Loves lament

of starting a hate campaign.—News item)
We ain’t gonna hold it agin you
That you’ve slaughtered a nation or two,
We're buddies whose love will continue.”—
Why won’t the Reds love us, too?

(U.S. delegate at the UN accused Russia

WHY won’t them Reds love us dearly,
Jest like it says in the Book?

Where is the love that is nearly

As great as the Yank’s for the gook?

Lovin’ them jest like a father,

We show them the sweet Christian track

Of Boatner and Clark and MacArthur—

Why ain’t they lovin’ us back?

Ain’t we loved “good” Europeans

With “aid” (on a pawnbroker’s terms) ?
And showered our friends, the Koreans,
With phosphorous, napalm and germs?
We pray to the Lord up above us

To help every bullet and shell

Teach the Red sons-uv-b ----- s to love us
Or we'll A-bomb the b------ s to hell!

The guy what's got love in his heart sees
We sure are forgivin’ an’ kind;

We say, shakin’ paws with the Nazis,
“Pal, let’s put the past out of mind.

BERLIN LETTER

Faces of two Berlins: West full
of fear, East alive with hope

OW. does the face of Berlin
appear after an interval of

“ four years? One should perhaps

speak of two faces, that of: the
East and that of the West.

In the latter one sees little
change. At the centre, notably
the Kurfuerstendamm, there is
the same glare of neon lighting

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CHANCELLOR ADENAUER
His police have given the Ger-
man working class one more

martyr and hero.

and glitter of shop windows dis-
playing expensive wares. Strol-
lers and gazers are well dressed,
evidently eat enough but show
little animation.

Perhaps the old face carries a
rather heavier load of make-up
than before, but the expression
is that betrayed-by the eyes of
an ageing woman who fears that
the pomade and powder are fail-
ing to maintain the old illusions.

The face of the East bears lit-
tle make-up, but in the four
years since I saw it last, a change
has been wrought that makes
one pause and wonder. It has
become a younger face and a
bright and hopeful one.

In saying that the face of
East Berlin, democratic Berlin,
has become younger, I am speak-
ing literally. These streets and
public places in 1945-46, and
still in 1948, showed mainly mid-
dle-aged and elderly men, many
women and a geod many chil-
dren.

But in seven years has hap-

pened a natural process which,
as we grow older, we tend to
overlook, A new generation has
advanced to the threshold of
adult life. Democratic Berlin
has raised*’a throng of hearty,
healthy youths and girls with
whose exuberance and energy it
sometimes seems to overflow.

It was the sudden observation
of this fact which, far more than
the sight of rising structures of
steel and stone brought me to a
clear perception that in demo-
cratic Berlin a new life has be-
gun,
The manifold activities of the

Free German Youth absorb and
expand the energies of this new
generation in the ways of peace
and socialism, 1

e .

Adenawter, through the
slaughter by his police of Philipp
Mueller at Essen last May, has

-given the German working class
one more martyr and hero.

Rarely has such an event pro-
duced.such rapid and intense re-
actions of horror, anger, protest,
demonstration and strike as fol-
lowed the shooting of the young
campaigners for peace in the
Ruhr steel city.

It came as tension was rising
because of the preparations for

remilitarising Western Germany ~

and lying her to the American
war chariot. The thousands who
came out to protest against the
murder of Philipp Mueller were
soon joined by those striking and
marching in the name of demo-
cracy and peace against dictator-
ship and war.

Mueller was a splendid ex-
ample of Germany’s new youth.
He was one of a working class
family of six born and living in
Neuaubing, an industrial suburb
of Funich, whose workers are
practically all employed in the
railway and repair shops,

Philipp was apprenticed there
in 1945 and shared fully in the
militant trade union and politi-
cal activity for which the Neu-
aubing workers are well known.

He became youth leader at the
works, joined the Free German
Youth and last year attended the
World Youth Festival in Berlin.
That brought him dismissal] from
the railway shops.

~He continued political work,
joined the Communist party and
was a delegate to last year’s con-
gress. A Berlin girl became his
wife and a five-month-old son
bears his name.

Philipp celebrated this 2ist
birthday a month before he was
shot down. Now his portrait is
displayed in public in democratic
Berlin and in working-class
quarters in the West.

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BY WALTER HOLMES

Eggs are so plentiful and
cheap here that an adequate sup-
ply is within easy reach of the
average purse, West Berliners,
enjoying their four-to-one ad-
vantage in the mark exchange,
come over to buy them by the
score in the big shops run by
H.O., the government trading or-
ganization. ; 3

A pleasant irony this, but here
is one less palatable. Wondering
how democratic German hens
became so prolifi¢, I strolled
through one of these big stores
and noticed a pile of empty
crates beside the busy egg count-

ah: i j ne
8 i ake IOECTDEe oe ine coup led by General Naguib Mo-
lish, ‘Fresh Polish Eggs.” ;
: hammed and younger officers of
So that’s a part of the answer. he Egyptian Army. Naguib
Polish eggs that the British peo- ‘forced the resignation of Prem-
ple might have been buying,are ier Hilaly Pasha, right-wing
sold here because the Yanks dic- pouacee wae ee aha
% ‘ ment with Britain on the Sudan
tate with whom Britain shall and British occupation of the
trade! Suez Canal area (above).

In Egypt
The corrupt despotic reign of
King Farouk of Egypt (inset)

anded this week as he sailed in-
to exile following the military

In Iran

Immense demonstrations throughout Tran, and many clashes
with police and military, last week brought the downfall of Iran’s
leading British agent, Premier Ghavam es Sultaneh, who sought
a compromise with Britain over expropriated Iranian Oil Company’s
properties (above) and restored Premier Mossadegh to office (inset).

Earlier, police and troops firing into the crowds in Teheran
had killed at least 15, injured many and made hundreds of arrests.
But during the afternoon the crowd and -armed forces started to
fraternise and the Palace was forced to back down.

There was thunderous cheering when the news was announced
in the square before the Majlis (parliament). Crowds formed long
processions and marched through the streets.

They shouted ‘Down with the son of Reza Shah.” Reza was
the father of the present ruler,

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