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THE CHINA : MAIL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1940.
THE COMING GREAT DEBATE Good Morning
ness
*
By
WINDRUSH"
the
RedShadow Over Pakistan
seem to be very much in mind of Mr. Bavin, the Foreign Secretary. Britain has played aBY ALWYN TEBBITT. cautious part in discussing West
It is a matter of acute con
"A blockade of Communist China to force the rèlenge of two thero khrvicemen held captivo would spare Mrs. William C. Smith, the necessity of staging a sitdown atriko in the State Do- Willam T. partment, Senator
Knowland says."
And Congress is refusing to de a. little, thing-ike that, when
could save Mrs.
Smith so
For the present the great debate in England is upon the economic crisis and on the do-: mestic measures needed to Britain would certainly form afa Frenchman or a German scem` very important part of Weat often totally uninteresting to an deal with it. But before long, Union and lis views would carry Englishman. The Brilish elec- the country must debate one much weight, but it would not torate would find it hard to work of the hardest problems ever necessarily dominate the Union, up an enthusiasm for, say, the education polween set before it. It must debate In the long run, foreign policles struggle on how far it can take part in of the Union might be made by churches and Socialists.
Germany and Frenchmen. There Considerations of this Icind West European Union.
by, the British people would have There is a great deal of vague- abandoned their traditional con
the phrase "West Union, tribution to European and world Everybody is agreed that military affairs. collaboration between the coun- What, too, would-happen to the Union up to the present time. tries of Western Europe is essen- Dominions? Mr. Spoak, the Del-The Labour Government, in con- Ila). So, hiso, la nome measure of glan statesman who is so influen-quence, ls held by some concern for the whole British economic collaboration. But the tial in pressing for West Union, tinental stateamer to have been Commonwealth that. India propaganda now conducted by the has said that it is very desirable wrecking the whole project. D+
European Movement looks for that the entire Commonwealth It is to be regretted that the and Pakistani should end their much more radical measure. It should join with Britain in com- Conservatives, who should be as feud. For the Pakistan-Indi urges a genuine fedération of ing into the Ualon. But what In-faware as Labour of the reasons quarrel is Moscow's chance. cinema, patrons may be all very ducement would Australia or behind Mr. Bevin's caution, have The Kremlin sets out to woo Western European countries.
Some very Influential, men
to in Canadu have
any such sometimes tried to gain Party America are supporting this pres- thing?
advantage by attacking the Gov. each nation in turn, and then sure, and are suggesting that Mar- Consider the other political ernment's attitude on this most to play each off against the
I know what you mean. shall Ald can be used as a sanc- dificulties of organising a merger delicate problem. It is likely that other.
"The evening was spent in an tion to compol Britain to take of Bovereignty. Three main it will be discussed at the coming The resultant economic chaos
wrought internal way, mostly taken European Federation. languages would be spoken In the Colombo Conference. It may bo which the quarrel han
old fashioned parlour ELX) of their gives Russin
Upportunity to with Dominions people in England are repenting man. It is always hard to muin- opinion by the
will sow the seeds of discord, sedition games." the slogan of West Union with taln a political union which is not strengthen the hand of the Gov-and Communist propaganda. Need- out having thought out its impli- backed by unlly of language. The ernment in carrying on its present less to say Russia would like to sce differences between the two cations. Why is West Union con- poitical problems which interest cautious policy. sidered so desirable?
nations become worse.
From India's point of view the
Advertisements and Business com. he addressed munications should to the Company, CHINA MAIL LTD.
THREE ESSENTIALS
and
Recognition, reconstruction,
security-these
terms sum up the essentials of policy In the Far East. They are closely related and will have to he provided for in that con- text, just as they have been Western in for provided Europe. Mr. Vyshinsky says Gen- all goes well in China. eral MacArthur believes that all goes well in Japan, and that the time has come to trust Britain may be dubious her. about hoth, but is clearly bent on a realistic policy.
do
part in It disturbing to see how many Union-Engilsh, French, and Ger- that an cxpression
Two reasons are usually given. one is that Union is necessary for Military co- defence. But le 17
very intimate CO- operation, operation. possible
13
between countries which keep their inde-, pendence. They do not have to
nerge
their identities. Military co-operation in the West
Brussels Pnet and ready provided for amply by the Lhe: Atlantic Pact. It would not necessarily be
IN
there more intimate if
Federation,
Was
The second reason given is that a West Union Is
necessary in
the dollar crisis. Nobody, how- ever, explains very convincingly how West Union rould do this, Britain is short of dollars.
duce a solvent.
seem to
Oil Lifts Little Venice From
Donkey To Air Stage
*
By GUY RAMSEY
These will be dominated by tree movement of inbour. Inevi- wall there stands a glittering new upon
pressure
of
Vene-
An aircraft
One Policy
The aircraft is not only
much trouble so easily?.
