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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1960.

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GOOD QUEEN MARY

THE HERETIC CRANMER

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So six

months have gone by

by

John Cruesemann

| Deus once

London Express Service

Bertram Jones looks ahead to the day fast approaching when Japau becomes an economie giant A FACT BRITAIN CANNOT IGNORE

The

truth about

our competitors

Tokyo.

I WENT shopping here the other day-and found out that Britain is going to face tougher and tougher trade competition. I joined throngs of cheerful Japanese whose yen. are setting the cash registers ringing constantly.

Is the archbishop right to go?

A look at the most controversial meeting since the Reformation

FINE-if we don't expect

too much

by

DR. MERVYN STOCKWOOD Bishop of Southwark

JOVEMBER 1 was one of the great festivals of

No

the Church, All Saints Day, and throughout

the Christian world millions took part in services of thanksgiving. But the thanksgiving became jubilation because of the imaginative lead that has been given by the Archbishop of Canterbury.

Eighteen months ago I Constantinople is not in a Com- had the privilege of a private munist comtry and os most of interview with the Pope. He Athenagoras has a difficult job. the other Orthodox churches are told me how much he hoped that one day he and the Archbishop might meet. I told him that I shared his wish, but I thought it might be difficult, in view of our history, for the Primate of All England to be seen in side the Vatican, or for the Pope to set foot inside Lam- beth Palace.

Pope John, appreciated the position but reminded me that the prayer which is rooted in can accomplish much. And he has proved his point.

charity And I wandered around their amazing department stores, which stay open even on Sun- days to cope with the spending spree. *

Just to let you know what

phenontonal expansion compelitian Britain is 17 per cent sort of

A

No wonder that when I because they feel this pirating

•

SOMEWHERE in the B.B.C.'s archives at Lime

in the national switched on my E4 0s, transls- in reverse vindicates them from Grove, a most interesting file has been pigeon-fucing let me tell you that I economy in one year has been for radio I found myself listen- charges that they are uncreative bought a yest pocket radio-six, achieved. Now where Eritain ing to a ruhash of Prime Minis- and have, lo copy other people's

Ikeda's holed and gathering dust since "last" February.

pro- ideas triumphant transistors, about the size of a goes wrong is in thinking thater 20-cigarette packet, and with all this has been done on nouncements to Parliament, In it is a leiter from a

Japanese prices are the most Nol only was It good. It

wonden clogs and two bowls of Japan is out to help its youth car plug that cuts out its tiny seemed 10

to pour out its native talent and stable in the world, which may young man who wanted to established or

londspeaker for private listen rice dally. Nousense,

come as a bit of a jolt to Bri- important

pre-ing-for £4 0s., and a first-

energy

tain. work in television. Produc establish-m

einas miniature camern for £6.

reconstruction, he said. ing and so o

On the face of it, at the time, his prospects were excellent.

He seemed in be a talented and experienced fellow, and he want certainly auritious enough. He would have gai or well with the bright young men the studios,

erlext:

Members of the Royal Family, Prince Philip demonstrated, ordinary were not itbove shuple, non-ceremonial work.

Why, it seems reasonable to me to ask; does not this excel-

ent principle apply to Tony?

For months now there have at been

rumours that Princess Margarel's husband was about to start a job,

A fornight after he sent in his application, rise youn aspirant got engaged and two months later he was married.

I suppose that would seem. to most people, a god reason for messing abend with the E.B.C. The work is interesting and they pay well,

But marriage appears to Inve put paid to his hopes.

For he married Into the Royal Family.

And Antony Armstrong-Jones has not done a stroke of work since May 0.

Lively

The honeymoon is over: the houst-moving is

over;

ffighland holiday is over.

What is Tony going to do?

the

HE WAS GOING to join the family stockbroking firm in the city. Splendid,

But he didn't. HE WAS GOING to work at Covent Garden, like his uncle, And Bke bls Oliver Messel,

marriage, the Earl relative by of Harewood, First rate,

But he didn't.

First-class

Inpan's income per head of the population is one of Asia's highest. "Oh Asia," you say impatiently, with all the wrong images in mind.

Just to bring you. down to earth: one in three Japanese Jarnes Hagerly, The Welte families has a washing machine. louse Press Sucretary, used a Ninety-two out of 180 own ព very similar comera to photo- radlo. graph riol mobs rampaging around his car at Tokyo Airport last June-and got. results of magnificent quality.

