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DECEM

Asia's Security No. 2

THE CHANCES FOR

Spiritual

Re - Valuation

"By THE REV. ROBERT

F. V. SCOTT; D.D." Analogies from economic to spiritual life may be dangerous; but topical economie terms like "value,", "re-valuation" and "de- valuation" are not without mean. ing in religion and the life of the spirit.

By WINDRUSH"

STABILITY

from the Iron -ourtain: ́side," provided that they hate bufficent. air power. The Indian sub-con- tinent may be attacked either

1

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Torning

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News comes from America that-

Louis Is now engagei building low-cost houses.

It le pleasant to hear that Joe

become

builder-upper" E knocker-downer.

་་

his accident, but is still under "He is slowly recovering from

the doctor's car."

It is all right, huwuver, The doctor has been using a taxi.

Only to be expectedi

"The other man, who was run

Thero uoems to bo a bit of In yesterday's article the ques-, national independence what the from the wea or through the moun- confiat about which Nationalist tion was put "How can the new Chinese mind demands. Indo-tafa passos, it may be taicon as cader is entitled to get military Asla achieve the same international Chins may also pass Into the Bo certain that Rusala, even though ald from America (if any) peace and confidence in the con- viet area, if the French are not it may develop a large mimarina Couldn't there be ballots for timuance of price, which by and far more skilful than they have foot, will not be able to do more the bullets? large existed in Asia in the hair been hitherto in combating Hoby noa then harry lines of com century before, the 1930's?",

Chih-min.

munication in the Indian Ocean.) It cannot hope to make a PS- Jog On the "free" side the leaderborne attack. At the end of the war, som people tried to answer this ques will certainly be India, The Indian tion by @ggesting that Aula Government la anxious not to The way into Indla lies througie han should create a Regional Security enter into any un-neutral military the mountain passos,

Over the instead of commitments. Organfaation,

But it in already Burna-Assam frontier, an attack deeply committed

theoretically to the free in

porrible. Tho (Regiona! organisations aro world by its ideas, its ideals, and Western powers and. India attack It has been said that the real | provides for in the oharter of the by economie tins. During his re- ed over those passes in the reverse value of money can ultimately be United Nations). But this plan cent visit to America, Mr. Nehru, direction In the last war, But for expressed only in terms of bread ran into two difficulties which the Prime Minister of India, a major offensive against India Though such, o generalisation were fatal to it. The first was, said that, if freedom were again from this quarter. Durmo would may need to be qualified, it does that the great powers outside Asia | vitally menaced, India would be have to be worked up as a great express a vitally important truth. had vital interesta in Asia. The on the side of its defenders.

supply base. Further West there If one's money cannot buy the second wat, that none of the Anlan

are very difficult routes from means of subsistence, it matters Powers (except Russia, if Rukmin Ceylon, Indonesia, and Slam Tibot Into India. These aro al down at the same time, died of little what else it can buy.

will be in the non-Soviet block. most impossible for large modern his injurion. LAGI night bla So will the Philippines, There armies It is to the Went of temperature ого fow doubtful arean, Barma Kashmir at the practicable In-| somewhat," may go Communist, South Korea, raston routes lie. These parser— to American protection, may be have been used repeatedly in the in the town which owes its prosent autonomy the Khyber, the Bolan and so on- overrun by North Koren if the past.

protection American

is "with- drawn.

The ability of India and Pakts- The great uncertain factor istite to repol land attack from øver Japan. The present Government those

DAGERCA would depend on is strongly anti-Communist. But their having suficient air power The event which have since Japan's outlook is so bleak that it to break up the communications

of any advancing aruky. happened havo simplified the pro- may be propelled by adversity to

If the

meet trouble The discip-adversary possed overwhelming blem, at least for the time being. ward Communism. Asin has been dividing itself along line of its people and the forward- air power, it could on the other someone paid her fare."" the same lines as the rest of the mess

ita Industrial system hand disorganise the Indian land world into the "free" comp and would holn a Communist party in defences. however considerable, the Soviet camp. This division | trying to seize pawer.

and penetrate into the rich North- Asia as in the rest of the world, in for many reasons doplurablo, in

ern pinink

It would be just as deadly to starve, surrounded by television sets and electric clocks, as in the stack barrenness of the Sohara desert. In other words life, for most of us, is a top-priority in the scheme of things. It stands at the head of the normal scale of values.

