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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 1949.
Cummings
"Obviously, Merr Colonel-General, the Occupying Power will think we're nothing more than a harmless hiking club."
London Express Service
NON-STOP DELMER INSIDE "THE REBEL CAPITAL“
TITO'S NERVE HAD BETTER STAY GOOD
S
BELGRADE. HOME day this business of newn-mapping is go ing to make me get a very bad cold. Four days after leaving the steaming jungles of Bruzil and cross. Ing the Equator, I find my self planted down here in Belgrade.
A chill autumn breeze is blow-
One thing I have le,ined dur policy, at the dictates of Krem- ing my week here. The courage. Iln Interests, turned оде shown in skill, and coolness Tito has ideological somersault after an-
sitting
quitt and other, making llars and frauch unmoved under
the strous of of men who had beypan provocative troop movements idealiais. along the Yugoslav border this Bummer,
and
tactics of the
the nerve-war Cominform, are
nothing to what he will have to produce during the next 18 months or two years.
For now, with a
scat on the
deprive
Ing round my head, and one Security Council assured to him, Yugoslav after another assures the irrepressible Tito has begun me with pride: "It is too late a compaign to now for the Russians to try to Kremlin invade us this year. The snows are only a fortnight off, and the
ground will be impossible for a blitz."
The military part uf thut prognostication is as may. I am not too sure that mud and slush In the plains of the Vojvodina between here and Hungary, or At 2.30, 5.20, snow in the mountains of Serbia, would put Stalin off if he really meant action.
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What a bourgeois I am to be fussing about the risk of, a little chill in a country where the whole nation risks being sent off to Siberia!
Heroism is the neder of the day here-heroism and 7
TALKING
LEONHARDT
edits a short- wave radio programine for Tito. Twice a day speaks in German to German and German-
THAT the country's economic situation will deteriorate so much under the blockade
Cominform that large-scala un- employment will result, and he will be ousted by a revolt from within.
THAT the Russians will wipe milliary
him
out with д
attack.
Western economic aid should help him to
the survive
speaking Communists all over threatened economic difficulties. the world,
As for m
chance
the On the radio, and in print, be of its most powerful tells of lus freedom in Com- only political instrument, He ains munist Yugoslavia-freedom to Kremlin guessing how
of the
Can men ever be controlled by radar waves?
STAGGERING REPORT OF AN EXPERIMENT ON DUCKS
By JOSEPH GARRITY'
FROM desolate marshes Confinement Breas where in tho Canadian large numbers of people could
be hold praice province of phystent force bene ustups in restraint without Manitoba comes news of an them.
with
experiment with ducks Is this vision, too fantastia? which promises not only to I discussed the subject rovolutionise war but may several scientists. They were even change the pattern of naturally cautious but not one life on earth.
"of them · rejected the Canadian Lieut-Commander Peter Scott,
'experiment as impossible.
who ranks high among British natural history experts, retum- ing from Canada, reports that on ornithologist there has es- tablished control of birds by radar.
Flock broke up
The story
that
Alfred Hochbaum, of the Delta
Waterfowl Research
Station,
A big guess
that
Sir Robert Watson-Wait, tho. great authority on radar, said:- "The experiment. could be Interpreted to #uggest with radar, you could so affect a bird's sensory organs as to upset its judgment and sense of direction, and divert it from its
Clearly, if you can do that
Manitoba interrupted a flight of to a bird, you can do the came
thing to migratory duck by means of a
nurinn-being. Ankh the implications of that are not
low-powered radar net.
At 200 yards with certain dificult to imaginat signala, says Commander Scott
"But it still
a whole flock broke up sudden Kuczing competition." ly and wheeled in circles for several minutes before continu- ing their flight,
of
That episode, in the view British scienticis, holds incoleu- lable possibilities in it.
Ether, they say, the incident was an accidental coincidence meaning nothing at all, or it is the discovery of the century.
Experts sceptical
For if Dr Hochbaum's claim in true then he is the first per- on in the world to control a living creature with
A radio bearn
British
being
scientista
all a great
Pigeon theory
Scientist with whom I talked are not
aware of any radar research being conducted in Britain on similar lines to the Canadian experiment
you up.
