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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JUNE 2, 1980.
BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN
More news comes from be- hind the Iron Curtain than.is sometimes recognised. It needs interpreting; it may be understood. But the number.
}
-By "Windrush".
Special correspondent
individual
to assassinato Tito. The move- ment, it due originally to his leadership, is no longer the_ex- pression of his personality, It is the expression of Yugoslav nation- alism. The movement controls the country. If Tite disappeared,
Old saws have
sharp
teeth
of significant facts which there the Socialist Unity Party some of the cruder features of his functions would be taken over trickle through is quite large. lured to Berlin one of the prin pollee rule In Yugoslavia are
The main theme of presont cipal Communist leaders of West disappearing. The Yugoslav Press by his lieutenants such as flanko-
vitch.
What do you collect whop Soviet history is of course Russia Germany and placed him under has begun to speak of the need
The growing stability of Tito-you travel? Some people col- for safeguarding versus Titalsm. Even today, the arrest for Titolam.
lam has undoubtedly meant a general publle in the Western What makes Titoiam so formid-liberty, and of the hatefulness of weakening of Russian power and feet elephant bella grass: countries has still not grasped able to Moscow is that it is itself police oppression.
It claims
It changed the world skirts;, batik bloomers, hang- What is really happening is that balance hot prestige. what a deadly danger to Moscow o Marxist movement.
somewhat in favour of overs, and odd little creatures the Titoist movement has become. the same inspiration as Moscow; Titoism represents a rallying of the West though, Titoism is that take up residence in your
The Russian regime is based on the same prophets also Marx the European tradition against most certainly not a pro-West
It returns Moscow's the alien imperialism of Russia.
But an movement. fear. A government which rules and Lenin.
op-to-date giblets.. Me, I colect proverbs.. by fear also lives in fear for Itself. abuse with interest, and accuses This recalls the forecast made survey of the Iron Curtain world. They tell you more about a It cannot relax; it suspects all Moscow itself of having adopted immediately at the end of the war would have to take
account of country and its people than a personalities and all classes. This false systems of departing from by that astonishingly prescient another set of events which inve was already one of the peculiar orthodox Communist teaching, of Indian ex-Communist, Mr M. N. recently done much to affect the The Roy. He said that Russia would Russian loss of prestige. This is the revolution. les of the Russian Government betraying before Titoism Wayment ns in- bitter debate with
of. thought
Titelst propagandists carry on a use the chaos of the post-war the Communist, victory in China. But the Tito movement
the Moscow years to try to establish its au-
Romanticism tensifed the fear enormously. If propagandists, and the important thority over all Europe. It would
as its stalking By accession to the chosen Cominform thing is that they base themselves use Communism one of the
But it would refuse to block, China has brought to it n lenders was capable of turning or on all the idens and doctrine horse. the Kremlin, as Tito has done, in which Moscow takes as the base compromise
to terms vast increase In manpower and whole shelf of "Inside Gun- whom сав Moscow Juve
with the European traditions of has improved its strategie post-thers." They are the boiled- absolute confidence in futuret
nationalism and liberalism. As tlon. The great value to Moscow down wisdom of beat-up cen soon as the worst disorders of the of the Communist victory In in The nnawer which Moscow seems to have given to this ques-
post-war phase wer over, these China is however for neither of turies--and every one is brand would reassert themselves, and these things. It is for rather dif- new because hardly anybody... Russian expansion In Europe ferent and subtler reasons. China, ever thinks of putting them would be checked.
and the East, have brought a kind to work.. of romance into the Communist world.
of
of its own system:
Titoism's strength
or come
British seaports--No. 5:
The
Russinn
A century and a half ago, Bri- tish society became similarly ex- elted because of the conquest of India, India signißed glamour and economic opportunity. It is strange how events repeat them- selves.
Tyne, tankers, and tailors
the
ters.
Business
reminder
By J.P. McEvoy
We do a lot of sounding off about how devious and Inscrutable aro those stoe-eyed characters in the Far East. Have no truck with it. Collect their proverbs. Or, share a few from my collection.
Let's take one phase of life in the Far East that always maddens the newly, arrived go-getter from the West-that deliberate oriental tempo-that "don't do anything to- day which you could probably do better tomorrow, ge, with luck you may not have to do at all."
Some Westerners call this pro- crastination; some call it shiftless- ness; some call it downright lozi- ness. But the Chinese have o pro- verb that makes it all as smooth and clear as a piece of old jade.
"There is a day to cast pour
sets, And a day to dry your nets."
