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GERMANY TODAY!
THE CHINA MAIL MONDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1946.
The Lure Of Peiping
A Vatican spokesman declared 1 ing a moderate aalary, could the other day that Polping was] Hve.in-iuxury, “He had rẻ charm- the moral expital of China and ing Chinese house and a 'staff. that the city was least subject of loyal efficient, and pollte to Western influence, "Ardent servants, for the Northern Chinese Nationalists might Chinese. is paliteques personi disagree. But they cannot deny fled.. that it is a most enchanting city,
Peiping resembles an old, -old lady who, a great beauty in her youth, how diaplays faded charms. Pelping. City of Perce, re-chiriatened has now been that name, instead of Peking, by which it is known to most Australians.
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The first time Priping re- name was ceived, its present after the removal in 1928 of the Chinese Government to Sanking, thus making that city the official capital.
Piping or Fel-ching-trans- lated means Northern Capital. The Japanese, when they cap- tured and occupied the ancient walled city, restored the former
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By A. CECIL TAYLOR
The gracious matters of the Imperial court, which for NO many centuries had its homo in Peiping, are now reflected in the manners and the delight ful Mandarin speech of even the humblest inhabitat.
Until recently there were few cara in the city, rickshawk drawn by runners of splendid physique, being the favourite mode of locomotion.
Banners and rickshaws had nothing in common with their regions of the Republle where, in Chungking especially, one, looked dismally at the emaciated and their rattletrapa. pullers
men wer driven to These abominable avenues cf escape. from their grinding poverty- opium-smoking being their chief delight When behind “a runner of this description I felt it was wrong so to degraile a fellow-human de to make! him a beast of burden-
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By RANDOLPH CHURCHILL
Britain's Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin recently decläred, What" I what is that every one be able to travel where he likes." Sincere in this aspira- tion, he has repeatedly stated, -in, public- and" in private, that
before he leaves the Foreign, Ofice, he hopes It will be pos sible for any. Englishman to buy a ticket to any destination in the world without either." passport or a visa. **
Mr:
Bevin" gave practical proof of his good intentions when, some months ago, he abolished the exit permit which, up to then, every British subject had to obtain from the Government before he could go aboard. Unfortunately, Gov- ernment officials in great num=” bers in different ministries are far less liberal in their outlook. thán Mr. Bevin Although nominally the exit permit has been abolished, it has been re- Introduced "sub resa" In the retention of the system of travel priorities. In reality as
result of the shortage of ac- commodations on: both hips and aircraft, no zné, can, travel without the blessing of a Gov-
mnment department.-
I am under contract to arrive in New York early In, Oct:ber to undertake a six-months lec- ture tour. I would have liked to all either on the Queen
name of Peking. After the surrender of Japan the legally
Lnever once felt that way in constituted Chinese Government swept the name side, with all Peiping, for the men who drew stalwarts and other Japanese "improvements." me there were
enjoyed their jobs, I, therefore, These
'never for a moment felt I was
degrading them, for. indeed, soil but World War I had I was not.
pushed me into Fleet Street But rickshaws have become heart of the newspaper world an anachronism and the Chinese in London, where I was working her meat, ration and sausages.both have long waiting lists, of as-an agricultural journalist, Eventually I want to grow Government will, as soon as possible, prohibit their use, for travelling back every evening to flowers for the market, but I it is an axiom, at economics my tiny cottage and six-acre Britain these are still regard. that where one arctics of the holding with little time to ed as a luxury and faced as we community lives in great luxury housekeep or "smallhold." By are with a hard winter. I sacula another section ourt live in the time I had returned from be ashamed to grow them wher poverty. This accounts for the my daily work. I had journey tord production is vital fact, that in pre-war days one d: over 150 miles. could live so well on so little.
I always had "rocis in the greengages) and there is an in- Mary or on the Aquitania. But creasing demand-for-herba, es both these ships, many weeks pecially sage, which the town in advance, were reported to be. housewife buys for flavouring booked to capacity by United Nations delegates, and they
Yet this is not the first time -the-city-has-been renamed Long Ago it Was the "City Obedient to Heaven," or Shunttien fu. MiscThe Capital of the Swallows," or Yenching. And when the pioneer Catholic missionary Giovanni di Monte Corvino, or John de Montegorving, arrived at the Mongol court at the end of the 13th century, the city he knew Was called Khanbalig or
Cambalu.
