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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1952.

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And here we have Mrs. Joņos, Mrs. Smith, and Mrs. Brown leaving school ten minutos early to got their husbands' dinnors

POLITICAL PASTS

ON THE CRIME

AID the Briton who

has lived in China for FRANK MORAES

30 years: "The Chin- ese. will, of course, always be Chinese."

And then he went on:

London Express Service

APPEAR SHEET

The accused, manacted the Japanese military police hand and foot, were hustled during the occupation.

"Sha!

No training

AMERICA COLUMN

1rom

NEWELL ROGERS

COUNTING UP THE MONEY

New York. TERMS of money in

I the bank and in po-ple's pockets, President Elsen- hower is going to govern a new kind of America. ...After studying income trends, economic experts disclosed that America is becoming a nation of one class a middle class.

"Of course, this did not Just happen on election day. The economists went back to 1900 to see what is going on in terms of income to the rich, the poor, and the in- betweens..

THEIR FINDINGS: Total Income is being · divided more evenly than ever be fore. The richest tenth of the population is getting a smaller share about 15. percent less than in 1929, And the poorest tenth has doubled its share...

Millionaires are not going to vanish next year. Nor |will relief rolls. But the trends, do show that a bloodless democratic revolu- tion is going on almost un- noticed.

The old saying.the rich get richer and the poor get, children has to be changed for the Elsen- hover era.

The rich are getting who is editor of the Times of India in between armed guards.

to the front of the platform Obviously, the political ante. Foorer and the children of cedents or associations of an the poor richer. Average secuted weighed heavily even In | wage for factory workers la Bombay, concludes his special description of

a trial for murder.

$24.178. But what he saw on a mission to Red China. before the howling mob. They stood. cowering

remember that prices are higher than "They are individuálists,

in Britain. Sha!" but they are also amenable

("Death to discipline. They could be you tell them that over of listening to the Voice of Death!") yelled the mph,

INCOME TAX men are to tour organised-enaily If Mao's 2,000,000 people have been America radio, Kuomintang led by cheer leaders.

secondary schools and teach regime lasts another 20 liquidated in the three years Party

how to in members,

TUDGES, 'I discovered, are ap- the youngsters anti- years, a generation will since Mao. has come to Communists, embezzlers,

pointed not for their income tax forms,⚫ I attended more than kwledge of the law but for grow in China which thinks, power.

thieves, and murderers. ono trial at

People's their, pelitlent reliability.WO STREETS from Brooklyn pelice headquarters Govern- talks, and does nothing but

Court. One of the most Communism."

But the Communists Their execution is public, interesting was the trial of that the chief judge of the till, Ita £35.000 equipment was an illegal I was suprised to discover ment agents raided themselves admit it. Po Yi- and generally the doomed a woman murderess known People's Court at Tientsin had turning out 1000 gallons of po, China's Minister of are paraded around the chief as the Tigress of, Shanght, no legal training whatever. In whisky a day, Tax, josta to the Finance, wrote in the highways wearing a placard She had beaten her maid fact, such knowledge and train-Government on this drink Cominform journal: "in the round their necks on which servant to death, and there past three years we have their crimes are inscribed. liquidated more than two If there are mass trial!

was little doubt that she million bandits. Bandits are

was guilty. non-existent in China now." there are also mass execú-

tions..

That is precisely what the regime sets out to do.

In Shanghai I visited the remnant band of the old China hands who, over optimistically, had decided to stay on and do business. Quite plainly they. disillusioned.

were

Always it is easy to be wise after the event, and

The doomed

amounted to more than £0,000 daily.

B electronic beam, a loud- speaker starts warning you to state your business or be off If you go too close to the gates of Fort Knox, Kentucky, and get in the beam's path.

Under the fort, in burglar- proof vaults, the Government

ing are not regarded as essential prerequisites to judicial emce..

According to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of China, The interesting and signi- Mao's dictum that conclusions should only be reached after ficant fact was that among thorough analysis and investi- At Tientsin we were the indictments made in her gation is the boxcen Ught of shown a film of the great charge sheet were ONE: all justice in Communist China, mass trial at Peking, when that her husband, who had In fact, the Chief Justice him- stores over £4,000 million worth two out of seven accused died some years before, was self is also a member of the of gold bars, th looking back-one-can-IN-China the term-banditry, were sentenced to death having, worked us foremain in China, left Poking for Man-TURE MAN won, but his song appreciate the quite logical like charity,

as It was like a Roman in a British factory, where concerning the national minori- renaons which governed multitude of sins, their decision to stay.

carnival in the days of according to the indictment, ties It includes the activities Nero. A vast mass of people he had been done to death Among the first things of anyone from opponents of faced a mammoth open-air by the workers; and TWO, Thus the law in China is the Communists did was to the regime to missionaries, dais where the judges of the that her son, also dead, had governed by politics, which in ROBERTSON, WILSON & CO., LTD. open up communications, devotionists, persons guilty Supreme Court were sented. been in communication with economile structure.

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It's the GIN that

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BOORD'S

concentrated on

controlling their currency,

Both these developments indicated a desire to restore normal trade, and, indeed, the Communists seemed at first anxious to do business.

Nobody safe

THEIR change of attitude

covera a

SICKLE Neguib is doing all the

coincides roughly with Kremlin's work

the opening of the Korean war in June 1950.

