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CHOLERA Government's efforts to make this community cholera-conscious have been rewarded by a mildly encouraging response reiterated warnings of the dan ger that lurks. Inoculation cen- tres are kept busy and a large part of the day of the average private practitioner is occupied in

THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, MAY 7, 1946.

Russia's Strange Vendetta Against Her Ally

Self-Frustrating Tactics

A two day's debate on foreign body a secret as supreme-the | schievements of scienco beyond policy opened yesterday in the Council of Ten in the Kremlin.ths boundaries of our country. House of Commons: Seldom has there been a more respon We may criticise as much no nible occasion of its kind in any Parliament,

it Was

4

Every open aspect of the sub- ject has been transformed since last debated three nonths ago at full length, and withr an optimism almost worthy of Philosopher Square, who commended the immortan rule

A

and

trium-

In any case,

the

TODAY INS IN EUROPE

.

were

A City Learning To Walk Again

"Spirit Still Lives"

contre.'

what do we want? We want

now

Premier Stolin in personal au-British scientists have predict-served for those who, while ac-ty's shopping alone 20,000 pro-f this fine old city, for even to live

blamed for satisfaction. As it is, | Russia's staunch and indispena-It was framed with his usual end like & nursery game of hide-hatred go back to the year 1914, blitzed. 90 public houses out of The opening recently of a row of

normal expectations have been ablu Allies in her own war, and justified, and the equally im-part-authors of her victory.

portant prectitutions that might be taken to check and control

On that inquiry this country the sources of infection, rent and potential, are seldom practised,must keep its feeling on ice. In our old solid temper we must have coolness for two,

not

of

By J. L. GARVIN

1

By GRAHAM STANFORD

There is a sign over the door off five years, Plymouth's lovely church of St. So far 400 temporary profabri- New York-Communist pro- Andrew's.

catad houses have been bulit and paganda, when it is addressed to It just says "Resurgam" ("I another 300 are in the courNG OF.

meses, is always highly shall rise again"), and it was put | erection. And the pre-wat build- simplified. Communist leaders there one cold, dark morning of lag labour force of 0,500 Sas show what they think of the war when the city lay broken and dropped to 3,700.

When I met the very much alive mentality of the people by the smoking and a line of ambulances

was taking the hurt to hospital. Mr. Watson ho said: use of such simple epithets as

"Wo could The story of that sign wont carry out this plan in five years. Fancis- beat" and warmon-round the world, and in America We could get our 12,000 houses The Soviet leader is no Bonger, which anyone can under it stirred the hearts of the des- and everything the plan lays down. cendants of those Pilgrim Fathers But not while we are hamstrung we plense this theory of gov bastes. His deeds always have stand.

But inside the ranks of the who sailed from Plymouth in 1620 by legislation and the Town and ernment of the people for but exceeded his words. When he

of 1944 not by the people. There is no gives his people this virtual as Communist Party, for more to lay the foundation of the Now Country Planning Act

Jargon 1s used. England States.

under which it takes a year to mistaking, in practice, the for- Burange that the Soviet Union complicated

sites. midable degree of concentrated will possess atomic equality at Currently, the favourite term of

abuse is "petty bourgeois Phili- One famous American commen- power which this system places least in the near future," his alina. This epithet can cover a tator broadcast: "They've torn the priority over everyone and every-

words should be taken in their in the hands of a few men.

the materials to do the job. We Everything else in the plebis plain sense. They might have wide variety of sins against heart out of Plymouth, but its thing. We want the labour and

to something

with M. Party doctrine and deviations spirit still lives." do

That sign has become the watch want the rebuilding of Plymouth cite campaign was overshadow-Vyshinaky a ebullience as well from the party line.

In its origin and essence, how word of this city in its desperate to be treated as a war deration.

