A METHODIST REVOLUTION
NO BRONCHIAL HARMONIUMS
By Les Armour
when
. you're
REVOLUTION is Chrisilan view of marriage to brewing in Britain's ask "How can you talk about
marriage Methodist Church --- apurred by a man with a spotted bow tie, a twinkle in
bachelor?"
He admitted the man huet a strong point but explained. he to rectify his eye, and a burning was doing his best
He was getting belief that Christianity is the situation. still the answer to mankind's married in two weeks.
crowd The next week, the bewilderment.
a silver him with presented teapot full of pennies.
Not long after, he founded a mission
on Kingsway, on the dingler fringe of London's West End.
On the conference programine at Birmingham in Britain's in- dustrial Midlands, he is listed ns Donald Soper, M.A., Ph.D., Chairman of the Church Coun-
cil.
But, to tens of thousands of ed
Youth who turned up arm- with razors alarmed him
Londoners, he is the man who for a while, but he soon hal
has harried
the hecklers
masi
staunch
Into workers
turned them of
chureh hill overlooking the Tower of and
hals "church," sprawling is still in the London every Wednesday after- noon for the last 20 years. To Kingsway Hall, millions of radio listeners he is area.
a rasping volce with a provoca-
tive manier which never falls
$1
one side or
to leave the nudlence in fighting mood-a
the other.
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He opened the conference with
typical exhortation! "Come with me and we will have fun in the name of the Lord.
"Come with me and we will hold our meetings maybe on church steps, or In market places, or, best of all, next door to a Communist meeting
"Believe me, we will have no bronchial har- addiction to
pro- elabornic moniums, по
items by united grammes, no choirs, but a sanctified" free-for- alt."
A few minutes later, he was famed off
Birmingham's to
with "bull-ring" for a session
the crowds.
Vital Part
A Pacifist
Khe English
TEAS
THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, AUGUST 4, 1953.
"Oit
Customers!
War.
HOLIDAY SEASON IN SUEZ CANAL
he op- A staunch pacifist, posed the Second World with all the resources he could' worked through- master, but
out the London- blitz on day ami right duty in hostels caring for the dispossessed and in- Jured.
Since the war, he has carried with ro- his Pacifist banner newed vigour.
Last year he told a meeting: "I would rather see us overrun by the Russians than fight an- Despite the uproar other wor."
which followed, he has stuck 10 that viewpoint.
War with modern atomic would weapons, he points out,
destroy our whole civilization. Passive resistance to Commu
ism, on the other hand, would
stili give us a chance.
But the Communists
of
the kind Methodists have
That indicates revolution voted themselves.
Dr Soper
is a scholar- Cambridge M.A. and a London Ph.D., no mean feats in them- And he is a Christian selves. in the old-fashioned evangeli- cal sense; he wants to see the and in crece taken simply
the people fighting fashion and made a vital part of day- to-day living.
Who
turned up to his anecting after
that statement had awakening.
ta rude
Next to war, he hates Com- munism must of all.
full of the
PEACE IS A
||NATE OUTSPOKA SPECIAL
World Coigh by arrangemeni wlik the Munchaster Qvard
PROBLEM
After Korea come the arguments
By DEREK MARKS
there are
It all depends on how vigor- ourly Britain's overseas salcanen do their job.
Recently their task has been
They came to
The United States Govern hand to cut taxes again in the bruy and
HOR two men three
letters in the Koren met backed everwhelmingly next Budget.. stayed to scoff," he chuckles, re-
by Congress has been firm In cense fire agreement. its desire to keep China out. calling the pews
fears party faithful,
What kind of answer does he may bring political disaster But already
The anong Americans of provides to or enduring fame. think Christianity
Ve Senator Paul Dougins Foreign Britain's men? the current dilerna?
mocrat from Illinois, is already An ideal which will remain
Anthony Eden voicing these by saying:
fears unchanged in a changing world, Secretary
of "Red China's admission might Secretary the a return to concern with mut-and
tera of the spirit, a de-emphasis State John Foster Dulles. well be the implicit termo
lying behind the armistice." of worldly gain as the mujor The letters? The seemingly pre-occupation, and, above all, an ingrained sense tempered with love.
lie announced his intention
10 become
a minister at
ripe age of eleven and never wavered even though his boy hood preparation was perhaps a little out of keeping. He was and soccer captain of cricket
at two schools and an 1cams
When he all-round athlete. left school, he won a scholar- took his 10 Cambridge, ree with first class honours and
thai
to London
University.
went
U.S.
of Justice trivial etc.-abbreviation for the Latin et cetera, meaning "and the rest.”
Not To Scoff
be
ite thinks Britain and the
United Sintes have already
tung's
men
tting tougher, as competition has increased. Now the ending of that war in Kerek may give them fresh chances of the vast market of China Is reopened.
