DON IDDON'S DIARY
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BRITAIN'S BIG PAY-BACK
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New York, Tuesday. Other youths, and men and RITAIN could hardly women in their carly twenties
have started the New are having no trouble
good jobs. It's the men in their Year better as far A into forties and fiRies who are the United States Treasury being turned away. is concerned. Bang on the
New Yorkers are expecting t barrel-head we have paid sorta ef new things this year. over $188,000,000 nearly For one thing the city has
mayor, Robert Wagner, aged 43.
new
£50,000,000-on our debt to who has just been sworn in.
went to fils Inauguration at the the Americans.
and thought thai
I'm sorry this payment City has not received much Wrenes, who is said to have the biggest job In the United States
Harlem pleased
publicity. Associated Press next to the Presidency, looked editors rated it only six confident and competent. tickers lines on their newa and newspapers either dis- missed it in a paragraph on the inside pages or ignored it altogether.
Mus! Anterleans don't know we are paying back the money we borrowed. No one has said The
Tracht
HE has made some good ap-
pojniments, pulting distin- guished women in his Cabine and whaicheartedly backing the election of a Negro as Manhattan Barough
This President.
exuited job before.
e. However,
has
វាប
Democrat Some
pleased Harlem, because to md "It's good to see the coloured man has ever had such Brith sendin dollars." beenuse no 4.r. spart from Government official on! not all of them), seems h ki Wagner anything about it. We could have put thi transection over with a louder drun beut.
Finland's example
FOR years I've heard Senator
make sentimental speeches about "poor little Finland" puy- Ing back the nonry she to the United States. the sum involved
was
smull,
but
penditure of u few
in cartoona us
for We
item
decessor,
ine
has
acred
but
by giving his pro-
the zmilie Ineffectual Impelikteri,
A £7.- 100-a-year judgeship. The cry is that Wagner is already making political deals.
You shouldn't underestimate
the Importance of the Mayor of New York; be is a President in miniature. Most New Yorkers expect vigorous, effetent nd- better ministration — certainly than Impellitter's. 11 could hardly be Worge.
Most successful THERE
are other changes in New York. Str Gladwyn Jobb, one of the most success. ful enways we ever sent to the United States, is preparing 10 United leave his post as chief Kingdom delegate to the United Nations and go to Paris os Am-
bassador. New Yorkers and the Mace
him.
headquarters wil! miss
Sir Gladwyn gave the best of the holiday parties I attended dinner and dance for about 200 at his house in Riverdale.
THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1954.
EMPIRE ON
NEVER
WHICH
Mr. Bevan Empire builder...
Cummings takes a kindly pen to his New Year targets
CUNBOAT
NOT
I DOVE PATROL
PAMA KNOWING
WISDON
Mr. Malenkov—" do_gooder.” ́
Mr. Dulles-a Salomon among statesmen.
Mr. Eden-Lord Palmerston born again..
analysing the prospects Conference in Berlin
The first of two articles of the coming Four-Power
THE PRINCIPAL
T
HEADACHE
Berlin.
HE four-Power con- ference which Is
to
open
here
on
January 25 will be
SECURITY
IN EUROPE
By Richard Lowenthal
each occupying many, soon
the first serious attempt dam agreement, with the including since 1949 to overcome the right of cold war Europe.
on
as in
of
From the viewpoint of all the Western Powers, the basic ob- Jection to these proposals is, of scurse, the attempt to excludo the United States
the from
Ita
wwed Actually in her rose aat the x- thousands Finland roapest tens of millions
guarantee of ponce in Europe, worth of publicity of dollars
Western Ger- clearly
Berlin depends on an agreed the
conterenco with which by itself would be suff and good will.
of the security re- became linked definition
definite ideas about the solution cient to ensure a permanent quirements of both sides, and of of the European security prob- Anyway, we can lift our heads
in Power to veto any decision with plans for rearming their legitimale military fron-
preponderance of Rusdan power stalemate
jem, agnin, thanks to the hard work
What has become known on the continent Nor could the at homo
the Churchill
Then, the four The Western Powers were Western Germany within tiers. That is where the issue of these ideas shows that so far West possibly usel
withdraw to accept the European Defence Com of Germany comes in: as the they differ radically, Government.
forces from Germany unless This is Power conferences of New prepared only
on the munity. During earlier years it was not
unsolved principal
territorial only natural at the outset of a
was sure that the armed forces always pleasant to be here. We
York and Paris met to four-Power control
problem, and hence the prin conference, and after
of an long Today,
Independent Germany last great Austrian model under which liquidate the
1949, the cipal security headache, of both period of propaganda warfare.
would be both adequate and were portrayed
Soviet adventure in Europe any Austrian law becomes four Powers meet at a time sides in Europe.
