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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, 1948.
DON
IDDON'S
CARNIVAL
Dick Turner
DIARY
BRITAIN- ACCORDING TO LIPPMANN
Now the politicians and publicists cry. "Crisis,” making American flesh crcep. They re- fer not to their own bul to ours.
It is being staled by the Elder Statesman of American jour. nalism, Mr. Walter Lippmann, and echocil by Senators and tot- lowers, that, even with full. Mar- cannot avoid
The Director of Marine's laud-shall aid Britnin able attempt to discipline the bankruptcy. Loperators of river steamers (as a The great liquidation" is de- result of the fire panic aboard clured to be certain. However, the .. Kwong Tufig) gives the lars it will be possible perhaps with the help of American dol- impression of a counsel of perfeéto tion rather than of a scheme to which owners will readily con form.
Its weakest point is apparent nt first glance. Reliance is placed upon the owners of river. craft to accept the necessities of the situation and voluntarily in traduce the reforms which the Director Marine considers to be desirable. Which means, in effect, that these companies against whom no complaint can fairly be lodged, will put them selves to the trouble and, to some extent, inconvenience of meeting the requirements, while the less responsible uperators (charterers particularly, whose only interest is in quick turn-over) will evade even where they do not entirely ignore the recommendations.
The oblique threat to introduce legislation to enforce compliance ahould it not be conceded volun- tarily is there, of course-but it is not difficult to predict that if Mr. Jolly is bluffing, his bluff is likely to be called.
Auch that is contained with
"maboge on orderly reor ganisation out of bankruptcy and prevent the catastrophe of mass unemployment and hunger in the British Isles and the gallop. ing collapse of British commit- monts In the outer world."
That is the best we can hope others. And in order to achieve for, according to Lippinana' and even this melancholy goal it will
Thus the international problem require "sacrifice, discipline, and is being made a cheap, vote-cadg- political audacity on a scale and
in a degree which no free people issue. The political back- In all history has ever had, toilers and pressure artists are putting the squeeze on the Presi- show.".
dent. The great journalist is gener- But no one is volunteering for ous enough to add that if any military service in the Holy Land. people can meet British people can.
this test the Certainly not Mr. Ben Hecht or
the advertisement writers. This dinge la more horrowing Public opinion is most cold to than anything our own leaders
the idea of sending American chilled say. It have had to
by both troops to be shot at madc American blood and
the public breathe nervously. If true, and Mr. Lippmann, more experi- enced in international affairs than elther President Truman or General Marshall, prides himself! on his accuracy, then Whiteha!! and Washington are In a deep coma."
Mr. Lippmann and his 'disciples in the State Department could, of
recall
the
course, be wrong. I impressive burtai ceremony that took place last winter when we utmost the were interred with
pomp.
Partition or UNO?
in the proposed new 'rules' runs,į The funeral march went on for after all, in direct counter to olo weeks and was halted only when custom, and it is the old, had it was discovered that the British habits that die hardest. Some of weren't dead after all, but were going busily about their work. the criticism, too, has point. It it could happen again, takes more than a Director of Marine to lay down details of a system to be followed and a ship- ping company
to endeavour to carry it into effect: the third party to the operation is the public, and in Hong Kong, the Americans. public which takes least "kindly to innovation.
Nerves here are very taut, par- ticularly in New York. The slide in commodity markets has bee checked, but other worries plague
blow.
George And Nicholas
Aruba and Jewn. It would prefer
to leave such unplenssalness to,
be the British. We will
the world's allflest suckers if we fall for that again.
Joes' Round-
.
Puzzled by the to-do over påll. ties here and abroad, the plain man__is_socialng relaxation F sport, there is particular in- terest in Joe Louis's tour of Bri- tain, and since the champion left Jersey Joe Walcott, his most re- cent opponent and some say vic tor, has been very belligent.
Jersey Joe is telling the world:
will "The style I used
always beat Lauls. He's n mechantent fighter, and he won't ever bo unything else. I've beaten him once and I will pulverize him next time."
