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THE CHINA MAIL WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1949,

TITO

FACES THE KREMLIN'S WINTER WARFARE

It looks as though Tito's expected winter troubles are, beginning in earnest,

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Bar- trum at St Theresa's Hospital Monday November 21, 1251 1949. n son, Johni

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ACKNOWLEDGMENT

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4.5.

"Star Betelgeuse"

RUDE CAREERISM

& ONE WORLD.

Communism is a creed of violence, and the true Com- munist thinks, speaks, and acts violently. No man hos

such been called

ever

籍

variety of ubusive hames as Marshal Tito. Now another Soviet term has appeared. It is "rude

careerism,"

-

The Hungarians fired the first this winter. shoto-terally-in

Within 48 hours, there campaign. were signs that Tito's army com- manders were strengthening their precautions against troubles in the frontier arcus.

By ERIC BOURNE

That is why more incidents are) expected now, principally along the Hungarian and Rumanian bor- ders because herp anti-Tito "gue rillas" can operate under the pro- tection of four to Ave Soviet oo cupying divisions; At the suitable moment, these divisions would be sent in to restaro!"order."

There

was no evidence then that Tito was influenced by these rather obvious moves into calling up more men, but fewer troops than usual were released to help with the harvest,

7.

The marshal vlows the winter

threat more seriously.

(2) By keeping the Borders Recently driving across Croatia, "alive," the Cominform increases; I passed through one town where

4,000 young the strain on Tito's manpower re- | 3,000; or

were marching off to a military camp. They were part of the nor-

gources.

ン

The constant, Implicit threat of an attack compels him to retain inen, Including the 500,000 security militia, under arms, an extraordinarily high proportion for a country of 14 to 15 million peo- plo and a serious handicap on in- dustry."

Troop trains were reparted moving from central Serbia (the

The second explanation is the десп 50me wecка ugo ut the

Obviously the more probable, Yugoslav army's biggest man-

Russians would prefer to unseat oeuvres since the war) and from

Tita without getting either them- the West, towards Rumania and Bulgaria on Yugoslavia's Eastern scives or their satellites involved; marches. Other trains rolled out in a major shooting incident, or of Zagreb North East towards then some sort of armed Interven- could tion which all the world Hungarian border.

witnesk.

The shooting on the night of } October 27 was the most serious incident yet between Yugoslavia and her Cominform neighbours.

For

Hungarian eight hours troops laid down a "little barrage" on Yugoslav soil with automütle weapons and hand grenedes. (It seems improbable that Tito's mèn would have crossed the border looking for trouble, as the Hunga- rlana afterwards alleged),

The Yugoslavs, necording to the Belgrade veralon, held their fire. The frontier guards are under or- ders:

"Only shoot back if Yugo slav soll is invaded.'

Orders Obeyed

So for these orders have been strictly obeyed. But how long such restraint will prevail among en whose norves have already been subjected to the test of more 200 incidents "monstrous than provocations," says the Belgrade press-along these borders with four Cominform powers, is an- other matter.

What does the Cominform bope to gain by such methods? I think there are two explanations.

(1) Sooner or and

while in this instance it was merely applied to a Bul garian Communist criminal it could be given wider ap-cused plication.

It is a bit mild but it will do--to describe the Soviet's attempt to drive the Western Powers out of Berlin as a necessary preliminary to getting us out of Germany altogether. The reply was forthright and costly, but constructive. We are not at

But, by strengthening Retr own patrols--and remember there are four countries to share the bur-

men

mal autumn call-up, but among them I noticed some older men likely already to have done their military service.

Since then, in fact, a limited mobilisation of reservists has been reliably reported, together with a postponement of the normal re- lease from the armed forces. The men are said to be required for some "special manoeuvres" of in- definite duration.

All this means a further drain on Tito's limited labour force.

