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DEATH

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AN ERROR OF JUDGMENT

SKU ŻYCIN

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1947.

Does This Mean That Conflict in the Balkans

Is Inevitable or Impending?

UNO'S DECISION IN

GREEK

CASE

By Wickham Steed

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DANGEROUS DRIFT

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CARNIVAL

By Dick Turner

COP IT BY NESËRTICK, NC, T. 12. NEO.

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"Everything I want you refuse! You-you communistl"

Government

Sticks To Tradition

ascends

the

"We went up and down to "aco the tables where under "every salt there was a bill af "fare and at the end of the "table the nersons proper for "the table. Many were "tables. None in the hall but "the Mayors and Lords of the "Privy Counell that had napking For knifes which "strange.

Wins very Anon COMER the "Lord Mayor who went "the Lords

After four weeks of discial assembly of the United Na-ition of the United Nations As- cordant proceedings the United tions might be called; and he sembly must be interpreted an Nations Assembly has taken a undertook that the bly declaich. By forty votes States should co-operate with lata" on the part of the Unit- United marking the end of "isolation- to six with seven abstenilons it other members of the United ed States and as showing a coneillatory procedure between whatever measures the speelal energachments of Russian Com- has resolved to provide for a Nations in giving effect to suttled purpose to withstand Greece and her Northern nalgh-acmily might recommend for munism hours and to set up a specint protection of the Greek.

ira an international United Nations Committee to let it

Hosphere. Does this therefore watch over this procedure and the United States would be pre-op Inevitable?

understood that mean that confllet is impending 4 keep an eye on the Greek pared to frontier itself.

take any action, in- cluding the use of force, which This resolution, sponsored by might be found necessary.

I think not. Had matters by Britain and France, has been the United States, supported

been allowed to drift, without ACUTE STAGE

timely warning the fact that vigorously if not

problem of Greece, they were moving in a danger- violently which has been foremost among us direction of crisis and con- opposed by Soviet Rusula

and the her group

worries of the of states,

Western Bict might have caught the iheure of voting appear to mark accond World War has

The Statesmen since the end of the world unawares--perhaps al a lines of cleavage between Eaat more reached an acute stage. too far

tonment when things had gono and West that run throughout it may enceivably come

La allow counsels of! The United Nations Assembly, test case for the efficacy o

modcration or counsels of con? The indicate the degree of United Nations Charte na

iliatory redure to be effec moral support in the United means

tive. It may not be easy far! Nations fir what is known as tiredom and independence protection of Nanking's action

the Soviet Russia and the Balk sutlawing

Truman Doctrine" of help nations. the powerful Liberal minurity

of states unter her influence t.o Avece and Turkey against.

desist fr.m tarties they have: group known as the Ching Dr

How long is it sinee Britain) employed In recent past. pressure of aggression

Yet meratie League can hardly fail feon cutside,

was denouneed-even in Such pressure United States-for selfish in-tles they will de to henceforth!

should they perist in those tac- to be drpfored by outside obuf aggression could only perialism

J sum error of the first come

British with fall knowledge of conse- Bulgar In.

Yugo baited to acted Grecen que to themselves and magnitude. That is not to SUR

lavia and Mbania, with Soviet! move comes alto ngement in the Balkans tmps to destry her indepen-be entasted. Kest that the

Communist at- the peace of the work that may Pether as a surprise, On the cin Soviet Union in the case

pr. per, or directly from the ence, and was treated as the

To eat rr not to eat?-that is If my reading of British P. affirmative. After some con

"and all things mighty noble the question. The answer is in trary, it has been foreseen and

of hiet villain in the Balitan in Hey is accurate It will lose no iderable discussion, pro and con.

"und to my grent content." Turkey, foreshadowed. It was, however,

"VERY UNPLEASING" broglio? The truth that Bri- opportunity of preventing the the Government CHARGES ACCURATE

The diarist seems to have been hoped that wiser counsels would?

lish trops The decisi,n of the Assem- | Greece at

only remained in Greek problem being a cause of permit the Lord Mayor of Lon-past but even at a lard Mayor's has decided to very pleased with his home re- prevail, and that the Komintang bly was not taken at random. of successive Greek Govern than any Balkan issue. But it banquet at the

the urgent request{

international conflict wider don to give the time honoured banquet he was rather more cri- world refrain from expusing it it was based upon a report of menta was brushed aside as ir. will not swerve in maintaining self to the charges to which the special committee sent

Mansion House tical. In 1803 says he: the relevant.

