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Wedemeyer's Bid For A Solution In China

Washington. July 15, Lieut-General Albert Wedeme- yer's presidential mission to China this week ban American officials hoping that it will show the way toward a more, positive United States polley in the Orlent.

Involved in this hope up- parently in the feeling that American activities in the Far East are out of line with those in Europe where a policy of "firm containment" of Soviet ******** expanalou is being developed. However, official bellef that tien, Wedemeyer may find way out of the Chinese dilemma for American diplomacy is not very strong.

TOWARDS PEACE

"On the first day of the war, ways, the bonk, we blasted 143 Russian cities. That was in May.. 1050.... By 1955 Eng. lard had fallen and the U. S. and Russia were devastated." So says an advertisement of the latest American fictionalised picture of the "next war,"

It appears to be designed to fred the American jitters plus the appetite for sensation. But it will probably he defended by those who hold that the human mind must be shocked into more active measures to prevent war.

next

Many responsible authorities here take the view that the trugle condition in which

By JOHN

HIGHTOWER

tically sound and able to exer rise a stabilising Induence throughout Asia.

Familiar

With much a China there would be no problem with Rus- nia in Asia,

China's 400,000,000 people exist] today makes a proper realisa- tion of American aims thera al- most, if not entirely impossible.

It has been more than six]

Wedemeyer, who is expected months since General George C. Marshall, now Secretary of developments with US State to review the intest Chinese State, left China at the end of Department officials in the first a futile year of trying to unify part of the week, in familiar the Nationalists and the Com: with all of this, having served munists. His failure was in the American commander in keeping with the American re China in the last years of the cord In China which consists of war with Japan. His present an impressive list of shortcom work is to find as exactly as he ings in attaining the main ob jectives of helping China w other things he presumably will can what the facts are. Among into a strong self-reliant cony- try, economically healthy, poli-Korea and in Dairen and Port investigate Soviet conduct, in

Pilfering In Italy As A Fine Art

BY NORMAN

J. MONTELLIER

Rome, July 13. merely cut the overhead trolley The little book warned: "It is wire in two places, roll it up on

one's

advisable nover to purt from '« giant spindle and speed off to luggage. Pocket.picking the nearest black market where is common.. The traveller ropper wire, steel and scrap now should be on his guard,"

beling record prices.

I was 1800 and the little book was a pocket guide-still to use! today.

The other notice saki n from bridge had been stolen in Venice,

10 miles of telephone cobles Ind bren spirited away. a one-ton monument in Naples hatt ells. buif-mile of railroad

other

One of the busiest industries in Italy is key and lock manufue. turing. Everything and anything is peked and estually doubly secured with addition of a bind.

bg chain and 2 second lurk. Thieves usually walk off with, the whole business-such as Jeeps.

Locks

Americans here resorted to 1.

Arthur, which the Russions still actually control though the Chinese are supposed to have a civil government there.

Presumably he will also look into evidence of the relations between the Chinese Commune | ints at the Soviet ment.

Govern.

Пав

Position Worse

American policy today been based generally on the as- sumption that they are not real Communists, subservient to Moscow, so much na rebellious farmers. The authorities agree that Wedemeyer will find condi- tious in China worse than when

Marshall loft.

Gen.

-

thore

the

CARNIVAL

By Dick Turner

3-15

"Dis is our Inst job, Swifty! We just can't compote wit' de government-income taxes and all that stuff!”

China's Racket In Exchange

When you leave China can you

Shanghai, July 14, dollar would have brought you

Inflation is

The official rate of exchange" at least 45,000 to t. You also dis- extreme. The civil war is more advanced American traveller abroad

nothing new, but for the rover that the cost of fund and

R1⁄2 drink sind lodging and allks and with less chance of a peaceful more expensive now.

mandafio couts and jade and what setl'ement seen. Such Liberals, !

