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THE CHINÄ MATE, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 1947,
Britain Passes The National:
Service Bill: It's
NEVER TOO LATE TO MEND
By WICKHAM STEED
Former Editor Of*
The "Times"
"Survival Of The Unfiltest"
would of
ал
thu
at
CARNIVAL -
By Dick Turnera
ĐỐPH, 1948 BY NEA BERVICE, INGULAR HEN, U, S, PAT, OFF
Despite opponition from a
ed to be firmly established. Tha section of its Left Wing sup-
delny in concluding the pence porters the British Labour Gov-
treaties with the satellite ernment as secured the second
States of Nazi Germany and Cam- rending in the House of
the prospect of further delay mons for its Bill to continug
In setting the problem of Gor- compulsory service in the armed
vasion of Poland with whom many itself have tended to ham forces. Tho' Bill, which will
Britain was allied. This Act per the process of demobiliää. DANGEROUS VOTE shortly become law. renders
than would have 'men
tion and to create the impres- bocn the male population of the Unit
provided larger numbers of alan that Britain might be A vote of sa substantial á núm- ed Kingdom between the aggs mobilat under the voluntaryable worthily to play her part her of the Govennent's suppur of 18 and 20 lable to serve 12 system. It was also intended to the world or to provide for ters as was recorded against the months with the Colours and distribute more equitably the her own security without
theNatial remain thereafter in reserve for birdens and losses of war.
adequate system Government
of defence, Large though the total of Service Bill last week is not a another fire and half years. For most of these young men ser-
1,000,000 men under arms in trivial affair; but there is, never-
the Navy, Air Force and Army theless, a danger that this vote vice will begin at the age of 18.
Thus for the Brat time in Bri- In 1914 the small requnlr may seem to be, it is barely might be misinterpreted both at tish history the principle of army had been reinforced by adequate to the needs of house and abroad. To believe that compulsory military service has the 300,000 volunteers who present situation and of tho it portends a serious and perman- been established in time of joined "Kitchener's Army" and maintenance of garrisons ent fissure in the Socialist party pence. There is, indeed, some bore the brunt of the fighting points of strategic importance would be a mistake, though one irony in the circumstance that before recruits could be trained for the British Commonwealth. Socialist - member, Mr. Scollan, Labour leaders who before the under the compulsory system
Affirmation expressed an opittion to the con- war strenuously oppostil mili. į introduced later. These volun-
This total will be susceptible; Like the Liberal handful tary conscription would now teers were
the flower of the of reduction if and when the which joined them in the lobby, recognise the necessity of sup. male population--who
international outlook' improves the minority represented, for the plementing voluntary recruit have been natural leaders
and the Security Council of tho com- the nation-and
most of them United Nations la geen to con. most part, one of the traditional ment by the measure of
Between 1020 and aberrations of the Left in the pulsory service. Mr. Churchilt perished.
stitute $1 valki safeguard nineteenth century. Another was complimented members of the 1939 it was seen that one ef-
against aggression from any voluntary system quarter. Yet the British public Cullen's idea that if this coun- Government on what he called fect of the
A whole has not failed I try adopted complete. Free Trade. "the courage they have shown had thus been to favour
40 of the unfitcst." all other countries would, within realsting subversive and de- "survival
note that the unsettled Interna- clements J their The conscription law of 1930
tlonal outlook Is attributable Manila a art period, follow suit. Sini-generate
that mitigated this drawback. majority." He suggested larly, there exist survivors oj they had learned from
Nevertheless, until war broke in part to the policy of Soviet those who hold the view that we pericnee and had proved it is out again in 1939 the old tradi-National Service Bill has bee
Ruusta, while opposition to the have only to make ourselves de- never too late to mend
Ulon had bene powerful enough fiercest in quarters where fenceless for the rest of the world Centuries Old Tradition to prevent the retantion of com- miration for Soviet Rusala to appland and coniform. Such
un-pulsory service. From
1940 most pronounced. And even he opinions, though, sincerely held.doubtedly
onwards the Labour leaders levers in learned fron CX- the National Coalition Govern Security Council of the United the efficacy of the are contradicted by experience perience. They are tu be Com- throughout recorded history. Some mendeil for having abandoned ment learned that the reaction-Nations - a substitute | supathy must be felt for the the theoretical and experienc-ar ideas which they had be measures of national
many Socialist complaints in the ed views which they formerlyieved to be inherent lu con-have been embarrassed and dis -defrite-that-their-leaders-had-terheld. At the same time it to bore little or no re-heartened by the discredit
right to recognise the strength ation to facts or to national which
necessities. And when the Na- brought upon it. of the tradition against cam-
tinnt Coalition Government pulsory military service which
In the present circumstances, was replaced by n has run throught centurleg of
Labuer therefour, enactment of the Na- Britain's history. This tract Government in July, 1945, these tional Service Bill should be tion is even older than the cun. same leaders became convinced understood as affirmation that democratie the British people as a whole, means of providing for national while averse defence would be to prolong of aggressive "imperialism", are from every kini
defaite period. Hence the pre-on their part shall lessen their compulsory service for an sent National Service Bill which ability to share fully in
In determined that no weakness Now let us ekip, a couple of the majority of the
Labour safeguarding of international counterpart in the Little England- maintain strong standing Party in Parliament as well na peace.
