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- THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1930.

ARE THEY WICKED, FOOLISH OR WEAK?

Good Morni

Tunnelling Tunnelling Good

through Rockies

Women's tresics, we read, may precipitate a strike of London

transport workers.

You know how it is--all these tresses and trains.

Soviot policies and the Numerous at the same littlof programme are on the banned tables are members of group two:|llst. Eut the effectiveness of n dangers resulting from lick, cynical and self-secking, nailon in modern war depends on them are making, thom- their shadows fall like that of the its industrial capacity as a whole Third Man" across, the scene. In spite of that, Britain goes on selves increasingly felt in Their wits are quick and they selling the Communists machine By JOHN MARSHALL 24154 the daily lives of people have become used to living on tools. nnd capital equipment in

them. They are willing to sell return for consumer goods.

How would you like to sit in Reporters & General Office sestr | in the West, How do they anything or anybody If they can Harmful attitude a cabin amid the mountains, hun-

dreds of miles from look to those who are make a profit,

nowhere, Is Britain not in effect barter-and just watch the weather? Britain is no longer sending Jet Ex-collaborators oven nearer the seat of

ig part of the world's future That is what some trained-Crews supplies to Egypt, Morc sinister, though the trouble?

Lea prospects of security in exchangej

This makes things pretty black merous are the ex-collaborators for itenia useful only for her own will be doing for the next twa

whether in the Middle East, but of course whed none too badly under Inmediate profit or convenience? years, Just to find out

11 500,000,000-dollar industrial they ennnl try again. Might not juny International

development is fensible. racketeer justifiably point

It is alt

of the a part that in his idle way he is onl;liminaries

pre- construction for the doing the same, and that it is] often just as harmful to stupid of n huge aluminium plant 400 ins to be wicked?

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This article is an attempt to sum up impressions gather-- ed in recent visits to coun-

tries close to the Iron Curtain, By R. Brooman-

Busts and to the isolated outpost of

Vienna behind it.

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INDIA AND THE

WEST.

The people In those arcas cori roughly divided into

White

three.

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To make matters worse, I hear the plumbing in these parts is Just too primitive.

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Locally-published picture of an the miles North of Vancouver, on the notor perched. dizziły

framework of the Eiffel Tower Wicked men, foolish men, rugged Pacific const

Canada weak men. R is often hard to dis-

feeling of nostalgin from this aluminium in tinguish one from the other. For producers of one of the greatest anys: "Many tourists may get a

the Eiffel Tower view of Parls." to cheap water

Yes, my goodnesst How long example, in what category does world. number who are trying not tu]feet again after the Allies meved one place a well-to-do · Austrian power, it is profliable to bring it since I climbed up

that the bauxite ore, which contains the commit themselves politically but, in, and hope, it necessary, to be who recently told me

manoeuvre wise policy for his country in any aluminium, a thousand and more girders to the top? nevertheless to profit commercially able to repeat the

futuro war would be to remalu miles from British Gulano, in from present conditions; and a under the Soviets,

South America. certain number,who are trying! Their alm sit on the fence, neutral-like Switzerland.*

to

He could not have chosen a The company concerned has I'm rather surprised about this The Indian Prime Minis- desperately hard to do the things barter with both sides, and util-

to lean in whichever worse example,

been seeking a suitable site on storm in a beer mug, up in Korea. ter's attempt to force a show-that so urgently need to be done mately

They are The past neutrality of the Swiss the Congress Western civilisation is to sur direction seems náter. down with

cream or Dipsi-Cola..... years. This has now been found now providing the shady chan- has been possible, not only be the Pacific coast for a couple of Now. If it had been been

defence but the company must now a Party hierarchy will arouse

The future largely depends on els through which many supplies cause of the natural very mixed emotions. The how for and how fast the last of military importance, and even which the mountains give to their certain whether it is a feasible unfeeling will hasten to point group can influence and lead the goods sent to Europe as Marshall country, but, also because every

construct The plan is tu All, ure slipping across the 'fron able-bodied man undergoes rigor-

ous and repeated military train- tunnel 10 miles through the out that it is much easier to first.

