THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1949.
WASHINGTON TALKS – WHAT ALL THE JARGON REALLY MEANS
Well, Ernis and Stat
"were strolling, along,
The agende admiring the deficit....REA
suddenly up came a Cop Land accused/ni Emic of
being in a state AS of inflation and, necding retrenchmshi In his Sterling arga. H¢
sin motion dellationary spiral....
The Gap, using the coarsest language, proceeded to dévolue Cripps with a bulk-purchase ond threatened to widen
his range of yoods
World Copyright
Cripps hand just
conked him one with
a dwindling, resource
Whereupon Staff attacked The problem at The roots and
bil him in the stockpile,
whón 6" Truman
arrived.
By arrangement with Kvening Standeid.
avon physically tho Jows have lost thoir Jewishness.
At latest the patients were doing as well as can be expected after their severe leakage of exchange
and grave lost, of exports
It comes as a mild surpriso
to find, in the midst of this million, not that they are Jows, but that I am goy
In theory they don't stand a chance, but...
"the
TEL-AVIV. HALOM, says
Brooklyn boy, grind ing his tractor on the hills of Galilee. Shalom, the Hungarian ex- Commundo, welding a pipe on the gritty desert of the Negev,
BRYB
Shalom, says the German waiter and the Circassian
by JAMES
CAMERON
Is
D
land
Wangling From Work Refreshed
the Welfare State
BY W. J. BROWN, M.P.
London. and poverty prevailed,, against
RS HANNA. ELLEN which
M
and.
10
the conselences ultimately reballed,
of men
But the very harshness of the
WARD, of Ilford, has deserved well of Eng- period produced a bigh tense of
She has seven chil- personal responsibility, Jren. 13 grandchildren and Men had to make their own great-grandchildren, provision against unemployment, if they Also, she is 94, and should sickness and old age.
brought children into the world have whatever she wants. they had to provide for them. So when I read that what she. The only social insurance, if wanteil was merely a wig, which can be so-called, was parish rez would cost the National Health Hief or the workhouse, Self- funds only £16 103, I felt that
workmen regarded
t would indeed be a poor bul- reacting
It
ness if her wish could not be parish relief as a murks of shame, gratified, os gratifled it is to be, and the workhouse represented
But when I read Mrs Ward's nai defeat. comments. on the matter, I be- Kan to see why Mrs Ward's wig was news, and front-page news at that.
TN thin century the pendulum has swung, very properly, the other way. The mischances of Mirs Ward has had wigs for a life are regarded not only as per Ionr: Uime. Her earlier wigs sonal problems but as social were bought with money pro problems, too, And a network children, But of cocint security schemen covers
vided by her
when, after the passing of the Health Service Act, she found that she needed a new one, her children told her that sho could "get ㄖˋˋ free one under the National Health."
So far thero
18 nothing
we can
free
POCKET CARTOON
by USBERT LancasteR
"Cheer up, Rudaand wen Beran Sahl come you get a brand new set of spiker free!
us all from the cradle to grave.
But unless we can preserve, Amid the social security schemes of this century. some of the sense of personal rel ponsibility the Victorian our last stato may well prove to be
ago,
worse than the first.
Mru Ward's
"little won't
Ding"
do the
country much But it
horm.
there are mil- itons of little mil- flings, Ir lions of us look at each social Insurance
scherne from
of how
wrong with this story. Wigs are which About their dally fe there to Israel,
are perhaps provided under And rigid, dismal, and national Jewry's most striking the Act. honest musterity. The British contribution to the experiment it grousers who moan about their of living. Here тел and supply
and abandon meals should try a week here. women
possessions, teeth
to The food is the most abysmally money and family life to fight spectacles awful "I have ever enten; I got the hostilo
and turn it visiting foreigners, an the impression that I have lived green. for a week largely on tom 10
old English sking and the entrails of carp.
Israel, on paper. Is bankrupt lady of 94 18 and doomed to failure. Just like urely enliled
The Jews, on paper, to her wig. Four days In the week are Britain.
