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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, MARCH 0,′′ 1947.
MISUNDERSTANDINGS" CARNIVAL
IN WORLD AFFAIRS
of
"The onlookers" runs the! English saying, "see most the game". This may mean that foreign secretaries and other members of the teams now play: Ing
By WICKHAM STEED render the International outlook
Former Editor, London "Times"
crumbling
vory Merióun,, -Genèral Marshall, Secretary of State, told the For eign Relatioris Committee on the United States Senate on Fubruary to in the game-or drama
disaster from 14, that politically "the world is of world affairs, are too absorb war" be misunderstood, I think in a very critical condition." On United ed in it to watch the contest as it well to say what I believe it! February 18, when the
Nations Security Council received n whole. As an onlooker of more meant. I take it to have meant, the Russian proposal for the imm- than fifty years experience not that, he looks upon the mediate outlawry of atomie wen- wish to say how I are it.
world as "crumbling to dians-bons, the Pollsli delegato said if er" but that the spectacle of a these weapons were not outlaw. of a disarmament
world which, immediately aftored the work
commission would be futilo, He the second world war, appeared added "I believe that distrust alts to be crumbling, to disaster, had at our table as the thirteenth de- not prevented him and his collegate casting a pet on all our leagues from seeking to solve endeavours." the Palestinian problem.
Not Slander
up.
Soviet Angle.
What is one to make of these
am
1 think it looks like, but is not in reality, a game of cross purposes, a game in which each kule is upt to misinterpret what the other side may say in un- guarded nioments. Take for ex. ample the chance phrase used by British Foreign Secretary, Were it possible to suspect the Mr.-Ernest Bevin, in the Houne
If I am right in this belief, various utterances? Very sturdy Hong Kong Government of sub of Commons on February 18. it would merely prove
that cptimism would be needed to con
clude that they are auspicious tlety, something more than coin-Mr. Winston Churchill had thrust and parry of Parliamen- preliminaries to the
meeting of cidence might be detected in the charged him with "eighteen tary debate are not conditions the foreign ministers in Moscow months of protracted delay" in most favourable for careful next week.. Still, as an onlooker, timing by which the impending bringing the problem of falos diplomatic atterance. The same I seem to see the point at which Income Tax announcement has time before the United Nations. may bd and of
expressions things might take a turn for the been preceded by detailed pro- Mr. Revin answered that he used upon the polley of Boviet better if one fundamental mis pals for the creation of a Muni- much regretted this, "rhetorical, Russia by Mr. Dean Acheson, understanding could be cleared cipal Council, and modifying the diaplay about protracted delay" Under Secretary of
the Soviet Russin, untess I constitution of the Legislative because he and another minis-Washington State Department. whelly mistaken, does not regard. Council. The likelihood of calter had gently sought to Mr. Molotov, Soviet Foreign her polley as "aggressive and ex- culated design is, however, remotel solve. the Palestinian problem Minister, has protested against panding" but as protective and de- and we must
those expressions ns being fensive against what she-wrong- Parliamentary statement, released ing to disaster from wor,”
assume that the "In the midst of a world crumb!-[ "blatant slander, and hostile to fly conceives to be hostile ten-| simultaneously in Hong Kong
A Blunt Man
the Soviet Union" in a note to dencies of the Western world. On yesterday afternoon, was made Honest and ably statesman in Moscow. And General Mar-cherish no hostile tendencles to the United States Ambassador the other hand, since the govern menis of the Western world Bangkok Singapore Manila without consideration of the im-though he is, Mr. Ernest Bevin ahall, Secretary of State, has word Soviet Russia, they are apt
San Francisco
minent Battle of the Tax. In ahas not been trained to use answered Mr. Molotov by say to interpret Russia precautions as way, perhaps, this is rather a pity, precise diplomalle language, ing that "under our (United "aggressive and expanding." by
For given the alternative, it would With more truthfulness than States) standards, a restrained * This is the fundamental mis- at once raise, as a point of extreme Mark Anteny could claim. he comment on a matter of pubite understanding. With frank good-
will. It
for interest, the question whether might -day “I am nò orator as policy is not slander.
should be possible There
statesmen to dispel it when they Government would be prepared Brutus la; but, as you know me fore, I know that on second meal in Moscow. All their, coun 14 contend that the measures nowall, a plain blunt man. I only thoughts you will not attribute tries urgently need an assured proposed to give the people of peak right on." Not long ago, hostility to frankness."
