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THE CHINA MAIL", THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1949.

TITO WILL

WILL PULL THROUGH - BUT HE'LL NEED HELP

A SMALL BOY'S UTOPIA

By ERIC BOURNE

It is very difficult to discover the exact economic situation” be- cause in all Comhemist countries, co absolute figures are published,. and it is customary to paint a rosy picture which personal observa- don belies.

<Reds land an Enmen And crowned them properly, I understand.

In Belgrade, razor-blades alise, and the five-year industrial are worth a small fortune. A plan is getting into its swing.

But these factors have by nɔ] pound of poor quality home-means solved the dificulties caus- It simple for day section of made soap costs 25s if you can ed by the stopping of the coke, the plan to be modified retrospec-gest that when one government get it...

steel and petroleum supplies from Evely, to aili propaganda re- Poland. Czechoslovakia and | qurements, as soon as it becomes Yugoslavia's economic situation, Rumania.

clear that production is going to if a second winter of Cominform

In the mines, for instances only | sag below the target.. blockade has to be borne, is like-back-breaking toil by the miners

der the strain.

A correspondent writes to sug-

becomes de facto, the other one becomes defuncta.

*Barrymore aground." Yes, indeed, the great sergen idol has been dead these several

ly to become so critical that the has enabled production to be Rosy Pictures By BASSET SCOTT to regime will be broken un-sustained in the face of

Czech Two months ago, the Yugoslav stoppage of mining machinery. planners produced their interim I suppose no decade of English

At present, however, Yugoslavia The timber supply is likewise report on the first 30 months of years. history has been so singled out is not likely to collapse. Aid from severely dislocated by the short.

the plan cheering picture for attention by writers as the the West is beginning to materi-age of haulage equipment.

which, however, could, not eighteen-nineties. Epithets have]

confirmed by examination of its Commos are been attached to it-gay, naughty, decadent. Books have been writ-

be addressed ten on its literature, and certain Reply To "Yank At Oxford'':

to the Company "CHINA MAIL

BIRTHS

of

HARDOON-To Joyce, wife

Reuben Victor Hardoon, a daughter at Shanghai

*

25th October, Mother child both doing well.

and

LOBOTO Margaret,

wife

of

1549 at St. Paul's Hospital, a son.

|

been

aspects of its social life have preserved for is in the amber of

Beerbohm's prose

e it has another charm.

I was a small boy then, and thar was the small boy's golden age.

True hero worship demands that its object be clothed in The real mystery.

Chape of familiarity is not that it breeds contempt, but that it teary away the magic cloak and reveals the

mortal

3

An

American At Cambridge

By TOM POCOCK

daims.

be

I see that up in Tientsin the planning a dub- house, which "when built, will To take the example. The reprovide amenities for 500,000 of port claimed that the export in the city's workers." dustries had achieved their tar- Provided there's enough elbow w then explain the now in the presumably four

square. mile building should be no dificulty in Arding sutient players for a mahjong

desperate foreign pay ments and exchange situation The shortage of dollars is plain for all to see:

game

The report claimed-over-fuißl- ment of the distribution of con- sumer goods plan for the period.* Hm. How then explain the absence of improvement or increase of goods in the shops in the 12 months since I was last here?

there

"The plumbers have finished their part of the contract, and there now remains only the plumbing to be done.”

Parts of an ancient Roman bust such have been discovered in Essex, and together with fragments of wine- cups, platters and broken- orna-

Looks as if the party got out

*

the house of aunts."

Meat and fat rations are still With weak Martinis and Victor Himmelwrigh; took most woefully short for everyone ex- In the nineties the cloak was handshakes frim Professor G. seriously Burdick's view that Eag- cept the top scale heavy workers. RH Lobo, on October 28, still there, untouched by the rude M. Trevelyan, O.M., Cam- land seems to have reached what it is impossible to huy

hand of editors in search of the bridge University welcomed tural passivity and that "most thread.

might be called a plateau of cul- things as needles, buttons personal element." There was the annual draft of freshmen Englishmen seera satisfied. with I met a diplomat who during ments.

time and a place for everything. to its American Colony re- England's cultura! situation." a tour in Croatia tried to buy including a robust and admirable

cently.

Burdick dcsed by writing, "If some eggs from a peasant.

