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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1956.
Just look what the Arabs have done to Giles
He's been Nasserised --like
the Canal
From FRANK GOLDSWORTHY
Amman. Jordan.
NGLISH cartouts on
Suez stuation — reprinted without acknowledgment and re- captioned with 11 pro-Nusr slant are Koln down b with the Arbs,
The cartoons, by files and Osbert Lauguster. have been
which appearing in Ad 1fnu,
HT
published in the Jordan stain sector of Jerusalen
Glow has been too much fo swallow
cartoons
whole.
Que of in two appeared flons on succeeding days
J
REMEMBER this Gilas cartoon?
The original caption read: “I'll give you 'Good morning, Nasser*
If come over there."
AND OSBERT LANCASTER. TOO
A
Jordon newspaper published only
this pers
and left off this
And the new caption road
12
'Britain 18 Ulf thinking about losing oil and making joka about using animals for transport."
"The
And in that Lanester cartoon of Mauty Tittlehampton her husband hurrying past sandwichboard reading
end of the world
Maudie #ecording
Is at hund."
The
Arable caphon - WIN strictly
In line with the paper's politiend
Hae in saying: -
Ilove นฟ
what a depressing
been
Landon Conference 199
saying
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In some cases the Arab cop- tion writer may have L#སཱ*t1
attempt making an honest translate an unktanskajable Eng- Hish joke.
itut quite cyadea),
the
Whe
Zutty."
kaptaktors
:
this
Originally the raption Personally.
the guy gives me
the hump.
But in this band, where Naseer is number one pin-up boy, the
"He has caption read: me raise my head, of him.'
made
I am proud
"Your
CAPTION NO. 1: poor uncle is dreadfully de-
keeps pressed ho ferring to the Canal as Bome creek or other and saya we
right up it without
aro
padde
A
A8 JORDANIANE saw 11: "The morals of your uncle is
down. going
He constantly nows of the repeats
Canal,"
LANCASTER had dripping Maudio say
grabbed As the
August B: "I the phone on
me think you'd better let
be take it, dear -- It may M.1.4 wanting IDO back!" JORDANIAN'S version; “Ano you needing even pensioners like him? Has the Suez Canal affair got on your nerves as much as that?"
BRITAIN'S BLOODLESS REVOLUTION (3)–By JOHN MARSHALL
HOPE IN THE CHURCH
S there #1 religious at a Feeling of revival starting in guts society in LaniİON Britain? My answer
I
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There are
-
number of older people seeking
In a provincial town I came across a confirmation class con-
More young faces are seen nfirmation. two other portents in the pews
but the need sisting of housewives and bluck- in the pews but the need still for leadership
Elt
of
men who
to
enter
IS
is No. It is a view to higger and botter congrega- supported by ministers of tons in the future: (1) The various denominations with mereasing numbers
young whom I have talked. There people and children to be seen
with their parents
Sunday are, however, hopeful signe ring services thed (2) The of an increased interest in omber
young
For in this age of many dis- Then, oh, deur
then came least religion
young have some forward in the past tractors-not the
being a sermon bom a young man year or two seeling
the television on Sunday even- with the sort of rarefled accent people.
The Church of England
not beloved of radio comedians. church which does High- require the aclive participation Perhaps the best evidence Theologiend rullege are demanded
denomina- by other booked of this trend-if a just per- weit
for
1956 i
tions can only hope to all the 1.350 ordination
and epn- pews if the priest has fre be with ceptible movement can
chicaste
bratning), aracı, In-
and a modern
approach; called a trend--is in the deed, many would-be Clergy- universities Meetings of men have been turned down. the religious societies are
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drawing fine audiences. the mereasing number of young questing
groups
it as to be hoped that, among of intel- Brilons whit feel within them ligent young men and girls, the Call, there is a greater pro- portion of inspired and domi- A clerical truenxt of mune was cant personalities thara the
to ful 300 students Church can count upon today. surprised
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To sum up the trend is but a trickie, certainly not a surge. but it is in the right direction and it is gently fanning ultra- cautious optimism.