瞌
Giving away diamonds
to
well, but wouldn't be simpler just to reduce those 1946-style admission prices
•
up
A
This "no bath, no shave" day in America is likely to make fot of people bristle.
The
•
*who
W DA havu cont-
young giri Not a stenco of Pakistan is a
on her prestige. For many wrongly feared to
tracted babies" says the trouble years Indian leaders refused in- dependence when i was
Is that people will bark up the offered
nered wrong tree. thom by Britain in partition pro-
posals. To have to give in over
No. Myrtle, Filot Auch a major lasue is considered not on operu by Puccini.
to be a defeat by many Indians.
because they know
Pakistanis, beca
Mignon is
"SL Francin Xavier died off full well that many Indiana dream the coast of China in 1852. In of the time when india will re- the next 227 absorb Pakistan, act as though
It
403
no.
Devotion, maybe. Pertinacity.
Major Bones Of Contention.
H'm.
다
years ha zonloun they are permanently in a state example was followed by some evangelists whose devotion of slege, and are waking almost
and pertinacity has seldom been Indian dully for the That involves, as a first step,order to enable us to overcome
army to
surpassed. cross the border. full recognition of the new re-
In a puddle of stagnant From the air, here and there,
When Poklatan was formed on gime in Peking. It is not ne-
water inches deep, outside the one sees on the glittering water cessary to have the light of
belleved Indians
the country All ever-open door of a tumble the smudged rainbow of an oii- August 14, 1947, the majority of
I am able to deny cntegorically stars in the eyes to do this
West Europe is short of dollars. down adobe hut, there stands stain.
"From the air" is the operative would collapse within a year, that the members of the Reform have The plain fact is that the Na- It is a new theory that to marry gleaming with chromium, an
Venezuela, tor
(all 30 of them) als has been a sad blow that the only Club 1950 model Phrase in
Commonwealth agreed to be entirely responsi- tionalist Government has con-one bankrupt to another will pro- eight-cylinder,
the country in the Transport hus wrought
of the civic cost American car.
greatest revolution of ali ume in who has not thought it necessary ble for the ceded practically the whole of
Inside What It implies
there is not
chair,
currency is the amenities demanded in their new country where Revolution used to devalue her
Indians mainland China to the new
country
thought plaform, nor a table, nor even a bod. The facellously to be called a major jonly Either we arc Lo Very few of the enthusiasts whe
would now be in the worst strails regime.
alike sits industry. owner of hut and cur
After hearing about the prices have relations with that Gov-attend the Albert Hall rallies in owne
on a packing-ense and cats his It is a cliche in Venezuela that in the whole sterling area.
at the new believe that charged for meals Many observers unplaned the country has gone in a single ernment or we are to remain favour of West Union
have thought out what would meat from a bare and
leap from the burro (donkey) to both countries have behaved to Cheers Club, I wonder why no- out in the cold, powerless to happen to British economic life board; he sleeps-sometimes iwo,
aircraft. No longer can a one another over the last two body has thought of opening a If it became a reality. A true three, or four strong-in a ham- the
from the Ander
years in an extremely petty general
childish canteen for civilians. do anything about it or to in-
West Union implies
mock: crossways, not endways. currency A
mariner. India started the ball Haence the course of events.
But against one ramshackle gather a locul force and marched union, a Customs unloa, and the;
Caracas, the capital, and rolling, according to Paklatan, by Myrtle's grandfather suggests
difference between setze power and make himself & putting a heavy export duty on that the what happens inside China, tably, one of the Arst results of radio; against the other a huge, stator unil he is thrown out by tea going to that country, imagin-man and a woman la that a man not by anything that can hap union would be a steady economie dazzling-white icc-box.
could not dr❘ will pay $20 for a $10 (lem he ing that Pakistan That, in miniature, is a picture just such another. bring Britain to the
without Indian tea,
wants, while a woman will pay pen outside.
same standard of living as other of the whole, vast (and to Europe would soon spot_him. Britain is now waiting to
$10 for a $20 Item she doesn't countries of West Europe. Labour little-known) country
want. get all the members of the would food in from Germany and zuela today: land bursting with Commonwealth into line, and italy. Wages would be likely to
with present and energy, bulging Some Industries would
certainty of future prosthe only effective тедла of probably some of the other fall.
perity; pasalonately Western countries also. When ruined.