The first group. burrowing their tiers into Communist territory,

11 is casy

to condemn suching, and no one has ever doubter coastal rango of the preach than to practice lofty heads diligently into the sand, principles, whether the gaze needs little comment we have people. The evils and dangers of their determination, if attacked. Mountains, to bring the water is directed at home or abroad, all felt the temptations and every their ways are obvious. Yet, from) to withdraw into their mountain." from the lakes and rivers of

ungle and for less and fight it out to the death,

Tweedsmuir Park (a mountain -Judging by agency reports, the day can watch people giving way) a different

The future of Europe todns we called unworthy motives, are not we li

former Commos in Shanghai are telling to them.

Such people are even more Britain laying curselves open to lies with that group of people arca

the third group mentioned above, Governor-General, John Buchan foreign a plebiscite possible in Kash-conspicuous in Rome, sweltering similar criticism?

Trade between Britain and the who have learned the lesson the to a power plant on the Gardner themselves. heat and

Canal, mir would do more to put in the late summer

But it must find out if this is the preoccupied with the Holy Year Communist states is still on the Swiss learned long ago, and are striving to extend the principle down communalism on

among the increase. tourist trade; or

The Prime Minister assures us to cover not one small nation but possible, For sub-continent than sporadic polished but feckless cafe soelety expressions of that schtiment of Vienna altiing at little tables that we are no longer telling the the whole free world to preserve survey parties are aut marking

ans peace by making our defences so the route the domestic scene. It in the sunshine and discussing Soviets modern would also make the demands use over sweet enkes and cups that articles of direct and imme-strong that the Communists wil nating dam sites to store

topped with frothing cream, diate importance to our defener give up all hope of cracking them. water in reservoirs in

smuir Park. for a peaceful settlement of

Greatest problem Korea by mediation much more persuasive and intelli- gible to men with hard heads and a sharp sense of logic.

But peace in India is more than vital, and that is even more true of the sub-continent as a whole than of a mere

It will be said, too, that a concession which would make

in

weapons,

Britain's lookers say glossy television too

London with her hair?

after the

the third

banks to go Chase

year, whow!

Another few weeks of this, and of the tunnel, and the question is weather or not the my boss will be willing to pay Tweed- my salary to a grease-spot.

In Washington the Early worm got the bird, but No. 2 in the The greatest problem, however, Defence Department is nice in where 10 build transmission work, and his lines, because aluminium expected to Lovatt. Plant cann

the cannot be built where the

power plant is. There is not level ground for it, and a site to accommodate the 50,000 people

successor 19

Complained the author: club atmosphere.

seven put

"I've

`into years

this

segment of it. It would be a down; London with the ac- viewers to hear "what look like No wonder people who go to workust live near the factory, manuscript-six of them trying

!

By John Hall

In the National Radio Show ness, yes.

who

power, to the town

20

present is that

Oh well, a time was bound to thes shrouded in al- come when the U.S. would have snow and for to Marshall its big-timers for the

in Birmingham we talked with gushing and cooing-it makes us sheer entertainment. They want most perpetual,

with chasms thousands of feet struggle ahead.

the good people of the Midlands feel sick.

thereabouts, trying to assess and

queer 'ung in London."

How they differ

more local touches; do not like feeling that they are "at the end deep.

and wilderness of rock tangled limber оп the

level, find the essential facts cabins are being built this sum-

To

Two points. mer and crews will live in the

bc

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As the wanted man sald to the police when they captured him in his bath: "All right, I'll come clean."

or touched by a

Sharp shocks for these new smart night

wives and familles normal men saying 'Oh, how night clubs drink a lot." bad day for all of us if it

Transmission lines will have to to sell it." cent on sophisticated artiness, sweet of you' or 'How perfectly Obviously these criticisms from became certain that Pandit Bloomsbury and Chelsea and terrifying, and things like that. the customers will swell na tele- be run 50 miles, is carry 1,650,- Nehru is a mere tragic Ham-

all that.

If a chap up here talked like vision spreads further North and 000 horse

Judging by the Barnard Show let of the political scene. The

anaesthetists haven't yet Mr. and Mrs. Midiands and that he'd be laughed put of the into Scotland, into areas where site at Kitimat. world is none

beards should too rich in the friends and relations who live county. Politeness and friendli- the sense of fun and idiom differ It will run through mountain case,

more, uniena regional fea- country which has never been decided whether even

outside the statesmen

are introduced into the mapped in detall, and of which] be worn Inside or of the higher in England's industrial midriff

turca

no topographical slice of t

meteora- mask. calibre. There are plenty of have been getting a

programople make it plain that logical surveys have been made."

