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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 1952.

DEFENCE EUROPE

CINDERELLA UP-TO-DATE

World Coppelada, By arrangement with Dady Hud

Sitting on the Fence.

U

by

Nathaniel Gubbins

P till now your Uncle

We decided at the start that

Nat and his life part-would be better to have it in ner, The Phucky Little parate rooms. Then we could sneeze without firing millions of Woman, have had their germs at each other and cough boats of influenza separate- ly.

This arrangement has always meant that one could look after the other

In fact, the P.L.W. will never forget the time when she was loaked after by chef-nurse Gubbins who

fed her three I'mes a day on canned pras until, after a week of this diet, she began to feel like a captive balloon,

Now We have together.

SPOTLIGHT ON NEW WORLD

S

Sao Paulo.

able

G. Ward Price Sends

A. Revealing Report

-

on

AO PAULO'S news- papers last Sunday contained, as usual, 72 pages, with 85 columns percent of their taken up by advertising.

Somewhere in that what must be the most remark- comment had he to make to Brazil, privately controlled British exports labyrinth of publicity up- pieture collection in the world,

asked

Count Matarazzo replied that peared a real estate an- with examples of the work of El Greco, as

Velns- British goods offen lost their nouncement, offering for Franz Hola,

Rembrandt, Renoir and market in a country like Brazil sale 54 apartments, and 12 artists of all schools and periods as a result of their superior shops at an average price down to Picasso and the modern, quality. Though that superiority of £12,000 each. By noon that same day every one of these had been disposed of. This gives the measure of the strange "Tom Tiddler's ground" that constitutes the commercial capital of Brazil, whose boast three of the richert it is that men in the world are among its cltizens.

Except for the fact that all three are ambitious, tireless and there is immensely wealthy,

their tittle in common about personalities.

INDUSTRIALIST

impressionists.

all night without keeping the

other awake,

thorough leking in' all.crevices.

Lottie's ler nose on hot head

a great relet.

Worm turns

X71TH coffee and orange juice WITH

next morning, comes messugo and plece torn out of a new- paper.

Message says:→→→

I well enough to do coluinn this week, here's your chance to be wolne about umur favourlie hete women legislators.

Piece of newspaper, says that Or Edih Sumingrakill

Al first the P.L.W., a firm ballover In social equally. pointed out that if we were sponsoring a Bill to make it alum dwellers living in the room compulsory for employers, on we would be obliged to have court order, to deduct part int our 'flu together, maybe with six husband's wages to pay wife'a or seven young children cumb- maintenance, ing over us and playing "Angers up your nose."

In return, it was pointed out that D9 we were not Blum dwellers, there was no reason influenza to live in slum conditions; that

A

the forest. Fresh saplings keep on establishing themselves, and do well in the rich soll of Sao Pauto.

a

are additiona The latest party of Chinese who have just arrived from Singapore, bring- log, with them the complete

flour mill.

They plant of have opened accounts with the teading bankers, who are satis- fed that these newcomers have a big backing in dollars.

BUBBLE

if we were slum dwellers with Leven young chlidren we epuld at least drink their free orange julee and cod liver oil; and that it was doubtful if any child could get a finger up Ungele Nat's nose in its present condition.

With temperature rising send 'message:

If women like Summeraldi had their. was employers could be forced by law to pay whole of husband's touges to wife while husbands have farc money over five miles and icke adndwiches to oglce. Perhaps Summerskill will mug- port amendment that shall pay income tax on com- So we parted, to bury our pulsory allowance and that, it heads under blankets and, take entitled to wages like house- our own temperatures, not only keeper, be fired like housekeeper in separate rooms, but on if separate floors.

Over-to-you-

It

Inefficient.

women

Does Summerskill know that this Bill becomes law sensible

young men won't marry at sil, or if they do, more and more wives will be murdered?

im- shall

Does the know she is encourag AFTER two days listening to

the muffled booming of each ing mayhem and mass

When better other's coughs and sneezes, we morality? began to send notes to each write to a bishop about this.

