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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JUNE 29, 1050...
U.S. DOLLARS ARE TALKING LOUDER THAN KARL
I
have just spent an exelt-
ing three days watching
Marshall Akd dollars go into. action.
By David Lee
MARX
Adriatic sardine, to octopus and largo, ugly, but tasty, prickly- shelled crabs. These catches are being brought in by a new fish
British officials well versed with who now knows the port's econo- in feet built with Marshall-Aid Editor In Chist**
My observation post has been the Trieste situation. In the large mile problems from the shipyards! funds. Reporters & General Omos 32812 secure hackdoor of Russin's East- two British ex-Naval officers in
the pocket state of Triesto, In- the butter than at any time to the soap factory.
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BIRTH
ROSS-To Rae, wife of G. R. Ross, on 28th Juno, 1950, at Kowloon Hospital, twins, son and a daughter.
THE LINE IS DRAWN
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Into this former, Communist stronghold the Marshall Plan is pouring more dollars per head of the population (£22) than in any other ERP. country.
Ships 'queue
The Americans were quick to Before the Americans make a tend millions to the shipyards, to lond 5 new loan this Briton, carefully but it took a Briton checks that it has full recovery note of caution, Mr. B. M. Smith, value.
who lived close to the problems of shipbuilding while Ministry You sco therostitia of these of Supply Regional Controller for Captain C.6.D. Noakes, R.N., | loans, everywhicknow white Wales, is energetically financing pointed through the milat to apartinent buildings for workers, new small Industries. American ships queueing up to new factories, new Industries, discharge their cargoes of grain. now, ships. The tempo of the On a scale model of the com-| programme har. the exeltement pletely-repaired port he showed of a milltary operation, which, of course, it is a campaign against that every berth was full, carrying Marshall Ald cargoes. while seven ships in ten woré) Communism.
Just in cose
Good Mor
Absent trends..."
The Soviet news, agency SAYS the Security Council!a condemnation of North Korea in legal. because Russia was not present 15 veto the motion.
President Rhre 'thinks thero is a lot to be sold for the American way of strife. Others may agred, na long nothing Mars global
security,
Nationalist military cominanders -la-Formosa are said. .to_bo building slump, says Mr. Smith, can
Just in case there is a ship-prepared for any eventually. The issue is straightforward, with the Marshall Plan mission
stato on good authority, now the Allied Millitary. Govern- | however, that no worth-whllo openly admitting its objective- the defeat of Communism-and
In the shipyards, where Italy's ment's production chief, then all eventuality in hard cash has yet The Briton is in charge of the pre-war Atlantic Blue-riband of Trieste's recovery cgga won't been offered. the local Communist Party ack-American ships because he knows ships were built, new ocean be in one basket. Industries pro nowledging the Marshall Plan as Trieste port better than his native liners are rearing their bows moted by the Briton include lee its number, one enemy,
Hampshire village. He remem above the house tops to replace plant, milk pasteurisation, medi- bors the port in 1948, when Bri- tonnage lost during the war.
cine production, tin box factory tish divers and
and a score of others, frogmen were clearing under-water explosives; ncer bull-dozors were clearing from the quays and Royal Engi-
For three days I was shown plans and diagrams of new pro- Reports from Paris suggest In the oll refinery, where Bri- jects from a complete new indus- former Premier Queuille may away the bomb rubble.
lish crude all from the Middle trial tax-free zone where shoes return to power. I do think the
to The transformation from de-Eaal is processed
make cigarettes, perfumes, and Cart French might be more considérale solation to a port working over Europe's Industrial machine spin, will soon be made, to huge exhl- and get hold of prime ministers time is a Marshall Plan victory who you photographs of the bition halls where international whose names we can pronounce,
plant when the war ended. It was trade fairs will be held, and a Communist defcat.
à confusion of twisted metal.
Succeeding
Already the Marshall Plan pro- gramme has succeeded in wrest-
Ing this important port from the grip of the Communista..
Just after the war the Allies In Trieste met the Communists In
the streets with powerful water hoses and tear gas bombs.
