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"THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JUNE 19, 1950.

LINK UP CANADA AND TROPIC COLONIES?

Politicians, writers and

By M'Kenzie Porter

tractive. Canadian and British West Indian trades are comple- mentary, Canadian Ash, wheat and timber are exchanged for rush, sugar and

molassca,

Saving dollars The federal plan for the BWI

•

"Two airliners to seek Truman aid in fight."

They'd apparently been having trouble in raising the wind:

tradesmen both in Canada 12. Des Voeux Road, Central,

Since the news went out that and in the Caribbean 'are dis-

the Hong Kong government is Psychologically both sides, British West Indian colonies have | West Indian cussing the possibility of

buying antiques, Myrtle's union between Canada and would benefit from a sense of la- become a self-governing commu-

grandfather has been eyeing his It is useless nity before instigating any over- creased importance. the British West Indies.

wife in speculative fashion, tures. to deny that the dominating pro-

After all, he says, she's as good Geographical propinquity, ximity of the United States once

Inconvertibility economie Inter-dependence and engendered in Canada an inferio- envisages a central government

of sterling, as gold; her hair has turned to

mutual traditions

ls really ancient have eased rity complex that is still ocea on the Canadian pattern with a however, has in recent years cut aliver; she Newfoundland amoothly into the alonally discernible. With Cana- Governor-General, a two-cham- BWI purchases in Canada to half porcelain teeth; and, the war at role of tenth Canadian provinec. dian authority vested in the great ber Parliament and a judiciary the dimensions of Canadian pur- one time a very handsome jode.

Now, it is proposed to bring in defensive are of islands off the appointed by the Governor in chases in the islands. The some- as the ith province a federation | U.S. Atlantic coast, Oltawa Counell. Once this stage has been what ridiculous situation of Aus- of Jamalea, Barbados, Leeward, opinions would ring louder in attained, the administrative fabric trallon wheat taking the place of Windward; Trinidad and the Cen-Washington's ears.

of the BWI would fall smoothly Canadian wheat in the Indies has A federation of tral American mainland, colony

Caribbean into line with the Provincial Par-also arisen.

Some experts Agure thai of British Honduras.

colonies needs, a supporting arm. laments of Canada. Instead of a

answerable following Canadian investment The idea is not altogether now. To accept Uncle Sam's would be Governor-General Customs

between unton

this to court embarrassment, West directly to the King, a BWI Licu- and development, in the West In-

Friend of mine was warning dies the Dominion could even- would be an- have tenant-Governor visiting Canada

about one of the locui senior. Dominion and the ancient Indians

view that swerable to the Governor-Gene- tually save annually 100,000,000 me colonial islands in the traples was often cxpressed the

American dollars how being spent import/export experts. "He's the nooted in 1912 and again in 1920, they could lean on Canada with ral of Canada.

out losing a shred of dignity. A change to Canadian dollar on tropical suppiles from U.S.sort of fellow," he said, "who goes | but without effect.

through a revolving door behind In 1931, the Inte Lord Bennett, They say they would merely be currency from sterling would of controlled sources,

The argument that Canada and you and comes out in front of obsolete forin of course involve complications and then Prime Minister of Canada, changing an

But by the the BWI are too widely separated you." urged full political fusion. But British protection for one more some heartburning. the depression distracted atten in keeping with their emancipu- time the propitious moment for has been rendered invalid by a tion from the issue.

tion. Newfoundland was a potent union arrives-estimates vary be- splendid Trans-Canada Air Lines

tween two and 10 years it is acrylce, which brings them with precedent.

hoped the existing dollar Impasso in 11 hours of each other.

It is yet early to expect any will have been resolved and that

trade move from the officlui corners of multilateral transatlantic

the triangular interests concern-¦ Overhaard' at the bar. will once more, be in full swing.

The racial difficulties in the ed. But as the Jamaica "Cleaner" "And then my wife, ran away British West Indies would also suld recently: "There is nothing with what turned out to be my present some problems. But of all fundamentally incongruous about best friend." the American countries Canada (the notion of these tropical.colo- destiny has been most successful in est-les accepting common

with the great British North blishing Inter-racial tranquility.

