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When Mao Tse-tung left for Moscow the Chinese Com- munists were flushed with an unparalleled military victory. Their liberation armies hud overrun Manchuria and China Pruper from Changchun to Canton and from Chengtu to Shanghai. In its course they swallowed up and -absorbed millions of well-armed but ill- spirited Nationalist troops. A new and disciplined Titan had appeared Nobody knows how high were the ex- pectations expected from the Werk mission to Moscow.
succeded week amid a silence regard as many began to ominous. Now at last the
THE CHINA MAIL, FIUDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1950.
WHY DOES CYPRUS WISH
More blue and white Greek flags than Union Jacks flutter from the churches and schools of Cyprus. More portraits of, King Paul of Greece than of Britain's King hang in the Lavernas,
A strange state of affairs in a British Crown Colony, British since 1878?
TO SECEDE?
Romans,
By J. L. Hays
Well off
But the truth
that their
missione" consisting of the head- man and four elders.
Good Morning
I understand that local naturists
Income tax is low, A. £500-
Petrol is unrailoned. Food is are not considering making it a -year bachelor pays only £21. plentiful and, with the exception happy nude year.
of meat and cheese, inexpensive.
In millions
"Parents should talk with their children about sex without being embarrassed."
We should put on a bold face and pretend wè know as much
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The Churels sees in "Enosis" an, the formation of a Consultative opportunity to regain the wide Assembly. range of administrativo And Britain tells the Cypriots, frank- financial benefits normally accru- ly, that they do not know when Spending more than one-eighth Kashmir premier thinks Pake ing to churches of its type in they are well-off,
of its budget on education, the should just pack. arces not under British colonial
"Are they?
Administration has provided 700 Well, "Enosis" rule,
supporters free elementary, schools (1,400 THE MASSES-Cypriots have especially when abroad--are teachers and 60.000 pupils) and
In over-fond of describing British 37 secondary schools, Perhaps but it helps to explain never governed themselves. why in the recent unamelal "ple- tum, Egyptians, Assyrians, Per- rule an "oppressive," and them- biscite" the Island's 365,000-strong sans,
Byzantines, selves as "slaves under the British
Nearly half-way through a 10- about it as they do. reck-speaking Cypriots voted to Templars, Venetians. Turks and Imperialistle yoke.. heavily in
in favour of "Ensi
British-have-done the job for
year £10,000,000.development. plan, the Administration is spend-- PPC expected;" union with Greece, 400 miles away them. They say they are Greek
card-carrying across the Mediterranean.
by virtue of shared language, re-
They need tile persitalon ing. £3,500,000 on a scheme to Fifty Too.frequently forgotten in Bri-gion and culture and, reacting at
electricity. hus Communists are alleged by U.S. gloomy provide cheap allen rule, before launching on tal in the fact that four-fifths of last to centuries of
[1] Mother-
catalogue of trade and unemploy- freed the island from malaria, senator to be on Blate Depart-
efficient health
servien ment payroll. the population of Cyprus speak long desperately for
ment problems, and complaining rung an
A possibly misguided 'corres- Creek, and are members of the land.
THE COMMUNISTS. The about the ever-increasing cost of and is adding to the 700 miles of Greek Orthodox Church,
all-weather roads,
pondent says he can only de- "hard core" leadership of the living.
But tell many "Enosis" suppor-precate true comrades aging the island's estimarinated Left has worries are common to all their ters what they will have to go practices of the bourgealale. Communist-dominated aligned itself with the Church in neighbours in the Mellterranean, without if Cyprus goes to Greece, the
compaign only in an Those of the Cypriots are, in fact, and the reply will be: "Would "Enosis" effort to embarrass the British Insignificant in comparison with you desert Britain when she is having a bad time? Greece needs to smash
majority. the authorities.
Anglo-
Although there are mild securi- us as much as we need Grecce." Why, then, do the Greek-speak-Greek friendship, to weaken the
This simple sincerity, mostly| West in one of the most vitally ty regulations in tores governing
Myrtle says, after reading a ing Cypriots demand "Enosis?"
meetings and speeches, they commonly found in the
magazine article, that it seems pur The answer to that is that not strategic areas of the world.
Britain's answer to the "Enonis" enjoy more general political and nrens, deserves respect. all of them do soby any means.
If it was representative of the forefathers are not living as long religious freedom than any other The "plebiscite" vole must be demand?
"Enosis" thousand entire
movement, as they did. regarded for what it is worth. It We say that in the existing community
Britain's present stand ngulost
The two old sailors, retirea organised by the Church. state of tension in the world this miles.
