THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY
1952.
Marx As A Third Party To Divorce.
By Kenneth Pearson
London:
WAS shocked--nt first. Then, when
I had had
more time to think it over. awful It didn't
83 Keem
after all, though it looked pretty bad in print.
A jurige has rulett in Los An- wife geles that a husband or
has grounds for divorce if the expounds the ather partner
Communist ideology, In
words: If you
other
live in the
United States and discover your wife is a lied, you can leave her wire is
→legally,
That's all very well, you may say, if you are not a citizen of the United S.ates, but anything can happen in America.
Ten years ago, perhaps even ve, it was inconceivable that it
happen anywhere,
of
In China the principles Confurclus have been scattered
before the advancing Red tide.
the
In that country, where family unit has in the past been bound tight in conformity with ancient teachings, children have
the right to de computed for
naunce their parents. Blood has run thinner than dogma.
Propaganda
Perhaps this American
hus-
band had heard of these be- trayals. He testifed
that
his
wife repeatedly expressed pre- ference for the Communist Party line and attended Leftish Tacetings whenever she could,
husband
Of course, if every
and wife who disagreed, on politics decided to settle their issues before a judge, divorce courts would be
crowded.
more than
But had the Los Angeles plaintiff agreed to stay married,
hat of the future?
what
For
a start, if his wife wers true to her principies, and therefore an. active party he would have Весп to a continued stream Propaganda.
there is the question of children. Just as
Roman the Catholle Church insists that children of a marriage in which one of the partners is of its
of
faith should be brought up according
to the practices of that Church, so any Communist Is committed by implication to the dogmatic education,of his or her children.
Would You?
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"It's been reported that you went ski-ing instead of attending a football match on your day off."
London Express Barvice
He gets £1,000,000
every week
T
By NORMAN
CLIFF
HE-person-least-ex-of-his-modest-palace-behind-For-a-gold
ia
pouring into
Kuwait before even the channels contain cxist. the State's in-
cited at suddenly a defensive mud wall that stream acquiring a fortune girts the old Arab town of Several minor of over one million Kuwait. pounds a week in the ruler sheikhs and visiting Leban- of
Ab- Kuwait, Sheikh
ése dignitaries who
had dulla as, Salim as Subah, come to pay respects to the ruler sat along two sides of the chamber listening gravely to his words as he notioned me to the seat of honour on his left.
"It is the will of Allah," he says, and will not allow. it to "alter his simple habits.
What puzzles him is why outsiders should be so ex- cited about it and so in quisitive about what he proposes to do with all thai wealth.
to it When
came was
only a Lew thousands no need was felt for any bud- get or finan- cial control. That is where Colonel Chichton.
the
colorel marriage would Thirdly, the
anyway. One be "bigmous," Teatmot, I believe, be married to a non-Communist and wedded
third
to the principles of the Party Why should newspapers at the rame time. In the event? of a
World War the inquire how I spend
my better or for money?" he asks. "I have promise worse" might be curiously too great a Hense of de- Interpreted. Tranchery sucti China suffers the moment. Is llency to ask how new.}. an exportable commodity.
paper owners spend theirs."
Grounds for divorce. canl- lenging the sanctity of marri- age, have so multiplied in the twentieth century that in some countries the whole social fabric is threatened. To divorce for political reasons may seem absurd. But is it?
sadder than the it any granting of a decree nii recent
Is
were
ly In Britain when the grounds. Given
desertion in- ด directly provoked by the wife's inability to cook?
No one
likes to face the ultimate issue as long as it can be postponed. But one day we might find ourselves with our backs to an ideological wall.
Would YOU divarce your partner if he or she turned out to be a Communist and you weren'l?
?
Quiet dignity marked his demeanour when he receivul me in the audience chamb.r
THE SHEIKH—.
Immediately inside the door squatted half a dozen of his personal bodyguard with rifles laid on the floor in front of them-a fierce- fooking bunch in an assort- ment of garbs not nearly dia's External Affairs Minis- So picturesque as operatic uniforms worn by cial adviser of
try has fallen the task as anan- helping the ceremonial guards on duty Sheikh to spend his fortune. at the palace gates. "The
the
North-West
from
be
comes in. Into the hands of the free medical services
who once
'carried schooldays onwards for à people responsibility for the scourged with tuberculosis and distilled from trachoma, water tric power, modern roads and Frontier In In-
the surrounding blue sea, elec- buildings and, if the ruler per- and newspapers, mits, cinemas for the first time have to Ealanced evils of materiallsm, vulgarisation and a cost of living rocketing far beyond the means of humble Arabs, A harvest of riches will be reaped he luxury-loving sheikhs, con- tractors and traders, but the poor man expects to remain poor with his home a slum until education works miracle for posterity.
ruler, a broad-framed man He is a man who is signing with square features in cheques until a sound financiat which firmness and shrewd naministration can be construci
was at- ed with an experienced stuff to ness commingle, tired in the simplest Arab assist him. fashion.
-AND HIS LAND
ML
He
In any case, Kuwait; with a assured population of about 130,000 to that the absorb a revenue of over £50,- riches aceruing 600,000 a year, is bound to sul- from all royal-
half fer from financial indigestion. tics share of the profits of the
- 1
Kuwait
Oll
Company,
an
PILING UP.
ROLEX ROLL OF HONOUR: Autumn 1901. Lienching of the first. Rolax wrist-watch,
March 32, 1910. Fina Rolex wrist-chronomatar to be controlled by the Swler Government, ebtsins an Ollich! Timing Carlikale et Dionne, Switzerland.
July 13, 19. Rolex obtains the first Class "A" Observatory Certificate ever awarded to a wrista chronometer by the Ken Obsenatory.
