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of
and
The
Nineteenth Churchill's Memoirs
Instalment
SUMMING-UP
neighbouring State,
and that
Great Britain piedges herself to assist the U.S.S.R. if the latter becomes involved in war a result of its guarantees," did not correspond to fact,
In
same
day Mr.
Later on the Chamtertain galt that the Gov new obiigations in Eastern Europe érument had' undertaken their
wilhom inviting the direct' paril cipation of the Soviet Government, on account of various difcuitles.
I then took up the tale:
"I have been quite unable to understand what is the objec- tion to matting the agreement with Russia which, the Prime Minister professes himself dc. sirous of doing, and making i In the broad and simple form! proposed by the Russlin Soviet Government,
On April 16, 1939, M, Litvinov offered Britain
Though the Nazi-Soviet Pact was not signed
beginning of May, when Litvinov was replaced as Soviet Foreign Minister by Molotoy.
MOLOTOV
"PEG Oʻ MY HEART”
Still
Enjoyable But
A Disappointment
It is extremely difficult to review a play which is both a thoroughly enjoyable experience and a dis- appointment.
nate.
and France a three-Power alliance with Russia. But, Dramatic Club presentation. at easily and speaks in character.
The YMCA's Younger Set Ethol (Margaret Sim) moves. as we now know, the Soviet Ambassador in Berlin theight of J. Hartley-Manndre" but a personal habit of drawing next day put out feelers for "better and better" re- such a play. The dialogue and fof her passages a fake
"Pég O' My Heart" WIS Just four her short vowels gives some lations with the Nazis.*
production were bright and Geoffrey Baker, as the erring
on slong on “breezy enough to earr the ac-hushand, is no great lover, but a laughter level, thandiome enough to be credible, until Aug. 23, the critical moment was probably the tunately, incurably. akin to the and Ann Aguzzi
but the play liseif is, unfor- Nélson Senter, Geoffrey Hall, are adequate Gene Stratton Porter writings. but uninspired th minor roles.
The story concerns the wealthy the lawyer Hawks, hus
Geoffrey Hall in particular: as several Chichester family, comprising opportunities for humour
which Mrs. Chichester
horrible he missos completely, "Undoubtedly, the proposals snob), her dear boy Afarle (a
The arrangement of the slage for put forward by the
nothing sophisticate) is particularly good. It is quille" Russian good Government contemplate
and her daughter Elhel (who I
a creditable setting of sinoil. velvet triple alliance against aggression presumably conceals
English country house, as awn- between England, France and Mrs. Chichester, undertakes the special
glove under a very iron paw).
family of
meins. Russia, which alliance' may ex-
education
mention, lend its benefits to other couli
her disreputable must be made of the Noises Off, by the way, tries if and when those benefits O'Connell, in return for an an- Irish-American "пауса", Peg
which were unexpectedly desired. The alliance is
iend
л
o
up that peace front, we, wel Axis closed for military prepara-, refused, and perhaps in their come it; we want it; we attach ton, the vital link of the Western terror would for a long time have value to . The suggestion that Powers with Russia had perished. refused, such a condition. Fini we despise the assistance of the The negotiations had come to a land and Eatonia Soviet Union is without founda- seemingly unbreakable dendlock. that they would
even asserted tlon.
consider Д The Suviet Government, said the
The Polish, and Rumanian Govern- guarantee extended to them with Without accepting any view ments, while accepting the British out their sent communique, had recèlýed the of an unauthorized character guarantee, were not-prepared to aggression
да да act of British counter-proposals on May to the precise value of the accept
, duit these did not mention the
n almilar undertaking in On May 31, Estonia and Latvia Aussian military forces, or the the same form from the Russian signed non-aggression pacts with Soviet Union's obligation of a way which they would best Government. A similar attitude Germany, Thus Hiller penetral- separate guarantee to each of its be employed, no one would be prevalled in another vitaj strale-ed With ease into the frall de neighbouring States, whereas they The Agure whom Stalin kad state that the U.S.S.R. was
so foollstr as to suppose that that gle quarter-the Baltic States. fences of the tardy, irresolute. huge country, with Its now on May 3, 1938) moved to obliged to render immediate ab
vast
The Soviet Government made it conlition against him. the pulpit of Soviet foreign policy distance to
population and enormous re- clear that they would not adhere Great Britain and deserves
(To Be Continued) sources, would be a negligible to a phet of mutual assistance it some description, not France in the event of thelf being factor in such a situation available to the British or French involved
as Finland and the Baltic States World Copyright reserved. Re- war Vyu-guarunices
under their that with which we are con-were included in a general guar- production, even pirtially, In any TRAFFIC CONTROL Governments at the time.
