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́THE- CHINÄ- MAIL, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER IZ, 1949.

WHAT'S WRONG WITH ITALY?

Throughout a rapid 12-day tour of the country I found myself constantly asking the question what's wrong with this country? I asked It in each city I visited, in Rome, Venlee. Naples, and in indus- Arlot Milan.

At first I was too close to my subject, Luxury stocked shop windows, ear-splitting trafe the endless blaze of noises and seemingly prosperous strip light

the night sky dentered and blinded the senses.

Each city seemed to have a different answer to my question.

Now, on sitting back, like an artist_retreating from his canvas, I realise that the answer was al- ways the same. It was only the tempo which differed, the rhythin

Murder And Madness

By PETER LANGDON DAVIES

On January 20, 1843, Drummond, private

had shot his secretary by mis- take.

soon become clear that Muc-

Volk delusions

|

By DENIS ATHERTON

¿

But not all luxuries are

1

You And all this confusing? So did I. That is why I diagnosed Indigestion, which, after all, is 'a Even

of each city, as similar parcels | "elevenzes,”

glass of confusion of the stomach. A small. wrapped in different coloured orangende will cost him In. Od so, it would be unwise to rule What out those growing pains, paper will differ.

In a word, one can only say of and not all food expenale, spre about acute appendix it my that sunny, lovely country-it cots, the cheapest article I ever doctoring is up to standard, then has indigestion.

Buw, sell at a penny ench, Who this complaint la operable and Don't think that I am trying wants to live on apricots?

not really dangerous 'until some- to provide a slick answer by the

thing bursts. That is where Italy foxes you, use of this woril. I use li deli-It is constantly paradoxical, berately because it describes the Every advantage has its disad conflicting disturbances

nnd in-vantage. fluences within the country which are giving it so much pain, both

Surface Seethed politically and socially.

At all events, let me play cloe- tor for a few minutes to see if 1 can substantiate the diagnosis.

"Indigestion"

Indigestion in a sometimes clu- sive quantity. It can be taken for growing pains, or, to the panicky, an acute appendix. It does not always come from eating 100 much und too well.

Certainly the ragged urchins roung he walls of the Vatican City "d seldom eaten too well. Never, I should say, too much. Indeed, only the rich can do either. But even the street sweep- er wears a watch with 15 jewels Brid every once boy, or so it seemed, rides to work on a mo- torised bicycle.

When the clerk goes for his

On the surface I was struck by the seelhing vigour of life, even in the mid-day sun.

Speed and the inptor born, with the scream of burning thrown in for good measure, re-

place our phlegmatle calm and the foot brake. "Every man for him- self" is the Italian version of a bus queue,

At alt events when medicine: fails, surgery becomes a neces- sity.

Mild, wartn-eyed Giuseppe Soragat's Labour-Sócialist Party and fading De Gasperi's Christ-

ian Democrat Government are

failing to provide the right me- dielne for Italy.

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brking

"Will dispute echo,"

Seems rather a waste of time.

"Mr.

Jones at the organ was at the top of his form, and the

inning was excellent." Apparently everyona stood vice.

on

was in

1

permanent

"Mother Mes auit."

Probably one of those guaran- teed to wear like iron,

A report from oversens Buys that two-valvo radio sets are be-" Inevitably the pain is increasing fitted into ladies' hals. ing as the stranglehold grip of They work Communism tightens on the work wave length, middle-classes cr. And as with England, the are-on the way out.

Two giants, so thinks the 1ta Don't play our own. radio, we linn man in the street, in splin can hear the man's across the of the recent elections, are short- street, is the popular idea of how ly to face each other.

They to listen to the wireless.

are Growing Left and Wenken- Ing. Right. Middle of the Roadism, they will tell you, is go- ing down in a welter of splinter parties that have weakened be- yond repair the foundations of a new democracy.

And everyone keeps up the pace and din until 2. o'clock in the morning.

England in the 1800's?

I am

a bit too young to remember, but I hope not. The West End may huve worn paper hats and blown toy trumpets in the early hours, but not London's suburbs.

Why They Come Back

By DEREK MARKS

upon

Kenya

Growing Lett will win, every- one tells you. The old structure is spinning crazily. It is useless to look to the Right for reassur-

ance.

"The Times"

Come out from the middle of the vortex, stand on the pave- ment in Rome's Platza Colona and look across the square to a lumpy grey building housing the city's bulwark of Conservatism, the Right Wing "I Tempo."

That newspaper's blue painted announcement of its tenancy is

Grand.

