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She was a puny, plain girl whom I had never seen before; but the deliberately slatternly way in which she was dressed and her provocntive air in walk- ing in, betrayed her at once as a comraite, She had come to ask ne to accept the job of * reapon- Bible editor of n newly founded presн agency.
I
had
No. 3--Making contacts
By Arthur Koestler
This is the third in a series of articles by two internationally. famed writers of their journey into Communiem and their even.. tual return.
was due to no merit of mine.
1
which
He
admitted with
shrug
that technically wo wore prob¬ ably not spies; but that,' he anid, did not alter the fact that we had, acted dishonestly and trea-] cherously.
10
Good Morning
I suppose It hasn't occurred; tɔ. the Socialists that one way.'out of their trbubles would be to natisualise
Conservative Party. -
Luc
"Argylis repulse Red raid. "Kill own men by mistake." That wasn't the way I heard lË,
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It was impossible for him to live on unless he made a full con- fassion. He had actually written it last night. But he would only I asked Man Meyer to explain the atm, background, ete of this
hand it in with my consent....** Subscription Hatou
With that, he placed a long, prews agency of which HK$18.00
never heard. She shrugged income a full-fledged apparatchik') activities. The decision rests with handwritten letter on iny desk. There were eight pages of it. L patiently: But don't you under (the homely euphemiam used in you.
Verlags- stend-1 have been sent by our the Party for agents and spies) What activities are you talking was addressed to the
direktor, the Managing Director about 7′′ 1 anked. mutual friends, and it's merely a
As far as I was concerned, 'Activities formality for you to sign?. · What
are called of the firm. He asked me
This fellow given four years asked with was quite prepared to become High Treason, young con E. sal read the first two or three for having arms was caught by mutual friends?' I
one; 1 was one of those half-vir- dramatically, conspiratorial wariness,
Then he blurted
rend She become even "more im- gins of the Revolution who could out his story.
under-signed, hold a limb of the law before he had line, the patient, almost rude. She was be had by the SSS, body and A week before he had been it to be my duty to bring the chance to leg it. the neurotie Cinderella type, the soul, for the asking.
to your Auddenly
double following fgets by fustraled bourgeois girl" "furned I mention this, not out of any about the propriety of what 1ledge, etc., ete--and then I felt voluntary proletarian, which confessional arge, but because as had induced him to do. During such a reluctance to read on that ubounded in the German Party, a young man of average Central the previous, sleepless night theau I stopped.
I asked her to mention the names European background endowed doubis had become а of the friends who sent her. with the average amount of idea he was a traitor and a spy. 'Well, George, of
she lism, and more than average ex-
The choice before him, he re- said reluctantly, scrutinising my office as if looking for hidden fairly typicat. The Cominter and self or to make microplanes.
ASSEMBLY FOR ACTION
The United Nations Organi sation is being transformed from a mere talking-shop to to an instrument of action in a world now being dominated by action rather than words. Now that the Russians are
course,'
Now my only Parly contacts at that time were Ernst Edgar and Paula; I knew of no George and told her so. Miss Meyer was furious. How dare they make e waste my time with a char- walked, out,
assailed
certainty:
Ghastly
know-
perience, I consider my case #3} prated, was either confession the deskt-he had refused to si! |
and take the
to shoot him-
consequences.
The boy, standing in front of
down-looked ghostly, with the
"Your dainty lingerie should bo laundered
Shako Carefully. garments gently through warm water with plenty thuds."
Blake up your mind, please.
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If there is Struble in Korca, the Northern types have only
OGPU carried on a white-slave; trame whose victims were young
I told him that he was talking black stubble on his white face themselves to blame, Idealists Airting with violence.
I was saved from the clutches nansense; that a spy was a man and the swallen, bloodshot
who stole military documents or No doubt, he was unconselous- of the Apparat not, I repeat, by
eyes.
back in the Security Coun- reter like you!' she alssed, and former German Ambassador to to pass on some parlour-gossipitted for adult motives, and, for unfairly nagged at but I begin
eil and trying to tie it up in knots, the General Assembly is assuming a new signi- ficance. The American de- legation expects it to adopt a hold programme to suppress aggression wherever. it de- velops.
