What Dewey's
election may mean to Britain
by our Amorican
Diplomatic Correspondent
OMINATION of Mr Thomas Dowey as Repub- lican candidate, for the Presidency of the United States would not normally be a matter of direct interest to Britain.
But Britain is now so depen- dent upon the U.S. that it can not escape the repercussion of American politics.
If Mr Dewey becomes Presi- dent, which is regarded here as a reasonable certainty, ho will not hide his dialike for Socialism an practised in Britain.
It is known that he regards.
with disfavour the subsidising
of nationalisation experiments
(with the American dollar, and
Thorns Dewey
he does not belleve that Bri- him around, to eat with him, to talk to him incessantly--about, the
'tain's industrial production can right things in the right way. ;afford to carry the weight of oxpanding social services and reduced hours of labour.
As for the personality of this тап, who can get votes without- necessarily getting friends along with them-well, in his youth his
An against that, Mr Dewey Dewey was a Boy Scout, and in accepts the view that the world middle age he is rather like that needs a sound sterling currency omelous kind of Scout master who and a strong industrial Britain. is apt to make people feel a bit un- In other words, he will con- comfortable with his air of slight Improve tinue to offer aid, but the superiority and desire to
other peoplo. atrings will be tighter and more numerous.
His second trip This is the second time that Mr Dewey has found himself on the way to the White House.
Four years ago he was over- whelmed by the Roosevelt magic. This time he has to fight Harry Truman-no magician and with a disgruntled party in tow, with some Democrats deserting and following Henry Wallace.
Domperats of the South are angry
But the Dewey of today is warmer and more human person the same man who tried to than reach the White House in 1914.
He has matured a lot. He is less
smiles are and his
more cocky genuine. He has shown that defeat does not affect him, His self-con- Odence is infectious.
The difference
What polities appeal to him? Certainly not Bocialism, Ho has said that the difference between a
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JULY 10, 1948.
"One difference between Americans and British is Amoricans rush everywhord and got nowhere
whereas the British don't rush."
From Giler in New York,
Only 100 years ago
FREDERICK COOK, who works as a reporter in New York, revisits England, and hotos
BIG CHANGES IN
TWO YEARS
was perfectly evident, was it pot, that Monsieur. I could not be expected to eat fus potere, absolutely
without bread? Especially when one considered that truly there was no real need for these so ridiculous "tickets" except-naturally-that they provided Jobs for the cretins in Paris,
Monsieur would therefore pray accept two places of bread completely without tickets with the compliments of the Republic of France.....!?
The rest of the dining-car passengers on the north- bound train from Dijon smiled their approval of the Resture and the politics, and the stoward moved on. The incident typified changes x find both in England and in France compared with
ditions on my last visit two years ago.
In the summer of 1948 it was an affront to
to.public decency-ar so it seemed to be wearing a new sult.
But since then something very important has hap- pened over here: the people don't know it, but recovery
is coming, fs, arò no longer the badge of honour.
Fow
eople wear them any more and those who de to keep them out of sight.
try
By night there is more New Look here, far more chic, than there is in Paris, and by day the old crisp smartness of a well-cut tailor-made has again turned the London girl into the smartest in the world.
As for colour and style, there are more of both here than on Fifth Avenue,
P
Some things in London have changed not at all, of course. The coffee silli desorves the slogan Bad to the
Last Drop.
We used to put them
NE hundred and eleven
years ago the use of the
pillory in Britain
Oin the pillory
abolished.
So passed the commonest form of ignominious punish- ment for minor offenders, perjurers, authors, and journalists, and a source of amusement and blood sport for the common people.
its
a
The pillory consisted in earliest form of
offender's head was locked.
with Truman because he wants civil the Socialist is an idealist who be wooden frame in which the
rights for Negroes.
Democrats of the North smoulder because of his Palestino policy.
