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WHEN PARENTS
FIGHT
耳
love
OLONEL
JOHN
SWINITON A L'AN and his wife flew from Karachi to stop Jacqueline, their 18-year-old daughter, from marrying an almost penniless architect student.
her sweat- Jacqueline and heart went to court.
at Hust- inys. The magistrates heard parental objections and
picas of love.
the
They decided in favour of love and give permisssion to
marry.
a
The father walked out of
without court
backward glance at his daughter. Ifis wife said, "There is no hope
of reconciliation."
There are a number of such
enses every year.
In come the magistrates up- hold, the parents.
they overrule them.
In others
LOVE
the end it is
that wins
by GWYN. LEWIS
JACQUELINE ... 'Yes,' said the magistrates
A £3 Mrs Whitehouse took 105.-n-week job as tailor's clerk
Permission granted.
But whatever their decision I when her husband's pay drop- Mrs Cornelius, when asked if are now Imagine that it must usually ped from £6 as a decorator to she and her husband
"You bet we give them much muxiety.
that of an aircraftman on being happy,.replied: The must often ask them- called up to do his National are. The turtle dove stage is selves-whichever-way--they--Service-in-the-R.A.F
over, but we are still in love. the Am I wrecking interide:
Ilves of there young people or am making them?
"We had £00 saved when we married," she said, "and £40 Now we And I imagine, that many worth of furniture.
must Inve £170 worth of furniture."
times afterwards they
think-
L00
I
What happened to those ponny-
Was I right or aters? wrong? Are they happy or las their marriage been wrecked? Was family harmony ever re- stored?
Usually, alas, they never hear of what happened afterwards. But I will tell you what hap- Jened in some cases.
"We took
a chance'
FLETCHER VIOLET asked the Luton magistrates two years ago, when alte was 19, for permission to marry Anthony Gilmore, who was 22.
She said that her mother' was dead, and that for two cars she had Hved apart From her father, who refutand consent to her marriage. Father's objections were not stated,
- Application granted
'Mother makes
his sandwiches'
MAY
KATHLEEN COATES appealed to the Hull court in 1947 for per- miazion to marry Ronald Kennington, She was then 19 and he 21,
She agid that her father had refused consent after an argument over the sale of a μία.
Court consent granted.
They now have a baby,
year-old
Mrs. Kennington' said to me: "We are happy.
"Ronald brought about a reconciliation with my parents last Christmas by calling on them.
"There was handshaking all round,' and now he is treated
Now they are Uving happily like a favourite son. with Mr Gilmore's parents and
and I go
have an 11-month-old baby boy. wiches for him to take to work. "Mother makes up his sand- Mr Gilmore says, "I have made it up with Violet's father Every Friday his mother calls on my mother, collects her sco him every week,
'shopping list, and goes into "My wife and I had nothing full to shop for both families."" when wo married; now we are both earning and saving, We took a chance' and we do not That is another happy end- regret it."
ing to a romance story which began when Mrs Kennington apologised to the magistrates
Still live
in hopes
DOREEN HILTON was 10 when in ID47 she asked the Walsall, Stafordshire, -court- for permission to marry 17-year-old Stanley Whitéliouse,
It was her second applica- slon, the magistrates having adjourned, her first for siz months "to see how they got Doreen's mother and Jather still contended sho was too young for marriage. Court gave consent
ON"
Mr Whitehouse said to me: "We are happily married, but mother and father have not yet overcome their objection. I live in hopes of a reconcilation,"
.
"There was a happy recon- cillation with my mother before she died."
They lived next door
AUD.REY, GLADYS BIERI in 1947 appealed to the Feltham (Middlesex) magistrates for permission to marry Douglas Janica Langrish. She was then 18.
Her mother said she ob- Jected to the marriage "DTL many gronds, and added: "I don't pet on with him."
Audrey Was siven the court's perzlusion to marry.
sex.
"As 500 as I told her I was going to have a baby all came right at once."
That is the story of an under- standing mother.
Room's parents
with now
MARGARITA. FAULK- NER sought the consent of the Taunton court to her marriage to Charles John Fouracre in 1947. She was 19 and he 23.
Her father had refused consent, saying he and his wife might have thought dif- if Fouracre had ferently volunteered Information about his financial ability to prouide for his daughter. Fouraere had refused to show his bank book. Marriage, permission granted. Margarita and Charles have married two years, and, said Margarita: "We are
happy.
