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· THE CHINÁ MAIL, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1951.
REPORT ON AMERICA
No prizes for spotting your colleagues in
OFFICE ZOO
by Cummings
BEVERLEY BAXTER, MP
They think NEHRU rules Attlee
wherever and whenever munism strikes.
Com-
I do not say that this feeling. is unanimous, but it does repre- sent the majority opinion.
I know that in this first Instalment of my American re- port I have drawn a picture unatttractive, yet I The American sees this point which is
in, America, but, although he doch not like urge you to believe to but I too bluntly, he is won- and to have confidence in her.
The exasperation with her dering what he is going to get
part of the natural poured into allies is for the millions
Impatience
American of the Europe and into Britain.
Im- He never Uses the word character, but that very "mercenary" but it is never patience is a sign of unexpended
vitality. in his thoughts. Above
HAVE just returned then bombed by the American from my third visit to air force. America since the end of the war to find myself, as always, astonished by find- ing Great Britain a country in which it is still possible to live.
That
may seem a strange theless in opening for a report on America, all he hates being a "sucker." With all her faults of inex- is exactly
what hc but it is not as irrelevant as it and that
ce and even unfairness we
thank whatever making him.
gods may seem. The Americans, from thinks Europe their two occan isolation, look Quite frankly the average there be for the unconquerable no clear dis- soul of the United States, She out on the world and ask: "What American draws
our counsel, our cx- kind of people are
they who tinction between Great Britain needs have
taken our money and with and the pations of Western perience, our friendship. I do American in the the not believe We are all whom
have Minked
our Eufonts queue.
We have leadership of the world, but I the profoundly in Impression that Great taken the American dollar, and believe
American thinks English-speaking leadership. Britain gives from a distance is the ordinary deplorable.
that he ought to get something
World Copyright Reserved-- London Express Service) Each day the American Press for his money. carried sober but depressing
TOMORROW: The truth news of the influenza epidemic,
the smallpox
about MacARTHUR of
outbreak in Brighton, of "floods, of coal shortage, of snow and tog and general 'desolation.
we
EX-PRESIDENT HOOVER ... unleashed the hidden thoughts.
"
I
HEARST SAYS
ת!
Do not want to be politically
partisan in this report but; one of the chief reasons for America's lack of warmth to- wards
is His Majesty's Government.
They think Mr Autler is a good tle man but he does not interos! or inspire them.
With some shrewdness they believe that Mr Nehru is the real power in British foreign polley, In fact, Mr Nehru is the most quoted and denounced of all British politiclans-f Mr Nehru will accept that designa- tion.
It is perhaps not without significance that Mr Hearst's New York Journal came out with a special Canada number and declared that the Dominion was the only partner America As for Socialist possessed. Britain under the Asiatic spell of Mr Nehru, there was not a word.
IMPATIENCE
CANADA 65,000 a year
THE SMOOTH. TONGUED WILY-BIRD
'Oh yes,certainly! Ring me at six' (He goes at five)
THE STAR-EYED STENOG ....I like stamp collecting, too."
THE GREATER TYCOON "No!'
THE PRIM-BILLED INDENT
THE PROWLING CASANOVA
"That's a nice-looking tittle casserole /
'But you had a couple of paper clips only two months ago."
needs a touch here
THE LONG. FANGED OGLE ... Mr. Chip chase, bellees
and
a fraction there.
ட்
AUSTRALIA 200,000 a year
THE EVED. CARPING NUMBER TWO ... - 133773,
It just
you've got my. A to K..
London Express Bervice
NEW ZEALAND 25,000 a year
Empire calls for
more Britons
THE greatest period of Empire emigration is
at hand. The 1951 drive is on, and the target is the British citizen.
:
I do not blame any of the correspondents who sent these news items to their newspapers for undoubtedly Job's Island has suffered many afictions this winter,
PUT now comes the paradox.
For every Briton going Despite the wave of isola- -Bul'a nuraber“ of American tionism which
Hoover's speech out now, Empire countries newspapers take their news of set in motion, despite the bellef aim at taking two in the Britain from the BBC broad-
that the French will not fight casts, and wo might well con-
(FROM A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT)
as possible, so that she can press for Dominion status. Cash deposits to cover cost but of possible repatriation to on- man- have been lowered
courage more Britons. But -much criticism has now arisen that post-war migra- tion ia out-running re-
State, Commonwealth Employment United Migration Board when they also their present are renewed, with Britain power plans for national and the Dominions sharing defence. costs.
But the threat of war
if
Yet
sider a more balanced picture and that Britain will only try future around 2,000,000 has complicated everything.
re to defend her Island and her in the next ten years of British life than travels across Empire, despite
the conviction they can get them. It is sumcient to say
that
America can never be
American opinion slowly shook
the air.
:
that I acquired almost an aura invaded and conquered
of heroism at the mere spectacle of returning to this country.
Yel the sun is shining and London is majestle in its beauty I wish that television could Atlantic so stretch across the
that my American friends could see that this is still the best of all countries, for all its affilctions and Inflictions,
BLOW TO PRIDE
POLITICALLY the Americans
are in a state of suspended disillusionment and puzzled re- sentment.
As a people they are not as politically developed as British,
and are given to over- simplification.
Empty lands
What has brought about
some such scheme must come about-for un- controlled migration on the this new situation?
now being built up It had been forecast that scale
The International situa- the only wreck
1 Empire off the Hoover-Kennedy in the
Settlement will not
tion particularly the fluence and hardened once more
re- Socialist Government's con- embrace a ception of a Welfare, Full- Korean, war has under- lined the urgency of peopling the empty lands,
to the belief that the U.S.. must Acts which are boing be in the vanguard of the battle viewed would
COMMONWEALTH
sources.
