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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 30, 1950,

KOREA AND BRITAIN'S DOMESTIC POLITICS

Mr. Attlee's refusal to re-

call Parliament

before

September 12 has annoyed the opposition. His decision

is

By "Windrush," Special correspondent

natural enough. Every gradually the crisis feeling has of the social services. As yet cabinet desires to see Parlia- dwindled. It may of course flary there has not been much discus- ment safely on holiday for a up again abruptly. An overt glon of the economie consequences. fairly long spell. It is only

Public mood when Parliament is not sit-

move by Rugain would put avery- body the alert.

Newn of the Korean fighting:

With issues of life and death,

and

Good

ring

particularly

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од

mean. I've

pence and war, before the na- tion, it is harder La inaintata

"No American planes had over party discipline. If only a few of been over the Manchurion border the pacifist M.Ps, or the extreme quarrel- Left-wing Labour M.PA, led seriously with the ка

cabine Sunday,"

no what you over Koren, this might make continuance of the government never been to Manchuria either, impersible, unless it was willing particularly on Sunday. to haus-itself on Tory indulgenes and, to pay the price which the Tories would demand.

Insomnia-ridden correspondent says he approves whole-heartedly this scheme to register, photograph

en bloc.

ting that a cabinet has time to still has chief place each day in it makes it rather surprising that By-elections pending and thumbprint all the noise-lovers

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BIRTH

SCHENK-To Gladys, wife of Paul Schenk at the Kowloon Hospital On August 29th 1950, a ron.

Moreover, in the. present very peculiar parliament, there is so

Slice this is the public mood. the evening papers.

Mr. Attlee did not, accept the) But it is doubtful how many opposition proposal and call Par people real It Korea seems lament at once. What could have certainly have made an Imp car

Three by-elections are pending.

of them in constituencies managed to

the North Korcans had the

put a hex on

much tension that it might seem some thousands of miles further! happened? Mr. Churchill would with very narrow majorities at Pentagon, it would certainly have

terest.

Turco

Westerling opparently that

the Belgians Heavenly Hosts.

arc

Iden

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of

terest of members and the country days at the end of June, The aperclis, The dangers our as well as of ministers-that despatch of the Hong Kong troops position would have been oned should show a swing in Labour's there should be a

pause in has caused only a rippic of in- more proclaimed to the public favour-and if there should have Parliament's vetivities.

the huge number of Fursion been in "temporary casing of the divisions-ready for action, the Korean situation-Labour would feels But the opposition can

Even the revelation which Russian aircraft, the Russian sub-be tempted to snatch the oppor

tunity for e general clection forward impressive arguments for followed the crisis-of the naked marines.

of course. this which might give. It the working view also, the contrary

us di ness of West Europeau defences]

war K necessary "advocating Mr. Churchill last Saturday, Mr. does not seem to have bothered All this has been said before majority it craves.

has a certain It might be the readler to do to compel peace" Clement Davies, the leader the public as much as might have Parliament would then have risen

Mr.

nearly everyone Existentialist death-pact finality the Liberals, hos already put for-¦ been expected. Perhaps -everybody would be conscious this because ward his arguments in a state- Churchill's, broadcast will help to that steam had been blown off. agrees that the longer it waits, about it that may recommend it ment he issued recently. He said stir them up. At present there The government could have re- the incre its chances will worsen, to many, people. that when the House rose on dues not #gem to be any very turned to its administrative duty Pretty certainly, the pendulum is swinging-slowly but continuous- July 25 the cabinet had sallaties strong feeling that the govern- of hasten defence plans, swing the right. The Labour} Last night three PRO's sat down Parliament that the steps which ment is falling down on its de-But as it is the governnient's re-

aking over the Kores fence plants. It is recognised thu fusal may have done it so pull Rectf together in the si

Farly has given no signs of lo dinner at the same table. It was

It was good to see that for once cris were adequate, and, thas these will take time to evolve harm. Peeple may feel that it there was no need for Parliament Few people have the same feeling fraid to meet Parliament. They months she te disaster at the they were Harmonising. to meet until October 17.

Mr. Churchill that the t may suse that the defence mea-election. U has evolved ne new still in hand may be very short sures are less adcounte than the programme, has produced no new icuders. On the contrary, its divi-

Somewhere in the East China Why then, bad the government, indeed. Very few people think government, enys.

slona have become more delinite.

Sea. (Righter despatch.) suddenly ndvince the date by that Russia may start n war to-

weeks, to September 12 morrow.

