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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1949.

Struggle For Asia's Destiny

in

POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS

Singapore

OF ECAFE MEETING

By Anna Ginsbourg

In their opening addresses at the meeting of the Committee on Industry, and Trads, heads of both the US and the US. delegations issued a warning against the too

Good Morning!

U.S., Britain to Reds"

ban

gas to

at According to an agency report,

The Economie Commission for Asia and the Far East, fostered

benefits, the Soviet delegate made the following declaration in re-end of the Voice of America.

That will presumably mean the by the United Nations and set up by the Economic and Social

spect of Russia's foreign trade. Council in 1948 to assist the

trially and economically, area)

policy rehabilitation and development of

In the Far East, and also en furthering and expanding trade the birth of Rita Hayworth's baby

The Soviet Union aims countries of Asia and the Far

joying the highest standard of and economic relations with all will be attended at Prince Aly East devastated by the war, has

ilving. just-concluded Its Fifth Sessica rapid industrial development :d gate, refuted the Soviet accusa-and in line with this polir. is and the Aga Khank

Mr. M. Cowen, chief US dele tain economic relations with her from the Moslem mosque in Paris the countries wishing to main-ban's request by two priests The Conference was preceded the countries of Asia and the Far tion and referred to

the Begum by a series of meetings of UN East.

President willing to foster trade relations (his wife) and a few intimate Truman's Four-Point Programme with the countries of Asia and friends. But the real celebrations regional organisations, subsidiary

"Mr. P.J.H, Stent, chief dele af technical assistance to under- the Far East on the basis of bodies, and ECAFE Committees,

gate of United Kingdom said: developed countries

will be postponed until Rita and f equal the baby can leave the clinic such

with the trend of brighter as ILO (International La-

"Ta recent years,”

bilateral he said.

agreements, by exporting; bour Organisation), FAO (Food

Let's hope they don't get the prospects of supply from Euro-Americs has not just made pro- being felt in these countries in baby to pickled

commodities for which need is Meeting of Inland Transport - pe and the falling prices, it is paganda speecher in favour of Perts, Committee on Industry and economical for certain industrialisation of underdevelop the Soviet Unice. The develop The editor regrets.

exchange for goods which interest countries in the Region to build ed countries, but poured out bil-ment af trade on this basis only "The plot of a story is impor-

Trade and sub-Committee Travel, whose reports and recom- mendations were, considered by the Commission.

not

new Industries”, Mr.

delegate of uttered in

lions of dollars of assistance to-

and

do

for to the

•

Myron M. Cowes chiet wards general economic r stant to may serve as a contributing fac- tant, but the manner of pemnt-

economic development ing it is still more important." development. Hall, same vein. "With Burope and the however, believe this trial

Western hemisphere producers

Held at the Victoria Singapore, the Conferences lasted from September

23. The Fifth Session opened on October 20 with the

are

of the West"

development that is based on

balan

מס

MARRIAGE

18 to October competing for markets it is solid foundation, that is sufficient- doubtful if there is a need for ex-ly balanced to be enduring" he Birley-Shand A marriage has

Region."

The Commission, after lengthy of 20 countries, of whicticipation banding dew industries in the arranged and

will

and seven,

associate There could hardly be a better consideration of the Report of the shortly take place between members

members (without rate). Tensant George

The provocation for the Soviet attack Committee Thomas

Industry and eldest son of the late Dr. JLI

following member countries and

at the "industrialised monopolies Trade, adopted a resolution con Birley, C.B.E, and of Mrs. associate member countries were

taining the 'note of warning! Birley of Orford House,

represented at the Fifth Session: their fright to lose markets for velopment without consideration "Main capitalist powers, in against too rapid industrial, de- Urley

Members Australia, and Mona Ames Matt... only daughter of the

China, France, India, the Nether Asia", fired Mr. Nemchina, are supply and demand

metals and capital equipment in of all basic factors pertaining to late Mr. J.T. Shand and of

lands, New Zealand, Pakistan, trying to scare Mrs. Shand of Sydney,

Asiatic Australia.

aries. Their tendency is to retard the development of Asia in their selfish interests and tempt under-developed countries by issue raised by Russia over the Next in importance was the zome vague opportunities of cheap problem of trade. procurement of capital equipment |

.

