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PREISSER ANN ROONEY WARREN MILLS FRANKIE DARRO' CHARLIE BARNETT CHUY, REYES

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1949.

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C.V.R. THOMPSON REPORTS THE AMERICAN SCENE

EVERY MAN

A

A KING

NEW YORK. DYING American's attempt to clear his name gave a fine example of how similar and also how different America and Britain are. For months now James Schaffner, a G. I. sentenced to three years for desertion while serving in England, has been trying to get his name cleared by the usuaÍ methods.

Then doctors warned him that he was so I he could no! live six months.

Schaffner looked for more desperate methods. With a lawyer's help he found that a legal precedent America inherited with Britain's system of laiv had,never been struck, out of American law books. It enabled the citizen to make a Potition of Right to the King.

His lawyer then made this unusual point: "I America

every man ja a king. And” so the royal prerogative under this Inw reats finally and ultimately in the American people."

Schaffner is therefore presenting Petition of Right "the people of the United States" asking for a chance to clear his name. The petition will eventually be sent to President Truman those people.

as representative

of

AS IF HOLLYWOOD has not enough trouble getting paving customers for its films these days, it is now competing right at home with snow-real. not cotton: wool and sugar. People walked out of the cinemas when they heard snow was falling for the first time in 30: years, and they have not been back.

grent

They are riding all over the town with snowmen on the roofs of their wars. They are staying up all night pelting each other's houses with snowballs. And as for the children, the schools have closed down to enable them to have fun while they may.

SOVIETS MARSHAL FORCES

FOR SHOWDOWN WITH TITO

By LEON DENNEN

TALIAN labour circles in agent himselt, Tito, in the view of

close contact with Yugoslav situation

the persons who have recently been in

fear personal contact with him, will not that the seething Balkan pow- period of hesitation he now realises be caught off-guard. After a brief

der keg again.

is about to explode that as far as the Kremlin is con- cerned he has burned all his bridges behind him.

A Soviet-engineered coup d'etat against the "Red Rebel," Marshal Tito is now gently preparing his Tito, is imminent, they believe, and followers not only for a political both sides are

but also for a marshalling troops break with Stalinism. As yet, to be complete idéological and secret police for the showdown sure, he has shown no sign that he

The Tito threat" was the sub- ject of prolonged discussion

wishes to at o

be reconciled with the special meeting of the Cominform been making overtures to Italian "capitalist" West. However, he has held recently Sofia after the Socialists, whom he hitherto re- Bulgarian Communist

Congress.

nt

Among those present, in addition garded as the "agents of capitalist tepresentatives from the Cominunist imperialism." parties of Great Britain, France, Italy and the satellite countries, were the A broad hint that Tito may use Russion Secretary of the Comin. the Marxist but violently anti-Com- forn, Yudin, as well as the Soviet munist Social Democrats as a back General Sidor Artemovich Kovpak door to the West was contained in his and

the leader of the anti-Tito New Year's broadcast to the people faction in Trieste, Vittorio Vidali. of Yugoslavia in which he derided

Kovpak, 56- year-old partisan fighter and mili- tary confidant of Stalin, is an old hand at Balkon fighting.

Vidali, LIVIOT _the_allas_of_Spr- menti. was, uctive during the last war as Moscow's agent in the United States and Mexico. He is guid to have been the man who en- gineered ihe nssassinations of

Leon Trotsky · and

their

The author of this exclusive dispatch bas interpreted Com- munist alms In Europe with uncanny accuracy. His dispatch from Party reporting a spili in the Politburo received confrma- iton from President Truman. < report that Moscow had ordered ́

end to the French miners' strike was confirmed by events. fis report from Rome of an im pending Russian effort to unseat the rebel Red, Tito, is based

equally rellable sourcca,

30

On

orthodox

the political theory that "the end Justifies the mcons."

"Great things." he said, "enn never be built by foul means and in a alchonest way

Although

for

new

Tito. this theory has been

preached by Social Democrats

"Red Rebel" battleground: The fuse of a Cominform-Tllo show- dowa spullers inside Yugoslavia as Red agents try to upsel Tilo from within. On the frouliers, Hungarian and Bulgarian troops" (1 and 2) bave been reinforced and pro-Tito Communists are being purged in Albania (3) by Soviet axe-man General Kovpak,

ALTHOUGH

Americans have bought 12,000 British-made cars- In six months, Sir Patrick Hennessy. director of the British Ford Com- pany, is not convinced that they are entirely ready yet for the British- style small cor. They are a little slow, he said, after an Inspection tour. in becoming accustomed to the smaller animals in the car Kingdom. They are using an elephant when a squirrel will do the job,

TH

THE WIVES of, 80 American uni-

versity presidents met in New York

to discuss how to be a good

wife for a university president, Their decision, as expressed in the slogan adopted by their meeting- alle must dress in húste with chaste taste and no waste.

CHOW BUSINESS: Múton Berle,

the Arst big star made by Aelevision in America, has won frem radio's Bob Hope the plum job of the year-compere at the radio correspondents' dinner to President Trumati.. Hollywood has snap-

Margaret up

Piulitps, West End actress who became a

ped

the

Greta

Broadway star overnight. Garbo is taking advantage of the

slump to buy up Hollywood property- wholesale The Sadler's Wells ballet company will give a Broad- way seuson next year.... It is an open secret that Laurenco Olivier has won Hollywood's actor- of-the-year award for "Harrilet."

