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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1953.

WHOSE

UNCLE?

BERNARD

WICKSTEED

explores the legend of benevolence that grew round Stalin

W

HO was the genius where history has been rewritten who thought of with the sole object of making

the facts and the fairy-tale fit. calling Stalin

^ fellow I know hod # session once with # get the Order of Lenin, the Russian at Nuremberg. The Nobel Peace Prize, and an Russian, who was about 25, spoke Oscar with bar for the good English but he had never heard of the British conveys that

through the supplies

Aretic Circle to Archangel in the wor. He roared with laughter of the called very idea of Western-bullt funks

Uncle Joe? He ought to vodka

slickest piece of propaganda took this century.

Hitler was never Uncle Adolf nor Unele Ben, and look huppened to them. perished miserably.

Mussolini in Stalingrad. "There I can

what Prove your Western

propaganda false,"

he said. "I Was They Stalingrod myself and all the

Think of Napoleon. Supposing he had had o P.RO, who made him smoke a pipe and called him Unele Nup? lê, too, might have died in honour with nine doctors round the bed.

bren

tanks had red stars of them."

Of course they had. The first thing Joe did when he got them was to paint on red stars.

About the only

this Russian

of Britain's part

think

in the w was that we hod tried to wouble-cross Uncle Jos by invading Europe too late.

And so well had he been Indoctrinated that he auto- rejeeled *S untrue

History

have would changed had he only grown a bushy noustache and learned matically how to give hearty, avuncular anything that wasn't the Party

Trafalgar Square could laugh. Jave been Uncle's Park.

ilne,

It's like going to the pawn- broker. No one likes tard that, but if you call him Uncle it doesn't seem half so bad.

with Uncle Jue. narne like that he couldn't be as awful as people said. No une called Uncle Stalin the Ever-Watefiful, the Anything could leave, purposely. millions of peasants to starve.

Uncle Legend

DERHAPS you saw that ρει

Russian Alm, "The Fall of It was released about Berlin?"

year ago and it tells the Uncle Legend very simply.

So I was With

FOR

After all......

Fairy

Godmother and Good Fairy rolled into one, sends for a steelworker and has him_10 lunch. With the fervour of o disciple in a Passion play, the steelworker goes off to the war, secure in the knowledge that Uncle is watching.

POR that matter, no one with a friendly name like Joe, whether he was an uncle or not. could really want to turn nice clean Britons into slave- The actor playing Joe looked labourers. After all, Uncle Joe

so nice and kind and considerate had laughed and dined with beside the ranting un-unclelike

Goebbels listened with Hitler and Churchill, and

that he almost had me convinced-til} patience to Lady Astor.

the lights went on and I woke.

There couldn't be a dagger up the sleeve of such an under- standing man as that.

Britain

Even so, when my children saw the picture of Stalin and is a free and en- Malenkov in the paper the other lightened country or supposed day and asked who they were. to be. News is not censored. I found myself saying: "Uncle Anyone who likes can either Joe and his friend."

listen-in to Moscow in

or else borrow from the

"What's

the friend's name?

Is he an uncle, tou?" they

a score of books by asked.

"His name is Georgl, and he may become an uncle," 1 said.

"A real one?"

Marxists. Or they can do both. If the legend of dear old, kind old, benevolent Uncle Joe con

these persist

conditions, in imagine what it is like in Russia to find out."

"Well, that's what we've got

A surgeon prayed for 'hopeless' case

AND A BOY NO OPERATION COULD SAVE IS NOW BACK AGAIN AT SCHOOL-CURED

By CHAPMAN PINCHER

World Copyright by arrangement

Welcome Tito

"SHAME! NOW IF IT WERE FOR SOME STURDY UPHOLDER OF DEMOCRACY – LIKE FRANCO."...

COMING EVENT

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AMERICA COLUMN

from NEWELL ROGERS

Hollywood Fights Its Stars

Now York.

AD news for Hollywood

BAD

happily in London studios: Those left at home are to nak Congress to speed their return.

Not that Hollywood's big names have been flocking to Britain and other countries for sheer love of strange parts.

A legal loophole gives them 100 percent exemption on their income, taxes if they alay out of the United States 18 months.