What changes the venerable eity has undergone and what allee stories one could tell
- Servants'-- all workers' wages were low. Thes herded
**
One June morning just after VE-Day as stood at the end of the garden waiting for the miles to the station I smelt bus which would take me five
where it was.
aw my cottage and holding a
It was then
they really neglected, were shabby and
The copper in which we boi
except
My secretary therefore ap would-be passengers, proached a young lady in the American information division
So. in reality, the right of an
"Don't let's be beastly to the Germans, when we've definitely got them on the run. Let's helt [the Dinty Swine again to occupy
e Rhine again, but don't legs! The beastly to the Hun!" One night during the war, Mr. Noel Co- (ward "hfuadeast this witty song, [and next day"such a storm of pru test arose that he never again wa allowed to sing it on B.1.C. Som of the protests came from those who, realized the bitter satire be hind Coward's words. erities believed in the existence of "good Germans." They believed the war could be curtailed by [stirring up "good Germans" for re
volt against the Nazis. But for every-letter-along these lines, then were twenty from indignant Eng. lish men and women who entirely missed the point of Coward
the Foreign Office to obtain
satire and who regarded this sam
the necessary priority The young lady was most coopera as a form of appeasement. Wit homhs falling around them, wit
food for the animals and tive and said she would be fathers, brothers and sons fight
poultry these days on such a glad to, do what the could for ing overseas, they really did wat
smallholding as mine is an imme. Even with her support, to be beastly to the Germans
rhubarb leaves, small potatoes, portant accessory. Every scrap however, it proved impossible of vegetable matter
to get a cabin on either of Coward's satire definitely misfired
hose two ships, both of which for all except a small minority of It!. Chronic jaflaring followed together and subsisted on a sweetbriar and looked to neepeelings and pea pada, goes int
are still controlled by the Japanese occupation, because of very simple, almost meatless, who realized that the English are the complete lack of a system diet meat (pork especially),
mixed with the meal ratkins. the copper and after, boiling ir
Government.
only good haters when war is my enemy-controlled quislings. being, reserved for especial and once war is over they always! This brought great suffering feast days. But the simplicity of
Unless we have a fairly large wish to forgive their enemies, upon the unfortunate populace. their diet did not detract from
acreage on which to grow bar Some months ago Noel Coward But the Northern Chinese are its nourishment..
-Hedges overgrown and unicy and wheat (and
un which we are allowed to keep was singing at a supper party, in philosophical and phegmatic, All clothing was made at trimmed, rambler, · roses aid of the R.A.F. benevolent fund, as well as amazingly adapable, home; cloth shoes also, Luxuries pruned and straggling around the tail grain) or
Д neat several acres of root crops it itain. and was persuaded to sing this and foreign-encroachment and no little pleasures were few, what had once beca
unkempt not easy to keep animale fit on cong again. It was a sophisticated enemy rule are old stories to and. were reserve always for archway. Pigaties
The ship Queen Elizabeth. Is feast days.
and patched, garden not pre-what we are allocated by the audience and he sang it with- alfi
nct controlled by the Govern Government from Chinese Bummer garments perif cultivated, fruit-trees un are simple and in winter, when sprayed. And myself going of merchants: Even those farmert ment. She is once more being the temperature drops below to a London office to write vho have kept back home operated by a private line. I zero, the poorer classes wear articles telling cther people how frown corn are finding they wil had no difficulty in obtaining long gowns padded with cotton to farm, to get the beat from have to cut down the numbers accommodations on the Queen waste. The colder it is the their gardens, trying to enlist of livestock before next winter Elizabeth. Unfortunately, how
Apart from the everlasting longer than expected, and her
ever, her refitting has taken more you put on. The tempera- the Aympathy of the towns- ture being gauged according to people to make them realise struggle to get enough food fo.maiden trip has been postponed garmente-n no-cont day being the importance of farming to the animals, our greatest pro- heyond the last date on which
What an example bleni is labour. warm and Funny and a five-coat Britain.
