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young man in Phil- adelphia before the first world war I had confused nentai picture of Russt. 'I had never thst country....or' ans. foreign country, but I know many of the great (novels of Leo Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Turgeniev
and some of the short stories of Gogol and Gorky.
• The Memoirs of a Revolution- Ist by Prince Peter Kropotkin, Russian anarchist, thrilled me with its idealism and humanet protest.
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PROBLEM OF NORTH KOREA
The North Koreans invaded
My parents, born in the small town of Shpola outside Kiev told me of pogroms perpetrated by vodku-saturated mushiks.
€73.
Confused picture
By Louis Fischer
This is the seventh in a seiter, of articles by two internationally- famed writers of their journey Into Communism and their even- tual return.
7
Loute Fischer was born in 1900 in Philadelphia. After a few years as a schoolteacher, he found his vocation as a jour nalist, when he was sent to Berlin in 1921 by the New York
Post. He spent most of the next years on roving assignments in Europe and Asia,
Though he never joined any political party, he became a champion of Soviet Russia and, later, of Republican Spain, which he covered during the Civil War,' ·
Among his booke are The Soviets in World Affairs, Men and Politics, The Great Challenge, Gandhi and Stalin, and Thirteen Who, Fled. He is noto at
work, on a full-length blography of Gandhi.
the
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opera and expensive theatres, in the neighbourhood of fashionable) hotels, there are light and life,] tooting of taxis, dancing, music,
much wine, fine clothes.
Numerous large plategiass win-
Morning
celebrate Locarnols to
tho
Swiss.
dows in banks, stores, restaurants, anniversary of the 1925 peace. and hotels had been broken during treaty,
Subtle sense of humour, these popular riols recent
against speculators.
Germany, whose size, natural endowments and central position A Shakee monument is said to hod enabled her at various periods) have been érected in Canton. in contaminate, frighten and con- However, the authorities quer or invigorate, stimulate and going to prop it up as soon as strengthen large areas of Europe, they have time, was experiencing a perpetual, nightmare of monarchist-repup-|
can strife and inflation.
The soapbox
*
arc
"Yank survives atrocity by playing possum"
Well, he was up against a lot of skunks.
•
•
At the International conference in Genoa in April 1022 the Western victors, unable to forget, forgive, or unite, pushed Russia, the re-
Paying tribute to the champion, are admitting volutionary pariah, and Germany, other swimmers the war parish, into a diplomatic- that you can't be over Eager. commerical entente: the outcasts agreed to arm one another illegal- ly:
Dazed, and still dripping with blood from the first world war,
words a
From yesterday's (September 23) front page:
"Korea, Sept. 23.
"This story is being written on
the South as an army equipped 1. Provisional Government In Marcheeptive to Bolshevik criticism of man because the men who night peace, a job, a house, security, leaders.
Curious
Aclis
In France and
•
to a
sticky photo
Playboys' invish spending and the famous stomach dancers, says
for the offensive. It is pretty certain that if any of these troops get back at all across the 30th Parallel, they will be even more lightly armed than the South Koreans were. Measures will still be neces- sary to make sure there will be no repetition, and that or- der will be maintained be- in the world'. should nevertheless war on the side of white re- Reset by a myriad of domestic
overthrown by the actionaries and Tsarists. yond the 38th 'Parallel to en-have been
favour
of an
The Bolsheviks, fighting against able the United Nations to Bolsheviks in
avowed dictatorship..
heavy odds, defiantly challenged supervise the political ar- Home again in 1820 after on old world which refused to rangements necessary for the oversens military service, I had allow a now one to be born. strong curiosity about the Russia was the underdog hatting unification and rehabilitation | a of the country. There can be origin of the arst world war against forces that had made the
Sunday afternoon soapbox orator studied volumes of- research on no settlement except on the the subject by scholars of several world war but could not make
the basis of a united Korea, but nationalities.
