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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, FEBRÚARY 6, 1050.
Pro and con:
DISCUSSIONS ON THE ELECTION
In several million houses,
pubs, clubs, restaurants, rail-
way trains, the great election:
By Windrush"
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debate is now on. Most of for the Tories to talk about "falth| say they preferred the old system. the arguments travel again before appetite.". The Tories have It was more human. and again on the same lines, not known the shadow of the The averago discussion pro-
employment exchange. bably runs something like this.
Real prosperity.
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consider
But, granted that the crisis fa] to grave, We want to know what the Tories would 'do about it.
Financial policy
Good Morning
It is announced that Seretse Khama is not going to be allowed to take up his chieftainship in Bechuanaland.
This showe the danger marrying typists.
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of
"U.S. prepared to ck hell"
As the old saying goes, lick a great) Russlan and * you'll
taste. trouble is controls. Labour tries{ something 'satanic. to keep the economile system ab- solutely stable. But there can be
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around here
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"Germany's largest scandal."
No Myrtle, an epistle is not the
Has five years' of Socialiam made our people more or less
Con: The real trouble is, the That's not all. During its Ave resourceful, more or less hard-
they DE honest Anangial policy of the Socialists. years in power Labour Govern- working? Are
What about That is inflation. Because of in- ment has pushed on with expand and Inw abiding? The Socialist: Ite the moraling our social services so that our the black market which always ation we have high wages and out of Stalin." side that counts. You can't deny people have now the finest healttoes with socialism? Put. that high profits. We can't compete that Labour stands for "fair system and the finest education question honestly to yourself and internationally. The next All news contributions to be shares". Did the Tories
system in aver
the world. Go through answer fairly, addressed to Editor-in-Chief.
think there should be fair shares? our streets. Look at the children Advertisements and Business We had a social revolution In Compare them with the children;
a healthy economie system only There was a fateful cap in our communications should-be-ad-Britain in 1945. Its-not-a-crude of pro-1939. Have we progress-
Ir there is perpetual change. Un-contemporary's "faletut 30 years dressed to the Company CHINA revolution of the old kind when ed, or have we fallen back?
Next, the country may look as profitable enterprise must be dis- series" on Saturday. Fate is ful MAIL LTD.
one class overturned another and extinguished it or at least tram-
Here we have a community in prosperous as you claim. But is continued, new enterprise must of shocks for the unwary. pled on it. It has been a revolu- which everybody is guaranteed it real prosperity? Will it last? be encouraged. You will never the get this under socialism with fla work. Everybody gets the health That is the question, and
Taking about Rosseliin! getting the rigid controls.. The only way by the same, publicity. bliling as WHAT TO DO WITH❘on in moral and ideas.
service... he necda. Everybody electorate has to
following facts. Our gold and which you can restore vitality-to THE MOVIES From now on each person in Rets the fullest educational op dollar reserve today is one-sixth the economic system, is to restore Bergman, the same paper naked. the community is to count for oportunity. The standard of living what it was when the Labour the proft motive accompanied, "I wonder way, as though I didn't, and no more than one. We will is rising. There is social justice
to of course, by social safeguards. now the trouble with a lot here is nothing new about all than padahallenings and class. This Government took office. Up this question. It has been have of course hardly reached what you wish to destroy on photo Exactly find will fall my this t
It means asked in various tones and that stage yet. Who will say that you wonder that we are indig has been kept going by Marshall you what this means.
ald-not mentioned, I remind you, unemployment, systematically don't speals American, English, the shoe is yet pinching the real--nant? tempers ever since stage pics lyrich?
in your manifesto. Cut off Mar- created. It means the queue at they sound as if they came from What about the enor were cast at the Keystone mous profits still being made by
The Tories have made a great shall ald, and we could not buy the labour exchange. It means Kensington,
the social services. Cops. If it isn't money, or Industry? Is the middle class deal of play with pre-war prices the raw materials for our indus- an attack. lack of it, it's the mission. really in difficulties-If you mean Well, prices. then were low, Sory Marshall aid IS to bo et It means forcing down wages. It do we do means such hatred of labour
A title formerly held proudly does against capital as you have never by dimcullles what the working were wages-if you were lucky of in 1952. What
party The Chinese Communists, of class has had to put up with for enough to have wages, and not then? The Labour
known before, arul It means, if it by Goering. course, make no problem of generations?
the dole. It is not much satis- not tell us.
lasts long enough, eventual "revo- it.
faction to have low prices if A playwright told the
Don't say that crisis does not lution, and, probably, Communism. The Conservative: I necept your wages are still lower.
