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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.
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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
ព
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
4
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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