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With so much happening so fast in the For East-in China, in Japan, In Malaya, in India -and with such weighty con- sequences hanging on the re- sults, it must be hard for citizens of Hong Kong to taku

close interest Europe,

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By "Windrush". -Special Correspondent

Carefully vague

GERMANY

Good Morning

Whether we like it or not wa must realtep that the post-war phase of the collapse of Germany is over. Germany is reviving fast, and is already a major factor in the balance of power in Europe.

I Germany-West Germany as throw in its lot with Russia the showing

"The background of the film, in distant; How is it to be defended? How, man army today means only one, well as East Germany-should

Hong Kong typical la it to be made economically thing-invasion of the fields of self-supporting?

France. To prevent the recon-

position of Western powers

of the

scenes and people, will be shot struction of this ogre, millions of would become extremely danger-here, in Toto." Yet, as Mr. Acheson continually

French voters would turn to any ous. For nearly two centuries one That's Just beyond Causeway 32312 reminds us, all diplomacy today

party which would be pledged to tradition in Germany has been Bay, is world diplomacy. Great in-

that Germany should look to an ternational decisions taken in Mr. Churchill's reply was that veto !!.

Thirdly, the peoples of Eastern alliance with Russia rather than

"Miraculous cures by long any part of the world affect the time had come when West every other part. And one of the Germany must be incorporated Europe, who are today behind the with the West. This tradition is sleep reported in Moscow.

Western Union Defence Iron Curtain but who are chating still very much alive, and, from Some of our staff must be mak- gravest of all problems at the in the

ishoulder 1ut Russian imperialism, might considerations, of power politics, ing inument before the Western System and must

share of the defence burden. Henally give up all hope or desire are found as much in Right Wing quite a variety of Powers is the future of Germany. sha What is done there will in the was carefully vague about what for escue by the West-if re- circles as among German com-

should be, but by scue meant also the revival of anm now on Russia must be rain and we won't have to worry Oh, well, a little more of this long run affect people in Hong that share

From Keng just as certainly as what many people it was interpreted arined Germany.

as meaning that a German army In a rather roundabout way, expected to offer very great in about building another reservoir is done in Puking or Tokyo,

should be revived (though he German rearmament might mean ducements to Germany to desert until next year.

the West and to join the Eastern the death of Tilcism. himself denied this).

bloc. This knowledge must weigh

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"There was a monetary pause.". Broken only by the rustle of $10 bills?

This German problem is not new one. In one shape or another [ Clearly, Mr. Churchill made his

Military necessity with the Western governments in Miss gave a vocal solo, 'How. has perplexed the Western proposal only after very anxious

Mr. Churchill hind certainly all their

Very Low Ger- Lovely are Thy Swellings,' by since governments ever

1945, thought. For he must have been But it is now entering a new the first to foresee what oppoal. taken all these considerations into mans have given up the ambition Little."

account. Why, then, did he ad- to be the paramount power in pliase. The policies proposed by tion it would meet.

America are now

It is true that public opinion Vance his plan? The answer is-Europe. If they cannot work their Britain and

to forget sheer military necessity. The At- way to this position through an ripening, and make fresh and far in England is quick

past feuds; but it is not so quick lantic Powers cannot really build alliance with the West, they may reaching decision Imperative.

that it can forget what destruc-a pencetime force adequate to do try to build this up through al-

in fend West Europe

they can

Hance with Russia. This was brought out in the tion German arms have caused in recent Foreign Policy speech by two wars in one generation. The use German man power and Ger- Mr. Churchill-generally accept idea

of a re-armed Germany mun resources. And unless there K. F. da Luz of Kowloon,ed as one of his great speeches.] causes hudder down the back is a really impresa Anterrent tul in mind In studying all the news some other bird la responsible for.

The Western Ailies have created of the most generous and thig West--an Impressive a democratic state-or, more pre- most forgiving.. cisely, parliamentary stato -ol Secondly, even if Britain would Western Germany. It is now stomach the reappearance of a functioning. But the following German army would France aleb questions present themselves. do so? For the French die Ger-

THE ENGAGEMENT is announced of Trevor George (Mack), youngest son of the late Mr. F. G. Oliver and Mrs. 1. A. Oliver of Rangoon, Burma, and Dolores Teresa, youngest of Mr. and Mrs. daughter

Hong Kong. (Burina & India papers please copy).