(which is his officin! residence in Ferry has now laid itself wide Calted Nations to ascertain antish

But when the Bri- and supporting the right of the heart of the city during his Government could open. The reasons given for the the spot how much or

not Greece to live her own life un-yer of affice) on the night of how longer bear single-handed the dr a G-vernment of her chuice November 9, bid to suppress the Democraticle truth there might be in burden

the Greek charges of aggressive resistance to aggression,

supporting Greek without pressure or aggresalon each successive year the Lord Party will impress only those in

That is the date on which In the frem outside. artien

It is tolerant to opposition and thuse i

on the part of her eyes of the United States was Mr. Hector

true, Mayor McNeil stated to throne

the Municipal bent apan preserving the political en neighbours and in the opened and President Truman the Ukranian delegate in

anil takes office as the denials or eunter-charges of proclaimed his doctrine. status quo in Nationalist Chinia, Albania, Yugoslavia and Bul- all intents and purposes

the Chief Magistrate of the famous To Assembly that if the remnant of square-mile in the heart of the even at the expense of reducing barfa.

that British troops were withdrawn "greatest city in the world"; The democratic professions to a farce. that the

The Committee found ctrine has now been endorace from Greece overnight, the re-capital of the greatest Empire

Greek charges were as Within the

regards Greece by forty sult would not be ranks of the De-substantially

order but the world has ever known"; "the accurate. The members

of the United Na further disorder. The rent in Empire on which the sun never mocratic League, it is true, there Assembly therefore

concluded tions.

sue is whether the principle of are intellectuals, with leanings that remedial action was neces

etc., etc., etc. A FRECEDENT.

The United Nations Charter partini eclipse at the moment but Admittedly that sun is under [well to the Left. There are also sary. What this

action may This is a matter of consider-hall be upheld against intrigue we know that it will shine again frankly indicated able moment. As such it will and aggression or members as conservative by in- become was stinct as many English Tories, States, Mr. Herschel Johnson, and also in France where con- are to prove illusory, delegate of the United be regarded in Italy, in Turkey hopes placed in the

whether upon us. Meanwhile by official Charter permission we (that is to say, a who offer opposition to the Kuo- He thought it likely that ag- aequences of failure to with mintang largely because they see gressive acts against Greece by stand aggressive

enrefully selected Lew hundreds of us) will eat and drink and bo renson enough for the conclusion her northern neighbours would! Communist

tactica of

Merry on Lord Mayor's Day. that the period of 'political tute- continue.

Governments in

To decide whether In that case a spe- Southeastern Europe Inge has lortg exhausted its use-

or not to would

xanelion the holding of the ban- fulness, and because of the tragic

have been

That was nearly 300 years ago regarded as con-

quet. things being as they are, and timas have changed. stituting a dangerous and dis-

Only scale of corruption crippling the

has set a really ticklish problem the ellte and the lucky will sit heartening precedent, At the

for the Government. On the one down at the Lord Mayor's Dan existing administrative machine.

same time the possibility can.

Washington, Oct. 28.

hand it has been compelled by quet in this year of 1947, To suggest that the League has

The United States

but not be ignored that the resolu- ment of Agriculture announced terity in living not known to the diarist, will find all things mighty circumstances not only to preach we-hol pellolor most of us, Depart but to enforce a degree of aus- actively supported, the Comin

tion of the United Nations As- today that it is to purchase on country in general for many and noble and to their great content.” will hope that they, like the ist revolt against the National

aembly may tend to bring on behalf of Government is to make travesty

direct trial of political strength Government the tobacco which

the United States many a year. of the facts. Its leading mem-

and influence between leading Britain has now decided not 10{

United Pross." bers are boldly outspoken, and

nations of the Western world purchase In 1947. and associates of Soviet Union, opponents of the Government,

