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FEVERISH
This is the problem of a thousand homos in England: How to make good again the true balance of family life, thrown away by the war.
In
The Stranger
The Family
By PAUL HOLT
to
boarding
Barbara away school and volunteered.
Sho' Volunteered
After
THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 1946,
BEYOND THE BARRIER
-(By RONALD WALKER) Nowe Chronicle, Air Correspondent
at Belsen Concentration Camp. imagination.
The World Needs More Than A Breathing Space
Why not a new meeting of the Big Three?
which has so far cluded us. Would
(By MICHAEL FOOT) ·
The idea is tempting. Anglo- Soviet relations have madly de terlorated in the past few months Not iner the Wright brothers and, indeed, the whole World
man-carrying situation appears more tenso than a Big Power meeting to be called mnde the frat 1911 she volunteered wared fights have the pros-nt any the since the armistico. to solve a problem which a Big again for foreign service. Ipects of flying been more excit- Tas peoples of the world pray Power meeting failed to tackle niet her once, abreas. It was ing, more atimulating to the earnestly for the settled peace before?
The Council of Foreign Minis- When y
oll friend tele-All around her the drifting, Scientists, engineers, aircraft not a three-power meeting magi phoned me, suggesting that we broken souls, shuffling along in designers, pilots are peering cally dispel the clouds and bestow tere in London last autumn broke up on a recognisable principle. this blessing? meet, I registerul the date in split boats, with grey blankets through the slits in a fence into
whether the meeting Ernest Bevin lasisted on the right The outlook of the nations is my mind as one of a series we over their reads.
a new fleld of endeavour where is arranged or not, let us not of other nations besides the Big like u fever-chart. It darts from have all been having of late. But she was in the children's the impossible will become pos- calve ourselves about the officacy
Three
to shape the world's peace, "Seems like an age since we ward. Iler care was the dry skin aible. In this how, and
unex- of these
ase conferences. Thero la no ene mood to another, from deep
Then, a few weeks later, Mr.
the United States Secre depression, to uneasy seassurance, met, old man. Why not a drink and bone, the old man's yellow plored territory speeds of 1,000 such simple formula for appeas from frustration to hope and one night this week? What's skull, the bright mad eyes of them.p.h, and even more will be an ing the world's pains and often tary of State, had a brain-wave.
Why not a three-Power starving concentration camp everyday happening: back again. We do wrong if we your best time?"
child.
communication becomes a prac-ings are looking for no more than "How is Joan?" I asked. tical proposition and inter- an easy escape from the tough
realities of Tracemaking. Then suddenly I saw the rea- planetary light censes to be a gon for this meeting. I saw it fantasy. in the difference of approach to from that came
In
We
tho
answer
and
оп.
which some advocate. It must be based on certain principles, the open acknowledgment of dif forences in our way of life and theirs, on mutual respect.
Win:out these corner-alones, series of hard bargains reached at a new Big Three meeting will offer no better prospect than the earlier meetings.
A nettlement" on the matters
where our interests conflict is cer- davirable. But before it tainly can be firm there must be a better understanding of the principles in which we believe and for which we are prepared to stand.
The next few months might be in showing by bettor occupied
the principles for which the new Britain stands than in a noW
rocket those who press for thedo mger; whate the growing to reitoration, by words and by deeds
is
At Our Pari
have not always been good agree
Indeed, many of the monta. troubles which confront us today In Germany, Greece, China and elsewhere are the legacies of had Yalta peacemaking at Teheran, and Potsdam.
the
over
Hard bargaining the whole diplomatic field. But Ernest Barin was unable to win approval for his plan, which have forestalled the present might ha unhappy situation. The idea of " Commission to visit Persia and tackle the most crucial question of the moment was rejected.
But in reaching agreement on other points, the world, or much of it, failed to mark the fact that the essential problem had been shirked.
Corner-Stones
Big Three meeting which might only smudge the fasues and pre- pare the way for a new row and a new temporary settlement.
The British people and the British Government want peace with the Soviet Union. We hope that nows will penetrate to tho Kremlin.
So far as it rests with us, we But propose to keep the peace. we do not propose to abdicate and deny the democratic Socialist faith which we have a right to sustain.
Let the Kremlin also understand that British Socialism like Rus aior Sovietism is here to atav
PS-Stalin might make a start in recognising that fact by print- ing in Russia Ernest Beyin's state- It cannot be secured by the ments of policy instead of Chur- series of unflateral concessions| chill's regurgitation of prejudices."
