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THE MYSTICS OF

MASTERY

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1949.

OF IMPORTANCE TO

By WINDRUSH"

Recently there have. been two pieces of news which may be of great im- portance to Asia. Sir Oliver away from the Marshall Plan Franks, the Oxford dean who and towards Polat Four kinds of Is the very skilful British foreign investment for developing Ambassador in the United backward territories, is now ap-

parent." States, has made a speech in New York to a gathering of American business men and economists in which he in- troduced some weighty re- flections on the state of affairs in Asia.

To people living in the centre of the Asian crisis, what he sold

not sound may

very novel or dramatic. The significant thing in that he linked the problems of Asin with the problems of Europe in a speech to an American au dience which had come together expecting to be told only about the progress of American econo- inte aid to Europe.

sulise

of

"The Asintle populations are on the move", nald Sir Oliver, "Be- have got ideas, be- COLIND they

rending and writing have become common, the Iden human progress is alive in Asia, We can no longer

that assume

will generation after generation come and go in unchanging ways, lost to all comforts but the mea- gre ones of traditional fatalism." relevant question, The only sold Sir Oliver, was "Where do wo want them to go? We, the in- dustrialised countries on both nides of the Atlantic, can help or Linder this ferment of ideas, They will need our capital goods, our techonlogical skill, the arts of management. But this is not enough.....It is our responst

them something of lity to give

Shift In Interest

Sir Oliver

Franks is in very with the American

The small working party of the international working the values of our way of life. people have issued their pro-

Then we way hope they will want nunciamento from Peking to go along with us." They met under the auspices nf the Communist World Federation of Trade Unions, to set up a Far Eastern Cum- Inform. Four

professional craftsmen will Communist make up this body, which is 1 br called the Liaison Bureau. All of them must be signed. sealed and delivered to the bosses, the Executive Bureau of the W.FT.U, for approval or otherwise.

close touch administration. It is perhaps sig- ideant that once or twice in his speech Sir Oliver said precisely that it was of the "peoples of the Indian Ocean" of whom he was thinking. There have been many signs that the American interest

Asia, which was formerly een- tred on China and Japan, has been shifting to the Indian Ocean

The visit of Pandit Nehru has

led certainly

Washington to be better informed about this area ruving than it was before. The American policy-maker, Dr. Jes- up, in at present travelling ex- tensively through it

H

in

Important Results

If this news is true, the resulta for Asia may be very important indeed. Thero was always a certain artificiality la the approach of the Marshall Plan which limited its interest to "West of the Urais" Even for resuscitating the West- em economy, it may be sound policy to concentrate for a time on investment in Asia,

The dollar crisis in Europe is partly due to the enormous strain on the sterling area made by the Asian countries which are mem- bers of the area and which, are in

iri Everything

the distress. modern world la linked; but few people have noticed to what ex- Lent the dollar dimcultles of Great Britain were caused by an event in a distant part world, the Burma rice export.

diminution

of the of the

needs, the problem of the sterling balances will be at least partly solved. The strain on Britain will be relieved; and India will not suffer.

Aid And Red China

If 1050 should bring an Ameri: can economic initiative in Asla comparable to its offer of Marshall aid to Europe in 1947, the im mediate problem will be to do- cldo In what direction Ameri

Whien can ald should best flow. countries should be the main bo- neficiaries?

ASIA

An American Rewrites The Bible

y, GUY RAMSEY

By,

Nineteen hundred years ago the story of the life of Christ Presumably this aid would not was written down, in Aramaic, be. Intended for Communia by eye-witnessca, or those who China, it America is to enter into had been told by eyes wit- economie relations with the newnesses. China, that will need a separate It was translated rapidly into plan. Japan also would not be Greek-the tongue of the then "Point Four" civilised world) lutch into Latin. Included in a scheme for Asia.

in the Arst stage the principal beneficiacles would most likely be Inulla and Indonesia, since the need of these two countries to the will greatest: Investment there also yield the biggest return po

One of Great Britain's chilitically, Great care will be need- ed in the selection and preparn- difcullies in grappling with the crisis comes from the sterling tion of schemes to be backed. balances. Because of the sterling The Ground Nuts Aesco is a les Бліппеея

maka must

very

son which America will certainly exports benvy unrequited

The take to heart. Some of the coun-

East tries of South

Asia need principal holders of the sterling balances are India, Egypt, Iraq, less capital than political stabili- and Palestine. Great Britain Is

ty. Given peace, Burma and Slam particularly anxious not to cut would be comparitively wealthy down the release of sterling ba countries.

problem remotas. One

other lances to India, for the economic position of India is as difficult na Sir Olivar Franks nald in his that of Great Britain itself; India speech: "It is our responsibl must use if sterling balances to to give them (the Aslan peoples) buy food, or hundreds of thous something of the values of our ands may starve.

way of Hre."

