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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1951.
WHEN STRIKES FOLD UP
WHEN
‘MASS DEMONSTRATIONS' FALL FLAT—
SEFTON DELMER
begins today his nation-by-nation tour of the Branch Offices of the Kremlin
ARE STALIN'S MEN SHAMMING?
H
economic and administrative machines, how far Moscow.con rely on them to form an effective Fifth Column.
ROME. ERE in Rome I have been listening to the anxious talk of In France I found that the Intelligence men Communist paper Humanite re- puzzling over Communist ported that 50,000 demonstrators "made Eisenhower fear the fallures in Italy, and ask- wrath of Paris."
ing:-
Are they shemming?
I was there. I saw only a fow Are men throwing handbills
and
the Communists deliberately shouting: "Home, Elsenhower." pulling their punches to lead us into an under-estimation of their strength:7 Or are they finished as a revolutionary force?
Can we dismiss the Red Fifth
Column as a bogey?"
I heard the same bowlidered where 5 months ago, when vast stores of a'amunition stacked-unguarded-be- were tween glant petrol tanks at Pusan.
Although Communists, bun- dreds of them, had Altered into the dock area, there was no at tempt at sabotage.
And no pay
FISE
comrades
nothing. Their
ta Province where 67,000 out of was greeted with cager in-
amounting France are equally quiet. A 390,000 inhabitants
almost to party terasi, are sham? A trick? I don't think members.
satisfaction, even by French high-ups.
$0.
.
And an echo
CX-
The Immediate pretext for Three factors have brought about the now situation, which their resignation from the party In my view makes a considerable was their robellous declaration: the event of war, every ohange in the military defence "In of Western Europe:-
Italian must defend the sacred IN Rome, I sat for half an hour soil of the Fatherland against in the committee room of the THE EMERGENCE, both in whatever Powers may be the National Assembly with a Demo- France and In Italy of power- nggressor,"
Ohristian anti-Communist M.P.. Igino Giordani, while he ful and effective trades unions
I spoke with some of Cucchi's plained to me exactly why he which repudiate the Communist
hon-Communist and Magnant's supporters in was against Haly taking any campaign calling on dockers Party, protect
confident that they
"If the Russians mean to Communist agninst
roprisals, temed H France, Italy, too, as in and transport workers to boycott workers defying shop stewards their Rome headquarters. They part is haly taking
France, the attempts of the the import of American arma- AND negotiate wage agreements. would be able to split the Com- make war they will not wait
munist Party wide open.
for us to rearm they will attack - controlled Communist
trades tents has been a flasco. unions to organise anti-Eigen- In France, the attempts of the
They told me: "We have us right away.
"We would do much better hower strikes or mass demon- Communists to call strikes in protest against German rearma- trations of workers have falled.
meny high-up sympathisers who to fight Communism by spend are in the party.
We are In one place only was the men brought no success.
ing on social services money we in touch with them, despite the are wasting on useless rearma- strike order obeyed in the
Communist secret police." Kreat State-owned shipbuilding yard at La Spezia. Out of 12,000 men employed there, 3,000 struck.
they
Coneldor the
ers at losing pay by being called out on strike for political causas dictated by Moscow.
2 THE IMPATIENCE of wor-
⚫ment."
a ver-
And they do lose pay when It's no sham
they strike now. For the Com- munist shop stewards can no
His last phrase was Yes, I am convinced that un- THE main reason why some longer guarantee pay pockets ess Soviet troops netunily set bathm coho of what a young THE
exports are puzzled by what as they could only two years foot on the soil of Italy or Communist worker had said to When they reported for work
deliberate go in both France and Italy. France we can sately rule out me only a few hours earlier th Why? The American Intelli- the following day, they were
Then even
if a man stayed any kind of mass rising by the a suburban district headquar gence officers, who finally per- instantly dismissed. After 12 passivity of the Communists is
work four days A Communists and their followers lers of the Communist Party.
