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IN
THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1955.
COMMUNISTS' DILEMMA IN
Russia's European em-
battie
for production.
EAST GERMANY
By Julius Gould
Everywhere this bas high Course" has changed none priority and nowhere higher of this. In the autumn of
the than in Eastern Germany. 1954
Party held which in recent years has election
the Soviet on lurched from one crisis to model
Molotov's under another.
patronage. The Government, of course, was "re-elected,
With political liberties Party the extinguishid lenders first tried a ERC paign of high-speed com munisation. Reonomie chaos and poff- was the result tical unrest. When The building workers. in East
their
were
From
Political freedom and free trade unims do not exist.
rearmament
Moreover, the
wi!! drive ordered by Moscow put frosti Kiruin upon the economy. In obedience to his Ulbricht will Russian masters, of in
the East Germans gung Rive when they would prefer butter and eggs, or warm winter cloth- ing.
January 1, 1035, the funds for metal uenities" Industry are to be entirely de- IKT on the profile
dustry.
This meatio Rightening un ulready with a vengeance very ght belt. We shall s see how it all works out,
The Flexi that
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10
of
will
Aguinst this background they believe in his promises, or will they show, by continued apathy and low production, the
between Кир rowing 110
"People's Government" and the people's will?
3. The economic position
thing for Ulbricht be bars
unfla is niost unhealthy. This is
to offer immediately-oven made clear after the months after WILM
the inception election by Ulbricht in the "New Course." He has November. He deplored the economie reserves and can pro low productivity
vido
direct incentives. stil pre- vailing in a large number publicly-owned enter-
TIO
the
Berliss touched off the dune prises, and showed how all Should We Add Them To Drinking Water? rebellion in 1954 they, like the threats and pleadings of contrades obsewhere. the last two vears have stefested by Russian miserably failed. During the Arst half of 1954, he stated, production costs were lower. by less than one percent the llest reduction in years, Consumer goods are not available in any- stift
the
right thing like
Julius Gould, Ferturer Noclology at the London School of Economies, has contributed numerous articles to periodicals
trade on poikeal
union
dis He hall
questions,
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tinguished academic career quantities. There are wide.
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Wan Д scholar
Balliol College. Oxford, before
becoming
Assistant Lecturer
at Enlvorsiss College, London
1nh
This was
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strend
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inefficiency 201 lincind
errors.
For example, by September
FLUORIDES MAY BE POISONOUS
From CHAPMAN PINCHER
London. HEALTH! Ministry plan
+L They from Nah
Teroris
further amounts
tattel mere whirly
Mei
calen
30, unprofitable enterprA to put chemicals called
of
had swallowed up all the Ruorides into drinking-water
роймен mbly to which they were | nuy
millions the whole of people. Dr Hugh Sinelair, "victory" for the regime, entitled for
director of Oxford I'niver- but it has proves much 1954.
sity Laboratory of Human harder to revive the fan- guishing economy of East
er Germany or to make s citizens vathusindir.
No Confidence
Obviously the Party's
brellon has The urging
The "New Course," half-way inure to full Cum- munism dopted in aftermath
T
June failed, unstead
milkter
je:-
Krenler Toit,
has bustered
12 abaths and stavk-
Ulbracht Trans KON Janxiety The
HUDN ti of The June
1 Gernate
rising, van now be sujudged sentee that it takes them twier
For the failure.
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Com
suit u! clathes of even a dozen eggs a still munist leaders #re
ıklavy their West German distrusted by the makers
counts, and they have no con-
Adence to fee and they continue
Usat hart work whi really
D
thank startal economic and social crisis.
benefits.
The caf erience the New Co
hus dune ter dispel Price re nothing durtions have been few interact *! have tehled only the A low Jughest paid workers. level of real wages, not enough
113 1 shop, and XIRKİS Humbling thuwat of
monetary
True. they have a very difficult job, for how are they to make a viable State out of a fragment of Gers many? How can they induce factories Asi farms to "deliver the goods"? Three factors are bo clar to be disguised.
1. Eastern Germany is an artificial creation of Sovie, the All foreign policy. patriotic talk about "nation- al independence" and Ger- man unity cannot hide this. 2. Eastern Germany is a police State. Political power with the Party, not with the people. The "New
!
rests
Colds
indiation
this the outlook for East Germany in 1955.
Wht have bright and his theths to offer" The usual ex- which fad on deaf horfaits
and the thous threat CHES to use working norms to what He *technically
possible." admitted that the workers were Father unhappy about such changes, but he promised high living standard
IN
that would,
In the end, be theirs His one asilive proposal cun scarcely have been well-received.
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Fluorides might helps to $90- vent Tooth decay as children
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FUCHS WAS WRONG
TOM bomb exfculations nasade for the RAF by 17 Klaus
the Harwell Fuchs.
who spied for Hussia, scientist proved to be eitirely wrong. It was diclosed last week-end
NELSON the man who brought Robert Tracy, accountant, and Nina Chapman, television writer, to- gether, is telling the story of how their marriage went PH. .F..F..F..T. into his flat Charlie Nelson Look Robert
after the divorce and is advising
to do now he is Robert on what bachelor again.
