What's best in Kowloon ?
SPRING
STOCK TAKING SALE
Spring is just around the corner and Mayai is featuring a magnificent | collection of new suits, dresses, toppers and coats, tailored or ready- made, in newly imported materials
tweeds, flannels. wools, Swiss fine silks and cottons
and at a greatly reduced price.
Mayai & Co.
Princess Theatre Bldg. 120 Nathan Rd., Kowloon, Tel. 64496.
HOLLYWOOD BEAUTY PARLOUR
(AIR-CONDITIONED}
14E Cameron Road Kowloon. Tel. 60197
Cold Wave
Machineless Wave
Machine Permanent Wave
(Originally $20) NOW $12 (Originally $16) NOW $12 (Originally $12) NOW $ 8
ZORIC DRY CLEANING
CAN ONLY BE DONE IN A "ZORIC" UNIT. THERE
IS BUT ONE IN THE COLONY. IT IS USED AT ...
THE STEAM LAUNDRY CO.
Call 58266 For Collection and Deliveries
The ideal Gift for friends -
CHINESE
CREEDS
AND
CUSTOMS
VOLUME II
by
V. R. BURKHARDT
Illustrated by the Author
Five Colour Plates
-SECOND IMPRESSION
$18.00
THE CHINA ⠀
"MAIL," FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 1956.
Let There Be Resolution on Cyprus
Now, More Than Ever, We
Must Stay Put!
T
By Hugh Fraser
Soon they may set to work agninat us in Libya.
bombed, and butchered.
...TORY MP FOR STAFFORD AND STONE........ London. of the vital air base at HE Bucking of Glubb Dhahran in Saudi Arabia.
Pasha makes It black for Britain in the Middle East. Not since General Gordon was speared to death on the steps of the Residency in Khartoum 71 years ago has British prestige and power in the Middle East, so suffer ed by the fall of an indivi-
dunl.
This is not only the end of a great leader. It is the end of an epoch of Foreign Office diplomacy,
Until now our diplomacy has been built on two pillara. FIRST, the belief that the Arab world was necessarily on our side.
Our enemies acem united, Yet America despatches tanks to Saudi Arabia spite of our protest.
In
If negotiation is exhaust- ed, what should our next step be? Some Socialists will have the facile answer: surrender. It is no answer at all. It is not the Greeks who will take over Cyprus, it is the Turks.
his-
Disunity of this kind can- not continue. Events them- Geographically and selves must now force Bri- torically Cyprus has always tish and American interests been Levantine; not part of together and make our the Peloponnese but of Asin statesmen beat out a com- Minor. Even in the greatest mon policy based on mutual days of Athenian empire power and interest and on Cyprus was never Greek. the crude fact that we con- trol both the sales and the production of the oil riches of the Middle East.
All Watching
THIS is the moment for
hard thinking. It is the moment also for the U.S.A. to declare its adherence to the Bagdad Pact.
No one knows this better than months they have been playing the Greek Government but for six internal politics.
the defence of the West,
Εστ
THE END OF THE BEGINNING?
GLUFB
CARE
EnnerTp.
London Express Jervice
Anxious Days Ahead For Russian Jews
that with
By WALTER KOLARZ
was
Their election is over. Mr Karamantis's Government has ben returned In an election SECOND. the thought
whose rickety platforms were to
N his report to the very much in healing the wounds Russia, a remarkable contrast to that this Arab world mis-
which the Nazi Occupation of the Christion revival which The folly has served its pur-
Supreme Soviet on
the Ukraine and other western could be observed in the war and took weakness for states.
vie in hatred for this country. pose but the food of abuse from
his Asian tour, and southern territories of the postwar years. manship and military with-
Krushchev came out USSR had inflicted upon them. An up-to-date picture of the drawal for some mysterious
Athens continues undiminished.
