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FOUR WEEKS OF CRISIS

The Korean crisis has now. been on for more than a month. What has EO far been the effects on England? /.

·By "Windrush”.

Special correspondent

England, the England made by army for modern war than a socialist revolution, may | very large ormy of national adopt the same rather pharasale service men? attitude af America formerly.

"Depend upon it, sir" said Dr Johnson in another connection.j "It concentrates in man's mind wonderfully to know that he hit the to be hanged in a fortnight." This has been the effect of the 24854 | orials. The spectre which every- body fears-war-has, suddenly 82312 | looked through the window. It has not simply flashed by and gotic, TL has stayed, grinning through the window.

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People have realised that their dream of returning to a comfort. able pre-war oge is a delusive one. They know now that vlo- lence, Insecurity and fear must continue to be their neighbours.

That is the deepest thought in

Next consequence

Don't be dull, ladies!

By JOHN KIRK NELSON

When Hans 'Andersen's Little Mermaid protested at the idea of eight large oysters!

Reform Club says Bir Hilton Poynton gave the impression of Inciting Interest in the problems of Hong Kong.

Thus eleverly aligning himself with the great majority of people who live in Hong Kong.

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Thexa questions are being widely discusset, by laymen as well as by soldiers and exports. The discussion will continue, be cause people now feel them- selves unsafe. There is nothing fastening themselves on her all the lost Kal Tak entry permits has been to cause reconsideration like this for stimulating new tail her grandmother re- were loid end to end, that

The next consequence of Korea

defence in the

the

It has been estimated that I

proved her in these words; wouldn't help either,

❤

"Life is short but sweet.in Malaya."

That is, if you're looking at iz

an anxious reconsideration or ideas. many of the questions about de- rence on which until now there The third great set of conse- "One must not mind slight had not

when one been a great deal of quence will probably be econo- inconveniences anxiety. It is for this reason that mic. They have hardly yet begun wishes to look well.” the, Conservatives have been to display themselves. But As

I suppose that this sentiment pressing for a secret session on the United Nations face along must have been echoed by mil- from the outpost of Hollywood.

House of Com- struggle, there is likely to be an lions

when of grandmothers Business people's minds. But it is wonder-

expansion of national expendi- initiating their granddaughters adful how quickly men adopt them- mons.

tures. Doom and further inflation into the use of warpaint, before

"Acheson cuddled bad security selves to now situations. What Will the armies of all Russia's will be superimposed on existing setting out to attack the men.,

risks." must come, must come, is the satellites-Poland, Hungary, boom

AL and inflation.

I don't belleve it, but some of As one of the vanquished I philosophie altitude of most of Rumania, East Germany-be moment nobody likes to forecast must confess that I never fail to these female spies are suid to the people of England,

found to have the same spirit the long-term results.

be mesmerised by these savage- be highly attractive, and surprising competence as the American

painted faces, and a women ne Of course It may always hap- longer seems to me a waman un- correspondents in North Koreans? Does the Korean London have thought they could

mean, that air-power pen that there is a settlement or less she is bedecked in strange by N. Koreans." campaika dotect a certain "schadenfreude*

truce over Korea. The end of the garments and her real face is can still not seriously disrupt or among come the reports of American retreats hold up on these are very much suddenly and unexpectedly... But blotted out by some thick paste this.

English people as an advance by ground Berlin airlift, when it came, came

if the and withdrawals have come in. stronger and better armed than even Perhaps some people have felt the ground forces opposing them? should end, most of the conse Technicolor.

The arrival in London of an this way, deplorable though it is.

of short- quences listed above will still

My complaint is not that wo- ambassador from Dublin removes men-like the present occur. Great events were set in

Ingering doubts about There is often some tinge of envy service and therefore malleo In the British army-an adequate force motion when the North Koreans men indulge their primitive in- any

stincts to frighten or bewitch Ireland recognising Britolu. attitude towards A country so for stopping a mechanised on- crossed the 38th Parallel. overwhelmingly, prosperous and rush? May not a very few cannot be stopped by the Northmen into submission by the use of these applied masks, but that battalions of highly trained pro-¡ Koreans simply travelling back the foolish creatures, having once Slamose

sale. Pure female

home kitten, to good fessional soldiers make a better again.

