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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 1951.
Cardinal Errors In The Policies
Of Soviet Russia
By
FRANCIS WATSON
of my
of
-Na cemetery in the It is not really surprising to guarded herself (as did Japan Benito Mussolini for 269 years) against foreign north of London is reflect that
of Karl Krew to maturity as a Marxist. examination. If the prestige of the grave
Where he parted company with power should fail, the prestige Marx, who lived and Marx was in the field of Inter- mystery may catch the un- wrote there and died in nationalism, which has troubled wary,
The
detailed
exposure 1883. Few go to visit it so many would-be Communists.
takes The double view of nationalismo, Marxism has been carried out nobody now, and
developing in a Russian ell many times in our own day. the But the cardinal error, the fatal to keep it clean and mate, has today procommunist miscalculation, and the whole care
By Marx's own characteristically materialistic principles that spectacle of a monstrous nation- dry-rot of Communism, is to be Ideal society can be built by seems only just, for he de. State of the most reactionary found in the proposition that an type which denies (except in
slaves-slaves to a
dogma, clared that he had freed softening-up" propaganda) the
slaves to the mechanical opera- himself from "the lumber rights of
tion of material forces, slaves of soul and spirit." History others,
by an inevitable process in the have moved on,
hierarchy that has seized the. power to enforce the dogms and operate the machine.
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If we call it "Sovlei Imperial- ism" it is because we recognise and they have not moved it as out-of-date, Just as the im- by the laws of Murx.
perialism of Mussolini and Hit- proclaimed themselves Few now believe that mate- ler (who rlatium cun answer the whole as new Communism)
out-of-date. Lenin slustion Envngely problem of man'a few, that is, outside the USSR, doctored that everything was and inside it none of us know. moral that served the prole
This
pro how many.
tarian revolution. Hitler
that "The good is not due to any counter-attack claimed: The by organised religion. It is not which serves Germany"-mean- even duc
entirely
the Ing, of course, the Germany
Mussolini's ordinary human instincts which his own ambitions. revolt from such a barren con- slogan for his followers could serve word for word for the ception of life,
Communism of the Kremlin: it was "Belleve, Obey, Fight!"
how few
to
Modern science also rejects emphatically the limited view of man as a creature helpless in the Kelp of pre-ordained economic factors. And indeed it is now cles that Marx himself, despite hin Bushes of intellectual brit- llarce was caught in his own
trap.
Younger days
of
Lack life
MARX did envisage a "process
of becoming," and Communist theory still plays with principles of change. Yet in fact Com- munism resists and defies the real principles of change, which are organic and transcendental. It seeks to freeze history to its own pattern, instead of releasing its flow. It must ultimately be vain attempt, Free minds understand that.
a
Perverted type Mahaims Gandhi, I venture
tion-
the perverted type of revollu-
of
even
and
to think, was one who under- ĦUSSOLINI and Hitler, and stood it. Many years ago he
wrote in Young India: "The they tribalism which tionary the world, perished regard moral
economics that dis-
and sentimental, brought into by their own principles. That is considerations are
like wax- the writing on the wall for works that being life-like stili THERE was an idealistic aspect Moscow, with Its muddled tri- lack the life of the fiving flesh, in his thought, especially in his balism of paramount class and At every crucial moment these laws paramount nation. The task of new-fangled economic younger
days. He could not the free world for our genera- have broken down in practice.
our And for avoid concerning himself with
nations or Individuals moral and ethical notions; and children-is to see that the in-
Perhaps
who accept them as guiding when he tried to escape them by evitable ruin the Kremlin maxims must perish. using the terminology of econo-
Gandhi was
willing to un- system does not drag the rest of mie materialism, he was thrown
the human family with it.
derstand Communism. The into contradictions which under-
But we must remember: in human charity and tolerance of mine his theories from the start.
nature Impelled him to the time of their triumph, now his The Reeds of the failure of Mar-
almost forgotten, Mussolini and recognise
worthy motives xism, we can now see, are to be
Hitler secured for Fascism some-
wherever he could find them, found in Marxism itself.
thing of the eternal prestige of and at the same time to speak The second main source
out against false doctrines nnti power. When the Itapered of ultimate failure, German dictatorships error, and
violent methods. If Com- Is in
in the famous.
conception of German founded
to be
on materiale
munists have seemed less than "close struggle." This struggle, which Marx declared to be strength, there were people in just towards Gandhi in return. who were pre- it is simply because to Marxist necessary and inevitable, would many countries
tum a
blind eye to theory his life and work were lead, he said, to "the ruin of the pared to
not merely repugnant they contending classes." The male their inherent evils as well as to
were flatly Impossible. rialistic side of Marx preached their inherent weaknesses.
