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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1949.
C.V.R. Thompson Coffee And Candour
NEW YORK.
LL over the U.S. people
have something
about Britain.
to say
In Boston, for instance, an Edward Weeks, old friend, editor
of the thoughtful magazine Atlantic Monthly, re- ported on his first postwar visit to Britain.
His verdict: Things are bad but better, and they will be better soon.
There are a voliant, decent people, They have imposed upon themselves u set of iron rules which I doubt any other nation would accept with such little cheating," he says.
"English coffee still tastes as if it we made out of old Plantagenet collins.
મ
the
GUIDE
"England has always been onvil on which men have hammered out the freedom of Western Europe. So it is today."
ND IN NEW YORK two news- papers shoved widely opposed views on Britain's relationship with America.
The Dally News urged that
because the U.S. is so strong and Britain so wenk, Amerien should Make over all Bermuda and the West | Indian Empire.
But the New York Post made the accusation that President Truman le the first President In American
"the history to return the U.S. to siatus of a British Colonial depen- dency-by knuckling under to and Willenhall in foreign policy particularly over Palestine.
IN FROM BRITAIN, Sir Alexander Maxwell, in his cupacity, lourist boss this time, has set out on
a lecture tour to persuade Americans to "come and judge us for them- sclves instead of by second-hand opinions."
One persuasion he will not use is
Come-lo-Britain advertisement; showing a ghillie smoking a pipe, and his employer smoking a fat elgar.
He told me an American anti- tobacco society lias accused the British Travel Burenu of a subtle campaign to promote smoking, and as Sir Alexander. is also, of course, tabacco adviser to the Government, that is embarrassing to him.
The charges are false anyway, because, he confides that the Govern-
policles, meni's tobacco
which he administers, have stopped one and s
half million English people smoking
FOOTNOTE: Sir Alexander, pipe-smoker in England, has taken up cigarettes in America. TAKE SUCCESS FLASH; Unesco has a new job. It has been asked to summon a world conference to force all countries to adhere to a world standard for the pitch of the
musicul note A.
and
Headache For The Liberal Party
L
Lloyd
ADY Megan
George, the distin-.. guished daughter of
n famous father, has been appointed Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party in Parliament, the party of which, in its heyday of power, the Mr Lloyd George was the driving force and the inspiration. Today it is a very small party of a dozen Members in the House of Commons. But this does not daunt
Cummings
It's a high mountain that har no summic
By W.J. BROWN, M.P.
Lady Lloyd George, who, in an of the transfer of even comparative interview with that veteran ly small numbers of votes to Liberal Liberal journalist, Mr A. J. otherwise be cast for Conservative candidates, which would probably Cummings, has issued a stirring candidates, would be to secure the call for a Liberal revival,» election, on a minority vate, of Labour candidates. Mr Morrison, But like Mr Clement Davies, the the electoral generalissimo of the Liberal leader. Lady Lloyd George Labour Party, probably hopes for is silent upon the problent that large numbers of Liberal candidates must be giving the headquarters of for this reason.
the party a very painful headache. What are the Liberals to do at the next election?
the Now
composition of the
is very Liberal Party
mixed. It long ago shed most of its radically- to the Labnur If there is to be any hope of an minted members Impressive Liberni
the bulk of revival,
the Party, just as it shed Liberal Party must
to the convey to the its "Right" membership electorate that it
can provide an Conservatives. alternative government. Now if it
The bulk of the present Liberal of what might be "middle of the - randers," of the These broadly approve, Labour Government's social security
la convey this to the people. vote consists
at
candidates for must promote least majority of the 640 scats called which are filled nt 14 General Election. It it puls up merely
few score candidates, the cry, of
at legislation, and indeed of its earlier
measures. nuch 13
bith the other parties--Conservative, nationalisation and Labour will be, "A vole for those dealing with mines and rail. ways. But they are extremely un- the Libernis is a wasted vote."
easy about Steel and apprehensive generally of any further nationalisa-.. tion measures until the country has had a reasonablo opportunity of
is will shape seeing how the nationalised indus- ·
Largo Total Vote
Bu hundred candidates, this UT if the Liberals put up three or
ព
of
A
will mean distributing auch fung and organising potentialities as they At the next election their general..
a very possess over
wide area. tendency, in the absence They would undoubtedly poil
Liberal Candidate would be to larger total vote on this basis, but vote Conservative, to abstain; might well secure, through the dis- For they want ago-slow period persal of effort, even fewer seats which the Labour Party. thon if they concentrate on a few heav
heavy pressure from it dozen seats which they have some fearful of giving the Communists chance of winning.
or
Lett
under
and.
the opportunity of representing it os. having exhausted its mission, Is Moreover, under the British cicce not likely to offer them. So a few toral system, which provides neither hundred Liberal candidates would for proportional representation nor probably resull In Labour remain- for the alternative vote, the effect ing in office on a minority vole of
the electorate.
TEN TOP SCIENTIFIC ADVANCES OF 1948
By PAUL F. ELLIS
review of the year, 1918 points to the discovery of a new, powerful vitamin as the top story in science.
wns
cx1st.
of
the
with
HALF UNFAITHFUL
the
polto
Slender Balance
ABOUR has an Immense majorliy
in the present Parliament. But it. is perhaps not fully realised on how slender a balance of voles that majority rests. At the election, Labour polled,
Jast
iy round figures, about 13 million votes: the
servatives, nie inillion; and the: Liberals, three million.
In Britain, the fate of a general election is usually decided by the man has been trying to figure out, better means to treat bulbar such as how big is the universe and in humus beings. It is now usually "onting vote." A turnover of only seven and a half percent can make whether there are other planels falal..
between victory where human life, as we know it. Cancer research klories niso were all the difference may
ameng the "big 10" of 1948. One and defeat. The report of Prof. Alfred C. development was
announce- it every seat next time had. The new vitamin, known as Kinsey of Indiana
microscope "Sexual ment of a new on
that straight fight between a Labour and Human Male" brings out many hidden traits ofn Conservative candidate, and it B-12, was isolated from liver Behaviour
опе DI the most in the human life cell. The new ml-most of the Liberals voted Con- and it gives great hope for
portant and inost controversial croscope which has yet to be per-vervative, as I suggest they would those now suffering from perni science stories of 1048, His book, fected employs ultra violet light probably do, the odds are that the cious anaemia, one of the most based on Interviews
about to produce full colour photographs Election would produce a change of But that prospect many of issues or parts of celis.which are government. disabling of discases. Resides 4,500 males, contradicted
and abnormal completely colourless that it is theories on just what is
trans- might well be defeated if Liberal having proved
sex behaviour.
parent in ordinary light,
candidates emerge in large numbers. SHOW BUSINESS: Greer Garson extremely heneficial in perni-
But suppose the Liberais do not Agnes Moorehead pro
The microscope itself Was not put up large numbers of candidates. writing an historical play together cious anaemia, the vitamin may
new in 1918 bui its application In Suppose they concentrate
on fifty The play "Harvey.
about to be a key to many nutritional
It. found that almost half of mar-
new seats or thereabouts which they open in London, is about to close on problems' affecting human ried men were unfaithful and that cancer work is sure to open Broadway after a four-year run...health.
most males had sex experience
eancer might have some hope of winning. Then, whichever Party wins the „America's...chtet_porty-giver, Elsa
-Announcement-of-the-dis early ages. The report also showed problem. gave one for Charles
that sex habits of American males"
The other cancer research story election, the Liberals will be con- As against demned to third place. Boyer. She spoke to him all the covery of vitamin B-12 was differed as to so-called abnormal-
In the “big 10′′ was the production this, however, it the balance be- time in French, and he spoke to her made early in the year. Later fly in relation to education, .cco-
or radioactive cobalt in the atomic tween Convervatives and Labour In English....Television sets will be another group of scientists also nomic and social standards.
де Oak Ridge, energy plant
that were close, it is conceivable installed in 100 New York grocery isolated the vitamin, having in selence's search for a drug to The year showed great progress
Tennessee. Government announce- even a small Party of Liberals in the House might hold the balance ments said radioactive cobalt may cure diseases caused by a virus, suc be used as a substitute for the rare, of power. And by the skilful uso
the
Infantile commen cold, paralysis, measles and mumps, cer- expensive radium in cancer treat this they might substantially im-
prove their prospects ment. tain eye infections and certain types
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One of the now possible anti- Radium is dangerous
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THE
found it in the litter on chicken house floor.
IL
As the year drew to a close the first team announced that the vitamin also was found being pro- duced by the same mould from which streptomycin
quantities.
SUPERSONIC BARRIER
sclentists
of
at approaches
toward the
at the next
Crucial Part
may development of more encouraging tal, .where one usually must go season from the men who empty the superzanie barrier by the United developed is known as aureomycin, again one of the top
Important galas anticualisation.
The visitor was being shown the great ravine, Said the guide: "It tools
million years for this ravine to be carved,"
"Which Government department was in charge?" asked the visitor.
about 750 miles an hour.
usc
of
franlic
insurance present
The new development will menn tests against Infantile paralysis in with, whereas cobalt has a that. 1-12 can be producer in large mice, it was found to be effective. life and can be ured in the body is WE might conceivably see a Conll- Production of the tion of Labour and Liberals on The results in a few human cases a sofer degree.
also eventually may permit terms largely dictated by the latter. were conclusive but the fact that doctors to trent some cancer cases Or if the Labour Party refused ac It showed promise as an anti-viral
hospi- ceptable terms, a Coniltion of Con- animal without sending them to a
In the zervatives and Liberals. it
the terms to bc: former case THE DUSTMAN, on his first call
gives The second scientific story of the agent in the experimental
to receive radium therapy. he of the New Year, said to the year--and some
to the Liberais, would The progress of television was acceptable householder: "Compliments of the place it first-was the cracking
Another possible anti-viral drug
sciente have to provide for going-slow on In the latter, they States Air Forces' XS-1
of stories in 1948. rocket your dustbin."!
ecke It might be called a cousin Government announce-
were made in extending the hori- would have to provide for the con- has
servation of the social Householder, rather light in pocket: plane.
However, it had streptomycin. "And compliments to you all from ments said the plane
legislation adopted in the cables and the the man who is it."
"much faster than the speed proved effective against some typen zon of television through
Parliament. micro-radio wave systems. In addi-
The altack.*
during
recognition of the crucial part of sound many times" but the exact of germs that streptomycin will not longer sonxial
tion, i was demonstrated miles per hour was never releases.
BRAIN CENTRES
the year that nerial warfare at sen which the small Liberal Party might to play in the next election accounts At sen level the speed of sound is Having
the selence can be televised and sent back
the for
tha wooing of Ranking sixth In
Parliament Navy officials said Liberals in the present bar-stories of 1948 was the discovery in land stations. ce cracked the supersonic rier, selence, may now
by bath Conservative and Labour develop the medulla of the brain centres television undoubtedly will
lenders. Mr Morrison, for whom planes that will fly around
cle Important military applications the that control breathing, blood
con- the the event of another war. world in
as B Lady Lloyd George in 24 hours.
Conceivably, culation and heart beat. footballer's
• The professional
big scientific siderable admiration, is most anxious Rounding out the was The discovery beiter
timas can be made, human body. Her even daughter mother sald: "We can't afford it." Most details of the supersonic flight revealed at the international con- stories was the progress in baliding not to offend them. Mr Churchill, machines de-imself once a shining ornament of Well, are
secret. milllary lop
polio by
of. new atem smashing University of Minnesota scientists, signed to solve more secrels of na- the Liberal Party in its great days. nummy, cant we sell daddy again?" The Brat peek into the
the discovery was made ture. One of the important develop is most anxious to "include them in."
the New type utom With the Tories, Lady Lloyd In Moscow, where Jokes against by the world's biggest eye, the Hale They said
telescope at Mount Palomar, may, during the study of human braina ments of
artificial
ere George has both a political und a bureaucratic snoopers flourish, they be called the third story in seienes. taken at autopsy from persons who smashers was the a particle from personal quarrel. She inherits much are saying that half the Government The telescope was dedicated during died of the bulbar type of polio, ation of the meson,
that. bombards of her father's carly, radicalim, And in cosmic radiation The
1040 epidemle going into during the year and is now
in it was the Tories who wrecked her the earth from somewhere out other half is doing. But they're action.
meson
may father's career, and she is devoted investigating.
The 200-inch mirror will permit. The significance of the location of space. Study of the
the discovery of what to her father's memory. She would Ilcs In the result in
to find it Easter to make an accom- Grateful German' tenant, thanknstronomers to probe cight times the control centres
can holds the nucleus of the atom scientists fact that incdical Ing the British authorities for the as much space in the universe,
Such a discovery would be modation with Labour than with
the Torles, tenancy of a pre-fab home, wrote: had been observed. In years to now create bulbar pollo symptons geher.
from one of the most important selence "It's fine, but perhaps just a little too come, Palomar is expected to solve in experimental animals and ·
develop, a stories of this or any other century. tight around the hips."
many of the cosmic mysteries that such studies possibly
#
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doll,
And daughter suggested:
departments. don't know what the
NANCY That's What YOU Think
NOSEY "ROSIE ---
HOW DID YOU GET
UP HERE?
I CAN STRETCH
MY NECK
universe:
OS
Minnesota.
WOW---WHAT A GOOFY DREAM THAT WAS I'M GLAD SHE CAN'T SNOOP
ON ME. LIKE
THAT
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