American Column:
Welcome In Reverse
By C. V. R. THOMPSON
New York.
IR Frank Newson-Smith, a former lord; mayor of London, is not too popular | with New Yorkers today.
He and other officials of Britain's : Automobile Association have been looking i over traffic conditions in some U.S, cities, And before salling home Sir Frank had Home
York's tart comments on New traflic.
He called it “a bramble tùngle." - He called the bright skysigns "an extra- ordinary muddie." And he called the parking system "helter-skelter."
These observations New Yorkers did not mind. What they did not like was Sir Frank's suggestion for solving New York's problem-£100 fine or three montha gaol for parking a car in a busy street.
Car owners were already fuming. because the city had raised the parking fine from 15s. to £5. And this at a time when a garage, if one can be found at all, costs £21-n month, orag much as a two-roomed flat; before the war.
CONTROLS are on their way back. President Truman hinted, to today. The cost of living is rising too fast, he cald, and he
IN working on some
stopping it.
way of
But no one expects controls this time un everything Dial Americans eat and use. He will probably start with a few items like steel and went, and addi others to the list if prices at tise,
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in
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country home Connecticut (15 ouns, including
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1950.
GOING THE WHOLE HOG
by Ster
"1 suppose if someone said elephants were going to be dearer we'd have a hack-yard scheme for elephants,"
Charles Foley
the good
the
STOCKHOLM.
to
London Express service
meet
goes ship Sestroretsk
Of course, but Stalin has ol-
The Sestroretsk is a goating agreement on the answers I re- Nthe dining-saloon of speck of Soviet territory where erived. They fall into fairly obways tried to husband the lives kw one sees, three out of ten
good
free speech reigns. In this ship vious place. ship
there is Ane cross-cellon of Sestroretak, four days travet characters-students - War, of course, out of Leningrad, under a turning from the Soviet
diplomats melting is top topic golden bust of Stalin,
are periment discussed tonight the greater the long ussian freeze,
Russians, Finns,
-
Lucky they lost this in the post
by BILLY ROSE
Temnil included
IS morning's batch of son, a pretty good job, and most paid of on the fol- of the mortgage
Cr house. None of which IL man in
would have come about if the
lowing from Great Neck, Long Island. letter my wife sent mo fron Dear Billy Rose,-
Clevelandl that arrived On
schedule.
there had been
another han
As you probably noticed in the papers on August 7, In it, you see, she contested n boy named Henry Turrill while I'd been away--nobody found a auck of undeliver she cared anything about, just ed mail in the rear of n
comcone who had happened
junked automobile on the along while she was lonely and miserable. She said if I didn't outskirts of Great Neck. want her to come back to write It consisted mostly of and say ro and she'd understand, Christmas cards which had but if she didn't hear from mé been mulled in December she'd gure I had forgiven her
and wat 1947.
would return and try to make it up to me,
Well,
When the mailman handed one of the pieces of me this three-year-old letter a mall was addressed to moa couple of weeks ago, lotler from my wife, postmarked what the heck was in it, so I I wondered Cleveland, Ohio, und daterl December 10,
1947.
But what I was in that lotter won't make
much
sense to you unless Arst tell you
you something about Shortly
I was married
ripped open and read it right Biero on the porch. letter when I was fresh out of Chances are, had I gotten this
the Army and plenty jumpy. would have called my wife every
as fast as the law
44. the draft boarde begin dirty name and busted up air
taking anying with two
and after 10 months in Texas i marriage.
would allow. was put on a boat and shipped oft to that
called swamp
Okinawa. By the time I got there, the shooting was over, no
ed in '47.
brteו.
Shortage of young men, What
guess I was better of than But standing there on the most of the boys, but it was porch I thought of the three a dull and muddy sort of life, good years we'd had together and energies of his people. He are in uniform.
and I was plenty glad when i wants to win always by the
and the thirty more maybe, Moscow's newest hotel is be-
was shipped back and discharg- coming up--not to cheapest means-warfare would ing built by German prisoners.
mention the fact that I hadn't always been be the dearest-and he might Most of the hard labouring It was two days
work, from concrete-mixing
before a maint myself. So, I put the What are the prospects of lose. and, finally. 1
to Christmas when I arrived in letter in my pocket, and that rondmaking, it done by women. Great Neck, and you can imagine right after an carly world war?
work went to Misrulo before 1918
Stalin has a labour famine on how let down I felt After
slure and when I jewellery -unusual an
his hands, Ten malition men found that my wife wasn't there down-pryment on one of Biose everyone said there would be
mood of the died in the war. 5,000,000 are waiting for me. Instead,
Thero
wristwatches with little red nu world war of Russia's con- 5 What is the
Russian people?
under arins, and although mil-wa lions have been triving for at least three or four
drafted from her mother wasn't feeling well,
was a note on the table saying stones,
When I handed the present to cars,
the Baltic States, Probably content. The manses Czecoslovakia, and so on the cry She'd be back in a few days said:
Germany, and she had gone to Cleveland, my missus And the reasons? Firstly have known nothing better and la still for more.
after dinner, she Russia is not ready for
"What's this-Christmas that is, if every thing was all in vady, baby," I sold, nnd
August?"
told her I had finally letter and
pause,
the
Ave baths, questions of war and peace, the Belgian chef from our Moi- Bowling alley, and a swimming and what-after Korca- cow embassy. pool), Robson is moving nearer the Runsinus mean to do.
New York.
Also aboard are fine British The topic came in with the people: Air Richard Jones, who burtsch-a steaming tureen of bravely edited The British Ally beetroot and Republicans in the coming Con which is the lifeblood of Rus- out: his assistants, Mr
cabbage sup in Moscow until it was squeezed Harold Bressional elections will besla, old or new.
Laycock and Miss Mavis King; Senator Joseph McCarthy, who
76ced on through the din- the British desistant Naval Al- ragnatic effort it would need to they are told every hour how Work armies have marched to bas accused almost every Tru-
jam tuche, Lieutenant Alford;
Britain and destroy
and quell brutally Russla was misruled the East to set up a new de taanite of being a Communist or so that the delicious
before the Russian revolution, velopment scheme -- 0,000,000 McCarthyni, the pancake that every Mr Laurence Kelly, son of Dur America. fellow-traveller.
Secondly, the mood of the which few now remember. Russian adores, grew weld and Ambassader to Russia,
people in the last four yeurs. will make nearly 60 speeches in
Russian people is all for poace
Industry is still shifting away Lomtiluenetes where the contest callous with neglect,
On the plate out from Lon- and the reconstruction of their is clo
The cost of food and drink is from the dangerous West, and don I had jotted down lots of shattered land.
high, but has recently been the present four-year plan must the sort of questions we are al-
Thirdly, the standard of the brought down-a genuine drop have more workers or crash. pays asking aboug Russia. Now before me there is a sheaf of is still abysmally low. The ruins
people's life, though improving, of 25 percent. notes. scored and double-scored
IL
the
The arguments swept deck and crossed the quayside with us, accompanied us to my QUOTE from a G.I. in Korea: holet, where the survivors ham- I enly hope that whoever loser mered it all out over again with war is forveil to occupy potted shrimps and aquavit to this country."
fortify them,
this
This is the picture
of the German war must bo Though rationing hos been to remind me of the degree of rebut. The people must
be abolished, there are still queues
brought housed, Great industrial pro- everywhere: that is normal. They my friends who sailed from
Russia. eets must be carried through, longest queue, two miles
It is not the picture on the propagandists on either side All this must Inke priority Sunday, is for Lenin's Tomb, uver war, however tempting a The second longest is for milk: that it is as near to the truth will give you. But they insist not dream that ilk might be delivered. People as you will get today, are fairly well dressed in Mos- cow, but they consider soup and
Now whatever became of
?
Continuing his researches into the stories of those · Names
you remember ...
by BERNARD WICKSTEED
0F
the hundreds of thousands of pie- tures which came out of the Second World War one seems to have lingered particularly in people's memories.
It is the picture I am printing here. "The Man Who Wept” was what many papers quite simply called it. Who the man wis no one knew. But as the picture went round the world early in 1941 this grief-stricken Frenchman - watching a march-past of disbanded regiments after the capitulation-seemed to symbolise for all Allied countries the suffering of France under her misfortune.
The picture was taken in the streets of Marseiller
And there Jerome Bazzotti--The Man Who
Wept For France-still lives.
He is in the textile business,
He lives in a comfortable villa on the Boule-
vard Hughes.
He hates photographers,
Well, it's a long trail from the Fall of France to Noah's Ark.
But while the search is on-whatever bc- come of those people who were going to Mount Ararat to look for Noah's Ark? The leader of the expedition was Dr Aaron Smith, of South Carolina, and he did actually go.
