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THE CHINA "MAIL" MONDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1952..

"Daddy, do they stop making atom bombs for two minutes on Remembrance Day?"

YOUTH IN STALIN'S HOUSE OF

T

HIRTY-FOUR years have passed since the Russian youth movement was har-

like

BONDAGE

By Hugh Sutherland

atmosphere of haired. And hatred is the constant refrain of the Komsomol's theme-song. One could quote many examples this perversion of the

nessed to the forces of the exacts these things above all of capitalism In the consciousness generous Instincts of youth.

Bolshevik Revolution. How

else.

concrete in mould,

reiterated re-

11

THE DEPTHS

on

DO GERMANS CONDEMN HIM NOW?

Or are they angry that he failed?

FULL-SCALE blo South

Agraphy of Hitler do- So contrast to

the harsh Prus-

pearing less than tars of the eight years after his death North. are Even to attempt auch a genial, kindly book must excite our ad- harmless, is a and politically

д

miration. The difficulties myth. that confront the writer of Moreover, recent history are formid. Hitler was not, able-difficulties of material. " Left Wing writers loved to of selection of perspective. sert, the tool of any class or Mr Bullock can be con- group in Ger gratulated for leaping over many. He was

FIPentially so many of these hurdles. radical and re- Or is "leaping" perhaps the volutionary wrong word, suggesting as figure who based his power. it does a certain airborne on popular mass support. quality on the whole seldom Ha took orders neither from found in Mr Bullock's seven the magnates of the Ruhr, the Krupps and the Thyrrens, nor hundred sedate and con- from the Junkers aristocracy. He scientious pages describing gave orders, and his orders were the most violent and do obeyed with obsequious servility. He owns the most absolute dictator monic carcer of our times? that ever rulod a great nation,

Whatever its minor blemishes, Mr Bullock's book is

an achievement valic.

of the greatest

He tells, it is true, little that has not already appeared in one form or another, either in the reports of the Nuremberg trials, or in the spate of diaries,

memoirs, and histories which have poured forth from post- war Germany. But wilig has

Nor, as Mr Bullock showa, was this tyranny compensated by the saving grace of being efficient. Hitler was not interested in effelency. Under his rule Nazi Germany was a jungle of com- peting and conflicting agencies.

DARK IMPULSE

Goering.

straps. Hitler's

Himmler. Bormann,

time or patience to read all Goebbels,

Us.

these? Life is too short, and fought each other in an incessqht now Mr Bullock has done it for struggle to enlarge their own

personal empires. On the prin ciple of "divide and rule" Hitler positively preferred this chaotic altuation, although It was, of course, disastrous in war time.

He has produced an orderly and coherent narrative from n chaos of dubious and conflicting sources. His book is a triumph of energy and common sense.

CLOUDS GO

What was Hitler's real objec tive? What Ideas lay behind his extraordinary successes, his monstrous crimes, his mégalo- maniac gesticulations?, Mr the-Bullock answers these questions It cannot, of course, be

a chapter entitled "The last word upon Hitler, for it is inconceivable that at this early

> Dictator." stage all the evidence on Hit His conclusion is that Hitler's ler's life has seen the light of ideas boll down to "a simple day. But Mr Bullock's work claim for power which recognises is the solid and indispensable only one relationship, that of foundation upon which any domination, and only one argu- later biographér will have to ment, that of force." build.

But would even the Germans As Mr Bullock slowly dis-

have given such fanatical loyalty perses, the great clouds of to someone who had no purposo ond. nonsense silll beyond the bare asserilon of clustering around Hitler's head, naked power? It seems to me what pleture emerges of the that, in his proper contempt for polities and character of the Hitler's ideas, Mr Bullock under- Nazi regime? Certain widely estimates their importance, held fallacies should vanish for neld ever. ever

This question refers to a survival of

of the people.”

Mgeladze, at the Georgian has it fared in the interim, verence for leadership, an

¡Bready Once again the mysterious Komsomol's Congress and, on the evidence of

"arming citizens with in Soviet propaganda itself, unquestioning belief in the connection is taken for granted, mentioned spoke of

responsible for the young Leader's "infallibility" and I religion is

slackness, then "n survival of tolerance,

an aggressive what shall we say of the "omniscience," a complete capitalism" is the only possible spirit of vigilance and ardent Communist youth movement

hate of the enemy." and utter subservience. To cause of persisting wickedness! today?

the youth of any country

Is any rational being expect- The Komsomol, the Com- in any age, this spells hum- ed to believe that the disap-

of one munist League

particulur of Youth, bug and hypocrisy, and it is pearance was formed by Lenin in a rule to which even Russin economic system would be, in 1918. The League's first is no exception. Here is evil from the minds and hearts A russin, speaking at another

itself, sufficient to banish all AND a delegate from Byelo-legend evidence, gar- of men? Congress lasted from Octo- the factual

Incredible as it may conference, made a significant ber 29 to November 4 of nered from official Soviet soem, this is now the accepted admission. At the Sixth Session

of the Commission

the teaching of the Kremlin. that year. The object of sources of recent .date.

Status of Women, on March 28, de-

Admittedly Hitler's ideas were the movement (as in all

Fedor Gladkov, writing in the 1952, one Mme. Novikova

clared that assertions -that- Soviet Literary Gazette

Hitler-was-not-as-so many-dotestable, but_ they were, modern totalitarian

May 22, 1952, deplored the children's books in the Soviet maintained during the war, the and let it never be forgotten

coherent, they were practicable, gimes) was to control and

· mili- Russian adolescents'

"hool!- Union inculcated hatred into embodiment of Prussian exploit the idealism of

were generation language, and all the younger

tarism, The Nazi movement they appealed to some of the youth, ita ill-defined re- Mikhailov, Secretary of the forms of obscently" These he dangerous half-truths. It was, of began in the South under the darkest the oldest and the strongest impulses in the Car- of the auspices

Baya- DS the 18th described its Komsomol, addressed

vis man people. the "Infamous course, a fact that children there tolerant

chief the "rupulsive sur- were taught to hate their enemies; rian Government, whose - heritage" with tradition, Congress of the Soviet ComI-

one ID Party

vival of the bourgeois past. To but there was "nothing wrong of police, when asked on Moscow. and its natural enthusiasm munist

the relate them to the Stalinist pre- or immoral in that."

occasion whether he knew that Gravely he warned

political murder gangs existed for change.

delegates

sian sent would have been a fool- that some Russian

No further proof is necessary. Bavaria, repiled briefly:' boys and girls were falling un- hardy deviation.

These are the depths to which "Yes, but not enough of themi Like the Inter Fascist der the influence of religion.

Immorality is the inevitable the young people of the Soviet The notion, prevalent for sonic dictators, Lenin soon dis- This, he said, was the result of

outcome 'df the training to Union have been plunged, as reason in England, that the ideological

result of 34 years of which young Communists, are the covered that its ardour lent "hortcomings

work," and the

would problem

subjected in itself to manipulation, for have to be tackled "vigorously. For virtue cannot flourish in en doctrination.

the Komsomol. Komsomol, discipline and in-

*HITLER, A STUDY IN TTRANNY, by Alan Bullock (Odhams, 258.), in other countries, so in The "allen influence" of religion Russlu, the qualities of had caused young workers youth are more of the heart become "alackers and to break

Lenin-Trotsky regime there-

volutionary impatience

outlook,

re-

WARNING

N-October 12, 1952 Nikolai ganism, bad

to

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FALSE DAWN

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"OUR INDIA'S

Hitler's objective. was not power in general, but power in a particular direction--the East.

our India, "Russia must be Hitler would monotonously day': clare.

What the New Offerroally meant was the ·conquest, and colonisation of vast arens ! In European Russia, and the crea tion of a German ruling aristo-

living

like feudal lords

olds a

serf population do- prived of all education, except

the minimum' needed "to underw stand our highway, code so that, they don't throw themselves is under our motorcara," to quote

moods, Hitler in one of his more genial

It used to be sold that Hitler's fatal "mistake" was to "inyado Such a'view'entirely. Russia.

misconceives the nature of Hitler's war. The object, of that war had always beén Russia, · D`R WERNHER VON BRAUN,

To talk as if the Russian technical director of guided offensive was a mere tactical missiles development, forecasts mistako is absurd. It is equl- trip to the moon in rocket valent to saying that the whale ships by 1977. He says we will war was just an error of judg all watch it on TV.

ment on the part of Hitler, whereas, in fact, it was the sile Another interesting prophecy purpose of his entire polley -the telecast will come from a from the first moment that he space station bullt 1,075 miles achieved power. Dbove the earth long before 1077.

