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RICE LOAN TO BURMA AGREED BY COMMONS
· London,+ March 23.-
The House of Commons today agreed to a British,
Government "rico" loan of £500,000, to Burma for use by the Burmese State Agricultural Boord.
An Opposition motion formally opposing the loan a. Parliamentary method of eliciting infor- mation was withdrawn after Mr. Ernest Davies, Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, had replied to the debate.
He said that it was a straight- forward, normal commercial loan and that no money would be handed over until the rice was provided.
No political conditions
would
who
BANK OF CHINA REORGANISATION
be attached, to the loan I R Anally went through, he said.
San Francisco, March 23. Mr. Frederick Erroli,
The Bank of China has today opened the debate for the Oppo-13 new directors, and five sition, said that the Burmese supervisors, Peking Radio re- Government had decided to make ported tonight when it said that the State Agricultural Board permanent feature of its economy: made by the
these appointments had been The Board
а топорову with a
Central People's of the export of all
of all the rice grown in Burma, was in effect a bulk selling organisation-one of those often given as an excuse by the British Government for having to resort to bulk buying, Mr. Erroll said.
He thought that if the market- ing and export of rice was done by civilian firms as before the war the loan would have been
unnecessary,
Mr. Erroll complained that ac- cording to circular letter sent out by the Burmese State Market- ing Board, the buyer must accept any quality of rice.
A particularly obnoxious fea- ture of this was that in any dis- pute the rice, though it might be admitted not to be of the right quality, could not be rejected by the
buyer. He must submit to arbitration, not to the indepen- dent arbitration
which feature of pre-war rice.dealings in Burma, but by a surveyor ap- pointed by the Union of Burma.
Japan a buyer
was
Government,
The Bank is operated jointly by State and private capital, the Ra- dio said..
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 25, 1950.
DON
IDDON'S
DIARY
Flying saucepans coming up
Biro Minor
and
at home
'NEW YORK TUESDAY | caves and storehouses; “have now [have been timid too long, If you are a small man, bot- turned to storing grain in ・ con--they want to show they are tough. ter not visit the United States demned - gymposium»,- broken- That's why this roller-skating. just now. You are lable to be
down airplane bangars, and with women kicking, biting, gou- taken for a midget pllot of a
abandoned ships.
ging, and scratching each other, space-ship.
has caught on"
New York in
probably safe enough, but out in Los Angeles or Denver, in South Carolina, it is dangerous to be tiny.
The people there gaze at the sky and see flying saucers, They, And a place of metal on a hill- side and it is the wreckage of a machine from Mars.
Fear complex?
The lynx-eyed, lately, are even spotting dwarf aviators, goblins in goggles, pilots only 2ft, high,
of the flying-disca dadiness. So I thought we had heard the last did the Air Force, which car ried out a solemn Investigation and reported: "No evidence of Inter-planetary machines",
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Next week they may be using old shoe-boxes and laundry bags. Meanwhile, they give parties.
I attend, two or three a week [ou‡ of a stern sense of duty. The
best parties are private ones,
One I enjoyed most last week was given by Prince Obolensky and Cecil Beaton, to Serge unveil a new apartment which Cecil Beaton has decorated in the Sherry Netherland Hotel.
Mr. Seltzer wonders it the rol- ler derby brawi would click England, I say No.
A man who knows more about women 'than they know them- selves is portrait-painter Michael Worboff, who offers this advice to women have to learn females.: "Among the things most about aro make-up, nail polish, colours, and when to have their noses puffed; most women put too much pow- der on their noses and too much Janet Gaynor and dealgner hus-red on their lips.
Adrian were band.
guests of honour, and Mrs. Cornellus Van- "It women are smart they will derbilt, Lady Ribblesdale, Lord use a light-coloured nail polish Carnarvon, Gertrude Lawrence, and Lady Duncannon, Lord or none at all. Ninety-nine out of a hundred women shouldn't be Michael Arlon, and several other painted in lavender or green." celebrities attended.
for
'Luckiest writer"
This expert on women is, of course, a bachelor.
