1955-02-14 — Page 4

British_Attitude_On Formosa

SWING OF OPINION TOWARDS AMERICA By JAMES WICKENDEN

London.

THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1955.

This assumption that Formosa vance will be exploded. Two SHARP division is has always been part of China Chinos will be plainly visible.

The eventual outcome

growing among British leaders over the For- While loft nosan crisis. wing extremist Bevan lines

and

has never been questioned 1n

Britain until these last few days. bound to lead to heated argu- Now there are doubts.

ment in Parliament over

In fact Formosa in traditional- Britain's attitude to Peking and up with Attlee in condemnya separalo China. It has been to Chiang Kai-shek. For at least populated by waves of emigrant in Foreign Ofee circles, there is fleeing from mainland despotism a sense of having been smacked

face by its protege since The 17th century. The the

Peking-by its nofusal meinland has never in history

eraseire. ruled more than a third of the constal plain. In any case, Lovernment was superficial,

ing the Americans Chiang Kai shek. Nehru with Eden that Peking does not have the right to Formnosa.

Jur

This LAL

Art occasion that Afflee this in- Bett mit of tune with Nehru, 1's kader slands by the Commwe ili Premves and Lebeg

Lat alean dat.

with Pekin

A: a clemer light is thrown on the true state of affairs in Pormest and in the med ek of major

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despite the

The non-Chinese tribes, who necupy two-thirds of the moun-

Interior

Inve

never

acknowledged l'cking. Unlike the mid aboriginals in central Mainys, they have tradition of -banking for themselves, At pre- sent there is a strong Christian movement among them, fostere by their own missionuries.

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change 11

over come

dion Ceylon has ("Uncle") Gairey, erstwhile

India: and rabble-rousing labour boss རཐཱ་ contrast is of Grenada and former accentuated by

e-tough-talking soapboxer.

Formosa's

praved

popular Burma

that

cient Jand re- He not only attended a garden hus party given in Princess Ma- at Govern2114111 Kauer's borwur Hotse here in St George's--but sat down to a sort of nursery tea for the top 20 guests and The Prue: 5

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Peking.

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the Formosan situation is now being seel

London

Els nansier was thoughtful. reaxed and contemplative.

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more

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another

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popular policy.

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to liberate the

sunfund

first and then he evacuated -quick !"

ends are emerging. One Comuntuist

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Communist

If the Americans are success. fut in sealing nit Formosa with cut tolling pitfalls Nationalist Invite- apent to war, a Amertetn can be predicted.

freting

Sherle

Kuomintang.

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liu phase of The revolt against

the

How A huge, while stik hand- kechet lended out of his breast 11EM turk face was cht enhanced by Clark Gable monetiche und dainty sideburns.

GILES

"This'll shake you, Farquharson-instoad of the formal speech of welcome I'M going to sing a Calypso."

London Express Service

MEET CANADA'S NEXT

PRIME

-N Ottawa, you can safely

leave it to Jack.

Juck

won't mind. A flick of his notebook, or a few

He told me: I yield to no one words into a telephone, and

in my admiration for Princess Margaret.

Jan loyal through | Jack will have the answer. Compared with the slogans of and through, So is this entire the first revoltation on the mud-

Colony We are

proud of the land. current Communist policy British connection. does not seem to have changed, But the Rimintang has cleaned Rself up and grown strong.

The general opinion in Britain is that the Quemoy und Matsu

problem, after which Peking amila dawn.

You've never heard Juck? Neither had

of most

This was the man whom I Canadians until just over a

this

violent heard deliver L |rabble-rousing speech here

year ago. in

But Jack WIM British Caribbean colony there all the time--advising less than four years ago after Prime Ministers, briefing violence had dared in the sugar

WHT BE islands are the only remaining lantations and extra police had / Cabinets, and guiding poli-

10

Britain

Jr Lars is ecrrect, it is fell in

(

il

successor

on a man

MINISTER

By Les Armour

The solution was to get him Into the Cabinet as a voting member. Newfoundland's Premier Joseph Smallwood suggested that he should run as a Liberal in one of the provincial consti- tuencies, Newfoundlanders were happy.

They

bad

heard

he

about

was con-

Pickersgill when ducting the negotiations which

Newfoundland into brought

likcod what Canada, and they they heard. The election was a

walkover.

Canada is well on the way to becoming one of the world's great powers. Soon her Premier aging, internationally re- spected Louis St Laurent must retire. His most likely is a youthful, back-room scholar called Jack Pickersgill, who has risen to prominence so quickly that few Canadians know much about him and the outside world has hardly heard his name. Here is one of the first profiles

who may

soon be making headlines....

well on when they meet the man becoming face to face.