In fact, it was under Krush- present situation of Judaism in an extremely out- access of international moral
it is time, and essentially
to irrespon- spoken statement about the chev's leadership that a violent the Soviet Union was recently by Mr. Harry, Schwartz, campaign against "Jewish bour- given power to Britain. Instead of
And for Britain herself? they put on end
sibility. building on realities we have This for us is a moment of
laun the Soviet aftales expert of the Government State of Israel. He expressed "geo's nationalism"" Her Majesty's
the Ukrainio 5b- New York Tinms, who visited Burvived un individual
destiny. We must show not must declare what their policy unqualified support for the cheti in
the second Russia last autumn and spoke to friendships.
and their settlement is to be. fight of the Arab nations viet Republie from
half of 1847 onwards. A well- Jews in ten Soviet cities with only in words but in deeds If it is what I believe it
for "full liberation from known Ukrainian poet of Jewish large Jewish minorities. Where are those friends that far from pulling out we should be then perhaps there
He found that rabble and lay heads of today 7
of Jewish congregations King Abdulinh is are determined to strengthen may be an outcry from the Let: foreign dependence," and in origin Leonid Pervomaisky
he was publicly rebuked and per- sentence
in priso for feared
to talk frankly to him. dead-assassinated. Glubb our position and safeguard and there could be an inten- the next
added: "One cannot, at the haps even put
having shown Jewish bias and but ordinary Jewish citizens is gone. Nuri Pasha of Iraq our interests through the sification of terrorism,
same time, fail to condemn mentioned Moses in one of his complained bitterly about anti- is aging.
Middle East and along the ********
the acts of the State of poems. A Jewish almanac was semitism, and many expressed a Mediterranean seaboard.
farael which, ever since it banned for making ideological desire to emigrate. "We are not wanted here" and "we feel as mistakes. came into being, has been
though we live Two Waves
with a rope round our necks" were typical threatening its neighbours
THE anti-Jewish measurce, comments.
his travels through the Middle and 176 wounded. Communist, and pursuing a policy ho8- starting in the Ukraine, were
tile to them."
There are two aspects to this 500 extended to the whole of Ukraine he noticed that Khar
the Soviet Union, There were kov, a city with about 100,000 unilateral blame which Krush- two waves of anti-Jewish per- Jews, had no synagogue.
Powerful Forces
first Russian As the
traders arrive in the Lebanon, as our enemies re- joice in Jordan, as the MIGs
In
a
The basis of manoeuvre must be retention of con- trol of Cyprus.
troubled East, everyone watches Cyprus. All
Arab, Israeli, and Turk-will ask
It's Our Duty
LREADY 40 soldiers and Bri- tish citizens have been killed Oreek, and even Middle Eastern agents will try to stir up trouble. E. O. K. A. will become more violent.
These sorrow TH
must
On
The
arrive and our last brigade the question: Are the Bri- be faced, because any weakness chev has put on Israel. In the secution in the postwar period. synagogue was closed when the packs up in Suez, as Nasser tish to give way again? Is low would lead to for Brst place, the statement follows The first was launched in 1948/9 rabbi was Imprisoned for 'allégod":
Against us are deployed two powerful and contradic- iory, yet allied, forces-Com- munism; and Egypt and Saudi Arabia using Arub nationalism as their tool.
Never Greek
WE CANNOT, in our de- fence of the West and of the Middle East, give Cyprus to a Greece which
4 in
Just
in the long run salutary.
WOTZO
TIS statement
some
activities several disasters not only in the island up the policy of flattering and in connection with the campaign subversive wooing the Arab states which against cosmopolitanism. It years ago. and the Saudis pour their there to be another surren- but throughout the Middle East, the Soviet Union has pursued affected primarily literary critics Recently, there has been some corrupting money into a
Firmness der to terrorism?
cause most actively since last summer, and writers. The second was the relaxation in the official Soviet volatile Middle East, British
But in the
is not only necessary. But the matter also has an in- direct outcome of the discovery attitude towards Yiddish culture. present now
It must be ternal Soviet aspect.
