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COMMUNIST TALK OF PEACE

Russian Communists took the word "Democracy," twist- ed it round to describe tyranny and then claimed a monopoly of it. They

arc

now trying to do the same with the word "peace." Rus- sia and her satellites, the Soviet Union proclaims, are want the only States who

countries Capitalist peace. must in the nature of their being seek war. Therefore all who desire peace must sup- alone port Russia since she does not want war. That is the Russian contention. Com- munist talk of peace is as dis- honest as anything Hitler ever rid. For Hitler also, we must remember, was an ardent apostle of "peace." The Rus- sian line of propaganda-con- trasting the "peaceful" Soviet countries with the "warmon- gerin:"

ob- West--has two

11 jets. On the one hand socks

Western to "suften" peoples and counter their ef farts (already largely success- ful) to bind themselves to gether for economic recovery and for mutual aid against aggression. It is preparation or a new Munich, for Hitler also confused and weakened his victims by these tactics. On the other hand it seeks to whip up support throughout the Communist empire of Eastern Europe for any action Russia may take.

The journal of the Comin. form says that "the mighty wave of the democratic move- ment is gaining momentum and the ranks of the defenders of peace are growing more consolidated and monolithic, From the channel coast to the islands of Japan. from Aus. tralia to Narvik, millions of people are insisting on curb- ing rampant Imperialist ag- gressors who are preparing a new war." The "evidence" given for all this is the numer Dus Communist and Commun- ist-inspired conferences which have been held recently, in- cluding the "congresses of in- tellectuals" in New York, Paris and elsewhere, and the declaration of Communist leaders in capitalist countries that workers will never fight against Russia and that they

THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, APRIL 18, 1949.

THE ROYAL MEMOIRSd Morning

By H.R.H. THE DUKE OF WINDSOR

Post-War Problems

November 3, 1918.

"Dear Papa,

There 1

seems to be regular epidemic of revolutions and abdications throughout the enemy countries which certainly makes it a hard and critical tine for the remaining monar chies; but of those that remain I have no hesitation in saying Inost the that ours is by far wolli, though, of course, it must

be

absurd manner puddies?

to cross except

Thereafter. Just as my father kept a frock coat handy against the arrival of unexpected visitors, I always kep! a pair of old cuts which I trousers without would slip

on before I went to sea him,

New Ideas

also learn about other The less complicated life of should

Brillsh pomp and privilege for which countries Important to had been educated had lost much life. of its significance; nobody quite knew how or why.

In my turn as Prince of Wales, sa an instrument

Nymbol or

I

at my

WIM

nont in

At Speed

of

Ilo Chl-minh promisos his "nightclub

п mperor"

merry the spot"

dance, with an "on waitz as the final number,

"Although I think

fo

WA1

twice as good in my young days," anys Myrtle's 80-year-old grand. father, "I'm happy enough."

He sill enjoys

minute of it.

•

Today's trulam,

every other

"Women Scream." leading In a contemporary.

So in August 1030 there really was a Weizstecker who knew that war was on the way.

Travelling so much, everything rather than by any force of logic came in a great rush, like scenes Canadian cow- contoiand,

nowsreel:

aheep Australian

"Improving lot of out-patients." forth to discharge my public punchers.

Ah of the

might queer lot they duties, or to

were at one time. empley the term stations; the gold mines

the Argentine pampas; the brother and that my

I later

charging In Japan; a applied to our official peregrina- All this happened nearly 30tions, "Princing."

elephant in Uganda; the Oriental

India's

bygone aplendours this pageantry; and President Wilson, my propped up in Lincoln's bed in the

I think that I can safely say that global politica has not yet produced anything

travels,

unique these variety and intenally.

relation

No doubt I approached

differently Ihan

hnd mo do.

kept so, and I more than realise that this can only be years ago, and 1 think I can say lour by keeping in the closest in all humility that I have come

touch with the people, to understand my father bettor. business possible

this promise you and 1 ca

Today, to my surprise, I discov. father or his advisers would bave White House. point is always at the back of

01fered myself standing in am and my mind and that I

to the new war-fostered genera. always shall make every effort tion in much the same position

know how to carry it out, as I

na ho n the end of my war stood it will influence

the to me. Vstally future of the Empire!...

minri "I'm sure you, won't when tell you that I'm out the whole of every day seeing troops, 1..., and visiting the 'the people'!"

in

With the end of the war I did not leave the Army at oner, but remained fairly steadily with the Belgium troops in France and and the occupation forces Germany until the spring of 1919. And when we of the Army did return home after four years of

with indescribable war wns relief.

