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THE CHINA-MAIL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5 -1946.
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Dear Lady Cripps,It is millions and millions of poor indiced very surry to learn that folks who are near starvation you have been ill, and hence areault of the devastation have been compelled to deny by the Japanese, which is even your return fourney to your worsened by the continual levy- Home May I venture then taj ing of military rice and the im- take this opportunity to give, pressment of conscription after. you this letter which, I hope, our "victory" over Japan in will by no means cause any dis-¦ order to wage the cursed civil turbanec to your illness.
war?
more
If you could disguise yourself. as a humble Chinese woman, discarding any entourage, per freely the commen Chinese vec- hip you could contact de whose moans and tons might have frightened you, whose appeals and calls right help you go deeper to realise the substantialness of
It is under your presidency that the BUAC has dowé mag- nificent work, fot only in the nearly £2,000.000 for the al contribution of an amount el leriation of distress in China but also in the promotion of mutual understanding, and the bridging of real friendship be tween the two great nations China and Great Britain, dur-China. as well as in the reconstruction ing the anti-Faselsts world war
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CARNIVAL
By Dick Turner Smuggling
Jews Into
ERST AME
7-20
-"Well, I don't "specially like his looks myself, Doe, but--
he's good to the children!"
The Forty-Hour Week
Palestine
United Fresa staff corressop dent Elvezio Blanchf,bas just com pleted a four of the lateuarian capt area to investigate the saili ing of Jews for Palestine. dispatch
follows
The Italian R
Dec. 3. once famed
te the "Gold Coast of luxurious. casinos and beach resorts today. is finding its postwar bonanda In
The
Juwa
taken from desperate striving to reach Palesting.",
luman
in
going on for months-
big and small harbours of
Liguntian, conat,
Clandestine Salline
sailings for
the
NT
And
o mansa
*Line' are well, known to police obicials admit they both eyes to 11.
Genoa is apparently the head- quarters for illegal expatriations. dews arriving there are,,bovsed. in a three-storey building in Via da Gaspari The fluctuating: ponetation, fed from UNBRA supplies. ranges from 50 to 60 perous
Jews arriving in Genoa oficial Ty await their turn on the Pales fine quota of immigration. But every few days some of them d appear. Na one in Genon know what becomes of them-cially --but
even the Italian polless know nofilcially that they have found found passage to, the Holy Land..
A police official mited that
the
Itall
polles, not rel the
close both eyes and are ing a finger to
If to travel hopefully is indeed better than to arrive, then per haps to explore. is better than to find. Certainly Mr. Fe Graham Balcombe, who recently groped His way through icy water and in diving gear into the Eighth Chan ber of Wookey Hole, would ap pear to think so.. Caves and their of world peace. With such an to add something more to the It would perhaps enable you innermost recesses suggest to the esteemed age, yet, you, undaunt-hirge stock of experience you conventionally romantic mind
ed by all troubles and hardships have attained during you recent buried treasure, with crosses in travelling especially in China tani in China. marked on charts and cryptic in- where communications Are structions in cipher, but it was notoriously poor, are resolved to I am not suggesting that you not Spanish gold that Mr. Bal- have completed 1. 5,000-mile should be involved in politics, combe hoped or expected to see, tour to survey the Fund's work! Lady Cripps, but, for the sake When he was asked what he in China. All warm speeches of purely relief work, I think found in the Eighth Chamber he you have made in various it might be wise to listen to replied "Oh, just mud and water places have enlightened us with those unfortunats ecmmon peo and rocks but I have been where promising perspectives that you . Besides, you have said that "the tragedy of Civil War has nobody has ever been before." are determined to continue to
exert your efforts to direct and entered deep into you" and you taction-in-the-last-words, the rich,vities of the BUACAB-these China is so needed an a stabi- inner satisfaction of a man who have proved that you are a real this she must have Peace and whether they work for the State quantity and quality of capital
sing force in the East, and for Wrkers must-realise that cyganisation and in
the destine embarkations ON has done what he set out to do. friend of China and could be
The reasons given by officials Some bold adventurers dis-necounted as the main and only Bain strength so as to play her or a private employer they are equipment that have obtained for this inattention are ilain
reasons why you have been so cwn part in the world in co-producing the stock of gonda under that system. The only
1. The Allied authorities do The limits of their little warmly welcomed everywhere.
eperation with others." Time is and services from which we all question is whether at
not communicate to the Italian matured now for a real China- derive the necessities, reign,
moment with the existing (de ing Jews and do not permit an This the names of arriving and departs In covering your tour of 5.000 miles
extensive conscious person to disclose im amenities of life." (Mr.Atlee pleted and deteriorated); stock in seven partially the real picture of nddressing the T.U.C. Con- of capital equipment, employed 2 Italy is at present
effective control of weeks. I could imagine that you: China to a real China-conscious fercnce. 1946) wrote Gray, and it is obvious he have witnessed a great many country who, for the Interests
with contemporary skill and tooded with stranded foreigners was not implying that they de things and have been privileged of the world as well as
The annual labour of every organisation, the labour of this of all nationalities who are served a snub for their pains.