Take China for illustration. not, Ix pegged a lot. nearer the Ignition lucka, 2. steering wheel put into the government at you can dignity it with all the Cumpared to the black market you

as Gen. Chiang Kai-shek

has The

"official rate" rucket-und | 46,000 level than the 12,000 lovel. chain and· padlock, 3. gus lunk locks, 4. raillater locks, 5 and 6 nut, necording to Information still a racket is probably more Compared

Gen, Marshal's request, have official eliches la

the book it's got about 28 cents to the dollar. wulbox locks, 7,8.9 and 10. lucks here. been given any real au-painful here than any other spot about 40 cents to the dollar. The to the price levels

luck on spare tyres, and 12. chain on every wheel. 11. chain and thority.

on the globe.

Chinese Government got the rest, and lock en spare gas container.

When you get off the ship In Italian artists first picked the meat of Russia in Europe is let you off-the customs people The pulicy of "firm contain-Shanghai-or rather before they

One-Way Street locks. When these got too tough being developed partly on they developed their own giant

queue you up во that you can convert your CNC back into US Truman Doctrine as expressed "chain clippies" to snip the pro- lective bars. When all the locks in Greece and Turkey and part-exchange your good U.S. money money at the official rate? You

for Chinese money.

can not. If you want to get rid the Marsha't cut, they just hauled

plan for to combined made the job too dimly.on

Since few Americans have had of the roils of brand.new CNC the.

jrep | economic recovery of Europe. much experience with dual eur. notes for US dollars you'll have AWAY. Jeens mally are foun

and find a black- rency, this at first intrigues them to go ashore quickly-minus wheels, Lyres, bat But conditions in China are and supplies small thrill for writ marketer who'll give your the tery, windshield wipers, gasoline so out of line with those of ing home: For which they pay. buying rate which is not as good seats, top and all parts of the Europe that neither type of engine which are detachable with solution appears to be applica- In Chinese dollars at the official government is concerned, the of These U.S. dollars are paid for as the selling rate. At far as the net too much labour. An indus

de. trious victim:

The United State thus rate of 12,000 topic you areIcial rate of exchange is dong- of such

thet

far has been reluctant to take accustomed to the usually can buy his own tyres and position in support of Gen. reneles of the world's economic

watered. cur. way transaction with no rebate.

Sailors on merchant ships who wheels buck from the blackmark»

Chiar Kal-shek which would destitutes, that may seem like -at three times the normal price

drew niongy before going ashore rive the Russians an excuse for lot. But It isn't. The next day in Shanghai and found themselves Thieving is aimed at anythin that isn't to big to haut off. Bu utright vigorous support of when you get ashore you find that shortchanged in this approved

the Communists. Associated on the open market, or black inor., fashion, got in the habit of tuit Press.

Its authors no doubt plead that they have merely described what is technically possilde, and that the predictions of military and political anthurities differ only in timing and degree. And they may point out that the United States Army is already surveying underground factory sites a5 2 defence against atomic bombing.

It can be seriously argued that appeared, many persons would be less irretruck was missing. ispensible about urging the neces It was 1947, and the Sity for a "preventive war" if they notice was a newspaper accuant. had a clearer picture of what war Nobody was surprised.

Thieving in Italy long ago sur would cost and were shown clearly

Whether in advance it would almost cer. vassed petty pilfering, tainly end in stalemate. It is to new tricks and bigger ideas from

light-fingered Latins learned he questioned whether a work of Aled troops passing through was fiction can teach that lesson, but hard to say. Certainly, the busy the point it is more important to hands of Italian thieves no longer make is that so much thinking stop with mere automobiles- about the inevitability of the anything and everything movable

war is

a danger in itself. or dismontable is for prize for the

craftsman, even if he has This particular book is only pic atent a fleet of trucks to haul his turing in more explicit horror a lopt away. nightmare that is too largely

Stealing is, not a major occupa. A absessing American thought to tlon in Italy but pads out many day. This sort of mentality is a small income. In many dar less healthy than the steady stances, the artful schemes of the determination to achieve victory thieves betray a romantle zest for which characterized thinking twa years ago. Any fatalistic sumptions that there must be war between Russia and America are not even as healthy as the appeared. A gang of thieves snt indoubtedly over optimistic as to work midway ulong the 60-mile sumptions two years ago that the route as soon as the night train birth of the United Nations at hed passed. They had San Francisco was an insurance mile of track neatly piled on Rive| of enduring peace. At least, San stolen trucks when police arrived. Francisco focused thought

