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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 20, 1947,
WESTMINSTER REVIEW
DESIGN FOR FREEDOM
MISSING FIRE
The present-day House of should be noted for future re-been said to have welcomed the Commons presente an extra- ference as significant straws in, fighter topic of that twenty ordinary paradoxin that the the Parliamentary wind. Our million pound "troops elgar. more bitterly partisan it grows nation is painfully weaving out etten" racket in Germany while the more blurred 'do the lines newer conceptions of the demo Mra. Mann's strictures on "that of party demareation become, cratic way of life and wa are twerp" Tommy Handley came It would appear also that des- nt loant fortunate in the fact an a positive Godsend. and Mr. { pite its shaky facade, the Ia that, our form of Parliament Strachey's uncomfortable time bour Government is still strong gives every citizen ample op with the teetotal section of the enough to withstand al! direct | portunity of observing how Labour Party over the decision frontal assaults, 'so the Opposi- these developments are shaping. to sell intoxicants in Civle Res- tion are considering infiltra- Meanwhile, this week has seen taurants appear now in retroa- tion methods. These observa-M.Ps. losing their tempers over pect as being no bigger than tions are prompted by the issue subjects so far apart as Temmy the proverbial atorm in the ten of a manifesto written by Peter Handley, Lord Wavell, Beer in cup. Thorneycroft. Conservative↑ British" itstaurants, N.A.A.FL M.P. Monmouth entitled "De- Cigarettes in B.A.O.R., and sign For Freedom" which cap- Bevin's Palestinian disappoint- tured lots of advance publicity ment. and which in brief aima nt achieving an anti-Labour bloc by uniting the Conservatives with Liberals.
There have been months of this move. It began with a sug- tactical manoeuvring behind Restion during a previous crisis In the Labour Government's uneasy period of office to the effect that now was the time for all men of goodwill to come to the aid of the country. In short, certain men were flirting with the idea of reverting to Coalition Government.
At that time there were 1
flat.
about Mr.
|
Lord Wavell's affair came as n sudden unexpected boxing match between Attlee and Chur- chill in which the latter came out, of hia corner swinging metaphorical whirlwind punches while the Prime Minister stub. bornly refused to do more than go into clinch,
At the moment the chief out- lines visible through the fog are on the one side, the Opposition shock at the notion of losing India after two hundred years of British rule and on the other side the Labour Government in. slatence that the only way tọ
The
Thear are indeed hot days at Westminster which unefully net off the coldness outside. Which reminds me that Mr. Attlee's statements to the Commons on the progress of the conl battle have been received with phleg mátic calm. Members feel
Indebted particularly
to the miners who have so nobly turn- ed up trumps in working week- ends to get much needed coal to pit heads and everyone echoon Mr. Attice's tribute to them and the men on ships and surface transport who cooperat- ed so energetically in distribu- tive measures,
ay to Chou En-Lai
Kolan
Felping, Mar. 27. Chinese newspapers carried
are
CARNIVAL
By Dick Turner
Tom, 1994 BY MEA BERVICE, INC. 1., 14. A
11-22
"But, Pet, he simply refuses to understand what six per cent interest menna!"
U.S. Intervention In The Balkans
Many Americans have been open and shut invitation for report today that Cheu En-lainaking whether a major war world war-and Russia definite- No. Conxunist, had fled to seems likely to grow out of the ly, does not want war. Kolan, 200 miles
of Greco-Turkish crisis, but there If that was the whole story, Yepan, where 60000 Reds"
has been an absence of any ex- ald to have massed under Gen. Peng Teh-huat, Vice Commander-pressions of "fear" in connec- in-Chief of the Communist armies tion with such inquiries.
It seems to the general public that the United States is not
attack
By DEWITT MACKENZIE
"afraid" in the accepted sense
General Elsenhower asautres
the world could sit back and take it easy.
But there in this fly in tho
Itusain
not docs ointment: have to make a direct move in order to get military ald in the form of soldiers to the Greek Reds,
Moscow's satellites along the Greek frontier Yugoslavín, Albania, Bulgarin-can take care of that and are accused of No doing not only by Athens hit the United States and Bri tain.
number of robustly independent bring an endless series of dend- their lips, who were giving locks to issue is by this advance their whips heart attacks. Thin¦ notice that we positively intend encouraged a belief in certain to quit not later than June quarters that the Government 1918. Tactically Government is Estimates in evidence against the might welcome a way out of strongly placed in argument. Financial Secretary, and were its difficulties. But the rebels Opponents have frequently clearly far from satisfied
northeast that were quietened and the Na- castigated them for failing to there would, finally, be a leewaytional Government scheme fell take a firm line of policy, and of $16,000,000, between revenue
neglecting to announce thla and expenditure which Income
No Coalition
clearly in advance, Mr. Attlee Tax would be required to make
now says "Well I have dane of China, When the coal blizzard came
India. Would you
A mile are around Yenan of adminia. this over to give Mr. Attlee's tration another racking any prefer me to continue a policy Communist points has been inop- ped up by Nationalist forces, who hopes of reviving that particu- of aimless drift?
