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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1949.

SOCIALISM FACES ITS

BIGGEST SET-BACK

If Australia's. Labour Góv-

--

By G. WARD PRICE

до

much

So far the resistance of

the

Good Morning

profession has made the Labour It scoms that whoever wants, Government's health legislation the airlines must go through the a dead letter, but, if it is returned ununt processes of law. to power may dragoon the doctors into, subinission,

Petrol Question

am, however, able to deny

report that, there has been In increoso any noticeable

about next demand for details

Now

•

ernment is defeated at the polls on Saturday-which close investigation reveals as workless people as a source of banking on the ground that the

Administration This is re- iLabour,

would likely it will be the greatest economic pressure.

refuted by the fact that the pre: then be the only source of credit set-back Socialism has

so and banking necounts would be; valling demand for labour. Is

The comparatively Insigni- ceived since it began to intense that facturies are work- open to official inspection and spread over the British Com-ing short time for lack of hands. control.

feunt question of petrol ration-year's limousines and new yachts. Ing may swig many votes monwealth.

Omce boys are being offered 11 is also believed that na-

against the Government. It im-

Details on decorated residents more than £5 a week and the tionalisation of the banks would posed rationing, then found, да The whole principle of Sociall-

scught." Roon be followed by that of in with the attempt to nationalise

Myrtle, keep sation is at issue in the coming ordinary worker has

enlm. according aurance. selection, The Opposition, consisting money to spend that,

the banks, that, this measure Nobelly's trying to check up on All new contributions to

The second plank in the Oppo»), was unconstitutional. Soi to nove of the linked forces of the Liberal to a Treasury Report Issued Editor-in-Chief. addressed to

and Country Parties, appeals to contly in the past 12 month the sition programme is the outlaw-face na well he dollars, the

La You. Advertisements and Business const-

the Communist Party, bour Government had to, appeal the voters in the name of indi- javerage betting tumover has beening of munications should be addroanod

vidual freedom and private en

£25 per head.

The Government affects ore to the Sister Legulatures to mi- to the Company CHINA MAIL

terprise as against State control, The Opposition's main

card this as superfluous and ut- pose petrol restrictions. LTD.

For a British observer it is lenge to the Government is onwise in that it would drive Com This persistence inf curtailing

of Socialisation rather humiliating to ind how the policy

mmunist agitation undergrouhit. supplies antagonised the formern Biltain, under her presont Cov- symbolised by the recent attempt

in addition to antage owners and banking In- ernment, appears to Australian nationalise the

motoring organisations. This was defented by eyes In the light of "hn Awful dustry,

The Opposition maintains that sufficient betrol cun be bought

DUNBAR

DEATH

On

ELSIE LYONS, F Joyord inviter

LAMBERT of DONBAR passed away December 8th, 1949, in San Mateo, California, in her 66th yeat.

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example."

official In his

manifesto leader of the Liberals, Mr. R. G. Menzies, former Premier, says:

"The Socialists in Britain are nlready introducing Industrial conscription. Bow could they do otherwise? It is essential to the whole Socialist conception."

The Bad Example

hbly made to the electors Four and a half years ago.

"If anyone seeks a monument To Spelatsın fet him took around

- and study. Britain." MAINS The "Sydney Bulletin" "There a Sorial Guvemment, elected pa a Sovalisation programme, hay at a mere or less free run. And now look at it!

chal-

the High Court whose decision that it infringed Australia's wri Ion Federal Constitution was confirmed by the Privy Counell.

of Repre

18

.

According to a contemporary, », son was born to Mr. and Mrs, who weighed a atrapping ght and three quarter pounds." That really should be corrected muidgetly,

Note from Australia. Election nearing.

Though Communism is politic plly weak in Australia, where it has never won a Parliamentary sent, its agents hold key positions in industrial nutters by bccupy- in the sterling urea.

· In the Inst "House ing the port of secretary in dach

of the five largest trade unions--sentatives the Liberals held coal miners, scument, dockets, en- and the Country Party 11 out of

"See Charlie Chaplin to Aineers, and Ironworkers,

75 seats. This left the Labour new fim, The Great Dictator."

That must have been Government with a majority of 10, as one of the 15 seats is held two-hour trailer I saw buck in by the representative of North-30. ern Territories, who doesn't vote.

