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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 10, 1947.
PEACE WITH FREEDOM
scrve
By Wickham Steed
.
A Scornful Professor
Na- Now and again a minor in- pertaining to the affairs of the, cunning the reasons for
Ministern poleon's failure Foch naid, "In cident start a train of histor- Dominions, whose ical reflection and helps to alone would be entitled to coun- my view the deep reason for the disaster that overwhelmed illustrate underlying principles, nel him upon them.
Shortly. afterwards these him must be sought cinewhere: Such an incllent i find in the landing on April 29 of the principles of the Balfour Re- than in himself. lle forgot King and Queen of England at port were enshrined in the that a man cannot be god; that above the individual, there is St. Helena the land to which Statute of Westminister.
man. the nation; that above Napoleon was exiled after the
there is the moral low; and Battle of Waterloo in 1815 ond
that wor A not the highest where he died in 1821. 2
In December, 1926, I was In- goal, since, above war, there is This was the first time that vited by the German High peace." reigning British sovereigns School for Politles in Berlini
the British These things have visited this small Crown to address its students apon Cominduwealth nil Empire Colony. Yet, the accasion and wint was called "The New have L forgotten. They circumstances preceding It Constitution of the British strive for peace not war-peace
had with freedom.
Notwithstand- reminder of the World-Empire." After I 05 3 evolutionary process which Bri- explained the workings of the ing the widespread assumption tish institutions have under- method of liberty, a Prussian that Britain has again fallen professor angrily dismissed the upon evil days from which she gone since the Napoleonic era.
whole conception as "Utopian
can hardly recover. It is pru and Impossible" and naked dent to remember the words of scornfully how Any Empire: leading English historian, could exist if it did not po the late Hal Fisher upon the RRM a "central force" to ensure apparent eclipse of England the complete subordination of after the loss of her North its members. When I answer-American colonies. 1o wrote: as King and Queen "in Southed that the British Common "It has always been found diff- Africa," a free and independent wealth and Empire placed their Dominion. They were not visiting a colony of the Empire. trust in voluntary co-operation. he made it plain that he At St. Helena, on the other thought me a fool. hand, they entered a colony of the British Empire. This dis
I bave often wondered bi tinction should be borne in which direction the folly lay- the in that of a Germany already mind whenever the term
ripening for the dictatorship of "British
Hitler or in that of the British Empire" is used.
Commonwealth whose members spontaneously fought and suf fered to preserve freedom and to rid Germany of Nazi tyran-
13".
the
The King and Queen were returning from their long nut, triumphunt tour through Union of South Afrien. While there they were not welcomed as Sovereigns of England but
Commonwealth and
The Balfour Report
war
cult to take Britain's mensure."
The mensure taken in 1781 proved wrong. It is my firm belief that any similar measure now taken will prove not less crroneous.
CARNIVAL
By Dick Turnar
COPA 1947 BY KEA SERVICE, DO, KAMI MEO UD VACS
"Say! This unemployment insurance is great stuff makes me sorta wish now that I'd worked!"
RUSSIAN LOYALTY TO
Landon, May 1. The vint Government relaxed censuratúp
Bioscow during the Conference but it never let down
Things Napoleon Forgot my of the barriers which make
Rasul in this air uge one of the world's met mystericus lands,
Diplomats whose job it in to
STALIN
By JOHN HIGHTOWER
The adoption of a new system of exchange allocation, having asi its basis impart quoins for a wide range of commodities, will be re- ceived with mixed feelings, though few can
have been completely taken by surprise. That there will be much heart-burning is a fore- gone conclusion. The official an nouncement, while it indicates in tention to make provision for firms established since the war. contemplates the fixing of quotas in relation to the volume of trade dotte in some particular coinino- diy by the various applicants in a full pre-war year. It would seem to follow, necessarily, that the old-established firms will get pre- lesential treatment, and younger,
The defeat of Britain in the possibly enterprising, newcomers North American colonial are bound to set up the cry that fostered a widespread belief the Government is conferring pre- that her sun had set, a belief miums on conservatism and on firmly held by European rulers the Big Five in the import-export as Intelligent as Frederick of business. Whether they are right| Prussin, Catherine of Russia, or wrong, and they are possibly Josepch of Austria. Yet with
came leader of the forces of alternative saethod could be cm- Europe against the dictator- ployed which would eliminate hip of Napoleon and she learn- This cause for misgiving withouted so well the lesson of defent
One question frequently argued Stalin's successor. Will it be For- creating a danger of greater in North America that she re- Foch had studied profoundly in Moscow embassies is whether eign Commissar V. I. Molotov or Will he be chosen befere or anomalies and more serious ic-
placed the principle of central the campaigns and life of Nel- Marshal Joseph Stalin tuns the some member of the Politburo? cusations of discrimination. In government by the method of son. He had commanded Allied country with full power in his principle, the quota system of or- increasing freedom. Under armies or some of the old own bands or whether the real after Stalin relinquisher power
Dis-authority Is exercised by the or has he already been chosen? ganising controlled imports is es- this method Canada, Australia, Napoleonic battlefelds, entially fair to everybody. Once New Zealand and South Afrien that is accepted, it is necessary to presently attained self-govern- admit also that some sort of yard- ment and then full nationhned
and independence-a line of! stick must be employed to gaide development that culminated in those making the quota allocations
the adoption In November. in their decisions, and any men- 1926, of the famous Balfour sure which failed to take into "Report on Inter-Imperial Ryla- Comt what may be termed the tions.". "normal" trade channels would pravide very real ground for pro- test. On analysis, the system it proposed to adapt appears to be the fairest that can be devised for it must be assumed that the interests of the Little Man will
study the governments they are
From Hitler to Napoleon the retrospective vista of history may seem long. Yet Hitler often brought back to my mind swer any of the great questions the most powerful member.
