THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH," SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1948, 1}
MEATF ARGENTINE ANY DAY HOW BRING YOUR CHEQUE BOOK:
"In future, Mrs. Joncs, every time you eat a sausage say to yourself, Wallop! There goes another British-owned railway in Buenos Aires.*"*
tion.
How strong is the Communist Party?
By Charles Wintour
the miners' secretary. Others In- clude bluff John Horner (no rela- tion), general secretary of the Fire
OMRADE_Harry Pollitt secretary of the mammoth Brigedes Union; Jim Gardner, has launched the British Transport and General Workers' general secretary of the Foundry Communist Party on a Union hit out recently.
Workers: Sun Henderson, national "We secretary of the Passenger Service new campaign of militant agita. cannot afford," said Deakin, to group of the TGWU; and Wal Han- allow the attempted infiltration nington, national organiser of the Addressing his
Executive and domination of the trade Amalgamated Engineering Union. Committee, he cried, "Make unions on the part of the Com- The political record of the Com- them (the workers) indignant munists to succeed. The activi- munisis nico warzants carofut at the one-sided character of ties of the Communists in the examination. In the Greater London the Government polley; develop trade unions are mainly directed Communists, they have managed to area, which contains .some 18,000 the mood to resist cuts and towards the propagation of return one MP, two LCC councillors shortages, the mood to demand their political faith.” wake advances to meet the. rising cost of living."
ney, where one in every 100 of the population is said to be a Com- This attempt to stir up dis-
Mr Deakin had every reason Hackney, Southwark, Bethnal Green content among the working to give this warning. Commu- ond Westminster. people started. significantly nist penetration of his Own enough, at the very moment union has reached astonishing when the Foreign Ministers' proportions. Of the 33 members Conference broke down.
elected to the executive com- A Communist must pay the rela- How is this programme financed?
The membership
J
Permeating the unions
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and nearly 20 borough councillors. Much of their strength Her in Step-
Other munist.
strongholds
Who pays?
Are
Election
Some people may be inclined mittee of the TGWU, eight are tively heavy dues of is. 4d. a month. to dismiss the, Communist tac- Communists, or roughly one in An additional levy of 4d. u quarter ties as contemptible and unim- four. Yet the union member-is made for the General portant. They would be wise ship of over 1,250,000 cannot Fund. Unemployed and old-age pen-
rioners pay less; to study the facts before include more than 5000 Com- jumping to conclusions.
munists at the outside, or one the Party HQ, excluding the sale of Last year the general income of in 250 members. So Communist literature, which roughly balanced influence on the TGWU Execu- the printing bill, amounted to some tive is about 60 times their £23,000, a gure which closely True, the British Communist numerical strength.
parallels the income of the Liberal Party. Party is only some 43,000 strong. In 1944 its merabership ference of this union, held in July, only £4,000 to "salaries, wages and And at the biennial delegate con- Yet, while the Liberals devote nearly touched 50,000; after roughly one-seventh of the votes pensions," the Communist Central that a steady decline was were controlled by Communists. Once pays out £12,100 for "wages," 2 Zenator Arthur Vandenberg is recorded until June 1947, when
roughly three traps as much. That This development is not confined the activity of the Communists is promise candidate. But some pro- under 39,000 members were on to any one organisation. It has much greater is shown by com- fessionals think his foreign polley the books. But à recruiting spread throughout the entire trade paring the Communist bli for views are out of line with Middle drive has now begun which union movement. Last nutumn the "postage, telegrams and (sic) cables" West political thinking.
aims to reach the 50,000 mark TUC met at Southport. Eight hun- at
£1,459, compared with the
Who will be America's
next President?
|URRENT basic factors in the national economy, if continued through the year, would tend to favour the re-election of President Truman, according to interpretations by Home government economists who observe the situation from a scientific rather than a poli- tical viewpoint.
