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Goodwill Abroad Long-term diplomacy is de signed to bulwark home plan- ning with credits, markets and good, will abroad. Edward Benes, now 62 and ill, still is the real chief of Czechoslovak diplomacy. He is respected in all capitals,abroad, while at home he is the cement holding To be successful, the Czecho-the major parties together. skyns must maintain a dan: Probable heir to the Presiden gerous balance.

ey is his Foreign Minister, Jan Masaryk, (pronounced mah-

Thomas sah-rik) son of

of the Re- Musuryk, founder public.

commerce.

might

A slip to the East there

least the U.S. and Britain to refuse all credits and purchase of any goods. Talks ona $50,000.000 Export Import Bank loan from the U.S. have been suspendieri.

A slip to the West

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ment of compensation Americans whose property was seized and nationalized in Czechoslovakia.

What Prague now wants from the U.S. is a trade agree- ment. still under inegotiation, Joan and US. support for a from the World Bank. amount- ing to at least a sizable por- tion of the $350,000,000 the Czechoslovaks are asking. Czeclio- Chances

that alovakia may get both. Much depends on her relations with Russia.

Are

Russia is willing to help an independent Czechoslovakia, at least for the present. Russia has given Czechoslovakia many factories the Germans built, which Russia could claim in reparations.

One reason for Russia's al titude is that Czech trade with Russia is to reach 30 per cent of total exports, compared to little more than 1 per cent be. fore the war. Another reason, say Czechoslovaks, is that Russia is interested in their test of how to make Western democracy work with Russian communism.

made This experiment has Czechoslovakin a strange mixe ture of East and West. Holly- wood's Alms compete with Russian films; U.S. and British news agencies serve Prague newspapers

commercial

on

showing than the free service supplied by Moscow. Czechx and Slovaks dance to American music, but they are more in- terested in socialism than capitalism.

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HONG KONG CANTON EXPORT CO., LTD. The special article in "The Times" together with war deaths and mania, a Soviet satellite, at a

The somewhat sudden dis- covery in London of interest in Hong Kong and its future de- velopment is flattering to the puint, almost, of embarrassment. True, it would he more satisfac tary and reassuring, were any evidence that those who have assumed onto themselves a per- sonal interest in the Colony's

In domestic affairs, Benes, destiny had some practical know-

President of Czechoslovakia ledge of what they have been

gets along well with his Pre- talking about, but even so, it is;

Klement might mies, Communist atrast comforting to note that

world affairs less the fact of the Colony's existence bring ussian pressure which Gottwald. In

couhl wreck Czechoslovakia's Jan Masaryk gets along

Minister, is beginning to gain recognition. economy beyond repair. Mus- well with his Vice

Clemen- One encouragement can always

row is suspicious of all deals Communist Vladimir

Clementis derived from a situation in

tis. It was

not ith the Western powers.

Masaryk, who drew the anger which the Secretary of State for

hen the U.S. delegation at the At home, ceonomy, must the Colonies is belabored with

nestions in the House of Com-balanced anew.The 2,700,000 Paris Peuce Conference by a

the mons, particularly in the present Germans In Czekoslovakia_be- plavding vigorously when

loans Parliament, by members of his fure the war managed and, to Russians said American own party. The more, progressive a large extent, manned-nearly-i-and-credits-were-altempts to tass their news gets a better!

one half of the country's in enslave Europe. elements in the local administra-dustrial production. They gavel U.S. frigidity toward tion and the wider community Hitler an excuse for partioning Czechoslovakia dates from this their pet projects Czechoslovakia in 1938. Now incident. Secretary of State van work

DON'T FALSE-CARD his, West decided South was have James F. Byrnes came back to

hold likely to

the for the general welfare in fitmer the Czechs and Slovaks

THEN antigence in the results of any oasted more than 2,000,000. OfWashington to suspend Export-

singleton. So he shifted then When opposed by super to the diamond on the second h that might develop, with 510,000 Hungarian peasants. Import Rank negotiations for

latively keen card-reader, it is Powers Wary.

lead. East won that, but the The "Old Gang" and come to an the basis of Hungary's war- the loan to Prague. Washing- Czecho- reported ton also

often better for a declarer to

сле defense could get only ise. Not that there was any time annexation of portions of

Czechoslovak patriotism play his cards naturally, rather

trumps were more trick, as thing in Mr. Barnet Janner's Czechoslovakia, 100,000 accept slovakia was trying to sell off

ed Slovak citizenship, but the surplus property. obtained makes all the powers wary of than try to mislead the defense cleared and the discard of lengihe question to inspire en-

moves from the U.S. on credit to Rodging the nation by appear by tricky tactics. Playing on a club limited the defenders. to thusiasm. Its close affinity with rest are to go. Such

unces. Russia knows that trick the highest card you can just one more trick. the loss of Ruthenia to Ros-7 per cent profit.

