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GERM WARFARE: THE BIRTH OF A MYTH

TOR a month past ever

Communist propagan- da instrument all over the world has been concen- trating on one subject- the alleged use of "bacterio- logical weapons" by the United States Air Force in Korea.

By

N. Ewer

Sometime Senior Scholar of Trinity College, Cam- bridge, W. N. Ewer is the Diplomatic Correspondent of the London Daily Herald and has attended for that newspaper every important international conference since World War I. He is well known not only as a writer on world affairs, but also as a broadcaster.

that

of

G. WARD PRICE in ARGENTINA

Rich Country Getting Poor

NYE ACHIEVES! JENNY INSPIRES! NYE REALISES! BE GRATEFUL FOR JENNY BEVAN'S SOCIAL AID AND JUSTICE!

no

sidents did nothing but line their pockets. Of course," he

"there added,

has been change in that respect from the highest to the Jowest, but at icast there is something to show for it

HOULD the present

Parliamentary Op- of

State control of the business of marketing provides an un- known but substantial proût for position, under new the Government, which buya leadership, come to power from the producer at a certain

In

Britain, whitewash price and passes the goods on nt inscriptions of the above a higher figure. There is a brisk type might soon, as in the traffic in import licences that re- Argentine, fill every archi- calls the sale of "monopolies" in

England under the Stuarts, tectural

space blank

Not Equalled

COUNTRY rich in natural

throughout the country- that is, if Mr Aneurin Bevan were to employ the same in- A resources can prosper despite tensive personal propagandu anancial corruption but, to an as is used by President observer Peron.

accustomed to less lavish accountancy, the Argent tine, with a national deficit of Though not so crude as the unrevealed proportions, seems malto: The Duce is always to be trying to make two and

Mussolini two ad up to five. right" with which

The multiplicity and costliness its Government buildings

'sinco the

stencilled the whole of Italy, it might have been expected that of

this kind of government publicity have not been equalled in any

a

result country

German

would lose in efficacy as of the collapse of the European Fuhrer launched his ambitious

Yet. although architectural dictatorships. Yet,

to bear on far- Feron has just been re-elected authority is emes, Despotic

widening of such for a further six years of office, the the slogan-campaign is being stretching thoroughfares as the throughout the Avenue of the Ninth of July which with a benarth of over 100 yards, has no equal in the

this fact well, would waste time und hergy powerly dropmaintained ping harmless insects, Or there Argentine

Though he relies on reiteration world. have been epidemics. In which case any scientist or medical to retain the support of the Ar- This has been achieved at the man familiar with the conditions gentine

proletariat, President

cost of ruthlessly tearing down North Kerca and

China Peron rejects the suggestion that the entire frontage of one side, know that there is no need to

he is a dielator. He considers regardless of the inconvenience himself--and his wife, who, and financial damage Imposed unu her recent illness, was upon the victims of the measure, equally netive an administrator-

Yet, at the same time, mucli. to be leaders of a Social Welfare relief has been brought to

intense traffic

problemtion

look for imaginary American aeroplanes to account for an un- happily only too familiar

phenomenon.

#

and

for

State.

Most Intriguing

the

Buenos Aires by the construction

Germany one

of

Self-confident

Most intriguing of all is a Tow long this will endure de- child-size village on the outskirtspends mainly on the relief of of the capital. It has cottages, the Argentine from the drought shops, a church, a bank, and that for nearly three years has town hall, reproduced on

It is a cleverly chosen theme,

NO EVIDENCE

of three huge underground The allegations are made and

cholcrų Is always rampant. why there not only had been no but could not have

garages, reached by broad ramps repealed, though no evidence Bubonic plague, carried in the epidemic,

One of them, TN the matter of amenities for gar

of masonry, -is-produced--to-support-them, ekins-cr-animals trapped in the been m_epidemic.

COME back to my first point the young, and aid for the old rough which I was driven, is

have cxcept further repeated allege- winter, is a recurrent feature of

At this time of the year, they what the Communists

out of Government said to hold 3,500 cars, which provided tew past 1lons, Denials are ridiculed. And the Manchurian spring. And it

would be Im- been doing in the

tunas, the Argentine can display pay about £t a month for its the explained, is

It was a vast, pillared perhaps significant that actual disproof is carefully

Chinese have suggested that the possible for on epidemic 10 weeks has been to make, in made impossible.

infection has been spread parti-

than any country, with the pos- catacomb, stretching as for as sible exception of

one could nee. cold. The lice and the mice and campaign, an appalling charge cf

against the United States

These public works, combined To prove a negative is always cularly on "ines of communica- spread. The weather is still too Acctie, world-wide propaganda more lavishly equipped exhibits use.

tions" That is characteristic

with the elegant standards of difficult. In this Casc prcot n rapidly Infectious disease like the rest of the potential germ the United Nations. They have under the Nazis.

