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Lopes Baptists (Zlin), truther Alberto and Olgu, passed 25th away at 4.30 p.m. on November
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JAPAN AGAIN LOOKS AT GERMANY
The Japanese Prime Minis- ter keeps on popping up and popping down
on the
subject of a peace treaty. The other day he said Japan might reject the fronty if she didn't like it Then, baving mude his point, he authorised its re- moval from the official re
Now he has said the cords sume thing in more words. A treaty duregarding the wishes of the Japanese people, he sak, is unthinkable, because such a treaty is "bound once more to disturb the world or der."..
This solicitude for order in the world is presumably on of those bits of evidence to show that Japan had had u change of heart, will, appetite, Į and natural disposition. The Japanese are better than most uther people when it comes to the scaling of the lips, and Mr. Yoshida would no doubt have preferred to le low and say nothing. But he has been bombarded with questions in Parliament about the peace treaty. They are mostly de- signed to put his Government "on the spot." But Party politics do not tell the whole
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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1940,
THE GHOST IN EUROPE
A ghost is haunting Europe, the ghost of Western Union. At every conference when West Europeah stitispień. come together, it is apt sud- denly to rise. It is not a malevolent ghost.
Many deuple want nothing more than that should put on flesh and bloed, and become and living thing instead of ghost. But this is precisely what it will probably not do, at least for some years yet.
4
real
Western Union is the plar, which takes different shapes, for federating Great Britaiti, Francu th Netherlands, Belgium and Luxemburg. Some versions include also West Germany and Italy. Some people think that the ques- tion whether or not to back tho Union may soon be the gravest one before the people of Great Dritzin. British foreign policy will depend on the way the pied- ple decidle, Asia has therefore every renson to watch cibicly the way the discussion develops. Western Union has been talk- ed about ever since the end of the Whe But it was regarded as a rather cloudy ideal. It was kch more seriously on the cob ther than in Grgit Britdin. It drst seem to be prueticht possibility at the beginning of 1940. In Janutley of Bull ychr Mr. Bevin, the British Foreign Secretary, made a sticth which suggested, in careful on rather dhiiguous Innguage, that dreht Britain would put itselt behind the formation of a utilon.
This gave a great Impetus to all the efforts to jrring about a teter unton, One résult Was the Tormation of w politiet machinery
thic Council of Europe and the Sirathourg Ass Bembly which met last August und September.
Hopes And Disappointments
The wosk of the Surushang Atsumbly disappulated those who wardest bi preis on in complete pelikat union of the West Pu-
countries. But it su rep 2012 prised those who expected that The As- would be a Papers Bnbly wit now lie dormant for Nobody is yet several months.
jiny sure what park it wil European history
it
While this attempt was being Inte to uchieve n
By WINDRUSH
Special Correspondent
grow more or less
fence.
标
organically years ago, it seemed a high ideal.
"Iunctional to the
Concrete Tasks
there
has
lives.
ordinary
Englishman",
has
The wisest thing is for all the - Governments—including the Dri-
1hb go forward, without an Belpaling my merger of their separate sovereignites, but plin, ning how to inalte tho most of their resources as an Interdepen- dent group."
This expresses very well the a future West European systems Now people are being forced to which was a tin but which think out in concrete whit Went present state of. feeling of the
of federation ern Union really means,
people in London Who have would fall short
de the conception behind what would bp, the effect on the been closely studying the pros This
men of ordinary
alk. Thoy recognise that a casu what is eslted the
opposed
wernen in Brildi.
can be argued for saying that the approach"
Recently tie discussion has interests, especially the econo- "politichi appronéli."
been carried a stage farther by le interests, of the British people
thoughtful leading ariele in
would best be served by their the Times,"
merging theinselves in the pull- "The tanks on which The concrete
sical life of West Europe. Bat "Is beginning international joint action is most says the "Times"
to realise that both in the United the are also becoming Increas necessary ore cconante and de-
contingitung aware of the price which them To deal with
the States and on the
would have to be paket by genuine political union. Western countries have brought Europe his own Government ano Into being the Organisation for country are being widely blamed
A verger really is a murger. (to make more
If Grean Belain goes in with Weat European Ecole Co-operation for the failure
progress towards unlon). and the general staff whleh gives rapid
Europe Briton must be prepared Brussels Treaty. It is natural that he should now
for changes in their manner of effect to the These are examples of the "fune-ask what exactly Britain is ex-
pretext to do and where the Bri-le for greater than they have contemplated at any time since fallen tional approach"
Cloveroment 1sh Thus undeniably
the Reformation. British foreign short building up a been progress in
interests would change radically. "It is almost certalu that when West inlon of the "fumilond"
next Assembly
In the past Britons have Turned Europenu But the
always to the outer world and to kind in the past two years.
