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Congress Minouties

Work Nga band

Congress

Majouties

By senkrement kitu korgens signzara

REBECCA WEST SUMS UP THE REASONS · FOR THE ASTONISHING AMERICAN ELECTION FIGURES

C.V.R. THOMPSON REPORTS THE AMERICAN ́SCENE

Britain Again A 'Brave Ally

NEW YORK.

RITAIN has worked her way back to usu “brave

Bally class in cornerin.

There are still many, Americans, of course, who, as the British Ambassador, Sir. Over Franks, diplomatically puls it "hold views on Britain with which I cannot agree."

But there are more at the moment making friendly statements about Britain.

For instance, a New York newspaper, the Herald- Tribune, has gone out of its way to compliment Britain on its share in the Berlin sirlili,

New Yorkers, who had previously thought that this was an all-American show, read such statements as these:-

"Around the middle of August the British Uit was 45 percent. of the total. Currently, they are hauling a quarter of the Berlin airlift.

"Considering that our Ally has not been eating to over-indulgence or bullding mountains out of coal, this. effort was made at a real snerifice..

-"The import of this article is to make certain that n fair credit goes to a gallant Ally."

[JORRIED BY the loss of Rrilish markets, Virginia tobacco growers were assured by Washington that they need not worry. Because more American women are smoking more than ever, Washington said next year'a domestle production of cigarettes will reuch all-ume record-303,800 million of them.

Fighting-cock Truman

VERSUS

The Good Little Boy

sentative of the old América, which ruffled our wings with him. At is always young, which has the moments he was even an eagle, and cheers Jack the Giant-killer. sound primitive values. which we enjoy vicarious eaglehood.

WII he be able to handly the problems? Well Truman seems to have handled the apparently insolu- ble problem of being re-elected, when, almost nobody sald a good

when word for him, and

he-as you will learn if you have a long #1 party conversation with him in social and not political surroundings—really

Mozart party likes listening to

It was an unwise speech, for he Maybe when they saw a man who attacked the Republican Congress was assalled from every side, even at a time when it was of importanco his own, and who went on claiming to preserve national unity, and such leadership without losing a land of an attack could only be Tom Sawyer robust high spirits, manoeuvre, they had to pay tribute to his But spirit.

An

THE COMMISSIONAIRE. at Washington's only Russian "estaurant по longer wears Cossack's uniform. He complains that too many people tried to puhch his nose. His new uniform letust like that of an American marine.

A

MUSHROOM TOWN in wealthy Texas has only two streets, which it has officinity named "This Way" and "That Way."

THE MARSHALL FLAN'S Faul Hoffman got back to New York just in ume to receive a medal proclaiming him "Business man of the year from the Board of Trade,, businessman's organisation and. not a Government department.

CONGRESSIONAL witch-hunters

promise they wil soon start investigating America's universities for "Red 'dons." The big question: Will the so-called "Un-American Activities Committee"!

question General Ike, head of largest university, Columbia?. The committee will not say.

MERICA today must be covered with people lying flat on their backs with surprise, When I was sent to the party conventions în Philadelphia which this summer chose the Presidential candidates. I met many journalists from all over the United States, and I always Equally, the same sort of príml- for the House of Representatives. If one wants to savour the oddity planning a Alm come-back.... questioned them as to who they tive values have acted against There the Republicans are out and of Harry Truman to its full ano thought would be the next the little boy in the back velvet in this matter, speaking for the peo-une of the things he will not lice Dewey. What always happens to the Democrats are in. Trunian was, one must consider the fact that President. Only two of them surt with the lace celler, holding ple.

named Truman.

conquer

the first prize for good They all thought that Dewey. In his perfecty,dient hands, when would be elected, although nobody he ban trust himself to the mercy liked him.

of his rude litic schoolmatea? mvey is cutsed When

Mr Davey I asked whether people

by naluure

attributes would really vote for a raan hom with the most recognisable they did not like, I was told that of the Good Boy. Everybody with to a vesliga of the Bad Boy in his they would. It is. Impossible say that what I was told was quite beart is apt to

to resant him. wrong, for people did not seem to like Truman much. either.

a

It was

only manoeuvre? Look at the returns better than anything.

almost

will

he. about re-elec ion is that And how far he did it out of any have to go on listening to his own logical feeling or

out of pure blind intuitio. nehody will

know.

