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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1949.

C.V.R. Thompson Coffee And Candour

NEW YORK.

LL over the U.S. people

have something

about Britain.

to say

In Boston, for instance, an Edward Weeks, old friend, editor

of the thoughtful magazine Atlantic Monthly, re- ported on his first postwar visit to Britain.

His verdict: Things are bad but better, and they will be better soon.

There are a voliant, decent people, They have imposed upon themselves u set of iron rules which I doubt any other nation would accept with such little cheating," he says.

"English coffee still tastes as if it we made out of old Plantagenet collins.

મ

the

GUIDE

"England has always been onvil on which men have hammered out the freedom of Western Europe. So it is today."

ND IN NEW YORK two news- papers shoved widely opposed views on Britain's relationship with America.

The Dally News urged that

because the U.S. is so strong and Britain so wenk, Amerien should Make over all Bermuda and the West | Indian Empire.

But the New York Post made the accusation that President Truman le the first President In American

"the history to return the U.S. to siatus of a British Colonial depen- dency-by knuckling under to and Willenhall in foreign policy particularly over Palestine.

IN FROM BRITAIN, Sir Alexander Maxwell, in his cupacity, lourist boss this time, has set out on

a lecture tour to persuade Americans to "come and judge us for them- sclves instead of by second-hand opinions."

One persuasion he will not use is

Come-lo-Britain advertisement; showing a ghillie smoking a pipe, and his employer smoking a fat elgar.

He told me an American anti- tobacco society lias accused the British Travel Burenu of a subtle campaign to promote smoking, and as Sir Alexander. is also, of course, tabacco adviser to the Government, that is embarrassing to him.

The charges are false anyway, because, he confides that the Govern-

policles, meni's tobacco

which he administers, have stopped one and s

half million English people smoking

FOOTNOTE: Sir Alexander, pipe-smoker in England, has taken up cigarettes in America. TAKE SUCCESS FLASH; Unesco has a new job. It has been asked to summon a world conference to force all countries to adhere to a world standard for the pitch of the

musicul note A.

and

Headache For The Liberal Party

L

Lloyd

ADY Megan

George, the distin-.. guished daughter of

n famous father, has been appointed Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party in Parliament, the party of which, in its heyday of power, the Mr Lloyd George was the driving force and the inspiration. Today it is a very small party of a dozen Members in the House of Commons. But this does not daunt

Cummings

It's a high mountain that har no summic

By W.J. BROWN, M.P.

Lady Lloyd George, who, in an of the transfer of even comparative interview with that veteran ly small numbers of votes to Liberal Liberal journalist, Mr A. J. otherwise be cast for Conservative candidates, which would probably Cummings, has issued a stirring candidates, would be to secure the call for a Liberal revival,» election, on a minority vate, of Labour candidates. Mr Morrison, But like Mr Clement Davies, the the electoral generalissimo of the Liberal leader. Lady Lloyd George Labour Party, probably hopes for is silent upon the problent that large numbers of Liberal candidates must be giving the headquarters of for this reason.

the party a very painful headache. What are the Liberals to do at the next election?

the Now

composition of the

is very Liberal Party

mixed. It long ago shed most of its radically- to the Labnur If there is to be any hope of an minted members Impressive Liberni

the bulk of revival,

the Party, just as it shed Liberal Party must

to the convey to the its "Right" membership electorate that it

can provide an Conservatives. alternative government. Now if it

The bulk of the present Liberal of what might be "middle of the - randers," of the These broadly approve, Labour Government's social security

la convey this to the people. vote consists

at

candidates for must promote least majority of the 640 scats called which are filled nt 14 General Election. It it puls up merely

few score candidates, the cry, of

at legislation, and indeed of its earlier

measures. nuch 13

bith the other parties--Conservative, nationalisation and Labour will be, "A vole for those dealing with mines and rail. ways. But they are extremely un- the Libernis is a wasted vote."

easy about Steel and apprehensive generally of any further nationalisa-.. tion measures until the country has had a reasonablo opportunity of

is will shape seeing how the nationalised indus- ·

Largo Total Vote

Bu hundred candidates, this UT if the Liberals put up three or

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of

A

will mean distributing auch fung and organising potentialities as they At the next election their general..

a very possess over

wide area. tendency, in the absence They would undoubtedly poil

Liberal Candidate would be to larger total vote on this basis, but vote Conservative, to abstain; might well secure, through the dis- For they want ago-slow period persal of effort, even fewer seats which the Labour Party. thon if they concentrate on a few heav

heavy pressure from it dozen seats which they have some fearful of giving the Communists chance of winning.

or

Lett

under

and.

the opportunity of representing it os. having exhausted its mission, Is Moreover, under the British cicce not likely to offer them. So a few toral system, which provides neither hundred Liberal candidates would for proportional representation nor probably resull In Labour remain- for the alternative vote, the effect ing in office on a minority vole of

the electorate.

