1954-09-18 — Page 6

NATO

MUST DISAPPEAR?

W

By

James - Wickenden

London, Against this gloomy back-

ILL Churchill have ground, Eden's policy la'now to face the sacrifice being put into effect, of the Entente Cor-

diale with France to gain

Britain still stands by the

an ally in a free armed Ger- resulta

of the British-

ns Boon

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many? Will Eden have to American study group. The watch -France wrecking aim is to ratify the Bonn NATO and then build a Conventions now Western alliance in possible through diplomatic cluding Germany but exclud- exchanges at present going on between the occupying ing France?

powers, Eden is also negotia- ting direct with Adenauer.

These and other grave questions may eventually have to be answered, it is believed in London.

For beneath the diplo- matic bustle three rock- hard facts obstruct British and American efforts to free Germany and arm her.

One: The French As- sembly still have the veto to stop German freedom and also to prevent her joining ΝΑΤΟ.

Secondly, there are to be the nine-power, talks, in London, to discuss German rearmament and alifanco with the West.

Behind these discussions it is understood that Britain and the USA are working out methods giving Germany mord of sovereignty than the Born Con- **ventions allow--and of searming Germany, even if France docs not agree,

Head-on Clash

the allies.

But there will be delay. The French Assembly has gone into recess until the end of the year. The British Parilament also

October,

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1954.

Lord Russell suddenly leaned forward, exerting the full weight of his powerful personality. “I therefore direct pon," he said, “to return a verdict of galliy”.

ted

status

ap-

HONOUR STAKE No.4

THE GUILTY WERE HEROES

With guns, they had crossed the borders of a friendly state, In the eyes of the English public they were romantle adventurers

but the law had to draw a different picture

by Edgar Lustgarten

un-

many fore. You and a verdict against disturb and displace judgment the defendants, with that rider.” when his client, Mr Maybrick, against the weight of evidence, The foreman helplessly looked was convicted of murder through round at his colleagues. Then popular dislike. If he could help Sir Edward Clarke, who had it, the position would not now defended the pri

prisoners, roso. roversed *and

men

"My Lord, I wish to say..."

the

CQUITTALS

This clash was how emotion in a court were able character Is-constously or un- legal process. are ably brave. They

and audacious in colonial occasionally

ex- consciously-derived.

fully reflected in the court.

The facts proved by the Crown plauded, and acquit ploitation. (De Jameson himself

was chief administrator of the What, then had made them were overwhelming

and This moons that Eden and

persons African lands now known

answerable; gullt was proved up Un the quarry of the law? Two: Although Mendes-

to very bilt. But all around Dulles are

held in good Southern Rhodesia, then under

the exert the sometimes Woely to

They had planned a milltary sat a tense, expectant crowd, France may be persuaded to strongest pressure they can on esteem. But seldom, indeed, protection of a British Chartered

Company); and quality expedition with the object of impatient of the facts, indifferent be

this line up

British- France in the coming months too prisoners, before, they excited quick response from an invading the territory or a with

lo proof, paying muté homage to acctised, against the weight of American policy, all signs avoid a head-on clash between have been tried, acquire the England re-infected with Im-friendly state. They had executed the prisoners and

to evidence, acquitted of a lesser show that the French As-

"I cannot at this moment of their crime through popular regard. of universal perialist zeal,

the plan and mounted the ex- acclaim the moment

had pedition. They

actively liberation. Bembly after

allow any, interposition." turning

favourites-commended and

He looked appraisingly along down EDC-

their partielpated in it.. will not

had brought They admired and even hero-

The testimony was over. The the jury-box again. There could

"I am popularity to a new and sudden

calling your Lordship's speeches had been made. The only be one finding on the facts. attention agree to German rearms-

worshipped for the very peak by crossing the Transvaal ment.

will not be bock untu mid-decds that have brought frontier at the head of an armed The three questions Lord Chief Justice, Lord Russell

Buy asked for a straight verdict of Killowen, carefully scrutinised

"Not now, Sir Edward," band with the object of

guilty or sup-

not gulity? could them to the dock.

the jury he was to direct. residents 14 The delay imposed by these

porting British

they have relied upon to arrive Lordship's tone was sharp. "I is welcomed in London,

their *x- Such, however, was the Johannesburg

HE romantic

The prospect did not leave his at it by reference to the facts an addressing the jury I must under Boer rule. That is for it is thought that it will glvo

Fatura of tremity" joint experience of Dr raid had neither official sanction likely to gain

Mondes-France a chance of or- sup- nising

enterprise did not that they were drawn from the of their widely, defined province back to the reluctant, muttering twelve. "Gentlemen, -I- direct Jameson and his

its another Leander

success, for

and support

nor practical port in France. Should Eden version of

arise. To the law. same community as the demon- to ignore or reject the prompt- the European

were handed Idea, associates while they avait captured leaders

return you that in point of law these ing of their heads and were stratively myen

spectators parison over

Andings amount to a verdict and Dulles put firm pressure cluding Germany.

for trial by their own ed trial in London on a

Ordinary trans and that they must fa large the verdict most

of guilty _against_all_these on France

with

emotions, to agree

greasors who had measure share their But as all the parties except criminal charge during the countrymen.

defendants. It is your duty to violated the provisions of

emotions the Ho know that those them on Germany, there is the Communists were split in

half over EDC there is ttie summer of 1896. What had

Failure, though, only made Foreign Enlistment Act,

would be greatly heightened by the chance of France being

optimism in London that the made them idols of the the exploit more romantic.

their parade and interaction in politically torn apart by the Assembly will lator agree over public?

the public these men were

There could not have been a the mass.

violent clash Communists.

the more controversial issue of

reincarnation of the Elizabethans, clearer or more armed Germany

They which is also

were unquestionably from whom every Englishuman's between the demands of publiċ gallant. They were unquestion conception

the demands national opinion and free.

