THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1954.
1984- Prime Minister Churchill making his 27 Cabinet reshuffle, felling Macmillan, Eden and Buller. they have to 80. Toa old. Winston, who has grown progresswaly younger since his eightieth birthday. gives a half-promise that he will resign on reaching, The age of fifteen.
OLD LOW'S CRYSTAL BALL
Russia's 66
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Russia's
By
THINGS TO COME
"Attack Heaven"
WALTER KOLARZ
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and Elernal Russia" < 11 (1944); Mуyils and Rendilles in taken place
Eastern Europe" (1946); "Russia ** and Busin The
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(10531 the
and Soviet
Treiiumas front."
The entire Sovies preis has her Colonies" (1962): "How
tack
(1954). specialist
scriptwriter staf of thr 1triti caating Corporation. formerly diplomate pondent news agency.
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William Hickey
THE BARRICADES..WERE NEVER LIKE THIS...
I
quarters,
troubles were the
London. Their WENT to u Bus troubles, that should be discuss
ext over balze-covered tables in atrikers' meeting itt some union or Ministry head- Trafalgar Square. The geraniums were blooming in the long flower- bed that runs along the back.
The central jets of the fountains were not playing, But the nymphs and fishes provided an agreeable artis- tic background.
There were several hun- dred people in the square. There was a line of faces peering down from the para. pet.
...
Overume
new schedules inadequate pay but the audience knew-a British audience takes a lot of fooling
...that
here was no cause to send them home Med with righteous indignation.
Take the audience. IL WAR working-class audience of the sort that there was before the war. You couldn't produce that sort of an vidhpura now however ard you tried,
It was a middle-class mutlence, That was the triumph of the Socialist Government under Afiice. It made the working- clrss a bourgeoisie.
out.
They faced the base of
The men were well turnt the Nelson Column. It was The children warmly cind ervered with 50 or 60 ræen in new coâts. The middle-aged and
wermen women—most of them se
wore good cloth coals drivers
and in the uniform of
new hats. The young girls went around and conductors.
In LWCN. arm-in-arm. They always to pround like that in London on a Sunday afternoon. Un they meet couple of
nice fellows,"
Two of the lions wire die- orated wifi miteropunes.
I do not know it Y Com- munists were in the crowd. I There were they ought to have thrown
themselves into The Tovatain-pools First resolutely 47 attempts ima bes to
TOLL
save them
A mockery
For this was
料 muckery of a
strike meeting. This
Was *
muckery 1f The
proletariat's struggle for bread and work.
This was a mockery of all
Brother Morgan-he admittei that he was Welsh-called for contributions.
And the platform was "asking for pounds." It didn't wint shilings and pence. They would be collected by
round the crowd.
What the
prope going platform
wanted
Hot two cheques!" sald the amplifiers.
A strikers meeting collecting cheques! Working-class people with bank accounts Just like some "grinder of the faces of the poor."
was the big stuff,
"We've
Five pounds was next counted out with satisfaction. It came from member of the travel- ling public."
The platform got a little cross because the pound notes were not
being collected quickly enough.
"They will get tired of holding them up." sald Brother Morgan.
מw!
"Ten chillings from a stove- dore," drew a sight cheer.
"A 15-shilling I.O.U. from nurses" had n slight response.
Then came a spot of sonii- "Two and sixpence from two children
ment.
There were quite a few notea from anonymous "members of the Iravelling public.
Pil they didnt give their names.
Oh, Marx! Beautifully dressed! Not just well dressed. Not just warmly dressed. But fashionably dressed. With good nylons and schart Brother Morgan gave another shoes. Tasteful jewellery and a fresh hair-05.
pep-talk. Kentlemen
On! Shades of Marx! Oh! comrades! - Shades of Engels! Oht Shades on. of Keir Hardie!
