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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, JUNE 27, 1050.
CLEMENTIS--A WARNING
ALL PATRIOTS
TO ALL
By Paul Anderson
origin the son of 'noted Slovak scholar. He is well remembered as a champion of Slovakia's national Independence and
Good
An insurance risk worse than steeplejacks' must be the lives of Communist leaders.
One was getting used to cald The list of onec famous, honour-1
In the case of Dr. Clemenils the clares: "Comrade Clementis' self- formen editor of the Slovak liter-wars, but this invasion business ed, revered and Idolised Com Central Communist Government criticism was not accepted by the ary
magazine "DAY" (Thela Korcan things too far. Syngman has made an urgent appeal; let munist lenders who were "tried," of Prague use the opportually of Presidium of the Czechoslovak Musses), 24854 found guilty" and executed as the recent Slovak Communist Communist Party, as it became ap Although a life-long and loyal us hope it will not be his swan
one already. At 82812 "traitors" is a long
the head of the list, of course, are Party Conference to launch the parent that he still does not Communist, Dr. Clementis always song. the-names-of-nearly the entire public indictment of the arrested realise the full depth of his error hoped to combine with his in- tellectual Marxist convictions on Old Guard of Bolsheviks them leader. It is now an established and the gravity of his mistake,"
Here, in his last phrase, the inborn devotion to the cause of practice in all Communist purges selves not excluding the aged that, prior to a trial in "court",
expert
Communist purge Slovak self-determination. In this Leon Trotsky, killed in 1940 by the victim's political prestige, hla tactics notes three points-minor he saw no conflict. For decades NKVD agents in his Mexican exile.personal and moral integrity must ones but not entirely unimportant. the Soviet Government has posed The post-war list of purges is be undermined. The formula is The victim is still referred to ns as the true defender of the prin- All now contributions to be
rapklly growing. Many have gone really quite simple.
"Comrade", his sins are described ciples of federalism, national au- addressed to Editor-in-Chiet.
and Bualness already. With or without "con-
as "errors" and "mistakes"-not tonomy, the liberation of oppress- "Russians trying to fuse with Advertisements
fessions" they .went -to their
yet as nets of treason.
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Greek schoolchildren in Cyprus to have gone on are reported nirike,
In my day it was called playing hooky.
of China."
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| deaths. The world remembers last
year's monster "trial" against the The chosen man performing this
Final treatment Hero of Hungerlan Communists first net of the drama happened
This clearly sigailies that the Soviet policy change Pcking should decide to refuse? and former Foreign Minister, to be Clementis' temporary succes-
But Soviet policy changed n Laszlo Rajk. Soon after him, one sor and acting Foreign Minister, final treatment of the accused is
long time ago. The Soviet cham-1 Because they are unable to, of the oldest, most fanatical (and Siroky, although the choice may not yet decided.
be regarded as purely incidental. But that apart, *Dr. Clementle plonship of national self-deter-compete with the "ridiculously prices of Hong Konk buried years low" most kolised) Bulgarian Com More important, of course, is the prospects seem anything but rosy mination
some British mill. munists,
line of the accusation,
The real issue is of course well ago. It was replaced by the ban- products,
Patriotism" owners wish we would keep our with the same fate.
In a long-winded tirade, de- disguised in Communist verbiage, ner-ery "Socialist (In this case, one remembers,
of which has but one meaning-un shirts on passage "confession of guilt" could not be nouncing the "bourgeois-nation-
It gives the questioning loyalty to the Govern-
must
Local report says a swimmer produced until the hangman had alisi" deviations of a number of Siroky's speech
"It
batment of the USSR. reported that justice had been prominent Slovak, Communists, essential clues:
Surviving defenders of such out- "was knocked unconscious by length with the clear", he said, "that we are con-| done.)
Siroky dealt
corned not with the personal case moded notions as national self-strong current."
