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The world's
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That would be right with romantic couple
Princess war years, but it is thought un-aldo of the pubile which favours Elizabeth And Lieut. Philip likely that personal wishes would an uncompromising austerity, ex- Mountbatten-aro to bo content outweigh more practical con, pressing linelf against any unchus
this siderations.
fuss, Opposed to this conviction, with a qulot honeymoon in 24954
nt The Royal couple could alterna- though, is no small weight land of scarcity, with the prospect of a wedding trip abroad when the tively avail itself of the repeated-opinion which argues that an- nation in better off financially, s ly expressed hospitality of New other heiress to the throne wil Canada and South not be getting married for a long It in known that Kine GeorguZonland, VI has insisted upon the fullest Africa, or of one of soveral Am- tione, and therefore the pubile pa
ferican invitations. Here, too, how well as Princess Elizabeth economy, in the opending money, the use of materials and ever, the same kober, frugal ro-
server an unqualifiedly Royal facilities; and the employment of straints obviously apply.
wedding. Inbour. Anything less than that, It is authoritatively represented as the sovereign view, would he improper and unfair to u serinio
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MARRIAGE
WADE-ROBERTS. →→ On
Sep-ing and frequently querulons tember 18, 1947 at H.B.M. Con- public. sulate-General, Shanghai, before Prior to the recent imposition M. C. Gillett Eq.. Deputy of * ban on all foreign travel for Consul-General, Leslie Hesting pleasure, the queen-to-be and her Wade
at
·considèred spending Shanghai Steila lance of Denise Roberts of Hongkong.
COMPROMISE OR.
Postponement
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arrived at their
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The Reasoning
de.
The reasoning is like this: "Our lives are drab enough, and there's not much hope of improve ment soon, so just for once let's make a splash and try to forget our troubles."
To which is added by large num- bers wanting plenty of pomp and ceremony and a great public holl- day:
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In The South The choice will probably be a country house, in the usually more clement south of England which would be offered by friends of the Royal Family for as long the couple wished to remain in it.
official
comment has been feast part of their wedding tɔli- Imited to the absolute day abroad, possibly in Norway,claimer, "We haven't a clue a The biggest splash that could with the Princess" great-uncle. to where they will anand their be made over the wedding would King Hankan, but raports have it honeymoon and you may be asurabo no small in proportion that it ht King decided against - that any preparations are being would mean practically no dif- special dispensation for a manber |made very carefully and Conference the lives of the pro- Plain speaking is the order of of the Royal Family
fidentially in order to avoid na ple. Whether the wedding is A trip to one of the
British much
the the day among the Great Powers.
as possible an appalling lavish or austere, whether At last, the full extent and depth: 20minlang would possibly fall out publicity. The public may not Princess and Philip honeymoon
alde these restrictions, but 11
even know where Princess at home or go overseas, the pon- of the rifts between the nations would
be expensive. What is Elizabeth and Lieut. Mountbat-nle will get no more clothes or are becoming clear in the publi-more, although thrift is the prime ten are going until they have food or fuel, or anything else. B8) city of recent speeches. We have consideration, angiher factor, pre actually
d-let's do it in style."-Associated counting heavily 'stination."
Press. been long aware that fundamen-sumably
judgment, would be a desire tal differences exist throughout scrupulously to avoid any the whole structure of inter-pearance of partiality, nhy national relations; we have seen gestion, however dim, that
part of the Commanwenith conference after conference, on
Empire was bring favoured over the most vital issues, break up in another. despair of reconciling conflicting and inflexible views, We have As many regard it, thie would arched, with growing disquiet, be merely postponing the In- the spirit af alstruction, intuler-evitable, however, for it 13 gra-
that the couple There has been a quiet shift like Prime Minister Chang Chun ance and unwillingness to ro-erally assumes
il in the background with American and Foreign Minister Wang may will visit a distant part of. operate, which
the permeates
Commonwealth, most likely Austed opposition to Soviet Russia carry more weight these days in enuncils of the nations. We can train or New Zealand or both, renching a climax at the United China's foreign policy. see the United Nations Organi- next year. In so doing it would he Nations Assembly. It may mean All along they have advocated established the first break from the American Sino-Russian relations based 农门 sation, chief hope of our future following a custom
neighbourly friendship. It is pos- peace, falling intu disuse and im generations ago by Royal newly camp by an important member.