Conservative opposition hayo
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the patty down; but the truth is, at coulse, that these leaders have bern, in this respect, sobered by a responsibilty which does not ap pem evident to the rank and Gle. It is also true that to these Socialist talktionalists in the minority-they might almost be called Socialist Tories must be added a few sho Mr. Churchill called "subversive and degener who also have their
ale" but
Labour Ministers have
flict between Parliament King Charles 1 in the
CX-
and 17th
Warn
Century. Its strength derived from the conviction that the rights and liberties of dividuals would he endangered if a monarch were allowed
trolled
to
CH-
Colt-
that the most
The International Outlook
HOESS TO HANG
the
ers of the past. The feature of army in time of peace to this school of thought was and is force his will upon his sub. supported. that the foreign policy of their jects. The principle of voluntary country is always wrong, and the "enlistment for a comparatively policy of some other country-in small regular army, of which Opposition to the Bill might| this ense Soviet Russia is always the cost would always be con- have been more effective if the by Parliament, was, peace of the world had appear right. But it is unlikely that any of the miturity will feel any call therefore, adopted and maia- to leave the Socialist fold, or that tained until 1915 when their opposition to
seription was introduced in the the Govern- ment is me that transient and
second year of the first World War. selective. The most likely mis
Soon after the end of that interpretatiom abroad is that the war the system of voluntary reflects some considerable enlistment was revived and was isterolition among the British only discarded in September people, or at best some return to 1939 by the passing of n
altile apathy. That is not so. tional Service (Armed Forcea) Let any foreigner contrast the be- Act in view of the German in- haviour of the Socialist partyi
vole
Toto speak of others) now and i
in 1938, and he will find that
Na-
the astonishing thing is not that 100 Years
The minority
was so large but
Ago Today
(Excerpts
NOTICE:
from
the "Chinn
Warsaw, Apr. 14. It is officially announced that Rudolf #focas, commander
Oswiecim. of Hitler's most efficient death camp where 4,000,000 were murdered, will be hanged to- morrow in the camp at the Herne of his crimes-United Preas.
Russian tactlen
nit-
ورة
for defence
Jinya
the
Persia Upset
12-12
"I have been acting like a gontleman, madam! Now I'm going to act liko a lady!”
Londoners Declare Hannibal
Had Nothing On Them
Bus Riding In The Blizzard
out,
London, Apr. 12. During the recent visitation one Historiarus tell us that in the thing has been most noticeable. year 218 B.C. Hannibal, the great Before the war even' a compara- Carthaginian soldier,
brought led his tivaly slight fail armies with extraordinary skill within an hour or so, an army of through Gaul, and with the use inen both regularly,and casually of elephant transport crossed the employed for the occasion by the doubt it was a very fine perfor- the streets of snow and slush. Alps and routed the tomatis. No. vations Rarough Councils to clear
manco,
morg
than
The Thaw!!
some
Word
millenniums.
On this occasion very little was was under- When we metropolitans are not done and whatever being buttered with praise of our taken was tackled in a most in- resistance to the great blitz we efficient manner. Even in are told by some folk that we are great main thoroughfares only n ม decadent people: today we be few men were employed: in some gin to doubt it. Just as histor- districts none at all. Even where
Недра of Know lans tell the story of Hannibal's great
roadways to crossing of the Aias on elephants shovelled from the Teheran, April 14. The. Right-wing newspaper modern chronicler "Zenbagi" today
years ago, the kerbs it was an exception for will record in gaps to be left for foot passengers called former United States Vice-Pre doners in the 1947 A.D. crossed thess was indescribable.
the days to come how, intrepid Lon- to cross. When thew followed the There sident. Mr. Henry Wallace, an the "Alps" of the capital, not with was no drive. No loadership: "No "International intriguer." the aid of elephant transport bat nuthing
mounted on omnibuses of "London No doubt we have suffered + transport" which are at least as war chuige Shortage of labour na heavy as may of course have had some- large and about
thing to do with the Hannibal's pachyderma.
apparent lethargy of London's local autho- Those of us who have riddan rities. On the other hand, a suffi. on an elephant-oven If only in ciency of money in the pockets of the 200-know well that in spite the working class who would of his four rubber-tired feet he normally undertake
auch casu is not a comfortable beast to ride: a trip on his-back is by no means
tour do' luxe.
