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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JUNE 23, 1947. T
THE PASSING OF
AN EMPEROR
London, June 16,
Within, few weeks, as soon
Indeed us the necessary legisla
By W. N. EWER ·
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work of constitution making in complete: or it can be perman-
Teat though this may be un-
tion can be passed, Khyr George ly Muslim provinces (or in the likely. All that is à matter for VI will cease to be "Emperor case of Bengal and the Punjab Indian decision. The point as
the of India"..
members for the pre.I have anid, is that it provides Muslim districts) a transition system which will The change la mutte by the dominantly 11.K.$72.00
King himself, by the British will decide whether they wish to make the whole process not only
(one hopes) entirely peaceful | Government and British Parlta- juln in a single constituent as
con- inent, with the ensembly for all India, or to set but entirely legal and
up an assembly of their own:stitutional. That "rule of law": proval of the Governmeals "S
· MADAR, -On Thursday, June 12, all the Dominions,
whether in effect they wish for 10 which both British and In- 1947, at her residener, 70/3,
unity or partion. There is no dinstaloh so great valun, will It is a bogiend 'Tuin. Rond, Shinghal,
ami inevitable Qualt that they will choose par heuréklin The great change Surah Mudar, aged 74 years, consentence or rather an rod-tition, Is that event the two as- taken placejnot only by consent widow of the late Mr. Omar al if symbilient part of the semblies will meet each en- and argement but "within the A. Mader, Puteral, services now agreed plan for the ending tirely independent of the other law." und interment will take place for the "Belish Enspire in In
wad the work of framing the at Hong Kong-
alla" and of the transfer of ull two enstitutions will begin.
This immediate grant of Do- EDWARDS, On Thursday, June power, authority naut respon
Butta facilitate and legniise minion status apart from any 12, 1947 at
other consideration makes im- Country | kbility to the people of Imita
the whole process-the moment
immediate change) Hospital, Shanghai, liery themselves. Ernest Edwards, aged
tint the two assemblies are inperative an For nut only is it probable al-being, they will
in the Royal title. The King' become not years," Chr dearly beloved!
hat only constitution-making bodles, exactly the same relation to will for whatever period) have met in a certainty that intsbund
Mrs AL. R will divide into two self-govem al sovereign parilaments of the the governments and peoples of Edwards 17! father บร Franels, Cecil, Camelotment Studes, it will become m Dominions of the British Com-
the new Duminions as to the pitival unit, Trut
monwealth: and they will by old. He will be King in Hindu- "geographical expression" whatever means they choose) at stab and in Pakistan precisely that the title “Rapero nť Jonce wet up responsible govern as he is King in Canada or in «lla" would have no meaning ments, to which all and every Australis. The title of Em- Even more important in the fact vestige of British authority will ONE WAY OF LIFE
now Like Mr. Roosevelt, who broke perbat, the au two Lodian states win in each case be a Governor-historical
at a rate for a cher at mee be transferred. There Pero, associated with a
dral systems, implying by CA Associationa agme Call mevious precedere: four years Hindustan Fir
Paki dan, will General representing the King measure of autocracy and in- japo President Truman took the be legally and constitutiondly. But as in the case of other perialism, passen. And for the oppustemity of a visit to Ottawa Donguitars of the Bobsle Com Dominions, he will be in no way first time in two thousand years
sel fra blen tes addies the joint Hose of the nuriwt alth
United there will be no ruler in a representative of the Canadian Parliament. The tient with that of Canda
or Kingdom Government; purely a world bearing either
representative of the Crown, tiles of Roman Caesars. savaites have obvious points of Australia.
They may at once, in full exacting "constitutionally", the difference. President Rourvelt's
treize of the Iron kata of choice | advice of the Dominion Minis. Citawar xit was a kind of dr
implies!
mvolund intors, corative climax to the gyrat strate Doman stálua" efect to leave! gic inter-Allied conterence which the Commonwealth and tr b. had ahrady taken place in Que ronne entrely onclegardent res bee. His survessat went in Ottawa prsblies. Tiny of ather of them plincipally upon lensiness of im may elect to vo tam toembers of mediate acein to bimelt and that from asesents on of uguns,
Durin
wond Deria.
that,
Unquestionable Legal Tilles
Ponstitutional
"Em-
Jones of inw.