The Department described its ernment must-have-found-it-diff

In such circumstances the Gov- but they include-within-their

Far more than the freedom-purpose as being "to protect cult to justify giving consent and of one small Balkan country tocco growers against numbers some of the country's

may be involved in this possi- unstable market conditions that quet which traditionally has been the approval to the holding of a ban- ablest men, men to whom China

Mail")

bility. In the light of Mr. have resulted from the recent renowned for Lucullion, standards, might well look to become power has requested us to correct an tions, and of the Marshall Plan ment that Britain would purier for Economic Affairs), hob-

The Editor of the "Register" Herschel Johnson's ful factors in the creation with error in yeaterday's issue. The for financial and economic aid chase no

declara iritish Government announce-

The spectacle of a Minister of in the country of a political sys death announced

Austerity (otherwise the Minle- tem bearing a genuine

us that of to Western Europe, the resolu- tobacco in 1947,"-Reuter.

more United States resen- "H.M.M. Gray, Esq., late blance to a true democracy. Wit- Shanghai ought to be that of

nobbing with a

a Minister of Food a table spread with viands rich, fully to outlaw them and place Air. Robert L. Hunter,

and rare which might seem to their freedom if not also their latest accounts from Shanghai, By the

us to be the ambrosia and nectar of the Gads lives in jeopardy, speaks ill ofthe-first-named-Gentleman was

in a magnificent chamber comfortably warmed by the sincerity of Kuomintang good health, the other camo

a reputedly chill-proof Minister (FARE)

leaders in protesting their belief South recently and was about to

of Feel, would undoubtedly pro- in democratic principles. Nor is "Robert Small." His death was embark for England in the ship

many disgruntled membera HK$180.-anything gained by it save the not unexpected nor attributable

of.a food-rationed and coal-stary- 35,

power of arbitrary arrest

ed populace with much ammuni- and to climate; before leaving the

tion for criticism. imprisonment on any or no ex- North consumption had marked: 300,-

On the other hand. the forre Lise, Indeed, of nothing, is the its victim, action and the spirit beltind it more reminiscent it is than of the

on the heart Q. That, as you will could not easily be ignored. The Unblocking of a suit, as the only note, made it impossible for South Government-surprisingly enough Several robberies by servants whole lot easier to understand tate use the dummy's hearts for discards, the tradition which has

means of making recent proceedings in 200.-dominated Bulgaria and Rumania, fected

Soviet-have occurred recently, who ef- in the play than on the first trick.

to drive out the heart A and then has decided not to break with where Perkov

their object by 350.-

using or twa, But by then it is likely su spades and clubs best the contract.

that was judicially false or skeleton keys. In one

one trick each in hearts, cou

course of many centuries, gathor murdered, and Jules Maniu faces instance (from the master.

too late. Some situations requir

od around "The Lord Binyor's 120.- trial out

of foresight arhich only the extremely foresight, he would have seen the into a phrase which Itself is a

If South lad been keener in his Banquet" and has a cooked-up charge of the Colonial Free School) which Leen and forward looking declarer necessity of playing the heart Q on

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U.S.-PROPERTY

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Washington, Oct. 28. American citizens or cor porations, owning property rights Shanghai acquired before May 20, 1934 must re- gister their property rights and Ket now dreds of ownership, the State De- partment announced.

Other rights, such -rights-of-mortgage, must-be registered prior to the April 28 next year deadline set by the Chinese Government. ~~ Associated Press,

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British Defence Plans

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London, Oct. 28.

A comprehensive ON T

scheme for British Com- THE NIGHT Whether the actual meal will monwealth defence was strike a medium between a barbeing worked out in con- meeldo feast and a pre-war feast.

