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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JULY 23, 1948.
SOVIET
STRATEGY
IN THE CRISIS
the
By W.N. EWER
'
OPERATION LOCUST
בע מנת
sibl
of
an
This morning scores of lettera The GH.Q. or Intelligence Dut-again the Munich parallèl marked Urgent" will be dis hidden away in a remote corner is perfect this would not be the patched from the Colonial Of of the Natural History Museum, end in Germany, but only the fee. They will go to destinations South Kensington. Here a "break through" before "mopping throughout the Middle East, receives A continuous flow
Asia and Africa. Up."
telegrams and cables from agents Inside each will be a map, throughout countries where hop- with markings that will be para assemble. The vaguely familiar to any R.AF.which the presence of thead hop- men acquainted with an Opera-pers is shown give an over-all re-tack was expected.
tlons Room just before an at-up-to-the-minuto picture of the locust treat in any part of and red arrows where Hoppern
It pinpoints with black dois the the technical name for the in- this matter to people in Britain?
And
what, you may ask, does Mr. D. R. Rees-Williams, Under Secretary at the Colonial Omice, explained it to ind like this?”
"Locusts are the world's oldest and most ruthless destroyers of food.
new
Munich Technique the final coup, Communist and
T
By Alec Harrison
or
world.
The tone and content of Soviet reply to Eritain, France end the United States were-s M. Robert Schumann, the French Premier remarked, "on the ex- pected lines." For they fit com- pletely into the pattern of Soviet Third, acceptance of quadri- diplomatic strategy. It is a pat-partite control
Outline Of New of the Ruhr. 24384 tern of
of a type familiar enough in Which would give the Russians prewar days.
a foothold and. # base of opera-
Operation First, there Je the deliberate tions in the West, for which they The
Warsaw conference creation of a crisis, of a difficult are just as anxious as they are vealed the outline of a and potentially dangerous altua- to deprive the Western lies of operation. Complete "demilitari-
on: the stirring in the minds any foothold in the East.
sation"; which could be inter That is the first stage. Ouat-preted to mean peoples profoundly desiring
removal from peace of apprehensions that
Ing of
of the Western allles from Western Germany of every pos- now war is a possibility. Add Berlin. Disorganisation of West-sible means of defence; but in to that, in this case, that pro-
Germany. Separation of the hidden and secret East, noth- longation of the crisis means, in-Western Germany from the eco-ing at all. And then "the de- evitably, hardships and suffering nomic system of the European cupation armies of all (Powers for millions of people. That is Economic Programme. Estah-will be withdrown from Ger-sect which a reinement not thought of by lishment of a Soviet base of poli- many."
liable at uny Haler.
The last great plague a year tical operations close to the Ruhr,
moment to develop into a locust The field would be clear for are assembled:
two ago cost approximately Then, with the scene thus set. me hinte
£20,000,000. The world's greatest would be perfectly easy, that any such a programme could be car-
that a ketulement
ex-Nazi paramilitary formations anti-locust centres
Immediately on receiving If even a considerable part of are already being organised
it, problem, yesterday, today in the war danger can be quite simply ried through, if the required con- most
the Soviet zone.
will go into action with
area to-morrow, is to and food exercised, that any muffering can restions could he extracted from units new "Dluck Reichzwher
There are al-
as c
world population certainly actual
is increasing parutiona either to launch military theks
and the ravages be alleviated
with planes which
of war have other people will be reasonable
only the three Powers for the sake of ready under trusted leadership.py poisons or put down poi- ever that we conserve our food will made it more Imperative than and come into conference to dis. "settlement," not only the di-If need be Poland or
soned bran, a delicacy irresistible resources. cuss waya and means of reaching be considerable.
to disreel but the indirect gain would slovakia. could easily
to locusts. a compromise. Compromise,
It would
"For centuries the great cercal This R.A.F. technique of plot- and producing countries in an- quarrel. behance Soviet prestige and shoke understood. Ja
Ол Soviet ter- Western
whatever
ting the path of would-be in- Mediterranean arens, pretext-and ninology, means satisfaction of Germany. It would create-pre-dels-the forces of the "Peoples' the war.
prestige throughout grain Hitler.supplies many mo-vaders and then going out to at-Tanganyika, Afrien sume Soviet demands in exchange eisely as Hitler Fought to create Democracy" could be set in mo
them was applied during have been at the mercy of for the postponement of athers. the inference of inevitable ad- tion.
invader, Even Hitler did not ask at Munich
And there
be for all Czechoslovakia.
would vunce, of historie destiny.