Trame on the line was restored within 24 hours. peace. Today, there is a sharp diplomatic, political and economic wonderment. when they found one of Naples." in Piazza della Borsa, Venetians rubbed their eyes in Such was the case of the "Lion struggle between Russia and the of their ennal bridges, gone. The centuries-old statue of Neptune United States. And because the isoppratance of the bridge was is guarded by eight marble lonz human mind seems to be

ane ton, One weighing more astonishing enough. The fact that caen easily excited by conflict

ů Ti

WILS missing than it was Iron, spanned a 15-foot morning, concord there is a dangerous tend-gap and weighed more than one Police still are baffled as to why ency to forget that the object of ton made the theit even that diplomatic struggle is not surprising. Besides, what gondola war but peace. Events and pali-could carry it away?

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reason fo these thefts is the desire to da a dificult job for mere profes sional pride.

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and how.

ket if you prefer, your same US. ing it out on the rickshaw coolles and other waterfront denizens at the edge of Hongkew. When they found out the extent and manner in which they had been clipped they began punching Chinese, any Chinese and as many as they could reach.

BARCLAY ON BRIDGE

By Shepard Barclay

"Ihe Authority on Authorities"

IMPEDE, DON'T

HELP

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Touching

American residents in China

Now they're smart, and don't. draw money in Shanghal, or it they do they smuggle it nshore and convert In the open market, This illegal, but you can do it end of any business transacted unmolested within " stone's by them. North returned the throw of Foochow Road In a Neapolitan park, a bronz

heart to the K. East ruffed police station, the law being what bust of Gincoma Leopardi dix-

the club J with the spade 2 and is in China. appeared from its stand.

IT IS a well and good to be led the established diamond Q. cies tend to demonstrate chiefly Rome's suburbs often grind to apllfering parade, was

Fectric buses running through But the best of all in Naples in a hurry to cash your high North prevented a

when the curd

heart dis disagreements with Russia, The halt when the power goes dead.lehly

tricka on the defense card by ruffing with the spude embossed Rcepter

was against the other follow's con- 8, but East over-ruffed, scored scarcely ever mention the official American Congress is more ready Harried police and linemen have stolen from the hand of the to vote funds to "stop Russia" grown accustomed to this thieves statue of Victor Emmanuel II intro. But there is such a thing the spade A, then led to the rate of exchange except to specu as tou much waste. Just a little apade Q. The diamond then late as to when a new one might than to promote democracy. This

front of the

royal

palace Piazza del Plebiscito,

carelessness in collecting your enabled him to discard the be set. When a new rate is sat,, may be a necessary defensive phase

The theft of rich jewels, golden own tricks enn sometimes result heart 6. He led to the heart the official and black market rates before a peace, offensive can be

ornaments and valuable statury in establishing a winner for the A and finished the, hand with for a few days will be about the launched. But the time is surely

from

churches

common declarer which may give him spades to make his contract. near when there should be more

throughout Italy. This is attribut the vital discard that enables

same. But as the days pass and China's el emphasis on peace-on the terms

mare to mercenary

currency continues: its thleving him to make his contract.

Where the 3-Spades got set, non-stop plummet which would be suitable for a

toward zero. than in anti-religious manifests Varying the order of events South likewise opened the dia- minus, the open market rate will tions in a country

where ear general settlement with Russia.

enever so slightly may impedo his mond K. But upon seeing the climb until it is three, four or five rency is almost worthless, There should be less talk of a

(From the files of the "Chine items mean food for whoever enn efforts instead of helping him. dummy and his partner's 3, he times the official rate, The Chin- preventive war, more study of a Mall")

peddle

them.

switched to the club K, then, the ess Government pretending the preventive

light touch of Italian

7 to the Q, and the A made the money is sound clings touchingly. Ralph Waldo Emerson lectured thleves is a hard thing to imagine. peace. Nations do not drift into peace.

