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NEWS HUMPTY-DUMPTY

FROM HOME

EX-WREN BARRISTER:

WENTY - THREE-YEAR-

TWEN

OLD ex-Wren Joan Trem- arne Pickering, of Caldy, neat Liverpool, has been called to the Bar. She gained her LL.B. with honours ut Liverpool University not long after her demobilisation.

MIRACLE ESCAPE:

Dorothy Emily

Hard- Mwicke, of Wickwar, Glouces

10ft.

miled,

LONG HIKE:

down

track

cat

TITO- If he doesn't jump soon he falls

BELGRADE,

TALIN has failed to break Tito's hold on Yugoslavia, but the economic siege has reached- crisis point. Now comes help from the West and the chance of a big counter-offensive.

five-year trade paet. America is

non Cominformist

On the spot report from `Yugoslavia

by PETER EURCHETT

F

BEST IN WORLD SAYS FRANCE

from SAM WHITE

and it is

PARIS.、 BBC Television Chief, Nor \RENCH television 18 man Collins, was in Paris re- technically the most cently for talks with French advanced in the world. television experts, In terms of licensed set- possible that holders, and the amount of bring their line money spent on it, it is the conformity with most backward.

With only one trans- mitting station and no more than 5,000 set-holders, it is the most neglected industry,

the French images into the BBC an exchange agreement will be signed in the near future.

Swimming pool.

One notable weakness of French PTOGENITURES La they

But for two years there absence of sporting features, has been a steady stream of French racing classics and Anglo-American televisión International football matches technicians to admire and go untelevised, again owing to learn from the discoveries lack of money. But the Frenchi and advances made here in

The

are going ahead with plans for

television experimentation. model television centre in

transmitter being Paris. used at present at the Already the Parla television Eiffel Tower gives a 445-line hendquarters opposite the Eiffel image. It is being im- Tower is a model of its kind. proved to give a 619-line Technical and administrative image. This advance is ex- control is centred in one build- pected to give extra clear- ing, and the industry's only two studios are also housed ness to reproductions--

there. Another six studios aro French television is already under construction. Each is noted for this quality and almost a theatre in itself and permit the use of larger one has a built-in swimming

screens.

But French television is being crippled by lack of funds.

£100 an hour

The Government subsidy. is ludicrously Inadequate £32,- 000 a year. And some of this is "borrowed" by tele-

only enterprise not yet taken usually over by the State.

As 10r the farmers, nsk my

vision's big brother the Radio-

diffusion Francalse, France's

BBC. The inadequacy of this sum can be judged from the fact that one hour of television--

Stepan Jenorich. 116. my friend since we like aus and rank a brotherhood toast in wine in a village about

Belgraṇte.

Jinues troim

were.

Fair Shares

farm,

program me tim c cosis £100 to pro- duce.

Television here employs only 70 people. It will

have

ane eve

to ita the boundaries balance budget.

It is on the now works ten-

h

to shut down altogether for August. and Sep- part of tember in de aperate effort

Eiffel Tower

Through the British Embassy tershire, miraculously esenped in Belgrade, Britain recently offered with only minor injuries after

the 217 families her car had been hit by a train

Stepan's village, 108 have on level croming, carried 200 ready with big loans. Will

མ་

on smiling favourably dollar juned the co-operative yards

along the

and Tito seize his opportunity, credits for Tito. The French which is one of the "most nd- Juried

the emand if so on what terms? have just signed a short-term vanced" of the four types of bankment. The

was The Cominform one year ago trade pact and will soon start

The boundary co-operatives. sinashed to pieces, the gearbox.dropped a prickly problem into talks for a long-term pael.

beeni stones have complete with

pulled up, lever, landing the lap of the Western Powers I Tilo were to accept the fences abolished and the land

Front bo-when it expelled 100 yards away.

heretic Tito Western cconomic ald nd has been thrown into one big engine les of the

were defor

be- modify his anti-West polley to 500-acre farm. No haviour. And the thorns be suit, he would be in trouble knows where came lunger. But Marshal Tito with his party. If the West has declined to fail.

gives help unconditionally, it Stepan

alr at present So for he has succeeded in supports Communisin, and just SCOTTISH postman Malcolm

Pro- Macaskill, who

well-dressed back that sort of Communism which, hour day instead of a 10-hour for 21 hours a week, with a has served turning his

He it it spreads to the West, would one on his own 12-acre farm. range of 80-30 miles.