United
Again actively mentioned as a com-
Harry W. Frantz, Press- Staff Correspondent, says there
Senator factors which favour Harry Truman's re-election
...are
global rather
Statisticians believe it is
Earl Warren
Probables
of
tended; between 60 and 70
were
evon
The class war
GANDHI'S ASSASSIN
SYDNEY SMITH sends the first portrait
of the man who shocked the world
4. Tho Elcenhower withdrawal by the end of February; 2800 red and thirty-three delegates at Liberal £275. helped Governor Cifornin by increasing the prospec-new members were signed on Communists, roughly one in 13. live necessity for compromise,
during the past two months. The TUC now boast 7,600,000 5. Speaker of the House of Re-: The influence of this disciolated unianists, of whom,
As the aging Liberal Party with presentatives Joseph Martin and plined sect of political fanatics the entire membership of the its glorious history of past service, Leverett Saltonstall st extends out of all proportion to not more than one in 175 could be rights of the individual rapidly de- Communist Party were included, and a noble faith in liberty and the Massachusetts will get Increasing attention as
a possible compromise. their actual membership. Com- party members. So at this assem-clines into There is magnified interest munists have burrowed their bly the influence of the Communists ruthless and
political futility, the whether General Douglas MacArthur way into key positions in some carried at least 15 times the weight nist organisation, already deeply en- disciplined Commu- than national. With the self-elimination of will definitely withdraw similarly of the most powerful unions, of their numbers.
trenched in the industrial life of the The business public for months General Dwight Eisenhower as as Elsenhower.
and constantly seek to extend In addition, Communists have country, is mobilising for a fresh Such an opinion is based on has talked of economic outlooks a presidential candidate, the
onslaught of class warfare. their hold.
been appointed or elected to execut- In terms of "boom-and-bust" ·Republican Party has entered a
It was against this menace leading trade unions. Best known, a timely warning. He should not
tive positions the theory that a Party change
In
of the many
Mr Deakin has given the nation at the White House occurs after despite the apparent prosperity. period prospectively marked by
Professionals think this is less that Arthur Deakin, general of course, is stocky Arthur Horner, go unheeded. severe economic difficulties. It Price levels are now nearly at deep manoeuvres and bar probable as public opinion Dolls
to Disquietude gaining relative does not take into account other the 1920 peak.
its 1948 have not yet shown the strength factors which might give the over future economy might nominee.
necessitating clear cut decision on his part. a net advantage to the still un- have some political influence.
Impartial experts thinkt MacArthur, has maintained a "cor- known Republican candidate.
3. A possible "third round" mathematical certainty that the Ma
rect" attitude by These would be, for example, of major labour disputes could tion will be deadlocked on early ment on his behalf.
Republican nominating conven-
nelther encouraging nor discouraging a political move- the relative personal popularity have
His remoteness political cffects
un balloting, and that consequently from the of candidates, qualifications to favourable
current political scene to the Administra-
tends to defer handle the world ideological tion, as occurred in the months names of "favourite song" for publican politicians speculate that
many states will advance
judgment of the future party attitude towards him Re- struggle, and psychological un- prior to the November 1946 Hargaining casiness about the future turn Congressional elections.
purposes even the following states will consider
CURTAINS of blankets day He boasted: "I have a mission to in the business cycle.
When the British went, and Con- though such individuals lack the submission of "favourite son” The
names to the Republican.
and night darken a small full and I cannot become a liability gress and the Moslems alone were Wallace third-party” candid;wy 4. The maximum Truman- prospects of success.
California-Governor Earl Warren, cell in this Indian police station, to others. He took a pald job as a left, Godse Increased the bitterness also prevents any categoricul proposed European aid pro-
Hindu Connecticut-Senator Raymond БО that even the armed guards organiser in Poona.
Mahasabha (Right Wing) of his attacks against the India Go- estimate of overall electoral gramme could produce scarei-
Sometimes he vertiment for what he considered its trends.
ties of certain vital commodi-
Illino-Governor Dwight Green.at the bars cannot stare in at accompanied
Mahasabha moderate policy towards Pakistan.. Early in the Godse's Indiana-House Republican Lender another brooding little Tanatic president on a tour.
vlews ties, disturbing the public.
found growing who has spread his name round war he risked his neck by preaching support, and, only a week before he The last party, change in the
Mahasabha -possibly Senator Owen the world at the cost of a great the 00 propaganda in a tour of went to Delhi with a revolver in
percent. Moslem State man's life.
of his pocket, he had bought a new Kashnur. Major economic factors 1932 election, when the severe sary majority for nomination 548. It
press for £5,000. Indinus, in their grief and Speaker Martin or Senutor
In 1944, with cash support from which-it-is-thought, will "dettation"-created-a-popular-is-believed the maximum early count
His attitude was this: India be- or Senator Henry Cabot anger, seen to have forgotten Mahasabha followers, he founded in longs to the Hindus, who are its only strengthen President Truman's desire for change and led to the for either Dewey or Taft could not
ulready the 25-year-old high- Poona a lttle newspaper possibly exceed 400, while Haroli Lodge, Jr.
called true nationals. The loyalties the
of prospect of election are: triumph of Democrat Franklin Stassen's supporters maximum clalı Michigan As Vandenberg de-Icante Brahrain.
