China Visit Informs On Life Under Communist Regime
Journalist John Ridley reports from Hong Kong on a 1946 China tour with the British Labour delegation led by Clement Attlee. He describes a grim, disciplined society with impressive industrial growth under Soviet influence, a pervasive anti American campaign, altered urban life in Peiping and Shanghai, and his view that Chinese individuality may reemerge beyond rigid Marxist control.
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London Daily Telegraph
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Local GM Club Meeting Highlights Highway Film
The General Motors Club of Frederick met at the Francis Scott Key Hotel on Tuesday. A full color 16mm sound movie titled Give Yourself the Green Light stressed building better highways and parking facilities, urging action and noting current roads wear out faster than replacements. It discusses farm to market roads, urban streets, and traffic in small towns and cities, urging Americans to dream bigger in road planning.
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Francis Scott Key Hotel
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Public funding urged as GM Club screens highway film
West Berlin police report a 22 year old officer Hermann Flea surrendered after 10 days on the run without a radio car. Officials said relatives aided his return to the Soviet zone as the scene shifts to highway improvement themes and public action.
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Robbery and defection tale spans French and Soviet zones
On August 28 Flex broke into a motor pool in the Schulzendor patrol area in the French sector and drove away in a radio car. Police say he was in debt and deny any political motive. Communist police seized the radios cars when he crossed into the Soviet zone.
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