The 1950 method is more effec- live-give an Italian Communist and moderately-priced food, and a job, his family a decent home, he is no longer a Communist. A unemployment Agures have drop. ped by 20 per cent, so the strength of the Communists has been cut by a fifth."
Key positions
Everywhere in Trieste I found side by side with United States Britons in key positions working Government officials.
Most modern
"New calamall befall Chinese Reds."
This, I presume, the
is basin English.
now
"Surface mali to Korean
Was he getting much? Bhoe enough.
Against all this constructive Then the manager points to Be recovery and progress the Com-suspended." gilttering new storage tanks munists shout rude words in springing up from the ground their "Daily Worker," and scrib- a year," ilke giant allver mushrooms, "In ble ruder words on the walls, but he says, "this will be In the fields of publletty the the most modern refinery in the Americans are well ahead. The whole of Europe."
excellent posters and displays hi you from every street corner,
:
The Mukden Incident in 1931 inaugurated an era of violence and catastrophe that engulfed the world. The ever-increasing influence of that action was universally blamed upon democratic
A typical Briton 1 wartime North West Regional Labour In the large covered ilsh- weakness as much as on the
Oficer for the Ministry of Sup- market there are more signs of If only the Marshall Plan suc- evil will of the aggressors.
ply, Colonel J. E.. Faden, of Marshall Aid. Here on the mar- ceeds as well all over Europe ar The Marshall Plan attack here Shropshire, The question, all asked them-
who arrived is being successfully waged by Trieste when the Germans were British housewife from the city's cold war might soon start going in ble alabs are fish to surprise al on this small Trieste front, the selves a few days ago, was an Anglo-American team nosta!- still fighting in the streets, and everyday dish, the cheap, fresh in our four. where the new tide of aggres-gically reminiscent of our excel- sion was to be stopped. Pre- lent wartime relations with the sident Truman, backing up the United Nations, has now drawn that line. It lies along the 38th Parallel. The 'Cöm-¡ ̄ munists also asked the ques tion, brutally, not silently. They also wanted an answer and have had it.
Americana,
Here American "go-getting" is balanced by the experience of
entered the suburbs of Seoul," they looked like succeeding. This time, however the de- mocracies, and especially the That's just as well, what- United States, wasted no ever they may decide to do time oh mere words but about it. Inaction or feeble-moved to action. ness, or more muttering of fine words, or elegant postures by cloquent spokesmen, or all the other paraphernalia with which the democruclés are so
IT'S HOTTER STILL
IN NORTH NIGERIA
Those vultures see, the old and the now together--files of camels coming
across the
tourists will be coming-toscop
up here in 1903,
By John Hall
Princess Margaret who is wearing Then we had an item about neat, low-cut court shoes, still with very high heels."
I am told this makes sense to the ladies.
*
Annoyed by the "singing," a Burmese hos chot u Rangoon erconer in the neck with
arrow.
Having been given a lend, the West with its modern weapon" should be able to improve considerably on this.
A
•
report yesterday said a Glasgow lawyer was in Chicago "secking moral financial support for Scottish Indepensterice."
Contributions, from
church members only, will be received to the accompaniment of psalm singing.
•
"A dog, alleged to be ferocious,
same street, was chance by the court":
Jolly sporting.
Every week new traders and salesmen orvive from Europe, and there, is a growing European col-
An epigram is a holi truth no ony. Some of the Europeans are stated as to irritate the person already thinking about tourin "This," they say, "is a real show who believes the other half. place. This is Africa."
Kano, Northern Nigeria. Only the vultures, wheeling, old Africa.
I asked an African merebant planing in the cloudless sky.
to assess the trade and commerce see it all-the old Kano with cient city whose mud walls, 40- put it at £25,000,000.
