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Until a few brief years ago, Europeah administrators
A thrill shot through humanity.p Fear shock the upholders of pri villege, tradition, militariam, em-} pire, white supremacy, and the status quo; their fears spurred! hopes in others.
The unique appeal of the Bol- shevik revolution was its univer sity. It did not propose merely to introduce a certain number of drastic changes in Russia. It en- visaged the world-wide abolition of war, poverty and suffering.
stemmed
own
conditions inside Russia,
Most people did not quite know what had happened or was hap
the
Russia: No Utopia
By Louis Fisher
This is the eighth in a series of articles by two internationally jamed writers of their journey into Communism and their even. tual return.
a
tho
ro-
ment
than
directed the manifold activi. or achievementsionate debate dog, and Inspiration of the new porters manifested nellier pes-|
be
first
Pulsating
The
Cool Morning
divisions, but sought to foster 'an: International, Commúnist society that would supersede them and thereby create permanent world! peace.
Will the UN. forces istop at Almost all nations had been the 38th Parallel (if they can hostilje, prejudiced and unfair to find it)? WIR Russia join in the new Russla. The collection of condemning the aggrossocs? Wi
from dead debts, the restitution of it-the mysterious column tionalised properties, and the Manchuria turn out after all to venting
ideological animosities be indoctrinated pygmies from seemed more urgent to capitalist the Congo? Don't miss tomorrow's diplomacy than the establishment thrilling Instalment. · of normal political and economie tened real peace and recovery. [contoets which would have has-
It is again being sugested that; Soviet friends, marriage laws in Englated shortlet Tolking with stupidities and crudities; but en Probably a good thing if they one would condemn Bolshevik be revised. trips to Europe and America, I had soine alterations. found people arrayed in two opposing camps, one pro-Soviet, the other anti-Sovlet, and I just could not join the latter.
Alternatives
"Govt in Italy parcels out land to peasant."
Any strings attached?
"Voice of America propagarin
This 'should be a screant.
"Red haze blankets Ontario." No, Myrtle, you're wrong. isn't spelt Lake Comma, anyway.
It
wasap Kamenev 39, Bukharin 34, Radek In all countries, therefore the The capitalist instinct
one 37. little men, labourer and intollee-parently a very powerful
The revolution was a churning tual, felt that something important and sprang to life on the first All news contributions to be had taken place in their lives when touch of NEP.
process which ground the former I wondered whether revolution took root in Russia.volution was potering out. Com-ed now vital forces to rise to the ruling cables into dust and allow- Actually, this general sympathy
mpre from discontent munists said no, Maternt things surface, Grateful for the appor with conditions in their
gave little evidence of countries than from knowledge of communists did.
tunity, they were ready to accept shevism; but the spirit of the discipline, hard work, and sacri-
The Communist Party was So-ficca. viet Russin's
Famine til gripped wide ex most remarkable
of the country; R. Institution. In the require-ponses pening under the Bolshevik re-ments of austerity and dedicatlun/ cost, billions of roubles; Russia's gime, but everybody talked about imposed on members, it resem-/ inflation was even worse is with heat. Usually the par- bled.
Germany's. order. Ita monastic tisans leaned heaviest on promises tradition of automatic obedience, The inherited poverty, aggrav- Russia's basic aspirations ba- It costs a million Straits dollard and 'objective' difficulties, while secrecy, and strict discipline ated by world war, civil war and came more attractive to me after to eliminate each Malayan bandit. detractors cited the absence made li nkin to a military caste. revolutionary ravages, staggered look at the dull 'normalcy' of The authorities put a very high
It served as dynamo, watch-me; yet the regime and its sup- the Hording-Coolidge era in the prien on their Hed.
U.S.A. and the aimlessness of The unending ties of modern government all stimulated my desire for
Europe. Vocillating democracy regime, It originated policy and simism nor fatigue. the way from the--Indlan hand Information.
was the sole source of political The enthusiasm was infectious. In Italy had already succumbed, Ocean to the. South China in September 1922, equipped with| exercise power. That was the func-] and foreign diplomats and corres-:
I went to Moscow from Berlin power, yet it did not directly Why should foreign governments to Mussolini Fascism. The Ger- to be stepped up.
