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KOREA AND SOUTH EAST ASIA

Events in Korea furnish barometer for the political South climate throughout East Asia. It has been pretty low, but is now rising, in spite of Peking's efforts to make

THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1950

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WHAT THEY ARE SAYING

Illusions

ABOUT KOREA

Cermany.

Hard times have made the

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From Clifford Hulme in Washing. I great defence effort-but where, gather their strength and drive British and U.S. authorities in

Is there anywhere in "peacetime"? them out, as in Korea. Uneasiness doesn't express itself If the attack comes, it may be

"Foreign member of KMT in public discussions. There seeins o unexpected, and the initial Berliners reallats, West German to be quite a bit of fatalism in advance as rapid as in Koren.

newspapers in commenting on the lauds Nationalist will"

Oh, so they'vD made one Therefore, it is wise to buy up Korean war, use it to blame the America today is a land of this.

The immediate defence of essential food supplies againe Allies for not having joined Ger- last, have they? shattered illusions. For two France, thinks the average man, the possibility of a siege, and to many in a war on Bussia. "But for the appalling

mis.

No, Myrtle, 'you're mixed up takes years everyone has known must largely fail on America and lay in a store of petrol in case of

of U.S. foreign policy again. That captive that the cold war might flare accepting this, he tends to reduce a chance to escape by read.

to la the Korea wor

Russian- Well-fed Bavarians and South Soviet troops, could have been into a shooting war, but American affair. He fears the war Germans

who have been living prevented from reaching Berlin Crete doesn't have a face like a

Trojan horse... everyone remained optimist- may spread, may come to France, Ja Marshall Aid paradire of and the heart of Germany" com- Ically intent on personal but the emotion is a parsive one rich erein, rich cakes, unlimited ments the Conservative

thrilled meat and petrol at every pump. land paper Rheinische Post", -for the moment. pleasure, political advantage,

Yet the man in the street can aw the red light first. From Bomber sites being rebuilt in heart in your eyes."

sceltr of Berlin arv And have that fashionable, larger profits, higher wages hely feeling that he will have to there. Korean Jittera spread North the Soviet or the latest baseball game. think longer) and much moro and West into the French zone. Leing used for onti-British, and bloodshot appearance.

and the Ruhr sud Hamburg.

anil-Amerleen propaganda by the Korea has been the rudest of seriously about Koren. awakenings, but now it is here possible consequences before long. Recently, there was no sugar] Communist Government.

the General Poelt arrives in The builders scaffoldings aroi to be had in grocers' shopa from there is no danger that Amerlen

huge signs which Colony. the Swiss-German border to thd covered wit will lapse into the old indiffer-

Offhand I can't North Sea. Nevertheless, ask the read, "One British bomb destroy ence, Solidly united, America is

German

whether heed this house and killed (number) particular rhyme. average wide awake the menace and frankly facing the prospect of

thinks there will be a war, and given) women and children. serifles, both in blood and trea-

he answers no-as long as the! Sometimes it is on American

sure.

Like a delayed action bomb British and American troops are bomb which is said to have done Bucker stuff.

the damage. The same attacks are Then there was the dear old Edgar thought that The extent of that sacrifice is "Korcan Jitters" has hit West in Berlin. not yet driven home to every Germany, and started a run on The only place in Germany continued in the Soviet sector lady who

Five years after British Hoover invented vacuum cleaners citizen, but it soon will be of the banks and a panic buying of without the jitlers is West Berlin. Press.

Its Iwo millien inhabitants, and American aircraft bombed so the FBI could get their feet casualty lists lengthen, taxation food and petrol and cool. rises, economic controls

In the absence of immediate toughened by the blockade and German supply centres at the into suspects' front doors.

Allied direct request of the advancing gear and some goods get scarce. "Blitzkrieg" victory by the United the war years, raw the

This demand

A more Nations forces over the invaders, meant business when they broke Red Army, the Soviet-controlled paper "Tagilche Runds- the Soviet blockade with the air Ferlin in the street thorough mobilization of the home | Germany's man

lift. front is widespread, both among began to rensen like this:-

chau" published an article de- U.N. that They belleve now

the cribing the RAF and the Unitel deliberations." the Soviet invade West Ger-1 the public and Prers, and suggests

will esitate Lo risk States Air Force as "air gangstera} that the nation is ready for more many across the Elbe, it will be Russlan

by the citles."

for

Ko into

From Anthony Terry In Berlin, Run on the banks

»

think of *

"Lightning causes blackout at Security Council

Thus maintaining ihe status

capital out of alleged air straf- the type of bold and decisive months, possibly longer, before another loss of prestige or a war who destroyed beautiful German quo.

leadership which Mr. Trumen the Western Powers are able to Their

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gave at the outset of the crisis.

The small business as usual" group shrinks daily, and its argu- ment that controls mean the per- manent loss of freedom finds little eredence.

Whereas President Roosevelt in 1941 had to drag the country into facing the ugly facts, the Ameri- can public today is, if anything, ahead of Congress in recognitior. of what the crisis demands. Thi is the best omen for a successľu!

Votes

view is shared

on Skeleton

Russia has trebled her rubber purchases from Malaya.

Coast

Some of us are getting tyred

of these strategic: exports to Moscow. Our defence régulations are far too elastic.

may decide big issues

ing just across the Yalu. How words from the propaganda forcing-house are being cooled down by an air of sweet reasonableness which, with smooth gesture, refers charges of aggression in Formosa and on the border to independent investigation by the United Nations. These tactics are

One of the toughest elec-1 for such criticism in the discus- farmers have been listening to slons of UN. Though there are the blandishments of electioncer- neither defeatist nor appeas- challenge to whatever furthe tion campaigns ever waged grounds for a certain amount of Ing agents. This city, with Gibeon ing. They are just plain com-inischler the Kremlin why he will culminate in the mandat- such criticism, it has not always and Marlenthal, has 2,480 Euro-

planning. mon-sense-a Roland for an Oliver. And they are backed From Stephen Coulter in Paris up by Mr. Acheson's pointed but still quite polite reminder | that intervention by Chinese troops in North Korea would mean they had joined in what the Security Council branded as aggression.

Not worried

ed territory of South West Africa soon.

It is tough not because of the of the recoleltrance of the voters, For the moment, France's man but because of the physical diff- in the street is not vastly worrie culties of traversing the great

For the wastes of desert, about the Korean war.

issues But important hus most part he seems to consider

statements like Paul Reynaud's upon the results of this election

outlandish territory, in 1939 as a whacking exaggera- It may tion,

of

"At all Acasons there

of port

ກ

Gay round entertainments,"

and

Thanks, but I'll stick to beer.

It now turns out that the

or unblassed or peans in all, most of them seat-Himalayas have been gradually been genuine constructive comment.

tered about the desert wastes. rising for nearly two centuries. There is a strong suspicion that|

They just won't Everest. Gold was once worked in Reho. those who continually snipe at both, which once dreamed of be-

coming a second Johanneshurg. "Most exciting of Nothing came of it, however, and matches the 5000 Half-castes sweat their Division where Wolverhampton as herds Wanderers lost at home to Derby Ilves out in the desert

County.

*

By

depend Geoffrey Jenkins

Tiuc, papers are snapped up allstarring the elections to be

de-

มุ

are

and labourers.

Gay Oasis

the other was in the Second

In the Second Division' they would be far from home.

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Any further reference to the

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Word comes from New "The situation now is as grave is in an well help to decide the the shadows of imperialism Delhi that the Peking Govern-

Windhoek, with 7,000 people, is Not FMNO. South Africa's Nation behind such move. future

The whole area is a remarkably the main target of the election ment has expressed its wil-

very By lingness to settle the Tibetan and arguincuts filter, not

skeleton-strewn coastline, the pagne, even in summer, and the receive a he-man rebuff. issue amicably, and that direct passionately, through the bistros. held, the South African Premier, diverse territory, including a grim candidates. The air is like cham-"Middlesexes" will, I understand,

The concierge asks you more Dr. Malan, anticipated the

Young Moslems are complaining world's richest diamond neid, furs town is compassed by hills. Bands between the often than usual: "Anything negotiations

cision of the International Court it to groce

a pitiless play in the streets, and beer is a queen, Tibetan Delegation, now at new ?"

but Korea is far away, and at The Hague, who several weeks desert, a uranium "strike" and a drunk under shady cafe awnings. that the price of brides has risen

German, English and Afrikaans by more than 300 per cent.

