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Red star over China--No. 2:

NEW DEMOCRATIC ECONOMICS

IN "PEOPLE'S CHINA"

The Chinese Communists 24354 began their economic recon- $struction with a thorough

HK$18.00 HK$15,00 HK$72.00

on

III.

By a Chinese observer

and

accomplish a switch from being "Reactionary outgrowth that has entered to the Interests of

ning

Large crowds waiting outaldo Clarence House for news of the birth, says on agency report, her car rolled on to the Mall," "were momentarily aludned when

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Burglars are reported to have taken money from the home of General Llu Shih.

the "Imperialist-Feudalist- The driver might havo been a detached analysis of the mopping-up part or the Civil, closed down within the past Bureaucrats," to becoming a part tile mare careful.

War on her hands, but an inten- year. Chinese economic picture.

Shrinking of credit and of New Democracy which win

Vic- cater to the interests of the Convinced in their conclusions, alfed preparation for World War the compulsory selling of

"peasant-worker masses." Thus, One Year.

they

tory Bonds have been two other Ect about doing away

crystallise the Both for their grand cause of main forms of the Government's they will help All news contributions to be systematically with two things)

Communiam and for screws on described as standing in the way realising

private enterprice, addressed to Editor-in-Chief.

general pattern of the "Now Do- mocratie Economy.” Advertisements and Bunlinesot the Chinese e economic develop their military purpose, the State They have proved so effective, as

Thirdly, the Government communications should be adments the interest of the "World has to emerge the strongest in well on ruthless, that money has

the the whole economale field. The become too scare to do business further need private business in dressed to the Company CHINA Capitalist-Imperialists"

Most their systematic, scheduled Tow MAIL LTD.

Chinese soil

as represented by weapons used are four in number: and to meet obligations.

whic!: have moval of industrial and economic those of the U.S.

and of England; grain, banking, State Co-oporn of the enterprises

the

us one can establishments from the Treaty State Trading gone to pot have, and the

"Internal Feudalistic- tives,

Father, done so on this singular Ports-away from the "imperial- Bureaucratic vested

Companica. interests

account.

istic influence"-into the interior mainly

of North West and West China.

While fuifling their "historical functions" as prescribed by the Government, private business has further to face a vexing problem of

reorganised management. be Their businesses are not to run by the owners, nor by the Managers as such, but by an Em- ployer-Employee Counc The employers are fading out of the picture, and the employees have to acquire the much-herald- ed business-incentive.

by the "Four-

KEYS TO Jean wife of Major Big-House-meone those of

THE MOUNTING

COSTS

on the wane

Ing before them, and sub-monopolies, which are Socialistic; odd Districts; the

Semi-Socialistic Co-opera

des-

must,

the

RO

25

Out "tor the public

stamp

all-

Agricultural China "For the public good" J. H. Keys, R. A. at Queen Chiong Kai-shek, T. V. Soong, China is 10 per cent agricul→ | Merchants an go-betweens, in Mary Hospital on 14th August|H. H. Kung, Chen Kuo-fu and his tural. Therefore, the Communist the eyes of the Communists, are 1950, a son.

brother Chen Li-ru."

ая the Government start their work as exploiters, fattening All the past year, the Com-oon as they conquer a place with public. The Government makes a munists have been "liquidating" the heaviest levy ever known in point of setting out the former through a gradual pro- kind, the sweeping confiscation of them cess, step by step according to the landlords properties, and the good"

19 well

to help schedule,

solo they swooped concentration of grain through all make the State the while down on the latter and their kinds of means. State barns have powerful master, Hure We The North Korean aggres amliated agencles with downright been set up throughout the length have the State Co-operatives and sors were very perfunctory confiscation.

and breadth of the whole coun- the State Trading Companies. at first in dealing with the With the internal and the in-try, at least one to each District. The Co-operatives are originated, des-financed, run, and managed by Krain question of who started it all. ternational "dragging, influences"

the Government. the fact that

Chiefly in tha U Bone, China's cy're brimful with They were so happy about economic reconstruction has been

people rural areas, they're doing bust- been around have gone without proper it that they didn't bother, proclaimed as launched in earnest food for days and weeks or even ness all along the line The South Koreans were flee with Ave constituents: the State months on end. China has 2,000- The Trading Companies State barns operate for the most part in the If affelel statistic could stantiation of a mere pretext tives; the purely private concerns: 3,000 in all.

accordingly, run well over cities.