"Now, during Anothing cast of the French and sar!
of habit of thinking that the Benelux borders io stop or even Russia's intentions alternative
were war and ac- hinder the sweep. The "Iron the suggestion that the
How reasonable in itself seems quitscence in Soviet expansion, Curtain" would be West of the
and that this would be the final Rhine: Soviet settlement, that Russia had no
and Germany would have Government would not object to
become another satrapy of the negotiations, with no preliminary be hints of vast economic advan- further aspirations. There would
MOSCOW
empire. question of quaaripartite control ge, as well as of security and sound as conditions, about the "general
That is the grent plan. It may
fantastic as in in relation to Germany."
"peace with honcur.' It is a Hitler's great plan would have faithful copy of the Munich tech-sounded." But there it is, quite. nique.
With maybe Turkey and visibly outlined in the Soviet
PORTER-CLAY The
chgoge. ment is announced between Lewla, eldest son of Mr. and Mr. Cyril W. Porter.. Wilder House, Sevenoaks, Kent, and Anne Margaret, younger daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Clay, Shanghof.
HK EXCHANGE CONTROLS
The exchange control mea- sures announced for Hong Kong by Sir Stafford Cripps in the House of Commons threaten to be more far reaching and restrictive in their effect than anything suggested in the Government statement published on Wed-
whether
"
at once,
it
But what, in fact, does
failures of the last year, is there
an
as the
perhaps some sight modification
The note in itself makes it ob vious what the immediate de- mands would be,
a
for the role of Poland.
ence..
in
Czecho- plek a
1933
YUGOSLAVIA CLINCHES BREACH WITH RUSSIA
Speaking on the opening day of the fifth Yugoslav
Belgrade, July 21. * Communist Party Congress, Marshal Josip Tito declared that the Cominform charges against him were an outright call for civil war in Yugo slavia.
charged: "This is an attack on the unity of our party and on our people and a call to destruc- tive elements to rise against us, to organise underground activity in our country—a call for
1 1.
1
nesday. Controls designed mean? What, efter the weary Fursis and the Middle East, may note of July 14, and in the re to prevent a flight of capital left to argue? What do the Rus-be the Scandinavian lands cast solutions of the Warsaw confer- from
the sterling area sians intend? through Hong Kong by en-
The answer is very plain. This suring that all sterling trans-conference, if heit, will be actions are for proper pur- tirades against the Western allies occasion not only for the usual poses are readily understood but for a series of Sovjet de and are unlikely to cause mands, with which the West will headaches for the legitimate be required to comply merchant. It is doubtful price of a "settlement" With the further, pro- of them at some stage to create posals will be as easily as the illusion of a compromise. similated. Absence of an Immediate, Demands official statement in this Colony and Sir Stafford's phrase that the details "are being worked out with those of four-Power control of Berlin He
First, acceptance of the ind concerned" suggests that no and of the integration of the city, formula has yet been finally politically and economically, i
the Soviet zone. agreed, and, until that stage the
With par
perhaps has been reached, cornment of "token" British and American пя д "compromise" the retention must be somewhat reserved and French military detachments
} War." Business circles generally, in the capital, by permission of At the same time. Tito however, are unlikely to re- the Soviet Commander-in-Chief. pleaded for the Soviet Union's lish new restrictions cal- Second, annulment of all mea-friendship and promised that culated to make commercial tical and economic organisation of work for it. In effect, he went sures taken this year for the poli-Yugoslavs would be willing to dealings more difficult, or the Western zones thus leaving over the head of the Comin- add to complications in any "Iron Curtain," with the
Germany stil divided by the form and took his case directly shape or form. Importers
West
to Stalin. catastrophically disorganised and and exporters are already the East completely under Soviet since the Cominform flung its ac- lamenting
noticeable control. slackening in cargo move- ment in the last two or three months, and there is no sign of any immediate improve- ment. The demand for the full surrender to the sterling area pool of hard currency derived from local exports could have serious effects in several of the fields of local enterprise. The programme, however, doubtless results from
a
the recommendations
Czechs Fear
Communist Crackdown
The
Prague, July 21. Czechoslovak
people
It was
cusations at him on June 28.
Tito's first utterance
The wartime partisan leader picked up each charge and alred it-in-turn. He said |truo, unfair and were un-
top
Lo
iren from nine
How To Catch A Husband!
London, July 21. Advice to schoolgirls on how
tuck.
Purging Czech Police
The
BIE-
a:-
Rhodesia,
and
the
Asia this
the post Avo
years we have gone over from the defensive to the attack. Various nations, irrespective of other differences they may have, combining to track the locust to his breeding ground and there wipe him out before he launches his attack."
aro
This great battle against the plague of centuries
has been
planned and led by Britain. For
Prague, July 21. the past five years the British first signs of
action taxpayer has spent £1,000,000 a which
many Czechs have year in a campaign to wipe out predicted for weeks appeared
locusts.
