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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1950.
A NEW FORCE THE MAN IN BLACK-ENTERS WORLD POLITICS
NEW YORK.
IS build is chunky. His face could not be called yellow. It has the aged, tough look of good English saddle leather.
The eyes gleam brightly. On his chin is an ugly sear. His jet black hair bristles over the cars. It imparts to the hard, determined face a belligerent, explosive quality. And when the top delegate of Red Chinn, General Wu Hsin-chuan, be- gins to speak in the Security Council chamber the explosive character of the man emerges in full force.
GENERAL
WU
of staff to General Lin Piso in, the north-west military com- mand.
ile still held that rank when Mao Tse-tung took him to Mog-
by cow for the long talks from Froderick
COOK
HE
HE STORMS. HE SCOLDS. PUZZLES THE STATESMEN. A PEN PICTURE OF RED CHINA'S SPOKES- MAN WHO HAS JUST LEFT LAKE SUCCESS TO RETURN TO PEKING.
General Wu's is the voico any rate this man does not of the New China. In it behave like a coolic." one senses the guiding fact In his maiden speech Wu of Wu's life, that unseen set the keynote for what behind him, never far from was to come. With eyes his mind, stund rank on flashing and with a cascade rank of bayonets of the of hissing syllables burst great horde China has un- ing through clenched teeth, leashed. And that behind he snapped: "I am here them ure countless bat as the spokesman of 475, talions more, also wearing 000,000 people
the the challenging Red Star, People's Republic of China also perhaps poised to hurl themselves into the new crusade, also talking a lan-. guage harsh and sibilant to Western ears and not un- like the ane Wu ploys at Uno.
now em-
by
Across the table, as he charged America with "criminal unlawful aggres- sion," sat impassive and wincing Dr Ting-fu Tsiang, representative of the Old China. His hand shielded his eyes. He slumped deep in his chair.
ALOOF
days was considered the hall mark of the Inscrutable East. Hin smiles he reserves for two men-Vyshinsky and Molk. And even towards them he isn't noticeably warm.
He even
manages to Ignore the bulk of iwo New York detectives detailed to guard him. One stands always behind his chair, the other walks with him wherever he may go-even to wash his hands.
Wu will pose for pictures atonily like a resentful child told to say "Ah" for the doctor. Then wave the cameramen he will nway angrily.
rules of UNO's debating halls by publicly scolding the official in terpreter in parade-ground tones for some slip in the simultaneous
Once he broke the unwritten
translation.
Nobody at Lake Success knows much about Wu yet. The sort of man he is depends largely on who is reporting. He is abrupt and aggressive. He is polite and friendly. He is amiable and com- bative and cold.
Wu's voice is said Lake Success interpreters to be a countryman's voice —educated, but still essent- tially having nothing to do with the Shanghai Bund or the silken drawing rooms
In debate certain peculiarities Lake have of the gracious old China.
Success scene has been twitches. When እሱ becomes Gone are the days when largely dominated by the excited be folds his arms tightly China's
were bitter tongue of General and begins to rock slowty from apokesmen
side to side as though to some dignified
dinly heard marching song. old gentlemen Wu. with wispy beards, pince-
SINCE then the
Britain's
Sir Gladwyn
nez over wise old faces and Jebb has made friendly ad- gently folded hands.
There is no diffident bow vances. India's Sir Benegal Rau has had almost to beg now. In its place the icy before Wu would glare, the whiplash ex-
even to talk with him in pletive, the table-thumping
private. demand.
STARTLED
consent
of
Secretary-General Trygve Lic has taken Wu to see the sights from the top of Uno's new headquarters in IF Wu had travelled across New York. Wu made the
the world
remarks to impress appropriate its upon
startled non- minimum politeness -- 710 Communist citizens that a more. new China is on the march 'he couldn't have succeeded he is the one man who does botter than he has in his not even become human in first fortnight at Lake Suc- the delegates lounge,
Uno base where quarrels are usually forgotten.
