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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JUNE 12, 1950.

THE DORKING CONFERENCE Here comes

It is how three weeks since the Labour Party policy con.

ference at Dorking. This was the much talked of conference between the party leaders,

By "Windrush": Special correspondent

Con-

inst few weeks the

Government a "chilingi”

has abolished points rationing. It has abolished petrol rationing. It is abolishing the entire system of controls. Does it got any credit for this? On the contrary, the electorate puts down its new at-

By G. WARD PRICE.

If you approach a group of

trade union representatives, through a period when the politie aware of the dollar crisis. Since titude to the fact that it has a Tibetans and they start clap and lenders of the__co-operseal pendulum is swinging to the them, it has begun to swing back majority of only seven. If the tive movement. It was

right. For more than a hundred to the right. The swing has been Government had a majority of ping their hands, don't take 24354 informal conference, and years. English politics have been slow, but may gather momentum. 100, would petrol rationing have it as applause. They are Raporters & General Offe 32312 could not commit the party. Boverned by the By The swings Conservatives croretarded be the ended? The crowd of Whitsun driving away the evil spirits

pendulum.

Usually error in forecast- motorists put their new freedom It purpose was to suggest in the alternate directions have ing crisis, it is unlikely that it to the credit, not of Mr. Attice, that may well accompany a ideas on future policy to the each occupied a period of several will be stopped for reversed. It but of Mr. Churchill.

'chilingi,' or foreigner. the years. When the pendulum once has not yet been swinging long

Six American national executive

airme made begins to swing to either left or enough.

There are all kinds of other a forced landing in Tibet during Labour Party, with which right, it does not stop, but HK$72.00

Can the Labour Party hope to

factors. With economie recovery, the war. Extricating themselves rests the responsibility for tinues to move for a considerable actual decisions,

time until the movement has ex-survive the effects of this swing?ain has been regaining con- from the wreckage of their ma

Adence and self-assurance. Will chine they advanced on the near- If there was an hausted its momentum.

election today. this intensify the swing to the est village. the result might not be very dif- right? Or will the electorate con- tion was in the street, clapping

The whole populu The conference was held in

what it much

was last clude that it owes the better times like mad. But during the At any given moment in parlia-ferent from

February. weck the country feels that it has mentary history it is he trees in inyed till next year, the wing mie revival is still very precarious exclaimed the delighted flyers. If the election is de- to the Government? The · econo- "Gee, these are real good guys!" got the gist of what was sold. It what are the long-can only be may have gone a good deal fur-We are still walking a tight rope. "Who would have believed that Is generally supposed that the operation. They

The old alarms can easily recur. Americans were moderates, led and typied by seen clearly, in perspective. But ther by the time it occurs.

What would be the effects then Tibet?" CO-ORDINATION IN Mr. Herbert Morrison, came out looks now an if the pendulum

on a general election?

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WHERE A MAN'S CAFE IS

HIS

CASTLE

so popular in

Tongues out

To their surprise, however, the

auddenly ceased, and the crowit fted into their houses, slamming the doors and barricading the windows.

.Controls going was swinging to the left from Mr. Aneurin Bevan la tem-ly after-say in March 1930-until Certainly the Labour Party will At least we may hope that this: In the course of his recent porarily eclipsed. Nationalisation about the autumn of 1847, the not be able to arrest the swing last question will not have to be apparently enthusiastle welcom comprehensive review of the 1s to be halted. The Labour Party time when the public flest became by its new maderation. In the put. recent Atlantic Conference, which are being made of the so- Mr. Dean Acheson made a calised Industries and will try to significant reference to South Improve their efficiency. It will East Asia. Unfortunately it even consider whether the exten- was 'overshadowed by state- sion of the co-operative

ment may not be preferable ments on many other sub-alternative to more nationalisa- fects. The American Secretion when the time comes for an- lary of State described the other dose of socialism. keen interest taken by the United States in the work of the Sydney Conference, when the Commonwealth countries devised their first measures of united help to the threatened countries of South East Asia, He then went on to say that Mr. Bevin had been informed that the United States Gov-

One newspaper comment was as follows: "The inescapable fact that Labour leaders had to face at Dorking is that at least half of those who voted for Opposition candidates in February were un

The Tibetans had never before seen an acroplane and its crew, with the result that they had re- Forted to the established way of keeping devils at a distance.