Socialist and a Communist is that lieves it can be done while the Communist is a realist who knows it cannot and does not want it to be." With Dewey in the White House The strange thing is, however, the Federal Administration is tent that although Dowey wen
the to be run along smooth, effelent un- ines. nomination by an eventually animous vote, most Republicans Entertain only lukewILLEN feelings about bim as an individual.
Like a sermon Ifis speech accepting nomination -spoken more as a sermon than a battle cry-wob
ap- only polite plause..
The
only sound accompanying bis oxit from the convention hall was organ music.
Hls nomination was the paradox of a unanimous vate in favour of a man whom nobody enthused about
How could this happen?'
The nomination was won by un- sparing efficiency. Dewey's organi- sation kept a dossier on every one of the 1,094 convention delegates. Ilis organisers went to work months ahead of the convention. On every one of them.
There will be an attempt to, run the U.S. like one of New York City's huge department storos.
No Breworks. Dewey's top men will be picked for their records of performance--and Dewey likes busi-
nessmen,
Pillore
Later two holes were added for arms. The victim had to stand with his hands hooligans who speil and neck thrust through them.
side."
the
Stocka
Scold's bridle
country- was a sort of a stool of repentance. Scolds, witches and women of too
on
in the on viere
a
Frenchman was ducked as a wizard at Castle Hedingham, Essex, und died from the effects of it.
A special contraption for women indicled as commen scolds was the brank, or scold's
fron headgear whale, & form of
serting between
5
a key tor in-
teeth.
The sugar does not sweeten and the tea is not what it used to be either.
bro
There is more new building t America and more rebuilding in Franco, than I have BCCI hero. Gangers
hard at work for hundreds of miles along the French permanent way. All I see hore in the way of railway rehabilitation appears to be in the Signwriting Department, Division of Large Gold Lettering.
Food is for better here in the last two years. Few of my English friends seern to realise this, but it is true.
Back in 1940-perhaps you've for- A brank was used on Ann Run-gotten-ish was very, very scarce at corn in 1824 at Congleton, Cheshire, this ime of the year. Now there is for abusing the church-wardens.
And Fruit is good and plentiful dried egg omelettes can be avoided now without much difficulty.
plenty and in great variety. (Or The Scots spectalised In jougs, course, muck of it is still bolled otherwise known as juggs and josh).
This was an iron) 'collar alfached by a chain to
to a wall or pillar and it was fastened round the neck.
David Leyes, for striking his father, got two hours in the juggs at St Andrews in 1574, "bairheddit and batrfuttit, and was thereafter cartit through the haill toun."
Drunkard's cloak
Two years ago I dined with a friend who boasted that he had never had an ounce of food "off the ration" since 1030.
brother
friend's
Whipping posts were once com- 1 chers hades the DM there
I dined there again last week off Paris or New York. My If the mob disapproved of the
there any record of Quite legal, too, for although the easy morals were made to sit upon ONLY at Newcastle-on-Tyne is Juicy roast as tender as the best in
thewife's brother, it seems, has n farm man, in the pillory they signifled it
pillory has been abuilshed by them at the doors of their houses,
drunkard's cloak-a heavy wooden | The butcher has chickens but no corn. fell stocks 'just with mud, stones, dead cats, rotten Parliament; the
the town or wheeled round
barrel with holes for the legs, hands to feed them on. fruit,. and eggs.
into disuse.
mobile models.
and head. By the Statute of the Pillory in
As recently as 1872 Mark Tuck
Ducking stools appeared 1200 this
Was punishment
decreed was put in the stocks at Newbury 17th century.
Some
mon. A Glasgow man was whipped wheels, some
on
fixed for crimes such as cheating, sooth- for being drunk and disorderly in
through the city in 1822. saying, being a common scold," or the parish church.
the edge of
Today pillory is only an effective seesaw bena at selling goods short weight.
both the river. In or a pond
word in the language; but there are Whoover is In the State Depart- But in 1837 the pillory made 11
Lastened into a chair
and a. victim was
still stocks in existence, ment will have Dewey's protruding smart step. up
of times the social scale,
woman was indicted as a common brown.
