestion showing.

it good"-unbelievably good. Although new car premiums have But from this background of what each Minister had said.

Farmer George has decided

are

cays

to leave the comfortable, but well, we want the cars," isolated, farmhouse where he Farmer George. "Our mortgages one piece of good and significant was able to eat his words with-

MAJESTIC 7.20 6 9.20 m. one of the

are all paid up. We've bought plenty

news.

of Government bonds like they Agricultural experts have long deadly asked us to. We don't owe nobody heen alarmed about the nothing. The banks are bursting, effects on American—and world-

th

economy of soil erosion.

comes along..en

away,

and his wife have lived for most of their 25 years of married life. They are moving Into the heart of Sidney itself.

with our money.

So when a fellow. They are building a new and offers us fine-looking new cars If man's AT 2.30, 5.20, house — an unusual house, for £250 more than list price we not curbed,

unique in Nebraska. For it is pay it and no questions asked. Why pour Into 7.20 & 9.20 p.m. one of the newish Californian not?"

Farmer George owns 2,400 acres School of Architecture bunga-

His harvest this year WHERE MEN OF

lows, deceptively simple, with is 25,000 bushels, a drop compared outflung wings and lots of with the last two years because of HONOUR HAVE TO

glass and a low-walled court. spring hailstorms. yard at the back. LIEI CHEATI÷KILLI

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Cabhay

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estimated The price? An £20,000. "But," says Farmer George, with a deceptive simplicity matching that of his bungalow, "I don't figure that's

able

Extravagant? No!.

of wheat

But he has 10,000 bushels carried aver from last year; and at just under 103. a bushel current price that represents uhout £4,500.

Farmer George, in short, is sitting protty, or so it seems.

Prices up

NY complaints?

Thero

nearly 15s.

藕

bushel.

abuse of the land is America's feruity may the sea or just blow

Crop rotation

Precision

And by this tacit acknowledge- ment that any association with op- postilonists is unfriendly to the Government, our liberty of political WELCOME one other depar action in this country is badly cur-

talled. ture from the previous ten-Once our diplomats are freed from dencies of our postwar dip dependence on domestle politics, and lomacy shown in the technique have their confidence restored as of these Moscow discussions. non-political agents of the Crown, the next task will be to set about At Potsdam, just after the modernising the conduct of our dip- Socialist victory in 1945, our lomatic warfare.

At present there seems to me to UT the news about soil erosion in politicians were so anxious to

The recent Danubo Conference is Nebraska is encouraging. Ninety bring, home, agreement that be 'n woeful lack of planning ahead. percent of Nebraska farmers are they were ready to accept vagile, a case in Pous months ago that. working systematically and volun- ambiguous phraseology, capable tarily to conserve their Per Western of being interpreted one way the ordinary sense in Belgrade, that Nebraska they have planted 50,000 by the Russians and another the Soviet with a majority of seven trees as "windbreaks" in the past way by ourselves. 18 months. And this re- afforestation will continue.

In the 11 wheat counties of

Tho

then

It was

would be no negotiations in

to three would yield on no point..

An opportunity Now in these circumstances

should have borrowed a leaf out of the Communist book,

we

They adopted the let-sleeping- soil must light candy

be dogs-lie policy, and preferred to an extravagance. If I waited

Oddly enough, bound to mother earth

with tree count on goodwill rather than till times were bad, it would A yes Wheat prices are down. roots and sufficient moisture. And on good drafting. take two or three crops to be only lost January wheat was they have borrowed from Britain

Our delegates should have treated the house, fetching

At Moscow this time we are in- to pay for

sisting in precision, even if it means the conference purely as a sounding. Now, with the good times, I Farmer George has to pay his hired the age-old idea of crop rotation.

hands three times as much

Until recently

board for polliical propaganda, its the earth was that no agreement is reached. can build it with one crop."

before. And prices of all farm worked to exhaustion and

resonance to be augmented by the machinery have doubled.

left to die and blow away.

The Russians put up a short dratt transmitters of the B.D.C.

There was enough political dyna couched in the vague generalities of

nd the Balkans to is undoubtedly Vogue Now most farmors practise care their best Potsdamése. The Wes- mile lying around the about the future, an im- ful rotation, and improved harvest- terners took a look at it, then put make Mr Vishlasky rue the day he SPECIAL stonemasons have malaise

palpable feeling that it is all too ing methods mean that, even with up their own draft. This was a went to Belgrade. bcen imported from good to last. But Farmer George wheutЛlelds lying fallow one year much longer document, and proposed But Sir Charles Peako and Mr Denver, 160 miles away, to in stouthearted and I do not think out of every two or three, they still in precise detail exactly how each of Cavendish Cannon, the equally able

werd Ambassador, can contrive these huge harvesis

instructed to chisel the rod Colorado stone. he is losing much sleep about it.

the controversial issues should be U.S. seitled. No legalistic loopholes treat the conference as a bricklayers

routine. Seven

were The Marshall plan?

Most Nebraska farmers, too, have were left for future misunderstand diplomatic conference. They scored "The help wo Bro_giving them brought in from Denver, too,

given up the bad practice of putting

ings and disagreements.

a couple of ment drawing-room roverts back here in a match to a field of stubble after as the local

were busy. over there

It will be a great thing if this cracks here and there, plus a legal They arrived in brand-new higher income tax for us, but no the harvest. The stubble, Instead,

change in technique at Moscow is quibble or two. body knows anything about their carefully ploughed under as o

I believe it may be. as significant on I Cadillacs, and Farmer George Marshall plan nor over talks about form of self-fertiliser.

But that did not prevent their For, it marks the end of our has cheerfully been paying it."

loud-mouthed, tabla defeated in what could have

a great victory. Other parts of America will have postwar era of

These Moscow, talks, whatever the their board and lodging in

worst thumping incoherence combined, with "Guess most everybody thinks to follow suit

But pusillanimous appeasement of our their result, are ushering in a new amateur Left-wing diplomatists, and phase in our relations with Russia. I hope they are also going to the return to sober professionallan.. in our diplomacy, then, indeed, these 'mean a new deal for our diplomacy.

men

War?

7.30 & 9.30 p.m. Sidney while they work for hint there's likelihood of it and some predictions are to be avoided.

(at £1 per hour per man). are quite worried. Looks like wa with energy and good. will this vast "No, I don't figure that's an ex- may have to turn to and lick them and last tragedy of the American

land can be averted. travagance either," he says, "Got Roosians before we're through."

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