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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1946..
Britain in the Eyes of Europe
The young man who was conducting me round Kosice Eointed to the fine baroque building which is the State Theatre of the town,
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY
"It is a magnificent theatre,”.
lome of European democracy, he said. "We are very proud They believe in the values for of it. He paused. Then he added: "In London. I under which we fought, alone. stand, you do not yet possess a defiance of tyranny has help 1040. (That years of unsupport theatre. I have read that they are building, or about to build, the first National Theatre there."
that the Police State is not a new institution. Greece inder Metaxas was organised along these lines, and the same was true to a great extent of the „Jugoslavin of King Alexander and the Kumania of King Garol,.
What makes the present situa tion in this part of Europe the police crganisation is a peculiarly depressing is that
to obliterate the memory of many past errors, and misa den more etßcient, and deeds.) -
that the technique for dealing with tiresome minority opinion Liberal And Tolerant acom
is a great deal more-shalt we say? highly evolved- You do not nowadays. Have to cause a vaigar scusation by the arrest and public trial of a member of the opposition. He can much more conveniently disappear.
It was. I suppose. prehensible mistake. I miidly pointed out that in the city where we still speak; albeit imperfectly, the tongue that Shakespeare spoke we had managed to maintain something nore than a theatre or two for something more than a century cr two. But it was profoundly symptomatic of the consider able ignorance of England you If there is any warrant for the may find cren among educated
people in Central Europe.
GERMANY'S FUTURE
ggestion that Marshal Stalin as fallen into line with the lens Alr. Byrnes regarding the uture of Germany, his question and answer interview with Mr. Hugh Baillie must represent
tribution to European Peace Marshal Stalin, it is true, ilisist- ad that there must be politica: unity as well as economic unity, our even in this, his attitude was nor in sharp conflict either witi Mr. Byrnes, or Mr. Bevin
hitherto, appearances have sug-, gested that it Russia has a fac man policy, it has been to unify nd communise Germany and ventually incorporate it into a Communist-directed area. France, , has had a German policy. A Legacy t Gen. Charles de Gaulle's tenure of power; Fran's pulicy is hangover from the
greatest
They believe, moreover, that the principles of the Rights off Mau are more genuinely main- ained in Britain than else where. They want to see large ceale exchanges of students and cultural missions. They be
love that we have a liberal and tolerant attitude towards the smaler nations of Europe. But they express grave and doubts about cur continued Desire or our ability to exer. cise it.
Are
Natiounisam of the exclusive mine.eenth century variety is pelaps on the wane. Today the States of Centra, Europe more netined, unashamedly to ecognise serves as pawns in the grimmer, game or DAVET politics that is being fougat out
n Paris and elsewntera.
Now the point of this ane dote is thint Kosice is in Cen They find, or say that they tral Europe, and not in Eastern find, our Embassies and Lega-
They are permaps The jois Europe. It is the last town of tions lethargic, cur business ardently. rintionalist – heenuse any size in Eastern Swaki men less alert and less enter they have come to realise 192. and the Russian frontier-theprising than their rivals, our the smal independent nation- new Russian frontier, which cultural Institutions too timid, Stato is a chimera in these days | has been pushed south of the too afraid of furnishing any or tota and mgidy industria Carpathians into the Honing that might remotely be used war machines, det alene| garian plain-is scarcely mo interpreted as "propaganda." Fine atom bomb. than 20 miles distant. Any
("Other Powers will engage in where
east of Kosice such propaganda whatever guaran ignorance might not be so surtees they give to the contrary prising.
so why are you not more, self- Assertive?")
Our, diplomatic representa- spend too little tives are scmetimes thought to mouey upon entertaining, and to compare unfavourably in this respect with their American colleagues.
man. a
Disturbing Ignorance Moreover, the young man was quite demonstratily Anglophil. He was an educated lawyer, and he spoke remark bly good English. It is not in possible that, although a well- known figure in the town, he was taking some personal risk in being seen conspicuously for two or three days in succession with an Englishman. He had, in a manner of speaking public ly burned his political boats.
nineteenth
in the
In one European capital the local correspondent of a Lon don paper complained wistful-
considerable eclat
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Personally I think her talk would have been much more interesting if she had worn another hat !!
