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THE LABOUR PAMPHLET
By "Windrush" special correspondent
Co
should
This has been the week of
foreign policy. The inadequacy "the_great_explosion over the
of its treatment of foreign policy In its election manifesto had been Labour Party pamphlet on
widely commented on, so the European unity. By the time
Party's research officers wero tuin- this article reaches Hong
ed loose on drafting a statement. Probably most of the work was Kong the excitement will body would have great powers. It were not made by Socialisty gov-done by Mr. Denis Healey. The The Korean situation probably have died' down. might, for example, decide to cut ernments,
draft was passed by the Internas not be 'conaldered provocation for But it would be quite wrong down quite steeply the steel pro-
tional sub-committee before ever a shooting war, saya, US, senator. duction in Great Britain, thus It Ja understandable that the Schuman Plan was put for- to think of the uproar as a causing heavy unemployment. Or America should have
Those explosions you heard reacted ward. Was the draft soon by the were simply the happy, liberated 24364 storm in a tea-cup. It has might reduce British wages in violently. There is in any case a full Labour executivo! Nobody populace letting off firecrackers.
the same deep suspicion in America of knows the answer. Probably it Reporters & General Offios. 32512 been a revealing incident. A the steel industry to
lot of things have become level as those in France. And the British Socialium-partly out of was circulated. But many of the (four finac)
British Government would be fear that America will become members of the Executive are not clear which were
Chiang offers military aid to not clear unable to intervene. So would "Infected." There 1. Alsa the very much interested in foreign South Korea. before.
all the Governments of West suspicion that Britain is_sabotag-polley. Those who are interested: One can only hope that all Europe. The 'essence of the Ing the attempts at European are, ilko the Prime Minister, very sabotage attempts will be firmly French plan was that the iron and federation. America thinks that bury men. If they received the dealt with. steel authority should be above it knows what Europe needs: If draft, it is doubtful if they read governments. But how it was to be constituted was not explained,
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Consider the situation as it was just before the document was pub- lished. The prestige of the Gov- ernment was standing higher than at any time since the general election. Anxiety over the dollar crisis was fading out of the air. (It may revive quite quickly. The| crisis is not over). But people: were willing to give the Labour Government the credit for the
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present alleviation. If there had been an election at this time, the Government-might have improved its position considerably.
Then, an Tuesday, June
On that came the awful blunder. day it had been unable to accept the Schuman proposals. On the same day Mr. Attlee was to make a statement in the House of Com-
The pamphlet
Nobody could blame the British Government for rejecting such a radical plan. It did not refuse ati all to consider all schemes for in- ternationalising iron and steel. It
Its
Europe would follow the Ameri-IL
example and federato can States, all would be well. America is inclined to think that one of the chief obstacles to this is stub- born British nationalism unwilling to surrender sovereignty. |
Sad truth
Two questions
·
Whatever the explanation, the document was passed for publica- tion. They party officials respon- sible were anxious to get their work pubilahed as quickly
别想!
The Colony'a tendo · figures_get bigger and bettor, while the lock market-and merchants-remain depressed. There is probably a moral to this somewhere, if I could only think of it.
It will relleve local dancers to as pelde of authorship? possible. Is there not such a thing | know that in the cabaret bähds dispute, neither side Intends to alight fantastic.
•
What the publication of the said only that it could not bind Labour pamphlet did was to fuse Itself to accept a plan before the these two suspicions, Labour
The printers and binders had plan had been set out in black and Britain appeared to be saying that finished their work by June 13. white; and was unwilling to con- it would consider federal projects So the pamphlet was issued on
Afier reading these, our that day. Nearly everybody in special Korean editions (wert template an international authori--but only with Socialist States,
the Labour Party executive had you glad the strip car, cons The storm will die soon. Later forgotten about it. Only ty which was not in the last re-
oned weren't crowded out?) 200 will American comment has been less Minister can be said quite certain have gathered that the situation sort under control of the gover- ments of West Europe.