BY THE WAY
(By BEACHCOMBER)
PARERHANGER'S NIECE CHEWS ICE
"RUBBISH," SAYS
.never
know,
do i
thought. You you?
Gotting Into Shape
allow ourselves to succumb to So many of us, having so re- these swiftly changing emotions.cently lost the warm communion We shall be wise if we discern of wor friendships, ore now desperately to are only symptoms of seeking almost that they
oid associations. uncover the hour, and if we resolve that will not feel whole or safe again Henry and his daughter Bar-
The world needs a real peaco our faith, our equanimity, our
until around us once more there bara, Into Henry's eyes there But blocking the way into settlement, not a few month good sense will ride serenely over has been woven
a thick cocoon leaped a signal. Here it is, this new lard of high speed breathing space. Only at our peril them. This is a post-war period, of friendships. And so few of This is the subject Talk about flight is a barrier which, with can we disregard this. And all post-war periods, have us can surely say that
the Joan. Have another whisky, old the rapidly advancing speeds of The present situation is not en- been
like this, alas: "Io the strands have not perished and man While into Barbara's eyes modern aircraft, hus suddenly tirely frash. Often before there have been sudden furlous gasta of faithtul, toil-burdened masses the will hold him.
there came a look that might become the major challenge to
propaganda warfare between our victory was su complete, that no I lost track of Henry aome have been indifference, but look-aero-nuntical science. This
United States and tho solves, the a positive the layer of air compressibility Soviet Union at times when each further effort seemed required. time in
more like 1940. From time to ed to me
dividing speeds below that of
taking actions which the other Germany bad fallen, and with her time during the war, in different hatred.
Henry began to talk., Small sound (aul-sonic) work. I had news
abovo suspects or condemna. the world combination that bad parts of the
How, then, are we to seek what After some months nerves have all in their Hu had chosen the talk. How Joan was just back that of sound (super-sonic). crushed her. Authority was dis-of him.
How they
senses must desire Om abroad.
were While aeroplanes
still weakened. were
A Big Three Meeting a firm and lasting settlement persed; the world unshackled; the hush-hush way:
looking for a flat so desperate flying at 100 m.p.h, no one has been called. Cordial pareo with the Soviet Union? weak became strong, the sheltered) He had decided that his owny. How he had had Barbara to except the scientists had reasonment has been expressed in the became the aggressive, the comtalents-cond best, be used-ih-the himself for so long. st.aying to other with this-barrier communiques, and for a few stocke Inst the diplomatic atmosphere bas trast between victors and
van-service of his country by dis with his parents. How wonder- But when, during the quished tended continually to appearing down some Whitehallful it would be when the three phase of the war, jet-propelled seemed to clear.
But these cordial agreements diminish.
the 500 A vast fatigue do-dungeon ans, there working away of them could settle down once machines roared into minated collective action." like a ghome on. some part of again in a home of their own. m.p.h. speeda and then into 600 the huge field of Intelligence. It would bè so wonderful m.ph, the barrier lounted dead these words Winston Churchill After five years of vigorous tun-to be on their own. Why. Barnhead. portrayed the mood of the world selling he had emerged again to barn was aid enough now. She in 1918. How much of his ac- the sunlight on V Day, a full could stay at home and get on count can be applied to the con-colonel with a shy pink O.B.E. with her homework, while he
to know ditions that face the public and ribbon on his breast, followed and Joan got
cach The belt of atmosphere around A supreme example. is provided between exchanges of various in the statesmen of every nation to by the remainder of the fruit other again, went to the Odeon, the earth is mad
Stalin, Several From its inner or earth Churchill and gases. day! And how earnestly, then, salad. Now he was OUT and or played darts at the Mitre.
months said surface level to the outer limits tests against the Eastern frontier late, Mr. Churchill pro- Suddenly, Barbara should we strive to avoid the back on his old job to do with
me these gases are ubject to var drawn for Germany and the maga upon humanewspaper avertising. And we shrilly: My daddy tells error that prey
were to drisk to old times to-nearly everything. My daddy ious influences. They vary in
deportations which followed in weakness at such times. Weak-1
gether.
was in charge of at least a hun- (quantity, density and tempera-
-consequence. Stalin had every ness there must be, for the peoples When I got to the hotel lounge dred of the most important spies ture.
right to admonish him for failing exhausted after their vast found Henry was not alone, that ever went to France.
