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THE CHIEF STORM

What is happening in China

By

WINDRUSH"

CENTRE Cod Morning

trained in Moscow. They have Dusteri their colleagues who, though Communist, had, either not been Russian trained or were not

Tumacha Nikitine, Soviet ex-a

and South East Asia is so dramatic that to anybody liv- Ing in Hong Kong the events Western observers have hinted gaslavia to overthrow the Tito willing that their countries should there must seem to oversha- that Communist China will promovement. Until a month or two become mere satellites of Ruzzin-

ago's was thought; unlikely that dow those in the rest of the ently "do a Tito".

Only in Yugoslavia, events took world: But at the moment that Titoism is a monstrous in lengths, but since then the pasi et has often been described. Yu-

There is a disposition to think Russia would go to such extreme a different course. What happen Report from Mocow. the greatest storm centre invention of the Anti-Soviet West- tion has changed. Russian pre-goslavia had been cleared of Ger- plorer of the pre-Tovarisch period the world is South East Eu-ern countries. This is a mistake. stige has increased during this mane, not entirely by Russian in about 500 years ago, was the first ||Reporters à General Office 12312 | tope: 'It is there that. history / Titolsm is a very important move-Į time because of its announcement | forvention, Int in part by local re-intrepid, navigator, to "sall tho

ment indeed which may endure that Russia has the atom bombsistance forces under Tito. This Pacife, the Indian is being made which will or may

and most be crushed. Contem- and because of the Communist Tito and the Yugoslav Communist other oceans. affect in the end every other porary history cannot be under- victories in China. In the Spring Party had a self-assuranco and

Although Hong Kong can-stood without understanding what Russla may decide that the tide Independence found nowhere else Western Digreact' have done continent.

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the earliest post-war days Tito names he gave, such as Ostrofaya, more than a year ago. The news nationalist movement against Rus- Communist system in Yugoslavia Sanfransk, we enn stil detect a Vankova and The key country is Yugoslavia. Jeaked out that there had been a sla. At the end of the war the with the least possible Inter-true" The theme is the duel between quarrel between the Cominform Communist Parties in East Elference from Russia. For a sur- instance.

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CHUNGKING FALLS

The fall of Chungking to the Communista is much

more

one direction. Tito survives it

ter-on Tito, and Yugoslavia. will move in another,

A great deal has been written

Tito Gives It Back about Titotarn, The movement Tito gave back as good as he has been denounced bitterly by got. Relations are now so bad Chiness Corpmunista nil the that there is speculation whether perhaps, because some Russia will presently invade Yu-

more.

TITO HAS

In every country except Yujo- slavia the dominant leaders of the local Communist Governments are pro-Stalla mer who had been

STRENGTHENED! HIS POSITION

It is a commonplace to say that Tito has no real rivals.

than the transfer of just an-viewed from impressions other of the refugee capitais gained in six weeks travell

of China's mobile Nationalist Government. Chungking made a name for itself during

reasons

By

ERIC BOURNE

that

leadership-il was revealed he had, in fact, been transferred at that carltor date for trying to make political differences à “per- sonal issue" between himself and

ing around Yugoslavia, his Andrije Hebrang. also in the Tito, secure as any Balkan ruler's. second position appears to be BS government at the time and the

man behind bars today→ argued that the tempo of la-

the

Tito Hos Pruned

His Plan

the war as the centre of re-

He has surrounded himself with and sistance and endurance. The an immediate following in dustrialisation called for in the Japanese never got there, for Politburo which is a subtle bien- Plan was greater than the coun-

that are many and ding of Party and Army leaders try could stand. varied. They realised that auf nasured loyalty. As month suc- four principal coeds month, the knock-out blow at Chungking villains of the Cominorin"-Tito. would merely leave the field Djilas, Rankovie and Kardelj to the Communists, and for present more and more the appea- rance of a heterodox quartel that reason--apart from re-

which is quite unshakeable, peated defeats elsewhere --

But behind the bars of a gaul avain somewhere in Serbin or Croatia, they concentrated on attempt to persuade the two men have sat throughout the 15 months of the Tito-Stalin clash. Chungking leaders to link Up If anything had happened to Tilo with the Wang Ching-wel before, one of them might by na- puppet regime.in Nanking.

|tural right have stepped into his

shoes.

Tite

If anything huppens to now and the Cominform has any

him.

Zujovic was a man of great ac- complishments--abundant energy, a swift brain and brond outlook, an attractive personality.

He Worked In Exile

would

Hebrang Had Misgivings

Not Whole Picture

the

COSO

of

tho

the

on Nikitine cost by pipedreams of the

the plutocrata.

