THE WAR IDEAS
FIRST & MAIN DEFENCE
THE DEVOTIONA
OF THE MASSES
TO SOCIAL
DEMOCRACY
"NO ALLIES OF MINE"
Worst Constit By artekoemani with Epeaine StandOP
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1948.
Pushover
Wlaginot Line"
neos crypto-, and nag-Tag-and-bobtail
Fascists
£250,000
It Costs That To Hang A Nuremberg Criminal
By BETTY KNOX
NUREMBERGO. VTHAT. is it that goes around the world three times, is 15 miles high, weighs 2,000,000lb, has cost upwards of £0 millions, and has resulted in the deaths of 18 people up to now?
..The
Not an atom bomb, not a new jet aeroplane....T answer is the
· Laid page the war crimen trials.
the documents used at Nurem berg would to three times
around the globe (they totalled 1,300,830 pages in the last year alone). Sincked on top of each other, the paper tower would reach 15 miles Into Western Europe's troubled skies.
What has it
it cost to get 30 death sentences on German war criminals of whom 17 have thus far been executed? Goering Ten men were hanged at Nuremberg: committed suleide: and seven men were hanged at Landsberg-where 18 other condemned men, history's most expensive crimiants, await execution in the prison where Hitler wrote Meli Kampf.
At this stage of inventory-taking.
calculate that
It has cost the American and British taxpoyer an average
of £250,000 for each war criminal hanged up to date.
THE SALARIES Salaries alone for non-German civilians at the In- ternational Military Tribunal totalled £205,500-plus And since the IMT the £150,000 for many personnel, non-Cerman salary payroll for the 12 subsequent trials udds up to £1,275,000.
The Church's Stand On
Marriage
HERE is only one point in which the Report in the Encyclical letter of the Lambeth Conference held 1930
recently differs from the
meeting; where it discusses Marriage and Divorce.
And Divorce
BY DR W. R. INGE
the
ducees. The Pharisees ask whether true; but in this one case, as Bishop others hava sald, He divorce is allowable on any grounds, Gore and The Sadducees ask jeeringly how speaks as a legislator. inarriage can be observed in
Pharisees world to come. To the He answers that marriage, as UT- nined by God, is indissoluble. In
exception Mark and Luke no named: In Matthew an exception is The word translated fornica-
made.
they were 'capital sing.' These catalogues of sins do not satisfy us; in none of them does crucity hold
a place.
The
carly Christian legislated with
ferocity
emperors
adul-
in
praised
against sexual offences. Under Constantine an adulteress was sentenced to death, ted but the penally might be commuted to banishment. The paramour was to be beheaded if a freeman, burnt Eighteen years ago the deci-
In speaking of the New Testament alive if a slave Theodosius the sion was that persons who have married during the lifetime of
I ought perhaps to mention the story Great actual found that
being confined taken in adultery, teresses were of the woman Is a former partner should be ex-
which in our Bibles la incorporated houses of ill fame. He is communicated, but that this
in the Gospel of St John, to which for putting a stop to this practice. very Justinian, in the sixth century, rc- It is a it does not belong. sentence might be relaxed on
carly and rather beautiful story, peated the death penalty, and shut appeal to a bishop in favour of tion covers any unchaste conduct. the innocent party. Now the Is the Church bound by the stric- which hovered half in and half out up the guilty wife for life in a con-
of the Canon, evidently because It vent.
quarters. guilty party who has repented fer version, as given by Mark and
gave offence in rigorous Luke? Scholars are almost un-
remembered that the of his or her sin' may be ad- animous that the exception was not It must be
Mosaic death penalty, mentioned mitted to communion by per- spoken by Christ, but was added 29 mission of the bishop.
expressing what the early Church, by accusers, had not for a long or part of it, believed to have been time been inflicted in Palestine. What is the meaning of 're- His meaning.
Can pentance'? woman who is still technically living in sin' be said to have repented? This is not made
clear.
a man or
Lax Views
them
that Moses
In the early Church the attitude. towards sex was, to say the least of it, unsympathetle.
But that is not all. Far from t There must be added the preparatory expenses for the trial-expenses that There were certainly not amall. must also be added the enormous
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"housekeeping" have been
records are
long ago. Hundreds of thousands of slips have been thrown away, or lost, or never made out at all.
Among the missing the itemised figures of special funds" (expense accounts for top officials for entertainment, travel, household supplies, etc.). One item that accountants are trying to run down is a £0,000 Persian rug re- portedly bought in Paris to embellish one VIP billet.
Recorded IMT expenses on the books for housekeeping, apart from the missing items, which accountants are trying to track down, have now reached the £750,000 mark.
