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THE HONG KONG SUNDAY HERALD, JANUARY 18, 1950,

NOW ON TO ACT TWO YOUTH TODAY STILL

The new year is a time, upon his neighbours, especially if, foreseeable future, Thers' re- for stocktaking, a season at his neighbour's Inn is moro mains, however, the danger of the

which men review the past and contemplate the future.

They look back upon what they hava done and, seeking to learn something both from success and | fallure, they take decisions as to the principles that shall gulde them in the days that lie ahead.

The end of half ན་ century should bolan occasion of greater importance and solemnity than the end of the year, and should provide a suitable opportunity for the human race to meditate on its

achtovamente,

When day broke on January 1. 1000, the hopes of humanity were rising. Great Britain was still engaged in a smali colonial war in South Africe, but the rest of the world was nt peace.

There had been no war between what were then called the Great Powers for 30 years, and many clever people believed that such wars would never happen again.

Seinhoo and progrent were the waterwords of the age, nud were

about to eronte a better world in which all mon would be

equal. Ite, and friendly.

Tragic has bee the dallusion- mat This half-century, that bid so fair to be happy and pros- perous, han been

sire fraught a prolonged with ealamity than any previous

period of man's evil history.

Never before within so short a while have so many human beings been killed in war, maimed for

No

special request, but durations may be give to chridhe

fertile than his own.j.

But he is also a religious creaturg. The majority of man-

By Sir Duff Cooper

kind believe, and has always be lieved, passionately in something that cannot be provod,

characteristic,

He has a third very important in the sphere of politics he liken to be led,

Why men march

war that economics.

has its origin in

To be solved

The two wars that have gone far towards ruining the civilined world in the past half-century wore both prepared, plòtted, anj declared by the German people.

It became the fashion after the Arst one to say it was all the foult of the Junkers, a small group of squiron living principally in East Prussia, and during the second one the National Socialist Party wan made the scapegoat, although

we have since learnt that such an anormous majority of the popu- lation were Nazis that, even now,

HAS ITS CHANCES

By Field Marshal Lord Ironside

waste. the times are black now,

The other evening while responding fashioned, as it were, sitting in my club I overheard the mould and the mettle 'out of which character, as a people has a man tell his neighbour that grown? the spirit of adventure was What we have, therefore, is dead in Britain these days. Ours not He went on to say that there how Infinitely blacker they muat was so much talk of welfare have looked to men like Patrick and security that our young people were afraid to venture forth into the world and try their luck.

Gordon of Auchleuchrles---the great General of Poter the Great young brother of the last Eart James Keith,

of Russia; and to

it is impossible to carry on the

Morischol Field-Marshal of I began to wonder If this were Frederick the Great of Prussia; administration of the

truc, country

and how binck, too, to Alexander without their active co-operation.

Of a sudden there come

into Leslie, Earl of Leven, the Gen- my mind a piece of advice given cral of These plain facts should con-

Gustavus vince the unprejudiced that the

Adolphus of by Winston Churchill. It Sweden and leader of the Scot- German problem, unless and un- was early in the war. I had mot tish Army in the days of the

him on a visit shortly after 1 had Covenanters. been offered an appointment did not much fancy

Sometimes this third charac- is confused with the teristic

For God and the King" nocond. was the cry for which in oidon

willing to dinys mon wero

Jay The two name down their lives. contained, for those who believed value, In them, all that was of divine and human

The world has changed less it has been solved must italin" mean for many today all than we fancy. Marxism and main the most vital one for the future of Europe. Have WC solved it by defeating Germany In that "God and the King meant

two wars? What steps are for others in the past.

For I have never heard that modern despola either of these hus tried to show tint there waa

re-

we

taking now towards its solution 7

me

ז

My mind wus hovering the answer.

over

The challenge

He told me the story of

French. just before the

These three men were soldiers.

And soldiers were wanted in their Ime, So they went forth-and ilme,

Lained One was even an at-

tow.

not, of 13 15

alone

that

of course, tu soldiers the challenge of the Sir times is revealed, although it is often forgotten that fighting men the are required securlly of a nation,

to guarantee Have they gone?

