Ox-back carnival race
The village of Alsing, near Rot;nheim. Upper Bavaria, Germany, celebrated its 100th an nual carnival oxen race. Oxen and oxen drivers appeared masked for the traditional, event.-- The race, the biggest in mit Bavaria, in fact, and dangerous. Among the drivers, most of them farmort' biye, were also three girls. Pholb shows gata police on oxen back maintaining ör. der among hundreds of spectators at the carnival oxen race. (AP Photo).
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THE CHINA MAIL,
ESDAY, MARCH 8, 1940,
AN INQUEST ON THE GENERAL ELECTIONS
Hundreds of thousands of trial North. It did, well In Lon- poliatry "constituencies will no words have been written don surprisingly well because fonger be the Conservative
the London duty Council elec-stronghold, about the general election retion had prepared It for disap- Bult. The dimculty is to pointments. Actually it did not pects of Labour
What of the short-term prob- isolate the facts which are of lote if single one of the London Zhead are not, no good. THC festing significance, and have roughs when it was defending. The Conservative recovery came a bearing on the political about because of victories in the future.
By WINDRUSH
dormitory suburbs of London aid in the Southern counties. particular the agriculture vete in In the countles remained faithful to the Conservatives. This rather surprisingi Many people was
wake for funn
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Labour leaders are in a very tell- cate position.
But so are the Conservativo Leaders.
Another general election this year to practically certain. All will depend on its timing. And the Labour cabinet has the very great advantage of being able Probably I will try to hold on to choose the time.
ing very carefully in the moan- to omct for a little while, study- while the trend of pubile opinion. To guide it, there is the Gallup
The would follow the industrid) vale
farming vote palateomie, ih, showing the
percentage slibre of the poll i and go Labour. But this has not which the parties can expect.
should
in
The bore statistics of the tota vote for each party deserve marő study than has been given them. They slow some surprising things. Labour Increased total vote from 110 infion to 1.7 million. (The total, Wil oven higher: alx results have till to come in.) It seems that very few people who voted Labour In 1943 withdrew helt allegiance In 1860. But the total had supposed that, with tho gen. The "iews Cronicle" poll of pull of the Conservatives al eral agricultural prosperity and occasions been shown to be un
public opinion has now on twb their Conservative-Liberal alles with the 947- has also increased-frojn 1 mil labourers, Bon to 11.2 million. Where did this extra 2.1 million come from it hot from Labour,? Apparently
A move of, say, two per cent from new voters, from those whot taken place. did not go to the poll at the lost
support of Labour might, ber cause of the pecullor electoral cléction, and also from the Liber- als. For though the Liberals
structure, be enough, if there was an Inthediate general, election, also increased their poll at thờ election-from 2.2 million to 2.4
to translate the present. labour million they undoubtedly lost over the long period, the Conser majority of 20 late a majority of many of their supporters of 1943.
vatives can romain on ever term between.30 and 80: This apparent paradox is ex-with Labour. At present the Cón-
Might turn plained the fact that in 1845 servatives still enjoy a consider- they ran only 300 candidates,
able working class support. and thus their vote was concen- it traile union supporters tire trated in half the country, ti mostly older men who vote Tory this election they ran 475 candl; beroure of habit of family tradi- dates and thus the Liberal poll tibn. In time they wil vanish was drawn from nearly the whole
from the scene. Very few of the of the country. As it was prae- younger men now coming of tically the same as in 1945, this voting age will vote Conservative, means that many who voted Short-term prospects Liberal In particular areas Ti 1998 hate now withdrawn theif
support.
What conclusions Labour draw from its setback?
abour can be, reasonably con- Over long period prospects Adent,
It is hard to see how.
