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-THE- CHINA - MAIL, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1980,

AFTER THE ELECTION

Mallogin blunderland.

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It is time that, the loft wing will have to recognised that u IPA would damage itself if by ita in trigues it caused the fall of the government and a now election.. It would have cut off, ita noseith spite its face. Agninab this, the probable.argument of the left wing will be that in strong socialist policy is the only way to win elections,

The signs continue to ac-1A group of peers-Lords Halley itself within sight of power. The precarious, the cabinet may be cumulate that the Labour and and Hankey among them have | more vednciliatory the cabinet much more at the mercy of the written a letter to the ""Times”- to --became, the more tit would be pressure ofṣthe left wing: of thọ Tory parties may be very urge_this. "Before long", they pressed. Thus by moderation it party, even in the new house. The say, "wo belleve that the gravity could win noiadvantage.

And it might damage its position with most recent "Newa.Chronicle" of the economic crisis at home, poll showed that the Tories and ulso, it may be, of the diploits own party. It would have to have at present a 2% percent lead among the electorate: The 24354"Daily Express" poll gave 82312 them a slightly larger lead, but still very small. Today the betting in the City in that there will be a very slight Tory majority. (The betting is informal. Dealings in election "majorities are prohibited on the stock exchange.)

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THE AIR AND SEA BLOCKADE

By "Windrush""

are very

malle, crisis abroad, will compel all but, the most obdurale partie ang to realise that temporary politient-unity ¦ is essential.”

But there

obdurato partisans [11 hoth

parties. are deep divisions of principle beween nt least the left, wing of the Labour Party and the Tories about the way the crisis should be han died. Except in case of war, coalition. Is unlikely...

themselves begin-There People are ning to pik what will happen if there is anything like a dead hent between the parties or If neither.bas sufficient majority to feel at all safe.. to feel at

The Liberals are taking heart from this possibility. They are putting up more than 400 can- didates. In their pubile state-

chance of winning 50

General MacArthur is quotments they pretend to, think that ed as having told the head of they have a cy, did so,, and if it the Far Eastern Department

Beats. If of the State Department was a near tung between Labour and the Tories, the Liberals now in Tokyo on his way to

would hold the balance. the vital American conference in Bangkok-that any threat of Communism to Japan must come from outside the coun-Damocles would try. It is almost equally true that any threat to Commun-

iam in China must come from within. The Nationalist troops in Taiwan may de fect to the. Reds, but no- body in his senses imagines they are capable of an effec- tive landing by force on the mainland.

hard

Nor is the air and яса blockade a positive. factor in the general evolution of the situation in China. It is on irritant; it hits trade and in- dustry in Shanghal apart from the heavy loss of life; and it gives the. Com, munists a very good excuse for all the hardships that the people have to put up with It also helps some people to get a certain amount of malicious satisfaction at the damage being done to foreign interests, There seems an clement of spite in the deliberate choice of British firms as a major target. Now American interests like the Power Company are also at tacked.

There are many good Na. tionalists in exile at present, and the country cannot well do without them; whatever the regime. But Taiwan can be viewed politically as nothing but a last-ditch centre of resistance. As such it has its value in a strategic if not a political sense. But whe- ther it remains an autonomous unit or shares with the rest

the

Probably this would be most inconvenient thing which could happen for everybody con- cerned. The Liberal sword of hang over the head of whatever party was in power. The country would have

to count on it falling at any ma- ment. At a time of crisis and of great dimeulty, the country must know who is going to govern it in the year dr two lying ahead. Uncertainty would be intolerable. The only result would probably be to precipitate an early new election. with all the idistur- bance which a general election bringa..

Over-estimation?

be more concerned with keeping| its hold on its own supporters than on appeasing the Opposition.

Key fact

Moscow talks seen coming to head." Mao, having heard of Lewis Carmeli, is wondering whether Red Queens and Red have the same Idea.

to

dictators

Down in Aussic, the banished If Labours majority drops Labour Party is saying that the abolish petral spectacularly at the present elec-decision tion, the left-wing will blame rationing is only one of Menzies' this on to the moderation of the 'frenzies. present, Labour programme, and not on' to the Labour record of the last five years.

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Macno is getting it in the neck from both Nats, and Reds. Such Dro the bitter fnitts pf purely Mocanical neutrality.

Buscame again?

One of the key facts in the last Parliament has been that the majority of the Labour members

There is a good guide to the have been considerably to the left

measures. which the left wing will of the Labour cabinet. It has re-

agitato for

It is in the new quired very skliful tactics by the pamphlet "Keeping. Left" Issued

cabinet to ward off pressure from therparty Mr. Herbert Morri- by u ginger group of Labour Japan le to be permitted to set.........

-MPs One-of-the-radical-mesup consular offices in America.. Much of the discussion turns son is the great master of such

sures which, is belog, increasingly This is costing Pearls Befor on what will happen if Labour tactics. That the Labour cabinet

discussed is the capital-levy. • On Harbours,

most people that in that case a gets in with a very small major--was not more often embarrassed

this the pamphlet anys, "We It has been assumed by by its supportern was due to him.

must impose either a capital Jevy There seems to be no reason to or-an-annual capital. tax. To be is described as frail Government would be-

"What makes como very cautious and moderate, expect but the relations between effective a capital. levy would Labour leaders and rank and Ale have to be very large indeed. 'If But in the last faw days the con- trary view: has bogun to be, put will be substantially different init were small, it would merely tired?"