We want the bighost prioritica, of right and the eternal fitness cd by Stalin's address to his as with the spy-hunt in Canada ever, it is specially reserved for fight to regain a normal pre-war

"We suffered probably more of things." Since then, many Moscow constituents on the eve

all proponents of social demo-

than anyore. We want every as Figures tell the story of Ply- of the world's jarring realities of the poll. Though it received and the United States.

themselves into little attention in this country Already exports publish that cracy. In the list of Communist mouth's ordeal far more eloquent-sistance to get on our feet again. have thrust

Delay is dangerous; trade and owing to the political concen- the chief secret of the Ameri-hatreds, the social democrat or ly than phrages. our faces.

tration on the meetings in Lon- can "know how concerns the petty bourgeois Philistine" Between July 1940 and April prosperity will leave the town. We Instend of reiterating

the don,

it made, as its historic im fuse mechanism which controla ranks far higher than capl- 1944 the sirens wailed 802 times, have five years in which to bulld giving anti-cholera injectinas.

Mr. Watson typifles that "Re- -News from Canton, where happi.familiar matter of debate upon portanco deserved, a profound, the timing of the bomb's ex- talists, plutocrats, turies or re- and in 650 raids bombs destroyed!

far-atrotched array of par-impression on American opinion. plosion.

actionaries. A very special mea- 3,764 housca, seriously damaged

19,398,

somehow alightly damaged 49,960. urgam" spirit which ly the grim situation is now beticular questiona, our purpose As the sole survivor in office

By

Civilian casualties totalled 4-weeps through the ghastly wreck- lieved to be under control, has here is to inquire into what

RANDOLPH CHURCHILL 448, and many of Plymouth's dead age of Plymouth's shops, houses,

and its finest public buildings. thein all the im-of the original great aided local publicity materially in dominates

burled in a it seems in-

a communal grave. enigmatical back-virate of the Allies, and as the

Desolation Night after night the Germana bringing tome to the public at mense

Anglo-Soviet re-most firmly based of all rulers, evitable, as most American and sure of Communist spileon is re- pounded the dockyard and the But for this.apirit I do not know large de gravity of the menace. ground of

what would have happened to thority. If, in fact, there were signs that lations.

and responsibility ed from the first, that the hopecepting the doctrines of Marxist

In two raids the good sense of the majority of

History shows no stranger stands without a rival among in accordance with the tripartite Sociallam, would like to see the porties were either destroyed or for a few days in the centre of treaty at Washington of world reformed by gradual and damaged and the damage was esti auch desolation 13 a depressing the population had extended be spectacle of its sort than the men,

mated at £10,000,000.

experience. ruthless diplomatic yond the point where self-interest apparently

It was his first public utter-guarding a secret so signalised orderly processes...

of 19-cinemas wore The origins of this deadly Ten out

There are practically no shops, was not directly involved, the vendetta of the Kremlin against authorities

hardly be Britain and the British Empire, ance since the end of the war. by glaring cues was bound to could

and-seek, where the children Marx, no less than his later die- 370; and only three top-flight

hotels were left standing. like you to conceal youraclfcipice, Lenin and Trotsky, al-

Sixty-five per cent. of the shop- where they can see you.

ways believed that the country ping centre was lost, and, apart We are no longer obsessed by most ripe for the Revolution from destruction at the Admiralty terrifle al-was Germany. This belief arose Dockyard, elvil damage Amnovated atomic bomb. Ita

Nissen-but shops was quite an ternatives do not change that partly out of the economie, dog- to 220,000,000.

Financial experts worked it out event. Long queues walt daily psychology of nations which de-mas Marx had postulated. He

believed that world revolution that Plymouth had lost 38 per outside the fow remaining cinemas, compression and dynamic im- termines the issues of peace would

the inevitable outcome cont. of its rateable value, and the and the organisors of social events in every pact unless by Government or under

sentence. The and war. Thucydides remark- Government pressure. Primitive

The possibilities of adjust-Soviet people hung on every ed two thousand years ago he of the warring instinct of capi-pre-war population dropped at one have no adequate public buildings talist nations, and that revolu- time from 220,000 to 140,000. The in which te stage them. The city, known much and heard ideas on the subject of sanitation

the of all rhetoric and sentiment more, but all he had seen in that country which was the yard, tore down 160 acres of in- blem facing Plymouth, there is

tion would inevitably break out Germans hit at the very heart of in fact, is still a shell.

