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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 1948.---
The American political scene-cables Richard Hughes, from Tokyo has been electrified by the news that General MacArthur-would-accept the Pre- sidency of the United States, if the people coll on him to do so. He has said himself he will not seek `nomination.
WILL THE US CALL ON MACARTHUR
Imperial
H watches his diet and his health. He never nitende social functions at night. He has do scribed his physical condition in curious bulletin. which his
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deep and abiding debt to a celebrated American, dye.
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THE MAN WHO SAID "GO TO IT"
By RAYMOND FOXALL
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Thirty-three of Mr... Herbert of the bus, underground Morrison's 60 years have been tram services of London into
corporation spent working towards his pre-pubile
under the sent high rank among. Britis. name of the London Passenger
The
outstanding Transport Board.
slotcamen.
political career which has
brought him now to the honour- The Morrison Shelter ed-position-of-Lord-President-of- the Council and Leader of Bri
Following Council Meetings
D
firat Minister
....1
"
Britain's
The General, who greets, his on the United States for one day tain's House of Commons, began By the time World War II Despite his age and atrenuous life, there are no physical rea-wife, twenty-one years his junior, and then surrender on only one when, as a man of 27, he became came in 1939, Mr. Morrison was con- part-time Secretary of newly- national figure. Witen: Mr. sons why, General MacArthur with an unashamed, old-fashion-condition-that MacArthur
asks what there, is irg) the U.S. occupation of Bri-formed London Labour PartyChurchill, formell his Coalition should not run and oven endure ed embrace,
1040. Herbert at one pound a week. Indeed, he Government in
Morrison bechme Fundamentally, the "Guide to helped to found 11. MORRISON—At Kowloon Hasan atomle full term in the White for lunch and lends the way la talu."
House.
to the long. lofty, cool dining-
of Supply, But he held this forma" that influenced - a recent pital on June 9th 1048 to He will be 08 in January and room. Juan Pauline, wite al elec would, therefore, be almost
In those early days there seem-position only for a few months. He eats well but simply and ten-to-one odds against Mac- 09 live Sub-Inspector W. G.
before
he could take office, itsparingly. There are no cocktails, Arthur was his godlike remote-ed little possibility that he would While he was Lender of the Lon-
ond few with its implications and become famous,
mondon
don County Council the city's civil Morrison, a dinughter, Sally-
nest, no wines. elected.
hnd been Ann. Mother and daughter He
have had to work harder to at defence organisation works his unfailing ten Throughout the ment he mala-vulnerabilites. well.
The current surprising swing tain such distinction He was developed and from Minister of hour daily, shift is the American tains an effortless, brilliant Bow
ap-born and bred a Londoner. He Supply he became Britain's Home Embassy and in his headquarters of colourful reminiscence, force in his favour in Tokyo is
not to came into the world; on January Secretary and Minister of Home in the handsome whlie-pillared ful opinion and persuasive argu-parently attributable,
Improvement In orderly any realistie
in 3, 1888. In a suburban, home, the Security. He was responsible for SOUTH AFRICA Dai leht building overlooking the mentall marshulted
maal,, ancient walls
inform, but to these two factors. son of a Metropoliten policeman, civil defence measures when the and and sequence
prosented error to wristed
(1) It would be an
The lumbering visit of eloquent, quotable language, but
flying bombs and rockets were pines of the
Colonel Bertie M'Cormick, an After the age of 14 he had to
ised against southern England. explain the result of the Palace in Tokyo.
all rigidly "off the record."
old friend of his and publisher rely on his own studies to fur- and he administered the Defence |South African election by
British-hating
ther his education-hn had at- Regulations designed to pravont "Chicago
tended only па Tribune South African causes. It is
elementary" - "arth column" igctivities in Bri- All the time, however, the visi. (2) A new pious. theory that school and his first job was that fain. Incidentally, as Chairman an example of a world-wide
tor is conscious of an Imperial MacArthur might be able to con- of errand boy, his second a shop of the Civil Defence Committee phenomenon, So universal
aloofness, of a great mind in al
duct n Presidential campaign assistant and his third a tele-of the War Cabinet which, he that in the sphere of political physician signed,
ivory tower. of a supreme de from his ivory tower, holding phone operator in a brewery,
Joined in 1942, Mr. Marrison gave tachment from the Asiatle
his name in aloof from, the normal below-the-i
to the famous metal science it may be regarded❘tructible."
