"
HOXHA is
the
COLO
name
By SIDNEY SMITH
BOLONEL-GENERAL ENVER HOXHA (pronounced Hodja), the man behind the Albanian Communist Democratic Front, is above all others jubilant that Ruasin's veto saved Albania from condemnation by the Security Council in New York.
Primo Minister, Foreign Minister, Commander-in-Chief of the Army, Hoxha is leader of Albania's only political party.
*
In 1949- Hoxha, the partisan leader, was described, by a British officer parachuted into the mountains, us a man with "ambition, ability to lead and organise, cunning and insincere when needed, and with
mercy for political rivala."
Three years proved that report to be true.
A year ago the Democratic Front
swept to power, according to 31s, own
figures, by 470.000 votes to 30:000
"free" election. Today you could
nut And 300 open opponents of the Front in Albania.
"dis-
Those whom Hoxha invited to or-
so the election" ganise the
opposition. could be "free," have disappeared.
Shootings, hangings and oppearances" have been the order of the day, Britain and the US, 'have been branded the "nemies of de- mocracy" and "the dangerous reac tionaries planning the next world
!"
Patriots, note!
A few weeks ago the Government- ponsored Press--there is in other— Issued an offeinl warning: "A good Albanian patriot does not listen w the B.B.C.'
Earlier this year, when the British Military Missk loft Albania despair, there was a trial of Al-
"collaborators"
with the
Baris
British. Executions followed, and
the friends of the British were re- garded as rewarded in the same way as convicted friends of the Nazis.
The Government's satirical dally Hosteni is incomplete newspaper without crude, and often obscene. cartoons of British soldiers and Mythere Churchill.
Eighty percent of the country is till "off the map" for all foreigners except Russians and Yugo-Slavs,
In many of these areas the Al bankans are building large modern airfields which are scarcely justifed by the few string-and-wire aircraft the Government owns."
The
The Army
been
no
The Little Dictator
cen
UNRRA meials recently protested against Albania's shipinent of UNBIA supplies to Yaro-Stavia, and
have
other protests against the misuse of supplies.
An American Red Cross official was expelled curly this year because he was too insistent in his inquiries about the disposal of Red Cross ship- ments.
Union Jack goes
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, APRIL 19, 1947.
THE PARKERS
OLD ARMY CHUM
WHY THAT'S DODSON – AN
HELLO THERE' YOU ROTEN
TYPE
OH PARDOM ME — THOUGHT
YOU WERE SOMEONE
By BEVERLEY BAXTER, M.P.
by HODGES
It is still GREAT BRITAIN
A
LITTLE over a fortnight ago I was in the Ameri- can Mickle West and bought the Chicago Tribune and
dort wrote in his diary: "German partment. The new aste is waiting hak lost the war," and It was all over w be born.
fundred duys.
his
What would have happened to is if Churchill had whispered even to the Chicago Daily News to keep himself in 1910 that Britain was de- me company. The Tribune is teated? Victors remained alive in
heart although the incans owned by Colonel McCormick,
achieve it could not even be confer who Wears English clothes, turen. speaks with a deep, fruity Eng- lish accent, and hates Britain to the point of absurdity.
The Tribune, in its columns, de clared that Britain was now finished and would play the role of the pau per at the rich man's gutes.
The Chicago Daily News is owned by John Kuight, a true friend of this country, but in an article slined by himself that day he, too expressed the fear that we had entered into the twilight of the gods.
we are
As to the skill and character of our peoples there any nation more richly endowed * than ours: In the finest shops in Canuda and the USA, the trade-mark "Made in Britain" means "Thi is the best we can offer you."
In snow-bound Dritain
Sometimes, because of war match funder of exaggerating weariness and the barren husteri difficulties into disasters, of confus- ties of peace, we seem to have lost ing exasperation with frudration. We
our pride us Britons. We must recrente it.
re imagining the miscalculations of the Government to be the
collapse of leadership throughout the nation.
This is all wrong. The nationt is always stronger than any Govern- ment, just as tire people are greater than any one man in their midst.
Our decline in leadership is only to the extent that the people have sur- rendered authority and
look like Even those great newspapers the children, for guidance and disci New York Times and the New York pline to a centrallsed officialdom. Un- Herald-Tribune, which have so often, der the cry of a People's Government championed our cause, were. com-
the people have surrendered their menting on Britain's fate with al-
own authority. fectionate resignation.