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divorce by mutual consent remain- [where between £1,500,000 und £2. CLEAR HEADS CALL FOR ed in force by clvil law till the timeousekeeping expenses' for the
of Justialan Under Theodosius I
a wife might divorce her husband trials since the IMT remain in the for adultery, treason, homleide, for-
cinss, "deep secret"
But Budget Fiscal branch officials agree that.
Even in the gery, robbery, attempts on her life, and out at three or four times
be
SOME of the Rabbis held very lax New Testament those seem to
view about divorce. Our Lord commended who live continently tells
allowed for the kingdom of heaven's sake'; divorce only because of the hardness Luke adds wife to those whorn the
hearts. From the be- disciple
the must 'hate'; in of men's ginning it was not so.
Apocalypse the procession of the deemed are those who are not de- filed with women,
they are-
that virgins'; St Paul only allows
is better to marry than to burn.'
for
introducing Immoral women Into the they house, and common assault. A hus- band might divorce his wife for any of the above causes, and for going to a theatre without permission, and for. mixed bathing.
the salary figure. This brings the between "subsequent" bill up to
£3,750,000 and £4,000,000. It may be that the Con-
Take one item for example: des-'| ference had in mind those
pile considerable free labour, the But of course, some have argued, numerous cases in which the
The Protestant Reformers · were
cost of repairing and refurnishing generally in thinking of adultery;
favour husband is quite innocent, but He was not
of allowing the Palace of Justice for the trials is have cost around has thought it chivalrous to that obviously breaks the marriage
divorce for cruelty and prolonged estimated to bond. Churchmen have always dif-
desertion, and of allowing TC- £250,000. allow his wife to divorce him fered on this question: the Roman
marriage after divorce. In the
While Nuremberg is supposed to rather than charge her with teaching is that in cases of unfaith- This, rlgorism went much fugther United States there is no be paid for, eventually, out of occu-
In South adultery. There are said to be fulness He meant to sanction separa- after the first century, some here- uniformity.
Carolina pation costs, nobody here seriously sects forbade cal.
marriage divorce is not permitted; In Dakota believes that the Germans will ever. women who live by assisting in this. I believe, was not thought of mitogether. It is therefore not sur- it is granted on almost any pre-pay this bill. At the moment the these acts of collusion and per- at the time.
prising that "adultery, was ranked
text.
American taxpayer is the direct jury.
with murder as the worst of the
loser, but indirectly, the British tax- deadly sins.
payer-sharing Bizonia's occupation costs is also the loser, even though are strictly an the post-IMT triala American affair.
Losing Battle THERE is no doubt that the
Churches are fighting
a
Josing battle on this question. In 1871 there were in England and "Wales 166 dissolutions of marriage. In 1920 there were 3,090. In 1939 there were -6,982. In 1940 there were 33,555. The two wars mani- festly helped the increase. Other causes are the increased facilities available to poor people, the extension of divorec cases to the local assizes, and the Act of 1923 which relieved the wife from the necessity of proving cruelty.
contributory But these are only
revolt, cnuses. There has been a even, In the opinion of many,
Christian moral revolt, against the Jaw of marriage.
Д
Marriage is now widely regarded as a purely individual affair, as a civil contract which is no longer "binding when its terms have become unwelcome. Why, It is asked, should the happiness of two people be destroyed
have because they made a mistake in a matter where mistakes are very easily made?
St Paul, if he wrote the to the Ephesians, compares the re-
Epistle
tion without leave to remarry; but
our
Others have pleaded that Lord never legislated; He only laid down principles, sometimes, as in turn the other cheek' In hyperboli
For these offences no reconcilia-
cal language. This is generally tion with the Church was allowed,
(Dean Inge continues ils examina- tion of this question in Monday's Telegraph)
I had to leave Cairo
to send this story
KYRENIA, Cyprus. EPORTING from Egypt is rather like the carnival game of tying a message on to a gas-filled balloon. You hand it in and hope that some- one, somewhere, will let you. know it has landed safely."
But there is no fun in this game only fury, as you wait and wonder, (A) whether the censor has "kill- ed the message allogether, or (B) whether he has allowed through a tatiered scrap which arrives as น meaningless jumble
office on an desk in London,
For Egypt, Alushed by victory real от imagined, has applied
lation of husband and wife to the blanket-fashion the rules of British
between Christ and 珪珠 Church, to two cats lied together security during the last war,ritish by the talls a good symbol of that es to the astonishing lengths of union? May not loveless intimacy forbidding the Egyptian Press be regarded as an offence against Carry the daily temperature-as purity even more than a transfer of it were anything but hot. affection?
to
Own
In addition, Egypt has her overriding rules of internal and ex- ternal political censorship.