Change "Within The Law"
This Dominion status
My
Just for months until the whole
Russian Member Dissatisfied
the of the
Title Never Popular
There will be little regret in Britain for the dropping of a title which was never popular, which always seemed to a large body of opinion here both flam hoyant and imperialist-and "foreign."
CARNIVAL
By Dick Turner -
COPA 1947 BY NTÀ BENVID
2-27
"The orchestra-leader's compliments, sir! He yields, to the soup, and would like to request (0) Buttermilk Sky'!"
The
Four Mayors Of Berlin
Berlin, June 20.
what his government orders. Past the guards at the gray Ench has la own' ideas for a stone building in Berlin is the German government. room of the big elrendar table,
Soldier-Diplomat Sitting there are the four mên. The big. somewhat partly Russian is bushily white-hair.
By JOHN B. MCDERMOTT
i
To the ruined city, to set as
Soviet milltary governor, the Union has sent one of its war- tine combat commanders, Ma- or General Alexander Kotikov, who want in action at Leningrad. The United States has followed suit with its hard-hitting leader of the 102nd "Ozark" Division. the straight-talking Major Gen- eral Frank A. Keating.
France sent General Jean Ganeval, perhaps the ablest diplomat of them all, Britain ned her career-soldier, Ma- jor General E. P. Narena..
These men will make or break Berlin. They write its laws they see fit. They censor the German central administration whenever they think it neces- disputes which the Germans CaBnot settle among themselves.
Je horts Dade, inner and The cho entity in thelenat only a few weeks; it may
North American defence. Yethui broadly speaking, the issues dis
11 was deviped in 1876 by the ed. Around the table from him used in the speeches of the swe
Rambayant and most im is a dark; square-jawed French- Presidents at nut so divetpent,
perialist of British premiers-man, ating balde an Ameri- ser can make strides tor
Benjamin Hornei. He thought can who smiles with a wide But the change from HK$180.- greater ferdam from SEAT
it necessary to impress the In- dion people to persuade them 250.-that the world has yet enjoyed. " to "Dauition" or 16 “Re-
that the King of England was Surly bananimous action in public" will be made by dov and
not inferior in status to the em- deiving ost the outlaws and keepThat has a partial as well as
perors of Germany and Russia. in the under heel for ever we
La theoretical ungorianer.
The
"It is," he said, "only by om- can attain a treedom from fear Teggal titles of the onvergy Gov-
plification of titles that you can show of teeth. The other in and violeove,” Those were the enments will be "umpirektionable;
often touch and satisfy the im-thin Englishman, long, imma- |Alords of M, Rossevelt, but they hand not alte to challenge
Tokyo, June #2.
Pagination of nations.“
culately dressed. or interna- The Russian member of Uite
Holding away amid fields of lunake a tai satmamary of M. 3. wither by donati
Allied Counell indivated dissutis- man's call for united action to tional law.
But there was strong opposi- rubble, these men are the rulers re establish conditions "wherein The chosen prpcess is in ea faction with the Japanese land tion-let by Gladstone. Thef of Berlin.
act creating the new title was Outside their stone building the casinon people of the earth eneo a simple one, though the| reform plan today.
only passed by a majority after called the Allied Kommanda en work on their salvation bys possible the elected
details are necessarily complex. {
Lt-Gen. Kuzina Derevyanko
stormy debute and the as- tura, the sunlight strikes neroas their own efloits."
asírd SCAP for information on the "provincial! merabera
durance that the new styla blocks of Jumbled debris, and how much land was purchased by would only apply to fidia. The warms the 8,500,000 inhabit June 1, 1947, and then queried:
Burvived war and the winters. "What are the reasons preventing perors" in Britain.