October 7, 1911. Mercedes Glaltra, London stenographer, swims the Channel wearing a Rolan Oyster, the world's first waterproof wrist-watch- 1931. Creation of the Rotan "Perpetual" the first, waterproof wrist-watch to wind iteall. 1945. Launching of the Rolex Datejust. First waterproof, salf-winding wrist-chronometer in which the date is shown through a small window on the fate.
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December 1947. Production of the 100,000th Officially Tasted and Certified Roles wrist- chronometer.
September 20, 1988. Rolex aeblaves the highest- ever accuracy for a 20 mm, alan wrlet-walch at the world-famous National, Physical Laboratory, Teddington, Englard, with 93,8 polnis.
December 31, 1949. – Rolen sets a new accuracy record at Geneva Observatory for a 18,5 mm -size mavement with asy points. ------
January, 1951. Production of the 150,000th Officially Trited and Certified Rolan welik. chronometer.
The creem of the Roles production is marked by the famous Rafer.” Red. SealTM It is a sign that thứ chrono- meter to which it in attached kat bree submitted by the Swite Govern- ---- ment to their own rigarourkrits, hau passed them with honour, and hat bean awarded the coveted Official Timing Certifiesto
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With the light of knowledge will come the breath of freedom. For women (at present blacken- shrouded
figures in the street) freedom from the vell in course
Anglo Ameri-TP to now the millions have of time. Already freedom from THE MIDDLE EAST
In a local Mizual slavery for pearì fishers
кро
been piling up
find sinking wells in the can concern would be url bank and the orthodox ruler will sand for ull more rewarding
lised for the have
welfare of Ku aside wall and It's
people and the usury provision
INDIA & BANGKOK
·
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to be persuaded to tay than diving in the sea for oysters his religious aversion to on empty stomachs.. One
cupation sounds so much more
i surplus riches are romantic than the other, but the of to be profitably invested.. His romance of travellers' tales health and edu. capital is likely to go on swell- feeds only the novelist, Madam, cational benefits and other ameni- ing so long as the worki's thirst your pearls may cost you more
in cash, but less in the Sim total of human misery.
ties not so far available to them. for oil is unquenched. : Western Influences that were considered beneficial would be
IS
harmful would be excluded.
GOSSIP NOW ABOUT WINCHELL
From NEWELL ROGERS
chell's column.
mated 40,000,000 listeners.
But it will be months before
that u Vast new oilfield has
welcomed and those regarded as tests will decide whether hopes
The Sheikh relics, on British ·becn
A near-
found are justified or
help for the State's defence, hig whether the drillers have struck security force of 300 being no ah extension of the field now match for a modern, parachute being tapped.
Already from battalion.
6,000 square miles of sand that "See for yourself what is constitutes Kuwait Xquid gold happening in Kawal," he said, NEW YORK. those who pay Press agents to retaining my hand in his and in the form of oil is gushing at!
and write the rate of well over 30,000,000 TABLE, 60 at the Stork have greatness thrust upon them adding severely,
New
getting names
what
tons a year and helping to make the world independent of sup famous and. snobbish
BOOM TOWN plica lying idle in Mossadagh's nightclub is deserted by only one higher gon! than being For publicity seekers, there is
F'erala. its permanent tenant. in winchell's column. Thut is Deserted too, by the to be mentioned by Winchell in THAT I saw was
Six hundred and thirty Bri W primitivo same tenant, is the most his famous 15-minute Sunday-
months
cen- stuff, take pride in their dir famous strip of newspaper at-D-p.m. broadcast to an esti-catch up in society racing to tish and Americans of the oil turies of progress that have conditioned prefabs within sight passed it by..
and smell of makeshift shacks space in America.
But for three works Winchell Moro wealth than it knows that mean home to Bedouin For 21 fears gossip, and his outpourings have been what to do with is flowing Bud- tribesmen and their black docks columnist Walter Winchell under fire by the New York Post. denly into a community totally of sheep and goats.
unprepared and transforming it to be any as has filled columna four and Now he has disappeared from overnight.
In primitive fonts bright-eyed five on page ten of the New the scene-because of his health. In the heart of the world's illiterate Arab, boys training to York Daily Mirror. And
carpenters, welders, electri Said his doctor: "He is Number One boom town, where
mechanics and similar space in more than in bed, with a mild virus. He new expensive ents deafen one clans, motor
la run down, too. But there's with their hooters and choke derrick hands all exercise, books 200,other newspapers.
one with their 'dust, labourers with neat and intricate designs nothing rest will not cure.".
work feverishly building a mod that would do credit to any Sold Between them they pro-
Winchell, in his Miami arm capital on the foundations of British polytechnic student. penthouse: "There is no vided
truth an old one. Schools for girls, as Not merely all, but rich humanı Winchell with.
10/the rumours that unfavour well as boys (a revolutionary talent, is being fapped in the 10,000,000 daily readers abla publicity in any way caused step this) hospitals with, arst more than a quarter of all this temporary retirement. I glass equipment und wahret deserts of Kuw the people in America.
The 49,000,000 rend his reports on the doings or plieged wrong doings of the grout, the ser great, the would-be great, and
!
bo
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always welcomed a fight.* destined houses are springing What will it proff - this tiny Typical of the Post'e waspish Upon all sides regardless of ex- stalkhdom fit gains a whole attades: "One man who spent an penge. Contractors, merchants world of wealth and loses its evening at Table 50 said, 4s and get-rich-quickcaxperts are essertini Arab character? Against vereation ranged all the way orawdini in to grab a share of all the thrilling it possibili- from @Walter/1
Les latent in "
Titreo education,
Winchell the spoils,""
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