I felt a compulsion to know the They differed a thelr conetu
that had sn recently Europt there is reasonable hope that
sions, but all distributed the war this can be brought about guilt widely: In a scale of culpa- spawned a great war and a re- absence of motion. The streets without extending hostilities bility Tsarist Russia or Austro-volution. I saved puri of my in-are only dimly lighted. But in to the whole of the North. Hungary would have ranked first come from odd jibs, and in De- the section of rich cafes, near the This might, indeed, increase or second, Germany next follow..
ed by France and England. rather than diminish the pos-
All these great powers had by sibilities of grave complica-secret treaties, agreed to encve up and share small, helpless nations. This expansionist urge or one set of countries ultimately brought them into conflict with The nature of the British another yet of expanding coun-Commonwealth has been to tries, and then caine war.
Liberal New York weekly grow up haphazard. Very magazines now charged that the little has ever been planned. New institutions have been!
Russia seemned crude and East Versailles Peace Conference had cember 1821 I went abroad as
civilised yet uncivilised, literary yet illiterate. Bright dois worked on the same evil fimperi- ja free-lance correspondent. 1
Europe was in a mess. Able of culturo, imperial glamour, and alistic principle.
Despite occasional lofty a-bodied" war heroes-turned beg tasteless wealth stood out agains
through incnitions from President Wood-, gars wandered a vast darkness.
Wilson, the statesmen streets of The entire world outside Amer- row
British cities playing lea remained huzy to me unti: showed mure interest in imine-hartheniens or singing in quar-Europe was already blundering to- the beginning of
and nanetattets or selling poncils, the military diate territorial
second while; at best, a hill-top in Seoul. Below in the Rowa of scats in conflict with the Kolner's Ger- gains than in solutions guarantee-
London citizens and politicians wrung their evening su theatres were filted solidly many, and then the war and my Ing a solid peace.
Yes, indeed. Gets dark pretty by hands in helpless despair, women without men, women personal involvement in it shut
In a mess
Meantime, I kept hearing and carly up there. who had lost their men in the reading about Soviet Russia. The out even such tremendous events, crucial the wor itself, as tha My new attitude towards the trenches who had never had Bolsheviks glorified the common German gets 10 years' hard for Tsar's abdication in favour of the war and the peace made me re- men and now would never have man and offered him land, bread, kicking pletures of -Communist
been theirt lay under education, health, art and hap- 1017, and the birth of the Sovie the West. Moscow denounced an- have regime in November 1917.
nexations and reparations and poppy
He came warned that they were the seeds Flanders.
piness. They championed the in- finish. ternational brotherhood of the of another war.
Ungay Vienna A University of Pennsylvania Neither of these revolution engineering student, who spoke
Maxim Gorky appealed to the racing man. They would abolish discrimination, exploitation, Inequality, power of weath, left a memorable impression on Russian, acquainted me with the work to send food quickly foments of the the lust for Perri a Cairo magazine, are giving the
the me when they occurred, and contents of the barbed, bitterly 25 million starving Russians....
rights they had, I certainly would not sarcastic notes in which Sovies From Poland in January 1922 tory. They proudly Ilberated country a bad name. They are, have understood why the
Pro Farelen
Commissar Chicherin wrote about the 'crisis which Peland, Finland and the Baltic in fact, the soft underbelly of visionat er Kerenaky governinunted the bourgeois govern- spares nobody' and the 'strong countries from Russia's rulo. They Egypt
the ment, which in Lenin's phrasments for their unwarranted in-strain of chauvinistic intlonai renounced Tsar's special pri mude Russia the freest country tervention in the Russian elvil
vileges in China and
and his spheres
North Korean hits low-pying of influence with its oil conces- plene with rock problems, Poland
neverthelead sion-in Persia.
The
oppressed of
You're a rent half-brick, his resource-drainlug the world and the friend accor- comrades told him. maintained a army and insisted on annexing dingy saw the Soviets as heralds Vilna........... I spent part of the of a new historie era, next month in Austria
A state covering one-sixth of the "Gig guns...halted a Communist Vienna,
I reported
to the surface of the globe had joined the counter-atlack."
This is what is known as New York "Post" of March 1.
'renowned for its galoty and was talking his language. For light gum carriage. and 1922,
Joyous night life grows the first time, a government un-
dertook to gruesome as evening falls.
fulfil the dreams ot There is a strange dullness and the reformers, Iconoclasts, and
pioneers of all ages.
