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Plain Speaking

By

General

Washington, Mar. 5.

General James A. Van Fleet, former Eighth Army Commander in Korea, wald today there la serious shortage of man and ma- terials In Korea,

F

Taking a different line than yesterday, (jeneral Van Fleet toid itie Benale Armed Services Committee: **Thero has been a serious shortage

of Ammunition ever since I have been la Korca. There have been critical shortages at times." He said he was not given elther supplies or MAIL- power

to carry

out 1:50 mission in Korea success. fully.-Associated Press.

Another

Tanker

Seized By America

The

Philadelphio, Mar. 5. US Government

group of

aliens

headed

day

th

A

THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 1959.

STERN TASKMASTER

Stalin's Life In Kremlin:

Remote And Inaccessible

Moscow, Mar. 5.

Iossif Vissarionovich Djugashvili, who called himself Stalin, was born in Gori, province of Tiflis, Georgia, on December 21, 1879. His father was a village cobbler, his mother the daughter of a serf.

The father, a heavy drinker, died shortly after his son's birth. The mother became a household servant to educate her only child for the priesthood.

Fifty years later, the youth of the Godless State sukien reversal in his previous he headed hailed the one-time divinity student agricultural programme. "the sun of the entire earth." He was the almost absolute ruler of more than 800,000,000 of the earth's people.

Winston Churchill bounded begun at a London conference his empire at Fulton, Missouri, in 1907. in 1940:

Standing Their Ground

Debate In UN on The Korea War

on

New York, Mar. 5. In a debate overshadow- ed by Stalin's illness, the In that same year, Strain's | free and Communist worlds 50th birthday brought the first stood their ground at the of the public celebrations with which the people of the Soviet United Nations today were to pay continuing homage opposing methods to ending to the abeolute ruler, whose the Korean war, Stalin differed violently with photogTUJA was perhaps more Trotsky's desire for conciliation widely smuted than their flag. "From Stettin in the Baltle to with the Menshevik or evolu- Trieste in the Adriatic, an Iron tlorist faction of the party pattem which he maintained

His life conformed to Curtain has descended nerosa two

with only slight variation, un- the continent. Behind that line groups split in 1912 and I Important He all the capitals of the unclenten

member of Lenin's Bolshevik til his death. Stalin lived and and Fastern faction. In the same year he and worked in the mediaeval fortress Europe, Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Lenin founded Pravda, the news bodyguards, and appeared rarely of the Kremlin, protected by at publie ceremonies and party Bucharest and Sofa-all these

Stales of Central

Stalin

became

The

Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, paper which was Stalin's official famous cities and the popula- voice to the end. Lione around them He in the Stalin

was married for the

congresses.

the

send

prisoners

Opposition To Yoshida Begins

To Waver

Tokyo, Mar. 5. The Progressivo Fariy

(the

largest Opposition group) and the anti.

Yoshida

groups of the Liberal Party (Govern- ment) today began to show algns of wavering in their struggle to have a non- confidence motion against the Cabinet passed by tho Dict

It was reported here that both the Progreselves and the rebel Liberal groups are doubtful if they can

organize a strong enough Cabinet in case of a general olcotlan following the passage of a non-confidence vole against the Yoshida regime. The Opposition has been planning to introduce such a vote shartly,

A meeting of Progressive leaders, Including Mamoru Shigemitsu,

free home against

Mr Lo- night was inclined to the view that

they

should proceed with the presenta « tion of the non-cauidence motion "quite cautiously".

Bruter.

cannot

actual them

BANK'S

MISSION

TO BURMA

Canada's Paul Martin told the Political Committee the down from the Indian resolu- United Nations must not back tion, which embodies the world's refusal to Communist their will.