Pageant
trigue and routine hurly-burly of belt exchanges of the Presiden-, as a natural law. Where a
air raid shelter which would luke bost al
the weight of a collapsing house. lal hustings, appearing only His nation with free clectoral
hand trembles when he the Occupation scene--all
summed up, perhaps, in the Oc- certain koy U.S. rallies before
The man who had played inlo
his pipe. His face, aght
al- institutions
jest, "On a clear
leading part in the preparations cupation
day organised claques, speaking by peculiarly great war, the election held though unlined, is
insuits waxilke,
rote, ignoring unworthy
But, this man, whose faith in and plans which led to the La- bloodless
and you can see MacArthur,"
He has ruled by remote after the war will go against rumour, whispers that his dark
and or difficult questions, issuing Re- his country and her future al- bour victory in the General Elec- insulate absolute control, Ни
directives which
publican the party
was in brown hair, whisked back from,
In... etern, rendy turned with a steady flame, tion of 1945, now hold one of
posts in the soldierly but democratic language early took an interest in political the highest power when the war began. [a-deep right-hand parting, owes personal acquaintance with
Japanese scene has been restrict--in short, "spéilbinding "'em".
life. He helped in municipal Government. In this important The sequels to two world
ed to one trip on the bombruited
elections. He studied local Gov-post he exercises a general shop- from Yokohama rond
and wars show in all the demo-
ernment in the only way he coulding Influence under the Prime hear sitting in the public gallery of Minister
on the eratic countries which took
ally imperial passage
Isolated Embassy bla
programme be the Town Hall, Lambeth, Lon-total part in either of them, as
don, downtown headquarters,
for every council meeting legislation. for as I can remember, few
for three years,
agendas. The crowd gathers three to that any exceptions to
four trep on each side of the ite
aft joined the Independent Labour what a capacity he had for work, His slightest grumplly, having evidently and Party, spoke at open-air meet-but he libs never worked harder Contrary to what is often lowering square white pillars of
the Dai Ichi. The great man wish is low-if only superficially reluctantly satisfled himself of ings street corners, wrote than he does today, for his du- supposed, experience does descends the steps debonnairely and temporarily, as his critles the well-known fact that
Mac- clear,
sincere, concise articles, is not only include respons- alde, takes n salute ha
Britain's ibility for de-Arthur will run only if, in his He was always learning, always.
n's Department charge-to
million not suggest that war in it- |with
eighty
Judgment, the risk of électoral teaching himselt by both self. leads to the victory of haluntly, passes through the feated but docile people.
fact of Belentific and Industrial Re- juvenue of Cellcking-enmeras - andi
He has Olympian stature. Nos defeat is as low as was the risk and experience,
search" and "the Central Omer of either Left or Right. It des
is driven off in his black five-
eror in history has other conqueror
of military defent at the signing
which leads
of the committees to the victory of Sturred Cadillac, while traffic
accepted so willingly of the surrender aboard U.S.S. the side which was in up-respectfully banked up on both ever been
the Labour Party's newspaper, supervise and review the polley and happily by the main intersection, at
the conquered. Missouri.
Citizen" on Factor No. 2 is clearly one of "The Daily
deputy
and working of the Government Few other conquerors have position when participation des
which the MP. and Japanese haved with such generosity and the
at home Creat Imponderables
circulation
Information Services manager. For 21 Info in the war began. In Bri- traffic cops stand transfixed
tolerance to the conquered. plausible only because it in years, between World Wars 1 an overseas; and is share with tain after the first War R
in estate solute. "I
novel, speculative and essentially and II, he was full-time Secree. Postmaster General of the had the honour
"Aid For Britain' have
broadcasting was the Conservatives who
unpredictable. Boiled down, it re-tary of the London Labour Party, responsibility for profited by the rule, and unching with the General and
One disillusioned "Old Japan presents the only real or attempt developing its ideas and shaping policy. As Leader of the House his charming wife in the white, | Hand" proffered this suggestion et basis for justification of the its destiny.
of Commons ho to in charge of after the second the Social-
Moorish-style American Em- for insuring increased-aid for increased
the legislative time-table. Tokyo, backing for, In the United States hussy. ists.
Work Britain: "Let Ailler declare war MacArthur for President.
of Hackney, London suburb, Pressure of Work It was the Republicans both times. In each of those comment current cases sought local and doctrinal explanations for what had happened; whereas a wider survey shows that it was due much wider cause. General Smuts, therefore, if he had won the election.
to
a
would have done a very re- markable thing. He would have broken a universal rule.
His lunch-lime departure from his office at 2 or 2.30. p.m. is still the best free Tokyo.
his
sides of the
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in
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off
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between From inside reports and his here, there would appear to
little doubt that the influence of His. directives are accepted factor No. 1 has been grossly with unquestioning obedience by exaggerated.
-occupants and by the
Japanese
UP OF
SPEEDING UP
REPARATIONS
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due to
ཏ་་་་:
London, June 8.
has been
be-
The Colonel mumbled
Truman Heading For Trouble
following the ings.