"According

Information to available in Delhi, the plot of the plane made a good plece of landing. It is now known that the deputy prime minister's pinno force-landed some 40 miles North of Jaipur."

Tourer, sound running con- dition, $1,600 only, no offer."

Don't be too discouraged, chum There's at a chance. •

Heard at Fanling yesterday: "You'ro improving, *Mary. You're missing the ball much closer than you used to."

According to the latest batch of howlers:

Acrimony, Nometimes called Holy, is another name for marri

The temperate zone is where no one drinks too much.

(Q) What three animals aro

Tho (A)

lion, giraffe elephant would be peculiar to the trigid-zone.

bearing the hummer and sleklet peculiar to the frigid zone?

Reason-the newspaper rents its offees from

the Communist Party, which owns the building and uses the top floor as its head- quarters. You can work out the varlous anomalies from this situa tion for your own diversion.

As the first fierce red rays of of Arewood But the the equatorial sun strike the scene is not all paradox and con- fa, "25 WAS suffering trom placid surface of the Indian trast,

Some of those who came out of persecution] Ocean a Uner carefully edges here are seeking conditions in the by the "Tories and Paplsix."

pages of Rider Haggard, but which In spite of the lack of any pre-s way out of Mombasa, and else rule us to the defence of in- the hopes and ambitions of yel actually existed in the Kenya of ganked by two enormous placards)

Bre dropped 10 years ago. Others are seek- sanity at that time, when he another family

without | ing a refuge from the high taxa- up for trial of the Old quietly overboard came

that the thon of Britain, forgetting Lord Chief Justice, causing n ripple Bailey the after medical evidence had been waters of Kilindini Harbour-taxation is equally high here and that there are no free medical heard, ordered his acquittal on

"the deep place."

services, no free schooling and al- Omcial statistics, published in most no publle transport. the ground of Insanity:

Kenya recently, show that, ex-

Half of the Colony's European cluding tourists and business visi- population lives in the very arti- tors the majority of Europeans ficist surroundings of Nairobi, but Have I answered the question; This verdict, coming at a period who left the Colony for good Inst the other half live out in the what is wrong with Italy?"

one year*k

*bush on farms. It is these lai- of great political unrest, raised a year had less than

Any man who attempts to do 60 The report de ter settlers storm of protest. The newspapers residence there.

who have hewn with convincing finality is a fool. This would appear to colony out were flooded with letters attack-clared:

of the unwilling

I can only give you my impres indicate that persons intending to African fog It.

soli by the awent of sions.

High life, fast living, leaving their brow. arc The young Queen Victoria ber- settle permanently

They still cling to poverty, modern buildings, slums, self wrote Sir Robert Peel again after a short stay."

their Army titles there must be American influence on clothes and that:

"The proof of the wretch The other day I was talking to

worried to a former Army sergeant who had more Colonels in Kenya than in cars and, over it all.

Kentucky-but in the depression frown. That eternal question, Maenaghten's madness seems the Queen to be very slight, and taken his discharge in East Af they lived on maize and beans. "Where do we go from here? indeed there should be a differ- rien and was now about to return It is this section of the popuis- I knew the answer to that last ence

randness home. In a few terse phrases

Protest Storm

in the United States' diplom- Edward atic and consular representa-secretary to Sir Robert Peel. tion in Communist-held areas the Prime Minister, was shot of China, announced by the dend as he was walking downl

Whitehall. State Department on Friday,

The murderer was a wild-eyed should come as no surprise, young Scotsman from Ginsgow, Washington has decided to Danke Macnaghten, who admit- been lying in close the Consulate at Han-ted that he had

wait for the Prime Minister and kow and withdraw the entire staff, while the staffs of the American Embassy in Nan- king and the American Con- sulate in Shanghai will be re- duced by a half. A brief ex- State De- planation by the

said that the de- partment cisions had been taken in view of the attitude of the Chinese Communist authori- ties towards foreign diplom- The representatives. American decision is a logical sequel to the recent closure of the Consulate in Canton. It marks the end of an un- successful experiment and writes off as bankrupt the American policy of trying to do business with the Chinese Communists. When the Com- munists overran Manchuria and then later moved into North China and subsequent ly the Yangtse Valley, the United States attempted to leave consular officials what had been their ports in Mukden, Peiping, Tientsin and Shanghai and to leave the Ambassador at Nanking. It was apparently hoped that the could reach some port of modus vivendi with

the Communists and Chinese pave the way for rebullding what was vaguely called "American relations with the Chinese people." It was also hoped that they could serve the interests of Americans re- sident in these areas.

al

between that

n

I came home to England,

As

once before, on returning from

which is such that a man knows summed up the reasons why the tion which needs the invigorating one. not what he does and madness majority of immigrants to Kenya stimulus of the new settler, who which doca not prevent a man return home as soon as they can: is at present being driven away from purposefully buying pistols "i am in building and earning by the synthelie Ilfo of Nairobi,

pur- £50 a month here. I'd sooner "Paris Of Africa" and then with determined pose watching and shooting man."

