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1950.

Why not try making PEACE?

T is little use lamenting the mistakes that have brought grave crisis

upon us in Korea. Tho urgent business is to shape the future by learning from them.

by

JOHN GORDON

that

the strength that will lift from

us the fear of being caught un-| prepared to meet attack.

If there is one ray of com- fort in the Korea crials It is that it will drive us to greater It was wise and good that Mr strength with more speed than

we had planned. Attlee went to Washington. No doubt he would have made these points clear. And in do- ing so he has the unlied support

tical wisdom, for we are an experienced old, wise, and Nor is it wise to let the people in international rela- crisis inflame the war tam. tionships.

of his countrymen. perature. At all moments of

We should apply such gravity as this the in-

But both points, vital, as they clination is to regard war wisdom now to the prescr- are at this moment, are war policies. What we need is a as inevitable and the pro- vation of peace. Peace is positive preservation of peace

an the prayer of all mankind, policy.

including the common Here surely is the opportunity

Russia and the for Britain to grasp the leader people of But war is never

in- peasant millions of China. ahip of the rocking world. evitable. It is made by the No price is too high to pay mistakes of men. It can be for peace - except only avolded by the wisdom of slavery. men.

servation of peace as airy dream.

Our opportunity lies in obvious fact that the animosities of Russia and China are directed States more upon the United that upon us.

the

do 1

ralse we can

ATS

NGON

GOING

by EPHRAIM hardcastLE

W

LONDON. where he is now a partner and THEN the President auctioneer.

Three times a fortnight of France and the rostrum ho faces the most Madame Auriol experienced dealers and buyers. An alarming experience? took King Frederick and

alarin- selves to

Now if we in Britain set our Queen Ingrid of Denmark To begin with, most

"Mr Butterwick fold ing,"

ine, our strength to the highest de to the Paris Opera on "but I think I was less ner- gree of all nations of the world. lookers noticed that the vous than many beginners. good How? By the creation of King had an electric torch After all, I had spent a

deal of my life behind a desk armed and unified British Em-sticking out of his pocket, dealing with fractious school.. pire, one quarter of the world the President a handsome boys." in size, and so spread across the ivory elephant hanging at

an

globe that It could be the most gressor and the greatest single powerful deterrent to any ag-his hip force for peace in all the world. Why not pledge ourselves to that task?

imes

of

Impressionist

And yet:-

She was called to the Bar

last January;

She hor worked for h

рарег. She has written a pamph- let on Industry-foreword by Mr Harold Whison;

King Frederickt, who some- LAPY DAYSON, 27-year-old-

conducts the Copen- barrister, artist, mother, and bagen Symphony Orchestra, housewife, preparing for ber used the torch to illuminate recond one-woman art exhibl- which tion, has no look of the tradi- the full operatic score, he balanced on his knee. tional career girl. SPREAD IT

The elephant was part the insignia of the Order of How can we apply our

Given the security that comes the Elephant, Denmark's Therefore it should be wisdom to the shaping of We already have a closer link from strength, what is the next highest honour, presented to

monthly economic positive policy for M. Auriol when the King ar- the fixed and unalterable peace? First we should re- with Peking than the U.S. has, stage in

sprend of truth, rived in France. policy of Britain to make verse the decision that sent

tolerance, and The blue silk sash, the peace instead of threaten our troops too far across

diamond badge and ivery ing war.

the 38th Parallel,

model gre sald to be By the spread of truth we Such

was obvious at the It a policy does not

We must keep these links can explode the falsities of the worth £2,000. Bald M. Auriol:

She "It is the most beautiful de- from snapping and forge others Communist peace campaign mean any lessening of time that movement was

as rapidly as we can.

almed only

nt weakening the coration I have ever knoton," the military and political made that we should be

capacities of free men to de- ties that bind us so closely cautious lest by coming too dither and delay over the open-

There has been too much rend their freedom. to the United States. close to China's frontier we ing of talks between the leaders

excited her into violent re- of Russia and the leaders of the

Western Fowers. action.

the the

PARTNERS

Time has swiftly proved For it is upon those ties

that that the

unwisdom of preservation of the freedoms of men and move. We should now presa future of civilisation strongly for the establish- depend. Nothing muat im- ment of a line on which we pair them. Never

must might soothe China's fears, they be broken.

ATOM TALK

it is also evident that India is peace? The a link of vital value_with_the_knowledge, Chinese delegation at Lake Sue- plenty.

CCSS.