It will be months yet before worked out a scheme for the new pattern of world trading But there America to "requiesce" at the can be seen dearly.
Rising Security Council on Mao Tse- were hopes that Mr
replacing Chiang Price is on the way out-and his cheeries rival. Mr Falling Price, Kai-shek's.
Says Douglas: "It is obvious about to get a look in. we will not again try to push the Communists out of North Korea. The only way they will get out will be if we either explicitly or implicitly agree to the admission of Red China to The United Nations "That does not
mean it has been put on paper most
Tucked away at the end of the 60th paragraph of the armistice But Christianity. he insists.rement it is laid down that a
political conference shall must stick to its own Kuns called to settle the withdrawal "What kind of a showing do we
of all foreign forces from Korea. He was just 24 when he make when we oppose violence the peaceful settlement of the made his first appearance un and support wars? Does it not Korean question etc." Now what Tower Hill "I have never been look as though governments and does etc," covert - so nervous in my life," he ad- not God are behind Christianity?" Modern science and the ques- mits, and, if I hadn't lind some
he
urc-it pre- college companions to cheer me tioning, spirit.
I never would have made sent real
for Communists will insist that it is
to allow discussions on the very way." how-
issues on which Britain and the U.S. do not entirely agree.
Christianity. The answer, He told the crowd that he ever, is not to scoff at science wasn't there to make a speech, and doubt, but to recognise their but he would come back every worth and make use of them. Wednesday to answer ques- Given the enlightened crusnd-
he tions. He hos-and he was only ing spirit, is convinced stumped once.
nothing can stop his Church and That
heckler all Christians in the new re- was when Interrupted a reply on the volution.
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The United Nations hope that cbverta vary little. But the
Chief of these are the position of Chiang Kai-shek on Farmora and the admission of Red China to the United Nations.
QUERY: WHAT OF JAPAN ?','
VILL the U.S. agree to W
lift the embargo on understandings are implicit any trade with Red China?
not
The State Department would comment on Dougins's opinions except to draw atten- to the comment by tion Secretary of State Dulles that Chinese admission to UNO was to bo not a suitable question rafoed at the post-traca Korean political conference.
McCARTHY WILL BE LICKED
Geoffrey Cox sums up his impressions
America's problem politician
of
The calling of Mr Wechsler also uvold a split with McCarthy untli UST over 100 years ago
Lincoln led the American editors to con- after the Congressional elections Abraham
fer about the threat to the free- next year, wrote angrily to his dom of the Press involved in such
But t friend Joshua Speed inquiries, and to draw up a
Is doubtful # the go along with about the "Know Nothings," policy to meet any future. case. President can
Senator McCarthy until 1954. 1 political group led by the
Part of the counter-attack has For McCarthy Is steadily ex- McCarthys of that day, who been ineffective because it has ploiting the present situation to
bulld up were campaigning against bean based on the argument that
a dangerous bock-stairs the internal Communist timeat is influence within the Administra- now immigrants.
entirely a creation of McCarthy's tion, and in particular within the
State department.
A leader
"If the Know Nothing policy fantasy. was accepted," he said, "I would
To the American public, the prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of Fuchs case and the Hiss cate loving liberty, to Russia, for in a fresh in their minds, this stance, where despotism can just does not make sense. But to him spreads be taken pure and without the the oppoaltion
now far outalde these more Security Officer of the State De- base alloy of hypocrisy."
doctrinaire elrcles. Yet within eight years the sitives had been emancipated, the Six weeks ago, for instance. power to get his own way in civil war had been fought and Mr George Kennan, the former "purge of the books and by secur
matters by the won, and the basic ideals and American Ambassador to Russia, ing the removal of the official in purposes of the American Re- who was the architect pubile had been reaffrined.
One in five
I believe the same course of events will mark the future of McCarthy and McCarthyism.
Virulent as his inäuence Iz It is facing mounting counter- attack which I believe will not
of the
He has managed to get his own nominoe appointed
201
partment, has demonstrated his
administrative
The can bo
polley of containing the Soviet Germany who stood up to his bloc, took the occasion of a snoopers, Cohn and Schine, speech at the Roman Catholic indirect effects of this
far reaching. University of Notre Dame to attack McCarthyism.