What will the effects of all this It is interesting to study week

Waves slap against these two five

they be upon the date of the general by week the growing contrast!

warvessels as lean, grey steam

Когда towards

with The differences between Smething very important must

have happened. If so, it

If the public does not clamour clection? Since the Korean out- between the views of the "New General MacArthur and Pre-urrent that Parliament should be for quicker defence measures. It break, politicians have been talk-Statesman," the organ of the left smoke pouring out of their funnels. and less of a general wing intellectills of the Party Only gulls are Been overhead- sident Truman seem less im- summoned, not for mid-Septem-lso does not oppose what is being less

the British boys are Ing done. Of course, there is a election this year, or even next and of the Tribune," the paper Aboard, portant than the differences her, but here and now,

pactist wing of the Labour Party, year: they have talked more and of Mr. Ancuri Bean, whom no- between them and Generalls-

On the whole, the press sup and there is also, rather stronger, more though cautiously and aft Lidly eats accuse of being, on the doing those things troops usually

weather Their the record of a possible coalition, right-wing. These papers have of do when aboard ship, except that

is fairly simo Chiang Kai-shek. The ports the opposition's view. What an anti-American wing.

small bo misleading.

comparatively It in course

reveal, they had two great American leaders the country es 7 whole thinks, supporters have been making This can

peas — a agree on the purely defen- is not so casy to find out. much noise: but numerically they wrong to think that a November circulation. But they are one of Today, I can

Some

are country secins rather uninterested are surprisingly week. Perhaps election is nut of the question, the main places in which the ideas corned sive functions of Formosa. In the whole controversy

over they will be reinforced when the The government maicrity is still of the Party are hatched. Thai magnificent repost.

especially The Generalissimo thinks of whether or not Parliament should country discovers that the defence painfully small. (The defection disputes which are

What is it thinking over programme will mean more taxa-f Mr. Raymord Blackburn has aver foreign policy-should there are not.

ifore be watched. the larger issues which lie be-on er'a cutting down of some reduce: it further.) hind-Korea crisis, the war danger, the new defence polley?

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the island fortress only as a base from which to invade the mainland and return to power. That invasion may yet come about, but every reasonable precaution should be taken to ensure it doesn't happen un- less or until the Chinese Communists commit them- selves, to armed action hostile

meet.

Crisis feeling

was

At the end of last June, when the Korean volcano erupted, the country was definitely disturbed. The cials was talked about in pubs our trains. People recalled

Men, women and memories

man

the

beet and

·

calm.

letters home, while others I have no hesitation in saying morale is at is highest posible pltch. Eight bells has just struck. I should perhaps explain that this is a time signal. Etc., etc.

Those hijackers at Lowu may have thought they were jack high, but the smugglers showed them

•

- may

become

a

One of the first messages of middle sixties he was the first the British Book Centre to be clubs were trumps.

Hoarding to ay a heavier-than-air taken over by a London group of which Mr. Peter Baker, the young to the free world whether it the recurrent crises which led up congratulation received by craft over Irint ou

war with Hitler. to the

America's elder statesman, A monoplane designed, bullt, MP for South Norfolk, is chair-criminal offence In Amerten.

But

Mr. Bernard Baruch, on his and piloted by himself took off on man.

New Year's Eve, 1809. "I had 80th birthday came from Mr. to balance it," he said, "before and some at least of the Re-Churchill.

and They have long it would fly properly, publicans intend to make the been the closest of friends. Administration's policy in the

be in Indo-China, in Korea, or against Formosa itself, which is not (us the Communists are now claiming) "an integral part of China." Legally it is still Japanese territory, Far East a basic issue. though occupied at the origin-

By Atticus

Miss Mary Attlee

New members of the Book the Centre's board will, I gather, be the Hon. W. W. Astor, Sir William Wiseman, and Mr. Ronald Tree.

Up the steps

From Brigadier-General J. R. Gaussen, now in his 80th year, comes what I fancy is the last

Sandhurst tradition."

Mr. Baruch is still a power Inj national affairs. Only the other In modern democracies, it doy Washington crowded to hear al instance of the Supreme Allied Command by Chinese is not uncommon to use two this tall, white-haired oracle who forces and administered by voices. In Britain the Op-has so often been right, teli Con- gressmen that President Truman Chinese. It would still not be position leaders often supply had erred in demanding no more trouble was that one had to fly word in the controversy over "the an integral part of China if the ginger while the respon- than mild economic controls to it first to find out how to balance

General Coussen tells me that the Communists themselves sible Government itself helps meet the Korean crisis.

the sugar. There Adviser to six Presidents, he is

to settle a wager he rode up the occupied it, until the peace others to

steps of the Old Building, in 1890. hadis, too, another method, made not nowadays so welcome at the treaty with Japan

then round a billiard table, and validated the Yalta and other famous by "Teddy" Roosevelt, White House as he used to be.

After nearly 40 years in South out at the back of the building. who said one should "speak

were child's agreements.

