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PARLIAMENT AND THE
FAR EAST:
By "Windrush" Special correspondent
The censors
make a mess
a mess
of films
By DENIS MYERS
For the first time recently, British cinema-goers saw sequence that the American censors banned. And for the first time, therefore, they were able to appreciate the stupidity of those powerful · men in Hollywood who wield the censor's scissors.
The picture is "The Rugged O'Riordans," a British film mado And the contro- In Australia, versial three-minute sequenes shows a girl, completely nude, going down to bathe in a forest
1 сап assure you nothing in it to shock the most
there is sensitive, cinema-zocr contrary, the scene is
On the handled with delicacy and genuine artis- try.
The Australian censors and the Australian, Methodis Church passed the fim. even for showing to children.
The recent debate on the
To keep an open mind about the now China is not to bo ́de- Far East in the House of
fentist about the future of, our Commons was disappointing,
own kind of society. Great Britaini It is true that the. House of
belloves that some form of, the old liberal civilisation can assura Commons went through all 24364
to parts of the Aslan world the forms of expressing was so disappointing. The re dispassionately and, whenever most rapid and humane develop- 22112} the
anxiety. But the forms were volution in China, whatever may possible, with sympathy.
ment open to it. Hence the Syd- The great philosopher than the finally be thought about it, is t more apparent
of an- ney economic
South pinn for least profoundly Interesting. Acient Greece, Plato, thought that Asia. But because Great Britain reality. A looker-on must
great deal of world history will society, ought to be governed by proposes one solution for Asin's have felt that there was not turn upon it. But members show-n cines of "guardians" who were economic ills and the Chinese a very great sense of urgency, ed little knowledge of what was to be selected from the rest of Communists propose another, that The debate fitted about from happening, and also little inter society, given special education, does not mean that the two must point to point. No master plan! cal. One trouble is of course that and compelled to lead an austere live at enmity.
news reporting from Communist and dedicated life. Probably very China is so inadequate. All that few of Chinese Communist leaders There was one digression. In of policy showed Ifself.
Too many people in Great is known has been pieced to- would feel any sympathy for Mr. Bevin's speech which was Britain are frankly relieved that gether from hearsay from the Plato It is fashionable to re- surprising. He suggested that, the Communist colossus seems at comments of
of returning business-
gard hlm as a renctionary.
just as Canada acted as a bridge the
Kossip. Yet It la strange how closely present moment to be rolling men, from letters and from
for, the rest of the Commonwealth Today the Chinese Commun- | their political Enat instead of West. They com-
organisation cor- in its dealings with America, so FIRST THINGS FIRST fort themselves with the belief ists have lost considerably in responds to what Plato proposed
that if the pressure is Increuséd | prestige compared with three for the ideal republic. Ever since might Australia in its dealings
with Asia. But surely, if any pool. it will be lessened in months ago, For this there are Pialo wrote, his critics have been Dominion is to play this If two members of the Eri-in Asia
Part, several reasons. The aggravat- saying that his system would be must be India Mao Tse-tung's Europe. tish Cabinet had visited
The best corrective of this viewing policy of Peking about re- unworkable because it did not fit friendly words in receiving the
the np
in with human nature. Human credentials of the Indian Ambas- Malaya two years ago and
is the old wartime argument that cognition, the famine,
clumsiness of the de- passions, corruption and seen the situation there for
the
faill sador were not unnoticed in Lon- world
become "one parent hog
flation policy all these
would wreck it. Now, don. Perhaps if there is any have bility When this trulɛm wor themselves and listened to world." the warnings of planters and proclaimed in the war years by been disappointing Yet it must Ching seems to be turning itself single man qualified to bridge the
Mr. Wendell Wilkie
the into a kind of human laboratory gulf-the unnecessary seemed at still be recognised that
gulf-be- miners the crisis might
In fact Chinese revolution is an interest- in which painfully obvious, firat
the practicability of tween Peking and the Western its Plato's Ideas-or of Ideas very world, it is India's very gifted never have grown so great. It has proved to be a fact which ing experiment, and that
evolution ought to be watched 'like them—are being tested out. I ambassador. Now the Secretary for the it still painfully hard to grasp.
