1953-05-18 — Page 4

THE CHINA-MAIL, MONDAY, MAY 18, 1953.

WIDE SCOPE FOR AMNESTY

IN THE SOVIET UNION

་་ .

By ELISABETH HUNKIN.

F the Soviet amnesty that anyone who, "without corrective labour for turning

announced -decree,

on due cause," pulls the com- blind eye to the many caECS of embezzlement In hin depart-

Such ment:

were the four March 28, 1958, is car- munication cord to stop a

and 'in- count- train is liable to imprison- heads of departments ried out faithfully,

to three dustrial undertakings In Geor less people will be released ment from one from prisons and labour years, unless, of course, it gia sentenced in June 1952. to Socialist pro- in safeguarding camps. There are thousands, has been done with "counter a year aplece for "carelessness

intent," in perty." serving sentences of five revolutionary years or less for crimes which case it would receive which "represent no great much more severe punish-

State", for. ment. danger to the

Soviet under the harsh Penal Code, minor crimes

officials tho Nor are such only people liable to suffer for Accord- the crimes of others.

law, all adult ing to Soviet Soviet Serviceman who escapes members of the family of a to the West, if they lived with.

un- at

of

Inefficiency of various punishable with short terms kinds is punishable with of imprisonment or forced imprisonment. Directors of

the ilme of his disap- labour are legion. They are State and public institutions him or were supported by him

deprived are be im- pearance, not limited to accepted cri- who are careless und

electoral rights and exiled to of Siberia for minal offences-forgery, businesslike nay speculation, robbery and the prisoned for two years or distant parts like but include many sent to corrective labour for five years. offences for which depriva- a year. Responsible officials Industrial enterprises tion of liberty seems

which produce goods below peculiarly severe penalty. the set norm run the risk of five, six, seven or eight years in gaol.

a in

In the first place there are the violators of Inbour dis- cipline, These include indus- trial workers and State employees who have left their jobs on their own initiative,

Bribe-takers

THE Soviet apologist would per TH without

say that a question of prin mission. This, in the Soviet ciple is involved; the interests Union, is a "crime."

Forced Labour UNDER the

to

if

or

по

Another group of prisoners affected by the amnesty are the members of national repubiles committed certain who have

In- custans." These "crimes" offences connected with "tribal clude the bartering of a bride for money or cattle, a practice customary among Moslems, Such an offence in the Moslem territories of the Soviet Union incurs a prison term of a year for both parties to the trans-

action.

Minor Crimes

Those who LISC Influence of the State must come before

That is everything else.

why petty based on tribal relationships to doubt the reason

also risk being theft, on however small scale, raise funds for religious or so-

it is committed in an indus- cial purposes

State sent to corrective Jabour. trial enterprise Anme head institution, is punishable by a, year's imprisonment, unless, of' the come

transport course, it is subject to a more workers Hent Inbour serious sentence. camps for violating trallic regulations or for slipshod repairs to rolling stock. Ac- have cording to Article 59 of the Penal Code, a railwayman who is responsible for acei- dents or delays, albeit with- out malicious intent, may lose his liberty for anything up to 10 years.

#1

who are those Then there

official "abused their

These include takers position." of bribes, although to judge by complaints in the Soviet press

have Kone many more punished, for corruption is

at all levels of

un-

Soviet

"Here it comes! I expected it~'Not allowed in New York Harbour, can't give a certificate of

seaworthiness to the Queen Mary'

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London Express Bervice

A FLYING BUNGALOW IS NEXT

From

Nowell Rogers

New York. UT the car in the garage and-fly away Pn the bungalow for the wedle-end.

Quite practical, saya Igor Sikorsky, father of the hoverplane, '

All you need is a hoverplano on the root, "Flying cottages," he says, "will be the next development in air travel.

"Today It le possible to build an amphibious hoverplane with a body large enough to con- tain Ilving lulchenette,

and sleeping

quarter, and

"Our company Is now producing armed service copiers roomy enough for such quarters. They will be underneath the pilot's cabin." The balcony will be permanent or retractable."

