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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Thursday, February 16, 1950

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 16, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes thursday february 16, to Church ills make voting i years ago7. In Britain a family affair Winston London ins the Church ills Are making the British general elec Tion feb. 23 a family affair with four of them contesting seats for the House of commons under the conservative Banner. The four Are Winston his sob Randolph and his two sons in Law it sight honorable Duncan Sandys and capt Christopher Soames. The old Warrior is expected to find time to speak in each of their constituencies in addition to appearing at huge parly rallies throughout 4fce country the wartime prime minister is seeking re election As the member far Woodford Borough in Essex county regarded As a Safe conservative eat. In 1945 he resoundingly Defeated Farmer who campaigned against aau As an Independent. This time the opposition vote will be split three ways among a Bills socialist Howard Davies. Liberal and w. Brooks communist. Wane Are Well known. Stiffest Baise is expected to take place Between his son Randolph and socialist incumbent Michael foot for tic Devonport division of in Devon county neither is expected to pull any punches a waiting Fer the Sparks to Fly foot although a com of an old Liberal campy from the West of England where liberalism was nurtured is a socialist his father and a brother have serve Din previous parliament As lib  is joint editor of the socialist weekly the Tribune and a political contributor to Londo newspapers. He is a master of  1s45, foot Defeated the right honorable Leslie Hore Belisha a member of the War Cabinet Sandys 2,th3 votes in a two Way fight Churchill s Only son Randolph who always used his famous father As a Model had a spectacular War career. On on occasion he parachuted to the Headquarters of the then Terrilla Leader Tito As Liaison officer. Well known As a lecturer and author Randolph has his father Scharm vigor and vehemence and Speaks in the churchillian manner. Randolph whose life has been varied and never Dull contested various seats in previous elections but was successful Only once As conservative member for Preston Lancashire from 1940-15.although deciding Only at the last moment to slug it out with foot Randolph is optimistic of the outcome. He admits it will a . " quire a hard fight to unseat foot but the cur Hills have never dodged Battle and ran Dolph estimates he has a better than even Money  has the endorsement of the National liberals As Wellas the conservatives. The right honorable Dunca Sandys who married Churchill s Baj Idolph eldest daughter Diana in 1935, Soa Mesis seeking a political comeback Fay contesting the Streatham division a new machine tells whether a woman will give birth normally or i something in wrong. It also tells whether she is unreal or false labor the electrical machine was de signed by or. Charles m. Steer of Columbia University s Coll Geof physicians and surgeons. It was described in the american journal of obstetrics and Gyne cology. The machine picks up the Waves of electricity from the uterus or womb As it contrast during labor. The pickup is made by electrodes placed on the Abdomen and the Waves Are re corded on paper. Called the elec. Troy Stereograph the machine is like those that measure brainwaves. Steer said the method had Bee used on More than 200 patients so far. The electrical Waves before Normal births were different fro those that were abnormal the machine thug can give warning of impending trouble and the physician can operate or use drugs to make the birth safer. The  is place Dat the woman s bedside at the first sign of labor. Steer said a obstetrician could team to use it in a few hours. Knew York ins for the1 past 20 years to my certain knowledge the metropolitan opera has been stewing in its own juice like e Clam in a steam Bath. More recently it has been Stew ing happily on the front burners of any and All newspapers a Rudolf Bing who takes Over a general manager of the opera next season and singers Helen Traubel Kirsten Fegstad end Lauritz Melchior have alternately kissed or pouted As the Case maybe. It has All been wonderful publicity for the met and for mesdames Traubel and Flagstad and messes. Bing and Mel Exior. On the off Chance that 1might find out what All the shoot ing is about or what these tem Permen Taj Katze Jammer kids will do next i attended ring recent press conference at the met lays Down Law a Fine and instructive con Ference it turned put to be too. Bing a thin trim Dapper Man uninhibited by either fear or humility did two things. He laid1 Down the Law with snap that left no doubt As to who will be cock of the walk at theme during his regime and he outlined As interesting As revolutionary and As intelligent a re vision of met procedures is opera enthusiastic could Hope. During the hour Long Confer ence it struck me that