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Truman is

in a spot

by C. V. R.

NEW YORK.

Into

Palestine might mean out of the White House

THOMPSON

state.

Arab resistance

The

And he must da something. [ROM where I am sitting an American position on Palestine can- the American sidelines I that stay for long in its present "iffy" find some consolation for poor old Britain's bruised, estor over her failure to solve great Palestine dilemma. at least it took us 30 years to discover what a thankless task we had set ourselves.

the For

GAINST the opposition of many

advisors his own Foreign Office, Truman has gone fur towards com- mitting himself to solve the Pales- fine dilemma, But America's home- grown Zionists are already telling

Bat America, for all her dollars and for all her newfound power, him that he has not gone far enough. making that discovery almost before she's begin. Or, rather, President Truman is.

prete

Arabs

that

Im-

which the Zionists

And then

afraid they are Washington may

become too Today The Palestine dilemma has pressed with the Arabs. Not only

military res

resistance, at the Presklent on a mest WI-

pool-pol (they have given enviable spot, And it had all seems advertising their hatred of Britain of so aimpin while Britain was still and are now using the money to noiding the bag.

diplomatic ton, America has public as well as it the could apertant private off interest American Priakent

friendly with militmut Arab world--particularly in Saud Zionisis merely by doing nothing. Aralda - and big business will join Perhaps he could say something at with the military in putting forward an occasionni press conference, as very possible pressure to protect

his These interesta. President Truman did commonal reminders that the Ameri-

A

'Just do nothing' blackmall), but economie resistance,

NY

with

But the Zunits worst fear s rate Government favoured the im-ver the enforcement of the Pales mediate insugation mio Palestine tihe "solution," at and when UNO * 100,000 D.P.

Its around thvoling that solution

Or pechogs he could remain dis- into effect2. vivekly silent, as he did in the cam-

remote that terrorist by

pantr Contrui, Ben Hecht.

But the Zimmista were Zu

that cupped in attacking Balan bundly

ever thought

if Anci

anyone In Trot-stus1) (Zionist

Aliyahe

Washington

America

Warning

IN Washington Stere re Vasque

times, that the British might |

Ther To prevailed poot to stay. are vague suggestions of a "vohn-

There teer's police faver.

American troops and zrumie

Anil for a

1

ever thought that Bidain was there will not be any, peng heart to world calumny to t good reason,

The President has been warned by

protect intersts

American

tisan British, mi a single Amaritan his Republican Opposition who are vodced the thought,

now in control of Countress that if ter Troops American cuntmats

there will

trouble. De Trouble. That would mean the same speed nud resebitoon with that Congress would repudiate such which she went into, shall we say, a ermmitment. the Palippines. But zaleway, like nerd.

on the At last Britain is out, or

the way of an America is ou

Palestine way in Of course, not exactly with Rest

Truman's choice

MERICA'S endorsement

the 18

UNO play one the Palestine dilemma was deliberately ambiguous, It hud Teyn written in New York, ested in Waungion, re-edited in New York to make it just that. And all rathe Presadent Truman Wis rapidly realkang that he was taking up residence on a

a spot where Britain tayed loo long.

And if Truman's fear

Con-

for the Re-

"all-in

In turn it would also mean deadly enronaign ammunition publicans in next

year's Grunde la the Presidener.

And it' Paldent Truman does not promise the troops, he may be in for dertion fouble from another It should not be forgolten diretilen

and it never is by a President ar

two out of every | candidate that

oven New Yorkers are Jewish,

The balance

Jew

therefore

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1947.

BERLIN

of

EUROPE

JUDGMENT OF PARIS

KWAPIJPt(=IS_All, deuntrica),

SEFTON DELMER'S

NEWS MAP

Remember the bombs, Sir Brian! ENERAL SIR BRIAN ROBERTSON this month Look over command of the British zone in Germany. were allowed to pass on to him just one personal conviction which has grown out of a good deal of observation in post-war Germany, it would be this:-

Let us stop making a muin objective of trying to be popular with the Germans.

these

-

So

HELPING GREECE TO HELP HERSELF

By DANIEL DE. LUCE

DWIGHT P. GRISWOLD, Director of the

American Aid Mission, to Greece, is trying to accomplish the impossible task of putting Greece back on her feet within a year,

Greek Communists sneer at Griswold as a "Yankee gauleller." Rightist politicians insist. that he "burned his fingers" when he broadened the base of the government to include Liberal Premier Themistocles Sophoulis. Workers com- plain that American dollars are disappearing into the civil war and that unemployment is rife, although Griswold has promised to speed up construction projects..

