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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 1, 1948.
signed only a month ago. By hero,
come
netir Linz,
artillery were
the
was
Thic
The
Fourteenth Churchill's Memoirs
-Instalment
ANNEXATION
ness" and without more ado hel left the room.
The Ribbentrops, lingered on. so-that-most-of us made our ex-- cuses-and-our way..home. Even- tually I suppose they leff. This wak the that time I saw Herr von Ribbentrop before he was hung-
ect
པ
the
men-
"I talked about it to Halifax, and we submitted it to the Chiefs of Staff and 1.0. ex- perts.
It is a very attractive iden; Indeed, there Is alinosi everything to be said for it until you come to examine its From that mo- practicability.
מטות
OF AUSTRIA
tion as is proposed by the So Isla. Since the beginning of 1038 ing their radius of action and the . viel Government -would be, to there had been negotiations to protection..they could afford by . aggravate the tendency towards tween the. British Government more than 400 miles out and the establishment of exclusive and that of Mr. de Valera,in home.
+
was
(To be Continued)
were
KO
Re-
In the north from Lamlash and World Gopyright reserved. The reader is now invited to in the youth from Pembroke greduation, even partially, in any more westward to the Enterald Dock or Falmouth, thus decreas- language, strictly prohibited.
The
Seven Devils Of
Socialism
*
groups of nudity which must Southern ireland, and on April _wps-Incredible to me that in the view of His Majesty's 25 an agreement was signed the Chiefs of Stall "should havo Government be Inimical to the whereby, among other matters, agreed to throw away this ma- - prospects of European peace. Great Britain rendunced all rights for security, and to the Inst mom- Nevertheless the Prime Minister to occupy for naval purposes the ent I thought that at least wo could not avoid fäving the` brutaf] two Southern Irisli ports of had cafeguarded our right to op It was the Russians who now fact that there existed a Queenstown and Berehaven, and cupy these Irish ports In tho
"pro- gounded the alarm, and on March found disturbance of international; the buse in Lough Swilly....... event, of war. However, Mr., đó 10 proposed a conference on the conthience", and that the Govern The two Southern porte vere Valera announced in the Dall that- Austria Hitler invaded
on situation. They wished
to disement would have soonel or later a vital feature in the naval de- no conditions of ung kind were
ways cuss, if only in outline,
to decide upon March 12, 1938, and proclaim-
definition of 1922 as Coloitial and Dóminions
of our food supply. When attached to the cession. Great Britain's obligations Juin ed its annexation to Germany and menils of implementing the
I was Inter assured that Mr. Franco-Soviet pack within
Europe.
the de the following day.
Secratory, 1 had deal with the reading was surprised at the of League action What would be our obligations details of the
Irish Seillement rea with which the British triumphal entry into Vienna frame
War which the Cabinet of those days Government had deferred to his the Western Union Powers had been the Austrian Corporal's in the event Gorman Trentin Central Europe? "11
He had included it in have now established the re-dreams. On the night of Satur- to peace by Germany. This met brotte out, it would be unlikely had shade, I brought Admiral request.
bargaining- quisite machinery. for 'imple-day, March 12, the Nazi party' in with little warmth in Paris and to be confined to those who have Bearly to the Colonial Office to his proposals us
assumed legal obligations, It explain to Michael Collins the counter which could be dispensed menting the Brussels Pact the enpital had planned a torch- Londan.
The French Government was would be quite impossible to say importance of these ports to our with when other points light procession to welcome the
But nobody distracted by other preoccupa where it would end and what whole system of bringing supplies sütlefactorily settled.
tions. There were serious strikes Governments might be involved." into Britain.
The comment of the Times a further accord reached be
bewildered Bavarians, of In the aircraft factories. Franco's
It must further be observed Collins was immediately con- newspaper was illuminating: tween the five countries the
who the supply services
had armies were driving deep into the that the argument about the cylla vinced. "Of course you must have
"The agreement on defence Consultative Council foreseen
of "exclitsive groups of nations" the ports," he add. "They are me by team to make billeting territory of Communist Spain.
Chamberlain was both sceptica loses its valldity the alternative necessary for your life."
releases the Government Thus and depressed. lle profoundly eeing mopped-up one by one the matter,
of the. United Kingdon from in-Article-VII-will-be-sel-up mangements to the Invading army had therefore' to be carried immediately, together with a
arranged, and ་་་་་2
the articles of the Anglo-Irish Moreover it everything had workel smoothly and shoulder-high through the streets, disagreed with my interpretation by the aggressor: executive permanent
and
"Treaty of 1921, by which they The cause of this hitch leaked of the dangers atiend the overtooks all questions of right in the 16 years that had passed. means of combating them. I had and wrong international re- secretariat located in London out slowly.
assumed the onerous and del- The reason why Queenstowti
icate task of defending the* In
lationships. addition, Britain's pro-
There was after nant Berehaven were necessary,lo The German war machine had been urgtig the prospgets of a latie
fortified harbours the Franco-British-Russian over
allinace in
of Cork, Berchinven and Lough Swilly posals (as yet undisclosed) lumbered falteringly
frontier and come to a standstill as the only hope of checking, the existence the League of Nu-our safety is easy to understand.
tions and Its Charter.