10 the book-the Komsemol Statute, which seeks Age ships of five nations business: liked bookmaking 1016., to compel every young Com- are beating the British just as some people like drugs. In St Louis, Missouri, she has NOT so today,

The false inunist to take part in the merchant fleet to a fast- I enjoyed every minute of it," dawn has clouded over augma-far more

Marxist attacks on religion. This growing sen commerce.

He. was in business for ten unyielding Thirty-four years have pass than that of any religious or

This trade lies along all years. Now he has named ed, and the bright aspira- 'thodoxy-is frequently given Empire waterfront

dozens of policemen, including tions of a Russian youth of, prominence in the pages of shoreline of Canada,

high officers, who took bribes say, 20 are now the tedious Komsomolskaya Pravda. On July

In growing numbers merchant- to protect his business, reminiscences of a man in 1952, for example, its editarint

declared:

men from Norway, Sweden, his fifties.'

Germany, France, and Holland MORTY-SIX PERCENT. OF The reason is not far to an active propagandist of the on the Great Lakes, in the heat

in America, aro crowdtt in world of North America, and carrying seek. As the Soviet system scientific, materialistic

London and Glasgow. cities on one half of one percent outlook, cannot tolerate religious them developed, inevitably, into creeds. It is his duty actively to And all over the world, Stalinist autocracy, the struggle against, religious pre- Komsomol was deprived of judices,"

its nominal "independence".

The great purges of the 'thirties transformed the functions of the entire youth

. "The Komsomol member, as are snatching cargoes from, poris FORTY-SIX

more than 09,000,000 people

REJECTED

organisation. Para-military A rejected by Communist dog-

of the landl

VICE-ADMIRAL. Emory Land, president of the Air Trans-

¤

TRUE," only steamers under

The rocket ihips will be“ 3,100 tons can get this business now. But when Canada digs its port Association, says: "Present assembled and launched from big seaway to the Great Lakes et transports are not considered this station. They will take five (orders to start work may come economical for airlines,"

days to go to the moon. this month) the lakes will be

He did not.

ARE WE SURE?

And in this, as in nearly all

his most outrageous sellanm, Hitler had the support of the great majority of the German S for morality, this atto. is enormous,

namo the Comet, VIIVES of middle-income inen people a support which was Says Mr R. H. Kohl, of the only jet carrying passengers. Ware buying clothes again. only shaken when defeat had training became the order ma. Lenin has said; "In what

become Inescapable of the day, while strict con- sense do we repudiate ethics and Chicago, who charters ships and Ife "assumes" It will bo Ave They now demand at least one

Today Germans do not talk formity and rigid discipline morality?...Our morality is en-crucis, for cargo in this made years before an American air- "High quality" dress even if the

would welcome Brkish urely subordinated to the in ships. They could cash in on The is operating éven a small price is high.

much about Hitler: If they Uo, rapidly displaced what re- terests of the class-struggle of this. 7

is in terms of grave con- demnation. ́mained of the Idealism of the proletariat.” -1017

SAD FOOTNOTE: Ono British.

We would most a£lik Cicarly, this drsatz ethic has freighter, the Ballyholme Bay, not scored a great success in the 1s enlling with a Great Lakes divide his winter season of the Los Angeles fashion show. happier, if we could be quito The Lenin-Trotsky

ranka of the Komsomol, Spalding cargo to South America. She is conducting on a radio pro So the buyers' own purchases mure that the Germans of 1982

from 15 | condema Hitler for his crimes. gime called; for dynamic at the 10th: Congress of the

Cantelli. Toscanini will do 14 to 50 percent.

-and not merely for Shin/fullúro enthusiasm and initiative. Georgim Komsomol, on May 16, under charter to a German line, game with his protege, Guldo for next spring are up

to get away with them/yaba 1032, the Georgian Communisi

Saturday, concerts and Canter After all, was it not young Party's First Secretary, declared: NEW YORK has had to give eight. Four of Toscanie prs They say the wives are con itself? But, the Staliniat There are

cores of up plans for a new Under grammes will No deveted to, vinced that prosperity is hare

Robert Blake Beethoven,,!

data stay at least, through 1943 autocracy, having pot hard amorality among our young folke, ground railway. No money,

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