(To be continued)
tions.
free elections.
That is a most
peace.
THE COLOMBO BUREAU
ed at the Sydney Commonwealth
ment. The task of the bureau is
By "Windrush," Special correspondent
very
*
•
late meteorological Japan's director
"Dr. was known as Weather."
Such a pity we don't have someone in Hong Kong to doctor
OUTB.
Tomorrow night's comeback reminds us that it's a Farr cry to the old days when British boxers were worth going a long
bureau come to be in some men-[ way to soa. sure the nerve and brain centre
It seems to cost me much more of all the planning by Common wealth countries in South Asia? to live above my income nowadays
Planning requires information, than it did before the war. criticism, decision.
It requires knowledge of the experience other countries. Suppose that the
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The Russians, for example, went out of Manchuria, and sold their rights in the Chinese Eastern Railway, without a whimper or a grimace, when Japan struck two decades ago, But when the Japanese threa-ed, the purely military pro- created from time to time to tened to invade Outer blem will stop at the 38th meet special needs. Sometimes
The bureau can also try to find bureau should develop a secreta- Mongolia, and brought vital Parallel.
these have grown in a way a remedy for one of the most rint which could, be an agency for strategic consideration into
desirable not at all foreseen when they obstinate difficulties in the way of pooling all the knowledge in this
Western technicians serving over-respect·
pect which is available to the the picture, Moscow sent outcome in many ways, but were first started. powerfully armoured Army especially from the viewpoint the new Commonwealth bureau these men.
It may be that the formation of seas. This is to find a guarantee Commonwealth. It might become for the long-term prospects of the headquarters of an economic revolution which would transform] Corps to the Mongolian of the defence of Western for technical co-operation at In England today there is full South Asia. border. At Nomonhan they Europe. The more resources Colombo will prove to be the start employment for everybody with Nobody suggests that the bureau administered a shattering de- available for that quarter, of a new period in Commonwealth scientific qualifications in any should become a supra-national
history, The bureau may turn ***
We have had feat to the Japanese forces, the greater the assurance that out to be a very important insti-way outstanding. There is for prin ac
inducement for enough of such plans after the who had no tanks or anti-the Russians will be induced tution. It may grow into some technical experts to seck their Schumann proposals in Europe. tank equipment-to-meet the to keep the peace. The Com-thing-much-larger than was careers abroad..
Hose The Asian countries of the Com- -And-even-those onslaught of the Russian
munists depend on arrned thought of when it was first moot-who wish to serve abroad are demonwealth will shed more of tanks. Conditions would be force to gain power-we need conference last May by Mr. Spen they are absent in, say Ceylon or cal or economic matters.
terred by the knowledge that, their sovereignty, either in politi- very different if the United it only as a means of rein- der; the Australian foreign minis-Bornco or Sarawak, for a period bureau would be their servant, States were similarly chal-forcing and keeping the ring ter
This has been provided for by lenged. But even so it would for more peaceful methods, director has not yet been ap in England. Out of sight, out of
The bureau was set up in July. of years, they will be forgotten not their master.
the bureau under the hardly be worth while to ask both political and economic pointed. Whether it develops into mind. Their service abroad may putting for trouble if the problem of The industries in the North all that it might be will depend be distinguished, and they may supervision of a Commonwealth unification can be settled have been smashed. They to some extent on who is chosen gain valuable experience. But in council on which sit representa- the competition for key posts at tives of every one of the Com- politically.
can only be, restored with for this most important appoint home, the man on the spot will monwealth countries concerned. But though the bureau will not North Korean strength lay Western aid, for the Russians to facilitate in all possible ways have the advantage.