Sports writers and fan, here are annoyed that Louis finalst- ing that Walcott immediately sign for a return bout and is threa tening to fight Gus Lesnevich in- stond.
The truth is, the terms offered Walcott aren't good enough. The man is being exploited. He 13 worth more money than is being offered him and is the only logical opponent for Louis,
So They Say
There is no flogging In Ameri- con interest in the British scene. Newspapers and magazinea ore full of features about us, The cur rent Saturday Evening Post says: "Even the sturdy British
with
says:
АЯЦАТЧЕЯ
"Whatsa matter? Can't a hungry customer get his order i.
taken around here without the police barging in?"
Nearly As Gay-
Vienna
.
The only people here who are not Meanwhile Viennese housewives showing much Interest in the London have other, worries, mainly connected talks on a State treaty for Austija | witit food and clothing, bath hard are the Austrians themselves. While to come by but slowly getting easier. have the future of Austria is debated by One of the minor sensations of been battered by the war into a
four *nations; 6,000,000 Austrians
Vienna
life this week has the_ar- state perilously near national have kile ime for details of the rival of the first deep frozen foods neurosis,'
dispute.
In the city's grocery shops/To the Newsweek compares us unfa-
Sick of conferences and discussions, Vienneit, who have been used to vourably Thrown on the mercy of a hard London correspondent
the Irish. Its
what they want to know is: "When buying bad fruit and vegetables at and devastated world, little found the Irish friendly, helpful, do you foreigners get out of our ressive prices, these frosan food- George and Nicholas stumbl- and lacking in that sense of hurt country and leave us to manage pur Muffs are a foretaste of betier, things
affairs alone?
to come. ed through the streets of pride and vague resentment which Meantime the
characterises the 'attitude of so
Viennese are". Roll1) BA Berlin.
recovering from a round of carnival There are hopeful signs that the George aged seven, carried his many English towards Americaris bails and dances which warted up Austrian. Government of right-wing
today.
Socialists la going to give way over two-year-old brother on his hack; he was cold and tired
the question of having grey mar- ket where unrationed food will be and hungry, and on his face were the marks of a misery
sold freely at prices halfway between that tears could no longer
ration prices and black market. Aux- trians, who never
kladly
to controls and whose refu pozobserve the rationing rule hage-braucht Bourishing
ing black market late
relieve,
is big eyes were searching the gutters for scraps of food- or for anything that he could barter for something to
eat.
Nicholas, perthed precariously on his shoulder, was heavy weight, and slipped occasion- ally so that George had to to make his burden pacse more comfortable.
WAA no good, to ask the civilians for help, for the wanderers had come from Foland and they would not be understood.
In fashion the latest lingerie here. is dazzlingly daring, being festooned with telephone numbers and come-on slogans,
only posterity is around the cor
Prople now begin to fear that
ner.
Spot On. Eric
By Antony Terry
after Christmas and ended on Shrove cannot understand
of Hollywood, † Tuciday. Unlike Note European still so bad when ALGEMENE Belg
ter
The big boss The Palestine issue is high on
today pra the list, and many; people; take
Eric Johnston, president of the cities many at Vienna's big dance duces two-thirds of the food she did Motion Picture Association of hails and assembly rooms have re before the war, when the Austrians the view that it borited at uns
America, has upset the film capi matard intact, despite bombing and were among the bhat-fed people: in It may he hoped that prophecies enforced then the United Nations
tal.
fighting in the of failure will be falsified. In will have been struck a death
city By saying to reporters:
has | reaches the shops through legal Though present-day Vienna aurope, and only a quarter of it ever high in lost the glamour of Waltz general, the requests of the Direc-
"Salaries are far too
King channels. The Zionists are screaming
amwer seems to be the every field of fim production; Johann Strauss, and the great glie- are reasonable"Sell out" and producing more
The tor of Marine
advertisements:
mine is," he has put on the spottering cut-glass chandeliers that used laxation of controls and rationing enough, designed as they are to inflammatory
almost every executive, De- prevent a repetition of the tragic "Murder can be stopped by
Johnston has also made it dim-to luininate receptions of the 'Em so that business will be able to End tion, not promises."