They were the fuelling bases from
the event of war." for a close control of mone
In spite of perfect Nazi onrush.
The Prime Minister's course) which our destroyer" fotillas tary factors in the five-power weather and rand conditions the Mr. Felling (his biographer)
was now marked out: simultan-ranged westward Into the Atlan Further releases might have lanks broke tells us that the Prime Minister cous diplomalle pressure on Ber-tic to hunt U-boats, and protect been obtained by handing over relationship have been accepte | majority
Defects appeared in the expressed his mood in a private in and Prague, appeasement in incoming convoys ns they reached Gibraltar to Spain and Malta in ed, while from the United | down.
The letter to his sister on March 20 regard to Italy, a. strictly restrain- the throat of the narrow Food, Italy. Neither fouched the actual State: come indications that motorised tienvy artillery. road from Linz to Vienna
As matter of fact, the planed definition of our obligations to Lough Swilly was similarly need-existence of our
'Grand of the
Alliance',
population arms shipments to the "West-blocked with heavy vehicles at a
France. To carry out the first ed to protect the approached to directly. ern Union" are to be propos- standstill.
Winston calls it, had occurred
two moves it was essential to be the Clyde and Mersey. Inter himself, motoring
to me long before he Truman.
careful aid. precise about the el by President
To abandon these meant that traffic- Liz, gow the
tioned it.
last:
our flotillas would have to start What is also significant is the through
Jam, and was infuriated. creation of a Military Stand-ight tanks were disengaged fram Jing Committee for which po confusion and straggled Into pecific provision was made Vienu la the early hours of Sun- morning. The armoured in the five-power pact, though | day
vehicles and motorised heavy It was implicit in the under-
were loaded on to the taking by the contracting railway trucks, and only this or-,
time for the ceremony. render military ved in Powers to
The pictures of Hitler driving and other assistance in the
through Vienna amid exultant or event of an armed attack on terrifled crowds are well known. any one of them in Europe But this moment of mystic glory and to consult with regard had an unqulet background. The to a threat to the peace any-Fuehrer was, in fact, convulsed with anger ut the obvious short- where. Teeth are thus putcomings of his military machine. into a military defensive al- ife rated his generals, and they liance far more definite and answered back. They reminded
him binding than any which-han
of his refusal to listen existed in modern Europe. secret military clauses in the that Germany was not in a po arguments.
Axision to undertake the risk of a great nations or alliances parti-
la the administrative. ¡pact between the
cular arens are not defended only major confilet.
work involved in controls.. It is Harsh Powers, and even this was
hy local exertions. The whole
not possible to say how many of Herr von Ribbentrop was at this vad balance of the war-front is themselves.
theories, deferred until the very eve
now obtruded WICKED SPIRIT No. 1 is con- the 050,000 persone employed by into this dream world Hempt-for-law. This is stat time about to leave London-to-
national and local government of a war which one of them
The main assumptions on which Foreign Secrelury in of
before
The greatest service which a services in addition to those em- was on the point of launeli- become
war begins and we have worked in the past were Government can render to morals played before the war are engag Ciermany. Mr. Chamberlain-gave
were that the is so to act that a man's dutyed in administrating controls, but Jing.
farewell luncheon in his hon
simple. did not take much
"price There can be no mistaking our at No. 10, Downing-street, thought from the "Chiefs of Staff
had three and a man's interest as much as the number must be large. wife
accepted and I
10 tell the main purposes: (1) distribute the possible coincide, the direction from which a My
that Industry and F.O. experts",
given goods; (3) indicate the pre- and. honesty reap their rewards, Prime Minister's Invitation to at-Prine Minister that the
WICKED SPIRIT No. 4 is lack British ferences of citizens, ds to what and idlenese and dishonesty are of incentive. possible attack or threat to There were perhaps 10 Navy and the French Arm could future goods should be produced: pinished. This Government the peace is envisaged as people present.
