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LONDON LETTER

LAST OF THE GREAT

MEDIEVAL PAGEANTS By Granville Carew

Once upon a time-n satirical way of the Thames: There-City Marshal, the embroidered Roman writer reached for his after he went on horseback un-bravery of the Stato trumpeters stylus and recorded his opinior. til at last in 1711, in the days the great golden macé that there were two things of Queen Anne, he was thrown putting its head sideways out which the people desired above from his horse.

of the window of the Lord all others panem et circenses As & consequence of that Mayor's coach as though to see head and circuses. Ilia contre-temps, a magnificent what, was. going on....the name was Juvenal and he lived gilded coach was built in 1858 bands....the noise of the cap- in the days of Nero, und An-which cost the City Corpora-tains and the shouting. itoninus.

tion more than 210,000. In

Nearly a couple of thousand that golden charlot, drawn by years later, in 1947, a Lord the combined tractive effort

Special Theme

by

AND FUTURE Among the current crop of crises, a fine little crisis has been blowing up in Japan. It was not Mayor Elect of the City of of six magnificent horses and Every year, the show has a helped at all by the recent disas London said to himself that the accompanied by the Sheriffs theme which is illustrated trous floods, But

than people sill wanted two things and Aldermen of the City Cor-various tableaux. This year it floods lie behind a situation which, of that sort, and he vowed that poration, by the Livermen of was 'Agriculture The Country November 9. when he the ancient Guilds and by the comes to Town. In the ranke according to occupation authoris on ties, "threatens to wreck every took over the Lord Mayoralty, great ones of the City of Lon-were buxom girls of the land in army: there were milk malds positive act of the occupation." he would display to them both don, my Lord Mayor goes

pageantry and potatoes. He considerable

pomp and cir- and milk emblems but even a cunstance through crowded Cockney crowd, which can on streeta to the Law Courts. Joy almost anything, found it difficult to attune its cheers to mechanical hilkors.

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It a great day for Lon-processional potatoes.

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CARNIVAL

By Dick Turner

"But mother! I'll have to let him assert himself this once--he's got to say "I do"!"

Spencer Moosa

Takes A Look At Paoting

Reports from Tokyo attribute to American officials the charge that

Ax he was

traditionally Japan's economy is being deliber, bound to do, he gave the peo ately sabotaged in order to gain ple The Lord Mayor's Show' sympathy at the peace conference. which is the oldest and the They hold Japanese capitalists laat which survives of and industrialists, as well as their great mediaeval pageants of don's children who in myriads happened that just at the time the City of London-and, out excitedly drag their parents to of the show we had been fold sympathisers in government, res-

standing among the show's stand on the pavements of the by the Minister of Food that, ponsible for slowing down econo-

ELL Back of brightly be-gravelled route by reason of this or that inis. mie recovery in the hopes of

("Oh, come unto these yellow fortune, our potatoes winning larger concessions when

Bunds") while they intently for the first time in war or the peace treaty is signed. Con-

watch The show go by.

Ecace to be rationed to three nnd Arguments

complaints pounds per week. servative Japanese, however, and

show itself: It arise

And every some of their supporters among

So it was with mixed emo- year About the the Americans, blame much of was first held in the year 1215about the Show. These contentions that the people of Lan- the economic crisis on SCAP's when King John gave to the Lions are the hardest of an- don beheld among the Show's 'The Show dislotates exhibits and ironically cheered encouragement of trade unions, citizens of the City of London nuals.

cleaned They insist that American policy the right to choose their own traffic for hours: The Show a sack of beautifully

Its just and polished and apruced-up been "realistic"

Mayor on the condition that he delays business': in re-

which of was to be presented either to plain ally nonsense" and so on, potatoes. Potatoes, cognising that labour reforms are

the King in person or to his and so on. All London swears all the kindly fruits of the

The most impressive things ing to Pelping with bales of | lowering_productivity in an econ Justiciar to swear fealty, John about it and laughs at it-and earth are the very ones which

which the cautious, owners #re ony which has rested traditional died a year later, and ever all London' goes to see it and are now-metaphorically speak about Paoting are its massive cotton

crenellated walls which encom-Communist-wary ly un-cheap labour, Americans since the days of his ADD. to cheer it and to enjoy it just iny-most In our moutlis.

rectangle in a neat

shipping out, Out of this latest and to pass who are thinking chisily in terms Henry II, the new Lord Mayor as much as its forefathers did.

with nar Christian General of Japan's strategic value against of London has been presented The Lord Mayor's Show gives poorer people most calling off simbby-looking city

is prae- row, unpaved streets and with- Paoting is the burial place "Christian Russia are not likely to be greatly on the day of his "accession' to a blaze of colour for a day to food restrictions, it

of the parents of Court of Exchequer or the drabness of London, interested in the internal reform the

Af-tically certain that there will out a sewage system.