The
events in Korea set the tone of the entire confer- ence. The great majority of the member-States liave sup- ported the reply to agression in Koren, and will back simi- lar action in any future in- stances. In the Security Council, the veto applies. It does not apply in the Assem bly, which has the additional advantage of being far more. representative than the Coun-
cil.
Puzzled
tioned the incident to her.
and
that he
self.
Have another lot. Might rlear
"Wine profi 300 per cent. my own insight, but by the inno-fold secrets of State to a foreign ly dramatising the situation and
"I sometimes thought that cence of young von E. son of a power: that all he had done was getting an adolescent kick out of
it; but few auleles are com- British Railways have been Turkey.
to a friend, I have mentioned that he was And what did you do with the all 1 knew, he was capable of lot wonder.". only. 21
had information I gave you?" asked carrying his self-dramatisation to The next time I saw Paula, for me the affection which one von E. with a new, fierce aggres-the point of really shooting him- your head. Edgar's collaborator) I men develops at that age for a person' siveness.
'I told it to
The aliuntion struck me as half! my friends, for She who sets both as professional;
All what it was worth.
Friends! looked puzzled and promised to tutor and as Marxist Guru,
You But went well for a few weeks; then. find out about Miss Meyer, when we met again she said she noticed a certain cooling off in agents. hud as yet had no time to in- von E.'s attitude to me, but did quire; and the time after that not give the matter much thought, the rugged my question vir ill- humouredly and suld there must have been some mix-up and had better forget about It.
There were more such
queer
Mild panic
One day, while I was dictating letters to a typist, von E. burst into the room and asked to talk
to me alone at once. He was un- haven, had red, swollen eyes and looked so dramatic that the typist fed in mild panic.
•
mixed
comic. half disgusting. It was American detectives, we read, because young von E. alternate between wheedling and mean foreign comic,
seemed to me vastly exaggerating threatening in order to extruct I told him that the KPD was his own importance and what we the truth from suspects.
This is known the Party of the German work had done; I still felt that it crely! ing class, as German as were the amounted to half-serious, political grill. Nozia or the Catholle Centre. No busy-bedying.
And yet felt incapable of te ald von E. hotly: everybody
or even of *The students were exiremely knew
that they were fools of Arguing with him,
after interested in Mr.'s talk on reading the letter which, Russia
Thirty-five att, directly involved my future. 'Legal insect pests." I wondered what had cvine
Later on, when I reported the were present." over him. Had he turned Naz!;
Big ones? overnight? But it transpired matter to Edgar, I was unable to I had not read on. explain why that he had not changed his poli-This was probably why the Ap- tical sympathies. He had mere-
incidents, and all of them were neither here nor there. Maybe Edgar's Tokyo proposition WE merely meant as a psychological
What's the matter? I asked, test maybe he really wanted to send me to Tokyo, but his with unpleasant forebodings. ly discovered that to be a Social parat dropped me as a hopeless; superiors did not trust me, have come to the conclusion", said ist or Marxist, was one thing, and Maybe Miss Meyer had really von E., that I have either to to pass information to a foreign
(To be continued) come on behalf of
who shoot myself or to denounce Edgar
our power another. was known to her
George
(These hyper-conspiratorial hit- ches occurred constantly); may- be she came from one of the rival tried to trespass In Edgar's hun- Party organs or Apparats which, ting-ground
"On this and on mony other
case.
THE FORMOSA ISSUE
The Formosa firework has several
occasions in Germany and Russie, been spluttering for I found Communist apparat- weeks In English domestic work much less efficient than its politics. Several times it has seared opponents presume; and threatened to cause a major
the means of their disposal much explosion. It has done a lit-
more restricted.
By "Windrush," Special Correspondent
·
Explorers arcri'! the only people who hear the call of the wild. I've hnd bridge partners
like that.
According to reports from Korea, this General Partridge is a broth of n boy.
