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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1946,
SOVIET UNION STARTS
STARTS CARNIVAL
'Six
was
REPLANNING
The Critical Function
ཉས
DINGFOD SIX
DELINE MODEL CAMPLATE": WITH STATS, STATKING WHERE ETCUORLI BITINI
Dek Torne
By Dick Turner
"Certainly the design is new! Just look at that radiator cap those hubs, the ash-trays, the door handles!"
months after the them was shown recently by a their suggestions. It would be Introduction of "the five-year report presented in Kiev by a mistake to interpret thean this the Ukrainian Prime Minister, trends us in any way a con- plan of rehabilitation .country is a grips with a Mr. Krushchev, in which at- cession to the principles of series of problemts, some aris- tention was called to the rapid western democracy. The party's ing from the consequences of and heavy turnover of leading avowed intontion is to Atreng- the war, others created by the workers. In some parts of the then the movement (towards ambitious tasks which the Ukraine,, it was revealed, there Communism.. nation has been set, but all had been replacement, at the giving its capital an aspect rate of 80 per cent, owing to
Mainly for the benefit of its strikingly different from that the inability of inexperienced
many new members, n careful which it word last winter. cadres to expe with their work.
distinction is drawn between writes, the Moscow Correspon- Unsatisfactory as this state party and State authority, the dent of the London "Times." of affairs must clearly be, it is
The city was then in relaxed held here to be a sign of health part of the former being to guide public organisations and mood, making the most of that inefficiency has been de-
to retala au independence which November and Christmas tected and that the process of
will enable it most effectively holidays, and in particular replacement has been there to exercise its critical func- time the turning the election period into sult of initiative fram below tien. At the ame
of a sudden popular festivals at which de- and not
purge party reaffirms its conception liverance from war was cele directed from above. What was of itself as the instrument of brated. Today Moscow shows perhaps the most interesting the dictatorship of the work- an inner tension, abustling, feature of the Kiev reorganisa ing class. The Communist Press purposeful activity. There is tion was the frank criticism has recently been unsparing in
against the central excitement. not unmixed with levelled
of alleged faults its criticism Ukrainian. the anxiety of those still un- committee of the
and misguided Ideas. certain Communist Party and certain of their direction.
Thus in Ukraine concern has The writer drove to Moscow Ministries for not having paid been expressed over the revival
country's
sufficient attention to the work fa zurgeois-nationajist", recently from the western borders' along a high- of local authorities.
oncept of Ukrainian history, Coupler with this not unand of a theory, described way the first 300 miles of which was being broken up by expected process of secking the "tupid and harmful of the gangs of German prisoners best men for the jobs, a search right of literary men to make (who looked fit and were working inquiry into the integrity ideologied mistakes. In Azer- ing strenuously under a grill of management is being con-baijan the call has gone out for, ing sun) before being relaid ducted by the Ministry of State an intensification of the strug
which has already to match the splendid stretch Control, that links Moscow with Minak. One reminded of the in-sacrifice that these western ter, ritories had borne by the spec- tacle of meient cities spreading their jagged ruins along the banks of the Bug, the Beresina, previas atrenipts to solve the the upper Dnieper, and the
Parallet with a general over Ladiesian question. Much has Volga, and perhaps even more hai of the Industrial and ad- happened since the rejection of keenly by the vast stretches of ministrative system, the Rus- the Dutch offer, of May 2 to re- wilderness created by the dea- sian Communist Party, now 6.- sugnise the Republic of Java astruction of their dwellings,000,000 strong, has been taking
I looked out of the window of interesting things. One coffcern- a deep cobalt, on the horizon it.