I dummy ruff. East led a dia- to the offcial rate, Thought before the

Mercantile One correspondent drove through

mond from dummy to the J, must be devoted to it.

American residents who draw Library Association Dec. 27 on Naples with luggage packed and It is

forcing out the A. The heart salaries from the States in the dangerous and wrong to accept observations during his

England, giving the results of his padlocked on the top of his car. SQ52

SAK 1087 brought the 2, 8 und K, and form of money orders or checks Outsble recent Re never stopped.,

the H 10 432 sensational predictions of "war visit. He appears to have derived city, however, he found the straps DQ965

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a spade was led to the Qfor U.S. dollars always exchange with Russia." It is well to recall strongly favourable impressions neatly severed and three

North ruffed the diamond Qin the open market and never buv bags CO 8 Job's lament that what he "great of the English character. Every.

missing.

forcing East to over-ruff. The any more' CNC than they need. ly feared" had come upon him thing in England betokens life me, Rome lost an ingenious one Pickpockets are skilled trades-

dummy could not be reached You may change 'US$100 at any and to insist that whatever dip The land and climate are favour to the police recently. He worked

again to use the diamond 9, no 40,000 and congratulate yourself tomatic resistance to Russia may able to the production and pre- with a young girl,

the heart & had to lose for the on getting a very good rate. Be- whole Job

setting trick By making thefore you get around to spend half be necessary, the end should be servation of good men.....

England has all the materials sible to always-willing men while

coinely as po

dummy ruff early, declarcr's of it, the Chinese money may aut for a working country....The her confederate

fer another sinking spell and you went through (Deater South. Both sides timing had been spoiled.

could have gotten 52,000 by mere Englishman enjoys great, health the victim's pockets without avulnerable.)

ly waiting a day. So never change and vigour of body. They are fear of disturbing him. targer than

more than you need. It's sure Americans one hundred Englishmen taken at

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Women with large baskets un random would probably weigh a their heads get a wide berth in quarter more than the same num city streets today, Urchin her of Americans. The English cropehing Inside the bankets had Landon, July 14.

man is stout, round and full, and, a field day in hat-snatching until this hand was dealt, South over- Agricultural land for a ra presents a slout; respectable and the trick became top popular. bid the 3-Spades with 4-Clubs,

THIS IS GETTING ** dius of two to two and a half grandfatherly appearance....En-

Italians now turn to more ingot doubled and was set by two 88

MONOTONOUS 300.- miles armand London's main joying vigorous health, they, last vent've stunts to part mun tricks in each major for an HQ1062

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Shanghai, July 14. against the threat of the strongly developed....

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Slan reported today that what Colorado Bostle.

was believed to be The spraying is being carried Englishman has so much con- Tome railroad station

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saucer" was nighted over the out for the Ministry of Agricul-adence is the power of his nation helping her with her luggage, beaten where more expert re-

Shensi provincial capital at 11 ture and Fisheries. :

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a.ht. on Syskiy-000 air milles "There in no reason to other....The English surpass all hor

from Mukden where the discs suspect _the_presence of the Co- others in- general-culture-none- On a aniet street, he told polles. Let's look at the record of

were first reported over Chips. lorado Beatle in the farma surare so harmoniously developed the "girl" turned out to be a man the defenders who failed. The

Dealer

The report quoted member of Peninsula Hotel rouiding these airports, an They are quick perceive any in on the plot and the was hegene who paid no beed to North's

with a gun. The cab driver, was diamond, K.was led by South, vulnerable.)

the Fire Brigade in Blan az say... ing that a Agriculture

round Ministry official | meanness in an inilividual. "And

substango radiating bright lights waa -- BOGIL sald, "but it may we'l be it is reasonable that they should waveller was loft without money low 8. but raked in his A, then What bidding would you 're "gradually ascending from an brought into areas by air liners have all those fastidious views. And it was such a nice look flying from the Continent."--- which wealth and power pre ing girl, too" he said United Reuter.

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