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What London Thinks Of Japan
What is happening In China
By A SPECIAL · CORRESPONDENT
The working class has both a is causing London to revise its
tradition of docility and is high level of skill. There is a plenti. interest in Asian affairs. For a
(Editor's Note-In the following article, a "China Maü“
fut supply of managers, techni- rather long time opinion in correspondent gives an outline of the shift in British public clans and bureaucrata,
Com- Great Britain had been curious-apinion towards the Far East. For a long time indifferent, this munism can come to terms with. ly Indifferent to events in Asia. opinion is gradually beginning to focus itself on Asis. With China's . nationalism; and Communists in
At the end of the war, public Communisation a reality, the spotlight now falls on Japan.)
Japan, in order not
to outrage attention was concentrated on
national feeling. might even try
an 24354 domestic polities, Editor in Chief ........
relations rule there could be wound up in nection with Asla was nearly at to keep the Emperor as a figure-
head. Communists In Japan. Reportare & General Office 32812 with Hussin, and on organising the most orderly way. Once the an end.
West Extrope. There whe for India problem was seitled, many
they could once gain control, (four lines)
time anxiety about Indin, but it people in England were inclined
task might thus have an easier was anxiety about how British to think that Britain's long con-
than now faces Mao Tse-tung in China,
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Even Hong Kong is cur- rently aiding Australia's im- migration project, although with retired people more than the skilled young men and
which the dominion is seeking. Those who evacuated to Sydney, Melbourne etc. during the Japanese occupation came back with pleasant recollec- tions of sunny skies, "magni- ficent beaches, open spaces and a cheerful people. And not a few consider it a more desirable place to spend the rest of their life than aus- terity-ridden Socialist Bri-
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At Home there are tens of thousands of would-be im- migrants who are mainly held up by lack of shipping space. Their imagination has been captured by the colourful pamphlets depict
World ing a brave. tew which is theirs for the mak- ing, with little of the thou- sand and
restrictions which Attlee and his merry men consider essential for the continuance of the wel- fare state. On the other hand, many have already changed their mind about going, word having come filtering through that all is not paradise in the antipodes, and some families have even spent their last penny on passage money in order to return to Britain.
Australia is right in the recognition that her popula- tion must expand tremend- ously. At the moment she has 7,500,000 people-less than the number who live in London-while experts
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Airlift That Is Kept
In The Dark
By DEREK MARKS
of the most
'The revolutionary shift Df fo power in China has begun shock them out of this attitude. Even though the Ideal of "one world" has not been realised in a constructive way, the world 15 already one in the sense that the .in China will major changes affect, at least after a time, the whole range of British policy
The newspapers give
much more
aver
American Idea
If there
this danger, how is it to be met? The American
Good Morning!
This conference between the Admbalissimo and the President sounds a bit like @ddle de rheo.
As you mop your brow in a temperature, isn't it 90-degree nice to know that our Australian friends are enjoying their ski-ing
with reason...complete
coul vtrike?
Probably right, at that.
Goes Against the Grain?
all sporting their "Jaral.
-I see the time, shops are Low,
་
of
"The society's regular Income remains almost 'stationery,”
Probably only a paper balance,
Our interesting contemporarios.
"The demperatle elements were glad to accept Mr. Acheron's ap- Deal to help the Communist re- begun to idea is to revive some of Japan's Sime in China but said it will take more than, just moral sup- economic prosperity. background pre-war news about Ching. It would be There is a strong case for doing port from the democratic coun- wrong to suggest trat people are this, for Japan suffers privatrics of the world."
nights
Lion beyond having sleepless
certain-point it will there, but interest igo Communist In despair. events
But how, is Japan to be get ont growing. There is equally a grou
war it its feet?. By losing the ing concern over Japan.
lost control over the sources Sketchy News Reports much of its raw material, and was its. Industrial, apparatus This takes the form of a curio- partly demolished. Its population sity to know what is happening is continuing to grow in a terri- In Japan. News reports are sket-fying way, Japan's population is chy. People are inclined to laugh today more than half that of the
MacArthur's
1070 state-
It may United States in Ea Bow D
be 100 million-and it is cram- at General
know med into an area no larger than ments that Japan liberal democracy. They
the state of Californin. to how diMeult it has achieve any real changes in Ger- greater part of its land many. At present all the old cultivable. German titudes are showing
is to be restored If Japan One of the many uses of tung themselves again.
