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THE PRESS OF EVENTS
Correspondents in the Far East and elsewhere appear to have some difficulty in locat- ing the head of the Peking Government. One says he is in Moscow holding secret meetings with Stalin to try and iron out differences be- tween them. The suggestion is that these relate to the in- vasion of Taiwan, which may have to be postponed because of lack of Russian aid in view of the conflict in Korea. That hardly covers the subject, for there is much more in the problem of Sino-Soviet re- lations than that. Another correspondent finds Mr. Mao still in Peking, and M. Molotov there with him, dis- cussing a little business' whereby aid in the invasion of Taiwan would require the aid of Chinese troops in Korea. Rumours are often set afloat with the object of secur- ing information, though they don't always draw out the main figure. It used to be the custom of both high officials and the diplomats to leave Peking during the extreme heat, from which they took refuge either in the Western Hills or at Peltaiho. The absence of Mao Tse-tung from the Army Day celebrations and from any function report. ed by the Communist News Agency during the past few no less weeks, may have simple an explanation than this.
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QUIT HOG
TOWN? NOT LIKELY Good Morning
IT'S TOO EXCITING
The city of Toronto is known from Atlantic to Pacific as Hog Town, or Toronto The Good, and is reputed to be so full of sanctimonious and avaricious old humbugs that cowboy Canadians in Calgary believe all the men wear spats and French discurs in Mont- real aing naughty Gallic dit- ties about the chastity of our scrubbed-cheeked girls.
By MacKenzie Porter
tury on the threshold of fabulous developments.
Mother's Day, and a grotesqua confection known as the mammoth ralabow sundae.
News agency on Mr. Shinwell- We have more than a hundred THA accession of Incidents, likes stood at the beginning of the cen- pers and militant tee-totallars,, kilted pipe bands to discourage all the aggression in Koren, could who keep the Sabbath suicidal other manifestations of Yankee-lead to serious trouble,' he warned for thousands of car-less apart- doodle-dandy. We are so good this Parliamentary constituency."
English national nient dwellers and porpetuate a making the
Just in caso it was thinking of prdid type of beer parlour which beverage that every day thousands starting a similar incident.
of American housewives BOY! is a national disgrace.
"Let's to to Canada for a nice cup of tea."
And Toronto is the financla pivot. It's not genteel. In como ways it's raucous and cruel,, But it's exciting.
Hotch potch of old
and new
With
Shanghal's big dance halls, Boys We niso have solid banks of Philistines and human dumplings
a local report, are opening up If you think Capade will ever again, and many other smaller think Will Shakespeare who works for J. Arthur Rank and recede from Britain to the States, cabarates are
again filled Picasso is the chopped nuts on a tell the Toronto Imperial Order soft light and sweet music."
of the Daughters of the Empire,
And at one or, two-buftates you lemon meringue pio,
or the United. Empire Loyalists, can
still get a good fillate of Yet in the last last four months and they'll march you through stealt. we've had the Sadler's Wells the streets behind the big drums Ballet, the Ballet Ruare de Monte of the orangemen's band. Cario, the Ballet de Paris and the New York Ballet, We've seen Oklahoma 1" "Brigadoon," "An-
Some British Immigrants rush back to Bloomsbury, and, at the end of the poetry reading_down
Architecturally, Toronto is a among the drains In Coram riotous hotch-patch of Sauchiehall Street, rite like a phoenix from Street, Wall Street, the Old Kant the nakes of their existentialist Road, Blackpool's South Shore, mood to equall; "Toronto?
But Welwyn Garden City and Tobacco It's so dastardly dull, darling,” Road, North Carolina.
