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THE "CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1949. ›
GREAT BRITAIN'S
Her Dinners Make The News
By WINDRUSH"
Special Correspondent
1Я
DEFENCE DEFENCE Good Mor
the
Labour ministers feel that It Is imperative to ilvo down this past reputation. They must deny to the Conservatives the election cry that, national defence la safe only when, in Conservative' hands,"
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by a quiet and unfurried forent groups in the cabinet had hased the first world war, though i thoj present Parlament the pros-
ba news contributions to manner, is known by more addressed to Editor-In-Chief, celebrities than any other sec Advertisements and Business com-retary in Britain. She, with munications should be addressed the help of one young typist, 10 the Company CHINA MAIL is secretary to the famous and exclusive Pilgrims, whose membership is restricted to
men only.
LTD.
the
"BETRO has now organ in
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The Voice of America will now broadcast from Saloniks, Oft duty it will be used by the Greek overnment on a local broadcast
HMV, perhaps?
station."
reporters.
"Monly plays mum to U.S. An entirely new, high level version of the Kiss me, Goodnight, Sergeant Major technique. It was not, however, unexpected in
600 of Britain's elite-and to for prescriptions does not make cannot work up much enthusiasm disturbing thing is that Par- Mom's country.
churches.
It
wrote
Mr. Herbert Morrison has budget that, they will have to be stated that there is nothing made. it thinks that these cuts Lean Over Backwords drive to eum dollars."
Gad, sir, in my young days final about the "crisis cuts will not really endanger
country's security. It believes For this reason some of the only Italians with monkeys did of £250,000,000 made by the that there is enormous waste in Labour ministers have leaned that that sort of thing. Government. The Govern- the expenditure by the fighting over backwards to meet all the ment hopes that the cuts may
n less outlay than requirements of the chiefs of the For n ervices. be sufficient. If not, it will at
it believes that it fighting services, Probably under could get a defence system just no previous By INGRID ETTER
prune expenditure more efficient as it has
government havo drastically.
these met with such ready "Government has operation from the politicians. The Labour Mro. Adn Doyle, whose
always boch embarrassed over curly grey hair and perspica-{; The
Has Parliament thus lost its general supposition, in
defence
In its early authority over the questions cious blue eyes are matched London ta that the cuts would days the Labour party was paci- | vicest Not entirely.
fighting ser
Earlier in have been more radical if the dif-
fiat. Mr. Ramsay Macdonald been able to agree which sectors
sure of the Labour, back, benchors of national expenditure could be Much of the rank and Ale still policy over the length of service Mr. Henderson supported 35. forced ministers to change their reduced and which were sacros-Much of
carry on this old tradition, by conscripts, and, this mad anct
though rather half-heartedly Mr. Anourin Boyan warned off
and
changes in the necessary Impracticability. realising its
army's artisination
tion and training. the Chancellor of the Exchequer from any considerable economies against the fighting services, and The
They have an instinctive blas Parliament still has the last word. in the social services. (The shilling
liament seems to have lost its grip a great difference to the Nation- strategy. They carry on the tradi-lems.
over questions of defence and on
on Information about defence prob- A Health Schorna), Similarly
It dous not possess enough According to our priutera, a Informed and expert opinion Mr. Bevin, the Foreign Secretory, tion of anti-militarism of the non-
conformist
gentleman must about military matters and about from the "Honk
us yesterday is said to have vetoed any rald be forgotten what part the the new milliary situation creat Club."
Kong Kennel upou defence expenditure.
Mr. Bevin has certainly in mind clence had in building up the debates in the House of Compassing taxio de give the wrong coned by the atom bomb. Necont Y'know, these constantly that if by economies in defence Labour Party. we abandoned
monk have not been at all edify-note even to the best places. or modliled the
Labour ministers today cannot ing. conscription system, this might take this semi-pacifist line. Their Among the real experts on de- cause suspicion evan panic among day-to-day responsibilities compel fence there is growing uneasiness. our allies in the Brussels Treaty, { and endanger the whole structhem to be realists. Though they The government is spending a ture
much ture of Western security which are just as
HOH | will
getting good value for its money? chill has the same fear, and hai|80||||
Labour flat back-bencher
MP
Have we in fact any adequate
#177 Why, at
at 1
time ald that he would support the they and that they must temper detences
The plural of brief: "Briefles." their She obtained the job because
idcaltam with Government in maintaining con.
caution.
when every citizen must perform Legible: "One who has passed of one important assel. In Singu-
There is another reason why they military service, ja it so difficult an ordeni and is successful." pure where she was married, she scription, at least for the
are on their guard against the in-
Notorious! Ond a few batallions for trou-
"Well-known, but being. had been used
forma!
stinctive anti-service tradition of ble centres in an emergency?
not socially. For example, ho entertainment. Now the Pilgrims
some of their, supporters.
it true that we could at pre- was notorious for his poems." -there a ú fellow Society in Enormous Waste
They remember that in
"Tho Liability:
10 the sent put only four divisions in
opposite America are, above all, a ban-
a part of the electionata the field in Europe? Will our
liability is truthfulness.” queting Rociety. and each func- Nevertheless, an influential sec- which was in general friendly to partners in the Brussels Treaty tion la of font page Importance. Hion of the Labour Party feels Labour felt that it could not vote regard this as a suffelent British The most famous men in the that, it further cuts are needed for the Labour Party because it contribution? Docs the world have chosen Pilgrims it is
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ultimately in the defence was not "sound" Оп defence. beneẞt from the conscript 08- to make historic dinner one of the sure non ever to have nouncements, and Mr. Moletov is refused an avitation to be their guest.
A TEST CASE The unprecedented action
It is a job she took on 30 years of the American Secretary of age and which has becofne her State, in seeking the aid of whole life. In 1910 she was a 30 other Governments in the young widow who, like so many means of Mukden affair, has had one widows, had to find
earling living. She was un-i quick result. The Com-trained, with
nu knowledge of munists have now put out a shorthand or typing. statement that the trial or in-
"I've taught myself to type and vestigation will be completed, just use my own fonn of quick
never
non-conformit Christian
men of good
■
You will, perhaps, forgive mo
and the result announced in longhand for taking notes even he has been building. Mr. Chur-12 and peace as the most pace very large sum on defence. Is it for a few examples of the latest
a few days. The announce- | today," she tells me." ment was accompanied, how- Mr. ever, by references to Angus Ward and his staff as criminals and culprits, which Implies that the case has al- ready been pre-judged.
Those familiar with what has been going on in some parts of China and Man- churia since the Communists took over know how easily charges can be trumped up by local bodies. Little enough has been said about them in the Press, but much in private conversation. Diplomacy took little note of them. The Mukden affair cannot, how- ever, be passed over like that. It is a test case, and it has the most direct and immediate bearing on the issue of re- cognition.
to very
No Empty Chairs
on-
Mrs. Doyle's job is to organise al such dinners. And, belleve her, it's no easy malter, Besides an intimate knowledge of Debrett must and etiquette, precedence
pro- be scrupulously followed, grammes printed, tables num- If this can happen to a bered, alphabetical lists of nanes veteran American Consul-checked and General, it can happen also to the Consular officials of other Powers who stayed be- hind. Nor is it by any means
certain that the formal act
rechecked and 黯
surden absence at the last minute
must leave no empty chair.
time
past
Shipbuilding In Japan Progresses
By RICHARD HUGHES
lot of examination howlers to reach me.
army British politics.
"The show was started to raiso tem, op would, it do
www
better to
year's money for charity; this train a much smaller number of
...profita went to the Windsor troops Ja qur expenditure Conservative Association." wisely proportioned between the Army, Navy, and Air Force? Do our defence plans really fit into a world in which the atom bomb in the chief weapon?
"Guardian" Article
this
•
1 rather Uke the advertisement for falsies which warna: "Beware at imitations."
the nearest
There has been so much talk There has been an Interesting
this article on
subject in the about the dollar drain that "Manchester Guardian,"
Myrtle's grandfather feels It Japan's current shipbuild- shipyards, these merchant zardi "Last month a demonstration needa disinfecting. ing boom, restoring Japan to escaped serious bombing damage was given in Washington of an a place among the world's in the war, but many of them alternative democratic systent (to
need renovation after years of Westminster) of political inter- Not so. leaders in merchant marine rusting neglect, and in most of
Bloke was telling me last night vention in military matters. The construction, will be accelerat- them shipbuilding methods, House of
Reprezentatives Armed about the small boy who went Later the after dinner speeches, ed by expert United States while workmanlike anough, can- Services Committee was able to up to see his grandparents on the printed As Mouvenirs, must be
not compare with modern Bri- near the Navy and the Air Force Peak As usual, the mist had proof read. Mrs. Doyic Ands her- advice on improved steel pro- cathoda.
blackguarding each other over settled down, and you couldn't self both copy render and sub-duction methods. of recognition would be a pro-editor.
further than "We must modernise our the unification of the forces. Japanese shipyards at present | technique on British
Cadillac. shipbuild- tection against similar out-
TO many Englishmen acomed a She makes a point of know- are crowded with the keels of new ing Once," says Mr. Toyo Amal-
a strange display. Yet After peering with a puzzled rages, unless with recognition
of the window, are accepted the normal rules ing any detail that can make a ships totalling nearly 400.000 gros zumi, president of the Jraga If there is dirty linen lying about. expression out
Pligrim or a guest of honour tons.
little chap remarked, "It Dock Company. "With expert it
it may be the more healthy to the comfortable. For instance, the
guldance We can Including 46 boats for domestic equal to the late Duke of Connaught only ate
build ships wash it, even in public, than to certainly does got awfully dusty world's best for hide it in a cupboard mack
macked up herë.” white meat and Mrs. Doyle re-operation and 16 steel ships for example, the whale catchers for Top Secret." It reaffirmed the membered it. Doaf members are export, this tonnage is valued at Norway. Our methods deterio right and duty of Congress to yen, or approxi-rated during the war. In peril satisfy itself that the Joint Chiefe mately 341⁄2 million pounds sterl- cular, our welding standard la
of Stan were doing their jobs. I hospital." not satisfactory-yet. We hope brought home, through the press, to attract technicians from Eng- With the exception of the war land and the Clyde to help into the American people pressing place. time years of 1943 and 1944, At all such functions, most of Japanese annual shipbuilding con-
prove our methods."
problems of strategical planning upen which dinners for upwards of struction rarely exceeded 400,009
even the experts are
people,
"Nothing is more essential for divided. Mts. Doyle itons in unfettered pre-war days. our shipbuilding Industry thap
the people has its me in, that way. I had always usually the only woman, and Norway, Denmark, Soviet Rus modern rationalisation,” · agrées the hus made a habit of sitting sin and the Philippines have al-Mr. Yasujiro Okano, president some secrets to the Russians, In bother."
Perhaps it gave away thought of him behind a smal screen at the buck ready ordered Japan-built ships, of Mitsubishi, "If we can in Britain we accept the view that of the hall. She has missed only which, they must pay for in dol-prove our methode, we will be natfarial defence in deadly secret one dinner out of the many given, lars. and she
can truly say: "I have watched history in the making."
Her First Function
of decent behaviour. In the past the worst outrages have been perpetrated against Consulates in full re- lations with the Chinese authorities. The Canton outrage about two years ago had numerous precedents of
kind
another or
in China, though they have be- come practically unknown In other countries,
one
remem-
aouted with special care and this 34,419 million "Qu perfect secretary even
Ing. bern which car is hard of hear- Ing.
them
400
able
"A memorial plague was erect- ed in the entrance hall of the
Can't think of a more suitable
•
"I didn't know he felt about
sa a great bla
to compete with foreign and that Parliament's duty is "Soviet archaeologists excavat- Norway has ordered six steel builders, despite devaluation. mainly to vote £700,000,000 an- ing Minsk have found the re 2,800-ton whale-catchers and one stcol 18,000-ton tanker; Denmark; Already two United States dually and thereafter concern it-mains of an 11th or 12th century two steel tankers of 17,900 and steel experts have completed with the Boldler's welfare tribal princess in a well deserved 15,000 tons, one steel cargo liner survey of the Japanese iron and and rights rather than his role in oak coffin."
The American Consul-Gen- eral and his staff were left be- hind to look after the interests of their nationals, and to maintain continuity of contact. It was a practice universally followed throughout the long Chinese upheaval since the fall of the Dynasty. It was a trustful and friendly, cer- tainly not a hostile, gesture to leave them behind.
The Western Ambassadors and Consuls could have fol- lowed the example set by their Russian colleagues, and That reminded her of hor first 0,000 merchant moved out to Canton with the function, when she had made no This ambitious plang .must Nationalist Government. Arrangements for herself in the nwalt, however, formal American lowed by further technical ad-
In spite of this. Pilgrims often silp behind her screen to chat with her, and Sir John Ander son, a year or so ago, began his after-dinner speech with: "My Lord Chairman, Your Excellency. My Lord Archbishop, Mr. Prime Minister, My Lords, LADY and Gentlemen.'
of a beginner und
of 10,000 tons and three steel steel industry and made many reward ho, public has no voice Imperialist or not-fill nisi, you freighters of 5,170 tons; the Phi- commendations, for fuel consor whatever in the great decision: know. lippines, three steel Largo ships vation and fimproved mill-tech the result is
apalling of 9,400 tona; the Soviet, 100 nique, which - will · substantially "Thbro was far less secrecy, and
"Cars wooden tugs. (All tonnage is cut the costs of steel production tar more informed debate in Far
for
sale::> Armstrong deadweight).
and increase steel output, with of Unment, 10 years ago. Has not complete overhaul, new tpres, Encouraged by growing United course profound stimulation to the time come to return to the new engine" ge States advice and support, the the shipbuilding industry. * va old tradition of public discussion Now language too, also needing Japanese Government: Is even
complete overhaul: discussing the construction of 30 ships for
a', new, Japanese, marins fleet,
Further Advice
It is expected that thla be fol
of all service matters?
Test Governments elected ended to cating win, the tonet permishioner i favourable proste wie hy ditch, THE NEW AND ENLARGED
to them stay. The gesture master. has been reciprocated in no
in
treaty. Thore is no doubt, here experts, fe that General MacArthur will not The Kawasaki Co.
Koba way, and has been rebuffed in social life of my own," she says. the peace treaty.
have bad to give up any compel the Japanese to wait for one of the most efficient ship
yards in Japan. Kawasaklaro more than one.
building the 18,000-ton --diesel She lives quietly at Richmond, The Communists have cho sharing a house with her sister Low Labour Costs are spent all to be bull tanker for Norway, which by sen to regard the Americans and is se consistently courteous to neighbours and tradesman as to
in Japan since the war: The particular ELS
virtual the foreign potentates, Ministers labour costs, Japanese ships can year, the keel was laid down In Because of subsidies, and low contract was signed early this enemies: a position chiefly sustained by the British be (Continued On Next Col.)
be built much more cheaply than April, the launching date Har American or "British. The wage been "fixed: for: December, 20 aud fore the Pacific War. They had
of an English or Scottish ship delivery is now expected by imposed upon the American
bullding worker is about 24 April next year, a month before Consulate in Mukden much of relations between Com-limes the wage of a Japanese schedule. This is awift: building
the munist China and the West-In addition, Japan is benefit-
worker, the same regime as
Mama by any standards. See M
For the first quarter of this Japanese enforced when they ern world. We
wing because British shipbuilder year, Japan, with 144,000 tons of began that war. Mr. Ward it has any power at all at present, cahnot pecept more shipping then under construction. had been under house arrest over the local authorities. In foreign orders in their crowded was already equal with: Italy ar ever since the Reds took over Mukden, it should exercise there are 87 steal-ship
shipyards, CHINES
100 eletto maritime, building, nation in yards the world, behind Great.. Britain Mukden. The Consulate was that power and settle the case in Japan and 618 yarda suitable formally closed in May, and without delay. Peking was for the construction of wooden and Ireland (2,075,000 tona), the every effort was made to per- approached some time ago ships: In contrast with the naval United States (483,000 tons) France: (370,000 tons),... Holland. suade the Communists to let about the Imprisonment of
MANERA (285,000 tone) and Sweden (200 Mr. Ward roturn to the Unit Mr. Ward, but made no and Ambassadors. zho sees so 000 tons.) od States—but in vain,& mattianswer. Power flowed from often. jangja).
Japan's Phipbuilding Industry! The new Government in Manchuria into China, but before great roccasions, anchas in fact, like all heavy industry in
Work can last til pastramidnight determinedly on the way back Peking has asked for full there has yet been no return - Rocaevolt Memorial Dinner the former Workshop of ADINI diplomatic relations with the tide, now is the time to bring Western Powers. No doubt it about. It is not merely one it really wants such relations. Government which is in It is uncertain how far or how terested All Western Gov effectively; its writ runs Lin ernments are concerned--and Manchuria or even inside the deeply concerned, Firement Wall; for it only began to taice ing-Senators Clamouring, for over from the North China the use of force wont help Me People's Government this Ward. But they do show the month. But Peking must by intensity of fealing caused not tho now romitse how vitally this only in the United States, Louit in dor case affects not only the ques in other countries also,by tion of formal recognition, this most disagreeablo and but perhaps the entire course stupid provocation
to
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Nothing went wrong. Nothing The building of merchan eureroas wrong at Pilarime in Japan is now dinner and I am pure that the couraged by the datingolshed, moni ars Bri, said Mr. Mi-G. Kendall Chamber of BhIsolak, letter from a Japanese ritiche ship-owning)
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