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FACTS AND FEELINGS

The good side of the picture

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Labour

By "Windrush

bas benefitted

changed.

This

ba

bo itself crippleted They have reconciled themselves / mood, and if there is a long

Good M

"Shanghai' hit” 4′′U.S. This time, somebody really was

I still think the accusations that the Japs sent germs into China is a distinct reflection on the Nip soldiers.

ns barristers, it

The lethargy and Indicipline The Election fur and fea-

in Britain today, too, can thers have begun to fly. In an

much, exaggerated. Where labour election campaign nobody

la lazy, management is often to makes, statements as if upon ha not "played the game. On the whole the Labour Gov-| blame. Moreover,. British Labour oath. Each side paints a pic from social services, the intru-have

passing througli a pecullor greatly ernment and Tary Opposition| in

behaved towards each psychological state which will ture of the state of the coun- duction of the five-day week, other with mutual respect and presently pass away. As the re-hit" "Newsmaa hit," try which, to the other side, and food subsidies. The middle toleration. The outbursin be-Bult of propaganda for two gen-

and Mr. crations Labour has Mr. Morrison

become hit. will seem grotesque. There class complains sourly that La- tween

taken aware of "grievances stretching 24354fore, it is a good idea to try bour's response has been to work Churchill should not be

less hard than formerly,

too seriously, In what other back to the beginning of the in- 32312

to see the state of Britain

It points to the enormous pub-country in the world has a social dustrial revolution. It feels it- today as it really is.

lle expenditure by the working revolution been carried through self a class which, because of the The bad side of the picture, classes on liquor, tobacco, and with so little bitterness? Fami- past, is exploited and weary.

ilfe the economic_dangers in which football pools. It resents that it lies have had their way of

in obviously by und

passing the country Ands itself, and the should

prospects totally evident mistakes made by the taxation while the Government, have been stressed wealth of the country is being philosophically to the new times. period of Labour rule, Labour from time to time in this coitinn. used for such unworthy purposes.

will cease to feel itself in op-

Nothing is perfect. On readipa In fairness there should also be Of course there is some sub- Main things survive post-war one, and the post-war yesterday's

|position.-Its-present attitude fra

ACCOUNT OF the an effort to appreciate the good stance in this middle class com-

England

to discussion in side of the picture.

plaint. Yet the middle class

Too much importance should phase is drawing to an end.

should wear Thus English society is still whether solleitors For

the past five years Great should be careful about casting not be attached to the bitter joke)

comment of Britain has been passing through stones. Unill 1045 it was master and

But no wigs as well day-to-day fundamentally healthy. a great social revolution. The of Great Britain. But the middle conversation, Nor should Eng-society can be exposed inde- becarne evident that court wigs balance in society has been tilled class

spent scarcely

own land tony be judged from the initely to

as the are not provided free under the It tavour of the classes which economy in a way which made regrettable outward accompani- Great Depression and great wars National Health Scheme.

ments of sodal change. The out-have brought on this. country. formerly underprivileged. England famous for its culture,

significance in La- ward appearance of England mayThough we have never got any- The revolution has been made. The real

e da piespace hard-personalabtanislaus what at the Alhambray

have' deteriorated puer auch as has happened as the result of 50 years of politi- for used its political power with Morals cal effort, had made itself so great moderation. This is due such matters as petty pilfering. continent of Europe, yet we have asked Myrtle.

"Let's Bén what the advert strong that it was able to compel to the infuerce and personalities But the main things which Bri- got near enough to see its dan-

of such men as Mr. Atlee, Mr. tain stands for have survived.

Violence is still hated in pub-" The greatest single cause of swain. But another reason for the re- Bevin, and Mr. Morrison. They

kept well under con- le life. Majority and minority social and ethical collapse in so- dromn volution was that the country as have a whole felt that justice required trol the wilder ledders who wish- respect and tolerate cach other. clely is uncontrolled it. Several hundreds of thousands ed to carry out social

revolution

Law is sacrosanct (though the indation. Lenin once said, "If you of those who voted Labour at at a very different tempo. multiplicity of regulations which wish to make a revolution, first

On the whole it is fair to say Socialisin makes necessary are debauch the currency," the last election were people of

as having It is for this reason that. de- the to-called middle and upper that the Labour Government and not always regarded

has not do the same commanding force a valuation has seemed such un classes who knew that their, Tory Oppositon material interests would suffer criminated against any one class major law). Parliament is still alarming portent to many people, the sovereign in and why the Conservatives seem But they of the nation so severely that accepted from Labour rule.