Sikorsky takes another peep into what he believes to be the near future: "You will lounge comfortably on the balcony of your own flying home as you drift over strange and beautiful countrysides."

VASI B

RASS violinist Christopher Balestrora, charged Dwith two insurance office hold-ups, stood in the Astoria, Oregon, police station andy heard Charlie Daniell confess to the crimes,

They look és allice as identical, twins. - They had never laid eyes on each other before. Balestrera plays in a night-club rumba When he walked into the Indurance

band.

TO PERON'S

DRIVE

KEY

POLICE

Buenos Aires.

cafe crowds up

By John Mays

shrift than ever from the worried President. Instead of encouraging strikes he has been turning his attention to pronteers, In recent Aires have been filled to over- flowing with small tradeinen accused of over-charging.

HE

and down the nolay avenidas are

tense leouble or whether his Peronistas ence, and the farmers naturally weeks the prisons of Burnos but talkative. There are firing of him. is tension too in back-street

ori

office to see about a policy, four clerks identified him agthe gunman who held up their office In July and again in December,

Hils wife had hervous breakdown.

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Last week he went on trial. The judge' declared thistrial when two jurora commented audibly on the case.

Д

Then

constable arrested Daniell for loitering: To their amreement ha confessed 15.40 robberies, including the win- surance office stick-ups...

Bald Balestrera to Daniell: "You don't know what you did to my wife."

Daniell said nothing.

JOE

CERTAIN other minor crimes which may result in prison sentences are peculiar to Com- is fallure to register with the munist regimes. One of them police on arriving in a new

objocied. district. For persons convicted

Wages continued to rise under Peron climbed to powCT several times of omitling to

This move against shopiceepers, in So obey this regulation the punish-bars and in the palatial man- the shoulders of the workers. Peron's plans for "social justice.

ment is

"tho two years' imprison-

aions of cattle millionaires. and

two But so did the farmers costs. These

could Beef production declined, and was undoubtedly popular with him and

Peron's, worlding-class, followers. Everyone is wondering what forces made

mont for domestic consumption Seme retail prices in Buenos ment.

them could do for more to un- began to find its way into the Aires have dropped by a third 'will happen next in Peron's break him. Unrest in either of war of nerves.

seat him than any move by the grey market, making a mockery since the police began thel: anti-

a of official price ceilings.

profiteering campaign. handful of seato in Congress. opposition, which has only

* Inevitably,

in. Inflation sei of whose leaders and many

Argentine workers in town and the exis- havo been hounded into prison country earned more and more;

and exile.

society. Nevertheless,

receiving ing to the letter of the law, those

convicted of bribes for any purpose may be sentenced to two years' im- Not

prisoninent, Those who proffer very long go atationmaster. in Georgia bribes fare even worse: they are imprisonment for as three table to sentenced to years forced labour for long as five years. delaying the despatch of 22 trucką.

Was

Others said

to abuse

are the

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be

Plenty is going on now as Peron's police build up their "evidence" for tence of a "vast terrorist organisation plotting against the Government."

'army.

Fallen Idols

their wages bought Jeas and Peron staged an austerity leas. campaign, but the Argentines

have

The Army

UT the country's dislocated economy cannot be put 16

never taken kindly to tightening their belts. So the rights inflationary spiral continued.

Again, a person who intro- duces a religious picture of any kind Into a State Institution or Industrial enterprise may sent to prison for three months. The amnesty decree provides

revision their for

of the Soviet Criminal liability Penal Code. In Karelo-Finland oficial position

by "measures of a foreman in a paper depot calica rotosel, the gullible people for certain minor offences is to

simply by imprisoning administrative a year's who, out of kindness or laziness be replaced

and dis- was sentenced to

Time

shopkeepers. Even Peron's drive will

House-to-house searches, hard labour because lack of or personal interest, fail to put an

a stop to malpractices around ciplinary nature."

Egainst notorious corruption in show whether the reform will workmen had delayed un-

really mitigate the - lot of the mainly in the wealthier dis-ARE the workers still with him?

