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A MONTH IN ASIA

will, alvert

By "Windrush,

Special correspondent

No baton for lan

By CECIL WILSON

Fighter

control, we

informed yesterday

"Are

were afternoon, summer

Laving their training at Martlesham Heath, Suffolk, for a fortnight from August 20. Commanding ofllcer, Pound Sterling"

I suppose he'll get buy, but ho

that.

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Since the troubles in Asia first impinged on London's |attention-which was really only a faw. months ago London has been getting into,

tuo nucli of their The pleture is not all black. the habit of taking stock of the Asian situation every spurces to strengthening them What may turn out to be one of selves for their quarrel; moreover the trent constructive enterprises month. What is its estimate normal trade relations will con- of the day has been, rapklly ma- This is the Coinmon- tinue aterrupted. Both countries turing. 24354 now?

buy more wealth economie plan for South 82312

lan Hunter always wanted Last month has bean dominated will in consequence by Korea and the Formosan ques- from sboard, and sell less than Asia, whose beginnings date from

conferencea to be a conductor. When he tion. The miliary silvation in they would otherwise do. So the the Commonwealth

the sterling area in-at Colombo and Bydney earlier in left Fettes College he wrote won't far with a nume, Allso Koren improved, they deterioral Firnin on

the year At the Synoy-con- ed again. The alliance of the creasCS.

What are the other disappoint- ference it was agreed to make 'in to John Christie at Glynde- powers enforcing collective secul-

Now claimed ily has stood the test of tirements? Indo-China certainly. The fact twp plans. One was for a bourne and asked if he could

did not Columbus offensives conference between Vietnam, Laos, pooling of Die technical skill of study the art. and of Mr. Mallie's

Use in

Ainerien. The steadiness of the Arian Gpy- and Cambodia to arrange for the Commonwealth for

The other was fo

At Glyndebourne he

I've always felt that something runients, especially India, is very federal services is drogging pa South Asia,

could only have endlessly. It is a bad omen for the six-year plan of economie de Fritz Busch, who took him round which

To- so stupendous mentis of the Continent as a pupil. One of the most cheering events working of the federation, or con- velopment, Business

has been the improvement in federation, which fas expected to course, a six-year plan for capital day, as artistic administrator of been discovered by an American,

Bao Dal is sunk his investment

the Edinburgh Festival, that same Burma. Will it nat? Nobody in result.

young student conductor from

No, Myrtle, these occupation London would like to commit prestigo further by his long stay

Spean Bridge, Inverness-shire- himself. Over hala there is dis-in Franre. His prime minister har

will not be he is still only 21-la employing forces taking part in "manoeuvrea

In the Rhine" appointment the failure of the also been on hellduy there. What Dixon

mission to mediate fover is one to think of a country en-

his old master as one of his con

carrying umbrellas. Kashmir, Opinion is fairly salir gaged in eritical civil war when that on this occasion India was the head of the state and its prime Jess amendable to reason than muster go off on jong pleasure Pakistan. Or perhaps it should be tours abrond? said that this time India did not bother to dress up its case very convincingly.

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A RESPONSE AT

Bense, about

LAST!

nolable.

Asia's defences

and

Solid progress

met Dr.

that discover

But for the war lan Hunter

Spilt on the issue of frozen have been conducting wages, Britain's TUC voted by a

Thore has been very solid pro- gress with both plans. For udductors. ministering the release of techni- cal co-operation there has been Ugly situations БОСТ to be set up at Colombo a bureau and might

The Council held its himself. tie was just getting them at

business when levels. developing in two other countries a Commonwealth Council to su: some of these Festival concerts will majority to keep freezing of South East Asia-Indonesia pervise R. and the Philippines. In the mid- first meeting in July. It was a the lung of the dle of last month Indonesia great success. India, in particu- he had to interrupt his studies adopted its new unitary constitu- ihr, has taken, a. load in offering for seven years of soldiering.