Intolerable has come anywhere near prostitution of the country. There is about to make "honest money" thought that it was

welfare gap in social

unconstitutional no murmur of Fascism and prac- one of their chief slogans in the voking it into that the

Election. be Ro

tically none of Communism. should between classes

action. great. They voted for their own demotion.

were

{"party

The speech of the British Consul-General in Shanghai, and the warning by two Corn-change. munist writers in that port against what they called "harmful illusions" enable the reader to sense something of the climate in Shanghai, today. It is satisfactory to know that the Sino-British Cultural As- sociation not only remains in existence but that it can draw a erowder attendance. An unalterable conviction that China will create a synthesis of both rival world systems. does not exclude the possibl- lity that the pendulum will wing still farther to the left before it moves in the other direction. Li Ll-sun's trade unions, which are being form-

Thus the social revolution in nn almost uni-

Britnin has been que exumple of a great move- ment for levelling up society which has resulted- not simply from shifts in power, but from ethical ideas. shared with the under-privileged Former top dogs in carrying 11 through.

Ita

Doctor killed

Keys.

Buch shocks

on the

Rays,"

..

powerful

responded her current

most The

Boul- Aver portrayed!

heart-throbbing, nerve-

monetary magnificent beyond

his father;

was it crime or mercy

fluence of the Cominform, are those who in 1945 supported well as in the United States, posed the Bill.

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description! In gorgeous, sublime, brilliant Techalcolor!"

"I'm," said Myrtle. "Doesn't · sound too bad, does it?"

Wome will corsets."

•

always want

bero to

They're apparently

stay.

In a shoplifting case a woman usked the magistrate not to judg by appearances,

Ile said no, he would judge her by disappearances.

The hydrogen.

face of all the varying reports, I'm beginning to wonder if it's the bomb or the theory that's been exploded.

ed chiefly for external agita- It is not to be wondered at if

Quite unusual interest has realm of law," and it was on this should win a place in the ballot the social revolution has pro

In Lord Dawson op for Private Members' Dils-into tion and to buttress the in-arted on widened, many of been aroused, in Britain as ground

the Commons. Undoubtedly his exalted pusi. There can be tle doubt that have begun to lose their co-

Today

mercy killing" case tion in the medical profession the today we should receive fur more the middle by a thusiasm.

occurred with being which has threatened

near was President of the Royal Col-support than was the case when class,

must | King's physiclans)

have 1910, less than a year after absorbed by the proletariat, takes the town of Manchester in lege of Physicians and one of the the. Ell was first introduced

sympathetic view

New Hampshire, U.S. of Labour than it did five years

only just getting into their stride. It may be that difficul- ties far greater than now exist may have to be faced by those who are trying to carry

оп.

ti much less

ngo.

Less united

there must be an exchange of goods.

punishment,

that la certain

aame

Bill rejected

very

1

By C. KILLICK. MILLARD

many

the

forthation of our society, which may be said to have been the be- ginning of the modern movement

of favour

reform, At that time the question har hardly been discussed, few people had thought about R, and pubile opinion had not had time to firin.

the other Today

position in very different.

TOKYO ROSE TO BE RELEASED

San Francisco, February 0. Attorney Wayne Collins said today

The latest report, fram Detroit Says "H-bomb should be dangled."

Maybe but not dropped.

"Two robbers loot Kowloon City resident.” „

thought at first. it. was ond of these types with gold - bars stuffed in his ears, under: bis prins and in the soles of his shoes, but it turned out to be just nother example of the near- :English which one. million ecrtined local readers are regalet with every mornings

Writing about the "horrors" of U.S. television, a contemporary

long been the staple of most Hollywoon films."