Arat.)

ever

cam-

ALL MY OWN WORK E does crazy things like planning Vinson's trip o Moscow. (Amuz

well ing, that he has done so

It shows how But the extraordinary success of spite of that episode.

The

mos9 great

of Trum n is probably to be accounted obstina cly One might, indeed, say that many for In some measure by that night- Americans will not-and the refusal people did not like Trum n at all: mare of every election agent-over- very natural-put foreign affairs that they regarded him as a tedious confidence in a popular candidate.

most Yet the wisest and AL with a talent for

A Isto

the lite mediocrity

hour

gures peteat officers of his Government putting his foot in it.

showed that under 50 percent of pete

even admire him Yes, the election news must be the electorate had troubled to go to like him and

They say that once they put really awful for many people in the the polls..

problem betore him right side up. United States.

The result of the straw vote he can handle it with extreme in- MISS SNOOKS

taken before the poll, which showed tellectual competence and remark- T-la-like whiat-would-ariso in an clear_victory for Dewey, suggests able courage.. This winter Miss Snooks, thut many of the yo

hom: (or went to the dowdy little girl whom every stayed. at body had snubbed, suddenly mar purty) were Dowey supporters who candidate that their Inndowner

sure of the were ried the great district. A lot of people who never would be elected, anyway.

asked her to their parties wonder TRUMAN GRINNED

miserably whether she will them to hers.

for

nsk

composition, the Missouri Waliz. It is played wherever he goes." But he does not like to hear it so often

For the odd Mr Truman is among other things a sound and sensitive

musician.

America's

HOW BUSINESS: Alice Faye is:

Leugen MacGrath, of the New York n." is company of "Edward, My Son," turning down long-term Hollywood offers because she does

think. she is pretty enough. Marx of the Brothers, will provincial music-halls in Britain Harold Keci, from ext year..

d

Chico

tour

the London company of "Oklahoma," is to klar opposite Greer Garcon in her next film.

Politics for tiny tots is Stalin's nursery plan

יך

W

.He He must never be late.. THAT. young Ivan-learns

when he goes to school is must not use bad language, amoko, must sit ereal during lessons.....He

no Iron Curtain secret. It is or gamble....and many others that

room.

..

But Ivan learni

rni many things which seem strange.

He learns. for instance,

that

The trouble is that this extra-set out in a 200,000-word well- could easily hang in any other class-

Truman thumbed manual which rests on ordinary triumph-which can quite accurately describe in the the bookshelf of every Soviet worda “all my own work"-is certain school teacher. to exaggerate his prime fault of

Two American research workers Soviet Russia is "the largest, relying on his own judgment and

have just finished translating it in- richest, most powerful, and most ignoring his advisers.

to English. It is the officially ap advanced country in the world." But

nearly 40.000.000 youngsters the book only 150 words about Allied proved guide-book of learning for He learns in his latest history training text-book of the Soviet effort in World War IL ("The Great Patriotic War")...no mention of Lease-Lend, the battle for control of the seas.

Western or the

bombing

Nobody who heard him make his assis ant Secretary of State, Robert kindergarten-Ivan

box at Philadelphia to All the bill. astounding acceptance speech when

nominated They

Democratic had reason,

candid 12

doubt, 12 could They themselves had so persist-

qualities. ently blackguarded Truman ever be

we all were, dend since he took over after Roosevelt's

he

was

ever

hardly had

the

came

BWLD.

too,

to

Ministry of Education.

From the age of three

he - when

COCS

be- by JAMES gins to learn the care-

BARTLETT lessona fully planned which will make him

of Germany.

