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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1952,
SEFTON DELMER now looks oight, or *ten years assess the dangers that may follow some sweeping decisions Britain is taking or on the brink of taking in foreign affairs
is
E
MISTAKES
OF TODAY
VER
2
Stalin
since launched his first attacks on tho-West after the War I have been watching the conduct of our defence.
Have we learned from our
errors? 0: cre warlime
we making the same mistakes Dgain?
In my view, we a:e making the same mistakes. And for the
reasons. sure general
Bre
These
WE'LL
MOST
Needless to say, such advice was music in the car of Mar- sadegh. For it suggested to him that he would be able to sust on Amerleen support against Britain,
In his vicy Truman's new gift is bound to confirm this.
Apart from that it is dirastrous because
(a) IT rewards and encourages robbery and contract Ereaking:
(b) IT permits Movmdigh to go on stalling, prolongs a situation which is bound to lead to the triumph of Communism Persia:
In
the
(2) IT demonstrates to whole of the Ear u weakness and lack of solidarity in the Anglo-American allians
REGRET
(a) AMERICAN suspicion cl British Imperialism. The same old fear of "spending American lives and Amerizza dollars to pull British chestnuts out of the Are" is at work again today.
But you may be sure that if During the It caused ever it should suit their book Americans to suspect Churchill's the men in power should plans for a Mediterranean at- think -11 dags-the Germans will
out the West without tack en Nazi Germany's Balkan se under-belly. Today it inspires qualm. American fear of becoming in- volved in our Persian quarrel.
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(b) THE TENDENCY of the for- Western pinners to rush ward blindly to smash the im- ind mediale danger, only to
hove in doing so they created another.
that
Take for instance the rearm- ament of Germany.
1. ARMS FOR THE GERMANS
TOTHING I fear, will stop this
NOTE
now from becoming an ac- The Atlantic complished fact.
Council is meeting at Lisbon within- wick.
1
no
By 1980 (assuming that war breaks out in the meantime). rearmel Germany will have be- come a new anxiely for the
West.
And-jus to keep us all feal- Ing cheerful-let me add rearm ed Japan may casily become an- other.
How dangerous continued American suspicion of British motives can be is demonstrated by
choice for second my blunder that will make us blush in 1960. This is: -
2. DOLLARS FOR THE OIL GRABBERS
D
(d) IT causes Asiatics to look to the Soviet Union as the only strong. and
determined
Power in the area, First results are already making themselves fell-
From Ibn Saud 10 tho Sheikh
of Kuwait, Arab, rulers in the Middle East are repudiating re- oll contracts vently concluded
with American and British com- panies and are making fresh demands,
Arab League Countries are deliberately opening their. markets to imports from the Soviet Union and Iron Curtain States, In Iraq, for instance world firms like Philips end
belag boycotted Phileo are the ground that they have dac- assembly plants in tories or Israel.
cn
3. ATOMS FOR THE GOVERNMENT
ĮLUNDER No.. 3 on my list is the decision of the British Socialist Government to cenfine atomi research in this country do the Whitehall scientists of the Ministry of Supply and to ben Britain's big industrial firms from
Everything is, set for it 10 PRESIDENT TRUMAN'S is any participation.
vite Germany to contribute West German contingent to the West European Defence Force.
1
In Germany politicians and generals have been working out the details--even to the point that the goose-step verocten.
is to
be
On the face of it the creation
advised decision to grant a 22,000,000 dollar (£8,214,285) Persian oli thlef subsidy to Mossadegh.
The subsidy has been granted because American diplomats re- ported that Persia was about to for lack of the go bankrupt revenues it used to draw. from the British oil company. If it did so, they warned, it would af the same time go Communist.
Unless Mr Churchill's Govern- ment reverses this decision scon and, despite pressure from Lord Cherwell, it has not done so yet we and the whole British Commonwealth will look back on this as a catastrophic error capable of affecting generations of Britons in their standard of living.
In the United States atomic of a German Army certainly So it was decided to keep tho seems one logical way to meet wolf from the old robbers' dou: research and atomic productica
are This
in the hands of private aid. with driblets of dollar
firmi.
Du Dig frs such as Europe's shortage of soldiers and
of power is a disastrous plan.
Pont, General Electric, and redress the balance
And a most disappointing one.
vast destroyed by the elimination of
atomic plants. Germany in 1945, But I believe For i proves that although the Union Carbide have built
State Department has wisely re- that this is a move we may be called its unwise ambassador
Atemts power plants which, looking back on with regret by Henry Grady from Teheron, it once erected and set working, has not yet understood the rea- can continue to provide energy 1060.
Independent of any fuel supplies When I was in Teheran Mr will in the not distant future The fighting value of a Ger- sons for his failure there.
