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THE CHINA MAIL TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1950.

Report on Germany -- No. 2:

GERMANY'S REAL AND IMMENSE GRIEVANCE

By Alexander Clifford

feel that

10 take

to the

The pramlar problém.

Myrfin in coming inclusion that Churchill doesn't

altogether like the Socialists,

The old air-raid shelter

would seen inhumah to forbld But the danger in obvióta, 24354 was heated only by the body-

The Mister of Driven-Out 32312 warmth of crowded human

People is nervously trying to get beings. The smell, hýbu They take up jobs. There are way. But looking at now, control ar ady organisations tint Judgthg By eürrent despatches came in from the clean, 1,250,000 unemployed in Western seems incredibila that we could may spring up, in thể hơpt of Stalin and Chou Enlai are

Germany who

they have wittingly loaded ourselves steering them into quiet, autkurat keeping Mao Tse-tung out in the frosty air of the street out-would not be unemployed if there with so much emotional

dyna-waters. side, was hard to bear. It caught at your stomach.

There were wooion benches round the once-whitewashed alck walls. Through an opening there were tiers' of bunka wooden shelves, each with a sack

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William pasand arvay suddenly January, 1950, al 219 rem Houl, SHANGHAI, slavs after death of his voter wire Elrabeth.

of straw on 11.

Blankets were issued at bed-

thne and the youths had to hand

In their boots ar guarantees,

were no refligets from them.

Recovery drag

juba mite.

They take up money. They have war, pakt out of toeni tales and

tnxes

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cold, cold wal.

But the refugees have so muên

D

"Pravda editor says day over for imperim."

Gal sir, kilya Myrtle's grandfather, if the British would mooning only sup

ali

Their complaints

To quote from an ometal re- Roing port: "309,000 refugees ard 1ving Socialism

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Jtb

The new German Goverhmen! al Bohn hus a "Ministry for thoshte complain of that when they who have been delven out" (set together they are cartully not going to spent their trad like cost Name £300,000,000 since thenie which effectively perpetu- | keeping up their fölk, dancing.

ater the grievance).

about an'i The Minister will tell you that

about starry-eyed pro in sucking to solve the

worrying about They even take över goveri- ment. There er communitica in blem on its present basis. But

even ne cantot nyold saying he rinks quarters. Hundreds night starvation, we could clock Schleswig-Holstein where the hopes that one day the exphites of thousands of refugee enduren these feller's in Moscow, and leave

to their homes- have not got beds of their own fugees are more numerous than will get Back the seal inhabitants,

to have got the foeni ndministration high not, of course, by intas The Intellectual capacity

an utarmin of war."

23,000 homeless Germank, durer delicate offlelal position to main Bavarin Aild so on. The tam, do not hide their feelings at all. They make it plain that they will never be able to nerept the prezent Easts a frontiers as final

into their hunds.

and they

They were lounging about slug Rishly strong, able-bodied young had the peculiarly men. They

arsd ruggedness Bar, Distinctler

So is hat surprising that they 23rd kemptness of people who are not

morg [1] = 10-normally ragged or unkempt. ore becoming daily

ปร ณ Ant when you talked to them popular. They are rented "1 de-sou

you found that most of them had arog un Germany's recovery, as

truined. leet

somewhere anation and unnatural element in

11/1 112

bitolerable Eastern Germany, as engineers or the country,

adeles economic drain, and at lawyers or

or carpenters or clerks.

they had But now

na Jobs, table personal inconvenience.

I realised the full measure they had a homes, they had no

had no money. they

prospects this unpopularity when I gave a Their only hope of work was to lift to an old man who was hub. forbling along the road un crutches, the tart a few pence an hour Saturday 0221

He was

somehow wmistakably This is the bottom end of Ger- East-Prussian--ije

the Many's worst problem. And, since hack uniform-like enp with which it is

in Germany's worst problem, it patent-leather peak ay easily be Europe's. For these Prussian pensonts wear. And in a he had not the permanent, and full day's very genuine, grievance which we been able to stop a single Ger- have given Germany this me.

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Future war-cry

who hoR been driven from his

come

wore

of

teriorating

a level. * withnat

Not accepted

is de-

children

who

them in a proper deze.

An author has dedicated a new book to his wife, without whose brence, fie said, it could never Have Been written,

is plenty for them to talk about:

It any help to those are wondering whether to minke use of German soldiers, they dan) All a ipant

"KCC to nội göy't fredfury for learn this lesson from the re-

Germany's Juger problem:

im- subsidiary coins."

The Hong Kong Cricket Club is expected to follow suit shortly.

A contemporary

시

mens, genuine and averrkling bence faces Eat, not West.

lands to be res The Germa covered are in the East. The der-

bports that mán homes to be resettled pre "the Chinese Yen hits been fixed the East. The surplus populaat 28,boo to the dollar and 1,928

You to the Pound."

Looks as if sterling devaluation his assuilled runaway proportions. In him.

to must be decanted to the East. If Gerreny ever gets the chinhët, that is where she will want to

firkt. tilk.

Motive force

6

11 is German land, there to the East. They say, and Germans have lived there all through his

"You any tell us that we tory desteryed to lose ( but we shall never agree with you." The the The Hille nationalistic political all parties flatly refust to recognise

the present

esent ruutler-the "Oder- Netase line." Even the BELONÍ

At a publle dinner a clergyman biggest party th the Government: Peñares to accent 1.

That, perhaps, 15 1 remote found himbelt ill at case with man car to ask for a lift,

That is the problem: 7,500,000

They chith that even Britaki | spčenalive future. But the - the fish coisé, "Dear,mé,” he

still theoretically fugees are present here and lay silu, "whatever is this?" people who will never rease br

America fieving that their real homes are only

thnt frontier us and the grievance it work, Hi didiahbour dabiption hus

bidirectly by une that Gerthans directly or in ose Eastern land taken

affecting comments to the speaker, itussin and Poland, und 40,000,000 ore justified in doing likewise evehy Germán eltiivit стежен

"Pleco of end that pasteth all The refugees themselves hove

стов

thevitably hopes of a futuro 399 far been

atriated sing in finally Anderstanding," he said, No one in pretend it on't oss of isolatat conmunities. But side of nationalism are

Tining "Dr. Thomat Deliler denounced is now they ait just showing the Aull this thee they have a motive here today the fairy tales problem And Britain

put it signs of getting organized, force the HEV Bud Before-}|p1|Ourman aggression." partly responsible, or she

and! vaĝis dreams of Ktory of a tabla They are rounding clubs

Bounds as if Reuter's Hamburg her signature to it at Yalta,

they | about lebensraum, buí a pruetient, | astrespondent has been convinced It s strange that Britonsagic ahil places where should have entioned anything so rare together. It is very personal, undeniable, inescapable of something by somebody.

nhuman and undemocratie any- tural that they should do so wrong to be righted,

Cuore people who are weling to

see them go.

real

Stalin's man to watch; his name: Malenkov

By Eric Bourne

But Molotov, who

delivered

They will be

her war-cry IA nationalistic outburst. uny

Thet The welkin has been ring will be the motive power of ant ing lately about aid to Asian irredentist crusade. There will be All agree on the no need for her to think fur-

up urgency of the question-all| (etene

fetched pretexts the Menei Vi tor She In

undeniable agree to appoint new commit.

wrong to be righted,

wrut.g tres, NOW Missions to look which touches almost every home into things, and to pile talk One persun in six today in But there is still Western Germany is a refuged upon talk. no sign of any definite new home by the Russians or the action, on a scale commensu- Poles the Crecha. In some rate with the problem. There parts-Schlawig Holstein, for are plenty of conks, but no instance. the proportion In 01

high

as one in threte. It is just as though the entire ECAFE, the ILU, President

positations of Scotland, Wales, Truman and his Point 4, and and Ireland had suddenly the Commonwealth have all flooding lato England, bringing

Early in 1948 there followed A rumour has buzzed per- said their piece. There are nothing with them.

election in the Politburo, A. clash long words and longer sen- | At first, somehow, in the utter sistently around some East

with Zhadaney, who seemed then most likely to succeed Stalin basement of the end of the war; European capitals these last | tences. We are told once more no one tink the problem Very few weeks that Stalin intends the important keynote" speerit threatened to shadow his career, that the expanded programme seriously. With so many awful

at the Moscow observance of the but Zhodanov's death

last year THE technical Assistance for things happening, the Germans to retire from titular office,

left the way clear, and today economic development is "po-thought, nothing could be much Those who profess to belleve 1017 anniversary two years

hus, it

suspected, suffered Malenkov's position appeare un- there might be something in this s tentially" the most forward: worse than anything else.

some degree of political décline

assailable. looking effort

securing the worst. The refugees tt

And any why, they expected rumour reason this way: Stalin,

since that occasion,

Apart from Stalin, anty Match- over-toxed his say, has trolled they

something like

Last year, significantly, Stalin'a koy sits also on the Party Secre- 60 economic and social justice pitifully in and became an ingre-length for

al- choice fell upon burly, 48-year tariat and the Orgburo, as well as years, and his health today that has ever been envisaged, dient in the general despair.

Malen- the Politburo. There are, too, fascinating

though quite good and vigorous, old Georgi Maksimilian But now the pertekl of despair demands considerable care

Hle November speech was de- and kov, who, for what the opinion

observer outside tha fant In tone. He laid marked glimpses into the future. The hop posker. Recovery has started frequent spells of rest in the bal- of me is worth, is now gener-emphasis on Moscow's allies in

There is Icast shop-window my air of the Caucadoh Riviera.

Kremlin programme will enable vast rosperity, and the refugees uré If he passes on his formal po- ally regarded as being just

ont of Molotov in his

Eastern Europe and the new one! underdeveloped areas to seek being more and more deeply re-ption at the head of the Party little in front

in the For East, "Never before the benefits of increased pro-sented.

and State apparatus while he is progress towards the top of the in history has our country been

Politburo's conference table. ductivity and industrial or

till hale and well, the argument

surrounded with such friendly runs, the succession would be as- Less is known about him an neighbour," he said. ganisation without experienc-

Bured without the disturbing vio- about any other of Stalin's most ing the attendant social and recover from the war and the lence of the great Stalin-Trotsky Intimate assos of them.

reflected the per- He emerged sistently-atrong advocate of de- economic dislocations which Japanese occupation. As Mr.plosit which shook all Russia in Inter than rest 01

He | befell the people of the West- Bevin pointed out at Colom-the middle twenties after Lenin's rarely speaks for publication veloping Russia's military strength.

Heath, and Stalin himself would abroad.

and No foreigners have had

extending Soviet power, be- world in the transition bo, she has paid to Astan

Malenkov, is a miltänt, remain, still-all-powerful where other than the slightest social cause and development of industria- countries about £750 million poller is concerned, until natire contact with him off the few not a moderate, sa some Western in loans, grants, releases from Laises its bourse and his deined State occasions at which he has observers have frequently bug- These things can be done, sterling balances and unre: body is laid to rest, probably be appeared:

That is what stamps him ps ens and ought to be done, but quited exports of all kinds side that of Lenin in the red granite tomb against the Kremlin

Name belles of Russia's men of destiny, most whether they will have to She has contributed aid to wall.

probably the man, when the pres wait until the Communist tide Europe and other parts of the All this is posebice, of course,

1.saw him last spring when he sent ruler in the Kremlin passe

And Czech on.

Malenkov Stalin's has swept over still greater world of about the same but in my view unlikely. Since

the war, Stalin has already shift-visitet Prague (for the areas of Asia depends very value. The figures are only a much of his work on to other Party congress), the farthest be "other mind" will know how, largely on how quickly and the skeleton of a thrilling Moulddra, Molotov was pulled his ever been outside the Soviet defend hi meritalico if other in the top coch challenge h resolutely they are done; and flesh-and-blood story of hu out of the Foreign Ministry for Unigh

that p

Nothing about him justifies his title to it. also whether the non-Com- man effort to restore rice pro

plenkov-and this

means 1 name, which in Russian munist leaders and groups duction and aid distribution believe, is Russia's man to watch "little" He is bukily built have sufficient strength and in the lands that had gone todaya man long moulded in with, pale fleshy fowls which n moral fibre to make help fallow under the Japanese Stolin's own pattern, the latter first sight obscure the toughness really effective. None can and to pat rubber plantations has laid much of the responsibili-and the set of his eyes and chin

ty in Party, affairs which before help those who cannot or will and tin mines back into pro- the war billy. He hlinzelf handled. not help themselves, though] duction exceeding that of pret we may keep on trying to war years. In the past four help, as in the case of Burma. years the men behind the Certainly the review of money have shown what can present conditions in South be done by ho determin East Asia, sent by Reuter ed, constructiv Ork. Has it from Singapore

the inspired those v week-end is far from reassur- responsibility is now falling ing. In Indo-China, the out- so many areas come of the Bao Dai expert- Now, with

ern

lisation.