The teachers textbook "We proved to be

says:

ine only Power capable, not only of halting the dark surge of Fascia, but also of indicting on it a decisivo- and fatal defeat."

of

if Truman goes back to the Harry Truman has been insulted THE fact about Troy, reis, White House Marshall will stay, and

is not a mediocrity. by everybody. The Democratic

He is a coherent and continuous policy Party machine sought so desper tely on the contr ry, a very odd person can be pursued in Europe, with no to replace him os ludced; and he can draw on power fear of a house-moving and general a substitute their candidate

that I would not which the casual obferver would

post of personnel. If Truman goes had never suspect. have been surprised if they

back to the White House Marshall's picked a reporter out of the press

will stay and he Ls O hid man as may be found in

any. Government today.

will the

of Into a good Russian citizen. So,

Secretary

He begins learning politics. The tired Defence, James Forrestal, for whom death that it was no wonder they after 16 hours in a hall where the the Communis a have cooked up a textbook says that the idea of a of politica face to

present him temperature was a hundred degrees, tormidable unpopularity, but who is school standing outside

He learns that he cannot, go." to the public as a worthy candid to. wet with sweat, hungry, thirty an able, grani e-h

e-hard man,

It is is "a hypocritical llo." and feverishly Irritable with Rispense

be Tvan's carly years are looked on wrong if he follows the example of As for the American press, particularly

true that the ground will not the columnists who and the boredom of a highly for-

clear of the debris left by the as the most important because-as

wander the careful. In-

Above all, exert so much influence on public malised procedure.

of administration President the book says the basle habits of in and

and lax

DI The little man

the 200,000-word opinion), they allowed themselves a

This will be to many socialist ilfe are formed during this struction Roosevelt.

manual, little Ivan is made to feel We know remarkable freedom of expression grinned at the

oudience.

that his school-work is serious to "Order and dis- regarding their President. While as that he was grinning at the Party Americans a discouraging aspect of period.

THE HABITS?

an extent beyond anything known. for private persons, I w.s otten machine, which had done its besta Truman victory.

THORNY PROBLEMS cipline....Friendship and comrade- in

rest of

world. surprised, by the intensity of the to oust him because he

more ship among children....Love of our The American translators (a pro- dislike with which they regarded sufficiently a person, and all the TF Truman is safely back,

here he was, the same,

nominated him.

over, there will be a great deal great Motherland, of the Communist fessor and a woman research assis

of the leaders of the lant, both of Columbia University) I can think of two Prime Minis- candidate.

of very tricky work for him to do. Party,

up the book by saying: in He will have to repeal the faft people....Love of and respect for Then there were some more

IT 18 building two great myths. Romething comparable; but their

tribu e which had made by Republican legislators torlars." period of disfavour began after in a foral

* they had left office. There would looked innocent enough disgorging deal with the vexatious strike

infiltration all the Communist

of

unions. have been no question

their some highly superfluous doves of

There is an

civil the hall.

thornler even under holding ofce,

Dur mare over

But while he is learning politics Truman has pledged We got more and more flatly, rights, issue. merciful constitution, if they had

wetly evhausted.

to young Ivan is learning his manners, himself to introduce legislation excited such dislike:

too. There are 20 rules which hu And then Truman fetched us out abolish various forms of discrimina-

oratorical achievement such as I negroes are the most Important. who told me that Truman have heard bettered in terms of The Thurmond vole, not so large

came from pro- prose, but never in might be elected

-in offcct on on as was expected, Is large enough to columns audience. 7.20 & 9.20 P.M. | vincli! towns, and their

show how difficult it will be to in- were hot syndicated in New York. Harry Truman

was a lighting cock, duce the South to abolish segrega- ar: Washington: They were repre- and we strutted and pecked and tion." NANCY Let's Face It

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GIANT-KILLER ME of our

and and

sum

the

the

In the minds of young Russians- one about themselves and the other about the outside world.

IT IS building a "perfectly fan- tastic loyalty to Stalin and Communist Party."

Ir 18 stressing the Importance

school to university.

the

AT 2.30. 5.20.17HE.. two American Journalists un sca's with a superb speech tow against minorities, of which the flearns are the duties of every boy military preparation from nursery-

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HE WANT TO

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