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CURIOUS
THE CYPRIOTS HAVE A CARNIVAL
WORD FOR IT
By Alexander Clifford
Nicosia, Cyprus. Kyrenia he thunders out that are leaving Palestine, are we
If you want to start,n poli- | Britain's prime moral duty is toguing to turn Cyprus Into our teal uproar in Cyprus you only let the Cyprieta decile on their | Middle-Eastern base? have to drop the world enosis own nationality.
It is well placed to
be the into the conversation.
All other considerations are hub of the Eastern Mediter- ranean, it is roomy and fertile,
it has flat land for airfields, it
It acts like yeast. whips secondary, even defence of the n sleepy, dusty enfe--a Hom- | western. world against Com Bolen! place of tin tables and munisma. The principle of the is an island. It must certainly decrepit chairs and little thim- | Atlantic Charter mast come have been considered. blefuls of Turkish coffee-into fret
1 don't know what Mont seething Bedlam of gesticulat. The other school of thoughtgomery and his staff decided.. ing arms and raised voices. abrat enoria is represented by But I do know that, if they de- "anion," and to a the Left-Wing party, which ended in favour of Cyprus, they Cyprios unton means union with | wight call itself Communist if | have got away to a mighty slow
it were allowed to do so.
Gireece.
WIN
start..
They have wanted engaia for The party is teetering along Nothing is going on in the centuries and never bad it. gingerly on the edge of a very | island which would make any- When the first governor stepped | tricky – position, On the one one suspect that it is destined Ashore nearly a century ago he hand. union with Greece means met by the head of the union with the Greek Govern- Orthodox Church, who declar- ment, which it is constantly de- ed that Cyprus welcomed Bri-| mouneing reactionary and tish rule in the hope, that it was | Pascist,
with the first step to union
On the other hand.
anyone who apposes emosis gets na sup- Greece,
pri na all in Cyprus.
Greek Feelings
אן
So the Left-Wing party has adopted a fentative, half-way year fuge the position.
to be an imperial base. No great new airfields with under- ground hangars are being built. Nothing in being done to make Famagusta harbour is for war- ships,
No barracks or camps are be- j ing constructed for troops, no fortifications are being installed round the coasts,
Cypriot Surprise
COPR, 1947 BY MEA DERVICE, ING, T, M. REG, U. B. PAT, OFT.
By Dick Turner
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"No, no, Miss Montague! You register shock! Imagine yourself walking on the strest and no one comes up to you for your autograph!"
"Strange Spirit Of Recovery"
the Now that Kowloon City Paste and in repercussion have bern transferied to the highest diplomatic levels, the desired re Isult has been achieved in a notice
than
There are a few airfields left; table relaxation of tension, and it
heard of the Orthodox Church "Enosis remains our maxi- aver from a scare period of the is possible to look, with reasonable still the political mouth-piece mim domaud." its leaders tell recent war. bat only the athl confidence, for a rational solutions. of the peoples took a delegation you. **But since Britain has civilian plane uses them,
Hong Kong observers will it. Ito ask officially for russia. refused to grant costs we are However, have tadrid to site, with He was officially refused. asking for home rule-a sort of surprise, the curious reversal of
So today there is a good deal 1h minion status. We ask that the positions which it was expected puzzled litterness in the as the first step towards enosin,"
A camp is being constructed fed would be adigted in Nanking, | island. The great majority of The emosis sentiment really nt Dekhelia, but it is only for
It hasn't got nearly a# According to messages from the the population spink Greek and exists.
use during our evacuation of British au feel that they are Gereka. They much historical backing as the Palestine. Nothing else is hap- Chinese capital, the
Cypriots believe. And it mightponing at all. thorities are endeavunting to make want to be Greeks.
They are certainly as poli-disappear altogether under the
So the Cypriots have ruled! jseparate issues of the Kowloon
rallyedented as a good many impact of the lower standard of this strategic pensibility out of With one daily national news- { potential winter' crisis which riley rave4 who are gaining living which Greek rule would their minila. Many of them are paper front-paging their independence in different etdinly bring.
surprised: for they are passion- Success" column in every edi-Such parts of the globe.
That at the moment it trulyately interested in their mention a "spirit of recovery" is at most immediately after nation- geography and they think it a present enveloping Britain. alisution, would probably cause file strange that Britain 1s This strange "spirit of re- unutiveable despair if Britons not turning the island into an covery" was first noticeable were still feeling as they did imperial fortress.
shortly after the Royal Wed- earlier in the year. But the But since she isn't, why not ding in November but it is hard signs are that they will Now six? It is not that there is to say exactly when or where laugh and grumble their way any very strong anti-British it was first born. It is hased through such crisis-if it feeling.
on the slenderest factual found-] comes-without il-feeling, Everyone will tell you that
ations but, probably because An inevitable struggle which British rule has been neglectful and not despite the fact that it Britain faces is that of selling at the beginning and dictatorial is mainly psychological, it will her goods on world markets.
City business and the sacking and burning of the British Consulate General in Canton. The Chinese Foreign Office, on the other hand, is disposed to treat of them as one and to negotiate on that basis.
In common logic, the Chinese attitude is precisely that which it was considered certain that the British Ambassadur, representing Hang Keng, as well as wider Bri- tish interests, would adopt. The danger foreseen a possibility liere is that by correct behaviour in disposing of the Canton outrage, (and the circumstances are so pain- fully dear that the Chinese Gov Froment could hardly do otherwise than accept full responsibility "in accordance with the accepted principles of international law.") the Incident may swiftly be dealt with along lines entitling the Bri- tish Government to consider the matter closed, while leaving the Kowloon City issue wide and open. Chinese insistence upon treating both matters as part and parcel of the same fundamental issue is therefore, one which will cause Hittle cavil Jocally. Emotional at-
titudes can, it is tur, easily ob-1 scure the true principles which must guide all steps in internation allationships. But that is pre- cisely the poim. If the Kowloon City profilem is rationally dis- cussed, on the basis of treaty un-1 dertakings, legalistically, there can i be only one conclusion--that tie point of jurisdiction could never have arisen tu for malevolent in- spiration and riotous instigation for political ends, which rightly should be placed in the category of "the flogging of a dead horse," and that the entire responsibility fur events Kawloon City, as even more markedly in Canton, must rest on the shoulders of the Chinese political agitators behind i the scenes.
Why does Britain curtly į fexists. The majority of rudely and contemptumusly, the Cypriots do want to be Greek, Cypriots cunsiders suppress The Turkish minority wants to these just aspirations?
remain British.) And the people of Britain, Are we high-mindedly hang- too, have good
to being on to the island for the Cyprus does not pay good of the inhabitants? Are puzzled.
on paying its way, it is a burden (though we prepared to go
small one) on the British out our money to it simply be. taxpayer,
enuse we find it hard to give We do not appear to use it up territory?
-
"Talk experts J
are trying to avert. breakdown, coming ul-
for anything except as a dump is it part of some secret and at the end. But the detailed sey Britain through any further The probability is that suin- for illegal Jewish immigrants. neup-laid imperial defence criticisms are not really an very crises she may have to meet cient gonda will be produced to
It has no vital exports. I scheme?
horrifying. We have kept the and put her firmly on the real meet the export targets of 143 is too far away for tourism. It If you strolled round the place peaceful and relatively road to recovery.
percent of 1938 by mid-1948 is not a military base.
Tucers' shops in Nicosia you prosperous, and far fever in Record-iron and steel produc- and 161 per cent by the end of Why do de 80 dog-in-the- would fancy that we were not speech and thought and the tion, belter output of cotton the year.
only mying out mangerly hung on to it?
tc Press than many nominally yarn, commercial vehicles and The Cypriot demand for Cyprus but deliberately pam-dependent countrica.
passenger £3 13. textile transfer from British to Greek pering the place.
Greek Monarch
When the people pray in bis charches for their king. it is King Paul of Greece they are praying for, nat King tienrge of England.
in fact,
were
money
and
Prices Must Fall
It is hoped that the "control
It is not passionate hatred of agricultural machinery are the rale is catmised in two main
the British yoke that is inspir main visible reasons for hoping of engagements order" will sub- Foreign Luxuries
ing the enosis compalgn.
It is that the worst corner streams.
on the stantially and sufficiently im- The leader of one is the white-
a passionate. almost mystical, road in ricovery has been turn prove employment figures in the lagorded
Archbishop Why should Cypriots have as attachment to Grveve and the ind Unfortunately several w Makarics
ondermanned industries of Kyrenia. He is much British gin as they want idea of being Greek,
Things may still happen to make the chief of which are agricul- the Eibnarch, or leader of the at ten bch a bottle? Why in
And it is something which the whose outfit skid-and skid ture, coal. opte, aml his is an wompro- this sterling arma should there Britain cannot, with
textiles. inplate, clear Ladly AL
ster] Nicet, mising "anusia ter nothing" at-be unrationed Danish hams on cusclence, indefinitely ignore-
hosiery, textile Steel production, which was baishing and pottery.
But titude,
tinned sale. Dutch
saltanges.nless, of course, Montgomery raming at the all-time record prices of many. British goods American fountain-peus, and a leas the secret in his safe. rate of 14,300.000 tons annual must fall if sales abroad are Uuusanal and one other foreign
ly during the first half of De- to match home production. luxuries?
JEWS BUY ecriber, compared with the 1948 This can only be done by im- Why.
should it be
target of only 14,000,000 tons, proving production-methods and are on
PLANES
may slump again badly if sum-by using manpower more econo- foreign luxuries that
Jerusalem. Jan. 22. cient steel scrap is unobtainable micatty thah at present. No- sale, and not foreign necessi-i
A Jewish Agency spokesman
one is ver willing to predict thes?
1 dare say it all arids up to said that the Agency had bought
Disturbing Reports that this will, in fact, be done, When you go to see him in very little. If the extra luxuries used but serviceable Auster scout
but if it isn't done Britnici ramshackle
at of his
palace
Cyprus
distributed planes from British surplus for
Sir Stafford Cripps, when faces disaster. round the population of Britain training of Jewish pilots in com-
stil Minister of Economic Af- Britain SEEMA determined. the portions would be invisible, mercial aviation."
The spokesman said there are fair's, stated that Britain was with the indispensable help of But the chilly. rationed Bri-now about 50 Royal Air Force tish axpayer can still ask why trained Jewish pilots in Palestine. Cunting on 1,000,000 tons of the Commonwealth, to pull her- all from Ger-self up by her cwn shoe straps, he is being forced to keep the who
with the crap "almaxt unwilling Cypriots in such Agency spons-red Aviron Com many" to keep British steel but whether the recovery is to
mfort.
in training pilots and de-mills rouning at target level, he speedy or very long drawn- Since then there have been dis-out, must depend on whether Ultimately, the only valid veloping the air industry.
He also said negotintions ure turbing reports that the United) or not she receive: Marshall argument against enosia seems
proceeding for the purchase fram States authorities would try told later in the year. The Bri- to be the strategical one, Now the government of other surplus get as much German scrap as tish Government has until now that we have left Egypt and materials.-Associated Press.
possible for the United States maintained that it is not de industry. Since the United States pending on ald. Nevertheless, has now a controlling influence | publication of the Government's the economic affairs of own extimates of "what Britain Bizonia, the cutlook for British can achieve unnided in 1948" steel must be regarded as un- is Feing held up pending fur- certain.
ther clariscation of Marahall If steel production falls, with aid prospeets.-Router. it on the downward path musti
100 Years Ago
(From the files of the "China Mail")
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BARCLAY ON BRIDGE
By SHEPARD BARCLAY
"THE AUTHORITY ON AUTHORITIES"
TOP SOMETIMES BETTER
tre
Britain To Get Uranium
In this connection, it is inter- esting, if er particularly instruc- tive, to note that while so much fuss has been made through the subject of the recent robbery of
the Master of the "Burgermeister i out China over the heap of rub-Jeusen" in Queen's Road and have 250-ble euphemistically described as heen informed that until de usaterial
gs output of the automobile. ed from dummy and East had "Kowloon Walled City," there of the Police force can be effectively
xtile machinery and agricul- 400.-
tough guess, He did not dare plural machinery industries. has been complete silence about improved an experiment is about in
his 18 or 9, since South night have 200,-
disguising the forceful exercise in the Philip made of detecting crime by means
You hear fairly experienced players the 1, so came in with the K. certain number of
The continued upward trend Hv N. I rather lead to onst all constables un days duty, in coloured say they woul
South's the simplified one of 350.- pines of the decision
problems of coal output is also uncertain. should r
I inclined fourth-best tite clothes....
of their partner's
to Only about 716,000 men suit then by returning the club 10 non-Filipino traders from 120.-
markets and to prohibit alien we well of the proposed artifice, than the top of it, when against a limit cross rulling. The J, and Know employed in the industry, If we had any confidence in die triump contract, if they have four or on that set up the and eliminate against an end-1917 target of 300.-ership of real estate in the Philip character of the men who * | V AU
are
cards, They qualify that some any trump
losers. South
South led to the 730.000 and unless the present pines.
practice it. We also understand that times by saying that, applies lycul, then the heart 10 and sent tumber is considerably increas-
their partner is good card through, followed by
Capetown, Jan. 22. the to the J.
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ed, the 1948 coal production It is not for us to suggest that the police are in future in have att-der and can make deductions The club A cleared trump
It was reliably learned today there lies any ground for protest.thority to take up, for examination,
target of 214.000.000 tons may that South Africa's potentially declarer's hand from
Now watch. The heart A was If the Filipinos decide that their any Chinew who has ever heen con-garding the
victed of crint. and who may he such a number-counting lend.
A scored, the diamond' 7 led to the hit be reached. The 1948 la-¡ huge uranium deposits, whose newly acquired independence en lurking about without any visibile ou should qualify it still further. Usual and 4 to drop the K, and the diabour force target of 750.000 discovery was announced only titles them to pass discriminatory|cupation.
ly, if they have already Still, we repeat, there is only one length by supporting their partner's mond 3 to the put East in with seems impossibly high but there last week, will be turned over to legislation, their right to do so is
the Q. East obviandy disliked a dis- should be compensations in that
Britain exclusively under ar- difficult to dispute, as long as the radical cine, viz: to get better men. bid of the suit, their highest card ofmond returs, so laid down the spade the abnormal wastage of labour rangethents now being prepared
that pay them accordingly--for as it is more informative because A, which South ruffed, setting up through the ordinary proprieties of internation- ok as the rate of seamen's wages tells him something he doesn't know the Q. On the diamond the heart "Bevin boys" will not
withdrawal of by the Government.
recur Uranium deposita. have been al behaviour.are at the same time. rules at Ski and $12 per month, and
was discarded.
The diamond and the labour force should be found at the Witwatersrand gold Jobserved.
any policeman can get such employ
was ruffed and the spade Q got the come more stable and rather mines and present
indientions To the anti-British outcry in ment, he is not likely to be satisfied
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tion to a trivial incident in Bri-police force that knowledge tish territory with an apparently money can accure......... negative response to what could The Chinese should be taught that (Dealer:
while they live here they are Bri able.) casily become really important. ith subjects and that in enjoying the East The bona fides of the 'popular protection and immunities of British 18 outcry' over Kowloon City has inw they are bound to discharge the Pas never been otherwise than suspect. duties that it impose one of the Pass
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