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THE, CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1050,

Life in Czechoslovakia--No. 1:

IRON CURTAIN DRAPES A CRADLE OF LIBERALISM

By Eric Bourne

govern Crechs with such an in- credible lack of understanding of the national-make-up. But, of course, the country is being

More vividly than anything else, the General Election 32312) illustrates the differences be-

tween 1e In Britain and life this Masaryk-Bones "myth". were flung out of their studies, governed along Soviet-Bolshevik In Communist Czechoslovakia. Both men are dead but are stub-gimply on the score of their social lines, regardless of Czech pecus | Harities," atletly in Becorinnce from which I have just been born reminders for most Czechs background.

of other daya and other ways

with Russian needs... expelled.

days when many persona muy It has been terrible to hear have suffered hardship, but none these young people, intelligent, These needs arise from the fact the fearful political uncertainty decent and liberal in outlook, say that, without aid from some of the present.

- I have heard many of them where, Russia would require o say with

deep eviction" It | dangerously long time to repair What the Czechs gained in was not worse under the Gor- the damage of the German in-

is outweighed mans"

vasion. by the decline in human freedom and the denial of tree thought. Propagandists in Prague will cer- tainly denounce that statement as falsehood, but they would not care to submit the issue to the test of n free voto.

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THE ECONOMIC COLD WAR

On the face of it, the contrast between the life of Frantisek, the Czech minor, and his wife Slavka, who works in a textile factory or drives a tram, anil Jack, the Man-economie.security

sincer, and his wife Sue, who a shop assistant, is not very, sharp.

Both couples find that life after the war, although improv ing is still very hard. Both have become reconciled to their coun- try's best goods going overseas in export drives. Both * HAY grumble.

Juck and Sue may still grumble as loud and long as they like. tell Mr. Attlee he is to blame, and tell him to go. They will att keep their jobs.

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Nothing has been more appall ing to see than the despair and bitterness aroused in large sec- tions of Czech youth by the new policy. Many students and scho- fars whose formative years were spent solely under Naži influence

Older Bections of the com- So Stalin sought and found his munity have been just as clumsily allies in Eastern Europe, each handled. Even the workers are destined in help the task of Soviet showing alas of resentment nt reconstruction and the creation of being 'pushed around." Despite a new "Socialist half continent," appeals and warnings from the as a sort of-half-way house to, the Party bossos, less than 10 por cent world revolution.

of three million trade unioniste

Good

Down in Vietnam everything le apparently Ha-Ho.

And in 'Salgoa things are going with a bang.

*

on arrival home:

"US, joint chiefs of staff mum

That's how my old mother was Loo: right there always waiting when my train rolled in.

Carinta's External Minister says that at one point on his world tour he mistook a chap at the airport for one of the welcoming party, tried to shake hands with him, and was promptly sprayed with disinfectant,

Myrtio's grandfather says married men will understand the statesman'a ·feelings. You know: you burst into the house with a "Darling!" on your lips and arg

'friend of

A Traffic Department

the biggest bencheiatrie "socialists half continence with the rolling pin current economic gains have ent" Czechoslovakia was allotted become "shock-workers."

a key role. How she is fulfilling it and how the Czech people have mine says there's no arrest for been brought into line for that the wary purpose I shall discuss tomorrow. I

Sometimes it has seemed im- possible that Czechs should try to

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And a local solicitor remarks that silence is often guilt instead of golden.

"Parties in

The cold war is moving into an economic phase, and inj this the Kremlin has already tried to exploit the, global as- pert of the confllet. It has en- deavoured to get a very large quantity of steel rails from the Western Zone of Germany to meet requirements in Manchuria and North China, The order is said to date from

war-bride Joan two areas. In one, the prohibi-son why flowers and vegetables Why the Nationalist regime, and likely to find themselves trans Greentrees, wife of an Aus-termove and wor

Service now grow where there used to themselves horse. the Peking Government asked [ferred as politically unreliable to tralian airman, keeps house personnel live and work. In the be nothing but stones and sad.

other the "inner secret nrea"- in the world's most isolated the guided rockets are actually township.

