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Father of the Bride

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EVEN FUNNIER THAN IN

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DEAN MARTÍN. JERRY. LEWIS WIN MAS WILSON as Irma

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Scressplay by Cy Howard and Parka Lavy

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KOWLOON UNION CHURCH

WOMEN'S GUILD

OFW.ORK

SALE OF

In ald of Church Funds

will be held in

THE CHURCH HALL

* ferden Road

ATURDAY, 4th NOVEMBER, 1950

to be opened

W. MACINTOSH:

at 8 pm.

dies, Knitted Goods. Soft

THE CHINA MAIE FRIDAY - NOVEMBER 8,

CV.R. Thompson

The lace

curtain

NEW YORK.

THE Voice of America

THE

has some trouble in getting through the Iron Curtain.

But a propagande broad- easts are too successful in penc- trating the lace curtains of the township where its powerful new transmitters are operating.

Off to Washington the other day went a protest from ti10 housewives of Wayne, New Jersey. They complained that not only their radio and TV sets, but even their telephones, kept picldng up the broadcasts.

-Just as they are settling down to some Bing Crosby records, a vaice breaks in to say: "For the next hour you will hear a prb- gramme in Danish."

They may get Bob Hope's

picture on the TV sets, but as likely as not the only sounds they hear are in French, Italian, or Russian.

And nimost any time a house- | holder picks up the telephone, he or she hears a rendering of|

The Star Spangled Banner.”

UNO'S BIRTHDAY

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

TO UNO

A by GILES

"What a dirty trick-some of these flashlights are hand-grenades."

"This freedom above all

BY PAUL DOUGLAS Well-known politicnt commentator and former cor- respondent of the BBC and The Observer (London).

not

London Express Service

4

representatives were even more the West freedom of expression indeed often in opposition to the comprehensive. The Orst point could not be a reality because government of the day); thirdly, Was that "no government newspapers in Britain and the the "combine" press is still the

should interfere with the USA were controlled

by minority and in constant.com- collection or transmission of in "monopoly groups."

petition with individual news- formation." All means of in- The reader must be baffled, papers and information services, formation should be equally No argument could be more I managed to get through to

avaliable to all Копа fide ridiculous. Some newspapers one of the protesting housewives

If, as M. Bogolomov argued, T is quite possible, Only such understanding will ur

grent In between renderings,

journalists, and, finally, govem indeed belong to Sald

and monopoly is the contradiction though

certain, enable him to recognise dungere ments should encourage the in- powerful newspaper groups and of truth and of the freedom of she: "We aren't against the

that threaten his freedom.

of foreign Corres- that the But it is very Volec.

But these so-called expression then he has said all dis.

present

combines, As a matter of fact, few dis- terchange pondents. couraging to be looking at TV (fifth) General Assembly cussions are botter suited to re-

ally

and represent of freedom of Information in the competitive and hear no sound but some of the United Nations may veal the true nature of Com-

tice are 50 fundamentally every possible shade of view; Soviet Union where EVERY gibberish. They have just got

again debate the munism than a discussion about

opposed to all these basic rights secondly, they are all privately conceivable source to find some

of inferma- the freedom of information. way to keep ine once

general Voice out of our homes"

problems of the

as to create a positively embar owned and managed and com- tion is the strictest, monopoly of What the Soviet representa-

Independent of any the Bolshevik Party Govern- freedom of the press, of in- tives will have to

Buy on this Fassing situation for the Soviet pletely

bloc if

interference (and ment. representatives who could, and when it comes up of course, not accept them formation, news and news. subject,

for discussion in the General but at last tho Red Indian has the topic is listed on the trom what they have said on ingly distasteful to state publlely ↑ IT HAS TAKEN a long time, transmission. In any C480, Assembly, con caslly be guessed yet must have found it exceed→?

Assembly's agenda at Item previous occasions. No. 30.

caught on to the white man's ways.

In Pino Hide, South Dakots,

ment

HISTORICAL NOTE: During

from boat to vat.

