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1
THE
VOLTE-FACE
OF
GREEK COMMUNISTS
By
Walter Kolarz
NCE again a European bemo racy might want is abere further unftrut on
Greegelda! Jerritory
Our Party has them
pakontse
ed struggle emceratie
TORIES HAVE SPLIT MIND
ABOUT THE
I
London.
-F you can imagine such a paradox, we Con. servatives in Great Britain are becoming worried about the health of the Socialist Party.
SOCIALISTS
By SIR BEVERLEY BAXTER, MP
"I with I could arange 11," he said, "so that there would be no collection of surtax on
I do not mean that We ex-Ministers salaries follow- He awake of nights won- ing an electoral defcat." It was dering whether Mr Attlee types of the man that, with his sensitive mind and warm is apt to catch a chill, OF
nature, he could visualise the Aneurin Bevan burst 往 pilght of his
Opponents ond blood vessel. Man is but want to help em. mortal.
ito equally typlead of rome a truth which at
di hayd Terles, and we have Attice accepts. quite a least Mr
number of them, to In Each of us
his turn have no sympathy at all for the Ministers. They don't lights a candle which must fallen
have to be
is the politicians," Bicker sometime to ta end.
isual
smug
pronunciamento I must say,
that on the though,
subject. It would be a glowing but day, and a retrograke day politicians keep
in history, It political life were longer than most people.
Let us assume that this "We chall help you." said the proves to be true. Can Mr decimated Conserva'lvo Party, Attlee in his 72nd year survive "be ause we have already yet another defeat? But if he prepared our plons en the some resigns, shail we then sco Alinrs, And this Berce battle for the leadership true. fought to a finish between Hugh Then what went wrong? More Callskeli みつぐる Herbert Mor- then once I have quoted the old ripon?
that
WRX
quite
What
party: 1. Too long a period of power; 2. Too long a period of opposition. Naturally I'make an axception of Canada, where permanent one-party govern- ment seems to be working fairly well.
Yet there is one move which Attice could make if he had the courage and the vision. Let him make some such pronouncement as this:
Cooper
be re
the hunger marches will never again. The Welfare 3ate has been established and the poorhouse is at finished a3 the debtor's prison. We Societ- Jas owe much to Liberalism, which suckled Socialism words infancy. Therefor decided to
"Wo the Socialist Parly, have our historic struggle raying of the mining broker In won
mino against prejudice and Toronto: "Many a good
ugainst abou! You may ask "What
vested interests. The sirent Nye Bevan?" Mr Bevan's only has been ruined by winking a
days are over, just as Well, chance of leading the British shaft,"
It happened to Socialism when it would be Socialist Party there was bil Industrial and came to power. Like Ainancial
the collapse. phoenix he could rise from the ashes but only from ashes,
The ruth is that Socialism is an emotional movement,_not
practical one. In Quite frankly, the Tories open only to those with private
the Vic sounded on public platforms and incomes บ
Lorian profesional ap-
era the Fabians drew street corner rallies: Natural and Britain in
suffering are
such as lawyers and
of the finest minds I ownership of all means of pre we shall be named The Liberal- pendages from a split mind about the journalists.
Britain, including Bernard duction and Shaw, who were shocked at the Hurrah!
the decency. Inequality of life between haves and the have-nots. The
Socialists. We definitely do
not want them to win the IMPOSSIBLE next election. On the other
hand, we are worried about the to what will happen Socialist
Party if Once
de more it goes down to feat.
