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FOUR NATIONS IN HARMONY
PLAN FOR
New Battle Of Hastings
By RHONA CHURCHILL
no one
Staying Open At
Any Cost
nfter much ment, have
discussion and argu- 1 decided to take
towns.
DEFENCE
By SELBY BRADFORD
And in the stables
and
foremost it hom
а
соп
Massive Task
The gunner'a mind files bar-
every service its own whims; and every individual his particular Hikes and diallikes.
At times there have been as International
offleer and
The Real Issue
broadcast from New Delhi on be 20 years before Britons can the essential secrecy which must best policy drawn up and You were in the
That understanding
of
the
its
which
It All Depends Now On The Workshop NCO'S
Time Factor
You knew what forces
the
Good
Lorning zing
Embittered headline-writers
Magale.
"Happy sequel to a boy and girl courtship.
"Flu delays wedding."
•
A Spota nobleman has invited three oversens statesmen to shoot at his country house.
Well, they can't. very well miss that.
No earthly responsibilty.
"Care of the increasing number gravo of aged people
of at-problem."
were
Д
A writer claims that "soveral 01 the British government have a future outside At the moment many of them share this fenr.
Coo,
That's all the words the pigeon
Pigeon, English, I s'pose.
❤
When a young film actress got her Ørst big part, sho simultaneously developed a stiff neck, since when she has never looked back.
available to you. Far more, you Heard on the ferry.
knew that the whole potential of
"It was dark. 1 found a cord
the war machine of America and hanging beside my bed. I pulled Great Britain were there.
it and spent the next half hour threading it back in my pyjamas."
school, "When you were in what curriculum did you use?"
"The one marked 'Boys"
There seems something almost First prophetle in the fact that Western created an Integrated General many as 50 small Union has its headquarters in Staff of four nations-French, committees working at the same Fontainebleau, one of France's English, Belgian, and Dutch-and time, each one on its own prob- most famous chateaux, Not, in- anyone who remembers the initial lem, ironing out difficulties, tak
D combined ing part from one nation's pro- deed, because it was there that dimculty of forming Napoleon bade farewell to the U.S./British Headquarters such cedure, part from another, and Formerly in Britain when you had a boil you went to-n doctor the welding a new entity, Old Guard. Nor in any way be-as SHAEF 'must appreciate
and he charged you fer bursting There is a cold wind blow-cause Hitler's S.S. set up their vastness of this achievement. HK$72.00
It has been Bald occasionally It Now, under the national ing all along the South coast devilish organisation in that fair
It in a staff of all three Ser-that differences of opinion have health service, you can have. It of England. It comes from town of romance and memories.
vices-Navy, Army,
and Air arisen and have caused trouble. done for nothing. This is known But principally, I think, be-Force. That in its initial stages Of course. But I would also says the free lance system. the land, not the sea-a cold!
Cause of the legend of "La fon-alone meant that the forms of sincerely that the harmony which economic wind.
the exhausted procedure of all three arms taine bicus." Of
axists throughout this, integrated of oxf Resorts like Hastings, Bourne French King-Louis VII who, four completely separate nations staff is a very moving tribute to mouth, and Torquay, which en- joyed a Hourishing winter season parchod with thirst and lost after had to be blended together, sim- the honesty of the beliefs and the
good sense of every working in pre-war days, have to face the day's hunting, stumbled on the plided, and put ont
bubbling crystal spring which basis; and more often than not man, sad fact that there is now pracgives the town its name, drank with considerable opposition from tically
left in
Britain, and fell in love with is one of the Service Ministries of with enough money to "winter" deep,
surroundings. From that affection one of the four countries
But all the above is jus at the scosita.
perfect cerned, The New Zealand Prime
Their problem a Whathor or sprang one of the most
beginning of things. Comes now has
the serious planning, the whole revived not to close down for the winter, specimens of architecture in the Minister-elect
purpose of the Western Union- the call for a Pacific Pact. If like those resorts which never world-and one of the loveliest of
Once achieved, though, it had defence against all forma it is right to have an Atlan-boasted a winter season.
It costs a lot to keep a senaide
of the to begin on the spadework of tack. tic Pact, then a Pacific Pact resort open all the year round.
Chateau of Fontainebleau-they creating nothing more nor less The word that really matters would be a logical develop-
are almost large enough to house than an international manual of there is DEFENCE. There is, of he ment of the same idea,
an army and in various other war, or of the prevention of war. course, only one potential aggres- members outlying houses, the military brains
BOF but: sald. His Government would
of four nations are working day
When, if ever, will the attack politics. help Britain to recover her
instanco and night to bring solace again rage tables, the sapper's to sur-come? Take leadership in world affairs.
Hastings, for
the In-
Where? with itself to a world distracted by wars past voy, the signaller's to
bulld up a dividual intricncles
of his own Undoubtedly a Pacific Pact Hastings is battling
With what force? reconnais-
With atomic weapons, or with-: will come in due course. But right now, battling to stay opener wars possible; to
sance, close support, charta, com-{ out? [any aggressor. there are hesitations and re-nt any cost. Its leading citizens, united front so strong as to deter craft, Logistics,
Western Union has its detrne- munications, the Infinities of
mexicution
And so on. servations in India and
war-like action or torn. They are of all nations and every form
In planning "OVERLORD" (or knows of the problem. view long-term Washington which have yet
of procedure had to be studied, the the invasion of France), one had They maintain that it may well all political creeds. Because
approved, and then a "com- to be resolved. In his recent
A concrete base on which to work, is not easy mon to
position of or refute standardised.
had launching the attack. You his tour of the United States again afford to retire to the sea-surround its work
That in itself those who deny its value.
is a gargantuan selected and approved the place and Cunada, Pandit Nehru side or take short winter holl to answer is critics
days. By then, they say, a new
Looked at objectively, Western task-particularly when one must where it should go lu. said India didn't want to join tessured class will have emerged
Union has achieved something admit that every nation has its days the what he called
Power which can afford to end its
which is little short of miraculous. own pet fotbles and preferences, breezes from the blocs, because she didn't sning wish to add to the fear com-small hotels and boarding-houses. Hastings wants to be ready to plex which now exists
do business with that new leisur- throughout the world. He ed class, and believes it will be declared his trip involved no in a position to do so only if it
continuity of commitments treaties,
or maintains
You knew.
the too, through service as a winter resort.
of Inner channels bindings, but something more
Intelligence, So, on the orders of the mayor
what forces were there to be binding than these-under- and council, the spacious White
Rock Pavilion stays open at
thrust aside, what build-up there! standing of each other.
would be. The picture was years cost was
a day, giving fort-
mosi concerts
was that ns
vital of all Does Britain really mean flow through the minds of the no doubt built upon the syn-nightly
and live factors, the TIME.
Now the boot is un the other with every intricate detall of the The baths thesis he expressed in his lose £1,300.
(swimming, medt- to establish, on some future men who understand
the open day,
"Industrial De-technical processes involved. foot. The hyglenie) stay
of Western nationa inaugural speech at the Delhi cinni, and
£200 £ week. The mocracy" that the politicians Every encouragement, there- Union are no longer mobilised.
"The new film 'City Girl is an conference on Indonesia ear-and lose
now adaptation of Herman Wouk's fore, must be offered to promis- The machines of war have of all the parties preach? ly in the year. "We represent Sun Lounge
Ing young men to train themsel-run down; production is for peace. novel, 'City Boy. It will be of tune of a seven-piece orchestra the ancient civilisation
If so, she must face the fact ves until they can think intelli- Armies are reorganising, waiting re-written only in so far as the and a loss of £3,000.
on the
of this gently about a whole chain of for equipment. Fleets are in re-central character now becomes a the Eust, as well as the dy-
that the active leaders And the overall debit
rather than namic civilisation of the West. rates account for providing
about serve. Air operations are in tran-girl." Industrial society will have to be operations
rate, ap- thoir personal skill at a
single sition. Politically, we symbolize in townful of winter entertainment appointed-or, at any
handful of winter guests proved-by the Industrial masses job. particular the spirit of free- for a
It is often charged that sug- How this hard selection will be made is still anybody's guess-gestions for important technical dom and democracy, which is works out at £13,000, or so significant a feature of the new Asia." His approach is
Losing No Sleep much the same the at-
H. W. Rymer, titude of the United States! Yel Councillor
of the Entertainmenta used to be to the problems of chairman
defence in Committee, with look you square- principle and Western Europe. Washingtony in the eye and say he is losing na sleep. He thinks his diree-
leglon. And yet it may find that a bit awkward, tor of entertainment, Mr. Ken- and may, indeed, be many peo-Improvements are sterilised be- has now been said officially that
cause they conftet with esta-
"The first few days the chicks' plans ha
have been completed to but, however ruefully, cer- neth Day, is doing a grand job. ple's compromise.
Take the night Eileen Joyce Certain it is, however, that blished investments.
altuation were fed inside the brooder-house, possible meet every
concrete of asbestos on pleces tainly understands it. Never-
have to be brought to the nolice of a group theless the American exam- played in the Pavillon and pack- these leaders will
cost granted a real say as to what is of experts (which is what fore-which might arise. The concert ed it solid.
If that is not something like a sheets, 3 ft. long by 2 ft. wide." men are in their limited sphere)
Maybe that's why my ple of moral involvement but £350, the tickets raised £290, done with prants
but For the blunt
are better likely to survive than large achievement I do not know pertinent
cook-amph keeps talking these lesser name physical aloofness has ceased net loss 400. A
the £275 con- question: "Who gets
gate-if they are merely slipped into a what is.
There are, of course, Infinities days about chicken livers. to be upheld as a model of would have meant a
money?" will be the decisive test suggestion box fixed on the fac
still to be done. We will in dua tory wall. effectiveness. Indeed it cert with a £75 loss.
made a sensible applied by the wage-earner.
present course consider In times such as the
some of if the workers, through their taught sharp lessons which Hastings has
social But the achievements to date of A submarine approached, and over its. orchestra? compromise
elected leaders, of growing awareness of
sardine was scared. a the little have now been learned to concerts. Pre-war i had its own democratically
in tra have no szy
will issues it is inevitable that there Western Union are not only it, they the full-at least insofar as very
orchestra. fiue municipal
said the mother will also be growing pressure by step in the right direction; they "Don't worry,"
a very real deterrent to a sardine, it's only a tin full of the Atlantic community is which, it ran at a cost of £20,000 never be satisfied.