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#

Fear For Banks There is a widespread fear that

In this election the influence of if the present Government Rothe Australian branch of the back to power it would find a

British Medical Assoelation wit way to squeeze the commercial also be against the Government, tanke out of business by methods with more resolution than was For Saturday's election the Too isto, though.

shown by their colleagues in the

size of the Australian Parliament The marriage of Miss -- and United Kingdom 99 per cent of has been almost doubled by the air. which was announced in

Australian the 7,000

constituencles. medicat creation of new

chis paper yesterday, was Я practitioners have

consistently Instead of 75 members It will

nistake and we wish to correct" opposed the Labour Party's Na. have 121; while the Senate has Conn) Health Scheme,

been increased from 36 to 80.

NO

CAUSE

THE SIBU OUTRAGE

The fact that walls in Sydney similar to those being employed The attempt on the life of and other Australian elties still to hamper the internal airlines, carry appeals to send food par- which compete with the Govern- the new Governor of Surawak,rets to Britain has brought home | ment's own service. Mr. G. Stewart, at Sibu to the Australian minds the fai- Bankers, Indiatrialists, agree in ure of the British Socialist Gov-apposing Government control of must have cume as a shock to

rament to fulfil the promises It and many people. Murder vlener have been rife in neighbouring Indonesia dur- ng the turbulent years since the war, but hitherto the Malays in British territories have kept to their ways in It does not peace and order. follow that the incident, de-

The country is almost bank plorable in itself, is symp; ¦ supt; inflation has run away with tomatic of any deep-seated the sterling pound; shortages of << the everything disorder. It

indiente. does

consinner wants are introducing nevertheless, that even such

br new phase of austerity" Bolted areas as North and anything the British pro Borneo and Sarawak, which ple have sampled yet and now have been models of order, the Socialist crowd in frightened

must wholly sheltered from the upheaval which has nearly all Asia in its grip.

Food and

n

comes

FOR ALARM?

mons.

families

Au

American visitor lo England was charmed at one hotel to Bnd on aspidistra in his sitting room. Hu much preferred

to the palms in the holl,

A rather callow teen nger. Just of starting out on his career "dates." remarked to the girl: "7 went out with a nurse yesterday." "Never mind," replied the girl. Perhaps in a year or two your She mother will let you out without

For

stil

A few weeks after Britain's

legislation sent up from the Com- By ANN Prime Minister warned the

Yes, this book is clearly written CHARTERIS country of its formidable

with the Left hand. Moreover, financial troubles

out of date. inciden in example, Miss Cowles exaggerates reassuring" book telling all worst flying-bomb

the wealth of the wealthy, about British institutions and South London during the war.

Miss

several times mentions several Cowles the British people.

misses the point of such stories, living in their ancestral It is by Virginia Cowles, Amer. Her book is littered with mistakes but she does not say that Ican writer and ex-war corres-which somehow help her leaning often than not they inhabit only one wing, and some of them pro- Aidan Crawley (Harrow and Ox-

serve their beautiful houses and ford),

the money the Socialist MP

estates only through earned by throwing them open to Buckingham.

Miss Cowles

the pubile.

pondent, who in now married to towards the Left. of

own policy."

No Great Issue

In Chif Austenlan election there is no issue on which, both cause yldes have agreed To meisure their strength.

to Brit-habitants. Nine more

local

calls book

for

No

United

With Left Hand

Thus she hys that up to the war the House of Commons was

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homed, Inora

Idealistic Tinge

One."

Statistics prove that 50 per cent of divorce cases are caused by pancini troubles.

Till debt do us part.

An Australian has divorted his wife because she threatened to run him through with carving kalves, forks and aclesore.

Wet, no skewers? Myrties

grandfather

saya

art of insulting.

flowers in Greek and Lati

sold Inspector

that. defendant had given hla business

"The

as 'business.","

In short, none of your.