Yet, despite the enormous pro- Plymouth. Barbs blasted the dock- are impossible to eradicate in went or of alienation during the syllable. His very abhorrence had

six months-before

of Russia's learned had convinced him that day, of a week, or a year, no marxt

most industrially advanced and dustrial property and 50 acres of confidence here that the city will and industrial war-there never had ter how explicit or vigorous the United Nations meet again in made his recital

been any whore, therefore, it would be shops, and when the sirens sound-return to a normal life within the America are

infinite military

giorica more inspiring. In the change in one thing-the heart easiest to organize the workers. ed for the last time Plymouth was the local

next few years. campaigns through

moment either way.

same realistic way his forecast of man.

Countries like Russia, where the left with brobably the greatest The crying need now is for Press. And the apathy about

future was like "the

and material Not a syllable of raw Russo- of the flies is self-evident. Hi these:

That organ and its emotions vast majority of the population problem of any of Britain's blitzed building labour heard in trumpet of a prophecy." should be

Without that Plymouth cannot get part in were peasants, were regarded as it dockyard was badly dam- its 12,000 houses and rebuild 15 The

play a much smaller

Its circumstances, the menace of a phobia

Communiat worship of political among the last countries in the

Revolution aged; it had lost at least tem shopping centre. And, if it does serious epidemic of cholera at Parliament or out of it.

Catsch go deeper. An utter

mechanism and industrial world where the

porary the business brought by not get them, it is obviously only be regarded as ever-present, and dissimilarity of physical circum-

A First, with a party dialectic machinery than in Western could hope to prospor.

the 60 odd ocean liner which a matt

matter of time before the popu- the question is whether the medi stances and political imaging

bear historical | ideala of civilisation as In addition, however, to this called at the port every month: Jation scope away. tion works like Incompatibility that does not cal authorities should

economic dogms, there was the the city's shopping centre was a Stalin blamed humane analysis, M.

and humanising

Already manufacturera in soarch more af temperament.

political fact that the movement pile of rubble: and without them of female Jabour urged to embark upon

capitalism for both world wars. ganism,

are combing and sume women in tho drastic measures. Qf the ef-

That truth applies with to His auditors could not but infer

ter strides in Germany during Plymouth was the ideal centro ficiency of the Japanese in stamp less force to another field where that the capitalist countries of

the latter half of the 19th con- for a hundred tours."

to the call Thote were 1,706 ing out cholera in Hong Kong, Moscow sedulously defers direct the West shared with Hitlerism

Plymouth, in fact, existed in employed last week-and there tury than in any other country. the there never has been any doubt.challenge but where increasing the responsibility

has been a steady increase in the When, therefore, war came to filttle but

But oven as the sirens sounded figures since the end of the war. They succeeded because they in-psychological tension exists.

Europe in 1914, all the leadors With all their ceaseless intel-

This is and the bombs screamed ́down,

to increase unless To the Westera Allies-whose and oil, proclaims the gigantic of international Communism sisted upon inoculation, instead of

and versatility and

there is a plans were being made for the

Speed-up in leaving the matter to the discre-ligence

of over-confidence full share in the common vic-aim of a three-fold output by and Socialism looked eagerly to rebuilding of the city

The majo- tion and free will of the indivi- their touch

were am- Prime mover aus bald, quick-rity of

ployed in the distributive trades dual, in a community made up in these talents, the Russians autory the Russian people have comparison with the pre-war Germany. They supposed, that, of constituents of the type in whole do not understand any never been allowed to know-level With his characteristic upon their signal, the workers talking Mr. J. Paton Watson,

the Soviet leader gave little note of warning-like Mr. would all lay down their tools, Dundoe-born city engineer and sut and they are likely to look else. of the English-speaking peoples.

they are un-mention and no praise. As for Churchill's virile habiting Hong Kong,, the method what is worse,

accent of would paralyze the German war veyor, who has been drawing of where for work unless it comes

almost overnight a new Plymouth, since he Best quickly in their home town.

On the has a great deal to commend it. conscious of this and other un- the present, he refrained mark leadership in war-he stated it effort, and

the bright side is nove

that that go with edly from hymning the United would need "perhaps three new would bring the war to an end arrived here ten years aro

In conjunction with Sir Patrick the Admiralty has a big plan for It was not highly popular he avoidable faults

Nations organisation and, Five Year Plans, if not more." and usher in the Revolution.

