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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1949.
THE NEW INQUISITION IS
MOVING
THEY WANT
TO BUY BRITISH
INTO THE
By TOM POCOCK
temperature,
LAB
Good Morning
Haldane, who, secure from secret palice terrorism, had to make the straight choice between his Com-Hong Kong Mahĉigras Tents** munism and his 'conscience as a
Kremlin's Eyes
For the past year the wheat seedlings have been treated) scientist. scientific world has been split with hest and cold to enable by a furious controversy: Are crops to be raised in extremes of our lives shaped by our here- With give-and-take from both dity or by our environment? sides, science could have made Could a human being be in-tremendous advances in agricul- proved by selective breeding orture and eventually improved the by perfected environment during health of mankind. growth?
This argument not only con-
Marxist Blinkers
New that the Gener) Gordon has been here, the problem is where to khart whom
a
Yes it did in China, too..
+
One of our busy socialites liv- ing on the Peak was interviewed by a reporter the other day. "I've been trying to see you all week, ma om," he said
"Very well," she exclaimed. "just make an appointment with my secretary."
"Mr. Hugh Dalton has lately Would he renounce his former suffered from a sceptic finger." views, which now suddenly be came sinful in the eyes of the gling it.
Ive seen pictures of him wag- Kremlin?
Haldane gave his answer in a The Teladvisor. broadcast debate on November 30
"In an Essex community...the last year, By JOHN SWIFT eerns bickering scientists. It rea-
to which Langdon-advent of TV has brought new Davies devotes 42 Pages Split- colour to, and changed the pattern ches out of the laboratories into But not so in Russia. Any Rus- ting Haldane's arguments into 16 of the lives of the villagers.” Even sunshine cannot dis-the lives of us all.
sians with a "lively, provocative, parts Langdon-Davies charges pel the gloom which is spread-
On our right we have the open-inquisitive ale must wear Marthe professor with whitewashing. minded scientists of
the non-xist blinkers. As Langdon-Davies hedging, and generally dazzling Advertisements and Business coming in South Africa as a Communist world. On our left we says: "In Russia there is no room his audiences with munications should be addressed Sult of the cuts in imports have the Soviet scientific spokes- for tolerance between groups of
scientific of double-talk. to the Company CHINA MAIL and the realisation that the man Lysenko, and the intolerant, angry men....There is no ques- Το the layman Haldane's most days of free--spending, have kane track mind at the Kremlin, tion of Lysenko going ahead with frightening Statement es his finished, for the time being i
his better methods of planting casual reference to the purging at least
potatoes, his sowing of cereals in of a Soviet scientist by the State. the stubble, while scientific gene-He said: "If, as i am told, Dr. For
and Dubinin's laboratory in Miscon few days there was hopi This argument is today brought
(studying heredity that the new
went Free State Gold to a head in a spall, pungent.
KINGHORN—To Olga, wife of capital from
Who is this new Prophet of Great Britain to Back," by John Langden-Davies
Environment? Trofim Lysenko is Kenneth Kinghorn, on 28th the Union, but a few days auf (Victor Gollancz, 75. 8d.).
a clever, ambitious young Russian Not only are the arguments air- September at Queen Maryficed to end that hope. Hospital-a daughter.
There is no need for panic bed and examined, but one of Bri-farmer who has undoubtedly ob-
scientists,
remarkable results cause in the last ten years South ain's most brilliant Affica has never gone short, and on the spot".
Professor' J.B.S. Haldane, is put while experimenting with crops. although there are grumbles because there is less mutton than beet, there is never any shortage of meat
BIRTH
A SERIOUS LOSS
The news that General Fest- ing, recently appointed GOC- in-C of Hong Kong, is being flown back to England be cause of illness will come as a shock to many people in the Colony. It is not convention al politeness but a plain state ment of fact to say that his departure will be most deep ly regretted, by both troops and civilians.
|
Arguments „Aired
finds would stimulate the flow of book, "Russia Puts the Cocal
research their has been closed I am very sorry "and we had a marvellous time,
tained some
Three-Hour Talk
to hear it."
In Section 3
"I did" pursued the reporter,
but I'd still like an interview.”
Oh. O.S.S....
The difference between sight
and vision,
Is as plain as day from night- In the evening your bride's a
vision
When she wake's up, she's a
sight...
It seems that while the Ameri❤ To this Langdon-Davies re- cans were busy making the bomb plies "Professor Haldane is per- top secret,
the Russkis made fectly aware that there is no it ❘ theirs stop secret. about it. He has rend the reso- Haldane is no ordinary sclen-
lution. Section 3 tist. He tries to combine his
of the resclation of the Praesidium of the USSR. science with Communism, and However, the British geneticist Academy of Sciences of Angast works both as a submarine seien-Dr. S. C. Harland said, after a 28, 1948, reads "The Cylcgene- tist for the Royal Navy and as three-hour talk with Yysenko, tical Laboratory headed by to the man in the street is that
All that import control means chairmen of the Daily Worker that he found him to be "comple- |N. P. Dubinin shall be abolished he must think twice before buy-
editorial board.
tely ignorant of the elementary as unscientific and useless." All British ing
fellow-travellers
of genetics and plant In that sentence is summed up very happy
True, he is not who yesterday were impressed did Lysenke become thought to the dictates of a
the complete subservience of free It the restrictions by the statement of a Labour M.P
poll- because he has to look round Mrs. Leah Manning, that "there Russia's high priest of science? tical party. when shopping and put up with is a lively, provocative inquisitive
With official backing from the Now that Langdon-Davies's home-produced articles which are air towards all things educational Kremlin. Lysenko discredited his book is published today, will the End?"" very often inferior to British ones and cultural in the Soviet Union" opponents. Those who refused to Haldane defend himself? and are certainly no cheaper. In should study the case of Professor recant their beliefs and toe the Or can be, like the Dean of again. fact in some cases they are dearer Haldane and take warning.
Lysenko Line were dismissed Canterbury, continue to lead the than British goods.
The contest between the thear from their posts and their lab- Communist Party without re- ies of heredity and environment ratories were closed. Langdon-nouncing faith which cuts As an example of prices, flannel is not new.
Davies puts it
"We are sharply across the party lines? In America, cut are 2s.
some say, perfect | back to the Inquisition
"1 would be nice," muses trousers of inferior
luxuries
Then Then
could
The tall, massively-built soldier with the disarming grin and the completely na-
a pair dearer than the British Potatoes have been bred by des- This denial of fundamental | Langdon-Davies, " he tural manner was the ideal equivalent which has been slip-troying all but the healthiest scientiac rights is brought home contrive to be a sort of scientifle man for the complex and dif-ped 6,000 miles.
plants. In Russia, claims Lysenko, 1to us by the attitude of Professor | Tito.” ficult task he was brought out! here to do. He has "a way The fea is that South Africa with him," and his approach to people puts them at ease, and makes them warm to him. whether they be ambassadors or National Service men.
may lose British products, as "Buy British" is a slogan well known in the Unis.
for
1.5
rough
JONES' BEACH — AND
SMITH'S BEACH
the
Oven-like
cups
Sunday's services.
"11 am. Stop Worrying and Start Living'
"6.30 p.m. 'Is the Atom Bomb
There you go, starting all over
J
*
The doctor was questioning the hospital nurse about one of her patients.
"Have you kept a chart on the patient's progress?" he asked. *** "No." she blushingly replied, "but I can show you my diary"
In the window of a secorghand bookshop: We buy old furniture and books. We sell rare. antiques."
"My boy friend is one in a hundred," said Myrtle,
"Really?" commented friend. "How do you manage to keep him from knowing about the other 997
•
her"
This slogan is not one with as empty ring.
there is both General Festing's grasp of sentimental buying and a real
appreciation of a good product modern military strategy, his Cars from Britain do not enjoy Sunday at Jones Beach on the guards is the son of the president teaports like magic wands over wide experience and insight, great popularity, but
that South shore of Long Island.of a world-famous American cor- fz platoon
recently emerged from a zine bath: his tact and administrative because they are mainly unsult Thousands of New Yorkers, serk-poration,
the "Have I Hèence? Don't be a cross-country ing relief from
Anyone inclined to point to all water in the bath looked like fool, officer said the Woundi ability were clearly shown able
streets of Brooklyn and the this as a glowing example of the outposts of dyeworks. One motorist who had just uprooted a from the time of his appoint-trek.
Bronx, spattered the broad ex- private enterprise will be dis-of the girls was proclaiming that lamp standard "They won't ment here. He had the But other commodities, such as panse of almost white sand.
there was only ten, nothing but give me a licence the way. I unique task in peacetime of ready-made clothing, china, glasa, co-ordinating all the armed cutlery, certain types of machin- forces under one command-ery and textiles and the like. are his own-and seldom has such always sure of a ready market when Mr. Havenga decides that transition of authority taken the National "kitty" is suficient place so smoothly and satis to resume ordinary trade with factorily. Competent obser- Britain. vers, of whom there are. a number in the Colony, state the military organisation here is a model of efficiency.
Firms Facing Liquidation
The imposition of import cuts has also caused concern to the big import houses who formerly had large
staffs. The declining
in difi-
By CLAUDE BONARD
Close to the Atlantic's edge, the beach guards sat on raised platforms, ready to spring at the first sign of a bather culties. In marked
sections of the beach reserved for picnics, little groups were pooling culin- ary hints around the dozens of crick stoves provided free (you appointed. Jones Beach is one of one stood protecting it from the written by an American in 1811. bring your own fuel).
Those who had brought no food. On a recent Sunday at a famous companions, one enjoyed an mcoiled themselves
ten (the ring of triumph in her drive." voice was unmistakable), al- though no one had asked her
As a counterblast to Moscow's for anything else. There was, claim that Russia has always led however, a bonus of tea on one's the West in science, literature |change, swimming like flotsam and music, I understand that across the soaked counter. No- there is equally definite proof where to put one's cup; but, as that Tchaikovsky's "1812"
unavoidable jostles of
thirsty
"They say of our family,"
Unti Indo-
the New York State parks.
from the South Coast of England resort cellent view of a welcoming sign Myrtle explained over a pink gin. sand when the spirit moved them that depends entirely upon at provided by the corporation. It "we cry easily, but we dry easily." In his relations with the
and ascended to the cafeterias tracting visitors, the approved read: "Persons Using This Beach public and the Press, the gen
posted every few hundred yards parking space along the front Do So at Their Own Risk
Dutch want to have representa eral showed a keen sense of
long the promenade. At a cash bad filled up, and two policemen At Jones Beach a month ago, tives on the Indonesian Foreign' lesk they bought as many three- on bicycles were dutifully en my
British
companion said: Exchange Board. the psychological side of arma- ed preparations. His was not volume of trade has meant sub-ny or sixpenny tickets us a suring that no one parked else "Barring a few things that can't nesia has paid off its debt to stantial economies, and canner-apid assessment of hunger where. A man had sheltered his be helped, like pork sausages, do Holland, they want to have part the hidebound approach which cial travellers who were first-class lictated, to be exchanged at de- car in a side road opposite a you see anything here that we control of the banking and cut- considers that civilians should Buy British" propagandists are coffee, a sandwich, hamburger mon sense suggested it harmed are available in England," I said:
signated counters for a cup of high wooden fence, where com couldn't do? All these materials rency system mind their Own business, now without work
The Indonesians resent these while experts keep their own.
3 fruit pie or an ice cream No no me: the constable at his side "It isn't a question of materials proposals still more because the counsel on defence matters.
With the wartime harvest of attendant who bandied food also was courteous but Br
It's just a frame of mind.” national debf which they are bel He announced clearly what many people in
fy-by-night manufacturers arer, handled money. In the centre of Frame Of Mind
There is nothing wrong with ing asked by the Dutch to take this country the cafetería were waist-high
Britain that a Change of heart over is not standing at the figure his intentions were, what the thought that competition of Im- tables on which to moved among freshments,
In the hut provided for re-cannot cure. A start with some at which it stood at the begin situation was which affected ported goods everyone living here, and by African manufacturers learn to the tables, sponging them clean sodden overalls so doing won trust and re-improve the quality of their pro-and removing debris. The entire spect. One can hope for a successor who will share his! views.
Much affection and the sin- cerest of good wishes will go with General Festing when he leaves. We trust that all will be well with him.
•
•
make Sonth plate: an attendant, moved
articles are place was spotless. But it was not sets, but British still holding their own.
built of solid gold; all one saw In fact local industrialists and was concrete, iron piping, cheap commercial beads are worried by wood, here and there a lick of the determined way in which paint or touch of chromium. In housewives and others ask whethis country, gorged with material This wealth, one felt that brains rather ther an article is British. is the big obstacle facing local than money had been expended manufacturers. At the same time on the
of distributing it bodes well for British sellers simple meals in the most efficient once the Union gets back to nor and appetising manner.
Dial.
Austerity for Two Years
Inquiries in Pretoria
indicate
problem
Outdoor Games:
two girls in tea-lof the simple things would at auyning of the Japanese war, but at
were handling rate bè a start.
The Conference At The Hague
By WINDRUSH -
primarily concerned with de. / period is likely to last for two dren's baseball ground with pro-azo the British decided to with-grasp."
the
a figure which includes the cost of Holland's two “police actions" against the Java republic.
Pressed For Time The Dutch have been making proposals which are
similarly rigid for the constitution of the | Dutch-Indonesian Union. What would really pay both sides best. is an informal union similar to that between the countries of the British Commonwealth Co- operation in the Commonwealth Vote Of Confidence
The conference at The Hague, being given with reservation and is Intimate because of the very between the Dutch and the Ja without cordiality Land: 12 this informality of political ma- When a government asks
donesians has not been making freedom is accorded only on un-chinery. But the Dutch wish to On the inland side of the pro-progress as quickly as was hop- palatable conditions, the Dutch create an elaborate political sys for a vote of confidence, it has
menade dozens of outdoor pas-ed. During the last few months, will have lost Indonesia without tem with a council of Dutch and no intention of submitting for
times were laid out among them the Dutch decided to give full having gained in exchange any Indonesian ministers, and a com the good of the nation to de-
deck terris, table tennis, quoits, satisfaction to the nationalists in of the goodwill and solid econor men judicial court. This frightens that South Africa's austerity miniature golf, archery, a chil-Indonesia just as a few years mie benent which is within their the Indonesians who fear that if mocratic processes. It is
Indonesia forms part of a super- years, and although it is stated fessional are-lights and commen monstrating to the potential that import control is not to tator, an open-air ballroom and raw from India The purpose Must Have Assistance state it will lose its claim to be children's bathing beach (two work out the practical details of of the Hague conference is to rebels in its own ranks that protect
and will not have the sovereign, home industries, it i they had better think again, thought that a renewed effort will
on duty in a dinghy). the transfer of power by the experienced, and emotional, and right to belong to UNO.:
Fortunately there is as yet no and that now is the time for be made to capture the market Except in the ballroom, 18 seam-Dutch, and of a Dutch Indonesin they have often been rash. Yet talk as a traktown of tort ne
ed about the age limit of those Union on whose all good men to come to the from British goods.
The inside picture at presenting these facilities, for which sides are agreed in principle state of their country they can- long
wreation both they understand their position. ference. The delegates are not aid of the party.
and know that in the present pressed for time-though the In one of muddia and confusion, they had paid up to one shilling Opinion in Holland is not 50
With five shil-miles, behind the new and liberal not govern satisfactorily with
the conference lasts, the regarding the Socialists' stand scratching their heads and unable could have the time of his
This is what has happened with buyers for the big houses tings, in his pocket, a youngster policy as was opinion in England out aid and technical assist greater is the danger og Dew
guerilla outbreak in Britain on the question of to make any forecast of the
life uve the withdrawal from India, from the West. They are quite which would again poison Dutch- Indonesia, and never be out of sight of an Yet there is no reason to think land. They are ready for the ed Nations Commission which devaluation. There has been future.
ready for that aid to come trom attendant to protect both
Indonesian relations. The Unit considerable dissatisfaction Economic Affairs that the Direc
One of the latest matters for and the Beach's' prostly From in their offer to hand over power, two countries to continue in:a]
him that the Dutch are double-faced with their policies, not only in tor of Imports and Exports can the "capitalist" Press but cancel at any time without notice and mind, the motor coaches and the
The unfortunate thing is the way formal union, provided that in played so large a part in bring of sight that the Dutch have conducted doneria is as genuinely free 2 may give a helping hand in
ing about the present comference: among the public generally, any permit for imports.
negotiations. They have a Dominion in the British Coming the delegates in step with It might be dangerous to al- This is acting as brake, and cars snoozed peacefully behind used the wrong psychological and monwealth. Thus all the possi-another. low things to degenerate to it is thought it may also rob Brit Their toll fees provided the bulk
of bushes.proach.
bilities exist for profitable co- From the point of view of the the point where a general it is a strange assertion in view of the revenue.
Ish mamufacturers, of confidence.
The Dutch have great material operation Between Holland and Dutch, the greatest danger may election would be necessary, of Mr. Eric Loów's desperate
interests in Indonesia About 20 Indonesia.
their freedom in the
guards
admission
harm
Lee
Further inland, out
a concealing curtain
The Indonesian leaders are in
Dutch have
otte
per cent of their national income Unfortunately the to be that the Indonesians, bent on so the vote of confidence attempts to straighten out the
Student Employees is derived from there. This was not been putting their trust in with its almost certain ap- trade muddle here
possible.
time
may, Whence were drawn the hun one of their reasons for resisting Indonesians perception of where cept all proposals, but proval was the obvious In a statement he made to me dreds of Beach employees? The for so long the rise of the re their interest lies. They have with their tongues in their cheeks, move
when be returned from America Beach is busiest during holiday publicans in Java. But now that not gambled on winning Indo They might then repudiate their In spite of all their blund he said, in effect, that everything seasons and week-ends, and near the Dutch have decided to acnesian good will. Instead they agreements as soon as they could ers, the Socialists are in point the garden was lovely, and ly all were students working cept the demands of the nation have been treating the grant of safety
that American businessmen were their way through college. Therealists, their only way of protect Independence as an opportunity of fact well entrenched 1 eyeing South Africa with one through, higher education, and to win the friendship of the na-] Want the Indonesians to make a them. The best way for the view is no benevolent State to cradle ing their economic interests is driving hard bargains. They tions that they could use against A.S. WATSON & CO., LTD. appeals to too many people
power. The welfare state to investing biz money..s borne it is not customary to rely on tionalists: For this, generosity in written by sement which, Dutch to prevent this is to the at the moment, and their out as there is an indication one's Farents to meet this ex-negotiation and, what is more, in exchange for the Dutch con the Indonesians to them, not by adherence is reasonably well that America is the slightest bit pense. The led with the sponge the immistakable appearance of ceding Independence, would give legal bonds but by bonds of interested in neurping the position is in his final year of law school generally is absolutely neres Holland a virtual economic mutial interest Sympathy and assured, at least until the held for so many years by British and will be practising this time sary. If the nationalists feel stranglehoid In Indonesia The imaginative acte are needed, sot final crash comes.
investors and manufacturers We
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But this has not been
The Dutch would have zio sanc-