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THE CHINA-MAJU,- WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1949.

Winter Brings Crisis To Russia's Satellites

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As icy winds bringing ear-tors, instead of at best, current-

market prices.... lier-than-usual snow sweep through Eastern Europe and weather experts predict one of the severest of post-war winters, Russia faces a crista in its Communist empire of satellite states.

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For these icy blasts are blowing through thread-bare, clothes, up- heated homes and empty stomachs of millions of discontented Euro- peans, today thoroughly dislilu- sioned with the Communist way of life.

They recently derailed a Rus- Lalan troop train,:causing numerous

cahualties.

Nearly every satellite state has introduced kid-gidve jagties, to "In Rumania.... two, „divisions of wards the important food pro- froops are engaged', solely In ducers, instead of the mailed-fist guarding the maiti Ploesti oll methode dictated by Moscow, ...pipe-line which supplies Iussian needs, yot the line in eit from Ave Food output is so low in Bul-to-10 times a month. garle that the secretary, ôf“ flie” Bulgarian Communist party has ordered 1,500 investigating com- missions to be set up to examine peasants' complaints with an ob Ject to pacifying the small farmer.

In every "People's Republic" there

open resentment Daily to Trieste, a cross-roada | against both the Rusalons of the Balkans, come travellers and refugees from every Eastern European sufellite state, or Moscow calls them, "People's Re- publics,"

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By DAVID LEE

Communist

the local [regime Many Communist leaders do not help matters with their luxurious villas, shiny Rus- slan Zis moustnes and ermined and bejewelled indy friends.

All tell the same story. While an conditions in Western Europe are vastly improved, thanks to Mar- shall Aid and healthy, competitive free enterprise, the start of the Afth post-war winter dads life in "Iron Curtain" countries as grim as ever.

In the satellite countries the symptoms of crisis are much the surve

1 An olueming drop in Indian- trial production “። absenteeism among the workers grows.

2 A corresponding drop โร food output as peasants oppose The Communist co-operative farm polley

3 Growing anti-government and anti-Russian feeling with numer- reported

ovas arrests, and purges from every satelite state

Anti-Russinn Jecting in the Bal- kanın began with the Russian oc-

cupation troops. It was fanned

by the arrogant behaviour of Rus- slan officiala. commisaark, "nd- visers" and traders, plus orders from Moscow trampling on ren- curlen-old traditions, customs and ways of life,

Treated As Inferiors

The proud Balkan peoples were treated us inferiors by the Rus- Nans and ciationalism began to sprout everywhere, blossoming first among

Tito's Independent Serbs.

The current crisis

country is #go

Promo Bulkan ta reports say that factory workers, miners truł roll- | Bulgaria, such a short time whymen ure deserting their ma- chines for the land where they team at least grow enough to eat

Problem Of Absenteeism

Absenteeism has become such a problem in Ramonia the Coin- ural regime there has imposed

es rangi and prison sentences up years upon truan workers.

known as the "Perfect Satellite." For In Bulgarla the Russians have enjoyed popularity since Czar Alexander II Iberated the Bul- gars from the Turks. Even Hitler had a careful respect for the Bul-

Kars' feeling towards the Russians and let them remain the only axis natellite not to declare war on the Soviets.

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Today from 1 to £150 lo 12

fierce

anti-Russian feeling is sweeping Bulgaria, and orrests are reported to be taking pluce in both the government and the army where the chief of staff, Kinov, has just been accused of "Titolem."

General Ivan familles nde-

While unable to buy suf Belent food to feed their quately, the factory workers have not taken Kindly to the Introduc- tion of Russian shock-work inc- ties, the notorious "Stakhanovism”,

which means longer hours. der work and less pay.

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The peasants, in their turn, with ittle in the shops their money will buy, ure ΕΤΟΣ producing to capacity. Again, they are oppos- ing the system of state-run co operative farming which forces them to sell their foodstuffs Axed prices to government collec-

In some countries this anti- Russian feeling is taking an active

“Monnow's' · current polley is to stamp out nationalism in every satellite state, and prevent the sprend of "Titoism."

A False Theory Russion professora have Just

been introduced into Bucharest that university to teach a theory the Rumanians are brother Slave, Mediter- with no relation to the

It is a theory as runcan races. as false as are the Russian claima to have Invented television and Watt's steam engine.

To The Tots A

1

It's Just Another Trip

By WILLIAM HARDCASTLE

I've got two singles and two halves on the Mauretania.