ex Many day freezing. -
was getting wasted land in the Servicemen are fighting shy cf it is possible for me to sail
returning to the land; the call was useless to approach British So I've arranged to fly. It layer of clothes results, in'
This donning of layer upon I middle of a food crisis!
of the towns, with higher wager Overseas Airways: they, too, amazing spectacles. I have seen
A Décision
is strong in comparison with are controlled by the state small children top-heavy with
farm job which in many caser They always have immense clothing. The advent of spring When I arrived at the office (especially if there is stock) în causes layers ts, be lessened, that day I explained to my Garment after garment is din editor what I ad realised carded so that by the time high carlier that morning. summer arrives practically decided to exchange my cursistance of an excellent garhaps, with a Government priori- nothing remains or in needed nalistic activities for work on dener for the other three, but ty might have got a reser especially for males, d the fund. 60 I left Fleet Street neighbours are helpful and rvation. It is simpler, however, to fly by an American airline, Daring the festival of the to practise what I had preached pool cup work as much as pos- so. I rang vu American Export Now Year, Dragon Boat and for five years. And to-day my sible. cther festivals, Peiping's wor- vers down tools and indulge in pleasures which are fully shared by all foreigners delighting in Chinese, customs.
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beastly." Another British humour ist, Mr. Nathaniel Gubbins, what writes for the Sunday "Express, gave a similar warning to that in plied in Coward's song. In bi column he created a dragon, who conversed with George, typica Englishman. The dragon repite sented the defeated German peo ple and kind-hearted George wa shown taking pity on the poor de feated beast and denying himsel his rations and his beer to improv the unhappy creature's lot. Alt England laughed at this, but agar they missed the point. They laugh ed because at that time it seemed
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them
Long before the birth of Christ a powerful city towered close to where the Peiping of to-day stands, Dr. Ovoid Siren, the Swedish scholar and at chaeologist, personally has shown me brick foundations of the Tartar city wol!--for Pei- of walle--laid ping is a city down centuries ago, **
tiquity and the arts, find much Foreigners, interested in an- of absorbing interest in China, and especially in Peining. I have known educated forrimers be come so absorbed in the study
of ancient lore and customs that they lived in a dream world apart from the life lived by the foreign colony. A definite Pe king type of foreigner was thus evolved. Unconciously, they ways and adopted. Chinese manners. They turned to Chin- se rather than Western food, and eventually ceased to take any interest in the affairs of their
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English to travel freely does not exist today In fact, he can travel only if he has the then, it is by no means cer- blessing of officialdom and, even
seven-day-a-week tie. At pre waiting lists, with limited ac sent I am single-handed four Commodations reserved for civil servants and bureaucrata. Pór- I had days of the week with the an
hands are cnce again hard with manual labour, holding a spade or fork instead of a pen. My face is tanned and powderless and my back aches.but I
Haymaking Time
At haymaking time every body in the village lends a hand.
Airlines. They merely said. "Which day do you want to go?” I said, "The 30th of Sep tember." They said, "Fine.?
can see the sweet briar. It is considered a breach of No Comment
A generous master at the I'am up at six each, morning: good faith to help in the fields Lunar New Year geve his ser- it is hard work all day, and i either then er at harvest time.
fore the war's and, the
so grotesquely impçobable that th ́|'home countrys English would ever cut thei rations in order to help beater Germany. Yet that is what I would define this influence
Seoul, Oct 6 lived to see only three or four of Chinese culture, on impres- years later. Hatred is a product off alonnble Europeans as a psychic vants a mouth's extra wages go to bed at 10-o'clock and drop This year I have been lucky Lieutenant General John R. fear and when we feared the Ger force every bit as potent as and while at the Western Now off to sleep immediately. But with the weather. We cut round Hodge, American occupation certainly more, subfle than the Year, the servants would re-1 I am a "countrywoman once the outside and headlands of commander of southern Korea, mans, we hated them. Today mi trends of thought which influch-ciprocate with rifle to master more, doing the job that, as the meadow with a scythe over said he had no comment on the one can fear them, so that fewer sa tremendously fashions. and mistress:
many of my kind have been do night; a neighbour" with a can hate them. It is strange how modern poetry, music, art, and After China's entry into ing for the last six years-get tractor-drawn mower made story from the "Atlanta Con- stitution correspondent, that quickly moods change. For the even industry..
