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The D-DAY story
JUNE 6 · 1944
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from
"SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST
FIELD MARSHAL LORD MONTGOMERY, lu a. forward coding the book - 19791
mykane pietario bat the Hary at thes
Brandon and at, the fighting the
Che battle of Hormondly. It is a mocy
of human anderson by Metlih sed
da Mhbory van Moving road. thái berte
THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JUNE 18, 1954.
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Cummings
"Earth? Don't bother about the rescue rocket—we're staying.”
London Express Service
“The Third Man” Draw Is Losing Force
AROUND VIENNA with RITCHIE MCEWEN
T
tourists than
bo
A
Since then they have
been operated by Russian managers under extraterritorial con-
HE stigma of "The setting local authorities and
Third Man," which police a big problem. has proved to better drawing card for A nation-wide "save the ditions. They pay no taxes,
"The
Blue children's morals" campaign health insurance contributions Danube" although touchy is in full swing. Publishers or customs duties, and balanco Viennese won't admit it and booksellers take it in sheets are not published. Is losing some of its force, turn to offer one "good"
But in spite of these favour- Last year, for instance, book in exchango for a dozen able conditions, 07 of them have there were only three mur- copies of "trashy novela." gone bankrupt this year, and ders committed in Vienna, Under this heading come have had to be closed down. a city with 1,760,000 in wild west, gangster and
"illicit love" stories. habitants, and crime as a whole has fallen by nearly 30 percent.
seem
the
Austrian experta put tho blame on the Russian "norm", which was
In Vienna, a recent advertise- or quota system, ment for a well-known local adopted a year ago on Moscow
orders.
Since the "norm" system was
brand of nylons had to be "re- touched" because the city and fathers objected that the model introduced-the quotas are Jald
was showing too much “leg."
Even the Russians to have entered into spirit of the times, only nine kidnappings 'cluding one woman and two children were engineered by the MVD in 1958.
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in
down by a central brains trust in The Kremlin"marketable special production" has fallen by 33 to
44 percent.
In Innsbruck, a waiting room for passengers under 10 is to be provided on the main railway station, with special attendant to look
a
ON the reverse side of the after them.
medal, the alarming in- crease in juvenile crime throughout Austria
Multi-Racial Societies
In The Commonwealth
Ꮤ
BY PATRICK MAITLAND, M.P.
has
purtitioned
become
formula
whole South
Africa
which
is
Sometimes the "watch com-
THE only extraterritorial "com- polition" from the Russians still worrying the Austrians in mittee" becomes over-zealous, the ille sale of legally im- An unfortunate Vienna book ported American and Balkan seller has been summoned for cigarettes, which are sold at putting on salo coples of about half the price of the inxed Voltaire's "Condide," a classic Austrian cigarettes. apparently "calculated to harm public mornis,"
To encourage the sale of the home
of product in the face this cut price competition, the Austrian tobacco monopoly {A to hold a series of crossword puzzle competitions by radio. RECENTLY published occupa- Each packet of cigarettes will tion atalistica show that contain an entry form, and the Britain is far ahead of her sister first prize will be a flight over | occupying Powers in helping to the North Pole to New York
reduce the acute
shorlage in Vienna,
housing for a ten-day holiday.
According to Austrian statis-
tics, we have only 11 flota and
conflicts 28 "other Hems" (including the
at
re-
the both with British colonial aims SS barracks and the adjoining THE Viennese
In Central Africa and the High | military housing estale Commission Tarritories, and Schoenbrunn) still under with Pandit Nehru's own pre-quisition. tensions on behalf of Indian imperialism.
for
arc
no
It
London. dependent territories could
within the or controversy THEN the Home should aspire.