Military tralle moves across due implementation of the plan
The controversy died down, the four zones of the "quadri. and the measures taken to elimin- The new title came to be taken partite city, stores are ate these abstacles?" He asked as a matter of course. But it people move in the streets.
comprised the prefectural
has always seemed rather arti- land. committees which cleat with fetal, rather flamboyant. And condition, stili is one of the big Berlin, despite its purmeted it hus been detented by the new cities of the world, and these Tretian deirocracy. Now
It four men-military governor there always has been 'some vanishes by general approval: are in absolute command. and its vanishing is a symbol
Russian, American, English-saving factor. that, for the British people, the man, Frenchman--the four are After one debate, when the edge, creed which it symbolised-be as unalike as the mayors of tempers of all were on lief in the value of forcible do- New York, London, Paris and Kotikov seized his hat and minion over other people is a Moscow. Each is influenced by started to march stiffly from dead heresy.
what he personally believes or the conference room. Keating fabbed his riding crop Into the Russian general's mid-section,
Dying "c'est la guerre!"
The tension wan broken and 'all ambled. They parted friends.
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3-No Trumps. Then, South had doubled the 3.
not expect him to help.
At times more than a few of the Kommandantura discun-.
et to hang by a thread, and lots have been heated. Rein- tigos Letween the powers seem-
a break seemed inevitable. Yet
Russian Tactics
ir hom starvation. Meanwhile die (economic strain upon Canada her
selt of imports Frin het welthier neighbour has become severe. An- xiety in the. Daniion, however,
Agana, Guam, June 20, will hardly be acute so long as
T1 is two god.á half years sluce
Under the lund reform low all difficulties between the two
we bombed this island capital into each non-cultivating resident land.
unre lord inny keep about two and countries continue in he settled, destruction. Today it her
constructed symbol of the in Mr. Truman's words, by "ad
pra-half acres on Hanshu, Kyushu or blems we inherited with 120 is. Shikoku islands or about 10 seres justment, compromise and negotia- | kinds and atolls and 90,000 island in Hokkaido. Cultivating land. tions inspired by a spiru of mufliabitants we do not need. lords may keep about seven and un tual respect and a desire for jus We think they need us, and it half acres om1 the first three live." Whatever results may ful is a hard battle to prove it to Islands or about
30 neres on low Mr. Marshall's promise of them.
Hokkaido. The Japanese, according to a fresh help to Europe, if only
Derevyanko who asserted that Europe will help itself, there can mihtary-government administra. the land reform law is "com. he no doubt of the willingness of runomy and put them to work tically sabotaged" apparently puts nutives in their plete" and that it has been "prus tor, needed the to make the growing sugar
and exporting lite faith in a recent statement economic path easier for the great phosphates and copra. We do not by a SCAP land reform specialist mation which lies north of that need the native sugar or much of that the Japanese Governincht is
-Keating draws-much-respect unfortified frontier of 4,000 miles, the coprn, and the phosphates are carrying out its land programme
from Kotikov and the Soviet On both sides of that horder it is still going onto Japanese ferais. "energeticuily.”—Associated Press.
after authorities because of his com- a habit of mind to behave as a
but record. The Rusalons like This is our biggest problem," good neighbour should.
him also because he never quib- the administrator said, "to try toi
Hearts, North became panicky blea. When he make a state- When Mr. Truman calls for at the natives into an economy
and decided he couldn't deliver a similar attitude even among where there is no market. We are
THERE IS nothing worse any share of the defensive ment he does it openly, frankly you can do in bridge than take strength. So he fled into the and get immediately, to the nations widely separated, there trying to find one, but handicrafts
some action which at once 4-Clubs. A moment's thought point, is no need to look about for the and sea shells are a limited field.“ Only now Is reconstruction
shifts your own side from a would have told him South did implied contrast, Growing inter-work beginning in the native vil-
Kotikov's tactics are differ- position of certainty to get a ference
ent: the Russian is a trained with the Goremments age of Aganu. The Navy, charged
good score to certainty of hav- and the economy of countries in with the responsibility
and skillful diplomat as well as Ing a good score made against South got into the class of a soldier. His talk has more eastern Europe has shown weil island of Guam itself while the
yol. Among acts which can bad bidders when, after North's of the timed phraseology of ugh what the "bad neigh military government handles the
have that result are business 4-Clubs takeout, he tried the 4-1 diplomacy. bour" bit can he and
what rest of the Mariana, Marshall, and
doubles of adverse contracts No Trumps. He should huve countries possess it. For. our Western Caroline Islands, is in-
Washington, June 22, which inform the declarer how considered North's second bid clined to put blame for any fur selves, Mr. Bevin stated in the ther delay on the natives, and kel, the Pennsylvania Repub. your holding is such that he utterly worthless and vold of The British general is the Ame- Representative John C. Kun- he aliquld play the hand. If as Indicating his hand was usually le paired, with Naren. House of Commons the British the natives blame "Uncle Sau.." view: "I do not care whether the
lican, was given a feminine re- may be able to profit from the any high staff, which is what rican's closest ally in the Kom- When the Americans caine biek ception recently Government tof
that would information given by a double, such bidding would mean if a mandatura argumenta, He another comto Guam after a shattering hom have. warmed the heart of any you should keep your silence fine player did it.
