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THE CHINA MAIL FRIDAY, JULY 25, 1952.

"Pull up, man, pull up!"

* What,me? i thought you

had "The reins

MILITAN

KOREAN WAR NORSE

POLITICAL MIND

QUESTION OF CONTROL

Wala Desprent, an arrangement with Dady Herald.

WHAT IF RUSSIA QUITS GERMANY?

By CHRISTOPHER HOLLIS

German THE German generals tion. For the other half of Ger- of the inevitability of

occupa- rearmament means that he is meet, the politicians any is under Russlan

lion.

unwilling to risk war with the talk, and prospects for Apart from the ever present West, If Stalin and desired war, the rebirth of the German desire to regain the Eastern the would have fought it now,

that 4 army become daily closer. territories

Russia has rather then necept the unpalat- A profoundly now inter- irrevocably allocated to Poland, able rearmament.

no German can remain content national situation looms while Soviet troops garrison the across the horizon.

Eastern Zone. He dreams of the day when their tanks and their armed tommy-gunners depart.

This being so, they argue, Germany should build up her aghting foreca and then, with Ailled incking at the appropri

Till now, the forces in the West have For that very reason many of ale moment, serve her demand been the forces of defensive Europe's politicians had warned on Stalin for the evacuation of Powers, without further that Gemman rearmament was the Germen and matellite territory, Stalin wil one thing which would disturb which, they think, territorial ambitions. Sole the Kremlin. The Red leaders have to accept for lack of

alternative.

fear of war has lain in the knew that the French, the British

not belief that Russia might and the Americans would

black. So they were not greatly attack them.

bothered by their rearmament, German rearmament, however, fight be different story.

An amed Western Germany, though, presents a new proposi

THE DAUGHTERS

OF PRIVILEGE

Has the time comme to broadenm

the royal guest-list?

OR the Arat time since the war, The Daughters of Privi- lege in English so- ciety have this year shown signs of coming back into their own.

Court mourning has shortened the London sea- son, but almost as many functions have been crowd- ed into fewer weeks:

by EIRENE WHITE, M.P.

MER, MINERE WHITE, CZ-Yinc>ata Eəqtailst MP the East Pist. den forener Ministry of Labotar allsar, and a one-time Rational Fitnim Courel alal. She wema n'ested to the Übstalled Exosotive in 1947.

Family have their private friends will meet them, sooner or later, at private functions,

me to have no claim to any ex- Those not so placed seem to clusive right which could not equally well be made by any other girl who can dress tidily and knows how to behave properly in public.

at

at

the beginning, with £400 £600 after presentation Court, to be followed by further present if a satisfactory the summer ended.... engagement was achieved before

Best of bad job

an

Now this attitudo does not re- present a polley of war, but one of franke power polition, And the generals are powerful in Ger- man politics.

ire

Just a small example: I was "As soon as German rearma- at a meeting the other day ment becomes actual," a diplomat Germany where, before our dis- in Marcow sald to me two years cussions began, our German ago, there will be a school of hosts were asked to give their thought in the Kremlin which rams and tell briefly who they the in- will argue that, since the Ger- were. The politicians, mans are clearly going to attack dustrialists, the University pro- us as soon as they are rearmed, fessors, all explained themselves we might as well attack them at great length.

now before they are rewmed."

If there was such a school of

thought, it has

not been

vlatorious. Instead, the Russians

It was enough

Then, in contrast, General

have decided to make the best of Gehr von Schweppenburg, the a bad job and accept German Panzer commander of the Ger- rose and rearmament as inevitable. They man Army at Chen,

"Gehr von Schweppen- hope, though, to detach the re- said: armed Germany from the Western burg, ex-soldier-that to all." world by a Soviet offer of

For the gathering, it was "neutralisation."

enough. He had told them all Prime Minister Adenauer and they wanted to knowi bls supporters are confident that energy to spare for her this manoeuvre will fail

I do not think that anyone family life.

efter of the Soviet Note has - could doubt which German was

some Germans, but master in that room.

and

The

But instead of receiving, In pressed slow procession, young ladies at Adenauer, da probably justified could in his confidence. But, it co, presentation parties she

what then? give pleasure and encourage- ment to many other people in ether ways.

