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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

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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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