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SWIRE, Gorge Warren, senior

partner of Messrs. John Swire | & Sons Ltd., an eighteenth November 1949.

SHELTERS FROM

HE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1919.

GREENLAND WANTS A PLACE IN THE SUN

Focus On The BBC

television.

are

By JAMES WHITE

Administering a colony

The Greenlanders are a mixed

other enterprises,, riving (00-1 portunity of speedier develop-

Good Morning

"High: East German official kit

ment and for the Greenlanders by Soviet paper." themselves to take a part; **

The American, newsboys' fying The State annopoly, however, delivery, as shown on the movies, served its turn All profits were seems to be spreading ever be- put back into the country, at hind the curtain a balance conlà be maintained between prices the Greenlanders were charred for food

A Chance Civilisation bas made little impact on the remote settlements, and life is much what it was The centuries ago, when the people

a

and

tah

Coal Production.

"Chops minised." Must be talking about my cook-amzah.

"After the new solicitor had

which is 60 times the size of race, the result of inter-marriage between Europeans and Eskimos the mother country, more The pure Eskimo can now be than 10 days sea journey found in maly a few outlying By DOUGLAS KAYaway, 86 per cent of which districts.

is cover-with mile-thick iceļ

ing materials and the prices they Only a stone's throw from and whose population has

were offered for fting and the gardens of Buckingham scarcely left the Stone Age,

Greenl Greenland was thus protectedken the oats, he was the sub- Palace, in an office block on presents Denmark with quite

against fluctuations on the marketons

fect of general congratulations.” the edge of Belgravia, nine a problem.

extent of Greenland's Pulling rye face, he thought tiatural resources it Up to now Greenland has been

rather at preselit men and two, women brooding on the future. nt & closed country, no ships, Danish to place where the best mulace unknown In the South, at Ivistut comself this is all

is mined, almost the only British broadcasting and or foreign, being allowed to call to hunting was to be found, putting up a there without special permission skin, tent, in summer or a rough aportant mineral, used in the wage increases are hoping Sir plice in the world where this Workers in England claiming from the Danish Government. but in winter. Investigator-in-chief is Lord

Many Greenlanders are now, Lake all primitive people living found.

manufacture of aluminium, is Stafford will announce that wager Beveridge, chairman of the | however, eager for their country

increases 'will be sanctioned only life over-shadowed by disaster, Government's Committee of In- to be opened up so that they can they had their superstitions and

Over his dead body. Gathered around him at become part of the civilised world legends. They had, too, & tradi quiry,

a Denmark boo is the inquisitorial table are

naturally

Americans Trumpet In Greece.. ~ at tion sharing what they had Hellow pear, four MFS, threa

anxious that Greenland should

Engineers are building a secont with each other, а spirit of Copper, zine, marble, coal, andį educationists, an industrialist, and learn to stand on her own fee responsibility for one another in extremely rich lead deposits have million dollar Voice of America 2 trade union official.

set the majority of the popular time of hardship or danger. also been found, but the difficul- in Greece, which can reach all These are the people whose ton are only a generation or two Much of this has now changed.ties of mining and transporting the Cominform countries. With job it is to determine how the removed from primitive nomads. The intelligent, Greenlanders want them make their development in all this big mouth stuff going en sound and television program- There are resources to be ex to be educated and learn Danish many instances economic. There you can just hear the faintest mes Britons will receive in their ploited, too, but they involve diffi- which they regard as a passport is, however, an important coal whisper of the Voice that breath- home are to be provided after calties of transport and working to the civilised world. There is production at Disa Island on ed O'er Eden.... the BBC's current Charter and the extant of the resources compulsory education for all the West coast pires at the end of 1951. As cannot even be estimated while Greenland children between the Vegetation scanty. A fe It was announced a day good an example as could be the country is still incompletely ages of seven and 14, and there vegetables can be grown in the

is a high school for these intend- so ago that the hard-pressed found so you may think of an mapped.

South, but owing to the extreme British taxpayer will spend inquiry likely to arcuse intense

ing to enter the Church or ad- cold it is impossible to get any- ministration. Stepping-Stone

thing to rot in the ground. This £3,000,000 in the ensuing year and entirely legitimate public

More and more the educated naturally hinders the growing of on the suppression of the interest.

