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China's Problem
THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 1948.
Spotlight By A. J. Cummings
HUMPTY DUMPTY
SAID IT
It is noticeabls that Russia,† knock-down argument”,” Alico obj "sonnes" a coming change and he replying through "warda" to the jected. Churchill «posch Fulton, con- ex- contrutes lefury on the Premier, accusing him of "in- stigating war against the Soviet Union," and avoids any direct at tack on the Weaters democracles.
Boubtoss Carafui
study by high Sorict authorities of the
Churchill' world-reaction to Mr. premenmodda ent bas convinced them that there is little onthusiasm anywhore for an Anglo-American military alliance; that
There seems to be a political moral tridden somewhere in this of Humpty Dumpty logic.
In ge tievastating piece
,
It rbour, since
TODAY
IN- EUROPE
Is Fonteyn Greater Than Pavlova?
in "bed before midnight during' the season.
"You can't go out to parties when you want to. I love my dancing. I'd forgo anything for
so in the Prime Minister's inst "When I wo a word," Humpty | brasdeest-aigns that Mr. Attles is
Said Mr. Hookham to Mrs. it. I like night clubs," Bause. Dumpty anid in a rather scorn-preparing Labour for some Con- By RANDOLPH ́CHURCHILL ful tong. It means just what 1lition "medicine."
Hookham in Shanghai 13 years "But it's no hardship, really," Why? choose it to rican-neither more
All because in
Training. though, is hard. his
"That child needs Icroons ago: nor less."
What happens if the British broadcast Mr. Attlee did not once loan fails to pass through Con-child, their gangling, ebony school every morning. To to And that One and a half hours ballot in aeportment," "The queation 1:," anid Alley, mention the word "party." Of "whether you can make words course he didn't. He was appeal-gress? If the loan does not go pigtailed daughter, Margot, ex- three hours rcheatsing every mean different things."
ing not to any party but to the through, Britain will have to claimed in 13-year-old, saucer afternoon. "I get through three The
question 19," said Humpty gallon, for a great production tighten her belt upon an already eyed excitement:
"Oh, yea,
pairs of ballet. shoes orory Dumpty, which is to be master drive. The Tory Coalitionists are undernourished stomach.
week." that's all."
talking desperato nonsenso,
Daddy. Please!" The food rations, which to-
And dancer's logs. Fonteyn So was born a ballerina, ua- day are lower than they were
A thinks Disney's Ostrich Ballet Foreign Mine-Labour
twelve months ago when Bri-obtrusively as a snowdrop.
Perhaps the bal-in "Fantasia" is a flm libel on ballerina? A report resche, me
me that the tain was still at war with Gar-lorina. For, chrysalis into but-dancers. Remember those huge- Miners' Federation is willine, un-many and der conditions, to accep: German still further. Britain will have ham became Fonteyn.
Japan, will be cutterfly, knobbly-kneed Miss Ilook- hammed, mincing birds that labour in the pines,
were so surprisingly spry to save her limited dollar re-
"Bad training however, to aree to
To claim Bach distinction for
develops big Polish
Bources for absolute necessities. that might
her is to call for authoritative leg muscics, Some teachers American mean the permanent competition The importation of
support. Who better qualified don't understand the technique, in the Labour market of thou-fiirns and tobaden is almost cer
True enough of Fontorn's- Gence, Europe's premiere dan- to return to Poland.
Purchases of American cotton sands of Poles who do not intend tain to be prohibited in toto to speak than Mme. Adeline Most of us have slim lega,"
If it has been suggested to Bri- will be reduced to a minimum. and now, at 67, with a lifetime
acune during our fathers' youth even without her nylons. tish minore that Polos should be and the same would apply to all of ballet behind her? employed, in addition to Ger- foodstuffs, mans, "actless" is the appro- Then, Britain will be unable Sleeping Beauty,"
After seeing Fonteyn in "The at triste word.
National Game
to play her part under the Bret Covent Garden, Mme. Geneo ton Woods agreement. Instead
"Margot Fonteyn's The latest story about Anglo- of the multilateral trade which German football comes from Ger-is a major American interest.even than Pavlova's" . . .
technique is four times better Meanwhile the Tories continue ald Barry, who has just returned there will be a whole host of to pin their hopes of a come- from an extensive tour of the bilateral trade
And Genee and Pavlova wore agreements on
friends. ck to the formation in the not occupation zones. distant future of a new Coalition. After a match betwoon British the model set by Dr. Hjalmar
21011.
