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THE. CHINA EMAIL FRIDAY, DECEMBER" - 19,771932/17

The Past is in our Future

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1951

"Over to you, Miss Markham--and the very best of luck

today we will all make paper- chains

Spells

London Express Service

CONSCRIPTION BEHIND

T

THE IRON CURTAIN

#

very

slow.

Although

.even one

period of

TREND

James› Bartlett, previews the news' you'll be seeing later in the tall headlines

E acarch for the shape

THE

to come

knows no barriers: Trends are as likely to show up first in a beauty parlour na they are in a boardroom. Take this samplo :-

Hairdressers are delighted with the new trend to bigger, more elaborato earrings, a fashion unconsciously. encour- "aged"bg" the "Queen/since 'sho ́had her ears pierced last year.

The connection is unexpected, but hairdressers,' see 'a steady run of business ahead becauso shorter-hair, styles-which are nerded to show off the orna- ments--demand more frequent visitas to the hairdressing shop.

DIVORCE PATTERN:

Watch for the changing palter in divorce suits, still pouring into English courts at the rate of more than 700 cases a wack.

Main grounds for divòrte, out of every 100 cases, tued to be: 1 Misconduct. (58 per- cont); 2, Desertion. (39. per- cent); 8, Cruelty (twa percění).

But the end of this year is expected to show a big swing- over in the legal reasons) for broken marriage. Désertion will move into top: 'place (54 percent), then misconduct (41 percent); with a more Khan doubled figure for cruelty (five percent).

Lawyers" ore pressing for a wider recognition of. Pervólty” in divorce to includo •those cases hore à husband's 'or wife's health, is injured in- directly-even. : unlinowingly- by the offending partner.

EXAMPLES: By constant ill- treatment of children, by drug- tåking, “ør immoderate

drink-

by repeated spells in prison.

.contributions to HE military prepara- Federation of the Union de which would be difficult to or fifteen years. Few non- tions of the Soviet la Jeunesse Republicaine de bear for anyone brought up Air Force are commissioned Soviet military authorities, is a commissioned officers the State loans, it is argued by the Union and the satel- France, had called upon in the free world.

and promotion. I In the ranits form of compulsory saving for lites in Eastern Parisian youth to "redouble

Indeed, it depends servicemen, the men them- In the Europe can hardly

Soviet Union: more man's political views selves: regard such contribu be. its efforts in the struggle sive in either character or by forming,action "commit- ed up for military ser- ex-members of Komely and tions as equivalent to,a tax. described as purely defen- against two years' service, youths are normally call than on his service

(the Conscripts are lucky if they Communist youth organisation) scope. In fact,

In receive Moscow tees everywhere and multi- vice at the age of 19, Con

receive the greatest favours. Radio not long ago asked plying the petitions and de- but. if they have been fact, on entering the Air Force leave during their service, Mening, Communists to support legations before the De- to. secondary school they are immediately given the below standard in political or Leading military training are not grant- "legal,

OLD - NEW progressive and putles."

they go into the Soviet rank equivalent to Anevitable

the soldier or airman to serve wars." - Wars

Army, Air Force or Navy Aircraftman in, the Royal, Aired leave. It is not unusual for

Force. The British Communist a year earlier. In effect,

for dve yours in Germany" or AMERICANS will be sending waged by Soviet Russin

Austria without any chance to over a new decorative idea, in were described as "the most Party, too, has attacked the this means that they enter

visit Itis, home in Bussla. window blinds that has already Jegal

Special leave on compassionate caught on in more than 6,000 and holy of all two years' conscription the armed forces straight

period. The Political Com- from school.

grounds

is rarely granted for homes in the United States. Conditions of service in the the first two years of service. wara."

mittee of the Party in

and airmen are not It is like the old Veneilin This latter thesis fits into August 1952 declared: "It

The private soldier is paid only the complex "peace" pro- is clear that possibilities the Soviet Army is nomin so roubles a month about

in an organised group different colours) and turned Many conserved for

lestu" 9d. a day until he bas paganda jigsaw of the exist for a broad campaign ally two years.

three years.officer By under

the supervision of an on its side.

non-commissioned Soviet Union. And it is by the Party and the scripts, however, serve up

a Soviet Major officer. contrast

Plastic alats, hanging lengths linked with the "hate" Young Communist League, to five years, and this General erving in Occupied Nor is the Sovjet- solüler or

wise from a

horizontal roller at campaign against the West especially among the youth applies particularly to men Europe appears to receive the and the campaign against and among women, for a who are specialists or have equivalent in pay and allow airman entitled to local or

48 ances of mors, than. 27,000 a short leave. There are no the compulsory military reduction of military ser-

rear. In the British Army the hour passes such as those given service laws of the North vice by half.".

newly-enlisted conscript is paid to servicemen, of the Western Atlantic Treaty nations.

*45, a day if urumarried and is, a countries.

But, as one would expect, The story is the same in the Communists are silent the United States.

about military service con-

Therefore, it is pertinent

ditions in the countries to ask. What are the

which they control.

-tain?

facts concerning military The anti-conscription service behind the Iron Cur campaign Inspired by the Kremlin has met. with some success in the West, notably in Belgium.

