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GUTTINGER On June 21. 1940, n St. Paul's Hospital, to Mr. and Mrs. (). Guttinger, a son (Peter Oscar).
A DANGEROUS COMPLACENCY
J11
THẺ CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, JUNE 22, 1948.
SMUTS KEPT HIS DR. BENES HAPPY
APPOINTMENT
I was seeing them rot so much as contributing to his recent elec- "There comes to England from Individuals as items in a vast tion eclipse. the outer marches of the Empire evolutionary process which,
he Smuts has been publicly do- A new and altogether extra- leaves you In no doubt, he is fented before and, as a philo- ordinary man."
sopher-statesman, of the order of i So wrote Winston Churchill in destined to assist.
Now and again he has stepped | Haldane and Balfour, he *hos 1017. when General Smuts nr- out in a forceful way to demon-been well equipped to accept rive to take his place in thestrate this, to play this predesin-kuch a reverse. Imperial War Cabinet.
ed role, as he seems to conceive Hs tragedy for the future may Except for one word, and that, of being picked by Providence be that he is too well equipped. not "extraordinars." the phrase for spatial duty holds, ng good thers 30 vours at- So much so that it has seemed ler. Tiny Field Marshal Smuts to many that he has on ocension comes ont àpats among us, this Hme to Recent 19.0 Chahellor
hh of the University of "Cam- (bricior. "
Extraordinary we must allow that he is still, though, the Came idee graduate of the tate olehties has reached n'patriar
Inst phase. Ask the carlca- turiata,
They will fell you the lenet self-ramplacent of the tribe, at any rate-thal no world are nur tim is harder to "a" ihan Smuts trom South Afrien
perential personality has Tule always given them the slin. alone cinecifies him as extenne- There is oint in the pve that they never can fix even the deftest of them.
Unique Voice
The one it to their profession te hie tendency to be, or to look. kempote-knnert.
it
<tlh and cherished by . CAMP of tham though that minor physical characteristic became Tess ob- vious when breeches and nutters Service
The
went out of fashion absence of any we In the evidence of direct Russian fact is that, alege sanone intervention South-East the outstanding men of our day, Asia, there is an inclination Smuts's character has Always in some quarters to dismiss been better known than his per-
sonality. the Communist outbreaks os
That is why the professional
They can get the ne musical pitch of his voice they cannot imitate fire
La passing phenomenon, with | mimiys have seldom included him [ it underlying meaning exage | in
in their lists of sublerts and se gerated. That is the most tins dangerous form of com. placency. Russian contacts Bections Theer nye so mammal are doubtless meagre, but that they baffle even the South there is plenty of evidence Africans.
The history of hit perenainlits
of Soviet hopes in the region. Indeed, unusual. If not a lit- and more to show how well tie peculiar.. many of the leaders of the movement have been school-
ed in traditional Communist tactics. The
of process events has demonstrated con- vincingly that, for instance, the outbreak of violence in Malaya conformed to a time schedule, and that everything
A Man Was Born
nat
Oner he changed so much that his father and other did recone him. the Boer War. He went into it weedy, beat-shmildered, for ever conversing with the pavements.
That was during;
When he came back he stood
is being done to prevent the at the old home door and they economic rehabilitation of did not know him.
Burma, Indonesia and Indo-
men.
By Reginald Pound
come near to the melbods, if not the alms, of dictatorship.
South African history provides the illustrations not the justi- Bentions, But it must be said to to those not aware of it-and they are quite a large number- that the name et General Smuts has not the same resounding ring in South Afrlen that it has in the wider world.
Food-many-yöare now he has been on an equal footing with the great ones of the world. He has helped to shape' events. Not even his fercest critic can deny that he has had an appoint- ment with destiny...
Compensation?
IN RETIREMENT
Prague, Juno 20. A close friend of Dr. Eduard Bones, who has boon in touch with the former President since his ro- signation on June 7, gave me the following picture of Dr. Bones in rotiromont, writes Syd- -ney Brookes, Reuters correspondent, today. After his resignation, he seemed much relieved. He sees his task as a statesman ended and he will spend the rest of his life watching the inter- national situation, the working of the new re- gime in Czechoslovakia, and in finishing his _memoirs
a' forewell broadcast as he did after Munich. He found this im-
The second volume of the resign but his wish to speak to Now it may be that his life will contract into a much smaller memoirs, covering a period the nation was frustrated.
As the Constitution demand- circle of experience. He may from his arrival in Britain in find himself withdrawn from the October, 1938, to the signature ed, Presidential statements had to hemispheres, of the world buck of the Czech-Soviet treaty in approved by the Prime Min into the bounds of the parish. December, 1943, was published ister. Dr. Benes hoped to make
Politically, this may no langer last Christmas. worry him much. Intellectually. The first 200,000 coples have possible and retired to the coun- it may.
been sold out. A second printing Sixty years ago he left Cam-of 50,000 copies was recently try.