Yet the
JOTMANOME
Only twice in its history has the Secialist Party held absolute 'That was in power in Britain. the Ave-your period following of 1949 the amazing ekelion
were when the Conservallyes huried out
the of office with
Then carried out aensational thern neighbors, fri pro, aurs in the country."
hurricane. estersson* In other words, if the Greek force of
Commuants continued to adver- there followed that uncery one Le char programme, nr-Com-¦ year when the Socialist majority
reduced
corporal's wns མ ud
e sily be not
guard in the election of 1950. desed about their objectivos. But, the Party canent carry
Wthout a programine,
IL
med the "rghit
vulte-face, This time the to national minorities.
nouncement
Illegal Communist Party of
understand Greece. In it short An-
that this frank statement the
じゅうばりま Central Communist aims
not be the Greek
One
casily
Committee of the Party has very popular with withdrawn the
new
the
Party le generally, and that it was obture has been in tucted to HISTORIC
bound to jeepaiden the chines programme in its entirety.
left-wing ceulitke. The Such
left-winst
the a step is unpreces extreme
22141. dented even in the long Unted Demoerille Left (usually Its Greik tois history of the Communist known uner
n EDA), which acts ca a cover International. To the best cantation for the legal Com- of my knowledge there has munist Party, murt have found been no previous instance in the programme extremely
barrassing which a whole Purty pro. gramme has been officially scrapperi, and this less than six months after its publica-
tion.
The sign.rance of the talet
Communit stp of be Greek
beeapes lenders
apparent if we ok at the th carded plogs mine which their "Free Givice" rad o stalem b hind the Ira Curtun broadest in the first half of June.
The prograMETERS
W{4%
prehensive and impressive docu-
Afteen between
words Ulow und
ment
twenty
length.
em
So to make the task of EDA
Communists ens, the Greek withrew their programme. The demon was taken on November
1 1054. and announced 22. November 25, these days before the and billet in the Greek manipal elections,
The Check Communit Central the Keg metal Committe hid
which prampled enderate suppressant
Am
CUSSIVA
ira 1
J
Py If stated that the dis of tople's Democracy direct 05- "men #tact
Puce a new draft par gromme Five making "patriotic dimecralis
Scapegoats
Thus drastic policy switch can bardly be implemented without
traders me prem'anent
being sacrificed as scapegoats, Such a move would be in keeping with
En Greek Communist trad.tom. 1945, Georg.us Scetos, Steretary Canem) of the Party, ws ousted
trs.n leadership because of his the Grock civil "akes" in war. In January 1949. "General" Markes, Prime Minister Communist rebel "government," was dimissed because he failed
14
mlbtary arty cut major
In bir 1951, Leve sperataka. new "Premier," Danctus Part- from the saldes, wn ejected thetrat Comm.tice, A new therefore, siems to be
1:09 Re. and plenty of the Communiy; Party"
I might be "mblarle
I started with a long historical treatise "about the roots, origin and creation of the N-itellenic nation,"
desvied the Grock
much
to api ce
national revolution of 1821. gave
an oull be of the development i
of the Givek labour nervement Communist point of from the view and ended with a detailed blueprint for a Greek People's Democracy.
Most Important
Of course, this last section of
the planetLIFIC was the most
ampor kam vale. It must be pd.
to the overdue.
Angered by quiz about fertility
The
To
complete
to д
post
1
DILEMMA
How splendid
the
distribution."
Hip-Hip-Hurrahi in the Socialista bought the owners of the railways.
many
Wo
it's have renume our party roconstruct our policy in directions. Henceforth
Socialist Party."
trade union movement was also the electricity plants, long dis- REBELLION
Was irnce road transport and gas, and Hurrah! Hip-Hip-Hurrah! Now
born of emotion, but it able to take
u proctical powerful form.
the people would own these Beyan would beach fury. It can be ra'd indeed
that vital shrews of the nation's There would be mase proteals. trate unionism, Fub.anism, the strength. co-operative
were
the
societies and Ine
No longer
the
The
the
1
problem uf sam'. relegation 10 the Opposition benches has olher sides than mere Abance. Take.
Communists would how! for example, the case of Hugh Cal'skell
did the miners in to the moon. who succeeded Sir Labour Party have all attained the pits have to deal with
But remember this. There is Stafford
Cripps BA Socialist
Their objective. Nor should rerounging owner or д wige no Chancellor of the
Parliamentary Liberni Exchequer. theso and who is being touted as the estimated.
achievements bo under- tyrant in the shape of a man- Party left except for a Lauder
male quartet in There were martyrs ager. The boss was out for good and a ultimate Leader of the Party.
