1950-09-29 — Page 6

Pago 6

FLY

TO SINGAPORE WITH CPO

Tuesday

VIA BANGKOK

Wednesday

VIA SAIGON

Friday

VIA BANGKOK

28 DAY RETURN EXCURSION HK$960

Cathay Pacific Airways

General Asus Dutterfield & Swire. Pasiagos, eal! 30331. Freight, zali 36360

CH14

FLY via

CAS Bangkok

FRIDAYS WEDNESDAYS & SUNDAYS SINGAPORE Thru BANGKOK . TAIPEH -- TOKYO

Pacific Overseas Airlines Siam

As far

PENINSULA HOTEL, KOWLOON, PHONE $8885.

AUSTRALIA

is only 30 hours away

by Q-E⋅A

Luxurious, modorn Skymasters now fly you from Hong Kong to Sydney in loss. than 30 hours. Attentive stewards cator for your complete personal comfort. Hot meals are served in the air. Con- nections by air are available to any part of Australia or the Pacific Islands. Ask Jardines or your Travel Agents.

NEXT FLIGHT OCT. 13.

Qantas Empire Airways

́de pesostatím With 'British dvorusha Birways Corpsention Grosły JARDINE, MATHESON & CO. LTD/

CHINA MAIL

PAUTA

12, Des Voeux Road, Contral,

Mezzanine Floor,

Hong Kong Telephones:

Editor in Chief visua

(four lines)

24364 12312

Reporters & General Office

Subscription Rates

3 months

HK$18.00

One Year

6 months

ENGAGEMENT

Richard

Royal Naval Hospital, Hong kong, elder daughter of Mr. Smith of and Mrs. C. R. Buntingford, Hertfordshire.

THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1050.4

The GOD That failed

5

The Russian

purges

By Louis Fisher

This is the tenth in a series of articles by two internationally. famed writers of their journey into Communism and their even tual return.

merely enacted a part Invented for him in the collar of the GPU.

I shared my interpretation of

the scene with a key official of Caption on a 'photo from London the Foreign Affairs Commissarlat, says: "Mr. Aneurin Bevan is on He knew me welt and did not the extrame_right." dlasent,

I hardly think that vituperative The Mukhin net In Isolation gentleman would agree. might not have been very signi- deant, But it could not stand alone because the GPU which "Delilah's gown on exhibition directed it had been gaining la Hong Kong." functions and, power and new therefore, a new arbitrariness. hair on.

1930, January,

Leon WAB arrested and Central Asia. to

..Jn

ment.

revolution

Fowning

WDS

and

over

All right, all right--keep your

General

申

Robertson

takes

Travelling with the party Senhor Carneiro the Portuguese

Ambassador to Portugal."

An obvious fellow traveller, doing missionary work probably.

•

•

· Collectivisation was the Arsta revolution in the organisation of agriculture since the land- chained scris of Europe be- came free, land-owning peas- ants. Collectives promised rationni, large-scale production. As the urban factory replayed the artisan of the Middle Ages so the kolkhoz would replace the small individual farmer. Collec- tivication looked like a turning HK$38.00

point in human events. ...

Babotaged, the co-operative effort was urging n world mobilisation; HK872.00 With the drastic dramatism

protest against excessivo | against Farcis and war. characterises them, the three of bacause they still hoped to be that

Veteran critics of Moscow, m contributions All news

Bolsheviks squeezed this whole the government would abandon the left half of the political Trotsky addressed to Editor-in-Chief.

Business chapter of sociological develop- the collectives as fnliures, and

semicircle, moderated Advertisements

their at- banished communication should be ad- ment into a few quick years. The

In the Ukraina these circum tacks and, here and there, closed His crine consisted of doctrinal Gorgonzola cheeses with him to congratulated slanges produced the famine of ranks to form the Liberal-Se- and political differences with Korea... dressed to the Company CHINA foreign observer

knew wo could expect himself on bis rare good fortunc; 1931-2 which killed several cialist-Communist Popular Front. Stalin. MAIL LTD.

the Before history was being made under his million people. Whole villages

and biological warfare sooner or later. 'Kronstadters sub- Even old cyes.