In England a Roman skeleton fland are therefore still us divided was found in a sitting position ng before over the Formosa ques-with the head held in the hands: tion. They would déplore it if
But the list of runners in the the Formosa issue prevents the opening up of the dipleinatie re- crumbled away.
charlot race had long since
lations with Chinn which they
desire. But they do not believe
There are, of course, in- numerable issues to come up apart from this. Some of them are delicate and dif- ficult, notably the question of Chinese representation. The Indian resolution for Peking's immediate admission has been defeated, and, the issue passed
that the Formosa dispute is ro- Myrtle thinks a tea-coddyn kan At the same time there are the damage-not as much as is
ally likely to cause war between the chap who carries the elevenzes to Committee: Some want to three factors of a psychological sometimes said to Anglo- see the Nationalist delegates nature which are usually under- American relations. But somewhere in Asia, or in Europe the West and Chinn. They sus around in the office.
will be only of incidental in-} pand judamunt about the strategic supplanted before the Korean estimated: the localism, naivety how the greater part of the terest.
importance of Formora, What can and unscrupulousness or and Formosan problems are
the British public has not been If, on the other hand, Russian inymon do when the military| legions of voluntary helpers of
does not want war, then,
to settled. Others prefer to
even experts are divided-except the SSS the Silent Soviet really interested.
Excitement ever Formosa was if the Chinese Communists in- recollect that in the lost war most leave this as part of an over-services.
My contact with Ernst Schnel- a monopoly of the more radical vade Formosa and collide with military experts usually proved all settlement, on the ground's member of the Central Com-left-wing groups. It reflected as the Americans, war will not hup- wrong in their judgments of that the urgency with which mittee and head of Agitprop (De- much their distrust of what pen. Even under the Bino-Rus- what was strategically vital?
On one thing, opinion united. it is being pressed by Peking partment of Agitation and Pro-America was doing in Korea-sian alliance, there is no
paganda) and its sympathisers masks a.
Apparat lasted only about which for tactical reasons for an automatic involvement of Even if Formosa is "sereened" by it best-to keep more Russla In any hostilities between America, it must het be used by peripheral contact; but the fact than to
co-operate, to back that it ended there and that I was its Formosan policy,
Is operative at least formally operations against the nainland. Nevertheless it is
Neutralisation must really mean the Kremlin in all things not drawn into the vortex to be-
only it recognised
is war against Japan New
neutralisation..If-thero.wero many rather thun-as in India's
question is profoundly difficult. These ore the arguments of those cidents of the Kuomintang us- caseto act with complete settlement are held. They
one of politica and political who support the American action, ing American protection to start against Com- independence.
cannot be safely disposed of morality. What light has discus- What are the arguments of those who oppose? They are partly a shadowsion thrown upon it? Such an inference may be by dealing with taken from the strong line | Government.
military, partly political. adopted by. the Peking
The most important part Foreign Minister against any of the agenda will be the discussion of the Nationalist measures to meet and repel charges against the Russians aggression without delay,
neovision
disposition to sabotage rather two or three months. It was af they jubenimas their dislike of China and America. The alliance Chlang Kai-shek for
Jess
widely enough that the Formosanor of Japan:~
Strategic analysis
offensive
again hostilities munist | Chilna, there would· at
once be a great reinforcement in There are plenty of people in
England of those who demand that we should entirely repudiate. England who defend the Amerl- can action whole-heartedly. ΟΙ
they recognise that the The military arguments turn the American pulley in Formosa, move over
act upon the strategic analysis of the as well as formally disassociating. Formosa-an decided only by position in the Pacific. The case ourselves from It, as we have dona
for the military importance of up to the present. the Formosa is challenged. It is argu- People are relleved that the
Course
unilaterally America is distinct
from
auTM
from the consis
Co
PRICE OF WOOL SOARS
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A FAVOURITE ON ALL TABLES
of violation of the Sino-Soviet and without the perilous if move over Korea on act Pact of 1945. That is perhaps resourceful improvisation on thorised by, or even demandeded that its value, either to Ame- whole problem is now to go he diclated as much by self-pro-¦ which reliance had to beby, the Security Counell.