The of hand. vulgarity, but the kind of base vulgarity which expresses itself The first Anglo-Amerkan con- is impossible that England could farmer was not interested, but

produce a Shakespeare, when the diplomat produced in the continual use of Christianversational sparring, which com-today

possible that reel of cotton-the farmer's Thanks for the tip. names and the delineation of pri- pared Cambridge with Harvard, while altogether

Heaven, Oxford, and the Zoo, America or Asia might."

wife's eyes 'gleamed and 10 eggs; "Keeping all food under cover vate lives was yet unborn.

was thrown into sharp perspective

"The old

Colonial complex," and the estion quickly changed is the first step toward ridding My heroes were mostly of the by the bitter attack on Oxford sighed Himmelwright. Burdick hands. cricket feld. True, I lour launched by Mr. Eugene Burdick, ils to compare the relative de The Yugoslavs assert that all cherished secretly a photograph an American Rhodes Scholar in grees of culture in Britain and all this is temporary and that

America.

better times are coming next of Miss Mabel Love, the cost of the "Isis" and reprinted in yester-

"The first sign of intellectual year. Probably they are, if they which had halved my consump day's "China Mail

Oxford and Cambridge have degeneracy is loss of physical can get the necessary of sweets during several weeks, but that was exceptional. often been compared. The Ox-vigour. After Britain's war effort materials and machinery, for

my happy hunting world." it is said.

Ford

the and during her present produc- these people have a capacity for man thinks he owns Lord's was

"The Car- tion drive he could hardly accuse hard, intensive tail. It is mani- Ground.

bridge man doesn't give a damn Britain of that. As to Shake- fest wherever you go. who owns it" Or, again, "la Ox-speare, there has only been one ford they enjoy sherry and coc-Shakespeare in history, so, Eng- versation. A Cambridge they pre-land has a few more centuries to

work on yet."

Speaking for himself, Himmel- wright said: "Personally, I have come across Do anti-American

tion

To an

imaginative child the giants of the game were skin in dim way to the giants of the fairy books favourite reading only a

which had: been his fer beer and talk."

•{ew

Current Opinions

LACK OF INTEREST A thoughtful report from New Delhi on the Communist conquest of China, printed yesterday, contrasted the at- titudes of India, Pakistan, Ceylon and Afghanistan with that of the Western nations, In Europe and America the extension of Soviet domina. tion to the shores of the South China Sea is generally re- garded as a dangerous menace to all the free world, as the spread of totalitarian dark ness over many more millions of people, as a defeat for de-

These comparisons' have now mocracy and a further nega- | Had you told me then that reached such a deadlock that feeling-only triendship.” tion of the dignity-of man-when W. G. played at Lord's he fresh American verdicts (reached arrived in ordinary garb and a in anything from two weeks to This is an understandable re-

hansom cab or carried his bag two years) are worth noting and action in countries accustom-ro

from St. John's Wood Road Sta- passing on to Mr., Burdick. Of a ed to free institutions and a tion, a part of me would, I sup-hundred opinions, I neted these. relatively high standard of pose, have believed you, but an- HEARTINESS: in Cambridge living, but it raises no echo other part of me would have bulging muscles are more envied in the hearts of millions in silently but fercely resented the than bulging: brains. Afternoons Asia.

suggestion.

are "sacred to the worship Rugby football."

ARTINESS: Out of 160 listed University, clubs and societies, the the Neo-Surrealist Group. (Shortage of highbrows is pos- that in sibly due to the fact Cambridge different types

years before.

No! The giants. were assem-!

In the first place, vast num-bled by some form of magic in

of

He Sees His Dream

Come True

help int

Gigantic Project

Economically Yugoslavia today resembles a gigantic construction project. Everywhere you see big industrial plants building

to

Some are waiting for the roof go on some are still encased;

After The Fall.

After the war is over After the fighting's done After the Goldstar Banner Sees off the old White Sun.... Many's the heart will be break-

ing

Midst those officials all.. Missing the squeeze they were

making...

After the Fall!

*

"Food fair at Olympia in 1950." I am told, however, that it will

standstill because no labour

is 1951. available, some are empty con- crete shells waiting for machin-

in scaffolding, some are at be excellent at the festival”, in

ery.

bers of workers in the factor- the pavilion, which mysteriously only one smacking of Bloomsbury By JACK WEBSTEK The original plan will have to

the appropriate rected them at moments and no less mysteriously swallowed them again.

This fancy was by a feat of mental legerdemain which I have since greatly admired completely Proof against the sight of them practising at the nets before the match.

C

An Age Of Heroes.

