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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1949.

A RESURGENT GERMANY

The University city of Bonn,

in Western Germany, is a long

way from Hong Kong. People

By WINDRUSH"

of the other great nation of

Western

would be 40

· foreign control.

per cent, under

Dr. Adenauer's contention was that this would reassure the the Went against the danger of

It should

Good Mor

Ering

sympathetic

living on the outskirts of the revolution in China, one of the cribed as a Government great convulsive events in his- Centre verging towards the Right. European, France. With this e-Ruhr, Industries being used for tory, may feel that they have Dr. Adenauer himself is by far essentially civilised, attitudo

be azzressive purposes. enough to occupy them without the most considerable person in desires co-operation between the perhaps be added that cynica sco I am told; on not very good

that the Cabinet, and has already two countries on an equal foot-in the proposal a trickt by: Ger- authority, attending to what is happening grown in prostige in the short ing. Ho repudiates all the tra- man capitalists to prevent in a distant country such as time he has held office,. At the ditional German ideas of com

the pedestrians are getting up a fund Ruhr industries from being so to provide hospitalisation for Germany.

present moment the policy of petition between them in the use offer is not being taken very su from silent zonitis. Every bed clalised, It accms that this apoplectic taxi drivers suffering In England, Germany has been Western German is the personalof force. very much in the news in the polley of Dr. Adenauer. past few weoke. There have been successful negotiations between Subtle But Reasonable

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present klaxon

continuously.

of

"Is Japan en eligible member a security block? This question leaves room for further discunious."

It does?

Since he came to power, Deriously, by the French and the will be provided with a powerful Adenauer has been very active British, at least at tho

which may be blared propogating his plan of moment. the Western Allies and the West

Franco-German harmony. Ho But only 10 years ngo Germany German Federal Government of Dr. Adenauer in a subile

a war bul has used every

world into Dr. Adonsuer shout the future reasonable man.

opportunity to plunged the He is a law-polat out that, though

while disturbed the which after a status of Western Status of West- ver, a Catholic, and a, man of Franco-German foud has been so

more profoundly the life of the ern Germany.

the Rhineland.

Each of these real a thing in the past, there is people of Hong Kong than any Europe han been full rumours about the possible re- ing his attitude.

of facts playa ita part in determin- no longer any real clash of vital previous event in its history.

He desires the interests, between the two coun bevival of the German Army, and German State to be based on the tries. Their economic interests This ban caused widespread best European Liberal, tradition actually coincide. It there lo s alarm, which has perhaps surpris- of the supremacy of law, He country with which the economie- ed while looking at the position of believes in the overriding nu- interests of Western Germany Western Germany with somo thority of Christian ethics. Thus conflict, that country In nol If the Allies could be sure that care.

he is proof against any romantic France, but Great Britain.

Dr. Adenauer would always head Western Germany is the Fede~ and adventurous appeals of a re- To show real is his desire for the German Government, or that rut State created by the merger vised nationalism or militarism. Western reconciliation. Dr. Aden man like him would be in of the British, American, and Ana Rhinelander he sees Ger- nauer has even suggested that command, they would be prepared French zones of occupation. After many as a member of the Euro- French, and possibly British, to go much further in collaborat a general election last August it pean family, and the pivotal cen- capital should be invested in the Ing with Germany than they are produced Government

a

under tre of his policy is to effect a main Industries of the Ruhr, up at present contemplating. But Dr. Dr. Adenauer, which may be des- insting reconciliation

the to a point where these Industries Adenauer's ascondency represents

Advertisements and Business com. munications should be addressed MAIL to the Company CHINA

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HONG KONG S TRAFFIC.

The trouble about Hong Kong's trae, like certain brands of liquor, is that it so concentrated. It is all very well if one has grown up with

with

Men, Women And Memories

Schumacher Antagonised

tu

According

to

Myrtle'* grandfather, no matter how dat your conversation, a woman likes to have I datter.

The cooler weather is

are once

and husbands

here. again getting their wives the success of one part of poliu thinking of

a fur coat-and then decide that cal Germany which is apt got submerged by much more force- woollens have a moro interesting ful and dangerous parts. Alrendy texture. Dr. Adenauer has antagonised beyond reconciliation the leader of the German Social Democrats.