Other reporters Wave all Who is next? Next on the list sins of Dr. Clementia.. for a political show trial is another Let's see how it goes. Said of Clementis, but with the ideolo- determination have consequently
become "cuemies of progress" and responsibility for this statement. Cominform leader Siroky: "In 1939, after the con- gical unity of the party. The parsythere must be, ipso facto, "enemies
a successful struggle
"Y's
club members MALEY-On June 25th, ut (and until quite recently a person clusion of the Soviet-German Pact can wage
eyes of the Soviet Government entertained their husbands of a Pakol, Capt. Percy James of some consequence) the former which had such a great importance against all expressions of bour-of the Soviet Fatherland". In the
Czechoslovak Foreign Minister for progressive mankind because geols ideology in the spirit of
become dangerous style show last night at YWCA they have Maley, aged 58 years.
and pro- and successor of Jan Masaryk, Dr. it marred the base and treacherous Socialist patriotism Vladimir Clementis.
plans of the Anglo-American Im- letarian internationalism ONLY bourgeois nationalists" who as headquarters. A group of members
Siroky sald in his speech-"want! modelled
Ingerle girdles and perialists, Clementis stood all its functionaries and
organs; Sir by the to solve nationality problems as supplied by a local store," against the USSR and took up the are guided exclusively
It was, however, a cultural, not As Czechoslovakia's United Na-position of a class enemy"..
with the old bourgeoisie and not a comic strip. immortal-teachings of Marxiam- an all-national problem, jointly That DOES look bad...OP Lenipism." tiens representative, Dr. Clementis
posing a Soviet move designed tof Well, well, well-and what in alliance with the proletariat of Edmund Store and myself has earned international recognition astar imperialist plots," Doesn't might that incan? Translated into the former ruling nation."
And that is Dr. Clementla' real a shrewd politician. As a Slovak and life-long Communist he held that make Clementis "an imperi- terms of ordinary language crime! He remained a Slovak at along the coast, but comment key-pusition In the new Com- allat" or, to say the very least, "an early means that the real issue heart, even to the extent of de- over the week-end leads one to is the strength of Slovak nation-rending Slovak intercals in alliance believe that the Swatow stand allsm-a political force that chal-with non-Communist Slovaks has put new Hart into the local "In this at- Dr. Clementis, had been relieved titude he persevered also during/ enges the absolute control of the against the demands of the new business community.
Central Government in Prague.totalitarian Centralism. With all It was bad, admittedly, that the that Clementis, the Intellecual So Dr. Clementis" "anti-Soviet-
should ever ism" was not an occasional lapse, Communist Clementis
Communist. It couldn't be done. In his princely gnol he may a single error; it was a "consis have associated himself with the Marxist, hoped to remain a good Dr. Benes. It was worse that he now come to realise the gravity tent attitude". The Public Pro-London war-Ume Government of sector will not overlook that.
NOTICE
The engagement between Clifford mutual been cancelled by agreement.
Shrewd politician
Katherine Upton. munist regime. A few weeks ago, a curt Government announcement stated that the Foreign Minister,
of his duties.
At the moment, Dr. Clementis is held prisoner in an old castle in the remote Tatra mountains near Javorina-a former property of Prince Hohenlohe.
agent of Imperialism"? We shall
on: Siroky goes the Soviet-Finnish conflict".
it
The Navy Is continuing its usual attitude of non-provocation
Experience is a fine teacher, it's
truc.
But here's what makes me
burn:
Experience is always teaching"
PEACEMONGERS GO TO WAR The cold war in Korea has moved from words to deeds,
me That is not all. There follows should have disliked Stalin's pact of his mistake" though An a But from endless speeches and What will be his tate? That of
Things I'd rather not learn. accused
the representative, just as likely he may decide to propaganda to armed force. Trotsky or that of Rajk and Kos- a long register of sins. In 1938 with Hitler. But he really stands somewhat different sense.
A trafic policeman in Sydney "Contess". Whatever his personal fate may be, his political fate is has been dismissed for kissing The democracies went a long tovor merely of Poland's veteran Dr. Clementis emigrated. Very
He worked with Dr. Benes and possibly defender, of Slovak "co Communist Wladislav Gomulka? bud!
and the London Czech Govern-nationalism. way toward winning the war
by sealed. He stands condemned, as children. Well, there's always It is difficult to predict but
Dr. Clementis is a Slovak of words, both in quantity and doesn't look as if Dr. Clementis ment. Worse! He broadcast in quality. Now, a few days life were a much better insurance the Czech service of the British birth. What is more (and worse). all the others did, long before politics." after Mr. Dulles had express-risk than that of Gomulka and Broadcasting Corporation. Worse he is a Slovak intellectual of his "trial" has started,
many others, & Ciomentis trial still! No wonder that Siroky de- Western outlook and bourgeois!
now seems a certainty.
Well, there have been? Why? certain indications in that direction pointing clearly The Communist of "purging" has shaken down to a rigid pattern. Those who have studied it, can now read
technique of
ed increased confidence in the future of the "Korean nation," the Communists from invading the the North are Southern Republic in full force. It was planned, no doubt, long ago. The plan has it like an open book,or perhaps now been put into action un- one should say, can decipher it
with no more trouble than of der cover
intensive scholar deciphere Egyptian hiero- worldwide peace campaign glyphs. which is unmatched for cynicism,
task
an
was to make contact received aid
from
A
Who is next?