There are 40 newspapers and "Enosis" would be more difficult Voting was neither secret nor pro- is not time for war-torn, bank-
rupt Greece-depending for sur-magazines circulating in English, to justify at a point in British after 30 years' service, purchased
at The six history perly supervised.
which indignant a small tavern in a country town." minority-perhaps amounting to take over the island.
There is, in fact, a "chadow"vival on Western assistance to Turkish and Greek.
even if main towns and the 10 largest Cypriots are inclined to coinplain: The place was closed down while villages boast municipal councils "Surely we are as worthy of in- it was painted inside and out and
made generally shipshape, one-third of the Greek-speaking Athens was willing to do so.
con-elected by male voters over 21-dependence as the Burmese?" Britain offers, Instead, a population and excluding the in-
But sincerity is in short supply tensely pro-British 150,000-strong stitution immediately responsible years of age. Nearly 600 smaller mixed Turkish-Armenian com- Cypriots come forward to join in villages are governed by "Com- within the "Enosis" ranks. munity-ngainst union.
Yet, although Cyprus is known to have been populated since 4000 B.C., the island has never boon part of Greece, never been ruled by Greeks.
WHEN
Dangerous
But pobile opposition to "Encals" Is virtually out of the question for stay-at-home. Cypriots.
within
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great man
Descartes: a great
By "WINDRUSH”.
were
to
rural
doubt systematically every leged fact which humanity usual
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A school for dogs has been opened in Erigland.
Post-graduate courses will be popular.
The villagers, after a few days, Rathered outside and one of them knocked at the door. A window opened and one of the sailors asked the reason for the crowd.
"We want to know when you're going to open up." was the reply. "Open up!" retorted the sailor. -We bought this place: for
ourselves!"
*
"What's puppy love, daddy?" "The beginning of a dog's life.......
work knows much, if not all, } And himself and his family "sens tercentenary is being celebrat- dle nges had thought that it was cept one thing could be doubted heard two sounds that could have
that transpired.
new one.
to Coventry" in his village.
Three stands
con
born In
But what was
of
with
mor:
"At 11.55 p.m. the watchman been shots, and what sounded like groaning. However, he was not sufficiently Impressed to Investigate."
That's the worst of Chinese
that
married
show Records women drive more slowly then married men. Most women will do anything to stay under 30.
A shopkeeper daring to air opinions contrary to "national
This month three centuries aspirations" would and his pre-
ly accepted. Were material ob- mises boycotted. A doctor would age there died one of the really
jects real? They seemed to be shop great men of European history, lose his patients, a coffee
of vene which scientists
1.00. But perhaps a denion was owner his customers. A business He died at Stockholm man would at his name printed pneumonia which he had tried accept at least until the formula deluding man, and the object my boy."
tion of the quantum theory were usion. He applied this ant insulted in Communist
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in vain to cure by deep pota-
this present century.
method to every fact and science. newspaper. A peasant would
tions of brandy. This year his
The philosophers of the mid- its conclusion was that all ex- undoubtable thing was ed in every country of Europe. possible to reason in the abstract This one
He was
not a statesman, or about the universe. From ideas that-if there was an act The Chinese negotiators are
"the doubting, there must also be a And the excltable Cypriots are soldier, or oven a sabit, But he such as "God," "nature", bringing back a Russian I.O.U.
"and from pro: doubter." "Ca these ideas, they quick to use violence, although lafd a part, and a most important i universe,"
He formulate: this In the -a promise to pay back, not normally the kindest and most part, of the foundations of mo- positions using now but two years hence, the hospitabile people in the Middle dern science, Without him we thought that it was possible to famous maxim Cogito Ergo Sum. New Year.
therefore I am" An have do deduce other ideas and proposi- "I think, should probably not Manchurian inheritance of the Enst Tars which the early Bolanalysed thus
"The "Enosis" claim be veloped our selentine civilisation tions which gave the universe a having reached bed-rock
this fact, after staggering through exactly on the lines which it has coherent explanation. sheviks fervently
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of the Renaissance borts of illusion, he proceeded to ex. THE CHURCH. The all- taken.
At the time of coriated. That is the only powerful Greek Orthodox Church His name was fiene Descartes. there had been a change of all-build upon this one solid fact
A microbe, swimming slong a material difference between provides the movement's leader- He was a Frenchman,
made the universe. once come suy that knowledge must Through a ship.
vein, came face to face with the Treaty of 1945 and the vinge priests working close to and from his schooldays he was from experience and
network of 1590. He was educated by Jesulta sude, and philosophers began to a logical superstructure which
not from rational and intelligible.
ly true that Descartes' for another microbe who looked ex questions, The thirty years the people, teaching in
HG pure thought. the always asking
in two ultimate truth? Can there bemula is now sharply criticised by tremely ill. "What's the matter say it with you, my poor friend?? allance is re-affirmed, but in schools, joining social and politi-greatness lay especially
BRAND Nominat ke asked. very different circumstances. cal life, they retain rigid control the rules of thought which mo- facts of natural science?
things.