THE FUTURE

OF FRANCE

M. Bidault's Government Has now been in office for more than a week, and there are all indications that his Cabinet will be able to go on with France's post-war re- covery.

In the first nine months of this year, France has made remarkable progress toward recovery. There has been, in fact, a tremendous change and improvement in almost every walk of life. But this should not be taken to mean that France's future is 25. sured or that it is now a cer-

MYRON M. COWEN US. Delegale

Burma,

-

the

goods.

coun-

One-Sided Development

"The adverse trade balance as

and

"But the desire of the Western dependence of the countries of well as the growth of Enancial powers to put the clock back, the Region especially from. USA raid Nemchina," goes contrary to

the desires of the Asiatic coun- in their post-war trade. In 1937, is one of the characteristic trends tries to take their fate in their the balance of trade showed a cwn hands. They had long ago surplus of 616 million dolizes, decided to build up their indus-while in 1948 it shows a tremend- tries."

Dealing at length with the pro-lion dollars.

ous deficit amounting to 852 mil- The trade balance blem of industrial development with USA alone shows a deficit of India, he criticised her decision of 350-400 million dollars," said to continue importing foreign-Mr. Nemchina. made motor cars instead of set-

of the Region, being mutually beneficial at the same time"

Refuting Soviet accusations

"He was asked if he intended of exploitation of the backward to leave the country." countries by means of Funequal

**Certainly was his evasive trade," the delegate the reply." United Kingdom stressed that countries depending upon the

of

So Milton Reynolds by-passed supplies of food and raw ma-Rong Kong. Probably my fault, terials have often found them-

with that crack I had recently selves far worse off than sup about ball-point pens,

plying countries.

Henri Maux, chie delegate of Füs stand was supported by

France, who drew the example of

Dang. Signal

"British Railways working N.U.R. may bold inquiry."

t

The policeman was shot through the arm, and Henry Thompson, a bank clerk, through the hip, while a lady walking past the doorway was shot in the excitement."

That can be mighty painful.

-

In a newspaper from Mom's country, a correspondent noticed the

following:

"Selling the average American worker on the tremendous ad- vantages of life is the No. 1 res- advertising

U.S.S.Rponsibility of the

profession today."

22K

$. 8. NEMCHINA Soviet Delegate

He explained the adverse trade ting up own motor-car industry, balance of the region by the fact

Today

foreign-manufactured that its export still remains limit- motor cars are really cheaper in ed to several commodities. "The India than would be those of their monopolisation of raw material own make. But there are at pre-resources by foreign interests en- sent only 100,000 cars in India, ables them to sell their products New Zealand and the U.S., both the high standard of living in and she cupied 22nd or 25th back to the Region at speculative large exporters of raw materials

countries.”

research.

manu-

Knowledge-

•

"Do you think you can make a good portrait of my wie?” =

"My dear sir, I can make it so lifelike that you'll jump every time you see it

"George had charge of the past

Myrtle was having quite ing when, there was a knock on the door,It was the man from downstairs.

"I

must ask you to make less

the Philippines, Siam (Thailand), USSR, the United Kinkdom and the United States.

Associate Members: Malaya tainty the country, will be and British Borneo, Cambodia, place in the world in this respect. prices, dictate and uphold prices and food. He issued a warning] entertainment during the

Ceylon, Hong Kong, the Indone With her 300 million population, at the world market and extract self-suficient when the Mar-1sian Republic and Laos. Vietnam India possesses the same number colossal profits at the expense of ECAFE countries that any year. His birth-provoking antics

Plan ends in 1952. joined the Commission as a new-

of cars as Yorway, whose popula-the

abuse aimed at overvaluing cer under-developed economies į

were always the life of the party. tain raw France is just now facingly accepted Associate Member in lion is 100 times smaller. At a of the dependent

materials would only and he will be greatly missed." serious difficulties, and, be- course of the Session.

