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THE - CHINA-- MAIL, TUESDAY, AUGUST 11, -1963.
NEW WINE IN AN OLD BOTTLE
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By HUGO DEWAR
ECENT events in the Liquidated
with them'' was Soviet Union call to practically the entire lendership
of the Armed Forces, mind the struggle for
At the same ume the last of power that took place their remaining supporters in among the Bolsheviks after the Party and in the organe of Lenin's death. In some the Stato were dispose of, reports, documenta sa
of all
From all of which one thing stands out storkly: the glaring contrast between Soviet reality and the Bevlet myth of a free and equal society where justice reigns supreme. The most ele mentary civil rights have rill to be "guaranteed" the Soviet
allegedly became his State. And how will they be "guaranteed"? Some of the most glaring in- Justices perpetrated in eve corner of the Soviet empire will be redressed, but the system
quarters it is hold that Millions of books, newspaper tizen 35 years after the Stato Beria's removal from the periodicals were burned, so political scene can be ex- that everything the Bolshevik plained in terms of such a Old Guard has ever said, struggle, If this view is written, or done would be for: gotten, so that no record would correct, then a purge of exdet to contradict history re- State bodies written by Stalin's hacks. This Party and may be anticipated rivalling was the greatest "burning of the in scope the terrible purge books in the history of man that entered its culminating phase on August 19, 1986, a phase that lasted nearly two years and ended with the execution of the tioners,
execu-
the
kind
Thus there came into exist once a new Party, with a new function lienceforth it was tu. be a docile instrument lathe
secret
of the Lender, exercising through his control of the
pollee,
when dominated in every sphere of society, Russia was back from her dream of a brave brought new world to her age-uld system of "autocracy tempered. by assassination"
IMPASSE
that engenders them will remains, Beria and his associates will bo dealt with precisely s Zino- vlev, Kamenev and the others were dealt with on August ID, tion trial. The power of 1936-by means of the Inquirie tho secret police may be temporan- curbed, but not abolished, bo-
the bureaucracy, which cause
self fears it and niffers from it still needs it to keep within "reasonable" bounds the aspira freedom. tions of the Soviet people for
has changed or can change in This is not to say that nothing
the Soviet Union. The great ins dustrial progress in that country
T
"FUTURE: A`family' beads for-the moon... FACT: A piloted Skyrocket plane has own ni 1.238 miles an hour 15 miles sp. A missile-ħde gobe-ap- 230 miles and reached 5,150 miles an bours rocket five times faster could
land on the moon.
HOUSANDS of holi- day-makers will be going for trips in pleasure ships this summer. How soon will
space in rocket ships? they be going for trips into
A crazy idea, you think?
1. Men are already flying rocket ships in what is virtually space.
When Lenin died no one in- herited his prestige and a thority. From among the Bol shevik
leaders Zinoviev, Kamenev and Stalin emerged on a dominant trolka
during the firat, post-Lenin period, just as, ofter Stalin's death,
trollda
hus brought into existence a Then consider these accom- Malenkov-Berka-Melolov
This protracted,
new agricultural
iral population, root-and- came to the front. The former
the branch purge ended together
with the
These people. directly or in-plished facts:- trolka did not hold
until liquidation of its technical or- but it was not
directly, have been brought by long.
the two
events into contact with a west successivo PYNT August, 1986, that Stalin gave ganirers,
of Anal heads his erstwhile
ern civilisation spiritually and allies the
the secret police, Yagoda and Yezhov. Berla then materially higher than 1
their few months after its formation, took over this post, and remain- coup-de-grace. Today, only
own. They are now demanding. and they will continue to de- one pillar of the post-Stallnd pecure in it for 14 years;
Thus the purge of today begins life. that is, until Stalin's death.
mand, a fuller, freer and better
where the purge of the thirties ended Berlu's removal is an- AN ECHO
other, and a particularly strik- Speaking at Stalin's funeral, ing, sign that the present Soviet Malenkov said: "We must guard leaders are desperately driving Party unity as the apple of our to find a
way out of the im eye. This was undoubtedly
passo into which Stalin's policy conscious echo of Stalin's own has led them. His removal was words over Lenin's grave:
"In
dictated by' considerations of leaving us, Comrade Lenin com- domestic policy, and it is highly manded us to keep the unity of doubtful, to say the least, if the
Party as the apple of our foreign affairs played any part eye. We swear to thee, Com In it at all. In rade Lenin, to honour thy com- mand"
troika has already been thrown down into the mud.
a
The manner in which Stalin preserved the unity
of the Party has been recorded in all Its sordid and bloody details Will Stalin's protege, Malenkov, follow in the footsteps of his Leacher?
cam foreign
policy is an extension of domes the policy, and not vice-versa.
