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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1946.

British Empire

In Evolution

into

to

It la not necessary to travel in a constant temptation

that expanalonist powers who see an far these days to know there are many people h the opportunity to strike in force world who think, say and write where Britain can only defend that the British Empire has in weakness. Thus these cut- outlived its usefulness and that posts can become a menaco to ita continuance Its present countries like America which form

develop

are always drawn into Britain's might

wire." menaco to world prace nad to economic reematruction. Even fate of the new draft Constitutin America, where we find our tion. More than that, it kan Warment friends and frankest severely shaken the balance of critics, there is a feeling that John Bull is showing an un parties which has kept powe justified obstinacy in standing the uneasy coalition of Popular

and not against

"progress" Republicans, Socialists and Com- munists now serving together in ¡AL. Bidault's Cabinet. The pro- posed Constitution is not formal- ile a Government reasure, but June für which the House as a while s responsibility:

al parties in the Government ave repeatedly voted against onel another on various of its clause- It has, however, always been is sumed that in its final form i would go 20 Referendum thi

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make it clear that any party which dues in fact back it is ac sared of upposition at the Ele- Itions which follow the Referen {dum from him and from any wh

follow his lead,

of its votes in the country.

lowers have

putting the Empire into liqui-

dation.

Napoleon was much annoyed by a British Empire whose porta victualled and repaired the British Fleet. "Wherever my armies renched water," he wrote at St. Helena, "there we

By

J. P. N.

We In Britain do not deny an element of logic in that cane. Had Japan been more advanced industrially and as a the fall of Malaya might have led to the military power.. successful invasion of Australia with the result that Amerien's whole strategy in the Far East. would have become involved and impeded Therefore, Hay Britain's

why

not

erilica, break up the Empire, giving complete liberty to all the units of the Carnmonwealth, with the United Nations acting as the oaternal mentors and guaran- torn 7"

would an-

found British ships." From the If I were asked to name the same ports the Kaiser's navy quality that I have grown most

to distrust in mon was driven from the seas and

рассяя the

of Shangulation swer: "Over-simplification."

One of

of the ellors of an In the year following began.

American

circulation mass the defent of France. Hitler

been Ins was held at arms length by the weekly magazine British Navy, operating from journeying In the Far Enxi. Halifax, Sonthamptes. Ports Everywhere he sees the gras mouth, Gibraltar, Malta anding hand of British imperin- | Alexandria, keeplug the Atlan-lism: British troops firing an

rrin- Indonceian patriots. on Egyp the open and convoying forcements to the British tion patriots and on Indian arintes in the Middle East, patriots, while holding down Eventually, when America Greek patriots. No wonder the

shuke entered the war and her migh- over-simplifiers

beads.

Nor are all our critic: ty legions sailed for Britain, hea

States.

TE: the United of Ulster in the loyal territory

from Russians are also very cross

Wherever they turn El the with us. which the R.A.F.

their eyes in their expanding search for security they come up against British just as Napoleon encountered British ships.

acted

an air base 38

thel

interest

by a thread it was from Scot-subjected to criticism and die The British Empire should he lund that the convoys left for

cussion in every quarter; an that desperate ru te Mur- has no right to survive unles mangk.

it can

meet those criticism When the Angh-American

cas

nica.

What Are The Facts?

Let us look at these out-

forces went to

CARNIVAL

By Dick Turner THAT'S A

, PAY, DIY,

5-7

"I guess little Pelham look it seriously when we joshed him about fading the lost chord!"

TO-DAY

EUROPE

From Stockholm

IN

Paris. canes over-supplied,

en

Textiles,

CATTY

THING

-By_Nat Gubbins

"Sunday Express"

Humourist

Manhattan Mouser, American good-will cat, who arrived in this country with the first American troops, left for New York with a U.S. division in the lier Queen Mary.

Before the ship sailed from Southampton ..he was inter- viewed by a number of report who asked him what ho

about England.

ста

like Notor

plied;

a darn thing." he re-

+

"except for some of the dames, including Sally the Cat. And I'll say she's a swell dame."

Asked what he didn't like about

England, he said:

"Every darn thing, except some of the domes, including Sally the Cat. And I'll say she's

swell dame.

"What

you think about English cooking?" asked foolish reporter.

"I'll say it stinka," replied the out-spoken cat.

public

English courtesy in shops, restaurants, houses, and public

asked the same fool.

services?!"

" say it all stinks." For a few minutes the re

portera were silent while

the

American ent Ignored them.

washing his tail.