weds Recentrumour that Prin China's Foreign Minister Wang siule, of course, that in declar- in cess Elizabeth was planning 23 Shih-chich casually let it be known ing a kind of independence
the The future will not, any long-honeymoon voyage to Australia that Chine would not support the their policy toward Russia,
great American effort to avoid the big Chinese partly are reacting in the er, wait upon events; now and and New Zealand in the
from hattleship Vanguard. which
power veta in drafting a Japan recent blast of criticism later, we must decide, for
carried the Royal Family on the nurse peace treaty. He said China President Truman's fact finder, good or for evil, upon the shape historie trip to South Africa was all for the American propas. Lieut-General Albert C. Wed of things to come.
to bring to the peace' Are we to found no substantiation at Buck-al
con- meyer. resurrect the long-buried spirit of ingham Palace, whose spokesmen ference ali It nations who fought Such a reaction might haston
treat these reports and others against Japan, but China would rather than retard compromise and tolerance, or are absolute speculation" and "hop-insist that the Big Four, who did material help for Nauking. we to divide the world again into ful fishing."
most of the fighting, retain the such help does not esme, the
Chinese opposing camps, arming for an- It is no secret that yung veto power.
must find their other and perhaps final conflict? Philip would like to revisit Aus- This was not the first time he place among the powers and de- The issue is before us now, with tralia, where as a panular junior said this, but it can not be over-finitely do not want that to be be- all its stark and terrible possibili- officer in His Majesty's navy blocked that he said it again just tween Russian and American mill-
sa State Department spokes- stones. ties: there can be no further
inan professed to know nothing about what amounts to China old. ing with
Rurala on the veta Issue.
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CARNIVAL
By Dick Turner
WEATHER
BUREAU
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COPA. 1947 BY NER CERVICE, IND, T, M. RÈG, V. 6. PAF. OFF,
5.
6.
"I don't like your attitude, Mulcahy! You know I pro- dicted fair weather and you deliberately had your car washed this morning!"
Don Jaime Again Says No!
Spotlight on
World News
Sent By Team of
If you are among the many who are coming to South Afri- da, do not be afraid that snakes will be nestling in every ash tray or drawer.
They are now so scare that they are being bred on a ape- farm equipped Special Correspondents cal one-acro
serious split with a laboratory, sick-bay, and possibly
show the eggs among Spain's monarchists has lacubators to
this been averted by a gettogether how
A
to behave, From American
own
to
of Don Juan, Pretender to the farm it is hoped to secure, suf- Spanish Throne, and his elder fielent enakę serum to cure the
used. brother, Don Jaime, Pretender diseases against which it is Snake breeding is profitable to nothing.
The latter, who has been deaf and dumb since birth, re- and there has been a steady the rise in prices paid. For a put all claims nounced Throne on his marriage 11 adder you can get 78 6d, and (From However, to think that such years ago and included his is for a cobra up to 188. On Saturday, Nanking announc immediate factors alone dictate sue in this walver. But, in the Curi Watling, Cape Town)
of this month,
Fatted Calf Is A ed the return soon of Soviet Am- the apparent awing in Che second week
the along comes Don Jaime in ari bassador Apollon Petrov. He has policy is to under-estimate
neroplane from
Problem Rome, and
Респ
Moscow since
Chinese Concept
June, Chinese concept of their is a fresh renunciation on
enger
test to
France, anxious to placate their such spokenly that America will build "Is it that the Chinese e ticklish problems as Dairen and Japan back into a world power the Spaniards by nominating
BARCLAY ON BRIDGE By Shepard Barclay
"The Authority on Authoriffea"
could not pledge his unborn children in this way say the gossips. The new renunciation of Don Jalme puts paid to that. (From Cedric Salter, Estoril.)
They Go-They Come Back
A Supreme Court judge has boen arrested on a charge of destroying evidence on, black in his court. market' cases (From Richard Hughes, Tokio.)