FOR THREE WEEKS Pitts-

burg has been without news- papars because of a strike.

tries of the Soviet bloo.

Communist doctrine and prac.mbines are, first of all, mutu- there is to say about the absence

and

that they oppose these principles.

the Western

Ministers' Con Peate

government

LIGHT TRAVELS FASTER THAN

WE THOUGHT

J

at

in

and USA have

the

COD-

The most

The last of these occasions The ordinary world- was the Geneva Conference on members of the Sioux tribe citizen's reaction to this is the Freedom of Information in have threatened revolt because likely to be a somewhat 1948, Sixty nations were repre-

The main Soviet speaker on their tribal council has imposed

44 g 0 exasperated

what "sented, including all the coun- a tax of 20.

this occasion, the then Soviet an acre on all

Ambassador in Paris, M. Bogo- grazing land. What makes It Personal liberties are rarely A number of basic rights and molov, helped himself, as best worse, the council plans to use appreciated while they are guarantees were suggested by he could, with a series of the proceeds on law enforce-enjoyed.

the Western delegates for In- evasions and some vaguo accu

An error has boon clusion in a general draft con-

established sations against vention to be inter approved by press which, he said, "created scientifically-accepted speed of light. Dr L. Essen, the full Assembly of the UN. an atmosphere of hostility and of the National Physical Laboratory, has now proved

The American de

delegate, for

slander and false the accuracy of a statement which he first made in that "the Prend a New York court caso Jemes In this case, moreover, the

Imports." of

ind can be Rutkin, a bootlegger

To repeat: the Soviet speaker 1947, and which was then received with some scep-... during average citizen's exasperation in masses

between prohibition, disclosed how he all the more understandable be trusted to distinguish

186,282 miles got whisky from the liquor cause he is (unfortunately, en right and wrong, between trug completely evaded the issue ticism that light travels

nounced by an American scientist, named Michelson ships lying offshore. Ho laid a tirely right in thinking that a and false, if given access to the wid conerete extremely practical second and not at 186,271 miles per second, as por

trate it with a practical exam- pipeling into the cellars of some fresh discussion of the problem facts ALL THE FACTS they and concrete one. Let us illus-

in 1935. Foreign innocent looking bungalows, will merely reproduce

the need to make the choleo."

ple, say, the and pumped the liquor direct same old statements of basically

A difference of a mere 11 Sweden different viewpoints — and the

When the

the Four Power Con- some deallock when it comes to

ferences met in Paris, London miles per second in Buch Armed that he was right. trying to reach a generally ac-

The speed of light plays: its He then sted

figures may part three points or New York, the proceedings astronomical

in other ways and reported

besides ceptable Draft Convention on which speak for themselves, were "covered"

seem Radar.

It is also used' in First, he demanded that all on the Soviet side at Gover- very important, and until calculating a great number of

by a corres-not, at first blush, the Freedom of Information.

States should mutually agree pen

pondent of Even So, this shoulder that "their citizens should be men

ment News Agency TASS shrugging **$0 what-ism" js

to such variety of and by no one else. The TASS World War II, such high physical constants. given access And because of no advertis- wrong. Worse than that, is a information that they

is not a tree degrees of accuracy had no significant changes will prab- ably be in astronomy, in atomic could

correspondent is

practical purpose. But the rearch, and in the field of ing, shop sales are down as most dangerous forma of de-

an employee be never

numbed by a propa- journalist but on much as 50 percent; florists are featism. almost out of business because

dictatorship that. to be a one-party It may very well be true that fatida of hate." Secondly, that the Government: which happens advent of Radar altered all d

mutual guaran be there should

The changes customers no longer soe death the clashes and the anal failure tees for the right of minorities and which

are small and In Radar, the distance to an are not at present of much im- u complete or marriage notices;

from the even of such a debate are as predict and opposition groups to express monopoly of all means of news object is calculated though the radio stations givenble as the next day's sunrise, their

point of view freely. gathering and news-distribution time taken by a pulse of radio portance, but a hundred years ago the extreme accuracy of up most of their time to news, but it still is or should be-

