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WER. THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, MAY 16, 1947, B
WESTMINSTER REVIEW,
THE BATTLE OVER CONSCRIPTION
It is now possible to trace something of the how and why of the sudden deelston to reduce the period of compulsory service from eighteen months to twelve months and to anticipate seme of the coming moves.
By
ROY CARLETON
would not only consolidate their suppert but would also bring into line those Labour MPs who had voted against the Government because they felt eanscription in. terfered too much with the indus. telah and fucil production man. power problems.
On this point it would appear
prepared to take a gamble of the possibility of sufficient easement of international relations to justify abolishing several of our existing foreign garrisons by 1950.
A favourable recommendation won therefore sent to the Cabinet which met the next day and Mr. Issacs was mithorised to release the news immediately.
First of all, the lobby verdict on National Service B adminis. tered revere jolt tu Government and Opposition alike, the fact that men and women elected to Par
Shrill Clamour ROZA-On Thursday, May, Slament will no longer uukmuati-
Parliament hud, by this time, 1937, at the feseral Hospital,cally obey the behests of Party that even before the B was in-
closed for Easter so nothing coul Shanghai, Amanda
menns sarrifeing, troduced whelps if that
the Cabinet had Noronha da Roza (Dandy)
their own strongly held per been completely unanimous for be said in the Commons about this aged 3 years, the dearly
sonal bellefs or what they believe į both George Isaacs (Minister unexpected bombshell but the beloved mother of Oscar, Del to be the strongly held opinions of Labour) and Mr. Tom Willams newspapers set up a shrul clam-
cimina and Amelia.
Maria
CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM
DIGICHOMS
not
our at once
and Mr. Churchil ips Led n terrlile broadside in the forr of the written statement from his Westerham hoinic. He described the decision to reduen
service perks of the
example ot
the before any-
of the constituents who elected as Minister of Agriculture had not them, was by no means the least been happy over losing so many Important of these jolts.
young men to the Forces when The Cabinet went into an Im Industry and the land both need- miliate huddle to analyse the full ed them so much. True such a meaning of that vote en the see-trimming of the conscription ond reading of Bilt when the polley would not placate the Paci. "another Government found itself
sist groups of MPs but their num- plicy ur. scuttle powerfully opposed by a large bers would not prave to worry thing that looks difficult or ferce": number of Labour backbenchers ing in the division teubles if theyst he hinted that although the that, but for Opposition support, could be separated from the other Conservative Party had vated in support of the Government on the the Government could have been sections.
second-reading division, it would defeated on this important mea. Service Decision
would now have to consider with. The Cabinet realised that sure.
Parliamentary tacticians there drawing that support from the though the huumedinte danger had fare urged further exploration of passed there were prple opp the question whether the suggest.remaining stages of the BB tunities for further crisis situa tions when the National Service reduction in the length of corn- that threat, the Government's pr sl. Again the difficult Committee
It he could really implement
much a preliminary Bill was passing through its Coulsory service was practical. So on might easily become perilous. |
on the
the Chiefs of the three Services
the
CARNIVAL
By Dick Turnor
* COPR. 1947 NT SEA RERVICE, INC., T., M. KG. US FAT OFF.
"Could I borrow your lipstick, Myrtle? With these high prices I don't seem to have room in my purse for any. thing but money!"
BARCLAY ON BRIDGE
By Shepard Barclay "The Authority on Authorities"
THEY BURN YOUR HANDS
A
which
tho
How
Que sight almost imagine julging by the length of time o cupied by the Colonial Office in examination of the plan for a Municipal Council and other con- stitutional reforms in Hong Kong, that the issues involved were as is the transfer of pows in India. In point of fact. it is very phase of public management thatmittee. Stages. So they searched were instructed to weigh it all is being conferred, and over meti for a door of escape and decided up. They worked solkily through 15lage of Bill is being negotiated culous attention to the minute they had found it in the sugger that night and next day told the already there are signs that of draftsmanship-for that is ap than thrown out during the Com-Detence Committee that a reduc.he heating of the Labour Party mona debate by Mr. Cressman. tion to twelve months would be split may be followed by the open- what parently
is happening-
"Heaven-Sent"
accepted ir certain conditions ng of a Conservative Party spilt. might in these tranblous times be
Mr. Crossman is the leader of could be assumed to operate. The A numilier of members of the Op- matters af
Where Weat picked clubs for energy devoted to
was whether position have already made it rea the section of the Labour Party first consideration greatre moment. No-one will res
which is mostly keeply critical of the need for
the overcall, the bidding reach- oversens guiron sonably clear they do not approve of the new line Mr. Churchill is
et South at a low enough stage Bevin foreign pulley. gret the delay in presentation of the
He rottid
be substantially reduced
for his rebid and also made it the final scheme more than His has an influential group behind by the year 1050 when the 11 taking and Mr. A. V. Alexander
