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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1949. -
Is Socialism On The Way Out?
There's No Alternative To Franco
By W. T. STUTTARD Bronted and well after his so- journ in San Sebastian, there is no doubt that Franca, after some 13 years at the bend of affairs, is still as firmly in the saddle as ever be was:
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During these hot and dry sum- mer months I have questioned any people of all classes about an alternative to Franco.
People bo
For
By FRANK MACMILLAN
council elections within the last year. In both, there has been a clear tendency away from So- cialism. In Britain, there is no party corresponding to the Chri dan Democrats who have woo the Continental, elections. These parties are roughly described as Yug Catholic Centre.
One of the most interesting and the Strasbourg votes are merely significant incidents during the two indications that Socialism in reesat session of the Council of Europe is experiencing a rece Europe
in Strasbourg was the sionit is too early yet to tall failure of the Socialist represen-of a “slump. tatives from many countries to The 1948 elections in Italy saw secure the chairmanship of any of the extremist Socialists of Sig-Bat the trend of opinion is to the permanent commissions. nar Nenni almost wiped out. The wards a more Liberal approach
It was openly admitted also that the finsi report on Earopean British Socialist leaders saw the to the solation of economic din
approaching defest at the last culties. Before the war, it would economic co-operation had divided moment and switched over to sup- have been unthinkable to find
commission
port the moderate Socialists. But Christian Democrats and Con- Socialists and non-Socialists-and the Party which swept the polls, finental Liberals in coalition, be that the latter had screed in op was the uncompromisingly anti-cause they were bitterly divided posing the classic Socialist Communist Christian Democrat an the old 19th century issue of theories of directed" econo
economic policies.
be
economic
into
motections in Belgium
anti-clericalism.
Sforza urges immediate in- dependence of Libya. Italy would curtainly like to see her hyrated
A naval battle in the China Sea
mtan Communist against Nationalist junk.
agai
That's the dev
ter Spaak- and Mr. Bevin both they have tried atticians, officer, doing his duty, in far-of
rigid
The
Among Continental
calisation that
And of course, full dress on Sundays
According to a contemporary The
this Just after the war, the Socialist yesterd "An American military This might not have seemed to
year followed 4 similar important They
pattern parties in Europe felt that they government ecurt today Requitted considering
with
victory for the Catholic were winning. Al along the line 19 members of the Communist-led that the Council had previously party, whose elected as its first President be leader is Monsieur
most important and people abroad looked with Socialist Unity Party, charged with
van Zeeland. famous Belgian Socialist leader.
some admiration at the British joining in an unlicensed political The trend Was emphasised on Monsieur Paul-Henri Spaak
acceptance of economic austerity, demon sesle at Stras-Now the average foreigner won- international
of it getting a just བན་ཁnyuwypnnk had TRAFFIC PROBLEMS criticised many
they did not and Franco, or rium after elections
regime, or given up office as Premier of Belar, where the only Socialiste ders how the British public en- licence in the first place.
who received the warm welcome duras, policies which seem to them in the of the delegates were fonsieur condemned his policy, and some Socialiste had been badly
to be obvious fallures and which: Davidson-Houston's book is are and they hated the Caudille And Monster Spaak is regarded heavily criticised by their own Without any wish to harass
abandoned the record of an Army intelligence the department in question, practical alternative.
But none could see any organised with great suspicion by the doctrinaires.
doctrinaire Socialists in Belgiem.
also, there is
that and exotic laces." but primarily from the point
long
latest evidence time to come, spant. He is regarded with scarcely less
of the the danger of a boo
powerful of public welfare, we have on ards will continue looking at this distasta by a good mary British sing. away from Socialism was State is the menace of the 20th several occasions in recent regime against the background of Socialists because he had
in the German elections when the century. The clearest statement Social months referred to Hong the Civil War. The horrors of abandoned any attempt at
Democrats-bearily fa- of this view was contained in s |Kong's traffic problems. These that war_still haunt the country / Socialist plannine în Belgittin As voared. by British policy ever discession between Sir Staford]
despite Little Opposition a result, the Belgian currency is since the war,
come un- Cripps and Signor de Gasperi
Sir Stafford argued that the Spaniards can never forget the one of the most stable in Europe pleasantly nationalist pronounce
Monsieur Spaak's country ments and
their leader, Dr. democratic state must continue to the competitio Schumacher, were assassinations carried but by the sins credits during recent finan- first place by the
church-burnings and was able to offer Britain substan Jutrages,
beaten
fur take over all the major, sobrees Christian of economic power. Popular Front of Left Republi- al talks
Democrats,
Siguor de Gasperi working cans, Socialists, Anarchists and Monsieur Spaak has, in fact,
In Belgium and Germany, the from an equally Christian con Communists following upon their
heir been a successful Premier by orthodox Socialists have chosen ception-answered that through triumph in the General Elections fusing to adopt the theories to to go into Opposition. This was Socialism you can create an all 1915, which culmina- which the French British and partly due to tactical considera- powerful and impersonal State Another no slums.
been to suspicions er the success Parties was willing to hand over will erah man. I think that of their leader, they would bare direction of economic affairs to Christian society should be orien- done much better at the elections Socialist theorists.
tated
towards the guarantee of in June.
In France and Britain, there; the liberty of the individual and But the Belgian elections-anal have been only loen) and county of the liberty of enterprise.”
seem to worsen as the weeks go past, partially no doubt due to the gradual increase of population, but no overall plan has been put into operation to remedy the situation.
The police admittedly have a difficult task. They are confronted with streets de- signed for rickshas and sedan chairs which since the war have blossomed forth with myriads of multi-coloured, mass produced American vehicles of enormous size and bulbous appendages designed for the open highways of a 3,000-mile-wide country, not narrow roads winding round the side of a rock.
by
"Storm stops fighting on; Amoy It probably got discouraged, by
Mr. Bevin was reported yes terday as saying, "I do not think we are going to have slumps inevitably, arising"
"No Indeed. So far I've never
of Februal War of July. 1936. ether Socialist parties cling ons. But it was also due to the machine you will never be able experienced one really" booming
ted in the
fact in Spain, at present, is that all the exiled Spanish opposition to Franco has practically faded out of the picture.
Ten years abroad, living on the moner taken out of Spain has been far too long. They are quite discredited and have no fellowing inside Spain. A new generation is growing up to whom the sames of such Socialist leaders as Prieto and Trifon Gomez mean nothing at all
04
The Old Venice Has Gone
By DOUGLASS. ORGILL
Yes, lady, certain perfume may Penetrate his defence."
But it takes some varied cooking To keep him in suspense.
B..
When Indonesia becomes *sovereign nation she will) ask:- for, an American loan:
Thus becoming-n-“dollar" 'ma-
bution
A man who hasn't made, a. woman angry is a failure in life
The ghost. of Byron, if it ever cool cafes with bead curtains tofings. Each face was strained and tion, limps across the Square of St. keep out flies, where swarthy eager.. Within Spain, the anti-Franco Mark in Venice, must pass un Venetians gather to gossip, and the Filled with ominous visións of Apart from the danger and
Discussing the London taxi congestion, each of these cars
elements are now more disunited familiarly through those shadowy talk turns incessantly to politics the rise of a new Mussolinian- drivers demand for more pay; a than they have ever been.
colonnades.
and the national passion of foot other strident dictator trying to contemporary, yesterday explained is equipped with electric
Some of them are carving on a
ball
awake the arrogance of the Latin that "the present rates, unchanged horns of the most penetrating verv
The gilded masques, the gay And every now and then a fine sou-I joined the crowd and Bst-sizes. 1933, are ninepence for the precarious
underground balls of a hundred years ago doorway, an old quality, few of which are out movement After 10 years of where gentleman spoke of love to sudden, revealing prospect be-
window, or a ened."
first two
two-thirds of a mile, and I need not have worried. The threepence for each of la of use for more than a few dose police perstation, their ladies who smiled behind their tween bridge and dark canal to were listening to the last ten min the
the pafter. seconds in central areas. This merale is now pretty low.
fans, and Byron's own exquisite Franco's reluctance to expert. Teresa shook her golden curls,
utes of the Italy-Hungary football That hasn't been my is a public nuisance of the
match Littl
experience in London, but ment with
liberty cannor have gone forever. highest order, and we hearti- simply be dismissed as a Dicta-
As I walked away, 1 was re- minst stv it does sound a hit minded of an Italian friend who cconomic. ly welcomed the announce- WI'S dog-in-the-manger attitude. The stately palaces still front
suddenly told me age evening ment some months ago that Spain's problems are more com- the waterways, and the gondolas
|that Italy was in decline, that un- silent
than that. There is no glide through the shadows, but plicated zones were plannedemocratic tradition to fall back the old Venice has vanished away, bring flooding back the recollec- would never rise to greatness, Ating write in for your free but
less there was a great change she "Anyone who believes in some- where this infernal cacophony
en and tyranny is an old Spanish Not the buildings of a city, but tion that this was Marco Polo's little embarrassed by this unexion." American marzine advi was.. to be banned The ca-tom-
the people who pass through it town, and one of the richest and pected national humility, I I asked We believe in Britain Send measure, however, has never Susi has alwats" bren a pecu- and live in it, give it its especial most powerful cities in Europe. him why. been put into practice, and larly unfavourable soil for the and peculiar quality. That is why It is in the churches, the gal. "Her forwards,” he replied dies«)
leries, and above all in the Palace meanwhile the triumphant row of parliamentary methods Venice has changed.
It has become a tourist "boom of the Doge that Venice's former in front of goal.”
pondently “ they are not good| blaring continues unabated.
overnment. As the volume of streamline brief a attempts at Eepub town. Here the world comes to greatness is best brought home.
walk and talk, to wonder and ad-√ There Government-one in 1870's wa
on the walls blaze the
In The Past ed drawing-rooms. on our and the oth T in 1931-ended in mire, to play and seek pleasure. splendid canvasses of Tintoretto, One might sums up the Venice! "But I thought I wired you not streets kept increasing, we immominioce Ture. The republic The voice which Boats from the and Tiepolo, of Bellini and Titian, that most tourists.see the glass to bring your mother home with
which slides past while the ceilings move and glow factories on Murazo, the water you." said, the husband looked forward to
another 1931 to the civil War of 1936 long gondola your window was an ariy farce, with more than have the nasal burr of Minnesota Veronese.
is more likely to with the superb paintings of festivals stringing the night lagoon "Yes," replied the wife. promised relief-the provision 20 politi-parties and a rapid-fire
with lights by saying that it is what she's come to see
you about of pedestrian crossings where succession of Cabinets.
the twang of Lancashire than They represent ways of life and a shell. A beautiful and fascinat- a standard of values, some good, ing shell, no doubt, but the; s~ ordinary individuals going Franco's regime still firmly an Italian lit
But however wistfully you some bad, which have gone for pecial quality of life which once about their daily business rests on the three pillars of the mourn the disappearance of the ever. The modern Venetian has gave that beauty its meaning has could walk from one pave There is only one organisation in there comes
Army, Church and Falange Venice of the old, romantic days, other interests. ment to another without tak- Spain that could depose Franco, are fresh from the rigours of Bri-afternoon down a quiet, cool street every one else is indoors, and only (especially if you I was walking late the other Only very late at night, when ing their life in their hands and tast is the Army. The mill-tain) a base, materialistic whisper in Venice when I passed a cafe the buildings retain, does Venice The now-fading white lines are state there is not the this is now the most comfortable
tary hold the key.
es. But I can con-in your soul which says "At least from which a radio was blaring, slip back in time painted at some busy places latest sign set of their was place in the world"
Inside and in front of it stood Then, if you walks softly down The Hong Kong Society for are ignored by most local | 41st $127
a growing crowd of men. Clients past the fantastic Byzantine si the ting
Protection of Children. You fight back this unworthy and waiters alike were leaving houette of St. Mark's Cathedral, Women's Auxiliary yesterday. drivers, unless there is a to transfer loyalty.
Democratic government as it thought while you nibble delicate- cafe tables, shopkeepers were de- and reach the quayside, you may appealed to the general public policeman on point duty. It understood abroad, I
I am afraid.
raid. ly at massive, half-inch steak, sorting their counters. The crowd step into the past and glimpse in for articles for the Jumble Sale may be the authorities' view ill not be seen in Sosin for some topped with an egr, preceded by was beginning to fill the street. the long gondola which shoots
doomed to be for a plate of steaming ravioll and time. that official crossings are use-
Spain
There was none of the talk and out from the jetty the pale face planned for November 3. erned by a a Military Dictatorship washed down with boltie
2 less here unless traffic lights or a Dictatorship of the Prolet Chianti (total cost nine shillings sociate with Latin public gather to keep a tryst a century old..
The Sale will be held at the excitability we are taught to as- of the lame English poet going]
Public Relations Office Lecture With so much bitternes if you look for a restaurant well
Room; Statue Square. N
Clothing of
-colour -size. summer or winter, new OF WOTEL be appreciated. Articles
1rist.
are installed at each "poшaft behind by the Civil War, no away from the main centre).
but if so the view has not been publicly announced
The non-vehicled citizen of Hong Kong has, normally,
| little influence, but one would
j
of
middle course' seems likely to It is difficult sternly to regret prosper for some years in Spain the passing of the eighteenth cen
tury when you come into your hot and tired at half-past night, and they at once bring!
A Frivolous Picture Meanwhile, Madrid presents a
gay frivolous pictures of pros you a long, cool drink and turni
the
atmosphere all her own. You can
dug up wegen ing sunlight at one of the out-t
end
new
Position continues in a very en emie state. Spain, however, is a land of great endurance and things will have to get very bad indeed before any change in the he forced through its weak econ- present firmly-seated regime can
dent · English miss, walking • by
guides like Bles.
Illusions
And every morning an official of the town comes into the great
gone..
An Expert's Views On Pregnant Elephants
subject of puzzlement to animal lovers the world over is over 30-year-old Taffy, the only pregnant elephant ever to be shipped to the United States from the Orient.
Cali-
On Television
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have. imagined certain safe, perity. Impressive marble-frou on your bath. guards would have been insist- ted new banks are taking the In any case. Venice still has an A ed on from the point of view place of old cafes, tramlines are feel it when you sit in the morn- of public safety. It is almost unknown, for example, for a thoroughfares are being made for door tables of Florian's famous motor car, especially a taxi, to the new trolley cars and English cafe in the Piazza San Marco, give the right of way to pas bases, people are docking, to bull-shingle menu Will she molest her offspring on delivery? Will
venient for delivery downs may sengers alighting from a tram. fights in the grilling sun or all-in and watching cosmopollian
there be twins? wrestling at midnight
Will it be a normal birth Thou- parade go by. They have to huddle back sands are talking excitedly abort
any one of the following The contrasts are · vivid--slim
ladies, who will gladly call for considering the size of the expected baby? against the rush of traffic un-football. More and more tourists Italian girls with their dark hair
anything that you have to pher, she got in the news in the local for the Jumble Sale. til such time as a gap enables come in.
and laughing eyes, dapper, elder- The answers were given last | Bat, beneath the shiny surface, ly roues sighing for the days that evening by an expert who are newspapers them to run to the pavement. Franco's economic and financial are gone; a. Momma
KOWLOON: Mrs. Les DAI- and Poppa, rived here
Her trip from the at the week-end
Colony, to mada e Castro, ↑
Prince. Ed- 28 In Britain, when a tram stops,
from Ohio keeping a sharp eye on from Thousand Oaks,
San Francisco aboard the Presiward Road. Telephone No: 20333 the, motorist behind immedi-
Junior's susceptibility to Southern forma
dent Taft, after which she was HONG KONG Mrs. FH ́ Lösé- ately draws up. But not in
tiles, and perhaps an indepen- He is none other than "Bring named, was reported day by day by Room. 533. Gloucester
503.28663; and Telephone NO by American newspapers Hong Kong.
Buchens; 458, The Peak radio who played It is not in the power of the
herself and brushing off the Em Back Alive" Noel Rosefeit nursemaid to his
Special daily reports were phone No. 29023; Mrs. V-Chen, police at the moment to do
"protege right from the time made by the master of American 4. Po Shan Road. Telephone No. much more than they have omy.
he “rescued her from a lumber President Lines ship, Mr. W. S. 23433; and Mrs. C.M. van Vlier- done to eliminate traffic jams
carmp in the Siamese jungles to yrrell, and sent by cable to the den 26. Conduit Road. Telephone her safe arrival at San Francisco
Head Office.
No. 34282. and other irritations of this
by the ss. President Taft. kind. Noteworthy improve-
Taffy is at present undergoing ments were made in the provi- sion of central parking places,
It
you are a romantic tourist, supervision of expert
Jans. etc, and considerable thought
however, you may forfeit Some "No elephant either in captivity
Her disembarkation was: tile= has obviously been given to
illusions. There is the legend of or wild will molest her offspring vised on the all-American net- the easing of the flow of
the singing gondolier, carolling at birth unless it comes out de-work. some old Venetian melody as you formed," Mr. Rosefelt declared. Today, kept at Thousand Oaks
Benevento, October. vehicles, etc. But nuisances
brush through the quiet canal. He added he had not heard of and seen by her admirers through || Anthorities today counted 23 such As those enumerated
have been to Venice many times, above could be stopped, and it Federation of Independent Trade gondolier's voice raised in tune birth to twins. The baby cap be
The 300,000-strong French and only once have heard any unpleasant Incident. at birth one-way glass wells, Taffy pre- persons dead and masing as vic- "I don't think the will give sents a popular quiz to animal fins of Sanday's flash foods
Lovers. is difficult to see why this has Unions today decided to call & He was giving a spirited render seen every morning doing his
The natal day will by all in not been done.
one-day warzing strike to pro-ing of The Woody Woodpecker's daily dozen. The outline is dis-dications be a red letter" day test against the Government's Song URANIUM FOUND refusal to increase wages.
The Federation appealed
For me, at any rate, it is in bid tinet and shows only one single in the United States. den. unexpected places that Verice IN SWITZERLAND workers of all unions to join the catches the imagination. To for
HK Debut movement
Singapore, October 5. sake the gondolas and the steam Berne, October 4. The Paris area Ouvrieres (non-terry, and to walk deep into the
"And whether it will be a Rebels made a surprise attack Switzerland's. Atomic Energy Communist) trade unions asked heart of the waterways is an en normal birth is of course a fore-on troops in Negri Sembilan State Commission stated that uranium the Force Ouvriere National Com-chan
chanting experience.
gone conclusion, Taffy is already at noon today, causing casualties, Ticino, our pot in quantities thee, at ang dal today, to launch Threading through the mane of the other of four. Thir f the an Army spokesman announced on the bulge banks of coaliner Vot
but
footpaths, and litile orth becasion and I don't soal-He said that thea Kuware to mad deposited by the wiring by present technique All French ade unions are bridges which lie between. St. any reason why she should en- traveling from Kunia Kiawarg The Commission warned sin asking for Imme late wage in- Mark's Square and the Rialto, you counter any trouble the well- Seremban li two lorries, but did paters The mud was being ple-minded, hopmlets. against creases, pending the re-conven- enter another, older world, * known-> American hunter re- not reveal the number of casulties shovelled, into if Army cayingcandalous prices for ing of the Natyart Assembly on · Here are - small, dusty antique marked
or whether the troops were Other Army vehicles distributed uranium which, it said, was a October 18, when a return to shops with sixteenth century may be recalled that Taffy British, Malay or Guricha. Värinking water as the town's substance no rarer that tin free discussion of wages will be maps and exquisite Dresdenelebrity in Hong Keng when able, he added-Reuter,
her début si na world No further detalls were avail-1 aqueduct was broken by the food. debated Reuter,
figures in the windows. And dark,
"Associated Press.
workable by
Reatter
"Warning Strike" In France
Paris, October 4.
a similar strike.
to
unit.
of expert veterinar
co, several thousands waited at the "whart to welczne Tafy,
MALAYA ATTACK
Flood Toll In Italy
which hit this moratain town and zurrounding areas.
do Benevento's Tomaso Boccardo, Town Secretary, -
said ive bodies were recovered, seven persons are
accounted for, and 11 others are missing in nearby San Lorenzo. » Over 300 families in this town of 28,000, are homeless, Bad,
Soldiers and civil workers bes
4-baree foot of
tracks.