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The poor stork-he's always getting blamed for a lot of things

This is the background to keep tho and an impressive en- which comes out of Germany and

"He has developed a busty bear→ couragement to Western countries all the news of what the Western

can one expect the West Ger- Powers say to Germany and about ing both purple and red raspber- Mr. Wilkins-to mention mans to be ready to throw in their Germany. At the moment the eyes ries.

of Western observers of Germany another. freak of nature-has an lot with the West?

are fixed on two things. News apple tree with apples and also about these must be especially blossoms and buds." Smile when closely examined. One is the Com- you say that. munist tactics in Western Gee- many. The other is the cronomile situation.

"I never said it," says Goldwyn

When I read a few months

22nd April, 1950, aged 65.ago that Movie Producer By J.P. McEvoy hury), you and I are in serious Germany. There has been doubt

The funeral will take place Samuel Goldwyn said, “Any-

at the Kaman Catholic

olic body who goes to a psycho- Cemetery. Happy Valley, on

Tuesday, 23th April, 1950, Cortege will leave the sidence at 10 am. and

pass the Monument about 11.30 A.M.

PERCY TESTER passed away peacefully yesterday: Funeral

at Colonial Cemetery gate at 5 p.m. today. No flowers.

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Central Government controls not only the armed forces and State Police, but all banking and financial in- stitutions, transport and com-

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"The new mattress factory is, Recently there have been purges In fact, playing an important that you phoned Darryl Zanuck, hend of 2013 Century Fox, of the Communist Party in West part in the city's growth."

Woman driver explaining car about their meaning but the most trouble you have a certain star plausible Interpretation-which crash to policeman: "And then I and I want her'?"

comes from Germans-is that the very clearly signalled that I'd "And there is no truth in the

"I never said it." analyst should have his head

one of your story that you told

Communists have given up their changed my mind." He could have for that's pure re-examined," 1 decided all this studio executives inte one Satur-gara Goldwyn, famous bar-hope of making a revolution in A man in California left will had gone far enough. So I day afternoon, You look all run gaiser in a business where bar- the West by gaining mass.public Instructions for a comic epitaph

went to see Mr. Goldwyn and down. Go home and don't come gaining 18

fino black artnstead they hope to make the on his tombstone. Goldwyn DID I asked him about it. He re- back until Monday.

soy: "Successful

Now the joke's on him. at a by conspiring coustution "Absolutely

is giving the other negotiation plied: "I never said it-but I

Myrtle's grandfather says "One of your writers told me fellow everything he wants with moment of emergency! For this you wish I had."

advised him to take a nap out ever giving him anything you purpose they do not need a mass Then I asked him if he was after lunch, that he was over-

cadre of members you are; a woman, for what you, tively small is his Goldwyn 18 really the author of the immortal working himself-and just as he 't want to part with." A great of supporters but instead a rela-1 man ilkes you for what he thinks "Include me out" and the equally was walking away you

who would have infiltrated into think she is. Best production. He runs his own key positions-as Civa Servants, called

outwitted,

I Trieste there won't be any Imperishable "I will tell you in after him, 'Don't forget, half an show and has

out key

leaders, 25 TIGHTENING UP IN two words: impossible."

hour lunch, half an hour nap. Insted and outstripped financially as Trade Union "Those things are inventions," Could he

the Adriatic. Have misunderstood his rivals. He gambles his managers of factories, perhaps more of this Russian pressure in

oldest said Mr. Goldwyn, "and I could you?"

even as army officers. you?"

own money when he makes a

These will be able at the given tell you who invented them, too."

and know

he DID say,

Bloke I know suffers so badly

The

signal to deliver Germany gagged Prime .. Australian

"You never sald to a writer

stands everything." came to you with n now "Paul Gallico told me Minister, with typical blunt- who

himself." He left Poland when have

hidden their membership ness and common-sense, has movie plot: You have the mucous walked him to the door of your man who isn't willing to bet on An for as possible they would sleep when it's time to get up.

of a great idea'?".

office one day, when he was writ- he was 11, worked as a black- at the Communist Party,

collectivism to essentially free put the horse where it be "Never."

ing the Lou Gehrig picture, put smith's helper in England for For a strategy of this kind the economy has proved to be one of longs before the cart. He

your arm around his shoulder and year, then emigrated steerage to Communist Party must be able the biggest and most conclusive told a Press conference in The

