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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 1850,

ARE WE IN THE MIDST OF A

D

PHONEY PEACE?

O you remember the

phoney war in the.

winter of 1939/407 By Beverley Baxter, M.P. great Western powers, to Stalin

hAvo a vivid memory of

visiting our air squadrons

on

well as

side,

in territories which did not affront the sovereignty of the

finds himself with vart area of manoeuvrabilty in which he need not directly clinllenge the rights of America or the British Empire.

Was

Britain's

but generations follow all in France and then ontain, where

psycho- As Chamberinin said in 1930 áctour to the Maginot Line, ene other in pubile rervice and the dollar has its own

But tradition is logy.

a snobbery the first shot in a new world to itself. When In war would see the rise of Asin. going for a motor drive in politieal life.

rehron hel. one noman's land until we were not everything, and in Amertes peculiar

we have scent remarkable men. Toronto I heard the news that That from the rise

Stafford Cripps had de abruggled so hard to prevent the

of that to politient significaner. Sir

shot. Geofra- only five miles

to the world, valued the pound to $2.00 cents, firin Siegfried Line. Throughout giving leadership

to the visitor phically and tempermentally, General Mar- the kindnesses Sumner Welles, that tour I never heard a

Dean Acheson, General were redoubled, but there was fussin is wonderfully suited to

Lew

of promoting revolu I had the task Douglas, much shaking of heads, gun fired, and the only aero- Elsenhower.

tion Averill Ave

rebellion, for the s notes in my one pound plane I saw in the air was Senator Vandenberg.

German machine that Harriman.... these are men of wallet, and they huddled at the half-European and half- Anintle

and integrity, bottom

while her doors open virion, over It is a fortunate country whose seen.

West and the Enst. dropped pamphlets Metz in the shape of womb is so fertile in shility.

My own impression is that What is the second thing jo be It is easy to be wise after the autumn tinted oak leaves.

conquest in Europe, with these words printed in placed on the credit side of the event, and I will not deny that Russia seeks no further politient

balance sheet? Without question devaluation French:

#1

"In the autumn the leaves die. So do the poilus fighting for

the British.

In the spring the traves come

again.

But not the pollus who died

fighting for the British.

courage

as if ashamed

shook

to be

my con-

And

or actual

on the

it must be the ntonirding re-fidence considerably. But when but is content that Eastern Ger-

I returned to Britain, expecting many covery of Great Britain.

The Return

to and her in mourning for her should!

th

tiend

wherever

and the Gatellite states A barrier comprise attack from the West

Cround

past; there was a new against vitality that could .be felt and perhaps eventually a van. frum which સત went. The tage

But for the the West. Invade Brendan workers, who had been seduced February 1947, IN

Bruekin and I were on the late belleving

that Socialisin time belast it in the barrier tha Queen Mary coming from New could give thein

more pay for they seek to maintain, and when we reached fewer

bours, само down to 21 The Inhabitants

there Metz Southampton

there, Once yua more

the stolid common sense scrambled in the snow to secure dackers' strike and no one was earth and stayed them as souvenirs. Four mont allowed to leave the ship until

later the Germans

of

York,

was

could

Fruitful Soil

Awept into Brendon and I invoked the un- the hour of her rallied BUT Asia is fruitful soil. Stalir

Lazy Thinking

That

recovery that

to danger.

D does not waste time preaching no one must the ancient city and Alsace was clent law that

the principles of Communism renching the heel once prevent an M. P. the Prussian

was less under

than a year but merely rives support to any Houtes of Parliament. So we ego, but such has been the again.

rebel movement, which threa ashore, aution's 10 Ho allowed were

order. Thus the tens the existing admittedly 10 the accompani

shackles of austerity are snap he supports the Karens agains ment of some ceml-goud-

in a gale. their

Burmese overlords: thur No longer in Britain a distressed

the rebellion ir suralny he EN years have passed since natured booing from the other Pg like hawsers Tyears have passed since man ho

arca,

no longer are we impri- Indonesin; thus did he help the

on our icland deprived Chinere

Communists motor ear, we soned Securing

the petrol to Journey quer the faltering forces 1950 as the were driven from Southampton even of period of the phoney peace. It through a countryelde that was within our own borders. We can Chiang Kai-shek. although the

again-except to

the average Chinese know Ds little about Gan uncomfortable thought, to the grip of a cold, tired win travel

The snow was hard and dollar area of course. But we about Communism as but at least the tuman race has ter.

have a feeling that some of Kussio. advanced to a point where it dirty grey, as though it had died

these days the pound will be does not ask to be coddled. This in the night.

It was night when we reached able to look even the mighty

because

of the dollar applied especially to the young

the face to crawl blashing.

if the historfun of the future will refer to the year

Kome

wor

Balance Sheet

to con-

of

In Malaya, Stalin has inflamed without the nationalist movement which, into curiously enough, came being with the resistance against We call threin the Japanese.

