Preparations for a
"Peace Conference" are under way,
in Peking. It is reported that the
Korean Armistice talks are to be brought
• there to show how keen the Chinese afe for Peace.
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"THE" CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER
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ANA ON THE
SLIPPERY SLOPE
By DAVID LADLAW
is. polished
T was a chilly Novem- munist community
ber night in 1947. Snooth with precedent.
Ana studied to be a doclor-as -Bucharest's maina young girl in Bucharest and boulevard, the Callen then earned a living teaching Victoria, was almost desert- Hebrew. Thus her
basic ap- intellec- ed. Few passersby saw the picach was that of an
tul. Never was she a starving small, swift
of caravan war ker herself. She joined the motor cars that swung to fumantas labour movement out El curb and halted in front of conviction, became an active of the Imperial Palace. agitator, lived the usual orcane life of a Communist conspirator, the underground all over Europe, guined the closest friendship of like Maurice Thorez in France, and in
face, and 1933 was arrested
performed various missions for
in Bucharest and sentenced to 10 years in prison.
From a bullet-proof Zis Russia's copy of an Ameri- call Packard --1 blunt, heavy bodied woman men stepped out. She snorted with annoyance as her right leg bumped on the car door and laddered her nyloned stocking. Then she straightened and glanced at the harsh profile of palace outlined against the her views. night sky.
"ANA PAUKER
as grossly too, should emerge Inefficient administrators. A Western diplomat once gave IL us his opinion that Pauker had little grasp of foreign affairs and that her Ministry functioned worse than any foreign govern- ment department he had ever come across.
1952.*
CAIRO RISKS
MORE THAN ITS Coffee is better with
T
NIGHT LIGHTS
by ARTHUR COOK
THE night lights are Colleges and universities are going out in Egypt. turning out increasing numbers of doctors, lawyers and Those after dark journalists steeped in the Moslem haunts where Farouk was Brotherhood teachings. familiar and his friends These careful preparations abounded. have been raided were maturing as Neguib took
and closed.
the Brother- over Egypt. And hood was ready to move in for
published a decrce
leaders on..what the
Egypt Brotherhood attained power.
The gloom today in action on shadow-Cabinet level. Cairo's most expensive clubs A month ago -the Mohammed Aly, the
would be like II Nile Boat, and Royal Auto mcbiles more thun #1 The decree warned that there petty, symbolic gesture by would be no more night clubs, no new-broom Premier Negulb, cinemas, no books unless they Those lights were snuffed were of an educational nature, by the Moslem Brotherhood no galety, no alcohol. in their first open political declared that no party-religious As if in reply, General Neguib, triumph since Farouk sailed or otherwise has any part in the policy of the army's move- ment.
away.
DECEPTION
Card playing, drinking, lute hours, bright lights, and glamour are evil, say DELIEF brought by this news the Brothers, not because was short-ilved, for Neguib, they reflect the old, corrupt on taking over the premiership, has included two Moslem regime, but because they Brotherhood leaders in his first are outside the teaching of Cabinet. the Koran.
RUTHLESS... SIMPLE and ruthless is their erced: Egypt must return to the days when Allah decides all. Aliah decides what is right, what is wrong, Everything comes from Allah, and everything- without exception-is done for Allah alone.
the Waldist
Yet only a short while ago rumours that two of Negulb's advisory council of officers were Mosteni Brotherhood followers were denied as ridiculous.
Now that this deception is ex- posed, the whole of Egypt's social life may be transformed.
There is plenty of scopo even Negulb, as a sop, restricts his Brotherhood Cabinet colleagues
entertainment reforms.
10
Only since the army's coup d'etat has the Moslem Brather On the Brotherood black list hood been able to convert these must be the Sofar club, on the religious beliefs into a direct roa
road to the Pyramids, with its political force.
dancing until early hours under But its influence has been dis- Koft lights; the Helmeyer Palace, cernible in every political, every nut beyond the Heliopolis road, anti-British or anti-West move
ezigane orchestra will where since
Party carry its melody into any privato abrogated the Anglo-Egyptian box after the cabaret artist han finished painting faces on the treaty last October.
