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Frank Owen
sends from Indonesia a blunt warning to the nations of the the wise West from one of
men of the East-
We'd be mad
H
to let Reds get in
JAKARTA.
FAI SALIM looks venerable and wise, as you sip ten with him in his house at Nin! Ayemi.
here
This ig a world-wide problem. But out here the colours are deepened and contrasts heightened. the
mad if we We should he failed to tackle it ourselves, and left the masses of Asia exposed to the propaganda
answer.
Well, maybe not O venerable the slight, white beard could be deceptive, that Communism is the only He has a quick, questing glance, talks very well in volubly, and English and answers only the questions in English which he chooses to hear.
I am
sure that anyway Jaji Salin is wise.
SYMPTOMS
WELL, don't let them con-
fuse things: and don't
let us confuse them either. Here, the rich man is still He is one of the three in his castle, with the poor chief advisers to Dr Intia, man at his gate, Premier and Foreign Minis-
True, the poor
is
ter of Indonesia. Dr Hatta has a reputation in the Far knocking at the gate. But East
As a
and prudent statesman.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, AUGUST 26, 1950.
"The one drawback abam the Socialist Paradise is the beggarly 450 travel allowance permitted for getting out of it"
JEBB the GIANT KILLER
BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
career
the estate of his LAKE SUCCESS. TALL. terse, trenchant family in Scotland.
Jebb. Sir Gladwyn knowledgeable that is not necessarily Con- it may munism, though
Britain's new repre- turn into it if he knocks in! vain-and has
to knock it sentative in the Security
Council, has become down.
Javourite with American nu- Here, over a vast domain diences at Uno's sessions on Here is a man who takes the white man is still mas-Korea.
ter, and the black, brown, and yellow man is servant.
His choice of Haji Salin as counsellor is possibly both evidence and effect of this.
a
deep interest in adult education, which he by no means confines to his own people. He profers some shrewd suggestion to the nations of the West.
Thus, Haji Salim points out that in a peasant com- munity, where everybody can eat and live roughly by the fruit of his lalmurs, the lure of Communism makes no particular appeal.
Britain's spokesman
wife's at Uno becomes a TV
star for New Yorkers
The
London Express Service
THE GERM TURNS
FOR as
iong ns, I can
remember
my Uncle
Charlie has been complain-
ing of good
health-not
his own, mind you, but my Aunt Frieda's,
For 40 winters, to hear him tell it, he has been an easy
mark for colds,
catarrhs and rheumatic pains, while his wife has never developed so much as a snifle.
I united.
List February, when dropped in to see them at their Allen Street flat, Charlie was in bud, runny-eyed and carmine nosed.
"What gly:s?" "What always gives?" said my unde.
"Your aunt loses the u, I find it. She's got a con- stitution like a horse."
Frieda was in the kitchen warming up n plaster.
"Like a pastrami sandwich she treats me," said Charlie. "In all over mustard."
MY favourite relative; came to around the me
MAmerica
Teddy Roosevelt was elected,
by
BILLY ROSE
(a)
"I send my doctor down,” I
Gald, "and I'll be around in the morning."
But when I walked up the
three fights to their apartment the following day the door was opened by an obviously in-the- pink Frieda.
"What are you doing out of bed?"
My aunt motioned me in, and In the bedroom, propped up on pillows as usual, was Charlie.
"What happened?"
"What should happen?" said Frledn. "Your uncle get over- healed running up and down the stairs like a chicken,"
"I thought you find the 'flu." "Oh, that," said Friedn. "I
and the voyage aver, according Oxed it with a guggle-muggle."
to Charlie, was the roughest in the history of navigation. took 23 days and even the captala was castek.
EL
Frieda was the only one on bond who ate ruzzolarly, and gained an average of a pound
When the - day.
helm man
Fon
the
benefit of tho uninitiate, a "goggle-muggle" is on old East Side remedy com- posed 07
milk, warm
CIF. tonk to his bunk-stili accord honey, cinnamon and whisky.
"Wish your uncle happy re- g to Charlie-It was she who
said Frieda, "'s his foolt the wheel.
