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THE
KREMLIN ORDERS "NO ITALIAN TITOS"
By BRUCE GRANT
woman
Alarmed by reports of the spread of "Titoism" in Italy's Communist Party, the Comin-
general form has ordered a
was given for every copy to be who have fallen foul of the witch hunt directed against destroy cil. The caption under Kremlin.Inquisition.
read: "The political rebels da all runk of the cover plettire
These have formed an impor tant group inside the party and the two-and-a-quarter-million- loving wife of Togliatti watches
Umberto strong organisation. The purge over her wounded husband." A looked to the brillant
Terrancini, one of the organisa- may even affect the handful of the last moment a political cam
tlon's "Big Six," to lead them. men and women at the head of mistar noticed that the
Terrancini has been in trouble before for deviationism. At the the party and bring about the was not Madame Togilatti at all good but Leonildn Iotti, his anti-Cominform
time of the election in 1948 he birth of an
looking secretary.
was rash enough to tell an Ame Socialist-Commuhist front.
Ghuseppe di Vittorio, President
affect the women's vote. Catholic rican Journalist that Italy's Com- of The Communiat-controlled
Anti-Communist propaganda munista did not take orders from with
of the Moscow, and added they did not Italian Labour Federation.
makes a grent feature
Will
necessarily regard Stalin as in- its 500.000 members, has sound-
Communism charge that
the fallible. of ed the alarm in a secret circular
break up the sanctity family. It was the women's to lending Reds inside the unions. which, dinense "Titolait
vole that brought in the Chris unless immediately checked, can
tlan Democrats at the lust clec- political or.
ឆ៧៧ tlon, and the Communists Raniam", he warns,
Socialista hope to win many of Mashal Tito's offer
them over at the next. 10,000 employment to artisans has rented a
FUTURE OF TAIWAN | infect the whole
to Alvr Italian sensation where
The news that recent econo- mic reforms in Taiwan are to I followed up by political re- forms is of the utmost im- other are portance. There ways of handling the problem of the island's disposition than The Chinese outright war. natermusly prefer to settle
civil
with Д their maximum of bargaining, nego- tiation and common-sense, and kes on behind the
In the industrin North,
the unemployment every day
pinat after figures rise ag one Another closes down for hekur
of
Oversea empal or shortage orders.
war's
the Bel- Italian speakers on
10 al- grade radio have begun tack the Italian Commonats and have made some revealing state whic! dissension ments on the
Ingue
Old And New
# minimum of slaughter.party discipline. Bloody battles were usually left to the manufactory in Nanking under the Nationalяt Ministry of Defence.
The first reform needed is to carry out a large measure of local self-government in Taiwan, and satisfy the very real desire of the people in this respect. Provincial auto Domy used to be a nuisance in Chuna Proper, even after the Tochins lost that title. It has
Seccia said that scandal would
Shaken Faith
While such events strow the surface clash of personalities, di- deep-set political differences vide the party. The political the Communist sommersaults of pundits over Trieste have shaken the faith of many party tera.
tu
This heresy drow an immediate pontificat rebuke from the Krem- lin, and Terrancini was moved from his important post.
The disaffection with the off- clal Cominform leadership is also sprending in the COIL, the La- bour Federation which controls five million inembers and is the Communist's most powerful arm. Here again the Communist Iva- dership ins
reversed its policy. After a year of abortive strikes which have lost trade unionists millions of lirue in pay sloppages, the Communist trade union boss, Guiseppe di Vittorio, now suggests the time has coine la collaborate with the present Government and
Communism in Italy mash- roomed almost overnight from a with private industry. of
tiny underground movement the second largest party in Haly. Among the two and quarter million inembers are mony x = Fuscists who are alarmed at the Inte of Rajk and other heretics
20
nad in Here, as in Hungary Czechoslovakia.. the dipute mainly between the newly-com-
whe verted Communists,
teran
1X
r
perve their own views as Italians,
otel Tune Bu
Kalwaria, the "Mes Man".
Strangely enough, it is a ve
Comintorm metsher, real, now known by ha legal name of Palmira Torisatti,
Moscow is now dishusted by This plung, bespectacled revolu
inore like t thury, who looks university don than 1dy's L noe been flattened out by
this. disliked by such fanatics sukressive tidal waves-Na-
A Pietro Seccia, vice-president tionalist, Japanese, and now
of the party, a one-time metal who Communist. 11 has been par-worker, and Luigi Longte, tally revived by the Com-commands munist decision to divide the Ted underground army.