One more example of the high are spoken. Here is a little slice of Kalimpong, and the Chinese France Is sending just one sloop-go decided by eight votes to six elty with touches of Paris and of

African Govern-l'old Vienna. Ambassador to India, will be- und, well, there are massive mat-that the South

Vote-catching is far from easy Germany, a suggestion of Austria, cost of loving.

touch of and

Paris. Everyone 18 Coast the stark Skeleton along gin soon after the latter's ar-ters like the cycling tour de ment was not legally obliged to

between Walvis Bay and Luderitz, friendly, and they will talk rival. The Ambassador is France, holidays, camping equip-pince the territory under United

ment. fishing rods and the cost Nations trusteeship.

Diamond snatching behind the you about anything from General Yuan Chung-hsien, of living to think about.

corden, enclosed with barbed to Shearer at the ballet.

North of Windhoek the election who gained a certain sort of Perheps Korea is stimulating

patrolled by wire,.

police and fame over the "Amethyst" in- escapism. The average French-

men's lack of preoccupation abou;; Dr. Molan's objective is to in- swept nightly with searchlights, is candidates find green, softer ron- mindy's finest furs, the karakul, cident, and he is expected in the fighting may be the uncon- corporate South West Africa per- of more interest to the men who ching country, and the home of India today.

which earn hundreds of thousands scious working of a sort of mental manently in the Union. This elec- venture there.

Hundreds of square miles of

of dollars a year in the United defence mechanism which pro- tion will enable the territory to

in the fabulously rleh diamond-bearing

wire. The Government closed

It is not easy to understand why Peking has made so loud and long a clatter over Tibet.

mood.

notably in the political evolu- tion of that territory as an in- dependent State within the French Union. So much is

Far spread

Union Parliament.

of

to

shares

country. He behind the barbed to Bay would prefer the

to diggers and patrols it strictly.

Scot's lead

If one

to

election issue to be whether it was to be the chief port of the Rhode- slas. The port would then voto 100 per cent in favour of the party backing it.

Dreaming

As it is, it only dreams

that

to

tects him from the discomforts be given representation 01 unpleasant thoughts.

Few Frenchmen have any illu-i I said that the difficulties It didn't talk about "liberations apout the weakness of the traversing the great waste of the The Caprivi ing" Canton-it simply did it. national defences, the threadbare desert are great. In the case of Tibet the libera-state of the Army, Navy, and Strip in the extreme North is an Air Force, France's inability

300 miles tion overture has lasted for without swift and powerful out example of this. It is

has the temerity. months and months, until-itude help effectively-to-defend. it long and 50 wide, and somewhere had the same effect-annoying own scil. But not many let these in these glaring sands rises an old travel from the Orange-River to sterner German. fort which looks as the old German Railway terminus though it had been lifted from the of Karsburg-it looks like a town and ludicrous-of a record things stir them into a

out of a Wild West cowboy show with a faulty groove. It was There is certainly ne upsurge pages of "Beau Geste."

Above it hangs limply the red,

desort all the sillier because, after of public opinion in favour of a

went white and orange fling of South one wonders why anyone ever some day someone will drive

beyond

the sand dunes and rail link across the

Rhodesia. Whalers leave there all, Tibetans are Tibetans, not

Africa.

naked stony hills. In this ΕΠ

vast constituency are Some did, and died in the death now for the South Atlantic.

Somewhere оп the remote Chinese, and for Simon-pure

Govern valley

of Al Ais before drinking Skeleton Coast rises a cross with enemies of Imperialism it was

only four voters-two "a bit thick." It sounded too

ment meals, a recruiting agent its hot mineral waters, the only the date 1487, Diaz erected it to and his wife.

moisture for a hundred miles. much like the master's voice

Only

Europeans will be allowed In 1818 Robert Moffat, the Scot-guide him back. after finding the from the Kremlin.

going on in this part of the to vote in the elections. There is tlah missionary, set up a mission sca-route to India. Of much more concern is world that people are apt to no provision for political repre- station in these parts. The Ger- this wild, hardy, pitiless, rich the effect of events elsewhere forget these things, and the sentation for non-Europeans. Here mans built a mud fort over its desert country as a beacon on Indo-China. There is a admirable and comprehensive again the Nationalists have pro- remains, which can still be seen.bring them to power.