Helpful hint on etiquette.

"Never break your bread or roll in your soup,'

Q. How can you tell the age of a suake?" And some are working day and. aight, bringing the first faintly tell the age of a snake unless you A. It is extremely difficult to discernible results of the indus trialisation plan calculated to know exactly when It was born." transform an almost completely

Honest, anyway. agrarian nation, which exported its vast mineral wealth for others to exploit and now intends to da

the i

job itself. Twenty YERIE 120, 2 young be modified. One Western obser- Scots-Canadian pilot was push ver said to me: "Yes, I think topping out of Edmonton into the they can do it if they give them "what are diplomatic relations?" "Daddy." said little Johnny, undergraduate are thrown closer King forest Northlands, when selves 10 years instead of five." "My boy," said his father sad together than in Oxford.)

Kingsford-Smith made his his

Over-ambitious first, estimates ly, there aren't any." WOMEN: There being one

trans-Pacific crossing: to undergraduette to every

already being pruned. a

In undergraduates "dating" is diff-McConachie, the boy wonder of proved too high, so the target

· seven | Spiney,

pilot was tall, rangy Grant motor-lorry factory, 2 daily of eight three-tonners cul...Members of" Giries and Newnham, though

the Dominion's growing, aggres-was lowered to five. Production often Bod conversationalists, are zot picked determined then

sive aviation industry, and he for looks, Though

last year, in fact, was about 600 one or

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AIR FRANCE DC-4 SKYMASTERS perhaps for a vague notion beer of a now lost vintage.

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jes and peasants in the fields have no clear-cut idea of what democracy OF Communism means, or what the differ- ence is between them. They may have some idea that Britain, Holland and France

composed by Mr. Gustav Hoist, are democratic, but they can

"The incidental music has been not see that this is very de-

and the principal chorus, the sirable, in view of the con- stantly heard allegations that

Heavenly Holst, is being trained these countries are Mim- Picasant, too. were the con-female pioneers have introduced follow in Kingsford-Smith's path, vehicles two per working day. by the composer himself."

a difference but with perialistic exploiters."

comitants of worship: the triumph this term a chic line in Napoleon

Most appropriate. of securing a good seat; the thrill hair-de's (cut short and brushed passenger planes on scheduled American aid will facilitate the for example, which Britain and

He would plan and lead giant Their knowledge of Russia of the bell that brought out the forward), "when an American fights from Vancouver, B.C., to is equally limited, except umpires: the taste of cold beer sees a woman student he sure Sydney, fulfilling his belief that mechanisation of mining, agris the others will not buy-but it will be months before The West- air travel would comment the Com culture and forestry. that there all means of_pro-

DRINK: Light ale a good monwealth countries together signed to serve, an Eastern trade selves felt... Weeks before the Transport plans hitherto de era credits begin to make them substitute for American beer. duction, and the land itself,

At intervals I refreshed myself

I had the privilege of watching wil concentrate on expanded Arst PUSS:

Among Cambridge's McConachie's dream come true. from the contents of a black bag many pubs the Little Rose (Tudor)

machinery arrives, months are in the hands of the pro serne around the ground by a beams) and the Eagle (Pickwick pre-inaugural Right Canadian installations, fallways, and reads couple of years before the steel

1 flew with him letariat, who parcel out the stall, black-bearded

better port before it starts producing and a recently on the merchant shipping big estates among the de-croclaimed in an endless, sepul- with history-

man who type coaching inn) "just reek Pacific Airlines Empress of Syd- linking the main producing areas mill promised by Mr. Truman a

the first British "free enter

the West. serving poor.

chral monotone:

ney,

month ago is working..... "Acid teblets, DISCIPLINE: It is "just crazy" prise" airline to top the growing

A critical time is still ahead But looking about, you can see lime-juice teblets." This is an attractive pro-

to torbid American students passenger trafic across the South Consumers may benefit by the Yugoslavs are not afraid of hard to gamble, The tablets were done up in

borrow money, light Pacific.

non-essentials hitherto absorbed work. You have spect, although difficult to white paper packets with what potres, climb University build-

the feeling by the East tobacco and wine," they will do the job. believe. Those who have Anstey in "Vice Versa" calls 8. fire guns, hire cars, or y toiled seven days a week that lavish expenditure of time aircraft: "What do the Limeys now) MeConachie becarne. Presi- from childhood for the most string and sealing-wax by which do ? However, the prowling dent of the CPA, but on the fight

and his Bulldogs Proctor meagre livelihood, succeeding the struggling chemist seeks to

provide it was difficult to keep him in the struggle for existence reconcile the, muhlie mind to a an element of excitement from the drier's pathway if they keep above the star-

of 250 per cent on cost

HOSPITALITY: Far too good. 40-seater, pressurised aircraft. "If an American accepts all his vation level, are not interest-

When McConachie was fying Moreover, it was en are of citations we won't get around ed in political theory.

