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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 1949.
THEIR PARTY PIECE
Western Planes And The Berlin Airlift
From EDWARD HOWE
A British plane landad on Gatow airfield in Berlin in July, 1945. It brought Mr. Attlee to attend the Potsdam Conference.
All news contributione That landing was given the name "Operation Ter- minal" by someone with a real insight into his- tory.
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engage- between ment is announced Alexander Lundle, aon of Ronald Gordon and the Late Sarah Gordon of Tomintoul Scotland and Mary Kathleen Margaret, daughter uf the late T. A, T. Begg of Shang hal and Mrs. A. M. Begg of Cambridge, England.
DEATH
ALVES-Ignez Maria Vieira Remedlus passed away Di Canossa Hospital, yesterday funeral will pass Monument (Macao
at 5.30 p.m. today. papers plense copy)
BLOODLESS INVASION
At any moment now Shanghai is expected to fall, and at last even British re-
sidents have been advised by the consul-general, Mr. R. W. Urquhart, to leave for the South unless they have es- sential jobs in the city. Soon the largest city in China will be in Commun- ist hands-a remarkable for eign growth that blossomed through the Westerner's bid for commerce and the need of the local population, a giant alien metropolis that had almost no roots but that of trade, a lovely cosmopoli- tan centre of tall buildings and bustling streets, which at one time had probably no peer as a place to live in.
Now, already fallen into chaos, insanitation and decay, it is going to be taken over by rulers more extreme and ruthless than any it has ever known. Communists have no use for private trading communities, and it is to be expected that within a fore- secable time, outside busi- nessmen will be a thing of the past, and Shanghai "will degenerate into а modern version of the ghost towns of the interior. All this will have its repercussions Hong Kong.
GEORGE MURRAY
Puts The Labour Programme
Under The Microscope
Let us here examine, point by point, some of the pomposities, insincerities, contradictions, false facts, and half-truths in the Socialist Party's statement of policy, a hotchpotch of confused economics and bad history.
Here are just a few of the statements which have been made, with the appropriate replies: "We seek freedom from the}
of democracy in politics. enslaving material bonds
House of Lords le haing denied Capitalism."
the power to veto the will of
the people." iho
Yet
Socialist Party
of
arc
The
It has not vetoed the will of the
the
Last week-end Mr. Attlee was stuff at Gatow, where all the oil in Berlin again but in different and petrol
arrives. for Berlin tircumstances and conditions. But Pluto, after being airborne,
When the Four Powers were has changed its name. Instead clamping round the necks of the formulating their.. still-born of being "Pipe Line Under The British people the most restric. people. "Denveracy, in pollifes," policy at Potsdamı In
1945. a Ocean," it is now called "Pipe tive and burdensome of all econo- in the Socialist creed, means vir- busy day at Salow would have Line Under Mother Earth," or, in
mic systems-State Capitalism. tually One-Chamber Government seen the arrival of three or four short, "Plume."
have planes Times
changed
not out to place modern tyrannies.
of all "We haYO Today one
plane arrives overy
economic power In the two and a half minutes through-
the nation.” out 24-hour period.
This is a technical miracle that has caused "Ivan" sitting across the fence to do some serious thinking.
The Prime Minister's
Tudors bring the petrol, which is pumped into tanks on the air- fields and carried by Plume to the Havel Lake, loaded on to barges and brought to Berlin by water quite like old days under the Channel.
of it which is constructed metal strips. Naturally this dubbed" "the poor man's runway."
Runways Aged
10
του
the
the
Coal receives similar trentment, plane except that it has no Plume to landed on what the pilots have help it. Brought in sacks, which nicknamed "the rich man's run by the way last for only way." This is 2,000 yards
taken from of Journeys. concrete distinguishable from its plane by lorry to the Havel and poorer brother running paralled tipped on to coal barges. to
There are some strange car- is goes.
Western Berlin consumes the astonishing figure of 38 tons of salt a day. As salt cannot be carried in aircraft because of its corrosive qualities, it arrives in "The rich man's runway" is the special panners fitted the outside. fuselage un unpublicised hero of the airlift.
Any plane
Berlin landing in It was begun by Geering when,
received brusque treatment. model he planned Catow
has to hustle. The average time airport for his priced Luftwaffe, but the
strips had to be extend- taken between landing and take- In that time td. Planes working to a Picadio is 39 minutes. ly bus route schedule have aged it has not only unloaded its
go but loaded Berlin's exports.
To dale 44,392 tons of German Computing its age according to
Industrial products and mall have it is now nearly 100 years
No the West. uld. More than 120,000 tons of left Berlin for Berlin's bombed ruins have gone plane is refuelled at Gutow. They come with enough petrol to take into construction of Gatow,
Mr. Attlee has called his visit them back to their base in the
'That zone. a "see for myself" trip. is the only way to comprehend this air operation. His private Menu Of The Berliner plane will be about the 67,450th sortle
Gatow on airlift
the runways.
11ye,
Into
B.S
A
operations. been flown by the American and Up to date 137,117 sorties have British Air Forces to three airports, Gatow, Tengel's
and Tegel,
сат-
hande
Notke the change in phrase- ology. Al one time economic power was to be placed "in the bands of the people." But the people have now begun to learn what it means. They know that the individual counts for nothing,
and the State for everything.
tho
"We believe that Capitalism has, through Inefficiency and unemployment, wasted capacity to produce
hen machine
put handu."
that the Into our
Yet Socialist Britain turns to Capitalist America for the very means of survival. How thankful are our Socialists for the "ineffi- and "waste" at the clency" world's remaining citadel of free enterprise.
"Production in higher and unemployment lower than ever before peace-time."
That is untrue. Man-year pro- duction (which is the only thing that counts) is much less in many important industries than before the war.
was
system
beloved
"The British people have be: come better Informed about the facts of trade and production
than any other nation,"
'
Britain too hins her Pollit Bureau, harrying the bourgeoisle.
Twenty HKDF Volunteers have · not only passed the screening but also the medical examination.... That wall of despair came from Mao's first million scuttling back in fright across the Yangtae!
In a new war the Italians would rather be considered de- pendable than expendable,
Altar in Deutschland
postponed indefinitely shon-
A German doctor has walked out of a denazification court,
case to he thereby causing his
our had been attacked he said.
Wonder the judge wasn't ined for contempt....
Man from Mars arrives Ist Hong Kong!
But don't get alarmed, it's just the name of a Chicago Chocolate company.
•
*
In Nanking the left will soon
Yet when they want to know the price and quantity of Algerian wine and many other things be leftists. bought for them by Mr. Strachey, they are told to mind their own business.
"Each [nationalisation Bill was argued through Parilamant, amended in detall, and placed on the Statute Book."
Except the Town and Country Planning Bill, the Transport Na- tionalisation Bill, and other far- These were reaching measures. not "argued through Parliament ent at all. They were rubber-stamp- ed through because the Socialists applied the guillotine and would not let hundreds of clauses bo properly discussed.
Only "small roving banda" of Huks are left in the Philippines, according to a government report. cuses where the One of those melody lingers on....
+
Dr. Hu Shih says that "the present Nationalist Government can hold its own against the Communists." Sounds a bit like Hu-cy、、、
Russian threatens British officer with pistol. They were on the Spree together at the time.
•
Herr Schumacher's efforts at
"Bince nationalisation, man- power in the minca] has in- crossed. In 1948 production of deep-mined cost was 16,000,000 Bonn seem to be a bit bootless. ton higher than in 1946."
The Government asked
They got 8,000.
fo
Poles,
Canadians and
The
each other from pillage to post.
·
.
Coal and building are notable examples. Man-power in the ex-32,000 more mea in the mines in Americans seem to be hounding port trades has more than doubled 1948.
In 1943 coal since 1939, yet exports are only deep-mined production of A fleet of 119 large lorries,
To was 197,000,000 tons. In 1938, tractors and trailers collect the 50 per cent up on that year.
nationalisation. IL Was lin and transport to food ware- supplies at the airports in Ber- say that unemployment is lower before
than "ever before" in peace-time 227,000,000 tons. houses, where it is officially dis- is an unprovable claim.
tributed by the Western magis- trate.
"The people, and especially the children, are healthier than ever before."
"Labour
continue will
Deluxe-mbourg
Luxembourg has acquired Д couple of hundred acres of Ger- practically ta many. This should restrain price Increases and do double her value as an ally under everything possible to bring the Brussels five power pact. prices down."
Cheese and meat have gone up butter 2d., and mar- 4d. a lb., garine 1d. a lb. Cost of living butter rallon card that only has increased by more than 10 blackmarketeer could afford the
time and trouble. per cent since 1947.
"Purchase tax has been ro moved from a wide
range of neosteitis."
Marge For Mine
It's so much bother to get a
A
The lotul milenge flown is the Here is what the Berliner gets fantastic Agure of 15,863,874. Al to eat a day, brought over the together 949.830 metric tons
of of airlift-just over one pound
That is true-but it could also supplies have been carried for bread, two ounces of meat (but have been said, with equal truth, the two-and-a-half million po often this is one-third meat and at almost any time in the past 30 The nation's health has pulation of West Berlin, as well two-thirds fish or dried egg), one years. * provisions for the besieged ounce of fat, 14 ounces of su been improving steadily since the Allied garrison.
gar, three ounces of dried po- beginning of the century. ** **** An average of 3,000 tons has tato. Five ounces of cheese 15 been flown in every day from allowed a month for a person.
"We have abolished the in-
Dockworkers handling a burst In its place June 28 last year when the air-This, Berliners tell me, is an "in- human Poor Law,
sugar cargo got extra money on on their rations be-
we have put the most compra.
account of a horde of bees des- lift began.
provement on
The tax is still payable on cending on them. The bosses gut henalve system of socist secu. This figure will soon be con- fore the blockade.
clothing, household linens, pots stung as well. siderably raised. On D "good Coal is
rity ever created." the biggest problem. day" more than 300 planes now People, must sit in the co' and
and pans, furniture, trunks and True, But this was deliver their
devised bugs, and scores of other essential cargoes of 5,000 dark. After 0 p.m. there are no
under the Churchill Government, goods. trani cars, There is also a dan-
"ircased
and would have been introduced A large "land army" of work- ger of
unemployment ers is engaged in loading and un-it more coal is not brought in.
by any party. loading. There are 15.000 Ger- Maintaining this daily airlift mians, many of whom are wo-menu costs the British taxpayer men, working or Berlin's three airfields.
£20,000,000. In lives it another 200.000 are
the employed. has cost Britain nine and Experts confidently say that the United States 26 airmen in air battle of the
winter has been crashes, Up till now winter
has
On the credit side of the air- | exceptionally mild. The lift balance sheet, one of the character could be provided first snow in Berlin this year fell main items has been the magni- last week. A new streamlined ficent training possibilities for airlift is being planned for the young RAF crews. All precon- ceived conceptions of supplying Alt and economic experts ate by air have been changed.
on
Mr. Urquhart announced today that "austere accom- modation"
of a temporary
tons.
Bummer.
At bases in the Zone00 a year, and the Am-
in this colony for evacuees. He did not state how many persons could be given re- fuge here, but it is true that laying down long-term plans somehow or other foreign re- based on the supposition that sidents of all the
airlift will have to continue for coastal
a long time. The Immediate cities could be provided for,
target is to bring the daily de- at least for a short period. livery up to 8,000 tons. The This, however, is obviously standardisation of aircraft would only a small part of the pro- help this. blem. It is likely that the onward march of the Reds That old warhorse Pluto. от will drive thousands of Chin-24 miles of it, salvaged from
Old Warhorse
"Horsefeathers".
The other day a man from Shanghal was fined heavily for bringing into this colony some "Horsefeathers."
It appears that the price of
is maintained at an artificially
ese to the safety of Hong under the Channel, is doing is "liorsefeathers" in Hong Kong Kong, by sea, air, rail and even on foot.
war,
of its intentions.
Lion
price of
because one na- is very fond of getting
can
•
"The school-leaving age has been ralaed." Yes-under the Education Act drawn up and introduced by Con- servative Minister of Education,
Mr R. A. Butler,
"After World War I, thers were 1,500,000 unemployed, or 15 per cent of the papulation, compared with less than 2 por cent now."
If Chiang is thinking of setting up a "redoubt on Taiwan" he "Under Labour, new schools will and the Formosa under- canteens, and training` college ground fairly redoubtable foemen. are springing up...
In London not one new school
has been made ready for the for £2 a week pension, the Gov- children by the Socialist LC.C.ernment turned them down, four years after the war ended.
We must banish smoke and bring sunshine and air into our alties."
Which is why, no doubt, a power-station is being erected on the Thames opposite St. Paul's Mar-Cathedral.
True-but there was no shall Aid in those days, and with- out Marshall Aid (as Cripps, Morrison, and Bevan have told us) we should have an additional 1,500,000 workless today.
Our total unemployment today would be nearly 1,000,000 but for the dollars of Capitalist America.
"In 31⁄2 years after World War I. only 160,000 houses had had built,'
"The Torlas voted against the National Health Service Bill."
They did but they did not vole
Govern-
In 1919 the nation started in the high level in order that' some building trade from scratch. source of worry, and will be people who have a special way There was no such experience or This is the biggest problem until the new reservoirs are of
Importing "Horsefeathers" organisation д exist now the colony has had to face completed. Unless they are from the USA, Mexico and vari-through the efforts of inter-war since the
really Governments. ous other countries can something known, the most desperate clean up, almost doubling their Minister was Dr, Addison, now The first housing that affects every person criminals can enter our boun- mor on each deal.
money on
Oncially Socialist leader in the Lords, who here. Having been remind-daries without question; the the
"Horsefeathers" is falled lamentably. ed often enough of this prob- same applies to Communist very low, little more than in ability, one assumes that agitators; and despite the pre-war days, government has at least highly efficient work of the "Horsefeathers" from other aa- thought about the matter, Port Health Omee., it would tions and doesn't like to pay too against a National Health Servico. but if so it certainly does not need a much larger staff and much for thei intend to let citizens know more, stringent examination Other nations naturally are The very abuses they foresaw, and to vole for, are now to check on persons with very glad if they can get hold refused
of "Horsefeathers" and sell them ment themselves. Year after year
alarming the Socialist In the public interest, the serious, concealed illnesses. for hard currencies which "China Mail" yesterday ask- It is only too easy to en- be used to pay off international the Socialists vated, against Na- ed officially what precautions visage the appalling results debts just as well as "Horse- tional Defence Bills, but they now were being taken to deal with if say another million crowd-feathers" but at much less cost, claim they did not vote against a large-scale influx of re-ed into this confined space. You will observe then, dear National Defence. What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the fugees, and whether for in- clamouring for work and reader, the business of "horse-
feather-trading"" (not to be con- gander. stance a pass system such as rice, without habitation or fused with plain honest forms of existed before the war would sanitation or health facilities. "Horsetrading") has many angles be instituted. It was gather- We are aware that this is to ed. from the reply, that no one of these "tricky" inter" and "Horsefeathers" because they Some people go to Macao to action was contemplated, and national questions, but that can huy them cheaper there one had to imply that tens does not any more excuse do not like to even whisper how raised the price of some food- of thousands could pour Inaction. Our treaties with much they? cost because
the luffs. across the border before our the Chinese government will wrents of those strong men we authorities made any move
soon be meaningless for the read about every day might hear mo, even though this is a coun- they would even then simple reason that that par- try where, speech is free and the about "Horsefeathers" (han It is a truism that the ticular Chinese government press is absolutely unfettered. did about civil liberties,' colony is already grossly is unlikely to exist in effec I cannot even tell you
my You must, you know. overpopulated. Large num-tive form for vory long. latest information about how❘ confuse clvlí liberties such an' we bers of Chinese are homeless That apart, the time is long shanghai where they are in very with the trade in "Horsefeathers." "Horsefeathers" are doing in possess in this democratic colony and unemployed. The water overdue for our attitude to brisk demand indeed owing to avon If you hear this dreadfu supply, although better than be changed, in order to safe the decline which has overtaken word mentioned when men sprak kusual this year, is a constant guard our very existence, a. government that thought more about, such things."
"Some Tories have demandod aufs in food subsidies and social Barvices."
But it is Sir Stafford Cripps who has pegged the subsidies and
"We stand for the extension
rlover
The Labour Government's far-sighted action [lo india] has created the best possible conditions for
permanent partnership.".
India now, wants to become an independent Republic.
These are some of the question- “Labour has shown ita deter- | able statements made in “Labour The ques- mination to give the old people Believes in Britain.” a square dozi."
tion now to be answered la: Does When old-age pensioners asked) Britain Believe in Labour?
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