1947-06-07 — Page 7

·THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 1947.

POCKET CARTOON

POCKET CARTOON|

||by OSBERT LANCASTER

America's loan is building the Turks

a very nice tomb

I remove the mos- quito netting from my bedroom window I can step out on to the terrace outside.

From there I can gaze at the long, green serpent of bare, treeless hills that lies coiled possessively round 'the fresh white shells of this squawking, hooting and hammering new-old city of Ankara.

MOSCOW.

SEFTON DELMER

did not go home after the Moscow Conference. Instead, he went on a

STALINGRAD now mission.

TURKEY

Haro ho

reports from Turkey, which with Greece is the now contro of American financial Interest, Мар shows Dalmar's itinerary

QUETENTIALE DEBERGUED STATESNILLEN KARTOGENINU

Newspapers outside Istanbul were allowed to publish the without interference,

allegations

Istanbul, it must be remembered,

is by a long. way the largest, most influential, political centre in Tur- key.

D

Now, don't get me wrong. I am avare that despite the existence

and of a vast

expensive secret police organisation and the circum- stance that, until the beginning of

"I ask you, darling i Do you suppose for a moment that his ever gave his wife any of his coupons!"

PLORE

last year. Turity was a one-party TO EXPLORE

State in which no Opposition to the Government Was permitted-this country enjoys greater liberty than Soviet Union's Com-

any of the

munrolled satellites.

It is

poller of beating

the

here to

to accuse

Opposition up in present-day voters and to bring them to

trial, There is much Turkey which democratic opinion

Senirkent.

Com- Prosecution of

haps they will be may hasten in

AMAZON

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MEDIUM

Dr. Westst

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more than 2 to 1

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• Waterproofed...anti-soggy

• Sealed in glass

• Guaranteed for a year

Trade Inquiries to L. D. Seymour & Co.; Inc. 43 French Bank Bldg., Hongkong

}# Owned by Mearl Sprott of Pasa

deck" a four-seater amphibian sca- bee with which Sprott intends to explore the upper reaches of the Amazon. The plane is put on and From Here and There:

may find dificult to wear and which as I am told was done recently intral and South American cruise. They're a fine sight, those

There is another £7,500,000 unless things are changed-as per-mint-directed security forces

Europe. hills. But there is one being spent on Ankara's super- the United States that swingback of unthinkable in the Soviet sphere of dena, the yacht carries on its "dight!

I appreciate the dimeuitles of the ridge in particular which I

the pendulum normal in democracy.

When I got off the train in Istan- Turkish Government's position un like to contemplate. I call

delighted. Two bontfuls der the constant barrage of hostile of white-copped Turkish Navy men agitation from Soviet Russia. it Trouble Truman.

bu! I was were fraternising with while pork- pied American sailors.

be..

on an

super parliament building, and a further £5,000,000 Ankara sixteen-storey hospital skyscraper.. It first caught my eye

Only £1,000,000 a year is cause I noticed they were build- at present being spent by ing on it what seemed to be the Government on roads and Transport - starved an extensive fortification. Or bridges.

ur perhaps I thought, it was a kind Turkey needs these more

gently than all else if she is to of anti-atomic air-raid shelter.

When I took a taxi and drove reduce her uneconomically high out to look at it, I found it was costs of production and living neither. The building on the and become, as the Americans ridge is a super-luxury mauso- wish, leum which is being erected as n memorial to Kemal Ataturk, founder and first dictator of modern Turkey,

Half a million pounds have already been spent on it. And, the young, German-trained Tur-

kish engineer in charge of its

informed me

construction proudly, it will cost well over £2,000,000 before it is finished in three years' time.

* TROUBLETM CALL it Trouble Truman be- cause I cannot help thinking that before long the President is going to have bother with this memorial and regime.

The regime, as a consequence of a 23-year absence of parlia- mentary opposition and criti- cism, has permitted unrealistic expenditure of this kind to be- come typical of its Budget policy.

