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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1949.
DISAPPOINTMENT IN
IN BURMA
Adenauer Must Take Broad View
By JOHN D'ARCY DAWSON
man
By "WINDRUSH"
much tougher affair. The Karens are a minurity people, many of whom are Christians. They feel their existance imperilles by'a government dominated by Bud- dhist Burmese. Though the Bur mese Be willing to offer them constitutional guarantees, tha Karens do not trust them to keep their word. Instead they have
& Morning!
Of
course, what. I'd like to know is who claimed that you
it taken to arms and have proved can get a "bona fide meal" for
30 cents in the Arst place, normally pay double that
very formidable rebela.
The Karena have copied much from the Japanese soldiers whom they saw fighting in their country five years ago. They dig them- fox-holes and selves into their refuse to be dislodged. They have to be killed at their post.
Ca
yesterday's court case, "de
to make the move by repeatedly switching on When and off the headlights." questioned, he "could not give a satisfactory explanation."
The Burmese Foreign Minis-¡ them overlapping. Two of them ter, UE Maung. has been are especially Important. Along visiting London. He is a Cam- the line of the Irrawaddy river, bridge mun, greatly esteemed the Burmese Coverument is fight as probably the ablest lawyer Ing the Communists, Along "the
line of the Sittang river in Burma.
righting the Karens." The statement from both the
Far To The Left British and Burmese side is that visit in
In he came
mutine order to maintain contact bie The
Government
fendant tried Burmese tween the British and Burmese Cams to stand very far to the The difference Governments. But he can scarely left in politics. have avoided discussing whether between its domestic programine Great Brilain wouki consider and that of the Communists in giving the Bunncial aid which the not very clear. But the Burmes Burmese Government needs for Government are nationalists who ending the civil wars in Bunna. do not want to exchange British for Russian control, Many of the allles of the Communists are 'cdventurers who are trying to Government, or toughs who have guns and are out for loot. The civil war with the Communists Is
half- A querr and rather hearted war. There is not a great dten) of lighting. But there is much intrigue and ploiting."
The post-war history of Burma has been the most disappointing
A Tragic War
The close fight in the Ger- elections between the Christian Democrats under the leadership of anti-British Dr. Konrad Adenauer and the Social Democrats under Left- wing Socialist
Kurt Dr. Schumacher means a Coali- of any of the countries of South step into the place of the Burmese Ret out of it. They are too small tion led by Dr. Adenauer with East Asia, except perhaps |Indo- support from the other Right-China. Burmu became Indepen- But the wing parties, with the Social ent in January 1948,
murder in the previous summer Democrats forming a stiff op of Aung San had robbed it of the position.
leader who might have carried it new All parties are united in a dis-safely over the first years of its
independent existence. like af Great Britain to a greater
Today there is a whole series of or lesser degree, and, unless Dr.
Burma, civil wars in Adenauer subordinates his anti-
SHIPPING COSTS Almost every month the Hong Kong newspapers pub. | lish photographs of steamers preparing to leave England on the Far East run. Shipowners at Home, while proud of the new additions to their feet, are however mak- ing just as frequent com- plaints about the uneconomic cost of building.
'Intensive effort has con- siderably restored the ten- nage lost during the war, and as a result freight rates have fallen steeply. The brief era when owners were prepared tu place orders at almost any price has therefore vanished, Today they have to weigh carefully whether probable earnings will be sufficient to cover interest and deprecia-
tion.
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Dirtich views to the building up of strong Government, I foresee Increased friction Delween the 1 British occupying authority and the new Government.
is
Dr. Adenauer's history curious. Born in 1876, he has lived He most of hi life in Cologne, hécame a barrister and was Chief 1533. Burgemaster from 1917 to He was also President of the Prus- stan State Council between 1921 un 1933, and was a member of the strong Catholic Centre Party who had great Influence in the
hhurland,
Known as the "King of Colog me," he very soon came into con- met with Hitler on the rise of the Nazis, and was turned out of the city,
lie lived in Berlin and was ar- rested twice, once during the British shipping is now ex-Roehm "purge" and again during the paule after the abortive ul- posed to the full blast of for-tempt un Hitler's life in 1944, but eign competition, and is com-
he kept free of the German Re pelled to fix its rates accord-sistance movement. Although he ing to what the customer will was anti-Hitler he was also an pay. Excessive shipbuilding opponent of the Communists. costs inevitably mean fewer and less up-to-date British ships, reduced carnings, and ultimately unemployment in the shipyards themselves.
Detached Attitude
at urgency.
To the surprise of everyone he dismissed from his post, was though the reasons have remain- ed obscure..
The other war, the one between some of the Government and Karens, is a
Loses His Cripps Sterling Qualities
By GEOFFREY BARKER
The Anglo-American wrangle seems to be getting out of hand E. T. Lerch's widely- First,
articles on British discussed Socialism, called "Utopia on the Rocks" have stimulated a crop of similar. but wilder. stories in the Wall Street Jour- wal and other isolationist
papers.
Secondly, the isolationists, who are finding themselves batting on a better wicket than they have getting enjoyed since 1930, are support from-belleve it or not- Britain..
Senator James Kem of Missouri, darling of the Hearst Press and "Chicago Tribune," and one of the most unbudging isolationists and Britain-beiters In American poli- ties, has disclosed with delight tinged with incredulity that he has actually had letters from England congratulating him on his efforts
to bun Marshall Plan aid to coun- tries nationalising Industries.
Honest Hatred
When Cologne became part of the British zone of Germany after the war, it was natural that Dr. Adenauer should be appointed to| Just now to reduce costs is
reconstruct the political fabric of a question which must be ex- Cologne where the necessity to ercising the minds of quite rehouse the population and esta a few people at Home. Ship-blish health services was a mate yards have enough work on hand to keep them occupied for another 12 months, but
Kem at least shows political their subsequent
honesty. The 50-year-old Sena- prospects
tor from the "Show Me" Slate must almost certainly depend he was not sufficiently active in doesn't like Englishmen and has on their success in effecting pushing on reconstruction
little time for English support of economies. One remedy pre- but it is likely that the real rea- any particular shade. His reply anti-British is penned with a mitt as frozen as sents itself immediately-the son was his strong lengthening of working hours form to instructions.
kentiments and reluctance to con politeness will allow.
"Of course none of us here desires in any --but that is a measure which I met him just before he was way to interfere in the internal Is highly unfashionable now-dismissed A cold, Leon, pink-faced affairs of Great Britain," he says. man, he had that detached imper-"Many of us here, however, be- adays.
sonal attitude, tinged with con- leve that the money of American tempt for the British Buthorities taxpayers, earned under system in Cologne.
It is
The ostensible reason was that
work,
His tolerance was obvious, and there was constant friction bet- ween his own officinis and the British civil authorities.
Dangerous Man
some possible that trade union leaders have al- ready realised the untimeli- ness of the campaign for the shorter working week which bugan as soon as the war had finished. Less work with or without more pay was never He struck me as a dangerous the way to repair Britain's man, and whatever his original war-shattered economy, sim- views on Britain might have been, ultaneously with vast expan- the destruction of Cologne harden- g into active dislike of anything sion of the social services. It British. consorts ill with the country's continued dependence on for- eign subsidies.
af free enterprise and personal initiative, should not be wasted away in experiments in European Socialism."
and
in
Kem's coldness to these other messages of congratulation underlines Mr. Churchill's warn- ing not to criticise your Gover- ment to foreigners. Many British observers of American affairs feel there are better ways for good Britons to change their Govern- ment than by trying to nuzzle up to the most discredited and
elements From the window of his offire England-baiting he looked out on terrible desolo-American life. tion, and there seems little doubt How far Kem's type of politics in my view that the combination has receded in the United States, of an autocratic personality, toge- however, is apparent from the Acquired, standards of liv-her, with the destruction of what near-desperation with which many ing are aften spoken of as if he looked on as his own city made politicians and journalists are try- they were sacrosanct, whereas it impossible for him to working to evolve ways to save Britain in fact they can be enjoyed amicably with British officials. from what they consider hor only to the extent that they nest and last a man of the old
Although he hates the Nazis. he Inevitable ruin.
How far it will get us at the Germany, and I doubt whether his vital Anonciat talks in Washing-
with those of the Western Powers, lesness and defeat hangs over the of production is now appar- For this reason I think he will conference, ently recognised to be indis-work hard to establish the new The optimista are saying that
bad things look so
that ti-ey pensable to whatever scheme
Dr. Adenauer will fight to get couldn't be worse; the pessimists may be devised for rescuing his own way, and although he are replying morosely that they the United Kingdom from has a party, I doubt if he has any are. her present plight. The need faith in political doctrines. His Fifty-three-year-old Treasury for it was masked as long as dominant thought is Germany, boss John Snyder is in the chair there was a world sellers and he will work to gain a post- and, rightly or wrongly, he is market, but the weakness of respected by the other Western unswerving champlon
tion for Germany which will be being hailed by Isolationists as an of the the, position was exposed as Powers, but I do not imagine for American dollar and an ideal man soon as buyers began to get a moment that his conception of the upper hand and were able the new Germany lies in creating to get tough with Britola.
a country which will be liked by to command their own price. other nations.
are earned, and no more.
His failure to produce a shining British Bon out of the hat has sent
Americans rocketing from one ex- tremne to the other.
All history is dotted with falten idols, but none may prove to be more poignant than Sir Stafford Cripps, America's forgotten hero.
Stars' Invasion'
f
Palmer, Rex Harrison, Lill Martita Hunt have arrived in the vanguard of what may be a record of Broadway. British Invasion Flora Robson is expected to follow soon in "Black Chiffon," current London success. Maurice Evans is producing Playbill, "the two short plays by Terence Rattigan, successful in London last year.
But the best deal may have been arranged by Jack Buchanan, who turned up in New York for one day to complete arrangements for the London production of "Detce- tive Story," Broadway smash hit.
One Hundred
Hours A Week Man
By GRAHAM STANFORD
He works 100 hours a week- and sometimes more--for £4 10s. Te siceps with the break of the waves in his cars; with a telephone by his bedside.
If that bell rings he's out all night, whatever the weather.
He's never known overtime; hates all talk of strikes. He has been called "Hero," which he hates most of all
Anyone particularly surprised?
1 learn on not very good au- thority that three senior police officers emerging from a comfort- able lunch yesterday had heart attacks on
kplash reading the
It is a tragic war, for it is hard to see what the Karens con
in numbers to form an indepen-atta rent state. Moreover their people poster about an ex-soldler run- do not live in one compact group.
hing amok and killing 12. They Except in certain small areas, Bro now, adda my Informant, they are mixed up with the resting peacefully, but are not Burmese, The "Economist" said prepared to see evening paper re- recently that the Burmese Gov- presentatives, endment is now moking headway agalost the Karen rebels. It is too early to my. The Karrie with drawals which have taken place may be only strategic.
Because of the civil wars, the economic situation in Burma goes from bad to worse, Rier: exports are still very low.
What troubles people in Lon- India don and presumably in also is the fear that the Chinese Communists may take advantage of the confusion nnd cross the Burniese border, There rumaurs that there has been an agreement between Man Tse-tung and the Burmese Com- munists.
are
already
Undoubtedly the interests of all the democratic world would be furthered by peace being restored to Burma. The difficulty is to know how the West can be help- ful,
The Burmese Government has
views very strong
about what national Independence requires. It is unwilling to accept any monetary aid from abroad f there are conditions about how it should be used. But the West can hardly hand over several millions
government inspiring confidence by the way it nets about its problems.
to n
•
Correspondent writes querying the meaning of a writ of ha ta. Clearly it's short for ha fa mo.
"North China Daily News to re-start publication."
Actually, there, was nothing wrong with it that a few more columns of apologies couldn't
Cure.
The American expedition hasn't given up hope of finding Noah's Ark. According to the Russians, they may at least stumble on the end of the rainbow, or even an utam bomb factory.
The speaker was enlarging On the dangers of modern foods, and with a dramatic gesture he point- ed an emphatle finger at a rather harrassed-looking and offensive listener and asked: "What Is It? We all eat it some time or other, yet it's the worst thing in the world for us. What is it? Do you know?"
Apparently the little man did know. In a husky whisper he replied: "Wedding cake...."
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A party of Socialist MP: on a walking tour in England were ve cused of trespassing on private which is not property-which, of
the moment it is.
courar, for
be no British
An Informative item says a mist is a fog which has thinned suff- elently to permit objects to be seen at a distance of 1,100 yards. I suppose I doesn't make any diference whether the object is a the Hong Kong Bank
The Karen rebellion cannot be settled by purely military means. If the Burmese Government goes on trying to put down the Kar- en by arms, there will improvement, But the Government connot sny: "We golf ball think you ought to do this and this. Unless you do it, we can- not give you a loan.". The Bur- mese would say that that was I interfering with their affoirs,
building.
Thoughtful advert by an insur- ante company:
"Come and see us any time. "Your welcome is Insured.”
"Piano of Tomorrow. "Will be here instead of tomorrow."
is.
September 10
A fine plane of tomorrow that
The best hope is that there will be an improvement politically, and then the Burmese Govern- ment can negotiate more casily A loan for the development of the country, without any of the awkward political problems being
ahould ralsed, Burma
have
"The same writer rarely takes strong claim to be a beneficiary | pen in hand except to rub sult in under President Truman's "Four raw wounds." Point" programme. UE Mauna
has been visiting America as well as London, and presumably to discuss the Burmese chances of
financial aid.
ALFONSO'S WILL PUBLISHED
London, September 5. King Alfonso XIII, who died lie's that very dogged, deter- in Rome in February 1041, com. nine, clannish character called mended the members of his the British coastguard-one of family to recognise Don Juan us about 800 who guard the coast-
heir to the throne in a Will pub-} line of England, Scotland, Wales, ished in London today. and Northern Ireland,
"1 forgive in my heart all those by whom I was opposed and dis- paraged," he said.
Today he stamps his lonely
By this Will, dated July 8 estate in Britain rottage on the elif in anger. His 1939, he left claims for "a few bob" a week valued £10,194-all to his
ing hours, have been refused by the Ministry of Transport.
A general reduction in costs / conception of democracy marches ton is doubtful. An air of hope increase, plus a revision of work-{ wife and four children.-Router.
Government.
There is no single specific in keeping with this mun of the sh
Strength through power is more for cheapening costs of pro-hour. duction. "Cuts in government'
expenditure, more efficient Party Man
management, harder work by
Mr
not
Even so, he won't strike, and caya wr, and his claims are to be; considered by an Arbitration Court, But-and the, doesn't like saying it some of his mates are "packing it up," and there may soon be many vacant coastguard cottages on Britain's coastline.
Sayɛ. Mr. J. B. Parine, assistant secretary of that branch of the Civil Service Union that speaks for the constguards:
"Men la essential and life raving services such as the coast guardis carmot take drustic action to bring their grievances to the notice of the public. But there can be no doub! that their rejec tion of the won's claim will lead to further designations."
Coast-
What are the facts? guarda are paid £4 10s, a week, with half crown increases up to £3.n week, plus house on the cliffs. Station officers receive £5 158, a week. District officers earn £340 a year, plus £18 increases to' £415.
Coast Protection
心
London, September 7, Parliament will take up a bill
Hardly the perfect too.
"He's crazy about me. Li, He says now he's on the night shift he dreams about me every day."
Russian Comment On Hoffman
London. September 7. The official Soviet newspaper "Pravda' today described, the European Aid Administrator, Mr. Paul Hoffman, 00
cowboy cracking a whip over the Western Europeon nations us if he were dealing with herds of cows.
The "Pravila" article, broad- cast by Moscow Radio, came from the pen of Yuri Zhukov, one of the Soviet's most acid coŋumen- tators on international events... He said: "Mr. HoЛlinon has cracked hix whip with the graciousness of the cowboy who is used with herds of ecws. of the whiperack pleasure in Paris,"
traditional
to dealing The sound eveked no
this autumn to prevent England Zhukov referred to last week's from tumbling into the ocean, it ecafons in Paris of the Organisa- was disclosed.
