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Mr. Churchill, speaking in the European Assembly, has called for

immediate establishment

West

THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, AUGUST 14, 1950.

Red star over China--No. 1:

THE IDEOLOGICAL BATTLE

ty, 1,000 years ago,

IN CHINA

By a Chinese observer

and

regular"

CATARATAS D

Good

Dur

Morning

"Now you're

Miss Australia, in England, receives proposals by post.

But probably interest in the Australian male. shows more

"Smallest laundry girl," One of life's little Ironics.

•

L

frag is to receive 50 per cent more in oil royalties. A truly. majestle rise--what is now called king-size.

This morning's definition: A occupy [u head that wasn't used the night

In case you were puzzled by The prevailing "Marxism-

the quoting The moment, or even before, Statesman of Nation," as the Chinese Stalinism,"

the Communists take a place, the lucky we' didn't mention the Communists call it, has

"Yang Ko" the "Waist Drums" "Time of Tide." wrought in China one of the as to how many such training ments have so dropped us to make for the occasion Immediately fen- and the songs specially composed only two major upheavals centres there are in Red China. It almost ludicrous to keep them ture in their march to power. ever wrought on her by any The training programme, how- open. single foreign creed in her ever, follows n general pattern:

"Yang Ko" is a combination of The Communists put a premium folk-dance and folksong from the First, they must study "Marxism- history of 4,000-odd years. The Leninism-Stalinism"

the upon the Middle Schools and the North Shensi Province which had other was caused by Buddhism "Mao Tse-tung Doctrine," and Primary Schools as compared to since been improved and given All news contributions to be from India in the Tang Dynas- must pass examinations on them the Universities. The younger the new content to be introduced on students, the rore amenable they a national scale. Walst Drums" before graduation,

Secondly, they must get succes version of history and geography. from either side of the waist. It

are to the specially written Hed

consist two The Cominform's hand

drums dangling| in fully through the Learning China's affairs was originated by Movement," designed to correct The less memory they have of originated in the North Anhwel Russia in 1922. But China's themselves of all that the authorl-"the good old days," the more Province, The Communists cele- taking-to-Communism dated fur- ties deam as deviationist learn- easily they are to be weaned from brate their victories with "Yang ther back than that, and followed ing" as well as "all the old bour- their family ties and clannishness. Ko," "Walst Drums" and a variety of round about ways,

songs geols habits." It came to China with the

they are supposed to them all are lack of students, lack the U.S. in popular demonstre- The common problems faced by in mass parades. They use these to eulogise Russia and condemn German-returned students like study and commit to memory of funds, lack of reading materi-flons. General Chu Teh and Chen Tu- every call issued by the Govern- ols, and lack of good tenching shu, the ex-Red leader of China;

hina; ment, every speceli by Mae Ther staff diver garchools are Problem of illiteracy hangover something to with the French-returned students tung. Lla Shao-chi, or the other so-called like Chaut En-lat, the current top Reds, and every significant bound to dle on the vine. Premier; and with the Japanese- leading article in the Communist

In their programme-fo rouse before, returned students like Professor Party newspapers, and stick to Li Ta-chao, who was among the them all. To be on their staff,

and organise the masses the Chm- csc Communists have faced a munist Party and became the first verted Communist but a Chinese Something like a total standsti}}

considerable problem of

85 per martyr at the hands of the war-of

a. cultivated, totally "new tas

cent literacy among the Chinese Comc over the privale lards.

sluft."

publishing business in Red China People. They have come to grips

with it The Commercial Press Ltd. In characters. These forerunners of the Chinese

by simplifying the Chinese Communist Party tried their hand i

And they are trying Shanghai, for instance, which is the "Latinisation," too a pro- at the downright introduction of

the leading publication organ in

gramme to waive the Chinese Communism, Soon they stumbled The Communists themselves for Chu, was caught with almost no icleograph for an пропа

alphabetical short-cut in lett-wing the most part self-made and with-bocks saleable from the Com-speling in a Latinised way. pon Nierature. Thus while

