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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1950.

LETTING IN THE

thought there was a prospect that Socialism would form an effective alternative, and therefore a barrier, to Com munism.

too many Svelalirts in all

REDS

liament. It is useļess fos/people to think that they can get away

When the war ended I The condusion that wa were tives of Communiam, but only have already said loudly in Par

forced to draw is this: There are from its methods. Western countries add France In other words, he does not with 80, OT even 90, pér, cont to those already named-who are object to the single party-that agreement with Moscow. URI- too close to Communiam to con- is, complete, intolerance and to colva deadly danger which world dominien but to the mately they have to go the whole they promote.

cruelties by which these soul-hog, or hang... destroying onde are achieved.

There is little difference bo- tween the three forms of totali- tarianism-Communism, Fascism, and Nazism—and I hate them all.

Communism was the senior partner. Fascism came next; then Nazism, They had so much in common that the eldest of the trio combined with the youngest in

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DEATH

FOOKES, B.H.R., Beloved hus- band of Lola Fookes, died suddenly & peacefully at 12. Carnarvon Road at midnight on the 19th February, 1950. A cremation service will be held at the Union Church, Jordan Road, Kowloon at 3.00

sequent Soviet propaganda about resistance everywhere to. Fascism is eyewash.

the

·

These professed Bocialsts are elther fellow-travellers or they have not sufficient sense to "como

I am glad of Mr. Shinwell's revealing frankness. I have some- times road cther of his utter onces, which led me to suppusa

By Lord Vansittart

That is what Rtalk and Kostov, among thousands of others, found out too late. Tito would have discovered. It long ago but for some very useful mountains.

It is just this unawareness whlell has enured Socialism in Central and Eastern Europe to become not the surgeon but the midwife of Communism,

Socialists of the Crossman per- ruasion may like it, or not, but the loss of confidence thus én- gendered is causing a noticeable In Europe.

the single party had no drift toward the Right that in out of the rain." There were

Parliament.

would be comic if it were not so ominous,

Communism and Nazism wero 30 or 40 such in Britain's 'past, terrors for him. This confessions | Dm will have to improve

allled, and Fascism joined them | before No. 1 and No. 3 quarrelled In 1941 over the magnitude of their respective appetites.

Many of us hoped that the war might have taught No. 1 the dan ger of the ambitions of No. 3, It. did nothing of the kind. The Communists simply took over the Fascist policy--and enlarged upon R

The main features of both sys- ferns are the, Single (Party and

because it was nado just when Mr. Bevin had gone to Colombo to combat Communism.

P.m. Tursday 21st February World-Dominion. These are in-handicap to their own aido, for Asia could have been devised at least he

1950, No flowers,

THE NEW

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of

We all Moscow.

Talks with Stalin' are becoming Vogue. the

Now it's quite

In Peking they are saying that Churchill who's prophaing one. it, only Mog people would Chou idea of a two-month over the

the period in indoctrination

bo Kremlin, Russian to go.

there would

Down in Jamaica the opinion Is that despite his apology, Busta mente it.

sets

British television recently, black showed as white, and vice versa.

Political parties are now showing an increased interest in the possibilities of this -new- medium for. electioneering.

warm

on its past attitude toward Communism, and shed some I have spent my life in the public service and have taken no

the embarrassing elements which cling to its garments. So far the part in internal politics; but the Issue of Communism far tran- To increase bewilderment, Mr. task is shirked because it cannot scands domocratic-party -strife, Bevin himself, while on his way do this without causing a split in From that point of view it would to this mild anti-Communist dis- the party. be desirable that all fellow-cussion, extended to the Chinese This applies to Socialism every- travellers should lose their soats, Communists the substantial olive though that will be too much to branch of recognition, on which where, particularly in Italy and In Germany I mistrust expect. Some still enjoy great many strange birds will come to France Schumacher, Socialist support.

the Socialist Goose pimples or Kremlin roost. No greater encouragement Dr.

gremlins? Talk about the cold is vehemently anti- Such people have been a great to Communism in South East leader, for other reasons; but at

Communist.

getting up these mornings, makes compatible with the objects and they have ehnican confidence. this juncture.