Then one of them asked: "What did you think

our general election?"

about

Looking up for a moment

Manhattan Mouser said:--

*There's П

lot of smart, in-

50

From a city of splendor and short. In leading hotel, paper bundance to a city of haunting sheets and pillow slips. and

tellectual

country seanly, sadness and, for many, paper towels supplied.

etual guys in the That was aj ear starvation.

re- who say that America is Copenhagen is rapidly ourbey 1 made, staying covering its gaiety as the "Paris years behind everybody else in ute at Copenhagen, The Hague of the North." Anxious for political thought, including the and Amsterdam and Brussels.

trade with Russia. Strongly Eskimos. But who cares about How

Western .are these

but political thought and who wants pro-British in sentiment, Suropean countries today, as an Ace

We're the the et the

Rig to be an Eskimo? tip Bear's paws near her borders, first in plumbing and eating, and Communists active minority when it comes to other inds Nation stretched to the utmost of comfort we got the swellest, ritzicat, best lookin' dames in in drive to restore prosperity,

the the world, Holland Hats off to

The hell with he hideous memory of Dutch for stupendous achieve politica and economics and every ades a little and recovers some ment in recovery, Dombed. by other goddam thing that worries

By RANDOLPH CHURCHILL

Food, abundant and n high-level plot in Egypt to Then why, in 1946, has there open the gates to the enemy. The. famous City Hall, like

WIL

a guy

There was anit

all

reator-

of

only one moro

question to ask, so somebody asked it: "What do you think about the end of Lease-Lend?"

"A lotta punk's been talked' about Lease-Lend." said Man-

Mouser. "Our Senator Claud Pepper wrote in

in one of the

English noospapers: As a member of the Foreign Relations Committee of the Senate which has handled Lease-Lend from the beginning,

I know, as well, as all members of Congress know, that Lease-

Party Conversation It was the same sort of party conversation:

To M. Bidault, who is EXCIT merely Prime Minister and For cign Minister, but the leading Nos. 4, 5, 6, 7, etc.,

figure in the Popular Republican Assorted in Different Colour & Shape and Sizes. Movement, the situation offer

peculiar embarrassment. In adrapidly assembling American Tel. 23865-dition

to his worries with the

Air Force were able to guard Peace Conference and the econo

the approaches to British porta, mic problems of his country, mo A Ubiquitous Empire mentarily accentuated by an im

When Russia's survival hung Iminent strike of Treasury officials he kas the unhappy choice be tween opposing at this late stage a measure for which his own party bas had a major responsibility

f its purpose and pleasure?

Let us take them, in turn, friend and foe, with large areas

flooded, famine-stricken, an, on the other hand, placing armade was ready for the in- and justify its existence. It i

Brief pin-pointed picture. CBR2 that th his party in open conflict with vasion of North Africa it was in that spirit that I shall tr:

Sweden --- A throbbing whole forced to live on tulip bulbs in Gen, de Gaulle, to whom many When Hong Kong, Malaya and Empire is even more indispen

at Gibraltar that it assembled. to make the

British Commonwealth an

a whole, the stage, provides one of the ynamo of energy. of its members still look for guid- W

the Philippines were ance. Much of the support which Australia was one of the prin- too when there began the hun Unable today then after Water-

aticn at work and needing Postwar miracles.

Labour productivity is 80 pes more man power. Coal shart-

delaying the fullest output cent. of prewar figure, despite buttan fit received, particularly at the last cipal bases from which Ameri- dred years of the Pux Britan

in-food shortago and inevitable of industry, but supplies Election in June, certainly derived en prepared to launch her his-

of the creasing

from Poland, the Buhr psychological. hangover from its supposed close association toric counter-attack which wan with the General. Robbed of this, to end in the complete defeat

and England, Trade agreements go-slow work police during the ના

Although vith England and European Occupation Altun Gerran it would now lose such support, of the enemy.

untries, and as fer south as notably in those

Across the American border bursts and riots against the Ethiopia. districts which

types (some have been leave a strung Catholic and Con was in Canada that pilots British in Indonesia, Egypt and Sweden-A thrabbing whole ed), industrial recovery is be servative element. Yet its prin.

were trained, the young cavalry India. Our

from the air, a iparkling gem tween 60 and 70 per cent, of leaders, [cipal

including

of the air that saved civilisa- M.

Indonesia, which in part of the in a

Lend was a measure fundamen- prewar figure. Co output, al- silver netting of intand tion in the Battle of Britain. Dutch Empire, at the request water. Bidault himself, have steadfastly and it was from Canada that of the American generalissimo million invisilile

The city, clean as if a ready up to 60 per cent. of pre-tally designed for the security brooms were, war. Food, about the same as of the United States, maintained a position nearer

to men, material

money

at work.