Army recruited
the Grady talked to me and other solve the production problems of meral climate of Germany as it reporters qulie freely of his the world's under developed is today will be much lower interviews with Dr Mossadegh. areas, than that of German armies in He described what he called the Premier's **utter Un.. the two world wars. It may well Persian
and alisoity rather reasonableness prove to be than an asset.
MER
"Without us'
Russia is most certainly work- muddle- ing on this project. In America headed intransigence." And then they have already made vast ad- he added for publication-"My vances. Only in Britain are we advice to the British Ambassador lagging behind.
is that Britain should sweeten
the doctor with some concessicas. Let him have some of the with-
ON each of my recent visits to hold royalties. That will make
ex-
him friendlier." Germany I have sounded out
Germans and both young soldie on how they feel about joining up in 3 European de- fence force.
"Ohne uns," they said, "With- out us!"
The
average West German the Russians. fears and hates But he derides and despises our political awitch to remilitarisa- tion from
the "re-education". law, which made criminals and outlaws of all German profes- sional officera and NC.O.s.
it.
The German dread Is that in
Blackmail
even the
Inevitable
* TOMORROW:
MEIN
Dr. ADENAUER GOES UP TO THE LUMBER-ROOM
Sitting
"The cause of maternal affec tion has buen traced to a lobe in the pituitary gland."--From the news.
66 00 00's muzzer's prweciousest
And does oo's muz- zer love ou best? And who's got two big
boo, boo eyes That ought to go to sleepy
byes?
And
who's got ton pink twiddly toes And a tiny teeny, weeny
od's
muzzer's
nose,
And who's
popsy-wops, Oo's muzzer's booful wopsy-
popu?"
Child, don't be unduly vain
It mather burbles In this
strain;
Although her praises may
sound fine,
Her admiration's endocrine, under- In other words, you
stand,
Her love depends upon, a
gland
Landon Express Bervico
on the Fence..
-by
NATHANIEL GUBBINS
Would see you as you real
ly are.... Nut "popsy-wops" or "muz.
Rer's joy
But just an ugly lite boy.
Morse code for
neינ
who be
motorists
Kenlus
Czechoslovakian
lavented a "More"
Code for, motorista, to be trans mitted from the ram, has don much towards the enjoyment of the open rend.
are:-
MONG his first simple I understand, cyphers, TWO SHORT TOOTS. "I want to pass you on VOKT right,"
Which, if removed by
sur-
TWO SHORT TOOTS AND ONE LONG ONE "Y Dim well won't."
LONG
TOOTS..
geon's knife, Would make her hate you
all her life;
THE WORST BLUNDER.
OF ALL
For then at last your
mamma
dear
AIR BEEF-HEARTENING
ENTERPRISE STORY
By DONALD MCCORMICK
ing for new beef lands. Farmers have fought against bush Bres, drought and lack of communica-
the "Driving cattle Dver these
And in
An
TWO
"Then I shall pass you on your left."
THREE LONG TOOTS.....
break "I hope you
YouT neck,"
FOUR SHORT TOOTS. "Your mother was never
married,"
FOUR SHORT TOOTS AND A TWIDDLE... "Neither was yours:”
SIX LONG TOOTS AND A BLAST...."Tappets to you." SIX LONG BLASTS.... "The same to you with values ort."
Education
reach the door his mocking voice would call out:--
"Brisels sprouts were al ways: soggy in Pop, sir That's don't at Eton, in case know."
M
Snow
you
NOW, soft and caressing, la piling up round our bat- covering tered frent door and the garbage heap with a mantle of white....
Memo to myself; Other good phrases to use:-
"Show, like an all enveloping
shroud........"
"Like leing on a
cake....*
"Write
dry...."
Christmas
cheque for laun
"Snow...."
"Three birthdays this month.
Get CHEAP presente."
"Snow, like a frozen blanket. No, no, NO. Bad simile. Tut tul."
"Income tax. Let 'em wait." "Show, like the icy breath. Ah! Like the icy, breath.
No...."
"Not like the icy breath. "Write cheque for angry, but
cher..."
"Suow....Well, why **
mow? Just SNOW. Very welt, then.
SNOW, just damp, cold, Rithy, slushy, dripping,
TN a world which seems years Australian National Air- expected to do. It was either threatened with a meat Ways has overcame the problem that, or they died for lack of
of cattle dying before they water. the event of war West Germany shortage for some years to could be marketed. During this
the battlefeld, a come, here is the heartening yer they have flown to will become
of which routes meart that they lost 100 new Korea to be "Morgen-story of an Australian veri- coast 4,080 carcases. Theurd into non-existence ture to win more beef from only 3,000 head could have been 1b, each en route. They arrived
aled on the way. armies of liberators from East
SED that an ex-public freezing, disgusting lumps of and West successively roll over the arid plains of its North- marketed under the old method. In notoriously bad condition, or
I West territories.