The Moslem world for Moslems backs of showgirls; the Excelsior énly was the war ery, and club, in "Alexandria, where the battalions of Mostem Brother main attraction is the act of the hood "liberation" soldiers moved caven-haired dancing twins. | from Cairo and Alexandria into the Canal Zone to fight the | British troops.
AND NEXTS.
3.
So the Kremlin may have felt for a long while that sooner or later these East European "Old Guard" Communists must give This Was the way to others more competent to | period, now identifiable as San Stephano private gambling impose a new economic and social | planned effort to stake ʼn claim order."
In a parliamentary democracy, the people can vote out of office an inefficient Dr unpopular government. A prime minister
building-up
to speak in any new regime.
SUCCESS
WITH them will surely fade the near by Scarabee and
clubs where sleepyjeyed women and grim-faced men sit until breakfast-time trying to win
back the
the thousands they have
fost at baccarat.
money- until the
TULE Brothers have played up-
When the night light snuffers on deep-rooted Moslem tradi- tions in their propaganda. They have done their work little will can remove an incompetent drive home the message that all be left for the tourist trade, one minister. Not so in u Com-Western or Christian Ideals and of
Egypt's greatest £e munist state. If ៥ change ideas are anti-Moslem.
spinning. Industries of policy is necessary, heretics
Supporters have infiltrated the sacking of Cairo carly this year, are found and heads must fall.army, the pollee, the colleges, Negulb the soldier will then and the universities. Their face a test as a statesman. He success has been considerable. will need money. And Idealists Many of their followers are like the Brothers usually lose now among The junior afficer when they clash with the men classes of the police and army; of the Treasury, thousands more are among the Negulb is too shrewd to ignore rankers.
his dnaneipl udvisers.
So Ana became one of the Soviet-trained elite. It was through her that directives were passed to the Communist rulers
tumania. Malenkov himself over, there was devaluation of Money which the used to listen with respect to could have bought a pair of
It was the palace she would
get to know helter as time went
Well, it is not the first time
the currency.
shoes suddenly dropped to the value of a packet of rigurettes.
Apparently the time had come to dim the spotlight on Sovlei
ut Interior
ANA 15 Jewish. Her father, Robinsohn, Wats a rabbi. She is a Comintern veteran.
знач
Jakob Berman,
into the
India
And it would suit her, for NE sunny day in Bucharest, power and to divert unrest by his fate is known)
Slansky is (or was-nothing of like her it was incisive, unbend- so the story goes, a friend playing up nationalist sentiment. So is Poland's also a Jew. ing, somewhat sinister and a re- stopped Ano Pauker in the street. So Pauker was dropped, and who used to be the new Poland's pository of power." The wind and asked: "Ans, why are you along with her went Finance acknowledged boss, but now disordered her bobbed, iron-grey carrying an umbrella?
It's not Minister Vasile Luca and hair as she marched into the raining." Replied Rumania's Minister
scams to be slipping building.
Teatar background. Hungary's No. 1 Communist: "Hal It's Georgescu, both Moscow-trained creot Matyas Rakosi (of "Salam! Five minutes later, in a softly raining in Moscow. I heard it Communists.
Tactics" fame), it is thought, will 1 room, she stood before King on the radio." Michael and droned: "1 swear
What has gone wrong? Over- soon feel the edge of Stalin's Rakosi also is Jewis!!--- falth to my King. I swear to that it was raining in Moscow. subtlety in interpreting such an axe. respect the laws of my country.
Early in 1941, while Ana was affair can be misleading as an which seems to be an increasing I swear not to divulge State
still in Rumanian prison, acceptance of the facts at their sin in the Soviet world. secrets.
Prime Minister Antonescu had face value. We have learned But anti-Semitism along does Ana Pauker, Communist re- the idea of exchanging Ana for that the dreary process of a not explain the current wave of volutionary, was Foreign Minister leader of
of the Peasant Party, purge appears to be inherent in purges.. All kinds of Party of Rumania. And she s prob- Ion Codreanu, held by the Communist society,. as in all loaders are being ousted. ably the only Communist cabinet Russians. The Russians wanted dictator countries. And, there- Pauker previously managed to minister in existence who ever to trade Codreanu for Ana and
should ocension little survive ali difficulties with her awore formal allegiance to another Rumanian Communist, surprise.