•
Public Opinion
It is the only country I have visited which today maintains THIS is not the only case in which "blind" Censorship-so that thero
publle opinion is setting aside is no check whatsoever as to what. traditional Christian ethics. Family news, if any, is allowed out. limitation in now practised with a It is not that reports are being clear conscience. There is a growing sent from the Egyptian front, for moventent for legalising euthanasia.
neither foreign
nor Egyptian The pecullar difficulty In which
journalists have yet been accepted the Churches are placed when deal-
as war correspondents. ing with this question is duo to the fact that Christ is said to "hava legislated explicitly in favour of the doctrine that marriage is indis- soluble,
There are three relevant 'passages. In the Sermon on the Mount,
He
So I have come to Cyprus to send home this report on Egypt no censor there would have passed.
THE MOB
by PETER DUFFIELD
other
the
The problem
of Palestine,
оп of problem
independent sovereign State conducting its first war, is Egypt's major preoccupation today. The two leading phoblas
the unity of the Nile Valley and
the Anglo- question of rewriting
now, Egyptian treaty-are
Apart from occasional hysterical leader writing, largely in abeyance.
But the young, newly free, polit!- Men and women "pale-skins" are From his window he sees
adolescent State of Egypt- street enlly shops follow suit, trafle melting, familiar with all the latest.
external stunts. First, there is the always eager to And an pedestrians scattering for the shel- rist ter of buildings....
shoeshine trick. The shoeshine boy scapegoat for its own Internal faults
urchin who han pleked on its minorities. Small mobs of Egyptians in long is a small and griny cotton robes are gathering the un- stares contemptuously at your feet
Yet, even here there are you speakable "anti-trouser brigade on and shouts: "Shoeshine."
for the look-out, on the bent-up,
walk on he is liable to shout of contradictions: "Yehud!" (Jew), and within seconds anyone of lighter skin than theirs.
a mob is on you,
man who walking..
They know, too, the sidles up while you are "Excuse me sir," he says in excellent English, "It I were you I wouldn't go walking today-especially down looks those side streets. There is trouble motionless-students, you know,"
There is a sudden commotion. A huddle of men around a European, a fail of blows, cries of pain, a arrival-more or less whistle, the late of white-uniformed police.
The man from Britain helplessly down at the figure on the pavement. He knows It this goes on he will not be able
lunch. He to get back for,
tele- phones an apology to his wife, and reminds her of the caution he gave that morning at breakfast: be ve careful; don't go out
THE WOMEN
AND THEN..
OR moment it sounds a friend- FB women, sou on a comes
the wheedling suggestion of back- sheesh. You pay up-or the trouble comes soon enough, To these characters the life of white- akinned realdent in brown-skinned approximately two Cairo is worth shillings.
THE wife's shopping, her queue
ying her jockeying at the market for unlimited eggs at half a crown for half a dozen is done by her
That was
what mine was worth servant, a man she proclaims to the in a recent 100-yard walk between
and tho most honest sufragi in Egypt. That Shepheard's
Continental probably means he cheats her of Hotel. Bomething around 100. per week on the household accounts.
masses
The Jews have been blasted by shops spasmodic bomb attacks on and property in the bazaars....Yet n Jewish Madame Yousset Cuttsoul Pasha remains Queen Farida's chick lady-in-waiting.
Despite such apparent acceptances of the Jews in Egypt as..primarily non-Zionist Egyptian citizens, there is enough fear among the minority of Europeans to cause a Rood of visa
foreign consu-` applications, at the lates.
The French are unceasingly bom- barded with applications. The Aus tralian office gets an average of 50 requests a day,
VIOLENCE
PASIA; 50-called JOKRASITY
Iron Man Premior will find it difficult to prevent renewed and in- creased violence from. uncontrolled mobe,
It is frighteningly simple to mag- Both British and frank Egyptian to mini- observers feel that the day of dan- nify and equally easy
when the realisation Sho lives all her mornings bound- miso-these incidents in the fe of ger will bo ed by the walls of her flat, and even Cairo. But in varying degrees they dawns that Egypt has not won the her afternoons (unless she lives in "bre, the exact experiences of people war, not yet. the "safe" areas of Gezira Island or there.
The day when the Government the area of her club.
targols of hooliganism are not in safety not wish to protect Euro- Cairo will sit in his business O AMAR office in the crowded, main town She has maybe not had a dánk fentionally Bella. It is far worse pean communities against the mob, European then the pale skin' husbands in for three for resident Jewish and in thought as well as in act,
and hear the iron shutters of a. at Shepheard's Hotoi.
not been to the minorities,, who control so much of Cairo will have to stay at home with. The other two passagen deal with Jewish shop over the street clang months. She has
movies in town for 10 weeks.
the wealth of Egypt.
their wives. questions by the Pharisees and Bad- I down.^^
-contraste His teaching with that of a bad day", the Englishman in suburban Meaadi) are restricted to. Tt. is, howovor. - certain" that tho may not, bo.. able--or for its
the Jewish low.
Wa may against the seventh commandment
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