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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 1953.

FLYING

London.

F you see an odd roaming little man

round the streets with a Union Jack in each hand and the grin of happiness on his, face you will know it is me telling the world that

I am British..

good

HIGH

That's where Britain is this happy New Year -that's what I found all over

..

For the fifth time in four years I am back from the Far East, and for the first I really feel time about the things. I have On the dreary forty-mie rozd seen.' I'll tell you about belwres Sooul and the fross the some of them.

ups for military carmen.

to

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the world

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One day in Korea I went is nothing else like them a the

the

and they are American whole of Korey Marines. If you've ever clways packed with drivers of

all natione. been to the cinema you In Seoul Itself the Niad gitt must be aware that

the shop stems to have more customers than Marines are the pride of American American fighting forces. Brit. They think, and with some resolution: In future let's be right, that they are the nice about the Naag. goods.

So here's cnother New Yen

An Intelligence officer Lost: a moan

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HER REALM OVERSEAS

By Sir Charles Petrie

In fact, one thair 5 is She may not officially be of Nations is

of

HE magnitude of the When he did come to the task which faces the throne as King Edward Vil, he

consented to a modification V.I.P.S. "Here we are," he you remember all the fuss

Queen cannot be the previous royal style by Shore was two yram g Said, pointing to a lot of

the winter obou:

clothing in properly appreciated until assuming that of Britanniarum coloured pins, "and here on Korea? Well, after this trip I her relations with her sub- Omnium Rex-King of All the the our right flank are the Brim prepared to go on record 3jects overseas have

Britains thus recognising been British

Dominions beyond the tish. Mighty glad we are saying that our winter clothing

and cas as part of his realm. No row as good as anything the carefully considered,

Americano have got. Most of from their point of view.

The British Commonwealth other troops in Korea would the boys think it is better.

marked by a make us feel so safe."

complete lack of uniformity, of This was not meant for ne in that there is nothing in their Queen of Canada, Australia, which even many Englishmen Over can moan about and the other.

aware. particular, because I was inton equipment theme of the items

self. are only dimly

ultimate of hundreds of good that governing Dominions, but, all is the Queen, the

authority there is

in fact, they regard hier us millions of people of widely lively black

(or

and khaki) their

monarch in contrasted races

creeds, market in them,

governed de exactly the same way as do who have to be with the Americans offering £3 to £4

the inhabitants of Great accordance with laws and pre- cedents which vary from Ler one of our pull-

alf Britain itself.

Dominion to Dominion and from overs and nearly as

Colony to Colony. tow much pyjama-style under- pants.

spicuous in the back-

but ground, British heart swell-

ed with pride.

my

All along the_line

it la the same. They all think the Ballsh troops are tops. Sa they are, of course. We all know that, But it is myfully heartening

hear 10 other people say 50.

They

Just are ordinary Britons, Liverpool- boya in. the King's, Cockneya in the Fusiliers. Yorkshiremen in the Duke of Wellington's, miners de The Dur-

;

by

BERNARD

WICKSTEED

You

Aro so

A

our

own

Since the Statute Westminster in 1991 the

of

Another resolution;

Let no one take our

Queen may not consult her on Do- British Ministers

Each of these 'Colonies, with

pants off in 1953. minion matters; she must varying standards of civilisa-

Er more hearten-act on the advice of the ing nows of British Government of the Do enterprise let's jump minion in question.

tion, has its different problems, are unknown in London "out- and it for the most part they from side the Colonial Ofler, time to time they develop into. crisis with which the

upon

Fortunately, her recent a

of

be

from Korea toa Httle strip of the swampy coastline of tam Light Infantry, and Scots Borneo. It is about ten miles predecessors have been in Sovereign may be called

to'deal. in the Black Watan. Half are kng and half a mile wide, with the habit of daily meeting.

In any event, it is to her National Service boys, but they the jungle on one side and the people from all parts of the

South China Sea on the other.

that they

the all look, and are ambassadors all.

and are atitude of their native Seria ollack Commonwealth,

popula Inside

the Commonwealth In between is the Ser

the that hardly anyone in this coun- thus in continual contact tions is well reflected in Division 's Just the same. know

what Australians are. try has ever heard of.

Yet it is the largest single oil with opinion overseas. The effort which they are making to nt adequately represented State for They're cutspoken. But I never

Secretary field in the Commonwealth and

the Coronation. This loyalty is met one who didn't he was

sily glad to be in the line with the produces £50,000,000 worth of Commonwealth Relations or the result of the well-founded

Britons. Ditto the oil a year. And it is oil that does for the Colonies may, while belief that the Queen takes boys from

cost dollars. Onadians, dillo the

he is in office, be in closer personal interest in them and New not cos

Seven years ago when the Japs touch officially, but as ho Zackerdera, ditto the Indian

left it the place was a wreck. ambulance uns.