In his May Day horongue This was the situation which Government circles casinot put loading.

trlets, add daily. to reports Soviet citizen who, perhaps

to 100,000 Eupporters, Peron brought Eva Peron to the peak of Argentine farmers on their fest

popularity of secret arsenals. Arrests declared that he had no reason her

mong the agains a lumber base in the Archangel through no real fault of his

so-called guilty of a ares who

in own, has been

Peron is a shrowi judge of nars was sentenced

of alleged conspirators now to fear a crisis since the entire descamirades the

the 1952 to year's minor infringement of the law. December

run to hundreds.

people was more and more shirtless ones," Drawing on identified with the Fernista vast funda wrung by the Govern- pychology. But however loudly class fellowers moverment. Nevertheless, there men from farmers and businese his working The story has a familiar save lately been several signs mem, zho doled out gifts in money clamour for more of his "social situation ring. Once again Argentina's that there are differences of and land through the Eva Peron Justice, to economic

Unless strong man has diverted at- opinion within the movement. Foundation. The shirtlers ones, mains to be faced,

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QUEEN'S BUILDING,"

the

ago,

any

Restlessness

It was the army which Backed him when he woood and won the his policies by launching & Domingo Mercante, was formally Peronista

workers seven years ago. In the witch hunt against his old expelled from

present ferment it has not yet scapegoats, the oligarchy at party. Yet, eight years

But it is not Mercante did more than

shown its hand. home and international capi- other singto

DUT when Eva Peron died nine tely to remain the background far tallam abroad.

Регоп to the Presidency. Ho

the wholehearted was clore friend of Eva Peron were already growing restless. In lorang

ranked after the President Peron's earliest days as President, allegiance of the workers.

[OE PICERNO, day-dreaming a Korean war prison camp, named, the two things ho wanted most, "a home of my own and a racehorse,'

"Now Joe is on his way back, and Mrs Florence Cariocci, widow of a navy man, will let him buy her home...

He will not have to make, a down-payment for three"years" " and he is leaving him, some of her furniture.

And William Cane, president of the Yonkers Raceway Asso- elation, has given Joca troting horse, called Sir Joseph

GA ANT

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, court fined producer Edward Gould 100 dollars (35) for staging "an indecent play "Tobacco Hood.” ****

It ran on Broadway for seven years, and hat sheat runs in London after a 12-year-ban-by- the Lord Chamberlainjaz

WOMAN burglar hot fority A

stole John Luseo's radio in rán Baltimore, Maryland, but up a 97-dollar (£34, 128.) bill on his telephone, She lolkedrat minute by radiophone to 4,0,1. in Paris,

to bring months ago, the trade unions much larger if Peron is in fact four dollars (21) BaFUN a

Among those held for and complicity in the bomb ex- and his wife in the early days of strikes for higher wager and Is he losing their support? That

regime as the most im- shorter hours had enjoyed his plosions which touched off the

portant Beure in the country, full backing. Now there was lers is the real question posed by the this war of nerves are poll- Now he has been thrown out for scope for concessions. More than resent bomb burts in Buenes ticians who have never hid- disloyalty, accused of "sowing once he rent stikers back to Aires. They are only the froth

work with their claims uneath on the Argentine fernent, but

is a powerful brew-enuch too den either their dislike of confusion and alarm."

fted.

powerful to be explained away Peron or their hatred of

Another key gure of tho And since his wife's death the in May Day harangues anarchy. The bombs them- regime's carlfer days na workers claims have had shorler politieni arresta.

from grace. He is

selves, claim Peron's spokes men, Werb supplied by United States agents,

Explosions

fallen Joso Espejo, protege of

Eva Peron. She placed him at the head of the General Con- federation of Labour, the mass trade union which has become the cornerstone of Peron's

power.

to

and

IN the multiple shops that cater for tall girl custonOTS the counters, mirrors, and racks No adstant are extra high. can be under Bft.10 Ins..

Proprietors are 6ft. Bin. Jerry Welgmenn, and his 6ft to Joani

BROUG

Will Egypt Grab The Suez?

arch-enemies, the landowner have not been calculated politicians, of whom scores cement the workers' affection for it," are now in prison.

