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COINCIDENCE
Dramatically enough the Unit- ed States railway strike tailed even while President Truman was to give him power to draft into the armed forces all warkers on For two days the major activities
asking both Houses of Congress
strike against the Government.
of the U.S.A., already handicap [ ped by a six weeks' coal strike,
A remittance for $40.20, being the had been brought to a standstill. nual subscription to 31st March, 1947 (in-in a previous broadcast the Pre-1 clusive of tax) should accompany the appli-sident had told the nation that
cation.
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NOTICE TO JOCKEYS
All Members desirous of riding at future Race Meetings of the Club are also request
once.
thousands at home and abroad would be faced with starvation if the railways did not resume at The strike was of world importance inasmuch as it arrest- overdue, to the nations threaten-
ed the supplies of wheat, already
been created intolerable to the
ed to apply to the Secretary for the appropri-ed with famine. A situation had ate form of application for permission to ride at Official Meetings under Rule of Racing No. 39 (a).
By Order of the Stewards,
C. B. BROWN,
Secretary.
Hong Kong, 10th June, 1946.
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Each
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Leg of Pork
Loin of Pork
Shoulder of Pork
Belly or Flauk
Flair
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American people and disastreaus to world recovery. The
wanton
on
Oak Tants
By Dick Turner
EŚNER, ABLE BY HEA DENVER,"ING, T, M, RÈO, U, O PAN
"How can we have a decen) picket line when all the sign
painters are on strike?"
TIME TO STOP SLANDERS ON BRITAIN
#
Mr. Walter Lippmann has treaties by the extremity of her on exclusion and nature of the art of two railway written four articles which mis- insistence unions was clear enough, for represent not only British policy monopoly.
She has drawn a rigid line, work was
but the European situation. finally resumed
He supposes that Europe, the and no one else is to have terms that had been offered long Mediterranean, the Middle East look-in beyond it. before the strike was called.
There is to be no co-operation are an area of Anglo-Russian Work was resumed with the in-contention, and that the United no equality of trading in East- crease of 18-1/2 cents per hour, States should avoid entangle-ern Europe; no international and changes in other working ment with, or encouragement control of the Danube; no de conditions were left for future of, either party. This new isola marcation in Istria unless the
it necessary to can have 100
per cent of her settlement. Although the imine- tionism finds
own arbitrary way; no reduc- diate peril no longer exists Pre-make out that both are alike to sident Truman is still calling for blame for the present confusion. tion of her swarming troops in
Briefly, isclationism can only Austria. legislation that will prevent be sustained by falsehood.
She will not even discuss threats to the national economy Russian post-war policy has Austria, or let her near the for the future. "Strikes against been such a sin against the light Conference table. the Government must stop." Nei- that pablle opinion in the If, then, Russia's reply to all ther workers nor employers can United States has been deeply these "warming up" questions be allowed, he claimed, to loist shocked. The balance of trans- is a blank negative, why should upon the Government the carry fabricating charges against gression can only be levelled by ing out of their aims. It is syn Britain, so that self-righteous ptomatic of the state of Ameri- abstention may shrug "Six of can opinion that the House of Re- one and half a dozen of the presentatives at once voted by a other."
the great majority the powers President sought. The Senate de- ferred action on the ground that the emergency WAS over. words used by Mr. Anthony Eden in another connection, the Ameri- can Legislature refuses to
In
con-
What Becomes Of U.N.O.?
is the drift of Mr. That Lippmann's first two articles. They attempt to push Mr. Byrnes back into the policy of appease ment, Mr. Byrnes, however, hag evolved into a statesman, and Mr. Lippmann has fallen from his high estate.
Anglo-American interests and
By 'LORD VANSITTART
Mr. Lippmann assume that she will be more forthcoming on Germany?
BY THE WAY®
By Beachcomber
The opponents of mixed read- ing aro sure to get to work when the main reading room at the British Muscum reopens. They have always contended that wo- men should have a reading room to themselves.
