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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1951.

The Ding of Dong brings on the dancing girls

DAILY EXPRESS

"An insult to the

national dignity of Dong!"

THE DING OF DONG

MAS NIGHT OUT..

DINGDOM OF DONG

ALL DAILY EXPRESS S WILL BE SHOT

ON SIGHT.

A DEMOCRAT IN POLITICS

BUT A DICTATOR AT HOME

W

London, Dee. 5. DEN Dr Konrad Adenauer, Chun- cellor of the West German Republic, arrives in London he will become the first head of a German State to visit Britain since pre-1914.

British statesmen meet ing the helmsman of Ger- many's potential Fourth Reich would du well to re. member

story which Adenauer tells of himself.

શ

he was DEUS

A mon-Sunder asked why, al cabinet meetings, be keeps a plentiful supply of cigars on the tacle and a launber CHEAT of table lighters handy lovers and that means most Germans," he explumed.

"see the full box, ami with constant pulf-

By KENNETH AMES

s Most i with British Occupation authorities. however, owy arrest bark 1918 when, as Lord Mayer at Cologne, he re- fused to enforce a degree of the local British Army Generul that Germans should leave the side walkk when meeting traps in the street

The new Chancellor

to

From R. M. MacColl

Gaol-break

man stays at home

NEW YORK. DRAMA to rival that

A excellent film "I was a Fugitive from В Chain Gang" has just been played in real life.

In the film, Paul Muni starred as the man hunted by the authorities of the State of Georgia,

And in the real-life drama the main character ja д Negro who was picked up drunk six weeks ago by the police in Albany, New York State, and said his name was Willie Thomas.

Routine finger-printing re- vealed he was really Wesley Mallory, who escaped from an Alabama prison camp in 1945, after serving 13 years of a 100- year sentence for the theft of 70 dollars.

"

At first Governor Tom Dewey keeper, conâdante and hostess at

de- diplomatic receptions is his 27- agreed to the extradition

But B year-old daughter Lotte. Lotte handed by Alabama

became briend recently firm of lawyers confided "Father may be an out and out terested in the case. democrat in polities,, but he is a They told Dewey that Mal- of a few general living statistics to prove little dictator at home, demand- lory was only 14 at the time ing meals al short notice and of the alleged theft, and that days then explained his policy his point.

he re- for the past five years he has of incentive and removing con-

And, what is more, he is still cakes baked exactly as

and boen a decent

respected Bruks wherever possible. We that rare specimen, an anti- quires them."

citizen of Albany, where he shall concentrate above all on militaristic German statesman.

recent unwilling But Adenauer, the first Ger- married and now has three chil- rebuilding our shaltered homes Despite his

head of state to

visit dren

Dewey had signed the ex- and cities as a spur to economic flirting with some former High man

since the Kaiser. "And Command officers, he never has England British recovery. he explained.

tradition warrant, but he wrote has a an old man, Britain must play the role in been a soldier and still retains although

Ambama to the Governor of Even todas Duis tall. gaunt Europe which her great a healthy aloofness to military steadying influence on this vital saying he had changed his mind.

period of German transition by are generally recognised as historical tradition demands.

And now Wille will spend a solitary gerteman

the

Since that day he has con-

bringing bear-garden of German politics

with him many old-happy Christmas with his formily

-in Albany. fashioned Catholic Rhineland anti-British sistently pursued a policy of free retions a strang

Having

traveljed enterprise and incentive, winning pinyadice, vers Pitie outside Germany, he firmly believes the British des- pise all Germans, and Adenauer is a proud man

and aimos ne

Over

matters.

COMMON SENSE

When it comes to conducting a ideus and 19th Century solid in his way of thinking policy, Adenauer is a man of Middle class German thinking.

ag they not only foul the air but merilubis English, he has Ruhr industrialists and bankers, politician," basing his judgments coming years. But

befuddle the brains That as The reason & maintain complete cordrol over my cabinet

The German Chancellor's friends refer to him foverably as "wity," brilliant strateg.st." To his political enemies expressions like "cunning." "erafty' "the old fox" fall trippingly from the Longue.

But to the majority of the Bonn Government members and M. P's. the tall poker-faced man with high. aimust orientat cheekbones, and narrow evey and permanent sardonic smile, is just The Old Man."