Peron

Certainly that explanation Changed Times

From LEWIS JAMES

the

WHO planted the bombs? Espejo was dlamissed some

shipping and fears that go In his May Day speeches months ago. He had a powerful

NE of Naguib's young despondency among

moet workers, and his

prospect of future the wrathful President ridi- hold on the

Or the fact that they are still control of the Canal removal may well have weaken- culed the idea that, as an ed Peronista loyalties in this me, "You are afraid we will discreetly hoping that some British Government Argentine variant of Goer Immense stronghold of Argentine grab the Canal Zone like British troops will ill be Britain would get a lot more support in her. ing's Relchstag Fire, they labour,

Mossadegh grabbed the oll around in 1968 to do any neces- International

dirty work (as usual) if the dealings with Naguibit the entno were calculated-to-rally the-whatever the significance of we__will_ working class against his these changes, economic trends at Abadan. That we will United Natiers, or some such-out into the age and

organtention, attempts to per- she, too, doesn't, Add the. suade the

the Egyptians into ar-

prospect of future all Eggplan "It is a comment worth re- cepting a prolongation of inter control of Suez, entzik

national control of the water pleasing one. membering as Cairo pre-way.

Naguib's back-room bay, Dr pares the wall on Mid- sumption of talks on Mid- Mustafa Hetnawi; hos described is not so plausible as it was.

If the Erypilong feel they gro dle East defence in general: the Suez Canal Company or The first explosion in mid- April blasted

only themselves to blame. For ал empty SEVEN years ago, when he and Britain's. Canal Zone closed casket which must be being hard done by, they have

prized open. stepped into the Presidency, bases in particular.

But it is more like a gold they have already giver Western underground station; the

ho could give them what they "You British are much more:

a caskot... it's a shipping companies a taste of Plaza de Mayo overhead was asked for higher wages, shorter

what all-Egyptian : control šould bottomless treasure purse, densely packed by a work hours, better social en ons worried about your shipping and no than

In the first six months of this mear era' rally but woll out of Ho bought their support by your commerce, than you are about what you call Middle

year around 7,000 sups will pass Anyway, the Egyptians ava East Defence," said the young through the canal, each paying always disliked almost every- range. But two of the May giving them these things t Day bomba exploded too But times have changed, officer.

tells at the rate of eight shillings thing and nearly anybody con Alon phis another eight nected with the Canal because close for official comfort- Instead of plenty there is scar

shillings for every passenger

of the circumstances (humillating one 100 yards from Peron'a city. Three years of drought on

Although the Canal cost only to them) fr which allen

today's control developed. to cut. town house, the other 600 the pampas made it harder to

foed the greatest meat-eating you neodn't be. We can £20,600,000 yards from the Congress,mation in

Are the Egyptianą „Ukely to building where he had just workers of Buenos Aires have afford to walt und the, con estimated value of the concer

cession expires in 1988. Any slon is around £100,000,000 attempt to run this show on come to know grey bread and

way, it will take us all that Shares originally sold for £10.0 their own after 19687/125560 begun to speak...

оле meatless day a week.

time to get ready to run the shilling ord, how worth over they are. Nagulb has already

£35.

declared the Cazal "Egyptian

to If the Reichstag Fire theory This was not purely or even canal on our own when

bur legal rights The Canal Company's roventes according can be ruled out, it is, not: sa chlafly the result of droughts. canal is returned to easy to dismiss the posibility Peron's policies played havoc

But all this does not alter the last month were more than and Dr Mustafa Hefnawet in with farm output. He paid low fact that the probability of the £2,400,000, bringing the total already recruiting for a new prices to the farmers and Buca Canal Zone garrison being for the first quarter of this year Government Department charged The question is whether, e charged foreign buyers all he, scattered to the four winds well, to nearly £6,000,000.00 with preparing fear for taking- Peron declares, the pollikai. op- could get. His bureaucratie ind do 10 years inducing Nerub's back.room boys are over the Canal whey ih baveria, position is stoking to make machine swallowed the differ-) widespread (if secret) alarmi auză, sa well aware of all the hopes to Egypt arque and use

of disaffection in Peron's "own rankd.

the

The World.

"But," he added, still smiling: