LONDON DIARY
Bernal was barred from the] CRITICISMS of London
County Council's civic Council of the British Associa
lion because of a speech he restauranta have made made in Moscow criticising the them sensitive. To avoid direction of science in capitalist showing a financial loss, countries.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 1950.
21,
wns
Miss Mallet Princess Margaret's companion and guide in Italy.
is 33. Lord Dunboyne
Cist birthday barrister. Ite flew to Itome on Miss Mallet's
the council will consider Some at Bamal's colleagues party to propone.
proposal to revise
It
the in the Association of Scientifle
Their wedding wil have a It is on July pastoral setting.
method of bookkeeping for Workers put down a resolution 29, in the ancient church at
the restaurants,
decision condemning the BA for debate at their own-annual
last month.
The Instead of paying the cost of meeting
Πολ WAD
reacbed enting, rebuilding and equip-resolution
restaurant premises when the session ended. ping new
years, to seven
the Finance | Committee propose the cost over 15 years.
to spread Professor Blackott
Another vice-president
Up to the end of March LCC Socialist spent £228,015
Mallet's Mist Willersham, Kent.
home
A picture gown
at
is to give who Sir Victor, his daughter away, will arrive with his wife.
wear while lace
Her thres page, will
is
Professor P. M.
S.
Miles Mallel will plcture gown
Atom
ta the prsociation's with vell of tulle.
bridesmaids and entitled
wear white and red.
in
:1
on adapting Blackett. He wrote the intro-
for duction1 and equipping premises
ciele restaurants. The total will panphlet, reach £400,000 by the end at Attack.
this financial year, and £750,-
10 at the end of the pro- PEAMINE.
Look healthier
Hurley (left). (above) and Galtskell.
Men, behind the scientists-- Julian Ort
Bor Minister
Fron
All the other vice-prezidents - are scientists of note: fessor Winifred Cullis (the only
Professor woman). Donnan, 25-year-old Sir Richard
Lord Normanby
will be best
Elspeth Huxley wonders what the Communists will be doing in
1960, and ponders
on the
COLD WAR
and the
COLONIES
FROM, OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT LONDON, JULY.
DOUBT AS TO THE WISDOM OF EMPLOYING SIMPLY THE ECONOMIC WEAPONS TO SAVE SOUTHEAST ASIA AND OTHER TERRITORIES FROM COMMUNISM IS EXPRESSED BY ELSPETH HUXLEY, ON COLONIAL WRITER WELL-KNOWN THE AFFAIRS.
In
a special article on "The Cold War and tha Colonies", in the current issua of the monthly magazino, "Nineteenth Century", she asks how the principles decided upon the Colombo and Sydney conferences ara, to be of any practical value within "the next decade, "the decade that is to be crucial in the cold war."
No-one questions the
urgent need! for grent STORIES FROM economic developments
throughout Asia
Afrien, but.
while the living of the
and HERE AND THERE
she argues, standard
of
few in these
territories may be advanced by economle aid such as is now planned, the aim of a higher standard of living
is the masses for feasibley
First things
lo
be don
George to
earn £35,000
not-gets £800
cales eastern standards are "to GEORGE
Formby, the ukelele-playing comedian. Krow more fond of all kinds, to for fuel and The honeymoon will be in raise more timber
pay the Chun- housing. F. Gelani.
and to teach millions expects to
cethor of the Exchequer more elements beple the hygiene, and that, according to than £34,000 from his forth- Mr Huxley is going to take steaming seven weeks tour of
Canadu. Francis Sullivan least 40 years.
Gregory. Dr J. animond, D Staying British
By repaying these amounts
15 years instead ef Julinn reven, the annual balance sheet | Keilin,
of the
will look restaurants ealthbert
II.
ví
M. L. FACTOR
salled back to America WESTERN MISTAKE
Huxley, Professor
Dr 1. McClean,
atom Professor physicist Oliphant, Sir John Russell, and year, forrador
pioneer Sir methed Watsen-Watt. new
example,
In the current
the
would reduce
the restaurant
estimate
from
£944,175 to
£ 779,175.
Thi
means the
Robert
home.
designer
Goins!
the
George, who is leaving Eng- Hi after a briet vist
on to ask what Danae wife.
follows la soon. Communists will be up to be- and at the begianleg of Sep- techer, will earn 100,000 dollars Gaylen.
1960, she says more than £35,000) during their tween now and F giving Gaitskell's dilemmaThey are
but owing to high to fiat in Itobert Street, Adelphi, that if all goes well for Com the tour. clair association
at the moment taxation all he expects from it spend so much munist tactles, in hath because they members
pressures LEDO. nationalist when Their me in America.
where Britisn teaches a point Worker,
bound to take There has been talk that the withdrawal is issue for
become place, "Communist would Sullivans
£169,000 | have restaurants can earn less and still Bhow n book Houses of Parliament.