The country has successfully withstood the first shocks of the

the

Cominform. The harvest bas been the best for the five years war, and, for all the den while Tile must alone guard since the something like 1,000 miles of Corn-widepread. discontent with

frontier Hungary, Ru- material shortages of life-life is inform

much better, for example, 10 mania, Bulgaria and Albania are Czechoslovakia) and a surpris- forcibly drawing off uncounted

ing margin of apathy about the hands from the Yugoslav economy,

Cominform and all its works, the at a time its needs are more ur-

country in general has reached gent than ever before,

the winter in for better shape than most people thought possible

Similar Effect

•

six months ago.

The convergence along the But Industrially Tito cannot Hungarian border of Soviet divi-hope to achieve even half of his slohs brought in on manoeuvres ambitious Five Year Plan without from Austria and Rumania two very substantial and speedy ald monthago had a similar effect. from the West.

More Australian Food For Britain

The

a year.

By ARTHUR MORLEY

Іл

the BKITA

Long-Range Beef

The Canberra Government re-

Good

"Princess

crude Maita,"

in

Few people outside Yugoslavia renile Just what the Pion calls upon a formerly peasant country, to do. It anvisages a new 'oll-in- dustry (500,000 tons of all in 1061); a four-fold crease in eléctrical power; six times the amount of Yugoslavia's strategical assets--lead, zinc and aluminium; a whole range of brand new industries which would advanced make many far more countries hesitate:

locomotives, rolling stock, excavators, machine tools, tractors, steam bollefa, a new film industry, pre-tabs and typewriters-in short everything. thing

Much Has Been Done

Certainly in 81⁄2 years" much has been done. It is good to see houses and flats and schools and

Elizaberth reaches

Reserved, probably.

"Seduction in soft pig fead prlee."

Ahother romance of Industry one wrong.

All that glitters can be phony.

Now that the silver yuan in going the way' of the gold yuan, it is time the legislative yuan hollered "copper!"

"University heads, businessmen and burkers" attended the U.S. hospitals built in old, backward Chinu polley conference, accord- regions like Bosnia and Mntedo- Ing to a contemporary, nis, or the admirable re-building-Dogging whose-footsteps? Now, done in the Lika and other arena completely devastated or burned don't be catty. down by the Germans.

ways,

£8

The Pathanocrats,

#

Electrical power has already In the Khyber Pass the tribes been thereared 100 per cent. Good

toonistan." progress has been made with rawant to form the nation of "Push- Aye, an' they'll be pushin' duon But so much

hanging fire, intae Peshawar afore ye ken it! cal equipment or raw materials. half-finished, for want of techniWithoot ony martial aid, forbye.... Roads are being built with bare hands instead of with machines and skilled labour is being wasted on elaborate prototypes which it will take 10 or 15 years get into mass production, instead concentrated on the of being things that Yugoslavia can make right now.

to

Machinery in urgently wanted to get the fine, lead, copper and aluminium out of the mines, and equipment for shifting the timber to the ports. These are the export assets with which Tito can obtain old from the West.

•

In the countryside collectivism- tion is going'ahead, but not with- out considerable opposition.

"Borba," the party newspaper, recently reported that by mid- Septeinber there werd. 5.000 geusant co-operatives, tilling 3, 500,000 areas, or about 10 per cent.

Said the silkworm: "Look at

this nightlo-

It took me all autumn to spin

K."

I took it and said: "It's a nice

bit of work,

But you might have put some-

body in it,"

#

Like "The Mikado"↑

•

I am able to state that there Ja no truth that the scurrilous rugrestion that the deliberations of the 25 top-ranking Americans en a new China policy are to be released as a light comedy. Broadway later.

Alt my eye.

ΟΠ

Ten people out of 233 within 800 metres of the atom bomb at have developed Hiroshima

cataracta.-

Why

of the whole cuitivated area. But, There now, you see how harm- Bald "Borba," hostile farmers had iets those things are? murdered Jeading co-operativa the other 100,000 had no com members and burned down co- plaints at all.

operative property in their resis- tance to the collective kica

Big shot will be missed. “

The vice-president élect of tha. Philippines is coming here, already mentioned, for rest and relaxation..