Could be what they look for forward. It is supported by the now Parliament. Tho,majori- Increase capital consumption and

threaten stability without aub when they are tired.. ty of the ruuks and Ble will con- plausible arguments.

tinue 10 to the left of the stantially reducing social inequa

But if the Labour lity." leaders. majority in the House is small, and the position of the cabinet: is

ity..

Lubour

A Labour cabinet, it is said, could not hope to win support from a Tory opposition which felt

Japan seeks dollars

con

con-

It is conservatively catimated Japanese industrialists are

road at present that the average im eagerly tramping the

mediate reduction in removal of back to pre-war export marfloor prices and Japanese prices, kets--under the Indulgent following the Government eyes of American Occupation trols, will be round 15 per

cent affecting respecially Jap leaders.

-por- bicycles, anese machinery, This danger will not however

celain and textiles.. Japanese nrise if the Liberals prove to have

with American warehouses are crammed a single week over-estimated their chances Mr.

textiles Churchill in a letter to the Liberal policy has lowered vital Occupa-stocks..of cheap cotton leader has said that in his judg-ion barriers to allow Japanese which can now be released ment the Liberals cannot count trade expansion at lowered prices, prudently lowered pricca. on more than seven seats. British major "reforms", including the

the first, price cuts ** "floor" prices" abolition of.

Obviously, politics will be simplified if he

expert commodities, and the will be discreet, and cautious, in is right.

A second possibility if parties return of foreign trade to private creasing as coußidence and ex-

perlenco, develop.

are evenly balanced is a coalition.

--And-above-all,-- gentlemen, we offer you trea?» dom from fpari"

In

channels.

This has meant the removal of what Japanese industrialists. call tape and "governmental red

at

1

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No, Myrtle, It's the baby who

business men

"Britain. to build first atomle stop.

The possibility that a small Might be all right for some of Labour majority maymond these radlo native telegraphists, sharp swing to the: Left. Intro÷but explosivondmirals are likely ducing new ideas and considera to be a bit shattered. tion in the election campaign. A -small Labour-majority may mean

and a rise in the chances.

pros- pects of Mr.. Aneurin. Bevan.

Tin output in Malaya

a record

Now that the trams are ready for the streets again, we can hɔpe everyone will stick to the tracks.

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Reprinted in Its entirety is this pregnant paragraph from contemporary:

"New York, Feb. 7 (AP)-Tho Australian Information Service givca, this thumbnall sketch of the wool Industry in Australia:" blqwod: it's Thumbnail be microscopic. ..

If

these

water restrictions continue, I suppose we'll have no alternative but to take the stuff

peat.

•

"Crown jewels given batlı behind closed, doors,"

Despite Communist terror ism, mainly almed at dis the country's Tupting. economy, production of: tin- a major dollar carner for Bri tain reached a post-war re In the background hovers the cord of 55,448 tons in 1949 inn prospect of a devaluated you Malaya. (now 380 to the dollar), fondlyGovernment export duty re

venue en tin export decreased by darling commentators yesterday, 12T32,500,000. HSALAT et, don't know whether "Edward The Malayan Mines Depart G. Robinson expected to rovoted ment said, the metal content was 1

By Richard Hughes

bureaucratic interference,"

in most but anticipated

Japanese despite or what are really the original Oc-commercial circles,

and perhaps because of-the firm'de- - checks cupation-dictated direction

Ito nials of Prime Minister Yoshida measures sot up

and and General MacArthur himself. ensura ·close.・・ surveillance

·control of Japanese, post-war, in-

Merchant, fleet |dustry.

In Osaka and Tokyo alike, the industrial and political atmos phere is thick with such Western

"stream-Hning,"

euphemismз disinfiring.

democratic

will

circum-

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accordance with usual org bathroom custom.

Says one of Hollywood's

it

:

more than 10,000 tons higher than The outstanding cigar smoker

of the year.” in 1947.

I don't know either, but Small-Chinese-owned mines responsible for 35 per cent of total turned out that he revoked. production are reported to be f worried about the future dua lo Unamerican. lack of prospecting operations. These nation-wide polls of the European-owned mines are gener greatest something-or-other of ally in a better position as they the half century are still coming can work for many years on areas in, and (you'd hardly credit this,

true) already prospected, the Depart- but It's

non-Americans ment Bald.

Last year the number of tin have been mentioned twice in the

runners-upl mines increased from 814 to 686 and nine more dredges were oper- ating, making B total of 76. Gravel pumps increased to 518 and there were 50 workings with out machinery.

Elmenite exports amounted to year, a. 21 per cent Increase." 10,718 tons, compared with 7,000 tons in the previous year. employed in all mines was 52.414

The total number of workers

at the end of 1049-Associated Press.

The next. American concession to Japan as I forecast several months ago will be pennission to ship exports and imports in restored, Japanese merchantile

Japanese say this ne and "industrial co-opera- tura to the world's seaways

A former Japanese iron mine- tional adding up to lowercase the Occupation dollar-bur-

tho biggest in Malaya - was of China the dubious distinc-

wages, cheaper conts and higher fide on the American

brought into production by the production, all pointing the way whose plight, in these tion of being liberated, it will

course a continual Eastern Mining and imictals; Co.h hack to happy and pre-Pearl stances, is of

December, 1049, and produced, not vitally affect the outcome

Harbour days, end all spelling source of melancholy and

7,883 tons during Decembely 1949. of events on the mainland.

the same words "This is where proach to the sensitive Japanese The Arst 11 months of the year

Industrialist

when it was under the “governi The creation of the region factor. If that lesson has not we came in."

all the al Government for East China, been learned after

The tough American experts:

William Logan, the US, trade ment eustodian of enemy.pro- which includes Taiwan in its spectacular events on thewho are, aunty lag, the. Occupation expert, who arranged the recentperty, it produced 473 tone, mok

Production of, raw gold smoún- official scope, may possibly mainland during the past bonds of resurgent, Japan.do not, 20,000,000/daliar trades agreementing a total of 8,455 tons for. 1040.

necessarily endorse between Cermany and Japan, facilitate a solution of the pro-year, then more painful in- however, blem. There has been no quests. and recriminations General MacArthur's, pious con- has publicly admistodie, favours ted to 13,601 troy ounces last

viction that the Japanese are now they rebuilding of the Japanese authoritative explanation so must be expected thoroughly durably reformed, and merchant marine. far as to the motive of the It is not the American Ad- demperatised. Some of them, lika Soon,, Japanese trade delegates formation of these régional ministration's policy that is a banker from Detroit, want to lubricata expanding Japanese

Joseph .M. Dodge,

ige, the implacable will be leaving doraworld capitais systems. The People's Gov-bankrupt, as Senator Know-to lift the staggering: burden of commerce. ernment in Peking inherited land suggests, but the policy Occupation costs from the Amer But Edward_C." Walsh, former it, for it existed when the Gov- for which he and the other icon tax-payer, or, like General ernment was formed, and it is critics stand. Intervention-Robert Eichelberger. would re-oconomica, predesson at Ohio hot easy to absorb these re- ism would be just as fatal to store a "small. lightly-armed" Stolo"University, who had the force,and confirm the former task of solving the old Zal- gional' bodies:

the long-term interest of the Japanese enemy: a sally of the batsu (big family) trusts, raised doubt and warning as he left for But it has manifest ad-West in the evolution of a West against Russia,

the United States. vantages in an administrative truly independent China as a sense. The two heads of the policy of indifference or of Peking Government are still scuttle. Mére, petulance will in Moscow. The numerous get us nowhere in so big a Ministries created in Peking situation. Many who read the naive, peculiarly Japanese, in the tels and control associations parti- Tezdo bunister Hellaro, Inagaki come out into the open. Though after the People's Political Bangkok despatch to the Unifimmediate joyful... assurance of cularly in foreign trade have Consultative Committee meted Press a day or two ago that, despite the lifting of mini-such. arrangements are clear but known Violations of Cccupation last autumn are rarely if ever must have been as astonished mum prices, "Japan will never policy and directives, the Japa mentioned. The internal pro- as we were at one statement: cut, prices on her products or

dump them on the world's mare nase are taking advantage of the attitude of kindly guidance bý blems in China are tremend-This said that: "some skilled kat

4,4 fmtrak.. the Supreme- Commander, and ous. Reports suggest that the dnlookers already say private-

When asked whether Japarf kare actively engaged in preparing food problem alone le such lythat events are stacked so might return to her pre-war and proposing various types of that the country is faced with strongly in favour of Comprattices, he declared Notzat ative and combine arrange much the same crisis as de-munism in this (South-East all referring darkly to black manta sojas to avoid competition and Other Aong the Japanese in foreign curred in the early years of Asia) area that the Western sting" penalties

Oriental munahments. the Communist regime In Powers would do well to Russia, when great numbers write off the area for the time alled of famine! The regional being and prepare for the day regimes do enable problems to when democratic Influences be tackled by the officials night stand a chance of re-The Japanase people directly responsible in these turning." separate areas,

The Iden no doubt is

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Incredibly nalve

-“Efforts on the part of Japanose in and putside of the government There is something incredibly to revive the old system of car

dimultaneously, RentabiSugi, of Chamber of Commerce

the

higVoice in (direct con

brak: to:

become self-support andaranera lving

The civil war was conduct-survival of the wartime re ed by a violent amount of un-treat, when Western influenco low compromising propaganda pn paised from the scene with-while both sides, and a very large out much lamentation among degree of sweet reasonable the Asian peoples, but return- ness on the part of the war. ed amid acclamation." Eut [flors themselves, who were al- the mere presence of foreign

ways prepared to drivala bar- roproséritatliek in' Khina is anturing gáink It

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sort:

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lysin reminding the

no less than silent jesstakes “and

President

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