And yesterday it was announc-
in the last days of a festivaled that four nations the United when club-swinging, police Kingdom, Belgium, the Union of three times dispersed shout-Rhodesla-are signing an agro- South Africa and Southern ing and singing crowds in ment to unite in the fight.
Prague's Wencelos Square
and an
undisclosed number: of Sokol members
were
jailed.
The
arn
A
is
the
Sympathy For West Europe
Reliable reports this, week snid being mercilessly purged. that the Police themselves said to be under way in thorough-going housecleaning Ministry of Interior, reportedly precipitated by the arrest and subsequent escape last month of ja high ministry official, Zbeenk
Dublin, July 21, Oman,
Foreign Minister Scan Mc- usual Saturday night Bride told the Dall. last night golety had grim undertones in that isolation for Eire was no Prague last night....
longer possible and therefore One Czech glanced around bo- our fore apeaking and said: "This is with Western Europe."
sympathles He clearly the begthing of a public per-
He said: formance, Up to now the pro partition precludes us from tak- "Continuance of ducers have been busy behind the scenes of play.
Ming our rightful placu Tomorrow affairs of Europe, but I believe in the they will begin assembling the cast. It will have hundreds
Government and
of the
British
1
parts, all them will fit into the people are
re approaching realisa- synopsis a story of the villains tion that a statesman-like policy from the West and the last act lies in the direction of securing will be final intent of freedom incomplete friendship and coopera
tion of this island."
He said the
fact that the United Nations excluded Eire "demonstrates its mechanism is open lo abuso" and the govern- meni soon consider withdrawing Its application.
BATAVIA OUTRAGE
Batavia, July 21.
solution. The
The pedicab driver managed to to have taken any effective stops busy traffle to solve the present crisis is in *****Itself indication of Its failure."
ter-
The Cominform, made up of to choose, catch and keep hus-
European Communist parties, denounced bands was given by Mr. H.
for Tito
Watney Master, Chairman and deviating from the
"It would be well to examing Marxist-Lenin line in both for- Governor of St. Paul's School Five Netherlands soldiers and suggestions made recently to Eire eign and domestic policles and for Girls, when he attended the five civilians, including one in support of a plan to form a
purating "hateful" policy annual school prize-giving a: European, were wounded when United States of Europe... toward the Soviet Union. Hammersmith yesterday. an Indonesian pedicab driver The Ualled Nations has not so. "Don't be too for threw a hand grenade into there feet that it does not appear He said: long pride in his own
far provided Tito sald "No other ward or too backward. Avoid cafe in, the centre of Batavia, Communist
Party,could of the Bank of England today waited uneasily for the
an- the bookworm, who will be more dure such blows and not go to interested in his studies, avold the escape pleces, except the Communist boy with the parted hair and the in that part of the city.
among the expert who recently visited long-feared Government house-
who will always the Colony, and as the prac- cleaning of
Party of Yugoslavia.
lovely prošle who anti-Communist
The Aneta The majority of the people be asked to parties by your girl ported
news agency, re- United Press. tical choice appeared to be elements to sweep all opposition who signed the Cominform de- friends,
that the police carried avoid and
the ultra out searches in the native between Hong Kong con- parties off the nation's political claration belong to countries who heavy sporting type, who will trict, where they arrested 32 per- dis- tinuing as a member of the scene.
are far behind Yugoslavia in make you a golt, cricket or beer
sona alleged developments," Many Czechs had
to bel he
ATOMIC STRIKE belong to predicted sterling area, or being ex- for weeks that the Communist because they even a Government civil servant in one of the houses that were had gone on strike at the atomle
comfully
continued widow, They
rorist organisations. should
cri- "Choose a 'man in a steady "job.
London, July 21. cluded, it will probably be Government
Two grenades were discovered A total of 128 engineers who was planning aticuse accepted, with whatever re- crackdown and the announce havo faults of all kinds."
they can be quite human
at searched. The police added that centre No luctance as the lesser of two meat of the arrest of 79 "misled"
at Salwick, Lancashiro, one could say whether homn. evils,
persons, charged with espionage. Tito's
they had been warned that some will resume work tomorrow, t appeal to Stalin would "An old fashioned taxi is still thing would happen and and attempted assassination un-succeed. Stalin himself has not a good place to get the chosen they had
that was announced here today. The der. United States guidance, was spoken out on the dispute; but niple into a situation where he Agence Franco-Presse.
taken precautions.-strike Insted 10 days Agence Death Penalty
considered evidence that the drive the Central Committee of the will ask to marry you, but, if in
France-PressO. had started. For Particulars Apply To
The refusal of the House The announcement of the 70 attack on Tito, and Stalin is a
Soviet Communist Party led the doubt, ask Mother.