Secrin, who reached his pre- country into five regional mili-
sent high position in the Com- tary areas.
ruotsi hierarchy by plodding lo- yalty
than brillance, rather makes no secret or his district for the young intellectuals censing to the fore, Alrendy ho has clashed with Togliatt) and Is sumincant that he has given charge of the new hunt by the Cominform.
the
highly-trained
110 A
been witch
This Fuss
Over Simon
By GUY RAMSEY
The hysterical demonstrations over Simon, the late mascot of onco HMS Amethyst, mark at the all-time-low of British fero- philla (or the pathological love
sentimen of animals) and the tallty into which falls a nation that has lost the rational balance of a reasonable religion.
ne-
in
For Simon, the harmloss, cessary cat, has been built up by BBC announcers, whose well-bred
catch voices developed them, by newspapers short
the space, and by
pubite large, into a here; at hero that went to its grave draped in the wrapped selfsame standard that the embalmed body of Nelson.
Two. Questions
C
I am, I hope, patriot; I am. I fondly belleve, reasonable human beltig; and I am, I know,
Why fond of animals.
fait This winer, which all parties
from this then, that I recoil 45 one, agree will be a critical
manifestation of emotionalism as Is unemployment
sprending
I should from the caresses of a Throughout the North, will show
Junatle? If my reaction again. Just how deep is the crack in the
*enscicas Simonology bol as Cominform front.
as the Simonology itself I must try to justify it.
London Comments:
Of
The Problem Red Recognition
By "WINDRUSH”
and
In "Time and Tido, "Chris-ot Tuya Muyun and Taboshar In Central Asia. The couin zone of topher Buckley has an article on the problem of recognising Com- the deposits is in the border aren
Uzbekistan He starts from at Tadjikstan, munist China, the principle that recognition is Kirghizia. The deposits were sur- political convenience. It is not veyed thoroughly by a geological a reward granted in return for expedition in 1935 which had been good behaviour. It is not to be instructed to explore the resources reserved only for states which are of Central Asla in connection with the second and third Five-Year parliamentary democracles.
Plans.
SAYS
I would hardly be prudent to follow that device exactly In the case of Taiwan, But there was never a better case for real provincia! autonomy.
The ministero of Mao Tse-tung Therump Nationalist Govern-
unquestionably constitute the de ment ought to function alto-
It facto government of China. Matter Of Morals gether apart from the or
19 convenient for the West to have dinary, administration of the
Recognition To relations with them. and A year ago Secclu ishd which should afford
must therefore follow. gliniti clashes over a matter of every reasonable opportunity
While welcoming back morals. for the people themselves.
Togliatti after his escape from ad The Kuomintang are com. Assin's bullet, Seccl brought mitted to the principle of up the scandal all Italy was talk An over-cager Com Democracy under the San Mining about.
munist photographer from Chu 1. They formally handed Leftist weekly Omnibus snapped
with over recently to "the people", the wounded Togilatt!
grief-stricken woman bending Unfortunately that was a mat- ter of form only. Democratic ver him,
When the paper, which has spreading institutions are
circulationя one of the largest even in what used to be called
Italy, was ready to go on to the newsstands a top-line, order "Darkest Africa." They are essential in the world struggle between free Democracy and Communist Totalitarianism.
the
China
More Finds Made
and
The "Economist" thinks there is evidence that more extensive finds have been made since the Mr. Investigation by the 1935 expedi view. Any other
unrealist. "It
tion. It adds "It is quite possible. Buckley, is been suggested,"
he says, "that and even probable, that Russin's conditional recognition might be atomic piles are situated some- to guarantees where in the Kirghizia and Tad- granied, subject
would jik republies, near the sources of that Communist
material.... Kirghizlo honour International treaties and raw
Tadjikstan fire well sheltered. commitments undertaken by the Tadik treng
been little hove Kuomintang, that It would frain from stirring up trouble in known to foreigners and they
or protected from invasion by land Aslo generally South East
Communist or attack from the air by the tu support giving banditry in Malaya in particular. impassable peaks and glaciers of
and the Tiau-shon
Pamir-alal "Such a view is the reverse of mountains. Two peaks symboll-
cally
from Kuard the entrance Chinese Cem- the realist. The
Mount Lenin munists, knowing that full re-, non-Soviet Asia:
and towering even
certainly
me-
Stalin
ore
lenst
{ two
This justification invsives consuteration of al basic questions:
1. The essential difference be tween Man and the rest of cres. tion: and
2. The nature of patriotlanı.
difference be- The cordinat tween Man and Beast lies in the quailty of consciousness; DY.
tu
put it more simply, an
does what it feels, a
man
animul
dona
what he thinks.