The two Malay youths con-

fur Alarm, This is known as "the most exclusiva cerned in the attempt on the

strangely complacent title. In days club in the world," when it wa

the swift

Though the author's vision is so Governor's life apparently,

decline of the really known as "the best club The Labotir Government says and the gradual rise in prices the world"-n very

election Lutzin the Union of the

different often myople, sho has discerned employ. on Ixlonged to

alarming even the zurnt, accuses the Opposition of cash Government

scatter- ine

with a very different impli- that, in the mingling of affection, botany is the thing Young Malayas, whose mem-

who are re-ent wanting to create " pool of

reverence, and loyalty which best bers are said to be op-

sponsible for it many people think

prejudice also creeps into describes the British people's at the to

there is Every Cause for Alarm. cussion uf

the description of the House of uitude towards the Crown and the posed

The author, though

Ameri- the territory

Lords. The author understates the Royal Family, there is something tain. Some of these wish to authorities have been estaban, has a deep affection for Bri: peers contribution to the machin-almost Incomprehensible to out

air, but it does not follow that cry of State, and exaggerates their

Riders, On B see the Brooke dynasty res-ished, most of them

she has a deep comprehension of "cbstructionisin." She does, not However, she says the топ- tored. That attitude is some-racial basis, though in one. We are told on the cover that

know that inny members of the archy works because "everyone what atavistic in these days, particular region all the the "knows England thoroughly." Upper louse work an unsalaried bends over backwards to make it sub- for Modern youth seems im- races living there take part. Her knowledge may be wide, but 44-hour week to improve faulty work," though the King's

it in not profound.

Jects

are certainly not evicious. patient of privilege in all its and it is hoped to extend this

When she writes of English

of any such physical effort The forms, and has as little res-principle not only among the customs and traditions she is to Nationalisation monarchy works because it is part peet for inherited titles as it local bodies but also to the use a sporting expression of her

of our heritage and tradition, No land, frequently "off- has for the modern bureau- | Council Negri. Most of the native

In Hungary

American would like to be told was primarily

that he had to "bend over back- crat. Of course, a change of 11 unofficial seats recently base." The book

designed for the American public.

Nationalisation, was Was it also meant

words" to de honour to the Stars A burning regime involves a great many became vacant, and it

to caso the

Stripes. things, for family systems officially stated some months Labour Government's next dollar- tople in many countries, has and

the attention coloured: chapter

N169 Cowles, devotes a tośc- the opportunity had begging inission to

been attracting grow up around the centre of ago that

to nationaliza of correspondent Ritchie Mc- authority, and the decline of thereby been taken to begin States?

don-though she shirks publish- Ewen In Vienna. one means the decline from fuller representation of the

ing Agures of the sums lost by Writing from place and privilege of the people by their elected mem- Oddly One Sided

Aus the nationalised industries. Fow Irlan capital, McEwen reports would deny that in some cases other and there has been a lot | bers,

There is a great deal of that for the past Iow month nationalisation was a good thing,

On neighbouring Hungary's Com- of criticism of the way in A broadly-based pyramid formation in the book, but

Government has been but the author does not perhaps which cession was effected, of election has been institut- some of Britain's institutions it is munist

oddly one-sided. She refers to the nationalising every business, realise that

yet to any In the case of the Brooke ed among the Ibans, with its Conservatives though never to the large or small, throughout the that it will be

for Alarm" is Dynasty in Sarawak, there is counterpart among the other Socialists, in condescending terms, country, also

The heads of the long-

but it is also tinged with doubt certain races,

This she says that "to be a

. the advanced

especially • ED did the loyalty which derived from houses elect their Penghulu Conservative MP was a social dis grammo

Union.* It tinction, Many worked hard, but country's papers begin carrying chapter on Western a picturesque and benevolent or headrhan, the Penghulus is good many went into the full-page advertisements contains much that is interesting, tradition. Sarawak enjoyed in turn elect members of the House of Commons because it was "Clearance sales at the cheapest when the author, forgeta

pre.. Councils, British protection, and left; District

whose fashionable thing for a young shopkeepers to rescue something it is engagingly provocatives

prices"the

attempt of Judices. When she retains them the control of external af-members elect representa-

man 10

caught in the na- It should make a good Christ- fairs to the British Govern- tives to serve on the Divi-: She lays undue stress on their before being

tionalisation web.

mas present, and a talking point ment in the days of the sional Councils. These Coun-wealth (as though all Tortes were

Some shopkeepers, rich and all Socialists poor), but

however, for the family crete if this is Dynasty. It could never have cils in turn nominate six when she speaks of the hand!-

worried wore, too

even to at the sort of thing you talk about "sell tempt to

out" and as ant Christmas. survived independently even members to serve as un-caps of poorer Socialists in fight-resht fell victims to Government in the past—still less in the officials on the Council Negri,ing constituencies she does not agents who visited them and by future without Britain's District and Divisional mention the help they receive offering to sell them huge stocks Councils are inter-racial. For rom the party or trade union of goods made them believe they backing.