When, a bit later, I suggested suaded the Koreans to supply days of unemployment without that they find it difficult to re- away from guards, were baffled.
to an Italian elder statesman pay they allowed back; all conette with reports they have week, either for strike or to de or the general strikes almed at
the unions would paralysing the country. of continued Communist party jobs, re-bad This time I am more anxious that is, except the ringleaders. efforts to build up militia or- force the employer to pay out
that Italy's role in the event of The importance is to solve the problem, For I
But I am equally sertain that armed conflict might be benevo- that
if a man turned up on the fifth the past have spent
weeks neither the party nor the unton
the Moscow Politburo and its lent neutrality he smiled day. travelling across Europe trying has attempted to take
agents in the Cominform have sakd
nista are up to.
were
In
the
to And out what the Commu- slightest action in roprisal or in dolence of the penalised strikers. What is more, both in France and in Italy the Communist
I wanted to find out to what extent they have penetrated the
WOMAN OF THE WEEK
T the George V super- hotel in Paris, an elderly Englishwoman with a comfortable figure. will stand up before a com- international law- pany of vers at a banquet attended by Minister of Justice Rene Mayer and
propose the health of the French Bar.
Her speech. will be in French but that will be no difficulty for jovial Mrs Helena Normanton, one of Britain's first two women KCs,
Mrs Normanton was once ju student at Dijon Univer- Isity' where she won a diploma in French language and litera.
ture
and
learned the French trick of washing
her hair in red wine.
Mis. Helena Normanton.
Mrs K.C.
CAN ALSO
the
Now she is in Paris to repre-
Bar at the English Sent Įcelebrations of the golden- Jubilee of French women law- yers.
COOK
MEGADAAN JELENTIERODONTORETNINETEENTEERUAREN
by EVELYN IRONS
necklace a
necidace
Before leaving. Mrs Norman that he demanded a whole ton got herself a special licence plateful of it").
From the kitchen her talk from the Board of Trade to take skipped nimbly to Shakespeare. out of the country the handsome why did Shakespeare put Portia diamond and pearl
the original she is wearing at the banquet. in Padua when Lawyer
at "L had special reason for Women
studied Mrs Bologna? wanting to have it with
Normanton, one- me, she told me.
time at Bologna University her- self ("I was the first barrister Reason-the
since the Re- was to study there
that in presented to her by members of formation"), explained the Old Bailey Bar Mess, of considerable historical detail.
From Shakespearean research, which she was
and "Junior honorary treasurer (equivalent via a recent loamed article she to secretary in non-legal lan- wrote about Twelfth Night and her favourite writers, modern.
DS "dote Dean Inge," says she. on Dr Inge." Among the poets she picked on Edith Sitwell as "undoubtedly the best living." loathe laborious
"THE WIND AND THE RAIN" age) til she became a KC the Temple, to
by
MERTON HODGE
on
THURS. 8th MAR. 1951 at 9.00 P.M.
two years ago,
SHE IS PROUD
MY
"
anisations in France and Italy.
"If these militia groups are as strong as we hear they are, the
been able to do should have better" is the argument I have heard put forward.
In Italy the militia-based as In France on Communist youth organisations and former resist ance velerans according to yeme estimates, has 70,000 mem-
bers.
they
baillon
of
and
so. There are too many"
We must not
3 THE ANTI-STALINIST re-realised this. They have adapted "Maybe. But one should never
ray an increasingly their planning necordingly. large number of young Commu- In their propaganda they will neutralists around in Italy and nuts, especially
who attempt to in Italy,
the lost in France. joined the party during the war sympathies of the French and courage these cowards." in
order to Aght for Italy Italians by offering these war- against the Germans.
Now they follow the example of Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito in repudiating Moscow's insistence Until recently
were on unquestioning subordination plentifully supplied with arms of all national interests to those and munitions hidden in secret of the Kremlin. dumps. Last year the
found eight pieces, of a police
recover
came
piece
on-
MEANWHILE to attain their of paralysing the Industrial transport
weary peoples the possibility of New methods keeping neutral in any conflict.
While I was in Paris
through Mebicet et intelligence saying that in the event of war the Russians intended to By- cconomic, pass a neutralised France. They and mobilisation mechanisms of would blitz their way with air France and Italy in the event of war with Western Europe the borne tandings into what they Cominform will
usc methods ranaldered the main American bridgeheads: Britain and Spain, unconnected with mass strikes
To my amazement, I could see and mass demonstrations.