Three: Communist pro- paganda for a Russo-French facts pact disarmament

on

more

Legal Tangle

The legal tungle begins

with

the Bonn

tions.

of

מויי

his

To

A

Conven- HOW TO ANALYSE HANDWRITING............ PART THREE

Only when they are put

into effect

of

and

can the control France, Britain America be removed from the occupied zones of Ger- many. Only then can Ger- many in fact begin to be free.

zone

at

occupied.

French AB-

more

theso

Formerly as counsel, he had of endured first-hand experience of

ROUNDED AND ANGULAR LETTERS

SHOW DIFFERING TEMPERAMENTS

T school we

sre all taught to write a rounded script as it is

more

By

"SCRIBBLER"

in

#

his stronz

shown.

a

writer has litle or no luxuries, -

i

lines

fundausental

mental

their bearta?

The Lord Chief

welcome

to

Justice de- say, ao,** cided not to ask for a straight verdict: to follow instead an un- conventional course,

Ta

A confused conference took place among the jurors. Tho Lord Chief Justice tapped "I am going to ask you to Irritably with his pon. The consider certain questions which onlookers fretted, from anxiety It is in the interests justice and frustration; they had “ex- "you should answer." He enumer pected ere now to raise the root

ated them three specific ques- with cheers. Lions,

hard and precise

queries in censur,

Had the defendanta engaged in the proparation of a military

At last the forgnan “stood greet and faced the court.

"We have answered your

expedition against the South questions categorically as ww African Republic? Had they were asked," he said. "On ́a assisted in the prepartion of verdict of guilty or not guilty, much an expedition? Were they wo, do not agree.” employed in any capacity on such an expedition?

on

THE Jury

THE

any

could

A murmur of applause was

Next Saturday:

A German sues on MP:

for fraud in 1917

not do so, as one-half so effective as a singlo they already began grim glanco from Lord Russell to be aware. They of Killowen. ta '.had....

Grst been

He leaned back in his chair. then sup. That is a most unhappy state finally down-

was one

Shing

the. per-

not suppressed; it died." The HIL upon reviewing the shouts of ushers wero never cvidence," said the Lord Chist twine

around and be Justice, "you can answer ⚫ come lost within each other-of these questions saying, there If fiercely arguing de

show a suave and subtio dis is no case against the prisoners" puties of the

The person who writes with and haughty and will resist position. This writer will op-|-his jaws mapped-"do Bo."- sembly refused to ratify the caaler for young hands to the lead before she voices

an angular formation shows his tornly ony attempts to in pear coolly detached and re Bonn Conventions, Chur-produce; and is the nearest her own views.

competitive spirit and critical fluence his decisions or way of served most of the time, und

he is not absolutely cer

certain of Jury were angry chill and Eisenhower could approach to "copy-book When angular

His independence makes life. capital mind.

him undertake plans, and he Sometimes you will

come the person ho is talking to he not put them into effect. writing."

letters appear in a script carries them through on. his across writing that is a

will watch him with evident Even if Britain and America

that is otherwise composed own.

bination of round and angular distrust and caution. A certain However, in the process of rounded formations, it

lottering. The letters "m" and amount of cunning and slyness gave Germany partial 80-

within of growing up many of the shows that, while he or she vereignty and arms

"n" will resemble "w" and "y" must be watched out for, too, He The person who dislikes being their zones, the result would rounded formations usually has a gentle soul underneath whether in business or personal picarure and a desire for ease get away with something,

in is liable to be quite artful and This subordinate

garland writing position FXAMPLE 2 shows a love of deceitful if he feels that he can be an even

divided take on an angular appear the surface, the writer is matters-shows Germany with the French ance, until pointed letters inclined to "put on act" and personality and ambition in his ant luxury. It may be that the

and Pronounced hamstrung and take the place of school-

of things," he said. "These days' rounded letters. These assume an aggressive out angular writing, which has

physical activity is seen in a right angly. ward manner.

very heavy pen pressure and but the desire is still there. changes occur unconsciously

come back with a questions, answered as they are, large letter formations:

The writer in this caso is a script written wil

flourishes to

verdict of acquittal which might ame

amount to a verdict of guilty. This situation is officially as the person's mind and Rounded script with some

young man who, if he find the that resemble flashes of at have been reached in a score of They are capable of no other Angular handwriting that is

would be a means, described as "inconceivable." his activities develop.