were not going to be nation- example, in the First Divi-

alised. sion, which returned

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a

The ultimate act of cession, in which the former ruler

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funds.

do,"

Queer Ideas

in-

the

As

the nationalisation

last

r

pro-

As soon as the goods had been

bought, however, and the shop- himself took the initiative, Chinese and one Malay, each Her book reveals many other kacpers and paid the money for was entirely logical, if not received votes from Malays, queer Ideas about Britain's political them the same agehts returned to necessarily impersonal. Sara- Chinese, and Dyaks alike. structure. Thus she says that in say they were taking over the wak presented serious pro- This helps to break down 1945, for the Brst time in the his storel blems at the end of the war. and prevent the crystallisatory of England, members of the Both that territory and Bri- tion of racial distinctions and upper class no longer controlled

the House of Commons."

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How Lovers tish North Borneo had taken to merge them into a sense Thnt, of course, is fantastic Behave In Japan

a terrible beating. Recovery of common Sarawak citizen- The great middle class had con- and rehabilitation, involved ship.

trolled it for a cenitiry, and, oven heavy cost. Pressure for new This is the broad motive now its leaders are middle-class While all the world loves 0 development was consider of major policy in all the. If we are to indulge in such lover', to be in love in Japan able, and that, too, meant British territories in South nicetics, Mr. Attice is higher in may not always ensure sym-

the восіц scala than was more money. The British East Asia. The ultimate de- Lloyd George so in Sir Stafford

Mpathy and understanding. Cripps, a been quite sign is to create a new Do-heterring to the Conservative may mean, moro often than not, headquarters at

In Tokyo, in fact, to be in love 'taxpayer has generous about this, and if minion with a number of

that you act as nothing more the many plans for new de autonomous members. Where Miss Cowles anys. "There were specimen for University profes

Baby.člection, exciting than an unconcious test velopment have not borne the many millions of Asia no shabby clothes, no loud voices, sors studying the Science of fruit as yet, that is not be are going nobody knows, no middle-class accents. That is Love ** cause the funds were not But we all know, they are on preposterous. Of course, the place With characteristic Japanese available. :TEM

the march and are certain was filled, with the middle-class attention to detail, one such pro

accents

fessor at Tokyo Univeraity has There was no more persis ly not marching back into It is astonishing to learn that

that just made a detailed check of tent propagandist in Malaya the past. reja d

Churchli hanno gift of "Row Sweethearts Bohave when than Mr. Anthony Brooke, It is impossible to deny a repartent and that Mr. Herbert in Love." who continually brought up sentimental sigh for such old Morrison's opponents speak of him. According to the professor of the issue of cession at every and picturesque Institutions Tammany boss when 600 couples followed without was his colleague Bovan who call their, knowing, 298 walked "arm opportunity. It has also been as the Brooke autocracy, od him that (he furthermore sald in army, we held handing and lovela for judgment. Unless But Communism is so aggres- there is a legal decision to sive and expansive that it he the contrary, however, it is doesn't allow much scope for was destrumental: in breaking up Parishes 102 are ine

third-rato

taken to the highest Judicial with its Elizabethan," flavour.that RZA SA KAmong 500 couples bitting on

ono)

that when

p

ed “awkwardly embracing" 148 walked normally side by aldo, park benchies, 382 were holding Wnt-time Coaliton.:: Chürchlit most unlikely that policy will such Ideas, Democracy isn't

only 23 were sitting without "any became *ar piquedos a mall outward algn of affection ever be changed either." in quite such a refuge against boy" and sata” the colleague i he

In gravely, publishing his r North Borneo or in Sarawak. it as it might be sus, Burma was most glad to be rid off was port the professor Includes "in

map showing where each obser rudiments of self-government one than a reversion to In of the story Churchilla reshark blication smpt a best-seller bla

But sho have been developed a good stitutions that came out of a way male bocause Morrison; had mop will at feast show: futura deal and are practised by far simpler and more laolute mmfunted, thake

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Under the new regime, the has shown; but it's a better Mr. Mortened the middle 'vation was mado. Even if his pri|

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