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"THE", CHINA'' MAIL, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30,~ 1040.
An MP Looks At The New Germany:
BRITAIN MUST MAKE A FRIEND OUT OF GERMANY
What should be Britam's alm In Germany?
First, let me tell you about sorne of the things which impreta the visitor from Britain who looks beyond the huge dévastated-prean and beyond the gaps even in the less.bombed towns.
I stood and watched squad
I
Ber
ather the same
and
about double the speed.
By WALTER FLETCHER
Conservative MP For Bury
Many a damaged RAF plane, visibly
moves
Jindequate
leadership,
mistakes we
ng leaders of
I1' would
Good Morning!
being
With Chinn's lot war Much more interchange of per- transferred a cold war to the United Nutions. Amerlen in sonal visits is needed.
reported to bu Elving "only be wise for foreign exchange al- tukewarm support" locations, for holidays, to be more generous for travel in Germany than for other countries, and a far wider distribution of British political com. papers of every
Coinmunist would take all the plexion would be a good invest-interest out of our lives, deciures
a writer.
Someone has obviously been tepld off.
Jend to ater on.
1
gruve
married life,
Alfficulties
lumped back from Germany un-many Germans are saying: "Cal of Germaan pulling down a de-supported, to use an RAF phrase, not we avold the
have made before, and join Briment. bo relict house in Hamburg and pn-except "by a wing and a prayer.
And all the capital too. and Franet Germany's currency, and through|talu on a building job.
it is all the better that our processes that her economy, is today aup- Europe?"
politeni differences and quarrela "The Princess gave her age an more Rub-
should have wide circulation in 39, the Prince as 12." Irom my office windows in Lon-parted, by nothing
tantial; the faith that in pare rottains, rebuilds factories and forget the defects in the German mocracy works
We should, indeed, be foolish to Germany. They show how a de- Someone should have told the don, but the difference
on a two-party groom that disagreements of this purposefulness
most RES Was notable. The Germans worked at houses, and willingly pecepts cald, character, the danger of the mat system, in contrast to the glued-kind, so early in
hunger, uncertainty,
Nelze this a gloomy ness that
powerful
额 **** muke
Germany's present existence, with inadequate recrea people in success, and their ar-together "splinter parties" which can
amusement, may not rogance and desire to dominate) Lion and
creaking politlent system. succeed against all probablities. which then come to the forefront, Judging from my past acquain- But we shall be equally unwiss
In trading matters, if we carry tance with the type,
renewed if we believe that there is not a
suppression of German economy frequently between the wars, the good chance of Western Europe, bey and the deadline of war dan German has retained a greater with ourself as its head, capturing ger, if we try
her to restrict than for the minds and Imagination of the
access to raw material and to the respect for the British
Even
markels for her any other nation. with our diminished power and good Europeana.
koods, she directions.
BIRTH
PERKIRA To Ruby, wife of Mr. 27th o the JV Pereira, November at Precious ord Hospital, a daughter. diet wel!
Both
HANDS OFF
In his resolution before the United Nations Political Com- mitter, the American De- Ingate, Dr. Jessup, called for 4 policy of "hands off China." It marks a reversion to the 100 traditional American poley, consistently pursued for many years until the war- m alliance led to a mort in intervention positive Climo's affairs. Indeed, the principles set forth in the re- solution have much in com- mon with the Treaty signed at The Washington Conference after the end of the first world war.
This was a self- denying ordinance which did cond service till the Japanese tore to shreds.
German shops are well filled with desirable goods of all sorts, including foosi, but they are often beyond the means either of the middle- manual labour or the
worker.
not
Taxes, though high, are severe enough to damp the efforts of individuals or firms. They are Laken in their stride.
What will have to be brought is an increase In about there wages and a possible increase In handled, note circulation. Well there can both be achieved with- out real danger of inflation, and nuch an increase in production Post will still -leave Germany many advantages.
South
Different Spirit
up
Bull in Japan.