Toll Of War

Britain is unfailingly beautiful in the spring, and we thanked God that we had been spared to see it again.

of In- The pamp and how

Opulence perin! bits remained. sul surrounded the great, families.

Confidence and affluence exuded and commer- from the financial elai houses of the City of London. and, perhaps bernuse of this out- ward solidness, we Britons were slow in discovering how much the war bad really cost w

opr

It had been a heavy drain upon oney kind. empital, the More seriously still, it had wiped out much of the bravest and most spirited of our youth. That is another Cor of capital. the must important.

the

Well, history can make only so many calls on the bank, and in

world wars both the great British nation has met the claims of Western civilisation in full.

I do not know that historians or economists would agree with me, but I feel in my bones that the running-down process which has led to the present British crisis began in 1914.

my

A stickler for utlysette. father deemed it undignified for the Prince of Wales to appear in public in anything so casual as a bowler; In fact, after seeing newspaper photographs of wearing one at a civic function in the provinces, he had had me un the carpet.

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Now would just as soon have around wearing n golà

as a shiny top hat; and He was

of the

niy

But, in the absence of any defl nite directive from them, it repre- sented my views of the essential objects of my missions.

MY PARENTS

at Abbeville in 1917.

انت

nearer

Secondly, I should travel around the world, ro-iving or selling the! iden of Empire to the waverorą within the British Dominions and Colonies while meanwhile foster- ing good relations with foreign countries,

In no small measure, Lloyd at this point became George

career. architect of my

Con- cerned over the decline of the British position abroad, he drove me hard. During the next 12 years I travelled constantly.

crown

years old when First, I should try to bring to the in defending my attitude I main- World War I. ended, and was the monarchy

though tained that" for from showing eager to return to the way of life people of Britain who, disrespect to the city fathers, or which he had known before. emotionally loyal to the monarchi-

become les cal tradition, had letting down my "position," reluctance to wear a silk hat did am 63 today and, having inclined than in the past to take In fact exhibit a certain sagacity lived the most active part of my it all for granted. In what we nowadays call public life between the two wars, I now relations.

find myself regretting the push- Ing aside of things which I know My point was that since the and understand. will welcome Russian armies political cartoonists had, rightly as liberators. This theme fills | or wrongly, made the top hat a And just as I once found my- the press and radio of all the universal symbol of the bloated, self in 1910 as a young man at the male variance with my more conserva Communist sphere. The move predatory capitalist,

Iloyal Family five father,, so I now find myself ment for peace, says the Mos-number

unable to agree with many of the cow New Times, "embraces would be well advised not to

wear one during times of social political ideas held by my young the widest sections of the

friends. population in all countries of the world." Going a step fur- ther, the Hungarian pro- paganda machine informs the world that "resistance to the puppet governments of West- ern capitalist countries has gone so far that in Italy and France sporadic armed fight- ing is raging with bitter de- termination in streets and barricados." All this, may seem absurd to us who know how little the Communist op- position to the Atlantic Pact really counts in the West. The Politburo

tension.

Although my

me on pressing disapproval, Ingered.

up

father gave

this

point, his

now

The Task

It is not that I fear change, To the end of his life he for I have never been reaction- The ostensible reason for these What I fear, and' what. I tours by which I came to know upheld his own lichs of fashion ary,

realise my father always the world was that I should thank against the Inroads of more prac- tical and informal dress.

feared, WAR violont change; the people of the Empire, in my change that would sweep away father's name, for their servicci fundamental and hard-bought in Britain's cause during the war.