Finally, there is the military Greenlanders are being given audy the west coast district near

kind of crop.. Communist bandits in Malaya. The campaign

aspect. Greenland is a stepping opportunity to share in the ad- costs the What reason can there be, Malayan Government far then, for the secrecy with which stone between America and Rus-ministration of their own country. Julianehnah, the largest settle

Though more at the rate of nearly the Committee is cloaking its During the war the Ameri--They are eligible for membership ment, it has, however, proved temporary, "speaks in Engglish "

tans built two air-bases, and of all the administrative councils possible to rear sheep. one and a quarter milton / investigations? That is a que tough before signing the Atlan and they often become district they are hardly a economic pro- |

Boa that 12,000,000 licence- |

position, they provide a valuable. tir Fact Denmark was anxious to afficers. pounds a month. The local holders and their families are get rid of the Americans, it is

Greenland is to find a place addities Fish is the staple diet headlined

addition to Greenland's food Communist Party's decision surely entitled to ask.

probable that they will continue in the civilised world the country resources. All that Britons know is that to man these bases.

formerly pro- turn from constitutional

must be opened up. Already plans but sea

oil and skins, are Committee has received means to direct action failed the

These are some of the problems are going ahead for the develop-vised meat, oil

driaz to produce a Communist Rewritten memoranda from many facing the Danish Government's ment of the fishing industry.

the next eight to 10 A month or Greenland important bodies.

sears Denmark plans to spend public or even a local Border so ago it began to take oral evi-nature of the country makes is

Private Enterprise Government. No positive re-dence.

large sums in developing Green-ness. In her eyes evil, on her What is not known is one of the most difficult colonies A rise in the average tempera- hand. Not only will the exploit lips doom" - sults have been gained what-whether any of the evidence in the world to govern and deve-ture of Greenland over recent mineral and fishing resources but Indeed I will I'll run like a ever. The movement, inspir-written or oral-will ever be aid on its side, Greenland quantities of cod, unknown 20-hospitals,

years has brought enormous build electricity works, schools, hare.

and prisons

to

THE STORM IN MALAYA

Why Secrecy?

portant issues at stake.

sla.

administration. The

ice-free

which

The Thunder God went for a

ride;

Upon his favourite fly. "I'm Thor," he roared, and the

horse replied,

"You've forgotten the thaddle,

thilly!"

*

The Pope, according to a COD-

"Anybody understand hira?

Two. G ****

contemporaries the honcuring Amethyst's crew by the King "at Buckingham

Town of county?

"Watch for Daughter of Dark-

"

theatrical

ed by the Calcutta Communist made available to the listening

25 years ago, to the surrounding At present this

this is a

a land with-| Perhaps you never heard t Congress early last year, and public whose right it is to form would almost span the Atlantic 25

their own judgments on the in- from Newfoundland to Europe waters. Salmon, prawns and half out law and without law there the absent-minded by the failure to create an in-

The population of about 22,000 is but are also caught

can be no crime

producer who got married and the along dustrial rising in Singapore, During the

Quick-freezing plant is to be past three years scattered

It will not galy be Danes who sent out tickets for the first night. more canneries will watch with interest the pro- was wholly destructive all millions of listeners have heard coastline, anything from 10 to 80 installed and

the BBC "Focus" teams conduct miles wide, in settlements which built. For the first time private cress of this gay, friendly, but Myrtle once knew a shy young along

their regular probes into ques 1,000 inhabitants.

from 30 or 40 to enterprise is taking a share in still largely unknown people man of few words. When be tions of the hour.

the financing of these, as well as towards Western civilisation Today the

wanted to say it with flowers be BBC, is itself a "question of the

sent a couple of petals. hour. But the spotlight is dim- med and the focus blurred.

It presented one problem, and one only: how to put an end to it, and put an end to it quickly.

The current Charter is the Cor

years licence-holders had in

No Inquiry.

vary in size

gne.

DID YOU DREAM LAST

sensation

NIGHT?

By JACK THOMAS

night.

in every respect. You can see his manuscript now in the British Museum.

*

In Stockholm the authorities found that millions of Swedish, ration cards were priated on black market pulp.

A writer suggests there, should.

barbers.

Shortly before Abraham Line qualifying examinations for coln was murdered, he recorded

Even so, most of them would how, in a dream, he had walked probably scrape through." through the deserted White House

to the East Room. And there, on

a catafalque, he saw his own dead body shot down by an assassin.

Most

ost people's dreams are peo-

She can often recall the exact The words of the Battle Hymn shading of the petals of a flower, of the Republie came to Mrs.

"O.K. So you're only playing cowboys and Indians-but just(you dare "

In recent months the authorities have moved to-poration's third. The BBC as a

public monopoly took over from If you dreamed last night the ward a dual policy. While the old-style BBC.commercial chances are that it was an all scores of highly-trained undertaking sponsored by the black-and-white affair without squads comb the jungle, radio manufacturers on January special measures have been 1, 1927, and its first Royal Char any sense of hearing or touch. That's the way of dreams. As taken to induce all those not ter ran until the end of 1935. Fa rule it's only when you dream The second Charter covered the about something way back in the guilty of bloodshed to surren years 1937-46, and derived its past that you get a suggestion of der. A general amnesty is sanction from the Endings of the

sound. A recent nation-wide out of the question. Nothing Ullswater Committee in 1936, survey found that in dreamland would be more disturbing to Among the members of that Com- only one person in 20 experiences has three dreams ima the local Chinese, who have mittee was the present Prime the

of touch-and Some are vivid, easily remember pled by known characters. Father been giving increased support credit that he insisted on record-smell

Minister, and it is to Mr. Attlee's scarcely anybody has a sense of ed. All are strange. And each does not often appear, but mother morning she records them in her turns up in one dream out of six. to the Government, than to ing several reservations from the But with Nancy Price it's dif- "dream diary." Now she has Husbands, wives, fiancees and boy have bandit leaders let loose general conclusions of a Report ferent. She still has strong written a book to let us share her friends appear in one dream in And secret life"Acquainted with the 10, children in one in five, rela- upon them.

which in retrospect seems al- sense of smell in dreams.

Nancy Price knows a lot about Night". And what a fascinating tives, family friends and servants Appeals by the highest together too complacent,

dreams.

She is one of Britain's book it is! The truth is that by 1936 the

in one in SEVER authorities are now being BBC had grown into an immense met 142 parts on the stage that birds, beasts even fowers and gipsy dream-books, quite a num

greatest actresses, has played In her dreams, too, she finds Apart from the compliers of backed up by bandits wholy powerful body with a heavy but none has been so fantastic have surrendered and by in- top-layer of protective armour ax those that come her way when think this strange.

trees, can talk. She does not ber of people have managed to fluèntial members of the Chin- which the Committee came

She can often put their dreaming on a profit- no- she's asleep.

wremember whale conversations making basis. Robert Louis ese and other communities. where near piercing.

All her fe Nancy Price has with plants and creatures. She Stevenson came by many of his The Corporation had in fact a been a dreamer. Sometimes she sees every gradation of These appeals, which bear

colour plots, including the horrific "Dr. scores of signatures, urge the very strong hand to play-in 10

that the physical, eye knows and Jek 11 and Mr. Hyde," while he some that are beyond its range. bandits to give up the useless creased from 2,100,000 to nearly bie BBC employees are hoping

was asleep. armed struggle, and guarantee 8,000,000 and it played it with that it will do its job well. the safety of those who do so, such skill that in places the Re- That is said in no partisan the intricate shape of trees, and Julia Ward Howe in dream. The results of this phase of port reads very much like the spirit of hostility to the top ex-fashion in which a beige grows Coleridge, de Quincey and Foe all policy have not been specta- speech of & company chairman ectives at Broadcasting House or is cut, the colour of a dog's put their dreams into words that

hear rolcanoes lived, and paid off. As in 1936, so in 1949, the top-eye. She can cular, partly because the main announcing a record dividend.

level BBC case is a very strong supt, earthquakes

and bodies have been driven into

rend, orchestras play great works. giant

On the wh От the remoter areas of the jun-

whole. she thinks The Real Danger dreaming is not a pleasant ex- gle toward the border with Siam. But bandits have been

12,000,000. and Listener Researen horrific, though in her waking Licence-holders now number Ferience. Most of her dreams are steadily coming in, although

statistics have probably already hours she is ut morbid and has the more fanatical leaders are

a keen sense The second Charter was due to been privately quoted to show

of humour. Now what has science to say taking the sternest measures expire at the end of the year. that more than 10 per cent of about dreams? Here's what to prevent surrender.

