THE CHINA MAIL," MONDAY, MAY 27,′′ 1967.
ROTHSTEIN does his best
for the butchers of Budapest
DES
ESTALINISATION in the Soviet Union has caused havoc among Communists abroad. In France, the circulation of L'Humanite is down by four-ifths. Togliatti's mass support in Italy is literally melting away.
And in Britain John Gollan's tiny hand of faithful Kremlinites gets tinier and tinier-like the circulation of the Daily Worker.
In an effort to stop the rot, Gollan has turned in Andrew Rothstein, It was an Inevitable cholen.
Rothstein, who has had years of practice in explaining away Soviet policies, has become the
In the trust allekest apologist nem.
latest apologia The Soviet
Union and Socialem (Communist Party, 3/6) is well up to form.
By now, of course, Rothstein has discovered that Stalin, the super-hero of his mendiclous History of the U.S.S.R., was something of a villain.
The truth is, that the con- stitution of the USSR. is not worth the paper on which it is written.
Authority in the Soviet Union resides in the Communist Party and nowhere else. And it is an authority unlimited either by low or the countervailing power of other parties,
by Raymond Fletcher
reprinted from TRIBUNE—the “Bevan" mouthpiece
and getting questions answered in public."
But that should not worry the faithful. The Soviet Gov- ernment's alm has been to pre- from "becoming vent members detached from their con- siltuents."
I wonder what the Dally When Isanc Deutscher's bio-Worker would have soid if graphy - of Stalin appeared, Exlen had used the same ex- Rothstein as good as denounced cuse to keep Parliament from its author as a warmonger, But eltting during the Sucz war? since the Kremlin (the only fount of uuthority he recognizes) has spoken, he has had to ad- Just his views a little.
r, ho ussures his readers, Stalinism Whs only A minor aberration, In spite of every- thing "Soviet democracy has gono immeasurably beyond that of capitalist society."
True,
the Supreme Soviet meets only for two or three werks in the year and its mem- bers "cannot exercise the pri- vllege of chivvying Ministers
The Soviet deputy, Rothstein #2003 un, carries the full author- ity of the state with him in his
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Rothstein has an explanation for this state of affairs too. in the be-whiskered oldi excuse that other parties are not quired because, he claims, there are no class antagonisms in the Soviet Union,
Most
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4.4
But-ance when have economie expansion and state ownership by themselves constituted adequate definition of Socialism? Japan's Industrial expansion In the nineteenth century Was as remarkable as Nuzla's in the
twentieth.
What of Amerlen's industrial expansion after the Civil War? Or Canada's after the lact war? And bas Rothstein never caught the significanes of Engel's remaric that if state ownership
cre Socialiam the
Arst Socialist institution was the re- gimental fallor?
C
Sociallam in Rot planning alone. Socialism is what you plan for,
The right questions to th
about the Soviet Union are not purely economic ones, Is there, for instance, more liberty there? Surely.
with even compared Czarism, there is not.
Opponents of that abominable class regime at least had the chance court-an to defy it in open
which of
the But opportunity term.
Bolshevika took full advantage, four parlles contested the Jast election there, each competing And their exile in Siberlo, bad for working-class votes.
as it was, was Infinitely more humane than the forture cham-
What If there weren't? people in the Rhondda Valley belong to the working-class. There is not much antagonism in the Marxist cense of the
It is in the Soviet Union's bers of the Lublinks prison. constituency. "No Institution is phenomenal economic expan- Nor were the Czars so ruth. closed to him, toeni authorities slon, however,
that Rothstein lessly cffcient at thought- must give all the explanations finds mod solace. This, he control
their Communist
be requires, on enquiry to Д orgues, la the important thing, successors, The Incomparable Minister must be answered...
The Soviet economy is success- richness of nineteenth century within three days"
ful, it is Socialist--and that is Russian literature testifies to the all that matters,
contrary.
Really! I wonder What all thue powerful watchdogs were doing when thousands of Soviet citizens were being slaughtered and Imprisoned
faked charges?"
on
Presumably Communists must But there is no need for me learn to forget about such to take up more space in argu- quaint bourgeois ideals as jus- ing with Rothstein about tice and liberty so long as steel whether the Soviet Union production is booming.
Socialist or not.
SOVIET ATOMS
URA
TRANIUM one of the world's most precious metals is not plentiful in the Soviet Union. But this does not worry the Rus sians. They get all they want from Hungary,
from Hungary
few weeks they had taken over the whole area.
