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PUBLIC NOTICE
I will give up all "deterrents"; To be on the safe side I will break with America; retire from power politics; resign from NATO, SEATO, etc.; swear off world influence and interference in other peoples' business, whatever. and wherever.
SCH The British Lion
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER, II, 1955...
"What worries me is the
price of cold mutton...
HIGH PRICE
RISKS OF "PEACE"
World Copyright by arrangement with the Manchester Guardian
TODAY A NEW BOOK ON DIVORCE POSES THE QUESTION:
Is this Bible
translation wrong?
By the Rev. C. O. Rhodes
EDITOR OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND NEWSPAPER
T the Lambeth Con- ference this summer the bishops of the Church of England bold- ly reversed their de- cisions
about family hath joined together a husband planning. Can they now
put asunder." change
When he said this, Christ was their minds
far from forbidding divorce and about divorce and re- re-marriage in all circumstances. marriage?
He was protesting against the iniquitous teaching widely pre-
dissolve his the most
must not
GWn
that distinguishes it from
all
other religions is this concern for the individual person and his special needs.
means that whoever enforce the Resolution to prosecution.
frica to La Hable
No responsible person would however. advise legal action, When spiritual issues Gre nt stake it is always better to rely than to on persuasion rather stiffen the other side by making martyrs.
The Hardy Tourist JACOBY
WHILE late holiday-
makers are re- turning, drenched and
-PETER BURGOYNE'S.
grumbling from News From Britain
Britain's flooded coastal resorts, à hardier type of tourist has been step ping out.
He is the intrepid politician; eager to "meet the people," in- tent upon influencing them, and mindful that a general election cannot be more than par
nway.
More immediate causes of the
quickening of political activity have been the annual party con- ferences and the fact that Par- liament resumes after its three month summer recess at the end of October,
Labour's Hugh Caltskell kas Journeyed in Lancashire, home of Britain's cotton industry, bo- fore hurrying off to Scarborough to head his party's conference platform.
Prime Minister Harold Mac millan has been "meeting the people" In the Midlands.
The Liberal lender, Mr Jo Grimond, has been touring the Shetland Islands and conduct- ing a chilly correspondence with Earl Atlee over his remark at the Liberal Party conference last month that his party would "bust open" the "patronage and privilege by which both So- ciulists and Tortes manipulate our policies."
offices, clean nir, Ebarter cal" devlees for the survival of Journeys to work, and country elde on their doorstep.
But people obstinately refuse to move. Can it be they like Hving in London?
Tip On Tipping
WHEN is a cab fare not fair?
When it is not topped by a Up, says the cabmen's Journal, the Tank Trader, this week.
And surprisingly, among the worst offender in this respect are Commonwealth visitors and Angelcan servicemen, according to the journal.
executives, the authors of the booklet make these points about British directors' occupational hazards;
(1) Stress is caused by corn- plexities which past-day execu- tives never had to cope with.
(3)) The "middle
the pyramid is frustrating (because of committee rule) and the top is lonely."
(3). The alcoholle luncheon indulged in by so many execu- lives should be followed by half en hour's nap.
The booklet sternly condemns relaxations like bridge and golf as often an "excuse for yet more drinking and late Driving a cab in Britain would smoking, be a "pretty poor Anancial pro- nights," and adds that holidays position" it every passenger took at least three or four weeks a the taxt meter at its feco value year--are essential for survival. and roacted accordingly, it adds.
The fournal qungesta nollecs in cabs to remind the Ught- Aated: "Tipping is customary."
FOOTNOTE: If you want to hear choice Cockney expletives, ip a London cabble the nominal ten per cent.
Dangerous
He added: "Far many Assignment
100
prizes in the law, the Churchi,
commerce, and social life go to BRITAIN'S executives ran a those whom the ruling cliquo
gauntlet of stress, alcohol And agreeable."
and over-eating. They should This brought an angry retort have their job registered as from Earl Attlee, now an 'dangerous.” energotle 75.
Gentle Slap
DESPITE
the lang-cancer scare, another generation is the way to forming the cigarette habik
on
It is a fact, says "The Practi- tioner," that about a quarter of the boys attending grammar. schools and one-third of those "attending sscondary modern schools are smoking at least five elgarettes a week regularly by the age of 15,
Some, indeed, are smoking more than 40 a week,
The article slaps gently at
This information comes from adult smokera,
An interesting finding, it says,
In a letter to Mr Grimond, the a booklet called "Health Prob- former Socialist Prime Minister lems of Directors," published wrote: "This appears to amount this week by the Insitute of is that regular smoking in the to an accusation that appoint- Directors.
young is more common
ments to episcopal and judicial Rejecting America's "hypo- the less Intelligent. benchies were made by me on chondriacal and mildly hysterk-
political grounds."