Similarly the entrenchment of general ruin. The irrespressibly
centralised Communist dicta idealistic side of him
the vast the torship throughout rather vaguely, that after
and spaces of the USSR, and sever- ruin would come a new
al of its helpless neighbours, splendid and classless world.
exercises the fascination of Russian revolutionaries
who adapted Marx to their own em bitions found that the First World War provided
them, in
is the only Russia, with, the opportunity
And so Internu-SOVIET Russia
power to have expanded her tional warfare was seen by the territories as a result of the new type of Communist to be a Second World War. With this desirable thing as a prelude to reputation for coing rations
they wanted.
class warfare.
hoped.
success.
Bayonet point
offer to struggling
she can
in
Asin system led economically and politically to Moscow, much as Japan offered at the point of а "Co-Prosperity the bayonet Sphere centred-but, not for long-on Tokyo.
AMBITION
-A CONTRAST BY CUMMINGS
la 1900... and in the Welfare State, 1951
When I grow up I want to be the driver of a crack exprest,"
1900
"When I grow up I want to bring light and power to uncharted wastes.”
1900
Cummings
* When I grow up I want to be maître d'hotel of an hotel at for 'kings. . . .*
"When I grow up i want to be an executive and cut off the summer timetables With awcep of the pencil."
1951
* When I grow up I want to be an engineer and, with a flick of my tinger. cut off power in a thousand homea."
1951
"When I grow up i want to run an L.C.C. restaurant at a los of millions. ...”
This Dictator Is
Tired
THE
Το
London Expresa Bervice
Too
Dictate
By Charles Foley
Lisbon. three Spaniards for Salazar's and--because
Salazar did
NEHRU FACES STORM
By lan Dunbar
THE biggest
Patna.
political
of.
storm ainco India achieved independence four years ago has burst upon Mr Nehru's Government. An important section Congress → the Government Darty-has broken oway form a new Left-wing group known as the
People's Party, It is led by a
a gultar-playing Acharya Kripalani, Beneral secretary of the leader of Congress. And India's Socialists, Jai Prakash Narain, has pledged their full support.
two men vowed to a conillion to smash Con- at the rule In India
Krtsy
coming winter elections when they addressed vast rally in Patna,
a
capital
of the famine- pinched State of Bihar.
Gesticulating beneath a blaz
electrio swastika at the foot of the elty's Gandhl memor- lal.
Kripalant
ing
Hold
thousands
of people, seated
cross-legged
the around
for
posed
Byen on
ground
KRIPALANI ---Mystic.
him, that the People'a
competence.
Party Intended to sweep away the corruption and arrogance of Free India's first Government. He blamed Government graft the Bihar famine and ex-
and dlshonesty
112-
Narain told af Congress politicians who abused The "extravagance" of British rule, are now driving about 'In high-powered cars and salting Dway profits from rice Kalės crookedly manipulated
but
and
controls.
Speakers from all over India, brought storica of a disintegral. ing administration in the Pun- jab, where civil servants are about to take over the Govern ment from grafting politicians;
Communist-ridden Bengal said to be virtually in the hands of black marketing merchants.
*
in
Speakers from Bombay State: said it is crippled by a doc. trinaire attempt to enforce prohibition. Those from Madras reported that it, too, is in. the grip of famine.
And men from Assam:, on India's Tibetan frontier, said Communist activities there are so serious that the Govern-. the ment has had to reinforce army.
No one dared to condemn Nehru, whose personality and prestige carry the whole the crumbling Congress regime. But all attacked his refusal to purge "undesirable elements."
A member of Nehru's Ca- binet, Communications Minister Rad
Kidwal, has come to to join the People's He brings the greater
Congres Party's
Patna
Party,
of
general
part of the
-(London Expres Service.)
Back to war WHAT this means today is this:
longest lived neighbour, General Franco, is desire for a change-might be at a stage in the story of man when peace is becoming more
dictatorship in Europe much concerned by this example come elected. of all
is dying. and more the objective
What may fol. of abdication.
Perhaps-oh, horror-a dls- And in order that this spraw-
migh! economic
Communist sane political and
planning, Com- ing tyranny should be accepted low no one here knows, but
not appear. He gulsed thought and
triumph at the polls. primitive by the outside world as essen- quiet, grey-haired Antonio has been seen in public once munism
to reverts
as the basic tial atrength, the justification of de Oliveira Salazar, who for only since, 60 days ago, he at- Why will he not come out struggle and war principles of development,
dogma, Soviet Russia has 23 years has held absolute tended the funeral of Portugal's and tell them what to do?
