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·THE · CHINA "MAIL, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1950.

How Russia dupes FRANK OWEN

by

our visiting trades

unionists

Richard Jones:

countries Cast of the Iron Curtain.

our

Shortly after the British de- Jegution returned home Ambassador went for a holiday un the Black Sea coast, and stayed not far from Soochl, which the 20 trades unionists found so attractive,-

Comrade Stalin Ands the salu- brious climate of that part soothing.

What more natural than that

What they did not describe, application

where the

Daily Express correspond-

ent sends Home his views

ON HONGKONG

AID one of our long it was not possible to build

hospitals, but

ac- Ministers-on-tour the commeation was doubled an up,

They were Invited to broad- cast and most of them did so. broadcasts were

pacans THERE were 20 of on the Moscow Sea an outraged Their

them:

Great typical soldier came charging up with of praise for the great construc- Sir David and Lady Kelly should 20

at the ready and threat tion going on in the Soviet wish to sen bayonet

wrong with our 0,000 midwives registered. Man spends

his summer holl-nothing British workers, 20

ened the most dire con- Union.

broadcasting range from Day and night the doctors and staunch trades unlonists sequences,

was made THE 20 TRADES UNION- and obviously had not eyes to

and Hongkong. It can be heard the nurses worked. They do cross-

served to win and they began to 21 representative

ISTS SPENT TWO WEEKS Ace were the forced labourera

Travis, president of the clearly in Kowloon."

do so, :,^. section (so they described

Soviet Union. in the

working on these construction

Sheffield branch of the Foundry True, and we should hope were able to sites.

But it ia n campaign which la themselves) of the British

They said they

Workers, was luckier than I or so. For Kowloon is a mile never woo. The fact that nearly and to talk walk about freely

They are building one of their other members of the working class.

British

many, more babies and a half away across the twice ea freely to anyone.

much-vaunted sky-scrapers on Embassy in Moscow. wonder. I

Embankment, He had the pleasure of visit-bay. Probably the right hon. (55,000) were born in the colony Kropotkinskaya

last year than in 1940 hus some- where midway beween

lived ing the Stalin auto works, gentleman meant Canton, thing to do y with it

Repeated applications from us

Schools, too and the Kremlin.

Had they cared to walk by carly in the morning they would have seen the green or brown

bakery.

like the famous

And they had "penetrated"

When Odvar Larsen, Nor- the Iron Curtain, at the Invita-

rallway worker, re- Trades weginn tion

the Moscow of Council, to see the great Soviet turned home from a similar trip

You have only to walk by the to see this mammoth motor which is a further couple of the other day he reported that

down, hundred miles off. wore turned Union with our own eyes."

armed sentries works perched The aeroplane had barely, they were not allowed to speak site to see the

in their little boxes though, to console us, they ar

But we cannot be sure he MA, established; hos- touched the tarmac at Moscow to any Russians.

with eyes constantly ranging ranged a visit to an electric did. For few in Britain op- Queen Mary and the Tung Brother Fred He said that when one even- airport before

pear to know much....about. Wah strive to take care of the Hollingsworth, of the Foundry ing two members of his delo- the ground in front of them.

THE MASTER? Hongkong, oar furthest For wounded of everyday life, and Workers' Union, was broadcast- gallon sneaked away by them-

a and new-one, largely helped hauled back ing greetings on behalf of the selves they were

Eastern outpost. Yet we by the outstanding private British people to "overy corner, and reprimanded.

DURING THEIR WHIRL- should.

generosity of Hongkong, people, of the sixth of the world's sur

WIND VISIT THE TRADES

Hongkong rises out of rises on the Peak, unlonists had talks with Soviet

There is another fold, educa union officials and workers on the China Sea, a rock like tion, in which Hongkong se the way their trades unions are Gibraltar, except that an example, More than ten p organised and managed.