He demanded an apology.
wag
Mr Grimond explained that he
criticising a system
and did not intend any personal re- ference to Ebel Attice.
Eart Altice's reply was curl and to the point, "This really won't do," he wrote. "If your remarks were not intended to
apply to me, for whom did you direct them?"
Me Grimond's next shot in awaited with keen interest.
Will Canon Shepherd's book make any difference? It is an The present atitude of the important contribution to 4 Church authorities, he writes, debate that has now been four "reems to be quite contrary to centuries. Christ's example. It is putting My guess is loyalty to the letter of the law years the present system wil
that within 20 London On The
above the deep personal need of have broken down, The new the humun being"
thinking and the pressure of Canon Shepherd endorses experience will what I myself long ago pointed Its authority. out in the Evening Standard, The notorious Resolutions of the Convocations are not only be pro- ultra uires but wholly illegal.
valent at the time which allow In a book just published, ed a man in Canon A. P. Shepherd, a pro- marriage for minent number of the Church
trivial Assembly, han forest this ques- on on the attention of the Church..
Forbidden
*C-
reason.
His veto
Womanhood musi fected. Society also had interest in marriage.
on
Existing Resolutions of the Convocations forbid the
Canon Shepherd welles: marriage in church of divorced "Clirist put his absolute voto on persons and bar from Holy what has always been in the Communion those re-married in East a corrupting force in
a Hegister Office except with the society, the unrestricted right of special permission of a bishop. the husband to divorce his wife,"
Canon Shepherd claims that this tutude is based
serious mistranslation
New Testament.
of
ол
Legislation in the Church of England is governed by the Act of Submission of the Clergy.
This makes "ony attempt to "Into use any establish or put canons or ordinances by what
soever name or names they be cofled without the Royal Assent
have shattered
The lesson
blahopt.
one
their
Move?
THOUSANDS
of
London's
commuters were pausing in their weary Journeyn home this week to visit a unique exhibition in Charing Cross underground station. It is called, "Moving from London."
And move from London ta
precisely what the organisers of the exhibition, the London County Council, want people to do,
Already many clergy Ignore the illegal resolutions of the convocations and act ΟΠ rights under the law of the land, They use their own digeretion in re-marrying divorced people and they admit to Holy Cont munion without bothering the Even now the Lambeth Con- small allows
The
cxhibition spotlights a or against the law or custom of ference
break glant scheme to shift 50,000 of the land," punishable by the or glimmer of light, to imprisonment.
through. It recommends study London's 8,000,000 population of the American system, which] from the metropolis's vast re- sidential areas to towns outside, is far more tolerant.
By the time new genero- The enticements are good. In 1050 a proposal to obtain tien of bishops meets at Instead of over-crowded condi- To the houry argument that legal authority for these Resolu- Lambeth in 1978 the lesson tions in run-down streets hard cases make bad law, Canon tiong was expiteltly withdrawn. will have been thoroughly often long, travel to work, those Shepherd repiles that Chris They were found to be in such learned.
willing to move are offered new and new faclorics houses, for tianity is not a legalist religion. opposition to the law Mon, by Conon A. P. Shepherd, It exists precisely to help the land that they could never hope DU. Methuen, 9s. Ed.
hard eases. Its unique essence to receive the Royal Assent. This
But Christ always repudiated A the idea that the law must allow the of no exceptions. As ho said
that, the Sabbath was made for man and not man for the phrase, Sabbath,"
would have so he "What God hath joined together said that murrlage was made or
Taking the familiar
let na man put asunder," says that what the original really means is, "What God
"Biarriago
Wis made
mon.
PARADE
Opposition
of the
A COLUMN OF THE UNUSUAL ABOUT PEOPLE AND PLACES AND THINGS
FANTASY? The Queen Vic- bouring heaths when they were ed in New York this week for
toria Museum here
105 been
presented with a heavy gold
ring in the shape of a striking
overcome by the heat.
folding more then 100,000 dollars' worth of diamonds along with him.
·
cobra because ifa owner, THERE IT WAS-GONE: A tobacco-grower R.WS. Douglas, trame policeman dagged down had the most vivid dream I seven motorists and gave them
THOSE OLD DTS; A police have ever experienced."
tickets for not stopping at a raid on Illicit liquor plant in uncovered 'Holt' Bign.
downtown Colombo
In the dream, Mr Douglas
The eighth molorțat protested, zaw a copper-skinned girl, show me the sign I missed
dressed in the manner of an and I'll pay up," he said, ancient
Egyptian priestess.