It was Mrs firmly meatless. It is inciden- were doomed to extinction by tally an interesting reflection their enemies last year. Jusi Ward's reaction
to this suggesuon which provides the point of view everybody's anti-Semites like Britain. In 1940." navvy and the Czech driver. breathtaking beauty. Its prople for
the social interest of this story, much we can wangle out of it, restless, transfigured, that there is, in Israel, no black
There is, perhaps, just a ten-She didn't like the idea."
a." To and if each of us justißes and the English clerk and are
what the Tunisian painter and furious, optimistic, intolerant, market.
dency now to be smug about her, "it seemed too much ke he does by the fact that so many that. If I were Jew, instead cadging," for hitherto "we had others "seem to be wasting Na- the Russian rabbi, milling
tional Health money," the
oney" then costs and pressing through the
they are in fact a minority race, I think I migh! But "finally they persuaded seething streets of Tel-Aviv,
be a little smug, too. But it Then she added-and. with this mounting. to a point where the and the sentry on the sand-
might be a handicap in the end a personal incident assumes the schemes will break down bagged rooftop in Jeru-
dimensions of a social problem... It was wrong in the past that men should feel unable to accept to bo "so many people seemn wasung National Health money social help until they and their that I didn't think it would do familles were on the edge of the country much harm if I had, my little ding."
salem.
The word
were
in
Meanwhile It
seems
to me
e
starvation.
sensitive, humorous, introspec- And of course that is wholly
phenomenon of a rather hungry member of always paid for everything will mount. to the ve, Elven to sudden bursts of bound acrimony, and, exaltation. It, la possibly surprising-that
ociologically the most absorb Israel one never sees Jew, ing place I have seen.
Somehow, somewhere
on the way, he disappeared the Hillite 11. however, I
an nose, the anxious eyes. Even actuary I should inch at the physically the Jews have lost that there are some wondem in
Now Jewishness.
and Israel. means Peace. bookkeeping. No tiny country their
comes คร a. mild It has become a little casual, has ever before- had to cope surprise to realise, in the midst
Again It a little worn, perhaps 2 with such a fantastically of this million, not that they are little glib. It is sill a sudden multiplication of in Jews, but that I am goY, lovely word, full of every habitants. Israelite: paradox.
quarter of which one needn't go into, seem million have arrived, nearly u For the baby State of 40 percent population boost, a
to me to be answered in that Israel, fermenting like I crippling strain on a nation's yeast in the sullen back- economy. wardness of the Middle £300 million a year to house East, there is no pence yet.
Bankruptcy
Already
and maintain
They cost about
...
63
About five hundred problems, of them have been absorbed WELL, it won't. And none of us ooking to the State for every-
one fact.
Wonders
Already many of the 60,000 MOST inescapable Is that feel
ing in n kibbutz-one
Not that some things don't work, but that so many do; not that there are all immigrants in camps, but that three-fifths
not that many Jews are hard and bitter, but that so many are kind and gentle.
Not that the State is confused and struggling and poverty- stricken, but that it is here at
nll.
of
stil in camps after four months the collective settlements, unique. ere disillusioned-and-protesting.
A third of the immigrants are, unemployed. Israel has more
THE much-promised land. Jewn than she knows what to do
with-wants them, welcomes
has a tougher war On them, because that iss what
its hands than anything the Israel is for.
Arabs provided. It has been
a curious, rather solemn ex-
perience, watching a people
fighting national bankruptcy
Finance
with nothing in their hands TSRAEL'S Imports are run-
but faith.
