THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, JULY 18, 1901.
To join or not to join, that
is the question'
IN the long years that. I have lived
in London it is hard to remember a time when the course of events was SO con- fused. Nor is this confusion centred only upon London. It
Writes Sir Beverley
Baxter in his
London newsletter
I do not want le finger too
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almosphere of spreated girom but the pre-
spreads to foreign et malaise in the stree of offairs as well as to the Commonwealth,
It may seem strange to include the Press and the theatre but in those two spheres we see the same confusion of pur- pose. Fleet Street has been known as the Street of Adventure but today it is the Street
make up the Commonwealth would find a barrier between them and the United dom.
King-
Moonbeams
1t calls to may mind a talk i when he had with Ribbentrop was German Ambassador to Lon- don In the tragic months before the war. At the climax of our conversailon, he uttered a tirade which entled with the words: "What holds yonu Empire ta- gether? Moonbeams, nothing but muonbeams!”
payer le regarded as a sign of That Title pond which we call the Channel, would open the strength.
gates to the developing market of the Continent. Therefore why should we allow sentiment to play any part in coming to u spread decision? trition For A United
Western Europe majority of
would be a mighty barrier to erilfes bear the Western Theatre anses of Mittel Faro origin, viet.
thrust of the So- Surely this is a moment Tity are a crude and cruel lot when realism must be given pre- their getal cities of a play romanticism. without wit or style. In
It is still there." brief ference to sentimentalism und conid be
m-adventure bas to the dramatic
Iden
inks,"
reason the
rondlegged to:
Banned
Useful
I agree that ties have change ed since 1914 and 1939 when the Empire and the Commonwealth rallied so splendidly to Britain in the wars against the Kaiser's Germany and Hiller's Germany, Admittedly the threat of war on a large scale has been reduced by the intervention of atomic development.
Al at the theatre producers of Misadventure. In fact could stand in longer and banned stof the lights are going out the red a
24- nights. 1 rities for first one by one.
je nevnt when I read the good new is goed to think that these critics will have to zeek
It is not to be wondered
up one such truftil activity Then should we regard the
more suitable to their qualities.
Now let us trave theatre
Land and turn to more im. partant things. Prime Minister
Macmillan could not be less
that Harold Macmillan has ployment in mending: roads become a political Hamlet wondering and wondering in
world of confusion, You may remember that not very long ago such newspapers
as the London Evening 51 the Sunday Graphic int the Empire Nows foloed their tents and quietly passed away, And now it is arunced by the Dally Mail group that the Sun- day Dispatel has erased pulm licution. The only humur af light is in U net that the Daily Telegraph recently pens duced the Sunday Telegraph as a new adventure.
Commonwealth as a useful trad-
Te which I made the reply: "Your Excellenry, chains can be broken but when you out mnenbeam what have you eu!"
He flushed agrily and then bald that his next appointmeat was at hand and he must ask me to go. Long afterwards in the passing of the fateful years of war I saw him sentenced to death at Nuremberg. He had so disintegrated as a human being that he seemed without physic at mental or moral strength an the American guards helped him us he stumbled from the scene.
The spirit
What brought Hitler's Ger- many to defeat and disaster?
Queen is the hereditary ruler of ton of the British nation which
EUROPEAN FOOTBALL
CLUB
RULES:
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He says he wants to join-on his own terms.
London Express So
Labour and the public
WHAT an extraor- dinary example
ing combine and nothing more? Basically and spiritually it was of concentrated It is true that Her Majesty the there and the deed fuddy - duddyism is provided by the latest Labour Party pronouncement the public schools!
Britain, Canada, Australia, New held the line alone when France like Hamlet than any man alive yel he clothed in as st exist, but should we sians fought bravely and sas- thought and reverie. "To join eliminate sentiment and argite tained terrible castmities but in or noi to join. that is the that we would be nothing more the end it was the spirit that question." In other words than trading countries ready to a vistory the spirit of Should Britalu join the Com- expand or withdraw according the British faintly of Nations. num Market?
Zealand and also such colonies had fallen, Certainly the Rus-
The
individual advantage
which presents itself?
Freedom
Do you wonder that we in B+Staf hesitate to euler Europe and cease to be an is land? And do you wonder that
hesitate before we sell our Commonwealth fraternity
for the lure of a market which
In the Tones Inte Wils Toy and Madalin M.Puiging a letter signed by a group of
the Government not to join the Common Market unless it had the approval of the Commun wealth Governments. Anong the En- group was the name of your
tion. Gra London correspondent-in other
But what does this exception wount against the grim total of casualties which include the London Evening Star, the pire News, the Stinday phle and now the Sunday
patch,
Dis- words myself.
