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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, AUGUST 11, 1980.
THE WANING OF THE LEFT
By "Windrush, Special correspondent
The For East crials muy cause developments in British politics more serious than is perhaps at present recognised. The left-wing. In British polt- tics is cracking. It is too early yet to talk of a split. The crack "New Statesman" may mend. But also it may widen.centrale Interest,
Complacency disturbed
the right wing which; was" sORS pected" of endangering the nation by its pollélés:
Reversed situation
Today the situation 'la reversed,
We
Boema. you can't always, bank tries to con- This may seem a strange: reflée-, 'The ruaplefon grows that tha not on tho tlun on human nature, People country has been beguiled by left on local plants. Yesterday In the Inst month,
rightness of the Security Counell have been for the last two or wing orators into preferring radi-had to announce.a. rubber check. the two principal papers of the intelleo-action over Korea, but on what three years in acute danger but cal social legislation to providing The as the wrongness of have not bothered to reflest on it, for the nation's defences. tuals of the Labour Party have regards
It
Labour Party is no longer produc- I understand the Russions are declared themselves on diametri American action over Taiwan.
the mood of tha
tive of lens and policies. It has getting tired of having to pick cally opposite sides over the reports that crisis. The "Tribune,"
inst fire and its convictions.up top, secret documents from Socialist rank and file is Isota- always
Cas it. In its present jaded con- diplomats unlooked, uinttended regarded as a paper of the ex-tienist. It thinks that the way to
dition; lend the country this cars. They are now offering to treme left, of Mr. Aneurin Bevon solve the Korean problem is to and ble group, supports whole the Security Connell. It prhits a get Communist China'admitted to
Sreat new crisis? heartedly and to the surprise of the from the veteran left-win many people-the decision of the journalist H. N. Brailsford which Erltri Government America over 'Koren. The "New says. Statesman" on the other hand, All now contributions to be
while paying lip-service to the addressed to Eror-in-Chief.
need for collective security, clear- Advertisaments and Businessly thinks thunt the crisis is the
be ad. communications should
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to back
Crude realities
From
of Mr.
Churchki.
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Ours is no joke either.
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How the complacency in at
In, the defence debate some of it up pilar boxes in the main capitals with " notice: "Drop let disturbed. in the next few weeks will be villicatien
The test of British democracy is ablest speakers, such as Mir, your secret papers here Rapid
Crossman, fell blick on
cheap despatch to Moscow guaranteed," what it does about the facts which They suld that he wanted crisis it has at last been compelled to because in a crisis he could again
UN. commission- contemplate. It it meets the
play the dramatic and dominating| Korea is calling for the strangest challenge, British history will on part in Parliament which he did possible protest..." "The procedure of the UN has ter a new phase-ar it did in
in the wor, These speeches. did Surely normal diplomatie been used by a packed Counell 1939 and again in 1945.
the Labour Party no good.
Janguage is strange enough?' to disguise the crude realities of now on a great deal of the na- Labour is preparing for its 40th power politics. The Council acted tonal effort will have to be These two papers have of indecently when it declared North diverted from the agreeable tasksual party conference In Octo-
ber, and the tresolutions tabled Looks as if the US. is sending course only a limited circulation Kures the aggressor on the un- of building the welfare state te by local branches of the Party lot of high Ruskin melals to among the rank and Ale of La-corroborated complaint of South rebuilding armaments. bour Yet they do refeet; pretty Korea-the reality behind the Historians may be bewilderes have been published. This docu-Formora
ment; hus helped' to underminu an explanation for the ngeurately the ideas battling foregal procedure is a struggle be- to lind Fitpremacy In the party. That tween the American and Russian British people having repeated still further the Party's credit.
British variety artists have For example a commentator in
boen asked to The Kremlin has argued they have split over the crisis 1s empires for the strategical con- with such extraordinary rapidity the "Spectator" writes:
refrain from En ominous symptom for Labour.trol of the Far East."
In blunder which nearly ruined "I don't
England's know when I have molting Jokes about that the Korean conflict is an
It suggests that a more dramatic The New Sidtesman" does not, then a dozen years ago. They read a more depressing document weather.. internal affair-a civil war and for. renching division is at it in true, commit itself to support neglected their armaments while I and it impossible to believe that
least a possibility,
ing Mr. Brailsford's view in its Hitler prepared to attack them. the majority of British Socialists like the American Civil war.