This is partly true. The East has also values which the limit in continuing its re- it does not wish to modify. An American economic policy would loso much of ita attractiveness, would seem Instead a threat, if it was taken for granted that the American way of life must ba Imported along with the Ameri can dollar. To do America justice, most of its leaders already under- stand this very well.

Britain has therefore gone 10

lentes. Some observers think that this was the main cause in com- pelling devaluation. and tho "Manchestor Guardian' even called Pandit Nehru "the man who broke the bank".

If America now takes over komc of the responsiblity for supplying India with its urgent

South African Problem May Raise World Issues

his

By G.D.K. McCORMICK

of his

Ho says that the alm party will be to restore confidence beth inside and outside South Africa to stand by the solemn pledge to malatain the rights of non-Europeans,

Sharp Reactions

three

Today, when Dr. Malan talks of South Africa's right" to these ferritories, dismay and vio- are the natives' lent antipathy

reactions.

The Manifesto may have suffered in condensation, but It seems stale in content and not too confident in spirit.

Field-Marshal Smuts with the incorporation of the The working party called, as

statesmanlike knack of British protectorates in the Union a matter of course, on the mill-

It may therefore not be acel-

Oliver's Asian workers to dental that Sir lions of

speech saying the right thing at the of South Afrion. They felt that they were the Forgotten People of the African backwoods. the roncides with news of fresh de- right moment, has brought the unite and overthrow

velopments in America's econo-complicated delicate problem Imperialist yoke. They de-mic foreign polley. The "Obser- of South African nationalism nounced everybody outside ver's" correspondent in Washing into the open.

ton is usually well informed. She the ranks of the elect, includ ing the American C.1.0. and reports that there is likely to be

"tapering off" noxt year the British Trade Union Con- America's economic aid to Euro- gress. And they urged the pe. It is election year for Con- millions to follow the example gress, and Congressmen, with an of China, Mongolia, and Northeye to voice, will not risk being Queen's Bldg., Korea, where "all working money in Europe.

charged with wasting America

from people have risen up their position as slaves to he- come masters of the State."

It is possible that the Chin- ese delegates do not alto gether relish this intimate a sociation in the Manifesto with the Outer Mongola and the Korean hillmen. No doubt; they hope their example will The one. prove

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The Field-Marshal pute the in te proper perspective. le It is already a Commonwealth pro blem. It could very easily develop into a world issue.

The Nationalists' claim for the Incorporation of the protectorates

More than 1,000 years went by, and it was translated many times until-for us a form, became fixed in the majesty of the Enge lish of the Authorised Version.

Near Novelette..

The Christian story hos

Good Morning

ura

Anyway, you can't say life is dull In Manila. Reports always coming from thero, even it, nibst of them are made by rifle are.

A Communist

•

speaker in that he London 4 complained couldn't hear himself speak for hecklers

I am told on good. Information that he wasn't missing anything.

giddiest cacto

"H.K, Butterflies."! · Actually, to from Shanghaf

Not even a Maos?

D

Referring to the trade union possibly meeting in Peking, simple-minded observer wonders the newly-appointed liaison bureau members should be called the Four Maosketeers.

"All amateur gardeners should be told to dig the ground over thoroughly frst, and then pant." the should have, thought advico unnecessary.

I

1

of

arcisod an irresistible fascination who have upon many writers,

think told, retold, annotated, synthealsed

**Whenever

And myself the Gospels. The biography-to

organisation speak in modern lay terms has

icem contradictory. The thing I been told as a purely human thinking thoughts which at first like best about organisation is sequence of events, In our own day, by Emil Ludwig; as a plece the fact that it releases so much of "paychological history by time and energy for things I like

On the other hand, Bernard Shaw.

This same story has cost it to do. well over an American Journalist, can be kept gleaming by sprtok- Fulton Oumler, who has turned ng mit on it and rubbing with it into an historical novel which. à alice of lemon or with a cloth

perilously dampened with vinegar." at times, approaches

O.K. Come a little closer: near the novelette.

An industry wholly admirable and a conviction wholly enviable

combined. have

to make the work a reduction to coherent order of the mental chaos 'pro- duced by a haphazard reading of the four Evangellats.

"

states:

houlth magazine Most people do not find sleep aimcult."