Class,

A FORCE FROM THE COMMONWEALTH

is

It is good news indeed that

Commonwealth force being organised to fight along. side the United States troops in Korea. But it is not so good that our defences are so low and the ground forces extensively, committed that it took four weeks to find out how the will-which could never be doubted- could be translated into deed.

SO

en-

The British Prime Minis- ter spoke for the nation when he promised that the Govern-, ment would try to match the high purpose and resolve to which President Truman gave expression in his last speech to Congress. We shall not start from scratch. For two years Britain has been gaging men and money on no small scale in dealing with in Malaya. Her terrorism military and other respon- sibilities still range across al- most the whole world, from Hamburg to Hong Kong. Even in Korea the Navy and Aus tralian fighter-planes were in the fight as soon as the Ameri-

cans.

strong as America. But the feel.

For mure British people take it us axiomatic that the long-term Interests of Britain and America are one than Americans have ever dene or do today.

in, if it exists, is not widespread.

the

British doubts

conscript army

Korean conflict

dislike

Walloons Flemish influence over Leopold

They

promotion behind the

over which new and exotle fea- tures are Improvised in glorious;

"US$5.M. in Army script seized

someone will net on

I hope

"For

found the formula, stick to it.

Thero are symptoms that only,"

ка

to

Bible

in the sex war the male is] slowly losing his natural fear of teach in Sunday School, and am the female and beginning to us- Ilope. Am I pure enough?

life member of the Band of sert himself.

It is the woman's fault, without

doubt: intoxicated by centuries A would-be reformer заув of unbroken successos, woman divorce should be as easy as has allowed her weapons of con- marriage.

quest to become obsolete.

In her foolish pursuit of out-i ward equality with man she is

What's easy about marriage?

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"School teacher baronet wilt not use his title."

He's gone off the handle,

The American correspondents are nearer the mark when they comment on the undercurrent of doubt in the British mind about!

fost losing the well-disguised the propriety

In case you're getting worried Western of the

superiority she has in fact en- about the outcome. Asin. powers taking action in

me remind joyed over the poor sap since the you (I quote): "Three thousand Issue Is put quite

beginning of time. When the

One can only hazard a guess as like!"

to one that's the odds they simply when the Korean war is shown as a collective effort by Many people are puzzled by the Walloons, age for age, are 10

to what lengths man would have United Nations to check the course of recent events years'

Flemings.

gone had he persisted in retaliat agression-the British

As public in Belgium, particularly by supports the effort with almost

and deep

seemingly Wallony has the big Industries ing make-up, for make-up.

it is, Sir Joshua Reynolds was complote unanimity. But it does the think it unfortunate that the ineradicable hostility shown coat, steel, engineering glass, moved to write in these terms of

al It provides almost two-thirds his bowlgged, powdered and contest has arisen over Korea. in certain quarters to the re- the exports by which Belgium

pomaded contemporaries: What arc Western countries

and doing in Koren?

Walloon workers turn of King Leopold to the lives.

"If a European when he has No, Myrtic, you've Rot bossca contributo to social in-cut off his beard and put false wrong again. We weren't talking throne.

surance In a big way. The hair on his head, or bound up his about the Hong Kong Chamber The fact that so many English- men are thinking in this way

The main cause of that bewfl-Flemish provide the unemployed own natural hair in regular hard of Horrors.

knots, as unlike nature as he shows how completely Great derment is probably a failure to and collect three-quarters of the Britain has abandoned its former realise profound division dole,

could possibly make it; and after "imperialist" ideas, Instinctive British attitude today is very like that of the United

Great States a generation ago. Britain,may have strong views about what is happening in dif- ferent countries of the world, it has the but doubts whether right to intervene.