In 1953 of the so-called "doctors' Yiddish songs have been allowed and American policy must upheaval of Middle Eastern
plot."
in
concerts, and public undergo fearless re and Cypriot politics there Thousands of Cypriots, who
Violent Campaign The fact that Jewish doctors Yiddish writers imprisoned six uppraisal.
interests three points beyond know that their best ure
about Israel were charged with the most or seven years ago seem to Have which we cannot go.
Ite with Britain, who know our
Hwill be viewed with con- terrible crimes created an atmo. been released. justice. who como here In
Will Be Worse thousands, who fear Greek Insiderable anxiety by the two sphere of suspicion towards Jows throughout Russia. When the competence, poverty, and con-them not only regard the State of charges against the doctors were
million Soviet Jews. Many of autho
nuthors of the .trumped-up 1 that
THERE have also been rumours scription-all these and millions the
a Yiddisły Communist of other people throughout the Ispel with sympathy, as a Jew-
themselves accused of forgery newspaper Is to be published y also the situation improved to some again. But in a way the publica Middle East, are watching and sh National Heine, but they a
tion of such a newspaper would extent, hoping that authority will be have relations living there. In- te
considerable per- But in the last months of 1935 make things worse for the Soviet and assuredly restored. deed, a very
duty is to the centage of the Israeli
more news about Russian anti- Jews, The last from territory ations
existing Jewish now Jewish measures reached the ven free world. A statement issued eaper, Avalkelt, was
to refer to the persecu The Russian Jews may even Small island though it is, Cyprus
is today more than ever ask whether the deterioration of by the European Office of the tion of Jews in Nazi Ger
American Jewish Committee on during the period of Nazi-Soviet Israell-Soviet relations reflected the key to Middle East safety. In his statement will not have arrest
December 1, 1955 mentioned the co-operation in the first 19 If Britain shows weakness adverse
of Jews in the Soviet months of the Second World repercussion K the here, not only her own Middle Jewish community in the USSR. Union on the grounds that they War. East Interests but those of the
in possession of Zionist One might expect that the Not that Soviet Jews have
2 literature. and
new Jewish paper would have those of millions ever known real freedom under in
The persecutions to which the to show a similar neglect of the the Middle East will be the Communist regime, least of out Glubb. They assassinated and could not agree to an engulfed by a new Imperialism | all since the end of the war. T. Soviet Jews have been perlodi- Jowish point of view in lis com harsh purt Abdullah. They will soon amnesty for those who in more ruthless and more
cally exposed have discouraged menta and news on the Middle them threaten America's tenancy cold blood
from manifesting their East. It would be able to refleco Government has not helped them group identity in public. have murdered, than any Turkish pasha's.
This only the one-sided official accounts in part for the decline Soviet policy with regard to the:
Jowish religious Ho in Israel problem.
Let there be no mistake. It is not Israel but the West who are the Arabs' enemies.
did not exist it could easily turn Commun- but it is also to history. If Israel would almost have had to ist.
people of Cyprus of all races, hall
be created. Its destruction WE CANNOT surrender is the rallying point not for control of internal security our leading enemies but for and of the protection of the masses they manipulate. Cyprus's Turkish minority.
AND WE SHOULD NOT West These forces have thrown
it
Lire müdiy,
Soviet
WHAT DOES A GIRL DO WITH £25,000 A YEAR?
London
L
IKE most people I always believed that
By C. NICHOLAS PHILIPS
sister, cutting sandwiches and dishing up cups of tea.
"I often go out alone with my sister.. We drink a couple of if I won a pool, or provide his wife with servants, great ambition") but found her bottles of wine at a restaurant, was left half a million by Miss Reza, a busy girl carning dancing "would never cut much and don't have to put ourselves
three times as much, has an old woman to whom I'd afternoons-only daily. given my seat in the Tube, Her litto
an ice,"
So she applied for and won a
flat on the smart job as a singer at a Southport 1 I would know exactly what side of Edgware Road has one restaurant "though I had never
or two pleasing gadgets We naung outside the bath"
thermostatic radiator. There is a
party was fun. The ones usually go to are rather stuffy."
out
charming to be
That She takes life very easily. "It doesn't do to kill yourself.
