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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY,
-DIMITROV WAS NO CAESAR
1948.
KANAN GROWN GREATER THAN THE ·
KREMLIN SHADOW – BUT TITO REBELLED
For Communists.
Much
Soul - Searching
SECRET WEAPON
NEVER
A General's History
USED
y Of The War
The Human Factor
Did our bombing policy prolong Jalr cover had black crosses on instead of shorten the war?
the wrings Major-General J. F. C. Fuller, one of the most independent and critics,
General Fuller tends to ignore The Communist world seethed Klement Gottwald, In the heat nist governments, there is a lot hard-hitting of military
thinks that it did.
the human factor hero and else this week-end in its self-brewed of the Communist February re- of soul-searching ahead..
This is the most controversial where in his book. The fact that pot of trouble boiling, over the volution that placed him at the If the direct grubbing peasants Camca of the Cominform attack on head of Czechoslovakia, sald there scratching for a living in Yugo-se raised by him in his book, units and formations vary in fighting quality; that exhausted would be no collective farms, in slavis could be considered Kulaks The Second World War.
than Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia."
According to General Fuller, troops need more suport Czechoslovakia His programme independent)gonealiy
farmers, then what of the really when Mr. Churchill became fresh ones, and that tiresome Prime Minister he “deelded in i fect, not mentioned in 'polito clr- conservative farmers, in other conduct a private war of his own cles but nevertheless a fact, that countries of this belt lying around with Bomber Command as his soldiers do occasionally
away. army."
And sometimes in large Quoting RAF. evidence that numbers. And decisions which, we bombed, the Gomans before may seem wrong in theory and they bombed us, General Fuller retrospect may have been neces- says: "There can be little doubt sory at the time to sustain the
By A.I. Goldberg
slovakcin. This a Communist gov-| ornment? Nonsense. This is o popular front, a coalition!"
That was the sort of thing the Cominform attacked.
REVIEWED BY FRED MÁJDALANY
General
run.
Fuller's admiration
Churchill'. is. for Mr. Winston nut excessive,
Writing of the Italian cămi paign, The Cenetal complains that mainly because of. Mr. Churchill's persistence that the conquest of Italy should be vigorously prosecuted after Sicily had
The Communist teadors of eight. nations read Yugoslavia and Ito Communist Party leaders a dear- KK 18.00 Ing sermon on their faults. That
| Russia, farmeis who sometimes aat in motion à series of develop-
have their own tractors and even H.K.$30.00|ments whose end connet yet be
automobilios? smen. This Communist document
What of the attitude expressed H.K.$72.00 | must rank as one of the, most,
by-ono important Communist in Important in the history of permits peasants to own their Czechoslovakia's Foreign Ministry that this and subsequent attacks morale of battered troops.
own land up to 125 acres. Private who was, asked, to comment. on Marxist Sociallarn..
enterprises with up to 50 em the Cominform resolution, and re- Outwardly this thying down, of ployees are still tolerated. This pled"What the Cominform does the law by the modern prophets fostered the middle class that, the has no consideration for Czecho- of Communism was intended to Cominform frowns upon, topple Tito from this pedestal as
Dimitrov's Decision But the Communist -Idol, Britain is about to embarka
Premier Georgl "Dimitrov of on one of her greatest social language of the bitter pronounce.
orice announced him- mont was implicit In Ifs warning Bulgaria and economic experiments. to lesser idols in the Communist self-in favour of a Slav federa- Under the new Town and hall of fame that they must follow on, including what are some Country Planning Act, which the path laid down by Moscow.times called the "honorary Slay" peoples of Rumonia, Hungary and became law on Friday, all
Communist governments in the Albania. Moscow slapped him development of land will be Moscow orbit immediately began down on that, and Dimitrov, oid
For Yugoslavia, it left a line of on-German-elties pushed (Hit controlled in the interests of trying on the Cominform peasant, schooled in party dis-
new
on Britai. no retreat. In effect, it said, "You ler) into his assault the community. This is a boot-but they found it pinched cipline, subsided. He
Caesar grown greater than Them too,
the have sinned, brother, Repent This le borne out by his speech.
In it he said: "For three bold, far-reaching measure
Kremlin" shadow,
and be saved." But it left the which offers unprecedented Everything that the Com:inform For other who thought they impression, "We don't think you opportunities of rebuilding a criticised about Tito's nationalism, were doing all right as Commu-l cun."-Agsociated Press, new Britain, of giving a new his slow with the and better design to the Pensont class, his permission and even entburagement of private whole life of the whole traders, however small, and his nation according to a. care trying to run government, which gave even an inch to non-Com- fully worked out plan.
munist parties-everything could] be said of them too, and maybe mort.
As from Friday. Britain's 145 county and borough councils have the new 'res. ponsibility of drawing up development plans for their own particular area.
