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BOOK

DAB and FLOUNDER

Daba Gymnasium

Boxing

"ALLIN

by WALTER

SKY MAN IN THE UNDERWORLD

ON the dust jacket of John

Lodwick's novel Brother Death (Heinemann, 98. ed.), the public Is warned to get ready

for "something dis- turbingly new in English fic- tion- philosophy of life and death."

Don't tako that threat too Brother seriously, friends. Death is just a plain thriller in the modern manner, told in a two-fisted style like a dis- tant prospect of Ernest Heming- the fumes way seen through of

overdose дл Cheyney.

of Peter

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1948.

By DAVID TEMPLE ROBERTS

PLAIN GUIDE TO THE SECURITY COUNCIL

W

learn

LONDON, SEPT. 30. happening in Berlin. They will be given an opportunity to

way democratic politics. Political partics HAT will happen at the state that Russia blocking the

and that means trying should have a free existence. But in

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United Nations next to brenic ok, the food supply, is al March, 1940, not a year, after the MANUFACTURING ARTISTS' COLOURMEN,

week?

That is the greatest question that has faced statesmen of the world since the war. Will this second experiment in our generation to achlove one of the fundamental wishes of mankind be torn apart, Its unity forged in wartime destroy- ed in this phoney pence?

Based upon the Atlantic Charter formulated in one of the darkest moments of a war for freedom, bullt around an agreement of the club at Yalla for which, on Mr Churchill anid, the price of admission was you meet her sister Peggy, the bad million first-line fighting men. The United Nations was finally built at girl of the family.

the Conference at San Francisco just atter Her's surrender and before atomic bombs fell on Japan,

Rumbold.

on reaching London,

gives himself up to M.13, a small, birdlike man who picks his teeth with a aliver tooth-pick in order to on his visitors' nerves, But prey M.1.5. does not seem to be very in- terested in Itumbold who, having nothing better to do, kills Flona's Inconvenient little boy.

Rumbold, perhaps, thinks that M.1.6. is too busy purging the Civil

Service to keep an

ivities. But in this less than Justice to

eye on his vet-

respect he does that institution.

GEORGE MALCOLM Its hero is an aimless male-

THOMSON factor named Rumbold who,

enerity having been dropped a few Inadequate organising gifts. times by parachute in Occupied pedantie to nak

a character France, quits this unrewarding amed Sluya is said to dle bravely courage occupation and carves himself (on page 30) and without

(page 113)? a lucrative niche in the Mar- seilles underworld.

why

Is it

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THREE of the world's great power

the United States, Britain, and France are bringing the most solemn and serious plea against a fourth of the great powers, the Soviet Union, the hlerachy of U.N.O.

presented at the top But what will answer is shrouded about words of the

happen?

of

The

in the round- United Nations

They will build up a powerful case based on actual incidents. They will avold twisting legalities and long-drawn arguments about docu- ments and treatles, interpretations and protocols.

action provocative and. dangerous war, the Russians found the German in the extreme. They will point Socialist Parly in their own half of out that the Russian policy of coere- Germany was growing too strong. ing Germang in Berlin to storm the So they crushed it was fate WHOSE CENTURY OLD TRADITIONS ARE City Council of Berlin is another merged with the Communist Party. blatantly hostile act.

Then, in that Potsilam Agreement, YOUR GUARANTEE OF QUALITY. which should have been the basis of Allied rule in Germany until the Pence Treaty, was a clear state- ment that Germany should be treat ed as one country although occupled inilitarily by the Four Powers. The Second: there will be the Russian Russians have never let that hap- way of acting. They will drive реп I have no doubt the Western straight Into legalities and disputa. Powers will make these points and ions. The trouble about Interna- tell the Russians that since they lonal arguments which appear quite have broken the Potsdam Agreement clear to the common man is that they cannot found an argument on

some cunning way round trouble. among the experts there is always the pretty quibble that U.N. cannot

Right at the back of the charter Mr Vyshinsky will find a sentence which was thrown In at the time when we were good friends with Russla just at the end of the wor, saying

United that nothing the Nations can do shall stop "action" agreed upon by the allies who won the war concerning the enemy states

defeated in the war.

touch the sacred document,

MATTER OF PROCEDURE

• Fourth: Now we come to that veto again. The Avorld knows that there 15 a veto that the Russians have used all too often in the Security Council. What few know is that it cannot always be used. One of the times the Russians (or anyone else) cannot use their vete is when the discus- REAL INTENTION

slon turns on "procedure."

You wil hear that word "pro- You or I can 600 that sentence cedure" very often. It is the dis- was put

cussion to prevent Germany,

of whint the United Italy or Japan Jumping forward and Nations will discuss next. Now the Westerners will argue that all the using the privileges of the United Nations Club to excuse themselves discussion that I have just put be from penalties imposed upon them fore you is a matter of "procedure." by the peace treaties. For instance, They will say it is a matter of de Tinly would not be given a chance elding what the Security Council can to use the United Nations as a place do and cannot do and, logically. to complain against the Allies tak- that is procedure. So they will say ing her warships from her as part of the Russlams have no velo in that the peace treaty or the armistice. part of the argument.

