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THE CHINA MAÍL, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1048.
A Rep Looks At The New Germany:
Cigars Again In Streetcar 23
This is the fourth time I have written this story.
Each year since the war ended I have come back to Editor in Chief
Germany after an absence of Reporters General Omce 32312 several months and, taken
(four inee)
Frankfurt's No. 23 tram from its source to the end of its line.
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it is as good a way of feeling a elty's pulse as any.
The first year the'pulso scarcely seemed to be beating at all. The tram was filed with a huddle uf silent, croaked, desperate poopla who expected to die of cold and starvation during the winter, Ac- cording to medical statistics, most It of them were bound to die. was almost awe-inspiring to travel
PORTENTS OF THE with them.
STORM
as came
an
The next year they were
not dead. They were still very sorry The news that the Ameri- for themselves, but they were can Vice-Consul at Mukden | vocal and bitter and active. They was sent back to the Consu-fold each other cigarettes up and down the tram and made jearing late seven hours after he had remarks
Americans. about the Americans travelled in been escorted to the People's The
own in anti-special trams of their Court
Ever since the re- those days, eo they did not hear. climax.
The third year-last yonr-the lease of Mr. Angus Ward it
In the train were upprehended that the passengers
They were Local Communists would people with hope.
Auddenly
pathetic. по longor make further trouble. Face Their despair had faded, and one had been saved by the ver- began to feel that perhaps after diet and sentence of deporta- all the Allied administration had tion. But malice might seek done quite well with Germany. further mischief-that was a very general fear.
Was
This year ...
The tram when it came soomed leaner and emptior and warmer. You paid your fare worth dd. in present-day sterling-with money a table on any that has been othur Europeas currency for the past 18 months. It seems for the Arst time a very ordinary tram.
was flest big difference The
full of char that the
air was
Wan nothing
The entire Mukden affair was an outrageous flouting of the conventions, if not of ele mentary human rights. But it was, relatively speaking, a good sign that the release of follow- the Consul-General ed so closely on the State Department's appeal to 30 xmoke. Three men were smoking other Governments. That is elgar and there true even if the Soviet au-Block Market about them. I had men buy them, whlie ween the thorities were
they were waiting for the tram. window nhop with A enced by this unprecedented from move than the local officials stacked high with cigars. who held Mr. Ward in their power. It is an equally good sign that Mr. Stokes was released so SOON. In essence, the episode can be taken to mean that even in so strong a Communist centre as Muk- den, Party discipline has not wholly broken down.
more
influ-
It is a good sign largely because it is always possible to negotiate with a discip- lined regime, however hostile it may be. It is not possible to get very far with an ad- Queen's Bldg.,ministration decapitated by a condition of anarchy. In this we are thinking not so much of the present as of the future. Diplomatic recogni- tion solves little or nothing. It is merely a means to an end, No special relations are implied. These have to be established later.
Recognition, it has been emphasised, is not a certifi- cate of like-mindedness от even of good conduct. And it is often, more useful to
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By ALEXANDER CLIFFORD
barbed wire entanglement bore-1. The shops, soon from the tram part of the compound where the windows, looked bright and fall- their offices and very little different from the shops Americans had
anywhere else in Europe,« their homes.
Now the wire is down and the team goes straight through. But It is still an American area, and in the next stop two American women got in, talking loudly in American and balding shopping- of tinned fruits and bags full breakfast foods,
The tram was full, and they had to stand. All around them the German men nat And the rest of the tram did not think it was amusing or daring of the Ger- man min to all while the Amori- can women stood. They accepted Has quite natural. 90, appar. ently, did the American women.
To Self-Respect
That, perhaps, marks the 1940 mood of the No. 23 tram.
somehow generated passengers Among themselves an atmosphere of restored self-respect and great
You Kelf-assurance.
not could any they were arrogant or impud. [ ent
But they were people who had begun to bollove in themselves again.
Sometimes
shop window would blaze out with an almost shocking brilliance. The displays of iced cakes and cream buna looked unhealthily rich and lush when sot against a background of There was some- stark ruina.
and sply-like thing Surrentiat about Ita disquieting feeling of (lack of proportion.
trom-
Hitler Could
Not Kill This Art
By PIERRE JEANNERAT
Good Morning
Bars and Gripės, –
The Chinese Coinmos scem to consider that the best thing to do with American consulato 'staff, after they've had a rest, is to I have arrest.
