DON IDDON'S DIARY
THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER
T
9, 1954.
The Man Whose Trial Split A Nation
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to tell
him: "I'm
Hius used Dadant Community 19 New York. Tuesday.
Department and the a very religious person. I be- LGER HISS, the man the State
Nat s Sovretarint? lieve that God will judge Whit- whom many Ameri-
Wond were the chatuels of erm- taker Chambers as he should be believe was one maleation cans
betwe
Russan judged. I feel for the people. a 1141 ther Contacts La You probably
the remember of the top Russian spies in gen
bonus march in Washington, the the United States, last week the te verrent?
Whether H. will answer his
terrible
state people were in walked out of the Federal
Tuly Ha humbel Lack in the 1930's.
I thought at 14 wit ป4 1314 Prison at Lewisburg, Penn-
the time was the day of Amendment and duck the
some- sylvanin, a free man.
educated people to do He
deny thing positive, and many people could scything, as he has done be
and love I g wat lo 14 perjury aknin
How long fins, one-time friend and adviser of Presi
and Roosevelt deni
Secretary-General
fe
of the arge
United Nations Charler con-
is quite m Ther
polo ma wat KIN
Temper
will remixİN
Ful
11
小 bag released
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Line
San Francisco, prsu ment members of the State Department who think it would tree is doubt-
question Hiss further, despite the angry de-
Congresul 1. u's I
com- Krd behukran, as request by maltees, because they fear more cross-examination will Cerving asties
Fight
make ss a martyr years
They say "Lenv. Hiss alone, the case is closed"
nother und dive days
Ave-year
for perjany. Mions of Ameri-
Cate tunk
nvicted of treastili
never
WILY.
lic
Ns-Tat
10
KILL Kuol
shackle thief
after two trials TMEN apprais
branded as
denying
say:
The McCarthyiles, l Sort Whist an
moderente. MDLC "Squeeze 10 ull the Japs squeak Hr must turn over every Item
information
ell as I do."
A 'patriot'
Cummings
D
"I've never really understood-did they execute Guy Fawkes for trying to blow up Parliament or for failing to blow up Parliament 2”?
THERE are several people in- 1 sade and mutside the Lewis- burg penitentiary who have
meory that Hiss may really be a US ngent who went
Into the the Caminunist conspiracy_os_
President And
で of eyca Roosevelt
check on To keep a Soviet sples in Washington and ter
While report back House.
to the
Under this theory. Hist, as a patriot, agree:t that if he ever got emagh he would never re- Vetul
his real role, but would Take the
rap, even if it meant gaol.
fellow prisoners
Hiss
* President Rouse- had not died suddenly I The old
nan would have taken care of me"
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To his has said:
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haves gand a convicted
would never be here.
that he had even cheumatis by the
Jelent
m all courts,
deprived of hi
(5 rivil bght
a citevn,
unable
to practno
Chambers.
that Ne Chambers
antiel, Herrard, had het after
09
prod Slate
sett-evaritviste Comtutiot Wut-
Laker
by denying
Whittaker
Jantury 1, 1937.
Questioning
of Government NUMBER officials are anxts to talk H The Sensster to Alger Internal Securits and the flouise
The Immediate plans of Hias lawyer, are to write a book, and it is
profess of work for the Goverument, we thought that its central Gravel abroad on a DS. passport will be that be was J
mus glausted Presidential Presidential agent, jorden, which is extremely un- Jikely
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He will have lo cepet regu- larly to Federal officials on paroled prisoner until his five- year sentence is up
Hys also leaves his prison cell. dead broke He hasn't a nickel; Un- Ainerican Activities Can-
spent moTE they he is in debt. He nittees bth SAGANCE*
His with than $25,000, much of it bre- 56727
Puwed, and his long and strenu- oua dufero,
confunt
rese queÅKONS
Whers
did
Hun
Join
The
The American authorities im- Washington Communist cell and posed a barrier of secrecy while Iliss has been in prison," but it
in the Unlied States. theriggers have poloen.
of
theme
secret
Hiss turned down many offers
publishers, nuguzine
but desperately necdia mUCY and will probably break down and sigu some of the many con- tracts which are being offered him.
who recruited him?
members of the La very difficult to keep anything store Who WITC roll? How did they operate? quiet
Rive
American scants to the
U.S.S.R.?
Who
ospionage
the leaders of the appuratius LA the
ure
United States?
ment.