All that really cadgers ped parshandlers,
matters 19 willing to hold the line against unless vetoed when a stage in the cold
four During the intervening Berlin ever trying to make a louch
blockade, effective
whether both sides will be ready any Russian surprise attack, at -the are not now
opposite All by
partition, the unanimously
four war has clearly ended. The years Soviet expansion
to revise their ideas in the light least as well as the present political, economie and social Perhaps the real reason why
Korean war has
North Atlantic Treaty Organisa- ended in old continent had clearly occupying Powers.
systems have hardened on both of discussions at the conference. The Western Powers start our payment did not make any
tion screen stalemate, and headlines or
Interest
the arma sides of the border, and have l stir any
been fought to a standstill;
from the conviction that began developed powerful vested in- among the American public is
German ment race which it because they are so preoccupied
Winthrop Aldrict, the Italian
contest for the allegiance of with their own financial affairs. to Britain,
West for Aldrich, Mr Averell 1948, the successful defec. TN later years, the Rus both sides wish to slacken the German people, the I've
many and Mrs never hear ND
forces on the continent, They D Atomic competi- has been overwhelmingly suc will, therefore, demand Henry and Claretion of The Harunan, Mr.
Yugoslavia from clairvoyants holding forth.
sians may have frequent- the pace.
here could cessful. There the Soviet camp and stage is crowded with soothsayers Boothe Luce, and Fleur Cowles
has put at the dis- the ly regretted that they were tion
analysis the united Germany must be free to proof of striidng lamps and were at the Jebb table.
the more staring into hooded
not ready sat at a table dominated by collapse of the guerilla war
to accept this posal of both sides crystal balls and all saying dif-
Elsu Mpxwell, Assisted
than the rising of June 17, would rather renounce German ferent things.
by in Greece were proof of Austrian solution in 1949, means of total annihilation, weakness of the Eastern regime conclude such an alliance, and Leonera Corbett, Margaret Case, that fact, as was the failure For a few months later but has left the West with 1933, nor of the solidarity of unity and go ahead with
than the alliance with Western Germany Foster. comedian Abe
Western regime the the John
of the blockade itself. The the Federal Republic of a great advantage in
alonc than ARTCO to Icavo time for a territorial settle. Western Germany and the possession of ready tactical elections of September 4.
Germany outside the Western Re- weapons
for local mass ment, including a decision "German Democratic
Several Fears
military system. destruction. on the future of Germany, public" in the East
The readiness seemed to have come.
into being; and when Com- The stumbling block was munist aggression in Korea the question of the control prompted the Western re- of a united Germany. The armament
a return following year, Soviets proposed or
No wonder people are asking whether boom gloom, or doom
The United States Ambassador the Communist defeat in One More
is ahead. Thousands not Burrows, and the new New York hundreds
thousands of head of the British Information
but
"major economists" have been Services. John Russell,
meeting in Washington, peering
into the future. They don't agree
but the maprily forecast "an orthodox recession, THE entertainment circuit
about much,
whatever that is.
I miss pantos
has
the
the
nu
been stimulated by holidays, but 1 miss There is a determined attempt
There TC Cabinet among
Ministers, pantorulmes,
New York, business men, and publishers to pantomimes in
anywhere in the United States. maintain high American morale
The new play "The Remark- with bugle-blowing of even big-
able Mr Pennypacker," with ger and better things to ente
Burgess Meredith, is described for everybody. hope they're
un a comedy, but it lacks laughs. right.
Alicia Markova is a triumph at Metropolitan. The critics call
Jobs for the boys her the world's greatest
A MONG
my friends I see no sign of hard times. My secretary's son has just left the
bullerina.
Ceell Beaton is here on his annual trip.
Mariene Dietrich says the Army and has been looking for only way to make a man happy to love blu unconditionally;
a job. He has no profession or 1s
craft, but he has got a job. "to make a man happy is a full-
He
has joined a steel firm to time job."
be trained as a salesman. During Hollywood's favourite drink is
period he
will vodka-it can't
hl training
be detected on 375 dollars a month the breath. Anyway, Americans receive over £31 a week. When he is invented chlorophyll, trained he will be paid £33 a
Broadway forecast Frank
week, commission, all expenses, Sinatra and Ava Gardner will and provided with a car.
bad.
