This brings me back once more to Parliament. No less staid and care-fi a paper than the "Glasgow Herald" has published a long article from its London correspondent on the feeling among M.'s that our foreign policy needs brisking up. They also want te have a Foreign Secretary in the House of Commons. Mr. R. A. Butler, the Under Secretary, has made a very good name for himself in that posi-
The eighth war zone, comprises the Ordos country, and the provinces of Ninghsia and Kansuh.
In the first lost territory there are no Central Government or provincial troops, except on the extreme outskirts. It held by Communist units, both regular and irregular. They are very widespread over the whole area, ranging from the Jehol-Hopei border in the north to the Yellow River in the south. The mountain country to the west of the Peiping-Hankow Railway along which runs the Hopei-Shansi border is oe: cupied by the 18th Army Group (for ruerly the famous 8th Route Army) under Gen. Nieh Jung-hsien, whose headquarters are in the Wutai district in Shansi, There are also some regular Communist troops on the Jehol border. But the rest of the area, specially the plains of central Hopei, are held by irregular Communist units, which admit only a very loose obedience to the 18th Army Group. tion. But of course in answering questions he cannot go a line beyond what is set down for him. But one cannot be blind to the general feeling that our foreign policy might be more active, even explosive. There is huge potential "fifth column" at on service in most European countries if we can only get at it.
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