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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 28, 1952.

But I read in the papers that they let a man off for playing a mouth-organ while he was driving."

London Express Service

Now Watch Stalim

Switch Food into

Persia IT'S PART OF A 'NEW-WEAPON'

PROPHESY that in Persia just now the Russians are preparing to

their most

subtle and effective weapon against the West-FOOD.

Persia at this razor-edge movement provides the per- feet climate for Soviet the- tics which are dangerously

TECHNIQUE WHICH HAS HAD MORE

WE SUSPECT.

ERYPT

URANIUM CITY

-The fussin' and feudin' break out

From JAMES COOPER

Toronto.

THE fussin' and the feudin' broke out on Canada's 69th Parallel prong prospectors in the world's first uranium J rush.

The dispute is between the tender- foots and the sourdoughs (seasoned prospectors)-with the tenderfoots al- leging that the old hands bullied, tricked, and foxed them out of the best claims. Tempers have been frayed by tor- rential rain that made Uranium City, town in the making on the Saskatchewan border, just a moress of sodden, churned clay.

MOSCOW

PERSIA

From the Kremlin the orders go out to send the food where it helps Russia best

SUCCESS THAN by COL. CYRIL BANKS. M.P.

Now Tory member for Pudsey, Colonel Banks was in charge of emergency feeding at the Ministry of Food when raids on Britain were at their height, and later was appointed to similar dultos on the staff of General Eisenhower in North-West Europa.

-this urgent need of rubber from the British Empire,

And it is the height of the season for black fly- called by Indians "No sec 'em"-an insect that has been known to kill horsea- and drive men mad in the bush.

Soaked and bitten

Well-soaked and badly bitten, the newcomers Bre all the more angry against the sourdoughs for beating them to the most radio- active claims,

The fenderloots allege that one party of sourdoughs work- ing for large syndiente forcibly ejected a smaller party from an area where the steady click of the Geiger suggested big deposits.

Others

click- counters

complain that veterans!

staked jumped the

gua and claims long before the starting time,

Third

grumble is that the old-timers covered over rails In many ways it has been through the wilderness of bush a straight barter transaction, and jack-pino to prevent new- comers catering the promising We pay for the grain in sterling areas

areas. and the Russians spend much of; And grouse No. 4 is that one And they are in the best the money immediately on rub- wily syndicate posted men to position to employ the weapon of ber, from Malaya. Already this givo false directions to in food to its fullest advantage.

year their rubber purchases are dependent prospectors.

So far there have been no Russia Ja the granary of valued at £22,000,000,

kridings and shootings in the Europe, Oulaide the Iron

But in this big-scale transac-Dan McGrew.fashion- but the WESTERN GERMANY: At Curtain the population risca tion there has been an important Stensiah Is mounting,

more swiftly than the production development. of food. But as Russia recovers from the effects of war it finds Utself with a surplus of wheat, barley, and maize.

unappreciated by the West- needa. Russia, although a of grain, again just prior to

member of the United Na- polling day.

ern Powers.

part in this

*

It is a technique which tions Organisation, declines Stalin has used consistently to take any both at home and abroad branch of UNO work and

does not even provide the end of the war, when the since the war, and_ean-nów

boll the United be counted on to exploit statistics indicating what resources of

the her food production is or is States and Britain were under imaginatively amid

too great a strain Mos likely to be.

to meet all chaos created

demands for grain, Russia de- sudeg.

ivered supplies to Western the port of Germany through Hamburg-and once again the West Germun populatien wero jeft in no doubt about the origin

by

Thus Stalin is left with Put briefly, the technique a free hand to play how he

is this: MOVE IN FOOD SUPPLIES WHILE THEY CAN PACK THE FULL POLITICAL PUNCH.

An underfed nation will any condi. accept almost tions in return for the -necessities of life.

is

chooses.

FOUR MOVES

CONSIDER

of the supply.

Because the price of rubber has fallen sensationally from 69. to 2s. 21. lb., the Russians pre getting an immense increase in vital armament material in GAN AFFORD IT return for their grain.

+

Works to wait

Eight hundred claims have been registered, in more than 20 square miles. But the pro- spectors must walt wecks, per- haps months, to see who strikes it rich.

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Local tradera who have not: *Meanwhile it is Jenown that

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up behind the Urals they are build-

the mus

rush are charging 28, 8d. PROVIDED it keeps down the ing synthetit, her major part for a loaf of bread, 82, 08, R

level of its exports to the massive scale. The part

lb. for butter. of the enterprise is known to be satellite countries Poland nearly complete.

