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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 1948.

Mr. Chad Beginning To Wear Thin

(By Bill McNaught)

The blare of the loudspeaker has been heard once more in the land. It has been incessant and

insistent but fow. among Lou

Victors Beware don'

head. The clea may be practical and cheap, but to my mind it's slightly funereal. As a pall it palls. From the top of a bus in

TODAY IN

EUROPE

By

RANDOLPH CHURCHILL

Anyone who has any doubts na to the long-range Intentions of Tito's regime in Jugoslavla should examine the textbooks which are now being Issued for all schools. In the whole of Croatia and Slo- Yeule, there is today only one Catholic

school

Today, it's only a ship a week in her struggle to rule the waves again, but the yards are out for a "bull's-eye by December.

A Ship Every Day Is Britain's Target

•

Britain's shipping Industry -I Cost of the big fleet of pas- work in the marine engineering rrentest in the world until the senger and cargo liners now on shops, war is fighting for its life. · order to replace war losses may

The shipyards of the Clyde reach between £150,000,000 and ed in furnishing and subsidiary - Thousands mote are employ. and the Tyne and in Belfast £200,000,000. Still more orders industrico, the morning when the women

cennetin of drills and are in the blue-print stage. Crance ami hammers nanow

In 1938 25,000 men worked are scurrying to their offices

Tunctioning and growing army of shipbuild. Even Americans Astonished

the shipyards and about 10,000- they look like a horde of re-Ardbishop

Stepinac's owners work to regain for Britain.

in the marine engineering shor fugees.

seminary in Zagreb. All other her reputation as the world's The largest foreign contracts Today building is giving more What smart hats there are religious schools have been closed greatest maritimo ination placed in Britain for 25 years employment than at any time are mostly expensive-looking down on one pretext or another. Britain lost that reputation will mean a $30,000,000 export gince the boom period after the confections draped around with Therefore, what is being taught because of her enormous ship of British-bullt teinage. irst world war.

Last year British shipyards yurda of tulle and coloured oat-in the state schoolt affords, guide ping casualties during tht war: launched nearly 1,000,000 tons under the round the stroots in their care rich feathers. They Bcom to to what the future of Jugoslavia She threw every ship she had of merchant shipping, and the class cargo ships-not the old-

Victors Beware" is the title of

minister..

Round

נח

traditionally apathetic voters have needed the exhorta- to "Voto on Thursday ⚫ challenging new book from the

night." For days now, those pen of Salvador de Madariaga,"

queueing for a bun, a piece of who may justly be regarded as fish or a cinema seat have been the greatest liberal political philo- bludgeoned by doleful baano sopher aliver Madariaga was a profundo voices.

have gone the fireless canvassern booming out through their loud- speakers the old Party alogana: bulld "Lot privatenterprise your homes for you," or "La- Mr. hour gets things done." Chad (why isn't he called Mr. Chide) appeared on the pos- ters in a nice shade of blue: "wot! No houses?" he asked. To this question the Sociatiate apparently had no answer so to the onlooker the joke fell a bit flat. One was hoping it would 'evelop into the Battle of the Chads..

Cabinet Spanish republic. But he gained his international reputation, as well invaluable experience, by his work as a member of the Secre- ariat of the League of Nations, Since the rise of France, he has lived in exile, mostly in England. He has written nearly twenty books, many of which have had vide success. But none is hallenging to the conscience of the world as "Victors Beware." -Many liberals who allowed themselves to be forced, by fear of Fascism, into alliance with Com- munism will be surprised at some

As a figure of fun Mr. Chad

#

la Jikely to ke

Into the

list.

complete total of ships on the reglater totalled. 898,000 tons.

"Pre-war tonnage, when labour and material were ready at

in 1934 to 856,000 tons in 1936, and 921,000 in 1937.

suit the more glamorous types,

struggle: lost more but are hardly for wornen who All the new schoolbooks are than a quarter of her original

militaristic tonnage. who incline towards the habit highly nationalistic of the ostrich.

and, totalitarian in their tone.. Today ships take top place Fashionably minded women One picture book intended for on British Industry's priority hand, ranged from 460,000 tons are having to content tham-children of 5 and 6 shows tanks selves with seeing in the week advancing on Tricate." A book of ly glossles pictures of the songs for children of the Kathe lovely gowns they're not going age contains one song in which to get. Everything is still for a child apostrophizes "My dear export only. Mostly the ten-little machine gun.” dency among couturiers is to go all Edwardian: hubble skirts, wasn-nists, puffed shoulders, There are compro- busties. mises to the romantic (with a

new line in very bare backa)

and to the exotic (Spanish

Wholesale arrests, proscriptions, and the general atmosphere of a police stato which now prevails might be written off as the evitable aftermath of the resin tance movement and civil war. Optimists might hope that, with the passage of time, the regime more liberal in methods. There was a time when I myself shared