He
Government's
of domestic
. His earlier. history had shown
In 1913 he joined the stuff of "rmation, but tho Chairman-
In 1920 he was elected --Mayor
and two years later he was You turned as Labour member for East Woolwich
In August, 1943, when the on the London County Council, the greatest local Prime Minister, Mr. Attlee, at- Government organisation in
Bri-
tonded the Potsdam Conference, tain, on which he was elected an and again in the November of alderman in 1931. Eventually, same year when the Prime from 1934-40, he became Leader. Morrison acted as hand of Minister went to Washington, of Aboard The Presidential
the Counell. His term of Train, June 9, office saw six years of major de- the Government. It was in 1945, great pressure of President Truman-today--09- velopments in the administration too, that this
work caused him to end his long cured of the "100 per cent sup: London's new Waterloo Bridge
of the capital. The erection of
connection with the London port of Idaho's 12 delegates 10
County Council. -
to
ridp
is
the
Plans to speed reparations deliveries from Germany
to the Allied powers are being discussed be tween Sir William Strong, head of the German the Democratic National Con but one example of the planning vention, headed into Montana which bore fruit during that section of the Foreign Office, and the French
Vitally energetic though he is, where criticism. of hia tour period.
it is dimcult to imagine how he The rule just stated is a
and United States Ambassadors in London, M.
threatened_to_mar his appearance very weak feature-possibly
-1923-the-suburb-of-which also has found time to achieve Rene Massigli and Mr. Lewis Douglas.
at a a Butte party on Tuesday. n had
hp the weakest in the working
been Mayor returned distinction as swriter. In 1933 night.
him a Member, for Parliament, he wrote a book--"Socialisation of democracy based on free
Allocations of German plant tnod of continuing to work out
criticism stemmed from votes. For after a war it
other volume dalled "How Great- be dismantled under allocations in spite of the breake Truman's refusal to permait local The man who had taught him and Transport," and "In 1935 an- self focal adminiation and hader London Is Governed," appear down of
leaders the Berlin Control Democratle will nearly always, irrespec- the agreed tive of party, be in the trimme are the responsibility Council, to avoid the shipments through their state on his special helped to run a city was now to ed of which he was the author,
begin the task of helping nation's interest to continue of the four-power Allied Con-of reparations being brought to train, a traditional procedure with shape the destiny of Britain. He while in 1043 he published a
when the plant.
ready presidential candidates.
held his seat in l'arliament from
third book, "Looking Ahead." for a while the pre-war govtrol Council-in-Berlin. They
Yesterday Lester H. Loble, 1923-24, from 1920-31 -and-from If it were possible to give-a- ernment; which, fust because have been held up since the and packed.
Montana Blate Democratic Chair 1935 onwards. He was chairman snapshot picture of the Rt. Hon. Counell censed to function at A Foreign Office spokesman man, joined in the criticism of of the Labour Party's National Herbert Morrison,
M.P., it represents continuity, is
The end of March.
said tonight that the
discussions generally better qualified to
The three Western occupation did not imply any move in ruman's conduct on his westem Executive Committee in 1928-29, determined man who climbed the
tour.-United Press.
and when, Labour, was returned hurd way on every rung to fame, restore national life quickly
powers are now seeking a mo- crease the total Germon repara-
to offer in 1929, he was appoint- it would be, not by describing tions liability. He added that re- to normal. Instead, we get
ed Minister of Transport by: the the quiff of hair by which the new governments in power the world. Society. Smuts's
the Bovlat
late Mr. Ramsay, MacDonald, a cartoonists -have- characterized 05 well as to the West
Vatican City, June 9. former Prime Ministep of Britain) hime-but by a historiė), slogan impelled to impede that pro- great qualities might well European states, had so far con- Pope Pius will-leave the It was then, the plans were which he coined in 1040 "Go cess by doing a lot of new have found renewed, acope
tinued without interruption Vatican for his annual vacation of completed for the transformation To It," they fancy in the years immediately Keparations things which
from Germany lits summer residence in Costel- themselves both authorised before us, while the United source,
were not, according to a refluble gandolfo, 25 miles outside Rome discussed at the six-| Itçmediately following, the pecrat and pledged to do. The Nations organisation breasts period following a war, when the waves raised by the at- the state of any ex-belliger-titude of Russia, and the ent nation so much resembles Commonwealth,, augmented that of a convalescent after by the accessions of India, serious illness is really the Pakistan and Ceylon, feels least favourable occasion for
its way towards new launching such changes,
formulations of mutual aid and common defence.
Issue
Three years after victory these reflections still apply to South Africa. Externally The Commonwealth tt confronts a situation in which the principle that
Whất of the new Govern- unlon is strength asserts it- self with more cogency than ment's attitude towards these. ever before. South Africa problems, and particularly is a member of the British towards the Commonwealth? Commonwealth and also of Dr. Malan, its lender, is a United Nations. The first is Republican, and his polley still partly, the second regarding the Common- wholly, an experiment. But wealth is secession. But in they are very great exper- his attempt to win over cer- The System of the Hyang Oppiments; and without that of tain classes of the English- Trade Mack Pan
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being, and the smallness of Now in relation Both to his majority should help to the Commonwealth and to keep it there. Any harm United Nations it has been done by him to. Commo a great gain to South Africa Wealth interests will be negde to be reprosented.by, a states live. South Africa, under man like Général Smuts, Smuts might have been a whose international reputa-fertile source of suggestion, tion for sathcity" and co-of-help, of wisdom for the operativeness standa second ovolving organisation. Under to nong in the worlds It has Dr. Malan It is, les fikely been no less again to the to furnish any of these Brillen. Commonwealth, and things.
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