to Poland and
fronted. cheslav Molotov was a man of Rumania. No mention, however,
antee. All four countries This seemed to show the same
now language, strictly prohibited. outstanding ability and culd-
was made of any. assistance on Iack in proportion as we have In would be easier to assess blunded ruthlessness. He had their part to the Soviet Union in seen in the rebuff to the Roosevelt the merits of the programme survived the fearful hazards and the event of it being involved in proposals a year before. recommended by the Traffic ordeals to which all the Bolshevik
war in consequence of ita oblig. lenders had been subjected in the
tuns towards nny Eastern Euro- Advisory Committee for the years of triumphant revolution, further Improvement of traffic
pean State, He had lived and thrived in a control in the City and in society where ever-varying intri Kowloon if the text of the gue was accompanied by the can- stant menace of personal liquido- His cannon ball head, bltek statement had been accorn-tion.
and panicul by explanatory dia-noustache, comprehending grams. As it is, the plan ap- eyes, his slab face, his vestial adrottness and imperturbable de- pears to take in a considerable meanour were appropriate mani. amount of territory without festations of his qualities and was above ali men offering anything like a clear skill. He
Utted to be the agent and lustru- picture of the final result, ment of the policy of an incal much less convincing proof culable machine. that the product would be i beneficial.
I have only met him on equal terms, in parleys where sometimca Indeed, as far as the suga strain of humour appeared, or gestions affecting the Kowloon at banquets where geniully
succession Turban area
a long are concerned, proposed
conventional und meaningless they appear rather more like-tonals. 1 have never seen 01 Iv to cause increased confusion human belag who more perfectly than effect a reduction in the represented the modern conception Thazards of the road. The ap- of a robot.
And with all this there was
yet Iplication to Nathan Road of an
opparently reasonable
Ilis Majesty's Government had the control device known as keenly polished diplomatist. What the prohibited U-turn, for In- he was to his inferiors I cannot gested that the Soviet Govern- tell. What he was to the Japan-erent should make, on their own stance, threatens more
com ese Ambassador, during the years behalf, a similar declaration, and plications than, at first sight, when after the Teheran Canter-Express their readiness to would seem to compensate for fence Stalin had promised to attack assistance, if desired, to countries any gain to be derived from Japan once the German Anny was which might be victims of aggres beaten, can be deduced from hission and were prepared to defend eliminating U-turners. The recorded conversations,
their own independence, programme outlined by the One delicate, searching, awk- Traffic Advisory Committee ward Interview after another was
conducted with furnishes no clue to what is penetrable purpose, and bladd perfect palse, in- expected of a driver who, jamcial correctitudo. Never travelling south down. Nathan chink was opened. Never a
Reed- Road, completes his shopping. less for was made. His smille of carefully winter, his Hand desires to return north. It measured and often wise words, is left to be inferred that he his affable demeanour, combined, will be required to make alto make him the perfect agent of'
belter left-hand turn into one of the Soviet policy in a deadly world.
hope American to Irish-American sheit could have been much Correspondence with him upon
if you are ready to be an able, direct,
instance, is not makes Peg come alive as a lov-the play HONG KONG several side-streets, make a disputed matters was always the
politically-minded' | a' suitable choice for an amat detour through the back-less, and, if pushed far, ended in
ully of Russia in time of war, Irish girl.
cur company, and needs for AIRWAYS Streets until he comes back lies and insults, of which this
which is the supreme test, the Thomas MacFarlane as Sir more than they are able to put will
contain presently
great occasion of all, if you are Gerald Stewart, the man Ped
into it to carry it successfully- upon Nathan Road again, and work
examples. Only once did I seem to
ready to join hands with Russia loves, is a then cross
pleasantly ahony to today's audiences-but these the southbound get a natural, human, reaction.