Madariaga's conclusions. After is wearing a bit thin now dos mantillas and Bedouin hoods). would become loss dictatorial and

I

postulating that political freedom pite his rotund appearance.

could not raise a laugh at all and personal liberty rank far high the other day when in a depart. er in the scale of human values mental store I found they were than mere economic security, it selling metal replicas of the writes: "After undergoing deadly bald-headed Caliban. There he peril from the right, liberty now he was peeping over his neat is just us seriously threatened | brick wall end beneath him were

Madariaga also chalked the words "Wot!" No from the left." has the courage to state the fol- A showcard informed customers chalk in any lowing unpopular truth: scicer which, in order to ensure phrase of their cholen in the ap- read for a small minority, sacri-propriate blank space.

pre sume the new toy has given fices the liberty of all is not a community of men but a set of one fund to some of the peo

"A that they could

ple some of the time.

Sad Lock

News: colour is bottle green. Just the thing for the envious

woman.

Film of the Week is "Lisbon Story". It's an English pro- duction but the critics don't like it. Said one, "I won't do the players the dis-service of mentioning them.”

auch hopes.

No Censorship

To the credit of the regime, it

What War Poril Cost Us The British Empire began the war with a-flcat of 28,309,- 000 tons. Last June there was only 19,600.000 tons of dead- weight shipping afloat.

America had only 12,100,000 tons in 1939. increased her

In six years she tonnage to 66, 800,000-more than four times her prewar total,

Priority demand is for high-

type tramp, but modern spoedy refrigerated easels,

Thred passenger diners aro being bulit, but most orders för

ef, the very high cost of bulld- ing.

new liners, are held up because

ing have increased by 250 per Costs of passenger ship-build-

cent, since before the warudi

of the building of 50 ships with From Tyneside comes newa a total gross tonnage of 297,-

Today's rate of British mar time recovery has astonished eveh America, accustomed high-speed ship constraction. We are now building chips faster and more cheaply than the U.S.

Orders have been flowing into 000. the yards quicker than the About 30,000 men are now ships can take shape on the working ол the Tyne and building berths.

builders say that they are book- Popular demand now is for ed up solidly for two years "tailor-made" craft rather than ahead. mass-produced tonnage,

Shipbuilders are making determined bid to capture the whole South American market. A special mission has visited Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Peru, and Uruguay,

construction.

tain's

frame

con-

the

Now, by agreement between Britain, the United States, and

Common commen i9 that Russia, the German merchant

there would be even more or- marine is to be divided equally

ders if Government policy were On top of all this fashion

However, as a result of my re-among the three Powers and

declared, and if the price of talk I give the latest prognos-

new tonnage were not so high. Lication by men's wear experts: cent visit to the country, Ive the transfer of vessels is tak "The general style for new de-conclusion that the Communists.

been reluctantly forced to the ing place.

At Belfast work is in hand Gross tonnage to be divided

or on order for more than 300,- digas, is in keeping with the who represent a tiny minority of totals 1,189,600, representing a Already our yards have more 000 tons. bigchested, athletic appearance the whole population, are deter

The building pro- of the returning British troops, mined to fasten their rule with value of more than £20,000,000. orders, in and for foreign gramme includes a number of

Two dominant Jackets will be well built up at iron and unbreakable chains on

maritime countries than at any time since crack liners, refrigerated ships the shoulder over a big chest. the whole country for mercy the growth of the U.S. as the to ensure full employment for minions, cargo-passenger steam- facts emerge from the war-4018, and there is enough work to bring food from the Do- To think otherwise is to delude coming down to slim hips and aneself and, what is worst, to de- world's biggest shipowners and the next three years. with high-placed, jetted pockets lede others,

ers to ply on Empire sea routes, the disappearance of Germany One of Britain's biggest oll-tankers, and floating whale and hack-drape to give case of

and Japan from the world's shipbuilders told me yesterday: factories. tables for animals. That civilis-

arm movement."

trade routes.