Mr. Michael Foot, the stock entirety. But the "New States- Today they have again neglected are pompous, acquisitive, irres- It implied quite clearly there- polemical writer of the Tribune, man reflects the attitude of So their defences while tucsia, to nonstble, intolerant and woolly an by that it had no intention of says this week "The plain truth clalists who are so much carried the knowledge of everybody, has these 40 pages make them sound. shortens
The is that the menace to the peacej away
their suspicion for five years been preparing its A lot of the resolutions are purd
of for intervention, armed
verblage. Korean leaders are unlikely of the world derives from Soviet America, as a capitalist country, assault.
The general effect is The Labour leaders knew the of a large number of policy. Mistaker, blunders, follies, that they cannot believe that it
small-mind- to bother very much about even crimes, have doubtless been is very much in the right in the dangers. But either they hided people with little grasp of rea-say 18.. that while things go well committed by other powers since present confilet.
them from themselves, or reflected ties, scant sense of responsibility, But more of them have During this last month the that I would be political suicide uncompromising, intolerance to with them. But they may be 1943.
about them before the words
anyone whose outlook less appreciative of this line been committed on a scale which country has been told, in the de- to talk
would place the governments fence debates in Parliament, the country whole has tumbled differs from theirs, and envy of when the fortunes of war concerned in the same entegory alarming facts about the military to them.
everything that they think Jany- turn. Incidentally it is also as the Soviet regime.
strength of Russia and the mili While all the great events of body cise has got And they tary strength of the West. No the past month have been taking haven't." guarantee
"Has the value perhaps been over- fairly good
really new Information was given. | place, the impression grows that Of course not all the Labour tion to a war effort must still, against Chinese intervention.
The facts discussed
been the pendulum in English politics Party is like this. But it has in spite of the development of It is the Taiwan question
"In particular those who would available for months to anybody is swinging further to the right outlived its idealiain. The seamy India's steel industry. be its that Moscow wants to use in charge the United States with a interested in them. But it is This is in contrast to the months side begins to show through. So assessed?"
preceded Hitler's war. cialism based on pure materialism Well, there always has been. order to embroil the People's responsillity for the cold war probally true that very few peo- which
had given, Then It was the right wing is not an attractive thing. And if | that' dönger: Government and the United comparable with that which falls pic in Great Britain
them any deep thought, Their whieh, by its conduct of affairs, is not a safe thing in a time of States. It is out to create the the men in the Kremlin mere- pence had not been disturbed. made itself distrusted. It was emergency.
iv show themselves (incapable of maximum trouble for the the stemplest distinctions."
the United States, and ut
On Talwan, Mr. Fect writer same time the minimum trou- "Whatever the wisdom of the ble for itself. Moscow would nove, It was not an international rame for the American Govern- like to turn the island into ment to declare that in view of
security of another Korea, but the Chin-the threat
а
Simple distinction
on Talwan
the
the same
by
and
and memories
Men, women an
to
unused memorial of a past when Charles James Fox and the Whig
"Ench cigarette smoked three your life by minutes."
Good heavens, I've been dead
yearal. Now, for several
don't
Archbishop gives three aims for
Windows were not included.
hoys.
Government
House domestic. staff to get retiring benefits.
It's no use being shy when you know you're retiring.... |-
Usual Channeis,
No, Myrtin, it doesn't look a
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and dice, when a standing ruic She can't get far enough away. of the Club enjoined "every per- from t son playing at the now quinze table to keep fifty guineas before Sighed the Australian pound; him," when many member wish, yould try to appreciate, borrowed hundreds from the ac-
me." commodating proprietor, Mr. Brooks, and great fortunes were Iost and won overnight at faro Wife: " scr there's o
men who I moon;" and hazard by the swayed the fate of Ministries.
Husband: "So
is.. if: there you've any of my money left, would you mind turning over?".
Mr. John Dulanty, Ireland's who seems incredibly young
be the mother of several children: ese would be much less in- Pacine the Seventh Fleet was to first Ambassador in London, She is one of Dublin's leading nobles sped the night with cards if Miss France must miss, Franen. telligent than they are if they be to prevent an attic will be much missed when his painters, and, though primarily a fell into such Br obvious time Chiang Kai-shek's forces retirement takes effect very portrait painter, has a wide range She was, for instance, trap. The world crisis hus were called upon to ecase all air shortly. He is a popular of talent.
distin- and sen operations against the figure and in his 24 years has commissioned to paint: the murals barely begun. One
for the Butlin holiday camp in guished personage, Bertrand Chinese mainland. It is at least
arguable that without these mea- carved out a niche which any Dublin. Russell, has predicted that sures successful action in Korea successor would not find it if war does occur it will be a would be severely impeded."
easy to fill. long one and last ten years. The starters may not figure among the finishing few, but even so it is a prospect to make even the blindest fan- atic quail, and Chinese Com- munists most of all,
came
mand,
character.
17
was
or
in
Afrika Korps visitor Manfred Rommel; aon of the Marshal- together with. late General Fritz Bayerlein, who was
By Atticus
By the King's command
Lieut-General Sir
Carton
You keep the Order."
de
то
Captain's innings
Contrast with this the last number of the "New Statesman.“ John Dulanty is more than Its main comment is headed "Our bit of a
He spent The years in the British Civil Service obligations are Limited."
and then went into business be fore joining the Irish Civil Ser in 1948. No shots were fired,] vice In both services he
King George V. "What's this I' but Czechoslovakia died in something of a disturbing in- He was "the man who fluence.
Adrian hear about this Order?" said the the name of peace.
"I've not many pri King. wanted most things done yester-
Carton de Wiart must be enjoy-vileges, but I am Commander- A cynical comment we In Korea, it means the com- day" and that did not suit the
ing the success of his "Happy In-Chief of the British Army." across the other day plete elimination of the only tempo either of Witchali
my bookseller his father's chief of staff, are in Odyssey" which said that ten years hence 1950 elected Government in the Dublin.
London to discuss the
tells me is selling well. As Ireland's representative
publica-
One of the Dest lon of the Rommel papers.. would be looked upon as "the peninsula, the rewarding of
London he has established
doubt. Wurt stories is omitted, good old days." The picture aggression, and the triumph great reputation as a witty after-
Young Rommel, though he saw
less because of the author's of China in 1950 is one of of the Kremlin. It would dinner speaker and in that caps- war service, is still only 21, and
modesty. After the first world
The emergence of some oak: Lodge bright hopes and
war he weat to live in a lonely shoots beside the Sandy university. deep almost certainly mean much city has been increasingly in de- is now reading law at a German General Bayerlein shadows. There is energy and more than that-the. exten- Though formally he hands over fought in two wars but is only house on the Pripet Marshes, and, Golf Clubhouse has given, much
when in 1020 the Bolsheviks satisfaction on both sides of the enthusiasm such as has not sion of this Communist techni- fairly soon, he intends to stay in just over 50.
Described by Brigadier Des were advancing on Warsaw, the Atlantic. been known since the heyday que o
General sided with the Poles. of armed aggression to London for a time to act in an
commemorate the. visit of When the war was over; he the British Walker-Cup- team... to...-. of the Nationalists. But many
The advisory capacity until his re-mond Young in his book other places.
Rommel as "a stocky, tough little as pubiley decorated the cessor has really settled in.
by
the Rochester Golf Club, NY... economic conditions are worse | Security Council
terrier of a man, full of energy gratefull Poles, has laid
The War Offee, last summer, the Americans not and
enthusiasm," he hos Deen however, than they have ever been in down the basis of a real
but. A question of pay
was anhoved and, only dedicated an oak tree working with the US. Historical through the Foreign Once, de-sent; through the British Embassy modern times, and that ap- peaceful settlement the
Section in Germany. Ho wag plies to the country-side withdrawal of the aggressors Mr. Dulanty delights in good not only Rommel's chief of staffmanded the return of the Order.at Washington, a number of its
I re- but himself
Max Muclier, the British Mint-acorns to be planted at the home commanded the stricken by one tremendous to the, 38th Parallel. Who stories against himself.
member him telling TC years Afrika Korps for a short time ster in Warsaw, then took a hand clubs of the British players, The calamity after another-no can challenge the simple
Trade during
and wrote home indignantly to captain, Mr. P. B. Lucos, MP, ago of his first post as"
its retreat after London,
say that the
would Poles That Alamein. less than to the immense justice, of that order, or the Commissioner in
be planted his at Sandy Lodge, and hurt and British-Polish relations sitting that they should be It has been said of him that metropolis of Shanghai. The clarity of its principle? And was when he was in business.