Is to keep the stage short of controlling system within Its anatomy in
write and say what he likes. He long enough to give him
backing he enjoys from the means,
contrants it with the controls
All that is known positively
a sufficiebt they say, is that concentration of radio beam 19 directed at any living creature
can certainly waren him
that this warming effect would, But scientists: Are: doubtfes
in itself, cau birds to alter their course of flight.
They are
more inclined to seck explanation Leading
In a con- troversial American theory that ceptical though they are, ad- mit that the theory of control- home by using an oscillating
a homing
Ands ila way pigeon Russian attack, his ing birds by rudar is only one
the conjunction with by
earth's much human
similar to undermine the blind and un-
magnetic fieldi questioning obedience
Radar expert Professor M. L With caution they decline to Oliphant, while not committing non-Russian Communist parties and supervision he suffered in
the success with the Communist speculate in pubile on
the himself admits
It is fensible The amazing part of it is that Nussia and in the Soviet zone of world which will make a Russian | Canadian experiment unui pro that in a radar beam a bird else scientific detalls have been might react to electric currente attack impossible, Germany. be has a chance,of pulling it off..
furnished through offtelul chen- it may and unpleasant, He tells of Russia's explolia- to me by the Deputy Foreign
In the Yugoslav view, as putnels. It he succeeds, Tilo can
tion and domination of the non- course of history. Russia peoples in the Soviet to the Security Council has al-
Minister, change the
Yugoslavia's election That is what puts this country, Union
He tells them that the and with it the rest of Europe, Socialism of Yugoslavia is the ready assured the Russians that In such danger today.
Socialisin of un attack on this country, how- true and tronest aware that its Marx and Lenin, free from the ever swift and painless, would whole futuro is threatened by shameful heresies introduced by mean a world war. Tito's campaign, will face a the Russian Imperialist Staun,
I hope that the Russians think choice of either “wiping him out
These radio programmes are he is right. For in the coming or capitulating to him.
only part of the positical com- months, as Tito's campaign de
will be paign now being alrected by velops, the Russians Tito at the Communist world in under sore temptation.
In my experience there is as East and West
Delegates are being invited to much wilful thinking in Moscow come
and visit the country, as there is in Belgrade, messages are sent to conferences and congresses everywhere.
-London Express Sepolcs)
this car paign is having considerable effect
The Kremlin,
WORKING
resigned but obedient parsivity; THERE is no Rather Ice the column of THE
Yugoslav with uniformed boys and girls out-
whom I have spoken, here, side.
Deputy Foreign from the Minister, Dr Mates, down la the bearded old watchman at the
At the head of them marches a tall blackhaired girl--a kid corner, who thinks a compromise Without question
of teenage Anna Pauker. Every with the present Kremlin rulers five paces or so she pipes up is possible. ahrilly with a slogan. I do not
kuow any Serb, but what it Tito, however, is pressing on sounds like 13: "Who is afraid with his offensive. He belleves of the Big Brad Wolf?
that its very success will make
The column answers fiercely retallation Impossible in well-drilled rhythm: "Who? Kremlin.
Hal who? He Ha!"
for the
PROVING
of
PERSONALLY have no doubt
that the freedom Yugoslavia holds out a great
Food for thought
tastic In
now
More experiments Dr Hochbaum, who is But the Initial report
has pursuing
his experiments in given them exciting food for radar
Canada with Mors powerful thought. In the silence of their
equipment, cannot be Laboratorice they toy with fan- praded to elaborate on his
possibilities and dwell provoking theme. suc
All ho will say is that his Imaginary Jules
Verne findings are far from complete on world of the future.
A world
and the
experiments will where
army for another two or three years might bo paralysed tracks and routed at the touch
In that time his theory will be of h distant button.
submitted to
And. a long meticulous process known scientists us which
"repeatable, con- trolled experimentation.”