'cess,
Unbending,
THEY FLAP
his
pY Western standards
trousers are wide-almost bell-bottoms. They flap as he valks with jerky steps.
which sprang the Sino-Russian treaty.
4.
Lake success believes this is We'n first. viii to America.. The mensuro of the man's mystery may be found in the fact that evon this minor détail is subject to reservation be- cause, quite simply, nobody knows for sure.
All Lake Success does know for sure is that there is a now force at work.
(World Copyright Reserved-London Express Service).
General Wu Hslu-chuan (right) with somo members
of the Poking delegation of nine leaving their plano on arrival in Now York.
MAN WHO TOOK LASKI'S JOB ATTACKS THE COMMUNISTS
At the London School of Econòmics. a new professor occupies the chair of political science formerly held by Left Wine propagandist Harold Laski, His name: Michael Oakeshott. In this article examines a new book which gives an American's answer to the ques- tion: Can we halt Husda without war?
le
STALIN'S FOUR
WEAK POINTS
by MICHAEL OAKESHOTT
creases
tion for # of a political Ideo- logy of their own.
Mr Burnham does not take this view. "Democracy" for
of him is a matter
degree. And we do not have to bo
the
confident that we possess best possible institutions in or- der to oppose Russian Commu- hism, all we need to know is that Russian Communism is a threat to much of what we value supremely.
Consequently, our
objective
must be precisely to remove that menace, and to remove it without a war.
And since the menace must remain so long as the present oligarchy is in power in Rus- sia, our aim must be to assist in overthrowing that oligarchy weak- by working upon the
in-
This year.
can-
greater other
one
To be clear-sighted in into sentimentality, and the de- nesses of the regime. been noted. His left leg
one's attitude to Com- mand for self-deception munism
The present Russian Empire, is
every difficult "Communism," however.
though strong, sullers irom alike for the believer and not be counted
four principal weaknesses. for the opponent.
any menace than a hundred
The great masses of pieces of foolishness.
the Russian people are themselves The believer adheres to a
the mentally and physically theory and a political pro stand for something
"Communism" now is seen to enslaved victims of their the
else; it government; no one often stands for the subjugation gramme,
of the of satellite peoples composing the obscure except to the
world, eye the
Including the empire is "rellable"; the Rus- of faith, the other dynamic peoples of Russla to the slan government must sustain but suicidal. except for the garchy which rules in Mos- a rhythm of conquest or con- fess itself defeated, and there few who may come out on
is His sults and ties are black.top; and in spite of the con- signifcant are those who com- Titoism.
always the ability to The Communists who are sort of defection now known as Since he got here he Has acquir- stant efforts of acute
prise this oligarchy and its ed a Western style briefcase, Fle thinkers, is known
the theory and agents all over the world and American drug stores, but no the programine are always in those places which are body knows what he buys there, on the point of falling subject to the Immediate pres-
Jure
of Russian armed power) if anything.
apart.
those who from fear or an eye to the main chance wish to be other beforehand in their allegiance
ters. clear to their supposed future mas-
to be interested in
this
Wu is said to be in his early forties. It is known he was born The opponent, on the at Wuchung, in Hupch, not far hond, if he is to be from Hankow, and attended a sighted, needs to know exactly High school there. A Communist his tight-lipped, teacher is said to have given him what he is opposing; and
first
indoctrination. He is dimeuit for an Englishman Itussia. By 1931 he was back in not at all difficult for an en- "completed his education in for an American, though it is that China, a master of guerilla war-slaved Czech or a Pole.
fare.
The delegates do not yet quite know what to make Not Wu. He remains always of him. But in a tone com- aloof. Volatile and viclent as he posed in part of reluctant may be in debate, once he steps into the lounge he assumes the admiration they concede "at impassive mask that in the old
SHE IS AND
SOME
During the long campaigns It is easier for us to be against Chiang Kai-shek and the ether hysterical about Commu- Japanese he rose step by step tonism, or (like the BBC) to be deputy chief of staff with the ridiculously naive. third Army Corps.
