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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 1949..

Germany's New Constitution

The new

constitution

West Germany will soon

of

be

By A Special Correspondent

brought into operation. Peace

in the next generation may

'stitution works.

number

Good Morning

Making Things "Bearable"

The way is being snoothed for an annual nudiras conference in America. Special sandpapering the caplinters out of the stadium sent.

workem nio

•

of

This Pacific Union a queer

if Ger- inrge. In the British and Amertalony took pince on a scale they are ident material for agitn-eno' business.....\

can

there zonen

סיים

About

in no position to absorb this mass of Immigrants. They have been housed moally in country districts, in squalid camps or overcrowded billets. They arrived in Wont well depend on how this. con- In the first years after the war, which were annexed by Poland Germany feeling them:ivos mar- the refugees who figured in dis- and Czechoslovakin, and partly tyen, and have developed a fumming Germany in at present power-cussions of, the refugee problem from the Russian zone of Ger- resentment of the way in which

But the 24554 less.

Conservative were "displaced persons." Their many. Reporters & General Offes #2313 leaders were right when they said problem has now been partly

The expulsions of the German they are treated by the loent

people. in the recent debate in the House Kolved, and the German refugees population by the Pullsh and other (four linse)

in They of Commons that Germany still now hold the centre of the stage. government were agreed to

see virtually no hope Bubscription Rates

terrifyingly principle by the Allies at the under cannot be written off as a poten- Their

conditions present tial future aggressor.

Potsdam

Dut. the achieving a tolerable life. conference.

Thus many's home polities are stormy there will be repercussions in all 0,000,000. They are one in five of and with a brutality which was tars who promise them salvation

unferescen. West Europe.

Expelleon the total population.

were be revolution. At present they They favour prospects for the new con-

right-wing

extremism, The

In the province of Schleswig-thrown out stitution are not too bright in Holstein there are nearly as many could bring hardly any of their since it is Russia which is respon- baloney.

sible for their being refugees. property with them. European

indigenous people. Constitutions why there have been refugees as

which were drawn The refugees come partly from

But ir Russla mule it possible for Lip in such adverse circumstances

countries The

<if South

Squalid Camps Eart

them to return to East Germany. that they were expected to fail,

Europe, which expelled their Ger

West Germany, with its towns or made Poland return the annex. but which neverthele wiexpect a minorities, partly from the and industry devastated and itsed territories, they might easily edly

Nobody expected Fastern Nurvived.

territories of Germany administration disorgânised, was the French constitution of 1871 to August 3. albe mere than a stop-gap measure. CUMMING-On

French Hospital, 10 but it lasted until 1940. the

The new Dorothy, wife of M. Stephen West (ierman constitution may Cumming, Ron.

surprise the world by its effective- mess. Yet the first governments elected under it will face terrible problema.

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paupers,

The American And

British Theatres

By HAROLD HOBSON

AOMO

of our Garden!

theatres are

เด

- High Wages

of

become contiumist.

i-

The third net of problema psychological, Everybody who has been in Germany since the end of the war comments on the "nihilism" of the tierman people, especially of the younger genera. tion. There is a general listless- Bess and cynielsmi.

This is the reaction to defeat and the crnal of former kdeals and ambitions. The result is that there is

new emotional support for the 'constitution. There is on the con

The American' Chiefs of Staff in Frankfurt. Sounds are now like Junt the town for a bit of

something Accomplished

A goase that's prone to gabble

Is nothing but a nurm.....

Hut a brook that does not bub-

ble We well could call "reform."

a

A letter from Italy tells of a group of British tourists vieiling A the leaning tower of Pisa.

utler old lady. respectable

een scrutiny, was heard to say. "If that had happened In Eng- land, they'd have spared no ef- fort to put it right,”

in the

in the

Though Hiller long has had it, And all his gang are gone.... See, smail embryn Bismarcks Go still goosestepping on, Gauleiters of Tomorrow

And they are far from few-

Their martial fathers knew.

of Hair" дли With "Hymn

"Deutschland" “THEY ̈ mork their Yankee

yoke....

The problems are partly econo Hong Kong would have mic, partly social, partly psycho- liked a brilliant day of clear logical. The economic position of

West

Germany has all the adverse welcome the features of that of Great Britain sunshine to battle-searred Amethyst as today, but in a much more in-

The American drama is more produce: "Mister Roberts," also tracy a n widespread emotional

Economic trends are indicated she smiled safely into har-tense form.