died. The price of Bolshevik hasic sided into silence; few new re-under Lenin's leadership such Yet collectiviantion was the and degmatism was enormous.

crults joined their flag in the controversies were resolved by 'Kronstad of many foreign sym- I visited scores of collectives first two or three years after the ballots. Now the revolver of the parche

Communist Party debates pathisers and, incidentally. ot In the Ukraine, Crimea, the establishment of the Hiller re- GPU became the suprenie argu-Ambassade THE ENGAGEMENT is announced innumerable Soviet citizens, who Caucasus and Northem Russla

between Charles

In Russia, living conditions im- Holmes, A.R.I.C.S., of 50 realised, before I did, that, the between 1929 and 1936. They

collectives wore an ingenious, appeared for superior to the tiny proved measurably, though by Macdonnell Roah Hongkong, twentieth-century form of whole- strip farms of earlier years. foreign standards meagrely, dur- clder son of Mr. and Mrs.sale serfdom which forced the Fences and dividing suts had

Irrespective of the merits of A. R. Holmes of Motungham,

and Trotsky's or Stalin's position- Communist morality and Vera Smith, and and to work under the eyes disappeared. Machinery had been ng 1934 and 1935. At the same

Aprops this investigation into of babies born an prods of picked village Com introduced. Children's creches and time,

and on re-reading my reports, I the status N.S. (R), of The munists and made him dépendent kindergartens had been estab- | Idealism were disintegrating.

The GPU's Intervention in And that I aligned myself with aircraft, what about those born on on the state for seed, tools, work shed.

Lisú of the the ferry? Do they automatically animals, and most of his Income.

Offcials said the yield per unit Stalin's Ideological quarrels with neither the This nationalisation of agricui- of land had risen. Seed experi- the Left and Right oppositions secret police to end a disputs on become citizens of the Marine

the Communist Department? * ture naturally encountered flerce, ments, artificial cattle Insemina- reduced the Communist Party to policy. far-flung pessant resistance, and tion, deep electric ploughing, and an obedient rubber stamp of the Party's Waterloo.

Thereafter those who had force "The team complained both we all saw how the government other scientific innovations bo- personal dictator.

Its bureaucracy merged with would think they had wisdom. about the service and the fare." It banished hordes of yond the private peasant's wildest responded.

Dissenters preferred security to They were only fare to kulaks or prosperous farmers to fancy were now available to the the greater bureaucracy of the self-expression. Cynicism ac middling

these collectives..

government and both bred slave-labour camps. Even

triumphed cordingly mass deportations etld not break

Moscow trials sycophants, cynics and cowards. honesty.

Magazine article describes one In the highest rank as well as in the villages' opposition.

1 noted these phenomena but of the last toll bridges in England, rather Did the pros equal the const the lowest, fear

then

did not understand that they Did the promise equal the cost thought, self-interest rather than were the beginning of n dees-presided over by a beautiful red-

My

attitude began to bother me. Was I not glorifying public welfare was the father of dence that has produced today's

every word and deed,

great lie and great ellence. In- nybody

who had

uttered evitably, too, they contributed steel and kilowatts and forgetting

Officials in the Philippines have The Great view in the past or to the emergence of the human being" All the shoes,

so impressed a visiting US, banker schools, books, tractors, electric

Everything light and subways lu the world whose Independence and origin- Lender.

in m0 rebelled that he is expected to recommend severel hundred would not add up to the world Iality might some day nurture un- dreamt of, if the system that orthodoxy received a 2 a.m. visit against the fawning adulation

In view of what has happened produced them was immoral and from the secret police and soon and saccharinal glorification of million gold dollars.

Joined the Involuntary builders Joseph Stalin, The official pro- Black squares appeared in the of Socialism in Siberia and the paganda, for which he himself since the war, this sounds like a

was responsible, portrayed him very grafty, move. weave of my Soviet impressions, Arclic wastes.

as the infallible, kind, omniselent Soviet smiles may have

The Bolsheviku staged the first

author of everything that was of their big Moscow Irials in June

good in the Soviet Union.. momentarily taken the place

Pensante were threatened with 1928 the Sakht! trial.

