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THE NEW IMPERIALISM

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The establishment of Communist government of China has at last been pro- claimed in Peiping, and early recognition by the Soviet bloc is inevitable. This may be delayed until Canton falls, but if the city should by a miracle hold out for some time, the position may be just as tricky for Moscow as for London and Washington.

It will probably be impos- sible to ignore the demands of a government dominating the bulk of China, but it is equal ly out of the question to brush aside the rights of the Na- tionalists, however tenuous their hold may "be on the country. Further, there can- not be two recognised gov ernments, unless an agreed border line were to be drawn between their domains.

There can be no doubt that the odds are in favour of the Communists. The iron cur- tain is about to drop to the very borders of Solith East Asia. It has not yet been fully appreciated, but the Kremlin is taking advantage all over the East of a trend towards the "welfare state," the feel- ing of the downtrodden mil lions that the time has come for them to enjoy some of the benefits of life.

Russia's political expan sions in this part of the world are of a special type, and she has succeeded only in places where social, life had already broken down by reason of decay, war or ineptitude. She would pre- fer going concerns, no doubt,

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WANTED-300,000 NEW HOMES

By KEITH BUTLER

winning of war against the Comfaform-directed-guerillas. It is the repatriation of their vil läges and fans of some 700,000 refugees.

You find Britans in the most unexpected places. One of this. last spots would be the Amer ican Co-operation Administra-. tion Mission which is applying Ed Wynne is responsible for could not afford anything else, "Marshall Aid" to Greece. But about 5,000 square miles of tor and the following year President For two years the refugees Ed Wynne is one of two British ritory in Eastern Macedonia and Trunt came to the aid of Greer have sought safety and shelte experts among the ECA Field Thrace. His "kingdom" stretches and Turkey simultaneously within the towns from guerilla ter Representatives whose job is along Greece's "Iron Curtain) economic and military aid to pre“ | rorism, destruction and systematic |

to observe, report on and help along the Recovery Programme in war-devastated guerilla- infested Greece.

NO QUICK WAY TO BEAT TITO

By G. WARD PRICE What will be Russia's counter to Yugoslavia's overtures to- wards the capitalist democra- cies?

Direct action? A march 02 overland ar Belgrade, either through the air?

That could be undertaken eely at the risk of provoking universal A short, sharp expedition war. before the Western Powers could organise themselves to reset might be thought possible but how short would it be?

These Yugoslavs are the best guerilla fighters in Europe. They would defend their territory with the same determination that Rus- sia herself displayed and would the Red Army be enthusiastic for a war against brother-Slavs?

There

are reports of troop.. movements in Hungary and Bu- paris, but these may well be no more than manoeuvres, perhaps intended to agitate public opinion in Yugoslavia.

An attempt to remove Marshal Tito? Other men who once stood high in the Soviet hierarchy have come to violent ends.

Marshal Tito is well guarded and is little seen in public. His whereabouts are always some- thing of a mystery."

The rousing. of an intercal movement against him? For that a leader would be needed, and all potential quislings are in jail,

Wester Aid

Moscow's best hope seems to lie in the fact that economic help from the West coming. It invst will be slow

between Governments.

in

decisions

frontier with Bukuria

pp

vent them falling like ripe plums child abduction that made life in- into Stalin's lap,

tolerable in their remote moun-

tain villages.

Six months ago you were risk- ing your neck to travel between AMAG" was followed by the Drama, Kavalla, Alexandroupolis Marshall Aid DCA Mission to

They lived on the meagre State and Komotini. On the road you to Greece which Ed joined as a aid of oz of bread and a 1x. dole might be blown on a mine bald Field Representative, bringing overnight by the guerillas Or to assist the newly arrived Ameri- per day, seeking out their liveli Lood by odd jobs and the ad- you might be ambushed by veril can experts his own acquired ex-

Tand. CARE and other welfare las swooping down from one of perience and knowledge of a conditional relief from the Queen's the mountain chains which form plicated problem and country. organisations. ices guerilla highways for rapid In his job, Ed. Wyane has to surprise attacks on the towns know a lot about everything. Meanwhile, in guerilla-occupied About tobacco (this is Greece's themselves.