violent. It has been realised that ly to have remembered what it now is simply a Riddle-me-Rhee. mons. The Government's case
All this was explained, the earlier Press reports gave a contained, and its Implications. was a good one. It was sup-moderately and with good humour, one-sided view of the document. That was Dr. Dalton, who has a ported by nearly all the Press in the White paper. But then But the question remains: Why did certain genius for precipitating The officer commanding US. France had asked us to bind our the Labour Government threw the Labour Party do anything so unhappy incidents of the kind forces in Alaska hos alerted his selves in advance to putting the away its whole case. For on the inept as to allow its pamphlet to which followed.
air boxes in vlow of the Korean control of our steel industry un-
same day that the White Paper be published on the very day
trouble, der a supra-national body whose was published the Labour Party that it would do most damage to That, almost unbelievable as it . Ho doesn't want any Red FORCE IN KOREA
composition and constitution was issued its pamphlet on European the national interesta?
.ls, seems to be the history of this influence Twining round his quite unexplained. No British Gov- unity. Now this pamphlet has
international sensation. The coun- command, with the inevitablo ernment responsible to the elec- certainly had a rather worse Press The sad answer seems to be try is now, asking two questions. comment: Alas, Alaskai The Security Council has torate could possibly have com- than it deserved. Taken. 250 that the Labour Party is even more] The Arat, the lesser one, is: What spoken quickly. It has de-mitted itself to a measure whose whole it was not the crude thing inept in matters of this kind, than is the relation of the Labour Party nounced North Korea as the
which it was reported to be in was thought possible. The Executive and the Labour Govern- H'm.
It contained pamphlet was prepared by the In- ment The graver question is "It is Miss's first appearance aggressor, called for the with-
It was all very well to say that the American Press.
But ternational
Sub-Committee this. If a Party is capable of on the local concert stage since drawal of their troops, and
In the interests of European unity something which was true,
ulso of the Labour Party executive. such a grave blunder, is it really 1947; and We should all be ordered a cease-fire. The the British Government ought to unfortunately it contained
go there was a capable of governing? So the grateful." President of North Korea has have taken a risk. But what was passages which made it quite clear Some months
We were being asked that the Labour Party was un- feeling in the Party that it would ground which the Labour Govern- ordered his troops to carry to turn over the control. of iron willing to co-operate in Inter- be a good thing for its propaganda ment had been recovering it has
statement on now lost again abruptly. on till South Korea has been and steel to an international body national economic projects which if it published a
which would thenceforward be smashed. Once more we see that we live in an age of force and that the age of reason, hailed so mistily by the French revolutionaries at its inception a century before the first world war, really has ended.
nature was thus undefined.
the risk?
beyond the control of the British
Government and electorate. This
South Korea. But it is al question that must also be examined and answered.
Certainly the South Korean forces were not as
Cockney Len--boss of Canadian boom town
Redwater, Alberta.
A
•
"Youth sent gaol for robbery, possessing arms,”
The gaol was probably one of these prefabricated affairs, de- livered in a plain-clothes vau.
•
By getting a Minister accredited to Peking. Denmark has stolon a Merch over Britain.
▼.
"That quack
"Just say, 'He is an unqualified:
are nine of the 400 wells so far, bringing to the prairies. He led
who mared me The only great decisions
me to the muddy main street out- has asked for a testimonial. What made in our time by reason well armed as their fellow- Len Walker from Houn-sunk in the Redwater area.
side the door of the hotel.
can I say?" jerked were those of Attlee and countrymen from across the slow
a Cockney Like most of the farmers
"TWO Mountbatten in India, Burma border. And that may well thumb at the mud-logged around, Len owns only the land,
years ago," he said, success."" and Ceylon. In China, in have been due to the doubt street of wooden shacks out while the mineral rights are held "there was nothing out here at
by the lucky Alberta Government, all except the grain elevators on) An admirer remarked of Myrtle Indonesia, in Greece, in about the answer to this side the window and said:
But the farmers get paid fees the Canadian National Railway last night: Her dress is like 勘 Malaya, in Indo-China, in the very question as much as to
wire "See that mess, chum? It's soon and rents for the land on which line, where the farmers shipped barbed
fence enough to protect the property, but' not Near East, and in the satellite the tardiness of action in going to be cleared up now--and the wells are sunk. Len's esti- away their wheat.