But their expenses were paid by Hungary and, particularly
This is naturally of great galling to the Hungarians, the concern to the Hungarions. As Soviet experts received higher
Country overnight.
pay. The monthly wage of a Soviet technical
draughtsman
To add insult to injury, says the refugee miner, the ravag- ing of Hungarian mines is carried on under the facade or forlats. altruism. He cited an article in the March 17, 1937, issue of
most
EDWARD CARRAN interviews a Hungarian escaped from the
miner Uranium mines
In addition, offered to
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NE does not need to gaze into the crystal to realise ponsible European press that the Western world cannot look for
events which will profoundly influence the story of the human race. It will be a tremendous and testing period for the political leaders of the nations whether they hold office by tyramy or the free verdict of the electorate,
In naming Russla 'and America as the two opposing gionis In the crucial struggle that lies ahend it does not mean
that they will be without power-
.
inn ind of semi-retirement," of America, To the civilised.
world the strength of America la It may be that Mr Lippmann in what she fe, not in what she
only a does not share the political views does, and
tool would of the Republican Party and tho deny that the very existence of Prealdent but in this same Amerien is of supreme im-.
Sir Beverley Baxter M.P.
ful partners and satellites. This and at the same time hold her article he gives it as his view portance to the non-Communist is a world struggle in which the place in the world markets and that the fast-developing plan for world, only two countrics
that will in the developing nuclear age, the Common European Market
stand opart will be Elro and So he staggered Parlament by is largely due to the growing It was inevitable that as the Switzerland,
announcing that conscription distrust of American foreign Anglo-French dream of a united would be brought to an end and polley. In fact he partly at Western Europe (ook form there It is fortunate that at this the conventional tho Russians
armed forces tributes the warmth of
strong- the would be a cry from lo Britain we have in reduced to minimum. of the necessary investment for Harold Macmillan advance 70 percent | perled
Queen's reception Franco to hearted men like Lord Beaver- a man who
this new cense of European brook that the Mother Country soldarlly. our uranium production in the form | Jooks Ikke a Victorian squire but
was being false to her own family and her own soul. We
ان
But then it should be realised - scen
If this is
astonishing
Britain
but we cannot
enn_no longer police the world. Britain can no
her scattered Empire except by a powerful European and Ainers- There is no con partnership.
Д Hungarian miner, now refuger, has pointed out, this uranium ore was discovered by
was 6,300 forinis.* That of n Hungarian geologists, If the technician 10,000 for litts, an troubled "After all," he said, Hungarians were free to pro ordinary engineer 15,000
10. It is difficult at the beginning from their own discoveries the 10,000 forints, and a leading and our Soviet comrades have to economie pusition of their engineer
got from 20,000 to
Unhappily such changes can acquaint themselves with could be Improved 25,000 forints,
addition, technique." In
of these machines, Hall of has the mind of a modemist, not be brought about without a they got full board and lodglags free. Top pay for Hungarian
the machines thus provided are In fact there are monents when heavy sacrifice to those who But as the ex-miner remarked to be paid for in uranium ore, it could be claimed that he has entered the services as a career story in their courses but it patriotism of the Beaverbrooks No an can command the need the voice and the robust engineers, on the other hand drily, The Soviet comrades This means that the ore will be the mind of a futurist.
Long before Macmillan's was at the
only 4,000 have acquainted themselves
that in his short of this world transported to Russia for an
startling announcement we have would seem with our technique at a price unlimited period.
Tetired brigadiers and months of supreme office Mac- cling to a dream that has faded for which we could have built
The refuzce-miner says, with mysticism and realism of the golf
that he is a Highlander with the rear-admirals seciding jobs as millen has replaced Elsenhower with the dawn of reality. 120 two-roomed ftats-all
club secretaries. One as the dominating, spokesman of But the Russian experts were
that springs the Hungariau Communist paper not only expensive; they were
the expense of the Hungarian come justification...."One can-ray uranium mine workers and the not imagine an agreement of a mountains and streams of Scot- Solomon in all his glory and the true, or even if it be only for a longer guarantee the security of,
from the moment they are arroyed like the Western world. Nepszabadsng which declared also inefficient.
more colonial character than land. Never mind if he loves next moment they are inter- time, They put up Hungarion workers in general.
R IS #n of that, in addition to "masseg
the ono made in connection to talk of his crofter grandfather, viewing valuable machinery
and buldings without preliminary
a committee of long personal achievement. with the result When plans had to be drawn with the Hungarian uranlum for "Mac" investigation, "the Soviet Union that many proved useless.
owes much to that handicap goliers. equipment,"
It up for buildings, he said, this ore exploited by the Soviet realist and dreamer
who had made available to Hungary, was estimated that altogether was done in the Soviet Union, Union."
Macmillan is a romanticist but wrought a living from the soil "without дру return". the
they did 25,000,000 forints where more often than not they It seems that after ten years and sowed the seeds of ambition he is not a sentimentalist. Like experience of its "world-famous worth of damage in less than were copied from British and the Hungarian people have that, brought a mighty harvest his crofter grandfather he knows
Quite frankly I never believed ocientists".
American
periodients. They learned how "untclish" Soviet to his sons and grandsons.