In the Bosphorous lay the broad grey hulle of the United States air- craft-carrier Leyte, small Turkish launches

with clustering around sightseeta clamouring to be allowed

on board,

Newspapers carried headlines The featuring the word "Welcome," and letter "W" in Turkish some of them as there is no such thing as had a

"V"~ tled together two "VVelcome," militarily and strategically,

sounder proposition

Turkey today has a total of only 26,875 miles of road, and of these only 8,125 are all- weather roads. It is easy to see that Truman's £25,000,000 loan is only a tiny down pay

what looks like be- coming a heavyish commitment, especially if any more heroes. require mausoles,

ment on

Yes, it's Trouble Truman all right, this ridge and all it stands for in Turkey. And, conversely, It's Comfort Molotov.

.

CIHAT BABAN

DANGEROUS

off the ship by a crane.

his

The Breezin' Thru is skippered who by Capt Paul C. Loveland, commanded Gen Dwight D. Elsen- UT it is no use blinking the fact hower's personal PT bost in the that the suppression of Oppost- English Channel. She carries a crew on newspapers-and the fact that of 11. The diesel-powered yacht is naval patrol the Turkish Government refused to a former Canadian

that any complaints boat which Sproit purchased as sur- guarantee

of plus at the end of the war, the poll shall be Investigated-may embarrassing Turkey's

ta

Sprott will take with him made by Opposillon observers prove new American sponsors.

wife, Gertrude, and several friends, Even more dangerous. however, including Mary Lloyd, artist-writer.

Internal in this policy to Turkey's safety. It is only natural that, after 23 years of one-party rule, there is a great deal of

Government among warm, and I can assure you It was people.

There

no Communia's Arc was all gay and informal and of the pleasant relief from the May Day

of in Turkey today.. speak rehearsings and posturing pong if public opinion is not allowed to

had

accompanied mo alties which

through assert itself in free elections it is turning to poetry. An

an Indiana newspaper all the way from Moscow 'Kiev and

Sofa to the Bulgarian not impossible that Turkey's Comment in

munist neighbour will exert some read: 'frontier

ut Svilengrad.

on the Oppositionists. But that night, when I returned 's mausoleum would then

strayed

ved by to my hotel, 1

Truman's hopes into the ballroom, where a private become the mausoleum of modern I was bashfully backing out, but checking Soviet expansion into the dance was being held

in my companion, who knows every Eastern Mediterranean and the all

Istanbul, quick as lightning wells introduced me to a plump man Baban, editor of the Istanbul daily Tasvir.

who, he said,”

Was

lold me, been suppressed by

mistake

young Cihat

he

order

Turkey and

of Iraq.

THEY KEEP MOVING

IN KAMPEN

that

the

Amsterdam.The municipality of of cigarettes,, who court the "snob to the Dutch town of Kampen (eastern trade" with various references

proposal London royal warrants and so forth Holland) has accepted a forbidding anybody "sitting or ly-on their packages, have been told Ink in the company of a member of to print "clear and indelible" notices

package public un the opposite sex on or at a pu

cigarettes are made in America. highway, a dyke, the verge of

EVASIVE NEWSPRINT slopes or its bottoms." rond, Its

da is to Ottawa, Canada, contained

send Argen- proposal originally also

for Initial trade, calls for

every

the clause that it was forbidden to Lina newsprint in exchange

criticism the

to

House Hunters Try Poetry

vi

αν

But

married

on park benches with the opposite sex,

people

arc

реп

advertise-

of

In America, house hunters

"My name is Mike, I'm one year

old,

too

A boy that's good and not

bold. I need a home, a place for three!

Dad Where Mom can cook for

and me."

The True Story Of The

Old Lady Of Hyde Park

or

a member edible oils.

except for shipment to Cahada of 9,000 tons of

further 0,000 tans

town

with

relatives, Kam- all is a highly plaus

of prospect. Canada will send about 25,000 inhabitants. It had half of one percent of her total two Calvinistic universities. Before production of newsprint in return, the war anybody entering Kampen but the exchange will not cut down

the pamphlet amount shipped to the United was handed a religious

them against the Kingdom or other countries. over- warning

seas, since production this year is consequence of sin.-

last expected to be greater than

STALIN'E SON Moscow A check-up here yields no confirmation of an American re- port that Stalin's son survived im- prisonment in a German

refused. Fellow he behaved

prisoners with great

year.