A Britain guarded by an
Its
visible radar barrier would repel invaders without a shot being fired,
go on
--(Lomion Express Service)
C.V.R. Thompson Reports The American Scene
in Hazelton
homes in Oklahoma,"
One of the key men in the appeal to all those who know They have hardly replied campaign in a young German only the freedom of Soviet when she is back on the alr Communist
called
Wolfgang Russia and its satellites, with another, longer this time. Leonhardt.
NEW YORK. and widows, business men and you will enter some of the best.. "Whom will we gladly follow
Indeed, there are great differ-E 38,000 citizens of Hazel- unionists. unto death with joy in our During the war he supervised ences. Yugoslavs, for instance, ton. an anthracite town in Unemployment hearts and dauntless pride in the propaganda broadcasts of are free to visit the reading room | Pennsylvania, believe fervently will soon be ended. tho glorious achievements of the Free German National Com- of the British Information Ser-in free enterprise. his heroic leadership of the mittee-a group of German vice and there read British news- Their town was going slowly dounties working masses of our prisoners-of-war working papers and the bulletins of the downhill, hlore machines and beloved Fatherland!"""
fewer men in the undor Soviet auspices against BBC.
unemployment up and business the Nazis.
in town down.
"Let's go off to the Govern- ment," said some, "to the State Government, the national Gov- ernment,
Government
Back comes the answer, un- hesitating, drilled and rhythmic.
front
After the war he was sent to the Soviet zone of Germany. There he became one of the pro- fessors of Marxist ideology at
Marx the Karl
school near
They do so at the rate of 1,200 visitors a day-a phenomenon I have not witnessed in any other Communist country.
dolo"
or any
mine sent
WAITING NOTICE that it is only the
All the same, this freedom which will pay our workless rows of the column Berlin. It is an institute where here is not freedom as we know the that are shouting At the tall they train Germans to became it. For It is freedom for one. they slog along in silence. Prob-
Com Ideology only-the Communist. citizens, And they formed.a ably they are just a little rod political agents of the
law. committee. after their Sunday of voluntary munist Party.
labour.
Everyone
cise is outside the While I Was Junching with Leonhardt told me
of the friends the other day a Yugoslav THE MOST UP-TO-DATE THEATRE ON THE MAINLAND fed up with Anna out in front and his friends had felt as they. Her sister had just been arrested, Perhaps they do not feel as surging sense of liberation he girl called in. She was in tears, as they look.
read Tito's manifestos rejecting The offence: disloyal talk and There la nothing tired ог Russian predominance as con- disloyal, thought. passive, however, about Marshal trary to the tenets of Marx and Tito, neither about him nor any Lenin. I could see the immense of his paladins who, day after appeal of this doctrine to non-
join the big man in a quiet Russian 410 upon the beautiful new where,
Communist every- WHAT chance has Tito of carrying through his com- billiards table. They play there It meets the torturing doubts paign without being liquidated while they wait for the moves many of them have felt through by the Russians? As I see it, be of Washington and Moscow. all those years when Communist is faced with two dangers:-
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"Nonsense,
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MORE TAXES are certain for
next
Americans
year if sent Turn gets, ut us It is necessary, he says, because the Government will be nearly £1,700 million in debt by then, And that shows Truman is con- fident that business will be good next year. He dropped a demand for higher taxes this year to help
," said the other head off n slump.
The
committee decided A factory was needed in Hazelton batteries and sparing plus. and pleked a company, mak- Yes, the company agreed-if a local milionaire put up half the But there are no millionaires In Hazelton, so the committee went to the people. three-weeks whip-round it has raised all the money needed £400,000,
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ONCE upon a ume Hollywood's top pletures always begab "B. P. Schulberg presents
Schulberg earned 600,000 dollars Then head of Paramount,
a year for the work that iny behind that phrase.
He discovered Shirley Temple, Sylvia Sidney, Gary Cooper. Claudette Colbert, George Rail, and Fredric March.
Now, 57, white-haired, and ou CONTROVERSY over. New of work, Schulberg has put some York's charms broke out page advertisement asking for a of his life savings into a full- between Hollywood's Humphrey Said Bogart: "It's the best fun Bogart and opera Lilly Pons. Job,
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XCEPT from Instructions to
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