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LUNION

WRESTLE FOR THE SOUL OF BRITISH SOCIALISM

As members of a religious faith; the Jewish communities in countries under Communist control inevitably arouse the hostility of the authorities. This hostility is expressed in increasing discrimination and in measures to cut these com- munities off from their co-religionists in the free world,

STALIN TURNS ON THE JEWS

By

Dennis Bardens

EWISH communities in before the Viklugs, who mode the free countries the first Russian state of Kiev, Although, after the Bolshevik have been greatly dis Revolution, some synagogues

factual were allowed

to remain open. turbed

by reports of growing dis and Jaws were theoretically free own mode of crimination against Jews in to follow their

worship, the Communist regime Russia and the countries remained hostile to all religions, including Judaism, The Rabbis were now chosen by the Party chiefs, and services were tolerated only so long as they could be made the medium of political propaganda,

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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 2, 1952.

his

words: on

to

personal prejudice, passed, extraordinary General Sokolovsky, then Chu

The response kov's superior, was--a signlicant effence. The purge was on.

་ Since then Jews have been

seeking

CASE BOOK OF DR FIRTH

THE CARELESS FORGER

|ITTING in the work

room, surrounded by glocks, watches, and scores of plecos af favellery waiting to be repaired, Mr. E: Scanlan and his assistant were having their usual morning coffee.

Neither of them had seen a small blue saloon car pull up alongside the pavement only three feet from their: window, stocked with thou sands of pounds' worth of diamonds and rings.

A second later there was

+

A solitary hair found in p discarded beret was the cine for Dr. Firth to prove the identity of a man who stole Jewellery valotų at more than £1,000 in a Preston, Lancashire, England, squash- and-grab raid. So carefully had the döptor tested... the hair that he went on 19 prove that the man to whom it belonged had been in the hable of dyeing his hair. When confronted with Dr Firth's findings the and his confederate no longer denied their part in the crime. This is the seventh in a series by Ken Compaton.

from the Kirkham Ṛ. A. F. station," he reported.

Dr Firth and Mr A. Thompson, staff chemist at the laboratory. had done their works. at least so far as the imsy slip of paper was concerned. There ro- mained still several hours work before the doctor could say whether the beret was "any use."

Long before his final report reached Preston police head-

quarters, C. I. D. men were on their way to Kirkham. Dr Firth their not from had hauled in man

thousands of square

miles of Lancashire to a small prep con- laining Servicemen, and a few civilians.

,

More was to follow. A slender bair discovered in the berez a crash. The two jawellers +effett

provided the doctor with nearly renched the street just in

as most the car with their dull grey is much information time to see the car racing powder in the hope that the people carry an their identity up the road amid the "Stop driver or his confederate had leit card.

The man you want has been thief" cries of women shop some mark.

Only one small diamond ring, dyeing his hair" bg said. "The pers.

picked up in the gutter by a man now has brown hair, which, The jewellers' plate glass passer-by, had been recovered originally, was lighter in colour." window had been shattered and from the stolen tray. rings valued ai more thon

£1,000 had gone.

The cur number, CLV 197, had BACK TO GAQL

been

checked with the re- Ristration

authorities, but, as the Crime had come almost to Dr police expected, that was false. Firth's own doorstep, for ps It seemed certain to everyone Preston Borough Police flashed that the key to the whole my radio warnings of the smash- stery would have to come from and-grab raid to neighbouring Dr Firth and his staff. forces. he was sitting a few hundred yards away studying

A HAIR the daily reports coming into his office.

Now, the work of the defce- tives was comparatively simple. A few hours later two men who had evaded copture by driving at breakneck speed inrough the streets of Preston, almost collid- ing with a 'bus in Starch House Square, were in custody.

was not

the first lime they So far his tests were only had been behind bars. Both Dropping the routine work to concentrate

his were well-known housebreaker spmpleted, un his latest case, partially

yet

terms of Im- the doctor studied the slender preliminary report contained who had served

bed met while evidence local police officers had cheerful news for the Criminal prisonment and

at Parkhurst been able to collect for him. Investigation Department chiefs serving sentences

in charge of the investigations. Prison.

BLUE BERET

From an abandoned car found in the town, Dr Firth recovered a Defence of the Realm exemp tion certificate. To the man-in the-street it was merely one of

Both pleaded before Mr Justice "Chemicals have been used by Stable at Manchester Assizes à someone to erase the original month later that their nerves writing on the exemption certi- had been strained by their ex- fente on the car." he told them. periences in the London, blitz, "Carelessly, the forger had got whore, it was stated, they had even had the patience to walt given good service. for the paper to dry before writ-

the thousands issued during the ing in the faked registration

war by Government Departments number."

for use on their vehicles, but

Dr Firth was able to zivo much with a long experience of

information a low forged documents Dr Firth im more vital mediately spotted e peculiarity-hour later.

in the writing.