THE COMRADES GIVE

THE GAME AWAY.

OMMUNISTS should either

CommShould either

ever But not both. For when they since the Bolshevi- do they give the game away too

ki seized power in

Russia by violenen blatantly.

and represents F sharp break with Leninist-Stalinist thinking

like all fanatical Communists, must

Consider the case of Mr Harry Pollitt.

the

BY W. J. BROWN, MP.

·

The Communist State, in which which the trode unions aru to. the workers have been freed from work. He says: "capitalist slavery" and exploitation

not permit docx

cluzens who

"The management, with the Carlo Tresca.

of Vidali is a bitter personal too of Tito.

the director at its head, lead the factory disagree with the policy

to irot around

Europi Recently Mr Pollitt, published, in State

in accordance with the rule that A leading Italian Socialist familiar Britain,

the State and

it is the only power in the enterprise policy article entitled The abusing both an Immediately after the Sofia meet- with Yugoslay events told me: Tito, Communist Party and the Trado alike. But the decadent democracies

In question. It le responsible for the West. ing. Cominform agents Increased

Unions.

where defined

capitalist tehole work of the factory, for the In it he

the of pressure to upset the Tito

learn the hard way. His conversion position of the Communist Party in tryannies still flourish, positively fulfilment of the plan, and for the regime from within. At the same to Social Democracy will not resur- relation to trade unions, briefly, facilitate such, conduct on the part working conditions of the workers

of their citizens. and

So Harry went to thousands of men

to employed," and thus: the Bulgarian rett the

of opposed to Warsaw with party

were by pro-Cominform wome

Inform women he destroyed ruthlessly in the Sp

up of

a passport the Workers:

under the

of Mr Bevin. Yugoslav

Note well-it is the only power. and Macedonian

oning name of the theory which

authority he лож

to longer hours: Irredentists, were held in readiness deplores.

whose foreign policy, it is one of Not one of two-management and the Yugoslav frontiers while on the surface at least, he now rejects taking Marshall Aid froin America: Harry's principal objects in life workers, not one of three-manage-

to thwart, and General Kovpak, their commander- violence represents a significant step but in

with foreign ment, workers and consumers. But favour of reduced prices, to in-chief, went to Albania to partici- forward."

Increased

the only power. The "whole work currency shorter hours;

presumably authorised wages,

by the Treasury pate in a large-scale purge of pro-

of the capitalist of the factory" the "fulfilment. and permanent no weather ex- Tilo Communists.

State which Harry is pledged to of the plan," and the "conditions: The quarrel between Tito and cept for capitalist lickspitiles, `sorial astroy. But this is by the way.

of the workers employed" are withdrawn from the

sphero of Fascists and hyenas.

time,

Troops, Nors

Hungarian

from

on

Nevertheless, the fact that, to increased output;

Stalin has its humorous side. Shortly

the

3

• •

trade union zetivity.

Count Carlo Sforza, Itallan For before his break with the Cominform, It was a fine programine, cal- elen Minister, recently occused Tho signed a contract with Czecho-culated to appeal to all-and their N Poland the Communists, having It might be observed that, with Bulgarla and Hungary of violating slovakia for coke. After the break. number is considerable-who think seized

power, do not have these withdmwn there is nothing the peace treaty Hmitations for thier the Czechs refused to deliver. After that the world owes them a living to Aatter or appease the trade left for the unions to do. For

Dwe that they armed forces. Despite official satellite prolonged negotiations, the Czechs, but

world unions and the toiling masses, as these consultufe pretty well tho denials, observers arriving in Rome beset by their own economic trou- nothing at all.

Harry flatters and plays up to whole field of activity of trado Sofia. report increased Bulgarian bles, consented to ship the coke to

them More recently Mr Pollitt was

in Britain. In Poland the unions in Britain and other enslaved ́ Troop activity The Yugosiny

capitalist states. Yugoslavia--at prices double those one of the honoured guests at the party just "tells them." border. -Likewise, the Hungerlan

asked. Tilo's

of tlie ngents Unity Conference in Warsaw called Thus, Mr Kole, the head

Mr Kole does not merely indi- border with Yugoslavia is now being originally

to "merge" the Communist and econom'e department of the Central reinforced with substantial numbers approached the Geneva office of the Socialist parties of Poland. There, Committee of the Polish Communicate what the unions shall not do,. of regular and N.K.V.D. troops under European Economic Mission of the while Mr Pollitt applauded, the Party, also, like Pollitt, published but also what they must do.

United Nations which immediately Communists "merged" with tho an article.. And, like Harry's, it "It is the duty of the party cell supplied Yugoslavia with coke from Socialists very much us I "merge." dealt with the Communist Party and in the factory to strengthen tho

13 what Reports from Yugoslavia indicate, Belgium and the Ruhr at one-third when I am not fasting, with my the trade unions. But there that position and authority of the

the might be described as

sublio

bile management, and to emphasise the Tilo is prepaing to meet the attack, the price demanded by Czecho- breakfast. Than he abused

British Government as a collection difference of emphasis between basic rule of a single power: govern- The purge · of pro-Cominform slovakia. The Czechs then accused,

of war-mongers, and as having sold what Harry suid

and what Mr ing the enterprise.” elements in Yugoslavia exceeds even the European Economic Mision of the interests of the working masses Kole Bays. Mr Kole beging bv the satellite countries. An ex-Soviet "sharp capitalist practices."

to the capitalists.

defining the backgrounek against

Soviet officers:

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