Some generals are not exactly satisfied at postponements in increasing army strength with American funds and equipment. Capitalists are perturbed at Griswold's announced intention to bring some of their fugitive property under the scope of Greek taxation.

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British officials, packing up to leave, com- ment privately: "It's not so bad to chick all this. We have taken the blame from øvery- body."

Griswold grins wryly as he admits that sharp-shooting at a trouble-shooter is an inter- national sport. When he ar- rived in Athens from Germany, where he had served in the heap- Military Government, peared hopeful that reconstruc- tion might be simultaneous with progress in quelling the guerilla Wal But, when it became ob- vious that not even the Athens- Salonika

could railway

be

The French requisitioned that. restored without better security

now he is living at Hechingen

in what was once a bank manager's in the countryside, he modified cottage. His hair has gone white his hopes.

It is generally agreed now

in

1 eyes still light up with that strange brillanes which made his courtlers say he was born to be a new Frederick the Great, and his that Communist resistance

quile the mountains can be drastically enemies declare he was not all there.

roduced by next summer.

For these partisans are su-called the French dislike the bombing

oktiers of the "Beuderovel“ as little as possible, not to pre- derground army

General tif vent the bombing: that the war ender. which the Polish Gover- was not being fought to help ment has alleged ognin and again has recrulis. propaganda to the French, but been stipplied with arns,

and instructions hy the WAR to help menes, that propaganda

And the bomb)- Americans. fight the war.

If the allegations were correct the Americans would be gty of a ing was carried out.

Sir Brian should see to it hostile act against the States in which were fighting: Just s Abanians, and that our "love-the-English" pro- the paganda to Germany does not Bulgarians are guilty of making war inved to talk politics to his visitors, denmancing his become an end in itself, but is n Greece by supporting the Com- merely subordinate means to an munist currillas there.

But I have never belleved there brother Prince August Wilhelm for ad. For the Germans, like all allegations against the Americans, joining the Nazis, human beings, do what gither The most was prepared to accepi Bendernvel had con- way that the self-interest or fear dictates.

Parts and possibly a regular courier system connecting them with their stuff. If you

he In the D.P. camps in And compatriots Germany.

Bul gone are the days when, in his palace in Unter den Luiden, he denouncing the Republiens and

Socialists, the

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But helping Greece to help herself to be self-supporting is a question of years, not months. Members of Griswold's staff re- commend that further transfer of of American ships to Greek private owners should have an

"I am a soldier," he used to say to me. I can't bear this theatrical Ket what I mean." would outline his

for selemés

the lvation

I was firepared to belleve that cer- Gennany, tain Americans in official positions were perhaps turning a blind eye to

duin these goings and conhigs,

and doing nothing to stop them, nothing to help them. But as for active help in the way of supplies and numby I arver believed in it and

81 P.0.W.8

Our whole approach to Ger

break out- hestel the

many so far has been unreal.

for good balance of power in a New York We have been trying to "pro- to them, make Deen Vig betion, and New York State firmed, the set during t

CNCE VỀ Day more than patron of it can be even hotter than can hardly he won without a victory jeet Britain"

For in New York City. Not soce 1916 them admire British institutions

four times as many Ger- it was when Bevin was there,

Fard the meet of less a candidate won the Presidency in fact, doing our best to turn

them into little Anglo-Maniacs. man prisoners have succeded lent an election over his Palestine that win New York State.

Can

wonder. Noti

But I think it wise to remem- in escaning as during the whole do not de so now,

Maniacs have all too often been her that the greatest Anglo- of the war,

Britain-haters.

Dever

indrey, rannan does.

then, that His trouble is that, no matter what Amerwa's harassed President wants

127 1 - 4 Be clube. The tast

at lave British troops to stay in Palestine mumber of people at home, no matter until he can find a way there is

2. ANALY out of his dilemma? the effect of his actions abroad.

DEATH MARCH IN DEEPEST BORNEO

—

By PETER LOVEGROVE

NE of the least known and perately impoverished and persecut- World War I, and the courage Coured as many of our men as they and loyalty of simple natives to Britain, have been recalled by

could.

WE REPAY A DEBT

38-year-okl Australian, and the 40-year-old British Anny

None of the 404 Germans who escaped from the United Kingdom during the war managed to get to the Continent.