Prayers For Return Of
evasion. The final decision must rest largely in the hands of the Soviet Union, which has been responsible for a policy of delay- ing every effort, blacking every proposal and sabotaging every at-
Pity Mrs. Nakamura. Sho when he was recalled without geographic and straterric tempt to arrive at reasonable
explanation at the time of Sino- In their view, friendly relations behalf of himself and his chil-won a live calf in a slogan con- agreement. Her policy of the
Rusion tension over the Sin-
with Russia. in the long run ar dren.
overcome the fodder formation, by pressure of all kinds,
kiang-Outer Mongolia border perhaps as necessary as friendly Why? Well, they tell you shortage. She has nowhere to trouble.
relations with America are vital that Franco, unable to come to keep it and cannot very well of an eastern European bloc,
to Mexico. bound to her side by chains of
(From the files of the "China
Ready To Resume Mail).
Even in the controlled Chinese any agreement with Don Juan, swallow it whole. The
So she offered it to the, Zoo political, social and financial "Sir-I wish much that anmeNews, Government organ
Nanking Central Daily Press, there is growing irritation planned to name one of the economy and kept there by the of your Satelligent readers would normally is among the first to air with Bloscow,
which at the state of China's relations sons of Don Jalmo as his heir which accepted it on conditions
and a growing and successor. In this, they that she pays for its board-re- force of her overwhelming take into serious consideration, proximity and power, has made it and favour the community with anti-Russian sentiment in China. tendency to blame it-and many say, he was helped by Jaime's sidence... Hundreds of lepers their opinions, as to whether :uoted "authoritative sources", as other things-on American in-wife, Dona Emanucia, from cecaped from Japan's 14 lepro- all too clear that the nucleus ofis for the weal or
saying Petrov's return would open | fluence, the way of J new rond to Sino-Russian co- ane camp is already in existence. this settlement that Chinese hre
In regard to Japan, all sections whom he is separated and who sariums at the end of the war. urged upon the Caudillo the Many live with their families, Mr. Hector McNeill, Minister borrowing money on House pra-eration and help dissolve dead- of the Chinese Prons are
issues.
claims of her eldest son, Al- others wander Abroad · unsus- at for an early peace, but not of interest from of State, in his address to the party at rates
This hints that China is willing China'a
pected, and a sharp increase in four
cost. They lear out fonso. to ten per cent per month.
fa numbers UNO General Assembly, made a
lo resuine dickering about
expected. forceful and eloquent appeal to same to us unknown reason for Sinkiang, and that Moscow is too. 19 a bulwark against Russia. To Royal Prince to succeed him, covered
Four hundred canes were ́dis- among soldiers re- Moscow, to drop her inflexible fretting rid of their property at It does not mean that overnight prevent that, the Chinese can be would have invoked the law to patriated from China and the and unyielding attitude on world anything they can obtain for it? problems. He warned that "Or is it that the Trude of the fron is going pro-Russian, far expected to valuu any help they say that a prospective father Philippines.
I. It does mean that Chinese can get-Associated Press. place has lately become so very bntabi: peace of the world will ucrative that they can afford t crumble and crash" with hideous pay out of profits" interest at the consequences if the policy of try rate of 120 per cent per annum, ing to force her own will upon at whleh rate I am told there now one deed at least recorded the world, is continued. It has in the Land Office. been said in somequarters, that "I think there ought to be an Mr. McNeill's speech can only equitable limit of interest fixed result in a further widening of on all loans secured by real pro. the gap. Surely the gap is so wide perty if recorded; on mere per
sonal security it should not be niready that only the plainest of interfered withYours. }'. I
that be quite the custom, whan the plain speaking can reach over to This is precisely one of the
of his blessed day of returning home the other side. The international subjects which calls for the in-
the for demobilisation brrives, to say au revoir rather than nir is so full of suspicion and terference of local legislature;
and we, apprehend that doubt, so thick with distrust and dinaper
If North had known positively good-bye. Many of the boys to correct an cvident opposite your partner's No Trump from the bidding that South had have acarcely left us before Canberra, Sept. 24. recrimination, that mild and abuse would be vern generally
unders it is in the sult he blil would have reasonable voices can no longer approved of. In this there wilt bid is not necessarily a liability Ave or more trumps, his choice they are back again-in elvillan] Ninety per cent of peo-
been emphatically attire. be no umeonstitutional meddling caller. If it is in the opponents the right action. But he didn't
in Germany are be heard.