no

can be called an Aslan power) was really a great power, and therefore able to take the lead in organising the region. This meant that, if there was to be a Regional Organisation, the non- Asian great powern would have to participate in it. What then, It was asked, would be the difference Organisa- between the Regional tion for Asia and the United Na- tions as a whole ↑

It is obvious from this that life in

Pounds and dollars alike mean nothing if they do not support life. There are no pockets in the shroud,

Christianity goes further than this, our Lord said, "Take

your life, what Y thought for shall eat or what ye shall drink." the sense of continued existence here did not come first in File of values. Not that

leed in it and lived it to the belittled 1—for from that-He vide *

camp.

But there in a least a good chance that a balance may be established between the two HU

Thin It may pro- He may prevent war.

top in all its richness-just as in now framework within which Asian civilisation may deve

a building the thrusts of an arch may be balanced against one an- der which people may safely live. other, so that they form a roof un-

The statement by Acting President Li Tsung-jen ask- ing for American atd may read a little better in the United States than It does here. Even of that doubt will be felt. As he said with dis- arming frankness, when he was put off his pre-arranged platitudes, it was not the im- { full. mediate concern of the Na- tionalists to stop the Com munists at any specific point. And the moral aspect of what he called China's fight for the freedom-loving peoples of all nations, considered in the context of unexampled failure. cannot produce 23 TUN re-valuation of life has

BOTE de-valuation throb in sick and disillusion-suffered

inoxtern regard. Millions are quite ed hearts.

indifferent to it. Almost as many delight in opposing and discredit- ing it. Many of us Christians only remember it vaguely, save when some desperate experience brings home Its truth.

And He did that precisely be- cause it did not come first with Him For in the Will of God came first. To seek to know God's Will and the strength to do it, whatever it cost, that had first priority with Him. It headed His seat of values.

In

One may feel a little sorry for a well-meaning man who was powerless to help or hinder the rot that set in long before he came to the front of the stage. But the breaks down. The pound is de- Herg the economic analogy Kuomintang stood for Na- valued.

Our poor reckoning of tionalism and little else. That Our Lord's view of life does no has run its course-at least atter one tota of Its value. "Seek ye first the kingdom of God and for the present, until some- body inside China gets real-things shall be added unto you." His righteousness, and all these ly stirred up about the re- That is the truth. turn of the Russians to Man-

churia.

wave. is a long sation,

way from renti.

their

The

sys-

Choosing Of Sides

A Good Chance

Open: To Air Attacks

Have the countries on thơ " free

In war India and sido" the resources and the geo-

Paklatan

block of China and Ruskin 7 They be to put them out of the war, not graphical position to provide a might also on nasoiled by air bom- balance to the very strong Soviet bardment of their towns and in- dustrial centres, The aim would have a very good chances of doing no if they act in union with the to invade them. After devastat

ing air attack, Russia might hope free countries in the West.

to foment Communist revolution,

There is a vital strategic cen tre for the defence of non-Soviet Asia. This is the Indian sab continent or the two indepand The choosing of sides in Asin ont countries, India and Pakistan. is already partly clear. China

India and Pakistan, even in the will be on the Soviet side-though days of atom bombing, are fairly

will probably develop the well defonstblo from on

it

If Ina and Pakistan Can be kept intact, and if their industry in developed, they are the ideal geographical centre from which

offensive

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had declined

"Are there pay improvements

since was here

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"1 really been

llying out months now."

"Any other improvements?"

"Mean? Why, she

couldn't say..

of it for

I've

half way

wouldn't unless

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Deflected definitions.

Motorist

person who after seeing a crash drives carefully

for the next half mile.

City... lurge community where people are lonely together. Ignorance—is when you ̈ don't know something and somebody finds it out.

"The

21 concert wan

Kreat sticcess. Special thanics are due to Miss-who laboured the

...

whole evening at the piano, which us usun! fell upon her. "

Bring the house down too?

Tall fairy story.

"And they were married and be developed. lived happily even after." From India, if the sub-continunt In adequately defended, it should attack

be possible to strike outwards and control the Porsian Gulf on the one side, Indonesia on the other.