Field-Marshal Smuts, speak- The

had been blown may have been President of machinery

the Board of Trade in the ing in London during the First up and 37. wells were on.fr...

World War of the Influence-of With quiet efficiency and only last Administration, and hereditary kingship in keeping

British

Empire, publicity that attended the great may be First Lord of the together the groundnut scheme in Africa. Admiralty in the next, his said: "You cannot make a re British brains and capital went personal interest in the public of the British Common-

Today the strip of Commonwealth

wealth of Nations," for the pro- can never cess of electing a President for

It is the true dos of Empire pul into police and working weil.

So here's a New Year resolu tion; Hold your head high and don't be ashamed of the Union

Jack.

Dear old Naafi

JERE'S a gued laugh, 400, for

Hanya who had been in the

about a thousandth of the

to work.

of oll a day.

their concerns.

1

swamp yields 3,750,000 gallons be so great as that of the such a vast and complicated or

I was telling an American Sovereign who is its head. organisation would "pass the

journalist about it in Tokyo. He

had never heard of the place,

He had no idea that in 1952 the

Furces. The der old Naaf, British were doing anything in butt of a thousand, military this oll business beyond losing josta, is now so good in Korea Abadan, and he made arrange

il has become a dalur ments to visit Seria at once. corner!

Resolution; Let's shout louder We

ways knew fact behind about our triumphs, those cups of tea and toothpaste the Naaf hid a heart of gold, but now the Candiacisam Americans have learned it too- to the tune of 2,000,000 dollars a year.

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wit of man to devise."

He was right, and there con be little doubt that but for the Crown The Commonwealth would have fallen to pieces, thus added greatly to the re-ness of the Spanish

Recent developments have years ago. It was the weak- monarchy sponsibilities of the

Sovereign, In the early part of the and circumstances might arise century that caused Mexico and in which the Queen would have South America to break away to act for herself-for example, from Spain, and had a similar if there were a clash of inter- development Laken place In ests between two Dominions.

Britain the Colonies would have

Inst

In the event of war she might dropped off the parent-tree.

ever be seriously barrassed

embarrassed when they were ripe.

ferred to remain neutral." In that case she would and herself compelled to sign declarations

AND what greater trump the Comet? Four years ago when I flew East I had to malce part of the journey in a Lancastrian which was little more than a or neutrality in one capacity These facts must be grasped converted bomber, Passengers against herself In another. by the British people at home, Indeed, it has even been held for they mean that of necessity that the Queen could be forced the Queen, any rate during to declare war on herself. the earlier part of her reign, and part in an old flying-boot, Absurd as these contingencies will be out of these Islands

How differwat now. How gloriously different.

may appear, the fact that they great deal. nit not constitutionally im The Comet goes through to possible is eloquent of the dimunication have

Fortunately, means of com- morc than Singapore twice a week and at culties that confront the Head kept pace every one of the-seven or eight of the Commonwealth,

with political de- stops it makes on the way it is mall measure it rests with her easy for her in these years of In no velopments, and it is almost, as to sce that Buch

situations her accession and Coronation to never do arise, and constant get to Ottawa, Capetown, or afication to the affairs of each Canberra: as it was for... Queen component part is demanded of Victoria at the comparable date

to travel to Edinburgh,

u boost for Britain. Even the noise it makes as its jet engines whine to a peak for the take-o is a prestige noise the sound of things to come.

"

Two together

her.

In these circumstances It may the past 100 years has been to will be called for in the some- even be that some 'modification

If therefore, the tenstency of

relieve the Crown of direct re-

sponsibility in homo matters, what cumbrous

T Bangkok the other day the opposite process has been creating a Council of Regency

of procédure

whenever the Sovereign leaves

A there were two Comets on at work where imperial prob- Britain. The present machinery

the ground at the same time, Items are concerned.

י

is as out-of-date as the idea

doing more good for the British Ia this connection It Is that lies behind it, cause than a dozen British interesting to note that in 1876, The British Commonwealth Councils,

when the Royal Titles Bill was in one, and is inhabitants are One of them was in the pro- under consideration, the pro- one, whether they live in Sid- cess of taking me from Singa-priety of creating the Prince of mouth or Sydney, in Manches- pore to London in just over a Wales Prince Imperial of Indie, ter or Manitoba.. day, and the other had been and his second .and third When the Qucen goci to visit showing its panes to the Ameri-brothers Princes of Canada and her subjects overseas she does cans in Manila and the Japanese Australia, was discussed be not go abroad-she goes from

Tokyo.:

a dozen air-tween the Prime Minister of one part of the country to an There were hall, a'

day and Queen Victoria, other, and it is time that the craft from other nations on the but the proposal was never lid theory was, made to correspond airfield, out the Siamese were before Parliament and it was with the facta Hu Interested only in Comets. dialiked by the then Prince of (TO BE CONCLUDED

Did I feel good?"