But how stands Macmillan are the immutable that Macmillan could nehlove so with his own people at home? What really les behind these But they were not worried werd then sold al inflated help really is. For this reason,
laws of change that cannot be much in so short a time, and al- What, will the high-soutkiing phrases?
Therefore it was in keeping disregarded, The they were not paying the bill, prices to Hungary.
uranium
mine
workers,
pielat Liberal In a nuclear though I have known him since vater have to say to the Govern- fact is that when the world- Nor
with his Soettish sagacity that one must have a nuclear mind the comradeship of the first war ment's determination to go on was the Hungarian The supply of machinery was sekcertists, technical famous scientists had examined manager of
person Prime Minister Macmillan de- and nuclear weapons, the mine, a also unsatisfactory. The nel and labourers alike. al),
cided that there is no use in a is going to be a war it must noted such powers of intellect and bomb7
If there I never thought that he possess with the testing of the Hydrogen the Hungarlan ore and dis- Communist stooge, particularly Russions bought machinery from demandest during the October covered its high uranium con-
rition ruining them- be Est Germany
What will the old ugo end
fought with Czecho revolt that the mints should be an or slovakia, sold it to Hungary at a put under Hungarian contro selves by paying too heavily for generals or the weapons of the spell as Foreign Secretary hia slonera and the hard pressed the spirit. In fact, during his brief pensioners, the cx-service pen- Insurance. To put it into poll- previous war. price 50 percent higher then The request was, of
course.tical terms he took the view
one big speech was riddled with middle classes of Britain say 10 they had pald for ila hand- refused. Hungarian uranium that Britain could
Therefore it is accepted that Chancellor of the Exchequer the Exchequer to encourage the cllches, and after his year as the decision of the Chancellor of some profit
no longer is far too valuable,
maintain large conscrips forces in the sunny and cardul to there was no suggestion that he sur-tax payer? Surely when the and the Prime Minister talked had earned a monument la a next generai election takes placa
three months.
tent,
other scores of
Soviet experts began to arrive at the ometal rate of exchange is 32.87 * The Hungarian Government's Hungarian mines and within a forints to the & sterling,
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a
It. was exciting news, A process, and one that caused Himalayan expedition was really endless amusement among under way. The organisers had group of well-dressed young invited Lowe; and he, in turn, Indians standing on the dry had recommended Hillary. Was read. One of them in particular he Interested? Most certainly, annoyed Hillary with constant be was. As fast us he could, sallies na he plodded past. Hillary made for home,
Finally, gouded beyond
tackle
en
that there
either
phere of Bermuda the President
with the frankness of realists publie square. and old friends. They were comrades In Cairo during the Hiller war and they are comrades in the diplomatic struggle of to. day.
to
Ike
Mac
other way of containing the threat of Communism,
the people will demand the dis- missal of a Government that acts first and then explains.
Knife
Then how can we explain that at this hour In the world's history when Britain is classed as accond rate power he has become the undisputed spokca man, of the Western world? The answer is that, like Churchill, he Macmilion is an intellectual But once there, the expedition durance, Hillary stepped up and
understands the inherent great but above all he is a realist, started to founder on the rocks pushed
dropped ness of the ordinary inan and Thus he the Indian backwards
from his And of finance. By the time all the into &
now for a moment we realises that even in this era of Government Mr Antony Head deep pool of muddy shall leave Macmillan and turn retonline problems were hurdled only water, "ills shriek of horror as
horror the spirit is he, as Secretary of State for four members кеге left he fell," recalls Hilary unelu- is theoretically the most power- war,
President Eisenhower who stronger than the weapons of War, had the job of organising Hillary, Lowe, Riddiford and ously, "s one
the Suez expedition. Nor did Af my most Colter, Their brave plan to treasured memories.
ful man in the world. No one
be hesitate to give senior office who
heard the has seen or Kanchenjunga faded
We need not argue the rights to Duncan Sandys, despite the Some days later they reached President could fail to be warm- or wrongs of Suez but Eden's feel that Sandys and separated away with their resources, and a series of streams that had toed by his humanity and friend- action, which had the full sup from his wife who is Churchill's they were left with some very be forded, In normal cirliness. Yet there is a growing port of Macmillan, brought back daughter. mitor peaks.
etimstances these would have fear that history will once more the worm alliance of Frence and the presented no problem. But this
rocord that the professional Britain. Nor do we need a re- And while there, was
He chose Peter Thornoyeroft monsoon time, and the soldier seldom succeeds when be minder of the historic success as Chancellor of the Exchequer through that Eric rivers were in full spate. A exchanges his uniform for the of the Queen's visit to Shipton had been granted per- man trying to wade across would black jacket and pin-stripe trou- lovely country.
that although the Beaverbrook Press mission to lead a reconnaissance have been swept away like eers of the politician.
had been demanding his dis- Expedition to Everest,
missal for years, and he did not piece of driftwood, Now, for Hillary, Erie Ship- The porters
France is vibrant today. The bat an eyella when the mighty wanted to turn You will agree with me that seats of endless wars are upon Lord Salisbury was the high priest of back and find another route, but there is
throw himecit mountaineering in the Himu- me for the
no fairer political her fair and but the fears and overboard and was sunk with- New Zealanders: columnist than Walter Lippmann vacillations layas, Shipton's took Nanda was at a premium; and this sort but let me quote from his recent that
and humiliations out trace. almost broke illu. Davi was, he admits, his "climb of problem is not unusual for column in the Paris edition of during
her spirit period are
CHAPTER TWO
H"
Ilowever, they Inde Himalayas,
news come
ton
the Hitler
the New York Herald Tribune. thrust behind her.
There
Jerry
land, where he could get had conquered.
bride at the seven peaks they them enough purchase to hold - talking to the outer world, The These are tremendous events,
No wonder old Sir Winston waddles into the Chamber and taker his seat just beneath the gongway to see what Mac the Knife is going to do next. Macmillan was an unrepentant rebel in the years of indecision
TILLARY had no
ing inspiration." If he had one the seasoned traveller. sions about the Hima- et ambition,
Hillary it was to tackle selved it by going off and cul- Elayas.
He knew that with Everest in Shipton's company, ing a large poldas heavy as "Although I havo not en- This meagre experience ho And, although he didn't know he and Rilford together could countered it myself, there is ob-
it, he was just about to achieve carry. just wasn't equipped to
viously wide anti-American this.
Side by side, and carrying the Teeting. tackle that mighty moun.
is on the one The New Zealanders wound pale, they entered the stream hand, a big distaste for the And now Macmilian brings before Munich but Churchil in chain. So his first step up their scheme and returned to and waded across; the extra · minnners and the bearing of Western Germany Into the gave him a big war job as soon
with a moxiest glow of weight of the wood just gave Americans travelling abroad or Federation of Free Europe, as he became Prime Minister. towards that goal was Eng base
And there their own against a raging cur- comforts and the conveniences History is being made before our some first hand information they found a cablegram. From rent. And having proved that of the American way of life are eyes.
It is not to be wondered that No longer do we allow Hugh Gaitskell, the Leader of about them from the Alpine Shipton, no less, inviting two of it could be done, they ferried popular, but the talk that goes the forces of right to drown in the Socinist Opposition, gazes Club.
them to join him,
the porters across two at a with them, be it from tourists, the sun while the forces at across no-man's land at Mac- Hillary and Riddiford set out time.
funcrant Congressmen, or other tyranny threaten the freedom of mallian and wonders when or if He saver, and waited, And to catch him up. Shipton was At Dingle, thirty miles to the officials, is definitely unpopular, the body, the spirit and the the Prime Minister will over in 1950 he arrived in this five days ahead and pressing on, south of Everest, they caught: country. At the wrong time of.But so keen worn they to reach up with Shipton, Ho and *There is in the and-
play his hand, The year Brợ year, as it happened. He dound him that they gradually closed Hilary were friends from the American feeling a general dis that most of the Alping Club the gap.
Macmillan is saying to his weary, the years are long and It meant travelling handshake onwards. Two days: illusionment | with President colleagues that Communism is a Galtskell's were off in the Alps. So he by train, lorry, canor and foot, later, the party complete, Ship Eisenhower, himself.
star is woning, There is form went to the Alps himself,
philosophy-nnd armed Anthony. Eden was brought down. Ha I meant cajoling Melals and ton's expedition, started climbing : en extraordinary lack of con- strength and that we must see. La health treated
and power by his these new peaks with bribing porters, and squelching the lovely, but sovare countryfidence in Secretary Dulles. to it that the free world is gamble. Galtshell still loads, the the caution they deserved. through miles of mud and food, that leads to the foothills of: There is a general underlying superior in both. In fact he is Opposition but because of his tackling each one by the re- Once, during this trip, the Everest. And always in the anxiety that the fate of Europe giving practical expression to fucious attacks on Edi It...is not commended guide-book roule. forry In Even so, he learned a lot.
which they were background its peak was there, should so much depend on them. the old adage of peace through imaginable that he will ever bo travelling was bogged down and pointing up over the clouds The feeling seems to be unsalm- strength. A lofter reached Switzerland fram George Lowe, out to carry their equipment to frightening,
him in Hilary and fiddlford had to get prowl, umbeaten, somehow rather i ous, as one learns not only. In
Prime Minister, Such, are the private couvèruation but also in More than that I believe that casualties and the enprices of who had been in constant touch, day land, * was a wearing
Shant correspondence in the res- Macmillan
that the political warfaZO,
TUESDAY: EVEREST
mind.