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America

out of

herself slump?

NEW YORK.

WENT off to town this week and bought a new

washing machine. That was the first non-essential purchase I have made in six months.

My sales resistance was broken down by the manu- facturer. He did it by bring ing out a new model almost as good as the old one-for 545, which was £25 down on the old price.

having

just nearly talkod herself into one..

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new

if it

it isn't

Well, if

Otto Strasser

K

(and all he stands for)

busy again!

BERLIN.

BY SELKIRK

PANTON

-URT SPRENGEL has already chosen his Fuehrer for the new Germany, Kurt is bald, fat, and 50, and he runs a small lending library in Wildes- their hausen, deep in the British forming

zone.

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pll

tena of thousands

Bitlo groups. Then there A Hubertus Loewenstein, who, the Americans thought, was a good democrat. But that little book-lined He was cheered madly recently. room is only his cover up. by a crowd of 2,000, for ho went His real task is to be the back further than Strasser and chief lieutenant and main his new "German action" party proclaimed that the symbol of rabble-rouser in Germany would be the Imperial for his Fuchrer, exiled Otto arrogant eagle of the Kaiser. Strasser, old guard Nazi who split with Hitler in 1980 and set up his own Nazi "Black Front."

Strasser succeeded in escap-

ing Hitler and fled to Canada. But now the Canadians will noi

land he wants

TOP

'Hurt

and

OP British officials who have had their eyes too fixed on Moscow, and co all Russians og black and all Germans as white are pained and hurt by

let him return to the Father-se outbursts by Germans who,

after all. are still Germans. For to lead.

But they have been cut to Allied Intelligence regards Otto the heart by the behaviour of Strasser ng one of

the mor the "moderate" Germans, the dangerous Germans still alive, Germans they regarded as the and dynamite if he comes back to Germany.

News-letters

BUT Sprengel, under the eyes

"good" Germans whom they have nursed and fed, over the four years of occupation, at their political bozom.

The Germans, (“biting the hand

up in the flurry of the hot batile

of the British, sees that his that fed them, my dear"), caught Fuchrer's words are read in all corners of the "Fourth Reich" of the elections for the first freely they and their followers hope before Hitler, let the mask slip.

elected German Parliament gluce

to build.

He has already founded in Strasser's name "The Lengue for Germany's Renaissance" and sends out thousands of props ganda news-letters every week, He sends them to me, too, for I went to see him. One has just that it might arrived. Just *ten years, even in not be long before these heavy America, as Willy Loman in Jokes turned out to lie what On the fast page is a pro- the third act of that plny, is Americans coll "kidding, on cination signed Dr Otto 'bounding back to vigorous the level"

fe. And Mr Zilch. is full of hackneyed, but nevertheless

Salesmanship, os

dead these the impresalon

encouraging, phrases about meeting challenges.

by C. V. R. THOMPSON ble for snapping him

ness front.

uro

10 Increase Income

Industry turns

the corner

WENT back

its

Each tried to oulbid the other expressing patriotic anci nationalistic sentiment, and the glost of Goebbels must have been hard pressed not to cheer these anti-Nazis and these new Ger man democrats.

Sakd this Social Democrat recently! "How do the British expect us to accept democracy if they continua dismantling?"-- as though democracy was some thing wrapped up in a packet.

Then he turned on his British

Tako Dr Kurt Schumacher, leader of the powerful Social Democrat Party "who was nur- tured and boosted by the British Strasser. It inviolent attack political "re-cducators in Ger- on the West-German-Govern---many-Now he does not need ment at Bonn, just as he and them. He Innhes out at them and his then Nazi friends used to calls Mr Bevlu names,

The Government was

rant at the pre-Hitler Weimar probably most respon-

to Wall-streci Republic. today. The paper they He rejects the spitting of out of his defeatist thrust into my hands this Germany, is rabidly anti mood. And the Govern- time was the monthly letter Bolshevik, and wants Germany ment achieved that by of the revered

with all National City back where she was, Bank. "ex doing nothing. AP iis "spokesmen,"