What I have discovered about high-up Communist that this prospect which, it Deputies, Cucchi and Magnani, succesatul would, of
This, the secret underground side course of the Communist plan, I will They were the
chiefs of the inevitably entail the subjection tell you in my next despatch. Communist Party in its North of France to Russia and its Italian stronghold of Emilla bombardment by the Americans
High-ups go
21,000 artillery shells, 17 mor- tars, 219 machine guns, 279 sub- machine guns, 1,800 automatic E latest Italian rebels are rifles, 6,000 carbines, 20 radio. transmitters, 700 tens of explo- slves.
But today the men who have trained to use this armament do
THE present holding.
operation of Southern Korea by the United Nations forces is watched by American strategists with acute interest because of its possible application to the defence of Western Europe.
two
KOREA'S
But
(World Copyright-London Express Sornice).
LESSON
IN STRATEGY
By O. H. BRANDON
Much water has flowed down the Yalu River since General MacArthur's divisions fled south after the massive intervention of the Chinese Communists troops at a pace which made 1 im- significance similar to the Elbe possible for them to maintain or the Rhine in Europe, although
it is not a natural obstacle.
contact with. the enemy.
concur
Ridgeway's present and Eisenhower's future, strategy in
the 38th Parallel has that is best to his advantage. between virtually ceased to be of politi The Air Force and the Navy strategy cat significance, at least for the not only protect his flanks, but possible Military Command. Το the they also harass the enemy's ex- Europe, the Anglo-American strategists who now see the ended communication Ines. planners feel that Elsenhower Korean
battle like a huge Thus American strategists-and would have a first-rate chance manoeuvre with live ammuni- the British military
of holding Western Europe tion, the 38th Parallel ans a this-betlove the United Nations against a Russian onslaught with forces can maintain themselves the sixty divisions he should in Southern and what is more important, can of 1952, and the air and naval
Korea
indefinitely. have at his disposal by the end with some
14 divisions they forces to protect his flanks. Since
Che
now have In Korea hold the American
Eisenhower would have the Government resisted
To drive north would again military might of China in additional advantage that In General's commentation for a lead-the-army-into a situation check-at-this-front-
-case-of-e-Russian attack-there- the global view, ing the enemy's earthat if the would be no hesitation in bomb-- Taking and General Ridgeway, who is unlimited manpower complete-evacuation of Korea where the enemy with his now 'n command of the Eighth advantage. But in the present Europe looks on the man like
is assumed morole of the United Nations challenge the enemy when and Continent, like a vastly extended westward, it would have along Amy, has not only restored the position General Ridgeway can a peninsula of the Eurasian
Soviet army starts rolling troops
but lcd them
back where he wants, and, naturally, Karea which is a peninsula in most of its flanks hostile forces.
he selects the place toward the fatal 38th Parallel.
and time Itself, Drawing the parallel In the north it would be chiefly
Scandinavia, in the Turkey, Greccè, Yugoslavia, Italy,
then
The
London's planners
has the
@ By June 30 this year avery county council and County borough council must send to Whitehall their development plans for the next 20 years.
• In London the 1951 plan' will be a revised version of the County of London Plan 1943. Bur what has happened to that plan in the last saven years?. In this artich the town planning expert of an important London borough tell how the planners have “gone into reverse "*
go into reverse
with
courts,
THE
Who
Wad a
+
It
south
All these countries could be kept supplied by soa and be developed into formidable thorns in the side of the Soviet armies. When in 1944 the German Army lasmobed its fast attack in the Ardennes and The famous "Battle of the developed,
General
Bulge" may not arise again for many Eisenhower then deckled to meet They threw a dinner party for
decades.
this threat not by a frontal at- her in the judges' dining-room at
In the case of outwora and tack, but by turning the divi- the "Bailey" to celebrate the she announced, recalling hours
blighted areas the County of sions of General Patton and Field. of tedham in the anniversary twenty-fith
around London, but London Plan emphasized the Marshal Montgomery against the women being called to the Bar was the willest judge in her County of London leved
Plan 1943 "Harry Eve. His
separated from it by a Green nood to regroup and redevelop extended flanks of the coomy In and gave her the necklace. She experience?