"Ils magnificent volce ranged ho other Commonwealth 11o. The Indonesinu Governments to

Returning home from Italy and in time from the zephyr-whisper was a good deal crliicised for countries its training facilities for

he decided 'It was too late 10 dissolving the federal state. But technicians: these are more consi- North Africa a lleutenant-colonel, of Hight winds in the leaves to

increasingly

higher

on thelt the reply by its champions seem derable than is generally supposeiste' hls training, and begun the crash of lunder amid the

We said then-and it as well go into print now-that People's

ever

since the

the executive decisions

only US$53 million. have a bitter grudge. It is true

ago seemed to

case

could

of

in

ar

by helplug Rudoll crente the Edinburgh

Here's proof

T-I-M-B-R-E..!

Picture published

from

Statue Square. Don't

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of Queen

day,

for The eficient arrangement

tickets at purchasing sweep

offices

the shows that branch

were

Jockey Club is by no means A the Sleap.

his about few Kave

Carry

US. interior secretly hotly. denjes churges."

But it leaked out, ch?

"Date for 1956 Olympic Games worries officials."

How about 1950?

If Joe Louis wins, says a loen!, done "he will have

Edinburgh has seen the answer report,

3

I need a secretary,

have always boasted- Not to write my letters,

of

But to see that they get posted. Tribal maidens in Formosa aro

drifting towards the cities,

Only to be expected with all #muiden's these answers to prayer stationed around the coast.

We are always reluctant to "pitch into" a single corres- pondent, especially when he happens to have suffered so much from the Japanese that his entire outlook has been

The defence exports and the affected. But quite a lot of nuance experts in Britain have people seem to think along Kashmir very much

The six-year plan is also got training instead as a conductor of great giants of the forest." ting near the concrete stage. much the same lines, and it mind. As long as Indio and Pak-ed fairly convincing: the unitary

istan are orposed over it, there state will mean grenter strength.

The reason for anxiety about After the Sydney Conference the conductors is time for sume plain speak-is division at what should be the

yesterday Indonesia is the reports about the Commonwealth governments In Bing to

Festival in 1940. ing on some of the points very centro of Asia's defener

The correspondent And as long as the Kashmir dis. inadequacy of its administrators. South Asin tuking part were in- raised.

are ex vited to prepare lists of all their Bing taught him the secret at showed the pedestal aggerated; but certainly the Dutch development projects. These have himself simply didn't muke pule continues, Epth Dominions Perhaps these reports

tell the Traffic raved whether he

did not leave behind them, as now reached London, and a com- planning things on a big scale by Valorin's statue" being removed

clotnil.. Between

some people vested interests in the Soviet and its occupied the British did In India, a ready mittee of Commonwealth civil paying meticulous attention to

servants will work on them from the smallest

£20,000 of Department." but them they turned thein

thought it had been dismantled Another cause for anxiety is next week and will weave

a festival

been At Scottish enpital into Hong Kong or China's en satellites, has been less rea-made potional civil service.

and have months Ano, ponsive hitherto to Western the irresponsibility of the Indo-into a comprehensive plan

which now ranks with Salzbura driving slap through it twice a slavement to Stalin.

In international status. The British people are not overtures, than the Peking nesian policy over New Guinea. the end of the month there is to interested in a gigantic arm- Government. Indeed, it has What is the sense of demanding be anotiter meeting of Common- new territory-inhabited by peo-wealth ministers to review the ed crusade against Commun-been ungracious where it has nip culte different from the Indo-work of the civil servants and to ism in China. They are in-not been simply provocative, nesian-when already there is the take

When Bing went to New York And action. terested in defending them and just before the Washing severest shortage of civil ser- which will put the scheme into

vants in Indonesian itself.

How will the six-year plan be last year to manage the Metro on why antagonise Austrullp? selves and the territories for ton message arrived

Danced? That will really be the politan Opera there

speculations wildest which they are responsible Thursday night that Peking

Huks on rampage grand questions for discussion at against militant Communist had informally agreed on a

the September meetings. Hitherto successor but

thought to his second-in-com- are at-peaceful solution on Formosa,

of financing Huk- the main burden aggression. If we

lu the Philippines the tacked, we shall fight back, we had launched out on bolahaps have been on their live- South Asia since the end of the mand. And when Ian Hunter did take over the doubting Thomases Great war war has been bornu by and preparations are going tirade about Peking's hostile est rainpago.