The Chinese have that old feeling for that old rhythm---BOW- ing, waiting, reaping. They have a truc Instinct for non-action, for "Time and I against any two" is old stuff in the Far East.
If Titoism were an anti-socialist Mr. G. Abbass and Mrs, P. Harrsion is that it can trust nobody in movement, it would or too
thank at reintives and friends satellite country who is of in- paratively little danger to Mon- cow. Most of the people in East dependent mind or outstanding for kind sympathy extended.
quality or of enterprising dispost-Europe have decided for one rea
National passion nt fuiteral scl attendance
their tion. Any persons coming within son or another they want social- inte floral tributes sent it!
ism.
Is it not precisely this which is The strength of Titoismi
Romanticism is a strange thing. thisisth the polley has been comes from the fact that it is both happening in the Titolst move Communists are supposed to be
categories may turn ,"rerent bereavement.
Il satisfes ment? At present, it is truc. sterni realists, immune to such to weed them out from the Com-socialist and national.
there and Communist the two basle desires of the peo-Titoism is limited to Yugoslavia. things. But
scems tile munist parties
of East Europe it offers None of the other satellite coun- doubt that China has begun governments of the satellite coun- ple
of mystery and indepen- tries show any signs of following signify a kind only security and it offers tries, and to leave Intact
allen
rule of suit. At least, this is the situa- glamour to them.
It has touched those leaders who are such medie-dence from the
tion on camial inspection. But the drab Communist world with crities, such hacks that their obe- Russin.
There have been signs in recent the national passion is very strong an exciting new dash of colour, Taipch continues to pro-dience can be taken for granted.
weeks that
Titolsm, while not in Poland and Hungary.
It means also something more Fade-out explained claim its intention to defend
compromising in its socialism, is Communists would not have un- tangible than romance German This explains why one by one preparing to identify itself with dertaken their successive purges industry, for example, is becom- Taiwan, and to produce a
if they
had not been anxious. If ing interested in the possibilities variety of reasons why others some of the leading personalities some of the liberal traditions of
the Chinese market. The in Ilungary, Poland and Bulgaria Europe's past. In the early days there should be any weakening of should help to do it for their have faded out of the pleture. It of Tite's rule in Yugoslavia, the of Russian power, even if only German Communists may use this
government was
who can as temporary,
may what as a bribe to the Industrialists to own sakes, if not for that of explains the Rojk trial in lun- Yugoslav
the rapid transformations
may not take a inore accommodating line the Nationalists. The latest gary and the Kostov trial in Bui- ruthless and dictatorial as
garia. To justify the killing of Russian. But, since the break corne over East Europe?
about Communism. story is that a top-level con-
Some observers have been sur- these men, the Communists had with Russia, it has been driven ference at Canton considered to produce more or less plausible to try to make itself the expres- prised that Moscow has not taken the "Hong Kong problem," de-evidence that they were build- sion of the deeper wishes of the more drastle steps against Tito.
giant Titoist cided to recommend the en- Ing a
conspiracy Yugoslav people, since only in There has been talk of possible circlement of the Colony, and against the Soviet Unton. Para- this way can it gain their support invasion; there has been talk of assassination. But it would prob- doxically, the Communists have for its struggle with Russia." to reject more direct probably half convinced them- This probably explains why ably be of little use to Moscow
selves that the intentions they fathered on to Rajk and Kostov The conference was pro-were in fact true; the result is bably invented, and in any that they have increased their case the alleged recommenda- own fears, tion in effect meant little more The purge of the Communist
Westerner, conditioned by parties in the statellite countries
our bebop civilisation which glori than a decision to carry on
brought on by this panic, has gone
fles green youth and retires mcl- with the existing campaign to to even greater lengths. For
lowed experience to the bone yard deprive the Nationalists of example in Bulgaria the party has
is baffled by the respect paid In been slimmed to a shadow their bases around Hong what it once was; find it is don-
the Far East to the mature and Kong. The only result is ger of becoming too small a body
Every morning at half-past; Rhine crossing, has joined his
aged. The Old Man sits at the wants to introduce
head of table. The Old Woman likely to be to make local to continue its dictatorship. Now seven as the factory hooters father and
"But," says Mr. Lockerby
has her place of authority by the shipping less exposed to inter- the hunt for Titelsts has extend- sound. along Tyneside, and typewriters,
hearth. The Elder Statesman is ference. The regime ed to Germany. The Communist smoke belches from the tugs sentor, "we have done without
no mere figure of speech. He has a voice in the councils of his coun- have been along our land bor-Party of East Germany - called and colliers, a little man with typewriters for 150 years and we
try. The Teacher has prestige and, tiny feet and thinning hair con still do without them. It is mat- ders for quite a while now,
in the affairs of his com- A "Business and there has been singularly in, not from without. Not joins the crush of cloth- the personal touch that
tunity. Ancestor worship, too, reminder," Per Though one man's form of little trouble. There may be even the invasion and long oc- capped workers pouring into
Gateshead shops and trading does not change, the face handier than a diary, has puzzles the Westerner, but this is merely the solemn duty ald оп the a certain amount of pressure cupation by the Japanese al- the
of Tyneside itself is changing. been perfected by a Swiss young, not to forget their fore- if Taiwan is invaded and con- tered this consistent fact. The sheds.
