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MALAYA PROSPECT

THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JULY 11, 1949.

:

Morning

IN GERMANY, THE OLD GANG Good Morn

IS WAITING FOR DER TAG

More Babies If

Houses

More

Answers to the Report by the Royal Commission on population summarised by MONTAGUE SMITH

"Give us the houses and welpens about £2, and high chairs will provite the children the 3 10m. nation needs-and that we are longing to have."

That is the overwhelming ans- wer of the hundreds of women who have responded to the invitation to

give their pinions of the proposals

of the Royal Commission Population.

It is important that we should realise the difficulties The Commission put the hous- which still have to be suring question at the end of their

(Mrs.) DELPHINE 1.

werty Se

HATOLIFF.

By JOHN FISHER

Hitler's favourile Burgerbrau¡ dence that the province had under Wot, No Wanchee? cellar in Munich is now used her King Ludwig in the early partly as a basketball stadium part of the last century, for American troops and partly Munich had its as a soda fountain.

"Don't forget your hot pop corn," says the notice outside the

door.

to get it into

Every profession has its allments. mariner

I

know

$

(retired) who from prevalling wind.

own master suffers

The hardest thing now about when hard currency is own court and Shanghai. troppings.

From Bavaria too comes another old Germany-the trace of the

anti-Semitism. sinoke of kindling ant

Observers here believe that 90 per

Wort cent of the Jews of Hitler's Brown, House is still Germany are squatting in Bavaria a mound of red brick ruins on on the long way to Israel. which

contractor's "knock

If you pass down the. Moehl- down" board has yet appeared. strasse on the. East of the River

A Dr. Weiner says robots will But nevertheless Munich, tribal Isar, you will see so many Jews take over all man's inbours by- the street Nazis. Is beginning that even

signs are and-by. rity of the

móre to live, and old

written, in Hebrew. once

Once again

We shall watch with interest columnist memories to stir.

conspicuous, the Jews are getting the office electronic themselves

talked

about and trying to

wisecracks work out

no

Bedford: Someone

Around Munich is a country- nt last has hit the

on the head. all right

Pain does not really MONEY.

who wants a ny women

go through much I've had three. But look, rather, at the price of children's for small, decent clathes-30s, shoes,

worse.

•

It's aide full of fat sheep, rief timberly or wrongly, accused of from current events...

being bebind all the Black Market. the feneod orchards and Finally on

back to and well

rond under the soft lights of Munich pre-wor Germany the thousands

Someone is offering a Customs restaurants have been watching of Bavarians who have flipped

One of sedan for sale through the de-Nazification net. built the big landowners feeding

types, cvi- geese and champagne.

They are graded by fellow Ger- those heavy duty mans as category four (fellow dently. travellers only.) Such non are

take free Lo

of

mounted in dealing with the report. The women put it long trunks to fit three-year-olds, £4i Bavaria I bave come across the legally where they left off. Many Communist terror in Malaya was in front of all other plan that upples, even are 2n. ench? American occupation and the new of them

In One Room

Nearly 40 per cent of all the letters Even assuming that the re-received, coming rom all parts of Com-the country and all classes of the maining 3,000 or so munist guerillas can be effec-population, voice this demand for

more housés. tively dealt with in the near future, Malaya will continue to require a police force far in excess of its pre-war es- tablishment. This will pose on the country a heavy financial burden which in present circumstances it is ill-equipped to undertake.

Many of the letters are heart- im-rending reading--some from we men married for eight or more

now

The price of its staple com- modity rubber — is lower in the world market than it was in 1939, while of administration the cost has risen steeply, as has also that of rice. Unfortunately the successful elimination of the present threat to law and order provides no assur- ance that there will be no recurrence of the danger. terrorism in Communist Malaya is largely an allen movement which has come into the country from with- out. In the existing chaotic condition of Burma, and with Siam far from settled, there are endless possibilities of further penetration. Nor can the triumph of the Com- munist armies in China be without its effect. It is

years, longing

for children, buti

able to bear them because they are living with their parents or in one unfurnished room.

And at the other end of the mother in Tattenham, years on the council waiting-list for

of house, and now with boys

13 and a and

girl of nearly 12, ali obliged to in

to sleep one room.

senle are auch cases as that of R

4

18

Abingdon, Ber

Berkshire.

another

Western Fowers hope to set up administration at followers have

"Maternity are the air." To meet the starkt half way?