For example, we have in Bri- tain some 5,000 students from the Commonwealth each year at universities, technical colleges, And as student nurses.

There is

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special training little compared with prewar college in Liverpool for teachers

War unwanted

The power policy of Wastern' Germany, though very risky. On may, have some succeso, balance, I think it will.

At the same time, it is point- Adenauer is himself a sincere feos acking the Germans not to Christian, devoted to the ending work for the reunion of their of Germany's quarrels with her country or to dmmagine that the would change their Western neighbours. But no Germans one can predlet how long he nature by accepting membership

nation of the European Defence Com will carry the German

Germans Ger- munity. But, if the with him. At present the Ger- munit

in getting the mans do not want another war should succeed in

war which would burst into Russions out of Germany, what flame on German soll. For such then? Will they be prepared to a war, in its opening stages any play an honest part in freeing WAY would involve

Red the satellite countries of Eastern whole country. Dopey revive

from Communism? .Or at the await the day in

the Ger- wil they revive their ambitions Is it not more important to mana

Czechoslovakia anxiously

and the give these people the privilege when the Russians will quit" Ukraine? Or do a deal with the and honour of being her Eastern Germany. How do they Russions in a Fifth Partition of Majesty's guests for an after-hope this will happen?

Poland? The German record in noon rather than young ladies The favoured German argu- not such that one can feel con- from finishing schools?

ment is that Stalin's acceptance Bdent of the answer.

Today there is less abuso this kind. probably very of The, crowning moment of

days. Even in society things from Malaya. a debutante's career (until

have changed. her

Men and women is an-

on come engagement

I recollect clearly my own

But when my nounced) is said to be the feelings years ago

need we have nny short courses in administration 45 seconds or so in which mother, who did not move in encouragement from the Throne and special subjects, she makes her curtsy to the society but thought that I might of even the remnants of this

that way of life?.. Queen, followed by one to Perhaps have ambitions

way, asked me whether I wanted the Duke of Edinburgh. to be presented, If so she would

arrange it.

About 500 girls will have

In South Wales, from which made their curtsies this year at Buckingham Palace our family came, it was a time- and Holyroodhouse, Edin- of deep industrial depression. burgh.

No one would wish to add to the burdens of the Queen, who plays her part in public so admirably and who needs time

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you

Lacrymation of the

STOWAWAYS ARE ON THE MOVE

By J. W.

TAYLOR

I remember how wrong it seemed to me that when 50 Following the war, de many girls, through no fault of

suffocated in a sand bin hideout dummy hinnel roon found his butantes were invited to their own, were facing miser-

which a seaman had locked up parties at which the Royal virtue of their own, were dress.

mistake and emerged in a badly able poverty, others, through no

without first looking inside. The scalded state. Family were present, but ing up for a social ritual which

man who burrowed a den beneath Air line companies, too, have they were not individually had lost any profounder mean-

London. just as she had gone aboard. It the ship's cargo of timber tapped their stowaway problems, though presented.

ing

for was only when she later ap- out his presence when the ship not to anything like the same. which it might possibly THE 1952 season have had in carlier days,

fare. was well out to sea, but his cover piled 'to go home as a stowaways has now got paying passenger

her could not be removed owing to that into its stride, and in ships illegal trip abroad was dis the high seas. Thirteen days

clapsed before a half-dead stow arriving in British ports a covered.

away was finally extricated. steady

SPONSORS' FEES

TH

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undercarriage compartment of a extent.

One man clung to the

He was found on landing when plane freen Portugal to Britain,

he staggered from his perch and went reeling round the airstrip deafened, dazed and nearly frozen.

A FAVOURITE ON ALL TABLES

Now they are, and one cannot help wondering whe- ther social pressure will

average of 95 per- Checklest of bluffers, perhaps, not carry things back a step

sons & month emerge as was the man who stowed away,

The youth who stowed away further so that once again N prewar times the snobbery illegal passengers from out managed to attach him inside what he thought was

GA assistant, we may see the photograph associated with presentation at of ships' cupboards, coal the house as

but tripped up when he lined on the grand piano, with Court was exceedingly distaste bunkers, lifeboats, empty

ful. to

up with the rest for the say

least. The

pay, only the three white ostrich fea-

cabins and cloakroom com- to find neme

was

not on rumours of money paid to re- thers proudly proclaiming celve

the payroll. the favour, were well partments,

Simplest performa that the acme of social dia- based,

ance was that of another man Almost always the stowaways found aboard as the chip dock- tinction has been achieved.