Finally the matter was raised in the House of Lords, who de- rided to ask for the advice of the judges.

Lord's Questions

The answers 10

the

of the

a have £6 a week in Bradford any day, and I could do more with

Already the forces of Com-

King Abdullah Visits Toledo

Toldeo, September 10. munism are beginning their evil

King Abdullah of Hashemitt work among the simple African encroaching upon the 80,000 Asia- Jordan visited this, ancient city peoples, and Indian separatism is tics who have made their home of Toledo accompanied by his In Kenya.

suite and Viscount Casardal, the The obstacles facing the Bri- Under Secretary for Foreign Af- tish settler are treinendous, but fairs. The King visited Moorish

abroad, a great truth dawned on me,

England, in spite of everything. Kenya's capital has been called is still a fine country in which to the Paris of Africa" a some live, it He was a single man.

More than anything else the what flattering description--but cost of living in Kenya, and part!-up in the White Highlands men cularly in Nairobi-the Colony's and women are tolling day by day to make the Colony DS capitalis driving would-be set-

secure a bastion of the British tiers back to the austerity of Bri Empire as Gibraltar. ial. The tragedy is that new Lords British settlers are a vital neces questions, delivered with the au- sity to East Africa, which is as thority of all the judges except suming an increasingly important one, are the famous, Machaghten role in the strategic and econo- of the Common- Rules, which have remained un- mic planning changed for more than a century wealth.

For young married couples the position and still form the basis of our

seems virtually impos- sible, unless they have about law of criminal insanity......

In their original form, couched £5,000 in ready cash with which in overcoming them he is doing monuments and the ruins of Al-

turgid language in the

to purchase a house und land. .the

In the residential area early Victorian law courts rules run to great length, but they may be summarised thus:

Karen, for example, just 10 miles outside Nairobl, where periodical- 1. Every man la presumed to

sane until the contrary, Isly the lions from the National) farmer said to me a short whilo of the defence of the stronghold. | Subsequent actions by the

Park stage their own safaris on proved to the antisfaction of the herds of cattle, it is imposed that simple truth the

ago. If more now settlers realis- The forces garrisoned at Toledo Chinese Communists-includ-

jury,

liners will parade before King Abdullah ing the shutting down of the

Thus, it is for the defence to sible to buy less than five acres and aircraft leaving for Britain before his return to Madrid by of land at £250 an acre. A would be emptier, and Kilindini American information raise the question if they wish.;

costs about would not become the repository bungalow it is seldom raised £2,800 to build and then it has of so many lost hopes and abanour at a lunch given by the Ma-

modest vices and the treatment of practice

except in capital cases, since a

to be furnished-a major item

doned opportunities.

yor of Madrid-Associated Press. consular representatives-has prisoner found "guilty but in- when almost all the fittings are proved beyond all doubt that sane" generally

moor Criminal Lunatic Asylum imported and subject to duty." American hopes of normal re for life. lations with the Chinese Communists were an illusion, at any rate until the day

2. To establish the defence it tunity to buy their own houses. when a central government must be clearly shown that, at the For the large majority it is

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ser-

Indo-China Future

he

goes to Broad-

Mind Disease

act

Hotel Life

of

However, it is only the more fortunate couples who have elther the money or the oppor-

Two young friends of

women go

more than making his own way cazar, destroyed during the civil in the world, he is hoping to

war.

Lieutenant Jose Moscardo, de- build up the resources of a vital link in Empire strategy. "Nairobi tender of Alcazar, explained to is not Kenya," an up-country King Abdullah the famous episode

Chen Speaks At Peace Conference

of Communist China is form-time of committing the act, the matter of living in hotels or lodg- ed which could be afforded accused was labouring under such ings.

a defect of reasoning from dia- mine advertised for accommoda.

Caux Sur Montreux, recognition. Until that time

ease of the mind as not to know lion a short while ago and re-

September 10. American policy would seem the nature of his act, or (if het ceived one reply which offered a

There was still time for did know this) not to know that double room and breakfast for to be to get out and stay out.