Scientific profit.
name them in May 1950.
Retiring at 51
AFTER
Journal.
the
are
The Tory is Mr C I.
nation
himself.
George Formaby bares his es- Influence date on what happened in a in the Lords there is Lora American citizens. Mrs Sullivan will be strong enough to swing six weeks tour of Canada Inst into the year. He brought back to Bri- tella me this is not so, They are the emergent 20 years as head of!
Socialist Hoden Guest, former
to be "resident aliens" in the orbit of the Russian' sun, there tain 50,000 dollars (over £17,- the De Havilland alrera MP
11 for North Islington,
which to revolve obediently as another 806). Of that he got £400 for United States, a status company, Mr Alan S. Butler
addillon to Lord Boyd OIT.
will enable both to hold jobs Eastern satellite. retiring from the chaftman→
Commens
four In the
there.
Western leaders were mak-
George anys: "We can work In Recepting In a mistake tive.
Marxial terms and treating here and pay high taxes or we Canada and still the struggle as an economie) can work in
ray them. For me it is a ques North.
ilon of which helps fritain main task of Western mare and that is why I am go- should be concerned more withg to Canacia.
"If I earn as I de £1,000 to
a week in North economic matters than with the satisfaction of the latent loyaltica £1,200
ship and from the director Socialists and the Conserva- ships he holds in the parent and Associated companies.
Mr Butler is only 31. Why -Ewing, member for Hendon The Socialista ore Mr W, J.
retire so young?
their
so much time abroad on the Field. Mr J. Lawla, and Major is de- company's business that he feels Wilfred
of the
As a link with their home- and, the Sullivan: are keeping
country Haslemere.
home
at
Vernon who
as a member
De Havilland's say he spends
no longer able to retain control seribec at home. He will continue to AS@Wˆ« Executive Committee, travel oversean on the amm's and "uur most active member business.
in the House,
The new boss
into the
De
In 1 CUT
Buther
came Havilland concern ious Haviny.
was then enthusiast.
In
a wealthy
He
Havilland capital,
one.
The
Duke in hired yacht strategy, Mrs Huxley declares,
EW people can now afford their own yachts. So ship brokers are doing good business The fourth is a Minister: Mrin yacht charters. Minister for Hugh Gaitskell, Economic Affairs.
The Duke of Westminster. yachts before who owned two
Mackenzie's 'rido' the war, has chartered one for
**flelal history
fying
i offered
subscribed
of
of the Arian and African peoples. England pantomine, all I get And here, she goes on, "we after expenses are paki is £30 should be unwise to took to a week. fastitutions dominated by the
white races.
must
slart
from.
deeply Im-MR
*
*
Kunzie,
[1າດ
cuafectioner.
*We Nor-
Christian in the Sir Geoffrey de j
FTER two years of research in fishing cruise
lle and the nationalism, now
Birmingham le com and founded
writing.
wegian fjords, autho F
a health centre turned the early pany in 1920.
has com Duchess have taken two friends; planted in the cast; our task is
into a plans to build trip in the 300-ton surely to see it
Midlatuls Industrial days, when money was short, Compton Mackenzie
and
Independent for all Butler ordered an aeroplane. He pleted the first volume of his on this
once belonged constructive
the workers and their familles on Indian Radiant, which of the
petriotism, and to widen life.
will be They lo Lord
700 acre mountainside es- leaders his new the loyalties of Away a munti.
into a wish to serve their country ate at Davos, Switzerland.
be and not merely themselves.
The community would and "Symbols of authority
Ton-profit raking and fed from estate. nationhood hauld emerge.
the sultan, the wood produced the king, the prince.
are to hiet-a living person is needed Midlands industrialists
to co-operate by to focus loyalty
and affection. Invited
health "family maintaining rather than the impersonality of commillees and creeds."
£7,500, was fate director. Two years later became chair!
ກ.
New chalan
الدين
be 83-
year-old Me F. T. Heatle. He has long been a direclur of the
company. WAS
managing
the war, aug director during was Sir Geoffrey de Havilland original collaborator in 1000.
Scientists' union Wine Arreciation of Seivating
are the men who run?
Workers, trade union scientists who voted Communist line on
along the France's Communiti
Julio- chicf. Professor
disminnal
atom Curie?
of her
Mackenzie-more volumes
Cost of chartering a yacht And on its tonge. depends the number of crew engaged.
