1950-10-28 — Page 9

THE CHINA MAIL, SATU URDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1950,

NOT TOO LATE, BRITAIN TELLS SOVIET RUSSIA

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Lake Success, October 26.

Britain told Russia today in the United Nations that it was hot too late for hor to think again and recover the goodwill that she had built up when the war endod.

Mr. Kenneth Younger, British Minister of State, speaking in the general debate in the Political Committee on methods of strengthening peace, devoted a large part of his speech to attacking Russia's policy since the war.

He then added, "I am sure that I am not the only one around this table who feels ick at heart to find the Union f Soviet Socialist Republics furning her back in this way on a 100 years of internation- Socialist thought and as- piration.

"It is not too late for her to hink again. The fund of good. vill towards their Russion com- des which was stored up in the arts of so many millions at the d of the war in not exhausted." A Soviet resolution before the Assembly proposed a peace pact ind an immediate one-third cut the Great Powers' armament and the outlawing of the alomie bomb.

Mr. Younger sold that Russia now maintained some 25,000 anks in her own armed forces.

Mr. Younger warned that any Big Five agreement attempted while Russia holds its balance of military strength WUS scarcely more realistle "than Inviting a mouse to negotiate with u eat,"

The Soviet proposal before the United Nations main Political Committee for atomic control and arms, reduction should therefore be rejected,

Colossal army

some

Mr. Younger charged that! while Rusia spoke of disarma. ment,

maintained she 25,000 tanks in her own armed forces. The Soviet Union also maintains under arma more than 4,000,000 men organised in more than 150 active divisions.

Answering the Russian argu- ment that the United States was leading an arms race of the Wes- tern nations to gain mastery of the world, Mr. Younger pointed to Russia's

present strength, and declared:

armed

"In face of these tremendous Agures, determination to

build

the defences of Western Europe up to something like 60 divisiono represents no more than a very moderate understanding of the phrase 'situations of strength". and' to consider it evidence of a

desire for world mastery is too udicrous to require any further comment from me."

It was shumciess hypocrisy for the Soviets to propose a one- hird reduction in arms of all forces in view of the present balance of world military strength.

We have learned from bitter Experience that in the absence of rather more reasonable balance strength then we enjoy at We present time, to try to reach a free and fair compromise with the Soviet Government is scarce- ly more realistic than to Invite la mouse to negotiate with a cat,”

Annual farce

an

The debate on a Russian "peace plan" had become

annual farce. Russia each year failed to show any counter part in action

DON

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The unpredictable. Mexicans i so to a Mexicon is to invite à tocracy 'and' ox-ranchi-owners, old- are trying to outdo the Russians knife in your ribs. und Americans at one and the same time.

The Mexican bitterly resente the financial domination of the The Government, still proud to there is an old and sad proveri foreigner (the American), and call itself revolutionary, is press here "Mexico mother to foreig- ing forward its Socialist and nationalisation programme, parners, stepmother to her own relling out rescurces and promisce The Government of President to prons and simultaneously Miguel Aleman, a party of revo

out to building an American-style suplullohary Institutions,

all this. And with the erstructure upon the ancient Mcx- change teannoli

simple slogan of "Mexico for the There could be, a collapse. The Mexicans", it has won and hold passionately patriotic, sensitive the support and affection of the Mexicans say not.

people.

to see

Mexico City, where I ain stay-

"Despite denials, the politicos

be surprised is a minor New York-on would not ng surface. the

It is a bustling, Sener Aleman running for Presi- to match its fine words for world clamerous city of 3,000,000. peo dent again in 1952, peace. The Stockholm peace apple, streamlined American cars

The politicos are the powers peal had lost its point since its

I drove cutside the elty. from across the border, towering here. organisers claimed to have ob-

neon-trimmed modern hotels, alr-pust the shrines and monuments lained "normous numbers. of conditioned, thickly carpeted, glit through the crowds of peasants signatures in North Korea from tering bars, plush restaurants, and squatting... standing, sitting on the very people who were at the stores. time engaging in mounting a powerful military campaign back- ed by armoured divisions and artillery.

Sir Carl Berendsen, of New Zealand, followed Mr. Younger and delivered a brief but violent attack on the Soviet proposals.

He would vole ugainst суету paragraph of the Russian tocu- ment because It had been intro- duced, Sir Carl added, to further national ends of the Soviet Union and not to strengthen the United Nations.

Mr. Eric Boheinan, of Sweden, announced that both the Swedish Government and Sweden's people dissociated themselves entirely from the so-called "Stockholm peace appeal." Sweden deplored the association of the name of Stockholm with # product of doubtful quality.

might be staying at the the Waldorf in New York or Savoy in London. The service is sure-footed and swift; the food knowing and highly seasoned; the cocktails skilfully mixed.