130 bandite in Malaya, and doubt there are inany bandita men do not the balance among them, but

alone, Right for money HEN how does

sheet look as far as we have dle gone:

aeros Asin there is an upsurge and of nationalist sentiment,

expect that even cannot India and Pakistan will be im mune.

1.

America comes of age Britain recovers

we

3. The British Empire

and

Commonwealth grow stronger in unity and Influence.

Rising Tide

who are stark realists, evin if London, and

crisis we had of their elders

are in- fuel eined to see what they want to through streets that were diar

the period of the kened as in see-and no more.

The aftermath of the 1914-16 Blitz. People were shabby and This is like breaking of lazy listless, was a tragedy thinking and misplaced idea into prison," said Brendator sm. When the American Con- perhaps it was 1. At any rate it

1: gress turned down Woodrow was cald,

All across the U. S. A. in a Wilson's League of Nations and

lecture tour, good withdrew beyond the spurious nation-wide

had showered kind- Isolationism of the two oceans, people the rise of Hiller was ordained.

on me because I catric nesses When France refused to extend from a fine old country that had of friendship entered into its last, final decline.

and the hand

Cermany, Again and again. I proclaimed Buccour to a beaten

USTRALIA, New Zealand, the third Prussian invasion of from the platform that Britain Faris was written on the calen would rise again and that her items on the credit side. There A Itongkong and Malays watch tide with anxious dar. When the British put their great daye lay ahead.

the rising falth in collective security and the words poured out, I won Europe. that continent which hearts. When will the tide have When will 1 was has given the world so much in refused

they doomed dered how much to arm, London 10 bombardment

sense and how much was senti- the achievements of the mind, run course?

begin to recede? 10 And now look on and has to bedevilled the world

There is no use in the West- Edward VIII's abilleation was shabby, darkened London after with its rivalries and wars,

ern Powers suing an ultimatum nol- an isolated incident but a the gleaming briljinner of New uny Poincare

af Russia behind her frontiers. culmination of a spirit of abdi York! Even Brendan Bracken heen ns forgiving to German and demanding the withdrawal for as Schuman is today, we might There are no frontiers to the cation throughout civilisation stopped talking, probably

seen the growth of mind, and Stalin has been foo The attempt to fasten responsi- the first and last time of his have

liberalised Eurore in which the

dupes shrewd to assist his hility for the ultimate tragedy life.

tw monsters of Fascism and with Russian troops on the spot, Communism would have been except where the Pence Treaty kept in the undergrowth and

the air.

on the Isolated

from

incident of

the humon Munich is simply

seeking consefence

alibi. an

the wars Between the two Western World refused to facu facts. The ter war should never have happened. The fact Cant it did happen is a terrible arialgnment against mankind.

Realistic Era

A Western Civitalon now is

ment.

But that does not end the

Even as is a new hope in the future of

of il

Recovery

TODAY Britain is one of the

most vibrant countries in the

article

It

1919 had

whichever name phoney peace, We have not time. In this the swamps where they belone. allows it. This cold war or this

preter, is a struggle you to discuss the Schuman dens and Ideologica. Not even for the Franco-German de

сап bomb

kill hydrogen world, perhaps the most vibrant plan

We who are Conserva merger of steel and coal, bat n of all. Lives think that the election the significance of

the gesture thought.

We must then admit that the result had something to do with cannot be over-estimated. If it. but the Socialists say that the the age-long feud of the Teuton debit side of the balance sheet Communism is the

country is reaping the reward and the Gaul is really at an end, is heavy. lawlessne93, TC- of the grimm years of austerity. then we should sing! "Gloria, instigator of

there is some truth in gloria in Exccicist" Perhaps both contention.

T least it cannot be said that

But what has really hap- afraid of the dark. We are ilving

Why is the dollar Hop In on cra of almost Incredible pened? reallem, where people discuss narrowing, and why is Britain war as they would a plague or a stating such a remarkable re-

or a flood

frost

which cannot covery? be avoided. America, which re

In material terms the answer fused to grow пр until two falls into three sections:

now

Number Four

THEREFORE we must add flint

שם

bellion, revelation, and even tually war when Christendom has been undermined.

War Of Ideas

of either

cake the

Russia. then Amerien will bo WIFT En of the Com- muccessful stand of Tlio against why we must

loyal

THIS IS WHERE I CAME IN. by Cummings

Cam

"Historically speaking, this is a very interesting period za lice in, and I wouldn't have missed it for anythin»,"

The craftsman of today just hao't the staminu to go through with a big job to the end."

SODOA

"I just don't understand the behaviour of the modern gen. eration

When AURA E

young girl...

S.B.Q.R.

"With the barbarians pressing on the Empire's frontiers, the whole juture of Western civil- Iration af we know it is ap stake ! **

wwar

will

"Now we've invented gun powder, another Just wipe out civilisation altogether."

PUNCL & JUDY

"Naturally you get juvenile delinquency with the youn fed solely on a dies of crime

and violence." London Express Bervice

Accounts squared, 15 years late

By NEWELL ROGERS

Now they are being deported. NEW YORK. JUSTICE has squared ac- Their only offence is that they

have no vis counts with the double

American law is strict. Ne- of Edward Eugene Sullivan, the "phantom forger." The gretfully, the Justice Depart- ment says nothing can be doar squaring was 16 years late. for them.