West Germany is an industrial highly organised, more heavily with a single set, cost the same antipathy to it (though this is in many interesting ways-take,

n cartoon bour after one of the most

Streetcar Named not universal in West Germany), for instance, niore experimentai, sum, and "A

A New York The trouble is that the new West New Yorker depleting the ex- stirring episodes in British are which has to import a high financed.

percentage of its food and raw more opulently produced, and Desire" £20,000, While naval history.

the materials.

musleal like "South Pacifile" takes | German constitution is too much terior of clothing store. In the To obtain thes it better housed than our own.

like the old constitution of the

wintow is a sign that reads, the must keep were still at sea,

up a very high level It is also more parochial in at all of £50,000. of exparts Before the war one titude Juswell

Weimar Republic.

"Customers Wanted." acted... and

Many Germans forl that Live story of their courage and-

of Germany's best marketa wan

inferior in aesthetic integrity. South enterprise was blazoned on

East

par inuentary demo- Europe, Today,

Such high figures are due part- system of It has drive and efficiency, but ly to excessive wages and mate-erney was tried it in the years

Third Time Lucky the front page of probably West Germany has lost this mar

defeat

(The nuthorities

U.S. been every daily newspaper in the ket, and amue Germans are hop its encleney is sometimes con- als costs, but they also repre- between Germany's des

on sent the American feeling

of Germany have that, and the triumph of Hitler and Zone

disturbed by the free world, and captured the ing to develop a market in Southed to inessentials, and

East Asia to

to take its place.

ocension it drives in the wrong If thing is worth doing. It is that it did not survive the test. seriously imagination of millions still

West German industry has re-direction.

worth deing like a millionaire. They look on the new state as the paraden and behavious of Ger- The set of "Death of a Salesinan ghost of the discredited Weimar man youth organisations.) totalitarian vived remarkably since the eur free from the

I suppose that

at the Moroseu, for example, is liepublle. reformi in middle of the Leney scourge.

layhouses, like Covent

With the three sets of prob- The weather, however, was 1948, but the revavery is patchy, and Drury Lane, are among the one of the finest i have seen any-

thu German Unemployment in the British and most splendid in the world. But where; and the method by which, lems facing them,

at the touch of a lever, the im leaders will need to be men of at its worse: dark and dank,

American zones now standa al

too many London with

Bats genius if they are to safeguard lowering skies and 1,200,000, and has been rising at dowdy dirty, and dishevelled. mense, erushing block

able

which overlooks the hero's the now winte They will nord streaming rain. But atmos-a season when it should be failing. So for on I have been

wretched little home is turned, by the skill of a Bismarck combined theatres American Bitter Division.

observe, pheric conditions were quite

lighting, into a garden with wav- with righteousness

purpose. unable to dampen the

eneral are tastefully decorated, There is a bitter division he

must of them are air-conditioned in green trees, is one that rur Too often in German history there marching to the music und so are cool on the bubbling enthusiasm of the tween the palltical parties over

hottest own producers might study with.

men have been back great the the remedies for unemployment. night, and the seats are intelll-advantage.

They will be under perpetual welcoming crowds

Years ago Mr. J. B. Priestley threat from the Communists in The Social Deniserats want A gently enough raket for every-

to dockyard, or the thousands pulley of controls The Chrisilan body, even in the boxes, to be able tried the non-realetle technique East-Germany trying turn

in "Johnson Over

ngainst them Jordan," who sheltered from the cle- Democrats, who are in charge at to see what is happening on the "Music at Night," and in other forces of German nationalism. the very strong ments along the praya, to the Economic Council at Frank-singe.

mala, however. They can survive only if they find catch a glimpse through the furt--which has been acting as an What is happening on the stage plays. In the

London sticks to the interim.

s usually worth looking at, even tional Ibsenite school of construc-port West German government

conven- way of harnessing to their sup- mists of the craft whose conomie matters-favour givit it isn't always worth listening tion, and the shifting, merging energies and idealism of tiermany,

the

Jatest tremendous name will go down in his-

In- free enterprise its head.

6. The scene designery and scenes of "A Glass Menagerie" Lory in the company of

If unemployment grows worse, directors of American plays seen were one of the factors in itk others of her calibre, from the new West German inte will extremely well endowed, bath by failure over here.

tart under the

the worst possible nature and by their backers. Just Victory to Hond and Rehandicap. It was mark unemploy before I left England a play was in its stride; and its two leading nown.

Init between 1929 and 1038

put on in London at a productica new playwrights, Tennessee Small children were hoist which opened the way to Hitler. ost of £0.000, almost a record Williams and Arthur Miller. ed shoulder high by their The second set of problems fac- for a straight entertainment in practise this method with com-

to parents

bined artistic and financial suc Amethyst, in a West German government the West End.

In New York this would just are social. They nearly all arise and they will probably tell from the influx of refuzers into about pay for

the company's cess.