Statement
It is not
without
that ford Beaverbrook remains
Hi
One dis not think of Ens land as a great agricultural na- tion, met is it, yet agriculture is the largest indistry in the UK, Wind will happen to the British Farmer if his market is opened
Sacrifice
in the House of Coustuons wa have what is known
Bs "The
Smoke Room." Here we gather,
Socialists. alike, and while we deeree the hours in which the people can drink beer or spirits we have no such restrictions. As long as the House is sitting, which some- tins lasts to the faint streaks of dawo. we can enjoy such
Liberals and Tories
I only mention that because
might weaken the spirit that has played se splendid a role in the struggle for elvilira-.
QUOTE
by Ed. Murrow, director
of
the US. Infomination Agency:-
ан
wide to the surplus wheat pro-liquid refreshment as pleases us. interest duction of Western Europe?
many of us regard the Common-TE only thing to do so far wealth in sorething of the same are concerned is to give them foreign correspondents terms. We have our own com-
maxinum facilities and access to radeship in the nations of the the maximum amount of infor- Commonwealth and there are no
mation. What they write is restrictions. We have a common their own aftalt. loyalty, a common philosophy,
a common unity. We are a chiờ.
M indestructiide Fuck. Daily Express, Sunday Express and London Evening Standard hot only survive but ther strength with the years.
Viscount Kolbetery,
Mail chairman of the Daily group, insured a statement last week in the following terms:-
"The closing of the Sunday Dispatch is an unfortunate necessity
with comparable closures of other recent na- tlonal dally or Sunday newne papers. It is a sad event for all those who eliber work on the Sunday Dispatch or are connected wißi il. So far as the group In concerned this sicp will strengthen the com- pany. I continues the process of consolidation which has bren going on for 12 months,”
Let us look at the facts. If the surplus wheat of Europe is to be England whai dumped into chance has the British farmer to survive? Admittedly such an
in which the nations of the Cam-193
o.n
schools - how
to go about
By Derek Marks
not
it
simply from the narrow educk- tional standpoint the average public school is superior. It simply teaches boys better, and that is thal."
"SUPERIOR”
Here they are all set to "integrate" the public schools into the state system, but,
say the party leaders, “it would be wrong at this stage to
because their lay down
fathers body is not Socialism so much detailed merely
are wealthy, or old boys, or as Nihilism gene, mad.. blue-print for the future both." Here we are getting near
Jie suggested that each year The real educational problem there should be drawn up a role of the public the hub of the problem. is not the position of the public pool of entrants for the public
chools but the salaries, status,, schools. schools."
numbers and qualifications of "EUTH secondary modern eachers available to bring all school in the country, every our schools up to the standards lateral school and comprehen- of the best ones.
sive school and every private
a
Notwithstanding this hesitancy they do, in fact, lay down some possible uses.
'PURGED'
INFLUENCE
While it is true that most f the bigger schools have tightened up their scholastic re- quirements to such a point that
If the abolition of the public preparatory school would have schools would do anything to its quota to contribute to the deal with this it would certain pool."""
agreement would open the gates monwealth have freedom to Join Newland Park Teachers Train-enry, others could be used for schools as such. They are very real problem starts to become education.
of the Continent to our manu- facturers but we cannot afford to sacrifice the farmers.
For one thing the British ngrleulturali is by tempera- ment a Conservative. There- fore if we open the home market to the surplus wheat production of Western Europe we, the Turles. will be charged with sacrificing
or withdraw,
Me Justice
ing College, Chalfont St. Giles, the But what kind of a club Buckinghamshire, at the would it be if anybody and end;- everybody could join? That may o lawyer ever reads a book seem a strange question at the quotes from it. is not without substance,
large degree. the agricul-
turalist for the industrialist. Truly there is a quality of fronte tragedy when the death Just what about the gain that sentence où yet another news- the industrialist would enjoy!
reasons
In the end common son.eu must win this battle. graduate, There is so much to be done
have my support. But it is Mr Crosland stipulated Q in child gaining admission de- irrelevant h the main issue. minimum of 75 per cent freo serves higher education, there Once again the wrong end of entry. They could be turned
inta pre undoubtedly still cases of the silck has been firmly The Crosland plan is just purely "sixth form schoots" or family influence
grasped. and wealth
one example of how the great versme secondary
When it is considered that in advantages of the public schools boarding seruring a place that would not the state system there are only chools for children "whose otherwise be available.