Charlie Nelson continues the story.
TOOK Robert home to give him a good talking to after that scene in the restaurant. I was quite perturb
I said, "Look here, ed about it really Robert, my boy, eight years of marriage have dulled you-you've lost your touch. atomie explosions on pilets and No arguments about it-you must go out plo:WS world haze been and find
HAF scientists had not Ignored them, utgent tests to measure the precise effects
delayed
of
Kiri"
yourself another
Fuchs warned that i would be Robert muttered that he almost certain death for a phot I wouldn't know what to do
1.
1y
near
Indioactive mushroom cloud produced by an exploding homil
For many minutes, he said, the cloud would set free otome tu enough powerful jmetente any alreruft.
ΣΟΥΗ
ALARMIST
His Ondings-made live your agwere so alarmist that RAF doctor-plots who were planning to fly through an alorie cloud deelded to Ignore them.
By the time the RAF doctors grew susplelous of his Andings be was already serving a 14- year gaut sentence for espionage and
could not be questioned further.
а
if he did take a girl out.
I explained to him. "There's You buy nothing to it really,
few drinks, hand her a dinner, her some laughs and from then on-you're on your own."
O to the telephone I went called up nice Friendly and girl I know named Janis, I used to play partour games with her.
"Janis," I said on the phone. "I have goL wonderful guy
L here
Actually she Wus runner-
up in sume contest
crazy
The NEW WORD
its
FILM starts
second day as
a serial
with a Guy dealing with a Dame
ROBERT and IANIS
1100 ABAT!
By DAVID LEWIN
to see how high you could throw a drum- stick.
Janis took Robert to a efe where a lot of Yale college men used to congregate. When the Robert band played a rumba
said he didn't dance. So the pair of them came back to my apartment.
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Then ነን tried potaring
and the girl suggested that they Scotch, found there was no lee, might as well go on to a night club.
there will be "At least ice there," she said.
were-
both So there they Robert and Nina-n different skies of town being miserable separately miserable together.
I had
Instead
of
being
another man-to-mon tolk with Robert. The trouble with you, my buy, Is you're in a rut." I said Armly.
"Mentally you
tax,
are still
married to the girl who divorced you. You handle her television Income business.
you fix her but you're divorced now and you've got to start to grow again. You've got to change your personally, your clothes. Grow & moustache,"
Robert objected.
like "I'd
Jook probably Groucho Marx'n not suited to a moustache,“
I brushed his arguments aside.
"A moustache Is the
thing Dames become portant unpredictable when faced with
mousloche. It
both rouses them and angers them."
A
The evening was a flop.
Although I didn't know it at the time, Nina was not exactly
enjoying hier
either, freedom Her TV show was a big hit, I
S why a surt of Dr Dale's diary and the actor who played the heroic doctor invited Nina out to dinner one night. His Del
So Robert went out. away from the television screen himself a moustache, started was that of a milk-bar Romeo.
weuring loud tweede and strip- cd waistcoats. He took "Come to my flat," he said. dancing lessons end he even Nina objectes; "I have never been
man's apartment,' she said, "except my husband's. But that was all right-becauso
to a
I lived there too." Ruber was saying no so fast
a diplomat. Poor Jants. by this time he could have been
A Bob Tracy. numeri friend of mine. He's a million laughs and he is dying to meet you. How about having dinner v.th him tonight??**
So the doctor-pilots prepared I packed Robert off to settleri nyfants 10
and out Canberra bomber through the cloud produced by thinking I'd done my good the
for the year. am bomb exploded at Woomera 15 months ago.
Robert explained the reason for his gloom, "I've just been fake diverced," he said "I was cruel back to my wife." deed
But the evening Robert Tracy spent with Janis did not quile go the way I planned it.
Janis jooked interested. "Well, only mentally of course. disparaged her work for one I was incompatible Group Captain Dennis Wilson,
thing and
sald Robert Wing Commander G. H. Dhenin.
and moody Wing-Commander E. W.
Janis lost interest. "I thought Anderson Лечи
Janis is a young girl-arcund through the
to claim that it was going to be something boiling, brown cloud three times 20-who likes without mishap.
she look A degree in music. Intriguing," she said.
and
THE ROMANS
N
TOW and then British National Health Ser-
some-
HAD
HEALTH
the
At the flat Ninu sat couch and the actor advanced on her.
Krew
קט
tried to paint. He started driving a snazzy English sports car. was proud of my pupil.
But then he went to see Nina They were again on business. very polite to one another. "I'll show уп the way upstairs," "Thanks," sald offered Nian. Robert, but I already know the this way."
waited have
fur he said. "What I moment,' went to tell you is that I think your scripts are brilliant, but could you get rid of the woman who acts with me in them BO that my part can be made the really big one? ..."