Not break up and be reconciled seven
or eight times during 1954.
SUNDAY EXPRESS
Baby *Book
of elections
Stage
came
drive in the the move-
to full four-Power control ment for building up an
has reached a point where terests. It is true that in the western alliance in
rearmament within a Wide Divergence
bo
no
A
is indispensable of long-form balanco
that a
ESPITE the wide divergence of these initial positions, the reveals Q certain amount of common ground. From a long-term point of view. both sides are interested in a main forces: the Russons want military disengagement of their to remove the Americans trom the centre of Europe and to re duce their own commitment; To meet the Russian fear of a the Americans want to remove for serious
Gorman "revisionist" attack the Russians from the centre of now springs on UT the very completeness of
backed by the United States Europe and are negotiation both sides chiefly from a wish the West's political victory the Western Powers would to reach agreement on a Jimita- may make a compromise on Ger, presumably be prepared tion of armaments that is man unity more difficult, even if
If offer a what the universal talk about the problems of military security many **relaxation of international can be solved.
There tension" really
as provided by the Pots- integrated Western Europe, any limitation
IS
TIMIDITY
of
BU
to
Gor-
doubtful how long they can maintain their own land forces guarantee that Get realise that without would not attempt
is no prospect of French is cer- to
to change its present territorial proval of the European Defence
means. But tainly no prospect whatever status by force; the West Community,
KILLING
tho
Powers
but
thera ap-
sides understand that
armaments such a compromise unless the Gorman Chancellor, Dr Konrad
issue is settled Security For it has been the security although he could not
accept the fears of both the Russians and Oder-Neis:e frontler with Poland and rearmed Germany to ensure and against the risks of milltary Western
which as legal, he would support any vold in the heart of Europe; have kept their troops in the undertaking not to use violence beth now realise that the new heart of Europe, and have kept as a means of revision; and a security system would have to Germany
divided long after
corresponding declaration by the contain both guarantees for the Russia's postwar European Western Powers is believed to new German State and guarati- offensive had spent its force.
have been drafted already. There are several kinds
first Adenauer, has made it clear that ement requires a united
GREAT BRITAIN'S AIRCRAFT INDUSTRY?
By Les Armour
one
Russian Thesis
tees against a revival of German aggression.
Finally, both sides now agree that to bo stablo the new settlement will have to provide an agreed answer to the voxed the Russians and Polish actellites, such an qucation of the German-Polish
quite frontler.
bo
their
such fears fears of one an-
of other and fears
rearmed Germany. On the Soviet alde, to the principal anxiety seems be that a rearmed Germany, if allied with the West in
would form or another, would use its assurance
Will this common basis be strength one day to recover its insufficient. Before agreeing to warned Sir lost, eastern provinces "Freedom," has contributed vitally to the
and united Germany, sufficient for agreement to be by ag- a free and would
the they went to sure that this reached among
Foreign Itgressive war, atomic Thomas, "is not free." THE "conventional” jet development of
this enterprise
by Germany will accept its frontiers Ministers in Berlin? Much will plane will soon be out power, But where are our costs money-more money those clements in the United as Anal; and they will not be put depend on how urgent mach Cori research projects for apply than the British Government States which desire to liberate" off with the statement that the show flexible ite tactics are of date-and
The
zide considers a settlement, and tain's aircraft industry is ing nuclear fission, to air- seems to want to spend at Eastern Europe by force, lagging with it.
craft production?"
the moment.
T
London.
in
be
Locarno Idea
Further Problem by that alliance would be more
in practice the backing afforded BUT it is difficult to Imiglos
substance As long as this fear exists, ment must await the peace going to be in the light of this Russia will clearly not consent
treaty. Nor wiil He didn't say so but, in
they be content consideration. That, in blunt terms, is
"It would be a catasto German unity In-freedom, with a guarantee from Powers its oc- which propose to concludo a the message Sir Thomas private, he is probably shed.
cupation forces from German military alliance with Germany, Sopwith had for his stock ding tears over the fate of trophe if the time came when nor will it withdraw
itself soil. this nation, found опе of his
because the Russians fear that holders.
competitors, Saunders-Roe. Saunders-Roc challenged in these vast and And Sir Thomas should have been forging ahead unexplored spheres." know. He runs Britain's far with the construction of
That, perhaps, is improb famed Hawker Siddeley giant flying boats-the kind plants.