NORTHERN RHODESIA “~
leaders are Her Bettler pressing for 50,000 migrants inside the next five years. A State-aided migration scheme is under consideration.
SOUTH
AFRICA:
A few days ago Prime Labour everywhere is
Minister Menzies of Aus- tralia re-emphasised the urgency of this.
MADE
2
The realisation
Australia,
EVEN MORE REAL
the
OU begin to realise just what the British
They are generous and open- Commonwealth really hearted in personal matters, but means out here, when you deeply
sumpicious on the level see British Tommies snap of international affairs.
Koren has been a terrible blow to attention before a beard- the wearing to their pride, for this is the ed Indian
of a para first taste of real defeat which maroon beret America has over Being human, they try
Dantly
do
experienced. trooper.
try to blame it, at least United Nations to the failure of the other
ir support them the fight
men of im
*
By J. L. HAYS
scarce, Great expansion of secondary industries, plus the huge Orange Free State goldfields scheme-18 new that mines will be operating in only the next few years will Dominion with a "full-out" bring about a labour crisis ing experiences I have had in migration policy so far, has unless migration is greatly Korca. It is always the same been "skimming the cream" intensified.
the
the and has built up
an or
Middlesex: "How is this posh gunisation that will enable
on, her to go on doing so,
-from the Cockneys of
movement would only be ripple."
in
a Rolls-Royce 20th
from the mate?" and
of tho "Geordies" Technical problems are, in
important Heard anything of the Argylls fact, eased by two factors which were
common lately?" knowledge long before military censorship Was imposed Korea:-
getting
29th's R.NF.:
Here is the position
individual countries:-
ties have Commonwealth
made tightened here, and are
of the
Competing
in ADDING all the demands together and making allowances for migrants from other countries the CANADA: Mr C. E. S. Empire lands will still be among them. For the troops, whether
all the brighter by the sombre Smith, Director of Immi- competing.
to Britain selves to get around 200,000 defeat, gration, came they come from Bermond-
The staff of the 29th background
and, la a way, recently to launch a new Britons a year-mostly the I talked with
drive. Dollar problems young, fit, and trained. portance and unimportance but sey or Brisbane, from Old- Brigade, which is such a large frustration,
that the ttle humiliation.
eml- have brought British be formation never heard one suggestion that
"Brigade" is really
-For essentially the Common- British troops were in Korea or ham or Orissa, have
And to this must be add- conveniently British ships
In come Commonwealth-mind- misnomer, could were that
wealth is a people of the comgration to Canada to a than a divisional Korean waters.
Common post-war low of less mon weal, and the ed. They believe there is be expanded into
ed the increasing demands seven wealth conception As for the Turks who sent a
that 8,000 in the first have people
common months of 5,000 gallant soldiers, sufficient wealth in the brigade
of last year. Mr of Colonial development- Common- heard nothing and readCommonwealth
plus the new fighting
Smith's aim:- nothing.
wealth technical-aid-for-3.E. Asia scheme.
If one points out that Korea power already in Korea to
division.
is simply a more violent phase form a first-class infantry of the Astatle Communist war being waged in Malaya and Indo-China they have no cars to hear. A bargain's a bargain and the United Nations did not keep it.
In such an atmosphere you There's Ani A domestic can imagine the explosive effect
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LIES DEEP
TSOLATIONISM lles, deep in ISOL
the American heart, for it These opinions, I know, all was the mother of her greatness shared by oil-from our
as a nation. No doubt sincerely. Brigadiere,
Basil Coad but certainly with perfect poll-
leal timing, ex-President Hoo-Tom Brodio, down to thoughts of
stal.
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Infantry these The Canadian Battalion and the New Zealand reactions to danger and disas are ter. Field Regiment gunners available for frontline service, ruising the totals of our bat- talions to seven, and the field regiments to two.
THE TIES
Common--
when
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Up to 65,000 immigrants annually. ("Jobs for every-
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his
Far behind
AUSTRALIA wants 200,-
Since the end of the war British migrants. to Commonwealth
the hava
A
averaged, about 100,000 year.
You know what -A now, divisional commander
bellove incans, would this be able to fight a wealth division of two, fin infantry when a poker-faced Australian
from majestically brigades each with a full field rises regiment of guns and a "sup Bren gun-pit and sympathises:
ton's blob, cobber;
The new situation which port group of tanks and in- Tough cheese about Comp-
Cockney shouts excitedly: 000 a year-for her £1,000-
or-. "Blimey, did you see that Kiwi, million development plan is now arising, if an
Britons as pos- ganised scheme is not sot Wurf theirns many In the old sible. Announces that her up, can wreck the British "migrants fleet" can bring economy as at present sus in 11,000 Britons on each tained.
tantry.
BENEFITS OBVIOUS
male? They are the blokes wo want
up'ere. weight in gold The advantager of a Com- desert, they were." monwealth Division are obvious
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American their
other Britons on the same scalo, the recont Report of the or any
comparatively. That would Royal Commission on Popu- lation-must come before be around 25,000 a year,
Parliament bufore long. SOUTHERN RHODESIA ¿And so must the general aims at another 180,000 question of manpower. white sotters as quickly
Field don't mind. Ambulance under its command) troops fighting together under a singlo British commander.
respect to picture A senior officer, whom I Hoover painted! America
Training possibilities for of commanders, by an Invulnemble would prefer to remain u Navy and Air Force and lend-named, put it this way: "Buch CT and men alike would be United Nations peroonnel.
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