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French Att itude Stalin Seeks Political Diary Pits Falling To U.S. Offer The Views Lords May Be 1950 Behind Coal Of Maisky Electi on Issue Target By A Special Correspondent By OUR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT By Our Industrial Reported Pledge To HE House of Lords, which has already Correspondent JT is learned on reliable T passed nearly 20 amendments to the Transport Bill, is expected to finish lYfR. SHINWELL, Minister authority that, at the with the Measure this week. The revised version Mr. Bevin moment when Russian foreign will then of Fuel and Power , made policy stands at the firs t real be sent back to the Commons. a grave speech yesterday parting of the ways since The defiant attitude of the Upper House has naturally from whicn it may be inferred the that output in the mines is lagging Kremlin abandoned Litvinov's aroused a good deal of comment in political circles. Is the House of Lords, after all these well behind the Government's High Hopes collective security line and con- target of 200 million tons laid In cluded its pact with Hitler, the years, about to become the down as essential if another fuel two men who have conducted all centre of a new constitutional Franco 'Advised crisis is to be avoided. dealings with the outside world struggle? Mr Herbert Morrison Speaking in Yorkshire, which is since that fateful decision are both seemed to hint as much the other now the. largest coal division in the Washington out of action. day wheta he said that the By Gen. Per on country and contributes more than Mr. Molotov, tired and over- Government might be forced to re- one-fifth of the national output. Mr From PETER WHITNEY worked, is about to take a holiday, consider its constitutional policy. Shinwell said that if Britain failed while Mr. Vishinsky ia seriously ill Ministers have undoubtedly been To Pretend ' to dig the coal needed in the next WASHINGTON. 21 at a famous spa in Czechoslovakia. irritated by the attitude of the By Special Correspondent 12 or 18 months the country would June On the face of it there is nothing Lords. The Transport Bill is not A be in grave peril. surprising in this news for both one of their happier efforts, and Yorkshire, he went on. had not It is reported in diplomatic quarters here that, , they would have liked to see it out gENORA PERON'S visit to achieved its target of 865,000 tons of men. and especially Mr. Vishinsky, saleable coal in any one w hile Britain and France await Russian participa- have been putting a great strain on of the way as soon as possible. The Spain has coincided with L week so themselves by overworking. wretched thing must now be certain remarkable Argentine far. ' Even when allowance has tion in the Marshall plan for Europe , M. Bidault has dragged through the Commons yet measures regarding that country been made for holidays , there is evi- On the other hand , the coincidence again. which throw a curious light on the dence of a marked falling off in out- alread y given Mr. Bevin an assurance that France is interesting, especially when it is The revised version will be con- lavish reception accorded to her. put This is a decline that the also reported that during the past sidered by the Cabinet at an early country cannot afford. fortnight Mr. Stalin has had several General Peron has increased the " Mr. Shin- will go ahead on a European economic plan no matter date, but there seems no likelihood price of Argentine meat for Spain well also spoke of a " marked i n- interviews with Mr. Maisky, former of Ministers trying to force the con- crease in absenteeism." w hat the Soviet Union does. Ambassador to Britain, who had by 18 per cent without Spain's prior stitutional issue at the moment. consent At the same time, Ambas- June Decline The effect of the* news from Paris on State Depart- ideas of his own about co-operation The Lords may seem as if they had sador Arce, the Argentine represen- with the West got out of hand, but in fact they tative at U.N., has warned Genera l He did not say that coal production ment is one of triump j ;h Mr. Maisky, unlike his master, Mr. have been far more circumspect generally was, in fact , below what h and hi hopes ; in the words of Franco, during a recent visit to was needed , *" Litvinov , has never been out of cir- than Lord Salisbury's defiant words Madrid, that unless certain " demo- but the implication is inie American official : Something big may come out culation since his return to Moscow. Yardley winning the toss from Melville at the opening of might suggest. No wrecking cratic pretences " are made by Spain only too plain. If the miners are to "' Hp has held a responsible post in the second Test Match with South Africa at Lord' s yesterday. amendment has been passed, and it reach the 200 million target they i.f this. before the next meeting of the U.N. must have an average output of Officially, however, the Soviet Foreign Office and has has not escaped notice that their General Assembly, Argentina will the U.S. maintains her chosen been frequentl y seen at non- Lordships have paid particular find it very difficult to defend the some 4,140,000 a week. Although the attitude of non-interference in the planning at this stage political functions. attention to clauses which were Spanish regime in that body. returns in May were around the The British Embassy here is keeping Americans informed With Mr. Vishinsky ill and Mr. passed in the Commons without dis- Apparently the referendum about four-miliion mark, it can only be cussion. So far they have not given , assumed from Mr. Shinwell's speech but no more It is thought likely that, since any European Molotov overworked , and at this Tildy Removed the law of succession now fixed for that there nas been a fall since. very real crisis in Russia's relations the Government a very good case. July 17, is intended by Franco to pro- p lanning must almost begin with the Ruhr , the U.S. as an If this inference is correct, the occupying Power cannot long withhold that " friendlv with the West, it is perfectly natural vide these " democratic pretences." Government is obviously faced with that Mr Maisky's views, if not his Fiercer Political The electoral registers for the a serious problem. The pessimists as sistance " in the drawing up of the plan which Mr Marshall id\ lce. should be sought. rom Clashes Ahead referendum, prepared by the Falan- promised at Harvard F Buda pest gist authorities, exclude all citizens have always said that output would Change of Policy By A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT A CONSTITUTIONAL issue who have relative's abroad and all fall as soon as the first enthusiasm When that day comes it is thought that an entirely new ¦*"*¦ could only come about if the those who are living in " conditional for nationalisation was over, and Mr. spproach may bring about an accord among Western Powers On the other ha nd , illness in Soviet T HE President of the Hungarian Republic, Mr. Tildy, has Lords defied the Commons a liberty." The number of Spaniards Shinwell's speech seems to suggest on the Ruhr question which has, more than any factor , kept I Russia has before now been a pre- been removed from Budapest and is now under virtual second time, and I understand that living abroad at present is over that they may be right. Output dur- this is most unlikely. The Com- 500,000. In practice, these provisions ing the rest of the summer is more Britain and France apart in lude to relegation or dismissal; and arrest in the country. likely to fall than to increase. Holi- the dismissal of important fig ures is mons will probably send back the exclude everybody who did not side ine recent past. American - RESCUE This development followed the revelations made by his Bill much as it was and the Lords with General Franco during the late days are bound to have an effect on sources imply that the U.S itself a prelude to a change of front. former Chief of Cabinet, Mr. Jekely, who exposed the Com- are then expected to submit. Civil War production, and it is most unlikely Certainly if Mr Stalin should decide But that will not, as most people that there will be an improvement mru lie prepared to sanction a to accept munist in Hungary and left the service of the new . The votes will be counted by mem- on the returns for June. gi eater degree of socialisation and | OF EUROPE the An^lo-French invita- seem to think, be the end of the bers ol the Falange and Accion i i.ernationahsation in Germanv tion with the real intention of reach- regime immediately after matter. The attitude of the Upper Catolica. Only pro-Franco propa- It is perhaps still too early to ing agreement on ways and means of House now makes it almost certain ganda judge whether the five-day week is wiihin such a European plan than The Observer to-day de- leaving the country to take up is allowed going to be a success, s 'ie has in the past been willing j votes the main space on its concerting a plan to take advantage Budapest White a new appointment as Hun- that reform of the Lords will be but if the June ; ¦¦ allow Equal concessions are leader-page, normally occu- of the Marshall scheme, the absence the chief plank in the " Let us Face figures turn out to be below the four- of Mr. Mololov and Mr Vishinsky garian Minister to Brussels and the Future " of 1950. What the million figure, the Cabinet may well !i ped for from the French , although pied by signed articles, to The Hague. have to reopen the q uestion l h.e making of a possible compromise an editorial statement on would give him an excellent pretext Lords do now, and what they do in Bright Periods, of the as eement is not yet suggested for sending a representative more Paper Accuses President Tildy has for several the f uture, will be used as ammuni- shorter week with the National the Marshall offer for the sympathetic to the West. weeks been under strong Com- tion at the next General Election. Union of Mineworkers. My infor- There remains the possibility that reconstruction of Europe. munist pressure to dissolve Par- Showery mation is that the Union would not at the last minute , and It is no exaggeration to say that at Labour's programme is thus be- Russia may, this moment the Politbureau does, in Britain and U.S. liament and order new elections ginning to take shape. The House An anticyclone south-west of the necessarily refuse to consider work- despite Mr Bevin 's severities in the We adopt this unusual under a new electoral law. He has up British Isles is spreading north-east ing the extra half-day provided that Thursday, ask to par- fact, stand at a parting of the ways. BUDAPEST. June 21 of Lords will appear at the lop, Commons on course in the conviction that j If the invitation is refused it will be to now steadfastly refused to do this bracketed perhaps with a Five-Year and is expected to reach the main- the men were paid overtime. ticipate in the planning This might ; the offer can be made a A WHITE PAPER which the before the end of the Russian land to-day. It will probably be fol- The annual conference of the prove embarrassing for the Amen- j I final confirmation of the recent trend Plan—a prosperity plan. Research turning-point in the history in Soviet policy, which is quite Hungarian Government is occupation of Hungary. is already going on in Transport lowed by a depression centred , late Union meets during July and , if cans who remain committed to Mr to publish to-morrow quotes His bodyguard has now been re- last night, 1,900 miles west of Lon- Ministers decide to open the ques- Marshall s Harvard dictum that of Europe and of the world. clearly towards disengagement from House into various industries, and To Europe it offers the the West under cover of violent rear- charges that Britain and the placed by a new " bodyguard " of those who should be in a position to don. Weather will be mainly fair tion of the five-day week, they " any Government which manoeuvre; , United States offered to provide members of the Political Police, with long bright periods in all dis- would presumably do so some time to black the recovery of other ! choice between new life and guard action and a turning inwards know predict that the final report tricts, upon itself behind b barrier of ex-Premier Nagy and the so-called and he has been moved to a house will come down in favour of nation- with occasional showers in the next month. ci unlrie s cannot expect help from slow death. Its challenge conspirators with funds and In the village of Balaton Lelle, near North and North Midlands. Prem ier's address to miners, p. 5. the V S " For it is abundantly clear and opportunity must be puppet States " " alising shipbuilding and the land. th.i !¦¦!