"What are your plans for your munist political movement was much of reminding the College Shanghai. Even reference books ed with their education programme

ut a regular education, make munist point of view last year On all this, they proclaim, will vacation?" one lady

when the Communists took

was heard depend how far they have succeed- striking one sparceliteratur, teaching staff and their students like the Chinese dictionaries and for the workers and the peasants. tentative.""

asking_another. the Communist-inspired

who are, in the eyes of the Com-

"Well, so far they are. only with such luminaries as Lu Shun, high-riding that they are was spreading like a prairie fire, munists, traditionally proud and Encyclopedias had to be re- And on this programme of theirs

written before they could appear alo Mojou, Mo Den, la the van.

"How perfectly delightful! I'm further alone, they on the market. aites,"

Except for the depend how far the Communists It takes, they say, the official New China Book Company are to win the huge Chinese"re than anything."

sure you'll enjoy camping out and others of its like, no private masses to their viewpoint and how book company bothers any more firm their Communist regime Is to waste money and court trouble to take root in China. in printing any books

All peasants and workers can-idly turning the pages of a Paris sat in his study, All the former magazines and but with a

without an entrance examination magazine."

The Communist-controlled enes This is one more of the privileges really is dumb. She thinks

Communist Party good taste and colour, are gone. school throughout the country. Sometimes I'm afraid Myrtle everything in perfect chorus and China. are mere propaganda and say they enjoy over the classes in charwoman 19 Q person who

the

of

a

· European Army to protect the founders of the Chinese Com- one has to become not only a cou-

Continent against Communist aggression. It would be co- ordinated with the American and Canadian forces. Wrapped up with this problem is that of man-power and in particu- lar the use of German troops.

One suggestion is that the

risks of such a course be

minimised by arming them from outside, thus preventing the re-equipment of German industry for re-armament and its possible use by the Rus- sians should they attack and occupy the West. The' West

the Com-

"Parasites"

para-

Publishing business

will глу,

German leaders themselves goining ground among the Chinese their former "unforgivable biun- newspapers, full of variety and membership-card- enrol in any}

Almost synonymous

Before 1948, while the Com- munist armed forces were kept on the defensive, they had been have asked for the creation of Chinese youths, Intellectuals and youths all along, Among the

almost supra-national European Communists

synonymous. This paved the way Authority before they can

for their underground work and agree to the recruitment of

disruptive Influence which, when German soldiers.

the time ripened, engulfed the Kuomintang regime like a contla- gration.

it

It is natural that all of us in this part of the world should concentrate our atten tion almost exclusively on the developments in the Korean situation. Nevertheless events

to

labour and produce of Ave to six average Chinese farmers to sup- port one college student, let alone a professor.

Professors as well as students are made to confess publicly to

nature" in living, and are made ders" in learning and "parasitic became to vow to "redeem themselves

by an eye-right" to the workers and peasants classes and "follow their footsteps from now on.

Having thus taken them down a peg or two, the Communists go A mass-meeting, held in Peking on to close down some in 1949 to celebrate the Com- Colleges and

of the combine munist victory was characterised others into one, according to the several by the Red authorities as a "final respective Judgments they've Joining hands between the Com- passed upon them; regarding how

forces and their far they are "reactionary."

They went The so-called Missionary Uni- en to stress that, to insure, ex- yeralties by the foreigners remain pand, and perpetuate the Cem- intact so far. But their enrol their neids.

unist victory on a world-wide scale, the ideological battle must be further reinforced, and inter- sified.

cultural

in Europe ought not to be mundstingents."

ignored, for they are becom- ing more and more important. This is still the most vital of all areas in the world conflict, where alone the cause of free- dom can be won or lost.

The huge Government machine for this battle went thereupon promptly into action. A Govern- ment order was issued, ruling Marxism Leninism-Stalinism

as the over-all guiding and the "Mao Tse-tung

devotedly followed. Furthermore,

Stalin's work

аго,

Grandpa

thinks all

psychoanalysis

of failysis.

this

Of the younger generation full

Are norty,

I'm.