Schacht. The U.S. They
will be are flying a number of Coa-soldiers ition kites in different directions which the intter won, an excited forced to follow 4 simillar
Britain on as well Rs in The last-minute
tulse effort
numbers of people ses the throat achieve a modus vivendi and pre- it would carry to the effective
Torici Walt And See vent the revival of civil strife in survival of Une and are appalled
havo The Tory Party chiefs forlorn at the prospect of posing Russia China is pictured as a
as the prospective enemy of the not yet decided whether they will hope, and while this is probably Angie Saxon community.
adopt Mr. Churchill'a
thevis on too gloomy a view, developments Further commenta in the Bri-world peace as a
party cry, give are far from reassuring. Viewed fish Press, though synchronised
Until they can probe a from the angle of China's best with vexatious unilateral Russian ignore in te approval or politely interests and her emergence as a action in Iran and Manchuris, tuo further into the room.
Much depends on the personal world political force, standing on
issue of the party leadership. her own feet, the facts are both
There is a growing body of Tory uncomfortable
opinion that of his own volition he will shortly surrender tho leadership.
Coalition Kitos
areas of
German civilian and
1
Bays:
Intoxicating
now
In 1936, when Fonteyn should
Ration Problem Fonteyn gets extra energy from glucoso. I take lots be- fore.every performance."
have been temporate in Lone much feas hostile in fact to Russia than before Churchili gave tongue and disquieting and in several cases sharply cri-
"The food ration is inauffi- Obviously, the accomplishments tical of the Fulton oration.
Saya "Reynolds News":
cient for such strenuous work," of General Marshall towards
An Mr.
Mr. Churchill looks At
she says. "Wo need almost as bringing peace between the com- Europe he does not see a great
much as codiminers-especially munists and the Kuomintang and array of peoples struggling to
in, long ballets like Tho Sleep persuading them of the value and build a better life for the common
ing Beauty." which lasta 3 necessity of compromise, are fall-mat. He sees only a Bolshevik
hours." with a bomb.. ing apart during the General's
He has no conception of the
Though superstitious herself, absence in Washington. When fact that, if Russian influence pre-
A few days ago a Tory politi- German shouted: "Ah! We've bea-policy. Instead of having an have been a mere chit of a girl weakness. "You hear only she regards superstition as a he returns, it is easy to predict ponderates ever great
writing over the nams often you at your national game,” expanding world economy at 16 the ataid Morning Post that the atmosphere will improve urope, it is because rightly or Rab, M.P, flew a conspicuously "Yes, chum, retorted a Cockney which there will be mutually anid: "Here at last is an Eng- about those people whose lucky
wrongly millions of the common and that there will return, at least people believe that it in Russia on in the "Lancashire Dally soldier: "but don't forget we beat profitable trade for all, a cut-leh girl who dances with her charms saved
Post." He professes to think that you at yours a few months ago," outwardly, calues relations be
which
thout in their
throat competition for foreim goal inind and body; she is bril-never hear about those charms which encourages
(World copyright) tween the political factions.
markets would break struggle for social change; Bri
out beliant, attractive, possessing some that didn't work; the wearers mean: tain and America which buck the
tween Britain and the U.S. however, this is all, it
of that intoxicating quality al- don't live to tell the tale." Britain would undoubtedly
She's worried somewhat, nothing. The fact that these dis old, hated order of exploitation
and privilege.
survive this ordeni, for sho iways associated with great dan-
nevertheless. Powdering her cora." agreements have become active
still the center of a vast group What of ballerina Fonteyn, ose backstage recently she again, in an acute form. so swiftly
of nations who look to her for who now, at 26, challenges me- dropped and broke her mirror.. following the departure of the
economic and political Icador- American mediator, is depressing It seems capable of only one in terpretation, that political reform
li
Says the diplomatic correspon- dent of the "Sunday Pictorial," under the hoading "Why Chur chill was wrong":"
Russia will never come to terms with us if she believes that we are merely an outpost of America
The pean
armageddon."
If
•
В new
U.S. Troops Warned
at
Think over.
you to
*
cian
the House of Commonя Stoelf
Holding The World's Shopping Basket
BAR NOTTAKA
4
them.
You
One afternoon this week I Fonteyn stepping along
ship. But both Britain and the mories of great Pavlova?
She is beautiful, modest, 5ft. United States would be compet6ina.slightly taller than Baw ing in a poorer world. Instead normal ballet dancers. She has the pavement. of organizing and dividing fair- also a cosy and most unbailer- ly the abundance of an expand inalike chuckle. ing world economy, there would
Did
& human being ever posarsa a less lumpish body?