A 20-toner, sleeping four to six, costs about £100 a month. £500 a month
A
crew of Inr
150-lonner, with four, and accommodation nine, costs £500 a month.
the
come
waits."
past
Mr Kunzle has treaty ap- THE ANSWER
several brge arms proached Mrs Huxley thinks the West who have agreed to back his has remained too much on the den. The time has come when Switzerland, with its magif- defensive. One of the few private British
a looking class tent climate and world famous "It rely owners with a yacht now in
writes, "ha hest healing powers, should be Mrs Situation" she Mediterrancan
Power which, in the last eight within the reach of every work- Reginald Fellowes. Her yacht
bludgeoned Intong man and his children," says Sister Anne (240 tons) is full of
and subservience,
but Mr Kunzle. labour-saving devices, and hos;
obillernted
eight otice→
the the "In
only to every cabin a bathroom There is accommodation for six avereign nations, should pose
s the champion of nationalism, ich have been able to afford President of the anonciation | Army. It is called Eastern Eply passenger and erew of eight.
while a power. which, during this treatment. If my scheme is Is Lord Hoyd Ort furmer has 300,000 words. Director-General of the United Now, before he writes Volumej At the end of the month Sir- the same period, has freely and carried out it will provide im- four Commer "Managements will find that) Nations Food and Agricultural II, Mackenzie, ured 67, embark Bernard and Lady Docker set willingly granted complete in-nce benefit in industry.
off for the South of France in dependence Organisation.
AP for up
assignment:
Shernary, satellites should be aligmatised their workers will respond and 860-ton yacht Scottish Universitiet (1015-45) rural ride" in England. He is his
cost as an oppressor.
better health will mean greater Yet that is the position be-butput. There is no question 'of tween Bussia and ourselves, finance. The only funds re- We had failed to make that quired will be those to support clear to the oriental leaders. the family units,
As
he sat us an Independent.
In addition to the pald ere fary. Mr Aistey, the ASW have
an honorary general veretary,
Dr W. A. Woor, of Cam- bridge University.
He
[1
new
to write a bank describing Na This yacht, built in 1938.
£100,000, carries a crew of 31. Global Trust properties.
have been The ride will last month: Several
the book will be little more than Invited for the cruise. 30.000 words lon
I fact, i will be
long been an active worker in Mackenzie
ridt. 110
Also on board will be Lance, Lady Docker's son by her rs: Thence marriage. He is 11.
15 bavelling
Left Wing causes, is a patron of Windermere-by train. British Peace Committee-the he will travel by car, organisation Just proscribed
by the Socialist Parly as
Communist campaign.
Communists
Red-and-white
MALLET, {
Incidental intelligence
The answer to the appeal of
"Ion ing to ask manage- Communism, she concludes, lies
field of tuents and traile anions to manica in the narrow less
grants GUL of their economies than in the wider and initial
*
*
can ur far more subtle one of history benevolent fumis. It
doue and 1 am going to fight and psychology.
Economic development in ajuntil the plan materialises," retinuc
NEW YORK columnist Danton spiritual vacuum is a brittle Walker quotes an aged Ber-weapon that would break in ANNÉ
The first hands." Westeni
LTHOUGH Captain 3.C. Sir Victoi muda taxi driver on in island's abjectives were the "Hopes and
of the Colonial A Brown has retired as mas. Communists: Pro- dughter of
Imaginations Haldane, J. B. 5.
Mallet, British Ambassador climate: "It never has been the
leaders" and to reach these tur of the 28,500-1on liner Pre- member of the Daily Worker Rome, has come to London to me since they dug the Panama
Conal," wedding to
would need all our ingenuity and torlu Castle he will make one skill.
more, voyage in her ns Com- London Express Service)
the Vaton modore of
Castle fcct.
There are 13 vice-presidents. ISS *Two
tessor
are
editorial board, and Professor prepare for her
Lord Dunboyne.
D. Bernal,
K. O. CANNON
THAT'S STRAIGHTENED
HER OUT A DTE-VCEVE
STOPPED SPINNING!
BUT IT STILL LOOKS LIKE A CRASH... ILANG ON! CARAMELLA!,
THE RIDDLE OF THE ROME REBELS
'BE THANKFUL FOR ONE- *THING - WI LIVE TO MEET' W.PETER HOLLIS AGAIN! SWE LOOKING FORWARD
TO THAT!!
Captain Brown plans to settle in Cape Town or Natal and will sail as a passenger to South Africa in the Pretoria Castle in a fortnight's time, I shall have exchanged my brass hat for a bowler," he says "but I shall ill be Dying my Commodore's fing. My retirement as Com- modore will take effect in a month's time.”