Eduard Otrata a Right-Wing] afford is sometimes more en- At one table where South was all too obvious. In essence,

sia, leave 11,000,000 Czechs

industrialist, joined the Com lightening to the opposition false-carded with the Q, West ir revealed the same woolly and Slovaks.

Camouflage

munist Party only as he be than using the natural lowest fell for it and decided it was a mindedness and carried the same

came chairman of the Govern card. If he can tell from the singleton, so shifted to a dia-` implications, few of which are

Prague

says Washington's ment's Economic Council. Bri- cards on the trick that some-mond and thus helped declarer at justified. Had Mr. Janner

Short Term Policy. report of the Rumanian deal istain knows that the Bata shoe body is playing falsely, he can home. But at the other table stopped at urging the desirability

only camouflage for American factories, Europe's largest, are be pretty sure it is you instead where the Q was played, West

the way Czecho producing with the same effi- of establishing a regime at Hong

the pique at Short-term planning is

his partner. And he will was a real card-reader. Edgar at the Peace ciency, under the same foremen, usually figure out what illusion F. Tierney, of Springfield, Kong which would provide a Czechoslovak formula for sur-slovakia voted

the though profits now go to the you are striving to create. working model of a progressive vival through what she hopes Conference. According to

Czechoslovaks they submitted a state The U.S. is aware that.j and democratic community for the is to be only a temporary

division. proposal to Washington that though Czechs may name

S. K 10 8 benefit of the people of the Far, period of world

property they coal mine for President Tru-

II. 10 9 7 G 4 East, it might have been possible, Czechoslovakia would prefer to the surplus

own President

D. Q 3 applaud the objective, even Het sights on targets five years could not use be sold to Ruman- man, their

get along while entertaining private doubts ahead, like the British, or 15 ia only after such a plan was Benes still must

Result of economic and diplo S.97 about the immediate practicability years ahead, like the Russians.. suggested by U.S. Treasury with Russia.

W.. of any substantial advance. But But the six parties in the Gov- official. The 7 per cent, they

ready. Living standards in D. 3 10 9 6 the remainder of the question ernment, from Communists to say. was not to be profit, but matic aetion are showing, al- H. J

Catholic conservatives, agree carrying charge.

higher, C. A K 97 Masaryk, now in New York; Czechoslovakia. are was more important than the that the nation can afford only

of the Czecho- liberties are greater than those preamble insofar as it exposed a two-year plan

to be put at the head

But, for complete ignorance of local con- through with the minimum of alovak delegation to the United of her neighbours.

Nations, is trying to smooth Czechoslovakia, the profits of ditions. One suspects, indeed outside help.

over these difficulties. He is peace are to be secured only that Mr. Creech-Jones replied

Britain and saying that the votes at Paris when the U.S.. with his tongue in his check when he announced that His Excel

represent Czechoslovak policy, Russia find their own formula not just Moscow's will. He is for making democracy and lency the Governor has asked for

for pay- communisin get along together.nerable) speeding agreement the appointment of a Political Adviser with experience in China and that the Colonial Office was Mobilization of man power taking steps to give effect to this has begun already. Hundreds proposal, Mr. Janner clearly, en- of thousanda of workers How visaged political advisers to he employed by the Government or

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"At every table of a duplicato H. K Q J game, South was the declarer D. 5 3

Went C. K Q Z at 4-Hearts and every opened his club K. At every table but two South made the val education, within the Colony to industry. Slovak

are being moved to Czech fac- and the thrusting of the great-

natural play of the 2. Where! West sow the 2 and 3 on the aess of Democracy upon us. Histories. There is to be a 40 per cent increase in productivity

London, Jan; 28. He believes the best thing trick, he could be sure that, Excellency the Governor un- per man-hour industry. Under

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singleton dubtedly had in mind a Political this two-year

more either East had a plan Czecho- Mr. Worldworth Gold, a 65- to concentrate Adviser whose main respon- slovakia is to make fewer year-old Korean, is one of the rapid system of communica and South three cards, or else

V-2, he thinks, South bad a singleton and East What bidding would you re- sibility would be the maintenance goods like glass and porcelain most ardent one-worlders, and tions. The

could be adapted by means of three cards. Since South had commend on this deal, and what jut cordial relations between Hong which once weat west, more

complicated system

of of already located nine his would you consider the natural Rong and China, and whose capital gonds, like locomotives

that are

auxiliary motors, tu carry pas cards by the bidding, and East regut of the play, with pretty least concern would be social and. machinery,

sengers" safely.

