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THE CHINA- MAIL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1049.
AFRICA
Africa has been in the news a
great deal in the last few weeks. There have been the troubles
In Nigeria. Therẻ has been the
Good IN THE NEWS
#t
By Windrush
over the
In
not
nyw
The
quarrel rogo from
The British objections
It in
Morning
1
Eldon * Potter вну "ME.
dend Nationalist government la body."
Some types, in fact, go, so car
Box of them altogether.
"Large quantity of female fur coals just arrived from Tringteo."
to
and well- virile
Sho looked, In
the Trusteeship Counell appears to be discussing some matter of malive welfare-say the system of education as happened recent- enso of the clergyman, Michpel Unfortunately the leader who voted with the majority which lytaw of its members really Scoll, stating the case of the sponsored the project, Sir God-passed the resolution.
regard that as the tople of real]
No, Myrtle, this "great advane black population of South Africa froy Huggins, the prime minister
the and burning interest. Rather t against the whites before the of Southern Rhodesia is not en- Trusteeship Council of the Uni-tirely free from the taint of so- Council claiming that the colonial is an Instrument by means of in TV has nothing to do with od Nations. He was heard in clelism. He is not nearly as bad powers should report to it on the which the small countries may Mr. Soong's health, spite of the objections of both a sufferer as the South Africans, political development in all their embarrass the large, or Russla the South Africans and of the "Educated" natives are admitted overseas territory, not merely in may make some new move in the British Government,
to ciuzenahlp in Rhodesta: Dut those-held-na-United Nations cold war,
If this claim were ne-| Trust.
Colonial the discussiona
British policy, in There has been a deadlock in federation have broken down be- cepted, it would probably lend to Africa may be on mistaken lines to say it smells.
more sweeping ones. As on is experimental. But it is a the discussion over the possibili- cause Great Britain has insisted
soberly serious policy, lica of building a new Dominion that there must be provision for critic has put it "To rendor an ac- very be All
contributions na wa
representation out of a federation of the two negro
the count of political development undertaken,
an operation Editor-in-Chlaf.
only one stage away from accept- addressed to
Rhodesias and Nyassaland. Last-federal assembly.
Serious on the souls of men. Advertisements and Business com.
ing the right of the United Na- criticism is welcome.
A But Bri han
There can hardly be any pro- tions to say what those develop-tish colonial administrators are munications should be addressedly the Trusteeship Counell
This "Mme. Flack" who was annoyed when understandably to the Company CHINA MAIL "prung a small crista by claiming
the authority areas until the doctrine of "white ments should be,"
won the ultimate
have to have
reported LTD.
their policies and dimeulties are over all the colonies administer-supremacy"! has been abandoned,
have used simply as a part of the UN Navy Cross-country race seemed ed by the member states of the at least in principle, in the
Rhodesina. This docs of been concentrated chiefly on the political game by Latin Ameri- surprisingly United Nations,
of the Trusteeship cans, Arabs, and newly self-gov- fact, as if she wore the trousers
proportioned. course mean that the new Do- unfitness I may be worth while look-
any real mense erning countries, ing a little further at each of minion would have to adopt a Counell to be in
in the family. The Nigerian pro-
new constitution and forms of a controlling body. Unfortunate- these affairs.
would be ly the Trustership Council is not,
up Thieves stole out of keeping with its structure like the pre-war mandates com-un cotontal blems are, however, too complex representation which
here and separate article.
of society. The ordinary type of mission of the League of Nations, the irritation in "Time and Tide" up body with
four Expert Scott in Dominion constitution would not
expert "For
years UN always London. The Rev. Michnel
Is be at all suitable,
qualifications. The advice of the claiming to put first the interests fication personality An almost pathetic ap-wealth.
familiar the British Common- Be is the practical peal has been made to the Christian who takes to polities. Chinese in Singapore to help This type of man is often mad by refusing to pay taxes. The dening to governments and civil He pl tu take up „Ma appeal is areompanied by the servants.
enuses which ore less worthy claim that the campaign.
Then he thinks them.
He believes Ban Malaya is "slowly movingst to-
overnments to be more mule- voleni than
are, wards the road of victory."
really they Communists are not usually often he is nisled and misin
hy agitators lesa rils- so very muntest in their claims, formed
nterested than he is himself. wonders whether this
Yet without men of this type, on't a feeter for another face-pelety would be much
poorer
the the faith of saving way out of the impasse. They restore
the under- Slow is right, but the road is underdog
similar leading not to victory but to privileged. A the main of the Communist
JUNGLE JACQUERIE Some of the Communist Seaders in Malays are trying to call of the jungle war: others are using the most desperate means to continue type
it.