10
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U.S. test pilot Bill Bridge man has flown the Sky-.
IKE CAN'T
SIT
ON THE PORCH
From NEWELL ROGERS
[FUTURE':"'A' spaceship crew, ón the planet-path.... FACT: "A man in a
*** - rocket-propelled. ::sent · has vendured.j
stéesses. Ove ilmen greater than ́space- ship ones. Mice photographed "float" inside a rocket lave survived a
descent from '40 'miles up.
ing
How about
a week-end on
rocket experimental, plane at 1,238 miles an hour at a height of 15 miles. At, that helght he was above 96 per- cent of the earth's atmo. sphere.
the moon?
Such
ᄆ
machine could bo built now for the price of only bomber planes, the scientista
say.
Within 10 years an unmanned rocket will have reached the moon and sent back TV pictures of the lunar landscape.
Within 25 years there will be at least one manned space- station revolving permanently, round the earth.
i
From there the step to rocket- fight round the moon and back without landing would be short. A rocket which could take off
and
More than 100 rocket experts from ten countries from a space station would need met in Zurich, Switzerland, last week to confer a speed of only 7,000 miles an The Skyrocket is nothing on "Astronautics" flight into outer space. After hour to reach the moon less than a winged rocket talks with them our Science Reporter cabled return.. designed to operate where this despatch — the considered views of serious there is no air and powered, scientists who believe that in the lifetime of ng the V2 was, by rocket most of us men will step on to the surface of the moon. liquid fuels.
by CHAPMAN PINCHER ·
ut a
The difficulties of landing on the moon's airless surfaca are immense but there is a con- fident feeling here. that it will be accomplished long before the end of the century.
claim.
experts
2. An unmanned rocket has down at 5,150 miles an hour- nearly one and a half miles a second, going up 200 miles..
The tempo of rocket research than 2,000 miles an hour Only five times this speed is throughout the world is terrific, height of 40 miles. reeded to enable a rocket to More than 100 ms and four New York. Mott, of Smyrna, Delaware, escape from the earth's gravite huge research stations are work-
By that time pleasure, trips tional pull and reach the moon ing on guided missiles in Brain 600 miles twice the range of the above the earth's surface will A glant rocket with a range of into space hundreds of miles guilty of speeding.
Momtt was arrested siter in less than five daya,
alone. The US, i police, using radar speed
spending reading equipment,
V2-la going into production in be commonplace, the hundreds of mallons of dollars radiocx
America. on rocket work for defence pur- head to have his car stopped.
posts. TMAGINE the 'embarrassment
As the scientista meeting here Space-travel enthusiasts used Most of there developmente point out, the most sober mind to be regarded as crackpots, are now secret, but they must must now admit that many of the with little or no scientific stand ultimately advance the days of technical milestones on the way ing. Today at this conference space travel just as watime jet do the moon have already been there are top-level men like De researth led to the Comet strato- passed,
Eugen Sanger, a former. Germaan sphere airliner.
rocket chiet, the Italian Pro- The experts made these, fore- fessor G. A. Crocco, and Dr F Singer, of the U.S. Ofice, of chels-
Naval Research.
forbidden President Eisenhower from sitting on the front porch of his mother-in-law's home when he is in Denver, Colorado, for his summer holiday:
At Smilin's funeral the three main speakers were Malenkov,HE Secret Service has Belo, and Molotov, In that order. Heria went out of his way to make a sycophantic re- ference lo Malenkoy as "the talented pupil of Lenin and of Beria's loyal colicogue of Stalin". This The explanation fall by reference to, and analogy was quite obviously calculated; with, the lopping of heads re- the chief of the secret police quired to consolidate Stalin's was giving notice that he re-
1s attractive, personal power
as. Stalin's Carded Malenkov
way easy to understand. Yet there rightful helr.
justified by Malenkov's past.
is a great difference between the long-drawn-out earlier struggle and the one that ticing place today.