For many centuries the Gar- mans, divided into different States any difference in their philoso-, later, following different re-

to the civilisation of Europe. For outbreak of the 1914-18 war; how phies, or in their interpretation of ligions, made a rich contribution John the words of their prophet.

he had always had in mind the From the point of view of the 50 years only they have been u

possiblity of being called upon politician every religion should be united nation.

to command a British Army in examined as to its potentiality for war. Buddhism in the most

the field; how he felt himself

If it is true to-day that our life, tyrannised ver, imprisoned, pacist religion, Mahommedanism

compelled to resign his appoint- young people are persuaded that tortured, and enslaved. Never has the most warlike.

ment as Chief of the Imperial production in

General Where does Comminian come literature, music, or philosophy in this category? And I ft foly TALKING IT OVER mure engre or on a lower

My own to start another war? «tandard Naver has the dismal beller is that it is not a fighting huwapity been more faith, and that it is not a menace failure of

to the peace if the world

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mankind's

art,

If this verdiet be necupted, and while some may find it exagge caled, suberty can maintain that

Divided, they produred inven- turn, poets, musicians, and phillo- sophers--and did no harm to ang une. United they have produced nothing but nggressivo war.

sakz The fatal flaw

In The first place. C'om- it is wholly fulse, we ought to munism's favourite slogan (which quatre inter the causes respon-means war-cry) at the present sible for the fallure of the 20th time is that it stands for ponce,

of Lhu century so far, in the hope of and Anuch

support it from those who believe in its sincerity,

In the second place, I cannot see that Russia, the headquarters of Communtain, has anything to gain by whi

discovering some way of avolding obtains

a repetition of or errors

Causes of war

ко wor

in

ain of their

Army.

I told Mr Churchill thal auch u thing was written lu a man's

fate.

What a challenge us here!

Staff through political Commercial opportunity through adventure, and enterprise through Therefore, se renson the stater- controversies; and how in "

spirit and nativo genius, are gone, en of today, the Brst thing w matter of weeks he had been must do is to restore United Ger- offered command of the British they might call to mind Donald many--this roodern natian born

Smith.

Lord Strathcona, the great of blood and iron and the only

and his Canadian administrator

Lord Stephen, one that loves wir for its own

George Mountatephen. He turned to me in that quick Just as Russia has no cause lor

Both there great men did much Germany making

For and sal. way of his

"I don't to establish

the Canadian every cause. Children never will know whether such thlogs are West, and in doing so they amass- and never have nocepted the stern written for you or not, but ed great fortunes. Nor did they doctrine that the

meanwhile you must do nothing forget their native provinces whan fathers shall be visited upon them

to prevent their fulfilment if affluence CARIC to them, and Ghastly as

the crimes of they are," were

through their help many a lad Intherm, the generation their

there is to from the North was able to take todny Geunany growing up

his chonce in a career abroad. Wars re unty the hideous

They need more territory in I turned back in my mind now, And that great cvmptoms of deep-rooted disease

Europe. They long for colonies asi sul in my club, to these: Alexander

Muridech Mackay, We cannot prevent than by stu-

Flussiann have sufficient {uversoza, They pro n brave and

words and I thought of my own

Aberdeen Grammer pid disarmansert agreements any

And they sumcient

have native lood man-power, warlike propic,

in the North

Selioo--a man who laboured so more than we can prevent small- | suffelent food and raw materials. two wars tą avengo.

They have

long in the cause of Afrlen and the tox by rubbing ointment into the Any Increase in the circumference

Surely. 1 thought, knowing who now lies buried on the shores controlled by Moscow can only in-strategic advantage of Inhabiting them, our own young men were of Lake Victoria Nyanza.

the lands that lie between the the responsibilities, the

not holding back from what was dimeulties, and the problems of great opposing powers of East written for them-holding back As my memory wanders along

and West. the Polibure

They can throw in In the third place, I balieve their lot with either, or play one that Communism

falling of against the other. Every day force Considered as a religion it they are growing stronger.

It has The curtain is about to rise on contains one fatal flaw.

tho Second Act of

20th promised to the adherents their the

Will the few years of reward in this world.

The older faiths have outgrown unquiet peace that we have just

only the experienced provo the stage of conversion by

between disasters, aword, and dictators, it seems, de entr'acte

The territory.

