THE CHỈNÀ MAIL, TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1961.
TOMORROW'S
WHAT headlines will scream out.
at us during 1961? What local stories will supply ammunition for local bar chatter in the months to come?
HEADLINES
With his eye on a possible scoop, our astrolo- gical correspondent enrolled the aid of his cracked crystal ball, a pack of shaved playing cards, a cup (chipped) of last week's tea leaves, half-a-dozen dog bones and the office cat, and came up with the following news predictions:
Peak residents will complain
about pile driving operations in of imperialistle tyranny" and the lower levels.
A well-known correspondent to local newspapers will start alorm of protest over the killing of Chinese dogs in the New Territories.
An American businessman will announce plans to build a multi-storey, first-class hotel in Hongkong.
An authoritative spokesma will stress the need for more Arst-class hotel accommoda. tion in Hongkongi.
Twu local political organisa-
will
the British t:ons
prest authorities for a "summit con
discuss plans for ference to political freedom from the "yoku
Coomiss
the Ave members of a
of branch
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By
PETER WAITT
A Venezuelan businessman textile quota later in the year, will announce plans to build several local textile men will a multi-storey, first-etans hotel form locui
splinter group, the in Hongkong.”
Hongkong Manufacturers (for world-wide humanitarian organisation will
the UK) Associator stage a non-violent sit-down demonstration outside the Cen- tral Government OMees.
may win Happy Valley, and a local news paper tipster wilt tips his first
A favourite
WIDEST.
Venezuelan
AL
A visiting tourist will say there is a growing need for more rat-class hotel accoin- modation in Hongkong.
An animal lover will protes! over the Inhumano killing of a cockroach at Aberdeen.
A visiting United Kingdom
he textile magnate will ray
hinks local industrialists are putting all their eggs into one basket; local industrialists will reply that they think that what he really means is that Hong- kong manufacturers are putting be categorically too many eggs late the British authoritative basket; after local controversy over the United Kingdom
about
A toeul building contractor
prematurely release in
* certain fermation
will statement bridge, immediately tienled
ja kesinan.
this
by BM
"Do you mind? Every time you come to the end of a line they take a minute's cost.”
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An Ethiopian businessman, will announce plans to build amuditi-storey, Arst-class hotel in Hongkong,
A local souriat official will urge the building of more first-class hotel accommodation in Hongkong,
A Combinet Service/Police exercise will be termed: "A cempicle success"
further restrictions will be placed on motorists wanting to park in the Central districts, at motorists will continue to be able to park free of charge in Albert-road, just above the
Government Offices.
There will be complaints about handicaps in the Macso Grand Prix.
Eskimo
ok an annual The Chairman cultural exhibition will deery the locul apathy to the Arls.
An Eskimo businessman will announce. plank to build multi-storey, first-class hotel in longkung..
A visiting tourist agent will firge that more first-class hotels be britt in Hongkong. An authoritative redio station will broadcast o series of 25 two-hour Lectures
As the White House prepares for a new tenant,
a question of vital condern
CAN KENNEDY MAKE
JANUARY. Just a month like any
other. There is nothing remark able in it except that we have thrown away the old calendar and begun a
new one.
Yot, as the New Year begins, we cannot help peering into the future. What does it hold as mankind sweeps tumultuously forward into the decade of the 'sixties?
It holds Infinite promise and infinite peril. If we are wise, it will open for us the magle box of science. An end to hardship and want. An end to most disenses. A planet glowing with health and prosperity as never before.
But If we take the wrong turning there may be no human beings left alive when the de- cade ends. The gifts of selence are what we make them. Great for positive nehjevement. Greut also for destruction.
SURE OF
PEACE
IN 1961?
-by- A. J. P. TAYLOR
at
the U-, he blew the affair up His beyond all justincation. behaviour
the United Nations heaped additional dis- credit-if auch were possible--
that un
already discredited institution.
the
We can no longer sterr A
Now prospects on the Moscow middle course. We have only
sille offer no certain cheer. the cholce between extremes.
The Inst statement by tho Man must either rise to
We know ourselves. We know Communist pariles still spoke of height of his destiny. Or he that all we ask in the world is peaceful competition.
It stil will perish.. Are there solid, practical peace and quiet, to be left alone declared that a third world war grounds for hope? Yes, there and to leave others alone. When was not inevitable.
tho Communists refuse to But the tone was less clear azo such grounds. Hard analysis believe this, we conclude tha and confident than the previous shows that 1961 can be the year they
It seems are set on a deliberate stalenient in 1957. of decision, turning the world plan of world conquest.
that Khrushchev War bard in the right direction.