Everyone working in the hotel and most of the people staying here speak English, and luxury is limitless.

the

Luxury and misery

But as soon оз I leave the Hotel del Prado and stroll down Junrez Avenida I um confronted with grinding poverty and sul fering. The great boulevard 1 thronged with beggars (and ped- lars.

The blind, the diseased, and the crippled hold out their hands pleading for pesos. There are old bent men and women covered Mr. Warren Austin (United with sores. Many are bare- Stutes) opposing the Soviet re-footed, shuffling along the hard solution, said that the Russian at- pavement looking for doorways titude towards the United Nations in

to sleep; which Everyone is trying to sell you effort in Korea and toward ag gression "enises grave questions something in Mexico City, and I'

to force my which concern every member of this Organisation."

crowds of lattered urchins touting ets, sun-glasses, porno- lettery tickets,

tancy graphic pictures.

silver bracelets, scrolled leather wallets and handbags.

"We need to know where the Soviet Government stands on war declared Mr. Austin.

reed to know whether it

"We

is here to advance a new coloni- alism or whether it is here to co- operate with the rest of us in wringing an end to war and as- suring a lasting peace."-Reuter and United Press.

War games in Trieste area

towards their patient burros, Chapultepec Park, and saw hun- dreds of lavish villas and palaces. said to my Mexican friend: "Who lives here?" He Bitrugged and anith "The politicos,"

As the fofficial salaries of the politices are only a few pounds a week, they obviously get most of their Income from somewhere clsc.

This is the city of casy money and

uneasy consciences. The American financlers who get into trouble in their own country slip dcross the border and set up shop here.

The European Black Marketeer who has made things too hot for himseit in Paris or Rome or Bu- dapest becomes a Mexico City bigwig.

The hotels are littered with confidence men peddling slick, got- rich-quick schemes, worthless shares, and phoney goods.

These promoters prey on the tourists and gouge the rancid aris

way through ITALIAN ATTACK

ON BRITAIN

The Mexicans can spot a tourist and a gringo from 20 yards away, and you have to be hard and

though

murmuring even to CROSS the

street.

Mexico is still a desperately poor country despite the surface prosperity. It is short of water, short of wheat, short of corn,

Mexicans, and newly noble nou- beau riches,

It is a commonplace to have jall sentence fixed here.. ono's Immigration papers or ever

Border sealed

Just now Mexico City is fa great distress, for the American authorities liave sealed the border under the anti-Communist law, all visas, hich has todor The headline

Unidos Suspende las Visas struck (cat

Into the crooks' hearts and annoy- ed-and, even outraged the honest.. Mexicans bitter under the big stick at Washington in the past, are always ready to get offended again with the high-handed action of the colossus and tycoon of the North,

Where 2 went to get my visa graciously renewed in view of the Anglo-American partnership and the fact that I am a newspaper- mpn the crowd outside the American Embacay was 1,500 #rong and in a mood to throw bricks.

Anything and everything the U.6. Government does is regarded with some suspicion.

The official attitude towards religion has Communist over- tonus. Mexico is all-Catholic and passionately se, yet religious pro- in the ccasions arc forbidden

and streets, and clergy nuns are not supposed to appear in public in the clothes of their calling.

There is no organised campaign against religion-Instead, there is something called "tolerance, which should really be called in- tolerance.

Mexico may be Rodical-Social- fat with Communist tinges, but it is lined up with the Western Powers and the United Nations, and its President Aleman walka * wonderful tight-rope, stressing his ideology, but also reaping capitalist loans and credit.

who are always people, capable of a revolution if hard- pressed enough, would not have it otherwise. The vast majority of them icave polities to their lenders until their bellies shrink too thin.

The

Wasted money

Rome, October 26. The extreme right wing news, paper, "Giornale d'Italia," today accused Britain of offering all the Italian assets in Libya to the Arabs as a bribe to exclude the

They are great gamblers, in- 45,000 Italian settlers from the satiable fellowers of the races and future independent State.

Loteria Nacionale. They will Commenting on Britain's pro- tolerate corruption among their posal to the United Nations that

Italian assets be handed executives they sey a Mexican generul can resist anything ex- new Libyan paper's leader writer.

Signor cept a cannonado of 50,000 pesos but any politician wants to Santi Savarino, said :** Machla veill himself could certainly, not the lottery of close

finish off his career let him ban the race- have thought up an expedient so tracks. Inhuman, hypocritical and selfish that devised by the English to 08 despoil the Italians and are ready in a polite and charm-them to abandon Libya ing way to extract his wallet, and watch painlessly.

Seventy per cent of its people ere literate and ill-housed, and half of them live like animals.

I am astonished at

at their

patience and their tolerance. They Trieste, October 28.

do not like the foreigner, particu- Major General T. S. Airey, the larly the well-heeled, rubber- British Commander of the Anglo-necked, gawking tourist, but they American Zone of Trieste, today expressed great satisfaction at the three-day manoeuvres under his direction which have just ended

here.

General Airey told Reuter that there was an excellent spirit of comradeship oral co-operation be- tween the British and United States troops taking part.