ning at around £80,000,000
a year. Her exports are about In the last week I have £12,000,000. It is the sort of travelled the land through boringly familiar in Britain,
dreary sum that has become and back, from the sea to the rond-blocks, from the Israel's terrible
SAT
-(London Express Service)'
to
50
But that was less fatal to self- respect than the opposite error of 1
and of evading personal thing, will grudge this old lady her responsibility, which is increas wig or her fling. But we had ingly the mood of this century. better ponder that last remark It is not only in respect of on the State that the of hers. It may conceivably claims provide an Epitaph for England. sence of personal responsibility
The Victorian age was a pretty seems
have
gravely The unorganised weakened. It is not in this field ruthless one. and largely disenfranchised poor only that we justify the wrong
ex we do by the wrong others do. were ill-protected against ploitation. Extremes of wealth
The same thing may be seen In many fields....The stock ex- cuse for going into the black market is that "everyone else is in it. The justification for avoldablo absenteeism is that others practise it, too,
THE DIAMONDIHORSESHOE
bad Feathered
friends
disparity THE other dinner hour I
funds, by
by Billy Rose
bird calla
TN the trade union movement responsibility is at a heavy discount. During the last year or two we have on a succession of unofficial strikes called against union decisions-Grimethorpe, the stay-down strike of York- shire miners, the railway drivers' Sunday strike, the London docks shock strike, and now cat, for instance, the
"go-slow". In might have killed her. Finally various railway depots,
"Now
that comes the news I hit on a solution-Instead of playing the male lover, I began some 700 Scottish miners at Bur- whose ghlee are striking because three mimicking the female,
of their mates are Plymouth Brethren, whose religious bellefa tones are higher and softer.
forbid them to join trade
bat a dirty trick," I said,
Lebanese frontier to the must be bridged by the income was minding my own "Well," he continued, "like a howling Wilderness of Zin, from U.S. Juwish
transfers, minestrone in a small Italian lot of Manhattan love affair, immigrants' capital from Dan to Beersheba.
by stering releases-n chancy restaurant across the street this one started in Central Park
"At Arst, Gilda thought she It was not, very dillicult; and unreliable economy.
from Radio City when I where I go every day to tune my
"One afternoon I was watch was hearing things, but, as union. the country is no bigger Israel is going to need some-suddenly heard the low, for-
I do not share their views; 1 than Wales. It leaves an in- where around £400 milienern whistle of a whippoor- ing two pigeons in the early kept it up, she began to back
But I Ond rounds of a romance. The lady, away, a look of horror and dis-am a union man. In the next will.
thir evitable Impression, a mon worth of mony
wholly revolting. a bird with a gorgeous purple gust in her eyes." AL the moment
It is wholly inconsistent, too, tage of earnest peasant four years.
I turned around and, mure ruff whom I called Gilda, was
"There's more to the story" with Article 20 of the universal wooed by a grey pouter intellectuais (a rifle on the dollar investment is said to be
in the neighbourhood of £12,- enough, the birdcall was com-
cald Bain "When Paul heard declaration of human rights i shoulder, a spade in one 000,000 a year.
ing from the lips are being "Pod
"And so, to see how good I my come-hither noises, he ap- adopted by the General Assem of Donald Bain, the gent who hand, and a work on dialec..
I started to kur proached me with a gentle fut-bly of the United Nations: "No The U.S. Government loan of in responsible for most of the really was, the tical materialism in
acting like one may be compelled to belong £25,000,000 through the Export-animal noises you hear on the ru at Gildn myself, doing ter and began other"), of uncountable
my best to make my mating saller who had been given the to an association," Import Bank has born heavily radio these nights.
To stop a pit which produces of plump and eaten into. The United Jewish multitudes
and moro diaph- wink.
23,000 Something
lons a
year of desperate- Paul'a nubile young women in al- Appeal hopes to raise £60,000 fe," I said, "but it must ba like Sinatra with feathers.
"And here is another in-ly needed coal in order to compel
of what George Mthree men to violate their religi most invisible bloomers; of 000 more all private money. plenty tough on your missis "Now, mind you, I used no
Private money, ever a shy never knowing
meant when he said
bellets, however, mistaken whether she's bread-crumbs, cracked corn endless discussion groups;
bird
like people-aa already lts doubifully
cuddling of an idealism 'that is some
or anything else you might con pigeons were around an 'Israel committed to
jeovey of quail,"
It corrien social ir times shrill and doctrinaire,
ed" pare to the mink and diamond soon as Gilda saw her old beau, we may think them, is monstrous gentle form co for, Socialism- but robust and virile and table to harden. Private money, said the nabob of noise,
ald've never been married" bracelets in our version of the was on the make for another tesponsib
no time at all girl she decided he was what responsiblity to new heights.
And when Mr A
Abo Moffatt, the strangely exciting.
too, looks dubiously at a stupen though and here a moocowme, but in
Beolush miners president, de-
men aro withdrawing their
Irresponsibility,
"You lead
adventurous
calls 60 mgmy
up to a man
An
stance Colian
and
ous.