This is

the conclusion they Hongkong itself is an island. cent of the colony's total pu goes to shaj Opposite, on a densely built lle expenditure CRIC to:~

tomorroy the minds of its is no doubt that the up shallow shelf under the citizens, There working class are the masters of mountain wall, is Kowloon, In its 800 schools are 100,000 the Soviet Union. The trades

and power

The British.

face covered by the U.S.S.R."

had Ten sleck, black limousines workers whisked them to Moscow's Na- the services of tional Hotel.

Ανα English- speaking inter- proters were

can

The National Is the city's No. J hotel. No. 1, the Moskva, is But Moscow's pride and joy. only Rusalans are allowed there. No. 2 is the Metropole. In its

hear

every lounges you language-except English,

POLICE KNOW

BRITISH VISITORS ARE A RARITY INDEED, fact, the only visitors allowed in since the war, are those care- fully sponsored by Soviet or- ganisations.

IN

As soon as they arrive they are taken under the all-embrae- ing wing of Intourist, the Go- verament travel agency which shepherds everyone, diplomats included, from the moment they soll until set foot on Russian

dust from they shake the red their feet to come home.

and accom...

every- panlod where by trade union officials

THE MAN FROM MOSCOW

Richard Jones was the editor of the Embassy magazine British Ally in Moscow until the Russians put it out of business

of vans,

biscuit boxes

with and a couple of detectivas.

"We had co-operation in every barbed wire over their windows conceivable way," they reported. and two Red Army men with Soon after their arrival they fixed bayonets driving through went into conference with their the guarded gates. Soviet friends and put their requests before them.

make

unions enjoy a responsibility its mainland suburb. Both children; it still leaves 50,000

more outside, ceded to Britain by which energetic action is being

unknown in the were

wherever you go!'

capitalist world, and you will treaty.

and examples proving this Before we made her one The of the greatest ports in the

world, there was nothing except rock and mud.

What utter nonsensei

in our

directed,

#

matter

The killer

to

s there crime and violence

in this model colony?

Oh yes. Also in London, the

in city most civilised

the world.

At blazing noon,

in Aber- fishing

Beyond Kowloon are the New Territories, leased to the British about the turn deen (Hongkong's own of the century for 99 years. village), sa oilskin cape and So for the next 40 or so little conical hat He on the

pavement by the quay, these 400

square cover the slight of a mountain land Chinese child, dead. He

fact is that in the USSR. there

unions are no trades AT SIX IN THE EVENING sense of the word. THEY WOULD HAVE The Jabour organisations After weighing up everything

miserable which exist are unable to work they finally decided that they SEEN them again,

of human for higher wages, shorter hours, the weary-eyed cargoes Use of ought to

slaves taking an all too brief or improvements in conditions. facilities they were offered.

They are, to put it mildly. What else could they do, as glance at the still-free Russians

of the Soviet strolling along the embankment. duty bound to help the Goven years their knowledge

economic plans They visited Stalingrad, ad- ment full its Union was limited?"

PLACES VISITED

mired the famous tractor plant, by increasing workers' produc- miles were impressed by the steady tivity, by exerting pressure for like Wales also belong to killed when I have seen a list of the places rehabilitation being made in higher production noring, and they visited. They may be inter- that war-scarred elly.

by spreading the piecework us. know that they saw

system. non-ested to

what Moo Tse-tung But what happens when a Decisions as to wages, hours, hotel exactly room in any part of the Soviet and his Chinese licachmen saw; foreign diplomat visits the city? and working conditions are de-

Ho is shadowed from the

termined, not by the worker, of In- what the Hungarian, Rumanian,

all the and

other moment he steps Bulgarian

off the plane but by the Soviet Government, and they are not subject to visitors from the satellite coun- or train. Militiamen firmly dis-

suade him fro

from proceeding collective bargaining, tries were shown.

direction of the tractor the plant. I have known of friends actually turned off a tram be-

happened. cause its destination to be the tractor factory.

con

Neither diplomat nor diplomat

book AM

Union without the ald tourist.