TEN TOP SCIENTIFIC ADVANCES OF 1948

By PAUL F. ELLIS

review of the year, 1918 points to the discovery of a new, powerful vitamin as the top story in science.

wns

cx1st.

of

the

with

HALF UNFAITHFUL

the

polto

Slender Balance

ABOUR has an Immense majorliy

in the present Parliament. But it. is perhaps not fully realised on how slender a balance of voles that majority rests. At the election, Labour polled,

Jast

iy round figures, about 13 million votes: the

servatives, nie inillion; and the: Liberals, three million.

In Britain, the fate of a general election is usually decided by the man has been trying to figure out, better means to treat bulbar such as how big is the universe and in humus beings. It is now usually "onting vote." A turnover of only seven and a half percent can make whether there are other planels falal..

between victory where human life, as we know it. Cancer research klories niso were all the difference may

ameng the "big 10" of 1948. One and defeat. The report of Prof. Alfred C. development was

announce- it every seat next time had. The new vitamin, known as Kinsey of Indiana

microscope "Sexual ment of a new on

that straight fight between a Labour and Human Male" brings out many hidden traits ofn Conservative candidate, and it B-12, was isolated from liver Behaviour

опе DI the most in the human life cell. The new ml-most of the Liberals voted Con- and it gives great hope for

portant and inost controversial croscope which has yet to be per-vervative, as I suggest they would those now suffering from perni science stories of 1048, His book, fected employs ultra violet light probably do, the odds are that the cious anaemia, one of the most based on Interviews

about to produce full colour photographs Election would produce a change of But that prospect many of issues or parts of celis.which are government. disabling of discases. Resides 4,500 males, contradicted

and abnormal completely colourless that it is theories on just what is

trans- might well be defeated if Liberal having proved

sex behaviour.

parent in ordinary light,

candidates emerge in large numbers. SHOW BUSINESS: Greer Garson extremely heneficial in perni-

But suppose the Liberais do not Agnes Moorehead pro

The microscope itself Was not put up large numbers of candidates. writing an historical play together cious anaemia, the vitamin may

new in 1918 bui its application In Suppose they concentrate

on fifty The play "Harvey.

about to be a key to many nutritional

It. found that almost half of mar-

new seats or thereabouts which they open in London, is about to close on problems' affecting human ried men were unfaithful and that cancer work is sure to open Broadway after a four-year run...health.

most males had sex experience

eancer might have some hope of winning. Then, whichever Party wins the „America's...chtet_porty-giver, Elsa

-Announcement-of-the-dis early ages. The report also showed problem. gave one for Charles

that sex habits of American males"

The other cancer research story election, the Liberals will be con- As against demned to third place. Boyer. She spoke to him all the covery of vitamin B-12 was differed as to so-called abnormal-

In the “big 10′′ was the production this, however, it the balance be- time in French, and he spoke to her made early in the year. Later fly in relation to education, .cco-

or radioactive cobalt in the atomic tween Convervatives and Labour In English....Television sets will be another group of scientists also nomic and social standards.

де Oak Ridge, energy plant

that were close, it is conceivable installed in 100 New York grocery isolated the vitamin, having in selence's search for a drug to The year showed great progress

Tennessee. Government announce- even a small Party of Liberals in the House might hold the balance ments said radioactive cobalt may cure diseases caused by a virus, suc be used as a substitute for the rare, of power. And by the skilful uso

the

Infantile commen cold, paralysis, measles and mumps, cer- expensive radium in cancer treat this they might substantially im-

prove their prospects ment. tain eye infections and certain types

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One of the now possible anti- Radium is dangerous

to work obtained viral drugs is known as darvisul. In

shorter

Muxwell,

stores to attract customers,

TELLING TALE

of the world

we live in...

THE

found it in the litter on chicken house floor.

IL

As the year drew to a close the first team announced that the vitamin also was found being pro- duced by the same mould from which streptomycin

quantities.

SUPERSONIC BARRIER

sclentists

of

at approaches

toward the

at the next

Crucial Part

may development of more encouraging tal, .where one usually must go season from the men who empty the superzanie barrier by the United developed is known as aureomycin, again one of the top

Important galas anticualisation.