told me that one Was washed down to autonomoys unit within the bridges, and tenuous commumi-measures
the Lodge. There was mist in deels. Durch Empire. On the Dach cations. There is nothing in accepted doctrine those of its
the bign valleys about Ettrick, day, when he was, up on the high Prussian blue and across it drifted whose candidature side, in place of the care Europe, even in Germany, to members
was accepted more. on military, Pen, mist at sunrise and ou wind. tops, he noticed his dog setting at billowy white clouds. My yo
invisible. It meant one thing, a tine day, or clumps of grass. He went to in- travelled downwards to seek the taker Schermerhorn Guvernment equal in thoroughness the de-
Russia, than political qualifications.. nominated by the Queen and the vastation of Western
of dees are rare among these hills eels wriggling along through the lay on my back and drank in the tho Between Lodz, in Central Places have had to be found for should I say, "a feen dee"? "reen vestigate and saw multitudes of Lodge, but it was rump of a States-General elect-
Poland, and Moscow there is no politically qualified men return and they are not to be squandered. coarse wet growth. I had heard sweet air, spicy air, full
After ✡ while the loneliness of ed in 1937, there is a new Gov-
town of any importance which ing from the Army, with all Not that the climate matters very of cels migrating in the lowlands scent of peat, heather and grass ernment constitutionally formed!
has survived the war with less that that implies in stress and much in this part of the world; but never over the high hills! of a newly-elected Parlia than three-quarters of
its strain in local party life. Te every day is "feen" to me, loving Yet it is well, to remember that the place crept about me, until I present Cabinet is buildings destroyed.
day two-thirds of the party's this country as I do. Perhaps in this country the graas is al began to feel almost light-headed. therefore pulitically in a much
New Five-Year Plan
members are under 35 years old, am so fond of it because I have ways thick and wet. I had notie- Looking up at the travelling clouds below, if dropped from the hook, felt the grass to prevent myself in other words, of purely Soviet Scottish blood in my veins; my ed that ecis caught in the river made the head reel, my fingers stronger position than its pre-
To revive these and other
soon vanished in the matted her falling out into the sky neared
A speelt. of white decessor. The Dutch delegates to ravaged territ:ries the Soviet education, knowing no regime grandfather was a Border man. other than a Soviet-Socialist With a packet of sandwiches in
my pocket and a handful of cart- bage they were gone in an in- the prescot conference. the three Union embarked last March on
In spite of heavy losses ridges. I would be away as soon stant as swiftly as a snake or a. against the red-brown moor below. It moved and came jigging my ommissioners-General appoint a plan of production. Since its
problems among its ranks, the younger
yester eve in the caught but
Strange Nesting Place way Large White butterfly. ed to act as an outpost of the inception two main
teeth was flying due couth in the The other thing he told me waż
of the breeze and passed Netherlands Cabinet in the In-have arisen, and they have been generation takes the prepons that breakfast of brown trout, burrowing molt.
I would go alone, wark the links particurly interesting It com yards from where I lay ̈f watch- |dies, appear
there illuminated with the same fierce derant share of responsible Byreburn, was disposed of, and to possess
of the March. quisite powers for their task. If resolve to have faults correct posts in the State.
ed as was seen in that "year
Soviet Youth
I could smell those frying trout cerned a robin's nest which was
other, and yet another, all flying this is so, an agreement reached
of great change" 1929, when
These internal events in Rus clop of my razer strop mingled right amongst the wool and, what little traveliers these, each very
as I was shaving, the merry snop, built-where do you think?d it out of sight. Soon came fr
the shoulder of a sheep! It was in the any direction. Strange ar Batavia within the terms of
the first five-year plan was un-
υροπ its purpose. Some der review, and bureaucracy. sia, far-reaching in their con with the cooings of weed-pigeons is more, that robin, travelling set
sequences for many, have put in the beech trees on the iawn. with its strange companion over magnetism was drawing these inertia, and lack of discipline this city in less care-free mood felt absurdly like a bay on the the sleepwalks, reared its bros atoms what, no man could tell. than it displayed six months first morning of the holidays, and in sufety. I can vouch for this They.. like me, fitted into the
scheme
eme of things, ago, although there have been tried to forgel it was my last. benefits for all this summer-But it was not until the clock I
stene s hugs, this hold on unrestricted travel, cheaper chapped" eleven that I could gat
For some time at food, and more abundant mer away, as I had to wait for the and he said:
post and Postie was late. Soeaning with the hen sitting on he chandise.
