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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER" 0, 1010.
THE MANSTEIN TRIAL MUDDLE
Signed Not To Carry Off Pyramids
By FREDERICK HUDSON
MUDDLE Good Morning!
By ALEXANDER CLIFFORD
Bugg cuptured by the Americans, kas
certain.
And Ita ovidence consists almost axclusively of German documents
Only one witness has been pro~ The little general who looks so Manstein Is going to be a rela-duced who saw or suffered any- astonishingly like a plumper Pre-tively unimportant by-product of thing at first hand. sident Truman has perhaps à fow this strango trial. The important So what goes on in the litte more weeks before ho knows for thing la going to be the principle putty-coloured court-room is no Reformation..
that comes out of it.
ordinary. trial. It is British only Myrtle's randfather says it is For this is a British court, as owing to the fact that Britain has really heartening to rend that Ilis trial on 17 distinct charges one can see from the Union Jack physical custody of the accused. more than 30 citizens attended of war crimes is groping its way nailed to the celling and the row: But the fact that it is British the first meeting of the Reform into its final stages. The defence of red-libbed colonels and gene-niny end up by producing hopeless Club for: "five months when its counsel is half-way through his rala presiding.
confusion in the whole theory and broad platform fer closing address. By Christmas it It is sliting. In Germany, trying practice of war trials.
was set up. should be over.
| a German general for things alle-
As at Nuremberg, it is hard to And the verdlet of General vonꞌ gedly done in Poland and Russla, avold at Orst on unpleasant feel- Another
Everything happens to London Comments':
Jack Palfreyman. Robbed of
Advertisements and Business com his coat, watch and wallet.
munications should
be addrowed
to the Company CHINA
LTD
DEATH
LUCKER. AL El Paso, Texas, on December 6, Harry A. Lucker,
father of Gerald D. Lucker, uf Hung Kong, aged 80,
in Parls, dogged by security police in Spain, held up at gun point in North Africa, he io today speeding through the Western Desert on the next lap of his 60,000-mile motor-cycle round-the-world journey to show that "Bri- tish is best."
To The A Visit
"New China'
By "WINDRUSĖ”
ing that this is something then-
Who Takes Blame?
democracy
*
local conumentator that a politician is stands for what
•
to
•
trical. It is a staged trial, and it reminds me seems to involve the process of someone who making up low as it goes along the voters will fall-for. and applying it retrospectively.
According
the Truffle Department, motorists should be reen and not heard; pedestrians But, "aa" "at" Nurembergne should be seen and not hurt. cannot listen long without be "ills paintings are well known coming convinced that this is, in both Europe and Americs. Six after all, Ø Rerious scorch
for of his works pre
part of
+1
truth. It is n attempt to extend exhibit. His wife, a writer and
the prevalling principles of jus-
When a
b.ographer, is too
Is she casy on fire ere?
"Civic Leader Spenks
A Dedication Programme- Filled to Capacfly." Probably was Just trying catab-keep his spirits up.
to
tice to cover a new type of crime. The essential problem, of course, Since he left his home in
It takes a brave heart to leave In
The "New Statesman" con- times the same individual would the problem of responsibility. Chorlton Road, Manchester,
war crime is cam- the party at the eleventh hour, September, Jack.
41-year-old tinued recently the series of show different characters in constitted, who has done it? The man!
sidering different questions.***
Bays a writer. It takes a good mechanic, has run into one ad-
articles by Michael Lindsay Mr. Lindsay found that, on the who pressed the trigger? Or the head to stay much later,
the gave
order to venture after another. WARBURTON-Mrs. Nathalie
But it was Sir Staford Cripps on his recent visit to Commu- whole, the "doctrinaire" way of man who
among the press the trigkor? Or the man terly beloved Mother of A.
who put him in the biggest Jum. nist China. Mr Lindsay work- thinking prevailed Passed away
Because G. Meine
uf devaluation Jack ed for some years during the minor functionaries, and the "ra- who originated the principle in accordance with which the order tional" way among the leaders. BIN December 1940.
