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THE CHINA MAIL" - MONDAY, DECEMBER
Asia's Security--No. I
A CHANGE IN BALANCE
MAY MEAN
Canadian Hens Lay Easter Eggs
By MARGARET BOWES
A laeed of chicken which has
shown
TURMOIL
By" WINDRUSH
latent, not actual.
1th
blown up finally by thơ war, by Japan's detent, by tho: Commu- nist revolution In China by the nationalist revolutions in South Asia, and by the withdrawal of British power from Inda #nd Dutch power from Indonesia.
it is over all the world. Asia China had been no cumbs or wattles and lays is living in a revolution, disorganisex).
nt Many things are certainly-success of Chiang Kai-shek in the new picture in Asia?
Even after the | coloured eggs was
Toronto's Royal Agricultural Win- being changed for the better, the early thirties, China remain- ter Foir last week.
Reforma are being made ed a weak power, more likely to *There nron't
long overdue. be attacked than to attack, any other which were
The third was Kussin, Mr. best revolutions is that they tral Asia. Its policy
to the Company CHINA MAIL chickens in the world like them!" But the penalty of even the sprawled over Siberia and Cen-many governments, the
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Though this article is call- their power was sufficient to give cd "Asia's Security" it might the region absolute security from be more accurate to call i invasion from outside.
глув you car novor tell about the "Asia's Insecurity." For, un-
As a result of all these events. fluctuation of the money mar- Importance Of China
The second key area was the has been erented in Asia. The!
an entirely new state of affairs kets. happily, insecurity is the chief fact in Asia today, as early in the nineteenth century construct a new balance between has been exceptionally busy, but great land-mass of China. From international task in Asia is to *Tha ordinary family doctor
decadent and the new forces so that pauce" may
power was be kept intact
the speciallets have tound What, in the broadest outine.
themariven with time to kill
Busy an no Il take the old system was the most stable
South Asia, which under thecrdinary family" soctor.
region, has become # "problem which
Brca". It is divided between ways travels in the bus with his Was dos-
He can't sion staton to the former Euro- cause an atmosphere which cribed by the mid-nineteenth
pean Empires. They The unique breed, evolved after is extremely explosive. This century British foreign secretary
have yet standing. to show whather they can survivo) 11 years of expertinent, bave may lead
Lord Derby as being a gradual catastrophic been named "Barnacanas". They wars which undo all the good aggression. A Inter British Prime and whether they can co-operate! Let's keep it pelite.
with one another. The SUCCCKS "My find it necessary minister, Lord Rosebery Bald of were produced by cross-breeding achieved in the early stages it "The policy of Russia is prac- largest country in the region, is her many friends today. PIGS." up to the present of India, the to cancel her farewell party to tically unaffected by the life of
TJ good augury. man and lapse of time it moves early to know whether even In- But it is too In a week full of verbal re- but destitute
The claims that he
atm in interna- on as it were by lia criminations,
tional politics in Asia in the pre-petus; it is silent, concentrated, dia will have a very of any outstanding events can decide the colour of eggs and
strong government. alter the Leather
xent porlod must be to create a perpetual, unbroken." colouring vi of
China, under the old save perhaps the fall
chicks nt will.
that the Doublers were system of security so
Russia's "gradual
But nowadays you don't have Dggression"} the weakest and most disor
Waltz to to 20 to
come to * Chungking, the New Zealand invited to attend the Royal Winter various revolutions occurring in was the dynamic element in the
the pretty pass.. ganised region, may be of old pre-1030 system elections attracted a great, Fule, where they could see for the Asian lands do not
and themselves an
disrupt the verge of becoming strong array of coloured international war on the grand ways threatened to deal
The of attention.
unilleel.
For This is only a possibili- To plan the new system system. But there
the change, eggs produced by Canada's most scale.
# pleasant were two Dominion is quito a small artistic chickens. Their
which prevented
may colours for today and the future, it is factora
this ty. The Communista
not Communists are adding something long. But if country as population goes, range through chocolate, khaki, necessary to look back and sev One was the "gradualness" of the succeed for very
to the sum of human happiness. was maintained in aggression. The other was that they do restore the strength of Everyone is enjoying the things and it's at the ends of the live, green, and gray to taupe. how security
perhaps, but give Aata in the past, and why the for the first four decades of this China, then China and South Asia that Comrade
may, in the present day world, earth. But it has always had A bit drab
Comrade Tito Owner Johnston is past system no longer works and century Russlun aggression was
have virtually importance that defled confident that red and purple eggs has broken down.
exchanged history held in check by Japan,
each other. these things.
positions which each held in the can be easily produced, too, throws a flood of light on what Military Strength
pre-1939 world.
"In the absence of the minister, It was, for instance, the
Russia has increased its power. Mr. undressed the Women's Japan was the fourth key area pioneer in what is now called coloured eggs. It never products China, had for several
old security decades of the
aggression Is now structure. Ito
less Guild yesterday. Mr- the Welfare State, and it had any other colour", he says, "And been a strangely peaceful con-Japan was the only Asian power "gradual". Japan, the fourth key
pre-1930 ro difference whatever tineni, at least by the not very which in the
period area, hon for the time being col- been ruled by the Labour there is
high standards of peaceableness achieved great military strength lapsed. It has been Party for 14 eventful years, in the taste."
рег- found in world history.
by its own efforts. In 1904 Japan from the picture-whether The elections there are to be
of defented Russia, At first Japan mantly or not it is too soon to pre-1939 structure
from becoming know. followed by the elections in
security in Asin was compounded was prevented Australia and Britain.
out of special circumstances in aggressive in its turn and strik- the four
South
the regions.
Asiating Southwarda by Anglo- New Power-The U.5. the last American election no-breeding of Easter-egg layers, Mr. roughly the area from Aden to Japanese alliance. It
Apropos that alm star who featured lobsters on her swim body trusts forecasts or trends Johnston makes his living in the Java-formed politically a more debated endlessly whether
One new power has been added suit, Myrtle's grandfather says alliance precip to the the business world. But poultry have or less any more--they want
homogeneous unit. It ending of this
Asian system. This
of it's typical of the modern crays Eurupean lated Japan's aggressiveness
course in America, which now for novelty. figures. There is a general long been his hobby. In 1938 he was the area of
imported a rooster and hen of Empires in
whether or do- the thirties, Waa
wields Asia the greatest poll- feeling that Labour has lost the breed known as South Auner-minated by the British Empire in alliance was given up because it much ground, but that isn't! lean Araucanus from Chile, South India; there were also the lessurf was realised that Japan's own big tical power ever known in the quite good enough alone. So America. The birds, raised by an Empires of France in Indo-China for supremacy in Asia had be
tribe mountain
of the and Holland in Indonesia.
come inevitable. New the results of the
LILIAC, were extremely
This
system-n old between friction In spite of Zealand polling were awaited
hardy, and followed the tribe these Western imperial govern system of balances-was under- with a great deal of Interest from place to place
when it ments, they were resolved not to mined in the thirties by Japan's in both Britain and Australia: moved.
fight one another; and until 1939 attack on China. It has not because they would make
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The National Party won the elections by a larger majority than had been expected, but not so large as the Labour majority fourteen years ago
them time
"Once the hen starts to produce
Poultry His Hobby
Strictly
an amateur In
Indian
same
"They followed like dogs when their owners whistled", Mr. John- ston said.
At the same time Mr. Johnston procured some Dutch Barnaveida heme, which lay brownish eggs. (The Aroucanus lay pale blue ggs.) By inating the Dutch hen with the South American rooster, he produced the world's first bona fide, pigment-in-the-shell Easter egg.
Past
we must do in the present tine.
Before 1939, Asia, except
The
the
Asta. It
for
security
can
the
the
in the
the
withdrawn
Its influence
Statin and Ex- are saying about
showed his familiarity with the subjects discussion by going under thoroughly over the outlines of the guild's work for the year."
Probably
marriedt - Himself.
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man
According to a household hints
continent. America, It LA true, did not disinterest itself in Asia paragraph, "It is a good plon to keep a supply of robber bands even before 1939. at the turn of the century had handy.
Some types around the border helped to save China from part!-
part But the positive
it have been doing that for years. plays today is so much out of proportion to its part in the past; "All the strope are shut, the that it can be regarded as a new streets are decked with fldgy,, actor.
and at night the village squire:
tion
been
Can Russia
Russia Be A Good Neighbour?
But how
Can Russia retrace her steps ond become a normal nation selves of it t
That is the without war?
chance."
CILE they rid them-
These are the politicnt changes is it up.' which have taken place in Asia.) Visitors are requested to beer. How can a security system be with him created which will give as much peace to the new Asla the old system gave to Asia in the past? The new system must be onc which takes Becount
the changes in the military situation which have been taken place, at political Thev noed the help of the Wes- the same time as the when, in a House of 80 mem- The combs and wattles were question that is worrying all tern Allies. The Russian people changes. The huge extension, of and bers, the Labour Party had a eliminated by pairing
am your best ally, and your Gov- the range of air operations off the civilisation. hen in the flock
ernment and the Americas Gov- the atom bomb are the two con
changed majority of thirty. In the cockbird and
"I believe she can, but I cannot fornment must treat refugees from siderations which have
Wor сап 1946 elections, the Labour with the smallest wattles. Their combless, wattleless offspring
much. Da be waged, over from the satellite countries.