Reporting the This in part of the picture. But Arrerican Bluebeard, aged 40, ú it is not the whole picture. The contemporary yesterday noted: Russia-Tito dispute has a deeper in 1000 his career brought him meaning besides being a revolt of to a Mayor's convention."- a nationalist Communist party; What is known among us tech- against Russian control. Tonically-minded columnists himself and many of his asso- pre-natal, mayor's nest. ciates are thinking of something

K' 'a

much more ambitious. They are: The colony's ornele hondline planning a rival International to writer, who knows quite a few the Soviet international,

worda of English, has informed It is often forgotten that the us: "Merchant knives dancing modern development of Commu-girl." nism is anything but what was Apparently he made a dead

Before foretold by Marx,

1017 wet of 12 at her, but she was only it had been taken for granted by Interested in being a wive. Communists that when the re-

yolution occurred its centre would Unsuccessful Labour candidates be in Western Europe. Instead in New Zealand are reported to the lead was taken by the Rus-be feverishly thumbing through sians, who were politically the the tiles to

seo If the

welfare most backward people in Europe. state makes

the provision for Lenin said, rather apologetically,care of unwanted politicians, that when revolution did occur in Western Europe, the leadership Oh, well. Hebrang. It seems certain, did

of the revolution would pass have misgivings about the "ex-

"Births, Deaths and Mirages." back from Russia Westwords. cessive" burden of the Plan right what Tite dreams of doing is to: from the start. "We shail dig n

Vyshinsky claims that Кибява make a reality of Lenin's pro- is being encircled, I seem to have Dunube-Tis canal with shovels phesy. He wants to set up an in- heard this before. In fact, Hell alone or we shall not digil at tornational movement which to say that events seem to have

genuinely Communist but in one fool circle.

this

national Communist party havingi

our

•

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!

who

He said, in fact, what inany all," he is supposed to have Jeer- Independent experts from the rd at one project.

which Russia does not hold the West have said in the past year. But more than anything he key place, (The fact that the

This strip tenacr we've been Cominform was a "safe" Moscow man If For this purpose Tito has in-readlog about who got her boss said it too at the outset has little Stalin gets Tite out, he will voked an old slogan of the Cominte court was apparently panting to do with the real issues of their undoubtedly put Hebrang in.

munist party, called "democratic for revenge. What are the chances? Judged centralism". According to with Belgrade now.) duel

To soine

confront-

by all the evidence, not too high, principle there is to be absolute exical, Tito,

"Hong Kong's crying'need." ed by the

Internally Tito's position ap- obedience by all members of the the Cominform blockade, pears relatively as As a route march alone, the

But I thought we already had a unassaltable Communist party in carrying out compelled has been

to recognise

09 Stalin's. progress of the main Com-

the "party line", once this is de- walling wall. and prune it

down some of the

The Yugoslav Politburo is n cided, But munist forces from the heartsay In the succession, the other

the decision on the the wisdom of age. Plou's more ambitious projects

compact instrument, binding Tito's party line is to be by democratic of Manchuria to the far West-

one would probably be brought

10 case

the strain on the coun- top eight men to him with bands; processes, Tito complains that in

"Belog very dilapidated, the ern province of Szechuan is out of his cell to "take over" try's economy.

дв

of old loyalties and comradeship, the Cominform there is no de-agent admitted that a fair sum

Russia But Zujovic is out and will stay nil the closer for the knowledge mocracy.

dictates. If would have a remarkable feat. It would the titular chieftain under Russian

to be spent on control,

out unless 4 Cutinform

coup that the Russiana hate them as there were true democracy-ench reconditioning." be Interesting to know what

Privately, Communists have still produces a puppet government in much as they hate Tito. the host of former Nationalist to shake their heads a little sadly which

both he and Hebrang

Behind this able group, stands one vote-Russin would be out! "The American lawyers who de- officers and men who simply when they speak of the first-Sre- would undoubtedly get the big an immensely powerful and well-voted. Tito wants a new Comin- fended Yamastilta, all officers in went over to them are think-ten Zujovic, or Crai, the Black, gost jobs.

organised police maching and the form in which the non-Russian the US. army, do not think." Andrija Hebrang as he was usually known in par-

By courtesy of Myrtle, I am be largest and easily the best army Communist parties would have the Queen's Bldg.. ing and feeling today.

tisan days, a 50-year-old veteran Moscow's No. 1. The Yugoslave in Eastern Europe outside flussia nuperiority.

