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Continuing her tour of Germany, Rebecca Wost looks back at Berlin

RUSSIA OVER

CHEATED

BERLIN E

WISH I were back in Berlin and could hear how the results of the Paris conference were received by all the folks who have been toughened by beleaguerment în that city.

British.

on

π

American, French This is particularly hard and. Germans alike, they will Berlin, because it contalus snort and wait for resulta. very large proportion of the

workers who most dread unem ployment--widows with. chil

Berlin is a perfect place for Russians

make pounds worth of trouble without spend- ing a penny above ordinary working expenses.

If Moscow

really folds is hands and renounces that op- portunity for mischief, then we rently are entering into a new phase, and there is fresh hope for Europe,

But the Berliners will take a lot of convincing.

FOR

Got The Goods

OR the proceedings of the

Russians in Berlin

have

been disingenuous to a degree which is not realised outside Germany.

They were supposed to have lifted the blockade on May 12.

They agreed to do so, and put up a show as if they were lift- ing it.

the

Thus they persuaded British and the Americans and the French to raise the counter- blockade, which prevented any goods Going from the Western Zone into the Eastern Zone at any point, and had been so suc- cessful that the Eastern Zone) was on the brink, of economic collapse.

They got the goods, and they saved themselves from adminis trative disaster.

Prolonged Strike THEN they proceeded to cheat on the blockade. They were able to do this because of the railway strikes.

They

dren.

some have

to

were are

by the Russians, and though.

been returned their families after an agonising space of silence, others never heard of again and understood to have been sent either to the mines or to centration camps.

Also, the Russians insist on

con-

sector in their unsound cur

oll paylag who work in their reney, which is worth a quarter Eighty-six percent

of the Allies' currency, and this of the puts those of them who live in population voted in the election the other sectors in an appal- committing Berlin against Com- ling economic position. munism and for the Allies, and over 60 percent of these were women.

They Hate

THEY had two strong motives for making that cholce. The first and most Important la the hatred which Russian, autliority provokes In every German who falls under its shadow. stans to residents in their see

When you speak of the Rus-

tor, they uller spontaneous squeals.

More than 3,000 people are known to have been kidnapped

Clay as if he were one of the Three Musketeers; it amuses them that Sir Brian Robertson does the same sort of thing, but more gently, in sepia tones.

On their side the Allies take great pleasure in Neumann, the great rock of a man who more Berliners to make their choice than anyone else persuaded the

and the Mayor of Berlin, Dr Ernst Reuter,

And every Allled soldier and official greatly likes the Berlin

They

The Battle Of The Pound The London Crisis

M

Explained

By D. T. Roberts

12

*ILLIONS of pounds only been allowed to go on by are being knocked off kind permission of Washington. the value of British American manufacturers could While business was good, and. "gilt-edged" Government cell as much as they produced, stock on the London ex- there Was Do objection change. Colonial producers to keep out American manufac- Britain organising world trade of raw materials such as tin turers as far as possible.. and hides, usually in de- mand, are suddenly finding The United

But now times have changed, buyers from the United lars abroad as Marshall

States senda dol- Aid, States no longer looking her business-men want to tell their-way.

their goods for those dollars- and sell them where they please.

The Gold reserves of Britain and the Common- wealth countries, normally held in London, are dropping

to danger point and past SEVERAL stages of the storm ít. Commonwealth Finance rumours that Britain "for

Jare obvious. First came Ministers are meeting in own good" would. lower the sterling capital.

value of the £ so that

her

the

sho

could export more to the United At the risk of being over. States at lower prices

Thea taken by the immensely com came a double attack on the plicated avalanche of financial United States, American stores strength of sterling. In the events, this article attempts to and distributors suddenly drop- explain what is the cause, and what the kind, of this financial ped, two months ago, ordering Beltish ears, leather goods, and even

crisis.