They will start with the an- transacted in Kano in a year. He its mud-walled city and its soft. thick, were preof for cen- The lie that it all started mud houses that was and still turies against spears and arrows Thinking of tourism which bit n, wenn ven- another with an attack on North is the trade centre of ancient but not stout enough to resist Korea lets the Communists Africa, and the new Kano with British cannon that were dragged out, if that's the way they its airport." want it now that they know! prone to confront aggression, the way is barred. But face has would have meant war sooner become too deeply involved all or later, just as it did beface. round to be preserved by the President Truman's announce-backdoor. It may take quite ment, coupled with the United a lot of time to restore the Nations' resolution, which status quo, but the chances otherwise would almost cer- tainly have been ignored, may well mean peace. If so, it will also mean a greater sense of security in South East Asia than it has known since the liberation.
New crossroads
great Sahara from Tunis and the burdens from Lake Chad and the Sudon; donkeys that have carried. Cameroons: dark-skinned African Mosigns starting afoot We 2,000- of doing so are now consider-¦ mile pilgrimage to Mecca. able, and no longer negligible. The British Government, through the Prime Minister, has already pledged British support to the resolution to be put to the Security Coun- It does not necessarily mean cil by the United States, war even If the invaders "After the bitter experience
and ignore it the South of the past 35 years," safd Koreans collapse. But it Mr. Attlec, "salvation is de- would mean war sooner pendent on prompt and ef- rather than later, because fective measures to resist failure to stop aggression now aggression wherever it might means that it will go on and occur." will have to be stopped some- where else, and stopped then
The line is drawn across the Formosan Channel, too, and Taiwan virtually neutralised,
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Already Kano has the best hotel in West Africa, run by young Mr. H. A. Steer, who before the butcher in Surbiton,
war was
Today nearly a mililon Africans] Surrey. live in and around the old city. In inud houses that flank narrow They see 20th-century trains inud streets, and in shacks that ments of cooking und
The army taught him the rudi
catering puding Southwards on the. 500 dot the brown plains.
and three yeárs ago he came herè mile journey to Lagos hauling
Through a jumble of pedes- something very close to West End to start a new life. He provides hundreds of tons of groundnuts that will be shipped to Britain trians, cyclists, camels, goals, and and turned-into-margarino-and sheep you hear the occasional cuisine and service. He too looks
forward to tourists. cooking fats; luxury buses which hoot of a motor horn. But no carry tourists in comfort across one jumps for safely and the
Africans the Sahara; long-nosed limousines hundreds of
utility trucks any time of the day are lying transporting -Europeans and asleep in doorways or in the Africans on a thousand errands shade of houses just, go on sleep and trade, missions.
and slubnosed
faw
hero, coming and going between of Africa. It is the gateway to what was Darkest Africa.
L
the
who at
In the bazoar
.
No visitor to Kand misses the
bazar It is claimed to ba. the largest In Africa, and there you can buy anything from a camel to a motor-car or a complete set, of instruments for a brass band.
Well, it is all here, even down to an authentic out-of-this-world touch at io airport. where a tall turbaned African warns of arriving and departing aircraft
with bĺnsts on what looks like a 9ft, long post-horn.
Whiteness
"Warwickshire troubled by Doug Wright."
There have also been complants about green fly and boll-weevils......
نہ میں یہ ہی ہیں
At 33. old, a gallon, how much
to all my fighter indadds"
Sweetness
They see great airliners nosing.
the airfield a The Soviet Government has gently into
His call 'consists of two notes,; been notified by the Ambas setting down Europeans who a
milcs qutside the old city and If they chance on play, when and it is just as well that depart- in the only way that will stop bador to Moscow, of the stand few hours before were in Lon-te is walking in the courtyard ing passengers-especially those it, by superior force. In Southi taken by the United States, don, Paris, Brussels, or Amster fronting his palace showing him taking off for the long hop across Korea now the last 'priority and especially of the order dam
self to his people, lucky tourists the Sahara-cannot hear him may see the Emir of Kano, abova, the roar of warming-up has become the first, and it is 'to the Balléd States sea and. Air travel has made Kano the Abdullahi Bayero, C.M.G., ruler engines. For his two notes are shaping that way also in Indo-air forces to support South new crossroads. Every day hun since 1920 of 2,500,000 Moslems, the start of "The Last Post." China and the Philippines, as Korea in their fight against dreds of passengers pass through it has already been shaped, the invaders. At the same Europe, America, and all corners under the press of necessity, time the Kremlin was invited in Malaya.