Spirited debates were held in people questioned express general famous psychiatrist told me! One of the most difficult both Houses of Parliament. Lead satisfaction with BBC program- "Dreams are really the trans- problems all along has been Lord Brabazon of Tara, Lordatened by the secrecy sur-mysterious part at the mind we

ing figures like Lord Samuel mes.

The real danger and it is hopes and fears.

formed expressions of our secret that of dealing with the squat Elton, Lady

Deep in that ters scattered all over the land George, and Mr. Brendan Bracken rounding the inquiry is that the call the unconscious, are stored on the edges of the jungle, all urged the Government to hold Committee will be blinded by the the memories and thoughts we do Their position was very dif- a further Inquiry forthwith. mass of well-intentioned but ca- not wish to come to the surface

But the Government remained refully vetted evidence that will wishes we ficult. All of them were adamant It was just as though be put before it by the BBC he thoughts of which we are afraid forced to aid the outlaws. there were something faintly in-rarchy.

or ashamed. We cannot destroy Some of them also helped the decent about the idea of holding It is now. abundantly clear that them. We can only suppress authorities Others did not, an Inquiry into the B.B.C.

of the tmost formidable them. And they return, cater The sole concession of any im dilemmas.thrown up by State or amazingly disguised, in and, these areas were inevita bly selected for action by the portance made by the Govern-ganisation as we know it today is dreams By taking out what lies often ment was that the third Charter how to penetrate the protective behind them doctors can security forces The ejection period would run for five years armour of public bodies, under-

help Lis to better health.” of the squatters was accom-only-until the end of 1951and standably beat on presenting the

It's a logical theory-but panied in all cases by a com- that next time an inquiry really best possible face to the world. dreams have a way of beating short and wedi mends, and nor bande Radiosterers in your honest as a way real coe.

Logic. Let's The stronger their general case, the strange case of prehensive statement by the would be held.

consider, for example, This is where Lord Beveridge the harder becomes the crucial who, 137 years ago, was manager Williams, police, exposing in detail the

and his team have now stepped task of hitting on their weak culpability of the squatters.

a copper mine at Redruth, At first they were held in will spend perhaps Committer spots

Cornwall. His "was the most another six

And detention camps. Recently, months or so probing the record weak spots in the BBC's armour In the middle of the night of

some sensational case on record. under the influence of the of the BBC and helping to fashion which the Beveridge, Committee May 2, 1812, Mrs. Williams woke powerful Malayan Chinese the shape of things to come Mi- should subject to a merciless and her husband because she was Association, a more generous and thousands of bum as a start are two questions cer-making in his

lions of ordinary listeners preferably public probe. Here frightened by the noises he was and considerate policy has

his sleep. I've had tain: to produce a "smoke-screen:

dream," he a terrible been taken toward them.

of evasive replies from the official told her. "I saw the Chancellor They are now being re-settled

spokesmen of the Corporation: in other areas, with all their

poration Perceval 1. How can the subordination

If its tactics were immaculate in 1936, in 1946-by now licence- holders numbered 10,000,000-the Corporation was without even the semblance of an inquiry.

Layd

(Continued On next Col)

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Williams dreamed that dream Similar measures are being pression must go on, but it is ETC. Each developing its own much that he wrote it down in taken for the rehabilitation of not enough. The more special field?

full detall Aid on

on May 11 1812 persons who have come under humane measures that go with 2. Since the three-year life of Perceval was mamassinated by ma Communist influence. One of it will in time have their in- steady cecline in the size of its the House just as Williams, the Third Programme has seen a John Bellingham in the Lobby of these, just opened in Central fluence on the hard core of audience-today, it is almost al- draming in faraway: Cornwall, Malaya, is called the "Aca-the bandits, most of whom, ways much less than one per cent had foretold And Willams's de demy of Peace and Tran as documents show, have be of the adult population should scription of the scene, even to the quillity" The organisation is gun to realise the futility of the programme not be radically murder and colour of the buttons mostly based on self-discip- their methods...

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