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Peace & War. These are things that go with peace. Everywhere within Peiping's ancient walls peace is far more apparent than war. The late autumn countryside around Peiping is beautiful and calm; life seems to move at the speed of a farmer's donkey cart. But you will hunt far this week to find the expectation of peace in China...
...three cows. In July, when the Polish military government took over, his horses and bank account were confiscated. He was given 24 hours to leave his farm. With his five children, two to 14 years old, he set out, some of his household goods piled in a hand cart, and wandered on foot for two weeks. Somewhere he was forced to leave one child in a hospital with scarlet fever...
...says he was educated "at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School and on the staffs of various newspapers." The first of these was the Bootle Times in Lancashire. When he tried Fleet Street, he couldn't get a job. So he bought a horse and greengrocer's cart, started to tour England, writing free-lance stories. These led eventually to a job on the Sunday Express. A piece he wrote about Sculptor Jacob Epstein caught Beaverbrook's eye. With typical Beaver whimsey, the boss made Williams a financial writer...
Home with the Bacon. At his press conference, a surge of searching questions was unloosed. The President acknowledged that there were still many "ifs." But the arrangements had been made for solution of the Polish Government problem. There was progress, and he hoped for results. He hoped the apple cart would not be upset. He cautioned the press not to muddy the waters...
...cart at the next intersection and returned to Manila by jeep. As I write, I hear an occasional rending noise in the distance. I assume it is the opposing forces still clashing with the greatest possible violence...