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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1948.
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LET'S MAKE A BEGINNING
¿Robert Tatto
Thomas Dewey!
Harold Steman,
Henry Wallace,
Harry Truman
THEY HOPE TO LIVE IN
THE WHITE HOUSE
On April 12, 1946, Harry Shippe Triman stepped into the
White Huttre alw ́st unnoticed.
The shock of FDR's death mbed
world. When 471+
people got around to seeing who had Le e me Presid at they found a little an from Missouri of whom they land scarcely heard,
By John Drummond
What about the tele
third
berately withholding information ab ut dealings in commodity mar krts by
Be persons within Government,
Stassen served ny a Lt.-Car. in The U.S. Navy during the war, Next Nouember when the United and he will get a good many ex- States, votes for a new President Service votes. His policy-the -ur decides to keep its present "Stassen Plan"-is as yet un Thy in did get to hear about lune, the issue that will decide teho revealed, but he has madě a good
neespieя the White House is many enerules in his own camp him and to-day, when he has been American aid for Europe, a term with his unit-Isolationist sland, President exactly two years that 100 means far more than So much for arul nine months, he has behindfood for the hungry.
Dennerla Lac hima record of legislation in the issue is momentous enough Centre.
The dones Republicans--the Right and thr face of a hostile Senate which inflation-but post-war America That brings us to Henry Wallace, a testimony to the forers which has learned to look beyond her and Henry Wallace has a He hidden beneath his disaring shores, and inflation comes party- "Grieon's Army" that ! and naive exterior-bis tremenceand to making the world safebucked by the Communist Party,! The spectacle of Singapore
dous expicily for work, his wide huld preparing to
elections in
from Communism,
and Communists in America are mvutal grasp, his power of cons under to bring intueiliation and his great e amage. And i
jax popular just now as toothache. being a municipal organisation
But Wallace, once Vice-President, ping: Ransevelt in 1944; - and sunburnting to the new constitu At 63 he will go to the country
candidato is the only
who IN Youthful Harek Stassen, once openly apposed to "foreign tional schene
Malat November
41 Democratic
Governor of Minnesota, with his fianglements," and he might fact candidate, fighting 18. This latest awakens
Kel "true Liberalism" policy.
votes from the considerable pre these was once a general impres medical report would make many
man ten years
tion of the community whe feel younger Nuit that plans
Reve that America envious. Blood pressure between
should grant a greater measure of self120780 and 128 6. Heart:
aus of ktrope. government to the people offretlent, Weight: 12st. 91b. Over her Tall, son of the 27th Prest Hong Kong to take the form of offendition: "Very excellent."
Municipal Council, popularly elected.
4
were snal
mes1013 ter
the
were afuot tu
انه
IN
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Sometimes the man who had
the
'Able and Wrong',
All three are formidable. Ro-
lept of the United States, the man wh has **renched more wrong decisions more ably" than any ther man in pribile lite Ta Amerien, ip
Conservative, He
nd the mantle of greatness drop ped over his slight shoulders
expectedly wishes he could go
Missouri and rest. He in many of its detnits, "not is an opponent of the Marshall bark
is
"a miscarringe
wife's family in
Oklahoman.
Invalid Boy Hero
at Luton
stay
USED CARS
12-13
"Another thing-we don't believe in loading you down with a lot of accessories!"
Now For The U.S. Of Africa!
By Frank Owen
RO
NOW for the US. of Africa1| Now a change of heart has That, of course, is merely
There is one word on the lips come. Sir Stafford is today as roundabout akay ol voicing the
of all our argent. adventurous enthusiastic as Mr. Lew Amery opistion that infess uuething is
likes to think that, although he is
young own. (and to the hearts about Adrien. However helated, woon done abour setting up the
sorprising since he was once an
MARGATE, TER, 15. big man to Washington, back tatmist.
of our older, matured men) the congregation of the Com- proposed Municipal Council, home in Missouri he
sistercl nguinst
FREE HOLIDAY AT Africa.
monwealth should welcome 11. mas becuing necessary to explain Truman-Jus!
Harry Lend-Least, he called the Nurem | CLIFTONVILLE, KENT, HAM farur work trials
As the Berenge of the Belfish | For the proselyte often makes to all and sundry. A close detail happens to be a President." He-justies... and yet in Noven RAYMOND,
BEEN OFFERED TO VÍCTOR Empire shrinks, through pro-the best missionary.
18-YEAR-OLD, mature "surrender, we begin to sance again, what it is all about. cently he renewed his member her last year he was saying that LUTON GRAMMAR SCHOOL understand what happened in
If to the deep and singere de- -hop in the Kansas City Charter favoured further American help | BOY,
Aire for social justice which Neath 16 years have clapsed the Society for the Preserva-for Britain whatever extent FIGHTER SCHOOL, CERTIFI- alles broke up the old Austro-porter there is wedded a serac WHO PASSED THE 1919, when the victore of Ver.animates sonny & Labour sup- sanke Sit Alark Young arrived in and Encouragement of Hur nation can really help anCATE EXAMINATION Hungarian Empire.. Hong Kong with a spécial man ber Shop Quartet Singing,
of-and a bellef to-imperial i her nation to solve its difficul WHILE ILL. IN BED, THUS date for
With his gry constitutional reform.
hair whitening ties Some of his fellow R HELPING HIS SCHOOL TO keystone of a great
Before then Vienna was the solidarity which animates Neal eighteen montlas have luty Harry Truman, the publicats call him.
Imperial many "sheer and BREAK THEIR RECORD OF agglomeration.
Tory we shall start. clapsed since his Frommendations fader, faces two battles in theantakerous." Taft himself con PASSES.
Afterwards, "going places." Evoming a ths-be must fight aiders that he is the best man for
Vienna became capital elty That in why this week we can 4 the Secretary
Marshall Plan Infact through the job of President.
The invitation is from Mr. without a country, a land-bar-read with such real pleasure the State to the Colonies for his heavy opposition and he must face
and Mrs. Sharples of Clifton-bour without a hinterland. Tom Dewey, now 45.
Review of Progress issue by the Nearly ten muutis ft vontenders from that opposi-his see nd term ns Governor of mother
serving ville Capponevak
Who wrote tn Victor's So, in 1939 Hitler's tanks rull. | Government on their East Thave passed since the timal schemes for his office.
New York, went West last sum were making the affer "because four State. The only casualties
saying they ed unopposed into that two-by- Africa Groundnula Scheme. Çin broad principle was publish
The plan Is L harvest ed in the Colony.
A factor m Truman's favour is me, icnsibly on a visit to his of the heroism Victor
had in the rupe of Austrin were the groundnuts from that the Republicans are divided. reality to find how the people of Hort
more than in shown during his affliction-the road nevidents of the Panzer 3,000,000 acres in East Africa. The absence or demonstration. So far, and 2201 counting the
the Middle West w uld feel about British Empire has been built,"
of heroism on which the Corps
The first operation was to clear of public enthusiasm auch as lasenter fringe," there are three
him as President.
Today Stally has set his heet 100,000 acres of bush and scrub recently darked the transfer of Republicans in the bell: Robert
Victor Short, stocky, cautious, a lover Hospital where, fighting spinal Hungarians, the Austrians, the
Northampton on the necks of the Czechs, the in Tanganyika. started the power in Ceylon from the Col-Taft, of Ohno, wh
children and a hater of disease,
More than 400 heavy tractors battle: Thomas F. Dewey. anial Oflice to the local inhabi
Go versint of New York, who came
he is strapped Tracketpgrs, Tom Dewey was well;
to a Crouts, and the Poles who once are already on the job. Tanka tants were, perhaps, cuspicious within 3,000,000 votes of defeat.
known as the "racket buster" ten head, arms and feet.
Cranie able to move only his formed the old Austro-Hun. are going to be adapted for the But public apathy alone affurds
years ago when as District At-
He may garian Empire..
heaviest of all the tasks --hau- no excuse for the delay since it
eney be dived lato the corrupthe meantime he is studying for it half so well.
be there another year, but in, has been axiomatic from the be
ion that surrounded New York Labour's political set-up
his bachelor of science degree and ginning that in Hong Kong the
emerged with Jack (Legs). Din-
in the hope of becoming a com process of instilling a seine of
Atuf mand
Charles (Lucky) niercial chemist-Reuter. civil consciousness must inevit
Luciano between his teeth under ably be long and tortuous, and
ais "square little black noustache that it might even be accepted as necessary that the beginning should be made at the wrong end, and democratic ideas be in. troduced in concrete form with but enguiting Too deeply as to whether the Colony could justly be described as completely reads for them.