Belt free from new, building. all these areas over a number order to seal off the bulge at Its brillance was so easy." (Sir bright promise that our
None of these defects has of years following the end neck and thereby not only Harry Eve died 10 years ago.) battered city was to be been seriously tackled; all
are choke the German supply lines of the war; but these areas Is there a woman Jawyer
and
also cut off reinforcements, being allowed to starmate, debut thing bad
of being a judge? transformed into a place them are being ignored, happened in the capable
magnified, a similar some of them have been aban- teriorate and disintegrate. The Judges' dining-room, and Mrs "Well, why not Rose Heilbron?"ft for heroes to live in."
doped.
only exceptions are the specific technique could be employed in Normanton was the first woman Myself? Certainly not." Miss That plan was the most am
Of the three ring rosis "A". "Reconstruction Areas" in the the defence of Europe. to be responsible for the Bar Hellbron, 38 now, took silk at bitious and widely publicised
(Inner Ring), (Interno East End, which aro being General MacArthur first mis- the same time as Mrs Norman-of Britain's postwar plaris. It
(Outer pushed ahead
the mission diate Ring), and "C"
in order to be conceived ton, two years ago."
acclama a received world-wide
Ring), provkled for to
the ready for putting on how us a United Nations forces in Korea. tion
County of London Pian, roads "Live Architecture Exhibit as It was to stop aggression by the Now. seven years
inter, "A" and "B" were the most part of the 1951 Festival of North Koreans popular interest in London's an
invaded South Korea.
It was the first time such a
FRI. SAT.
9th 10th 17'
"
""
13
"
7.30 9.00
is immensely proud of it.
11
"
at the
CHINA FLEET CLUB THEATRE Mess.
BOOKINGS AT MOUTRIES
way.
Kowloon Residents:
CONCERT
IN AID OF
PIER each
THE MISSIÓN TO LEPERS HONG KONG AUXILIARY
་
But a list of the things she has done for the Arst time is so long that It becomes a bore, even to Mrs Normanton herself.
FISH-PLUS
and
·
WOMEN MPs
Open spaces
of
consultations,
Britain,
the
Desecration
New Towns
Bow
route of the B. the solid foundation
houses into Bats.
*
and
of the
liberato
new
But although she looks for future has given place to feel- ugen, and a portat
in May 1950, after seven It began in 1910, when she ward hopefully to the day when ings of cynical disillusionment years A special FERRY WILL RUN from POLICE
But it was not the United KOWLOON,
THEATRE to the
35 mine. before
became the first woman ever to, a woman will be a judge and and forebodings that the Coun-- Minister of Town and Country
even Lord Chlef be admitted as a bar student.
Justice the ty of London Plan is being Plan
Planning, Mr Hugh Dafton, IN
Decentralization, Nations' aim to win geographical performance, returning after the show. FARE $1.00 each She was the first woman bar quality of her mercy is some- ruthlessly sabotaged.
blandly announced that the A-INALLY what strained towards women The Courty of London Plan Ring-Rogd project had rister to be briefed at the High MPS.
and
the or rather geopolitical advantages, misconception After that titanite fight spotlighted ve Court, the Old Bailey
major defects been finally abandoned; and, Green Belt. The stars fact is and was this
the disaster from congestion;
that this trio, which together that caused London Sessions; the first to for the vote what a bunch of in London-traffic
to nonentities they have been up lack of open spaces; outworni
nothing is Moreover,
of which the United Nations forces appear for the
Crown in a to date! ahe
exclaims.
done by the ICC to
the County of London Plan, are fortunately recovering now. and blighted housing; wrong criminal appeal (that was when
General Ridgeway has now This is
are operating-but in reverse change from the old | inter-mixture of housing and Private Robert Sloan last his feminist days when married as industry; and over-population,
because of the cost involved.
