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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JULY 21, 1950,
REPORT ON DANGER SPOTS
By "Windrush"- Special correspondent
The Korean attack may have taken America by sur- prise. It was a minor Pearl Harbour. But Korea had for three years been recognised as one of the main danger| Germany, has been seriously personalities. (Proof of this is spots in the world. What is weakened by provincial elections the enthusiasm for Yugoslavia of the condition of the other in North-Rhine-Westphalia and Mr. Zilliacus.)
in Schleswig-Holstein. The gov-{ danger spots? Are the fuses ernments in both provinces have
lit?
had to be reconstructed. In Schleswig-Holstein the election By a danger apoi is meant an results were specially interesting. area where events may netuşlly] A new party representing the happen which will be the ensus German refugees from the Rus belli of another great world con- sian zone and East Europe won Alet. The last two world wars nearly a quarter of the seats. rose out of happenings in areas which, had long been known to In its own way this may prove be the causes of tension-the nearly as critica) a dov 'opment
West Balkans in 1914, the Polish Cor for
Germany as was--lo rldfor in 1030. Ilumunity had Germany as a whole the emer lanked on helpless while the elec-genco in 1930 the Nazis as a tricity gathered. It could not pre-party with strong electoral back- vent the storm.
ing. The refugees are anti-Com- munist. But they are living in desperate conditions. They are no friends to democratic govern- ment which has been able to do little to relieve them.
Alarming rumours
ful for Russia its age-old am- bition of obtaining warm water ports In the Persian Gulf.
If Russia, folled by the United Nations action In Korea, wished suddenly to switch its pressure, Persia might seem to it to be the
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China's asseta in the United ideal victim. Moreover Russia is Stutes ordered frozen. genuinely afrold that if it does ley what you mean-another not itself control Persia, America colt war development? will.
Myrtle in now convinced that
la nctually
a water
America is giving economie ald there
to the Shah, American oll pro- shortage, following yesterday's In the last few weeks there spectors are at work in Azerbolzin. hewa that a fellow had been ned have been alarming rumours of it must not be forgotten that a for pinching some of the stuff.. Russian troop movements in the Treaty of 1921 gives fusia the Balkans. The Russians may think right to occupy Azerbaizin
Local paper has now got round that if they attnek Yugoslavia, judges this necessary for securi-15
It spelling
"sargeant" America will take no action. Duty reasons.
But if Russia moves so-and-so, will It? Moscow thought the into Azerbnizin this might very
There is, of course, a colonel same about Korea.
eastly light of the war which of sense in this.. everybody fears,
British health scheme. About the situation and dan-allows only rectified spirits to be
Yugoslavia's. refusal to support the Security Council resolution
"The
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With a little co-operation, the public should be able to Scotch that idea.
It seems
on Korea was almost certainly an gers in Indo-China, Hong Kong prescribed free. attempt by Yugoslavi not to is in a better position to form a Today the obvious danger spots
bring to a head immediately its judgment than London, are Germany, Yugoslavia, Persin.
quarrel with. Russla. Turkey, Indo-China, I would be
In none of these danger points hard to allot them on order of
Turkey is a danger point be- is the tension as yet so cute that A could cause priority. Each
to me unlikely that cause it is the immediate neigh- an explosion is bound to happen. world war. Perhaps In a few The real danger spot years-or
months the list will Yugoslavia. This differs from all sia is so deeply interested in the Moscow
1bour of Rurale, atid because Rus. There will only be trouble if mountaineers en Everest.
decides elther that have to be enlarged by Burma
the others. In the other dangerous control of the Dardanelles. But will make war this year, or if t Mr. Atlee rejects a suggestion and Thaliand, Greece has become arcus, Russia is tempted to inter- Turkey, though a small country, decides to gamble and to risk to create a Ministry of Sparts. a ittle less dangerous, but could
vene because it sees the oppor is a very tough country. It is war. The chief danger of war lies to restore Britain's International casily become high-charged once tunity of expansion, In Yugosla- being supplied by America with in this lattes possibility. But, prestige.