The law was not intended for them. It was 10 encourage skilled workers to take overseas. Jobs during the war.

So many stars squeezed Into foreign studios to make Alms formerly

made in Hollywood workers lost their jobs or part of their Incomes.

|NEWS ITEM-AMNESTY FOR DESERTERS.......... At that Hollywood film

the news of Mr Churchill's announcement, Russell Braddon was asked to say what it involves. He is author of "The Naked Island," a book of his experiences as a POW in Siam, and he has |completed a close-up study of Men on the

NOW A SHADOW LIFTS

S

for

just

That is why the Alliance of Stage Employees and Motion

wants Congress to bung up the

means," warns this trade union.

ATOM bossm nte getting tough with strikers.

Oak Ridge, the Tennessee

fuel

for been A-bombs, hus

plagued with strikes. The bosses served notice on striking maintenance workers lo vacate Government- owned housing by April.

Picture Machine Operators loophole. We will use every

Run town that produces

alone and rootless in institutions which are frequently morally rotten; by giving them no senso of social responsibility (and it is an acquired not an innate instinct); by allowing them on leave in the world's largest city with their wickedly inadequate few pounds on which they are supposed to survive for ten, 14 or more days,...it is In all these things we drive them to what they do.

FOR those loyal Britons and admiring Americans who can- not get to the Coronation there consolation is going to be a prize.

The Commonwealth consuis- general in New York are spun- Foring a Coronation ball at the Waldorf Astoria on Friday, June 5. It includes a Common- wealth pageant.

Having driven them we prove ourselves incapable of catching them. More than 20,000 were,

GOLD In flowing out of run, up to recently, on the

America ot tho rate of Some may now, at last, be liv-50,000,000 dollars (£17,850,000)

IX months ago, as I And once on the run,

ing normal tierent lives—though

are always over with lives that motive, and Pic.. whatever

however decent an outlook to shadowed. But many more will wards society, the deserter be have become thugs, spivs, and comes a man so hunted

that worse. man practically his only means al survival is crime or immorali-

walked down cadilly, I felt a tap on my arm. I looked round to see a young who, with admirable can dour, asked me point blank for four shillings for meal.

ty

leave

a week.. And U.S. officials aro not displeased, It indicates that America's allies are Woing better in telling

to things

Americans and entertaining

more American tourists.

U.S. gold reserves are so vast the outgo is hardly felt.

AN unusual number of grandmothers are getting pass- ports for Britain.

BLESSING than ATHER, then, RA Without insurance cards, re- them rotting in society, ferences, ration book, ar laxa- and polsoning what they touch tion code number--and without at the same time; rather than money he can get no regular uselessly harrying them round employment.

and round Dritain, carrying vice They are not Interested

and crime with them primarily in

of the Tower wherever they go,and London, or even the Coronation. seldom catching them They are going over to 100

much

rather than

grandsons and grand-daughters this let us welcome born to wives of Servicemen the

I said "Certainly not, and was about to proceed on my way when a second look at his face showed me quite clearly-that- he was starvn ing.

As an ex-prisoner of the Japanese, I am an authority on atarvation-and I do not

feed," I told

80.

him-and did

Without Д

fort-

night's rent in ad- vance he can obtain

accommodation.__ Without accommoda- tion and a perman- ent address he is im- mediately suspect lo any

player.

1- potential

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THE

of a seven-year-old boy terribly injured after falling from a high building has convinced a leading London surgeon that prayer hus great healing powers.

When the surgeon, Mr Richard Hood Metcalfe, saw the boy, he realised that no life-saving operation medical treatment was pos- sible. So he simply prayed

the doctors and aurace, that Thy healing power may flow through them richly to all who are sick.

Then, just before he goes into the operating theatre, Mr Metcalfe pauses and privately asks for divine guidance.

which stationed in Britain. amnesty which the Prime Minister AFTER pirouetting through

and the

but to our-

at

Coronation season Covent Garden, ballerina Alicia Markova must return to New York for a business appoint- ment-13 TV shows on him.