Yet it is perfectly true that Colonies and the Secretary
what happens In China, Japan, for War have revealed some Indo-China and Malaya may In of their reactions to their fact the long run affect the people of finding tour. Mr. Griffiths England as much as what hap- Western Germany or has said that Britain will do pens in
France. Lenin always assumed her utmost to meet the needs that the world revolution would of Malaya as quickly as possi- work itself towards its culmina- ble and will see this, thing tion by revolution in China and Is worth keeping through side by side with the India. This people of Malayu. He appeal- ed for co-operation in the task and said the battle must be won, or there will be no fur ther discussion on political rights or Constitution or any servatives could not let pass the Europe as a purely military a major war--even if she wins it. be received back as equals. In the Hollywood censors,
democratic develop
in mind.
One of the principal questions in the debate was whether the British Government had recog- nised the Chinese Communist Government too soon. The Con-
Convincing reply
havo
Mr. Bevin's reply was pretty convincing. To
refused recognition, he said, would have to exclude Great Britain
been
Report on Germany--No. 2:
France sees no need to arm the Germans
tion that Hussin wants to avoid
"But. It is impossible to make wor nlmost Inevitable., simply looked on and paid th treat the defence of Western We must work on the assump occupation costs.
8-If the Germans are ever to European society, and if the oc- cupation is ever to end, Germany cannot be left with no troops at all; otherwise she would be hope- lessly at the mercy of a politics' coup d'etat backed by, the Red Army.
So one must begin all over again. For this French theory denies the basic arguments un the idea of arming thơ which Germans is founded.
Not emotional
And the point of Western Union is to prove to her that she will
if she attack "What we have to avoid is the danger of the Red Army making swift Incursions into democratic countries, putting the local Com-
any one member,
By Alexander
Clifford
munists in power and withdraw ing again.
opportunity to blame Mr. Bevin,
problem," said the very high other
since the first results to the French official, gazing from cogition had been so disappoint- ments.
that he his office window across the get a major wor Ing. They could say Mr. Strachey gave an un-should have waited until the Rhine, "because as a purely dertaking that all necessary Dominions were ready to act military problem it is strict- military measures would jointly
ly insoluble." be taken, but he agreed with the principle 011 which General Briggs has laid down his campaign: that the problem is not basically a military one but primarily quite certainly from playing any one for the civil administra-further part in China affairs. To tion and the police. The thou-recognise was, on the other hand, Communist China gamble. sands of squatter families who might still be hostile to the West. live on the fringes of the But it might equally well decide jungle have been living in a that some kind of friendly re- nomansland-areas as lacking lations were possible. in administration as any of the "lost" frontiers that still remain in this air-knit world. They are thus exposed to the weapons the Communist ter rorists know how to use. They are forced-poor as they are -to pay tribute in money, food, and services to the out- laws.
The strong point in Mr. Bevin's case was that the results of re
We
And its mainspring is not the French emotional argument that arming the Germans is insanely dangerous but an analysis of the prosent situation which seeks ic prove that arming the German is entirely unnecessary.
The thus: inder.nitely maintain, at full war arany in Western strength, an Germany large enough to wilit stand. any attack Russia migh make make.
cognition could not be expected now or in the immediate future They might not show themselves for five or 10 years. Recognition was part of a long-term polley, Mr. Bevin did not hide his chagrin at the response which had so far come from Peking. decision to Tecognise was on the assumption that Feking would carry on its foreign policy route. But once scattered hamlets on an adult and mature busis. In
French high official put it
Western Europe
once
cannol.