It asked the United States Ambassador to Persia to report to the United States Govern ment "the Persian nation's dis-
of Mr. approval"
Walluce's speech in which he is reported to have accused Persin of hav- ing an anti-Soviet policy.
"Persia was on the best of relations with Russia," the pa- per said-Router,
BARCLAY ON BRIDGE
By Shepard Barclay
"The Authority on Authorities"
TWO STOPS ADVISABLE
RESPONDING
with
1-No
that trick, the defense added two tricks each in spades and
diamonds to sel the contract two. Bust was lucky not to be
All Points
He lurches at one and the same moment to all points of the com purs and back again; we can only
work may have had something to do with it. The fact remains that in at kast one borough-and there
misy be others—It" }, "come” marly said that unemployed men wewe, offured £1.-à day by the Coune to
to shovel snow! they - fused it although in fact (though
not dhw) no tax would be deduct guess from our bus Journeys in
What London wanted London's
amid the ico and snow Inden
snow and ice was not, youths thoroughfares, what must have bearing banners with strange de- been the sensations or Hannibal's vices, and shouting "Excelsior" Carthaginian collorts when their bat lusty labourers
who would mastodon mounts lumbered over shout: the mountains,
#shovel."-- United
+
"Givo
m10
Another Treasure Hunt Thrill
that it was so small. Assuming and the assumption has some trul in it-that the debate was really quite 28 much about for- eign policy as about conscription, Mail." Aprit 16, 1847). the opposition to Mr. Bevin is
The Arms of Col. certainly larger than it wasville, Gilmore & Co. and Hughes-
does not don Brothers of Coletitta are said Trump, to your partner's in down still one more with the hefare. Moreover, it
London, an most people know, Press. contain His Majesty's Opposition, to be bankrupt and the reported formative or takeout double of plan he used, and would have has suffered this winter from long As Mr. Crossman said in a re
failure of Lackersteen Brothers the opponent's mult bid dock markable speech which revealed
been if North had held five continued and severo frost. and not indicate possession of more apades and South three. is denied..
from a succession of blizzarda than a few honor cards, equal Europe's misunderstanding of
East'a hand was
which have the city lying under not well four of to about one trick-plus or per-adapted to n No. Trump res- far than anything it has borne On Friday afternoon Britain's resolution and innate the twelve pirates condemned at haps as much as a
a weight of snow and heavier by bare two strength before the last war, "he the inte Vice-Admiralty sessions tricka. But it does proclaim ponse to the double, since he for more than 50 years. strength of Great
had only two spades and of Britain even were hanged at the usual place protection against the adverse-
· London, is divided into 28 bor- ander a Tory Government may in presence of a large number of i-bid suit. Ordinarily this course only one possible stop be of value to
the liberty of Chinese; others having had their means two probable stopper hand was planty strong, in fact, fares and local affairg. The mas
per. In other respecia his pughs which in the main have dominion over their own thorough- Europe." Mr. Clement Davies sentences commuted to trans or else one pretty certain stop may be right in saying that an mendable, but in the present in-stop. If only one stopper ised to 2-No Trumps. The pro- snow and ico to remove itself
portation for life. Mercy is com per plus an additional possible strong enough to go boldly into terly inactivity
game when West properly rals, Borough
of most of the extra 40,000,099 tons of constance it is not very politic, Piracy held, your suit should usually per 2 Cluba by East would have aided by some mysterious
Councils leaving the would be a support to Mr. Bevin will never be put down until he long enough to reduce the beon passed and made, with
anil in Moscow, but he is completely some fearful examples are made danger from it, or
unusual machinatións of the clerks Sensation-loving Italians wrong in asserting that Mr. Bevin up, and the lower baznar clique should have some pretty solid probably an extra trick.
of the weather resulted in a realized their imaginations · loduv side. tricks to run.
Of course, Enst could have markable change in the contour with a new tale of sunken trea limited himself to one down if of the streets.
start, enhanced by, a touch of that had been his purpose. for
royalty. after getting in with the spade K, he could have run Boven more tricks with two in hearts and Ave in clubs.. In fact, it Road surfaces which normally the
could do without this Bill,
is completely broken up.
