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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 22, 1940.

GOVERNMENT PUSHES ON WITH COLONIES BILL

London, To-day. MR. MALCOLM MACDONALD, Minister of Health and for- mer Colonies Minister, yesterday moved the second reading of the Bill authorising expenditure of £5,000,000 a year for ten years for colonial development and wel- fare and £500,000 a year on colonial research, as well as remitting loans amounting to over £11,000,000 from the United Kingdom to the colonies. He said it was characteristic that while every ounce of our energy was being thrown in the tasks of discomfiting, defeating and destroying the enemy, yet the House found time to turn and offer substantial and generous encouragement to colonial development.

"At this critical hour of the world, I war and were part of the normal mark the passage of this Bill through peacetime development of British co- the British Parliament as a sign of lonial policy. ultimate victory.

The money would be devoted to re- "This nation will pass triumphant, search, building clinics, hospitals, ly through Its present ordeal, how | schools and so on. over hard, grim' and desperate the struggle may be, and when the enemy is worsted and the finished, Britain will still exercise vast responsibilities for the govern ment of colonial peoples.

war

"In the meantime-we-must-not-de-- fault upon our colonial obligations. We must not let slip the experienced skill of our guiding hand, we must even now have constant care to protect and promote the well-being of our fellow subjects in the Empire overseas.

True Guardians

"In these sombre days our anxieties and hopes are fully shared by the peo ples

of the colonies. It seems to me that one of the most notable assurances that our cause is just is the fact that these distant peo- ples, alien to us in race, who are ruled by us, sprang instantly and spontane ously to our side at the moment of the declaration of war.

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"There are some 50 colonial tors

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attached Government also. particular importance to giving assis- tance to works of economic develop- ment. These works would enable them to exploit to the maximum the natural. resources of these territories "which would-place a colony In-a- position to finance out of its own ra- sources the administrative and 80- clal services required,

Object was that the colonies should become as far as possible self-sup- porting units-Reuter.

FREEDLANDER

EXHIBITION

ART-LOVERS AND ANY WITH ANY PARTICULAR PRETENSIONS TO A KNOWLEDGE OR LOVE OF REAL ART, SHOULD MAKE A SPECIAL POINT OF NOT MISSING ERNE FREEDLANDER'S EXHIBI- TION OF 60 OIL PAINTINGS, WHICH CLOSES AT 7 P.M. TO-DAY

ritories. Most of them are far re: moved from the scene of our Euror poan quarrels, Many of them are comparatively small communities who, in these circumstances, might AND IS BEING HELD IN THE HALL well have thought to excuse them-OF ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL. selves from suffering the hazards and dangers of modern war. But not one of them chose to take that

course.

"I think it significant that these 60,000,000 people, scattered over 50 distant territories, who are not free to govern themselves and who are governed by us, recognise instinctively from that experience that we are the true guardians of the liberties and happiness of small peoples."

Not Bribe Or Reward Nevertheless the proposals for as- sistance towards colonial development were not a bribe or a reward for the colonies support in the present supreme crisis.

They were conceived long before the

Some will definitely not like her work, but the artist does not ask for appreciation; she asks for understand- ing of her aims and work. The fact that many consider her to be Hong Kong's leading artist-some go so far as to say Hong Kong's only artist should be a strong inducement to all interested in art to make a point of attending the exhibition.

The paintings are not photographic or realistic, but interpretive and poe- tic, they are of a type: new to Hong Kong.

Those who have seen her earlier works, when she first arrived in the Colony, will be interested to note how the light and atmosphere of Hong Kong has changed her "treatment" to a marked degree.

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