One was in prescribing any absolute certainty about the philosophers. They
though there Is a process goin
"Oh! Don't come near me," The severity of the terms the
dern science was to follow. The The achievement of Descartes on which may be called doubt-
Ing, it illegitimate to deduce repiled the other. "I'm afraid I've Kremlin insisted upon at Communist policy. China other was in sketching in bron was to ntroduce the "melliod of
from this there is a personality, caught a little pentellfin." uni- doubt," He set himself
in "I" which does the doubtinit. Yalta as the payment for her may still want to do business outline the picture of the
Nevertheless Descartes' "method" Always willing to help. Myrtle six days war on Japan hus with us, but politically shel
dominated all the early days of advises: To develop a negative been ruefully admitted. But has slipped noiselessly over]
modern science in the West. girl, try a dark room. they were at least balanced to the other side. What has
Descartes other nchievement by the close ties between the been called the extraordinary
was to
to present the picture of the Universe DA
DR consisting cf matte Chinese Nationalist Govern-drama of the abandonment of
wax on a visit to Queen Christina ment and the Western Powers, imperialism in Asia by the
and motion," he said, “and I car of Sweden to explain his philos- especially the United States, West has been matched, in
crcute a world." This was th
. phy to her. It was her habit of the time for The political, economic, and historical significance, by the
framework on which all modern fixing live a.m. as international importance of decisions in Moscow. The
physics was bullt until our time giving audience which probably It led to materlaiton and th fed him to contract the chill that balance was vital. With confrontation of the two sys-
With the children home for Now I am very fond of good mechanistic theory of the uni
which proved fatal. the-collapse-of-the-Nanking-tems is now the foremost fac-
Though Descartes moved with just for a French dish to have
a revolution Descarter distinction in the great world of Government and the rapitor in Asia, and the West cat the week-ends, my wife's French-cooking-and-consider-lt verse.- triumph of the Communists, meet it only by the sternest preoccupation is with the label wherever it may be served. made in the thought of Europe affairs, he was also sincerely de
My quarrel is with the snob- | can only be
when the dicated to the life of the mind. grasped that balance vanished.
realism and a range of view larder, which, she complains.
is no sooner stocked than bisn which engenders such un- stock ideas of the eighteenth an Twice during his life, he fled Whether the new Chinese and policy as long as it must
Continental delicacies a lo steak nineteenth century physicists are from acquaintances, and joined empiled. leaders, in deciding so quickly be deep.
et kidney pouding (yes, I promise compared with the extraordinary the army in quest, of an obijcivo · to negotiate with Russia, The largeness of mind and
I have seen you
It with these barrage of idens of the so-called life in which he would be left own tired eyes) and tripes selealista of the time, say, off at peace to philosophiae grasped this fateful position, vision which has won for us a leaf from the restaurant Anglaise, which is unmistakably Shakespeare.
But he was always careful not to clog seems doubtful. Certainly it the goodwill and faith of and so add glamour to her in tripe and onions and unmistak
genious 'methods of making a
Descartes was a man of strang- his mind by reading too many was not lost on the Kremlin. Asian Nationalism, and made ittle go a long way by giving ex-ably English so why point it personality. He was born a no- books. He said that he consider It may be a long time before it the ally of the West, pro-elting French names to the most out in Fronch in an English res- Bleman, and always pretended t ed reading to be like making
taurant?
amaleur thinker. He Joursey Into a strange country the story is told of the long vides a moral content that for common-placo dishes. :
Another worrying aspect of scorned professionalism. He was a which causes one to feel a and hard bargaining, but it out-matches the morality, if Serag end of lamb is a harsh this social phenomenon is that man of fashion, dressed well, and stranger in one's own land. When would hardly be surprising to not always the immediate and realistle reminder of the there seems no escape from the lked to correspond on philosophy he died, very few books were learn that the hardest part of practical value, of the new times Britons live in, but to the French once you have embarked with Queens
found in his possession, Moscow Treaties.. It is at redolent of poetry and romance.
English ear Navarin de mouton is ] OD_
on It.