the tallest of them all, reserved, PENINSULA HOTEL LOBBY Tel: 58330 & 58081-Ex. 22 Conservative: what we want is quarters outside the ruins of the
try) is Communist, Socialist or bardment, they built new naval entertainer.
and accept the points already
shrewd in his commitments. Eight hundred girla told him available to you.
But the worst action by any | that the freely elected Govern town and later temporary quar- they loved him, and said he was
body was the business double
Of the four, the governor ment, shall be able to carry on its ters for natives, and set a corps the best Congressman in the
by West of the 4-No-Trumpa. with perhaps the best under- work, without
of planners to work outside inter-
on a new whole House of Representa
The heart was lea... East standing of the German people ference." This-is the same doc modern Agona. The completed tives. They sang songs to him.
played low and Jet South win it is Ganeval. Giving the impres trine enunciated in Ottawa by plans were presented to the na- Their leader, Miss Betty Wood,
with the K. Then South, be- sion of being a born diplomat, Mr. Traman: "We intend to
tive "advisory" teglstature.
kissed him, and they presented S K1097
cause of West's double, decided he has a complete knowledge of Spokesmen for the natives feel him with a radio phonograph
to consider West expected to parliamentary procedures, and support those who are deterine plans were too elaborate, and and a recording played the IQ mined
stop the run of clubs. So he he has. a. clever way of inject to govern themselves in that a recently-liberated people music"Let me call you sweet-D QJ their own way and who honour would better have a place to live heart"--with the whole 800 nd C J8GG
finessed the 10 on the second ing the French national view trick, ran the whole nuit, took point into all sauce: Often the right of others to do likewise." now, than a mudel city in the fu
mirers singing.
the two diamond 'tops to make when, the others get excited In That is one way of life, the unly turo.
Miss Wood said:
his doubled contract, and was the heat of debate, Ganeval re- Meantime, the US. Commercial think he belongs in the bachelor way of freedom and the only Co., a government arm, is trying class when he has 800 sweet-
delighted by the lucky drop of maina calm, level-headed, permanent way of international to develop a firm economic place hearts come down here to tell
the Q and J, which enabled hẩm peace. Of the other way of life for the islands, and the govern him how much they love him."
to get two extra tricks. If Repeatedly. Ganeval has -the police State, the conspiracy ment is passing out direct relief
(Denier North East-West West had not doubled." Southwarted his colleagues You and coup d'etat, the threat to a when needed.
Kunkel, 45-year-old bachelor vulnerablo.);
would have been set beyond can't take away National. So, weaker nation, the puppet gov-
per-adventure by any method he clallam (Nazism) from the Gar Rota, once a strong Japanese. from Harrisburg, aald he
North East South overwhelmed.
Weat was at all likely to adopt." mans like an old-fashioned ernment-re supposed we knew held laland, was wiped clean in
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If you were going to teach very strictly this nation for "We sent up seed and food to Councils of Republican Women Axis Powers. But as last week's hold them until the reed was provania which.comprises Kunkel's tent bidding by Mr. North, His how to recognize.psychic bids]
from three countien in Pennsyl Talk about bad and Inconelo a rather Inexperienced player many years to come." foreign affairs debate illustrated, dicing." the administratar said.
This is perhaps the strangoat the minds of many who rightly we are trying to get them to district. They had come to opening 3-Clubs call was atro- and protect himself against "city council" the world has denounced the Axis are now filled store stuff against hard times, Washington and Kunkel had claus enough, when his hand damage from them, what would every known, cortaluly unique with fresh forebodings, from an- They never heard of such
been their host at a luncheon was so useful if his partner be the first kind of situation in the history of a conquered other quarter.
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