Captain Brown, who has been at cea for 49 years, joined the Union Castle company in 1900 and has been
on the South Africa service ever since, except for his periods of service dur ing the two World Wars.
Traised in sail, ho made three round-the-world voyages fore, he was (20.
bom
END OF A LONG RIDE
Police constable James Lord talks with weary ille David Delgado, four, In Bovington, Hartfordshire, England. Miami Havana, trip vla The lad compleled a 0,000-milie Bermuda and Gander after the plane he travelled on was held up due to regulations of an Anglo-1. S. air agreement landing at London, which prevented the plane's scheduled
Frosting
AIR PARCELS
CHEAPER TO HONGKONG
OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT
EMPIRE -
CABLES
Dr Theo sees the road out
From CHARLES WIGHTON
PILETORIA. South Africa Hay soon move out of the Em- pire and become a republic, Dr Theo Donges. Minister of the Interior, sald in a speech in the of Rus- Nationalist stronghold tenburg, 60 miles west of Pre- forla.
He started the country with this statement: "As a result of the London conference, the gall of allegiance to the King is no longer necessary, and that has opened a larred road to a re-
publie
Tarred roads are still a novelty in South Africa, which mostly bas rutted dirt tracks. And to most South Africana a tarred road means "full speed ahead." But since taking office Malan and his Ministers have shown the greatest restraint about their proposal for a republic.
So Dongen speech reopening the issue is a big surprise. He
this
for South plan gave Africa, with its 2,000,000 white people and 10,000,000 Negroes:- "Our ideal is to establish a nation and a white civilization. thr children's children must live in a European country."
M.P. gaoled
KINGSTON,
Jamaica,
A. G. S. ("Father") Coombs, who in 1937 sponsored the en- try into trade bour Leader
unionlsa of 1- William Dusta~ mante, has been gaoled for 30 days for disorderly conduct.
Coombs, u Socialist member of the House of Representatives, will not forfeit his seat.'
Fast work BOMBAY--Mra Italia Ben, Gandhi's 83-year-old uister, and bout the entered polities State Governmeni to her will within 24 hours.
An order raising college and school fees was withdrawn ofter Mrs Ben started a hunger strike in protest against it.
No itchy palms
DARWIN.
London, July 1950. NEW postal arrangements
Raden Utayo, just announced by the
General will es: Indonesian Ambassador to Postmaster mean that small parcels sent Australia, said on arrival here: from Britain to some places we will claim eastern New
"Australia need not fear that
in the Far East will cost Guinea. We keep our hands off only about a third of pre-other countries "affairs." vious minimum air freight charges.
+
Safety in width
to
SYDNEY. Forty eight- Mrs Doris McGuirk Until these new arrangements year-old
200-fi. cliff on came into effect on July 7 the fell over a
air tocks near Sydney. Her wide minimum weight of an freight parcel was one kilogram dress billowed out and acted as
parachute. She #1 and charges-particularly for lightly bruised.
people in this country wishing to send comforts to their hus- bando and sons in the British Forces were exorbitant.
8s. 6d. TO H.K.
was only
Short and sweet
NEBRASKA: A radle broad- Foster May, lost his caster. The minimum cost of a parcel Voice just as he started to eam- office of state paign for the under these arrangements and secretary of Nebraska. He will
Including custeins charges ele, stand anyway. He has mastered was:
to Hongkong-27 3d; to the use of a mechanical larynx.
to Singapore 20s 11d; and Kuala Lumpur 29% 3d.
The
air how
* Modern Menace
*
parcel post WASHINGTON: The mator- killed nine times as service will allow a minimum car has
of half a pound to be sent by many Americans as all the wars air and minimum charges will in which the United States has be: to Hongkong-03 64: 10been involved is
Singapor-Os. 9d: and to Kuala Britain Lumpur Bs.9d.
A wide, luxurious band of lace frosts the bodice of an absinthe green taffeta
The bodice gown. suspended from delicate shoulder straps and trim- med with tiny buttons that descend to the full skirt ending in a train,
Lr
since fought for independence 1770. Statistics issued by the Council show National Safety Export licensing and currency that 942,000 have been killed from 32,070,000 Injured control requirements are the and
caused by
Auto- same as for parcely sent by sur-accident ince routes.
has
mow
turned
mobiles.
turtle
This snapping turtle was found drowsing in a flower bed in Chicago, W. and was very stand-offish when Betty Gillick Introduced it to her bangle at the Animal Welfare League. But the dog wasn't too anxious to make friends with the reptile which was released in the forest premSITS.
t