By Accident
Good
"Women constables for Hong Kong."
алуа thing. The Important Myrtle's grandfather, is how they will react to squeeze.
.1 Only "light 'drizzica
anti
showers" answered New Yorkers' prayers for rain.
The prayers, if nothing else, were apparently all wet.
Shurley Temple's matrimonial disaster seems likely, according to the syndicated puffs, to set off a new wave of teen age divorces in America,
•
"Want to surprise someone you love?" asks our Kowloon shopping guitle. "Go to No Nathan silver and Rond.... Sterling Stuart crystal for both indies and gents and even children are now on display there."
Are all the little darlings for salc? I'd like to surprise Myrtle,
Famous last worde
"We can now trust the Japs,' says MucArthur."
I don't want to worry anyone, but a bloke was reminding mo the other night about a mutual acquaintance who received a gally wrapped flat envelope from his wife last Christinna. Inside was a gift certificate, and when they revived him the card still read: "Gift certificate to be delivered on or about August 24 baby boy or girl."
4
Aurus Ward's release certainly raised Hell among the headling writers.
"Wo, about to die..."
My spy in Landon reports that Mr. Attler has entled Mr. Fraser in New Zealand and Mr. Cluley
Austrollu
"Morituri lo iniutomus."
"Can one be happily married?" Certainly-one con.
The editer regrets,
"Fear that a plot or story will be stolen absurd in the It is certain that the men who
extreme. If it is good enough to Ame manned the guns of the
be pirated it is good enough to thyst knew what they were do-be accepted. Take each individual Ing and were aware of the risks.
Itein and burn thoroughly, They were inspired by a sense
making sure that every one is of duty.
destroyed, so that no possibility of contamination remains."
Britain is apparently persisting In her
revived opposition to a
If this sort of German army. thing goes on, I can see people objecting to giving Japan a new
and a
atom stock of air force bombs.
Tell me, Jock, did you marry me for my money or for my own Bake?"
It is at lenst, questionable Simon, the cat, was governed by He any such rational procesa. was nccidentally in the ship: was accidentally struck; was involun- tarily, and not voluntarily, victim of a cataclysm it is very doubtful he understood.
It is
1:0
•
"For my own sake."
Bit watery, perhaps.
[
"Erwen was a man of keen'
which
To treat as a hero, to bedeck with the laurel and the flag, a creature to whom laurel and flog alike mean nothing is, in its es- sence, senseless: it in "debasing the currency" of the spirit.
The adoration of animals is a specifically British traft. manifest in the fact that
Of Soclety for the Prevention Cruelty to Animals k Royal, abservation. There was something-
Pre-In his vizitor's eyes while the Society for the vention of Cruelty to Children puzzled him. Suddenly ho in merely National.
realised what it was. It was the Now this unbalance, when whisky and soda which he had
thu kept within due bounds by set down, untasted, at the corner corporate conscience of a Chris-
of the table." tian community (as was Victor)- an or even Edwardian Britain). meant merely that animals werd treated in Britain, on the whole, very much better than they word abroad. That was a maric ¡ civi'lation.
اره
But when the difference the
difference
immense and costly prepara- tions required for a huge am- phibious expedition: These cognition was on the way, would (nearly 24,000 feet high),
dig in their toes and Mount have already prompted the rotuse to accept Imitations. Nor higher, to about 25,000 feet." political commissar of the is it easy to see how such cond!- The "Spectator" has an article East China army to proclaim, tions could be rendered binding."
on the new wonder, drug Strep | quintessential his inability to meet the re-
Mr. Buckley is anxious that we tomycin. Until recently its use has venue and other allotments of should have no Illusions about been very restricted in England. Now therb are large stocks avail- the People's Government. what will follow recognition, even
Recognt-able, purchasable by anybody Naturally, a corollary to the though he favours it. removal of the blockade tlon, will be regarded by Com-with a doctor's certificate. Amer- munists all over the world as 8 ica in producing it in huge quan- would be the restoration of major diplomatic victory. It will titles. A factory for preparing it Taiwan's economic-link with stimulate the activities of the In Indianapolis has a frontage half Shanghai instead of primarily Communists everywhere in South a mile long.
-
East Asia.