Moscow to help secure its ful- filment. Since it is evidently unable or unwilling to do it from its own resources,

the Soviet Government attempt- ed to get the supplies from Western Germany. Accep- tance of the order was banned by the Allied authorities, and the order was passed on to Britain, where steel rails are not considered as a strategic export. The decision on the quantity to be supplied will be based, not on any political considerations, but on the quota system. This in turn will be influenced by the amount of wolfram which can China in be obtained from exchange.

At the same time the Soviet Government offered the Sia- authorities a barter mese

their grievances, too, provided Frantisek and Slavka can air they do it in an 'organised " stilon through the Party Press. If they make too much noise among their mater, then both are

other lona well paid Joba,

Joan's a rocket-range wife

British

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If they are too uncompliman- tary about Mr. Gottwald, thon the law for the "protection of the Joan is a rocket-range wife, Republic," which also protects home-making in the salibush de- Communist presidents from criti-sert with the sun blazing over- ei, will look after them.

Poll trickery

I witnessed the so-called eloe- tion in Czechoslovakia in the spring of 1940, three months aftor] the Communist coup.

hend in a hush-hush centre an which, in the years to come, the destiny of the British people muy depend.

Two and a half years Wooinera, the base in

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South

Australia where the British Range Commonwealth Long Weapons Organisation has est

research station. an arid stretch of desert-- the

In those three months hundreda blished

of political opponents had been just swept into gaol, thousands had

a rubble of grey stones on

w.ts

been thrown out of their Jobs In surface of red sond. The Aux-

purge too often left in the tralians call it "gibber" country.

hands of petty officials pursuing

vendetta, and a personal

only those who had a positive" at- titude towards

regime the new were safe.

Rigid security

Gred.

But despite the remoteness of Woomers from civilisation, Joan

By G. D. K. McCORMICK

Greentrees has a super-modern refrigerator home with all-electric- fittings, and labour-saving devices. She has two children, four-year-old Michael and his sister Erika.

Big plans ahead

UK begin wide

search for horse-drawn cabs."

Myrtle says now she realises they've boen shouting

Sincerest form,

page

of a

tu

Our contemporary's use "China Mail"

story reprint their

1 splash, and a Eventually it tannri t

"Sunday Herald" feature inside, make Woomera 10 times ita pre-shows that it is not only tho rent size. There'll be a school kindergarten, awimming pool hospital and all her amenities A road is being built along th whole length of the ronES. T whole

tyres to help

recover missiles from the rough country flanking the road jeep teel l are used. They are aircraft balloon them over the stony tracks.

Only a few top-ranking scies tists know the results of the tes firing which has been carried ou In

recent montiia. Laboratorie are set up in the area and ther Are a power station, aircraf hangars and weather station.

securit:

"This is my first home," says Joan, "and I like it. We are for better off here than in the city, Rent for my five-room .Before trial is made, F house is £1 10s. Gil, a week, plu Auster plane makes a It was probably the most un- £10 a year extra. for euch £100 patrol of the range area. Befor homely territory in the world. worth of furniture.

a missile is fired, an "all clear' Right until the last few weeks, Even the Aboriginal tribes ahun-

"Housekeeping is casler than

Is given by each of the recording the Party's

ned it. Today

rocket-vill- the

Secretary-General,

in the towns. We buy all ou' points. All movements of mer Rudolf Slansky. was declaring age of Woomera has a population fond from the departmental sup- and vehicles in the vicinity arr agreement, whereby fertili. that the Communists returned between 2,000 and 3,000, comprar | ply service and it's delivered at stopped so, that scigstine Instru: | qur door. For extras we use ments can make a clear sound the biggest Parliamentary party sing the staff of the station and in the normal, democratie election

their familles. It is 120 mile

the mall order departments: record of the misalle in night. from

settlemen!. the nearest of 1940 and confident now, He

city stores" Away to the North West the roc said, of at least 70 per cent of no

Joan, who comes from South the voles, would fight the polls range extends for 1,200

is the first girl from Wales, independently of the other parties miles across uninhabited desert.