Questioned,, he said be I la said that £10,000 was lose, for less than ten percent ed. the most ever paid to a spon-vigilance of the dock poller to the chief steward for "a nice

a ship's search or the merely walked aboard,

asked atlantic parent who was pre-antic run alone, stowawny's room" sar-needless to say by a Trans- ashore undetected. On the table in the first-class dining pared to pay this for

("See you all right when daughter to receive the ball- total nearly a thousand a year wo dock," was the promise) and and hayo caused 10 much had four meals a day, sleeping mark of English society..

trouble and inconvenience that in a different part of the ship the authorities are considering each night. the Imposition of much sterner penaltic on the culprits than the usual fire of £10.

'DEBS' TAKE JOBS

WHY should these young wo

Smaller

BULMY were

hla

men be so distinguished? What have they done to win doubtedly not uncommon. They the particular and exclusive were paid to sonte lady of title, sco a girl

who undertook to favour of the Sovereign, which through the season, is not extended to the hundreds

of other girls of their age in the high-schools, offices, shops, and hospitals of this country?

debutantes

one

Survive

There was the

When discovered, most slow-

chappy mho aways ask to work their pass liner by saying he was going knew the repes, walked on to a The racket might begin at an forward, but a copiain seldom

of the

ho would then to draw his pay and borrowed introduction to

acqulesocs, for exclusive debutantes schools,

the white coat from the laundry. pe the right to charge stowaway In a court of fasy Ho

had meals throughout the The Queen, Charlotte Bail, the ushore. It usually means the voyage in the crew's mess hall, Nowadays, we are told, many

Royal Enclosure at Ascot, and legal passenger cooling off in his acquaintances, believing he will take joba na

the Guards' Ball at Moldenhead the stilp'a colla.

came from the laundry section. One who has given up is the secretaries, models, or

were all included for these hostesses after the whirl of their whose sponsor Imow her job,

Lovelorn youngster anxious to join his girl driend abroad. He first London person,

decided to call it a day after being discovered for the twenty-

officers were Hardened ship's

nir.

The actual presentations at

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Hiding in the ship is seldom This may be to, but it does Court were, and still are, limited useful, far didp's olecrs' have on time, not alter, the fact that between for each sponsor to one in the stepped

up, their! procautions them and the Throny, there is it years, apart from her own un-and know that stowaways will reluctant to arrest one particu special relationship which is not shared by others and which not claimed on any ground of merit,

married daughters.

LESS ABUSE

"squeezedo" - elminet"

any

be where, oven to the extent of ar stowaway, but it had to

**- done. He was found Avo days hiding beneath the orchestra out from Canada and pleaded platform in the first-class Lounge, wedging inside ventila to be allowed to share his wife's tors or burrowing a haven be quarters in the Arst-clas part of the liner, Ho had stowed away Now, to many people of whom I was not hand, however, for neath the ship's cargosur

because the fates for his wife I.om one, there is" come the profesional sponsor to place! If is the blulite, who in the and child had taken, all his thing radically undemocratie in her charge in the care of an- hardest to detect such as the money, Although his papers were continuing this practice.

other lady, for the payment of a girl who walked, aboard!"", "a" in order, the officer had to set dress bill or some similar per-finer, dressed as a chat, com on strict ship's regulations, but There are different levels of qulate. The Lord Chambor plate with bucket and pail, She, his "Incarceration" was quite the society, as there are bound to lain's department did its best,nubbed her way through the most unirksome imaginable, a

but the rackets continued,

voyage, forging for, sandwiches Some, stowaways make things be while there are marked

and rallie at opportune timón, very uncomfortable for them- differences in wealth, Personar I am told, by someone who and sierping in a 18ftbobt after selven Even before ther are who normally move in thota had reason to know, that the the routine i obiectus bed" "bean found. "A" girl, bad", to remain Fircles in

which the Royal usuaí Loo for the season, wen mede. The girl stepped natiore three days hungry Land: balt

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