At sub-sonic speeds the air to point out that he had been a Arrtions. But the errors need He himself looked pretty glam- had them dropped by airplane flows over and under the wings party to these fateful decisions. not be repeated, provided that we brous in his full regolia, Sam at night. It was most impor- of an aeroplane like a fluid. As machine propels itself
How Can We? overcome this phase of nervous-Browne, silly little stick and all tant.... My daddy sent them," the
(Copyright withheld.) (He explained at once he had said Enrbura.
through the atmosphere, tho. dis- ness, puspicion and uneven temperheen flat-hunting all day long.) Just then Joan came in. Poor turbance of its pissage is, in a
But how can we assess the irres- Approach the problem with cool And sitting beside him. sucking soul, she looked so shabby sense, signalled ahead by a ponsibility of one who accepts Where Is Strabismus? ness and perspective. - Kealise that
Tan
orangeade, Wits a massive Poor soul, she looked to deathly series of waves, nga ifttle wave such decisive and epoch making these conditions are inseparable little schoolgirl.
Her gloves were , tired.
1939 will run attend, of a major dle plans for ordering the lives Watchers on the Southern from the ending of a great war,
Should the Government under- of millions of people and then, slopes of Popacatinaketl were as Brought [1] ΣΤΗ suddenly gloves and her cont was shoddy. turbance in water.
Reemingly, forgets a few months tir early as usual. and that the human, race has often against the
stock? When unexpected I took She wore a fur stole bravely,
And just write unconverted inter what he has
"done! before.faced them, groaned under quick stock and prepared a line and she carried herself like a
about the time when the Idex go there is a balance needed for The time to have objected to dawn to drink at their water-redemption, this question often them and survived them. of retreat.
Crusader-but, just at flat mo- ment I found myself hating poor When the zeroplane exceeds such evil policies was at heran, holes, my special representative, per cent.
and at Potsdam. Some Patience, hard
our attitude to the 2 work, organising
Yalta Bir Stafford Cripps (in much the speed of sound it overtakes awkwardness would have been detected, far off below in the noi- paid Frothingham, thought our
30-year bood. Any the same way that kings used to the pressure waves act up by caused at the time by insisting on some
conversion offer under these con one of put to death the messengers of its passage. The air has not the principles which we believed to a jungle or has ititions will presumably ignore the
time to reast in the
thin as a sliver of lard. "That" life. Meanwhile, there are pro-those quite enchanting trian-bad tidings),
mannerbo vital. But the sacrifice of prin- aid the to himself, must-mark option to redeem Otherwise normal in cubsonic speeds. blems of another sort, demanding |gutor · faces, heayy eyebrows, a,
In- ciples for a quiet life does not the crampment of the expedi- stockholder will be left with an different qualities for their solu- low forehead, deep, wondering
stead of flowing around
human thing could undisclosed, margin of loss. This aeroplane form "freezes" tion. The problems, of
a quick, hungry little
The in turn, leads to sudden demands con- eyes,
Place I began at once to talk about compresses into a solid
and for a release of old stock which fidence. Political problems. Ques-mouth and ent's chin fo finish
were. Jabbering Leigh must
as readily be redeemed. have her experiences. Once I told a This is the barrier.
and suddenly the smoke cannot tions in which the need is for a off. Visien
We know that when an or- lie. And Joan did not but an reconciliation between the aims, looked like that as a child.
attains barrier remains.
age? Then, the face ended, the little ere. And from the corner of thodox winged atceraft
Was the expedition lying to restore the balance, ambitions, and fears of one na girls went
The obvious conclusion at the dead in some swamp? As if to on with a lumpy, my eye I caught a quick applause such a speed it. literally butts
aeroplanes se answer these questions, a stam- into this barrier and is subjected moment is that tion and those of another. In fac-squirming, insistent body that from Henry
they are known today will pede of elephants then ing these, wisdom, farsightedness, bulged and bulged and, cried Barbara sat nyinging her to such stresses and
undergo radical change. in, the The
beasts came tryin great breadth of outlook on the part of puppy fat.
legs. Once she said: "My daddy that it is broken to bits.
coming years. They will almost out of the jungle a sure algn the public will not gumsanter suc "You remember my daughter, doesn't think so
about
certainly shed their wings; as that they had been diaturbed in cess-but they will prote it as Barbara? You've heard me talk-something but the comment got
nesting season. Breathless.. the winged aircraft appears to
mountain surely as a suspicious, hot-tempering about Uncle Paul, haven't itself lost.
