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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 1951.

Cardinal Errors In The Policies

Of Soviet Russia

By

FRANCIS WATSON

of my

of

-Na cemetery in the It is not really surprising to guarded herself (as did Japan Benito Mussolini for 269 years) against foreign north of London is reflect that

of Karl Krew to maturity as a Marxist. examination. If the prestige of the grave

Where he parted company with power should fail, the prestige Marx, who lived and Marx was in the field of Inter- mystery may catch the un- wrote there and died in nationalism, which has troubled wary,

The

detailed

exposure 1883. Few go to visit it so many would-be Communists.

takes The double view of nationalismo, Marxism has been carried out nobody now, and

developing in a Russian ell many times in our own day. the But the cardinal error, the fatal to keep it clean and mate, has today procommunist miscalculation, and the whole care

By Marx's own characteristically materialistic principles that spectacle of a monstrous nation- dry-rot of Communism, is to be Ideal society can be built by seems only just, for he de. State of the most reactionary found in the proposition that an type which denies (except in

slaves-slaves to a

dogma, clared that he had freed softening-up" propaganda) the

slaves to the mechanical opera- himself from "the lumber rights of

tion of material forces, slaves of soul and spirit." History others,

by an inevitable process in the have moved on,

hierarchy that has seized the. power to enforce the dogms and operate the machine.

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If we call it "Sovlei Imperial- ism" it is because we recognise and they have not moved it as out-of-date, Just as the im- by the laws of Murx.

perialism of Mussolini and Hit- proclaimed themselves Few now believe that mate- ler (who rlatium cun answer the whole as new Communism)

out-of-date. Lenin slustion Envngely problem of man'a few, that is, outside the USSR, doctored that everything was and inside it none of us know. moral that served the prole

This

pro how many.

tarian revolution. Hitler

that "The good is not due to any counter-attack claimed: The by organised religion. It is not which serves Germany"-mean- even duc

entirely

the Ing, of course, the Germany

Mussolini's ordinary human instincts which his own ambitions. revolt from such a barren con- slogan for his followers could serve word for word for the ception of life,

Communism of the Kremlin: it was "Belleve, Obey, Fight!"

how few

to

Modern science also rejects emphatically the limited view of man as a creature helpless in the Kelp of pre-ordained economic factors. And indeed it is now cles that Marx himself, despite hin Bushes of intellectual brit- llarce was caught in his own

trap.

Younger days

of

Lack life

MARX did envisage a "process

of becoming," and Communist theory still plays with principles of change. Yet in fact Com- munism resists and defies the real principles of change, which are organic and transcendental. It seeks to freeze history to its own pattern, instead of releasing its flow. It must ultimately be vain attempt, Free minds understand that.

a

Perverted type Mahaims Gandhi, I venture

tion-

the perverted type of revollu-

of

even

and

to think, was one who under- ĦUSSOLINI and Hitler, and stood it. Many years ago he

wrote in Young India: "The they tribalism which tionary the world, perished regard moral

economics that dis-

and sentimental, brought into by their own principles. That is considerations are

like wax- the writing on the wall for works that being life-like stili THERE was an idealistic aspect Moscow, with Its muddled tri- lack the life of the fiving flesh, in his thought, especially in his balism of paramount class and At every crucial moment these laws paramount nation. The task of new-fangled economic younger

days. He could not the free world for our genera- have broken down in practice.

our And for avoid concerning himself with

nations or Individuals moral and ethical notions; and children-is to see that the in-

Perhaps

who accept them as guiding when he tried to escape them by evitable ruin the Kremlin maxims must perish. using the terminology of econo-

Gandhi was

willing to un- system does not drag the rest of mie materialism, he was thrown

the human family with it.

derstand Communism. The into contradictions which under-

But we must remember: in human charity and tolerance of mine his theories from the start.

nature Impelled him to the time of their triumph, now his The Reeds of the failure of Mar-

almost forgotten, Mussolini and recognise

worthy motives xism, we can now see, are to be

Hitler secured for Fascism some-

wherever he could find them, found in Marxism itself.

thing of the eternal prestige of and at the same time to speak The second main source

out against false doctrines nnti power. When the Itapered of ultimate failure, German dictatorships error, and

violent methods. If Com- Is in

in the famous.

conception of German founded

to be

on materiale

munists have seemed less than "close struggle." This struggle, which Marx declared to be strength, there were people in just towards Gandhi in return. who were pre- it is simply because to Marxist necessary and inevitable, would many countries

tum a

blind eye to theory his life and work were lead, he said, to "the ruin of the pared to

not merely repugnant they contending classes." The male their inherent evils as well as to

were flatly Impossible. rialistic side of Marx preached their inherent weaknesses.