Wales.

TOMORROW)

TRUMAN WON'T FADE FROM PUBLIC VIEW

HEN

By Kay Murray

New York. White House job is "a killer," Inauguration, as he himself termed it, but be- probably at its zenith after the

W Day, January 20, ceuse his unpopularity

come round, some election.

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two thousand Democrata The personal bitterness which will join the ranks of the underlined his "give 'em hell" has amazed and unemployed:

his friends, and cer-

Fargo: contributed, in

Some of them, of course, Usinty. began leafing through the messure to Governor Steven- "Situations Vacant" son's defeat.

He has told friends e Intends columns as far back as to take an active interest in na

November 4.

corps,

tional affairs after his retire- ment.

The diplomatic which automatically resub- to keep the Democratic Party

" will keep on fighting mits its credentials to the thelberal party of the coun now Administration, has try," he said recently. "I owe already seen Ambassadora that to my country, the people O'Dwyer and Jessup hand and my party!"

The general feeling is that the best way Mr Truman can ing in their resignations..

Many top administrators are discharge that debt is to keep

of going back into law practice, out

tho picture whila Including Secretary of State Governor Stevenson, now titular Com- hod of the Democratic Party,

Acheson, Secretary of

merce Sawyer and Secretary of tries to knit together its ravelled Agricultors Brannan, while edges.

Secretary

tary of Defence Lovelt is Library plans

going back to his job with a

New York Investment. Ann.

the

handsomely to

plenty who would

of

put

.

It is probable, therefore, that But what of the most buce he vacates his desk at the illustrious unemployed of them White Heuse, Truman will carry all Harry S. Truman, 33rd out a long-cherished

ambition of the United States? to make President

'Blow* of the For He used to be a haberdasher Eastern Countries, Copecinity not a very good one, ap- those receiving Point Four nid.

As an business parently, since

ex-President of the U.S. went broke,

of course, he would An ex-President of the Unitedt find

there are States rates no pension. As business concerns Colonel Truman of World War pay One, the retiring First Exocu- "Harry S. Truman" on their tive to eligible for a pension letterfiend paper, of £32 a month.

The clothing industry has in- Ex-President Truman, as one vited the ex-haberdasher to bo White House spokesman puts its boss; a disting firm has -it, "doesn't even rate free offered him £35,000 a year to set as its president; and a hard- postage."

breathing New York agency 19 hoping to get

first look at his However, HST is not exactly memoirs. ready for the poorhouse just

Mr. Truman's

plans almost yot

certainly envisage u Truman While in office, of his Pre- Library on the Grandview form, sidential emoluments £17,850 which would contain microfilm was a tax-free gift from the ed records of his letters, docu- Covernment to the only citizen ments and other memorindu-

project regarded in some quar who enjoys this advantage.

Ho could have saved £142,- ters as political dynamite, 800 during nearly eight years al office.

What is in the cards for the Man from Missouri, the mans to take more who has had momentous and lonely decisions than perhaps almost any man living?

Tax-free gift

cou

T

When I

I'm

The plan would provide living quarters for students of Amerl- can history, government and practical, politics, and would provide for Professor. Truman to mount a rostrum and speak is mind on these toples, on which he is exceptionally well informed.

A Fighter

Whatever

soldier that

plans

for

his

he is docm't intend to Inde from the

Washington scene.

He has sald he wants rest from the "terrible burden"! The way ho of the Presidency. put it in 1951 was:. Hide to the Capitol with my Grandview, Truman.old successor, whoever he is, coming straight back to the

close my suit White House, case... and the next stop He has served notice that be Grandview, Missouri."

the deem't propose to join Grandview วิช the site of the

rocking chair brigade. Truman homestead, reacquired "I have no

of Intention im by in someone else's name moddling in affairs that are not between 1945 and 1949, and the my business," he said recently.. record seems to prove that Mr But being an

ex-President Truman has learnt to be a bet- does not dep ve me of my.. ter business man than he was a rights... as an American etti- haberdasher.

I shall express my views ch By colacidenca probably whenever I think the situation, more fortuitous than strange, warrants my doing so." the U.B. Air Force moved into

Truman may seck election as the vicinity, and the two hun Senator for Missouri, or he may dred. acres Mr Truman acquired acquire a forum for

his views In 1945 for £41 an acre are under new Tegislation which

£360 now worth nearly

an gives a non-voting seat in the

METC.

Senate to all ox-Presidents.

Mr Truman has plans for But don't write Harry Tru- Grandview, though they do not man off. He's a fighter from necessarily include burying him- way back. self there.

He says he is going to live a A long rest is certainly in hundred years. He probably.. didated, "not only because the will.

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