Security at Woomern is as ri- Britain to live on the range. Cer. Most of the ring being don Suddenly, he and his associates gid us any behind the Iron Curtainly timedemily. There's eveal Instruments

tho village is the last at present is to test the delicat Special passes are needed wor

for recording th in the "Red House," the massive, tain.

Visitors are hot

on at each flight of missiles on photographi in Prague's to visit the area. Prikupe street which now houses shadowed by special security collage. The water is brought alms and wire recorders.

As a further precau- 280 miles by pipeline from the the Party headquarters, realised officers,

Is divided Into Murray River. That's one rea- the misgivings and distuste even tion Woomera among many who had backed then against "reaction" In February, by the method em. played since the coup.

sers, machinery and paper would be exchanged for rice. The fertilisers would doubt come from areas in Manchuria and Korea under Soviet domination, the ma- chinery from the industries looted in Manchuria after the Russian occupation, and the paper from the Kuriles. The system is little better than that operated by the Japanese in wartime, when they drained the occupied territories of all they wanted and gave no thing in return. And if there is not an identical indifference to the absolute necessities in the way of food, at least the Soviet looks to others to sup ply the needs of peoples froin whose resources It is taking large stocks of foodstuffs for itself....

No contrast between Allied and Japanese policies was more noted by the peoples who had been invaded by the Japanese than the lack of everything, even the barest needs, before their liberation and the rapidity with which the shops were filled to over flowing with consumer goods

of all sorts from the West after the liberation. Whatever criticism may be made of in-

dustrial capitalism, trade as conducted on Western lines represents a genuine ex- change of goods. It is often overlooked that one of the causes of the break between Marshal Tito and the Krem-

lin was precisely the unaba shed economic exploitation which was the basis of Mos- cow's policy in Eastern Europe.

ane-time bank

The election was put off for a week, the inter-party fight for votes was denounced as a wasto- ful conflict and a single-list yon- or any vote, in which Sncfallst and Centre parties were tumped in at the tail of the Communists, was engineered in place of the normal poll.

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Two reminders

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water fald

Happiest spot in Nutland

By Noel Monds

was five prefat per day (apart from wurk). Then, because of hurries furniture and odd job timber economies, the target was reduce

ed to_Ave_per_s

Noli, in the Southern Pro-this gigantle groundnut scheme vince, is a groundnut town strikes back at Noll, that was stillborn-but 150 · First target The weapon of political control determined men, working for houses of jobs, the enforcer accent beta-private-contracting.com of the Party, of Stålin; and of everything he has ever-sald or pany, have smacked life into done as boly writ, the redeal. it

use of the public administration and offices, the universitites and First itors to be the CHHQ Tu the professions--to ensure every Southern Province, and a handful where a corps of "yes-men-and of men came up into the bus the forced labour (corrective") and started work. They had to still refuse to comply make up the tents at night to keep the lions camps for the stubborn ones who keep fires lighted round their harsh, unhappy atmosphere of away. The noise of the bulldozerr Communist Eastern Europe. drowned the trumpeting

elephants doing their own spo of bulldozing within half a mile of the camp.

It has been all the sadder to see this process in Czechoslovakia, which was the ossy-going, middle-

cradle of

aryk and Benes,

of

Bang in the news

Right now, Womera

crà is ban In the news as the centre of

Th

ретт

seat of Aus-

hot transatlantic

satlantic argument, Central Intelligence Group-th U.S.A.'s reorganised secret ser vice has ben trying it seems, të provent atomic and rocket deve lopment Information from beln, parsed -to trama's Government.

