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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1952.
INSIDE MAO'S RED CHINA
Frank Moraes, who is editor of the Times of India in Bombay, travelled
:
into the heart of Red China with an Indian delegation. This is a specially commissioned report on what he
Abacond despatch will appear on Monday. there. saw
Café
THE FIVE LOVES senate-
TOLD TO
A CHILD
T
RAVELLING. and with a sense of fun. It was
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through Mno." as if you had touched a button
and released a robot reaction, China મ like To catch 'em young is the Journeying to a new objective of Communists thing planet. Though in the first world over. With the workers few days of my six weeks and peasants, the children are stay there I was exhilarated the chief objects of indoctrina-. tion and demonstration. They by the strangeness of in are the main props in China's surrounding", the patter show window. and pattern kept repeating themselves until suddenly I sensed the regimentation. behind it all.
The
-but there is no mention of love of parents
"Did you watch how the chil- when the smaller children were
asked
As witnesses Leu produced
they marched?" guesthouse at Canten, viren wedged between canal and a Lamb, head at the British nego stoutly danied it, They insisted river, swarmed with mos- tiating mission on the evening in all Innocence that they had quitoes. They made sleep im of the May Day
no complaints, possible.
"You know, Chang," I said jokingly to my official inter- preter, "the mosquitoes kept me wake Just night. They sucked my blood. Frem icday I shall call them landlords."
"No." sald Chang sombrely, "call them American ATC sors."
Hatred of
the America is theme song of the new regime, and It erupts at all level. was walking one day aeross the campus of Tsinghua Univer- when I came slty In Peking
Chincze Across a bright-eyed Jad who volunteered to show me around,
preud, prancing pontes Liko been treated well. They had
Some of them were dressed on guerillas and waved Red Flags with the, imprint of the. ham- mer and sickle..
in
They sang as 'chlidren do, ragged chorus, stumbling Early during our stay In
over some of the words, but So they did. The nursery tots
Peking We spent an after obviously enjoying themselves. lisping songs of Stalin and Mao
One lem thowed the child understood little of what they noon at the Pet Hai Park and
Much later, in the guerillus shooting al cang. But young minds are like nursery.
our journey imaginary American plane, sensitised pinies, and, exposed closing stages of we visited 111 At the Shanghal nursery the to the roys of the Communist through China,
another children's children Shangai
ranged from two to seven years. It was not as im sun, they scon imbibe its image and pattern. The Communists nursery.
run by Mme. Sun Yat- pressive #1 the other institute, know this.
sister cen,
of Mme. Chiang where the youngsters zeemed Kai-shek. and now known by brichter', and more cleanly her maiden name of Soong dressed. But in a class-room Ching-ling. She Is the only we stumbled across an interest-
oman among the six vice- ing item. chairmen of the Central People's Government.
Ad
ACCUSATION
-And refutal Ttimes the very innocence .chlidhooi triumphed over the indoctrination of age, A foreign diplomat at Peking told an interesting story.
We got talking. I askel him whether his textbocks had been
A Catholic nun who was head changed since the liberation" of an orphanage was arraigned "Yes," he replied. "Were they for trial on a charge of cruelty out of date?" I inquired." "No, to the young inmates.
instruments of were
they
American cultural aggression,The alder girls duly Indoe
Yet he was to all appearances trinated and politically minded, a. normal college boy, perky supported the charge.
Chinese children are irresis ible. With their almond eyes, their mops of jet-binds hair, and
their porcelain faces they have animated dolls.
the
apperrance
'CROCODILE
To a picnic ?
HFSE." sold the woman director, pointing to some Ideographs on the board, "are
five loves?"
At both nurseries sanall con- the five lovet." certs were staged, and. the Korean war figured prominent-
tots
Every child in China is
ly on both programmes. Tiny taught the five loves. These marched in carrying loves are: love for the Father- But banners of Mao and Stalin. land, for the people, for labour,
for science. and for public pro
CAN YOU AFFORD
TO BE RIGHT
London.