That certificate was issued by the Air Ministry to a Wolseley Outaide the raided shop 14 horte-powered car operating removed from their posts and policeman had found a common sent far inland: Jewish exécu-motor-car jack-wrapped in brown and paper, but even then it seemned Jewish ex-servicemen tives are being displaced,

doubtful to the forensic scientist work are offered only the most menial and ill-pold jobs. Any who refused were rounded up been us vagrants and have sent as slave inbour to the uranium mines and the Arctic

labour camps.

where

This discrimination is not limited to anti-Zionism, to opposition to the new Jewish National Home in Israel. It is quite true, of course, that the U.S.S.R., having unsuc cessfully wooed the Israeli

In Rumania, which has 250,- Government and being THIS ought to have surprised no

Hungary, Deuin his Selected 000 Jews, unable to make the new Works, says quite distinctly, there are about 150,000, and Jewish state the headquarters of "Every religious idea,, every idea Bulgaria, where

the of God, even irting with the population Is 10,000, similar

Ja Russian ambitions in

idea of God, is unutterable measures are being taken. It Middle East, is now bitterly vilrness

the most is the same in Poland, though dangerous kini,”

200,000 Jews have emigrated since the war, leaving only 50,000 behind, and in Czecho- slovakia, where there are about 15,000 Jews.

hostile to it.

of

I mean that the U.S.S.R. And again "Religion is the the people this the

and all

Hence than executions

of not

the

FRESH SKILL IN TYRANNY

have

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whether that would be of much assistance to him.

Much more interesting was a blue beret and n mull-coloured scarf which someone noticed had been dropped by one of the thieves as he dashed away.

Outside, it was a cold January afternoon;____weather....-"bestep farmers wore heavy overcoats with upturned collars; but in the laboratory, as Dr Firth fitted up his ultra-violet ray equipment, it

was wann.

Anyway, he was far too busy now to notice the coelish draught that came through from the corridor as the lab door, was opened by assistants passing to and fro,

BUILDING UP 1

of

on

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and the Communist parties oplum of

dictum of Marx which govern her satellites dict

cornerstone of the whole Marxist under her supervision are view on religion. Marxism has deliberately embarking on a always regarded all modern re-

ligions and churches programme which not only tigious organisations as instru- THE tmpaign is being support- denies followers of the ments of bourgeois reactioned by the Communist press Jewish faith freedom of which serve to defend exploith- and radio. The Yeshivas,

and

the working religious schools, religious tion and to drug worship

closed. bars classes."

There is a ben instruction, but also

emigration, because Russia does them from the public ser-

want anybody in the USSR vices and armed forces. priests, the closing of churches or the

satelite countries and mosques, and the ban on re- have

have any

contacts

in other ligious education. For it is a

countries, except for a care- ban, and It affects ail faiths, fully

sejected handful There is no religious instruction agents and diplomats. Even AT nrs: glance, this seems a in schools, and atheism is taught within the USSR, Jewish com

curlcus and logical pro- from an early age:

munities are denied contact The Communist youth OF with each other. The Jews of cedure, for surely the Communists need all the support they can got; genisation, Komsomol, declared Minsk, say, are forbidden

As he worked on, teams of whether by force or persuasion? In May 1948: "For us Communists contact their co-religionists in

police officers were struggling to But it isn't as simple as that. and Young Communists, religion Biro-Bidjen.

build up their case.

Motor This discrimination is being co- never was and never will be a

On the whole, this

patrols had cordoned off the couraged officially for precisely private malier."

to the same reasons as it was And Komsomolskaya Pravda crimination gainst Jews is not town, detectives were trying

satellites

gather something more than the encouraged by the Nozia.

on October, 18 1947, put it even 90 sharp in the

had descriptions they within the USSR, where hos-scanty

SAME REASON AS THE NAZIS

A rather moro careful or examination of the small slip been

paper before him nad convinced Dr Firth, even before he put it under the violet ray, that erasures had been made,

Soon he would know much more about that

licence and, the perhaps, have some guide Identity of those who used it. The beret, still to be microscopic- ally examined, might produce some hidden clue.

of

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dis-

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The injustices, and furstrations more explicitly: "For a Komsomoly to religion has been spon- / collected of the two wanted men. of living in a Communist State it is impossible and inadmissible make millions of people discon- to believe in God and to observe sored for co long. In Rumanía Fingerprint experts were dusting

religious rituals."

tented; those malcontents must not canalise their dissatisfactions. They must not be allowed to think clearly; it is human, if ignoble, to sook a scapegoat f things go wrong, and the Jew is near at hand,

TEACHING THE YOUNG TO HATE

and Poland,

newspapers Yiddish are, c

allowed publish,

though under Com- munist supervision and mainly as vehicles of propaganda. There ND so, as with the Christian are still schools for Jews, but has Church and with Islam, the the history of Judaism USSR has pursued its policy been travested to conform with of removing religious lenders, Marxian conception of history. discouraging older people from the practice of their faiths, and

with lens permitted indoctrinating the young Intolerance. Communism is an hatred of religion. Intolerant creed, and the most

But since 1940 there has also strictest supervision. They con- trusted Party men are those who have proved their contempt for been an anti-Jewish purge in not manage the individual conscience their die Russian Army. The

Besides, the Jews are

mluority, and persecuting minority is

good

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training in

Hence anti-Semitism

6.3 0

Communism, who inco

first

But all the Jewish organisa- in the Iron Curtain countries are, like other religious bodies under

סא

Or even

choose

the

their own affairs, reprezented at moetings contempt for religion and for evidence that the state was off- abroad, or correspond with their cially sponsoring a new cam- freedom of worship.

co-relligionists outside the coun- palgh Саме when

General try. They cannot run their own rison to the schools

the of Commander and Head bool. All textbooks have been feature of

Com rewritten, adopts this vile technique for its of the Soviet Control

Germany, criticised political ends in the approved mission in

the the shabby appearance of Fascist manner,

And the discrimination against troops on parade.

