Mr
THE CHINA MAIL, HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1945.
Between
The Real Problem
Britain And America
Church's descripton of] Leuse-Lend in the dark days off 1941 as the most unserdid net in history was very natural. At the me, to the hard-pressed, anxious people of this country, the phrase Secaned terally true. But men wrestling for their country's life against overwhelming force cun not always see things in their fuli perspective; their visinu la intense The but of necessity, conflued. anuguration of Lease-Leni Was ut dictated merely by American -EN MUZEUMİLY [1 15224 dictated by Veerlegt
New that Lear Lend has been so auddenly.
and dramatically withdrawn
denly and dramatically Ait
14 1794 !! could remember this,
Taking a brand historial view, There are peveral gets in history ver more "unsurdad" than
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that
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Which, for instance, aveled the greater comparative nate the British guarantee
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Flanel in 1909 at the American
In of Base-Tanul tr and her allies in 19417 By the latter the Faited States $1 fac
country auber
than twentieth cen Britain generously offered supply
materinds manufactures to those who were fighting Germany, without troub Lug nyermuch about their future. Lek yment
without ANY
What ing for interest ad, a effeet, to the belligerent. hampions of freedom, with whom The swingathise much whose cantine cacher cause, wat
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"We will give Terd) you the arms to defend, solves and as; du the lighting. we will see dint you do not and Tack th:
wherewithal with which to Aght." This was ather on a par with those sub-
which
Britain used to mak in the eighteenth eath century to her Continental allies: the former provided the money for me and ammuni-
writ
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in the after provided the thtr17 No one, for Ah aware, has ever theocrited thin enable British practice as "un- ordid, yet of the two. it seems perba slightly better entitled to the adjetive than President twentieth century qun alent, since in the case of the British grants to question of wyment in any form was even contemplated.
Rist
Live
Ronsevelt's
British guarantee to Poland in 1979, like the guarantee to Belgium in an earlier war, way
her order. The British of f another Tered to defend Poland against the Nazi aggression not merely with their financial and industrial re- warces, but with their blood and They stated their very existener. rendiness go to war themselves if Germany violated Poland's WEB- tern frontiers, though by doing so they incurred dangers which they had not then the arms to resist.
ANOTHER
ANALYSIS
the
comparison than
United State Her loses in man-powe have heen. IRA for man. three 10 as henvy, and ber karu material comfort, economic security and workly
power fata mra-urably greater. Amerien has un the whole, emergval politically and econunileally stranger from the global war for freedom. Bri tun, on the contrary, is for wenk er than she was before. She has Jost the flower of two generations; she has sacrificed all her over investments; bes ha incurred colossal and simont sestata; she is shabby, dhoused. hungry and with small prospvet of being anything else for years to Only her splendid spirit and her maketless record secure ber her
Come
unpayable
unwonted place at the fore of the world counsels. Thanks to her courage and un calculating constancy in freedom's coum, her credit is even higher that it was before the war.
Yet it would be mistake tu rat Britain's generosity in voluntari by going to war over a distant for righ frontier to high. In don
, itke the United States with her geature of Frase-Lend, she was de
Those fending her own interests. interests, like those of the United States, were two-fold. She could nat stand by idly and watch für- ther outrages on human liberty without endangering her own. And she could not allow further viola tions of other nation's frontiers without ultimately inperilling her own frontiera. She took her bold and gearrous plunge because she knew it was better to fight with alles in 1999 than to fight alone against a still more powerful for in 1946. When President Roose velt made his build and statesman like gesture in 1941 he was actual- ed by identically similar motives.