PHE stocks consisted of a wooden and ducked the number watching over
when the Star Chamber made a THE
as Canada the frame in which
offender ordered by the magistrate. shoulder the progress of the Mar- decree that books might be
no
This fine old wet-bob custom scold in shall plan with cold inquiry in them. printed or published without licence. was locked by the feet.
comparatively re-
Eric In return for dollars Dewey will Thereafter publishers and Jour- They were in use in Saxon times persisted until
an old, paralysed expect the Western European aa-
nalists who were deemed to have and by 1405 every town and village cently. tions to follow up firm economic and | libelled the Governnient were was required by Parliament to have defence agreements with a degree Immed in the pillory by this seven-..a of political unity.
teenth century Press Commission.
oys
Somewhat vague
his
On foreign policy at this stage, however, he is judiciously age, The dust of the convention hall is still in his eyes.
- It is signlicant that Herbert
A Dewey man would be assigned Hoover, the notably isolationist and
of the plitory doubtful voter, to follow anti-Britich ex-President,, received
to some
JESTS AND JEERS
A man hopes his lean years are behind him; a woman hopes tiers are ahend.
a wild ovation in Philadelphia. There is a spirit of nationalism again abroad in the U.S.
Dewey may have heavy going to curb such influences as that of skin- tint John Taber, who nearly wreck- ed the Marshall plan finances in the House of Representatives the other day.
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Personal footnote-Dewey's age is 48; height 5ft. Bing. weight 11st. 11lb.
His clipped moustache was in- Some bright children should be spired by a visit to Britain as a applauded with one hand.
young man.
His origin is Anglo-Irish, his Every man should cut a niche for clothes are neat and conservative.
20 Ho smokes cigarettes daily, himself-not chisel it.
drinks a maximum of two whiskies at one sitting, and rarely BWCATD. His favourite game is golf, at which Lho is fairish.
Overboard at a cocktail party: "I told her she looked like a million, and I meant every day of it,"
ATS sergeant: "I want a volun- feer for a dangerous assignment-the colonel is looking for secretary."
•
"Jack, darling," said the Hollywood brido, entering her new home with her new husband. "this house cer- tainly looks familiar. Are you sure we haven't been married before?"
"It can't › kana eramus mi
Toy bed!"
Le
thu
For bad brewers
pair,
In the fourteenth century the stocks were used for unruly artisans
In 1863
By
CHARLES
A
1101
FOLEY
Pelted with flowers and scolds, and bad brewers.
During the reign of James I, six 1703 for writing "The Shortest ternative to a 5s. fine, for drunken-
from then and
on it was DANIEL DEFOE was pilloried in hours in the stocks became the al-
ness, which was Way with Dissenters," construed as a libel on the Church, punishment for drunks.
Naturally the stocks did But the mob pelted him with flowers, drank his health in front attract the same class of customer und distributed as the pillory, but in 1500 Cardinal hnd
sey, then holding the benefice of written for Jun occasion.
Some authors
were not unly pilloried but had their cars cropped off and their nostrils slit
When Titus Oates was pilloried in
blin years 1685 the crowd nearly killed the first day, but on the second his friends arrived in force, pushed the pillory' over, and nearly rescued leavo him.
a Wolston in Somerset, was put in
an
thea
1800.
friend's wife's torn, the buf- thrive and meat when it is necessary.
Nobody at the table seemed to worry where it had come from.. As1 one of them said: Two or three years ago, you see, we put up with things because it was necessary Now we know it's not. We've had 1 We get our supplies where wo Bennett | can."
recently
So out comes
the food-for
... Ja!"
real money.
the local J.P., Sir the stocks by
drinking too for Amyas Paulet, much at the parish
feast. The Cardinal got his own back
ever. Horses ears later when, as Chancellor of
German food shorts. Food was their cry, and, as many abeep as THE great
fraud is nearly over. Al- quite seriously, American cigarettes had miraculously Increased..
