1947-07-14 — Page 2

| THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JULY 14, 1947.

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Today Frenchmen throughout the world--and In Hongkong— celebrate their national day.' Here is last year's Bastille Day crowd around the Statue of 'La' Republique' in the Place de la Republique, Paris.

WILLIAM HICKEY.

By ALBERT MOUSSET

THE celebration of the In 1796, a military parade The Jacobin Bastille Day was French National Holiday, was staged on the Champ de dead; it was replaced under the Em- July 14, the anniversary Mars en Bastille Day for the pire by the feast of Saint Napoleon: first time. This was the foro- during the Restoration, by that of of the fall of the Bastille, is a runner of the famed July 14 Saint Louis. colourful historical example of reviews which later became one the manner in which an im- portant event alters in perspec- tive and significance with the passage of years.

The day has not always been regarded in the light that it is

of the most popular. features of Third Republic did the revolu

Only with the advent of the the day.

tionary trudillon again come into its Little was done to mark the own. As in newspaper put it: day in 1798. The streets were "Historians might aliow and even' nerostatic balloon" was re- only an old peleon defended, byla bedecked with flags, and an prove to us that, the Bastille was leased to the sound of martial hundred odd Swiss mercenaries and today. It was only in 1880 music. The show cost 110,000. lck men. This would not alter the that the French Chamber of: francs. ^ Deputies, passed a law making Bastille Duy the principal French 'national holiday.

fraditions of this day by a single lola. The fall of the Basille was not a fent-of-arms it was a victory of the spirit."

st

the

National Altar

Then, on June 8, 1880, the Chám- Be-EVEN less took place the suc

ber of Deputies adopted a law pro- fore that, the anniversary had ceeding year, when only, posed by the famed chemist, for a time passed into completo a paltry 15,000 finnes was set Raspall, which read: oblivion.

aside for public festivals. "The Republic adopts the date of With this the city erected. a July 14 as an annual national holl-

day One of the most spirited cele- national altar and surrounded brations of the day took place it with effigies of ancient and Gregoira's Prophecy in 1790, on the first anniversary tacle did not make much of an FIVE weeks later, this legislation. contemporary sages. This spec-. of the great event. In the fol- impression on the populace, and crowd thronged the city streets in L'onw its firal ennelment when a huge lowing years, the initial ardour the newspapers carried critic- the most general celebration the day dwindled and the holiday was isms of the parsimony of the had ever seen. The sireels were observed with semi-indifference. Government.

bedecked with flags and gaily light- ed. The review of the troops A very successful ball was The Consulate imade an at- Longchamp was the highlight of

the populace greeted with held at night on the ruins of tempt to fight the indifference day

Joyous acclaim the reconstituted, the Bastille prison in 1792, but which had settled on the day, French Army, which had regained and glorified it on a scale that the prestige lost in the war of 1870, In the following year, the mur- had not been seen since 1790: der of Marat plunged the capital. The Italian campaign had just in the streets on

Tricolour nosegays' were sold the occasion. into mourning and the populace been concluded, however, and The noted Republican Party leader, was in no mood for joyous cele- only one name was on the lips Leon Gambetta, bought one and DANCER: Among` Britain's three caterers now claim experts worth bration. A commemorative ad- and in the minds of everyone wore it all day. That nosegay can million

still be seen, preserved in a kind of dancers, most active en-, nearly £1,000,000 a year. It's a

shrine in the archives of the De- thusiast Is London's P. J. S. costly world, the fun-fair; a show-dress was rend out at the Napoleon Buonaparte. RICHARDSON. 71-year-old chair- man wanting.. says, scooter-cars or National Convention (the revo-

In the ensuing years, July 14 lost partment of the Seine. man of the Ballroom Dancing Official boats will take 15 or 20 at a time, lutionary assembly) and 41 its revolutionary significance, and With this legislation and its enact- Bard. Recently he judged Notting corting around 2120 each. Average decree was issued stating that was observed by the Government us ment, the prophecy made by Abbe hamshire's "oldtims" dancing cham- trick costs about £5,000,