World War II United States' ting minimum production from short work of the rest. Next tapan made and tested an first few months after V-E Day, Chinese caligraphy is an art. Influence, never negligible, was every yard of land-food. for day it rained but this was fol atomic bombeesand
lowed be a light wind and saun Military authorities said, advocates of a hard peace with and it is claimed that all who considerably increased in China mankind and animals, Germany rere as numerous i take up the study of Chinese and nowhere in it more evident. And instead of writing of the Two friends lengthened the y
however, that undoubtedly Britain as in all other countries, Hterature begin to da 3 their than in the former capital. The triala and joys of the strall week-end visit to help with the
thinking along Chinese lines, presence there of American armer in this most critical of irb. Soon after five o'clock on something exploded off Konan, Today they are few because heard one of the greatest troops with their bigu standard? all years, 1946, instead of try- the day we were to carry the northern Korea, a few days be-. hard peace has happened of its living authorities on Chinese of living and their excellen ing to explain to townsfolk the hay, the neighbour who had cut Constitution dispatch report-
wn accord and there no longer if art a European, state that it pay enormously contributed toniculties of rural living, I am it arrived with his trailer ford but they were unable any need to organize it. The fire had touched or ranched heights the ever-mounting living costs nylifog them to spend week kading. The roadman who was determine what it wan Lord Birkenhead, fond of quoting unknown to the West, This is Both Chinese and foreign re-ends with me so that they can once a farm hand and has description seemed to t Latin, often said, "Parcers sub-ja startling statement, but one, sidents' living standard has practical experience, never lost interest in the land jectis et debellare superbes," which which 1, who am not an art been affected by the high pur Today in place of the thin came straight from work An explosion of 2,000-pou he translated,Spare the con- critic, cannot refute.
chaing power of the G.Lrass and nettles which used to other man, who runs a coal and bomb rather than an missile, sald one officer, quered and defeat the proud" At the turn of this century Evan in peacetime this was ass for hay, my acres are word merchant's business in the has the first time a pera That can be the only intelligent (after the Boxer rising, when felt when American Mariner vielding enough keep for a village, helped with the stack hears a 2,000-pounderwetni
the Foreign Legation quarter of the U-8. Guard at the Em cuple of Guernsey cown The Ing while my visitors, another on the surface, he might casi Christian anitude for any nation was established at the Chinese bassy, tall and smartly unt skimmed milk goes to help feed neighbour and myself raked; think it an alconie that aspires to greatness. No less capital) life was easy and econ- formed, were able to spend or two teams of Large White piya | loaded ur pitched. This year Is it inevitable thuit in the imme-omical for the forgner. "
much more than the oldiers and four calves which Ihm there was no beer for the Army Intelligence diate hour of victory” it is the Diplomate and their staffs, of the British and other foreign | caring for market, werkers, but jugs of unsweeten most strident and vulgar voices of course, lived in the Legation | embassy guards, who kaew the A couple of dozen fowled tea kept them going, Zack and opinions that are ponular Quarter, but there was a sub-) word "austerity" long before) Rhoda - Tanndy (crossed with We finished the job by tes Immediately after the first World stantial foreign residence.quer the war forced It upon the Black Leghorn which I and are b'clock in the evening. And in Press War. Mr. Winston Churchiller just outside it. A man carn minds of all classes the world good layers and not too small the dusk where nicely-topped |was invited to write an inscap-
Wetpt for the table keep me and Black Toomed, visible monument [tion__for a way momorial. He
When the last Japanese and come of my friends in cxz. to our labours, with a smell of the last G. Have gone Pelping
hay and oneysuckle at open
green peak
wrote, "In war, resolution in de accept it. After World War I
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