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CORONATION

OF THEIR MAJEŠTIES KING GEORGE VI QUEEN ELIZABETH

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KING GEORGE VI

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A CORONATION ODE

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THE KING'S MAJESTY

THE FIGNIFICANCH OP THR, CORONATION TO THE EMPIRE BY JOHN DRINK WATER

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cross ("John Bull his mark") on some decentish plain paper will do for

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business men. But if Major Tryon nurses some higher ambi- tion he should certainly be allow- ed to see what he can do.

Britain On The Mui Tsai

Publication in England of the Mui Tsai Commission's report finds the “Manchester Guardian” strongly endorsing the views ex- pressed by Miss Picton-Turber- vill If, says the journal, it were possible to discover what girls are mui tsai the present legisla- tion in Hong Kong properly en- forced, would be sufficient to abolish the practice. The diffi- With an air of triumph in the culty, as the Commission and all achievement, Major Tryon has other investigators have realis- announced that the special Cor-ed, is that the possessors of a onation stamps of four denom-mui tsai naturally claim that the inations will be ready in time for child is something else an the Coronation. One of the de- illegitimate daughter, a child left nominations will be of special pat-in their care by relations, or, tern, of the elongated type intro- generally, “an adopted daughter- duced for the Silver Jubilee. in-law that is, a girl child Perhaps the occasion is one adopted until she is old enough warranting congratulation and to marry a son of the house. an air of self-satisfaction, for, The only practical measure without going into intricate dis that has ever been suggested to cussions on designs, Britain's stop this is to register all adopt- stamp issues are something of a ed daughters-in-law and,

if all children trans- mystery as compared with those necessary,

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of other countries. They manage ferred from their parents care. the job more often and more The Governments in Hong Kong easily elsewhere. France and and Malaya have always resisted the United States, for instance, this on the ground that such frequently produce new and measures would logically lead to commemorative designs and ap-the registration and supervision parently without the least fuss of every girl in the colony or difficulty. The French have proposal which the male mem- just issued what is certainly an bers of the Commission the adequate and even a distinguish-would be "administratively i ed portrait stamp of Corneille in practicable and politically un- salute of the three-hundredth desirable.” The Commission ma- anniversary of the appearance of jority, therefore, recommends "Le: Cid." So they did for that the present policy be con- Pasteur; and 80

the United|tinued and suggests only minor States does whenever it sees a improvements in administration. suitable occasion for a new de- But though this may be success- sign. In those countries appar- ful in time, it is obviously not ently a new stamp of dignity and going to put a stop to the prac- interest can be turned out once a tice now. Miss Picton Turbervill, year if there happens to be occa- who recognises this, boldly faces sion for it, and there seldom the fact that mui tsai cannot be seems to be any sign of con-treated separately from the troversy either before or after. whole problem of transferred Britain, on the other hand, children. Only by registering changes its stamp designs much and supervising every child. more rarely and, latterly, there transferred--no matter for how has always been some sort of legitimate a purpose will it be controversy about the result. It possible to ensure that no child méans endless, letters to editors, becomes a mui tâi or is sold nt later into prostitution. The Gov- questions

Parliament, ap- peals to this body of experts and ernment, therefore, has a choice that and nothing that bears between enforcing some - such comparison with the best and measure, even at the cost of smoothly produced issues of antagonising the backward sec other countries emerges at the tion of the Chinese population, end of the turmoil. If ever there and allowing slavery to continue was an example of much cry and in the British Empire. littlewool it is the British

method of stamp-making. The Ramo TO-DAT ́S QUOTATIONS

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result at best is just about toler able, but it certainly does not IDEAL: I do not think that we justify the time we take to think should propose anything that about it or the pother that aur looks like a bargain to Germany. rounds the subject.

Accords cannot and should not be Perhaps we had better give it reached otherwise than in a spirit up and more or less announce of confidence and on a footing

MS Blum. that we are, as is well known, a equality wonderful people in all sorts of

ways but we just cannot cope

PROBLEM: “It is not a question

Our

with stamp-making. We can lick of favouring

lem in to stamps, collect stamps, argue human righ

of about stamps, and find artists to make - this great federa

gde Staten

Robert H. Jackson. deplore their maniföld ficiencies or experts to explain

the technical refinements that MUDDLING THROUGH: "Per- have gone unnoticed, but we haps it is absurd to expect an simply cannot produce new glishman to think things out be- stamps, even after long intervals forehand. for consideration, with the same Ines.

John Maynard – Key-