Huge bathing_pools temper the dress maintained by the people that Amerlean acroplanes have bubonic plague. It suggests that carriers are still dormant. There brought no evidence, other than 10 sub-

heat of the South American TIDL

Aires, been dropping plague there has been a "normal" out can be no danger for several repenied allegations,

charges. They stantiate those with

down-town Buenos Nummer: football clubs receive who throng the narrow streets weeks. and insects in break of a familiar type,

from subsidies infected mice

have, by refusing to allow any breath-taking

Create In the visiting foreigner's est the State; roller-skating rinis, mind an impression of pros- North Koren angin Manchurin which the Communist authorities

argument outside examination or invest- have been unable to cope. ...That unguanded

gation

made it impossible to re-

dance-halls, tennis-courts, and perity. could only be provided by teams

has cut the ground from under of qualified and impartial At first the propaganda itself their own fect, For is it crediale fute, or even to check, those running-tracks are available to

they have it climatic allegations, And there or conceivable that,

all young people at nominal observers on the spot, And this, seemed to indicate

made statements

rates of

of subscription. Red had been actual outbreaks of conditions in February or early themselves though the International Croes

send insect-borne diseases. Then the March make it Impossible to which make it impossible is willing to

tune was suddenly changed. It start an insect-borne epidemic, any objective person to belleve

unste themi. observers, and the United

Americans would waste hed States Government is prepared y be that the propagands bad the

An undesigned boomerang their time dropping lice and

not allegations Whether or the effect: that it was causing panic, mice from aeroplanes, knowing verdict, 10 accept their

among the perfectly well

the whole near panic,

that

were, or were not, inspired Korean or Chinese and

near-Lilliputing scale, and child reduced the profits of the live- North

civilian population;

would be ineffective the first place, by an perhaps operation

ren up to the age of seven are stock industry which, in normal times, provides pne-half of the Governments will not allow.

even among the troops.

and a complete waste of time, outbreak of cholera and plague, brought there by their teachers cou American bacteriologists know is, in a way, irrelevant. Such an

the capacity to pay for manufac to play at being grown-ups with country's exports, thus limiting the perfectly

elher ex- Whalever the

of outbrenk has been геззоп,

well the effect

their tured goods, of which three- existence of any epidemic was temperatures on discase carriers. ploited or invented in order to equipment adapted

quarters of the national con- said

is sharply denied, "No-one"

provide ammunition for a pro-

Such advantages are mainly sumption

from Imported sald "has ever

So here is the dilemma in paganda campaign of which

limited to Buenos Aires, where abroad. Peking Radio,

pro- the that there is an epidemic. What which

purpose is to arouse horror,

The Argentine character is which W

Peron's fiercely self-confident. A typical Either has been said is that the Ameri- pagandists have landed them and to excite hatred for all the the General Confederation of

the Labour, there is no "Western" world and for cans were trying to create one." selves.

illustration is the fact that two prietorian guard, is strongest, particular, as epidemic, and could not be one Americans in

The

adopted basis of Government almost universally Then, unfortunately from their at this period of the year, In "cannibals, monsters and beasts own point of view, Communist which case it is unbelievable of prey. The phrase is one used policy is that nothing is too good mechanical devices-frame-lights and the totalisator-have ocen for the younger generation. The spokesmen began to explain that the Americans, knowing by official Soviet newspapers.

land, buildings, and equipment tried in Buenos Aires and re

solidarity. required to assure the

jected because no one, would of its

of the regime are obey the ruler, support

Economic laws, however; are often obtained by the simple process of requisitioning them less easy to dety. The problem from the original club members. that confronts the Argentine to- Flutocratic Peters are dispossess day was bluntly stated by Fress- ed for the benefit of proletarian dent Peron in a national broad- çast on March 5, in which, deal- Pauls.

"What I like about Feron is ing with the fincacial situation that he gets things done," is the of the country, he said: comment I heard from a leading "He who spends more than British resident. "Earlier pre- he earns is a fool,".