Continental Doubters every
There are many people tenance of elemental, human: But they know that for
country between the rights, of which freedom of Britain to exercise her poten Baltic and the Mediterranean speech and freedom from arbi-tial influenec both adequately (I exclude Bulgaria, of which tracy arrest are the most and worthily requires both, en- I have no recent certain knmortant. They believe thut terprise and energy. And too edge; who believe that Bri- Britain at least wishes them nu frequently they neco doubtful tain can exercise
a powerful active harm, and in the modern influence in favour of the main- world that is a good deal.
t
The Outlook For Housing
In the United States there still had not been granted
homes
re-
last decade this was the chosen. They want to see the person, Britain during July. Of these, region for Nazi German expon- nel of British Embassies and sion. To-day it is the arena for Legations multiplied, and they other expansionist forces. want to see them alternately entertaining in princely fashion
"Never Altruistic”.
No reasonable person needs and penetrating into the homes reminding of the danger of any of the humblest. They believe policy that may divide Europe in the good intentions of Be
somewhat into two power camps, opposed tain and,
Nations,
More
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By RANDOLPH
of our ability to supply either of these qualities,
A WAR HOAX
Things looked pretty normal in Brussels on that particular November 9, 1943. Or at least, they were normal tili 5 o'clock in the afternoon: A
The Nazis were strutting up:
ed over the world tramping, Then suddenly, at 5 o'clock, barracks squares and standing an extraordinary thing happen- guard over displaced persons, ed; in all the newstands appeared the Ministry of Works diren had ever been publicly on sale To alleviate the brick shortage | the most unusual newspaper that
number
ilo manufae in Belgium since the Nazi oc-
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to me that in his capacity as representative of an English first World War. It is based on
paper he had been invited to the idea that Germany, with a
meet the French Minister ac population twice that of Francs,
If this statement sounds un- the British. He thought this a credited to his country, but nul should be divided up in order to duly melodramtic I would re-trifle odd and unfortunate, and avoid a third resurgence of Ger- commend the reader to suspend sa, on the whole, do L
is no expectation of solving icenses to reapen. The 'butpat French judgment until he is certain he DEU aggression. All
Of course, certain lines of the knows all about the manner criticism cancel out. Last June
housing shortage: if bricks this year may be political parties pay lip service to and condition of life this distrine. But in private, et bread, troubled acres between Institute in Prague was opened years. But in Great Britain monthly output before the war not been any executions or mass i was present when the British less than the next 10 only 40 per cent of the avenge and down the boulevards of Belgium's capital, but there had lightened Frenchmen admit that the mouth of the Vistula and in the magnificent Kaunitz Aneurin Bevan, Minister of construction work now is enor and the weather was amazingly it is out of date and that world that of the Danube.
and the demand for bricks for arrests, during the last 24 hours peace requires a Germany closely
Palace, in the presence of Pre-Health, whose department iss. Men whose trade was mild for federated with the other states of have been travelling widely hers of the Czechoslovak Gov-plans, predicts that housing from the armed forces in order around the Porte de Namur,
During the past six months sident Benoa and several men raonsible for making housing bricklaying, have been released cafes near the Boute
the season, In the Western Europe. In private in this area between the Baltic ernment, in an atmosphere of "will not be an iomo must Frenchmen who understand and the Mediterranean, or as
in the to get on, with the job, Lut Brussels citizens, sipped their Europe will agree that the widely as the inscrutable work-
ziext general election." To unicamutely the large watery bear, were having a possible danger that ing of visa regulations and Are We "Complacent"? justify this prediction, 1,000 Less of men who were employ slight break, and as usual, were could confront France would be the sometimes self-important
Inevitably heard the com-000 permanent, homes must be ed at bricks works have beliscussing the war's long and Communist Germany working fussiness of officialdom wauld meat that all this display would built in the next four years forgotten and are still scatter-dieary trend.. in close alliance with Soviet Rus permit. And this ignorance of alienate or scare away the or- But judging by the results Bo England, even among our well- dinary Czech working man far achieved, the outlook is sia. But since the French elec wishers, of which I have given whom it should be our prime net encouraging. torare, for the most part, is still this somewhat spectacular object to win' | looking
over to our There is no doubt that the ar Eurupe through example, is disturbingly symp-national ideals and way of life present rate of building will spectacles rimted with the dissil- tematic..
