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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7, 1954,
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ICK MEALAND. moth-proof means. 10 molha. statesman when his country was faced with destruction by old American Let us begin at the beginning.
When a mother-to-be 'moth o ruthless enomy, we shall fight chum of mine,
becomes aware of the impend- them in the wardrobes, In the writing in Variety. Ing miracle of birth her first chests of drawers, on the coat "The English no instinctive reaction, like
tho the hangers, and in alring shall nover longer say:
of all creation, is to cupboards. Wo ''Pip pip, by mothers Jove, what ho, toodle-oo, seek most anxiously for a place surrender." (Loud and prolong- miracle can occur in peace and of refuge, for a place where this safety,
Anys:
and don't-cher know. They say: 'Get cracking, cheerio, righto, good show, ruddy,
No doctors are standing by
sticky, and I couldn't care to attend the mother moth in less,
Cheerio, cheerio
Couldn't care lega and jaliy
good show
If most are poor
her time of trini. No bed in hospital awaits her.
"At the supreme moment of
ed cheers.)
Countryman's Diary
her life, gentlemen, the and we all moth in alone (eries of 'shame'). No
little Now that the earth has cast
look dumb We all pet racking and never
look plum
We may not will be quite the
Tojik
With chinks, and goons, and
frog and tops
We still have all the nicest
Cope
Oh, jolly pood, jully pood
shote
Cheerio, cheerio Conddn't care less and jolly
Dood show
We all have colds and we ult
have chilts
away its winter shroud of fluttering snow, and is rousing itself like a drowsy plant before it opens bedroom, to
lis sleep-heavy eyes to blink spring, there is an at the blazing glory of the air of ex- pectancy in the countryside.
drawer
"Frightened and from bedroom searching for an open or cupboard, she must be asking herself
aver fiver and
again, 'Shall I find a woollen cardigan, a suil or even a pair of socks in time?
"Up uit now, gentlemen, thia brave Jittle mother-to-be in Usually found her place of refuge (cheers). She has usually lly found the best place (loud cheers). Her dear Ritle gruba (erles of bless 'em all') have We're singed to the gutter with been born among the best cloth- ing (prolonged cheers) to patent pilis
not sulle nourish themselves on the finest Sheep's wool until they are Badajos ready to fend for themselves. ourretnes prefer
If our Rame fra
what it waA
A1 Waterloo
We
becazar We think tee're
grond alone.
は
Jolly
Cherrlo, cheerko
{"in't
Iras CATE good sho
Already in coppice, mead and woodland the first snowdrops hang their shy, while heads, while from the Des upper
window of the all-sorts shop, the brazen daughter of the postmaster hangs a bolder head to attract the attention of young men passing by.
In the hedgerow, sheltering the East under the hill from
a yellow crocus peEPA wind, timidly across the cold, empty Belds, soon to be green with corn, Presently, when the "You might compare these furlous March winds have given way to the gentle April breezes items of clothing, gentlemen, to a nursery; later on, as the grubs the steep bank along the wind- Krow
to 1123,
school, D
ing lane will be studded with university, and, finally,
abining in the
blossom, as the night and Jolly ease of many a Bhe old tweed sky is studded with stars, or as jacket, in a club where us oldkr the bosom of the postmaster's daughter is often sludded with refresh gather to ourselves ins rach other's coni-
cheap jewellery.
What if ener reputation moths may
stinker
др boring
Aizdzene
ki Server utsch pany,
tiddlywinks?
Th
MORTS Thane
of
dimmed our fame
n
what 14
1 will
•Well,
gentlemen. going to happen now?
Mitha im- tell you. 4. Erand
title pregnated nursery every
rub that is born will die (cries
Ar almost peru
pame W: chrer the winners Jest
the "
Ol
Moth
AT
ruddy pod. ruddy good show.
Crisis
The
to discuss what be taken to ensure
'murderers' and help the
bik as
a malber moth
lady fuials).
In a Mitin impregnated school every pupit will lic. They will die as suddenly and painfully ля
had it somebody filled Elon College with poison gas.