- -nilHons the If , however , the invitation is seri- material support , it was learned Lake Balaton. He is not allowed We are moving into a new and * of Americans seized, and seized at once. here to-night to receive anyone except in the much fiercer stage of political con- whole diiv nf the Marshall plan is j ously accepted it will mean that the The White Paper also quotes claims presence of members of his new less charrv than the conviction that | Our survey of the offer , Kremlin has decided, under pressure troversy. No Tory is really opposed , that the " conspirators " were supply- " bodyguard." Even before this, Mr. to the nationalising of the coal t-» Si'\ :e: f-iion is deliberately m- drawn up with the advice \ of economic need to this ing the British and United States Tildy had been warned that the f.:cUng chj r> - to spread Communism of experts, including Lord trend (which only became clear mines, and many privately raise no Beveridge, Sir Arthur when the failure of the Moscow con- missions with military and anti- Communists held " evidence " that serious objection to the State taking ference told the Russians that they Soviet information he, too, was implicated in the " plo: over eas, electricity, and transport. Russian Strategy Salter , M.P., and Sir George The document quotes from state- against the Republic." This " evi- It is when Socialism pushes into arisen ; | could get nothing more out of by An immediate conflict ha* Schuster, sets it in perspec- . Europe) and resume co-opera tion ments alleged to have been made dence " has, however , not yet been industries still considered to offer r\ er t he medium for planning The ; tive against Europe's needs with the West. Mr. Kapocs. private secretary to Mr. made public. scope for private enterprise that the Ameri cans, like ihe British , are , Nagy, who was arrested in Budapest 1 j and prospects opposition will become much more I discusses its Socialist Part r-?)acUi"t tn see the European political significance , and Labour ? n the nlRht on which the Premier's y Crisis real and tenacious. F- mi nic Cnmmission entrust ed wi'h makes definite suggestions " Revolt " resignation was announced. Mr Mr. Jekely's step is significant of 4 dh>u ¦r.= t i = k although it wa< a body as to the methods and It is impossible to make a firm Kapocs is said to have stated that the rapid disintegration of the Britain to Clarify v&\ ^- ^"""* ^- I '. '.iTted at American instance within prediction. But there are certain Mr. Nagy gave him orders "to pro- rabric of Hungarian politics, since l-i i. United Nations But Mr Lie, the machinery required for vide every facility and show every Loan Clause ' ¦ signs which, taken together , may be he was a prominent representative P .: e' a'-y-Croneral. ha= a=ked Ameri- carrying it out. courtesy to Mr. Racz . the new Com- of the Left Wing of the Smallholders' (7JREAT importance is attached to make use seen as pointing to a break with mercial Counsellor of the American t ¦ >n dnd Binush ornci.il* Short-term steps that Party, which is still officially repre- ^-* in London to the visit of Mr. < ihe Eirmo e.m Econ-mic Commis- could be taken immediately past policy. The first is the reported Legation in Budapest, as this gentle- sented in the present Government. Clayton , U.S. Under-Secretary of <: ' ".. .and st appears from certain ! absence of Mr. Molotov and Mr man had promised financial1 support He had even received his new State for Economic Affairs, who is i ••¦¦ rti^patches that this will be are proposed , and the per- Vishinsky for the Smallholders Party at the nfvt #>lprtinn appointment from that Government. expected to arrive here this week- ^ • . et -K I '.egv a* well But when ' manent new economic The second is the fact that the '' A rapid crisis is also developing end. By that time the Govern- < ¦' l- -.'id mid done perhaps the organisation which the pro- Polilbureau has been very badly in the Socialist Party whose leader, ment hopes to have something c, * ou eMtnn mark in the whole " Spy for Britain " " e- ject could bring to Europe is advised on the true state of affairs Other charges are attributed to a Mr. Szakasits, has for the last criti- definite to say in reply to Mr. Mar- ! B":ul pri'iect is here in US . outlined. in the West, and especiallv in this cal fortnight stayed in Paris and shall's offer o£ aid to Europe. Con- ? '~ e-'., c politics I country, police official named Yarmay. We offer this survey as a , and may at last have described as having been bodyguard given some outspoken information versations have already been held T:-it> sh and American o fficials j j realised this. It is quite plain lhat to Bela Kovacz (former Secretary- about the Hungarian situation to with France, and further exchanges ' • !;e are growing concerned a 'i wh.at . basis for discussion , con- I they enormously over-rated the in- General ut the Smallholders' Party). French Socialists. He has now been will have taken place before Mr. L - >v t-jke to be over-optimism abroad sidering it essential that the fluence nf the " rebellion " within summoned to return to Hungary at Clayton arrives. Talks, it is hoped, n ¦' - ;he Marshal! plan and its pro- ' the Labour Party. Yarmy—said to have been sen- will also have been held with Hol- ¦ full implications of the pro- tenced to hard labour on charges of once.—Copyright. .-dock in Congress. In the first place posal should be clearly and The third is the publication in espionage on behalf of Britain—is land, Belgium, and Luxembourg, and r 15 noi in facl. a plan at all but a j promptly grasped by the " Pravda. " without adverse com- quoted as having confessed to Russia's attitude will almost certainly ~ 'Mz e$\ rn for a new method to public , particularly in this ment, of the text of the Bevin- working for a Captain Clark and a be known. ;.pp "o ach a pi oblem. In this country i Bidault invitation , which suggests Hardly less important, though not many rapid country, for it is Britain 's Colonel Hanley, and to having sup- Potato Shorta ge th e first impact upon responsibility to take the ; very slrongty that it is fining to be plied them with documents and de- so dra matic, is the Government's rt -.cie:5 of Mr. Mar sr.all's speech wat accepted tails of the police organisation i n decision to open discussions on the 11 lead in promoting Europe r ^ ' "i .. - * America would be ervin c 's Budapest a h id the provinces and the working of the Anglo-U.S. loan r- 'i -- but that Eu'upe wnuld be help- response. To Continue agreement The clause which ¦¦¦;• ci^.ne