Later, even the re-opened rail-mijn, tobacco producing area) was line linking the main towns about cereals the collects cars of counts the was able to guerilla mortar and wheat as he tours)

grains on them and reports of machine gan attacks.

to the Mission Ed has many Darrow escapes crop prospects during his year's work in Nor Headquarters in Athens; about ors been in read construction, water supplies. thern Greece. He train ambushes; onder gerila the guerilla war situation the re- mortar and shell-fire in attacked fugees. Every aspect of life and towns. Cars immediately in front reconstruction in his vital Greek

provinces. of his jeep have been blown up on mined roads and the pieces of vehicle and men showered down on him.

cars

For Ed was an officer in

throughout first meeting. Armoured Brigade the war.

First Experience

territory, for two years their homes fell into rack and ruin, and their fields became wildernesses of weeds.

But the Greek peasant farmers are the backbone of the nation. Tobacco is Greece's principal ex port and source of foreign ex-

restoration ot the country's change. It was essential for the

that the economy

Two Chinese artists to forma" Oct-8"

An entirely new work?

I hear that in Amer has announced

that travels faster. than scientists are now going to work on a sound that travels faster than a plane,

"Long Hong Kontend war with Chinese Reds seen in Lon- domi

How these stars do spread..

Culled from a business supplies firm's advertise and k

Our adding machine will last a lifetime Guaranteed one year."

after the motor crash. And the

"I turned the way I woman as usual, was talking:

averred.

These was the usual argument

mialled."

peasant re/sxits

"yes know it.

To which the man retorted:

That's what fooled me."

fugees return to their homes and farms and start cultivating the land again the moment the Greek Army had driven out the gueril. Las

Mixed conversation.

I was having a gulet discussion With a Russia

When a Turk

Called me a jerk..

A lady from Bermuda Was even ruda, So 1-suda.

Before the war already, Ed had had a wanderhist Fair-haired and fresh-complexioned Che has But all this, is reminiscent of soil his skin as he drives to pre ald times with the 23 Armoured wet painful burra) he does not

To ensure their security from Brigade in North Africa, Italy look his 37 years. Even though and in Greece during December, his work is mainly with Amerilla raids the Greek Goten

and Greeks, his British

ment overcame American objec 1944 Revolution.

the origin is unmistakable from the ions and planted to arm the

menfolk of the repatriated vil Born in North Wales and lages They would be responsible brought up' in London, before the for their own local protection, war Ed had already travelled in confident of their safety and re- Europe and to the United States lieving the Army of a heavy re

“I wish you'd see my husband," He has been journalist, mas sponsibility..

the woman said to the psy- His first experience of Greece zine writer and even magazine

Months ago, Greck Welfare chiatrist. "He blows smoke rings came when he arrived in the proprietor for a brief period. Piraners with the British libera- Ab his 41fe since 1944 is iden-Minister Karamanlis pointed out through his nose. It frightens me to the Government and the Ameri- sometimes that it's so tes- tion forces in October, 1944. He tied with the Greek people by

can Missions that this was a "I don't know that fought against the Communists whom he is regarded with affec

vast and vital problem. It needs ribly terribly unusual for someone under Lieutenant-General Scobie tion and respect as he

means and the to blow smoke rings through his Government had no means, either nose," said the psychiatrist, a tim when the EAME/LAS attempted among them talking broken but planning and

husband doesn't But Jay to seize power by force in Decem effective colloquial Greek

in materials or money. ber, 1944

On bis insistence the Govern smoke," said the woman. ment has appealed to the UNESCO for aid to the refugees. But, T agrees to help the Greek refugees, it will be many. months before such Kid ma- terjalises.

In 1946 he left the Army to join the British Ecatomic Mission which came to advise the Greek Government how to get on the road to economie recovery.

Advice was not enough, Britain

Vital Problem

moves

is concerned with Now be -Greece's Dewest and perhaps most actual vital problem. after the

Britain's "Lost" Food

By GRAHAM STANFORD

Winning Battle

ECA-Budget

Meanwhile the ECA badget. does not cater for such a problem: Too easily, the Americans say it

The judge was unching on very hot day. A politician stopped beside his table, **£ 'see you're drinking coffee," he said. "That's a heating drink. In this weather you want iced drinks. Did you ever try gin and ginger ale?"

"No," admitted me judgë, “bot have tried several fellows who have"

is a Greek problem, the repatria-| Those rainy days for which a tion of the refugees and the re-man saves usually arrive during habilitation of Greek agricultural his leave. economy. The Greeks say, What

in the old historic sense so grade, The rations allotted to the meet. bod a half tons of are employed by the Ministry of the Manikion

much as the political vacuums.