Intern-tound himself almost penniless
"While a doctrinaire' local offi-, was given? war at Yenan as a radio ex- ment at The Roman Catholic and had to make an 800-mile dask
Nuremberg, In effect, with pert for the Communists and cat will obey deanite orders from Cemetery. Funeral passes the trop Madrid to Gibraliar
got to know Mao Tse-tung above. It is hard to make him shed the theory Monument
Friday athuttle food or sleep.
responsive to the opinions of the is guilty. But Nuremberg la no It is now learned that the body and Chu Teh.
local population or prevent him precedent for a British court recovered from the harbour was from feeling that any critics of There is no reason at all why not that of a landlord, an was at his contacts with his vid friends, his policies would be suppressed | what was decided there should first hoped.
be followed in Hamburg saltar, found him food at a new moved by fortune from the
And the detending counaci, at any rate, has been arguing that Mr. at the law of England diferent
December at
01:
PLATFORMS COME
mon man.
а
Robbed
Poller who came to his min
Intel bed.
voat,
and
Tangier (and
wallet
his back
the
His reports on the renewal of
Mac
There Is A Conflict
the
Japanese
Treaty
that everyone |
+
20.
"She
21 largely-attended is entirely ceremony yesterday." Was In England, it can bo main- necessary? tained, a citizen must obey the decisions of the State, and be can- A writer asks; "Don't not possibly be punished for doing think that talkative women
less
than the Even if the State makes a rufe kind?"
became the
bird
of
the
ceremony
really
you
arc
popular
other
or gives an order that is contrary) Only trouble la, I spend so The "Now Statesman" has also to hternational law, it is right little time in the Dent and Dumb
Institute.
India's
alarmingE
"India's own resources
Thus the soldiers of the world
you
**For sale; House newly
go plastered with two acres of land, Interna.
those Another of and paddy fields.
up-ended
you
the trans-
*
the
this
-Pa
as reactionaries.
"When the policies of local off- jo of Yenan Caves
The cials allenate popular support, have been TO HONG KONG
they are nearly always changed For Jack the round-the-world splendour of Peking.
interest in very much
when
situation becomes Mr. Lindsay was ac- England. Plato described Democracy trip is the realisation of an 11-exciting
known to the higher authorities, year-old dream. He planned to
on his tour by his But when mistakes are only cor- companied as a charming form of gov-set out in 1938, but the war put a
Chinese wife.
rected from above, there is often ernment, full of variety and stop to it.
Armed with
a very long time lag." FOIC than 20
In the article, Mr Louisay con- disorder, dispensing a sort of
visas and hundreds of letters of
tradicts the belief widely held in equality 10 equals and
introduction to agents of British Britain, that there are great divi-
throughout the unequals alike. One may not motorcycles
alons and factions among the Communists, **The Chinese Com- be so sure about its charms world, he arrived in Paris with-
munist Party has been remark- but never more sure than in out a hitch.
Then at a restaurant his watch, free from internal feuds an article on the treaty with Jun for the citizen to obey.
pan; so had the "Economist," The containing since these totalitarian days of its
rise Tao-tung's
to "New Statesman" warns its read- today are balanced between those The deep and abiding values. Par- 19.000 franca (10) were whisk leadership.
speculations wus about feuds between rival groups) era that there will be much popu- two extremes: Should
you liaments
its are
topmost ed away while
a trenty about with lar opposition in Japan
a copy of which have often heen made by
with the West which excludes tuwers, but its foundations lie, turned in the cloakroom.
tional inw in your pockets that foreign In
found Spain he
commentators on China China and Russia. There is a MON deep in village and town, and
security police "arrogani, jack-
and very
blindry in the aspirations of the com- booted types, reminiscent of the seem to have been based on false strong feeling in Japan that look up cach order before
Himay evi-
A burglar was surprised by a analogles
rupture of its traditional ties with obey it, or should
Dat. in an empty dence.'
obey in everything, however in police officer China is not to Its advantage. In its own way the titler regime"-were more then
a little interested in him.
Mr. Lindsay does, however, as-
The "Economist" argues
on human provided it is the law of They were both surprised about no less parish council is
the fat Fur
Three every
civilians sert that there is a division of a the contraTY that there was no your Slate? part of it than the town or Spain today has two armed sal- different kind among the Chinese real alternative to a treaty exclu- Nuremberg seemed to establish "Death,
and Communist. This is division ding Russia.
court!
imprisonment It would be im- one principle: the British county council. The Tailors lers, he told me.
German cbscurity have overtaken most Tommy-gunners were perched of the soul often found in the In- of Tooley Street were good
every strategic dividual party member. For this possible to get Russian agreement may favour the other.
of Ameri-leaders will then have been tried, of the men who rules Japan.
MacArthur is liable to take democrats and had a right to on balconies at
point, even in secondary roads: reason Mr. Lindsay calls his arti- to the continuanco
can forces in Japan for an inde~ according to both. their views. They belong to one was "covered" Immediately eie "Split Personality”.
inite time; But without this) And the business of laying this as a personal affront. fortu being present, Japan might down a code for future the Grand Comedy of Poli-on entering a bank,
Said were of To travel, passports
either go Communist become criminals will be no further for Two glow worms_met. tical Manners because of a
it WHA
again extremely nationalist. The ward.
one: "I really must get a pair certain largeness of gesture:ttle consequence,
He writes "There is a conflict West could risk neither possi- Not that any further
ages last general of glasses. I spent "We, the People of England."gned pieces of paper issued by
the security police and permitting;
will ever be able to do all the night making love to a cigaretto In another issue of the "Econo- things that Manstein It is a matter of some mo- travel from one point to anyther between two opposing tendencies.bility.
On the one hand there la rational
apparently end." ment that democratic Institu- that were all-important.
Without then it would be in-thought, good administration, and mist" there is a long article on ought to have done.
of India. called) man; the position common tions have begun to develop,ossible to get through the check respect for the
Germans Puzzled in this small Colony, which no posts established outside every on the other, unreasoning faith in "Delhi and the Future."
derstood, what they ought to have dogma, bureaucracy, and con-Economic situation is grave: but India fortunate that its grow-
done different and when. longer ilves to itself alone. village and city.
The fear of being tried when From Gibraltar Jack took his tempt for the individual.
And, now they are; hearing is Reference has been made to
"To an outside observer this} ing economic crisis coincides withi
will pro arguest that according to English most conflict seems very fundamental; growing American interest in its his alde loses the war the role of the Hong Kong Boy 500 cc. Triumph "Tiger" over to
atruck the as a link between East and expensive city of his tour so far. the development of China is like prosperity. America is trying to bably never prevent any general law they weren't guilty at all-
different combat Communiam in Asla by from doing anything. In the drst they were simply obeying ly to take completely West. The principle is true
which ten-building up economic well-being, place, he doesn't expect his side laws of the State.
But, talk and India will probably be the to lose the war.
There are already rumours that in far wider application. The Continued At Foot Of Next Col.) paths according
dency predominates.
But soldiers and clyliians in when German justice is indepen- ing to people in the Communist chief field for its operations. world is confronted with two
The difficulty of India is that it future still need know where dent again it will put on trial great rivalries in the funda- simpler style, almost all the Party, one found that they either
Germans who workmen who took part in dis- factories under Allied mental way of life, and even things the heart can desire. failed to see the existence of the needs urgently two different kinds they stand. The
stay Heaven and earth seemed for/conflict or else considered it com- of Imports, and can hardly pay come into the Hamburg court day mantling
for either. It needs food to keep after day and put on their ear-orders. Hong Kong cannot
peratively unimportant.
I left the court "One could classify people ac-its people alive. It needs capital phones and listen to
And a moment to be united, albeit beyond their reach.
which equipment to mitigate in the fation of Manstein's trial have morning I heard a woman say: An Indian celebrity who did in skeleton and unadorned cording to the tendency
the faintest idea..
"They are trying Manstein for not owe his fame to politics fashion, in a mundane para- seemed to be uppermost in their future the country's
thinking; but, because they them poverty.
They were told when the war not giving the Russian prisoners once went on a pilgrimage. dise. It was what the poll- selves did not feel the distinction are at present insufficient both to
to con-enough to eat. Perhaps one day He visited all the great cities ticians call, in their inspired important, the representatives of feed its people and improve their ended that they ought
the war, but they have never un- giving us enough to eat in 1945,"* and ports where the men from moments, a sweeping gesture, the two tendencies did not form standard of living at a satisfac-sider themselves responsible for we shall try the British for not
The result was tory rate," the West first settled in the But the Club Platform did opposing groups,
The "Economist" holds that the factor throttling There biggest single ston of split personality. pioneer days, all the way from set out all, and more, of the to give an extraordinary Impres- Bombay to Yokohama. He things that most people want would be sudden contrasts in the India's economy is the excesslye formed the conclusion that the to have done not only here pattern of thought and behaviour cost of government. This is one. without, apparently, any con-fifth of the entire national in- Institutions they set up in but in many other places too-sciousness of the change. Some come in the provinces, govern- ment expenditure has increased these places, from sanitary The doing of them will take
while revenues bava declined; boards to newspapers, had a far longer time than it took
ho found a motor- then there are innumerable new of the Indirect taxes. Because more influence on the Asian to write the platform. And
with a grumble. Kashmir dispute, the government motor-cycles were in peoples around them than all nobody has even begun to cycle the oratory and preachments reckon just how very much it British,
great demand, declared the agent, on defence (as opposed to 34 per in speiding nearly half its budget of Macaulay and his fellow will all cost, which does ap but because of currency restriccent in, America, and 23 per cent pear to be somewhat relevant tions it was impossible to import in Great Britain). The result is reformers.
This remains true today, even to a platform.
As Jack roared into Zavia, tiny It was described by its spon Tripolitanian coastal village, he workers in the steel Industry Industry is depressed. Though The peoples of Asia, caught in the grip of the rival world sore, when it was presented ran into the middle of a hunt for earn in money wages twice as systems, watch the evolution to the gallant little band of four armed British soldiers who as in 1939 their real wagca have on Wednesday had escaped from a corrective fallen by 30 per cent and their of self-government and de-¡ reformers
productivity is only two thirds of He was sitting in a cafe with what it was in 1930. The capital mocratic institutions in India, night, as a compromise. be- camp. Pakistan, Ceylon, Burma, and tween idealism and realism-bla holstered revolver at his side market is dead because of the governments Malaya far more intently than even an historical document (carried under a British Govern doubts about the they studied, first, the de- Certainly few of us have ever ment permit) eating a meal of future economic intentions
up into the muzzin' of rifle. velopment of democracy in seen so much set down by so eggs and coffee, when he looked Britain, and then, during the few for so many. But if so Police told him to raise his hands. war years, in the self-govern-much of the pic is suspended The matter was settled, amié ing Dominions. One Muni in the skies, many of the ably, however, when Jack" pro- The "Economist" thinks that administrative costs of cipal or Legislative Council speakers, in supporting the duced his passport, and arms per the remedies; are first on reduc set down in their midst is now Platform, resolutely came when he ended his four-day government; secondly, economics of more influence upon the down to earth. What could stay in Tripoll he left for Cairo a defence; and thirdly, a reduc- people than all the institu- be more Intensely practical with proof that "British is best" tion in the programme of capital
Kin
the 5,000 miles be has expenditure. The Finance Minis- tloris of Democracy put to than the insistence of beds to covered so far he has opened his ter has already cut this down by gether in the parent lands in sleep in and cubicles with tool it only once, to make a 230 million in the current bud- slight adjustment of his driving get. The programme as it stands which they have existed for windowsl......
is the result of unco-ordinated. But if one is disposed to in-chaln centuries.
His visu for Egypt was issued post-war planning, the only These institutions do not dulge in a little raillery, let under a signed declaration that The "Economist" spring into full maturity at it be remembered how the he must not marry an Egyptian paper to comment on the Phillp- of de- woman, remove the Pyramids, or pines election. It forcaces increas once. They have to begin great institutiona with the humble habiliments mocracy grew, and the pro- become resident in the country ing economie difficultios for the tapers off, and as they approach of infancy. They must be ex-tagonists of its institutions (under penalty of losing a "250 Filipinos as ald, from America
depozit. pected to indulge in the day with them. Hong Kong has From Ceir bo plans to turn 1934, when Filipino exports must dreams of adolescence. No been more than a more link South for Capetown. His journey begin to face American tariffs. doubt most people smiled with China ever since it was through the Sudan will be made They may try to get round their broadly and, we trust, not founded. It has exerted an mainly by river transport be difficulties by importing cheaply cause of strictions there. from Japan, and they will seek to unsympathetically as they influence an influence thatt, Capetown he will embark got as much out of Japan as pos studied the Platform of the varied with the times. And for Australia to tour the con- sible i, reparations. They may Hong Kong Reform Club the beginnings of democracy tinent, and then by sen to Panama embarrass the Unitest States in and on by road through Mexico any attempt to let Japan off light- when it was published a week here will, for good, we hope into the United Statealy in the treaty ago. There was a charming and riot for ill, continue that warding to alve lum a big reTAILPIECE: The insoucianco about it, Hore influence in that aspect of the ception in Manchester on his ro- pozor, Shostakovich is writing an were presented, not in the dull rival ways of life which is tum will be his employers, gar oratorio on Stalin's atorestation age proprietor Mr Alexander of Russia. It is suggested that and detailed form of the Com- paramount, and decisive in Abrams and Jhelife, and two Benjam Briton should write an
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