These

About all that the authorities soldiers and there are going these past 10 months through the And eye of television. peeping

they are, in many ways, much

know at to be more. But we know all they do not like it.

more exacting than Londoners, know too well what happens when

but please stop the prefer broader fun, want more mountains are the one fades out and the other marches in. There is

"And we don't like the people still scope for diplomacy and the impact television has had in on television who have the feen of a string"; do not want to have and statesmanship: indeed there its first sweep into the provinces. that when they're telling Just what Londoners like "thrust ground

on in our faces." Accent on the oddities, or, as something they must turn is increasing need of it.

Not that the episode be- the man from Yorkshire put it, sickly similes. We mistrust acti- tween the Congress Party and "By the Harry, you've got some ficial turned on smiles."

They dislike the "long-hairs" for two years. They will study who are loose in TV headquar- icing conditions, the depth

fishing line, and the Indian Prime Minister

B.B.C. quizzers who checkers, and they leathe precious the winter snows, and the menace hunt in on area where the wild implies his resignation. In this

man and woman of snow or rock slides, to game has never yet seen a hu- matter he is right and there- against the Vietminh in Indo-viewers likes and dislikes pro- ness. Every

duce reports which show that interviewed made those two whether

man being or heard the transmission line can

sound fore ought to

China." be strong

Midlands tastes differ little from points.

gun. to give uninterrupter | of BC built Now it is just to apply the Southern tastes. We think dit-i Most of them complained that service. Steady power is a neces- If it is found possible to build enough to keep communalism

in TV programmes have a ten- sity the manufacture of the 10-mile tunnel within effective control. It term "perverse" to the belief terently.

through the Men and women from New- deney to be Third Programme- aluminium, and any cessation mountain range, and to construct does_.weaken_his_position in that the worst danger to the

50-mile transmis- and that is peaceful advance of the na port to Nottingham, from the Ish; most of them admitted that would mean

the Dukeries, said they never listen to the Third metal would "freeze" in the pits, sion Polterles to many ways,

Lan Programme.

resulting in the almost Imporst- to an area that otherwise would peculiarly unfortunate at a tions of Asia is not. Commun- terf

doners like morbid, paychological Praised by all: the TV news-ble task of chipping it out. remain unknown. time when Peking weighs the ism but some new form of repeatedly: "Apparently

A modern city of 50,000 souls "invincible force of Indo Western imperialism. As "The plays, we hate them; apparently reels, most of the outside broad- Londoners don't mind precocious casts, and the Children's Hour

Not all hardship will arise on the coast, similor Chinese unity, with the "in-Times" itself points out in an children and people who have (this is popular with adults too).

to that at Arvida, in Quebec, The cabin crews plum - in - the mouth vincible force" of Sino-Soviet editorial comment on its cor-

Popular demand: more boxing,

will lead a from which aluminium wont to United States, article, unity. But the issue matters respondent's

abominate them; op-amateur or professional (this by lonely existence, as they will be Britain and the voices, we

each other Londoners enjoy so-call- the women too), and a sprinkling separated from

by and to Canadian plants, for air Com- impassable mounining in the craft and other war purposes.

The men The Delhi correspondent of to help the countries of Asia c

of ment

in the cabins will any stage North

here:

But it have to decide whether this can B.B.C. cannot put on Northern miles from settlements, "The Times" has just con- to stand on their own feet hooted off

come about, or whether the mil- they will be lions already spont in preliminary of Pandit Nehru's indepen- Communist penetration and ing young men (unless it is an bring

The men here have been sorry, able to fish in streams as yet un-surveys will have been wasted. dent stand in international dictatorship. No doubt they amusing mockery), but they de politics. It is summed up in have been slow to act, but want good variety "the sort off to learn that, Judging by the TV hearty stuff we hear and the sort programmes, it is the men who three points: (1) aggression the Commonwealth plans for of people we see at Blackpool or do the cooking in the S5uth and by North Korea has taken economic aid to South East Scarborough-more, good sing- that place and must be resisted; Asia, in which India herself ing, more comedians (2) the war should not be is joining, point the way to a try to be too clever. allowed to spread beyond new and fruitful partnership lieve that Londoners and those have value for our money, "good Korea and no other question between Eastern and Western who live around the capital have variety every Saturday night, and should be tied up with it (a peoples that holds none of forgotten how to laugh out loud. at least three hours entertain-