They do not believe in philan-workers to remove the grievan-are
men," n year. Today concerned,
£30,000 and mean another 10d thropy, for has it not been dinned ces which they consider are in-potential aggressor.
by surviving The Western Union and the on the rates, so Hastings shares into their cars that Business is aleted upon them Atlantic Pact did not come the Southern Philharmonic with Business?
Every unofficial strike
What is called the "dielator- that into existence full-bodied and Brighton and Portsmouth,
Usually such strikes are industrial manager is already full-blooded. They were built loses a mere £1,500 on the deal, hurts the public weal is bad busi-ship of the owner" in his role of The cry for The Sun Lounge orchestra boys c gradually, tier upon tier. The oblige by turning themselves into the product of exasperation. Ex- widely resisted... same process seems to us to a dance band twice a week and asperated people are not usually "workers' control" will, not dimi-
level-headed,
Perbaps it may itself be and therefore not nish.
"controlled" only by wise adap- be the best policy to be are also employed as a theatre
very responsible.
tation. followed in Asia and the Fact pit orchestrite Rock Baths (run-
But leadership implies respon-
Let us consider briefly, then, fic. After all, the Pacific and
ning costs £300 a week, winter albility. 'And...responsibility im- the new forms of Industrial con-
plies trust Indian Ocean Greas are
takings £100 a week) Mr. F. D. The leaders who are genuinely trol which may emerge, having various existing pretty big proposition to be Boone keeps his big pool open trusted by the Wage-earners regard to the taken in a single grip. It is and serves hot drinks and snacks, they control are men who under- social frameworks which will
The hotels are feeling the cold surely far better to take each
problems of undergo some change. stand the human
In Britain, humble folk, because they have
for example, director is
is úniqué (he separately and merge the de- wind too,
been of such order themselves "amstaur and know the pinch of poverty. is often quite an expert "ama- That is why the NCO, or Fore-teur"); In the United States Take an average hotel; pro-manship, principle exists. It al- "nationalisation" is still an anath- CTD, though the power of the It doesn't matter much war rates 3% gms., present rates ways will, because it must,
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More Is Needed These things are the roots of the industrial problem. Some kind of control-remote control, If you Hikomust be given to the men and women of industry.
Meantime, what of the bran ches of the problem?
alone, or more even than
the
customs.
Such cases
the
The Real Key Men
In the Malthusian communities of Sovietised: Asia special new problems are emerging. ago. The United States was his recent tour of the area.
Immense and bewildering in- dimdent. But it was discussed It may have been at least
deed are, the long-term questions before by the three Foreign Minis-partly for the enlightenment To get more goods or services that must be answered ters in the Washington talks of Delhi But Pandit Nehru produced in a given time mankind learns. how
how plenty may Bold ods be be, distributed, or goods last June and they parted in apparently wants to see the quires more then leadership
for less than they cost. 143 the hope that tangible results picture there a little more sheer good will of the men who
But to return" to the roots would be visible within six clearly, for he has just said do the job. It calls for know there for all to see, just above the months. Since then the Indo- that he doesn't know any-lodge, experience, and ingenuity. nesian problem has been solv- thing about the South-East which innovations risc
The source of inspiration from solid base of the worker-nass, La must the figure of the fellow without ed to the satisfaction of India Asia Defence Conference
whom nothing. can happen: the men who has been through the and everybody else, except which the Burmese Foreign| |--
mill himself and thereford knows Moscow. That goes some way Minister hinted might be held most of the winter. Today the what tasks others can and will to meet the American view in February.
proprietor, with only 12 residents perform, and how he may per- that a firm basis of co-opera It seems to us, however, and a staff of six; estimates he sunde them to convert their la
now and bour into the comp
commodities tion must first be laid be that the situation in Burma faj will lose £500
my betwee tween the South-East Aslan a good deal more pressing March, up for Christmis services we all need or desire..
Foreman. fill
key man, The countries. ....
than that in Indochina. Ce and take £1,000, but he won't the follow who has earned and Pandit Nehru last March tainly it is of much more show..
ponny
profit.
enjoys the confidence, of workers, defined the "common sphere concern to India, whose pro The boarding-houses are oven is himself a developing person- of co-operation" as Includ sent dependence on rice from worse off, most of them having ality In him must be combined qualities, for he ing the Indian Continent, Burma, and future plans for no visitors at all a series of vital
The few
are, of course, whom the Industrial Front im
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What these qualities are, and the prota with Australia and New Zea Red regime at Prome got They land. Mr. Malcolm MacDonald hold of the rice growing enade with a smug, snug air, and how they may be achieved, needs would be astonished. If you told more urgent invoetigallon than it made a very good report on areas There is something them they were not paying that has as yet received from the "Tomor“ the situation in Indochina on more solid than a more fear way in Hastings that they are, would-be farchiipata of ʼn Tol 28382)
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