What puzzled me on arriving in Tibet was the frequency with which people put their wire

tongues "For a man's house is his bitter coffee beans behind them,| "Dlg Business" is seldom done in out at me. I assumed that this castle" so Sir Edward Coke which the Viennese soon learned offices--or round dinner tables. was, the same sort of demonstra-

In the way

tion that rude little boys In Eng- made - Vienna coffee world Near the Vienna Stock Ex-land are liable to make at famous.

change there are several famous stranger, but I learned that it is, coffee houses where businessmen In fact, n respectful greeting. meet to discuss big deals. Middle- Beggars particularly use it, and men bring buyers and sellers 13-it is generally accompanied by gether in coffee-houses.

the gesture of "thumbs up."

There nre Tibetan Customs Stamincale joins à students club which fore-lokatz" where policy is made, new pected to observe. One is to pre-

described the Englishman's home in the 16th Century. To

questionably *workers". The Viennese, the Coffee-house

TI-

party's leaders could have reacted means much more than that. to this in two ways. They might

More thun half his waking: have moved, consciously consciously, a good deal nearer the totalitarian conception that the coffee-house or

for the

that those ading the papers, meeting his cronies, playing games or trans-

to brew

that has

•

Born addict

The Viennese is a born coffee-

hours are spent in his regulari house addlet. As a student haj Politicians have their "Stamm-whleh the foreigner niso is ex- ernment will attempt to co-leaders know best what is good where he whiles away the time gathers each evening at one or parties are founded, and the latest sent a white searf and a box of

ordinate its efforts in that

and people,

could take warning, and usk Commonwealth, "in order themselves frankly where the

area with the efforts of the ideas can be enforced; or the acting the business of the day.

that

our

Good fortune

-By- Ritchie McEwen

graduates.

its

developments are discussed. The biscuits to

any Tibetan official journalists, too, have their entes upon whom he calls. where the latest news and views are always on hand.

Prayer by water

or

As soon as the regular cus- actions will be party went sufficiently wrong to toner comes in through the door,

The scarves are quite useicas, This forfeit a material measure of the the waiter knows at once where

Here is his coffee-house the being thin strips of cotton mutually supporting." firm declaration of policy is support it enjoyed five years ago, he will sit, and without a word

clerk, the "ittle man," is treated silk, but they have the same with the same deference as his significance as leaving a visiting important, because it will en- "Thanks to the healthy instincts passing between them, he, will bring his customer the right

waiter card in Europe, able Commonwealth countries of Britisk polities, and to the per drink, and his favourite papers.

sense of most

ollier of the many cafes frequent-se is greeted by the

"Herr Doktor or "Herr Another rule is to keep a holy sound so place on the right hand in pass- to plan and act with assurance sonal common

those who lead the Labour party, Every day at the same hour.ed by the University under- Hofrat," titles which

pleasant to the ears of the Vien- ing it. when next they meet.

chosen they have

Бесопа the

your Viennese may be found sent-

One of the curious aspects of The Point Four programme course."

ed at the same little round table) As a young man in love, hose, who so love to be Battered

with

religion is the titles, especially when they the Buddhist will, of course, be one of the

with a glass of water' in front of courts his girl in some quiet have no claim to them.

mechanisation of prayer. Where him. The great charm and at- coffee-house,” After he is married,

stroums run down the mountain- main preliminary vehicles. It

traction of the Vienna Coffee- he still has his "Saturday night"

Rarely do you see married side, prayer-wheels are often set is a long-range programme There can be no doubt that it house is the lack of flurry and with his cronies at his old "Stam couples together in the Vienpup... designed not only to maintain was a good fortune for the coun- "high pressure" service.

mildhal," and if he is heupecked

coffee-house. The husband con- 2 They are turned by the water," the gains achieved by the try that Labour chose this moder-

his coffee house is his refuge.

tinues to go to his "stammlokal" and are believed to convey to question re-i

Few Viennese have much money other aid programmes, but ate line. But the

Every coffee-house has mains open whether by these new to spend, and usually they order

of bachelor days, and the wife Buddha the Invocations that aro out and placed Inside also to provide an instrument

tactics Labour can hope to win a small 'black coffee, which is "bridge" or "chess" evening, and trenises a rather smarter cafe written for expanding world economy, the next general election.