Old King Coal on Tyneside is
watchmaker. The invention fathers, for Immortality is simply no longer a merry, old soul. For quered, but direct participa- governments and other things man. From 7.30 until 5 p.m. he
is an alarm wrist watch of to be remembered by the living. So the Tablets, of the Ancestors tion by any of the Western they created simply floated on cuts up sheets of steel. This is
about average size and al- are kept in the home and honoured Powers in the defence of that the surface and then vanished the man who has heard a hun-
thousand roar
daily, not erected in marble or.. most as thin as a coin. island would merely pre- without a trace. There has dred
chards on remote cemetery hills cipitate, not put off, trouble.
been a singular autonomy all This is the man they call "Twinkle Toes"--wizard of the footbali
During the day, writes Hugo to be visited once a year, if at all. Nor do
Kuranda, the alarm can be set to the stories from through despite the gestures field Hughle Gallacher.
And wrapped up in one proverb, Soviet Taipeh of
Gallacher, now a
Rive
of a troops of foreign Powers and their
a factory labour
business op is warning
this pre-occupation of the dis- living in a Gateshead council pouring into China by the expressions of likes or
one thing, he's got slate in his pointment and in case the ling Oriental with the ceremonials and house, is not embittered, He has thousands make any impres- likes.
pants, and first to tell you that ing of the bell cannot be heard politenesses that we often reserve a snug. ncal, comfortable home, sion. There are plenty of Each new pattern came no- Possibly Hughle. feels a little are the trimmers loading the col shove the noise of office or traffs, for the stranger and the guest and liers plying what used to be call- the alarm vibrates the watch so neglect to give to those who live them in Manchuria, but if turally, out of the environment peeved. The man who
packed there are a lot of them inside of the day the primitive the grounds-at-Newenstie, Chel-ed the "Conly Tyne." Now they that it tickles the wearer's wrist. with us and love us,
aight, the bell is loud enough to the Wall they were
Tuchuns out of the mediaeval sea, Derby County, Notts County, are beginning to call it the "Olly Used-as-a-normal-alarm clock-at with
and Grimsby, the man with 10
wake even the soundest sleeper. caps, is
Their future International markably invisible to recent conditions of the early 20's, full arrivals from that
For oll is encroaching on what area. the Whampoa Cadets and the peeved at the fact that he now
At present the miniature alarm Soviet help to the Chinese political intelligentsia out of works as a Gateshead labourer. used to be exclusively King eisek is only being sold in Swit-Westerners are filled with wonder
But, as the man who possibly Coal's domain.
zerland-for £20. Soon, how- Communists reminds us of the the Nationalist resurgence, broke more gate returns at New It la to the £1,000,000 glant
abroad. West, and especially by the economic
and box-office returns at the London the Tyneside shipbuilders must price, say the manufacturers, may Americans, to the Nation-scandals of the Nationalist era. Palladium, he has to pay for his look if more workers are not to
ticket at the Newcastle become
be a little higher, but they are redundant. Velutina optimistically believing that there alists: it is no longer an in- And all of us have had our season
ground.
is 28,000 tons.
will be enough appointment-con- centive to try it a second time. little hour upon the stage- Hughie and his close friend, On the same day that Princess scious people to make the won-
of Margaret launched the Velutina der watch a success. For some time after the but always as "extras," never David Jack, now manager evacuation of the mainland as principals-not even the Middlesbrough FC., were the at Swan Hunter's yard, a new the Nationalists tried to draw Japanese and the huge armies first two footballers to be trans- tobacco factory was opened. Men ferred at a five-figure fee-in who were welding or riveting a parallel between the Battle they posted all over the land. the days long before the £was ships a year ago are being trained for Taiwan and the Battle of This autonomy, this self-de- devalued.