BW Jon

There are three reasons Why But Sir Robert Urquhart-

this case should be of such special; the "mercy" klil» ! Interest: Fir, who was speaking, of course, Thus 1950 Ande the nation less

wns 'done

doctor: by a merely as a member of, the | united than

1945. The mindle Association had full just class is ant to think that Labour accently, the doctor (Dr. Herinas Sander) made no secret about it, cation for the tribute he paid

but frankly admits the deed; and to the way in which the new

thirdly, he is being prosecuted for targely influenced murder.

peers who opposed the Bill, regime had fulfilled its pro-

As the law stands today "mercy

The Archbishop of Canterbury mise that law-abiding foreig- Indeed, it is not too much

Is killing

technically murderri (the inte Dr. Long), who spoke ners would suffer no harm. to say that the resurgence of and the penalty for murder next, made it clear that he did; Nothing is more striking than Asia in this era depends on execution or, at the least, a im not oppose the Bill on religious grounds and said that he found the contrast between the this. The whole upsurge, term of imprisonment.

But murder, by all definition, it a very diffleult question. mob-law which accompanied which derives its force not Implies mallee, and in this the Nationalist revolution. only from ideas but from the there certainly

was no malice,

Golden rule

grandfather BOYA over the whole length and clamant needs of an unprece-only therey, for the unfortunate

the Supreme Court has Myrtle's Borroto) WOH

He decided to breadth of China, and the dis- dented increase in population, sufferer (a Mrs.

follow Lord authorised the release of Tokyo conscience is the voice that tells has been so can go on-like the growth dying of cancer and in in Dawson's lead, saying: "I cannot Rose on ball pending appeal of you not to do something after cipline which

tho punish-

you've done it. but think it is better to leave this her treason conviction. characteristic of the so called of the powerful new States in pain; so, whatever

ment,

Tokyo Rose (Mrs. Iva Toguri d'Aquino) was convleted here "people's revolution." In this North and South America--many people will sympathise with most difficult and delicate matter pro- Sander and consider that he in the hands of the meat at last autumn. The treason charge respect, too, it differs greatly until Asia has been transformn- Dr. Sander

fession, exercising is intimate prutse rather than

grew out of her wartime broad- from the terrible deeds that ed from its relatively primi- deserves

and responsible judgment, rather followed the Bolshevik Revo- tive life on the soil to the mo-

Such a case obviously raises thethon, as this Bill proposes to du. casts from Radio Tokyo to Allied | remarks, "Violence, of course, has

Mrs. d'Aquino la now in Alder lution and the civil war.

bilisation of the machine in whole question whether the law, to drag it into the open and forces in the South Pacific.

It by Leedure.

elaborate

official son Prison, West Virginia, for 10 ought not to be The trade complex, too, was-all-its--productivity, and as it stands

It

Yes, indeed. What with mocn reems-lo-me

-me a BliHA years," tion wh

which must be dealt with Mr. Collins said put in its proper perspective, motor-cars and power stations amended so that "merey killing."

$50,000 ball and appon and goon, I It was possible, said Sir Ro- dot the landscape as the an- under the of "voluntary from the inside, by the confideu will be raised.-Associated Press. every time I think of them.

euthanasia," would be legalized that relations of the doctor atid bert, to exaggerate the impor- cient barrow used to do. But and put upon a proper footing.

patient....It is therefore in their

Melbourne, February 6. tance of foreign trade for it can also fizzle out in futility, China and China trade for and anarchy. Britain. He pointed out that That simple phrase descri-

Many people who have thought Britain's trade with China bes a condition of affairs has been well under two per hardly less appalling than the about this question believe that the day will come, in the not so cent, of her total foreign trade, fears inspired by the new ter-far distant future, when voluntary Very many people differ from The Communist leaders, as rors which civilisation as à euthanasia for persons dying a Lord Dawson and feel

the responsibility for do intellectuals have been apt to whole must face and conquer, slow and painful death will be teave

honour-eiding as to euthanasia in any do throughout Chinese his in this time of atom and regarded as a perfectly

and rational able courageous,

at- given case upon the medical tory, have rather looked down "hell" bombs. In any case, Courno,

tendant is not satisfactory and is on trade, especially the profit foreign trade. no less than The

society, of which I have not fair either to the doctor or to motive. Yet the profits earned culture, must have a favour- been honourary secretary since sufferor dying in pain, who de-

social from Britain's China tradeable political.

and its formation 13 years ago, was sires euthanasia but whose doctor have been "but a tiny percen economic environment. It can founded for the express purpose is not prepared to give it, tage of Britain's earnings dle, and die quickly. If the of getting the law altered so that

voluntary euthanasia

Admittedly some doctors, acti from foreign trade over the Chinese cherish the belief legalised, subject, of course, to ated by pity and by the "golden rule" of doing as you would be years,"

that trade is the main motivej proper safeen society's Blll-the done by, do in extreme cases take) Not only these and other of British policy. "they must

an 1938 the Voluntary

alary Euthanasia

(Legalisa the law into their own hands (1 profits--of which the Chinese act accordingly if they wish ton) Bill-war Introduced into remember one

case where a merchants used to get a good- us to have a stake in their the House of Lords by the late doctor told me he had done it in ly share-but also the adverse own.fortunes.

succeeded the case of his own father); but the obviously has to be done sur- Lord Moynihan, late balance of trade, were out-

There is, of course, a fur. Lord Ponsonby, who weighed by the remittances ther motive, a long-sighted eminent surgeon, as president of reptitiously.

the society.

Probably it usually takes the sent to China annually before concern that is not without

Although it did not get a second the war by prosperous Chi- its idealistic content. We be- reading, it glicited a first-class form of giving an overdose of narcotic (morphia is still out nesc in British and other ter lieve that, no synthesis will debate, Lord Ponsonby, being sup-sheet anchor in cases of ronily ritories overseas. The appeals be adequate which ignores ported by Lord Denman (the pre-

ugonising pain), and hoping that patient will not agala wake that are being made to these the basic principles on which sent president of the society) and

Lord Listowel.

high degree of communities to allocate these the Western peoples have

The rejection of the Bill was up; but, as

"tolerance" to morphla has usu by Lord Fitzalan, who,

as a Roman Catholte,ally been created in these cases,

would be

hands (the medical profession) that I would prefer to leave all he those possible circumstances to which Lord Dawson called our attention."

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remittances to the new bonds grown great in the worlded it as a Bill to legalize it is not easy to say what

filustrate the two-way traffic And it is obvious that new

that to

that has always existed, and China has a responsibility for murder and suicide, He was fol. really fatal dose, and very often. the underlying reciprocal world peace and for the lowed by the late Lord Dawson, he patient does wake up again, basis in principle and practice cataclysm that must come if who, although opposing the Bill to further spell of misery. of trade and enterprise.. | peace collapses--no less than made a speech which might well Itro happens that for some There is nothing to be all the rest of us, China's true have been in support of the prin-months part petition to the ashamed of in trade, properly interests, as we see them, are ciple of voluntary euthanasia. conducted, it means an ex that if she cannot be for us, p Big question change of goods surplus to at least she, should not be

has

been

United Nations to amend the Declaration of Human Rights so as to include the right to receive voluntary euthanasia (subject to one country and greatly need-against us. There is a degree He quoted the case of a woman proper safeguards). ed by another. China lived for of infatuation inseparable. who had endured disease with under way by the British Volun: Euthanasia Legalisation Bo- centuries without It. She perhaps, from a great emo- incomparable bravery for alle

conjointly with its

Its opposite berthe, would like to see a solid effort to be patient with professor diminishing strength, crushed by of Americans of distinction in to make the country absolute who remember a century of pain and complete disability, be Only:1 ly self-sufficient In food, sup conflict but forget what has sought, peace and kindly death their respective walks of life are plies. But in this machine age happened in Manchuria, who He said: "is submerging

and the exchange of goods bas see all good in Soviet Russia sufferings to be destrains of her bains anked to sign the petition,

different meaning from and so good at all in Concause her life might be

#mantha? what

could do it still, and manytional period. We shall have Years, and at long last,;- byl názvesnuthanasianat

extension of the disease and

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pet ofther into the

The Archbishop of Melbourne A man named Dugon has

Most

Reverend Joseph scaped from a Sydney jail for Booth, said today of the hydra- | the fourth ilme. Ren bomb. that science has for Obviously a bloke like that gotten man is a being with F should never be allowed near a mind and a soul-United Press

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