the ration is the fund which pri-country could furnish the com- the contact people and places as herefts of her own, should misally supplies it with all the nual needs under a 40-hour difficulty and every
Italian authorities cros
Jew timt The nations have found to their ou said you have had perfect hesitatingly shoulder, her part necessaries and conveniences of regime. The answer, given by leaves Italy is one foreigner less given by lightning, travel cost that the spurious intimacy freedom in what you saw and of responsibility to the contri- life which It annually
the Ministers themselves, is ference, Jewish Zionist organisati Because of this Italian indifi and whom you met. But, my hobution of real World Peace.
that it would not. Otherwise tions find it easy to arrange dem wireless communication does narurable Lady, it is my earnest
why all this cficial campaign partures for Palestine. I my rudeness can again be
ag for inercased effort and wish that you are not going to make for tolerance and better un
off in the clandes Ships engaged in hasten to the conclusion tha kindly excused, may I venture derstanding. There is little of the here is real freedom in China to ask again how the Fund has
increased productivity? It is the traffic are costly Italian but world's surface now left un- There might be freedom for a
been distributed in various
not enough to say that there foreign vessels also are participat apped, but the swift and scientiniest honourable and respectable parts of China? It is not
need be a loss in output: the ing in the lucrative trade, Pater fie survey from the air contributes Lady on a goodwill mission, but stipulation that money was to
ery is for more output, and the saxes cast-500,000 lire per persoas little to real comprehension, and there has never been any real go to all quarters or a gen
of the cenomic siluation of repay the cost of a vessal,^ ~.~****** nest elementary considerations It is estimated that three trips. Peralisation that "right from it may be that the painful inch freedom for the poor Chinese the beginning, the money has
this country demonstrate the gined by the early explorers people. thrusting their way south or
but
And unknown regions dare desery:
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a matter of
", - "
gore throughout Chinn,"
have
and
sumes” ('Adam Smith, 1775)
There does not seem to have been much change in ecchonic doctrine over the past 170 ears. Indeed Mr. Allee, in attempting to utter the unim- eachable, almost appears guilty might have usefully continued of plagiarismi. Nevertheless he in the same strain and tradition. and gene or to describe the necessity for this,
By G.L. SCHWARTZ
processes, by which "labour is facilitated and abridged." Using direct quotation he could have insletcil that it is only "the great multiplication of the productions of all the different arts which occasions; in a well- governed society, that univer- sat cpulence which extends itself those places to the lowest ranks of the
people."
The Consumer Angle
ing
bours with an insignificant care
Ships leaving Liguarian har
their course
bound for the Middle East ASTE their course during the night and certain established points where Jews are picked up. These points rentralisi ato,
Arenzang
dumbing up the hill of the world your tour heated or face that curerete figures and facts ure in search of the North-West Paste and your time but of a
30 freely contributed
eathering of producers and sage was more rewarding in true short period, which could only "their hard gained cash which
Mr. Allee could have again, satisfaction than the rapid score allow you to stay for a Yew they earned in the factorier in
consciously or unconcia y of miles. The first man to land | days at the utmost in one place, the stress of war," as well as
drawn on his source of inspira
and Cape Noljona Begit In June the 1.200-ton steamor on the moon, will have something where you had to attend ours, who express their thank-
tion in potating out that any Beauharnais, under the Paname legitimate to boast about, but this numerous receptions, meeting fatness whole heartedly for this
assembly of producers tends to flag, sailed for Palestine with restless and incessant plundering high. Chinese Government of friendly help..are most anxious
become a conspiracy against cargo of 100 Jews, Her case 15 of time and space is not matched als from the Generalissimo to to knew the exact figures and
the common good. In only one an example of how the traffic Governors, Mayors, etc. and had amounts of the distribution and
reapect did the consumer, aspect
works, hy any parallel conquest over the to visit and see all pre-arranged in verify whether the Fund has
emerge. The delegates word. The Jews, who, sailed on the mountains of the mind. To dis-pinces and persons and were really gone to
apart from their business, Beauharnais arrived in Savosa prove the agreeable theory that almost always accompanied by where "the need was greatest",
visitors to the seaside, and in the boord several trucks. the sump. the moon is made of green cheese very polite Chinese Government May I suggest for your kind For on the previous day the welcoming address they were night as the embarkation. They is not to travel as far as thought representatives. If my rudeness consideration that after
were taken aboard off the town of you T.U.C. Conference had resolved fronted to a diatribe about the Vado, near Savons, with motor can reach, and we are far from can be kindly excused, Lady have returned to your Home, that labour must be "abridged high east of heliday accommodu- launches and barges serving as rivalling the Elizabethans in their Cripps, may I ask whether it some concrete and satisfactory by legislation to 40 hoursation. The hope was expressed (Continued on Page 6), capacity to voyage on strange seas has come to your knowledge way to guarantee fair and im- week. Sir Mark Hodgson, in that the Government would in-
the of thought as well as on virgin thar lots of UNRRA supplies partial distribution be adopted introducing motion, de- tervene, to prevent "the high to increase the output of sheete;s
clare that there was escaping out of known have gone to the private poe by your committee?!
no in-waymen of this industry"! from { blankets, tablecloths, cutlery, f Di kote of a few people and have of latitude and.
4-should not have, disturbed dustry in which the principle holding up the people. to ran- and the exports' requiditeto even been used as a political you with such a long and cum-
could not be accepted. The son..
sreure rather more variety in | longitude. Ralegh did not find a
prison cell, after the great globe you have happened to
means in civil war? Whether brous letter during your illness General Council was giving New, If any union represent the menu, even at the cont of
come May I pray for your speedy
police that in all planning and | led han, incurred half, the war-overtime. When that has boeni confine the wonders of his "His corpses a day found in the ward journey. itself, so narrow that he could not across to see approximately 100 recovery and a pleasant home- further mechanisation and re-time hardships suffered by done we can criticise the terms. equipment of industry that was, south and past coast landladies, and quality of the accommcıasi tory of the World" within it, and streets of Canton? Whether you
new taking, plate those respon- | the. Congress would have re-tion Meanwhile, the lesa said: it would be well if men, looking have been told or have seen
sible must plan for the intro- | sundel with claims for, special about highwaymen the better inward, could forget the prim
duction" of a 40-hour week. | egrisideration and compensa- If attention is drawn to directions _of_the__psychoanalytic
They wanted legislation placing | Biou. An imaginative study of "Stand and deliver tactics on all Industrid the obligation | the holiday accommodation pro- | the investigation/ would not to provide for a 40-hour week. blem would have sent the dele: stop at landladies, and the And by 40 hours they meant 10 | gates back to their respective 'Congress * might find:"Itscla hure work, and not 40 hours electorates with a fervid urge under indictment. plus overtime. Mr. Donovan,
oceans
measurements
AN" OVERSEAS CHINESE.
rext-book and explore and wide BARCLAY ON BRIDGE
By Shepard Barclay "The Authority on Authorities"
their own minds. Meanwhile the explorer of the physical world t entitled to his glory. Mud, rocks, and water may seem a barren» rê- ward for adventure and for cour age, but the summit of Everest itself can offer little more. If they PLAY SECOND HAND are poor things, they at least are Mr. Balcombe's own. He has been there and he, and he alone. [knows.
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liking a lend from his club of cutput. declarer has'a five-card suit in honours, he picked a diamond. So the dummy opposite a holding South got four tricks in each red which you can surely read as a suit, plus the spade A to give him doubleton, and you have three cards headed by the queen or
It can be said at once that Washington, Dec. 1. jack, feeling sure your
if West on the first heart lead a 40-hour week is not a priz Ex-Senator Joseph Guffey, has three to that other honous, played his Q South could not ciple. It is a potentiality, it is who was defeated for reelection, your primary job is to block the have afforded to let it win, as it
an cliective, and desirable would then have been followed Republican, Congressional lead-ible re-entry into the dummy is urship might foment anti-Rus- in a suit in which your partner the dummy, could have taken the
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kill the long uit How? By third heart to East The latter legislation but of hard economic the two countries could live in lead from declarer's hand, instead for South to peace.ngarna
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To what can be ascribed the reduction of the working week' from the long and exhausting fours cf a century ago to the 55 hours that prevailed before. the First War, to the 48 hours that ruled afterwards and the -figure of about 45 hours today? It is not attributable to legis
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