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As the New Year is already fortnight old most of us have cheerfully abandoned. our sterner resolutions. ready they have turned out either wildly impractical or, which is far more tiresomņe, much too uncomfortable.
Hoping to catch you are the rebound, Dil Nhe lo anter a few ild suggestions of resolttions for men and women lik 1950.
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THE, HONG KONG SUNDAY HERALD, JANUARY 15, 1950.
·By..
HOLT
Behind the political
scene
By Alastair Forbes
Mid-century prospects
KU
thick
And
warm but as woolly as Bradford
wool,
It appears that we are all, seemed not only wrong in assuming that the second half of the twentieth century was ushered in by this month's Auld Lang Syne singing.
moxi
will be a popular misconcep- but wasn't that Mi James can upon ourselves um completely,
tion difficult to dismiss. unaden meiner has | with the coll (though nur un-
But the estdence for some future board j prejudiced) eye of incessant self-coming your promises sufficiently
analysis, if we continue to grow important happenings for
able to postpone inty and more subjective about people to be
midt-century entebrations otiselves, and if everybody does their
shine, KIJON There will be for another 12 months when they (nobody to notice if we improve
will have the opportunity to jol- Fot So act care if does ticate to their hearts content in
couldn't Sovetil telteti
the Festival Fun Fair in Batter- we look eutward a little more in the New aen Pork. Year"
You ate hypocrisy" M- What it a wife feeling suddenly comartie, nahs her devoted life- partner does he stil
to enjoy dance with her?
Instead of making her happe fond she would be by just on- awaring "DI entirse, dailing" he sets out word of whtasy atul sayə "Well 1 Jan what it war when vau were fat 41 old gal Let's and he quite sie bank'
*
Wouldn't we perhaps resolve la remember Thoi cheap wireracks often boomerang.
we mittal not discuss Our
That Supposing that in 1950 we de- †
be pleasant and suwete, without a cutest to leave peychiatry, psy- ¿dildren at great length unless } apoinging the doing so
I don't mean that, siker the head
"The Bucksters"
everyone
should rush out and buy a Tes- bly Sincere The and cover the Faces with exprongbins ut ran stour; then we shuuri ati berome
skicere ha us most
Only t MOLNIK LAKIEN
ascri
bre drowning to ORIT now th bacoge There use to amun idora- Tres, too many Bims, Prest Th
many banks avalable
All situations have been present
red and now We
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make use of Dur inigunge nay "I know it's tole but
"To ulewiet It sounds bauint
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1 modern young
NORIA UZEOUS wonder if the
man, progansink.
VATBY.
By knew it sounds but, darling I love you" Ita come right *** 1930 and br bravely pleasant when we ran
more
Alternatively let's wat be quite so frank, the opon a bargın “a frank, open fire" was a compl-
Not as
If anyone AJIKILIKON of themselves they are "Just naturally frank" they are telling you that when they feel
inclined they
quitu nie
excep-
tionally rude.
I would not rob the world of criticlam; int real criticistma 15 based on informed opinion. No body who wants to get on in life can expect to avoid eriiciam.
But can husbands and wives afford to be so frank with cartr other? Not entirely The wife who says her husband'a after- dinner speech
"All right, Was
Getting Up Nights Stopped in 24 Hours
began.
› nights, burning setina (ion of hith discharge, duit ache at basa of spine, groin and bag pains, BeryourDeK, When und loss of tranly vigour ar caused by a dissers of the Prostate Gland In 1901 important sex gland in men). To overcuns these trouble” in 21 hours and quickly
vigour and haäjih, take the
now clone Acuvery called Roganu.
No matter how long you have suffered Rogona in guaranteed 10 mei you riktil, relavigorate your Prostata Glland and make you feel 10 to 10 yeare younger or money buch Get Regene from Your chemist. The wukrentes protects you.
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"I know it sounds corny...
darling, I love you !"
chology and psycho-analysis ra- ther
those
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are
qualified practitioners--or else in need of them
There is nothing more fuscinat- ing, of cours, than the endless
discussion of oneself.
But I can't help thinking that it would be nice if in 1950 we could go for a country walk, not "because it is good for me but simply to look outwards and see the scenery, simply be cause it Is good to be alive nad to be able to go for a walk.
And couldn't
we
tr Π
but,
an
we are prepared to listen about other
children for people's equally interminable period.
That it is not pollte to be a
We shall terrified that
forget that story our own funny
we
An unholy year
For 1950 to Britain is to be an unholy
of politicking in year which the public will be forced to watch the dntion's great men leage a grea! exhibition of Their theirselves
efforts to secure a majority IN the next Parliament
Fortunately.
