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THE CHINA-MAIL-TUESDAY, OCTOBER-25, 1949.~
POPULATION IN EUROPE
HIGHER THAN IN
Tito Is
At The Crossroads
Tito, who fought the war in the Balkans in the name of the Russians, is now the man most hated by the Kremlin Trot skyism has now been replaced
By KAROL THALER ·
1939
war. The
total
Good Morning
Taiwan has decided to deport number rase its Ave Soviet subjects Just a since 1998 from 273,000 to 369,few red swallows could easily 000 last year. Divorces have al- make an Indian summer for the most doubled at the same time
Nationalists there. but have remained under the 50,- 000 mark.
A country by country survey reflects the following trends:
Britain: The population has Germany in four-zonal, Ger-ize:
Yesterday's prizewinning head- many
the total population accord- more ing to 1946 figures was 64,400,000,
Mystery
the of
headless corpes." ratio be compared with 53,800,000 for the
Must have been one of those same area before the war. Heavy corpes delicti of population movements, influx from other parts eeded to neigh- bouring countries and displaced persons make it difficult to ESSCSS the actual increase.
by Titoism in the Communist AN ADF almost everywhere, per thousand.”
jargon and spat out with far
more venom.
and
atre
Death Rate Up
Our local advertisers again: "Radio Hammarlund XQ-129-X communications receiver.. Uszed in Alsatian pups. The puppies have China three months. Mor- ing to India.”
Don't blame them, either.
The late Noose Talk..
these conspirators who just don't
Me Rajk was onerofllum
give a hang.
[ of his country, and to make mat- in Germany it appears above the largely responsible for this tree only country where the death rate) you lucky people.
The popdation in most Euro-} pean countries is today higher than before the war. There are more marriages, -the birthrate is scared since the war, and has higher, the death rate lower, but risen from 47,000,000 to there
are far more divorces than 50,000,000. The This
from a emerges
United tween
and women has Press surver in countries West slightly improved in favour By EDWARD HOWEof the Iron Curtain
women, because there are more The post-war period has men comparatively in Britain to
almost brought
everywhere a day the hotare the war. "boom" in marriages and births
The birthrate is now 18. per have gone up rapidly, though the cent for 1,000 against 15.3 pre- upward move is slowing down war, the death rate 11 against 12 But marriages in Britain and Sweden the have declined by more than one- But assessments for the British lower than before the war, while have risen steeply-there are nine for the whole of Germans,
of marriages is now sixth. On the other hand divorces Zone, described as representative pa lang
It has remained almost unchang- times as many divorces now than veal that the number of births But whereas Trotsky is dead, ed i rad
in Italy.
before the war, CASTRO-Gutterres Da Luz, to Tito and Titoism are very much
58,000 casca has One significant indication
as everywhere, increased Patricia
St. alive and a far bigger them in improved
of against 6,000 pre-war. (Palsy at
medical and hygenic
since before the war, but sohas Theresa's Hospital 24th Octo- the side of CommunisTO than
War marriages, separation dur- the death rate
In Eastern Europe the truth conditions throughout Europe is a ing the long war years ber 1949 at 1 pm.
Trotsky ever was. Tite is master
Germany, indeed, seems the doesn't take much drugging out. steep fall in the death rate. Only changed living conditions Aijchael Andrew.
ters worse, this country, Yugo- slavia, is one of the
has gone up, the increasing territories
pre-war level.
France:
Her population, ac-
"The blaze was extinguished most coveted by the long-term Divorces, already on the in- cording to the census in 1945, is 36 nine percent. There were 25
crease before the war, have gone 1,500,000 below
per cent more marriages than be betere any danger was done by planners in the Kremlin.
pre-war fore the war. The divorce rate the fire department." Although the quarrel between up rapidly since the end of the status DEATHS
of nearly 42,000,000. is roughly 10 per cent of the total the Cominform and Tite is being war, in many cases as an imme-France's foreign population drop marriages. bitterly fought in the open on an diate result of war conditions and ped nearly 800,0000 during the YU-Elsa, beloved wife of Yu ideological plane.