Taller

new

high

than

into an even

Stable

greater

in his own words: "The old easy-going practice of relying on advanced Western nations studies will be rectifed, and we will endeavour to develop Techniques of our own."

As a warning against smug

Separation

water agafaware

In fact, since the Husalan Revolution it has been Impos. sible for the Orthodox hold a

folat conference. But the Church of England has been a valuable go-between because, although we do not fully recognise one another, our relationships good.

aro

And there is no doubt that as a result of Dr Fisher's visit they will improve further,

There have been no dealings - between the Primate and the Pope since the Reformation. For years the position was as bad us i could be, with excommunica- tions and threats of war hurtling through the air.

&

In recent years there has been slight improvement but the suspicions and fears ar both

Dr Fisher, now well on in his sides are still formidable. By and seventies, is to give further large the efforts to improve proof of his remarkable vigour relationships have proved labor- by making a pilgrimage to the tive. Haly Land towards the end of this month. On his return

mass too I must tell you that the wit visit the Patriarch of Con- quality controls insisted upon by stantinople and the Pope America which Imports mil- Home.

Hons of dollars' worth of

Whatever the

he

of

rights wrongs may have been, the fact is that Geoffrey Fisher and Pope John refuse to take Nó for an

and

answer.

of

Both

Japanese goods annually-have Long before the Church lifted Japan's higher grade pro- England separated from Rome, ducts to a level that Britain | the Churches In the Eastern cannot afford to ignore.

Forget all about thick spec-

countries did.

Bulgaria,

tacies and cherry blossom, The Churches are known as They are already doing 1. There are 93,000,000 patient, the Orthodox and they are the Even American manufacturers industrious, uncomplaining pea- dominant Christian bodies in You're probably thinking thai

Hungary, knocking at the world's | Russia. neither radio nor camera is any

'Tokyo's

are copying a little black wink- ple 1,091ft.

Ing doil that immediately front door, with excellent goods Greece, the Middle East. good; that both

mast-Higher are sweated television

became the rage of Tokyo's at very reasonable prices, the inbour junk, and that being so i

Eiffel Tower-spreads

And that should be a thought have been cheated,

to almost

every corner of the children and made tis designers

rich qulekly.

to get you to work five minutes land.

And the Japanese, far from before time every morning. The traditional fish, rice, and

complaining, are delighted plekied vegetables are so sup- plemented by Western diets that will grow as tall the Japanese us Brlions 40 years from now.

and Already their height weight are increasing.

How zerong you are! What's more, it's dangerous thinking.

I assure every British manu- facturer and

British workman who grumbles about

every

HE WAS GOING to work on profits and wages that there are

ilm-class products.

Tufre design.

HE

ifto

WAS GOING publishing.

HE WAS GOING to return to architecture, which he studied at university, folly good ideas,

If only he got on with them.

But he didn't."

Why not! Is there

The legs of school desks and chairs are already having to ho lengthened, and train sets are being remodelled.

And the men and women who made them at prices that have helped the Japanese export rade to hit a staggeringly high level-have

Arc Houses and flats never considered

being themselves so well off.

bullt with bigger doors. Door Like Britons, the Japanese knobs and bathroom washbasins

never bud i

so good. re being raised,

I have

some Men's wages have now soured In 10 years, production of quaint old Palce objection to to an average of £20 10s. 2d crude steel has leaped from Just

jubs of this kind?

to a month, and women's

Well, even if there is, there average of £11 83, 4d. can surely be no complaint Plant that ·Civic Trust, A "highly reputable, non-profi making. important

Same women, though, earn as much as £20 « week.

concer

an under 5,000,000 tons yearly to 18,000,000. Refined all products have soared from less than 1,760,000 tons yearly to 22,000,- 000 tons.

cân,

Shipyards are launching near-

First of all, dismiss the notion which aims to produce a signif- Climbed back by 1,750,000 tons a year instead

that he is lazy.

He is one of the liveliest, most industrious men in the country, absolutely miserable if he is not busy. We can be quite certain that Tony wants to work.

He never imagined for $2 inoment that marriage to

cant improvement in the peace of streets and bulld- ie all over the country"

Before...

The Civle Trust job was not Princess Margaret would mean just a rumour. I was very he had to spend the rest of his seriously considered only a few life in elegant activity.

weeks ago.

Remember th at the very The idea was that Tony time he was discussing work, should travel around the country with Huw Wheldon and Peter as the Trust's top photographer, Newington, at Lime Grove he

Not, perhaps, the most exck- Ing job for a world-famous pro- fessional. Even so, o worthy, fruitful, and perfectly proper Lask.

was also discussing his forth coming engagement with the Royal Family at Buckingham

Palace.

I don't suppose he told BBC And the last news of that pro-

men about his Palace talks, but he certainly must have told the Royal Family about Lime Grove.

Precedent

posul is that Kensington Palace has "cooled off the idea,"

of less than half a million.

Although Japan no longer has From 80 per cent destruction an empire to absorb the surplus under wartime bombing just population, its four main islands over 15 years ago, Japan has of which less than one-fifth i elimbed back to level that it for farming-produce 5 per even the Germans--who have cent of their own food, and sup the kndek of turning defeat into por! 20,000,000 more people victory-must envy.

than they did before the war.

Electric trains pass through Tokyo's Central Station, split-second timing, at the rate of one every 37 seconds.

TALKING

POINTS

All men

are frail thou shouldst reckon none Tony Armstrong-Jones must as frail as thyself. be the most frustrated man of talent in Britain today,

Marle you, he is not the first

to be confined in comfort „ats

Kensington Palace. Another

And who would have been young man once eat there, biting

married to a royal Princess, Ké“ was not allowed to work.

10

No smugness!

into

Customers are ushered Ulits and encouraged on and off but every escalator by delightful girls in uniforms and white gloves, twittoring in polite Japanero; "Thank you for your honourable patronage. Please come again." (I wish I atton- got the same Aaltoring, tion in tak t-or-leave-it Hong-

THOMAS A KEMPIS.

*

A fow honest men are kong, where I live).

OLIVER CROMWELL

Tony's most enthusiastic, most his nails with boredom, because, better than, numbers, knowledgeable supporters?

Prince Philip, of course. For he to very keen on television work too; although he prefera performing to producing.

This was the Duke of Tedit. Who was het Queen Mary's father,

When did he live in Kensing ton Palace? Nearly 100 yours

„How time stands still,

CORD

DO.

Remembe hip admirable

television. hour-long metitary on films of his world tour?

London Erpress Bervice)A

The

anewer to our prayer may be the echo of our resolve.

LORD" SAMUEL --[London Express Merulos), ;

A new £1,000,000 night club -the Mikado-will add its neon brillance to the city's 'rainbow night signs before long

It will seat 1200 (more than London's Hippodromie)" and selli have a team of 00 dancing girls outdeking Paris Lido" | disti dfepping beauties, z

Bhôrt of a world-wide:facon- slon, solling can stop Japan.

VILKU

—(London Express Service).

The chief bishop, comparable to The Pope or to the Arch- bishop. Is Athenagoras I, the Patriarch of Constantinople. As

H.M.GOVERNMENT

PRIVATE

JUST ONE BIG HAPPY FAMILY-SO DIFFERENT FROM

SAMARNE THOSE SOCIALISTS:

дре

dedicated to the

Gause of unity; both are natural raconchers; both are big-minded and big-hearted; both know more about Christian, charity than most of us ecclesiastica ". and most important of all, both believe that Jesus meant what he sald when he prayed that his disciples should be one.

Care taken

But it would be foolish to minimise the dimculties. Wo have recently had a sorry ex- ample of a Summit conference which ruined the expectations of the optimists and made con- fusion more confounded,

Summit conferences cannot produce satisfactory results un- less there has been careful' pre- paration and agreement behind the scenes.

The gulf between the Church of England and the Church of Rome is very wide, and it is not easy to see how it can be bridged. And some of the differences are fundamental.

But at least we can make a start. And that is precisely what Geofrey Fisher and John XXIII are doing. I know nothing of the inner secrets, but I imagino that it is a case of two Christian {T}CT), both bearing great re sponsibilities, wanting to meet one another on the personal java.

Don't commit

In doing this they do not commit their Churches to any thing

But the mere fact of.. the meeling is a challenge to the Christian world..

It calls upon us to throw - away hatred, bigotry and suspicion and to show in our atlitude towards. -- other Christians the charity and big-mindedness" that 'churaċ- torises the forthcoming meeting, between · Primije and Pope. Take London Keprass Kárīlis),