Preparations for the ballle General Feng Yu-hsiang; A which might or might not family-owned shop there, has of Japanese life. Their case is (since 1876) to His Majesty'ster the faded way years the also be one of the most difficult

the High Court of Londoner ..WOB more than to defent. holstered by the recent startling Judges of

usually delighted this year to The Show missed two items sweep this provincial capital for 100 years been producing a Justice..

are evident every accretly processed sauce much statement of Joseph B. Keenan,

Thus it has come about that see the kaleidoscope of which the people would like to of Hopel chief American prosecutor at the

pillory and a tableau of where as the visitor goes from favoured by Chinese epicures, on the 9th of November of mediaeval dress, the plumes see.

the airiield into the city, usual and the city is famed for the Tokyo war trials, that he did not every year the new Lord Mayor and the scarlet and gold of the black marketeers.

ly by foot or rickshaw because manufacture of walnut-sized believe Japanese industrialists has gone in procesalon from

Proting. despite its population iron globes which calligraphista fontented war in the past. Op- the City to the Law Courts,

of 120,000 does not possess a toy with to make their fingers ponents of, this view, including which are now in the Strand,

single taxi.

supple. middle-of-the-road Japanese liber and aforetime to. Westminster

The city in gndled by a In Paoting, wondering whe-

they shouki mout, the walls of which are ther als and some of Mr. Keenan's to swear fenity to the King.

There was a time when His leading prosecutors, believe it to

being heightened by forced la- though the city la in, no ap- boar able-bodied

de-parent danger are seven Am- crepit-looking citizens working erican missionaries and half a inckadaisically under the none dozen French Catholic pricats 100-strict supervision of sol- and nuns, diers in cotton padded uni- About two-thirds of the 65 patients In the American Washington, Nov. 25. There are not so many industrial as

Beyond the moat are deep, Presbyterian hospital, run by Economic rehabilitation is the sets of value to the Allies to be had. major problem before Japan and the And when you do take out a factory, man-made ditches which will Dr. and Mrs. Williams of Pacific war allies, in the opinion of what are you going to do with it? serve as useful nati-tank traps, Cochran, Plainfield, N.J., are Lieutenant General Rebert L. Eichel Related services must go with it, if tanks ever come their way, civilian war casualties. berger,

Commander of the United it is going to be of any value to the There are numerous gun em Some of them are farmers placements, trenches, machine- injured by landmines planted States Eighth Army in Japan.

receiving

the country" The General is about to return to In general, Eichelberger's opinion gun pits and pillboxes, most of in the fields at night by

Communists. A few were in- with is that most of the things to be had them unmanned. Tekyn after conferences here

In a wide ring around the jured almost within the, shadow the highest American Government in Japan under the heading of pus

be better city are mud forts spaced of the city wails. (From the files of the "Chine administrator about what to do with sible reparations would

and

mile Mail'').

militarily, classified as "junk." He declared,

The residents say that panic Japan. Politically

prevailed there when Hopei We beg leave to polni niten-Japanese problems have been solved "One way to settle the reparation about one-third tlon to a letter signed "Scrutator" for the foreseeable future, according question is for the Allies to

Proting's lone airfield Is Government officials, alarmed the acres of useless equipment in our present columns, which to Eichelberger in an interview here.

walls.

main

fled, but this was allayed by reached us too late for our last The General, summing up political and out-of-date industrial plants In what he from thaivity by the fall of Shihchiachuang, Japan and dump them into the sea. with the affairs under the occupation, Wo

agree

"The

Allies and Japan all there in the arrival and depar the return of many of them and pattern

tern of democracy for Japan Likely the writer that the material of our

would be better off if such a policy ture of CNRRA Air Transport the growing conviction that The Japanese people Colonial police force is very poor, has been cut.

planes, coming empty and go the Communist attempt to take arc beginning to breathe the air of were followed."Anelated Press. and that their services are on freedom and they like it. They can

Proting might still be months off. the whole defective, though we and are beginning to say what they cannot go the lengths which he think. The press is no longer tol does in depreciating them; but as what to print,"

be based on a naive misconception Worship went a-foot: then for

of Japanese life and Allied inter-a while he went by water by

ests. They compare it to the tendency of some military gov ernment officers in Germany after the first World War to look o the unregenerate Prussian official class #5 the bulwark against a disorderly, occupation. As the time for the peace treaty approaches, the Allied nations will do well to decide whether to give their sympathy to the Jap- anese people, groping toward de- mocracy, or to those "feudalistic overlords" who, in General Mac- Arthur's words, long held the masses of the people in "virtual slavery" and "geared the country with both the tools and will to wage aggressive war."