Just now the capital is jammed with sightseers from the US. There

never has been such a tourist boom.

to the

-

the

I went to the Hipodromo de las Americas, a magnificent

race-

accepting the Corso about five miles from town.

of

The poor, who still cherish illu- independence, only Italy would alons about winning fortunes and have been able to establish it discovering hidden treasure--this romantic country--threw quickly in Libya. But the. Eng-t ish do not want the indepen-war horses.

away their meagre earnings on

The

well-to-do, dence of Labyá, they want

traditional vassal State, a State ed faneily dressed in corrupted and corruptible, puppet abo

Merican costume, with sweeping State.

£250, gold- Pse to the Arabs the sombreros costing

and Jackets Italian

which are the und-silver button fruits of intelligenep, sacrifice and tight-trousers costing £300, work, is a moral monstrosity, elegantly wagerad fortunes on the which only the English, in the nags. A dollar is worth 8 the average Mexican is lucky if year 1950, could still conceive." he gets 20 pesos a week, he con- siders every touring, busybody u minor millionaire.

Four hundred thousand Ameri- cans will have visited Mexico by the year's end. They are spend- ing their money recklessly, toss- ing their dollars into Mexican palms with abandon.

hope the

pesos. As

British a

The manoeuvres, which anish- ed in heavy rainstorms, supposed an enemy advancing on Venice from Yugoslavia, having taken Trieste. The Navy landed a Bri- tish force to relieve an American resistance "pocket on the Wes- tern border of the Trieste Free This is a hard-currency coun- Zone, and the American troops try, and · were evacuated by sea. The Bri-home realise it.

I called on

John Taylor, tish force then consolidated position and began to push new, Ambassador here, whom I knew in Washington, and he wards Trieste.

agrees that we have a wonderful chance to garner dollars. The Mexicans want British goods and they pay on the nose, before they can obtain them.

its to-

Realistic conditions were creat- ed by disguising picked troops in civilian clothes as fifth column saboteurs and sples-Reuter.

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We are buying their cotton, as durable as Texas cotton, and they are ready to buy our machinery. Ninety-five per cent of Mexican trade is with the U.S.; but it is the conviction of British officials

that

Is our turn to move particularly with motor-cars. I haven't seen a single British car in the streets except the Ambassador's Humber. The taxis ,000 of them, as many as in London-are Dodges, Chevrolets. Fords.

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Describing the British In Libya as "hated oppressors and ex- ploiters the article asserted that the Libyan people "recognise that the Italians have educated them,

protected and defended them, as no one else has in any other country in the world."—— Reuter.

SWOOP ON MUNICH BLACK MARKET

The Jockey Club is about the mosi fashionable spot in Mexico City, and the senoritas beautifully dressed and all look- ing like Dolores del Rio.

were

But I am not o gambler, and 10 seemed stupid to me to see such a poor country wasting its money.

Not my sport

I also went to a bull-fight, but, sickened by the cruelty to the bull and the horses, left after a few minutes. This astonished my Munich, October. 25. Mexican friends. To a Mexican About 750 police with Customs bull-fighting is not merely a sport men from all over Bavaria sur-or a spectacle but a great national rounded Munich's notorious tradition. It is not map agains

the beast but Mexico against the Mochistrasse slum today and re- moved tons of black market food enemy. They arrested 12, people whose papers were not in order.

the The raid was made on orders of the West German Finance Ministry.

The district is little more than collection of theicks, mainly occupied by East European Jewish refugees. In one cellar nearly a ton of green rancid butter and mildewed flour, was found.

a

In some ways Mexico City is an The police also discovered a extension of the US, another secret cofice roasting establish- American State, although to say Iment-Réutor.

Writer and artist Tom

Lea "The festival of the bulls say is the only art form in which violence, bloodshed, and death are palpable and unfeigned." That is why do not like bull-g

But the. Mexicans do, and their country. At least, they hope will it is their country, and they not be content until Mexico for the Mexleans becomes reality.

Footnote (and current slogan. here): Hate off to the past, coats off to the future.

U.S.-Canadian agreement on

joint défence

production

Washington, October 26.

The United States and Canada today pledged themselves to work hand

in hand on defence production.

affort, will be relaxed where A six-point agreement, signi- The terms of the pact fol

possible..., ed by the U.S. Secretary, at lowed recommendations of the

United States; and Canadian State: Mr. Dean Acheson, and Joint American-Canadian In- the Canadian Ambassador, "Mr." dustrial

Planning agencies will consult on finan-. mobilisation

prob- established on April cial or foreign exchange committee Hume Wrong, commits the 12, 1040.

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the pro The provisions two North American neigh-}|cluder

the agreement bours to pool their industrial

will co- two countries

meant that United States plants might to prepare for any inlll-ordinate programmer of teque would be able to place large tary amergencies which may roments, production and pro- orders in Canadas for my nooded

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