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During the brief discussion in the House of Commons on China, the Under-Secretary Affairs, Mr. for Foreign Ernest Davies, sald that Bri- tish recognition of the new regime is not a factor in the serious difficulties now being met by commercial and in- dustrial interests in Shangbai. That is perfectly true. in the sense that recognition itself is in nowise responsible for the difficulties. The point is, however, that one of the hopes of recognition was that it would make matters a bit casier. Conditions. have changed for the worse not because of, but in spite of, recognition.

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WORKING PARTY ON JAPAN

Early in May a working party representing all the Commonwealth countries is to meet in London to study the terms of a peace treaty with Japan.

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This is not the first time that the Commonwealth countries have consulted together on this subject. They inct in formal conference two and a half years ago at Caliberra) and it was re- ported that they had reached full ngreement. But no treaty resul- ted, because the United States had not decided its policy,

In the meanwhile the world has changed. So presumably the ab- ject of the working party is to take out of store the declatons previously reached, give them a dusting, and see whether they need revision in the light at changed circumstances.

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It does not look as if the Unit- ed Kingdom and the Dominions will find much difculty in agree- ing on their common line. It may be that Ausicalia will press for rather more definito guarantees against Japanese military revival thion Great Britain considers necessary; but apart from this there will be a remarkable unifor-. mity of outlook among all those taking part.

Conflict of opinion

roughly two

The main conflict of opinion is not between Great Britain and the Dominions, but internally in In Whitehall in Britain itself, the past year or two there have vlows about Japan. One la that in Britain's present economic position, with its desperate need for exparts, one of the gravest economic perils which she faces is the revival of Japanese competition. (German competition is another danger.)

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By Windrush- Special Correspondent

Loré som steune

now worked out some kind of Would Japan neally be useful and synthesis of them. Its mind is dependable as an ally? This is made up about the proposals one question on which America which it will put forward at the must decide one way or another. Bupposing it concludes that, the London meeting

Peper course is to make Japan Natural impatience the pivot of Lis Asian policies Thou fit demands bases in It is course the United Japan it is in danger of turning- nationalist sentiment States which is really the source Japanese of most of the uncertainty about which is bound to revive) in Japan's future. But though there, changeably against America. But is some natural impatience In Amertoe does not have bases, London at America's allure to how can Jason he of any real give a lead, there is a clogs under-ullitary value to America

Every few wecki shore are run standing of the very great dim- culties which America faces.” mours in London, that, Amadea la

of

North African Journey--No. 3:

A good bride

At Agedabia there is a pole across the road marking the frontier post of Cyrenaica Then you drive for almost exactly 400 miles.

And then you come to another pole across the road which marks the frontier post of Tripalitgrid. There is nothing in between. This tremendous sinb of No Man's Land dividing the two frontlers is. so empty that it can hardly be said to exist.

Hyphen territory

There is only the road "Itself, grotesque monument, and the which Mussolini put up in the middle and the Eighth Army called "Marble Arch.

less

Tripolitania-are.

about

added into One wonders whether

pation.

Dited

Nations

decide, thia quastle

The Japan, irealy in, then talked of Immibent. But up to the present, nothing has happened. it la clear, however that the main Adiocanao of the working site.

Is in relation to America EN 147

Whep ayphtually a conference

"Australians" object to spying ori is summoned, ta, agree on the treaty, each of the powers taking wok, widow."

Anyone who would do that part will be technically equ

u' kind of Each will have an, cqual vole, they say, is little better than # America is committed to this by Communist. In fact,

is opposition to Russia's concept Peking Tom. that veto rights belong naturally to the great powers.

America would understandably have qualms about: going to a conference, in which it may be voted down by the Dominion un less it knows in advance what lines the Dominions will in fact lake. The deliberations of the working party, should supply, it with thle Information.

costs £300

as much money foult to find nowadays.

Times were not what they used to be, he said, swabumped round a diversion where no one had replaced a blown-up bridge. The British, were taking all, the wealth out of the country...