In April 1935 Philadelphia business man Clifford Shephard happened to visit a court-house in Pininfeld, New Jersey.

A detective tupped him on the shoulder. Two shopkeepers identified lunt as the parser of forged cheques.

Ile served 34 months in gaol after two trials.

In 1038 the real forger was

Twice

President Truman disagrees.

Commissioner, John McCloy, to le is sending orders to his High provide a special camp for the 100 when they reach Germany.

They are to be given a special slatus which will allow thern to return as immigrants.

the studion

the

So, although they must leave caught Shephard confronted the U.S. to get back again, they con did not look at Miss Liberty and as item number four on our

Do not belleve that Russin him and it was like

her upheld torch with despairing balance sheet. And to complete (a) the credits.

include we can

could defeat the Western Pow-fronting himself.

Sullivan readily confessed to eyes, Anuncial genertsily of aniong sundry assets of un- erg in battle. I do believe that

CHIL extras ate forsaking world wars had been fought. Is the

value we could defeat Russia. But in forging the two cheques.

Armed with this confession, Hollywood In droves. Ther Implacable logician. Canada and the U. S. A. which ascertained or unproved the

only winne the post the growing conception Is to be war with carried Britain over If there

to pay crisis; (b) the Western

the

the cannot make enough fa would be Communism, That is Shephard started to apply for unlon,

arm ourselves vardon in 1940. but wage war in Pardons Court said "No." Re- their vard. Instead of musi- the for defence

with chorus lines, in at the first shol

monwealth countries; (c) the Russian imperialism. ond

14 are preparing of Amerl rise of India

and Pakistan to the realm of ideas. If Western cently a new Parole Board said cal shows Therefore we can put down mounting prosperity

sus self-government.

civilsation cas malatain free. "Yes" unanimously.

With tears in his eyes, 64- films glorifying branches of the

services, on the credit side of the balanco cn, with the consequent

Even Clifford It is a formidable list, for dom under responsibility, it it

which year-old

Shephard armed wool and other COMMENCING TO-MORROW: "MONSIEUR VERDOUX" theet the item that America has tafned purchasing of rubber,

of the

every Chaplains Corps and the frog- balance sheet can develop a society in

have prayed thesaid: "I come of age. Let the trumpets zinc, copper,

worship of God and the British ahead sound,

the Battle corninoditles from let us sing

of Christ kre the night since I was in prison for men (rubber-sulted demolition swimmers) are to be put on the in the corresponding teachings Hymn of the Republle, let us Empire. Once more the miracle which the Western world could the

end the this day." if it can

ccrzen. after the 1914-18 war. foundation, AT 2.30, 5.20, praize Lincoin and Washington of the Empire which Ribbon show

hope and blasphemy of poverty, lift up and Truman (but incifully leave trop said was only held together Period 7.20 & 9.30

demon- We have reason to moonbeams-has

also have the lowly and deny pportunity nut Roosevelt), let us salute Old by

itself to a sceptical rejoice....but Glory and toast the Land of the sirated

reason to fear. Grent as are its to none, then we dark menne

will New York Harbour tonight past tide this period

of Communium and world.

Ing accomplishments,

the Statue of Liberty the most miles America's wisdom renerdalty in aiding the reco

may yet be denounced as the recede,

only

their There before us is the chal- precious possession in this post-fornia to Detroit. Car dealers

buy

plane very of ravaged Europe, and

phoney peace.

It war age is not diamonds or not

tickets, but also give them £22 her renunciation of Isolationism,

Few experts think that Russia Tenge of the balance sheet,

The motorists the most important

in the accepted the threat is greater than after radium. It is a visa. constitute

They are Germans and Aus- spending money. HOPE you will forgive an will make wor

the 1914-18 war, our unity and

factory and back to California. other personal reference, but meaning of the word. But fese honesty are also greater. What irians who fled to China from a drive their new cars out of the

men already call the Nazi concentration camp.

This while touring Canada last Sep- experts will dery tember I found many people cold war la

Phoney Peace" can become the

Communist railway freight charge to Cali-

fornia. who did not share my belief in temperature,

Just The U. 8. A. has no politics! the growing strength of the

Sentiment was manoeuvre his early conquesta ter in the story of man. tradition comparable with Bri- Sterling Bloc.

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NANCY

"Blind" action

I'D LIKE TO TAKE

A QUARTER OUT

OF MY BANK---

New

Vitality

BUT HIS EYES MAKE ME FEEL 50. GUILTY-.-

We

that the

steadily rising in some

100 men. women, ang children who sailed down

DLANE-LOADS of happy car buyers aro flying 2,000 every week from Call-

os Hitler was able to beginning of a new great chap- 1U.S. for fea they fled to the And it costs no more than the

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BUSHMILLE

By Ernie Bushmiller

yenr

of a

concentration camp.

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