NOW
baby is on the way, and daddy and mummy have not only come round to our way of thinking bul have made welcome to live
AN
INTERNATIONAL SCHEME FOR FORMOSA?
T
By David Temple. Roberts
THE island of Formosa, off the coast of China, has appeared in the daily nowa recently as the contro from which the
banka Anonco
counts held in many abroad, would provide to re-equip a garrison anny. But whether the Formosan batred of mainland Chinese will not express itself In h revolt Jo Chineno Nationalist Navy Communist-Inspired
another question. and Air Force is operating to enforce the blockade of Shanghai.
•
of
The future status "Island is a problem worth im- med'ale thought. Unless a de- finite decision is taken on how to regard Formosa, It may be
dangerous
In the immediate future For- moon is likely to become an in- ternational sup of Ercal delicacy. General Chiang's
tha government, although it has falling suffered domage to its prestige with the publication of Sluto Department's the U.S. White Paper, will continue to claim international recognition. thorn in the side of Dritain and Communist government will
right Formosa os of American interests in the Far claim East
backing. than it is already. If a probably wlih Soviet
Formosa is future Communist Government a
come an oven more
a
A valuable
lo internationally recognised In strategle point. The problem is China, its claim to Formosa will set.
be on International irritant.
Here are the salient facts re-
Bold Solution
Im.
Д
garding Formosa. It lies within The solution must be bold. iho chain of Islands off the An international regime for China coast that run
established fron Formosa, Luzon (the northernmost of the mediately, before any question Philippines) through Formosa of the recognition of a Com- and Okinawa to the southern munist
China, government fu island of Japan, where the port would solve many problems at of Nagasakl La situated a stroke. Formosa is, technical-
under Formosa is in a powerful post- ly,
Japanese tion for the detence of the sovereignty until a peace treaty. ses lanes as British ships now The juridical hosts to such held up by the Nationalist bold step would be a statement
discovering. blockade are
No that the Nationalist Govern- more need be said of the part ment is no longer in a position the island could play in a to full
obligations in strategic scheine in the China Formosa, and that, therefore, Seas.
the stand! reverts to Jugan under the negis of the Allied Council for Japan, and the ad- vice of the Far Eastern Ad- The present International visory Commission-both organs
agreement status of the island. Is peculiar. set up
under the It was in Japanese hands for Russia
Peculiar Status
war o
difficulty
11s
itz
with Moscow
50 years, from 1805 to 1945. Agreement of 1945.
It follows that a military oc- During the was foreseen concerning the recupation under SCAP (General -turn of this clinically and MacArthur's Command) would Inguistically Chinese province be introduced. The "Nationalist"
would then bo. the body of China. It was forces agreed, at Cairo, where Chiang honourably neutralised. A large Kai-shek met Winston Chur- majority of Chiang's following
return with chill, not only that China would gladly thould
Formosa repatriation bonus, to occupy militarily but also that it should mainland homes. bc ro-Incorporated In the Chinese Republle even before a formal cession by Japan, which could not occur until a
peaco trenty had been signed.
Ñ
their
Two Advantages
This step would have two ad- vantages. It would deny to the Communists all hope of captur- either Since the defeat of Japan this ing the valuable island provisional agreement has been by direct assault or internal re- volution. Simultaneously For- Carried out, Probably the ar- rangement has not been greaily niosans would look forward to a myarc comfortable for the in- secure regime of their habliants of the island than the choosing.
rather similar "provisional" largo
own
The Allied occupying nu- thorities would presumably cettlement that gave a
Govern- strip of Germany to Poland. In establish a Formosan the case of Formosa, however, ment, under tutelage. The pro-
government to native population were, gress of this
1101 "liberated" from wards independence need technically,
Japanese yoke; the Ger- Le as rapid as that of South mans of Silesia und Pomerania Korea, where something, how- over gimcrack, had to be creat- were vanquished "aggressors."
rival North ed quickly to
the
with them untji our own nest con found.
"Father bes allowest us to furnish our own rooms in his house."
be
the
Happiness is not comploto
EILEEN
BEN- DORIS NETT went to the Slough Bench two years apo for permission to marry George Philips, who was then in the Navy. She was 20 and, he 23.-
Eileen's parents opposed the marriage with the claim that Philips would not be able to give their daughter the sort of home to which she was accustomed.
The magistrales consented.
The Philipses have set up heme in Vale Rond, Slough,
They both spoks of tveir happiness. They told me that embarked on marriage have £25. Now they
Their courtship had been con- they ducted over a garden fence in with Milion Road, Hampton, Middle- £100 onved.
Their happiness will be com- Audrey and her husband are plott when they win the op- now living with Audrey's proval of Mrs Philip's parents. mother at her collage in Bushy Park Road, Teddington, Hampton.
ncar
Audrey and to me: "Douglas and I live for each other.
A note
of resentment.
\NLY once did I delect a note
ONLY resentment in making We have a baby, Andrew my survey of these young Paul, and Douglas and mother people who launched, into ma- now get on with each other trimony against parental ‘op-
position famously,"
Of her mother's reconciliation she said: "I was her only re- maining child.
"After my first two years, as
It' came when I visited a young couplo in Colnbrook, Middlesex...
"My husband and I have no regrets," said the wife. "WC
a wile I feel that she was right are happy. But there has been
for appearing in court to make in opposing my marriage. her marriage application dressed In dungarees; btenuse, the
$10.
In consequence of the "family put off our
10 court. from her work, in 4, quarry canteen..
What does, her husband say now? "We have no regreta."
own.
no reconciliation with my
having
• "Douglas and I would have father.”
Wedding It wa
What do I think, could have foreseen that we listened quarrel" she had. gone straight would have to live in rooms these marriages that began so. to the stories of with no proper trome of our disturbingly?
The interesting thing to me is "Tho prospeels of finding a that the financial state of every flat or house seem hopeless couple was so precarious at the The worry of it all has made time of the marriage that on me ill
common 'senso alone the par- "We have lived in rooms at eats were justified in their op
On the <Position. ROBERTS three different houses since our there could not
but It marriage, when 10' went to the Ply»
seemed much chance of happiness mouth
court nearly two..
though landindies hate bables.
Yet in every case there is years ago for permission to "Mother could so casily have happlusss. Love has found s marry Leonard Charles Cornelius, who was 20, Jer-adopted an I-told-you-so attl way and in giving love parents considered she was tudo, but she welcomed us to, chance the magistrates proved too young and refusedz her collage, and she has been to be wiser than the parents.
Such a.. good husband
MIB LILIAN
consent.
wonderful..
soems
have
avidenco
London Leprams. Servida),
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As a Formosan remarked to Korean "Communist-pattern" an American officer: "You only rule. For Formosa the valid dropped an Atomic Bomb on parallel would be with the pro- the Japanese; you dropped agress of the Philippines, to- Chinese Army on us."
wards independence. The stand would have no need to fear the Insecurity of South Korea-it its is an island and it can pay way with exports.
A Burden
State Of The Till
In considering the future of Formoan it might be possible to Arsi rive a thought, for the time for 05 years, to the La- terests of the long suffering and hard-working Formosans: biggest powers
ot decisions of foreign policy with They have found government
In these days when even the cannot nicke
by mainland Chinese for main out a glance at the state of the worth adding that
an auto-
land Chinese o burden since till, it is 1945. First, General Chen Yi's Formosa will not cost its pro- visional international controllers misrule ended with
"grants-in-ald" any
for its sup- comous (non-Communist)
port. The island has a striking- Volt in 1947 that was sharply ly favourable balance of trade. repressed-and the General re- it is self-supporting in its rice turned to the mainland.
supply the key to Far Eastern Now Formosa is the refugo prosperity-and it exports large tea and of General Chiang. He is re- quantities of sugar,
During 1948 its ex- puted to have 300,000 troops camphor.
US$ZI million. with him on the island; his ports totalled
The Chinese authorities allotted navy operating from the Island
unlikely to be out-gunned by no more than US$8 million the Communists
the of foreign. exchange within near future; his air force is island that year.
With such a surplus, strong by Chinese standards.
the most autonomy-minded From the milltary viewpoint, Formosans would probably be it is probable that the willing to bear the limited Nationalist group centred on costs of an interim international Formosa could hold out against regime it the new dispensation Communist threats from the meant an end of depredations mainland of China for a long by mainland Chinese and Icar period. Even without. outside of the destruction of crops and ald, the gold stocks transferred productive resources by civit to the island, and private ac- war.
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