Nobody could have rolled bis umbrella more carefully than

Since the war, 1,777 Germans have Ribbentrop. Nobody could have pet and 81 of them are still sit been more studiedly "British large. gentleman" in his appearance. It did not prevent him, however, from telling his master

Chasing nearly 2,000 Germans is police effort and that expensive

this is one more money. Surely

want to stay prisoners who don't here

Germany could afford to attack argument for sending home those

us and would profit by it

Our main objective must be to make the must

in

my view, is to link Germany econo- suits Britain, which. mically and politically to the Western world and the Western way of life.

and

the recent return of a small The Mission. headed by Major H. Anglo-Australian military mis. Jackson.

No scheme sion from British North Borneo. The story they have just told Major R. K. Dyce, retraced the route which are in line with reveals tragic and dramatic of the march and rewarded the na-bjectives should be

down because sidelights on how. 600 British tives for what they did.

Two hundred Dusun were given

troops (chiefly from RAP) and gums of money, clothing and medi- won't like it."

1,800 Australian soldiers, went cine as a tribule from the two coun-

Aries who to their doom.

have not forgotten what they ed out of loyalty and regard. And they had some simple, moving those wightmare to tell of toples

"the

no orders these turned Germans

TN

I imagine Sir Brian romem- hers the time when it had been The territory where the epsode

decided to bomb the railway centres and bridges of Northern beurred was administered by a Bri-

days.

France as a preparation for the fish churtered company from 1881 and became a Crown Colony last year, One of the natives brought in an Invasion. The political experts It was reupied by the Japanese in ILA.F, badise, which was identified as and the propagandists protest "For heaven's sake don't December 1911. The suffering of its longing to a padre. Be said that

the it dropped from a staggerant, beard do that; the French will never population by privation, and devastation of the native villages by "Orang patu" (white man), who was bongbing and helling, were as ter inly wearing a tattered shirt. When stand for it."

ing he picked it up and tried to

ribly as to any country brought with the Japenese guards were not loo

in the orbit of war,

ed:

The propagandists were told

Imperist and Australian prisoners feturn it to the airman. The latter that it was their job to make of war were brought over by the fold in to keep the expectet

to be killed that day of the next.

Japanese from Malayu to Sariaktan, her. nativer turned up with

a fue natural hurbate on the cast lockets and a Scotels tartin, and toul epar, to build aerodrome.. At the

similar tales.

BRAVE GIRL

The wrong kind of

secrecy.

and threes and larger croups of eight, ten and twelve, units of armed anti-Communist par- tisans have been cressing the fron tier into Germany and litre sur rendering to the Americans.

The Americans, it is stated of gully, have disarmed and interned no newspaper reporters have been them in a camp near Passau, But allowed to see the partisans.

The American Constabulary officers and Intelligere officers who are in charge of the partians have strict orders to give sul information about them and let na one near.

The US athorities' secrecy in his matter is, in my opinion, ill- advised. I would almost Any alarmin:

But the way these men have mutle their

way to the US, zone and the secrecy with which they have been why 1 received there are able to lead to misunderstandings. That Fald that full facilities should at once "be" "given" "to"newspaper repuriers--ta -

e and report on these men.

and

Willie is grateful for

a 'Weight'

in

consin of

*

of Weights.

own

While he talked I remember he

a sperial mono-iron-clad guarantee that they urd to smoke

Laxation by grammed cigarette made to his own would not escape particular blend, each with a long

non-Greek registry. goose-quili tip.

Today he is happy if his Allied

They

found that 2,400 visitors "forget" a packet or two

UNRRA pumps were available for irrigation use, but farmers could not pay the high price set by the government. Poten- [Einlly," Greek farm acreage could- be doubled by irrigation. They located 13 UNRRA 1shing boats

UNESCO onwards & upwards..

remarks un Unesco fast week

My brought

many

letters:

among them one from George that had been idle for eight In-ionns Cause of an inter-

Woodward, Unesco's Public

formation Officer in Paris.

ministry squavo.efover jurisdic- He encloses a booklet-just nub-non. They checked Air Mmistry

by lished

Unesco in Paris and

gineering

12 war-devastated countries."

firms at exorbitant Among its 189 pages there is the

profit. They stopped this and proposal that "Unesco sponsor the organisation of what may be ten-new bids were called for. They tatively designated the International also persuaded the government

und Informa-

to cut 10,000 from its payroll of 90,000 persons.--Associated Press,

Institute

of Press

tion,"

i already So you

see, Unesco thinking of having tile mes.