The singles are pretty exelted about the whole thing. The halves are not so impressed. My wife arid I are looking forward” to the trip and to seeing a lot of old friends in Washington again, To Sal, aged 4, and Sue, aged 3, It's just another move,

Different Welfare

State Wanted

By CLIFFORD HULME

President Truman's famed fool enough to believe that wo grin is broader than ever cave money to the Roosevelt since last week's Democratle compalaris because we were spell- victory in a Senate. by-elec

bound by his voice?" tion in New York.

So when Mr. Truman last year The inoue was, "Do you want | promised · ·repcal

of the

Taft- nwelfare state?" Labourites, Hartley Act and a further spread- Liberals and Democrats joined in ing of the social security umbrello a majority verdict of "Yes". he was neither mollycuddling in- This result in America's most bour, nor acting from purely re- populous state in widely accepted | formlat real and warmth of heart. an proof that the trend towards He was mainly the politician Mr. Truman's "Fair Deal" in at

paying the price for the Jabour least na strong as it was a year votes ho needed, ago.

But Mr. Truman will not int mediately expand his social wel fare plans.

What he will do is to stage a reinvigorated drive to get all his "Fair Deal" programme through Congress before November, 1952; when he of some other Demo- cratic standard-bearer must seek

Striking camp and crossing the orld thousand miles of ocean ix almost tediously normal in their young lives, Sol was grounded in Iceland by a blizzard at the nge of 10 months. Sue, born in a The most experienced observer hospital overlooking the heavenly in new mandate. hesitates to predict the future of blue of Hamilton Harbour, had a the Soviet satellite empire. In Bermuda-Baltimore planie reser- spite of growing opposition against | vation before she had a birth the Russions and the local Com-

certificate. munist regimes, no one enres to predict a general uprising.

The underground movements are still comparatively wenk, hav- Ing little outside support, and the police forces strong.

They Learned The Hard Way

travel

In

Bit By Bit

the last

Baton all

His supporters in Congress will need those votes next November, and both he and they will need them even more badly in vital contest of 1952.

Axe Must Fall

tho

Ils whole strategy is to cap- ture both

Inbour and

votes.

Already

farmer

States

the United

Blush welfare

farmer lives in thant

state that is costing the taxpayer some three thousand million dol- lars a year for farm prico sup- ports and an untold sum in arti- Acially high prices in the shops.

Congress gave him was a limited extension of rent controls, Gov crument aid for slum clearance and low-rental housing, social Rophisticates, srcurity cover for eleven million he farmer is well satisfied with

They're Recently Czech workers in the They've learned the hard WOY Skoda planl sent clandesine that n plene is far more interest- notes to French workers, warning ing to gaze at from the ground them against the pitfalls of Com-

than to fly the Atlantic in, and munism. ending

with a slogan,that a modern

Ilner is as duli "Down with Soviet Imperialism”.

But what chance du they have and unmautien) as a railway hotel. against a police force just increas ed by 00,000 men to a strength of

Some people may think a lot of the Mauretania, but 200,000?

Sue anda It was this strong force which the boats in Regent's

Park for recently uncovered a Czech anti-

more convincing. government plot, und six ring- leaders. Including a former boy- I don't know whether travel scout chief, were

ex-brundens the mind promptly

at that age, reuled.

but it certainly expands and con.

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this arrangement, but labour is not, and it is Mr. Truman's pro- blem to reconella their conflicting demande.

more people and a higher mini- mum wage law for certain types of worker.

It rejected repeal of the union- curbing Taft-Hartley Act-Mr. Truman's major pledge to labour, One way to balance things up -smothered his negro civil rights for inbour would be to moke F1 In a libuster, and debated fresh drafts on the public purse inconclusively on his request for to pay for welfare schemes. Government ald to education, A lot of Americans who arc His plan for compulsory not in either the Inbour or the national medical service never farmer camp, though sympathetic even reached Congress,

to social betterment, are on dis- In the next session, beginning turbed as those Republicans who January, he may get his ald-to- education law. Prospecta for the warn that the country is "inching rest ure dim beenuse Congress will be inpatient to quit by July to prepare for the November election.

Thereafter everything will te pend on the complexion of the new Congress, If the present voting continugs he hus good chance of getting sufficiently large Now they take Bob for a walk, majorities to ensure completion kernunge bins from

terprise bas Evans the of the "Fair Dent" by 1952. The

Democratic election platform then Baker, and have learned how to

will almost certainly take 312 spin nil their sweet rationa.

tresh proposals for social legisla tion.

tracts their accents.

Life behind the "Iron Curtain" Is silli on intricate, confused Jig- saw puzzle, but by fitting in the Fresh from Virginia seven odd pleer information from months ago, my daughters called Prague, you begin to form a pic-asked me to take them down to Budapest, the odd news-item from their grandmother's dog "Barb,”

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store."

and yelled for

ture which Indientes that the men "the in the Kremlin must have wor-1"candy" after meals. rled frowns on their brows these days.