The path of a British repre- increase. for production cannot usionments of the Versailles It is an area where some sixsentative abroad is easy THE DAIRY FARM, ICE& COLDSTORAGE CO., LTD. Treaty, all French politicians or eight countries whose poli- critician will cost pay and be expected to be at maximum turers to switch to brick pre-cupation. It mocked Hitler and tion a "hard peace" with Ger cases achieved on the wave of eral I found that the peoples far from satisfactory. The July if this year, the demand German Communique, and each rust, in public at least, tham-tical independence was in many course he pursues, But in gen-efficiency after Enly a year of duction, and the result of this Mussolini, it jeered at the peace. Even so, the position ingenious scheme was that by Wehrmacht, it ridiculed the many. Britain and the United
century romantic and they are numerous-whe seventh inonthly housing States. unlike Russia and France, maintain some degree of na- what they regard, an our ap- ent
for tiles was exceeding prodite of its wittily written columns a nationalism, are struggling to wish us well are disturbed by port showe that 4,441 perman- tion by approximately 1,000,000 have had no policy about Ger- tional independence. During the parent lack of "push."
By HENRY were built
werkt. There is now the in many. They have lived from
famine as well ሁ። a brick VAM VYVE lay to day and have been driven
famine. 'rom one expedient to another
imitated with a sort of dry That the British Britain, in particular, has fallen
public is humour, Belgium's most exasperated by these delays is notorious press-collaborators. between two stools. On the one!
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demonstrated, by the invasien The whole thing was the mora and, they have honestly attemp
2,066 were constructed by pri camps by homeless civilians, the masthead and layout of Bruse of unused Army and RAF, baffling because the paper had to carry out the terms of the "Potsdam agreement and destroy
built by local Government is preferable to tint of oversized by the Germans ginco, vate firms while 1,475 Were The discomfort of Nissen huts els best known daily "Le Soir," he major part of Germag in Justry,
At the same time, they in their political systems, in hesitantly, in the strength of authorities. These duty figures crowding in ordinary houses, their entrance in the capital, ave been trying to rebuild Ger
their economic organisation, in the British "Commonwealth bring the total number of per- and the sight of dozens and edited by a gang of Daitors any so that the German people gard for basic human values. their cultures, and in their re
manent homes built since the habitable buildings lying in the pay of the Nazi propa- They are fearful of us sink-end of the war to 17.449. of empty over the country bas gandu: What made most readers hould nor starve or, alternative
But any assessment of future ing back, as they think, into which 10,911 were put up by driven the public to open a gape with astonishment was have to be kept from starva Continental trends must take the torpor of complacent isels private firms and 6,638 by local propriation. Many ludicrms that each story carried on by heavy British subsidies. into account the fact that such tion that marked our polley authorities,
situations have arisen us a traitors byline and was written The United States has followed a division is already assumed towards Europe In the late These figures reveal that result of this, "squatting in his own personal style
policy scarcely mure inteligent to exist. It is assumed by the twenties and early thirties, private enterprise is putting
British troops, and sometimes It took Brussels citizens a few Bain that of Britain. A great majority of people. I And hanging round our necks up heuses--which will be sold even prisoners of war, have niya to get over their amaze. frynes' speech at Stuttgart 'mark have met in every country in like the Mariner's albatross is at approximately double the end to guard their quarters to ment and to realize that the ti d'a' welcome new departure, H- this area. Everywhere there the tou well-remembered:
cepted the plain face that the are
pace of local authorities, all of ecp them from occupation by "Soir" they just bought was "Ensterners" and "West- Ministerial remark about "pea- whose construction will be the determined invaders... fuked and that the whole thing Allies Ginnot govern German erners, and the proportion whe ple of whom we have garcely rented. This has been so in The Government's reaction to was an enormous hoax carefully
definitely. He recognised that believe that the points of view. heard.
