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THE

MAN

toit's

WALES POLICY

CAN CANUTE ?

World Copyright. By orrangement with Dalle Herald,

William Hickey

splashed in buses round Sussex

DUKES, marquises, and Hampshire.

Dienheira

#I

Are the rest of the aristocrats and carls seemed

raitied? agreed: 28. 6d. W89 11 Well, the DUKE OF MARL- fair price to charge people BOROUGH'A who wanted to see a Stately palace, while Goodwood is a mere house but is that worth Home On The Inside.

an extra tanner? Anyway, it was the price The EARL OF DERBY may you paid or you stayed get away with half a crown at Knowley Hall (hla horres' outside.

successes put money Into Laren- Now, however, the Ring shire pockets Inst renton), but is Busted, the Cartel Torn will the DUKE OF DEVON- Whte Open; their lordships SHIRE survive with 2s. 6d. at

Chatsworth? get set for a price war.

The principle holds: nothing

The DUKE OF RICH- benefits the public like cor- MOND has opened Goodwood

petition.

House to the public, at six- BACK to England comes

refugee actress from Germany

that series

pence less than the others charge. A shrewd psycholo. ELISABETH BERGNER the gist, his Grace also saves who, touched our hearts in the cash and pleases the public years between 1935 and 1930. by letting them roam about In those days we loved her a unescorted. A free type lot: that wide-eyed, wistful look,

ine of wolf

alf roles, the written guide tells them nil

betand which Plan expression they want to know--and the integrity of

the te

true artist these guides are collected burned brightly through.

When SI JAMES BARRIE afterwards.

More than that, the duke has died in 1937 he left £2.000 "to called in a r of publicity my loved Elisabeth Bergner for the best performance ever given experts; his advertisements are

in a Boy

play of mine." The play

David."

His home, his savings, his life-work-all were expendable... Probing the story of one escape from the Iron Curtain brings a new grasp of what is happening in half Europe now...

WHO SAID 'ENOUGH!"

new

29

could not carry out and been taken over by the con- of his more precious posses- retain his self-respect.

sions.

The

Sefton Delmer's

ceru,

arc

the

many

WDS

There

too.

was the Garbo tour, The actress of the appeal-

ing accent dressed casually, and was so shy about publicity. The fnet that the Daily Express library has rather more than three bags full of clippings about Alies Bergner is mainly due to her habit of getting into. Inwsuits.

In one of those legal Oghis SIR PATRICK HASTINGS mid: "You won't get Miss Bergner to play an unsympathetic role."

Now could he have been wrong?

For Elisabeth, now 40, but still reinining her wondering child look, has come back to And that her adopted country does not regard the role she war ДК И sympathetic one.

In her sulle ot the Ritz

ques-

Why did you, to put it boldly. trustwortbl-leave us in 1940, when you re- fused to finish the film you had started in Canada--and then stay on in America until this year?

Finally

It had to be asked. very like

Miss Bergner

sad

against the regime.

The workers' mililia has be They do so either because come of doubtful they

anti-Communist ness

Frantisek h gathered in- Czech patriots or because

them from about they foresce the possible formation

was country, parts of the eclipse of the Communist "How many of these men would about it. "I would so much the to let bygones be bygones, Party and are anxious to actually, fire if it came to

talk about that A cannot he would ask, for point?" keep

open a retreat

typical answer was: "Out of 120 which happened ten years ngo themselves.

litla men at our works four without bringing in the names of other people. It was all o Frantisek told me of n or five at most."

misunderstanding and it would Minister who was privy to

be better tasto on my part not to have to discuss It."

thing

The Communists wanted "It was quite an easy one The policeman's storming him to plan a reorganisa- to puli," said Frantisek, as and his threats apparentlylayed during the tion of his old concern we sipped our claret, "Un- had the sole purpose of and which meant that a aub der the Nazis our lawyer ing out who in the house

Hotel she and her husband, stantial number of its best would have done it like A was loyal to the escapec, 80

Alm director DR PAUL and must experienced shot. But now he

was that he might talk in safe-CZINNER. answered the

tlon-why have you come back? workers would be sent to afraid. He would not play." ty.

England, for the time being, it the mines.

seems, The cook did as she was bid.

is just a slopping-off HAT is there in partments, where he held a

The odd thing, however, these Iron Curtain Key job by virtue of his ex- Rather than submit Fran- is that Frantisek gave

me den, and gol her master's most place to settle the details for to safe her impending Australian tour. After that she will return. to do countries which pert technical and admins- tisek deckied to go.

quite a lot of evidence that precious treasure makes

a play here. ordinary non-trative knowledge.

Communist overriding reason the

Party place.

Hi Bergner spoke of her political citizens give up

But such is life in Czecho- their life's work, their The escape rush had just behind this decision, how even some of its innermost

In Scan- and the escaped man's friends did poetry readings homes, their savings, and begun, and I remember say ever, was his reluctant con- committees the police, the slovakia today even now she recent trip to Europe where the

Service and and Civil

All

the time, though, the flee abroad?

ing to him in not very viction that the Nazi

not be sure that the policeman's

Interview was influenced by the delicate jest: "I look for the Communist occupations Cabinet itself are riddled who are hiding it for him car-dinavia, and her native land. been too much for with men who secretly work action was not a trap.

question one heallated to ask. Again and again on my ward to seeing you in Lon- had travels I meet these Iron don." I smiled as I said it. Czechoslovakia. Curtain refugees in the new But he did not smile back. homes and new jobs they "I hope nut," he said, very have found for themselves. gravely.

Ami us often as not these

Yet here he was now. Ile homes and new jobs

had left his beautiful home are as uncongenial and

they could outside Bratislava, left tho unsuitable as

big industrial concern which possibly be.

he had helped to build up In the torrid heat of Cen- and over which he had con- tral Brazil I found a skilled tinued to rule, both when Polish textile worker from the Nazis occupied Czecho- Lodz breaking stones. In an slovakia and when it up-country town of Aus- nationalised by the tralia I met a young lawyer munists. who had fled from Budapest sweeping out the oflice of the local electricity manager. I could give dozens of other examples.

Why do they flee? I asked the question again as I sat in the warm elegance of a London club, "I did not want to leave," a decanter of Beychevelle he said. "The workers trust 43 in front of me. This ed me. The men in my con-

on me to time I got an answer. For cern relied sharing the claret with me them through this, as I had was Frantisek, (For reasons seen them through the Nazi which will become obvious occupation. I felt it was my not managerial duty to them to full do so. No, I did not want

to go."

as you read on I am going to give you his name).

Was

Starting again

AN

NEWSMAP

anyone.

THE

Radio Doctor, Dr CHARLES HILL, M.P., ly doing very nicely, thank you.

The spirit of her people his intention to escape, who Poorer.. poorer. Com- was broken. No one trusted frankly admitted his shamo Everyone suspect at having to serve the in-

truth is that Czecho. THE

slovakia is being bied by the ed everyone else's motives. lerests of his masters. The old national solidarity

A Czech policeman, rald- Russians.

It was learned that the Brilish had vanished.

ing the house of one of They ore taking from the Medical Association-where Dr Frantisek's friends who had Czech all the best-quality ill was secretary-will continue No longer would Czecha escaped, seemed to mo a goods which they used to ex- to pay him £60 a week as long or Slovaks work together to particularly good example port to the West. In pull the kind of tricks with that the Czechs have not they are giving them materials advantageously which they had duped the lost the technique of wily and products which they could Nazis. His fight had no aabotage. prospect of success. He gave me an instance.

ND here he was now in London, looking for a job, forced at the age of 43 to start again.

Bee

After their coup d'etat the Communists stopped the pension of A veteran em- ployee of the concern. The pension was the old man's

sole source of income.

'Send it away'

return as this Parliament lasts,"

But on the credit side is £20 week salary as an M.P. Plus the money-say £50 a week-he makes out of writing

politician.

Already leave of absence has that he can

inore acquire

attend to the job of being Tory teen granted member for Luton. elsewhere.

£00 a week is a £10-a-week The effect of this is that the cut on his full salary, efforts of Czech labour are re-

and ja ceiving an ever poorer poorer reward.

Why Frantisek himself had The demand for Hill's services DURING the search of the

not as a doctor-journalist has risen house this policeman left was clear. But it was

VG were having our in proportion to his success as roared and raved againat unti the escapee. He was particu. second glass of port that I got

ills B.M.A. travels, however, the answer which explains lots Inrly indignant when the of other escapes.

ore to be curtalled. Air trips to Australia, New Zealand, Holland, cook spoke up for her de

"The mass of the people are Denmark-all have been can- He wouldn't

parted master.

unchanged," said Frantisek sud-velled.

before. But one thing piled on top The last time Frantisek

A few days later the denly. "They go on as

The only foreign trip in the anyone dlary now is "New York-next and I had talked together of another. The breaking

policeman secretly But it is different for

who stands out individually. September." he was sitting at a desk in point came when at one and RANTISEK suggested to same

Bratislava's the same time pressure on the firm's lawyer that called on the cook, warned They get cut down." o f

ar her that a squad of Com- Communist-run State de him from his Communist they should fiddle an

Yes, I can understand that, OVERHEARD Just bosses to join the party be- rangement by which the old munists were coming. two Better to break stones in afler lunch at one-of-thosC- came irresistible, and or- man was ostensibly paid a days later to confiscate her Goyana or sweep out on

compensation for master's property for the in Benalla han always have folk-go: "With Birtening to you ders were given him in his sum in official capacity at the de- the nationalisation of some State. He urged her to send to keep our head down. partment which he felt he of his property which had away to a safe place a fow

onc

* Mu

definition of non- political: Not organised politi cally, not agitating publicly for any particular line of policy.

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