to use its influence on the North Korean authbrities for
Leave London Airport, and the the withdrawal of the In- tropical weather you are having. vaders and the cessation of here tomorrow, in time for carly for a vast area of North Africa. at noon today and you would be It is still the centre of trade in the sweep of a single state hostilities. The approach is breakfast and real tropicalHere is rock salt brought from ment whose importance is his- also regarded as a geit warn-weather-100 degreen most days, from Tunisia, cotton goods from the Sahara by camel, carpets toric. President Truman's ing to Russia against londing sometimes as high as 118..
Manchester, bicycles from Bir- announcement VAR made any direct or indirect sup-
Today the air traffic is almost mingham... after an emergency confer port to North Korea. The entirely business. Soon ence with the heads of the Western Powers have had to
Here are cloths woven from local cotton and coloured In cun- Armed Services, and It has 'drink a lot of bitter tea in
turies-old dye-pits close by tho already had the backing of Asia in the last two years.
bazaar! - silverware: fashioned by both Parties in Congress. Now it is the turn of others
Kand craftsmen: loathor cushlaris, The crux of it lies in the to taste it. Aftof all. gamblers
handbags, and wallets made from the skins of crocodlies 'caught ir statement that the Com- can't be choosers, 'End nobody
Frankfurt, Jun 27. the Niger River; occasionally the munist attack on South believes for • moment The U.8," High- Commissioner, skin of a lion or leopard killed Korca "makes it plain be that the little mon in Pyong John McCloy, said today that the within a few miles of the city. yond all doubt that Commun yang would have taken this cupation powers were combat diversions there are
ingi vestiges of anti-Semitism ism has passed beyond the plunge without all due nut rather than a rising wave in past ning, odoriferous showmen whe use of subversion to conquer thorisation,
war Germany. M
put: grinning, odoriferous hyönki independent nations, and will Nevertheless the all-com- through a letter, to. Mrs. Herbert and strange snake charmers wh Mr. McCloy sasured Americans, through little clavu routines now use armed Invasion and pelling motiveThe United Stein, president of the Jewish don't charm at all but inelle war." It is at once a simple States and of the United Na- Club of Washington State, that deadly smokes to bite them. statement of fact and a plain; tions is to restore and main his office exercised, constant vigl- and reverely
No, those knakai have no
·Jance, against anti-Semitism and logical hy-tain the peace, and the prin- the return of former. Nazi Party been de-fanged or "de-venomed pothesis about the con- cipies on which alone it can members to official posts-Unit. they are the tkal McCoy, Vol- sequences elsewhere if the be preserved, by putting caed Press. Communists decide to go on stop to farmed aggression. with it.
Unification of Koren can still
ANTI-SEMITISM
IN GERMANY
the career diplomat John
"Washington, Juno 877 Service, was reported tedata have been cleared by the dial Department Loyalty Board
ömmuniem kichurgusu lod
by Senator of
aro grin
can see the forearms of the snake-inen pitted with old and now wounds where the snake have struck.
VEGAS
Apparently they become im- smansued against the venom
Occasionally, however the im. innily failing Cale: dead before he oplication
The United Nations sent a bo accomplished by the elvfĮ SERVICE CLEARED Commission to Korea to used, free and fair methods arrange the unification of the of the United Nations, which country by means of free ought never to have been no elections on both sides of the jected. But if, an so many sus border. North Korca péct, Korea is merely a pawn wouldn't even let them chter in a biggor game which bas that territory. Now the Com- Japan as to main objective munist regline: t have Esos resistance to aggression must 4the Board arrived at the deals Hikamily guick fir put to unity” the country sooner or later turn; to by armed aggression, and | frontal clash whope bounda two – daymungor, when they cannot be sat
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