In the Soviet zone, the death the
circumstances. reason for
10-year period. Koon Yau, on Monday, Octo-Russian acrimony has its origin
rate is believed is be far in ex-) France, known before the war But the native French popula-cess of the birth rate ber 24. Funeral
today in geography. The severest, blow as the country with a
The po- falling tion is now on the upgrade again, pulation, according to the organ Cortege leaving Kwong Wah so far to the Kremlin's aims in birthrate, appears to have revers- because of high birthrate and of the American military govern Hospital at 4.30 p.m. Macao Europe has been struck by one ed the process. It now witnesses fewer deaths. Since 1938 births ment, shrunk by 124.009 between & Canton Papers please copy, of their staunchest disciples.
a striking increase of the birth-have gone up by 250,000 to 864.- Spring 1948 and 1949, leaving a When the war spread to the rate and of marriages, with
000
Deaths Last year,
havel total population Balkans. Tite was called upon by declining number of deaths, But fallen by more than 150,000 to a
in the Soviet the Russians to
Zone of 17,800,000. LINDFLOM.-Mrs. Rose
to divert some of her population is still below pre-little over 500,000 last year. Most Lind- Hitler's attention from
-Professor
ssor Friedrich Burgdoer- Russia war level, as a result of war losses births have occurred in cities, fer. German expert on population blom at her residence yester-20
and cause as much trouble as day. Aged 30. Mother of G. possible in South Eastern Europe among Frenchmen and the large with Paris holding a record figure. I movements predicted that the it for a bookmark was! LLindblom and Mrs. C. This was the short-term policy,
foreign population of the coun- More people are getting mar-German population would rise and Becker. Funeral passes
ried in France than before the reach its peak with 67,800,000 in a simple matter of strategy. But Momument at 5.30 p.m. the essence of his policy was not
the area of the four zones and follow the singing at the morn “A. massage by the Res, will today.
to stop with driving out the Ger-
subsequently begin to decrease mans; it was to clear the way to
by an average of 600,000 the Mediterranean for the Slav
per ing service." five years bloc.
Italy: Birth in Italy has slight-dent writes to say that on Sun- A New Territories correspon- ly fallen since the war. It was
A
the
MORE AUSTERITY
No Illusions A glance at the map will show
Russian airns
really nothing new.
what the
The new restrictions to be imposed on the British people were. They were will depress still further their The Soviets were intent or carry- standard of living, and implying on the heritage of the Tsars. still harder work, without of- They wanted
direct, unbroken lines of communication connect- fering any immediate way hes
ing Mother Russia with the Cze out of the country's dificul-choslovakia, Hungary and Yuge-
ties.
try.
the
The Story Of A Traitor
By "WINDRUSH”
Special Correspondent
America, have claimed time savia's Southern naghbour, trials and court martials at the with arts. It was established |
•
Judging by the number of bridges they blow up, the Na- tionalists. seem bent on making every river a Rubicon.
Only trouble is, they're going in the wrong direction.
*
"I hope you found that novel I gave you interesting.", remarked Myrtle to a friend.
"No, not very," said the other girl, but the letter you left in
B
Our muscular clergy.
་་
•
Now
that the leaders of the Communist Party in America have been sentenced, one can ex- the remods of the timbers of Democratic Party in Moscow. An American comedian has choke a radio engineer. been charged with attempting to
*
more than 1,000,000 in 1938, last day a dear old lady went out to below the million the frontier with a bag of nuts, rear at was mark. The death rate, on the to placate the red gorillas she other hand, is lower. Marriages had heard about have remained on the same level A book by that stylish writer dressed with an intent and as before the war. Miss Rebecca West, has been ambitious spruceness which did The increase of
of population with attracting much attention in not succeed in giving any im- half a million reached its highest England in the last month. It presion of well-being, but rather peak in any single year in Italy's
same Eastern European history as a slavia, while another would
recalled is called "The
result of the differ- Meaning of The Conservative opposi through Rumania and Bulgaria
Treason" and it describes, peasant wearing his first suit of ence between births and deaths
Vestern clothes. Both lead to the final obstacle. viviedly and brilliantly, the tion, and many critics in
The trial was long drawn out 2,000,000 since the war and is The total population gained near- AT at the end to the now at nearly 48,000,000. Greece. Tito Was considered end of the war of the British House of and again that the Labour formidable enough to over-come subjects who worked for the that Joyce had been born an
Belgium: The population, after a fall during the war below the government's enormous in this burdle. But he has failed.
American citizen and had never ternal expenditure must be
Usually when a Communist enemy.
he disappears Of
or is liquidat-The chief culprit tried was formally acquired British nation pre-war level, is now surpassing reduced if the nation is to sur- has su and des- William Joyce, the "Lord Haw ality. But throughout his life he the 1939 mark of 8,300,000 by vive. Such comments made no pite
sicge Haw of the German. radic dur- had masqueraded as a British some 200,000. Belgian war losses dislodge to pite desperate impression on the theorists in him is more powerfully enthron- ing the war. Joyce used to broad-subject and had travelled with a
red cast almost nightly. Probably
passport power, as long as
Ec bas erected] Cast
he British a steadyed than before.
It was held therefore that as flow of American dollars could barrier preventing Communist was not a great asset to the
The had thus accepted British
He into expansion
Grecce. Little Germans as a propagandist.
"Did you warn her not to re- be depended on to mask thei
incurred the Albania has become blockaded,
ded, tamted and tormented his British protection he had
peat it?" asked the other. glaring flaws in their econo- making her
bad obligations of British citizenship the Berlin of the listeners, especially at the bad
Like in other European coun- | "Oh, no," replied the first. "I and could lawfully be proceeded tries the birth rate is on the in- didn't dare do that. I thought if mic planning.
Balkans" and
roused compelling the times of the war, and
treason. He did against for Communists to organise an air their fury against him.
He was crease. It has risen by more I didn't ask her not to repeat it. The time came, however,
told that such aid could no
fails
ec. Tito
in terms of future
ed.
base.
rather expensive luxuries at Needs Help
such a time.
Yugo Yet
DIT
ed.
very ar-cal ambition, combined
ever to Zul
seemed be
Lat
the
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with an
their
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and
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www
include 33,400 military casualties and 76,000 civilians.
Belgian Birth Rate
ince doubled.
Helland:
Here,
too, the no- palation is steadily growing with slightly bigger increase in the country than in big was.
has
risen by
wing
He is relying on the time- honoured defence that he only trying out a new gag
The two ladies were discussing
highly confidential mater
41 told Grace about it," said one, "in strict condesce, of course."
BY SEA- BY A
on
in
BUTTERFIELE & SWIRE
when Attlee and Cripps were it, principally from Hungary, to not persuade them, or make them therefore found guilty and hang than 10 per cent in the last 10 she'd think it wasn't worth re-
keep the country going.
ing. Talking defeatist.
Miss West is facinated to dis- years. The number of deaths is peating" for a time he had been longer be expected on the slavia is off the Communist map dangerous. Many who heard his cover the motives for his actions steadily falling and is now equal-
ly some 10
10 per cent below the same terms, and they must
war. The ratio appears to be the as a possible friendly
Broadcasts will think Miss West's She finds them in his vast poliu pre-wa- level. There were 2," same as in most other countries in
of them Tito has no illusions as to what description take drastic measures. It be would happen to him should be curate. “It was difficult not to essentially non-English type before the war when they reached pared with 1938, The-increase has 000 more marriages last year than Europe some 10 per cent as com gan to dawn on some of the ever permit
Joyce's wave length/mind which made it imposable 3.000. but divorce cases have been most noticeable la the cities Russian troops to chance од less bigoted ministers in enter Yugoslavia. He would have when one was tuning-in to the for hi
due to the flight from the land Whitehall that perhaps not all to take hurriedly to
to the
English stations, and there was ambition. To the average
lishman
"phony
Norway him in
has increased by more than 250,- Norway's population of Britain's difficulties were tains again. Now, at all costs, as arresting quality about his due to the war; it was pos
voice which made it a sacrifice Nehody would trust the Russians must be kept out
000 since the war At the same time. Tito is just} **ut was a
position. high conceivable," says Miss
and is now not to go on listening.. sible that major upheavals as adverse to Western influences. "It was
The surpassing the 3,000,000 mark, due rasping yet riches of--for-that-matter-thefed at 10-per-cent.--
if one had such as nationalisation of Class contact with
Conservative increase since the war is calculat to an increased birth rate and the West voice. It seemed 23
fewer deaths. There were more flourishing businessés,
and would not send him to the hills, I better harken and take warningLiberal party or the Labour party.
Switzerland: Between 1937 and marriages than in 1938. Divorces the that that his power when he
he suggested immense sums spent on new but he believes via
social welfare schemes were in the country would be weaken-destiny of the people he had left should have admitted William 1947 the population of this war- have increased 2/2 times
England was
Finland: Despite the war, Fin- death, and the Joyce to anywhere near the inner spared country
300,000 to 4,300,000. destiny of his new
But the land's population has risen by masters in circle of operative power. It was Germany life
and conquest, and not only culture in the sense of population is rapidly over-ageing 300,000. This trend continues in due to an unchanged death rate view of an increased birth rate In point of fact it is difficult very much in the position he oc- better change sides and submit."sible to him; it was also culture caused largely by a high standard that, despite war and war time
This state of affairs puts him that therefore his listeners had book learning which was inacces-
and.
a growing birth rate both and few deaths. The survey shows to believe that some of the cupied during the war.