Ju the defence of Poland; which minus English foli to her cbul young people have to learn. traffic lane in order to weave This was in the spring of 1942,
you have guaranteed, and of llence. Ian Cox-Walker makes and this is the best way to do it Rumania,
why should you Alaric Chichester a very young and provide Incentive and en- into the procession proceeding when he alighted in England on
shrink from becoming the ally man, with no sophisticaton tertainment at the same time. United north. What advantage lies in his way back from the
of Russia now, when you may enlis his mother "mater but
at all. who
manner is good— States.
monotonously Their stage such a perambulation, as
by_that_very___faset_
the main fault, indeed, prevent the
with We had signed the Anglo-
breaking out of war?
levable for all that He In Last night's performance was against what he now does Soviet Trealy, and he was about
Attlee, Sinclair and Eden spoke proves tremendously in Act III. Lack at voice Inflection which is to choose an appro- to make his dangerous fight
on the general line of the im- Molly Portallion's lack of isllec- and the stage itself is well At the garden home. priate moment to swing out Downing Street, which we usedceeded languidly, and on May 10 need of the Russian alliance.
The Russian negotiations pro- mittrice of the danger and the tion apolls her characterisation planned and comfortable.
It will be Interesting to see The of the snobblati mother suddenly of the southbound traffic lane. for secrecy, I gripped his arm and the whole issue was raised in the position of the leaders of the La- Inflicted with an Irigh niece. (In what these youngsters will do and slip into the northbound we looked each other in the face. House of Commons. The debate, bour and Liberal parties was Act, 1, just after she announces in the future. Last night's pro- stream, it is difficult to fathom. Suddenly he
moved.
appeared deeply which was short and serious was weakened by the vote against con- the family Ruin, the exclaims duetion gave promise that, with having regard to the
Inside the image there practically confinext to the leaderspulsory national service to which when a lawyer comes," "Importhe help and encouragement of very appeared the man.
Private?" as if nothing the public, more training of parties and to prominent ex-they had led their followers only tant?
(and substantial width of Nathan Ho responded with equal Ministers. Mr. Lloyd George, Mr. a few weeks before. The plea, so could be further from her mind better plays) their presentations Road which permits of an easy pressure. Silently we wrung cach Eden and I all pressed upon the often advanced, that this was be than important and private busi-will become quite a feature in one-operation turnround in all together, and it was life or immediate
's hands. But then we were Government the vital need of an cause they did not like the foreign ness.)
[the Colony's entertainment. volving few risks to the death for
arrangement with policy, was feeble; for no foreign Russia of the most fat-reaching policy can have validity if there is. normally intelligent driver: Havoc and ruin had been character and on equal terria no adequate force behind it and Nor can we see the merits of around him alt his days, either Mr. Lloyd George began, and no national readiness to make the
impending on himself or dealt by painted any system of control which him to others, How-gled-I-am-at per in-the-darkest huslooms and necessary sacrifices must inevitably thrust a great the end of my life not to have
| that-force, The Prime Minister replied, and ly increased weight of traffic had to endure the stress which he for the first time revealed to us
had suffered; better never
On May 30 the German Foreign into Kowloon side-streets not boru. In the conduct of foreign His reception of it was certainly tion to their Ambassador in Mos- by his views on the Soviet offer. Once sent the following instruc- designed to carry it, in the affairs, Sully, Talleyrand, Met cool. and indeed disdainful: cow: "Contrary to the policy' state in which they have been termich would welcome lim left by the war; to say nothing their company, if there be another of the increased.menace to themselves to go.
world to which Bolsheviks allow pedestrians and children ac- customed to relative peace and From the moment when Molo- quiet in these predominantly tov became Foreign Commissar He residential areas,
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mest with Germany at the experize It is not contested that of Poland. It was not very long better regulation of traffic in before the
is a remarkable Kowloon's main artery is tocepatch by French Ambas. be desired. It is merely the sador in Berlin, dated May 7, method proposed that is open published in the French Yellow to' question. Paradoxical mormation he was pure
which slates that on though this may seem, the hat a Zourth Pariltion of Poland main trouble with Nathan was to be the basis of the Ger- Road is its "excessive" width. [man-Russian rapprochement. But that position holds, bement at last replied to the Soviet On May 8 the British Govern- cause in. the first place it en-Note of April 16. While the text courages overtaking, to the of the British document was not point sometimes of double and published, the Taas Agency on May 9 Iustied a sdteingat giving the triple overtaking, and second- main points of the Britin pro- ly, because pedestrians may posnis, startin apparent safety to Tao official organ Izvestia' next. cross from one pavement to effect that Router's statement or
day
printed a commutique to the the other and still did them-the British counterproposati, selves held up perilously in namely, that “ife' Soviet Untou the middle of the road by fast-must separately guaranted every moving traffic.