Lenin and Trotsky at once.

Abercrombie, the world-famous the development of the dockyard, cause the mischance of leaving their undeniable qualities.

ignored. Its agenda, ccrti-

But he added as an ironic declared against the war but, to town planner, he produced "A which employs a quarter of the one's cholers inoculation

What of the domestic pro-aside one single sentence which their incredulous stupefaction,an for Plymouth, he first muh- town's insured population: that ficate at home rendered the in-

Hished by dividual liable to be given an ad- This difficulty

increase in the near future, and "Only democracy immediately proceed

sity ditional dose. But it was cffcc-explain much, but it is doubled plause he announced that ration- rest of his broadcast,

Mr. Watson began work on it that there are all the signs of a can wo ed to rally the workers behind soon after the first raid, and in boom in holiday traffic to Deven tive. Whether today's conditions by another of a quite opposite ing will be abolished in the under such conditions

English-speaking near future, that the supply of regard our-country as guaran- Kaiser Wilhelm's war, Every 1943 this "Plan for Plymouth" and Cornwall,, justify its employment must, we kind.

turn do not consumers' goods will be sys- tced against accidente."

single social democratic member was produced in the form of a

"Down"not. "Out" On this precept, other Fowers of the German Relis ag put his magnificent 147-page Illustrated So it seems that the sign "Bo- suppose, he regarded primarily a peoples in their

surgam" is something more than a a matter for the Government on adequately understand the post-tematically increased, that the

It a point of policy. Speaking with. War mood of the Soviet Union. I prices of all commodities will be must keep themselves equipped patriotism before his interna-report to the city council.

tional Sociallam und voted for shopping centro; for public build beeil "down" but is far from

for a complete now grand gesture provides do not realize even. yet steadily reduced, that the social against accidents."

Plymouth s They

What does it mean? There is the war. out the book, it seems to us that either the strength it has now beneficence of scientific research

of disarmament.

'inga; entertalament centre on the “out”. and will be energised to the utmost, no question nature or the

The leaders of international modern style with an architectural ja casetan be made out. Far bet attained

All the problems that it facos that the working people's That futile spectre haunted the ter put, the community to some ardour of its further aspira standard, of living will be bet-old League. It will not troubic Communism have never been backcloth in the Drako tradition. can be solved providing that the That plan has been accepted. city has the sympathetic support inconvenience before a danger tions.

tered by every available and the new. But without the soli- able to forgive what they re- Even in the last few weeks a ous epidemic develops than t

contrivable means.

darity of the Big Three the garded as the supreme betrayal When it will be carried out is: an- of the Governmen

of all that the movement had At the mesent time there are residents to whom I spoke claim

Officinis, business thrown has been

men, and wait until it has assumed timen vivid light

Our standard of life in Bri- whole Bystem of the United facts and forces sions with which preventive upon these

years of underground planning. Plymouth. It has a two-year pra consideration; that it should be special measures are too late to cope.

so much came, an ineffectual ghost.

When, therefore, Russia, reel-grooms for the building of 0.000 given the highest priorities all ern democracies was absorbed alan, but no longer

ing under the disasters of war, and aims at a target of 12,000 in along the road to recovery. too exclusively by the novelties higher as it was in peace, and insular

slid into the abyss of revolution, and excitements of the United even in war, before

Socialism came into power in

and Lenin and Trotsky found Nations meeting,

The Soviet Union has em themselves the masters of the Bleanwhile, the Russian elec- this country.

ergud from the second world last country in the world where tlons in their singular manner

war with direct and indirect they expected revolution, they Mgaina not paralleled in history reserved special measure of They were made more signi- New York, May G.

with By comparison

The last day of month is Local councilior: We have do Rubber production on Malayan ficant by the speeches of the Stalin's pledges of relief and But Moscow is not yet satisfied contempt and vengeance for

any frontier. Yet night those who had been less whole- always a good time to give some elded by a majority that this plantations of the United States Communist leaders, and above Improvement

we have a Gov-on

maros' should be excluded from hearted than they themselves; Rubber Company will approach all by the final and memorable ernment of Gloom

statistics. A corta in politician workman is rot ill. and must be whose 're-!