The United States has duge great things in Europe, and

It met disaster in China now thurking its way loudly to a revaluation of policy in

East Republier erties, with their swingtime have had the alessamuures,

They left leal far toy long. The American people, and the world at large, with the feeling that they had a policy if a bad ones and the Gov-

No at all ernment doubt the Secretary of State fitended to wait until Dr

touri We have got to discover Jessup but ended his

bis Andings Featuses in order to prevent the and rendered After all, the problem is one discuss, and it would perhaps he →g thing if some of our not merely of laying down scientists were to study the patho new lines of policy, but of lose of polities rather than the getting as much authority and development of atomic energy.

The uses of war in the past expertise as possible behind it

been

eronumic have

alaty

nic if only to balance the excep- | religious, and dynastic. Man is

anbal and

who tional wright which attaches hungry

conditions, breeds to General MacArthur's given

rapidly. As his numbers crease, his demand for land, the three heirs, so that, if my may they be prolonged, as inost

astimate of Commnuniam be nemen and women of food and wealth in-rested, we should be safe from praying. into a lasting period of Creases, and he begins to prey religious or dynastie wars in the Peace on Earth 7

views.

Mr. Dean Acheson has now hit back vigorously and in some respects positively. His speech at the National Press Club revealed the lines along which he and his Depart- He ment are now thinking. has cut through the confusion

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inust now be

Asia's new nation

la consequence,

A formal ceremony in the the Far East, excepting Dutch foreign customers Royal Palace of Amsterdam New Guinea. completed the constitutional |

It is constituted,

between Socialism

domestic policy and Communism as a

internationally sovereign bo- Holland in so far as they new form of aggressive Im- dy, called the United States perialism-a very timely of Indonesia, will henceforth thing in view of the current rule the Dutch possessions in hysteria which is altogether!

11 too indiscriminate.

has

settlement of Indonesia. Anggests, on federal lines.

Federation remains Hoked

had Manchurla in the bag and threatened to overrun all Her forces had North China.

have Buffered

In the rst flush of nationalist as s name triumph the people will expect

The prosperity to return with a rush with But will it do so? Will it indeed

will

ever fully return? The event must show; but at least the con- itions for success can be seen.

First, there must be law and order. and reasonably honest government. The complicated economic machinery on which the 40 millions of Java depend

By Scrutator

A

Scotland,

for

Not for waste

pupil

missionary

ก

I recall many some dull, fancied security.

to my own time For I know them to be born of more James Scorgle Meston, Lord people who have always taken

Meston, Governor of a Province In India End Chancellor of their fate in both handa.

Aberdeen University: Sir Patrick Duurun

Governor General of I try think of what they the Union of South Africa; Wil must be thinking, and I see that, Barn Lyon Mackenzie King, a as they look out on the world. Prime Minister of Canada: and affairs must look black and for- Peter Fraser, a Prime Minister of New Zealand. An Imposing list of bidding."

men from whom to gain inspira-

But if our youth now feel that the times deny them something. tion. does not our history show fre- quently that It was just

Up and doing this uncertainty

pust thot Mally thay think that op- offered the very challenge toportunities enjoyed by those men which our

ancestors have been now no longer exist. But were accustomed to respond. and In there not many more thousands of

the

(Continued fram Col. 8)

,

But such is not

ordinary men who went out to the West Indies, to China, Mulaya Land Bernco, men who made their

mark as merchant adventurers? nol interference.

Whether a man's genius lies In at all the case.

his head or his hands the пр- Instead she comes in the front portunities are still there for his rank of Lhose States of South grasping; certainly for his creat- East Asia against which a special ing Communist campaign is being

"In this lies the real challenge directed. The Russians began it to youth to-day. For just as the before their party, under Mao glittering prospects seldom turn Tse-tung, had conquered China; out to be the sweetest reward, so they can now prosecute it much the

meannesa of the times is not more effectively in the light of the reflex of its prospects. Youth that enormous victory,

must be up and doing, and if they Communist control of Indo- do not find nesis, following on control of China,

Inspiration in the Communist surface

ofters opportunity and would

carry that come easily to hand, they Russian power in Asta to very

the words of may alarming peak. It would especial- Tocher.

ly affect our own position Malaya.