Challenge To Ulster Premier

11201,

School Will Be

So Different

Belfast, December 5. 'Two anti-partitionist mem-

In Virginia Sal will be going forin. In Poland, where hotreders of the

Northern Ireland back to nursery school. In nur- for the Russians dates back

Parli unent, Mr. James E. Len sery school they taught her how through history, there are nightly

to play with bricka. attack against the Russian lines

Mr. of Armagh, and of communication with Germany.

Main by A. Conlon, member In Britain, aix months in a for South Armagh, today chal-kindergarten taught her In the wooded

the expunse of the lenged the Northern Ireland alphabet and how to count up to tikraine, partisans who terrorised

Prime Minister. Sir Basil 100. It taught her nice manners, the Germans during the Russian

Brooke, to debate the partition too. I don't think she's going to campaign are using similar tactics

kindly Issue during his American tour take against the Russians.

with to playing bricks again.

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next year,

In statement issued on their

Meanwhile his alliance with organised inbour will be further cemented.

Contributions to election tx- penses from trade union funds have now become quite as Im- portant to the Democrats on the money they receive from business

#ources.

Only a few days ago John L. Lewis for the first time revealed the 'Tull extent of úàíbự • ¿oh- tributions to Democratic coffers. After giving figures he said, "The United Mineworkers and the CIO have paid cash on the barrel for every piece of legislation we have

return from the United States, The six months have halted a

got, where they supported a campaign disturbing tendency on their Frankly stating that labour ngolisto partitioned Ireland, they part to shout "Hooray for Presi- expects a quid pro quo for its søld, "We invite Sir Basil Brooke dent Truman" when show of support, he added: "Is anyone to meet a representative of the patriotism seemed called for. Anti-Partition Lengue on a public Now they'll struggle through platform in New York, Boston, "Land of My Fathers" it World Federalist's heart sing. Philadelphia, or Providence." prompted from the wings.

Altice and Bevan mean nothing to them. Dewey and Stassen are the names of the neighbour's cats.

It's just part of their we-take- things-as-we-and-'em polley that austerity suited them just es woll AB

· little

unrationed ice-cream und orange juice.

Mr. Lennon sold that 10,000 Irishmen and women would give Sir Basil "the welcome ke deserved" when he arrived in New York.

He said he was authorised to stote that the partition question would again be raised in Congress within the next two months. Reuter.

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Even Austerity Meant Little

But nationalism

means

in the four-year-olds' one world. They cross trontiers with an in- souciance that would make

a

True, Sal wondered at one time why she wasn't having_an egg for breakfast every day, But my explanation about Britain's balance of payments deflet and the problem of imported feeding. aluffe didn't hold her attention, and she dropped the subject.

Well, they'll have all the oggs they want again Boon. But my wife and know we've got to bo ins. It's not to one thing.

to the credit of Dr,

resigned

The rather blame it on

down!

ism.

phy.

none-way street to Social-

Mr. Truman is no Socialist, and even the unions are luke-warm or hostile to the Socialist philoso- What boil want in an im- proved standard of life and more Their security for the little man. problem is

is to achieve these and

yet maintain the free private on-

basis of

American [11:

And the freedom of the Individuni from the sort of Government con- trol clamped on Britain,

But with the Budget looking redder than the Kremlin and re- venue falling. Congress is bound to wield the economy axe.

TOLL OF FIRE IN MINE

Frankfurt, December 5. The "Lueneburger Landes- Zeitung" declared today that 3,700 persons died in the uranium mine fire in the Soviet occupation zone, on November 24.

This is the highest gure yet publihed, the previous high bo- ing 2,000. The Russians say only one man perished,

The Landeszeitung" sold the new estimate was given by a Soviet zone fire chief who fled o West

Germany, The British- licensed "Berlin Telegraf" last week said the dead numbered several hundred, then raised the total to 2,000.

The Lueneburg newspaper said the fire chiet, fed to Fallersh- Fallersleben in the British zone on Sunday rather than obey orders to take a job as a fireguard at the Johannegorgonstadt mine,

it sald he showed his identity papers, but naked that his name not be made public becausa hia family still is in the Bovist zone. The chief said his fire brigade the Infernal climate of America's

was une among those called to Eastern seaboard-but we know said he learned that 4,000 workers the Bre from Western Saxony, Ho that not all the eggs in Town, all were underground when an ex- orange juice in Florida, is plosion started the are, and that going to keep the ruddy British only. 300 creapedAssociated bloom in their checks.

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