Di
The Zinoviev-Kameney trial
He has sat there ever
he courted and married Mamie Doud on July 1, 1918.
of the Baton Rouge Street Planning Commission. They authorised the extension of since 'town street slap through tho house of Louisiana State high- way director George Covert. THE TV burglar was caught a Providence, Rhode
home Island,
whose Hving room was dark for TV.
Ho robbed households while TNSTEAD of taking pald ball familles clustered around days during the hot month screens to watch crime thrillers. of August 500,000 workers in He is an 11-year-old boy. several industries, hot under the rule House of Representatives collar over failure to win Day THE rises, threaten strikes.
voted to plug the loophole in the tax laws which allows film stars to escape paying US. income tax if they live it out of 18-months-abroad. A-great- can be expected now. home-to-Hollywood pilgrimage.
DECORDS
But it is only 10ft, from the But already Malenkov's power
Prest- had been weakened by his re-street-dangerous for a moval from the post of general dent often threatened by "screw-
Berla'spll" assassins. secretary of the Party.
to August 19, 1990, marked the subsequent disgrace must beginning of the end of an therefore viewed in the Ught of epoch. The names of these two the present collective leader
and of all the other ship's manifest desire, not to Bolsheviks destroyed during the allow too much power to be or nothing concentrated in the hands of thirties, mean Hitle at all to the Stalinist genera one man. tion
Contmanists, of Zinoviey was the first President
men.
Yet
SOVIET MYTH
The key accusation against
of the Communist International, Beria is that he tried to place men? Yes, answers Jennifer Chairman -of-the Leningrad
a Vice-Chairman of the above the Government and the
the Ministry of Internal Affairs...
of Comunissars,
2
ARE women warsa snobs th
modern living: "What to Do Colton, author of a new book on
Car of the
Central Comary". However, his accusers When."
mittee
and
of the Folitical
well know that it is not a question what he "irled?” to do, out of
of
1. Never let Mrs Snob draw
She gives these hints for put- Bureau of the Party; and Kamenev was Chairman of the may actually ceceded in doing
what he, acting as Stalin's honch-ting a mob in her plac Moscow Soviet, a Vice-Chair- The vigorous, intergive man of the Council of Ministers, and a member of the C., and Stalin campaign to revive the principle of "collective leader- the Politburo.
ship", and to raise the prestige et the Party, coupled
with sustained attack on the "jult of
NEW PARTY
In the trials of 1937 and 1938 Agured such men as Radek, Pyatakov, Sokonikov, Bukharia, Rakovsky, and Rykov. This
Against
skin disease
and itching
Mitigal
A GENUINE BAYER' PLODUCE,
MANUFACTURED IN
LEVSIKULUM, OELMANY
а
the leader now suddenly di covered to be pernicious-all the is in no way accidental. campaign in favour of respect for
The
by tho Party and the Government
she is
RE
at St. Joseph's v. Hospital_maternity ward at
you into discussions of wealth, born on July 7, and
St. Charles, Missouri, show:-
A baby named Frost was cool spell social distinctions, or whatever followed;
about--the right snobbing social set, school, or fashion. Baby Sommer arrived
Avold the snob's 2.
special July 12, warm days started:
Baby Wetter simple
came on July 10, followed by showers:
A baby named Flood arrived on July 20, and a three-inch
vocabulary. Use plain, words. And speak bluntly.
Says Mrs Cotton: "Snobbery
is not a qually like love downpour Booded the streets. honour that can exist by itself. It requires people who believe in
and react to it
THE
Rockefeller Foundation
"initial
Chief investigator-Judd Poli,
to guarantes civil rights and to chief of the U.S. Treasury's liquidato certain abusca" "Cer-Retish
Commonwealth
taln abutes"! Behind this decep= tively mild phrase lles, as the Middle East Division.
Soviet press itself has of Inte revealed, truly appalling
DADAR was the star' witness,
on
PUFF FAR: The Coronation
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towards civil
Party Elmer
JEWEST gifts for children, on
flon of nepotism, corruption, and and got what is believed to N show in New Yories
the wholesale
first convictibet in the perversion of bo its justice for private ends.