·
"Red Women's Conference.” Rouge et binh
"The only goods saved from the
£2 ruins wero
lew nacks of potatoes. They escaped only in their night clothing."
Probably cooked la their Jackets.
"He
+
originated the MORS
What Hitler called degen-! erate art and banished from stair dance which so many per
formancers hace cupled.” Germany is now providing a
Reminds me of the Klor's Re- membranear and is mace, only
What you see from a window in only the surface life. There may be a sufficient amount of matnery and hardship and trus- balance this outward appearance the ruins he brought to his he didn't dance. tration hidden away to counter-regenerating influence amid of prosperity. But the chops were country. full of people buying. It looked exactly like real prosperity looks in any other country. It looked | vastly different from a year ago,
Not By Trickery
"
•
•
your
The baby, German Modern
prints
sitting ostrido and
back and securely drawings selected by Professor mother's C, G. Hotse, of the Hamburg Kun-strapped in true Chinese fashion, sthallo, ant shown at the Arts looking on nonchanty," Connell Gallery, 4, St. James's- I could make a negative crack about that, but maybe my Sus- So I suppose we must face the square, London, are for the most Tho
would think it fact that partially ruined Gor part works of the Expressionist sennch friends many in catching us up in the School, which, born undor the in- rude. standard-of-living race, and in fuence of Paris, modernista and Edvard the Norwegian painter some things may have overtaken
"I can't quite diagnose Munch, rapidly developed during case. I think it must be drink." ค.
"That's all the Arat quarter of this contury.
cholar. I right. Like the Paris school itself it know just how it is. I'll como attracted foreigners to its fold back when you're suber." {tho Raralan Kandinsky, the Swiss Paul Kice, both pioneers af pictorial abstraction), but again like the Parle school it belongs { always say my primarily to the land where it nude. It seems had its being, and therefore re- noarer to leaven.“ veals deep rings of psychology.
Londoners who want to know whither Germany will surely there can be few more im
Worborn portant questions for Europe can find useful indica- tiong at this exhibition.
You You can't blame them. can't blame any nation for want
self-rempert. to recover 1, ing Yet it was difficult not to find it vaguely disturbing.
We rattled on towards the shop. | ping quarters of the city, passed 8th policemen woaring British Army aun-helmets, painted white. Hare the advertisements were the mexi obvious change. Bright new posters were stuck overywhers, They exhorted you to buy particu.
brands of lar
soup, motor-car tyres, biscuits, inselatoshes, cigar- elton.
Four
years Yes, cigarettes,
only cigarette was the ago the real currency in Germany. It was an object of worship, a mo- You could buy live for crime. anything or anybody with it. And today they are competing to sail That perhaps in the most staggering change of all.
The second ble difference was that at the first crossroads the chead tram plunged straight instead of burning to the loft.
In previous years there was a foreign occupation.
The vigorous now German-ness of the city is swampirer the allen,
untratural
Men, Women
There has been much comment
that whereas the views of General Bedell Smith on his term of office in Rassin are made available to the public soon after his retire ment from Moscow. Sir Maurice Peterson is not allowed to pablish his own, impressions of the Soviet regime.
evidences
of
And
By ATTICUS
the
Yet at the same time we must face the fact that she cannot have Three done it by any trickery,
watched foreign Powers have every move of the trade and com-
merce,
It was growing dark now, and along the Kaiserstrass the noon signs were beginning to come on.
At the next stop there wan a pilod lorry parked by the kerb with cheeses. A man with scales was selling them off to a crowd of There women with string bags.
RD to bo question of seemed
There reoned no ration-book. limit to the amount anyone could buy,
The next stop was the end of the lipo. A Salvation Army band was playing to the people waiting to take 23 tram back in the op- posite direction.
"It will show tomorrow," sald the conductor chattlly as I got off. He didn't say it as though it were something he dreaded. He said it as though it would he good for the winter sports season.
Memories
national
go- and
litler hated the Expressionists, whose often tortured worka apoke of the heartburns of individuals Ho refusing to be regimented,
out of his doors i kicked them thoy have returned through bro ken windows.
•
Bare with me.
not am
זיי
nudist, but poyers in the to bring me
1
Apparently not everyone agrees that Germany
should be me- dintely re-armed.
This shows a quite unjustifi disinclination to be thrice bitten,
shing goes
If this
sort of
on,
someone is soon going to question MacArthur's claim that the Japs ere the world's leading democrats.
Sacha Guitry marries his fifth wife at the age of 64. I call That'R
what Gultry.
a really
•
all heard know we've
was still pleased
it
the
They are accepted this side of the Iron Curtain (boyond, another military and police dictatorship before, but I reigno) as real representativen of last night to be reminded of the
who published German aosthetic life, and they editor truly form part of Western sul heartfelt explanation: "Owing to ture,
lock of space and the rush of editing this issue, several births will be postponed and deaths until next wook,"
If the German mind as a whole pursues a line of thought in har- mony with theirs, it will be sean, !
thi
that Germany Belongs to ena concert of Western European democracies, upholds the right of
Dumb show.
"Defendant was acquitted of
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without its
the individual to own bla soul. using a motor car
At first most of these prints permission." and drawings look hard and tra- Barlach's Self-Portrait"
Our Sydney correspondent mark angry ап
Nolde's :
predicts that petrol is likely to Orchids and Tulips are paint are up during the forthcoming
disturbing flowers grown in a
Solimidt Rottluft's garden:
Klc.
ja
drastic measure. It is estimated that keeping the club open on Sun-
1
elections.
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days costs about £1,600 a year. Landscape with Dunes" is lit "For sulo: Small garage and The Committee has therefore deck-by a black encircled ma; Kathe
delling station. Also nice loving Kollwitz's "Call of Death" ded to close the club altogether on Sundays for a trial period of six picts a sad old man tapped on the accommodation upstairs." months, having come to an ar shoulder by a ghostly hand. But, rangement with the Royal Autothen, has not Germany, lived, in- mobile Club to offer hospitality to deed launched; tragedies mum-
on Sundays during bored 7 its members that period,
Some time
Many people to whom I have talked during the past weeks seem to be under the tilty: his koen business brain is impression that Britains for- now to be focused on finance, for mer ambassadors are restrain-ho has taken up a directorship of ed or, at any rate,strenuously this Midland Bank. discouraged by the Foreign The late President Roosevelt's Office from publishing their cairn terrior, Fals, has gained a place in history, but I venture to memoirs.
suggest that in Brindle, so eight-
There are way things, too t there was a 480 year-old cross between a Dalia-
killed in action in Franz Marc, tian and an Aberdeen terrier, Sieminar sensation at the Garrick The lively geometric animals of 1910 Klee's "Figuring of i Maurice has a dog which reserves Club when it was decided to allow
ladies as guests for dinner on Coloured Devil," a comic good. equally prominent mention.
Saturdays and Sundays, an inno-natured devil; and Ewald Ma- A few years ago Brindle flow to vation which has proved quite taree" Symbol of a Meadow," Cows decoratively Cairo with Air-Chief Marshal Sir popular. That had boon the prac- cone-shaped
time,
grouped. The Germans can be Christopher Courtney, and thence tice at the Reform for some to Ankara, where his master was and to compensate for the loss of gay, given the chance and the then ambassador. The high Sunday the
arrangement atmosphere of happiness around This is not correct in thie par-
Taurus range tests the heart and there allows of the introduction of them. ticular case. Sir Maurice has, in
guests
The German Expressionista of on Fridays. feet, already cumplcted his mem- the lungs of most travellers for ladies oirs, and the final MSS. has been this part of the journey Brindle Thus force of economic circum 1906-25 and their continuators followed the example of his fellow stancos has led to a fresh en- simplify form, accentuato details passed by the Foreign Offles.
for a maximum effoot. They soom passengers, and sat placidly wear-croachment en malé reserves. Bir Maurico, whose father was
to me to recapture in this way Principal of McGill Univerisity, is ing a little oxygen mask 1
the traditions of 10th and 12th- After a sofmum in Turkey Str man of greatTM| a quiet, shrewd
century Romanesqueg Maurice's air-minded dog flow to Moscow via Home, Paris, and
Rhineland, perhaps the greatest period of German árt, when it was part and parcel of Western Bodlin, and this year he arrived back in his native Berkshire quite
Christianity. Swedish quarantine officials. unperturbed by a brush with the
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recognise a Government with which one fundamentally differs, because this alone provides the machinery by
differences which all be examined and ordinary The intercourse conducted. alternative is the extension time to come, even after re
has Diplomacy of the curtain of isolation to cognition. the extreme points of Com- been the plaything of domes munist occupation, which tic struggles and rivalries in may soon embrace the whole China from the very first. It"Cette Mile Rox-Bur!" of mainland Chinu. In that is by no meanis unknown else- scheme of things, thousands where. But it has been par- of foreigners would be hos- tages.
