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Bellicose Insults Form Their Language Of Peace

By HUGO DEWAR

This is RIENDS of the Soviet

minor illustration A Union often point out of the peculiar mental processer of the Stalinists and their that a number of sky- fellow travellers. Any fact, no scrapers are being built in matter how trivial, may be ad-

མས་ Moscow. Would any govern- duced to prove the peaceful in- war tentions of the Soviet Govern- ment contemplating

menti, no fact, however weighty, proceed to erect targets 80 may be advanced to show that vulnerable to atomic at the governments of the West tacks? they demand trium- also desire peace, phantly. If this argument Yet in the Stalinist approach is accepted it is clear that to the problem of peace there it must apply equally to the is a fundamental contradiction, Western world, where plen- Stalin himself has assured the world that it is possible for the ty of fine targets are also capitalist and Communist being built. Unfortunately systems to co-exist peacefully, the Soviet sympathisers are and even to co-operate. not prepared to admit that the argument cuts both ways.

Churchill's Professor

Faces a Big Decision

-By- JOSEPH LINDLEY

HAT sort of person

is Lord Cherwell, the man who was Mr Churchill's closest adviser in the recent war, and who today as Pay- master General possesses such vague, mysterious, but reputedly for reaching powers?

LORD CHERWELL

first-class

tennis

has

have

the necessity for peace and of peaceful understanding between the major powers is being com- mended to the Soviet people."

Had this fully corresponded with the facts, it would been most welcome news. Un fortunately, although It wis undoubtedly an accurate report of the impression received by the Quakers' delegation, it was not an accurate estimate of official Soviet temper towards the West.

were

Soviet propagandists then, as now, still referring to the "Anglo-American aggres- cors," to the "cannibals in the uniforms of the United States and British armed forces" who "have surpassed in savagery.and atrocities all crimes known history," and FO on end

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Jacques Duclos, the French forth. Communist leader, however, The Quakers need only have wriling in the Cominform. turned the pages of the Soviet Journal in April 1852, referred magazine, Krokodil, to discover to Stalin's statement and then

Went

enton, to allege that "the UCHWA rulers of

of the

Imperialist camp. What is behind the

however, want nolther thle

operation. They know that the

peaceful competition with the

co-existence nor this co- "Peace" conferency capitalist system cannot win in that is being conven- socialiai system... In these ed in Peking at the conditions the imperialists re- and of this month? This article, taking

gord war as necessary. . . .”

Duclos was reiterating a point

of view that has been accepted the mask off all Com- as axiomatic by Soviet leaders

Stalin'a statement

an

the British people. His world services for which the nation will that of the ever owe a deep debt of gratitude always been Oxford college and the English As for the Prof he has always country house. Admittedly regarded M: Churchill with a

ever since the Russian Revolu- munist "peace" pro- these are not the same-though veneration bordering upon tion.

offers more at idolatry. Woe betide the unfor- directly contradicts it and; the paganda, perhaps they overlap

Prof's college than clse tunate stranger who is rash

Peace Cam explanation. where but they have in com- enough to make in his presence so-called World mon a certain detachment from some

by the Soviet unfavourable 0

paign, inspired the world in which the majority informed remark about the Prime Government, only makes sense is really con-* of man spend their days. Minister. He will soon discover if the Kremlin

the peaceful behind vinced that a sharp claw concealed

existence of the two systems is the Prof's, velvet urbanity.

possible.

This remoteness would be a serious defect in someone who sought to be a national leader and to base his power upon mass

.

THE REALIST

support. But if the Prot ever had. WHAT are the Prof's real views rush ambitions they have long on polities? Easy panaceas, since vanished. His one venture high flown ideals, excite his con- in the held of popular electioneer tempt. He is essentially realist ing on attempt to stand in 1937 and a sceptic, Here he differs jat a by-election for the Univer- sharply from those distinguished In scientists whose eminence įsity--as a disastrous fallurg.

their own subject is only sur- The Profs career in politics passed by their gullibility in all has nothing to do with popular others. support. It is based on

some-

Co-

aro

KSCHOLZMANN KRISTINADENSATELLITEAMÇİN how deceptive surface pearances con sometimes be, for the scurrilous abuse of all things Western was then in full If the Soviet leaders still ad blast, and ita violence has not here to the time-honoured abated since. formula of the inevitability, of It should be noted that "Imperialist attack" against the Soviet

peace propaganda Soviet Union, then their "peace" presents two faces to the campaign can only be pure world: one with a pleasant, hypocrisy, a cynical manoeuvre friendly

the other amlic, designed to divide and weaken distorted by Tage and hate. cal Oficially-sponsored delegations the "enemy,"

to the Soviet Union (and there Professor Lindemann, his

no others). are met and nume before Mr Churchill

welcomed by the former. They made him a peer in 1941, was a

It may be suggested that this are not always fully aware of has been for more than 30 player. His rooms are full thing which, ever since 1940, has On the whole the Prot believe is to misunderstand the Soviet the laller, and even If they

in efficiency rather than liberty. more valuable, the authority rather than democracy, attitude; that the Soviet leaders are, the hospitality of their years Professor of Experi- of the silver trophies that he been even

support of Mr Churchill.