How are the British doing this week in New York? Only 80-80. turbine car, We are given full marks for our elthough Detroit seems to be indifferent, but black every-marks for our dollar drive.
But the flying saucers are back with us. I brace myself for even Pointing out that two-thirds of more bizarze reports, until every and said: "Your Diary is cemont Lord Carnarvon cornered me its shares formerly belonged to kitchen utensil starts to fly. Atter: the Kuomintang, the Radio stated
Anglo-American relations." the saucer the saucepan, and after Now it has been called that these shares had now been that, no doubt, the revolving re-thing. taken over by the Peking Gov-frigerator and the whirling der- ernment: the new directors and vish dish-washer. supervisors represented this part. of share holdings.
All the directors and supervisors representing the remaining one-
What has got into the minds luckiest writer alive, I am 54, Michael Arlen said: "I am the of people when they see appari- very at, slim, and extraordinarily tions in the heaviens? Psychiatrists indolent. But I am no idler. blame the, universal (car complex ond capital and the urge to diversion
escape.
third of private share would remain as at present, "with the exception of war criminals," the Badlo added.
The present position as a whole is expected to strengthen the bank and make its work more efficient, it said, Reuter.
SUPER-BOMBER
[DOWN IN DESERT
"For several years I've been working on another book-not an- It is now plain that the cock- other 'Green Hat,'
nothing like tail party has replaced the Com-that-but about people I have munist Party as the great Ameri- met and places I have gone to in can menace. There have been so the past 10 years." many cocktail parties lately
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in
Travellers say Britain is not offering incentives to the Ameri can tourist, but most people hero regard England merely as a place to drop into en route for the Con- tinent.
British hotels, food, drink, pat- ticularly the high prices, are being criticised. There is growing reluctance to hand money.
out
Radicals' song
more
of New
My bonus is over the ocean, My bonus is over the sea. My bonus lies straight towards
Churchill,
Washington that the Press is de Arlen's definition of an Eng- manding an inquiry into those Jishman: "A man who has never The radical Union staged by Government agencies. [been able to tell a lie about others York Veterans, planning picket- Parties have become one of the and never willing to tell the truthing of arms ships to Europe, sings great American industries. They about himself."
this to the tune of "My Bonnio are big business. The American Foreign Office, which calls itself
Lies Over the Ocean": Wemen how outnumber men in the State Tucson, Arizona, March 23.
Department, spent the United States by 1,000,000. £40,000 on entertainment One of America's new long-year and plans to spend more reckless. The American temple lust Perhaps this fact is making them He coneldarad that the Brt. tish Government should
range super-bombers, the B-50, this hava
has taken to roller-skating, and secured the benefits of Irida. crashed with 14 people in the A single big Washington or New the roller derby has become a pendent arbitration in return flat Arizona Desert today, kill-York party costs as much as a multi-million-dollar business-a for the proposed loan.
ing at least nine, according to house-£3,000 to £4,000, At a bloody business which involves Mr. Erroll said that from news- first reports.
typical one the other day 500 collisions while skating at 35 paper reports it appeared that
The plane a modernised ver-
guests consumed dupan intended to buy
eight
cases of m.p.h.,
noses, smashed large sion of the B-29 Superfortress, champagne, seven cases of Scotch teeth. quantities of rice from Burma and crashed west of Gila Bend on a and Bourbon, one case of gin, Sinin, A Digure of 500,000 tons routine training
The Amazon flight. had been mentioned.
The six bottles of sherry, 50lb. of fish,
has returned to South Pacile Railway office at 100lb. of ham, 120lb. of turkey, common
hattle and the roller brawl is
across the nearby Hyder reported that nine 30th. of beet, 101h. of goose-liver. Ruces are being promoted from he used his charmon Hot
continent. 15 gallons of salad, 1,500 pots of coast to coast and new stars are sey's "The Wall" Many critics
Burma's rice exports this season were about 700,000 tons.
"Can we be entirely sure we will get the rice for which this loan is intended?" he asked.
Was there not
0 danger that. preferential treatment would be given to Japan who coming into the market in such big way and with the attrace tions of other forms of trading which would perhaps suit the Burmese very well?
bodies were found. Two airmen were still alive but the fate the others was not known, it naded.