lessly with machinery they do not understand and sometimes ruin SL, 'The Soviet scientists, necord. ing to these sources, are probably ang the best anywhere, but most Americans in the position to judge doubt whether the Soviet Union has sufficiently skilled, und widely developed production techniques at present to build for
wrong. it is difficult to see what in a space of years England be ambition to dominate the world assigned to cunnat definitely an Pelitburo with Stalin simply instanice an atomic energy plant
not be overlooked, and that the
at-
newcomer to the import business will be given full consideration. What is perhaps more important is the list of commodities pro- vided in the two schedules tached 10 the announcement These define, for the first time, the imports which are regarded as essential to the Colony's weli. being, and they exclude such items, for instance, as American women's shoes which have for so long enjoyed popularity in Hong Kong. Cigarettes, beer, and mo tar vehicles do not qualify for the principal schedule, the implication heing that the effort to conserve
a talk with Marshall Foch in which millions of people ask about Another question concerns 1921 on the centenary of Na- the USSR now. noleon's death at St. Helena.
Guerillas In Spain
Will Stulin's withdrawal from office under any circumstances cause a great contest for power anung men along with him?
or an atomic bomb factory.
The Russians as people seem gr.vernment and Stalin by all ́aç- to be absolutely loyal to thele counts is held in great venera.
ten.
Foreign visitors get the impres slon that the tomb of Lenin in the Red Square in to the Russiana at largo a kind of religious political shrine.
All gencles of public inferma. I found no one in Moscow who could give more than a personal. tions are constantly employed to Quinton based on a guess except tell the people how, good their that informed western diplomats government is, what it is doing
Madrid, May 8. have penetrated from Portugal put odds in favour of an orderly for them and what capable men The anti-Franco guerilla and Narth Afrien, Sarees of Spain are mostly biz-| city warriors.
Phantom Aspect
rather than disputed succession, run t
din The Russians are strong Foreigners have rare contracis The Balfour Report déclared
with Stalin and regular connce culture. Their 'big "tucturies have that members of the British
tions with Molotov and lesser cultural centres. For a foreigner It is almost Impossible to tell Commonwealth are free and in- Their hide-out may be old Polici quarters said that lights of the Foreign Office. dependent nations, in no way dwellings in the crowded poor various committees are organ- But most of the top men in the whether the Russians really feel subject one to another, though quarters. Their headquarters ised in the cities. In turn, government they have never seen. close to their government and bound together by their joint may be the back room of cells are created wherever there' There is only a small handful leaders in the top group around scattered over Stalin but the usual assumption allegiance to a common Crown, cheap Madrid bar. Their ats avaliable membership mater of Americans Of the Commonwealth it said tacks may be alternately in. int. They claimed organisa- Russia now. Mestly they ara en. is they do, that "free institutions are its town or in the country where. tional, work is directed by a life blood." It defined the they think they can deal the liaison agent in touch with the Wearer of the Crown as King hardest psychological blow.
land and South Afrien, no less in Canada, Australia, New Zea- than in Great Britain. It de barred British Ministers from | advising the King in matters
100 Years
Ago Today
(Excerpts from the files of the hard currency will go somewhat China Mail, May 10, 1947) farther than broad quotas
and
fern un
Certainly the westerners in gineers.
The consensus reaching Moscow Moscow consider the Kremlin is central committee in France. from these men is that they and run today by men extremely son- citizen pollte, altive to tie wants of the masses. Consequently, the liaison agent average Soviet
helpful, reasonably Frequently when a government`ls Informed quarters said that frequently is unknown to most ready, the stock concept of bold gueril- of the committee members. In skilled and prone to take a day so tightly controlled at the top las roaming about Spain's
turn. committees may operate mountainous wilderness and in one city without being aware rubits. bivouacking in the lofty crags of another's activities.
of the Gundarramas is old-fash- This gives the movement a loned. There is too much phantom aspect. The police chance of detection In tho
muy arrest members of a group open spaces, so the guerlas believed to be the central com- find no more safety and more mittee and find that another freedom of movement in popu "central committee" already has lous cities like Madrid and taken its place, Barcelona."
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There estimate
move
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Accumulated some there is unrest in scmo elements ---
of the people. But there a no The Soviet engineers they said evidence of any such condition In are given to experimenting care. the Soviet Union,
BARCLAY ON BRIDGE
By Shepard Barclay
"The Authority on Authorities"
AT RISK OF BORING
the objective appears to be (1) defensive trick. If your partner/Your partner with either of two
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ace or carde-the
the queen,
ly no rellable the number of The so-called guerillas generally regarded the shock of active Communlets or sym-
Why can't many players re FOR SALE A new English troop auxillary of the Commun- pathisers in Spain.
The penalty for complicity in
alize that the underload of a that there is to be a severe tight-House Water Closet complete with st movement. Indiscrimina-
activities is no j-
king is less dangerous than the enting up af restrictions on the im- force Pump. Apply to C. Mark- tory use of the term has led Communist
Undeniably there are times underlead of an ace? That is to considerable confusion. severe that members and sym port of these items, which, at least wick, Auctioneer.
with utmost when the underlead of an ace mally because, if you catch Sometimes the guerillas are pathleers nominally, can equally well be ob-
said against a suit contract steals a Communists; sometimes they caution. Police quarters tained from the sterling area. It
belong to some anti-Franco, will be easier, in other words, to We are not at present in a posi- anti-Communist organisation to indoctrinate as many Spani- has a doubleton king, the return the value of your king has not bean destroyeşi, necessarily obtain exchange for sewing maticn to
upinion us to like the CNT (Confederacion ards as possible in the Com- of the gult inay give him chines than for Philip Morris whether a Joint Stock Company Nacional de Trabajo); some will have a large potential fol- the declarer and dummy each however, you' usually have to munist philosophy so that they lethaf ruff-but soldom unless When you underload an ace, cigarettes, for coconut oil than is the beat way of currying out times they for coffee. What it amounts to, in the views of the British Govern highwaymen looking for an lowing in the event of a gov- have three cards of the suit and the king in your partner's
ernment turnover, and (2) to Again, if the dummy, holds the
hand to, keep it from being engage in terrorist activities king-Jack, play effect, is that Hong Kong, faced meat. This may be said is chay bankroll.
It has been sanctioned,
of the lower costly for the payahological effect. ·
honor may give your partner The great danger from un- the queen, and your ace wins derleading an aco· against. Long Term Game the second trick. But such aut contract is that either de They opined that the Com- things are so rare that, at the clarer or dummy will have a risk of boring, once again we singleton, with one or the whose exploits are chronicled munists are working on a long advise you as strongly as pos- other of those two holdings pos in u Communist Party falder term programme since they ausible against that worst of all gaining the king. called "El Guerillero." They not appear to have suficient claim to have killed several funds to undertake a serious opening lenda.
rodrive to overthrow the govern- "prominent Falangista" in prisal for the killing of their ment, companions.
favour.
El Guerillero
The most, publicised striking force of the Communists is the "Guerilla Army of Galacia,
A
So, if you must lead the ace suit, ordinarily lay down the ace. As a minor divided, you will then get a look at the dummy and your partner's 10.7lynal, helping you decide what
to do next.
as it is by a threatened shurtage if not planned, by men of liberali of dollars, is compelled to draw colonial and international ptinci in its horns, and commercial circles pala; and though not placed un must still prepare themselves for der the personal supervision of disappointments, in refusals by Her Majesty's representative, its Exchange Control to authorise operation will be subject to his acceptances of offers which, inspections some degree hitherto, have passed muster. On under his control. the other hand, the new system promises a substantial advantage to importers who happen to be in
The organisers are well "sup- piled with money. They smug- the right line of business. The quota provisions initially cover a
Informed 'quarters, reported | glo in arms, explosivos and days. A 8 6 5 period of six months,, from June
'H. K'4 to December. When the allot
that available evidence allows weapons useful for sabotago, that the' guerillas ara hot num-raids and holdups, 'erous and do not constitute an ments have been made and the
A prominent anti-Commun- DK762W EH95 importer has a clear idea. In ad-
effective fighting unit in the lat, leftwing Spaniard told C. K 103 SD. J. & military sense. Their activities United Press that the Commun- vance, of the amount of exchange
Included - planting bombe In lates are the best organised and the Government is prepared to allow him, he will be in a posi-inkwater ehune, Robert Find- downtown foodshops as well as strongest opposition force in lay: Alexander Nairne, Hugh sabotaging railway lines and the country, even though they tion to make his commitments Hamilton Lindsay, Sir John Firie. Killing their enemies in periodic lack the numerical strength ahead in the knowledge that there Sir Thomas Tancred, Henry Wise raids onder mother anti-Franco groups. will be no last-minute hitch in
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