"Ladies
and notice that,
"they are not
Enmeshed
He was hoving another crack at the union and the London
To ask there people to march along to the Palace and ask the Queen to listen
their 10 grievances would be ilke asking Transport Executive.
the
As I come away the pigeons the directora of bloody
City น
+11 storm. Inland Revenue in pro-
we swaying a cloud cyc rest
gainst their new surtax the square. isseraments!
There
were
banners
placards decorating
all
(mm).
those meetings. those
protest marches of the hungry and the
This under-privileged,
Was mockery of the march 10 the barricades
of the struggles that have been reen- as 1887 on this same spot.
The sky was something Manet was a mmekery of trade
have liked to have unionism, of Socialism, of
and would that the so-culler
nil may clouds.In a progressive
the platintel
background of the soft blue parties have stood for
you get just before sunset. For
Some were simple affairs here
were bus-strikers
The audience made for the declaiming
We lift over- against London You lift wages,
dan
High
e-shops and the tubes, Transport
Fares, part
both were still working. donalised Industry
And was Low Wages,
make An afternoon
you nationalisation a cure for
think! Nearly all those people on the platform first-rate types. Certainly most of the audience.
а nil-
prayer. the Gissar furtress, on overcrowded buses, tay *x*
in abar-cycles, key
xot D1% dif
stel
Kaple attend but young folk as well.
them were
Collective farmers engaged in cotton pro- luctrutt Everybody seemed 10 condone the celebration - the elketive furm chairmen, the l'arts
l the Komsomol.
not Komsemolskiya Pravda com
all things? platnest Uhut the cotton growers And here were bus-strikers were paid as wruaj for the dary
declaiming against their union. they spent in
prayer.
And Such cases
yet was not trade union seem to happen lidarity
of the foundation they seem working-class progress? have induced the Agitation and Propaganda Department
They don't know! They don't care!" said Moscow to make the campaign against religious holidays
microphones. Ell focal point in the general anti- celigious offensive.
suddenly begun f religion with a violence and For
1s 4711 The intensity unheard of
Broad- the war. Of es urge, Seviel
He
Was nowspapers have feertently
COTTON- curried articles complaining
international He is a speefallst about the suryad of reli.
Enst Esropean affairs. superstr urging people
light *****..............................******** [requently, and 10 against them. But now, for bet of interesting cases have be-
enne kansun to a wider publ the first time in 15 Venta,
Fashooil in Kaluga we are faced with a system-
vince in Central
Russia, atie anti-religious campaign muanes, the respondent of centrally aspired and
ths Ted and
Pro-
for
Guzetle fund tene hers what either "1,ved their selves among thola. #
Cen
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tridly directed
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raised bo objretion when avdirenis st vices, wenn helst
itu
in
Tegur da Scien
Eneas Jovire. apeetalize safe logiem) bl
FUGINDAR puntes viber,Ery For
instaties.
da OSTOBOR ol I-kaar
anminced in Central Asia and Eastern Trap on apa. Add the intrigues of the Vateau" are
} Ining teh own In a town near Novosibirsk,
Win fern Siberia, alth
another
spondary
FEAR, ENVY
Correspondent August
TALLY
to
But one of the banners was one of those elaborate trade union affairs, I always admire them. They remind me of the old guild banners that used to be carried in religious proces- slons In the great medieval
trading towns. in
11
nt the
The Soviet trade unions have abo been Andesi of them :pecial duties to this held, Trade which
Maad activiste Of the Morow pro- plays The Beding part
Pruvinee www suntoond effenalve 1: has
Stu ม a speyzal lee unterence. discoveral
The boren op med to estetil its ass
main speaker, teachers tiket to be invalest to Bho Char
al the Moscow and believers on religious hohy Trade unhas, Vasilev, urged that for Lunes
41 even perímet celigious the struggle against superstitions "varflohmy rites themKUIVOS, In another
her quid prejudices should be to be lawn in Nevinibusk Province
woman teacher of hilogy in a bread particularly in the dis- trict of Zagorsk, site of the chu. allowed her Troitse-Sergieva Monastery and child to be christened, and the
#famous place k pilgrimage hendtnister of a The Waves m
a village school ur Orthodox Christians. Mobil- nearby had induced ht pupils sation of the trade unions for work shows how anti-religious much the regime fears the in- of religious idens on the Pet working class.