Strong words
Every official in the State De- pariment now works with as t were McCarthy peering over his shoulder, aware that at any time he may be summoned before the He assailed those who try to Senator's Committee 'to account he may have "impel us to thoughts and actions for any policies
adversaries advocated. This is unlikely, to only be successful, but will leave which our Soviet America the stronger for the re- would most like to see us odopt any the least, to produce either Mrmation of its real principles, and which they have tried, over bold planning or to encourage For every American who a period of some 35 years, to the recruitment of good men. thinks McCarthy is right--the draft upon us through the
No Administration can allow
Gallup Poll puts the figure at operations of their Communist such infiltration by any Con-
one
In every five another Party." equally vehemently thinks he
wrong. This opposition does not These are strong words, in
2 setting from such a capture the headlines in the way such the Senator does, but it is a force man-and they were warmly up
of considerable power. It is plauded, headed by an influential section
of the Press, and in particular
Though the hunt for Com
gressman. much less by McCarthy,
Time, moreover, is running against McCarthy. He has built his reputation on the cry that the American Government was full of secret Communists. This was
a powerful slogan in an election year, when the Government be- longed to the opposing party.
In
by the Washington Post, the New munists in American schools and goes on, Harvard and the New York colleges still York Times
It includes many leading University this summer look a Post. columnists whose writing does a stand and kept on the staff three
But now McCarthy's own Re- great deal to offset the pro- professors who had refused to
Hearst fell Congress whether or not they publicans are in office, and every McCarthy line of the
had been Communists.
shout and McCormick papers.
of "Communista A few days later Mr Justice Government" is an attack on his
own side. Douglas, the judge of the United States Supreme Court who or The return of Adlai Stevenson,
the Presidential also stiffen the
Until forces.
On the radio
Rosenberg case, spoke out at a States eince
On the air Elmer Davis, still dered the last-minute stay in the who has been out of the United one of the most effective com- meeting of leading lawyers and election, will
in the country, has judges against the use of Con- anti-McCarthy mentators been unwavering in his antagogressional inquiries as courts of now these have lacked a leader iam to the Senator, and he law, without giving the accused of national stature has important allies in this fight at the same time the usual pro- among other topline radio tections of the law.
figures.
Stevenson is such a figure.
War passions
"The Senator has, except on In the House of Representa- one occasion, refrained from Aives a move is now under dis- turning his investigating com- cussion to tighten up the pro-
on the "Press cedure of these committees_of mitee loose though he readily smears the inquiry, and the Washington Bar would be the Washington Pest, whose politics has submitted recommendations truce in Korea which no doubt are about those of the London for this purpose.
Times.
Washington
Waiting...
The chief blow to McCarthyism conclusion of a
explains the Senator's feverish praise for Thee. Ho is not, politically, a big man in any way. He has no programme, no policy, no organised following.
He is a small, cruel figure, who
Es "the edition of the Dally Worker"
On the one. occasion when McCarthy did "investigate" on editor - when he summoned
The most powerful political Joseph Wechsler, of the Washing-- ton Post he got better than he force ranged against McCarthy looms large only because he is, however, the President. There stands on the heaped-up passions gave.
af, the cold war and above all no doubt that President
of the Korean war. Anything Elsenhower detests
which cuts this ground from and the intolerance and injustice under his feet will reduce him to he personifies.
Tied in knots
•
is
McCarthy
China is hungry for machine tools and transport equipment.
Wechsler was ostensibly called Why then does the President She wants the ban lifted.
because one of his books, re- not come out against "Jumping So do the major countries of garded by McCarthy to sub- Joe," as the more sedate Re-
versive, had been on the shelves publicans term McCarthy? Europe and Asia.
of American libraries overseas.
The answer And now
another Wechsler, who had been a Com- question: What is Japan going munist for a brief
comes
his true stature.
Meanwhile he is being steadily ringed around by forces which will sooner or later destroy him. And the greatest of all these given by the forces is the one which, though
of
Dulles may not think, it ap- to do it, shorn of revenue from 1 youth, but who period in his President's friends, is that he slow to move, is very powuzu
Therefore the big issue is whether Mr Eden and air Dulles can agree on these matters. If they can, then the chances of general Fir East settlement are If they much, much brighter. cannot, then there is a big donger that Britain and the US, will be
CHEAPER PRICES diplomatie embroiled in ber
wrangling. The three letters are as important as that,
NEW BATTLE STARTS
By HENRY LOWRIE
Washington.
is biding his time he believes that basic instinctive de Deople
which
is now one of America's most outspoken left that he must get the Senator on the mass of the American
Frankin critics of the Communists, en issue in which McCarthy is to which President propriate, but terrifle pressure the U.S. Army, she carswt ex-
Chinese marten
in- and his is expected to be put on him port to the vast
seen, even by his own backers, to Roosevelt, in his day appealed got the Senator
again and again on great issues to include it at the conference,
ket? She
is going to expand vestigates tiet into knots by be entirely in the wrong.
had not in And McCarthy, whose technique like Lend-Lease and zomehow and will try to force proving that they
now the half truth rather than never let him down. fact read his books, nor even her way into British markets.
know which ones they were the Big Llc, has so far avoided In this struggle it will be
decisive. tuny such issue.