The Britain, with officient rationing "Almost anybody but the Left than

to the traditionallowed like a torrent through- in the Far East. It has been perpetually

burt Right, and it is to this tendency out the war,

sucker knew that from the start, a hateful business, I suggest that as obeyed

We people, charming and courteous. aystem. ordera. Ae for the Shops aglitter with

with consumör. Belgium.Buffered least

so what are you guya beefing that it owes probably the majority in 1815 and 1914 the mere Caire riots, these are nothing goods of infinite variety, occupied countries. Accumulated about?"

physical existence of the

"And reveras Lenge-Lend?" During the constitutional de British Empire was an essen have we forgotten thu in 1940, beach

new. They recur in cycles, nor women's trucks, evening gowns, substantial dollar and sterilng

stockings, balances through presence large asked another reporter. went, 'stik bates, however, M. Bidault's fol- tial component of military suc-in our blackest hour, there wasewellery, all reasonably priced numbers American and British *30

“So far as I am concerned,” varied, troops during closing stage of answered Manhattan Mouser, sometimes found themselves on the same side as the come this sudden eens of exus- Gratitude is not always

from "reverse Lease-Lend meant the plus dollar credits

hospitality of some awell dames an pageant of palaces rolled into Congo exports. Conservative group known as theperation and resentant toward Egyptian quality, yet we saved me, with 16th century Aery first in its

Here the blackmarket is met over here, Including Sally the Republican Party of Liberty and the British Empire: There is, that country from invasion and trics in the

Princes

richest profusion Cat. And I'll say she's a swell Gallery, of the Radicals and their Right for example, one section which despoliation, making hor rich and one of the seven modern when travelling o

Brus- dame." Centre allies, each of whom op puts its case something" ke poses the Constitution at a whole. this:

and leaving her untouched by Wonders of the World, the Goit- sels, dearest city in western enemy nction.

en Hall in which 20 million tiny Europe, Belgium is industrious, Both these bodies have recentl

Over-Simplification

nation hard at work and de- Our long-established responsi-pieces of gold and silver mosate a claimed, on the strength of this

termined recover. "The British Empire is sobility is to guard the Suez trace the history of Sweden.

France.

war's most

"My husband says that even if (general attitude, to have the un far flung that no untion, cer- Canal so that ships of every Denmark-Recovery from the

Westan food is plentiful after the 1948 spoken support of Gen. de Gaule. tainly nct Britain.

but retaining a tragic aftermath in could country can use it. All we ask i Hun defileer haired of the

Sufficient food in the harvest nobody will have any Another and newer party knowe guarantee the defence of every of Egypt is that she enter into burning

to buy it." Civil distribution and insatiable ap oned to un separate candidates

the sentry force necessary will stupidities, replaced the nal, be endangeri. Egypt is Pol

from petite of blackmarket opernturs, 4 ship for the first post-war under the General's bauner. Thus of which is the relatively small too weak to guard the cana.

with whether he turns his own course support given by the

"The Arst day of peace will Dotted among the city there is the tragedy of near world booze." German tod

be when taxle crawl with foreign

which footpaths,

are wreaths on the cities.

Paris wear a night take a very differom view spots where Danes were shot.

mask of syn:] streets looking for for the "On June 8 Brenda's husband of shedding a section of his fol- separate political urganisation. la of the strategic Inland water-

Her, ceonomy, little shaken, thetic Raiety, beneath is the lowers. The dilemma ts the the Soviet zone, where it has been way controversy.

Contrary to popular belief, Den human misery of the battle twill, have his first break since greater because of the numericnl forcibly incorporated with the About India I shall make a

murk is only one-third agri- live. With ample franca it is he was demobilised from Army Brendo isn't 'cooking position in the present Assembly. old Social Democrats

that day."" in a "Su- prophecy: India will be given cultural foul ample, and be possible to live in luxury, with food.

·18 a daily struggle for Even when the Popular Republi- cialist Unity Party," the new joint her, independence by the British

ause of transport lack, in some out it is existence.