I saw him cycling over however rig
half a mile least, the jet principal factor the stone bring through way least the internal situation
areas. determining
public opinion
brought to light a number of gle with the remnants of capi-ferred to the need to combat Fleet has called for is struggle irregularities calling for action talism in the minds of the peo decadent liberalism and petty against the influence of hostile by the Public Prosecutor. The Ple. "Pravda", has recently re- bourgeois slackness," while Red ideology. State, it has been made clear, will not tolerate the abuse of privilege for personal advantage by its sentar officials.
ment.
The
their brief is unlikely to be after wards rejected at The Hague.
were exposed.
onc.
to
educate in the
iR
A-Countryman's
Day In Scotland
Perfect
story because, still an unbeliever
asked the shepherd's master "Oh yes, Angus was not spir you a yarn. I saw the nes.
faintest
Thus the "near-miss" of last April, when Dr. van Mook was First, the authorities, cen- handicapped by insufficient a tral, republican, and regional, thurit, should not be repeated. have been coacerned with the Although, if anything, the Beel efficient redirection of skilled Government seems more conserva- labour arising out of the de- rive than the Schermerhorn mobilisation of the Red Army Cabinet,-2 progressive policy to dustry in devastated
and the re-establishment of in- wards the Indonesian question Pledged to avert unemployment
I met the grieve (bailif) by the seems assured by the appointment and place the returning soldiers here.
A reform likely to have far sheep pen and asked him exactly of Mr. J. A. Jonkman as the in work worthy of their quali-reaching effects on Soviet youth how far I could go, for I was a new Minister for Overseas Ter-fications, the authorities have
has been introduced into the little hazy as to boundaries. ritories an appointment well been warned to avoid the canv received by Republicans. Through way and to direct labour with Ploneer movement, an organisa-To the skyline," said he, "as out his 20 years' service in the scientific precision. How great join at the age of 10.. The sys To the skyline! That was the the stupid sheep until the hill hid here, and there was no sound but
mail.
+
set forth.
grass on
And like a familiar acquaintanco from another country a homely bumble bee boomed by; his trea.. Bure bags stuffed with heather nectar, have no doubt.
had been hat climbing to this. place, now I felt almost chilled, I - tot up gathered my game bag, empty and slung my gun across my arm For some time followed along the spine of the ridge. The grass was quic whito
exga fast I said good-bye to Angu
on my way. I and continued noticed the sheep dog (which al the time I had been talking to his lord had been crouched in th the other side of th burn, leap to life, and away wen, tion which most school children, Car as ye can see, mon!"
them from view. sort of answer I had wanted. The
The skyline was now marker Indies (during which time he was
tem of appointing leaders to its detachments by decree has bann track I followed wound up the by arise in the ground, whic President of the People's Coun-
side of a brae, rutted by wheels, was covered with clumps of rush e) Mr. Jonkman was noted as
abolished and superseded by an pocked with boof stamps, and on
on my left. but soon it became a staunch friend of Indonesiak Jaya, Sumatra and Madura) vot-electoral system. In future sul to the uttermost limit of the The burn still kept me companamenting cries of sheep. There
in full bloom emancipation. In Java, the teed unanimously for the formation the smallest units will have in March Heather was
the quick silver in instatement of Mr. Shahrir as of a new self-governing federa- dividual leaders; the higher on either side of my way, soft and mere trickle which glittered like
it was, with hie cushions track petered out at last, and Prime Minister for the third time tion within the Dutch Empire to forms of the organisation will springy moss, like full breasts was wading through long coara: moors over. It is a Bound
a strain this has placed
011
within nine months shoves that he called the United States of even the more intransigent de Indonesia. Whatever the even-
be directed by council, the of members of which will be sleet-' here
assemblies."
sun.