113 As for my turns," uncle, he
birthday." spent the entire
top "Yea. it's my birthday," with his head sticking out of 1
groaned Charlle, "and for a pre- porthole and, the weather big gent she gave me her 'fu.""
What it was, li was a miracle he
Express Service).
Those who know the 50- Office that man best say year-old Foreign bis lifetime of reading clas- about the only thing which sical literature, studying the two questions du memi
wasn't drowned. Because of (World Copyright Reserved--Londen This apparent immunity to Janganges and learning his to have."
disease, Frieda has always been tory-he took a First at
Sk Gladwyn's instinet for
one of the favourite daughters" of the East Side, especially when Though Jacob Malik holds Oxford has given him the
the sing
subternmeal acting Secretary-Genera, of the United Nations in London in to
quickly motive behind Malik's moves. cut
any of the neighbours are it. 1916. the share of the spotlight ability
For years now, she's been carry for the through the verbiage of an and his swift exposure of them, are also many always reserved
ing soup and solace to their the piece. Sir opponent, spot the weakness were equally cure witen Malik
their kids and black, brown, and yellow max villain of
160 diclate the ters-but 1 do not observe many
hig for a long time:eriuring white servants of these.
The Gladwyn has been stealing of the argument and expose attempted
both be misses gardening at therapeutle shortcomings. it in a concisely phrased anemia. Jeli blandly rulour ne is still plain for all the show.
"If we follow your own Halesworth, in Suffolke
bis home, Beniheld all, at "Herself, she don't net slek, answer-linged ።። one out. to see, and the increasing mil-
Every bul to me she brings back the be com-
Suplay Here, he ed to real Feins" is the way Charlie the Won in the villag: church. † explains her.
True, there
hons who see it resent it.
on
But that is not necessarily watching Communism, though it can be Nations session cume identified with if it wevision: "I'd rather watch ignore it. If the only way the that
team can csempe is by blowing
polmed
Jebb has wanted the post he homes, ten doctors on their i
now
Jebb has
Said one American after American newspaperman suestion, we shall
the United called It with "classic refled Best of all to vote against your proposed items-which is tele British_neld."
crazily what you want us to do
At Lake Success and which, therefore, we should impressed everybody-probably inclucting Malik--with his logeal prefer not to do....
Blair for organisation, Russians and Russian tactics his ability to diagnose a situa are not new to Jebb.
tion quickly and his modesty. one of Churchill's principal
than the
guy And wrestling Those trenches
the cylinder's heat, then it will wrestlers." blow its head
matches rank high on the popularity lists of American TV.
ull-
The lure, and power, of
The British had the savvy to Communism is that it rense this in India long ago, and the imagination to prepare for promises to fill a vold-the. We left her with
#treat Another Americo spec- vast void of the amply Erquesta tester apparatus of human belly."
el ministration and a mastator at Uno, after watching
Sir Gladwyn visibly nificent military tradition,
either to their heirs. Here in Indonesia, the Dutch Herve the stolid Jacob Malik commented with admira tion....
"and thus Saint RESULT: Över quite half of George, armed only with his
sharp tongue,
Now, even in these gar den isles of Indonesia (the soil really looks the richest, the trees and shrubs anti plants the greenest 1 ever saw), you must have seeds, w should recognise by that dragon." spades, sacks. transport, . The taxes are not col- medicine for the human and to, and peace-abiding
if zens are not profected. even the animal beast,
'll 131211 to make Mother
Nature part with
her bounty.
fla inland there is im govern- nent at all, 1 any rate ugh s
He was
WIEN Malik dramatically divers at Yalta, Britain's re- But says Jebb: "I'm no good
waved two photographs of John Fuster Dulles in a trench in Korea, and asked with great delicacy of wit: there
Was "Was he (Dulles) gathering violets?" it Sir Gladywyn who replied:
"No amount slew the
of photo. raphs of Mr Dulles in trench-and I only wish Jobb is compared there. hud been favourably with our past treuches; no suggestion delegates to the United that he blmwelf first rushed Nations who, in turn, are across the frontier; no regarded by most Ameri- petition of arguments which refute сал WITH hus "Heavenly Host of cans us more colourful than a child could
love their own representatives.
obscure the patent fact that it was the North Korean
WARNINGS
citi-
nearly raised 20
Indonesia does nut pos- sess. and cannot yet pro- ferling very duce, the spades, hoes, Victorious revolt.
ploughs, tracks, trains, or Today freeps of the not-yet- even enough rice for all her disbande
Dutch East Indies Army are in open mutiny in. the
The right word
70,000,000 suns and daugh- Celebes at Ambon the former HE is credited with more
ters.