"The vicer

makes ten,

4

an

They're even trying to "reform" the Kuomintang Government's employees who are not sacked "I started

23 my career offhand.

espionage agent," chap told me to transform" the whole Chinese many years I was a Mint spy." The set goal, they proclaim, is at the bar last night. "For

vert them to a new religion; and, people. They mean, first, to con-

unison. A cynical paying has it that oven advertisements in the controlled newspapers are dry as dust. The advertisements Indeed, all censored.

Radios, strange to say, are not controlled yet, can still listen in on the short- Some bold souls wave broadcasts from Taiwan or the Voice of America. Hollywood secondly, to set them on a world film-showings are on the wane, with Russian and Chinese Red aims taking more and more of

crusade.

(To be continued)

is on

Stranger-prince

the threshold

A

19-year-old student

Baudouin, through having shar- ed his father's wartime im- prisonment and subsequent exile, Top place of honour"on" this is almost unknown to most of canon of books goes to Stalin's his future subjects. The character work, "The Quiline of Russian of his captivity Has given Him Communist (Bolshevik) History," a serious and thoughtful, rather

Communist than a worldly, character. Second comes the Manifesto jointly by K. Marx

www.

He was denounced and reviled tion and concluded in favour of

In March, 1950 there was a re-

ferendum which gave the King 57.7 per cent of votes. The ma- jority was not considered ado- and quate by political leaders Leopold offered to withdraw

By John Fisher "temporarily after his restera-

tion in favour of his son, the Crown Prince Baudouin.

The French Government has drawn up a memorandum on defence. It has made an im- pression in London by its de- termined approach to the pro- A Chinese veraioa must also be blem of increasing as quickly as possible the effective mili- the People's Government as well prince, a stranger to his as having almost without notice his return.

surrendered his army to the Nazis, as the Communist Party pro- people, stands on the thres- leaving open the flank of the Bri- tary strength on

the Con- claimed 12 works as a "must" for hold of the Belgian throne. tinent. This, of course, is the every Chinese.

tish forces. But the frat harsh common aim of all the Atlan- tic Pact Powers, and the French-document shows an approach to some of the fundamental issues very simi- lar to that in the British

After another general election In June, the Christian Social Party Judgments against the King were obtained a majority over all other memorandum. In the United

modified later. States a controversy is going and F. Engels. Then, there are the Royal Stuvvenberg Castle in

Born on September 7, 1930, at Controversy about the King's ernment proposed Leopold's re- parties and after forming a Gov. between advocates of

four books by Lenin. All the re- Brussels, the young prince

position broke out after the war. turn unconditionally. moderate and total controls. maining seven are works either to ceived his first great shock at the Liberals, who formed part of a

re- The Belginn Socialists and In 1915, after several months at explain

the social history solely The British and French in the light of Marx's materialiste age of five, when his mother, Coalition Government, pressed for little more than 14 years of age, Eton College, Leopold, when conception of history; dr for Astrid, was killed in a motor ac- fused and in October, 1845, recely and served for several weeks at popular and beautiful Queen his abdication, but the King re- was enrolled in the Belgian army preaching the materialist dialectic eldent in Switzerland. Until the method of thinking; or to expose King re-married in 1941 there Switzerland.

ed permission to retire to the front as a private soldier. Then ho went back to Eton, where be Inevitable downfall of Capitalism was no one to take his mother's

The question of his return bo- was a popular member of his as a historical necessity," while

came a dominant issue in Belgian house football team and won a emphasising the rosy prospects for

politics. The right wing Christian place in the boats. a Communist "World Revolution

Social Party favoured his return to come.

with the Liberals wavering and These, in short, are used where was kept by the Germans in strongly hostlie,

to 1944 Baudouin the Socialists and Communists the "Four Books by Confucius and Menius and their disciples thinly-veiled captivity and, in have been traditionally used in

their anxiety to crush Belgian China for shaping the Chinese national feeling, they even delet- fundamental notion of the world his name from the famous

Gotha Almanac of European Belgian jurists set up at the King's In 1948 a special commission of and their ethics of life.

talks about his cxic. noble families. Today he seldom request vindicated Leopold's con- duct at the time of the capitula-

on

organic deteriorations and

place.