economically, it will have to de- oll is in animal feeding cuffs,
velop a very large export trade. Another is in the manufacture of Even though there have
the alreruft "tope"-at one time dur reforms in Japan, such as in the This will revive all ing the recent war there was con-agrarian system, hus there been war problems of Japanese siderable
lest Britain more radical social
petition. To re-equip its indus- transfor-
must be a very heavy should run out of this essential mation than in Germany, one tries there commodity to air wortare.
to act Investment which will cause Japan differently in the future? About)
While the eyes of the worldj Already the Hythe flying-boat are still centred on the great has made ander of trips to airlift that is supplying the Nkala Bay, on the western shore of Lake Tanganyika, and 'from people of Berlin, more than
there the machinery is taken ond 5,000 miles from the German the long haul up over the Vipya capital another airlift is taking Mountains to their uninhabited shape which promises to be one westem stopes, where these great! spectacula: projects are taking shape away developments in the history of from prying eyes.
More than 20,000 acres are to the British Empire.
From the little port of Lindi,e cleared and planted to produce, in the far South of Tanganyika, eventually, 5,000 tons of tung oil
nanurl. Jarge quantities of agricultural machinery are being flown into the hinterland to Lake Tangan- yika, and thence being transported brend over the
Jufly Vipya mountains into Nyasaland,
Sule by side with the airlift, a great "trackless train," which is believed to be under the com- mand of General Rees, whes con- manded 41 Indian Division Barinn, is snaking its way by land to the heart of Nynstland,
The "train' consists of an im
jand mense convoy of tractors, rovers and lorries,
in the great drought which has this year snitten the people of Est, Central and South Africa no community suffered more than that living in the Hille-heard-ut colony of Nyasaland. Thousands were reduced to starvation diet, and tens of thousands of cattle
<lirt.
No Repetition
To ensure that catastrophe on the same seale does not again
the pative
the people, strike Colonial Development Corporation is launching a great production cheme, which will not only feed
but the loen inhabitants
also supply certam much-nexded pro- ducts for Britain.
One of the principal dificulties facing the Nyasaland Government
has been that the Colony has nu direct access to the sea. Every piece of imported machinery has In come through the port of Beira, in Portuguese East Africa, then carried by rail to Blantyre, thence transported to wherever It is needed by road,
As Beira also has to cope with the growing needs
at
Southern
Rhodesia, the congestion at the
port has become acute.
When, the Colonial Develop-
meni Corporation stepped in to bring succour to the people of Nyasaland they decided to charter most essential machinery. a flying-boat to transport the i
Two Schemes
Plane 'Dope'
concern
been
upper
been
in Asia.
The Is un-
pre- com-
foreign capital.
in London recognise that
General MacArthur, and some other of the American experts on
By developing both tung oll this, there is a good deal of step-mg drasle must be done
to prevent Japan becoming and soft wood, for which there laticism in London.
plague centre. But they bear in a tremendous demand within the sterling aren, and by priviting
There is anxiety over Com- mind that other Astan countries, the African people with food, it is
munism in Japan. If Rusak is for example India and Pakistan, of economy of
uny guide, the conditions best have strong clalins on any foreign for investment hoped to set the Nyasaland upon a sound basis and suited to a Communist revolution capital available to speed the development of the are that there should be a size other great resnurces of the ter-nbie Industrial proletarial, and ritory which borders on the cop-
class it government and per belt of Southern Rhodesia and
whose
prestige the vast coal deposits of South-
These conditions exist in
Communist Coverinent doubt which is West Tanganyika,
Once
of rehabilitating in Japan-by their policy came into power whatever means its way might Japan springs from some selfish be comparatively easy. There is motive, such as fear of Japanese no large middle class whose in- competition. But it is only eight
years since Pearl Harbour. fluence it would have
course whleh might well suggest down.
itself to Japanese nationalists is to play America off ngainst Rus-
Yet this tremendous enterprise Is being so closely guarded that une would think that it were something of which to be asham ex rather than something to pri- claim from the house tops.
e has been pan, seem to think that every
to break
Queen Ruth Waits
In A Storm
By JOHN STUART
the
sla
expressed
about
The
It Takes Convincing
Modern Miracio
No Tojo now in Tokyo On distant prospects pines... Today
cherry
blossoms
frow
the
On Democratic lines, From Fujiyama's perfect know The fire of freedom shines And no one brings the world
to woo
With sinister designs,
The Prodigal geta fat apace Full-ted with Food Board rice. No more he yearns to siap the
face
neighbours not thought
nice.