On the day the West remem- bers as V. 3. Day, Wu was cher
IS YOUNG, RICH BEAUTIFUL
OME people are born under a lucky star. The Hon. Patricia Lowson, the new Lady Mayoress of the City of London, is certainly one of them.
For she has youth, beauty and riches. Her husband, Mr Denys Lowson, is one of the City's most successful financiera, well able to afford the £20,000 from his own pocket that 12 months as
Lord Mayor is likely to cost
him.
VIVIEN BATCHELOR!
At 31 she is the youngest the Horsham and Crawley Hunt, Lady Mayoress on record. riding side-saddle in black From the plump schoolgirl habit, stock and silk hat. who was a bride at 17, she
Her accomplishments has developed into a slen- leisured. and dignified. She has der handsome woman.
At the Guild of Free men's dinner at 'Guildhall, Sir Harold Webba spoke of her as "the legendary fairy princess, dear to the hearts
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studied art and paints well. You will always see her at the private views and new art shows. She reads a good deal, mainly bio- #raphies and books on art,
of the people," and he As her appearance proclaims,
she has
لله
the feminine
THE Lucky Mrs Lowson: picture at the Guildhall dinner
warned the Lord Mayor: understanding of clothes. If she
As first citizen of the first had not married a wealthy man does any gardening. A better city of the world, you have when she was barely out of the
garden at Balcombe, the never
than- average pianist, she has
House drawing-
n Berious rival for the affec- cookroom, but had had to can already tried out the piano in tions of the country."
Mrs Lowson
a living, she could have done so as a mannequin. Five feet the Mansion
fall. eight Inches
slenderly room.
Pran Hartnoling and Queer at models.
uest of the
uckingham Palace, the guest
cow.
To
THE TYRANTS
To join the party is now to
side with the tyrants.
In short, "Communism" Is mendee because it represents Russian imperialism.
THE ATTACK
the
TN a series of chapters, the
best of which is called the "propaganda attack," Mr Burn- ham examines what he believes to be the best ways of working on these weaknesses.
He does not suppose that the Russian oligarchy can be over- thrown by a spontaneous revolt
the crack must come from within the party. His aim is to enlist every possible ally in- nside and outside Russia, and his advice is to be unrdenting and absolutely consistent in And one does not need to be
our opposition to the oligarchy. Mr James Burnham, a
the dis- hysterica!,
victim of 1 He considers that Wo Bro unguished American writer on scare or to be heedless of other unduly nervous of provoking politics, has written book threats, in order to see this as Russia to a shooting war. And which, if it does nothing else, a significant threat to what we since his object is not to should help us to understand regard as a civilised way of destroy either Russia or "Com- the precise threat to our way Uving.
a
of life which is comprehensive- ly indicated in the word "Com- munism."
SUBTERFUGE
In
sees
munism," but to remove the menace of Russian imperialism, several he
the greatest hope In defections within the to Titolsm Communist-inspired Russian empire.
recent years writers have come forward advise the government of the U.S.A. on its policy in relation to Russia, and certainly Mr Burnham is more Jevel-headed than most.
As a political prophet Mr Burnham has not been remark-" ably successful in the past; he criticism of present has often shown a tendency to motives, American policy is that it is believe that things must go on
His country
P to about 1839 it was pos- sible to become and be a Communist in this from a variety of none of them entirely foolish purely defensive or deplorable.
The Russian Revolution, like the French, could грреаг as the dawn of a glad day.
And
Jacks precision.
and that
Great energy is now boing displayed in military prepara- tions to, avold defeat in a war
and
In the way they seemed to be going when, he took a look at them.
LISTEN TO HIM!
