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CONSERVATIVISM

By winning the Bradford by-election with a farger ma- jority, the Government has

By Windrush

SA New Look

vary

run true to form. It has | Crlops announced that the Gov-, out the Labour Government it again and again won by-ernment would pay informers will not be because it dislikes lis elections when mast people who denounced their fellows for alms but because it has begun to currency offences. That the Gov- doubt whether Labour's methods had convinced themselves crnment should appeal for, infor- | will bring the results desired. that the tide was running mers would in the past, have

seemed very "un-British.". 24384 against it.

Labour is now more hopeful Perhaps the most surprising of About the general election. Yet all is that people have ceased, to it cannot be confident that it attach nearly as much importance will win. The very

day after as in the past to the idea of pro-. the Bradford result WAS

of the people an-perty. The mass nounced came the results of the are more interested in a satisfac- Australian general election. tory weekly wage than in pos- Opinion in Australia has often in sessing a small reserve of savings the purt

moved in general har- The Conservative appeal a year mony with opinion in Great or two ago for the building up of Britain. But it has moved a little in advance.

left most people quite unmoved.

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If the Conservatives do succced In getting elected in Great Brit- ain they will not be like the Con- servativea of the past. They must understand that they have been brought back by people who do not think in the same way

Live governments in the past,

Unless they

misru

(Eastwards)

in the Med

By WILLIAM COURTENAY

This actress who incurred the wrath of what our, contemporary, o called the Comedio Francaise for taking a film bath should have that cleanliness can reflected Rometimes be next to joblessness.

The picture which this presents of England may not be heroid. Undoubtedly the country Is passing through a period of materiallim. It has lost its pride In itself. Yet it is rany to be too impatient. The people who criti- else the new England mbst aro those who in the past did not have any great material wants. A New conception of Em- The life of the grent mass of the pire, and indeed world, de-a a "property-owning democracy" ish people has always been fence, is arising in the Middle drnb and overworked. Their East due to the changes in

Social equality

standard of life and leisure has

risen greally in recent years balance of power after the Nobody can desire that it should victories and defeats of World ngain be depressed.

War II.

Whel

New sets of interests have suc-

needed Is national cerded the old. First in the mind of the great majority of people leadership which will give the in the determination that there people of the country a wider shell not again, be maUES unem-outlook. If there is to be a Con- ployment. Next there is the de- servative government, it must be demand for over greater social judged by whether it accepts the social revolution of our ago and equality. There is to be no more

Everybody helps to further the revolution by privilege from birth. la to have fair shares. If would presenting the new society with

much

to say that really be too these two pre-occupations - security and equality are the law and the prophets of modern Britain. If the electorate votes

The elimination of Japan as a major naval Power, the destruc- tion of German naval forces and the emergence of Russia as a po- tantial threat at sea, in the air and on `land,, have caused the

change modílook. realise this they

will come to disaster. Over the long run the politics of a country the Ideas and characters

bulk of its people. of the

The people of England today, even if voting conservative, are very different from the people who Disrneti or even for void fur Mr Baldwin.

worthier ains than it is content with at the moment. If the Con- servatives banker for the past, or If they wish to "conserve", they will be doomed.

A Portuguese adventure

As a result it is now clearly seen that while the centuries-old of keeping the Britten policy Mediterraneen free from threat of attack still holds good, a thrust by nir and land forces towards Tur- key, Pulceline

and Egypt from the vast areas aontrolled by Rus- sta could mean loss of the Medi- terranean and the sucking of Africa the one vast, rich contin- ent which lies Targely 'under Bri- tish control or British influenco.

THE FUTURE OF ASIA A distinguished Chinese as those who elected Conserva- friend, who has nothing to do with politics, asked us with we impatience the other day when Britain would again p a strong lead in China Tie was, of course, 13414

to the times thinking back whuen -kritual, diplomacy was nut unbeuthe most supple but The inflential in China. He Was also thinking in the future beyond the mere act of reception of the new regime

Britain has her contribution to make in this, as in other links between Asia and the

Mr. Maurice Collis, the well the Jesults, abandoned his career Western world But policy

