1954-04-29 — Page 4

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, APRIL 29, 1954.

THE

NEW WORLD DISPLAYS

The map

INDON CHINA

ITS

PROSPERITY

By C. WARD PRICE

Vancouver, human

EW FOUND

has created Canadians

the

Every

With

or-

Inhabitants. wealth dinary workmen gething $10, or £5. Л day, the "used car" among business is making fortunes.

Canudien prosperity is con-

the present day a mood similar spinous in huge hotels to that of the winner of a springlag up or being enlarged

Chi in the cities.

Saturday evening in Montreal or Tornito thing seems possible. There there are more tail coats and is in this country

11 whil TROW

ties escorting crinoline general outburst of econos desses and fur coats than May-

whole season. fair seen in mic optimism.

Tintil World War II, revealed the ludden wealth and capacity most of the British ref Canada,

big football

pusest.

Thousands of energetic young men are preparing to set chat on

spring enEMEKT Į bunting to the country's ma thern will barnes,

700,000 SQUARE

STA

a

But wilderness competing Today the

of

t

and swamp. One is ju

Having

in the Trend 233 (*.

but I have bun

to

City, he wanted to kn

I

thought his chances

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poprem run aw

would be." want to get

quick, canally

Most vr Canada's

15,000,000 ubabitants,

to their jobs m The

wh

of

INDIA

DELI KARACHI

FOKGKASYA

INA

AKISTA

"Mats'

ASKARA

THURM

TWO

JIMA

CARO

SOVIET UNION

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it to be а

by outcasts.

JOHNSTON

is the cGE, any Canadians regard the กางเก United Kingdom as a ruin ip- habited by mendicants.

With is dullur exceeding in value that of the United States, the Canadian currency belongs it the financial neisteracy, while been reduced to sturbing ha

the "deserving

ther

of the level

fied

their farms in the prane, are

indulging their

ødventure and poring over the of a multi de of

companies

The object DI strike OH, 1<W 1x141

many

fur

American envy

nehmen by NOT only has Canada become

the refuge for which all prospectunts the displaced populations of small among Europe vearn, but the discovery of vist and unsuspected mineral wenith has made it eme of the believed W greatest storehouses of Western un civilisation. Its mighty neigh- Pour the United States, though

suspected parts of Canada,

'ן

to discover more deposita ut fus

has more than ten times the uranium, gold, Dsbustos, and population, is beginning to look base-melods, in all of which then Canada with an envy that Th tifinutely finds prurient expression in the largest perent flow of American capital

vzuniny

becoming The World's purveyor

New confidence

ink the Dominion.

That name,

by the way, is with the nipular contrast with the gloomy

of Canodn. This in nol atmosphere of 20 WHEN ag beruse the attachment to the

the new sound of confidence is British Cammimwealth is in any startling.

way weakening 10 is due to During the depression of the other assoemtions

of the word early thirties it was common ominion which, it is felt, are to see "hoboes ruthing the roda" turidicating for 1t country of ---out-of-worka sleading trom such importance. rides by lying flat on the tops National flag of Bright cars at Use risk of being swept off by the roofs of SIMILAR

up:

considerations

tunnels. Today many of those

underlie the demand for a To sum tough young men me dresing Canadian national flag.

of Inriend

the British top ad es.

Canadians, they The capolation of Canada patronising the Trumbers 25 1. Fent of ats have begun to patronise us.

For some fortunate people

"SUREKILL" D.D.T. CARDS present-day Canda has paved

by

SILVERTHORN MFG. CO.

LONDON

a red bonanza,“ It is doubt-

ful whether any country in the world can duplicate the well-

bring

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1:

Mr Erie Harvie

.

established in

solleitor, lung Calgary, where

he used to handle the affairs of some of the large ranchers who,

it [{*!

by were the

riched on, lotants of Alberta.

with Ang

Lars which he dealt were the ing right on the properties pl

Wire It

whiri considered all but valueless.

reting spirit that some was in of My Hervie's clients offered to

fransfer such rights him in

settlement of his statement of abthost in that connection.

An efficient preventutive

damages against #ther fishes and other inarets, In uncdrobes, truals, Pabinets, drawers, etc. A card

Parel

lasts Fererat montres.

hospitals, government

tions etc. in England.