In December 1934, a young] of scowls, and pastoral sounds

About 60 important Sovie:

man, named Nikolajev, shot and, killed Sergei Kirov, the Commun- may be faintly audible off-cxile to Siberia and Turkestan as

in-engineers kulaks they persisted in

sabotage and espionage. I sat

Number The Bolshevik regime stage as the United Nations dividual farming. the

such methods By

of the vast through the proceedings in the ist boss of Leningrad,

Soviet sented a revolt against the ugly for the last 24 hours ended at prepares for the next act in

Rusata's peasants famous Hall of Columns. I did Four Bolshevik

material, cultural and psycholo-10 a.m. last night,"

Threatened with boiling oil, the Korean drama. The majority of

Forthwith, the GPU executed gical heritage of Tariam.

resistant, proof-readers have gone into observer may be amused, we corralled into collectives. not know how much to bellave. Union.

But once in, many pulked

I believed part. I wondered about

103 persons who were in jail and Tearlan proved very the remainder,

GPU had been in jail for many months and the outside world did not morning. My doubts grow wher

Kirov's death. Then help the new defeat the old.

The

that

Chap soldier with bayoneted rifle led before

fact

Bolshevism man named, Mukhin to the Lenin's co-worker Zinoviev witness stand. To this day exiled for the same deed. Then would want to drink at the bought was wind-broken, claims

and repelled me. My strongest were punished for it.

Apparently the organisers of member his name, his brown the heads of the GFU in Lening- mouldy wells of Teorism shocked that Aly Khan is a horse traitor, cult, and his pasty, Desby, sallow was alck or hear. The So-

viet state, doomed by theory to been its internationalism and its the Olympics now being held in

forward books.

Israel have had a Jows of a lat Suddenly, in 1985, whispers of trouble finding sites. wither away, had expanded into

about n new democratic constitu- Abroad, to be sure, this same

became official. The Stain Con

on were heard, and in 1950 it its efforts to mould a collective stitution! I clutched at it. I accurity bloc against Fascist ag- wanted to bellove. I did not gression. But I felt that this was want to forswear Couso in which had made such a large not enough,

spiritual investment.

MARRIAGE NICHOLAS-LISTER-On Sept.

15th at St. Herbert's Winder mere, Walter Archibald, elder

Poorer peasants refused to take son of Kathleen Ciara Nicholas & the late Archibald Spears their animals into the collectives Nicholas of East Sheen SW14 and either sold or ate thom before and Janet Ogilvie Dunsmore, they fleired to the pressure and only daughter of Robina accepted membership. The con- Lister and the late Harry sequent shortage of livestock and Lister, formerly of Helens-horses pingued. Russia for years.

Price of hoste burgh & Glasgow.

AFTERMATH IN KOREA

The authorities employed every varlety of force to drive the

collectives, peasants Into

fted Army units frequently appeared it a village and went from hut to but ordering the inhabitants to form a kolkhoz.

or

JW

inhuman.

They died

Mouldy wells were charged with

WIS

repro-

hend.

a

For whom the belle tolls

grant of

"China's dual national days," No, Myrtle, not “duel.”

"The Colony's reservoirs benefited by 0.97 inches of rain

But

the

bond with the Soviet system had round face.

He gave evidence against the

to

distribution among

other defor.dants.

T

I recognised the Constitution's

of

albeit in a sardonic way, or not amused. Discomfiture dons to be sounding out United many disguises. But there Nations members on a plan is a job still to do in Korea, whereby other forces will and it has to be done com- take charge in the North and pletely and efficiently. The American troops go in only draft resolution circulated by if absolutely necessary. the British delegation seems The British and the Ameri- defendant habinovitch a man past to fill the bill admirably. Un- can schemes seem to davetall 70 who, fighting brilliantly for hid a cruel, overgrown monster.

life. had all hut worsted the ter- der it, occupation zones would perfectly. A gesture of this rifying theretofore invincible pro-Bolshevik government continued disappear; free elections sort would have an impres-secutor Krylenko in brain-to- would be held throughout the sion throughout Asia, wherebral combat.