Franz-Joseph
ཐl cult for cinemas to continue maker as the electric current fails, things are tending in Austria today. own level, and this is the way glow dimly affair aboard the Kwong Tung,
Hotheads blame us on no evil
ing high admission prices. So If the shipping interests concern-dence at all for the week-end's Palestine. Mont ed will gu but half-way to meet slaughter in
producers are telling the film czar the Viennese try hard to recapture Already number of textiles are cautiously that it is all right to the past galety to the strains. alboing quietly unrationed and sold on the free marke and were it aut the recommendations, something troublesome to Mr. Truman is the
be frank, but do it little by little, boogie woogie and awing.
Austrians for the black market, jose warning that he will
Eric. Be discreet. -useful-will-have-been-accump votes of New-York-State, plvol -Their-parents-were-dead-and-The moyle president also urges. -Strange-Mixture would have ample foel, since the
George's most vivid memory drastic retrenchment and, inten-
country is already getting nearly much, coal.as, before, the war.
plished.
Finland On The Fence
After eleven days of anxious discussion, Mr. Johu Paasikivi, Finland's veteran President, has notified the Kremlin that Finland is prepared to negotiate on the proposed mutual assistance pact.
It has taken Moscow long time to realise that in spite of Russia's tactful attitude since the armistice of 1944, she is no bet ter liked by the Finns than she the has ever been, and now thumbscrew is apparently to be applied.
Finland is not, of course, quite so desperate a position as was Czechoslovakia.
to the
the
of the election, unless he takes Immediate vigorous action on bel half of the Jews.
100 Years Ago
(From the flu af the "Chine "Mail"}
The efforts of a local press to redress abuses where the remedy les in the Foreign Office, let the abuergabe over BO glaring
and the effusions of the "writer
ever so forcible, avail nothing: he would find it a much better Russia could riot occupy Fin-trade to bottle up his lucubra- land in present circumstances, tions, take them home, and make Colonial since the Finos have rigidly ful-speeches before the
Reform Association, or at Exeter filled all obligationis laid upon Hall, them by the
In these places, a peace treaty, and
¿ little and if Britain, as well as Russin, super-truth goes a long way.
abuse-corrector our supposed vises adherence to those terms.
"possessed" """the 'gift' of the gab,” To sabotage: Finnish deliveries and expended his veracity with of reparations
Soviet dua regard economy, he would
great-card, Union would be for Russia to certainly become");
We have, however,
always cut off her own nose to spite lior laboured under the impression face, since she badly needs the that a local paper can produce goods which Finland is sending the effect of having local abuse redressed, the remedy lying in the local Government, provided If the new pact which Russia they are represented
to the proposes merely calls upon Fin- Government and the public in a manner-that "kap, the land to help Russia in the event proper of attack on the Soviet Union abuse give way to popular in
dignation, as there algengnya through Finnish territory, then We trust this.Impression in nef the Parliament in Helsinki might à dalulon, approve it.
Until further notice, n Addi pact oh general amistost of Ten Per: Cent will be js fairly cercharged upon the P.&O... N.
her..
It
·
and
Looking Ahead
was of the burning tenementa sified competition, and warde A few Viennese women Have" the of Warsaw. For months they that the boam days are byer, In New Look frocks warn in London had been fending for them the land of wonderful nonsenso and Paris, but most of them wear selves, sleeping in the ope- he at least talks sense.
long evenlog dressed
their dinner or in bombed bulldings. They
smartly Jailored escorts
Meanwhile Austrian fears, of Rus- Rainbow Corner jackets for the carnival dances. plan intentions do not diminish, but begged for their food-or
Some studros hope to recoup on
Life here is a strange mixture of although the Austrlen min-in-the- stole it.