Bolshevik bosses. In 1940 she ran foul of the Russians by send- her daughter to a French ing school In Rumunia--and quickly withdrew the child. In 1959 ahe was summoned by the Kremlin
monarch.
THE King went
in the past-such as the
unselfishly let the executioners
Georghe Gheorghiu-Dej.
When Antonescu inalsted on a one-for-one trade, the Russians
were quite ready to let Ana rot
In prison, and - naked
for
fore.
Later she
Gheorghiu-Dej. Instead the wily DURING the seven years since to explain why she had a secret and Ana Antonescu gave them And.
Moscow spread its governing bank account in Switzerland. She Tuled. She became the most. Gheorghiu-De) sweated out methods from the Balkans to the managed to talk her way out of . powerful woman in Eastern, the war in a concentration camp. Central Baltic many of Com- that embarrassment,
Europe, if not the world.
It was then he lacked Dol on munism's leutenants have been had now dimoallies as chief of Tocay, it would seem, her star to his name, because He had disgraced or slain: Gomulko, the Foreign Office when set. She is under a cloud as spent 50 many years in Kostov, Rajk, Clementis, Xoxe, numerous trusled diplomats sho One had chosen for assignment dark and sombre as herself.
Rumanth's Dej prison. It was a Patruscanu and Stahaky. Without the slightest hint of Bailean equivalent of calling day a man is powerful, honoured, abroad chose freedom." praise for her valuable services oneself Sinith-Dartmoor. apparently trusted. The next
time she
day, without warning, he denounced, arrested and after a of Russia's NKVD diapose of her
long period in prison may be husband, slim, ascotic engineer,
brought to trial, there to mako Marcel Pauker, for Trotskylte
full confession of crimes to WHAT does it all signify? Ana deviations the Communists have
MEANWHILE Ana wa a never committed.
had reached the point in the tried to explain what led to her squeezing herself into a
Communist higrarchy where the Red Army colonel's uniform
The purpose of the Rumanian only place for her to ga was downfall.
official lingo, her crimes in Moscow. Triumphantly back purgo is difficult to comprehend. down. It has happened to many
...complex factors are: others. were: activities against the Party in Moscow. Triumphantly back Several, and the State, support of counter ofgonising the Tudor Vladi in volyp di anti Semitism, Ana has a trieic when talking revolutionary elements, sup-
of Rumandan nationalism or suspected Titplám, mirescu division
to you of throwing up her right pression of
criticism, double prisoners-of-war in the Soviet and, finally, the Kremlin may forearm in front of her face dealing opportunism, laziness in
sho personified Soviet well desire to install among its while her hand combs back her the development. of collective power, riding in her chauffeur satellite loutenants
newer, shock of iron-grey hair. It la n farms (aho was the Central Con- driven bullet-proof Zis, en- youthful group with no past con-
re), joying
zestura perhaps picked up during mittee's authority on agriculture),
the capital's
the shadow her long years in prison. Will best tacts transcending ariations within the food and possessing. Its fastest realm of Soviet experience.. unprincipled cul Party
toleranca towards the growing waistline, drossing in a Russia's postwar poly in the again be shiolding her weak,
hazel rightst deviations and style
form the blinding was Eastern Europe was to ongondor For Ana Rruker and the other
police Inquisitor? in balanco- loftlat unaccustomed. She could even the destructive"; energy. of deviations.
pick up a a telephone and talk revolution. The leaders had to Rumanian Communists caught in Poor Anal She was one of direct to Stalin.
be revolutionaries who would the current purge are--or some the Kremlin's... 'most trusted But things have been going ruthlessly overthrow the old day will bo-victims of an agents. The story of her ascent-from bad to worse in Rumania, bedar. When power had been immutable system which they equld not be more conventional. Last January, for the second seized It was inevitable" that helped to create but can never The highway to power in a Com--time since the Communits took many of these men, and women hope to control.
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