"There's too much of the ultra-l ment every night. reference to Formosa); (3) the risics India fears.

thecing.

the

events.

that

the molterling, development will come

more than the inconsistencies, Western Powers in fact wish|porty turns that would be of local sport tell us the winter, and will be hundreds of

Northampton."

tributed a long explanation and to save themselves from These people don't like postur- sporting events when they can will not be all hardship.

s" in the summer a programme from Calals."

Our

women always put who don't glamour before hard work.

General demind: Stop Toist Most of these people really being on us London's ideas and let's

Armour of God:

By The Bishop of Southwell

the future of Korea must be A good deal of this sus- decided by the Koreans them-picion has been dispelled by selves. The trouble about recent pronouncements of the last point is that the policy in the United States. Koreans had this chance un- India has been playing her der the auspices of the United part in the United Nations

Amid the catastrophic, cathedrals, was (as Christopher Nations Commission. South with ability and zeal. She Korea took it, the North re- was and is represented on the events of our time we, who Dawson has pointed out) heavy and produced St. Bernard's hora jected it from the word go Korean Commission. But the are, under their immediate with the sense of impending doom And every age is in in favour of armed action. strength of her independent pressure and are unable to novissima.

them objectively from fact a time of crisis when men and But it is, in the end, the only the West would be reinforced, outside, cannot understand cisions and to take their sides. In

stand as betwee Asia and see

women are summoned to make de- form of permanent settlement..

"It is important to realise that instead of being weakened, what is happening or predict that spiritual conflict which is the

of our moral drama of all history. in Indiu today

the concept if only the polley preached the consequences

Armics and armaments have to which arouses the most hatred abroad were practised at actions. is imperialism, not Communism

We did our duty in 1939 and be provided to defend the free

societies of the

West.

But force Although the country has been home by a speedy settlement nothing can alter the fact that Independent, fer three years of the Kashmir problem. It it was right. Yet the labours and of arms cannot defeat Commun- Indian thinking its still condi- is a strange and ironical cir- sacrifices of that war seem to be ism, nor bring victory to Chris- tioned by centuries of foreign cumstance that this happens leading to just those results which tianity. That war must be waged within the souls of men. Tho real rule... Having had no expert- enen if the workings of Ras to be Pandit. Nehru's birth-it was undertaken to avoid.

The world, is moving, none of danger is not so much. that this alan Imperialism' in satellite place, and that he "loves it us know whither: it may yet prove country will surrender to the false countries, India does not realise like a woman. But who to be in a direction which will creeds as that it will believe its countries. Most Indians are not among us places consistency make nonsense of all our calcula- own so little that it may not be aware, as Westerners are aware, as the first of all-virtues? In tions. The issues of history are able to resist them,

In the hands of God and finito men

the menace it presents to other

dominate tha...world, endis

that Communism means to any case, India's policy is cannot play at Providence. But A civiliation may be betrayed therefore a threat to all fres directed from Delhi, and not every generation, as tanke sald, not only by the spectacular crimes countries...They are, on tha from Moscow. There may stands in the same relation to and treasons but, no less, by the whole, ready to support their be doubt as to how long a eternity, in its responsibility be cumulative force of minor slack- own Government. In its ruthless polley of betwixt and between fore God. And there are decisions nesics and fofidelities::. We cannot

which cannot be evaded.

preserve a Christian civilitation auppressior of Communist re-

merely by making speecher about bels and saboteurs in Hyderabad can enduro, but certainly in

Men poem to have believed in Now is the time for Christian and elsewhere. Hut they do nor the present stage it does haverlods that civiliation was citizens and for all those who are extend their moral support to a value that outweighs any about to parlah. The gokion are willing to work with thien to re- the British action against the irritation on the score of in- of medieval Christendom, the age build themeral and spiritual Conniwla: rebellion in Malaya; }

of St. Francis and the great foundations. or to the French campaign consistency.

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