Proximity at the desks, whis- pered words over the catalogues, bold glances in dark corners-ali these degrade research and scho- larship. But luckily the officials know how to deal with the johnny in the top bat who turns up with a bouquet of lilies and enys, "Will you please give these to the little lady in the second row, third from the left near the entrance door?"
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Smellingham-Smith
On The Warpath Fishing, that most restful of occupations. (Morning paper),
Not if you happen to be about when Cosmo Smellingham-Smith rides hell-for-leather along the Text, shooting up every fish in sight. Cosmo has never been one of your quiet and patient fisher- He believes in fishing by main force, the batteringram ap proach, the lightning
thrust.
men.
haye seen him fling himself from his horse, jump into the water, and shoot a dozen salmon at a wair before they could get their fins up. When he runs out of ammunition, he swipes the fish with a bit of wood or kicks them to death. Only after all these activities does he settle down to stunning them with the thick end of the rod, and then lassoning them with the line. To see him strangle trout with his bare hands is to know why he was expelled from tho SL Neots Aweling Club.
Exercise IV (To be performed with a friend present.)
Place the thumb of the right band, pointing upwards, on the tip of the nose. Splay out the four fingers to their full extent. Then join the thumb of the left hand to the little finger of the right hand, and splay out the fingers of the left hand to their full extent, sinking. the body ulowly on the heels and drawing in the corners of the mouth. "Atomic Planning"
I understand that one dificulty about choosing a site for the Mammoth World Fair is that by 1951 most of our space
will be needed for teating new and more powerful atom bombs. At present the idea is to collect largo num- bets of cattle pigs and poultry as experimental material. Then. If the human beings escape with their lives, the animals, at any rate will be killed, and so there
will be nothing much to eat.
or vanish altogether like thou- sands of luckless Polen:
Even in Western Europe it la a physical impossibility for the liberated countries to insist on being "actors and not merely objects in the reconstruction of
reason that Russin
will no
Russia has already declined Europe," for the very simple to discuss Germany at all. She accept the Anglo-American pro- will not even allow preparation posal for a Conference at which for a discussion as for ahead as they might be present, November,
They shall not take part, she Mr. Lippmann probably wrote before Russia started wrecking says, till the Big Threo or Four have propared the treaties here also; but if he had waited which Russia prevents them he could not have bracketed us. from preparing. The Russian
Through long-drawn weeks Bevin and Byrnes
have power on the brain.
Yet Mr. Lippmann urge, that: break the wilful deadlock. In the United States, washing her the process they knocked Mr. hands of Anglo-Russian tur- higher pitudes, should emerge as the
strove to
theories Lippmann's than a kite.
He stultifies them himself in
Ho
leader of this collective
Reason For My. Counter-Attack
template "a State within a State," or to allow union leaders, as Fre DAIRY FARM BRANCHES Lower Albert Road
sident Truman puts it, "a position East Point
where they can completely stifle 78 Nathan Road,
our economy and ultimately des Kowloon,
troy our country." It is merely endeavours coincided in Paris, a coincidence, although not with- and produced a number of post- Exchange Building.
out significance, that the Ameri-tive attempts to shake the Rus-
sian attitude of negation. Central can call for additional powers to Mr. Lippmann will have it
curb strikes should come in the that Eastern Europe and the his third and fourth articles by paralysis "rather than line up same week in which the Royal Balkans are no American con referring to the Anglo-American as the brilliant, second to the Assent was given to the repeal of cern-though what becomes of Russia is stalling, but says the
Foreign Office." attitude.
realises that the Trade Disputes Act. Sir UNO on this blind and egotis-
reason "is the same as Mr. Hartley Shawcross argued in de-tical showing is not clear. fence of that measure that a re-
Why, he asks, is the United Attlee's for stalling in his im-
Herial difficulties."