The New York

Empress Nagako, stout and managers Dre gum. "Death their children in years to West Germany. The problem of chewing

proud of both these young men, strong-willed consort of Em- Gizmo refugees is now the big Salesman," for example, which Miey are the only strikingly or1-or Hirohito, has initiated a come that they actually saw

has a single set, cost £25,000 to ginul playwriting talents that the bold "New Look" revolt against her on that most notable day. Rost refugee problem in the world.

English-speaking theatre has pro- the Japanese obi. The ship herself shows ob- vious signs of the trials she has been through, but skill- ed repair work should soon have her fighting it once again.

sec

for long afterwards. •

ot

con-

It is unpleasant on such a

in

WHOSE CRISIS?

was

By GEORGE SCHWARTZ

camp, but

"Some

of

a

But Amerien tolles symbollam

the body can compel us to smrke or have a fixed son. Both

then pro-

people may

• 3-and others may

Look For The Silver Lining

+

It is alleged that our prices be are too high. That is murely a be matter of relativity, The pro- Them other people's prices are too low. Amethyst's epic dash. The which is of other naturs thinks It is argued that our faxation, 1- Chinese Communists- promptly for once-issued a despicable canard that the sloop had fired on and sunk

day to have to comment on Rooshans; they are born so and position can equally be made to exist by the side of Dame Edith a vicious attempt to besmear will pieuse themselves.

men.

NEW LOOK

IN JAPAN

bolt

A

The world is still their oyster To tiny Herrenyalki

With seorn they watch divided The strength that said them

"Noy!" White foolish Allies squabble

dream about "THE

. THEY

DAY!"

"THE DAY" of that last on-

staught

That gets them Living Space- When alt the World at last

shalf bow

Before the MASTER RACE!

thus

•

According to a writer, some- thing will have to be done about typists who leave their jobs for more attractive work. They'rq to naturally particular about how

they're dielated to,

NEW PHILIPS radioslayer

Finding her jucats sitting huddled too near the fireplace ons duced since the end of the war. The obi in wide, heavy, padded, night. Mrs. Stewart'p''the Brack That they have already achieved 11-foot long sash of silk brocade piled high with clos.and peat, much is generally aonitted. Which Japanes women Whether they will achieve more tightly round and round.

wind saying, "I' pit ou a Are that'll their aur ye sit oot ower." is perhaps a debatable, certainly limonced waists. it is debated,

It hay all the constricting dis- The Deeper The Fewer that the comfort of an old-lylo wentorn We cannot but

You may have heard of

*""Then let us always defend in system is rotting, corset, plus the savage pressure depth,

-when we encounter that the heroine of a gralidate all the authorities lady who surveyed the Pyramidin to cut sweets.

There is a shortage of dollars. W

of A steel support inside disapprovingly und

the deeper the superior forces-for be a frustrated concerned for

bow the seemlynounced severely: "The shape is Are we responsible for the sup play ought to

parachute-pack-like

which we defend the fewer of our foe. ply of dollars? Address your woman. The question seems to be

and tribute they

we encounter. paid to the very un-English"

upright. Well, the experts of the Left complaints to the Federal Reserve whether they can get beyond these compels the wearer to sit always men shall

the fewer shall officers

be our and crew. Hong

have spiffed the crisis and de- board and the Director of the potions to some wider manifestu

In obi, no Japanese woman losses. ....Further, if we pursue Kong may be blase about cided that in origin, form and Mint, Washington D. C. The ion of their great talents.

con lean back the arrival of warships, but substance it is

New York Acting.

comfortably but this line of thought to its login? totally un-Eng-United States has three coinage:

mist porch, poker-backed on the conclusion and make our de- this time there was the anti-ish.

mints, two assay officer, a gold The most praised acting in Now

extreme edge of her chair,

fences sufficiently deep, then we Richard Hughes. In wrong therefore, in bullion depository--and there is York comes from players well thesis of apathy. The vari-

Tokyo, shall have nb losses at all and A Mrs.

MTB known on the London stage reports that recently, the

Em-thus we shall ourselves preservo ous organisations who have suylag that the crisis has been a shortage of dollars.

Clark hng Бесп

mod-woman postponed. It has been, or is to Georgia Necse

of press, now 46 und the face and avoid having the foo NO readily come forward be, deported. It

Chaillot

mother should never appointed Treasurer of the Unit--Martita Hunt's

the play of that name,

of six children,

claim from us any victory...." with suggestions for cnier-have put in an appearance there ed States and her signature will ex Harrison's Henry VIII in krily denounced this traditional-Wun Bung-lung, Ancient Chi- taining the ship's company, has been some luxity on the part adorn the lower left-hand cor- "Anne of the Thousand Days, lies and substituted a soft,

Japanese fashion to her court nese Strategist, ner of the paper currency. Since and Joyce Redman's Anne Boley's and the residents who are of the Immigration officials.