can be harmoniously reconciled So far as I could cuserve Bevan has done all he can top sites has been pathetical of laughter tang, out in the cafel
planned and worked out by the.......... spite of the fact that air. this unauthorised seizing underground press. And peale. f Germany is to become de is, unfertunately, not large bitterness against Germany is discourage private builders. inept Vague protests have of the Porte de Namur, and mucratic and peaceful in its ou Those who look Enst for unabated at any rate in those ook, it is essential that the Ger their enlightenment affirm that countries, such as Poland and Under the Housing Act of been made, but public spinion around, the Eourse. mans should govern themselves Britain is deliberately, endca- Czechoslovakia, which border 1940, the Government fixed a
nás been on the side of the He held out; the hope that veuring to build up an aggres on Germany, and experienced scale of subsidics and contribuuatters, and eviction has not. This daring feat of clandestine Germany might become re-sive bloc of States aiming at tttal German occupation. Licns toward houses erected by Leen resorted to.. There is even Journalism made an enormous united but at
the same war with the Soviet Union. Only second to the criticism local authcritics. But it refus talk of legalising the whole stir and had u shattering effect ine accepted the fact that, What object a Britain busily of our lack of self-assertivenessed to grant a single penny torcedure by laying down any on German morale. From that that moment.. Russia had vir engaged in divesting herself by our friends) and of cynical assist private firma And Mullicial weale of rents payable day the Nazis new that Bel- ually annexed her zone of Geuld have in fach a policy is is the apprehension of both that notify local authorities that
of her Imperial commitments "realpolitik (by our enemies) Bevan has gone so far as taj by the inhabitants of fortner in underground press was
zervice campu
perfectly organised and that it Any and was busily organizan not explained: In fact, there we may bolster up & Fourth they must build four houses to Prime Minister Attlee, it is with papers and news under could flood the whole country 1. This realism was most refresh is quite a marked "evasion of Belch, based on the Ruhr in every one built privately. This said, Aume months ago gave mining their efforts to conceal ing Naturally the French, still this point. But the belief exists dustries, which will ultimately insistence on curtailment of the directions that unoccupied the truth. under the spell of their defeat that England is covertly sup- revive the expansionist amb number 1 houses built by camps should be made available. The men responsible for edit- and hoping to protect themselves porting underground Imove-tions of its predecessors private enterprise springa from to homeless people. Under theffing and publishing the Faked rom further defeat by avoiding ments hostile to the Left, such Freedom In Danger the present Government's de Coalition Government there, was "Scir" were Fernand Demany, a e miksakes they made the law as that which exista in Poland, Scarcely anywhere in the sire to seas many people as "low-up department" that professional newpaper man, who time, remained unconvinced and and that where 2 Government arca about which I write do possible beecme tenants of the sow that the Prime Minister's had worked for the "Soir bes bostile. They failed to realise of the Right or Centre exists freedom of speech and freedom stator Thus, the whole housing instructions were carried out, fore the Nazi invasion, and who that, though history repeats it as In Greece, Its election and from arbitrary arrest, which piegramme is being, held up by It seems that since the Labour since Belgium's liberation ins maintenance have been care are basic to our conception of the Government's political pre-Government took over this joined the Communist party; self, it never repeats itself in ex fully engineered by Britain democracy fully exist. Even in Judice, and its adherence, to the valuable procedure has been al Mare Aubricns and others. ctly the same way. The Bic The tendency is to real a Czechoslovakia, where, of all ing doctrine of socialism Iswed to lapse, with the reault As soon as the paper appeared merit of Mr. Byrnes is that he Macchiavellian cunning and countries I have visited, con Last month Gepers Tomlin that the Prime Minister's on the newstands the Gestapo got went to Europe with few precon subtlety into actions which we ditions most nearly resemble son, Minister, of Warka, who directions have been neglected to work, bunting down the little. ceived ideas and was prepared regard as the product of a those which prevail in Britain, has the actual responsibility of by his subordinates and the band of patriots. The Nazis ddress his extremely clear brain hasty and not always very far I have too often heard the building houses, stated that the squatters have moved in before succeeded in arresting, Aubrion" the situation as it existed and seeing improvisation or web whispered remark; I shouldn't Government's aim to the end of the bureaucrate found time to and two others who were sent exists. He has given a real lead we have sometimes dared to see too much of So-and-So I the present year in 100,000 carry out Mr. Attlee's wishes to concentration camps, where
Pirmor, and, it is interesting bellove are prompted by fan't very well thought at by permanent homes and 100,000 The Prime Minister's friends two of the three died. that Marshal Stalin has paid her genuinely altruistic actives the Government temporary homes Unless une explain that he foresaw the Bu this did not prevent a host to his statesmanlike words. To. To this school of thought. Bri In just the same way many thing is done to accelerate very danger but is he had, allied of underground newsmen and gether, the Big Four can bring to tan never sets openly and never people go in fear of their persharply the present rate of the Government's administra printers to continue their work Western Europe self-government Those who look to the West ciples and methods of the Police achieved to be of no avail. This expianas continired to edited
asta altruistically satin Mana sopal liberty because the prin building this gal will not to Live machine to become rusty and day after day, week after and prosperity. That is not the for their Suspiration tire scarce-State have been established
wickeln this good intentions bad proved weak the undergrou Christian Solution it is also they more enthusiastic about overridet arealeteras Duri
During the war 939 bricktion Is hurtful and ever disand anly one that offers any hope of British policy. They believe But before, one passes haran works were, closed, and up to arming, while at the name feat avoiding & grave clashing
Britain as the
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