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Indonesia Victim Of Power Politics

BY MARC PURDUE

Batavin. Feb. 27.-A Dutch analyst says the East Indies are victims of postwar power politics. The analysis is unofficial, but it was written by a highly placed Dutch authority and widely distributed in Batavia in both Dutch and English.

The analyst says: "We are China can never demand anything left with the tragic feeling that less than a position of complete strong powers are deliberately leadership-In Aší

trying to create an international The report notes that the large situation which cannot possibly Chinese populations of Burma, be defemled either from Malaya, Slam. Inilo-China Philip- mortal or an opportunistic pointe binding them to the country ut pines and Indonesia "never sever the of view."

their origin." They are "never for- gotten by the rulers in China."

The analysis was written some months ago when the Indonesian ense was in its early stages before the Security Council.

Of India, the report says: "The in india is proud. leading class self-assertive, and Imperialistic. India's history has known expansion It suid none of the participating in various directions in

Asia and powers was motivated by Idealistic | Asia Minor. The present ruling clasa purpose.

junder the leadership of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru is playing the more

21 is quite clear to almost any modern imperfallstic game."-As- interested pbserver that the alterca-sociated Press.

tions in the

Security Council on

Indonesia have no bearing whatever

on the real interests of this country,

nor on the general international in- LEGS SHOULDN'T terests which are admittedly

ex-

pressed in certain terms but are by no means genuinely aspired to," the report says. It continues:

"The status of Indonesia involves

interests of more direct nature than those referred to in the Security Council."

Asian Powers

BE HIDDEN

the

Women with good legs should not hide them behind

new long skirts, the Duke of Windsor said In Miami recently.

He said with material so short, ii, The analyst points out that the re-requiring more material.

was a poor time to Introduce styles cent development of Asla enfalls the

emergence of Asian powers in the general international structure.

carlier. in the

the Duchess frock was longer.

Reporters noticed the hemline of

The Duke said he was pleased with the reception accorded his memoirs,

He says, inclusion of Japan among recently published. He might con- the great powers century has inspired other Oriental sider writing a sequel, he said

countries to seek that role. Ile saye that despite the failure of Japanese imperialistic venture, "the initial success of their milllary netion made on incradicable impression on the peoples of Asia They admll the complete defeat of the Japanese Empire, but they do not forget the possibility, created by an Asian

ARE YOU SURE?

ANSWERS

Questions on Page 9

1. No, Peter Davy is missing. 2.

power, of hegemony, being obtained St Alban. 3. Bulwer Lytton. c. 75

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1948.

A Street Car named Desire

NEW YORK.

F sometimes in London it is felt that Shaftesbury- avenue is a mere satellite extension of Broadway, it is an educational process to note how many British 'actors nud pro- ductions are to be seen in New York.

BEVERLEY BAXTER, MP, reporting on the New York theatre, finds "the best new play I have seča

for years."

tain and the bathroom on the right, which also boasts a door.

Kowalski rose to be an officer in

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certain whether

a

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ger to passionate hatred. He moves to strike her and then, with telumphant cruelty, enfolds her un- resisting body in ferocious animal embraco. Whereupon the scene ia tactfully blacked out.

time. At last she brings him to the himself with a lighter.

The woman advances on Blanche.

hands,

•

of M TÉLODRAMA? Certainly. A wild

DUMB-BELLS

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OUR

· MUST

HAVE IT!

BHEUMATIEM CAUSES A MANÍ BUTCHER

TO IMAGINE

THAT HIS JOINTS ARE VERY MUCH LARGER THAN THEY ACTUALLY;

ARE!