as tobacco blenders, And Hughle wore his football "That is just the trouble," sald' Britain. There is nothing termination is an important boots again recently as he does 63-year-old Hugh Campbell, fron wrong about that so long as factor not to be overlooked every year on the neighbouring foremont at Swan Hunter's. the essential fact of the his- even in these days, when South Shields ground, to help the Mr. Campbell, who collected an D.C.M. and Bar in toric crisis of 1940 is noted there is so much Soviet in- Aged Miners' Fund of Harton M.C. and
World War I, supervised the co- that Britain stood alone and
ordination of steel structure fought alone: and survived. There is nothing parti-
welding and riveting on the The question is largely one of cularly new even about that,
the Velutina, Britains largest tanker time when two old tailors of Tyneside, 30- and first of a fleet of nine, four spirit, as it has been all along, for there was u
year old William J. Lockerby and which will be allocated to Tyne- ever since the Nationalists Borodin and Galen had more his youthful assistant, 78-year-old were challenged in Man- direct authority in the nascent John William Burn. churia. They were superior and unorganised Nationalist in everything, equipment and camp than all the Soviet ad- numbers-everything except visers could exert today unless spirit and faith. In such mat- a large measure of consent ters they were, and evidently was accorded. At times, no still are, inferior. The Gen-1 doubt, the Kremlin exercises as their families have done for Kingdom last year was built, on
re-
He is a most unobtrusive little
his name.
по:
-By- Arthur La Bern
Tync."
"Better to be kind at home then burn incense in a far place."
Today more than ever, perhaps,
**** | about the Chinese. What are they
Wouldn't you like to know? It's epsy. Have a proverb I picked up on my last trip:
aid previously. given by the and the Marxists out of the castle than Gracle Fields broke tankers of the Velutina class that Sver, the watch should be on sale doing? What are they going to do?
fluence.
failures
Colliery.
Family job
Watching the game were
For 150 years Mr. Lockerby's family have been making suits
for the Northumberland miners.
He told me: "We have 3,000 customers who all pay for their clothes on the instalment plan- 150 years and our bad debts do not amount to more than a shll- lng in 2100.
16
side.
It is the feeling of insecurity that upsets the skilled workers of the shipbuilding yards of the North East," he said.
"And remember that 43. per
the United
cent of the gross tonnage of shipping built in
the North East coast."
eralissimo has declared that pressure. But in this great
Foreman Campbell, who start- he has the military strength to and continuing revolution of
ed at the Swan Hunter, yard, The character of the North Maurelania launched from the defend Taiwan. But he fears the world's largest and oldest
umberland miner never changes. Manuretania launched from the the essential weakness re- community, the basic feature te is a prince among workers same slipway as the Velutina, mains, as he implied quite of consent from below which and in 150 years of trading we
"Yes," he said, "we bulli the Anson here--and the Dominion clearly in his statement at the distinguishes it historically have never lost a customer.”
William J. Lockerby goes to Monarch-and latest military conference on from the Japanese revolution, his office every day and refuses and the Sydney and the New- the Edinburgh the island. During the crisis decreed from above, remains to have a typewriter on the pre-foundland. We will go on build-
correspondence in 1940 one road led to Vichy, unimpaired in principle, if not mises. All
ing too. and the other to Berlin, an always in complete detail: the handwritten as It was a century Sad figures which all roads converged. Russian position in Man- Aye, but the cloth isn't what Meanwhile the unemployment Communism is not the de-churia, for example, But in it used to be," says John William figures on Tynesido continue to cisive wave of the future, general the Chinese Com Burn. "We don't get the good creep up. There are approximate- though whether free de munists have been more or old box-cloth wo used to getly 40,000 unemployed in motracy, or the man-at-arms, less free agents in the policy sult of that would last a miner. Northern Regional area today.
the for 10 years. Nowadays
But from the banka of the Tyne will be superimposed on of all-out co-operation with miner has to have a suit every they have been launching ships whatever economic structure the Soviet. They will be two or three years."
for 2,000 years. Even now they work Mr. years, are planning to build 50,000-ton In spite of his 80 it may leave, is a matter that equally free agents in decid-
Tyneside tankera must be left to the future or ing on any other course if in game of tennis and proudly re- that
Lockerby still plays an occasional tanlacra on
will: dwarf
even the to the philosophers of history. the future they think it neces- members the day, nearly half a Velutina
the
I hope that too many of Tyne-
It does seem to be the wavesary. In fine, China changes century ago, when he played and Bide's shipyard workers will not of the present trisofar as by Chinese changes, and they heat King Gustav. of Sweden....
His son Kenneth, a captain in havo become tobacco blenders China is concerned. - Changes | have not come to an end with the Durham Light Infantry, who and clothong factory operatives "have always come from with- the present phase.
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