serve as any guide, there would mattered little. It was quite the State-private capitalist Joint

be at least one such Campany I can safely be said that, TI enough merely to say, as the enterprises with a nature

far as

as grain goes, China has more to every city, large or small, by No line has Russians said of the Finns, ribed as "State-Capitalism"; and or less practised a kind of Com-the end of 1950,

the "personal"

been drawn to divide their busi produce that the other side attacked ownership of peasants and manual

and munisi,

the private ness from that of Wherever the Communists

It is in fact all- merchants. irst, whereupon they were workers.

reached, they scrapped the driven back. There was even

embracing, leaving no reserved Transitory stage

as legal held for the Kuomintang banknotes

private businessmen. a quality of grim cynicism

Mao Tse-tung haa estimated tender, and replaced them

with They have the advantage over about the pretext that ap. that the Chinese economic sclerate would range from 1-20,000 pay taxes and freight fares. No Jen Min Plao. The exchange private business of not having to pealed to the Communist is on the average, only 10 per

cent Industrialised with

to anywhere below 50,000.

guild rules, moreover, could re- deluded mentality. If the

from Private holding of foreign ex-strain them North West Provincess claiming

undercutuna Chi- their competitors; for they believed it, well and good-lfa 40 per cent industrialised set- change, gold bars, and thu

State-owned and "non-profit." they didn't, what did it mat- up." China's

unisation Kese silver dellars are strictly Communisation,

be They're to forbidden ter?

Private business is told by the therefore, cannot be immediate.

days are There has been a change but must go through a transitory changed at the rate a little lower Government that its stage during which the existence than the black market. lately. The

within 10 step Theated" step by

the "New years under

Domo- and childish efforts are being be recognised and their develop-not yet been eradicated.

People's Bank, therefore, is try-

They prefer to plead made to buttress the accusa- inent, simultmepusly, accel- ing to "bent them to " by con-with the authorities for a forth-

cracy" tion that the South Koreans lernted,

stantly raising the official ex- right close-down permit. Then started it. Photographs are these developments, are carrie

actual operations, change rate of these articles. they are told, "No!" Private busi- published showing Mr. John on according to

Private banking, which was uces, the authorities tell them, the formulae}

lac once a prosperous enterprise, has hag- own historical functiona" Foster Dulles in the South submitted by Mao in his slogan of hnd tough going over since the to fuin under the New Domo Korean trenches on the tions". The "Four Aspects" are: Shanghal authorities figured that

"Four Aspects and Eight Direc- Communists came to power. Thecracy. border, with the Korean

consideration of both the State they would "liquidate" the lenders "all eyes and ears" and private enterprise; mutin]

several hundreds of private First, it must keep going to take as the order of battle, benent between Capitalists and "banks" in the metropolis within care of the lives of their vast strategic and tactical pearls Labour; co-operation between the

the ened it to tivo years:

Government is busy with Recon- fall from his legal lips. There City and the Countryside; and the five years. Later on, they short-number of employees while the reciprocal flow of goods between Some 104 of them have alreadystruction, Secondly, they must

the

their

Qx-

Black

are

most fantastic of the above Ave elements must m tkets so far, incidentally, havaj umbered, It is to be "liguld

their

Ching port

and the outside world.

cracy".

Switch-over

yet

Private business in Red China, generally speaking, is reduced to a sort of process of eating itself out of house and home,

Probably got him mixed up with Lal Shi.

atom Helpful article on the

"It has bomb:

a negligablo weather...A great effect on pall of five appears. Within a fraction of a sceond it has grown 300 times as bright on the sun."

think Sometimes

it's a mistake to write about it.

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After seven years of being

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The Communism towards which sawa in half, an illusionist's wife they're straining would, they Wants a separation, fully realise, not take root with- out a wholesale industrialisation of China. As to industrialisation there comes the programme land reforms.

Per

Local report says 000,000 Communists are "poised" on the And a Sikang-Tibetan border.

yak has been requisitioned for cach ope.

who

The Nationalist agent

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The Chinese absentee landlords. they estimate, are only 10 cent of the rural population but claim a 70 per cent ownership planted that story has polsonality. of the total acreage, while the 90 per cent farmers own, only "A now young hers of the 20 to 30 per cent,

South Korean Army....”.

Ah yes: Youth's a stuff will not endure.

*

*

In principle, they nationalise all the land. Thoy confiscate all the land owned by the land- lords offhand without comperi- sation, and distribute it among the tilling peasants on a basis of let her head-counting. They plan to equalise the land-tillage within local one to three years, after government has been well in the Baddie,

Last night Myrtle's latest beau down. She wata pit dressed up, with no place to glow.