Three years later, singing 'in a I don't ・want to work too hard. But since meeting Lita lush sheepskin hoarthrug, and London nightclub, she married Your money gots. taken away Roza I am not so confident, the carpets have withstood man- an American Air Force officer from you so quickly. When I've Perhaps I, too, would be re-
of an eight three days after he had called on made some money I say: “Oh wock-old poodle,,
I'd do with it,
風
俗
M. POST OFFICES
HONG KONG.
KOWLOON
fully tho impact
her with a letter of introduction
duced to polo or to re- Apart from that it might be from a girl friend in Egypt. She well, I'll have a rest. decorating my bathroom. Jong to any girl with a respon-
Lita Roza, or the uninform- alble job in the City, and
ed, is a singer. She is a round boy friend who does up Espresso od, dimpled, neatly put together bars
was 18.;
EXCUSES
litike bundle of energy, extrame- Every ledze, table, nook and
"I'm the sort By attractive physically, in an cranny is laden with miniature
of girl who unobvious, rather oriental way.
If you liqueur bottles, toby Jugs, madel makes map decisions. horses and other bric-a-brac. put things off,
MIDDLE-BROW
As if that wasn't enough sho makes £25,000 a year, excluding royalties on records.
"I only think of money as a thing to be spent. I'm not going
to
start publishing songs myself anything. hate to have to swent out a Hit.
"I don't let money embarrass always willing to go me, I'm city in excess of nearly all
y
She cooks for handig wing- ing or excuse, you start, think... dutch. I have an, satning copa- | Ever she can. Her specialities. After the war she went to live no friends. If I want to go ere Браго rib and brussels with her husband in Miami, somewhere where they can't eprouts, stuffed heart, Lancashire Their marriage lasted five years, afford to fake me, I lay my cards hat-pot and pigʻa feet.
Visiting Britain in 1950 she on the table, thought she would take a sing-
"A COOD, COOK
ing job to help with expenses.
"All northern dishes, The
So she wrote to Ted Heath.
"I thought I'd start at the top
VEVRIGHT MAN.
Her singing is strictly "pops," but she herpel!, is a lively, no-
"Most of the men I know work nonsense, middle-brow, sort of girl, wire has ceat through the food down hero is awful. I am and work down. But he liked a great deal harder than I do. suely works of Theodore Dreiser, a very good cook. I was never my singing, and he liked my ap-. I'm not a caror gird. If the right Come along, 1'11 know it." 13
sensible,
decisive, taught. It's a matter of imagine- pearance,"f opinionated,
tion. One knows what to do In 1951 came her first,
Buch good sense, such admir Yet even she has no clear idea instinctively ad
"Allantown Gaol. Then there ablo lack of pretension or con of what to do with her money, Mins Toza was born in Liver was that dreadful "Dongle in the celt, But im't it frightening the
She could pool, She is 30 this month. She Window," she had, reached She just ignoros It.
this the
tough
28. pretty Teach much the same life on A makes no bones, about it, big time. Twentieth of what she edeng, A visit to, pantomime at the first mat Muie Roza at a absolutelyj
A judge recently mild that, à oɛe of ele started her on 2 stage rather tough students party in a manna let two months us mulch, qu mory morning £6,000 a year career. From a juvenile in parto Chiron, basement. She spent the our top atomic physicists get in might resumably, be expected to she graduated to thie skorja? Crkay, wyaning in the Kändsen wiska kong as your?...
were
In
Cornflakes
not
taste so much better with brown sugar on, Mummy"
It makes all
the difference
"TAIKOO
TAIKOO
SIGAR
SOFT BROWN