Indeed the whole strategical balance in the Asiatic seas would

a small

both be members of a Nether- lands Indonesian Union, of which the Dutch Queen is the head. gone back to the first prin- aver and over again for cen- The the in unalogous to that of

can function on no other terms. ciples of American foreignį turies. The real issue was the British Commonwealth.

Secondly, the Dutch business The new State received imme- polley.

put in

very clear terms in

Arms which havo directed pro- diate full recognition from Great duction and marketed the produca These

are the Open Door The Times" a fortnight ago Britalo, Australia, Canada, South must be encouraged to contine In China and opposition to when it said that the idea of Africa, India and Burma. It was

doing so. There is, for the time Imperialisin. Fifty years ago, a world of Parliamentary de- launched under favourable aus-

being, no Indonesian personnel when they were enunciated mocracies after the war was pices, with cordial expressions of which could replace them.

good will from Indonesians and most emphatically, Russia

never more than a

This question of personnel will dream.

Dutch alike.

be one of the greatest dificulty Therefore it would be a mis- The Dutch military forces are for Indonesin. When the Indians take for the Western Powers to be withdrawn or disbanded took over the administration of be transformed. Already under to set their faces against any delay seems wise; it will give the hands a machine already staffed had

within six months.

The slight India, they found ready to their the pre-air naval conditions Java extreme importance for a line stretching all the way other political system. Liber-new State short breathing by Indians at all levels, and, save strategy; and it has at least us from Klachta, on the Siberian al democracy must always be space wherein to organise sudi-

at the highest, almost entirely by | much in these days of air-power. border with Outer Mongolia, preferred and be supported clent police forces of its own.

them.

Happily no such contingencies ↳ Will it succeed? That was through Urga, Peking, Tong-where it exists, but the West

the British way. have yet arisen, and we are en- which went back to the days of titied to wish success to the new- shan, and Dalrén to Vladi- must be prepared to tolerate Will the experiment of inde-

the East India Company. The born State. It is not vostok. That in turn was a and even work with other pendence succeed, 08 India, Dutch system was quite different, logical development of Rus- Governments so long as they ceeded? Or will it fall, as Burma donestans who combine Western Pakistan and Ceylon have suc- and present the number of In- slan expansion Eastward of

has failed? The answer directly education with tried capacity in the Urals and Southward to "What la repugnant—and dan-concerns about 50 million people, the borders of Persia and gerous is the alliance between of whom nearly 40 million live affairs is extremely small.

may be a long time before In- Communiam and Ruulan Im. on the crowded island of Java. India. The only difference

portallam, which threatens the They had under Dutch direcdonesia has a trained personnel that of India, betwee the situation then

security and existence of do- tion reached standards of life comparable to and now is one of detail and

mocratio nations. Since Yugo high for Asia, and their arcas had Pakistan or Ceylon.

The task is in some ways slavia is the first country to re- become for the rest of the world of infinitely greater efficiency

casier, in others harder. nounce that alllande, she de- important sources of supply for Burma there were age-long tradi- in technique and control.

serves the support of the West-rubber, rice, petrolcuin, tin, tions of murder, dacolty and local The new imperialism is, too, orn world without the condition tobacco, tea and coffee.

warfare, which the British had far more bold and unashamed, that she should also renounce things represented on the econo-

and har political principice. White mic side a mass of enterprise with difficulty kept under, as the open browbeating of

avolding any provocation to and achievement, for which the which at once came to the top Tito and the events in Czecho-

Russia, and without seeking any Dutch were almost solely responed. Hence the anarchy of blood- slovakia and other satellite

military advantage, they should sible.

Since the second world war shed into which that country, has States have shown.

show their readiness to da business on fair and equal terme much of it has been curtailed or collapsed. The 40 million Java- with any Communist country in abeyance, owing to revolutioncse are by contrast a peaceful, tractable people, and within their. that refuses to be bound hand ary disorders, and both the island only a few districts may Jayancac and thetr island's present difficulties. But It la

are friendly.

and foot to Moscow." In his speech at the Press | ge

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As the debt is we owe to the quick, it is nought when compared with the vast

The

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