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now
The Irresponsibles
The International Secretariat of ODEC has now settled down in beautiful Chateau de la Muetto, on its new home in the grounds of the the edge of the Bols. The chateau tra-European payments solved be to ence saw the problems of in- tween a couple of Rotheschild In London recently I met Mr.brothers where now a vast secre- ticularly prevalent in China, J. F. Roxburgh, who retired in tartat and meetings of Ministers because the more normal July from the headmastership of are necessary
Stowe, which he had held since The latest such meating in the The Communist Govern forms of party rivalry were the school's inception in 1923. He chateau brought together Mr. Van ment, in its general request absent, and because there in hortly leaving for South Zeeland, in the chair, M. Schuman, for recognition, also included was always less power at the Africa.
If I wore asked to name the. Paul Hoffman and Sir
fford Cripps, and it led to at la the United States. The de- centre than in the provinces. Briton who, without being cident which has been delighting livery of Chou En-laf's curt Incidents can be created brought up in France, spoke the Paris's equivalent of Fleet Street Note to the Americans was more easily in China than most perfect French I should cer- French founalist, sooking, a made as unofficial as possible. clsewhere, and there will no tainly choose Mr. Roxburgh statement from M. Marjolait, the Nevertheless, they were not doubt be more incidents of After coming down from Trinity, Socretary Geneial, brosquely whore he won all the academia refused admision by the con China re-laurels Cambridge had to offer, he cierge.The Journalist, with excluded. But if the Com various kinds. munists outside the Wall mains a political volcano, and went for a year to the Sorbonne, equal vehemence, rejected the don't relish the idea of re- that is still true even though where he took his Licentiat-es-concierge's authority and deman cognition, they certainly there is so much discipline Lettres in classics in half the ner dad los responsables. don't want a
recognised among the army We have mal time. We was second in his The concierge waved half a year, and a Briton among Fren- dozen economic giants into nabh-. American Consulate function yet to know, for example, chmen-was top in the French ligness with a hand; Il n'y a pas dos responsables. But, protested ing in Manchuria. It is rather what role the future Federacleay?
Mr. Roxburgh telis.. story the pournalist, there were Minis hard to know indeed, why tion of Labour Unions will about this against himself. His ters. It is the concierge's all- they didn't let the Consulat play when Ld Li-dan has car handwriting, affectionately famlewer to this that is being so stall leave the country, last ried out His comprehensive far to several school-generations widely quoted: Les Ministres ne
of Stoics, le large, round and flow-sont pas responsables, May, when they were re plans of organisation. called. And nobody will be Labour is quite obviously ing. The principal examiner was. misled by this into congratulating quite free in their minds till to be used as an instrument cette Mills Rex-bar" on har the staff have actually got of policy. It may well be remarkable schilovement
Stown's creator is determined away from China,
come the very centre of a
In her Book FDR My, Boss," The episode has glyen a struggle between the conto settle down in his cottage, but
such an excellent chairman recently published in America, chance to the more fanatical structive elements, who have and administrator that I cannot be Grace (fully, the late Frosi- opponents of the State De summoned the whole nation imagine that any Government will dent's secretary, tolle a charming partment, and the forces of to work and produce more allow him to cultivate his garden story or an encounter with Mr. reaction, to say their plece at than ever before, and those in peaceful retirement for very Churchill H altime when they were other who have quite other ideas o wise suffering the most acute about the role the city work discomfiture. And when the | ars should play in the future true facts are known of the That is but one of the many. For some time now the Athen-mented on the infant's "triking Mukden case, they may quite factors which should warn neum and the United Service aluslikeness to his grandfather, Me well have other, ammunition us against any expectation of have closed; state other Sunday, Churchin scowled and chifted hu for their battery and for
an easy passage during the soll in turn offérime howfaltality to okrupäevQUES, KITSIE- ho MINI NA đem but yun know a look like all the membate of the othe Tie-Héform SOlub!- winów.bean, driven to enteran-more imita
Indeed, stormy weather tumultuous years to come in must be expected for a long resurgent China,
Sunday At The Club
Babes And Mr. Churchill
***Bina Tully bed bom looking at adres photography of Mr. Chur- chill's grandchild(con of BIT. Randolph Chuschiil)and com-
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