Both these problems can be roads, with danger reduced to overcome, and at one and the a minimunit
same time. They can be met Granting that the volume of by constructing pedestrian is motor traffic on the Colony's lands down the centre of the roads is greater today than at road, a measure which would any previoli time in lis hip- have the effect of slowing tory, we also must grant the down traffic, which is part of necessity for mure. Vigarons the Advisory Commitice's measures of control. But do purpose, and enable people to not let us reach the "stage of cross in comparative saídly, control, for control's · uke- Gaps at appropriate intervala por ther with would permit vehicles to turn whic have not from north to south, or vice been versa, or into the various sides logical.conclusion
"Almost simultaneously the Soviet Government presented o acheine at once more compre- hensive and hore rigid which, whatever other advantages it might present, must in the view of his Majesty's Government: Inevitably raise the very dim. culties which their own propo. sals had been designed to avoid. They accordingly pointed out to the Soviet Government the exis- tente of these difficulties.
Fr
"At the same time they made certain modifications in their original proposals. In particu Jar, they (H.M.G.] made it plain that
the Soviet Government wished to make their own in tervention contingent on that of Great Britain and France, his Majesty's Government for their part would inve no objection." It was a pity that, this had not explicitly stated_a_fortnight Bearer.
ara
Lond.
One feels, however, that, the solely for the purpose of resisted in Act. From then on tempo of the play
the family bank having
โป for too Ing further acts of aggression is the story of the misdeeds and slow, capecially in the over- and of protecting the victims of love affairs of Peg. A slightly and the substitution of modern Judicious cutting long first act aggresalon. I cannot see what off-centre is wrong with that,
"It is said, 'Can you trust the Russian Soviet Government suppose in Moscow they say
acted by the Younger Set of Can we trust Chamberlain? 1. Peg harself is ably played by they deserve considerable credit the European YM.C.A.. and hope we may say that the un- Mollie Terry. Apart from a swer to both questions is in the variation in accent from Irish to for a very good joh. Certainly effirmative. I earnestly
to
produce
we can evolva a proviously planned we have now method by which we can enlist decided to undertake. definite the co-operation and resistance negotiations with the Bovicl of the Soviet Union In" building: Union. While the ranks of the
hn's not going to
By Dick Turner
7
between romance Ethel and a married man lang for old would have Im- carried on between times, which proved the pace tremendously. Peg. in her guise of Good Fairy, The play is producent and helps to straighten out.
Red Influence In
Japan
Growing
Philadelphia, May 6.
Dr. Iwao Tyusavá, first Japanese Government of. ...ficial to visif the United States since the end of the war, said today that Communist influence in Japan, while not growing, "is becoming more pronounced.“
"Japan is going through a of the people to absorbit. very dificult period of read- thoroughly without disturbing justment and unless dentocracy the social order." He said Gen- is made to work well, it is just eral MacArthur had the "trust the sort of atmosphere for the and respect of the Japanese pro-- spread of Communism," he said: Ple-Valled Press.
Dr. Ayuzawa' Is
executive di rector of the Japanese Central Labour Relations Board, which corresponds roughly to the United States National Labour
50,000 Cables
Relations Board,. He told a press Each Year
curiference that "Communist in-
fluence has been found often be-
hind labour disputes,”
London, May 6,
Mr. P.C. donjeh Walker, Pers
He said the Communiste "amentary Secretary for the not large in number, But infident Commonwealth Relations. Ottica I today That Willebell was sending out 60,000 cables-cach
maintain official The Japanese official, who is in balween Britain and the
tal
year to
Inions.
links Dom- the United States to study. In- bour mediation and conciliation
Mr Gordon Walker, writing in procedures, expressed fear that the Labour Party press bulletin, of Japan added that complete machinery We for day-to-day consultation of the
democratization
moving too fast and unless
are careful people one day will
viras sat
up the
term the experiment unstice, HD Relations? Orico
ful."
"There is one important phasa
brotherhood. In
work very rapidly if
"He rejected" tho' idea of a per- of working democracy which we manent single Secretariat which silli must learn, arid that is would act on behalf of the Com fraternity
momyosin off whole. Japan we are bungling this phase. it. Gordon Walker declared In shifting from feudalisbi id dö- that is was common police for mocracy, we seem to have lost Commoting like juembers, of inter- the family, which is as important national, sauterenceăl lui meet, in- as equality,"
ily, ng), toʻ gang up- or pros cominen, plan, but to "exi Dr. Ayusawa said he felt, tjjal Albyn: Vlewa' and learn) dual- an- the, démocratie pročnas' was go