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BEFORE

AFTER

THE CHINA MAIL,

TUC

Russia's

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12

1954.

AND LET ME TELL YOU -- IN THIS STABLES THE RULES ARE COMPULSORY*

ALTERNATIVE MOUNT

World Copyright by arrangerment with the Manchester Guardia

Underground

Public Opinion

SE of the Brist vital

efonunt in a nation's By ELISABETH HUNKIN

life is public opinion.

FL parliamentary vit- assertions made by those An Law is ca vxample fue war-

it is mostly the know" that Lewn In his to mimar

the addictive through the interplay of Stalin was not the man to sie-

Testament had worned that form would late disbanded t divergent opinions, and not yet him

victory was achievexi, through any #1 uniforms given too much power. view, that policy is shaped.

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events

and should

be

kept 411 Gurnt with personal

That had not been made

Sex

vi J

after

Atar

Another means

JUNGLE JACK

JUST

A

PICKED UP FORTUNE

By ARTHUR MORLEY

[ACK WHITE, the brawny, any of the things townspeople

JA

"

slow-spoken Australian egard as necessary. Why? "I

like, it that way," he saya, bushman who started the great uranium boom in the Rum Jungle has been known first place, wasn't at Rum prospectors like White for Jungle to BOË the Prime Darwin on the main north-south many years. It's 50 miles from gov- road, then inland across country

| Minister, Cabinet, and

ernmental big-wigs admire to the west for ten miles or so. his work.

Jack, the man who dis- covered uranium at Rum

Jungle back in 1949, was

You come to old tin and gold- mine workings-holes in the fast century when it was called ground. Tin gougers worked here The Jungle.

driving his jeep over the and

A storekeeper set up comp,

sold them,

among other

sun-scorched, empty land- things, rum, One night the scape south of Darwin. He minem quarrelled about prices, had just stopped at

broke open his cashbox and let the Adelaide River Hotel and hole, where it mixed

the rum run down to a water- In con- taken his place at the bar as veniently palatable proportions Prime Minister R. G, Men- with the water. zies pressed the button that They drank it up, and the started the £3,000,000 Rum name of the pince has been Rum Jungle uranium plant work- Jungle ever since, ing.

White hop searched the num Jungle for more than a decade White and his friends looking for gold and copper switched on the radio in the between spells of farming.

bar and heard the Austra-

lian Broadensting Commis

ILU-

HE WAITED

sion an Enver describe the event. "And in the

Five years ago he heard men- dience here." the announcer He wrote off to the Bureau of tion of the new mineral uranium. said, "we have James White, Mines for a brochure for pros- the discoverer of Rum pectors. Jungle."

THE FIRST superiors, are always going the rounds.

of express

They switched off the radio

and some public opinion is through jokes at that

of White's and anecdotes and puns. There friends

angrily telephoned is a whole wealth of these in Darwin 1 profesi, But Jack While tried to calm them dosen. The Soviet Union-and In the satellite countries too, from all

"It doesn't upset

accounts most of them refect Ing a hearty dislike of Unic or other aspect of the regne.

the

The

A particularly fruitful held her Pundur ३.५ the Soviet ruling olique, Clare very little is made It has become a truiam that Dura the last war pele Buble hou The Ianies and A favourite form of wittlefam

totalitarian regime, Whe

hablis of the Soviet by the re-interpretation of some kaders. All that

slogan is known of official

or Title, For the other hand, creates a pulle by the same kind of bush

private lives is known example,

people have often rficial uniformity of graphi

hearsay. from

played When

Stali

letters SSSA opinion which does not re- vpening

One version of the Flunish can wife, Aliluyeva, died in

1932, t

It (USSR). prysent more than a small paign, for example, rumours of Was asserted up and down the meaning particularly favoured Culing svetion of the papula Fhim ed the loses of the ad dud

the deperale resistance of the Swat Unon that she had not by Soviet students was "Smet Bon, it indeed it represents Arm.

a natural death, although Stallon spaset Rosslyu" (Stalin's WEDN Circulating the there were different versions of death will sove Rusia) thu gemmine sentiments of ads at mules from the froni how her

actually wak

letters MTS,. official abbrevla- place.

tion for the machine tractor At the same time, the Husay

sitations well ch dominate The There S similar wilspred Soviet countryside, have been 45 tack to a br-

speruiut.co whenever

formes 1

pi- Interpreted by Sovirt nes of

pubir sihant

Soviet Communist dies themselves When a une before his e san neomments.

In the gases of sensational

instance. * Kubyshev, for passed. few aceep) Ordziamik:dzend

uf Xhdain. v, Fear15 Pen On Soviet rilizes we the first to ntrary, tites is endless be sceptical of the offemi repoti speculativa about the Govern »

on the causes of death.

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Nevertheless.

and!

experience ple hows that even in a totall farian State publie opinion s savetesi cannet so easily be crushed them

of existence; it

Korg the anderground. seps to the surfare in vari- ment's real motives. ons Plicit ways.

111

In

the

![

Soviet

Thene

Union,

the

A

RUMOURS

SOMETIMES Party nagitators. themselves have to be detalled advance

10: come new unsure.

merveggraphi men-

Russian The Munich

Π seems that the

trudovemu selyanstvu" of the rural worker).

ANECDOTES

urban T is said that

population in the Soviet Union I

is the most eager for rumours of Soviet uincedates of

(Grave

slightest," he said quietly.

me in the

didn't care

He examined

one of the coloured plates closely and grinned to himself: "I'd seen a lot of that stuff lying around, so Just rode over to Rum Jungle to shoot kangaroos and pick up some samples.

He made world headlines for a few days and then dropped bpek into obscurity.

Ife hired himself out culting "timber at Rum Jungle just like much and anyway any other bushman, and waited unit last year to collect his reward.