The visitor was being shown the great ravine, Said the guide: "It tools

million years for this ravine to be carved,"

"Which Government department was in charge?" asked the visitor.

about 750 miles an hour.

usc

of

franlic

insurance present

The new development will menn tests against Infantile paralysis in with, whereas cobalt has a that. 1-12 can be producer in large mice, it was found to be effective. life and can be ured in the body is WE might conceivably see a Conll- Production of the tion of Labour and Liberals on The results in a few human cases a sofer degree.

also eventually may permit terms largely dictated by the latter. were conclusive but the fact that doctors to trent some cancer cases Or if the Labour Party refused ac It showed promise as an anti-viral

hospi- ceptable terms, a Coniltion of Con- animal without sending them to a

In the zervatives and Liberals. it

the terms to bc: former case THE DUSTMAN, on his first call

gives The second scientific story of the agent in the experimental

to receive radium therapy. he of the New Year, said to the year--and some

to the Liberais, would The progress of television was acceptable householder: "Compliments of the place it first-was the cracking

Another possible anti-viral drug

sciente have to provide for going-slow on In the latter, they States Air Forces' XS-1

of stories in 1948. rocket your dustbin."!

ecke It might be called a cousin Government announce-

were made in extending the hori- would have to provide for the con- has

servation of the social Householder, rather light in pocket: plane.

However, it had streptomycin. "And compliments to you all from ments said the plane

legislation adopted in the cables and the the man who is it."

"much faster than the speed proved effective against some typen zon of television through

Parliament. micro-radio wave systems. In addi-

The altack.*

during

recognition of the crucial part of sound many times" but the exact of germs that streptomycin will not longer sonxial

tion, i was demonstrated miles per hour was never releases.

BRAIN CENTRES

the year that nerial warfare at sen which the small Liberal Party might to play in the next election accounts At sen level the speed of sound is Having

the selence can be televised and sent back

the for

tha wooing of Ranking sixth In

Parliament Navy officials said Liberals in the present bar-stories of 1948 was the discovery in land stations. ce cracked the supersonic rier, selence, may now

by bath Conservative and Labour develop the medulla of the brain centres television undoubtedly will

lenders. Mr Morrison, for whom planes that will fly around

cle Important military applications the that control breathing, blood

con- the the event of another war. world in

as B Lady Lloyd George in 24 hours.

Conceivably, culation and heart beat. footballer's

• The professional

big scientific siderable admiration, is most anxious Rounding out the was The discovery beiter

timas can be made, human body. Her even daughter mother sald: "We can't afford it." Most details of the supersonic flight revealed at the international con- stories was the progress in baliding not to offend them. Mr Churchill, machines de-imself once a shining ornament of Well, are

secret. milllary lop

polio by

of. new atem smashing University of Minnesota scientists, signed to solve more secrels of na- the Liberal Party in its great days. nummy, cant we sell daddy again?" The Brat peek into the

the discovery was made ture. One of the important develop is most anxious to "include them in."

the New type utom With the Tories, Lady Lloyd In Moscow, where Jokes against by the world's biggest eye, the Hale They said

telescope at Mount Palomar, may, during the study of human braina ments of

artificial

ere George has both a political und a bureaucratic snoopers flourish, they be called the third story in seienes. taken at autopsy from persons who smashers was the a particle from personal quarrel. She inherits much are saying that half the Government The telescope was dedicated during died of the bulbar type of polio, ation of the meson,

that. bombards of her father's carly, radicalim, And in cosmic radiation The

1040 epidemle going into during the year and is now

in it was the Tories who wrecked her the earth from somewhere out other half is doing. But they're action.

meson

may father's career, and she is devoted investigating.

The 200-inch mirror will permit. The significance of the location of space. Study of the

the discovery of what to her father's memory. She would Ilcs In the result in

to find it Easter to make an accom- Grateful German' tenant, thanknstronomers to probe cight times the control centres

can holds the nucleus of the atom scientists fact that incdical Ing the British authorities for the as much space in the universe,

Such a discovery would be modation with Labour than with

the Torles, tenancy of a pre-fab home, wrote: had been observed. In years to now create bulbar pollo symptons geher.

from one of the most important selence "It's fine, but perhaps just a little too come, Palomar is expected to solve in experimental animals and ·

develop, a stories of this or any other century. tight around the hips."

many of the cosmic mysteries that such studies possibly

#

wanted

doll,

And daughter suggested:

departments. don't know what the

NANCY That's What YOU Think

NOSEY "ROSIE ---

HOW DID YOU GET

UP HERE?

I CAN STRETCH

MY NECK

universe:

OS

Minnesota.

WOW---WHAT A GOOFY DREAM THAT WAS I'M GLAD SHE CAN'T SNOOP

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THAT

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