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THE GREAT SCHISM

THE CHINA' MAIL, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1949.

A BRITISH GENERAL HAS A SCHEME FOR GERMANY

Germany has set up a new Parliament, hoisted an old German flag (that of the Weimar Republic), and under the patronage of the Western Powers is proposing to build. UP Once more a German State

have done what

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By Lieut-Gen. Sir GIFFARD MARTEL

"Russian Problem. The

pose we rebuild their economy--- or allow them to do it themselves by the slogging. sacrificial hard Labour of which they are at all times capable what then? Shall we not be laying the founda- tions for the speedy erection of a new, more, modern, even more efficient war potential? Indeed, shall we not be literally boosting is rise?

No Debt Demands.

On Taxes

Good Morning!

This atom explosion in Russia apparently exploded some long- held theories.

"Rumours of Mr. Churchill's illness quickly scotched."

1 can't think of a better way, with hot water, a little sugar and lemon.

Age of Innocence.

Ticket scalpers, says a magis- trate, are the worst kind of citi- zens in the Colony.

This project did not hold the, ciety, then two equally serious All this has not happened over-field for long. There are too alternatives presented themselves

of Either the rest the West night; it is four years and four many Germans in Europe, and not

would have to pay for their bread months since Hider's Reich went enough sheep. down in rubble.

At the opposite extremity was or the Germans would go Com- Nor has it come about in Allied the idea that "we must build up munist and join the Russians.

Germany as a bastion against the The intelligent reader will al accord: the Russians are against Russians." This came rather too ready have realised that there is the rise of this new Germany and suddenly to a Western public who no separate "German Problem

they

could to pre-

For while the skilled British vent it The Russians are against for three years of war had been and any German regime which they do cheering the Russians as the peo-German Problem is bedeviled by workman pays about £1 a week not control themselves.

who, in Churchill's phrase, the Russian, and vice versa.

as interest on the National Debt Well.. what are we going to do of two world wars his German had been most thoroughly and

competitor will satisfactorily "tearing the guts out about them?

50 free. Consider the Germans. I have THE FIRST THING, then, to of the Wehrmacht."

Besides, both British and lately returned from a tour of watch for is this: Let us beware American manufacturers were in their bruised and battered coun- test in beping our terrible no immediate paste to set up inj try.. I found not a sign of re-enemy over the stile that ac done giers, rice racketcers, hotel cw- business again a former and most morse among the people. Their not use us as a stopping-stone.

Jate formidable competitor, and, more general feeling about the

Histax burden, in the form of ever, one now largely freed by the ruinous war is that they were reparation for the ruin he has collapse of the Nazi regime from just unlucky. Hitler wasn't quite brought upon his neighbours

Jcest any really pressing internal debt good enough to pull the trick for should be at the very charges,

heavy as our own.

Do not run away, however, with! the simple idea that the Western Powers want one thing and the Eastern Power another thing. The Westerners are themselves divided (or uncertain) as to what to do about the Germans,

Make all Teutons

Shepherds

Hardly had the dust settled in Berlin and Hamburg as the last Allied bomber passed on its way

West to Pay for Their Bread

them

Twice in 25 years this brave, brutal race have set the earth on fire.

In many ways the Roman Catholic Chhand the

THE SECOND THING is to en- members of the religious

sure that as the wealth of his bodies internationally or

country is gradually built up again ganised under the title of

If they believed that they could it is not diverted to preparation The World Council of

win a Third World War they for savaging every other country. Churches are

To be certain of preventing this At the same time, if the Ger- would assuredly start it. in disagreeing to plough up all the Ġerman

For the time being thes are the Western Powers must retain, ment. The schism which lands and turn the Teutons into mans were not to be allowed to

work their passage in civilised so-militarily down and out. But sup- produced Protestantism is shepherds.

before Mr. Morgenthau, a leading American statesman, was propos-

This Essex Village

Changes

It Ways

Stop-and-Look

Life in Tiptree revolved peace- falls around soft trait, seeds,

Someone should break the news sently about paid revolu- moni milion. tionaries, key aires. ex-collaborators, tenancy transfer taipans, oplum maNg-

ers, procurers, and semi-approv~ ed squeeze merchants, to name only a few offhand.