replaced by

where she can read all the fashion them. a glass of water some of ine Oncst players in on the basis of private initia-

when finished. The regular cus-Europe are to be seen every after- magazines and snip out a design But perhaps the oddest Tibetan Certainly there are factory now tomer will often sit for hours on noon and evening playing their which catches her fancy while th tive and free enterprise as the telling in Labour's favour. When end, drinking glass after glass of favourite game. Many cafea walter is busy at another table. best means of promoting de- the general election was held in water and in the end paying for have billiard tables, too, for their

Older women are usually to be mocracy and freedom. As a February, the shadow of coming the one coffee he drank several patrons, but generally the Vien

This is not the universal rule. nese just love to sit and read the seen drinking coffee with thick first step, this programme economic crisis lay heavy over hours ago.

while the younger ones but it is practised where the soli papers from cover to cover for cream, calls for technical assistance the country. Now there has been

The Vienna coffee-house tradi-huur after hour.

prefer sweet and sickly liquers. is so poor that it would not sup- an extraordinary change. Because

port a family for each of the to under-developed areas on

back the timel Loes of the continuing. American boom tien

clear that there will be no of the Turkish slege of The

Some women bring their dogs brothers, who thus share the The reader may well wonder an organised and sustained it

with them, and most of them bride. 'basis. This is to be given in crisis this year, and probably not city. In 1683, when the invaders when the Viennese do some work bring a bag of knitting to pass

This being a country of magic- next year either. So the Torles were chased away from Vienna. The answer is that many of them co-operation with the United who in February were forecast- they left huge piles of the dark, do their work in coffee-houses. away the time when they have fans, it seemed desirable to con-

read the fashion magazines... sult the oracles, Nations; individual governing disaster will be regarded by

The main occupation of the ments and private organiza- many voters as discredited, Some

observing stranger will itinerant lamus is to read the Tory out of fear of

notice large and soild ashtrays on future. When any important de- tions alread, engaged in this who voted

every table, but these are never clsion is to be taken one of them work. One of these is ECAFE, the expected economic crash may how angrily switch their votes,

used. Instead. the coffee house is called in. which has been studying on feeling that they have been trick-

|"regular" prefers to use his coffee -the-spot-the-great-variety of ed.

plans drawn up by the S. E.

Europe the Marshall Plan was based on State funds. The main support of development which Point Four is designed to assist will have to come from private capital invested on a business basis,

Two wars

Luddite smoke

By George Schwarty-

The

custom is that by which when a man marries girl all his younger brothers simultaneously became her husbands also.

There are

are plenty of them beg- cup or better-st-the-floor, and ging their way about the country never uses an ashtray!

We had had several such visi- fors at this dak bungalow in

The coffee house is hame to the Yalung, and I inquired if any of

with his glass of

his

love

Were

But there are also factors tell-} Asia countries for developing for the Conservatives. So far A new machine, introduced It is quite likely that he will ment on a great scale. In as we can scc, we are living as an experiment into a Lon- tell his employer affably, "Well, Viennese. His house or his flat is them was skilled in reading the

don tobacco factory, can cutir, I was getting a bit tired of just somewhere he sleeps, changes future.

the old cough-and-spit, begging his clothes-and pays and pack 1,500 cigarettes a

the rent! your pardon, but that's it. I was His real life" minute in one process. Nar-thinking of leaving, but now that on

goes on in Seeing my future

bis mal production of machines you've got this spanking Flying Stammickal,

Not these poor begging monks, From Germany, Antony

now generally in use is 950 Cormorant, I'm staying. If ever water on the marble-topped table was told, but there was in the you think of getting a Sizzling before him, and a pile of news-village a former high lama who

hind beon Terry writes that when wel-cigarettes a minute.

expelled from Buzzard I don't mind taking a papers at his side, chatting to his fare officials in Aachen, in the

for having a "We do not," said Mr. Percy five bob cut to help out. They're girl friend or his cronies, or sim- monastery

ply watching the world go by affair, and whose powers In general priority under British Zone, asked 74-year- Belcher, General Secretary of the ablt expensive,"

old Karl Schneeweiss as he Tobaren Workers' Union, "want to

cutside the broad windows of his remarkable. Point Four will be given to

Or take that estimable lady favourite coffee house.