Mukhin was brought country, North and South, it would conform to hoary clinch the case for the govern

'I believe, I wrote in an article under United Nations super-tradition, and not least in ment. He had been in prison for vision; a stronger Commission China. But it must be made several months on a churge un in the New York "Nation," that would be created to take quite clear that nobody is related to the current Sakhu trial, the democratisation of the Soviet deficiency. It enunciated an in- Mukhin declared under oath Union would weaken the enemies spiring bill of rights but des-

handed Rabinovitch a

of peace

cribed no executive machinery to charge of rehabilitation; and going to be fooled this time. that he

One evening in Moscow I read implement it and no fudiclary to United Nations forces would The spirit of the Communists bribe for himself and further

I discussed this this sentence from my manuscript safeguard it. remain long enough to who concentrated in Seoul bribes for guarantee peace and stability. and made the city their

From him all blessings flowed, to Constantine Oumansky chief with Karl Radck on the ove

the of Foreign Office Press De- the publication of the Constitu course, blunders, The plan is a sound one, but funeral pyre once more pain- Necessarily of

and to his assistant, ton. partment,

Radek was a renowned Soviet it may be effected in detail fully exposes the Satanic mass

handiwork of wreckers, Oumansky, the rigid official, suld writer, friend of Lenin, member by what happens to the bulk nature of their fanaticism, the ring, and setbacks were Boris Mironov. Mironov agreed.]

sn't relevant.

of the inner Party circle, co-

He know all vented Strategically they are beaten. to pull down in the North,

my repugnance for with one of the trials, Mironov conversationallet.

the answers, He would put a Stalin-idolatry in an article writ- Their

are but Malaya is an object lesson Stalin Moscow and published in

was shot. communications

Oumansky became ambassador question and before one could cut on the main highways, of guerilla dangers,

New York in 1930. 1 placed the at Washington and Mexico, al formulate a reply ho gave it him-

self. They are being split up into Aside from this, the major responsibility at Stalin's door and though within a decade he too

On this occasion, I said to him. fragments, and leaving be-political aims have been or called it the worst of all names, succumbed in a mysterious aero-

*The question of the Constitution achieved. The anti-Bolshevik,

plase accident. hind them weapons that en-are being

is a question of the GFU. Actually, it was Bolshevik; the

He was silent for full two cumber their flight. But the challenge of aggression has inescapable end-effect of dieta- Nationalistic

minutes, walking up and down Koreans make light of been met and overcome. The torship. Mussolini and Hitler con-

Democracy inside Russia would the length of his room. trackless mountains. They dupery has been exposed. ducted similar symphonies of self- can climb them like goats, Help came from afar not praise. At the lime, I did not have been very relevant to the are right,' he finally declared

and policy of collaboration for peace

the Western democracies (To be continued) were with and it is not easy to seal off merely in material but in see that Stalin's

against Hitler. the whole lot of them by a precious lives for the South the GPUs bad behaviour

A democratic Russia would foolproof, entrenched fence. Koreans. The Russians took no Hitler's part. have helped anti-appeasement! The war is lost-that they

was forces in England and France un-

of the defeated aggressors." There" may be fewer pillars.skyists, and 'onemies of the it wently, in connection-worker of Stalin atd. brilliant

chances and offered no such

deadly germa

bad taste

Perhaps disenchantment

A democratic Russia would purge

• You

who says

the colt he

"Winston throw me a div look!"

wer

MAKE A

Pleasure Leisure

all know by now, or ought to. sacrifices.. Their puppets slowly maturing within me. But seat their Neville Chamberlains But they have shown no sign were armed and trained for no conscious 'Kronstadt' threaten- and Daladiers. of surrendering en masse. the campaign of aggression.ed, and if it had, Hitler's advent: They are fleeing in superstiti In waging it the Korean in 1933 would have prevented me have avoided the Stalin

economically ous fear of their own lives, Communists were left alone. from rejecting the Soviet regime. and the big Moscow.trials walch

The Nazis loudly avowed their weakened Russin and many of them, carrying That, too, has been noted all cults the axe (Heads will roll, and militarily A democratic Rus- Hitler said), the Fuehrer, an ex-sia would not have signed the lighter arms and grenades, over Asin.