Any form of religion is harm- fut from
Soviet point of The Communists are as View, afraid of the solemn liturgy in Orthodox and Catholic churches
they
of the formles
be unmarked 2utter ureas.
THE GODLESS
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419
the
party buriou-shotings of the socia
"The
Lithuanian
for both
Communist
#t voice
It wasn't bloated he was criticising.
tar
Throgmorton
Lombard Street.
Over the
The 'tap'
The orators were too educated, capitalists
used They He wasn't
Sire: (b
meeting.
usc
the and
10
Caught up in giant organisa- Llorts
in im- caught up personal urbitration methods caught up enmeshed in all the elaborate machinery that 20th-century
man
has long words that evolved to keep an impossibly with furious eloquence denoune didn't mean much in a public complicated civilisation at work. Men and women frustrated by And when they did
the work that the modern world vulgor
phrase they
has given them. Nursing griev- univer- Epologised for a-like about
ances over himself
their
monotonous. of the Transport sity professor
excusing for using
uncreative work. cockney word in a learned lecture.
And yet that same civilisation a standard has given them of living that not many coun tries
match
... nylons, fashions. TV sets, the radio, the pools, and paid holidays.
It's delicate thing this 1954 civiliantiont
He was talking lenders General Workers' Union,
But no zeal
"Our next nusiness." I heard The audience reacted slowly over the amplifiers, "is to "tap to the speakers. They were fair the public'-lo use a common speakers. They explained their expression to pay for the grievances. But they had not meeting. I'll let you into ព the drive, the burning zeal of secret, the organisation of this the starved and the ill-treated, meeting has cost £70."
SOCIALIST VIEW:
COLD WAR WILL
QUINCE
GO ON
By JAMES WICKENDEN
to pray
One of the main purposes .. { e present anti-religius cam- The Society has also been palan
gn fa to make such "reandals enecuraged to publish a
impossible, by inthuldating both special Journal devote
teachers and the population. 10 athentic propagandu. This will be the
An even greater problem than first anti-religious periodient to
the "neutralism" of the teachers is the attitude which pear in the Soviet Union since
Party and 1914 when the ill-famed wookly
Komsomo! effegati have Laken lezbozhnik (The Godless)
towards
anti- religījus pro- censed publication.
paganda. Many At
are not only afraid of them the
erats, though themselves frm In samo Vine the
their atheistic principles, do not send to offer
but they
London. Iack principle in their views on envy them, Ministries in charge of culture
019 many Socialists like to take 0 hand in anti-
groater attractions
Attlee's Peking Chim. and education are being drawn religiou
than the Communist institutions visit, China has rivalled us
S' Into the
propagandim.
For Eden, the guide to the campaign. The
have realised that reluring on
the discovery of the Mithras East has always been that none mouthpiece
the Soviet Ministry of Culture, Sovetskaya
anti-religious subjects demands youth paper recently contrasted temple as a popular mystery of its problems can be treated Kultura, has indicated that some
Church with the uninteresting in Britain. The strange life separately. All of them, from Korco to Indo-China and of the 30 anti-religious museumis
and beliefs of her swarming Formosa, depend on China's which
existed in Russia before
millions have begun to rulers deciding whether to abide demand for
unusual Interest, by international understanding arouse particularly among Social or play a double game.
Until Mao makës up his
ming Ists.
to deal fairly with the outside The Tories, on the other hand, world, says Eden in effect, there have almost forgotten that "Attlee can be no lasting settlement. But why has the Soviet 'Gov-
ever went to China. They re- And, for Eden, a settlements er ernment his ver-
chatter. the present fuse to balleve his visit had the only object worth striving urged to make greater efforts bal excesses. If he is 100 moment to launch its new "at-, much effect on the problems for. He is a negotiator who 10 secure tho materialist a gentle he may be charged with tack on heaven? Several ex-faced in the ROOMS off the likes results doctrination ot students school children.