not be deployed on the Bohemian (3) provide a stimulus and guide acted in
has Not only is there no incentive likely to arise. The.Brussels My wife sat next to Sir Alex-maintain front to stand between to the organisation of produc-
the opposite to produce the right goods, but precisely Republic, and pact mentions the specifiender Cadogan pear one-end-of the Czechoslovak
the incentive to produce any nation. table. the
About huif-way Hitler's Invading
Legitimate profits are penally goods is weakened. This comes army contingency of a renewal by through the meal u Foreign Office Indeed evirient
taxed, it often pays better to sell about not only through high taxa from the
. Germany of an aggressive messenger brought him an en tut the certainty that the cross-through the equally simple laws, manufacture them, and every ob-ing to have command over essen
a quota of raw materials than to tlen but because money is ceas- policy, but that can be ruled velope. He opened it and hang of the Bohemian frontier line of supply and demand.
is stacle
of put in the way have Involved a
now that would out.as an immediate prospect absorbed in the contents. Then
goods, a general
Despite monopoly and trade development and enterprise. got up, walked be
You war might, well eventualon restrictions all these ob
can pay for your rations calling for a Union of West where the Prime Minister
European was What that date have deferred or devious propositions remain true.
On the other hand, at the mar- and your subsidised rent, without ern Powers at this time. The sitting. arul gave him
layed Hitler's next assault.
gin widens
between controlled putting yourself out very much. The Socialists not only deny them Although Union, with a Military Stand- message.
Cadogan's
price How erroneous Mr. Chamber- but condemnu
and black (or free) prices, You cannot lay out your money them as morally ing Committee as one of its demeanour would ng hal haplain's private and earnest reason-wrong-6 an unclean, spirit in
dishonest mount.
whatever you carn, so why - dleated that anything hop- main elements. is the inescappened, I could not help noticing in appears when we cast our the body politic which must be
And it able reply to the Eastern bloc the Prime Minister's evident pre-minds forward to the guarantee cast out.
he was to give-to-Poland within But things do not always work and-to-the-policies which occupantly Cadogan came back year after all the strategic so easily. The constructive 1- inspire it, typifled above all
his value of Czechoslovakia had been ternative to whips is only too the paper and resumed his by the rape of Czechoslovakia. Later was told its con- cast away, and Flitiel power and ofton scorpions With characteristic.mendacityments and that Hitler
had
prestige had almost "doubled!
In the words of St. Luke lentsstrie and that the
"When the unclean spirit On March 24, 1938, in the House Russia has for the past couple invaded
gone out-of-a-man, he-walkolh of years been girding at the German mechanised forces were
through dry places, seeking alleged existence of a West-advancing fast upon Vienna. The of Commons, the Prime Minister meal proceeded without the gave us his view about the Rus-
rest; and finding none, he saith; I will return unto my hous ernt bloc, when in fact the slightest interruption, but quite slan move
whence I came out. And when he cometh, he findeth it swept and garnished:
"Then gooth he, and taketh
ven
to
in Fritsch the dismissed Commander-in-Chief of the Ger-
iis attraction vanishes. You have only to look at the map to see that nothing that France or we could do could possibly save Czechoslovakio from being overrun by the Germans if they wanted to do 鏡
I have.
therefore ubandoned
By E. Nigel Birch, M.P.
The words "laws of supply and
unto him seven other spirits contests with authority; the uh- more wicked than himself; and certainty of the results mean that they enter in, and dwell there; there is a vast muse not only of and the last state of that man mik-employment but of under- is worse than the frat."
employment. The sad tale is being repeate l Many plants are run Intermit-
other spirits tently or much under capacity.
and of waste
any idea of giving guarantees demand" and "price mechanism". to Czechoslovakia, or to the have hitherto always provoked i obligations to that country."
the Sociallor French in connection with her sure guffaw from
benches in the House of Com- Here was at
mons. They are fell to be a part rate a a deci-
of the "chaos before the war" here, and seven
"co-ordina-bedevilling our daily lives
any
The tearest parallel is the man~~Army?—and his warnings sion was taken wrand Xrrected
by more wicked than the first are Perhaps an evell greater source
•with t
We
the
In modern wars of
My still-be
averted
to
only European bloc hitherto soon Mrs. Chamberlain, who had her "Let In being is the Eastern, which received some signal from
husband, got up saying, she started on the morrow of us all have coffee in the drów- the war and has been con- ing-room."
with solidating
increasing
there, and it .trooped in aggressiveness ever since. It was evident to me and perhaps to some others that Mr. and Mrs. the West has now at last Chamberlain wished to bring come together for self-defence the proceedings to an end. A the Kremlin has no one to kind of general restlessness per- blame but itself and only de-vaded the company, and every- to say stood about, ready one liberate malice could repre- good-bye to the guests of Hon sent it as in any way a threat our. to a pacinė East.
