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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1980.
Commonwealth comment No. 2:
N.Z. IS "MORE BRITISH
THAN
ticle.
THE
By J. C. Graham
BRITISH"
Our number is up
favours
News conflict,
- Our reporters state that seamen on the Isbrandtsen ships aren't ut all keen to enfor the mine- -strewn Yangise, while the other
papers say the men are just dying to go. Or is there perhaps
A
a happler way of putting that
Seems as I ftorial writers are at last being taken seriously,
to do it.
By ERIC BENNETT von if it did take a tram strike
This little town of Thaxted, in the. North of Essex, "has stood there for about 1,000 groundnuts scheme is nearing the
In one part of the Common- wealth at least all is remark- ably well in relations with Britain. In New Zealand criticism of Britain has sel- result has
vived in open competition. The system which hon survived in Subscription Rates
been that in these Britain under which they cannot dom been so nearly non- lines HK$18.00
the Umited quantities of use their own brands, and they existent, and the feeling of British goods coming on the Mar- think that if wholesale distribu- the people for the Mother ket are recognised as cheaper and tion in nationalised in Britain b. Country remains as warm and of better quality that the local ar- the public will have even less
genuine as it has ever been.
choice, and much of the work in As a result of import control and producing a high quality article Not long
Ago
left-wingers the paying off of debt, New Zea- will be lost, loudly proclaimed that British land
has sold
more to Britain In most other aspects of Bri Binanciers were the real rulers sinc
since the war than she of the country and drained off bought. Britain remains,
has tain's post-war policy, however, never- New Zealand finds littlo fault. the country's wealth. theless, by for New much of
Zealand's The Dominion strongly With the repayment of murh of largest supplier and largest cus-strengthening the solidarity of years, and most of the houses end New Zealand's debt to Britain tomer
as the basis in the centre of it have been investment, the Commonwealth as this criticism has been stiller It is doubtful whether many of foreign polley,
During the sume period
regrets up for the last 400 of them. rate талу people In Britalo realise Just how steps that have be taken by New Zealandera resented what dependent they are on a little some countries towards
A lot of them were indiernised Greater
about Queen Anno's timo, and they thought was a patronising country with under two million independence, altitude by many Britons to
does not see hate and there is evidence of the inhabitants. Last year New Zen- what alternative attitude Bri-influence of some early-nineteenth "colony. The decline in Britain's land sent to Britain-Nearly half tain could have adopted. fortunes has erased that feeling of all the butter imported into
contury Aneurin Bevan, Almost the only Briton who is But by and large, the hosts the UK:
really unpopular in New Zealand have been standing in the same Half of her imported cheese;
is the would-be emigrant places in the same streets since today is Two-thirds
of her
Imported who leaves Britain without ade-long before the days of James II. mutton and lamb,
quate Inquiries, expecting to find Some of the houses had names, Without New Zealand supplies a new El Dorado, and when his and he had names that word the British ration outlook would hopes not realised leaves forption, and some did not have be much grünmer.
any names at all. Since' every- again after giving the Dominion As a contribution ta Britain's a very brief trial and loudly pro-lives (na woll as what they are one knows where everyone also Zealand has been claims his disgust with every up to the names of the houses
weren't necessary anyway.
MEI LOR
BIRTH
To Maurette
Thiny, ut the Guren Disputal on January 2
son, Nicholas
at Mary 1950,
100.
SYSTOLE AND
DIASTOLE
ER
JA
Generosity
30
Camily In
recovery selling
could
get
name.
1191
аге
but
and
With reserve
But
cen-
"It is now thought that Britain's
of its initial capital By 71050-5! the of investiment will 30 greatly reduced."
They might beralaing BÜRG groundnuts, by then, too.
15
Timed at last.,
"Major-General William Wid Bill Donovan (retired).. route to Hong Kong'
A
en
of
their
contemporary presents B canned
cheesecake picture threo girls who
"keep dancing figures by taking a daily swim under the desert at Las Vegas, Nevada." What new! morning, duckies?
from Pluto
this.
Myrtle's grandfather says that more than one woman wearing a
not to have her heart in it.