Thirdly, that the

Whether good or bad, true or

modern the speed of

would -measurement the people queue

the waves being as 8 att. to grab newspapers even to the most humble citizen or censor foreign correspondents report (carefully checked and

up as early a matter of supreme importance State authorities to intimidate false, the TASS correspondent's waves to travel there and back,

have been thought a wasto of time. coming in from other

censored at the head office) was the same as that of light. The cities--to understand exactly how the should be limited.

of information new figure will therefore enable and they have paid up to 14s. Communists practise the exact The three "fundamental prin- the only soUTCE

Radar to be used. more ac-

Possibly within living memory newspaper a copy for them.

opposite of what they preach. ciples" suggested by the British for

curately.

the war, Dr. Essen was a sufficiently

one sixty-fourth of an inch was

fino Tromsoolly asked what was the

degree of correct value of the speed of measurement; now in engineer- light, and he began to suspect ing works accuracy to a ten- thousandth of an inch 19 On the other hand, when the that although previous

experi- four Foreign Ministers met in monts had been carried out on constantly requiredt, while the Moscow the Western press was an impressive scale, the results National Physical Laboratory, represented by 75 correspon- were perhaps not as accurate as in its work on the standards of

British, dents

representing

was generally believed. Using length, has to measure French and

American news-radio waves to tackle the prob- milionth of an inch.

So, in the not too papers and agencies. On any day, the citizens of Paris, Lon-speed figure in 1947, but mot future, this change in the figure don, or New York could, if they with doubts in certain quarters, for the velocity of light may

read

simultaneously. Recently other experiments in prove of great importanco, desired, dozens of totally different ac- counts of the

the Conference

power of

TWO DUKES IN RACE FOR TOP TAKINGS

YN the Statoly Homos of DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH

England they are letting up is catching up.

the takings, counting the floris Blenheim Palace - and half-crowns paid by sightseers to look over ances- tral mansions during the sum

visiting scoson the

mer.

For

is nearly over..

And

there looks like being a photo-finish between two duken for the biggest cash

where

Fifty thousand people shuffled through the rooms at 2s. 6d. head — net return, 20,250,

Winston 'Churchill was born-

There Is SIR really closes to visitors, WERNIER, never

whose And by the end of the year it' shire home, Luton is expected that at least 100,000 drawn 20,000, will have paid Za. Od to gaze. than £3,000 at This will yield. £12,500,-

a time.

Each

Following the dukes is the return in the Stately Homes, MARQUIS OF BATH. Stakes,

has

tho Russian

readers.

any lem, he announced his "new

ceedings, written by men of SIDE GLANCES

to every Information

nation- Enckground, HAROLD different

Bedford-olity and viewpoints. They had Hoo, has every possible necess people more existing source of half a crown and, therefore, every chance to learn the truth,

The whole point about any will be content if the conference of draft convention takings cover cost of staff

concerning the freedom of in-

The DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE Wiltshire, drew 80,000 half-

Longleat, the family home in wwgos, repairs, and guides. formation is to make the great- has opened the gates of Chats, crown visitors-net worth, Derbyshire, this year to £10,000... more than 102,000 peopic. AL {2s. 6d, a time this Fields more

tham thi 750.

Most of the owners are hop.est possible variety of informa taking ing there will be no tax on athletion available to all peoples of

Income. The Stately Business the world. Behind

Bath come the is a new that nobody knows

rub; for Here, then, is the MARQUIS OR. SALISBURY, yet whether it is a Cultural precisely, that must be resisted The Chaleworth "season" has whose Hatfold House, Hertford. Effort and exempt from tax, at all costs by the totalitarian Anished. But down at Ellen-shire, closed to alghtseers a, or, whether it is classed as on regimes. M. Bogolomov, rather heim,

in Oxfordshire,

Vitörtainment. cho Worth LG ĐẦU

Inadvertently, argued that in)

FERDINAND

Sound Strategy

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to A

distant

By Galbraith

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