Who would determine the raise at once its internal standard There are good rands-the road Pakistan unmediately retaliated Virtuous recognition is formally given, foreign policy of a West Union? of living and its external prestige, from La Guayra, the port and by putting on import duty, equal It will be quite a demonstra=
A country sensitive to the point airport, on the east, to Caracas, 10 India's export duty, on India's certainly of their liun,
et hyperaesthesta; at once anxicity built by, the political prisoners tea, making it too expensive for
and dreading. Europena
people, Then she of the last tyrant, Gomez, and the ordinary solidarity. Formal recogni- have no diplomatic relations for,
BO eager
her supplier not to be a masterpiece of twisty mountain went and bought tion does not. of
with an important part of the criticism; course,
considered just another
hinterland American necessarily iraply solidarity world: it makes the world
Gomez the Government re- even more disorganised than
which sources with
demand its de-
dam, which (rightly chough) Pakietan to get sugar, so Pakistan
goog Fear
it need be. The qualifications volopment that, like a cognised.
favour
superb mountains Cuba, and in return made it ex- has little to do
with it. for recognition are chiefly in-riche (which it is), it spends reck-by the name of Agua Fria (Cold replied by buying her sugar train by Maisie, who was absent."
on last effective
lesaly, too often
tremely difficult for India to get somewhere. things behind the mountain capital: It is just a businesslike action dependence,
nest,
This dam is just one of the cotton and fute from Pakistan.
Besides the best cotton arid fute which enables contact, discus- thority, and stability, and on
If the Western tip of Venezuela
mass of great public worka em-
to join India, the Andes thrust sions and representations to these things Peking passes where
by, ritory, she also has the best of and therefore Kashmir belongs to be made.
any reasonable lest. As for towering spur from the Pacife to barked upon and completed by areas falling within Pakistan ter-willingly decided
Government-by, the Venezuelan
and the fact, successive Venezuelan the wheat-growing area, ohd normal the fulfilment of international the Caribbean--were put at Lon-
Pakistan maintains that in the For it has made battle of supplies continues as things may prove a bit difficult obligations-which is another don, the Eastern end would strike Governments.
the Maharajah fron and steel producing plants.
wished to join to begin with.
test-Mao Tse-tung has de-west at London, the bottono difference which party, which india has all the coal and the case of another State, Junagadh, group, which Junta (pronounce clared his readiness to observe of the triangle would
But Kostimile and evucuce pro Pakistan, but India claimed the reach to this hoonta) is in power perty are the two major bones State because the people, wished the principles of equality, Florence.
overriding public-spirited policy.
of contention between the coun- to join India.
Pakistan's caso for Kashmir la The polley is "Modernise" tries.
In the case of Kashmir, India that the people want to join
State, have things both ways.,
Even
ΟΙ
these very
more
au-
Warsaw,
destrous to
with
tha Northern
den development from
factor for internal peace, but it is also
transport.
****** | engineering; and the new post-from Cet made it difficult fo
re-
sud-
u war-
ה!
road from Caracas to the
cent illiterate; establish health
for
The wheels may be oiled and title of sovereignty in relation the most forward-looking, hope to a gran twice the size of
AR
But for good projects and those leas good one policy is paramount: a policy embodied In the slogan Sembrar el petroleo-Sell the oll the mineral wealth of Venezuela.
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It may or may not mean a little
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mutual benefit, and mutual Mixed Peoples dominates them all will depend largely on whe- ther the blockade ceases or respect of territorial integrity This area is populated with a
That again isn't a with any State in diplomatic continues.
mere 4,000,000 people: Indinna, educate a population still 60 malhtdins that Maharajah Hari Pakistan and that India cannot major consideration, because relations with his Govern-Spaniards, a handful of Negroes,
services against typhold, hook-Singh, the ruler of the and a mixture of all three races.
worm, low fever, which enervates business will depend less upon ment.
There used to be a strong- He has gained power recognition as such, than upon
there still is a
moderately strong the people of the hot coastal strip, venereal disease; encour- -German colony. the general policy of the Com-through civil war, not by the
local local self-respect, There is also a considerable age munist Government. Cer- suffrages of the people. That
community.
