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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1946,

Socialist

foreign policy?

by

Maurice Edelman, M.P.

Socialist who

This article is by signed the rebellious foreign policy amend- ment to the Address on the King's Speech.

He is the 35-year-old member for Coventry West. He visited Greece last year, and recently was in America.

America foreign policy has

To-day, Greece is riven by a con-

IN been officially raised aboveflict in which Britain appears to be

EDELMAN

on the aldo of an extreme Right the party struggle. Only the Wing Parly which savagely perse- dissident followers of Henry cutes its political opponents, while

THE Russians despite their jagged- movement and the Wallace reject the "bi-partisan" the Resistance

ness have shown themselves attitude which Mr Byrnes re- Lett have turned away from Britain

to Russia and the Communist Party, anxious not to cause presenta.

breakdown ul. UNO. Can the Labour movement approve these lamentable results of a policy initiated by a Conservative Foreign Secret ?

Throughout Europe, the failure of the Foreign Ofice to give adequate to Centre and Left encouragement Centre parties has resulted in harsh political divisions into extreme Left and extreme Right.

In Britain foreign policy remains the responsibility of the Government and its Socialist Foreign Secretary,

No formal endorsement by the Opposition sustains Mr Bevin: but, in effect, he knows that the Conserve tive Party, on the whole, approves his polley.

He knows It because, to great extent, he has continued to prose cute the aims of his predecessor at the Foreign Office. "Is this appro- priate on Socialist Government?" jak many Labour M.Ps and trade unfonists.

The answer is: "Of course it is. Every British Foreign Secretary, whatever his party, must have as his objective to protect the British peo- plo, defend their standard of living, add to their friends, reduce their . enemles,

But

the

that a

France, at one time the linchpin of a projected Western European Union, now has, as is largest political In- Auence, the Communist Party.

With this new development, the hopes of a closer association between a democratie Britain and France must be deferred.

move-

Στι

The buffer

avold war, If possible, but, TN Italy the neo-Fascist party has Is Incvilable, enter into it in war ip

made remarkable strides. În the strategically favourable situation.

disquiet which has recent- South. France swaggers in Spain. ly developed in

in the Labour

the centre, hungry Social- Democrats, flock, from

one end of anent, as is shown by the trade union Europe to another, look up to Be vole in Brighton and the amendment to the Address, arises from the beller tant, but are not fed with the moral Socialist foreign policy must sustenance which they need as much make use of

of different means and ines food. Lo achieve struments to

its aims than which are

are habitually used in diplomacy. Conservative

When

Labour won

victory at the polis in July 1945, liberated Europa thought that the Century of the Common Han, announced by Henry Wallace, wos at hand,

and

South American States and Dominions, preparing an atomic aguinst them.

Wat

COMMENT By "Candidus"

ISRAELI was a great Jew,

This picture in grotesque; but no Socallut "cuit fell to recognise that our foreign policy now seems to be

The fact that he became tagging along behind a US. foreign Prime Minister of England is policy which is by no means a So-sufficient testimony. I wonder clalt foreign policy.

...

Can a Socialist approve of America snatching bases in Greenland, Ice- Iand and the Pacific? Can a Socialist condone the loose talle in America of a preventive war against Russia?

Must not a Socialist inquire closely into the reasons for the proposed standardisation of American and Bri- tish military equipment which will Increase our dependence on US. in duality at

time when a large peace me army naps the labour force of British factories?

In the economic

phere can a Socialist approve that America should use her food resources in order to put Europe in pawn to hersely

The dispute

what he would think of the scum who are perpetrating such sense- less outrages in Palestine to day? When from 1930 onwards, Hitler intensified his action against Jews and began to cast them out from Germany, the world renoted against him. If: he had to deal with the type of blackguard who is responsible for the murdering, malming and destruction in Palestine to-day, I should say that Hitler was right.

No matter how strong the Jewish ease may have been, the movement

practices beyond the pale of civili- sation.

R can a realistic Socialist consent has lost sympathy on account of the complete that preferences should belawlessness of its criminal elements. the British Common--j It is a matter for surprise and regret Within the abolished in sphere of UNO we must try to com-market with high tariffs?

wealth while America closes her own that the decent Jews" throughout the pose our interests, economic as well

world have not made more vigorous protests against those who claim to as political with those of both Rus- Foreign trade and foreign policy be of their race, who are guilty of

walk hand in hand. sians und Americans.

Let us have on

With and of sandbag |

the Republican victory. diplomacy.

American capitalism Is no doubt confirmed in Its belief that this is DALFOUR was no doubt actuated What is the picture of UNO which | the American Century. The Amend.

by the best of, motives when the Russians see to-day? They im-ment to the Address by Labour back-he endeavoured to find

the ngine that they can see Byrnes and benchers will be a useful reminder to "Promised Land" for Jews, but he. Bevin leading o

satellite group of them that their view is disputed. too, could never have realised that one day an organisation bent on murder and destruction would create for Great Britain a problem of the first magnitude.