'I am counting on you, Paul. America where he made gloves to rely on its members for abso experiments ever carried through suid: Remember, you are the most im- by day and studied English by lute obedience. They inust be in economie history. The success Sydney that there was no

portant clog in the wheel."

night in Gloversville, New York. Į rearly to take action even agains is indeed enormous. It is so con- point in talking about a

"Paul Gallico writes very good

What

seemed to be the interest viticing that even the German Pacific Pact unless the coun-

Bellon,"

He learned to write by copying of Germany. Hence the purge. Socialists dare not openly propose tries concerned had settled

"How about the director you over and over the maxims and Those who are left will be utter a return to the old system be- cause the mosses, after having governments. The first thing munications, insurance, econo-wanted to fire and your general proverbs in his copybook, and it ly dependable.

that he The second sector of news in een both systems at work, pre- to be done, he said, was to mic planning, and adminis- ninneger said, "You can't fire him is characteristic of him -he's a genius'? Did you say, told his teacher, "These help potential parties to the tration of all industrial and 'Yes, I know--but he's a stupid good. Has anybody tried them which the outside world is es- fer a free "econoiny-,

pecially interested is the develop-

"The unemployment in Ger- Today he attributes Pact to set up good adminis- agricultural institutions and genius?"

his success ment of the West German eco-

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nomy. As soon as it gained the many today is the sum total of all of dislocations on the labour trading enterprises, which are. He wos. Hollywood is full of lo following some of the the freedom to make its own econo- market, anong which the con-

including the ones who "The squeaking wheel gets SOUTH EAST ASIA TRADING CO., (SIAM) LTD. There has been one attempt regarded as of All-Union im- make Goldwynisms.

up

I didn't grease."

mic policies, Germany took a tinuous influx of refugees from the by: President Quirino, Gener-

used to care, but how would portance.

"For Goldwyn is never satisfied opposite line from that of Bri East looms largest The West 69 Connaught Road, West.

alissimo Chiang Kai-shek and

German government does exactly Moreover, to make sure like to be a guest at a wonderful A famous writer brought him a tal.

with fine seript, "I don't like it,"

Gald

Instead of trying to maintain what the Marshall Ald Treaties Dr. Syngmann Rhee to set that there can be no indepen- dinner party in London

full employment by a system of wish every country to do which up a Union but cripples don't dence in anything, Article everybody important around the Goldwyn,

10th cen- wants the end of dollar shortage "Don't you like anything?" the controls, it reverted and all of them aiting: make. good musketeers. An- XX lays it down that in the there and keeping quiet, hoping writer shouted, "No," snapped tury laissez-faire,

Today there is very consider-order and equilibrium in other conference is being event of any divergence be- they'll hear me say one of those Goldwyn. "That's the secret of

success. Later he explained: alle unemployment in West Ger- "Tu view of all this it is sur things called for May 26 at Baguio, tween a law of the Union and I read part of it all the "Creative people always fall short many. This is an element of poll- prising that the West German and President Quirino has a law of a Republic, the Union

of their best and they know it; leal weakness in the West Ger Government, instead of being en- way through"?" urged the Filipinos to offer law prevails. The so-called

but if you keep prodding them man State. Socialists in England

couraged in its endeavours, hos the "150 foreign delegates" Republics of the Soviet Union

He attribute it to the mistaken co-recently been severely taken to themselves." "Or: 'I had a monumental idea they'll extend

and say that by typical hospitality-a gesture are in fact merely local ad- this morning but I didn't like doesn't pretend that is the secret nomic policy

task by a group of allied experts. of his popularity, for Hollywood their inveterate anti-socialism the This attempt to push them back unlikely to be reciprocated ministrative organs, carrying

into the economic bog in the says Goldwyn doesn't have ulcers German leaders may bring their by the rebel groups. These out in limited fields the or-

State crashing down. true he gives them.

name of enlightened economics are certainly creating plenty ders of Moscow.

Two sides

surely proves that something is There is certainly much in this very wrong between the Western criticism. But there are two sides Ailles and the German Federal to the argument. The other side Government." has recently been stated by a This is a view which strikes › Swiss professor, Wilhelm Roepke, most English writers as surpris

is ing In the paper "Time and Tide."

and unfamiliar. But it lle writes follows The certainly the view of most of the change which has been made in Western Europe economists out-

Germany

from national side England. West

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of trouble in the territory It is true that the peoples! that lies between the moun- of the Republics in Russian tain resort and the capital. Asia elect representatives to Moscow wishfully asserts that the two Houses of the Sup- the "People's Liberation, reme Soviet. But this, for Armies" are active all over all its high-sounding name, the country.

is a powerless body which

Rats are the theme of so slaughter or starvation, and a few The new name for the merely approves without dis many creepy stories that it is years ago the black rat had be Hukbalahaps was bound to cussion

come rare in Britain. But as it or debate the pro clear they are

universally is the better climber, modern con- ccme, Moscow's patronage of posals submitted to it. The hated and feared and that crete buildings favour it and. every local group of rebel real power throughout the their looks are suggestive of although rural districts have only guerillas throughout South Russian Communist Empire evil characteristics.

the brown rat, the black as well as the brown is now found in most i East Asia is no new thing, is exercised by the Central Rate are not merely loathed by cities.. but it is becoming more and Committee of the Party and Man-they have no friends among Both black and brown rats have more blatant. This claim of by its Political Bureau. There other creatures.

oblong-shaped hoads, stiff feelers the Soviet Government to be has been no Party Congress sels, pole-cats, snakes, owls and but the tall of the former is longer "Dogs, cats, otters, ferrets, wear and long, scaly, cylindrical tails, the champion of national in- for 12 years, and these bodies other birds of prey all work with than its body whereas that of the dependence for all the peoples have become a close, self- Man to destroy them. Yet in spite brown is shorter, its head is rather of Asia is as the commenta perpetuating oligarchy, res-1 of these united efforts the rat blunter and its body heavier. tor W. N. Ewer has pointed ponsible to nobody but them-population of Britain

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Large family

one of the strangest selves and Stalin. Any ex- estimated to be 40 millions.

Their annual bill for damage political phenomena in the pression of Nationalist sent to food, underground ́ ́ cables, world today. The fact is that ment is, in the words of woven materials and anything the Soviet Union is the last Stalin, ruthlessly burnt out else they can remaining Imperialist Power with hot iron. Russia in Asia many millions of pounds. in Asia. It is only within remains a centralised Empire the borders of the Union that | built by conquest and main- Asian peoples are still held tained by force, while pro- entirely under the rule of a fessing to be a Union of free is a large one, but the two main European Power. What is Republics. more, they are governed as dictatorially from Moscow as they were under the Tsars from Petersburg.`-.

The Republics of the Union are in theory self-governing, In practice they have hardly

by

The mouse, vole and rut family

The rat regiments

The black is about eight inches long excluding the tail, while the brown is sometimes as much as 11 Inches in length.

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Both ard" omnivorous feeders and when they have exhausted one source of supply they will emigrate, to another, travelling to gether in a regiment. They breed rats. in. Britain are the black or about four times year, the litter But the contrast that is of ship at and the brown or Nor-varying from eight to 14 in num- way rat. The black rat is bellev bars and these youngsters are in- greatest pertinence is not one ed to have come here by ship of sardonic inconsistency but from Asia in the of monolithic strength on the one side and anarchical sepa- ration on the other side aggravated, moreover, a vestige of autonomy. The serious internal weaknesses or mankind, and so the discare is Union is in fact a highly cen- inspired and fostered by the tralised, Imperialist strue Kremlin. Freedom is one thing ture. Even under the Stalin and anarchy another. In Constitution, which professes some way or other there has to be a Federal one, the to be a tightening up if not hierarchy in Moscow controls an actual coalescence of the Finance, Education, Public democratic fragments in Asia Health and Labour Laws, the A better beginning, is now Civil and Criminal Codes, being made - than that at and even the Marriage Lawn Bagulo,

and, as it is the host of plague carrying feas, it is held responsi ble for the Great Plague of 1865.

When the rat is dying of plague the fleas leave him for other rals In its general attitude towards its own kind the rat seems to go

brown -rat biso spread, in a lesser degree the from one extreme to the other. spreads plague If food in scarce it is a ruthless and it is the host of other disease cannibal, but if living in a land of plenty it shows charity towards

carrying fless

Like the black rat, the

the brown the old' Indrm, and-rata hayo a native of the East and it boon observed giving food to came here from Europe in the blinded relatives 18th century. Some authorities Withally creatures, including belleve that it came with George man, the brown rat can

it is larger, mora voracious and cornered la biter viciou more malleious and it almost ex- bite can be extremely nasty owing terminated the-blink rat to the condition of ita-teri

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