Stayed loyal
15 she
John Staples, who claimed The Hlas circle, while he was Alger Hiss's best friend has diminished, has no! in prison, says that illas was o appeared, and when Hist model prisoner, quiet, reserved, out of gool there was a Thoughtful,
group of disciples to greet
NOW FOI THE FIRST TIME:
did
The Time Of
T
HIS is the first lime
that
1 And myself with disagreeing
"Old Mr Wardman"
our
London Express Service
Of Decision
BRITAIN'S COME-BACK IN WORLD
AFFAIRS
By
A NEW ANALYSIS
SEFTON DELMER
THE FIRST DAY'S INVESTIGATION WARNS OF:
THE
LINGO OF THE LINE
By J. W. Taylor
name
TAVEN if it does have a liko "Jingling Geordie", as is the case in respect of one engine of British Railways, the loco- motive is always referred to by the technically-informed as "ahe" or "her". As a railway fireman once put it: "We call them "sho be- cause, like women, they are burd to handle."
Jin Swan, Wolverhampton driver of the non-stop London- Edinburgh express, often has a chat with passengers after a ru either way, and likes initiating them into the kind of technical Crows adopt cigine language when referring to their work. BS amateurish He will dismiss inik references to the engine
The
steam heard "puffing." hissing from out of the chimney (never the tunnel) is the "blast" or "exhaust,"
Up Or Down
And about that corny argu- ment whether London is up or down. Jim sotties it by explain- ing that the different lines are always reffered to as the "up or clown roads." All lines leading TO London are "up." those going from
"down", no matter whether the train is travelling
So north or south,
that two truing
опе travelling,
from Scotland to
the London and other from London to Penzance, gesture reduces us to the status south, could quite, correctly be
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purely absorbed in Interests.
DANGEROUS
MIRAGE
Mr local stationed in Germany
as they call him. Wardman is chemist and one of those shrewd, fair-minded, and honest Englishmen.
can
home The Arst of these treaties has already begun to go wrong. moted "
When was in the Sun this lime last year the Whitehall "pologists of the Sudan agree ment were congratulating them- selves on two achievements.
בון
European
power described as respectively going purely European
up and down,
who
I shade the misgivings of the Tho driver and fireman French about German rearma- describe cach other 06 "my be are being put over us and only ht. ! also chare the mis- mate," Da well an cJOWB
Those Africans who arc con- dvlum of German anŭ-Nazis.
work the
Батье long-distance are being pro- verted to Islam
believe that the cost to run in shifts. When they coast the Western world in poli- on engine up to be coupled to a Yes, we have written off the teal blackmoli nod incecurity train, this is "coming on top for And with it the loyal that will inevitably follow the the bags to be put on," the Sudan.
of the ΠΟΥ German Intter being the railway be friends we have made there in raising
of disinterested and Army far outweighs the poten- 50 years
for the heater and brake superb British administration. tal military value to Western
flexible pipes, Please don't imagine that this defence from this source.
And that goes even if the latest surrender will add to our
8/20 German Army and the
German scope of
armaments are ultimately waived as I am
The first was the compromise
ese officials for British
Liny
him.
ing quite a dominant role in Moslem ruters over them. But today.
tribesmen into Moslems or put men who are Britain's enemies
Certainly
to
2
to
xtood they will be.
To bring about this German warmament at the cost of our
on
FROM now we must go F all out to fight against the diplomats to undkhey of 01
Britain be demoted to purc
Wide Open
Jim doesn't like to be asked “how fast can she tua" Họ dự really unable to give the correct answer, da every part of the run is timed, very often to within Himits of 30 seconds, Drivers are never allowed to run as fast as the engine can travel, Trips vary. If it has been tough one, then Jim may have to 'cou- fess that he had to "give her the gun," of
the "the was up against
or "wide open." Boiled down, this means that the throttle, often called the re- gulator, was wide open
I was in his shop in Sud- URING his Kaoi sentence
bury, Suffolk, a couple of Alger's wife, Priscilla, has mornings ngo with my wife. "Things are looking remained loyal, through the travail of his trial.
