THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1958.
What's so wrong about talking to
Krushchev?
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We for
tho prospect Maybe decline,
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some economic
not. I'm not an maybe economic tipster so I won't try to guess. But basically it's likely that the Prime Minister will be able to keep saying: "You never had it so good."
We'll go on being warm and comfortable and well fed. We'll have television sets and wash- cars. And ing machines and
, and yo!. At the back yot. of our minds we groet 1958
"Yl's with the thought: miracle we are still here."
a
a
We are within a few inches of total destruction. 1 don't mean just the people of England, though war would hit us har der than anyone else. But one blunder by a radar observer
the here, in America, or In Soviet Union and within six minutes there would follow man-made catastrophe such as the world has never known.
this Are we to live with nightmare for ever? Are we to go on piling up weapons of destruction, waiting to dis- scienße new Cover Somo
to horror or for the Russians surrender at discretion?
No. No. A thousand times No, For our own sake, for the sake of our children, for the
rake of humanity, wo break the deadlock.
must quest as Hitler was,
well.
We pay our statesmen We given them honour and carn their respect. They must keep. They must try to find a way out. If they won't, let them make way for others who will.
This is the only problem that matters in the world. Every- thing else takes second place. End the horror of nuclear war- tare. There'll be plenty of other troubles afterwards, but none that threatens the destruc- tion of the human race,
THE WAY OUT
It
THERE is a way out. And to my mind one way only. is. LIVE AND LET LIVE. We can't win a wor agaust the Russian They can't win a wor against us. Then let us make pence.
were one
Vast CX-
is just penditure on arms much a curse for them as for want Soviet leaders us. The
Own And for that they people.
turn their gigantic re- must sources to peaceful production.
THE TIME
to be popular with their FOR ANOTHER
STRONG POINT
are not going
THE Russians To stop being Communists. That sounds tough, but it is really a strong point for peace.
Communists really believo that their system is better than ours, that it can win the race in peaceful competition. That seems crazy to us, but why not accept the challenge?
The West has plenty of reasons for being suspicious of alone the Russians. Hungary takes a lot of living down. But the Russians have good grounds for being suspicious, too. For
Arc
Is there a chance at all If instance, how many Nazis
now in high places in Western chance in there
Germany? How many thousand, it would be worth
Hitler's
generals trying. I believe the chance is
serving on our alde? much greater.
The Russions are not hell- world con- bent on was and
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CLEAN SLATE
SUMMIT MEETING IS NOW
Cummings
COLO
MALTA TO
BREAK WITH
BRITAIN OVER
SECRETAR
SACKED
WORKERS
"Hoavons! Tho Isle of Wight! Threatens to secede from Britain if no work found for Saunders-Roe men."
A Sea of Troubles
TT'S tough at the top. That is not an elegant phrase, You will be aware that when the that ruling, is it not a fact, Mr but it has the double merits of brevity and clarity. Hitler yer broke out, all rents, Speaker, that the Minister either And the more I study the British political drama, the below a certain level, werd does not know the answer or
instinct for.... rights more I wonder that so many men are ready and eager to frozen. This was a necessary in- else be is indulging his natural
of high ministerial which
the Mr Speaker: "Order! Order! accepted by take upon themselves the burden
landlords with deep misgivings I think we had better get on office.
with the next question. Number 221" LONDON LETTER.
terference with basic
was
And be surc The tuny. wants the sumne. He'll KO back in triumph to Moscow it.
backt goca
with peace he in his pocitel,
WORTH WHILE
we waiting for? WHAT are
Until we have someone ke Molotov to negotiate with? Then we'd certainly be going straight for war.
No one supposes that eternal peace and friendship are going to reign becauso of a few friendly chats. The tension has
My memory goes back to the Leen screwing up ever since the war. It will be worth while to days when Ramsay MacDonald, give even the tiniest twist in the hammered by the dissenters In other direction, Right about his own party, and patronised
TORMALLY such a zuling is the first thing. Quick by the Torles who had captured
ends the incident but a tow ulato
of past grievances. march will come after.
him for their own devices, made
days ngu the samo process Otherwise we may find that the
For instance, we've got a con- a speech of such meandering account shows a credit balance crete Russian
ibat before Incoherency
a Socialist that never pauses. To put it in and by the tenants with vast re- brought Macmillan and Hugh proposal
Gaitskell into a head-on coll- side. the Russian
"For God's sake, sit another way, he is never free diet. We us. If we keep rocket bases and shouted;
of the fierce onslaught of homo Thus we were presented with sion which was not only bitter nuclear weapons must accept the world as it in
of down!"