MOTIVES
guerilla
liveliness than
presentative in preparatory con- at crossword puzzles. I never térences for the United Nallons can think of the answer."
FEW days ago, however, my. unele telephonert and, with- out bothering to suppress the triumph In his voler, said: "Frieda to not like a juancake. She's got a 'fu, with complica- tions yet?
3
Here is good news about Cancer
more
ru-
troops whe in large numbers
and heavily armed, crossed the frontier on June 24, June last."
Sir native levies have declared
rparate State: at a score of Alexander Cadogan: mure ponts the ren by terror.
A now unitary Constitution inuated-and Dr
rangsters direct approach than Sir of Mr Malik's reign as chair-
THE nations of the West has been
Hartley Shawcross.
Throughout the first week
man of the Security Coun- cil. Sir Gladwyn, in the But it is Jebb's ability to words of James Reston. can provide, or purchase, Shariyah, the 1st Frime Mints use the right word at the diplomatic correspondent of tee, stred me that nowhere right time and his mastery the New York Times, de- these necessities-and, near enough all
preparation had
of the British art of under monstrated that the British indeed, to a large extent been made.
stulement, that has made have not been practising America is already doing it.
Finally, for gozel memure, Jebi FL favourito with the gentle art of verbal general strike of all plantation United Nations audiences. homicide at Oxford all these workers Was Timed for last Saturday.
American delegate War years for nothing."
"But," asks Haji Salim, and not entirely rhetorical ly, "why is she doing it? To
None of all this is dire aren Austin challenges In the quiet, patient voice help us to get up on our
is deter- own feet and stand there Comunids will not fail to ex-Malik's arbitrary rulings in of an adult who economically? Or to fight ploit it. It is the backwash of a manner that is often (as mined to be reasonable at all
the at past "Colonialism."
New York's Communism politically?"
Times costs with an infuriating too brat of a child, Jebb, in re- Indonesian Go pointed out) "almost
in
the East to discredit
"Communism,” though
The youn!
ald of the
Thus Haji Suline posca vernment needs not the conangry." Other delegates ply to an attempt by Malik the argument which the descentog patronage or even take issue in ponderans. to link the Korean and Chin- Communists ceaselessly urge only the concrete
nations in the West. It needs, rambling fashion. But Jebb ese questions, said: "It is his verbal burbs true that both China ami Haji Salim says, their usuler places stancling. their patience, and with the sume precision Korea are in the same part with which he aims a rifle of the 'world....but this when he is hunting slag on geographical connection
all aid from the West.
They put it this way: "You are being roped in, bribed in, if you like, to serve as front-line cannon-! fodder against something that the West fears."
It must be admitted that the Americans themselves "help this legend by their emphasis on "anti- Communism."
But Asin's masses are far: less against "Communism," which they do not yet know, than they ard against "Colonialism," which thuy do low-und don't want any longer, whether brand is Dutch, French, British, or American...
its
And what is Colonialism to them? It is social and racial inequality.
their comradeship.
(Laulen Express Service)
CRIME QUIZ
By Leonard Gribble Sketches bu Ą. E. Morley.
THE EMPTY CAGE
All los called in Pe Brown, the village constable, to bar country cottage when she found her pet parrot mlsing one morning. Har nephew Jim, who also lived in the college. had been complaining.of the blis chalik white he studied
Misa feat explained that sna "tilled The carrot's seed and water bowl the previous night. The door of the cage was tricky to flow One nao to twist the latch in a certain way, or else bang
$ dog. Har cephew had gone put that morning before she got un
Brown questioned the neprew -Why don't you bring your Burt's parrof tick?" "How do you know I've got it?" said len When P-c Brown told him he brought the bird
What did P- f from the woochied
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