They have three years in which to submit these plans to the
farmer
First Reaction
JO
The
was
The Cominform did leave a couple of loopholes. It indicated that changes had to be accom plished by these Communist bre- thren but not at false speed.
FRENCH SOCIALISTS AT LOGGERHEADS
Paris, July 4. French Socialist Party Congress, by a narrow. margin, tonight voted to press for the abolition of a Government decree on "school subsidios—— a stumbling block for French Cabinets for 60 years.
been occupied, the Aller' hurd-won Initiative( • in the
··Mediterranean) - was in: part nquandered on a campaign which for lack of stragic sense and tac tient Imagination is unique, in military history."
.
He divides 'it into three phases:
1 The reasonable, to the cap ture of Naples and Foggla_afsr-
months. I did not reply.**
The General possibly has fields
something thero-if a great deni 2: The political, to the cecupa of roliance is to be placed on the tion of Rome. Integrity o! a Hitler speech. 3: The daft, from the occupa
And I seem to remember War-ton of Rome onwards,
ow, and the things Goring' user The Atom Factor
to say his Luftwaffe was” going. to da).
The droping of the ntom bomb More convincing are the is condemned as "not only a figures quoted to show what little moral. but a paychological blun damage the bomber effort. did to der," on the grounds that senior German Industry, "Three times American officers conaldered aR ..mony armoured fighting Japan's military situation hope- vehicles, more than three times less even before Hiroshima.
And what, asks the General, as many fighter-bombers, elight The first reaction was for Com-..
times as many night-fighters pro-ever-became of-a-new --- weupon duced in 1944 as in 19424
of ours called a C.D.L.? munist parties everywhere, with
It was a tank fitted with a striking sameness of language,
-The General is ungry about to adopt resolutions affirming the
which sent out. thetical bombing too. He blames projector
fan-shaped beam of central authority. condamnation of Tito, his hench- By 2,582 votes against 2,065, the last session of the Command for not leaming lickering
illuminated a wida the four-day meeting thus reopened the uneasy
the lessons of Sicily and Cassino light that Local public enquiries will men and their horrifying heresy,
that heavy bombing in-close sup-fleld but dazzled anyone facing be held if necessary in order
Yugoslavia, scemingly, was the question which, was settled with the Popular part of the infantry in apt to do it. The idea was to use it for that everybody has a chance first big spot of rust on the shin-
Republicans in the Coalition Government only more harm than good by des- large-scale night attacks,
troying
The field over which the at- towns and turning of appeal against the coun- Ing iron curtain, and Communists
last May and which could provoke a Cabinet them into anti-tank and anti in tacker advanced was brilliantly
could. lit, but all the defender. cils' decisions and when de- everywhere Logan rubbing at >
fantry obstacles. crisis. velopment plans have finally with all feverish haste,
Infantrymen will ruefully sup- see was a dazzling light which behind it. they had voted. To provoke å
obsured everything been approved it will be the Their feverishmess was heigh
Government crisis now "might port his remarks about the ac-
of so-called- "precision” and, made aimed fire. Impossible task of local authorities fened by their own sense of guilt
mean the end of democratie bombing, and will confirm that Two brigades were formed and gradually to carry them into an di but one count. One of the
it was always deemed advisable trained, but the C.D.L. was never effect.
At the same time, mort deep lying charges levelled children, was taken as an in-
The Congress then went on to to be in a very deep hole while used.
These are the most provocative. their plans must be suff at the Yugoslava. was on asser direct way of providing private debate again the general polley "close support" was in progress. tion they were waging an anti-Catholic1 schools with money resolution-the voting on which
points raised in the books. cstopaign.
storm among was expected after midnight and
Nevertheless, infantrymen will Otherwise it is a straight, con
arid admirably feels about continued participa- nice to have bombers about summarised treatment of a huge the place at all especially sol- subject, which the author. has, tion in the Government.
recollect the earlier done well to condense to}.the] Before, the debate began, how-diers who ever, the Congresa, by a show of North Africa days, when the only dimensions of a longish novell
agreed to resubmit the hands,
Rezolutions whole issue to the Committee and it was believed a stiff fight would follow.
ciently flexible for them to Russian
Tho other
The decree, authorising public funds to be used to help needy parents educate their
Government," he said.
curacy
be modified and adapted c-Caminform partics could not be and raised a
anti-clericals (Socialists and which will show how the party also confirm that it was extreme-cise, readable
cording to changing condi- tions and must be re-examin- ed at least every five years. To enable local authorities to discharge their new func- tions, they are given greater powers for compulsory ac- quisition of land and will re- ceive increased financial as- sistance from the Govern- ment.
accused of that.
to
But on other counts some of the Cominform countries seemed be tarred with the same stick-os Yugoslavia.