lesf political affiliations of various police IN almost all parts of London h":self and the r S Liberal ,-: ' Full Support u (fleer* worries the Government is the one 1 i '. ;n the p.i G ". Within the next lew days *¦ yesterday greengrocers were which lays down that there is to be ^ reprints will be available at Mr Isaac Foot. President oi th€ The White Paper summarises docu- fa ced with long queues as house- no discrimination against American N ews " Leak " Liberal Parly, speaking nt Sher- ments which will be produced in wives waited to buy potatoes. In exports. Britain accepted this at the the pri ce of Id. per copy, or ¦ borne last night , said that Mr the conspiracy trials. According to spite of the diversion of supplies to a-i if. th e expected nati onal dis- , , p ost free time in the belief that it referred to A i 2s 6d. per 100 , on R evin 's r esponse to Mr Marshall ' s Mr. Kapucs , Mr Na ey tried to make London from Eire, Scotland, and tariffs and quotas, but it is now cleai cj-- "T. ot the America]"1, rol e ir. next application to The Manager , 1 offer would be welcomed bj Hungary a political and economic ¦ programme has 1 the Channel Islands, a Ministry of that the Americans have interpreted - s European ¦ The Observer , 22. Tudor - Liberals throughout the country base for America in South-Eastern Food official stated that the shortage the clause much more widely than i v, \ begun Officially no one , 'i street E.CA. 1 nnd he could be assured of then Europe He said that Mr. Arthur ¦ ¦ ¦ hds proposed , Lond on, 1 would last for at least a week. we ever expected. •- Admini stration i > . full support. Schoenield (American representa- 1 -: s^.nts ot billions of dollars for I tive in Budapest up to the beginning The new pota to crop has been The difference of opinion first 1 late all over the " country—a month showed itself at the time of the I . "pe th e* information has been of this month) had declared that he days in Canadian wheat agreement. The " V.Ak'd "' out to a rather limited I approved Mr. Nagv 's policy and late in Cornwall and ten ;¦ , Pembrokeshire and Lincolnshire— British, in all innocence, imagined .b ic through chosen journalists tactics, and lhat the United States and 'many potatoes in clamps were that they were free to safeguard their - . n. " neii "H-the-record Press con- Conflict of Views After would aid Hungary by loans and . destroyed by floods. Spitalfields wheat supplies as best they could. rr, k Messrs Marshall , Acheson relief.—Reuter. , on the other hand, ¦'• Cki y.r.n have been extremel v Market, which usually takes about The Americans ' part the U.S 400 tons a day about now, yesterday politely suggested that we had - !- .ibi- ut " the Talks in Paris received a supply described as broken the spirit of the discrimina- '"- ' play U.S. To Pay Own " almost negligible." At Brentford tion clause, if not the letter. They '. ,-. consequence I!'ere ha- been From A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Market there was an early morning argued that the future prices we had <¦ ¦ ' iinary silence in Congress June 21 • There can be no mistake about Costs In Austria queue of 200 wholesale green- fixed with the Canadians might be . - - and Representative- are PARIS. Vienna June 21 —United States grocers waiting for a share-out of higher than world prices, and in that ¦¦ -r, commit themselves on France ' s desire tor doll ars Like our- . u \ PROFOUND divergence of | *-el\ et. she stands to gain immedi- for ces in Austria are tn pay their 20 sacks of potatoes. case we should be favouring - • -. ' .. m-rie a; wnose d etails- the\ Canadian against American sellers. i views between France . ately dnd i mmensely bv any loosen- own occupation expenses hs from A thousand tons from Jersey and '. L. ut s- ;md in p^r '.icular be- Julv 1 it was announced to-day | Ministers have, therefore, decided ' and Bntain , not merel y on the _ ing of American purse strings But . another thousand tons from Corn- ' > i \ lmti laKe a samp sng of ' Th e United States statement said , to ask the American Government, . - n[ r- i'ir cunslituenls immediate procedure to follow it muM be remembered that, if the j wall will reach London to-morrow i' > Mr MaishaH' proposals, Americans, that the plan would give the Austrian ; but the shortage will continue until through Mr. Clayton , to clarify the i i .rre-ptni^ un; ,j. -> t ^eek s but on cut ntf dollar supplies , so ¦ ¦ ¦: " i the whole problem of Eiuopean im posing a de focto Continental Government dollar credits for i the English crop is ready. (Continued on page 5. column T) - i -i; udouL 1 ' .Ticrnber? nf I urgently needed supplies and equip- ._ ¦ ¦-- . ,i. 'in tro reconstrurtion and ordrr, has be- blockade, we should starve while the . -iL'ir • .i.' - come apparent sincu Mr Bevin ' ment, but' even more would result in , i_ / ..n Th- l-u !¦: L i ;- i Sm- s ' French could uncomfnrtablv survive Pnns vis11 It threaten^ to impuse Not that .his rock-bot tom contin- the immediate dereauisitioninR of all ¦ i - .nf -13l'! « lit p i-nlniiu ' property which could not be paid for 1 ,~ S e- i ' -Frt *nth ry- gen cy i? -seriously envisaged but per- ' Plan : TVr n-nt' a 'Austerity ne\ r lew in doll ars within the U.S. forces' French ¦ ¦- hition^ u iihin 'fie weeks. ! hHps i t cnlours our contracting view? members of the Commission on the - , j' • . ' A] --n r vj- r ri . budgetary limi ts —Reuter 1 i ir i : vn d,^ b ¦ . . < i -;jp:{na in t ;i r Lit Ml n:i the doll ar dilemma other. It is expected that these talks K.i ' th.it t-'^-i u nil. been iifKi^ ti ¦ " ' ' , but that a com- - .i -1 r n k • n- i - a - Opposed wiil be protracted ¦ ,. i in e Mher sidt- Ottici.i I .•^ilcim-rU;- . t . ir^ 1( .-. promise will be reached. .. . ' , ^ 0 ~ , nn -rj ' French Adamant r^w indie a " complete under- Points Changes r rmn Alan Houjditon Brodrick The Finance Commission before its ¦¦ i^.tndjrc1 .ma ' pe; ' if .icc^rri i1 In anv case it was thr French - it \~. - > "n :. . ':vi - ;. nri vote had already introduced "' Riil rni- rmild ¦:' t ehmin.i ie ine 1 .»cts ihe-si^ which rev ailed in ¦ p P-an*. this several amendments: exemption ¦ ¦ ¦ im ;:-c1 ¦ t n "tt .il 1 To-dav ' PARIS, June 21 it t 'a eel: It is nn .secret that Mr Be * in from tne capital levy for fortunes -hf t : ¦'* h it- m.ifei 1 he points values of su t'tHeiii'd a vote of¦ 16 to 13 the ] Bi li ily, ^ - ^ and his team of experts would have 1-JY under 50,000 francs (£100); rejection Comment Withheld ' -hat f nr i he F"CTirh u^Ukt the liked to hnve gone further than cake and pudding mixtme>.. table of ¦¦ ¦ the Finance Commission - ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ 1 of the extra tax on newly-established • - ,i , 1 i r l elliei table lelly crystals, and table .