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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1950.
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The main pofrit of much 12, Des Voeux, Road, Central,"
anti-Socialist argument, in- Mézzanine Floor, HONG KONG,
cluding, Lord Vansittart's, is the advice that every elector Telephones:
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But what should these Communist meastires be?
FAIR DEAL
By R.H.S. Crossman
more than this` în assistance to poorer nations, particularly inside
the Commonwealth,
of
The great danger today is that instated free enterprise, abolished, the Chinese have already done-
the Tory Old Guard in Britain ralloning and controls, and per÷| unless the Western World can may panie the country into believ mitted the rich to grow richer offer them something more soliding that the manufacture and the poor poorer.
than words and phrases, soma. H-bombs and the equipping of The French miner, in despera- | thing more beneficial than the uie tank divisions must take, priority tion at the failure of French de- of their territories as military over these plans for a World Fair
Deal, mocracy to give him fair shares, | bases, sticks to the Communists. The In the long run the only way They would certainly be able to British miner, who has received a
to make the world safe from Com- persuade a Tory Government of square deal, la mare solidly munism is to create a World Fair | It. ^If they had their way, and anti-Socialist and democratic than Deal under which the wealthier rearmament took priority over
I ever before.
nations, which include not only social reconstruction, the reault The strangest thing about the the United States of America but would be: (1) The economic col- view which is set forth so vigor-Britain as well, come to the as- lapse which creates conditions for ausly by se experienced a states alatance of the poorer nations. the growth of Communism; and man as Lord Vansittart is that it Up to the very limit of our (2) A world war which, what- neglects the major fact In 'world capacity--if not beyond ever else it, did, would eliminate politics today-the demand of the Labour Britain has been doing Western democracy, coloured peoples of Africa and this since the war. We have re- Asia for freedom and fair shares. celved something over £1,500,- 000,000 under the American and Canadian Jouns and from Marshall We have passed on rather
All new contributions to be addressed to Editor-in-Chief.
Advertisementa and Business communications should ba ad. I agree that one Vaim of our dressed to the Company CHINA foreign policy should be to build
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Britain, and,
all the indeed. Western democracies," into a solid bulwark against Communism. But what sort of bulwark?
BIRTH
NIGEL-A the French Hospital,
Causeway Bay, on 21st Feb ruary, 1950, to Pat, wife of F. G. Nigel, a son,
SIAM'S PERSONAL POLITICS
the more
This is where the difference be tween the Socialist and the anti- Sociallet camp begins, Thus, Lord Vanalttart seems to assume that the more loudly anybody talks anti-Communism→
rell- able an ally he will be. We have Burely learned during the past four
years
ears what a
this is. Consider Consider Here, surely was an anti-Com- munist after Lord Vansittart's own heart, and the Americans supplied him with billions of dollars' worth of aeroplanes and tanks.
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One after another the Colonial peoples will KO Communist-as | Aid.
This is why I bellove that the best hope for world peace lies in the success of the Fair Deal In America and the Socialist experi- ment in Britain,
From an Election notebook
Chiang Kai-shek! FEBRUARY 4
And the result?.
Those aeroplanes and tanks are now the property of the Chinese Communists. By giving military nid to Chiang Kai-shek's and-
the Communist crusade
By "WINDRUSH”.
"History is a fable agreed on," Con- In their campaign,; the
said Napolean, The fable agreed servative have so far
on in England today by a ma- scored twice The Brst was, over their
jority of the people happens to election manifesto, The second
be one very much in Labour's interest. This is perhaps the was in Eden's speech tonight. I
bandicaps
Torics which the was an extraordinarily effective the Conservatives have a fatal performance, and it, was the handleap-people think of them face. People have adopted- first speech yet made by the as the party which wants,10 quite sincerely very highly Conservatives
which Labour keep things, instead of changing coloured picture of the "Hell of the years of Tory rule." It is an might wish unmade.
There are still plenty things, Eden has something' of the of natural conservatives in Eunhistorical and inaccurate ple- Ameri-knack of Baldwin in using the gland, It is true, but probably ture, at least in many respects-- but the essential weakness of the as played into the hands of the radio. He convinces. He is one of they are not a majority. Labour, Communists.
the
Conservatives in modern England very few Conservative clumsy and bumbling s It is, Thank
does look to. be trying to heavers the Labour speakers who can put emotion in-
to create
is shown by the fact that they society,
have not been able to smash this Government refused to participate to their voice without
a new belog
This and the belief that life FEBRUARY 10:
false, picture. In this nonsense. Thank heavens thought "phony". It was Mr.
