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The idea of a federation of Europe is more than three
of
CHINA MAIL, Monday, AugUST 1, 1849.
A STRANGER FLIES TO
filglits
For
INDO-CHINA
By A "China Mail" Reporter,
the
1
serviced by Skymasters and the Interesting route-from tho Stranger's point of view-ig by the Haiphong-Hanol flight.
Leaving China, the route car- ries into Haiphong, flying over Franco the red expanse of the Tongking
Indo-
Tongking, to Haiphong. is thu
air has thres regularly scheduled Delta after crossing the Gulf of
Disappointing
New
"Commies Produce Dodge."
All I can say is, let them try producing a new Rolls Royce. Just let them try, that's all.
not Waltress: You're
cating your fish. What's the matter?
Customer: Long time no sea.
Indo-China today is more than Ever a curiosity spot for both tourists and journalists alike, al- though their objectives in many ways, may be dissimilar.
Air companies serving the Main connecting link between a large French international or- East urc gradually exploring Free China and, the rich produc-ganisation!
tive lands of the French in the
From Hong Kong, Air routes into Indo-China.
the is provided by Not a few companies are al- East rendy on regular chartered flights system of Air France, whose For fights into and through
Ix organisation
One being China to Europe. into the larger cities there. For Eastern instance, CAT is at the moment considerably expanded to connect route via Haiphong and Hanol In with Japan, the Tongking just beyond the Chi- from Indo-China” Operating regular
The airfield at Haiphong, of Kunming and other
of Philippines, parts
Malayas and nose border; then there is the
and ideal for Free Chinn into Haipliong and Australasia.
line via Tourane, a large fishlag though spacious
was rather * disap- Hanol, mostly on freight carriage. In Indo-Chinn Itself, there are centre midway on the sea coast aviation,
to the Sirangér, CPA and MATICO stop by fre- a number of French airlines ser- between Hong Kong and Salgo. pointing sight
and and
the direct Hong who saw it from the importance inally quently at Snigon, anti, It is re-ving the Colony internally
run which con of the Haiphong port. ported, Hong Kong Airways are jelning it with the motherland. Kong-Spigon
The airfield's two runways Ar The catablishment of These elude SITA (Sociste In- tinues to Paris. contemplating
These operations do Chinois de Transporte Aereo),]
similar in length to those at Kai Tak. The aviation administrative operations from Hong Kong
buildings, however, иге small on flat, red, raw
de- houses Lillt,
As further gesture of Hance ground.
against their leaders, Halphong nirport, the Strange workers in certain industries at was told by an official there, is Home are
striking thinking of quiet at the moment, with only for better unions.
betwren a few airlines serving
carrying
The Tragedy Of The
By A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
arc
mostly
Docks
being disciplined troops, are in danger of becoming a mere horde. ready to follow any swashbuckler or fanatic or glib-tongued tomp Ler.
it and cities in China, cargo mainly
The docks of London,swil, nessed last month, a tragic scene. Ranged in grim and
The airfteld, he said, should deadly struggle were two antu- gonists, each acting rightly
This is a peril we see not only in the near future be operating according to its lights, neither have anything to gain by vic collected when wages stop: child-1 in the docks but all over the field on a larger basis as air trafle is tory save an end to a
ren get a free meal every day at of labour today. And who those expected to be substantially in- fight
public assistance on false leaders will be we do not creased. school, and
It Elphong which it did not want and
This strike han which gravely dumaged itself ample seale is forthcoming for need to guess.
wives and
Air France children after other shown that the task of the Com- when the Stranger landed there along with the whole nation.
лаевич have dried up.
munists in preying upon honest last week from an
ver Skymaster, were being lengthen- and ab in Dock workers,
abusing honest motives moreover,
era
thaso
Оп
the other
men
The Iron Curtain
runways The
visitor
at the
Blake recently raturned from n visit to America tells me that hick town is one where, if you see a girl dining with a man old enough to be her father, he is.
Palestine Bazaar Bong
·
Buy my latest gadgets Worth their weight in blood!
Bells of shiny bullets, Never one a dud!
Hand grenades for everyone, Colts andi Mausers sweet...· Mines of latest model, sirs,
Fine for foolish feet! Try my lovely trinkets, Cheap, and lethal -too! Bargains for the Arab, Bargains for the Jew..
角
or embalmed?”
"Don't let's take any chances,"
ranch. The spacious emptiness of asked.
earth and the wooden fen-
row
cing surrounding the airport såld Heury. "Cremate her."
gives this illusion.
Six miles from the airport, is
the busy
por1
where the city is.
of
Haiphong.
Yes, but...
The scurs of American bombs
"The book is as full of spark-
On the one hand, there were the mass of dockers, honest working
The offeint told the men, defying the big union lead these days of full employment and is far too easy. Can we afford to ed by about 100 fest at each end. centuries old. Sully wrote that for the sake of a principle of keenness for quick turn-rounda, go on running the rink of its suc-
know that when u strike ends ceeding, as it has here, until piece that the second runway is at
unserviceable, having lenders themselves have his master, Henry IV
ther will be a a spell of highly paid by piece the fabric of the demo-moment
been grently mishandled by the drilled, into their heads "Stand overtime. Faven without unioni gratic State is broken down?
the occupation. France (1553-1610), had a "Great Design" for a Euro- by your fellow workers, and no strike-pay, when a short strike of Democracy must surely protect Japanese during
The drst impression the Stran-
The undertaker rang up Henry Bincklegging
nt Hal- to tell other a week or two fades into the dis- itself as vigorously against its
mother-in-law him his ax against those ger gained on arriving pean republic of 15 states. hand, there was the Government, tanes the dock worker may well enemies within
phong, was that had come to had died. "Do you wish to have acting to protect the nation,
he without. while Victor. Hugo, said in
And that over the whole run
Mexican or Californian farm her buried
he 1849 that all the Continental effect trying to break the strike is little mist of pocket. This is
driving the Britain and and so
men into still plus countries
indiscipline. Russia should be blended into more obtuse resistance clearly a factor making for unlon
ernment une of whose
chief
Nevertheless, thrse monotary a superior unity. Between the
members is the dockers' own his considerations are far from do- Aristide toric champion World Wars
and architect of minnst. The atrikers were ready two
to tighten their belts painfully, if Briand of France formally their solidarity.
The nation lost doubly: by the need be, for the
principle they proposed a United States of
is at stake. Europe-a project that failed. stoppage itself, it lost money and have been persuaded is
gooris and the confidence of the How were they sa persuaded? The East-West split follow-world at a critical juncture: and There are not brain-workers, wo
World
has when all was War II ing
over it went on must remember, but simple Inbour- brought a trend toward or losing by the mood of disillusion- ing mes, comprehending simple ganisation of Western Europe. ment that overtook the men of issues and shirking dimoult-onas
East London. And who gained? A black
black ship, # hip in The economic basis for that the answer to that is easy. Who scub is a scab; the nation's ba- By RALPH HEWINS organisation is the European gains by economie loss and din-lance of trade or the rights and Recovery Programme. The order. by disillusionment and re- wrongs of an inter-union dispute military basis is the security action against accepted demoera- in North America are things too
tic leadership? The system set up under the Brus-
start- And, to be frank, it is the judg sels Defence Pact and the At-
el in the Port of London on two ment of lifelong workers in the lantic Treaty. Last January a Canadian ships by emissaries of East End that the mental quality preliminary the Communist-controlled Cana- and moral courage of the mass of cautious and move was made in the diree-dian Seamen's Union, which has dock workers have, if anything been repudiated by the Canadian deteriorated while their economic equivalent of the TUC.
and social conditions have greatly advanced.
Trouble was deli,ommunists. far away to be grasped.
сель
Paid Agitator
Arc
two
тау
the
50
Goes To Seal
many robots.
are still very much in evidence ting wit, impossible situations At the same time, the heart of and clever sallies as the prover- the city bents with the activities bial curate's egg." of shipping and fishing,, serving also as an outlet mines in Tongking
of the
Marked Contrast
airnold,
coal
ths
The doctor sald gravely to the sick man. "I cannot hide the fact from you that you are very ill. Is there anyone you would like to scot" -
"Yes," said the sufferer faintly. “Who is it?" "Another doctor."
ber
"She told me you told what I told you not to tell her." "Oh, isn't she mean? I told her not to tell you I told her."
"Well, don't tell her I told you. she told me."
*
·
There are two. Gods of great
renown
Enst both the Before them
The Great God Chien and the
Great God Fan....
bows downL
Who rule the life of the China
man!
under the title of. "Who's Whose."
