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A METHODIST REVOLUTION

NO BRONCHIAL HARMONIUMS

By Les Armour

when

. you're

REVOLUTION is Chrisilan view of marriage to brewing in Britain's ask "How can you talk about

marriage Methodist Church --- apurred by a man with a spotted bow tie, a twinkle in

bachelor?"

He admitted the man huet a strong point but explained. he to rectify his eye, and a burning was doing his best

He was getting belief that Christianity is the situation. still the answer to mankind's married in two weeks.

crowd The next week, the bewilderment.

a silver him with presented teapot full of pennies.

Not long after, he founded a mission

on Kingsway, on the dingler fringe of London's West End.

On the conference programine at Birmingham in Britain's in- dustrial Midlands, he is listed ns Donald Soper, M.A., Ph.D., Chairman of the Church Coun-

cil.

But, to tens of thousands of ed

Youth who turned up arm- with razors alarmed him

Londoners, he is the man who for a while, but he soon hal

has harried

the hecklers

masi

staunch

Into workers

turned them of

chureh hill overlooking the Tower of and

hals "church," sprawling is still in the London every Wednesday after- noon for the last 20 years. To Kingsway Hall, millions of radio listeners he is area.

a rasping volce with a provoca-

tive manier which never falls

$1

one side or

to leave the nudlence in fighting mood-a

the other.

#

He opened the conference with

typical exhortation! "Come with me and we will have fun in the name of the Lord.

"Come with me and we will hold our meetings maybe on church steps, or In market places, or, best of all, next door to a Communist meeting

"Believe me, we will have no bronchial har- addiction to

pro- elabornic moniums, по

items by united grammes, no choirs, but a sanctified" free-for- alt."

A few minutes later, he was famed off

Birmingham's to

with "bull-ring" for a session

the crowds.

Vital Part

A Pacifist

Khe English

TEAS

THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, AUGUST 4, 1953.

"Oit

Customers!

War.

HOLIDAY SEASON IN SUEZ CANAL

he op- A staunch pacifist, posed the Second World with all the resources he could' worked through- master, but

out the London- blitz on day ami right duty in hostels caring for the dispossessed and in- Jured.

Since the war, he has carried with ro- his Pacifist banner newed vigour.

Last year he told a meeting: "I would rather see us overrun by the Russians than fight an- Despite the uproar other wor."

which followed, he has stuck 10 that viewpoint.

War with modern atomic would weapons, he points out,

destroy our whole civilization. Passive resistance to Commu

ism, on the other hand, would

stili give us a chance.

But the Communists

of

the kind Methodists have

That indicates revolution voted themselves.

Dr Soper

is a scholar- Cambridge M.A. and a London Ph.D., no mean feats in them- And he is a Christian selves. in the old-fashioned evangeli- cal sense; he wants to see the and in crece taken simply

the people fighting fashion and made a vital part of day- to-day living.

Who

turned up to his anecting after

that statement had awakening.

ta rude

Next to war, he hates Com- munism must of all.

full of the

PEACE IS A

||NATE OUTSPOKA SPECIAL

World Coigh by arrangemeni wlik the Munchaster Qvard

PROBLEM

After Korea come the arguments

By DEREK MARKS

there are

It all depends on how vigor- ourly Britain's overseas salcanen do their job.

Recently their task has been

They came to

The United States Govern hand to cut taxes again in the bruy and

HOR two men three

letters in the Koren met backed everwhelmingly next Budget.. stayed to scoff," he chuckles, re-

by Congress has been firm In cense fire agreement. its desire to keep China out. calling the pews

fears party faithful,

What kind of answer does he may bring political disaster But already

The anong Americans of provides to or enduring fame. think Christianity

Ve Senator Paul Dougins Foreign Britain's men? the current dilerna?

mocrat from Illinois, is already An ideal which will remain

Anthony Eden voicing these by saying:

fears unchanged in a changing world, Secretary

of "Red China's admission might Secretary the a return to concern with mut-and

tera of the spirit, a de-emphasis State John Foster Dulles. well be the implicit termo

lying behind the armistice." of worldly gain as the mujor The letters? The seemingly pre-occupation, and, above all, an ingrained sense tempered with love.

lie announced his intention

10 become

a minister at

ripe age of eleven and never wavered even though his boy hood preparation was perhaps a little out of keeping. He was and soccer captain of cricket

at two schools and an 1cams

When he all-round athlete. left school, he won a scholar- took his 10 Cambridge, ree with first class honours and

thai

to London

University.

went

U.S.

of Justice trivial etc.-abbreviation for the Latin et cetera, meaning "and the rest.”

Not To Scoff

be

ite thinks Britain and the

United Sintes have already

tung's

men

tting tougher, as competition has increased. Now the ending of that war in Kerek may give them fresh chances of the vast market of China Is reopened.