the met Haj acquired not Only. A new Boss capable of cracking the whip Jake a lion Tamer but a really first rate High class Prima Donna. _ this is something opera has missed in the lacklustre years since Mary Garden retired and the sopranos and tenors have More or less Learned to behave like Little ladies and gentlemen. His plan to reduce the number of operas and improve those byen both visually and audibly seems excellent to thai Amateur opera goer. Bing announced gleefully that the controversial decision to rehire miss Flagstad was his and his alone. He was impatient of questions on the Flagstad decision or the Melchior  that Many of the old met personnel Are bleeding Tuttie pores seemed too Dang Rou for inquiry at this Point Bing is by england1, where his e naturalized citizen out of Vienna where he was born in 1902. His accent is strongly Oxford Over substructure of Vien Nese during the War when there was no opera for him to direction England he clerked in a department store. It strikes me that at the meting is not so much a new Broom As a shiny 1950 tank Model vacuum cleaner. It not Only removes the d3rt from in carpet but lifts the Nap right away from the Rug As Well. Undoubtedly this is going Tobe a very painful operation a far As the Nap is concerned. Burthen again it May be just what the met Rug needs. Jtt-7 new car fabric May be washed View York ins Auto owner1 can now Wash their cars both inside and out a new top covering fabric that permits the inside of a car to be washed with a Hose has just been introduced in new York. The fabric consists of Viny Lite Resim fused to Woven fiberglas  s called  the makers say the fabric has exceptional strength and will not become Tacky or stiffen. And if a careless smoker Burns Hole in the surface it can be patched up with a resin solution available in each of the fabric s four colors Tan Maroon Light and dark Gray. Tito in Delegate sides with Russ on China by Pierre j. Huss 1 Ake Success ins Russia and her four co inform Satel Lites Are on strike against the United nations in an Effort to squeeze out nationalist China but communism still has one of its Best spokesman on the Jobin in. But the irony of h w that Thi Sable exponent of the communist viewpoint and Champion of socialist principles is ales Bebler chief in representative for mar Shal Tito of Yugoslavia. Bebler be an expert tactician unparliamentary diplomacy a for Mer guerrilla Leader in the Span ish War and world War n. He is an ardent communist who believes with. Tito that Stalin is beading for a crack up unless begets Back on the straight track of marxist practices and  is convinced that Tito saved Yugoslavia from disaster under co inform propulsion and does t care who knows i from the moment that Bebler took Hia seat at the 11-nation Security Council be let it be known that the socialist Republic of Yugoslavia though willing to play Bab with the capitalistic states of the West takes its hat off to no body and intends to practice the general one of marxist  example the russians in the first 1350 Security Council meeting called for the expulsion of Yingfu f. Tsiang of nationalist China. Bebler immediately supported that demand and even after the russians walked out Fough tenaciously for that expulsion. His phrases were identical to those of Russia Jacob Malik and his tactics except for the walk out were nearly the same As the were when he stood shoulder to shoulder in previous years with the soviet bloc to Damn the West Era world. Bebler did not show up in the initial 1950 meeting of the Little Assembly and has stood on Yugoslavia s Boycott of Allun bodies the co inform lands snub. That is hardly because of a Acme ales  on Boycott desire to Curry favor with Russia or of any lessened degree of hostility Between Tito and the comin form but solely because Bebler remains True to the marxist idea and philosophy. Years ago in the. Post War Baikal peace conference in Paris he car ried the Torch for the soviet Union so effectively that former he Sian foreign minister v m. Molotov gave him a free hand in the heated debate of those hectic weeks. Malik the successor u Andrei Gromyko at the in is a match for him. The chinese Issue Side tracked the fireworks expected Between Malik and Bebler at the first 1990security Council meeting. It is recalled that before a Dafter the election of Yugoslavia to the Security Council soviet foreign minister Andrei Isbinsky predicted dire things and voice some threats. Bebler primed himself for the opening Day. But Malik was too Busy shooting torpedoes at Tsiang to bother about Bebler. Malik even recognized Bebler s right Tot seat by including Yugoslavia in the five states around the table which he said already recognized communist China. In comparison with a Arp Quick tempered Bebler Malik spokesman for Russia is Ponder Ous and unimaginative. He carries to great weight at Lake Succes As did Gromyko and is marked Down among in delegates As run of the Mill soviet Diplomat  
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