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AERIAN A
DILEXAND
New Horizons in the East A slender green stalk turns potent weapon
AND SO MILLIONS ARE SPENT
By FRANK OWEN
SCHOOLBOY in a agreed, there are an awful gle British boarding school lot of Chinese
(usually
*"squatter" (especially Chinese) by bringing the squat- bottle- ments, giving them hut space, is enting rice pudding in the rice trade) then it ter families in proper
I might be even better in land, shops, schools, hospitals- reluctantly (at least,
and protection. never saw him eat it other- Burma, where they
with
could wise). A family in an Asin- also use the not very good.
cheap, goods tie hut is cating boiled rice but ravenously. Between these which the growing econo- two spectacles is a world mic engine of Soviet power of difference. The one chap is preparing could do without it. The Orient. uthers would die without it.
Rice is not the bread of Asin; it is the bread, meat, and potatoes of Asia to about a thousand million people.
Now all over Asia, from the Red Sea to the Yellow But Sea, they grow rice.
do they ΣΤΟΥ nowhere enough to feed all their hungry mouths-except in three lands-Burma, Siam, and Indo-China. These are truly named "the rice bowl Fortunately of the East." for the rest it is an over- flowing bowl.
Burma can spare for ex- port maybe 1,000,000 tons; Sium 1,500,000; Indo-China no more than 100,000 tons the (that i8, besides amount she sends to other French colonies).
A Elood
THESE figures are a sad
to flood the
Bayonets, too
denled Thus the bandit is allies (or victims) who pro- vided him with food, supplies, and information.
Men wanted
have been to these camps, and they are well laid out and well run. and also well alted for defence. I have seen COULD we go elsewhere, say the Army on duty in the Jun-
Egypt or the USA? No, glc.
I have talked with General Anglo- aside from current
the commander-in- Moc- Egyptin tensions, the Far East Harding, folk do not like Egyptian rice, chief, and Mr Malcolm which is treated with lime for Donald, export, and currency and price problems make trade United States difficult.
Generai.
tasks
Commissioner-
of a fair
the
These men understand their To cruth 10,000 well. How about using wheat in organised political bandits, stead? No. wheat may feed the settle 50,000 landless man belly ("adequate intake to provide security human of requisite calories), but it conditions does not fill and swell it, which another milion Malayan homes, lew hundred does, and For they ask for a
more trained and efficient is what rice East folk like.
slender, police, some better Army wen- this That is why
the hundred intelligent and honest swaying green stalk of padi is pons and wagons, and half a more potent weapon in
British administrators. Surely, truggle for haif a world than
we have these in the house. bayonets,
(London Express Service) the bombs and the though we need those, 100 and still more the will to use them if we are attacked.
So it is good to read
that in Britain here statesmen have realised
war to
out
some that
of the WEEK
conquer
JOIN THE ARMY-
IT'S A MAN'S LIFE!
For a special treat
to
familics, and the life ba
SALES
"I guarantee my pills, gentlemen, to make you very, very ill for your medicals.”
London Express Service
PAKISTAN'S 'POCKET DYNAMO'
GOES TO LONDON IN RED SATIN
30 servants-but
THERE is just 4 ft.
in. of the woman
10
of
you must have contented clu- zens
hefore you can get good ones:
The Colombo Commonwealth down a seven- report lays
Britain, retreat on pre-war, ariner plan between
Zea- when Burma exported Canada, Australia, New
land, and three million tons
India, Pakistan, and Cey- lon to sperd nearly £2,000 Indo-China a million. They million in the next six years still suffice to show why in South-East Asia in the real, assisted unending Uncle Joe Stalin,
this week, but, like by dutiful nephews Man poverty and hunger and to en-
many another pocket Tse-tung and Ho Chi-minh, sure food, shelter, health, and
education. is now pressing upon Indo-
True, splendid dynamo, she will probably China.
go down to the history of They all realise that if TT is expecially refreshing to
falls 80 Indo-China
will learn that they propose to her country as great. The name is the Begum Liaquat clearing All Khan, wife of Siam and, soon after that, begin at the right end-by en-
the Burma. Then Stalin will couraging farmers by
by more land, and draining
Premier of Pakistan, fifth. in possess the East, and the raising productivity both Australians and New Zea- rice and rubber, and by scien-largest state in the world. landers can also pack their fically developing and exploit- Ing the real wealth of this vast bags.