Officials believed an caught fire when the bomber was engine was nowing at over 10,000 feet.
An American Air Force Dakota transport
crashed plane burst into flames in a
and driving showstorm near New York today kliling one man and injuring an- other slightly.
The crash occurred just after the plane had taken' Rome, near New York.-Reuter.
of from
No concern of the banks
Mr. Woodrow Wyatt; Labour, deprecated making conditions for the loan. Britain would not think
cold canapes, 700 rolls.
Why they're given
broken
being born-women, who are fine roller-skaters and all-in wrestlers, The biggest names are Toughie Brasuhf, Slugger Kealey, and This in too much, particularly Gerry Murray, of the New York when the taxpayer foots the roller-skating team.. bill.
They draw the fans in thou- For Government contracts, for moter of the roller derby is. Leo Why are such parties given? sands to the rinks. Chlef pro- publicity, to make important con-Seltzer, who has cashed in on the tacts, and to show off.
They're also given to help get He says: "The roller brawl rid of the piles of surplus food. satisties the primitive in women. The Government, running out of Many have told me that they
of accepting conditions from the The third of six articles on :
was
United States Government when accepting Marshall aid, on how she ran her Internal affairs, ho said. Private enterprise
tin
least bit with the welfare of South East Asia and merely said this was not a good commercial risk.
not
thes
concerned
In
"The fact that. Is extremely important for democracy South East Asia that Burma
should be able to keep up the rice crop and be able to sell it in India, Pakistan
and Ceylon was no concern of the bank," he said.
new craze.
The Chinese Revolution
O bring back my bonus to
me."
John Gunther's book on Frank- in Roosevelt entitled "Roosevelt In Retrospect or Inside FDR" is the best yet. It tells about Roose-- velt the mark what he thought of sex and
and money, of religion, hów Best-seller here is
call it
masterpiece. Tomorrow is income-tax pay- day in the United States. Taxes are about two-third of the levy in England.
Fashion's latest
Hush news: New spring hals are due to sprout dowers, birds, and bees. Women will carry heads. Dresses are tubular, Star- buckets of blossoms on
their
sprinkled stockings have arrived. Holy Year has inspired cardinal- red skull-caps, cassock coats, cross-shaped jewellery,
Tartan dianer-jackets for men, following the King's example, are being featured by New York' taflors.
The best-designed dresses are thore that keep onlookers on-
Footnote: The flying saucers. back-are not everyone's cup of tea..
The quarter century in By 1926, when Sun Yat-sen was economic crisis. The terrible looking.
Kuomintang leaders decided that already dead, Chiang and the
their army was sufficiently, train- ed to take the field against the wat lords of Central and Northern China. Then took place tho.
China from 1024-1940 is the age of Chiang Kai-Shek.
Chlang was the son of a small rural landowner in Cheklang, province near Shanghai. He lost his father early and was brought up by his mother, who seems to Sensitivity in Burma about
have been a woman of very foreign interference was extreme- strong character. Chiang decid- ly high. There had been. cd to become a soldier and went tremendous rise in nationalist feel- for part of his training to Japan. ing and any attempt to impose Here he met Sun Yat-sen hd conditions on Burma might well decided to devote his life to the give a filip to Communism In service of
of the Kuomintang. For
For expedition there occurred the Burma.
Rome years
By Windrush
famous
Northern Expedition king. Shaghal, and eventually Chiang captured Hankow, Nan-
Peking. But in the course of this
Beginning of civil war
Mr. John Birmond,
fortunes went incident which was to affect Labour, through the same who went to Burma recently with as those of Sun Yat-sen and his sent time. This incident was the
ups an
and downs Chinese history, down to the pre- Parliamentary delegation, said Party. At one time when the that Burma was in the front line Party was out of power Chiang
rupture between Chiang Kai- shek and the Communists. of anti-Communism and food was became a stockbroker in Shang- the first weapon. In anti-Com-hat. On one occasion he munism. This loan would help sent, by Sun Yat-sen to Russia Burma's food production. to study the Russian revolution.