task. a limited Now buildings and develop car. People are being packed been allotted case and was hanged for wife a law student in 1921, Helena
Chinese which ta to hold the ment on the route are being bere and higher densities
Into London in greater murder in 1948).
armies in in and North Korean Normanton refused to take the
openly permitted, even to the huge blocks of fats and by the chock, decimate them if possible name of her husband, Mr Gavin
to his own Clark, and was the first married
extent of changing the road's wholesale conversion of private at the least cos to site-line th order to accommo-
troops and thus create Englishwoman to take
[TRAFFIC: congestion' was out a bo cased by three
ring date new buildings,
situation more conducive 10 passport in her own name.
The New Towne project negotiations on an equal basis, They were a devoted, childless roads.
proceeding mostly on paper.
victor between couple. Mr Clark, a chartered
not Open spaces
to bo'
The authorities widely publi-
vanquished. died nearly three brought up to four acres per
cise it with one hand, and ap-
The strategy. now adopted by As for the building up 1,000 of population within the Ago.
02 ply the economic brake with
General Iudgoway is in minin A open For much of her legal career, County area (with an addi-
.space
standards, the other.
ture what may become the grand Normanton has had to fight tional three acres outside the London had half an acre per The Green Belt around Lon strategy for the dafchco of "I may be a poor barrister," prejudice against her sex. County area).
corn and blighted to be of population, which was doo is still being subjected to Wostord Europe. It is also Bub DOW that
raised four acres; but desecration by building.
roasang
that General
Eisch There was dish for lunch, but to struggle and has become an areas were to be redeveloped practically no new open spaces This i the background bower has great confidence in sho bod tiivatect it up with accepted feature of tho lawyer's os residential neighbourhood have been acquired.
against which the 1981 De- THE strategy and although its herbs and fried it in feather landscape, her feminist claws units on mollern planning stand- In spite of this, the LCC velopment Plan for London is SUCCESS
Korea is still in- light batter so that it remained are shouthod, ‹
have made plans to build on a being prepared. It does not in- conclusive, it is great posibili cod only in the strictly legal | "Let us so that men get fair The mixture of housing, and mumber of
treatment," she advies kindly, industry was to bout when the Contents duce any fealing of optimism ties of improvement and adapta
County aron; the among Londoners who have ton "Married men often gut, a poorer, by much industry being moved himmediate aim has boon fowoze pelse in the future of their the "noble to meeting many friends and impellers of the Auxiliary a well stuffing" she had devised for the doul in the lower cotants than out of London altogether, and od to 311⁄2 porcs per 1,000 people, at. Rosethe-million people sard opportunities of. - buring darpurved to new towns citām lapad are being mined which
On Saturday, Brd March, 1951, at 8:30 p.m. a Concert will be given at the Diocesan Boys' School, Homuntin, Kowloom. Among those participating in the Concert are the following..
Gasion and
D'Aquino Soloists Caroline Draga (Plane) (Tenor), Conductor. T. Ride, Accompaniat E, O'Nell Shaw.
This Concert has been arranged by The Hong Kong Bingers in ald of The Mission to Levers Hong Kong Auxiliary. Proceeds of the Concert will be used to promote the work of The Mission to Lepers Hong Kong Auxiliary to bring medical aid, spiritual and occupational Instruction and support in many other ways to those suffering from Leprowy in Hong Kong
Bockings can be made at Mortises, and tickets NIK#3, HK45, and ZUK 10.
in looking forward The - hliadon to Lepore Hong Kong Aixillary
ea muda lovers," at:itle: Benefit, Concert,
Shiting at case by the fire in the book-cluttered Hving-room of her Victorian villa in Bocken- couple. haun, Mrá Normanton waves those matters aside to talk of yours other things,
Mrs
she chuckles, "but I can cook."
SCADO
wonnen.
she is venned
She recalled
Christmas turkey pit Bộ D- (World Copyright #georged- pealed to an American guest London" "Express" Berulat).
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wwe
The aim drops
and
--(Landam" Başirdi" Keratos) –
Emotions should also be a-warning to thono wha kaz be tempted to took th macromivoly: