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The Iron Curtain

Here is the first of a three-part serlės

of articles that gives a three-way perspec- tive on a Danube city behind the Iron Curtain... its outward look, its satellite undercurrent, and its little people.

The report is by ROSETTE HAR GROVE, staff member of NEA's Paris bureau, who has covered the postwar story of nearly all Europe's capital cities. CITY gay with national and Socialist red flags-beauti- ful, well-groomed women in light "new look? summer "dresses-shops filled with all sorts of merchandise crowded sidewalk restaurants and cafes bedecked with flowers and bright awnings-streets packed with buses and trolleys, taxis and private automobiles-

That was my first postwar Impression of Budapest, Qucon of the Danube: 'It was in startling contrast to the drab- ness of once scintillating Vienna. It was entirely different than I had expected to find siege. wrecked Budapest.

The second Impression was of shock at the ruin accomplished during those two months the Nazis held out ngainst Soviet armles. Not only were 300,000 persons killed, but th both Buda and Pest, on either side of the Danube, about a third of the city was destroyed. Almost every building left is marked by shell or bomb. The famous hotels Riz. Hungaria, Carlton-that once made a proud row along the Coran in Pest-are blackened skeletons.

Surface Serene

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New Budapest landmark is a monument (upper back- ground) on hill behind the Bt Gellehert Hotel.

Despite official coolness towards "foreign" broadensis, foreign papers and books are sold freely in Budapest. Here youths look over an English-language magazine featuring an article on the Marshall plan. Papers on display on this kiosk include the London Daily Graphio; Manchester Guardian and several Paris papers.

"Call yourself a speed

Cop

The Best Years Of Her Life

By NEWELL ROGERS

Now York, Sept.. 6. IFE began at 77, artistically

'speaking, for Grandma Moses. Tomorrow, on her 60th birthday, she is America's most famous woman painter.

When arthritis compelled Anne Mary Robertson Moses to give up embroidering quilis, the farmo wife in New York Sinte's Upper Hoosick Valley, who had raised ten children, taught herself to paint.

Her quaint "primitive" landscapes became

pensation. It bedroom in the family farmhouse, warmed in winter with a wood stove, is her studio.

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She says: "When I get ready to paint I just close my eyes and imagine a sceris. I never paint from nature. I can start a batch of Ave on Monday and have them finished by Saturday."

In ten years ahe, has painted 1,300 pictures which sell today for BS much as £750 aploce, "and prices are rising...

Tomorrow night there will be just a quiet family party and R birthday cake.

T THE AGE OF 84 former piano salesman John Tabér Fitzgerald

CROSS the river the Buda sky- A line is marked by ruins of the centuries-old castle, last strong- hold of the Germans. The seven bridges were blown up by the Nazis when they retreated across the river. But there is a new land- mark `now, It is the Liberation Monument, above the St. Gellebart Hotel, erected to the Soviet soldiers who fell in liberating Hungary. French

and 18 British dailles but there are all sorts of service, the dollar.), This income Includes compared with 10 Soviet.

sales and luxury taxes, which apply wages plus a family supplement Most cates have their these physical ps- Apart from

to cafes Gypsy also

and restaurants. of $1.62 a person plus living sup- bands. No less peets everything is serene on the

than 14 theatres After 10 p.m.

there is an addi- plement of $1.35 a person. Js many Im houses are tional charge of five percent for Rent takes $1,53 to $4.50a makes his debut on a baritone singer surface. in this Soviet satellite. and

plays Foreign

luxury and music, a 20. percent

tax month, clothing $7.20, heat $4.88, Thursday in New York's Town Living is closer to normal than in operating.

films are popular.

of electricity $1,08, amusements $1.44. Hess und Lotte Lehmann give re rec- and many western European countries.

ords say that 47 American, 20 about ninc cents. λ satisfying education $3.60, fares $1.35, taxes

17 Russian,· 15 br:od. French, Food is plentiful. Only sugar and flour are rationed. Prices six Danish films and one

shown from August, on rationed items are fixed, but for film were

1047, March, 1948, in addition a 15 percent premium almost un- limited additional quantities can be to Soviet, Yugoslav, French, Ameri-

can und British newsreels. had. At price, all kinds of dainties can be had vat pastry and candy shops and luxury grocery stores.