Biit
the tables Labour, can hope with some confidence for an selfintion of this kind in its ... - favour. Tho whole trend of the recent com- paign showed that, if the clectors te dislikes socialist polleles (es pecially nationalisation), 話玛 Suppose that some of the Con deeply suspicious of the Tories, Moreover as the present elec. Lorvative lenders, tarried away Bon has again shown, the Con- y(their apparent success, be It is a very surprising fact that servatives depend very heavily came less discreet in public Labour's share of the total poll on the rural vote. Labour pro-speech. than they have been.. fell by only 4 per cent. from pagundu is now becoming effec- Suppose the Conservative Coy- 482 per cent in 1943 to 48.8 per ve among the furm labourers.ernments in Australia or New cent this week.
run -Intö The Conserva The Labour Party vis a vis the Zontard tive share rose only by 3.4 pet rural masses stands today where English opinion is very sensitive tent - from 30.8. per cent it stool vis a vis the Industrial to what is happening In Aus
areas ago. A few tralla.) Labour, If to 43.2, per cent is the liberal stant at Just under 10 per cent. How did this comparatively small chunge In the balance bring about the sensational changes
In the composition of the House the
in the strength of the Conserva- fall of over 70 in the strength of Labour, the. theredze of nearly 80 lives and their allies?
The system
dificulties,
veins, and the firm Labour more moment without, if it chore te
shd many of the tenant farmers the tabica. Perhaps it could riol may be as faithful supporters tebeat 1948. But it could undo
the trade unionials. The February-23.
as
American Navy not prepared for war
Washington, March 6.
The week-end papers ap- tunts in already waning. Out of peared before the election re-power they appeared to offer un- sults were out. Thus, they of freater
bounded hopes of the higher life, Churchill proposal
International under- seem this week almost like standing, of
Mr. Churchill's. proposal inore enlightened papers from a foreign coun-policy towards beauty and the new conversations between Rui- try. They do not deal with arts. In power, they have qui-sia and the West "at_the_sum what is the sole topic of con-
diled foreign travel
and hard-hit was not simply electioneer- perca le interchange of versation in country at
lensing. The last has not been heard this moment. Their editors by an export and import policy of the proposal. "The Spectator" which affected the exchange of filled the present issue with books. The yel mare potent
potent Mr. Max Beloff, who is phe of "caretaker articles."
really well-informed illusion that Labour in power the few
Russian foreign meant the breaking down of in-students "Time and Tide" discusses the ternational barriers and the ex-policy. celebration on February 27--of tension of the right hand of He says that, if the idea is to the Labour Party's Aftleth friendship
$1 to peace-loving to understand the imitations of ing be pursued further, it is essential birthday. It says. "Looking back peoples has evaporated over the 50 years it is
cold possible
what can be achieved by per atmosphere which surround- to see that alrendy much
ed a Labour Government's asonal contact between Stalin and fineach to the plan for aspiration has been sacrifced to
the Western leaders. united the realities of power. The im- Europe...The
The Labour
The answer les' partly in the really supreme in Russia, or is Govern-
This menre attraction that the Leftment inherited complex
held of of
manoeuvre and structure of the English electoral
It hardly once exercised over the intellec-
limited by systbr
ever brings quasi-authoritarian puwers which agreement narrowly had been bestowed on the pre- the Politburo? Mr. Beloff answers the same results. All that can be Admiral Forrest Shornton told today that the Navy
Bald shortly Is that it is such that.
is not ready for war and a curtailment of small change Had there been no war, it would connected wili Stalin's birthday in the size of, the total, poll of
"A study of the propaganda a comparatively
funds for the "mothball fleet" had his up- have been impossible created such powers because the
celebrations,, and with the forth aby burly may bring quite dis-
próvál only as a short-term calculated risk, outery at chel destruction of con-coming Soviet cleations, seems to proportionate
Admiral Sherman, who took; 'not catisfied with the amount change in the of seats stitutional safeguard would have show the creation of a recoguided
on fiver in Chief of Naval Opera af money wà áre putting” into bas saved from the odlum of shared authority is now in pro- electoraio, in the contituchciet volt against unification var
- éft of the distribution of, the tlons during the Admirals' re- it (maintenance) at the present
timé, ess. Certain key figures in The results out which it would have ever regime-Molotov, Malenkov and election are thus peculiarly hard that the Navy is now a full with the doughs about that k of any particulier autumn, is convinced, however, "Even though I have gene alenk Mikoyan-very obviously áré to predict, even when it is pos- been able to carry out its policy." being built up into Stalin's closest sible to foretell with some accu partner on the national defence this year, I know that La fúture
"Tribune," as might be expect. comrades-at-arts, the destined rácy, as it is with the Gallup poll, team.
years we are going to live" "to" | Hir views were presented in a select certain ships ed, takes a very different view of heirs of his power. If these men, the percentage increase in the
and them
give the Labour Farly. Mr. John along with Stalin, take part in nation-witle support for any copyrighted question and unsaide Strachey writes An article templated, then the talks will be
whatever negotiations are con pollllegt party.