Th
ments in the. Republican capital (tual termins of settlement may be. ad by the pioneers at annual cd there, over which the press which reached to my knee.
To
ed
The Mo
Bn'
the "swissssh" of the bernetă, ". The Lament Of Sheep
Then faintly heard: Che
is no sadder sound in Nature than places." Where? Where? Where?" the beat of the flocks in the big they seemed to try, as though were lost souls searching the vride Caseparable from the lofty sheep- walks, This is the country of Robert Louis Stevenson; "stand stones on the vacant wine-red moor." There are standing stones in plenty about here, no man B2- knows their age or purpose. law, in the valley, are strange circles of stone, older than Stone- henge. Those who raised them, Bomans where are they?. The
who had their encampments here- abouts, where are they2 Gone! Gone! All gone! The wind bows the dead, yellow cast and another. white butterfly blods by, and there comes again the aged-old plaint of sheep, softened by distance. Not, very many men come shepherd maybe once in a we do not belong to this purs place
The grouse are. glad when we: ure' mone, the pipity Harer are glad and are at peace
crane-flies danced. Below m It was rough walking. Littl chuckled a little burn, beer brown. drab nitis kept rising biforo mi winding this way and that with sending my finger to the trigge of Jogjakarta realise that his [one fact stands our: Indonesian
his ap-nationalism in Java will have at This development in the prin waterfalls and rapids diplomatic skill and
From the fir plantation beside by their sudden burstings forth preciation of international af tained its essential objective at ciple of leadership is matched
a lifeless eyebrows and tricide down into m eves, so I took off my cap and pu fairs are indispensable. The divid virtually a single stride an event by measures to get rid of car the track a red nanked sparrow the sweat began to gather on in ing issues at the present
son unequalled in history. If the Na-tain war-time expedients in hawk made off with
and Communist pipit clasped below his tail. Soon it in my game bag. trade union
crowd of frightened sheep came
I saw no rame, no hares, 7. erence remain those on which the tionalist leaders had accepted the Party practice, the salient
into view clong the nar-
grouse. The grieve had told m jostling
the Durch offer of May 2, was se recognition of the Republic offer features of which are the re row track. Behind them was the there was little on the hills. /
had killed off, th of the elective shepherd, coatless and staff in May snow iecred. The Netherlands Govjed on May 2 (as come at the introduction ergment then refused to accede Republican Cabinet wanted to principle and the stimulation of hand. On his head was a small paults, and hares were scarce; h rwn of the Republican drdo) they would have got every, more critical spirit among round deerstalker, his feet were never remembered seeing so fes
in thick
woodensoled
I Soled Looking back could not r hands:
thing they really want and as rank and file. "Party demo encased (1) That Suniatra should be much as, or even more than they cracy" is expressed in. the fact bools; blue grey woollen stockings cognize any well-known landmerk
-clothed his stout calves. He was save Ettrick Penaway to t that ita guiding organs ara included as part of the de facto can at this time digest. Respon elected from top to bottom and on, and as hardy. I stood shadow. This did not look a goo
a square man, sturdy as a stunt north, patched with Republic;
sible Republicans' frankly admit
have periodically to give an while and talked, for he was place for erause; indeed, all m (2) That agreement should be the need for Dutch co-operation,
in no hurry, seemingly, despite energies were taken up with m account of themselves. in the form of a treaty (a treaty especially in technical matters, to trade union leaders have been the busy time, for the sheep sales climb, and my gun, was now e being the attribute of sovereignty), bridge the gap between tutelage reminded that relations with were in full swing at Lockerbie shoulder.
were being! instead of an exchange of pro-and effective independence. Few the museer means not only and all the flocks
The March's Limit *. tocols.
members of their Cabinet possess teaching them but learning brought down from the hills.
