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THE HONGKONG: TILEGRAPH, TUESDAY, MAY 13, 1947.

BY THE WAY

by Beachcomber

NO EXTRA RATIONS FOR BRITISH HALMA TEAM SWINDON (by cable),

·NTERVIEWED yesterday, a high official said, "An al- location of sausage skins, made up from discarded fish, will shortly be made, if at all, or not. "This should enable the nutritional commodities visualisod in Schedule 24 to be pre-supplemented in the ease of food intake units who come under the surplus dietary plan for non- manual executives in touch with per- all-in Whale-ment for sonnel. wrestlers in being considered by committee composed of experts, or not, as yet, no that." Potato v. Poteto

Mr Potato sald, "If we are to talk about nome-changing, what about Gooseboote. Snapdriver, Cockle- carrot?"

The twitching nostril

Gooseboote: My name is derived

from the Low Saxon, Gouseboate, meaning to knock The edge off a stone Implement. ·

Snapdriver: The ancient trade of thupdriving, comes from the time when men drove apps in the fall of the year, in the New Forest.

Cocktecarrot: Is is really ger- mone to the nostril-twitching we are to consider? The twitch of a nostrii may be involuntary, 09 on ch- countering an unsavoury odour, or at the impact of a midge. It may

THE case of Potato versus Potelo

was on the point of being settled also be voluntary and emphatic, ex- contempt, nausea or out of court when the two gentle- pressing

Mr Potato, what did your ment met in a passage. Mr Potato huuteur. "twitched a nostri sneeringly" at twitch imply? Mr Poletu. Both broke into violent abuse of each other, and before you could any prefabricated corsets, the whole accursed affair was in the low courts again. In an opening address Cocklecarrot suggested that the two gentlemen might care to change their

nines.

Polata: Hay, tever. Goosebnote: A very sudden al- tack, surely?

Potato: Mr Potelo was wearing a in his overpowering bloom

Mr very Both refused haughilly. Potato said that a unme which hnd buttonhole. been good enough for Henry II's Kurdener wns good enough for him.

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(Case adjourned for lunch)

Gold

By C. V. R. THOMPSON distinguished British foreign correspon dent, who has for some years concentrated on reporting the American scene

If Henry Wallace were

PRESIDENT ·

Otherwise he, and not Harry Tru- man, would have succeeded F.D.R. What if he had be- President-what difference

two years ago, come would it have made?

Ask any American that and you will get one of two answers:—

Answer 1: We should be well.on the road towards fulfilment of the Roosevelt dream of a world of plenty and world peace.

at Moscow.

io

system Buat abroad

HARDY POLES REBUILDING TRAGIC CITY

By Lady Margaret Stewart

who travelled to the Moscow Confaronco with the British dolegation.

To see the ultimate in ruined citios you must see tragic Warsaw.

The hardy Polos, however, have refused to leave and have done an astounding job of ro- construction.

NAZIS' MORAL CRIME

The wrecking of Warsaw ranks among the moral crimos with Lidice, for Warsaw was finally destroyed by the Germans with dynamite.

WARSAW was destroyed not recovering from yet another war

Was

by bombing or sholling. It which smashed the country, and in the old days there was one definito blown up,

deliberately, standard for those with money and house by house by the retreat ing Germans.

land and nothing for the rest: now everyone is fighting for recovery.

Perhaps, for that reason, the people of Warsaw were determined to lvu

The Initiative of the Government

The city was deserted at the time, but the Germans were de- there rather than to move to Cracow termined not to leave a building or to other towns. standing. They made a thorough job of it, and demolished 95 per to stay there gave the lend. Despite the great work of reconstruction, cont, of the capital.

many whole sirects are still The people of Warsaw, live, for piles of impassable rubble, the most part, In cellars and much The train was met. by members of of their shelter will be inundated the Government, Mr Bevin greeting when the ice breaks.

mere

them with the words that the British Poland' is a country of hardship, nation and the Polish had fought and a country of hardy people. and died together against the com-

They have sufficient to eat, nl- mon enemy. though much of it is expensive and Dr Litauer, who is soon going to Rold on the eternal blackmarket as Australia as Minister, was present, it is in most other parts of the world, and he told me that he was greatly Nevertheless, the struggle for ex- looking forward to his new appoint- Istence is a continuous fight against ment.

conditions which are hard to explain I drove round the city in convoy to the more prosperous parts of the after Mr Bevin, and with me was a globe.

woman who had once lived in War-

I was in Poland 15 years ago and saw for 11 years. She could scarcely I saw much of the same fight. The recognise å street, and did not know difference today in that Poland is now the station at which we arrived,

WHERE 200,000 DIED

houses was still

out

It was hot, sweet, and utterly won-

ENRY WALLACE could Time, too, for an occasional lungo Dollars for Brituin to rebuild rail-

have been President of the nt Er'tish imperialism just because ways

and modernise industry,

The landmarks are gone except for an occasional large United States. It is only he would have been sure that there Dollars for Russia to build, high- building which was used by the Germans until the end.

must süll be a place somewhere in because just a few more people the Empire where we are kicking ways, bridges and eletrical plants.

In Polish vodka we toasted Aun- did not make a little more noise Hottentots.

Dollars for France. Dollars for THESE buildings were drilled on a certain summer afternoon

everywhere, and to heck with balan- for blasting-but the Boche traila, and he asked me about con- But his bly target would have

ditions in the land of promise," in 1944 that Harry Truman beat

did not have the time. been Russia. By now he would cing the Budget,

The lunch was tremendous and him to the Vice-Presidency.

We passed the Ghetto-powdered probably have known the Kreml'n But no dollars to fight Com- into brickdust. You enot pet dellelount bolled chicken and barley, ns well as he knows the White

the Polish smoked ham, Polish frank-' Greece, no dollars for through its streets, which are House. And during his visits there munism in

of some 200,000 men,

furter sawwages in onion sauce, sweet he might not have talked like Roose Turkey, no dollars for colonies that graveyard velt at

women and children. It was cordon- horseradish and a new kind of mur- Yalta," but he certainly were not free. would not have talked like Marshall

ed off, and wiped two years tard, and bolling hot tea which they before Warsaw met its Anal fate, drink in long glasses. More Breside chats by the score

After that, as Pole told me, 110 to get support for this. Is argu-citizens knew what to expect. It would have been on his ability ment-the world's only hope is to I drove by what remains of Pil derful.

convince Russia that his One

Brest Litovsk; That name of great World theory is possible and pre- be one world, and anyway a dollar sudsk's old house, and the former

Brilish

the rubble

of and tragic association. will eventually come

We arrived ferable to any other world

Embered with election at five in the evening to the straing that President Wallace would have hack as ave dollars paid for Ameri- slogans; tiny horse-drawn waggons of Mozart. As on all Russian rail- stood or fallen.

can goods which, of course, will were the main form of transport. way stations a loudspeaker gives enter those foreign markets unres The great Vistula river had been forth continuous musical pro- tricted, in exchange for lowered frozen over completely, and the lee

was so thick that motor cycle races me; we had Mozart and we had

American jive, old tunes such would have hren tariffs into America.

were held on its surface.

"Stormy Weather," und a Scottish In Britain we have known the dif- front. the home

Wallace President

recl. audible less and less

ference between a good harvest, a There are 50,000,000 Americans em-

Brest. Litovsk—where in 1017 the "Liberats."-a-group-which-includes.

the most almost anyone from a non-Conserva- ployed now and fewer than 2,300.000-been-faced with a coal strike, just medium one, and recently a bad one.

unemployed. President Wallace as President Truman is, but it would But in Poland, as in parts of Russia, Germans exacted one of

is a very different matter,

brutal treaties in history with the tive to a Communist.

The second would have felt danger in the air be a different kind of coal strike. "from

the

In Britain we have had top much first Soylet Government. Conservatives, without 57,000,000 employed. comes

Not the final ges.ure ef Join L. snow; in Poland and around Minsk The damage done to the town In elther Republican or Democrat, who

Enough per this war was still apparent in a few are predominant.