Kevin O'Higgins persuaded him save for Rommel himself
The War Office re-setting the pace, impaired. ลง question of Taiwan may have it is a stand supported by no
Quercus Lucasil of which four to take the post in the twenties soldier on either side saw more fused to budge.
far While the deadlock was at its specimens have so
been been handled well or ill, but fewer than 52 nations.
when that Irish leader was in continuous active service in the
home sighted, is already playing D British its neutralisation in a world The Chinese are a highly London helping
Minis- Western Desert, but this is the height, the General came to lay the teetering on the edge of a intelligent people they are ters
foundations kind of statement that usually and was promptly went for by captain's Inningst of the
Statute of Westminster. calls for counter-claims, gigantic struggle is a mercy not fools. There is a small when It came to tho ques rather than a justification for minority of fanatics who will tion of salary, "I doubt, swallow anything they are said Dulanty, "whether the Irish told. But somehow or other, pay me as much as I am carning though bayonets have always now Don't you mean getting?" supplanted the ballot in interpolated O'Higgins, China, the influence of public
war.
or the British Government can)
opinion does exert itself. It Toujours la politesse is much to be doubted whe
A more recent incident
con-
M.
Clever mimic
Herve Alphand, who left
key position at the 'Qual Orsay, to take up, last month,
his new post as the French re- presentative on the North At- Inatte Deputies Council in Lon- accomplishments both don, has formal and informal.
At the conference table he is a ther it backs the insistence eems a diplomatic colleague who singularly able and imaginative on the so-called Uberation of sitting next to him at a public diplomat, quailties no doubt in- Excellency-ed" herited from his father, who was Taiwan. It is almost certain function, "Your
Ambassador in Moscow,
that the people would much him until the then High Com- French
missioner began to loathe the At the dinner table he enjoys
using his remarkable"talent as a Dulanty mimic. He can,
for instance, realistic car. imitation of both Mr. Churchill
In his country home near part- Chartres he is sometimes nered in these impromptu enter Lainments by his wife, who is a talented singer.
His successor
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Shrouded gaming
It has been the tragedy of the Republic ever since it was proclaimed that it found no other way to settle its mili. tary and political quarrels and rivalries than by recourse to civil war and armed force. Every Government has im posed itself on the country in this way-not. one of them was ever elected.
prefer an abandonment of sound of the words.
Forgivingly, Mr. China has presented the civil war and the closing of world with a typical example ranks to meet the immense offered his too-punctilious col- produce an amazingly
icague a lift home In his of irony lately. She has been dangers under which China ad nearly fell out of it when, and Mr. Beyin. making a great clamour about no less than the rest of the on alighting, his passenger ex- the campaign of peace signa-world lies. today..
tended his hand and said: "Well, tures while at the same time That is true not only as a good-night, Commish, old fruit" insisting that the civil war result of the way in which must go on, for that is what popular feeling has been the "liberation" of Taiwan moving lately, which ΠΟ His successor, Mr. F. H. Bolond, means. Peking has also amount of propaganda has at present permancut head of
able
of External identifled, itself with what been
to stop, but the Department
Just as Brooks's is—in George the Kremlin calls "a poace because even the humblest Affairs in Dublin, has no illusions
Trevelyan'a words "the about the difficulty of fallowing Otto ful settlement" in Korea The out-of-work in Shanghai's Mr. Dulanty, In a letter to a most famous political club that
oxlated ever have British delegate to the Unit-factories and waterfront friend he said recently: "It re-w
minds me of Jefferson's remark England," so its Great Subscrip- ed Nations; SirGladwyn realises the terrible con- when he followed Franklin in tion Room Is, I suppose, the most Jebb, referred in the Security sequences of an action that Pars am merely his succes famous gaming saloon in London. Council to the "queer upside would not stop. at civil war sor. nobody could replace bim." Today it is wrapped in those down language" of Russian but would almost certainly But Mr. Boland has qualities shrouds which decorators use to propaganda, which Peking bring China and the United of his own which should
him in good stead. He Is the hope and believe the Committeo repeats. like a parrot. If one States into open conflict. Not outstanding Irish Civil Servant, of Brooks's will nee side attacks its neighbour, heall the Chinese who signed the a man of great ability. He is emerge even closer to its ari- sald, it is not an act of war, peace appeal did so heedlessly, good-looking, genial and friend-ginal appearance than it has been but peace, The very words and quite a lot of them musty, and a very good mixer. He of late.
An old print which hangM is a pianist of such talent--his "peaceful settlement" when have thought of peace be repertoire ranging from the the wall shows that, 'despite a provide homewhat Victorian overtone... it used by the Russians cause tween Chinese and Chinese classical to jazz-de-to anxiety. There were also as much as of peace between him in time of need with an 1 has been little altered in the rast
ternative profession.
BA contury and, a half, an peaceful settlements in China and the rest of the
Ills artistic tastes are shared by Two of the eighteenth-century Czechoslovakia) in 1938 and world,
his wife, a good-looking blonde gaming tables siti) stand in it, an
room
stand stem the tide of their art,
thak
It
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