Carmona,. power over Portugal, seems President, Genoral
who had reigned alongside him on the point of giving it all for nearly a quarter of a cen- up at the age of 62.
Portugal is Britain's oldest aly. Her fate has been bound up with ours for 600 years.
And in the Atlantic, as I was reminded when I flew over the buoy which marks the grave of "How the Affray, her harbours
islands may be vital in the sub- marine warfare of the future..
GLAMOUR SHAKES THE AIR FORCE
From NEWELL ROGERS
the price of the book NEW YORK. THERE is trouble in the To Stop Smoking." T women's
branch of FLIGHT TESTS of a Jot
which wings
be the U.S. Air Force. And with
shifted from straight across to among the men even
swept back while
nying, hardened fliers have flinch announced by the Air Force.
ed.
are
war-
can
tury.
That, it became clear as the session opened, is the root of the crisis. It was assumed that Salazar would tako over the Presidency with his other offices. But Salazar declared himself too tired, too old, worn out by his and labours.
All this may be at hazard in the strange crisis which Dr Salazar's decision to le low has brought upon his people. Yet THE LITTLE WOMAN will when you sweep in from the no longer be enough to save sea there is no sign of the which has young husbands from call-up. silent convulsion
Conscription going to talce seized what, for want of a bet-
between ter term, must $35,000 married mon
be called chil-political life of the capital,
air
in
10 to 25 who have no
dren.
air
at
BAIN for the second year has washed out" the annual plenic of employees in New
the
BALAZAR
China
Coast
Ports
to
More. Salazar rofused even to Indicate who the successor Carmona should be He left the whole
question
to the "organs of state."
The start of it all was a
So now there wicked report that the
is an indignant force girls
not 80
Too old hubbub in the glamorous as the girls
at 62. National Assem bly, which is used to rubber- the navy's W.A.V.E.S.
stamping the dictator's decisions To smooth matters, the
and which is outraged by this force top brass called in Juc- quellae Cochran, one
True, the National Assembly show of democratic inparitality. America's foremost women
York's Water Supply Dept. is meeting in its pink and white
The Government spokesman, palace. But to give advice.
nobody who re-
reading his speech sheet by that the AFRAID that no one loved members Lisbon before Salazar, She recommended women's branch pay more at him, bachelor Jim Garnhart with 40 Governments and 16 sheet as it is brought in to him,
and tontion
shapeliness
funers armed revolutions to 10 years, makes it clear that the sheep to
presided at his own now and This prowad charm.
furnished refreshments would recognise this collection have lost their shepherd, rather than have it after he of band-ploked nominees, wrath.
that died, with no one to
Salazar mourn. whispers There were
Legs Now he is receiving 20 offers The Assembly is faced with a it is up to them. dumpy girls with thick
because they of marriage enlisted
More on more M.P.g' leavo knew how to grease plano en- widows, who read of the modern history the refusal of gines. Colonel Geraldine May, funeral. They also read that a dictator to dictate.
their seats tp crowd before the belleved 74-year-old Garnhart expects SION WAF commander,
be In the conventionally ornate Speaker's dels until the floor her girls should do hard work to leave £31,000. Boys
They horseshoe chambor, with its op- 'jam-packed, with them. Just "I may surprise you yet.”[ not alongside the mob,
pressive statuary and theatrical insist that
Government ladylike Jobs. Now she
• A BONUS of over £20,000 canvases, the spectacle'wes and should take over responsibility quit,
Washington calls the trouble is to be paid to a 17-year-old of a stage army in search of a for fixing the election. They.
schoolboy, Ted Karanaki, for play. Nobody knew what his "Grease versus Glamour.”
signing to play baseball with role should be. **** THE PRICE WAR cuts bolh the Philadelphia Phillies. He ways. A department store ad is a star, and all of the pro- werd, after vertises a 20 percent. reduc- teatonal, clubs tion on cigars. And a cut in him
werd
has
a day
from crisis surely unprecedented
In
says that this time
the
want no part of this dingarous game.
I was led into the box: róm,
In the absence of a Balatar served for diplomate, and was warmly greeted by a Swiss and directivo anyone might stand,
CHINA
--and most of its votes. Other machine in the United Provinces
to Congress men are expected follow.
The colossal anti-climax to India's freedom has so sickened the country, which was pro- mised a paradise, that there is a British widespread cry"The did better than this."
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