"We cannot afford it. Among The other things, it would unbalancų made our already rickety economies and let Communism in by another
"Moreover,
we embark are grouped together in larger the British view, one purpose of on an arms race with Russia we diplomatic relations is to enable settlements, and effective p
ways of peoples with different control is exercised by the life and philosophies to and creation of police posts and means of living peacefully Lo -other-administrative gether and of smoothing out their machinery, the squatters will disputes without conflict. You do not refuse to recognise a govern-
be isolated from the terrorists ment because its political ideas
Vision and doubt
Berry, D.D.
and more than half the battle are different from your own. On By the Rev. S. M.
will have been won. It isn't the other side you do not expect
before other you.
here than its comment on the
an "casy problem. It is to have to answer a catchism on
your past conduct estimated that altogether countries recognise there are some 300,000 of these squatters, with their dependents, to be brought under control and given the protection of the law, and the language problem would make the task of or ganisation a long, tedious and difficult one. It will have to be tackled progressively, State by State or area by area, and co-ordinated with jungle operations by The troops.
Ill-informed
..
The New Testament has
s
A strong case
If you add all that up you will get a pretty strong case for using
·German troops la the defence of Western Europe.
But the first version of the film to arrive in Britain for screening In the West End was the one that had been mauled for show- ing In Americo. The nude scene had been entirely cut out,
Then along came the original Australian version. Australian Impresario Gordon Ellis axked the British Board of Censors to look at the sequences slashed by the Hollywood prudes.
And with one small exception all the nude shots were restored As a result the immense majority of cinema-goers who tures after their West End were for once freed from tho crazy dictatorship exercised by
plc-
run
to
Alms shown on
It's a dictatorship because most
British screens aro American, and have bad
COILBOTN. pass the Hollywood Scones considered "harmful" by these officials are cut, and can-
not be restored.
It's crazy because many alms that could be judged immoral and corrupting regularly pass the American consorship.
Hollywood was shocked by the nude scenes in "The Rugged but it passed Jano But before you put
O'Riordans, down the final answer you must allow fur
Russell in "The Outlaw" for these subtractions:
public consumption. A-Modera that arma that arms go to the German head that it is dangerous to give a
history
suggeste
"So Western Defence muo consist of a complete integration of our national sinies so that an attack on one is an attack on all
German a gun, But it need not consist of a
-If it is true, and there is colossal super-army. And so tome evidence to back the theory. need not include Germani."
does not wonto that Russia The crux of this theory is the
thent
assumption on tausents to lot of evidence can be paraded to support it
avoid a major ́war. And quite a
And every new pin-up" "girl
out from a Hollywood studio is posed as provocatively as possible to show up avery sex-appealing · curve of the body.
whose "still" photograph is sent
Nothing to do with the censor? Perhaps you didn't
Oh, yet, these "stills" ate
major war, en German partiel-know pation is not strictly necessary. censored, 1901
-Before anything else was
done the whole theory and prae- tice of the occupation of Germany Seems defensive would have to be fundamentally Purely militarily, her position revised: for the occupation arm" in Eastern Germany seems to be would become ridiculous as soon a defensive one. All trustworthy as it was cut-numbered by the information tends to show that German armed forces.
Time to prepare she is ready to meet any attack West could launch, but not the ready to launch one herself. Bo it boils down to this:
Politically sho
has failed to would be very much to the ad- vantage of Western Europe if she advantage of several good opportunties for war-in parti- could use German armed forces and it might even make the dif- cular the Berlin blockade.
So there is some basis for this ference between winning and argument that the true defence sing a war. But the psycho-
logical effect on the German of the West is merely guarantee- ing a major war, as opposed to must be very carefully watched
take
ous to
being prepared to win it.
But the argument still does not prove that it is wrong or danger- arm the Germans, It merely suggests that It is un- necessary,
The French, of course,
create
are
of
and controlled..