Nina had spread out her can- It celled cheques on the bed.
round was a
bed. Robert He turned round to find that blinked at it. "A round bed," said talking to thin พวง
"That's right,” he said. Nina had run out on him.
Nina, "my mother designed it. It has round sheets and round blankets and a round mattress."
he
NATIONAL
IDEAS
the patient be a gentle- doubtless lower than the cook, man's servant, the master of but the doctor had opportuni- two dies of lowering the dignity of the servant shall give shekels of silver to the the contemptuous Roman by doctor.
his prescription when so dis posed
Mra
Gamp other ornament of attention to
re the sick, would marked,"
více doctora and dentista
upon are called
by their respective local executive
earliest known medical laws, If authority to forfeit
enacted in 1920 BC, there is a thing from their remunera grading of medical fees accord- tion for alleged infringe- ing to the means of the patient, ments of the regulations. and the provision of certain Such penalties, however, do penalties sufficiently harsh as to If the patient be the son of not in any way match the cut short
professionni a poor man, he shall take five
shekels of silver, severity of those liable to be career of the young surgeon in imposed on medical men in his apprentice days for just one 1920 BC when Hammurabi, single set of failure. King of Babylon, had de- Anite ideas on national health service.
the
have
that
air.
Robert looked through the cheques. One of them was to a dancing academy. He held it out In his hand and laughed. "Dancing lessons are an odd were both allied to magle. The thing for someone at your time
of life," he said. Egyptian 'Papyrus already mentioned contained words "to
Nina stood up: "What do you be Bald 36.
drinks the mean, at my time of life?” medicine" amt words "to be spoken in the preparing of "Well, one hates medicine for all parts of the middle-aged woman making
spectacle of herself," body of a person who is ill."
סתם
The book deals with medical
through progress
medieval
oweg
Robert
to see
#
2
sald
Ninn snatched at the cheque. about middle-aged umes in Britain and on the "But what Continent, touching on great gentlemen who wear silly waist- decoveries and famous men of coats or perfectly ridiculous
moustaches?' medicino and science Ike Harvey, Jenner, Lister, Robert It would appear that at one Jullus Caesar, however, im. Koch, Louis Pasteur and others The business session broke up
humanity time the Romans attached little proves the position of the doc. to whom
ain disorder. social status to doctors, for "the tor in the time of his nephew debt that can never be assessed, carly blossoming of Greek Augustus, by exempting him let alone paid. modicino Teaching Ite fullest from tax, a conocesion that no doubt be welcomed development with Hippocrates, would
by the medical profession to In her latest book "Bouquet
"He met the frost of Roman As Miss Fisk observes: for the Doctor," Dorothy Fisk is a fortunate practitioner who quest before It had borne suf- provides a history of medicine, avoids a mistake all his life. ncient fruit to prove its useful-
to could never ness," and traces its progress from the In Babylon, dark ignorance of the past to make two."
the enlightened understanding Among
NOT TWICE
Con day,
the.
Under tho Romans, other things, the doctor was a slave. In the open
Tiberius market, the Greek medicus was bought and sold like any other turn,
of today, at the same time ro- Hammurabi Code enacted: vealing that the modern concep→
DIM PAST
further
по
It may well be that modern БОЛО And today patients
As Robert fell down the stairs medical prescriptions Dome- (on that loose stair rod) Nina what unpalatabic, but they are burst into tears.
at least much easier to endure
than some of the weird · con- When her mother found her coctions prescribed in Egyptian Nina sobbed "I think I am still timice. Among other startling in love with Robert." "Non- Ingredients, according to the sense," said 'her mother, "that's complaint, were warm's blood, just a neurotic refusal to deco wax, rod lead, the facts. You must try agales, What you must do la coolly and fure of dates and inceneo.
carefully select a man who is attractive to you."
and then Nero, in Increased his
doubt a hog's tooth, tion of the national health re- If the doctor operates on a slave. And there were price prestige, the latter
wound with copper lancet, controls in those days, too-his performing this most commend gulations = not nearly 80
art the patient dies, or on price in the slave market, as able act under the influence of original on it may appear. It
the eye of a gentleman, who axed by the code of Justinian, his tutor, Seneca, who said is shown that Hammurabi Jald
lowes his eye in consequence, was 60 solidi, or about sixty something modern patients down a scale of foes for doctors his hands shall be cut, off. pounds in the days of golden often forget, "People pay of his time "with procision worthy
sovereigns,
And that's where I came.
And should much medicine so as well it might be bring on the bouts of trembling, - then the doctor for his trouble; for his remedy lay in the patient being again. Klidnyban of a national health The doctor who treats and
they still remain in wrapped up in the hide of. a auron. & gentleman's
Miss Flak telle un: “in the his debt.” or has operated on the eye Roman household the doctor probably a Jillie with a copper Jarent, shall alave charge: 10 shekiele of allver. higher than
cheme."
KOWLOON Under the rules from the
Code
Hammurabi the
of
wound.
WAA
Mla Wisk touches on the dim the valet, but part when medicine and murgery
J. W. Taylor
TOMORROW: