1950-10-31 — Page 4

KING'S LIBERTY

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AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30

OCTECER

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1988

THE INSULTED AND INJURED

A GREAT WALL PICTURE

A Chinese Picture in Mandarin Dialogue.

COMING TO THE KING'S

UNIVERSAL-INTERNATIONAL, presents

Fred MacMURRAY

That "Double Indemnity” guy

The road out

of Moxico is. a dangerous road-whon It's lined with waiting guns!

Claire TREVOR Borderline

That "Key Largo" dama

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IT'S THE

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No Sad Songs For Me

SULLAVAN. COREY LINDFORSI

A COLUNILA PICTURE

MEN Batala VOCO - Jaka McI1719% • New DOLAR - Richard DUIRE «Termonfigy by Menari Kach,

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1950,

Glas

"It's handy to bring home the catalogues and pumphlets about the curs we can't buy.”

London Express Bervic0

STALIN WON'T LIKE THIS AT ALL

TITO THE

PLANS TO PEOPLE

back from themselves. to Yugoslavia,

PHYLLIS AUTY, another visit

reports on a

LET SPEAK

job

Rumours have been rife' Yugoslavia for some

In

months

Election Next Week, But

American Crystal Gazers Are Keeping Quiet

WITH

By CLIFFORD HULME

Away

WITH a general election people at work is a peak 62,500,-

only a week

000. Farmers are getting higher (November 7) America's e million are winning pay rises prices and factory workers by

political pollsters, crystal for the assing. Most spectacular gazers and ten-icäf renders at all is the leap in business are strangely mute.

profits, even before Korea.

Instead of Bling the al

weeks In advance with the Prosperity

customary crop of bold predic tons, they are lit waiting for a clear sign as to which way the electoral cat will jump.

True, prices of food and other things invo Kone up, and are Atill rising. Taxes have been not enough to increased, but hurt, and the next tax increase OIT. Meanwhile

This rare discretion in a tribe notorious for sticking their necks out Ir, of enurse, portly due to is some way

the way Trunka utterly ban- rosperity is here, and most boozled them two years ago. ut Americans are too busy enjoying there is far more to their puzzle- It to pay any heed to warnings ment than that

that the day of reckoning matist come.

First of all, this is not a Presidential election centring on

Once again the Republicans

two big personalities. (Truman are frantically searching for a is safe in the White House until winning battle-cry. They promise that if they are elected the 1952). It In the once-every "oddling of Communists will two-years scramble to control end, that "the bungler Acheson" both Houses of Congress.

will

that the be fired, and This time the stakes are all economle controls clapped un 435 reats in the House of Re-, by Truman to meet the rearms- that are presentatives and 36 seats in the ment crisis controla Senate, a body it anything more widely concoded to be too mild

than the powerful

House in will be removed "at the earliest chaping legislation. The remain- moment." iny: 60 Senators are not up for re-election this time.

en

[s

get on with running the

Yet another change from the past that such changes were Bewildered Just been being prepared. When I was in Soviet system ins

new Belgrade there was at least anncunced by Tito in a

too politician of one important Jaw which abolishes many new experiment the privileges of high officials bury to see people because he

-privileges which allowed is sitting on a committee them better rations. special gaged in recodifying the laws. ARSHAL TITO has Other changes are just

nps, and holiday villas, revolutionary. Control in 12-

about begun ♫ new

In Belgrade I talked CX- dustry has been handed over to

with the changes

handsome, periment in Com- Workers' Councils. A law

Brilliant Milovan Dilla, munism an experiment prenel In June ordered thete that Stalin never dared try, Connells to be freely elected Tito's deputies and secretary all factories, Industries, mines, Tito believer it possible for ., before the end of Septem even a Communist Government her. to be democratic, for the people to take a real part in affairs, and to enjoy

M

speech.

real freedom of

A tall order

of the Forty.

Yugoslav

One

Communist

Time will tell

NOBODY can tell yet if this experiment of Tito's is going to be a succes.

Even it the lens work out well the practice they will not

make

back

adjourned

Mala problem for the De. mocrats is how to overcome the apathy of those who would vote for them if they ever get as far as a polling booth. Traditionally the party in power loses 25 to 30 House seats in elections held be twech Presidential contesta. low turnout in the chief cause of this loss.

A

in

When Congress three weeks ago the Democrats had a majority of 12 seats in the Senate and Di in the House. It these majoriiles the Re- publicans

ans hope to wipe out. If they do and I don't think they Doorboll ringing Will Truman would be in the plight of the man playing the

One encouraging sign for the pantomime legs of the elephant-forced to go wherever Democrate this time is that

Republican Maine, staunchly Dillan 15 one of

which polls ahead of the rest of the front legs look him.

candidates, "brains" behind these new Yugoslavia into a Western de-

nution, their Congressmen in the thick of the political Ideas. He is particu-mocracy like Great Britain or

campaigning report that they though beaten, increased their larly hated by the Soviet the U.S.; nor will it be Com-

a time when are bewildered by the mood of vate, and this at a earlers because of his critt Intanism of the Russion type.

the electorate. They can find the Korean fighting was going isms of Russian Communism, From the Soviet point of

a sizable badly. Louis Johnson (since. по issue on which He wants to make Comme- THE unclls hove power

control every aspect of pet beenuse he has always re- view these ideas nism in Yuroalayia an Imork-management,

are heresy number of voters roused. Just sacked) was in charge of dc. -working-fumer-to-kowtow-to-the-from--andi-they-make the gap bec provement оп the Russian conditions, outpul, costing. I. They even denounced him tween Tito and Stalin even what this"nary meat-orr-ėšection fence, and the Republican tactic model.

wanger-and eventually, it 15 for daring to say that af the witter.

This end of the wor British troops rungested, even security. ile admits it will mean a lot tall order, particularly in in Belgrade

The experiment is being tried

As good a clue as any to the part of the Truman Administra behaved better at a time when of change. So fur, government

Yugoslavia puzzle is the general situation tlon's record. country which has no long than soldiers of the Red Army. faces one of the grimmest win- in Yugoslavia has been a faith-

in America today. Nobody is Organised Labour is also com- few Das explained to me his ters since the war. Tie

to the Democrats' ful imitation of the Soviet pat trade union tradition and

real really mad at anybody because ing strongly belief that the tern-a powerful

people

vest hos failed; there is

war, and ald with money and doorbell bureaucratic killed workers.

not д. fake UT In one factory I visited the inte a real,

dnnter of starvation In parts the country though al central Government controlling

because

war, is ringing. that directed, part in government: o the country unless food can partly

Busines every aspect of life throughout men were not even sure

culoying

lively spot Another the country.

they could take respon that there must be freedom of be imported from abroad. sibility. They wanted to elest drcussion for what he called

time for political activity in at the highest point Is this n

campaign dull otherwise Many as manager the man who al- "the struggle of ideas." He ad- experiment?

people since V-J Day.

California, where Jumes Go- mitted that the Yugoslav Con- would say "No." It is typical on ready held the job as a

Democratic ore pouring in an Roosevelt, are list without any opposition, verniment

But Altution and legal system- of Yugoslav courage, audacity,

nor, has dis.. Governor, appointmen1:

ned self-confidence that where manufacturers at a record pace, didate for

Unemployment has been halved tributed 1,000,000 copies of an been subject to politieal con-workers-men and women model-might have to be chang- others might hesitate Tito

the total of eight-page comic strip book in trol,

are eager to cut red-tape and ed.

going ahend.

colour telling the somewhat glomerised story of his career as "war here, lender, administrator, Democrat. businessman, family mon."

Parliament has been a lection of yes-men elected

coi-

thic

must

Judges and law courts have there are other faclories where both founded on the Sovint

Now Yugoslav leaders have decided that this system must he improved. They say it over-centralized, too bureauera- lic, undemocratic-and there- tore not good Communism.

I

He

This system, they say, Was evolved by Stalin in Russia; it is not what Marx and Leni Intended Communism to be.

Axe at work

har-

day is anybody's guess.

Orders

is

since

D

bom.

June, and

Invented Nice Clean Postcards

years ago

was an all-out attack on every

One

in an is

can-

picture shows King dealer

The Isle of Man even een George and Queen Elizabeth at astute

afterwards

three-a plenic

table with President bought the house and made sors cards and the By PETER DAVIS

$220 by selling the cards. A men censorship committee and Mrs Roosevelt. "The King two and Queen certainly like our

2. merlean That's why, to this day, complete Marle Studholme refuse one in every NEARLY 100 Yeese you don for politeness complete Marie rarity.

hot-dogs, Jimmy," submitted. In actual fact an saya F.D.R., "I hope we have colour-printer named Her- sake have to begin a post-

And good old sets carn Act of Parliament of 1857 Cough," mann Gung) desperately card by saying "Dear-"

"It-took me a month of Sun- im-needed & fresh market for and you generally leave out, dollars. America has 5,000 still punishes the display of

posteard enthu- dirty or offensive postcards days of hard work to arrange picture

senside their tour," replies Jimmy, "You two and police in all siusts, supporting begun. Yustoslavin's top-heavy picture postcards. They The first postcards cost specialist postcard maga- townu keep a wary look-know, I'd never run short of an

such

zines. Valued at £100,000, out. send to your friends, he originals, with 32 or 48 pic- the

50 what price postcards? biggest collection

Globetrotters have walked the have stressed. No dirty messing tures, are worth £50 today. boasts 1,000,000 cards. Ten thousand people

post- been fired from Government with the gum on the back People still collect

in Belgrade's of envelopes.

cards, especially movie-star equivalent of Whitehall,

pin-ups, yet the hobby has

aimed at THE changes

provement have already his art and so ha invented "Yours, with love,"

Civil Service has been axed and has lost many of ita func-were nice clean postcards to 1.

tions.

departments

They

At 2.30. 5.20.

have been told there is plenty of work for them in Industry or local government In provinces.

the

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VAIR-CONDITIONED

FRANK BORZAGE'S

production of

MOONRISE

starring

DANE CLARK - GAIL RUSSELL

ETHEL BARRYMORE

with

ALEYN JOELVE- DIY SHERAW • SETY MERGES

A KUTULIC PRESENTATION •

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PRINCE of FOXES

DIYEONË POWER-DRSON WELLES Si

WANGA HENDRI 20s 19

leaving Belgrade,

Transfer of powers

from houseboat on the Danube

central to local government has

been dranile. Even key depart with a salon papered with

Uncut sheets of

stumped. Most expensive of

11

*

card

Just

important item ko hot-dogs."

How typient of an American way round the world by selling election. Lots of hot-dogs, but picture postcards of themselves precious few cold facis,

and from street to street travel nob fakers can buy post-

anywhere

in the cards from Naturally, it includes the world in the prosperous inter- POCKET CARTOON

of postcard shops the all cards were made to the classic photo-fuke of Aber national Within a year

Nizam of deen on

and. Marseilles. For novelty sprend round

the order of

flag day and Barcelona

post There are plenty of jobs world till

700, Hyderabad and gave nearly

his thousands of seaside fat an extra charge, they'll

cards-carrying your own writ but most people do not like

months hadics in

vivid red swim- Ing-In Italy or Chiria, Egypt dis- 000,000 cards a year were state artists Hix covered when I heard some of being posted

in Britain work,

suits. Many were designed or the U.S.A. their comments.

alone. Gungl' retired into a

by Jerry Wilson. He sold his comic sketches to

Providing alibls for sailors Forty wild elephants manufacturers on a royalty

G2 A sideline. Talking libis, heavy Industry, saucy Viennese postcards. were killed to gain tusks of basis and carned $10,000 a

polke museum in foreign Yet he never tired of com- exactly the right quality year.

Ottawa proudly cherishes a post- trade have lost most of their

mur- plaining that other man for the thin ivory cards, Remember that next card that once caught n powers to local government.

It is as if Scotland, Wales, had corrupted his clean out the present-day value time you twirl a revolving terer. It was sent by the killer to his girl and scrawled across had postcard trade..

atand. of these extravagances is postcard

Veteran with "Love from Harry." been given autonomy overnight A bargain-hunt micro- almost nothing. Ask your artist Donald McGill nowa- When he eventually tired of and half the civil servants in

new her and wanted to get-rld of Whitehall told to take jobs in scope writer, for instance, grand-dad. Granny lovingly days never designs a

planned her nurder places like Glasgow, Prestatyn, squeezed 15,000-words onto stowed all her postcards in card unless he feels sure of her, he and Nuneaton.

travel He persuaded her to a postcard at cheap stamp albums. Grand-dad's set of selling 60,000 copies. Pic with the greatest care. When I saw Tito recently 1

rates. So the postal au- Gaiety girls is a collector's ture and plain, wo still buy under an assumed name across asked him if he had enough

provinces to the lonely to make

million cards a day. A three trained people

his thorities limited the num item today. decentralisation a success. He ber of permissible words to One man papered his true guffaw joko can push wood where, in the end, Lald: "No, wo haven't

20, including signature and house with cards of shapely sales of a card to half-a- was found strangled. He did people, but we shall have; ex-

Maric Studholme, An million. perience is the best training."address...

ments liko agriculture, food, and

and the larger

counles

NANCY

KNOCK KNOCK

Not Her Dish

WHO IS

IT?

MAY WE BORROW

SOME TOOLS ?

By Ernio Bushmiller

OUR

FLYING

SAUCER

CRASHED

IN YOUR

YARD

POP

Д

shc

not know she always carried the

postcard close to her heart.

“Being part owner of the railways, coal mines, and steel industry, I fall to sco, why an extra venny an hour bothers you, Simpkina 、...

London Koreas Bertion,

Mizo d

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When there's bif Ineedn't use my fis!!

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