of the of living and the country's general affictions, the population picture hard facts of life were not ob- will not help him now. Yet dur
Surprised At Contrast in the sense of the life
people."
welfare. Both marriage At his trial the spectators were vious to the intelligent So-ing the war Bussia was quite un-
and in Western Europe is better than divorces have substantially in it has been for been for some time, cialist some time ago. In a verbal encouragement
able to assist his cause except for surprised at the contrast between Society In Decay creased, the former by more than though the strong upward trends
the this radio voice and the sight time of plenty, with a favour- radio. This meant, therefore, that of Joyce in person.
one-fifth, the latter by one-fourth..of the immediate post-war period
Sweden: able trade balance, it might be had to accept material help
William Joyce was the type of
In Sweden, too, the are beginning to slay · down- "He was a tiny little creature
man who comes to the top when population has risen since the United Press. have been practicable to put where he could obtain it-trom and, though not very ugly, he was society is in decay. Before he
the
ne West. into operation the long-held
exhaustingly so. His hair was fed to Germany at the start of La Belgrade, the "White City" mouve-coloured and grew thinly the war he had been a fapelst ideas of cradle to grave pro- Yugoslavia's capital on the His neck was long and his leader in England, for a viding by the omnipotent Danube, the lively Serb inhabit- shoulders were narrow and slop Moseley's chief lieutenant,
Hime The world is ing. His arms were and omniscient State, sup- ants are saying.
very short had shown himself a planting the endeavours of now divided into three parts, the and thick, so that his sleeves cia
a good tacti cian in private individuals since the East, the West and Yugoslavia".
Just how long this country of looked flimsy get coarse. He was which fascism
were like little lobsters. His body organising street fighting
exploiting the hatreds world began to look after 16 minions, a cocktail of Serbs.
thrives. But the their own families. It might Croats, Slovenes, Macedonians
social structure also, in time, be possible to
to make much headway. When England was too healthy for him remove incentives: to make
many began the war, uncompromising brainy men work hard at dif-
seemed to Joyce that the easiest ficult tasks with no more pay
way of beating down the oppost than a labourer, and to en-
tion to fascism in England was wer. As Yugoslavia could not I know from personal experi- by joining with the Germans. He sure that the laziest, most the war against the Germans ence the Yugoslav people are was not held back by any in- .
so she cannot survive the willing Like all brave peoples stinctive feelings inefficient workman had a
of loyalty to peace without outside they have long memories. I re-is high standard of living
belpres
member one occasion that illusTM
own community and the Such miracles, however, Whereas, during the war, then-rates my point., It occurred in fact that he had none was the have not happened yet, and ends of tons of supplies, arms, Bosnia during some of the bitter-proof that the British, in reject- food, clothing and medical equip est guerilla fighting. The parting him earlier, had had a sound the government might wellment came to Yugoslavia from sans had suffered heavy casual- turn aside from increased Britain and America
the case of William Joyce, I recall with horror one long
and
of lesser traitors whose its sole panacea) and try must past along more civilised ing for over a mile in length of
materiais caravan of human misery stretch-trials she describes, Miss West is led on to philosophise about working as if human nature channels.
wounded men and women, boys treason in general had not altered. It may A little pride has to be swal- and girls, stumbling and hobbling ptible as Joyce Sometimes men General CATHAY PACIFIC AIRWAYS LTD.
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derstanding has to be injected males and some were on the state andi manufacturers, but this is
Loyalty to some- (Continued On Next CoL). ing wounds pervaded the air. unlikely to make firms strain
is one memorable night, by precious. George Washington, full moon, the RAF landed eight, was a traitor. Yet nobody in against George more goods for the export like are sufficient compensa- Dakotas within 12 miles of a drive. It might even help to tion.
German garrison and took over England today regards for fabulously-priced 200 partisans back to hospital in Washington's reason as a blot have a revision of income tax beer and cigarettes, and Italy. The partisan general turn-o our his scutcheon. The culpability scales, so that instead of scarce, poor quality clothing ed to me with tears in his eyes of the Indian army officers who spoon-feeding a workman To put it this way is over and said "This is the greatest transferred to the Japanese dur with ersatz foods, and cosset-simplification of a complex thing Britain has done for using the war is still a subject for ing him with clinics, het problem, but it really is day the RAF repeated the ada-Some people may say cynically
Next debate. might be attracted to work doubtful whether Britain can clous attempt, with equal success, that the only treason which is harder and longer, keeping survive under a system pledg-hould consult cow, the people which succeeds
It is these people whom Tite not condemned. is the. treason the extra money for binselfed to destroy private initia who were behind him at his time
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