minimum rate of car to 50 per- Analyzing post-war imports drive the purchasing countries to Really? I should have thought sides, her fate is tied to that Sweeping Changes

sons, India would have to import into the Region, he draw attention seek raw materials elsewhere or the contrary. about 6 to 7 million cars in the to the of all Western Europe in a

increase in imports of to finding substitutes by scientific At this time of sweeping poli- next few years. This expenditure staple commodities and way that means French re-tical and economie, changes in would be far greater than that tactured products at the expense Supply Of Technical party in ber at the other even- covery and self-sufficiency-Asia-it-would-be-too-naive to necessitated for the establishment of capital equipment, machinery, will not be possible until the aerations dealings with prob capitalists, of course, would only colonia: trends of post-war trade

presume that the Commission's of her ows industry. Western etc. 23.

an indication of the countries around her can be

lems within its sphere of refe- beneft through this arrangement, with countries of the Region independent, too.

rence could be limited to acade- but isn't is contrary to the na-It is the monocultural (one-fore the Commission on which noise," he said. "My wife can't

The only important issue be Official figures now show mic angles. The reverse is true, tional inspirations of the Indian sided) character of their develop controversy arose between Russia read." that the level of production for it was at the ECAFE forum people?"

ment that tends to place them in and Western countries, was the

"Can't read?" responded Myr- has increased until it has that the divergence of views be-

Typical Example a dependent position at the world need of greater supply of tech-le. "You tell her she should be been established near the re-tween East and West in its ap-

market and leads to their ch- The above quota is a typical slavement by the importers of deve

nical knowledge to the under-shamed of herself. Why, I could cord for all time. Some indus.plication to the shaping of des

read when I was five." tinies of half the world's popula. example of the Soviet oratory, raw materials. tries, such as steel and coal, tian came forth

developed countries of the region The monopolists with unprece with a not less typical reference of the raw markets are virtual establishment of schools for train- the most remarkable country in by means of supplying experts, Eloke writes in that Poland is have jumped far beyond the dented intensity..

to the sentiments of the masses. masters of the destinies of the ing highest levels prior to the The debates revealed vacillat- In reply to the Soviet accusa-peoples of Asia and the Far East'

technical personnel, field-the world. Her prime minister is war, and goods have flooded ing trends on the part of newly

tions of retarding the Industrial

st" offices, etc. Urging the development of

in Washington, "her development of

army is in This issue, however, should be England; her into the French home market, independent states as well as hid-

the Region. in trade of the countries of Asia and sharply differentiated from that Moscow, and ber population is in government is in All this has been achieved closed doors of others who poli- den forces at play behind the

their own selfish interests. Mr. the Far East among themselves of "Technical Aid," conditioned, Siberia Stent, speaking for the United and with the countries outside the according to Soviet assertions, by this year through the inter- tical face still remains unper-

Kingdom, said that Hong Kong Region, particularly Japan, on an military bases, unequal treaties, locking of the national effort turbed.

and Malaya which benefit by equal basis and upon principles of etc. to which, of course, Soviet a householder can make at this the British administration, are mutual respect for their sever- Russia takes a most serious ex-season of the year is the best developed, both indus-Feignties and reciprocal economic

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daily

Kenya Is Desperate

For Settlers

By DEREK MARKS

Sun Isn't Enough

such and

The East-West ideolgical cla- shes which permeated the nine- day long session and resulted in an overwhelming victory for] the Western side, were enacted with dramatic earnestness by Mr. S.S. Remchina, chief dele- gate of the Soviet Union, USA and France formed the op- Delegates of United Kingrom,

posing block, Russia ruled on all her draft resolutions, she lost both her political motions It will take renewed energy for admission to the Essociate on the part of M. Bidault's membership of the Commission of Government

Kenya, the East African! These former officers who have North Korea and the Democratic Colony, where llons still roam, settled in the Colony have been to meet the Republic of Vietnam, and yet one situation and avoid a shake could not help feeling that the 2nd where it seems that the chiefly responsible for the deve up over some of the issues re-fight she was putting on was not large majority of the Empire's lopment of the Colony so far, but maining to be solved. The a farce and that she was winning colonels are living in retire alone.

they can no longer. develop it recovery had a good effect in her cause elsewhere by losing it ment, is in desperate need of} that it provided some en- in the Victoria Hall.