But do these things mean that we have lost the power of recovery und that the bell should be rung to in dicate that no longer can John Bull his commitments" Is the Chicago Tribune right? Are the meet
moaners at home justified in their fomentations?
GREAT DAYS
WISH TO GO
with the thought that foreigners HOWEVER, 1 comforted myself have been writing off Britain at regular intervals since the Norman conquest, and that I would And John Bull and company
in good hear when I came home.
IN the last six months i have ense. IN Unhappily, that is not the
travelled thounds of miles in In Bri- There are a lot of people
Europe. Canada and the USA. I tain who have lost their confidence in
nud warm, happy have come back with tragic memor- les of Europe memories of North America, yel say with deep sheerity that it is in. Dritain that I want to live out my days, and it is in Britain that I want; my children to make their homes and their careers, Britain Is still! the best country in the world.
The great days of Britain are not behind her they are ahead. What Is the wealth of a country? Is it i
The gold? Is it in bank aules? materials and in the skill and charac- wealth of a country is in its raw
Until three months ago the Union the future of Britain and who speak only of their desire to seek comfort Jack always Bow over the little Briand security in some other land. Ush *military cemetery outside Men and women who have never and others whes hurdahip, Tirana. Albanian Army has
Now that has gone and the known cemetery is out of bounds for jave known Hitle else. are equally nanoeuvring there too, mestly in
bleak in their outlook. In the language It is an army foreigners.
the stock market, the south and east.
of of 120,000, one in ten of the popula
becoming tion, and it equipped every day as
Albanian parents are seeing their better children turned into little wooden far too many
there are
arrive from friendly Yugo-Slavia ***** soldiers in the new youth organisa-sell Britain Bears about ready to
tions which teach unquestioning obedience to the regime.
What has gone wrong? Is our existence so precarious that an un- And through the streets of Tirana, expected Aretic winter, a shortage of preceded and followed by tommy-cent and two months of industrini
Some of these supplies included the mines which blew up the English warkhips and were seen by Allied observers arriving at the port of Irazzo in a Yugo-Slav argo ship. Enver Hoxha in his limousine.
SIDE GLANCES
gun squads, goes handsome young/dislocation can bring down the nater of its people.
COPR, 1947 BY KEA BERVICE, INC. 3. M. REC. 17. %. PAT, DEF.
By Galbraith
I was impressed by her Mona Lisa expression, too, until
I found out that she just hasn't anything to say!”
Skeleton
CLUES ACROSS
4. Hàng up on
Christmas
EVO.
7. A latigh and
bobold,
saint
OLA.
the
has
B. Dasti 'out' at
the late
9. Cover for
Obristmas
k186.
13. The sort you
sind. Amonk
people.
16. Attéck in a gold braid
Uniforms.
18. A bottle of
Beoteh
the Thin ?
(two worda).
19. Ennnys
at
22. Visits to there would hardly
be outliga, murely,
Good King of carol.
story of a gas mixture. Holly.
Cards convey them at tile
54011.
CLUES DOWN {" Bummary without addition.
A number appear so, to me,
Pet of the cathedral,
Ohlidren play ou it but it's not quite pico. Prophet.
d. They gave the Drat Christiana
presents.
10. Keep up something of a’stigma
tion that stood impregnable against the armies of Napoleon, the Kalser and Hitler?
These are harsh things to endure after long years of war and a barren peace, but it is not in this way that a great country falis.
WHICH WAY?
NO great advance or decline in a
No
nation's destiny can take place until the seed of one or the other is planted in its spirit.
ሰና
"I
"I AM BRITISH’
# am
Monogamy For Indians Proposed
Reforms in the ancient Hindu law to abolish polygamy and to, raise the status of women are, contained in the proposed new code prepared for the Indian National Legislature...
The proposed code was prepared by the Hindu Law Committee under the direction of the Central As- sembly. It is intended to provide a uniform law for all Hindus in India Instead of relying on the mixed Inws and practices varying widely in the different sections.
"But we ore a small, Impover- ished country," say the pessimists. The are separate codes for Mos-
"We must accept facts and Mop lems, Parsis and Christians. regarding ourselves
work Christian code follows Western Cus Power with strong nations seeking our favours."
toms.
19
A
If we lack sycophants, do we lack
Some Roforms friends? The generous gifts of Australia and New Zealand, the Among the Hindu Jaw warmth of welcome shown to their proposed are: Majesties in South Africa, and the undying loyalty of Canada make us fortunate above all nuiluns.
prone to criticise and
The
reforms
1. To give daughters an inherent right to a portion of their father's
Amèrica, 100, ig our friend, property. They have none under the
even casti-existing law. igate, but deeply pnxious to maintain 2. To permit wives to
divorce husbands after five years' desertion. They have no such rights now.
the slength of Britain and the Empire.
Oneo more, in a noble liqulda-
of the past, France
3. To give either man or woman' And Britain are allies: nor do I believe the right of divorce for insulty or it Impossible that we Ciln make such cruelty as to render it unsafe Russia our friend as well.
for either party to live with the other.
VIS ROMANUS SUM" was the proudest boast of the Ancient Roman. It Is time that we Yo-
mude lon diguity which captured uur
mighty through the centuries. British citizen" should be our proudest boast.
The eyes of the world are on the the country. Isychologically, as goo- graphically and historically, we hold the vital central position be- tween the East and the West. That calls for strengths and wisdom, and we falter i our responsibility, then indeed forces may be unleashed that no mati can control.
if
benten
Is this the picture of a country? Is this the story of a 4. To guarantee inheritance rights people which is coming to ni end? to offsprings of interenste marriages.
All our past proclaims our future
those words still ring true 5. To make monogamy the rule across the frozen wastes of doubt. of law. God's blessing be on this beloved The Committee's recommendations island. Destiny created her, and are stili subject to extensive legislu-- destiny still needs her.
tive hearings/---Associated Press.
America's Children
WHAT THEY EAT, WHAT THEY
by
DRINK, WHAT THEY STUDY.
AND HOW THEY PLAY
SKENE .CATLING
But, say the pessimists, we have no raw materials save cont, and we
TOW do the day-to-day lives HOW cannot get enough of it. That, in- deed, is an urgent. problem, like the
of American children com. breaking of the line in a battle, and pare with those of children in the situation must be restored. At other lands.
the same time we should look to- wards the horizon
[Both often manage to do some of their "home work during this period.]
1.58-2.39: French, 2.42-3.22; Sucial studies.
THEY PLAY—
N Tuesdays and Thursdays Vir
gle plays volley ball (six a side, ting ball ever net) in the gymna sium, from 3.30-5 p.m.
Both are ready to help wash and. dry the dishes.
Virgle sometimes rung the vacuum Uttic. Tim round a room, dusts a takes the dog out at stratecie inter- vals.
Each receives 6s. a week as poet ways of ket money. Both have
outside adding to their income by work.
"sitter's eye.
Fifteen miles north of New The atomle age is at hand and we York City live Virginia ("Vir-
Virgie sometimes acts as a "İş- are fools to think of it only in terms
ter." That is, she spends an evening and Timothy ("Tim"), of war and destruction. I make this gia") prophecy: Atomic energy will bring both aged 14, in a middle-class
in a neighbour's house so that maid- less parents can go out for the even- vast new prosperity to Britain if home. They go to the. On Mondays, Wednesdays and Ing and leave pri Infant under the we give full support to our scientists Bronxville School in New York. Fridays, Tim plays basket ball (live When the Allied armies counter- and do not confine research to the
Like
a side) in the gym. attucked on August 8, 1918, Luden- plodding puce of a Government De-
almost all American
He plays American football (u schools it is co-educational, and kind of Rugger in armour), till the -the-children-are-always called-end-of-November, after which the along. He delivered newspapers for by their first names.
ground gets too hard. After basket a time, and Inst summer was pald ball he has a hot shower at school. 35. every Saturday for keeping
In the summer both play baseball neighbour's lawn mown and tidy. af school-Virgie plays with 2 softer ball than that used by the
MONTY STANDS UP
FOR SADIE
By CHAPMAN PINCHER
HELD-MARSHAL
MONT- member the tanks with the Bull's head sign on them?) They fought In the desert, in Italy and forced the Rhine defences.
GOMERY is having a tussle with Mr. John Wilmot over the fate of a War Office baby called Sadie.
girl.
Monty believes these men will pro- duce ideas valuable to the security of the nation and the Empire-idens which in the long run will save you money.