At the end of the year, when firely of old #lm shorts. Most Krammes consist almost en- the villages of Lughair and on both East and West. Loch Hannaway,

Yugoslav greatly strengthen the already on the bor has avoided selling

the harvest has been sold and

ambitious Lewis and Harris, independence for either roubles existent Communist parties

items the costs have been deducted,

programme have been the televising of the years or dollars,

tho proceeds

dished out Christmas Mass in Notre Dame . For Tito has removed the in equal proportions every Cathedral "Made in Moscow label from body more than 10 years of age. Christian Dior's Paris spring and a showing "of his wares. The Communist according to the number Af INSIDE Yugoslavia he seems y

and Italy, days he has worked. popular as ever. The old-tie parties

without that Jebel, might well Last year Stepan got 76 A

One notable bar to progress Communists are the most un-

into power-and the day in cash for They cannot believe sweep

250 working is the high cost of sets: £80 happy.

a bid to days, plus 15 lb. of maize, 18 lb. to £120. making that the Soviet Union can be marshal is wrong and Marshal-Tito's-export his wares now. He has of wheat, and 2b, c sugar for Communism right.

swung over to the offensive. cach working day, and 40 These prices represent a 25 per-

im-cent drop over the past six- coupons for clothes and

months, but there has been no plements.

increaso He also hps

in set.. acres of appreciable

ders has

of retired

after 47

service. Hc averaged 42 miles a week and has walked an approximate total of 102, 548 miles.

As there is no road to either village, he fol

marked out lowed it path

the moor with stonen, were not easy to find In wintertime.

across

which

"FOR THE SQUATTERS:

DINBURGH Corporation

+

Still Popular

But

few. Only they are of the original 12,000- Is 3,000

Porty sur- strong Communist

there.

in France

The New Line'

pre

at Crewe Toiled the war. The rest of the NE of his chlef word-spinners, land for himself, with a cow,

Doris Ziler, has just duced

pamphlet, munism and the

"Com

an will have little quarrel with. even

ito.

ever, Mortonhall and Fiarmilhead

which they camps, unsuitable Jor emergency scheme. LEICESTER LOSSES: TRAMS and buses it Leices

U

cracks

two

one sow and a litler of sucking plus, five sheep, and a beehive. There are now a quarter of million Yugoslav families

to take over the redundant service camp

500.000 in today's party are and spend £9,000 on it to pro-200,00 vide emergency housing for 33 new recruits,

As long as Yugoslavia can which tells the Soviet Union it familles. They will not, how- keep ulive, the nationalised

Elmilarly take over industries remain nationalised, is no longer the only "Socialist living on one or another of the

home jour and raps

of types

co-operative the collective farins remain col- Fatherland,"

shurp consider fectivised, most of the 500,000 me

ngainst

arm, and they are being added Russian "absolutism."

to daily, At the time of the there resolution the Cominform He

not only attacks Sovict Unjon for trying to were fewer than 60,000. squeeze all Communist parties into one "Russian" mould, but world for trying to tell the

not only that Russions are for better

operative are these: Nos. 1 than all other peoples

to lure in the and 2. nre in polllies, science, art, and Ilterature, but also

that they

kutakes the rich peasants-and have invented everything long are strongly condemned by the Cominform for "preserving before anyone else.

vestiges of capitalism."

It is only if the marshal has to start unscrambling some of

likely to run into serious party

Eastern Star

E other three types of co-

They have ter do not pay.

(rouble. about £010 been losing

4 That is the dilemma week for some time. and

Messrs. Bevin, Acheson, and Onancial current losses for the

Schuman. £49,000. year just ended total

If the To meet deficiencies the

West does not help re-esta

Títo he may fall. What with serve fund has been drained to Albania, and now Czech About £7,000, Main reason for slovakia and Hungary breaking The "Line" is one designed The peasants are paid rent the loss is that the last in of trade with Tito-land, food to have

and interest crease

strong appeal to in the first type in fores 10

meet prices are running high. Tilo Communists in other Comine in the second type for the arst running costs did not come has to sell food to the West to form

countries, especially in 20 acres of fand they bring into force soon enough.

buy raw materials he should

France and Italy, where the into the co-operative. What is have got from the East. YORKS TO STAY PUT:

If the food shortage got have armies and police to en- the harvest, after

Communist parties do not yet left over from the proceeds of CONSEQUENT upon the re-cute and factorles had to shut force "Cominformity."

peal of the 1945 local down for lack of materials,

ย

BC-

rent or interest, is ding the Government Boundary Com-there might be trouble, and But make no mistake about cording to working days.