land-its solt and the hardi-
ta (turic), edged with sump- There is по
hood and hard work of its sons. even to do this by
With this true and splendid Luous hand embroideries fram- war, or even by open Plan For an Empire, the pure-ing glittering incets of mirror war. Let Communist rule y Malayan problem falls into glass the Begum sits, ball up-
Cer-right in her huge, easy perspective. its proper
in her hotel suite, smoking an be established in Indo- tainly, if we fail here, all else And
American cigarette and sip- China and Siam will quick in Asia fails--for ly find it convenient to ex- certainly, we must lend all alding iced orangeade. change 'her surplus rice, to build up the dam in Indo-
China against the
need open civil
. 15,
It
Communist not for Western consumer food. Above all, we must do goods and machines, but our own job in Malaya.
Good men are doing it. for their counterparts pro- duced behind the Iron Cur- was ine news to hear the ab- solute denial of the report that of director tain that is Czechoslova- General Briggs, kia. There are just enough and-bandit operations had
responsible samples on sale in Bangkok signed, for every
person has faith in him and in to indicate it.
his plan.
Regal in her flame red satin garara (divided sldrt) and kur-
she still does the flowers
by EVELYN IRONS
the multi- chair peeping between
the sandals coloured strap of she wears her plump perfect- ly manicured hands making an occasional gesture as she talics.
Her volce is soft, her Eng- His precise, and never have I heard a woman talk so fast.
HER SCARLET TOES
re-ACTS, ideas, comments, spil from her tiny, brightly reddened lips like a torrent.
She sits
If this is good business This is the scheme to tackle down in Siam where, both the bandit and the jun-scarlet
THERE'S MONEY
PTIMISTIC and
OP
By MICHAEL
This is not merely the wife of Pakistan's Premier, who ac- companies him on his travels to England, to the United States, to Canada. She is not merely the mother of his two
sons.
BEGUM LJAQUAT
ALI KHAN
"I would work 48 hours a day
# I could"
and the
Sho believes boys should be What with
one thing handy in the house, too. "My another the Begum has qwn two can aweep and dustbarest, minimum of leisure and bave been taught to look when she is at home. But she her after themselves," she adds.
spares time to do the flowers,
She is a personality in perfectly still, her lacquered toc-nails own right, a woman of learn
ing and influence.
IN EGGS
MANNING
stub Mrs Plastis explained,
to undertake "They first in Mandra born Grecks are try. are producing 140 to 150 eggs poultry rising on a commer- result, she hens now has one of the most pro- ing to reshape their lives a day, and we expect this total elal basis, and as
ductive flocks in the village. But other Mandra villagers do nearly as well.
to increase because the
She has never worn the vell. She was born 44 'years ago 1 Almorah, in the United Pro- vinces, na Irene Pant, daughter of Christian parents, and she went to an English school, the Wellesley Girls High School, in neighbouring Naini Tal.
'ADVANCED'
ü
In her house in Karachi she like any suburban housewife. has between 30 and 40 SCI- "And if there is a moment." vants ("I don't know
exactly.
che says, "I run ared play how many").
little tune on my HawaHan guitar or my plane-accordion. No jazz. Mozart or the old English composers are my favourites."
RIFLE GIRLS
N Pakistan,
13
the Begum comptroller (with the army rank of Brigadier) of the Women's National Guard, which the founded three years ago. It unites the functions of this country's WRAC... and WV8. The girls get the chance of them. learning to shoot with a rife,
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PRESENTATION
silverware
To mark in happy
all
permanence friendship, family
dedication and
freedom, the sporting occasions.
With all her Western ideas for women's Begum won't have Western fashions. Not
price. et any "Drab and dreary," she calls
IN India a quarter of a cen-
tury
it was Tather too.