L

Krstiti

A BRITISH PRODUCT

Obtainable from

Against

skin disease and itching

Romantic story

with

E accepted the proposal, 11th

wit that, following up Be Mg new od-strikes in Aleta,

wh started seven ago, Mr Harv.e finds him- elf tortas in pevsess; in ol a for- Tunneler, ted at anything from

Ves

stars,

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which In

WORLD PEACE COULD BE DECLARED HERE

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ADARA

MIDWAY L

PRESTWICK CADDY PORT LYAUTEY

CASABLANCA

THULE

REFLAVIK

COLD BAY

KODIAK

FAIRBANKS

AZORES

ATLANTIC

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АНСКАМ

TACOMA

CHURCHIS EDMOGHTON

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WINNIPEG

A.

URGENFIA

„DENFÉLE

WASHINGTON

BERMUDA

OCEAN

Scrinin mounts in Indo- China, iho Americans organise

wir-lift to help the hard-premed French. Reports say that heavy trans- pori planes are being switched from bases in Europe, North Africa and the Philippines to carry urgently-needed supplies to the French forces In the Far East.

The organisation for such major operation exists, se tho Newsmap shows bere.

Back on June 1, 184B, the Military Air Transport Service wan created by the American Department of Dolence. MATH was a Navy-Air Force merter, charged with the mission of supplying the air transport and related require- menta of all the military services,

MATS not only rings the world, but encircles the Com- munist world. It operates its own bases, leases bases, shares

* DON IDDON'S

1. FRANKFURT

2. PARIS

3. LONDON

SATELLITE AND

OCCURED STATES

bases, has user-rights on other bases It can rush, at thirty times the speed of surface transport, men, supplies, and ammunition to алу part of the free world.

This is the map of strategy -ibe map that made possible the Washington declalon to avert at all costs a sudden Communist victory In Indo- China.

DIARY

No Bomb Hysteria

In

Manhattan

New York, Tuesday. HERE was a fair-sized the Civil crowd ht

the

Dispalehes from London de- opened on April Fools Day, seribing British discontent with and it is engaging follshness.

has Glass" Lack of

Burning Co-operation on

Hard- Washington's part and charging closed and Sir Cedric

who starred, has been

The

read with interest.

American arrogance are being wicke: Wamers to appear in

By ROBERT ALLEN

A pon-picture of the great Palais dos Nations on which the eyes of an anxious world are turned, Our correspondent there gives you some facts and figures which are not generally known concerning the venue of Foreign Ministers of East and West. SELLER++++

n

are de- Geneva. Director of the United Nations wainscoting, the walls

cornted with murals by the THE Palais des Nations in Europe.

Jose Maria But each day before dawn its Spanish painter, in Geneva, where the three miles of corridors are in- Sert. Asian Peace Con- vaded by an army of 07 char- The representallves of the ference is taking place, is women and 19 male cleaners, participating governments sit at

in The

bronzo rubber flooring deadens the the

table largest building

semi-circular Europe after Louis XIV's sound of their footsteps as they supported on a marble base. Each go about their work, which is seat is provided with earphones palace at

Versailles. Sur- done with true Swiss thorough-

to no that everyone can listen 60 acres of ness, and when the elerleol staff the rounded by

in his own proceedings

for all speeches will magnificent park it occupies arrives at nine o'clock the whole language,

place Is spotless.

be

translated simultaneously an area of 200,000 square

Russian, Over 1,200 people

from

all into English, French, feel.

parts of the world are

Chinese and Korean. per- in Impressive in its sim maneatly

tho employed

40-hour the huge

They work o plicity,

white Palais.

their week and

salneles

The room is lighted by ure stone frcnde stretches for a calculated on an almost Ameri- tall windows that look out on to and the quarter of a mile along a can

Rcale. Moreover, belag the Lake of Geneva

distant mountains; but the de- slope overlooking city and international civil servants, they

legates will turn their backs to lake. Directly opposite, 30 are exempt from income tax.

splendid view and Laco miles away as the crow flies,

compositions, colosan! towers the

1: Plero,

the

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to

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Ave

The personnel Includes snowy peak of

which demonstrate the useless- Less of

war, with the victors Mont Blanc. Europe's "curiosity,"

maguirem 15-year-old peacock, crushed under the weight of highest mountain.

who struts around the lawns their losses and the vanquished Erected originally to house w

use and courtyarda in solitary state. swearing to be revenged. the League of Notions.