RIVAL
IN
certain Radicals).
M. Leon Blum, the veteran Party leader, appealed to the Congres to find some way of modifying the resolution after
REDS CLASH
TRIESTE
Trieste, July 4;
One of the main objects of Two political rallies in two Slovene villages in Trieste free staté territory ended in fist fights between pro-Tito and pro-Stalin Communists, and bo- tween pro-Cominform and anti-Communist Democratic Slovanas today,
the new. Act is to ensure that all land development harmonises with plans drawn up by local authorities. The.
-Act does-not-nationalise-land-
but nationalises its develop
ment values,
the
Armed state and civil police intervened with car- bines, sticks and tear gas, and subdued fighters in both clashes.
Frustration
Observers at the Congress felt that a sense of frustration and fallure predominated among the delegates. Members of
other
Government parties--the MRP
The delegatos, "while "express- carsletenoy, acoded their
3ng-con
representatives in the Govern ment of having falled to lower. pricas. of having lost the battia
SHANGHAI BATTLE AGAINST INFLATION
Shanghai, July 5.
or
ad the Radicals-present as ob- With the view of tightening control measures over. commodity prices, especially over the prices servers, expressed concern about the apparent internal and organs of daily necessities, the Shanghai-Woosung
weakness displayed by isational ine Socialist,
Garrison Headquarters decided to contre its at--- _tention today on surveying the food, vegetabla oil and cotton markets, it was learned today. The Garrison Headquarters against' holders of stooks in.ex. In a broadcast to
announced that-if merchants cosa of the quantity fogally held having permitted, nation, Mr. Lewis Skin,
of State voraus religious schools continue hoarding to the detri- and
and of having failed to Im- ment of the various markets,
stocks for a period longer than Minister of Town and Coun- The pro-Stalin Communists,Trieste civil, police came
a heavy cordon around plement the Socialist polley of the authorities will be comported
of The maximum quantity try Planning, appealed to all who infiltrated into a pro-Tite threw
cutting the military budget.
pelled to take drastic measures stocks allowed, to be held is the shouted Down with 1,000 Slovene Democrats and the members of the community rally,
Delegates were equally un- to take a real, live interest cowards" and "Traitors" when meeting could proceed."
Speakers at the anti-Commun-animous in castigating their own to cope with the situation total of business turn-over for longest | the fight between the two fac-|
organisation. The Party Meanwhile, the City Govern three months. And the in the plans which local au-
ist Slovene meeting urged their Partyport had revealed that ment issued a reminder to all period during which the goods tions broke out. thorities will shortly be mak-
The meeting of anti-Communist listeners to political action, "be annual
pald membership had dropped concerned that the deadline for may be held is three months.
Those not legally engaged in ing.
Slovenes fought with flats against Caso Corredà Tito is finiston Ffrom-350.000 in 1948 to 290,000 (the registration of stocks Of C
The Slovene Liberation "The one and only object pre-Cominform Communista and bit
year, and that this year sential commodities by holders trade in a specific commodity are announcement last
not entitled to hold or hoard any called
the of planning is to provide the their volees now that Com-
democratic forces to published.
thin morning L
Trieste membership cards. had been pre-expires today. Slovéne
It is understood "that "ap-stocks of such commodity-Reu Primirski pared for only 191,000. newspaper,, kind of environment in which rade Tito and Comrade Fear are Dnevnik, disavowing the anti- The Socialist Youth Organisa- propriate action". will be taken ter. we can all lead the most gone.
pra-Cominform standof tion was reported-as-having-only useful, convenient and hap-
newspapers. It said Slav parti 15,000 to 20,000 members, as piest lives," Mr. Silkin said. in the Slovene village of Maesans in Trieste would remain loyal against nearly three times that number two years ago.-Router.
on
One of the fist fights broke out
"It is for you to tell the plan- kavlje, a few hundred yards from to Tito-United Press.
the demarcation line dividing the ners what you want, for us Anglo-American Zone from the CARNIVAL to 'do our best to see that Yugoslav-occupied zone of the| you get it.
"The new Act is a land-
Slovene Liberation Front,] mork in all your lives. For fighters, held an outdoor rally of ganisation of Slav partisan) you It means new opportun-1,300 pro-Tilo Slave, who cheered ities of building a better wildly every reference to Tito and ZES.
Britain-and
sibilities."
new
v
Territory.
ад
of
the
jow!
mention every reapon- booed
Cominform resolution. By controlling the dis-
Shouted Down 215.-tribution of industry, by Pro-Sialin; anti-Tito Commun
safeguarding agriculturalists came in forge bodies and tried land and by preserving or to break up the meeting An developing amenities in the Italian Communist tried to praise town and countryside, the Stalin and was shouted down. Another Italian tried to defond new Act goes a long way to
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