He liked the British personally, but they taxed the country and did nothing.dor ..

By Alexander Clifford

foreign trade in in the hands of one British Arra. Only one bank is allowed in the country p British one.

You will sce British export nylons in the shops; and British awecis arc, unrationed there.

Surely the British wouldn't send nylons and sweets to a cojo- Their views probably repre- try the, is subsiding?... sented, as nearly as possible the medium-intelligent Tripolitanian in-the-street,

be

Public opinion

Touching on the Comel's latest record, a local report mentiona would be "the De Havilland chief test pilot."

Let him that'

the chiefest among "you watch proof-scading..

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Tho -Chi-minh' minerais."

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The soft drink industry is expected to lodge a strong protest.

Ghost story.

Owners of England's stately homes are said, to be slow to make Improvements.

They are used to keeping the skeleton in the cupboard from rattling, but they don't want to hava, jo television to keep qulet.

"False teeth cause arrest." The charge, 1, understand, was forgery pl

youths in North Carolina, says an agency, message, Jumped without parachutes from a plane 200 foot up. They received only

minor bruises and abrasions, 7 of

:

For further confirmation how tough the Americans are, Just pay visit to the nearest clueme.

Spiritain rolete goal of Scotch

Jind Contemporary

picture yesterday of Argentine's new ambassador with his family "on Was my face red! Did I lose li! Our photographs from England take nearly a week to come here their arrival in London today."

by niemell

The essence of their public: added. had The Italians, be

The Food was opinion was simply this: dons a great deal.

People at Home still expect, cheap in their days and every Italians were unkind to us and whisky.". Yet the two countries on either she had work. He didn't like trepied us as second-class people.

treat us well. But they are ex-foul shortage. The Japanese revival is still in

Soop and didn't want them back, ploiting us oconomically. its early stages: the recovery of side of this huge hyphen of us the Italians as rulers and he be Britlab, are kind to us and however, to be penalised by a

territoryCyrenaica. industry has been

to be bad certainly, done, more for the will come the modern, magic of Japanese

and everything will one Independent country.

He paused to chake as yellow 1 Independence and, Moreover, what is true of patchy. But production in Japan I held up partly by the factor,

Wo the dust billowed into the car.. British firms is true also of which is likely to be remedied, of

Among the palms and white all others, and not least. of a shortage of raw materials. It will

Commissioner passing a rice where I re- private Chinese enterprises. not be long before. Britain-and

maised evidence to give them a

hasis for their theory.

Α very high proportion of the Discrimination. has not enter-mber Industrial parts of the Con would really have thought their mergered being machine-gunned bugs of Tripoli I did find just

driven through this hiatus and ma

" said the Tripolitanian, ed, into it. The salesmen of /monwealth-feels the keen wind Idea such, a good one if they hady Schmitt just over seven years ago.

of a Japanese export drive.

broken down in the middle--pp

this country has stood sill for export and import trade is in the hands of one British firm. Thoro did.

is only one bank operating; and. izo sopan years now under British The nearest garage

rula, els p

it is a British one.. away as the crow flies, but. But soon," he added maily, “we a Tripolitanian Arab with a rale shal, be independent Then we shackle lorry full of decellet

#pend and towed mg to lb.

good family, he Me..came. of sald--he was rich enough, to have a lorry and collect, old Stukas, to scil as scrap metal. And he wanted to get married,

Victory Bonds and the tax collector have faithfully adhered to "the spirit of in- and only ternationalism,"

The other vlow which sometimes described as. that of Office and' Colonial the Foreign Office--is that, although, the in convenience of Japancac com-

--

Was

I

Government enterprises have notition is, undesirabir,, there will Stukas appeared, next morning shall have our own money to

escaped attention. Nor is, these advantages in revived Japan- unexpectedly rapid develop est production which will offset ment of State trading dis the dobit sido, criminatory. Insofar as retail trade especially is taken over by the Government, it implies the extinction of a very large Chinese who had class of

Economic defence

Everybody agrees that the main defence of South East, Asia--and eventually Africa-against Com

And the feast But you could no longer

a

the

Everything will be fine

1

There may be good reasons but these are the facts,

There are British nylons and unrationed British sweets for sale I don't suppose they add up to a decimal point in Britain's total enough of them to create a cer- balance of trade, but, there are tain psychological impression in Why tollish occupation hai, not

done

argued with him. Britain, 1 said, had been subsidising Tripo- tenia Italy had poured in Capital for investment.