20 cars of no longer comes from White-

known writer on the East, haalo the East after

and downs and setticd It has been trans-

published a book-The Grand spectacular ups

down in Portugal. He against any possible hrust alone ford into a Commonwealth

lived another 20 years in retire- ment, and wrote the history of poltery The Commonwealth

his adventures. It ran to 300,000 has now greater variety than In short weight of tolus it is predominantly A-BU 11 IN also stronger (alive and miso something right and proper They would have than ever, for at unites the vrahty and fresh uleas of the been hurt emotionally if anything had threatened them, 'Today it kommager partners with the ex-is quite different. It is hard to Techtuque and diplomatic think of any institution whore would exclle a deep linese winch London has abolition

equined in long and hard schoodier

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It needs an act de imagination to grasp how much the British people have changed with the passing years and under the flail of the great world events through which the last two generations have lived. Sometimes one gets 31 suniden revelation of the change by noticing how the public accepts with indifference today what it would have made a great outery over 30 or 40 years ago,

At the start of the century Younk men and women grew up with the feeling that the social and political institutions of Eng Duul were something very much

reselion from the

of the public.

them

greater part

Empire interest

The

Ur

is

a

Peregrination--which first-class adventure story. It will be of peculiar interest to readers ilving in the trading ports of the Asian, seas.

words.

tale

The manuscript had a curlous history. In Pinto's life time he could not find a publisher book printing was still very experisive.

The new strategic conception in bused on the holding of Africa at Britain's back fucing the Mediter- ranean shore line: the co-opera tion of israel, Egypt, Iraq and Purata to form a common front

Southward thrust from the Black Sea. and the holding of a strategie air force capable of long-range bon-bing to, cheek any sudden sttäck by ar mour and air power towards the ! Dardanell and ERVA

the Mediterranean

Eriglish

their Women Want husbands, pay rises paid directly to the wives.

That's, eertainly trying to take rise out of the old man.

Life is now dearer to uà than

ever.

I note that the evening, paper will not be published on Sunday because of the New Year holiday because It never is published ou a Sunday,

The same up-to-date Journal yesterday carried an Appealing from by alrmall picture sent Sydney to London and then flown to Hong Kong. It showed little children "celebrating the year's and and the arrival of 1950 In' Australia."

know,

Of course, I'm not saying anything. For all I Menzies may have instituted à

new calendar.

Because of something ho had written, a French dramatic critic was challenged to a duel by an actor, and wounded.

He said he had nover bein stuck for a phrase before.

1.5. Inclecision on Japan-China trade scored,"

On reading the news item, however, I found this was not regarded

bulia-eye, but i's new bombers something else.

He left the manuscript, rather, Russia's

It is the Ufe story of a Portu- Runs soldier and trader--Fernue Mendes Pluto-who lived In the 10th Century. He

ship- eccentrically,

for to a convent wrecked five Umea sold into redeemed prostitutes. Bere, uf- slavery 13 times, became for ter about 30 years, it was at last

WAN

By "Windrush”

His

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Restu did not possess a great bomber force during World War I; her air forces, based on the German pattern, were geared to hor armoured divisions and operated with them.

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Bays

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Myrtle's grandfather chaperone was an elderly woman who accompanied young women to "co Impressed

that they didn't indulge later by the results of RÁF and

in any of the vices she would US Air Force bombing Ja Ger-

have Intulged in if she hadn't many, Russia set about bulling been chaperoned when she was a strategie air forch in 1946-7. Shë |,a__young has copied nn American B20 For- Lreas ba a start, and is developing jet bomberr..

woman.

Marl people in England have erused 10 be very much interest- e in the Empire

Common-time pirate and for a time a ↑ arranged. It had great success Hul it was read for its entertain- wealth

controversy over Jesuit novice, and visited every the recent Parliament Act and the country bordering the Aslan seas

ment value. Nobody believed that was a sober chronicle of fact.

I hear that members of "the future of the House of Lords left from Abyssinia to Japan.

was thought this, is thus full of incidept.

Her vulnerable targets are her to be a very

Kowloon Rotary Clup were, most completely undisturbed: Though the royal family is popul

amising ollection of tall stories,olifields, mostly within 1,300 milles disappointed, when they found to

fate had befallen the of Britain's bomber bases, It is to be untrue the The same lar, it would be

It is also of profound historical

information mistake lo

hook by Marco Polo three cen- protect these that she might be contained In our Reminders think that the people would not interest. Pinto's sphere of opera- accommodate themselves to a re-

tion was the Portuguese maritime turies earlier when he had pub- tempted to thrust through Turkey | column; that the lunch would be public after the briefest of Inter-Empire of the 18th century. Thlished the account of his visits to and herein and Trug towards the held from 10 am to 10 pm,"

China,

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vals for readjustment.