(Continued on Page 9) stepped off a train bringing interfere with progress or with (1) agriculture, forestry and released German prisoners of more efficient methods of produc- who does for one in the home! fisheries; (2) education and war

tion, from Russia, when he IDE but unless the workers in twice or thrice weekly. Hitherto labour productivity; (3) joined the German Army, he the factories get something out of she may have gone on her hands the new methods their share of and knees to polish the floor. If health; (4) transport and com- answered, "In 1914-under the any profits-we are not prepared you treat yourself to an electric munications; (5) mineral and

to see these methods introduced floor polisher does she immedia- water resources; (B) service

without some kind of a fight." tely step up her claim from 28, Schneeweiss sald he was glind

6d. an hour to 38. on the ground to industry-helping to set up to be home, as he was taken prl That, although somewhat belli- that she is now enabled to cover small bureaux of standards soner by the Russians in 1910 and gerent, sounds reasonable. But is more of the house per diem? It is and small pilot projects; (7) later sentenced to 30 years in a ? On the assumption, that the much more likely that she will

Siberian labour camp.

cutting and hacking is of the hall the relief to her limbs by governmental administration and technical services, such as After serving 18 years, he was same standar to previously, the embarking on a medical history atatistics, weather, public ad- allowed to marry a Siberian girl change repres nts a 78 per cent of the Binks family, including the Increase in productivity on that obstetrical details which, in my who joined him in the ministration, and finance.

camp process. Who is responsible for case, always induce a profound When she died in 1940 he "began this and to whom should the be- queasiness. There is only too good to feel lonely and homesick." neft accrue? reason to be grateful that In March this year he heard America has turned her back that a trai

Kaiser."

carrying

I can appreciate that the claim German

?

Cui bono?

on her traditional isolationism prisoners frum World War II, was ed to the result is incontestable.

of the inventor to have contribut- For which particular workers in order to confer immense leaving the comp, and asked the can appreciate the contribution In the tobacco industry would Mr. benefits on a troubled world. Soviet authorities if he could be of the people

whose savings Belcher claim a cut into the pro- allowed to join it. He told them financed the construction and in- Ats derived from tho new. If it is selfinterest for a citizen he wanted to see what his home stallation of the machine.

But in machine? Would he confine it to of the world to wish to see town, Auchen, looked like after respect of the people directly the people directly operating the the world sane and prosper-134 years.

Welfare officials took charge of want to know in what way their houserien who deal with the fas

operating the machine I would machine? What about the machine minder? What about the ware- ous, then the American people may be called selfinterested. Schneewelss and found him a particular activities are affected,

home,

Gs Aachen is a mass of

ter flow of output? What about There is in it naturally ruine from, bombing and all his Would they be required to the typists in the office, who, after a form of opposition to those relations are dead.

exert any more foot-pounds of all, are, in the firm? who would seek to make it | Though he speaks fluent Rus- energy? Would they be required The fact is that the invention is otherwise. The economic pro-member only a few

Bla), Schneewelss can now re- to furnish any more ergs, or

words of whatever it may be, of brain a cost-reducing Innovation, gress made possible in West-German.

kill? The job might even be ren- the ultimate result-under com- ern Europe by Marshall

dered easier, in which care brute potitive conditions, the speedy Ald has played an essential

logie would suggest a reduction, result-should be the diffusion of the benefits over the' community at large following the repercuss sions on the price of elgarettes..

On Mr. Belcher's thesis I could

Comparison

and

Part--as Mr. Acheson told vival of interest in the de-not an increase, In Wages, Congress in strengthening velopment of economically their political and social backward countries. With structures and. preventing the the ending of inflation on the Does an increase in productivi- stake a claira for using the lift at subversion of their free in- Continent the mood is chang- ty brought about solely by the the offico. I calculate It gives me stitutions. The immediate ing. The Economic Commis machine invariably provoke a de-five minutes more at my desk per object of securing reasonable slon for Europe has argued in mand by the associated worker day, something like 20 hours over for increased money remuneration the year. The frm must make z contentment and prosperity its annual survey that Europe on the grounds of equity?. If a profit out of this extra working in Europe has succeeded be- could to its own advantage chauffeur-driven owner gets a time obtained through the lift In- Remind me, to walk yond the original hopes,, share again in the work of new and faster model does the stallation.

chauffeur; immediately. react slowly upstairs “In-Futuró and tò Indeed, Europe in turn is economic development over- "That means we shall cover more sit doing nothing' until my heart now showing a marked re- seas.

ground a day. I want a rise." stops thumping.

IT'S DIFFERENT!

IT'S DELICIOUS!

PIETSON

WATSONS