1948-12-03 — Page 4

THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1948.

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"Go tell your mothar I've called from the Ministry to inspect her electric iron."

C.V.R. THOMPSON REPORTS THE AMERICAN SCENE

This Is Where We Came In

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NEW YORK LABORATE plans to sat up at once an' atomic- style A.R.P. for all America have been revealed.. The object, say its military spontors, is not to "scare the ponts off the public." Said a "spokes-. man: It is just like having a fire, brigade to put out a possible fire. England might have been defeated in 1040 if her people had not been prepared and trained."

The most important of the proposed

A.R.P. training against atomic raids will be the provention of panic. This will be done by an extensive exluca- tional campaign to male every eltizen ready to rely on his "good senso" during an atomie rald,

But, in addition, a Washington staff will organise the whole country on a community basis so that at almost a moment's nolico a volunteer fores (of 15 million people can be called up.

The country will be divided into zones, and' each zono will have a akeleton sloft trained 10 Oght bacterial commander will have his own air force of six. civilian planes,

43 well os atomic warfare. Each Zone

If it is properly organised, Washington says, this force can be ready to meet any problem. It might. even be useful, the brasshats add, in dealing with `a natural disaster.

to

AMERICA'S POLLSTERS, heaven-sent gift

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TYCOON SALUTE TO A GREAT

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RITAIN'S Wartime Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, was 74 this

Mellow in age, ripe in ex- perience, rich in achievement, he stands, without a shadow of doubt, the greatest Briton of hio generation, and among the greatest in all British history.

Many citizens, otherwise quite Inglorious, look back with pride

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Commencing To-Morrow: “THE SHAGGY"!

at some modest task in a lowly room in Whitehall, they felt the surge and sweep of great events. Life had taken on an Elizabethan amplitude and daring.

They will plague their grand- children with inaccurate reminiscences of that time. Some of their grand- children may even look with a new and underserved respect upon the tedious old men.

For upon them, however unjustly,

will

have fallen some of the splendour of the Churchill Age. And that, as history will in due course proclaim, was one of the herole erns of the British race:

ONE-MAN ERA

Already, in those days of 1940. and 1941, even middle-aged non- combatants had an apprehension of this truth, especially when, at the turning of some dim corridor, they met the stocky figure of a man with a white-spotted bow tie, a cigar, and an expression of truculent gravity. Never was an era in the life of a nation more dominated by one man or more completely symbolised by, his physical presence.

He embodies courago and its urchin brother, pugnacity.

Good nature is accompanied by a liking for the ceremonious. He has brooded, and to some purpose, over the course of human events. He has the historical imagination, nourished by deep study and reflection.

OLD WARRIOR

This wartime picture of Churchill was circulated by tho Naxis when he became Prime Minister. The caption described him as a gangster.

The man's appearance conveyed these qualities. And they in turn conferred on him that power given His speeches were like victories, to so few to, stamp one's personality For long upon an epoch which is the mark victories.

hammer-blows,

of true and Insting, greatness.

He frowned on the "Dear Charlies" They might and "Dear Harrys.” were pass between old friends. They old when, the

they His

were broadcasts

our only

unsuitable Werd

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was

major defent in 1040. She confined, by necessity, to divir-

sionary operations,

With the fall of France the basic conception on which Britain had entered the war had been destroyed. His strategy was traditional and national. It combined study and Instinct. It was based upon massive sca power and modest land forces.

is to be found in the African campaigns.

Ald bosses. In Washington have announced that they will employ pal experia to find out what tho people of Britain and three other Marshall nations think of the Mar- shall plan.

Questions they will ask Britons: Do you know what it is? Do you think it will work? Are you for it or against it?

This will cost between £42,500- and £25,000, which will be paid out of counterpuri funds held by the nation being surveyed. Or that was how Bryan Houston, Informu tion Director of the Programme, put it.

EXC-

An unnamed Marshall plan cutive, quoted by an American newspaper, put it this way: "Wo can stick the British for the bill on the new Marshall plan twist we have given to the old Lease+Lend in reverse racket"

As to the eficiency of the surveys,

How could the latter be exerted, Mr Houston said: "They have a through the former, so as to produce very high average and I wish mine the maximum result? The answer were half as good."

TAUNTED by such jokes on "The only way a Republican will get into the White House is to marry have begun to seek a reputation for Margaret Truman," the Republicans. being just as "beral as, the Demo-

Were these

worth, while? It

absurd to suppose that Britain could have been kept effectively in the war through 1041 and 1942 if there had been no fighting. •

When the Americans entered the war, there are signs that Churchill found it hard to reshape bis outlook In conformity with the massive new power that the United States could deploy on land as well as by sea.

crata."

Their first step is to make plans. to depose from their leadership, in Congress two "symbols of American Conservatism," Senator Robert Taft, their chief domestic policymaker,. and Senator Kenneth Wherry, their

He silli honkered after a Medi-Chier Whip. terranean strategy.

Although events seem to have BRITAIN'S least publicised am-

bassador, Sir Oliver Franks,. proved him wrong in this respect, nas made the American magazines It should be noted that many critics for the first time. In an article especially in America, now argue headed "Britain Tries a that the political situation in Europe On Us," the Saturday Evening Post.

Now One today would

be happier If the sums up thus: "He has made an British and Americans had attacked excellent; first impression. Nazi Germany through the Balkans has not much small talk

But he and ho Instead of nerosa the English disconcerts people by his habit of

not speaking until thing to say."

Channel.

THE VERDICT.

he has some

CHOPFING: The *New* Yorker These questions will always be magazine prints a nine-column discussed. But the broad judgment article telling Americans how to on Churchill's quality as a wor send food parcels to British friends.' leader will be based upon a simple for Christmas and what to put in. contrast: Britain when he came to them. power in 1010, and Britain when he - laid down office in 1945.

What to send: Hams, "pork meat, that is big alabs of... ham, bacon,.

He had in the interval, persuaded tongue of beef, Christmas puddings, the British willingly to bear tinned buller and fats, sweets and burdens heavier than those falling rico, and thenk, more rice.

Send

on any other combatant nation, tea, saya the New Yorker, but not with the exception of Russia.

in tea bags, those little individual portions wrapped in muslin which He had mado Britala, although | Americans uso. defeated, play +1 part altogether

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out of proportion to her strength. DUSINESS: A Now York company, Tot he had, all through, fought a which claims it-is-the only one war in which the supreme and ever-

wedding rings.

rents

friends had become chief partners ex- in a serious undertaking. A grave All that he did during the war

His graphic and arresting bore the impress of one conscious positions of complex situations not formality of manner was becoming. that he moved on a sombre but only made matters clearer, but also

he must be invested them with a new urgency. attending to such trides Churchill British lives must, so far as possible,

It was a trilling matter. But by present necessity of polley was that of its kind in the world, splendid stage,, that worthy of the hour and the part,

It was necessary, he saw, to face ifted the elevenly, confused Britain be spared. not only in intellectual gifts, but in

1030 into the grim, Exalted

He cut-bluffed the master bluffet, translate "Too many cooks spoil PROSE: How the inureaucrat would speech, in bearing, above all, in the realities and yet to shut our eyes of

to what might have been, for Britain of 1940. moral qualities.

Hitler. And, in the contest of the broth" (according weaker

the

logical

And that first

nerves, with every advantage in James Masterson): Undue multipli deductions from really.

time,

Hitler's changed the

possession, It

not city of personnel assigned either and 'made

Churchill's nerva or Churchill's

concurrently or consecutively to a pleture.

patience that cracked. It was Hitler single function involves de ettard- downfall of Hiller.

tion of quality in the resultant He had the good general's gift

product. Yet his judgments, strange in one- 50 impulsive, inclined towards

SENSE OF DRAMA

natures,

of history was His sense

an For, as soon as it is recognteca inspiration to himself. It became that war is a theatre of human reason plays a also, through the infectious power passions in which

transformation, in whole world inevitable the

of his language, a source of action minor role, guis become more in for quick, bold, and firm decision.

-portant than brains. in others.

were

It was no small thing that, in hours when the British might have, hils felt only desporulency, they aware of drama. They were filled with a calm conviction that this was, as Churchill had told them, their finest hour

As an offshoot of his historical Imagination, he had the capacity for making words take on the character and acquire the force ot deeds..-

NANCY

The Fall Guy

Thus one of his first minutes to caution.

Ministers began

"In these dark days the Prime Minister would be grateful if all his colleagues in the Govern- ment, as well as high officials, would maintain a high morale In their circles.

he was And; characteristically. intolerant of informalities of address as between Ministers and officers.

THEN LEAVES ARE ALL DRYING

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author

that made the fatal false move.

Churchill became the hero of an age and of a thousand anecdotes. One by one the ancedotes will be | QUOW BUSINESS: The New York: forgotten. But, as the years pass, cinema where "Hamlet" las his image will more largely beatride | showing now booked solid for.. the story of our times.

six months... Den Hecht's auto-. - mako him us. biography will

Hollywood,

In history one hundred year popular

in

too

Unlike his leadership, his strategy will alwars' be a matter for con- troversy. For example, should tho

to help the hence he will stand with the White Haczel Scott, Negro jazz pianist.. British have gone Greeks? Could the Second Front Cliffs of Dover, not as a human cancelled a Texas concert because". have been opened a year earlier? figure, but as a symbol of un- | conc

conquerable Britain, to approach Throughout, his

GEORGE MALCOLM milltary- problems was conditioned by the fact that Britain, although scarcely realising it, had suffered

THOMSON

By Ernie Bushmiller

they would not allow Negroes in: the audience...

Hollywood's «cury........ rant hero is a director named Joseph. Newman, who finished a film in tena days a. a cost of £32,000.

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