me realise why the Russians are nature of any form of Western They have certainly shaken mine,

so bad-tempered. famous Like Mr. Lencock's

We need not words but anti- democracy-Including Socialism since vigorous resistance to Com-

So far, all (nt leant, the kind of Socialism munism is an acid test of party Lord Ronald, we seem to be rid- Communist action. Mr. Crossman stands for). Thid politicians. To the following. "madly off in all directions." we have got is a few minor trans

fers in the Civil Service and Incompatibility was, and Ls, at travellers must be attributed in

wisdom amIONE Naturally, there is some confu-the beginning of any rate, fully recognised by the part the fact that Mr. Ernost

lesa Communist-beguiled Bevin's foreign polley has been nion in the Socialist Party High the totalitarians themselves,

all this, Command about

and trade

We must have unions. less successful than at one time seemed likely.

much more in the rank and Ale! more than that if we are to sur- For instance, where doen

Mr. vive the dangers in our midst, and Aneurin Devan stand in the at our borders. matter? Sure y We де

all entitled to know.

MOSCOW PACT Practically all the com- ments from the Chinese Hitler destroyed Socialism and

Unionlim Communists and their sym- | Trado

in Germany, pathisers

Russo- Communism has done likewise in the

a wider field, which includes half Chinese. Pact emphasise its

Europe and enormous portions of international aspects. Little Asia.

said or nothing is

about Manchuria, Sinkiang, or the question of economic aid. If All this should have been suf- Western the Chinese negotiators went ficlent warning to the

Socialists. I protested often in to Moscow with these more Parliament against the brutal or less domestic issues chief-suppression of the Socialists by ly in mind, they were the Communists in Eastern Eu- evidently overborne by the rope. I received no support at all posing of far bigger ques from the "Crossman" Lett. tions on the other side. The

Worse than this, all over Europe Kremlin was aided in this emerged Socialists willing to sell Tho strategy by the interven- the pass to Communism,

Polish Premier Cyrankiewicz, the tionist chorus which accom- Hungarian President Szakasits, panied Mao Tse-tung on his the Czechoslovak Minister Fier- trip to Moscow, and was only linger, the Italian Signor Nenni silenced by President Tru-are all examples of this tendency. man's dramatic disavowal,

The Pact is being hailed as a guarantee against any new aggression by Japan, which, says "Pravda," is becoming more and more insolent under the protection of the American occupation;" and as "the greatest contribution to the cause of strengthening peace and democracy in the whole world." Before his de- parture from Moscow, Mao Tse-tung proclaimed that which provide for the as- Chinese "everybody sees that the uni-sumption by the

It

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It was therefore necessary to conclusion draw a regrettable from the good wishes sent to the last named on a notorious occa- sion by a number of British Socialist members of Parliament, also significant that many such MP found nothing but abuse for Greece. Yet, de- spite many shortcomings, she was fighting against the Communists, who had massacred 40,000 people during their attempted seizure of power at the end of 1944.

even-

They have hounded him from the start, and they are abusing him, still, because he would not fall in with their idiotic, or dia- loyali notions of breaking with the United States and casting us, defenceless, into the arms of their Russian Idol. Such a policy amounts to suicide while the balance of the mind is disturbed," as theirs is.

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Lord Baldwin once said "Our frontier is on the Rhine." It was then. Now it is on the Elbe, and it is even more precarious,

The gratitude of Mr. Shinwell's own alde may be less than mine; but, as an Independent, I express the dispamionate hope that he As a public servant at that may retain his sent, to give us time I refrained from voting, and more warnings of the horrors into now I have no vote. which he might lead us.

They seem now to have found

In token of my gratitude a mouthpiece in Mr. Emanuel Shinwell, who has just come right would whisper in Mr. Shinwell's into the open and said that he car (and Mr. Crossman may care does not dissent from the objec- to listen also) something that

But I advise all electors to make a test case of Communism. Support nobody who will not advocate more adequate anti- Communist measures during the next five years. Their lives may depend on that:

Unrequited exports

express in terms of money the

"Wan. Britain," he says,

Incidentally. I note that one of the wine and spirit merchants is claiming this is a rum climate.