Don't say If that is what you want, vote wife of an apostle. audience at a British Council
happen in this way. your ideal of thre "Welfare film show last week that they State." The Tory party accents:
the crisis is a bogey. You have Tory. already seen that disasters do No working man trusts the Intended to control the films It. It is the basis of "The Right
happen. There was the coal crist Torles. They don't stand for the and make, them an instru-Road for Britain."
The Tory argument in 1947, brought on by adminis-nation. They are a narrow, class ment of policy.
trative incompetence. Well, that conscious party, following narrow The Socialist: What, that dis-
stated facts, put industry late for three weeks. class interests. They are trying Future films would fall honest document.
So much better than having Tory propa- Well, I will state facts also. Un- There has been devaluation. to exploit the crisis in an under them scattered all over one's face. into three categories. The ganda at its most unscrupulous. first would glorify the work- The Tories promise everything-employment., The Labour Party Don't tell me that devaluation-hand way to steal back to power.
today. Everybody which it will mean-was ers and peasants and villainise we never see the promises car cannot claim the credit for full with the rise in the cost of living No working man in his senses
some-will vote Tory. Churchill, though The young man wow laying ried out. In "The Right Road for employment the old feudalists. The Brilsin" they promise to extend knew that there would be full thing which the Labour Govern- he is a good enough leader for relge to the pretty young thing
war, mims up in peace-time all "Don't you
understand?" he second the anti-films-social services and in the same employment for years after the moni wanted and planned.
war while the war damage was
we most fear--and, yes, mast urged. "I want to marry you. 1 |breath_they_say that government
knew that despise would tilt at all the windmilis. J'expenditure must be severely cut,į being revhired. When the uriem--Soc......... Everybody The third would be passive, The electorate
Con: It is Labour which is the Want you to be the mother-of- ployment danger does recur, we Great Britain would be in for a may be silly at
economic crisis sectional party. Does Labour my children," have a plan to deal with it. I long period of
do which-seems-too-true to be times but won't be silly enough is the plan agreed on jointly by after the war. We have lost our stand for the nation? Does it
you have?" good. Our playwright has to be taken in by that.
foreign investments which used to stand for the middle class? La- Labour and Conservative minis-
enable us to balance our national bour stands for the rule of the already begun to drive A Con: Well, if it comes to dis- ters in 1944,
accounts. And
remember. The trade unions over the nation. carriage and pair through the honesty, what about the election
workera that in economie crisis is not really
Lab: The categories. The wicked feudal manifesto of the Labour Party? 1945 the Socialists said they were British crisis, It is n
sterling majority
the of the nation. And Not one word about Marshall aid. parents, for example, would Hardly a word about the econo- going to make a new world by area crisis, It Great Britain did British tradition is for rule by Berlin because, they said, there
was not have to send unrequited cx- the majority, enable "Romeo and Juliet" to mie crisis. Surely if there is one planning". Nationalisation creup Into the anti-Feudal fact which overshadows all others the watchword. It still is. You ports to the Commonwealth it category.
today, it is the economic crisis. are out to nationalise steel, sugar could get along without Marshall crisis is cement and so on. But are you aid. We have paid £750,000,000 to the Commonwealth. That Certainly there's nothing is the supreme issue at the elce- still so confident about losses
Issues at stake nearly all we have 50 like trying until the purges tion. The voter won't get much the coal-fields and an the rail-is
under Marshall come along. The
received noted of an answer from the Labour ways. Nationalising looks like
bankruptcy, The Tories used to be the great At this stage, with the temper well-known bulldog, Scowl." the quick way to American writer J. P. Mc-manifest,
And what about labour? The champions of the Commonwealth of the disputants beginning to
new small miners don't love the Coal Board. Do you object to us fulfilling our rise, an impartial observer might
to the Common-step in and say: or the railwaymen the Railways obligations Executive. Some of the workers wealth?