pence, Soviet Russin as much as This answer may or may not¦any. As an onlçeker. I see no Hong Kong a practical and effec- the Soviet Government mistook
the Soviet Foreign compelling reason to think their tive share in the management of the meaning of words he had ontlafy
said. and of others
may he hud Minister. He their own affairs" could be held omitted, in a broadcast account think Mr. Acheson's
-perhaps efforts will fall. $
"frank. to represent an adequate and of British foreign polley. Now, neas" little better than his effective response to political de- ands based on the platform "Noest his phrase about the "world alleged "hostility." The facts are that on February 10, when Taxation Without Representa
the, United States was con- tin." As it is, the proposals stand by themselves, for 'examina- tion in their own merits. On the lasis,
Government Scheme is entitled to a wide mea- sure of approval, and His Ex- cellency the Governor to the community's thanks. Some of the important detail has been left to be filled in later, but the brevity of the Commons statement does not prohibit the conclusion that the measures proposed constitute auished
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Stalin
Hands Over
By HARRISON SALISBURY
- 503
Generalissimo. Stalin has relin
hin direct control of
an advance, and an important Russia's armed forces in what and substantial advance, towards appeared to be his first step. - ward divesting himself of war- a genuinely representative form worn responsibilities. of government, probably, if not Stalin has resigned as Minister certainly, as great as could ren- of Armed Forces in charge of the sonably be taken having regard Sovic defence and the post has to the stage thus far reached in Army General Nikolai Bulganin, been assumed by his deputy, this Colony in the development who is a fast rising star on the of localised political and civic, Soviet scene, consciousness. Gratifyingly, the The resignation is not to be
les Governor and his advisers have taken as an indication of not succumbed to the temptation but rather as a confirmation of sening of his influence in Russia to -- ultra-caution. in concession, the prediction made repeatedly by The course chosen has followed, abservers that once the war was fairly closely the middle of the over and the immediate postwar era had passed, Stalin would road, with its deviations.
more divest himself of the multitude of likely to rouse the fears and cri-fonnal offices which he assumed! elements among us than of the war in June, 1941.
Twice
sidering the "appointment-of 'a' Divorced,
chairman to the Atomic Energy Commission, a Senator asked the
Mr. Acheson whether, in To Be R.C.
light of Russian influcned up- on neighbouring countries, he did not believe that if Russia should obtain the secret of the atomic bomb "she would take not only the remainder of Europe but perhaps the re mainder of the world."
*Not Alone
And Marry
NO
By Dick Turnar
2TASM
10-26
"You mean you ain't go! nothing at all—not even, for medicinal purposes?"
BARCLAY ON BRIDGE.
By Shepard Barclay
"The Authority on Authorities"
DON'T PLAY THAT ACE Holding the A-Q and another ard or the A-d and another in
My
Just that-by playing low when Enst used the Q on the opetting spade trick. The A won the next, but when South got the third spade, fila contract was safe.
he long suit led against a No The big point here le that the -Frump game, the average-pari-play of the G on the first trick.
ser will "erme, in right away with puts 'South In' a
mean predica- his ace and fire back the nexsment and constitutes the hapour. That chables the de chance to beat-the contract. durer, it he holds the twire-
king, to wait for the third, round and thus successfully slop the sult unless the aponing leader has a re-entry. In case the third-hand player has a honcur which looks like a winner, Fig can give the fleclarer awful problem by playing his middle eard on the first trick,
S. 75 M. A 87 D. A 6 6
SAJ 8.7.&.
Vatican City, Mar. 4. Reliable Vatican sources con- firmed today that twice-divorc ed 'American Admiral Ellery Stone, former chairman of the To this indiscreet question Allied Commission in Italy, Mr. Acheson replied that It would be officially admitted in-,
S. JO @ 4-2 could not be answered in the to the Catholle Church next way the Senator had asked il
Saturday, preparatory to his H. 103
D. 7 4 2 Ho added "I am quite aware impending third marriago
to C 63 of the fact that Russian for
the niece of a Vatican prelate, eign policy is an aggressive
Vatican sources explained that and expanding one. I thinn
the eyes of the Catholic everyone is making in the one of the great efforts which
hot Church, which does zognize divorce, Stone was of- United Nations is to attempt icially a widower rather than to find means of solving pro
a divorced person. means and agreements can be blems of that sort. If those
Vatican sources sald Stone vulnerable.) found, then there is hope that
was officially a widower because there wit be no major clashes. his first wife had died and the"`s NT If they cannot be found, then! Protestant
is very I think the situation sorious."
ticism of the more conservative at the start of the Russo-German Unquestionably, Mr. Acheson Catholle Churel.