No radio

From 1940

Governments, like that of President Truman, agree that rearmament must be stepped up with the greatest energy. but think it would be wrong to move over at this stage to a war economy. This, it is argued, would jeopardise sound economic development, which is the source of increas ed military strength. Second- ly, it is agreed that each partner of the Atlantic Pact must, within its resources, make a maximum contribu- tlon. But the final decision their staff-members and Party-stepmother, the Princess de Ro- on their re-armament pro-workers. It still remains a secret grammes must necessarily de-

The Communists have set up educational organs of their own throughout the country to train

Leopold, Baudouin and his

thy, were not freed by the Ameri- can Army until 1945,

Vindicated

TAFT ATTACKS

During their captivity the pri TRUMAN POLICY

soners heard nothing from the puts world and were not al- lowed a radio. The last year at Hirschtein Castle in Austria, said to be partly responsible for Baudouin's serious turn of mind,

Second exile

(Re-

Columbus, Ohio, August 12.

Mr. Robert A. Taft publican Senator, Ohio) said here today that the Truman Administration's policy in the Far East had been an invita- tion and a green light to the North Koreans to attack. South

pend on the indispensable Korean lessons taught that air help that will be forthcoming power is not enough. from the United States, and A third question raised is on mutual aid between the that of setting up a Supreme British and other European Authority. It is considered Governments. This collective in London that the Atlantic programme is to be co- Pact machinery, on the whole, ordinated by the Atlantic is working well as regards Deputies.

planning. Moreover the Life began again after the war One point in the French Council of Deputies began its with another spell of exile for Korea. Memorandum concerned an work only a short time agoland. He was put on a strict studyime and again the Secretory

Baudouin-this time in Switzer- increase in the number of Bri- Thus the main need at the regime to make up for the educa- of State (Mr. Denn Acheson) said tish and American Divisions moment is rather the practical tion he had Jost while In prison that we would not defend any- on the Continent. As to this, implementation of the plans Professor Jacques Pirenne, the thing beyond Okinawa, Japan It will be recalled that the in terms of new Divisions anded.tom Brussels to be his tutor.

King's personal adviser, was call. and the Philippines," Mr. Taft Atlantic Deputies recently re- more equipment. Certainly Then after a time, Baudouin was night.

told a Press conference last commended to their, Govern- it is this that is the most ur- allowed see a little more of the "Certainly, with that invitation

ments an immediate increase gent, head by a

.

world at the University of Geneva, of their forces. Another There are other problems notical science and law.

where his main interest was poll the North Koreans, had every reason to believe that, we meant point concerned the pooling of Icss formidable to be faced-- Baudouin, who would normally what, wo said,' resources of the Atlantic in economics, politics and have served in the Belgian Royal "It fa fair to say that we told Military Academy has had no the North Koreans: "It is afe Fowers. The acceptance of diplomacy. The free nitions military training. He has, how to come in this principle was clearly im- are only at the beginning of over, studied languages and speaks - "We, in effect, gave them the plied in the Council's instruc- what is likely to be a long and fluent French German, English green light. If we had mala- tained our troops there, there tions to the Deputies. It was, hard task, As Mr. Edonald and Flemiah.

never

bava been an attack Mr. Taff said that it would be Leopold II who returned, to up to the United Nations to de- Brussels as Kios of the Belgian cide whether the North Koreans in July after six years, exile was should be pushed above the 58th the centre of one of the bitteres Parallel, The United States could controversies jathatjo arung Taged, not decide that question alone - around a modern ruler.net Router.

of course, never intended that the other day, if the United Abdication call the United Kingdom and the States and the nations of the United States should confine British Commonwealth and themselves to air and naval Empire stand together, and forces. The need for strong work together with the free land forces is recognised more.nations of the West, there is kebnly than ever since the nothing they cannot do

"We'll have a trust fund right from the start, darling," said the recent bride.

"What d'you mean, trust fund?” "Well, you' trust me and let me handle the anances,"

"Why does a pretty girl load her youth?"

Probably because he's seen Д pretiler girl.

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