The torrent of abuse direct-fother long walk, At midnight the genius found in the Soldier, the Dr. Schumacher, Schumacher

"After the presentation of a

the trafße. but it's appalling) ed against Marshal Tito by hapless guest crawled, exhausted, Sailor, the Apprentice, and the Sociallat, but also an irrespons.clock to the retiring froman, the

to 40y unfortunate mortal thrown into it without proper If traffic along conditioning. the sidewalks in the heart of the city is the most Irritating. motor and tram traffic in the main

streets is the most

DI

Wae in

nows camo through house was on fre."

his

that

He had heard about, the lock, but the illuminated address came as a complete surprise.

the Russian radio is part-to bed, but after a few hours he Plough-boy, and

ble nationalist, and if he to make that was awakened again. The pro- genius

or power he would pursue a much 3 perennial Боитсе who know the ruler of Yugo-about to begin with the scaling of Kingdom." For it is larded with hers what cularly diverting to those gramme for a now day was wealth, strength, and safety to the

ruder policy.

It is because the West rener glavia.

Cobbett's blunt, radical opinions

volcanic forces stil on polities and economics in the exist in Germany that the sug guise of examples of English, good Army has caused such a flurry. gestion of providing a German and bad: "the Bank is weighed in These

suggestions cume the balance and found wanting": from

chiefly America-rom unofficial happen.*"* "the borough-tyrants, generally sources, not from the American speaking, are great fools as well Goverument. as rogues"--and so forth,

Tito is astonishingly active. A friend who stayed with him not long ago was roused at 5 am, to

Since the Marshal has been carleatured na

fond a libertine, of soft ving, and a "greedy ape," it would be interesting to know terrifying.

how his Russian detractors recon- Anody coming here. say, hov

cite this picture with the remark- from Singapore gets the im-able feats of stamina habitually pression that there are

ten performed by this man in his times as many vehicles on the initiale 508, roads here as there are there. Yet figures don't support the idea. In Singapore, for exam- ple, there are about 13,000 private cars compared with 7,620 here; 6.300 lorries and vans compared with 2,850 in Hong Kong: 1,500 taxis com- pared with 344 taxis and 289 hire cars; 3,650 motor-bicycles compared with 933.

carry

breakfast, and

a nearby mountain peak!

Now such a programme is by no menna exceptional for Tito, who once told me that he almed taking at least eight hours' exercise

By ATTICUS

at

"Preacher next Sunday: Rev. "Why worry? 1 may never

H'm.

of the bridegroom

boautiful

The argument by sponsors of the plan is that America cannot There is a vast dent of good go. on indefinitely supplying the "The gift sense in Cobbett's Grammar, not inap power in

Western Europe to the bride least in his scorn for "Treasury needed for the defence of Western pressing down." English," which we call White- | Union, Traditionally, the Gennang

go swimming. This over, the Mar- every day. Contrary to Russian ballese. I wish more contempor- make magnificent soldiers. What, shat announced that he invariably suggestion the Marshal does notary Ministers of the Crown than then, could be more sensible, nay roste before

the live in ostentatious magnificouce. Clynes could have been brought these Americans, than to ruiso

in In preference to the Palace next three hours were spent

in up on it. hard galloping across rough coun- which he entertains on State oc- try. After breakfast they both astons he himself uses the com- swam again, did some rowing. Tortable suburban villa of I and played a game of volley ball. typical retired business man, jușt

And After Lunch

outside Belgrade.

was Parliamentary Private Secre-

The Chartered Company

A Distinguished company dined recently to celebrate the jublice of the British South Africa

Chartered

Com-

such a

Bloko I know bought

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2

new German Ariny, which would second-hand car recently and is rather proud of it, now that pomo be devoted, not us in the past to

of its eccentricities have the aggrandinement of Germany. smoothed out.

Est

Lo the defence of all the West,

|

the

Impracticable Plan

Hanging by a string inside the

a small bottle, '

this one?"

"Confiscated.

"Six offences by junk master." But what good would they be to anybody?

•

been All but one of mysterious

rattles . and squeaks were tracked down and corrected without much, trouble. The last

last one took some Anding, Moreover, trafle in Singa-

"Black And Tan"

but was eventually located under By this time my friend, who is pore is complicated In a

The plan is Impracticable for the rear window. Twenty-five years ago a burly, pany's Royal Charter, When the many reasons. If a German Army! thousand ways by the host of extremely fit and some 20 years

vus booming, black-haired Scot en Hudson's Bay Company is nearing was created, "American forces framework was ordinary bicycles, totallingunger than the Marshal,

Arcidedly tired, but as roon astered the House of

00 Commons. its tercentenary, years docs 2017 ( 90,000, and 8,000 lunch was

over the Marshal set "Bob" Boothby was then only 24. "eam a long life yet for not would presumably be withdmwn inside which was a note reading:

West Germant a from Europe, A trishaws, which contrive out on n tour of Inspection of Recently he completed a quarter corporation; but

Western

Europe some how or other to escape

mountain villages, followed by an- of a century's unbroken member- of Rhodes the achlovergeat| Army might become very formid. "How long did it take you to ind

Company able indeed. ship for annihilation downtown and

Aberdeen and was duly in fostering from precarious in- would be by danger of becoming feted at & dinner by his con- fancy to prosperous maturity two gradually dominated by it. The to make the progress of

as they can really afford stituents. He

countries countries of Eastern Europe would still booms, he is of the most important

closet motorised traffic a pilgrimage to be in turning from per- even burlier, but his hair is now of Africa, which its President, Sir be driven by fear into

Dougal Malcolm, recalled to us in would be the end of Titels,

ustoelation with Russia This of sound and fury. In Hong suasive to punitive measures, silvern,

felicitous speech, would be Kong the trishaws number for the poor pedestrian He has had only one very brief great if it had taken generations anxious, and might decide upon Russia, too, would be rightly merely 800, and no longer downtown leads & hunted period of office, for his views have longer to accomplish.

a preventive war before the Ger- passengers. On the life, with mechanised mons-always tended to run counter to

"You were very late this other hand the indispensable ters always in his path and and--as he would say-in nd- It was far from being all aran-man Army became too strong. A

Genman Army, also, would · pro- | morning." tramcars take the eye of the sidewalks constant vance of those of his party. He fick plain sailing. Indeed it was bably mean the death

"YES, of demo-

sir. I'm SOITY. I even the casual here, where struggle. It was too much to shared with the red-haired

has had one constant devotion, the early decades of the Chartered cracy, which is being so painfully overslept "

Mr. Company's history which prompt-nursed to life in Germany. There "Good heavens. Do you sleep US in Singapore they are expect the immediate eradi-Brendan Bracken, and that is pered Mr. Amery, returning thanka limited to a relatively con-

per-

is strong domestic opposition in at home as well?" cation of the familiar habit sonal devotion to Mr. Churchill, to for the guests, to suggest that Germany to, a military-rovival. i fined

area. Some of the of dodging in and out of the whom, between 1926 and 1029, he fairness required a category of Germans know their own weak-

"lesseers to be added to streets in Kowloon are hardly traffic wherever it's possible try. It was, in the next Parlia-economic vocabulary. The pro- trol their generals, Dr. Adenauer that she broke out in a

A woman "declared in court tho ness and that they cannot con❤ less congested than those in to shorten the burden on the ment that the pair gained the poser had referred to 'him as on himself has sold plainly, with whenever her husband come the city of Victoria.

feet, even though prejudic-nickname of "Winston's Black Elder Statesman, a term that Mr. great courage, that he does not near her. Singapore has talked it- ing the safety of body and and Tan."

Amery, with modest wit, defined want an Army,

Itching to get away from him? self hoarse about its traffic soul.

as "a man who can afford to givė Lord Wavell recently said that problems, and during the

To attain 23 years' continuous good advies, being no longer able in his view the real danger to The now forgotten Belisha membership of the House before to set a bad example."

peace ini Europe would

"Plastic makes come

a now space past two years has experi- beacons in London accom-reaching the age of 50 is a con-

again from the Germans, not saver for mothers who live in mented again and again to plished wonders in their siderable achievement. It enabled Tossed By-a-Bull

from the Russians. It is because crowded quarters or who mist try and simplify them. It is time, but even they would him to give the reply to one of his

what he says is probably true travel with a small baby in the now planning a great exten- not have been quite so suc-election who asked what were the

colleagues "defeated in the last Those who remember that fast, facts described above, even if one

that it is, Impossible to ignore the form of an inflatable bathtub." sion of the one-way traffic cessful if the people had not rights of ex-MPs within the pre- three-quarter, C. N. Lowe, will be away from them.