REPORT that the ex-Crown Prince had started a separatist ovement to launch an independent entitled "Report of the Commission contracts for live air posts and State of Hohenzollern South on Technical Needs in Press, Radio 1ound that, these had gone to to en- Germany has been officially denied, and Film, following the survey in speculates for resale

Father of the separate Hohen zollern project is the Prince of Hohenzollern. a disland Little Willie, and head of the Hohen-

Catholi family's Reman zollern branch.

It would separate the 76,000 in- habitants of Hohenzollern from Wurttemberg, to which they now be-

make Them

little dechtenstein all on their own.

Little Willie himself, now 65 years is living in strictest retirement

the little town of Hechingen. When he first arrived ut adventurous Hechingen, after

fight from his castle at Oels (now part of Poland), he went to live in the magnificent Hohenzollern Castle.

But the

windows of

the castle had all been blown out. No one could or would give him any glass to mond, them. So, he moved to Villa

Eigente, a charming little country house on the estate.

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BY THE WAY by Beachcomber

VOLUME IV. of the "List of Huntingdonshire Cabmen"

In

Intro- SAVE:

end of 1844, there were 2400 at our nita there, suffering from siarvutin and various disenac, getel as beri- “ben, dysentery, malaria and tropical " A little ucun giri, not ten years)

ulers.

of are, mid that one day to she was is to be published shortly. It returning from buying rice from carries the fasciming story THE DEATH MARCH neighbouring village. the X

across ten white men who were so from Potter, N., to Zumm. B. L.

a brief but pungent Fearing an myaston by the Allies, hungry that they were eating carth. Į the Japanese marched these living She gave them all the food she was duction Sir Henry Twudger skriglons 145 mile through the marrying. When asked what the "It is difficult to imagine how any geen walls of virgin Jungle into the Japanese wou'd have done to her other work can challenge this as interior during the must rainy sea- had they caught her, she replied, in standard list of Huntingdonshire A of the year, making them carry matter-of-fact tones: "They would cabmen." The frontispiece, a Hun- 40-pound loxida

have cut off my head,"

tingdonshire cab, is a telling

well- Of the 600 Britishers none surviv-

of Tollemache's A village bendman showed a note production ed. Six of 1,800 Austrations signed by three Australians whom ar known water-colour, exhibited some

of the managed to escape. The green and bad assisted. Andrer villege bare years ago at the Catt Gallery lovely valley of Ranau, dominated boured some men whe were found }

to

nut

the

re-

G

by the 13,000 foot holy mountain of hiding in a river. They had been Chanson Triste

while tryin Kinabait, majestie and awe-inspir- muchine-gunned

villagers ing sanctuary of the spirits of the escape. The

could

policewoman remains

(Morning paper,} natives' dead, baw the agony of the keep them in their huts owing to the woman. last four hundred. The others died possibility of reprisals, so they built fake the petals that flutter from on the way there.

them a hut in the junge in three: 105CS hours, and looked after them until Is the fall of her exquisite feet, they died off, one after the other, As alie follows the men with red of beri-berl and dysentery,

All along the rule of this tragle death march, the Borneo "Dusun (agricultural folk), although des-

110308

street.

a skylight,

mun

Who stumble about i the at for inviting Ups). - Ench

began to think he was the favouredį rice is liker music at twilight suitor, and therefore each became Or the tip of the waves on the more complacently insolent to the

shore.

ather. And then came a comple To one who has slipped through, tien. An old flame from the Altal

Mountains arrived--a

mey- wealthy Or got himself jammed in

chunt. Poor old Moompi, who br- gan to feel like a juggler who is keeping three plates in the air. hnd to it this newcomer into the relierai scheme of 'back doors and private staircases. Only once did the de-

co wrong. When table

a native

door.

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Tibetan Moonflower' (XII.) TUIE faluous old nurse, Moomph, was very busy these days, letting in Egham at ene door, letting out kindowner had to be hidden Mince at another, and seeing that Moompi's linen-cupboard until the the two visitors never crashed into merchant had gone. each other. For the Witch of Dung Herring-souscr's ordeal was playing her cards cleverly. She

least ORTY-THREE-YEAR-OLD and Egham on his knees at once a day, and even permailted him ward Longbotharp, herring-Bouser Mince, on of Widnes, told the other night how to fondle her left ear. the ather hand, was allowed to kiss he was trapped in an aquarium for her cheek ("Don't spoil our friend- three hours. "I had gone to the ship, Duncan," an the infatuated aquarium," he said. (urn to Page Mince almed a trenzied salutation One Col. 5).

Ex-

DAVID LANGDON

CARTOON

IN

'Peep-bo --What's it feel like first day back from, holiday 7.".