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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JULY 9, 1948.
What Mr Dewey's Triumph BERLIN BRITISH
Means For Britain
The Philadelphia story ended in charge of his various vote-get- Well, Arst Dewey has to beat
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as all good melodrama should. ting divisions He had more President Truman in the Novem- The young and handsome hero propaganda But publicity ax ber election. Many here are triumphed. The rivals were de perts than the rest put together. saying he has done that already, fcated, the obstacles overcome. And all worked
It is a hot summer's evening in according to plan. And there seems hot very much
Already the German housewife No one was very surprised by
The machine shattered the op-doubt that the strategy and tac- Berlin, and
raagnificent has so little electricity that the position and fajttred charly re-ties which mastered this Conven- lakeside hours in tho British cannot put on a 100-watt bulb for Govenor Thomas E. Dewey. Telephoras:
All week he had forecast vic-leularly, emerged without grace and the Democrats.
Guests walk through the leafr And now Britain's Mrs. Smith is tory, and when the dazzling mo- from the Convention. The Tho
Republicans, led by the gardens under the lime trees as facing the same shortage. Reporters & General Office 32313 ment came he was ready for 11. armour of the shining "white bouncing. brilliant young Gover though It were Ascot · Week. "This le midsummer, there are Much (four lines)
even to the acceptance speech, Knight" from the Middle West nor, are already so confident of They eat little canapes, cheese many hours of daylight.. written days before and polished was tarnished. Towards the end victory that they taste it now, spreads on toast, crisp riazoles can be done by getting up early Subscription Rates:
and pruned and perfected till he dumped his Liberalism.
For 18 years the party has been and the other things that go wits and going to bed early." Bad the ideals overboard and was trying hungry and.
runs the omelal notice. one and sparkled like Presidential candidate himself. frantically to make deals with They control us for power. drinks.
afinost everything Until in few days ago. Now In Philadelphia they are say anyone whatever their political else the big factories, the big Berlin's Britons are entering a ing: "The machine", won," "It complexion
banks, the huge chains of shops, state of slege in real earnest, and Vandenberg, much touted and many of the great organs of pub- have to tighten their helts.
. Parties involving transport for Dewey, a superb technician, probably Britain's favourite Ility, the movies, and the mar
more than a few guosis are not was arid is at the controls of an candidate, was the enigma of kols, but they want the White
to be held. claborate,
efficient Philadelphia: effortlessly
An aged
They cherub House.
will probably
It may sound luxurious to give political organisation- 1948
secure it.
Their sport, their light, their a cocktail party in Berlin at all model, streamlined, supercharg~
Mr.
and Dewey, the small-town boy clubs, their cinemas who wanted to be a singer, found motoring are
thelot this time, but remember that powerful, and
being cut to save the British are thrown back on himself a lawyer's clerk, became the people of Berlin from cold themselves and the other West-
'district attorney, and used the
and starvation.
em Ailies. attorneyship as a springboard to the Governor's mansion of New York, is a two-to-ano odds-on favourite as the next President of the United States.
Democrats doubt Even many that he can be blocked.
They stunned are
bewildered, somewhat aghast at the task be- tore them.
to of
BIRTH
KEATING: On July 8, 1948, oted, gigantically
the Queen Mary Hospital, quite ruthless.
While Senator Taft floundered wile Angela (Jackie).
Stassen ballyhoond and blustered, Victor Keating, Major
for and Vandenberg sat silent, Dewey II. A. M. C..
brother д Adrian, London Telegraph pulled the switches, please copy).
CAUSE
the
Almost it seemed at the end that the business was too cut and arled, too well etage, managed, Ittle Inhuman in its perfection.
Rivals All 'Left'
"raliroaded". is
an antique word by the Dewey standards. His mode of trons. part is much more modern, - Ile lies much faster. And he spares
othing and no cne.
By
DON IDDON
with cheroof, he just ant still and murmured that he was will Ing to be draftedt. Ho lifted not one of his finger to pull even the smallest of Atrings. The Dewey nvalanche swept hip aside.
General's Eclipse
corner.
was
a
and
M-Plan Is Safe
If Dewey wine-and the word There is "when." not ""-they
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To Aid Berliners
By...