It exuded what, during her old frontiers, both east and ports," and "qualled ob. President Truman does not the war.

to wo used

cul! west. servers"

Foreign Ofico re-educators: "It huhblog

Bul "careful optimism." over change his mind easily. that when be finally ticknowledged A real corner has been Io ends his message to the is high time, too, that the Wes- about "significant" change

motor industry German people with two lines tern Power stopped their arro has taken place on the busi- that it might be bad for business turned....The

taxes boom confounds the pessimists from the banned "Deutschland gant and governess-like tutelage They point to facts.

this year, as he had planned. The up-tum of demand in Uber Alles the old German of Germany," Business loans, which had it made Q new man of Mr man

many Ines.

Textiles, the

A groan... been tumbling ever Kince Zilch,

frat industry forces to read national anthem: "From Aachen January, went

Beuthen is up by £4

Just, is taking

n turn for the Beuthen, from Meme! to the

Saar." Of course. Simpler design and more million-a very

Kood sign.

better.

How in Poland, Memel is part 15 audience cheered, but an- A other groan of pain wOD efficient production enabled Building activity, particularly

Even the stock market men of Soviet Russin, and the Spor him to make the price cut. In the private homes class, is".

have lost that dark and gloomy has been lopped off Germany, heard in the corridors of the look.

After months of the with both France and Britain political division in Lancaster And the price cut was large booming when it should be

falling oil.

Manufacturers pince this week. The

House British headquarters in TWEN Wall-street is a different doldrums, there urc people arguing about its future. enough to convince me that sales, down...down...down.......

last who really want to buy stocks

Berlin, where. Schumacher had since Christmas, time I went down to Wall- these days. So much so that

Time, only long been regarded as "the goodi street they were showing me most brokers have begun tak-

little boy." should not get a good wash are on their way up again.

a supposedly funny travesty ing an carlier train to work

himself belloved, ing machine much

Unemployment is up, but so

STRASSER world-famous Wall in spite of the heat. cheaply. It has apparently by the intest national income produced for one of their an- is employment. This is shown street Journal which they had

so. Kurt told me, that it is To sum up this Interim re-

only a matter of time before he hnd the same effect on

the report (only 2 percent.

port on

busincer position

is allowed to return to whip up others.

December-an Jast

nual dinners. And nearly every of America: all-time

It is too early the ultra nationalism in Ger joke was about a stock-broker to say that the slump is over.

out of the But if it gets throwing himself

worse it will many.

There is a fresh wind blow now be in spite, and not being through the German forests.

America's cause, of

business men.

Up and down the country the nationalists are beginning

They are there in creep out.

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words

In the middle of what in supposed to be a slump I

The pessimista

can answer shall not get delivery for at these facts with the argument From all the dark and gloo least a fortnight. Not all that the inercate in business my faces I saw and the om.

Joans and the spurt in manu fous manufacturers

doing arc

I heard, 1 Kol facturers' scales mean only that yet. Sometimes it is that shops, which have cut because they do not have their stocks back to the bone, ellicient engineering depart are doing some cautious buy. inents, and sometimes they ing for autumn.

another rol

want to hang on to their big It in just a levelling off boom profits till the last. they say, before possible moment.

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Even they have no ready Answer .for what has еп-

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14s. a day, and all found,

including

At an hotel I live for 14.

couraged Washington much HYERES (French Riviera). more than these facts--the psy-TTERE is surely the best chological change which has value for a holiday. the people In come over the average Ameri- America are doing what can business man. It has hap- I did-buying again. Some-pened almost overnight. times they do not have jobs. But enough manufacturers and enough consumers are doing udden perceptible change

it to bring about

and easily

IN the American economic

scene.

The salesman

cheers up

month Dgo Cyrus M. Zilch was dispirited, surly, A month

ago this

country and jittery. HI Government was talking itself into a dc were a lot of Socialists.

out

happiness

by JOHN GODLEY

a day and that includes

Your room costs 35. a night, everything. For a pound. It's spotless, cool, and comfort you can live in luxury.