An American GI run down the read to see if his nai could hit
arunking mtu at 300 yards,
According to the
export shortest story-he could.
today, German people, and making them world he will burst out in other i
Back In The Sun, They Talk Of England
By ALAN HUMPHREYS
the
We must become her
week's
Hong Kong physteisus want the partner. Invadiog doctora
the from that by the advantage
mainland to go back whence they enjoy in being established all over came "for ethieni rensons."
we
thes world, in having shipping, fa- For what shuli It prolit a man surance, and Bnancial organisa-ti he gameth like a Hong Kong
Ger- tions, reap the benefit of
loseth...... yet many's increased
and Bealer, they'll ban him, anyhow, efforts.
energies
meiro
ก
For we must reckon that sooner
J Nec that Ameriena utamic or later, probably sooner, Amer-
at last learned fen will withdraw, while France, selentists have
into base metala although a considerable change of how to turn
good sobi, Although al prohibitive heart has taken place, has
will be
+
*
This winter is faced in Ger- may with quite a different spirit Fuel
Every passenger aircraft. As an instance, a man's under-; from that of last winter.
that drops down at this time garment which sold in Cuiry for and warm clothing are both more
enuse for deep suspicion and fear cost. easily oblinable.
of the year into Cairo's Al-10, d., after paying 40 per cent
Or will want to keep Germany
course. they conid have Germany knows that
she has
leaked up the Brlish newspaper maza Airport from Britain import duty, cost 17s Bd. in Regent
Street, London.
down retained, bi mady parts of the sheds, like autumn leaves, a
the risk ores of 11 years ago, and saved Soon, therefore, Not all
holiday-makers' East.
You world—notably the Far America.
a few returning Britons, fugi- tune was spent in pleasure. There guiding and keeping Germany on themselves a lot of trouble, and part l
were head offices to visit, agents the right puth
maluty know, like the jet engines? good-tives from a winter.
to see, Africa great commercial
things to inspect.
reports to make, new murs, and unless we are well pre- will because her goods were right,
"Germans hunt wild games in pared with a thought-out polley hey deliveries prompt.
Here cume the grumbles,
and the moun to put it Into Berin park." credit and services she gave were
These Myrtle says she knows n con- The general opinion was that operation we shall bear based on close study of local con-
engineers, pro-Britain as a nation was Bound siderable load of responsibility if wild gaines in parles. fessors, then in cotton and oil, in enough and not doing badly, but Germany goes wrong instend Hitions.
must be to Char a clearly Western make of
Germany A contented nation, contri- strosig, cor buting to the material, selentific, and antistic wealth of
Back they come to Egypt from and the holiday at home after anything 10 two years, diplomats,
the word
tu
Ημ business
men,
the Army and the RAF,
ness in Egypt, but was hamstrung
right.
As yet no new
national Bired the
of
to have been
there,
According to contemporary, harolicitors for the Nationalist side man who
"also the airlines dispute Imagination of
I'd love
head partner, urgme worship leaves a vacuum that will The
everyone on, puiting a brave face His view that Government in have to be filled.
four on it as he himself led the way We conquered Germany business WBS R
has
British brake, rather than a stimulant, years ago. Like it or not, we must to face the opposition.....
public that they now pass un- notleed,
was shared by other traders ond now make her our political pupli |
and our economic partner. merchants.
They had gone to Britain, these that was in spite of, rather than
because of, the Government. was "home,"
A Port Said merchant stuted exiles. because it although they dubious about conditions there.
went
Father that he could do a lot more bus- has arisen to lead and guide Ger- rnced themselveɛ to go to court." It is about as far as the non- Communist Powers can go in and eliable member of the
Their doubts were quickly dia- by the British Government bulk! many. And this in a nation which i Western European Union of Na pelled after arrival. As outsiders | buying oversces and had to accepts always specialised in hero watching them do the bracing... The Chinese M this direction.
who had been away for a long his quite inadequate quota. Hons. This will need a long time time they saw changes mostly Nationalists ask for much
and huge effort, but unless we
Improvements which had crept terference It seems more. They demand an nu succeed Germany, right condemnation of Rus-me has only two other possible so gradually on the
a's actions in China and a-utures: ban on the recognition of the Communist regime, at a mo- the may fall into the lap of Rus- ment when the Government, much as she hates and fears
or They represent is at His last he Russians today!
2. She may become A "Na- gasp. Bat the resolution does at seem to us to be wide tional Communist State on her own, not necessarily a satellite of enough. It ought to be com-Russia, but
to the still hostile pleted by a similar obligation rest of Western Europe. on the part of Communist China.
If others undertake to keep their hands off China, China ought in turn to accept a similar ordinance and un- dertake to keep her hands off neighbouring territories.
1. If she is disillusioned, frus- nullified trated, and her efforts
Possible Paths
a
So Much Better Life in Britain. they found, was much better than they had expectech.