IN EUROPE Some day such talks must be initiated. The peace of the world depends upon them. They will even prove difficult, they may

But they prove futile at first. am urgently necessary,

WC never

3125TM

three-year-old another chil

She does her own house-- work and cooking; has Q daughter, and

on the way. Of the 50 pletures_prepared

painted this year.

Housewives may sympathise with her impressionist

'My dear Winston' for her new show, 34

wor statcaman

a

Pieck's peak

were

scenes

The

the

the Нет

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By the spread of knowledge

ON Mr Winston Churchill's was published, across every iron curtained 70th birthday frontier with all the devices of in his war memoirs, a letter propaganda open to us, we written to him by The King of domestle wishful thinking--

new hat rising from could in a generation or much on February 22, 1943. less destroy ignorance,

It is unusual for a letter flames of a burned dinner, a signed by the King to be made kitchen table where the bread pielon, and fear of us.

public. Permission is given has turned to sable muft, By preaching and actively only "In very exceptional cir- rice to pearls.

could cumstances. practising tolerance, we bring all iron-curtained peoples Mr Churchill bas been and their fear-ridden leaders to granted the honour of publish-

THE PRESIDENT of understand that wc balleve

four such lolters. The lost East German Republic, ing

Wilhelm Pleck, end warmest

has beca Only in talks can we build a there is room in the world for shows, in the

of met bridge. In sullen, angry isolation two widely differing ways

the faithful servant of his Kremlin most intimate way, how But alliance means part-

dark days of the

drew masters. So let it be life to carry on side by side, can.

And by raising the standards mona nership.

British polley to press for such

monarch and And partnership

We should press also with all talks with urgency.

of Life of al

peoples of allona involves that policy is

creeds and

gether. force and ardour for the cessa-

colours, we would, The first two, written shaped and settled by joint tion of

The decision of world war or in bringing plenty, do more to May 18, 1837, and loose and threatening

April 12, discussion, and action talk about the atom bomb. world peace will not be made establish that contentment by 1940, were addressed to "My appropriately, "Kora Shelton, in Korea. For it does not rest which alone Communism can dear Mr Churchill"; the third, which means "Black Satan." similarly agreed upon be-

the with

Lord Supreme

of be checked and defeated than fore it is taken.

China, but with Russin.

by all the wars we could ever dated January 2, 1941, to It is in Europe that the major neht

"My dear Prime Minister Dght,

But the letter published In It may be that we cannot

issue will be settled eventually,

And so far, fortunately, Rus- tremendous efforts to achieve the other day began "My make the same contribu-

sla, nervous and fearful of us victory. Is it not wise to make dear Winston." tion to the partnership in The decision whether to use it as she is, shows no positive sign an equally tremendous effort industrial strength and or not obviously cannot be left of putting her fate to the final for peace? manpower as the United to any one individual or nation test.

It must be the freely and What more therefore can we States. But we can make a

solemnly agreed decision of the do to avert the criminal folly of that matches the glory of peaces ring his private war great contribution in poli- partnership.

It is profound comfort to us to have it among our weapons, But it is not a weapon to be used without deep thought if indeed at all

PARIS

room,

LITTLE

darting brain

The Eighth Exhibition of Chinese Products wilde slid away into the

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For what glory can war offer

-(London Express Service)

-A Column of Capital News... by R. M. MacCOLL

PILGRIMAGE TO

A BEDROOM

in he

The

to-

on

The

As reward, a mountain in the Central Asian Pamir range has been named after him.

redesignated peak is.

Goat racing

I HAVE received a Christ- mas card from Government House, Trinidad. Embossed with a crown, it is evidently the official Government Heavenly host:

card. and I predict that It WHEN Captain Paul Remo arouse much interest. For it will (Turco) Westerling was run- shows a photograph of "the

against start of a goat race," the Indonesians

described him as a man who shoots first, find out more of this

I rang the Colonial Office to -strange answers questions rarely.

Now Westerling, financed by West Indian, Mr. Mills,

sport. They referred me to a who

Q

rich industrialist, is

night club in the arca of Brussels, one of most expensive places

the

in

said he had never heard of it, but suggested I should speak to a woman who lived in Trinidad. She had never heart?

Europe to take a meal, as of it, either

know to my cost.

There is a French expression

I have failed to find anyone who has heard of gant racing,

for meals at fancy prices. It is much less seen it. "manger au point de fusit" - or "eating at the point of gum,"

It sounds right up Captain Westerling's street.

an

In

I suggested in this colum that Sir Hubert Rance, the new Governor, would

bring fresh idees to Trinidad.

Can goat racing be one of them?