Some very surprising raised their brows. But inter-attitude, which was simply ended. A month ago they were Britain.

on the decline. The figures were published recently Could, this young Scot un to that end.

hot on their in the 1849 Economie Survey of the whole show on his imma vention on the scale neces-playing into the hands of the said to be

Filipino army was

was Asia and the Far East, published elute shoulders? those tracks. But it seems there sary to put down the present Interventionists

Will by the United Nations. these reports. Government, and to put the who clamour for war with nothing in

their activities gradually extend They showed that the British

contribution Nationalists in its place. No, China.

until the Philippines become an- goveninental

to last week-the first week of lan nothing more than prove that the may others Malaya? It seems quite South Asia between the end of Hunter's active contral. The city younger heavles are a sorty lot.""

All the old-timers were. definitely and decidedly No.

the war and December 1949, inis drawing more visitors than It is impossible to think of

even possible,

and releases since

The Filipino government wins loans, grants, the

ever, and 20 per cent more over- course, the sort of the earth. anything more insensate. The

little praise from those who have sterling balances, mounted,

neus visitors than last year. The

Help wanted: mall. Government had watched it. The economic post- dollars, to US$1,775 million. The receipts are up all round. policy of trying to keep

contribution in the China out of war with the come to power it had asked tion is worsening. The peasants American

Whether the Festival' will py area in the same period West will not cost millions of for all and offered nothing. hast the peasants a year or two

Of course is another matter, but Edinburgh this was not the total of the Ame- is not concerned about that so! want peace and British lives--it would; if It had even laid down its own

In Japan, long as it profits in prestige. Last successful, save them. And terms for recognising British qulet even more than they wanted rican effort in Asia,

even after squeezing in the grievances China, Korea and the Philippines year, remedy for If it were not successful, the recognition-and practically a

against the landlords. But the it had made grants and credits of 100,000 visitors, the carparution effort would still be worth wrecked both the goodwill uks may stir them up again. US$4,308 million.

faced a £15,000 loss out of This is the black side of the A very good

be total loss of £24,000, while, for it would cost noth- on which it was based and Ing except the effort in in the larger motives which it picture in South Asia. It could made for saying that, from the No contribution be added to. There are rumours point of view of the political aims telligence and statesmanship served.

of an impendlag rice shortage of peace and stability which whatever had been made of throughout the area which will America follows, it would required.

The first need of elemen-its own. There had not been tary strategy is to save our a single statement, speech resources for use against the or gesture toward either Bri- real enemy when he strikes tain or the United States, or directly instead-of--through the West. in general, formal his deluded tools. If China or informal, to indicate the is, as our correspondent sug slightest desire to be friendly gests, the complete and ab- or to desire their friendship solute tool of the Kremlin, in return. she will be ordered to attack. There had, on the other been a continuous She will send her troops hand, into Korea, she will defy the stream of flattery of the temporary ban imposed by Soviet Union and of all who President Truman on the in-serve the Kremlin, such as:

The Hunter axiom is this: "We vasion by force of Formosa, the. petty. satellite States

must not concern ourselves en she will attack Hong Kong, and not one note of criticism

tirely with going round Europé Indo-China, and Slam-she or of soumess over 'Port

United States scientists are can and British rearmament and scraping the creamy off other

countriest cultures. "We" - must "Affe, come here' quick, you'll will in fact try to follow in Arthur and Dairen, or of

South West drives are felt.

get soaking wat" Industrialists and mining ex-keep an eye on our own tuor the steps of Japan. And of complaint about the aggres- searching in

for # legendary perts are most worried about tin, step." course Japan will be armed sion in Korea. There has been Africa hip and thigh to help us plenty of activity in the Wai- "mountain of copper" along which is now selling at smash this enterprise as the chiaopu about the absolute the remote reaches of the record price.