Government members meeting

him in London

12

to

1952

Diaries

10

DR ADENAUER

2

THE WASHINGTON POST today said the British Govern- footer enemies and action rather than of theories.

ment should be given some con- many sceptics. In achirving this he He has a hearty dislike of all

He it is who may play one of

trol over the use of American in most decisive roles

air bases in Britain. The paper has had to Lake aboard many political theories and has often the

affairs during the added that Mr Church would Since he sp, ales fault'ess French dubious allies--the biggest of the been referred to as "the farmer European

somebody

this oper probably

question President Truman in on instinct and a down-to-earth has got to do some fast talking with common sense.

to persuade him that the British January

good they At home. the twice-widowed at home are not so bad

Said the Post: "As a

the Chancellor is said to pursue a have painted themselves in two politician with his car to re-housing and different line of action. House- oucupations.

ground, Mr Churchill senses the public fear that some firebrand American Air Force general

atom might order the

bomb British-based dropped by bombers, and thus expose Bri- tain to swift and terrible re- tallation

been regarded with the semi-radical tight wing par sme suspicion by the occupa ties, representing big farmers pawers of two postwar eras. and landowners. But he still His Francophile tendencies have believes his policy to be justified also meant that he has frequent-

- pointing to ty opposed the popular trend of pinion in his country since the Erst World War.

TACTICIAN

But whether seemingly anti- British or overwhelmingly pro- Wettern Kourad Adenauer, the 75-year-old Getman leader, be- lieves

in "Ger- uumistakably in many for the Germans

When Arst electe as head of state just two years ago, he said "Sometimes i wish the world would adopt more the attitude of a family wel- coming back home an errant child. instead of beating it when Il gets up in the morning and

again when it

bed goes with

further thrashing during

to

a

measure --

py one.'

U. N. DELEGATES WILL BE TEMPTED INTO THE

GREATEST JUNKET SINCE

THE SACK OF ROME

By David Temple

text.

Roberts

"It does not quiet these feam to state the fact that only the President of the United States deliver can give the order to

an that the atom bomb, and alliance by its very nature im- plies joint responsibility.

The Post sald Britain should know the nature of the stand- by crders governing the drop- ping of atom bombs, and should have a say in redrafting those order if revisien wis required. A NEW TAX SCANDAL with serious political implica- lives tions for the Truman Govern- American by coveys or in dignity at the Bristol Hotel, ment has

hit 15 good cities. Eighteen tax investiga- This, of course, his British name and a sultable tors, deputy collectors, and re-

overflow from

V the George

agents verue

sacked. Hotel

Twelve more were asked to re- sign

"miscon

iy

19 â

were

AL are accused of

PARIS, Dec. 5. famous-addressed himself to Dutch or Chinese? And what into English language would you address to HE great feature of the translators

French and Spanish the "work- Mademoiselle Lyubya Schlum. this United Nationa ing press" could not and seats. berzer? meeting is what I can The resulting frou-fra and The British delegation

the "runway." hubbub made only call the day for good This slightly aeronautical ejected countesses did not dis-

an metaphor is the one that concert the Russian from effort should be comes to mind for the made to

In other Committees a kind make 100-yard-long, wide foyer ils return'a hap- that gives access

to the of international nightmare

Paris is looking forward to a enacted dully. I have slipped fine Christmas. The United duct" ranging from corruption principal conference rooms

out of one Committee in the

Nations is taking a short resto theft. his re in the temporary building middle of a speech by a Cubau from its talkative and expen- Total sackings, resignations, public the French have run up to

on the question of threats to sive labours. It will crown a end suspensions in the tax de pronounce-

house this multilingual ments have been

peace in the Balkans, and step- profitable 2000th year for this partment top 60 in six months, City, The conscientious dele- For the Government, gravity more or less an Assembly.

ped into the next Committee gates who do not find many of the scandal is the weight it echo of this

to hear an Australian giving opportunities to spend their adds to Republican cries of cor- "spare the rod"

Italian large

be ruption and inefficiency in the allowances will Every tempted into what one French- Administration. And this with for man described as "the greatest the campaign shaping up international junket since the next year's Presidential sack of Rome."

And cent

All across the wide coco. refrain. For nut matting groups of states delegates and Press discuss, the best make interventions, lobby one another, interview and

Adenauer is a shrewd man, tactician on

the

FCENE, convinced

who

the

hir. views

tho on trusteeship of Tripoli. body talks on everything,

Delegates who are intending

German political

ca gossip. The "delegation to speak later hurry out to col-

wives" wait disconsolately only people who for political-minded can run Germany bands.

are the Germana.

For two years

now he has car-

ried on a running

The whole of оле side

hus-

of

lect а baeh of duplicated

their typescripts of

coming! speech, and distribute them to their press friends. And, if in doubt, call a press conference!

own

The principal delegations give summaries of their versions of what has been bap- pening. The British meet in famous-- the morning. The French in

the the evening. Americans

fight with thethe runway is a vast window would also do Allied High Commission authori- with оте of the

unfortunate ties, in a struggle to speed up

to

hove

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tion.