British system, alongside Secretary told Par-
Since the Statute of West- struggle for Kashmir. liament that the minister, tho meaning DI
Unofficial exchanges between United Kingdom Govern- Dominion Status
the Commonwealth capitals generally accepted. But once
The French hold 247 flats and ment had no power to ques accepted it was then extended, have led to the production of a
69 "other items"; the Americana Lion coloured immigrants Brat to the
sub rudimentary
427 Ants and 180 "other items", There have been suggestions, while the uf India. then to enabling Dominions that who were
Russians British subjects, continent
occupy no the last case racially hostile to operate other in the constant interchange be less than 1,388, flats, 380 other one of the first fruits of the Ceylon. In fundamental
tween Whitehall difficulty resulted, conuum interests alongside.
and Pretoria,items and a further 1,062 pro British Nationality Act be. For Ceylon the Crown a is suggested that every country
that, if South Africa made no wag came apparent,
the right symbol has
to conduct 111 of immigration policy that will avert the growth of racial ten- sion within its own borders. For India, there
the come
Subject to that, there should decison to establish a Republic, be freedom of movement. which has now been followed by Pakistan. At this stage A new concept of wholly
has be- Dominion sovereignty come accepted.
Sir David Maxwell Fyfe was diverting a question de- signed to lure him into some word of deprecation that coloured Colonial subjects of the Queen in this case about 2,000 from the West Indies in the past fesw months should have
LLEN-
proper and acceptable matching 2,000 monarchy in that island.
years
The next issue is whether It
El Dorado
objection to Nigerian and Gold parties which have been vacated Coast graduation us Dominions, by the Red Army but not re-
Heased for civilian use, Britain should surrender responsibility torates.
for the Protec-
Britain, 100, has taken the lead by reducing her forces of occupation to about 1,000 men and France has now followed our example.
On this, Lord Swinton and the Primo Minister have been altogether categorical. They have made it cleat in public, The Russians, however, still with the unanimous assent
of continue to maintain a front-line Parliament, that no cir-army of 50,000 mon, including cumstances can be imagined in artillery and tank units, and which the Parliament of West-several hundred jet fighter minster would surrender the aircraft deployed on 11 airhelds does High
Commission Territories around Vienna, without due consultation with the peoples concerned.
thab restricted right of entry to fulls to the United Kingdom, as means, for example,
the colonial power concerned, Australia's admission of Aslans the British Isles, and the or to the Commonwealth os A on a tiny quota basis right to work here.
whole, to determine whether reconcile the principle of free- my particular colony shoulti dom of movement with that of now be advanced to Dominion avoiding local tension. Status. The issue will shortly
lils comment, that ng these persons were British subjects they could come and go, avoided the issue in everybody's mind. Nigeria.
arise for the Gold Coast and But if any such principle be
Can thr Union of came general, it might well re- South Africa blackball these
For now that the British Isles aspirants to membership of the fult in the diversion of emigrani
ore visible to the world economically strong and (to take the London finance market, for example, and the flow of gold) growing stronger, this attracts the immigrant.
club? Should South Africa, o this? any Dominion, be free to do
Controversy
the
pressure toward
British isles, For in the eyes of millions of persons abroad here lies an El Dorado like America, a land with a high standard of living plus full employment.
Over and above the strictly rucial tensions
the between
political
Ulster and Eire to the north of T degree, the problem reveral
а
Dominions,
of
Dr
foreign
10
Among the constant popula- tion movements of the Commonwealth is that from England and to Scotland. This revolves again around the tensions take shape. Kashmir is
Dominion of
ឆ conflict about a position has been dietated in recent years implications
of the strategic value, between two solely by British prosperity and sovereignty in regard to Irish poverty.
rights of free movement of religions and two groups peoples. For the Indian Ocean races. And the stuff of The same attraction has area and on the African con- Mulan's home and brought numbers of coloured timent, the conflict of race has policy is again that urge perions from the West Indies now grown into the most bilter defend white supremacy and from Africa, many of whom work here and are contributing, through their national insurance payments and ordinary taxation, to the welfare state of which they are also the beneficiaries,
More Vivid
THER 'colonials'
are the
ENTRENCHING
Corollary
tion in the one stated by the QUT the corollary of that posi-
Home Secretary. Her Majesty's subjects, of whatever colour, are free to come
Statistically, there is one Rus- sian soldier for every 138 Aus- trians. But, say the Austrians, this is better than in Russia, where there is an armed man for every 25 inhabitants!!