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In casual con-

And his "inside" experiences his had left him with a fund of in- formation and know-how far in identify him in Canada.

excess of that of any but a hand- But there is something beginning of the war, Mackenzie ful of the professionals. So Jack is worth knowing.

King was coming lo rely In his first year as Deputy His real name is John about him which makes you

heavily on him. He mapped Prime Minister, he got a rough Whitney Pickersgill. But call him "Mr Pickersgill"

storms, and got the John has been "Jack" so when you find yourself sit. polcies, charted courses around ride from all sides of the House. Canada, with its immense long that it's no longer of tag on the other side of his know everybody who was any resources, its swiftly grow any importance, and

the desk.

to

Leen called in from neighbouring tical machines, Colonies. It is being realised that Con-

Then his amurge was inflam- And very soon you may United States, is munist

abit Britans that propaganda

fierce. His TO- be hearing a great deal the way ant great blow will matory Formosa has cleverly explulled have been struck in the South- ferences to Britain were scoffing about Jack. The political major force In world versation, Jack is enough to th, and team doctors- east Asian war of nerves. Com- Today handsome, well-tailored

As the affairs. the which declans

that the unism will have been exposed Gairey is

member of the pundits figure him back tu

no human and fullible. The idea Colony's Council. He

Minister ucknow next Prime irresistible Communist ad-edges his responsibilities. He Canada--a job which

admits things have greatly im-coming vacant in the very proved for the workers.

near future. And

na n

longer dues Gairey only represent

the extremist interests of his Manual and Mental Workers' Union

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PHOTOGRAPHS

by our Staff Photographers

Scouts

Dorlans v

Rally

K.G.V.

Army Rugger Final

Skal Club Luncheon Soccer Shield Semi-Final

Police Passing Out Parade

Film

Shooting at

Aberdeen

Presentation at Queen Mary Hospital Ceremonial Parade and Presentation at Kai Tak Un Long Government School Speech Day Royal Engineers Annual Sports H.K.R.N.V.R. Dinner. Dance All Local Sports

Presentations

Local

Local Weddings

etc. etc.

Availablo at

of

is

which makes

Canadians

Today he is more than the ing population, Its reputa- Whitney part provides just It is that "something” adept mediator. "Call me the tion for sober statesmanship a convenient middle initial. ment in the sandwich, with the and its psychological posi-

tices vf brend being the workers and the authorities," he

says.

tion as halfway house be- As for the Pickersgill,

tween Britain and the people only remember

ROBERT OTTAWAY PROBES THE LAWRENCE RUMPUS

HE'S STILL A

T'S

HERO

TO CHURCHILL

someone were

it

respect him, fear him, hate

him or adulate him accord-

ing to taste and leaves a majority of them little doubt that he is either the obvious or the inevitable choice for Canada's next leader.

Westwards

DERHAPS the explanation lies in his background.

year

He WI born in the litte Ontario town of Wycombe 49 Shaky points like that build

But 1905 was the aa shattering as if

He says that Lawrence, as a years ago.

Canadians were when military strategist, to say up the Aldington case.

made plans

That thousands by that Nelson knew

that came near to ruining the deciding He snoers that "Lawrence entire Arab army.

wealth lay in the rich rolling nothing about the sea and claimed that he had been fllied

wheatlands to the west, and his didn't even kiss Hardy. with the idea of freeing people In this book Lawrence is family moved shortly aferwards Lawrence of Arabia, the and had chosen Arabs as the diminished

pathelle to Mandtoba. only sulable ones left."

neurotic, bathed in a "golden mist of spurious glamour."

to

1

Idboral MPa were less happy. Pickersgill's entry into active politics seered to tail 0 good civil servant many political aspirations,

even css of s than most.

He politicat

suon demonstrated

istuleness, By

political

body,

the

lo

Jack At His Desk

But he came through it unruffled, and his critics all 100 often found

tools of themselves,

that they had just been making

re

In the last Cabinet chuffle he be- came Minister of Citizenship and Immigr tion--the de-

future.

partment which plans Canada's long term But hia in- fizzence 020- Lomds for be-

yond his de

partment.

St Laurent makes few de- cisions with- but calling in "Jack" first, and his col- leagues in the Cabinet have Jearned that

he is the shrewd -

est judge of public opinion

He has two serious rivals for

man the world thought was

His father died of wounds in. After the end of the war, in the business. He wonders why, If that were just a little less than an

the First World War, but his politicians sometimes wondered the case, Lawrence was соп- How was the mist fabricated? mother aw u future for her whero Mackenele King left off the parly, leadership Fisheries archangel, proclaimed as "a tent with a desk job in Cairo By a man called Lowell Thomas, son and decided he should go and Pickersgill began, hoaxer," "a fraud" and a for two years

of the war and who wrote a book in praise of to the University of Manitoba. liarl

showed no yearning to go where Lawrence. the bullets were flying.

