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RECOGNITION. ROUNDABOUT

THE CHINA MAIL, TU

THEY HOPE ENGLAND CAN SPARE A FLAG FOR ST. GEORGE

Searchlight On America

Cable From ALEXANDER CLIFFORD

their "hotele bills, wandering. whether to buy a present for the

children or another ice-cream,

Good

Ning!

and going home when their ration "Clothes Make The Man"

of money was finished:

· The banglar who went away in Some years the ration was an Arrow shirt and new parts The little church is nearly already legend has been busy higher and sore. years lower, but from a loend stare had a keensens finished

with the British bomb-almer. If it was never enough to contribute of humour. you ask the old mason mixing to St. George." concrete outside the new church

no one

The outside has been painted By FRANK OLIVER bitter-yellow and white, as it

he will tell your "Look, simor, The villagers held committee A errespondent writes to say

bis banbs own patron meetings, England could not send that in his opinion, recognition is The Congress of the Unit always used to be. The arched saint. That pilot was Irish. The money abroad, Italy herself, with setting Nehru and Nehru

ceiling was white-washed re- saint of Ireland has been millions of holises, bridges, fac- ed States has finally gone Icently. Now they are laying zitated with St. Gatories destroyed, had more urgent | home after one of the longest the fipor; and they are prepar- sessions on record, and prac-ing the little stone pit under tically every one in Washing the altar for the body of St. ton has breathed a sigh of re- George of England. lief.

the amount

It has argued and filibustered in way through 10 months, and hasn't omitted to complain about of legislation the White House has tossed into the "hopper," as they call the basket into which proposed. Acts at Congress first go.

Time

was when Washingtes was a quiet country town which livened up between January and The average person may April, when Congressmen came to well be baffled at the moment town to polish off a year's legis- by the conflicting reports lative business and then hurried off home before tropic heat about Western recognition of

descended on the

swamps where→ the Chinese Communist rein the capital is built. gime. From London, Washing- The war changed all that, and

Washington's ton, Sydney arid elsewhere now

population come contradictory news has more than doubled in 102 items, but this is only to be years:

Everybody is busy assessing expected when actual factshe merits of this

Congress about such a high-level de- especially as President Truman partly won his election on his 'cry cision are few.

(Republican) that the previous

Congress was the worst in tory: Naturally, he had to praise

The latest suggestion is that Britain may not formally ac- cept Mao Tse-tung's govern- this one, a Democratic gathering ment until after the Com- of

of law

able,

the

are

de-

in

For at Portofing lie the bares of England's patron salut. There they have lain for nearly nie centuries, undisturbed except for their annual outing in the St George's Day procession. Until, that is to say, July 27, 1944, when а British bomber dropped a British bomb and knocked the church to smithereens.

Legend Busy

The bones were saved as the village expected them to be. But

The whole village thought at one time that England would what money it had and build as help. The English had always far as it could. Whenever it t liked the place. Many of them any more money it would add an had villas round about. And they, after all, had destroyed the church.

one

Some of our readers seem a And he may add diffidently: matters to attend to. The Ameribit puded about these airline "We thought at first that the cans, who were now the rich contractions. It should be ex- English would help us to build milords, were not interested in plained that CNAC has no con- the church again. But now we St. George.

nection with CATC or CAT, despite the preponderance of the have done it ourselves. "

So the village decided to spend CAT starts out looking like. CATC, but is a C short, Or, if

C.than CAT. C? you prefer it CATC is

For to Portofino the church was Feng Shut- No Good.

Talwan is full of trouble these an automatic priority. St. Georg But when the war ended it there is

an antiquated days. First the Nationalists and became plain that the English patriotic trapping. He has been then the rinderpest were no longer a nation of rich pari of the village life for 9001 milords. A nest

arrived, years. To many he is still an travelling economically in little cars,; worrying about bax-like

London Comments:

race

Failure Of The Groundnut Scheme

By “WINDRUSH”

'other bit of wall.

icient machine for warding off pesence and famine. His per formance in the plague of $1656 was so outstanding that a sort of Institated in passion play was gratitude

A

The body is not, of course, the whole body. What benes there

moge

-

If you should go across the sea

to England,

(Returned travellers are saying

here, today),

You'll find a land that is a land

of plenty.

But they pack it up and stad

it all away.

are may be nothing to do with WFTU is meeting in Peking. St. George at all But they have Main item on the agenda is to absorbed nine centuries of faith form a Union to end all unions.

be And though the legend

blurred by age sne enthusiasm Got Himself In Dutch."

somme salient facts are true.