Nor can they buy a rail, nir, except or steamship ticket through the medium of that all- powerful organisation.

Intourist lays on everything, even your little faunt round the Kremlin, your threatre ticket, your car, your chauffeur, and the room you sleep in.

Intourist, of course works hand in glove with the M.V.D. (secret police), and is reputed to be a branch of it.

They saw the show places of the Soviet Union.

They heard the same set pieces

of by the same reeled well-rehearsed mouth-pieces.

They saw just what the Soviet authorities wanted them to sea dnd nothing more.

And they returned home with the same glowing accounts of their visit as can be read in all

Kiev, say the British dele- gates, is a lovely city.

British To members of the and other embassies in Moscow Kjev is out of bounds. Why?

(World Copyright—London Express Servico).

The bureaucrat Czars of Russia TOMORROW

↓

It's crowded WHAT, are we doing with

our

and

our*

They

body of d

wa

201 a vengeful tools & time

hi bomb into enemy's shop and blow the place apart.

But a bobby was walking or his beat where he should be ostate,

and not filling up forms An tenants?

triplicate, and resolutely Ed As everywhere else in went for the killer. I was with our war-shattered and war the police commissioner, mak Ing a Saturday morning tou obsessed world, there is of his

Island police stations overcrowding. But few when It happened. His places have had, as Hong- picked up the news, and in ter

minutes The Guv'nor bim kong has, to cope with a,

self was on the spot. The three-fold rise in popula- Hongkong police generally are tion, which probably now Their 4,500 men

plent stands above 2,000,000. ⠀ to do and large; bailiwick Probably 2,000,000-be- for it stretches across the bay cause, as Commissioner, of and the mountains of the New

Territories to the frontier Police Macintosh, whose Fed China, where on one s hardest task is to check not of the village street of Sha T rogues but refugees, ad- Koke strolls that British bot on the other stands a f mita:.. "Nobody really guard with tommy guns mor knows to within 100,000 ted beneath the remind Spend a day amid the fecuing notice: "People of China, have

wooden hovels which fear. The People's Armu I am American, and I was con- much place as any other part of spring up overnight on either Liberation is here. Peace LUCKNOW.

How her history."

side of the bay and you will un- come to China the street siderably taken aback.

We visited the Residency, derstand why, Bombay

ever, curiosity overcame other

Wire fence signs are in English as feelings and I pressed him to scene of the famous slego of Hongkong stood battle, bomb-

LARGE number of citizen Lucknow, There it stands in ing, and enemy occupation and.

come i THE MORNING AFTER well as Marathi. This may explain.

n it has stood liberation, But here it was the still prefer to

a 10ft. obvious state of It seemed there were various ruins, quietly, THE 20 TRADES UNION-seem an

doubl he for nearly a century. There liberated who did the looting Hongkong, so Americans,

for mile ists arrived in Moscow

the shell-pocked brick and, of course, they knew better wire fence rung. walked

along the frontier river be into the National affairs to some people, but reasons.

give orders rather a lot. Amerl- walls and the plaques com-where to look

tween Our receptionist it astonished me. I have said are arrogant and are apt to were

polico barrack and asked the

which today are fortißed block if I could have a word with my stumbled helplessly through cans thump the table and tell memorating British heroes who

so many cities in China and Indian statesmen what to do. withstood the mutings sepoys E British brofight in coal houses, to stem the trattie

and rice and began rehous

If the secret police decide that your journey to Omsk or then Tomsk is not necessary, Intourist will tell you that tic- kets are not available to Omsk or Tomsk

If you persist and call again, then it will blandly advise you that the service is no longer running.

.

NOT A WORD

fellow-countrymen.

1

NEHRU STANDS BY

QUEEN

VICTORIA

tin and

expect gratitude, for eighty-seven days. quite often for benefits not yet I had a long, talk with the

other Americans when conferred.