Attlee refused to practise the latively simple speech; but it dis- he was caught red-handed in Churchill and the. Tory Party ad-bably felt was a right standard of a plot against the Govern-voente in India.
The Siamese General Kach an unwilling Songkram is guest in Hong Kong. He is also by no means a welcome guest, and we see no reason why he should not move on when his extended transit visa expires. His allegation that British business corporations in Bangkok paid the police many thousands of dollars to get him deported is arrant
a rc-
has been made rather easter hy social services-and the fixed
The jungly roars that interrupted Mr. Morrison's speech at Chatham Indicate that unwilling members of the welfare stato are prepared 'to accept further dictation lion down.
not
If they carry out this project to build a subterranean U.S. capital as defence against enemy bombing, will Senators and Congressmen be able to describe the themselves as members of Underground?
Bloke wins cocktail competition with
named concoction
After Amethyst's commander.
Judging by the ingredients, bou have to be pretty heroic to dash down the explosive mixture.
Li Tsung-Jen's doctor advises against his return to Taiwan,
Yes, the conditions there aren't really too healthy,
·
Unpleasant peasants.
These "nice tax collectors" who are reported to be having much a dimcult time with farmers. in the Southern provinces ́ surely deserved reception.
11 поте
courteous
My wife planted some bulbs Upside down, Silly clown,
They were hyacinths, We haven't seen thai elntha, But I bet Old Nick
Is taking his pick.
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"Conservatives claim swing to
•
right."
Yes, I'm afraid there will soon be none of the old jazz left.
"Cabbage le, without doubt, the
to one article.
nonsense. The truth is that type of anti-Communism that Mr. I played what most listeners pro- boiled that, a Conservative ·Gov- j até confident now of a majoriti most popular vegetable," according
ment, was given the choice
of deportation or of suffering
the penalty of his activities,
class.
and took the wiser course. It pened there if we had followed vention, The action by the Li-That has. strengthened the con- standing as an Independent. He at his going off the handle 'İlke
Cink it
Appar
candi-
which
clasg
viction that the Tories are
party. FEBRUARY
The Conservatives are fighting 1924: campaign 1924 they would win hands dow
present campaign."
this
But can
com-
happen
Some Labour leaders say ihay ernment means unemployment of at least: 80.
This seems to values.
They
Beans, of course, are runners-up. Bre not may be enough to give Labour be conviction. FEBRUARY 7:
merely whistling to keep their Its working majority.
A writer menflona a, baronet Every election campaign pro-
People don't like the blatant courage up.
who has given-up using his title. Imagine what would have hap this one it is the Liberal inter- interests of the midute
duces something unexpected. In Conservative appeal to the class One candidate nominated at
His friends are much annoyed Aston in Birmingham today is was the same as that taken, the British rul, and tried to make se it was not decided by the Ll-. Mr. Churchill's advice, reimposed
beral Party is interesting becau-
decidres himself a specialist: In this. of his own volition, by the India British Imperial bulwark beral high command.
World peace." It is a little iṛp- niést that: he, should have to be
"When I was a boy I took my former Prime Minister Pridigainst Russian Communism.
they never thought of put- ently
FEBRUARY, 11; + called ..freak The result would have been ating up more than 300
candidate.
girl friend Into the woods and Panomyong, when he was
read her a book by Mark Twain." military defeat, diplomatic dal thrown out of office by the
dales. But once the campaign
Allegedly one of the principal "I kaow-Tom Sawyer."", humiliation, and
Jgnominious started, the real lead was taken
Issues of the election is national- "Did he really? Well, you coup d'etat which General withdrawal. If Mr. Churchill had by the Liberal associations in the
ination. Should it be continued? never know who's looking these they win in 19507 Kach Songkram engineered had his way India would now be constituencies. It WIS these
In fact it is an issue about which days, do
Узири out in 1947.