So-called social life in Berlin centre round the Embassy Club, formerly the Creation Embassy, a vasi aquarish house, with steps and many halls, and a minstrela'
John Fishery
We
for,
There you could dance until 11.30 in the evening, and could cat earp patties, an omelette, a AND EFFECT
But now And these cuts mean far more mixed grill, or a stealt. The article in
The Democrais, at course, Bre
10 Britons in Berlin than they you cat what is on the menu and, American-controlled "China | shouting that the Convention was
would if introduced into England. like it. And leave of 10,
The Western Allied authorities I don't want to give the im- Economist" charging Hong "railroaded" by the New York
have been turning their various
pression that all the British in Governor. But Kong with heavy respon-
luto a garrison Berita have been eating steaks Taft, honest, painstaking, was win by The Marshall Stan Berlin sectors
haven't the sibility for the deterioration
Incessantly. They out of his depth He conducted eign policy. The Marshall Plan
city. of China's economy is such
an old-fashioned campaign and is safe, the Anglo-American part-
But some- have 2,000,000 German time, or the money. not endangered,
the mouths to feed, including more times they have to go out for was left breathless at the first nership a typical example of con-
Isolationists remain unembraced. than 600,000 in the British Ruc- food!. fused thinking presented as
MacArthur
The Dowey platform is not
Cuts in motoring too will mean The Dawey organisation in this
never registered,
There are about 1,000 Bri- judicial analysis that it Convention city made those of Speaker Joe Martin
liberal and is pledged to Inter-ish ometals and more than twice real hardship in the British sec- scarcely merits
cipher, and Governor, Warren, of nationalism. However, it is quite that number of American and tor, which is a great sprawling contradic-s rivals look like creaking two-
be no pro-
French offcials, Everything was California was joining the Dewey certain that there will
triangle with practically no. way lion. But for the fact that cylinder. jobs.
Dewey gifts victory parade and hoisting ban digat expenditure by a
There are also about 3,000 Bri- of getting about without a car. it has gained a tremendous-organised, from the free
and Administration on European re-
almnat tish and
troops,
But the British in Berlin ner even before the third bathing costume shows to the ly wider field of circulation
covery. decisive ballot.
Every dollar, and per- American troops, and about 1,500 gainers in one important respect rumour factory.
by the What does the Dewey triumph haps every cent, will be checked French soldiers.
new restrictions. They through the agency of Reu- He had lieutenants, young,
and carefully allocated.
have once more what they had ter, the inclination_to_ignore eager, and as tireless as himself, mean for Britain?
when they first came to Berlin it would be strong.
In 1945, the sense of mission.
ence They know
more why they are here. They feel once more that it is worth while, and some of them, at least, are al- And now we have taken our most exalted when they realise dispositions for the battle against that at last the Germans in Ber- darkness for that is what it is in think it is worth while too. We hirve coal for about 20 days For Berliners are impressed by in the three Werter sectors. the Western determination to The Russians have about 40 daya dig in and stay-whatever hap- supply.
some
War
EXPERTS BUSY.
AIR DISASTER
ON
London, July 8.
Aviation experts wero today asking two main ques- tions about Sunday's air collision near London between a Scandinavian airliner and a British York aircraft in which 39 were killed, includ- ing Sir Edward Gent, High Commissioner for the Malayan Federation.
The questions were: Firstly, were the two aircraft fying at the same height, and, if so, why?
JAPANESE DOCTOR IN
The Republicans and Dewey. their leader, represent Capitailsm and the capitalist economy. They live in the citade) of free, hlmost
licentious, enterprise. They will not strain themselves to bolster or support the Socialist govern- ments of Europe.
The first thing that Dewey will probably tackle is to set fire to the dead wood in his party.. He is an ardent bellever in youth, the apostle of efficiency and mo- dem methods. The old men and old ideas will be scrapped. He has surrounded himself with! bright and alert brains.
They
have been loyal and will be re- warded.
There will, of course, be a clean sweep in the Cabinet, Gen- eral Marshall will go along with the rest.
Early To Bed.
The Russians
do
as
many
not have
any troops in Berlin, but they
three arndes
crowding around the outskirts.
have
pene.
POLAND'S PROTEST
REJECTED
Washington, July 7.
The new team will be Dewey- The United States has rejected Polond's protest
vicked and Deway-dominated.
It would be untrue to report that the young Governor is а deeply loved
CHINESE ARMY popular man.
or
tremendously He has come up too far, too fast, ton cockily to be an idol.
against the policies of the Western Powers in Germany.
