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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, MAY 4,- 1954,
Sorry, chum-overtime. Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday."
RUSSIA, NOT
man
moment
at
Everybody's idea of the diplomat ideal -Anthony Eden, the
of the
Селева.
HEN
W
Anthony his clothes they have almost Eden went to the resumed that Tailor's Model Berlin Conference effect which was for so long he still looked a reproach and a challenge thia and rather tired. When to the rest of us. he returned from that abor- tive conference he looked better than he han done since his illness forced him to go to America for trent-
ment.
And in the interval has grown more robust body and in spirit. As
AMERICA,
STARTED
THE COLD WAR
By Beverley Baxter, MP
no
Yet we should have remem- Versailles
and the sudden German race.
You've Heard Nothing Yet!
HAVE YOU HEARD THE DANES?
NEW
By James White
ny pur-
Copenhagen. "pin-uppers" here to "attract who know the the hussars" but today Olsen Danes only
had found Р really "dainty Joint." veyors of bacon, but- ter and eggs, or even those Having eaten Jens deelded to who have visited their coun- beside the harbour for a "hand visit one of the "garbuncles” try, would regard them as a beer," drunk from the bottle. colourful people. Yet the expressions they use their daily life vergo on the had Just given BOTTIGONE 瓶 exotic-and certainly put "Danish kiss," using his head as the Americans in the shade, a battering rom against his
The A day in the life of Jens victim's face.
"pansers" had just arrived and were lead- Hansen, for instance, shows ing the sailor to the "Balad-
in
Here there was "beard and ballad," for a "bulwark sailor"
that his first appointment bowl" drawn up at the kerb. of the morning was a "cod Soon he'd be "behind Swedish party"-to explain his in- curtains" for a few months, come tax returns to the authorities.
Jens WAS not in good spirits. The previous even-
ก
"I've been rolled'," bowled the victim, searching vainly tor his drawing-boy', "There WIS a hundred patch in it too."
Jens decided to go elsewhere,
ing he'd had "family but as he stepped into the street a "swayer" almost knock- mob" to dinner, and his in- ed him down. "Fumble walker," laws (he usually calls them yelled the messenger boy as he "the hunchbacks") had re- pedailed away.
ferred to him as a "butcher's After this shock Jens felt mannequin." True, he did that nothing less then a "double- weigh 15 sto, e, but, then, walled whisky could help him.
he
that was no "traffic block" waterlilice in the tummy,"
"Too much roda gives you by Danish standards. explained to all and sundry. "Familles are best when After the first gulp he sighed they hang on the wall," he loudly and declared that he had muttered to himself. His "heard angels sing." sister-in-law was the excep tion. She was
real "charm sprite."
#
First, Food
Now, however, Jens had bered that history repeals itself brutally of the like a golf clubs hire. Partitions If their seem harsh words they a tiresome morning ahead are the very parents of war, still remain the cruel truth. and if ever he felt like get
We cannot have an Western Zone fecing on armed it was now.
unarmed ting "convivially drenched" Eastern Zime. The Russians are responsible and they must now face the consequences of their own stupidity.
Today the parent of tu- MOITOW. There in the centre of Europe we shall come day see Germany armed, united, determined.
a nation once again,
in
Russian
which the
No Victors
can-
Jens locked at his watch. The time was "many." There тула "rog steak" and "poultice pud- ding" for dlaner and his "watch" would be keeping it hot for him. He'd better "hit the wire" and tell and her he'd "fallen in"
and wouldn't be home, "It you've got a good home you motto. He took out his "psalter," shouldn't overrun it," was his extracted a "patch" and pald.
What a day!
to the "Cannibal Kitchen" (as But first, food. Should he go
Now for the "bachelor a
"Old People's of garbage he had access to the University
home"! No, "for Satan", he teen) or should he go to
of "the thought, the doorman that House of Schnapps" (what a particular night club would bo good thing it was they didn't sure to say: That gentleman is/ abolish parliament's
"tired," we can't let him in.
of
and, at times, near tragedy. Plan-was one of the great But we did agree to call a moments in history and will Far East Conference on eventually give to Truman Korea and we also agreed to the glory that his own
Thus
to Berlin, grotesquely into is Zones, weit discuss the war in Indo- people so strangely deny divided
him now.
the Fr
Foreign Secretaries in this China,"
year of grace 1954. They talked Now that another inter- By a grim coincidence it of Germany--talked and talked national conference is sit was our friend Molotov who and talked, Yet nothing came ting in Geneva, it is im- rejected Marshall Aid not of it but a suggestion to let the
"We cannot hold free election portant that we should try only for Russia but for the German people site on it. to guage
the situation in satellite countries behind Europe-for
the two German Zones," said Europe atil the Iron Curtain.
