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A USA GLISER
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FRANK CRATEM
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VEERANSTVOEREN NEUMANEN POCKET CARTOON
TWO LETTERS FROM AMERICA
BELLEZETENTION DER KONTAKTİKAMAICANAS
1-
kuatanustatavia EMULATE
THE UNITED STATES WINS AN EMPIRE
NEW YORK.,
T the moment when many people in America are clamouring for others to dissolve their empires and tear 'down their tarif defences, Amerien has acquired a ready- made, brand-new Empire of her own and has promptly put a wall around it, warning all com- petitors to "Stay out."
America's new overseas pos- sessions' cover an area of about 3,000,000 square miles of ocean. This is roughly the area of the whole of the continental United States,
SIX HUNDRED AND TWENTY-THREE ISLANDS SCATTERED OVER THREE MIL- LION SQUARE miles oF OCEAN HAVE JUST PASSED under united sTATES RULE....AND THE Warning isS GIVEN 'STAY OUT?
Chief of the islands, all of therfore almost certain that the which have some strategic im- United States navy's grandiose plan for £25,000,000 to £30,000,000 ex- portance and many of which are penditures on a string of new ad- potentially important as trading vanced bases throughout the Islands posts are Eniwetok, Kwajalein, will be quietly shelved. Jehuit and Mili in the Marshalls; Saipan, Tinian and Rota in the Marianas and Truk, Ponape, Yap and Palau in the Carolines.
When she acquired her new
Some Americans foresee new colonies by vote of the United holiday paradises in the South. Nations on April 2 much was Seas with cheap three-day air made of the fact that she would trips for holidaymakers from the not become their outright owner, california coast. Others visua- but only a trustee. That, it was maintained, was quite a different lise the islands as a chain of thing from the old-style out- mid-ocean Gibraltars. and-out annexation.
Navy's Plan
Already this is being forgot- ten. The influential Washing- ton publication United States I was for "rensus of security" that the U.S.A. asked UNO for "pre- News, for instance, now openly refers to the UNO vote as having ferential commercial and economic amounted to "a deed" since the status" for American citizens in the
Isinwin. territories were made into a "sole and permanent trustee- ship."
The phrase "American Em- pire" is now in frequent use here.
on the
are ocean breezes which bring the night temperatures down to fortable sleeping levels,
com-
Hotel and night life promoters nl. ready have their eye on the Islands' commercial possibilities with their graceful palms, photogenie nalives, long Pacific rollers for surf-riders and gleaming white coral benches.
This
Who is to run the Islands? is developing alrendy, into the big- ist headache for a nation new at the Empire business.
There simply are not enough train- The chances are that there will be ed colonial administrator available. present the navy have cole new construction for lauses only on At Tinlan, Salpan and Kwajalein.
Murge.
Tinlan and Saipan are intended to find their strutegical place aux!-
Naval rule is likely to encounter
►
GO MRC
"I'm suffering from amnesia.
BY THE
WAY
by Beachcomber
(Ventreguiene!
bad
te in support of the major some stiff criticism in Congress with SEVERAL correspondents---- installations already existing on in the next six months. Guam, an American possession for 60 It is attacked as backward on the years, Kwajalein will be turned into
an air force base.
basis of past experience in Guam, American Samoa and 'elsewhere later the Pacific.
Truk, once dreaded as the "Jap anes Pearl Harbour," but
found to have been highly vulner- able and far less strong than its namesake, is marked in the new can. ception for use only ng a recreation point for men on short-term leave from the other islands,
Truk itself is a chain of 89 islands. It will become a holiday colony in spite of the fact that it possesses one Anest harbours on earth. of the Within its vist circular lagcon all the world's navien could He at anchor nt one time without undue over- crowding."
appallingly
What Journalism! No writer over has several correspondents. He has mil- lions, and his office is "literally inundated" with letters)-gix hundred thousand, five hundred und forty-eight people, then. have written to say that I seem
American Samoa is, for example, under the direct control of the Navy Department In Washington. naval commandant la governor of to be obsessed with ferrets, as the colony by direct commission from 1 mention them so often. thes President. He appoints all oficials and draws up alt Laws. The reason is not the Freudian There is no Judicial Committee of one that my nurse had eyes ilke a It the Privy Counell to which the ferret and always hated sucks. natives can appeal.
is simply that my only hobby is Ier- looking after the ferrets at my
I hope to retry in Bedfordshire. export them in large quantities, ta enable my country to purchase with the money the two hundred drivel-
American Lake
IN Congress suggestions are already heard that what the United States
week.
needs is a new Government Departing American Olms required each ment on the lines of Britain's I wrlle from my ferretry. I have Colonial Office to lake over control just fed Berengarla III, and Jolly of all the non-contiguous
terri-Jim. tories."