As with nearly all the ac-
have cusations that
been levelled against Hong Kong in connection with the flight of capital from Shanghai, with speculation and with smuggling, it is most note- worthy for its utter failure to distinguish between cause and effect.
be It would ridiculous to argue that flight of capital has caused the grave deterioration of China's economy. The truth is obtained by reversing the clauses. China's -ils are to extent the result of
of eight years
with Japan. To a much greater
Secondly, did the Swedish extent they are the result captain announce his intention of a civil war which while to return to Amsterdam with- new course defying decision has bled out obtaining a the country of much of its from the ground control in the
London control area? material wealth, of the un-
Neither question can be solved
Nanking, July, 3. Wors The Press restrained use of currency until every possible detall of Captain Iwamoto Hitosaku, printing-presses, of corrup-evidence has been scrutinised. 36-year-old Japanese officer, to know Tom Dewey very well tion on an appalling scale Preliminary investigations and maladministration now proceeding and on the evi-left here today for Japan on in order to dislike him. There
of
from the Chinese are many unkind comments generally. The thousands of dence gathered in the next few furlough
days, Lord Pakenham, the Minis- army, in which he has been about his speeches being the best. millions of gold dollars pour-ter of Civil Aviation, is expect serving as a doctor since the that money can buy, about his height (the story is that he poses led into China after Pearled to decide whether the colli- Japanese surrender.
Harbour, the gigantic effort sion should be the subject of a
Saying he would be returning for formal photographs sitting on of UNRRA to provide the public court of enquiry.
soon with his wife and children, telephone directories), about his Danish polica investigating Hitosaku entrained for Shanghai go
and Al
machine-stumped impetus to swift recovery, officers were due to arrive to- while the Chinese army In personality.
have always found him most should have placed China in day to help in the enquiries.
Nanking commemorated the A leading aviation expert told anniversary of the Marco Polo acceptable and accessible. HIS a powerful position econo-
Berlin, July 0. Bridge incident in which the first relations with the Press used to mically within a year or two Reuter today? "Every shred
evidence will have to be sifted shot of the Sino-Japanese
Now poor.
he almost British intelligence circles after Japan's surrender.
to find, an answer to these two was fired in 1937.
straining himself to exude the here believed tonight that charm-calling There was every expectation vital questions.”
reportera "Sir" that she
He was in Manchuria at that and complimenting them on the document, as-published in If would emerge
court
enquiry is order-time and after fought with the astuteness of their questions. Paris newspaper purporting stronger than ever before ined, it will be the third in Bri-
When the war army. Japanese
He was in top form in all his to disclose a Communist "rlot tish aviation history. The first ended the Chinese enlisted him Press conferences in Phi her history, ready to assume
Philadelphia. was into the loss with "deaths the role formerly occupied of the airship R-.01, at Beauvais, as a doctor at Chengchow head-He never muffed a word or blew plot" in Berlin, was a for-
a line. He never made a mis- gery. by Japan as Asia's leading France, in 1930. 2he second was The Chinese air force carried take. He is not likely to make They thought the first few
nation. For her failure to into the
Causes,
disappearancs of
are
of
quarters.
CARNIVAL
be
wer
There is a saying:
"You have
蕤
are
-Poland fled formel protest The State Department ad-' vised Poland to complain to on June 18 against the Western Russian if dissatisfied with the Allies' plan for building up Wes- way
things are going intern Germany with the Marshall plan. Europe.
and permitting a measure of home rule for that Germany.
Poland
Communist Riot Plot
A Forgery
structions issued by the Socialist Unity Party, but, if so, they had been embellished with sposational details of Soviet action,
The document, as published in
By Dick Turner the right wing Figaro, signed by
the "General Secretariat of the German Communist Party, Bald the Russians planned to pro- voke riots in Berlin's western arc- tors and then to announce they would take over the security of the whole city,
of
area
protested that this vio- lated the Potsdam Agreement with Russia and falled to take into ac- count the interests of various European nations.
In today's reply, the Under- Secretary of State, Robert Lovett, told the Polish Ambassador, Josef Winiewicz:
"If certain countries claim that their interests are not sufficiently taken .Into account by the pro- gramme planned for Western Ger- many, their complaint should not addressed to the United States. Government but to the Govern
responsible for primarily preventing these countries from co-operating in the general re-
be
meat
covery programme for Europe”.— Associated Press.
"
MODIFY IMMIGRATION POLICY"
Brisbane, July 8. Dr. James Duhig, Roman (A French Foreign Ofoe Catholic Archbishop of Queens- apokosman in Parle said its de- land, speaking at a United taile corresponded to informa: Nations Association luncheon tion already held by the French
authorities, and a British Em. yesterday, said that Australia bassy spokesman declared: "It should consider modifying the appears to
to ma to be thoroughly White Australia" policy.
genuine"}, The
Soviet-lleenred
Tudor-4 airliner, the "Star him from Chengehow to Nanking. many if and when he becomes paragraphs might be genuini in- live up to this high promise. Tiger," on a flight from the He will travel from Shangha! by President. Brand new machines China must look to internal Azores to
rarely do.. Bermuda in January sea.-Associated Press. and
the of this year.-Reuter. despite temptation to 'pass the buck' eck the remedy in the
In that of the quarter.
proportions with proper task, China can look with which it is credited in ima- confidence to every possible ginative minds. Prevention assistance from abroad, and as China's sole responsibility. in increasing measure when but in spite of that Hong Bit is clear that China's Kong has agreed to specific energies BTC concentrated measures to simplify the upon the right objectives. proceedings of the Chinese Without going into detail, Maritimes Customs. If the it can reasonably be claim-agreement has not gone into ed that Hong Kong has lean--full effect it is because legis-
backwards ed over
morelation is required and a con- than once in efforts to assist flict has arisen over inter- China in the immense 'diff-prétation. The issues, pre- culties she has had to. face sumably, are still under dis- In the last two years. In no cussion, a fact of which Nan- case has the Colony stood to king critics must be well gain by the agreements aware. Nevertheless, several reached: we have
given of the main provisions of the without the beriefit of any agreement have been put kind of quid pro quo. We into operation in Hong China meanwhile have consented to proposals Kong, advanced by the Chinese having, done nothing to help when herself. There is, for in- Government fully aware that we are ask-stance, nothing to prevent ed to treat minor symptoms patrols in Deep Bay and of China's troubles while Mirs Bay. There have been nothing is being done about no patrols. Far more con- cern appears to be exercised The Anti-Smuggling Pact about striking a bargain re- is a case -in point. The garding the distribution of severity of China's trade the proceeds of a smuggling. restrictions and prohibitions seizure than about the pre- is throttling enterprise which vention of smuggling.
We otherwise might contribute
agree with .the materially to China's re- "Economist”, on one point:
root causes. -
even
- *Trade Mark Ban Awesome Manga, tum vival. Smuggling is inevit-it is time that we all saw
able, though it falls for short the situation realistically.
DOPE, TING BY NẾC BERTON, MO, IT UL. BEL I
"Maybe If I put on my slippers and got settled down with my book in an easy chair, you could remember what it was,
You wanted me to do!"
"If we ever come to hand-gripi German with the coloured nations of the remember us news agency, ADN, described the Pacific, they will document as a "primitive imita- for it," he said,
The "White Australia" polley tion of the infamous Protocol M." The now document should be has irritated hundreds of millions
who wanted called "Protocol Figaro," it added. of Asiatics,
The headquarters of the So-friendly, but.rosented the brand *clalist "Unity Partythe Soviet of inferiority put upon them,. he Zone merger of the former Com-said.
to be
munist and left wing Social De "Doce, It not appear probable tnocratic parties-tonight sald.the that within a century or two it was will be these people who will internal evidence alone enough to show the document was possess the earth? Is it not prob-
able that we might be dispossess--- a. clumsy forgery.-Reuter.
ed of our present Archbishop Duhig added
.
RUSSIA ASKS TOO
Russia
Belgrade, July 07
territories?
The "White Australia" policy prevents people of non-European
joined with Britain, origin from remaining permanent- France and America yesterday ly in Australia.-Beuter, In asking Marshal Tito to be host here'on July 30 to the long awalt- cil conference on free Internation
al navigation on the Danube. The.
CHEAPER WHISTLES!
London July 7.
grest powers sent identical notes. Reuters diplomatic correspon- Gent wrote that this was regarded Keavily taxod Britons were as a sign that Russia will still reactyland by the Customs and Ex- cognise the Tito regime in forelys elsa today that the 66.22/3 per cent Lolitics despite tu virtual expul- tax on toy whistles and drums sion from the 'C' minform.") had been cut to 33.1/3 per cent....... Keuter.
United Press......