Let me Eden, "because the Russians and holds the key to world peace repeat that the American ourselves cannot agree on the
restaurant or world war.
when they abolished the Upper hul offer
The political meaning of there words,
Ah, well, he sighed, he wanted House, he thought), of idea
free election £1
to tell "feathers on his tummy" Why do the nations so clauses. But Communism is A contest in
No, he'd go to one
the
now anyway. And there was small places in the "Minefield" together? can only see in the dark and decision is known before the rage
the DUT there will be this
Buro to be "smoke in the At first we hoped that furiously
dif- district. Here the resident "plano kitchen" before he got to bed. in the light polling booths open. Otherwise fcrence. Germany has always boxer," "on were spoken dare not let this rejuvenation was the Those words
bucketi There was no no election,"
made war when her victims were usual, from a faded "bar fly" there was always "a balled out His wife didn't approve of his bitterness in Eden's volee but
trying to borrow "drinking lunch all day" and result of some secret under- when the world was young, from the West.
neither was there any ambiguity litter
In the weak and unprepared.
"Dalls" standing reached in Bertin, but they have been bitterly
wer the Germans ex- in his words,
Like many
another, his matte of the other world" were so, why topical in the world of our
perienced the dreadful carnage was "money doesn't smell",
got home late. did he say on his return: time,
and destruction of defeat, and So hungry
that have seen that to the victor tripes were on the there are no spulls,
What a day ft had becal eating their smaller neighbours," Thank goodness there were only Thus we
decided over- Europe
may see an armed Jens
inhale to
four "devil's birthdays" In a spending Eta very steak." From the thickness of year, How he hated quarter liberation
the bread that went with it he days! When he left on yet realising that in modern decided
t home he had that It murt bo had two "ploughmen" in his "Dobbin's birthday."
boy," now he hod
"shudder
loft, Already he had a headache and and he daren't think of the "car- penters" he would have in the morning as a result of all the water" ho had
But if that
he "For those of us who took the Foreign in part in the conference it was Russia,
for frustrating,
CHINESE
CREEDS
and
Britain,
Bear Growl
It is something that Ministers of
America TI AGIC can sit down and talk together civilised beings.
disappointing and France
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Nothing Decided the Russian
The Kremlin knows that in
Germany,
Easter
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Bulgaria, Poland, Austria, Czecho- Hungary and Czechoslovakia,
was
vole
be
for
an
Uhe
big
verge
"comersault
when ho
little slovakia with its close there would like ties with the free world whelming
from the Russian chains. substance en weapons of destruc- reached out ity hands undoubtedly Western Germany warfure there are no victors but for American nid
but would also vote for freedomn bear growled although there would be, at any merely degrees of losers,
But after a time it may well offer
time, re- rate for a and the
Ingering (1
be that before his career is
Tall Stories fugel. It was not that the gratitude to the Western Powers ended. Anthony Eden as Prime which gave her a Parlament and Minister of Britain, will preside YET nothing
happens. Kremlin wanted to preserve assisted her ecunomic recovery, over a conference of the great
Over in the corner that "dise Nothing
decided, a low standard of living in
Towers when war will be Jockey" Olsen was telling ble drunk. Nothing is accomplished. the satellites. Communism,
usual tall stories and ploying One half
banished from this earth. of the world like any other political
"King Carrot" to impress the So much for Jens Hansen. Russia blames
"cigars." Today Olsen really As I said, I doubt very for
to aim at the philosophy, has
much had "got roast on his fork." whether even Jo Doakes could lunatic condition of improving the condition of
There were always plenty of beat his phraseology! Europe today. The other its adherents. But the first half blames America, And consideration must be that for the moment I want to only Russia could be the deal with the case made fount to which the faithful against America.
is
would come.
were
upan
partitioned
ор
Time Has Come
03
THEREFORE Germany must
remain divided Just
to be Austria must continue
by foreign troops occupied although she could not injure the most insignificant of her neighbours.
But now the time has arrived
We
It can only be a dream, but without dreams mankind could not face tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow.
A
WHEN VIC OLIVER FIRST MET CHURCHILL
Son-in-law With Prospects
.
The Americans are bad Greed, Imperialism and safety
the guiding motives in when the Allies can no longer propagandists. In fact they Stalin's mind. And, not content put off the terrible decision na are experts in making them with custaving his autellites, he to whether Germany shall be
armed or not selves appear to disad- instated vantage even when playing Germa
The very thought of it is Germany.
INSTON CHURCHILL married his daughter 2,000 long as he was upright_and The war dead. Father
WINSTON miles away! Chirstmas.