Anybody with a child like that and plucky wing is living many thousands of miles,should have the sense to stay system in the busier parts of possessed an innate sense of cinets of the House: I'm sorry. glad to know that he is stili de-

quietly at home. the city, and simultaneously discipline. The traffle can't tell you, I've never been monstrating his Atness. When tu do away with many of Superintendent will need to an ex-MP."-4"

last met him Group-Captain Lowe the existing man-controlled be something of a philo-

was commanding the RAF station Mr. Somerset Maugham, from at Aminan; now he has retired, light signals in favour of sopher. An Imperium of one of whose stories the new play and is living in Nairobi, where ho automatic lights. And yet pedestrian order in an im- "Before the Party" was adapted,

Just Singapore

made a gives

a rapid and complete сле an perlo of vehicular smooth-declares that he will write TU recovery from being tossed by a almost provincial impres-ness will undoubtedly take more for the theatre, but he has bull-a pastime which, 43 my sion compared with the im- some time. Loud speakers in by no means lost interest in the informant of the incident puts it,

drama. When he was "in mense congestion in the city silent zones seem an anomaly, as who wears England is rarely indulged in with suc here. It is all the more dif- but whether they attract or

cess when one has passed the siduous

first-nighter dapper middle fifties! ficult to understand because distract attention, they are a

Little

figure, apparently much so large a proportion of the useful reminder to the public. younger than bis: 70-odd years, "Kid" Lowe's doughter was Hong Kong registered who know only too well how usually to be seen in the middle recently married in Nairobi Cathe

of the third or fourth row vehicles operate on the main to turn a blind eye to signs stalls. land, and for the most part and tokens, when hurrying stay there. Presumably, it is or scuttling on their harassed

at

as-

resourceful

of drel, and it is a coincidence that also living in Kenya's capital is Mrs. Clive Salter, a daughter, of

***Teddy

Mr. Maugham who Incidental that other great wing thrro-

a question of distribution and way.

took part in a Quiz cession quarter, the late Dr.. the inexorable problem of

the closing day of the the bottleneck created by talk of the time when it will "Sunday Times Book

Many good judges bracket, Mor Exhibi * the single artery from the have six million people tlon does not give way to easy gan and Lowe as the greatest Cricket Ground Eastward. : to contend with That enthusiasms, but he has a sharp wings in the game's history. Môr- Whatever figures may in may seem a bit fanciful eye for young and rising talents, gan gained 10 caps for Wales in dicate, the size of the problem to those who forget, what been introduced to the West End Lawe, who with Bir

Among the

the players who have the early years of the century: Wake- has only to be seen to be be happened to Shanghai in in the recent past, I believe that field laid the foundation of Air

Wavell lieved, if not wholly under-single hectic generation.. It he was especially impressed by Force Rugger, played nine times stood. There can hardly be may seem still more fanciful the talent of Mr. Michael Gough, for England before the first world serious criticism of the in- in Hong Kong, though it has who took the leading male part war and 10 times afterwards; only troduction of three reforms doubled its population in two Daphne du Maurier's "Septom four men, headed by "Wakers,"

ber: Tide"

have represented England more at one time. Of course, every-or three years. Nevertheless

atten, body profers to have this the lesson of Shanghal was Cobbett His Tutor sort of thing in small doses. that refugee migrants most But the zones of silencely took root in the city and would really have a sinister only a small proportion Clyncs mentioned that, when he ring if they were unaccommoved back into the coun- was a child-worker in a cotton panied by a really deter-try again when the momen-educated himself with the

mill and barely terata, ho mined effort to tackle at the tary storm had passed. The a dictionary and an English

ald same time the problem of Abercrombie scheme inevit grammar. The latter pedestrian crossings. That is ably remains on the table for fold me, was a

Singapore has begun, to Grosvenor House on Novem~ Morgon, MA KERNE

The obituary notices of J. A.

UN DISCUSSION BON CRIME

Lake Success, December, 12 The UN Social Commission to ho once day rejected Russian attempt Spublished

question of crime prevention and is likely to remain the main the emergency is over and in 2011 which he bought for a treatment of offenders, m problem until the natural China's destination is a lot lam Cobbett's own constituency 18-nation body, the Russian dele two in Oldham Wil-At the opening meeting of the penny or anarchy of the pedestrian is clearer than it is now, the brought under control and fundamental solutions pudiati trammical ruler from for the United Nations to disatiss Pat Kato, VA Co Formashov, protested Clynes must have learnt more that the item was not appropriate properly disciplined.

forward in that Report wil That will take time, and have to be tackled and dedication to Queen Caroline) of sovereign states to fight crimo work! (as: Cobbett described it in alnon /it le the privilege, and duty it to to be hoped that the tackled in the largest possible mulig for its object, ijodiva within their territories: United Police will be as pat

prasilenikomect to the naturali Frank

really the mala problem and the present, but as soon as of Cobbett's Cd copy to exclude from its agenda' the

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