It will be months yet before worked out a scheme for the new pattern of world trading But there America to "requiesce" at the can be seen dearly.

Rising Security Council on Mao Tse- were hopes that Mr

replacing Chiang Price is on the way out-and his cheeries rival. Mr Falling Price, Kai-shek's.

Says Douglas: "It is obvious about to get a look in. we will not again try to push the Communists out of North Korea. The only way they will get out will be if we either explicitly or implicitly agree to the admission of Red China to The United Nations "That does not

mean it has been put on paper most

Tucked away at the end of the 60th paragraph of the armistice But Christianity. he insists.rement it is laid down that a

political conference shall must stick to its own Kuns called to settle the withdrawal "What kind of a showing do we

of all foreign forces from Korea. He was just 24 when he make when we oppose violence the peaceful settlement of the made his first appearance un and support wars? Does it not Korean question etc." Now what Tower Hill "I have never been look as though governments and does etc," covert - so nervous in my life," he ad- not God are behind Christianity?" Modern science and the ques- mits, and, if I hadn't lind some

he

urc-it pre- college companions to cheer me tioning, spirit.

I never would have made sent real

for Communists will insist that it is

to allow discussions on the very way." how-

issues on which Britain and the U.S. do not entirely agree.

Christianity. The answer, He told the crowd that he ever, is not to scoff at science wasn't there to make a speech, and doubt, but to recognise their but he would come back every worth and make use of them. Wednesday to answer ques- Given the enlightened crusnd-

he tions. He hos-and he was only ing spirit, is convinced stumped once.

nothing can stop his Church and That

heckler all Christians in the new re- was when Interrupted a reply on the volution.

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The United Nations hope that cbverta vary little. But the

Chief of these are the position of Chiang Kai-shek on Farmora and the admission of Red China to the United Nations.

QUERY: WHAT OF JAPAN ?','

VILL the U.S. agree to W

lift the embargo on understandings are implicit any trade with Red China?

not

The State Department would comment on Dougins's opinions except to draw atten- to the comment by tion Secretary of State Dulles that Chinese admission to UNO was to bo not a suitable question rafoed at the post-traca Korean political conference.

McCARTHY WILL BE LICKED

Geoffrey Cox sums up his impressions

America's problem politician

of

The calling of Mr Wechsler also uvold a split with McCarthy untli UST over 100 years ago

Lincoln led the American editors to con- after the Congressional elections Abraham

fer about the threat to the free- next year, wrote angrily to his dom of the Press involved in such

But t friend Joshua Speed inquiries, and to draw up a

Is doubtful # the go along with about the "Know Nothings," policy to meet any future. case. President can

Senator McCarthy until 1954. 1 political group led by the

Part of the counter-attack has For McCarthy Is steadily ex- McCarthys of that day, who been ineffective because it has ploiting the present situation to

bulld up were campaigning against bean based on the argument that

a dangerous bock-stairs the internal Communist timeat is influence within the Administra- now immigrants.

entirely a creation of McCarthy's tion, and in particular within the

State department.

A leader

"If the Know Nothing policy fantasy. was accepted," he said, "I would

To the American public, the prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of Fuchs case and the Hiss cate loving liberty, to Russia, for in a fresh in their minds, this stance, where despotism can just does not make sense. But to him spreads be taken pure and without the the oppoaltion

now far outalde these more Security Officer of the State De- base alloy of hypocrisy."

doctrinaire elrcles. Yet within eight years the sitives had been emancipated, the Six weeks ago, for instance. power to get his own way in civil war had been fought and Mr George Kennan, the former "purge of the books and by secur

matters by the won, and the basic ideals and American Ambassador to Russia, ing the removal of the official in purposes of the American Re- who was the architect pubile had been reaffrined.

One in five

I believe the same course of events will mark the future of McCarthy and McCarthyism.

Virulent as his inäuence Iz It is facing mounting counter- attack which I believe will not

of the

He has managed to get his own nominoe appointed

201

partment, has demonstrated his

administrative

The can bo

polley of containing the Soviet Germany who stood up to his bloc, took the occasion of a snoopers, Cohn and Schine, speech at the Roman Catholic indirect effects of this

far reaching. University of Notre Dame to attack McCarthyism.

Strong words

Every official in the State De- pariment now works with as t were McCarthy peering over his shoulder, aware that at any time he may be summoned before the He assailed those who try to Senator's Committee 'to account he may have "impel us to thoughts and actions for any policies

adversaries advocated. This is unlikely, to only be successful, but will leave which our Soviet America the stronger for the re- would most like to see us odopt any the least, to produce either Mrmation of its real principles, and which they have tried, over bold planning or to encourage For every American who a period of some 35 years, to the recruitment of good men. thinks McCarthy is right--the draft upon us through the

No Administration can allow

Gallup Poll puts the figure at operations of their Communist such infiltration by any Con-

one

In every five another Party." equally vehemently thinks he

wrong. This opposition does not These are strong words, in

2 setting from such a capture the headlines in the way such the Senator does, but it is a force man-and they were warmly up

of considerable power. It is plauded, headed by an influential section

of the Press, and in particular

Though the hunt for Com

gressman. much less by McCarthy,

Time, moreover, is running against McCarthy. He has built his reputation on the cry that the American Government was full of secret Communists. This was

a powerful slogan in an election year, when the Government be- longed to the opposing party.

In

by the Washington Post, the New munists in American schools and goes on, Harvard and the New York colleges still York Times

It includes many leading University this summer look a Post. columnists whose writing does a stand and kept on the staff three

But now McCarthy's own Re- great deal to offset the pro- professors who had refused to

Hearst fell Congress whether or not they publicans are in office, and every McCarthy line of the

had been Communists.

shout and McCormick papers.

of "Communista A few days later Mr Justice Government" is an attack on his

own side. Douglas, the judge of the United States Supreme Court who or The return of Adlai Stevenson,

the Presidential also stiffen the

Until forces.

On the radio

Rosenberg case, spoke out at a States eince

On the air Elmer Davis, still dered the last-minute stay in the who has been out of the United one of the most effective com- meeting of leading lawyers and election, will

in the country, has judges against the use of Con- anti-McCarthy mentators been unwavering in his antagogressional inquiries as courts of now these have lacked a leader iam to the Senator, and he law, without giving the accused of national stature has important allies in this fight at the same time the usual pro- among other topline radio tections of the law.

figures.

Stevenson is such a figure.

War passions

"The Senator has, except on In the House of Representa- one occasion, refrained from Aives a move is now under dis- turning his investigating com- cussion to tighten up the pro-

on the "Press cedure of these committees_of mitee loose though he readily smears the inquiry, and the Washington Bar would be the Washington Pest, whose politics has submitted recommendations truce in Korea which no doubt are about those of the London for this purpose.

Times.

Washington

Waiting...

The chief blow to McCarthyism conclusion of a

explains the Senator's feverish praise for Thee. Ho is not, politically, a big man in any way. He has no programme, no policy, no organised following.

He is a small, cruel figure, who

Es "the edition of the Dally Worker"

On the one. occasion when McCarthy did "investigate" on editor - when he summoned

The most powerful political Joseph Wechsler, of the Washing-- ton Post he got better than he force ranged against McCarthy looms large only because he is, however, the President. There stands on the heaped-up passions gave.

af, the cold war and above all no doubt that President

of the Korean war. Anything Elsenhower detests

which cuts this ground from and the intolerance and injustice under his feet will reduce him to he personifies.

Tied in knots

•

is

McCarthy

China is hungry for machine tools and transport equipment.

Wechsler was ostensibly called Why then does the President She wants the ban lifted.

because one of his books, re- not come out against "Jumping So do the major countries of garded by McCarthy to sub- Joe," as the more sedate Re-

versive, had been on the shelves publicans term McCarthy? Europe and Asia.

of American libraries overseas.

The answer And now

another Wechsler, who had been a Com- question: What is Japan going munist for a brief

comes

his true stature.

Meanwhile he is being steadily ringed around by forces which will sooner or later destroy him. And the greatest of all these given by the forces is the one which, though

of

Dulles may not think, it ap- to do it, shorn of revenue from 1 youth, but who period in his President's friends, is that he slow to move, is very powuzu

Therefore the big issue is whether Mr Eden and air Dulles can agree on these matters. If they can, then the chances of general Fir East settlement are If they much, much brighter. cannot, then there is a big donger that Britain and the US, will be

CHEAPER PRICES diplomatie embroiled in ber

wrangling. The three letters are as important as that,

NEW BATTLE STARTS

By HENRY LOWRIE

Washington.

is biding his time he believes that basic instinctive de Deople

which

is now one of America's most outspoken left that he must get the Senator on the mass of the American

Frankin critics of the Communists, en issue in which McCarthy is to which President propriate, but terrifle pressure the U.S. Army, she carswt ex-

Chinese marten

in- and his is expected to be put on him port to the vast

seen, even by his own backers, to Roosevelt, in his day appealed got the Senator

again and again on great issues to include it at the conference,

ket? She

is going to expand vestigates tiet into knots by be entirely in the wrong.

had not in And McCarthy, whose technique like Lend-Lease and zomehow and will try to force proving that they

now the half truth rather than never let him down. fact read his books, nor even her way into British markets.

know which ones they were the Big Llc, has so far avoided In this struggle it will be

decisive. tuny such issue.

