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Gordon Donaldson
Rothesay, Isle of Bute. WHILE bagpipes today
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walled #1 lament for their dead father, twin brothers-only 15 minutes apart in age--turned to face amazingly different futures.
Brother John, married with one baby girl, succeeds to the Marquessate of Bulg. 12 other titles, and a vust tangled fortune of millions.
Brother David, a bachelor, and given the title "Lord” only by courtesy, went back to his humble life us a farm student and his hobby > fishing.
And now the villagers of
Bute are arguing? which
brother would you 10?
rather
Werd
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When the Twinne bora, 23 years ago and quarter of att hotar apert only a twist of bine ribbon on his finger distinguished John Crichton-Stuart, heir, from his brother.
the
Together they were bap fisat in The silver ARKI crystal font, brought down
to Festidon from Bute.
IN THE ARMY
Together,
Ther
played on The craggy ele while their grandfather put up burbed-wire
foneos
to
prevent the County t'ouncil
from building roads.
Together they joined thei
Anal then came the parting of their way
While their
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THE CHÍNA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1986.
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The Chinese man in the street is almost extinct. Opinions that do emerge are convenient combination of official pronouncements and shrewd deduction. Yet what the people in Red China think about their government, about Chiang Kai-shek, the United States, the United Nations and of the Russians is important from his to know. Here a top flight correspondent who has just returned
impressions
third
J
trip
into
the
-
country
in
two
years
sums
up
his
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tage ho strongly
temporary expediency Afle 04 opinions
which time will resolve such the
Ming remnants held out United All,
end they fathered and were sup- presed
I never gels much further than: "We know the people of the United States are our friends. Only a small elique of war- monger wishes to destroy us."
It But the feeling is there, my get a greater hance of ex-
ኒክ፡- press Jon
authorities have deerved that all schools of
contend
Now
State, the Chinese Nationalists there for 30 years. but in the trought may public, qualified,
prepinliers
mathers vilad
and the United Nations. His own patriotism is the emotional
from which arguments originate.
Chinese man in the street is almost ex tinet. He WHEN never a potent forer overwhelmed always by Army to do their Natiound the politicians, the
auregids what he is told be- double-talk Army, A
is no alternative Service.
hornet peasant cantan
Cost informatiuft masses. He represented only
Come to possess a short-wave the rit dweller small
Foreign publications are minority of the nation, banked Contacts with foreigners father, the botter informed than most, s" the official mucouragement, ven when the foreigners are atf to -
and Russhamp
ather mostis Afth Marquess he died but ofte
of freals nged 49 weuvend his
Opissons that de emerge are of combination
and pronouncements
Noi very. government says in heurte indoctrinated.
sophusti- more gimented and titted, some paled
Icanned tes
But they Limess painfully. inte A between the lines. strange
pattern of know better than to talk about sariety
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ther nwn linenice
Counse
kilts and smoked Woodbines | events. He has been over- a battered tin box. laken now, embraces? atui front John stuched estate manage-{iliseipfined lay ment, and thevid breaine pewsant revolution. interested in farming
burgh and
Nobody yet knows The Bute full worth of the fortune-lawyers in Edin-
London.
HOW
working it
job will take
oul, expect the
three months
-but it has been estimated
ut £60,000,000,
unt
FW
the vast eral
He has bewd desuelton
thing the
The have
A Patriot
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Together
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Not What the ti 347994
would be particularly critical of his government even It has restoreri if he dare</ the economy, held down flees with fair sievess, and instituted!
!,
It
when he sees $24**
fuctories.
some
trode the
and The
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A Soapbox
his
ADMISSION to the third Na-
considered to be junt preognition of
new China's
It is also nce in the world the entry to an important world forton, where China's point of view gan, get a proper hearing. The Chinese have the same ap- as tursia to the UN. proach They regard it as a convenient Ruajbox Perhaps they have esen les beller in its efficacy.
US
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The Nationals are a subject Chinese talking. that sets the They know they are safe; they know they have flattering com~
It to make.
could be otherwise. Eight with Japan bled The collapse tha! followed the perce wasn't all
parisons parise hardly
years of wat
China white,
more
means.
was
No War
All schools i Alteady, however, I have been advised that closer study must made of efficient American production methods. Quite an advance 01 anything anyone starod to say a year ago.
