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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1947.
Every Wednesday in the Telegraph:
Sitting on Fence
T was Budget day before the facts were known and rumours of a shilling on income tax, cigarettes at Bix shillings for 20 and whisky at five shillings and nip flying all round the country.
were
A wild south-westerly wind rattled the windows of the Sen Neat. The haddock for break- fast turned out to be smoked cod with no flavour to it but h salty wetness and the tang of grade C margarine.
by NATHANIEL GUBBINS
the
The more he thought about ro ring to his room the more attrac- tive the idea became..
In any
ot case, as it took him Your Uncle Net' was slowly re- least half an hour to make one covering from what he believed to be cigarette and 20 minutes ty choke result, chain smoking by his Inst evening of mild revelry. And over the Lettle, the devil cat, who has consent this method would ocupy his entire all ed to live with us sitice Inst July, waking life to the exclusion of was biting your Uncle's ankles, hoping other activities, apart from eating. It would rouse him to throw the ping-
It was when Lottle, the devil eat, pong ball down the stairs once more.
Angers, The post that morning had produc- fascinated by his moving
flew
cigarette-making at the ed nothing but bills and a dirty letter, machine and scattered the tobacco along. It would give him a water- from Mr Bloodsucker, the income-tax all over the floor, that he collector.
Have it up.
Your Uncle Nat's life partner, The Plucky Little Woman, was moving furniture from one room to another- sure sign that a crisis was at hand.
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question occupying your Uncle's mind was what sort of a life would he be leading after the. six o'clock news when details of the Autumn Budget would be announc- ed?
Would he, for instance, have to become a non-smoker?
If income tax went up and the price of cigarettes went up, too, it seemed quite probable.
Or, what seemed even more prob- able, the P.L.. would have to be
a non-smoker. In which case Come i
nerves might go to pleves and her nobody would be allowed to sit la n chair for five minutes before he was pushed out of it and the chair push- ed into another room.
In order to avoid a domestle situa- tion so uncomfortable, two cigarette making machines were bought, one for the PL.W, and one for your
Uncle.
The P.L.W. gave
up almost once, but your Uncle persevered in his plodding way, carefully reading the instructions, especially the bil a cigarette in
about how to make the dark.
Renounce the world?
A Puritan in principle, if not in practice, he night never. have touched a drink in all his life but for the disability already mention ed and a couple of world wars.
with Christmas Also,
coming
As a matter of fact, your Uncle
I always dragged into this furni ture removal business, ED much so that he has often thought of buying himself a balze apron."
For a little while he refuses have anything to do with it.
to
After all, why should he? Ho docan't want the furniture pushed around. He thinks It looks very nlee where it in.
But after a while fie can't bear to think of her struggling alone at her senseless occupation, breathing | hard through her nose, tier face flushed with the exertion, and on her fate the expression which says plainly enough: "Here am I Q weak little woman doing all work while a great, hulking man dozes in his chair.”
This
So the great, hulking man has to go, cursing, into the fray.
OTTIE, the devil cat, has" also finally tight excuse to avoid all Christmas caught the atmosphere of ten-
WOULD Your Uncle have to be
come a teetotaler? Already high income tax and the increased cost of spirits had made life a hand-to-mouth affair in more senses than one.
There was little left for the ralny day people .gro always worrying about.
parties.
No more paper caps. No more forced galely. No more Boxing Days.
No more silent protestis against the celebration of such an event with a distasteful mixture of Chris- tian devotion and pagan gluttony.
sion.
Born March,
There he would remain in his room while the world about him washing-up water...
made merry.
lost any
FOCKET CARTOON
by OSBERT LANCASTER
**1 gather that they'ṛa two of the most highly-paid Nomen in the whole Soviet Foreign Office."
BY THE
WAY
not the to any
during the Ides of she is madder than liverish March hard. Her favourite
sports by Beachcomber playing squash with plug-pong are lated by your bills, the four patient Uncle, upset-THE almost universal, criti
cism of the staggering of ung lower vases, and tearing nows-
schedules has forced C. Suct, papers to pieces.