Ilon for European Economie Co- The "coast Protection_Bill" will operation and the statement by be presented, authorising Jocal M. Robert Marjolin, OEEC Councils .to use. State funds to Secretary, that member mationst halt erosion which at some places would not be solvent by 1952 has been eating away five yards when Marshall ald enda.—United or more of land a year.
Pres
At Selsey, in Sussex, a small parish church lists the names of 24 Bishops of Selsey. But the site of_the
their cathedral is three miles out to sea.
Older inhabitants there
now.come
re-
Danes A Peaceful People
The isolationists are probably lotting a little success go to their heads. But there seems no doubt that the meetings between Spyder and Sir Stafford Cripps In London recently were a lament- able failure, Personalities clashed painfully and hopes of 60- operation collapsed with, a thud labour, and elimination of Dr. Kurt Schumacher, leader that was resounding restrictive practices must all of the German Socialists, is essen sickening.
member a busy fishing village tially a party man. His politica The entire American disillusion- play their part. The difficul- lend more to the Left than the ment with Britain and British
which disappeared 40 year ago. ties of restoring a 48-hour Centre. He is, however, sick ideas is largely
R
the personal
In another 30 years, at the present rate of erosion, 60 more week in England are obvious, man and it is likely that Kart tragedy of Britain's Chancellor,
Arnold, Prime Minister of North
and but it is worth noting that Rhine Westphalin, will be the do- Stafford was blown up
In America, as In Britain, Sir
acres
houses worth $1,000,000 last
will have. been washed away. your Switzerland, with probably minant personality of, the Socia- as Britain's man of the hour, the
Some local counells are.
Aarhur, September 7.7 are already economic the highest standard of living at Opposition. He is not as strong Churchill of Britain's
drafting
The Danish Bght the sea. plans to
Premier, Hand to fight, the Seaford in Sussex, and the most equal distribu- a man as Schumacher, but is po- Dunkirk. His visit to America
Hedtoft, told the 25th annual $2,000,- But hours of duty are unspeci 000 project on the boards, while congress of the Danish Social De tion of wealth in Europe, pular, simple and accessible. was a personal triumph and, he
He has plenty of courage, and works a universal 48-hour has spoken against the Russians American business could put its
was hailed as the one Socialist fled. Coastguards say they are the programme to block erosion mocrat (Government) Party to
round the clock-as much as 100 between Chichester Harbour and day that the Danes are a week.
in Berlin when the Soviet liaison shirt on.
hours a week.
Pagham will
cost another $1,- of peace. ofcors were in the audience. 'Ho
48-hour week, with further hraurg·000,000—júst - about the value of Democrata bellaum ruither th
That being so, they claim a
He said: "We Danish Social There are unpleasant, pos- considers the Allies have treated
full the properly which would be lost Communism nor capitalism, sibilities ahead for the old Germany unfairly, particularly in extreme siction by his own or'on duty to be counted frontier «rovisions between Adenauer's party.
time" and with "on call" duty by 1980-United Press. country, and those of us in the
It will be a very uncary Glov~ | as-half-time. Coastguards also Hong Kong who work.bven Germany, Holland and Belgium,
To sum up whatever form the ernment with constant friction, claim a Bs. increase; station longer (despite the fiction Government any take, will but the chances of success lie in a officers 34
angreed to that we do nothing else but have little liking for Britain, compromise between Adenauer The Ministry have the rounds of cocktail though it will pbably lean on and Schumacher, who may for the coastguards, rise, have whit parties) can safely recom- the United States for Libir dollars. the present sink their differences led down the station officers . Adenauer, will leans to the For the future there must inevi- claim by 1, but on condition laat mend the solution as a good Right, Schumacher to the Lettably be clash between the two they will withdraw all claim to one,
#+48-hour-war and Arnold, will try to moderatal parties-for-dominance.
has.
Glasgow, September 6. :Orders worth £300,000 were booked in the first four days of the Scottish Industries: Exhibition here. About half of the orders
Reuter
"
"We want a Government which gives the greatest social security possible to nil and which, at the same time, safeguards their right, tr
Denmark has made good prost has in converting her econom from war to peace and the rigona 1 in sight, he said—Router