KNEE DEEP Mombasaere are some of the prisoner effects of the defects of the pheno- along the Kenya island records of war camp. Goering visited him menal rainfall

coast. Mombasa comp during the

war and 37.23 inches for the first 20 days of promised him many privileges if would denounce his

Ho May; two hundred and atty Africans, country. Ho

port whose

arc homes

knee-deep in report

water are

accommodated in dignity.

boing

acaport is There is little doubt he was murder a military camp: Lamu

unapproachable by road and is ed by the Germans before

off from Kenya by the sea; swollen capitulation.

rivers have destroyed two bridges in north Kenya; the south coast road impassable; Mombasa automatic. telephone exchange is in a chaotic state because of cable leaks and hu- midity; the sun's eclipse was eclipsed by heavy rain clouds

the

I am pretty sure that behind Molotov's policy of delay and procrastinating obstruction, bril- liantly carried out at Moscow,

Cihat Babun was not taking there is the shrewd expectation

news- duty. His of dividends from the effect on night off from

the Government's policy, hod, U.S. taxpayers of such little paper, which was in opposition to things as this £2,000,000 mau-

HOLD-UP soicum. All this apart from the of the Istanbul Military Governor. The newspaper's offence was that speech of an

Calcutta-There was a sensational general overall aim of aiding

hold-up In North Calcutta when a Communist world revolution by it had published the apt

local Marwari business man irregularities in last year's general

robbed of nearly 1,300

ounces refusing to allow the capitalist Opposition deputy alleging electoral world to settle down to peace election, and challenging

worth

than 350,000 more. legality of the Turkish Parliament THIS is a true story, and I Agah, it was only natural gold and security.

burs gold. Tcall it to mind because in that she should replan her do- rupees. The.

ROYAL STRAWBERRIES as at present constituted.

brought from Bombay in two auit-

Verona. Eight four-engined "Were you, or the deputy

cases by air and were met a British planes transported 24 tons with ther pleasing environment. Dumdum airport by a

a man who made the speech, asked to substan- it there may be a moral lesson mestic quarters more in keeping brough

And so her establishment grew. travelled to the city in a jeep. On of strawberries from North Italy to England. One Italian export' arm collided with the way, the jeep tinte the allegations which you had for Hongkong.

"No," said Clhot, "ours was

two sent a basket of stawberries as Instantly and another jeep, formal offence, Istanbul ia under a nance prohibits any doubt state of siege, and a special ordi- cast on the legality of the Turkish Parliament."

"Truman," I can almost hear Two million pounds, after all,.

handsome slice of is a

the Molotov saying, "has led off his £25,000,000 loan to Turkey campaign on a very high note. (some say it will end by being He cannot go much higher with a gift) which, as the corner out going to war. Soon he will stone of his Resist-Communist- have to sing lower. A revul- Imperialism policy, the Presi- sion of public opinion will set dent has piloted through Con- in which we shall be able to ex- gress.

ploit."

published?"

asked.

the

who

Moscow

What I tell

my students about the

British Empire...

From Alaric Jacob in Moscow

comes this report of an adby Dr. LEMIN-

dress delivered to students

and young soldiers in Moscow

D

fortnight ago. It is

a

speech of Interest to everyone who wants to know how the Russians talk about us— to themselves. . . . . .

USSIA is no threat to the

RBritish Empire. We hava made it amply plain that we do not want to intervene in British affairs. We said so the other day in the case of Egypt.

All this screaming about the Soviet menace la simply a cover for the American often- sive against the British Em- -pire. Americans have always been

against Imperial Proference, The Socialist Government is prac

tising a form af appeasement of the United States which may do the greatest damage to the Em- pire.

Russian historian

ed bourgeoisie are more inclined to co-operate with Britain than with America.

The British have shown more skill in handling Burma than the Dutch showed in the East Indies. The Malayan Union plan is impor- tant. Malaya is the chlof dollar reservoir for the

But British. the Government has not got Socialist policy for the Empire.