playboy, ning. In all probability "the

suddenly angular formations in the, very small and clear shows the even though he uses his mind writer will be small, spry and

different ways. It was another construction." He' But it is possible.

come back with negative leaned forward, small letters discloses a attitude of

specialist--the

answers to these questions, nine full weight of his

power Even should the French adults

On the other hand, many person with some shrewd person who wants to do one or

of which could be so answered sonality. I therefore direct still continue to ness of

con- mind, and

two things well and to

you to return a verdict of the evidence. deputies rattly the Bonn write a rounded script, and spirit of independence than solution

centrate on them until a correct

guilty." har been. reached. Conventions, Germany can- there is a

They remained

out for an He waited, eyes upon them, difference of the person with a strictly This person takes nothing for

hour, Upon their return they. More whispering ensued. When granted. Ho ls willing to get

solemnly announced that they, the foreman spoke, his head down to fundamentals to and

energies In productive very quick-witted. ·His glib- analyse each idea as it is ex- work. The writer has a great ness will aid bim in his bust anawers to these questions, none was bowed as if in' shume.".

the affirmative, ¦ pounded.

but deal of charm and fact, and the rese and social activities,

· “My Lord, we are unanimious. Very well," cald the roundness of his writing reveals people who do not know him Angular, handwriting

Lord We And the prisoners guilty ...** which his

co-operativenCIAS. These very well may think him rather Chief Justice briskly, "That contains distinctive Better trate greatly neist him in his off-handish,

amounts to a verdict of guilty,' So were Dr. Jameson, and his formations—especially capital job, which entalis meeting a Flourishes that take on Ketterm which are highly original darge number of different peo- usual shapes in words Indicate a thou will now find against friends called to account, kt

all the defendants, t

́defiance of sentiment, but i'in -and has a tendency to be ple each day....

that the writer is a strong in-

obedience to

to law. Their punishe irregular in its appearance, is

dividualist. He will insist that It was no more than elemen- ment months for Jameson indicative of o person who Writing that has many fancy things be done it he has be of demay: from the packed an even greater hook thin in his way or tary logic, but it evoked a ripple lesser terme for others caused has a driving force, who will flourishes and ornamentations the way: not be confined to routine, and discloses a certain amount of come accustomed. He will hate public benches, and from the their conviction: admirers had is often fooded on by emotions. Vanity. EXAMPLE 1 shows a new system and will fight| Jury an immediate resistance, assumed that, """at":"worst," : [they] His personality is vital and cortain amount of flourishes, them tooth and nali, and, even -afteri contradictory and his and this muggests an attempt to whors defeated, will' complain

“My Lord " said the foreman, would be bound over. into a Western alliance, it and the people who use When : rounded hand. spirit

who was still upon his feet, ve But opinion was modifed by la competitive. This attract attention and diaplay about them.

bave thought fit, in answering time, "When I tried them," would mcan dissolving angular letters.

writing is made with very water is 100 often insufficiently the writer's personal charms,

relaxed, and is unable to con-

The artistic or poetic person these questions to append Lord Russell remarked, toa NATO to bypass French|

Basically, a rounded script large formations, it shows a contrate on the goals for which People who write with will print his letters

rider in the following words: friend to 1900, with the Boer objections.

haya been A completely

flourishes dre extremely self--they appear

The fury consider that the War well into his stride, people new European alliance would reveals a co-operative per- character. This writer does

centred, often quite selish and, typed. This type of writing state of affairs in Johannesburg said I was too hard upon fauru, son who likes to share with not have strong personal one that is devold of

The purely angular writing invariably conceited.

reveals good taste then have to be formed, in- others. This

and presented great provocation. Now people say that I was not originality," and a refined" naz is person cluding Germany but leav-malleable and impression- time he possesses the ten- ousterity.

opinions, yet at the same m rounded edges-signifles Wizrishes.... that ·

com- ture that loathes anything Very well," the Lord Chief, hard enough. where This writer in cold pileated that is, ing out France.

the coarse and unwholesome,

Justice said, as briskly as be- WORLD COPTRIGHT BESKRÝRD dency to close in his mind

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN.

not come into NATO with- temperament between these rounded script. out unanimous ratification

or agreement of the other

14 member states.

Again the French AB-

sembly could veto this — by excluding Gerinany.

New Alliance

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So

and

Britain for America to bring Germany

There's a tiver called the

river

Sometimes

able.

of no

it

EXAMPLE ONE

person

set win,

penseful

of

non-assertive he strives.

No one here considers Example 1 is an excellent against anything which he this as anything but a night-example of round script thinks is too much of a mare possibility,

written by a young woman. departure from the accus It shows that she is innocent tomed routing of living. This The idea of an allianco without France is against enough to believe anything resistance is due to caution she Is told, and even a and hesitancy and not to an all probability. Yet, it is the mediocre salesman, can sell unco-operative spirit. logical choice which France may yet drive her allies, to her anything he pleases. Rounded script with small attitude formation shows that the towards such things is against the opinion of all the characteristic of her good writer has a precise Western world.

natured personality, and, of careful mind. He is course, she makes friends dos fina

sing, tha lovak

makce by Her lone stand Herensy-going

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