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--the following Sylky, probably tall and the countries of the 24354 | crisis, other world leaders were Few of them have returned knowing that bot-heads who mis- Commonwealth have been trykke trickling back to New York for isolationists. And many fewer take intolerance for righteousness to keep above water. In peace. 32312 what may be the most successful than usual have been seasick would confound themselves before the Empire rallied as the war. Just General Assembly of the United thanks to Dramamine, the new public opinion By breaking up his how much the Emplee's contribu- Nations yet.
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THE DYING CLASS
United Nations delegates-those | practised performers in the art of stalemate and deadlock — are full of opimion for the Lake Success conferences.
By GEOFFREY BARKER
tion has meant to Britain is dez». cribed here by @crrespondente ir
1
Canada
concert a second time.
The second risk was worse than the first. Shock Brigades of anti-) Communist demonstrators poun- ced on stragglers leaving the con- cert, overturned motor-ears, huel- Grarfed-fingered old wo- ed bricks through the windows men walking cows in freez- Violence continued throughout the ing temperatures and arth- evening over an area of 10 square ritic old men returning to the | miles, injtning more than 50
Barrest fells, were the un- of Canada's sung herbes stupendous war efforts. This replacement labour enabled
drug which acts as a preventive people. and a cure. It was even used successfully by Edward Allcard, plane the Londoner who sailed across the Atlantic.
Red Victory
The rint was a tremendous
With a Sickle-y Grin.
A quarter of the world's pos pulation is now standing on its own feet, says Mao Tse-tung
And treading on the toes of the other three-quarters...
According to some local sources;. the question of which government: to recognise in China cam, bes taken as red.
•
Why these atoms can-e just; fiy democratically, I imagine.
son
In Hong Kong, price, control. is
a Small matter.
Even the Russians are showing anxiety not to rock the boat more than they can help. The cold war just at the moment secins as much a part of history as last season's Cup Final.
There was an encouraging scene at Lake Saccess when the Rus- One half tablet just before the sians went to great lengths to ship leaves barbour and another paganda victory for the Com- Canada's farms to supply: avoid, using another veto. The Half tablet every six hours after munists and their smug India more than half all the food dery Argentines who do better does the trick by they believe, tion is at present profaning the Britain needed to import
mask of virtue. Americans, rea- When out of world wars than more pes stablising the fluid in the inner lising that the Communists for Canada's industrial capacity was Laurel to his achierements.
declared. ple-tried to force the Russians ear. It is this fluid thrown out of into using a veto by bringing up equilibrium which is blamed for the question of admitting more producing nausea,
The small yellow tablets are costing at the moment about 6d.
countries to the
United Nations Soviet delegates, using all the tricks of debate they knew, managed to talk out the isstic and the Argentine delegate
left in a huff.
each.
Taft's Target
SEALED
“Qüifin, somebody's pitch --Former Philippines: presitienė Osmena has added, get, another
incide ships, aero- once have right on their side, are trebled to uneasily resigned to the fact that planes, guns and tanks and many
Dicult to estimate whether the Corimimists everywhere will ober an
The Nat was built up from the Nationalists: intend making On the entertainment scene make the most of it, both "Hamlet" and "The Redressels of al sirs. Under the another grandstand play.
small shes to nearly 1,000 a grand stand in Amoy, do just
17
We have recently published two articles on Britain's dis-non-Communist appearing middle class, which provided the traders, soldiers and administrators who built up the nation and the em- pire in the last century. Inj (Almost) All Quiet America and Hong Kong, for
Americans, for their part, want instance, this class is still to avoid any more squabbles with very much in evidence, but the Russians in the United Na-
tions. They are trying to suppress A victory over the Democrats and The first English film to get in the United Kingdom they
attempts to bring the Russian-hostile Ohio Labour would almost really good reviews in a a long time have suffered so many blows Yugoslav dispute before the Gen-certainly win him a Republicans Saints and Sinners," which Hitler is said to have laughed in recent years that the ques-eral Assembly.
Presidential nomination in 1952 should run for many weeks, but when he heard that fouth Africa tion is being widely asked ing quiet about the Soviet Union. as Gorder. Richards misses win-sented by Alfred Hitchcock and
Even the newspapers are keep the target he misses as regularly "Under Capricorn,” the film pre- had joined the fight gainst him. He could not know that South whether they can survive as Only the Hearst Press continues
ning the Derby.
Sidney Bernstein, has given the Africa was to build up the great- an entity much longer. to wage its private war.
Taft son of an American Presl- less charitable critics an
opper- est
est volunteer force
Shoes*
Bre
one year's celebrating uninterrupted run in Manhattan Bagire Air Trainhs plan 122,000 and D2,000 ground with business showing no signs of aircrews
crews were trained on Canadian! Kood be. A political campaign of vital thinning. "Quartet, which start- Importance to America and the ed seven months ago, is still keep aerodromes. world opened when Senator Ring out "Fallen Idol," which has Canada provided £300,000,000 bert Taft went home to Ohio to been scheduled as the next attrac-in Mutual aid to the Allies, white campaign for re-election to the tion at the fashionable Sutton her earlier fancia aid to
tain totalled £525,000,000. Senate next year.
Cinema.
South Africa
*
Canton is to be beld at any price, says M. Koo
But it may prove a peart with- out price
Girls who wear fannel The whole year through Itch
To get married,
But seldom do
·
Meanwhile, in Washington the dent and architect of the present tunity to be more unkind to 12 that he ATTRY Wthe world. | Sign of the times.
brant
Wher
Would
fight fear- The fact that all the pum Largely because of crush-talks went rather better than ex- unsuccessful Republican policy, is grid Bergman than she deserves. Iessly in East and Neth Africa blossom trees are bearing sour The newest film craze has start- and in Italy and the her 34 grepes in Canton is regarded “as ing taxation, Britain's nation-ected certainly better than was usually regarded in Britain as a al income has now been so shed by those Americans who die-bard isolationist but the issue èd with the disinterment of some squadrons were destind to drop not the best of omens
regarded the Cripps-Bevin mis-is not as simple as that. Taft's old comedies of the early 30s,
Jus the Arst and last bombs in the. redistributed that profession- sion as a raid on the American honesty and moral integrity carry dating back to the time when the African sampalani
Treasury
reminiscent of the Bar- great
weight in America and Alms became al and business people have bary Corsairs.
would get him many votes in an glorious Technicolor." One of the best proposals to election.
A String of W.C. Fields dims unexpectedly. a standard of living not much
The Democrats, however, who started the cycle Managers dis- higher than artisans and come out of the conference was brought by the Washington
may conceivably be represented covered long queues of bobby- technicians. The falling off Post, which usually reflects top again by Mr. Trumat, would soxers and middle-aged. Brooklyn
welcorse
Taft as an opponent housewives rubbing shoulders Post says the United
be with shaggy intellectuals who accompanied by a loss of po- The F
dallar kitty by bartering hower or Harold Stassen
The which ailing up from Green- in droves to see the | American wheat, corn and cotton
of Taft's present cam-great is that he is making British Never sin to make too much
קס
of purchasing power has been echelon thinking in Washites because they think be: would be! litical power. Today it is or-in stop India's drain on Bri-1 easier to beat than General Eisen-
the dominating voice.
and
came
**EJI
been the war endel South "Bread in Britain bas Africa was a prosperos coun- raised by a penny a legt."
Britain was not, had the
Lot of straws in the wind this autum Union came to her aid with an £80,000,000 gold loan.
India
ganised labour through pow-|for India's manganese, shellac ddalist waste and mismanage-j of a good thing, exhibitors re- erful trade unions which has mica, all which are on America went an important plank in his leased all the old Mae West and 2,250,000′′ men, who fought on all i
Further, it is the "workers" who are deciding what the tenor of life shall be, what the proper standards of life are. To make a profit or ac quire large sums of money by trade is emphatically frowned on; to have tastes towards a fine house, ser- vants, foreign travel, etc. is offensive to the working class sense of propriety and must be eliminated.
It is all being done gradual- ly, of course, without pog
roms
or
action
Brothers films
two at aj
One man's meat.
Kan lunchea Chiang and Lu India's contribution b
both together a Kumming For face's war and peace must rank among sake, each said the reason be the biggest in the whole Empire. used his own cook was to show
During the war, she applied his friend what real food is.
The three Indian Ser- Dinner was a little late, so the Sbe
fronts
*
stock-piling list,
is advocating "No Marx alone would go a long way to- platform and wards plugging the dollar leak more tid for Britain." His soc-time. Karold Lloyd's earler vices collected 7,015 swars for hostess played the piano.
Meanwhile, America's tourists cess or failure affects us closely. talkies have been brought back, gallantry, including 31 Vitoria finished, but there was still an
from Following the riots which and Will Rogers is next on the Crosses. are returning in swarms Europe, where they have been wrecked Paul Robeson's concerti list.
ETHIOPIA WANTS BACK
.
HER LOST PROVINCES
interval of waiting. In the silence she turned to her guest and Australia
asked, "Would you like a sonata Although the Australian om- before dimer?" He gave a start monwealth is only 48 years tid, of surprise and pleasure, Why, it has learned the cost of var. res, thank you I had a couple Prime Minister J. B. Chiffer on my way here, but I think I- cently warned taxpayers tht could stand another."
they were still paying £20,000
000 yearly for pensions and i terest charges for the first Worl|
War and, in addition, would have to find another £100,000,000 year for many years
for the
It is not easy to write about af Geographically and ethno- ! The progress of a nation is country four times the size of graphically there is a case for the geared to its educational system Second World War. France, of which the Government union of the predominantly Cop- What of Ethiopia's? of the day does not know how tie highlanders
many people it rules.
of Ethio- "Official" estimates outright confisca-
between pia's population vary tion, and the weapon of taxa-,000,000 and 12,000,000. tion is wielded unceasingly
It is that kind of country,
of Eritrea. Ai-
By J.L. HAYS
rates
at
In the post-war period, Aus- According to her rulers, tralia has made outright gifts to £1,000,000 was spent on educa-Britain of £43,000,000, and has tion last year. In twelve months sold Eer food and other products. fifty schools have been built, to the British Government bringing the total up to 430. negotiated prices far below world).
Maybe, but there are only four to effective purpose. The for- Almost the first thing I was
secondary schools. (with possibly New Zealand merly comfortably-off now told by an Ethiopian was most certainly the Copts of Eritrea 600 pupils) where a boy or giri
of sixteen can attain matricula-Zealand has played a vast part During the past decade New have to live on their capital This is a country of which it is desire that union.
impossible to write accurately. But, with an equal degree of tion standard. Others are cer- in Commonwealth affairs. to maintain even a shadow of There are few official records, few certainty, it can be stated that tainly planned, some are build- their previous life, and with reliable statistics. You must 50 Somali do not desire it..
the half-pagan, half- Moslem supertax at 19/6d. in the £out and find out for yourself". it is no longer possible to amass a great fortune.
This will inevitably have a
I went out and I found out- because much is going to be heard of this African Christian King- dom of the Emperor Haile Selas- sie, reputed descendant of King during the next few weeks.
Export Trade
Ethiopia also has a case, at first sight impressive, within
sweeping effect on the fabric Solomon and the Queen of Sheba sphere of "1949-style economics.
the
ing.
Her expeditionary force fought gallantly in Greece, Crete, the
An- There is no post-secondary Western Desert and Italy. education at all, no university | other New Zealand force served and no medical school
with the Americans in driving the Japanese from the South Pacific. Ia public health, the Gover- New Zealand's contribution to ment claims twenty hospitals Britain's food supplies through- Her expert trade (worth near./ with 2,000 beds, over 100 clinics out the war was equally import- |
working, and produces glowing ly £3,000,000 in the first six Agures for doctors, nurses and
ant and since the war she has months of this year, with coffee, trainees.
the task, supplying hides and skins predominating) clinics planned and in course of
of new hospitals and ntinued
balt of all Britain's imported is certainly handicapped by high
· butter, more than half her im- construction Ethiopia, at the United Nations, fransit expenditure.
The truth?
ported cheese and over in power say there is no is going to claim her “lost pro- The two main ports for Ethio-
There is not a single Ethiopian thirds of her imported mutton and the former Red Sea pian trade are Massawa, on the
although doctor→→
there are larab. necessity for large fortunes. vinces"
Italian Somaliland. Both are at Eritrean coast, and Jibut, on plans to send students to Bri- The State will provide cradle present under British "caretaker that of French Somalband. to grave welfare and insuran-administrations.