He is a fully-fledged staй mem- This is not the only admoni. f'alais is the outcome of inter ber in his own right, and there ton to the men who hold

Lho nutional collaboration. Its de- in o spectal Item in the budget future of world peace in their sign was the work of five for his care and maintenance. hands. As they enter the con- architects two Frenchmen, a Piero has a flair for the Im ference chumber they have to Hungarian,

Italian and а portent devasion, and takes his pass under a marble bas-rellof Swiss.

sinnd at the main entrance to by the British sculptor, Eric When, in

1920.

the League cock a supercilious cye nt the Gill It shows the finger of God decides to build itself a home, Foreign Ministers of the Great touching the hand of Man, with it work!wide competition was Powers 83 they urrive and the inscription: held, but of the 10.000 drawings deport.

mastering me, God, submitted by 377 architects not. The room Where the Con- giver of breath and bread, one satisfer the jury of inter- fervare is being held is called World's strand, sway of the nationid experis. So the League the Council Chamber, and is sex. Lord of living and dead, decided to drop the experts arut large square apartment seating call in the diplomata, and a 500. five-man commitee (from Brl- tale,

Columbia, Czechoslovakia, Greece and Japan) was entrust- ied with the wisk of choosing the plan that most nearly complied with the requirements.

They gave their preference to a project campiled jointly by a Frenchman and a Swiss, but, diplomatic tact,

with

named three other architects to collaborate with them in pre-

Anal and paring the

plan.

definite

Work started right away

but

the building was

only

com-

pletely Anished in 1938, the League had dlarupted The total cost

when

already been

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Thou

over again I feel Thy finger and Above the grey marble and Thee."

AN

OLD STAR COMES OUT OF RETIREMENT

By J. W. TAYLOR

【ISPANIOLA, the Old proudly did she rail through the

d

adventures. This done, she was bought by the Scarborough Corporation for £6,500 and was a real money- spinner for three seasons. Over £18,000 was taken from viators the aquarium and other interestin

attractions, and then Into well-cared

But this was not for long. A

www

retirement.

Last of the British-registered at

her to

over £2,000,000. Today it would come out of retirement to be two or three times as much. star again, and this time There are five storeys above she will employ a make-up ground and two

below. with deliberately meant to de- 820 offices. 20 conference rooms and an assembly hall almost

lost ceive yet to impress. She who clambered aboard

vicw twice the size of Covent Garden is proud of her age and Opera, London, There are also doesn't mind you knowing it sho went Defence office at Park

two restaurants, two cinemas, ait is 67. bank, a post office, 24 lts, â Avenue and 59th Street

signed

radio broadcasting station, when

"Helen of

which will be 1 arrived there. A There is no doubt thịt we have

electric power station large square rigged ships, Hispaniola new version about the fabulous Binred

in Roine.

has not had an Idle day in her white whale Moby Dick is to be clerk told me: "Ever since hat satisfactory treatment in

enough to supply a small town, Noel Coward plans to retur

those filmed starring the right type of career, including Very few

and n library with Loout half long film the past few years.

whaling ship. Studio Scouts the hydrogen-bomb

5. know people

that next season, to Broadway as an

arduous

carrying G years a million books.

spotted her and she was of urtear been a rush

as much actor for the first time in almost

Guernsey to Ply 900 weapons are

Tht Pals is now He will star in two

once more signed up for a year's air-raid volunteers-people British as an American inven- 20 years.

filming at a fee of £3,500, with new plays that he is writing headquarters

the option that Scarborough may as seem as punicky

and which will be staged un the politicians." I have the

alternate nights and matinees,

buy her back when the film is Anished. same impression.

Joan Fontaine will take over

"Tea and Deborah Kerr's hit, Sympathy," so that Deborah can Aim "The End of the Affair" in England.

there has

don't

For almost a week

la na Wunder that these Western larly well done, there came Canaians should be full of good the

tion.