No. 11

is the most popular. It mission Act, Bradford will not the Soviet kind of Communist there being any difference be is the same

as Stepan's farm, become a "one-tier" county could take over.

tween Stalin, and Tito Com- except that tho boundary after all; neither will York- Tito's army and Rankovitch's munism, so far as everyday life stones are preserved so that o Bhiire be divided Into eight police can take care of any is concerned.

peasant can pull his land out new county

It areas.

had trouble from other quarters.

if he 19 dissatisfied. been recommended that Brad-

Here, in Belgrade, I live in again

Innd is lost to him Stepan's Shefeld, ford, Lords, Hull,

a State hotel, ent in a State Dep

for ever. and North. East, South

restaurant, buy my typewriter and Weat

Ridings

Thero Yorkshire PRITAIN and America want ribbons, payer, and petrol from that Tito is following the path should

become"*

county to prop up a Tito detached the State, new Halifax arcas,

and

There Hud-from the Soviet Union.

are no other hotels, this is no longer called Com- The dersfield to become county £140 million Anglo-Yugoslav restaurants, chiops or garages. boroughs in the West anil trade treaty is said to be in The bootblacks who squat out munism by the Cominform. Wakefield in the south.

the bag. America is already side the hotel seem to be the

· NANCY

Teeing on

I THINK IT'S NICE

TO DRESS FOR

· DINNER:

DINNER

JACKETS

ME.

TOO

Calling Tito

WOULD YOU LIKE TO COME OVER FOR TEA LATER ?

SURE --- AND I'LL DRESS FOR IT, TOO

I WONDER HOW HE'LL DRESS

FOR TEA

R-RING

บ

is not much doubt

that Stalin followed,

even. It

London Express Service)

By: Ernie Bushmiller

IT'S A

ATHS SHIRT.

collection.

holders.

say

pool with equipment for under- water shots.

Flashback to 1939

British Television

For U.S.

The "Tate : April 17,1937. Britam's TV lead over the U.S.A. maker news in London. A month earlier, it had been announced that Alexandra Palace's produc tion manager had been released to help the United States launch their first TV broadcasts.

and now (1949) SEE HOW THEY RUK

SET-HOLDERS

Britain U.S.A.

France

141,000 1,858,000 5,000

STATIONS

Britain'

U.S.A. France....

66 เ

COST OF SET From

Britain U.S.A. France

£45 Os.

£34 15s.

£80 09.

DEFINITION"

Britain U.S.A. France

405 lines

525 lines

445 lines

FOOTNOTE (by Kenneth Bally): At the BIF a British manufacturor demonstrated 626-line television. Observers no. ticed little improvement on the BBC standard. 380 engineers. that oven 1,000-line definition would give nothing like: the 100 percent Improvement on 405-line. Higher definitions require wider wavebands, and this would Imply a wavelength revolution in Britain. The £100 per hour production cost in Paris is cheap because film is mostly used. An evening's. BBC programme coats between £500 and £2000, and on special Occasions up £4000. Where Franch television han 70 staff, there are now over 500 on the Alexandra Palaon payroll.

London Express Service)

The Men of Destiny

met and prayed

TWO prayers used at the meeting at sea of Mr Winston, Churchill and President Roosevelt on August 10, 1041, are in a Prayer Book just produced for the Air Training: Corps.

The first prayer:-

"O Lord God, whose compassion falls not, support, we entreat, thee, the peoples on whom the terrors of invasion have fallen, and if their liberty be lost to the oppressor let not their spirit and hope be broken, but stayed upɑn Thr strength to the day of deliverance, through Jesus Christ, our Lord,"

The second: "Stablish our hearts, O God, in the day of battle and strengthen our resolve that we Ight not in enmity against * men, but against the powers of darkness enslaving Live souls of men. till all enmity and oppression be done sway, and the peoples of the world.be set free from fear to

· servo one another, children of one father, whe is above all, and through all, and in all, our God for ever and over."

→London Express Service).

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