[

Ig there any defence to Richard Aldington's attack? call Sir Winston Churchill who wrote such moving and

eloquent tribule when Lawrence died in 1935,

LIMELIGHT

-Lawrence

Minister James Sinclair and Finance Minister Walter Harris Whatever the truth of the But Sinclair's support les in He distinguished· himself Though

himself there, and the Imperial Order matter, Pickersgill had at least the west; that of Harris, in the

cont In Canada, 10

man has usually glory distasteful, that, says gave him a grant to move on energy Aldington, was a pose. Other=|to Oxford.

Mackenzie King had a fearsome Been in Ottawa for so long that Lawrence refused 10 bo

for repulation burning out hardly anyone even remembers decorated by King George V, wise, why should he have given

Thomas the material to launch.

secretaries, but Pickersgili where he came from, ostensibly to draw attention to the legend,

never even looked tired, /nover And who said that he stands the Árabe

Even plight.

Anyhow,

St Laurenifa showed anything but a slightly protege, he is. by every word of it.

Churchill thought that at the

popular In Well, there you have it. Be heads and predicted that young sphinx-like smile. time it was

French-speaking Queboy, and snub to the King.

a "monstrous" lieve Aldington, and you have Plekersgill would be a great

both Sinclair and Harris, have to believe in one of the hoazers || historian,

When Louls St Laurent took, admitted in private that, if their of all time,

Over the Prime Ministership, personal aspirations camo to

· after, a quiet" and non-political

FREE nought, they would prefer as a schoolar and

Pickerglii to anyone else, some of his advisors

said that he found the ensuing of Daughters of the Empire proved that he had boundless pedonal

and plently of tact. ment doom. Pickergill has

Then Churchill wrote: "I deem him one of the greatest beings

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But the princo" was only a poseur, says Aldington.

i

CAUTION

Soon he was back at Mani- loba as a lecturer in history.

nodded Academicians

their

Anomalous

carcer

lawyer,

of govern

St. Lo how we

As

Perspective

The becomes Prime Minister, the world will And him

Aldington says that it gayo Lawrence much more pubilety It Aldington is right, then

to refuse than to accept-and Churchill was fooled--the victim pubiicity was food and drink to of a posturing charlatan who him. He quotes Lord Allenby, ruthlessly deceived friends and Middle Eart C.-in-C. during that, have to believe in a saint whose and chocked everyone in 1997. gilt ought to be dumped if he

Bellove Churchill, and you TTE w glory in other places, quietly suggested that Plekers

НЕ government to feed his Own war, vanity.

"thinks himself a

to the effect that Lawrence only Daw. was Impatience with by applying for a job with the were ever going to gain real

hell of a those who didn't live up to his Canadian

of control of the Department soldier, and Hikes posturing in own high ethic. the limelight."

External Affairs The Department. ment, knowing a^ good thing needed that the should stay and, a devout liberal--in; the "email", You must make you own vor-when they saw one, were about in June, 10 was as well as the "jerge L someo

Clerk of the Privy Ho ha Yot Churchli had sald: diet. My own is clear:

appointed to send him abroad as

Council the artategie civil

[Arm faith in the "Home, money, comfort, fame,

plomat when Prime Minister service 10b which carries with I find Lawrence the manckenale King stepped in and if the Secretaryship to the sea events in their proper power itself--mennt “Hille or

enables him to. nothing to him.”

"not guilty," and Lawrence, the legend deserving of, a severe

perspective and to knowin To millions who hayo" never caution.

silnetively how a Frenchman or read it, 'Lawrence's famo・rests -

--The idea swasn't 'AMICOMME instance, Lawrence claim on one book," "Seven Plitars of Why? Because I do not besh That : bagama' distinguished Cabinet Ministers, found that ed that he had a racing bicycle Wisdom.

fact, not love in "miracle men. But, but anomalous career. He re- Pickersgilla dolu going to reack) specially built for him by Lord fiction," says Churchill.

also, I do not believe that men mained on the External Affairs directing", then "recording land. Ho le unlikely to initiate and Nuffield's own, hands. Lord

lko Churchill could have been payroll. But secretaries to even though they liked him and ratio changes in polley, Nufleld ought to know--but be Yet over and over again, gulled by the face, and phoney Canadian Prime Ministers are usually funded by taking, hig, hoki fali sertala dosakit. He says that he gave Aldington discounts à accur the prosecution; makes. Law more couldonilal bdvisers than advice, they alt ehe Cabinet Canada's reputati fup making bleycles yours before.

zerico out, to be

elvil seryanis, had Jack war Becrelery olight 4. bë neutral world.

And Aldington has certainly found quite a few discrepancies in' the tales of Lawrence, K

For

said "no."

He wanted a nocretary-and Pickersgill was the man,

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