+
a perfect Bill, and
(Dealer?
.vulnerable.)
North
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else you
Deep And Crisp But Not Even
Rome, Apr. 14.
tan-
Th newspapers soberly report. ed that Davide Gluntoll of Log Horn was attempting to interest authorities in project.
9. K 7 N
| H.-9 6 6 ̧* Ja hard to see what he had to were, like most London streets, to find the Bunken treasuret WED. Q5 ȧ gain by giving up that heart well enough kept and were level ship of the King of the two Sist evon-surfaced with lles which was sent to the bottom S C. KQ 10 in an effort to set up a nlitth or at least
only 62 trick, which surely he never folgt undulations, were left by the British feet in Plom Ida untouched under snow strait, between the Island of Elba could cash.
which for a while lay deep and and the Italian coast, In 1812.
and even but not white-
According to Giuntoli, an an developed
succession ceqtor of bis learned the location of solid mounds, mostly of the sunken ship from a dying diameter of about a yard, or loss, friend and tried to recover ite and a holght above the surround-
fabulous beard including a royal" ing snow level of say a fost or
carriage Inches.
mounds or
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Tomorrow's Problem
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ft is not it will be difficult to amend be- and Wednesday have engrossed The races on Monday, Tuesday Cause the Service Estimates up most of the European inhabitants necessarily conceal, what the ef- and during the fective strength of Britain's forces the monotony of Hong Kong... H. AK 83
week disturbed
S. J 10 9 will be. But it is sound in prin- The absence of a band was, rather: 10 8 2 ciple and it is flexible. Had such marked by those who recollect a measure, with such general sup-occasions. Last meeting, in addi.
the profusion of music on former C. A 8 G port, been passed, say, in 1933. tion to the bands of the Royal there might have been no war in Irish and the 42nd M.N.I. there 1939. Much, the crities say, has was the piper of the McDougalls changed since then and much may and these who have no cars for change in the near future. That his sweet sounds could ndinite may be so, but the need for aut-his Celtic garb and brawny
North East-West, ward and visible signs of an in-limbs.
East South West irard and national resolution in England, the citadel of liberty thee the excellent tine provided Pa
We had almost omitted to noi] 1 S.. PRES Pass Diy
8. 10 7 has not changed. If we had in the house of the late Mr. Mer-PasR.
1-NT Pass 2 NTH. J.853
Pass
N. 9.7- nothing more to do than concer, and the masked hall on the
D: 07:52 WE DA When South led the spade 2, C. A 73. tribute a share of power to the evening of Wednesday. We were North did some quick counting,
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805-42 United Nations, and to carry not present, but heard that the and read East as having only cur any sensible" policy towards ball was kept up with great spicit. 6 doubleton K. So he won with
WIS, Q 0:0 3 2/2 Germany and in the rest of the until an early hour, and that in hia A and returned the 4: KAV-
...q. 10-2 world, we should need the Bill. a rather promiscuous company ing ble Q to knock off the dum-
D. Q 0·4 3 Politically, it was quite safe to ingt und cordiality,The supper sure his side three tricks in the
there was the greatest good feet. my's third spade and thus as- Tetap Cha
For daya on and traffic in Lost the war destroyed them."
Jielland vote against it, but, from the inwas excellent and the whole at suit. East then took two high vulnerablo.)
(Dealer North East West don was chaotic. It was diverted yarali "months ago."
wore silfred up by a search for from the more humpy routes to ternational point of view voting fair reflects credit upon these who hearts and
others only less dificult. Even bidden, Fascist treasure in the gave up another, What bidding would you remain thoroughfares, were left uns Quil ni.. Leghim. That search against it was in the highest de- got it up, the only fear being that hoping for the lucky, break he commend for all concerned on touched while Londoners wallow was abandoned after works gree irresponsible.
their charges were too low. got. But, when South won this deal? :
| fruitless work--United"; Props,
SNT
S..8.5
th
"encrusted with pure late that same year. aboard-his ship cut short Lehnsure hunt,
bumps so gold" artfully spaced and add them- Mutiny selves that their effect on strest
Gluntoll said the Skellion king trafe and on fost passengers was most disconcerting. Been from tho was fleeing to France with 'all him, top of an omnibus, shand and possessions and treasure when astern-mixed traffic pitched and trapped by the British fleet. He rolled like ships at sea, while hero said, "I had many documents and and there pedestrians abased
many letters which proved this, themselves...
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