Agransi-Forward. Nath Rum in Maharatti, and its Poona circula- of Hindustan to
It was printed Moslems go beyond the boundaries 1. The present opinion is D. Roosevelt
Herbert so far is around 125. over
the clined.
Pan-Islamic may submit name of Gover-Vinayak Godise. that a severe "recession" is not Hoover, Republican.
tion. In competition with eight other States, so they can never be Indian In 1948 This cr
This creates a situation favourable nor Kim Sigler..
Minnesota--Harok! Stassen.
He is a plump, unspectacular M Mafiarntti local papers, soon reached nationals. Congress has abandoned robable in 1948, since nrge the country is in the throes of aither to a "dark horse" nominee of
10,000 u
plocate European economic aid will "inflation," consequently econo- Party politicians in many states will Bridges.
complicated
"deals" among delegates. New Hampshire Scrater Styles young man of medium height. 1 day. which is quite a lot its national programme to
Pakistan and the Moslems of India. with an oval bland, owlish face. make conditions favourable to mic conditions and their logical therefore
In 1046 Godse's bitter and provocn- desire "favourite
New Jersey - Gev, Alfred
the round protuberant eyes of a tive anti-Moslem, anti-Congress War fanatic and high-pitched voice the Bombay Government.
TAVER since the first day when they frenzies got him into trouble with New Mexico-Ex-secretary
A
Godse Patrick of a man
began questioning him, who lives balloting and Ambassador to China
on his ranty of £500 was demanded from has folked freely, pouring out lists Hurley-
nerves. Edward Pennsylvania-Benator
him against the good behaviour of of names, which have sent police Godse, son of a middle-class his newspaper, which Murtin.
meanl the squads and troops with fixed bayo- Committee Chairman Carroll Reces and took his Bachelor of Arts he prejudiced law and order.
National Bombay family, learned English money would be forfeit next time nets raiding homes in Delhi, Bom-
bay, Calcutta, Poona, Cawnpore. Just before August 15 last year, us What will happen Washington-There's some talk of degree at Bombay University, the great Punjab
to Godse? II Eric Johnston, formerly President where he studied law as well.
massacre
was his confession is accepted and ha beginning, the Government demand is found gullly, he is able to be ricons Commerce.
ed another £500 from Godse. Godse hanged, but it is most likely that ducked that by changing the name the Government will feel, Gandhi's of his newspaper to Hindu Rastra death should never be revenged by
Hindu State.
execution.
and to
Economic Factors
Favourite Sons
Some estimates of stale "favourite sons" (including New York's Governor Thomas Dewey and Ohlo's Senator Robert Taft) are as high as Total number of de- delegates.
GOO
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Baldwin.
Charles A. Halleck.
Maine
White House occurred after the legates will
be'1,004, and the neces-set-Choice
50"
custom can shift their voies to stronger
candidates proceeds.
The coldly analytical opinion of
SA
h industrial activity and a political effecta are not com- delegations which. arcording 10 Driscoll
parable. ir farm products,
high level of prices, ainful to the con- blic, promises to keep nat income at a record
having de $200,000,000,000, $41,690,000,000,
President during ing the public burden elined governmental annual Hoover's four-year term from
$87,355,000,000. In 1929. lear $40,000,000,000.
price inflation, al- reached bottom in 1933 at disaffecting consumers, $29,684,000,000, sed virtually full em- "New. Deal"
New Deal Measures
some professional politicians. Is that Tennessee National income in 1932 was Eisenhower's withdrawal will have
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preparations for a more pro-
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Stabur Chamber
Wisconsin--Douglas
2. The immediate effect is regarded favourable to Dewey, but as: No. possibility he will henceforth bear the the brunt of opposition from other him. corrective mea- candidates, and his qualifications and
before
Larong
E.
ot
dreamed
MacAritur,} WHEN. he left there he unless the primary election eliminates W of one thing only-u mation of,
Hindus, with the suppression of Some of these might be eliminated Western culture and ideology in
t of America's 60,000,- sures-marked by banking re- potrely examined over why will be before the Philadelphia convention India, and the complete abjection rkers; and even though form and heavy governmental severely everywhere
: recession should start
a the year, it is unlikely
SC heavy unemployment
the national elections. World and national de-
spending-begun to take effect.;
National income in September 1947 was at the annual rate of $203,300,000,000.