Indeed the

When America used to take a similar isolationist attitude, the countrles of Western

Europe were in despair. They said that by refusing to play its full part In international affairs, it was doing untold harm to the causes which it had most at heart. There

real is a danger that the new

the

By Gavin Gordon

existing between Walloon Fleming.

•

*

It

having rendered them Immovable Film actress who has recently by the help of the fat of hogs, been receiving some very critical has covered the whole with flour, letters is said to have told her laid on by a machine with the secretary to open a lang mail utmost regularity: if when thus department. attired he issues forth, and meets with a Cherokee Indian, who has bestowed as much time at his cquai and Biggest of the Walloon grum- toilet, and laid on with

care and attention his yellow and bles is the "Lanaye bottle-neck." Three miles of canal cul a week rod oker on particular parts of The Walloons of Southern Bel off the journey of the 2,000-ton his forehead or cheeks,

Liege and judges most becoming; whoever want barges carrying gium ore extremists who their region to break away from Charleroi cargoes from Wallony's of these two despises the other They fear own river, the Meuse, towards for this attention to the fashion the Belgian State.

of his country, whichever Arst submergence by the Flemish cul- the Rhine and European markets. ture, the Flemish language and, This canal has not been dug, and feels himself provoked to laugh,

subser may not be dug, for fear the few is the barbarlan," above all, by Flemish

the

destined for ocean Women will be well advised to cargoes vience to Holy Church and

read, Cardinal-Archbishop of Mecheln freighting should go by Rotter- take a deep breath and

immense What mark, and learn this (which they call Molines).

dam instead of Antwerp. Antwerp wants today, say the sentence, written by a man who Walloons, Belgium wants tomor- knew his paints and understood row.

design and to study the im-| plications of it.

to

But Britain is being com- pelled to re-arm and to make fresh sacrifices, as will also all the other signatories of the Atlantic Pact who are not wilfully blind to the lessons of armed aggression in Korea. Certainly the United States has set a magnificent example of leadership and purpose. The tragic nature of the com- pulsion of events is not so striking perhaps in her case as in that of Britain, who faces the necessity of developing can forces involved, like the

The extremists are a minority, in struggles with They are the foam on the mug, her defences at the very British moment when the long, hard Soviet puppets and stooges all but there is strong ale beneath.

During the German occupation, Why red lipstick, if-it-is-only struggle for economic survival over the map in Asia, to the Wallony has real grievances and

post-war domain might be en Why not blue, or black, or green? was showing conspicuous re-disadvantage of defence in feels them deeply. It has a re- the Flemish begged that their meant to emphasise the features? medy to put forward and a case

There is ΠΟ real larged to include "Frenchifted The argument that red suggests sults. There are now more Europe-which remains for to plead.

the Flanders," North-Eastern France the glow of health can be coun- and the free world the most vital question of disloyalty than 22,000,000

as the Somme, The tered by a reminder that it is also men

union. There is a deep desire as far to get the best out of life, and Walloons countered by petition- the flush of fever. women hard at work-a level sector of all and must on no

Blue hair is common enough, so to make the union stronger Ing the Petain Government that, never attained before-ex- account be neglected:

"In the event of a German vic- but what of the other colours of Both in Washington and in

should tory," Wallony ports are also at record height,

become the spectrum as yet untouched? and income from shipping and London this game has been insurance is at higher levels, spotted. There is no inten- An armaments programme tion to dodge our obligations

The Walloons do not cannot but deprive the people in Asia, nor is there any inten-

They have King Leopold back. of the fruits of their labours tion-except on the part of a voted solidly against him in three and introduce another era of handful of reckless reaction-polls during the past 12 months. dengthened, the Walloon leaders this fashion, let them not be so

against aries to be "sucked into the Their accusations

him went underground and prepares timid about it. austerity.