The nature of this Northern average season not more than 25 schoolboy, who has applied SNOW are covering the garbage cattle territory makes it plry percent of the beef was passed for several jobs as a cook heap, with a mantle or rather Since the wa: Australia has sically impossible for the great as first class
general, is still unemployed be- a blanket....no, not a blanket tried-often against great odda majority of cattle to be driven
While the Air Beef scheme. Is cause his education and breed-.....Ikea Christmas pudding
on the frozen face of a-mad to win mere joints and juicy long distances overland,
Baving much beef that would ing frightened housewives." steaks, from the desolate out-
Yet until the "Air Beef" pro- otherwise be last and convincing
My sympathy goes out to the dened butcher whose ley ..whose... Stalin permits the creation back, the vest "black heart" of
iko a wet blanket. ject was this dominion.
Lounched three years more farmers of the scope, IoT | simp'e British housewives, for breath,...whose colish, foce is of a new German Army to go
ago callle ready for market had. Increased meat production, Aus-1 am rather in awo, of educa unchallenged, then
It is a romantic story in many to be driven hundreds of miles talia is proving herself to be on and breeding myself, es. Anyway, SNOW, just plain mart careful screening of the ways. Pioneers have gone into from the breeding grounds to the the world's No. 1. go-getting pecially when, in these topsy- honest-to-goodness: SNOW. ⠀ Is
nation by doing everything pos- officers and men recruited to it the interior on camels prospect- slaughter houses. Few survived.
burvy times, you find them in covering the garbage heap with sible by air.
the kitchen.
amantia of....no, a blanket cannot prevent one consequence..
.no, no, no, no, NO. I cannot imagine anything, much more embarrassing than The mere process of rearmations.
One at the most recent ideas being cbliged to interview an
Lucky cows ment must once more call to the Germany thore foref:cat in
is a flying fire brigade to combat old Etonian cool because the buth fires. Here are some other bacon is burnt or the brusselu same dements whose ambition and ruthlessness have
Scientists have tried rain-
Air Boof flew abattoirs in ways in which Australia la ap-oprouts are, zoggy.
ACCORDING to a newspaper, plunged Britain into the ruinous making experiments Families, sections to the interior. They plying her alt-mindedness
"Er...Carstairs," I would be-Dulch, cows have a mar Georgetown; in North Queenst waste of war.
have left their comfortable followed up by flying sectional
'vellous Ume. They eat the best to homas in provincial towns living quarters for the workers. land, is a remote little township. gin. “Er... Their guiding motive will be
In this The last dentist left Georgetown
wrong, sirpsford and wear overcoats when
the w
wind is cold: the recovery for Germany not art lay afresh, producing more New towns, aprang up
In 1947. There had to be an in country en desolate as hitherto unloved outback. meat only of its former unity but the
answer to this gap in the town's he would ask in his crisp, clip
and Their sheds are heated in restoration to Germany of the any in the Gobi Desert.
But, for a long period lack of "Early on we were criticized social services, and the solution ped Engish, an amused
faintly Insolent smile curling winsze, lighted by electricity, frontiers Hitler won at Munich communiorions seemed to make on the grounds that the Air has been the flying dentist.
Goorgetown is now the flying the corners of his aristocratia; and often decorated with lace in 1030.
this dream of a great meat-peo Beat project was too costly," un
y curtalan. -* stop. on month, A will the official of the company told me, dentist's regular Ag their strength grows these ducing country
practice slightly larger than "Brussels sprouts, a bit bogey This, I am told, often causa Germans will seek to blackman wisp. A far greater number ofwell, we had our answer to the whole of the Brilish Isles, teday, would blurt out "Not confusion among short-sighted the Americans, the French and cattle died than could be market ourselves into support of their ed simply and solely because that one. The old stock routes Summoned by pedal-operated playing the game, you know, Dutch farmers, who have been
the outlying Carstairs.
Imown' to lock their wives" (in not over which the cattle were radio, he Bies to facilities were transport good enough to Make Addriven had few watering places. towns and villages, sets up his
the cowshed, and buy, their cows. Then I would fry to-got out now spring hatar The mager to this problem That meant you had to drive chair and get to work. Morgenthan, Rosevelt's, Treuhad come beecure Australia hag thom 15 miles a day, instead of Blow other doctors and dentists of the kitchen as quickly as
possible, burt--before"
=-={London" Express: Rervior? man advocated turtilag the Ruhr
become air-minded. In theed, the dight they can normally be are satling up flying services. into a potato Held.
cbuse;
twice
Now cattle are slaughtered on the breeding grounds and feaded into aircraft. In a few hours they are put into refrigerator at the coastal ports,
“Nàthing
M