The Russians
fork.
foreigners
the Nationalists' fault. Not by THE United States has one ap-
Kussions partly parent, asset--the any brought about by the Chinese They have supplanted Americans Communist pressure leading up as the predominant to the civil war.
in China They are nowhere bear so popular Reverence 1s Complaints, though, are fre-
technical for their Mostly they expressed
but the Chinese are queat and hilter.
the currency re- wizardry. are against
reforms, forme of 1048
still conservative enough to ex- These
The un- than anything else, are peet something more.
to have
correct the with manners (though Cont Didn't The United Nations believed
Nationalists the support of the conducts of the elder brothers" in Korea?"
sniggers behind their an industring drive that promises tinck
No use explain- jak
Certainly the lead to middle classes. Chine patriot, pait Chua among the mighty often asked.
One of the stories now going It includes 117,000 neres primarily
Every ing that this was the first UN iniquities of the reformers, in- bucks.
round: 13 of ↑ Russian new buildings, police action against Communist cluding Chiang Kai-shek's eldest
arc recounted over and the castle in Spain, | vager to see ha anclent, civilised ations of the world, #L
the feet again after
The Chinese simply
a Chinese runways, aggression
invited to dinner In un The failure of Inked in System of trusts 10 years of humiliations.
but over uga in that anyone that oner were talked about, don't believe
"Imperia
economy always robs a public household. At tost, after an Western-style meal, and limited companies sethe personally objets to
never bull. The hired Japanese the vaguely named
of confidence in its government, elaborate Ists" faunched the Korean war. tand come
cigar was pro- up to avoid crippling death of the Red mandarin's methods,
ite us who he holds his posice.
The Chinese have long lost con- one tra ured indignation against Patriotle
The Russian to wondering
Adence in the ability of the duerd on a plate. duties,
Burned that we enough in the pendient
Formosan Peking.
representa- ok in continered olher
poured on the salud The UN also undermines Nationalists to administer honest promptly tion on treat China with
ate it with knife and Between £3,500,000 and past six yours
But the Chines man in the perimists
condence in the organisation. and efficient government. They oll and new respect. duties street $4,000,000 in death
say so, constantly, is no longer a sounding
The United States has one The i The then are the forces that People to whom I tulit conno! understand how a amali invest-
disastrous drawback-Formosa will leave most of the for- hourd of public opinion.
more of a mirror, reflecting the mould the man in the street's
ed Island can continue to speak
Even the most liberal-minded tune intact.
orientation of the vast state pro- opinions in Communist China,
Chinese condemns support of paganda machine. He general- The ballyhoo and the imported for China.
the Nationalists on Formosa, DEOPLE to whom I ordkeri all PEOPLE
How
would the United States the country have liked it, I um often asked, proudly to the great works of if the British had protected and construction.
subsidised a refugee Confederate It is not certain that
"Could the Nationalists have government in Puerto Rico long the collapse of the presentatives of the various UN done that?" they ask, "All they after bodies would be welcome
Southern armits? in ever did was talk about it."
Wasn't there Ching.
Russia stems to steer Useless to argue that they enough fuss over the Alabama clear of them; the Chinese never had much chance.
incident? would probably follow suit. But
A simplification, of course. "They didn't have : in them," spoločnmen would be available is the invariable reply,
But
in the heat of the cold war at in plenty to say their picco Festoration of a Nationalist there have been many simpli- every posible meeting.
The ordinary Chinese only come about fcations, regline could
has been told the Nationallats One thing about which the today by rebellon or war. Chinese man in the street is There is not the sligtest sign of are being groomed for a come. adamant-China must not enter rebellion-despite the optimistic back behind the U.S. Marines. the UN on any terms less than reports which get circulated He tends to believe it, Aren't these the Nationalists enjoy to outside China--and there is no American-trainca apies being
Who is to launch dropped constantly Into China? day. It's a suit on the Security sign of war, Council, vols and all. The it? Chiang Kai-shek with his aging army? The United States? government view is identical.
The Chinese man in the street
war,
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ANXIOUS LOOKS IN DETROIT
AS NEW MODELS APPEAR
By ALEXANDER BROAD
Washington. eight of every ten Ameri
It still remains true that you can't go to town in a bathtub, but nobody is now days even tempted to try.