A

It

the

Seems he was only a hireling. "Acid sprayed on Vienna opera. The critics took this as a per--

The fence between heaven and

the

The Dutch have released a Ex- is certain that King Richard | ton

sentenced to named Hire Lionheart used this as a port in seven years for gun-running.

Third Crusade. And it is certain that a band of Crusaders brought back here from Palestine

to be the patrons.” what they believed remains of that

dragon-kinling saint whom Gibsonal affront.

spectacular, bou describes 68 a Cappadocian knights Mr. meat contractor. The who died rescuing

ing St. George

omare

For the first time since the in a world where private capital ventures that de 20 dollar crisis became acute again shuns all some two months ago the promise easy and immense pro-age magazines have space to look the "Nets Statesman" about them for other burning Alexander Werth writes from

to the angels saying. discuss. Nobody Yugoslavia about the latest stage buried just beneath where the hell was broken. The devil sent

now mixing the a note

The that Mr. Attlee's in the struggle between Yugo-

"Have taken legal advice subjects to supposes

"The Yugo-

quicklime.

"Cannot get cuts" have saved the country. slavia and Russia

The Republic of Genoa, which repair is your responsibility" Soviet Com But probably there will now be slav indictment at

dangerous lies 20 miles away, first adopted Heaven replied: an interval of two months be-munism is a more

the saint with his Bage the red legal advice. Will repair fence". the alt than fore the country

against be challenge to it

to be allowed to (American) talk about refrigera comes acutely crisis-conscious.

The Yugoslav propaganda is causing restlessness among all the satellite countries in East Europe. It causes Russia to be regarded as the imperialist power treating the

One of the chief events

every worker.”

cross on the white ground. When the Genoese founded the first

Germans

*

makers, while just as

Republicans i meeting in Colombo early monwealth foreign ministers'

Truman is perhaps the year. Although

rather more correct than his op- next

knows Congress, various opinions are already ponents. He believed to be known in Lon- Be submitted at the beginning of

the session the biggest load don, there is a certain amount of divergence, and a round-posed legislation since Roose

veli and his bright young men table talk might well be devised the New Deal. In other helpful.

words he asked for a great deal more than he expected to get, and From the British point of half of if or more on to the view (including that of Hong statue book. Kong) it may be useful to put This Congress has done special- the situation again in per-ly well on the international side The publication of the gold tors in every home and a car fork of Europe they called it the start flying again. Well, it's a

bank ste to Coventry. spective. The fact is that the There are sull ECA funds avail-reserve figures at the New Year

Bank of St. George, and when long time since they were sent

Peking administration is the accepted and another Act passed once more.

Atlantic

whole outfit saint, Fact has beet will probably set off the alarm

England bought the bought the

"Asokesman of the Finance and the accounts of the only effective government in to provide arms to put teeth into

which were kept, and stal Ministry." Somebody playing a China today. While we re the Pact Congress also renewed recently was the official revela-

denari) peat that the country is too the Reciprocal Tariff Art, and tion of the fiasco of the Ground Small countries as pawns. Mare, in £ x d (librae, solidi, and/joak?

it restored to the President his at scheme in East Africa. The

Werth stresses that the conflict is But £ s. d. or no sd Porto-Excommunication.

Nationalist Foreign Minister a vast and ill-organised to have

that St. George's power to cut many rates

decided fino a really effective government' much as Ality per cent. Siigures are startling enough, not one between personalities-- in the Western sense, and is Stafford, no doubt, is hoping he target figure for the crop in 1949 Stalin and Tite-but one of pria- Church must be rebuilt And they rives in Hongkong to get back 70

was 227,000 tons. The actual crop ciple. likely to remain a collection of will exercise it in favour of some was a little

2.000 tons

The truth is that the more one were just starting on their piece grounded airliners Oh Yeh!

plan when something hap more than 2,000

forecast the British exports.

vened

ned which was freely described Americans, as

claiming The target figure had been that looks back, the more does one federated provinces, there With this the occupant of the will be at least passive al-white House is probably faire 150.000 acres should be sown by realise how inevitable was the as a miracle the Italian State other week, are now

1947

jet aircraft feld. This year the actual figure confict between the Russians and gave almost enough money to do that Britain does not lead in the legiance to any authority pleased."