I swear I could pick her out-
Sho couldn't Bay In her
dressing-room at 200 yards among London's be a dollar bloe and a sterling Covent Garden bloc fiercely competing, with what might have happened to crowds." The Board is also an appeal tri- tariffs and quotas, with sub-
O. D. GALLAGHER. bunal to bear and judge appeals sidies and with currency dev her. If Mr. Hookham had not by any Committee members.
Kone to Shanghai for
Suppose for a brief, horrible ernments. of the producius ceun- moment that, as a housewife, you tries, with the Board's blessing. were called upon to do the shop-
Appeals Board ping, not merely for your own household but for the whole road. Well, you would find, first of all, that you would have to make out ย pretty formidable ist Then, as you went in search of
had
to
the
The British representative on luations, for a strictly limited British-American Tobacco Com BY THE WAY
u
no mandatory
In order
"That
By Beachcomber My suggestion that a beautiful woman spy should get hold of the secret of the atom bomb and destroy it has awakenod as echo
fair to make the well-known welkin ring.
the size of a horse which bids
But the lettera I have received are not scanted notes scribbled on purple, Jagged-edged
paper. They are mostly from matter-of- whose spying haà fact women probably been confined to lying in wait for the milkman, er fạm- bling among a stack of tiny while turned. Сте the grocer's back is
however, is from confeshed beauty who is also
a self-
spy. That
the sentence why which follows this one is written in invisible ink.
For Your Anthology
moon's, a bird,
silver osprey flying along the
clouds,
A traveller who will bring us back
no word
To solace the mail, the unrozmar-
ate crowds.
Yet where the darkening waters
swirl, his light
gone.
in China has not yet advanced in Europarver" in its "Eure- very far beyond the paper stage
Notebook" significantly that the underlying conflict of in points out that the Churchill im terests has not been ironed outpact on German opinion was very that the mutual confidence which powerful, "dominating all political alone can guarantee the perman discussions and that most Ger-
as take it
it for granted that the ence of reforms is lacking. speech was a clarion call to war this basis, China has a long row against
Russia."
the Board is a Seat, 42-year-old volume of world trade. They are sceptical of all other
Maurice Hutton, head of the
to keep her head pany; if he had stayed at to hoe. In an interview with
Fonteyn was Relgate (where journalists on his return to Wash interpretations and are happily
British Food Mission in America. above water, Britain would be horn) and if it had been there Formerly a London merchant ban forced to increase her competi-
than he ington, General Marshall de convinced that "Germany's power,
seeing clearer that BY ALAN CLARKE kor, bo went to the Ministry of tive power in the export mar clared his belief that peace in will rise again, throught
knew, he had said: Food in 1930 and was chosen to kets of the world by devaluing child needs Tessons in deport China is vital to the welfare of
head the Food Mission because of the pound.
It might cally ment." the world and to China's own
food, you would discovár that his profound knowledge of inter-slide to three dollare, instead of
national trade.
Would safe, smug England of reconstruction and development
I note, too, that the Americani somo hops were short of one roh
the current rate of 4.03. Board has The H that others He indicated his intention of keep commander Wuerzburg Ba-quirement and
or executive pqwers, or financial imposed upon the British peo-calls? It is almost certain she The privations that would be those days have warmed butter- ily Fonteyn out of her chry- ing at his task until it is success yaria, has found it necessary to surpluses.
You would find that some fami- responsibilitics. fully completed. President Trut issue a sharp order to his troops
The exporting countries, mainly ple, coupled with the exigencies would not have met Mine. Preo not to tolerate "the anti-Russian lies on your list required migre}
and Comads, of n bitter trade war, would man was given him unqualified spinions of German women" and because they were larger and that the United States
it was to her bralensky, and support: His own comment ha to remember that millions of Rus- some had "priorities" because Onally decide where the food tend Inevitably to drive Britain Mrs. Hookham, sent young Mar-
must go in the light of the Com-further down the path of so- there were children or invalida. been: "We have disarmed Japar sinns died in the Allied cause,
nationalization
got to learn deportment, and and are promoting reforms which
propaganda causes
Undoubtedly the most import bined Food Board's discussions on cialism
supplies and needs,
state trading. This proccas
Why The Name? we hope will bring into being inte the Russians (he Bavs), stop ant thing you would discover, was
Although for
a quota may be given would be reflected throughout you that because of widespread short- and think. They died
ballerina herself country. it does not neces-the world; and everywhere the democratic and peaceful nation to.
Once a They
have gats: they ages-you-would be called on to But the control of Japan is only kept hordes of Jerries off us; and, use the judgment of Solomon in sarily mean that it will get the rights of the individual would Mme. Preobraiensky, now an
get which supplies. Holland, for example, is wither and the authority of want to fight, deciding who was to
recognised the beginning. In the Far East by God, I never
octogenarian, unable for Anancial reasons to
familiar in Margot. Four years You have goods. as chewhere, we shall encourage again.
been warned,
In Washington, America, there take up its full allocation of meat. the state would be augmented.