As after Munich, he could see bridge with
rissued. The
The publishing firm is no chanco of changing tho servations about the propriety of State-owned.
Dr. Benes hopes to publish the course of events without the risk of bloodshed and International It may be that his appointment Brat volume before the end of complication.
life there.
some marked T
Com-
It has not been merely an ex- now to the university's highest
Nobody expects President ample of the prophet being un-place and greatest honour wil this year. It will cover Munich,
Benes to take part in further honoured in his own country; in find him not only refreshing his about which Dr. Denes and the
Communists differ. The memories but revising his ideas munists maintain that Dr. Benes not bad, ond will be better
political activity. His health 1# | fact, far from it.
It is, rather, that he has been about . It will probably com- should have chosen war Instead he is able to rest. too much honoured in the wider pensate,
of enpitulation, as they beliove world. This, it now seems clear, for the intellectual restrictions that Germany was insuficiently was not the least of the factors that might otherwise be his.
prepared.
in
generous
meusure.
ANOTHER JOB FOR MOUNTBATTEN
London, June 20.
Given Castic
Dr. Benes, agreas that Hltlar The Government bas given was not so well prepared, but him Lany Castle, and will prob- argues that the Alilee vare ably
provide staff and guards, but he may use
to even lone prepared."
it only house the large private library The last dume deals with the and archives which he has perlai from the beginning of gathered over the past 30 years. 1944 to the return to Prague
Mrs. Benes has found a flat in 1945, including the negotiations Prague, near the Czernin Palace, with the Communists for re-es- and Mrs. Benes and a niece will
the tablishing
Czechoslovak stay an
Government.
Health Damaged
in
stay in isolated villa near the
кра ог
of Tatra Lomnien, in The Tatra Mountains, and it is un- likely that the public will hear of them again until_the_new
of volume of memoirs is ready for hls publication, in October or later.
Lord Mountbatten should be sent to Singapore to handic the outbreak of lawless- noss in Malaya, a "Sunday Chroniclo" article by Mr. George Bishop stated today."
Dr. Benea, a descendant Czech persants. after all "Today, the jungle politicians and professional years nt the Sorbonne, Versailles, Reuter
Geneva, Hradcin Castle and murderers-they are all the same--are open Lang, clings to his small pro- ly busy with the Stalin paint pot, doubingperty at Sezimovo Ustl, with the age, South East Asia bright red," the article stated. vil he built for his old
and the garden where every tree
Dentists Refuse To Cooperate
Birmingham, June 20.
is Dr.
"They are endeavouring to and plant were set by himself smear the countries still in the and his wife.
A neighbour
Zdenek Empire or recently liberated Fierlinger, the Social Democrat by our Socialist Government who played a leading role in the with theories that can only be Moscow negotiations, who was Ingged 'Made In Moscow'. And first Prime Minister in 1945, and day by day more British blood who has now led his party into is spilled."
a fusion with the Communista.
President Benca covering from Hiness when the strain of the February, events this year damaged his health. He did not want to change his doctors and his friends believe that he continued too long un.
The article referred to a book "The Malayan People's United Front" published after Cum- munists from all parts of Asia The Representative Board of had met in Harbin, Manchuria, to- the British Dental Association, wards the end of 1947. whose membership total 8,000
decided
This book, it said, appeared
tish Government.
พล 10-
Few US Weapons For Europe
Washington, June 19.
1
The United States has ro- luctantly decided it can send only very sma!! quantities of Americon arms and ammunition to Western European Nations during 1948, government officials reported on Saturday.
Only-a-grave European crisis.........! involving Russia I could cause the Admi Administration to reversC tFla Hia personal physiolan for decision-and then only if Con-
der unsuitable medical advice.
many... years was known beat * specialist In woman's dingases.
22
This unexpected, comm” nella China as well as Malaya.figure was a stranger I thos
The war had made him Once something like the old parts. level of prosperity could be not only-a man but-n-lender of restored in these regions, the It had also taught him to people sharing reasonably in augh a little, and that was part out of Britain's 15,000 dentists, with the knowledge of the Bil- the proceeds, and an atmos-of the strangeness about him.
here today, by an
Eress gives special approval..