"How to treat him when of Lords to accept the pro-arrests
contained in a member of that Committee, as is Bruts still holds good."-Reuter.
you've got him? CIE DES MESSAGERIES MARITIMES
"Feed the posed compromise. on the
Government communique. The A. A. Zhdanov, Russian repre- two Ministries which issued the sentative on the Cominform Queen's Building
issue of capital punishment, communique charged the United Tel. 20051 (3 lines)
abolishing the death penalty States with sending spies
Throughout his speech, Tito and was repeatedly interrupted by generally, but preserving it murders into Czechoslovakia to prolonged cheers and shouts of in specified cases, is not al-estate prope's democratie "Hero Tito" from the 3,000 de- together surprising.
and serve the alms of in-legates at the CongressUnited Some ternational imperialist reaction," Press.
warned the Czechs that
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WALLACE'S ELECTION
PLATFORM
Philadelphia, July 21,
Britain Not Pro-American
London July 21,
of the most formidable legaleles of the present regime"
Before the opening of Henry Wallace's Third Party convention here, a Third Party committee of brains in the British Isles, including the Lord Chief did not hesitate before even the 171
53 members, headed by Professor Rexford Tug- Justice, ranged themselves most, shameful crimes against
wall, today established a party platform: Trenton, New solidly against experimenta-
Jersey, July 20.
The main points of the plat-means that "for the first time in Heading the list of those tion at the present juncture, rested was a former National
Governor C. Driscoll today or form are repeal of the Taft our history, the Government has dered the reactivation of the en-
Hartley legislation restricting moved to outlaw a when serious crime is ram. Socialist Party official. Charges
political tire New Jersey civilian defence the rights of trade unions, party Agence France-Presse pant, and tests of public were fled against former Mon- of organising terrorist banda
Rangoon, July 21, A Chinese Erabassy officiat
programme.
nationalisation of several in-and Reuter. opinion throughout Britain bers of Parliament and feading said today that he had no in- be set up on a "stand-by, basis" and collieries, and moral and
He said the propensive
programme would dustries, including air factories? clearly indicated that they officials of the National Socialist formation on yesterday's report under the direction of the State economic support to the new represented the popular
Party and the Catholic People's from Nanking alleging the Department of Defence. voice. Obviously, those who of the anti-Communist bice be- Burma territory bordering, on elsion was based on his "appraisal
Forty. These parties were leaders possible invasion of China from Governor Driscoll old his de-state and protection of as a matter of principle are fore the Red coup last February. Yunnan province.
certain civic rights. **** opposed to the taking of United Press.
of the international altuation and i balloved that Wallace will The Burmese Government human life under any cir-
is my continued, conviction that the be nominated for: President and cumstances. will be aggrieved
concerned over the report, but best way for the United States to the Idaho Senator, Olen Taylor, by the organisation and Mass A public opinion poll, taken has declined to comment at pre-aveld an international tragedy is for Vice-President, by the Lords' decision when in the form now passed by sent.
to be prepared for all eventuall-
Observation among : middle a successful campaign ap the Lords, rather than make the Kuomintang, claimed that an
The report, said to come from ties."
- Mr. Cứ 13. Baldwin, the organ that a comparativa) serAmer
clasa Britons, disclosed today peared to be theirs, but if a vital issue, on the highly armed force was being organised Jersay is the first state to reor-paign, declared that 18 wurd
He added that ha a belloved New atrof Wallace electoral cam portion is friendly
small pro has been well demonstrated controversial question of the by the Burmese section of the onles, the programme Associate remarkable coincidence that the In-reply to the question, that Britain is not yet ready death penalty. Whore, miti Democratic League, which linded Press, for this revolutionary fogating straumstances exist in outlawed by the Chinese DUTCH AIR CRASH form. There 14, a powerful murder cases, the prerorative fellow. case on both sides, but the of mercy at les vive His munte the Com-Aberdeen, July 31. leald that the Charge American. Labour Government would Majesty, on the recommenda The League was said to have all six chow were killed when agamist the leaders ware intended in Only one in bo well advised to accept the tion of the Home Secretary its headquarters (ie Rangoon, and from "The Hague to Leslemeyi, As for firsho knewal none of.
Dutch naval aircraft flying to outlaw the Camondnist Party, titude for Important reforma contained For the time being, this 75 miles from the Yunnan Borderd on a hilalds near Stonehaven, 10 Wallace's Third Party, cancer but
to operate from a bark at Edanio, Borthest: Scotland, creased today thord arrested belonged tours raves in the Criminal Justice Bill should be
miles southwest of bars-Rerter, Mr. Baldwin and the
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