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THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 14, 1987–
to welcome some means of es- alian from his overbearin
It is no secret that Mus- solini's emissaries in Spain have not proved very tactful, and have arous ed a definite hostility among the Spanish generals they have come to "gave."
If the Government should win fin Spain, Britain need have n her Mediterranean communi here in that chaotic conditions might a to The principal British preoccupation. i
then continue to disturb the penin- The principal reason is money, sula, causing persistent danger of a There is also the Mussolini might which will be indispensable in re new outbreak
Spain and repairing possibility that habilitating
Lon- again send troops to Spain to pre- the damages of the civil war. don has the money which Rome and vent a Government victory.
HE British people are essential sacrifices of order which a triumph would seek to restore these ties
ly an orderly people; Their of liberty and free government their former-intimacy.7% st bitter atrikes cause very little might entail
One reason which apparently in- lence, they suffer in only a minor
duces British conservatives to pur- Free from crime, and their "bob- sue a course of rigid non-interven- s" find truncheons an adequate tion is long-range policy. They be stitute for the automatic that lieve that by maintaining their pre- ways swings at the hip of a “cop.". nturies. of internal order makes em shudder at the thought of con- nued chaos in Spain, in this day: hen: several European governments ask their national policies behind.
The
LOOKS AT SPAIN
niversal ideologies and seem avid sent course they will emerge even -seize any opportunity to fish in tually as the strongest foreign in- fluence in Spain, regardless of the -oubled watersiden
outcome of the civil war.
Berlin lack, and London can offer, promises of Il Duce are naturally moreover, an extensive market for discounted in London. Spanish exports. British economic and financial power, they believe, America has not had quite the
They point out that Britain over would exert sufficient political in- the fluence on Franco to eliminate any ame respect for order. Its history shadows all other countries -in
threat to their imperial extent of her financial and economic. Spanish interests in Spain, and that Anglo- communications.
Such influence, in their opinion, Spanish ties have long been pecul iarly intimate. They see convincing would not prove unacceptable to why a victorious Franco Franco, who is expected to be dis-
By Livingston Hartley
sa free nation was founded on -evolution against authority in the name of liberty. Its revolution was also a Leftist-movement in its New England; impetus centre, causing the most influential Rightist ⠀ ele- the ments of that region to flee country.
fundamental Anglo- American difference of attitude on this point arises directly from the two respective histories and tradi- tions.
A
reasons
THE
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WORLD GOES BY
By
"ULYSSES”
third alternative appears' more likely to many, as the military situa- tion in central Spain seems to ap¬ proach a stalemate. This is a nego- tiated settlement, in which Britain's "neutral" status would provide her with the dominant role. As the
not openly furnished aid to either side, Britain could play the part of the the "honest broker," and emerge as greatest foreign influence behind the eventual government of a paci- fied Spain.
European great power which was
war
British conservatives may be un- duly optimistic, influenced perhaps by the greater weight in Europe .else who matters. their renewed prosperity and rearm- N this column yesterday was abut someone
feeble joke about flappers and Personally, I cannot imagine my-jament programme is giving them.
correspondent tries to self caring whether a mail ever goes They admit that the Spanish
date knuts.
́ ́a ́ ́ particularly crush me by writing to say that to Chefoo or not. The mails from has been to "the worst thing about an accurate. London, which occasionally bring heavy blow to Great Britain's tradi- of man is his accuracy.". He argues me a cheque from the family, in- tional position in the peninsula. But see them in London that though a flapper: “turns the terest me far more, especially when they believe that continuance Conservative circles seem convinced that a Franco vic-heads of the nuts," a spanner does the stupid people I owe money to their Spanish policy will
anot. He says: "Only a bolt has a want me to pay them quickly—or out of the Spanish crisis with a mi- tory would lead most quickly to
and else. However, I went to the Postnimum of damage. restoration of order in Spain, and head, the nut having: none; to the termination of conditions the spanner turns the whole nut." Office. I could not find any men- there which make the peninsula an As everybody in this office knows, I tion of Chefoo on the board, which, shrink shyly I suppose, is not surprising, it hard- international Pandora's Box. They hate arguing, and
in this opinion, from it at all times. But I cannot ly being on the map and contains swayed perhaps by suspicion of pos- let this pass. A nut has a head, only large quantities of cabarets sible Soviet influence in a Leftist the head being a proper expression for the entertainment of low-down Spain, but they undoubtedly hold for the right end up of anything. sailors. I was stumped so I asked Many of them are willing to see If my correspondent does not put a policeman standing nearby. - He a sacrifice of the normal principles the nut right end up, head to span-(intelligent man) got a splendid involved in the conflict for this end, ner, as it were, the job will not idea right away. "Why not go in- of course, side and ask?” So I went inside: because war. in Spain seems very be done right. And, close when viewed from London. what is worth doing at all is worth the Post Office and asked the Man- Americans, on the other hand, are doing right. Which is the editor's darin sitting at the receipt of cust 3000 miles from the conflict, and complaint about this column. able to view more objectively any
may
it.
be wrong
When Food Disagrees
With Your Baby.
Who
Knows The Mails?
tom, quite in my politest and most deferential manner (which has to be seen to be believed), when they proposed to send a mail to Chefoo and how much? He was bored| and did not conceal it. He was Sometimes I envy the methodical
even slightly irritated and showed al- person, the sort of man who
it. He waved his arm, and said vl and would find all that sort of thing on I went outside Nothing is more common in childhood ways has string, and stamps, than indigestion which is generally sealing wax where he can put his the board outside.
Such a man knows and had another look. No Chefoo. caused by errors in diet-the delicate hand on them. organs of a young child are, quick to rebel if his food is unsuitable, or if he when the next mail is going any- By this time I was getting really where, and just how much the keen on the thing. If 1 had been To correct the trouble and quickly postage will be and all that sort on my way to be divorced and heard. to restore happy well-being there is
Owa of thing. In all such ways he is a bystander mention, Chefoo, I than Baby's
very would even have stopped him to ask nothing better Tablets. The gentle laxative action of an admirable person, and a
has over eaten.
the tablets clears the intestines of the helpful acquaintance, but whether him what he knew about it. offending matter and sweetens the he has a soul, or is happy, of if he crept inside again, and waiting till stomach. Careful attention to diet and an occasional dose of Baby's Own likes his bit of fun, I do not and the Mandarin was busy with Tablets thereafter will keep the little probably never will know. For crowd of two people buying stampa, one free from digestive disorder me, if I have anything to post, I so that he need not be jealous,.-
Even the most fastidious parents
He said. may use Baby's Own Tablets with full leave it lying about until one day approached a nobleman in a brass confidence for they are the prescription when I expect to be passing the cage and asked him.
then take it out of mail for Chefoo would be despatch- of a doctor who made a special study Post Office. of children and their ailments. Equally the office, and leave it wherever Iled this very day, by a steamer and forget all (named), advertised as leaving for good for the prompt and effective correction of minor health upsets, am having tiffin
Recently, however, I Shanghai,udd constipation, colic, diarrhoes, simple about it. fever, colds, croup, to expel worms and managed to do none of these things || That's really all to the story, axe case the pains of teething, the ideal and actually managed to enter the cept that before I left I had another Post Office with a letter for a plate peep at the board, and it was still Baby's Own Tablets. called Chefoo. It was not my letter without any reference to Chefoo.
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