Her favourite diet is cake and Esq., to take what is called, in bureaucratic circles, action. He During the morning your Uncle ins tan distracted by Budget made up his mind to find out If the revellers broke in upon his rumours to play with her for more why, in the words of a leading article, "The staggering of faces, than ten minutes. solitude with their flushed thelt loud
glittering voices, their
Three times he had tolled up and schedules has made with down the passage dragging a plece slightest difference A little more on income tax, a eyes, he would slience them jittle more
on spirits would make his grave, pitying smile and make of string behind him.
the schedule." shame Three times he had thrown all the difference between leading a them hang their heads in
Mme Zaphrema was hastily sum- limited social life and
ping-pong ball down stairs, and, in
below, moned. Putting on her pointed hat, the world altogether.
by answer to her howls from
plastered with the had brought it up again.
signs of When he was sick of the whole Zodiac. she drew rhombold in red your business (Would the Budget turn
and was feeling
her rather chalk, rubbed wild garlle on fool anyway, Lottie hud her re-legs, coughed twice, and
then dis closed the fact that the schedules In half a dozen wild rushes, slid-have only been staggered on paper.
The ing on all fours, she swept every-!
whole thing has been an ting off his desk on to the floor. academie exercise, Much has been One Then she found his spare glasses, written. but nothing done. "This," remarks, tossed them in the air, pounced on as the Financial Echo
"gives food for thought." wind them and broke them.
After that she tore the Daily Mall heard. to shreds before your Uncle Could Ahoy
the read, made a paper tunnel out of On The Times, and, from this ambush,! tackling made soriles at your Uncle's
renouncing with a calm, steady glance from his
own eyes, cleared and cleansed
Beer could not be consumed be- abstinence. cause of its disgusting flavour. Wine had been banned because of gout.
chance Moreover, there was no
of saving money on the PL.W.
Unlike your. Uncle, who finds the human race intolerable unless he is slightly anaesthetised. the PLW. can talk happily and wittily to any body on a cup of tea.
Uncle into a prig Hke that?)
I
Zero hour
was about five o'clock.
hour to go.
Above the howling of the
the noise of heavy furniture bilng over boards could be The P.L.W., worked up by thought of purchase tax Christmas presents, was the big stuff.
venge.
No more than a few shillings a
rum- nt
turning week would be saved by the P.L.W. into a teetotaler.
Therefore the problem to drink or not to drink had to be faced.
By six o'clock your Uncle would know whether he would be able to trial and error be renched the con- mix with people any more OF clusion that he would! find it whether he would be obliged to re- difficult enough in the glare of a tire to his room for ever and read searchlight, let alone the dark. good books.
After about an hour's effort of
to shift the piano.
POLITICAL NEWSFRONT. y WJ BROWN_M.P.
Gravesend-and
after...
and
Six o'clock
inter-
the
over
the
One of those girls who hang about shoe the ports, to waylay sailors.
(Morning paper). laces.
Students of journalism and poli-THE double ports, usually. Which This meant that your Uncle would ties may be interested to know that reminds me of the
audacious have to go down and lend a hand she usually picks on the Daily Mail hussy who wayfuld an Admiral. before she broke her back
"fancy trying the
she said, for destruction before all other "Why, Admiro?,"
here." "I don't think newspapers, the only possible ex-meeting you plantation for her prejudice being I've had the pleasure" began the that she was born in a Left-wing Admiral. "You will, Admiral, you family.
will," said the girl. ""Didn't you serve with me in the old Insufor able?"
Ad- "Hardly likely," said the
were you doing So when there were two or three miral, "What
minutes to go before the news there?" "Laundress," said the girl was fead and your Uncle was biting "You kissed me at the manglo." his nails listening to the
"I think there is some mistake," minable Children's Hour, and the said the Admiral coldly, moving The timing has been determined by exhausted P.L.W. was relaxing with way. "Perhaps you're right," said the Marshall Pinn. I hope help come to stricken Europe from what might be her last cigarette, the girl. "I see a Captain
chose devil cat,
this Lottle, the
there who served with me In America, the Communist murch
old Damnabic." will be halted.
Therefore Stalin moment to dive head Aest into
large flower
upset
it and spill Inrge UR bodies are at West- survival of
democracy than even must strike before it comes. He is water and Bowers all over the ear-I discovered Tolstoy minster, but our thoughts the Hitler regime did in 1935,
striking in Paris and Milan.
pet and the PLW. The one
not thing that must are elsewhere-on Gravesend;
followed CAN settle with the greatest of In the conclusion that We misconceive the whole nature
there ease the question raised in emerge from this conference in fur- of the situation in France and Italy we managed to hear that on the Conference of Foreign ther delay. With the Russians if Ministers--on-the-events-in-possible, without them if necessary, unless we see it as part of the wider would be no increase in income tax, article about Tolstoy's first publish- increuse- in the price. of ed piece of writing. When I was we must go ahead with the job of battle, the battle for Europe.
cigarettes, only a small increase in running the old Rochdale rebuilding Europe. For if we
the price of beer and spirits.
vers I sent him to cover the Surrey On any showing the Gravesend don't, ere long there will be nothing
We were so elated that N. Gub- v. Hampshire match at result is n remarkable one. After left to rebuild.