international On the

Mis

the Yugoslavs. Titoism was not the whole. job acres, only 50,000

This is the familiar jet pre- December they began he loses out only in the mat- which can keep order.

admit more The scheme was begun because something peculiar to the Yugos While the principal mem-ter of bis Bill to

d-for new suplar character. In all Eastern coun. building. And now 10 men and tension. of the urgent need. I bers of Mao's regime are con-European displaced persons to plies of fats for the United King- tries there is a latest revolt against a boy have got it almost finished

"And then I lost control of the this land of wide acres and do But production this year enslavement by Moscow. Yugos-

The Church of St. George is vinced Communists, the or- plenty.

little plane. will be enough for one day's lavia has set herself up as a bea- small and simple, with a

for its! "Tail Butter?"; dinary Chinese have no poli on the domestic side, Congress margarine and the scheme con for all the malcontents in yellow-and-white tower tical affiliation whatsoever. balked viciously at Harry Tru-

Eastern Europe, whether political bells. They collected the pre-war

and the soldi a bit ir picture postcards Their loyalty is to their man's Fair Deal legislation which bas cest

Responsibility would have moved America con-

and prints

the longest local families and not to the State.siderably

public body called the

There is no doubt that the nearer the Socialist Food Corporation, On its report, Russians will have to think of copy of what it had always been memories and compiled an exact; They will, however, accept a idea called the Welfare State.

the auditors

好き commented:

before. government which tries to bring order out of the chaos Princess Hits The of the past 30 years.

Headlines

*

by as

with the Overseas

or economic

are unable to report that in our something better than to call Yu- opinion proper books of accounts 6oslavia a monstrous coniatry: The Yugoslavs are pretty smfident have been kept."

These

revelations strengthen that the Russians have got them- the Tory opposition in their at-selves into a frightful jam, and tack on the public corporations that they have simply no answer." On the whole the magazines are it will take a long time to put lack of front-page news, domes and on nationalisation. The "New

article distinctly dull. The most interes their ideas into practice (if tie and foreign, in recent days, Statesman" publishes an they ever can.)

Englishwomen have had no by the former is one, on

It is now reasonably certain that the Reds appreciate that

Although there has been no

It criticies

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So lest

Whose Flag?

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•

"No, but my hips shook quite

past the church and came anchor in the bay: The Admiral of the Mediterranean Fleet was on board, so the cruiser was fly ing a full admiral's flag-the red But inside it is going to be cross on the white ground-the

the Italian bare, for

State's flag of England and St. George interior The Mayor of Portofing was not run. to money did decoration They cannot even, enchanted. "How courteous a

"What a The hole where St. George of delicate attention of them to fly England lies.

And once again they are won- dering whether England not help after all she may not "Ther perhaps they will give us be able to send money, but per- one. We will put flagstaff on haps she could send some object the tower of the church. Perhaps to put in the church and help England will give us St. George's turtish.

dag. Che day recently out to sea the The flagstaff is already in British cruiser Newcastle steamed position

BE IT

BUSINESS

our

dahen he was told it was

could also England's flag be

industry difficulty in getting prominently formation Der head of the In- ting articlient upon the realy afford an altar. to put over the English," he sa gradual process of industri-into the headlines, one because poration The "New Statesman" recent induction, in a synagogue alisation will require not only of what she said the other because is, of course, pro-government, but in the City of London, of the patience but Western sup- of what she did.

this article does not try to defend Haham, or Chief Rabbi, of the Princess Elizabeth's speech on the record of the Overseas Food 4,000 sephardic Jews in England. port.

The article is in the "Spectator Should our recognition be divorce and the sanctity of the Corporation.

home

of public cor- and is by Miss Marghani Laski, delayed, Peking will be min-page news in the irresponsibility of

Evening papers one day

the niece of Professor Laski forced to lean entirely morning papers the next which they lie outside the control of The Sephardic Jews are on Moscow, which will whip is pretty good going in a country Parliament,, and come under the Jews of Spanish or Partizues re- so authority only of the relevant gian. Mis asid describe the up the traditional hatred of where divorce is supposedly

minister, whose function it is the foreigner, who will be easy. I say supposedly, because

insome States it is much more more often to defend them against ceremony Hundreds of pure wax candles mired in magnificent blamed for all that goes dificult to obtain than in Eritati public criticism than to super

candelabrum and seences, the wrong. The valuable British (New York happens to be one vise, their operations.