and foreign affairs.
wer inflation and
rising but destroyed for over the legend and ask: How can we make Western Germany, Russia will
the unfortunate that nothing could prices while
upset the Nevillo of
Then there of Eastern the basis the treep them out peaco oni
Inflation in Uke a potent Germany, Poland, and Czecho Chamberlain, who was broken status quo?
possession of their own houses or the walrus moustache, The slovakia. What have we to lose on the wheel because he bought wine that is not only pleasant slords were unable to secure equanimity of the Premier with even to the palate but exhilarating to to raise the rent despite the ever Opposition Front Bench were time at Munich, and by trying this out?
the soul. Prices go up, wages increasing cost of maintenance putting questions to
the Prima Churchill was Winston
Minister about the demand of with fixed income With the widespread destruc- the medical service for more howled at during his Abdication go up, renta go up. Unhappily and repairs. speech that he strode out of the people House in a black fury. Indeed. Whether in wages, pensions or tion of houses during the Billz, pay and whether the Govern
gilt-edged Government the situation has become serious ment intended to side-step as if it had not been for Adolf frum
of their In fact, there was no busting they da 10 anolber Case Hitler, that moment might have bonds see the value
Macmlilan stalled been the end of the Churchill holdings or their money sink nor rebuilding with
after the wor nad ended. At any ing like the setting sun, story.
WE'D better make a clean furn
un
The only method is to talk to the Russians, talk again, and keep on talking. Long- range exchange of letters won't do. Leaving it to the German Ambassador at Moscow won't do, though it is what Nato has just agreed to. I wonder they didn't dig up Ribbentrop and send him to Moscow.
Nor is there
any point In leaving it to a conference Foreign Minister lovel
most important This is the
Why question in the world then have it dealt with ex- cept by
most important men?
the
out
When I rend this offer I though the West would send a "We telegram the same day: accept at once."
Instead, the offer has been ignored. It in A trap... trincere, and so on. How can we tell until we try it in practice? Or why not suggest something else in return? at
HIGH-MINDED
sure,
was
are worthy, high-I have to face only one crisis is minded men. None of them like a day off." wants the destruction of the human race. But they are
મ Macmillan bas The talks have to be at the top. They'll tako
time. All right It Is a price worth paying.
by Sir Beverley Baxter MP
Those Bonds
or
shortly
4
ever
sometime voly until Gaitskell
rate the Socialists were in power Leader
the Opposition, and one could hardly expect a
demanded to know whether the Left Wing Government to care Government intended to impose about the rights of landlords.
10
Now it is Harold Macmillan who faces Buch
of a sen that he might well problems
David repeat what
Lloyd TOOK at what has happened In fact it was left to Strong veto on any recommendations in salary scales for changes George
Bald during his to the gkt edged Gov. Man Macmillan to announce os JESTERN statesmen, I um Premiership:
righis among doctors and dentista "A day in which
Flushed with anger, the Prime crament bonds issued during Prime Minister that the the war,
after of ownership would be restored wards, at par What could to the owners of houses above a Minister rose and then snapped: be belter or safer than bonds certain level. It was in fact a "Not Only the Right Honourable
gentleman would • make For courageous action based on the foolish a supposition." deceptive guaranteed by the State? long getting on in years. Some of personally, so much so, in fact, brevity's sako let us leave out fundamental rights of ownership At which bedlam broke loose
them, including the President of that it sometimes seems as if he the fractions and content our which is the very basis of a tree
with the Tories roaring with the United States, are invalids.is puzzled by himself. A few setves with plain baste ngures. society. But we were able to see
weeks ago we were chatting The issue price in
each case the sharp reaction when in a fronte They are all fussed over a
the Tory majority thousand little problems in their together, when he assured me was par 100 and here are some Dye-election
them that all his Ministers
s of the day's quotations selected was wiped out and the Sociallet own countries. None of hears the Angel of Death overworked, but that he, as
Prime Minister, had no depar hovering over the world.
But we do. We have not ment to administer and, there- much time. Perhaps six minutes.fore, was under no strain what- At
a few years. Every socver. In fact, he implied that mast day makces agreement more fe for a Prime Minister WAY dificult. We should start talking
E sort of politiet siesta. by now. And we should never stop. pinetunted
occasional This is not a question of alarms, excursions and noises party or of political creeds. It off.
