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COLE-BROOKS-The engagement amouneed between Cap tain Donald Inglla Cole, Rogol Regiment of Artillery, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Cole of 24 Darville Road, Lee, London, and Captain Joun Shirley elder Brooks. QARANC. rizughter of Mr. and Mrs. Batcombe, E. B. Brooks of Cerne Abbas, Dorset.
THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JULY 24, 1950,
TENDER CONSCIENCES
The House of Commons debate on Korea showed an overwhelming support for the Government. In spite of this, a considerable number
By "Windrush"- Special correspondent
of people are genuinely dis-t For the Arst two, the answers cumstances is that the conflict turbed about the question of made by British Government] must
that
No place like Killarney
By JOHN HALL
As Old Donic, the jarvey,
Immediately be taken the legitimacy of the action] spokesmen seem absolutely con before the Security Council which taken by the Security Counell vincing. The first charge is that must take the measures neces- the Security Councils decisions sary to maintain international and America,
are invalid because of the absence pence and security. (This is ini of Itussia. Sir Hartley Show Article 51). Communist propaganda is like- cross, the Attorney Generali, hins Extreme left-pointed out that since 1840 the ty to play on this.
It seems pretty plain that the wingers who are far from scrupu- convention has grown,
course of events in the Korea up Tous will make much of these members of the Security Council crisis was exactly that envisaged put it. ""Tis a dreadful thing doubts among tho scrupulous,
may absent themselves from 1ts in the Charter. South Koren was to say, but indade the Holy is important therefore that
the proceedings,
defended attacked. IL
itself. Year is having a sorrowful case ngainst the action taken
The United States went to her should be objectively and dis-
Absence has then been counted aid. The dispute was referred to effect on the tourist trade.” Old Donle was thinking main passionately analysed.
Security as abstention, not as veto. Thin the
which, Council, was explicitly stated in August within a matter of hours, took ly about money, but he went on are the greatest places in the 1947 during the discussion of the the measures envisaged In Artlele "Of course, Home and Killarney of the Security Council declared Indonesian affair. The President 51.
world. Rome is the Holy City, that "those who abstain Intention-
The ninck hus two prongs. The first challenges the compe- tence of the Security Counell to reach any findings in the absence of Russin. Article 27 of the Charter states that the Security Council can take decisions only with the concurring votes of the members. Russia. one of the permanent members, obviously did not concur. It was absent.
permanent
The altnek on this line gues further. One of the necessary
in favour
China,
of presence
Two resolutions
I
Dream lakes
in
It must be admitted that the and the Lakes Killarney, aure
cannot be anywhere ally are not considered to have third argument is more difficult there
If the Korean war the work! so beautiful.” caused a veto." This ruling was to counter.
the is really a civil war, and not a given in the Soviet delegate and was not chai-war between sovereign states, by does the Security what right Council intervene? lenged by him.
It could of course do so on the grounds that a altuation had risen which-en- dangered peace. It could then that have taken precisely the and steps to regulate the situation as be- it did when it interpreted the war had as one between States, So by a Mr. different route, the conclusion in the the action taken would have been
He the same.
gun,
charge The secondi of America jumped the Seven votes cat of Kuvemintang began its military sanctions
Counc!! But Kuomintang Chino, fore the Security it is argued, has forfeited its voted on the resolution.
this in right to membership. The legl-Attlee dealt with
House of Commons debate. Com- timate member is now munist Chlaz. And Communist pointed out that there were two China would not have concurred resolutions by the Security Coun-
lh, with the resolution,
'The first
same
The
Working
Yugoslava blame the Kremlin's policy for slowing down the world sprend of Communiorn. They have, in fact, been forced to the conclusion that Russia is quilty of Titoism.
"Britain planning 'mere concrete a to Koren,"
Well, another martar or wouldn't come amiss.
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I read that as African chief is a yacht intill. with having
for his sleeping accommodation
Sounds all bunk to me. 212 wives.
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The increase la the number of Typhold cases has arouseči some akrm and not without reason. soid It official Government Range statement. However, when Right you are, Donie.
clmely examined, the the world and there is no place more to match Killarney, with its ex-position, though serious, need not. quishe greens and those softly enre undue alarm."
Jakes and fells that O.K.-be alarmed, but not mirroring
and are the dawn
twilight of unduly, if you please. Joveliness and tranquillity.
So, Old Donle, we
back Spring: a thine when bork begin after these many years wander to feel gallant and girls begin to
Killarney feel buoyant. Ing-os all who sec must return-and, divil take us, you are complaining.
It in the tourists, especially the Americans. So many of them Hang,
on
are
Complaints
about
naked
With the are going to Rome first and tak-
the way continuing to ing in Killarney
they are running nude would home when short of dollars and have little inter.
"An' telling us shocking stories United
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have been
bathers
mode
nt Tal
thermometer crowd the 90's, ! happen sooner
or
Though the reply to all these) arguments is thus pretty convinc- Ing, a good deal more is likely to though it be heard of them. They will be The second prong attack is that thou hang of the stuck had not recommended military
the main stock-In-trade of those
to spend. Korea action had found that aggression who are out to hamper the pre-
Myrtle's grandfather noys: activity of the Now. Inter- sent military netlen in South five bours before
was had taken place. st
of the shameful way they have) Among the things that don't turn Nations. Up to the present only authorised to do so by the second national law recognises that any:
two Members of Parliament have been overcharged in Italy, an eut quite the way we expect resolution of the Security Council: State which is attacked has auto-
out us knowing all the time that the are women drivers. to matically the right to defend committed themselves
statements that
the better way would be for them to Itself, and any other Stale may go and-out
"Complainant told the court acted come here first and go to Rome Council bas to the defence of the victim. All Security
afterwards"
that she had put her entire trust that the Charter of the United illegally. The number may growi
Visitors from Briiuln are in lefendant, but that he had Nations provides for in such cir- if the fighting threatens to spread.
plentiful, but they get poorer tled, stolen and broken confidence. every year, and so many of them "The weather during last week are n n new type of tourist who was unusually warm and sunny." do not understand that you must And it's simply lovely out have a few pounds to spare in today. Killarney
excursions by
Gromyko's line
LEANING TOWARD EACH OTHER The Indian Government is playing an interesting role in the present crisis not merely in Moscow but also in Peking In both capitals its objective is to ensure the localisation of the conflict. India's attitude may be described as impartial but not neutral. Both India and China lean to one side, but not to the same side. It does not need a great deal of arrangement to enable each to lean against the other and thus accomplish a pose as pic-it has two governments, this is turesque as it is, for the pre- because it is really in a state sent, sustaining.
There is a third line of attack which has been started by Mr. This is to say that Gromyko. the Korean dispute is not really justifiable by the Security Coun- eli because it is not between two separate countries. Korea is the and indivisible.
a conflict
off
civil war. And the Russlun thesist is that the United Nations havel no right to intervene in a civil war.
their
says
The blind boy who met the Princess
By Jack Thomas
I strolled along Margate's] But Roger's great day was not the sands recently with the most he was on his way to Margate yel over. Soon, with his father, "The Koreans,"
"have the discussed little boy in Bri- and a boisterous welcome from Russian statement, same right to arrange at thoir
four-year-old. Peter and tain,
two- own discretion
Internul
year-old Nickle. national affairs in the sphere of Six-year-old Roger Willlan's is uniting South and North Korea a happy-faced sturdy little lad into a single national state as the with tow-coloured hair and tan- North American huid in the last ned limbs. He looks like many century."
other boys except for one thing.
Roger is blind.
A rare disease struck him
for
comforting charm
斷
jaunting car and boat and pony, Judging by latest developments, For it is on these trips that Australia is determined to see you savour the Irish of it, the that the local Commo Menzies comfortless perils of the jaunting ways. cary and the of Jarveys (Jaunting-car drivers)
escaped convicts, Bil lite Old Donie weaving fanciful with tatooed arms, were quickly stories of leprechauns, giving new recaptured. twists to the age-old legends of the Kingdom of Kerry.
Three
They were all marked men. -
2
Praise be that the legends are "Asked how it felt like to lose still growing. To And
your a famous daughter, Mrs. Taylor leprechaun today you must plant ounted a Spencer Tracy line from a bottle of Irish whiskey, and Elizabeth's latest movie: 'My son's after Old Donic has helped you my son till he gets him a wife. drink it you'll hear the very
latest on Elly O'Conner, whom But, my daughter's my daughter
for all of her life.'" you know us the Colleen Bawn,j
The olde English bard Spencer which is Gaelic for the
Young Tracy?
Nowadays there appears to be a search for the invincible force as diligent as in the olden days was the search for the philosopher's stone. Be- fore India entered the field in Peking the leaders of the People's Government claimed found it. They they had counted their heads and those of the Soviet Union, and said
teen Bawn Rock where Elly used Vacation; two weeks which are the 750 million thus amassed represented
invincible
to sit and soliloquise you learn two short, after which you are force. When Sardar Panikkar
that after all she fought
the ately with presented his credentials he has been clarified by Pre
hireling
And if that eschewed figures but claimed sident Truman, in his latest
which Elly message to Congress. The
To Roge strawberries mean
Donny Mann's coltage is any colony of tourists, mainly from that if China and India eo-
And Junc means Margate was nine months old when they guide it must have been a Britain, who have returned to operated, they would repre- action taken on Taiwan, he sent an invincible force. Cer-said, was a matter of.elemer with lis sands and donkeys and notleed something strange about tremendous battic. Elly had the live tainly this combination has tary security. He tried to two young brothers he has never side to side when they spoke to build of a professional weight-pensioners
an
the edge in numbers and once the Kashmir problem is peace- fully settled, also in a lot of other things
Invincibility is not actually one of the issues at stakg just now. It is just a figure of speech. But it would not, be surprising if Peking and Delhi think very much alike about the Korean problem, for all that India has formally con-: demned North Korean aggres- sion, while Peking keeps officially silent on the subject. The People's Government, however, has been far from silent over the neutralization of Taiwan. Sometimes the remarkable outcry it chose to make about it aroused the feeling that it did this to drown its striking silence on Korea.
What is the reply to all these arguments?
clear up any doubt in any quarter by making the formal declaration that the United
States had no territorial am- bitions whatever concerning that island, nor did it seek for itself any special position or privilege there.
Strawberries are big things in
On the sands yesterday I learn
Mr. and Mrs. A.
the life of Roger Williams lle cd something of his story from lives in the Sunshine Nursery his parents, School for the Blind at East Williams, o Sutton, Surrey. Grinstead in Sussex.
June.
scċa.
Roger has been blind from birth, they
almost told me. Не
the way his head turned from!
him.
"Thank you," said the Princess
Girl with Fair Hair.
After you have seen the Col-
they
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two tired two work and
Bod Squire's broke not two.
of picture show you in
lifter.
Får, far away
lovely garders he's been busy therapy-there was a million-to-atom bombs.
I
two
here-retired couples and who have bought houses
four or five-bedroomed for less than £2,000, and cah live comfortably on incomes of A visit to a specialist confirmed
Incredible how remote you❘ £5 or £6 a week, running a car, their fears. A rare disease had affected both the baby's eyes. One feel in Killarney from that bust-playing golf, Ashing, shooting, and was already past recovery.Itling, stupid world where men enjoying domestic help...
Patrick O'leary, who is the For the past two years in his had to be removed immediately. squabble over polities and ideo- own little
day-to-day plot in the school's For the other--with deep-ray logies und supersonic speeds and man to ask about
life in Killarney, explains: "Most In the essentials Killarney has of our new English settlers* with his yellow watering-can, one chance that the disease might
the impact of are retired couples living on in- "The present milltary neu- spade and hoe.
be arrested and the sight at least even softened
soaring living costs, so here are vestments or pensions coming tralization of Formosa is with-
partially saved. Last summer he was unlucky.
homely boarding-houses where from England. They pay Irish out prejudice to political ques-
For months baby Roger lay in you can live for 15s. a day all tax, which means no tax at all tions affecting that island. Our Before the fruit had ripened suf-
the birds got a cot in Lambeth Hospital while in and, no farther away than you on the first £200 a year, 38. 3d. desire is that Formosa should ficiently to pick
year he took lying bombs droned overhead..could throw a shillelagh, first- in the on the next 100 above not become embroiled in hos them. But this
that, and is. 6d. In the' & on any tilities disturbing to the pears precautions. As soon as his sen- The best doctors in London bat-class hotels at £2 a day.
No wonder there is a growing income above £300 a year. of the Pacific, and that all sitive fingers told him the white tied to save his sight. But their
Bowers were dropping he covered | efforts were in questions affecting Formosa ba settled by peaceful means as the plants with wire netting. envisaged in the Charter of the United Nations."
vain. Shortly before his second birthday Roger's second eye was removed. Ho And just to be sure he made] was doomed to life in darkness. himself an elegant "scarecrow" Now Mr. and Mrs. Williams were from rags and straw. It looked faced with a difficult decision. far too jolly and friendly to scare
Should they keep Roger the most nervous sparrow, but Roger hoped the birds would take home, as all their natural instincts urged them to do, or should they entrust
him
to residential
the hint.
friendly
of Sussex
There he lives with 23 other children, blind like himself. He
With peace re-established, he said, even the most com- plex political questions are susceptible of solution (in- cluding presumably China's representation in the United They did. Or maybe the net-school, where he could be trained Nations). But they were at ng had something to do with to overcome his handicap?
It. Anyhow, it wasn't long be- After all, the gesture of Pre-present in the presence of fore Roger's fingers told him that They decided-and Roger 'en- sident Truman merely brutal and unprovoked ag-seven strawberries were swelling tered East Grinstead Sunshine
Nursery School, the
heart house in the Platus it had before the Na- of these, questions may have maturity. status it had before the Na- of these questions may have Five were on the small side and which has now become his second Lionalist Government wont to be held in abeyance in the one was of reasonable growth. home. there. Chinese troops were interest of the essential Bu! the seventh-ah! that was
going to be a whopper. sent there to take it over just security of all. as British troops went to In- The nature of the Pre-
So when news spread through is cared for by kindly men and donesia, Soviet troops to sident's stand is reflected in the Sunshine School that Princess women who understand his dim- North Korea, American troops the renewed spate of criticism Margaret was to pay them a visit, culty-but give no misplaced pity to South Korea, and British from Talpeh, which interprets doer or no doubt how to to say his confidence.
do her honour. troops to, Indo-China, to ac-it as an indirect rejection of give her my big strawber- cept the surrender of the the Nationalist claims to ry" he said. Japanese forces and to keep sovereignty over the island.
come Roger's great day order pending the final deter- This in turn affects the status cently. In best cricket shirt and his biggest treasure to a Princess. mination of the territories of the Government itself, with ey The Cairo agreement remains repercussions in due course on the most vital document-on its title to represent China in the future of Taiwan, and cur- the United Nations Actually, rent rumours that the Japan- the neutralization of the is ese have suggested they land, is an expedient which of would like to have itself settles nothing. back need not be credited.The Indian Ambassador has Nobody can tell what would handed over the text of the happen if the People's Gov- President's message to the ernment abandoned its Government in Peking, and it neutral but not impartial is believed that it may do attitude on the Korean con much to remove the misur flict and decided to intervene, derstanding there, where the
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episode The strawberry typical. It
spontaneous. Roger saw nothing out of the way re- in an ordinary little boy offering keen on ho was And as he was watering his garden when the strawberries' ho figured Princess
Margaret probably liked Princess arrived.
just as inuch.
flannel...shorts
But Roger is a happy boy
them
He made a funny llitie bow, Then knelt and groped beneath the notting. Solemnly, he wrap- ped the famous strawberry in cool leaves and handed it to her.) "What a wonderful strawber ry" Princess Margaret oxclaim- ed. "Is it for you or for ino?"
"For you," said Roger. "Thank You," said the Princess,
First, he will go to a junior House, there to "but it's too good to, cat now, school, North I'll have it for my tea" 29 wrestle with the "three R's" and the rest of the normal boy's cur-
Today Roger is happy, self-re- Blant and wall-adjusted..
directly or indirectly through neutralization of the Island Smilingly she passed on, leav- riculum.
ing behind her the proudest sinall
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en International Communist was assailed as the "first step boy in Britain. Across the pocket It he does well there he may force" on the side of North in American, aggression." If of his cricket shirt a zed" stain be one of those, chosen to go Korea. But that hasn't hapo, it will be a further con was spreading unnoticed. In that to Worcester College, the public
was the second-best school for blind boys, to begin pened!tribution to India's efforts in rawberry how pulpy mest studying for one of a number of The position of Talwan as general to localise the Korean He had been saving it for his careers ranging from farming to the United States sees it today conflict.
mother.
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