It

No, Indeed. They can do with their eyes shut.

*

The various events, miraculous "Vyahinsky walks out of UN or mundane, oro

with session than to answer charges Woven great

skill into 5 conalatent of alding Pelping

That crack headline writer chronology. The apparent anom- nlies, inevitable with four men expects you to be able to read telling the same story, are satis between the words? tactorily reconciled.

This is the main virtue of "The Greatest Story Ever Told" as it Is admittedly, the main purpose of the author.

But Mr. Oursler, in his preface, confesses an additional aim: To quicken tote the interest of those there are, he says, many such in America-to whom the meat familler quotations from the New Testament stelke no chord of recognition; those who, know-

.of Christ, ing nothing nothing for Christinulty:

'A Child's Guide

care

It might, without irreverence, be styled "A Child's Guide to the Gospels",

aro

Even though pedestrians being given a legni right to cross Myrtle's the road on Monday,

will thinks thero grandfather still be plenty of competition for his record for the 50-foot dash.

Modern broomatisk,

"Miss Gordori, the first woman to travel round the world on her

arrived in paint brush, yesterday."

Tokyo

"A policeman was seriously burned yesterday evening when he came in contact with a high voltage wife,”

יד

One

that writer suggents "doctors take life too easily,

Surely there is a more tactfut Way of putting these things?

Some Chinese claim that the policy American "open door"

bad Mr. Oursler-unlike Robert reminds them of the big Graves in King Jesus"--accepts wolf's policy towards the thres The explanation of this change the Divinity of his Subject; he little pigs.

✓ in native opinion is simple. The secks in no fashion to explain

the "miracles. Over the Hot Mamma. Nationalists look upon the three way But the American government,

territories as a reservoir of man- supreme miracle, and that most power. They would use the dimcult, to record without offence, according to this correspondent, bellevas that it can get popular

natives for cheap labour, turn the Incamation; the wisely con- support for economic aid to South

them into economic slaves.

fines himself to embellishing the | Asia. Fear of Communlam wl}]

The rewargenco, of extreme Bible narrative as little os pos- persuade the American taxpayer

Albic. to shoulder the burden there. of Bochrannaland, Basutoland and nationalism has made the nativos

In fact, in much of his work Because of this, says the corres- Bwaziland in the Union has re-leaders, if not the natives them-

pointed by James 1-pedestrian; pondent, new plans are being pereunions that extend from selves, think. They contrast the the actual phrases spoken in the

modern re- discussed in Washington.

Capetown to Nairobi, from Dur- policies of the Nationalists with Gospels are repeated quota- and that no Twentieth-Century-

the possibilties of slow but econ. tion marks. It is, perhaps; Inevit characterisation, no ban to Washington and from Joh-

omle gap, annesburg to Karachi and New

advancement and

social able that these, being fashioned creation of real personalities alive Delhi.

emancipation under British rule, with inspiration, Hterary or divine in the First, can italics be con-

(or both), and sanctified with vincing.

If the 300 pages of this book Even tho natives themselves familiarity (If with nothing else), learn through the slow but sure spring like living swords from bring one reader to the Cross; "buch telegraph" aystem of the the rest of Mr. Oursier's pages, nay, if they send one reader to building of the Ower Falls, dam Only when the direct phroses the Bible, it will. have justified in distant Uganda and of the of the Bible are "lifted" trom the Itself. It may well be that in an benefits which it will bring to the Scriptures does their sheer verbal irreligious age such a volume is

miracle re-establish the impres- necessary.

But the confused narrative of. African peoples,

The Nationalists look upon the ion of authenticity,

This is saying no more than the Gospels is to the lucid, cohe- New Delhi and Karachi, watch backward protectorates as a pos in dismay the effect of racial dissible barrier against the

that Mr. Oursler's prose is at rent construction of Mr. Chursler crimination on the large Indian politically-minded mifves of Bost any rate by contrast with that as a draught of spring water to

and Central Africa. They fear wrought by the 40 translatora ap-ban ice-cream seda. population in South Africa. For this is something which can have that the breakdown of tribal rule a boomerang effect, and can easily coupled with Communist infiltra- aggravate the difficulties raised tion will create an impossible eftta- by the Indian invasion" of East ation in Africa, if it is unchecked.

frien

This lattor fear provides the

"A fresh American approach to the problem of the dollar

dollars

-

ef-

acquired they ought to be a somewhat though they may be through

cla83 freer working

than solid and constructive

generations over their liberated neighbours, | fort

two

or three There is an ancient tradition when

P

bil-

Discrimination

Worthington's decision to send vitaminised foodstuffs for South Africa's native children as been rebuffed by an import duty on the goods.