On the evi ( charter.

in Here is a guide to what may hap- dence of this

реп. But not even the wisest man vigorous, un-

would pleasant novel,

dare say that this is exactly Ledwick want will happen. Mr

First: the three Western .com has boundless plainers about the blockade at Bar- narrativen have picked the most forthright and powerful portion of the United Nations charter on which to ground their claim. It was the part drawn up to "give teeth to the U.N." and to make it a more effective organian- tion than the old League of Nations. This is quite different from another section of the charter which has always been used befare to deal with disputes in the Security Council.

Rumboldt is equipped with the Insolence of a mid-Victorian globe. JEAN STAFFORD'S The Mountain trotter. the nadism of a Gestapo Llan (Faber and Faber. 8x. Oct.) official, the worldly wisdom of a is a brief but moving tale. Its theme head waiter, and the moral is that diffeult, funny, pathetic and hear Mr. Lodwick: "Ot moral sometimes even tragic phase when childhood in passing into adolescence, scruples he had few."

This is a charitable over-statement. From start to finish of this book it is safe to say that the questing reader will not be startled by one single glimpse of moral feeling.

THE

Rumbai

HE war enfely over,

decides to go home and reper as a deserter. He travels by Madrid: where he is offered a job as a police nark and falls in with a remarkable Scotswoman who Invites him murder her schoolboy 500: "The child stands in my way. He must be removed."

to

That is Fiona all over, impulsive but practical. A couple of pages further on she informs Rumbold, "Blood is what counts, and mine is calling to yours."

Fiona's conduct may strike you as too emotional. But just wait until

Ralph and Molly, ugly, sickly and clever brother and sister, live with their silly mother

two pretty slaters.

RUSSIA'S VETO

Tows

the

tween

a

are

It was not intended to put So Mr Vyshinsky's diversion to blinkers on the cyes of the the back of the United Nations United Nations and prevent charter can be outvoted and we can the Security Council secing come back to the front of the Char- ony disputes or "acts dan- ter again. All this will take a long gerous to the peace" golug on in the time and I am afraid it will be re- countries wo conquered. Simply, ported from day to day in such disputes between Germany and way that it seems futile talk. Here is the difference. The "Dla Britain or Germany and Russia were

But look at the matter another always used before, kept out. Disputes in Germany be- way. The Security Couneti is the pute" section, was designed to give this top at thould, and were intended to, conte the idealism of the Allies during the on any of the Alles obviously supreme organisation grounded of UNO a chance to Investigate.

parties to come to within the field of vision of the war. That includes the resistance persuade the

Henerally act as Security Council.

of Poles and Czecha, for instance-- agreement, and

there were

But that will not stop the Russians who are in the Russian bloc. And mediator where and their

going on in the world. But

argument on this item Marshal Tilo's Yugoslava, who founding an Western poers have in the Charter. They will say that still in the Russian bloc but arc chapter the

in with the Potsdam Agreement covers quarrelling with Communism, may chosen begins its title "/

"That Germany. This "Potsdam" Agree- have some doubts about where they respect to threats to pene

an of how ment was reached, between Allee, are heading if this Security Council word "action" is powerful a line the West is asking Statin and Truman in Berlin, a few, is broken up. the Security Council to take.

weeks after the complicated Charter with her own

sharp-eyed

We are all talking about ftussia's had been completed In San Fran- point where this vele cisco. They will say that the her readers. Aveto. The

operation will be, of Security Council cannot touch any- course, just as soon as ir Vyshinsky thing to do with the Potsdam Agree- can see an opportunity to use it. ment. The first sentence of the portion of the Charter chosen-which gives a THERE are. I suppose, 157,000 coral clue to what will happen first-asks atolls in the Pacific. An the Council to declare action going American book dealing with thean in the world to be dangerous to Japanese war will be written about the peace of the world. That is it every one of them in due course. comes straight to the point, Hobert D. Skidmore gets his in carly. More Lives than One (Wingate, 10s.) is a vivid account of an

dinary war.

But Ralph and, Molly along with Grandpa and Uncle Claude, dwell also in a tight little world of their own. And it is into this secret world that Jean Stafford, individual brand of sympathy conducts book of quality.

comes into

POLITICAL PARTIES Third: I can imagine the Western Powers answering this. They will that the Russians have say flatly broken the Potsdam agreement and have been doing so continuously and for a long time.

One of the main points of the on what has been agreement was that Germans should

If the Western Allies can do what they want in the Security Council

a debate at exiruor- they will start

directly based

once

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

Al

I can promise you that you will not see that doubting of the Soviet Union on the surface. But there is much that goes on behind scenes, inside Eastern Europe.

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WHAT will happen

the

afterwards? Will the Russians leave? There are two answers to that question.

1. Judging by Mr Gromyko's ac- tlons at the Security Council two years ago the Russian delega- tion is quite likely to rise and

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