Perhaps because he guessed Africa Miss. Mary Attlee, 75-"The front steps softly but carry a big stick." and how wrongly that Mr. year-old sister of the Prime play, but the back steps were: General MacArthur confined The Victorian Age then still Truman would be defeated for the Minister, has said farewell. She narrow-and steep, with an area his banned statement almost lingered on, and all that hap- Presidency in 1948, he declined a la on her way home to England underneath."

The fact that General Gaussen wholly to the issue of defen- pened to disturb the serenity White House invitation to aid the in the Fretoria Castle.

Democratic campaign. A scorch-

Before, she sailed from Cape and one or two other intrepidi sive strategy. He is entitled of those leisurely times was ing letter from Truman apparent-

Town she told a friend of mine: horsemen safely negotiated the to be heard in this field-a an occasional oration by the ly ended their friendship.

"My age and health have at last back steps gives the answer to field in which he is one of Kaiser.

For an octogenarian Bernard forced me to retire. My brothers Lieut.-Colonel G. W. Quin-Smith, who writes sardonically: "For me" the supreme masters-and

Barych is remarkably tough; he and sisters keep urging me to We live in a different age has survived three major opera-home; now I am going to do so." the chief interest has ini in his argument is certainly a

where they hide the horse t powerful one. All the more The free world is being blast- tions in the past 15 years.

allows it to For Miss Attlee retirement evening obscurity so since he expressly asserted cd in foul language daily and comes of a long-lived line, and that, while its position and nightly, and within its walls delights to tell of an uncle who means giving up the leadership of idle sadly back to stables!""

sold his business when he was a score of charitable activities, facilities could prevent any or rather its frontiers every 83, bought it back at 60, tripled The coloured people of the Cape, instrument is its size, and was still successfully the remarkable hybrid race who the conceivable

have sprung from the mixing of directing its destinies at 101!

black, white and Malay for three centuries, have been her life's interest.

tions."

we

A dictator's health

He

1

go

the

hostile movement into Pacific, Formosa "envisions being employed to encompass no attack against anyone, nor our destruction. It is hard to mouth sweet does it provide the bastions forbear, to essential for offensive opera- nothings, against such pro

From Spanish friends I learn vocations. It is not, in fact, that the health of General Franco

Festival's genesis humanly possible, and in is causing corsiderable anxiety.

Legend is already blurring the The trouble arose, presum- wordy warfare we are at last Indiegosition compelled him to

cancel on Important visit to outlines of the Edinburgh Fes- ably, over his back-hander at beginning to give as good as Carthagena, and diplomats who tival's carliest history, but the Administration. "Nothing we get. The debate in the attended the annual party at Lord Provost, Sir.. Andrew Mur- could be more fallacious," he Security Council was a good Granja Palace thought he looked ray, who as City Treasurer in

thin and far from well,

1940, was at the first discussions, said, "than the threadbare example of it.

says, "I make no bones about it; argument of those who ad-

In fact, I am told on reliable it was Rudolf Bing." Words may be important for authority, General Franco has lost vocate appeasement and de- featism in the Pacific, that if the waverers, for the sensitive more, than 20 pounds in the past Mr. Bing, now at the Metro- But no medical politan Opera, Bred Sir John spirits who find this world to- two months. we defend. Formosa alienate Continental Asia." day far from their liking and statements have been issued, and Falconer, the then Lord Provost, The President himself order would like to remould it with metal secrecy prevailing with his own enthusiasm, and Edinburgh got what might have gone to Oxford or Bath. Mr. ed the defence of Formosa. nearer the heart's desire with

dexterous fingers There is greater concern over Bing himself has recorded what The major issue that has their own

strained. A year ago. ho had a] to Sir John and Sir. Andrew, to arisen-not on the American and eloquent tongues. They the possibility that his heart is the Festival owes for its inception side is whether that de- might succeed, too, if the slight heart attack in the Pardo Lady Reschery, Professor Sidney cision is, to be directed to Kremlin would give them Palace, but the fact was hushed Newman, of Edinburgh Univer- sity, and to Mr. J. Murray Wat zon, editor of "The Scotsman," other purposes, without open half a chance. In this uncer-up.

tain world nothing is more provocation.

Poil- General Franco is 57: certain than that the Com-tleally he is in a stronger position Mr. H. Harvey. Wood, head of The episode is all the more munists will not. What are than at any time since he came the British Council in Scotland,

Indiscretions piquant coming, as it does individual

in to power 11 years ago. But in a also has a big share. A luncheon hotfoot on the Navy Secre- such scales? The headline of regime so bound up with the life he gave in London in 1944 was an and health of one mon Spaniards important link between the idea tary's reference to a pre- the day-little more. What have every reason to fear the out- which came to Mr. Bing and Mrs. John Christie in 1940, and the ventive war-"a war to com-1 we say does matter, but come of a sudden breakdown.

1946 discussions in Edinburgh: pel cp-operation for peace." much less than what we do,

rumour grows apace.

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