Puhnur

·

have,

Perhaps vip have been for t.xo faint-hearter in negotia- tions with the Atteritus, Only now but work fletals here irted to BACKBLAD cử Hars to 90,000,000 grim statements have been bar British newspaper men from

Alen seving the sterling spilling out of Washington America's #1: H-bomb tx- Druggists and Sundry Stores. a usts ปร £20,000,000 up- and New York. After the

have been turned plorio rate a "B" down twice from such romantic stories film, which I

accompanying Press parbes

.ng atomic ng before their eyes, it production and not particu- Press

explusions in Nevada Decate-o I am a British subject. warnings: "II-bomb The H-bomb reports against of ecurse, completely wrong about odds 1,000,000-one

Adequate H-bomb shadowed everything elc here. you. warning system for New McCarthy is at last off the front

pages. York still two years off." Business is a good deal better

The plan

to be to and there scerns scare us all to death before we that the recession is over. 1 death, but tho won't quote a mass of figures, are bombed to

but steel production is up, Ford and General Motors are boom- ing, and retail store sales are else to last year's.

"Mitigal

A GENUINE BAYER' PRODUCT,

MANUFACTURED IN

LEVERKUSEN, GEIMANT

OR

humour.

The only thing Con dans is that there are not elough of them, The industries being developed here have every essential for materials, cheap power, well- old tabuLE. 'The only thing

11

success - raw

they lack 1$ larger home public remains calm.

m:rket of consumers close at

band.

SANDEMAN

PORT and SHERRY

Sole Agents

Melancholy

N the highways leading into and out of New York there

ΟΝ

are big algns: "This road will

be closed to trafic In the event of enemy allack,"

CIVILT-

kre pronouncements

of Geneva and

22

European from

of the

United

It was in 1949, whilst carry Nations, and the seal of several

orguns. The alle U.N.

was Ing grain for a Plymouth Brin eeded in perpetuity by the city that scouts of RKO-Wall Disney

Productions enjoys extra- Film

Ltd, spolied

And so it was that Hispaniola, Just the type of sailing territorial privileges: even the her as

ane-time tramp thot Swiss police cannot enter unless ship needed for their production the

into films, then and blossomed out "Treasure

Island," summoned by Mr Adrian Pelt, of

into a fabulous showboat and back again into Alms, was hauled out of retirement to make the

The Mayor

Says 'Think'

-and everything stands still

By LUCAS NOLLOTH

ended suddenly, The hikes During an election campaign the mayor Issued a statement about

New York. weighing 81b., and have produced Sheds of the 1,000-stratig One is a chois,

IXTEEN departmental mony practical results.

traffic ordinance

винь

sen journey to Hull shipyards

undergo

a £30,000 face-lift

Lo

to turn her into a whaler-with- a-difference, ready for her debut with handsome film star Gregory Peck for a whole year to the Atlantic of Southern Ireland.

TRANSFORMATION

Within 24 hours of arrival at Hull, Hispaniola was deprived of her spars, masts and superstruc- ture mid reduced fo a maro municipal staff of Dear splash pedestrians with slush in which he referred to Fish 39 wooden hulk, and shivered in If to indicate born. Detroit, home of the and mud lable to arrest, with "allas John J. Polsson." There the process as

days in gaol.

was sald court that Mr Fish woman who

in

was Insurod for silence in their rooms every

Indeed changed his name 24,000 for the trip from Scar- THESE two weeks are said morning from 8 until 8.30.

to be significant.

Shopping spurt Ford motor works, alt in pesible penalties up to £170 was a libel suit and although it that this was no way to treat

and diamonds,

some

even

We are

In Silence

mended.

an

It's The Power

Flut

Was

ante whalers were

A

So far there have been 00 had arrests. Drivers" No telephone calls are put presumably be manners have from Poisson, the Judge objected borough to Hull alone. But she to the use of the word "alias" la undergoing a transformation It turns out, however, that all enjoying

was submitted all the roads had better be reliefs and merchants tell me

credit. This is leif x through to them. They see think period by Alex Pilch, the He imposed on Mayor Hubbard that would do the loveliest of

a fine of $7,500 (£2,578),

Berben lovelien nobody. They do nothing Corporation's director of research Ebullient Mayor in the case of there has been quite a shopping

Hubbard why

chosen the open to trame

Humber hydrogen

because spurt. attack,

Andrew's but think,

Bt. Butter, bacon,

who admitted: 'It was originally

Engineer fish,

Instead ha refused to pay. Herbert O'Brien, the city's Civil clothes, household

The Think Period is the latest a woman's idea and was suggested crossed the appliances,

Detroit River and ing Company's slipway

ay which Dafence chief, says: "Evacuation telephone calls, theatre and idea of rotund, bouncing strong to me by a girl artist on my staff. is the only answer"-O'Brien is cinema tickets are all cheaper, orm Mayor Orville Hubbard, Mr. Margaret Malany, who set up a government in exile in is the only place on the North- Windsor, Ontario, conducting East coast where wooden ships the master of melancholy "I as are-if you care-mink coats oft. Sin human dynamo who suffered mudsplash herself."

the affairs of the municipality are handled. She is in a yard would take seven and

hell A

Another Think Idea was has kept Dearborn humming

once built days

where the services of one to clear the 1,800,000 British

business men seem with controversy since he came arrangement with banks so that from Canada for more than a vohioles from New York and confident, particularly about to office 12 years ago,

citizens can pay taxes there month.

or two men who used to build to New Jersey Britain, Sir William Rootes and The 60-year-old mayor y a

Instead of travelling to the City practical accés

available with them will bo la limited to wo tunnels and Sir Eric Bowater

and non-smoker, Hall as formerly

first-hand knowledge. here non-drinker are

such This is not the first time the

It cannot be the money that i one bridge.

waving the flog briskly. Sir His office is hung with At the Defence headquarters William

has

mayor has made peculiar de captured slogans as "There's no fun like

makes him love his job: he gota Hispaniola will be given

specially-designed etigine -so the minor officials I among

monds on his staff.

(£2,320) a year 4,000 words of eulogy in the work."

6,500 dollars

that no noise will be made nor But Found a firmer attitude.

He likes to gather his adminis with no expense account. A Saturday Evening Post. The woman told me "We will com- Post, under the headline "Sir

trators together in order to read

ho enjoys the, power. During smoke visible that would to im- the

interfere them literary excerpts

willhy the sound produc liners, the Bill, the Super-Salesman," mandeer the occan

organised 4 ilon or technicolour. A whale's aircraft, the 20 railroads." "Who's the Impudent

to protect Now he has ordered his key prove their minde

• men to sit in silence with trying to sell pint-sized

Confederato General Robert raunicipal

rudder, but in fact No exodus hero in the land of the penell and jotting pad in front E. Love life is a prime scuroof Dearborn against German sub jawbone will be atted to work will do the steering automoblie? Does this knightly of them because, he akys, is his pep-readings and the staff marines, We will probably have on- fuckator think, he ena compete was the way line Newton die are required to study the boyhood never met the challenge, Mayor movements, instead of the 30 Habbard reckons that ho beat men who would otherwise be other air-raid tost within In the toughest auto market of covered the law of gravity,

General Lee was a here who Hitler as well as tis numerous required. Just two men wil the next fortnight in view of the all7 · Answer: He does. Here's So far, no laws of gravily have

to push over the latest developments, but an why."

Been discovered in Dearbora's rose very early in the morning, other foos.

His staff knows better than to jawbone tiller--but they will do evacuation rehearsal has not yet

City Hall, but according to the and this Inspired another of mayor the leaver cock tildan po na Spinning

O'Clock Hiker. Two attend night-school once a week gours down below will be are forced to turn in after their his Six 30 minutos contemplation have years ago he ordered his de- because their self-educated boss the real work. Her decks will

is good for bo raised her throw bright ideas partment heads to be out at the has decreed that it is good for H-bomb hysteria, here, except I entertainment, the circus produced enough among three or four officials.

has come to town and is for the publle welfare" to make city's recreation ground, 35 miles them, NC KĄ. Zhart we can be Baydöd. Indeed, newtsall"TIN

Sald

one,

made from the town, to breakfast Kl

Atorf authentis Property agents, and landlords outdrawing plays and films. It the scheme a success.

Madison Square

Written on special sheets of 6 sam, and then take a mass sure of one half-hour when he dept by another Hull arm, the to won't be calling us up with previous on the sported having in the apartment business or Garden.

paper measuring 8in. by 1m, hike over the 522 cros | any big upsurge of requests for The new comedy, "King of and beaded THINK in 6-lochi mugowt/Improvemente andre another of those ideas he thinks been sold for £60 because “INGG houses in "the"country,

up for himself in the night "e5] wind blew right through, trukmet Hourts," with Donald Cook, capitala they make a stacke pairs..

been worked out.

I

to stress that there

is nothing remotely approaching

Britz :

Cor's

Circus tricks

DODWELL & CO., LTD. tell me there hath been no slump packing

of that

Paragon.

he WAT,

navy As the German navy