Toddy yes:. tomorrow, whɔ knows?

Britain's wartime premier is about reported to be annoyed

of his rumours

death. Good heavens-why do people harp on such things? Unless of course they want him to be cleeshunned.

Jumping Jiaminy.

In the Interests of accuracy, it pointed should be

out that reports of rapid inflation across the, border only yesterday's

means that the happy residents of the People's Democracy are now getting mcre of everything, Including money. In fact, they will soon be carrying wads of it around in suitcases.

were

"Yunnan has been ruled under Last October, Richard Fry, one of the ablest writers on contribution of the Indian masses must do our utmost to help India terrorism by ironclad but innocent to the war effort. They represent to get the capital equipment students," reports a contemporary. economics in England, raised the sufferings of the Indian people which she needs. As far as we The bamboo curtain has come a considerable stir by saying from the vast inflation which Bri- can we must supply this against down with a suspiciously metallic that the man chiefly respon- tish war purchases-made with the sterling balances. I have no clang, but it is apparently not

with those who are the fault of the title scholars out reference to the Government sympathy sible for the devaluation of the of India, and made without any crying out now against what the populace think they pound sterling, "the man who ceiling imposed by the Govern- they call 'unrequited exports. broke the bank," was Pundit ment of India-imposed upon the All I would say to India is: Un-bon on the wrong side of the

derstand

our position. Do not. Prime people of the country.

seek to force us to make pay- Not unnaturally, India has been ments at a rate which we can- They will ruin us inclined to regard Britain's at- not afford. titude to sterling balances as a both." test case of our future attitude] to Indian problems. If we had repudiated the sterling balances,

Jawarharlal Nehru, Minister of India.

It was India's accelerated with- drawals of balances which, in Mr. Fry's view, was the last straw which broke the pound's back.

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By "WINDRUSH"

The key to a fully satisfactory United les with the solution States. They should support Bri- tain's cforts to meet Indin's needs. Britain', sald the Obser- ver in a recent article, is now.

drawn being strongly

to block and scale down the sterling balances and-to-divert exporta from India so as to close the dollar'gap.'

exact

sure foundation

blanket.

Love in a cave.

A stalagmito

Met a stalactite, (Isn't life sweet?)

Now they are trying To make both ends meet

.Item from Washington anys the president's new fleet of limousines are gold-plated;---

headlines

ty of the great peoples of Communists of the leadership

This was hotly challenged at China and the U.S.S.R. is of Communist movements in the time. And at the time there durable, indestructible and South-East Asia.

were no exact figures to go on. unshakeable, This unity will Deeds rather than words It was surmise on Mr. Fry's part. influence not only the prosper-must reveal what lies behind But now the Government has released-some-figures on sterling ity of our two Great Powers the Treaty and the probable balances which showed that Mr.

Not for modest Harry the of China and the U.S.S.R., agreement on general Com-Fry was exactly right.

uranium and hydrogen. he could but also the future of all munist strategy in Asia. In Between July 1948 and June

"This would LC disastrous so easily have had for the asking. mankind, and will lead to the London, we are told, the 1949 the Indian Government as some economists proposed, or policy. It would be the victory of justice in the completion of the negotia-withdraw 210 million pounds in had scaled them down drastical reverse of that co-operation by

tions in Moscow marks the sterling balances, instead of the ly, irreparable damage would have which alone a whole world."

After reading the 80 million pounds which had been been done to our relations with can be built for the survival of This line is echoed by com- beginning of "a new era for originally agreed on. It was this India. Trust would have been free democracies against the since the holiday, I am convinced that this Hindu awami who sealed It is extreme pressure on London destroyed. All the promising menace of Communism. ments quoted by the Peking Communism in Asia."

himself in a concrete box has the Radio, stressing the Pact's added that whatever Sino- which compelled devaluation in development since 1947, would

September. It must be remem-have been undone.

"On the

contrary, America right idea. "firm guarantee of lasting Soviet conflicts may

bered that at the end of the war

should enlarge the whole con- world peace."