Economically union looks at-American Dominion."

many

OVER THE SHOULDER

the U.S.

economic merger

Canadians

Two misfortunes among Now, with the British West

and Indies on the brink of promotion Another argument affict British American diplomacy in Asia. from colonial to dominion status,

Another argument is that the many observers consider the time The United States has an out- is ripe for promoting & consoli- United Kingdom

herself would standing Secretary of State dation of British Commonwealth gain by a coagulation of British whose speeches have become influence within the American strengin in two American orbits on the threshold of continental sphere.

which ore a feature of contemporary A glance at the map imme-fabulous expansion.

Bat the unifonists are patient. discussion, and a Department diately suggests that a more They propose waiting until the whose experts on Asia have strategic and

separately administered been drive out by the fury of would be between the BWI and now

But most controversy and witch-hun-are glad that sentiment sill out- ting. Britain has an ageing weighs milltary invalid as Foreign Secretary expediency. but an intact staff of perma- nent officials with an expert knowledge of the Far East. On the whole Britain seems to be doing better. Even that isn't too good, though the transformation in the Middle East after the Palestine de- bacle is quite remarkable.

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Munich notebook

By Alexander Clifford

One feels mire that, despite all tribulations, the Anhui will not go pful.

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"Her behaviour is shocking,” Myrtle's grandfather complained about her the other night. "I only her Uncle Hubert were alive, It would kill him."

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Myrtle, by the way, is under the impression that a buttress is a female goût,

grooves.

There is a mad buying boom Everyone you meet hus a special

Recent reports about Government which they have staff euls in Britain have made in Munich these days. There source from

got additional under-the-counter are no sales on, but crowds soothsayings, And each is more local civil servants turn in their are storming the shops. In terrifying than the last. some places queues have reappeared after an absence of two years.

Good, strong walking shoes We expect an awful lot of

extraordinary demand. In our stomachs. Whatever we So are basic storable goods like take to the hills, or stand a siege.

By DR. CHARLES HILL

from time to time and that

from

lining.

are

ת!

own

scare.

matters

of

everything else in Munich.

And now the story has been embroidered by an innity gossip which threatens to swamp the original prophecy.

Olier parts of Germany hava phecies, and the pante atmosphere now begun publishing the pro- seems to be still spreading. But Munich is the heart of it,

And Munich is preparing to

Oh, doola!

Words in the Pharmacopoeia Fill me with foela,

And things like Appendectom Or Tonsillectomy Arc, quite frankly,

A pain-in-the-nectomy.

•

"Isn't it just too sweet, dear?" "No-it's just too dear, sweet." - Shops are busy The buying boom gives a

Romance is to marriage what special air of liveliness and bustle chloroform is to operation-

to this Southern capital of Ger- cheer for walce top an

1

portant.

:

"I must go at once," said the Berlir. and Bonn seem in- credibly far away, and unim-station-master. "There's a lady Munich has reverted driver bringing in the freight to a century ago when it was train."

the Alta

pretty?" asked his

"She's the goods," replied the new kinga station-master,

The artists

and potes

recitals by the score.

#1-

of

•

SALEROOM

05

would

The average Canadian would receive the British West Indies with pride into this adults' wing of his Majesty's household. has grown out of that reluctance In the United States, while

to participate in overseas affairs. Mr. Dean Acheson is fighting] which once became his lack of his lone battle with striking experience. The Canadian Is dc-

veloping a sense of responsi skill and energy, the latest

bility within the Commonwealth send down, chewed or un-sugar, oll, sonp, and tinned foods. or do whatever seems necessary idea of the hostile Senators is as a whole.

There is a run on' warm clothing, if war comes. As the Motherland chewed, liquid or solid,

blcycles, und Arst-aid outfits. to sidetrack the State Depart-loosens the apron strings off the we expect the stomach to In their

homes house- bottling ment by appointing General younger chindren,

are feverishly putting preserves,

down cgga MacArthur as "co-ordinator" fraternal regard of Canada for deal with it without so much wives

as a rumble or a twinge. their welfare deepen.

water-glass, making jams, of all American policies in Canada was the first colony to

reach maturity. Now quite rea- But let it be said that, despite salting way sides of bacon. The this part of the world. The sanably she expects to be given all the maltreatment it gets, the children's money-boxes are being muny-which today genuinely General, who is one of the

its stuff rifled to fill the store-cupboards. capital. a voice in the affairs of the fami- stomach usually does greatest personalities

ofly. Union with BWI, say its sup-without muking us aware of its Cellars are being crammed with American history, doesn't porters, is as natural a domestic

But now and again it coal. labours

Like wildfire commands, development as an older brother rebels, and one of the signs of co-ordinate: he

taking a younger one into busi-rebellion is stomach-ache.

