1951-07-14 — Page 11

"DON'T LOOK IT IN THE MOUTH, CHAPS, OR YOULL SCARE IT

KOREAN GIFT-HORSE FOR PEACE

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 14, 1951.

World Cupurah By pranucicent with Basis derato

Crackpots

Carnival

earth

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ROM the four corners

of the long-haired boys and

the short haired

Every There who

can

Hight

by......JOHN GORDON

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tall, handsome, Bodel. girls have converged upon known In his youth as the Paris for the plenary 828- Mexican wonder-bay because he was a poet at 17, collected £6,- gions of UNESCO.

430 in salary, plus substantial You can bet your boots expenses. (if you can afford any at.

penny of it tax free.

no worker in Britain the new prices) that a good

beat that today. time is being had by all.

down the line, the re- For Paris is a very pleasant muneration is equally lavish.

The Director-General's deputy city, made even pleusanter

plus £4,100 when all expenses are paid. Hets £4,464,

Do you know much about eases. His personal assistant £2,836. His secretary £3,208. what happens at the jam- His sterographers £17 a week. His. lowest grade messenger boree? Alas, probably no.

And all of it tax free in every Do you, in fact, know

about ease. All anything at UNESCO? Again the probably 110. answer is Which is regrettable.

You can measure how downy Why? Because the British tax-

are the seats on which these aftuinst the bays and girls are sitting, from payer, struggling heaviest taxes of any nation on two examples:- earth, and a cost-of-ilving that

£1.

Examples

is pretty nearly strangling you, (1) A schoolmaster, who be- pays every year one-eighth of the cost of UNESCO.

fore the war earned less

£1,500 tax free by UNESCO.

Now what do we get for all this outpouring of our money The story of that reads most Ike the records of a laony bin. Here are some of the pro- posals and achievements that have occupied this fantastle body of busybodies in the past five

years:-

(1) It proposed a survey of the world's history books to cut national settiments out of them.

survey of the Amazon (2) It donated £12,500 for a region to include a search for Inca treasure and the planting of a new Garden of Eden.

(3) It proposed incited by such advanced countries com- as Egypi and Mexico- mission to study illiteracy in British colonies.

a committee lu

(4) It set up the problem of 2 small American tribe who could not pronounce the words of their language unless their

when in fact Bruges has not had

anewinper for 50 years.

(B) It cited newspaper, the Nieuwbind Van Gheel, as reflecting "the typical high state of literacy of the Belgian ped- ple.** Gheel, in fact, is a lunatic

asylum.

Anally, Miss Myrna (8) And, fin

Loy, who sceres to have Hollywood for the cbandoned richer joys of UNESCO, is deep- ly engaged at present on plans end to the peculiari- "le put an end

nationals which funny." lies of foreign strike others as

As an example, she says polemnly: "People think it funny that Engilshinen always carry should explain the reason to the umbrellas." Therefore UNESCO world, "that it is always raining in England."

A Circus

THEN, she says, people wil understand and not think it funny any more.

No doubt she will pass in due

the at more expense to explain- ing why so many Americans centinually champ their jaws on chewing gum.

For live expensive years this of the world's culture crackpots has not only

han £300 per annum, was paid front teeth had been knocked collection

out when they were young.

Twice As Much (2) A secretary, in addition (5) It was asked to summon maintained its circus in Paris,

TWICE as much, in fact, as any

TWICE

other -nation except the and spirits duty free,

And the bill keeps going up. ap- For next year's spending, proved last week, is the highest annual bill yel-eight and a half millor dollars, which three million pounds.

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(6) It whisked

tinguished social scien-

Pot

Indeed, if you want a glorious, free, and lavish holiday this is

a world conference to but annually trekked from one to supersenle salary and

drew allowances,

to cigarettes, force all nations to adhere to a glamour

another- world standard for the pitch of Mexico

City, Beirut, Florence among them-lo hold is fantas- Not only does the permanent musical note A. United States,

eight dis tie conferences. What sort of bill have we staff of UNESCO flourish lushly.

The delegates who travel to footed? Since November 1946. Those it employs to do occasion-

are nat elected, but UNESCO has spent 38.512,000 al work also full into a pot of tists luxuriously by air to Paris them

from all corners of the earth to nominated. They represent U.S. dollars, which at the cur- gold.

nobody except themselves, Eltors of scientific journals study the causes of war. exchange rate means £13,- rent

After a pleasant sojourn in declare that, while the normal 200,000,

rate they pay for scientific urti- that delightful city, they pro- cles is ve guineas per 1,000 duced a report in 42 illuminating the set you ought to get in with,

UNESCO

All you need is someone in the value of which pays up paragraphs, words,

nominate you $200 for 4,000 words.

this tie circus to be gathered from may

Then, with the taxpayers' What does UNESCO need to quotation of one of them;-

"To the best of our knowledge money in your pocket, off you care when it is your money it is scattering!

there is no evidence to indicate go

It's time the nonsense Was With money pouring out so that wars are necessary and

of ended. freely you would assume that inevitable

and controls

Life is hard enough for the against human nature.". checks

British

this taxpayer without abuse would be meticulous and

extra burden. severe. But not so,

We should insist that the Government closes the

purse, and the clrcus, shuts down Ecutters the performing fleas.

We can find for better uses for our money at home.