Britain's Foreign Workers Do Alright

By OLIVER ASHLEY

operatives, They dress well. They have plenty of money, sometimes carried about with them in siz able rolls and, wads, though. tow have now agreed to trust the British Post Office

Pennies Count

indicate

Food First

gnunt

I visited another house, bought this time by a Czech couple. The girl looked young and pretty, the man older, He wasn't really older; it was just that he had been in a concentration camp,'

clean. Having bought them, these foreigners are now saving again

In

This toaster is a gift that every member of the family will appreciate. Automatically burns toast."

But I like one which stops The conditions for an effective short, just in time. defence: of. the sub-continent are two of old. First, India and Pakis-

Much of the air strength for Indian defonce would need to come from allies.. But Indite and Palla tox must have reserves of their own especially for the early stages of war.

A strong Bahter air force is the supreme need for India's déforice.

partners in the

BUSINESS

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Shortly after tenants moved began to subsido.

noticed the

The trouble began when the housewife

Grst kitchen sink.

SAVINGS

BANK

DEPOSITS

tan must act in union. If they into #new house, the building quarrel, they play into the hands of an aggressor. Honge the dan gers of the Kashmir dispute, Secondly, India must develop a Industrial power, including an The mill folk of Oldham, then a bit of that, in fivo mila-aviation industry, which will en-

nature, are rubbing their hollowness and tapped his stomachary power. England, thrifty people by utes pour and he sucked in able it to apply at least part of

his checks

the repultements of a great mili- eyes in bewilderment at the with a shake of the head. financial wizardry of the European workers who were Meanwhile the People's pluses of the peasant. imported into the town to Government continues to its Communists are more

learn the cotton trade and frontiers; the right wing of tematic in their methods, but help Lancashire exports. the Nationalists is thinking if the end result is that they

There are about a thousand of solely in terms of safety in get more from the farmer

them in the Oldham area now. the previous regime Eighteen months ago, they were

There is no reason why both the Taiwan; and

Liberals than

these conditions should; not in the cannot even begin to think with

rougher and arriving in the town in small, They produced 170 £1 notes ns end be fulfilled. South Asia may of a Government in exile, readier methods, the farmer shepherded groups confused, deposit on an £850 house, are in that case endov a revival of

wont feel any the better penniless, unhappy, They spoke now paying £5 99. Id. monthly. confidence. still less of rallying the coun-

A certain stability |

But to discharge try behind them. They re- about it. They have, however;ttle or no English, carried all The girl had three cotton wages will return.

they owned in the world in ane to use as her cousin lived with their great new tasks as grand- present an idea more Import-done a first-rate job in the small bag or paper parcel, ziem,

ans of International peace, India ant than all the flotsam and restoration of railway trans-

She spends £4. 10s. a week on and Pakistan will need to continue Today, they are acknowledged food.. "Food comes before every-in the closest day to day co-oper- jetsam beached by the tidal port, which is a real aid to be hard-working skilful textile thing" the gold.

ation with thotr But it is an idea that better distribution.

They smoke, too 80 cigarettes from world, Production is much more

a week among three of them: "If important, and this has fallen

buy 20, 1 smoke 20 and the Some military experts, especi- husband. The principle of Demo- very low. The drought in

ally in America, have been in- They walk to work, a 15-mun- clined to think that there can be cracy was submerged under the North last summer was

uta Journey, rarely go to the no real security in Asia unless the Kuomintang and will re- followed-as it usually is Most amazing of oil, they are pictures, never dance, have had Japan alter in linked in the amo one bottle of achnapps--to reib- dèfénce systojis: Is Japon ka main submerged under the with serious floods. Super- buying their own houses at an

ever-increasing raz. There have brate the, husband's birthday eligible member of a security Communists. The new stage stitious, tongues were set been many marriages amongatin. 18 months

block? Tits question leaves room is concerned with the econo- wagging about the Comthem and, it is estimated that Both houses were neat. and for further disounfou mic struggle.) Mao Tse-tung munists" "bad joss," Govern about 10 houses have so for has said more than once that ment spokesmen have ad- been bought in the Oldham area

for big cash deposits.

to furnish them.. the fate of his regime de-mitted that 50 million mow

"Polen": House, a brand- pends almost wholly on what of land were affected, of

new. radio has just arrived. In it can do to improve the live which nearly half failed to

the Czechs house a piano, and a-, Ifhood of the people, in-yield any crops at all. The How is it done? That is the modest, fur coat, for the wife.