In the battle against So far the State Department complaining of
Eisenhower is being held back the Know Nothings of today I on its stand to When asked his views on Com- By ALEXANDER THOMSON is not budging
restrict trade, Said a spokes-munism, he replied that his views by his own desire to avoid rows for one have no doubt where the
used to pres- "WO GTC man:
on Joe Stalin were the same as with Congress, and by his party victory will lio-with the in his views on Joe McCarthy.
him to heritors of the Lincoln Tradition.
OUTLOOK
TO Britain's 12,000,000 sure."
housewives peace in Koren brings the home of cheaper prices in the shops.
THE fighting is over-- For months most of the lead- commodities In world fighting begins. Ing
To the
Already the lines are being markets have been tumbling,
SALESMEN
effect of this fall should have n
the price tags on keepers' counters.
the shop-
す
AMERICA'S
London.
Phas promised to supply
managers, who urge
PACIFIC
PROBLEMS
BY PATRICK MAITLAND, M.P.
on July 15, that if the US, wants the National Scourity Corps "Turned into an army, it can only
Clearly, then, Mr Rhee has a without undue expenditure of be done a certain terms
manned for the battle: on the view that the shooting RESIDENT Eisenhower Shall Red China join UNO or would soon be over. Now
that & has really ended the South Korea with sufficient strong Inducement to keep Ameriain manpower and effort, One is that the United States ;. better chance of being seen in equipment for six divisions, the truce. For without a fully- the must establish alliances. The pays. The second is that there
could not cornerstone, in American eyes, is is no American control. This promise lies at the heart equipped army he
stand.
Northr an ecord with Japan, which has up to
Indeed, the Japanese Govern- of the bargain struck between hope to
be a millary mark is now pledged not to dis- President Rhee and the US. Korea-and without a truce he necessarily to
could not hope long to main alliance,
close its defence pians to the a bargain upon
United States, loyalty to Government,
But it was the United States the Constitution, it has any such which America is relying as a the of safeguarding
person of General At the same time other im- in plications of the truce are far- MacAnhurwhich wrote into the plans, hos reaching. For instance, the Japanese Constitution a pledgo
* United States has militarlly ever to go to war. stabilised the main object is,
***
But the men and women who buy for the big shops said price changes
that
will
not be large. For wages are still going up and they play a big part in fixing shopping prices,
For Britain as a whole there bomus" in our overseas trading
Since January the prices of
means trucar
Koroa
tuln an drmy.
the
position, Hor This now needs to be explained An interesting commentary on
and Premier. Yoshida has not been of Japanese
could be a subeianilał "peace equipment. Such weapons, in frce of an ember over, to be away, and the Government of the present, pentilon is tho wish
any Aslan formidable
Already South an army of more than half 2 millon, formed into 15 divisions with abundant American
under. business army, constitute a unpopular commitment. with slow to exploit the opportunity, takings to return to peacetimo
factor fr the out endangering her own,
After much delay, neguttalions commerce-a destro'apparent for security. Disengagement, with have of fast begun to conclude a the past year. For some time the raw materials wo buy balance of power. abroad have fallen by 1a. 3d. în
influence, is Presi Mutual Security Agency agree Japanese businesmen have feli The promise of equipment out losing
under which the US, that, once the Korean war ended, the £..
for another six divisions, how dent Eisenhower's alm.
would Bivo
economie and the arms boom would be deflated. ever, moona that this, extra
milltary aid to help Japan re Barveen July and September. The US. would like toʻlast year, no fewer than 42 This, tho expects reckon, could material can be used to form a
10 saving for Britain of reserve, while those men
see is standing Japanese Army textile mills in a single ares of at least 10 divisions.
Bought authority to start arma- But since the Japanese profers menta production. Dis only two themselves inhibited by the "no are engaged upon it now.
mean
now
£300 million in oversens spood-under arms can be regarded as
ing this year at the prices ve a standing army, kt
Already be has discovered how dimcult it is do control any army
get for exports sing as they are. The importance of Prosklerits South Korea's once it has
boon formed, promise lies in
Go the new peace could bring Eisenhower's
more reliels for Britain's 10,500, the fact that he has coupled |000 kaxpayers.: *
ment
arm.
clouse in wer Constitution, Throughout the counley, fee- A poroebat aknilar difficulty and argue that they dislike war tories prefer to resume normal
with it the warning that all how arisen with regard to Japan, anyway, they.com put up the peacetime production rather then Piekabes make themselves available to the Even if there is no fol-up in this equipment will be with-
If the United States strategic price, badly 12 polu spending, Chancellor held if the truce is broken by position la to be maintained. In fact, they have been saying, United States for repair, and Butler should havo something in South Korea.
throughout the Pacific Ocean siopa negotiationis benso in Tokyo maintenance beders,
defence