"The industry in 1945 increas- Every slip at the famous firm ed society must struggle against

The British Government has edits annual output by nearly of Harland and Wolffa is oc- Actually there is no end to festitution, we all are agreed the criticisms one could put into

must be stated fint, unlike the decided that it should be left to 3,000 tons in spite of the cupied, and the

yard will be That it must stake the liberty of the mouth of Mr. Chad. There

practice,

to rebuild switch-over period and the can busy for the next two years- in ather totalitarian Private enterorise

of Admiralty most of its citizens to conquer it, is still a sad lack of all the

countries, there's no censorship of the Morchant Service to its pre-eellation

work for almost 80,000 men. dispatches sont by foreign corres- war strength.

trnota," never." Madariaga is at his best things one needs, and the list,

pondents. It's a pity that more Already shipowners have To recapture Britain's pre- exposing the false interpretation instead of getting shorter

Too Much American

Coal Is Biggest Headache newspapero don't take advantage | signed contracts for the con war shipping position the in- currently applied to so many words grows longer. My favourite

Piny of the Week is "Fifty of this to send correspondents to struction of vessels comprising dustry has set up an intelligence in our political vocabulary, such funne newspaper this morning

what is the over 2,100,000 see for thenutelves

Shipbuildora' biggest head- tons of dead- section to Fifty"

by Larson Brown, a cobbler wants

a five-year ache is the scarcity and high 13 Fascism and Democracy. He moans that the

true situation.

weight as the first stage in a plan for future ship design and cost of coal. shows that these words have been three weeks to do a job he would farce, originally by an Ameri-

seck They which, complains But though the foreign press is replacement programme.

anawers to three questions: to often prostituted that they have promised you in three days can author

-samé · cannot be said Ships totalling 1,612,810 tons Now a quick look round Bri- before the war.

Certainly the one august critic, suffers from free, the

1-What is going to happen have ceased to have any clear, ac-

shipbuilding centres.

to Britain's coal trade? cepted meaning. He also is abbler is not the only one who being transcribed into an Eng-for the domestic press. Though were under construction at the

lish setting.

it's in fact as end of 1945, and free,

cargo-liners Clydeside leads. How capricious, nominally

2.--Will coal continue to be his happiest in debunking such One has to wait three weeks for evening I was at the first night outride world is printed, and all

takes a long time to do anything. the the critics! Only the other closely controlled as the Russian are being launched at the rate Twenty-two yorda сп

press. Scarcely any news of the of one every week.

scarce and expensive? lib aspirations as are contained in the laundry, one week for the of the Ferber-Kauffman ahow newspapers are in effect nothing merchant ship will slither down have on order, more than 150 river between Glasgow and the By the end of the year a new open Firth Henry Wallace's slogan, "Cen-chemist to make up a prescrip- "Stage Door".

are building, or ury of the Common Man." "No, tion, and a fortnight before the morning every critic, including, Government and

The following but propaganda organs of the the slipways every day.

vessels totalling more than 600,- Mr. Wallace, a thousand times gas man can put your first again, that most august one, Party.

Lloyd's Register of Shipping | 000 tons. 10!" exclaims Madariaga. "Even But my, and other people's tron was complaining that the play

shows that in December last amall compard with suffered

Such news of the outside world yeat 392 merchant vessels were though I suspect we mean the bles, are

from not being as printed is far from objec- being built in our shipyards- same as to facts and policy, that those of a friend of mine who transcribed into TI English tive and always elanted to fit in

100 more than in December language, will not do. This and has had to wait fourteen days setting. The truth is that with the Government's foreign

1944. every other century must be that beyond his demobilisation date there

Naturally there's never many policy: of the uncommon man, without for the reason that there aren't American shows on in London anything but prales of Russia and

denigration

the Western whom the common man would enough typists to type a certain at the moment.

document he needs.

Alling at this moment, parti- are worse than he does. Life is

ruit an outburst for in- It is to this shackled world atance against the production on

cularly of Great Britain. No made rich and beautiful to the that the Government has called of "Dear Ruth"

opportunity ever missed to common man by men out of the for increased production.

yet another suggest that the Western Allies, tommon, and your flattery of the common man is a betrayal of the or no impression except to make character the "Jumor Miss." UNRRA supplies per month, are beer when a friend turned up who true values of our civilisati

employers come back with some This is now installed in the imperialists, blood-sucking capit These words should be pondered pretty smart retorts to Socialist West End while Sean O'Casey's alists and Fascists, The British med astonished at my diet, and by all who seek to instruct public criticism of private enterprise new play has to find a home in and American, Ambassadors have tor of diet and diseases,