of suzerainty, and though lions can be sent down the such things are extremely im- drain in two or three yeLTS? The British don't like was proper except in Muscow, old ideas die hard.

tefulness, in spite of African Also, the Chinese can claim groundntits, and, they don't to have liberated themselves, want to see what they have just as Tito did, which again built up go to ruin. But Bri- puts them in a working-class tain wants to get back in slightly superior to the others, China largely because she who are so often reminded believes she has somethingħa Dr. Malan's pelley of racial die- one possible mosna by which the that they owe everything to lot better to sell to the Chin-crimination, his repressive legisin- gulf between the moderate Na- "the great Soviet Union, the ese than the Soviet have tion and his kité-flying for expan-lonalists and the Smuts Party. great and wise Generalissimo to offer, in the realm of idens sionist tactics are things which Stalin, and the glorious Soviet no less than in science, trade striks a dagger Into the whole

conception of Commonwealth. Army" we quote the North and industry. And not a few.

The British colonies, the Korean radio-as their libera of us believe the Chinese will mighty Dominions of India and tors and saviours.

buy, and buy plenty, in the Pakistan look on aghast and this is not a The aims of the Far Eastern fullness of time, so long as wonder whether Cominform were set forth by they are wholly abandoned revival of that old horror play the Soviet representative, to the ministrations of Mos-Hein Kampf," and he ought to know them! cow.

Ie it 7 Well, listen to this In Capetown the Nationalist The new working party must China is a pretty grim Party oldals; and electoral roll overthrow all the devils, country just now. The peo- inspectors have been delving into beasts, and witches in the curple are worse off thún ever inspectors have beg dolving into

1

Euro

rent Red demonology. They before. But apart from a the parentage of voters.

peans who have been regarded no

are to get in amongst the professed devotion to an whiter all their lives are be crowds and the masses and alienand exotic

can be bridged.

:

But Nationalist measures will not check the broakdown of tribal rule. Nor will they stop the un- dercover march of Communism. Remember, it was only when the Nationalists came to power: that a Communist member of the South African Parliament was returned. There is an urgency about ni those problems which makes a speedy election in South Africa desirable,

Britain's Part

While the British Government creed, ing deprived of voting rights behave made it unmistakably clear even the trade unions, and there is a wealth of genuine cause some distant ancestor was organise, infiltrate, struggle, idealism among the leaders of native origin.

resist and deliver decisive and the younger followers Grim Findings

blows. In this way they can, and passionate desire to

played no small part In simi-

Such tactics seem to Tup par lar endeavours. It is well allel with Julius Stretcher's Nur- worth the effort, whatever emberg docroes, the result may be. And that

that they would not consent to the transfor of those nativo torritorios to the Union without consent of the natiyor, they ought to make it oqually cloar that the reverse is true that with native spproba tion there would be no objection

By doing this they may strengt then the hands of the moderates. For, as Field Marshal Smuts has can claims can be destroyed by ur- ging it at the wrong time.

and probably will, make nis-build a new strong and with the discoveries made chief, especially in the large prosperous China. That at pubile, the lives of these people cities like Shanghai. At the least is something to work have been mado unbearable. Jobs have been lost, ostracism has fol- same time, they are to put with and even to work for.

lowed, their children have been down forced labour and per- Britons in the past have forced, into native schools and,, a good cass for South Afel form a variety of miracles in raising the millions from

Most peopls in the Union agres penury to plenty-at lenst in

that economically the torritorios. words., 72

In a sense, though, the Nation-concerned are inextricably bound If we also want to go to may be a lot better than the aiste have done one good thing, up with the Union. Ttaljright Peking, and are quite pre-cynics and sceptics, scured They have by their harah tant that Britain should help to Im pared to rub, shoulders with by the scandals and failures native we brought the whole prove good relations between the native problem into the open protectorate, and the Union and these apostles of hocus pocus, of the past, muy imagine. The have forced moderatas apt koep an open mind on their future. it is not solely, or even chief Realism no less calls for the for many years dither to theire or L. Britain makes this point ly, because British economic effort, for the way events are slumber over the euro, to consider clear, then Dr. Melan's us of the Interests have a lot at stake shoped in China will be of no a democratio alternative protectors to demand as an ex Before the first World War, cusa for severing,all toy with the As Dr. T. F. Talang would not small consequence to the then considerano body, of Commonwealth would be forss day What after all, are a world at large.

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