If he hates Socialists it is not so do believe that it is possible to hosts tends to make them forget

with mental Philosophy in the won.

temporarily, the it much because they menace free-co-exist peacefully University of Oxford. The

DEEP DEBT

dom The Prof is a man of very

But even the most charitably as because they combine West, but that they do not bo-

leaders title, like

could hardly most

are disposed person the two things that he most love Oxford considerable inherited

the Western THEIR friendship is of long detests, cloudy idealism

following and willing to accept this principle characterise titles, is archaic and mis- But his life, if not

diatribe They at present, and that the peace Spartan, could hardly be termed

standing. Mr Churcht great- administrative ineptitude, leading. The "Prof," as he xurious. His rooms at Christ ly admired the courage and con- are right to regard him as one of campaign is designed precisely an open secret that the Ameri- is always called by his Church are plainly-some would niente displayed by the Prof as their deadliest and most uncom-to win their acceptance. can troops in Europe are units

Although friends, ia

Ho eminent

there appear at the recruited say hideously-furnished.

an experimental pilot in the promising foes. vegetarian, 1914-18 war. Convinced cn physicist,-and-controls-the is a teetotaller, a

and a non-smoker; although for theoretical grounds that the The Prof-has-never-been-more moment to be few, if any, hard inveterate hooligans and thugs,

facts to support such an argu--from- Clarendon Laboratory; him this abstinence is a matter, proper way to counteract sakn in powerful than he is today. How ment, one cannot but hope that who for good talons and an Oxford's centre of physical not of morals, but of taste. aircraft was the precise reverse long will it last?

there may be something in it extra dollar will stop

that crime against the peoples of research. His salary is just Indeed, the Prof regards those of that preached by authority, the

The university may well feel therwise the conclusion who mortify the flesh upon Prof took up an aeroplane, de unable to extend his leave of the Soviet Government really Britain, France, Italy, Austria over £2,000 a year.

moval principles with dislike, liberately put it into a spin, and absence. If so, he will have to

believes war to be inevitable is and Germany." even.contempt.

triumphantly demonstrated the choose, during the recess, between inescapable, correctness of his calculatkins, politics and Oxford.

The Prof acceptos offer last respected the Prot's great ability October with real reluctance. sincere effort to achieve -rare among scientists Those who know him find it hard expounding complicated technical to believe, despite all his loyalty subjects in terms intelligible to to Mr Churchill, that the Prof the layman. M: Churchill has will prefer the fleeting and pre- given ample testimony to the carlous joys of political power to services rendered by the Prof as the place which has been his real his scientifle adviser in the war, home for more than 30 years.

an

COSMOPOLITAN

an

wealth. exactly

His appointment is for life and he has not re-

TY, TOO linquished it by joining the Cabinet. The university PEING a bachelor, the Prof has given him a year's leave D lives in college, and Christ of absence, which is due to Church is his real home. Thither

he repairs mest week-ends. expire in the autumn,

Life for the resident fellow of Oxford or Cambridge college is a curious mixture of tliscomfort and luxury. If the THE Prof is essentially a bulldings are venerable, 50, n.

often, cosmopolitan. His family too

is the plumbing. originated from Alsace, He Rooms may be spacious was educated at the Uni- dignified. They are apt also to be damp and draughty. But versity of Berlin. He speaks the Profs own four-room set French and German alike exapes these disadvantages. He has seen to it that they to perfectly.

not lack reasonable amenities

In his younger days, be fore the 1914-18

war, he

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Mr Churchill has always

After flying

PINK

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at no

Are there any signs that the Soviet Government is making a

With the best will in the an world, it is not possible to understanding with the West?

detect in this gutter raving any The Quakers' delegation wh

which

Indication of a desire to went to the Soviet Union i establish friendly relations with 1051 reported that it could the West. Yet this is no aber~ "eatly to a more conciliatory ratton on the part of an obscure temper towards the West...and journalist. It is

culled from to the persistence with which the colun

columns of the Cominform Journal which abounds Auch material, is published in all the ma

mafor world,

saucers... RAIN

LARGE brown paper VICTOR SIMS looks parcel containing a

The servant problem is non- existent for a bachelor living in college. The college provides service, and produces meals from the college kitchen. After

a lump of into a new sky riddle from agricultural sprays piece of wood, free-dinner in Hond

the fellows retire, to the stone, several blades of Senior Common Room where grass and a goose feather they enjoy the old-fashioned will be delivered to the convince me that I was wide pleasures of vintage port (which laboratory of an analytical amazed." They pay for) dessert, and chemist in Surrey. conversation.