offering a small prize to anybody might give a useful clue to Serb Communist, who was one of believe that it was on the basis

knowing one who does. the future. Meanwhile, the Tilo's closest comrades throughout of his reports that the Cominforai Tito Has Been Shrewd : Only Just Begun

"Give your wife a gift ot only thing that counts is what the war until disgrace overtook attack was launched aut tbat

hardly ever-blooming rose they have done. That, in short,

already Stalin had pleked him out Steadily Tito has strengthened Tito's movement has only Just bushes,"

Tito to succeed

If the jatter his position. He has was to win the war for the

would not comply.

shown begun. His hope of success is You think she'd be pleased, shrewdness In his deference to that he may attract to his support huh? Communists. 11 is an easy

Like Tito, Hebrang is a Croat. strong, local patriotisms and re-most of the left-wingers in Eu- way to settle wars, but it isn't

He joined the Communista Im-Intive restraint in the application rope who for one reason or Sore point.

other cannot stomach 'Stalinist, more permanent method

mediately subsequently spent 121⁄2 years in

after the first war and of his agarion policy.

Adroitly be has brought the dictation. His movement will be

A good maty people than the other, which comes

pretend 10 be fostering row with the Cominform jail for his political activities.

on to a hotch-potch of left-wing from a maximum of fighting.

He had had years of political He had reputation for ruth-the plane where the outside world nationalists, outcast Trotskyists, international thilons are merely One lesson has been driven experience in between the wars, lessness and courage, in a hand-soor largely a smali, heroje nation radical social-democrats.

Because the Western democratie home persistently in the last sometimes working illegally Inside to-hand fight with the notorious under threat und pressure from)

big one.

countries haye to defend them- 30 years. It is that leaders the country and sometimes direct-Ustachi he lost an eye and was Even in Macedonia, always the selves against Russia, they are sovaky to Poland and to stage who have been washed ashore in Party work from exile abroad. He was member of Tito's

terrible of the Balkan bound to view this rival Tito in- the Rajk trial in Hungary. It by a tidal wave never come supreme coininand from the start, an

In 1942 he was exchanged for world, his grasp eppears secure, ternational with a certain favour. suffered a humiliating blow when

Imprisoned Ustachi officer

was elected to the back to power. They some-Technically he was deputy, com- under circumstances he doubtless Macedonians with whom I talked But they will make a great mis- Yugoslavia

on a tour recently laughed at, take if they think that the Tito Security Counell over its opposi-. times return to position, but mander-in-chief. In practice, he little dreamed were later

less tion. Russin may feel impelled always without power and

was the "spare" man, dispatched form, the subject of one of the the idea that Cominform intrigue movement is less radical hither and thither by Tlia as a Party's charges against him.

might find receptive soil along Communist than the Russians'. to take almost any risks to crush merely as a name to decorate corps commander whenever the Fury

the banks of the Vardar. "We are Tilolem is a serious schism in the movement before it grows. In 1946 he

movement...at | was said to have behind Tito to a man," they said, the Communist

It would serve little purpose a successor regime. That was partisans were in a tight spot and

ús the And, In case of doubt, Marshal least as serious

schism for Russia to procuro Marahal true of all the personalities special tasks awaited or to iron resigned from the Ministry of from Hsu Shih-chang and Li out" political crises as and when Industry on account of 11-health Tito has sufficient divisions quae- caused 20 years ago by Trotsky Tite's personal disappearance. It

they cropped up.

but when he was arrested last tered down there to make the The Trotsky movement, petered in dealing not with the opposition movement. Yuan-hung right down to Wu

fils engaging personality and year-removed from an economic prospect of an internal coup as out. It in too early to say what will of one man but of a Pei-fu and Wang Ching-wel, talents a soldier and politician post, kicked out of the Politburo rorote as in any other corner of happen to the Tito movement. There are colleagues of Tito who

man and socked from the Croat Party his strangely united kingdom.

Russia does not underrate the could at once take his place, such In this sense, there is an air stamped him as

danger from It. Because of Tito, as Rankovitch, the Home Minia- Titu more of unreality, therefore, about himself able to command a de-

than any other after

Russlo's policy has already beenį ter. the controversy that is going voted personal following,

Li therefore, his most likely succe#- Tsung-jen and Generalissimo sor should anything remove the Chiang Kai-shek are the prin-partisan leader. cipal figures. The acting Pre-Minister of Finance, and remain- sident evidently intends to ed so until the spring, 1945, when take his title with him when the central committee recom he goes to the United States.mended his expulsion as ""

slanderer and The question has no bearing landerer

of our Party and country chemy on a possible return to power.

