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PEACE PETITION Acion-Pral Apocal

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1950.

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Peace

WAIT A. BIT, OEAR, WE'RE BUSY WINNING THE WAR"

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MARQUIS CHILDS cables on the ATTLEE-TRUMAN talks

WHY SOME Americans don't understand us

interna-

MARQUIS CHILDS

is an American historian ard

columnist with an

tional reputation.

His writings appear daily in newspapeTS астоях the

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United States.

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EVER before has it been so vitally im- portant for the Americans and British to stund together. Most Americans understand that. It is why they have followed with such intense interest the Truman-Attlee talks in Washington.

The man in the street here in America has unfortu- nately not been told enough

Here ts Mr. Attice with General George Marshall, Defence Secretary of the United States, at a Washington luncheon. Here also, for the memory. is a cigar.....

Another contribu-

JOE FRIDAY

HAS SPOKEN

By MacKenzie Porter

ROM Wakimoko

and "When I was about

#

twelve

There

I went back there Chiniguchi, from years old

again. Little pines were grow- Donnenaga, Mesomi- ing over the area, so thick that kenda and other places a dog could not pass between

fall like them, Then, in whose names

another two haunting melody on the car years, I went bacit again in the winter-time. Snow-shoe rabbits the Red Indlang

have had moved in by the thousand journeyed on a special mis- to feed off the trees.

rabbits that they sion to the northern On were so many

snow down hard tarlo

packed the township of Toma- like automobile tyres do in the gami, which is located big cities. People thought the among the legendary lakes rabbits would kill all the trees. But if you go there today you and forests of Hiawatha's will find one of the finest forests youth.

in the north, with tall pines stretching to the sky.

There are no feathers in their raven hair, no tomahawks in

"The rabbits thinned out the their hands, but below their trees so that those which were tartan shirts and denim Jeans' left grew strong.

and they still wear moccasins

"So It is with the wolves and walk with

traditional the deer today. There are many the stealthy tread of their race. wolves this year because there

Hurons,

Crees, Algonquins, are many deer. There is a deer they come to turn the white behind every tree. There are

deer than I can ever more

man's

thoughts away for a

little while from the problems he white man looks at

of world politics and the con- fict in Korea. Theirs is a peace-

ful mission.

Wolf Packs

re-

the

the

wolves and says, 'Shorten hunting season." The Indian looks at the wolves and says, it. More wolves mean Lengthen more deer

Joe pulls his cigar and there' The wolf packs up here in this part of Canada are more is a murmur of approval from Joe Friday looks numerous today than ever be the Indians. fore in living memory, and they north towards the great solitude are bringing down so many deer which reaches unbroken for a that in his selfishness the white thousand miles to the shores of man has thought only of his Hudson's Bay. He sees an un- autumn sport. In the Ontario ending сапору of green pine, and larch, of silver birch

Provincial Paritament buildings maple, now turning to gold, i

in

Toronto, 500 miles to the ала south, the Department of Lands and of that exquisite weed, the and Forests is planning to limit sumach tree, which throws up deer hunting this year to two crimson cones weeks, to offset the loss from whole wolves.

rubies.

That is all very well for the holidaymaking hunter from the elty, who wishes for nothing more than a fine slag's head to hang over his mantelpiece. But

to dapple the vast Limberland with

Another Growl

"We must hunt on into De- cember," says Joe. "That is when the deer are fattest. It is to the Indians, who depend for then that the ice forms, and in their winter meat on the suc- the ice we can preserve our culent doe and buck, the de- meat through January, February cision would mean hunger. So and March, for we have no re- the young men left their squawa frigerators like the white man, and

and came papooses an

In Meat killed earlier than Decem- canoes (now made of aluminium ber we cannot keep." instead of birchbark) to hear the words of lean, wise-eyed Joe

and

Friday. chairman of

amalgamated Indian Ontario.

the tribes of

There is another growl of as- sent from the Indians.

real deterioration in British diplomatic sources had mides after deer each year dlans must live off the deer and

to

country.