In the battle against So far the State Department complaining of

Eisenhower is being held back the Know Nothings of today I on its stand to When asked his views on Com- By ALEXANDER THOMSON is not budging

restrict trade, Said a spokes-munism, he replied that his views by his own desire to avoid rows for one have no doubt where the

used to pres- "WO GTC man:

on Joe Stalin were the same as with Congress, and by his party victory will lio-with the in his views on Joe McCarthy.

him to heritors of the Lincoln Tradition.

OUTLOOK

TO Britain's 12,000,000 sure."

housewives peace in Koren brings the home of cheaper prices in the shops.

THE fighting is over-- For months most of the lead- commodities In world fighting begins. Ing

To the

Already the lines are being markets have been tumbling,

SALESMEN

effect of this fall should have n

the price tags on keepers' counters.

the shop-

す

AMERICA'S

London.

Phas promised to supply

managers, who urge

PACIFIC

PROBLEMS

BY PATRICK MAITLAND, M.P.

on July 15, that if the US, wants the National Scourity Corps "Turned into an army, it can only

Clearly, then, Mr Rhee has a without undue expenditure of be done a certain terms

manned for the battle: on the view that the shooting RESIDENT Eisenhower Shall Red China join UNO or would soon be over. Now

that & has really ended the South Korea with sufficient strong Inducement to keep Ameriain manpower and effort, One is that the United States ;. better chance of being seen in equipment for six divisions, the truce. For without a fully- the must establish alliances. The pays. The second is that there

could not cornerstone, in American eyes, is is no American control. This promise lies at the heart equipped army he

stand.

Northr an ecord with Japan, which has up to

Indeed, the Japanese Govern- of the bargain struck between hope to

be a millary mark is now pledged not to dis- President Rhee and the US. Korea-and without a truce he necessarily to

could not hope long to main alliance,

close its defence pians to the a bargain upon

United States, loyalty to Government,

But it was the United States the Constitution, it has any such which America is relying as a the of safeguarding

person of General At the same time other im- in plications of the truce are far- MacAnhurwhich wrote into the plans, hos reaching. For instance, the Japanese Constitution a pledgo

* United States has militarlly ever to go to war. stabilised the main object is,

***

But the men and women who buy for the big shops said price changes

that

will

not be large. For wages are still going up and they play a big part in fixing shopping prices,

For Britain as a whole there bomus" in our overseas trading

Since January the prices of

means trucar

Koroa

tuln an drmy.

the

position, Hor This now needs to be explained An interesting commentary on

and Premier. Yoshida has not been of Japanese

could be a subeianilał "peace equipment. Such weapons, in frce of an ember over, to be away, and the Government of the present, pentilon is tho wish

any Aslan formidable

Already South an army of more than half 2 millon, formed into 15 divisions with abundant American

under. business army, constitute a unpopular commitment. with slow to exploit the opportunity, takings to return to peacetimo

factor fr the out endangering her own,

After much delay, neguttalions commerce-a destro'apparent for security. Disengagement, with have of fast begun to conclude a the past year. For some time the raw materials wo buy balance of power. abroad have fallen by 1a. 3d. în

influence, is Presi Mutual Security Agency agree Japanese businesmen have feli The promise of equipment out losing

under which the US, that, once the Korean war ended, the £..

for another six divisions, how dent Eisenhower's alm.

would Bivo

economie and the arms boom would be deflated. ever, moona that this, extra

milltary aid to help Japan re Barveen July and September. The US. would like toʻlast year, no fewer than 42 This, tho expects reckon, could material can be used to form a

10 saving for Britain of reserve, while those men

see is standing Japanese Army textile mills in a single ares of at least 10 divisions.

Bought authority to start arma- But since the Japanese profers menta production. Dis only two themselves inhibited by the "no are engaged upon it now.

mean

now

£300 million in oversens spood-under arms can be regarded as

ing this year at the prices ve a standing army, kt

Already be has discovered how dimcult it is do control any army

get for exports sing as they are. The importance of Prosklerits South Korea's once it has

boon formed, promise lies in

Go the new peace could bring Eisenhower's

more reliels for Britain's 10,500, the fact that he has coupled |000 kaxpayers.: *

ment

arm.

clouse in wer Constitution, Throughout the counley, fee- A poroebat aknilar difficulty and argue that they dislike war tories prefer to resume normal

with it the warning that all how arisen with regard to Japan, anyway, they.com put up the peacetime production rather then Piekabes make themselves available to the Even if there is no fol-up in this equipment will be with-

If the United States strategic price, badly 12 polu spending, Chancellor held if the truce is broken by position la to be maintained. In fact, they have been saying, United States for repair, and Butler should havo something in South Korea.

throughout the Pacific Ocean siopa negotiationis benso in Tokyo maintenance beders,

defence