Patise
in
This insane scheme was doomed from the first. Only a small minority of extremists were behind it when, after throw days' of furious Party debate in Singapore, the de- cson was forced through and The
leadersłup Party changed. Even then, the in- spiration came from the Com munist conference in Calcutta, which in turn no doubt took its tine from Moscow.
wis
to be discussed need
OF
type was C
have
Il
man
which
will
F Andrews, the un-
พ
India
Serious quarrel
Lit
Mian Elspeth Huxley, the writer
problems, sums
from 2 Bhop
Imagine their
valuable gold
window
in mort- on being told that it
they had taken it threo
The sesame to you.
Mandates Commission used to be of the inhabitants, in fact put didn't become their own property listened to with respect because first the power politics of Europe until It compelled respect, as the nd-and the suspletous and jealousy years in succession. vice of experts must always do. of Asiatic and South American The quarrel over the claims of
"ountrica It was not the real the Trusteeship Councli to con-
The Trusteeship Council is, on interests of the ren-self-govern- trot all colonial territories may the contrary, a political body, ing peoples that obsessed the become serious. Great
the Britain which is used by the member delegates
Trusteeship has repudiated the claim sharp- klates of the UN us one of the Council on the Astembly. It ly, as have
colonial the uther
arenas for their political strugs was the political passions of thei Yet the
with United States, gles
When nations who had sent them there,” powers,
another,
one
lo
Men, women and memories
remarkable in a man at the traditional zenith of mental the activity.
und its unacknowledged tance in afturs.
impur
he
he
I
It led him sketching in a busy street appar-
mentioned this to Cathicen Mann the other day her reaction was explosive.
To
"The allitude of most English people towards an artist is quite! extraordinary," abo ul. start with, they regard us on dis- linctly eccentric, and apparently he they think we're u stong dent, They will stand behind you for what secins like
hours Arguing loudly among themselves about the demerits of your ple- ture. Often they're astonishingly rude. In France manners are much better-there the artist is accepted as a normal person, and Whitehall but it is trouted with natural courtesy." not in
where Major-General
Athenian hand-over
The handling-over between the new and the outgoing Directors of Military Intelligence will take
placo Athens,
American landscape!
Wo
Dur
(The United States in starting to train Japanese diplomats:)
take
little now So
Nips On overseas conducted trips, Converting them by friendly
chals
To "real, genuine diplomats,"
They
not shall simianwise,
shamble
But go in gentlemanly guise,
Lailored
All
out
on Esquire lines, Avolding former monkeyshines. We'll train them dapper,
morning-dressed, To wear beat;
alopper with the
To sign heat treaties (and to.
pause
When Pressmen mention "secret
clause.""}
"Tis so we trust at some notr
date
These guys we now indoctrinate Will toe our line against the
Russ
And nevermore Pearl Harbour.
US..
agency According to a Bows
Stalin's birthday, report about "all theatres have planned special precautions."
The activity of Field-Mar-| undisguised longing. orthodox English clergyman who shai Smuts's brain would be beyond polities to religious prae- ently oblivious of spectators, worked for 30
in years
Lice. with Gandhi. It was partly be-
"I have come to the canelu- ause of the influence of Andrews
sion,"
said, "that the old and like-minded men that the
Catholic rule of Bunday abner- lash between the British and the 'neilan Congress leaders never For more than On hour the vance is right: prayer and praise recreation grew late the bitterness which other day he held as spellbound in the morning and
his London during the rest of the day." would
prevented further at a conference at
hotel, while he thought aloud."
But
confessed that endship. The fort that India and Great ranging with the brilliance of Britain we now co-operating so lightning from Chaim Weitzmann strank from raising that issue in as well.
losely is
and the days of the at least partly due to
explosive Wales ! P. Andrews whose services crisis in the 1814-18 war to the were thus important in their own culour question, from thumbnai! asseramente k the placent way as those of the greater vice.
Churchill and Roosevelt in his Toys and governors.
lory to his own concept of time Thus should be kept in mind in Direct action on the indu-
the
Mr. Trading
about Dewe strial front in Singapore fall-| Scott. He has also a powerful ed first Then direct action į case to state. The race policy
In his swift marshalling of the Front: the jungie failed in of the
fucts of presont government
a changing world he
Miss Mann, who is holding her all everything but bloodshed and South Africa has ahucked all the moved at times into philosophical Only regions beyond the group of most
Brst exhibition for two years at curtains. destruction. Not 21 single rest of the Cornmonwealth.