The higher figure is, of course, in large for farm and mine pro- part due.to price inflation. is still active, and the The number of persons en- national ad programme gaged in production for all d tend to continue this industries including agriculture tion.
was 45,683,000 in 1929; reached "depression" minimum of
Prices And Costs
37,188,000 in 1932; and is now
near 60,000,000.
by Party conventions of primaries. of India's Moslems to a Hindu Raj
"ANON"
WAS INDIA'S
GREATEST ARTIST
„OUM HUNDRED mlies from
Delhi, in the Indian town t with a toy monkey.
Harappa, a child was playing
by BERNARD
DENVIR
of
In this art But now we can see that it is one of the great, achieve- ments of the world's history.
You can seo the results It was of the type which you can
Alexander's still bay. Two unevenly placed. They, and all the Indian artists of Greece: fragments of drapery conquests in memories Offsetting these economic
Total government expendi¡ holes in its body allow it to climb before and after them, had no high which recall the robe of Venus of up and down a plece of string. This flown theories about art; what they Samothrace. Here are the imprints factors, which economists think tures, including federal, state, one had been earvest out of baked made were things with a purpose of China, there of Persia. tend to help the incumbent of and local governments, were clay.
and a function. the White House in his elec- toral campaign,are the fol- $10,220,000,000 in 1929, $10,- lowing considerations:
On
1. Popular displeasure over the high cost of living. this point President Truman has already recommended con-
unfolded. An
discovered
• BACK TO B.C.
Then came the impact of Europe, Eventually it was thrown away
ART OF OLD
First came Jesuli missionaries to 688,000,000 in 1932; renched and forgotten, Time passed. Four is difficult not to be struck by the court of Akbar the Great and
of human bistory wartime peak of $103,110,000,- thousand years
the similarity of feeling between Indian artists copled, with perfect 000 in 1944, and were $46,779,- were
archaeologist the statues of the benign Buddha
warks accuracy,
by Durer, the aix- the toy monkey, and and those of the Saviour in our teenth century German artist. 000,000 in 1946.
today it is one of the first exhibits own cathedrals. But there are two Finally the English came to buy Proposed federal government in the display of Indian art at sides to the Indian character. Bud spices and stayed to found an Em- dhishwith Ils gentle beauty and pire. Although they had no direct Its humanism, Its lotus flowers, its influence on Indian art, it is to the trol measures beyond the ac- expenditures in the next fiscal Burlington House, London.
prayers--is one side, and the one enthusiasm and acholarship of n ceptability of the Republican year are nearly $10,000,000,000,
we find most sympathetic.
Lew Britons that the world owes the The other side, the like of which preservation' of many ancient
monstrosities of Britain the art of India had two medieval sculpture, was represen-
LESSON FOR US thousand years of history behind it, ted by some of the Hindu gedr
were the works of and, beside that any European art Brahms, the demlurge, who has four THESE
the creation of yesterday, faces; Vishnu, who has four hands: whose attitude towards the pro- When the sculptors of the Em- Siva, the Great God, who sits in fession' of artist was very different peror Asoka carved out of polisher meditation bearing objects in his from ours. To them time meant which many handla while the Ganges flows nothing, nor illd personal fame. andstone the huge bull
They could spend a lifetime carving stands in the Central Hall of the from his matter locks.
It is not remarkabla that for one panel of an ivory door, and die
and knowing that no one would many Indians, saw nothing member their names.
When Jullus
Is to be seen even in Europe in the treasures. Caesar Invaded gargoyles and
Congress, which even though compared to the wartime peak runs toy gives a clue to the under- tect his political position. Re- $8,170,000,000 at the bottom of publicans allege that the Presi- the depression in 1932. dential messages on the price. The agricultural situation in situation were intended for 1932 was marked by huge sur- pluses of many products and by partisan advantage.
Both the short and long- extremely low prices. Farmers term trends of the price chart in 1948 count on active markets, are beyond possibility of cer- with record. prices for many tain prediction, because the products, such as grains and hecome ments: business cyclohns
loyal Academy, they had no idea that Bucha place R8 England many centurlen Europeans,
existed.
even
men
re-
the
war-
•
*There's inflation for you. When Rembrandt painted it in 1665 he got five quid for it; to-day it's worth five thousand {"