„ i H , " -h \i . ~\ .dp."! r i i ir the re cum - mere issur of nn invitation tn Mr Assembly ex- pi b> jelly compounds have been reduced , the National businesses and shops; substitution of - " ¦iji ' n :; -cuTT^e Mpnvrfi the Mnlntnv The French however, re- pressed its general opposition a petrol tax for one on horse- A-rer.c.i'1 i ~ more nr le^- ccndi- m ained adamant if the Russians for th e monthly ration period begin- ; ¦ ¦ - mng to-day These to the emergency austerity " power: and rejection of the dividend ¦¦ i r_ l 1 «¦ irj Ru^ .jm a ppro - al Mr bluntly refuse to enter intn any dis- are nurmal | " - i- , , - ¦- = periodical proposed by M. tax and that on " visible signs of by , - ( f i -T 'r ,p- i ' ^ri : ] 'i- .i Mar- •, h,i- made it plain irn t he is cussions ihe French may ultimately adjustments. measures I presented 1 B' " Finance, 1 '"""re ¦ ' ~ n Supplies of canned meats accutnu Schuman . the Minister of wealth." P ' i£r : . '' .;£h ' e,r n,, ' prepared to admit indefinite de- confer ]i advisable to explore the crisis ^^^^^^^^^ ' ¦ ¦ 1 ~ ( lated for the Services' war-time re for averting the financial Whatever measures are adopted— '" f h;! - "Li . C -" ' . ^T - C i I* .L rif i l h._l * l ' the Ru^ii-n^ refu-e resource* and needs of European It is note- ~ ' i- 1 1 ^- quirements have now ceased and which threatens France. and time presses—it looks as though V, i - . [i t ' i ip '" u'" " '- - ' - ropn r * c ' hV- , "\j tali -m t hat ha? been ex 1 ended c >untr ie^ outside the Eastern bloc members of - •• points values of l uncheon mea ts worthy that the Rightist France has seen the end of price- \". ' . r a:.. 5 £Si:l^ '. 1 ¦ 'hi'ni -;ep>. will be tdkor. ' o ; R ut onlv if the Russian " No ]S ( the Commission voted with the fixing by statute and a return to " ' ' -l r r~ M .it j " '- ' ¦ ¦ ¦¦ ! a^olutely categorical and other than vial loaf and ham loat) . d " c - ' j -. ... Vbj i h' -u t 'hem audible to minced meat loaf, stewed steak. majority , whereas some of the price-fixing by the law of supply <- ^\\ T>- ¦ ec\ i- pe-h 'ii- r • nil the world and the French public agreement with the ¦ ¦ - ¦ ¦ ! ¦ ¦ potted meat and pate foie. hav e Leftists were in and demand. The strike wave . . r- _V~ : r . •- _ .; I.. I, . Desire for Dollars n particular. • ¦ -;¦ - Government. throughout the country, A . - H - •-., •-. ,:,,. ¦ ¦ therefore been increased Canned a nd especi- ' : ' 1 M- Bp*:m p'- np^-ps ¦¦ -r.np interpreted as ; ¦ ; ¦ ¦ "' ' A hi gh official of the French sausages, ready meals, and Irish This vole cannot be ally in Paris, is not decreasing. All ¦ i . -. i : i r _ .-:-. >-¦ -¦ , ~ iji rl - Mi \]. ]nlnv lie ui.uld rejection of the emergency ¦ ¦ Fi -reicn Office whom I Questioned stew have been put on points again a total the banks are closed, as well as the i . ' M Bin.ij t \o ¦ ¦ • - pi'L i n F: pnrn policy in tne event of measures, bul only as a n indication i ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ - , department stores. The Com- - . . ..,- „ ^ 11 . i - a , , 1 ¦ ¦ • • ¦ ¦ ! . l-i thu -. i expect : l- i n- « n nmi-cu-oncratir.-i refused that in their present form they will - ! * - Ru^' munists are apparently trying to ' - ) ' t ., - " , ' - ' > r\ i -¦, - - , . -pa- ; M- Rr\ in - ¦*\ 1 ¦ ¦ .- • rn li- i nlemplale ?uch ,i con- Lor d Pakcnliain Hack not be tabled on Monday. Negotia- blackmail themselves back into the • i: ^or i " <¦ i ¦ ' - ¦' . n l "^ c: : * >] ' - . ¦¦ -m - .-' hi \ ii . rn " o I h f? f V n - tirnjenc ¦ The truth t= tin a t France LvnTr * I- - M En - 1 e r n Eu'-npe fnr ,inv short-term man\ returned In England b\ air ter ' s official residence, between M call a swing to the Right things t \ p-' - » .i d . - > r h \-'\ w- ¦ P- •-. ' .i the Chamber " '^ d i \ ,.i ' ^ng-iprin ernn'.mir ad\Hntdtfes. yesteiday after ,i Ihr ee-dav \iMt to Ramadier the Prime Mtntster , and ! would not be in such d mess.—Copy- (Con tinued on page 5. col 6) , . j hr u.e\r: substantial these mav be J Hannver and Kiel M Sthuman on ihe one hand and . right . I ?*? At the Theatre Radio The Galleries Music At the Films Bless The Bridie Canonising Masters of Maup assant The Mature Mason By IVOR BROWS " Caste " By C. A. LEJEUNE two big revivals in France Reversed is always a high day for the into a tragedy of the ; THE and a beer and a rest. But in the IT Central London last week, theat re they are " character " and By W. E. WILLIAMS By MAURICE COLLIS By CHARLES STUART professional critic or the pro- whereas we are really assisting at James Bridie s A Sleeping so must everlastingly gabble , fessed amateur of any art a calculated entertainment pro- ) PHE wireless revival of " Caste vvnen a mind in which he has had Clergyman (Criterion and An- squeak , scamper , and behave like " PHE Wildensiein Gallehy has ¦*¦"PIRST things first. Britten has vided by a first-class showman. dreyev's He Who Gets Slapped j the zanies they have to be in the was conducted so solemnly the an exhibition of French seven- never given us a lovelier, confidence justifies itself publicly ? (Duchess), offered sinking ex- i ring. The circus al'o goes badly other evening as to suggest that teenth-century wittier or defter score than as a good mind , and Tne Upturned the occasion art in aid of the Herring, Ul ass (Gaumont) The actor has been enormously amples of what production does I to the head of all dabblers in was a stage in the Merchant Navy Comforts Fund. " Albert " which makes will make the , or does not do to a play. The first i psychology Ty rone Guthrie's admission of that work into the (The charge for entrance is 2s. 6d., the perfect pendant to " Peter many people who trusted in James helped in his eflects by. a short (and far better play) seemed to ' prod uction of Judilh Guthrie 's canon of British drama. Its recent and for catalogue Is. 6d.) The Grimes " and comforts many who Mason 's astuteness very happy. warm-heai ted performance from limp simply because the acting i " version "—not translation — of restoration in the living theatre pictures are all lent , and come had diagnosed a falling-off in Mr. Mason, who plays trie