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in

THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1947...

How The Big Four Council Of Ministers Is Covered | CARNIVAL

CLAMOUR FOR RETURN

TO SECRET DIPLOMACY

that

Advocates et accrot diplomacy Information that leaked during Coverage of the Council are beginning to clamour for the the conference did so, in viola-acmplicated by the fact end of the current goldish bowl tion of that oath

various briefings occur at widely. performance of the Council of The former: Secretary of State, etparated locations, Foreign, Ministers, and a retire | Mr. James Bymes, was respon The Soviet briefing is given in 'o the smoke-filled-but private sible for the elimination of the an "extension" of the Soviet Em -room izchnique in which world | stcrecy rule, Dissatisfied

from with bassy, about four miles politicans can state their demands results of the first London meet Fleet-the newspaper heart st without worrying about how they Ing, he adopted the practice of: Lindon. About 15 correspondents will lock tomorrow's papers making news avaliable to Ameri-regularly attend this” briefing, The Council has developed can correspondents at the CFM' which is given by Vladimir Pav six sessions from the world's most segend session in Paris, sccretive to the world's mosi

publicized body. If the reporter

lov, who served as interpreter. to Unfair to Molotov Stalin at the Big Three meetings. Other powers followed suit,

Soviet Method sai around the table with the

dispatches each providing information to its Pavlov strides to the desk at Four Ministers. their

bare chamber might reach the publie faster but own press. Gradually, the West the front vt the would be no more complete. ern powers bgan to open their each evening at the stroke of an article in this week's "Sunday

Within an hour of the close of news conferences to nationals of seven, accompanied by one So-

Fit Herald, there is a growing con- each day's session, represents other countries. During the car viot official, Correspondents

nation rent session, the Soviet-after in ten rows of movie theatre sents fidence in Washington that Rus-lives of each Big Four

British facing him. Behind him there is sian expansionism has been at hold house to the world's press first protesting that the

and give complete accounts of accounts were unfair to the So a red curtain and on the walls least temporarily checked.

Foreign. Minlalor The what has transpired. Reporizes viel

(Mr are portraits of Lenin and Stalin. Molotov) have Pavlov schooled even receive the same documents Vyacheslav

meticulously State

relaya Department,

every thought voiced by Mr through long months of diploma-which the Ministers work from adopted the same policy

and follow their progress—or Inck The net result is that four Molotov, but is inclined to, give

summaries tie struggle to hold the line stout

of it--word by word and sentence separato accounts of the day's only super-brit

ol ly against Moscow, can hardly by sentence,

proceedings start funnelling into the other Ministers. Secretary of believe its eyes.

the news bureaus about seven o'clock State George Marshall's recent The public is Two years ago, when

the ac-statement charging Russia with even less inclined to give full Ministers first met in Lancaster each evening. So far, value to signs like that in these, there were no such facil counts have not differed material. taking reparations from Eastern lles. All delegation members ly but reporterà and editors Germany at the rate of US$500.- French defeat of the Communist were sworn to secrecy and any dread the day when they do. 000.000 a year, he disposed of

with one sentence, hid to create chaos through indus trial strikes. But the evidence that Russia is un the defensive grows daily. The very violence of all her vociferous Vishinskys only deepens the impression who know Russia among those

It

The

American Hysteria

About Communism

By John Dillon

4

Ho a prompted often-In Rus: slan-by the accompanying ofl- clal. reportedly a political Com missar. Reporters seldom ask questions since he refuses to give a direct reply, and if non-Com- munist paper representatives per- sist in an attempt to pln hire down on Soviet policy lasues they are scimetimes differed with by Communist reporters present,

“By Dick,Türner

„OUP), 1947 MY NEA SERVICE, ULĪT, MA NEK, V. I. PAT, OFF

ار ارما

"Now then, if justice is to be done in this case, Mrs. Whipple, I must know one thing-has your husband got any money?"

Dutchman's Plan To Curb The Yangtse

The British briefing draws the A comprehensive plan to pre- Tibet, would Have to be con biggest attendance-up to 200 vent the Yangtee, tho": fifthsidered. Ganging stations to the largest river in the world and measure the volume of water,

"We must look upon some of the Foreign Offer River Commission of the Chi- might suffer a delay.