It belongs to my family and
the owner's secret recipe.
His vals contained thousands
of lizards and cockmosches which
"So you can't see that big had been boiled with sugar and
"You have my ring" she said red sign. on a tali green pole?" tobacco to make a potent con-
said the policeman," pointing to coction.
my mother gave it to me. But the spot.
it was stolen and I placed a
One hundred and afty gations
curse on anyone who keeps it there, "SomCOND
There was no "Haft' sign of this evil brow and venloads
I cannot withdraw the curio, 30
get rid of the ring."
Mr Douglas decided to take
no chances, Ho gave the ring,
must
have of equipment were confiscated. atulen it," aaid the red-faced oficer as be tore up the tickets.
•
•
PALACE GLADE: Moslem
which he got from An Arab DIAN OF PEACE: Truck students at the University of during the war, to the, museum, driver Donald McCune ap- Malaya have criticised King- Exports believe It is thousands Peared in court at Brockville, Abdul for foxtrotting with his of years old.
Ontario, this weeks for shooting queen at a recent state fall. up his estranged wife with
and "Most Improper Second World War machine- Islamic," they cald.
gun,
2
INTO THE PAN.. Stroll- Ilis defence: "I had no in- ers in the streaks of Almansa In the province of Albacete could hardly belleve their eyes, Partridges were dropping out of the 'sky and lying exhausted an the pavements.
Two hundred of the birds · ware picked up and cooked for dinner before you could "Gamekeeper."
may
The theory is that the part- ridges were escaping from shooting parties on the celsh
McCund got three months;
•
un-
tention of harming her. I went OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD:
A puramry, gardener in scr seeking a reconciliation."
His wife hid under the stairs and, Italy, has been awarded and escaped unhurt.
500,000 lira (R300) by
the Ministry of Deženca. He com- plained that the noise of his foroo Jet planer breaking THE ABSENTEE: "Back- In through the sound barrier tod an hour," said the algo on dia- killed 160 lazyan from which be mond” dealer William Katon's had hoped to rulas quain bees. Manhallen office door.
An official enquiry". has now
•
The "hour"" was up" 27 days, been ordered, to aso what effoet later when Linton was arrest sondo bangs have on book.
.~~(London Express Sarolen),
ROSÉ
and
SIDE GLANCES
Put that in your pipe.
among
By Galbraith
715
12. Big U.K, PALONG
"We're going to make our own money, Mom! You just buy sugar and chocolate at the stora and we'll soll you some fudge at 50 cents a box!"
ON BRIDGE
Two Doubled Is Good Duplicate
By OSWALD JACOBY
West's double of two spades was strictly a dupli- cate double. He was sure that his side could make two or three hearts for a plus of 110 or 140, but he hoped to get a top acore by setting South two tricks.
He opened the ace of hearts and continued the sult when East signalled with the ten spot. East took Iris king and led back the three of hearts which West ruffed with the six.
This three spot lead in a good example of the well-
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WEST
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Pasa
Foss Pops
Pass 24
Double Pass
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known suit preference signal. East know his part- ner was going to ruff and ho played his lowest heart to ask for a return of a club (the lower aido sult), East would have led the nine of hearts if he had wanted s diamond return,
;-
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You, South, hold:
SAQ978 WKJ85 @QST'40
What do you do?
Am-Bid four diamonds. You are stiff Interested in a slam and have picked a bið (hat your part- nor won's pass.
TODAY'S QUESTION Your partner bids Ave dia- monds. What do you do now?
Answer on Monday
The Wine of Royal Entertainment
#453
BRUT IMPERIAL
1953
MOET MOET & CHANDON,
SHARPAGE
KAY-FRANCE
MOET
Котради
* Frignon:
CHANDON CHAMPAGNES
On the high occasions of Royal and Diplomatic Receptions, in 1957-58, when only the supreme choice of Wines was considered worthy, the Champagues of
MOËT ET CHANDON Dom Pérignon
BRUT IMPERIAL
had the distinction of being the favoured wines. At many banquets and particularly to honour the visit of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth and HRH. Prince Philip to Paris in 1957 and exclusively during their Croisière Nocturna on the Sese and on their journey to and from France, Hoët et Chanden
1947, 1953 and Moët Rosé and Brat Impérial Champagne were the wines deemed to be worthy of the honour of being served to Royalty by the Pre- aident of the French Republic and the citizens of France whose claim to judge the merits of the products of their own vineyards must be supreme.
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