Each lasts a quarter of th

announced

in House acknowledge that the like it.' "I'll buy you a He Ands himself, in other release of these men from the

words, confronted

the shadow of pursuit is a biersing with vicious clrcle of no job to earn not only to them. As he ate I got his story.... money to get a room; and, be- selves as well,

At the same time do not for-hour. But mostly she will talk. get that it is in the children's RARELY has a woman gone orphanages, reform schools and into a divorce court to background, no sense of status pared to give him a stort. in society, no love for it either: and he was a deserter.

But even should he find em institutions, in our indifference plain that her husband sang to ployment, the day will inevil to them and our gilb pretence her. ably arrive when the taxation that all is perfectly well In Mrs Ruth Haughey does to inspectors will unearth the fact them, that half these problems in Los Angeles. He song

who of today's displaced youth arise "Beautiful Brown Eyes," that here is a taxpayer appeared from nowhere and in the first place. straight away he is on the run again.

That started me off on 2

about

He chain of inquiries

seriers in London, and the les sons one learns are not plea

sani.

A

ORPHANS

LARGE

Here then you have a group 5f men who have no friends

proportion of these lads "on the run" (they cannot afford to move in and most have been on the run what may have been their old

Morning prayers led by or the wara sister are cun- for eight years or more are circles--they would immediately

tomary in many hospitals, for him.

But the St James's patients believe they get extra Now the boy is back at comfort from Mr Metcalfe. school.

"Knowing that_the_sur- Since then, Mr Metcalfe Keon in human enough to humble himself before God believes he has had such increases your faith In wonderful results in his him," a former patient saf 1. work by seeking God's help that he has urged his col- leagues to do the same.

HIS PRAYER

-{London Express Service)

a

| POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER

He told them--at private medical meeting in London-that before begin- ning his rounda of each St orthopedic ward at James's Hospital, Balham, S.W., ha lends the patients in this almple prayer he has composed:

O heavenly Father, giver of life and health, we thanic Theo for all the varied forms of Thy divino, healing power, and especially at this time for the work of the doctors and nurses and the wonders of medical science. Hear un now, too. beseech Thoo, for all who are sick in this ward. Stretch forth Thy hand to restore them to the|- fulness of life and health.

TO JE SAMO

ON R

"Who knows, mon vieux? Maybe it's Marshal Zhukov dressed up - as... · Marshal Montgomer

· Marshal Zhukov.

have a

the products of orphanages and be picked up); who can obtain insultutions where, if they have no not grown up with an attitude war, decent repleyment;

who for the most which downright Immoral whe

chip on their shoulder

about and Irresponsible, at the very society (a chip which we bost they have become solitary nothing to remove); who individuals with no background lonely, uneasy, hunted, hungry, and no future.

dirty, and sleepless.

The ordinary laws and con- ventions of society mean noth ing to them their only law Is expediency: their only

MOSTLY PITY

short time IN

do

are

crims to be caught,

the deserier takes to crime or to vice. May of them found Service life not strange-it is institu- These are the deserter's classic tional as their life has always full and a roof over ono's head, methods of keeping one's belly been. But then they go on leave and the trouble, Inevit. some money in the pocket and the obscurity from the eye of ably, begins.

They go on leave with very the police which only a bed littlo money (certainly not each night can afford, enough to last anything like the These are the methods that period they will be away from are whispered into the ear of their base), and because they every newcomer to the ranks DW, by the old and cynical hands, no family or childhood friends, They destroy every ounce they go to London.

have no home of their

of

dignity and self-respect in all cares. these men. They make of them criminals and parasites. They does are a ringly sore on the social

No city in the world less what happens to its Ser- vicemen on leave than London,

HUNTED

body which we all do our best to pretend does not milst.

I am an 'ex-Serviceman from am there-

LONG before troute, the last was mu

over these youths, penni- Ices and armed with the one fore entitled, as much as any principle they have acquired in one, to despise these men who their childhood (not to get

shirk their job. cdught) are on the streets, in Some of them. I do desplacj They are ripe material, with wholeheartedly, because they their Intellectual Immaturity know botter. But for the and their emotional instability, majority I feel pity because for crime and vice. The seeds, they do not know better, and 'of their desertion are then it in we ourselves who, by al- *SOWD.

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