over

"remains to

ment

be threat, as Mit Bet seen." In Slam the poal- it, the load tion is said to be de- greater and the time teriorating, and the anti-Com- and link munist policy is being mode- Britain's sacrifice rated in the growing belief, the Commonwealth hus that effective backing from show

ractical lead

bb

The by the

Upon

Academic

To name another secretary- general of the Party while Stal Lives would be merely academic

Stalin's stature is so immċatuu rably greater than any single one

Almost, invariably he wears the unadorned; bofely-cut Part "uniform", with the drab jacket buttoned up to the throat affect- ed by Stalin. bolore the war,

HIS is said to be a a copy of Stalin in more than dress. Cer tainly, he has had opportunity renter than any to mould him

of his closest associates, both in self on the dictator's pattern. terms of actual power and in From,

he was Stalin's

Auence with the Russian masses, we Bear sitting day that, short of a scriptis topac Boss' Onice and gaining

Tufter day,

ay, in the

the room

health, It seems inconceivable that

his

exer-

CONQRcxt to the Polit

in

Intimate while he lives Stolim Will do more mowledge of all the délestà côn

which Stalin than delegate some measure of

Power over the Party the responsibility centralise cathrough ter, within his person during the war machine.

The Power, In form And practice,

great purge of middle will combin in his hands until his des optred d the road to pro- death..

motion, and soon after Malenkov But after, that: Who? For the was admitted to the Central, Com

He was appointed antwort to this Politburo, the me the anti-Communist bloc is conferer

only turn to the not to be relied upon. In ed out a plan

dozen men who, subject to bimby, but still outside Russia: he Stalin's controlling hard, decido was an imichowo Burma, the left wing coalition Australian and Ceylon dele everything in Russia.”

made him. Fol The war under Thakin Nu is slipping gatrons for credits and tech Here, two names present them-

hem-lowing on important speech more and more to the left nical assistance to all counselves most obviouly which ho dyed, shortcomings in Soviet • tridustry, bij “appearance and obstinately refuses to tries willing to Joni, in a best known of all the Bolsheviks outskió Russia- since Litvínov, make peace with the Karent, mutual or self-help scheme in and Binichkov, who is much lenas a member of the five mon though this is regarded as the South East ASIAT

wen Imown internationally, but State Defence Coimell, headed by only hope for Burma. The That is something to go bh whose rapid rise to power, dur-Stalin After Hitler struck at Rus- outlook even in Indonesia is with but it does not meeting the war and after is all the win 1941; was a elgnal to Lire

more: Important, because of his outside, world that here was

coming man. regarded with anxiety, for bitter the urgency or the relative youthfulness. while most agree that the magnitude of the problem

en In decline Communist threat is not But if we have, to see to It serious at present, there are that too little does not wait Molotov, to this year has been peskimists who talk of "gn too long, the responsibility of a member of the Politburo sinco Sorter other Burina" by July, Malaya the South Last Akh peoplds 1920, Hood craft Indu THIS

At Stalingrad

He did an immense job in the

of the Soviet pli Influence th ong the Party rosé de high that at the

is still hoping for thot knock to ensure that any aid given wrißimal 1939 40 geendedorokiht of the rear dringend out blow at the terrorists. is effective remains in the man bosten, consistently

Britain certainly, has done cenud? or thef bičhire after to 5mm met the latter, becanto battle he was it by Stali

mocrathry to the Party when ill his own and the Party's top re- her part, aluga the war, in what has happened in Clirip heenused Denin's first retire- presentative on the Volga battle- helping South East Asia to and in Burma.

ment

HIS

gested.

BE IT

BUSINESS OF PLEASURE

TRAVEL AND WITH

THE EXPERIENC TRADITION

to

أدم

three colital bodies to speak with one Volce

hut eveng Iwo scla of dentures.

Britain has begun experiments in producing gåa by burning coal unferground.

Any part of the coal face that does not burn will no doubt be disposed of to the publle in the usual way.

happy wherever she goes."

"She believes she makes people...

u mean whepever.

Every man thinks he's different that's why they're all alike,

can ses lots of kisses Written bita of paper. Tollowed by lots of Drenches of

• promik♦ 10. Oh, sorry dear, it's the afeciton campaign.".

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