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THURSDAY, · MAY 4, 1959.

LABOUR'S ANXIETY

"There is more anxiety among Labour leaders and the mou reflective back-benchers than they care to show in public.. Their fear is that the Labour Party is becoming out-of-date.

By "Windrush Special Correspondent

ness of their ideas, and

would not be led away by their ambitions into day-to-day pal tical strife,g,nd

Domestic problems

This is the more necessary. because the domestic priblaint inf

Singapore troposes curtow If they are historians, they re- member other periods in English:

the Government lite billig up, three Boviet shipman (EN) parliamentary history which

The public la much more sym-, But because of the rigidity of and nothing in their existing if they want to light out for 24354 pear, at least superficially, Father

the system the Brillah economy stock of principles tells Labour #mewhere else, that' be A JES12 ||

Uke the present out. They are pathetic to Labour over the re- thinking especially of the fate of cont of its Axed ideas the need la becoming loss clent and how to deal with them The right: with the authorities.

War Office refuses to allow the greal Libéral administration for full employment. The iniseries less well adjusted to Us, chang wam-freeze is breaking down. years of unemployment in international system. Deep How can social justice be done

in Woolwich which ruled Britain from 1832 to of the 1841. This came into power, after have eaten incradicably into the tually this will be redacted in a to the poorer paid grades of wor- ghost hunters to check rumoured

mind of the people: But some general decline the mandards of kers without causing a demand manifestations

we illegit not in „dráitutletpitels vend| Zoe ku differential. Increase in Arsenal. selves are less confident than they

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HOPES AND REALITIES

Few will miss the irony of a situation in which a moss. exodus of foreigners, includ- ing all American officials who had remained in China, coin-

ed

The prediction, say the cries, which would in its turn cause an provide ammunition for sceptical

critice.

.df Inorcase in the production

This is one of the hardest que is not falsified by the continuing uncontrollable inflation?

The Increzanton before Labour: Govern- Then there was the sad story Brilish industry. of production a not taking placement. But even the Labour Intel- of the journalist who thought at the points In the economie lectuals fight shy of it. It leads he'd go and have a look at how- system where it is most needed to the question of the future role Present prosperity is, in some ilst state. Can oach ualón, as Peron says nolther capitallami for the welfare of tomorrow. h the trade union's in the toclastungs were getting on in Canton. worse illusory. It is an Indian the past be left free to win nor Communism is good for the Summer, as Mr. Geoffrey Crow- advantage for its members, re-world, und offers Argentina's ther, the editor of the Zoonomist. gardless of flie repercussions "third position" as a solution for is reported as saying in New which this may cause Yorki

There are

In

After all, what is wrong with Fascism?

*

•

"He suggested.......granting squat' rights to the Communists."

Seems to me that noisy crawd takes such rights for granted.

roforming

party with polities, an a For three or four years It much strength, putting through a has really discovered the secret

of full employment. series of radical acts of parliament

Two facta frapress them, The based on ideas of democracy.

nest is that the Labour Govern Iberalian and utilitarianism--- | which transformed and modernisment did not, itself really create the present socialist organisation British life. By 1888 or

reform had of the state-it was created by 1830 gone about as far as it was des- the war, and is really projection war-time organisation loto tindd to at that period:"

The of wh Liberal Party became increasingly peace,

The second is that, in the con- disunited. It had lost its clan..ditions which have existed since It had no longer any clear pu the war, it would have been sur-

fow Labour Ports whole77 - 992: 4510); stable prace.

article on Labour's pro- For two years more the pos.

af the next election, "Bir, Liberal Government ingered on, prising if there had not been full members, even the most realistic,

spent force, thable to recuperate employment. The country has who would accept this argument HB Crossman, one of the its force for a new active period. boon restoring the damage of war as it stands, but there are many hist left-wing Labour member. and of the diversion of all its whom it has left vaguely unsany, writes as follows," "vull employ- Then in 1841 It was replaced by resources to war production over They would like to see a response ment cannot be sustained without cides with a movement of victorious Conservative Party a six-year period. It has stin to to 'this erifielem in a clear now a national pießts and wages po

under Sir Robert Feel. public opinion in the United This is stale and out-of-date bo tested whether, in conditions statement of how Labour Pro lies. Under Socialism, wage in- tion. The Council of For-country as old as England, his- the Socialist state can really keep in the future.

