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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 18, 1950,

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EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the Anal despatch in a series on life behind the Iron Curtain in Chind by the manager of the former United Press Bureau in Shanghal. He was the last American press Association reporter to leave Shanghat He made his way to Manila carrying thousands of words of notca.

By BLAKE GEARHART

Manila, May 11. Yuan Wong is a Chinese peasant fårmor. There are about 100,000,000 Yuan Wongs through- out China.

In the last year many things have happened to Yuan. His country's flag went down and the Communist flag went up. His ruler became a Communist named Mao Tse-tung and his former ruler, Chiang Kai-shek, went to Taiwan.

HEATED DEBATE BY ARABS

Ministe

Yuan began hearing strange words that originated in Mos- cow. A big estate was cut up and he received a piece of land that he could call his own. It was a strange new world that created for Yuan 11 months ago. How Is he doing today? Not so good. At least not nearly as well as he ex- pected.

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Red tape is robbing us

Oh, to be in Europe and "the boss." His only hobbies are writer's pen. Here is a King's story, told with dignity and spend some dollars there The history and music. travel agencies in New York He is a master politician, and pathos, The Duke, after difficult are black with people: thewill show it again when he rides years of criticism is climbing back into the Anglo-American Transatlantic liners sail away the campaign train next month.

heart. with full passenger lists.

Four hundred thousand Amer- icans plan trips to Europe this year. Each will spend $1,000 or

.more.

How many of these dollars will Britain get? Nothing like as many as she should.

4

The schoolboys

When asked if he has seen the

We are letting the Continent ences. Now correspondents an

Lake too much of this swag.

*In the American tourists' pockets are more dollars than we will ever garner by selling whisky, textiles, or motor-cars.

Eager to spend

the

not

in the

home,

...........

The American newspaper pub- Haber Marahall Field has dropped 30 billion dollars in the past nina latest attacks describing him as a years on his various publishing Socialist, ho says he has little enterprises. He says: "I thought newspaper publishing would be for time for reading fiction.

Truman is no traditionalist, He tun. But It kam't been fun even changed the Press confer me." It is fun, but it is also

hard work. must

As a result of the success of sit in chairs like nounce their names and news. Alcoholics Anonymous, the anti- drunkard organisation, a Divor- papers. before asking questions.

he free-and-easy

Franklincees Anonymous has been estab Roosevelt sessions with the Press lahed and is thriving. It is keep- aro over. The S.T. in H.S.T. the divorce court.

married couples stands for school teacher.

How is New York

Rapid City, a little town. In doing this

offered itself week? Not so well. We are thren-South Dakota, has

of the the second capital What does

American toned with lift strike. and a

United States, says.its dark caves tourist want? Well, he and his transport strike.

They want wife want priority.

John, the clevator man in ny and black hills would be safe- to be able to spend their money.

apartment buliding, informs me from atomic attack. The offer has The ellizens are eager to buy he has been a union man for over been rejected with black looks.

calls close-ups of our landscape, ab 20 years, and if the union beys, castles,

strike, monuments, the

as expected, then I museums, shrines, but, they ask-shall have to walk down 12 Aights are we eager to

to sell?

to get to work and 12 flights up The American says he will not to get back home. The rosy glow created by the

are until Communist promises of new free-be convinced that we

him

Thank you for all the cures for provide with all the dom and new way of life has we

insomnia-I will try them. If they fali, 1 can always go back to disappeared. Yuan Wong is liv-cigarettes, food, drink, cars, and

John's

salary ing in a cold grey dawn of reallly, pleasures he wants.

Lane Norcott's column. steak, wants He suys It he piece of

Heard around town: Motorists True he has his own land. But at regular intervals then he must have steak. If he week-about £14. Not much here,

£17 in Washington now have to get Communist oficials come around wants to stay up all night tip-His union wants between

their oll checked but accomand £20 per week for littmen not only and appropriated some of Yuan's pling, then he must be

hours and a £30-a-month pension on their loyalty. -rice. They also levy heavy taxes modated, the licensing

Entertainment: I had

» drink must be changed. If he Is In-retirement,

These figures perhaps appear with Samuel Goldwyn and his against him.

terested in cabarets,

fantastic to you; they mean a wife, Frances, this week, before getancing girls must be

bare living here.

they salled for Europe, No There

here is also trouble about the Molotov-isms, no Goldwyn-isms- ΟΙ thue Post Office. Now just a shy man who struggled for te homes are to have only words in a tortured accent and

When the Communists through with Yuan he finds he is right back where he started un- der the Nationalist Government. He gets bare living for family and tax collectors get all the rest.

on.

then

the brought

All the petrol that he will re- nquire has been granted him, but

even that is not enough.

A bare living

is

$40

day

of letters per one delivery and offices will have two.

A bow

fo the G.P.O. In Bri-

Some readers' letters have been critical lately, particularly over Graham. No offence was

references to Evangelist Billy meant. My comments were kinder than most here.

all

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reading

who said he hoped to meet all

Cairo, May 11. The Ministers of three Arab wrangled in Governments heated debate for three hours tonight over Jordan's annexa- tion of East Palestine, but there was no indication whe- ther the Arab League's Poli- tical Committee would vote to expel Jordan.

Abe Hilmy Pasha, the Prima of the "Al-Palestine" Govern...ent, backed by the ex- Mufti of Jerusalem. Haj Amin E Husseini, was supported by the Egyption

Foreign Minister Mohammed Salah El Din Bey

He says: Scrap all restrictions against Jordan's Foreign Minister,

on buying and selling of motor- Shereikly Pasha.

cars for Americans. Throw The Committee adjourned the

the red tape. Give the Americans taln. Why is our Post Office so debate until Saturday morning.

the keys to our cities. Give him much better, quicker, more e- Ministers of eight Arab Gov-

in every way? It always has He Is the

cient the Crown ernments attended the meeting.

New York is also curtailing The seven-nation Arab League nese without giving anything in

Invited Ahmed Hilmy Pasha,

Certainly there is no shortage entertainment, with dancing Premier of the

to buy all that most of money here

20 per cent tax and ed "All-Palestine"

economies planned as the world's in debate and state join them

སྙ in his life.

continues.

juggles with face of opposition case, in the

Yuan has a brother, Chen Wong,

Perhaps the secret of perpetual richest city Jordan, from King Abdullah's

who went to Shanghai in his youth.

discovered; budget. prosperity has been

What with deficits

and herself a member of the League,

spy pros-

but in that prosperity is a great is

scares we are in the era of red he merchant. How perous Arab League

condemned

doing? Not so good either, Chen paradex.

At the very pyramid of its Ink and red herrings. Wong does not hate Communisin

United wealth the

Item: The Duke of Windsor's as such. He does not hate or

power and States still has 4,000,000 unem-memoirs, which Life magazine enthuse over any political system.

will mublish, are the best Shakespeare? All he wants to do is to carry on played with another 1,500,000 to come from him and his ghost-

traditional coming

Yuan is not an educated man but neither he nor his ancestors ever liked Russians. Historically Russia has been a nation that has

return. And today Yuan

sées

to Russia and the Russian brand of

Jewels.

out

dollar-loaded customer. Therefore bec he is right

the British editors.

-

London calls

plans her annual

to Communism playing a larger part Britain can provide. The boomthelels cancelled, thanks to win her an Academy award,

At Its Fece meeting here the eventually became a

the Jor

the annexation of Arab Palestine by any other Stuto as illegal and provided for disciplinary steps against a defaulting State.

This move, takon before

action, provided for the expulsion from the League, severance of diplomatie relations and economic sanctions as penal- tics-Reuter.

dan's

Japanese

economy stabilised

Washington, May 11. The Japanese Finance Minis- 1er, Mr. Hayato Ikeda, now feels that Japanese economy is sufficiently stabilised to at-

tract foreign investors in, the nation's industries.

his business in Chinese manner.

Bewildered man

That means he wants to prac tice "squeeze", a system of ex- tracting bribes in return for busi- ness favours. But the first thing the Chinese Communists did when they took over Shanghal was to eliminate "squeeze" in Govern- ment bureaux. It is no longer possible for Chen Wong to grease a palm in a tax bureau or to get a favourable Government ruling on business-transaction by placing money in proper hands.

from colleges and schools.

What about these unfortunates? They are not the forgotten men

meh. they are the unmentioned Even Frealdent Harry S. Truman does not relish discussing them.

Takes a bow

other

SAUCERS AS NAVY TARGETS

must go back to 70W,

Gertrude Lawrence tells me she visit to her homeland this summer. Her role In "The Glass Menagerie" may She has been offered $200,000 to make another Hollywood film, but has turned it

says: "I

Why doesn't the Old Vic sign

ns Gertrude

up a player? She and Sir Ralph Richardson would a wonderful pair. Or why make a wo

Gertrude and Noel Coward In

not

The New York police depart ment is disturbed by the success of the play "Detective Story" in London.

The mayor and police chiefs. fcol it portrays New York's detec tives in the worst possible light and gives British audiences a totally wrong impression of the here. It's too late to worry now-it's a certain hit

all over

London, May 11. The Admiralty is sending Mr. Truman, ebullient and bel- gerent, claims credit for the one of its warships out to the the world.