An empty valey, reddish wit Regarding Sumatra, Dany administrative experience, lack from there and listening to From him I gathered two mont
thistles and white with cotta political no-man's-land, the Dutch of which is Mr Shiäheir's, great
grass, opened-out on my left, and insist that the Sumatrans he handicap, Mr. Amir Sharifuddin,
away in the distant black neat stacks and a tumble down sheer given an opportunity to express however, a stalwart non-col
laborator and the coming man at their own views. Certain area.
pen, full of stinging nettles. I. shado’gy. - piant notably on the west coast round Jogjakarta, served in the Minis Members of the public who live. Penny who came up there with was up that valley I saw the firs Padang, may declare for mal-try, of Economic Affairs under on mid-levels and walk home in her amah in the evenings,ame of the day. Five black gan rose, appearing as big as caper gamation with the Republic of Dr. van Mouk He is 1 power the evening along Battery Fath She took little interest in ros Javas but elsewhere political ful speaker and a capable ad past St. John's Cathedral some- Commandos, Royal Marines, RAF and swent away on curved win separatism, and age-old hostility to ministrator. That full power times wonder why there are so types or any other uniform. She round the chouler of
wandered by the Cathe Cimb onk Jaya may lead to a demand for will eventually be concentrated in many Chinese police constablas was keen, however, on policemen Should I follow them or climb on? dral she would block further pro-And so I climbed until, soaked a separate independent and the hands of Shabrir and Shari-
They seem to have an em par
gress and any attempt to pass with perspiration and with ham equal Republic of Sumatra. The fuddin is the hope of many In barrassed look and
never frisk Republican Government in Java donesian intellectuals Sharifud- anybody for arms. Battery Path would be met with resistance merine heart, I gained that dir
st
bolt Knowe. My legs sched with has yet to justify its claim to ule din has now enge to Batavia, fur la hotbed of roths that amounted to the type of lant ridge which had for so lon own hair waved about Thunder-
be proud al Around the Cathedral, has bawl that the best prima donna mocked me, I was at the limit a
weariness, but it : had been a the richest island of the Indies. the first time: for nearly a year,
constables on Polley
duty did |
did threw myself down on thmsmprable trama almost One, factor which did not exit to take part in the present nego have wondered whether Chiness not go off duty tili Penny retire heather and lit pips. What a drunk with happiness.
ven an air of sanctity. Soma during the "Inverchanel talks, riations. This is perhaps the police constables off duty do not ed for the day. Police constables view! On every side hills and yet The air ir nute
PENELOPE ABROAD
around.
sugbon the March”
kan
Coming to a tiny harmlet I threw myself down full length and drank from a fairy pool' on which black and white fiddlers skated in all directions, harried at the sudden,
at the weet, ice-cold watered water
Three grouts were barred,
zerb
1 turned for home, the only game 'saw within range. And as I at
Tast reached the sheep pon by the
forth and went away unsaluted neat tacks a ragged: bare started
my double tubes of death The sun had set a few pink. tresses of
cloud,
child's
bure bound to influence the pre- most hopeful sign of all. Thus fad peace of mind near the passing by just eat it An And the eye, sweeping the horizon The next
had to bang more hills, silvery and unreal here in these
X
low ang
moment
sent discussions, is the result of on both sides the political tem- Cathedral
around and The Malino Conference, held in perature sceras considerably more curious citizen with a know afrinecment of Penny's rights north, south, en grid west a crunching up the savel driga
Six months ledge of Cantonese decided to in was harder to break than the nothing but falda of allvers the Lodge, where eve July. The eng delegates repre- auspicious than
quire the other day. A Chiness, Poles Regulations
ranges, Over the Lake District trees shut out the feet of Hezrn schting, some 12,000,000 people of pga.
conrable explained. It happen Penny haan't come un as often sullied, a dark storm cord. bat and the magleet theOuter Islands (that is the may succeed
ho said that there was a Italy but Caluese constables still elsewhere all aras sun and dying night wraps its whole of the Dutch Indies except chapel talks":
blonde blue-eyed moppet called avoid Battery Path,
shadow: Overhand the sky was) about the ancie