100 Years

Ago

Rehabilitation Problem In Japan

By MORRIS HARRIS

Coal Output Britain's coal output since the inauguration of longer houre i

he fails to point out the sources He recalled that Japanese news the mines at the beginning of of a more effective force at the papers are not permitted to engage November has shown a hearten- same price, we must confess we in unbridled criticism of the Allies, HK$180.-ing improvement,

Last week's are unable discern it upaided, but felt that has little to do with

what aubstitution of a 35/ figure was highest for several As to the

the papers print about enen. tially. Japanese matters, "The Japan- years, and if maintained would European police, and the con- bring Britain within about two sequent augmentation

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BARCLAY ON BRIDGE

By SHEPARD BARCLAY

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""THE AUTHORITY ON AUTHORITIES"

WHEN SHALL I'

two tricks in, the declarer proceeded to make bis game by finessing clubs PLAY IT?

for three tricks in that suit, knocking Holding the ace of the dummy's the diamond K out of the way with

to give way to easy optimism, for Kong we must also take excep- the people be to go back to the con- left and the big card, 180

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Rumanian King's Romance

Copenhagen, Dec, 2.

·250.- (million tons of the 200,000,000 tons police rate, one hundred per cent, civil and otherwic" he added. "otherwise solid suit, your problem his 1. winning the heart return and 400.- target by Dec. 31. A fall in a weakness we say that it is utter-

are policemen Ped thaifon defence la "When shall I play it" jihus getting three in hearts, shree | senteeism and a rise in output per ly out of the question,

aple around. The people they like that

The more these the dummy locks a re-entry, you in clubs, two in diamonds and the 200.-manshift both point in the right

In spades. As to the institution of freedoms are experienced, and in don't dare came in 100 1000, when all important onc

South should never have scored a 350-direction. It is, indeed, too 9000, curfew in the Colony of Hongreasingly liked, the less inclined will the declarer has a card of the auit

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long East had been on his toes. His job. experience proves that enthusiasm tion to it, Having some vested dilluns, under which they lived be-o 300.-in the early days after a change interest in its prosperity, we are fore the war, when the military was hereby letting the declarer get one when the first spade was led, wai more trick than he should. In this to use the standard signal of fine not disposed to drive every riding high."

Zane, your partner should tell you players. It is

imply thin when Thoroughness ways enduring. Even so, there vagbabods, out of it.

shed to play the Ace, doing this by folding exactly three pins your tit- American showing how many cards of the tom card and, if there annter does appear ground for the belief "Serutator's" letter is very The General, who led that a better spirit has begun to cleverly written, but we fear he troops into Japan, also feels that suit the declarer has. How can he lead play she middle card.

Japanese millitary questions have been do that? Why, simply by lignaling any number except three, play manifest itself in the coalfields, does not take into suffiolent acalspored af. Japan has been das how many he himself has whether higher eard the Kest time and Princess Anne of Bourbon, and the prospects look more pro- count the consequences of his armed," he said. "We were told to three or some other number. mising than anyone dared to anti-propositions.

destroy all manner of armaments and cipate a few weeks ago. If the

military establishments. We did just A Prosent for Friends much talked of 200,000,000 tar-Home: New Seeds from the was too much thoroughness, Army,

thar with what some people say || get could, by a fresh spurt in North. A few Packets of the Navy and Air Force and

all that go effort, be reached after all, the Now Cryptomeria Japonica and with them have been destroyed. The 5 A 72 psychological effect both on other Ornamental Fir Sects for only semblance of defence force in H 1965 WE the nation and probably dn Sale. (The hardness of Cryp Japan today is about 17.0

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Denmark was splashed in; lower one next. When West saw the Copenhagen evening papers today.

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alliance of King Michael, and he had three: hence South had two. Princess Anne was no surprise, to West did right in holding up his

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great-great-grandfather, King Chris tian IX of Denmark Asspelated. Preu

Dec London, American Secretary of Stat George Marshall and the Foreign C) 10761 (Dealers Enst. North-Southwule Ministers of Britain, Rusia 15 and

France were today, invited to "LER, nerable.)

With high competivo star play with King George, At's Buckingha of how) should this, rubber)déul be Palace on Wednesday--Associated