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Scotch, In Malaya doubts were cast on-the-futura of tln purchases by the US. In West Afrien dollar-carning chances. BEFORE turning to detalls, It turned dismal. It is hard to say

In worth

that this was a plot to force a emphasising that been ever since the war thero

crisis lending to the devaluation has hidden conflict between the chance for Americans to buy of sterling and so, In the end, to the British and the

American these

goods way of planning world trade.

more cheaply. Americans have attacked Im- tion naturally started the habit Instead, the rumour of devalun- perial Preferance, Britain has

tal difference of interest

kas been discreet and obscure. Will-

man and woman in the street, been struggling to keep Prince of holding back buying in the

their coldly unscrupulous deal-

financial But the Russians have driven Sterling in the field alongside hope that the great a wedge into this king

would chango by King Dollar,

drive better American bargains without more While the cold war with the effort. ings over the strike.

Soviet Union has been are doing everything perous, news of this fundamen- dan- tween they can to EDW mistrust be-)

the strikers and the Allied Military Government.

The position does not suggest that we have any reason 10 IN the meantime the fussings take a rosy view of the future. But it is also well to remem are wanking an attack on the ber that Russia is fighting this other fact which makes Berliners stand with the Alles n vast failure.

the cold and petty war to cover up and that is their strong mutual

king.

Mutual Liking

the

In Berlin there is a state re- sembling war, and one Ands the sense of unlly and com- compensations of war. radeship which is one of

The Germans delight in the Allied generala.

They talked of the plc- turesque serenity of General

out being able to pinpoint the NEXT came Crescendo at expet links between causo and American demanda and would say that the American complaints about how effect, I taken in Anglo-American rela- tered. One momentary dangerous turn Marshall Aid is being adminis- tions follows directly from the Americans should buy no more demand was that signs of a "Live and lot live" wheat in Canada for distribu- She has to keep her end up policy. Mr Vyshimky showed in tion to Europe while the cash in Berlin, because all round the

Paris recently.

could capital, all over the

go to middle-western US farmers. Next tobacco manu- Russlan

Now to the details of this facturers claimed their exporis zone, she has created a desert of poverty and misery,

damaging crisis: to explain should be propped up by Mar- We should not minimise Rus-them we should turn bacic to the shall Aid purchases for Britain

slom cone" in and Europe. sin's power to make mischief. last, "year of

1947, Then, Britain We should not exaggerate her what was called the

Guffered "conver strength.

tibility criais." Sho promised, under the agreement Washington that if a crisis came for the post-war American loan, Sir Stafford Cripps would have to allow foreign countries that to cut off even more British had debts .owed them in purchases in the dollar area, sterling (on their current counts) to demand payment in dollars.

-~-{London Express Service)

Buttons And Beaux-And The

One That Guided Them Home

NE of the most eagerly. sought buttons of the collector is the button- compass of the Royal Air Force-easily the best-kept secret of the war.

·

Among the aircrews'

-By-

J. W. TAYLOR

that rats were cating them by the thousands in the Liverpool warehouses.

From the British side of the had Atlantic hints were heard in

"What are we paying good American money for?" came the reply from Congress. Over the Because of the rush of weeks the crisis deepened. Λ debtors demandlig dollars the sideshow at the little watering Chancellor of the Exchequer, place of Annecy in the South then Mr Dalton, went back on of France put the 'whole. this promise.

altair into

economists and Tho

diplomats language "Britain, following day," British Treasury put out a most multilateral trade in the In- the while undertaking to develop optimistic statement. It frank- ferests of increasing

world

ly admitted that the plan was trade, is unable to agree to cer-

take Preference. These

the

quota and price

werd use of a pollte undertones of the Anglo-

American crista.

BUTTON-COLLECTING can to build up a powerful starling tain requested reductions in

be traced as far back as area within which a tremendous It is said that our present-day Louis XIV, who spent more, than volume of trade would oleove button dates from the million pounds on his collec-place without the time of Frederick the Great. He tion. We gave £3,500 for

two single. .dollar, sign. was annoyed at the habit of the diamond buttons and more than They prolonged this dispute tunic buttons Way a Palace Guards in using their 22,000 for a set of 75 similar On the fringes, as it were," because it sulted their purpose. special. one which looked sleeve jackets for handkerchiefs, dollars, have been paid in

-OLICS. Several thousands of the trade between the sterling Meanwhile the

counter like the rest but wasn't. It and ordered buttons to be sewn

the and the dollar would be con- blockade had been honestly lift-

on the cuffs.