Kenya more British settlers.

cappot afford Queen's Bldg., couragement to those who The harangues of Soviet pro-

things as free education The unhappy truth is that at health services. The fees charged thought France could not doses (often equal in time to all present the Colony is not an at- by professional met in the Colony succeed. But it has now given other speeches taken together) settler that is most needed the the highest in the Empire. Most tractive prospect to the type of for their services must be among rise to many demands from were certainly not devoid of a British artisan with pride in his things on sale in the shops have those who think that she has quite of appeal to triar work recovered enough to be able trodden: masset suffering under

Kenya is a

Pot to be imported from Britain, and a young country with they are much more expensive of capitalist now to grant their claims.

the yoke And certain abstentions from all the faults and virtues of than at home.

aggressors" The progress towards re-vote-taking on major issues on velopment.

youth, after only 50 years of de- covery has for months de- the part of smaller countries rationed Britain, it is indeed a Compared with feated or held in check both incidental" absences of their de the Communists and critics legations from the Conference and flowing with milk and such, as General Charles de otherwise than veiled expressions midst of austerity.

Hall could not be interpreted honey, but a young

The young immigrant soon man may ands

that fact, better of in

the wages Gaulle, but it now has reach of sympathy for the Russian

which sounded so attractive in Britain, ed the point where it might stand-

In Nairobi I was talking to I thể: food; which seemed so tan- | become a weakness to the In the opinion of an

young Yorkshiremen an impartia earning. £60 a month..... Government if the latter were observer, it would be wiser to only been in Kenya a few about money.

who is talising, the sunshine, do nothing Beharto mitigate the constant worry forced to yield at too many at that Mr. Nemchina's heroic months, but already he is think-as

overestimate than underrate the

Kenya offers far more than the points.

for the oppressed" has had of returning home. For largest and most picturesque zon In another year the elec-wide reverberations, throughout unfurnished house in Nairobi he in the world The story books tion period of 1951 will be Asia aiready fomented by China's is paying 228 a month rent, and Africa of Rider Haggard is stil fully under way, impeding Red upheaval in the way of

wife has to work, leaving Economically, the Colony has any definite action. It is felt, warning, it should be remembered their to chidren in a day nursery, boundless posibilities. With es however, that the next 12 that a popular continental previces are virtually non-existent, couragment, the agricultural in-

He has to own a car. Bus ser- months will be critical for verb ays "He who laughs last France's reconstruction.

He keep two African servante, he dustry could make a big supplier has to for Self-Sufficiency vs.

number of reason of produce for Britain. The both social and physical, His

mineral wealth is scarcely tapped Open Markets

yet. The territory offers the chance in the En- mest.splendid The focal issue of the ECAFE any time since the beginning D talks was the problem of indus the war, but he still thinks that

--unless the Colony can trialisation of the Region. With he would be "better off in Leeds somehow make life for people Russia, supporting the Asiatic on £10 a week while it will not be able to at- London, November 3 ccmiries objective to attats self- Basic Trouble

without private incomes worth- Field Marshal Sir William Stim, sufficiency and the Western po- Chief of the British Imperialwers warning against rush "ten-

tract the right type of settler. It The basic, trouble is that the is a commentary on the present General-Staff, who has been in dencies in this direction. It pray-Colony's cost and standard of unbalance of the population that specting military bases in the ed an incentive to the most Lving are geared to that of the there are 5,550 Europeans over Middle and Far East, returned to serious East-West clash in course retired "Sahlbs who migrated 50, and only 3,008 children c Britain by air todayReuter. of the debates:

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Lahore, Pakistan in October, But wouldn't his wife bbject 1950. Then only, it will be poz to the competition?

sible to estimate the results of

the Session just ended, when the

"Perks collected in 12 min- Secretariat will present the acutes. The end of the innings was count of practical work done exciting" through implementing of resolu tions adopted in Bingapore.

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