And I mean luxury. Half a melon, a beef-steak, a green salad, a bottle of wine, cheese, coffee, fruits at lunch.

Takes a pride

Much the

able.

All day, the sun blazes. The hotel overlooks the mor- ket. It's crowded with women, "Come and buy ah, lodies," fishmonger calls, "They're cheap, so you can eat well; but come quickly.**

Banonas at 10d. alb. Tomatoes

to

There's free dancing in the open air till two in the morning, Entrance to the casino is 25. No

roulette, but boule (like roulette, but with nine numbers instond of 30), dancing till 2.30. midnight floor-show, drinks Ull

all hours,

Clothes? You wear what you please.

grapes at, 9d. Melons 2d.

Potatoes at 2d. Red wine at the not-so-good.

Another groan rose when Dr Konrad Adenauer, leader of the Christian Democrais, ancered at Mr Bevin, and told his cheering audience: "When Mr Bevin says: -that-he-always-thinks of the.. women and children killed by the blitz in his constituency we Ger- mans must remember the Ger- man towns with century-long culture which were laid in dust and rubble without any strate gleni justification."

These are the men who will be running Western Germany soon,

and most of the power in Gor- many now wielded by the mill- tary governors will pass into their hands.

All they will have to worry about is the sleeping, watchdog, the super control of the Allied ligh Command, cradled in the comfort of the Rhineland.

A very senior official of the Allied High Command was given

the job of finding a placo

for their headquarters. In doing. so he provided a joke for the Germans for years to come with- out knowing it, for naturally, old boy he does not speak German.

He has chosen a place near of | Bonn called Wahn.

I can see portly Kurt Sprengel chuckling over the joke he will

Strasser will be amused. They will say that the German legend that all Englishmen are mad has. at last become a reality.-

No queueing The fashion, for men, much- advertised ink England, wearing your shirt outside your trousers is scen everywhere

for the good figure, Loore for

No queueing in France. Never. There are three good benches. All fruits are cheap and plen- The sea is blue and warm, clear

With meat and eggs it's tiful,

and fideless, different.

Canoes (for two) two shillings 5d. each. Beef- Exgs aro

an hour. Each beach has its oro steak entrecote is 35. Od a lb. club where you can dance (free)sion, fancy, mirage, madness.

voal 46. 20., ham Us.

Is. 3d. the Hire bottle. White wine is. 7d.

same for dinner, pression What had started workers were a bunch of Com-with roast pork, a scallop of veal

"readjustment,” and munists.

And his customers or a three-egg ham omelette to developed into "recession," were penny-pinching ingraies

who did not realise that he take the place of the beef-steak 2d. White grapes at 8d., black but among women! Close-fitting make about this and even far-off" was already "stump."

Today America is acting it as well as they, had to ent, if you want it.

But it's not only what you self into a boomlet. The big Today he.in almost well dis question is whether It is just posed towards his Govern cat: It's the way it's served.

None of the "take-it-or-leave- a breathing spell.

ment, he is co-operating with attitude you find in England. Washington, with its fingers his workers, and he is pouring

The owner he speaks English attentions crossed, is full of rosy talk. his

сп his CUS-

well-takes a pride in looking OL

Washington course,

So been like that all along. But That is because Bir Zilch after each ono personally. earthenware plates today is talic does not sound has realised late, but perhaps the so much

whistling to not too late, that It Is no warm, the drinks Ice-cold, the hido Its fear of the approach-longer important merely to food so well cooked that each

meal is a new adventure. ing dark.

liko

NANCY

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Sight for Sore Ears

.

You can buy what you please, and drink til sunset. If you have money to spend.

(London Express Services

NANCY

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BAM BAM

HE'S

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BAM

THAT NOISE?

BAM

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I CAN'T

STAND HIS

VOICE

For this is what my German-- English dictionary saya--

"Wahn: Folly, illusion, delu-

mania."

~~(London : Käpress Service).

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