100 Years
Ago
(From the ples of the "China Mait")
7
The terrible mortality st
present going on amongst the traps," and the parative exemption from disease of every wher rection of the
Com-
Part of the explanation for the delay appears
to reside inmunity, are grave facts, deserving difficulty that has been experienc-careful consideration. Every man, ac ed in übtaining a suitable candi-cording to the bent of his
this date for the key appointment of without indeed enquiring into
zruch Town Clerk. There appears to founded, Buds
upan which conviction is
merk
rause
the
A Cry Of 'Wolf!'
Just before Christinas Harold
Stassen, baldish, 10, blue-eyed
in
KING PETER IN LONDON
Londen, Feb. 15.
and Bft, tall, trissed a firecracker King Peter of Yugoslavia
ar-
I doubt if the customers like ing up the roots of the great
trees. Thousands of mon
aro
I doubt, too, if alther the poo busy now building ralisnya. ple of Britain or of Africa buliding ports, deepening "chan- would find things better If, in nels. 1948, we should part company All this a heartening news. with one another, alrictly in the But it must be qualified by the Interests of democracy and criticism that the enterprise is what-have-yett.
not going WELL ENOUGH or FAST ENOUGH,
Cecil Rhodes
to the White House when frived here by alt from Paris on a statesman in his time as fo
he
accused the Government of dell-te private višli.—Router,
for
Hie
:
the
BARCLAY ON BRIDGE
They do it
By SHEPARD BARCLAY
a
Too Many Cooks
Sixty years ago Chcil Rhodes..
wering in vision and courage as
Too many Ministers have got Church or Roosevelt In our finger in this ple: Food, Colo- day, foresaw that the future of nies, Transport, Supply, Board the British Empire largely lay of Trade, Exchequer. It should in Africa.
be handed over to one man, at Rhodes fought for the All-least for Supreme Command.. Red Route (British Empre Is there a Rhodes in the Red up the east coast from Huuse?
we
Here Is
mightier
"THE AUTHORITY ON AUTHORITIESTM
the Cape to Cairo. He alw For it is not only in East I wanted an African Federation Africa that we need
to press be a sharp conflict of view over prevalence of disease in the Bar.
Africa in BAD USE FOR
in which the Native Peoples ahead. From East minimum, South said after the deal would increasingly take part, due course the appropriate scate of salary, | racks-some
get, abundant In their position, .or
REDOUBLE
that, if North had doubled the 4 between what Hong Kong con- their construction; otiters in the
cotton, coffee, tea, Hearts, he would have
Rhodes, the Imperialist, was a coconuta, taken the genuine friend of the Black sugar, and sisal. iders it can afford to pay and med intemperate habits. af
Redoubling over an opponent's in-sacrifice at 5-Diamonds rather that Man.
But or in the influence of what will Attract
It is in Rhodesia (the their formative or takeout double is never let the opponents play a competentnight duties.
ค Juliet local government expert in the
For historic reasons he failed vast land named after the Old done by good players nowadays ja Rame.
A events transpired, with
that there will because they think the contract wil United Kingdom, having regard
West his own We are of opinion that more me easy to
generation to con- Map himself)
richest trea. make. They do it only losing only one trick in each side vince his countrymen what he be unearthed the to the principle condition, that condition, has been attached by the strength to consider there is a good would have been set only three tricks
periance, as relates to their sanitary when they have enough general suit the sacrifice would have paid was about,
sure of all. the appointment is one for two public en
dividends anyway, the intemperate habits at chance to beat some contract attempt
Dit probably They know now!
For here are huge deposits years and no longer in the first the men than they deserve; never el by the doubling side. When their for a cost of 500 points, possiblying: "So much to do; so little can be raised at a pithead cost Legend says he died murmur- of easily worked coal which instance.
theless, every precaution ought to be band consists mainly of a splendidly two for an expenditure of just time to do it." More likely, is the of about 68: a ton. taken to prevent them from There can he little patience habitual use of the very wort of much defensive strength in
thefit with their partner's suit, without 100.
