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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28, -1080,

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World Copyright. Bp arrangement with Daily Herald.

A PSYCHOLOGIST

discusses

the question

Cam the Jungle Bride' learn to

love her mother?

MAYO WINGATE Consulting Psychologist to the

Marriage Society

-N winning the custody of her 13- year-old daughter, Bertha Maria,

from the Malay foster-mother Che Aminah, Mrs Adeline Hertogh has doubtedly gained a just verdict in the

s of the law.

But in terms of human happiness, Mrs Hertogh's legal triumph prove Ale to be a psychological disaster? Bertha come to know real joy again?

he must have doubts.

Here we have a happy girl suddenly against her will uprooted from the where she was brought up.

She is taken from the arms of the ti she had come to regard as her legal band and from the woman she knew mother.

Can she be expected to find hap- Jess in a cold land on the other side of

under-

earth among strangers whose cus- As and language she cannot nd?

are

fer difficulties nendous. Mrs Hertogh 1. over she

win can tha's affections by wel- care. ing her back into the

BERTHA, with her former husband ADABI MANSOOR. Their marriage was annulled.

mother

Active or latent hostility ing her mother "Adeline" towards her

who should not be broken. snatched her from Aminah's It is important that Mrs Hertogh should display grati- tude towards Che Aminah for her care of Bertha,

in

2. The serious conflicts ily and showering her which she is Ukely to find her-

a mother's love. But self in a more civilised

the light of paychologi. tern community.

experience I find it dif-

to share her

ace.

con-

nfluence lost

I

religious 3. Tho

.

1706-

and develop

Odds against

A PARTING BRAATHENS

WORD FOR MR BEVIN

By Sefton Delmer

THAW ог 110 thaw Any temporary inclination there there will be an icy has been on the part of the east wind blowing in to mubordinate European defence American military planning staff Brussels. It will howl to the war in Korea is now around the mahogany con- ended. ference table at which Bevin, Acheson, and the fished in American planning as Europe is once more estab- other North Atlantic a No. 1 priority theatre in the Treaty delegates will be ar- defence of the Western world, ranging for West Germany to rearm and join in defence of the West.

the

to

For Mr Truman this decision was as difficult to make on it will be for the French to agree to the rearming of Western Ge- many.

The Kremlin, in order frocze the conference into terri- fled inaction, has let loose a blizzard of diplomatic and political warfare. It has already been blowing hard In the news.

The' Chinese Communists al Lake Success turned down the "ecase fre" in Korea proposal and packed their bags to leave.

2

The Soviet sent Notes to Britain and France, waITI-

ing us that remament

of

Germany violates the Potsdam

The French fear that the move may: the Russians on an unprepared (1) provoke an attack by

Western Europe, (2) lead the Aliantle Powers into a German- provoked war for the recovery of Germany's lost eastern terri- tories, or (3) make a rearmed West Germany stronger than

France.

BACK...

For a new army

Accord and the Anglo-Sovict MR TRUMAN'S decision- Treaty; telling the French that taken with due provision for

it would constitute the latest of a series of systematic violations of the Franco-Soviet Pact. Moscow launches 3

a new pressure campaign against Finland, a move obviously un- comfortable to the Norwegians.

Red Army engineers arrive in Bulgaria to speed up the building of military roads on the borders of Tito's Yugoslavia. Everyone can draw his own con- clusions.

15 In

oil-rich

America's

Far Eastera Cum- learned in Washington, being put mitments-is, from what I

into effect Immediately.

It is even probable that the American troops now withdrawn from the N. E. Korean beach- head at Hamhung will not be re- committed in Korea. Instead, the United States to serve there they will be brought back to as the badly needed cadre around which the new army now being called up can be formed.

Persin-chief now the earliest date by which The end of April, I learned, is danger area in the Middle we may expect the first Ameri- East-imprisoned leaders of the can Atlantic Pact contingent to pro Soviet Tudch party are reach Germany. mysteriously spirited away from their Teheran gaol by à posso of soldiers, now believed to have been Communist agents in dis- gulse.