Others up slicks quick and flee Manchesterwards, hungering for the gregarious pub or the aromatie chip shop, and, with eyes poppinguards on the oldest and ugliest Churchill, Yehudi Menuhin, Fritz dants
cars. single-decker tram
The Kreister and Myra Hess, guiltering facades of gumptuous |
"Hamlet" ran for a total of 19 department stores are hidden beweeks in three different cinemas: hind festoons of overhead cables The Chiltern Hundreds," at
Every
in indignation, wall: Toronto 1 It's not even organised. body has to have two jobs to live. And there's no proper dole." -
'The hive of stuffy
timeys'
The most beautiful motor cars nie Get Your Gun, Charles
Laughton,
Sarah Bea Lille, in the world buckle their mud-
en crooked wooden poles,
Politically the city la so Right that Lord Vansittart sounds like a
Radical, and even its handful of Communists sheepishly call them- Oh, the horror of it all. Every-selves the Labour Progressive
Even the Party. body hates Toronto. Americans. They call it "that
hive of stuffy limeys"
Last November, when I was visiting London, all my friends sald; "You'll be back." Every week my mother writes begging me to come home...
But I've been in Toronto two
years now longer than I've been in any one place for the Inst 15 years--and sometimes I think it's got me. I've even bought furniture.
Long-hairs, Leftists and landed
nobility, however, will never and happiness there. We are as one in the vulgar pursuit of money.
The flexible, expanding, con- petitive economy still makes it possible for a veteran to buy a hot-dog stand one year, chain of restaurants the next, and, in his third, corner the sausage-
meat market.
So many people want to lend
money for new enterprise that they compete for advertising space in the newspapers. Banks will end promising young men money on signature.
I know on
man in his thirties Who has borrowed money to buy 500,000, wać.surplus radar tubes at five cents aplece because he thinks he can sell them as lamp bases at 60 cents apiece.
Socially it is almost classless; with huge
Income differences marking close groups of friends Hunting, shooting and fishing are the sports of street truck drivers and bricklayers, as well as company directors.
sweepers,
writing, has been running for 21 weeks in one cinema,
There were queues for George Formby and Harry Gordon, and when Sir Horry Lauder died many flags were at half-mast.
Smuggling
"All the ladies agreed it was a most enjoyable ten party, Guests rovived continuously between 4 and 6.30."
Tea, huli?
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And all our Negroes, descen-
of runaway alavea
"China's cricketplaying West Indian rail-
local War effects sports." way porters, are loyal.
Another instance of cause and effects.
The only time most of us go to the States is to smuggle home
hotel shirts, frocks, shoes and which are half the price there| and much more stylish,
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can dollars and sometimes denied Because we are short of Ameri-
American-grown green-stuffs in the spring, our doughty women
The CBC radio plays, written allp across the border and bring Torontonions, are back a bunch of celery under mostly by considered the finest in contem- their fur coat or a lettuce in their nifty painters and sculptors live porary broadcasting. More, then brassiere.. by ane art alone in Toronto.
All loyal
The city has the highest per capita income in the Dominion- the average wage is £15 a week We also have four night clubs; yet all the middle brackets Anton Karas has been here and struggle to meet the strato-got us all dreaming of ruins and spherical cost of living.
He's building his home
One of my neighbours works eight hours Ave days a week over drawing board and eight hours six nights a week washing cars that he can buy bricks, planks and plumbing for a house he is building with his own two hands on Sundays,
The pace lays tow by heart failure a frighterding number of men in their fifties. It also throws off a rash of the most hideous chronic alcoholics, who sit around on waste lots all night furtively drinking filthy, reinforced, native Canadian wine.
As a result, we have skads of the more disreputable Bible thum-|
cosmic disaster with his zither.
How's that for culture in a city not yet as big as Manchester?
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Thirteen теп are to leave England for Singapore to undergo tests on minimum dlets..
to whether the present-day diet It seems some doubt exists as
England really is the minimumTI.
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"Wanted, HK$5,000 for bussi-
It's proof-readers, of course, nest,"
who cause all the fussiness.
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Some tribes in Africa are said drink warm spirits before going to sleep.
Hot-on-tots, presumably.
Geographically, Toronto Ideal for the adventurous. In five days' driving I can reach Mexico City. In two days I can be up to among the nomad Indians in the North.
In one day I can reach Broadway, New York, my favou rite French night club in Mon- Haile Selassie treal, or a village in Quebec means of giving military assistance where the children still go to in Korça,
examining
school in dog-drawn carts and It will be a rich duel Papa brings home the bacon with Ethiop's here.
a team of exen.
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Others, however, think it may prevent a
"Many Chinese believe herbs And Toronto is so beautifully, I've lived in London, Paris, tea has the power to cure bigotedly British Our social Rome, Athens, and Vienna, I've life is still largely in the home. seen Freetown, Capetown, Dur- Prevent Blekness." Everybody has parquet floora soban, Mombasa, Aden, Damascus, Cairo, Jerusalem and we can dance; nearly all parties Beirut,
my way end up in a sing-song round the Alexandria. I know pieno, which sulla me fine, about Berlin, Barcelona, Monte Carlo, Amsterdam, Reykjavik and Stow-on-the Wold.
cure.
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Band leader on assault charge. Lost his tempo?
"U.S. Reds going underground." Fellow-travellers, however, aro
We have crowns on our car number plates, Union Jacks on all big buildings, and the slogan But I've never had so much
God Save King" concluding all fun for my money as I get in.becoming elevated. the mayor's advertisements for Toronto. You ought to see the
near my "Nose interest fo great truant officers, snow shovellers or girls on the ice rink
house...you ought to see my Hollywood." dog catchers.
wife choosing a six pound roast Our great American cousins of sirloin bocf. make their influence felt only in
a few skyscrapers, bowling alloys, Return to Britain? Not yet drug stores, hooligans fashious awhile. You see, I come from (called "stripes and drapes") Oswaldtwistlet
rocket, sold in six months by the STRATEGY AND
A Blackpool man, who arrived last
August
with 10 dollars in his demonstration dollars word of British-made
method
150,000
potato peelers, egg beaters and There is a fairly strong bef
pastry cutters, netting himself 15,000 dollars profit.
ASIA
So the Western powers will in spite of the development of lief in London that there will press on with all the policies for India's steel industry, be fis
South East Asia which they have assessed? India's chief contribu New strikes in oll,, uranium, be no world war this year. been evolving. For example there armies of dependable infantry Im- iron and gold can enake million. But it is inevitable that those will be no faltering in the deve-bued with all the military vir- uires overnight. Canada stands today where the United States Whose business it is to look lopment of the (Sydney plan for tues.
after our defences should be looking ahead and asking themselves what would be the pattern of a new world war.
General Chlang's Govern- ment.
But even if he is resting amidst the lovely scenery of the Western Hills, it is pretty certain his mind is pre-oc- cupied with the international crisis. This has brought about complications as serious for China as for all the rest Some weeks ago, as a result of the world. There is no of Chinese suspicions about As things stand, it looks as if evidence whatever that the the neutralisation of the is war, it comes, may originate in Asta. Besides Korea there aro People's Government either land, President Truman clari- three other places where it might wanted or expected these fied his original statement on be set off-Talwan, Indo-China present complications. In this point, emphasised that and Fersia. (Outside Asia the spite of a good deal of pro- the political status of the isle explosive areas are perhaps
Yugoslavia and Germany) paganda to the contrary from land remained' unaffected once a war begins over Asia, thú Taipeh, it has molested no- and formally declared that the amount of fighting in Asia might body else's borders. On the United States had no terret be contrary, it has transferred torial designs on Taiwan, nor extensive for example as in the the main spearhead of the did it seek there any special army that conquered the position ог whole of China away from the borders of Hong Kong and Indo-China.
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privilege. The President's assurances were formally communicated to the Peking Government through the good offices of the Indian Ambassador there.
last war.
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economic development,
It is only if the cold war should turn, not only into a juke-warm
By "Windrush” Special correspondent
at the
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Japan and India
but into a hot war, that a re- Unhappily it is clear that, grouping of effort may be neces- Russia and the Western alles be to concentrate the maximum there is a war. It will be between ry. The guiding principle will Offensively the effort of the West possible offensive, effort would be found to be concentrated point where it will most quickly
the enemy. defcat in Europe and
and perhaps in Many of these troops have,
thrust from the Middle towards which has been lost will be freed in fact, returned to Mar-
the Russian ci districts. Defen- in the end.