The tenant

I

Mr Butterwick PARIS. is still the garden seat where

SIXTY-YEAR-OLD M· Cyril Butterwick began teaching nt group of he sat reading, and above it,

I CANNOT escape from, the the ash tree leaning to one side.

Sugar Eton in 1914. By the time he subject of Nottingham Cottage. men and women peered wilde described it as "the tree bassy men in Paris are given to dramatic Aght between

was widely the "grace and favour" house respectfully into

understand that they must not Ray Robinson and the luckless left, in 1945, he a that is searching for expression."

look for a home in the suburbs. Jean Stock. The night had just known.

outstanding at Kensington Palaco. the first-floor bedroom at

second schoolmaster. Above all, he

that One of the visitors for this They must find a flat inside the been stopped

reported rents: modest Hotel d'Alsace, on anniversary commemoration was city limits, where

wherever "C ore round as the towel came in. will be remembered

former governess of Stock Jay writhing on the cricket is played; for many a the Princesses, wap vacating it, Paris's Left Bank. In that Mra Marjorie Ross, widow of a ruinous.

Lord's Then that Major Edward Ford, Ross, on nephew of Robert Ross,

canvas, the referee was raising hat later to excel at at 1.16 p.m.

Reason is twofold: First, that Sugar's arm. Twenty.

Mr the King's people has been straightened by

Assistant Private November 30, 1900, the who died in 1018, expressed a if you live in the suburbs, it may had invaded the ring to con- Butterwick's instruction.

Secretary, would move in with desire in his will for his aches well prove embarrassing. to

Early in life he became gratulate or commiserata.

his wife and family, of Oscar to be placed in Wilde's tomb.

French guests who do not

terested in old silver, china, crowd was in uproar.

Not so. The next tenant will and books.

he Brigadier Ivan de la Bere, So Mrs Ross, a twinkling possess a car if you invite them eyed, grey-haired woman, to dinner. Second, if you live My friend leaned across to

And so it was no new love secretary to the Central Chan her from too far out, you are apt to lose me and said, solemnly: "I don't he embraced when he went cery of the Orders of Knight- brought them with

ani England

mado lonely your enthusiasm for embassy ɓce how Stock

avold a from the classrooms of Eton to hood. can Pero

the salesrooms to

Lachaise evening "do's" which pligrimage

you are knock-out in the next round,” · Cemetery.

a house-famished world At first, the key to the tomb, room.

which the Ross family has held Paris must be one of the worst for decades, refused to turn in spots of all. Because of com- the lock. A cemetery attendant plicated rent laws there has been picked up an empty iron flower little new building here since vase from a neighbouring grave the first war. Key money and and gave the key a whack The premium rackets reach strato- tomb opened and the ashes were spheric level. placed inside.

mists of death.

We were shown his candle- stick, now used to illumine the visitors' book, a great black marble clock, topped by a golden Bon, which stood in his

We were reminded the group included such famous French- men as actor Sacha Guitry and writer Andre Maurois of Wilde's final wisecrack. Rous ing himself from torpor he spotted two doctors at his bed sidc. "Ah," he murmured, "I am dying as I lived, above my mcans."

Earlier he had written to his steadfast friend Robert Ross that he was doing his best to economisc, "for this hotel has not even got draina"

Nowadays there is running water in the bedrooms, as well as the attractive black marble hallway and high rotunda that Wilde knew.

Then, with Gallie gallantry, the cemetery authorities waived the £7 fee which is normally naked for opening a tomb.

PARIS-Homes

supposed to attend.

In

PARIS-Favourite

OWN in the brandy country they smile broadly at the mention of Britain. Sorrowful frowns and shrugs great a re- ference to Russia.

cance.

* Latest example was when a

This has no political signifi- friend of mine was asked to give £450 as a

It merely represents - a "special

payment" for

mot-too- business trend, Britain, accord- a modest flat in a attractive neighbourhood.

The ing to statistics just released, Inndlord, when asked what for early heads the nations of the Last replied straight-faced that hin world in brandy-buying. wife expected to suffer severe year she took 404,003 gallons. headaches as a result of giving What of Russia? Just ope up the flat.

and a half gallons for the entire 1949-50 season.

TN some ways I have often envied the British diplomate". “perks." That duty-free liquor for example very useful for entertaining.

PARIS. Greenhora

Sald a spokesman for the cagne trade, his lip curling

I AWARD this week's price "It seems our Muscovite friends

But it seems that the path of for the lease-expert remark still prefer their vodica."" Outside, in the courtyard on the 1930 diolomat is not entirely to a man who, knowing nothing which his window gives, there' unag-free, The British Em-, of boxing, decided to attend the

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