.''

river

best. There is in this develop- ment no room for complacency. The Soviet system will not per- manently stop pushing fust be-

Americans are often accused, sistance from the United States reporters. It is held in cause it meets resistance. Marshall Plan and other positive these days of developing a "na- should be considered a business lounge of the once fashionable the main artery of trade and silt, and to mark water levels

Rusala investment because "a restored Carlton Hotel cn Pall Mall. methods of strengthening demo- tional hysteria" about

Europe would buy, more Ameri- especially taken over for the pur-commerce with productive and and clock currents were required cracy will be required. But there and Communism in general.

pose. There is a bar and shock teeming Central China, dromat key river points. It is a fair bet that most can goods than possible at pre-grill for the convenience of re-flooding has been submitted by is a new emphasis. It is illus

But, M. Ringera sald, as Americans sincerely want to sent and will help to prevent porters; a welcome feature trated by the difference between avoid hysteria. If they succeed depression and

not the Dutch conservancy expert, M.many of the gauges were still unemployment yet copied by the other powers. the Truman Doctrine and Marit may either be in spite of or in

Jan Ringers, on completion of belog 'perfected in world Inborn. the United States.....But we The British briefing is given by his assignment to the Yangtse tories, this aspect of the work shall Plan. The first relied on because of the barrage of vary must be realistle."

Department and is direct resistance to Russia by the ing views they hear daily. The

the complete

of the four.ea Ministry of Water Conser- United States. It accentuated an people. appear to be resisting our assistance to Europe as most

Check Dams the "Let's appearance of conflict between both

atomise the purely a political investment," Briefers are under strict instrue vancy.

tions to be. completely impartial Calling especially for full Russia and America. em-Russian and get it over with" he said. "It is a type of invest and they interpret these instruc- hydrological and geological data, The data, it supplied as in-

The and the "Russia can do phasised military means.

no ment that cannot be repaid in tions as requiring that they re- the scheme was drawn up after dicated, sald M. Ringers, a civil second relies mainly on resistance wrong-let's permit her to rule goods but will be ropaid in port practically every word ut-n 16-month study of the vaga- engineer might make possible

ries of the waterway.

the It interposes the the world while We pay the bills a feeling of security that we will tered at the conference table. by Europe.

erection of check dams possess if Western Europe re- The French Brief The enormous area, of the to stem the debris carried "third region"a powerful and for it" schools of thought,

escapes Aid to nations whose govern- mains democratic and with its menta

The French briefing is the most! Yangtse

baain-600,000 down Tibet by the Yangtse's up- independent Europe,

орроже Communism the waiting arms of Communist exciting. The Qual d'Orsay press square miles - ita multiple per course. own, political views between seems to have a large appeal to Russia."

chief, Jean Offray, is given to in-brunchas and tributaries, the re- “Afforestation, dyke work and the American and Russian ideo citizens as being some sort of (2) Scripps-Howard writer terpretation of the motives of the mote little known land of Its dredging in addition would re- logies and centres of power. It middle-way in dealing with the Clyde Farnsworth reported from Ministers and he has frequent riparlin agricultural lands-all move the perennial threat of

Shanghai that U. 3. Secretary clashes with the French euphasises economic and cultural Soviet Union.

From a typical welter methods. The limits, to Russian

of of State George Marshall's "fey munist reporters, who insist he is hese, the 84-year-old Rotterdam flood, famine and disaster, he expert reported, present, pro sald. Once accurate information cautious words on certain unfair to Rusain. expansionisin are now shown to Right,, Left and Centre opinions, but

M. Offray's briefing takes place blems unsurpassed in magnitude was available, the cost would and assistance in a panelled conference room of and complexity by the flood cannot be staggering, the expert: be narrower than they appeared here are some random excerpts economic aid

to shore Up the French Embassy, in which trol work of any other region in added It is hard to find a country with of advice Americans are read- have done little

Ing:

America's Bagging prestige in the only decoration is a large the world.

In the region under the juris any experience of self-government (1) Mr. Lewis H. Brown, China..The State Depart wartime photograph of General → Vital Data

dlation of the Yongtae River which Communism has captured Chairman of the Johns Manvillement may as well face the fact de Gaulle. Between 30 and 40:

Commission proper, M. Ringers without an army. Even in oc- Corporation, sald a in Chicago that economic aid that cannot be people attend regularly, including M. Ringer's final report to the said, 2,600, kuometres of dykes. cupied Germany free elections speech that American industry turned into a pointed weapon in a number of American and Brf Yangtse, River Commission in of more than 16 million cuble, have gone sainst the Commun. must act quickly and reallati. China's battle with Communism tish-reporters. M. Offray speaks cluded a long-term scheme for metres of earthwork (or approx

neither satisfy nor in in French.

acquiring four vital classes of jimately eqivalent to the volume ists. France, which has a large cally" ta ald Western Europe it will

to halt the western the view of competent observera, cise. The briefer is the State De- and checked over a number of had been thoroughly rebufit.

The American briefing is con- dala to be ascertained, classified of the Great Wall of China), Communist Party, appears more

to the meet the real situation.

partment Counsellor Charler ready to swing right than left

"Of-evurse, -if-economic ald Bohlen, probably the most

years. These were: --bu-

M. Ringera termed dyka repair- under the pressures of hard

should mean American cred''s thorative of four spkesmen. The Hydrology evaporation, work in China equally as fan- times. The Communists strikes

to buy arms and ammunition, briefing is held in the American condensation, run-off, etc.

cinating and often more complex have not won friends for Mos-

only the Communists and their wartime "Eisenhower Platz." dillons in half the earth's largest Even a Dutch engineer, heir to Embassy in Grosvenor Square 2-Meteorology-weather con- than similar work in Europe, cow. Communism does feed on

sympathisers would be displeas where the headquarters afland maÈS discontent and hunger. But so

ed. With considerable fact TOUSA were located.

| age-long experience, in keeping and logic on their side, Chinese Bohlen gives highlights of the and substance throughout the many new and battling pro- Mr. 8 Geology-rock formation his own Lowlands dry, finds does counter-revolution. There is

spokesmen have always contend-martings, detelling the more im still danger in some countries that

vast region,.

blems in river, control work in extremists will use armed bands

China; to seize power. The great hope is that through the economic re- storation of Europe, conditions of tolerable living can be created. In such conditions the power of Europe's moderates can assert it- (From the files of the self to throw off totalitarianism

"China Matt"} Among those who believe that Head Master of the Foreign Mr. John Hamilton Jacob, Inte Ruusia has been stopped is Walter Classes of the Public Institution Lippmann, who only a few of Macao, has the honour to in-

we

are

march of Communism English Channel."

Mr. Brown, who recently a rived from Europe, said any as

100 Years Ago

48 An

раз

ed that Communism in China la portant happenings, but not an ex not entirely a Chinese problem.haustively as the British do, He 4.-Soil erosion. It seemed odd to them that the interprets American moves, but M. Ringers, who has had 10. About 8,100 miles long, the State Department should regard is chary of doing the same for ac-years experience of conservancy Yangts, springs from the Tagh- European Commúnism

tions of the other powers. Gen- work on the dyke-bordered Ulan: Mountains, part of the American problem and, at

rally about 35 reporters crowd Rhine estuary, sald the the

that Kunlun Range, on the Chinghal- room including representa-UNRRA geological and erosion Tibet-Sinklangborder, * game.time,

imply Communism tives of major news agencies and specialists had added notably to drains some nine provinces, in- in China is exclusively China's Dancers of the Big. Four countries, the scanty and scattered store of cluding Yunnan Szechuan, Hu- business."

Other correspondents are Ad-

vital information in these fields. nan and Kiangsu, with a total mitted upon application, United (Continued on Page 71 Press, 2

''AB for hydrologica! and population of 180,000,000. It is meteorological information, a navigable from the wax-Just programme involving the build-outside Shanghal-to a paint ing of observatories and stations about 1,080 miles up stream.

weeks ago was objecting to "Mr. form the Gentry and respectable BARCLAY ON BRIDGE throughout the region, including Router.

X's" exposition of the State De- Inhabitants of Hong Kong and partment view that the Soviet ita Vicinity, that his Academy could be contained. Mr. Lipp for the Instruction of Adults and mann, after several weeks of Youth generally is now ready

touring Europe, now says the for the reception of Pupils, and

most respectfully solicits - their

By SHEPARD BARCLAY "THE AUTHORITY ON AUTHORITIES”

TENTATIVELY

250 400,--| United States has already won patronage and support, pledging]

exactly four of it, second that he 200.- the "cold war." But this con himself to those who may ett

probably did not have four (hratis, * READING clusion, only strengthens his con- trust their Children to his

as therefore, the unbid ́major might 350 tention that the time has come Tuition, that bis every care and Quite a good deal of card reading have been led, third that he probably

To tentativa, kubject to change as furi had what he considered m-likely-side” 120, relax the tension" and "end energy shall be devoted to their her tricks, disclose further informs entry.

the panie," and to push positively Moral and Religious Instruction: (tion: Some of it is presumptive at a After the 10 won the club

opening -300.-

toward t'a settlement which per Mr. J. hopen that the fact of particular stage, but later becomes and the 4 was led to the 'J, and.. mits the recovery of Europe." He his having been for nearly six deinite. With many hand the

The fine Soulb knew. West had the K left and urges less belligerent attitude are, the private Tutor of most declarer or the fine defender keeps of course would not lead into the of the highly respectable Fami- getting a clearer and clearer view of A-9; When he then returned the da on the part of the United States: lies of Macao, in the English the situation as he ca along, unlit mond, 3, South decided West had more realization that the present and Foreign languages, may eventually all of the pertinent essen road leads to war, and more ci-deem him as fully competent for tale may become dear to him. fort to explore the possibilities of his duties, - - **

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