Mrs His works for a modest up with Britain," Mr Ward by which the Egyptians agreed salary In a New York book-man said to me as his as that the substitution of Sudan- prestige in the eyes of Africans prosent unitation of
us friends the the and Asians or gain in and lives with her 13- |sistant wrapped up a bottle Civil Service should be stretched among their nationalists,
RETREATING For how long a perjod did Him Other Communists have talked. year-old son, Tony, In a dingy of orange juice and halibut over a period of three years.
downtown Manhation apart oil. (ugh) for the children. The second was the promise
Sudanese of THEY will say as they said bo- "Trade and industry are of the Northern It
foro: The British do not both parties that they would dis-booming. Sterling is sought give the backward African support those who support relation with the Conumen
gol after once more. And re- Boutherners a fair deal and not them. They are on the retreal wealth 遐 diplomatic Belf-
Christian The bosses of tomorrow are the deception at its worst. gently we seem to be play. attempt to turn the
Let us be on good terma
ALL OUT world affairs. People are what has happened?
with themTv,“*
the decision beginning to look to us for
No rooner had the Egyptian- allocate lead. I expect you've financed party
a permanent British of Premler El force
Continent the
of been noticing the change on Azhari taken power than they Europe, to serve there not under
travels, your
haven't begin a drive to move all Bri- orders from the British Govern-
tish officials
I am sure it can be done, I am you?
put their IT
at the discretion of
closest own party in their places, ment but Now, I do not dispute the armene the place, un as yet functionless body call- economic side of Mr Ward- in the provinces and
ed the Council of Europe, has arocation with the U.S. and
15:0 Commonwealth the main been hailed abroad as
a great Britain
countries cnn ad hor Britain's government offices will be leave progressive gesture on our part, building up a world power for way to thesis. mana come-back in the
ing the Sudan by the end of this world
Many flattering speeches and
great markets is as impressive as Only
newspaper articles have claimed Pond prosperity as Governor HW the British
that this
"courageous decision" which we enjoyed in the Germany's and, in our own General and a handful of power- puta Britain right back into 11s
past. Just
old us less adjutants remain. undramatic
association our old place of moral and political leadership.
new ones there are hopeful reserves That 15 just Lo much
have you got on?" soap. The opposite is the case. strength waiting to be developed.inany
seen these on my True, they do talk about the
Well, I have been doing
♫ been receiving letters from the Continent ignores our over- Mr Wardman
the African leaders down there seus commitments to our allies 19 12 BUBEris I do. 1
i have been looking appealing for help:-
in the Commonwealth. The Mostem traders have Neither the Americans nor our what I have found in
the and kinamen in countries 1
is friends our freedom have visited seized power, during the past year.
belnk taken away
from us. Empire have taken on a similar Alas, if what
Is Everywhere
officials commitment. Without them this
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month.
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WRITTEN OFF
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exivinoxt that in the
From
Soft
ƏLİ OLAN
Vicry
Rail crews don't often refer to signals. These have various names-omaphore, colour light, automatic and so on--but to an engineman they are "boards," "dollies" or "sticks," and they can be off or on according to whether they are in the "clear" or "danger" position.
trucks when you Never say
meun waggons, and to be on the "How
of
safe side merely ank:
regained authority and letter- AS for the South Sudan I have This committal of our forces to have
wad l-wide travels during the
ship?
11.3
should
back
the
over
he means that picture we are being sold so often of late, of the world; with Its cyns Axed on the moustaches of our Own Sir Anthony Eden waiting for him to produce the magic saving
northern
RUSSIA
formula, i must be frank with THE
THE agreements recent-
you. That is nothing but dangerous diplomatic mirage.
REJOICING
THE present
ly concluded in Peking Union between the Soviet and China will presumably go down in history as a re- to Jubilation
treat by Russian im- essentially the jubilation of
East, diplomats so intent on negotia perialism in the Far tion for negotiation's sake that They bring to an end the every agreement is a triumph. | most Important
We are being asked to rejolco over a come-back in diplomatie 'prestige beenuse:.........
Soviet-
Chinese mixed companies and cede to China the We have agreed
the Soviet naval base of with
Port Egyptions to give up the Arthur. Sudan and let it vote on its own Both events, though histori- cally and politically unavoidable, have agreed to get out are not for that less important.
of Suez and let the Egyp- The Chinese-Soviet mixed com-
that
the
mer the. In my next will tell you about
~London Express Service)
NEXT:
arcle
theen.
The road ahead
railway permanent way, but
An
Jim would refer to it as the "rood." For instance, engine becomes derailed
it is "off the road,” or if a jolt is felt on a run it may come from "a bad bit of road."
IS ON THE RETREAT
By WALTER KOLARZ
Author of "Stalin and Eternal Russia," "Myths and Realitios in Eastern Europe," "Russia and har Colonies," "How Russia is Ruled," and "The Peoples of the Soviet Far East."
were
Tho
ceme
i
necessory ir Chinese the Chinese point of view. On
Outer
wl hes are to be met in full. the contrary, this line might
even Increase the already strong.
of Mongolian dependence
Sinklang on the Boviet Central Asia.
