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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1953,
CZECHOSLOVAKIA BEING Car Concerto
GROOMED FOR
INTEGRATION WITH USSR
Vienna, Dec. 28.
Reports reaching here indicate that Czechoslovakia is being groomed, politically and economically, for eventual in- corporation in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Already, the Czechoslovak Constitution has been remodelled on. Soviet lines, and the Czechoslovak Communist Party has new statutes almost identical with those of the Russian party,
The army has senior Soviet officers in charge of its training and organisation, and wears the same type of uniform, uses the same weapons, drill and even words of command as the Red Army.
workers,
The schools are using moreį plan until 1960, the year when of Ilving of the Czechoslovak and more translations of Soviet the Soviet Union's next 5-year text books. Moro and more plan 19. due to start. Soviet Alms, in their originali Haw dosely Czechoslovakia is language with Czech or Slovak already linked with the Soviet sub-titles, are being shown. Union is shown by foreign trade
Sgures.
Now, the co-ordination of the economic life of the country with that of the Soviet Union is being speeded up.
The indications are that the data set for the completion of the process is 1066. For, although Czechoslovakia's current 5-year plan ends un December 31, 1933, there is to be no new 5-year
IKE TO TELL DEMOCRATS
OF HIS PLANS
Augusta, Dec. 28. President Elenhower, seeking bipartisan unity on foreign affairs and nailonal defence, will give Democratic Congressional leaders a preview of his State of the Union message on January 6. 11 was announced here to night..
tary
The Presidential Press Secre- Mr James C. Hagerly, added that leading Republican Congressmen would also attend the Washington conference two de- before the President daya
là
vers the message to Congress
person.
with
Re-
Earlier this month, the Presi- dent conferred for three days at the White House publican leaders. They held preliminary, discussions. on Administration's 1854 legislativo)
programme.
the
While Czechoslovak imports from the Soviet Union were not of her 8.8 per cent anore tha total imports in 1047, they had already reached 36.4 per cent in 1032. Similarly, Czechoslovakia's exports to the Soviet Union in creased from
4.9 per ceat in 1047 to 31 per cent in 1952.
No. 2
In Low Gear
in
Melbourne, Dec. 28.
Marlo lover will, with- the next few years, hear symphonies created from
the sounds of car engines and human voloes, Australian conductor Bir
Yang Melnze said to
Bernard eting after a 12-month
returning
trip abroad, said tech- nicians overness had crested
An unlimited field of sound by recording move- ments in
ito.
-001-
muide-amedī”· thir crete music by scientiaia in Europe and the United States by lengthening,. filtering, editing and re- Arranging the_sounds.— Reuter,
More Men Than
Women In Rural Norway
the workers Rural
I there is to be. eventyal unification of the two economies, und because !! is impossible so quickly to bring the standard of living of the workers in the Soylet thlon up to the pre-war standard of Czechoslovak work- crs, the only solution is to re- duco that of the latter.
This has been done by means a currency reform, which of away ali took
and price manipula- savings. tions which have left the com- parative cost of most goods two
Oslo, Dec. 28, Men to three times as high as they
outnumber women in THADE WITH U.8.8.R.
the reform.
the rural northern districts of were before Before the war, Czechoslovak
Finally, in preparation for Norway but women outnumber
towne, in the
statistiga trade was mainly with the West. speeding up the physical union men Today, the Soviet Union and of the two economies, the issued here showed, the other People's Democracies Czechoslovak railway system. account for over 70 per cent of which
was
formerly wholly Or 130 open northern areas. Czechoslovakia's foreign trade. directed towards the West, has only nine had surplus
On Soviet orders, a
residents, a great part been changed.
yet
10
been taken women.
New lines
while
only
women three
of Czechoslovakia's industry was Many railway lines leading towns boasted more men than
produce heavy metal to the West have goods for Russian use. This led up or abandoned. to the
These are Hammerfest, Nor- of have been, and are being, built rapid development
most northerly town, Cachoslovak heavy industries by "Friendship Brigades" to-way's
In the Northeast and at the expense of her light in-wards the East. The now line Vadso
from Prague vla Kaschau to the Horten, a southern naval base- dustries and agriculture.
Soviet frcntier, for example, Reuter. will be completed shortly. China Mail Special,
bad to Now, measures have bad be taken to lesten the pressure on the hated "kulaks" (independent Farmers) In order to encourage them to produce more food. For Czechoslovakia has had to leport
U.S. To Increase
huge quantities of grain from the Soviet Union, thus binding her Broadcasts economically still more closely to her great neighbour in the Eoa!
Dr
Jaromir Dolnay Art In Far East
deputy Prime Minister and Chief of Planning in Czechoslovakia,
stated recently that, the Czecho slovaks would like to be able to buy their foodstuffs free, the West and to renew some of their trade relations with the Western
powers.
S,
on
African· Gold
Sales Up
"of
and
At that time some Democrats / Czechoslovakia which was limit- Director of the, Agency, Gaid diamonds in January to Septem-
in Congress complaineri that able to full many of their President Elfonsower was trade obligations. seeking co-operation of the Democrats in
putting through
CUT OFF FROM WEST
returns
show
million
that
Capetown Dec. 28. The Standard Bank of South Africa, in its December report trading conditions In the Washington, Dec. 28,
Union, states that employment The United States Informa-
in- in angineering and metal on Agency plans to Intensify dustrica is steady but tendering operations In South-East for new contracts rematris Asia by increasing broadcasts, keenly competitive. pamphlets and posters, it was Unfortunately, he added, sunnunced today.
Unton's The
.sales owing to the
Alc cool shortage in
Theodore Streibert, minerals, excluding gold
ing production, they
were un- Voice of America broadcasts ber
SA£30.0 wero from American relay stations compared with SA £36 million in Okinawa
and Manila would in the same months of 1952. be Increased, to 12 hours daily, with
Detail Increase in substantial his programme, but apparently
the number of American principal increase in these All reports reaching here in-
were
of coal, was unwilling to take them in-
posters and book periods diente that the truth is, although pamphiots,
SAC10.7 million to hla confi.cc in advance.
to SA £ 12.3 In reply to questions today, Mr Dolansky did not mention it, translations.
Mr Streibert, who on the
returned million, manganese ore, SA £2,5 Mr Hagerty
said the decision that the concentration
heavy Industries has left The
the last week from a month's lour million to SA £3.3. million, and to give
Democrats
of the Information
Agency's chrome ore SA£1.3 million to production of of the
consumer goods,
million with smaller preview of the State
East outposts in Saez.1 Union
formerly Czechoslovakia's chief major Far nothing to articles of trade, message had
Japan,
Indo-China,
Korea, and
-improvements for iron ore, tin do with such criticism.
inadequate veri
minerals not individually Hongkong and the Philippines, for home consumption. While the President woukl
Further, since Soviet Russin said that to step up activities in specified but including platinum, discuss the State of the Union
taktu
all Czechoslovakia's heavy South-East Asin it would be Retums also reflected market message generally with the
industrial products and clam- necessary to cut back operations Congressmen, the emphasis would be on the foreign affairs our for more, none of these are in other Far East countries,
available for export to the West, Voice of America broadcasts and national defence aspects
telling For Ens! As to coal, which used also to were now
Railway carnings from ve an important export ot the listeners that the Indo-Chinese November 1 to December 5 West, production has fallen so Communist
of the were SA£11,078,803 compared low that it is now 1,000,000 tons Kingdom of Logs clearly expos with SA £10,247,079. In the below the target set in the ed Communist desires to control corresponding period last year. 5-year plan.
neighbouring countries, Mr Streibert sald.
of the documents.-Reuler.
1,600-Year-Old Grave Found
In E. Germany
Thus, whether she likes it or not, Czechoslovakin is forced to
invasion
declines for copper end all types of asbestes. -
SPAIN
The Communist attack, which continue to increase her economic had cut Indo-China. In two U.S. BASES IN. bonds with her Eastern neigh showed the duplicity behind
Vietminh boure and to remain cut off from rece
Communist recent her former trading partners in
feelers, peace
broadcast The sud- the West.
compaentaries said. The co-ordination of Czecho-
den invasion
LAOS! of with
was another example of un- slovakia's economic life
provoked Communist aggres
Berlin, Dec. 28. East German workers digging
Madrid, Dec. 28,
Harold W. a trench for a water pipeline
Rear Admirs] Johnson, chief engineering of- near Soemmerda, Thuringia, dis- that of the Soviet Union has been
Teuton grave es carried a step further, too, by sion.
cer of the Fifth Naval District, covered a
Soviet of dimated
the appointment to be 1,600 years old.
Mr Streibert said that as a Virginia, arrived here by plane "advisers" to many Czechoslovak result of conferences The East
In tonight to set in motion the German news
Formosa, the Information work Atting out American agency A. D. N. cald four com-industrica,
Czech browers, for centuries Agency would work closely bases in Spain: plete skeletons, which could be
and world famous for their beer, with the Chinese Nationalist identified as two two children, were found, Parts, were sent to learn brewing in Government to try to build up support for Chiang a fifth skeleton could be cate the Soviet Union. Similarly, a additional
K certain Mr
M. Sudakoy Kai-shek's Government among gorised. brooches as well as glass pearls adviser to the and amberware ware also found best sugar industry. AT 2.30, 5.15, in the grave, China Mall
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GOLINIJA PIATURES, jesscam? JONNY
WEISSMULLE!
THE ARABIAN NIGHIS
MEYEN SAW NIGHTS
COMING SOON!
P.M.
SAVAGE
of a
Many bronze pins and from Russia was detailed as an Chinese populations in other For
Special.
Holiday Deaths
In U.S.A.
Now York, Doc, 28.
Czechoslovak East countries-Reuter.
EVEN ACCOUNTS
The same thing is happening throughout the Czechoslovak CODY.
The factorios once famous throughout the world for their high class products now have to produce according to Soviet mathods.
mines Czech
Use Books have machines.
A total of 711 persons lost Soviet their lives in the United States to be kept according to Boviet over the Christmas woek-end, accounting systems,
Another important measure it was reported here today.
During
the 78-hour period, for the co-ordination of the two 519 persons were killed in economics is the reduction of traffic accidents, 81 in free and the formerly very high standard 111 in accidens of other kinde -France-Presse.
Rome, Dec. 28, The Italian Premier and Foreign, *** Minisjok,, 'ignor Giuseppe, Pelin, and; iba Sovich Ambasador. Mr Mikhail Kostylev, today discussed the patriation of 34 Italian citizens to be reimped from Soviat prisons following the recent RAL OF MIDGsty, it was o announced here tonight"
Xwenty-eight Italian soldiers and six giviljana, who find, been sentenced imprisonment, y
will, be repat
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