A
Is there any reason why the first real experiment in de mocracy in China should not be made in Taiwan? When they were liberated the people of that island expected some- thing better than the Japanese regime, under which they had. no political rights but great economic development and prosperity. They wanted a large measure of autonomy
with Japan. anyway--and not unreason- ably. We all know what they
The present regime in Tat actually got, and it isn't neces- wan cannot carry on inde sary to labour that bitter ex-finitely with a huge army to perience.
maintain, a shortage of ship: ping and of outlets, and dwindling currency reserve Any American aid will be of a limited character Outright intervention has been wisely discarded. Autonomy neutrality would pave the way to a fairly stable understand- ing, after certain measures for "Shanghai, owes its prosperity. This happens if the germs with- the sake of prestige had been during the past 100 years to for stand its first assault and develop the germare taken. Even the strategic, eign enterprise and foreign iden Immunity against it. "If such
and this deliberato resistant strains of viewpoint would be met by vestment,
other people, the ra passed to neutralisation in fact--though polley of depopulation and partial of streptomycia's impotence
pastoralisation may be taken as not necessarily in the form of an indication that, just as swift-be extended as more and more. as the rigor at economic cir potential patients develop, a type any open proclamation. That ly ns the
power. would be hard for Peking to cumstances permits, Communist teen, which is immune to swallow.
Taiwan has two fronts, neither of which has yet de veloped. One is external and the other internal. The more thedomestic situation is strengthened the stronger will be its position vis-a-vis the East China Military Region. There is an obvious alterna- tive to war as a solution, and there is no reason why it can not be explored. Internal political reform is the first stage. Without it there is al ways the danger of a revolt inside the island and nobody can be sure just what a large purt of the troops would do in such a casc.
and
Streptomycin is an extract of There is no reason to think that a fungus. The reason why its use a Communist China, even if res hag been discouraged in the past cognized by the West, will pro- in England is that its effects aro Western business. "There | still' unpredictable. It is used pri- tect are plenty of indications that marlly to kill tuberculosis germs. Communist Chinn aims at internal But in killing these germs. It is self sufficiency, or self-sufficiency apt to damage the body as well. within a Sino-Russian economic Administered unskilfully it may block. Most significant in this cause paralysis. connection was the decision to curtail the industry of Shanghal,
Foreign Enterprise.
Streptomycin sometimes has other consequences, Instead killing tubercoloris gorms, it may * : actually, feed and foster them.
China will seek to close the win- dow towards, the West."
Nevertheless, will be
Soviet
***Streptomycin, given
Uita-
at the right moment and combined with Meanwhile we hope it is do true that the Nationalist re some benefit to maininin diplo other well-established methods Recognition of Communist gime in Taiwan is ready to matio, representation at Peking of treating tuberculosis, is
saving
weapon. Given at the China by Britain and the make immediate and drastic The value of such a listening post Commonwealth nations seems internal reforms so as to earn is not to be despised." Mr. Buck wrong time, it may not merely ussured unless the extremists the limited degree of Ameri-ley hopes that America will not fail to do good, but it may deny behind Britain In, re-that patient, and others in the in China go out of their way can assistance which may be cognition: To play on Anglo- future, its life-saving power in
the crucial emergency to sabotage it. This would given. Taiwan is in every American dissension in part of TAIL-PIECE. From the "Speq have a profound effect on the way a singularly suitable Solo Economist had a strike fator If you wanted to get a
rough iden
want day-trip how many Nationalist blockade. What place for the remnant of the The Economist" had a:
article on Soviet uranium rough would then be left of it would Kuomintang, to turn over a succes in Contral Asia. It chal-pera had frequented • Various the statements, widely holiday resorts in the years' holl- hardly be worth continuing new leaf. As a military factor lenges In face of the intense embar- it is finished. But it can still made, that Russin la dependent day season, how would you sot President of the rassment the State Depart minister to the ideals of Sun for its uranium on Czechoslovakis bout 117 The
ence lament why his officers have been, ment has suffered. Its dis Yat-sen. Taiwan is the last re and Eastern Germany. It staten Board of Trade was asked In Pat
that there is plenty of evidence
lum enquiring at places like Colwyn continuance,would be an im-fuge left to it. It is also, be about
of uranium. the presence mense relief to Shanghai, and cause of its status as lost ter alsewhere. This was actually Bay and Eastbourne about the receipts from pubile conveniences to the East China administra-ritory now recovered, and the published at the tune the perolou. In the slot, in other tion as a whole autonomous character of Its uranium had not acquired its
It might even be the most people, an admirable centre present sinister signiscarice, words. The answer you can read The Great Soviet Encyclopaedia, it in Hansards that this is, said way of computing vital factor in deciding or just such a change of heart published in 1930, declared that to be the best wa
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