It was after this that the firat hint of the San Fan and, Wu, Fon movements, directed against corruption, waste, and bribery in party, government and commercial circles, was bruited.

was bru

churia on a political "mission

turnare influenced by the

"I Like Ike" is sung in the lost. Irving Berlin's original musical "Call Me Madam" now touring the COUNTY, But Berlin took it out of the pro- gromme as being not quite sult- able for President.-Elect Eisenhower,

IN THE SAND

SEFTON DELMER

--who reported last week on his meetings with General Neguib and his military coup colleagues-today warns that Egypt Is ripening for Communism. "Neguib," he says, "has done more to this end in four months than Farouk's courtiers ever did." THE QUESTION: Can Egypt alone fight the threat'?

from corruption' it enjoyed driven much of the coun

or the country's

At the same time-cotton, when tho British were still food, vegetables, and consumer. Egypt's baale agricultural crop, 'running it.

goods off the opt

market. is faling to find buyers in world markels. Textils, mills and spiri- ners, are on thort time. time.

And all that Negulb's Govern- ment has to offer to a copy of Moscow's! soak-the-rich, slogans.

It is no accident that the shly bulk buyers of Egypilan. cotton

the moment are the Soviet-

· Cairo. Sudan and Egypt, and precisely WISE man, a shrewd what Nequib and his junta of

I approve highly-or hls Fertilisers, essential to the man, a man who would from doing.

brigadiers want to stop us desire to

give the country a country's agriculture, are held Test from make a superb moral

corrupt and irres up because price cuja......... make ponsible politicos who' and political guide to the

hava, delivery uneconomic, The recend remark was born exploiting it for the Last whole Arab world, has just lead the Arab world to its own

*"Communist technique is to 30 years..

Dosis guard-- road forks. made two remarks to me destruation.

THEY stop all lorries and They get us to am with him in his desire private care and ask them what San Fan was confined to which General Naguib, pull down what exists and then to Improve the lot of the they oro crying Again and a clean-up in the party and Egypt's military boss, decry whatever we try to put millions of Egyptian pensant again they conflicate lorries and controlled East Germans. They the Government. Wu Fan would do well to study, up in its place.

labourers whose numbers vastly divert them to some local centre, was the commercial counter- The wise man's name is the

Their whole aim is to divide excred the amount of cultivable forcing them to deliver their non- Commundst world toll and whose share of its loads there rather than at the Sayed Sir Ali Mirghani. He against itself, weaken and fruita is correspondingly small. destination for which they are

bound. Nobody was safe. No one is one of the leaders of undermine it, so that they can Bot by tickling these had the right to protect his opinion in the Sudan. And eventually dominate it. thoughts from the public these are the points he made anze. Son testifled against to me.

part

father wife. agalnat

husband, workers against their employers,

1 Approve

The Arst! "Middle East nationa

lems with ù soldier's but gate simplicity even though he has read economics in his lonely desert term niid.got a diploma' in

Replica

are deliberately trying to suck Egypt Into the Soviet economie orbit by wlly long-term, barter arrangements,

Experts believe the first wavo ́ ́of ** Egypl's economic crisis will come to a head In about four months' time.....

The Communists have the Moslem Brotherhood and other nationalist extremist organisa- exploit the unemploymbal and famine Isoming abcod,

it he has done more in the has been happening so frequently to lorries with food. are not strong enough economie LAS, they are getting much, at four months to make Egypt

4-help, from nationalist ex- ripe for Communism than all and vegetables for the British cally, or militarily, to stand up

and plan to reimpose the blockado The guilty were called to the Soviet by themselves. (emble, who are, their, uncan, the corrupt-courtices of-Farouk in the Canal Zone that Negutions through' which; they jeans.

scious (pois. These men should in to yours of power, currepiltiously was su probed upon to confess. There "The Wester-world must take que old Amb proverbs to intrigue.

But I am natified tile, nothing followed a great beating of help them. economically with heart. Let him who steps out I and; in "Egypt," this time, of the kind simply part of the breasts. Those who refused capital, machinery, and techni- of hot sand beware lest he step

clara: milliery by training into the fire.""

an atmosphere strangelyes chaos common to the whole to confels were placed on and equipping modernilsed Arub

W Remiáncent for Budapest," Proguo, me-country: trial; Four death sentences urmies and establishing military. All of which is a lesson that ankl Madrid in the ohrly days Farmers unable to ascure a were passed, and three of bases in the Middle East with Nogub should carefully digest of Communitte

Post Cafe, rowned: fór:) (helt - tions, which?Ľ #~ these were passed on Western troops Now I admire and sympathis

chote, transpori workers, yetarin Commúnista,“ su Which is precisely what with Negulbin This:

price cuts-imposed middlemen unbblert e Britain, the only major power to restore to Egypt's adminis« by Left-wing Nationalist Minister price for their vectvlode, are Many Liberals lift in-nativa cermitted in the halvt machinery some of the of Supply Anting with the rupe bolding back; and selling i credulous eyebrows, when - MRKLIO & BRIT,” -doleg both; in Leffelent discipline and freedotă", port of plie", military, se bave on the black mariqet,

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desire

none the country.

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Major General Negulbis going to need nil his desert toughness and political curming" to overcome it, pater

When he has dealt with that crisis" "hero" will bo dhothers to Follow. ⠀:"Anal" each tiine he will

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