SOME FRENCH WRITERS
OF A DIFFERENT TYPE
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The Belgian Socialists threaten trouble if Leopold should return to the throne..
Associated with Thibon was an London and joined the de Gaul- For centuries, the great cen-
person., lists. For a me she was on tha] more remarkable tre of new ideas and movements even
been.
affairs.
-By- Windrush
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Uneasy lies the hend that ycaras a crown.
A
from
travelling mnyor California is reported as saying: "In my home town our morality rate is low, while our birth rate is high."
Politicians in France are most
come.
pursuits as a farm are now being published, 'One of labourer. As she continued the them, "La Pesanteur at la Grace," habit she had begun in France of is an aphortstle work, rather in
Pascal, on the. renouncing half her rations, she the manner of could not long continue cou
the spiritual life. Another, "L'enra- work she imposed on herself. cinement," is a social study of the The combination of over-work conditions needed for the good -and-under-nourishment killed life.......... The history of this manu...... her. She died in the autumn of script is surprising. It was com
missioned by General de Gaulle 1943, at the age of 34.
when Simone Weil.arrived in
Extraordinary history. London in 1942 as a memorandum
This extraordinary Ille history for him on post-war social po- much more like that of alicy in France. medieval saint than twentieth It will be interesting to seg' century person. Especially in the what happens to Simone Weil's
of
manuscripts
П
In Europe has been Paris. When This was a young woman named staff of M. Schuman. She wish- perturbed by the possibility that the last war ended, and the Simone Well.. A Jewess by origined to be sent back as an agent the country may be without a she was baptised as a Christian. to France, but it was thought China. If the forces of the barriers between France and she began her career by becom- that her Jewish features would overcent for weeks to
The danger is that the public The campaign was parti Republic are prepared to the outside world were brokening, while still young, a celebrat betray her.
After a little while, her health may find they can get on quite cularly vigorous in the Far fight and fight hard for their down, everybody looked to ed Greek scholar. Her work on East. In China many millions cause and their freedom, this Paris to see what had been Homer won great applause. Rut broke down. She was sent to the well without one, were induced to sign "peace Invasion can be defeated, and hatching there in intellectual she felt that her real life lay not country, but insisted on returning petitions," and a lot of them time gained for aid that could life during the tragic Vichy in the study of the ancient world to her old
and then be afforded them. The period. signed no doubt over
It was found that the main. over again. In North Korea, speed of the invaders' ad- pre-occupation there had the Communist radio stepped vance, indicates that they are with the philosophy, or pseudo- up its "peace" appeals, in out to conquer the whole philosophy, which is called Exis- tentialism. This had produced-a the guise of demands for na country so swiftly as to ren-depressing school of writers, the tional unification-on the der any aid from outside im- chief of whom is the celebrated
action in contemporary basis, of course, of the ab- possible.
M. Sartre, Another leading Exis- but in Behind the civil war in tentialist is M. Camus who wroto-She was much impressed by the sorption by the Communists
the bloodcurdling play, "Caligula.”
"priest-worker" movement in the AB in the case of of the Southern Republic. | China,
and the macabre novel, "The French church. This is a move-is They even sent three so Korea, lay the two great pro- Plague."
ment in which priests go to work Now it is being discovered called peace delegates to the tagonists of the world cold South a fortnight ago. Their | war. Both sides in Chinat England that side by side with in factories as simple worknich. way she mixed her spiritual lift reputation in the next 10 or (20
Their aim not to conduct their the Existentialist there have been
the age-the Spanish civil war the Catholic Church was strong other French writers of a very) missionary campaign but simpivi with the great political events O yeara Until the Inst few months, But recently with the various parties and friends and alifes, but direct different type. The Existentialists demonstrate how a Christian and the World Wat-she recalls in her support.
intervention was avoided. are
and whatever in conducts hintself in that most pessimists, groups and soften them up.
typical institution of modern life, such as Ignatius Loyola or some bishops have been having St. Catharine of Stern-or Indeed.doubts about her orthodoxy. their protestations, tend
factory.
her, as This manoeuvre had an un- The battle was fought out on
Mr. Gandhi, who, though living One has denounced nihilist. But there are other
Simone Well followed the ex- expected twist a few days a domestic basis, issues of Frerich writers
in our own age, seems a figure modern Manichaean. As her writ- w20sc ideas,
Ings become better known, they later, when the peace dele- prestige and of political af- though controversial, are at the ample of the priest-workers, and from a past world.
for a time worked in the Renault
Simone Weil left behind her a will certainly cause increasing
of number gates defected and began filiations notwithstanding. It opposite pole from nihilism.
which controversy. One of the chief of these is ranter, factory For a limited time broadcasting to North Korea was settled by the supremeve Thibon. His life history she served the Republican and giving the people there test of war, which the Com-is rather astonishing. He is army in Spain, but as a non- combatant. After the beginning of by origin 1 the truth about the situation munists passed and the Na- self-taught mon,
South. in the
They de- tionalists did not.
peasant. He has worked all /his the war she decided to become a farm labourer, and it was while nounced the false peace of- The two problems are not fe in a vineyard, and has had no working in this capacity that she contacts with universiiles. He is met Gustave Thibon,. After her fensive of the Communists on all fours, however. Nation- devout Catholic and a social death, he wrate of this period as in which they had them-alist China was one of the philosopher whose work is read
follows. He traces selves taken part-exposed Powers that created the Unit-with great respect.
Tireless energy the maladies of our age to indus- the tales of terror and horror | ed Nations. South Korea, on trialism and to the break up of
"Finding my house too comfor- put out by Pyongyang, and the contrary, was practically the family as the prime uult of table, she insisted on living in an urged the people of the a creation of the United society.
old ruined cottage. Ill and wasted North to rise for the real, Nations, for it was under its
(she had suffered all her life peaceful unification of the auspices that the elections cesses of the United Nations, from intolerable headaches, and country.
were held and the South but by action on the spot noisy, contracted some years cariler, had permanently damaged The reply to this embar Korean Government estab- and real action. There the her health) she did her farm
work with tireless energy. rassing counterblast, in the lished. The international Western Allies had the re
"Every month she sent to the war of words was the in- position is therefore radically sources right at hand to de- political nrlconers half her ration vision of South Korea. The different, and the respon feat the challenge, and the tickets. As to her spiritual gifts, Commsts have the nerve sibility of the United Nations will to use them. There is the lavished them most generous- to assert that the South at- clear; far clearer, in fact, than no such immediate "position ly. Each evening, when work tacked first and to accuse was that of the old League of of strength" out here, for was over, she expounded the great texts of Plato. But she put Mr. Dulles, who recently Nations when confronted even General. MacArthur. the kame enthusiasm into ex- visited the country, of in with Japanese action in does not have more forces plaining the first rules of erith- stigating it! It is doubtful Manchuria two decades ago. at his disposal than are, remetic to backward children of the whether the Communists Naturally and inevitably the quired for the vital tasks of village
"A kind of superior, egolitari- themselves believe that issue was raised at once at the occupation in Japan. The atom made her take her own yarn; certainly nobody else Lake Success. If action
in is position of strength could be standards us universal; there was will. But this is no longer a really desired, the case for created, given the will and hardly any person whom sho crisis to be dealt with by it is unanswerable, and with the time to do it. But events considered maualified to receive the must, erudite instruction I bandying words. Those who out any quibbling or reserva- are likely to move swiftly in remember a
Lorraine have resorted to, armed force tions about United States Korea, and' South Korea will worker whom she instructed for will have to be resisted by "imperialism." A ward of meet, or fall, the supreme weeks with splendid commentaties armed force, and with equal the United Nations has been test long before anything the Upanishads. The poor young man was terribly bored. spirit, or suffer defeat, attacked and invaded. The can be done to alter the but cut of politeness and Umidity
The South Koreahs have responsibility for action in course of events. Meanwhile dared not protest."
During these years of hard by now troops and armed aid and protection is undent- this is another warning manual labour wife becaine : In- police armed and equipped able. It is even a duty. But the free democracles. The real creasingly interested in the wri- by the Americans, as the whether anything more than question that has to be faced inge of the great mystics, and North Korean, wore armed the usual long feast of talk is where, and when, this mill- there is no doubt that the cano mystical and equipped by the Soviet will be done about it remains tant tide of agression which 10, enjoy extraordinary.
In 1942, abe lett, Eravice With || Army. The problem is one to be seen wis menacing the whole be experiences SATE of real fighting spirit, as it~ The crisis in Berlin was Asia is going to be stopped, her parents, for Amerlos, Bul
** leaving them there, she came tol was in the similar-crisis-in solved, not by the slow pro and then thrown, back pa
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