A news agency reports tells of a dog so intelligent that he can turn on the radio,

much But some years ago a smarter dog was reported. turned the radio off

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He

glass

People who live in and exercise continuously, au- houses might as well answer the thority not caly to inspect but to door beit direct the development of German industry.

Power, to enter The Country

In every

civilised community the police have power of entry into suspected premises. Europe is to quality again as such a community, then some responsi• ble body must have the power to enter Germany at any time and observe what the ingenious, hard- quite unrepentant

the family sits to

Johnnie stays up later than is good for him, and young Betty never opens a bock.

Just what mass television will working and do to the people of Britain vean members of the "Master Race" are

The life and the ways of whist drives, and occasional trips be well ganged from a visit to UP THIRD THING to ensure

Tiptroe.

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The pelican is busy.

In fact he's never still He isa't any beauty, but

I s'pose he fills the bill

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The neighbours were discus- ing that Smith girl”

"Guess what?" gossiped Mrs.

"She's learning how to

"But he learned last year," said Mrs. Brown, "Why does she have to learn again??

"She's got á new fellow this year."

A bachelor is a chap who doesn't want yes for an answer.

that four centuries old; which

Greek created the Orthodox Church is older still. Yet there is a basic simi- larity of attitude in all these religious communities toward those who would deny free dom of religions. This genera tion's schism is between the

In an Estez community where: "Did you see Mac on television | ing because political tyrants who are try once it was a case of "Jam today. last night?" or "Didn't you love gether in a darkened room. Little ing to subdue religion to their jam tomorrone, and jam yester- last night's television play?" own ends and all other per- any the advent of TV has sons, whether members of brought an colour to, and chang- churches or not, who rejected the pattern of the lives of

the villagers. and defy this usurpation.

to the nearest cinema. There are differences aris-

Today in the Essex village they Take the Hulls at Brook House is that, having shown the Ger ing out of historical circum-

still scratch the good earth for fruit farm-father, mother, and mans that organised

20 standing stances, and out of the nature

For over 60 years the name fruit and seed crops in the same daughters Rosemary (22)

Another item from the land and from them, the Germans them-

extending East of San of each organisation, between Tiptree has meant highest quality diligent way that brought pros Jude (13).

their the Catholic and Protestant jam. Toisy it also means televis- perit- to

fathers....but

Francisco. Mr. Hull made a point of selves should be permitted to be-

At the approach to a village points of view. The Catholic ion, for Tiptree has proportion with a difference. Now every going to most Cup Finals, loved came full members of the club if

television sets than thing stops for a good TV pro-attending cricket matches, took the they are prepared to abide by the where a new dam is being built Church requires obedience in ately more

family into the cinema at Col- By thieuvely support them is a sign: any other community in Britain-gramme.

that the Ger- I mean certain matters from those 47 per 1,000 families.

Men take time out from hoeing chester (ten miles away) twice a mans should, with severe safe- who profess its faith and First thing you notice as you to foregather in somebody's lounge week during the winter, and

encouraged to provide Guards, be drive

local desire to receive its sacra-

whist security troops within their own through Tiptree is the and watch a football or cricket joined in all the density of its television aerials. matchs They stop drinking and drives.

frontiers for the maintenance of dart playing to watch boxing, He had one of the first TV sets, order there. The German Goy Village girls have stopped walk- He likes it, but he says: "I sat ernment would be held strictly ing out to watch plays.

indoors for three days watching accountable for their instruction, Mothers cannot get their knit the Test match when I ought training and conduct. ting and darning done of an even. to have been out working."

Mrs. Hall says the tardly ever man-power resources in providing goes to whist drives now and so relieved--with the absolute threat garrisons in Germany would be

the villagers of little Tiptree, Essex, are changing.

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"Mount Morris, the best town by a dam site." Cigarette Frighter.