But in fact, the slitad and growth of demo
Sir Stafford Cripps might with her and Margot came back It
the system has is abill too early to say whela an organisation called the Gum, already resulted in food produced enjoy organizing and regiment to Europe to begin real train-Take back your tricycle. The cracy" America is
prepared ther the widespread controversies bined Food Board. Sir Ben Smith, appeently, to employ a large aroused at Fulton have quicken our Food Minister, is now busy in 60 countries being distributed ing the austerity which it would ing."
in 70 countries. Inflation and be necessary to impose upon At 17 she made her Sadler's number of dollars by way of ened or slowed down the trend to talking to members of the Board, racketeering in foodstuffs in short the British public, Lord Ben-Wells debut in roles Pavlova couragement, and it is, in fact, in wards an Anglo-American diplo- which will decide the fair supply have been reduced to
matie consolidation against the Bible way of
verbrook might rejoice in beat herself considered difficult. The meeting the shortago connection with China's require Soviet Union.
ing the tom-toms of eccuomic metamorphosis was complete— of about 7,000,000 tons of wheat minimum. inents in the way of credit andi
They have certainly emphasised from the world's shopping basket.
• How Long?
But throughout Hookham was Fonteyn, imperialism. supplies that General Marshal the danger and the consequences. The Combined Food Board is
Dominions other than Canada what remains of the free world-
Why Fonteyn? be unnecessary "I don't know. I just liked SRW fit to journey to Washing That should be no less obvious to sort of housewife for the whole are linked
with the Combined there would ton. But, in the long run, result our Bussian friends than it is to world, except that it does not ac- Food Board through an organi-hardship and, day by day, both it on a name," she anys.
Flashes a moment and is for ever. surepives.
tually buy anything, but merely anties known as the London Food Britain and America would be Life is not all orchids for bal achieved by these means are cer
New Start Needed advises the Governments of the Council, of which the Chairman building an economic system of lerinas. There are paradoxical As on the borderland of quiet tain to prove epleneral. Demo In their fully, rooted in an in various producing countries where is the Minister of Food.
poverty which could only find disadvantages. You are seldom
might cracy for China must come from sensate, desire for the wrong kind the food should go, after hearing This Council does for the Do-its ultimate release in war.
Flickers the wing of an unslesp the Food Board I have written the foregoing to merit. He's within China. China' must go of "accurity," they have gone far the pleas of the nations needing minions what
not "in the va-
ink swan, does for the United Nations. her own house in order, political to dissipate in Western lands at
(Androw Molrani, Crystal Fear). With a deep sense of responsi- The Board began in 1942, when
How long the Combined Food.
With Comment ly. The economic aid that car great mass of popular good will.
disorganised Board will continue to decide how bility fully
Conscious that I e."
So impressed have some people which was theirs for the asking food supplies were
As an old tonor of the Hudders- he secured from her friends ove: and which would have compelled owing to the victories of the Axia.
much fat, ment, sugar and other may be accused of trying to become by the subtle and perva- sens can he favaluable to her re Western statesmanship to com
All Foods
things you and (any every other make alarmist propaganda in sive power of fashion that they field Choir, and a pioneer of the
will get favor of the loan. However, have taken to saying that all life telegraphic, seryloo construction; but dollar diplomacymon action on all levels with the
United Nations Crtain. Now, with, peace, the Board is in
conrider the vlows of men like is affected by this strange obb and country and Albania, in his will faft in its main purpose if the USSR.
11. elbowitas, harringtono buttonfess Though time presses, it is not being called on to alleviate world. In our rations is continue as U.S. Secretary of State Byrnes flow. "Nothing is outside its in-
probably leaders of Chintoo present-day
they declare. "It exer and epauletteicas demi-autoat of to correct these and
wido
food shortages resulting long as the world's dire food und Secretary of the Treasury duence," t cannot sit down to the conference other errors of judgment, not on from the war and crop fallures. shortages continue. Food oxperts Vinson, Both theno man are sisen away over every area of prawn-coloured fish-akin (not for table sincere of purpose and ready pue aldo only. But there must The Beard itself consists of re-believe that this will be much currently trying to push the life." The Aereat form of con- export cannot suppress a smile
sure these people know is to call on reading be a gour start.
I dont presentatives of the United States, longer than most people think, And
Kingdom, and Canada. to put into effect agreed arrange think i now start can be made the the United Nations' and according to present indication.cause they are especially ena-label something" "passe" they de-a lot to do with it.”