Soon, carpets and, quies: will re crease production, and de- armies. grabbed most of what question I set out to answer.

I can mention no names, be- place the plain toisies, and: afalts velop industrialisation. was available, so the outlook cause these workers of 14 na- red hard floors Whether one regards, the must remain grim till big- tionalities come mainly from be Nearly all the foreign house- mid-Victorian Marx as the ger and better harvests come hind the Iron Curtan, have re- holders take in several, of their last word in economics or in. The Communists speak of latives still there, and are uncompatriots as lodgers the mo

der observation by Communista ment they get passion. merely the founder of a banditry in the countryside, in Britain. But I have been in charges pay the interest and pro- deadly economic disease the resistance-attributed to their homes--the homes they miums to the building society. doesn't much matter. The "feudalistic landlords" to have bought and they have told The lodgers got cheaper accom- fact is that the Communist; demands for grain, and the me frankly how it is that many modation thus they cam im pri- regime in China will sur critical position of Shanghat of them are now wealthier than vate lodgings disewaczn vive or perish in accordance and its East China hinter the average Lancashire textile

Well Off with its economic success or land. They have admitted One reason is

is that with candour great financial society has accepted them is re- Oldham people look on in un- There can be little in the difficulties and a complete offers them an 80 per cent mort is a lo prejudice. Rumours ci- sponsible, trustworthy people and comprehending amazement. There Queen's Bldg., way of industrialisation inability to balance the first gagu on valuation without a British culate that the Europeans

without the help, that the Budget. W

getting Government grants and Western world alone can give. The expedients they have The first home I visited belongs extraentions:

They are That help cannot and will not adopted consist of the split to Polish married couple. The pletely untrue

man, carns 25 a week, the wo-The mystery of how it's done" come from Russia. China isting up of the country into man 25% 1013 They do not work is really simple. The Europeans still very largely an agricul-five strong regional, organi- lot of overtime, nor do they feel well off. They live, bet been tural country, and a lot can sations" and the issuance of take on spare-time works used to the British standard of be, done, given the will and People's Victory Bonds of an bought a £680, cottage in ex diference between their formior They told me they had just life. Their savings represent the energy, to provide a sounder unstated amount. These, like cellent condition, by putting down European standards and the pre- and more productive agri- the new currency, which cash deposit of £170. The soil British standard., cultural economy, as the has been slipping lately, will balance was borrowed from other, They also represent powerful essential basis for the ult be based on staple commodi, 8, 10s. 8d. a month in pre-altration. The foreign workers (European workers, They will now bulwark against Communist--in- mate Industrialisation of the tles. Neither will add to mium and interest reprobate a special target for Com country. Recognition or no production; both together. They pond virtually nothing munist agents. In one house 1 BLUE FUNNEL LINE #AUSTRALIAN-ORIENTAL LINES recognition, blockade or no may provoke disruption. But on tobacco and liquor. They do saw several Communist nowa- blockade, the revival of agri- China is too big to be handled not invest in football pools. They sheats which had been delivered;

savo pennies (by "always walking Theman of the house spuke. cultural economy, must re- as a single unit, by a Govern to work. They never gu to dances, little English and enjoyed read-. main the first charge on the ment which hasn't even be hardly ever to the cinema. Theying papers printed in his own energy and enthusiasm of the gun to function administra; have on food by preparing Jorge Jantage. But he said, tapping new Government.i

tively. It matters less who sold meals, according to their the paper, "Here everything Rus-

national tastes, and refusing to beplan (very good. Everything Bri Even this wont be easy does the work or who directs tempted to: caires and other Brloh very bad, ba

But I understand oh, yon There is to begin with, the it. The essential thing is that tith luxurless g fact that millions of soldiers there is Work to do which the husband showed me hilge There I had property once-bub have to be fed and provided must be dono, for more pro-langhof sat at work, he Thid. again. on, yus, I understand very bucket of broad sendwiches not now. Here, I can buy a house for out of the mengro sur. duction la the only way out. I "You, English, out a bit of tale, well,

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