you, Barbara?" sa! Henry. We
several
Arc
ability will, in due time, knit to
gether the torn web of civilised
Barbara
The little girl had
Jealousy
Ho
the
ог
*ARCH DEACON
The cast for Hogwasch's "The Flaming Soul," as it stands at Clark When Mrs. Hopple, of 8, The present, is: Bach, Mr. Drive, Stenchampion, opened the table, Lotta, Miss Betty Grade: door of her uncle's fowl-house the Abbe Liszt, Mr. Alan Ladd: yesterday morning, etc., etc., etc. Wagner, Mr. De Amecho; George
tion, for ΠΟ The Persian crisis provides an exist in such
D
pay.
mnas. even more perlinept example. Is
strains
-
natives"
Sand, Mies Giner Rogers; Queen Anne, Miss Leren Bacall: Lola Montes Miss Myrna Loy; Benja- min Franklin, Mr. Charles Boyor. Financial notos
the
poi. Had it been but a mir. Government action is then needed
the
to get have major disadvantages for the watchens on the
jet the purpose of penetrating the waited as the sun climbed higher. high barrier..
first Almost equally certain is that
Don Juan And Navy---A Denial
When we left, with
The problem is how ed and egotistical attitude will hands. Shaking hands whiskies behind us, it all seem through the barrier. The pave the way to worsening trou-with a small girl always makes ed all right and goed and whole engine, making really ble
me think of picking up a hurt again. There was an old speeds possible for the
Prodnoset Ibex and elephants sparrow, I don't like it,
friend, saying good-night to a time, is, as Mr. Strachey said aircraft of the future will take
the kay to the the form of a projectile or mo- in a Yucatan. “Jungle"! That's was recently welcomed on Barbara anddeny spoke. "My reunited, and happy English on Tuesday.
problem" of dification of it, propelled by roc-odd. daddy has been doing some of family. But I noticed that as situation. The
Myself: Yes, that's what the most frightfully Becret they walked away it was in how to burst safely through the keta or jet motors. work." she gaid loudly. "Some Henry's hand that-Barbara puti of it he's had to premise ho hors, Ottawa, Apr. 4.
Now I can go round to call and Captain David Gorden. Lunan, won't tell to anybody until seven alleged to be a apy ring head, years after the war," she said keep on making a heroine out" yesterday was committed to stand proudly.
CANADIAN CAPTAIN
COMMITTED,
trial on six charges of communi- cating
information secret
to
Russia,
Magistrate Glenn Strike direct-
'Torch' & 'Eclipso'
'
of Joan. It is work I shall en- joy. But I know--and Henry knows--that Barbara's jealously of her mother, her resentment at
Blow The Darned Thing!
1
Let's tell the world-what they, appar
Outside Britain, people are Henry and I talked together her homecoming, will not abate artly don't know that the majority of ed the Goottish-born officer to face in an off-hand manner about from any words of mine. He the scientife edrances made during the attributing some of the ma the next court of competent cri- some of his frightful secrets. knows it may over grow to put any years have come from Britain for discoveries of the war to minal jurisdiction.
Other countrim ara daliberstaly pinch- Unlose Luman chooses a speedy We used code! names like Gold-wreck his family life.
getdyg no kados at all, ing the credit for our Inventions. We're the Americans.. But, in many 2 Add caset, they were invented and trial, this will be in the May flake and Torch and Eclipso
Beckida we were and is a bloody developed by our own men.' (sil-la war, many of our discoveries had to be perfected and developed is
It is the price he now pays Basizes of the Ontario Supreme Henry had a defensive look in for having stayed at home. Court Lainan declined to make ahia eye, which I tried hard to statement Associated Press.
TYPHUS EPIDEMIC
break down.' I" ·decided to get it all off his cbest right away, and got him to tell me about the Bronze Star the Americans Were giving him, the Croix de Oanks, Apr. 8. ' Guerre ho would get from Paris. The largest typhus opidemic Barbara listened attentively. which has confronted the Unit-You could almost hear her purr. ed States army during world She broke in. "My daddy/stay war II has broken out among ed in England all through the Japanese civilians in the Osaka war. He has a bad stomach," área with Intensified full-scale she said suddenly "It came on campaign to break hold of the in 1989, quite suddenly." discaso.
by
DEATH SENTENCÉ FOR UNIFORMS
America
Ask, ■ Frichman or a Gresk 'where penicillin was bort. He will look at ble DenSellin bottle, see "Made in the United States of America” on it and 647.
America,*N Mention radar, and he labels
1
D
The "Chinking" abeil which had radio fuse in the nose and which helped torn Randstadi's Ardennes offensive last year: was invented in England....