£20 a week and added: "I

profer It was morally wrong.

quiet people who will be In be- America, and the other demo- crimina! 3. Where

save China from committed under some insane fore half past nine at night and cracies to delusion as to the surrounding: who attended a public school." disappearing behind the Iron Wages, course, are high, the Curtain, declared Dr. Chen Li- facts, the door will be under the

Vice-President of the same degree of responsibility as average being in the region of Fu

Nationalist Govern- French hopes that Bao if the facts had been as he im- 260 a month for a man and be- Chinese

tween £25 and £35 for Daf's Vietnam Government agined them to be.

Thus, a man who kills under woman, and because of the high ment, in a message read at World of living. most

married today's session of the would lead to a gradual the delusion that he is the pub-cost

out to work, even Assembly for Moral. Kearma- pacification of Indo-China le hangman carrying out a sen-

the average salary. Dr. Chen stated that his pro- have so far proved illusory. fence will not be held respon- when their husbands are earning ment, being held here.

sible; a man who kills merely well above

oposals to the conference were as In fact, in the past week or under the insane delusion that There is a growing concern

follows: two there has been an in- he has been cheated at cards wall the lack of home life for young

1. Let the United States Gov- nurseries while their ernment appoint a commission to day in crease in violence culminat-be, for he would have been gulity children, who are left day after even if this had really been so mothers are out at work. In ing in the ambushing of a

many cases it is not necessary for confer openly with Chinese lead. French convoy--a severe re-

Critics. Busy this to happen, but the social life cans may consider multable.

ers at any place that the Ameri- of the Colony, the constant round

2. Let there be Included among The Macnaghten Rules have of entertaining, encourages it. further incidents in Saigon. come under much criticism, par- At night,

the Chinese leaders at this con- the flashing neon the Chu

ference those patriote who have Now comes news that Burma ticularly from doctors and psy-lights of the Flamingo and Torr's

devoted to on the ground that beckon to the pleasure-seeker been sincerely and India are planning to re-chologists,

they tako no account of the Four miles away in the National freedom of China, and, cognise Bao Dai's regime and forms of insanity which affect Park, the Hons growl and 3. Let the American and Cha that the Philippines may fol- not understanding but the emo switch their tails as they devour neae leaders work out together

conference table, Jow suit if Viet Nam joins tonal and moral stability of a the carcass of zebra, In their across the

criminal.

huts in the Native Reserve the mutually agreed plan, economic President Quirino's anti-Red

and military,

with Much of this controversy has Masai warriors plan a raid on the and

dealing of the neighbouring - urgent needs of China fa union. There is no doubt that ranged round the question of herds recognition of Bao Dai by crimes committed under an "irre- kuyu Living side by side, two framework of the broader secur

sistible impulse."

(civilisations, which are 3,000 years ty Far Eastern riations, especial- In the past some fudges have spart in time, are each trying to 9 of the Far East as a whole,

special delegation has arriv ly India, would have far taken a more lenient view of this work out their own salvation. ed at the conference by alr from Тарап, including Mr. Tokularo more effect on the Ho Chi defence than others, and in this fact that once a verdict of "guilty but insana" has been given there

For the, you emigrants from Kitamura former Minister of and General Secretary England, the scene appears Finance is no appeal.

Thus, in spite of the advance of nothing short of fantastic. The of the Democratic Party, and Mr. medical science and the wider smart, Bow cars standing in the Betrue..

and Chairronn::of needed if Bao Dai is to-ex- such as France and America, the Nairobi's Delamere Avenue the Labour Party

English law Fremains, as it was sparkle in the sun, while down- They are the first members of tend his influence In Indo-ald down in Macnaghton's heade atreets Kikuyii women parliament to leave Japan, store

· China.

$108" years land,

stagger, bainath immense burdens the war-Beuter)

verse for the French-and

minh element than similar action by'any Western nation, including the United States.

Fantastic Scene

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Something Zofk thật sortis view taken in other countries rhade of the jacaranda «treon; int 1 - Member of the

car.

The King will be guest of hon-

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"City decline Toulouse match." Toulon oway, perhaps?

"He made the discovery while near one of digging for quarts his bogs."

Or were they fifths?

what Jew Think?

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Once there were 40 råábbis

in

Warsaw. Now there are only six, The rest have gone to the pro- mised land. Hence the expres.

slon, to run ilko rabbis.

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