: had given no information on gold cardsmen engaged? changes within Colony linked build up to the nation's with an advance to self-govern- recovery and be exported to ment. The suggestion that labour Russia and the nations within

her sphere of influence. experts are required in the Colony to organise Hong Kong's "sweat. ed labour" into powerful trade union organisations, also betray- ed Mr. Janner into a confession

The industrial shift [of ignorance. Those in Hong

Kong who since the liberation plaaned is to take advantage fave had close, dealings with the man during occupation to cap-racket promoted for the license and green costume, a garb.de of changes made by the Ger- an outgrowth of marriage, which adorned his red,." - blue; Chinese artisan classes have had tere a large portion of Ger fees and by the flower in-signed himself, he said, and sharp reminders that labour many's prewar marketa in the guilds have been powerful in Balkans. The Nazis, developed | China over several centuries and Bohemia as a centre of

Industrial Shift

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elsa one of the most violent. He wants to achieve the objective by rockets and aut pyros.

Then we can have utopia,"

Everyone should have his in- dividual personally fitted. au- togyro. "Then," said Mr. Gold, "you would have to just reach back here and turn a switch," demonstrating turning a switch

he said, "three chickens in where one probably would be every pot and seven women in "and traffic doesn't worry you every bed".

any more."? Monogamy, he thought, was

dustry.

War

and

He rattled the glass beade

revcated his basic aim:

He foresees a world-made! "I want to push back the that their organisation within the production. Heavy armour and heaven in which money totally walls, the celling and the floor?! the barter he said.. Hạ tested thế : floor Colony today can scarcely be de- guns were produced in, the ex- disappears

with slipper. "Yes, with an scribed as inefficient, despite the panded Skoda works, the pro- system prevnila.

"I shall be the monarch." autogyro you could push back lack of palatial premises on the duction of brown coal for syn- parallel of Transport

thetic fuel was developed; in- he told the United Press in an the floor, ton" House.!

Ile thought the Germans dustrial capacity was increased interview which followed his That there is poverty in Hong by the construction of power unannounced visit to its offices, should be put in charge of Kong is undeniable. It is, how plants, in Slovakia ever, equally true that the general

Serious Breaches

In Security

Washington, Jan. 28. David Lilienthal, chairman-designate of the Atomic Energy Commission, declared today that there had been serious breaches in United States atomic security since the end of the war. Lilienthal told the joint Congressional Atomic Energy Committee that publication of scientific material on atomic energy in the United States made his Commission's position ludicrous.

"Of course I shan't be monarch adapting the V-2 for passenger He said publication of the States, Mr. Lilienthal said, the because I want power," he service and in development of Smythe report shortly after subject was of intense interest mass of the Chinese population From this case, the Czecho-modestly explained. "But who the personally-fitted autogyro, the bombing of Hiroshima had but that he would prefer to dis. is berter off today than probably slovaks are to aim at new tar else could be? No one else is because, he said they were the been a breach of national cuss it in closed sessions. ever before the Colony's history, gela. The annual production planning the same sort of most advanced scientifically of security.

"Police System

As fast as newcomers from China of freight cars is scheduled to heaven, so that leaves me al nations. The authgyro, ket In answer to a question, he are absorbed into local trade and rise from a prewar 1,400, to king.” industry and find jobs that lift 15,000 by the end of 1948; loco-

thought, should resemble a col- erid.

he could not

answer

motives from 70 to 220; trke. "Personny," he confided, lapsible umbrella with pro-whether the Smythe report He assured the Commitics mn to some extent, at all events, tors from 800 to: 9,999. The "I don't know what I'd do with polar attached. brought some countries two or that civilians on the Commis out of the poverty class, even two-year target for the output three chickens. I can eat only Mr. Gold, who escaped from three years nearer the secret alon would not attempt to keep larget numbers pour in to take of agricultural machinery is half of one if it's a big one. Kords, as a refugee from the of making atomic bombs. He secrets from the Army and the their place in the free congee set at 83 per cent Mr. Gold, whose clothing is Japanese in 1904, lived in the declared that the entire ques Navy, but, added. that it would queues. If those who are persuad-above present output, coal as bizarre as his ideas, shuffl-United States until 1923, when tion of publication of scientific be impossible to achieve atomic ed that Hong Kong can be con is to be 17 per cent more; ironed into the office and present he came to Britain. He served Information on atemic energy recurity with police system

and threats of punishment.... verted into a modern Utopia as and steel up 37 por cent ed his ides In an explosion of in the British Army'in France, needed-going into.

"You cannot maintain secu Meanwhile, U.S. Secretary of an example to Asia can also sup

Sufficient food for the nation gestures and moist, verbal in 1918, he said, and had a gest the appropriate answer to suficient food for the scund effects.

campaign ribbon to prove it. rity if you are a laughing War Patterson characterized as "wholly unwarranted" reports that problem, it would indeed be greater mechanization of agri-

"Every country is working, "Nobody else in the world stock, Lilienthal said,

Asked if he were concerned that the War Department fear. the world's only over French Bank Bldg useful, which is more than can be culture. Co-operatives organison atom bombs, the caid. "That is thinking like I do," he said,

breaches of security ed a civilian commission would said for much of the advice en by the state are being form is wrong, for it means destruc- um which has been so Lenerously ed to, get the most out of tion. Instead of that they Ana ytical Professor.United through the operation of fore not properly safeguard atomie

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