Hero are Iron ore, chrome, intoxicating drinks
But South had an earlier oppor-story that he said to his last other with procrastination on this e-Shamoo" and the bad liquor dis-barrier against the hostile bidding for bis side. When East doubled the another drink, and roll me over per, lead, and zinc.
Auch
they usually try to erect tunity to strike
a much better lick friend at the bedside: "Have manganese, tungsten, tin, cop- count. For a two year appoint- ment of this type, un ufficer whose at the taverne.
raising the doubled 1-Diamond, South should have raised on my side.” by
(He suffered hydro-electric power An occasional excras, like that comsuit to whatever level seems justified, it to or 2-Diamonds but either one agony from his heart.) has recently retired from a Town mitted by the reagan
(and more easily handled) than Clerkship in England would shore. is much less hurtful than the sometimes to four, That maken
on sometimes to two, sometimes to three 4-Diamonds would have erected as what this truly great English-
or two levels higher. Going a high There is just time still to do the tides. to be the ideal for liquors shart of intoxication. In the side to
daily indulgence of bad spirituous tough for the presumably stronger
barricade aver which Weat might man planned. would have both a long practical first case, the evil works its
exchange the information at have dared risk a bid, and the experience behind him. and no remedy by the revulsion which
own which could bring about its most de--Diamonds probably would anxieties about his future.
it sirable contract. produces in the system; in the latter,
become the contract. In fact, it might -Nor does this admittedly-per-it is a low peizon, operating steadily
not even have been doubled, |rinent issue explain failure to im-and stealthily; first, depraving
plement the constitutional reform and
functions, depressing vital energy,
lastly, establishing proposals in respect of the Legis- change and disease.
organic lative Council. There is no-
N S. A 74. Amongst Infantry soldiers, and in-D. thing, as far as, we know, which deed among other classes above them C. #5 insists that the one measure shall n position, no offence precede the other: or, even that morality is thought to exist la can-
with intemperance the one is dependent upon the nexion
which other. In the view of many, the so that the otherwise orderly con
comes short of absolute intoxication: creation. of an unofficial majority duct,
seem
when
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Here tea Elles Eldorado all Lright Can we make it? Send the finest and strongest or at any rate, not in time. We We can hardly do it alone. of our race South to make a new granary and power-house for need a big shove, and the only Brital: to make a New Deal Power which can provide that-- for the Coloured Folk of Africa, shove on schedule la the United
us so many vallant States of America, soldiers in the time of war: to If America will this year make a greater United States of succour and stabilise Europe It Africa,
will not only lift an intolerabla burden from- our own aching | Backs... · (Germany alone 'la.cost-
who sent
"Shame"
This prospect has not escaped ing us 100,000,000.) the attention of Messrs. Attle It will
tree from similar
and Cp. It is true that as long handicaps the seeded partners. ago as Cecil Rhodes, and most for us in the development of of the time since, the Labour | Africa,
Party has been engaged in. (a); apologising for the existence of
Adjacent Houses
of more immediate practical benes eschews the vice of habitual in South
liberal supply.
Di Pass fit to the taxpayer than all the dance. The
beer and sound wine, at
Pa privileges to be conceded to the lowest poulble charge, at the can
the Rubi
2 I Refracting & Manufacturing Opticians proposed Municipal Council teen, together with the judicious en-
4.5.
(Dealer: North, Noith-South rut the British Empires and (6) North properly passed that to see serable),
proposing to dismember it,
For there are other nations under the new constitution. couragement and promotion of tem- if "· Bouth
wanted, 'to double perance societies which exclude only sacrifice, since be had told his own monde, why should West's opening thought of 1, had to "hide his tuguese, also the Spaniards,
As recently as 1938 Sir, Staf there besides ourselves: If both defender had bid din-
the Let us then cultivate
ford Cripps, whenever our the up of pleite, will be the safest story with
ha French, the Belgians, the Por. garden-where we can, dan
the opening bid on alead of the club 3 tell South how he and surest aptidotes,
hand which was only a very barel must play to make: 7-8padent
head in shame.”
(Continued, in Ragi_7).......
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