(Minister of Defence) has already "Hot Potato" in a term in possible for him to bid hearts. come inte full action. Excellency Sir Mark Young, who him and though he voted in the would must have
Nu- Secondly, it would be necessary stepped in with a useful speech vented several decades ago, in Notice how pleased West was entertained a keen Government lobby
Bill, he made it for a considerable portion of the the annual meeting of the Ce the days of auction age, to with that. North of course
Purty at operative desire to announce the satisfactory tional Service
Llandudno describe the kind of deff which completion of the most important Committee if there was any teh-spent abroad. Those were
clear he would not support it in conscript's year of service to be when he drove home the follow- a bound to burn somebody', ¡ properly shifted then to spades,
pleased East, Its distinguishing much did that get Ret? Enetly task of his last year as Governor, deney to use the armed forces to main points put forward by the jing series of denials and state-hande prior to his departure. In this, it bolster up foreign adventuring. Army chiefs who take up sixtyments. He said that there was no characteristic generally is the same as the set at the other serins, His Excellency is to be To reinforce this Idea, he sug-per cent of the Forces' intake. The efficial tie-up between Britain and lack of fitting suits in the hands table four tricks, costing 700 disappointed. There is, indeed, no gested cutting the length of con-Chiefs of the Navy and R.A.F. America ilkely to operate against of either partnership. Because points, so that the hand was down to twelve posed other difficulties about the Russia; that the Government is of that fact, neither aide cuntled by the two teams. South real indication as to when the script service
against find no apparently good euit for gut only four tricks at 2-Spades virtual impossibility of training not contempinting wor detailed scheme will be returned month
The Defence Committee fasten. in one year conscripts to under- any particular country; that the its trump. Add to that the the spade A and K, of 1rom London carrying the ap-
heaven. take the highly specialised techni. Government is not contemplating additional feature that the re-clubs and 10 of diamonds, due tel
thls on proval and endorsement of the Co-
sent way Gut of the predicacion branches. The defence Com- an indefinite lonial Office, and the expectation
mutter all the player's long to the vagaries of the play that that it would he possible to hold thrown
ponente band, and punishment out are all stacked in one op developed, is guaranteed to anybody who the first elections in the earl autumn may not now be realised.
Winds up as the declarer, Much preparatory work in Hong Kong will be required, principal
So, at the moment, honours are among it being the completion of
even with the Government held. the registers of voters in the dif
ing a slight advantage because None ferent wards or districts. Some in-
everybody now knows its pledged HAQ 76 lication that the Colonial Office
policy and the Interim perlod be- may, soon, make up its mind is
New York, May 15, nationalised. However, they say tore the Commons can get down perhaps to be found in the state-
Britain's Conservative Party they have no intention of restor- to tackling the subject in earnest, ment in Parliament yesterday an under the leadership of former ing the Bank of England or the will probably bring additional nouncing the broad outline of the premier Winston Churchill has cal industry to private enterprise support from those who have all Constitution for the Legislative | made a surprising move which and add this provocative fore-alung been
about the effects of the military Council of Singapore. Such a body looks very much like, n swing to cast:
"We wish to substitute for the service peried in disturbing the is, of course, new to Singapore, the left-a small swing to be sure and is required by the creation of but still a swing-in competition present paralysis....a system of career preparation of the nation's
with the Socialist government's free enterprise, which is en terms young men. the Malayan Union which sets up
programine.
with authority, and which recan- Singapore as an entity separated
The Conservatives, have issued cites the need for central direction from Kuala Lumpur, except insos a booklet pledging themselves to with the
as
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ment. I this sop could be mittee saw no insuperable obsta. up the Crossmanites teles in any of these points and was
Tories Swing To The Left
uncouragement of in-
far as the Governor-General exer- work for the restoration of of “o dividual effort."”
of freedom" measure rises prerogatives over the heads wide
100 Years
tu
Whatever else one may think of
of the Governor of Singapore and some industries which have been this declaration It Is of course a the Governor of Malaya. The points of key interest in the Sin- gapore plan are (a) that the com- munal basis of elections has beent rejected and (5) that of nine elected Unofficials, six are to be chosen by popular ballot, and three by the Chamber of Commerce. Over and above these, the Guver-
Ago Today Convives
reduction in our
Armed Force; that the Nuticnal Services Bill is not the inevitable
forerunner of industrial conscrip. flon: and that the Government is still basing its policy en support. ing the United Nations Organisa. tion.
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NARVIK TRAITOR SENTENCED
Oslo May '15.
han
bid for a return to power in
tho next general election which nor. mally will be three years hance.)