can now go back to its country the

-The signature is too long to ni

I have received great critical and ribbon-like sash for wear with affording them hospitality of origin or to a displneed per- the present note, the whole sup- popular acclaim,

a silken kimono. also deserve credit. Let us sons"

dollars stay ply of new it can't

held up

They are all admirable Der- This substitute does not help pending

decision whether to In-formances, but I do not think that her figure but at least she can not forget the Sports Club here.

in London we should notice any relax in a comfort denled In shifting the responsibility to crease the size of the note or to and private firms who ar-

them. 1 have

obl-wearers. ranged for that truly magni- toreigners there is no need to induce the lady to drop her mid- special merit in

Is that our fault?

never heard in a theatre so pro- chatter like an angry monkey die name. ficent, continuous roar of about their shortcomings, as does,

longed an outburst of applause at firecrackers, whose

the end of a scene as rewarded heavy for example, Mr. R. Crossman,

Miss Hunt's opening sequence at smoke hung in the heavy air M. P. Rather let us ador: the determinist philosophy of Mrs.

MIES the Belasco Theatre; yet Hunt's Madwoman of Chaillot, would,*** in excellent as it is, poetry, fire, and insight, cease to Evan's madwoman of Bridic.

actor I saw no American too high. You, sir, the second Some people may render from the left in the front standing talent in the serious drama, though In musical comedy be Amerigums and others may row, what answer have you to

Rey Bolger ("Where's Charley?" be Belglums; they have their

contention army

that American is a brilliant dancer, and Alfred crises and will please themselver, and Belgian taxation is too low? Drake, in "Kiss Me, Kale," has a

I thought so. Perhaps 1

line voice both for singing a passenger boat, the Kiang-Them which is of other naturs None?

bellaves different. There is no may be allowed to proceed un

acting,

and an excellent presence. ling, and shot at the sur- depression in this house. We are interrupted.

The

I think, are better vivors. This is palpably un-not even amused.

The gold and dollar reserves

women, than the men. Miss Uta Hagen, true, as Amethyst's guns They Started It are falling. The gold and dolları

as the fantasy-ridden heroine of could not possibly have been

were here; they have been waft-

"A Streetcar, finds a "Don't let it be supposed thated, from our hands-they are beauty in the extremest degrada trained at such an angle as

the dificulty In which

Vich like- Britain

Langone. Sech is life.

tion, and Miss Mildred Dunnock, to hit a target only a quar- Ands herself is peculiar to her ways is the head of all things. A Ike Miss Ashcroft, has in "Death ter of a mile distant, and in We didn't start the reductions." ways is the hend of all things.

of a Salesman" a volce no 'teurs A salema thought, in some could resist. An odd feature of any case no one who knows Who aald that Mr. Herbert

a melancholy thought, American players, by the way, is the Royal Navy could credit Morrison in July, 1047, Just two respects

ago in years

similor circum- but. a

No malter for despair?

that they play every character, the accusation for one mo- stances. We didn't start it. That Let us fall back on the comfort- whether he comes from Philadel- ment. As Lieutenant Com- was our retort then, and that is ing words uttered by Mr. Morri phia or Paris, as straightforward mander Kerans pointed out, our totort now.

Fon in that former oppressively American. This greatly sim it is quite possible that in

necasion Mr. summer (and. Incidentally, keep plifies their problem. Morrison porad the question, them in standing type for the Great theatre cannot arise ex- the darkness, at high speed, "Are these import cuts leading next

The crisis):

oky

has cept against the background of an he might have rammed a to others still worse, or will they grown dark over world trade. accepted philosophy. Otherwise smaller vessel, but certainly really see us through?" and he It may be just a passing down tragedy has no force, comody r not intentionally.

rave the tart reply, "It does not pour-so we've decided to carry bite. The contemporary Ameri rest with US to answer that an umbrella. It may turn out drame has no such philosophy, Whether the Communist After two years, during which to be a deluge, and later on we Its best writers either, like Miller. report is credited by the foreigners seem to have learned may have to strip and swim for savagely lament this, or, like docile slaves of totalitarian nothing, we can only utter the it. We shall see. But it may Williams, Weep over it.

mean nothing of the kind the many others simply rejoice at St. countries, we cannot say, but same rebuke.

some scenes of South Amethyst's men can be sure gap has opened in our bal cloud may lift and lighten, and

from some even of the ance of payments-This means we may get back to docent subse that other countries are either ther We may leave the un--Admirable "Mister. Roberts,.......o sending us too many imports or brella at home again and later would imagine that the primary not taking a spaugh, of our perhaps, even bask in the virtues did not exist Self-

control asports.

loyalty, discipline, Borners people abroad require be Americans took the hint things to be sneered at This is sharp.cmson, in economie-man- then and came acrow with the not, the way to make great mers, and they will gepill-po-lumireThr

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