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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, - SEPTEMBER 10, 1949.
IT'S FINE TO BE A FOREIGNER
IN THE LAND OF THE FREE!
SET THE WORSTEDS FREE!
By BEDDINGTON
BEHRENS
By RHONA CHURCHILL
"Why not?" you
may
charitably. “And why not?” aske
A
Government spokesman in
effect. "Suppose if cost. £260,000 | That: budyad-up tasting,
1 year to give foreigners our: There are some indications that
0007" (Parlament, 8-4-40.)
is booming.
"Oh, to be a foreigner now the woman who put Hitler in health facilities, what's. 2300,- | the Navy's business in Hong Kong that England's here" might power and gladly sent her sons be a good theme song for visious to kill oursis enviable. tors to the United Kingdom. Cosy Twin-Sets?
taxi
you
arc
cosy
But a few weeks later the Gov- ernment was saying it could not afford to provide.cars for British. It is reported that when, the the ex-Service men whose Rgs' hâd | Redis have finished with been amputated below the knee. Chine, mainland, they will "con- Cost7- £20,000.
centrate their attention on Taipan Island, that last stronghold of Imperialism."
Toilet Soap?
"Au enjoyable and refreshing .romedy comes to the Roxy and Broadway Theatres is wack-end
munications should be addressed | quality goods. He urges her to in special shop, hidden away from on the day he won feeling extra/ are expected to scrub our clothes with the screnning of "Unfaith-
to the Company CHINA MAIL LTD.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
| Mr. And Mrs. Albert R. Ellis on behnit of the Ella family wich to express their heart- fe thanks to all who attend- the funeral of the late Mr. Felix M. Els and niso the matefully acknowledge
many letters of condolence, Boral tributes and donations to charities.
THE YUNNAN ENIGMA
She Con buy warm, example, wouldn't For
you cashmere -twin-sela in Britain love to be Fil from Parls and (wool considered much too good be able to walk into Fortnum's for
and
mne, since it and buy yourself six dozen pairs | originates from perilously near of fully fashioned nylons of the the Iron Curtain and stocks and
Now you all know the old story dwindling). And Onest gauge ever manufactured Į supplies
же were all raised on that Just like that, and at only 12. they even let her off purchase foreigners
don't wash. Well, 6d, a polr?
we've put that right too, We Mr. Paul Hoffman has told
Wouldn't you love to be Six- Or let's go Latin, Let's be one don't just give them a soap tation Britain, that there in a fine norina Busetti from Rome, able of those few young Romans Mus- equal to our own, with which we market in America for her to call at Harrods and choose, in solini seni, over to bomb London
fully Yours," written, produced and homes. increase by at least five times mere natives of the country, a specially daring.
The fellow lost a leg in the Oh, dear me, no. Foreigners and whose Alms often been noted the number of British firms set of fine English crystal cock-.
must be encouraged to adopt the directed by Preston Sturgess, for "energetically engaged in sell-tall glasses at Os. 6d, ench, or a attempt. Well, there's nothing to good old English habit of taking novelty and nonsense."
Novel nonsense is right. beautiful painted Copeland stop him coming over now to visit baths. We give them a basic ing to the dollar market" and
such as Spode dinner service,
us and get a free new artificial British ration and throw another to treble the total volume of the natives have almost forgot-one on our Health Service,
And while he's in Britain hex cakes of tollet soap at them. "Chiang 'absconds" British dollar exports.
ten could exist?
Let's talk sweets.... you know Even
old
слету Frau can get a new set of teeth if he
those tasty tit-bits that have with $138,000,000 Schmidt from Berlin-you know, I needs them.
just appeared back on our shop fund, Connally avers in Senate shelves,
Debate." Ol, how nice to be a foreigner "Mme Chiang to return, help with a sweet tooth. He can take husband." a couple of pounds of our choco- Intes or lollipops, and--just to It is reported from Rhodesia show we're not mean-our 4oz. that an English big-game hunter sweet ration as well.
The Government warmly ap proves of these exhortations and loses no opportunity of urging manufacturers to heed them.
The companies of which I am chairman make worsted cloth-the hopsacs, tweeds, cheviots for which this country is traditionally far- ous.
Plight Of Industry
The story of a single smail fem illustrates the plight of the in- dustry as a whole.
our
Stalin's Big Mistake
Tito Was
By ARTHUR MONTANUS
can
threaten and move troops round Tito's borders, But Tito has a well-trained and loyal army of his own which knows every rock and defle of
Embassies and Ministries all 6. Stalin For almost 70 years Edwlu over the world are busy work- Walker and Co., Ltd., has scating. overțime about Stalin's from Huddersfield to the ends of
to Tito and Tito's even ruder reply. Only Yugoslavia. the earth the cloth which every last rude letter self-respecting tailor offers first to his customers-high-grade Eng- Belgrade, is working
hours.
Little detailed news has emerged following the Yun- nan revolt, or the visit of the rebellion's leader, Lu Han, tolish worsted.
confer with Chungling to Chiang Kai-shek and other influential members of the Nationalist government. The situation does, however, give rise to some very interesting speculation.
Has there been a repetition of the Stun incident
when the "Young Marshal." Chang Hsuch-liang, virtually kid- napped the generalissimo in an endeavour to bring him round to the right way of thinking, and what was "good for the nation?"
In 1947 the firm was in poor shape, and I bought it. I meant to make an experiment to see how I could increase and improve methods of production without in any way lowering the quality of the cloth.
The experiment has succeeded. In two years the output of the firm has been trebled, the number of operatives employed doubled, and the excellence of the product fully maintained.
Eighty per cent of all that we have produced has gone abroad, and the Arm is now rendy to double its present production, so Many things point to some that the mills will soon be able to thing of the kind having hap- turn out six times as much cloth pened. Rumours of secret as they did two years ago. negotiations between Lu Han Szechuan and the
warlord production of quality worsted anti Yet we shall now reduce the Chan Chung were current henceforward many of the for some
weeks previously. weavers will be producing third- If these two were planning rate "utility" fabrics. anything, it might reasonably The policy of the Government be expected that the revolt has forced us to do this. in Yunnan would not be un- expected in Chungking, and of the Board of Trade worked well the fact of the Nationalist enough-foreign leader's personal presence, not entirely welcome from all accounts in that city, would place him virtually in the hands of the "conspira- tors."
That there was indeed a real revolt and no mere students' demonstration, as some Nationalist sources in Canton would now have us believe, seems clear enough. First there
In a seller's market the tactics
buyers would
and the looms were busy. take any quantity of our goods,
normal
Stalin's war of nerves has been res fine.
Tite was lanp enough in the Kremlin's confidence to have an idea of Stalin's long-term plans, Tito is having his holiday as He knows that Russia will nat go planned, like people at Southend to war yet. So he laughs up the and Blackpool,
of his embroidered white He knows that switched on against Tito for the
one run only second time this year, but Tito the Kremlin can can take it! What is more im-querilla war at a time in the Bal portant, the Yugosiny people can kans; and that one is the Great take it! They make a hobby of war. He knows that if Stalin's saying "boo" to as big a goose divis Drove into Yugoslavia, he can move his divisions into Al as they can find.
In 1941, when Britain's fortunes boda and destroy that toady of
7.
.....
used to
H'm
+
is missing.
to Talwan of Treasury
A pour foreigner is
One theory is that something sweets at home, and getting, so he disagreed with nte him.
many in so short a time won't upset his stomach like it would yours and mine,
Now what else can we do for you, Mr. Foreigner? You'd like to come and live with us? Just ave months of the year, old man? Splendid. You cah dodge a lot of income tex that way, can't you?
50.
Bigger House?
"Leung shows Chinese colour- ed paintings."
Did they like them?
"Huk Chief E udes troops." But did e get away!
And they ved scrappily ever
afler.
cuncerned "ALL the countries were happy under the American Martial plan."
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jt.
Face Voltage.
•
·
You want a house?' Seen just the job, but it's too small? Why not extend it. old man?
The 100 limit or structural
"Reds appoint top South China alterations? Don't be silly. You're a foreigner; you're going to spend officials." your country's money in Britain. This of course is getting very We'll give you a permit to build near the bottom North. a new wing on the house.
And how about redecoration A Communist speaker in Bri- made the interesting throughout? You think £2,000 tain has would suffice for them? Make it suggestion that a goodwill mis- £3,000 to be on the safe side, old tort, should be sent to Russin.
Unfortunately some countries man
You're French, aren't you? we needed Afoscow,
out of good will seem to run were at a low ebb, friends. Hitler threatened Yugo- If Tito is not worried, John H'mm, your currency's a bit soft slavia. The Yugoslav people rose Bull need not be. That is the too, Isn't it? We used to be told faster than the rest of the world
We understood you were frit- can supply and said "No" to Hitlar. As Mr. Important paint. "Yugoslavia has Churchill said,
But therein also lies the danger. tering it away by manufacturing found her noul." Yugoslavia was Tite knows too much. He can re-frivolities.
Well, never mind. Let's not #foreigner and overrun, but 16 German divisions veal, blackmail and barguit, and
tied were
down by Yugoslav what je more dangerous to the argue. You're guerilla warfare. Those divisions Kremlin he can use Yugoakivia that's good enough.
Why, we know a Pole who got would have been mast inconveni-
Cominform ent to put it mildly-if launch- rallying point for
and, well, whoever hears of in to say that bastionado" is a Italy or against Russia or Turkey.sion in neighbouring Russian-co-zloty nowadays? The Important torture whore the Reds make the ed against the Eighth Army in deserters and a base for rubuer. away with a much bigger request;
trolled countries.
He can play thing is not to be a native. Never defenders of an 'impregnable" the fifth column game -- and Tito
be a native.
city walk on the sales of their is a part master at it.
You want a car? It'll take a feet to the next month. Don't be silly. That's no time at all. The natives walt Heads you fome, taela we win. four years.
Becoming a co-liberator is just You'd like to hire a self-driva about as becoming as collabora-
while waiting?
the Certainly. tor, In fact, you can use cur There's only one left in the Hire same red sash If you take the Service garage and a native asked "Down with the Anglo-American
Don't let that worry you. You agressors" off it..."
Independent
not like
The Yugoslavs do being bossed. That is Stalin's big miscalculation.
cards Stalin What are the
He can produce: holds?
nerves
to
Private Score
Bras?
His stopping of support to the Greek rebels, those bloodthirsty darlings of the Kremlin, is an in- dication of the damage he can do 1. Steady war of scare the Yugoslav people and tot to the Communist cause.
Tito himself has one private scare off Anglo-U.S. economic
a Government priority, acore to settle with the Kremlin. have assistance.
His wife was quietly "removed" What is more, you can have un- for Trotskyism in Moscow in 1934. limited petrol. Economie blockade. celled. In the ordinary course of events there would have been rio
Do you know a fraulein over Tito is not going undergo the great harm in that-the firm Assassination of Tito and same fate. He is a man of sent here earning £2 a week as would have sold fts surplus cloth his Cabinet in the Balkan fashionment-wrong, bloodthirsty penti- maid? Her flance is visiting her ment, sometimes. But still not a and she'd like to send some nylon on the home market.
Then came a slight recession in
America and orders were
Today we cannot do that.
Not A Hope
can-
not afford our cloth, how can we
2.
3.
4. Whipping up internal un- Communist puppet. He was not to her mother when he leaves?
-And Nylons? rest among the various races that afraid to tell overbearing Russian go to make up Yugoslavia.
generals that British lance-cor-
porals behaved better than they lie was a Nazi, was he, and in 5. Stopping of support to Tito did in Belgrade. He ordered spe- the army, too? What a pity! at UN and other International cial ceremonies for the opening Well, never mind, that's all over
If Antericans feel that they can- meetings. factual werc descriptions of the taking hope to sell it in this country, even 6. Troop movements over of the town by the Yun-
at a reduced price, if to that price frontier. nanese gendarmerie, and then must be added a purchase tax of the undoubted, arrival of 60-2/3 per cent. legions of fleeing Nationalist officials in Canton.
The fact that immediately after the event Lu Han was bold enough to fly to Chung king for parleys would ap pear to indicate that the generalissimo has little au- thority there today. He might well, in fact, be more or less a prisoner, and tids possibility seems even more Ifkely by the hurried journey of aged Yen Hsi-san to his side.
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One suggestion, that the young Chiang Ching-kuo had not be improbable, as this followed was the procedure during the war years, when promtient Yunnanese loadors
went out of their province into what might well have proved Central government
of the British war cemetery in now. How many nylons would like? Four dozen pairs? the the Belgrade, which aroused on | Kremlin's wrath. On the other Certainly. Her fiance can collect hand, Yugoslav troops are "tron- them at Dover when he leaves.
Oh, yes, they're free of pur tier nuisances" to our troops in
chase tax. Dirt cheap, in fact. Trieste and Austria.
Only 12s. 6d. The natives pay 125. Bd, for much poorer..
quality,
Sturdy Stock
when they can get them.
You want to leave us now and
But Tilo can beat these cards. 1. Neither he nor the Yugo- The answer is that there is no sluvs are people easily scared; aak hope of doing so, and hence the 'the Turks of 100 years ago; the fine worsted which our own peo-Austrian Emperors of 50 years
That is the Yugoslav. He is a wish to take a few things home? ple would gladly buy at a little ago; the German Generals of five
The war of Simple, old man. Just order any- extra cost-fine worsted costs only years ago, ask Sir Charles Reake, law unto himself, about 7s. 6d. a yard more than the Brillsh Ambassador, today. nerves started by Stalin and thing you like absolutely any "utility" cloth-lies useless in our
2. Tito's answer to Stalin's sometimes kept up by the British thing-and have it sent to the economic blockade, is more, prio- and U.S. Press doesn't scare him. ship. Save yourself purchase warehouse.
duction at home (he has achieved Young Yugoslav shepherd boys tax. Buy our £22 coats for 218, that in part); more trade pacts aged eight fight wolyes in defence our £17 frocks for £14, our with Western Europe (he Has of their fathers' focks, alone, half £505 motor-cars_for_£395, Wh' alternative have we but those with Italy Switzerland and frozen on high mountains. They Why leave us? Haven't wo to give the British people the only Great Britain); loan from can take it so can Tito and mado
you happy? You think cloth which they can afford to world bank--he will get a small they can dish it out. The Yugo we've gone balmy? Maybe you'ro buy in large quantities-uulity" one, Yugoslav economy will go stav, like ourselves, wants to go right. fabrles: the sort of shoddy goods frough bad times but not as his own way. which Edwin Walker would have bad or under Russia's "control. scorned to produce ten years ago, and which we hate to make now?
Nevertheless, men and women must be kept in work.
The Solution
Once we have lost the craft of
1
Killers Fail
.
As the Nationalist big shot on!- cial said, "A switch in time saves pine,"
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Pardon me while. I step back Hut oven it Tito were killed into the fish queue, desirak .aven' if the Soviet assassin was gble to get past the tall, sllont Montenegrins that sit on the steps ... Yugoslavia 3. Russian agents have tried to of Tito's villa kill Tito this spring, they falled;, would continue along its present But there is no purchase tax on he has the best bodyguard In the path. Titolam would not die with "utlifty" cloth, the British people world. Ask the British officera
Tito. can therefore buy it and we must, and Olle who served with him Whatever Tito's previous record
during the war.
and a lot of ito bar dared to perforce, make It.
Stalin is thinking twice before anti-British Tito has dored making fine worsteds we shall not trying to kill Tito and his Cabinet speak the truth about Soviet in- ngain, because of the effect on terference, Soviet lles. He has easily regain it.
other Eatellite leaders who would dared to boy to speak, to act, far As the quality of our merchan-like to have Tito's independent more forthright with the Kremlin Should this indeed be the dise is whittled away by official position and are already straining than car own Cabinet Ministers
interference, our export market at the leash. The Kremlin might have
be frank. Anybody case, the sending of the will shrink, and the Government find they have jumped from the Let us generalissimo's son into a will not be happy about that nor trying pan of Tito into the fire fighting for independence against
of a Balkin | hustlie camp to bring its shall we
da. The yukoslav's" de "well ina Icader forth to talk terms in- dicates
Groat; Slovene, castle, Wish" "Tito luck. Zdravo very desperate manufacturer should be able to the various races of Yugo- the Englishman's home is
Bosnian the Hell noad 1 S lonalists in Szechuan. It isference of Government Depart- Mollem, Orthodox, Catholic, Pro they want without the inter
various
Yugoslavia religions therefore not surprising thatments and when the publle should testindo hot always see nyc to there in talk of a modus be allowed to buy what il desires. orp but Fito to them: ji, a man:
Hofman's challenge.
traps.
a
The time has come when theist revolta aflosollst anti-Staßin' is sighting in some way for
situation indeed for the Na- give the public what he believes Morin,
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