THE
In the time of Hitler's rise or with Russia, but thinks that
War the Spanish Civil
one less is being done than might significance of his book. might join the party out of the be done to defeat Russian im- does not, however, le in generous impulse to side with perialist designs without a war. its assessment of the future in- the down-trodden;
tentions of Russian policy, but though many who did so were
Thore is the Voice of Ameri- in its exploration of the most quick- ly revolted
er and there is the Marshall economical and most effective crooked Plan, but the by the thinking and subterfuge which tives of the opponents of Rus Russlan imperialist activities.
preche objec methods of defeating manifest comprised its theory and prae- slan imperialism are not clearly tice.
thought out.
the
Some people (but without This situation belongs to the readiest and most
much justification) will economical
· think past.
means are not being made use
he that
exaggerates the menace, but what makes him a writer worth listening to a his There
Gro some people great knowledge of the theory (mostly Americans) who see and practice of Communism the objective as the establish--and the fact that he cannot be ment of what they call a world mistaken for, a mere spokes- democratic order: the only de man of American Imperialism. feat of Russian Communism they recognise is the substitu- (World Copyright. Reserved-London
Express Service)..
сол
The "Intellectual"
or the "emotional Communist tinues to exist, but what was once generosity has degenerated
The Coming Defeat of Commu- niam, by James Burnham, (Cape,
125. Od.).
of.
Not even the
M°
noses
the Eskimos.
Now
1
travellers would ago by Scottish whalers.
Bame Bource.
(dressed by Nor- curved, her dressmakers find her when they were first married has been the as easy, to fit as the own she and her husband had a
MOST magnificent model railway which Queen Julana at Claridges; One of her best features are took up a whole room.
They
tell you that the tunes came mainly from ind (in a superb velvet and fox her hands.
playing They are long and spent hours
with 1. happiest people In the ur ensemble) hootees to the slender, with the whiteners ac- Now that interest has gone: Mrs world today are the Esid- royal visitors at Guildhall. centuated by tinted nail varnish; Lowson today prefers flying to
but there
drains-n preference not shared is nothing delicate about them. They are the strong by her husband, who refuses to The Mansion House does not hands of the horsewoman and fly. hd itself to domestially. The reveal a capability not always
rd Mayor's private apartments apparent in her face.
*
"Bo when we travel we often sist of four rooms only. During the war those hands meet at our destination," she
mos.
the
In "Eskimo Summer" Douglas Leechman, ·Canadian archaeologiat,
talks of Eskimos he met during a few months in Northern Labrador.
• Now • Mrs Lowron is the controlled the atlit, heavy whesis saya. mother of three children. Two of new ambulances, often for London's now Lady Mayoress Not much glamour hero, in the There is the Eskimo woman, of them-Gay, aged 18 and hours at a time and for journeys is London borr Meinale, aged 10 are at a board- of hundreds
She is the gruelling life of the Arctic. ing school They see their worked as a FANY bad her job Lord Strathcarron
younger daughter of the frat sother during holidays at me was to deliver the ambulances olristened in St minous and shapeless mass of
and
And yet,' despite her volu- homeat sa hoankala' in all parts of the Pont Street according to the clothing, she seems feminine Balcombe, Busser. Her youngest country..
rites of the Church' of fedtlandi, shoushi - 209 Be Aves with They are never seen stained ler husband was 30 when they #Halecunded wind sen filai
en fate with Lobano Cox he does not met and fell in love atry dinner told the car al
At one dance harf more for reddened with house. ĮPRIYA OY: TERKE LUNAR PE
Ehe
Was
The
rub
"gentle approach of one face to the other, as though they were about to kiss.
"The noses burely touch, it at
the all, and there is a gentle intake
of breath, as though animing."
Most Eskimo girls (and men) have beautiful teeth-and
at
one time went in for tattooing
decoration.
60
THEY LOVE SHAWLS
A flim show both baЛed and fascinated the Eskimos, &
Horses, trains, motorcars they could not understand, for they had never Bron thom. But Mickey Mouse was a success. The women love to buy things One old lady laughed so much from the white man's stores, she was carried out..
bowls. particularly brilliant hued
Children have a great timo;; the word "don't" is rarely used. Leechman save the two But football matches going on with, bits of jewellery and a thum can be somewhat exa women in the family he stayed until midnight in, the Midnight compact exch, complete with perating, Leechman found. mirror,
powder, and punt." They "Danger and courage" are the wara delighted
Keynotes of the Eskimos soda
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