C.V.R. Thompson A memo to Iris
NEW YORK, Feb. 16. ..
PHEW
HEW! We are having In New A heat wave.
York this afternoon the thermometer hit 70 degrees, the highest ever in February.
An hour's Journey away in Philadelphia it was 73. And In Baltimore, another hour iłown the line, it was 80.
This crazy weather. Geng -wafted ̃up ̈Ämterlen's" "east ̄gonsl from Bermuda, is upsetting the whole American way of life.
Usually windows
are scaled against sub-zero temperatures from Christmas to Enster. To- day they were flung open.
Usually, the New York woman's uniform In February is a mink coat or a reason- able facsimile of one. Today, they wore spring suits on Fifth- vente, and were all too hot.
Usunity, cinemas stoke their blast furnaces In February to provide
"comfortable" 75.
Today, they Brought out their "Air-cooled Inside" signa.
There are no cuckoos in these parts,
Came
But from Connecticut reports that tulips are in bloom. Horse files were seen in Philadelphin.
And in a Baltimore offer building they found a slightly bewildered grasshopper,"
IN TRENTON New Jersey,
tenants of Ralph Shelton have been to court all winter complating that he did not
give them enough central heal- ins. Today, it was 67 in Tren-
ton and Mr Shelton stoked up
his funuce to the mil
stilled tenants had to
to court to ask for less heat.
CITRAPHANGERS
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MARCH 5, 1949.
"You'd think out of sixty-seven million quid for defence they'd invest a shilling or two on one of those little.
automatic potato' peclers."
ARE WE BEING FAIR TO OUR CHILDREN?
A 1949 Juliet would
have got '3 years
Y everyday standards she was just an or- dinary kid from LT1 ordinary hoine. Yet Onc New night she started a riot in
Borsta! buses wil the
wing of
York's crowded soon get some added confort. women's prison, and finished They are fitting buses with
up in the detention cell radio sets and loudspeakers and, like it or not, passengers which is to the left of a will listen to music, sports flight of stone steps in the broodensts, and advertisements. prison basement.
Canada In
Of
to
This Act sets up secret pourts, courts from which the public are barred. The Act compels the Press observe regulations which reduce reporting of the enses brought under it to a farce. When it first weat on the Statute-book it had the appeur ance of being a Good Act was full of good Intentions. She looked what she was, a kid But the world is 10 years older who had just left school.
by VARGAS
GARDNER
REAL
Her uge at that time was 17. I had met her just two years earlier as she stood before the magistrates of a juvenile court, They had found she was in need of care and protection.
That bleak inorning she was
wearing a drab brown overcoat.
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dark blue dress, dark stock- ings, and a black velour hat.
Search Peace
By CHARLES LYNCH
THE Canadian Prime.
Minister, Mr Louis St Laurent, is staking the life
Canada, in endorsing the pro- posal for an Atlantie Pact, is proposing to place herself in a
position whieli she has avoided
is
of his government on his ever since the earliest days of policy of all-out support of her nationhood--that of being the Atlantic Pael.
committed in advance to go to.
if a European nation Advocacy of the pact repre- attered. sents a revolution In Canadian Canada has never signed. a foreign policy.
runtual
defence paet with any une--not even with Britain---or the United States.
Mr St Laurent is belting that there has been an accompanying revolution in Canadian thought on foreign affairs and that his
Since she became an entity in 1867, Canada has fought in all policies will be supported by a of Britain's wars; but she made majority of Canadians whes it
it abundantly clear each lime election time comes, probably that she was going to war of next October.
Me St Laurent, in his efforts own volition, and not be
cause of
a decision of Downing Bauge
lo
her
Canadian publie Street.
opinion on this matter, is in a If the Atlantic Pact is worked dimcult position.
Canadians Kre traditionally Indifferent to international affairs in peace time. Their political thinking is inclined In revolve round questions which affect them in the pocketbook- and, until now. foreign affairs have not come into this gory.
cale-
as Mr Laurent wants it to be worked, she will sign away this right.
when
Louis St Laurent
softened" version in order to be sure of getting the necessary two-thirds ratification in the Senate.
to
may
That at one time she have been in moral danger could not be disputed. She had been found in the back of a lorry with the driver just before
midnight.
The driver was a and of 13, four years older than she. The girl had made, and signed; a statement saying she had known him for 10 months. They went around together, and on the night they were discovered by the police had been out since the early evening.
Medical evidence Wes pre- cheed that the girl, physically, was quite pure.
today.
Her crime
Little Eva's golden throne is rocking
by
WILLIAM TOWNSHEND
HAT is going on in
the Argentine?
Is that country, not so long ago the most pros-. perous and progressive in. South America, dickering on the edge of revolution?
Mistaken policles have pluhg- ed tho Argentine from high prosperity Into a sinte approach- ing économie collapse.
עוןנזת
Right-wing
lenders evidently see in these difculties a chinee of regaining some of the wealth and prestige that have been taken from them. during the astonishing regime of Argentina's "strong man," Pre- sident Juan Peron, and his pelite, Alm-star wife, Eva.
At crisis
THE atmosphere in
rumours
Buenos
wildest
Eva Peron
Peron was helped in this ex- travagant polletes by the fact that the world was crying out for Argentine meat, wheat, und, .maize.
Fabulous profits
wests made, ** When the war ended the Argen- tine's reserves of "hard" eur- rencies and gold were exceeded only by those of the U.S. Itself, -
THERE
Spending
followed years of reckless spending. Every housewife aimed at the juiciest Joint from the meat, market.
Every milkman had money to buy
tropical, U.S.-made Palm Beach sult and enjoy
£-a-day vacation in the Mor del Plata.
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Every sirke for higher wages. was a complete victory for the strikers.
In three years $1,000 millon (£250 million) assets in the U.S.
were spent, and £160 million gold in the Central Bank vaulia had been reduced below million.
£20
Only in London have Argen- tinn's nsseto been untouched,
for they form the backing for its paper currency.
Business enterprises
Alres Is electric. No news- papers have been published for
The several days.
are rife. But there seems to be a solid basis of fact
which in reports that a section of the took over from her husband the Government took over join- militarists have demanded the the Ministry of Labour and ed in the rake's progress. The retirement of Eva Peron from Welfare. public life.
railways taken over from Us
only a year ago are losing money at the rate of £50 million a year.
Never before In Argentine As the President is determlund history had so many benefits to stand by his wife, there are been handed out to the workers The huge telephone system
'Bountiful'
all the maklugs of a revolt. If as under her administration. that leads to the downfall of the Peron reghe, it will be an event of mujor importance for the world.
bought from the Americans
three years.ngo for £22 million is losing at the rate of 20
bind T. ran
profits when the American
THOUGH she herself was al- million a year, though it carned
ways exquisitely dressed, on 1. T. Peron was an almost unknown to hire a transport aircraft Many foreign businesses have colonel in the array when he led to carry her clothes and Jewels, had to close. Branch plants of a successful result in 1943, and when she visited Europe, she the American Ford and General installed himself as War Minis- claimed kinship with what she Motors are among them.
liked to call "the shirtless on nat-packing industry, previous- U.S. firms engaged in the And to strengthen her part s Having reached power with Lady Eountiful, she set
up a ly one of the most prosperous the aid of the Right-wing army fund for relieving poverty to in
the Argentine, are nearly which all who sought to and bankrupt.
con- Inflation is rumpant. Peron does nothing effective to check
ter.
leaders he at once set about consolidating biaself in power
DOWN in the West Country by winning the support of the favour with her had to
a girl of 10 who had been kept under observation by the police for a few weeks was dis- covered in the gardens of n public house drinking shandy. With her was the clerk of a
local bookmaker.
magistrates,
The police. Lelieving an off- her brought ence had been committed against her before the wiro nsked the girl this question. Has this man ever been intimate with you?" The girl's denial was backed up by the Inevitable medical
Then, as the woman magis report. trate told her she would be sent to a place of safety, the chiki suddenly began to realise what wins happening.
The probation officer caught ber niin and tried to usher her towards the door of the court, but with 'a scream the girl tore away and ran to her mother.
Dut
ilie magistrates told her they found she was in need of care and protection because "no, girl of your ape who was pure
would understand the meaning of the word intimate
when used in this way."
Nobody will ever convince me that the Act of 1933 was in-
cription,
Left wing-the poorest classes.
Wages up
п
tribute.
When the British-owned rail- the soaring cost of living. ways were sold back to the
Prices fall Government for £150 million. of the frst acts of the Ministry one
Hextablish wear and London managements was 10 Thalved in 18 months. Money
for her fund.
appointed himself its head. He give Eva a cheque for £8,250 won the backing of the poor by
She bought up newspapers. raising wages and salaries, giving bigger pensions and sick Film companies, too, came unter ness benefits, and reducing hours her control. of work.
Peron was soon almost idolls- ed as the protector of the poor against the.exploitation of the. rich-in other words, he seized the possession of the wealthy classes and gave them to the
poor.
to this he found an enthusias fic collaborator in his wife,
Indeed, it was she who really put over the main "selling point" of the Peron policy
If an actress displeased her she would have her sent out of the country.
Her ban
n
AST year she banned
radio-screen weekly because It put on its front page a pleture a radio favourite who had once refused her Job.
of
value of the pesa has
pours from the printing presses. Granaries are full of maize, and £20 million of linseed oil remains unsold.
And now another blow has faltem on Peron-world prices have started to fall. His econo- mle adviser, Miguel Miranda, the navvy's son, who was recently sacked, had rambled on cor)- tinued high prices for Argen- tine produce to pull the country out of its economic iness.
That gamble looks like being Jost.
And she called a strike of t In a desperate effort to save film company because. Dolores the rapkily worsening situation, del Rio was "too busy" to accept Peron has appointed three an invitation to call.
young men, all under 40, to When Dolores was eventually restore seme semblance of order of the chaos into which They sent her to a remand fended for a case of this des-standing up for the poor Argen persuaded to accept the invito- out
tines against "the blood-sucking on, the imperious Eva kept her Argentine economy has sunk. same court had a girl of
the capitalists and
rapacious 13 brought before it. She
kicking her heels for four hours. hau Americans." been found in us distressed condi-
When Eva made her one and tion in a field on the outskirts.
to Europe in the only visit of the town. She had been
summer of 1947 she refused to victim of an nestult, made
to England because she not been Invited
home until a vacancy was found in an approved school: When she had been there for a few months she escaped, was re- "captured," "und escaped again.
In Prison
THE THE third time this happened the school manager brought her before a court, and she was sent to Borstal for two years,
All girls committed to Borstal must spend the first few weeks In prison. So. although her offence consisted of escaping from a school, she was herded
The
the
against her will, as the bruises On her face and body proved. She, too, was found to be in need of care and protection, and cent to an approved school.
Bluntly, she was being made to pay for the crimo of a person older than herself.
No statistics
APPROVED schools were es-
tablished to correct juvenile delinquents, and they are run why should a child of 13 WHO on a cystem of strict discipline. is GUILTY OF NO OFFENCE be consigned there for years? If they escape they run the risk of being sent to Borstal--it the Home Secretary approves. Which means that a civil ser- from the vant, far removed facts with which these kids have
acts to battle daily, will decide for are sent to Borstal from
approed
along with Borstal girls con- In return, she is seeking two
victed of criminal offences. things:
Canada, widle agreeing that What will happen to her when The first is. in fact, her main no pact is of any value if it can- the next two years have passed motive for advocating the pact- onl
the United States and she is tree again? Perhaps pass unmely. preservation of the Senate, wants a "hard" treaty she will marry the lorry driver. During the Inst four
on the Brussels pattern. Cana In that case, what, good has years, peace.
The second arises principally dian observers of the United the law achieved in sending her ince Canuda signed the United Nations Charter in 1945, Cana- from bitter experience in World States scene feel sure that the to Borstal?
Had Romeo and Juliet lived dian foreign policy has run con- War 11-Canada wants a share new Senate is sufficiently "en-
lightened" siderably ahead of Canadian in the control of policy
such. pass
1231 In these days the pair of them public opinion in most matter's risk of war is involved.
agreement.
would have got three years in taken upon which Canada has
Discussions on these matters approved schools. Romeo She did not Bke the London-
for Washington-Moscow triumvirate are going ahead behind closed being found on enclosed pre- any definite stand.
mises: Canada's policy during this during the war, and she does doors.
Juliet for appearing on the balcony of her bedroom The Home Once has period, has been made by a not want any London-Washing- handful of men in the External ton "axis", now."
When the details of the part clart only in her nightdress, for statistics available for the public nally In a speech last September, Affairs Department with little
Canadian no Juvenile magistrale emerge, the
would of the number of children who reaction for or against from the the new Secretary of State for Government will do everything believe the nightie was acciden- are sent to Borstal from appered
in its power to bring thêm home | tai. External Affairs.
schools. Strange that a Govern- public and very litle debate" in
Mr Lester
to Canadians., The Government ald: "Such a sharing Parliament,
Both would have been taken tent which is so fond of statis- of ri
risks, resources and obliga-18 not worried about getting the before the juvenile magistrates, tics has ignored such an im- tions (as in the Atlantic Pact) pact ratified in Parliament, for under the Children and Young portant set. must be accompanied by, and
the two major opposition parties Persons Act of 1933. Now, for the first time in her flow from, a share in the can have, already approved it In
principle. history, Canada is preparing to trol of policy. sign a treaty which involves "If obligations and resources wide compliments to specifle are to be shared, it is obvious nations, and, presumably, con- that some sort of constitutional siderable expenditure.
machitiery
The task is to get 11 across to must be established the people themselves the peo- Mr St Laurent and his colles under which each participating ple who pay the taxes and enst gues have been trying for country will have a fair share their votes. montlin to warn the Canadian in determining the policies of all public of what is coming in an which affect all. effort to avoid the possibility of
Otherwise, without their gon
Most Canadians are still look-
ing forward to tax cuts In the 1949 budget. They may be in for a sudden shock, particularly in sent, the policy of one or two rude shock.. traditional relationist
Military Quebre, or three may increase the risks
expansion nirendly when the terms of the pret are and therefore the obligations of under way will cost considera- announced.
All"
ble nimey and certainly Conn- On this basin, Mr St Laurent da's role under they have been hand-
the Atlantle In this, capped to no-small extent by the and Mr Pearson have been ad- Pact will not give her any "free
of the Atlantle Pact ride." fact that, at the start of the vocates Atlantic Pact talks in Washing- since the first germ of the idea
Even Joes
hot Involve ton,
all the governments con came to light more than a year sending Canadian troops
They are as anxious cerned agreed that no Informis- ngo.
over-
it is
to seas in the near future, tion about the discussions in an Atlantic Pact as they certain to see her in the role of would be made public until a were reluctant to sign the Rio an arsenal, turning out arms to decision was reached.
de Janeiro Hemisphere Defence help equip her own forces and So for, there has been no Treaty in 1947.
those of Western Europe. public outcry here,
There was some fene that the
None' of Canada's policy. But Mr St Laurent cannot be United States might insist upon makers expects
United whother this is due to an Atlantle Pact fashioned on States to foot all the bills for publie apathy or whether the Rio formula, with each State Canada's part to any such pro- means that the nation approves committed to help another State gramme. A good deal of the the course so far taken.
when attacked, but reserving load would certainly fall upon He believes the latter is the the right to determine the tim- the Canadian taxpayer. irua pieture. "If he is wrong," Ing and nature of auch help.
zuro
The
Mr. St. Laurent hopes to con-
-member of his Cabinet told The United States, it was vince the taxpayer that he is me, "s Government will fali" felt might want such
getting a bargain-Reuter,
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Are we being fair to oùr chil- dren? Let us admit that there are today children against whom the State has sinned in no small That there are girls
been
Relax... by being me buys in approved institutions
a detective
1.SCENE OF CAIME:
2 MEDICAL REPORT: Pistol shot in back; bullet lodged in heart causing instant dealli.
3 HUSBAND SAID:
"I found my wife shot dead. when I returned home, and house ransacked, touclied nothing,phoned the Police"
What do you say?
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who should
sent to them.
never have
What can be done to stop this happening in the future? I sug- gest three things:-
LET the Church take a grea- tér interest
children. in the Their evidence of home back- ground is invaluable to magis-
trates.
MATRONS of maternity homes and school teachers know more about children than the average woman. Their knowledge would be invaluable in sex cases where young girls are concerned. I know some headmistresses are magistrates, bul we should have
many more.
A FULL INQUIRY should be held into approved schools with o view to special schools being put aside for care and prolec. tion cases only.
If the regulations which ham- per the reporting of these cases- can be relaxed then the public will have the satisfaction of knowing when justice is being meted out to those most In need of the children.
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Superb
MARIA Eva Dunric, daughter came
farm labourer, had had been no great success as a stage Buckingham Paince. and film actress. But radio she was superb.
on the
When Peron wanted someone
to put over an appeal for victims of an earthquake it was almost automatic that he should pick on
her.
A reoption at the Guildhall was too much like small beer for the first lady of the Argentine.
They are the busiest men Buenos Aires.
in
Their hardest task is to con- vince-the-Argentines that they through the money have run made in wartime, and must now reconcile themselves to
lower standards and harder ving
work..
ut
Too late?
Such is Senora Peron's power
сал Peron that it is said-und I believe it
по for in is correct that this fallure to be
checking extravagance with- received at Buckingham Palace out shaking the people's faith is one of the main reasons why Argentine, off)
omcials
have been so in him?
He s has the solid backing That is how they met. Friend- "dimcult" in the ment negotia of the workers, but the property
tions with Britain. ship was followed by marringe.
owners, the mineowners, and It is South American Idea of the Industrialista are gunnlig for Eva was a woman of bound- taking it out of the British.
him-and for Eva. less self-confidence and vitality. How does it come about that.
Many observers believe that. She wanted to be the irst lady President Feron and his wife are Péron has left it too late. of the Argentine not simply as in danger of seeing their power downtrend in commodity prices, the President's wife, but in her collapse?
steady re- own right.
It is just another case of the duction in Argentine farm pro- leave from the Government, ane
Su, without any by-your- folly of living beyond one's duction, may be 100 much for
income.
combined with the
him.
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