Shinwell even talked of "Socialist Imperialism."...

a

Despite its success in withstanding the trials of war and putting 2,000,000 under arms (of which more than 8,000,000 were from the mother country), the Empire faces great difficulties.

King South Africa, to which the

Princesses have and Queen and

mony pro- just been, contains

want to Germans who did not fight.

The

tall of Singapore showed that the Colonial peoples had no en thusiasm for Aghting the Japan- ese and Australia and: Now !It is now passing through a serious

Zealand began to

look for crisis though not so acute as the French

American support. empires. and Dutch

When the Australian Prime Minis- There is no war within British boundaries. A gigantle ter said so too blatantly, this angored Australians and English Alike. -

the

liberation movement la proceed ing in India, where the Anglicis

14

·By “Candidus”

a woman.

She was

a

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of

were

carried on in almost all wea- under English law, permits landing among the soffaint-!

of Mem-

extra

EARLIEST LAW CODE IN CLAY

A

stable covering, later adding a land as hers; and lo and behold good mopists do not make law, written about 1875, B. C.,.

Au.

Irving

Many years ago, began selling fruit in Hyde Park, London. being

MANY years afterwards, cer-men armed with revolvera demand gift to the King.

ed the gold and decamped. tainly well beyond the

MONEY FAINT cheery, philosophic old soul.

which, Sitting on her little stool, she statutory five years

New York-AN thers. When showers came, occupied for such a term to be-phils fed to a medical Investigation. she held an umbrella, but this come the absolute property of Result: boya had been selling their

blood to blood banks for became somewhat tiring, so she the squatter, some interfering spending money.

WOMAN PREACHERS purchased a larger umbrella, official enquired as to the tenure

Copenhagen- -Abili giving men and fastened it to a stick driven and/or tenancy and/or manner into the ground.

or conditions of holding of the and women equal rights to be or

dained an

as clergymen was carried in said property and lo and be Parilament by 18 votes against 50. Business flourished, and after hold, the dear old lady, doubt FORTABLE TYPEWRITERS The earliest known code of some time she erected a more less on good advice, claimed the New

a psychiatrist doctor has been discovered on four

На charged today. couple of small shelves..

once more, the Courts upheld said that typists, in fact all mothers fragments of a clay tablet at thority, in the way of the her claim, and the duly became who formerly earned their living, the University of Pennsylvania park policemen, gardeners and owner of the land together with tend to raise children as if

they Museura. keepers, benignly smiled upon the out-ofices, easements and were

were little typewriters or cash re- The 'fragments were brought to

begin- her-although records do not

appurtenances thereunto belong-gisters. It is all right in the

tool potamia nearly 50 years ago but reveal whether or not she occa- ing or appertaining for ever and fing, says the good doctor, but offer the museum from southern Meso-

the child ceases to become a he cannot be controlled "by means until Dr Samuel N. Kramer and Dr their significance was not realised. However, post-war Canada, now an slonally nourished them with a

typewriter imple as changing a (once as

Francis Steele, of the Babylonian Of course, history Industrial nation, emerges as the succulent banana-and she con-

the Dr Berger,

catalogue chief opponent of an organic Em- tinued to prosper in comparative

Antipodes comfort. What more natural again) does not state whether mother reacts with a burst of fran- section, began writing a piro unity, while the

the estimated Curators

tablet then, that she should think how she was estopped from storing the activity, the child retorts with a of material. show an opposite trend,

originally was 11 inches long and New

it would be if she could rig gunpowder, saltpetre, kerosine crescendo of revolt and from then

that on a major war is on.

nine inches wide, containing 20 ANOTHER HAW-HAW in the Pacific. They up a nice little bed, and enjoy or other explosive, but

Johannesburg

special

court columns of cunciform writing. Only said they had borne rationing for the balmy summer air, listening doesn't matter very much.

appointed in Pretoria to a quarter of the entire tablet could the sake of Britain, not for the to the birds early in the

try Sydney Erich Holm on charges be restored, however,

alleged he Kromer and Steele said, the tablet American Army,

morning during London's - WHAT about tongkong today? of high treason. It is will only remain a Great mer time. Just a little addition, W Does the same law hold good? was the South African Lord Haw probably was written 150 Britain Power so long as she is head of a few boards to ensure privacy Very substantial structures have Haw who used to broadcast subver fore the widel an Empire, but owing to Canada's and all was well. opposition no Empire Cabinet was

Most of the Dominions are scared of bile up with Britain. One American expansion and prefer must recognise their strong sen-- with timental and cultural ties the Motherland.