PARENTS... are they HUMAN?

TAKE

E man Uke Mr George Naylor, now, of Cambridgeshire, who (I read in the papers) has produced a family of 10 in 16 years, whereby he can now sim a family allowance chit to a weekly tune of

£2.155.

These,

the working men women of Europe, are the real buffer which Socialist foreign policy

Mr Naylor should be doing this. should seek to create against any plece. He, I feel, would have avoided encroachment by Russia on vital Bri-he whimsler pitfalls.

tish

interesta.

The Foreign Secretary has won the world's plause for his firmness Britain had been impoverished with the Russians, who, having pusn by the war; but her moral leadershiped into the vacuum left by the defeat- was never higher."

ed Germans ore now jostling our Commonwealth communications.

Now, it was thought, Labour Bri- tain will make her alliances with peoples, not with kings, and affirm her authority by her example of social democracy.

The snub

INFORTUNATELY, the phrase #continuity of policy" was soon to pass around the liberated capitals like a snub; her Foreign Office was doing "business as usual."

But blunt talor even guns-wilt not be enough to contain the Russians in their proper sphere unless we have the

support of the peoples where our interests meet.

Greece, Palestine, Iran, Trieste our best counter to Russian influence on the sympathies of the inhabitants of those areas is to win those gym pathies ourselves. Were we to do so we could bring many thousands of our troops home.

A Socialist foreign polley believing

I would sooner have a child than 3,000 a year, so the handful I have puts me £15,000 in debt to fate, or whatever #Is.

I have the capital; 1 want to know how to invest it. I am not giving edvice, I am asking for it.

My children

R parents got away with a lot "paychology." for example, which by not worrying overmuch about probably explains the mess we are in to-day. Nor did they, in fact, worry over diet; they called it food, and, somehow, we survived.

My children are Dz well fed

+5

ioys, but more amusing

by JAMES CAMERON

Author of the popu- lar series on atomic warfare recently ap- poaring in the Tele- graph: "Must the World Begin Again?"

It Is also

surprising that President Truman should have appeared to champion the cause ol outlawed Jews, at a moment when condemnation rather than approval

was indicated.

It cannot be said that the dimeulty confronting Great Britain was not clear, Under the circumstances it is no wonder that the British people are becoming im- patient, and are already pressing Government to pass on the whole unsavoury business to the. Unlied Nations.

I would be quite willing to leave settlement of the matter in the hands of the Arabs, in whose country the Jews are endeavouring to insinuate themselves by unconsti tutional and outrageous methods. After all, it is to the credit of the Arabs that they have shown the utmust forbearance.

One naturally sympathises with the British troops who, while not at war, flad themselves targets for the most cowardly and inhumani

Instead of an honest person recognis-attacks. ing that the only difference between you and your children is that they have far fewer dangerous prejudices and a good deal sounder digestion.

To be given to theorising about children is ineffably dull, and needs correcting.

Their world

ow

ITHIN the British Empire to Y day, there are millions of Jews. the early thirties, great Many are British born, but since have taken up their abode under numbers

the Union Jack because they are free to enjoy the liberty which is heritage. Unmolested, they In Greene, Mr Churchill bad fell in the right of the British Commun- I was, by and large. They have

share equal rights with Britons. WAS once accidentally put In that Britan's Mediterranean strategy wealth of Nations to unimpeded, fewer

We

.even grunt them naturalisation, could best be served by having a liberty

charge of a small Indian baby on an aspect which I shall have more to and unmenaced security, lessons. The war disrupted their a flight from Karachi to Bombay. say later. Is it not up to the majority friendly king in Athens.

must necessarily resist any attempt school plan so that, like most seven If you have ever changed the napkins of Jews within the The Foreign Office continued to by Russin to encroach on that right, and eight year olds now, they would of a 15-month-old Hindu at 7.000 Commonwealth of Nations to declare --British further that alm-successfully, in the At the same time it will seek to be considered slightly under-educated feet you will agree it is a consider their gratitude, If not allegiance, to event-despite the change frain Eden achieve, en every possible occasion, by 1030 standards. to Bevin.

They ure

ex-able, and chastening, experience. the flag which shelters them? a way of living together.

ploding with health.

From that point on I became like Mr Naylor, realistic.

I would even suggest that it But this is not a world of com- The privilege of helping a human would not be too much if they fortable and settled values. It has being to crawl up that troublesome inaugurated a fund for the rellef seemed to me more than once lately hill from the cradle to organised life of the British victims who have that if I had sole charge of a young is about the one honest and incorrup-been assassinated by fanatics who child I would not teach it to read tible job left.

claim to be Jews. and write, but to run like the devil and hide in holes.

It is too late to do anything about our parents, pretty nearly too late to

How should we train their opinions, do much about ourselves. If there THE present state of affairs docs their tastes, their political thought (because a child develops a political

a world left in ten years' time

7, 1941

F

IVE YEARS AGO to-morrow)THE main local news of that day consciousness of a sort the moment/will belong to the children and not years

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of

That is the formidable It becomes aware

that is was the announcement of the de- possession)?

responsibility, and parture on retirement of the then

challenge. Colonial Secretary, Mr N. L. Smith.

Because things are as they are, it ...For the love of Mike, where A Government Gazette notice stated mostly comes down to one simple those little hell-hounds put that permission was required before question; school.

typewriter-case?

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bring to mind that of recent many Jewn have been

British

naturalisation. granted Should we as a nation continue to admit to our free and liberty-loving brotherhood, those whose race con- tains people who do not deserve the great benefits of British nationality. This line of thought may be too straight for some people, but surely it is time we indulged in a straight thinking.

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December 7,

By "RECORDER"

Hongkong was attacked by the Japanese. On December 7, 1941,

which that

yeur

fell

or food stocks could be removed. The

Sunday, the majority people here either still did not be- lieve that war would come. thought that I would not come soon and were unprepared for suddcanezs.

zo same Gazette announced that

the

is charge of two cents for sitting on the

xents at Blake Pier was rescinded. T HAVE not found it simple. Whether i

£ to send them locally to a school

On the Saturday of that fateful week-end, life went on very much as usual. There were the usual Satur-

things the wrong way, or far away 'day morning shoppers; the

The Jockey Club held its cleventh to a boarding-school where they usual sports fixtures were played off; the extra гарс meeting cinemas were crowded with school eluded games

on that day, muy probably gain and we lose. Senior friendly cricket fixtures in- children; there was music and gaiety Cricket Club

I have been forced by n com- between Hongkong bination of circumstances

the at the Gripps.

nad Civil Service, second, which Near to midnight, came the frat Craigengower and Kowloon Cricket reflex anxiety,

produces in me a hint that something unusual

Club and Indlon Recreation Club schooldays

because my Own were 20 aslir. A message was flashed to all versus the Army:

uniformly theatres and

miserable.. public places recalling to duty all naval and merchant

Should one send them to marine personnel. Ships which were

The Colony's credit balance was where they will learn the wrong chown as $20,097,407.52.

was

South China was playing Middle-

ab

noon, Sing Tao was pitched against personallies or an ordinary one 10. sex Regiment at football that after- "enlightened" school to develop their so have sailed within the week had Kowloon and Kwong Wah orders to leave at once.

against

develop their biceps? And anyhow, hockey

Club Two

tournament

unday, December 7, the Volun- mniches were on the card-Y.M.C.A how does one, ever and but, without

were called out, and as a test versus Khalsa and Y.M.C. d years of experiment, which is which? ault several football and cricket matches were called off or postponed.

versus RAOC. There was big line- Or should one take no chances and Although there were signs that de- up for softball for, it you prefer, keep them close, so that one's wife velopments

fastball) for Sunday morning. were not far off, the general public did not regard things. too anxiously, not

..

is tied up for the first fifteen years of married life with the sentimental, The Queen's and Alhambra maddening chores? Theatres were showing "The Bad THE Hongkong Telegraph on the | Man," starring Walkee Bécry.

Saturday carried as its main news Ronald Colman was on at the King's you become a prig-parent, a pansy- story the negotiations' then going on in "My Life With Caroline."

at Washington between President

Roosevelt and the Japanese'

Nomura

and Kurusu, concerning, HE

envoys,

Go on like that and In the end-

bluff-and-hearty parent,

parent,

Japan's right to garrison Indo-Chinu. Tigraph's pictorial that Satur How Good Is Your

rald were

Vizit

day had two pictures of the

Two days later, on Monday, Decem- Diamond Wedding of Sir Robert and ber 0, it carried this seven-column, the Inte Lady Margaret Ho Tung, double-decked banner headline on its which was celebrated on the Tucs front page: "Hongkong At War With day before with a big function at the Japan: First of Enemy Planes." Hongkong Hotel at which both the At 7.55 a.m. that morning an air longkong Governor, Sir Mark nlarm Bounded, and explosions Young, and the Macap Governor, heard from the direction of Kal Commander Teixeira, were present. Tal aerodrome.

The ARP Director) sald over the telephone: This is

There were also pictures of the a practice. This is the real thing."

is not

SI Andrew's Day ceremonies, The izo of Monday's paper there are to-day. They included WAS cut down. But on the views of the wreath-Inying at the Saturday before, it was still a paper Cenotaph and Union Claurch service, of several pages, with all the usual with one of the No. 2 (Scottish) Com- features and pictures,

pány, HKVDC, marching to church.

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