Message received?- other by messenger,

You don't know any bishops.

The P.L.W.:-

first came from

the

Take two aspirina and try to Herp

What's your temperature?··

*Mine's

very high.

nolses. Room going round.・Conversation'

Good-bye.

A note was sent back a

Message received. Are you drunk? Over to you.

An hour later another message

Room spinning. Tempera-

by purchasers. B a breath- was recognised laking to find so many master- 11 added so much to their cost

was a tendency to How long will be golden age came:- pieces collected as an annexe to that there a daily paper,

and. I have prefer cheaper and less well- of Sao Paulo lost?

thoroughly tested never seen a gallery so effective- Anished and

American, machinery, which, for A slump in the world prices ly lighted.

purposes,

was good of coffee or collon might bring In the Brst Men normal enough American manufactur- it to an end.

GALLERY

FOR 32 years Chate has been buyer, but they stopped short year Brazil has to find $200,000,-

amassing

ers, he said, put their products months of last year there was on of £80,000,000 to every test they were likely a defeit to meet in the hands of the Brazilian foreign trading. This this magnificent of that degree of perfection 000 for the purpose of buying paintings, using which necessitated charging a wheat in the United States and assemblage of for that purpose the profits of high price.

by his chief newspaper, aided contributions which his persis- tence has extracted from other wealthy Brazilians.

as

DYNAMIC

FOR Adhemar de

feel

oldestublished Sao Paulo Д sari

of

The

all

THE

next day, although we were as hoarse'as crows, We found that, with our doors open. we were within cawing, distance of each other.

But reception as poor. The

ture nearly 102. What's yours? PW. was the first to squeak

up the stairs:---- Message sent back!---

Are you feeling depressed? Thanks.

Mine's a double,

Yes, Over. After a long interval a message received:-

་

Don't be ally. Give tem perature and detalls of con- dition,

Message sent:---

Temperature nearly 1,000. Room revolving out-clockwise direction at 100,000 revs. per minute. Speed 475.5 miles per KOUT.

Altitude 35,000 feet, Enemy ap Using oxygen.

nine proaching at

o'clock, Over.

*

Canada as a result of drought country and the both in this Argentine. She consumes 1,600,- 000 tons

of wheat a year, of which her home production is proprietor, The newspaper

Barros, only a quarter. his Assis Chateaubriand, with

function Besides its

citizens

the sensitive, expressive face, looks

"Some day, I suppose, seem to like an artist or a literary man standing exhibition, the gallery than 30 art classes of fact

bewilder bubble will burst," said on old he is has more -as a matter

ed admiration, if not awe. Still British resident, "but there is bath, on a scale characteristic conducted in connection with it.

The

latest additions are of Sao Paulo.

under 50, he is a dynamic no sign of it yet. We have only set of

to nibble at the vast splendid

tapestries, cha

character who, as Governor of begun depleting Brazilian

the State of San Paule, carried resources of this country.

that

siartles Highcliffe Castle, *** bought from

out bold schemes while at the opulence near Bournemouth, where they same time building up a private Europeans who come here Is of were the property

Twenty Lady fortune which of

is said to rate quite recent growth,

Brazilian economic him

in years ago the fifth richest, man Abingdon,

standards

were so low that it Brazil.

He is at present touring this Braz activity t

(How do I know hospital this was one of the cheapest coun- leading citizen or Sao Paulo is the northern provinces of

I used to

Thatron's noses are cold? don't. They just look cold.j cd agricultural huge country making speeches tries in the world.

manifestly intended to prepare live at the principal hotel colonies, where poor but capable election to the Presidency, Sao Paulo, with a silling room, ali workers are given the

bedroom, bathroom and

After sitting on my chest and land

the present holder of beers, for the equivalent of ten peering at close range into chance to use their skill for which

the that office, Geiullo Vargas, their own beneft, keeping

shillings a day. Now that hotel feverish, haggard eyes, Lottie Chalo due to vacate in 1954 profits for themselves.