The war is now over: the Nazi menace and the Japanese have been defeated. Britain is no lon-
pur For Britain.
fighting for Polund, and America is no longer holding the Both have
their own interests and with them the cause of human freedom. The only difference be- tween them in this respect is that whereas Britain voluntarily drew the sword before she was directly attacked, America did not do no until she had been attacked. This was due not to any inferiority in American idealism, but to the slower tempo of the American con stitution. Thanks to the untram- melled supremacy of Parliament under our elastic system of gov In 1940 they all but paid the priveerament, our rulers were able to of their chivalrous temerity by but the practical and self-interest literal Extinction: had Hitler inspired idealism of Britain into thrown his weight against them in prompt and immediate effect; Pre- the autumn of 1930 or even in the ident Roosevelt and those who early summer of 1940 before their thought like him were compelled eight-gun Spitfires and Hurrito proced more slowly. The real
cares were ready, their offer to Poland would have been their death warrant, As it is, in pur- sult of that offer the British na tion has sacrificed far more in
problem which now arises between Britain and America is not to measure in dollars which behaved most echerously or which has Jade the greater sacriflees for the
Lord Louis' Tribute To 14th Army
A TRIBUTE TO CEN, SLIM AND THE FOURTEENTH ARMY WAS PAID BY ADMI.. LORD LOUIS MOUNT- BATTEN, G.C.Y.O.. K.C.B., D.S.O., A.D.C., SUPREME AL- LIED COMMANDER. SOUTH EAST ASIA COMMAND, IN THE FOLLOWING ORDER OF THE DAY: "To-day, the 1st of December,
The
Fourteenth Army is dis-
banded, two years since NEHRU SEES
you
were first formed and received your official name.
"In the early days you were an unknown, forgotten army, ill equipped and short of men, Aghting in appalling conditions or some of the worst coun- try in the world.
AUCHINLECK
common cause, but to agree on a policy of relationship which will serve the real interests of both natione, And, as both countries are democracies in which action
and polfey are necessarily depen-
dent on public opinion, auch a polley must emmend Rself not merely to the informed few, but to the
Any many in both lands. policy which seems unjust to the ordinary man ja either country is bound to
fail.
What are the elementary needs
Singapore Conference On Java
BATAVIA, DEC. 4. THE SUPREME ALLIED COMMANDER IN SOUTH EAST ASTA. LORD LOUIS MOUNTHATTEN. HAS CALL ED THE ALLIED COMMAN- DER-IN-CHIEF IN TUE DUTCH EAST INDIES, LIEU TENANT-GENERAL CHRISTI.
WILFRED SON, AND REAR-ADMIRAL PATTERSON TO SINGAPORE FOR A MEETING
THE JAVA SITUATION.
AC-
27 Soldiers Spanish
Monarchists
Killed
poinp
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ON WEDNESDAY TO DISCUSS TO BE HOME BY of Britain and U.S.A.? Strategi CORDING TO UNCONFIRMED CHRISTMAS
cally they are manifestly deper dent on one another; one is the fighting outpost, Um other
U baseline of parliamentary deme Economically. their In-
terdependent. terests are far less obviously in
The United States
Pracy.
is self-sufficient economic whit whose people can support then- selven by raising their own food and essential raw materials and be taking in one another's woah- ing To them foreign trade is a luxury, since it is this which offers luxury, albeit a very cherished
the opportunity for that fabulous surplus personal spending power which is still the material dream trade is, of every American. To us, foreign necessity. for we can nether
onhappily, an absolute
all the foo present raise require nor supply our factories with all their basic requirements. Until we can rebuild a more stable
we
policy, we must export or die Far this reason our bargaining power in mattos for foreign trade is much weaker than that of Ameri ca: the latter can pick and choose;
Yet we cannot.
ww have cer
Isin arrent assets, and the United States certain Imitations which profoundly affect our mutual posi- tion.
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The Lieutenant-Governor of the Dutch East Indies, Dr. Hubertus van Mook, may also attend th meeting. the report adds.
A meeting is also expected here sun, the Aguney adds. between the Dutch and the
Indonesian
Republican Government, in spite of the fuck that the Indonesian Prime Minister, Sutant Sjahrir, yesterday said that "such a meet ing could hardly be fruitful". Reuter
ARAB BOYCOTT OF ZIONISTS
Caire, Dee. 3. The Arab Lengne Counell, in a move to throttle Jewish trade in Palestine, has decides to boycott The Zionist Industry.
If the delegates of the League's seven member nations
V
With U.S. Seventh Fleet off
Manchuria, Dee. 3. Vice-Adm. Daniel Barbey re- ports that 17,000 personnel from The 137 ships of the Seventh Fleet. which now is deployed along the China and Korean coasts, w
he been released by December 10 and will be In the United States by Christmas.