I got

ing

the

. She shied like a frightened horse, departed, and came back Japan, where the English Americans

had been after a long interval to say that place-names

thoroughly expunged by I must contact Intourist.

could I asked her confidentially if Nationalists, that I she could tell me where I could not get used to being able find the British delegates at that: to find my way easily.

monient.

As

India, 1950, is giving me shocks.....says

Disease.

-and

It does no more, for

the A prompt result was that still swim the river and go hungry and homeless from over the wire. Indeed, som beyond the border pouped in, enterprising gentlemen make

By 1940 the population of the living by swimming customer pont had doubled and many were across on their backs and the sick

with malaria, cholera and acting as ladders over the wir smallpox, Infant mortality was They are invariably picke

up by a patrol and led back The British bad to bring back the bridge, where they mu health-too. Two million people explain to the "Chine were vaccinated in two years. For People's Polica."

EMILY HAHN nearly 90 per thousand.

I went to Lucknow to attend one of those ever- lasting conferences. There I found a number of my I stared open-mouthed at the compatriots in a similar tho though betraying

in the shop state. "It doesn't make secret of the atom, bomb she English books

self a gravely Informed me that they windows, and I was very much sense," declared the edl- libaral Ameri-

back to the hotel. I wanted had gone

to photograph the surprised that pictures of King for

can paper. "Here I've Kremlin.

George V and Queen Mary hung

spent all my ilfe interpreting especially to tell them about the "Photograph the Kremlin?" I in the country club. exclaimed incredulously. The This was not at all my pre- Asia to the United States, de Delhi statue, an anecdote I had

India. manding Independence for India, just heard. poor girl nearly collapsed and conceived idea of Free bade me be gone.

There in the club, Indians and and now the first time I come Those of us who had brought English disported cheerfully to- here I find myself abused as an our cameras used them gether with their children in the American imperialist!"

with never & wherever we wanted to," repar-swimming-pool,

Nobody... they ted the delegation when

mention of tyranny. returned home. How different from the treatment meted out seemed to think those pictures

should not hang there..

"Listen, was there a revolu tlon?" I asked my guide, "or was I mistaken?"

100 Zaltor.

my

of a Moscow Boat flatly refused wife permission to take even misp of our two children in the boat, although Fursing passen- gers were bually clicking their

cameras.

THREATENED

Like the British

It seems that Singapore needed for some reason a statue of Queen Victoria.

An offer was made for a

Pretty park statue which stands in Delhi, tho Delhi NE day I went out with an but to the surprise of the Singa

English delegate to see the pore authorities, city. We passed a pretty park people would not consider a with a graceful white structure sale.

That statue they sald, haa In the

middle, a sort of of stood in Delhi' many years. It which sheltered a statue. "Who belonged to Delhi. It was not that?" I asked.

He gave me a aldewise look "Queen Victoria," he said.

"But she was the British Raj, I don't understand."

said cautiously that you might call it that, or that vou might call it a whole series of revolutions. "In any case, as. you know," he said, the Eng The Englishman said, "As I All my own requests to tako ih Government has left, and understand it, Nohru's done a

India is 'Independent.

remarkable thing. At the be photographs wore always

"We like the Eriti ho ginning a fow hotheads were sparned the Ministry didn't

carefully, "and it all for wiping out everything even bother to reply to applica- added very tlons made through official you will excuse my plain speak that reminded them of the Eng

ing, we do not like the Ameri- lish, but he wouldn't have that. channels,

He sold nil thilathe statues and When one bright young thing cans."

"Ob?"Therd was not much monuments-is a part of India's from our Embassy, attempted to photograph' 'a pleturesque lock fuiso Twould say at me moment. history. He declared it has os.

POP

VOICE

to go.

As I finished my story we all looked at each other in per plexity. The American liberal- paper editor broke the silence. said, "Pax Britannica," ho grinning. "We're just learning what it meant. Now we know what it must have been like for the English"

did

"We're learning," said another

guess it's just about time we

---(London Express Service)

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