But these multi-millionaires charges the same amount for a decides on blanket bath. Washes face all over, elving cors tallest trees in whisky-and-soda."

COUNT Francisco Matarazzo, the great industrialist, re- minded me of a bishop--bland,

full-faced, soft-voleed and spec- tacled.

Another

the creation

Adhemar de Barros, Governor of the State of Sao Paulo and determined candidate, at the 1954 elections or before, for the Presidency of Brazil, is offered to take me to see one of

# powerfully built, tough looking these areas in his private plane are only the citizen, with genital high spirits' that make him popular even

rivals. with

"fly to your country several | times a year," he said. "I am

o great admirer of England, and

Assis Chateaubriand is 00, recognise the debt owed to her and owns some 30 newspapers, by Brazil. large and small, together with Fleet

that

a long chain of radio and tele- security of vision surtions, In a country dence during whose communications are restricted and those of Brazil, control of a wireless network constitutes Doctrine. grent politicat Influence, for challenged. people living away from the

It was the British the maintained Brazilian indepen-

BEVAN'S

MR Aneurin the long period

the

Bavan's challenge to the regu. of the leadership

as of the last century when rudimentary as United. States possessed

no lar means to enforce the Monroe Socialist Party is at least

if it had been

sufficiently serious for it to be important for everyone

In

The enemy turned out to be Lattle. The Devil Cat, approach- Ing across the left-hand side of the bed, bustling, fit and cold- nosed like a hospital matron.

We have all Never mind. the summer before us. How do you know?

What?

I said, "How do you know?"

Know what?

That we have all the summer before

LIA.

Don't you think we're going to live? Probably not.

Do I sound to bad?

If you sounded much waris, they'd

ask you to da a radio commentary for Derby Day,

Do you think it's going to be

good summer?

No. "East wind too sune means

snow in June.

Who said that?

It's an old saw,

What did you call me?

I didn't call you anything.

I thought you called me an old

nid bore.

I said "wow, saw."!

sotes

to

If you're breaking out in co, to you ought hospital "SAW, Saw, BBW, BAW, RAW,”

You sound like an old crow. So do you.

-London Express Service)

WAY WILL NOT LEAD

TO A BETTER LIFE

By CHRISTOPHER HOLLIS, M.P.

lowed

its

anicles,

to export there is no point in manusao- turing them.

home unless o market can be found."

Nar is it easy to see much sense in the Bevanite polley from the point of view of the

"I told President Vargas the to try to understand what Astatic large centres depend entirely

world must be freed seem very unwelcome to the Eastern purchaser. The consil. other day," he went on, "that, his ideas are. His book, "In from what Marx called "the Socialist mind.

for this benent, in' gratitude Brazti should

ол the ether for news of the world beyond horizon.

their limited

The unusual name he hears is not his own; it was a nom-de- plume used by his father, from inherited the lower whom he slages of. his high-roaring fortune.

DS

INCIDENT

18.

because

tuents of the Bevonite members In Great Britain may be anxious Japan When Д

cut- that Japanese goods should be send to Britain Place of Fear," gives some idiocy of rural Ufe." Industria-

exports luation can offer its people

price cotion raw materials like cotton and hints.

higher living standard.

goods, it is the out of the Eastern markets so that Lancashiro can supply Socialists who are the first in

to see them. However, it is hard to on ore on a basis of payment

out that the On the question of preserving deferred for four or five years."

This is a very well, but Britain to cry- pence, Mr Bevan, while not there are questions to be asked. thould be prevented from do how that policy can appeal to the Easter purchaser, whether he is in the Commonwealth, an complete paclist, has no con- Capital development is doubt- ing so. This, we ero told, Odence in the effectiveness of less desirable, but where is the.

unfair competition, rearmament. The West will de capital to come from? It is true Japanese wages are lower than in Malaya, or outside the Com

monwealth, as in Thalland, Japanese Communism, he tells us, no: that the standard of living of the British wages, and feat SSIS Chateaubriand has just by aming more strengly then

workman of Mr

undercut goods can therefore British "Chato",

Brazilians coll

con- British him, is a patron of the arts, and Abren elected to the Brazilian the Communists, but by offering Bevan's constituents is con

goods.