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Coca-Cola
Ice-Cold
Coca-Cola
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--who changed the Sabbath? What day did Christ. keep? What day did the disciples keep after the resurrection? How can the Sabbath be kept on a round world? If Peter came to Hong Kong on what day would he go to church?—And a host of other questions and problems regarding the Sabbath. YOU MUST HEAR THIS?!
dous Israel; wage scale that pays look camo over his face Korgeous Gilda was perched on she'd wanted all the time, A country that is bleakly a labouror more than £2 a day was recently Involved in
crazy. Believed it or no, this shomeless kurruuu's. I've ever clares: "It is not a strike. The SUNDAY *. Sept. 25 empty, and hideously full, at a monstrous cost of living: exciting love triangle." Still the immigrants arrive, at the
Histadrut, which con- hold union, the 1,500
out
me,
labour"
he proaches downright Insanity.
my shoulder and gurgling like began giving out with the most
world's biggest trade "Give," I said, "and don't over-tail-feathers in love with
pigeon pin-up had fallen head heard.
"But Paul knew what on any of the Ilp- a nation trols Inbour, runs the employ-smacking detalis." a month;
wanted-and what ho wanted wan mo, and he chased' mo all born in distraction. Sixty ment exchanges. even owns "Well, to understand this
the way to 59th Street exit, thousand of the uprooted much of the industry,
amour," said Bain, "you've got
FTER a few minutes of it, with Gilda right on his tail." stock of Europe are still in And for
every
know something brgument to
about was willing to lot the camps, ringed by the barb comen this counter-Israel was pigeons. Have you ever watch-
not conceived as businres pro-ed the male pigeon ed wire so many of them postton but as a translation of the female?"
courting matter drop, but Gilda wouldn't
stand for it. know so well.
on, whenever There are still metaphysics,
Extremes
too many Imponderables in-
volved: this is no work for a chartered accountant
"Only Walter,” I said.
"
a
ap-
mutis century, has been called
the century of the common | man. Unless it becomes,, the century of common sense it will; ⚫go hard with, the common man.
There is no concealed pool 01] And from the "How did it all end?" I Lasked
resources at the command of the park to practing, she would
"The following day I went State which will enable it. Ir-
definitely to subsidize spot me, drive the other birda back and Suddenly Bain definitely
folly and vocial-Irresponsibility, general looked at his watch and bounc away,
to no mysterious law There Nevertheless, a hard-healed, DONALD Ignored my mouldy quinn and make
ed up from the table, "As for Paul-well, it mot. "As George M. Cohan *
"Sorry, Billy," he said, "but which will protect trade unioniam. highly orliculite crowd like the once pointed out," he said, pitiful to se him eating his
from the consequences that al- IT is not easy to convey to all Israels, who can spend hours "pigeons are a lot like people. Little gizzard
It's nine twenty-Дve and lost
due to play a water buffalo in ways hefall organisations when weight and
then began to
they fall into indiscipline and slightly debating the minutiae of politics. For instance, as soon as a boy-
five minutes. Next time I see you anarchy. stronger than reason, claiming who contrive to run 23 strongly bird gets a crush on a lady monit--the pigeon equivalent remind me to tell you what a spiritual strength that makes said to be living wholly in a stored kurruuu's and plays hard please
argumentative partie, cannot be olgcon, abo ignores his impus of 'Make it another whisky happened, when Gilda. flew in The Stats cannol project men folly of figures.
alarry-eyed contempl¬fion of the to get Eventually, of course, well, obviously I had to do through my bedroom window, from the consequences of wrong. no more than It is a country that varies eternal verities. There are things she gives in, and they fly off something to break it off, but You won't believe your cars.." For the Stat
[all of us' rut forether-and-as wo Infinitely between extremes of to be done that the Torah does to a Utile love nest-up in the I wanted", to los: Gilda, down
are so will be the State, cruelly barren -melancholy and not mention.
eaven", of Bomo brewery,
cary if I made a notre like a
1-London Express Service).
of them that this land is a mystical concept
out.
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I'm
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