It seems that the International -- - "little luxuries" to frozen poultry

The Croation. prime minister, Broadcasting Organisation goes in Vladimir Bakarle, told, party offi- | Aur ultra-red wave stuff, make the British diet more perfod-a record.

cials that in Croatia alone 200,000! varied are receiving increas- For bacon to go with the eggs, acres scheduled for suwing this ing attention from Australian the Australian Government is

One Jocal young man about.. year had not been.sown, causing

town has coralderable success the farmers. They seem to have organising greater production of a loss of 110,000 tons of wheat. later, an

There is the same evidence of, with the opposite sex. Whenever Cominform tacticians may rea- mobilised even the gumtree plz fodder, and piga. This year,

the Dominion should send about discontent among the rich farm- he is introdured to young lady son, the Yugoslava will be stung bees in their efforts.

800,000 bushels of grain sorghuinsteads of the fertile Vojvodina he says, "You look like a mill- into reply, a serious incident will

to feed Britain's own piga This year the Dominion

North of Belgrade Crop fallurex llon-B.T. and B.D." One puzzled is arise and Tito can then he ne-

cluding 300,000 bushels from the here and in Croatia would be girl asked for an explanation, and of disturbing Butkan cending Britain

of 12,000 tons

British Food Corporation's collec disastrous for Tito's or any other was even more delighted when honey, as compared with the

Peak Downs, "prace."

regime.

she was told the letters stood for pre-war average of only 300 tonsive form at

Queensland).

The Cominform knows that Tito "Before Taxation" and "Beford has these problems. Its agents are. Devaluation." Within five years, according to active hmong the peasantry. Its The increase has been possible world. The peoples of the

the work of nomad present: plans, the Dominion w activities on the frontlers deprive world are on the march, said because of

be sanding 600,000 locally-bred the factories of workers, might Happy land. honey-growers; hardy and OX-

*** pigs in the form of bacon, hum even fores. Tito into switching Mr. Hector McNell, against part bushmen

In Panama. they now have a Who live with

others to an armaments Industry, chiari type for president. and pork. outworn creeds which separ- thelt familles in caravans and

In his hand, Tito has the 20,-** ate nations and Continents. move their hives through hun-

000,000 dollar loan from America, It was almost universally afdreds of miles of bush, to take

the prospect of help from the in- firmed, he said, that real pro-advantage of successive flowering

ternational Bank early in the now of trees and shrubs and wild, gress towards international flowers.

allees that Britain's greatest nedd year and, if his negotiators drop co-operation and confidence

Fruit production for Britain reason has undertaken ambitious tial trade pact with Britain.

is mest and fats, and for this their present obstinacy over points

of no real importance, a substan required a decisive change in

A correspondent points out This year and expensive

beef expansion

Tito's Yugoslavia has a tough that these bullet proof vests do Indeed, more than one Bri- Soviet thinking. The danger being increased..

should see 1,250,000 cases of

two years alfend; but it should get a bit uiring when worn cofl», tish newspaper saw, in Mr.

as he saw it was that the free tinned pears and about 600.000 programmes |----

pull through if Tito refuses to tinuously Vyshinsky's recent sugges- world, so misunderstood and

casca of tinned peaches and But these are long-range pro- be provoked, if he himself sur- tion of a Big Five peace pact, misrepresented by the Soviet apricots landed on British docks. Jjects and

with wives and if he is realistic enough will be made into opening, up new cattle enspires to see this tolling: nation set pro- signi- Government, would reduce Other fruit a gesture far more ficant

timeworn relations with that Govern 30,000 tons of Jama for British in the sparsely settled Northern perly on its feet before he urges than the

ment to a minimum. And, tables. wrappings in which it was encased. Russian foreign even Mr. Vyshinsky, after de There is still more to be had policy, It was hinted, had livering his usual diatribes down under but the British reached a turning-point. It against "war-mongers" Ministry of Foot will not per

mit trader-to-trader sales, „quf- шая anxious for the time agreed that it was possible side of its own bulk purchases, being to abandon annexation- to find common ground,

Despite the poor growing sea- ism and to stabilise the post- tlon in Eastern Europe. There was even an opening for the delimitation of spheres, and it was urged that the offer should be explored, while continuing defensive mea-

the end of the cold bout yet, but the Wost is far ahead on points.

sures.

4.

It isn't going to be found easily, and it certainly isn't going to be found much dif- ferently in the Far East then in Western Europe. The Rus- sians are tough, as the Chin- ese have always known. In- deed if we were a bit closer to them than we really are, it might be found that the new regime in China finds that ideological affinities pro vide little warmth against the inner cold.

are concerned

"Never-Nover.

In the meantime, jcattle and

fat lamb production is down somewhat, due to the droughts af past years and the shortage of materials for water-conservation. Even so, Britain will get almost on, Tasmanian orchard owners-the whole of Australia's export are working hard to gather ilis able to the healthy talal of 200,- 250,000 cases of apples for Bri- 000. tone, a tain, and canners are putting another 2,000 tons of apples into ting.

About 80,000, tons of: Butter and:29,000 tons of cheese nɛd, being sent to Britain this year This means" that the Food and the Federal Government is Ministry has bought about every trying to increase this total of apple Australia can soll. 250,000 tons of butter and cheese. And orchardists promise that Government experts are assisting there will be more apples next dafrying methods, but this will your when they intend to ship 300,000 cases...

Less Tinned Meat

The Chinese people, said: Mao Tse-tung, have stood up. In tinned meats the position

In Improving - dairy - herds, and

take years,

Wary

Producers W Quicker results can be achieved But he was impelled to ruin is not so good. Growers and in the sugar industry, which this appeal to dramatic spec. packers complain that the Bri- wants to supply Britain with the tish Government will take only record, amount of 1,000,000; tona tacle by adding that they half of their potential 50,000 yearly. ( were leaning to one side a tona back, although the quality tiyak descent from the sublime in is excellent, play the sugar-enne is here, and Jay Australian Government authorities drama to the slightly ridi-Br

* British official : buyers say tha† now are trying to pařsuade : Bcl-

culous...

Relaxation in the West doesn't by any means, imply the same thing in the Far East. In fact it would be the very essence of prudence to believe that it may well mean the contrary. The cold- war is indeed, upon us out here, and may become more intense before long. It is in this wider setting that, the general position in the Far East must be viewed. The menace of Communism roused the West as nothing else could have done, as What we have to do is to General Smuts recently re- help China stand up straight it: minded us. It brought, among on her own feet. That's the other things, so great a problem as we see it. But

All told, Australia is doing her best to suit her proditetion de food transformation in American first the West must go in,

and wool to Britain's . roquires But the British Government mente,here are dimeulties, in policy that it is still only half and by direct contact within comprehended; and combined action without, y no so 25,000 tona of tinned the way of material and labour has its answer. If the cold stantial shoulder for support that Britain and Australing done

Rude careoriam in Berlin provide an even more sub-ments are not being used, shortages; there are cases of short

TARDR) sightedness", "on" each side. But, Thure, is no doule, however by and large, a sound job is being war in Asia is to be won the on the other side. At the eye to eye on the subfact of free countries must gather same time safeguards have bacon and eggs in this depart The British Government, at up their, loins in iite sama to be provided: to' contain the ment, Australe is in close con long last, is doing fir bit to re- sultation with the Food Ministry, move the biggest worry, from the way. The decks must first Southward tide. be cleared for action, of The Far East has come and making eually its greatest minds of Australian producer

'affort. course, as they are now being within the domain of high the worry that they will be led cleared in Indonesia and policy. The picture can only As the poultry industry has to their properties, and then-Rie bean tailored to Britain's deed, dropped by: Beltsin ás; gögnin must in due course bo cleared be seen in proper pers

people, profer chilled, and, frozen i taln`· to Increase hor - purchases meats, but the Australian growers from the present level of 300,000 say they are sure British, con tons. summers would like an occasional la of meat to supplement, their ration.

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