Seeing Jerusalem At Christmas

(OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT)

they

ana

elec-"

to Irak and

well to recall the

LONDON. earned for their present uction of a certain

impetuous the return of power to German though not the finest of British

TWO young Canadian students adventure. Military Government hands. In this running fight he man-made vistas of Paris. Be private and public sessions.

of political science, Warren After lecturing during every offeer back in 1945 which did has not been slow to criticise tween the Pulais de Chaillot

Occasionally the Chinese Wilkins, 23, and his 21-year-old holiday in the past year they little very

improve

fountains Nationalist delegation the the where he thought criticism due, and the Seine

gathers brother Douglas from Toronto, bought a Land Rover, tools, and Chancellor's attitude towards nor attack where he thought

play, and across the river the press to issue a denuncia have transferred their studies 5,000ft, of Alm. Britain.

attack on the Occupation powers stands the Eiffel Tower,

of and tion usually the brilliant from university to real life by From

Paris

they intend to Adenauer, Lord Mayor of was warranted.

through

Switzerland, beyond it the long vista of the Sardar Panniker (Nehru's Am going round the world in a drive Cologne since the first World

Austria, Yugoslavia, Greece and British car.. It was not without relief that] Avenues of the Champ de bassador to Peking, who is War, except for an interval of

Paris as India's chief delegate),

Turkey, then via Aleppo and Adenauer receivea Mars, which literally translated The latter is listed, by some had been Chancellor years after he

They arrived in London Damascus to Jerusalem in time sacked by Hitler, was reinstated the request from London

means the Field of the God as an unofficial exponent of recently after working their for Christinas. his post immediately the postpone his visit until after the

of War, where Franco's Peking's views. Cologne, General Election. For, said one

passage to Sweden in a cargo

"After spending Christmas In Americans entered

atcamer and driving through

Jerusalem, we'll decide on our Then for

inexplicable of his personal secretaries, "the armies used to parade.

Denmark, Germany some reasons, a local Military Govern- Federal Chancellor is anxious to

The "runway" l the centra

Belglum. Soon they are going next move," said Douging.

"We would like to see Egypt, ved discuss matters of cominon In- ment officer had him removed

will Much has been written of to France, from

where

but if the international situations from this important post some terest

with the incoming of the temporary building built

Singapore. makes that impossible for us months later-"for failing to ministers and not with those of boards on steel scaffolding, the extravagance of this meet-drive directly to

whose secretarics, slightly makeshift Ing. The

Warren and Douglas, who hope we'll go straight its And and about to leave their posts." display sufficient energy

£2-10-0 a day allowaneo has to enter the Canadian diplomatic initiative."

springiness under foot-like

Persia. scaffolding adds been under fire, claim that they service at the end of their studies,

Then He han a firm and inherent bullder'e

we'll drive WIDER FIELD dislike of Socialism and a dis- something to the fantasy of un- are out of pocket. Paris is exare veteran travellers.

Pakistani, across the Rhybar Rumour has it the sucking had trust of all Socialista. While reality that is the United Na- pensive for strangers. A good

During the past three sum- Pass to Afghanistan and meal costs £1 something to do with requisi- supporting in theory the idea of tions.

mers they have worked their way through India, Burma, Sium; and tioning of houses and furniture a reunited Germany, he never-

But charming United to Europe and hitch-hiked in all Malaya to Singapore. From there Six Committees are in for British Control Commission theless is unlikely to press too

taking we shall work, our passage in officials.

colour Dimas. Anyway, Adenauer, hard the ion. The first is the arena of Nations service to SEE FULL RANGE who had done for Cologne, what bord for it nowing that be the Big Shota holding forth on nearch of beauty. Is the addi

summer we were Darwen the Chamberlain family did for predominantly Socialist

in a disarmament. Vyshinsky is the tion of the secretaries' names "Last

offices arrested four times for taking By then, they expect Birmingham, was, summarfly free election.

star attraction, and when he on the doors of the bained even from entering the

was billed to speak on a Satur Their expense-accounted bosses filma-three times in Yugoslavia money to have gone and they

In blue, The

typlate in and once in the Russian sector of hope to get jobs on the way

Berlinald Warrenton Again, two years ago, he said: morning half hi

The as they drive across Australa However, the incident became. "I know the lue of our compatt: fadley of "tout Paris", postponed rel

Afterwards they, mean to cross one of unforeseen importance, tion on the world market is not their wekly dispersal to the d

Nations frightening, but the Russian let to New Zealand, and work their And these United blandished and It

But I favour free countryside fook Adenauer from the welcomé,.

later to San Francisco or reain of Kical municipal politica competition, not only internally their charming way into the secretaries seem to have, or at us go after confiscating in nimi."

They expect to be Home by Into the wider field of national but externally. No country has pres routs, politics, with the powerful a monopoly in any article, and

By the time Vyihinsky Could you say whether miss and clubs, throughout next september and than thay. Catholle backed Christian healthy Competition“ protecta“ is ท Democratic Party,

from @conomio stagnation.” whose sleepless laughter is Jenthette van Hola, Fredoh, Chonda, zaving the money they will go back to university.

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