Later on, half hidden in the
the dalsic rich, deep grass, will open their petals to greet the sun, the daffodils will nod their golden helmets benevo-
lently at the little velvet faces
of the wild pansies smiling at their feel; and the wild post- master's daughter will nod and smile at anybody under 40 in trousers.
Signs of stirring from the winter sleep can be seen in the meadows where the
young lambs leap for the joy of living, and heard in the woodlands where, in the branches of the tall
"And Anally, gentlemen, though this is not so important as the fate of our youth, the al every Mitin im- pregnated malhs' club will die is surely as
the members of Athenaeum would die if they were throttled during their after 1o come. lunch sleep.
a meeting of moths chairman said: "Gentlemen, we are gathered members here today action can our survival in a rapidly chang~ ing worki
now that scientists, after years of research, have discovered a substance called Milin, which will make clothing "Well, gentlemen, grave 419 moll-proof.
the situation is I do not despair "Gentlemen, let us e: nsider (cheers). If I may paraphrase for a moment what the phrase the
noble
of u great
words
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Sop is rising in the orchard where the frull trees, now black and bare, will soon display their tiny waxen buds which, in turn, will blaze into ปี brilliant splendour of white and pink as suddenly as a tropical down, or suddenly as the postmaster's daughter will blaze into her hideous print frock bought at the local store.
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CHINA MAY OUTSHINE
T
RUSSIA
HE Geneva Conference will expose one of to- day's most controver- sial questions: the extent to which Red China is Moscow satellite.
a
the
Americans have
jong called this a "Sixty Four Dollar Question." For on its answer depends how West will attempt to reach a Far East settlement,
At least one clue,; how- ever, was found in the Ber- in Conference when Molo- boy asked for delays be- tween secret sessions.
Moscow
By
AT GENEVA
James Wickenden
were
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Communists and Moscow signed the famous Alliance.
was
Treaty of
By then Mao had, alone and unaided, made himself master of China. There was no question
to much Moscow might be regard-
partner.
the be captured for Commun-ed by the
of jam.
world as the elder
for instructions, In fact for 27 years party led by Chiang Kai- of Mao being a puppet, however but through the Kremlin to Lenin, und then Stalin, shek па the group Peking.
to opposed This supported one of methods and intentions Whitehall's prevailing be- sturdy, moon-faced Mao liefs: that Russia no longer Tse-tung. pretends to guide munism
Asia.
in
Com- The Russians held
Mao's Chinese
peasant roots from and, history ***
Communism;
Chinese
Mao disregarded their advice and the activities of
deviation thosn explain his to Chinese Communists who follow- Russian To mark indeed, Southeast the orthodox view of Com. ed the Moscow line,
theli disfavour, the Russian plains why Communism in China Lenin leaders fred Mao from the is a different type of movement
Orthodox View
can
munist revolution. thought that: "only the Politburo in 1927.
to Communism elsewhere. industrial proletariat
The story was confirmed by For 2,000 years the only liberate the tolling masses Stalin in 1948 when he admited classes which have mattered in
that he had China have to the Yugoslavs were IF Moscow
indeed of the countryside."
been the peasants In "bluntly told Mis Chinese and the mandarins. They were abandoning this preten- other words, Communism comrades to join Chiang Krl the backbone of the country-
But they had done other the labour of millions and the wise and proved themselves administration of scholars, often right.
with humble beginnings.
hasty Alone, Unaided
sup-
was not
until late in 1940
It seemed doubtful that sion, it would fit the known must be led by factory shek. he wanted time to get in- facts of Communist develop workers. Signs of stirring from a winstructions from
Moscow, ment in China. These add The Soviet leaders ter sleep may also be observed in old Mr Gargle who has been It had been clear from his up to the conclusion that, thought Mao was frost bound and ice bound in suavity that, on European although China is closely in enlisting peasant his insanitary cottage overlook-matters, he had
to Russin, she free linked
outset, and is port at the ing the duck pond.
no satellite.
pointed out the Marxist T that Stalin finally erased try- But now that spring is ut
Chinese Communism has doctrine that "the
pro- ing to win over the Kuomintang. hand and sap, об rather It was only when the always developed indepen- letarian revolution must be Meanwhile, Mao's peasant party rheumatic seld, is rising in his Geneva Conference
was dently of Moscow, although preceded by a bourgeois re- had been growing for more than allcks may be heard shouting finally arranged that his the Russian leaders occa- volution."
twenty years.
And it was only street, delays seemed explicable. sionally have tried to guide
as recently So the Russian leaders ns February 1950 that the first He was not applying to it.
regarded the Kuomintang treaty between Mao's Chinese
viens, old Mr Gargle, on two
the village Curses in and while mothers cali
their children home and bang their cottage doors, the thirsty and blasphemous centenarian makes his painful way up the Ice-free road to the village Inn.
Cupid's Corner
16
For
AM 33 and I have known
my fance
for
12 years.
been engaged. When I mention
hand.
Does Ceylon Want The Queen?
Dwant
OES Ceylon really
the Queen?
■ I.
Only with their joint support could a revolution succeed. The town dwellers and merchants counted for little.
This Mao realised In 1927. For him the peasants were the spearhead of revolution,
and what he aimed at was shown in his "New Democracy." Much of it was based on an ancient. Chinese idea the classless Chinese community.
T
New.Seer
TT is also evident that Mao took Inspiration from the Tai- ping "Prince of Heaven" Hung Hsu-chuan, and that his military strategy was derived from Sun Wu who lived about 400 B.C.
Mao found much of his own
and his followers are Yet he convinced that they are the truc disciples of Marx and Lenin. So Mao is regarded as a new secr of an established belief.
eight years we have This is the question posed By MARTIN SCOTT SAUNDERS up to much more than it was Communism in China's culture. marriage he more or less ends by recent reports from the the conversation, He never Island Dominion.
kisses me"-letter to balm specialist,
heart 2
How long have we engaged?
i don't know,
I make eight years.
Do you?
It's a long time, isn't it? Yes.
1
An answer demands been knowledge of Ceylon's his
tory and an understanding of its politics today.
Even A casual visitor there would note that,
All my friends are married. Go on?
a wesiding ring yes-
***
I saw terday;
did I. So Were
you looking at wed- ding rings In a jeweller's shop?
No.
groups
Even so, total opposition to the Queen's visit does not add in 1948, when the rest of the country gave, the Duke and of Gloucester a have Duches
tremendous welcome,
COTE-
Ceylon, it meant nothing new tionally. Both to the people. They regarded boycotted Parliament's
03 the continuation of monial occasions—so continous- tradition, The only difference ly that there would now be was the replacement of a surprise only if they were to Tamil by an English king attend. (Ceylon's three previous kinga tho were Tamils) and so beginning of a British dynasty.
F
With Stalin's death, Mao Tse- ng rose in importance as the senior "old man" of Communism. His prestige was probably further increased with the ability of
A still more affectionate re- ception for the Queen can be expected, for this is the frat ume since the fall of the Sin In this attitude towards the halose Kingdom that Ceylon Queen's visit, they have a new has had the opportunity of wel Chinese arms in Korea. ยง
ally in the Sri Lanka Freedom coming her own sovereign. far as the people aro cen-
With the declaration of In, Party, ked by Mr S. W. R. D. cerned, there is no dislike with the passing of the Titles the Parliamentary Opposition.
dependence, and particularly Bandaranaike, oficial leader of of either the British or the Act by the Ceylon Parliament concept of Royalty.
2500 Years
for personal reasons,
Festival Dates
The only criticism that could
$
So Molotov's delays for advice was only the acceptance of the fact that. in Eastern affairs, Mao's voice must be heard.”
However, In the extension of
in 1052, Coylon once again pro- This party was formed when clalmed her own sovereign in its leader and followers split They are, In fact,
strongly the person of Queen Elizabeth tway from the Government be made is that the visit will Communism, Moo'd concern ap- pro-British and loyal to the IL
party (United National Party) entail extra stale expenditure, pears mostly limited to Indo- Crown. This stems naturally
which can be Ul-afforded at China." Where did you see it, then? from Ceylon's political develop-
this time. But the Government On my married sister's Anger. I ment
to. from Crown Colony 25.00 in &
Woud you rather be married Independent Dominion along a church or registrar's constitutional path without re- 25.00❘omee?
sort to mass action or political violence. 35.00
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Makes no difference to me. We could get a special licence. What for?