and go. It im-N 1945 the Russians seized 317 Austrian Industrial under- piles that the multi-coloured as well as the multi-racial society takings in their zone on the pro- 1s due in Britain, if Britain lext that they were "ex-German would
the advance
multi-property." coloured and multi-racial prin- tutt ciple within the Commonwealth,
After the quarter century when Dominion Status was the prime issue, the Commonwealth and the UK, face the need to make multi-racialism works, at n home as well as oversea.
THE
ARTS
By LES ARMOUR
London. 500 and 800 percent in the last barbarian. Taking Shakespeare the arta generation
to towns with no theatres, for instance, cost the Counett £400 a week, and some of the towns really didn't seem to care.
But
opura-goers Cypriots. London's Cypriot/HEREVER
have stoutly declined to pay colony is little thought of ex- are going in Britain, anything more than twice the cept when there in Parlla-
on' price of a generation ago. mentary
South it's not going to be election In Pancras or Holborn. The con- wheels.
The cost of presenting 4 But even digging in is un- tial fact is that 'colonfuls' have
symphony concert to a full house likely to solve the long-term long enjoyed the right, na Her The British Arts Coun- averages out to more than six problem. Majesty's subjects, to come and cil, the official keeper of the shillings a head. The average only five But the problem is growing culture, has decided that
public dole for matters of cost of a ticket is
■hillings. more vivid owing to the differences, not of race but of the people must come to the colour. The United Kingdom ls arts. It costs too much already a multi-racial society money to take art to which has absorbed immigra- tions of many kinds from the people.
go
Saxons to the Jews of the Hit-
the
ler persecution, and the di- Henceforth, like the Roman placed persons and European conquerors of old, the Council voluntary workers since
war.
tho
"will"scatter "strongholda” in the big oities and there, and there
disseminated; 10.
Tho`gap-in simpler terms, it- uns to £540 every time the curtain goes up at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden
has to be filled from one's pocket.
DIGGING IN
Yet the Coumell's fatal funds
To meet that, the Council i thinking of things like the
Nantwich Plan."
Nantwich latossing bread and elreuses in with the arts. At dances, for instance, the town council allde paintings into an adjoining room. Bote of the money from the dance tickets gon to pay for the cost of the exhibition,
The town is also organising run only to 3d a head a year. football matches to pay for If each et, us' went symphony once a year,
so a comperts, and carnivals to pay
the for the moré, exôilo kinds "of- Council would need four times art, its present, budget, with nothing setelafi över for an operad
If there is a fear that a colour Art Awill be defended and problem is about to arise in the United Kingdom, it is already Ast:58, it deems, operas and plain that próblems, of colour concerts are just barely keeping and race together are among || the barbarians from over the heaviest that becloud the whelming them. Commonwealth and Empire
DOWN
Aucording: to W. E. Williams, r: Bo the Counell, la digging in. Eetwoon the wars the Empira | there germenizi pecTWINKY, DECKER Kas? Williams te ontmoet faced" and solved - the : question | Council, the "coetzotz prod
Counell | "as, forwiht kind (of: novit en "opera › lua plimbad bety
\put "harola:="
Football fans, it seems, don't mind paying for other people's
· concerts. Or maybe they're encouraged by their “ anforced Investment to taka va posar
are taking
good last look at their be loved St Stephens' tower, the "Stem," for it will be "several years before they will be able to do so again,
The ancient, bomb-scarred, 448-foot high spire, which dominates the city. is to be hidden behind mass of seat- folding for extensive repairs.
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