SUSPICION

THAT in itself suggests to any T

the objective mind that churges must probably be false. "Evidence" which declines ex- amination is necessarily suspect. That suspicion is deepened by the speed and intenstly of The the propoganda campaign, first charge that the United States planes were dropping in- focted insects was made by the Peking radio on February 21. I was at once repeated by Moscow radio, And within

the few days it had become subject of a world-wide cam- paign. There were all the dications of provious prepara- tion. Lurid details were at once) forthcoming, Aeroplanes had been dropping conto'ners with infected **Rep9, Jlce, nics, mites and spiders, crickets, nice". The Chinese Goverti- rushing men and nient Was supplies to the attacked area to perli. combat

appalling an There were all the signs of well rehearsed drama.

in-

A

of

What had inspired its authors? immediate The natural and

be suspicion-which may well correct is that there had been

both outbreaks serious plague and of cholera in Man

hurie and North Korea: and that a government, unwilling to rdmit the inadequacy of its own sanitary services, had

to blame cnce decided American Imperialists".

SIGNIFICANT

the Communist

Cairo Under The Curfew:

Husbands Go Home Earlier

Cairo.

By MARGARET GILRUTH

TN Cairo, it is clear once again, Britons can take almost anything and here we are, almost reconciled to the curfew..

ask

We still, of course, one another, "What happens next?"

actual

over the city.

forward, though delicately and clamped down with great respect for ult- They were two hours in a police sensitive national susceptibili- station before they managed to ties. Their predecessors, the And an Influential Egyptian vouch for them, to Waid, were bringing Egypt into ready to

for them, so that they worldwide disrepute, and it was plend heading internally for some were finally released "on ball" thing catastrophle,

until the next morning, when they had to begin explanations to the police all over again..

Metinwhile many well-to-do foreigners rush off to Alexandria for the week-end "just to go to the cinemo," "to dine out with- out hurrying back because of But British curfew." the

Inevitably, there is a crop of stories, some funny,

On January 28, we saw mob rule, Thot day, 92 bars, 73 restaurants, cabarets and extes, residents stay put, readjusting curfew 40 cinsmus, 300 choos, 10 clubs, themselves to Tife untier martian some sad.

a mo.or show law restrictions-with just the 10 gunsmiths, rooms, 30 commancial concerns, customary grizzlef 117 flals and offices were destroy- "the ed and topled, and

at

the new government was momentarily too

-

who There Is the woman signed herself "Femina" when she wrote the Egyptian Gazette, saying: "Not the least

to

preoccupied securing Bocurity The fact their rich friends of the benefits derived from the and sabilly for a tottering na- tion to worry about the alleged can't support recurity measures curfew is that which sees the misdeeds of the British.

imposed by the Government in early arrival home of husbanda their own interests makes the who hitherto spent overmuch time at night away from their It is wishful thinking how-British Emile with tolerance.

wives in their club or cafe. It THIS is normal in Communist

countries. Industrial defielen ever, to assume that fresh gov

mean they There are no night clubs left would be interesting to note i cles are at once attributed to ernments in Egypt "sabotage by imperialist agents"re ready to bypass the cherished unbattered by fire and looting. other, wives will regret the pass- Swarms of Colorado recties in national aims, embracing evacu So for there are only two big ing of the curfew, which brings Dast European patato fields in tion and tmity of the Nils Valley hotels doing business as usual, such husbandily companionship,

In the worldly Royal Automo- 1951 were at once declared to under the crown of King of They are the Semiramis on the

Nile, embodying the Savoy and bile Club those who gomblo

the have been scattered by Ameri-Egypt and the Sudan.

the Ritz for Cairo, and

barns never, normally, think of leaving Metropolitan; with

old un at the very, least 2-am. homely as those in good

Addicts often hang around until English pubs,

can acroplanes,

In the spring of 1051 there were epidemies of typhus and запарох. They, too, chargod to the Americans.

worsc.

That Egypt's new Premier, were Negulb Hifaly, 'la ready

I,negotiate for the nation's alms in

д

4 or even 5 nm. Now all is

They are crowded out, the changed. The club doors shut an hour before curfew time so

on this occasion, the charge is a dignified civilised fashion is first with the pashas and chic more strident, the first reason upparent to all. This is in char idle women, the second with, that servants can reach home In bers, this has meant that some may be that the epidemic is acter with this man of outstand friendly unpretentious businesa pafety. According to club mem

ing ability, who as a lawyer re- men.

couples (who seldom saw much putedly cblained the highest fees in point of fact, now they of each other) are now seeking have That there are epidemies bath known in the country. und wo are used to the curfew, divorces, while others. of cholera

of bubonic plague, lavery probable. Large So while there is not much methods are not so drastle. But found, much to their surprise, numbers of Cakreno volunteer fun to be had now in Cairo, at it is true a British couple was they have something in common have been brought to Korea least we can assure ourselves picked up by a patrol fifteen after years of walking along from Southern China, where those at the helm are stepping minutes after the curfow was different paths.

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