King George VI
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To get married, of course. Why have a special licence? To get married quicker. Who wants to get married
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Wo'ro both getting older. So is everybody else, My mother married at 18. Fancy.
No Hiding Placa (Behind Scotland Yard)
I'm 33.
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You don't say?
24.00 I'm 42.
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They included in their has sought to spare the Ex-There is little evidence of the political programme the concept chequer the extra burden; most chains of authority, but it seems Queen Elizabeth is now of a repubile outside the Com- of the spending would be by Ukely that Russia controls Queen of Ceylon not by virtue monwealth, When they
went
Individuals and private concerns Communism in India and Japan, of the fact that she is Queen of to the country on this issue at and, in the case of officials, the But Mao holds the strings in England, but because she was the last general elections, how- money will derive from the countries culturally linked As a race, too, the Sinhalese proclaimed Queen of Ceylon by ever, they won only ten seats, sums that they are customarily China round her have, throughoul, shown strong the Island's people through and these were gained more on voted. traditional attachment to
cluding Tibet. the their Parliamentary representa- the strength. of Crown' (whether their own or tives.
than on policy. the British) as a symbol of authority and en embodiment
of the nation's espirations.
Unbroken Line
Thus was continued the line of sovereigns which, us Ceylon alone con boast, has continued unbroken for 2,500 years.
personalities
Loyal Address
Nevertheless,
Besides, the Government has
to
borders, in-
Important
to selected the dates that they coincide with national festivnía, -Ceylon's Now Year (April 13 THE Geneva Conference is
therefore and 14) celebrated by the island
of importance.. Party Buddhists and Hindus; and For the first time China, a key
who Eastor.
by hor figure In the East, will be brought to a full-drosa discusalon on-Indo-China.
celebrated
1
it was Yet, despite tradițión, there leader Mr Bandaranaike Is just now sortie, opposition to proposed the Address of Thanks Christions. Since the beginning of their the Queen's visit, and even to to the Duke of Gloucester in history, 2,500 years ago, they the idea of Ceylon being in the 1948 at the Independence celo- We
We might go on Uke this have been governed by kings Commonwealth. This opposition brations.
On the issue of a generous His spoech was welcome the Government, and queens in an unbroken lino stems.
Mao will certainly make use from Ceylon's Com memorable, not only for Its which commands an of succession.
abantute of the conference. The struggla - munists, whose nolie.. exceeds eloquence but also for
Chiang: the Parliamentary majorliy (74 out against his old rival. Their sovereigns
their real strength and in sentiments have not
of loyalty to the of 101), in assured of the widest Kei-shek will continue, and he, always been Sinhalese. Tamils fiuence. In the 101-man House Crown it expressed.
rational support. The Com will try to take the place of from South India have succeed munists. number only twelve.
of Representatives, the Com- Hi vacillation onco provoked munists
and
their follow the Formosan delegation in the another important front travellers have had their say, United Nations. Of these, Devon Aro Reds bencher, also of the Opposition, which has got more publicity. But the possibility of a settle. professing absolute" allegiance to käy of him!-***
than it deserved. And now the ment of the seven-year-old war
We might go on forever, You'll be dead before then. Don't you want to kiss me? No, thanks.
SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, LTD. Why not
HONGKONG
KOWLOON
Don't fancy it,
(World ›Copyright),
ed to the Sinhalese throne by matrimonial contract.
So when power passed into to the Soviet Union; the others "I do not love thee, Banda people will have their way, so in Indo-China is worth that the hands of the British and the are Trotskyiten who preach dear,
that a Royal welcome awaits risk, and the Geneva Conference King of England (Cisorge III in revolution, but are not prepared Because you change from the Queer when she reaches is the real meanire of succem a 1910) was proclaimed. King of to support, Rumin: uncondie year to year.
Ceylon on April 10,
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