Initiative. tainly no change in the form was also true, however, of the Anglo-American
The Central Government a and channels of trade laid preceding regime and of al-which is, historically, mainly re-engaged in various elaborate and
ambitious housing schemes down by the new regime can most every Government since sponsible for the country's
workers' dwellings. be expected for a long time to the fall of the Dynasty. All ridden. disease-ridden caprice. come if then. There should were recognised, and the last ridden land of gross extremes. They are committed to build-
ing a wa
whole university city, with Government still holds the of wealth and poverty into one of a teaching hospital of 1,200 beds; be no illusions on that score.
and even grandiose, and healthily ambitious military school. may run a bit more smoothly, to foreign recognition. But it ful,
countries; of the modern world, Versalles. furnished with un- The Consular officials may can hardly be argued any | The ⠀ Anglo-American colony take up issues that arise with longer that it still exercises went to Venezuela for wealth, imaginable luxury, wherein 1,000
cadets will be trained
ined to officer or is able to exercise that just as much as the Conquista higher officials, and -even
the 80,000-strong arinya school businessmen themselves may sovereignty. The tests it once apres 400 cara ago bat the head of which is a major. be able to get beyond the had to meet to secure recogni- product of the Spanish con-at the he
querors searching in vain for gold, educated at St. Cyr, the French lowest functionary in seeking tion it can no longer pass. It for all that they painted the academy, and trained in Chile. guidance and information. But has ceased to be the effective Cross on their banners and Heid
ཐྭ་ their charge from Apostolic Hubs the Communist trade me- Government of China. chanism will stay.
Many are, unhappy about burg was Christendom. A
The Modern Way It is hardly likely, even if that, many are not. Nobody Commonwealth and European with any decency likes to The by-product of the Anglo- Precious Fluid
Saxon Invasion; searching suc.... diplomacy is fully equipped kick another when he is cessfully for oil, is modera on puts directly into Venezuela's for the fray on the spot, that down-But facts remain facts, civilisation roads, drains sewers, pocket 12,000,000 Bolivars (no, not Bolivars, Bolcávars, commonly it will be able to influence whether they are pleasant or health services, universal educa- Peking diplomatic and poll- unpleasant. Af Lake Success tion, and political liberty, as well called B's) every day of the year. The Bolivar named after the tical policy at present. We the British delegate, Sir motor cars and refrigerators.
A century and a half ago Liberator of the colintry from can see the tendencies at work Terence Shone, said that the way Pitt's boast that England had
dollar in in Europe on both sides of the British Government's decision saved herself by her exertions Spaln 130 years ago, is worth 25,
the currency market curtain: Titoism isn't peculiar will be made to "conform to and Europe by her example, And and fout-ranks even the to Yugoslavia. The line of the facts." It will not be in it is broadly valid for the great
international beqmpanies Oil the precious sea in which division between national and fluenced by any likes or dis- Standard, Oll of New Jersey from Venezucin so prosperously swims International Communism likes of either regime or of the New World, Royal Dutch-is another story, which requires grows clearer as the weeks the methods by which it came Shell, the pioneer, trem, the Old another article to touch even the to make the same boast in rings of it. So I leave you with "Little Venice pass. It is bound to continue, into existence
(that is what two Ventzucian vignettes for it is a divergence that has. Not all agree that this has Venezuela literally means)
There are twice as many tax- universal validity, in East and nothing whatever to do with The country derives its name cats in Caracas, with a popula
are West alike. In time it may the matter, at any rate in from the fact that the Spanish Lion of 50,000, us
zalled. prove the thick end of a still practice and point of urgency.cscoverer salted Into the souLondon, with a population of 8,000,000, because almost every-
so pays for has been strictly limited to United States will bide her there villages built on silita purchase
only 話 first principles in Belgrade time about recognition. That In these distant days and the slow imperiousness of may be just as useful as early economie directives will take Commonwealth recognition:
yon, time to work out Com- That may be just as useful i munism is not the end of his as early Commonwealth re-
Today, Apart from floats out
to an tory or of change; it is merely cognition. But there are signs motor boats, whole sections of metal ature, which was dif the end of the beginning,
that the margin of time won't the water are, at first alght, It is intolerably incon ventant and dangerous, says the Manchester Guardian, to
as there
in
larger wedge but the tendency) And it seems agreed that thesiounce it: Marakybq), and sdw; one whor, buys'de Y
rough boats furrowed the waters
Illegitimate
dalt near the sea: fresh at the thah legitimate children's 40-mile-long landward half hour ra
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the Jan official security
be very great! If all goes covered with the tall marks of ferent from his fathers intel was lant navios, rangod, in lines; greeted with a broad grin and the reasonably well, aftor Com-orderly as a review. The are, at remark that happens often in
#ocona baghi, oli, derrickast Uz Venezuela, too" monwealth action.
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