In the olden days blokes used to get a light by rubbing two hits of wood together for hours.

Now they try to do the same: thing with 2 flint and coz.

A married couple were having a violent argument, and the husband was the first to get tired of the some new whole

hola li he said, "I've been thinking this whele situation over, and I've come to the conclusion that I agree with you"

Į has lost a number of close friends.

Rosemary says her boy friend of reoccupation i

Reichswehr hero ever tried to would far rather come to her work the double-cross which house to watch "Speedway" than General von Seeckt pulled on the take her to the pictures.

And young Judy, who admits she used to read a lot and never does now, "can't be got to bed before 10.30.”

All Together

Versailles Powers in 1920-30.

Economic Slum Dangerous

"That won't do you any good," shot back his wife, "I've changed my mind."

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ments. Most Protestant Next thing you notice is that churches leave more to the village conversation no longer individual's

In concentrates discretion.

Ou what the jam essence, however, all chur-factory is paying for fruit, or the state of the strawberry beds. It's ches, Catholic, Protesant, Jewish or whatever they may be, must expect from their members acceptance of a set of moral principles. These principles deny the right of government or any other force to coerce the private con- science. They deny the Com- Natal, often described as fellow-countrymen could do this munist doctrine of material- being more English in its out- But the evidence that it is so is

Will the Germans accept such a Myrtle says, "It just isn't- true, ism. They reject the hypocri- fired the first shots in a cam-Citizenship Act; then there was wife, says TV has brought her

look than the English, has slowly pilling up.

First, there was the contentious Mrs. Wallis, the shfryer's programme? The alternatives will but I overheard some women at

doubtless decide this.

the cocktail party last night, say tical policy by which the

Nationalist the ominous switch in Cabinet family closer together. Now Mr paign against the

These are that we should simply | I'd been tried and found wasten". Commünist tyrants attack Party's drive towards an au- portfolios, the Minister of Justice and Mrs Wallis, mother-in-law economic slurs, in

the country to remain allow religion, not as such but by thoritarian Afrikaner Republic taking over Education and the all sit happily together except Anarchy A Communist dicta- so thic that

will become its next defining it as "reactionary." Three thousand people of Dur- Minister of Defence incorporating when there is 庭 repeat pro-condition No one is required in any ban recently attended a meeting Posts and Telegraphs.

In addition party politics have gramme.

torship its final one. free country, to be a member to demonstrate that the Province

"We find we even like the bad I do not believe that the Ger of the Catholic or any other of Natal is not prepared to takel crept into municipal affairs to an

programmnes. Somehow, when mans want that. The plan I you haven't paid to see the pro- submit, if firmly made and fairly church. What all churches do, and of their very nature must do, is to set up standards of membership. But underlying these standards is a concept of humane, values that all free peoples accent.

By ALEX HAMMOND

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Mrs. Thompson complained that the walls of her new flat wete the neighbours on either side could hear everything she said...

"Oh said her friend, "you could easily stop that Just hang

considered the

gramme, or had to take a bus to carried out, offers them a Tore some tapestries over your walls." it, you don't feel put out when it attractive road to the good 299 Acomp then shook her

is poor."

Young Mr. Wilton, up at the| jem factory, who used to be quite 2 gadabout, finds he is now a

lying down the machinations of, alarming extent. In the Orange "proper home bird"

Government in its Free State City Council elections He Eves four miles from the! The Communist attack is the present not primarily an attack onion and change the Constitution.

efforts to destroy the Act of Un-are no longer the parochial affairs village, has a baby daughter, and of the past but minor party strug- taking his wife to the pictures any one religious group. In Two men who have played agles.

ased to be a proper picnic." Bulgaria it may be directed prominent part in the history of

The Nationalists have taken sitter-in at is. 6d. an hour, and

the time he had paid for By against the Greek Church, in the Province one a young man

school boards, hospital Estonia against the Luther-politics and the other a sea- Over

soned veteran and statesman boards, university governorships for the journey into Colchester,

half-crown seats at ans, just as in Czechoslovakia told the audience of the dangers of Governors of the South Afri-pictures had cost him £1

and have even changed the Board o and in Poland the Catholics threatening South Africa if a