The Prof seldom dines in

.

rooma he usually walks to the causing the frequent mowers covered

in Southern

Senior Common Room, invari- of "pink rain"

bly carrying a roiled umbrelin England?

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"My eyes were on the road

hands and arma.

and

In

hanges of the

0 circulation of millions. It is part of a systematic, sustained campaign carried on day in and day out,

is directly

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to

and it is ctly inspired and encouraged by the Sorlet

And one is asked crnment accept this bellicose yelling of Insults as the language of peace! When Kim Il-sung, the North Korean Communist leader, at a Who does she blame? "The loss for a convincing argument, spots look as if they might be finds if necessary

to inform the used world through the Cominform "as far back as by farmers," she says, "dut I'm Journal that fold that the liquid they use the days of the war against the "I summoned my wife to does not stain,"

Indians, the forefathers of the

Truman vandals, scalped cap.. Driving his lorry along the awake," he says. "She was Farmborough Road, as he does tured Indians one may mile most days, is Mr W.H. Viggers Intent is there, however stupid at the puerility. But the vicious That same day Mr-Muller of Highfeld Gardens, Aldershot, the form. climbed his pear trees to pluck Says he: Ittside lies the answer to some. pink-spotted fruit....

· riddle: What' is and descended with his arms ahead when I noticed splashes Hall but after dinner In his week-old

with

ith blotches which of pink appearing on the wind- Nowhere In Stalinist peace still vinced that some screen, along the bonnet and on propaganda is thero any sign of and a bowler hat even for that Each of the objects inside the secret war weapon has misy stopped the lorry and got the fraternal hand of reconcilia-

the tion stretched across contends,

fron- a Bred" he

The vehicle tiers of war; out to inspect it. short journey. In these agree-parcel in sprinkled

Five miles away, at Farn was covered with a pink spray. the dominant

on the contrary, able surroundings, he is the best strange pink liquid which hop

toric Is one of of company. No one can come been falling from the skies en borough, Miss Ellen Toomey, a Pansers-by thought I was suffer-mallco, und hatc The parents,

per, returned. from her ing from chicken pox." verse so easily with guests, to an

area; 25 milles square housekeep led her hair in

wives, sweethearis, and frienda shopping grand or humble, draw them around Fleet, Hants,

of the American soldiers may be NOT FROM PLANE out so well and give them the

forgiven if they feel that thoṇo flattering sense that what they PINK-SPOTTED PEARS "I was horrified to find my

remembers

who disseminato mich.com a mass of pink spots," she FR VIGGERS

M chemists may COON the

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templible perversions are not Bays. "I thought I had con hearing the drone of

very hard to find able to tell what caused tracted a

nd a way "peaceful co-existen.co." 41-year-old Mr J. Muller, a about to rare disease-and was plane overhead about the time

to the phone for of the shower of pink rain.

The aim of such propaganda Fleet caterer, to see pink spots the doctor.

"Perhaps the aircraft jettison-pursued by the Stainlets all APART drom Sociallam, affe before the eyes at seven o'clock Then I glanced down and ed some liquid," he ventures. over the world, is clear. By

tation and pomposity aro

In the morning.

noticed, that my shopping bag, But a scientist Investigating

out the Americans for the only things which the Prol Me Muller opened his bath too, was sprinkled with a kind the phenomenon points out that particular abuse it as hoped to does not enally, tolerate. A guest

antagoniams

and once sententiously observed that room window, after a short zain of pink ink stain. 50 were my the spots are far too close to foster

gether to have been released hatred, and to "sow: 'discord one should not kick a man when shower to take a deep breath of drear and stockings."

fresh air. He blinked and look.

scrubbed her by a plane. Toomey

of the West. the peoples het down, "On the contrated again. What he saw mode face with scouring powder for After a preliminary examina-

#unfortunately,!! DIOCESITY the Prof is said to have replied,"

nearly tiree hours before the tion, he says, the Indelible pink to remind - those who are imm "it is the only time to do it, for him yap.

house, the lawn, concrete spots showed any "eigns or dis- spole appear to consist of 4 premed, by the ostensible "awoet then he can's kick you back."..

pathways, his seven geese-ai appearing. "They have gone type of oil soluble dye. He reasonableness of the Hussiehs It would be absurd to pro- wall as his bulldog, Kandy from my face now" she tells agrees that this is the sub-to take in occasional look at

this other focus--of-their ma tend that the Prot hay any deep were covered with glistening me.but they won't budgy from wiance used in the manufacture of coldtired spoke wired.) knowledge: of the great mass of magenté-coloured spots, the mode

| say is important and interesting.

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