can be preserved, while at the parents circuras lances
make
*me 63,010 But these to
graduate teachers same time an end is made to seem to be Baker at this type of education neces ressons for abolishing the pubile teachers, the magnitude of the valent to
against 295.000 certificated what in its worst forms is equi- the caste system in higher education uf
the good
for overhauling apparent week- 185-21 and so on,
the system of entry to ensure Victually every teacher at n Now 1wo reasons
that the are ad- bank book,
size of the parental publie schoul is a vanced for virtually wiplog out have nothing whatever
and colour of tle with the obvious exceptions In to improve our schools, so much the public schools as we know
to do such things as art and carpen- desperate leeway to bo mado them today: one is that they with
child's educational try.
up that the Luddite approach The requirement 15 surely cannot triumph. That is what I would con- that the doors of those schools sider a revolutionary approach that have already reached the to the problem.
highest standards should be opened only to those who will weapon with which to en- benefit most.
sure that a steady flow of Indeed, this was the argu- teachers of the finest ment advanced in the Commons quality is produced recently by Mr Gaskell's close schools of all types. friend and adviser, で An- thony Crosland.
that is the country's basic Mr Crosland told the Com- educational need. mons: "I am sure that judged
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Australla and New Zealand by Canon Angus Inglis, Ree-need to be "purged of their
the advantage have
of dis-tor of St Peter's Church, Not- privilege" and the other that tance and can thus retain their Independence
tingham, In his parish of action to
maga. their faciles could then be zine!-
better employed to the benefit But once the United Kingdom makes com- WE sill spend more money of the nation as a whole, mon cause wilb
In England Western
on budgerigar It is clear beyond all doubt Europe it might well be that seed than on the Church over-
that great. unit largely un- the far flung Dominions which seas.
justified, privileges do all at- inch to the public schools.
But that in itself is no reason for abolishing them
The Labour
future.
IRRELEVANT
For in the public schoola we have to hand the finest
for And
-(London Express Service).
Chicken for breakfast
To destroy something which even its opponents admit to be should be abolished only if they it cannot be shared by every- They largely effective merely because ure falling down on their job.
leaders say: "The quality of the so-called public schools varies widely. Some are outstanding by any standard, Most of them are Food, but certainly no better than the best of our state secondary schools, while in a few of them the sixth forms are so poor that they can pro- vide no help in solving the country's educational problem."
That seems to state a clear case for bringing all secondary
schools up to the standard of
the best, but not a very strong argument
pabllo schools as such.
owing out the
vardelick of membership of the Taking the normally accepted Headmasters' Conference there are 117 pubile schools with 45.000 boys.
COMPETITION
According
to Str David Eccles, the Minister of Educa tlon, this means that ale boys
-in the cause of science
By PETER FAIRLEY
Every me wo cut a Ruger some of our platelets break up to liberale a substanco called
IFTY Londoners are forgoing normal break it. This forms a web and fast to eat platefuls of cold chicken, rice and stops the flaw of blood. Research then butter-in the cause of medical science. The into llombosis has been con- purpose: to give doctors a clearer idea of what absin and the now, on this
causes thrombosis.
the
The specially - prepared meals are being eaten in Modical Research Laboratory of Charing Cross Hospital.
Volunteern are first given
rich
protein-seven
in every 100 between the ones garnished with tomato. of 13 and 18 who are recolving
secondary education do so at a The next week they must eat # carbohydrate meal-rice,
public school.
TELL ME
DOCTOR
It
centrated, undi
meclianism by
which it is formed.
Now It is known that BEFORE brin is released the platelets chump together to form thrombus, or "lving clot." The Abrin appears to be a secondary effect.
at
a
So it becomes vital to look a stage farther back in the process
the platelets themselves, ounces of cold breast of chicken, question: do some types of food
What makes them go "sticky"" and clung together? What causer them to build up in a make blood clot more canlly?
masa, finally blocking on artery Can our eating habits, make rutne of us more
or vein in unhealthy people? prone to a
Are they affected by "coronary" tian others? tetma possible.
excess of protein, fut or síurch after a meal, or after years of Blood is made up of millions badly-balanced dieting? of red cells, while cells
Or is and the surrounding plasma falling some much smaller components to wash the platelets properly called platelets. The whole lot and keep them moving around. are washed through the body by the blood, veneist, plasma. It is the tiny plutelets which are the targets of the evidence.
The tests should provide claar Charing Cross research group.
-London Expran Service).
1 in common knowledge that bugar, peaches, orange julee. despite ever rising fees the In the third week à dish of competition for airy duto these thickly-buttered cracker biscuits school is greater than ever, so and double cream is set in front It seem foronaviy clear that of them.
the vast majority are not fall- Before feeding--and three ing down on their jobs
hours. Intera sample of each The Labour, statement de volunteers blood is taken for clarve that at publie pohoolsetailed analysis. For the doo "many of the boys are share/tors are trying to dinsyren Yala