It
..
not pay, say the American cen
What about crime? It must
sors. And their gangsters and gunmen pay the penalty for their exploits
But, even as villains of the piece, are not their Alan Ladds, their Humphrey Bogarts and their Richard Widmarks glamourised in the public eya.
Im that they form models for pressionable youngsters who are
life already halfway to a crime?
And much of the present thug- gery and violence in Britons is being rightly blamed on ilms that treat subotings and coshings ss commonplaces.
Most of
the
flashy little up in floozles, so often mixed the crimes of violence, are pitiful attempts at copying the Lauren Bacalis, the Ida" Lupinos, | the. Joan Bennetts or the Barbara Stanwycks.
I do not think it is unfair to suggest that the American cen-: Kors, with their eye on box- ofieds rather than human values. make a pretence of moral attie -tyde,
A NEW AND
(Continued on:Fage 9)
REALLY ECONOMICAL
DRY BATTERY BA
PORTABLE
with STYLE
And we have, finally, got time in which to make our decision and prepare the way. For the The present age, it has been
Germans cannot be armed imme- No act by the Peking Govern- said, is almost bankrupt of
dilately-there are not yet nearly ment has made a worse Impression great spiritual experiences. The
enough arms available to equly Hong Kong aeropiane ease. It has confident testimonies of pust delighted to be able to arrive France and Italy, and they must
come first made a bad impression because ages leave us wondering and such a result. But the fact re- mains that you have still got to
We still have the chance to take it shows how grave is Peking's perhaps slightly incredulous.
And is a clear initiative and stick to it. misunderstanding of the
Can it be that they were the have a European army. alone ture of British political life. Be- victims of uncensored emotional is still possible to argue that the And there is every prorpect that
fore all else, Great Britain stands ism?
realism Germans should do their share. we shall regret it very bitterly if An age of hard
we don't. for the rule of law, Peking is finds It almost impossible t Summing it up asking that the executive in accept at their face value the
The point you have to decido Hong Kong should overrule the stories of visions and voices in is
whether the possession which the Kerature of religious araned forces will inevitably in- judiciary.
experience abounds.
it submits them to the tests
German militarism, • puti with which psychology has made an army clique into power, and and If Peking is III-informed about us familiar, and is inclined to finally result in bluffing
blackmailing ata. Hitler; or British institutions. It must be dismiss them as belonging to the
increase. whether it will
Gex- It is a lot more important admitted that Britain is ill-in-subjective and the morbid.
many's self-respect, remove zomo at present to win over the formed about Communist China. squatters than it is to give earIt was on this point that the de-
of her resentments and griov to the politically-minded whobate in the House of Commons own warnings against the perils ances, and make her a normal, of mara excllemen). St. Paul was untroublesome partner in the seem to think that the emer- ·
confronted with that strange
pattern of Western Europe. gency should be exploited to mic theories but terrorist feature of "talking in tongues."
Ultimately it is entirely a make still further changes in violence. Indeed, it is to be which was apparently a form of matter of opinion. There can be no mathematical proof either Malaya's Constitution. It was doubted whether any true ocastatle utterance Incomprehen-
sible to those who heard" it.
Way. changed twice in, as many and permanent solution can His sanity led to his assertion
it But you want to be as years. Further changes must be found on the proposed re- that he would rather speak a few mathematical as possible you can await the continued efforts of distribution of economic and words with his understanding, sum it up like this:
1 War is at least a possibility, the Communities Llafson political influence as between than 10,000 words in an unknown
tongue. The saints have knows, and
Western
Europe must be Committee to build up a the Chinese and the Malays, how to administer a douche or equipped with the best possible sound basis for all-round unless the emergency, is soon cold water to the victims of over- system of defence.
nerves!
2-The frontier between East agreement. So far they have ended and the rule of law wrought-
and West runs through Germany. been doing a difficult job re-restored. The longer it goes. But there is another kind of so war means war in Germany. markably well and with a on the more certain is it that warning implied in the New
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