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By JOHN FISHER

King Farouk, 20-year-old, the

political wilderness.

HIA

Yot its post-war influence is so-

A long and extraordinary in ambitious fast-driving ruler party boycotted the last elections, It is relevant, however, to cerdictment

charged

him with of modern Egypt, faces a poli-so that it remains unrepresented tain other questions that may "waging a secret struggle against tical skid in the elections due in the Deyptian Parliament, arise before long-the disposi- the Party, the central committer to take place in the New Year strong that in 1946, when Britain tion of the assets of the Na- and against Comrade Tito fromIn them, he is confronted once hoped to negotiate a new Anglo-

the time of the raiddle tionalist Government. They when the Comintern smashed up enty; the man with the swivel, ove effective defence of the

thirulen again by Nahas Pasha, his old on Egyptian Treaty providing for are the property of the na- the old Yugoslav tion, and sooner or later this Tito the job of reorganisation (Nahse's, squint la embarrassing Zone those of us who were anal to most people he meats); js pot realised that the agreement plain fact will have to be re- Expulsion was followed by at- The son of s.timber man, Nahas would be valueless without the

rest. Last summer there cognised.

were has a charmed life. He has been agreement of the Ward whom the One other point may be im- rumours that he would be brought shot at no fewer than eight time King was cold-shoulderirur.

to trini. But he wasn't. Stay In: thla caroor, but is still very portant in the future, but is

What brought him under the much alive as leader of the Wald Changed Scene of merely academic Interest cloud? "He sowed distrust in our Nationalist Party, which, for In those days Farouk could off- at present. Splits and purges forces and in the possibility of the past four years, has been ord to be independent Egypt result of war are commonplaces of Com fulquing the Five Years Plan lumbering like a Nile crocodile was prosperous as

below the surface of Egyptian orders: Troops epont their pay munist Governments, for and building socialism in our politics.. country"

the Party indictment The Wald de submerged large looked as though the king was in Cairo and Alexandria, and it Communists are a quarrel- charged.

ly because of 10-year-old quarroine to become the loader of the some tribe. The Chinese since In short, Zujevic was disgraced l between Nahas and the King, newly-formed Arab League, the Revolution have beaten because he' supported the prin- who regards ting, with some rea Since then ⠀ tho... scene - has all other Governments in the cipal critic of economie policy. com, as, being a republican at changed the troops have left the number, and variety of such

heart. EZBERT splits. The Nationalist Gov- guished mediators themselves, Went With Tanks no prores against Israel troops ernment rode on the crest of three or four years ago. Things went from bad to worss in Palestine and Ervot has now the wave to Peking in 1828 Their troubles have barely during the war when Nahas and to face, the growing danger of and the final unification of the begun, and plenty more is in the British Ambassador were In Communism in the Middle East, country was acclaimed with store for them. The Chinese valved, in the Palace Revolution" This explains why the King his mado overtures to the hated Ward, enthusiasm. In little more are not good totalitariang of Fabriinty 2, 1942, 43

On that day the Ambassador, who may well gain a majority.in than two years, the Govern Compromise and composition accompanied by - British tanks, the poll* Even now. the King ment broke in half, and the are in their blood. And when visited the Palace and told the Wouly robably be unwilling to severest civil war of the whole things begin to go wrong, as coalition Government which and it may be that the old head King to rid himself of a wobbline accept Nahne as Prime Miniator, perlad since the Republic was they almost certainly will, Nahn had raftood, to Jain; and to will consent to remain in the settled only by calling in the the moderate group might pat, in Nabasan Prime Minister, backround: as an adviser, ay mga 1/Dt so) and if the Waid 'ket back armies from Manchuria to re- well negotiate with moderate idy ony: lo Scypt that the dress the balance. men with some title to res and when the Ward Government and Beltain may improve for King has never forgiven Nahas, to power, relations between Egypt The_Communist leaders pect, legal as well as moral, all towards the end of the war, Nehas, the man whom Britain were spatient their But not with strong men its largely because for "clkahor failed to the Seychelles Islands in negotiations with the Na- whose quality is to command biking and his Prime 1981 for trying to get the British tionalists as were the distin- but never fa compromiso.

Ministeritzen out of Deypt, latar became Bel- Le since then, Cahay hán bien in Etain's Erlond,-

نية.

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festering them.

folled in Greece. Russia's hold Thus Russia may take the very over Albania and Bulgaria is en- grave risk of invading Yugoslavia. dangered. To prevent Titolm It is at least, possible that this from spreading, Russia has been would touch of the décaded third obliged to send Marshal Rokos- | world war, "..

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