In fairness let us admit that ough to rouse Poll-
honest, and willing to work..../ their graves. Arc in the atmosphere of 1945-1948 from
From the Arst he had no "That is the calibre of-the- tically they have not the
holding the law to the study of Chart- illusions it was difficult to consider the Parliamentarians,
about how rome man who is Churchill, and I to act for experience of the
British problem of Germany with calm, power
the nation, well, his country Home, people viewed his romance. C. understand the qualities in him nor the discipline of the judicial minds. In her abject going to put atomic
was cleared his throat, and said B. Cochran in whose show he which made him accept me" Russlana. Nor does the in- world and before history as a
defeat she stood before the supersonic aeroplanes and
were and Sarah newest
appearing gravely:
The Churchills, says Oliver, tanks In the hands of
when they met, asked him are
the hopplest dividual American
mong who cruel, debased monster. For the Germans? Are we to watch "Well, you're a married pointedly: "Do you know her familles he ever encountered. goes abroad — be he
of the Kaiser's man a the third time in living memory the grandsons
now. I hope you father is one of the most The parents are enchanted "with the of Hitler's
song civilian or a soldier, always she had put civilisation to the Germany and
realise that
revered men in England?" have you murderers being armed
with
"Often ACTOSE But the couple were married table 1 would see Winston remember that he is an am- sword, was she to be forgived the newest instruments of death? responsibilities, What bassador for the U.S.A. And and restored so that she could
and the human een your plans for the future?" after embarrassing publidity adoringly that if the plan for the final ruin of History even America's warmest Christendom?
science
ence cry out against it.
"I have four weeks booked at one newspaper manasked at Clementine. She delight in friends cannot look with
It was with a heavy heart that the Holborn Empire," was the bluntly, "Aren't you old enough his sucessos and, wer LC I voted B year age for the reply.
to be har father?in New complacency upon the
principle of West German
"Good, What else?"
York City Hall on December 23. decal w.en thin activities and extraordinary
trong or hin" I have voted Then I have three weeks at were crossing the Atlantio came
Two days rearmament. Now,
later while they
power of a man Buch as
for the actual fact and with the Metropolitan Theatre in the the first word from tho Senator McCarthy.
heart just as heavy,
Edgware Road."
Churchille "Congratulations to But the Russians give us nu "You, you. Very good. Any you both, Welcome to Chart- alternative. Because they four thing else?"
Well when you arrive in "There's also a week at the England." they East Palace, then?
Chelsea!! And
Molotoy's No
Cut In Two
I CAN
War
and peace
understand Russia's legitimate foors. Yet if Stalin had cared for the world at large and not merely for hia Com- both
armed he would have unilaterally munist empire reallwod that the emergence of Germans.
Isolationism to Amorica from
THEREFORE when the world leadership had altered the
Russians scream that whole
of course, history, It
it was America that started was true that Germany had the cold war the whole world nadod Russla
·erred? ·
in two world
the
Two Parents
are
"A week at the Finsbury Park Empire.”
"Well, it looks as if there is plenty of work ahead of you. A great thing, work,' Soe that
oach other.
and
the!
»
Sarah joined the W.AF. In 1942, and she and her husband drifted apart. They saw loss less of each other,
and were divorced on the grounds of desertion in 1940,
"There was no disloyalty At Chartwell the awestruck alther comedian was introduced to the Oliver.
side," explains Vic "Tension was caused Churchill family and Inter- by our diffeting aitudes viewed by his father-in-law. show business, and up to this Later he came to know him day I firmly bellave, that ma Intimately.
- marriage between two people
to
The partition of Germany was Vorsailles, whose authors were Vic Oliver who married Barah music hall comedian who be bound to fall
"For me," he writes, "the show business almost
Vie "Oliver - still senda... his
is apt to nod its head in at wars but could it be conceived EVEN if the Russians had not you keep up.
that a resurgent Germany could done so there is a limit to the least partial
the agreement, wage a third war
#gainet
time that you can deny a de- But it is not true. The cold rest of a wo
world united and seated nation the rights enjoyed This candid description of war was created by the de- T
by the victors. The Treaty of their drst encounter is given, by cision of the Kremlin alone. insisted upon by Stalin who re- the starry-eyed Woodrow Wilson, Churchill in 1980. He reader came his son-in-law, Winston greetings to his former father Amorica did everything fused to withdraw his occupa the too realistic Lloyd George View of the grout war leader 6 Churchill goes down 'in possible to prevent it.
tion troops, pad thus created and the revengeful Clemenceau, from a new anglo-that of the history, not only a great in-law on his birthday. In 1947 Russia was asked this cancer in the centre of almost sentenced Germany to unexpected and uncomfortable
"I loved the man," he de And in fairness
statesman, writer, and orator lei death. The victors demanded son-in-law. to accept Marshall Ald in there be no pretence that the that Germany should
pay full
"It was a bizarre situation" but as one of the wise men of cleres candidly, loved him order to restore her ravaged rest of us shed any tears over reparations but would not
his time, and as a humane to for his simplicity, his sincerity,
and his aternal habit of speak statesman Interviewing the right type of school are not no strings to it. That tres cut up two. Superficially if events takes two parents to bring susie-hall comedian who had the important thing in life as thought that working ble
looked as ifthere i wanna good a child into the world; The KOWLOON mendous gesture of Prestond to toe wild, for the surgical in political parents of Adou
dent Truman the Marshall operation. ::
the Trenky, of
kanope.
not be
territories, And there were the spectacle of: a great nation allowed the mean to cain Hike ho Acoinmenta,sethe ( vitaris" (whom earthly Hoods,§; And Ani precisely and ÷ hormetlý%the%
pot to him vima Zoenge -mal 15 de maman, SSKESSE
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