·

. 6d. engh for bathing Among both rich and poor in

up life for a coat, and does anyone realise most bitter discontent against the

have found influential (MTH.)

J. M. D. W. German "democracy", which the jobs in the all-powerful bi-zone

at Frankfurt, Other Nazi camp this year..

their own taken over

factories

Just when you're Important The newly formed Bavarian

enated the trusters || enough to take two hours for again, have party which demanda independence who have been running the works tusch, the doctor limits you to a for the province is making pro- meantime and are beginning to glass of milk. gress and thousands of peasants enjoy accumulated profits. There and townsmen overflow the weekly same factories get quotas of raw

the pint-sized meetings held by fireball, Dr. Baumgartner.

Herr Doktor is a

cartoonist's dream, whose black hair shoots up on either side of his forehead like the horns of an amiable chamois,

I AM a mother of seven bonny children

hope to have In the near future. My husband is a farm worker with £4 14s. per week, less Gs. 8d. milk, 48, 11d. insurance, and 68, rent. Now this extra family allowance would he welcome in my home as we could a little more give war children extra good stuff. (Mrs.) J. SAY.

Dulverton, Somerset. The public attitude towards those who have big families is encouraging. *One is hardly

to be a fool who does, nut thought know the facts of life.

(Mrs.) M. L. GENTRY.

Edgware.

re, Middlesex.

Growing Powerful

based materinis eproduction.

Baumgartner has behind him the bly Jandowners, whose 'star seems to be growing more power ful every day. In Moscow the four Powers once agreed to split up the big German feudal estates

and

German land reform law, approved by the Americans, pro vided that all farms of more than about 250 acres should be handed over, in part, to small holders. Today-most of the smallholders are still waiting.

on their 1038

Two Mistakes

I don't believe this talk About a stork. My paler Gave me all the data.

Two other mistaken of the American authorities have helped the old regime in its struggle to regain the saddle.

The first was to take on se many

enses that practi-port. deo-Nazification cally every family in Bavaria was impliented and so became ready to fight the courts.

More time is lost in British factories by tea drinking than by people staying away, says a re-

'Ave-some-tea-ism...

I AM 30 years old, mother of four children. I have seen two world wars chop off in their prime The points system for housing

song and daughters, potential par-

Then the occupation authorities priorities is another heartache to

Cofrespondent claims that tens un ents of the future.

failed to fill the empty Nazi posta many. For priorities depend on

of thousands are badly housed (Mrs.) WINIFRED SWANN.

with something better. "Wo drew

not the number of children already

Welwyn Garden City.

the teeth of Nazi Germany," one in Hong Kong. Others are born, and for those who went

The children are taken out of

official told me, "but we forgot housed at all. children but cannot have them

the home by school

nurseries,

to make a plate." And so the re until they get a house the position meals, etc. The mathera ere taken

turn of the Junkers (model '49) seeing as hopeless naˇthe embargout of the home by industry. The

and the

the Nati

followers camp

has In Denver, U.S.A.. when A discouraged moat Germans from

hotel clerk told n would-be hold- in unfair.

Next to the housing difficulty food is taken out of the home by

The Counts, Dukes and Mar-

the de-

up man, "You'd better get out of our correspondents put the cast of catering establishments. Why have

quises of Bavaria would welcome giving evidence before

Nazification courts. Some who

here," the gunman retreated the necessary provisions for the a home at all?

Newmarket. (Mrs.) M. SMITH," again the same kind of indepen-inve already textiled in Primary

be back with As the baby before it is born

courts have withdrawn the evi whining,

someone who has more nerve greatest deterrent to larger fami-

appeala dence before

than me.. lles.

beard.

American officials tell me that in Bavaria alono 7,000 of the juicier cases aro still waiting to be heard. The longer these; cares are delayed by the German au- thorities, the more chance thero will be or a white-wash verdict

Most welcome of all the Com- mission's proposals is that for in- children's allowances creasing

as they grow older, and for extend. the ing the allowance to cover first child.

But most wives in the profes-

་

Spain's Reds Wait

By WILLIAM STUTTARD.

Intensified Communist act-which is contrary to the interests easy to imagine a situation sional and similar classes would

from pendence." comparable to that in Greece prefer a reduction of income taxes in that ferian Peninsula of peace and their national, inde being given.

allowances. Costs of-by special broadcasts arising. A great deal more, to any

education are stressed here, but Moscow and clandestinely-clr- therefore is required of the take little prominence in the let-culated news-sheets-have Ample Funds

Christians At Bay

dren.