Atomic Terror
rc.
D.
N
S. A OR WED. 10 003 11. 3 E 4 2
S
C. K 4
5005
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C. Q 10 0 2
(Dealer: South.
North-South
Ensi Fas
North
West. South 1.NT Pass 3 C
rites in which he Let's see what happened a married his second wife could three tables of a duplicate game į
South reached 3-Ne act be recognized by the at which
Trumps and West opened th spade 4, Admiral Stone, naval reserve At the first table. East played officer und former executive of his A on the frat trick and fol a postal telegraph company, is lowed with Q. m which South engaged to marry 21-year-old played low. The K then took thị Bareness Renata Arborio Melia third spade. Now South opened the club suit, which he had & di Santella, niece of Monsignor bring in to make his contract. He Arborlo Mella di Santella, who finessed the Q. which East won is Master of Ceremonies for the with the K. Having no
spades, he returned the diamond Vatican.-Unlied Presu
3. whereupon South took the rest of the tricks to make gume, plus
Tokyo, Mar. 4. MT. ETNA SUBSIDES "extra
mcre
line was well received six months cally on the eve of the Moscow ters warned today.
He saida."foodlers world" Mount Etna had ceased erupt in a min of the suit. After win.
bcmb explosions.
best
Tomorrow's, Problem
S. 0 0
H. Q 10 8 4 CAK 10 04 D. 17 2
S. AK 10 5-**
2
H. 0 2
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N
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D. Q 5
4.2
SC 10 4 3
S. 743
H. AK 7.0 3
D. D.B
C. AQ 8
(Dealer: South. East-West vul perable.)
How would you try to make 4- fearts on this deal, after ruffing the third spade; If you had a pair
rather af
careless defenders
gainst you?
TRIPOLI RIOTING.
Beirut, Mar, 4, Fourteen people were killed and 10 wounded In a clash in Tripcli
oday, according to oficial ports,
re-
is not alone in believing that Prir to Hifer's attack on Rus- failure to find agreement upon the energy would progressives. In the absence ofisia, Stalin had held none of the control of atomic doser detail, analysis must be top-ranking posts in the Soviet subject to reservations. It would Government, contenting himself seem, however, that the constitu- with the all-powerful role of the
The clash occurred when thou- tion of the promised Municipal Secretary General of the Com-
sands of people gathered to greet munist. Party and 'his strategic Council has been approved on membership in the key ruling or-
he arrival at his birthplace of Hoes conforming fairly closely to ganizations of the ruling Party.
Fawzi Zd Din el Kawaki, the re- the plan suggested by "His Ex- With the attack on Russle, how-
bel fcuder of the Palestine Arab
isturbances ten years ugu. cellency the Governor in
he assumed the premier- his ever,
After the reception, ó personal August broadcast last year. The ship from Molotov and took over
At the second table, East dispute between two, notables the Defence Commissariat as it majority of members, will be, was then callod.
An atomic war could remalt in
played the Q on the spade lead started and then flying broke cut elected and to the Municipal |
cf the world's food
Rome, Mar. 5.
South, fearing that Wast might in the public square. Soon there It is believed possible that destruction Chuncil will be delegated wide Stalin quit his military role at supply, an agriculture expert st
The Ministry of the Interior have a sult headed by the A-J. was a fierce, battle between tho be- powers. Sir Mark's skeleton out-
this time to demonstrate dramali- General MacArthur's headquar
announced last
night that was afraid to let Fast win, as a followers of the two men.
spade return would then resull tween whom rivalry had been
almmering for a long time,. conference his. belief that tussla
Reuter adds that - e] Kawakji age and its warm endorsement will be more concerned in the could result from niant sterility Ing. He assured Sicilian moun- ning with the K, he finessed clubs will be more definitely assured era ahead
no to the K. East then laid down his was implicated in Rashid Alls with -peaceful than caused by the effects of atomic tain-dwellers they are in since it is accompanied by Legisla Bulganin has had a rapid rise
with military tasks.
further danger because the flow spade A, and his load of the pro-Axis revolt in Iraq. In 1841 "Future generations of plants
the gult, setting Scuth.
was flown to Berlin by, the 'Ger- tive Council changes also. So in Soviet ranks during pic We as well as current plant life can of lava is expected to advance enabled West to run the rest of and when the revolt collapsed he The third declarer took, n' ház- mans, from, whore he recently little has been said officially for and post war years.