Sérvice for privates in Soviet armed forces are harsh. Sted, to leave barracks,un-hind, smartened up, (in a dozen

DAVID LAIDLAW

a knowledge of foreign languages.

Non-commissioned off- cers, in the Soviet Army

day after. 18 months' service, I he should marry during his

twa

years' compulsory service he is

**

given an additional. s. a day.If the conditions of service in

*But to assess the real value the Soviet and satellite armed

· almost

the window top, will be turned either way to direct the ligha into the room, or overlapped to shut it out- C

'Or they can be swung olther side and looped like curtains.

STILL LOWER

BRITISH paper-makers have

of pay and allowances in the forces were of a high-standard, Soviet Army-it is necessary to much would be made of them made; a fresh move in the der relate them to the cost of living in Communist propaganda to paper-trade war,

tomall in the Soviet Union and the the free world. The

Fer example, patchlites,

in complete absence of such They have cut prices of white Moscow, even after the recent propaganda is proof that any shot-box enamel to des...per cute, black bread still comparison between service ream (about 70 reams go to ts-15.

40. 10.

alb. At the oficial

Curtain · countries -- would | mill-In-Saxony, deep - Inside unfavourable to the Russian occuplet zone, 'is stili

offering it for 338. 8d...

Enors

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cing

Here is the answer. In that country the Com.

for three years. * rate of exchange of 11.2 rouble conditions In to Western ondļa too),!"Buticew German paper Soviet Rusala: Univer- serve munist Party singled out

varies between 98, and 10% 83. Latter, the unpopularity of the sal military service for a There is evidence that in to the £. The price of sugar be very

Russian Occupation a ib, butter from 23s. to 30s, two years' conscription de period of at least two the

Forces in Europe,, privates a lb., and tea from at least £5 cree as a rallying point for years,

are now required to serve 13s. to £10 15s: "united front" tactics Poland: Conscripts serve three years and non- After a mass strike called two. years and three commissioned officers for .. by Socialist led trade months, some categories four years. Privates of the unions, the Belgian Cabinet being retained for three last age-group to be re- The food of the private decided that, although the years.

leased would appear to have soldier in the Soviet Army is law for two years' compul-A-

been in the Army for four very poor, and he has little opper because of his low Czechoslovakia: Two

to supplement his sory service ahould not be

to five years. 29

i mangre amended, conscripts would years service after a year's to five

rate of pay and the high cost be released after twenty-one pre-military training..

The length of service for of staple foods, He cannot the small luxuries months.

Hungary: Two years' conscripts in the Soviet Air afford even

of life. He has to pay from is. service with provision In Force and the Soviet Navy 7d, to 11s. for 26 cigarettes. His the Act, to increase it to even longer than in the soap costs about in. Od, a tablet. Army. How men, are chosen if he is serving in Eastern Ger Communist tactics direct three years.

wants to buy for these two more technical many, and

chocolates, He, must pay about ed against conscription

Rumania: Two years' services is 'not quite clear. 17 for a 4 oz bar, his full aimed at weakening the service.

Presumably it is dependent pay for ten days. military potential of the

upon their educational atan. North Atlantic-

Even there figures do not re- Two years dard. If they have been to dect the true hardship under

Treaty Bulgaria:

powers stem from a service.

a secondary or technical, which Soviet poldiers are

leading article in the These facts show that school they are drafted serving in Eastern Germany

the length of compulsory into the Air Force or and the satellite States. A few military service in the Navy.

Soviet Union and her satel lites is not less than in the

Cominform Journal as far

months• ago it was decreed by back as September 1950.

Moscow that they should drow It explained how the de-

only half their pay, the balance mands for the extension of

being credited to: then in the Soviet Union The Boviet the peace movement

signatory countries of the Military training in compul- troops thus receive virtually had the support of the North Atlantic Defence sory for all boys in Russia who only 10d a American, British, French, Belgian " and " Yugoslay Treaty.eta ga

-continue their; schooling after,

Boys remain- the 7th

in When and how they are paid class. youth, who are fighting · But this is not the whole" in las of any are obliged in thosh In Ruslanean, not at school trong 14th 17, the money ord today to military service and are story. His necessary to undergo two hours military Koown But liknan protesting against extended examine, and to compare trahlte each week. Boys of that they never receive all of It because the soldier, miast in- service.

conditions of military ser17. Fare compelled to attend n This theme has been in vice in the Communist 20-day military camp each year. Vest from one to two month,

pay a your according countries and with those Conscripts, beats their ser he tested in rion-interest creasingly used by all the in the Western demoerdeles to the cake of the beter ten geurs Hose may be indeem- rvice in the Boylet Navy/ok 19. bearing government bords. After Communist parties in West- ern Europe and America in one must recognier the ducated; - 18. Bervice la o ed for 20 percent of their face generally lower standard of a minimum period of ave years value and after twenty years -1952.

living in the Soviet Union

nvil vakio. In addition,

other' Biete obe

Hi the© Soviet Ai In France Paul Laurent, and the Rugplans unques Foros: la fós four Secretary-General of the tioningVbcceptance For before a man can be

N.CO. Communist-dominated Being strictions and i hardships Gistavine:

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