In the present election it was News and World Report, a week-altortage in certain areas, in of Interview in the United States this year we have idccepted n which he compares Communisin
Russla and the Socialisin Indeed, at the highest levels, And fennwn in advance that there ly news - maduzilib published der to avoid nirther reduction in the British Labour Party,
The this fact provides an answer to ould be a worsening of the post-here...
Deratlag forces, is. calculated virtue of the Labour Party has
suggestions that the ton of Labour because of the
Change in the boundaries of the readiness of the Beel for, war,"
"With my responibility for the fick and as procedure
tre advisable been that, even while
of UNO can suffice for machinery of sticking
constinieneles which had been
The short term Russian sub- only.able Armly to sociallem as one of its the purpose. A mere mouthpiece brought abdul by. a bill in the fairly cannot say that the forces marine strength-os-d-terious fac
suid
Admiral Sherman. "I cer- He described principles, it has stuck"
of-other-people's thoughts-like Inst Parliament "no less Veshinsky could riot be regarded † have Ur be made from time to we nɔw have are completely but said the superior Soviét
Such changes firmly to democracy as another of its principles. Thus, says Mr. a suitable representauce of the Because, with charges in the adequate." Strachey, Socialism will be built Soviet power in talks upon which aistribution of the Come in ever, that the United States will the U.S. Lo delay using its offen- He gave the assurance, how fubmarine forces would not cause in Britain only If the majority
The future of humanity itself some constituencies. become rein- of the people désire that it should | may well depend."
Uvely depopulated... aðð some get the maximum sécurity that is dive forces. be bulit, That "19" the signummernice Mr. Baloff Adile
relatively overcrowded, and the
Admiral Sherman praised his. of the general election,
"If there is little reason
for the Defence Depart pileagues on the Joint Chiefs of doubt the abilly, bf Stalin and thereby distorted. A things i ment and
for the detence 31
Navy. He Staff. "We have the immense safe-his immediate colleagues to com- stoot in 1945 theft were too doubts if any cenlar
1 have joined the Jomt Guard!
Mr. Strachey, "that mit the Soviet Governintit; there many relativělý, small, fconstitu- cial would say that the present Chiefs of Staff, I have been Bays after February 23 we shall really is even less reason to doubt their endles in the forth, too many milliary establishment is adequate grained at the spirit of co-operat know whether or not we have ability to bend their country's Lure on in the SouthThus or that any moderate increases ton that I have received and the Labour which has so ninhy of been working on the right lines course in any new direction."
would make it, adequate, the Northern indústrid), areas, en-
willingness and obvious intention for the British people. There will
Mr. Beloff gives lying joyed an advantage
The ability or the fagy to of the members to meet the Navy be no risk or possibility of an anecdote.
WHEN the new demarcation was
put the Thactive debt into go.
than half way."-United unsuitably developed economy "We know from Mr. Byrnes nede it, was estimated that it
tion je... decreasing, and "I arh Press. being thrust down their throats, that when President Truman would tell to the disadvantage or For they themselves will have told Stalin at Potsdam that the Zabout to a "figure at 25 or 30 Judged whether they ke, what Americans had discovered a dew | Bents. Actually ifiis was an un- has been done or not. is this, bomb for more destructiVd than der Estimate. It fins benh the negative side of democracy, any other known bomb Stalin's worked out that, if the present which is the safeguard against only reply was that he hoped the vast political errors,"
Americans would use it...Have Russian. Imaginativeness and the Russian sense of humanity been robled but is is some terrible Wellgjail phantasy***
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