For the sake of world peace I'd put up with the absence of Mr Macmillan for six months, your, or for just as long us Mr Krushchey will talk to him, And we could throw in Mr Gaskell for good measure. ALTERNATIVE
That's WHERE do wa taik? W
easy. We must talk In a neutral country. And there aro plenty, countries already
than more secure
are. WO
is a simple question: THE FUTURE OF MANKIND.
for
Two
Fronts
In any
ot randor:
Fund
Conversion
Consolidated
Wor
was elected.
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Idividual M.P. finds himself in
vestors who put their faith and
Na situation like this the in-
laughter atıl the Socialists shouting with anger. So
up sprang Geltskell and when the noise subsided sald: The Prime Minister is as usual rude and arrogant." At which the Socialists let out a vociferous roar of anger and approval.
Buch an incident would be of
a special importance, exrop
In other words these in a strange position. As in Canada, that it marks an important
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this
his heavy
task. their money In Treasury Bonds an MP. is elected on party lines change in the allude of Mac- Prime most British now show u lose varying roughly but is the servant of his con- million to
regardless of party Unlike
Ministers he has not had a deep from one-third to one-anit, No situents
Thus politics.
constituent Do wa want to go on living
wonder that the holders ask writes to me that his landlord experience of ministerial office.
word "gilt" themselves if the The present course is ai 7
great success an ultimatum to Ho has delivered Geneva worked last time and bound to end in the destruction T is true that Macmillan has should have the addition of one the effect that unless the tenant Minister of Housing but
everybody. Then gave us the best results since of
alphabet
pays an increased rental he task was practical rather than Stockholm is
the solid virtue of character. other letter of the an Heaven's sake lot us show some the war.
investors would have to ga these
politter and in principle had Indulged
Admittedly Не never alternative if we want a change. sense and find an alternative.
reach supreme cannot raise an outcry for the In the same post there would the support of both sides, In Whom do we talk to? Wo That alternative exista. It intrigue to
the war he held an administra- Talk
Is the alternative of living power, but rose on the collapse double reason that it would be be a letter from a landlord com- to Knushchev,
And
Anthony Eden and the futile and you cannot invoke plaining that his tenant refused five post under General Eisen- wa'd better hurry.
with Soviet Butela and the of
failure of Rab Butler to hold public sympathy for people for- to pay an increased amount and hower und in Churchill's peace- 'Krushonev
the
most
Communist world as equals.
as No. 2 in the funate to have money to invest would I intervene? In fact the time administration he had a sensible, most enlightened It we end the race in nuclear his place
By contrast the iniquitous worrying but absolutely essential brief spell es Foreign Secretary. lender Russia has had since wartere we shall be faced with hierarchy.
of these pasts did the Rent Act has been nothing but But in none. Yet the plain truth
is that Rent Act", Introduced in the death of Lenin. No one the political challenge of Com-
ad a headache from the day that it he come into any head-on from the day that he took over early days of Macmillm's knows whether his position munism Instead. That will be a
collisions with the Opposition in Russlu is secure. We must hard struggle, but at least woe Premlership ho has had to ministration, has produced on was born.
fight on two fronts in a battle mmense and bitter resentment the most of our oppor- shall be alive to fight it,
makte
The gipsies would not take me
Game
A
but
UP
COUNTRY
It the
them
by Thurlow.
Craig
blo old
for with its nights too cold
Then Gipsy and sleeping out Sal would return to the cave.
One day, while he and Sal were collecting for the pot, the roof of the cave fell in. Clpey remarked casually in the pub that night that there were 80 golden sovereigns burled in the back, and lived, peacefully in his tent until local fold-diggers had cleared the cave out for him--without finding so much as a sixpenco.
and was Gipsy Smith's scuffle,
she'd proud boast that he had ut
come, never been inside a private
ally with rabbit. as opposed to a public house. Yet in a way he sometimes with
a pheasant. put down roots,
was all From November to April he lived in a cave up-valley, because, accompanied by a small, Gipsy used to wise dog. To most people say, that cave would have been iron pot made everything. nelther warm nor hygienic, taste alike, provided it had a bit but for him it was homo, of grense, Often I have sat in it fac- When they returned, the con- the fire, tents of his capacious poacher's across ing him trading a bit of plug tobac pocket would be emptied on to co for a platter of his rich the floor of the cave. He hunted only by primitive skill. He had stew, after which we'd drink no time for modem contraptions, alternate tots of rum from
No one who ever sto of his the same battered flask.