1 ndition, fre squadrons of airplaney, half the Fleet's air arm, will have been released by the sar dute
(Several of the Seventh Fleet ships in Hong Kong harbour have started homeward in recent days. Including the Ingham. the rat- while flagship of the South China force, and the Kenneth Whiting, A seaplane tender, and its fleet of four-engined Coronado planes). Asuorinted Press.
Cairo, Dee. 3 The Egyptian Government
has
The Council's decision it would mean the loss of all Middle East outlets for Palestine's rapidly ex} derided to float a £30,000,000 in- Industries. Associated | ternal loun to finance the 1945-46 panding Press.
rotton erop. Reuter.
Notorious Gang Get Long Terms
FIVE MEMBERS OF THE NOTORIOUS WONG KONG-KIT GANG WHICH PROVED SUCH A TERROR TO MAÇAO AND THE SURROUNDING DISTRICTS DURING THE JAPANESE OCCUPATION APPEARED BEFORE THE MILITARY STANDING COURT YESTERDAY ON CHARGES OF ROBBERY AND CARRYING ARMS WHILE COMMITTING AN OFFENCE AT SOK KU WAN ON NOV. 4.
The traders and financiers of the United States can only af ford to lose the markets of Great Britain and the British Empire at the expense of bidding forewell their own dream of ever-expan
private
profit. And we, out of sheer necessity, can only afford to allow them those markets If the imanere market of the United States is itself thrown open to one The more dollars the exporters. United States loans to us to our markets to her traders-- and, as we have sacrificed our dollar roserves to defent Germany, wr cannot buy from hur on other terma-the more casential it be comes that the sole means we have of repaying such loans should be boutman, Leung Yun, 34, bont- placed at our disposal. just as our own markets were at the dis.
man. Ho Kwong, 25, beatman, Yung Kan, 19, and Wóng Fuk, porst of
in
our debtors during the 20, ali pleaded guilty to both nineteenth century, when we were
charges and were each sen- the great country
credit, loan-lending tenced to seven years' hard la- of the world. The choler is not ours to make but
bour on each charge, the aen- America's; she can have it either tences to run concurently way. But she cannot choose both.
Either phe can do as we did in the nineteenth century; grow rich by lending to ourselves and all the walls and opening her ports to the world while removing her tariff merchandise of her debtors: or she can fall back on her own self. sufficiency and build un an econo mic polity
choosing within her own wide bordern. But
of her own
If she chooses the latter, she must leave the rest of the world, in cluding ourselves. to do likewise; for in that event we cannot cun. tinue to exist unless we do.
Move Against Conscription
The accused, Tung Lee, 85,
A third charge of unlawful possession of four rifles. 1000 rounds of rille ammunition, six hand grenaden and one coil of fase wire at Cheung Sha Wan
Nov. on
11 was withdraw after arcused had pleaded guilty to the other two charges.
The Court
of consideration. Every one of the accused is aufficiently old in years to realise that the thet of leadership in this case is no excuse."
The President added the fact that the e was a leader made it clear that the whole thing was a well organised attempt to rob poor people, and the robberies were to be perpetrated in out- lying islands where police pro- tection for the time being was inadequate. "Thia
de- liberate raid on theac prople. victims of this crime, the maxi- mum sentence for which on the comprised Mr.first charge is life imprisonment Leo d'Almada (President). Mr. plus whipping and on the sec William and charge sentence of death.
the police in
"This court is trying to help crimes of this nature and the stamping out only thing which save the 10- cused from a heavier sentence is that nothing is known of the accused." After imponing 'sen- tence Mr. Leo d'Almada added: "And let it be known that in future, cases of this nature will be more severely dealt with."
Horace Lo and Capt. appeared for the prosecution, Penaluna. Mr. F. X. d'Almada assisted by Mr. R. S. Smith Sub.-insp. Bethel was for the police.