Nor are the Bavarian returns ex- England, Be forbade Poulet,
An onlooker remarked that here was treasurer of the Middle Temple, to
London without permission ready the rabbits are out of the the first instance of a popular de ceptional. and kept him in the Temple for six hat and
or partly in Boon the corn-fed monstration wholly turkeys, the sheep, and the favour of a particular tobacco blend. 1948 there was an throughout Western porkers will follop into sight.
Germany's underground eco-
years.
Repentance stool
farms
scolding
X-RAY DYE IS NEW LIFE SAVER
stool,
Legal luxuries
I found that between 1938 and
only
7
actual
ocial decline
Germany
and an percent. in cattle, increase of 2 per cent. horses and 15 per cent, in
in
Oates was sentenced to five days In pillory every year of his life, out of 1880 saved him the revolution from the remainder of the sentence. UR tough forefathers had several
In 1810 the pillory was abolished,
of spectacular punish-nomy is coming up to meet the
taurant has just closed down for "The farmers love their lives; except for perjury and subornation. ment for women who could not keep tide of new banknotes printed IN Munich the most exclusive res-
dis-in America. The last man in was Peter James their mouths shut or who
a while-strangers are "so jealous, an Allied official told me while ex- Worlds apart from the hungry so malicious," I was told. The next plaining that you could safely add Soft Per- 10 per cent, to these mouth-watering Bossy, a perlurer, who stood for played other forms of incontinence. one hour at the Old Bailey on June The oldest was the cucking stool, Ruhr and the ruins of Berlin, I have best was good enough.
subdued Ogures. "They just can't bear to kill which later became confused with been touring the food-producing sian carpets received
them 1030. 22,
to sink into, the Duke A few days ago
This farmyard sentiment obscures of and was finally superseded by the areas of the south. Happy is the lighting, armchairs Devonshire said: "A day in the ducking stool.
FIRST, that the farmer diverts The cucking stool, which meant nation that has no history; still aliver-covered dishes that filted by This farthys
the province. that leaving an aroma of good food, happier, I find, old-fashioned stocks would be
Alna
the maitre d'hotel regretted. for admirable punishment
draws few newspapermen, young in Saxon English
My first evening was spent at Bad His grill room would be full until from human needs a large part of his crops to keep his head of live- Homberg. Here in the fabulous, early morning.
stock for investment. All this secret plenty is on a
his 150-room Ritter's Park Hotel, with
SECOND, that he falsifies For hun- lit terrace, business broad, wide-open basis. its brilliantly
and crops the benevolent German autho- to can be picked up by Instruments men from abroad and their German dreds of miles through Bavaria and return both of nuimals
Wurttemberg an area comparable held outside the body.
guests dine nightly.
in sizo
·THIRD, that with England-you drive rities on whom the Alllas, rely.
In loving his live- through a countryside brimming
stack rather better than he loves CHAPMAN PINCHER
Two dinners--£8
over with food. In the his fellow Germans, he puts the giving off a continuous shower of IVEN the dollars, the sky's the afternoon glant horses plod by
The strength of the dye la malt at Ritter's rays.
You can sit the haywains, and plump children British and Americans.
burden of feeding the latter on the The principle is simple. For carefully fixed so that the rays aro some time it has been known that too weak to harm the patient but down to enviare, lobster, chicken, a herd still plumper geese to pasture. A bucolic idyll, and yet Herr affected brain cells greedily absorb are strong enough to give a power-steak perhaps, peach melba, and
Minister
Current hate whipped
With a vintage Alols Schoegl, Bavaria's certain non-poisonous. dyes when ful kick to the needlo on sensitive
a list of more of Agriculture, is not entirely con- But he could not be sure. To these are injected into a patient's reen delay operating might be fatal bloodstream,
recording Instrument. So by moving wine picked from
than 40 your bill for two will come to his conservatory of an omic SIDE Herr Schoegl's office Ure instrument over the patient's To operate unnecessarily might be
These dyes make the surgeon's head and watching the needle the to seven or eight pounds.
Heavens, just as dangerous.
easier once he has decided to surgeon can track down the source more operate, for they colour the liɛsue of the rays-and that is the centro/Ritter's is merely one of n, string secretary, áru embowered among read. "our houses, omces, oficial of new hotels, officially. Brmany's me of the load Bavaria is bearing for FOR THIS THEY GIVE US corn,
Tthe X-ray plates it seemed the surgeon examining
doubtful that the 21-year-old girl in Ward No. 2 really had the serious brain disorder. which her case history had at first suggested.
I only there were
some
diagnosing
certain way of difficult cases,
If there is need for
tion the brain absorbs
an opera- the
dyo,
task these which
is to be removed-making of the trouble he is seeking. it stand out against the white back- ground of healthy brain.
Such a dilemma nced nover worry a doctor again. For
discovery of a fool-proof method
of diagnosing dangerous brain ling, and too often in brain surgery healthy.
false symptoms cause n
| America.
there is no need
I result of, teamwork between
The new advance
ין
cream.
Block market?
My
❖་
departure from
cerebral domo
In many cases
on
In
I saw a fresh political poster, "THEY TAKE FROM US, It no, for Herr Schoegl and his girl
30 pois of plants and flowers he told Posis, and more than half our food.
to
If the needle remains steady be deep south coincided with a stu, the rest of Germany, of all the food insults, senseless orders, mountains of regulations. Shail this go on? that has to be delivered against so- NEVER!" the But they are no help in diagnos- can be certain that the' brain is i dents' hunger: march, "The heal Utllo in re difference the new At first I feared that these re-
mind." their banners said, "demands
y.”. And the 'students' I asked what dangerous to in carried out by Dr Mooro/ healthy body."
"Ah, now" pronches were addressed to the Bitting orders has just been reported from, operation to be carried out for which he method has proved refugit was, Illustrated by a vast currency would make.
up, occupying Power, America, or skole- sald Herr Schocal, dome supported
"If it is real money-for real money Britain, which alone has put into which will markably accurate.
But no, or at least, not yet, for atom experts and surgeons, It eliminate these unnecessary opera- he was able to confirm the prelimi- Now, apart from the recollection wo will be able to produce 30 por Bizonia, £170,000,000 of food.
had written tlons is mataly duo to a young nary diagnosis that an immediate that the pre-war German possessed, cent more food.
But, the post-war slaughter of all his calories, the most un- is one of the first of the many
13 The hate Georgo E operation was necessary, And to
•Hesian benefits which scientists prophesied American surgeon,
was able to prevent the shock of healthy mind In Europe, it was im- Bavarian livestock,
directed against the infant West would spring from their wartime Moore, of Minnesota.
He has made işa
possible, to, overlook that this 1948. Schoegi, had been terrible. When unnecessary non-poisonous
operations
we tracked down the figures. it German Government which is try- work on atomic weapons.
radio- It means that earlier diagnosis of cross-section of German that Bavarian farmera Ing, however feebly, to induce the By means of a small meter held dve colled fluorscein in a
This monns that for brain troubles will now be possible: thousands strong, looked remarkably appeared that wning: 70 per cent. German farmer to love his neigh- over a patient's head the surgeon active form. can now tell immediately whether several hours after it is injected By allowing surgeons to bring their well fed for any country.
gives off skill into play in the earliest stages. There were introm girls in pig of the pigs they had before the bour as his ox or his ass or even there is any affected tissue in the Into a patient the dye brain and can pinpoint this. penetrating rays like X-roys, which hundreds of lives will be saved. tallo, beefy young men in leather war, 60 percent of the cattle, and his store cattio.
Dr
Ja
sighed
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