Giant Italian-run Diesel trucks ish running over Italian-built roads shown
of Britain. Having insisted on the principle that there must be little difference in stan- dards of living, the Socialists
Historically
administration of
medical schools. I was list of twenty-eight
a
tury. it will be a very different son of Africa to the Red Sea,
boundaries are extended over the To move exports to Jibull, the with figures for venereal disease,
Ilse
ce, and through nationalisa- These aspirations provide an alte three days on the Addis doctors serving Addis Ababa's tion will gradually take over opportunity for assessing Ethio- Ababa-Massawa run, and in 1643 estimated 250,000 population.
Foreign money and foreign all industry. The trend is al-pia's claim to be recognised as the the British
Arst-class African Power she will Eritrea collected nearly £96,000 medical missions are perhaps win- most impossible to stop, and become in area, in potential re-in 1.6 per cent transit fees at the ning a gigantic battle with with
*** | ignorance and
grappling even by the end of the cen- sources and strategically, if her frontier.
Ethiopians are compelled to
typhus, relapsing fever, malaria country from the one in Historically, Ethiopia's case is their only,
French-own-
and dysentery which are horrify- ing which some of us were that
she lost control of the Red ed. French Sea coast only
Take the foreigners away and because of Euro- An idea of the freight rates brought up. Whether it is a pean annexations in the nine-charged by the French, is gained what efficiency and integrity may
exist in Ethiopia's health se
services tragedy or an improvement teenth century
from the fact that it
it costs less will largely depend on the
But all recorded history shows to move machinery from Amezi will vanish
Nothing I have written implies point of view.
that the Ethiopians, the Ambaras; ca's Middle West all the
Way to the central highlands, had little Jibuti than it does to move. It criticism of the mass of Ethio-
plans. hold over the turbulent Moslem over the 480 miles of railway If I have judged their country" and pagan tribes of the coastal between Jibuli and Addis Ababa. with the yard-stick of British Members of another dying lowlands, from the Middle Ages But development of Ethiopia's standards, it is only because I am
onwards. There was constant export trade (1948 total: nearly a British reporter writing for class are expected to arrive fighting with the Danskil,, Gaila £9,000,000) does not entirely de British readers. in Hong Kong today-Euro- and Somall,
pend on happier transit, arrange- ments. peans evacuating-from Comm munist-held Shanghai. They
Coptic Church
Before that trade can be boost- ed to the point at which a de-.
Fascist Attack
are of many vocations, but it must not be forgotten, mand for ports bears full exami They are paying a high price they all in essence represent though, that, in the disposal of nation, a vast range of improve-in the modern world for the in- the foreign traders who built the former Italian colonies, the wents in technique and market-dependence which has been theirs
United Nations must be guided ing must be implemented.
almost continuously" "fri
their up, directly or indirectly, the by the wishes of the peoples. in-
mountain fastnesses since time Bad Farmers immemorial.
They Almost half of Eritrea's 800,000
have suffered. Their
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If Mao Tse-tung has his way, population shares a common re- Despite generally favourable country might have been very their day is also done, how-ligion with Ethiopia - that of climatic conditions, Ethiopia's dinerent to-day had, it not been ever tenaciously some indivi- the Coptic Church.
agriculture is notorious for its for the Fascist onslaught in 1935; deficiencies.
but for the calculated slaughter duals still cling to their posts
Only Ethiopia's coffee bears by the Italians of their educated comparison with the products of men.
They are, indeed, a proud and her neighbours._**
Mineral wealth-except gold ancient people, glorying? in an is virtually untapped. There Empire older than ours.REA stand of Western endeavour welcome back to a normal may be of What-title-industry They have charm and courtesy, in this part of the world, and atmosphere and living condi- exists Is foreign-run pre deeply religious, there are, i Both foreign capital and, for is said, 20,000 churches, many the test of our strength will tions' those whose life in the
* They deserve the world's good." Hi development plans are to suc be how we can stand up to past few months has been know how are necessary with 100. priests attached to them.
will the gradual undermining pro-anything but pleasant.
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