wonderful central pendant was The only paper which tries a investments will be lost, to such State)

was defence is

the Tribute," the Even to the congregation by the gether with the more im-The other Englishwoman was

Churchill,

whose marriage paper associated with Mr. Aneurin parent compounity of Amsterdam, portant chances of trade; we to an English photographer, An- Bevan. Its argument. is that all de represative of the Dutch-

ambassador: was there to com- were made morate the special link of the support for the rebels in hearts Malaya, and there might be Americans, which means the vast not by the Overseas Food Cat phardx feas with the Holland

majority.

that first savs them refuge but poration, by the capitalist serious trouble in Hong Kong. Miss Churchill has been emplary which

The Dean of St. Paul's was launched the If we should refuse to re-joying .considerable personal scheme before it

it was taken over there and was . Frode, the Chief Rabbi of the Ashkenazim. cognise the Communist gov- success on the stage in America, by the Corporation, ernment, we could slow down and not only because she is the former Frime but not defeat their aims in daughter of the

Minister.. the country. In any case, the The wedding set what must be failure of the Marxist way of a new fashion in", bridal' music. life in China will not come When the imot was safely tied, from outside causes but musicians struck up not the Men

delssohn Wedding March but through the character and "Some Enchanted Evening, customs of the people them- which Ezio Pinza has been mak selves.

ing famous in the current musical When Britain does enter hit South Pacific." into a formal liaison with Peking, our diplomats will be Who Gets The Pork able to lay the foundation of h Barrel? good commercial relations,

shortly New

the

It traces all recent improve- The Lord Mayor came in his ro- ments in the scheme from the bes and chain, with the Sheriffs, Love when the Corporation took the Aldermen of the Wards of ever. And it still sees bright pro-Fertsogen and Bishopsgate, spects for the future.

Lord Mayor's Marshal, in his great "In deciding to launch the ferry cap, and the Sword and scheme, without long and careful Mace with their attendant officers preparations, Government "The gentlemen of the congre took that calculated riskelist is tion sat on the old benches part and parcel of any great hats and morning coats. Save for plogeering enterprise. It was the the prayer for the King, the ser kind of risk that has to be taken vice was of course wholly in He- by progressive and far-sighted brew.

the

top

governments on an increase: Ark was opened and the ing scale it they af to conquer Scrolls of the Law revealed. They poverty and economic stagnation are umbellevably lovely, these

municipal

scrolls, First the Pentateuch is and journalists may have In New York election fever is

written in Hebrew on parchment facilities reasonable

for increasing, for

government for as and a single error means the sending out reports. Mer-Yorkers will select a new Mayor many people as live in the whole destruction of the whole sheet and a new Senato The sense of Belgium. He also controls Then, roiled up, the scrolls are chants believe that inftorial race creates mild interest, what is commonly known as the robed in gorgeous cloaks of crim time excellent business will the mayoralty always means pork barrel--the handing out of son velvet, blue velvet, and, for result. The new authori- real fight.

many jobs to his campaign sup-best, rich cream satin, all heavily This is a fight for a highly paid porters and party stalwarts, and magnificently embroidered in ties may not have been en-

Mayor O'Dwyer is running gold thread. tirely tactful in recent months, job for a man who heads the but most of the difficulties (Continued At Foot Of Next CoL) so far encountered have been

has

the

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date med Newbold Morris, who for the day was carried to the again against a "Fusion", candi- "In procession the scroll chosen BLUE

mixed support of Re- due to the aggressiveness and

publicans and the Liberal Party, reading-desk the congregation lea inexperience of minor officials alistic than the average, pro- If one listens to cab drivers (inning forward as it went, reverent-

variable gossipers), then

ly to touch its cloak or bow to its -nothing new in China. paganda-conscious senator. is already "out". Every driver 1 passing.

True, it seems as if America The main point, however, is have spoken with lately has congregation, singing of the praise "Hallelujah, sang the choir and is not yet ready to recognise this: recognition in the long criticised the reigning máver. mayor. the local Communists, but it is run is inevitable. We shall But they may be wrong for, as of the Lord with trumpet and also probable that recognition gain nothing and perhaps lose was pointed out to met by ausartery and harp and upon the cynical friend, What cabble, high-sounding cymbals, and then by Britain would strengthen a great deal if we antagonise would voto for cop?" and in stately train the high dignita- Tel. 25674. the hand of the State Depart and quarrel with the new re- Mayer. O'Dwyer is a former ries filed out of the old synago-

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