Mr Wilmot, the Minister of Sup- ply, wants Sadle liquidated. The field-marshal, who is Chief of the Imperial General Staff, would like But the Ministry of Supply off- to see her grow into a big healthy cials are suspicious of any depart- ment in competition with them and For Sadie-Specialised Armour outside their control. So the Civil Development Establishment, to give. Service Right to get Sadie closed by her full name is Monty's men tank the Treasury is on. research station. All other tank
worst the Ministry has been development is controlled by Mr able to du se far is knock the D out of Sadie. Jealous of its monopoly Wilmot.
Now Monly. with good reason, an Service research, it has forced regards himself as tank expert. Monty to alter his baby's name And the men in charge of Sadie are Sar. The word "development" is battle-experienced soldiers he has exclusive to the Ministry,
The fight goes on. chosen personally for their ability to Improvise. They are mainly men of
Coming soon the 70th Armouréd Division.. (Re-
LOOK out for an atomic. train. I
Crossword
In you TN the Skeleton Crossword you
11. Man to whom an artiäcial Umb
might be left?
12. It would naturally be holsted
by the Jacht,” Endeavour.",
13. Stick around.'
14. The spirit of Christmanna
10. The Old Testament Character
docan't sound bald to Dockney.
*
binek squares and clue numbers as well as solve the clues. To give you a start, four black munres and three clue numbers have been inserted,
K
The pattern of the black equates
190 armmetrical; the
siden balance, and the bottom half-ges decin the top bait.
A 'study of the clue numbers shows clint "24 Across" must be a nine-letter word, otherwise you cannot put 25 and 20 Down" in a balanced dreien. There must, therefore, be another, nino-letter word in the corresponding position in the third tine from the top.
Reasoning in this way you", con All in the black settares no 'you
BOLTO the clues. KELLOSURE, no
words of fewer than are used...
Fletters
LAST WEEK'S NOLUTION
MAN
17. Contents of a Christmas box OLDAGE
very likely.
- 20. Take me away, Madame |
21. The burglar gets away with it.
21. Is repented for a goddess.......
43. Sharter Christmas
25. To miss it would spoil the act,
20, Make a sklifül beginning,
to
will not be driven by uranium, but it will show you how trains of the future might run on atomic
power:
Organised by the Atomic Scientists' Association, the "ain will be a tre- velling exhibitic of atomic energy. It will spend 14 months, standing few days in the main station of each town, on its circuit of Britain. Ob- ject of the exhibition is to dispel a little of the intense public hatred of the atom.
Quick work
FOUR Government scientists are
to fly nearly 12,000 miles to curry out experiments for the Admiralty which will last less than Jour minutes.
Led by Dr John. A. Carroll, they are going to Brazil to study a total eclipse of the sun; visible only in the Southern Hemisphere.
They will spend six weeks putting up telescopes and other heavy equip ment nt Araxo, 300 miles north- west of Rio de Janeiro.
Then on May 20, for the three minutes 51 seconds In which the eclipse will be total, the scientists photograpli · ́and, study, the corona-n while halo round the sun, This trip is for pure research. But the odds are that some discoveries of eventual utility value will-bo inicio.
They are in the Ninth Grade, average age 14.
Here is their daily round. day to Friday (inclusive);~
7.30 a.m... Get un.
8
... Breakfast.
8.30
Mon-
.... School begins. 12.10 p.m..... Morning school
12.30.
ends.
1.10
3.22
6.15
10
Lunch.
Afternoon school, School ends. Dinter.
.... Bed. (Partics, make it half an hour or so later. THEY STUDY- ALGEBRA.
FRENCH (or Latin).
ENGLISH tarammar, compost-
Hon and literature).
SCIENCE ( this grade it's
SOMALd the five senses).
boys. Both swim in club pool. Tim plays
tennis and Virgie rides horse hired by the hour.
Dinner is a hot meal at home, and usually goes like this:-
feat
Potators
Vegetables
Salad Paulding Brill
the
Both Virgle and Tim raid family fridge ("frig.") at odd umes, extract upples and glasses of milk- of which they drink great quanti- Lies.
WEEK-ENDS
VIRGIE and Tim rise at D a.m, ne
For this Virgle is paid about half a crown an hour.
Tim takes on any job that comes
:
THEIR ROOMS
Take a look at their hame:
rooms
VIRGIE'S-Bright
colours.
She curtains.
A
il
chose her awn window bedspread, the flowered wall-paper. the woolly rug. By her bed is portable radio.
On her bookshelf there are comic Twain anthology, books, a Mark two mystery novels, Anderson's
Talcs. "Now We Are Six,
book entitled
by
A. A. Milne,
horse.
1
"Just Jennifer." a story about #
On her dressing table ure hairpins and curlers, a jar. of medicated eream, lipstick, and a tube of glue later on Saturdays, and have 11
with which she is trying to prevent full holiday in front of thern. In her bobbysox from sliding down suminer they are mostly out of doors, STUDIES (history and playing games, motoring. sailing, geography-with the emphasis fishing, swimming.
They probably spend SA Americas).
the after SINGING.
toon or evening at the local cinema, On Sundays Virgle, who is a Roman Catholic, attends Mass from 3.45 nm. to 9.45. Tim goes to Pro- testant Sunday-school from 0.45 am, to 10.45.
on the
EXPLORATORY: For boys, one of the following-Art, woodwork, metal crafts, typing, news (writing for the school paper). For girls: Art, woodwork, metal crafts, typ. ing, news, child-care (looking after a child in the kindergarten), home or economies (namely, cooking).
ADVISORY preparation andt reading under the adviser, or.class teacher),
TIMETABLE
Here is a specimen week-day:
8 am: Breakfast-cereal, two boiled eggs, buttered logst, nitik.
8.30-8.35: School roll cali, known
"Attendance." 8.38-0.18: Algebra.
"Don't you ever do arithme- I asked Virginia. "Not this year,"
she
said. "And there's of it in algebra."} ple1-10.44: Exploratory
Timothy, whose father is commercial artist, takes art: he
tien
draws,
n't
paints, makes modcl houses or figures of clay. Virgie, whose father is
doctor, takes charge of a "brat" in the kinder garten: she does "child-care."']
10.47-11.27: English. Both read "David Copperfield." 11.30-12.10 p.m.;
Selence. Lunch may be taken, at home, in the school cafetoria, or in
a, local drug store. It usunily consists of sandwiches, with glass of milk and fruit or cake.
1.10-113: School "attendance." 1.1-1.50; Advisory.
"
over her ankles.
TIM'S-Walls covered with maps and
pictures of warplanes. His bookshelf contains books chiefly de- voted to sports and bunting wild animals. In one corner there is tank of guppies.
On the floor-a model airplane (broken), a tennis racket (bust) and an American football (punctur-
About three-quarters of an hour ed). on Sunday evening la spent on home On his writing desk aro a pile of work, But the periodic "tests" magazines, scrapbooks, stamp al- (exams,) Involve as much as three bum. drawing books, crayons,' or even four hours' work at Kome pencils, the previous evening.
+
THE GANG MEET
AND NOW - CLOTHES Saturday, and/or Sunday evenings THAT do they wear? are often spent, with "the gang."
Half a dozen children, boys and girls, assemble in the house or flat of parents (who obligingly evacuate the living-room for them) and talk loud- ly, play 'cards, drink soft drinks, eat. biscuits, listen to gramophone or radio.
VIRGIE For school, a sult or skirt and sweater. In the sum- mer, o dirndl and blouse, or cotton frock-and moccasins.
[Out of school, in summer time, she wears the same rig no that favoured by Tim; Jeans-blue sailcloth trousers with eight poć- Virgle prefers dance musle: Tim
kets and a shirt, worn with the likes
boogie-woogle,
A drug They may congregate.in
tails hanging outside-like a Ben- store. Favourite orders are
(lemon LEMON-LIME COKE
school or out, In
BLIIT!" and lime SUTUDI with coca-cola). mer, Time wears the jeans and shirt above. In FROSTED CHOCOLATE (milk, combination described
ho ice cream and chocolate syrup).
wears tweed jacket and STRAWBERRY SODA
winter cold he wears States Navy type of Jacket, flared, fleece-lined, weather
heavy over-shoes.). Neither wears a hat. Every so often there is, at schoot"
party or at a private residence, a
"formala" must be worn, which
Tim, on these occasions, wears a dark suit, white soft shirt and bow tle. Virginia puts on en evening frock, which reaches down to the fidor.
winter, (soda flannel bags. strawberry : syrup and strawberry ice),
water,
They eat plentifully--and look as If they do.
PERSONAL
VINGIE'S" "family lives in a house:
Tim's in an apartment (flat). Both give a hand with the house work. Both make their own bed before breakfast.
at