LEX

There's enough last food in disease, and Britain has now em- Britain to double the ration-barked on a determined campaign Britain could rescue it.

to keep down the roderits

Two years ago 2,000 miles of with This, too, is a result of the fool and his money are som Two million tons of imported food is denied the British

table London's sewers were specially guerilla war, which has been re- every year because it cannot be treated, and local authorities are tognised by the UN General Asparked, or so they say. But I properly packed owing to the cuts now given a 50 per cent. grant by sembly as being inspired and can't see how the fool and the

Kirst place. along Greece's Northern frontier two the Government to fight the rats directed by Russia's satellites money ever got together in the millions is eaten by pests.

below ground. More than 200.000 tons of

of Eng

of tons of food are-Albania, Bulgaris and until

COLD CASH: So called because un methods of finance, delays in lish potatoes are taken annually ruined every year by tiny posts recently Yugoslavia.

we .ཡཱf merited American

of us can keep it long specifying the goods required and by potato blight, virus in sugar of microscopic size which breed

organising their manufacture. beet captures half the potential

surdr yield, and lack of adequate in the helds of ships bringing British and US support to sure enough to warn (it amp..

vive and overcome this aggres EVOLUTION: Dress,-$18.50, Yugoslavia's lack of material

sion, we need help, too, in the frock, $59.90, gown, $110, - refrigeration plant leads to the food to Britain from all parts. supplies is manifest to anyone medical condemnation of thou-

tion, s800. final act of the drama."

With Ed Wynne. I drove to EXPERIENCE: What you think who walks the streets of Bel-sands of pounds of prime English

Specially trained entomologists Drama and on to the foothills of you fave until you get more of up of various sections of the population

meat,

range POVERTY: That condition we vary according to their usefulness.which represents a week's ration

the pests, where several thousand refugees for 20,000 people, was condemned Agriculture to fight

winning the taxt few weeks. We went into time, then brag about in cait Market It had decomposed in day that they are

village after village and found memoirs.

SAVOIR FAIRE: The ability to train journeys from Scotland and battle.

Stored grain is now "gassed" the same tragic story.

• smile when you suddenly "dis- Wales

Peasants already too weak from cover that your-best pal and your by a special process which kills

than a few glare both missing from the not caly insects but rats and hunger, to do more

work in the fields chce Boor. mice, leaving no residue that hours

heavy, manual work doing by,

last year's barres human beings.

It has been estimated that on hand the water carrying from the

wheat harvest this wells to the rows of tobacco seed-On being introduced to an old process alone would have saved linge work that was previously, friend of the family, the well- 1.000.000 tons Another problem one by their looted and lost, bred, well-coached little, young- is the shortage of grain sacks, due mules and donkeys. Even the ster bowed and, aid: "How do to the difficulty of obtaining jute. dole which should continue til you do My, how I have grown Estimates of the amounts of they are self-supporting is three since you last saw me. Now may meat,

butter, and fats 10 months overdue from Government I go out and play???

inadequacy.

Mountain

Other states have used the only those specially favoured this week in London's Smithfield and a high oficial told me yester- have been resettled, during the try desperately to conceal at the

by the Government can live on the meals their coupons will buy, and on the "free" market the dices of goods of all kinds are breathtaking.

Little Traffic

obtain

that they can ways and means of thousands of poumes of bread If they are not helped to live

Far East in many ways, not all of them benevolent. For Russia the area has been a Laboratory.

Outer Mongolia

Food inspectors touring Britain's 565,000 meat and confectionery was, the Soviet experiment

A shoddy-looking pair of shoes shops, touring the holds of ships in making a satellite. Isolat ed from the rest of the world woman's jumper (made of wool) world lands at tons of food as costs the equivalent of £8; a sailing here from all parts of the are compelled to write and off the usual beat of £13; a thin cotton trock £9; the o

unft for human consumption foreign journalists, Tannu cheapest kind of man's cotton

Much of can be used for an- Tuva went through the full shirt, without coupons," £3.

mal feeding, but a considerable course of Marxist reorganis-

proportion a total loss. ation, from the initial hyp

British scientists are alarmed at the amount of

of lost food are notising by having its na

The streets of Belgrade, though doing their utmost to salvage al tionalism blow up over broad and well paved, are all but

which the Greeks alone can actualities, then its sover cmply of traffic.

defeating food pests and of mobf-

and

work back on their anos till aid supported: against eignty imaginary enemies, and on- The shop windows have the lising all our food resources were are found in waste bins through the various stages most paltry display of goods considered recently at the Inter-Bat Britain is on the track of the first crops are reaped and sold not provide Failors will affect back to the toETS, concerned in Greece's freedom and imaginable. It is impossible to national Congress of Crop Protec the lost food, and the Govern this winter will see the peasants not only Greece but all who are

ment asks for the co-operation of streamisillusioned grand for Integrity. tion in London. of subjection until it became find such ordinary, requirements

This is the kind of Ro Rats-with: 3 population: ar farmers, our 1,888,800. shop as fruitful, merely a third-rate province as a toothbrush or a writing pad great in not greater than the sistants, and the public in the Communist propane a valuable to of Russia.

species are Amusements are non-existent human

Britain's hupi..

element of her agricultural porn-centrate on now. He believes it The facts of the Russian A few shabby cinemas and one or most dangerous food bandits

lation The problem 300,000 are deserves priority from all con- Pacific empire are little two crowded cares where light They eat at least 2,000,000 tons

to be resettled by the end of this cerned with Greece's maintenance nations of the known to the millions not beer, at the equivalent of 8d, a of food annually of a value of at

month needs special treatment, a among the free least £40,000,000,

special State Service and special world. yet swallowed up, and one glass, is on sale are available. of the greatest defences the So that Yugoslavia has a dift- free world could create at cult six or twelve months ahead this time would be to broad- of her before the aid that she has cast the facts to the many invoked front the Western Powers can mature. It may be that the who identify Russia and the Soviet Government counts welfare state as one and the the economic hardships of that same thing.

period to turn the sympathies of the people against Marshal. Tito. But will the Marshal be content

SLIM TO VISIT HONGKONG

A Modern Pied Piper would be fervently welcomed by the men in search of Britain's lost food. Hundreds of professional rat extchers are doing their best it appears that the raf popula- tion is multiplying as fast if not faster than the human race! today that the Chief of the Im- But the rabbit runs the rat apertal General Staff, Field Mar- close second as Britain's Public shad Sir William Slim, most prob- Food Enemy No. 1 Elint rabbits ably will leave for Singapore and to let them suffer the effects of can eat as much as one Sheep Hong Kong next month to check

Plea To UN?

London, September 23. Goverment sources disclosed

feeds-on-wheat and barley.£1905.j-of British d

the

complete Omcially the size of

British

porn cairison there now 32 about 25.000 men but #VactuallyBất lạ" known to be

nearer 40.000

is

The war has left Stalin's sprawling dominions further away than ever from the .standard of production which the blockade which Moscow's which needs one-third of an acre up would enable it to give its satellites have imposed upon of grass to maintain it for a year there hitain's strategic set up him?: It is conceivable that he and a pair of rabbits breed at

Aid Sir William's trip people the social services

inay turn to the West for political; the rate of 200 de peir seat toy

or more per

still to be confirmed, but is now being enjoyed by the as well as financial aid.

SOIL welfare state of Britain Her

High in the list of the food Practically certain to take place! He wants to see both for him- determination to maintain

bandits is the wireworm, which self and for the Cabinet the state

for de huge standing armies and

£3,500,000 fence of Hong diverting home labour to sup. Many people in Belgrade are and costs the country

Kong port them, keeps Russia speculating today as to the exact a year. The black is (alias the Reidforcament of Hong

meaning of the concluding words aphides) threatens Britain's sugar mainland is reported virtually poor, while holding out little of the last Note that Belgrade supply in the beet fields of East hope of aid to the satellites. sent to Moscow,

Anglia, where thousands of acres The people of China are states that "the Yugoslav have been sprayed from the air disappearing behind a cup Government is ready to come to a tain which may throw their solution of all disputed

Same British Commonwealth state back to where it was with the Soviet Government, s

Eirds are equally dangerous governments such as Australis 50 years ago, and isolate accordance with the international

Pledges of both over pledges and Agicultural

raiders of home food supplies, and New Zealand have sent them for a long time to come What international p

Committees along several light bomber forma from the Western standards There seems reason to believe throughout the country are doing tions to strengstien the island's

be deliberate of living they cover. They at this to the Charter of the their troost to cut one mous Tac. British are stil will not receive much helpence to the

jackdaws, rocks, and

MEDIA WEve and let live by not-attack- from Moscow Will the new Unite Nations in which Fara Wood Pigeons, carrion crows. The British are still hoping Bre the Chinese Communists will regime, after the first flush apa 13. provides for interven on the "wanted list

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