London Express-Service)

It should be added that, al though we pay up on the nall each year, some countries, not ably Chlua and the Argentine, are badly la arrears. That, you may be sure, does not case our turden

Now what do we get for all this money we spend? What in fact is UNESCO?

the

consequences

(7) I sent a mission to make a lengthy study, of the Viscount Simon. speaking on

said: Belgian Press. The value of its UNESCO's accounts, has "They have been kept in a most expensive report may be esti-

mated from two facts:- haphazard manner.”

(A) It stated that three daily newspapers are pubilshed in the unclent town of Bruges,

Well, UNESCO is one of those Every year thie House of Com- fuzzy institutions, sel up after mons has to vole Britain's share 1 rosy dream of the mones. war when

torn the tired,

Does t broke across

It have any control over world, that if all men, white, what is done with our money? black, brown, yellow or spotted, Does it even know what is could be made alike, the earth would become Garden of Eden, without a serpent in it.

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The Jobs

done with 17

Not at all. The estimates, annually to when presented Parliament, bear this statement:

"This

spending will not be accounted for in detail to this Anditor-General."

And sometimes very discon-

Tas name is coined out of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organi- certing things do happen to the

sation.

Let us look at its finance first.

If you want a sumptuous job,

UNESCO certainly is the place to

go

It.

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Its i adquarters staff, located

permaneatly in Paris, and

money.

Fantastic

NCE & UNESCO cashier em- bezzled and gambled away 1,173,339 franes of it.

numbering 803, enjoys salaries The story was told in the

and

conditions beyond the French version of, the accounts. But the English version failed to mention it. Why?

dreams of the ordinary taxpayer

who pays so much of the bill,

Indeed, their jobs are the most The naive explanation of Mr cavated International jobs in the George Tomlinson, Minister of world today.

Education, when questioned was

In 1049 the latest year for that it would have cost the which I can and figures-its Blationery Omce too much to Director-General, Sthor. Torres print the full story,

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COITUDS MEGNY HERVILO, ING, -

"Might as well turn it off-there's nothing on now

but some dancing; gir

WHO ARE THE RED WRECKERS IN BRITAIN?

By COUNCILLOR CHARLES H. DARKE

who has resigned from the British Communist Party after 18 years

Have saboteurs?

Tow many Communists your duty

broadest sense, I say that all are.

to

and an honour In the play your full part in the Com-

munist crusade.

would

A crazy fanatic thinking on these lines is not likely to have

When briefing group leaders any scruples, where arms. for for campaigns, the party bossey Koren are concerned.

EXPELLED

+

are always careful to avoid Kiving detailed orders which might be construed ng an. 11- citement to break the law.

Like other cadre leaders, I wax Instructed in general terms To play my

part by impeding defence

Chce preparations. How I carried out these In-pulsion. structions was left to my own Towards the end of the war

discretion

ingenuity

a

Group leaders always try to be as forceful as they can in: applylug the party line. They know how easily any display of timidity may lead to ex-

and persotial I served on a Communist Party

In "Hackney I could not sink

xpulsion commHtee.

One day three members were

boroup, but my role, as a expelled at the same session.

councillor, was to dis.

There were. six of us on the courage co-operation in Civil committee-members of. the Detence, to rouse pubile feeling Communist group in a porticu- against rearmament, and tor trade union. .organise production Impeding

strikes.

TEMPTATIONS

Because of my doubts, I was rarely inspired to give whole- hearted support.

But what advantage was by more enthusinsile comrades of opportunities for stronger action elsewhere I can only surmisetin

taken

The templations to deter mined Communists engaged In the production and transport of war supplies must be very great,

If they break the law they are not likely to talk about li. For they know that should they be caugh! the parly would disown them,

I am convinced that the Com- ¡munists have no organized ring of saboteurs operating in Britain.

But I members of the ruth- less

Marxist element, in the party, have committed individual acts of rabotage I should not be surprised.

Frequently

ings' we the were rebuked for timidity instructions.

at private meel-

'AN HONOUR'

Also presunt was a member the Communist Party 13- Fional executive known 09 "The Butcher" because of his ruthlessness in administering

iscipline.

One of the victims was barrister, a paid union official, Ind "ditor

his of

union's magazine.

His expulsion was a maneuvre engineered by rival union officials jealous be-

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That, of course, was not the offence he was charged with.

TRUMPED-UP

The complaints were two- fold-failure to carry out the party line and conduct pre- udicial to the party interests.

I was

nauseated by such trumped-up job and luck no part in the discussion.

justice.

Д

the

the

The barrister burst into tears↓· while making { plea for

Intervening. "The Butcher" cadre leaders barked at him: "We don't want emotional appeals here. by party bosses any in carrying-out This is not a court of law."

This brought a cynical grin to the faces of

the committee members who knew what outcome was to be.

Afler

expulsion barrister was also sacked from his paid post in the union. His rivals engineered that too. the atom bomb secrets to

This was one of a number of a typical reply Soviet Union,

exprisions

followed which would be: "So what. It's

jealousy feuds in the party. Socialist country."

Communist effect Imagine the

expelled by exhortations on the hotheads of the tribunal on which I served the party.

At party meetings, when leaders were asked about Fuchs and Pontecorvo handing over

The

Such

On

his

Four of the Party members

in Westminster 09 M.P. with a new party label. They probably share my view that the break with Com- muniem was the luckiest event of our lives.

Many fanatical Communists are now have actually become pro- Russian and anti-British.

Think of their reactions

I was, being lold,

by a party-leader-.

You are

Communists fight- ing for a better Britain under world revolution. It is

the

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