But he was scornful. should Britain, give something for

every reason to expect sur. munism must be economic. It is decent bride for much under pormoner;jptd. anywhere to Only essential repairs of war

can

to raise the standard of living. vival. It is certain that no where

there is great poverty, to officials, however enterpris- there is a standing invitation

If there ing, energetic, zealous and Communism. But poverty

be re

relloved, or mitigated, honest, could carry on retail is a plentiful supply of the ur- consumers good business with anything like gently needed the efficiency of the private at cheap prices..

very The only possible source of this Chinese trader. The more is Japan, for wages and costs, in the Government goes in, for the Western countries are 100 petty trading the greater the high for them to be able to satisfy confusion and chaos in the the need.

The argument goes further. It end. And it is by no means there should, be a Marshall Plon; certain that the displaced and for Aslaor If the Sydney con disinherited shopkeepers will ference, should lead to a plan for large capital works where can the

chussed up £300-at any rate at his social Whon, we inally,

frontier barrier Tripolitanis he called da kriqnds; from other level, and even then you had to tha be careful.

cost of the parisig bis lorry and the che 'the's And, as well as

and went through the bride, there was the feast, which or guards, might cost.another £100; and jail whole this agairtoni, diame

Up to Tripoll they command- the special clothes; and then set-They were all agmoed.

Altogether, it ting up house. would cost £500, and it was dit-i edgard, you will find that all

Moon may beat Atom

By Patrick Nicholson

The romantic dream of muk-

With

Talking about the South American land of the tree, I note that Argentine newspapers may have to close down for two months, because the government wan't allow them to import little newsprint. The happy

be ccf-caters will, however,

'Most women would be more apic fully catered for by Peron's radio.

if they had less

ess span

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Peking's call for criticism." Good,,,heavens-don't they get any Hong Kong papers up there at all?

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Someone defines a chaperone as an old maid who never got on the

first team, but still wants to intercopt a few passes.

damage have been done.

Public works have not been de- veloped on a pro-war scale. Many things do seem to have down or boep neglected.

It isn't bard, to how the prevalent public opinion arose how independence is coming, to be regarded as a sort of touch- stone: 10 vet everything right.

conble it to do so in some years' But

....here

the Italians did pour time. Its currency is an occupa capital in

an investment, ton lira invented by the British. and when the war came the in- |.). And way down to the South vestment was not yet paying.. to make matters considerably

ta The British did not Topma

more complicated—is a group 'of Tripolitania to stay, and they onses called the Fezzan. have run it only on a care and This Ferran is occupied by the

have lost money they..

oo, the Tunlalah frane. It probably pays deal.

Away across that colossal belts way because it so remote There is nothing else it cạn that the of No Man's Land, is Cyrenaica.

do. It does not pay its way. It uses These three fragments, divided

by currency barriers and deserts Egyptian pounds, currency

It has no trained, politicians, must now unite as one nation clans, doctors, lawyers, or men currency and find a common

has no Government. economists. And it h

They must solve the problem This side of the desert hyphen of the Italian minority. By the is Tripolitania. It does not pay end of . pext year, on ÚNO': Hs--way--though its olire crop, if orders, they must make their de- scientifically developed,, might but, as an independent State.

