The American Election Campaign_Is Beginning To Roar Out Of Control

THE POINT OF NO RETURN

By ALEXANDER BROAD

Washington. Reserve Board has been raising Amserlen elretion is interest rates. campaign is

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rather

like an avalanche: il starts out at a sedate respectable pace

Money is getting lighter, But the situation is pleasant enough If you hove

little

and

capital:

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pears to be going in a the- finable direction; them, quite suddenly and unpredictably. it roars out of control.

This one

with just an month to go before pulling day has Just reached it- point of no return,

From now on candidifes, political pundits, and even }ptol}s「ཟུef:4 will

horne forth by forces seemingly quite beyond their control. in a manner possibly quita alien to their infurma, and to a goal which, at 180 moment, no man run prediet.

What, for instance, as 11 ration 111 1 malo of Richard Nixon's promise of 11 four-day week for the innes

How any government can ensure eh a this a mau can tel Amt just Why # Republican government shouldh fa mor likely to bring about such 11 Thing that a Detumerable pover ment maust remain tite f the mysteries of

universi

Another Pledge

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RE

J. Dund t n. the R pizh jean Party pledged tral

interfere with the free workings of The "free enterprise" <*. tem. If this means any thing, it means specifleally. that the Republican Party WTH HO do anything like forcing a four-day week!

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House builders ure offering free memberships to the local country clubs, free dog kennela. baby minding serviges--every- thing in fact except free houses.

to lure the customers.

Some of the giveaways Jock like the Arst step te economIVIC chaos

Grocery for instruice, after fren Vo

cleaners while

maker. varium cleaner free grocOFIEA

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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER `` 6, 1956.

* EXCUSE ME, COULD YOU

TELL ME WHERE IS THE HOTEL NEW-CONSTITUTION- OF-LIBERTY >"

tolonial Prostung

HOLIDAY SEASON AT CYPRUS

World Copyright by arrangement with the Manchester Guardian

THE COMMONWEALTH

T

IN A

SHRINKING WORLD

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COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM

THE

{TER detunion »t 1926 membership? The question be put other way. was part of a bong may statement. The een- Granted that there is room tral phrases were for Republics within the followed by This:

partnership: grunted that

formula

the

alone wonid

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Mole Can because they are Commonwealth

uf people

tilzens.

many

Eizenship 800 180,000 races and religions.

Despite what the Kaiser and Hier may have anticipated, the Commonwealth has stood together in two World Wars, Its inly does not always take the expert or that

form that

This has

great influcoce

the making of policy. Of course the eight Commonwealth partners devize their sovereign foreign

policies chiefly to meet their own

natonal needs and problems. These eight equntries form - dependent and distinct policis but they do it in a ferhion that reveals * commun

approach.

This happens not because there

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is a citrat Oovamment or Super Ferelyn Secretary for the whole set of naticas, di happen e bocaue they all bese their nolielus on common dlarta,

WORLD SYSTEM

A foreigner attempting the President of India is

understanal to

in protocol equal to the character of the British President of the 'nited all would wish. In recent years Empire by the aid of This States or the Queen of New however. Commonwealth coun- Zealand but nonetheless ac. tries took the lead in bringing And what un earth J

Indo-China, and the world owes we to make of Adlai Steven tempted to think that it was cepts the Queen as Head of to an end wars in Korea and devised rather to make the Commonwealth 14 son's pledge that a Demo

it to them that nuclear conflict interference mutand

im there any reason why a

dd orke from Dien Bina cratic government

will e

ninke foreign monarchy or foreign hu or the Formosa Straits. to it that the old are so well; possible

Ilie has been able to antier- Taken care of that they will mutual co-operation easy... republic so minded should

stand and to interpret the mind tendency towards not do the same? far able to maintain

Their The

Peking Canada is the Com- equality of status was both The real question is not arvustoned standard

monwealth's interpreter to the living" in their years of right and inevitable Geu whether this could happen rulers of

Different Commonwealth other com- but whether it should. graphical anul

Albania, were free of Soviet retirement"

bers perform different diplomate domination il would suli ditions made this impossible

roles. if Canada and India are be unable to match the wite the Commonwealth's wing three- and information of the Unit admirable to

Ex! quarters their diplomacy may be have a tender; federation. The only alter-

States Bul New Zealand, hy

many anid to be co-ordinated by the whore population is concern for the nick. And Voj native

of THERE have been

114 bigger doult

can do that very thing. She can endeavours to organise a hall-buck in London. The resull oldi every

person autonomy; and along this

Is a Commonwealth diplomacy draw

on the

Commonwealth's could, ** shouki, he road it has been steadily peaceful international

distinct from that of America entire FETOUTES experience The Every self-govern- ciety.

League and of the Communist bloc. and information und she

can was at one time

oblida the advice of any or all ing member of the Empire Nations

now the muster of its thought to have failed be

Const become

Now, 1201 doubt, il is of attainment by way of POWER BLOCS

guaranteed a decent stand-{ snight. ard of vin.

WIN

way

of

Bat "pecustomed" First of all

st of all destiny. In fact, if at in cause it lacked teeth. When there BFC The bums Bowery

is subject to "weruslained" form, it whose standard

of lying is not re-compulsion whatever.' commended. Then there are the

The British Empire..

those were proposed for the United Nations the Great Powers saw that they must

very rich who may have spent depends essentially, if not secure themselves against

their furtunes lavishly and ber

formally, on positive ideais. one another; the teeth were Free institutions

its blunted by a Veto. The

left with muthing al da

IN Mr Steven90}} ALOH

make good their 'nevustonie standard of living?"

to

Is its Instrument.

re

What be mentis Ls that he security and progress are would like to guarantee every- ene a standard of living higher among its objecin."

than the lowest, lower than the

histicat, and gonewtem with the VITAL DECISION demands of human dignity.

These are only samples of the khel thing now going on.

WHAT

The United States. I small country. May

mem-

The Commonwealth is a world grouping dedicated to accepted principles. It is associated it not by constitution at least by convention. CITIZENSHIP

ESPITE the claims of the on- thusiasts, there is no special Sanctity In international,

Was

of her partners.

As the Guid

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an independent state, Commen wealth partnership will provide her with odvice and help and Informatico

which would be denied to a Bulgaria freed from Soviet control. Yet the two are about the same size in terms of population

| 1feblood. Free co-operation movement towards Western pposed to national, Institutions, Consider the Suda. Could she

Peace, European unity has been Therz

nothing magical not take her place in the world. the Covenant of The and demonstrate the fulness of greatly to the credit of its about

Lengue of Nations. There is hier self - dotermfisation more promoters and can be fully c

nothing maggical about the effectively and confidently as a harmonised with the in- Charter of the United Naticaia Commonwealth partner? terests of Great Britain and which, despite great funds and

In other words, the fren asso- world-wide the Commonwealth.

has ciation of communities of Com- propaganda, Lailed

which is the to win the allegiance of monwealth citizens, Was declared in But the over-riding reality the peoples. The Commonwealth Commonwealth of Nations 10-

ayeletn 1926 and repeated in the in our present world is the

has a spirit which has day, contains the secde of a cluded the great

much

which advertised world stem for Tammany Hall decision made on the status existence

'middle Powers"

DITS craving. of India in 1949 is of vital power blocs. The ordinary organs of internationalism.

Its basis is common citizen- That the world is contracting is

This Stevenson has suddenly been importance. It was no mere citizen might, like Field-

citizenship ship.

tya

That commmplace. the endemic rhetorical flourish when the Marshal Smuts in 1943, usk no means equal in every part of weapons transported from

hive artzihilated grove, in which he vegetated to 1949 statement said that himself how long these two the Commonwealth. It means tance, and concentrated power defeal in the last election, down these eight partners were Golinths can be held in more in the United Kingdom, a platfudo. The speed of selonti- to the back streets of the Prefreely co-operating in the leash and may, like Smute, whiêré sny Commonwealth citizen fle adymce is frightening, thoral the may stand for Parliament after fibre and social organisation lag

domicile, tilan

bentho the march. of invention. There It is often argued that the groat

clans of Tammany Hall.

he is thriving for the moment; but he is reminiscent of the Jamed

Yugoslav

pursul of

peace. liberty

draw

of two

from courage

abort A

In the

the

now

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philosopher and progress.' It was almost existence of the Common- Unibai bf South Africa Houst slobo itself has become too amali who took valiant part in the word for word what had wealth of Nations.

Serbian defence Bahrst the been recorded in 1926: STOOD TOGETHER Germana but afterwards could Peace, security and pro only remember that he worked out a marvellous theory greas are among its objects.'

had

of space and the during the The Commonwealth battle.

Eisenhower, on the other

Hitical Limbo much favoured by citizens "aate.incn" where all the

ants plaistuala.

are grobations. Arbi of Commond is a cast in point, to contato separate systems and One of the Members of the that the danger of nuclear

LEFT HAVE SOMETHING SPECIĀLI

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