Socialists had muffed a Seas. They built, upon the not a word of Russian, little under tion of the government bureau-pondents in Moscow obstruct and uniqu post-war opportunity chaos or the mediaeval types standing of the Soviet system, and cracy. The Party instructed. deride the efforts of great na- te immunise their country's past!
I Don't Understand Why We of rule they found, new foun- a friendliness for its aspirations prodded, and supervised the gov-tion to pull itself out of the mire? and potential war-makers: the dations for the rule of law but knowing that conditions were ernment.
Born and bred' in poverty, I in- Junkers, militarists, and monopoly Are The Only Local Paper That
Industrialists. terrible. I was not travelling to This division of tasks was stinctively welcomed any caTM in place of despotism. In the Utopia or Mecca.
The historic blunder of modern Doesn't Capitalise Its Headlines designed to prevent the corrupt- deavour to eradicate it. ancient life of Asia, it con-
Pensants
and envo
The Bolsheviks' confiscation of tion closed my mind to the fierce Like This. If Must Make Things
Social-Democratic critician of Very Difficult For Our Readers. stituted, a constructive re- moribus revolta, starvation, and ing effect of high office
production had com-power on individual Communists, private capital and, nationalisation the Bolsheviks who did Ilquidato
were volution without parallel. pelled the Soviet Government in Most government officials of land did not. prejudice mo
the cor
spring of 1921, to introduce Party members,
bere, but thousands of Now all this is changed or in the New Economic Policy or NEP, lending
The revolution Russia's political and economic against them.
royalists. It also made it dificult Britain is making a firm protest Communists (Stalin. broke completely with the
past.
for me to regard Social Democracy to the Nationalists regarding tho process of change. Even in which legalised domestic capital-Zinoviev, Bukharin, for instance) That was its chiet attraction.
detention of the Northern Glow. Malaya nine important Deism and concessions to foreign did not hold government jobs.
The past was black. Now the as an alternative to capitalism.
Before long, I realised that my It's a heartening change to hear capitalists. The weak Bolshevik partments are soon to
Communists addressed one an Soviets were groping in an un-choice was made. A cholco Aurora indignation from the Home taken over by Malayans as past.
regime was pulled back into the other as 'comrade' and the ma-napped, area towards something depends on the available alter- government these days.
Jorily received
A uniform
low never previously seen or aket-native to it., I preferred fresh one of many swift moves in Lenin admitted the retreat: he salary which conduced to spartan ched. I admired their courage. No sweeping winds to stale stagnant the same
setbacks,
and Pelty ilving
puritanism. direction. It may never masked
could doubt their sincerity. nir, and well-intentioned planeers strect scem sudden-it is not so socks,
hawkers of underwear. Communist's dulles outnumbered
At the top of the list of Com- to proved fallures. rubber heels, corsets, privileges. The Party expect- muhlat virtues stood internation-| I liked the Soviets because they sudden as it seems. For many allverware and every other con-ed him to be a model of anti-alism. National frontiers are often were an experiment in the interest years personnel had been ceivable ancicat object appeared religious zeal, idealogical loyalty; the consequence of robbery and of the down-trodden majority's trained
like a rash over the face of Mos-moral behaviour, and to take over when
political cow, Leningrad, Klev, eta,
welfare, because they were weak, aggression.
It is urged that British history gave the signal.
devotion. Lapses were severely The countryside buzzed with punished.
Nationalism, breeder of wars, and because the world's conserva- economia rivalries, and hatreds, is tives and reactionaries opposed racecourses should Institute saliva, Now the rhythm is to be hopeful get-rich-quick_Nepmen.
1osts. a variety of racialism. But the them.
Apparently, too many punters repeated in another field-- The governmunt operated huge
Bolsheviks regarded all races as All these preferences and likes the field of modern science, staurants and cabarets full
gambling casinos, luxury re-
prose from
temperamental have been foaming at the mouth of
though different. technology, and planning in foods unavailable to the average
More than a hundred
almost Rusala throbbed with dynamic
ethnie pre-disposition
"Traces of carliest Americans." Don't go into details.
Let me power, industry, and agri- citizens,
energy. The cities seemed to be populations Inhabited the Soviet imperceptibly, soon made me a
RUEST. culture. Many myths and
filled with people fresh from the Union; the more advanced dis partisan of the Soviet Union. forest and wheat-felds. Young criminated in favour superstitions had to be ofer-
persons dominated every scone wronged by the chances of his
Abroad, come in the first phase of this
Lenin was 82 in 1922, Trotsky 43, tory and geography.