Busy Pens

The proposal that contraceptivo methods should be taught as part of the National Health Service has attracted little attention in this Declared oppon- correspondence.

are fewer than two per ents of it .cent of the correspondents. in the Population Report gener. ally is the length of the letters re- busy mothers have ceived, May 4,000 words: the written nearly more Average is

Aid From Outside

Even the

could be

A striking proof of the interest and Portuguese police vigilance, at their disposa recently stated suits, a most favourable setting.

no

One day of the kirk, Mrs.

o' the Stewart

Brack was sooner scated than out she all- ed again, much to the curiosity of the assembled congregation. She put a penny in the plate, and the elder on duty handed her a half crown, saying, "I thecht ye'd made a mistake."

are

enr

In the USSR they get tired of des committee" and Just caling it the "un-Russion betivi-

MVD.

Bay

"Given in marriage by her Julfet cap. She carried a white gown, with satin bodice and full skirt,"

Those eager, eager brides!

So far as I can tell, there is no conscious or very articulate move- ment yet on foot to revive the National Socialist creed. Werwolf caused a tightening up of police Malayan authorities and otters as

as a whole

married

Portuguese workers are told pamphlets, which the Colonial Office than just

which appear from women think vigilance. Several

that if the Soviet armies are time to time, seem to come from there

abuse of children's allow-

Since the Civil War Govern-obliged to cross the frontlers of a final mopping-up opera-

in the past.

They wore driving in traße at living still people Generala Franco and other Staten in pursuit of aggres- real planners, if they exist, the rush hour with the wife keep- tion. A declining standardances by some parents who spend

then on their own enjoyment, ments of

have ruthlessly pre-sors,

tions: of life would play into the The issue of coupons for the pur- Carmona

"Watch out for that red Finally, the Portuguese while the their revolutionary doctrines open- are advised not to obey any callati!) in ocean forces

Slow hands of the now discredit-case of children's neersities only vented the Reds from propagating they should be welcomed as are far too sensible to cause alarm ing up a steady stream of direc

down, now... Finally the husband told her to fight against the soldiers of

which are being cd Communists: prosperity is muggested instead.

About 10 per cent of women pptly. There is little doubt that the

made to get former Nazi sym. Fently, "Relax, darling. I have and good government will fear of future war or the present collapse of either the Franco or Russia's Popular democracy."

rom France and North Africa pathisers into key jobs can parily perfect confidence in you when regime could go far to prevent them from uncertainties of living conditions Carmona-Salazar

are working the chiefs responsible he explained by the fact that one I'm driving," their repairing

damaged as reasons for not having chil- hardly fail to have serious. reper-

to feel cussions on the other. The police for smuggling money, arms and camp follower is apt prestige.

therefore in Spain and Portugal trained agitators into, Spain and politically naked when surrounded keep a close collaboration.

Portugal.

an

anti- oflice-full of former For some

years the Kremlin

Some

ome of the links in this chain Nazis.

But all the signs are that one have had their eyes fixed on the of conspiratora were revealed at suitable several fuerian Peninsula as a

courts martial I have day it would not be too hard to

turn back the hands of the cuckoo. attended. field for Communist activities. -The Communist campaign

Under hot cross-examination, by clock of Bavaria and, for a

# re- military prosecutors, some-Com-vival of German Nationalism, you against the Catholic Church

manists' admissions clearly dis- would find here in Bavaria, among behind the Iron Curtain is

close how intricate la their or the old leather brooches, shaving- gathering momentum daily.

In spite of the close Spanish ganisation and the ample funds brush hats, and, it must be added,

double breasted shoulder-padded | After last year's coup d'etat

General Franco in Czechoslovakia the Czech

Communism carries on its insidious hierarchy declared that it

clandestine plotting and planning there were no Fifth Columns to Of all the underground foreca fear in Spain. Moscow, howover, slood outside politics, and

intriguing against France and considers Spain and Portugal are Salazar, tho Communists alone suitable fields for, intensifying above parties, and the usual

able to count All these opinions have been valuable material aid from out- promises of religious free-

un thoir underground campaign. This I have gathered listening in to the 'dom were made by the carefully noted, and it is regretted

MOSCOW special broadcasts from usurping Government. But that lack of space prevent the

International Communism stead- in the Spanish and Portuguese the neutrality of the Church publication of more than these few

ily furnishes arms, money, pro-languages. The single must struggle long panlards and Portuguese well-Atlantic Pact

and specially-trained After bitterly attacking the was in itself made the sub-typical extracts:

as an aggressivo ject of attack by the so-call- and hard to save for a home, and

in Communism. act against Russia, the broadcasts ed "People's Democracy"; the unhappy dwellers in farnish- indoctrinatixi

trained met urged the workers of Spain and proclamation by the ed rooms are effectively provent. These supplies and

remaining other than support an efficient secret cellular Portugual to units and prepare

organisation which is batter- for their "liberation" and bishops forbidding priests to childless.

the underground activities establishment of a "Popular do weared to take State office, and sus- The solution is a system

These loans could

than other movements.

mocracy as in ¡lussia.: ** pending such men as did so, i marriage loans.

White Socialism, Anarchism, be fazued without interest, repay- was particularly resented. It is in point of fact difficult able at a fixed percentage per and the other. "ima" in Spain

wago month, according to

rely on a mass following, the mphasise quality to see how any sincere salary. If these measures could Communists Christian, let alone a priest, be accompanied by some degree of rather than quantity. The trained could serve as a willing col- housing priority they would cer- Communist Party chiefs evidently

the revolution breaks when hope league with Communist tainly be effective.

A. S. FORREST. to which thoir clandestine leaflets .Ministers who lose no op-

refer--to assume the leadership Newport, Mon portunity of denouncing re- Make mothers' lives easier at of the rebels in Spala and Por ligious education, and once by releasing all household tugal, tolling Marxist materialism, goods, particularly labour-saving

devicas, from purchase tax.

(Mrs.) W.L.B. Bradford.

the

Cx-

ed from

than 300.

of

been have

side.

or will

·Hide-Outs Raided.

Walk-Outs Continue

In Italy

Rome, July 9.. Recurring one day walk-outs continued to plague Italy today: Workers on the Roma Nord As the chances of making the Church subservient re-

The Portuguese "PIDE (Policia railway, a small feeder line, serv de Dafenas deling nearby towns, staged a 14- ceded, more and more open Shortage of food and queueing Internacional

hour protest strike, today. against cleaning steps against it have been is the main reason for small fami- Estado) have recently carried out our lay-offs in

I have three daughters with raids on Communist hideouts in deparOnent. lieste taken.

area and 'Algarve. As in other coun

They left work on construction families, but every day, sometimes the Coimbra

back to their jobs tries inside Soviet domina-

day, they come back, ex- Much useful information of the men went twice.

* "hlecup" tion something more than hausted, irritable, and weary with network of Red agents working after stretching their

a two hour daily work discovered. rights of temporal, against only the bare necessity for one for the overthrow of both regimes strike

waynto stoppage now under spiritual authority, is in dis- day's feed. The strain is on the was

who is tired of it all and Small. printing pressos, files, an all-day walk-out on Friday:

Two construction workers wère woman, pute. It is a question whe declares there shall be no more and documents have fallen into

arrested for Interference with ther Christianity in any children for her. I hear it every the hands of the "PD Copies are stardom to work.

the hammer and sickle adorned of form-indeed religion of any day.

"Militante" werd

The Communist Metal Work- *Harrow. (Mrs.) M. E. RYAN. "Avanto" and kind is to be allowed to

Colmbra Union has called a one-day It is not the cost of keeping and being prepared near enter, the citizen's life or is fooding a large family which is when the police pounced in. The nationwide walk-out for Tuesday,

July.12. AM

Builders and bricklayers of to be abolished in favour of the reason for the falling birth atlantic Pact was prominently pure materialism Else rate so much as the fatial ex-featured in both.

Northern Italy are also due to where this battle has been panse of having a baby-da

or- "Portugal „bad placed herself at a strike to be progressively, ex- going on for a long time. Que twins cost on

tune to provide for apples the service of capitalist United tended to the whole of Italy, In Czechoslovakia the first mado(and,ww.needed four States", and this would lead to Non-Communist matal, worisers “Portugal |-of-m-rival: tiniou have refused to campaigns are only now 'aal), out around, as mondo, war against Russia. opening.

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