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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JUNE 9, 1950.
LONDON AND ASIA
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waiting to see which way the cat encroaching Communism is going to jump. The eyes of outweighed the knowledge thr the politicians are fixed on China the aid is being given a bogus
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FUTURE OF FRESH MILK
people are more alive then ever before to what was going on around them.
There are, however, exception:
12 this walling altitude. "Three By "Windrush”
men have made bold decisions to commit themselves against
Communist Juggernaut,
and
the
any compelling proof of either
or determination to British Labour movement should!
South East
"The ereed
Asia is n
by Stall a quarter of a century ego on the importance of in the world revolution.
Asia
semi-
fall of
Tito's road is almost ready
By Eric Bourne
which is
Symbol of grit
keep
The road itself stretched like a ribbon, straight and true, across perts shake their heads because the Croatian plain. Military ex-
The Sydney conference cous-) road, opinion about South East The "New Statesman" argues ed the London weekly papers | Asla!" "What does the left-wing much the same "In the attempt recently to say their till about say?
of the Western powers to save Asian affairs. The views they
South East Asia from Commun- Here is the "Tribune" on Indo-ism, thero is curious took are worth studying.
nir of China: "Deun Acheson has sent irresolution and utility. Indeed The amplest discussion was in
ald. The fact of that ald
hng nothing effective is kely to be transformed the the "Economist,”
xituation
I have just driven almost ment, at their disposal, and shor- It said
i done until political recognition in South East Asia as a whole is that practical measures against allst movements both in Indo-along Tito's famous 'Brother-that of these never more than 200 that South East Asia... The fact in given to the strength of nation but not quite all of the way tage of spare parts and inade- quate repair shops has meant hava China and Malaya."
hood and Unity" highway were in service at one time.. which will shortly link Bol- Stalin's statements. grade with Zagreb and bring things worse.
The Cominform blockade made The Russians cut Here finally a the Catholic the Yugoslav capital within of supplies of rails from the weekly, the "Tablet," "This has an easy day's motor ride of Soviet Zone of Austria. It put the unearthed a number of statements Trieste and the, West.
Yugoslavs back two months.
Then the Czechs stopped do- It was a pity there had been livery of quarrying equipment several days of heavy rain over and building material, while They Special Correspondent. For example, 1923 Stulin said Creatly because we might other Russia's other satelites defaulted "Two things are possible; either wise have set, a record by being on orders for spares for crushing are Bao Dai, Phibul Songgram and Mohammed Hatta. None of
we succeed in stirring up and length of this concrete and ma-trical plant required to
the first to drive along the whole machinery, locomotives and elec- them was bound to adopt the line
revolutionising the far imperialis cadmised motor-road Ee has
rear-the colonial and taken; all are abused by
as running dogs of the forces which would never have ami thereby hasten
colonial countries of the East-sive achievements. Moscow as
one of the regime's most impres- work going through the night. the
Oficials say that the blockade lackeys of Wull arisen but Imperialists
for the folly of the Street. And, on the spot, no one French should be put down.
capitalism, Or we muff it, and
As it was, we stuck in the mud while Yugoslav workshops were delayed work by six months thereby strengthen imperialism and along an unfinished, half-flooded switched over to make up these The Chairman of the Dairy feels that the West has yet given
weaken the force of our move-sector somewhere beyond In this awkward situation, the ment. That is how the questionmiddle of the 240-mile
the detelenetes. Farm Company, and other
streteli spokesmen for the share-i s power
Belgrade and Zagreb. holders, the mothers and the preserve the framework on which make up its mind honestly as to lands." And so perhaps in the between
and spent the night huddled in It cannot like yes of Stalin is still slands, these men are building their fu-where it stands.
blankets in our jeep, listening to babies, expressed themselves ture."
the idea of assisting the French lo
The "Tablet" concludes with the colonial
which would some very true
encophonous chorus from quite clearly at the annual
observations on thousands of frogs croaking in young never be tolerated in this coun- the Sydney
conference. meeting of the Company on
mon's world. Nearly all political try. At the same time it would Western world is still much too highway while we waited for the The the swamps-on either side of the the Government's refusal to
lenders are young men in their seem to be a worse evil to allow much on the defensive. The at morning shift to arrive with the runs North of the Sava instead renew the leases of the farm thirties and forties. Two force Communism to sweep to an easy titude expressed at Sydney was dawn to pull us out.