•
Mary had a little dress, Dainty, chic and airy.
It didn't show the dirt at all- But my, how it showed Mary!
Britain's post-war trials have served only
increase New Zealand's affection. This has freen shown, for one thing, in The Far Eastern Comin-Rival burst of food-parcel puck- form, when it was inaugurat-
for Britain
New Almost every Liaison Bureau to Zenland sends gift food parcels world
New ed as
these goods at below thing in the country. serve International Commun-
She parity. to friends or relatives in Britain higher prices for part of her pre-
་ ism, called upon the Chinese ur helps
societies which send
from the United States.
Everybody knew bulk shipments an gifts fur nec duce Comnuunists k look South.
By diverting
some food from The very active Communist people. Parcel shipments
since Britala, together with wool, hides her compared
Such people are few in num-
Everyone, including the local the war have eclipsed the period leader Liu Shao-ch, supported
and skins
with the when the peak number of New America, New Zealand could earn them are totally unsuited as set- chap was next door to Joe's place,
now being Bold to satisfted migrants, and moat of and So lived, or
many postman, know where old So- this.
Manchuria and Mon- Zealand Servicemen were fighting enough dollars for all her needs tiers in any new country.
who the new golia were by common con-
Overseas.
and and Import Far from
And as a child of five could urgently-needed their sent ruled off the agenda. The
tending to abandon goods which Britain cannot sup- publiefty, and they give British town, and most of the houses are
complaints receive much draw a geometrical plan of the strapless evening gown uppears New Year message from Pek-Britain to its fate, New Zealand ing calls for the liberation of future is to give stronger sup- the Dominion for such a polley.
feels that the only hope for the ply.
A whold a But there is little support in immigrants as
bad different shapes and coloura, it Taiwan and Tibet--the rest is
was easy enough to direct a stran- port than in the past.
Most New Zealanders hold that all new arrivals with reserve un-
New Zealandera tend to treat ger in these parts. silence.
This WIN shown when New Zealand this year became the only is the soundiest long-term policy not intend to
assistanco In Britain's recovery til they are
Until last month In Moscow Mau Tse-Dominion to introduce peace-time
sure that they do Then wo rustic inhabitants, for the Dominion's prosperity.
trall otr home who had been scratching along wants to know what material
conscription. 10 the
referendum
again in ព few weeks, bitterly in iguorant anonymity for and other aid he can expect if
which decided on this step, Gov he takes the side of the Inter-
blaming everybody but them-turies, were showered with forms ernment and Opposition combined
On their own/
Dolves.
from the Dunmow Rural District with the national Communists. That's
slogan, "If It's good
In general, however, New Zea- Council. (Yes, that name Dun- Britain. enough for
It's wit
One point, however, on which land's admiration for Britain
which awards lumps oď fair enough, for not even a
enough for us." The result was New Zealand producers are in- very nearly as high as Its all-bacon for marital harmony.) magazine, I should describe n' Communist Government in
313 overwhelming verdict
sistent is that they want
The forms were headed in for- paratrooper as a man who climbs to be time peak during the war. There China would be so lanatical as conscription.
able to market their goods again are no
bidding type: NOTICE TO NUM- | down from trees he never climbed separatist tendencies in DER HOUSE. to embark on a policy of ad-
in Britain under their own New Zealand, which continues to brands.
Householders pride itself on being "more Bri-numbers like sheep at an auction, were allotted venturism and aggression and
In trade, the late Labour Gov- They pride themselves on the tish take the consequences--alone.
tish than the British." Moves ernment's import control policy very high quailty of their goods, toward greater independence by to mark their homes with The Chinese are altogether served even Lo enhance New attained by Careful
thom research other countries
and solemnly warned: serve only to
"If you make default in com- too astute to fall into a trap Zealand's opinion of British through the years and maintain- make New Zealand more deter-plying with this notice you will of that kind, and Mao Tse-
goods. The Import polley gave ed by rigid inspection in meat mirted to maintain existing links, be pole to a penalty not exceed- protection to some local indus and dairy factories. fung seems to be putting for-
The third article in this series ing 40 Shillings, and the said tries which could not have sur- They do not like the war-time) tuill deal with South Africa ward a different and
Council will cause the said Num- bor to be Marked on the said peaceful basis of co-operation.
House at your expense." He now wants to put the army
Some of the older people were to work, not to war.
scared at this threat to their un- numbered existence. A locol soll- citor wrote a protest about the demand. peremptoriness of the And still think I have bear given not only the wrong number but the wrong street.
more
On the other side of the line of division. Washington is studying another new idea-} an idea that has a certain glamour behind it and a lot of possible good within it. It is to do a deal with the Na- tionalists like with Britain be- fore Pearl Harbour. This time it would be arms for bases in Taiwan Such a deal would be a compromise be tween those who demanded an American occupation of Taiwan, similar to the Russian position in Dairen and Port Arthur, and those who are so fed up with China that they would wash their hands of her and look only to Japan, in shaping the future of the Far East.
Whether such a deal would deter the Communists from pursuing the "liberation" policy at all costs remains to be seen. Nor do we quite see at the moment how it would affect the vexed issue of the Nationalist blockade. Min ing of port approaches, of course, hits at Communist plans for an amphibious as- sault on Taiwan just as much as at foreign trade.
Revealing
for
Economic integration:
what does
it mean?
Economic integration is be- the whole of their economic activi ing urged upon Europe as the tes solution of its financial pro- country would have to agree to Beyond this, it means that each blems and as the only means sacrifice some part of its national whereby Europe may be sovereignty to Д supranational freed from its dependence or
European economic authority, American dollar aid.
Put in hard practical term like that, the economie integration of
The phrase slips oosily from the but how many Britons tongue. stop to think what it really means?
If it means anything, it means the transformation of Europe into one single economic unit,
Τυ nation
achieve that the separate
By the Rt. Hon. William Mabane
115
mow
All in place
up.
Judging by the latest picture
•
"The pusha is chief of several tribes in Egypt and an important factor in riling the country.",
Does i need it?
No wonder #1 hen Kets discouraged. She never Anda things where she laid them.
Fashion note: bust line 15 coming down
Low and behold...
"A full charge of shot struck.. Mr. Jones squarely in the back door of the henhouse."
You mean...?
That, it is argued, is the con- But regimentation must go on, dition in which Europe is today. It would seem that powers have, could endure this condition In more spacious days, Europe been taken to apply the appre- still make ends meet.
and priate sections of the Public Health Act of 1875 and the Towns Now, however, the argument Improvement Clausos Act of 1847 continues, unlem Europe increases to this bullt-up area teeming with its productive capacity to the some 2,000 souls. maximum, which would be made
docketed. But unless they bring in a law to stop us addressing our possible by widening the economic boundaries, there is no chance
letters to Old So-and-So, or des- whatsoever of making both ends
cribing our house as next door to So some have been busy with Joo's place, I don't think they ans meet if present standards are to the paint-pot, and others have going to change our habits, any be maintained. Three courses therefore are open:
bought those Jolly little plastic more than James . could change numbers which are invisible on our views when he revolted our (a) The, economic integration white paint, and one chap cut the Borough charter-just before we of Europe;
figures off a calendar, and another helped William of Orange to re-. used chalk
voks his crown," Local government has now put! The only things we shall forget us all in place, ordered and are the numbers.
(b) A general lowering of Euro-
States of MƐurope would Europe begins to appear a pretty/pean standards of living, or have to agree to ubandon all tariff
barriers, to use a common money even though the unit of money in different countries), to accept were described by different names
a common code of law
covering
tall order.
(c) Permanent dependence on There remains for definition the
The problem does not end there. aid from Amarica. word "Europe."
Of those courses (c) is im- possible (b) is undesirable, therd- fore (a) in Irresistible.
Sound argument
There was time when Europe and fairly definite boundaries, al- though Turkey and Russin did spill over into two continents. To is not decisive, and much has define "Europe" from the point yet to be
So runs the argument. It is a done to give it of view of economic integration greater material backing. That Germany to be included, and if so, economic unit of 270,000,000 or today is much more difficult. Is sound argument. A self-contained will take time. It will also is the whole of Germany to be more souls would be much mor take time for the moderate Included or only what we know separate parts into which Europa nearly self-sufficient ' than the or National Communists to be included ? Is Yugoslavia to be a now spilt up
o West Germany? Is Austria to gather enough power and pre-included? Is Spain to be in stige to strike out on a definite cluded ?
Of first moment
Yot at the same time it must be recognised that the larger the It becomes and the more difficult economic unit the more complext
|to maintain in balanco,
It is quite conceivable that line of their own. If Peking swered and while some are easy.
All these questions must be an the two things may acquire cannot mention Manchuria, others bristle with difficultios, a more intimate association in even with bated breath, it
If economy in production is the due time. We have already certainly cannot do anything
purpose of integration, as indeed suggested that it would be a about it now and risk sepura-
It is, it might well prove that the toxtilo inchustry in Italy produced sensible thing to do to fix uption or the loss of its re- Even more difficult and compli- cloth at so low a cost that the a local compromise whereby sources.
cated, yet of overwhelming im West Riding of Yorkshire was liberation and the blockade High policy invariably takes portance, particularly for Britons, virtually put out of business. would both be done away a dual form in such a situa- and connections of
is the relationship of possessions Could that bo tolerated T European Would the social disadvantage of with, trade between Taiwan tion Strength must be countries outside Europe. They making the West Riding a do and Shanghai be resumed, wedded to friendly overtures, are, of course, considerable, bili pressed ares outweigh the econ
Hitherto each national; unit has
"of tariffs,
and an autonomous system be lest the offered hand be British Dominions and the Col-
First and foremost are the omic advantage of cheaper cloth " Introduced in the island. But spurned.. Britain employed onial Empire, but Belgium, Hell been able, by means that is thinking ahead. The this to great effect on the and, Franco and Portugal all have Import quotas, export subsidies new idea being discursed in Yangtse in the great crisis of most extensivo colonial posses and the like, to preserve some sort
sions and responsibilities. Washington would not neces the Nationalist Revolution
etry of belang in its economia struc Clearly any plans for the econ- ture, and thereby to temper the sarily alter the basis for such twenty odd years ago, when emic integration of Europe must wind of economic change a scheme it might very well] conciliation succeeded be take account of these facts, and Ideally, there can be little if foster it, especially as cause the Shaforce stood Europe, dependent on or associn- trade area, such as an economic the position of territories outside any doubt that in a large free guarantees of good faith in sentinel behind it. Such a ted with European countries in ally integrated Europe would be Taiwan would be all the dualism of national policy is relation to the general European prices would be generally lowered greater by the stronger posi impracticable today.
a matter of the fret and the value of production in- economy, is a tion of the Americans on the But there is something to be moment night key cringed Production, would be Blandedek said for the kind of dualism these
Let ir suppose, however, that concentrated whore. It was most
problems are solved, conomicalNTARISTEN A Another, and very impor- which would be represented What beneft. is then expected to Practically, however there can tant, aspect of the matter is by a joint Anglo-American ap dow from an economically inte- be stiil less doubt that, unless the effect of any such move proach. It would be a rather this can best be illustrated by taken, the result would be to
grated Europe ? tar
countervailing monsturen were on the unity of British and complicated busincas-but a simple analogy, Avokkaat create throughout Europe a great American policy. If we all then it generally la even If the countries of Great Bel- mumber of depressed areas with got Into Feking together, the when operated by a single from one another by torid box and distress.
tain were separated' scenomically all the attendant unemployment moral: reinforcement of the unit. And the proposed riers, by exchange control, and bo This could be pre Western cause In China-and scheme in Taiwan would help on, and if each of them endea by resort to the very methodd only prevented of moderation" in "Peking's Hong Kong not to feel quite voured to be as nearly as possible for regulating, trade, employed policy would be very great so exposed and lonely: if it self-supporting ach country in hitherto which, even if they wore Indeed But moral strength does really feel that way the whole would be worse off...
¡dividually would be worse off and given "different names, would be
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