If hereet. Looking back, one thinks to making any real good friends smaller pistes into the North, he had to lay down his petrol pumps they are indifferent to Com-of Sammy Woods bowling out the WORK: By":"research" the au w

in advance; he had to fight either. "experi seinst munist successes in China, it Australians at Cambridge on a English mean

воде of the world's with the is only because they have not breakfast of lobsters and bitter, enter just "search"-not, as been indoctrinated yet by whom at the wicket made one already been sought and found

beer, of Rabil, the first sight of in America, "search for what has toughest, Eying most primitive

Mo the Kremlin's agitators.

Conachie always made it feel like the Queen

of Sheba b be

However, one American 1 net time there was no primi- ore Solomon, because the half of recently did not parry Mr. Bur- tiveness For his feet. his glories had not been told; opinions. He was Victor F. Him-suburan over the North Pacific via dick's thrusts with suck cheerfcraft, which will also operate this Jessop, crouching tiger-like to, the

→

Always Made It

Two years ago (be's' only (1

&year

It is suggested that the growing sense. of nation alism in Asia may prove bulwark against Red propa- bowlers hearts, whose pleasure it who has arrived, at Magdalene Hong Kong and Tokyo he chose of Trumper, that breaker of melwright, a young psychologist, the Aleutians from Vancouver to ganda, but this is to show was to hit out of t

the ground the College via Yale and Harvard.

the Dominion built Canadair ignorance of the workings of best ball bowlad in the match; of After studying Mr. Burdick's Four.

Powered kry Rolls-Royce Marxist ideology. This, while W. Ghimself, whose simple and article, Mr. Himmelwright- said:

a engines. preaching tongue in check sufficient epitaph is graven on the "I know nothing about this fellow

him away,

-the brotherhood. of man gates at Lord's: the great cric- personally, But his article gives Commonwealth Pacific

-<

(a company formed by keter.

the and the importance of inter-

United Kingdom," New Zealand All these and many more, in would wager that Burdick and "Australian Governments; ar nationalism, plays strongly heir youth. In their prime, is a plain, rather naive Amerifying the same ronts as American on racial pride and aspira- their majestic age would work can from the Mid-West or West lines using Boeing Stratocruisers fions, claiming too that these heir magic in the heart of a he lived in the East or bad and DC's

The Canadian Four can only be fully realised mall boy.

beer educated at Harvard

than more when the capitalist frame-

Yale he would already know stands favourable comparison work has been destroyed.

about class mobbery. He thought with the much boosted United an adequate supply of food that the mere fact of going to States aircraft from what I saw. stuffs. This task; it is said, Oxford would automatically put

Our 18,800-mile return flight Among the ruling classes will take generations, and him in the upper class. When be was accomplished with's touch of. of the countries of South the struggle will be much finds that he is accepted, as any

perfection, East Asia there is a feeling harder than it was in Soviet merits, he takes it out of the they have set their cap at the

The where else, entirely on his own Carinen ball trafic. Vefy wisely CPA are not aiming at the that the Chinese Communists Russia, are unlikely for some time to

English, undergraduates. - come to thrust beyond their The other nations of the The Wrong Class own borders. It is true that Far East are preoccupied he condemns Oxford: for its Travellers get 32 hours to relax

the ground at night,” the Peiping government has with their own acute pro-drinking habits, He just does not on the fabulous beach at Waikiki, gigantic tasks abead if it is blems, and, for a variety of know that everywhere in the in Honoluka, and another over- to weld together the land it reasons they do not regard world the upper classes drink nicht stop at Nandi, in the Fiji has already conquered, effect the new China as a menace then always tend to become more

shorts," "like gin and orange, and Islands a stable administration, con- It would be as however, demonstrative. The middle class each way, with an overall time Dar fying time was 36 hours trol inflation, rebuild the not to take too much for always prides itself on holding from Vancouver of just, a little chaotic economy and ensure granted.

is liquor,

more than three days.

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