Turn-Ups

things.

My Inheritance then was a good He always kopt a frock cont handy near his nudlence-room ideal more complex and hazard Buckingham Palace, which heous than my father had bargained would hastily slip on

whenever for.

an official visitor was announced. And he had never yielded to the trousers,

men's

which introduced what In Eng DO YOU

lant were called "turn-ups" and in America cuffs.

Jils aversion to this innovation Was impressed upon me with almost shattering finality.

Now I also took pride, in no own way, in what I word, and greeting my father one morning at breakfast in a brand-new sunt,

few style in in Moscow must know it too. But there must be a serious reason for the intensity of the campaign in Communist countries. It may be objected that for all its machine-like mobilisation the Communist campaign does in- dicate that Russia, desires peace. Why not meet her half way? it may be asked.

I was rather taken aback when, That would be plausible if instead of complimenting, me on Russia meant by "peace" what my taste, he looked at me in a we mean. But Russia rejecta curious way and suddenly asked. the very foundations on which with magnificent irrelevance. “Is

it raining in here?” the West seeks to establish a peaceful world order. Com munist expressions of a desire of pesce must be recognised

KNOW

YOUR

HONG KONG?

Can you ́re- tegnies where this platura waa For a second I was speechikan, taken? The ans but when my father rapsëted the wwer, is in Page question, with his eyes focused in seven. Obvious repugnance at my feet)-1

for what they are--sheer pro- I realised what he meant. Why paganda,

bike up: ona'a • panta in auch an

But inside this idon, was

that

to In addition another:

to the making myself known different imperial, factions over which I should one day rulo, I

10 surpass

In their

They were conducted at high speed and on precision schedules whose of prople through hosis curiosity about a British Prince was not unmixed with suspicion.

And on my side they imposed a far greater mental and physical strain than was generally realised at the time. The price of a royal welcome In Canada crushed right hand porarily Into a splint.

d

WIL retired lem-

It seems that this season will see some Red faces round Flushing Meadows.

"Three Major

problems Faco

Wool Industry. New Wool Federation

dent.

Presl-

Production 27 per cent below

Consumption."

And the third?

The Red leader's new slogan, "Down with the Anglo-American be making must aggressors, certain of our local collaborators feel like taking legal action for

copyright. Infringement of

"Tickets $10,including supper (strictly limited.)"

-You old meanle.

No guessing.

"The, address

to

which the

patient went should be left blank if the patient has died.""

inder card. -Hospital they

No stranger eve sat down to Aner dinners-or worse; but my the digestive organs were never

after If deposited same;

my death for study by some eminent Physiological [oundation, would, I am positive, give rise to astounding conclusions regarding the fearsome effects of corporate hospitality.

It was, of course, a splendid thing to be the subject of so many graceful and elever sporches.

But where in the whole gamutĮ

of human suffering is there any-1

Fellow rang me up yesterday a Scots engineer

saying he was

nume

of one of the ships, hals being "Pa'erson."

"Sorry,"

y." I said. "Didn't quite

catch the name."

"Paterson," he repeated, add-

ing: "With two t's."

Our baker says he eats a dozen thing to equal the agony of new rolls a day. Four for break? devising overal times a day, day fast, four at tiffin, and five for after day, those few "well-chosen words"-precise and friendly, yet cautious-that my eloquent and practised hosts expected?

I Tried

All that, however, was a long time ngo. and meanwhile the consequences of my missions have passed into oblivion. At the time They brought forth enough eulogistic comment to encourage Inc to carry on,

One of the few compliments me by an I valued was paid American. A shrewd politician, chary of praise, this person Rald

to me:

"You know very well, Sir, that you and I do not always agree, but by re-interpreting the monar city in modern terms you have rendered a grent service to your father and will have made the way easter for your successors,”

Be that as

it may, I did not spare myself in striving to fun

expected of me in

all that was

the position to which I was born.

The End

At Miami the Duke said at a Proses Conference that the reception accorded his memoirs had pleased him so much that he might consider writing a Boquel,

supper. •

tisc 03

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