of behind the river's broad, swift at Pokfulam. It is rare in- inspire them--nationalism and the success in an area from which it defensive, that of men anxious to
aircam, They recall how Allied desire for radical economie re- could threaten the whole of ou deed for SO important a
explain hastily that they
Would
Only a jeep would have got as aircraft landed on Hiller's 'auto- volution, ending Asin's age-old position in South East Asia. With lone no time in raising nutive far as we did on the dirt road, bahns in the war. But as the business concern to be treated
reluctance we concede that the standards. But they will condemn which was all that was left for Yugustavs point out, when the poverty. to that most cavalier of all
only course open to the Labour themselves if they use language us, before finally we stuck and road was tald down they had Communism Government of
to support the which suggests that they could stopped-for processes-eviction from pre-could not be presented at a mo- French in fighting the nienster o
the nigght with friends, not enemies, just across mises they have held for soment more promising of success." their own creation.
have raised these standards quite mud and water up to our axlest their borders, ensily in the past but lacked the long and to such good purpose. One reason is the political inex-|
philanthropic will to do so."
Next morning, 20 sturdy pea-{ Other critics say the cost of Indignation was never too perience of the new leaders wh
sant road-workers, wading good- labour has been too high, that t Ts London yet really dive to naturally in the swamp. vehement, however. In this must eat it. Another is the duty of Britain to urge a course
tried would have been better and ferment of new leas and leals on France which would turn the the dangers in the East? Is therd vainly to shift the Jeep; even-cheaper to have restored existing hard world we do try and take Alter is the shaking and dis- bogus independence of the Vict- any determination to oppose tually, they brought a donkey highways. the rough with the smooth, crediting which all established nam Government into genuine them? A good test will be to see engine down the line to low us: and facts and figures created institutions have undercolor stop repressing nationalist furces all interest now Sydney is over, reached a clinker surface.
one. Na sull-government. France must whether the weekly papers love bumping over the rails until we tionalism is such an exploriy so soft and mellow a setting force that it threatens to blow and thus bedevilling the whole and only regain it when the sub- of well-being that the one all the new national states which of the West's policy in South East sequent conference to be held in
London is in the offing. great grievance had to be rave risen on the ruins of the old Asia." ventilated in a somewhat un- | imperialism. the explosion Cavourable atmosphere. It takes place, the only result was almost like assailing thee Communism. weather on a lovely day in spring. Moreover, milk as a subject of controversy is de- finitely unpromising unless there is an epidemic. Now if it had been a matter of eviction from the cricket ground, the welkin would be ringing for weeks and months, as it did in South Africa in wartime when a sacrilegious Government decided to take over the famous Wanderers' ground, with all its memories of test matches and historic deeds, in order to extend the frightful Johannesburg way station.
Much the same would have happened, no doubt, had a brewery and not a highly- mechanised milk farm been at
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Gloomy Europeans
"Many Europeans in South Eart Asin are gloomy." They feel that it is they who begin the
modernisation of the region-in Malaya, Indo-China, Burma, 10- donesia. Now all they have built Is threatened and undermined. "In Burma most of the damage is pl ready done," Even Malaya is: hardly an exception.
Malay and Indian settlements
with
lon
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"At the same time, It is the
There are jobs a-begging in India
By Alwyn Tebbitt
Open on July 1
But whatever the merits of these arguments, the fact now is that the Autoput is about to be Anished-and it is an impressive symbol
for the Yugoslavs of their grit and ability to see a job Their foremon was f! much through for 'themselves.
We decorated Autoput hero, an up- should at least give them a big right young fellow who wished bouquet for that.
he could study engineering in England. At that moment we would gladly have taken him,
Work on the Autoput began in Spring 1947. Now, says the Bel- grade press, the final struggle for completion has begun and 14,000 people, including 5,000
youth brigaders, are at work
Holiday slogan
for Americans
surfacing the last 50 miles and; "The World's the Limit"--a new finishing the 200 yards
American holiday, slogan-may
long
Reporting
from
have set July 1 as the date by Europe this year. which trame will be able to pass right through.
New
Heads of British firms pays huit, this amount is reduced.sk viaduct. The engineers mean fewer American visitors to operating in India say that it to £750, which is reasonable on
calary of £2,000. is becoming increasingly dif- ficult to persuade young men to come out to India.