anti-Semitism, 1939 pact with Hitler. A deino- panded It will have defenders, no will probably manage to get

words, If their cratic Russid, and antmany

In other across the Parallel.

doubt, in a realm of ideology|

barbarlem and blood.

which tho totalitarian Soviet The more thoroughly the where black is white and way won, the world would sink might have prevented the

The communists. had helped to precipitate. job of disarming them is white is black.. It will be said.

come to power;

revolution began The Nazi

Ger- done, the less trouble in the again, that it is an example helped

they thought the destruction of with the glorification of future, and the earlier will it of the Kremlin's love of the democratic centre would many's past. The Bolshevik" re- be possible to end both the peace: not an example of facilitate their struggle with the volution ended when it glorified military phase and the oc- victimisation and chicanery. Nazi extreme. This is an ineur-Russia's part.

The new nationalism was Rus cupation. The natural, re-But many things are said that able Communist miscalculation.

But once the Farcists took over alan nationalism, Goose-stepping action would be to leave the are not believed. It is the in Germany, German and other scholars rewrote history to prove job of disarmament to the belief that matters. That ad- Communists led the anti-Nazi; that Tearlet Russia had not been Korean Republicans. Certain mirable wind-vano, Mr. night, and, after at least a year a prison of nations as Commun-

besitation, the Soviet Govern-ists used to contend, ly they would be thorough Aneurin Bevan, summed up ment, joined that fight. Capital- The study of the Russian lan- about it almost certainly the position a few days ago at nailons recognised the Hitler guago was anade obligatory for A Mil national' minorities, "The out- much too thorough. Some To Communists, he said: monaco mein Commissar ward trappings of Tharlem, for-

Soviet Foreign restraint will have to be "You cannot be regarded as

Litvinay how launched a dynamic merly reviled by the Bolsheviks placed on that fanatical fero- friends of the North Korean drive for an anti-Fascist coali- as relica of the ugly, past, were city that lies below the sur-worker when all you have ton to check the descent of wat, restored, face of the Korean's passive succeeded in doing is making in Geneva be mercilessly flayed of Hiller, Mussolini, calm. That role ought to be him a bloody fool at the the appeasers played by mixed United Na hands of other people." It was and Japan. tions forces.to impossible, he said, for North and pacifists was no compensa-peering straight into his eyes. His success among Journalists Rabinovitch walked over to | within two feet of Mukhin and, On principle there is logi Korea to have built her war on for his failure to alter the sald, Tell me, please, about cal objection to any dis machine alone, and it was to policies of conservative and op- whom are you speaking about me |

or somebody elie ?!! crimination in this problem, the undying disgrace of the portune bourguele governments.

- Litvinov's" name became a⚫ I am talking about you, The United Nations hus gain-nation, that armed them, that symbol, and as such it still stands Mukhin replied on s ed the verdict in this brital, those members of North to mock those who contend that Why do you lie ich 2 Rabl challenge because of Amerk Korea had been taught to use only the Fascist aggressors made novitch excialmed, Who told can statesmanship, strategy, tanks and not tractors and the second world war. Her you: tolla. You know you and determination in action, ploughs There L no greater had many active and passive de gave me no money

mocratic collaboratori doplnky,

**Mukhin, postier and paler than Washington must have the crline against the North Rubber stamp before, repentod, hir, Gory, like tutored automatorare decisive say in how the details Koren working-class than

It seemed better Prategy to The Urus adlar riarched him ed problem is to be handled. that their natives have been combattuta jadi Pembat out of the help scrylented) koolund And Mr. Dean Acheson is said driven into losing their lives." the Boviet Government which i crestianian, Clonely, Mulchlä hävd

Acting

OF YOUR

RELAX on a Round-Trip to

JAPAN

› Specia] - Kwand Tsły ⋅ Soliday Turni

́D. LINB LTD/O, N, Co. LTD.

"TAIPINO"AUT

POANGÈHA“ **TAIYUAN"

For 'full' detaling (yledir, apply. Mem

Butterfield & Swire