"However, Herr von Ribben-
In his message to Congress trop and his wife did not seem at all conscious of this atmo- on the day of the signing of sphere. On the contrary, they the Brussels Pact; President, larried for nearly half-an-hour Truman gave it the bene engaging thele host and hostess
in voluble conversation.. volent support of the United | At -one
moment I come in con- States, without, however,taci with Frau von Jubbentrop, specifying the form of the and in a valedictory vein I said: support except that it would "I hope England and Germany
will preserve their friendship. be conveyed "by appropriate "Be careful you don't spoil it," means." This guarded in was her raceful reja now. per- formality will be read by I am sure they both know p Moscow as well as others in fectly well what had happened, thought It Was d good conjunction with E.R.P, and
manoeuvre to keep the Prime other current manifestations Minister away from his work of American policy. These and the telephone. At length include notably the associa Mr. Chamberlain said to the Am- tion of America with the bassador: "I am sorry. I have to go now to attend to urgent busl- Western Union Powers in dis-
| cuasigns - dué to bögin this.
month on the Western zohes alone, for it could not, with- of Germany arising out of out self-stultification, ignore Russia's blank refusal to co- the multifarious common in- operate. Events are moving terests elsewhere, notably in rapidly towards the complete Africa. The fred nations are division nilke of Germany seeking strength in a military and of Europe, which Russia and economie unity which can han forced on the reluctant hardly surprise any objective West. Nor is the Western student of recent political hid- Union confined to Európy Itory..
It
W
more true
This
Man.
tion,"
and
events,
have
His Majesty's Government) are, of the opinion that the in- direct but none the less inėvlf- able consequence of such ac-l
CARNIVAL
The
"
instead
labours.
of
price system worked
ko
M
By Dick Turner
Pardon me, but would you.
small check for me
hough:to cash
sense.
up.
do the untaxed profits of the as you wish, and you must queue
only those who bother?
In the
Black
All this comes at a time when Market who break the law. The it is desperately important that ard profess most respectable citizens hide full scope should be given to the their cars behind bushes when operation of the cash incentive,
buy grocerios If you were in a big way in visiting friends, from under the counter at a shade 1939 you can jog along securely avor the odds or paint the space enough and make good profits. Toom-without-a-permit.-
But if you are starting in busl-- ness the dice are, heavily loaded against you. There is less than no incentive to pioneer.
-WICKED SPIRIT No. & is losa- of consumer's choice.
WICKED SPIRIT No. 2 is in- efficiency.
We are losing, the advantages, not only of the play, of self- interest but of self-responsibility It is a good exercise for anyone
Under the price mechanism thê. who believes that we are living consumer. is king. It may be' in a planned economy to asks possible in a poor country, where
bushtices man what his plans the people are short of the bar
aro.
Nine dimes out of fen
eat, necessities,, for the Govern-
ment to decide what should be
answer: I don't know more than produced.
a few weeks ahead what my
But how can they decide in a fual allocation will be, what my country, such as this, where, an raw material allocation, will be the latest price index shows, the or what my export quofu will be working clues are accustomed to -nor do I know whether I shall a wide choles in the placing of gel permits to alter or extend their money?
my works or to import the pare The idea that choice is not
cular machines I need."
valued
or capable of being The man is living in a state rationally, exercised by the poor not_of "planning," but organised, is both untrue and insulting. chubs.
probable that the smaller It was the Government's own your income the more you value Economie
White Paper which the chance to lay it out to the truly said: "The task of direct-beat advantage.
Ing by democratic methods an There is a vast difference bas economic system na large and tween being able to buy what complex as ours is far beyond the you want with your income and Power of
Government ma having 18 take what you can. Eek. chine working by itself, no malter with your income. how efficient it may be." But it
.. •
to not beyond, the power of the WICKED SPIRIT No. 8 18 the price mechanlam.
Under the price mechanism it concentration of power in tite
to Pas demands on a commodity
sort out, all the hands of Government.
Under aur-present economy the
various
in more or less the correct order, Government hold the power of and it is possible to warn the life and death over business, and users of a commodity of an im-that power is not only often oxer*: pending shortage.
cised without publkity but it is
The rise in price of any com- subject to every kind of political modity rings bells which can be pressure. heard throughout the economie 3 is difficult, even limpossible, system
to carry on any business, at the The use of money in the present fine without Government development of civilisation's favour,
ivate trading mistakes resources, has been second only In private to the use of fire.
.。
tand to cancel each other out. Under Government control every
RCT, No. 4. 51 mistake lan- ong-wda ) - mistako which may have the gravest con-
warte. It fakes many, form
The rationing-of-fuel raw “materials,” and“-
the
sequences for the country.
·{Continued "Un raz".