So the position today is that, Schuman and Bevin will not find Mr Acheson unsympathetic if they shiver a Hitle in the Krem- Un blizzard. No one could be complacent about the situation than the (political

Just the move that would be less made if the Kremlin wants to present sat up a rebel "People's Govern- Washington experts ment" in Persia against the pro- and military) whom I have just West Shah.

Despite the blizzard, I have one piece of warm comfort for Mr Bevin and his colleagues:

AMERICAN COLUMN:

NO ATTACK BY MARS-OFFICIAL

ITTLE

From Newell Rogers

left.

KK anything they take Z Bloomier view of the situation than I have found among the experts in London, The belli- cosity of Soviet propaganda for home consumption has reached an unprecedented high in the last three weeks.

FORWARD..

For new offensive

THE intelligence appreciation now is that the Kremlin, in in excess of triumphant con- Adence born of the Korean war, is now planning a new political offensivo to the conducted simultaneously with their Chinese allies,

put The Russians

NEW YORK. the border. To victims who men from Mars respond to get-rich-quick lures,

smooth-talking salesmen are not invading in trunk telephone calls. They risk war than they have been are readler to America. Britain is not sell stock in non-existent at any thine in the past, bombarding the U.S. with uranium mines for two, shillings

flying saucers. The U.S. a share.

The atom bomb is still the Navy has said so.

MARGARET

greatest deterrent. But it is not TRUMAN is the deterrent it was. And that put a stop to an on radio and TV.

negotiating u

For the contract to sing Soviets appear to be inclined to

And outbreak

the believe that the bomb--- of new flying- sharp letter written by her Baucer rumours in the father to a music critic who

(1) as a result mountains of New Mexico.

did not like her voice has not fears of retallation and Western of Western hurt her earning ability. It is humanitarianism mobilised by reported that her income der the contract, if signed, may

peace propaganda will either not be used or reach £71,000 a year.

In-

Deer-hunters thought they had a flying

saucer at last when they picked up an 18in.. metallic sphere, apparently of duralumin. In the sphere

TRAVEL AGENCIES

worry wag an object resembling a

lest the war scare ruins the plastic flower pot with nylon shreds, a

hopes of Sir Harokl Boulton, cheap alarm clock, and

New York three packages of the kind of used in atomic research,

alarm clock” trips I

wel-

*

Alm

the

(2) if it is used will not get through the newly constructed Soviet radar screen

AND NOW.. Remember, Mr Bevin

men, keepers, Artoria. New Year's to encourago a blizzard, please,

representative of I found considerable attention the British Travel Association; being paid to a recent article in to lure 200,000 Americans to Live Current Affairs And to prove that no ill feel-

journal Britain for the Festival. ing exists there should be # A theory that it was

published in Peking. from complete freedom of correspon-another world blow up when LONDON'S CIVIL DEFENCE "American superiority in steel, conflicts. dence.

they found this noto on the suffers from lack of funds and iron, coal, and petroleum," says of the Moslem faith in which She must be kept out of the film packages: "November 14, public apathy, reports New the article, "is only temporary. she has been brought up, and limelight, or she is likely to 1049; ford Limited, Lon York civil the Roman Catholicism of her feel herself a. freakish

defence officialAs soon as America starts a oddity don, England."

Joseph Katz Zarally.

after attending world war Western Europe will inferiority

Britain's Civil Defence Staff be liberated. The navy said it is probably College. But Katz was

Then the Soviet 4. The difficulties of form- complex.

one of the

im- steel production things they ·

will Ing relationships as a

ronch child in.

had pressed by the Staff RinBuence on the child may Holland after

College, almost parity with the tonnage been reading Into her experience

the strato- Americans should have one. sphere by a balloon to carry

produced in the U.S." have been lost for ever as a married woman in Mala

on cosmic ray research.

The sho banded her over to ya.

THE RIGHT of night-club- CAN think of nothing more Malayan nurse in 1942

switch here to collect New Year's Eve at 5. The language hurdle and

which exposed the perllous to Bertha's happiness age of four,

London hangovers the problem of adjusting her than the planned hearty

made film to the impact of the Dance bands threaten to strike endangered. formative period of a self to the widely different come to the Hertogh family rays.

and close all hotel ballrooms a development is its first customs and extucational stan- fold,

Added the 3 years of life.

and night clubs. I think dards of the Western world. When the novelty has worn nothing to do with littla

mavy: "It has 20'a babyhood memories

What this can mean to Im-ONE little word of advice to How can these entanglements off, Mrs Hertogh may

Mr Bevin for his conduct in find strangers from heaven, or

evident at the Brussels, real parents are a nega best be tackled? The essenting Bertha meeting with

hostility atom bomb. It is part of

If you don't want nfluence.

keynote must be

from her brothers and sisters. Dympathetic roughout her impression-understanding.

our Eve with dimmer will cost $20 please don't repeat in Brussela With natural childish selfish-

project Skyhook,"

each in the hotel's ballrooms. ycare-and since the has

that silly talk about the Chinese Mrs Hartogh should not

Tiesa, they may resent the ed the full forte of

THE AIR FORCE is calling. And every table is booked, special attention given to

not disliking us as tempt to dnughter's hostility too quick-

the out five Air break

much ag National her newcomer

Guard (Territoriala)

SEAPORTS on the coast

they dislike the Amarienna. Most стоира. would be wrong to force troups are fighter unita. There Alaska, a few miles across the Christianity on her, for

That may gladden your Left- Mos- are about 75 planes

to

Bering Straits 4

Soviet wing friends. It may please Mr Siberia, are blacked out. Newn Nehru. But it will please Com- of troop movements is forbid-rade Stalin even more. But her spiritual conversion, BIK HUNDRED QUESTS don. strong emotional feeling

when, It comes, might prove a were invited to the official her footer ACTION can only come substantial advance in her psy-opening of the

For him it will be valuable MRS AL JOLSON Pork as the barrier is chological readjustment.

bo evidence of disunion between the Avenue Theatre'e atom bomb- asured of on incomo broken down -- bo that nothing.

of at British and Americans, and of by How great are the chances

shelter, proof

Goft. below least £1,100 a month under the gullibility of warm kindncií. •

of this chEd finding happinesstreet level. If the sirens go the will of hor late salon of Che Aminah

singer Secretary. in the Western world? 1 esti-off, cinema pations can retire husband. Ply and powereivences must mother Image." bat be avoided to prevent Bertha mate tho odds

6 to 4 behind its in, walls to beds,

And, Mr Bovin, don't dolude rit Mrs Hortogh has developing a martyr, complex. nat.

furnished rooms, kitchens, and

SHOW BUSINESS; Every yourself that there is anything ourage to appreciate this. There should be no hint of

alx months it should be first aid stations-all air-condi- newspaper in New York

but the firmost, most sincere and the formidable task of domination or compulsion.

possible, to know.

tioned,

copt one, gives four-eter

voluntary ap entirely

alliance Berthin

If she can survive the perits -provo With full respect for the

proval to Britain's atom-bomb between Mao Too-tung's China girl's feelings Mrs Hertogh

DOLLAR HARVESTS of the first criticol yale montha

are picture 'Seven Duty to Hoon and Stalin's Rausais, They, have the siri now info would be advised to treat her ton could be accomplished in General suspects, by swindlers Boot melodrame of the gewringend the destruction of the I certimate that her rehabfita being gathered, the Attorney Says ons of the majority: gross common object, the book- want to the chiot, proba, daughter sanoqum, 2 Thé xxifronting hert dirty glet'w shpifcent habis of exam typ year,

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