For instance, I And that Flor- least something to support and Mrs. Nelson, practical even in ence B. Jack, my, wife's culinary sustain the free democracies perplexity, insists that call it authority, translates Boeuf, a la in their choice of the free way what you will scrag end is made into English as Beef a la of life and their hope to end and there's no getting medel Come, come there must protect it against any threats of armed aggression.
it all was to get the promise, for every Communist is a Chinese when it comes to that meet vital of all the propre ties, the saving of face. The promise. does this, If by any chance it is not fulfilled, the iuss of face will go down to Ituseia's debit.
It is to be fortified by econo- mic nid which will, we trust,
About the rosbif of Old England
By John Kirk Nelson
I have advised her to borrow
Away from it.
be a point at which a total break It is easier, it appears, to fool from this foreign Influence is | your husband than your children.; possible.
Nor can it be concluded from Buch self-deception as I BUK~ gested should, however, be con- all this that the snobbism is aned to the privacy of the home peculiar to the English, What
Good old days
to supply machinery, of types lishment appeared a dish labelled
In the same privileged estab- it is, transformed into Rosbif.
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The price to be paid, while be far more generous than the and I suppose it is too much happens to the harassed diner two years are used to soildify niggardly economic provisions to expect candour in a restaurant who, bogged down by these in-
tricacles the situation In Manchuria, is of the Moscow Treaties.
menu. It
of menu-making, de-
as well crost to be found in the clause that was estimated by Mr. Pawley is credibly reported
There are isolated instances. It cldes that he may
that in the the Channel and learnt the lan binds China not to join any that `the value of machinery House of Commons restaurant guage before he starves to death alliance or group hostile to and other assets taken out of menu an Item did once appear for his ignorance? Russia. The
obligation is Manchuria as war booty by called Chicken ancienne, and this goes a long way to appease the mutual, of course. But the the Russians was about $2,000, most demanding secker after Does ho find Boeuf rott on his point is that China is estopped million. Rusata has promised truth.
Paris manu? He does not. There from restoring the balance on
And beefsteak, believe it or which the 1945 Treaty rested. closely resembling those taken Escalope of venison grandmaman, not, la Bisteck, which you can If by any chance there is a out of Manchuria, to the value and many a hardened politican's have a la Russe if you want to revolt in China Proper, the of a paltry $60 million each eye must have moistened at the have your geography" really mix- promise will no doubt be re- year for five years. The thought of the poor aid doued up
stricken in the autumn of her
I know I
I am always sighing for garded as invalid and direct value thus represented is todays
the good old days, and horo 1. go arrangements will be made, be paid off in the following I like to think that the more again. - In・tho
18th contury. as in 1924, with the North- ten years in the form of raw sentimental of the Liberals ab- when the economic of eating. East Government. The de materials, tea, gold and U.S. on when Dr. Summerskui, triad bought in bils and enten in bulk), stained, that this was the occa were rather, different (meat was licate but somewhat ungainly dollars.
nock, and that Mr. Gallaches the dinor-out was given a chance posture of leaning to one side Those provisions make a stuck to red mullet.
to know what he was about.
In 1808 a dininer was, held at has acquired a more restful harsh bargain. They repre that one man's fish is another the Langham Hotel under th
I suppose It should be conceded pose. Talk of secret agree sent the spirit of the whole man's poison, and I hope I shall auspices of the "Society for the ments and undisclosed pro Treaty, They form a sharp not be considered Insular 11 Propagallon of Horse Flesh as an tocols there may be the pic-contrast with the lavish protest against the indiscriminate Article of food fangsmate ture is clear enough without and large-minded economic use of Franch on British restau Under the mading of Buffer the rant menus especially, in such delicacies are listed in good stark them.
bald, under the Marshall Pinn, cases at 1% have encountered: English-Collared horse-head, Beside this fait decompli the to Europe, and the supply of when the English waiter, le unable Boron of horse," : "Bolled withers, "urgings to do something about goods in the past two or three to tell you whats, cooking, ball don't know if this society Taiwan are seen to be puerile years worth £660 million by cause hina french-lebot batterati exists, but I have a shrewd the gruntomer spot work stupidon that its good work is as unhappy and miserable Britain to India and other bars not purprising tozana Tatil being carried on here; and as the bombings and blockad wartime creditors to pay off bewildered her once came to there. But not quite so openly. ing of Shanghai, which are in debta contracted in hor de the conclusion that Ria da; vean bli dear, no
truth an instrument not of fence of these countries arca: fermer must omaan ; que ve Sparoviya thought when you Nationalist or independerice against the aggression or laugh of the call at the farmers next come across allat Ele boeuf Hallelus.. but, ing isinulla ola, Japa
and motion.
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