She bro a happier reaction ago of "advanced" for a girl to play
to a dreary January day, and *But that” được thỏ Begum
she recommends it to our at- hockey and ride a bicycle, but craftily, to tempt them to
tention. Quite simply, it is to an join. It is not compulsory, like at 17 the Begura went to and
put on the brightest colours in American missionary
I don't college Arst-aid and nursing.
the kaleidoscope and *cheer uke women to ape men. They ourselves up. have their own women's jobs to do for their country,"
and adapt them to the con- are still young." ditions
ten created by
Mrs Plastis. bought pure-bred years of war. Typical are white Leghorn chicks from an
Probably the busiest poultry- Spring those in Mandra, a large Athens incubator last village only a few miles and raised the flock according man in Mandra, and one
a diet to a
the the most successful, is Evang prescribed by west of Athena.
Government experts. She buya los Nezls, whose poultry house
of efficiency prepared chicken is a model Fifteen Mandra families balanced,
Athens, in
containing cleanliness. A few weeks ago, are engaged in the large feed scale commercial produc- mixed portions of corn, barley, his 240 hens were producing
cg tion of eggs, while dozens wheat, protein in the form of at the high rate of 170
bone meal, calcium and cod a day while the average later
dropped seasonally to of others, noting the suc- liver oil.
about good 100, it still represents a cess of their neighbours, 'She estimated that, after de- profit margin. are also beginning to vendecting all costs, including a turo in the egg business fair daily wage for herself and with small backyard flocks. her older
The Ministry of Agricul- 12, the family's daily ture is paying particular average about 95 shilings. This interested by the Ministry ex- figure compares with the Greek perts last Spring in the pas- attention to the progress farm family's total dally in sibilities of egg production, but lege in Calcutta she took her first, of the Mandra experiment, come, both in cash and pro- he wanted to make sure. Ho diploma with a double
took his wife, Christina, to then went to Delhi to teach. which may prove a good duce, of about five shillings.
they eggs nearby Megara, where start to increase domestic
Before her marriage, Athens, where she spent several days studying production of food itamg daily to which are at present im- sells them to a wholesaler for the operation of a large com- became a Modem, her naihe
became Raahu. ported into Greece. Two the legal price of 13. a dozen, mercio poultry farm. governmont poultry
daughter, Athena, Profits
Mrs Phsytis sends her
Nezis, a
careful, many, Wis
production next year.
Ic
at Lucknow and did both. A brilliant student; she was the first woman to become an MA of Lucknow University, exin- ing first-class honour's economics and history.
After taking her
bo a almod to Treno Pant teacher. At the Diocesan Co-
degree,
Irene
and sociable, u
LI
The retail celling, price in Nezia was so thoroughly con- She Was always, although ex- Athene is about 7s. 6d., but vinced, that he sold his flock ports have, therefore, been choice eggs like Mandra's have of 120 posts to obtain capital she was gay
been selling as high as is, each, for the new business. Ho bit of a highbrow, and to this assigned to Mandra.
and egg producers are seeking now negotiating for a loan to day she is admittedly to have the legal limit raised, build another poultry house, domenticated, "I doubt if I
The total
pronts of Mrs and hopes to double his egg could bolt an egg," says sho. A good instance of the un- Plastis are not confined to £88
But in her plane for educa- pact of the demonstintiona
"If the loan is too hot to on sales alone. Roosters and non Mandra villagers is the family productive hems, culled fron get, I want to sell our cow toting the modern girl of Pakis. of Apsotamlos Phustks, whoon her flock bring more than 6s, finance it, but my wrio is op- tan she firmly puts
font. "Every wife wurd two "daughters 1. a lb. on the Athese mar posed to that--he le very at-, subjects ristongo: the flock on
and she can reallas como tached to the cow, and adeo wo must know how to cook, doan
another child on the way and
A04 adde
tine basis while he continue "regular farm work,
[
Now
-(London Express Service)
Rolled
IS THE TIME TO EAT TENDER, FARM-GROV
domestic NY
full-on by the sale of such by- have two mali dengtidern arid and banks after, her children," |
kwa daw bayo 360 hepe "AN
products as fertilisere.
Urged by Ministry experts, the milk is good for children," she
ops of the Nexia emptabɔood."
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