To offset the uso in the Union Allies smashed the Japanese! right of China to be consult Orange River, near its of some 600 tons of ths a year are In fact China would have ed about the Korean settle-mouth, a region of stark red large importa of tinplate-inainly South Wales--and bigi been well on her way alment and not one single deserts, burning sands, and from ready by now, if Stalin had word about the failure of the primitive bushmen armed quantities of tin used in motor cars and machinery, which means his

troops Russians or the Korean Com-with poisoned arrows. way. Chinese

A boulder of puro copper, too that South Afrlen is rather an exporter of would be fighting now in munists to consult Peking be

this path to this forbidden mountain.

essential metal, Korea, and Russian troops for they struck. There has been heavy to be moved, guards the importer than an

The same applies to lead and Ewould have moved in to the most vohement pro- Whan-struck with a hammer, the

Manchuria behind them. paganda campaign against the copper boulder rings like a beil. zing in a bigger way, for output

is practically all, white consump The loention of the bell-like bdul- None of these things have United States, whose policy der is kiown, but all attempts to ton, specially for motor car bat- terles and the building industry, happened. And if we keep has been for generations kind- find the our wits about us they won't ly to a fault toward Ching and so far total of copper have happen. Stalin is not the her people, and whose open-

the comper, boulder was arst

by prospector, Mr. sile, the master of Peking. He has handed generosity in

Rabinowitz in World War. One, more influence there than he post-war years has rescued when copper was worth. C130 dicrous metals-lin, Ital, zine and ought to have, if national restored and revived the na- ton. rather than revolutionary tions of the West And "little and ideological interests real things that annoy a great no ly dominated Chinese foreign tion like Britain-to quote policy. It is certain that the Mr. Bevin-have been the Russian Ambassador carries sole response to Britain's All that remplus of their of more weight in Peking than gesture,

cupation aro aprellet mine shafts, even Sir John Jordan did in There has been plenty of sticking, it like: skeletons from

be

Home flavour

That £16,000 really amounted be partly due to lase purchases unwise for America to continue by SCAP for Japan, and possibly to neglect the South Asian coun- only to a paper loss, since £7,000 This will certainly be dis-of it would have gone in taxation by the new China. There is also tries. the question mark of Malaya. In cussed between the Common- anyway, and the remainder was

and the the Briggs plan succeeding? No-wealth governinants body knows. There is a strange Unlled States government in the silence about it:

next month or twong

Search for the

copper mountain By Geoffrey Jenkins ·

....

In the same area, known as the Richtersveld, Corulah, miners more than 60 years ago extracted £20,000,000 worth of copper and shipped it out in saling, chips

Alexander Bay.

now

mineral poorly

Despite its wine ineipel non-

with the

copper which accounted for high production costs in industry while cre obtainable. But now they were

that they are becoming caree, thu country will be still inore severaly hit

Evch

produced in the copper, Northern Transvaal and In South

West Africa the Import of some 22,000 tons in its processed state,

the heyday of his influence. cause for complaint. But if the dese in the Hot-48 for instanca in electrical goods,

There were then other com- Paking does not feel itself tentes of the petitors for the car of Peking wholly the master of its for men induced

no other. none today except for the cign polley, there is nothing to day Indian Ambassador. And in show that it is the absolute

motor.cars, elé, rédüçes the bege-

the Cornish

Hhhts received from the import of of 10 which come: 30,000 tons per year of raw

to turcopper and

and blüter, concentrates. 1-1: Many headaches

Efforts are being made to

been

the diplomaile madiation in and willing tool of the Krem-crease production of copper from The raw coppey from the Trans- which Sardar Panikkar play-lin. And whether it is wish the Trumb mince, which engar voal, may experts, is not aultable

Jako whose depths have never 0 ed the chief part, he seems to ful or realistic thinking, that

plumbed Duchig World of pure enough for conversion have been

singularly success is how we look upon the War. One the Germans hurled with the plant available in the ful, thanks largely to the position: a position that is their heavy, artillery fly this Lot- Unión, fato electrical goods and at la particularly unfortunate sound sanse arid courage of not without possibilities of tomidae Iaso before currendering Cables, getES BAARDERS

10 the South African forces)

for Bouth African industries that Presidělit Truman Improvement from out our Worried about fin the resin, the prices of

We have had to wait a long point it we think with

our sumeb, too, etter are ad auch zihe have by pro itime, and works pretty hard | breina: HES qur guts for being runda in win more lead and Bartonates higher than poor cons for this pill rather onegative | the,

or which they ate which, with low beams we full tier and, the xaling

fantastite dall, affocia paiba: AmericLeaneng, many headachi

mant in the world, oxcept

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offset by a profit on transport.

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