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CHANCE OF SURVIVAL
THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1949.
A DIPLOMAT'S LIFE IN CHINA'S FORMER CAPITAL
Join The Army And Play Snap
.+
By A Special Correspondent
Good Morning
And finally there ***** the-
supreme humiliation in store for Charxes afanyike getting those diplomats who applied for through Hong Kong's defence an exit permit an advertisement
A diplomatic cups without di-ffar as the new sulbaritime were in the New China Daly, the lines how are pretty Slim
plomatic prives is running | concerned.
By RHONA CHURCHILL Every time the Army calls to the Company CHINA MAIL up a new draft of conscripts it finds at least a 100 men who can read and write no better than a child of five. They can neither fill in the simplest form nor follow the easiest written instructions.
So the Army sends them sight back to school to learn to read and write the easy way. And since learning the easy way today ineans learning the play-way, these strapping 18- year-olds spend the first six weeks of their Army fe playing such and games as snap, monopoly, lotto, going on treasure hunts, doing
crossword puzzles.
and making simple scrap-books.
Sir Stafford Cripps'apologia in the House of Commons for this new austerity measures It carried little conviction.
Propaganda Blasts
oficial Nanking CCP organ, to the effect that anyone with claims against the departee was invited to report to the police.
Here was too much "rubbing in," and of a kind which it was
Little Enthusiasm Under those circumstances, there was little enthusiasm for the new regime, and the sincerity of Peking's eagerly repeated "de pro-sire for a speedy resumption of
open to doubt. diplomatic relation"
Wyzs
lart
treatment
There have been pretests, in, the House of Commons about the Highland Light Infantry being
used as beatnes
Some people are never, happy" without a grouse
That attempted sabotage of high tension lines in Canada was positively p re-volting
An amateur military expert has * calculated that 200 planes a day should be enough to keep the half million men in the barren Southern provinces im rice; and
further 300 should keep then going in small arms ammunition. with say 500 to keep up a bar- rage, why we can expect a couns ter-offensive any time now... Probably vegetariani.
The lucky bridesmaid also re- ceived a handsome rift a string of real pears
•
short of foreign cigarettes and Diplomats who applied for drinks is China's
one-time travelling permits or other docu- capital, Nanking
ments, were told to add former" Last November zai
again this
to their title. Of course, none of March, when the Nanking diple the remaining diplomats expected matic missions ignored the RMT Ministry of Foreign Affairs advileges which are the fruits of difficult to justify.
recognition. but as one of them rice to evacuate to Canton, some put it, "there was no need to rub of the diplomats construed. this it in." refusal to accompany the mori- bud EMT Government to its sick-bed to South China, as the first step towards recognition of Mao Tse-tung's regime, a step B) Repeated Communist which should therefore cordial though unofficial relations to the peace of mind of a diplo. ensure paganda blasts did not contribute even prior to recognition of thematic corps "awaiting the estab- It must have been a painful Chinese Communist Government lishment of the Democratic Coali-
process for our Nanking diplomat And indeed, so it seemed when tion. Government.” Interferes to read what the press back home Nanking evening paper declar- of HMS Amethyst in the Chinese has to say about recognition of ed a week after "liberation": elvil war, American designs on the Chinese Communist regime,
"The Diplomatic Corps share Taiwan, MacArthur's efforts at for he feels that the the belief that the Chiang Kai- resurrecting Japanese lanperialism. he is being accorded is not such shek-Li Tsung-Jen bloc has met the case of Tibet, (featuring the as to fire enthusiastic despatches its doom and is on the way to Fascist Nebru Groverandot, Tune and create good will in the its grave. They unanimously de- ning dog of the British reaction of the men who continue to re- are some of the main port from Nanking to their res-
Blcke just back from Home- salvos fired by the CCP pro-pective governments an coodi.
us of the occasion: events prepared to paganda artillery against govern- tions and co-operate with that government ments whose representatives were
liberated leave tells
when an ambulance had to be China. It is therefore not supris-
Welsh resort for, a which is to be directed by the sitting in Nanking as very helping to hear him complain that he called at a Communist
holidaymaker who had something Party. They all less and very ordinary aliens. is
the being sacrificed to cox- realise that there is but one go- C) Then there were scores of mercial interests of his county stuck in this throat.
It turned out to be nothing With which represent
an effective KMT inconveniences, making life at
block- ernment.
more serious than a place narne. jazmunity a Chinese people, viz the govern- times intolerable for this dipto-ade, and customs ment under the leadership matic corps consisting of aliens. thing of the past. Nanking di-
This Philippines chewing gum. The lakes which had formerly plomats are taking to Chinese
the Russian raised been the only means of escape cigarettes, and vodka (made "scandalTM frera the hot and dusty Nanking China, not in the USSR) gradual seems to have caused: a lot of euromer,
were declared taboo, y
ly takes the place of gin in cock-jawing. being outside the city limits: tra- tails.
What will. they think of next? velling spelled filling in of forms,
The new
streamlined luxury. answering innumerable questions, "controls and ex-
sedan is something out of this. and frequent aminations of luggage ance one
world.fitted with a conveni..... ence." But Peking willed differently.
gut under
mid- A) The Nanking diplomatists September the exchange rate were told in very plain language was such that a pound sterling that they were alliens (wal chao) netted little more than 10 shill and not diplomats (wai chiao). ings' worth of peoples dollars; Embassy telephones had to be the ting-hao (very good) of the re-registered under the names of street urchins gradually gave staff members. there being no way to yang-kwei-tze (foreign diplomatic mission in Nanking as devil) and ta-pl-tze (big nose).
to await the | of the Democratic Coalition Gov-
and are ernment,
brought from Mr. Eden the comment that the speech was an indictment of the entire Socialist administration, and the cutting remark: "I can remember no. occasion on which a statement by a head of the government has fallen Sergeants Don't Shout Chairman Mao Tse-tung iso far below the expectation
of the nation's needs"
20
not
And-bless 'em all their sex- geants have instructions be patient with them and shout at them
the
of
ir
To many a Nanking diplomat, this was
was precisely the attitude to expected; and as the military be authorites did not interfere with
Staples and farm produce are 20 the radio stations of the British and United States embassies, the prospects for a cordial status quo seemed most encouraging.
The general reaction of thinking people has, in fact, been that the Chancellor's proposals have simply skirted The target in these play-way round the problem, adding Army schools, of which there are five, is to send the pupils back to another patch or two and normal barrack-room life tix tightening the belt slightly weeks later with a reading age further, without even con-of seven. sidering the possibility of a new fabric. The econorny school
I recently spent a day in the at St. Lucia Barracks, cuts seem to be another un-Boraca, Hampshire. Here nearly successful sop to American 50 men were split up into small opinion, with the idea of de classes of six, each under monstrating that Britain's sergeant-teacher. government is ready to re- duce the country to the stan- dard of living of middle Europe to get enough dollars to fulfil the project of the welfare state.
one
to
The classes are kept tiny ensure that each soldier gets the maximum possible individual at-
testion.
other
of
knifé.
keer
way:
Unti
A Real At Last! Cure For Stings
By GEORGE GLENWOOD
In recent
weeks---and
cheap, but anything which is not produced in Communist China is expensive, and reaches fabulous prices for a diplomatic corps whe sell their foreign exchange at a rate which is only gradually climbing to realistic levels.
ot
4
•
"Oliver Twist" has been. ban- ned in Quebec.
No second belping
"Heavens, I am thirty!" she
Owing to the departure Nanking's only foreign band on the "Marechal Joffre, social life said. "Please get me a drink." is shifting from the Embassy
Club to the drawing rooms,
As they say in Prague to the On the whole, diplomatic Nan-Yugoslav diplomats: *****his is king is leading the life of the Czech mate!" Common foreign community which it is in the eyes China's new masters.
Tranquility
The hectic rounds of cocktail
Objections have been raised to. children using a smuffed-out can- die when taking the oath.
In these days of atom bombs.
toc suggestive.
do?"
decided to
parties at which much informatis, perhaps, just a little tion was gathered and exchang- cd, have given way to tranquil
"Tom has asked me to marry- dinner parties; instead of gliding over the dance floor of the Em-him and make him the happiest
man in the world. basay Club. a. young third
"Which have you not, cases have been treated by his unreasonably-readers have colleagues, all with equally suc- secretary now spends his even-
ings painfully
Chinese displayed interest in bee and cessful results. Some of the cases
characters of g
paper; or a wasp stings. Coincidently, for were ant bites, some the stings may pass an even- the first time in man's painful of hornets, wasps and mosquitoes. history
The anti-histamine
ointment ing conjuring a few more parts of association
with seemed to be valuable in these of a three-mast brig into a de- and biting insects, cases as well stinging
stings pleted whisky bottle. in bee as in medicine
Under Foreign report a If trials in Britain sate
Office plan, British Embassy members truly scientific antidote for
it their stings and bites.
not be long before a small tube having their Chinese lessons paid and most Government, cintment provides a
really by the effective safeguard against the of them are availing themselves distressing after-effects of insect of this opportunity, for not only are they bored, but they are also bites and stings of this kind.
beginning to realise the import- ance of Chinese in Communist Nanking.
can now
who has died a few minutes after a single sting-were strongly sug- gestive of the action
of a drug
well known to medicine: his- tamine.
of
Refugee Problem In Germany
K
arc
TORY PARIT HT
My
In one room six hefty soldiers were learning to read. Chapter I of the Army's reading book Should a complete crash
stated: "I am a soldier. Sam is be avoided with outside help, a soldier. Sam is my pal” and another war be averted, in the next room an advanced the intention is that everyone writing class
was listing the should live in equal hardship, games in which a ball is used. equal frustration, and equal glanced over my shoulder. A rations of all the minimum iner was writing, laboriously, necessities for human exis"Football, tenies rubby, cricket" In another form they were tence. From the ascetic's, the playing snap with special cards. political extremist's point of Hall the cards bore pictures of view, this is presumably a simple objects a knife, a fork, great goal; at least, the pen the other half carried the names of those objects. Privates formerly more prosperous Smith and Jones had to yell business and professional Snap" when the "knife" turned The new approach is the work
American, people will have to toe the up at the same time as the pic- cf
Dr. WT line with the rest of the bene ture
Strauss, who gave some serious Out in the nearby fields an- thought and study to the reaction. ficiaries of the new order.
of the human body to bee stings. group were on a treasure The revenge of the unemploy-hunt. All clues were written in He came to the conclusion that ed of the grim 'thirties' will simple, short words, but no man
The imposing buildings which symptoms following stings-tang-
once housed the Kar yuans and presumably be complete.
the treasure unless he ing from complete immunity in And Reports so far received do could read as well as a six-year some people to the rare person
ministries, and an occasional car oid. Several could not
sporting the character chin (the not, however, indicate that Most of the pupils were keen,
Chinese equivalent of CD-corps the Opposition put forward eager to make full use of this
diplomatique) over its number in the way of chance to improve themselves. very much
plate, are all that reminds the alternatives
to There was a young miner who concrete
visitor for
Nanking that, this Frankfurt, October 27. had been made to feel stupid at handling the situation.
almost vacuous, sprawling, dusty One
The United States High Com city was a teeming capital only The Trouble-Maker school by being placed in a class obvious drain on the coun- too advanced for him. His for-
missioner, Mr. John MeĈloy, said
a year ago. try's resources was mention- mer schoolteachers bad described Histamine is an old trouble here today that the bulk of West
Germany's
"I'm so glad well soon 8,000,000 ed-the releases from Ster- him as apathetic.
the body is con- would have to be assimilated into tish Embassy typist told me short-
refugees
cognise
the Communists," a Bri- ling balances.
The Army school report said make where
cerped. It is the decomposition the new Federal Republic. he was "an exceptionally
one of product of
the body's
"They ly before I left When Cripps talks of the man
blocks, the amino acid volume of exports, he omits the best use of to remark on the £300,000,- facilities. Is making good pro- the 000 yearly that is sent out of gress, and, given the opportunity, after the injection of foreign the the country, mainly as manu-
In that last sentence lies the cause of shock after antidents and carry out its promised programme
arter the injection of foreign factured goods for which no
STO tein substances into the body. thing is received in return.