that will be needed when the able. Britain has allies--the Americans, for instance. Yet His statement might have atom takes to the air.
they could be dangerous in overflown with milk and
quite another way. honey. Last year, his com- pany chalked up a cool All along the line, they
Commercial superiority in £6,000,000 profit, and his air- have met with Government the air is essential for the craft-among them the indifference. And, as Sir prosperity of a hard-pressed Hawker Hunter and the Thomas points out, only country like Britain. Gloster Javelin-have been governments these days can
Indifference
Challenge
10-
فل
Locamo-
any compromise which would effective in encouraging German not have as its core the Ideas when he recalled would be in putting a brake on introduced the fear that the pressure of it.
security system the Western side, there is word on than the guarantee which Sir Winston Churchill the Russian armies, oven after The Russians begin from the based not on fixed silences a possible withdrawal from theals that their security re- between two opposed groups of Germany, will still not
but
mutual bequires the diappearance, of the Fowers, matched by any Western forces Americans from the centre of guarantees under which "evory• • on the continent unless Europe, and the isolation of body would rally against ine
further problem, that A with many is reared; and there la Germany from the United States aggressor and come to the sid
the help of the West Euro of the victim, p unless tied W rearmed Germany,
In other words, the four pan Powers. Accordingly they to the West by a virtually in have begun to talk about a Powers would guarantee dissoluble allance like
the European security system" to restored. - Germany, against European Defence Community contain "German militarisı'
Oggression by any of themin may one day be tempted to the
that Russia implying in the headlines all year long. afford to risk the millions of
a Euro-
West practice, the
would But Sir Thomas has never pounds required for a major
Russian side by the offer of a pean Power, while the United guarantee Germany
against Suppose the Americans frontier rovision with Soviet States La not
Russia. But they would sise believed in resting on his research project.
faced นะ suddenly with consent. As long as theso laurels a crime in which
guarantee one another againat the Then there's high altitude atomic-powered
perslet, craft, fears
Western Basic Objection
# rearmed Germany--in prac- clearly not Powers will research.
West would restrain swifter and cheaper to run nounce their plan of tying
Germany from any eastward The aircraft of the future than anything that can be either a divided or a
10 the Western To spare French musceptibili attack by refusing its backing will cruise along the top of achieved with conventional Germany
alliance.
of, an unconditional alliance. tos, they have not lately for the purposes
Daca of Western the stratosphere. Speeds power?
To overcome these fears, a peated their proposal of March "We have become timid many times that of sound
would happen 12 German settlement would have 1952 for a German national security, a rearmed Germany and complacent," he snapped, are only possible up where Britain's aircraft industry sud- to satisfy three conditions: first, army; but their whole idea of would be an "The lead Britain once held, the air thins out and frie denly found itself 10 years it would have to assure a die security implies that the pro- against Russian
bahindr
engagement of Russian and real still shards At the same on the continent; for the pur
Russian security, These are sobering thoughts, US forces from the contre of time they insist that all the poses of
in Bellist and French interest should renounce down and, in some respects,
Second, But who knows much Thoughts Sir Thomas hopes the Europe,
would Powers, to offer
andyaned any military alliance peace would not as an effective lost entirely."-
about flying conditions in the Government will bear in mind nevertheless have
balance.
between
check on any revival of German What should Britain be upper stratosphere?
when it's working out its next long-term
military Eastern and Western rosearch bulgod,
To meet the Germans own aggressivo nationallam, But no forces on the continent. Third, fears, the Ruslan would pre mich system of guarantees could doing?
No one. Certainly not Bri-
Ho and his colleagues are it would have to guarantee un simubly be prepared to supple. really become is effective ranious For one thing, ntonic tish aircraft designers, any prepared to minic huge mums in castorn frontier for reunited ment system for guarantees the perilclparsla vane power for aircraft is still in how,
scally resdurchmes they always Germany which would note opainst Corrany with joint when the frontiergued on
such But in the near future have bean. But they need a capted by all parties, including guarante they wanatory, united Germany, should besid the dream stage.
lead from: the Government, n the Chamans themes YONG SHAR
Germany, bared on The thrust and drive and someone may.. The Russians, guarantee that they will get the Bovlar and the recognitions of the feeling, trocke imagination of our scientists perhaps."
* help when the going la roughs, Western. Powers kuw approaching few as legal and
he finds the British Govern- ment plainly guilty,
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