The hush-hush boys in Washt inston-have-bean-telling thei Service chiefs that the time not ripe to exchange top-secre! defence news with Australia This gave rise to allegations the

Communist had been discover- ted and dismissed

from th Wormera rocket

ket station. Australian Geverament circle have checked the allegation and emphatically deny the story: the denial, and it would

Всег

the latters-fully—Justified...For Now that it has been decided the red-bogg-story-tee your to stake all on Southern Province old and has been traced to poli- as the last hope of the groundnut tical propagandists. scheme, the planners want, five rapidly growing Nachingwen. and moro prefabs per day for

"We'll reach any target,"

one

of the leaders of men of Noli told me, "just so long as we are al- lowed to get on with the job and do not have to knock off and chase that bouncing ball.”

The prefabs theso men are making from trees on the spot Plans were elaborate. The town would be · welcomed la house-

off-road democracy of Mas So plan was changed Liberalism, tolerance and freedom of expression and social reform.

enterprise

hear!

was going to make groundnut hungry Britain. The total coat Now the Communists are laun-history. Then, when the men were | plus furniture. is. £1,000, ching a new campaign to explode well on with the job of raising a From the time the tree felled town in the jungle, someone dis- until the house is erected, - 32 covered that the soll was no good miles away, three weeks. lack of ability. It has ample for GHQ was moved 32 miles for growing groundnuts, so, the

Noll is a private supplies of the produce which South to Nachingwen.

lown. The men work a pri vate company, not for the. Over- it contracted to deliver, stich as timber, fodder, potatoes, and the Board of the Overseas are groundnut men

The men felt-fed-up about that seas Food Corporation. Yet they and sugar. Delivery WAS Food Corporation, for way In They want to see this scheme gr Indeed, this is at the root of withheld wilfully and deliba London, came in for some hearty and you can't help gaining the

›impression; "that" if "the" whól?) the renewed conflict in Ger-rately. As the well-known abuse.

cheme had been left to private: many. An Inter-zonal trade commentator W.N. Ewer put Followed a period of what these enterprise, as was Noll, there agreement was made last Or- it, "the October, agreement groundnut men cull "chasing a would have been, less hungling tobor to develop trade be has been used not for recip bouncing ball No one would squabbling, and waste of money. tween East and West Ger- rncal trade, but as a means of Noll. Finally, word penetrate

deelde what was to become of many. This trade was more or accumulating stocks, especial through the mass of paper mat-

No spares less to be balanced. The ly iron and steel, without pay to be brought, back to life and ter on the subject that Noll was

The workshops are the best in Suviet Zone fell behind in its ing for them." It is indeed re-

Mr. Strachey's made into the groundnut schemo's

groundnut deliveries and therefore there garded as part of the moves, main umber-producing area and

king-

has been for some time a per- of which the projected march that is what. Noll is today,

Thero la, the sama, complaint, sistent adverse balance. It on Berlin by a uniformed host |

though that runs throughout Nat Within 12 months, in spito of land-No spares, no spares exhausted its credit and of young Gorman Communist the time lost chasing that bounc If one of the British-type loeps Western Germany suspended is the most spectacular, for aing ball, the men of Noll have that are in large numbers breaks deliveries of iron and steel. major showdown in Berlin, set up one of the most up-to-date a spring, it may be out of setion The action had nothing to do In real war one makes full mills in East Africa, and now for weeks.

they're, cutting, sawing, and de- with political considerations use of the weapons in which livering timber for all buliding

In the yard the main

falnery as such, or with the Soviet's his side la superior, In the reautrement in the Southern end a notice which remar pito of prefab umber

("will be - Nachi- schools, offers, and furniture; i

dum

littleblockade" of road economic phase of the conflet/ Province, from, prefabḥ Houses to school wheit som

traffle from Western Germany the superiority is on the slide to Berlin: BEST DA

of the West. The problem to

the men who set out to build one alpha

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La InLondon" it" was pointed bo solved in how best to makėla town lon, this aporiarumellaky bycicletek author wing: It d

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