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THE 1950'S

"Isolationists !"

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I was Stalin's pupil

for an hour in Berlin

By CHARLES FOLEY

T

TRUMAN'S MOOD IS TOUGH; UNO SHOWS ITS TEETH... BUT

Mr. Malik just lies

in the sun

MAN IN THE GLAIK

Russia's Malik,

NEW YORK CADLE FROM FREDERICK COOK DI WYHAT AMERICANS ARE TIUNKIRO

HE Russians might as has been wearing steadily

well face it. There will thinner. not be any American Munich. In their present mood the people would not stand for it.

Once in a frauk, homes. pun phrase, he exclaimed in exasperation after initiat ing another important move That much is clear in two to combat Communism: minutes tack with any "Every time we turn round American today. A new those Russians kick us in and entirely honest-jin- the pants." soism has taken over in the United States. Remember how it used to go? "We or don't want to fight but by leads jingo if we do."

This is America's mood, and Mr Truman's, too

A revealing anecdote has just leaked out. It concer:18 Truman's frame of mind when he left Independence his holiday abruptly ended by that flash from Tokyo.

at

Grim-faced, clearly the end of his patience, the Fresident made such ELTI impression on one of his Lides that the man said to a reporter in a whisper, "Watch out. Here is trouble The old man is

Up on the speakers' stand are n dozen Pence leaders-members coming. of the sovereign Goverment.

Mr Truman is not a hasty intemperate man. He

Can they maintain the principle on Korea without becoming involved in world- wide liabilities?

Who really holds the in- itiative now-Washington or Moscow ?

These are the questions they are trying to answer in the secret White Ilouse conferences.

a nation sometimes

The Korean flare-up has given to hasty phrases ut radically altered the strate tered in a belligerent tone gical picture for the United.

a long re- States in Asia. ~but one with cord of caution when it comes to getting into war.

Today, after the cold war suddenly turned hot, the unanimity here is as tonishing.

Nobody is playing politics with the fundamental issue: "Here is the line beyond

which the Communists are not going unless they take

us on too."

SECRET TALKS

Soviet-appointed going to hit those fellows FOR the Chiefs of Staff the issue, is somewhat Democratie German but hard. He has taken all less simple. While the head

he is going to take. I can lines mirror the ordinary man's interest in Korea, the to those who military planners are watch

Indo-China, Persia,

A week

these men algned

trenty with Do- mocratie Czechoslovakia ac-

་་

tell."

No secret

Lepting the expulsion of 2,000,- work close

to him is the ing

000 Germans from Sudetenland. fact that for two

A fortnight go they signed Harry

a treaty with Democratic Poland, accepling the loss of one-fifth

are

of the Fatherland. Today? marching, Today they

supporting in the Democratic Korea. crimson-

years Yugoslavia, Finland --- and Truman's patience especially Germany.

MISERABILISTS

By R. M. MacCOLL

ISERABILISM-SUR-

BERLIN. heaving at ropes, HROUGH the aquare- fighting. And, framed window the centre, titanic,

I cannot forget the face of the Red Square glowed. backed figuro of Stalin

pretty Berlin policewoman, aged this The Kremlin's onion-domes bearing

meaningful rechas

hair, 19, flax-blond

waiting with were cut against the sky. In legend: "Stalin is the 'Lenin chinn-blue eyes,

thugling pattres for every the foreground, massive in of today."

crescendo in the uttending its solemnity, rose the bulk of Lenin's tomb.

Along the corridors pie- speeches to throw up her arms

above her head. tures of

British mang

M SEINE down to the corrupt American Then-clap, clap, clap, the But the darkened room in lions,

the Democratic ignorant us PARIS), -- This which I stood was not in warmongers and horror new signal of

unison. keis where it all started, the Moscow.

It was the inner of horrors, Marshal Tito Youth, in slow the share, the cult of cry-babylam, the shrine of Russia's new lead back to the entrance.

faster and faster until it feeling that life is just too tidal wave of sound sweeping awful for words.... of Culture, which

House

stands, with all

the uthority of fresh, white paint, amid the ruins Berlin.

of

breakers on

across the square.

white

a vast dazzling

-And a

AT T the head of the staircase

you see If you cannot get a visa white statue of Stalin which if by some Lon- to Russia there is nothing appears, as to stop you

from crossing vulsion of nature, to have been Into the Soviet

sector of thrown up by the living rack. Be ealm. Below It, in gold Berlin.

letters on red, are the words of the god-of-today: "My purpose in peace. I brink you peace. Fight for peace."

There is a pause, un 11- nouncement, a storm of cheeru. of a British John Peel, head news agency in Berlin, who has one over to Democracy, is the stor speaker today. He receives

special salute.

Not yet...

WHEN Peet finished speaking I climbed up on the plat-

And how

do we fight fur form to question him. He recalled which he was peace? Upstairs I found the that we last met Soviel House filled with young- looking for a job, but that was rters in the vivid blue shirts or before he declied to decert the the Jiemocratic Youth. They had warmongers.

Once there, much may be learned at slight cost and slighter risk by mixing with the East Germans and their Russian musters, who, for all serious purposes, are common subjects of Soviet Union.

The black god-

CTALIN'S House of Cul- turc is in Unter den Linden, behind the German Unknown Soldier's tomb of World War One. I walked unchallenged up the steps, joined a group in the lobby, and then turned right, into a room marked "Lenin."

Now they were sitting on the terrace, ealing and drinking in surroundings as fine o imperialist could wish for.

Next-Fight for Peace, They pour out into Unter den Linden, the statue of ne up before

Frederick the Great and begin. Perhaps a hundred thousand. with banners, their march.

And for the devotees it the paradox of involves wearing a uniform.

For the girls this consists of a low-cut pullover, pre- Herably black, tight-fitting tartan trousers and hair left hanging as neur the waist as Nature permits.

THE

SMART

TYPES

HAVE A

UNIFORM

OF THEIR

OWN

THEY FLED

IN Washington they are

saying, "We had no more chance to avoid getting into Korca with all our weight than the British had to avoid going to the aid of Greece in World War II de-

commitments. The compari- spite their other trementious son is exact and absolute,"

But in one respect things different in the re stony mountain of Korea from what the British found in the barren highlands of Greece: the fighting quali- ties of the local troops are not the same.

even

7

of Many

those Americans who had served in Korea were shocked by the rapidity of the South Koreans' defeat. There were no Evzones outside Scoul. It is now known Washington, a large percen- tage of the South Korean Some army had vanished. had died bravely. Some were wounded and some missing. But most had simply "gene over the hill."

in

This is the main reason why General MacArthur de- cided, after a brief personal look at the front to throw American ground troops in naval well as air and strength.

RS

NO JITTERS

T Lake Success the mood is Avastly different, too.

At least, sold one omcial, that it in noi Uno has shown just another League of Nations.

Is Sartre still at his old haunta? No. They are sill crowded, but the clientele is all American For men there is a beard as If you want to see him on It has reacted foretfully against

nggression. thin as a Hollywood moustache, your current vist to Paris drop tracing the outline of the jaw, in at the Pont Royalto Cafe Most delegates are delighted. white jersey, red blouse or yellow velveteen Jacket, blue just before lunch, or around The jitters have died down now six... Heill be the bespec--though there is a strong under. denim trousers.

tacled mat the end of the bar current of fear over a pos-

sible world war. Igh priest of the cult

drinking soda water and read- playwright Jean-Paul Sarice.

Nobody wants that. And even He is an extremely ing with vulturkh eagerness.

if we are to avold it there is aged 45. intelligent man whose books

Sartre, who discovered not the unsolved question of harp relentlessly

of life with abandoned city named Bobo in Uno's own future, pleasant things

his recent visit to tropical Africa, } The one man who might juntold pessimism.

doubls lives' lers the resolve these fi saddened by some

of miles from Ofice you could find him

Uno's headquarters, in a pleas- ant country house with a dis

blue and placid tant view of Long Island Sound. His name Jacob Malik, Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister."

the on

un-

of

pl

heard a lecture. **Reactionary-

He admitted it was two years bourgeois - science - and..

since his last visit to England, culture in the service so that perhaps the duckworkers of - American - imperialism," might Hot refuse, as he had followed by a film.

claimed, to load arms for Koren, had kept hix Certainly he Defish passport and would 19 any hork to Enland when he had drinking his aniseed and hold youths who have flocked to his than a couple

banner of despair. in forth on the terrace delivered his message to all

either the Cafe Flore or the who wanted to hear it.

They are the modern nihilists, Two Maggots. But not yet, not yet.

for whom the only permissible pour a drink, They are within a few yards exertions are to How many in the crowd?

one another in the heart of turn a gramophone handle, or While the delegates sit Jm the Lell Bank region of Paris.

earnest discussion to the Securi- Comrade Eisler, the Germ31

It is known os St Germain

Ly Council chamber, Mr Communist leader from The goal is the Lustgarten, the Amerlen,

Pres--the tung being Sartre's chiet acolyte is Malik lles, upon a towel on the salu yes, 100,000. great quare before the former (Next day Eisler's

equivalent of

St keen-eyed, Press said roughly

charming woman lawn of his tree-shaded house, One object on which the Kaiser's palace. From all parta 350,000 filled the square.) Martin-in-the Fields and with called Simone de Beauvoly Sherrounded by his aides and his

as few Aelds. Berlin

friends, soaking up the Democratic

went with him on the African shine. We drive eyo could focus-a black of dusly,

clown processions weave their way to

Unter den marble bust of Lenin, the thin point.

Once in Linden.

What It

a way A couple of Russian

does provide are trip.

he sprints famous

indoors take a telephone enli. Soviet god.

The mun sentrien. A nolice board. "You those

who writes the But most of the time he just It is eary to move up to the are now leaving the Democratic places redhat with roaring jazz Miserabilist Lungs Ja

bands, frantically leaping ex-

called splashes around in the gentle. In the next room was front through the limp crowds Rector" and the Journey-

Joseph Corma. without visais ports of five, no ventilation Why Not an Ant in a Top Hat? session of sleeping in the sun.

Typical title: surf and goes back for another another world, strident with on whose ears the loudspeakers Moscow

all round the square clatter, as

und some of the drewlest young That is Life." AT 2.30, 5.30, heroic murals frenzied they did in 1938, when I heard

men and women In Western uthletes

Europe. piles, Goebbels ranting there.

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