They say the food situation, loan through Congresa not be thing ofl-fashioned. If you never so provalenti rationing has ments for unifying the govern until the londors ment. Struggles for spheres of Thros have mot again in private the liberated ones are represented is going to get much worse before (mored of Great Britain, but be oko that it is not for This im- bolleve that
of the Big But all
live in the country ·CAN quita on the
cicar about Committees. Commodity
cause they belive that the best Let us bo conclave for the settlement of the
it gets botter. There is a
is a Commodity Com-
once for all. The Lantern-Metal Muddle lasuca
In that event, the Combined Interests of the United States portant matter more troublesome
and the
realms where There are mities for
foodstuff. in overy
Food Board has only just begun and of the world" will thus be ion has no right to exercise) terday received a letter from the removal of major suspicions.
Bome
Poor Mrs, Duleto Bilbound, res That would be in accord with short supply. Among them aro its work.
Borved..
away. The role of fashion ends
Co-ordination Department of the. the Labour Party's election mani- coreals, feeding-stiffs, ells and sugar,
where the faoral law of God be Ministry of Co-operation, calling festo in this country which as fats, meat, dairy produce,
Kina. Some people have taken her that her licence to dispose of POWER FOR CHINA cuand the Taries of being rice, cocoa and spicos, ten, dried
to saying that the Ten Command Lanternmetal scared of Russia" that they miss fruits, dish and fish products.
ments are out-moded, and try to wai. She replied any lantern- was due for reze
́id the chance
Also, there of establishing n
that she had committees Shanghai, Apr. 10.
suggest that anybody who
who respecta the rules of God is
They said that she ought Eleven complete electric light partnership which might have which deal with fertilisers, seeds
minded chinery
a quaint Burd power plants purchased by prevented the war, and made this for crops, and agricultural ma
to have told them this, before. declarations
timos of vival UNRRA are scheduled to ar:
Each committee has about 15 to
Sho replied that bad
she
already in peace rive carly this month. Plants the great war time association of 20 representatives of the main
at three Loyalty to one's partner in mar- had porzonal Interflows at Women say: "You may well and then sus suddenly disappeart ringo le not rern?, advisere suk- this. They cald wranging, to 2,000 kilowatts will the British Commonwealth with of that particulat foódatus ork and no one can deny that the fora · Low months="gesture, kes the alarming increase closed."
importing and exporting countries
really fashionable to Ministries, and had
them told be dead as out of the fashion," "Why do words Gooome fashionable day.
that they en- Baxed to rehabilitate the pow2| thẻ 0.3, and the U.S.S.I. ---- Les facilities in devastated areas,
Most of the. Committees:
her to make tha Wonderland Logic in Washington in é
fancinating priorities, "plaming and in divorce statistics. proves how owned pocupation. It ellecta far as the, ideal ferrule form | Thoy admit that 'It 'fa wrong to
retire into obscurity again? far,. their false teaching has gone, had already mado 1 fourteen only two letters in support of by the AmerThe Cocoa and operates in nearly every area of
Incidentally, I have received modern block of buildings owned body of Inahlon
the American Department of things than women's clothes?:
said that there mast Mr. Churchili's speech, one of Agriculture.
Victorian times robustly plump steal from a neighbour but to de be
ne nonse mistake, "owing to trans ich described it as glorious Spices Committee
and The Ten life. Drom, drink, food, fund and why it. tom boylabiy, alon- fraud the Government es pilfer
port and labour Taborlage, and utteranos.": Glorious | Committee,
Irom £ public utility Corporation forwarded cortiforte for # 763ều There's glory for you!!
London.
proved that Zanion affect on one int
"done":"shine! (wal application. She replied that can come into your home and quite the \PI don't know what,
you mean Those Food Parliaments thrash
her have tried to dia- "date" it all within a few JESTE Philosopher by & glory Alice Wald, and out the problems of both exporters cover what causes change in Annualschters
Togue," in Are counsels prevkile, the
any application" "to" falla on Kashion: To sag - Hit's good for wirected by: Tansion.
Toputa" of "God were nollisten to one they rent innodity trade" is far too simple. Who do
sizebne clikde: "games fall likos y can be at the walth epilamle on the whole, comminiky | ration, and
best ad influence are
not the vertisement that China's variou leaders see the situation in its tru Perspective.
.:
U.N.RR.A, said that the needs
of clover cities including Kweit lin, Kiuchow, and Whchow, are now being considered. The soc ond shipment is scheduled to reach Obing in mid-May-Asso clated Press.
· Damascus, Apr: -104
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We must consolidato
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