MCKENNEY ON BRIDGE

Make the Opponent Misread Your Hand

The play ends with A rough woman attendant and a gentle psychiatrist arriving to take her to the asylum. She is convinced that the millionaire is coming, and 1 du Meanwhile, Miss

dressed in her tawdry best. Bois is

The Maurice Evans is filling the

feverishly wooing the Boob Ameri- Boob American is there in drunken Alvin with a vigorous revival

busy can, feeling that it in a race against agony Kowalski pretends to of "Man and Superman"; Mal- the war, but reverted to his per- colm Keen is one of the sup manent status of truck driver, crude point, and in a scene of unexpected whe throws herself on the floor. The

wistfully porting cast. At the Beck God- of speech,

haitingly good-looking, tenderness he describes

the woman frey Tearle is

cruelly

vain, melancholy, how he had always dreamed that he psychiatrist sonorous Antony to Kathleen.wife knows all this and loves him,

playing his vicious, a killer at heart. His would meet a woman with whom he away. "May I offer you my am

mudam?" he says gently. could set up Jiause and have 4 Cornell's Cleopatra. Basil Rath though she is not

The poor tlle creature looks up family.

"Could 11 be you and me?" he and, then rising to her feet, puts her bone and Wendy Hiller bring up it will be a caress or a blow when stammers, with his eyes lowered. She arm in his. "You are a gentleman," the British total in a

he turns upon her. comedy

takes him in her arms as if he were she says, and with magnificent dia-

dain called "The Heiress," Mr Priest-

sweeps past the low creatures a child and her face is lit up by

with whom she has had to consort. ley's "An. Inspector Calls" is

pathetic happiness. So he Roes Kowalski glances at her and then carning hard currency at the SATURDAY nithts are shered to horne to tell his mother.

game of poker with three of

lighter. The Book The slater, who is going to have returns to the Booth, and Terence Rattigan's Kowalski's men friends. One is a baby, comes in, and Blanche tella American covers his face with his "The Winslow Boy" has settled dull 30-year-old Boob American who her the news, affectionately, wild- down to a success at the Empire other two are

lves at home with his mother, the ly, and

with

growing air of Just things of mixed triumph. Then, her nerves out of despite the fact that nearly racial origin. Stripped to their vests control, she tells the real story everything happens off-stage. and trousers, drinking beer out of her past,

improbable story. All I can tell Her early marriage was to a benu- you is that I was held by it to the John Gielgud is giving them the bottle, Jeering, swearing, quar- "Crime and Punishment" at the cards on the floor and three

relling. Anally Kowalski hurls the tiful boy who turned out to be a very end, that 1 felt pity and horror-

men degenerate and shot himself. Then, and fleeting beauty. This man is a National, ami the D'Oyly Carle rush out to escape the murder af to cure the soul by means of the dramatist. Company has opened to very his hands,

senses, she sold her embraces in the Our English Jessica Tandy plays large advance booking.

open market. "It was not just the Manche not as a slut, not us a blonde money." she suld. "some of them on the make, but as a vain little BRIDGE a battle of wits in which were kind, one was a gentleman." creature, at once hard and sensitive.

you have to be on your toes all Impostor with aristocratic the time in order to win. Today's French blood in her velns. It may

hand was played by Bertram Lebhor well be the best performance of the treasurer of the Amerlenn Con- year in New York.

tract Bridge League. He is known Mr Marlan Braudo as Kowalski to New Yorkers as Bert Lee, sports deliberately mumbled some of his broadcaster on Station WHN. lines in order to give the effect of

His contract of four spades on this But as the three sit at the table sulkiness, and was quite content that and looked rather hopeless but he Blanche is wildly gay. She dietates we could not hear

did not give them. A dan-

up. On the opening mad messages on the telephone Suspicious of his ultra-refined the "gentleman" who is on a yacht violence when he gave tongue,

to gerous device, but it lent force to his diamond lead East correctly ployed the inck and Lebhor (South) won. sister-in-law, Jealous and resentful, somewhere, anywhere. It is a yachi Would London Kowalski watches her ensnaring his and the Western Union must

accept this play? from the top of nothing, and he also He knew that West probably had led And Are we willing to look upon lust in new it would be dificult for East friend, the mother's darling. So him. In the midst of all this Mrs a tenement flat or must we have who covers the territory to inquire have her baby. Kowalski asks a fellow truck-driver Kowalski is taken to hospital to it in a dinner jacket and to the polite into the past of this Bianche du Bois.

rattle of a cocktail shaker? Kowalski

It is tells fortunate that I am only a critic and Reports show that she was dismissed Blanche to pack her things and get not like Mr Firth Shephard, an im- as a teacher and asked to leave town,

The scene moves from cold an- porter of American drama.