In losing Keligion

its hold steadily, in spite of periodical of revival. The movements" churches are constantly said to be they have never got beyond the

on the verge of a come-back but

was the first of the Western Em- pire, in Asla. It was unlike the British and Dutch Empire, which succeeded it because it was a sea Empire, not a, land Empire.

False claims

Mediterranean.

Thus, in the event of an attack, while one arm of a pincer move ment might be expected to thrust; towards the English Channel, the other arm would strike towards the Mediterancan.

across the

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Latest British export to Ame- rica is the tartan dinner jacket

Will it have a little Scotch in the pocket?

blem

Marco Polo's reputation was rehabilitated at the end of the iast century. People began to ask whether Plato also had not been

Western Union is one line, of "The church has found a solution. telling the truth. But when

defence against such a thrust; the It will use temporarily the garage scholars examined hts text afresh, they found that it was Atlantic Pact, which will keep to solve their football site of a quite certainly full of false claims open the lifeline and statements. He had not been of war to

Atlantic and supply the munitions proposed. Inrge noir: pitch pro-

the defenders, is/an-can't give full marks for to places where he claimed to

other.

solution. have been. Yet thote was a my- slery about it, becauso Finto's The British Army and RAF, The merchant of today living lying seemed often pointless. His which lately visited in the In Singapore or Hong Kong who false statements were not almed Middle East, are charged, with! reads Mr. Collis' book, will re

at exalting himself. Also it was the task of deflecting any thrust in a dirty sewer. One was Two cockroaches were lunckibg flect from time to time on the differences between his own life's custard that his stories, if in towards the Mediterranean. Egypt, talking about the spotless new

accurate in detail, `gave in gen-Palestine and Iraq

restaurant from which they had destiny and that of Pinto, Pinto's

er'a true picture of the Asia of rougher, even though his time. Hrd was

The RAF in the Canal Zone been barred. there were no tremendous wars

controls the long air route to -hear he said, "that the да in our day. Piracy was a con- Mr. Collis claims to have solv- | India, and the‘„ For East and a refrigerators are stile and stant danger, so was shipwrecked. the mystery. He thinks that reserve air route is how In opera- Why, the place is so clean....

"Pleade, please!, & intertjiptod For those who survived, the Pinto was an artist whose pas- tion along" the Arabian coast as

great on It was to paint the picture an insurance against the cutting the other cockroach. "Not while rewards were certainly

I'm eating.. Finto, after all his many mis of his own day. To do this he of our trunk route. forturies and after impulsively used all the information he could giving half his fortune to the collect from all the people he Church, took thome with him to met. But in order to give an fortune of about £80,000 and he fused all this Information. together Portugual as profits from, trado a artistic unity to its work, he had arrived in the East as a into a partly fictional account of common soldier with nothing at his own travels. Air. Collis makes out a persunrive case for hir theory.

BE IT

Castillabon and agrec- men are first neressary for cuted action, which in this world of larger units carries fat more weight that the old isolated action, Co-operation with the United States is ab first factor, but not a This has existed on aim basis from the days of the first Treaties with China, though there

were always iances deriving from the im- imediate background of action. A very definite lead will un- doubtedly emerge from the Conference of Commonwealth

The Portuguese ruled the seas, Foreign Ministers, to be held

and operated their ships and Trade' from 'a 'chain; of fortified in the capital of the youngest | verge.

ports. The chief of these were Dominion early in the New

Individual liberty used to be Goa, in India, and Malacca, which Your. The Ministers, headed the passion of the English; but is now Singapore. The Fortuguese lay the British Foreign Secre- today everybody is resigned to never tried to conquer the hinter- lary, will meet not as rival the fact that modern conditions land of these porta, They were of life necessitate the contant often on very good terms with Powers determined to

There the local inland rulers. eutling down of liberty. disagree, but as partners de- was no outers from the mass of termined to find agreement, the people when Sir Stafford They have their own pro- blems to tackle first, of course, and some of them are quite of economic advancement and considerable. They include higher living standards in the vexed question of sterling Commonwealth and other tor- balances, on which a Com-ritories of Southern Asia. mittee of American, British The members of the Com- and Canadian experts will monwealth are determined to submit a report. This will no preserve their own way of etailed with the life, to prevent encroachment; problem of the dollar gap and and resist adventurism by the the wider problem of large international Communists. stale economic aid to Asia. The eating up of Western There are also the questions Europe by the new Imperi of Kashmir and Britain's part, alism has been frustrated, in Western Europe.