everyone safely in his job,

But it is at this point that cannot be left to the chances of

The wage freeze girl in planoforte. tory does-unhappily often re-

Labour is in most difficulty. In free-for-all. eign Relations has taken a poll peat itself. There are quite a lot of

Botter have a good laugh at the of more than 700 heads of resemblances between the Labour Well-argued criticism years in office and in He was a successful make-shift, tut years in the war-time coalition was not just to the lower-paid In our next term of Corporations, Judges, College Government of 1950 and the Labour thinkers have unit has given its best talent to Workers.

doubtedly been impressed by the the tasks of day-to-day adminis quite we shall work out a balion, bathing suits the girls are wearing Presidents, newspaper editors, Liberal Government in 1839. and other professional men at the general election in 1945 cism of their opponents in the a lack Labour was swept into power continuous and well-argued ori- tration.

wages and profits, policy in on the beaches this season, because such There is in consequence now consulation with both sides of #looks as if soon there won't be

**anything to laugh at. of new thought, new industry." Apparently Senators were because the people of Britain were papers as the

planning, about

bring If Labour really could evolve excluded. The majority, it sickened by Tory government argument there is that the ente Panbour polley into line with a clear palley an those points, inte Badler's Well

and its fallure to

policy

"Fonteyn of of socialist policies has to, eto produce a

as having is said, believe that in the

which corresponded to the ideals impose a riguity, an Imunability, the fact of 1950. Labour' could be regarded long run the United States

of Breater social justice and upon the economic system in great need at the moment is for gained a second wind for was worries about 'future."

That's bold of a thing to Bocia!

For a time a younger men of the type of beriod of office. It need not in equality which had Great Britain. greater

to anyone." use of Professor Laski-mon who would that case repent the history of the would probably be in a better position to advance its in- become so widespread among the Socialist government by

public in the war years. Labour political power, may be able to do its thinking, for B."and" por- Liberal Governmbht of 1882. But

"1.8. reteral belleyes war is terests in China if it maintain

cleor set of

actual unemployment. suade the counter of the sound-it may not have much time fet

coming."

This probably i general

"His wife, -Viola Player, is also

I remember Viola a a

States in favour of recogni- parliamentary history. But, in a which make for unemployment, poses to run the socialist statelereases and dividend distribution most competent musician.”, ex

ed diplomatic relations with the nublie was willinelles prevent

the new regime.

That is by no means cer. tain, but at least it is worth finding out. What is certalh is that complete rupture of relations is a purely negative policy and will get nowhere. Some are still influenced by the claims of the Nationalists and by the Generalissimo's astortion that he will soon return to the mainland and rescue the people. The events in Hainan do not encourage such hopes. And the sug gested period of watchful waiting before any plunge is taken may show one way or the other what faith is to be put in this idea.

Meanwhile, the British and

them.

support

The result was the great volume changes and reforms initiated

by the last Parliament. Now it is being asked whether Labour, like the Iberal Government of a century ago, has exhausted itself,

Two ideas

community: the suspicion is that

Survey of Indo-Ching--No. 4:

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happen

bellet

Further outbreaks were report- ed on Eastern Witwaterrand.”de That should scotch any rumours the down, there burr

be Boered:

The Franco-Vietminh war are they cast

and the Chinese frontier

By SEYMOUR TOPPING

to. Vietnam'a-

roasted ox in South Afrien Wis ‘såld" to ̈ have provided

meat barbecued

for several thousand people.