Now let us look at some other denominations.
by One claim the Catholles must provoke I some Anglican
cerebration,
is that their membership has in- creased by one-third since the war. devout most If he has something to say and their heads down upon their
The Roman Catholic populu - in the United Kingdom in a veice with which to say it o
chesty The young priest filled priest whose pastoral work con-
now placed at 4,380.031, Largely then des the inercase is a natural one. I up his 15 minutes, stitutes real practical friend- cended from the pulpit to the ship with his parishioners, who relief of all, including.
was told at Westminster Cathe- surely.
The dral,
Catholic averoge a happy himself. The shuffling woke his dra makes of his church
and cheerful place.
flock. "Unfortunately, the
family is three to four children vicur and it is likely to remain high is away,
said to me someone apologetically as
on account of the Church's in- we left.
placable opposition to birth con-
Family worship should be Q Jayful experience, not a mourn ful rigmarole.
No. 1 an not even hinting of 10 Billy Graham sort of tech-
tijeque
Faithful record
And I suppose that in due trol. course this fellow, worthy no doubt and doing his very best. will receive preferment and pro- cred to empty a church. And those who fail to attend because he is incapable of giving them any spiritual help will be label led heathens.
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Other factors
The recent slight relaxation of the Communist Party's grip has led to discussion in the Soviet Union about multi- party democracy, but a glance at the Soviet Press shown' that the Party is determined to defend its monopoly.
RUSSIAN REDS FIGHT URGE FOR OTHER PARTIES
By WALTER KOLARZ
gen-
GLANCE at the Pravda Ukrainy went on, must Soviet press shows that be resisted. the Soviet Communist This was not a vague, Party is now busy defend- cral statement, but referred to incidenta In the Western ing its political monopoly Ukrainian town of Stanislav. A against those who have discussion took place there re-
Party propagan challenged it. It is, in fact, cently among
according to very much on the defensive, dista, who,
"incorrect made paper. harmful statements" without Pravda, the newspaper which being called to
and again Provincial sets the tone, Ume
make Communist And itself compelled to
the and
tive order by
Secretary
Party,
of
the
who
the point that for fundamental present at the meeting. iccological
art
sociological
reasons only
one party exist in Soviet Russla statement
al
决
that
Polish
Com-
It could
relevant seems This Stanislav is in former elaborated territory, and the local
Pravda munists
therefore parti- are cularly responsive to events in the neighbouring Poland.
Was sume length oditorial of July 6, 1956.
The ctorial stressed in the that a nigst categorical terms nulla-party system is out of the question in Soviet Russia and asserted that ton-Communist
would
automatically parties become instruments of foreign capitalists.
A Question
of
One
teature significant recent developments in Poland which must attract their special attention As the stress which ofcial Polish Communist pro- However, t does not seem that this argument has silenced paganda has suddenly put on non-Communist parties anxi the supporters of a multi-party groups. democracy On August 5, Pravda had to return once
The question that is likely to the same again to
subject. be asked soon, therefore, is why But this latest article only re: pon-Communist parties could not
officiat exist in
if they pests
the well-known
Russia Soviet dogma that there is no allowed in the satellites. This is social basis in Russin for the
problem which seems to occupy existence of other parties than the minds of Soviet citizens not the Communists.
only in border territories.
Differences
aro
Pravda referred to it in its latest defence of the Communist Party monopoly without, hơy-
ever giving a satisfactory
The ometal Soviet thesis that several parties can co-exist only explanation of this contradictory
of affairs. state
It merely is un- underlines
in the a bourgeols society in
fact that sound and has obviously
other Socialist countries, non- satisfied people in Soviet Russia Communist parties could parti- itself. It is not the social struc cipate in the Government "under ture of Soviet society which
historical conditions certain prevents the emergence of other provided the Marxists maintain
Union,
their leading role, but in Russla but the legal and administrative itself this could not be the case.
at protecting measures aimed the Communist Party
parties in the Soviet
convelition.
brainst
Sup
The present situation in the Soviet Communist Party demands a clearing up of the The s'ructural and Ideo- existing ideological confusion. logical differences within Soviet The Porty hierarchy hopes to socfely would favour the emer- ochleve this through the retresh-
if ter parties
sem lurries courses.
and are THER factors
the in- rence of other
were not for uke prezent sys- evening classes
Marxism- and creased Irish
Polish
tem of coercion. For instance, Lenindem which are due to start populations in Britain
well imagina thai their activities shortly. one could Methodists have nothing very
the millions of collective sensational to report. Their rum-
formers of Russia would want The new wave of Indoctrina- bery
almost pre- remo in
a party of their own. party tion descending on the Party cisely what they were in 1949
defending their interests with rank and file is aimed at sup- that is to say, 744,000 which
regard to such problems as the pressing anti-Party moods which slightly but not significantly
size of agricultural deliveries, have cropped up here and there, lower than the 1938 figure.
the amount of taxation and the and at carrying further the de The Jewish population in Bri-
private allo Stalinisation right to posSTA Lain
13
than many smaller
ELIrd ments of
privately-owned ideological flek people Imagine 450,000,
tattle, whom 280,000
Greater London. Children attend State KNOW one vlear whose parish schools, but go to their syna-
HAVE no doubt of his sincer- Hy, but I cannot help feeling that this sort of Bible-pounding Not that the adequacy of the This publicity boys rejoice in preacher is the sole factor gov- the fact that he destroys eight erning church attendance. Of a year) appeaks largely to the course not. Enlightened, el- limited-wits, the easily swayed quent cleries (and I can vouch and the already converted,
that there are some) find their greatest enemy is apathy.
No, the sort of chap 1 have in mind is the late Peter Mar- shall, Many people here have 50CM that fine Bim. "A Man Called Peter.”
means
A trickle
at
200 cast the church
adult
ore in
As a re-
49
process in the
"Mistakes"
One could also visualise that opposing the leading Ideology of dialectical material-
the latest The editorial in ism-those millions of Russian
Isrue of Party Life, an organ of churchgoers--would like to give the Soviet Communist Centrua their support to a party other Committee, indientes, however, than the Communist, Many that the recent upheavals in the menibers of the
Party throw a shadow even on dustrial proletariat
ariat might pre- the forthcoming indoctrination {er 10 have a workers'
participants party compaign.
no be
bext paying heed
class and lanning
A faithful record it is and the now includes some thickly gogues out of school hours, per-people
estates. down-to-earth eloquence, power, populated now
In the hops three times a week, for forest of new religious instruction. and personal magnetism of this depths of one Scots mindster, who wore a council houses there is a brand sult many take Hebrew
tle in the pulpit
and new church. Here there are 40 General Certificate of Education reached about a Christ who baptisms each month. which subject,
had heard of a certain fall- was a real. vivid, manly char-
attendances amoog acter. Allod tho fashionable, entering
monthly, ing off in
but here rathir stuffy New York Avenue most of them for the first time, the adult members,
that the Church in Washington.
A good field for pastoral work, again I was assured
did and so
synagogues are as full as ever. Only a few months ago 1 saw thought the vicar,
For what figures are worth. the congregation streaming out his curates, "Alas, not one comes of the new church which has back-until the next baby ar- the Church of Scotland had to be built to cope with the rives," the vicar told me sadly, byterian) is said to be 1,250,000
Baptists It was packed crowds.
Sunday schools are thriving, strong. to the doors:
Congregationalists and ii was
there a young, but
title doubt 336,000, the tremendously vital
that the desire of parents for a 227,000, the Presbyterian (Cal- congregs-
bit of pence is
than vinistic Methodist Church likely explanation of the large Wales 211,000, and the Society of
Friends (Qualcers) 20,000, gatherings.
tion.
Not long ago I went to a big parish church in the south of England. That was full, too, and
was singing, the singing sheepish mumbling.
is
# more
There is a perhaps surprising not development I have come across
more than once-the increasing
NOTABLE NEW
the
Soviet
which could act independently with
have the
without
to
the
Spokant fr
(Preto/the wachich have such a History
claim
Tomorrow: The Two-Year Conscription Gap
MILLIONAIRES
AMERICAN NEWS from JAMES COOPER
in
desigive say in the Soviet Com- mut Party.
3
"Short
of the
Camminist
of
The was rejected becaus
substanti doblets
of the ext
cobbomy has
However, the population of the Soviet Union is it only spil vertically into ardal and not yet appeared. The new idealogical categories, so textbooks on Party histor, and hoshontally Into varius the fountains of Marxist- athmic groups. Here, too, thère Leninist ophy ore only;
be much sco for a a just bring/
Footy system. If it
Algunch Express!
of
fun in the
“So in its gingtipi - singes, the
munter partida Com-awarty chod year, end
2 Anti-Party
Whether the dogma about the
fade. New York Her son Ivan lived next door began to
The budgetary of the Soyt Deton
quortloped on expily the line OUR people living in and Sylvia further along the surplus is expected to be only
can Fast Bist Street, New road,
$700 million.
tainty. But that it is goestioried apologetic treatinca on
York's Harley Street, have become dollar millionaires.
EVANGELIST Billy Graham
New York's passengers public transport system is ex-Carryin
M, explains his biggest worry. TILL" trying to lure more § lajit only confirmed by the "I've prayed more for perimenting with air-condition- als by 176 so-called
New York's teenage gangs. Ho
says:
They are the children of three of the four marriages New York than any other city of Mrs Alice Astor Pleydoll in the world." Bouverte, who inherited the basis of her fortune from her father, Colonel John
the Titanic.
+
ed buses, costing $25,000 each. If a success, 100 of them will be ordered.
public
ferences to Party frame of mind Party members,
Among
that
The last complaint to effect was
contained article in Pravda Ukrainy, the central organ of the Ukraindan Communia Party, pubilendon July 31, This article spoke of anti-Communist : pro- penetrating ful the Soviet
Union sed exercising admitted abo shook the child influence on certain bacicward
Astor, when he went down SAM SHEPPARD, aged 32,
who is serving a life sen- VIRGINIA JASPERS, 33-year- tence for the murder of his wife old baby'e nurse, who la Marilyn has asked the U.S. dit, tall and welche 17st. 12b.. But under the terms or her Supreme Court to reverse the confessed to police in New estimated $8,000,000 wilt, her conviction on the grounds that Haven, Connecticut: "Children four husband all divorced
publicity denied him a felr sometimes get on my nerves." get nothing,
Her confension follows tho Those who do are Mr Ivan
it had His lawyer alleged Obolensky and Mrs Sylvin. Ven been a trial by newspapers death of an 11-day-old girl. She Der Meerzch, the children of Radio and TV too had In- her marriage to Prince Serge fluenced judge and jury, he vicently when she refused to Soviet people. From the con
take her feed. Police and text, it was clear: that much Obolensky in 1924; Romana, the ankh
checking her story that three backward people were included daughter of her marriage, to
Dr Sheppard, was accused of other Bubies who rough-handled Austrian author Raimund von bludgeoning his wife to death had died,
even in the Communist Party Hofmannatahl In 1933,
sald the article
· 14- because she objected to his pq war w
no right 2 Communist had no year-old Emily, daughter of her 1940 marriage escorts Brush affairs with other women,
DEMANDED for convlets: A to be silent & vieme wer Journalist Philp Harding, jagave draman
· Bilt dë Righim. The Ameri- expressed at Party meetings Correctional Association which had nothing in dommon
with the Panty's polley [attempt") rid-Party crit
ond
Romana, Bhut her hatt-kintor NUT COSTS, the Governan Emily lived with their mother ment fold pal' its agencies eys the Bill should include the up to her death, at 54, in July - es hopes of a tax cut next year 'right to decent surroundings.
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