(To be continued): fruitful contact between West
Stalin forty-three, Zinoviev 39 Belshevism recognised nationali and East. The new technical challenged by an unprecedent-{ age will not be free from ed increase in population, to them either. Even so enlight-ja standard of prosperity ́ened a man as Pandit Nehru hitherto unknown.
has expressed fear of what has The West is ready and will- been called a new economic ing to pass, on to the multi-
The decision of the Labour imperialism. It is partly be millions of the East the mani Government to go ahead with cause of these fears, or super-fold fruits of its own scienti-nationalising the steel indus- stitions, that progress in im- fic and technical knowledge, try, and thus to provoke plementing plans for large- It will not force it upon them. major--and quite avoidable- scale economic aid to Asia has All that is ended. Indeed political crisis, results partly been so cautious and so slow, there may well be a re-from bigoting, partly from and why one conference suc-actionary voice here and fanaticism, and partly from mately concerned. Of his own free et all, as at present, they will opportunist calculation of will, the British Government has jush ahead. The fact that they ceeds another in a slow ap- there declaiming against it' Labour Party interests in I entered into a defence alliance proach. Indeed the advance all, on grounds of self-pre- which some of Labour's sup with America. Thus America is in- ously does not upset them ot might have been even slower servation..
porters believe that it
has terested in any which increases) all.
broken but for the powerful impulse
or weakens our military But we have learnt that made a gross misjudgment.
They have America will judge that our do- old British tradition that the given to it by the new Com- one's prosperity is not an-
fence efficiency will now be re-best government is, one which The cabinet's decision has re monwealth and the initiative other's poison, that it is as ceived the worst-possible-press, duced. If this influences America carries the opposition part of the taken by Australia.
truly indivisible as peace it-The arguments which have been toward us, we have no right to way with it. They have adopted the continental idea that a party By this means a link is self. This new concept coin- put forward there against nation- complain.
The Government's coply to which by look or crook 'gets a being created in a framework cides with a passionate desire allalag steel at this moment seem
to be overwhelming.
these arguments is not impressive. majority can impose its will of loyalty and confidence be among the people of Asia for This is a tune of crisis in West It says In the first place that arbitrarily on the country,
The second reason why, minis- tween the centres of greatest a better life. Two mighty Europe. For the past three or the Conservatives, by their at need and the potential re- currents of change are thus four years Britain has neglected titude to the Schuman plan last tera acted as they have done is her defences while Russia har summer, have ruled themselves probably that they decided that servoir of greatest supply. But meeting for what may well be armed. This year Britons became out of court as critics. The the interests of the Labour Party even this strategy of trust, a marriage far happier than aware of their peril: Koren did Schuman plan was one for inter- required an early general elec- confidence, and security would that of Victoria's long reign., for them what Czechoslovakia nationalising steet: the Conserva- tion, and that steel nationalisation fall of its ultimate aim with- We have referred here only old when Britain was threatened tive favoured It: if they accept was as good an issue as any on by the Nazis, and for a long time interziationalisation, they must which to fight it. If the clec- out constant and uncompro to the broader aspects of the refused to see the danger. Now, also accept nationalisation. tornte still has any regard for It is hard to think that the sense of responsibility in such mising insistence on the prin-
time, the bid-with ciple of self-help as the verte- contributor "Windrush" has already tipped against us--to re- itself by this argument. The that they have miscalculated. brae of the whole. This prin- adequately dealt with the de- goin security, national unity is Schuman plan referred only to ciple was at the root of the tails in two recent articles in one of the assets on which Bri- general polley of steel produc- The ton. It would not have affected
Watch-dog
To me, none of this suggested Communism or a new way of life.
of those
a
which
' ......
Heard on the ferry: "I feel ********❘ towards my husband as I do
towards my toothbrush; I don't like sharing them."