Similarly the entrenchment of general ruin. The irrespressibly

centralised Communist dicta idealistic side of him

the vast the torship throughout rather vaguely, that after

and spaces of the USSR, and sever- ruin would come a new

al of its helpless neighbours, splendid and classless world.

exercises the fascination of Russian revolutionaries

who adapted Marx to their own em bitions found that the First World War provided

them, in

is the only Russia, with, the opportunity

And so Internu-SOVIET Russia

power to have expanded her tional warfare was seen by the territories as a result of the new type of Communist to be a Second World War. With this desirable thing as a prelude to reputation for coing rations

they wanted.

class warfare.

hoped.

success.

Bayonet point

offer to struggling

she can

in

Asin system led economically and politically to Moscow, much as Japan offered at the point of а "Co-Prosperity the bayonet Sphere centred-but, not for long-on Tokyo.

AMBITION

-A CONTRAST BY CUMMINGS

la 1900... and in the Welfare State, 1951

When I grow up I want to be the driver of a crack exprest,"

1900

"When I grow up I want to bring light and power to uncharted wastes.”

1900

Cummings

* When I grow up I want to be maître d'hotel of an hotel at for 'kings. . . .*

"When I grow up i want to be an executive and cut off the summer timetables With awcep of the pencil."

1951

* When I grow up I want to be an engineer and, with a flick of my tinger. cut off power in a thousand homea."

1951

"When I grow up i want to run an L.C.C. restaurant at a los of millions. ...”

This Dictator Is

Tired

THE

Το

London Expresa Bervice

Too

Dictate

By Charles Foley

Lisbon. three Spaniards for Salazar's and--because

Salazar did

NEHRU FACES STORM

By lan Dunbar

THE biggest

Patna.

political

of.

storm ainco India achieved independence four years ago has burst upon Mr Nehru's Government. An important section Congress → the Government Darty-has broken oway form a new Left-wing group known as the

People's Party, It is led by a

a gultar-playing Acharya Kripalani, Beneral secretary of the leader of Congress. And India's Socialists, Jai Prakash Narain, has pledged their full support.

two men vowed to a conillion to smash Con- at the rule In India

Krtsy

coming winter elections when they addressed vast rally in Patna,

a

capital

of the famine- pinched State of Bihar.

Gesticulating beneath a blaz

electrio swastika at the foot of the elty's Gandhl memor- lal.

Kripalant

ing

Hold

thousands

of people, seated

cross-legged

the around

for

posed

Byen on

ground

KRIPALANI ---Mystic.

him, that the People'a

competence.

Party Intended to sweep away the corruption and arrogance of Free India's first Government. He blamed Government graft the Bihar famine and ex-

and dlshonesty

112-

Narain told af Congress politicians who abused The "extravagance" of British rule, are now driving about 'In high-powered cars and salting Dway profits from rice Kalės crookedly manipulated

but

and

controls.

Speakers from all over India, brought storica of a disintegral. ing administration in the Pun- jab, where civil servants are about to take over the Govern ment from grafting politicians;

Communist-ridden Bengal said to be virtually in the hands of black marketing merchants.

*

in

Speakers from Bombay State: said it is crippled by a doc. trinaire attempt to enforce prohibition. Those from Madras reported that it, too, is in. the grip of famine.

And men from Assam:, on India's Tibetan frontier, said Communist activities there are so serious that the Govern-. the ment has had to reinforce army.

No one dared to condemn Nehru, whose personality and prestige carry the whole the crumbling Congress regime. But all attacked his refusal to purge "undesirable elements."

A member of Nehru's Ca- binet, Communications Minister Rad

Kidwal, has come to to join the People's He brings the greater

Congres Party's

Patna

Party,

of

general

part of the

-(London Expres Service.)

Back to war WHAT this means today is this:

longest lived neighbour, General Franco, is desire for a change-might be at a stage in the story of man when peace is becoming more

dictatorship in Europe much concerned by this example come elected. of all

is dying. and more the objective

What may fol. of abdication.