Without exception they all hud marvellous time,' Britain, stiff "the finest "a they think, is country in the world." A number lari regrets on leaving.
You find. however, they menn It was
that was! the weather "marvellous," and it's the coun-)
Let The City Parade Its Treasures
By MONTAGUE Smith
A correspondent auggests that General Pal's counterattack chows that Nuts can still sting.
•
ht
The burst of recrackers Mr. Macintyre Brown's departure The not touched off by
was
oplum #mugglers.
if they try
to pull off tricks now. they're
all Tuck-ered out.
A
their going to be
•
of
mass of great
wordage is All of them, from the Apothe-stil being churned out about the Many people are wondering {
likelihood
olherwise or caries right through the alphabet tryside, the seaside, the theatres, how that million-pound eco-
and other en-
of the Chinese the golf courses,
of this exhibition.
Communista, joyments of a holiday that make nomy cut will affect the have something to show worthy recognition Britain the "inent country." Festival of Britain Exhibition
Generous assistance was always
There seems to be a difference On the whole they thought the planned for 1951.
given by the old City Companies of opinion on whether to accept to possible new sources of trade. the fact that their government is Here Agures, people, too, were pretty wonder-
suggestion, for ful, not so much for what they feature of it which, at compare Voyages of discovery were always there, or to ignore them and hope were having to put up with buttively little cost, might add in-well supported, especially those of they will go away. for what they were doing.
It is only Germany with nothing to lose that is likely to take one of these two paths, and a way the increasing prosperity of Germany, proved by the com- parison between the 1936, 1947, and 194 production though it may menace our econo my, is an Insurance against Com-
nunism In Germany.
anathema to them. In Burma, in
An importer spent part of his mensely to its prestige ond at-
traction. time visiting factories in York-
transformation is Already
doing a grand job.”
shire where, he said, "they're taking place upon the South bank of the Thames, and the founda- tions are being prepared.
A after visiting
short distance away, just for across the river, is a unique and
the Cabots.
What a chance for a Pageant Master
4
They'd Enjoy It
in transportk
The point is given special force by reason of the deci- sion of the Communist con- ference in Peking, called by the Communist World Federa-
Indonesia, and in the tion of Trade Unions, to establish a permanent liaison Philippines, they tried to bureau and secretarial Trade sabotage national liberation. unionism in Russia has been When the Indonesian Repub- wiped out. The World Federa- licans had to contend with the tion of Trade Unions has long third military action by the ceased to concern itself with Dutch, the Communists or than when I was there before, of the country's progress through might like to see how the Cite wed for the first time.".
•
The Socialists have admitted that the nationalised transport industry in Britain has lost only four times as much this year ar it did last year. They point out... however, that in 1950 they may be able 10 lose more.
·
"Hollywood's shyest bachelor
But will it be a case of onco
People So Nice One returnee, England for the first time
In England's time of need the nearly three years, said: "I untapped store of treasure and City Companies provided 10,000 men and 38 ships to light against found the people so nice. But tradition.
Visitors from all parts of the the Armada. then they are nice people.
"London was
Irish visitors to the Festival much brighter world will want to Boo evidence ganised a revolt and tried to much more splek-and-span," the years when they flock, as we Companies, 12 of them,
bought hitten twice why?!! set up a Communist Repub- About food, he said: "You can hope they will, to an exhibition and and started the "Plantations ***
of Ulster." lic. In Malaya the Chinese get a good meal in a restaurant of Britain's greatness.. super
without having to be there the Why not give them a
Britain's friends from across the It could be brought to life again. jungle gunmen are not fight moment they start serving lunch. Lord Mayor's Show, paraded ing a war of national libera-
on the flotation of the "Planta
There is so much that the City The shops were fuller, and through the centuries? It could antle would enjoy high lights And many more like it,
dressed
everybody be done.
con, show, with orida`to the world tion: they are playing their how well
tions of Virginia?” seemed! You vec a girl in tho There are some 80 Guilds or
Fifty-six of the Livery Com- that it would be unforgivable it part in a Communist con- street and you can't tell whether Livery Companies in the City of punies sponsored that adventure such an opportunity were inissed. spiracy to subvert it. Tho she's the daughter of a duchess London. They are rich in his.
movement began under ex- ur a factory, worker.
the betterment of labour con- ditions. It has become purely an instrument of International Communism on the political and agitational level. Its sole mission is to make mischief in a world already most dan- gerously divided. That is why the Free Trade Unions
torical rissociations, and many of have broken away from it and ternal inspiration: and it has Traffic manners in London them possess ancient relics of} are now meeting in London to been stimulated to issue its vere much better than on his their arts, and crafts which they
Jast visit in 1040.
have treestirod slnce. foundations form a new, international or- latest manifesto by what is
This man's wife found life xD that go back to the time of the ganisation, dedicated to the being said and done in Pek- pleasant that she wanted to re- Normis khigs.
main longer in England instead true aims of the free Labouring.