vided ammunition to be used Luderitz, in the heart of de- constant regaling of that folder we have received lately against them by the critics who solute country, has 1,500 Euro- lying jade rumour by those through the French Consulate have complained to UNO that this peans. Water is brought by train. The in- with axes to grind. But al- here is a timely and effective territory is not always administer from 84 miles away.

ed in "the true spirit of mandato-habitants themselves wonder why though Peking's contacts with piece of factual work.

ship,"

they live there. Siam, which was riddled These former German colonies Ho Chi-minh are doubtless

Some of the hardlest people In j close, and the Vietminh are with political intrigue only a have been one of the chief targets the world-most of them sheep getting a variety of aid in the few months ago, is settling way of training facilities and down nicely with far greater| arms, the Chinese Com-firmness of purpose and direc-| munists haven't crossed the tion. The large Soviet Embassy

border.

create

there, staffed wholly, by Rus

Madame

It would do neither thesians, still remains in the One of the features of modern personalities behind them, they interest stories on Vietminh nor the Chinese any shades without any immediate life is the large number of peri- have human

designed the women who made history in odicals and magazines

In Britain Jamaica and stories on what West good if they did so. Nation-prospect of that large-scale to appeal to women. alists in Asia are not blind to activity which its size pre- the circulation of the most popu- Indian women are doing Loday. Then there aro cookery recipes, with the Imperialism which uses dicated. Burma, too, is at lar weekly journals'

over the short stories with a local back- This Communism for its own ex-last getting out of the tangled "woman's appeal" is trend is ground, fashions in the tropics, and articles on apparently universal and the medical articles pansive purposes, and any chaos which followed inde-1,000,000 mark. Chinese invasion would pendence and the assassina- women of the West Indies have those subjecia which are of parti

Terry Burke explained her a ferment. Frustration of U Aung San and his recently had their fest magazine cular interest to women.

dedicated to them. Terry Burke tion is the keynote of all Cabinet. The more bellicose tells that its aim is to encourage reasons for coming to England.

ambitious Communist plots and upris- and,

of the an Inter-change of Ideas and com- She hopes to stimulate a greater ings throughout Asia except Karens have lost their mon problems, and to stimulate interest in the magazine in the in China Proper, and there are leader, and the campaign and help in the development of a West Indica by recording the do rich but unfortunately latent cul- ings of the many West Indian a lot of Communists in Peking for a Greater Karen Stale, ture. She explained that with the students and others who are con- and others emancipation of women in the tributing to the English work-a- who feel much the same way Many Britons about their foreign relations. sympathised with the Karens, West Indies from the nurseries, day scenu. She went on to speak the class rooms and the gontler about the difficulties of running Bao Dai is still employing but they wanted more than domesticated professions and az a magazine in the West Indies ca' canny tacties no doubt they could justly expect. As they take their place in the wider Jamaica has only recently ac to try and get a little inore. for the Communists in Burma, fields, of the arts, sciences and quired a Lithograph Press which the small publisher. The a need for some means, by which of But on the whole the situation they have proved what is vul- the world of commerce, there was is still not yet within the scope both in Indo-China and in garly called "flop." In women could express their views. population of the West Indies is Siam has much improved, Malaya the Briggs Plan is In March, 1940, "Madamo" as i avall and this combined with the apart from the widespread going ahead slowly but surely, was called, came into being extremely high cost of living and was partly Terry. Burke's "brain thie. fact that the West Indian effects of the failure of the and the guerilla leaders are child, but she said, without the woman reads very little, makes Korean Communists to gain now complaining of poor help of her friend Vara March the sale of the magazing, very their full objectives. The morale: because they cannot and the financial backing of Mr. dimcult There is also a shortago George Bower, the first "Madame' of paper and during the last two French and Vietnam forces got news of what is going on might never have seen the light years they have been forced to have recently gained consider- either in Malaya itself or in of the West Indian bookshelves, use an Interler type of paper for able successca.: Moreover the outside world because of The magazine has 24; pages and the magazine, Terry Burke says, much more is being done to the blockade, which now tends to be a feature rather than "It has required a great deal of A news magazine. Besides recourage and, strength of mind. to put the story of events in embraces a "news blockade" guiar commentarica un various pursue our original course, but

Bocial Welfare netivlites, and the wo are not without hope. Indo-China before the world, as well.

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The electioneering men look on

"I've told Mrs. Smith hot down here, but I've not

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