Palestine
are now preparing for an expect- Iar scheme were publicly killed when Mr. Churchil sardonically
olher foreign policyed Red counter attack, according)
to Central News. ejaculated "No Coalition" dur- scrap in the Commons is over Meanwhile, in Manchuria, the ing Mr. Shinwell's explanation Palestine but here again the Communists who have been at that word. of the fuel muddla and Mr. main feeling is one of sym-tacking Tung Hus withdrew 'on Attlee in a later speech out pathy with those who have Monday and turned alde the House dismissed the struggled in vain to achieve alalung, 50 miles southeast of the United States that no coun- ident as "absurb".
solution of long standing pro- Chongehun, capital of Manchuria. try at present "would deliber-
Mukden was reported to have ately provoke war."
Grecce says her civil war lá Then came a spate of ad-blems. Mr. Bevin, like Wavell, vance publicity
He warns though that there being engineered and support- has tried every visible expedient been plunged into darkness as the Thorneycroft's Design For
to reconelle intransigient par- Reds destroyed a power plant i always exists the possibility of ed by her Communistic neigh- Freedom manifesto which it ties though in his case he has Panshib. 40 miles to the north-an incident being precipitated bours. was stated had, already been achieved something in the na.
by some "immature nation."
One Man Job of personal advantage
While the General did not pin endorsed by n number, of in- ture
Former President Hoovervile», this specifically to the Balkanclared recently that a large part fluential Conservative and and from situation. A couple of in his own
imbroglio, we are safe in as of the chaos in Greece could be Liberal signatures. This time months ago men
Macau, Mar. 26. suming that been party were clamouring for his
it covers that lifted by one man if he wers the coalition idea had
The baby girl of Mr. head on charger. When he met
and situation.
willing and that man is Mar Washington has stated cato-shal Joseph Stalin. It in with- gorically that America's pro- in his power to stop the aggres- posed nld to Greece and Turkey sive war in the form of guers will not include any troops. rilla raids from Yugoslavian
Lots of people, however, are Bulgarian and Albanian terri- on wondering whether Soviet Rua- tory-that would bring peaco
sin might intervene with_sol- | to Greece. Mr. Pedro de Alcantara dier to help the Greek Com- Then the American aid could
to overthrow Hong Kong munista
the be devoted to restoring produc Xavier, manager, Printing Press, performed the Athens. Government and seize tivity of the Greek people, in
stead of our wasting our yon- duties of god-father while Mrs. control of the country.
There is no indication that crosity on military equipment." Rosalina Bayol d'Almelda was
any such move by Moscow is
do Certainly Moscow can god-mother.
at all likely.
anything it wishes with the Red- States of the Balkans for it has them in a sack although the fiction is maintained that they are sovereign, countries.
switched round to unite these
two parties in a joint army to defeat Socialism. But you can take it as fairly certain that this scheme will get no further that the last scheme.
east. Associated Press.
Baptism In Macao
lows budgets for safety, but there a strong suspicion that the figure of $16,000,000 was Met down because. by sheer coin- cidence, it happened to be suf- ficient to cover the deficit which otherwise might have appeared in the accounts. There is a strun suspicion, too, that the actual revenue from this source, calculat- ed on the standard rate originally proposed, was expected to be con- siderably higher. There is a fur- ther suspicion that the Colony's financial authorities would be more than willing to be found ut in heavy discrepancies be- tween Estimates and Actual Re- venue next year, as they have
them at the first private Parlia- Mrs. Armando Sarrazola heen this, provided of course that
meatary Labour Party meet- Xavier, of Hong Kong, was the inaccuracies prove to be equal-
ing since his return from haptized in a preity ceremony ly favourable to the final result.