Here one can buy nylons, French

and perfumes

American beauty products on the open market. Those who have the money can get pi- cellent clothing from big stores selling ready-to-wear down to ex- clusive

specialty shops on the fashionable-Vaci-Utza;

Foreign papers and books are sold freely, not just in tourist hotels but in klosks on the

Official

an

entertainment

British, meal In a first-class

Italian costs about U.S.$6. ·

No Black Market THERE is practically no black intr- ket except in butter and cok- the economic fee, if only because police are active. Illegal in, currency are rare, since risk long prison terms.

tax

Hall,

where such ortists

as Myra

THIRTY-FIVE YEARS afler Paul"

Brumer swam the nino miles Bur- Cross Lake Champlain from lington, Vermont, he has swum it ngain, at the age of 00.

restaurant $1.08, Insurance $1.44.

Food calls Citaly. for about $33.84 à month of which $16.20 is for meat, $1.98 for bread. At Grst glance Budapest is doing $5.94 for sugar, $2.34 for rich 90 dark flour, $5.04 for well. You look in vain for outward cents for signs of the seciul revolution in potatoes, $1.44 for fot this Communist country. Then you begin to wonder who can, afford the luxurious furs, the beautiful huts and dresses.

Nothing Left

DD up thise expenses, allow a bit!

the

of

to

】EWEY'S stand for the return

of the ex-Italian colonies Italy pleases Italian-American Certainly not, the once

wealthy fer on

black market, and voters, but Negro voters are not dealings landowners and

amwid. The editor middle there's nothing left. upper they classes, who have had their

The unskilled lands

worker averges Negro newspaper, the Afroamerican, and factorics taken away with only 350 to 550 forints a month. asks him whether the favours the More than out

compensation. And certainly Most of those I saw working on exploitation of African nativts billions of not the worker.

Their condition a railway extension outside Buda- help put Italy back on her feat. during the may have Improved, but

Their пооп- even pest were in rogs. first half of last year, and Hunga- alled

consisted of a hunk of workers have little left day meal rlans -file-their- own.so U. S. after paying for necessities.

black-bread,-a-chunk-of-fat poric cigarettes have no barter value.

and a raw onion, washed

Tobacco is plentiful. no one and three-fourths cigarettes were made

For tourists, the cost of living A typical working-class family with water. is about on a par with that in with one child gets about U.S.$84.- prin- Paris, Double room in a Arst 20 (710 forints) a month. (The Tomorrow: Iran hand or cipal streets. I saw on sale 20 class hotel is about U.S.$11 a day, forint is about nine cents. 11.20 to glove?

THE REAL REAL

“HEN the fate of dynas-

"W ties, regimes, states or

TRAGEDY

TRAGEDY OF BENES

After the war Benes devoted his so alone.

down

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REDIT ΤΟ SCOTLAND from -America- for-the-first refrigerat cd trawler with a Bet over the stern. Says Columbus O. Belin, head of the Oceanographic Institu- velvet tion: "Scotland gives us the first advance in fighing methods in 30 years."

time, and Britain, would not have withhid her arms. It might also be said that the liberal forces of Czecho- from Bencs to defend their freedom slovakia were only waiting a lead

usc in

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY chooses Columbus Day, October 12, to Install another noted · Transatlantic By CHARLES WINTOUR

voyager, General Eisenhower, as its charicellor.

nations Is at stake, half-

Finally, Benes submitted,

ton high-speed liner of its own in Government to build a 50,000- measures and compromises have an efforts to securing an effective, throwing all his great influcrice into

STEAMSHIP OFFICIALS want the system of collective security based' carrying out the appeasement policy never helped, and never will."

with their Ilves. on the League, backed by a second which his allies. had forced upon

addition to the one the United It was the tragedy of Edouard line of defensive pacts to

ensure him.