tha

His answer, when 1 uses the influence of his newa Senate.

the world benefits which

of Socialis's do not say that it is will aiderably higher than that to secure the co- congratulated him on this, was make the Western way of lite

workers paper chain

of the East. And it "unfair competition" when Bri- "A

Wages Are lower than more attractive than might be thought that Mr Bevan tish operation in that direction of grailtying to a journalist:"

appear .the

Inviting his own consil American wages and British rich

Sao senatorship is only an incident, Communism. merchants of Paulo.

but a

tuents to save, sacrifice and in goods undercut American. goods. newspaperman's job is eternal."

order that Indians, Count Francisco Matarazzo,

Malayans or Japanese, should whose private offlce occupies à

enjoy a better life. whole block in the very centre of Sco Paulo, has a fortune D told me, that it was hila

at £30,000,- felong ambition to create that is estimated

000, derived from several History does not show that ag-

HR

AMBITION

the

Whd

A vest In

Everyone admits there is degree of truth in th's. It needs an idea to oppose an idea. How ever, the pattern of history is. not as simple as Mr Boven's Imagines. materialistic mind

in Brazil a middle class which hundred concerns of a widely gression comes only from

·would do away

success

the

But

What the Eastern purchaser wants is, say, a shirt. It means whether that nothing to him shirt comes from Japon or Ipa

disturb It is hard to see how sense cashire. It does not can be made of the argument. him that Japanese shirts Can The Eastern countries have undersell Briüsh shirts. On the be Industrialised, because

they contrary, from his point of view, ure, poor, we are telt But if this is a great advantage. they

are poar, how can

help themselves

not wages

they

und their Mr Bevan appears to think it are kept low? And, if wrong that one individual in they have industrialised, what Britain should seek to have

their higher standard of living!

than

another. Yet apparently, he be

·llevės · It.

right that British workers should have a higher standard of living than other workers. And this is just plain

But that apparently is with the pre- different character;

poverty-stricken nations. Fur sont gluring contrast between

His father, who came from ther Communism in the tree his plan atali, The money extravagantly rich and abjectly poor. He thinks that Britain's Italy as a poor immigrant, was world is today strongest In some the capital investments all can they do then with

35 years ago of the countries, such as France, to come from America. It is goods except.export them? long-enduring

to a created a count

who are Americans Jn which have a high standard of the colonising power

sacrifice themselves so that the was largely by King Victor-Eramanuel, due to her

reward for his benefactions living oulput of middle

-Orientals-may- prosper.— the land of his birth. He laid clats, university-trained men.

men the

baals of the mighty Communism's attack on the develop a similar species

But there is an odder dini: The problem of the over- Brazil he la

Matarazzo riches by borrowing Asiatle countries cannot be re- devating much

populated country is that It He admits that in Britain the this fortune to the cultural £1,200 from the Bank of Lon- sisted merely by arms or by cully about this Socialist polier

His old-fashioned Imperialism, ac towards the Orient.

commot, from its own land, pro living standard of the lowest development and economic don and South America. betterment

The Orient must be Indus- duce enough food to feed its cannot be raised without lower of the poorer classes son has vastly developed the 'cording to Mr Bevon. On the family's commercial empire, contrary, it is necessary, he ar his fellow countrymen.

are told in people. Therefore all it can do ing that of the highest low- I had an hour's talk with the guss, for the West to build up raised, One form that this takes

in the building Count in his dignified and the wealth of the Asiatic world general terms. Yet, when en is to manufacture. something ever, he insists that interna creatiori,

Country*Japan-close and exchange it for another *1'onally this can be done. This that houses his principal news, spacious outco, with Flemish old by large Investment and by do- Balern

velopment of its resources. The Industrialise itself, the results, "country's food. If it is not al- is hard to hajlovs, paper, Diario de Sao Paulo, of masters on the walls.

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