"I met a woman who's worry] can vote with the Radicals and party has emerged as the strongest, Government. It ht be ank

12 Wages are stabilised, but the ing about Christmas turkeys the Right against the two Marxist but without the preponderanted how Empire defence policy have gone their own way, rely-blackhiarket, has paced a sky- selves placed in a bare minority, pre-Nazi elections.

and unashamed, and If Germany caused if India should become thanks to the balance exercised by were

a free nation and therefore the case of Canada, the British t-day a single, and sess эреп to the machinations and Navy and the friendship of the officials who should control i the 11 Algerian autonomists, governing country, it might be binndishments of other world United States; broadly speak pussing rich Their influence is not haphazard, reasonable to see in the multipli

Yet Mr. Attlee- made ng. the cost of Imperiai, de-

In the country, the peasante for it is on the future of France's city of successful independent it clear in the House of Com fence has been borne by the overseat possessions that

well. A candidates a re-emergence of those mons that the offer of inde British taxpayer. Now all that are working strenuously and Bidault. confronts

an immediate small "splinter" parties which pendence has no strings attach" i status of the member plates recent lenna from Americh wit won't be able to hear, the end IN changed. In the develonine Industry is recovering, and faster than sound is that you challenge,

proved a weakness of the Weimar ed regime. Between 1918 and 1933

stimulate production. Ultim of realisation that all must share ately the binckmarket will pass "Now there are plenty of the German voter was notorious-

Then what will happen?' in the cost so well as in the ike an evil tees, and the buses for everybody, they ap ly unstable and notoriously con- GERMANY

entender and glory that was hardly move anywhere. fused in judgment. Today the prophesy that of her own voll- responsibility.

tton and because of the deepi At the conference there has France will return-If

they My husband says that so far

· Polling in the British zone ofjelder generation has almost for reservoirs- of good feeling to-j heen a frank survey of the part eschew the violoney of polittens he can make out it's going Germany ushered in the last gotten what a free choice secans ward Britain there will be which the Empire can play labatreds, and unite for produc- ta bo a stages of the opinion-testing for and the younger generation is only treaties concluded with the the economic development of the sun and progress. it is little more that began in now obtaining its first lesson in Mother Country,

Footnoto-Tourist travel is were all becoming like furmers, world and in wat should it! Foot

and zone in January the matter. Any long-term pro- make India a fres intich with come. Pinns have been studied easy the American and has continued in the Soviet phecy of the future political trend in the orbit of the British Em- for dispersing the Aghting Stockholm, to Paris. Hotels in worrying about crops and rain Hote in and lato frostaw why English and French zones in the present of Germany is clearly ill-based inpire. Those who think that strength of the Empire so that big cities, almost month. Except in the American present conditions. One can draw ladle is to end her association no one country will constitute standard cut to 10 a day farmers, were always grumbling

Currancy, fron Eng would do a mortal target. Every strate- zone, where elections have already no permanent judgment from in- with Great Britain

changing

portion of the Common pius small annual tourist allow in a climate like this, taken place for a provincial con- experienced voters whose physical well to study the ever

Margaret's father's world. venith wifi, Sbo a baṇa-frem ance.

ship, will call. at-all the stituent assembly,, all the voting and spiritual environment giver history of the Empire.

can be launched.

principal ports, and have parties so far has been for pariah and them every reason for apathy. Yet

tera of the Dominions have been Thie

on the wing of the country," municipal councils. The larger the relatively high, poll is prima to London to discure with the Allies. Our ports and dus alt {Continued from Col. 8) Well, welll towns in the British zone and facie a hopeful symptom, and the Britian I

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Right or Left, M. Bidault finda) voters to the Communist Party can sho be left ired to dea; 408 Busting traffic, on starvation for thousands in big

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#

LIGHT ON

A Prophecy On India

within the Empire there la s

money..

Meanwhile the Prime Minia-wheqially to our !!!

un

comfortable

bush

from

Berlin, where the price met, will number of candidates, at least in moniminister ai com-j-baisa are, theirs. The destruc, every foxhole in Britain until

'ntrendy."

"It was probably the May frosts that made her think of

* Christmas.

Margaret's father's world booze ship the bars will be open 24 hours a day."

"My husband anys that the only

advantage of travelling

ha's

fuhny

Wonderfull

world when

Thanks to the food reportern,

***W* know* now.

not have an opportunity of exer the British cane, Indicates some whole Empire This le the be a tragedy beyond words but read on and found that it resus) Handouffs'est cising their votes until this month, stirrings of democratic spirit, neat time that such out would nos moan the end of ferrod to a man-hunt for two tvrhe shove headline in a news- handcuffed sailors in the "Black, paper caused wild cheering. In Certain, conclusions can, however, which is not helled by the, rebufi ference has been Leld in panco Britain' power

Mountains, Herefordshire. `{Continua¿"ymirpreseiling" "COL), provisionally be drawn, the first given to the Communist party.me Hitherto, the Jozanione. (Continued on Page 5)