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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1947.
"After he had served his own generation,
by the will of God he fell on sleep".
Yet
-THE EPITAPH BALDWIN CHOSE FOR HIMSELF
STANLEY BALDWIN
As it was, the thing was done
"White Race Doomed"
Sydney, Dec. 23, Archbishop Dublɛ of 84 Stephen's Roman Catholle Cathedral said today that If the House of Lords de- cision on marriages remains In effect the "white race is Coomed."
The Archbishop said the Lords decision handed down by Lord Jowitt that chit- dren were not the principle alm of marriage "completo- ty rejected 'Christ's teach- ing."
He said it came at'a lijne "when the 'coloured races are multiplying and threat- ening the future of the Em- pire.”—United Press.
in his day Baldwin | win, himself once an irca indux-|power on a Paclillat volo evou lowered among bis' contexipor" | trialist in „Woreèstershire, sincere? ¡eas would have been done t aries. He seemed to embody allly wished to avert. He wanted | prepare Britain for the coming the qualities and In his burly to see restored the old, paternal war. form portray even the physical | industrialism of his forebears. contours of England.
Once the strike had begun, the without sumelent vigour or His bluff manner, and measured man who had drifted inta Imagination—and · Dunkirk was tones, hla sober, rather old showed astonishing energy. His the result. The other result of fashlined clothes, his pipe, bis specches rallied the forces of 1938 was-1945. Mr. Churchil tolerance and courtesy and funda. order and calmed the nation, icat the election on the fallures mental decency were what his They reassured that "other na- for Mr. Baldwin before the war.. countrymen—and a large part of tion," too, the millions of work All this si iny in the wom the civilised world-like to think men who had struck simply in of time. Other things agitatti of us being essentially "English" sympathy with the inhers. The the British public. One was du
He encouraged this impression, strike was almost everywhere to elevate Baldwin to a pluméele Whether or not he ever write conducted with a moderation and almost as high in the hearts of Bhosz moving and majestic good temper which astonished the prople as the one from, which Speeches on English (some say the world. In ten days it was it cast down the principal acto Dr. Tom Jones did), Boldwin all over.
The Abdication effectively, and beautifully, pro- Baldwin was the hero of the
This was the nounced them in his slow, Bihor hour. He had prayed "Give_us]
Abdication. 11 Can tones.
Peace in our time, O Lord!" But came as a stuggering shock t
Europe. He wave TO warning. The doubt, perhaps, arose be-when he had the chance to bindinions, even including member He was out of the game now.
the Hause of cause the man who looked no up the wounds he went to steen of
Commons His lips were sealcd, as he had alodding and atendy-going was again,
known The snores of the Front Baldwin had long
teald in one of those bitter tussles une of the laziest characters in Bench reverberate throughout the circumstances which were lead здорори re-armament with Chur- public life. That he could have land," said Tory M.P. Moore ing to this nisa inevitable end written them is certain, for be| Brabazon, a remark which kept yet it seems he had laken was in scholar as well as an acute him out of Tory Government effective steps to deal with it.
Yet, again observer and lover of the English for the next 10 years.
when the crisis country scene and
English At the 1929 Gentral Election broke he rose to it, handled it language.
these sn.res, combined with the superbly. "I know how the Eng timid slogan "Safely First!" put lish prople will react to anything" the Government themselves out. Was one of the few blasts h It required another dose of Supermitted himself.
He knew how they would take clalism in office to bring them
disaster, Mr. Ram-ould not fartsee how they would
xcutan himself, But though he him for the generation belweerchitect of
take Dunkirk. He received the hy MacDonald himself.
uretended to the Inst that he did the wars, thai he
michtist cheer of all except theo mind what people said of means all-English,
Heroic Man
new King and Queen when he him, and feared only his own dr.ve in his carriage to the consetence. Baldwin was deeply him. There followed three years in Cormation.
which MacDonald went through It was his last and his greatest
wounded,
Perhaps in his heart the old the motions of being Fremler triumpl. Raised to the peerage man hoped that he who had while Baldwin, in fact, dictated as an earl, the man who had been twice risen from sinthful neglect them. In this period unemploy; so long "plain Mister Baldwin"
save to suprente action, to
the ment was gradually reduced and passed off the busy scene of poll State, would once agoin be Protection adopted as the national ties to his beloved Worcester accorded the chance "to serve his policy.
forms and markets,
generation."
the
Mystery Man
Is another part cf the enigma of "plan Mister Bald.
chil.
They remained so. When the disasters of Norway and France ald bare the weak- reeses of Britain's defences ungry and recriminatory voices 'de. yuced the man who had been Premier in the preparatory years ind "got out, just in time."
He never replied. He did not
win." as the British pubile knew back-in coalition with the chief | this blow all right. Odd, that he blame "the experts." He did not
was by
A powerful strale of Scots
d courard in Bichlom ble which helped him to understand Ramsay
MacDonald. He also hart enough of the Welsh in his Ivring to Rum-up-and Inv-off-
Lloyd George.
"I on a simplet n,” said Bald win. He was really a very, very sidille mart. He fought, and beal
most
10. cloud:d The years were in turn, Lloyd George, Beaver-creasingly by the rise f the brook, and Churchill. Here were menacing Nazi power In Ger three of the shrewdest and most rouny. More clearly thun formidable contenders in British contemporaries Baldwin rralised politics. They all underestimated the inevitable end. "Our frontier "Simple Stanicy," He meant is on the Rhine," he warned, them
politics
This was how he had arrived in power, the thing for which Boldwin, with all his protesta tions, lusted na vigorously us any other strious politician.
As a well-liked but little-known Tory supporter of the Lloyd George Condition Government, he
The shadows were claung in for the long night of terror aver
Frank Owen
Of China
Difficulties Aid To
British The Left in agreed. But they did little that was effective to support the only answer-reatmoment. This WHI the time when well-mcuning pra- cersions marching to Trafalgar square with banners "Down with Hitler!" bumped into other well"The danger to the Chinese Government, if it
meaning processions with ban. had graduated from being Finan- ers "Scholarships, not baltin. cial Secretary to the Secretaryships!"
Į
London, Dec. 23.
sacrifices its country's jealously preserved Sovereignty and the probable insistence by any foreign power on a strict supervision of further money and supplies, makes it "peculi- arly difficult for the Americans or anyone else to join in a 'Marshall Plan' for China,' the Liberal weekly Economist said today. The paper declared that "the battles and Government troops reproaches against President had had little success with their Chiang Kai-shek for his alleged mopping up operations. 'selling' of China to U.S. isen make it politically vory Two explanations have been cult for the American Government, offered, and perhaps there 15
the Board of Trade. Still holding The one politician with a plan that office, he had attended the to "down Hitler" with the only drumatic metting of the Tory thing Hitler understood was Mr. rebels at the Carlton
Club
In Churchill. He showed. In Ane 1922, when by a large majority massive speech after another, how The party resolved to quit the Hitler's power for mischief was Government and break up the outstripping every power for re Coalition.
*traint. But year after year Baldwin resisted his
pltus faster rearmament, denied figures.
It was Baldwin's speech which was decisive. It was for the re volt. He said he feared Lloyd George too much, for this man's' dynamic personality had already split
Liberal the
Porly might now shatter the Conserva tive Party.
Unknown Man
ค
few
for
It suggested that one of the appeals of Communism in China was that it had taken from the
and some truth in bath. (1) Baldw../however convinced it may be of Kuomintang some of its "old
The first reason may ba ~
the weed for polstering up the dionalist, anti-imperiallat thunder himself did not know the facts Chinesa Government, to justify to -- fact which makes it difcult he relied on "the experts" and Congress a large expenditure for for the Chinese Government to (2) He did not choose to draw China:"
accept foreign aid with atrings at. Within
the only valid conclusions, hours Lloyd
"Corruption and the malad-tached. George had left 10. Downing-
ministration of funda" made it streel, never to return. With The Menace dimcult to ensure that any assist "China would rather forego the him went such famous figures as
ance to Chinx will achieve the advantage to itself in a time of Winston Churchill, Lord Briken counted for by his innate laziness. enda for which it was intended. acute economic distress than to hend, Sir Austin Chamberlain. The second by his sense of what The article compared the situa- make a temporary retrocession on Baldwin, the unknown nid who was possible in politica. When, tien in China to the "cold war" recovered" national rights."-Hou- had slain the glant with all his later, be admitted shut if he bud between the Big Four Foreign ter. glary as the Man Who Won the gone all out on rearmament at Ministers and the recent "hot" War.
fur, became Chancellor nl the
the general election of 1935 he Exchequer in the new Tory Ga Iwould have lost It, he was' etti-
denined for his cynicism.
vernment,
He did nothing spectacular. What he meant perhaps was His settlement of the American | thut if Labour had
Dbl on too-onerous terms for us was disastrous; but it had not yel
caught up with him
when
Tory Premier, Bonar
signed en the
fulling health.
Law,
the
ro
grounds of his
A terrine hubbub arose in the hive 01 the politicians.
Who
should succeed as Prime Minik.
ter? The long adds work
George Nathaniel, Marquess Cur-
inte come
one with Hitler, and concluded that the Chinese eivil war was "topid".
The Communists were better af running away than at pitchatl
Fishermen's Ordeal
In Winter Seas
Prestwick, Dec. 23.
zon, a bet to which the noble All 12 survivors of the Fleetwood trawler Dhoon,
lord himself subscribed, He
took the train to London, to Add
that the King had sent for Bald- win. He had not even thought
wrecked on the Icelandic coast on Dec. 12. with the loss of three lives, were brought back to Prestwick Airport from Reykjavik in a specially chartered plane today.
of him. He wept. "Not even a public Ogure, a man of no ex-
They told their own story of Icelanders protected the surviv.r3 perience.
of the utmost in- the long ordeal when they were from further exposure by foxm significance
battered 30 hours by winter seas Ing a human ring to shelter them So, for the second time, some-ut the worst spot of the Icelandic from the sleet and rubbing their body had believed that Stanley coast before being hauled up ambs to maintain circulation. Baldwin was a simpleton.
sheer 150-metre "cliff' in a rope When daylight came, they were
farmera and cast-all rescued and taken to scattered It seemed, indeed, that perhaps chair by
farmhouses.--Reuler. he was when a few months later suorda
The Dhoon survived three tide he plunged the, country into 1
General Election on Tarif Reform and It was not until Saturday He lost it, and the first Socialist in the short Arctic daylight that Government come in under inc-fcclandic coastguards and farmers. Donald,
who had gathered on the cliff- Baldwin was bitterly reviled, top during the night, were able but he had heard that Licyd to make
with 'D the rescue George was on his way home breeches buoy, from the United States and going When attempt to get the
to stump the country your timen to the top of the cliff was Protection as the only method of frustrated as darkness fell and combating the slump. Baldwin jeven were stranded on the ledge himself was convinced of this The Teelanders stripped and ex- policy: Why let that "dynamic changed their clothing for the man" steal the Tories clothes?
soaking garments of the fisher- The Socialists did not last long.
part and soch Baldwin was back ar Prime Minister with majority. It cannot be said that he did very much with his power. His five-year rule was marked
by five notable events: • (1) 'The return to the Gold Standard, which placed the British export
All through the long night th
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directly prope stof in these Born and educated in events: (11.) a great debate in Cork, Mr. Hyllinger krafa for live the House of Commons on the Now TerkuBait Cykwa mad the Prayer Bock; (iv)) the steady Chicago Tribune Bradicale, later decline of British agriculture becoining columnist,
"(v.) the equilly Handy Udas cent of British, air: power to afth
and
In rank.
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PM ON CHINA
New York, Dec. 28. The newspaper PM, in a dis- putch from Washington, today interpreted Congressional deve- lopments regarding China as weaning that "despite the obvious of the State Depait- reluctance ment, the United States in being driven t:ward a policy of all-cui help to Chiang Kai-shelc.
"What han happened in the past two wrecks in that by an ex- traordinary pressure campaign on the part of a few Congressional Republicans, Marshalt is being forced into a China policy con- trary to his own recommenda- Uons and the advice of many China experts in his department "A shift in polley- Chlong Kai-shek's admirers have their way fully-means not only econo- mie help to the Nationalist Gov- ernment but also military help
in every phase needed to crush the Chinese Conununists."-Unit- ed Press.
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