"Though it is tually emerge, the expecta- Lord Keynes had said that the But there was all the differ- ception of the Marshall Plan to

ence in the world between re- include India and the neighbour actually little more than a tion is that for some time the most Britain could release to all

Communist creditors yearly from the sterling pudiation and an agreement to ing countries of Asia. greatest carbon copy of the original two

balances without disaster was 44 1945 Treaty, except for the Governments will give every millen pounds, promise of withdrawal in outward evidence of working a completely two years, it has even been together in

Certainly hailed as the principal event friendly manner. in Chinese history for the irredentist claims have been past hundred years.

The "Financial Times" pub- The forced into the background,

lished recently an article by the same cover has been used as and will find it hard to get a

economist,

Roy Harrod, in the case of the Kremlin's hearing in the "world peace"

There were also complicated sterling balances

which suggested funding the Treaties with, and 'policy in, setting which the Commu-

and limiting transactions which annual payments to a hundred the satellite States in Eastern nists are giving to the Mos- roundabout

added to the British oconomic Europe, with the substitute cow drama. Petty intrigue, dimculties. To acquire

million pounds, The Conservative Election Manifesto envisages. of disarmed Germany for too, is disarmed. The West foreign exchange in addition to definite slowing down of the disarmed Japan as the poten-has to face a fait accompli sterling balances, India reduced rate of disbursement. But there

its experts to England and in- tial aggressor.

that has sidetracked or even creased its exports to non-sterling is certainly no widespread call

for repudiation. The position of these two overwhelmed all issues--in-countries. countries today: gives an air cluding that between national

alow down the releases to a pace

Bloke Just up' from Australlu tells me ho travelled around a to winter in

fo be.

which the pound could bear. It "To regard India as a back-lot "I used is against the folly of the Gov-ward country which is to get Adelaide," he says, "summer in Indla spent this enormous* stim

spring at any nice ernment in not fixing a proper help. I at all, under President Perth, and

who happened. of 210 million pounds partly in buying machinery

and capital directed..

pace that criticism will be chiefly Truman's Fourth Point, implies a blonde

totally inadequate conception." passing." equipment in Britain, partly in buying food in America and dise- where overseas to meet India's acute food shortage.

Looking back

mora

Marshall aid

of unreality to the pretext, and International Commu- In spite of a few outrageous nism in China. indiscretions, the fact re- The -tremendous issue

of Looking back, it is hard to un- One proposal which is being mains, that neither Govern- which remains is one ments nor public opinion in peace or war. In that issue derstand how Sir Stafford Cripps increasingly discussed is that, if the West have seriously con- South-East Asia is vitally can have permitted this recklessly America is seriously resolved on

accelerated rate of India's con- extending something like Mar Our sidered a revival of the mill- concerned.

business sumption of its sterling balances.

shall Aid to India, it could best tary power of either of these should be to find out, with- Certainly. It put an unbearable do so by converting some of the defeated and, at present, out waiting too long, just pressure on the pound. Certainly, sterling balances into dollar bal- the resultant devaluation was ances. After all, the balances helpless nations. The danger, what it does mean. The ob right against India's own interests; were incurred at least as much indeed lies in a different vious course is to go to Mos-reduction in the value of sterling on America's behalf an onbe direction. Pacts of this sort cow, where, the real answer meant a reduction in the value of half of Bellain. They, were part

of the Allied war cu

effort. do not always guarantee lies, and find out. The recent the sterling balances as a whole.

But the balance still outstanding peace. The Tripartite Pact pressure for a new approach Certainly, too, India, by spending brought world war not to the Soviet on atomic con- balances so rapidly, was squan is now to mich reduced that the

dering what should have been the peace. Certainly the noisy trol and on a general under capital on which to build ita future time for such a proposal Is past. Ave NE Moreover the switch-over minority of Interventionists standing provides a conveni-prosperity, 95

from sterling, to dollar, balances will make full use of the Fent opportunity. The post-

Today, India has already used would change profoundly the Pact to bolster up a case that tion is as gravo, any that up more than half its bafinces, or trade relations to the world. Indo- had little popular appeal or has. ved, the war. It the remaining mum perhaps about American's trade would replace sanction. They will not be may turn out to be all the three-quarters will have to be Indo-Brits trade. slow to emphasizo

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