But Benes was not a warrior States Lines proposes to build with Benes, the farm's son, who was the security of the Czech frontiers. "I knew we must decline to fight." statesman. He was certainly not subsidies, because, says the New elected President of the nation be Yet, despite the League, despite the he said later. "War on one front lacking in physical courage as his York Herald-Tribune,

"the Queen had helped to create, that the half- Little Entente, of which he was the would have spelt disaster." Chur- underground activities during the Mary and Queen Elizabeth may not measures and compromises, whose principal architect, despite his treaty chill pronounced the final epitaph in carly stages of the first world war be available for American futility he rtallsed so clearly, dogged with France, and his secondary the Commons: All is over. Silent, prove convincingly, He also possess another war." the fate of Czechoslovakia and her treaty with Russia, he failed to pre mournful. abandoned, broken, ed

his great optimism-witness people.

serve either the frontiers or the Czecho-Slovakia. recedes into the starting to rebuild the ruins of the HOLLYWOOD got its own post- For 17 years after the first world this was not his responsibility; the

independence of his country. But darkness.”

Czech stat: from a little suburbanmark today at last. For 14 war, surviving 10 changes of Cabinet, main burdin of gullt lay elsewhere. faced with another terrible problem. world war.

house in Gwendolen Avenue. Put-years its Chamber of Commerce AT 2,30, 5.30, ines was Foreign

Nearly ten years later Bents was nay, at the outbreak of the stond fought against having Minister ΟΙ

letters Czechoslovakia; for three years after FORCED APPEASEMENT

postmarked "Los Angeles," of which aggressor had arisen to A now tint he was President in succession

threaten the Independence of his

Hollywood is a borough, Liberator of his countrysident FOR the system of treaties which he country. And his allies, this to

had Inboured so indefatigably and within his own country, werd ugoin 'so skilfully" to secure was proof divided and weak.

Faced with the threat of a general nelther against the rapacious de No other European statesman signs of the Nazi aggressors, on the strike Bens yielded, a accond time,

tho demands and to

of force. could rival the range of his ex- one hand, nor the gullibility

the Communists to perience, and the depth of his the pacife desires of the Western allowed

power in th bloodless revolution knowledge of International affairs, world, on the other. No other statesman had such fateful Two men confront each other," since consummated by rigged elec

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He be- came President again for a further term during and after this war.

decisions to make.

first acted

resistance

an

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TOTALLY UNEMOTIONAL

seize the cornu must take the bull by stars around the

And he

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totally *

un-

emotional little man, burdened with

ARRESTED

PROVIDED theatre bookings allow, πUT ho had little humour: indeed,

Rex Harrison will appear on 1ish was unconsciously funny. Dhis most quotable remark in Eng-Broadway in Maxwell Anderson's "Anne the Thousand Days" At He once told Bruce Lockhart's son: the same time his wife, Lilli Palmer, Hd In life

comer In The Man with a Lond of Mischief."

for grund larceny, too logical mind. Perhaps his stree

A William Stone Is Accused of of the impossible was too well deve- loped for the highest wisdom and ning a new car, selling it for the boldist, most imaginative stroices £323, then stealing It and return-

ing it to the rental company. Yet his real tragedy, lay in the of statesmanship.

BROADWAY IT, "Born Yeş- strategic position of his country. A terday," rolates the trials of a. The peaceful, democratle develop

scrap-Iron dealer who Coca to Winston Churchill has suggested ment of Czechoslovakia could only

world that if Benes had resisted in 1938 take place in a secure, peaceful and Washington to organise.

Today in the French nation would have rallied prosperous Europe. No man could cartel in war scrap. to the Czech cause, the Russians rebuild a bridge, between East and Washington scrap dealers organised would certainly have followed, as West when the foundations were a Government-sponsored monopoly

to buy German steel scrap. Litvinov declared they would at the rotting away.

Hitler screamed in the Berlin Sport- During the first world war Bones palast, There is Benes, and here Was Bencs wrong to yield hh underground am I." Chamberlain, unable to frontier astonces to the Germans courler between the Mafia, the understand why Englishmen should without a shot being fired? Was he Secret

organisation in fight because of quarrel in a

attempting Gollwald without Prague which to helped to organise, far-away country between peoples wrong to submit to the menaces of

When of whom we know nothing," took "fight for überty? and Masaryk in Switzerland, arrest was imminent, he oscaped to off on his flight to the dictator: and Paris. There he organised the work the Foreign Office quipped: of the Czechoslovak National "If at first you don't succeed council, It became the nucleus of Fly, By, fly again." the Independent Czech Government The British and French represen which was formally accorded Allied tatives in Prague made it clear that recognition in 1918.

if the Czechs restated they would do.

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