Originally suffer from an atomie war," saldaly a few feet before it cools
returned---Reuter., the public ear
recently re- and, hurdons.-Associated Press ardous chance and knew it was on Legislative on executivo in the lextile indus- W. M. Myers who
abnormalities have Dorted that Council reform that deliberate, try and manager of the Soviet been discovered in plant life in evasion of the issue was the gen-man of the Moscow City Soviet pan.
Bank in Moscow, he was chair the atomic explosion areas of Ja eral interpretation of policy, so at the outbreak. of the war. He
who is a research that the recommendation that has became chairman of the Moscow Myers, actually been made, and accepted, Defence Council of the peak of specialist of the Agriculture Divi- the German threat to the city, or- sion of General MacArthur's No. is doubly welcome. Again, com-ganizing civilian defence more tural Resources Section, said: "I ment will be restrained until fur capital and maintaining a politia gigantle world-scale atomic war ther details become available. It cal liaison with army, forces de came along there is danger that plant life would suiter from radio is, however, indicated that, within fending Mosecw.
New York, Mar. 4. He rose rapidly in his polito-active dust particles that would Jimitations, which on first study military roles and. in November existing crops wruld be wiped with fishlon la pin neurotle as tho: The modern woman's obsession: be thrown into the air. Not only would seem to sustain Ht Ex-1944 replaced Marahal Konentl
*** | cellency the Governor's power of Voroshilov, Stalin's eld crony on out but if the radio activity of feminisms of her grandmother
the particles was hificiently in- Papingjar (tsistor, and it rises BF01 | ghen, they turned to entice The Ladies who today
saxast inadequada put the veto, there is to be an Unofficial the Supreme Defence Council.
the same cause her basic failure PICTURE majority, to be achieved by a re- Later, he assumed the post of tense the
ment.
swbon-making perfumes and-kiss- duction of the Official members Director of the Political Ad- would be affected.***
Myers said he did not know That conclusion is 1
n is reached by The wholly synthetic woman Pule listke of the Aungcative to reven. Of the eight Unofficials ministration of the Army and hew Intense radio activity would author. Ferdinand Lungberg and of fashion now being turned out with, are no wiser, they continus. two will be selected by the Muni-Was chief of the Military Coun- have to be to completely steriline paychiatrist Marynia Farahani in endless replicas: like cakes ya?! The woman gets her man, but cipal Council, one each by the of the central group of an area for succeeding generations in the recently published book soap or in caps, was more of leas having gotten him she still finds
|#Modern:Woman-The Lost: Bex." unconsciously modefled Chamber of Commerce and the thus having responsibility for plant life here in atomic-bumbed in
armies which entered Poland, of plant life.
Ho sald abnormalities noted in
Wathining' striving for Barry,::Madame Unofficial Justices of the Peace, the setting up of political ad areas have come from seeds which
Putera somathing new in Pompadearer tothek Idea and four will be nominated by the ministration in Poland.
The authors aky, and known mistresses pre18 h century, comes only, with, ther
feeling of suffered but which were not made something letnctly unhealthy. Kings and nobleen larutors complete amotional Governor. Until the Colony has Middle-aged, tall and impres entirely sterile by rays released Balds) Cheranidustrial revolution at the had vastly more experience in the sise in appearance Bulganin durite Immediate areas of the mortant things to think about, they could still own, but the function, and
th blast.By
son, usually, had more im- The innocent ladies who thought home, with tha" Workings of democracy, and the la regarded as one of crucial test will come in what Soviet administrato
explosions:-:16 32la possible that
day, man* left horns to with the furbstóws":"62/the cour? succes it makes of the Municipal pointment to the
thea)chlidren left-höms berani didn't know, that
and the cat opener re- termed -là-fes, lading. Che, i-preadrving: kettle; faction,thari kläched, ven berkükkasting about fo What they wante to restore their sorely de thels attraction
succeeding
Modern Woman Becoming
Wholly
frem "the bomb'a, burst (work/ “be destructive törplant life Acould be
these authors box money,
men with the and,FILE
Synthetic
By BARBARA BUNDSCHU
and that symbol is being fed to day the authors say, by adver tising which makes clever capital out of "woman's deep-rooted foar
du that comething inn missing."
-they
for womens
APPLETON