Histamine is also closely tied
Asked whether the presence of This huge quantity of valu-
up with the allergies: hay fever the refugees might constitute a able commodities is handed
Will To Progress asthama, hives,
It causes future threat to Germany's demo- over to-nations--particularly
violent
lent contractions of the smooth cratic revival, Mr. McCloy said, Egypt and India, which ac- Wherever these conscripts go muscles of the intestines, cumulated credits in London they are offered further educa- lung bronchioles and the small you have large population groups under sub-normal condi- As well
as skin erup-
anything could tions
happen. But during the war fought to that at Bordon try to insit into tioris, beadache and a pounding save them, as much as any- the soldier-pupils a will to use heart, Locally it causes burning they could be a stimulant, how-
ever, rather thar a depressant." pain. one else, from Nazi domina- those facilities.
He added that refugee matters Every effort is made to coum- All these bistamine signs are would be a future consideration tion. Now, in spite of her
ter-act whatever it was that repeated to a greater or lesser of the German Government crucial difficulties, Britain is caused them to reach manhood extent, depending on personal though Allied High Commission allowing these to be gradual-30 hampered.
susceptibility. In the case of bee ly used to buy her goods,
Often it
it was evacuation, and stings, Headache, intense pain at experts might act as advisers- difficulty in breathing. should be as indefinitely fro- school. The clever children sur-abdominal crazaps zen as free sterling conver-vived. The dunces grew duller. times, shock are all suggestive of tibility into dollars.
Unkindness and impatience from a histamine cause for the symp- The Chancellor reiterated overworked teachers were often toms following bee stings.
That is what aroused the too-familiar plea that causes.
That is why the Army's ser doctor's suspicions in the first jeveryone must pull together geants must never shout. But place Working from this clue, for recovery (including, one just in case these men should get be decided to try the effect of supposes, the hated classes the idea that Army He is full of anti-histamine drugs on stings; today that he will call a special now being taxed and legis .T. classes are given three times fortified
medicine lated out of existence), but again there was no threat or And the PT instructor has incentive to the workers to permission to shout his head off. produce more. It has been found that the trade, unions
the educational
A solution of the refugee pro-
Obviously intends making and tissue liberates! Diem did not lie in immigration. Peking is such a pretty place....
will progress further."
key to the success or failure of the Army's plan.
tional facilities. Schools like arteries, as
may be
the
when in point of fact they teacher in a reception-area tions,
placing too many pupils under the site of the sting, skin erup-
his
Que
words and games of soft
a week.
with
and, some
wren
Dramatic Results
he told a press conference.-
Besides, we've got a swimming He re-affirmed the intention of pool on the Legation com- the Allied High Commission to
pound...."
of "de-concentration and de-car- telisation".
Reuter.
Philippines Budget
Manila October 27. President Quirino announced
Fortunately, snap,
is
session of Congress for Decem- anti-histamine.
ber 9 to secure enactment of drugs. It has been developing them for several years for use budgetary measures.-
made The announcement was in the treatment of allergies.
from
the Presidential yacht Apo, which is taking Mr. Quirino on campaign tour through Cebu will accept less food, dearer should work continually less
and Leyte
of adjournment and scarcer semi-luxuries, for higher pay,
-Taking a 5 per cent ointment of The abrupt and heavier taxation, but Unfortunately, facts can-one
such anti-histamine, he Congress earlier this year, due to they rebel even at the sug- not be changed by political applied it liberally and with bitter political quarrels, had left gentle message to seven stings of the country without a budget. gestion of the loss of any of theories, and if government
a five-year-old boy who had
Sin
emergency powers, the. President issued two executive their hard-won privileges, heads are afraid to confront walked into a swarm of bees.
The results were dramatic. In onders
appropriating money for such as the eight-hour, five- the electorate with the un-
but less than one minute the
governmental expenditures, palatable truth and convince les subsided and he joyfully the Supreme Court scrapped the day week
cries The propaganda of genera-them, the matter may be
armounted all
vanished orders had vanishe pain tions is rebounding on the taken out of their hands by No swelling developed, and the The decision of the Court takes head of the Socialists them an economic crash, with only evidence of the sings was effect tomorrow, and from then selves: the repeated claims mass, unemployment which a tiny pinpoint of haemorrhage on until budget measures that workmen never receiv-was not taken into con at each spot where a sting had enected-Government expenses ̈will be taken from Government actually broken the skin ed the full share of their sideration in the planning Altogether the dorfor treated deposits in the Philippine National labours, the advice that they of the welfare state.
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