گردم
the war are to be reopened.
A
anti-religious more
specialised the
great deal of knowledge and they prefer ether
easter themes.
DANGEROUS
ceremonial
ritual of
cultural
mass work of the Kommmel, and there have been frequent admissions that the But to conduct anti-religious community life of Baptists is Gims has likewise suddenly propaganda is not only difficult; superior to that prevailing in appeared in Soviet newspapers the lecturer
It may even be dangerous. If many Communist clubs. Ministry for
is aggressive he EXPLANATIONS Education of the USSR and the may be accused of Ministries of Education in the the believers and of
Republies have
religious been
fanaticism by
The
Union
DISAPPOINTED
boon most
and
The
more
Jack of fighting spirit and with planations suggest, themselves. marble
Thalis
in the Foreign fuking a
a neutral position. First, the anti-religious
Office Even anti-religious text books palen must be related to "This different porty attitude cannot be relied upon by would. big internal and ideological does
So the Tories remain silent not spring from The greatest problem facing bo speakers. A case in point changes which have takers Labour
• pride in Attlee's visit about China. They wall to su the educational authorities con- vas. the book, "Chemistry place since Stulip's death.
stand Tory Jealousy, but from ternational morality. The Soviet rogima is weaker different ways of thinking.
signs that Peking accepts in- cerns the teachers. They have the Fight against Superstitions,
arrefully recruited, published in 1953. A Moscow poifically today than it was
To the Tories.
The Bocialist - look, - mot · for China. Is A many have come from the ranks newspaper complained that the two years ago at the time of
practical
in building signs of better Chinese polley, problem of tho Komsmol
book
bellof in the nineteenth promoted
party congress.
confidence between East and but for reasons which may hint (Communist miracles Instead of destroying. It is weaker Youth
ficologically, for Leamic) and staunch anil-religious convictions
nothing was able to replace the aulis at conferences than marvel
West. They prefer to get re at how China will behave
They have not been taken in their
A matter which has caused formidable, oppressive part have been a condition particular concern to the more thority of Stalin in ovary, field,
at China's ways. The Socialists by Chint, as crities Arat feared
might are maro detached; they want to trade unionists like Sain Watson be. Hard-headed of employment. Yet many militant section of the Cam- In this situation the how me know where the icechers have
'swort of disappointed munist Party is the indifference: In the Kryqila cannot afford to Practice has shown
have millions of Chinese worker will now communit
cust sbrowd eyes on the that their shown by many Party atheism.
chicla observe the same attitude
colossus, and cannot always be taken towards the observance of re- patronisie, contempt which the
get them
have come away with very clear for granted and the regime figlous holidays.. This obser- late. Üçübralkalmë, shqwet to-
my friens, realises that the education of vance has survived “stubbornly wards feligion in the last years
generations is
the rising
the
satest hands.
an
main in the outskirts of northe
from Ministry of Education, to the Caucasus and the
the
the outskirts of Lenin sillon nga riválidno ogy, much | duties" andTMfiafly: doć
therefore now carrying out of Afghanistan.
Hore had he did, and
a thorough check on teachers Komsomolskaya Pravde, the put new emphasis da
who in recent years have shown Boviet, youth newspaper, ros
a
neutral, or even a friendly, cently published
attitude towards religion. The picture of how a Muslim
an at the Ministry of Educa, was celstirated in the
ofan
tion, the Teacher's Gazette, has plain (the hot populoug
instructed its local "correspóna economically,
dable, to "donounce techers who portant.
allow, tolerange towards rullzijus Šavjet, despub
ther
of the Soviet ? Conspil
have
One reason for the
ach or
道
the
The содирот
Bocialists now
chancos of full o od good. Altho
me to possible to imp
ideologiani wan
vide conclusion
View
amont
that
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