I WISH I could go on from that point and proclaim the superiority of the London stage over the American, but that would be neither courteous nor true. In the writing and pro- duction of contemporary drámu Rroadway is far more vital and courageous than London.

Let me quote as an example the enormously successful new play, "A Street Car named Desire," by n young writer named Tennessee WII- Hams. Frankly, I not know

do whether this play would suecced or not in London-probably not--but I, would rate it as the best new play I huve seen for years. The acting and production are worthy of the authorship.

The tile at the play is gorish, shrewd, commercially alluring and artistically justliled. The play is set in New Orleans of today, a city once upled principally by the French, necupled who called its sireels after the names of the wives or favourites of their City Fathers. Tue the street in question was probably called Desiree and became Americanised into De- sire.

At any rate, o street car, in other words a tramcar, runs on Desire

Street bul pinys no other part in the draina. But somewhere on the street is a grim block of tenement flats.

There is only one set in the play, a sei which is at once realistic and slightly fantastic. On the left is an Iron winding stairway Jeading to flats above. Immediately on right is the front door of the fat oc- cupied by the young Polish-Ameri- can Stanley Kowalski and his girlish all-American wife.

To this abode of love comes the wife's sister. Blanche du Bois, She has been a school-teacher but needs

a change and has decided on New Orleans. She unpacks her wardrobe, which suggests that school teaching Kowalskis' that evening. To pre- HER Bance does not come to tho in Amerien must be a lucrative pro- fession. Kowalski eyes her with tect a fellow male. Kowalski has told panther-like disapproval. She is him the whole story. married anyone so cominen. horrified that her sister should have

out.

returns And

Glad to help, ma'am!

SAGA OF A SCOUNDREL,

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by Pamela Barrington. (John Long, s. 6d.)

LAME SLOUGH, where I was born, for the entry here of that overplayed word spiv.

little market town when 1, learned Slough, which wi an Innocent

to read there, has a new lesson for me now about spiv-literature. A letter from Men Muriel Fairhurst, most emphatic of strangers, takes me for a ride.

by JOHN PUDNEY

The hero-villain. is clean (we frequent his bathroom a good deal); clean-cut and ravishingly handsome. We are introduced to him expert- up £300 from a lady's thiet probably because of his un- bedroom. We are told that he is a

Report back to Mrs F., then, that here is a book of skilful, if rather verbose entertainment: that the loss sleep is not understood; that people can perhaps do with 1c55 moratising

morals, less psychiatry, more humanity. Finally I defy Slough, which taught me to read, to teach me the difference be tween a highbrow and a lowbrow

book,

more

LOVE AFFAIR by Elcanor Farjeon. (Michael Joseph, 9s. Gd.)

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to tell whether or not Lebar had four diamonds, and West only two. At trick two he led the seven of spatles, won in dummy. with the queen, and played a small club. ERE is a lady now who pre- East, having the idea that his sents us the lowbrow theme partner held only two diamonds,

"In Slough," writes Mrs F., "Saga y picking its

seller for months. People sit up all of a Scoundrel is the biggest best

of a couple "getting off”—in went up with the ace of clubs and night reading it and there are long happy childhood. We watch his al- the good old-fashioned vulgar sense swung the ace of diamonds. Now Hists at the libraries waiting for it. ways graceful progress along the the good old-fashioned vulgar sense it did nol make any difference Having established the door, the So thought to myself that here more sordid paths of crime and into of the phrase. And she sets it in a whether West played the six, five or designer then

is a book, which every middleclass the arms of a good woman. We lughbrow period milieu of French four of diamonds. Any one was a wall so we see the wretched living yet they will probably never even mately married still engaging

renoves the fourth working man or woman will enjoy, leave him still in her arms, legiti arty life in the seventies. A rich, "down and out" signal and confirm- and sleeping-room, the adjoining

in rare and readable story is the re-ed East's impression that West was bed-room separated by a flimsy cur-

hear of it os it is not highbrone crime.

sult.

out of diamonds. So instead of try- enough to be reviewed."