Dr. all come back to the same thing their plans. When Belglurn was

is under liberated, there emerged The King, they say, The lesson is plain enough, Aslatie mainland,” however, and it is not the Lippman has put it in a re- Flemish influence, and this in- Walloon National Congress, side dominate the by side with the Free Wallony

movement. habit of the British people to cent warning, while leaving fluence is out to flinch when, by timely effort, Russin free to spring in the Walloons. a chance may still be found to Middle East or in the West: prevent another world war The invaders from North or to fight it successfully if Korea have to go back where unhappily it should yet come. they belong-that is the first The conflict in Korea may well item the agenda. But, Belgium and France for Franca their own, and the right to set- tle their own affairs. Such things be localised, but President those who are tempted to is the blood-mother of Wallony.

They reproach him for the as defence and foreign polley Truman's message made it dream of other and greater

would still be left to the Central Walloons who lay four Government, and, the clear that the aggression there enterprises on the Continent 50,000 Walleans

on

48

·

Outnumbered

want

part of France.

Walloons'

I hope that my fellow-men will support me in my plea for more enterprise on the part of the

ladies. policy

As the days of occupation

the

Tha

They reproach the King for his A Bill was tabled in the Cham-

woman. ber to put matters right, marriage to a Flemish

Princess de Rethy. They Walloons nie asking, not for dis- the

drove, ruption of Belgium, but for between Government and Parliament of, even before the war, reproach the wedge ho

cannot be thought of in isola-need a warning. The next years in Nazi prison camps when would still be subjects

the Flemish King of the Belgions.

was

disilke

of the

the

They would Booner

will

tion. The method of armed essential is to do all possible to all but 10,000 of

In the King's absence this Bill attack has once more been keep China out of this conflict, were released,

The spirit-drinking Walloons was inevitably shelved. It in- adopted, only five years after This ought not to be difficult the end of the last war, and in view of the fact that she ap- and the beer-drinking-Flemisnvolved changing the Constitution, there are half a dozen places pears to have been ignored by are at least as different as. Scots and this may not be done under

and English In Britain, They a Regency, With the King's re who prepared

automatically scattered about the world at those

and are indeed more different, for in turn the subject

law courts, in local government becomes a live one, not because which it may be tried again, launched this enterprise.

King In the home the Walloons the Walloons dislike the and Meanwhile the aggressors The world thought of the

brand of Dutch. In neutral Flemish Mukden Incident in 1931 as a have tried out the American speak French and the Flemish but because they local affair. The tragic years will and received an im- Brussels all ofciat documents present their caso, to another that followed showed it was mediate answer which caused are printed in both languages. In King, and under a Government

But they not. There is no sure way of consternation among the Com-Parliament all speeches are tran which owed less of its power to

slated Into a microphone while Flemish votes.

present It none the less. preventing war but the munist. "specialists" in such they are being made. Burest is to be prepared to matters. Preparedness meet it.

completely lacking in Korea) - In turning on the top in itself. Even at General Mac-

RAAF IN ACTION North Korea the Kremlin 'no Arthur's Headquarters, no

IN MALAYA doubt assumed that the plan existed to deal with such The Flemings outnumber the against Americans had discarded this an invasion, and all counter Walloons 4,750,000

3,750,000. They have 104 seats

Singapore, July 20. weak spot as a strategic measures had to be improvised in the Chamber against 70 for Royal Australian Air Forco Hability like Formosa. Their from scratch with forces the Walloon regions. The 82 Lincolns bombed Communist ter tactics since had been design- hardly adequate for the need. seats for Brussels do not balanco rorist hideouts in the Malayan

Jungle today. the account. ed to embroll the free world But it did not take more

"It was the Australians' first and China, and to create divi- than 48 hours for Washing-

ns complain et misslohi Walloons The

#imperialism. The A heavy bomber squadron sions in the free world, ton and Lake Success to learn Fem especially by the isolation of and, apply the lesson, and Blemiga have scooped the civil arrived 10 days ago. They bombed. service,. Including much hay jobs and strated e' Red' stronghold in the United States. No doubt Moscow now knows what it as control of the Brussels water-Bouth and Central Johore,—Amo- they would like to see Amori is up against.

ways. In the," telephone" service clated Press,"

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