The idea of the "need for cen-
there ever was one. The ques- tral direction" naturally catches
Leeds, England, May 14. tion of which side took the the eye and the Conservative
The court which yesterday burning was decided by what London "Daily Express" says the Conservatives are making on clc. reiccted a confession of murder amounted practically to an in-
You would never Colonel Konrad Bondło, mentary blunder in trying to fight made from the stand by a de- tangible. (Excerpts from the nies of the under socialist banner. The "Dally fence witness, Denis Wood, 19- guess, if you were kibitzing known to the Norwegians as
Telegraph" also says the Conser-year-old soldier, today declared Weat, that the suit he selected the "traitor of Narvik," nor has the power to nominate "China Mall," May 16, 1847).
are doing what the Wood Insane
for overcalling with his freak, been sentenced to life, Imprison- four additional Unofficial mem PROCLAMATION--Ke, Gover. valives
Wood startled the court on would have such an influence. ment by a Norwegian military bers, the object being to secure nor-General of Kwang-lung; &c. Sreialists are trying to do, only
Monday by announcing from But that is just what develop court following a conviction on adequate representation of all in-and. Won, superintendant of cus doing it better than the latter.
While this move is surprising the witness stand that he, and ed.
charges of collaborating with not terests, result which obviously toma, hereby lasue a perspicuous it is not at all logical.
defendant Eric Briggs, Whero West selected hearts the enemy.
murder for for his overcall, the bidding Sundio was in command of would not necessarily he achieved proclamation
"Whereas the sinuggling of nar The Conservatives are trimming committed
wind whose direc. which Briggs was on trial. not only got too high far. South the Norwegian forces in tho by popular ballot. It will not fail tive Cassia for an uninterrupted their salls to
The court threw out Wood's to robid, but also appropriated] vichity of the Arctle pört de to be noted in Hong Kong that course of years having occasion- tion was clearly evident in the Singapure, starting with an en-ed a void in the national duties, lost general election when many confession and found Briggs the sult he would have called. Narvik when the Germans In- for the So guilty of murdering his wife. So East and West were stuck vaded Norway on April, 1940. tirely clean slate, is conceded a 7, the superintendant of customs, their party voted
He was accused of surrender- Briggs was sentenced to be with it, and went down four cialist ticket. substantial Unofficial majority, in conjunction with the former
England has been moving cau hanged.
tricks doubled-coat 700 points. ing. to the invaders and dia- Wood was ordered to be de- West, of course, might have regarding orders from the Gan- 13 to 9, while the Legislative Governor-General, therefore seme Council plan envisaged by the time ago especially instituted par- tiously but steadily toward mo- Governor of Hong Kong provides mits in order to cut off smug. derate socialiam for many years. tained during His Majesty's saved most of that by shifting eral Staff to fight to the end
to 4-1carta,
Associated Press. for seven Officials and eight Ungling and facilitate examinations. She had striking evidence of this pleasure.-United Press.
"From that time forward that as far back as 1924 when the inte officials. The underlying objective the officer, Tecay.wel.chuen, un! Ramsay MacDonald here has never been quite clear. derstood the business, good effects: first Labour Government which slight employed the terms "labour" and Such a constitution would, of showed themselves in n
"socialist" as synonymous, Just course, preserve to the Governor | degree.
us is done today,
That the socialist victory which overwhelmed the great Churchill
the privilege of a casting vote Could it thon have been sup. which could be decisive, but as the posed that the merchants would! present rumorous accusations:
ment.
hended the
right of veto remains to His-Exagainst him, alleging that he modo two years ago was no flash in the | cellency, the precaution, if such it
pan has been demonstrated in all clandestino exactions, epposed by.clections since then to replace is, surely in needless. The Singa- obstruction of the trade, &c., &c. individual members of Parlia pore plan has decided merits by &c.7" comparison. The substance as well as the shadow of Unofficial con From the Pekin: Gazette="Tih-| The Socialinis have not lost a trol of legislative decisions is pro
tsun, Kang-tub and Hwuy.tsin single seat-a circumstance which Generalis taken by political experts in Wang, members of the vided, and as there, is a fairly
Council were invited to an au Britain, as indicating that the close resemblance between Hong dlence. The proiect of Shuntien general public still is determined Kong and Singapore,, politically, teo (Pekin), memorialized stating to give the new government the reason for less favourable that mow and fallen to the depth chance to show what it can do response to this Colony's urge-to-of more than two inches.
All this being so, it is clear that wards a more democratic adminis "Tomorrow on transacting whatever party wins in the next trative system is not immediately business after breakfast, the Em- general election it will do so on. apparent. It may be, of course, perer will wait upon the Empress, a broad progressive platform.
The racas, things now, stand that we have blamed the Colonial | Dowager."
again will be between two infor Office unduly, and that the delay
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