I have recently spent four days
Sixty miles to the West, on board Russia's ace luxury liner bound from Leningrad to London, next stop is Hunol. There, to the For four days I have watched Stranger, the contrast is marked a handful of Russian passengers after the take-off from Haiphong. Big administrative buildings and a Russian crow try to find a happy medium between maintain and hangers with a large num- ing an Iron Curtain aloofness ber of military and civil alr- and promoting Russian hospitality craft neatly parked, and people, As Mrs. Stewart o' the Braes at sea. The result was a dismal give life to the place, although said about a local divorced tion of a third form of the or
fallure to do either.
the city is some way from the couple, "If they'd bad as monny ganisation-political union. In
The failure was evident from
they woulina bairns; as I hly, London the Brussels Pact
In Former Days One of these men was a pald
the moment I stepped on board Between the two Indo-Chinese hae time to think of divorce." countries (Britain, Frunce,
Sentraretak In former days, amid agitator who had never been to
great the 1,060 ton
at cities, the flight, carries over miles Belgium, the Netherlands and
Rea before. Everything else has poverty and hardship there were Stockholm. Two of the Russian of flat lands of rice paddles with announced an Luxemburg)
from that
of men who crew helped me with my luggage tributaries meandering into the "plant, and always a minority sprung the technieni
at stake, studied and read, went to lectures up the gangway and into my land forming the Tongking Delta, agreement in principle on a
obsoured as it largely was by con- in
Over Hanoi, one sees the ty Settlements and tried to enbin. They were helpful-as
habitations of Council of Europe.
situations of politles and pres- master the larger problems of helpful as possible-but there was cal architectural Recently in London the re-r
tige, waa whether those economics with which their own not so much as a smile of greet the French colonials.
ing, not so much as a spontaneops or were not "black" livelihood was concerned.
The bright cream colour of the presentatives of the Brussels ships were pact countries and Italy, Ire--which in turn depends on who There is lean of that today: far friendly gesture for the 10 min buildings, topped with red gable of the dockers opinion, too much mental energy is wasted utes I was with them. Nor were roofings, is characteristic land, Denmark, Norway and ther, in the
there will be "victimisation" of on dog-racing and football pools, they ready to accept a tip. Tipping housing in the cities of Indo- Sweden met to establish the
the CSU members in the
and crew rising economic standards was apparently forbidden through Chind.
The retches of flat,fooded have had the by-product of mak out the ship. Council. They signed a sta-
on their return to Canada,
The Communists, onc
There followed my first meal on paddy fields are interrupted by tute. Under which the Coun-
maying men feel that the way to get
shrubbery did not intend more is not self-betterment but to board and my introduction to the a growth of heavy
which cil is made up of a kind of conclude,
strike genuinely on behalf of the go on demanding still higher pay strange, embarrassed hospitality (as seen from the air) Cabinet and Parliament.
evident throughout the voyage. marks the settlements of the The "Cabinet" is the Com-CSU, whose prospects of bene-for the same effort.
These are hard truths, but they
The soup was excellent, so were land owners. fiting from it were remote, but
This scene is undisturbed for for its own sake as a means of need stating, because they need the vegetables and the sweet. The mittee of Ministers. This com-
some 80 miles around before the the British economy remedying; and they go some way frequent Siberian salmon and so- damaging mittee is to consist of ane de-
explaining the con called famb howover was lament once again familiar view of the legate from each member and undermining regular trade- towards
union authority. None of this is epicuous failure of regular trade-able. Nor was there over any typically French provincial town government. These delegates surprising: the Communist objec union leadership in a sequence coffee after meals. Vocks was in and we have arrived at Saigon, wood film industry is to be re- un of yellow red topped villas, A reference book of the Holly- presumably will be under or- tives and methods well of unofficial strikes in London mat
limited but there was no Scotch.
1,000 issued. One' suggestion is that In the serving of the the whole trip of about was ders from their home govern-known. What is surprising, and and elsewhere.
Its fallure has been transparent meals, however, that one noticed miles lasting seven hours In the section dealing with the stars ments, like delegates to the bitter, is that they have bean so
and grievous in the present case. the atrangeness. You were never cluding the 45-minute pause at should be published separately UN. Decisions will be made successful.