Footnote: Just as soon as Bying paradise of plenty, and he has a California coast to shoot down saucers are proved authentic, the

If there were right to do so.

flying saucers, according to the Russians will invent them. un- depression here he would weekly News Review. doubted doubtedly have to take the rap.

However, his bounce and buoy___The Admiralty confirmed that "is ancy are nettling his critics. They the destroyer Broadsword say this is not the modest, hum-joining units of the U.S. Fleet in gunnery practice off California ble Truman they know.

during June and July, but a spokesman said the Admiralty did not know that certainly Broadsword's targets were to be flying saucers.

But his taxes go on and he In a bawlidered

In man

The President has changed; the strange new world. What do Chen Wong and Yuan Wong in-shy little man has become a con- fident giant, The vulgar call him tend to do about it?

"Know-it-all Harry."

Nothing, that is, nothing imme- In his first Press conference diately. For one thing they are since arriving in the United afraid to do anything. A Com- States, on April 27, Mr. Ikeda munist Army of 4,000,000 has a firm grip on China. There are sold:

"I feel we have taken

discontented the lots of

people but confidence throughout the nation the to create among American and other in- discontented have no standard to

which to rally. vestors."

Biensures

Ho referred to the recent There is an old Chinese axiom action lessening taxes on profits that a "political party without an of foreign companies in Japan army is no political party at all"

"Не

also Bald Japan

end on salaries of executives of You hear reports of guerillas foreign companice,

fighting in the Honan mountains had and in Kwangsi and Kwangtung, guaranteed to repay in American but the only effective force op- dellars any foreign investments posing the Communists is on in industries in the event that Chiang Kai-shek's island fortress such industries are nationalised. of Taiwan. That is too far away

He added, however, "I expect to help Chen and Yuan. no such nationalisation." Asso- ciated Press.

TRYGVE LIE IN MOSCOW

Gromyko.

·Ancient strategy

The Wong brothers are like political voters everywhere also. They are inclined to blame every- thing bad that happens on the party in power. Thus the Com- munists are being blamed for flood and famine that at present are making life miserable for: large sections of the Chinese population.

So there is no. Immediate hope of an effective armed uprising against the Chinese Communists, Instead, Yuan Wong and Chen Wong and hundreds of millions of other anti-Communist Chinese up-

the

Certainly he is carrying burden of the Presidency as if it were a bouquet.

He

a man of 65. very fit for a Ho still gets up at six in the morning, takes a long walk be- fore breakfast. He doesn't smoke, drinks a weak Bourbon-and-water before dinner, and perhaps two others afterwards if he is play He is pasalonately loyal to hi ing poker.

13 friends,

inclined to bear grudges, still calls Mrs. Truman

"Amazing, if true," the spokes. man commented dryly.

Enucers

The News Review said the are launched from 45- degree ramps and reach a speed of over 500 milles an hour before taking off in flight. The magazine, without giving the source of its information, said the saucers reach a height of 40,000 feet and a speed of more than 1,000 miles per hour-Associated Press.

Britain refuses to discuss loan from World Bank

London, May 11,

Moscow, May 11.

Britain's Colonial Development Corporation, which The Secretary-General of the

last January broke off negotiations for a United Nations, Mr. Trygve

$5,000,000 loan from the World Bank, still Lle, arrived here tonight in a Russian plane from. Prague.

refuses to talk it over with the Bank. He was welcomed at the air-

out that it would be He pointed part by **the* Soviet Deputy

Mr. Eugene Black, the Foreign Minister, M.-Andrei pear to be resorting to China's Bank's President; who has invidious for other countries to be age-old strategy. They are going been trying in London to per- asked to agree to supervision of Mr. Lic ́ was accompanied by to try to absorb their conquerors suade the Corporation's chiefs loans if Britain refused to accept

the condition.de M. Konstantine Zinchenko, Soviet and gradually return China to its United Nations Assistant Secre- old ways. It is a strategy that to change their minds, is now tary-General for Security Council has never failed in recorded His on his way back to New York, Lord-Trafgarne stuck to his Affairs, his privato secretary, tory-United Press. Ingrid Bernizen, and Dr. Olav Rytter, the Norweglen Director of the United Nations Information Centre in Prague, seguida A

Mr. Gunnar Mydahl, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economid. Commission for Europe, who arrived here on Sunday, was at the

JAP MISSION TO

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Mokyo, May welcome Mr.

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original objection that without having been able to carry the matter further.

the dollars were for only two The Bank, it was learned here

of the Corporation's projects, to get

the Bank wanted the right to today, is extremely anxious the Corporation to restart negotia

Inspect all its other projects too. tion because the Corporation's

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