Nine years ago.
1
He spent two weeks roaming turo. He was taken off chess Ho likes the job well enough, round the mountain last
and year, for two years,
sent to but ho really wants to be but didn't find
anything re school.
farmer. So he has just bought motely resembling the Ark. He He is back now on a part- sume land and 000 sheep, Later ell thinks it's there-fossilised time basis, and this year he he is going in for cattle.
by now, of course and be was won the Spanish championship "Farming is the life for me," going again this year, but he by a narrow margin, He studies decided not to because Mount at school for five hours a day he said. He has tried pretty Ararat, which is in Turkey, is and then plays or talks chess well everything else. He was rather close to the Soviet bare for two. der.
of
ahot
.
nine years at sen before joining the RAF. Hence "Sallor"
And what on earth became of Macon? You must remem- ber the stuff. It
was a crossi between mution and bacon and make the British was going breakfast worth eating in war-
time.
Whatever happened to Malan. "Safior" Malan, the Battle Britain Aghter pilot who Now we'll go to Spain and down 32 German aircraft? At chase up that boy chess cham- one time you rould not pick plan who had all London talk-up the paper without seeing his ing 1948. He was 14, and name, and Churchill was god his name was Arturo Pomar, father to one of his children. Remember?
He came from South Africa He used to play 20 garnes at and at the end of the way he once with people twice his age, went back there with his wife. and when he lost his favourite his family and his medalo.
he How is he making out now? set of chessmen in a taxi hind hair the
Preity well, according to one in town out people looking for them.
our men who went to of
see He says it seems to have What does become of chess liim in Kimberley. He is pri- vanished without trace, and if prodigies? People who think it vate and political secretary
to you ever tasted any of it you'll can't be good for a child to Harry Oppenheimer, the
probably agree that is the best think so hard will be interested mond millionaire, and drives thing that could have happen-
to around in to know that others came
a sleek American co. the semo conclusion about Ar- car,
dia-
The Ministry of Food has had a man going through the Ales to and out is fate för me.
---{London Expenza deyulce.) -
defenceless Europe may look.
But eventually?
Russians do
2 ↳ Russia preparing for black bread on alequate diel)
cventual war?
No question of . But, out~
wardly at least, for the Ident!-
cal reason that the West !።
that is normal, too.
Ruin on way'
rearming to preserve the peace 6 What do the Russians make
by being ready to meet för to of the anticipate?) any assault. Rus- programme sia's peacetinic economy is al- America? justed to take the strain of per- imanent semi-mobilisation.
Russin's labour and agricul- tural forces are regimented in to shock brigades.
Overtime in the Stakhanovite manner is popularly called "the peace watch The peace watch eculd easily become the watch. But not yet.
'He believes it'
How does Stalin's
war
great TC-af1207716912 UV Britain and
The scale of projected rear- moment in the West has been a lock. On the other hand. Rus- sin believes it will lead us into expense which Astronomical
test eventually bring the capt: lalist system down in ruin.
This will
way open the world Communism.
to
The American atomi bomb horrifles the Russians: they see propa- some hope in British "modern- Hitler's on."
No spies herc
yanda differ from -Hitter also claimed to be e77-
ircled?
The drst difference is that Stalls probably belleves it; 7 What is the real purpose ro, the fact brings little
com-
fort; fear, as much as greed, may sel alight the world.
Stalin has no
equivalent
Iler's lebensraum
Again, the Zorgotten Russian people must be taken into ne-
the Iron Curiain?
11 protects both Russian
-London Express Service.)
I say
IC
right,
her
"
how
the rotten happy I was it had come thirty monthe late, This, of course, wasn't the homecoming I'd been figuring Since then we have talked a on, and I took it pretty hard. lot about this lucky accident, But realising there was nothing and today we decided there's a I could do about it-her mother lesson in the story which might didn't even have a telephone-1 help a lot of other couples who sen!
liko busting her a Merry Christmas fee
up their wire and told her 10 hurry
back marriages the first time some- as soon as the could. It wasn't thing goes wrong. If your run until after New Year's, how-
this letter in your column, we'd ever, that my wife showed up, appreciate it, of course, if you
That was in '47, and in the didn't use our real names. past three years a lot of nice (World Copyright Reserved-London things have happened to us--a-
Express Service).