Monday inquiries come from Singapore and had not ceased to deserve well on the occasion. The people danced, said in forever

Latest since 1789 the city of Paris marking the continental peace, A Gregoire to the revolutionary Con- pionships; the next

Te Deum was sung at Notre Dame vention was fulfilled.. Gregoire Hongkong--where prowar fun-fairs

The Fourteenth of July will were among the world's biggest. of the country." That was in the streets a lively rigadoon—

memorable: it fa

the the wallz had not yet made its ap day on which the people recovered EXAMPLE: Largest farewell gift of all. is kind, one. £3.600 taxfree cheque,

pearance and were entertained by their, dignity in finding the charter went to Sir FREDERICK MANDER.

acrobats, mimes, and punchinello of their rights in the ruins of the shows. retiring as general secretary of the

Bastille".

Swing Being Ousted

on

he усл .to Glasgo the following Friday he broad. cast from Belfast; nipped back to London for the monthly Sunday board meeting. "Old-timia" dances, though most popular in the North, are generally ousting "swing", • National Union of Teachers. On

Little Done

BY THE WAY

by Beachcomber

ADVERT: Air delegates to the desk, the statuette of a thin, ragged ON May 7, 1794, at Robes- United States conference are travel- boy portrays a half-timer" (10th

pierre's proposal, the Con- ling thereby ship.

century child mill worker). Soys Sirvention decreed that the Re- NO BOATS: Ironically-with so Frederic: "It inspires me. The public would henceforth gele much water about early hollday Minister of Education was a half-

brate the holidays of July 14, makers who had planned to sail timer.".

1789; August. 1, 1792 (fall of Norfolk Broads had their bookings PARTY LINE: When Wing-Com- the Tuileries); January 21, cancelled because nearly 500 craft mander ERNEST MILLINGTON had iced up too long. Quick thaw (Soc., Chelmsford) left the Common and May 31, 1793 (failure of Starlight and Slime

1793 (death of Louis XVI); did not come quickly enough for Wealth Parly last year, the New owners to fit out cruisers and sall Statesman prophesied that C.W. was the plot against the Conven- ing yachts In Ume.

when finished. The party held its fifth an= |tion). Atted out In sheds, the boats still nual conference this year to prove feed about five days after launching this was just all my eye and King to contract and expand for river- sley Martin? worthy sailing. PLAN: Vatican plan to foll Ger- FOLLOWER: Prst day in his new as £800-a-yeur secretary of mans, revealed by the Rome corres- job pondent of The Catholic Fireside London Socialist Party-left DONALD

Even

This, however, made the number of holidays too large, and the cost forced the authori- ties to observe them with

beast!”

garage in a brokon-down mews was once considered by the newspapera be to-

"T. Lynette hissed the words, day the phrase is used or th But woo

Pape Plus XII., anticipating arrest in DAINES unperturbed, "There's really minimum of show and a maxi./ marry him, and we live at Nimblesby wide some people over until the 1043-4, appointed "a prelate in a no chance. at all." Acting-Secretary mum of economy. All that was to be accustomed, or you refuse him, cach) appear in the shops.

certain neutral country" to succeed since. 1040, he just carried on with him automatically on arrest. Thus, his usual routine (which Is apart the Germans in Rome would have from his work as J.P., alderman, and taken into custody only "a simple L.C.C. Finance Committee chairman,

spending £40,000,000 a year).

Previous secretary held the job for

prickt. FUN:

and her mother, Lady Stadpole, pound. A shopkeeper

can buy caviare at ten guineas a 1s reported as winced..

making the startling statement that most people who buy the caviare "My dear," the sald, "elther, you are wanithy. Anyhow this windfall Manor in the state to which we used synthetic strawberries (one *guinta

cne vile lodging- done was to play the Marseil- and we tramp

she spoke Sailor's horse vanishes she looked round the laise and the Hymn, to Liberty house to anothe during the sessions of the Con-room with a wrinkled

The

Edna erupted again yesterday. vention on these days,

place smalt bad-which it did. "He

(Rome message.) text of these anthems was even leaves a trail of slime, like a snail." They call her the diifle yolcano..

vouchsafed ther mother. "You. will of the sittings.

be telling me next that thrushes

plck

sardi sil

man-held and U.S.-held markets for 32 years. His name? HERBERT MOR- incorporated into the minutes saldnete, "Do not exagger Suet was too busy

the

Breaking, into former Ger- first time, British

fun-fair RISON.