"Enough of all this, You will here is the one for women. This never agree. As a looker-on, Is a typical example of the way in which designers are using the perceive that you, the Socialists whole body width for seating have not really faced the logica
accommodation." of the crisis. But you, the Tory, have produced no policy for
What to do about the
Evoy, says that when he was There is a crisis
last in Moscow he tried to
call our manifesto "Let Us Win!
phesies have misfired, Was Inst
All the
the old times of Tory rule. Then
Con: You have
I seem to remember
Irish democracy
be
ald.
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Dro
beyand vague general principles
-and principles which divide the salion, not unite it, as surely necessary in time of crisis.
"She is a slender blonde with incredibly blue eyes, all in a congenial group.",
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But how many asked the girl,
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The Russians seem to be taking the cold war 103 literally,
They closed the autobahn to
ice on the road,
wo
Making him lose face?
"He went on to describe the new bust of Churchill with his
"Of all the
E
cora,
Gives the ladies a chance. to spread themselves, in fact.
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What did your father
Bay
when you told him you had won'
I have my doubts whether you Grst prize for dictation?"
are really as opposite to one an-
"He sald, "Well, well, you're its other as you may think now dur- getting more like your mother
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ing election time. It may be every day." that, whichever party wins, it will
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will
see how the Russians were Soc: Of course we agree that getting along in film pro- there is a crisis, and a desperate- duction, and how many morey grave one. That is why we future inventions of Holly-Through Together". But don't wood they had already anti-you admit that the Tories have cipated. He found that pro- been exaggerating the extent of duction had slowed down to the crisis-well, just a very lit-
By Frank MucDermot tle? Of course they are all for an imperceptible crawl be-the nailon. But aren't they a cause of an ideological con- shade glad that the crisis has The Irish Republic is to the ther Parliament shall be dis
solved before it has served flict. Everybody in the busi- come? Why', ever since 1947 British people a source of
full form. ness was waiting for this to they have been saying that we food and labour supply, a were to go bankrupt any moment be settled, so as to avoid
In theory, therefore, coalitions follow much the same policy as and would have to live off potato holiday resort, a place of re- being charged with
Its rival would have done. It is could disintegrate and the peelings. I don't seem io see fuge from the fever and fret
arranged or replaced by others public opinion which still rules in crimes of deviation, cosmo- many people yet who have to of world affairs, and, less as frequently as, in France dur England, and public opinions sees politanism, от "dialectical live of potato peelings.
differences between the dumb-bunnyism," and being bluff. We are
Well, we are going to call your agreeably, a political institu- ing the life of a single Parlia less
not bankrupt. tion dedicated, because of mont. For this, however, he parties than their leaders suppose. ther public nor Parliamentary Government must be carried on; sent on location to a Siberian Again and again the Tory pro partition, to the task of dam- opinion has yet been conditioned. and events dictate policy even salt-mine,
"in pride,
more then principles do. Christmas so miserable? Are the aging England
A second factor is that Irish
Fundamentally the state of McEvoy was puzzled why people impoverished? What about pocket and prestige." As a
not Ministers qualify for the pensions Britain, politically, is the Russians should bother so our production figures? No coun- variety of democracy it has when they have been three years desperate. Whatever is said at much about foolproof pro- try in Europe has raised its out- also, however, a special in- in omee. One could wish an election, each party respects paganda pictures for their put as we have done, both in interest.
with the proviso that the qualify and tolerates the other. Each is dustry and agriculture. That own people, and why they is cold statistical fact.
ing period must be continous
guided by a mixture of idealism Ireland (I mean to beg no that this arrangement existed in d self-interest. Neither will are not flooding the world figures have been published -- questions by using that title for France in place of the empty ho- go to extremes, Whichever side with their movies, if the only the Tory Press either did the Republic), like France, has nour of being called "Monsieur wins the election, the other will story they have to tell is so not print them, or hid them away proportional representation and le Ministre" for evermore, which be deeply disappointed-but - it |
on a back page. wonderful. If they had not
multiplicity of parties, Ireland, accrues even to the office-holder will not be in despair. Compare the state of our peo-ike France, is ruled by a coalf-of a few days, or a few hours. not really believe the govern- yet invented the best anti- ple today, in the midst of this al- tion. American propaganda film, leged crisis with their state In
Thirdly, and most important, ment to consist of ogres,
After all, no party is going to it was perhaps because they every Saturday was a black day together by fear of Mr. de Vu- ties other than the, Communists peets by behaving in
The Irish Government le held trish partios, unlike French par.