Speaking to Jews in employment, long prac Allowing for German massa-his- offlecra, which

Included 1sed in Russia, is now being eres of Jews in White Russia, the several Jews, he declared: "I adopted by her intellies/ Tikrajno and the Celica, there can only account for this con- : are believed to be over two dition" by your failure to c. It is a sad thing, but inevit million Jews in Rusala today, move the Jews."

able. There is nothing new in Although ancoringly referred to There was a stunned

Communist hostility to: religion.

allence.

ga "inorodigy" ("home allons") It was the sort of thing imm Tuzla had long prelieva most many are more Russian than the ler or Goering might have of the techniques of Farcian, Russians, for many families were said. The Jewish officers, fool and has gladly acquired fresh settled in the Paloper arra long ng that tits was simply his skill in ympany, T

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Switzerland changes

definition of "chronometer"

UNTIL November 15th, 1951, the Swiss Federation of Watch Manufacturers ruled that the term ,"chronometer"" was descriptive of: "A precision watch regulated in different positions and various temperatures, capable of obtaining an Official Timing Certificate.”↓

'On November 16th, 1951, the Federation modified this ruling. It now reads as follows: "A precision watch regulated in different positions, HAVING OBTAINED an Official Timing Certificate."

In other words, in accordance with this new Swiss /regulation, no watch may be termed "CHRONOMETER"

Look for the Rolex Red Seal, attached to gvery Rolex Chronometer

unless its preciston has been proved by a Swiss Govern ment Testing Station or by an Observatory,

Rofex welcome this new, logical, and clear-cut definition. We feel it will prove beneficial both to the public and to the Swiss watch industry.

We have always considered it necessary to submit our watches to the impartial tests of the Swiss Govern- ment. Every Rolex chronometer offered for sale has previously obtained an OFFICIAL Timing Certificate and bears the words OFFICIALLY CERTIFIED CHRONO- METER on the dial.

This new definition, therefore, vindicates. a policy which we have applied strictly for a great many years.

ROLEX

A landmark in the history of Time measurement

Having been pioneers in the development of the wrist-watch since it was first timidly introduced at the turn of the century, we record with pride these landmarks in the recent history of time

measurement:

A 1902, Our factory is the Best to manufactura exclusively move-

ments (for wrist-watches) with fever escapements.

· 1910 Rolex demonstrate, at a Swiss Government Testing Station, that a small wrist-watch can be made necurate enough to obtain an OFFICIAL Timing Certificate.

1914. At the world-famous Kew Observatory, Rolex obtain the flest class "A" Certificate over awarded a small wrist-watch. (These stringent tests fästed 44 stays su liyo timing positions and throw temperatures and,were identical to those applied tó, large chronometers, no allowance being made for the smaller size of wrist-watch" movements. This was, in faci, the Big wrist-kronometer ever produced.)

1926 To ensure lasting protection to the accuracy of their wrist- watch movements, Rolex invent and pateșt the World's first waterproof case, known today in every country as the - famous, Rolex “Oyster," :

1931 ·To ensure evià arealte accuracy through a more even “tension of the mainspring, Rolex introduce the forerunner of all madgen wrist watctics, the famoris "Orster Perpetual” "with the xolf-winsting Rotor mocheniem...

1938 Atilie Dianne Qficial Testing Stellon, 309 Rolex wrist.

chronometers, numbered 501-1000, ALL obtain qu' Oficial Timing Certificate with the mention Papocially good: results," thus proving na-longius I§ years ago that the serial manufacture of wrist-chranometers had, been, accomplished.

1945 Rolex introduce the famous Datejust," the world's first",

waterproof and self-winding wrist-chronometer showing the date automatically,

1949 Rolex obtain 140 class "A" Certificates from Kew Obras

vatory for :140. small round chronometer, movements of 21.7 mm. performance which so steriled thą walch lodistry that its vemelty was seriously questioned, 1949, Rolex set a new accuracy ręcord for wrist-chronometers at the famous Geneva Observatory for a round morsanaḥ of 285 mm, with 859 points.

1951. To date, Rolex has obtained more than 175,000 OMetal Timing: Cenißcates for wrist-chronopistara from the various Swiss Government Tesung Biatiqna, of whic 121,695 are for self-winding wrist-chronometgo. (Wibin tho. less ten years 69,756 Cortiñonton buen carried the mention*** Especially good resultą,"