These cannot be paralleled in movement.
Intervention is a two-edged of coming back at the end of any collections in the world. A their two-month holiday, and the present time they cannot be The new body to be set up weapon. There is a growing they came up against their first seen in any one place or as u in Peking is the equivalent of clamour among the socalled really unpleasant snog.
general collection by the public. a Far Eastern Cominform. reactionaries for a counter. Housing Trouble
Many of them cannot even bo to the members of the shown International Communism is policy of the same kind. Rus-
"We wanted. a flat and wo
for want of particular crafts a conspiracy, directed against sla, says Kerensky, is playing found that the best flats in the nccommodation. So many homes all other forms of political with fire. So are her dupes best blocks were apparently and halls of the City Companies filth. The new Cominform elsewhere. The world isn't occupied by people who could were destroyed during the blitz.
scarcely speak English, people is presumably designed not deeply concerned with Com- who hadn't been two years in the
Grand merely to issue propaganda munism as a domestic policy, country,
rand Pageant but also to intervene directly but it is deeply concerned The same sort of peoplo
of these trea- An exh in the affairs of other peoples. about International Commun- deemed to have, all the big corn
aires, sponsored by the various The Chinese Communist tam.
An Insurance manager noticed Companies, gathered together in leader at the conference is The Chineso people have marked difference between one of the buildings of the Fes- quoted as saying that the had one lesson and they ought England and Scotland. He thought tival and styled. "The Arts and Chinese people must give not to need another. The the Scots much more cheerful Crafts of London Through the than the English; "but that's Ages," would tell a vivid story their moral and material sup new regime in Peking has a probably becauso there's more of progress in Britain from the port to "fighters of national tremendous task, on its hands food to be had in Beotland. 12th century. liberation wars" in Malaya, the task of lifting nearly a It was his first visit since 1938. Each Guild or Company" might He, too, enjoyed his stay im- also show a working set-piece Burma, Indo-China, Indonesia quarter of the human race out mensely. Mostly spending his Ulustrating its arts and amlas coughs and bronchial troubles quickly and the Philippines.
of grinding poverty and all time in hotela, he won full of teries" as practised by the workers In practically all these this means. War and civil praise for them, disperse os Campbell's Cherry Cough Syrup brooks countries national liberation war have been their lot since
of the parllest periods, with a A⠀⠀ 24-year-old secretory who modern version, of attaining tim up the tightness, cases all congestion. Particularly has been achieved: in most of the first revolution nearly found the food dull, but thought would be the results
apent her leave with her parents same ends. What a grand helpful, for the elderly, when takan at bed-time, them as completely as in the four decades ago. It would conditions in London better than The Clothworkers Campball's long-provon formula ends coughs oldest nations in East or West. be tragle indeed if now mis on her last visit in 1947 to life their treasured pletures of Indeed this achievement is one fortunes descended upon them Prices in Britain seemed high the art of cropping, shearing, and the Cherry flavour makes you of the most striking events because of a quite senseless could this be explained away by Goldsmiths have priestess andm pleasantly
to these returning exiles Norteazling in the 18th century. The WANT to take your medicinal
not only in our contemporary Interference in the affairs of purchton tax. D CAMPBELL'S
world but in the entire hig- the Filipinos, the Burmese One man pointed out that he ples of ancient and modum crafts- tory of Asia. The Communists the Indonesiahs, then had found several things cost ship
proud, to stiow. more in London Identi CHERRY COUGH SYRUP aims are not national libera- uamites, and the peoples of dan hanche de The Playing Card Makers, the
the Browers, tion at all. Even in the farms Malaya, at the behest of Mod Cairo, In most cases, the Rayptian they use they prefer deception winners Lozier Cha, Merchant Marthase toe in Britain, and the Tailors, the Haberdashers to "to honest diétion.
A terpret it, as a symptom of a price in vpt included the ects name only tow have rellas National liberation Is In fact now Chinese Imperialism. For welling, the goods bere, f Which money could not buy,
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