"REACTIONARY!?

RUSSIANS

CALL WORLD GOVERNMENT

By Walter Cronkite

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him up in their beaks and bang him

they

against siones. "For all I know,

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foolishly. At that moment the

MANY people have been asking

why Charlie Suct was not long ago given this new job of Head Nanner to the, Government. Tho knocker was hard rattatting at the answer is that he was far too busy dilapidated front duar

MAC

Wicker's Establishment for Refined his four-way registration plan,. Familles. "It is he cried Lady cd specifically to eliminate all red find which, in his own words, "is design- Stadpol. And into the you, an ape from bottlenecks." nounced by Mrs Wicker in person. Registration omcers are now em- strode Staunton Farragoe, the powered to enter houses without a wealthy speculator and zine mag warrant in order to enforce the four- nate.

way (back and forth, up and down) plan.

'Mayfair hostess'

THE Soviet Union considers pression of the nations of the world teranl and foreign policy" during the THAT dear old gure from our

a by a handful of great powers," and last two years, as listed by Korovin, any attempts to form

Stalin's 1013 definition of a nation's Include:

1. British Foreign Minister Ernest world government or to "par- right of "self-determination" as the liamentarise" the United Na- right to withdraw from any federa- Bevin's suggestion in 1943 that the

United be turned of nations at will. tions as an effort by interna- tion

In a recent review of a Korovin international parliament of a world tional capitalists to secure world

summarised: "He state. lecture, Pravda

Bernard Baruch's atom contrui domination.

points out that the Anglo-American This concept, often expressed in attempt to parliamentariae," inter- plan, which would "provide for un- imited interference in the economi- directly in the past, has been boiled national conferences and the United enl life of all countries."

solve down to banic fundamentals by Nations (1.0, the desire to

on international problems by a simple

torily of votes), which could be Europa.” looked upon 50 or 100 years ago as In his lectures Kor

Korovin explains progressive.

now be estimated can that,

and only as deeply reactionary and as while world government

of trade might" once have an attempt upon the sovereignty of freedom been considered political and economie theorists GR Vanced countries,"

art

expert member

ot

Eugene Korovin, International law and the Academy of

of Sciences.

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3. Winston

Eurorchill's plan for a

"United Sintes of

4. John Forsler Dulles plan for

Western European Federation.

by revolutionary the Soviet State and of other ad diverbert Hoover's plan for "the

ה

5.

of Germany and her economic enslavement."

0, The Democratic Georgia

progressive,

under

present con "Similarly the principles of free- Senator Richard B.. Russell's pro- ditions it is not.

dom of trade' and 'equal possibilities' posat to include Britain in the Reviving a phrase heard frequent were progressive when they were United States. ly in 1038 and 1039. Korovin claims opposed to the bourgeois feudal

The

culmination of all such that any world government

would state.

actions," said Korovin in one lecture, belleves 18 throttle what he

Dry

"At present these principles ne "Is the Truman message on render- nation's right to "self-determina- only. juridieni bridgehead for ing monetary and military 'help' to economic implantation and seizure Greece and Turkey by means of None of this reasoning is against of commanding positions by Im- establishing over them United States the Communist doctrine despite perialistic capital of states which military, economie and political what at frat might appear as direct have been weakened by the war”, control in order artificially to sup- conflict with the, old theoric.

Some of the "systemnatle attacks port the reactionary anti-people's He quotes Lenin's characterisation by foreign statesmen" on the "real regimes of these states."United of Imperialism as "progressive op- independence of states in their in- Press.

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