Bane minds by three con- This explains why the Krem-has saved the uglier of his faces, sent to work in Newcastle to make 60 per cent of capacity by the end declarations of M. Stalin him- current tales of hope deferred

clusions. the year, according to Wallace self, as he again prefers to be are beginning to sound like an

lin has such a particular dislike seven times since February 14

bricks, Firat, there will be no ques for British Foreign Secretary

Thoy are saying in the lobbles sistant-director of the called instead of Generalissimo. Interminable serial. One of the tion for many years of a third Ernest Bevin. The fact that the that it is time he cut thom both got arthritis.And he is a plato- Caso,

Dootor: But company's plantation division.

This huge appeal to the texts of an earlier and more

off to spite his nose However layer, not a bricklayer. Case told a meeting of a Now

in his chief election speech: "It in theory accept so many of the as it wore, what they

Local councillor: That is pre- was "Merry England Again:

more or levant. If you perila in saying. can Chemical Society that the "ac-most complete contrast

But the main and weighty goes without saying that we doctrine of international So- less are notwithstanding, I my, he is 11, you must send in your tual production on plantations in Malays reached aginable between the method matter la something else. The require a long period, of peaco. cialism, but at the same time) solf have, no tesitation: In saying report in triplicate to the. Hiáls-

the company arranged result showed the im

of 1940." "festimated and Westora types of society. American feeling is explained with Russian claims in the Communista claim they are im to Squthend panti vieles me- reply. He is a lazy man, with a

effort for conciliatory dealing totalitarian technique by which "Cabman,

button (und recurd. it output for the year

Over a hundred millions of by other, paragraphs

of his would be 8,500,000.

people cast their votos-almost raanifesto. They refer to the three Easta, nothing but the plementing international Social

A councillor das said that the Doctor: If you had his com- Pró-war production by the Unit 98 per cent of the electorate. future of Russian industry and closest union between Britain emarouses in the Kremlin pier is the quly place in Southoad plaint, you would be lazy.

You will be Rubber Company's My The Communist

"Local councillori candidates; by: Implication to the future of and America con perpetuate the feelings of rage, and hatred where parents can take their 21,000,000 with a select number of pop Russian armaments, including a balance of the world. which they do not feel toward children away from the right and transferred for impudence Mean-

Third, the present dominger- capitalists and plutocrata Thay at What! Southend Pretty Ministry, the men

noise of the results" of intoxl while, pending doolaion of the M company states that poll. party. adheronts, were returns the atomic bomb. Anning stactics of Russian, polley have more respect for the one-uttle old-world Southende og mos

ed by a process both automatic

Production On Malayan Estates

The

second.

for

or

M. Stalin, with a methodical tabulation of prodigious target figures for pig-iron, steel, coal

for social democracy made grea-]it semed almost idle to boast that trades have responded

namo.

alone would gramme? Amid storms of ap- is more incisive than all the all the leaders of German social British bilized provincial ocean kusongar trazdu is Tikaly, to

other matter:

while the attention of the West. tain is stili higher than the Rus- Nations organisation would be plotted and laboured for through 11,000 applicants for houses in that Plymouth deservoi

wäre a towerng event.

BY THE WAY

By B Beachcomber

Yesu arkgrabbers group of the Amprpeople to ratify and acclaim a Idyllle Socialism in this country world war...M Molotov put it-British Labour movement should that may be, and things being,

Ho

Seal wynditions in Sumatra whore and onthusiastle Needless to

the company had formerly enteri

alyor holdings are such that no bber production le taking plane.

Vsociated Press,

pas too was hy she of position or of free speech in our sense. There was no pos Libility of changing a Govern

ments.

"try, and`await your turn, for, K.

small portion of the whole undergo a voluntary change, nover reconcile than for the phrases porch, but they not only stir They are more and more dis half-hearted friend who they a pinion in the United States: kid wherever they are ex fool Have betrayed them came's tougher bernas on the towels toward sine fur

the far end of the plar, there beautiful young, creatur They touch the very crux of barle Britain thinking and as the p

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word's conjecture.

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