The captains of industry refuse the suburbs.

repeated protests to the made pinion rather than to cash in an

By all mean. Government, but so far without best doctor is Dame Nature, and Now as I have said before the to prejudices. The great merit any longer to be branded as in-say playgoers give us some new any results whatever.

book is 1: efficient parasites, and at the plays (to take the place of such of Madariaga's new

During the 43 days last springere le no doubt but that the old "n little of what you be naked to worn out pleces of arsenic and when the Jugoslava occupied fancy does you good" is sound.

saying ninifest searching for the trut me

help the country out of its dif- and very, very old lace) but let Trieste, they arrested and deport It isn't just what you cat, it's and his contempt for the passing ficulties. Workora, too, are in them be by British playwrights.ed to Jugoslavia a large number how you eat it that becomes quite the sallyary.julpes pouring into heavy meal. The blood around political fads and slogans of the full volee. Their main plaint i

After all, the

British play of italian citizens. Estimates of a big contributing factor. He castigates the idea that if they're going to be asked wright has a lot of good things the number of these deporteen that the recently liberated peoples to make more they ought at least to say. The success that "Thevary between of Europe can all be reclaimed to be given more. The workers Guinea Pig will undoubtedly Hardly any of them have been

heard of since. from servitude and set on the want more food and to ses more enjoy will be proof of that. To

perished. road to democracy merely by the things in the shops. The womehe West End, too has come a

rather creaky any called “A--

moment.

are

rather

too

There was

the Communist

Rise In Total Employment

Men employed number 31, 000; between 16,000 and 17,000 |

3-Are they to stop building coal-burning ships?.

Many million gross tons of British shipping la still depen→ dent on coal for bunkerá

They have other problems, but on the whole things go well with the British bid to make a shipping "come-back."

GRAHAM STANFORD.

A Little Of What You Fancy Does

A new play about that frighting who today are providing 80 per I was sitting down to a supper of the 160,000 tons of of cold beef, pickles, dry bread and

yet the campaign has mado little and omniscient American cent.

timo

3000 and 7000.

conversation turned on the mat-

You

Good

By the

UNPOPULAR DOCTOR

Your mouth should watoe is

and afterwards bad to struggle to " keep awake from two, till three o'clock. Or perhaps they didn't.

Of course, the "Don't go to bod after a heavy meal" iden may serve as a useful excuse for, sit-........ ting up a little longer--and per- haps having a littls_drop_of something "just to settle *.” But Ill does not make it true.

Probably many is, nothing that is cheer you can smell cooking in the kit the working", muscles which, in

With regard to gastric and your mouth hopefully waitin for rule the piece of steak and onions that on ulcera, the mechanically irritating to the chen. stomadi should

be eaten. Chemical irritants aro mustard,

holding of elections and plebiscites. particularly want their lot made Man About The Houre." This, animous enthusiasm that papar, picides and spices, fried part of the process of digestion, And you got. cramp whon

seems to

*

to be

aftor.

But if you have forgotten bo

It is sensible not to bathe after the intestines attending to the digestion will not be available for,

their turn, are

are producing producta The salivary juices mixed with of combustion and throwing more wellchewed

food form the first] work on the body as a whole, Stop closing the day- He points out that the ruins in casier.

of all food and other pleasant things. a very English piece of drama clue has been eclipset. I prolife. which Europe today lies are "due nurseries, they say, get our wage has, it is true, a lot of old lace phesy that

The next stage takes place in swimming out of your depth, you the stomach.

may not get back to tell us all settled, and

"Enemy Coust to a general election that which, discrepancies

Mochanical irritants are cab and arsenic about it but it wil Ahead".

There are lots of food faddists, about it. make, it engler, for. 48

to capture the publle's fancy be-book of last week, or this week skins of fruits, including those to doctor's household I wasn't allow you are hot and sweating after will not be just the bago atalles, coeds pipa and the When I was a child and in a "Don't have a cold drink when on April 11, 1932, elected Hin- do our shopping, Tho denburg president of the German situation

cause of the great acting of or next week. It will be the be found in mince meat. Reich and to a plebiscite which veloped into a wrangle at the it seemed, on the first night of Wrote one reviewer: "Let none

ed to drink at meal times; it had sorelse. Why not? It is not have de- Basil Sydney and Flora Rodson book of several weeks ahead.

half an hour before or the cold drink that will do you by an 82 percent majority, con montent but it should soon clear this play, "that

any harm but not patţing on more firmed Hitler's hold on Germany itself up, and before long the theatrical London and many of Guy Gibson lifts the soul and without any comploto, explanation, the whole of fall to read it. The story of It appears to be recognland,

clothes to stop you getting chilled. in August, 1934" Madariaga is drive for increased productior the elite had turned up to Hec fortifies the spirit." Truly that if a patient with in ulcer

the middle of a hot game. Why But don't have that cold dringe equally forceful in attacking the may be gaining momentum Flora Robson's return to the is a very English book written goes to bed ho can apparently eat fore, and aro, thirsty ve miest not? You won't play so wall after contention that the war was fun- There will be more to report London stage after a much re-by a very English man. almost any food without pain. times. Nature instinctive thirst you do but I don't know tho damentally one of ideologies. He quite soon...

gretted absence. 1. novor sÓW While carefully whiling away But then, of course, not many is right-o drink, writes: "Greece, though under a

so many mink coats in my life a half-hour in

can spend their time in bed. Some folk ay they can eat reason. und of Fleet folle ou have an ulber, you know pears but not apples-or appice totalitarian regime,pe: the "out-[

as were huddled into the aud Street's tap-rooms the other Women in London, lot it b tortum of the Piccadilly theatre day I could not help but over that emotional upset particularly but not soare. Why, I can't break of the war, fought heroically admitted, are not looking very that avching. Notables among hear an

One patient was going to take for the cause of freedom. Den smart just now. But that's ma, the audience were the Chancel made among a party of men it be that prolonged rotiro

introduction being anger and anxiety, has unpleasant think. Thank goodness most of his girl to the flicks, mosting

repercupsions on your inside. And us can eat both, mark; a crowired republic, be because we are at the fag for of the Exchequer, Beatrice Just next to me. Before you may be taken only by to diget your food. It may some ham sady on wha

A 'af checso after a meal ber direct from her work, cumbed to Hitler's mildest pult. and of the winter and becaus Lilley, Egmond Knight and

advised "Ham sandwiches,” he Train," said one, 80, Mr. Finland, a real democracy, fought Sir Stafford has been around John Gielgud to name but four. would like you to meat Mr. Sc placent minda

comparatively com- or it may not, but the cheese said with horror, "I have read those with

Stilton, Lähi | Teol on the wrong side. These are for so long. (Ebat of the cou I'll confirm what a London and-So". The two shook

very nice, especiasor. Gorgot. hat they are terriblyIndiger. things we must look in the face if ponal And, na yot, it is too columnist has already

Fourie retirement, to damilre or And, of cour sald hands. Mr. So-and-So evidently the bedroom stisolves one rom zelako. How we look forward to be." we are not to be suffocated by early to be thinking of Spring about Glaigud going bald. is being delighted to meet the attempting to deal with the word their returninistrator

‚"!" can't" "help" what you havO humbug" "Victors Beware" is a Whon, the sun comes out, then, it, I wonder because of his ro- celibrated radio comedian. "Will leg of the hours hold and of "Don't go to bed after a baary read"; told him, 21 thik ham

Why not to what, the sandwiches Ons and 14 believ timely work. And if a political, we will see some saucy cont tour the more tropical you have a drink with me 1 life, waiver meal.

new bald about town and, at last, parts of the world? nho naked. But Jack Train was our are seldom found in ons do and we the body is doing good many other folk go

Hosle oler, the

circulation and Though they are not now 6sally ing This in largely duct head dress which women gave Book of the Week In the fato dined the Invitation by put salafactory philosophy digestions! Madariaga's gift for epigramo been affecting for de long, The Guy Glowon'"Enunu axCoast Hng on his wall known fruity his quality: Fasciam is but the deed for too long, The present Ahead"". Strigily

ant to retain to the bat And Bones, are not Lie on Chinstrap voice and sayingTM!"

muck your Attitude to the food as What about those gentismen in muddy image of Communium ↑ modo because hats are ap expen-

hope you don't und

The food itself that makes the the City who, on a bot summe Waters of fear."

zive, is to tie a scarf round thế

day before the war, lundbeS.

Women's Fashions

book, it is astonishingly light read twin ond to the beasant types Baker illicht Book Read a hurry,:lip graciously do thois.who Viva Reciuired: a) TOBA other party concentrates come by. TAMAM

and videnje

It là better to sit up from the table feeling we

bit moret and

of the