States for a chest of buttons ducted at the standard rata - of ed and goods were pouring into was made in

two parts

which included such collectors' exchange-a little more than $4 the Eastern Zone. So the Rus-which enclosed a miniature be-buttoned cuffs of Midship- waistcoat of Louis XVI as

A similar story relates to the items as one torn

the to the 1. The Britlah Treasur THE arguments are something. from

like the old struggle between stans were doing well.

compass. All the men who men

he hoped to hold the fort.

"Free Trade" and "Protection." They had staved off the

or "Snotes," but the mounted the scaffold. Another economic crisis in their zone. fell into the enemies' hands favoured one is that young was reputed to be the first

America asks for "Multilateral trado"

"that means all currency were at making

bicods" used the kept the secret of the button back their flowing cuffs before out the act of George I them to button covered with cloth, and this Americans and the British spend which pointed to home.

freely changeable into dollars with resulting Ductuating rates Gomething like £100,000 a day

duelling with swords.

which forbade the manufacture THE crisis, now, is the break of exchange. Americans, now on the airlift.

of butions made of cloth serge down of that nearly. two- backed by Belgium's M Spaak, The humble button has

INDEED it was the beaux of the or frieze, in order to protect the year-old scheme. Even when use arguments like a period who popularised the Birmingham industry from com- it was announced, cautious colourful history. Crusadera bution. They had them corved petition.

men took it to Europe from the East from precious stones, gold and

liberals. doubted whether the emergency and revolutionised

financial ship could be kopt clothing sliver, into all sorte of shapes

Sir Stafford Cripps still people who watertight. Probably, only the rigidity for the present; hold caught on, becoming a

E, protect crazo fortunes on them. The which reached

Aus- on religious grounds, preferring Stafford Crippa has kept the Britain's supplies with absurd tralian bookmaker and gambler to do their fastenings with pins sterling schema afloat so long, barter bargains like the Anglo- hugo heights that it was not uncom- Barney Allen habitually THIS last gave them o very mon to find 300 to 400. on

WOTO and laces. Such a sect la the As I

Agreement, write, It has not sunk Argentine useful weapon Indeed. It is single outfit..

sovereigns as suit buttons and Dulchabors in Canada, who yet.

hope, always hope, for Some not sufficiently recognised what

found it good publicity.

never wear a button. Their re-

great change that will save us fortitudo the Berliners have Present-day

ligion forbids them to klit an The wreement just signed be from all disasters. garments may Ivory is among the shown in standing with the have fewer buttons, but their materials used

oldest animal, and since so many but tween Britain and the Argen- .for Allies during the blockade. position has shown little change. although hom

buttons, tons, are made from the bonea tine for five years was some The picture of the US argu- buttons Berlin is essentially a process-A man's coat buttons on

were and horns of animals, the butthing like a ing city. It needs raw materials right, daling from the

the made as far back as 1778. Bond

boldly raised new ing on the alde of the saints, ion is "taboo.”

sall-defiance when threatened and the "free traders," would days buttons aro and the power

among the most to export its when a man's right hand was useful. They resist salt water,

with a stormTİ.

be more just, and less hypocri- finished products.

The strange American seet, the

tical, if one of the greatest bar- kept free to draw it con

the sword; so the Admiralty uses "get few raw while a woman buttons to the numbers on

large Amish Mennerites, forbade the The great storm starts from riers to world trade were not. elizkin clothing, use of buttons on the ground the materials and can export prac- left,

United States. In general the Harley-Smoot tariff, which a survival of the time Casein, a form of dried milk, that they were wicked. Hooks the system of maintaining an still stands liko tically nothing, It Is vexed with when a woman carrying a baby used extensively during the last and eyes were used instead, the exclusive area where most bual around those edger buyers of a. high wall unemployment and the fear of on her left arm, had her right 40 years for buttons, achieved set bolig duly dubbed the unemployment.

ness would be done in free to button her cont.

money the world's enterprice and skill- notoriety when it was found Hook and Eyo Bapüsis.”

connected with sterling has the American and his wife,

And they were subjecting the population of Berlin to a strain which they hoped would prove too heavy and would provoke disloyalty to the Ailles.

✓

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Fortitude

There are with it. This new-fangled thing and styles, often spending small refuse to use buttons, mostly determination and energy of Sir the value of the

such

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demands

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