audience. Violet Bonhum- of his recently dy
Yet he drew
the Lefevrs Galleries is happiest વ political im was achieved. Carter, the daughter of Asquith with absolute certainty of line the
nowadays painting landscapes. A
The 17-year-old bloke: with those, done in The cust was crippling--more
Tenders of the picture of a world divided, and
the
the remarkable know-how who But
Chicago four-year Liberal then subdivided again into region-Packard hus just arrived to take number of Than half a million Hong Liberal Party, suld
purred onference that Dr. Malan was a groupings because of a weak-over Britain's Military Mission, Bahamas, will be on view. Kong dollars a day to Malayu
olling out the red carpet for the ness inherent in man in his pre- and where Colonel A. C. Shortt, never for long can she escape her university course in 30 hours in
the new D.M.I., has another week commitments as a portrait pain-
Allled now believed to be planning to money alone. That
sont stage of development.
tor. She painted to go 起 Military Attache. wanted for schools and many
must be rare for such an office wur_leaders on a 5,000-milo tour write a tome un American culture
and in five minutes. other schemes for develop
seeds of doom in a Humour and humanity handed over en foreign soll. of France by jeep in 1944, The plans were
By mistake MacTavish put $10 Both officers are products of she told me one good story against At question time the Field- "The Shop"-Packard gunner, horselt.
in the collection plate. He left paper: the money went down
Can a country,, quarrel with its Marshal was asked whether, in Shortt a
supper out of doors
During a break in sitting the church a broken man. the drain.
"ife-blood?" This La pretty near-view of what he had said, it would | one's' interests are on land,
On the following Sunday the General y what most people in England not be better to abandon the Uni- other's at sea. Peter Shortt is a given by General Eisenhower, his
Bedell verger brought round the plate Jalk about South Africa.
room. ted Nations Organisation. Swoop- member of the MCC and a regular Chier of Staff,
* Tell
as usual. is ruce policy which hasing from the heights of philoso- performer on Attle wickets, while Smith, untered the Mann," ho Glancing up swiftly, MacTavish It
replied with simple. Douglas Packard is expected to me one thing, Mins caused also the dissensions over phy he
No, no he plan for the new Dominion humanity:
you Join the Athenlan yachtsmen in said; when you are painting a muttered with a slight bought
portrait what rutes your attitudo "Season." L of the Rhodeslas and Nyassaland. wouldn't throw out the baby with Phaleron Bay. All economie considerations are the bath water,"
ment.
and
was
wi
on
The campaign of terrorism won no popular support ex- cept by brutal compulsion. The Chinese communities were as hostile to it as were the Malaya and Indians. The majority of the people mur- dered campaign had no politics and an abundance of plain crime.
Un
were
One of the
Communists to step in on.
She said "Dr. Malun is surely wing the country where there are 2,000,000 whites and 9,000,000 other races?
n favour of this Dominion.
Aflor the meeting I found
s absurd that a territory so thin Henry Cooper, his faithful friend Chinese. The
It was a jungle jacquerie sirn- ply and solely. And it was tackled by the security forces force and that basis: nothing but force. Quite rightly too, because any show of weakness or conciliation in the early stages would have been fatal.
y populated should have to pay
By Atticus
Poetry his joy
which would bar the Northern a little ruefully, and I stili trafito Mr. John Masefield.
It
the
matty
The plan, I take it, is to hold performances behind fron
to your work-your regard for your artistic principles, or your oi, eit Konse of humour?
A Lovely XMAS GIFT
ם
•
j sce that old Moshe Sharett's National I congratulate the
"Why do you ask that 7" sald plano was forced back to Now International Alrport York's and secretary, and I asked him:
"Woll," the cost of three state adininistra-"Has the Cubans been up Table Book League on securing Mr. the artist unsuspectingly.
Boero gravely, when I while he was returning to Tel tions. Moreover, since South
Mountain intely?" "No," he said, Justice Bickett as their new presi-kaid Africa, by its race policies, Is "No" and I wondered for a dent. Sir Norman, who is mak-showed someone the portrait you Aviv,
That sort of thing would never proving so embarrassing a men-moment if he meant that the ing a satisfactory recovery from did of me the other day his only
was I know it have happened, surely, if he had er of the Commonwealth, Great Field-Marshal's mountaineering his recent operation, look up the comment
don't recognise been going to the new national Britain would like to see another days wore
minion erected
over. Then he added office on December 8 in succession landscape, but i
International capital of Jerusalem. the place." to its North Not ainen lent session "
peculiar racial up way behind him." expansion of the
Sir Norman is a bookman in the fullest sense of the word. Ho 'dens of the South Africans.
Field-Marshal Smuts is in Cape | 18 a collector of private press Town nowadays only during the books, and thesa are strongly re- home at Chalfont St. Giles. But The attack on the bandits bandits themselves are being sessions of the Union Parliament, presented in the library of his on the shelves near them ara the culminated last summer and given a greater incentive to
Diplomatic incident
books ho has lived with all his autumn in six planned opera- get out of the mess, defy the!
life, Peotry is his joy. TO BOO who watch Mr. Hoctor McNeill considers Him seize a volume from the shelt tions by large bodies of troops killer squads
surrender. And Dr. Philip Jessup, Ambassador and hear him road some One and police in all parts of the them, and
E memorable various at-large, who is on a fact Binding passage aloud is Malaya District Command. the leaders of the
tour of the Far East the best experience. are backing American negotiator after Mr. They were dovi:talled into an communities
..Sir Norman's executiva collen- overall picture which include this aspect of policy far more Dean Achason. I can tell of an ed extensive air supply. The actively than they backed the incident In Dr. Jessup's relations gues in the League will be Mr. with the Russians which both tobart Lusty, the publisher, as bandits were driven deeper other.
amured and impressed those who chairman, and Sir Francis Moy- and deeper into the Jungle,
nell as deputy chairman. His Leaflets urging surrender were present. The which used to go out under
friends will be glad many The squatter areas on
The Soviet Dr. Malik strode learn that Mr. John Hadfield, the Jungle fringes on which the the imprimatur of the au across to Dr. Jessup at a cocktail League's director, has recovered autlaws battened were cor- thorities only; are now being party and told him angrily that he frons his severe liness, and hopos
complain to the to be in harness again soon. doned off and the inhabitants extensively distributed with was going to
an attempt
Rugby pioneer
to
in some cases transferred. the additional signatures of State Department:
was being made to violate his The bandits were in sore leading Chinese Indians and diplomatic immunity, because the straits for food supplies. Their Malays. They tall the bandits Long Island authorities wanted to
The Rugby Football world has morale began to sag long ago. that the Government will inspect the sawerage system on
lost one of its pioneers by tho death of Mr. Robert Bruce Lock- They were beaten, and they "magnanimously accept their the Russian estate. surrender," and knew it.
that the Dr. Jessup, aware that for hart in his 92nd year. During his will. act But they had no way out. In signatories.
as weeks people living near the long career as a schoolmaster he Kuala Lumpur policy re- guarantors of the safety and Ruslan headquarters had been became one of the really great
complaining about the bad odour coaches of boys. mained wholly two-fisted. future employment of all which seemed to originate there,
Sir George Cunningham, An- No doubt the question of who give up the armed stoned calmly, Then, with an opening a back-door to sur-struggle. The jungle is being air of great gravity, he suggested drew Frow, CK. T.. Faithfull render was discussed. Res-drenched with torrential to Dr. Malik that it might be and countless other great players best to submit the case to the In- learned the game from him. And ponsible Chinese leaders rain at this time of the year tornational World Court at The how pleased he was when first oboying an abiding tradition; It limits operations but adds Hague, and ask judges to come to Mr. J. H. Bruce Lockhart, his son, no doubt pressed this on the to the misery of the jungle Long Island and take a sniff at who is now Headmaster of Sod- bergh, gained his International Government. The first move gunmen. The now move is the offending atmosphere.
Heap, and then, within 20 years, The officiaf protest was never two of "J, IL's" bons played for came a few months ago, when timely and intelligent, and
Next day permission Scotland against England. Emergency Regulations were ought to yield results, but received. modified. The employment of force will have to be avail-was most gracefully granted for t
sewerage much to maintain: Sedbergh's other means as well as force able and be used against the the health authorities to make Mr. Bruce Lockhart har done
any inspection of the
the Russian estate groat Rugger tradition. I notice has lately become more and extreme terrorists until the system on
that: his staff today Includes Mr. more prominent.
the whole calamitous chapter which they deemed necessary 19
D. B. Vaughan, who played in the The squatter problem ta is closed.
England pack last season and Sunday politics boing handled intelligently To this end the High Com
looks like doing so, again this and humanely, Formerly missioner of Malaya has some Conservatives are pers Winte many of the equatters faced appealed for an all-out effort turbed by the Socialist mancpoly Manners and the artist deportation Now they are by civilian volunteers as well of political meetings on Sundays. rebettled out of harm's way as the security Tortes in order It is an old grievance I recall a VFRDAMPERS P
conversation more than 20 years In my walks through Landon I' under better conditions than to deliver a final blow to the go in which Lloyd Georgs spoke have often wondered, at the com- they ever knew before, The, Outlaw
of this missed opportunity with posure of,, artiste whom sugoit
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