"If the Communists

resolution's He left his country's borders accept the Soviet sphere and all are sub-dest time during his stormy pre-only twice and not for behind terms," he declared, "let seized the tanker Merrimac Jeet in one form or another not revolutionary activities. His for conferences at Teheran, meet its spirit by offering help- Federal complain! that

was only to Soviet influence but to wife. Ekaterina Svanidze, a Iran,

1943 with Franklin D. ful proposals of their own, vessel, a war nurplus chip,

д very high and increasing sister of one of his schoolmates, Roosevelt and Winston Churchill purchased fraudulently by measure of control fron died in 1905 after bearing him and at Poistiam, Russian rather than fobrienting wordy

by Moscow."

one child, Jakob. The boy was occupied Germany, with Chur-smoke-screens." brought up by relatives and chill and President Trumon In Czechoslovakin's new Foreig The Communist expansion

Minister, Facluv David, repeated his father. It has been reported This is the second tanker the cantward into China was still to apparently never was close to 1045.

that he refused to join the Com- Government has seized from the

greying her

he said, and busny formula, which,

WES munist Party. same group, now known a

moustache, Stalin was descriced merely designed

up to "eover North American Shipping and

misdeeds of the In the subsequent years hisby Intimates as a man of simple the horrible Trading Company Federal

Stalin, tastes, a stern taskmaster and a United States forces in Korea." Vassily gents recently took posession

half-brother,

A mission from the Inter- hard worker who kept late to what appeared to be rose of the anker Monitor.

M. David, after accusing the national Bank for Reconstruction hours, In succeeding gears he the rule of a Crown Prince in

became increasingly

Eisenhower administration મ mun the Kremlin.

and Development will arrive in remote, inaccessible, surrounded plans for extending the war, de Rangoon, on March 7 to study the

manded that the United with mystery.

Na- future economic development of dons agree to the previously re- Burma, it was announced here jected Red plan for an imme-1oday.

the prl- with dinte cease-fire soner question to be settled at political conference Biler- wards.

Stavros Niarchos, shipping magnate.

The Merrimac and

the Greek

די

come,

the Young Djugashvili entered the Gori Ecclesiastical School at the age of nine. From there he went to an orthoxinx theological

Tiflis. seminary in

Its in- quiring mind led him to Socialist Mon.tor literature.

Ho W39 expelled were among six World War from the seminary for revalu- tankers sold to the North Ameri- | tionary activities. can Shipping and Trading Coar

the Unit pany by Maritime Commission under the 1948 Ships Sales Act.

States

WENT UNDERGROUND

A short, stucky man with the Communist rejections of the To Study Economic

Stalin reached Moscow from) his last Siberian imprisonment

The Soviet economy was in three months before Lenin re- turned. He became co-editor of constant upheaval throughout

active) the 1030s. For the next 17 years, youngt Pravda and played an

the part in events leading to Djugashvili lived as an under-

which This law required that In-ground Communist-pretching Bolshevik, revolution dividual buyers be American | Marxism at clandestine meet overview the Kerensky govern- citizens.

ment in November 1917. ...ings, organising strikes, writing and publishing underground

He became anci Trading

In the case of corporations, newspapers, the law required that the Prest- organising revolutionary bandits dent and Managing Director be to "expropriate" bank funds, United States citizens and at moving from place, to place with least 85 per cent of the false documents and under terests controled by American { nsumed names. eluzens.

:

of the names means

of

of

was

KULAKS CRUSHED

"We are 50 or 100 years be- hind the advanced countries," saidt Stalin in 1931. "We must make good this lag in 10 years.

45.**

Either we do it or they crush

commissar 0 nationalities In Lenin's govern-

and from ment

that position

for largely responsible welding Russia's diverse nation- The "kulaks" or rich peasants ality groups

into the present | were dispossessed and driven Union of Soviet Socialist from the country;

several milions died In the 1032-33 Republies.

famine, engineered by the Rove ernment to speed collectivisa

.

MADE SECRETARY

More important in his future career was his appointment to

Hon.

The Politburo (Political Durcau war, new

Stalin drew.

the rules

of

Development

Paris, Mar, 6.

U.S.