China's plight is disturbing and servant absconded with upwards true if he is up against skilful de the growing menace of the Com- of $200. As a great portion of fenders, who will not help him the turned a spade, his contract would orifice) of the ordinary man and munist offensive in Manchuria is the amount was in notes, hopes

alightest, but compel him to do all in his own hand, he could have clear-

have been safe. Winning the pade Cman. well calculated to emphasise the

are entertained that he will be

his own work,

ed trumps, then led the heart 7; | apprehended. need for close security measures

SK 10 8

inconcerned whether West HJ 10 8 3

covered D 7.5 4

with the A or not. If he played love, the would win in the dummy and discard on the trick West would take themselves very well even on pri- Viscount Hall, First Lord the 16 could be led for the spade remains to be aven 'on the night.junction with the Com-

In the past our ancestors with the A. No matter what was

dimonwealth" countries,

in 'Nationalist areas. Neverthe- Victoria Theatre. On Tues- less, to make a scapegoat of the day the Officers of the Garrigon Democratic League seems an en- and other Amateurs will perform 1965 tirely false move, most likely to SHERIDAN's well-known AK45 be interpreted as a confession of comedy "The Rivals," - AfterD962

which BUCKSTONE B Farco C 85 32 "The Irish Lion." Tickets to be had at Mr. Duddell's and Ser-) jeant Major William's 95th Re

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INDIA

Less attention will be paid to giment. Performance to Mr. Churchill's outburst on the merce at 8 o'clock precisely. vast violence of India than to the meeting arranged between

the

CJ 94

returned, the spade K would be a vate- occasions

Samuel Popys

17th

dummy entry to use the heart 8 for florist of diarists, who for ten the House of Lords to

the famous discord of the losing club.

Century of the Admiralty, told

Of course, a clubs lead to the accond years from 1880 to 1009 sot down day.. trick would scotch this plan, but early everything of his daily West could hardly make that switch dinner party in his own home for on the cuts in the armed forces,

life,

speaking of a little privato Replying to vigorous attacks After East's spade bil.・・

eight or ten

people, leaves it on Lord Hall said that the Govern- record that he

ment was antiafied that British, "Had for them, after oysters, commitments abroad could con- "at frat courre, hash of tinue to be met. "rabbits,

lamb, and a rare "chine of beef. Next a great mobilisation of the Home Floet Lord Hall said that the im- "dish of roasted fowl (cost me must not be exaggerated. It "thirty ahillings) and a tort, would be dispersed, but "and then fruit and cheese..

Tomorrow's Problem

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Governors-General and Premiers or in modern parlance to an-is

Pass of India and Pakistan. In short, archy." He expected all Indian Pan

it is more important to find the parties to fight like dogs till real means of adjustment to put an responsibility forced them to a South. But it luckily landed South in $7.

a venturesome East and an ambition end to the calamity, arising from reasonable

agreement.

the abrupt demands of the new fight is harder, bitterer, than he Though he had eight set-up tricks: 193

The contract he had a chance to make. HAJ874 dispensation, than to partition expected the anarchy less pro-game would have been impossible at CQJ952 responsibility for it. Behind the ductive of peace. Tragedy is No Trumps for aither himself or his suddenly released violence which heavily scrawled across the great fead with

partner if

each time West got the accompanied the change there are subcontinent. But while further After the 5-Diamonds West led his heart he returned a club, hopeful facts, including the readi- great flare-ups cannot be ruled heart K end, on ness of the leading figures of out as unlikely, signs of returned to the of the 2. switch- both Duminicks to meet together ing sanity are not wanting, and drew three rounds of trumps, then his pasiner's spades, Which drew the Band. A. Southable) in efforts to find a solution, India may very easily obtain the led his heart Q. If West had taken vital to South's 3.No Trumpa con- Gandhi once invited the British peace and order she needs sooner this, South could have won any retract if West lends his club Gayninet What simple principle of play is Rajto entrust India to. God, than Mr. Churchill imagines.turn, then could have, used the heart (t?

(Deater: East. North-South values

2

4

that

bad my house mighty clean happened three times a yenɛ. nad nent. My room below. All these ships would be ro "with a good fire in it, my in-stored as soon as adjustments. room abova....and my in their complements had been "wife's a good fire' also..

*mndo. On another occasion:

"We had a fricaseo of rabbits manded minesweepers in the on- Lord Teynham, who com and chickens, a ler of muttensault on Normandy, said that bolled, threo carps a great dish of a side of lamb, of British greatness, had been dish, the White Ensign, ca a symbol "a dish of ronsted pigeons, hauled down.jpg

dish of four lobsters three

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-"rare ple), a dish of anchovies abroad had shrunk to the size of

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