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"A Russion mortar shell which had been obtained intact Land reforms being completed, South Korea....bore the date they plan to set on foot a pro- 1950. This, the spokesman gramme of Industrialisation. The said, was a clear indication that only area under this category it was made this year."- now is the North East Province Obviously u spokesman of now where, it is said, a large-scale In-clear vision. dustrlailsation, programme is in full swing.

As for the coming Chinese National Industrialisation, there

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Gold found inside chickens. Gave the revenue officers quito

Is now an over-all process being a fried, drafted,

(To be continued)'

Scientists and self-confidence

fashioned people.

are

By "Windrush”,

Special Correspondent

Only

"U.S. polley said unbalanced with capability."

A suggestion like that is in genius.

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My young nephew reckons that steam is water gone crazy sources of power, though they are with the heat. highly mineralised and possess potentially enormous assets tnining areas, or are fertile in danger of despondency or loss of provided with water pumped from self confidence.

As

sluggish rivers. Here, new com- Of course both the relentifie raunities could flourish if power outlook and the humanistic out- were available at reasonable cost; look are examples of the deve- from them new materials for the lopment of one particular part of world's industries could be ob- the human faculiles at the expense tained, or extra food supplies be of the other parts. A person whosq. made available for feeding under- outlook is wholly scientific with- nourished peoples.

out any dash of humanism' is "With the aid of atomie energy fanatic and may be a publie dan- townships could flourish on the ger Antarctic continent, so that per- Darwin in his autobiography meteorological stations had a good deal to say about the become possible there and proper willing, of his own humanistic in- examination could be made of terest, In his old age ho doplor the problematical mineral wealth ed their atrophy. The ideal hu- of those regions. It is easy toman society is one in which the show that the cost of burning selontine altitude and humanism 50 tons of uranium a year, sea- is fused. But in the past, which water could be distilled to pro- has been mostly disastrous, it is vide the equivalent of a 20-inch humanism which has predomina- rainfall over 1,000 square miles ted. In the future it may well of country"

be of advantage if this time is is Where people are devoted to the scientifle, outlook which is in ideas of this kind, there is no the ascendent.

is even a photo of the Ameri- can Ambassador to Seoul These measures are accruing, as Вепейсатіся. poring over a map and study. can be seen, to eight

and, therefore,

described as ing the "military situation." and Even Senator Knowland gets economic policy to follow.

Directions" for the Chinese "Eight

his picture in the Communist All, it goes without saying, are! Scientists today

in and the relationship of man with papers, making plans quite subject to the over-all principles rather bad repute.

It is with man. in "New Demo-i embodied

This is governed by moral laws, a long, long time ago-fors

scientists who invented the and these are constant whether the Northern expedition. The "New Democratie Economy" as atom bomb and who have man is living in bec-hive huis or fantasy is made still less per practiced is above all a war-time thus caused the world to live in aky-scrapers, whether in an- suasive by the revelation that economy. Red China hoa not only permanently in fear. One of the Americans were always

the commonest sentents of saying "No" to the Koreans. Kremlin serves out to its the ordinary man is to wish There-is-no-hope-in-all own deluded people, M. Malik that scientists would "stop" in- this of convincing anybody has merely. insulted and venting things, at least for It does reflect what is going antagonised them more than the time. Scientists are more. on in the Communists' own ever.

over thought to be too easily minds. The aggressors, after The Australian Prime won over to Communism.

manent clent Egypt or medieval Europe rejecting out of hand the long Minister voiced the reactions This suspicion of the scientists or London or the South Scas-or and patient efforts of the of most people when he ridi-is in contrast with the attitude to Hong Kong. United Nations Commission to culed the charges that the that then also there was a great strong appeal. Before the nine- them 50 years ago. It is true This humanistic attitude has a bring about the peaceful uni- "Western nations are light-deal of foolish prejudice against teenth century it was the attitude fication of Korea, now begin ing a war of colonial imperial-science. But it was the prejudice of nearly all educated men. to realise the nature of theism in Asia. For the Soviet af the reactionery and of old- a few geniuses such as Francis crime they have committed Union to talk of colonial im- trary, those who looked, towards based on science. Humanism is On the con- Bacon had had a vision of life against their own country perialism, he said, is the high- the future regarded the scientists defended by nearly all the philo- and their own people. Their water mark of grim humour. as mankind's best guides. But sophers and by the great masters aggression, and its con- Most preposterous of all is today it is precisely the forward- of style in the world literatures.

looking people who have lost sequences, have driven mil- Mr. Malik's gibe that the their confidence in science.