compromise its long-term pros- way which didn't have to, "because to the working man. He did not lera, as is the French by fear of are led from the top. Party Hollywood is doing it for know from week to week if it the Communists. There the
congresses duly meet and adopt Will alienate half the nation and them."
would bring him notice that his resemblance stops. Mr. Cosgrave resolutions--sometimes very wild the vital "noating vote". job was at on end. Now we have full employment.
was in power for 10 years, Mr. resolutions but have little in- de Valera for 18; Mr. Costello is Bluence on policy. : To maintain full cnfployment approaching the end of his sc-
In France, party we have described in our election cond year, and still going strong. our polley. We know that that small majorities. manifesto as the supreme aim of All have had to manage with have more than enough self-as- French coali- surance to be dangerous, anu it is we who are in touch tions with large majorities fall sometimes impose their will on
few months;
a Cabi M. their representatives in Aud the people. It is all very well Queuille's success in lasting a net, Where in France you get year was considered phenomenal. ideological ardour or passion for a programme, in Ireland you get Why are Irish Governments to fidélity to persons and respect for aggerated tales of violence and dous, asset for selling the de- much more durable than French? ministerial solidarity. gunplay, and sordid stories of mocracy we believe in and in the cases of Mr. Cosgrave and alum life, juvenile delinquency, for which: So and lawlessness.
many had Mr. de Valera special reasons can By-elections were expected to "In Hong Kong you could fought and died-surely the be found arising out of the civil shake the unity of the confition war, the separatist movement, and and so far have not done so. In soe Red Communist flags flying incomparable propaganda
that West Donegal recently two Gov. the second world war, and unly a few miles away weapon must be the envy of each was able in fort to govern ernment candidates were in the Communist forces OR the America's traducers. Yet, he with a single-party Ministry. But feld against one of Mr. de Va border....And- then along come the Hollywood movies, contends, it is telling not the the case of Mr. Costello takes a lera's, but the MacBride momines
lot of explaining.. written by Americans and American, story but selling made in America-gaying, in the Russian lie of the "cor- -effect, that our great cliles aro
ruption and degeneracy of only shining fronts behind which most of our people live American democracy." in filth and poverty, crime and American films are not all corruption.
of this type, of course. The "You can sit with French- trouble is that the exhibitors Italy and Latins in any coun- are dominated by the popular try in South America, and the taste, and the Chinese film only America you 800 Over goers in this part of the and over, week after wook, is world are uninterested In ection.
opory the society drama or films of Three-crises for thle cohesion and even to abolition of projoz-. The noted columnist ad- that type. They clamour for suggest themselves. One is the tional representation", mits the many reasons why violent action. The taste can habit of mind, formed during the VAIKINKS AN the American movie has con- be sublimated, however, as associates abangeuza Covarn: MacBride, both in their middle Union with Great Britain, which Meanwhile Mr. Dulon and Mr. quered the world markets. It "The Three Musketeers ment with an appeal to the count 10% one an Independent and the is a superbly competent pleco proved. If it proven too dif477
Recently, he said, he spent two weeks in Hong Kong. In the three principal theatres the feature pictures were American.
The audiences were over- whelmingly Chinese, couldn't help cringing an I sat thero with them and saw un- rolled on those screens ex-
men in France and Italians în
the America I've just describ-
ed."
is what the people want. because
of entertainment. It is full of ficult to make movie heroes glamour, and glows with out of poor but honest: youth and beauty, Above all, who carve,
it has tempo, pace and a lions, col vitality that hypnotizes and adventure enchants people everywhere found in Burely, he says, this tremen- of
apart in a
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no more
managed to pass, on
"militants"
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more than
80 per cent of his votes in the se- Since the coalition of Fox and cond count to the Costello nomi- North there has been
noe The general election, not startling combination than that due for three years more, will be of Mr. Costello, Mr. Dillon, Mr. woverer test. Norton and Mr. MacBride, Yet ev despite certain indiscretions, and Mr. de Valera is 47 and when symptoms of greater departmental he retires from the scene any Independence than has been cus thing may happen. It may be tomary, there is no sign of a real come the rule for all parties to break, and the team may well be represented in an Irish Gov- carry on till the next General ernment. Alternatively a period
of confusion, may send the coun Na try back to the two-party system
other leader of a party, of eight Santha, Dall **** fwy dominating #Administration/Mr,
Now, Willie, you leave that.
ship alone.
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