Commons, but there is stili who paid the pries of sacrifles and good riddance to him. I imagine that Gaitskell has
Liberal vote. No Instead of the boss there was big
true o small private income, perhaps in blood, sweat and tears. There
Intellee uals who had to remote control, and if there is Liberal wania to vole Tory if €100 a year--but this is mere
and
British worker he can be offered
sound, con- anything Assumption on my part. Huvingu held the immensely
tumely of their friends. There hates it is just that. However, regociable alternative, Important
through its Such a move cannot take place of Finance Minister, it were creamers, and bores, and Socialism carried
herres
other gramme, including the estab- before the next general election, and poreurs-In would have been easy for him
Socialists go down like any political shment of the Welfare State. but if the words, just to secure first clas director-
And in 1951 a grateful nation to defeat there will be disrup- inovenient in the making. In the City when he 12-
threw them out of office and sent ten, feuds, intrigues and open verted to the rank of a private
back the Tories once inure, reticilion unless someone pro-
duces a plan. Which brings vš to the Thot is why we Conserva- Socialist dilemma of today, In tives are worried, even though Undoubtedly
there is almost it does not haunt our dreams they quickened foreign policy, the pace of 1ocial reform and, no difference between them and or take away our appetites. 151 4.1g 20,
drain the Tories. In matters of de- began to
the fence, strength of
the Bocialists" not only away the Liberal Party. Then came the player their part when In power reud between Asquith and but bravely Introduced peace- Lloyd George, which drew sill time conscription.
shir
[p
But such a movs would be Impo:sible. Undoubtedly he the historical be Chancellor azul if the Socialista win the next elec- survey, there were short period on, and he could not afford to when Mr Ramsay MacDonald
Minister, bul was Prime then he was the prisoner of the Tories.
even
historic of 32 the
have affiliatious In the City, no matter how strictly he and his business associates
maintained
a complete severance of el
tions on his return to the Treasury.
In the
am
PARADOX
mere blood from the weakening
Therefore it 19 fact that over a period yours. from 1922 to 1955,
You may think that as an ob- volas of the party. Tortes
have dominated the
server and participant
But there was another reason political situation, either by sole power
arera I am not only why Lb.rallem as a echeren or reali.ions, in all but the alx
weeping crocodile tears
movement came under but pailticol years of Socialist Government
being unduly
of confident about fentence
death. With e following the Hiller war.
the coming Tory victory.
Glad one, Arquith and Lloyd it hard on
the morale of
On the second
Georg, the Liberal Party did pot! I the Svetalists and particularly quite willing to lead with my Its work so
who
have those haid
chin. I оп
predicted a disastrous everyone Imagine rout
Torics in Mixisters.
of the
1954. spiritually served
as
like which of the
man posi' lun
caused me the greatest Liberal. Mc
When in embarrassment when the S Herbert office he drew
£3,000 a year as calists produced my article in
Then the middle of the election. Cabinet Minister.
disastor at the there comes polls, and overnight he rever.s to his MP pay of
hia surtax on year. Yet the Ministerial salary has sill to be
WIVES WANT TO
SLAP SNOOPERS
By Chapman Pincher
mulled that it stated the aims TORE than two million portunity to tell any department
and
MORE
connec.ed with the Government who presented mo
of Communism in Greece openly
friskly. what was perhaps its most signi- Government. ficant
passage: "The com.ng
Let m quote would shut the door on any with a form to fill in to mind
people's revolution in Greece will called
ivo
to ask
snooper
who their own business. That oppor~ for private lunly has now arisen."
The husband of another People's Demperaue details of their married lives,
who called into the nearest Why were so many women so scerolive? One reason may be statisticians' claim That
Socialist revolution. The U- That fact emerges from threatened to throw any quizzer
thority wh.ch will be created the final Fertility Report of hersepond.