Mr. Richard · Butler, former
for-India and 1924. In that year Sun Yat-sen Under-Bocratary
His great opportunity came in Ever, since Sun Yat-sen had Burmu, objected to Labour back-
made his original agreement with bench criticism of the Conserva Party, had never reached-beyond munists had been working. In
realised that the reason why his the Russians, the Chinese Com tive motion formally opposing the outskirts of real power was the loan. He said that
was that
that it did not possess an army.
coalition with the Kuomintang merely a
method. of confining a The-
Russian officers had been^assist- Kuomintang was a
·Civil: politicians. They depanded for
party
of ing the Kuomintang, administre
tion. The head of the a particular
per
nese countryside is the
economic conditions of the Chi-,
ground of all this story. Chinese Communism is in origin a con vulsive movement of despairi by
"But the Chi
Chinese peasantry. has been organized and exploited by leaders of great skill and in- telligence, and it was dressed out a Communist idealogically a movement designed to "pute, in force the principies of Marx and Lenin,
War with Japanet
The Arst success of the --Com- munists" was to set up a Govern- ment in a corner of the province South of the Yangtse river." Though blockaded and badly. armed, they became exparta, in guorilla warfare. They held at bay the enormously superior, ar mics of Chiang Kai-shek.
By 1935, after severe cam-. palgns, Chinng managed to drive But they retired, by one of the them from the Yangtse provinces. great eple marches of milltary history, right "scross" China and entrenched themselves in the re-
debate which was on Wagub { defence on the professional-war Mission was a remare "Russian mote North West. For a time the
reason
why, lords whom they could persuade. son- nanied Michael Borodin
his supporters should press the matter.
..
more friendly 19. Comed
Minister's reply or pay to work for them. One Anon-Russian member of after another these generals, bo- Borodin's staff was, deceived by trayed the party. It is said. that Sun Yat-sen was much impress
some of the Kuomintang leaders No conditions-
into thinking that
were ed by a sentence of the old itallan The Opposition had not been political thinker dichiavelli, than in fact they were. Hegill- told about this loan and would "All armed propheta, tayo con- have flearned nothing about it. it quired, and used cones for making use of Chians
vulged to tham the Rusalan plan they had not followed t
Kal the present
boon destroyed" | thek and, the Kuomintang only procedure, ho salda M
gain power for the Ruomin until such times as the Commu- Davica, Bald that the tang, Sun Yat-sen decided to nists could overturn and replace
bank asb. might never be called upon. It give it an army? Yup. Arst step them. Chians who on hi virit was agreed at the Colombo Con was to build up accurator on to Russia had taken awory, ferance as a joint, Commonwealth com, and as principal of unrew
Commualat danger had receded, but it was not ended, and
As well as fighting the Com- munists, . Chiang⠀⠀ had, lo- fight Japan. Because in the year 1827 the Kuomintang-began to conso- lidate its Government, at Nank- ing, Japan feared that it would soon and Chine too powerful nel-hbour. Be between 1921 and 1937 Japan delivered a series of blows at China, which aimed at 'destroying this growing POWERWAL Nanking's control and set up the matched away! Manchuria - from,
puppet state of Manchukio,@By: 1937,It had forcesi. : Chiang #Baj- shok to war, oven though he was reluctant to be distracted from Aghting the Communists.porn howary with Japan lasted fight FORTE Before the end Ambries, Great Britain, and Rus alm. Bad all, felneus against Japan. has China was safe andy Japan over
whelmed. But in the war, the shad exhausted, Itanikk *war years. It was to vletimi; to → Come
loan. It object was to facilitate training collegary Academer Buninformation was passed on sto⋅
the buying of rica by India, Pak- Whampoa kistan, Ceylon and Britain.
It was a straight-forward com
verse view on Russian Commu- thoselcbrated um,,reacted violently when this Yat-sen appointed Chiang Kall them: 240 expelled Borodin from China and began 10: Arrest the “hocopted of the Chioned Commasinist: Teaders most of whom however Bodafok the
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