M uncheerful entertainment (the eraekers and ryneker mottoes, NO 10 which must necompany rantie calendar). is likely to be before the bag of spring's Best Bowers,
demo-
MI Shinwall's recent threats at Bridford of the ultimate in- tention of the Socialists to dis- possess every owner of property are not at all the Nov! of line which seripl-writers Herbert Mor- Flon and Mauree Webb menn lu leave tu the show on the open-
g night.
Wooing the votes
It is probably Mr. Webb who has had the notion Include Mr. J. 1. Priestley
the speakers who are shortly to who our votes on the alt, in the series
of political broadcasts which la t1 itself i forewarning of an early poll.
is
Bradford
Careless talk
Mr. Priestley is more at home.
thau abrond. particularly always found woolliness got
Not long ago-
In his own Island Foreigners. and Americans, have of that his sort under their skin. his careless talking on the other side of the Atlantic only junt fall- ed to qualify him for a post na Under-Scerctary to Mr. Bevin.
unc
for
Mr. Priestley has often arter with politles, and there have eveil been times when he scenied to have
large
dreamilly corked for the sound of the peo- ple calling him to proside over their destinies. No doubt it was something more profound than a dislike for tri-night
It's just
wee patch of fog! **
own and present-day Tory be- lief is scarcely in a condl- on to take on two adversaries so very mitch larger than itself.
Tactical plan
It would be more than a pity if its name, which is its prinel- pal remaining asset, were to dis- appear from the British political vocabulary. would be a pity Also if were to lose altogether Its separate identity. audiences
Under a working arrangement Tory with a greatly liberalised
cxints (the Party such as now Labour
alllance would offer
good pattern)
to neither would have be lost. And in exchange for promised Tory
Alternate support for
plan
and the dramatic critics of the "capitalist Press" that sent him, a few years ago, lumbering good deal further Leftwards than he had at first intended.
Co-operative
ם
to
Vote
system.
might be devised
But his own experience of the Sociuliat experiment
seems bave reawakened in his writings much of
his deeply
ingrained Liberalism. Therefore his choice
as a party speaker is interesting. and indicates how strong in going to be Mr. Morrison's bid to per- side the floating vote 15 Полка once more to the left of Centre.
Priestley's task
I will presumably be Mr. Priestley's task, as a -prominent Radical middlebrow, to
attempt
to argue several million Lberula Into voling Socalist, and to play Up all the traditional Liberal dis- like of Conservatism in the past. But if there is one thing upon, which all leading Liberals seem to be agreed, and the event is a suffbichily memorable one, it i that a further term of Socialist administration would be disas- Gous for the country.
Mr. Priestley man; perhaps, with Will, Rothen-follow
It la therefore very dieult to the reasoning of BOY
the coming contest.
stein and Humbert Wolfe, one of Liberal who proposes to cast a that city's most distinguished sons vote for any Socialist candidate in of the past 50 years. Sorne of his unkinder fellow-tenante In Albany, Piccadilly, pretend that 1 was not until he had been in London for matty years that Mr. Priestley Arst began to affect the
accent which fruity Bradford now winds its way past his per- petual pipe.
It was that accent, warm
thick and
Mr. Morrison must rate Liberal intelligences low if he believes that there wil de a large body of them inclined lo reason that the Labour Government must still be all right if dear Mr. Priestly in still supporting it.
The Liberal Party proper has us Bradford wool, which, yet to announce the number of
barely stop long enough to laugh during the forties lent for many candidates which it proposes to 信息 nomebody clac's (of course, such delight, to the broadcasts put" in the field, or
which
have points of difference otherwise might quite unfunny) launch it.
taic
before we
That husbands and wives may both reasonably suppose they hold each other's affections, but it's an odd type who doesn't like to hear an occasional word on the subject.
That It is a beautiful world, cinema because we'd like to see even if all the inhabitants аге a film, and not as a "sort of dope" | not.
от "a form of escapism"? (We 1 ended my first colume this shall escape from this life soon time last year by saying the pur- enough in all conscience!)
suit of happiness need not al-
I'm in favour of making use ways end like a wrhith vanishing
can
of all the "psychos" to Improve in the mist. Sometimes it our personal appearance, or be be found by just tending the haviour.
whatever. I only flowers in your own back yard. suggest, gently, that if we turn I still belleve that to be true.
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tactical which wres many more seats from 14- hour then can HI present be counted upon.
Disastrous term
The alternative 13 for cuch Liberal to continue to do every⋆ thing in his power to "kill the thing he loves," and for a large
vote and ineffectual Liberal
14] spread a thin but welcoming enes pet eross the country over which Socialison will ride to a second and more disastrous term of power.
for such It is late in the day
be M arrangement to
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are already In train. But a useful and fruitful beginning might be made by the Torics if they were to ensure that Sir Archibald Sineinir be given a chance to regain his old seat at Caithness which will surely ge
to
Labour
a three-cornered If contest takes place.
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