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Coming To Terms With Communism Cheerfulness and sadness are strangely blended in Po- land. In. this story, Alan Harvey, chief of CP's Lon- don bureau who has toured the Communist - ruled coun- try, tells how a resurgent Warsaw is beginning to live down a reputation for drab- ness. By ALAN HARVEY Canadian Press Staff Writer WARSAW (CP)--Daily around noon waiters in the Warsaw club for journalists glance hope- fully skywards and pray for rain. Jf it comes, they are spared the long haul from the kitchens to the garden, where gay tables topped with parasols circle a tinkling fountain. They are sad when the sun shines. That is one side of Warsaw. Life moves to Mediterranean rhythms. Service is slow, wait- ers look the other way, lunch lazes on so that anyone arriving at 6 p.m. never knows whether the patrons are just starting dinner or just finishing the mid- day meal. There is occasionally a feck- less, insouciant inefficiency, somehow almost appealing. Graft, corruption and petty pil- fering, though diminishing, are and those who can afford it dress accordingly. Children are neatly dressed and look as fresh as new- minted coins. Two little sisters, emerging hand-in-hand out of what looked like a coalyard near the Wisla River and gracefully smoothing their party dresses, séemed to symbolize the way a new generation is Hitler made of Warsaw. Sneers are directed at the looming Palace of Culture and Science, Stalin's gift to the War- saw skyline. A skyscraper of silver stone, the 37-storey build ing is widely derided as an ar- trycooks' nightmare, an "ice cake." It may be as esthetically ing affection for it. ture." BITTER JOKES the dark flash of Yef nearly black joke, sardonic humor, cheerful. I didn't find that the Poles are '"'pathos personified," as some writers have suggested. still fairly common in a na- tion the Germans systemat- ically tried to turn into a race of drunkards. In all seriousness, one news-| {told me this "isn't the real | Poland--this is vegetation, not living." He is 39 and says he hasn't enough money to marry. He lives in a tiny room. He was sipping a solitary coffee when I met him. There is sadness in the gen- eration that "missed" its youth in the war. In Nowa Huta, a completely new town with roses planted on both sides of a broad paper published an analysis of| the average size of bribes. Con-| sumer gods such as refrigera-| tors are hard to get, but the| store director magically pro- duces one if you add a sweet- ener to the asking price. | HOUSING SHORTAGE | Housing is sadly short. The) avenue to try to brighten an in-| coming up out of the ashes that | chitectural montrosity, a pas- § size of apartments has just been dustrial community, a sad-eyed reduced, and there are nearly|Woman said she could never be two people for every available| 'Joyous" again. This was not room. Private flats are still ad-|Self-pity, just a flat statement vertised, but you may have to|0f fact. : ; pay rent two or three years in Generally a fragile, fingers- bad as they say; in the end I | stubbornly conceived a sneak- § "This is the best view in : Warsaw," says your guide when | you get to the top. "It is the } only place from which you | can't see the Palace of Cul- | Poland is the home of the | everyone I spoke to seemed J True, a dock worker in Gydnia | On a nine - hour train ride, On a short visit, staying in from Cracow to Gdansk, I asked|the good hotels, going through for the dining car. There wasn't|the menu (meatless day Monday any. So a veterinarian and his only), attending the smart par- wife, on the way to the Baltic|ties, one naturally notices the for a month's holiday, plied me bright side. My only hervous with luscious dark cherries, yel- \ moment came in a Polish bank LONDON (CP) -- Planning, once a dirty word in the British Conservative vocabulary, is be- ing refurbished with the bless- ing of party leaders. The task has fallen to the] chancellor of the exchequer, Selwyn Lloyd, who last month forced Britons to tighten their belts in an austerity program aimed at solving the nation's current economic crisis. Now he's looking for a longer- term solution to Britain's re- curring problem of boom and bust. While other members scur- British Tories Use 'Planning' ried away on vacation after the, Aug. 4 parliamentary recess, he stayed behind to develop his plan for a new "live within our means" housekeeping policy for Britain. His first step was to send an invitation to the Trades Union Congress--the equivalent of the Canadian Labor Congress -- to meet him for discussions on the possibility of drawing up a five- year plan of production targets. The TUC accepted =r" first conference is expected to take place within the next couple of weeks. The chief employers' grgani- zations found similar invitations awaiting them after Britain's traditional August Bank Holi- day weekend. Lloyd undoubtedly has in mind the possibility of long- term planning of the distribu- tion of the nation's resources. In his "little budget" speech last month, he made two direct references to the matter. First, he said he'd like to establish--in consultation with both sides of industry --- im- proved machinery for extending the discussion and forecasting, which now take place in private and state-owned industries. Next, he'd like to see the wage land dividend pause he's trying to impose succeeded by a "new long-term policy" designed to ensure that "increases in in- THE OSHAWA TIMES, Fridey, August 18, 1961 17 comes must follow, and not pre- cede or outstrip, increases in national productivity." His cautious statements pro- vided just the stimulus the eco- nomic pundits and editorial writers needed. The Financial Times' eco- nomic correspondent speculates that the chancellor during the coming meetings will discuss a plan for the establishment of one body dealing with both in- dustrial planning and "wages and profits" policy. MAY HEAD IT 'Ideas now being aired pro- vide for a planning board fairly closely attached to the treasury --and probally presided over by: himself," the correspondent adds. The board would be small and composed mainly of trade union and employer representatives. It would consider long-term prob- lems of productivity, exports, manpower and investment. "The hope is that, once em- ployers and trade union leaders see the connection between ex- cessive increases in money in- comes and resultant govern- ment measures to curb real income and production, self-in- terest will work in favor of moderation." The Yorkshire Post, a Con- servative newspaper, sees some difficulties for the chancellor in his efforts to rescue and sanc- the chancellor of the exchequer] tify the word "planning." advance. The landlord invests the money in another property, and the process starts all over again. Public transport is hopelessly inadequate. There isn't room inside the streetcars for every- body. Groups of riders clutch the outside of the cars like clusters kindness. Arriving alone in Cra-|that there was a sound of rev- (reluctantly to terms with com-| crossed optimism prevailed | Several times I heard the Ger- |man phrase "legen ist schwer" |--life is hard--but people said (they are somewhat happier. [RETAIN CHARM |you over. You are killed by Perhaps Polish charm bowls| low seed cake, delicious saus- age and, inevitably, vodka, awk- wardly gulped from a plastic bottle-top. Polish gaiety? The sign in the| Warsaw hotel said "night si- {lence" would be observed from 10 p.m. But three hours after of grapes, and that's what they cow, without a contract, I went elry by night and glancing out are called--*'winogrona." o the nearest newspaper and {the window I saw five couples NOE t Many new buildings are faced|ywas promptly supplied with a|dancing ring-around-the-rosie on in rough red brick, giving the guide who said it was a "duty" {the sidewalk. A Canadian mili- city a raw unfinished look. So|ty show me around. A reporter, tary man in the same hotel said many drills are at work that the Barbara Kudrewicz, commented (he witnesses a 5 a.m. race in strollers' shoes soon acquire a'the Poles are often more kindly|the main street between farm patina of dust. i CHEERFULL SPOTS | disposed toward strangers than to one another. |wagons manned by laughing |young men and their girls. |queue, waiting desperately to change zlotys into sterling with an airport deadline drawing] ominously near. | All allowances made, a broad| conclusion could be that Poland | and other satellites are coming | munism. If they can 'soften the rigid Soviet system, libera- tion may not be as distant as it| seems. It won't be precisely the | liberation envisaged by the late| John Foster Dulles, but some-| |thing a little easier to live with | {than unbending doctrinaire Stal- |{inism. Despite the flaws, Warsaw is beginning to live down its rep- utation for drabness. There is nothing dull about the jiving students in the Hybrida, a cosy night spot for jazz - conscious youth. Teeming markets, con- scientiously living up to the re- quisite picturesqueness, sell ex- otic bloodsuckers along with prosaic cauliflowers and straw- berries as big as golf balls. The royal park in Lizienka, with its open-air theatre, is an attractive centrepiece for a city that still throbs with reconstruc- tion 16 years after the war. For one reporter at least, the legend of Warsaw's dreariness dis- solved in the summer sunshine. The girls in their summer dresses strolling along Nowy Swiat (New World), one of main streets, suffer little by comparison with London and Paris. The women of Warsaw have flair and fashion sense, Kinsale WI Holds Meet GREENWOOD -- The Kinsale Women's Institute Branch enter- tained a group of senior ladies and gentlemen from Fairview Lodge on Wednesday afternoon. Several cars picked up the visi- tors and took them for a drive through the county and a visit to the Pickering Township Mu- seum at Brougham. Later all met on the lawn of Mr. and Mrs. L. Waltham at Kinsale. The) table was set for a picnic sup-| per which- everybody enjoyed. | The visitors were then returned| home to Fairview Lodge. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. A. Brown, Miss May Brown and Wm. A. Brown Jr. have returned home from a motor trip via Trans Canada Highway to Banff and back to Devil's Lake, N. Dakota where they visited cousins. They also visited Rev. and Mrs. Moore at Prince Albert and the Hugh Miller family near Indian Head, Saskatchewan. Mr. and Mrs. W. Storey and children of Glen Cross visited with Glynn and Mrs. Eastwood and Linda recently. Everybody is happy to have Mrs. Ed Pascoe able to be home again after her recent illness. Mr. and Mrs. Percy Middle- ton of Buffalo spent a few days with the Herb Middleton and Ken Elson families last week. Rev. T. 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