Ah, this Regenerated Race- Ins disavowed all vice, And dwells in comfort and
disgrace -While victors pay the price!
The horrid thoughts that once
they knew
Now the Japs with tears... To Mue and all his retinue Cheerleaders lead the cheers! For what poor Nature falled
to do
In severn thousand years American Just hustled
through
AT LEAST SO IT APPEARS!
Best
#
example I know of roup of reds is the family that has been out in the sun all week-
endi.
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Elevation to the peerage?
The procession wended its way to the large, Beld where a mar.. quis was erected."
Can the Japanese convince us that it through American aid, M. Stewart o' the Braes had they are able to revive their salty tongue, even if nol always economic strength, and to some a polito one. She would disminu I met the 24-year-old White | Tshekedi is a tough customer.extent their military strength, gossip about oho Bequaintance Queen of 100,000 African He has been in
headlines they will not turn round and with "Aye, you could plant dat- tribesmen outside the house several times before in his highly-make common cause with Rus- ties in her lugs." where she lives-a two-storey ordered the flogging of a white do this even if Communism had Back in 1933 he sia against America? They might coloured career.
"I don't know how you can yellow brick villa in a North
man, Phineas McIntosh, who was
made no further progress In any sho has legs like alleged to have lived like a native:
Russia in 1930,
"Oh, well-the same number, anyhow." Some Americons
London suburb.
This is the kind of house the White Queen was accustomed to when, Hitle more than a year ago,
in Bamangwalos territory and to pan. Hitler made his pact with Grable!" have offended against their tribal
laws.
atisl
may
have Harbour.
for
15
•
Betty
Bloke just returned from Eng- land says that on putting a penn3“. inten What The Butler Saw ma- chine he tound he could Бре nothing.
It is only tale to say
that butlers sometimes make the. same complaint,
she was just Ruth Williams, An amned expedition under begun to forget Pearl
a London typist. Now that she is Lord Mountevans (Evans of the Very Few Japanese have
wife of Seretse Khama, the Broke) set out for the Bamang-gesten Hiroshima: they
27-year-old negro ruler of the watos country. Evans was then Bamangwatos tribe in the Brilisha Vice-Admiral and acting High
A year ago, official opinion in Protectorate of Bechuanaland. Commissioner for Bechuanaland. Ruth's real home is in her hus- He tried Tshekedi, found him London was that one of the most in relations with The Corporation is developing band's corrugated iron "palace" guilty of a breach of the law in useful steps two schemes-first and foremost in his mud-walled capital, Serowe, dogging a European,
Japan would be proceed with sus the penco trenty. As long the opening up of the country in Ruth is going to get a bit of pended him from office. He was order to feed the
Indigenous a shock when she sees it. The later reinstated by King George there is no treaty, Japanese Com- people, secondly tremendous town is one of the largest native V. after abandoning any right to munists and nationalists have an increase in the territory's tung oil centres in Africa, South of the deal with a case in which a Euro- easy means of whipping to production and soft wood output Equntor, Something like 30,000 pean was concerned.
resentment against the allies. Tung oil is invaluable in the people live in it-including a
This, then, is the man young manufacture of varnishes
After the Communist victories sions." But Seretse Khama hos to face in and score or so of Europeans. paints,
despite its size, it is little more seeking to have his white wife in China, it becomes more dim-
collection then a sprawling
of beside him. Seretse
cult to decide himself is an
what the peace mud huts divided by candy tracks, altogether different type of Afri- treaty should contain. Should There are no main thorough-| can, with a Western culture. He the allies rotala bases in Japan? fares or straight streets. There is already a graduate of Cape What is to be the future of For- is no hotel, no cinema, no shops, University, and at Oxford was mosa? A treaty can hardly be no electricity, no running water, studying for an honours degree in postponed indefinitely, no sewerage,
of peace Australia cannot take much credit for her handling of the housing position, which should have been made the No. 1 prior-
Silent 'Queen'
Ruth has never seen the town.
Jaw,
For a. negro, he likes to dress quietly. His only concession to ity and driven through with will she ever do so? Does she colour is a preference for eight- hits people's traditional love ol the utmost determination. think she will ever be able to coloured shoes and gay, broad- Part of the blame must be Join her husband there? When brimmed, American-type hats. levelled at the reactionary
asked her she refused to laik
He and Ruth have other op- But on tho answer to about it.
In
neigh- ment of a constitutional trials bouring countries Bro against that Is causing diplomatic hood-
them. The Prime Minister of
stand of the trade unions, these questions hangs the settle-chiefs, White rulers
ponents besides Tshekedt and the
which have to a large ex- tent allowed themselves to
consider she should have six times as many. The govern- ment's immediate plans are to bring a million migrants be taken over by hard-work-aches in two continents and exer- Rhodesia has told his Parliament withining Communist agents, who sing the brains of administrators that the Bamangwatos' decision to three years, but sceptics are following a known plan When, last October, Ruth de dienstrous, showed sad lack of doubt that this goal can be throughout reached.
into the country
One of the biggest ob- stacles to attracting greater
numbers is the acute hous-
the
Common- wealth to disrupt recovery, The Moscow agitators would be only too glad to see the Asiatic peoples pour into Australia-although it would take a lot of convincing to persuade the working men of that obvious fact,
да
in several great States,
Queen accept their White elded to marry the quiet young racial pride, and could have a bad many eyebrows would be lifted. Negro law student, she knew effect in other native territory.
The South African Government She scarcely anticipated the kind of Dr. Malan doesn't want them. of storm that followed.
either.
This, briefly, is what has hap- pened. When news of the mar-
home to explain his conduct.
Seretse did go home, and he
to go
and
No Ban-Whitehall ing shortage. The powerful
flage reached Africa, the Bamang- unions have protested that
watos-fed by Seretse's uncle, Meanwhile, both Seretse an eighth of the dominion's
Tshekedi Khama, who ruled the Uncle Tshekedi have been to see tribe as Regent while Seretse, the British High Commissioner in present population is already
studied in Britain--sent the young Pretoria, Sir Evelyn Earing, Inadequately housed, and do
We ourselves have kept chief an ultimatum. He must Serstoe stood up for Ruth again not see why homes should an open mind on the white give up either his white wife or Taheked! and the chiefs said that be provided for newcomers immigration policy, which the chieftainship, and he must go rather than accept her, they mean Into voluntary exile, ally until the existing deficit has has the backing of all parties
themselves to a neighbouring chief been met. This may sound there, regarding it as the argued his case passionately and and become his subjects. reasonable on the surface, dominion's own problem. If well. At final gathering of the They decried the decision of the but as the government has the Labour Party is empha- tribesmen, who squatted, wrapped Bamangwatos ar a mob decision,
blankets, in
on the pointed
ground and called for a judicial inquiry. out.
imtic about this, however, it beneath the comelthorn trees of It skilled
necessary,..... sald Tahakodi migrants will help to solve, had better put the facts more Sarowe,
last grimly, he would go to London. Seretse made rather than increase, the ac- plainly to its members, and and up those of you who will ported to Whitehall. It is under- speech. Then ho challenged: So Sir Evelyn Baring has re- commodation problem, and let them forget about
Govern- nearly half of those who paralysing strikes, 30-hour not accept my wife. Forty petty mood that the British
Then Scrotso asked ment would reject any protests, chiefs rose. who wanted him, and his wife made because of Seretse's mar- and 6,000 stood up and applauded riage to an English girl, against recognition of Seretse as chief of thunderously.
It looked like a sweeping vic- the Bamani watos. - And Ruth for Seroise and Ruth. But walts in North London, going out blue
have arrived and signed labour contracts are already | engaged in work which will
improve the situation..
It is easy to be critical,
and certainly the difficulties
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