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EDINBURGH

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"At least, Footcross, in the Iron Curtain countries there's always a British Consulate to-escape to in case of trouble

London Express Service

SOVIET POWER HAS PASSED ITS ZENITH

T

Polish army.

He cannot cp- tinely rely on his own subjects,

subject States.

UNCLE'

SHAKES UP COCOA ISLE

by R. M. MacCOLL

GRENADA.

N this lushly fertile littlo

Island,

tive chocolato face. The former waltor, former ochoolmaster has a good, rich, fakly recon- ant voice. "Look,

Food people, Uncle right down Gairy don't like to get mad. almost on the lowest end of Some of the big boys have sald the neat chain of Britain's Mah people, if the day comes they are out to gof. Galrý. Caribbean possessions, shots when you hear Uncle Gairy has fired by policemen killed become a ghost, remember to a lot of the big four people and scared off make certain

aro Kuys

ghosts, too. Then thousands American Uncle Gairy's ghost won't be

of | tourist dollars.

A police chief has been

sacked. Mistrust and sus-

mall, becauso bo likes company." Off at 11

6CT

picion hang over the colony. PLANTERS and employers to a man loathe Gairy and all The melancholy paradox he stands for, and they will not is that Grenada's nutmeg enjoy a new strike --- of

vanto-called for this month. and cocoa crops have been

At the sume time, very few fetching boom prices. Ameri- people, even among the old- ca wants the colony's fine line die-hards, will deny that grade cocoa for chocolate wages should go up as Gairy

manufacture, and Chicago demands.

But although they average

clamours for nutmeg, B about 35 10d a day just now, prized ingredient in modern two things should be remem meat tinning.

bered. Until qulle recently all the plantations, following the There is an uneasy truce low-priced 30s, wore heavily

on the plantations while a mortgaged. They are, only now wage settlement is being beginning to struggle out of

"the worked out with "Uncle"

red." Eric Gairy.

Secondly, a sión is paid his:

10d. for his daily "ask" (piecework), not for a day's work. This means that he

Big guys

35.

He certainly cannot rely on his UNCLE GARRY and his Peo- knocks off to the day often

Every purge, and every organs" in.

That is why the "State

the Soviet system

HE inte Benito Mus- seeds of decay are germinat all the same forces are at solini used to declare ing in the Soviet system. work. And there is an- that the 20th cen- Thirty-three years after the other force as well the

Party and Manual am. tury was the century revolution, the Bolshevik force of nationality.

and Mental Workers' Union are If he wants to do another concerned of Fascism. The late Adolf party

about (1) has still failed to

money "a" he can of course for Hitler announced that the create a stable order. The

and (2) privilege.

double pay, But most choose For them the "aristocrat" is to go home and fill their own. Nazi regime would last a "classless society" in which trial shows how even in still need to be strengthened, not a white man. He is simply small-bolding. thousand years. It was the there should be no internal the inner circles of the And that is why, as the years calls them--"de haven."

one of "de big guys," as Gairy same trick--a form of con- conflicts, in which all men Communist Parties them- pass the Soviet Jugime fidence trick. The purpose were to be free and all men selves, dislike and resent- sive, more and more compelted

oppres was to give their own fol contented, can only be held ment of Russian control to rely for its very existence lowers or dupes confidence, together by force. The re- and of Russian arrogance upon force and upon Intimida- and to under-

And if this is so' gime can only exist. mine the morale

be maintained among convinced Commu-

ents.

comes more and more

!. Hon.

WEAKNESS

bew

of their oppon-By W.N. EWER by a police ap- nists, how much stronger paratus similar must such feelings be

It is not likely to collapses to- in all essentials among the ordinary masses. day or tomorrow. The repres

The peoples of the satellite sive organisation is strong and States know perfectly well for more eflelent than

Tsarist prototype. But the

Heartening

ם

Let's take a look at Uncle CHEERFUL NOTE Gairy as he addresses his "deat

An ener- getic man named Louis fellow Grenadions of this, our Strauss formerly

London dear little island."

wine merchant and then a Two or three thousand men Suffolk farmer came out here and women stand in Market last October and got busy. He Square.

bought a tumbledown rum dis Gairy, aged 28, is a slight, tillery and by sheer hard work dapper figure, with an attrac- transformed it.

U. 8. A.

its

"It is no use resisting ΟΙ opposing to that of the Tsars.

they 13,"

suggested. "Time is on our side. Stalin's recent pronounce that they were not only fundamental weakness in there: Fascismor Nazism-is an ment calling for a strength politically ruled from Mos- the seeds of decay" are

cow, but that they were ready visible, being economically exploit- ed by Moscow.

irresistible force.

Ita vic-

al-

If one thing is certain, it is that the Soviet regime will not last for a century (as Mussolini

Atlantic = Ocean

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tory is certain. If you are ning of the "State organs" wise you will accept the in--which by now should be evitable, and submit with a "withering away"—is very good grace. Otherwise woe revealing. The excuse that Yugoslavia is, for the Soviet prophesied that Fascism would), Pacific betide you!"

this is because the Soviet Empire in Eastern Europe, the let alone a thousand years (as

writing on the wall.

Equator The threat accompanied Union is threatened

And Hitler prophesied that Nazism by Stalin

has already found it would). The Soviet power han the confident prophesy. "I"capitalist imperialism" is necessary .to place a Soviet already passed its zenith, and Is

Ocean shall come to power," said transparent. It could be a marshal in command of the already in decline. Hitler, "and when I do the reason for strengthening the heads will roll in the sand."

army. It cannot be the real The Communists, SO reason for wishing to like the Fascists and the strengthen the police; for. Nazis in many

ways, are in this context, and in Mar- like them in this also. "His- gist terminology, "State tory is on our side," they organs" certainly means the BayThe triumph of Com- State police. munism, they proclaim, is a law of nature, an inevitable consequence of the "histori.

If Stalin feels that his police system must

be

SOUTH AMERICA TRINIDAD

D. MILES

600

The

rum-making hog start ed in the hug

huge vata and the cocoa is being picked. He him- self helped to pick cocon dur- Ing the strike and volunteers helped him.

Uncle heard about this and stormed in one day to com- plain. But later he loft again, wishing Strauss luck.

"This is a wonderful country with Z great future.” says Strauss. "It only people, don't play the fool too much there is almost no imit to what can be nehieved here. I've got all sorts. of plans."

-London Express Service)

WILL THE TERROR SPREAD TO BAGDAD?

In mid-air be-

tween Persin and by SEFTON DELMER

Iraq, Apr. 2.

PERSIA

British oll financier F. W.. Rickett

cal process." And they add, strengthened, it means that those who are foolish

he is afraid not of attack

THE wheels of our tive, and technical capacity. Na bers ruling and exploiting us will enough to fight against it from without but of trou-

At the invitation of Premier will pay dearly for their ble from within.

Viking have hardly tionalisation looks to them the be either dead or abroad." Nurl, the party made a tour of It means

shaken the dust of achieving it.

simplest and quickest method of

But if the companies get out the 87,000-square-mile Basta folly.

that even the sending of Teheran airport from their

Iraq has already got one lot of concession. Eighteen deputies of the Na Americans lined up as co-opera- some millions of discontent-still-revolving tyres.

Reported Ryan to the Minister tionalist opposition have put tors.

Dia Jaffa, at the end of the trip! ed men and women to the An American Embassy down a motion, in the Iraqi prison camps of Siberia has courier leans

When I was in Bagdad, three "Ta two years I would sink 200 across the Parliament demanding nation-

wella here." not got rid of discontent. It gangway between us. "There owned Iraq Fetroleum Company group consisting of ex-Senator aution and negotiations with the

alisation of the parily British weeks ago, I found, there a

Now all this talk of nationall- may well have increased it. has been another attempt to, and its subsidiaries in Bagra and Tydings, a partner in one of the Americans is just so much nervo United Stater richest and most war. But like all war it is danger- influential firms of corporation

in an infiam- ous-especially lawyers, the Texas oil magnate, mable situation like that of the Ryan, associate of the up-and Middle East today. coming Sherman Hunt concern, all expert W. Gorman, and the

RESENTMENT

assassinate the Premier," Mosul ho says to me. "They told me just as I was leaving."

Yes, there is literally no get- ting away from it. Teheran, with lis terror rule of murder rumours, pursues us into the

sky.

The Government itself has let it be known-unoficially that falling redress of its griev- ances by the companies it is considering nationalisation as means of ending the "most un- satisfactory" Basra and Mosul concessions.

TYPICAL

They are, just now, try ing to intimidate the West Germans with such threat ening promises. The lend- ers of the Federal Republic, said Herr Pleck, Communist President of the East Ger-

For all these millions man Government, "will face have friends and relations. trial before a people's court They may

be cowed, but sooner than they think" they are sullen and resent- For the past fortnight I have Typical Hitler methods. ful. So are over-driven, un-been checking up three or four

But there is no stampede as in But it all depends upon derpaid, workers, who know assassination reports like this per Teheran. Walt and see how creating that belief that it of the luxuries which the day. Most of them are false. Wings go in Persia," is the waich- is all inevitable, that op ruling group enjoy, and of generated or deliberately planted like deputy Salman Shaik Daoud Whether they are spontaneously word. Critics even Nationalists position is in the long run the wide gap between them by the Communist underground, peak up against nationslian- hopeless. And there is, in and their comrades" of the some cay, I do not know. tion without fear of being assaN- fact, not a shred more rea- "higher categories."

they are just as effective son for believing in the in-

as the real thing in cowing all sinated as traltors the following

day. these who have doubts about the feasibility of the terrorist (and "Reason," says Datud "pot Communist) sponsored nation- emotion, must guide our de

cision. What evidence, is there. alisation of the oil industry.

that nationalisation. is ikely. to increase the revenue from all?

But

evitable. -victory of. Com- Stalin's pronouncement is munism than there was for definite proof of two things. belleving in the inevitable That discontent and unrest victory of Fascism or and resentment are wide The mob boos Nazism.

́spread—perhapå even in the

It is the kind of question which Party itself; and that he MOST telling: episode yet was

Ak the funeral

commission of Dr Zang- the. Teheran oil knows of no way of counter-| After all, it la 80 years ing it than by more and hanch, the Education Minister in should have debated at length

...the. Razmara fjovernment since the President of the more oppression.

diod of his injuries after being Communist International

The Government was reported to

DESPOTISM

who but never did.

SETS

shot by a theological student. It's the RAF .......”

ordered *** him a stato complete with rules

proclaimed that "all Europe "History teaches us" is a have will be one Soviet Repubile favourite Communist

funeral

spite all this healthy realism,

Countryside Throughout The two score pads, and within a year.". That was phrase. If history teaches tair. Cabinet Minliters were 1000 nationalisation is a live issue

But it

they

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a most modest at MAKE to mistake, though, Độ at a time when the Com any lesson, it is that any busy" to attend. The party of here in Bagdad, and It Is likely teakwood tray......

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not become what it is today already in decay. It may hbstlie crowd. The mob, led by Don't forget,

found themselves.

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awakening tears. That la a la sitting on the bayonets of cassion and red to melt inton Arga leng's Habadlyweir alga not of strongth but of, hii security polico: it is an the crowd of bystanders base that hiss prevented, things weakness, baropka sas unstable throne.

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