with the established lows ufsult, your Inability
Ono R,T.O. at an important ple to: furnish know. He merely, reckoned thu Only a genuine willingness for England or with the courts of two leads of it for finesses, or to suit was "probably" that long. railway station was quickly praying for the return of compromise can save the situation law; while the uct itself would hein solidify the suit, is not im- After the diamond K, West, back after demobillaation to Hitler, Mr. John Ded- from further disastrous deteriora- display, a proper and becoming portant since your partner prob seeing the singleton, switched to take up work as 'a civil en-man, Australian Minis-
the ably will not lead that suit at his heart B, which South wongineer. tion. Compromise has been in regard for the welfare of
There seems Bttlo the very blood and bones of man fore have been a pose deal ir may be considered an asset, as which the A won, and then West ny south is so strong that, it construction,
Chinese inhabitants, who hereto all, in that event, your shortage with the 10. South led apade, doubt that the call of the sun-ter of Defence and Re- who re- kind from the first dawn of ritated and never benefitted by it is only through the shortage offered the club 2, which East Army regulations were not so cently returned from the civilised life. The whole life of | Hong Kong legislation.
that you have the length he likes got with the A. That made three strict about returning to Bri-International Trade talks any community, from the earliest
in your other suit or suits, tricks for the defence, and it was sain to be demobilised many! OFFICE.. COMMISSARIAT Palaeolithic family clan to the
impossible to keep East from get- Tenders will be received at this, great national clans of today, has Office until 12 o'clock en Wednes been ever increasingly a life of day for BILLS to be drawn by conscious or unconscious com- the Undersigned at 30 days' promise. Fersonal freedom must right on the Lords Commissioners
Her Majesty's Treasury, to SA73 of commomise with public safety, the extent of about TWELVE H agbition with opportunity, what THOUSAND POUNDS STER-DAK853 is desirable with what is possible. LING, in exchange for British CJ642 what is ideal with what is ex- Money, Rupees, or Mexican and
South American Dollars. pedient. So it must be with the Tenders.....lo express the rata nations, if the peoples of the per cent for Beltish money or the world are ever to live a civilised Sterling Rate at which encets of Compromise and the other Coins may be offered. life together. toleration, a willingness to allow (Sd). J. W. Smith, Assistant vulnerable).
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sous for itFirat, his trump cratic socialism to the Briton. peace. It must be our camest robally would furnish #trick These and matters of controversy prayor that those "responsible, in or two by ramar which could not and opinion, but whatever the all countries for widening the be scored at No Truraps. Second, considered it bad to leave. * Kaswer all sistema care.
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The League Pays Dividents
did the buildings, and
Speaking in a foreign affairs That is debate, he declared: because they are in utter despair. and misery.
been
~The old~League of Nations: "It is deplorable that so long
the end of the 'war' i may have been politically bank afler. Irupt but financially, It was a Europe no decision has yet been roaring buccess. Its assets made, as to the level of industry were recently transferred to to be permitted in Germany to UNO, and it appears that not build up her economy, only
believe that, to a very con. libraries of Geneva represent siderable extent, the fault lies a value of four million pounds, with "Russian
But steps could have but that cash and securities re- presented another ten million. taken to rehabilitate the 4-por- 'Nations" which stuck to the tions of Germany not under League to the very end but do] Boylet control, not belong to UNO are being "Until Germany is recon. offered a handsome refund constructed, you scannot get yabeads- responding to their members with Pathe it rehabilitation of ship ces paldigin, Switzer Europe and the United King land, for example, has been dom wil auffer Because of the offered över #ibundred thru- verroits of viollars, and thle and sand bounds In-U.3. dollars. other countries will be affectedei
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