And all because an old peasant genuinely the capital of an in- friend. But what else is there to do

ness partnership.

If you look up stomach-ache in

(irfinaler. incidentally. when the State Department

n medical dictionary you will find in Freitassing has prophesied war. dependent kingdom. it can be caused by a host of gent or plausible than anybody will be rewned after the coming. His forecasts are no more intelll-

nounces that three a plight such as the

else's. But for some unexplainable

Snarfed one, actress about British Foreign Office with anything else by what, for serious conditions.

reason they have swept like wild-War, an Austrian, a Hungarian-

another: "If they

cast her its almost sacrosanct tradi- want of a better

and a Bavarian.) Trivial Causes

fire through Bavaria. tions in Party polemics-has we may call the

The war prophecies come jus Lady Godiva, the horse "Delleve it or don't believe

Inoment when the recon-stesi the show." rarely if ever known. Every sionary mentality, and But the doctors, with their it, that's your affair," sald the at u thing is, in fact against it. It it's not meant as

in old man off-handedly when he struction arive has got going full a term knowledge of starting prices

The patching up of apparently would be bad enough if its of reproach either. The big-disease, know that almost every-issued his prophecies. But Munich Swin punishment fitted the crime; gest American banker who one suffers from stomach-ache rushed to believe it.

It may have been partly be- hopeless ruins has been brought which it emphatically does ever came to China and the stomach-ache is almost always cuuse. the people were already to a fine art,

The shops are full of anything going through #

flying- mild not. But so much of the most dreadful ogre of oil or due to some trivial cause.

And over the auyone could want-they havo too Gobbling

little suucer meals;

the stuffing has been knocked out tobacco we ever encountered

far coped well with border the Swiss Minister of 80 of it by political pugilism that there, were

by population's 'shopping cruze. and chewing; meals that are too big. simple

Food uccentuated orbelling hot or freezing cold;.

The German Light Industry even in defending itself from kindly souls

comparca eating foods that you know from advising the Swiss to start hoard-jxhibition has” just"opened" here,|

now, at any rate, its aggressors the State De- with some of the

talk of little else, in Bavaria. partment is almost abjectly faced cynics who rose to high these are among its causes. The old man, Alols Irimaler, and gadgets and labour-saving apologetic.

office in the Soviet Union. Lashings of alcohol, smoking

are was first reported in some of the devices that will soon be coming night morning til

Munich newspapers.. Then be along. Mr. George Kennan, the! There were quite a few others. These indiscretions make.

Prophet is calm planner of polley, has taken "realists" among the smaller the stomach ache because they claimed that they had reported

Then an enterprising publisher Schwabing-Munich's Chelsea- two years off on holiday from fry, of course, but they didn't lead to irritation of its lining. him wrong. the State Department. He set the tone or texture of Give a thought to the poor old brought out an authorised book-are hard at work again. There paid a visit to his own (and American policy-they, like

All too often the billous attack. let, which sold even faster that are exhibitions and concerts and;

stomach tender, bead Senator McCarthy's) State of the people whom the Com-with Wisconsin last month and told munists.call the bureaucratic aching, tongue that is coated, and the story of the failure of capitalists, merely exploited a breath that discourages friend

ships, is due to irritation of the stomach lining. American policy in China in it.

On to defeat Mr. Kennan is not the only mournful numbers. Perhaps

Then there in the nervous

Irlmaier appears to have said there is something in the idea one who had beaten his breast stomach-ache-and none-the-less that the soft answer turneth about the delusions created painful because it is nervous in originally that "on, a rainy night" origin. Worry, anxiety, frustra- the Russians would attack with away wrath even in the hurly by the wartime association (on of one kind or another some three army groups. The Fouthern-his burly of Congressional Party with Moscow. Many wished times show themselves by a pain most the one most interesting cores of

to Munich-would pass through have started thinking ol of peaco politics. He understood, he to forget that the single in the middle.

Many an income-tax demand. Davaria and then swing North but of war.

And very few of them secm: ол the said, the state of mind behind totalitarian. State

note has led to indigestion: many West to join the other two on to have noticed that the pro- all the criticism that China Allied side was there not by a guilty conscience to a pain in the Rhine.

Then, it seems, the Russians het himself is making no special had fallen to the Communists: its own choice. They did not the stomach..

would be swiftly defeated. No preparations to meet the crer- therefore there must be some look too closely at the back-

one from their army groups gency. thing wrong, with the State ground, and so in the end

would ever get home again. But Department. But China was they had to confront the sad no mere province of the Unit-(

would be was only with the help of stomach. For example, an ulcer Duhube

lold worth. ed States. Warnings were

the would strike famine repeatedly ignored. It was not one totalitarian regime, "still in the stomach can bring on pains and lack either of money or men saturated with hatred for us at a certain time after a meal, the area South of 11.

Further and more dubious pain being worse at the lower encom-and of the breakt-bone or in the prophecies

spoke or arms that produced the in and determined to

of the des- truction of three great cities. firmities of the Nationalists, pass our downfall," that the hack.

Or the ulcer may be a little Paris would go down in a Corn- but just a profound malaise | Allies could defeat those other and a desire to pass the major totalitarian Powers. But there lower down the digestive tract munist prising. And two other with the pain waking the victim including London-would bo burden to the United States. is a final note of warning up in the night and belag relieved inundated by the sea. But you can hear anything in Munich. There were, he admitted, which is perhaps all the more by the taking of food.

If an ulcer is suspected the "phenomena clearly visible penetrating because of the

and even before the end of the troubled

sorrowful doctor usually arranges for the

is there or not. war that should have raised searching of a fine conscience stomach to be photographed so as appointed time whether the urga Chew your food, keeping your serious doubts but didn't. by a singularly fine person- Only a fathead tries to deaden

Don't smoke on .an empty Instead they deluded them-ality: "The margin of safety his stomach pain by swallowing false teeth in for the purpose. selves into the hope that the with which our country moves this or that powder without first stomach. When you get home in having a diagnosis made as to the evening don't put your feet defeat of Japan and the in the world today is not great what the cause really is.

In the trough immediately-wash It may be the result of faulty and sit down for five or ten evacuation of the Japanese enough to permit us to be forces would mean "a united, reckless and wasteful with the feeding, or overwork, or worry. minutes before going info baltie free, and democratic China" talents and the idealism of It may be due to disease in the with your knite and fork.

stomach or. somewhere cleo. Don't blame the radishes, for as these forms were under those people we depend on for Rarely, it may be something even what is really due to the "wallop" slood in the United States. the generalship of our peate more serious, though in 19 cases for the whisky. If you know that

out of 100. it isn't.

a food disagrees with you, leave Today it is the fashion to time battles."

The amazing thing is that the it alone,

much us Nor is it great enough to stomach puts up with paint Uncle Sam with horns

It is an elastle organ, Obey these rules and tall. The truth all along permit of exclusive reliance it does. has been that American policy on quite another form of and if you doubt this statement Prefer small meals frequently Drink has been tinged with a senti romantleism that of the ex-watch a party of small boys gor- to whacking great, tuck-Ins_fre

quently or infrequently, mentalism about China which did a lot of credit to the heart dangerous indeed to take too overted. 'Bomeone' aught today.

And if you must quarrel: and a lot of damage to the much colour from the Japan- start a Society for the Prevention with the other half don't do it at

Įmeal times

More serious

in great deal of damage would

Of course, stomach-aches have been done in the ineantime.

and, humiliating fact that it sometimes due to disease in the All the area North of the

to make sure.

treme Right. It would be mandising at a birthday party!

But it can got tired of being plenty of water throughout the

head. The talk about hard ese environment, however of Cruelty to Stomachaf

Here are a fow suggestions: If, these rules observed, the In- faced, brutal Imperialista la modified it may be on the sur stick to your daily time-table for digestion goes on, consult your "nonsense, The Americans face, and dash from one ex opening the bowels, attending at doctor. Better a day of diagnosis

the appointed. place at the than a day of Judgment. were dominated more than treme to another.";

to

A couple of hours away the Oberammergau Passion Play has i started its season. Every lake and In among the Bavarlin Alps is compoting

Jure week-end trippers. All seems set for the

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