Some lender, apparently other volutionary strike, aimed at the States messing about with these
If the evacuation of Egypt than Mr. Byrnes, is to galvan- details? Forget them, he urges, and India is stalling, the word ise the helpless; and this desir overthrow of the Government, is
and get down to the main and always will be illegal. There problem-Germany.
is as meaningless in American able magic will be wrought by an unnamed galaxy of new men In the first place, this is the as is democracy in Russia.
Mr. Lippmann is back at his who have been thrown up by tion far more grave than that view of an amateur, however endeavour to equate unequals. the European convulsion.
Professional created by the action of the rail gifted.
diplom- I am glad to And one stretch What has been thrown up in way unions in the United States, atists have often successfully of common ground. He sup- Eastern Europe is a collection where the Government has first employed the method of begin- to take control of an industry bening by relatively minor mat-ports the right of the smaller of Russian agents. If
Allied belligerents to have a thing else has been thrown up, fore it can exercise its more dras tors, on which there ought to be say in the peace-making. So de, it has been thrown so high that
no insuperable clisagreement, tic powers. It may be that with and ao approaching the main the nationalisation of the mines, difficulty in the habit of har- I have long been campaign- the railways, and other major in-mony.
ing against the Big Thres for a greater purpose than to
ia dustries British Governments of So, also, the B.B.C. wisely monopoly. It unjust and contradict Mr. Lippmann. Ho
Dominion repro have not
unjustly assalled Britain; I the future may find it necessary gives us some "warming up futile. Our
only repulsed tho to provide safeguards by fresh qucations on the Braina Trust Boatatives claimed to be better charge but counter-attacked,
heard lost autumn: the Dutch. legislation. A new relation will before putting us on the air.
There is nothing personal in There is nothing unexpected and Belgians have
taken the this. I would do the same to nny of his compatriots who
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1 have written the foregoing
curious that powers of control, indeed, the one that all wise The Submerged Nations "ake for it."
men recommended during the
the
It would be Invidious not to should be abandoned in Britain at -War.
do likewise whenever need the moment when the United
Hero Mr. Lippmann's view Isarises from any quarter. This time, wo urged do not true but not new. What is now after day for the past year our Day States should be moving in the
rush
German treaty but not true opposite direction. What is to Ilaaten slowly. Avoid the re- that "the nations of Europe are assailed with a ceaseless spata Is his assertion conduct and motives have been be argued from that is, of course, pranches of 1919,
arising to contest the control of of mendacity by the Communist a matter of opinion, Conditions of There is only one thing the Big Threo." Inbour are vastly different in the wrong with the present ar
Preas and radio 'overywhere. I wish they were! But how
Very woll, then. Whenever United States than in Great Bri-proach; and it is precisely what can they? In Paris oven France they distort the truth to tain. The Labour Governments wrong with everything. The played a minor part. She in magnify the motes in our eyes has a clear mandate to repeal the Russians do not want a settle embarrassed by her Communist I will not fail to remind them Trade Disputes Act, which had ment of either major or minor majority of Soviet henchmen.
of the glaring beams in theirs. affairs.
As für the nations of Central galled the Trade. Union move We do, and continue to press and Eastern Europe, they are lynnd in this respect we are We have rendered voluntari- ment for twenty years. That is eagerly and patiently for agro- utterly submerged; they are alone-unsurpassed service to not to say that experience will not mont. The Russians dodge enslaved by the Iron rule of mankind. We are the only one reveal, the necessity for legislation without diagulso, What, then, small and ruthless Communist of the Big Throe who has run putting relations between employ becomes of Mr. Lippmann's in- clique supported by Russian true to the Atlantic Charter. ers and employed, and the prin Consider
nuendo that we are equal in si? bayonets and Socrat Pollco. We have asked for nothing, and
everything that They cannot arise to con- renounced immanafiles. yond misunderstanding and "be The list is long. Sho prevent are knocked on the head, like dored, and it la time that some- I am sick of hearing no sland- yond abuse
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