Amerien the rebeln were offleluted over by Fr. Artur The Colony has had so much ex-
in curiously subdued mood Gonzalves at the Roman Catho perience of this manner of gov His party chlofs. tried to and accepted his stated in- lic Cathedral in Macan ernmental accountancy that it is placato him some time ago tention to refer the Palestin- Monday. not easily hoodwinked, and it res- with a sent on their Policy an question to the United Na- ponds sceptically to pessimistic Committee and the chairman- tions with practically no objec- forecasts. His Excellency the ship of famous 1922 Committee tions. Mr. Churchill of course pursues his theme of "giving Governor's speech, closing the but Peter decided he had a
better chanco if he remained away the Empire" but he does debate on the second reading, held aloof. His internal opponents not find it easy to convince the out no hope that the Tax Un
as a whole that we seized his refusal to these over- country
The baby received the name Earnings and Profits will be held tures to get Mr. Churchill on
should continuc to pin down of Olga Marin, and a number in suspense. He did, however, their side and young Thorney British soldiers in such danger of friends gathered in an al offer a small crumb of comfort, croft got such a rough handi areas if contending groups in fresco following the religious pointing out that what he de-ing at a Conservative Parlia- India and Palestine decline so servids-Our Own Correspon scribed as "the important ques-mentary Party mecting that the positively to
among dent. tion of the standard rate" refow Liberals who were filrting themselves on compromise solu- mained to be settled, thereby with his notions began to take tions. justifying an inference that the fright and eventually Mr.
Clement level will be lower than was at
Davies the Liberal first contemplated. The public leader came out with a coffin- nail statement, "any coalition means the death of the Liberal Party."
an event
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Agree
Human Side
That is the human side of the matter. Unfortunately it does not end there. Commercial In- terests came forcibly though not always so prominently into the picture. Grave questions of the effect which the loss of India may have
economic on our situation aro altost bound to amergo through the haze of quarrels between bitterly ire- placable religious leadera.
In face of all there rather gloomy matters, members of Parliament might almost have
Spotlight Turned On Bevin
London, Mar. 27,
Speculation about the future of the Foreign Sec- retary, Mr. Bevin, is now acquiring a curious urgency, suggesting that very important per- sons are very busy. A few days ago, the "News Chronicle" predicted that Mr. Bevin would give up the Foreign Office to become the dyna- mic head of Britain's production drive) while tonight's "Evening Standard" predicts that he' will become Prime Minister, changing places with Mr. Attlee.
Last Thing On-the-contrary, that le about the last thing one would expect the Soviet Union to at, tempt because it would be an
BARCLAY ON BRIDGE
By Shepard Barclay "The Authority on Authorities"
It is obvious that if the So- viet Union wanted to isaue or ders to them and then sit back and disclaim responsiblilty, it could do 850, or as Hoover points out, Moscow could res.' train them if it wished.
As things now stand it seems likely that Russin will pursue the middle course of letting her dogs of war run off the leash sufficiently to keep on harry- Ing the Greeks, short of pro- ducing an open. Balkan' war.
SEEK IMPROBABILITY| Holding up on the first trick ANYBODY WOULD rather would do no good, for if the later spade finesse lost to East, depend on a certainty than a
Highly Explosive probability, on a probability the latter could surely put Weat than an improbability, on ann with a club, as the A was The situation on the Balkan Improbability than an impossi- marked there by the opening peninsula naturally is in a bility. So It goes in the order bid.
highly explosive state, for that, Then the study of the entry reason the Big Three-Russia oli of preference between various
became Important the one hand, Britain and Ame- courses open to a declarer. The situation last of these choices may loom After using up the heart A, he
rica on the other-will do Immediate re- everything to avoid becoming up when the opening lead would have no against your No Trump game entry to his own hand to run directly involved.
has knocked out your sale stop the rest of the diamonds if he I think we may take it for per of a five-card salt or longer. used dummy's Q for a trick granted that Russia will not If you know the defenders are taker to help assure that the make any move in the Balkans sure to take at least five tricks sult would set up. So the only or elsewhere which might force In case they got the lead, you thing to do was hope, the dia- somebody to reach for their must then find a way to try for monds would drop in three gun.. fine before letting them in, rounds against the probabili That In, the Soviets won't do even if you base your hopes on ties--or that the 10 and 9 would it now, or for a long time to Improbabilitles..
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FIRE IN MACAO
CINEMABA
Macao Mar, 27. Spectators in the "Hol-Klang. Theatro experienced an unplea cant thrill last night when firs broke out in the projecting-: room; causinga?" panleTM and- a rush for safety:
- Five womény, and uven: were removed to hosp
vening, thấing
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