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THE CHINA MAIL, MON DAY, JANUARY 19, 1948.
Who Will Succeed Stalin? The Flag Is Not
poker has begun. The audience humour (like
&
schoolmaster in 193 mitions. The gamblers racking jokes about the cane are five. Stalo lds the rule to a classinon of uneasy boys). Some wish e would prefer Sixty-nine, mentally fatigued, playing his beloved pinno or physically troubled, Russia's rending his inevitable detective
plays it.
Konice
Is In the way he two, red-headed. his
hard waggles excitedly as he
A Mere Rag
Rager
Victor Lewis describes the five men from among The danger
whom Stalin's likely to be chosen. The great game of Russinplays rutheasty but with a grim He holds three good cards. Į spreads his cards. He does nut However the anti-nationalists send a party to investigate the
He is the "Himmler" of the So- seem
1123 enthusiastic player,niny scream that a flag is mere-ship's papers-among them the viet, the O.G.P.U. (secret this left-handed general who ad- ly a rag.. no sailor will agree registration certificate. police) boss. De is the beatmires London's fre brigades, with them.
If the ship has run up a flag hutes penells and the smell of} For, unless # ship how the to which she isn't entitled-gay flowers. He has a poor hand right to run a Baự tổ her maat- A Ruritanias ship ran
up the bor many of the vast audience head alte is better off than Red Damer-she would be "for urge him on.
pirate and is, in fact, classifed | tt.” a strong card is the Army.
as a "hull". (probably the strongest in the It was because Patama with- pork).
dicator is wateling his country stories,
in his
(a
As the
The Privateer
of
It is solidly behind drew the registration from the No question of Letters Wenker cardr. but ones illegal Jewish emigrant ships Marque apply to the two ships which could become strong, ore | Pau York and Pan Crescent just boarded: that imponing- bis une-me chairmanship of that the Royal Navy could sounding document was & com the State Bank (though he had beard them in the open
urly
prepare for the day when Stalln This son of a cab driver, who is but a name in the hiatry does fifteen minutes physlem houts. Behind the "Iron Cur- jerks every morning falute poker-like scheming, Kremin that and rarely misses buffing, challenging and subgle his daily game of gorndiki ending have been going on for evops between skitles and shuf months. Only new hat it be fleboard), its heavily at the, come possible to piece together, tolle sipping his favourite dew- something ke u running com- berry cordial, mentary on
the play and the Zhdanov, 11 verbal sawili: players
holds four good cards--and a Scated on one side of the red bad one. He has the Party Jauze table is the world's best-end. He has denitised 1 knowai "No" nVyacheslav Stalin and is reckoned as being Molotov. Ife is the only contes: groomed for the part, tant for Stalin's Russian boots of gloriems defender of Stalingrad whom the world knows very the people would be with him much. Christened Skriabin As seeretary of the Leningead, this assumed fame means "The Parly he has a powerful organi. Hana, there is no sign in aution behind him. His burli Ons grim tyle man as he hattcards Finland. He persunited) dien in cards 40-day of the Statin that the Finns youth:ful stammer which threat-] maily crack. That en ban him from polities. bimught fa disgrace.
enemies do not forget. Social Engineer
Aerg the table sits the hard H play is methodical, accu-|
48-year-old Georgian, Laventri, educated rate; prim. Fifty-seven years, Berin,
sartorially of exile, have left their mark on any of the Kremlin, Bleving atomic setup. His dangerous Worst of them. He is young Issues to the ship this man who is the "Wickedith b neck-tie as he watches Uncle" of international pohties, the players through brady ever lart the much-loved "Unele Mikil tambe pee seg. of chiltre-faerd man, whore
Na stences, two period
hate th
אווידין
of sentes parbet
wed) nearly
Hi
funny
The
WILE
in Eussin. The Job war to see Stalin's sched inginer which made him a dry properly carried 2 indifferent hand.
ing ki enthusiast am a dashing dennis player is rigidly control Is this one-time mechanical a sacial engineer, who berame
newer, play: for the Kremlin stakers.
Molotoy missar rankings
I
tu
As
one.
"Barni" to his Com-
wife and director of Russia's cosme. Trust heilds Live strong His attitude to the world Stalin's Foreign Minister, respect for him more than any other man, the fact that he has held Party pist for 17 years. anet the fact that he would have the support of at least two of the ole players.
On Molatov's left is Pin favorite," the plump, perfum- est Andrei Zhdanov, who early Stalin's hitched his wagon to star and has since played follow- that he my-lenter so exnelly
apes his master's mannerisms and dress and has grown Stalin-like moustache, Zhdanov
"Sunday Herald"
Photographic Competition
ARE YOU A JUDGE OF PICTURES ? HOW SOUND IS YOUR JUDGMENT?
A selection of the outslanding entries in the "Sunday Herald" Photographle Competition, including all the Section Prize winners, already awarded by a Board of Judges composed of Mr. K. A. Watson, Mr. Francis Wu, Mr. J. C. M. Grenham and Mr. R. A. Bairs, all prominent members of the I.K. Photographic Society, will be exhibit- ed at Francis Wa's Studio in the Gloucester Arcade, from Wednesday of this week.
The main purpose of this Exhibition is to permit the selection of the three
GRAND PRIZES OF $250
$100 $ 50
by popular choice. These prizes will be awarded according to merit, decided by the totals of vates recorded in favour of each or any pleture on the appended form.
MATCH YOUR SKILL AGAINST THE EXPERTS AND YOU MAY WIN $100
To stimulate interest In the selection, A Special Voter's Prize of $100 will be Awarded,
It wit be won by the VOTER whose list of what he considers the TEN BEST PICTURES IN THE EXHIBITION is nearest IN ORDER to the general public choice.
Thus if the final count reveals, say, 345 voles in favour of Picture No. 6, 298 in favour of Picture No. 2, 292 for No. 19, 251 for No. 28, with Nos. 23, 14, 4. 25, 17. 9, following in that order, and your entry form follows that sequence of merit, or more closely than does any other entrant, YOU WILL BE AWARDED $100.
All that is required is that you study the pictures in Exhibition, select what YOU consider to be the ten best in order of merit, and fill in the appended form:
THE TEN BEST PICTURES IN MY OPINION ARE:
1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th
8th
9th
10th
PICTURE NO:
Name
Address
Entries should be submitted to the "Sunday 'Herald" marked "Vote" in the top left hand corner, not later than Saturday, January 31, 1948. In the case of any dis- pute,. the decision of the Editor will be final.
ZHDANOV
Stalin, 7:21 around
Bogor Russia's
nen mission from a Government to a
no personal bank account at the waiting until they had entered private vessel mutharising her time), his Lord Mayorship of the three-mile limill oft th to function as a warship. Moscow and his knowledge of Palestine cond.
Such a warship was called a Au heavy industry,
В French. Spanish, privateer; and privateering was The last bidder is the large, Peruvian or Swiss man-d' war outlawed among the advanced Georgi Malenkov. The would also have had an equal nations In 1856, and among al- hefty, pallid Savonarola of Con right to bourd them; for a ship most of nations at The Ingue munism, who thunders against without A1 fing is Table la Convention in 1907. anything corrupt, is 46, has two seizure by any warship under The laiva obinining between chio and unruly black hair. international law.
ships of various nationalities His hand does not look good.
very precisely as much na the But played by this fourless
Any ship
lawn of the countries whose crite of his own colleagues it
must be under the protection of flags they fly. Consequently, a be dangerous very dad.
some State-even if the State Britsh sailor taking service in has to seaboard! The ship is (say) a Panamanian ship İçe
one regarded as a piver of the terri
flying the Panamanian tory of that State whose flag fing) is not entitled to the same she flies.
rights and privileges which The members othe
ship's would automatically be his in a
British ship.
That
Can
gerous, He
The Passport
on the high
Scan
not
a brilliant backstairs intriguer. As deputy Premier he is in effert Stalin's stand-in. its job for years has been to keep an eye on the Party men company are bound by the laws He b the
the best am the of the State, and the Chip knows
2100d TE, he State) certiftente necessarily get the same insur- eards are the hatred with which and fearless.
He has Stalin's of registration which is, to all : coverage, would not auto- he is regarded, and his feling Car and Molotov's respect,
There are the players, The
intents and purposes, the ship's maticnlly have the same lond- entity with Zhdanov,
ine Himitation of his passport. -game may be a long ones Left-Handed General
but he would still If that registration fure it end one or two others drawn the ship is actually ut inherent national rights, that is, The fourth player is Nikolai may try to sit in. alganin, the factory clerk whe one of the five may try to deal to buy food or fuel she will not f
And at Jean lawed. If she goes into a porte could go to the British con- me to be the Army chief. Fifty-off the bottom of the pack.
A JERUSALEM "BUS"
With more and more fighting between drabs and Jesus every day, the protection of people on their way to and from work has become an acute problem in Jerusalem. For fews rigged up an armoured lorry with a steel-plated "higeon house? at the back. The risters have taken little notice of the Palestine Police armoured cars which have bien envoying workers and there have bera (Photo)
asualties on both sides.
CHILDREN AND MARRIAGE
London, Jan. 17. The Church of England Is expected today to line up with the Roman Catholic Church and attack the House Lords ruling that sex relations between hus- band -and wife aro not necessarily for the solo purpose of having children, The Bishop af London told the influential "Church Times" that the bishops will discuss the ruling
this month.
The Lords ruling when it refused an annul- ment of a man who com- plained lls marriago Was
came
never consummated because his
wie used contracep- tives.--United Press,
Channel Tunnel
Paris, Jan. 17. Anglo-French talks opened today on the possibility of a bombproof tunnel under the Fuglsh Channel linking France and Britain by autó and rail.
Need For Revival Of
Religion
He-
is with-
safety; Ress his
were in trouble And passage home. A ship possessing British 10- gistration must be owned by a British company or individual. It is not sex with all other coun. tries, some of which will grant. the g of their An to any
be allowed to leave. if she ask for a mails, any warship suspicious of her has the right first to run up a blank her own flag and fire shot. This is the signal requir ing the other vessel to run her own flag to her masthead.
If the vessel dors in fact run other owner willing to pay the
up a flag, one of two things given fee
which also varica
will happen;
sa) the man-o-front ship to ship and war will be satisfed and sheer dry to country). off: (b) the man o'-war will
continue to
be suspicious and
from
GUY RAMSEY
Yap Devastated By Tidal Waves
(By Douglas Lovelace.)
Pearl Harbour, Jan. 17. Yap, tiny American outpost in the Western Pacific, was devastated on Friday by a giant sea wave which destroyed most of the buildings and foodstuffs that had survived five typhoons since. November. •
The U.S. Navy, in a brief report from the island, said there were no known casualties among the population of 3,000 which includes 56 American Navy personnel and a half dozen American familics. All reached high ground.
Naval authorities
ascribed
great wave to 108 miles an hour "Typhoon which bad desolated 1hr
ilout just 48 hours earlier, Word of Yap's plight came in a short emer gency radio messaste frun the Naval Administrator,
Commander R. W. Kenney, which said the lisaster w appalling and ended: "Urgency of the situation cantot be comphasised
strongly."
98
fle estimated the native population would need fond relief for at least
The new disaster canseil appalling destructin ajul left more than 85 popriation homeless, the U.S. Navy report said.
Igor Sikorsky, one of America's demaning sets such as the extermina-six months, nuts anding aeronautical scientists,tion of several lundred thousand advances the view in his new book Jews in one country or several mil "The Invisible Encounter" that
lion peasants in another unless the percent of the island's vances of science mean nothing to whale foundation af materialism is
mankind unless religious idealism is tejected and endemned. Such revived throughout the world and terminations, he asserts, have been science is employed by "the spiritual carried our in a highly scientific ly living."
way."
ex-
Food Ruined
Generals Get U.S.
Medals
ان
The following is the corrected Reuter versi
the story which appeared on Page 11 westerday:
London, Jan, 17.
generals have re- permission to
The island's Commander also said Six British that the typhoon previously had deceived the King's trayed all food on the island excepwear decorating conferred upan for taro roots, and these were spoil than by the President of the ed by matt water.
States in recognition of distinguished services to the cause of the Allies.
United thir
To this bank, a slender volume of It is Sikorsky's opinion that "a most philosophy, the Russian-born Sikorsky fatal Satanic forgery stands behind who in 1914 designed and built the the supreme temptation which a large world's first four cagined bombers part of mankind is now ready to ac Among other damage, buds were for the Imperial Russian Army, tras cept," and adds: "The Godless man blown from 60 per cent of the coconut chim to say:
canna develop into a superman. He trees. may only develop into a superbeast The Commander's report said the Three generals will in future "It can be wated definitely that and as such he will inevitably ex- wave of water struck on the
have the right to wear the Unli- mankind, bring controlled and direct-terminate himself."
const with greatest intensity and that ed States Distinguished Service
Medal They are: families there last nearly all their | possessions.
[
ed by spiritually unconscious spiritualir dead men, would be in
he position of a rushing airliner with
•Defects
West
Virtually all livestock was killed which the natives depend, for
fuud
na unconscious or dend crew in the-It-Is-not-his--opinion-that-earthly and most of the vegetable-growth-on control cabin. Such leadership can.
organised religion is without defects, not create responsible and stable form for the existence of human fessed to believe
and he insists that many, who pro- were destroyed.~Associated Press.
in fundamental ociety,"
commandments of the Christian and Sikorsky, son of a Professor ní ather great religion, ignared them,
But of
then- Psychology at the University of
these
commandmen $1. Vladimir in Kiev, the Ukraine, cam
selves, he says: "They were accept- ઈ
trình
Disaster
General Sir Miles Christopher Dempsey, who at the age of 47 commanded the British Second Army in France and Germany; Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick Edgeworth Morgan, who to:ka prominent part in the prepara- tions for D-Day, and Major- Tokyo, Jan. 18.
do |General Sir Francis Wilfred Eleven shermen are known Gunngand, wartime Chief to Fiel to be dead and 120 aro still Marsial Lor MAGHRum - Ky, was, missing following severe storms Service Medal is a high American The American Distinguished off Kyushu which buffeted a military award writes, "Ashing fleet of 91 vessels.
normally given politieni
to
outside the anyone the Twenty vessela
their American forces and
although that wnived crews are still missing in the rule has been
several +umes Tuesday, say the latest reports,
In both the First and
A total of 229 scamen
Three other generals have re- have ceived the King's permission to been rescued from 6B craft wear the American Legion of Commander) which returned to port-most of Merit (degree cf them badly damaged. Eight conferred on them by the Pre
vident they are: fishing boats were nunk.
The loss is eatinmted at 13,chie,
General Bir Nell Methuen Rit- Commander-in-Chief of the
not
To the United States more than 25ed as rupreme goodness and years ago and since has become ant- and their guiding influence
to American aviation circles for therefore, immense."
Today, Sikorsky his ability to forecast future develope
tils Hying boats
of intellectual and pioneered
leaders passenger routes across the Atlantic
of mankind all over ml Pacific Oceans and later he be-world either openly declare or take
for granted that the fundamental | high reag which began last Second World Wars. The project calls for a tube America's firm helicopter buil-ideas of Christ are wrong and din
about 28 miles long from Cap! Griz Nez to Folkestone, It would Be under an average of 50 feet of earth and from 16 to 220 feet of water.
'uents,
der.
Contrast
ber
the opposite ones are right and should be fallowed.
He concludes that religion h now
much alive as it ever was and In his book, just published by that it has not failed mankind;
Scribners, the aviation expert recalls rather, "It
with
is mankind which The Idea of a Channel tunnel at injustice, wars and visitence al- abandoning religion and which wil is a century old but is being dis-ways have existed, but that "the fte-bear the tragic consequences of this000,000 Yen, Associated Press. British For East Land Forces and cussed now with atomic warfare quency and intensity of disturbances desertion." in mind. Experts believe auch a were always counteracted by e-
inta present concerns ink tunnel would be immune from ligious idealism which inspired hun insignificance when compared
In the eternal value of the human per bombs exploded
ue and mercy." He notes that, on contrnat, power based on "the forec sonality
potential child of above the surface and pro-se regimented masses and limited by which is destined to triumpli bably
to those exploded nothing" today oven
I steadily gaining ∙life, pain and death," Sikorsky en under water.
predominance
„phasized, adding that this is the 01 everywhere. He contends that people must tething that matters and "No one can
no ground for eriiching or
atomic
or
Got
All 13'
aver
The cost is estimated at about cognise and understand that there is take this sublime meaning of life £50,000,000,-Associated Press.
con- away from us.”—Associated Press.
at one time Commander of the British. Eighth Army in Libya agamat German Gineral Hom- Berlin, Jan. 17. mel; Lieutenant-Gentral Richard равлендета were Nelson Gale, lender of the British Normandy, drowned when an Elbo River airborne troop it ferry capsized this afternoon, and Lieutenant-General Sif, Brian near Magdeburg in the Russlan Gwynne Horrecks, who was one Corga of Lord Montgomery's one of Germany, it was learn Commanders in France in 1944. ed here tonight-Router.
-Reuter.