The battle cry varies with each bins, Esq., presented the P.L.W. That was his first step on the road two and a half years of Socialist
called into nction. The with an almost full packet of gas- to fame. rule, at a time when the population ment with
What are the prospects of agree- class
Party simul- pers.
Prednost: Are you sure you mean French Communist the Russians? is suffering considerable hardships opinion, none whatever."
In my
taneously urges the town proletariat The P.LW. promised not to move Tolstoy? and is threatened with more, in a
week. Lottie, Myself: Are you sure I don't? where the constituency
To Bevia, Germany is a problem. to rise against high prices, and the any furniture for a Socialist
peasantry to rise against low prices the devil cat, was given a piece of forces had been deeply shaken by To Stalin, it is one element in
herring Venetian footballer expulsion of the previous Mem- much larger problem the problem for their food products. No con- cake, her second grilled
washing-up
in chimney ber, and further shaken by Dr Dai- of conquering all Europe for Com- tradiction, however great, is burk that day, and all the
THLES Bevin -wants
ed, provided only that it causes water she could drink. ton's tragic Indiscretion, Labour has munism,
social disorder and makes ordered out- held a seat of a kind in which it settlement. Stalin does not.
मै * night have been expected to
Therefore there will be no settle. Government impossible. The ment, for while one can make come is doubtful, in France and in most vulnerable.
GUBBINS, N
Esq., even disagreement, it takes two to agree. Italy. If these countries succumb,
shall see the Bevin is prepared to spend months then we
Russians N. sented to take part in Christ- on this conference. Marshall wants move into Greece, the pincers ap-mas festivities, his only stipulation E was one of the straws which Acland's qualities as a candidate to get back to Washington in ten piled to Turkey, and the
squeeze account for a good deal. But this doys or so.
put upon Persia. result is not wholly or even mainly a "personal" one. Each side threw
France.
n
n
I'm with Marshall on this. Ten suffice to all it had into the struggle, and its days-or two-should significancer cannot be minimised. make it plain whether there is any
hope or not.
Two things stand out a mile.
The first is that in this straight fight between a Socialist and a Tory, the Liberal vote has not gone Tory. The second is that, sorely tried as they are, the majority of the electorate do not regard Con- servatism as a tolerable alternative to Socialist rule.
Marshall forces
the pace. DURING the two years of post-
The Communist penetration
And
have
DOTH in France and in Italy the D Communists are in a minority. however, to They have censed, think in terms of Parliamentary
Com- majorities. Tline is too short. They Russians one can govern, except the war deadlock, the
play for a situation in which no have gone steadily ahead with their
munists.
their principal plans. By a combination of military weapon is the control they and economic pressure on the established, by intrigue and pene hand, and the use of the unist tration, over so many of the trade Columns-the local Communist
ve unions. Partles on the other, they have established the Communist Police If they win, it will not be long THE conference of Foreign Minis- State all over Eastern Europe, before Stalin is telling us in Britain ters must this time mean "make. while the West has either looked how the Government must be rC~ or break."
order not to be re- silently on, or sent pathetic pro- constructed For two years, because of the tests against the tnore.. flagrant-garded as “unfriendly" to Russia. failure of the Big Four to agree on murders which have been commit- In Britain the Communists are. anything that matters, Europe has led..
-electorally weak, even negligible.
Russia's threat to Europe
| slipped and slithered downhill. De- During what I forecast will be But here, too, the process of pene- cision has gone by default: And the deadlock in London, Stalin wiltrating the unions is proceeding during the default Russia has done go ahead with his plans for the re- rapidly. What is happening in precisely what she liked till now duetion of what remains of Europe, France, should be an everlasting she presents a bigger threat to the The Intention was never in doubt. warning to us,
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Smithers, being that Sir Waldron the great comedian of the Mother blowing," of Parliaments, should be invited Customs official, compressing his down to play the part of a funny finely moulded nostrils with fore- Christmas uncle.
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