Perhaps-oh, horror-a dls- And in order that this spraw-

migh! economic

Communist sane political and

planning, Com- ing tyranny should be accepted low no one here knows, but

not appear. He gulsed thought and

triumph at the polls. primitive by the outside world as essen- quiet, grey-haired Antonio has been seen in public once munism

to reverts

as the basic tial atrength, the justification of de Oliveira Salazar, who for only since, 60 days ago, he at- Why will he not come out struggle and war principles of development,

dogma, Soviet Russia has 23 years has held absolute tended the funeral of Portugal's and tell them what to do?

Carmona,. power over Portugal, seems President, Genoral

who had reigned alongside him on the point of giving it all for nearly a quarter of a cen- up at the age of 62.

Portugal is Britain's oldest aly. Her fate has been bound up with ours for 600 years.

And in the Atlantic, as I was reminded when I flew over the buoy which marks the grave of "How the Affray, her harbours

islands may be vital in the sub- marine warfare of the future..

GLAMOUR SHAKES THE AIR FORCE

From NEWELL ROGERS

the price of the book NEW YORK. THERE is trouble in the To Stop Smoking." T women's

branch of FLIGHT TESTS of a Jot

which wings

be the U.S. Air Force. And with

shifted from straight across to among the men even

swept back while

nying, hardened fliers have flinch announced by the Air Force.

ed.

are

war-

can

tury.

That, it became clear as the session opened, is the root of the crisis. It was assumed that Salazar would tako over the Presidency with his other offices. But Salazar declared himself too tired, too old, worn out by his and labours.

All this may be at hazard in the strange crisis which Dr Salazar's decision to le low has brought upon his people. Yet THE LITTLE WOMAN will when you sweep in from the no longer be enough to save sea there is no sign of the which has young husbands from call-up. silent convulsion

Conscription going to talce seized what, for want of a bet-

between ter term, must $35,000 married mon

be called chil-political life of the capital,

air

in

10 to 25 who have no

dren.

air

at

BAIN for the second year has washed out" the annual plenic of employees in New

the

BALAZAR

China

Coast

Ports

to

More. Salazar rofused even to Indicate who the successor Carmona should be He left the whole

question

to the "organs of state."

The start of it all was a

So now there wicked report that the

is an indignant force girls

not 80

Too old hubbub in the glamorous as the girls

at 62. National Assem bly, which is used to rubber- the navy's W.A.V.E.S.

stamping the dictator's decisions To smooth matters, the

and which is outraged by this force top brass called in Juc- quellae Cochran, one

True, the National Assembly show of democratic inparitality. America's foremost women

York's Water Supply Dept. is meeting in its pink and white

The Government spokesman, palace. But to give advice.

nobody who re-

reading his speech sheet by that the AFRAID that no one loved members Lisbon before Salazar, She recommended women's branch pay more at him, bachelor Jim Garnhart with 40 Governments and 16 sheet as it is brought in to him,

and tontion

shapeliness

funers armed revolutions to 10 years, makes it clear that the sheep to

presided at his own now and This prowad charm.

furnished refreshments would recognise this collection have lost their shepherd, rather than have it after he of band-ploked nominees, wrath.

that died, with no one to

Salazar mourn. whispers There were

Legs Now he is receiving 20 offers The Assembly is faced with a it is up to them. dumpy girls with thick

because they of marriage enlisted

More on more M.P.g' leavo knew how to grease plano en- widows, who read of the modern history the refusal of gines. Colonel Geraldine May, funeral. They also read that a dictator to dictate.

their seats tp crowd before the belleved 74-year-old Garnhart expects SION WAF commander,

be In the conventionally ornate Speaker's dels until the floor her girls should do hard work to leave £31,000. Boys

They horseshoe chambor, with its op- 'jam-packed, with them. Just "I may surprise you yet.”[ not alongside the mob,

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Government ladylike Jobs. Now she

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Washington calls the trouble is to be paid to a 17-year-old of a stage army in search of a for fixing the election. They.

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In

says that this time

the

want no part of this dingarous game.

I was led into the box: róm,

In the absence of a Balatar served for diplomate, and was warmly greeted by a Swiss and directivo anyone might stand,

CHINA

--and most of its votes. Other machine in the United Provinces

to Congress men are expected follow.

The colossal anti-climax to India's freedom has so sickened the country, which was pro- mised a paradise, that there is a British widespread cry"The did better than this."

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