The Communists are clever, but Looking back, the way in which without attention and the cutlery Haiphong and Hanul.
and propagands and unanimously.
tables were spotless but they are few, and they hold no public meeting The "Parliament" is the obvious
key positions ini the have been virtually monopolised there was never a word of gront
men are by the unofficial strike leaders, ing or recognition given by the Consultative Assembly. It is unions concerned; the
matched only by the waiters from the thousands strong, the vast majo- has been'
time you sat to have 87 delegates from the them non-Communiats, de- equal slowness of the Government down. They were Just lika so
·rity the member countries (the patriotic citizens, loyal mem-
om itself to grasp what happen- number in each delegation bers of trade unions and most of ing and to act in good time.
Incidentally, why had no mom
No Music depends on the size of the them loyal voters for the Labour
ber of the Government virited the country). Full resolutions are Government with which they
docks to see the troops at work, Nor did the crow open up at to be made by unanimous today locked in moral struggle.
Why, when the Communists or
or publicly thanked and encour all "on dock". Entertainment was vote; expressions of the As beckon, do all these men follow aged these man? They have had made exclusively by the passen
hard, for Jenk sembly's "wish" by a two-
gers and neither the Russian pas- into the blood stream: the thirds majority.
the healthy, function of circula- the grime
me work:
ed & balalaika and there was none Powers of the Council are
tion
-trade-union
solidarity the operation;
senior oficer was associated with of the vigorous Caucasian dances limited. Participating nations
yot their morale to which all foreigners are usually through the whole prends it have not relinquished their body; in the blood thrown it off, err
but why have not the anti- has beon all-important to the Gov- treated when meeting Russiatis
crnment and nation that they unofficially. Nor was there sovereign rights. The findings
music on cabin loudspeakers-- why has there been no inoculation, serve. Here is one more addition no antitoxic injection, no tourn to the tragic tale of failure to only the Moscow radio news in quet, until the patient is already understand the paychology of or English punctually every evening. sick unto death?
dinary men.
Occasionally a party of Finns Weak Calibre
among from
the passengers students from Helsinki University The answer is complex, but it The huge size of the Transport would sing patriotic Finnish must be understood, for it goes and General Workers' Union has deep to the roots of the grave been blamed for the dangerous wongs and intersperse them with malaise that affects Industrial le split between the unlen leaders the latest popular Engilah and in this country today, Part of it and their men in the docks; there American numbers.
The Russian passengers would though Communista employed.
although They are assiduous, determined, emphasis on it, la View of the join in the choruses and each has his appointed role to even less ad hy behaviour many of them.spoke English. Nor |
uniona con- did the Russians over dance with
It wa
was the open one. Cells are formed in cerned, and of the fact that the Western passengers.
in operation factories, dock areas, trade-union TCWU is Ernest Bevin's own Iron Curtain
union, Mr. Henry Wallace, leader of branching and membership of of his work for the dockers.
built upon the foundation on the most social occasions.
Again, however, the Iron Cur the Progressive Party, thinks that
The
If ever a union should have talm the United States should set up these cells is secret, so that a well-
was always a polite one. Al- world development fund "in drilled minority block can be made loyal devotion in dockland, it is though the crew had the freedom Yet wo saw the dockers of the whole boat save for the dia- place of the one-sided, wasteful
number of scattered this. funds
we are
now spending voices, all agreeing, and thus giv castin away the fruits of their ing room and saloon, they would
struggles.
politely for any Here is always manku, ing to the confused or indiferent on indeedl abroad to building arms"
of the In a radio speech he said that majority the impression that al- tragedy are of the matter is the ready to see to your comfort and passengers--always ba the United States must do this most everyone thinks that ways talore and dempatance of to make sure that you were an- "If we really want to help the It is onny to get a strike vote by weak
in order to help
OUR
such methods,
Among
men whose those who should be the N.CO.Bloying the voyage
true
Not so saly covered and subalterns in the trade union
up was more of the
army, the "link between general- the show of poor. Hussian semaine "I sildbold, new approach of The Complation & stella balap and the ran the flaThis ship as our lerin broke down Dvak to the this sort would cost is $5,000, DAD Inoue in all the greater, be la another, aspect of ie, onderly, in the North,
andiubber the 000,000 a year for 10 years since cause the natural scenonala aande bag problem of ruban, quality and most ignorant that time we have spent far. tioni
of the Council will be only recommendations. The Coun- cil may not discuss matters of defence.
The inaugural meeting of the Council will take place
at Strasbourg next week and
Wallace Calls
we wish it every success.
.'
For World Fund
New York, July 30.
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