"The oficial" who disclosed this phere of greater general con- He still does not laugh, too overwhelming majority, not to
It told Asiatics "not to be
acknowledged that the policy, was lentment created, Commun- easily, is keen blue eye and take part in the Labour Gov-
about the legal, way
certain to mean o serious dla- ist hopes of seizing power for its continuing Llueness at near ernment's new National Health squeamish
of loing things" and its seati 80 is another
Few Czech doctors have been appointment to European govern- extraordinary Service. themselves would be destroy thing about, him-still looks cold.
ments were now, being put into able to keep abreast of medical ments that want substantial The The aim o
Minister of practice. ed. It is for this reason that Yet his handelasp may be warm.
science and
have quantities of American military emigrated. during the war did equipment as quickly as possible. all over the area the Com- There are still-those-contradic-lealth. Mr. Aneurin Bevan, was
The decision, however, reflects After stating that the High- tions in his nature..
to provide dental service for
not return--and Czechoslovakla munists minorities are
everybody under his scheme. Commissioner, Sir Edward Gent,
has had financial dificulties in the State Department's basic be- enforce not
the death doubling their efforts to dis- For instance, he is spoken of which brings every person In the could
as "Jnnnie,"
under but country locate production and under- affectionately
the compulsory penalty because he has not enough securing the new drugs developer that Russia plans no direct oggression against any European ed in the West. men, the article concluded: "There
country during the next olx is one man who can handle this
montha The doctors decided
co-)
situation-Ear Mountbatten. He operate after prolonged argument is respected in Malaya und hils and, Ministerial concessions.
mine the efforts of the vari-not by as many people as per- health in
still
ous administrations.
In Burma, where the first Independent Burmese Gov- ernment is struggling to find its feet, Communist bands
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haps he, could wish. He
wears a mask of aloofness that is apt to put you off.
From The Veldt
Не
to
rance.
Something of this appears to w have stayed with him. Many people meeting him have felt it. CARNIVAL
They have felt that Jan Smuts
Search For Missing Couple
New York, Juno 20. Two Army bombers were bo- ginning-a-search-today-for-the amphibious joep in which Major Benjamin Carlin, of Perth, Aus- tralia, and his American wife are trying to sail to the Azores on the first leg of their proposed round-the-world trip.
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Sun Stroke.
Countries which have appealed to the United States for arms Lack of the best medical at include Norway and Denmark tention retarded Dr. Benes' re- who want "minimum amounts" covery. He suffered a sun stroke of rifles, guns, tanks and urtillery. "He foaves India on Tuesday. Inst summer which led to an car-Associated Press.. If he can be persuaded to re-inflammation and a breakdown turn to his old headquarters at of the nerves leading to the low-
Rome, June, 20. the Cathay skycraper in Biner jaw, so that, for a time, his gapore, South East Asia can be speech was impeded.
Twelve persons were drowned saved.
When Dr. Benes left, Hradcin today when a wharf collapsed at Castle
20 on February
for Strasa and, plunged about 30 in- ... Usti, he intended to to the water.Associated Press.
-Reuter.
By Dick Turneṛ
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The Board here today decided to send a letter to all member This aloofness. which is not dentists urging them to remain are in open insurrection and entirely of the intellect, as some outside the service. A statement Government parties cannot people seem suppose. is which they issued said "Members agree whether to seek peace thought -10 have its origin in are profoundly dissatisfied with with them
conditions of or to put them the
his earliest the
the completa refusal of the Minis- was born amid theter to grant any of the Associa tlown. In Indo-China, Com-years.
"If not, there is little hope for | Sezimovo great spaces, with' towering dis- tion's basic principles, and with munist forces under Ho Chitant mountairs to intensify the the hurried way the remunera- the future of Europeans there be Minh, leader of the so-called sense of the illimitable and the tion-negotiations were carried hoy-British Dutch or French" Việt- Minh Government, remote
through:"-Reuter. stand in control of much of the Northern Across the sea in Indonesia, the Communists' driving force in opposition to the In- donesian Government seek to lay hold of trade union and youth organisations in a familiar manner and are gaining ground in the army." And where does Russia enter into all this? In sev- eral speeches before the war, Stalin openly pointed to the opportunities for spreading the Communist gospel in this area. He, several times told his audiences not to become too much engrossed In Although the craft is nited shortwave radio, no capitalist strongholds but to with look to the peoples, coming message has been received fram them since they left New Nork nationhood awalting Harbour last Wednesday. If the leadership. When he ad- bombers fail to sight them today, dressed the 16th Congress of the Coastguard will begla_a, full- the Communist Party of the scale search by air and sea.
Reuter. Soviet Union in 1930 he list- ed the countries by name. "As for India, Indo-China and Indonesia the rise of a revolutionary movement in these countries, sometimes The "go slow" 'strike of ma- taking the form of a national chanics of the Canton-Kowloon war for liberation, cannot be Railway, whleh etarted about a week ago, is over, according to doubted." The issue might
Local report.. be obscured, he said, by The disputo-is-reported-by-the "liberal reformers"--he nam Tai Kwong Pao" to have been
settled by the railway authori ed Gandhi among them-but
man higher he left no doubt of his ties granting the
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