EIGHT. IN TEN
Almost everyone
and those who do not own
These lle very low
10
the industry could fra
ever to go
"If that's the way the United Nations is managed, it can't be much good." remarked a Muk- den factory foreman. Hls view is widely shared.
even
A Twinkle
The Nationalists does not want wer does
If he eventually grows to detest THE best way to draw a glim-
J
his Communist overlords,
the
Now something can go wrong S long ago na 1927, cun families now has a car in Detroit very easily.
The continuing prosperity of there were more cars and one family in ten has the industry depends upon the than bathtubs In the more than one.
Atility of the car makers to con- Heemk vince the rest of the public that United States. An investi- gator, hot on the trail of to be rich enough to own a they should buy a new car al this car v. bathtub problem, car (44 percent of unskill most every your and certainly every two or three years at the them), mort. Inquired of a farmer's wife ed labourers have as to why she had a car but
mer of real friendship for be no bathtub and was told cars appear to be those who way of making a car that would
America from the ordinary "you can't go to town in a have decided that they don't drop dead quietly and harmless-
ly on the roadside after a year No matter what formun : cause that would mean war.
N. nations may be thinking up
is to mention World in Chinose like the things.
The best thing, he feels, bathtub."
two's normal driving, all
for future United Nations scs- and would be well.
churia. ckons, China will accept nothing for the Nationalists to join in War II. Particularly in Man-
great reconstruction ΟΙ do not speak to investign-
WAKING UP
Soviet memorials in every big minus a few marked the But the funny thing about that alights her national dignity. China, tors lest they arouse
Security figures who could conveniently city celebrate the eight-day Russian intervention. One in curiosity of the Un-Ameri- the automobile is that, if it is Substitution on the
A Changchun actually carries the at all well and Council or modification of the disappear elsewhere. can Activities Commlites.
veto Apart from the fact that mfely, it must be built so that o powers' will be resisted klang factory director put 10 names of six dirmen..
and greeted with me this w WBY: "Chiang Kai-shek
"Killed on a training flight, I A U.S. nowa, magazino all this adds up to a nation siderable tim
storm of Chinese protest has sill a chance to prove his Rumia will win more friends, patriotism. He can dissolve his suppose." sold.my Headpan has calculated that, at the
on wheela, hustling wildly So Insidious campaigns must without expending a penny, wind and leave us all to
to live guide, moment, there are onough about and getting horribly be that it is low-class, than an unpleasant memory i
Celebrations were held the bo launched to convince
The Nationalists are no mora: în unity and perco”-- car automobiles in the country in each others'
The Chinese man in the street August to mark the feat of way, the
unpatriotic and to provide a sent for every altuation
intrinsically the Chinese man in the street is more friendly towards the Japan. The US was never men has serious evil to drive an old car.
than his rulers tioned; apparently, Rums and the American man, woman and
There are signs tint, after unki of them at all, it is win), United State economic implications.
him tshuckitz To
would How it appear. He re- Chinese Cominunate did all the
Eten
the much-con child and leave plenty of
starvation members the tolerance of the fighting.
· room, over for the whole po... The, auto, iiludry consumes 20 yoɑrg of this, troni-Natiorialists mean
publia is beginning toʻ corruption, spiraning Indation Open Door Polley, the wartime demned Hiroshima A-Bone got the well-meant though no publicity Manchurian at one ill-dil-disciplined trbot support, pulation of Britain and Italy to oupu, poccasitates the ex This week, on the now models government "query" and wastedt postwar
Taskod Tho de well.
penditure of four billion dollars began to roll in Detroit, Where Tories.
United Blates in cuplett as an Ortho
the cocktail partier “why Whether or not that is a year on highways--and dieet- wero anxious look on the
The National
Nationalists are through H-Bomb ogre in the propaganda Hussla trats come into the Japaik quite trus (it seems to do ly or threetly creates ono malog Bad which untious They have det the Mandale of cartooth, thus the ordinary ese warge Hawoiced, at Joe With
Ho the suspicion of a twinkles pond on how crowded you American Job in soven
Tools on the facts of the goven-Helgen; Like all other fallen" Chinewolde knows Botter..
"Tony" Thust Have-needed fa So, when 3-domething, "Roeg fllow your automobilós), it is.
with the wind. Their survival-lities; burnt wven - mxpressed a dustrial minory," he saidh indred true that Just under) wrote in Detroit, the nation It's momiats Washing dynasties they have vanished read quite clearly belerson Ho
regarded cautious, unorthodox opinion
nearly a quarter of ilio nation's
apt to drop 1516'd' dlžky spin,
It will
up
well for o con-
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