A case in point
(the Mongolia People's Republic), which Russian Communists have trans- Finally, there is one aspect of formed into an appendage of Sino-Soviet
Until 1945, the Soviet empire.
reflected in
territory.
·
not even nions which was
(fairly con-
the
Taarist
this Soviet satellite was, from the Peking communique, This Is
view
inter- the point of
the problem of Chinese Immigra- China. national Inw, a part of
tion into Siberia Its status
siderable was changed only
during bocause the Soviet Union hastily regime). Even in the first years concluded
an agreement with of Soviet power there was the
Kuomintang Government sizable Chinese ethnic group in which secured the formal in the Soviet Fur East, particularly' dependence of the disputed in Vladivostok, which the Chinese themselves cofl Hal- Shen-Vel,
half In the second of tho thirties, most of the Soviet Chinese were · deported tians run this vital base for un panies could hardly have been books as one of the most glorious on the promise that if some kept in being after the liquida- pages in Russian history.
Ever since 1980 the Chinese und Vladivostok ceased to be
Since then, tumo in the next eevon years on of the Soviet-Rumanian defender of Port Arthur, General Communist regime has made semi-oriental city.
ro- Soviet Russia has adhered to a war breaks out in that area companies announced G fort Kondralenko, and Admiral considerable attempt to they will
let us
us in-again; night earlier. Moreover, Makarov,
Commander of the capture some of the economic, policy which might be described We have agreed
the abandonment
and political influence as a "White Soviet Far East" of @green
Fort Arthur Russian Pacific fleet during the cultural
re which China previously exct- vast British oll
oil assets shall could not be further postponed Russo-Japanese war, pass into Peralan hands
Bovlet for unless the
authorities ceived into the Sovies pantheon cised in Outer Mongolia. It no doubt on China's the merest traction of their trus wanted to appear even more together with other prominent was
With the establishment of the value and be
Insistence that Russia has given administered by imperialistic than the Tsarist figures in Trorist history. an international group
final agreement to the building Communist regime in China, with regime, which held Port Arthur. Americans as top managers and between 1805 ani 1005.
A monumental novel, "Port of a railway line which will however, she may not be able Arthur," which referred to the establish the first direct rait to keep her Aslan, frontiers Chinese port "our. Russian
between China and closed. Booner or later Chinese cennacion
Immigrants will have to was given a Stalin prize, the Mongollari Republic.
com. This
line might well become admitted despite all the French hond ovor. Northam But from the Soviet Russian and a film on the Port Arthur
plications and negative con- Important channel for Indo-China, to the Communists,point of view, the evacuation of story was put on the Soviet
which
mlsht who
will
now be free to subvert Fort Arthur was no easy step screen only two or three years Chinese political penetration into soquences
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Mongolia. med conquer the rest of Indò- to take. The regime has mado go..
Hitherto, the entire have in the long run from China as a base for their further extensive use of the port's great With the departure of Soviet rallway system of the repubile Russian national point of view.
Chini, on the other hand, an extension of the was past in its appeal to nationalist forces from the part and Malaya, Burme India
Trans-Siberian Reil cannot go on demanding rights foelings which has been such a liquidation of the mixed com- Russia's We have agront to lopez Petre since the late 19306
prominent Soviet
other new railway for the oversons Chinese domestic panics, China will be free from way.
in the crowded British woldiern, ő názzon,
direct visible Boviet control line discussed at the Sino-Soviet have soiled
of the Nanyang. and aircraft in Germany - for In the laiber "years of the But this does not mean that talks in Peking which will link countries
X the next 50 years, in order to Bialin era, the story of the all questions of dispute are Urument, emphal of Sinking, (Southeast Asia) without bring?". induce the Franks, to Ing. Creed elaveri mantha Galega of Port peitled betwrom the two coun- with Alma Ata, capital of Soviet ing up the question of Chinese. many build up a new army to Arthur in 1906405 was rewritten tries. Further retreat by Sovia! Kazakhstan, probably much immigration into now empty... that the American roopa inay - and prevented in school texte Atussiku imperiallen a willibee inse valuable and welcome, from apsoney of Siberia,
a few British underlines;
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We have helped to find the. formula, alder which the
penetration of Slam,
town,
only
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