enough to spoli the view. countries of Eastern Europe Congress and the fret and that will be all thanks to the oil." mate was: "It should mean a "Now we're going to make a force was the major factor-fury that surround the, play We were sitting in the "bear By Gordon Young
proper township out of this place. The man who said that money Wo've already got this hotel, talks probably married it. three cinemas, a school, shops, and drug stores.
+
а
tidy
and
"See that wooden shack across
sometimes
more of Party politics on foreign room of the little hotel at Red- hidden," often revealed. It was the policy. A month ago six water, the fabulous township 35 manifest will to resist with United States Ambassadors, miles North East of Edmonton, 210,000 or so to me before we're force that enabled the West sent statements to Congress Where the world's largest oll dis- through."
coveries for years are now being, to maintain the airlift and urging authorization of
As a rugged individualist, Len the field It's a Waveright beauty made. preserve their position in largo vote for the Mutual
has no kick against the fact that parlour for even the women can Canada's oil miracle has been come here now. Berlin and therefore in West- Defence Assistance pro- A notice on the door Bald: ern Germany. The Kremlin gramme. The
Ambassador "Minors and Indians prohibited." Wrought by adventurous prospec-
Local newspaper wanted to take them over to South Korea was one of Packing the tables were hulking tors working for oil companies
not upder State control.
"In that little hut down the and would have had no com the six He listed the priorites ollfield workers in gay checked not enterprise,
lumber jackets, putting down
street Eddit Arrel and his wifej punction whatever about do- of American policy in Korea pints of the local drink called "Just look at the money they've are bringing out our own local | ing so; only fear of the con- as (political support; (2) "red eye," a half-and-half mix-had to put in before they could newspaper, the Redwater Nows sequences-stayed-its-hand-economic assistance; (3) ture of beer and tomato juice. take anything_out,"_aaid_he. and..they've already got more
None of the recriminations vigorous information and
than 150 paid subscriptions. I had motored out to talk to This year the oil companies are or inquests now going on in education programmes; and Len Walker, recently appointed spending an estimated £80,000,000 "Our population here has jump- the United States will be of-(4) "as a final step," military first Mayor of Redwater, as part on exploration and exploitation ed from 250 before the oil to the least value unless the aid.
of a detailed study I have been of the 125,000,000 neres of spor 1,500 now. We're getting electric stark fact is squarely faced The Ambassador then making of the great Western sible oil and gas sites in Alberta, lights, paved streets-all
the
that the cause is only good stressed what he called "the Canadian "oll rush," which, in British Columbia, Saskatchewan, trimmings.
Alberta alone, has already re- and elsewhere. And the battle to "We've got our own Mounties,
Tuít he came out here from Denholm, Scotland, in 1827, and
he's been 15 years in the force."
Mayor Walker shook my hand, "Well, so long for now. Mind you get my name Fight-Leonard Arthur Walker--the initials spell LAW~~600,"
or bad if weakness makes it unique, compelling urgency vealed natural resources est!-locate the present rich pastures too, under Corporal "T-bono
has been a hard one. 50. The age is amoral. The which attaches to the mill-mated at over £330,000,000. Communists pose on a pin-tary assistance requirements” It has turned Canada almost Originally, during the war, the nacle and are destitute of of the Republic, because it overnight into the largest off pro only considerable source of fuel morality. Like Hitler, they was confronted all along its ducer in the British Empire, and for the Canadian war effort was began this onslaught with a border with an aggressive, is expected to make her in the one oilfield at Turner Valley, 25 world's miles South West of Calgary lic. It is the only sign of Soviet-dominated Communist coming years one of the
which by 1942 was already start- ing to decline, weakness they show, and it regime publicly committed at Industrial Powers, exists only because there is to the destruction of the Re- Every day of the week, Sun- an uneasy consciousness of public, by force of arms if days included, about. 2,100.000 the fate that has in the end necessary,
Equipment had gallons of oil are now gushing out been visited upon aggressors. been supplied to the replace Hitler, Tojo, and Mussolini ment value of $58 millions, This figure will be doubled aspectors, some of them large com-
only just found the but "the undeniable military soon as construction is completed, pantes, some email,
early next year, of the 1500 operators,
arc
is particularly
of Alberta wells,
Typical story
Lucky strike
In the next five years ofl pros
"wild-car' millions spent
of
corner of the tumultuous his superiority of the North mile pipeline which is being built pounds in the search for new oll tory of our time. They at- Korean forces would provide at a cost of £30,000,000 to link ources. tack just the same, when North Korea with the margin, the olfelds with the Great Lakes One company, Imperial Oil, they believe they can get of victory in the event of a and the markets of the East.-**
alone fruitlessly drilled 114 "dry away with it, for it is a mill-full-scale invasion. Such
holes," at a cost of anything up tant creed for all that it pro- superiority
wards of 13,000 apiece. Discour aged by fallure, many prospectors fesses to abhor force and evident in the matter of Len walker's own story is just cut their losses and with- aggression as the weapons of heavy. Infantry support typical of the way in which the drew. "Fascist beasts." ---
weapons, tanks, and combat great hunt for "black gold," still
Then came the lucky strike. On more than In Korea, of course, force aircraft with which the being carried on by
180 large and small met force. Both sides had L.S.S.R. has supplied and and American
Canadian February. 13, 1947, an Imperial companies, Is all drilling teams, bering into a been armed and equipped by 'continues to supply its changing the fortunes of many a core of prehistoric coral reef at their patrons. A question Korean puppet.”
Leduc, 20 miles South-West of Edmonton, struck a gusher which that arises is whether those. On the fade of it, both
"I'm a proper Londoner, I am." opened up the greatest ob peoples of Asia who have this statement; and the said Len. Vicarage-lane, Houns: covery of that year and innu- long been subject races or rapid advance in South low, was my home, and my dad gurated the oil rush which is still have a long tradition of auto- Korea of the invaders, was on the old District Railway going on. cratic rule, are really ready imply that the Soviet did a fee at the Mansion House,
for years, in the Reason-ticket
men.
1
:
dis-
Today Leduc has over 380 pil to fight for their newfound more thorough job of it!
walls, and its reserves aro eati freedom-na ready to fight in preparing, training and "I was a clerk on the London mated at about 9,000,000,000 gal for it as they were to clamour especially in equipping the Stock Exchange until I got fed lons. for it. The example of events North. Even so, the South any I realised this I should have up waiting for promotion. "One
Geologistsibink that the elf-i in China, especially the col- Koreans did have enough to wait for 15 chaps ahead of me bearing coral reef of Leduc, be- Tapse of the huge Nationalist men and arms to put up con- to die before I'd get anywhere. loved to be half a billion years Army, has had a profound siderable resistance. If they
old, links up with oilfields which "Bo" I chucked and came out lie buried from North to South
much old may still go down in it, the conclusions: mutat my pocket way back in 1909. – the drain-lct's cut the risk in be faced. We must do the
Other discoveries. followed #Since then I've done just about half: that is the inclination, job where It must be done, everything digging ditches, September 1340-as the greatest with Redwater-found in: It is not easy at this early at least with a hard core of logging, farming. And now the ar" thom allgemeinen stage to determine whether our own forces, da It is being pay«oll: co{ _is,” lack of faith and poverty of done in Malaya cand, „with
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Today, within 40 miles of the! city of Edmonton, there are more *He owns the land: than 900 walls already in produe
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