The accused were charged
Chuen with robbing Wu
of H.K. $1,000, C.N. $126.000; six gold ringe and other pieces of jewellery and from Chung Yung H.K. $160. a wrist watch and clothing. and from Tiu Wei Washington, Dec. 3. H.K. $40 and C.N. $1,600. House Republican Leader Mar- tin of Massachusetts called on the VILLAGER USED AS DECOY military committee to start hear- Outlining the case, Mr. F. X. ings on his bill for an inter. 'Almada and that on Nov. 4 national ban on compulsory militat about 7.30 p.m. the accused ary service. He urged the hear entered the house of Wu Chuen, Ingo be held before a decision is
a shopkeeper. tied up bin-
reached on President Traman's proposed universal military train mates and proceeded to reb Wu ing programme. Sponsors of the of the articles mentioned in the Later one of the vil- President's military training le charge. gislation are growing pesalmistic lagers at Sok Ku Wan, where over its chances of approval by the robbery took place, was 28ed. Сопатева.
as a decoy and several other War Secretary Patterson maid houses were rubbed by the ac-
enlist. yesterday that voluntary
ensed. A report was made to monts alone are not likely to keep Aberdeen police station. the Army up to minimum needed
On Nov. 6 a master of a junk forry
NEW DELHI, DEC. 3. JAWAHARLAL PANDIT NE HRU SAID, BEFORE HIS DE AIRPLANE FOR ALLAHABAD, PARTURE YESTERDAY BY THAT WHILE HERE HE HAD strength while combat veterans who was travelling on a "To-day you are known aa DISCUSSED WITH GEN. SIE are being discharged.
If the nation the Army that turned the tide CLAUDE AUCHINLECK THE
is to fulfil it recognised the accused's junk of defeat and disaster in South- INDIANISATION OF THE IN goal of homes for 7,000,000 dis as one having been stolen in East Asia
DIAN ARMY, "IN WHICH THE charged men by July selective Macao in October and report- and achieved what COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF 13 service inductions must continue, ed the matter to the Police. was thought to be the impos- MUCH INTERESTED."
he insisted. Otherwise, cumbat sible.
Nohru did not go into detail, veterans who already have, riskede junk was found by the Wan but he said the main reason for their liver must remain in the police in Cheung Sha "Your victories in Arakan, at his call hero was to call on the Army "while those who have not where it was about to be taken Kohima. Imphal, Kennedy General. Nehru also said he ex-served at all are exempted from onto a alipway. Peak, Mandalay and Meiktila pected the British would take any military duty-Associated Inquiries were made, said Mr. d'Almada, and it was found have passed into history and quick stops after the Indian elec
that the junk had been used to the words "Fourteenth Army" ons next spring to turn the
Canton, Dec. 3. transport Government over to the Indians.
Wong Kong-kit's have become a synonym of cour- age and endurance throughout would be expected to form
He said the Administration in, has given an impetus to de- territory, and thereafter used in The cold spell which has set forces to Tung Ku Tau, British the world.
Central Government "representing mand for winter clothing, and "From your first battle to the democratic forces within the second-hand clothing marts are
series of piracles. your last victory you were com-country" as shown by the elec doing a roaring business.
SERIOUS VIEW manded by Gon. Slim. It is not tions.
Mr. d'Almada added that the Everyone who can afford it is police were taking a very seri overcoat coste from CN800,000 of such casen were on the in- wearing a winter auit. An our view of the case as reports to CN$80,000, and a European erense.
Press.
for me to sing. Bill Stim's *Then would follow the setting praises to you. No one knows up of a Constituent Assembly better than you do what his which would frame, the Govern leadership meant to you. Geo.ment India wanted.
He said: "The Indian Na-style sult 18 Slim is leaving S.E.A.C. to take up a new appointment and present frini of its officers had the
tional Army activities, and the CN$75,000. to-day I can pay this tribute effect of bringing closer the people recently during the trial of the to you both. He was worthy of of India." He said that tales of India officers, had caused many you and you were worthy of the exploits of the Inilah Na Younger Indians to question the him. Good fuck to him and to tional Army, discloned since the Ghandian philosophy of non-viol- everyone of you,!!
relcano of censorship and more enoe-Associated Press.
Pre-
a bargain at Passing sentence the
sident, Mr. d'Almada, said: "In my opinion there is no mitigat ing feature in this robbery and no single point. mentioned by: the accused as regards sentenco to be passed on them in worthy:
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