In the past these circumstances have executive authority, the use- in its military power and only will not do it, even if it re- the obtaining of technicians to did not tell so heavily against the ful functions which it may dis- in a secondary sense in the mains a sort of demilitarised carry through the development recruitment of younger mon for charge are
so many, that it is schemes of all the Commonwealth service overseng, for Communist regime, whichzone.
they could really no exaggeration to regard countries in South Asia. regimented and organised The Russiah scheme in In
enter the regular Indian technical it as possibly starting a new phase the contemporary world, services education,
in Commonwealth affairs, forestry, front and rear. Neither in Korea has failed, thanks to technical officers are in general in geology and so on and expect Korea nor in any other coun- President Truman and Gen-as short supply as is capital. A to devote their whole lives
surprising number of attractive them. try can Communists command eral MacArthur, and the gal posts In Commonwealth countries
They could find full scope la majority by the process of lant resistance of the United remain unfilled because men can their ambition there. But now these services no longer exist. Nations forces, still over- not be found with the proper The technicians who are wanted A Washington message ex-whelmingly American. Con-qualifications. So the task of the are invited to come, not for a life. presses the belief that Russia solidation by a political sattle-bureau is a necessary and respon time but for a term of years, after has written of South Korea,ment would be better all but may take a different view round than the indefinite pro- Employment agency of the North. It is suggested longation of hostilities in the It was at first envisaged that that there may be interven-torrible winter of North the bureau would operate as a forward for overcoming these tion there either by Chinese Korea. A unified Korea on kind of super employment agency, dimculties. One which has re- Communist troops or by the the basis laid down by the The Asian countries of the Com-ceived a good deal of thought was] Russians themselves, on the United Nations is indispenseeds to the bureau which would formerly the civil service head of monwealth would'· notify, their] proposed by dir John Sargent, pretext of keeping the peaceable, whatever the cost. But then try to find men to nil them, the education department in In- but actually to keep the Unit if it can be achieved politi-In some cases the bureau would did. His plan is to create a new ed Nations forces, away from cally, so much the better. At pay their salary-It has, after Commonwealth service of techni-
Fill, the Russian security areas least it must be tried. The
good deal of money, to cians." "A man would, enter this spend. Its budget, for the first service and be lent from time to along the border, which, at forces will still be at hand if year is, thanks to the insistence of time to whichever country most its Northern point, is almost it should fail, and the task Mr. Spender £3,000,000 the Com- he muld make. Wherever he was needed the special ~ contribution within sight of Possdet Bay had to be pursued by military monwealth as a whole to pay part actually employed or momentarily
It is good 'business for and. Vladivostok,
of the bill for technicians in the on lave pending a new appoint- It is very doubtful whether
It is being suggested that less developed parts of the Commant, he would be looked after by the Russians would take such means may be found of in-monwealth, for the economic the Commonwealth service. a risk, but not at all impos- troducing Peking delegates the long-run produce benents for be a career for a life-lime. An transformation of these, will in Thus to join the service would sible that the Chinese in into the questions of Formosa all the rest of the Commonwealth. echo of this scheme appears as a Manchuria, who profesa aj and Manchurian border in-. That is the basic function of the proposal by the Labour Party in certain concern, may be pre- cidents. The Peking Govern- bureau. But already, in the few a new manifesto
"Labour and vailed upon to do so. That ment, while not relaxing its weeks since it came into being, it the new Society" It is not im
has become clear that "Its scope possible that the Colombo bureau would not matter overmuch demand to be admitted as a can be much wider. For exam- may actually carry the scheme provided the machinory for full member, has also point ple, the best way of providing finto practies, the creation of a unified Goved out that as complainant technical experts in a country There are still other
possible ernment for the whole of in these two questions it has like may, Pakistan, is, not to hire activities open to the Colombo experts from other Commonwealth bureau. The bureau has been Korea, under United Nations at least the right to be heard. countries, but to train more Pakis- created 10. serve expecially the must to both sides of the able, for there are many pring college in Pakistan. One of which is now being worked out supervision applied as it That argument is unanswer tanks as technicians more trainer of the Commonwealth is
gyThis means
development programma parallel. If this had been cedents for this.This hack the best things, which the bureau by consultation between the Com- dono, as it ought to have been door entry might have results can do may be to subsidise some monwealth countries at London. dono, long" ago, there would a lot more favourable than, a of the training, college a la he i Providing a technicians, 17.only have been no war. On this perpetual and uncompromis. dalan countries of the Comment one part of a scheme of develop. point there can be no com- ing refusal of chtry by the and make them in all the project is the key and kernel of with, and them the right tomata- inval. Plannin; the development promise. But if it be accept, i front door:
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