STEEL NATIONALISATION
By "Windrush,” Special correspondent
seems that there were two rea- son. Many ministers have not yet realised that 1950 began in new period. They are still the men of 1945., They believe that they have an almost holy mission to socialise Britain. So whether with a mandate such as they had in 1945, or with no mandate
are dividing the country dunger-
with the
question because our valued in the bid to make up for lost
the scales Government can convince even matters, these ministers will find
were being debated, the Labour dangers. Government throw away this as-
-
Political division
such uncertainties and
Nothing fresh
to
Marshall Plan for Europe, and this paper.. The present con- tons could have counted.
Conservatives offered exemplary management in any way. It is! it has been a pronounced suc-ference in London is essen- support for the now defence because -nationalisation cess. The money and mater- tially a Commonwealth affair, programme, But, at the very change management that it in- ials supplied to Europe did not But one of the most valuable moment when the defence plans volves go down the drain. They features of the entire concept went into the arteries and is its principle, of co-ordina- sot. muscles of nations stricken by tion and the avoidance.” of war, and they helped achieve harmful duplication. In this
The second reply is that the Government is doing nothing a miracle of recovery.
respect the whole of the ter-
fresh. The legislation for nation- In В somewhat different ritory between the Indian It has thus risked acute polliialling steel was passed in
In the cal division at a form, the many conferences Ocean and Hong Kong is
time when last Parliament. Its operation was nothing should be allowed to merely postponed. Now the time of which that now proceeding being regarded as more or less distract the country from its for bringing it into force has In London is one, herald a an economic whole. Accord- detence tasks. It has risked it arrived. It is mandatory on the similar aim for Asia. The ingly certain countries not be at a time when there may be Government to act according
an acute crisis of war and peace the law. But this is pure sophistry. emphasis this time is on de- longing to the Commonwealth in the next phase of the Korean
The
of the Act was operation o velopment rather than re- will take part in the discus-affair,
Dostponed, partly because of covery. Astonishing things, sions later.
It has risked the dislocation of agreement between the parties to have been done by these coun- Commonwealth plans alone the fron and steel industry exact facilliate, the holding, of the elec
ly at the moment when its maxi- tion as early as Inst February, tries in overcoming the wreck call for the expenditure of mum efficiency is vital for national partly becauso, it was recognised age and stagnation caused by some £1,750 million over a security. The experience in all to be so controversial that it was the war and Japanese occupa period of six years, of which the industries which have been desirable that the clectorate tion. They have, every one about half will be provided by ultimate benefits may be (if any), body could claim that a govern
nationalised is that whatever the should express its opinion. No- of them, in a true sense re-the countries themselves. thore is a painful period of dis- ment reiurnod with the minute covered. Britain helped in a | American aid since the war organisation, while the now sys" majority of the present ons re- Iceived a mandate from the coun- major degree by supplying to Western Europe in grants tem is being created. money and goods to the value or credits amounted to $18,628 tocutionis ilkely to be worse The explanation of the dov
In the steel industry the dis- try for anything, fertig of £750,000,000 in the post million, and to China, Japan, because the board of directors ernment's action must be sought war years out of the sterling. South Korea and the Philip which the government has gut elsewhere than in the Govern balances. It was done despite pines $4,440 million. To the unimpressive. The government, explanation is that the Partisan togather to administer it is very ment's arguments. Part of the great hardships and with rest of Asia aid was limited it is true, tried to get first-class left wing of the Labour Party little argument about the to a meagre $53 million, plus mon. But because they objected forced the decision by, the threat nature of the obligation. a somewhat larger sum for In- to nationalisation at a crisis time or splitting the party, probably - or because they objected on at the Labour Party, conference If the same spirit can be donesia. In this area of general principle they all ro- at Margate, The Labour left- brought to plans for vast de South and South East Asin, fused, the invitation,en wing it, to put it mildly, luke- velopment that the adminis with a population of 000 mil Government has weakened the foreign policy and about re- By its stent pulicy, the British warm about the Government's trator, planter, and miner-lions, le immense needs and confidence in it of the Voited armament: Gossip is that it was brought to the immense task - immense, potentialities. It is States of America. Of course no- willing to do a deal, Provided of rehabilitation "a task of decades War, Ania will be transformed of years, the tera dar than mietany eople, count make their need was about d from a continent living on the ought to be done and will borderline of poverty," and be done... j
would suggests steel, would
pleasing Anterica. But the But why did meponsible minia- domostiar policies, with an era of rearmament programiną,
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