3. Monkeys and mice have returned to earth unharmed after rocket fights to a height of nearly
40 miles.
the
They easily withelood peculiar sensation of weightless ness experienced in space flight. do the same. Doctors believe that men could
4. In tests on rocket-propelled chairs men have stood up to 40 "g's"—the effects of sudden speed changes equal to 46 times the force of gravity,
This is far greater than any strale to which they would be subjected on a flight Stato space.
Projects can be disclosed which give some idea of the rate of
Progress. In these:-
Within the next 10 years on
Even more impressive for the
British scientists are testing a manned rocket will have been rocket device which shoots Launched-at a speed of 10,000 sceptics is the fact that later piloted fighter-planes vertically miles an hour to circle the earth this month a further conference into the air to a height of 10,000 Like an artificial moon 300 miles on Rocket Exploration of the # in a few seconds.
** gp. It will be a mass of robot Upper Atmosphero is being Instruments designed to transmit sponsered by the world's to earth astronomical and weather staldest scientifle body — the facts which are now inaccessible, London Royal Society.
U.S. engineers are working on a machine designed to dy at more
THE HANDSOME COLONEL
London, Aug. 7. TRANGE as it may seem, Canada is going to hold a General Elec. tion next week. This will almost certainly mean hot, humid weather, especially in Ontario and Quebec, with families away on holiday in the Lake districts and the mountains.
The only
apparent ad- vantage is that it will be possible to hold meetings In the open air.
Politics in Britain are
. Liberal
sit-
the
FIGHTS
AGAIN
Twice he has led his party to defeat. In the new Canadian elections he knows his own destiny is at stake
..By
BEVERLEY BAXTER, MP
Groat Advantage.
Because of the distances there is no national press, There are
not even bilingual newspapers same day you can read La Presse
in Quebec, In Montreal on the
in French or the Gazette in English. Therefore it is inevit able that local newspapers con. centrate on local problems at the expense of national considera- tions.
Nor will television: be ́u cen.
it rame but a few. The princl the co-called "civil rights" of the pal accused at these three trials Soviet citizen and for "Secialist were all of them devoted, not law" is complementary to the
and the Winston are names Ucal, Bolsheviks; campaign for collective leader to say fanatical,
of now brands of cigarettes. all holding, or having long held, ship. high government posts; all with Boria's trial, public or private,
grante 50,000 dollars (12- NEGROES today march on life-long records of service to will be used to convince the 857) for an 18-month
further the revolutionary movement, population that the power of the analysis" of the Sterling Area, county with Whites.
secret pollee has been broken.
Mr St. Laurent has the nuts Imperialistic, pro-British section tralizing medium, Unselfishly The Republican An announcement says It wil
plicity itself compared with This is apparent from the
Nowadays, we choose of the man who never wanted of the country. Understandably (for both Drew and St Laurent Canada. Negro, "involve an assessment of Hs nominates
Or sought office. At great it is a Tory citadel, and Drew have personal appeal) they emphasis given by the British
between the Socialists and the contradictory aspects and on in Carter, as its candidate for pre-
personal sperifice he joined Mr could probably have remained decided to stick to the bustings. Dally
Worker
correspondent, dication
Borough of new lines along fident of Manhattan
with only an academic Tories
Mackenzie King's Government Premiar for. llfe..
instead of the screen. Ralph Parker, welting officially which it seems to be develop
in New York City.
Interest in the Liberal saleldo
in the war. As a lawyer he had But in 1995, when the last from Mosow, to the change that
It is the first. Ume any party squad. But in Canada there
In Federal politics' ika almost every achieved Beria "appored measures taken ing."
dis- Federal Canadian Prime Mini Brovince of Quebec traditionally has done this.
are four main parties Conser
tinotion the Canadian Bar ter. R. B. Bennett, was defeated voles Liberal but dairy produco In Washington, President valive, Liberal, Commonwealth
could bestow and his Eisenhower appointed the first Co-operative
lenow and, la Coriolanus, banished is carried out on Federation (in
a big seato ledge of finance and industrial Canada and went to live in there and just now the producers words and Negro member of the Federal etal Credit
Socialist) and
development was vast.
England, the Tories had to and are very angry.. Parole Board, educationalist Social
new leader. They tried out Scovel Richardson
Just to focus the picture,
The American Congress' plus John Bracken from the West, President Elsenhower have pilt here is the present standing of
but he did not prove a winner, on embargo on dairy produce. the main parties in the Federal Parliament:
When Mackenzie King re- and George Drow was drafted But why does not the Ditawa Government do`something about signed after a period of vacil- in his place. lations and inlterings that Nothing scenet more certain it? That is the cry not only in cruelly depleted his reputation than that "Handsome George" Quebec but in dairylando, across
a statesman, Mr St. Laureat would eventually be. Prime the country The Liberal have been in was looked upon as the one Minister of Canada. But twice power since 1933, which is a man who could bring back he has led his party to defeat, ward or in reverse. It has
long Umno. Ergo the dignity and unity to his George Drow knows that headlights, of horny aluminium | rede
Torles' have been. In Opposition froubled party,
own destiny is at stake.
Then there is the vast wheat leather-covered, bumpers, and
since 1930, which is a much Louis Slephen St Laurent has
But how can the Conserva- belt which is in a state of blas- foarri-rubber roats. Price 405 dollars.
langer time if you known what another meat advantage in a lives hope to destroy a Govern themy, The Government have
I moan. Nothing is so aging a bilingual country: -
ment with an overall majority signed a wheat price agreement of more than 1007: Furthermore, which has spread alarm and As a child, he talked French is it not a fact, that Canada Ir despondency over the protien to his French-Canadian father enjoying one of the longest boom, Logically, the Larmens and Engilshi to. his Irish periods in history?
"What good is it to.me if Canada Canadian mother—and with no
is rich and I The two principal protagonists
am poor?" But there is ono maiter in are Prime Minister Louis St. cent in either. He is a 'man without prejudico without
and
which all Canadians are unitod Laurent and the Tory leader
enemies, Colonel George Drew. It is
So vast is the development of that axation is too high. Georgo
Universally there is possible that this will be the George Drew, who was over her natural resources that the Drew, with the freedom that last time that either of them for the Coronatione is tall, vita) only limit to her future is the Opposition allows, has declarext
This ESPERATE..: mensizres oro | Will Leadh, Darty to the polls, and handsome, He had a splendid horizon. Not only does the; that be will reduce. Taxation by
Mr St Laurent is 72 years of military ricord in the first world: Canadian dollar look the Amerte planned by a 27-year-old age and
thortly afterwards wants to retire during war ond
patronizes"li:
THREE
SILENT
A toy fire engine with a hosɑ U.S., when a jury found James that shoots, a jet of water 15ft.
***, high-do the celling of
SALESMEN
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any living room;
A
elmost
toy sports car that can
travol at 5 miles an hour for-
Conservative.
C.C.F.
S. Credit
very
ACTRESS Suzan Hayward has hope deferred.
'separated from her oclor husband Jess Barker, They plan a divorco-only six weeks after thetr retim trómļa European trip. They · have ・ twin sons, Timothy and Gregory, eight,
Barker is just now making a comeback in Alms after, work- ing in TV for five years."
Enid, Oklahoma, housewife who
Protagonists
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No Limit
life of the next Parlia- entered political life and became a dollar in the face-
walks when the moon is full 47 Colonel Drew La Conservative Premier in the
For the next full moon she is
Tax Issue
500 million dollars. Mr. St but Latirent, with the unnanocivr
ubsity of office, -replies Certainly Canada has tenson cannot be dona
that it going to the her leg to her hus not of a retiring age or die Ontario Provincial Parliament to rejoice, but it is neccry, to There, the issue rests. "What-
#
on the rice point out that her territories are ever the result: Beltain · could icewater by the bed a pair of position, but this his third Although
peale? attempt to lead his party to. Ontario semi the most Ameri-, 's vast and her communities, po", havo no better friends, then On her fast walk stie climbed victory; and is ho fall shore variised part of Canada, that le scalierod that Caridians do not the two men who are, asking tree. The fire brigada brought will dimost certainly be a Tory marely a zuperficial Improislost; think or feel, vas da unit-in-the for the right to load safety cat for beg to fall into, derpaid for a new Monas, k Actually en la i thot pose", ebent that: wać do in Britain. into the future.
band's : leg-and put
Canada