the there has been mools at Strasbourg many voices
that in recent weeks
the pressure for the progress to be will be mised to bay
is leading approach speeded up. Em fictional very greatly
from the ว่าแลis her
nowhere, and that the only thing, changed to the "Functional'
"litical" to do is to appoint a European with real power Guverinsesit
Brithin approach.
and thruted functions America, especially, has been
na toke part certainly would Mi Hulmun urging Evrope un
3 41
annoying for "It is no doubl has warned the West European unless they are entries that,
puditical the countries of Western Europe uther have willing to make a real
that Bida unit neonomic merges, it will be
American interests which make it impossi- hard to persuade the
Marshall tafe fer to adopt a wholly Congress to
European outlook. Yet the Drit-functional organisation for Akd
Pal IN Commonwealth is so real and This has started a great
state- so vital & thing that m of new disetansion in Great Brit-
men could huzurd IL for an un alo.
It has pured Burry f
European tested and uncertain talk and thought preisely he
Britis why Nor can it timUnion
forget cause for the Dist time brought home to people in Great
Western what
than
the speelal Country
Governactit Union relation between F
When Mr. Devin and the United States and Camis- really impairs Arzt inuicher the plan nearly twoldu
In
24
11-
continents. distant Chule Western Union, the terests of the British people would be counlined to Europe, and the distinctively h
world affairs would much lesseneth,
Few
contribution
very
Englishmen Arc wilting that h shorid happen. Thus, on reflection, they reject the idea of Joining in political federation of Western Europe But they per- | ceive the value of fostering the the
-operation of the governments. They are therefore for the "fune
od upprunch". The electorate as a whole has not yet sorted out When its as the problem, it duras, it will probably res- penthes the the satine way us the ex- the prids who are now glebatang problem.
Prussianism In A Red Ship
Victor Silvester's rendition By ANNI ALATO his father.
SERVIC
of "Tr for Two" and Bing Crosby's throaty "Pistol gouls rough for that........ured are Packin' Momma" flouted over at Tengbos enough to accenf the loudspeaker to passengers and expert tips for anything froth je the elegantly furnished carrying agg to wealthy af
tabte. the freshly political lounge and on
First-class passengers had hel- MOR in Europe, however lose, varnished deck.
"f ler cabins. bigger variety other attempts were being made
For integrate*
Almost anywhere in the world food and better Western Europe |
v. kl
not have example, butter was not served on whant came to be called "the | these functional bala,"
I was argued svend out of place, but they did in dvd class - but there the db-
pfter through that i was hard to get any agree to us in the Soviet slep Beloos tinctions ceased.
West fnent betwee
European trov fot comprehensive North and Battle Sens from Lon- political union. The thing there- don in Helsinki. tore was not in try to fenerate governments, but to roncentrate on the various tasks of Europe
event en-operation which the of the time muke stential.
necessary
to eroate speelul inter-
To den with them it has been 1t was national organisations. argued that out of these woult!
accords with the new shape of things to come, for the old na tional solutions, and ups and downs, are obsolete. Details In the pattern include a re- prieve
for certain
story.
plants This catechism has coincid- ed with the emergence of the Which were to have been dis- Western Germans. The Japan mantled; concessions to Ger- ese are following events and man shipping; rules for the of German Con- Western creation precedents--i ni Europe with rapt attention. sulates and Trade Missions They once hoped to share the abroad; and the definition of wealth with the Germand the status of foreign Diploma- Now they hope to share thee Missions in Western Ger- peace. It will depend very many. largely on what happens in Chine whether they do or do not. There are no watertight compartments in high policy in this imperious epoch. Cer tainly a China hostile to the West and tied to the Russians would strengthen Japan's ex pectations of the peace to
come.
songs
as it
the
They not seem to go with the huge reti hammer-und-sickle coltar around the smokestack.
took six days to get to Helsinki aut for seven days and six nights Ivan, the young Russian crew member, who doubled as deckband and "dise-jockny played thein - He played, of course, ceasantly other records in Russian unel for Two," German, but "Tea
Momma" and "You're the Cream
Collec** easy favourites, in my
nights and seven
Hunburs were
Dances For The Crew
Yes
Concession
On Austria
From the "legur." rane crying in
"! bark" dad hi
"But he's bleiter than I am."
Then use a lush ** For the commander of the voy- sure the error was the quietest vogster aboard -even after the bump be head disappeare:l.
the the Russlan The crew.
aloof, ex- passengers, remained erpt for moments throughout the Journey.
Mystery Passenger
Like all Slavs, they seemed to love music, to drink and to laugh. Somellines one of them would be friendly and chat about the ship;
hote you
who
15 minuten
Third-clas PASSEFILOTS une the first-class deck and thei large, well-furnished chrome and leather-cushioned lounge, where by dat they played seemingly
ely th games ut chers and t endles
later. night drink and danced
made Passengers Amting the crew discipline was in its
Beloostrov Prussian
in the strict, almust
several trips With
zati saluting
to see the sal they have yet formality,
Officers and cap-
some crow memliers twice. Per- heel-clicking. taln were called "Tovaricl?" | haps the crew is changed every (comrade) by the crew.
The captain, a finely buill man in his early forties, was unup proachable. He did not speak
He stalked round the pussengers. the ship, shoulders drawn back, bristling with Importance gold braid.
An
Captain Kept Aloof
about is nship as nor
Gleaming white in the sun. Its decks, staterooms and all other rooms are kept spotlessly cichn by the hardest working, crew: I have seen.
Take Anna. At six o'clock ope mornihy I saw. Her polishing the brass on deck. Half an hour later she was carpet-sweeping the Slepe and Ujdfang corridora oul- side the staterooms.
have
voyage; certainly new men come 1 remember, on every season. on a previous voyage i made, a friendly captain. He spoke with the passengers, offered them ad vice and told tales of his career Northern Seas. He is longer in the Beloostrov.
One of the friendliest this trip was a young ofleer with whom I had a few drinks in the bar.
no
Like the others, he would talk only about music, food, or the ship.
One night at the bar I asked whether he would have a drink. delighted," he "I would be
As he walked stifly out of the. Ioulige a queer sensation took hold of me, it was mostly pity, I recall, but there was a tinge of fear.
BE IT
BUSINESS PLEASURE
Good Morning
shing!
Talking about the Mukden case, a news geney reports: "There age 12 American officinis and at leant two Europeans, Mrs. Ward and Mrs. Shiro Tatsumi. the Japanese wife of Japanese employed by Mr. Word.",
MacArthur hus, apparently been more successful in turning them into Western democrats thon 1. thought.
A correspondent writes, to Auggest that lust bastions are now at their lust gasp.
return
Undoubtedly when the women civil servants get equal pay, they will
favours past
by regularly asktig their mer friends mut for the evening, encouraghug them to have another mud of drinks, and paying for dinner, taxis, the cinema and so hi am told the men enn hardly jail.
Doen it with mirrors,
turns in th "Misa Lupho
- Ի without ધ perfomance...". and vofre manages to put over several songs very effectively."
Advice you don't ntour .
levers if at succeed, try a
Bert Hulle
Auto-nutrition
"And if Hin a cold night, make brown satire, put your tongue
in, and serve bolling hat."
"Freshdent McKinley Arrives With Generul Cargn."
Probably
Major business of a Private character tra
l with Cabinet furniture.
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•
Artorting to om printers, fang Kong "imports during the drat 16 muntles of 1949"
greater
th the first 10 months of 1948,"
Isn't itat, however, rather na unfair comparison?
"one-man *This
diplomatic curpa" to traved with the pre-man Nationalist cabinet
really In mething
of streamlining.
"We t
thies ww
go step by step," says the West German chancellor, On tiptoe, too, We don't want uitry more of these completely
Alorica untrue}
newspaper correspondicots sent out in the tanks rtles about forbidden and gin and mitory training
our
- rather thought there was something strange ubout million-circulation contemporary's picture last week, purporting to be the undressed likeness of some femala American who had eaten her young, or words to that effect, The irtentient photo, with the same over-devoloped cleavage,
used
by another
paper was yesterday, the caption identify lug the palchritude as the runner-up in a beauty contest. Anyone like the address of the "Dist-named Indy's lawyer?.
The lady from the big house, very much class conscious, Wor calling on the lady of the le
Biarchy family, probably.
"Wanted: Steady, experienced aman to wash, iron and: look after, two, smult children."
Many of the püssengers were
Only once did be acknowledge He bowed stiffly from the Britons-there were 10 English farm boys on their way to ex- | nc.
methods in watst while we were in port át plore Bgricultural Finland and some 30 diplomais Stockholm....but between hits and militory personnel and their and the crew there was a great
At that moment a man I re- families going through to Moscow social gulf. They were in diferent salt, and ordered a vodko The Beloostrov was
house. cognised as a Russlan passenger fot Playing "decadent" songs of
rion-proletarian
The young “We are troubled with rats at but this was not the only reason cinsses. the West.
offeer's face blanched. He bowed home," she mall. I suppose you Denials have been made in For at light the off-duty one could imagine. Built in 1937 entered the lounge.
It is a sturdy,
with bottered to me curtly and sold fat loud are similarly Paris, London and Washing-netbers of the all-Russian crew by the Finns.
drink," ton of reports suggesting that danced to these tuinen on the third- 2010-ton passenger-cargo versi vulce: I am sorry, but I do not mica?"
class deck, and is there were not which makes tivo trips monthly ingrad, with stops at Stockholm the United Kingdom, France bught women in the crew. the between Surrey Docks and, Les- and the United States were men foxtrotted mild lingoed with two and a half days) and Hel; considering the revival of neither are two classes, first sinki (Just long enough to un- German Army. But, for the and third. The Soviets are bour- load passengers and, cargo).. benefit of the Russians th Eastern Germany, correspon- dents have been allowed to A policy of black and white hint that the question hasn't isn't the best policy. The verti been ignored. If the Eibe is cal line of division, so churae to be the frontier, they sate, teristic of the period, is báda German Army will be ne-
New York, November 24, enough as it is, in its purity tessary. That of course, de- domestic aspect. In her social pends on what happens in the The "New York Times report policy, and in the extraordin Eastern Zone. If it becomes, led today from Lake Success that ary capacity for action within shall we say, fluid-then the Austria will be permitted to full freedom of discussion Western frontier will be on stockpile certain strategic mater which the British Parliament the Rhine and a German late, notably steel and chemicals, under the terms of a State,trealy now ncuring the final stage of has shown, Britain alone of Army wont be necessary..
There Isn't much fluidity negotiation by the United States, the major Powers has prac ticed and proved the potency about it at present, Nor is Britain, France, and the Soviet of the middle way. In that, we there much likelihood of it in Unión,
The newspaper sold that this dre convinced, she has shown the immediate future unless a true sensitiveness to the diplomacy on both sides is represents a indior Soviet con- historical meaning of our age, driven by necesity to an ag cession: It had learned that the
Two great opposites must reement. A powerful Ger- Soviet Voreign Minister, inevitably produce a syn- man armed militia being Analyse the cheer olbed thesis, and that is a mean- built up in the Soviet Zone. Presentatives of
is entier Insistence upon fog which applies to all of It has been increased fivefold count that the Kremlin had us, whether the outcome of since last summer and the aim strict controls for Austrian cups
majeriai, dhemba usafi the cold war be war or peace. is reported to be to streng It applies hisa, in our con- then it up 60,000 within'n total viction to China as well as People's Police Force of 200 to Japan.
000. That is an awkward pre- cedent for us but it is a pre cedent
True, it has been said there is no middle-road Let's-wait
and see and work för it. It The double trouble is that
les
told
Verit of war-Reiner;"
While I was breakfasting at nine she made up the cabin. Then she went up to help wash dishes. She set tables for lunch, wash- alid went same process for ed dishes again through, the high tea at four o'clock and dih ner of erven.
of the bath--it costs n shilling la take a Bath, in the Beloostrov- drawing water and afterwants mopping up. The others worked For the passengers, who had Jus as hard. Holding to do but watch it was crpecials, congenial. The food cheap fccording to present-day -British alatidards.
extenent mid the "drinks
Between times she took care
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