That is because supplies have Those responsible for military

Hungary, Bulgaria, Rumania

to be brought 450 miles by atr these examples, strategy appreciate the signi-

What would happen to our from the nearest town, and ironically enough, Czecho- undisclosed until now:-

flence of food. It only

And necessary to consider the feeding slovakia-it can afford to send grain if Stalin no longer required Albert,

rubber from us?

a bottle of beer, if you nations which EGYPT: When relations be- levels which obtain during the grain to those

can find anyone to sell, is tween Britain and Egypt became mill.ury occupation of a country afford the greatest scope for. You can safely say it would 70d..

be "switched" where once Sald one prospector: demands were to realise the part which meals diplomatie triumphs. strained and

again it could have the maximum?

haps it is just ps well made for "the withdrawal of the play in the maintenance of law

and order.

these developments political effect, as it is likely to needs only booze

to start Brith from Egypt," Russia im

there is a curious postscript have now in Persia.

frontier town battle just like the mediately opened negotiations

-(London Express Service)

old Yukon days." touching us directly in Britain. for the supply of those com-

Even the bread we eat is not Mass unemployment, a modies which would be scarer

entirely unaffected by Stalin's bankrupt exchequer, and due to the British withdrawal,

Food Strategy. idle oil wells have combined including a considerable delivery to reduce the standard of of grain. living under Mossadeg to appallingly low levels.

So wherever there poverty, and food is short, the Russians follow a con- sistent polley.

'SAVIOURS'

VITAL PART

MALAYA is an

outstanding example. To rid the country of bandits it has been necessary not only to search out Com- CZECHOSLOVAKIA: When munists, but regroup, rohouse, the lust "free election" was and bring up the feeding level held in Czechoslovakia, Russia of the civil population to a point delivered 500,000 tons of grain which will ensure against Just prior to polling day-timed

and deficiency

BY moving food to the with a beautifully manipulated malnutrition

campaign on the diseases. publicity the generosity of the U.S.S.R.

afflicted country

Russians can thus pose as Doubless this move helped the the Communist saviours Communists to win.

of

a land beggared by capitalist' greed.

*

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To

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Development of trade between Britain and Russia, of course, a sound and praiseworthy policy. But how many people ere aware of the pattern this trade policy is taking?

This is the time of the year the Ministry of Food is about to negotiate with the Russians for a share of this year's harvest, The figures show that in the first In the Middle East and Asia six months of 1952 Russia has the Russians understand this bee our biggest supplier of vital aspect of the cold war grain apart from Canada and the better than we do.

United States; that the purchase price of the 750,000 tons they have delivered amounts to £30,- 000,000,

FRANCE: Similar action was They understand that Goer Already the Russians taken by Ruscia at the time of ing's famous remark about Guns have had a "trial run" in the French Referendum, when or Butter needs some modiflea- Persin with encouragingly France was in danger of passing tion. Feeding-stuff as well as

rate Russia frearms can into Communist hands,

as weapons good results.

deilvered much needed supplies of war.

The figures have never so

far been disclosed, but I

Only one thing has made the Russians willing to let us have this grain in the past three years

now learn that immediately FRANCE'S NEW NOEL COWARD

Britain was thrown out of

Abadan, the Russians let

Moss know that the

Sugar Persia formerly got

from the British Empire

would be made available out

of the Soviet's own stocks.

Paris.

From Joan Harrison

He left France acon after-

"We are all guilty," concludes wards to get away from okl Laporte, "and, I particularly, SMILING, sunny, young associations, · but returned because chance threw this man man the perpetual recently with the frat acrioun in my way.

He came to me

The Kremlin kept its "icune premier" of the play he had ever written. "Un ho left me with empty hands." word.

-

Within a short time

sugar reached Abadan,

Aumont has a picture to make French stage and screen, is Beau Dimanche, now running at the Theatre de la Michodiero being hailed by Paris critica Paris,

Jean-Pierre in Hollywood for Warners. "But na a new Noel Coward of the Aumont's third play the first I have ideas for three different shipment. of 36,000 tons of French stage. But the two were comedies, vehicles for plays turning round in my head his wife's glamour and charm and I want to get them out," he shadow of personal tragedy Porsia was not the first fell sharply on him a few instance. Ever since 1946 months ago.

the Kremlin has been using)

He is Jean-Pierre Aumont,

saya.

and

The old smile Blushed for a moment: "I altered the ending food as a scientific political acter, producer and film star.

This one is the drama of a of "Un Echu Dimanche (Ond after, the Arat weapon and, of course, who has now launched out on a. bank clerk, Albert Laporte, who Fine Sunday)

for "a night, and a day housov night. You now Perier, who using it without the hin now career as 'n playwright.

a murderer in his attic room." plays the leading role, drances, which would be im- In September

Mario Daems, who played the lest year of posed on other Powers. Maria Mantes, the beautiful It is the first time that any girl, are married in real-life-

one South American film star wife human emotion has ever broken and

sensed that the It is well known that the of Aumont, died accidentally the monotony of the clerk audience wanted to soo

the play develops come together. So I changed the free nationa of the world after taking a hot slimming life, and co-operate with the United bath. Both young and handsome round his attempts to try to ending to imply that perhaps they word davoted to each understand the misery of mind they might" He smiled" rather Nations Organisation to other, and her death was a bitter of the fugitive, who didh by sadly:" "People likohappy

endings." kuling himself. plan and meet world food blow, to the French Betor,

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