rabbit - cum - phossant - cum- Feather footed fat bacon row, thickened with Gipsy was a small, quiet man oat-ment and scented with wild sometimes
正 with no fuss, always softly herbs, ever forgot spoken. His wire-haired terrier
Gipay and Sal... two of a kind
Yet all this is of small impor- tance compared with the gyra- movement. To put it bluntly, the
tions of the mighty Trade Union Disenchantment purpose of Trade Unionism is to py temperament he enjoys a secure an ever rising standard of duel of wits but he loathes the living for its members. That is
understandable, but it is perfect brawling and shouting which ly obvious that unless increased seems Inseparable from Parifa- democracy. Nor can wages are balanced by increased entry production the cost of living must go up in unison. There is nothing new in this nor la Great Britain the only country when Laces such a problem,
Questions
ho look beyond the frontion.of the Island Kingdom for achieve=- ments of glory. The triumphant erroganes of Russia is not easy to bear, nor een he claim that.. Amerire and Britain are 'com. pletely of one mind and one voice. As for our closest ally, France, there seems a relentles TXCEPT on Friday each day's dipping sunset of the glory that
session in the House of Com. once was hers.
It was said of Stanley Bald-. But even at that early age 1
mors opens first with prayers
that ho resigned the Then he went back, but It Jooked liked a gipay and felt
and then an hour of questions Win
single wasn't the same; it was too big like one, too.. I could have
put to the appropriate Ministers Frommlership without a now, and it creaked at night.
So he hit the road and I bathed in walnut juice without who answer for their depart grat, and I do not doubt that altering my complexion. ments, The questions are print- Marmilion is experiencing the And how I wished that they ed on the Order Paper with the pangs of disenchantment, but I haven't seen him risco.
They of the wandering race would steal me, Once, almost
result that the occupants of the would be a mistake to linagico as soon as I could walk, public gallery hear this and of that his successor would have
Can casser tark. saldom put down roots in a house or in any particular: effered myself to a bunch, beg thing:
How simple by compariton is Mr Speaker: "Number 31," An god them to take me with fenced little bit of land.
and them. But what would they, The Home Secretary: "No te task of our brandy awilling friend, Mr Kruschev of Moscow. enigmatic people, legend
them- Sir." hearsay have woven wondrous, as prolife as rabbils
little foursome, talos selves, "want, with
But then comes the cut and Each day he is extolled to the thrust. The M.P. who has put skies by a sorvile press. Each around thom. But do tale is houso-dwelloc'? By spring the cave seeded an so tall that with which So they filled me with rabbit down the question sises gain day the people acciaim his they did with Lenin, Trolaker little my muro uod to try to stow and bolled to sweetened and ways: "While thanking the genius and hi-vision over an
Minister dor tile reply is ho Bal came from the me mould, airing, so he livedl ka' a
with syrup, then took aware that it will cause dismay Stailo and Zbukov in turn. and never heard her bark tent near the river, where there frighten me.
bawling my head off, bock to throughout the counter? (Hour! The fact that Trotsky was Together they used to wake up are trout for the tickling. When
summer arrived his supply of They'll steal you' my homeving that although Hoas) Will he not agree in fact murdered that Stalin was the mountain. It was
I looked like a little Homany, that his abrupt dismal of my undoubtedly polmoned, that education to trail along behind basket-work and clomes"pay award youru not a good boy," I was still too small them, sa I sometimes did.
Ruang thing is that quation le just another exemple Malenkov, huu, been sentito of the Insurferable arroganos? "Obscurity" and that Ferik WasƐ Feather-footed they proceeded, He would groan the axis of she'd tell me, “thoso, dirty
they nor I Mr Speaker: "Order Order]: executed, makus no difference. when suddenly Gipsy would his pusheart and away they'd CHippos will steal you away, though nether. give a quick tip of his hans go on the great highway the stain your face with walnut (ab that come? Jenew it, one honourable gentleman must Unill Nemcals plays the now of triumph; the leaders of Soviet fowartis" a bub Gəl would length and breadth of the Julco," and "being you tap bares sixteenth part of the blood not make a speech?
ate cant skollit (Intervening) Husain, snova“ ka tha trak allonily approach, then dash In countryside, everywhere wole fooled. You'll never be heard that runs in my, válna la true!
zanny blood,
you, sir, for clouds of glory. There would be a momentary...come until the hack-end" came of again!!...
Was ready,
.
Tho
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