lead- Rosamund John as the woman he left no ing part in the film loves, and by the direction ot was often far too slow; while the , Andreyev 's play carries a pro- doubt in my own mind that mostly from the leading private " The Rape of Lucretla." , co-produced Lawrence Huntington second was handicapped bv the gramme essay on its symbolism we have outgrown this dropsical collections, and the exhibition is Before proceeding with first it, and has left the peculiar im- , who has burden of over-production and by (Surely it 's a confession of failure Victorian melodrama and that , if it an important one, as will appear things, a word or two about the print of his imagination large learnt in the hard school of the amount of business heaped ! when producers have to write ex- is to survive any longer, it must be from its description. book, " freely adapted," says the across it, has achieved in this quickies to turn an economy of Convenient, on an adapted text. It was adver- j planations .) So everybody gal- embalmed by some such sardonic The central room is devoted to Glyndebourne programme, " from work the effect ho tumbled for in material to full account. I have no tised , frankly and rightly, as i lops, screams , pirouettes, roller- mortician as Tod Slaughter . For works by Poussin. The French re- a short story by Gujj de Mau- " 1 Met a Murderer " many years means of knowing, in the complex pala table, " Tyrone Gut hrie's Production Of skates, or is banged about for some if it were not played with a gard- Poussin as their greatest passant." The operative word is ago. " I Met a Murderer " was a structure of the cinema , whether . . . ." That is what it is arid, high , psychological purpose, and straight face, " Caste " could seventeenth - century painter, "f reely." Mr. Crozier's libretto maiden effort in production , made Mr . Huntington can be initially for those who prefer their theatre what was once a fairly simple raise a full quota of laughs. Even though he lived in Rome most of differs from Le Rosier de Madame in the' days when his enthusiasm credited with the idea of that effective . . that way, here is Guthrieismus in then, Huston as chalk differs from clever sequence in .which a man's story of a heartbroken escapist however, it has to be seen if his life and painted in a style was young and his experience back is used alternately to con- glittering abundance . The Bridie seeking oblivion in Ihe motley is its humours are to be credible. The founded upon mat of the Venetian chutney. You may remember that younger still. " The Upturned ' Milk of Magnesia ' • Ta blets, play, though showing the like- now served up as a bit of Cupid pill-box hat and the tight trousers masters. To the unbiased eye he the Virtuous Isidore of de Mau- Glass " is a mature, though still ceal and emphasise ihe growing able Bridie touch, is matter . and Psyche with the meat of the of the Hussars must be made mani- appears as a late Italian master. passant, having been crowned as extremely morbid, work, made by animation on a woman's face, but by effectivel y correcting acidity, not manner. It has its whim- yarn fest if His colours are colder and less a sort of May King, becomes the he earns full marks for the surety buried under a load of pro- such characters as Captain a full-grown man who has learnt with which he has pulled it off. give prompt relief from indiges- sical old snoozer in the cloth ducer 's trimmings. Of course, Hawtree are to rise above their rich than Titian's, than whom he is village drunk and dies " dans une by his own and other people's mis- to suggest that religion snores | Guthrie 's touch is extremely in- dialogue. His accoutrements more architectural and less gay in crise de delirium tremens, takes; has retained his zest for the The only real technical defect in tion. They are pleasantly mim- while science marches, but it genious , might carry his paganism. An erotic intensity naturellement." Virtuous Albert the bundle of tricks known as if he woke but the words tend to off the sentiments of tterxing, cinema while acquiring a sleight- Upturned Glass , so far fiavoured ; convenient io take wouldn't matter much get lost in the general brou- the period , but without such visual informs his work, which in this his Suffolk counterpart, of-hand in the more profitable " The " lies up and went off to a parish meet- ha-ha Mr . Ernest , aids the poverty respect is more French than s doped on the day of his crown- as I can see, in the inability of the whenever the need arises. ing. The theme is heredity. Milton in of the thing can- lag with a mixture of rum and :ricks of thp mpdium story-writers to decide which trick an amusing performance, was not be concealed. Italian in mood. Capital exam- In the earlier film , it will be Breeding farmstock . we know what hardly to be blamed for a tem- ples of his work are to be seen at lemonade and goes on an remembered , to bring out of the bag last. The we want . Breeding humans , do porary failure of memory from Marin e Parade Vildenstein *s_ ambiguous spree. As a result he he was careless proper ending to the film occu rs we? What are we after , more finds himself magically freed from about supporting his dramatic about two-thirds of the way 'MILK of MAGNESIA" navvies, more beau- which he recovei cd well. A man At this time of year a seasonal (a) mother domination, eBect with a substantial basis of through , when an alert student . poets, more well might forget everything from ennui is apparent in wireless pro- The Antique World Andreyev which , grubbing frantically for bits of lines of communication behind about it." and leaves the lecturer after al! be more concerned than 's familiar fable which for many a week to come, of Italy, and his pictures, often of Freud between the lines. lim. In " The Upturned Glass has been going the repertory we shall be offered what passes sea-ports and landscapes, do not " guessing at what he knows. Mr . we imagine? rounds for years . As to method. for jollity In short , A. Herring (brilliantly he has made no such mistake. His Mason should have stopped there, at the popular resorts represent the Italian scene in its created by Peter Pears) is a social story, about a celebrated I surmise " the simpler. the of Britain. If I were dawdling brain- but his enthusiasm runs away with ' irtfwaii'n • contemporary appearance but are misfit like Grimes; but, unlike surgeon who commits a murder him; there are too many tricks still • TrtJt wan t •/ M *H *P* f * >*,r " >* There is plenty of good theme better ." But Guthrie thinks at Douglas or Clacton I should arrangements calculated to sug- Grimes (and Isidore) he wins conceived here: and plenty " of good theatre . otherwise , and is not in the least doubtless applaud the antics gest the classical echo that still , as he believes, in per- left In the bag. This seems to me too. The Scottish family saga. afraid of going his own way So which are laid on at every seaside ingered in the country. through to a kind of dubious re- fect sanity, and inspired by as a pity, for that line, and the chal- pavilion Neverthe- habilitation. Moral : do not read much integrity in the auth lenge in it so subtly offered a nd with its mixtures of blood and James Agate's one-time descrip- , for I should be mollified less, he was not really Italianatel de Maupassant in preparation for or as in On holiday her brain , genius and frailty. o rTers tion of him as " a master-clutterer " beforehand by an idle day in the a profound personal emotion en- those who must eventually sit in accepted, is the one thing that as good parts as Bridie has ever is fully justified . Never a dull sun. But to overhear these revela Glyndebourne. or you will con- judgment on him, will not try the gives fresh point to the shabbiest titles him to be called the painter clude that you have turned up on wits of the given to the theatre. I have never moment Always something for in one's urban home after a hard of the classic twilight. He is the wrong night, lowbrow too high, nor trick in his bag, the old trick of magnesiasmile seen Robert Donat In better form the eye. At the base of the maul day 's work is to run the risk of or that there has the patience of the highbrow too telling a story in flashback. Either essentially the trans-alpine soul been a change of bill, or that you far: i drama, in than as two of the Camerons , first or scrimmage, like some sub- an attack of radio-jaundice. There moved before the sacred groves of are losing your grip on things t combines the delights of the film should be direct adds to her char m rasping and gasping as a dying lad merged half-back in a Rugby foot- are kinds of entertainment which , the ancient gods. This mood , . an evening spent in the company which case the flashback is wrong, (and boor) of genius , then charm- ball game, is Andreyev 's play and like certain wines, do not travel anchored though it is in classical of Miss Betty Grable and an hour or it should be indirect narrative , ingly impudent as a lad of parts a very quiet, skilful and moving well, and " Seaside Nights " is one form, sometimes becomes pre- Urban Lays or so in an armchair with Freud. in which case the ending is wrong and frailties , finally harassed and performance of the " slappee " by of them . dominantly romantic as in the Mr . Crozier's text is provoca- Mr. Mason , in fact, has brought savage as a genius in the " lab " , Robert Helpmann . The Thi rd Programme is getting "Enchanted Castle." tively prosaic, sometimes admir- to a fine art the method employed The other new films are Ameri- crisis-haunted, crisis-beating . Here better-balanced . It is still rather The lesser French painters of the ably so. But whether Butcher by some of the shrewdest British can and in Technicolor . The better i? grand , varied , vital acting ? obsessed by Greek mythology, and seventeenth century surrendered Boy Sid (Frederick Sharp) sings directors since the days of Alfred fun is Th e Perils of Pauline Francis Lister also walks down the Richard Llewellyn s Noose, a a faint odour of frankincense entirely to the Italian vogue. They about a bike puncture or Mr. Hitchcock: the trick of taking an (Plaza), in which Betty Hutton re- years with a rich development of Reunion Theatre success, comes to hovers over its major productions , had not the force to stamp it with Mayor (Roy Ashton) about urban ordinary article and giving it an calls the early life and exploits of character , and Evelyn Roberts is the Saville Theatre with the re- but latterly it has begun to take a personal or French emotion , and district councils, Britten's music is irresistible air of profound thought Pearl White, the serial queen . The quisite punch and pace in Reginald cognisance of some urgent current , most welcome as a man about Tate's production and plenty of problems of sociology and politics. served the Court of France with always pointed, iridescent, and re- and orieinalitv. nonsense is taken at a high pace Downing S.treet. Margaret Leigh- all-in acting for the gang-fights. what was in demand , namely, deeming. After a single hearing and Miss Hutton , who is a very ton , with three parts set in three Lord Templewood's talk on the variations upon the Italian mode. of so rich a score one's memory is much better comedian than Miss The ex-Servicemen certainly condition of Spain, for insta nce, , This is not the way to conceive generations, gives vivid quality to tumble to it . The central figure is was a refreshing example of the Such artists as Bourdon , Vouet a tumult. From the general White ever was. although she each, and John Gregson is admir- Blanchard , La Hire—all well re- welter I pull out the things a great play or a great film , but it makes uglier noisev gives the Sugiani , the Worst Wop in Soho. B.B.C.'s new-found freedom to say that is a short cut towards producing able as a dour young Scot. A good , a creature who is trailed by an boo to an authoritarian goose, and presented at this exhibition— happen to be uppermost. The whole thing a nice, cutting edge. substantial evening, then, with intrepid woman reporter. Why one hopes that the same liberty of painted with great technical Vicar sings so angelically about a remarkably successful one. Be- In Sinbad the Sailor (Odeon, argument and fancy and great ability, but without mood, can- Virtue in the first act that one for- cause he can do it, I felicitate Mr. Marble ArcW Douglas Fairbanks he became so " trepid " of her I speech will be allowed to level- vases perfectly fitted Mason on his good mind; if he acting mixed. But it must go couldn 't understand (why should headed critics of other contem- to make gets to smile at William Parsons' can Junior, Maureen O'Hara. and While teeth, brown face : How faster . The 8 o clock start is being more grand the grand interiors of bland characterisation. This lift- still do it with his tongue in his Walter Slezak with a face that ' a bad notice worry him?), but any- porary regimes. their titled clients. Their pic- cheek, I felicitate him further on . charming &ht looks ! . . . Fhe pn< ked tried and people don't want to be how I like tributes to the Press So i ng and transmuting of character changes periodically from prawn- 1 in theatres after 11 in these days. on the hunt goes through Soho, Parable tures melt into the furniture, the and situation by the sheer loveli- his good sense. The shrewdest pink to pea-green , go out in search a tube of P hiJ lips Dental Magnesia. play carpets, the ornamentations and stroke in the film, perhaps, is that Containing * ' Milk of Magnesia ' The would be more effec- Pimlico , and Scotland Yard with a Henry Reed's " Pytheas," re- the statuary and ness of the music happens often of a treasure island named, so far tive with a few cuts and much glitter of knuckle-dusters, razor- peated , become part of a in " Herring." We take excursions of giving himself a role which pro- as I could determine, Dairy-Bar. h checks mouth acidity every tighter production in the Third confir med general scheme which they decor- into a rarer world , jects his powerful personality al . blades , and smart back-chat one's first impression that this ate but do not dominate. with the earthi- An augmented celestial orchestra time she cleans her teeth. Charles Goldner 's Sugiani is poetic parable is a notable work ness of comic opera left behind its strongest pitch. His perform- ?oes along, too. To pass the time. gloriously odious and Nigel Patrick . The search for a meaning in wire- and below. ance of a well-bred murderer Mr . Fairbanks gives a creditable Now for He Who Gets Slapped as his chief of crooked staff, is not less allegories is often a tiresome The Dutch Approach Scene 1, Act 1. ends with a sextet creates all sorts of illusions. It is imitation of a number of his —or the play which gets "pepped." an inch behind in cunning of per- and confusing experience for the There was. however, another which is as boldly engineered as impossible not to feel that those father's athletic feats; but whereas There is something about the cir- formance. Patricia Hilhard . re- listener , but in " Pytheas " the trend in French seventeenth-cen- the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Lady sombre eyes, brooding over us in the presence of Fairbanks cus which seems to drive theatre presenting Fleet Street , Right and clues to the labyrinth were always tury art; Dutch genre paintings Billows (Joan Cross) wearing a hauntingly from the screen, are Senior you felt you were watching people slightly crazy. This form Beauty, and Michael Hordern . as unambiguous. Poets, like the rest were admired by some people. majestic hat trimmed with doves' not gazing into a portentous a harlequin at work, Fairbanks (Philli p?) of show business is a routine of her muscular but obtuse adorer , of us, are addicted to doodling This enabled Antoine and Louis wings, takes the top line with a future; that those forbiddi ng lips, Junior gives the impression i>f a fit / DENTAL MAGNESfA \ risk and drollery, carried on year are bang in the bang-bang picture. as they sit waiting for the inter- Le Nain to flo urish , men with a florid Purcellian phrase above a magnified in close-up to alarm- voune man who has Been through after year by professionals like It may be a pity the boys aren 't mittent flashes of revelation to genius strong enough to adopt the truly Purcellian thunder of drums. ing size, are not closed on innum- a eruellins course of P T., and is V Toothpaste any other profession. Presum- home for the holidays . But the appear, and sometimes they Dutch approach and yet stamp it Miss Wordsworth, the schoolmarm erable secrets of an enigmatic ihrowine the furniture about w'th J ably clowns and acrobats , when not play should still be there when absent-mi ndedly embody their with a personal and French touch. (Margaret Ritchie), precise and past. We look at Mr. Mason, and the laudabip intention of taki ng on the job, sit down for a smoke thpv are doodles in the poem , especially The work of these brothers, which prim according to music-hall con- tep] that we are being inducted voiir mind off the story. * Tradt mar * of Pf altifu ' prip aiaif ne/ma gmK* when they are writing for radio. leaves the paraphernalia of Italy vention , has birdlike little out- There were no such aberration 1; for the plain realities of rustic life, bursts of song that are quickly in the text of " Pytheas." It all is an authentic statement in checked or quenched . Here again meant something, even when the French terms. The anden regime laughter is stayed: the music Bridge ^ poetic supercharge was most in- is reflected not at the top but at suddenly makes us see the school- WELL -KNOWN BRITISH HABITS tense. the bottom . There was a third Le marm as the poor, imprisoned By S. J. SIMON The best item in the " Escape " Nain brother , Matthew, but he creature she is. , could not dominate his Dutch the .schoolmarm we THE strongest recommendation o series so far, was " The Rescuers," that I can give to Winning *L^^^^^V* i * "*•¦** ¦ *^BI^^^E5^i^Kr*TIMKBttr^M^£ihk^k3t * ^hk the story of the pit disaster at sources, and though a craftsman of have Nancy from the baker's shop (Duckworth , ^ Tynewydd fifty years ago. It had great capacity was unable, as he (Nancy Evans), a fine blaze of Thicks, by John Brown lacked the fusing power of direct warbling young - womanhood. 8s. 6d.). is to endorse the authors that hall-mark of integrity which emotion , to be own words in his preface: "The is rare in these dramatic " recon- more than a highly Which leads to the reflection that reader's reward will be not --B.0, New *. 8 15. " Herring " is wider of span but in the greater enjoyment of the Rrcorda: fl.o, Octet , 9.30, Service , 10.15. The visitor to this interesting and more adroit than anything game through a better under- Pmno 10.30. LlEht Music. 11.o. Music and, T¦ a:ic : 11.20, Siring Orch estra : 15.15. indeed , splendid exhibition Britten has essayed before, standing." M'H Molf " : U.30. Quintet' 12.50 will find much assistance in the " Grimes not excluded. Another This is a book on the play of the Fllim; 1.0. News. 1.10. NMurallat ; 1.30, " Orchestra : 2.15. Garden: 2.30. " The carefully annotated catalogue. forward step: the 12-piece orches- hand, intended for the average L