Yet, in some irms more security
ros
Social life
they
the
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"Malaya is now the one exam
York pie of a South East Asian country
Rodney Campbell explains that equipped with an administration
American travel agencies have up to Western standards,
In three years, 400,000 people decided that Britain, France and have laboured on the road, a other near European countries relatively, powerful and efficient military forces and with
The pay and standard of liv-i
of the most dificult, most am are becoming far too "ordinary" Americans, Social life for Europeans inbitious projects of Tito's Five s holiday centres, purse. But in the Chinese side ing for Europeana is high, but rail-streets of its towns, and in the even this does not seem to appeal the large Indian cities is still on Years Pian. More than 75 per say, want to travel further...
There are cent of this immense labour force afield-to such places as to youth. "They seem to put a fairly high level, the rubber estates, there is les security before pioneering these about 10,000 Europeans in Dom-has been provided by unskilled Middle East, Eastern Europe and bey and the same number in volunteers from the youth move-the Eastern Mediterranean and and less feeling of any certainty days," said the head of one firm.
Calcutta,
while Delhi and Mad-ment, the army and the People's even India and Pakistan. Travel about the country's destiny."
have about 1,000 each. Firms Front organisations.
In Europe, they add, is now so After this there is a touch of is offered for a job in India thin
run social clubs which provide
firmly established as an American is obtainable at home. The facilities for all sorts of sports in the last two years these wiry get away from their fellow-coun- I have seen them many times middle-income holiday, that to issuc. Everybody will agree ti-climax in the "Economist's average pay for a European in and dancing. In Bombay and that actually Hong Kong's "To counteract all their India is £3,000 a year upwards, Calcutta cinemas show all the toon-aged boys and toughened frymen, Americans have how to
will need both a military and a paid monthly. Most British firms Intest British principal source of milk pro-economic programme, put across have a free medical service for films.
and American girls, with their sun-tanned faces travel to the Vale of Kashmir or devoid of make-up, working in the East African hunting grounds. duction is infinitely more vital with skilful publicity and at least their employees, and most firms
strinted overalls with pick, shovel,
Conveniently, the air-lines back and important than either of }" touch of glamour," But a include wives and children in
wheel-barrow, Prohibition has no
and least the "Economist" is the Arst this free private enterprise_wel- foreigners.
forming the new-style holiday planners. the-two-categories-already aer to begin
human chains to move materials in to discuss actua fare and service, ກອງ mentioned. The trouble, as figures of, the projects which may with Hamlet, lies in milk it emerge from the Commonwealth self, for its normal associations conferences.
are as pallid as its colour,
"The total cost of establishing though the uninstructed economic stability in South East would be surprised to see how Asia during the next pertat ha many strong men delight intimates of this kind are naturally
been put at £6,000 million. this liquid at light luncheon open to question; but enpital re- in one of the most august of quirements for project consider- our social institutions.
ed and recommended add up tr Indeed, as the Chairman more than £4,000 hillson." emphasised, milk is a "must" irrespective of the Company's interest, but it would cost ten
EA
years.
offer or
along, wading waist-deep in mud After returning from a 25,000 The working week is about 30 canals and outlets for foodwater air-lines stated that he had seen and water on the construction of mile tour of the East recently, the
sales
manager of Trans-World For such employees standard of living is high. There' heildays besides Saturdays and playing games near the huts in that he was sure Americana would the hours, and there are 27 public or, their eight hours shift over, "exotic and wonderful" places are none of the queues and Sundays. Most firms give a rationing restrictions of Britain. month local leave
which they live alongside their visit in their thousands. Next rice and bread being the only ex- and six months home leave with
coch year, work.
winter mujor sales and pro- ceptions. You can get anything full pay every two-and-a-half pay for It.
Speaking to them you find that motional efforts will induce the you want if you are willing to
wealthier- the great majority are really
Americans to visit willing volunteers.