greater majority was limited to the face the approaching Canada Sav whether she will got the the Soviet Union just like those the military picture. four Maori representatives, winter with no fear of freezing
Countries can attack! Alexander Kerensky, the Pro- not disperse them. Koop small distances then was before prac-
Rossinn communities together in Beable. Now the pendulum has con- the dellente fleshy appendages or tinued its slow swing over the getting them frost-bitten on icy mier of Russia before the October Europe, and let them develop the one another which before were other's out of each
bave Icet years, and the National Party cold drinking-cups the way their Revolution of 1917, now a 88-year- habits of liberty. These me
old exile in Britain, unfolded to munities will work back upon reach. Buffer states more ordinary cousing do.
of And Inflect ft with the much me his ideas for Russia to-morussia
their Independence. has been returned to power
Mountain barriers are more or This alert, vigorous man fadirit of freedom. According to. Mr. Johnston, his row. with a majority of twelve-46
less down, or much reduced... To chickens are as good as any with the strident voice is in touch. to 34. The Communists may chers when it comes to produc- with an international network of
I am worried about the fam-hold the seas, air power is now
My as Important as sea-power. make a great noise in the ing eggs. in tests run this sum fugitive Russians who have been ming of radio programmes.
In tomorrow's article, an at- world, but here again, as in mer two of the hens lald 58 eggs waiting (some of them since 1917) Information is that only 10-16 per
cent of foreign' programmes in tempt will be made to suggest many other countries, in 61 days. Not a gold one amongst for the collapse of Leninism.
Russian can be heard in the Soviot how, even in a world so menac- the lot yet, but give those they polled so few votes that Barnacanas time after all, Easters, sald Kerensky.
I have talked with many deser Union.
ing, the Asian Governments Inny which perhaps devise, a system they all lost their deposits. ter is only a few months away, that 80 per cent of the Russian
will give them a certain measure The Parties opposing and they are the only chickens people loathe Commanlam and
of security. Labour in Australia and Bri- in the world that can lay Easter long for arty. They are mostly young people under 40-in Eussio tain have, of course, referred eggst
my generation has been killed off. There are few old people,
60
to the result as a happy omen
I am sure
Did you notice that Comrade Malenkov's
speech OR atomic development last month was an exdet replica of Stalin's speech in second March, 1038, when the world war was threatening? It may well be
that America will grow more reluctant to face a showdown with Moscow now. My information is that there pre many volces for pence in the United States.
genuine Russians who have. been
And in Russia? brought / as children under Communism and have discovered
All the people want peace, and that fart should on one of the Politburo want to courage the Western Powers to
start an offensive war. But support them.
they would accept a war - chal-, lenge in which the United States appeared as the aggressor,
insofar as their own hopes Bureaucracy has cost much, are concerned. Indeed, they and returned no statistical re- Discovered Its Shams have gone a little further wards; and the impact of along the road of optimism austerity has passed from tors from Russia are not racially
Please remember that the deser than is perhaps altogether growing irritation to sheer torsocuted people. Wher arn justified. The New Zealand exasperation. electors have brought about no landslide. They have mere- Moods decide elections as ly obeyed the sound instinct of much as party loyalties or cold democratic peoples, who be judgment. And there is a lieve implicitly that a change mood of revolt. But it is not Do you believe, Mr. Kerensky, of Government now and then quite of single purpose or even that the threat of the atom bomb is in the best interests of the of single content. There are will produce a split between the nation. It brings new blood, a lot of people who have no Eussian people and the Soviet
regime. new zeal, new approaches to Party allegiance, who know in
No I do not. Too much talk of I think that the political ma problems of the State and ro- their hearts that the Labour,
would stand dresses the balance pa Governments have carried the atomic warfare is a paychological chine in Russia
mista.ko. The Germans failed to very revere stresses as it did in The trend is clear enough, torch of democracy bravely discern the difference between the the first year of the German war. but whether it is strong and decisively through some Communist regime and the RusDo not look to the Kremlin for If you can convince the the people and the Government to
5'an ample future for them,
Is there unanimity in tho Kremlin?
enough in. the next two coun-of the most tumultuous and sian people. Their blunder throw People themselves that
tries of the British Common-exacting years of all history.gether for a time. wealth to test the people, to There is even a sense of Field-Marshal Lord" Favell has and n
3 no political revenge on them cause the defeat of the exist- gratitude that they were in described the present attitude of for a state of affairs that is out- ing Governments remains pro- power in this time of ordeal, the Soviet Government de inspired side their control-you will have! blematical certainly in Bri- and a feeling that they have bu fear of a resurgence of. Ger- already done very much. It is tain, if not in Australia. averted many worse things, ***.
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