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... That's a lot of bull,

.a wife who died in prison, he whi

Radio: a political prisoner of the Franch According to Moscow tor many years. Vo Nguyen Glap not a Sooul is likely to benent received part of his military from this Taipeh-Korea pact. education from American OSB-

worked with the

which

ronds which aro vehicles.

arc

Peking. That is not wholly politicul „soundness and common The war in Indo-Ching is not ficant de up of three métions and appointinents 16 mb attarcops guarding the

Cochin-China: of

tha

French L

the "Chinese Door," the border frontier. are concentrated athwort zdne. between Moncay on the French strategy coast 250 ralies West to through French strategy in Tonkin has The Invasion routes le been to force the Vietminh ra this section of the border. Big

out of the fall, The Fraich frontier posts like Cho French have succeeded Th nebupy bang and Lackay in the Western

the zone are 150

4solutod all but the South West

At the present time, Labour has two ideas and interests which overtido all others. Che is nation- disation. The other is the main- tenance of full employment. - The uneasy critics in the Labour Party

(EDITOR'S NOTE: Associated are wondering whether it is these Press Correspondent Seymour ideas which will in fact drag it Topping coucitides a four-part re- to its

ruin.

port on Vietnant, based on i- The trouble for Labour is that formation he, gained from many nationalisation, in the industries sources in a 10-week tour of that is not even popular at home, officers who

during the war to ar the main which have undergone this pro- that South East Asian country Mitary equipment cales back to Vietminh ra de guldst Batrailed by armoured coks, has

guerilla not led to any vory in this story of "The Franco- the last wor Ameriçin üldis kajise

sentry towers every milo: table change in the life of Vietminh War and the Chinese looked to for badly needed renganese positions in Tonkin, Of these roads, there are inter

The Vietminh army is control vulle sen people engaged in them. Nor Frontier") ħda it increased their efficiency in In the jungles, mountains placement materials.

is concen-led rigidly by the Communists. A or 26. Atop high wooden trestles The French in the Binet Communist majority, sits on tip or in" tall Brick towers, handful.

their lonely

and the service of the rest of the and on the great river deltas trated in Vietnam.

watch. Indian, and other non-Com- it has reduced ft. Thus the public of Vietnam, more than 130.000 states of Indo-Ching, The King Supreme Military Council and of

the big posta, the French pie munist munist Governments which as a whole is ceasing to be in- French troops are locked to-doms of Leas and Cambodia with the top command is mostly Come dangerous watch. have followed our example, to nationalise de an occen- forgotten war with Ho Chito.

terested in Labour's sustained de- day in a savage and almost populations of three and

millions, respectively

in Tonkin, regular units have keep their intervenilon tropps. munist political commissars There shock forces, including rushed to still have no Ambassadors in tricity throwing doubt on the Minh's Vietminh forces.

dy thatm- down to the pistoon. tevel. Comparatroopers,

come under Vigt munists have preference for pro points their own fault. The Chinese sense of the party.

one of great masses of men cul Vietnam is have tried to lay down con-

liding in combat. It is a war of provinces. Bunsing South to military schpels. An estimated 30 ditions for resumption of full

surprise attacks on Isolated North, they are best known per cent in the ranks are Com

of ambush garrison,

and Cochin-China, Adam and Tonkin, munist.. diplomatic relations. One of Industrial development, But French

of the them refers to China's repre- today there is great drive and massacre, and ruthless retaliation

Vietminh villages,

"dalta and Bood" sentation in the United Na-purpose and boundless

[Fluid.__battlellner_allow_ the

From its rich tions. The ECAFE confer- misery; discipline and chaos; Vietminh to

penetrato almost

rubber ence in Bangkok offers an op- pride and famine; honesty, hywhere outside of the major blantationi cain et per cent portunity to break this dead- and merciless rapacity in towns and cities. Frequently, they of the US$100,000,000 in pre-war

innitrate close to Salgon and from Indel Chile anginal exports: lock. This body is the most taxation, stability in money

the opposite suitable of all for such a pur and proer and stability also mortar Dre on the port installs transport of grain to market, cen- sudering

Vietminh

freely use troops

territory. A French Chinese They raid areas because the tritte wakipte oock and at the COM Prevents They Jasinch attacks on French take a lively interest in plans cedented size, and more fune- French conveys and positions in vluing the Vietinin with 199 transfer of Vietmith surface posts from the Chinese side o

From Cochin-Chin for industrial reconstruction

the border. The Vietminh. are. in Asia, with particular rétionaries to the holen than superior force but melt away be lucrative a source or taxation, ?

often repairing and building roads over lore strong counter-attacks.