London, April 4. A denial that Don Juan, pros tender to the throne of Spain,
board at British ship at Lisbon with official honours similar to those accorded to the President of the Portuguese Republic, was given in the House of Commons today by Mr. John Dugdale, Financial Secretary to the Admiralty.
He added that Don Juan was not received or entertained on board any of His Majesty's Ahips nt Lisbon, olther officially or privately.
Mr. Thomas Driberg, Labour The fuld flywheel and salt-changing Member, who had raised the gear, the famous sulphonamide (M. and B.) dram, the Mulberry harbour the all inatter, said: "If I send Mr. pire Hoe under the Channel, lan-ton Tess Dugdale the date, showing that the world's biggest bomb they who has been misinformed by his Brillko
department, will he come to the bomb, America's chief House of Commons again and
The abota scientific and diplomatla' weapon," would
which cap "e" through for and dark: use, and pleture the country a plane la Herford, Germany, Apr. 4.
Briz ere, Brițiak „nelentists led the Beld, M Sentence of death can be im
saver here been found out biz far Lord make a statement". the pased on kný German civilian
When jet planes, across ‘kerosa
Extberford's work on atoms at Com Mr Dugdale replied: "I can.. German military "Amerian betains his comtry a flooded American air, few United Blaise clien Belize, and the lalar development ar Bir not possibly admit that I am
know that the planan "are being driven Jamon Chadwick, Ble Wailies A, Askars who wours uniform from April 18 onwards, with American periodicale, which earri
khe war we mnt plans of the Whlitle fe under a revised ordinance issued adrezants grain rican radar by British-designed Jet, engine. Durish and Erofesor M, L, H. Olphant, misinformed signal has The American Senate was sold want been sent to the Gemmander- Allied Control Commission denke dhcorated by-Bir-Algian-anging to Amarka, where Ikmal queda lyhytowo-wschools In-chief of the Home Fleet, ask statement by the Commission, der ming. We freely wave this week and developed by the General Kipcice hever have produced the atos homb bating whether in fact Don Juan
for the work of the, Belilah -sulentista, The Shooting Dilar, which American explains that the ban on uniforms to America. We were in the front line Company
who in 1947, in face of America dia was received and he has made.
'careful investigation...⠀ I started all over again..
3- Fairman any, will swedol'the world's 'ngood not been strictly enforced and Amarica could produce it in better
ballet were convinced it was pokčila daring the past months owing to Hundreds of cases are report Suddenly I remembered his
- Ar a retuli the only penicillin available | record from Etektais, was druk filed: WILH
* Reities Cokilä Jet Sumina. New 13 han Lek we remember with pride that the "Don Juan cannot be found world's speed recorde," wm lands, öt- 'water ed in Osaka and 7,113 in 12 pro-wife. A handsome, impassiva the difficulty of dyeing thousands for years The Amerious penkäfills.ja
and in the air, are held by Britiawers to have been received in any of fectures with 8 per cent of the girl, Joan Quite frank and of army uniformsoften the only And now the world gives. Amerion phan Ameripiti, angine, developed from reported cases fatali
way, she had always boen; but clothing, discharged soldiers have eradik for ils dipsóvarz".
The famous Balls Roro Merlinale with British machine, had Him: Majesty's ships,
Lek nis redkember that we kind in te "Whether he went disguised [to
Bellek böwered the BAELOPS/19; the "Battije Only three typhite, cases are always that faint suggestion of In Futurg, the only. Clerman
"if Britain; in, also, being run in Amerionale, in Jet design, and many other
selentifs, Raide, at 600 as a rowspaper correspondent reported among the X-Is engag aauppressed amusement, always
uniforms Darwisted...apart from ed in ant-typhus Work and the whisper or in that alp those worn archers of WAT Radar to Hifish through, and throval): under, Bounce, it was vord: la
And let's about nur mehleedmanja te or otherwise. I cannot say "Mustang”..." and Klitridwk
tine, “world,
Laughter and cheerd)--Reut they already have been dise might be laughing at you. Or de bo in the bdhes of the Trom the first work, dontsky Bie Hdward American
Civil Bervice, núch as Police, and Appleton and or Watovo-Wall, Azkissenbül, káért, a dillereert, Amserious When war broke out, ahé
conditiona¿.**
charged from hospital ——Asso- at, barselfaEATERAIS wie ont? Fire Brigados-Märber, Albany' yikamagoj, tp the amaklar ¦rands" "|"name","
ciated Press.
RICHARD CLEMENTStor