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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1
A TREATY WITH JAPAN
Kites are being own by the Americans and British Governments about a place
By" WINDRUSH ”
First Possibility
1
treaty with Japan. It cannot, there is to be a treat it would, influence over a Japan sot, lasse be said that the British cice- seem that there are two poselbill from American rond past-
Consider now the second les her the American forces torate has any strong views in Japan must be entirely with blilty bint Japan, in return for about what should be done drawn or Japan/wiit, have to conta poned treaty and its rehabilita with Japan. It cannot be ex-code bases to America-just as tion as a sovereign state, accords pected to concert itself with the Filipinos have done, all parts of the world.
The problem of Germany and Mussian designs in Europe take up most of the attention it can spare from more pressing domes the interests, such as the dollar crisis nad the coming election. Nevertheless there is in London a small but well-informed body of experts on the Far East. Their opinion effects the politicians and Some of these Foreign Men, experts are not happy about the plans for the Japan treaty, so far as these have been disclosed.
The treaty bus been hanging fire sites the end of the war bo- cause the Americans and British no likelihood of agreeing with Le Russians upon ita terms. Mr. But when Mr. Bevin naw Acheson in Amerien In September neems that they agreed to go olend with plans for a treaty be
demoerulic countries, tween the and Japan.
Maw
HONG KONG A SOLID SYMBOL Some of the Labour M.P.' 11 Britain suggest that
simplicity the chikilike
One of frue art of politics. these, Mr. Warbey of Luton
Russia and Communist China whern the bats used
would be excluded from the nego come from--reduced the pro-
lutions unless they were willing. blem of Hong Kong to two to accept in gen rai outline the Anglo-Saxon coun- sentences. I it came to aideas of the
wan expected by sums to be unen- www, fue said, Hong Kong tele Beneral MacArthur, who would be no use at all. "Ithusiastic about making a trenty China is friendly, you do not at this stage, seenis on the con neel that island," he wentary to have given the plan his on and on the other hand, if the Chinese are enemies, You cannot defend it."
j, r
brenning.
Puzzle In London
de controls over Japan to be removed. This is in the interests
Soms of the Far East exporta in The argument is founded undin are puzzled to know why Grent Britain took the Initiative suspended in prersing rather
treaty, as it fur A
It is being from three, hypotheses. Two seem to have done, of these are false and the said that the British Government is anxious for the American econ- thard is far from proven. There were periods during the last war when much the same sort of idea may have been held about Gibraltar and Malta, and even about in any case the political
witheels of a treaty would seem to be heiself and Britain
But we held a more iniportanes than the
trade napeets.
more frASON,
11.
zari
was
more
anci there than blind obstinacy in it. Behind it was
Instinct, and the British instinct is pretty sound one, for it has been shaped and made aware in a long, hard and adventurous school. It knows when the time has come to go
And when lo slay.
Was
British trade. But the Amerl- ans have alroudy, relaxed these controls considerably, and prepared to go further.
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are
fascist in sufficiently cbilservative minded that if will be glad of the protection of American forces sin the country. These will guaran ico it against aggression from ozide, tant also against an un Constitutional regime of power by Communists its Japan itself.
But what will happen when elections ennuint be avoked or even unconailtuționally postponed. A Japanese government, which ne accorded banes to America will be donounced by Japanese nationa
em as having committed treazDN The nationalist feeling will be directe against it aven note than ainst the foreigner Tho go urminent may then foll
Good Morning
According to our Reminders
Honis Kon column, the Biological Sevlet", was due to To everyone's, surprise, tho hold a meeting yesterday. spent polled did, not raid the hull. in fact, the, witle thing was a cell, ^0-
alier orallar 1.
it business. This Ürantum Beciras, Sa-halghly explosive. Never mine!
banos to the Ainerican air force and navy in Japan. What will be the result'? If experience elas- Where is any guido, it will mos
a certain conflict Consider the first of thores pos- that Japanese polities will be do
There was among local reporters yesterday siblities. If American forces are minated by the struggle of Japan- withdrawn from Japan, what is to one nationalism to free Its all of prevent a Japanese Government the foreigners, Ones argument
on precisely what kind of alcohol was discussed in a court cane. from trying to restore its position waliich is being it forward for a
What will Amorlen de about its
There was "spirited" quor and 1434. One did as a power by playing of America treaty is, that the prosence of
For this to American forces in Japan will be porhan ultra-nationalist succe
even spiritun against ass.? happen, it need not be supposed less provocativo if they are con- eur. By having made a treaty that Japan will go Communist centrated in a few more or lem with Japan, America will have re-In fact, kuo whether one should though it is not entirely impos-extraterritorial basis instead of mulehed its right to interfere in sible that in a Japan no longer acting as an occuytig garrison.-day-to-day domestic affairs. It therefore have to watoli controlled by America there would But, the general experienc; is that may be a Communist revolution.
a foreign force if a country is an 'nationalism rigo unchecked.
When tho Tuture control of irritant, whether visible or not. Soldiers do not have to parade & Japan was art discussed imime- countre for their presence to hediately after the war, it was taken
That ar unobstrusive known.
for granted that thore would be on la, very long time all the acts of garrison annoys tubidy is a myth, international body scrutinising for America's Plan. the Japanese Government. This idea has now ben given up. It has hardly been mentioned in all the discusdon about the treaties. It happened the same in Germany. Plans for the allied supervision of Germany out-dated.
A right wing government in Japan might intriguo with Russin in order to hold a balance between The right Russip and America. wing. Mr. Matsuoka, foreign min- Inter in 1941, reached an under- standing with Stalin. Japan's natural economic ties are with the
America's plan seems to be to Asiatle mainland, especially with) China. Communist China may back the kind of government thus have a powerful attractive which, without being militarist, or
When Shopkeepers Go Gay
By GAVIN GORDON
Report On The Output Boosters
By JOHN HALL
I have just won the 118th prize, not in a common Jot- tery, but as part of a master plan which guided, in streets and a square close to my flat. the Brussels autuma Shopkeepers Fair,
two
The Fal, or Braderie, lasts a week. It begins with A brass band and the Burgomaster's visit; and ends with free-for-all dane- ing in the square,
nte.
Meantime loud-speakers
and everywhere,
murle akulls you as you walk down the hill. Fings are hung out, and night (for they close late in times of Braderic) festoons of fairy lights
From the point of view of the
Teams of bosses and work- West. thare are thres objecte which ought to be kept in night
ers go across the Atlantic to settlement with in making Japon. The first la to provide learn about American "know-bestride
The how", so that British industry intervals. for the security of Japan.
may make goods faster and people of nearly n Japanese, a 100,00,00, have been totally cheaper. armed. It is not possible to pro- hibit so large a nation from de funding self without providing some reasonable assurance that it will be anfeguarded by other means than its own efforts,
The second object in to ensure that Jagan does not revert to a reactionary system of government which will undo tho roferme forced upon it since the war and which will in the ead again mako the peace-loving it dangerous to part of the world.
The third object is to ensure Communist. that it does or ally itself with Russia and pass uchind the iron curtain,
not go
The nature of a treaty with Japan world be to end the prerent
Thus military occupation.
freedom for way to new peoples to whom it had been
the the
Five teams have already been to the United States and are back in Britain: eight teams are in the U.S. now; more are going.
The rst team to sp represent- ed the steelfounding (foundry) been back six section of the great engineering Industry. It has months. What has happeried since its return?
Actually, the team returned on May 3. Nearly Ove months later, on September 28, it issued its re- port,
is is
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the
The grocer on the corner has doorway n dart rigged by hid beard of his own devising. If you hit one of the black squares, which is not difficult, you
streets at 20-yard
collect
a packet of groceries at a dis- count, and he throws in a bag of biscuits and a bar of chocolate.
The plationer's boy brought his pavimentam each customer tile sister's play-pen on to the leaving the shop had the privilege of Ashing for a surprise packet.
Good Prizes
Every shop window was pp07 clally dressed, and in each there was one article which "didn't be long." There were good prizes for the painstaking window-shopper who could spot this,
dow seem hupoicnaly
The resulting problems for the Anglo-Saxon countries in both
countries are very similar. May not the best course, in Inpa be to postpone making a treaty until it has been seen how the new pali. cies work out in Germany 7 Japan ran get no a little longer withoot a trenty.
Girls Who Are Keen To
Quit Britain
By WALTER FARR My Paris desk is piled high with letters from British girls peers, a daughters' of daughter of a Cabinet Minis- tor, girls who are MAS, BAs, BScs, journalists, bank clerks saying they are willing to do any sort of work to get out of the country.
They are willing to tako on child nursing, housework, now. of them for little or no mottoy.. ing, typing, or gardening many Aly wilo put a paragraph in Mall-advertisement column ask- Ing for an English giri to look after
young daughter in *France.
vur
There were 200 letters in the | first batch of replies. Next day
the
there were 380, and 450 on carefully prepared which tells the steel
third day. The total passed the bosses forthrightly that many of
1,500. mark and still they rolled Ins them have failed to keep their foundries up to date, and descri- bes new techniques observed in the United States.
not
to
contre.
mechanic.
come to
Was
UNO who I mean.
A
England student in a great statéštan and made hypnotised. Ints believing he was remarkable speech on peace and world curlly.
The Socinlist erbinct seems to have been hypnolised en bloc.
Alcohol has been obtained from rendering- by-products of down factories:
the
Would it be a good defence to plend that one was just full, of animal spirita?
IN
THIS new grant, wuderstood, will be used to bulld a paternity ward ni the hospital." cul time About
somebody mething about the poor father.
Too Much Cooka,
Ser the sprightly Senator Trolling off to Ankara, Tokyo, Balnyja
To And facts new:
Can the little Congressman
All his to a hankerer!} On his best behaviour Fur a free trip too!
Senator. Senator!
Kitur all the Communists
Verbally at any rate) To save us all. Usefuller that reunet for
Good cheese to cole columnists, your rantings tall! Congressman. Congressman! Muss produced in Washington. Shipped upon the Marshall Plan we should still survive a span Amt we are not joshing, son, If to lift your Tariff Ban, Home You Stayed!
Even though the carbusted rate
Us to R.
Rich migrants will be welcomed to-Australja, according, Ganberra statomien Come-in-wealth.
Myrtle says that if ever you're In doubt as to whether you should kiss a pretty girl, give her tho benent of the doubl.
Another Foreign Odice gem: We should be very surprised it recognition did not come."
Cought in the act, in fact. Regarding this Yangtse patrol, seem 10 'be the It would marksmanship, not the blockade runners, which is all' shot pieces.
La
The transfer of power in India was one of the largest. gestures of all time. There little compulsion be- yond the moral factor, and instinci, about it. our own We had held on during the depths of the war, when our strength was taxed almost beyond endurance and the class was Indian political
Eight girls replied by telegram, hostile. We could have held
would I found a photographer's shop Fifty said they with some: British-made alm. Franco.at their own expense. on, at a price, after the war.
rolls, and, as my
Amone the letters are hundreds The decision to go was made
The strongest personal notes are bought three
purchase was more than 10 shill like this ond from G. II. (Surrey); themselves, by the British lat
I am a B.Sc., am also a fully The report (and seven of the nga it gave me the right to a
free ticket for a rale. When I trained, nurse and secretary and whatever might have been
to the workers in the foundries. 16 mambers of the mission, were the
if they unknown. consequences
says In effect had won the 117th of 120 prizes had experience of organising dur This rocky island, whose trade unionists) Some
girling the war. I have had many the shopkcoper's le had not so decided.
strength $0 Im that if British foundries are cynics might say it would rugged
the achieve the highest American brought it round at 7.30 am. on good offers of work In England and daunted
ing to come and, do practically the her way 10 school, sensible, pressed have been more
only must effetency
It was a good domesite priznan at present at a research
any sort of work for a small and much less costly, to mind of the former Inter- bosses alter their ideas but Bri-
216, of cooking fat..
Lifa in England secmar narrow salary providing, she can continue of India national Communist Andre tish workers will have to drop It came with the cordial com- and not very promising for the
with her real interest in life, have walked out
pliments of the Local Committee future. I eat I must change my which is collecting, rare mushi- after we had been ejected Malraux, during the Canton many of thele restrictive prac
tices.
rooma. quarter of a But in whose upheaval a from Burma.
Workers, it says, must welcome and the friendliest greetings (both surroundings, i will share in the of the housework and do any secretárial
Mrs. C. I, says she would conie In French and Flemish) stop hands would those countries century ago, still stands in more mechanisation (and
work as well as look after the if she can bring her two children.
small Later I met the butcher on op baby. I can make du on
A girl who is a B.Sc. and whose -and Hong Kong-have defiance of the storm over worrying whether the introduc- butcher who presented it -
new maching is going to
education hiust havd cost her par- Asia. been today?
In the larger sense ton of
me, a butcher had become n "PS can also look after s
ents many hundreds of pounds et to switch jobs.
writes from Cumberland Tuo There are, in fact, certain it represents principles that mean. fewer jobs) and be prepar-posite sides of his counter. To salary.
Competition, says the report, is human being: to him, a stranger car and am by way of being a
post would be interesting if only causes to serve here os in belong to the ages, not to a
ephemeral Marxist the sharpest spur, and one of the had become a custom
Theis autur fals are an an-
because of that lovely. Freach India, and certain balances mere
Seeking Change
food, AER of reasons why the American steel-
Cbviously, in an austerity coun to keep Hong Kong re- episode, in the march. presents something more than humanity. These principles founding Industry's output is 50nual, custom. They take place in
A number of the 1,000 try there are always people trying to 90 per cent higher than in this every shopping street in Belgium centre 'of
Quits
to rot-away to enjoy the bright country is that the American and cost anything from £5 to a little Colony, a great port, have been the an invaluable entrepot of struggle in all the great his worker is convinced he is catitled 15 per shopkeeper. They take candidates are obviously in the
the place of the autumn "sales" mood of 23-year-old Miss J. Blights of non-susterity. But these trade, a refuge for hundreds torical epochs of the past in to work on hard as he likes of British drapery stores, but (Chelsea), who has her Higher 1,500 letters, enclosing splendid every Kind of shopkeeper takes School Cortificato with various references, are from some of the against of thousands
West. Together with fet the highest possible standard
honours and a diploma for domos most capable wonica and girly in tie selences,
Brithin people who are willing storm which has driven modern science, they repre- less of what the fellow at the a hund
Sho writes: 1 am anxious to to abandon brilliant careers for Plenty Of Goodwill them from their homes. It sent the greatest gifts we have next bench is doing.
The British trade unionists sow
get away from my present Joboine problematical job, with no is something more even than to offer the older peoples, of
that these facan work, they saw
Kathice, agod 20, who came the city which inspired the Asia. These essential prin the vers driving their own car. They are always co-operative also from the Government. fature in a foreign country, Father of the Chinese Resiples Sun Yat-sen himself ac- workers' wives able to pick and efforts, and they produce, whole A girl working in one of the
truckloads of trader-and-customer most important departments of to see us to offor herself for the volution. Two great systems cepted. They may be disavow choose when they went shopping friendliness, which is the founda- the BBC anys: "I've never lob In person, said: "find life toin of goodwill.png looked after chlidren or dono in England Boul-destroying You Com- are in conflict in our pre-ed by the socalled democratie
Ready To Listen The festivities differ from dis housework, but I'm willing to try. I get is fool that everything is sent world, and in this Hong dictatorship of the
this misalon chme
salon-chmetrict to district, but there is al- Anything for a change. Thengainst you and that whatever goon being as difficult and as dull Kong is playing at least a munists, but to them the Palently
There are three other similar as it is now." Jepun 2 symbolic part. It may be Chinese will turn in time to home fully eburged to say a mous ways music and fancy lighting. thought or comide to the Con your qualifications life will always
thful, and if you talk, with found and always something to set you tintent in feresistible
window-gazing, dan
Soul-Destroying a part discernible rather come,
In one smart strect each shop offers from girls at the BBC
The Hon, who bears" ond
Kathicon is obviously not a girl with the eye of "imagination The Chinese people have ty workers in Sheffield, biggest than in detail, but it is vital been through all the humilla. steel-founding centre in Britain, exhibited a copy of a famous
tions to which a proud and you and the plenty of them are painting, and, prizes went to the of the great names of England
ready to listen,
passer-by most successful in writes, I feel very much in need who yearns after wild, luxury or nonetheless.
country. The fact remains Hong Kong is telling great people can be subjected There are somo-10,000 people naming them of getting away to a class who feris unduly sorry for hersel China and the world at since the Republic was pro- employed in tip-steel-founding The shopkeepers themselves where I can be happy-tourist convey may be the statis Queen's Bldg large that the cause for claimed. When Mao Tse-tung Industry. To date, 8,000 copies of have a window-dressing: contestam quty willing to do washing-leal or doctrinuito arguments in which we stand is not lost, sald simply that the Chinese these 1,600 were sent to the below him with an animated tie up and general housework favour of super austerity four Miss 3. W. (Yorkshire) year after a victorious war, What Kathloon says, and the lof tars from mane hundreds of other but will be upheld. For people have now stood up, he United States and a few hundret ger with electric eyes, defeating
B.A., honore degree in nearly a thousand years the was thinking neither of Marx more to the newspapers and sports goods with its live white me down from Oxford last June British people have been nor Lenin, but precisely of the other organisations, doves and proudly strutting goi-Trelish and a diploma in educe- epplicants all over Beltain show A few of the team members den pheasant, pederation am Leaching at a modern in making large numbers of brii- the spearhead and the des recovery of national dignity, have given talks, But the word Some of the fairs have lost school, but I and the work frurlant youre people, Jouch their on- Heading, throw many of tho fenders of freedom, and the "the loss of which had been has not gone very far. Few of their local tang and become trating, chlody duo, to bad school thusiasm for careers at home. 1oes of tyranny. In all the so sharp to a raen which holds the rank-and-ale steel for any tourist spectacles the Brussels) buildings and over-large classes fetlere is apparent thing the
men have seen the report, and ming dlirict below
writers to Toning chithtisiasm, adventures and misadven- dignity in such great esteem. tle has been done to tell them Law Courts, the Lord Mayor in Must Get Away
person reviews the miles of sau- Mins 17. ¡EZ, Fruti have been about practically everything. tures of the centuries, amid The people support the pre- what it containe
country which can only survivo all the conquests, the wars, sent regime not because it in The Shemed branch of the anger and teams of folk-dancers working for nearly a your att ka dangerous mood for a An air vico-enarshal's daugh- by making the utmost und of its the discovery and peopling Communist but because it pro- Amalgamated Union of Foundry from different parts of Belgium. Logus, I simply must get away,
Workers has arranged to hear its in bizarse costume and false of new lands, these re the mises strength. There is a nest branch talk on the mission's noses, dance nightly. In the ter leave just come back after uraine and of the energy drive,
hollday on the Continentet and increnuity of youth our paths, allke of notion Communist 18 à Chinese first Representatives of
An applicant from Suffolk't looking after our young daughter. and of literature and and a Communist a long way, and workers are meeting at Lea after Breughel, the Flemisht pain-brond and stay abroad, letter from the girl who lins been: mington for a three-day discunter of rumbustious peasant de-
for two years and whom,month thoughtsThe trials and afterward. This ll be shown mon hopes that this conference bauch, and it is apt to end with brother went to. Eton. I am ostracism of Cilve and Hast in time to come, and bring the will really start things moving, a2ausage-eating contest. mentioning this to how that Tego returned to her homo In embers are Luckily, for git who prize have a good family background LondonTue Weather I torri- ings tell the more perman- inevitable changes. Until The trade union
their #ngures, a seat at thin Gar- but Eton, like so many tuliwa,in ble and the foot in words than rent story of that Imperi that time Hong Kong has its curtain their fellow
Cuéntuans repaakekis not a Imposed England dosen't stand for all it tribine writes, "I have upon the 18-year-olds who sapiro did opstane Intrest; deal of weighty-It's alism which sought, law and own broad purpose to fulfill stayeday at home wi
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for the ensuing "year"; taggart J. Miles In Baj, who says she is widwint, a minorable Ike at naught, and paved the eternal as the hills themselves, 1002
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