tica or to our adversary, has been fore the Security Council. They grossly exaggerated. Formosa is take it for granted that, over the tection as by excessive ten-placed in the Korean crisis. Military. logic only just some 100 miles from long run, Formosa must be rulcá They derness for the Kremlin. But The Assembly will consider
Every by whoever rules Chira, But they argue that America's the Chinese mainland, the exposure of skeletons in what can be done to forward decision ever Formosa followed thing which an enemy of America are not very much impressed by the cupboards will do little action If the Soviet veto by a kind of military logic from would do from there it could do proposals that there should be a of Chekiang, Plebiscite of the Formosan people to advance the cause of human paralyses the Security Coun over Korea. By sending troops to won the last war without hekling
the Security Council's decision Fuklen and Kwangtung,. America themselves. progress and a more peaceful cil. A permanent United Korea, America was clearly run- Fermosa. world. So far as Britain is Nations military force is one ning the danger of starting off the It is self-evident nonserse vihen concerned, this question of of the next measures, once a third world war. It was there- General MacArthur says that the China's representation is not more or less foolproof pro- fore, say the champions of this loss of Fermosa would transfer
thesis, no more than prudent for the
theatre of war from a Party issue in the sense cedure is devised. Mr. Vishin- America to reinsure against this the China const. thousands of
probable that it is in the United States. sky will have to put up a danger by putting itself in the miles across the Pacific to the
In The results of the next elec- stronger fight to prevent this best position to fight a war
of America. ase war resulted.
The political arguments Aro tions there may be decisive in than he did to secure the
It was Indispensible, according roughly these. The only way to the bitter controversy that execution of Bukharin and all to this argument, for America in keep Formosa out of the hands of has arisen over Washington's | the other members of the prevent Formosu from falling into the Communiste is to back Chiang China policy. The United Communist hlerarchy.
the hands of a possible enemy.| Kai-shek.
Kuomintang is States' delegation is reluctant The United States' delega- wrints to annex Formosa. All it any kind of alliance with it is to This does not mean that America completely discredited. To be ini to commit itself to any change tion will go all out to ensure wants to do is to see that it is in play into the hands of the Com- of present policy until the complete preparedness for friendly hands, or "is neutralised" munist propagandists. electoral results are known. the next time Kremlinism for at least is not used as
bast
Furthermore, as long as Ame-| A week or
two ago the | bursts its borders, Mr: against America: Formosa is only rica is "protecting" Formosa, few 200 miles from the. Phillp- people in Asla really believe that Secretary-General of the Acheson will ask member-pines: the Japanese invasions of this action in really in support of United Nations pointed out, States to carmark armed the Philippines, wa mounted the United Nations action in Korea, that the Korean question does forces for the specific purpose from there. The strategists who They can point to countless state- not stand alone. A perman- of combatting aggression, so back the American action arguements, from that of General that, if Americh had acquiesced MacArthur downwards. saying ent solution would require as to reduce delay in counter-in the fall of Formosa to the that America must hold Formesu
consent of the Korean people, similar changes to speed-up that
more than the freely-given action. This will back up Communists, it would h
would have meant in defence of America's own na-
virtually
South these interests lead America in
110) Bonat interests. Where 'else will
It would be necessary, he said, procedure. In June action have been cut off from
Asin. General 'MacArthur's for Korea to have good and was a matter of days. Next East Asin. It would have meant
that from For-. acquiecing eventually in the fall statement said peaceful relations with China time it is to be matter of of Indo-China, and probably also, mesa America could dominate every port In South East Asia. and the Soviet Union, as well hours. A further proposal to the longer run, of Malaya.
But South East Asia may not wish as with Japan and the rest of is that an observation team, Still further. to have lisports dominated." 80, the Powers of the Pacific described as a "fire brigade," Those who argue in this way in this also America · is playing area, That is a large order be created capable of rush still further. They say that, into the hands of the Communists. and will take quite a lot of ing off at once to any part of not only is there much », to the SCAP's statement. time. Moreover, the final the world where trouble is also that there is really nothing have been thrashed out. In the
gained by screening Formoen, but
There are the arguments which liquidation of the armed con- threatened and present the to be lost. There are no real newspapers in the past six weeks. flict may yet take some weeks United Nations, and public dangeri. Formosa will not start General MacArthur's notorious For, at the worst, months. opinion, with a neutral report this year only if Ituusin, after con head; but nothing new was mad
war. There will be general war atatement brought the debate. Hence the question of Chinese on how it developed. The calculation of its military though most people in England participation in these discus-ports of the K40 Commis strength, has decided that war were glad to lece.. the solutary sions is not quite, so urgent sion were invaluable in this, this year, will best suit its in- spectacle of a general belog call- as Peking makes out. Ort the respect, especially in India a torcite gehou to order by his political cislof, other hand, realism has to be decision to accept the findings it does this then there will The tradition that generals should observed when overall dis--and abalo
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