Athens, Israel, and Cairo. Within Nor does the education of India today is a country'
Almost literally, these young-12 months American holiday air children present any great pro- sters have built the rond with traffle to Caire will show a 100 by individuals for individuals, lem for Europeans. There are their bare hands. The engineers per cent increase. All of which and If you want a planned exis- ience,
excellent you won't find
doubt be satisfactory. hill have never had more than about will no It here. stations, and the term lasts for 300
of pieces Food generally is expensive be-
road-making enough until the Americans dis- cause there are no food subsidies
are machinery-including one or two cover that Cairo is becoming far and the actual market price has plentiful, and the periodical riots concrete layers, a few grabs and too ordinary-with far too many The "Economist" is the paper to be paid, but in reality it works and disturbances in Calcutta and steam-rollers and smaller equip-Americans. million dollars to re-establish of the middle-of-the-road. Ils out little more expensive than in clsewhere do not affect Euro- the herd of nearly 1,500 article reflects middle-of-the-Britain because taxes are much animals with all the necessary
Left-wing opinion
to
run
lower and salaries--for Europeans
Income tax
Income tax on an, income of
up
in
schools
nine months. Servants
peons unless they interfere.
Despite all this, It is difcult to get sufficient Europeans to come out here to maintain the close. industrial and commercial links between Britain and India,
Police are too
efficient.
buildings and accommodation, have to go into this busi-are higher. on either of the two alterna- ness if it insists on the tive siths in the New Terri- transfer of the farm from tories, offered by a Govern- Pokfulam
the New ment which, in this case, takes Territories. Government next with one hand but offers with door has been taking over 50 £150 a month is about £15. the other. Greeks and Gov-much in the way of industry, is a flat rate tax and does not ernments alike must be re-trade, and distribution that atter whether you have none or garded wardly when they such a prospect presents itself icen children. Men's home- come bearing gifts, if the as the potential thin end of type clothing costs the same as it does in Britain, but as both men offers can so be regarded. In- what looks more like a giant and women wear little else but deed, there was more than a axe than a mere wedge.
cotton all the year round, the ex- faint suggestion that the Milk, fresh milk, there pense is not very great. Government cherishes hereti- must be-all are agreed on Your laundry goes and comes cal notions--that milk in this. The further representa- back every day, and costa a flat because too many of them are other forms is just as good as tions the Company is to make rate of e1.179. dd. a week.
the amount of laundry. sent is
milk that comes from the cow. to the Government may per- four times the Powerful quotations from haps yield some sort of com- sent in Britain.
A crime wave is worrying the polico in Tokyo not because there are too many criminals but
being caught. But
In the past fortnight, writes average amount Richard Hughes, over 3,000 gang- sters have been arrested, with
and even the Government it- thing to be said for the per cent, more than they do in tian cells are now overcrowded
10 gangsters In a cell built for self, in the United Kingdom argument that Hong Kong's Britain, but you can at least buy should put that right.
population has about reached them "off the peg". Though there two. Dr. Kenichi Matsui of the Attorney General's is petrol rationing, the ration is Japanese It was pointed out that the the maximum, and that the generous, and no one is ever short office, points out despairingly that operation of the farm does curve will soon go down of petrol whether his trip is ten there are now over 100,000 prisoners in Tokyo, it is obviously not of itself yield great profit, ward. The New Economic or a thousand miles.
timo for the police to exercise and that if the Company is Policy just decided on at The housing situation is bad. a little discretion as well as zeal forced out of Pokfulam it Peking may facilitate this. In Delhi and Bombay it is in,
in tackling the crime wave. would have seriously to con- But be that it may practically impossible to get any Nor is the problem of accom- sider giving up this branch of there.
many a where to live other than in its business. The decision sentimentalist who, gliding Most big arms have their own one worrying the police. There hotel, and this is not always onay.modating the gangsters the only would not be an easy one, for ethereally above the mathe-bungalows. In Britain you would is also the problem of how to the Company supplies 80 per matics of the issue and the call the bungalows mansions" feed them. At present the bill cent of the Colony's fresh milk basic necessities of the Those firms who do not supply for "Prisoners' Food amounts to requirements. These would population, would bemoan such accomodation usually at over £250 a day and the police range to pay half their employees authorities have been compelled have to be met somehow, and such a break with history and hotel
billedek ze to nak the Government for a the fair warning given the in this instance” particularly,
special grant. If the grant is not For a husband and wife 'living given then" the only alternative Government, and the public, with nostalgic memories, as in a hotel in Delhi or Bombay will be that the prisoners-the awakens the shattering fear the removal of the farm at that Government. Itself may Pokfulam would represent.
the greatest dietetle experts promise. There i3 some- Cars will, shortly cost about 30 the result that the city's delen-
will
as be
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costs about £1,500 a year, entire 100,000 of them will have Including all food. As the "Armito' dat less.
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