of the Commonwealth and which decided to put up candi-FEBRUARY 2: **
The majority of the electorate in these
The Labour posters at South When Constitutional Gov- Lord Vansittart would be denoun- dates and it was
quite unmoved, one way or the Don't tell me that worry doesn't end list full employment, health ether, Nehru as a dangerous Com- produced the funds to pay for services and family allowances nationalised, the noticeable The things I worry about don't When our undertaking do any good. I know better. ernment which is supposed
them to obtain in Siam, becomes
This, they say, is "All thanks to effects on the life of the Without firing a shot, without
IsLabour subverted by repeated armed possessing an atom-bomb, by a genuine popular
Lord Beveridge, who roups, this is the sort of granting India her independence ironical that in spite of all all. "Not one of these
the Labour Government has won't
Y'a this enthusiasm the Liberal Party
headed swat as the kind of penalty that becomes inevit-real victory against Communism can't hope to win more than a
at a loss, the averago man is bloke who's always, me-deep in able. Britain has done a Today, in the White House, sex handful of seats. The electoral Beveridge report. They the hardly aware of it. So he re-
report. They were fuses to get excited. great deal to help Siam since ret conversations are
all "leaks" a crushing defeat cause the Li- Government before Labour: came accepted by the Coalition
Both parties profess themsel- the war, especially in the with the usual American law is to blame for this.
beral Party to give up finally? to power, and family allowances acem, to be optimistic.
yes optimistic. restoration of the rice indus-about the hydrogen bomb:
Both really da It is not America's own Tory Old Guard At the moment it seems to have
were actually put into law then. try and in promoting inter- ond the Chiefs of Staff are telling an obstinate life in it
Most of these things we should their courage up, In the Labour a matter of whistling to keep nal and economic stability, the President that he must im-
All last week the tide Was have had from any Government party the Trade Unionists are She has done this partly out mediately proceed to manufacture flowing-not very strongly, but set up in 1949.” This may be
flowing of the old traditional attach-n H-bomb hundreds of
times
nevertheless towards true but a very large part of said to be less confident than the more destructive than ment, but chiefly because And they accuse anybody who it is said to have
In the last day or twu than the A-bomb. Labour.
the population does not believe Siamese recovery is indis-
them of being a fellow- pensable to the general in- traveller or a crypto-Communist,
all terests of
South-East
Who
that if can doubt.
Mr. [Asia.
wingth
election, the Government would back and we should be well on the way up the American Chiefs of Staff to the third world war?
opposes
munists
Thus the Thornment. It should know, does,inot, agreat:rakshanbardly knows that anything | Myrtle-describes her- swollen-
+munity:-) is small. The average
Will
essentially' a Labour has been changed. ·· `It it is run
politicians. stopped. But it.
Pitch, politics and petrol
By Richard Greenough
The Conservatives aro setting 'treat' store by their organisation. They fought the 1945election with a machine which had been practically scrupped during the War! Now..there are 100,000 young Conservatives enrolled in: a League, all political canvassera, But are elections won by horm ganisation?
The Tablet this week-end has a mordant 'comment on elections and democracy
the last election only
pos
cent of the
At
The French miner Is much the same sort of person as the British miner. Yet the French miners are
solidly Communist today. whereas, after four years .01
'electorate *- Vated, And at the Labour government, the Com-
Election the votes for ConservE- Tucked down at the South- are fast losing any-Influ-
The strongest force opposing tives and Liberals together, were ence they possessed at the end ern end of the Caribbean federation-part from died-in larker than of the war in our National Union Sea, under the lee of South iving and think in terms of the majority support in the country the wool white reactionaries still Yet, London has acted as if its
those for London of Mineworkers.
Why the difference? Is it be- America, next door to the pre-1914 era comes from Indians was a great as its majority in cause of Russian gold poured into delta of the yellow, swift- and East Indians, who form more Parliament, France? No. The difference is flowing Orinoco, Trinidad is than a third of the Colony's To judge from the comment or that the French Government has about half the size of, and British Guiana's 500,000 populaing about the election at the mo 600,000, and more than half of one's friends, the dominant feci-
་ ་ token Mr. Churchill's advice, re-
the same shape as, Wales. tions one reason why British ment laboredom:
It is certainty the richest and Gulana, la not supporting federa- 15: Ne probably the most important tion. Colony the British West Indies. An Influential group of these chain of sugar islands, Trini- Jones detailing their reasons for Though it is the last link in the Indians has written to Mr. Croech dad's fortuna does not depend on opposing. Zederation. sugar cane crops.
When West Indian
indepen-
But the personal politics to which Siam has been reduced ever since the 1932 coup have proved just as unstable as the old benevolent autocracy of the Monarchy was stable, till it was overthrown. Unhap- pily, the Siamese politicians know only too well how to make use of the instability of domestic politics to put for- ward demands. When one of the Ministries tried to bring off their rice coup recently, which would have netted the 'Government a huge sum with- out any advantage to either all this as pre-history-a mere the producer or the miller, an prelude to mass movements. officially inspired Press cam-"If the Siamese themselves paign threatened that political are unable to organise modern stability would be disrupted if type politics, the Chinese, who they failed to get away with it. | form. Д very substantial The principal reasons for Trini-dence is bufficiently developed: i! Now the Siamese Prime minority, are likely to take the dad wealth and importance are seems most liko; that the first
pitch, politics, and petrol,
Governor-General wil bo,8le Hu- Minister is clamouring for initiative. Marshal Phibun has Trinidad is important because bert Ranice, now Governor of measures to halt the Com- taken foolishly provocative Port of Spain may be the capital Trinidad. munist menace. Immediate stops against the Chinese. It of Britain's newest Dominion, As for petrol," "Trinidad's, im- steps are necessary, he declar-will be a misfortune for Siam's which is expected eventually to portance lies In the fact that i
emerge from the contemplated is the Commonwealth's largest ed, to erect economic and mili- neighbours if, because of his federation of West Indies Colonies. Foll-producing Colony, tary barriers, or all South-East rashness, Stam should federation are now, ready,, after Blueprints for the proposed Asia will go Communist. He down before Communism. It two years' work, and are expected described the Communists as will increase the danger to all to be announced at any time. the most dangerous enemies other countries in South-East
Last year 187,000,000 gallons of
·Slam has ever had; and said ] Asia,” ..... HOP
petrol, and only slightly fewer they had intensified their pro- Slam's position is such to
gallons of fuel oil, were exported; paganda activities in Siam. day that the only stable factor
worth about £7,000,000, All this is no doubt true, but at all is the Prime Minister
totalling 75 per cent. of all the For federation
Colony baportistorey the threat, of Communism is himself; and it may be doubt-
Statements to the effect" that federation is the the island's 2,100 wells would be both internal and external, ed if personal politics will subject most discussed and argued drying up wihin 12 years resulted
After sugar, federation and for the present at any ever be a mater for the across the length and breadth of in £5,000,000 Anglo-Trinidadian rate the chief danger is in- methods of the Communiata) the British Caribbean, ternal. Little can be done to Yet there is a Parliament, and From what I have gathered ||-fineries and now wells more than hold frontiers if the internal it contains many able and cons sonerally stroed that such * stop, les bound : ultimately to situation; in the threatened genuinely democratic leaders make the Colonies, more prosper. countries is unstable or if the who are at prevent impotent qus and self supporting her authorities have deprived The present put up is inade- are able freely low trade their themselves of roal popular quate. There is constant, un-) under common Larlie and unres
„varied goods is among themantves support. The building of bar-rest and persistent plotting trictedly with the hide world. riers has to begin within. The perils Sam faces are of af all, this is grand gwhile i the There was a timely warning grave order, for any Com- STOP are good, while there are no lean. "yesin, no inboke ztroubles/20
Evchi Trinidad isn't chosen as the political centre, Port of Spain Dominion's commercial capital without doubt will be the new.
on this score in the "Manches-munist trouble inalde the Tor in the past the West Indies ter Guardian a few days ago. I country would very soon lead
It referred to the character of to race, Siamese politics sineo the 1932 wou
coup, and to the dislitegi
afithes allients between
have always bech able to coun Lou Britain helping timm
Preferent
Petrol export
módernísing schema for new re
two miles deep to tap the oil that experte, are sure in there, (3318) With all this under their foot Trinidadians still pay Is. Cada a gallon, though potrol is turkliched. Trinidad dis well size:}L unique
The third principal reason why)| Pitch Lako
"The 114 sores of this lak bostedse em faventus uelibe
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