What has been done there But the main subjects will must likewise be done in

Here to conclude, is one of concert the future of Asia, South East Asia, and by the which fast becoming once same drive and much the One of the most curious events Pinto's stories. It is about Japan, more it was for ages, the same methods, of which Bri-of Finto's life was his ssociation (Finto claimed, falsely, to have most important Continent of tain's multi-million trade with St. Francis Xavier, the Per been one of the first three Portu- all. Certainly the battle for agreement with Communist Macao. Pinto Imet him first in is being received by a great lord, tugese saint who died near, guese to have visited Japan). He Asia will affect the destinies Yugoslavia is one.

Japan. The Portuguese, violenta Daimyo, who entertains him to of more peoples and lands The question is not one of a though they were, were after dinner, Flyto does not use chop- than the battle for Europe. crusade against Communism men of a very fervent religious slicics, but, after the European It is not so much a battle of as a creed. There is no le They came to the East to custom af the day, eats with his de

get rich, but many of them were hand. arms or defence as a battle for thought of intervention in carried away, by the dream of recovery, and economic, no less China, for example, like the converting Alla to Christianity. After dinner, one of the Dài-. than political, sécurity. In ill-fated Intervention'in').

myo' daughters asked permis They carried on

on something of sion to net a charade. Mr. Collis Europe the battle has been Russia after the Bolshevik the spirit and tradition of the paraphrases Pinto's narrative. more than half won, and Com- Revolution. The Internation-medieval crusaders. It was er-The daughter came into the munism, which prospers in al Communist Conference in rely typical of the age that ream dressed us a pediar.

Kneel- poverty and despair, has Peking called on the Chinese. Pinto should have been capivating before her father tho said "I

ed by St Francis Xavier St. sustained a sucession of Communists to look South-Francis's tremendous personality am a very poor man with many

"children" mortal defents,

wards, and they are saying conquered nearly all who met

ren, Foreigners from. The power of contrast is much about South East Asia nim Moreover, it Pinto really West have just arrived, they say. MACAO

What have: for sala is certain to BS' CANTON with us in Europe, and the and nothing at all about Man-Wes, and who he describes, please them. The pretty child

Ind miracles performed: WHE same advantage has to be churia, e sono ha could not have helped being said, this with so funny a faco gained in Asia. Broad policy There was the same conflict-jolted out of a wordly frame of and posed ne amusingly as a de- Bos", ¡eropid -old-man;"" that?' everyone goes beyond the simple act of in Japan, and it was decided mind.

wus convulaca with mirth, "What recognition, which is already against the democracies. Next

Pinto met 61. Francis only a hinto you' got for sale?!, asiced, the agreed upon. It may not, for time it may be different, but the while before the sainte Daimyo. Now her companions some time to come, have much we can take no chances. The death. But Plato resolved to entered the room, dressed to look to do with events within more constructive the cour the had died. To this mid he be carrying parcels on their shoul carry on the saint's work, oftar like the pediar's, assistants, land China, which is passing ter-measures are the greater canda Jestilt sovices and finant ders. That were opened before. through an experimental will be their impact on events ed a Jesuit mission to Japan, the Daunyn, sedangkan pe ordeal, whose hard lessons in China, which in the new will be of interest and contest of faiths is now the He himself accompanied the Inside were hands, wookien misalon, though nga layman, bo hands, they looked like to Pinto, value. But it will con- key country," "And a settle-ing appointed in Portuguesa Am who mystified could not see the cern all the countries border-¡ment with a resurgent and re- bassador ( from the 2 Viceroy of point, Tile Little Princess now ing on China, near or far, for, covering Japan is an essential Goa The mission miccondled bat sulit Hemurely, Thess hunds"will, the problem now is one of objective in the general policy terin its secular aling than in so found very convenient by roligious jalmaking the sepuroa or poople who sat with their bundle containment of hostile and ag- of peace, stability and recon- lento & religious ardours cool for they can use them when their he gressive elements as well as i struction.

Ker, Jolla Atits conclusion, Pinto left own go to the wash, pogodno

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