More Somehow George could
and more old and new-picturesque characters street think the chances are thin of only colour films. say that he had "tried to get whites and putting their moneyfram
producers are scrapping black and which might have come "biràight the treaty bringing a welcome release
Dickens, with
elestane side from, the occupylog troops, Informed away they had travelled on rainbow-hued celluloid., whiskers and stovepipe trousers, Austrians in touch with, Allied cir- the five hundred miles to Tinting is apparently here to dance side by side with producte ofcita are more optimistic, and rumours Ferlin
stay and expand. It has a rosy the Vienna Black market: young men circulation in Vienna say the British But George and Nicholas had a future. Some £25,000,000 ls In-in apiv-style American tuxedos, chain authorities are making shadow plans ztroke of luck. They were vested in Technicolor features for smoking American, cigarettes which for evacuation in October if the
this year alone. apotted by a relief worker.
cost the equivalent of 15% for twenty. treaty is sigued, - -*- The Government's plan to er- Patiently she questioned tablish; a voluntary, censorship-of them. George was suspicious, Alm,prudlo, and Press"in "peace- He was so accustomed to time has collapsed has been making his own way, without requesting or accepting help from others. Reluctantly he allowed himself
to be taken to a centre of- British. film Industry, mizitinävo tracted by the promise of to, close down because of the 25, food. But, tired as he was, per cent, tax are raising hopes RUFF IN THE LONG
Government he would not allow little that the Socialist;
HAND
ing the play that-West would have the fead at the end and be obliged Nicholas to be taken away might relent
Kohn Wildberg,, who produced
to pitch into the jaws of the trump from him. He clutched him Anna Lucasta" in London, sails Ordinarily we like to use our long
lenace more closely.
there again, this time to sign up string of trumps for trump ·lendsso
So South ruffed the third club with Hermilone Gingold, who will star take out the hostile trumps. The the diamond 2 scored the spade. A Broadway In "Sweetest and Lowest" on shorter trump holding in the dummy pade Kanda apaŭle "ruff with the the thing to employ In ruffing out diamond Spock in the beart A End Curious," ali Lana Turner's our own losers when we are the de- then sent forth the heart 5, Bast beaux' names start with clater. There are times though; got this and returned his sole Tyrone, Talbot, Turhan, Topping. when the Gertrude Lawrence opened in a obtained.
that Souths and, to do was put on Eight. revival de Lerence open
He held the bread that was put in his hand carefully, as though it were some precious : metal.
booled out of the window by gorous public opinion, This is a-victory.for free'speech and ex-
ineport that faft pression PENY
third of the
Then he bit into it and chewed
conscientiously, testing itThirty" this week and was terri”
15
BARCLAY ON BRIDGE
more of
By SHEPARD BARCLAY
„"THE" AUTHORITY ON AUTHORITIES”,
nut. Suddenly his face fic as usual, but the audience we can wind up by
* particular op of the? brightened. He broke off a misded Noel Coward..
(lend · trumpa chance"1" da?” Masd. pieco from the slice--and fed
make a losing fincare; »” winne Nicholas; m
Without Ginger
in could come best from 10
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nothing now
cardo,
What be
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ive Zouth
fled It
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bid only three in a 'minor.
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(Dailer: Bast. Nalther,
Spencer Tracy and Deborah These little waifs are part of a
great army of suffering-chila Kerr will star in "Edward, My dren.SICS CODE which George Zukor is
24.75 going to London especially to 8,033 In Europe, alone there are no see. P
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estimate, about 60,000,000 on Lala Rogers. Communism's most the danger line of starvation inlliant foe, is distributing litera- c. a J 1. and & Passage Money from Hontant in three times sa, great. American Ideal of which she is and the number in the yawture for the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of kong, but such a deduction wif [beînada; (according to the Mar
Charly: 5,000,000 children file was of the founders art-Value of the various: Coins |which/we: Legal Tenders in thin
Co's present Rates of Freight
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for she might have though up here fakej pluper tilim for the outat
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