Area cleared d Vietminh "Irregulars, who often ference to its own needs. No- there were to half a dozen In what nominally nee French-

roops in Cochin-China are merely farmers by way, have the border through the wide suc body quite knows how his provinces in Dynastic days; controlled villages; the Vietminh

major remained behind to harrass the long winder their control. There French on the delle A (in are good indications that the remain within Viciralah fortes from the region Cochin-China, the French try to frame over the border.

wil in tory would have been changed hope for the future but move freely at night while French generally if the Genoa Conference after clench your teeth today; garrisons must

The villagers North of Saigon. The two. inain, the first world war had suc. all for the North East and their fort posts.

masters: The Vietminh

inh bases are in the

tion by a system of posts along months. T quare mile marshland West of finding a basis for a rap and many other aspects of by

by night,

West south In more than three years

of Faison. and, on. prochement between the new the situation are to be found 1 regime in Russia and the rest in Mr. Liu Shao-chi's sombre steady attrition, the French propehinula belay the Basse Biver, French naval craft patrol the have suffered nearly 100- bably

that lace the of the world, the survey on May Day, though 000 casualties in those disabled by rivers and cannis th

At the very end, it broke he tried to match the realis disease, killed and wounded. The countryside. Small Cotillos slip

estimate known, war down. Even so the effort tie under-tones with optimis- French

| Bathdge to their properties at magh infer where the Vit

operate, and French was worth while. So would tic over tones,

US$140,000,000. The 1949 French] are put - nahore ** from -- be some real effort to admit We must beware of snatch-budget allocated 100 billion craft in commando-like and recognise the proposed ing at any straws to support francs for solely milllary" Peking delegate to the hopeful policy. But del-penditures in Indo-China.

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by

river bonk put/ Frend have now halted 10 to the athyandaith and must be

country, the

pose. Peking might even in appalling State expendi- tions of this, central stronghold tres from the most productive rood and dihusly, frum, Jack by alles zone

dnswer to two

French troops in

have

ceeded as it almost didin (all from China Proper. These French by day, and the Vietminh sont pas a delay gelors/ secure their lines of commithionterosso substantially

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Charges of mountains In Wils poor The war has cost the, Com- sredi hote

plain backed

Coastal

backed by the

and

ECAFE conference. The de-ther must we ignore" points, Ravages of war

PLAYERSing is a man of exceptional which imply a good deal. In

SUSPECT

BY

EDWARD PERCY & REGINALD DENHAM

· AT ·

the

fegate himself, Dr. Chỉ Chão-about which little is said but

[Coast," "The Viet talent, and almost the ideal spite of earlier suspicion, Vietnamese people a good deal minh have free access to all the more. Millions of Vietnamne rest. Before tproke in "fowe to man to break the ice. The Shanghai le not being left to taught between the bitting Aniam, The Plan to press next thing to do would be to utter destruction. Its former camps have been uprooted from their pacient

or their lives other Tankin

appoint a first-class person": framere: activity, has died their hometed Villages AT |

ality diplomat of the type down tragically, but at least wise "

besk

of Lord Inverchapels Bri- food and coll: have been one ove tish Ambassador. India has pumped in to keep body and ton rippled and the already appointed as her Am-Bbul together. The blockade rotting

countryside bassador Mr. K. M. Paniddat, premat to the suspicious to be the war in Indo-China escaped

blockaded

bads man who, given half

etention because

chance, would exercise

mense, influence n' No mobilisation et diplomacy will be fective until it fa until,

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