VIRGINIA GRAHAM examines CLUBLAND
these men are
scared of women
to
he
LUBS - the gathering looking at the illustrated The first working men's clubs of human beings as papers had ever spoken to were started in England in well as the weapons-have, anybody either. It was the middle of the 10th century
by it seems, existed since time matter of
a group of worthy persons expediency Imbued with the longing was, Long before the rather than pleasure.
elevate the morals of the poor. of Greeks had a word for Men, however, assure me was allowed.
Neither smoking nor drinking. them (whatever that may that in their clubs
Everything was every organized splendidly, everything in-be) it appears that men body is very sociable and was fine save for one small but The second difference is that dustry and Communist ideas had an irresistible urge to that
fact-the working the interchange of important for frem foreign competition, which get away from women, and ideas is extremely stimulat-
Uta never went near them: demand. af this stage would be fatal.
it is not improbable that ing and revivifying.
It wasn't so much that It facilitates the task of tell-the troglodyte male, having
couldn't drink or I do not, though, believe though this was bad
smoke, count. The Russians' mouths do the the people what is good for heaten his wife for giving
enough. them, and no more,
This in him
it. I think they are willing but that he didn't like being addition to keeping ՄԱ The Russians love their own spies, who would evaluate the steak, stamped out of the to pay enormous entrance dielated to. He wanted to de- country, their own piece of rarth. Even to get engineers to prive her of her master weapon primitive game of snooker Scriptions for the joy of not be done in HIS club.
be strength of Russia and de-cave and went off to play a fees and huge annual sub- side for himself, with his co- members, what should or should
with his cronies.
being in a place which they When the In a new, well-appointed know, short of an earth clubs were allowed to be self- volume the birth, growth quake, cannot be penetrat supporting they flourished 4 Does the Kremlin stili want 8 What is the most striking and maturity of the club is ed by a woman. Being in a ceedingly, and there is now not
In traced and illustrated with minority, this makes them
contemporary drawings and [photographs most felici-
tously.
not water for foreign conquests.
tend the new plants in the East, higher wages and bonuses must be offered.
The cheapest way
to Communise the world?
00
-blum.
Labour famine
espect to a foreigner Moscow today?·
EDITORS PRESS SLÁVICE, INC.-NURVA YORK
"It's either a tall, dark, handsome stranger with simply oodles of money, or a fiyspeck-It's hard to tell
which,**
the
an
underdone beef-
But as a woman, and an
feel safer.
COFFEE FIRST
working men's
corner of England where mon cannot, with a little effort, avail himself of the pleasures of a home from home, billiards table, library, dancing and whist thrown in,
He can even bring his wife,
unsociable woman at that. I AM speaking, of course, but she, of course, is only al-
of purposeless clubs, not lowed on sutterance. clubs designed for cyclists
I find it hard to assess
benefits of club life.
the
ож
QUIET, PLEASE
THERE are, I
philatelists or
hockey
players but just for reclin-
HIS PRIDE
ing on leather sofas with a THAT a man should fake o pride in his 'club is Only know, whisky, at the elbow.
natural, for no, one wishes to be Most clubs, and
of the big London associated with women's
but clubs in St, Jurnes's
Daything Street the best, and in sporting clubs when I lived in the and once,
environs started as the spirit of competition country I belonged to one coffee, houses where the literary doubtless salutary, myself, in London, so that lights, the Ben Jonsons, Bos
Nevertheless you cannot wells, Address and Drydens peet a woman to regard men's in transit, as it were, I congregated to dispense wit and clubs with, at the most, could find a resting place learning.
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any-
thing but benevolent detach-
for my luggage and a dig- The coffee houses began by ment. nifled cloakroom in which being public establishments, but Knowing herself, to be an að- to wash my hands, an arm so eminent and appeared so end knowing also that now often the coffee tichokers were mirable and attractive creature chair between trains and a possessive that an ordinary man, washer is needed on the sink quiet, a dismally quiet, cup desiring nothing but coffee, was tap, It can be nothing but of tea.
daunted by such |_ company.. source of wonder und Irritation Some coffee-house keepers, to Ber that her man should ab I never, to my know, deairing to keep both habitues sent himself so frequently from ledge, apoko. to anyone and and droppers-in set aside the hearth.
I don't believe any of the room for the former, and soon other women who
this became a fashion. From there drinking tea and formation of a club,
there it was an easy, step to the
were
"Your Club (Whitbread Library
(London, Exprss Service.)
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