Now on the rare occasions:

the

are the principal victims. The check was not made to the head-can Broadcasting Corporation. when the Wiltons step out village real assault is on the private long dash of the Nationalists to

wards their goal, a republic

Battle Is On

Nationalist

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All these are small things in their way, but taken together girls compete for the chance to conscience as such. Commu- divorced from the ties of the the country. December 16 will baby-mind, cost free, because it

see the culmination of nism has set itself up as a re- Commonwealth.

that emo-

emo means they can look-in. tion when thousands of people

Some women who used to com- ligion-a blasphemous reli- ! gion of materialism, of naked!

from all over the country will plain that their husbands left gather at Pretoria to dedicate the them alone every evening to play power, of insult to human

monument to the memory of the darts at the village pab, or One was

Mr. J. R. Sullivan, Voortrekkers who in dignity. Anybody who rejects

their trek billiards at the club, now find this degrading creed is sub- who was born in New Zeas from British control opened up themselves telling their neigh

land and settled in South Africa the hinterland of South Africa. hours they, "wish Dad would go ject to penalty. The pro- in 1922, the other Senator G. clamation of the brotherhood Heaton Nicholls, one-time South People in the know expect the out for a change." of man and the fatherhood of African High Commissioner in advantage of that spirit, to have living growing strawberries and Government taking Dick Cottce, who makes a good London. God, according to the New

Mr. Sullivan asserted that the decision before the country will was for years

snap general election when the raspberries on his smallholding, Testament, is, in Communist United Party stood for the main-

a men's man." He be republicanism eyes, an unforgivable heresy. tenance of the Constitution within

not. There

here was out, almost every evening. either in Colchester watching Communism, even in the the four corners of the Southes the danger.

they spell diétatorship however,

and boxing, playing darts for the seats of its power, tries to Africa Act. He agreed, conceal the naked truth of that the Act must be broadened, supreme trol of all South Tiptree team, or returning by

strengthened and entrenched African activities by one party. the situation. It is willing to And the audience were behind

ings. have religion, provided that him. No

Now the battle is on

Little Mrs. Cotice was happy to in case of conflict the gospel

no doubt that South

knit or sew, daughter Pauline according to Marx and Lenin. Aftutional crisis which will either hand, stands for adherence to the electric sewing machine or read

is face to face with á con-

The United Party, on the other (21) made her own clothes on the takes precedence over the

make

of break the Country

Commonwealth, a 50-50 deal for The women went quietly to bed Sermon on the Mount But

the facts? The Na- both White races, a more liberal at 9.30. and Dad let himself in no one in the free world need tionalists stand for the establish- Native policy than that advocated at

Republic, by their be deceived. The facts speak ment of an Afrikaner

broadening opponents, Arst within and then without the and strengthening of the Consti- Home-Bird Now for themselves, ·

Commonwealth. The pattern of tution and the preservation of Al that changed when Dad The issue is joined. Even the Republic will closely follow

democracy...

dianted strawberries and reaped though the doctrinal differ- the design of Nazism! It will be

Up to the present they have a ry set. He has lost his skill by an omnipotent" been accused of being leaderless with darts, never goes racing, dominated among the sects and dominated entes

president.

and without a definite plan of ac-never takes the bus to Colchester.

There

are

Rallying Call

devious routes from race meet-

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religions will remain, there is The English language will be tion. But now the rallying call In fact, he sits around at home one fundamental cause which relegated to a secondary status, has COMIC. Mr. Sullivan and unites all those who have the franchise will be restricted to Senator Heaton Nicholls have all evening in a darkened zoom, faith in man's possibilities, the Nationalist chosen people and pointed out the dangers and call so that Mrs. Coffee cannot knit nian's future and man's Provincial and municipal repre-ed on the people who support and Pauline cannot dress-make sentative government will be democracy to fight the encroach- because her machine upsets TV equality in the sight of God. abolished.

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And the Russians, the other half head.

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