THERE is a hold-up in
-IN LAW?
the report to Parlia- ment on the first full year's by James Bartlett working of the legal aid scheme.
month nearly four months passes
10,000 cases a week,
late..
badly off as if he had not appealed.
ал
CASE 2: A police officer was awarded £1,500
damages against
cpen-air speaker. The man who lost the case then went bankrupt-so the police cfeer got nothing.
BUT he was still faced with
per was no
mention, of
love for parents. In the young mind the focus
of Joyalty is being shifted sharply from the family to the State.
By transferring the old Chinese feeling of reverence for the bend of the family to the head et the State the Com- munists are cutting at the roots at filial obedience and domestic. loyalties.
The child is In the charge not of its parents but of the State. Through the maze of tangled episodes one Incident COMER back. shall always remember
a
worried by a troublesome dog his own bill of costs for more next door. An employed than £250. Last year's report on the feels that he has been wrong-
CASE 3: Thomas Horbin, homing in Mukden, when I * "Crocodile" of preter- first six months working of fully dismissed- wllout-full-former-M.P for North Corn-naturally solemn
•~~~ children. wall, was a passenger in on marching four abreast down legal aid came out in August payment of salary....
in the street, 1951. This year's report is They are typical cases at the aircraft that crashed carly
"Where ого they going, not expected until next county court and the queue 1847. He claimed for personal
injury and loss of goods-and ¦ Chang?" I asked the inter- through at the rate of has just, accepted £3,017 in preter. "To a plenie," be sold.
settlement.
"It's a pletilc procession."
thought the phrase in- But not one of them can pet
congruous. A plenic procession? Despite the delay, some truths legal aid. They suffer because.
Picnic conjures up ¤ Process about the worldings of law in those parts of the Legal Aja
unhurried and haphazard, an Britain today are creeping out: and Advice Act that could help
cccasion allowed to develop as FIRST, legal aid is still out them are still kept on 100.
the spirit wills it, bringing of reach of nine out of every
vista
of
bumpers, ten people who appear
packed laughter and song, a winding the courts.
roed through green fields and hills, and a nook by a quiet stream.
heforo
SECOND, the cost of going to law is too high for the average man.
་
PASCA
BUT he must pay his own costs about £3,000.
Dɔ you wonder then Bat a family man
today--no matter how strongly He feels must shrink from becoming a David 0 In any legal battle against of
Goliath?
get
Only High Court the helping hand 41,461 them last year, mogily hus bands or wives seelding divored: THE COSTS
Now take a closer look at the costs of going to law, and sec THIRD, the tortucus work why justice can
sull leave Ings of the law today are inaccent people with a sense of dmothering
fundamental grievance, Magna Canta principle-"To so man will we deny, to no man will we sell, or delay, justice.cr right."
-10,000 WEEKLY
It is sometimes not financially! worth while, for instance, if a
claim man pursues a complex for less than £50 in the county! court, Nor for less than £250 in
PATHETIC
The heart and mind
NOLEMN... children marching CASE 1: A week-end for the High Court. The costs will four abreast, marching to a
£25 cat
all the sought-for cash. picnic. Robots on was convicted and fined
the road. with 25.5s, costs for a landing
legal aid is not the Sunlight and shadow. It was incongruous and absurd. It was offence. He, appealed and the fine was changed to a condition
also pathetic. al discharge.
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answer to this present day dilemma. It is not enough just to pour out more oil to make the law machine run smoothly.
But in the picture of those schoolchildren tramping solemn- into a juggernaut, It briefly and in a flazh, the heart
and mind of Mao's China.
See what is happening. A mother seeks possession of a 'BUT he had to pay £42 costs. The law machine itself hasly to a plenie T thinile I saw, house that somebody else an top of the original five grown occupies.
A neighbour is guineas. So he was twice as needs streamlining."
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