By now he would have plans ready Lewis, the beaten autocrat, but the in Russia, too little.

to haps

Russian to build new roads, bridges and post annual triumph of a

give moisture to the earth in mutled structures, but the glutton for

spring, The Liberals still have hopes that offices out of the seemingly inex-

enough to be a blanket, but style architecture of the main build- not enough to afford safe protection Ings appeared intact from the sta- are dwindling fast that they can haustible Government funds to stave numpas.

for

the seed.

tion piniform. make a President of Wallace yet, off the bust that he would expect.

As I look at the miles and miler At Brest we boarded the. Russian The others think they have killed around the corner from this big him as starry-eyed mystic whose boom.

that this should be not in which I have ever been. Through salution of the World's ills is to pro

strange

Minsk and many other towns vide a milkman to call once a day.

enough.

After Warsaw and on the train I Smolensk....and so to Moscow. on the Hottentots.

It was a strange and terrible re- had my first Polish lunch, given by Mr Rolk, of the Foreign Offer, flection that, ever since Calais, all who will necompany Dr Litauer to the territory over which we had tra- [Australia.

versed was once in German hands.

Answer 2: Chaos, even i acetum- Danied by sweet music.

The first answer emes from the

American

LUNGE AT BRITAIN QUT let me try to draw a composite BU

picture of President Wallace from

his record.

THE UNEMPLOYED

MORE dollars

MOR needed on

would

have

For under President Wallace, the

would have been the common man's

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champion of the common man, it of

of nothing but deep snow, it seems train-one of the most comfortable

He would have been a terrible privilege to strike to his heart's con- politician, saying the wrong thing tent for bigger and heller wages, no politically, that is for the insuf- matler what the threat to his na- clent reason that it seemed like the tion's economy. right thing to him. For two years now he would have been in more hot water than a housewife's hands.

THE DRIVER

He would have been the most have allowed America to atom wou THIS, then, is

talkative President

cver

America hod. He would probably have dug up the neat, English-style lawns of the White House to plant com there, because digging is his favourite re laxation.

I am not at all sure that he would i

the broad pro- Wallace that Henry gramme Hiroshima. And if he had, he would might have tried to carry out had Under a most certainly have insisted that the he become President. Japs were given warning first of system of government like Britain's But in what they faced if they did not sur- he might have succeeded,

America, where Congress was estab render.

Ilshed as a check upon its President 1 am positive that by now he instead of as a train behind him, I He would have been the most un- would have done his stubborn am sure he could not.

hls President the Foreign darnedes.-and Omee had ever dealt with, telling should not be day and Stalin tomorrow. Attlee what he thought of him to

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In fact, I think that if Henry Wal- give the atom secrets to the world. lace had became Prealdent instead Yes, to Russin, too.

nt Harry Truman, he might easily have been today almost where Tru He would have had UNO tackling He would have made a Arexide man to driving on the right side of the atom problem, the Mediteranean chat-no, a dozen fireside chats the road in a car that is built for the problem, the Russian problem, the that it was the only way to stop the kit side. Middle Dist problem, the Far East world's suspicions of America. Any problem, world relief, and the recon- other policy he would have called struction of the war-torn countries. new-style isolation!sm. And most of it still with American dollars.,

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Wallace would have stopped Lease- President Wallace would not have Lend. Or UNRRA, either. In fact,,

time for Dritain, I think he would have tried to per hed too much Time, probably, to chase us out of suade Congress to pour dollars and Palestina, Tume, 100, to commend food abroad to stop hunger avery-- Attlee for voluntarily chasing out of where and to rebuild the war-ravag-

ed nations. India, Burma and Egypt.

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Congress might even have resur- to prevent rected some ordinance

him digging up the White House lawns,

QUOTE; Mr Henry Wallace, comment Invited last night to

said: on Thompson's article, "Well, there's one thing you can, not ration that is the Imagina- tion of a tras Briton."

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Venice, (4) 18. Neither rain nor snow.

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10. The heart of probity. (3)

20. Want (4)

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4. Today tomorrow. (9)

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0. Prior ta. (3)

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