Middle churia, and it is even report. Then came General Mac-aively, Europe and the ed that General Lin Piao him- Arthur's visit, gn which Na- East would also be the main area self is now there. Nothing tlonalist propagandists have for the allied effort. It would be of much importance to America has happened so far to show been more zealous than dis defend the oil lands of the that this was anything but a creet. Some despatches from Forlan Gulf.
There is a good deal of dis- defensive movement, possibly Taipeh even suggested that
Furthur Eart, the effort of the cussion about the position of two with an eye on both major the Supreme Commander Western allies would probably be countries in particular, Japan and India.. One theory used to..be Powers Involved in the had actually urged an early less considerable. Nobody сель Korean
dispute. Indeed, return to the mainland! That suppose that an assault on Rus that Japan was the centre from Taiwan remains for the pre- is where the Nationalists want sla's Far East territories could which America could mount an sent at any rate, as it has been to be, but so far as we know bring a decisive result in a war. offensive against the Far Eastern governing question would be mainland. But what if a serious all along, a far greater source it is a matter for themselves whether an area was of such offensive effort is not to be made of concern in Peking than the alone. If they go back, they great value, economically or for in this area? Korean conflict. Agency do so under their own steam any other reason, that a great may nevertheless be necessary
effort in holding It would be despatches from Washington the Americans have no injustified--an effor, which would to invest very considerable res state definitely that Taiwan tention of putting them back. reduce the effectiveness of what if the war, were a long one, Ja- was one of the issues which However, Peking's suspicions was being done elsewhere." caused the Administration to have apparently revived, and
It fell into its hands Take Malaya for example. Hub. pan might be a grept usset to send Mr. Harriman to Tokyo. Mr. Harriman has been sent to ber and tin are of high economic The Industry of Japan is still a General MacArthur, in his Tokyo to clear this up and to value in war. But the West fought war asset. of great magnitude if
last war chiefly the
upon could be exploited. So also lu
it statement after his visit, had ensure that military and made it quite clear that he political strategy, are co- again, lock up a large defensive
synthetic rubber, and can do so Japan's military manpower. coagain, Conceivably it might not But
awar Inst
long had not discussed any political ordinated. ADVA
anaugh for Russla to be able to issues. His purpose was pure. There are other problems, effort in Malaya.
estabilah the control which would be needed? G
"Another country of great in- terest to stralogists at the jno-
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ly military-the co-ordination | including that of Japan, also
Prestige
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Bources o. defence of Japan, for,
of defence against any possible to be discussed, but obviously attack. But there appears to for the moment, China is the| have been a misunderstanding major *** issue. The onus about it; a misunderstanding of aggression should be This does not mean that there ment is Indis. It is reasonably in sny takelihood of the Western certain that, if there je war, In- not limited to Peking Off left to hor. Any talk of an powers weakening in their de- die will not be on the Russian cials in Washington referred invasion of the mainland is fence of Bouth East Asia as long side. But nobody can be quite certain that India will commit to the unfortunate rise of the a provocation. So algo is the war is in thin, age, bislavs itself actually on the side of the
While it is in thir, ■ Malave idea: “In "Asia" —which pre- Nationallet possession of is mor vital importance to the West the forces in favour of sumably means India as well lands right offshore. The sonomics of the sterling arou: 16 neutrality are still si Poking that General Mas neutralization Inc has been of vital importance for prestige, the end of the wES:
It is of vital importance in Tacli:| has:
has been
-TO, KATIE'S Dighly)the Arthur's visit was being used drawn at the Pandores and Grant Britain will not abandon militat value of India in an ally, as the first move toward a Talwan.. It ought to be made in responsibilites to the Malayan Has.
*.Che Valus perhaps been over. major, rapprochement with
Peop
But war seems to be moving away from the phase where very decide the result. large armies War-la-becoming-always- mare scientific. The chief need of the army of the future is for skilled technicians...
India's political structure is still rather shaky. Its economy, is! undergoing a prolonged crisis. In some respects it may prove that India has less to offer as a milf
a new war than is tary ally in neighbour Pakistan. Pakistan could contribute a terrain for airfields which raight seem of the
greatest value to the atrategists and planners.
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