But

"We ask the Government to a limit on deer killed during set December," Joe

Joe Friday goes on. Fifty-six-year-old Joe Friday "The Indians promise to take comes from Bear Island, 25 no more than their lawful bag. miles west of Tomagami, He There will be plenty of deer a battered trilby hat and for the white man's sport and wears MacArthur hero worshippers smokes cigars-habits he has the Indians' needs. The wolves paleface and the deer have been here from the that picked up tory reason for the have seized on reports

Canadians and Americans whom for thousands of years. The In- urged caution on the United he relations between

through the Red Cedar, Hang

The plan Nations' commander prior the two peoples has the start of his fateful

of Nature Lakes care of us all." offen-ing Store and Jumping Caribou must the wolves.

in his love for

of No- been the failure of sive.

Joe knows the laws the bush and in the forms of ture-none better and so he is our Government

speech which he used he has well-suited to give

ive counsel on They interpret this to mean leaders to meet for

from his on her eternal 'economics.' that British caution prevented changed little thun Ave

MacArthur from taking steps cestors.

Having heard him, the In- dians sign a petition. which is signalled over the white man's telegraph wires to

turreted in Toronto, Of the wolves and deer Joe granite building speaks to his red brethren thus: which is shaken day and night "When I was a little boy by the roar of the white man's there was an area of wind-fallen traffic.

"Tomorrow trees about three miles square.

n dapper little Insects had killed the trees and clerk who worries about they lay in a tumbled

who keeps stretching in all directions. A weight down by golfing on Sun- few years later there was a days, will hand the message to forest are, which swept through the Minister of Lands the windfalls. Then there was Forests, saying. only one black plain.

more

years.

times

which might have binsted the concentrations

of Communist Tumbled Mass

In these perilous Chinese

in Manchuria and ordinary North Korea. diplomatic channels

This, of course, is wide are simply not sun-

the truth, since MacArthur cient to keep *

had n free hand to carry out working partnership alive in the minds a very broad general directive

from

the United Nations, of both the Ameri-

Nevertheless it contributes to cans and the Bri-

the feeling of the moment. tish.

Two Doubts

Now it is no use blinking at the fact that much remains

The hope of responsible to be done still to check deterioration. American leaders

is that the worst of the crisis hos now

They in passed.

look for В The communique issued American the Truman-Attlee

left calmer attitude on the part of issue unresolved. Americans If defensive posi- strong feeling one major

attitude fons That is the differing

едл be

in stabilised

The average

about what is actually hap- also has a

talks

pening in Korea and in the that other United Nations of the two countries on Com- Korea. rest of Asin. Therefore he is worried and somewhat should be doing more bewildered.

to munist China.

Then they hope it will be prosecute the war in Korea.

Britain has recognised the possible to effeci further re- in Peking and conciliation of British and This may seem

unreason- Government

China

to American points of view

He has seen the ominous able to nations that have wants Communist

replace Nationalist China in China.

word "Dunkirk** In

over-

But it is nevertheless an important factor in opinion

has

1. “APPEASEMENT";

on

mass bombs, and

UGANDA

A

"Joo Friday has spoken.

atom

his

and

"

TAKES

BOLD LEAD

By A. C. DUFFIELD

O Uganda today goes a pair of shorts and shirt, and a

credit and the blanket or two for bedding,

Tthe

to

to them.

hos done masses to of living in

The rising cost of living has impelled both European and

the difficult commitments such the United Nations.

The reaction on the whole headlines. This was the r as the British in Malaya and This is hard for the average to Mr Attlee's visit seems sult of irresponsible politi- the French in Indo-China.

He me to have been good, American to understand.

He honour of being the first Thus it will be seen that the cians and a section of the

Ulic Increasingly bitter made a favourable impression country in the British Com- Uganda Government Press that has

troops with his Press club speech in monwealth to show courage something for the feeling that American

doubts and imagination in tackling those things of vital importance

reduce their cost have taken a bad licking. That which he refuted two sensationalised the news out

administered systematically fanned in the leking has been

the cost-of-living problem. of Kores,

by the fanatical Communist anli-British Press: at the present, when more Chinese.

The Uganda Government than 80 percent of the

AT- has announced that they Aslan civil servants to demand United Nations Force is made up of American Above all, the fear of soldiers and marines.

has average Americans been that the American forces in Korea would be destroyed by the munist Chinese offensive.

Deep Roots

In spite of all these cross- Com currents of fear and susp!

To Get Even

use of the

1

2. THE

BRITISH TITUDE TOWARD Mac-have- ARTHUR.

4

ir

from the Government the In- troduction of cost of

Ilving Abolished 'Customs duty allowances, but, if granted, com- So the American wents to

wants got oven. He

to hit! But there is no doubt of the or petrol, kerosene, and mercial and industrial TA-

go in back. This partly explains the long way to

bringing

ployees would demand increased many articles of clothing; to the the average telegrams

American to a deluge of

The wages.

inevitable' result the better understanding White House calling for

ot the

would be a further rizo position of Britain atomic bomb.

prices. alon, I believe that most

Angry and recentful Amer Americans appreciate the 'cans will find it hard Because of this fear the danger of America standing understand why Beritaln kloes average citizen has been alone and realise the im not want to go along at least deeply concerned about the portance of keeping Britain with a Bmited war of reprizal. role Britain would take. as an ally. This is the reason why the traditional anti-British feel.

ing in this, country has been accentuated in the present crisis.

The Handicap

against Communist China.

and

the

vital importance of unity tween the two countries.

bc-

to

tea.

Road Ahead

Halved the duty on blankets and khaki drill; and

to Abolished the Excise duty on tackle the cost of

The Government docided

living by bringing down prices of essential Imports. This will mean 'n This means quite a lot to

saving to transport operations When General Eisenhower is Uganda's 5,300,000 population, and Industries of £250,000 a appointed Supreme Command-The retail prico of petrol, is

year. Indirectly it will beneft 'at the North Atlantic thus reduced by dd. a gallon, others by reduced transport

kerosene by 3d. and tea by 2d, a'

con-

This is emotionallim which er i likely to grow if the with Forces, it will be a big drawal from Korea becomes tribution to American

appre-pound. mevitable. To the average clation

Western Europe,

of

Pericans are trying to atone soldier and

It may appear that the since Elsenhower

- Americans,

The

in both a diplomat who

upon America big the vital nature of his role as

The

charges.

All races will be helped by the Uganda, ko the rest of the reduced cost of tea, clothing and world, fine been suffering from blankets, but Africans will reap continually rising prices.

profit by the lowered 100 most people have had to face an in- prices. crease of more than 20 percent since 1940 in the general price

havo remained

Local retailers, mostly Asians, have been making exorbitant profita` on "consumer goods, do The Government will faruo llets of what are considered fáir prices

My own view is that for losa in a small war by will impress That anti-British feeling leadership here has failed to becoming involved in a

head of the Western Forces. sufficiently clear war, which is the way it up- of give a deep roots. Parts

many calm-minded In this hour of uncertainty of imported goods, while salaries its origin is in the racial picture of the variety of pears to

wagos no doubt Mr Attlee's vint has and backgrounds of the Ameri- free nations throughout -

commitments shared by the

La that hope

emo- contributed much. But unchanged.

it can people with the Irish-

tlonalian can be restrained, would be a deccption to deny Asia and Europe... Americana, dominant in

so that American action taken that the road ahead wil bo. Comparatively few Africans for all housewives requiro- many metropolitan areas.

against the Communist Chinese difficult for the Allles, are regularly employed na wage monts.

Dome Americana This has been the handi- can be not merely limited but with

dosarierA, Tite great majority liberately trying to

confuss arq, small farmers or cattle The Hearst and Mc- cap in presenting the indirect,

Man the average citizen and make owners Cormick Patterson Press Trainan-Attlee, talks in their Another factor entering here him believe that. Ametia can have exploited this feeling. proper setting of two is the hero-worship of General go to it alone without regard It also coincides with the partners sitting down to Macarthur," which 1:14, partiou to the hope, and rearsti m

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