I wouldn't go along without an invitation.

They any they sent ine ane, but I opened my postal box ins Darwin two days before the

opening ceremony and it wasn't there then."

Australian Government officials still say White's

was the rat invilation to be sent. Those who know prospeclor White any may- be it went astray, maybe some- body made a muddle, or maybe he didn't want to ko con-

Mogila pleuously among the crowds.

He was insarded £25,000 by the Australian Government lost year for finding the meat Rum Jungle Field. What would you də with £23,0007 11 might have been twenty-five shillings for all the busic difference it has made to White's life.

some of the williest and most popular anti- an carlier originated with the people ten

tend to be interested only brilliant Soviet journalist Karel in rumours which directly affect Radek. collective farm fe.

all

kinds. In the countryside, pertod

affet Radek, wilo

According exc

among

was

trled

und

ro

NO

TOURING

Jack White doesn't want to travel to Britain, or see Paris, or make a jaunt to New York. Those places don't worry him. He still loves the freedom of the territory in which he lives.

The public has been de- Died free expression of its opinions for several

He has a jeep now, but be decades.

But Press, radio, and to

Soviet rding executed in 1937, spired to the monograph of the Munich citizens do not rely for their spaces of the never-never innd ovici | managed to get around the vast even the forum of partia-heries. Furt

quite clear Institute, the

active witticisms on most

outstanding in- before Jeeps were invented, so it that the Soviet ment are closed to all senli- iter is not above using the un- civil servants and

Government purveyors of unofficial news are dividual opponents of the basn't changed his life much

minor om- ments but those of offi- official channels

gime. Innunciable bitter uf information clals; but

ur from the old days, rumours circulate whimsical anecdotes un all sorts cial propaganda. Never, and will, on occasion, initiate fairly freely

The In- of subjects spring up more or theless, many emigres from the publie mad and prepare the

rumours of its own to influence dustrial workers too. With less spontaneously when prople the Soviet Union have ground

the organs of the Party, pieces have no other means of express- testified that the

of confidential Information, said ing what they really think and to have been gleaned from feel. * people still find outlets to express their own true feelings, Some of these outlets are described In

most interesting! monograph recently pub- lished by the Institute the Study of the History and Culture of the USSR, in Munich.

for

HEARSAY

ANOTHER NEW WORLD TO

TAN'S world

THE monograph speake Moved

some

FRIGHTEN US?

By LES ARMOUR

haa re may be possible to look into He pleads for more rescar- severe the future with is much certain-- chers, for more tools, for more first of news learned by shakings in the past. Galileo ty as we can now look into the consideration of the possible hearsay and rumour.reduced the earth to a mere past, to

effects. move mountains with Where people know that pinpoint in a vast universe, thought and-most certain and He explains that things like many facts are kept from Einstein transformed the perhaps most frightening of all prayer and the direct effects of them and others presented ways in which we could look to read one another's thoughts.

the activities of God probably

the work through much in a distorted light, therent things. Rutherford open- ia tremendous scope

There is no way of estimating agency as telepathy and tele- for ed a whole new universe in the Consequences of

kancsis, such

and thai a scientific hearsay. News of untoward the atom.

findings except to say that life backing for religious revelation events of military clashes,

is wo now live it would be may be just around the corner. finished for ever.

Dr Rhine has amassed a good

natural disasters, local But none of these dis- risings or mass deportations coveries did much to change deal of evidence in more than --which never appears in the ways in which most men twenty years of steady hard the Soviet press, spreads viewed most things most of work. like wildfire in the form of the time.

rumour.

In the early thirties, for example, all sorts of gruesome toles were known about the horrors of famine in the Volga

Big Shake-up

New Systems

same

viole

Ho explains that a now sociology and a whole new Only the most sceptical will system of law may be required doubt that his card guesslog ex-

If the great discovery ever does, periments have proved that break and urges that wo telepathy and clairvoyance Are about getting ready now.

should be doing something simple facts, Mart Impartial. observers will agree that his

So a man who proposes a experiments on Influencing incrt the Ukraine, Some-shake-up which would times the rumours, expressive vaster than

srca or

Ho may be right. He has bee

be matter-dice and decks of cards - to parapsychology what Bert- any of those and small objects en inclined philosophy. He has provided rand Russell ondo was to planes-is highly suggestive.

of a deep-rooted fear in people's mentioned and more im- minds, have had a quite fantos-portant necessarily change Le ring. Typical of the period everybody's everyday way of collectivisation was the grim of life, should be looked at story among the peasantry that closely. old people's bodies would be. Jeft to rot in the collectivo farm fields, where they would act as fertiliser.

"เ

But farther thes that?

If these phenomena do happen, and if they can be repeated re gularly under carefully control

the sweeping new idenë; others have supplied the Ossential support and filled in the all- important detalla.

His now book, "New World Such a man is Dr J. B. d conditions, then it is possible Faber, 18s.) follows closely on of the Mind (Faber and that someone sometime will Rhine, director of the Para develop ways and meat of the confirmations of telepathy psychology Research Labora controlling and extending them. by Britain's Dr S. G. Sonl..

of and elairvoyance phenomena Tho information which goes tory at Duke University," if

Yet no one has, and aven Ha ima pointed the way. No of a markedly anti-government North Carolina.

www.Rhine admits that it will be a doubt others will follow. But nature, For example, people His resourches have led him long time before the ble merete 12 in perhaps not very wise to werd very receptive to secret believe that one day. It are cracked.

· take any bata jurt yet.

from mouth to mouth is often

And he still lives in his simple. galvanised iron cottage without running town water or gas, or

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And there's nothing more he wants then to go on bebig conscious of the place he has bushman, even though be Is

made for himself in history.

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