We are left to judge what a nasty

ing to cash the other club, East led Miss Farjeon, who claims to have another diamond-and Lebhar bit of work he is. The authoress had no education except for the carded his queen of clubs. and won dis- Mrs F. has something_more. to

conceals--nothing-except her own 8,000 books in the library of say about (1) this Slough boy; (2) opinion. Her art lles in being able novelist father, provides a delicate

her in duminy with the diamond klog. Slough; (3) herself, which volats her to write a happy, entertaining fable. and devastating lesson in directness obvious that East and West should

Looking at all four hands It Not in the clipped idiom of gangster Watch her face the facts of love at have cashed their clubs, but it was fiction, but with a touch of nine first sight. See her trip past "Maybe, Mr Pudney, the book teenth-century spaciousness..

the not so ensy for East to read will not appeal to your refined

sordid, laugh off the dreary. Miss Barrington has the sec

holdings of South and his partner. secret of and aesthetic taste, but surely you entertaining Slough, and I salute her.

When you have a chance to make can bring a book to the notice of I'm not moralising over her scoun- the people if it is something that dret sply, she is following in they will enjoy?"

CHESS PROBLEM

By P. H. BARRON Black, 12 pieces

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Solution to yesterday's problem:

1, R-RI. K-K4, 2, R—Q7:

E-K44; 2, R-R7.

"Offee, factory workers

shop assistauts are dependent on me for the choice of books... If you were responsible for 200 people's books each week you would understand what I mean.'

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So I sat down to read Miss Pamela Barrington's portrait of a spiv, leav- ing the door ajar for my "redned and aesthelle taste" to retire with the cal at midnight.

Rupert's Silver Trumpet-13

Seeing that Rupert in worried at finding the pillar-box open shim Golliwog explains, "My job is to sort the mail before the postman comes," he says, “I pick out all the letters addressed to Santa Claus and take them straight up to him. That saves an awful lot of time." "How topping," says the Jittle bear, "But how did you get here? How are you going to get back?" "It's really very simple." amiles Golly. Come with me and I' show "you."

AËL RIGHTS RESERVED,

in these vast and densely populated percent. 5. Mead, a honey drink. GNANCY

areas.

"There are three

powers

Mount Gedwin-Austen, 20,250ft. that Chu Chin Chow, 2,238 performances.

might take a leading part in Asia 8. Statue of Pallan. On is preserva- -India, China, Japan."

tion the safety of Troy was said to depend. B. Balmoral and. Glengarry bonnets. 10. Mermaid Tavern.

The analyst then points out that Southeast Asla is of "fundamental economic and strategic importance to any power desirous of coming to the fore in Asia."

China's Imperialism

CROSSWORD SOLUTION Solution of yesterday's puzzle. Across: 1, and 4, Hell for leather;

The report says: "China. regards Itself--all of its inner weaknesses o, Addresses; D, Great; 10. Lap; 11, notwithstanding as the oldest and

Lenf; 13, Bats: 14, Embassy 17,

by far the most important empire Queen beas; 10, Fore; 20, Err; 21, in Asia. From this, China derives Triumph; 22, Nine times.

an imperialism that, though it does Down: 1, Harlequin; 2, Edge; 3, not employ the same blunt means Feats; 4, See 1 Across; 5. Aspa; 7. na Japanese or German Imperialism, Drab; 8, Slayer: 12, Faerie; 15, Mufti;

strong and fundamental. 10, Isle; 18. Earri

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I'M GLAD HE'S NOT

PLAYING THAT AWFUL

CONCERTINA

BUSHMILLER,

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contruct.

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