viu it may intervene out of fear. modern arms. There are no signs since the United Nations resolu- Little support is expected either The harm which Tiloism is do- at the moment that Russia is tion on Kashmir, this danger may for a plan to restrict the nation's What is the latest news fruming to Moscow and International planning to concentrate its pre- have b.come a little less. Because athletes to croquet, a fame in
| Communism can hardly be over-
sence on Turkey.
of the Korea fighting, Russia's which they are temporarily rated. The Yugoslavs are dange-
have respect 'for America's prepared- | believed to
unquestioned rous to Moscow because they are, Persia is in quite a different ness may have lessened. But its supremacy. not capitalists, but a rival brand position. Persla has an inemelent respect for Amerlea's capacity to
and Thus they can government of Communists.
grave act resolutely in realstance to Larwood told o reporter in enlist support against Moscow social unrest. To bring
Persia aggression must have greatly in- Sydney that he was taking his from oven the inost lett wing into the Kussian system would creased.
kids to the zoo.
To see the body Hon?
again.
each of these areas?.
Germany watched
Germany is watched with the closest attention by the public in Britain. Crises scidom work out exactly as expected; but the general bellef is that, if there is # grave emergency over Ger- many, it will come about through East Germany-Russia's puppet state-attacking West Germany. indeed, when North Korea at tacked
very
The man without a face
Non-Communist
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It may sound a bit queer, but the directors have in fact decided that there will be no more Canton Ice.
VIOLENCE AND NON-VIOLENCE Pandit Nehru has already learnt how long must be the spoon when one tries to sup with the saturnine genius who
the South, the first presides over the Kremlin.
Koreans, carrying a man onder each arm. (Kim, "the man without a face," "The percentage of casualties. among doctors and corpsmen has But the typical breach of de- thought of many people was that
squalled that among the combat corum in the premature pub-it was a try-out of the Russian call General Kim 11 Sung, that he had the power of the evil is only in. his early thirties.
Lechnique of promoting Russia's President of the so-called eye; that he could "ent a whole
roasted sheep, and drink a full The North Koreans agree that troops." imperialist aims by fomenting
Myrtle's grandfather sym- civil war. For North Korea, thes North Korean People's Re-bottle of the ficriest vedks in she their General Kim is compare
tively young, but they argue that pathiscs, but unys a stiff upper said, read East Germany, and public, "the man without a unbroken swallow."
he began to organise his one-man Tip is better than ali this There were few, if any, phots- revolt against the Japanese squalling. you have the events in Europe a face."
10. after having: General Kim, who nominally graphs of him, but he was re- when he was
be a pale, yellow taken part in a course of strategy; Making a concerted attempt to commands the invadiag North presented to
at the
Military win financial friends outside the Japanese Koreans, is claimed by the Com-
Academy in Seoul. munists 10 be the legendary
Colony, the Reform Club have not yet found themselves all a Korean hero and guerilla leader
They make no reference to bir loan." moustaches who successfully defied and har-
and loftly ignore) ried the Japanese la North Korea
South Korean demands for a for 15 years. Non-Communisis
photograph of him, deride this claim and insist that the present General Kim is on Imposter.
lication of the exchange of letters between the twp is of less importance than the na- ture of Stalin's reply. This blandly ignored the events in Korea, the aggression of the forces the Russians prepared and equipped for that pur- pose, the resolution of the all Security Council, and other relevant issues.
few months hence.
Structure weakened
This has caused a great ner- yousness throughout West Ger- many. Al sorts of rumours are Spreading. The West German statesinen are believed to have warned the Western alles not to overrate the stability of the West German state, since, if Russia All that was necessary, succeeded in Korca, many people it Stalin suggested, was to sub-in West Germany might think stitute the representatives of prudent not to oppose Commu-
nism too vigorously. the Peking People's Govern- ment for the Nationalist dele- gates on the Council. Then the Soviet would return and they would fix it-and fix it, of course, according to their liking, and assuredly also to the liking of the aggressors. Britain and the United States have made it clear that there is no scope for diplomacy un- less or until the North
Koreans have returned to their own borders. That is
a plain, straightforward, and simple policy. Moscow asks the free world to submit to its blackmailing
At the same time the existing governmental structure in West
churia.
-By- Richard Hughes
as a sort
volved in the diplomatic inita-
For 15 years these voluntary tives. They are not related to
exiles from Japanese occupied Korea alone, nor to the ques- Korea, lived in the White Moun tion of China's representation tains, descending in well-armer' on the United Nations. What and well-brganised forays to rai happened on the 38th Parallel villages, slaughter Japanese fl-figure
of the world. We have so to Ing
home, this
conduct ourselves
in
40,000.
and who had never
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name
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man with huge shoulders, huge hanic's, huge moustaches, The original Kim Il Sung was
Little else is known about "the a bold and cunning bandit who merelless eyes,
man without a face" except that ruted a fierce horde of expatriated been heard to laugh..
he is understood to speak Rus- Koreans in the secret fastnesses
Korcans, in fact, regarded him sian fluently and to have won
medals-the of the rugged While Mountains
of mixture of Robin two Sovici the Yalu river, which Hood and William Tell, with the Banner and the Victory Medal. terɔ35 reparate North Korea from Man-wartime characteristics of Mar Sceptical South Koreans seize shall Tito thrown in for good on both these facts to denounce measure.
the Red Kim as 14 imposter. How, they ask, could he have kept his mind on his 15-year- lang guerilla wartare
against the What happened to this shadowy Japanese If he was studying after the Wor nobody, Russian nt a Soviet finishing selze Japanere goods and kaows for certain. The Com- school and winning Soviet com- on June 25 can happen at half disappear again into the pre-munists say that he immediately bat medals for Red Russia, too? a dozen places in other parts cipitous defies and hidden wind-joined the party, dedicated him-
trails of their mountain celt humbly to the ambitious In any event, it has been 0 policies of Joseph Stalin and smart stratagem by the Reds to brought with him a large army invent their General Kim Korean business as to ensure The Japanese themselves ad-
Sung, even it
It ha 15 not the rent His walkout it doesn't happen again else-mit that over one year Kim Hof 200,000 tough, loyal Korean one.
revered ---and--many methods, to eat its own words where. The invaders have Sung's guerillas--averaged more whose hearts-niso-beats on throughout--Korea ---
than 10 daily raids netoss the for Korean Marxism,
simple
who on the subject of Korea, and over-run two thirds of South tee-cold Yalu and that in 15 years
peasants
know nothing about Communism would re-open the subject anew in Korea and they and their he killed from 30,000 to
The preposterous Implication infinitely prefer a supposed Kim is that this great horde has been 1 Sung to a real Syngman Rhee a manner expressly designed friends have been shouting Japanese.
hiding out with him all there (President of the South Korean to pluck for aggression the with glee' about the alleged
years in the wild and bleaks Republic),. whoever he fruits thereof. The proposi- defeat and weakness of the
White Mountains.
whatever his appearance. tion is impossible.
United States. Even a volun-
Actually, the Japanese, whe Whether he has huge mous- Nevertheless Pandit tary withdrawal by diploma-
throughout put a reward of $10,000, dead or taches or not, "the man without) Nehru's diplomatic initiative tic means would not wholly Korea. Supernatural powers alive, on the real Kim's head, a face" has, without doubt, so is not without value. While attain the objects sought. The were attributed to him.
It was never believed that he had more far served faithfully and success- throttled than 10,000 bandits under him. the Kremlin has tried to trip invaders must have a dose of claimed that he once
fully the Soviet masters who bestowed tanks an hervy guns him up and make use of him, their own medicine and be two famished wolves simultane-
ourly-One in ench powerful, The South Koreang angrily on him so generously and self- his prestige and sincerity are knocked back by superior hairy hand. It was claimed that assert that the real General Kimlessly.
he never missed a factor throughout Asia. He
with a pistol would now be in his fifties i approaches the position with The point at which diplo-shot: that he could run mile alive, and that the Red Generat no personal or national com- macy may well enter is when mitment such as involves the the status quo has been re- United States and the Soviet stored. Diplomatic methods Union. Indeed, the main- take time when the Com- spring of his initiative is the munists are involved a lot A Red-headed Irishman Months," before entering the desire for peace and to keep of time. It is perhaps just as who like roast beef must Foreign Omice in 1919.
well.diplomacy has started a surely be a bit of a puzzle to
There in those days he was bit early in the day. Nobody Stalin.
something of a novelty, a breaker can expect it to move faster
of that lingering Victorian tradi- But the superficial description tion that only the sons of certain than the military events. But. perhaps by the time the North asador Kelly is quite sons were quallied to sit at Illusive. It hides the personality mahogany desks and learn the Koreans, or what remains of of one who is rightly accounted, secrets of diplomacy.
force.
out of the two world camps in the hope that he can be of service, if not in reconciling them, at least in averting an- other world war. In this, as in his Government's, support of the Security Council's re- their armed forces, get backs solution, he is faithful to there, enough progress will Gandhi's principles of non-have been made in diplomacy violence,
to tide over that peculiarly
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of the world; are avoided.
A mighty man
HIS
fame spread
Irish
eyes
in Moscow
tain's service.
By Montague Smith
In the Indian setting, these delicate period, and to ensure principles were vindicated that fresh complications, dan- and already well tested, as one because the objectives of Bri- gerous not so much to the of the abiest diplomats in Bri- tain and India were common. peace of Korea as to the pease
More in his character are a India wanted to be free to de termine her own destiny, and Then, perhaps, the Security Bar Penetrating, deep-set eyes that see much but reveal nothing, so far from resisting this, Council can take up once and 'n strong chin, below firm lips Britain urged her on. The more, quite Independently, that could give all the answers. proposition that the principle the question of Chinese re-
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Minor appointments In Buenos
Stockholm, and Cairo led to his from 1940 to 1943 as Minister to first big job during the last war the Swiss Government at Beruc
Aires, Lisbon, Mexico, Brussels,
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Having successfully persuaded the Swiss that Britain was really going to win the war, he went on carrying the same conviction to Argentina.
power by violence. That is in that country. Pandit visible sign of his age; he was 80 ment, almost exactly a year ago,
inst year.
Hi present Moscow appoint-
followed a short term në Ambas="
of non-violence faces, how is presentation, which was rais- His good-natured smile is re- very different. There is not ed long before the Korean in-served for his friends, to whose a Communist regime in the vasion and has little or number he odds wherever he goes. world that has not gained nothing to do with the events A groying moustache is the only
the dilemma confronted in Nehru denied, in his latest lot- Korea, where the position ister to Mr. Dean Acheson, 'that is father, another David Kel-sador to Turkey at Ankara, just now, fortunately, changing the admission of the People's was a don at Trinity College, on the free side of the Iron Cur
Dublin. From, that not too seve- tafn but near" onough to it to rapidly. Those who sought a Government to the United roly academile environment the learn in advance a great deal of solution by armed force are Nations would be an en-son went via St. Paul's School to what he is now experiencing be- facing counter-forces now couragement to aggression. Magdalen College, Oxford, where hind it.
'he was nominated for a diploma- capable of stopping them and He is quite probably right, sooner or later of driving but Peking's actions in the them back.
meantime, will do much to That may take some time, prove or disprove it, and to So also will the issues both influence the ultimate de directly and indirectly in clefón.
te career, the start of which was When, if ever, he is allowed to interrupted by the first world war, retire from his country's service, In this be served for three he hopes to be a farmer. Is that years in France as a brigade In- an odd change from the laby- telligence officer, was awarded, riniha of diplomacy? Hardly the the MC and recorded his ex-land, too, has its neersis that perience' in 'a book, "Thirty-Nino' patience alone can unfold.
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