Finally, it spends its-energy dustry--as the Government tus, and so on, be most cheaply may soon came true and pro-it un Ininiense Tidal bore.

produced? Obviously in Japan. vide cheap power even more. professes to believe,

It is not yet clear, of course, Hence the rowing we of the quickly and more slickly than

fermo Japan

India, and also,

automatically go into light in- | machinery, the electrical appara- ing, the, moon work; for an roaring-up, the Politoodine River maintenance" basis. Yet even a French, and lis currency"is"the

whether, this sudden plunge Agia"...airendy Workshop of atomie” energy,

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Two huge basins

trade was dictated by: ideolo-fie'capital equipment needed for sould be lyse that it the head of the Bay of Fundy, statesmen, Civil Servants, techni- They must manufacturė a com-

Thanhellaner, decided to bendi

it could be called, they and any developments that the

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with

Mr. Melanson's Ingenious plan The immense power of thq into-State Socialism in Pakistan,ls, showing great inter

harnessed to domestic as well as foreign est in Japan the provides of Atlantic tides on Canada's con would harness these vast des

In the There, the estuaries of the Feilt their development, plans.

largest electrially

the discodine rand, Hebert Rivers form gical conviction, or: by: the These two contrary views have world, in the opinion

Melanson. named Shepody. Bay and Cpm- currency problem. Probably certainly caused a good deal of inguished French-Canadian sen- two huge basins side by

so impressed betiand Basin. His pione there was something of Both vagueness and, indecision in Bri gineer Mir, W. A.

have It seems however tish policy,

Government that Bertera bulli menoss the in it. The Communists knew that the British Government hasi

the the odium incurred by the

months of the estuaries, would exper £150,000 12 National Government's reck-

*ments

to..test, their enclone rock-floured basins 60 hand. 70 square miles in size. This less currency policy-it policy Hong Kong March figures,

aret large-scale attempt to dotible basin automatically solves problem in harness- of the made much of it themselves ended the blockade of Shang-roun's pull will be mense of water all through the

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Ang in their attacks on the Nan hal would stimulate trade in interest the whole world. I

steady power 24 hot king Governmentṭi, bilfore that, stricken: pánt» (That in ita access, Would mean that they 41-hour cycle 4. K

the supply wrastej they took charge. "Face" turn would ease the grinding would noINGEDE was deeply involved when strain of mere existence un-more of energy in merely washing day.

sand.am and down the beaches. Every the jenminpiao began to goder present tragic stonditions, and 3 of coriant power sluice gades weld the way of the worthless na One might have supposed that for driving chal.cang-sell Riepody Lay tional currency. No doubt at Peking, which is doing much chinery, solinong hammering of

Basin, providing the Stelcity; dan aikaan, da makers that effective manage departure of foreigners via homes with abundant cheap closervoir into an empty. Cume All these works, could be stop-cominibus flow of water, naces- ment of a currency (unbank-Tientsia, would show as much

drivo - the tintilnes: gen- ed by gold or other basis re- goodwill in facilitating the pad up in Britain Caswell-ed

Serve, dhunimin, coupled with quired complete management return, by the elme route for Canada, i tide harnessing, proves chading placricky.co

hing-range between the entire economic foreign staff memberst, still

tider makes this the machine.ne erchorale cooling their heels here. Like Severn bore:

cleati na Udrink, alle in the world

(déralopment. Whether the desperate The Conservative critics

coastline of the Canadia methods adopted in desperate art justified in their assertions

in rld needs will prover as bad as thatului reconomic sense provinces of Nova Scoll* WE FUT

New Brunswick furn the disease itself remains to matters have, become worse fuper creating aide effec -be seen. Certainly for the rather than better since realimilar to the Seven bore in

the dream therÉE « DOPFOR present a nex, stability has cognition. It would be ex-Brain, which has Awgirl misty this perfect:

British engineers will been, gained. We have every pecting too much, however, reason to adinin therein to assume that any British or

moon, maan genuity, and skill of the for that maites other repre- Between Nova Scotia and Chinese merkat fandentations would be able to Brimawiajc flow the Bay of

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