No doubt will be Very soon Kennedy
the Communists pressed by the Chinese Com- He has been given Installed as President of the want to see Communism suc- munials,
No another chance for his policy United States. He brings with ceed all over the world,
well It may
be the lost him the promise of a new start doubt they believe that it will. after a severe tussle.
This is far from wanting to for all the Western world, and
Khrushchev has to will for the world beyond the Iron conquer the world by armed chance.
that compromiso After all, we think just prove Curtain as well.
Or he will bo dis- the same about democracy. We work. want it to win, and we think it credited. Harder men will take will.
his place. This could be the end of all our hopes.
Wasted years
Criticism
was muted
while
the Eisenhower was in the White psycho-neurosis value of using | House. Now, looking back, we sugar in tea and of putting the can see that he has given the milk In last.
world eight barren years of wasted opportunities.
A foreign businessman will reveal plans to operate footbril Dulles, at any rate, had л pools from Lanina,
policy, though it was the wrong There
will be a battle beone. He "believed that the tween three pretty Hongkong Western world had only to hang girls, winners of local finals in on and the Soviet empire would the Miss World, Miss Universe crumble of liseif. Instead, So- and Miss International Beauty viet strength has grown with contesis; each will claim that
each year. she is the only one legally en- titled to the name, "Miss Hong- keng."
Mongolian
force.
it is easy to say that we have no aggressive Intentions, But consider for a moment how
it looks from the Communist side.
Building up
many.
Let there be no mistake. Wo have not much time. It is the considered opinion of the bes! American experts that, if the nuclea rice continues, the weapons will one day go off by themselves. Azid that day is not far distant.
Think of China, 2
great
There can be no half-hearted nation of six hundred milliona, nuclear war. There can only be excluded from the United universal destruction. Nations when every tin-pot We have to make an end of dictator is let in.
war. Or it will make an end of Think of the armed backing us. The cause of war 19 given to the utterly discredited susplelan. Get rid of suspicion, Chiang Kai-shek by successive and the danger. of war will Elsenbower did not even
American Administrations
vanish of itself. We can solve have this belief. He had good
The Americans are bringing all our problems, the moment will, nothing more. And he
nucleor arms Into Europe that we really want to do so. relled on his reputation for We allow Dr Adenauer to taik past achievements to carry about "Uberating" Eastern Ger- These are the things which him through the problems of
Kennedy We refuse to seck a
will ponder as be enters the present.
Hotise. settlement over Bertin,
Lie Walte vacancy of American It la no good pretending that Here is the lead which ho can a multi-storey, first-class policy is at last filed. Fresident things in Europe are going the hotel in Hongkong.
Kennedy cannot rest on his right way. They are going the laurels, He has no laurels to wrong way. Tension is not A local building contractor rest on. His reputation is still relaxing, it is building up. will, protest at the lack of to make. It will be his alm to Khrushchev has often shown first-class hotel accommodation achieve great things, not to stall the vision of a wise statesman, off the inevitable reckoning. who grasped both the perils and Omelat statements will say
He is young. He is energetic, the promise for mankind. But that much-and-such a campaign that he means to direct policy
His Arst appointments show by no means always,
Though he had some excuso has had a satisfactory year, but will add: "There is, however, no himself. There will be no new over the American spy-plane, world. cause for complacency
in the Democratic mattor."
A Mongolian businessman will announce plans to build
In the Colony.
The
in this Dulles
. A local football enthusiast, who will only recently have ar- rived in the Colony, will ng- gest in the correspondence columns of the local press, that
Administration.
The policy
What
the Central district traffic prob- Kennedy,
will this policy be?
has, already · defined
tem could very easily be solved Part of it. The United States If a road were bull through the will take up the challenge of Hongkong Cricket Club grounds. "Peaceful competition." They
A visling American
strive to win over town will planner will suggest that the uncommitted nations by Jand between the Island and massive programine of economie Kowloon could be reclaimed, aid.
the
thus producing more land on This is an essential task for which to build resettlement the whole Western world. Yet estates, and which would also alone not enough. There
save all, the expense of building is a thak si more cosential. a bridge or a tunnel.
And that is to dispel the cloud of mutual suspicion which hangs between the Communist world and the West.
A JOUBE
literary scholar, who knows by heart the only recently published passages of a certain novel about a lady and a gamekeeper, will be heard to say: "Why the *** have you built so many hotels in Hongkong?”
MR
THE young Mrs Bramwell
Mutual? Yes, mutual. It is my deep conviction-almost the only deep conviction I have about polliles-that we misjudge the Communists almost AR gravely as they misjudge us.
BRAMWELL
took an afternoon nap the other day in a huge Queen Anne bad in the room which used to-be her guard-
A
give to mankind. No other human being can do it
If he succeeds, the decade of the sixties will be the greatest known to history. If he falls, history will come to an end.
I think he will succeed.
We all wish to survive. And therefore we are all uilles
I
in the struggle for a saner
PUTS
AFRICA
London Express Service
LOVE IN
ITS PROPER PLACE
And
hadn't thought about. things them," he said,
a carefully thought out immensely serious marriage.?!
Mr Bromwell has been married before, His marriage broke up when he was "vety, "Bho came, to live In my Ho puffed hard on his "But, after all, lots of teent- young.” | lan's sanctuary—a good deol house when she was just a little cigarette and thought for 4
."]: agers got married nowadays. more "grown up" than the girl. Her parents had separated; enement.
The whole attitude. to young typical schoolgirl's
they were close friends of mino Then he said: "Anna was 15 marriage has changed, olsewhere in the flat in which hor
and they asked me to look after when I decided I wanted to
"In the end there were cer- marry her, although I didn't toin · things very clear in my sho stapt until a few wooks
"Doth of them put a huge tell her to.
mind. Gmount of trust in me-
“You see, she had started to although I was a rather lively go out with bay tricots, 25-year-old with absolutely no
"And I suddenly found that knowledge of how to deal with I was jealous. children.
Then she got bored with her in orature.
ogo.
room
While she slept, her husband Roy talked in the sitting-room about himself, and their sur prising marriage.
"There was, for a start, a clear Identity of interests and alina. We, both loved music and we had the same sort of taste
"We had a similar qutlook on
I mentioned the pasibility, of children.'
"There will be no children for some timid yet," he cothe tikanód. "Wo inust enjoy · Ute art. Both of y
Remember, my wife is still studying. When she has finiki- ed, I want to take her, round the world in a yachi, And-when nhé has settled, completely into "I demanded one more condi- marriage there, will be plenty of
Anna Bramwell is only 18 "50, when Anna arrived 1 boy friends, years old. Her husband, ปี told her 'Look here, the first "And all at once we had this life and its problems, wealthy property owner, is 33. nign of any childish tantrums kind of emotional moment of
Moreover, until December 12, you will have to home.' truth, And we both began to tion namely, that we must be time for children"
when they married, he was her. "There werė. no Lanirinna. guardian. She was given into My little daughter was a self-
his care when she was night.
SEPARATED
possessed; intelligent child.
"She has never réganted me so her father. I mean she ban
called never
310 "Daddy," Mr Bramwell, a falt-haired although, obviously, 1; have man with
Lig a pudgy, pleasant played a
part in her face, and penetrating blue eyes, emotional development.”. said: "quite honestly, I would At what point did Mr Dram- not recommend a marringe like well cease to thmic... of himsel ours as a common practice. I no ɛn rathar, esserved, detached don't imagine all, 16-year-olda" querdian, and begin, to think of are ad thaiura ni-Anna,
filmseira A POSSIBIU Husband?
talk about marriage.
able to live together for the rest. The young Mr Bramwell just how deep our
For the first time I realized of our lives. I knew that we slept on in the Queen Anne beg.
rhutual
could. 86, we hot marbleskin
fer - Huskänd :-kli, Kle, i. fáth feelings. Werd,
1 pointed out that, in all that cigárette in an hour and said: he had told me, he tha not once" "I am willing to water-ai-kuje mun of money, that this will be mentioned the word love
a long and extrankly, happy
INTERESTS
""1 realise. that,” he said.
"I thought long and hard" omitted the word delibe- mariage — thodah, weighing up all the pews and rately' cons with terrible care.
"E bollera that the sändisilala'; dangerous??! "I realised that I would be. I have outlined, isumari · Krta• deprivion her of much of her garlant, then romahtia toys, twinian, LM – Máme k teburu dunia in luck, at tinggi, BAL dates with her cotitetnporaries. bài đức n it ng Quốc là
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