10. Skers refused to load |

can

Both Tories and Socialists agree that

set up in the second World War as in the first.

:

*

over.

✡

has

Adda

"years" be-,

widely-known Hammurabi been and are being erected on public sive propaganda from the German "aye-for-an-eye, tooth-for-a-tooth" land by the thousand. In many of short wave stallon at Zeesen during code discovered in 1901. Similarity in wording of the two codes indicat- the occupiers sleep and rear the war, WOMEN them,

ed that the Hammurabi rules were their

familles on pavements, streets

Batons and bedlam based on the earlier laws. and very and various sites on vacant Crown Capetown-Batons

olony. What Canada also consistently opposes the SHE loved flowers,

asale at a shop

King Lipit-ishtar land throughout the Colony.

were features of a Idea of an Empire Foreign Office.

soon, a little flower bed ap about "rights" after five years' occli in Durban. Well-dressed Europen The newly-found code was pro- She has de facto military alliance

peared. The effect was not with America.

has closer only gratifying to her eye, but. patlon (and many of our squatters women fought with Indians and mulgated by a king who called him-

be very near that uninter hatives to enter the clearance sale self Lipit-Ishtar in the text..

It held that, "If a man fella a tree. Militarily Britain, 200,

with also to her pocket. By beauti- rupied period, it not well beyond at a department store, lured by the bond with America than

would most drasile price-cuts

he shalt for many in (another) man's garden, thousand queued

xliver. at pay one half mina of the Dominions. Still, though Em-fying a few more square yards, it)? If that law holds good,

IdenHeat, and a plate ginks pire unity may seem weak, all the she was able to sell flowers, all Hongkong be called upon to compen years, Five.

window Hammurabi's ... · text was

qualification: caved in in the rush. At first the Dominions declared war on Ger- the fresher and sweeter for her sate for the non of what was down and a

once public. many together.

a tree in mait cuts down I don't suppose for one moment notice were thrown aside, but thencept for a logical- tender care.

without that private owners permit, unres charged again, using their batons in (another) man's garden

the the permission of the owner of the Unfortunately, some unruly tricted or uncontrolled squatting, but vain to restore order among

with heart attacks; are at home. They dress up in- raided her garden. Only a to permit people to seize public land, helmets rolled merrily on the forms old will mark rents an oxand

police of silver." Ca

tablet alo newly-discovered evitable concessions as Socialem. strong fence could stop such a then those in possession should be uniforms and dresses, wore British workers are not very con- wicked practice, and the ferice called upon to pay rates and taxes, frocks pulled off. The unnerved destroys its eye, he shall pay o

scientious about this because they share in the benefits of exploiting duly appeared although here because thousands of them are carry manager and the police misde an at half of. Its market price About the Colonial peoples,

"Iman rents an oot and destroya The all-out offensive of American again history does not relate ins on deckledly lucrative businesses tack in strength, and forced the 150 years later Hammurabi wrote!

whether it was camouflaged without contributing one peat to women out.

TANKER DOODLES wards the Colony's exchequer.

its, eye, money, equal to halt capital is strongly influencing the

Perhaps somebody, told them the Washington---The manufacturers market price he shall pay Mothe Empire, exposing: basic Anglo- with honeysuckle, Jasmine or

rambler rosen.

story of the old lady at Hyde Park! of America's more expensive brands owner of the oxy

· ?!

In

Colonial affairs the Labourites

docs.

are even less socialist than they and dishonest souls occasionally Government Clovernment is willing in hunters. Two women col- | garden, he ́akall: pay one half min

American contradictionE, SAPLAN

If however,

The