Naturally the leadership in the Gruk People's Democracy w.
to
a
will be BA
A authority of Pouple's Demoty
1946 Family Census Currying the vut the dictatorship of the pro- issued by the Government.* letariat."
Door to door caller the
agricultural workers about one quizzed more than a million among the wives of manual and
four is expec.ing every wives, widows, and divorcee. In be with the Greek Communist get the information on chlid before her wedding day. Party. No other party was which the report is based. mentioned in the programmA
They asked questions MAIN FINDINGS except
tho Agrarian Party, with which the about marriage dates, the Communista want to mengo | birth dates of first babies, But most of them seem to "when the conditions are ripe and husbands' jobs.
have refused to help simply for it."
They called on a further because they objected to offe al prying which they thought Wholesale nationalisation of 177,000-14 percent of the would serve no good purpose, industry wos advocated and the total-who refused to give
pro Communist
Party's adherence to collectivi- the information or were report do little more than prove sation of agriculture was hardly repeatedly "not at home." disguised. Indeed,
gramme sald
the pro-
fladly that tho existing agricultural co-opera- develop towards
*tives must
"higher Socialist forms."
Embarrassing
SECRETIVE LOT
1.
The
The five main Andings of the
the obvious:-
size of the averago; family
s'nco has declined Victorian
"A wombi doys. married in 1020 had only half If this sample of British as many children as a woman wives is representative, as married before 1800-2.5 instead statisticians Professor David of five on average."
The number of childles Professor E.
had doubled since that time.
3. The older a woman is'
2. n
The Greek People's Democracy" | Glass and will, of course, imitate Soviet Grebenik bellove, it follow mar Rusis and the other Communit States. "The Workery of our that more than two million country", sald
sald the programme, women firmly refuse to have when the gets married the tower "will have as a model the poo their private lives pried into the number of children she is pica
of the USSR The Cronk
likly to have.
Deliberate miation of Communists also pledged them by officials.
authorities have
Coupler tend to have ar many children to their went in. the early years of marriage and khas bayaɛno mieraved a
selves to employ 1
"Soviet aalentine One woman told the census family sże w more widespread
chiefs: "waix years I have tha roos teen pagerly awaiting the op- that some
methods in agricultural economy
resumably the
· mathods of Lysenkowend to ad- Just them to local requiremnants, Finally, the progamma i in.
The Trend
late.
מנויו
3
£1,000 ELECTION
to
The electorate wants no more nationalisation, but they would Hite bigger pensions and moro bencfts from the Welfare State, and better housing.
But where is the money to
The come from?
taxpayer is well that almos bled to the limit, so there is no that direction. Tho In Britala became hope in
a nationalised Industries of kind come
struggling against the dead hand of bureaucracy, despite strenuous attempts to bring about increas- ing efficiency.
100 The
RELUCTANTLY
дре
con-
Reluctantly, sadly, the So- cinilats have come to the
Welfare State clusion that the can only be developed to its full efature if there is vigorous ind
It is the paradox of politics that when party has complet- ed its evangelical « Kisage,
The Liberal begins to die. Party went to impotent death
converted because it had But I also predicted the re- great proportion of clestora e to its doctrine. paid because it is always a year election of President Truman in
his last fight, and in a British
Thus the Socialists swept in
party in the cecond place bye-election last year 1 fore-
the vigour of cast that the Tory would in- ctup. It had
the crease the majority by 881. comparative youth; 1. had Here I was wrong. He only confidence of trexperience; prosperous private enterprise. increased it by 970,
had the
mighty backing of the
Which prompts the old, Therefore I now give it as trade unions; it had the street
Eng:
"This is where my opinion that whether
in. the corner fanatleism of the zealot.
But Conservatives hold general
not until 1934 did
But not even a Tory like my- next Spring or next achieve absclate rower, with no self beltoves that we should have a Conservative Government he talked witi the greatest Autumn, we shall be returned coalition with any other party,
understanding to power with an increased ma- "Now," sald the Socialists, "wo for ever. Two things are bad sympathy and
jority.
chall create the Welfare State." for the health about the problem.
hope I am not disclosing a that Sir in stating conf*ense Winston Churchill was deeply worried about the plight of the Ministers after the Socialist 1951 defeat.
I lunched with not him on the Queen Mary long after he had been returned
the
to power in that election, and election
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