Barren thing lions of inoffensive Koreans United States afraid of Fortunately the scientists them- Yot, though it is easy to be be- from their homes in the cities open international discussion selves have not shared in this loss guiled by all this propaganda on of confidence. In their mission. behalf of humanism, one signi- and towns to seck shelter because it fears the truth. They have been impervious to the ficant fact should not be over- in the barren hills and the That takes a lot of beating, growing criticism of them. For looked. Humanism, for all its forests. They have turned coming as it dogs from the example on the BBC a few days vivid qualities, is essentially a the country upside down and delegate of Soviet Russia, o Professor Oliphant the distin- barren thing. It assumes that guished Australian' seientist made nothing fundamental evor created the greatest suffering who is exploiting this position an eloquent renewed confession changes. The externals of life

Ho sald that he was the way people dress, got their and misery on a mass scale as President of the Council to of faith. HANOI HAIPHONG known in Korea for centur- turn that body to his own more than ever convinced that living, cat, and so on may PARE &

the proper use of science, will change, but there are, the trap- les. They have caused the purpose, and to prevent the open the way to a secure and pings of life. The human drama sacrifice of thousands of lives, discussion 'of the American | good Wife for all mankind. ***Today romains 'in its essentials as The constructive work begun complaint of aggression in Significant fact in the time of Adam and Eve.

There is surely. something by the Japanese half a cen- Korea, and the appearance It is easy to dismiss this as old wrong with an outlook which re- tury ago has been ruined. for this purpose of a South fashioned. But before doing so fuses to become excited over the Power plants and industries Korean delegatepaye

it may be as well to reflect a little discovery of new facts facts on one significant fact. Among about the nature of the life cell, have been, smashed, the rall- The decision of the North all the professions today, it of electricity, even, let it be add- ways and rolling-stock blown Koreans to resort to armed the scientists who scem happy ed, of the atom. It is worth while to pieces, and damage done in force in solving the problem and self-confident men Surely remembering that the humanialle a few weeks which it will of unification has had con- this is a striking fact: Scientists attitude has never been so self- are content that science shall be consciously cultivated an in the take years to put right. : { soquences, too, far beyond the the basis of their lives. * Roman Empire. The Roman Em➡ It is a very tragic business, borders of the peninsula. It Roughly there are two rival pire was uninterested in selence: But protests against "ruthless has led to an awakening of elety can be based. One is science the steam engine, but nobody in principles in which human so somebody in Alexandria invented bombing and violation of in- the free world and to a deeper The other what is called the Roman Empire saw its signi- ternational law" come 11 in realisation of the peril in "humanism", Whore science is fleance or used” it for practical deed from the aggressors and which it stande from aggres the basic principle, the governing purposes. No literature in the those who backed them. Norsive Communism. It has led

Is the pursuit of new world, is so dull as that of the Laterest

nowledge and fts practical ap- humanlitic literaturo of the Into will they have much effect to the virtual doubling of the plication in the organisation of Roman Empire. Because of its oven upon the merciful' in Japanese police force, and society. In the long run the humanism, the Roman Empire heart while the

North will almost certainly vitally supremo values in such a society died of boredom, A vast despon- are those which have to do with dency, overtook it, a grual bar- Koreans continue to defy the affect the Peace Treaty pro-pushing back the borders of renness of spirit. It failed in demand of the Security Coun- visions : regording Japan's Ignorance and with enlarging the self-confidence, cil and persist in the war security. It may have deep scented is that knowledge, even hopeful is that our own civili

empire, of knowledge. The axiom It may, bo that one of the 'most they and their masters plotted Influence on the evolution of partial knowledge can never real-sation will not go the way of the and imposed, on their own Chinese polley, Which is fy farm man, whatever the critica Roman I that the scientists, in people. A cause based on hardly likely to respond to and moraliste may say and spile of the attacks upon them. iles and violence cannot pros- Russian pressure progisely in lets based on "humanism: Is confident view of life. Consider the

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prevalling atlitude in a so- sild: maintain their hopeful and per. And in trying to feed the way the Kremlin desires, quite different. The axiom there dynamic attitude to life revealed the well-informed delegates There are other conséquences in that the amount of scientific In Professor. Difphant's iromarks. at the meeting of the Security yet to come: for: these we knowledge which society pos in the lecture from which I have,

PORUCH is. A matter of only recon»'aiready quoted, markNTERA Council with precisely the must-await the final turning interest The Brand cone Tuge cons of Australia; South same kind of propaganda theof the military tide.

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