Potato v. Poteto
She got it over vigorous British objections, thereby extending a step further the American Imperial Preference system introduced in the
Good Climate Philippines and modelled British Empire system Amerien is, new asking us to destroy as part of THROUGHOUT the colonies, clima
the surveys are now under way Island's Importance the price for the dollar credit.
and navigational charls are being
These are far more numerous than It is now well realised here (and checked and redrawn where neces-
most Americans have yel realised, THE new American Colonics
by naval top- sary.
with their achtion directed princi- consist of 623 islands and generally admitted
conversations) rankers in private
Reports are coming back that thousands of atolls, reefs and that the strategic importance of the
under peacetime conditions life thereally to the "iniquitles" of the "Im-
perialist nations
nations" of Europe. In the Pacific half of the world, Snapdriver: Not vain enough to islets in the Marshalls, Carolines islands was probably much over will be much less fearsome than was and Marianas, all formerly man- rated.
supposed by those who listened to the stories told by returned fighting America How has Alaska; the extan-bonst that you are descended from dated to Japan, Their total
holdings in Hawali with basen Henry It's gardener? men. The temperature is generally Strategists can see no way in which
Pearl Harbour, Kure, Howland,
Potato: Only when my name is land area, is 829 square miles, atty nailun or group of potential fors a pleasant 80 degrees. It varies but Jarvis and Baker Islands; Amerlean Their population numbers 85,- might threaten the continental Unit- ten degrees either way whatever the Samoa; the Marshalls, Carolines and mocked. Mr Potato-(laughter),
scuson. Over most of the year there Marianos; bases on ed States from that direction. It is 000.
Cocklecarrot:
2 - WALLACE'S CRITICS
GO TOO FAR
BALTIMORE. against THE wrath THE
Henry Wallace for his speeches in Britain has gone too far. Al ready there is evidence of reac. tion in Wallace's favour.When members of Congress demanded, apparently seriously, that a man
As
Wallace fact, mutter of does represent a considerable body of
see in opinion. Many Americans the Truman policy nothing new but merely a revival of the old cordon sanitaire devised by Clemenceau, And they expect no better results
than he achieved.
Phone Strike
MERICA'S telephone strike has
be prosecuted criminally for A proved thus far to be less an-
criticising the Government, fair- minded Americans were shocked. Even those who do not like Wallace feel compelled to defend his right of free speech.
The incident has revealed the weakness of the Administra- tion's position.
Intervention in Turkey and Greece cannot succeed unless it is firmly supported by the U.S. and it cannot be firmly supported unless it is solidly backed. by public opinion in this country.
Raised a doubt WALLACE hus raised a doubt that American opinion is solidly be- hind this policy. Therefore he has Jeopardised the whole scheme.
The fury against him is based, not on the content of his criticism, but on the fact that he made it at all.
Nobody has bothered to answer Wallace. He has simply been de nounced.
annoyance than was expected.
This is due to the dial system in use in most large cities which works automatically.
After ten days the machinery is still working fairly well, with the result that must cities still have a fairly adequate service, and public indignation has not yet mounted high
enough to force a settlement.
Was
Secretary of Labour Schweilen- bach has made one proposal which
promptly rejected parties. The President imilates Mleawber and walls for something to
turn up.
He issued an order to purge the Government service of Communists and Communist sympathisers.
There
Federal are 2.250,000 employees, and to examine the whole list will cost £12,000,000,
Number of Communists cannot be large. because during
the applicants for Government positions were carefully screened by various police agencies watching for persons of suspicious loyalty.
wor
Effective purge NEVERTHELESS, It is safe to pre- dict that the purge will be highly effective.
Not many Communists will be caught, but many personal grudges will be satisfled.
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Any Bureau chief who compeis his staff to work is pretty sure to be
the investigators reported to
Communist sympathiser-which means that he will be subjected to annoyance and interference, it not to the loss of his
of his job. by both. There is somo suspicion that this move was instigated by reactionary the Democratic Party members of anxious to eliminate all New Dealers, It seems more likely, however, that Truman represents the state of mind it merely illustrates how perfectly of the average
American. Without a
doubt the country is experiencing a repetition of the hysteria that swept it after the frat World War. when the ordinary American Baw a Bolshevik behind. every bedpost and the Attorney- General loaded an entire ship with wretched aliens and expelled them from the country.
until the automatic machinery be-
· Vigorous action may be deferred gins to break down and the rage of the public begins to mount.
COM
Atom control
OMMON sense triumphed over prejudice, and David Lilienthal Atomic Energy Commission. was confirmed as Chairman of the
This means that atomic energy development is now definitely under civilian control, and Its exploitation for peaceful purposes has a chance to proceed.
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No break yet WALL-STREET sagged a little in mid-April, but nothing like a real break has happened yet, although cost of living and corporation profits have both risen to unprecedented
Lilienthal was accused of Com- munist leanings, but his real offence was a refusal to allow local poll- ticians to namu their henchment to heights. That sort of thing displeases the responsible positions in the Tennessee The President begs business to open-minded. The more moderate Valley Authority. newspapers, even though_they_sup> Yet almost at the moment when port the Greck-Turkish scheme, this effort to sabotage the public to be heard.. have already seen the danger and service wna defeated President are whining party leaders against Truman announced a witch hunt on going too far.
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-Gerald Johnson
sive
at
Tarawa and
Makin in the British Gilbert an
Mr Totato,
Snapdriver: Now, would you say you were a vain man?
Potato: No.
Silencel
This is
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Ellice Islands colony; Wake: Mid-court of Inw, however unlike one
it may seem. way: Guam; forces in China, Jupan and the Philippines.
Gooseboote: M'lud,' this is all Already the Pacific is spoken of utterly irrelevant.. here as an American luke."
-Frederick Cook]
Rupert & the New Pal→16
to
George, the tortoise, is delighted ace Rupert after his tough journey, and when the little bear explum how à all happened he recovers his spirits. What is worrying me." murmurs Rupert, is how we are going to get back home,
We came an awful long At that the driver joins ini "I've got to return to Nutwood in half an hour," he says. If you join ine here I'll take you in the van." So, realising that their troubles are nearly over, the two pala atro Kently way.
way.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
Snapdriver: M'lud I am endcu- vouring to show that Mr Potato
Cocklecarrol: Are you sure you mean Potato' and not Poteto?
Gooseboote; No, m'lud. Mr Poteto Is the defendant-I think,
Cockiccarrot: Oh.
shell call Mrs Snapdriver: Whiffle.
A value:
I
Yoo-hoo!
Dr. Rhubarb's corner
3. D. F. WRITES: My wife is so fond of nature that whenever she passes a certain garden here sho pokes her nose through the railings to look, and as her nose is very blo, it often gets stuck. Twice the local fire brigade has prudgingly released it. What can I do?.
Dr
Rhubarb says: Buy her a bleycle clip for her nose, or one of Dr Renton's nostril-compressors. Her nose will then slide easily be tween the railings, in and out. If this falls 'tell her to smear her nose with axlegrease.
Tirlitontaine-ton-ton
SINCERELY hope it is true that a certain nim uctress renowned rather for her physical charms than for her intellect (the literary way of describing a pretty dunderhead) re- marked to a producer: "It's my pay- chology that gets 'em."
CROSSWORD PUZZLE
Across
No Englishmau in Britain 10 (5) How to desert a good class before smoking, of course. (17)*
Culmination, ((0)
And that's the end of Kate. (3) Product of Eton, (4) "Know you the land where the treen-bloom." (Goethe) 14. Jewish month. (8) A bristly maned quadrupod. (6) The reason for a Casino. (0) He made the Dean relax. (O Car, dog, or marriago (0)
Down
1. Pit a cora) to something 'agent-
like. (9)
It's not as broad as it is long. (0) A time when an umbrolla is us0-
Tul (7)
4. Tangle. (0) 6. Bho seems to suggest 1 had
6. Lays, (5)
something unspecified. (3)
8. Beasta. (4) Taken from a mentioned army. (3) 13. A non-professional. (di 15. African gram country. (4)) io. Two and two. (8) 18, Dorn. (3) 10. He no doubt, can gil. (8) 21. Often causes division. (3)
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