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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 1963.

Many, friends will be at the boat Train to see that

MY Ames Takes the right baggage when he, leaves för Yugoslavia. He denies that Tho has invited him to go hunting, wild policies but admits he hopes to bring back Something, that can be stuffed for the next Labour Conference. One place he is determined. To avoid is Split-

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ATTLEE'S HOLIDAY

The Lesson Babylon

By VAUGHAN JONES

1

Of

London. Socialiste ary? Add the

OUR thousand years Socialists: "There, you see what ago Babylonia's rulers hoppens when you de-ration the

tried to create a wel- people's food,"

fare state by imposing a They onlt to say that it was- rigid system of controls on the people themselves who were wages, prices, production paying for the subsidies, in the form of taxation, which and consumption.

previously kept pricas down,

Furthermore, there is a very And those Babylonians, odd angle about that home- it was recalled recently by produced egg.

an eminent American, sin- Following the war's outbreak, cerely believed they could the farmers have been heavily, enforce prosperity and, subsidised by the 'Government' thereby enable even the which has given the guaranteed meanest citizen to buy life's urlees for their produce. necessities at reasonable

Cannot Afford

prices.

"

The people, though, weighed down by the crushing chains Porhaps more than any othar

that section

of the of those controls, found

community, the their

Wasted

benefited and farmers · Bove

from economy crumbled under them.

state ald. So. much so, that to their Civilisation had little chance townsfolk often refer of remembering in those days. "feather-bedding.”

Long afterwards, the early As a result, farmers can have

World Copyright by arrangement with the Manchester Guardian; | Athenians sought to control the felt little urge towards efficient

SECOND IMPERATIVE

OF MAO TSE-TUNG

TRUCE in Korea, an

armistice, an agreeil

have

By Francis Watson

But here is another item from

of nil

I

more

grain trade. Racketeering grain and maximum production. At dealers and government officials the same time, poultry-keeping who should have been watch has been made dimcult for the of ing them were executed for "itle man" by, the spate dirobeying the laws. Ultimately, controls.

the conlly expertinent WBS The result has been that the abandoned.

Inducement for all-out produc Ilon has been locking in tho first case, the facilities, in the second. And,

In both events, state Intervention has decreased

་ the At the beginning of fourth century A.D.,. the E- peror Diocletian, using the al-

Again And Again

most celestial powers. Invested the number of home-produced in him, imposed an iron clamp eggs, that should have appeared on the Roman world, seeking on the breakfast table. to regulate, among other things, Admittedly, there is a lot of Jobe, wages, prices and supplies. bacon and meat about in Bri- But that, it may be objected. But shortages became worse tein these days. But this is not Britons are surfeited was a "Western" conversion. So, than ever. Food riots broke out because Is this. "The West" may be a

in many cities and the Emperor with bacon and meat. It is be- settlement of the issues

One can see a China le apparently dominated hard term to define,

but the quit his throne,

cause they cannot afford to buy Russian there, all these things. for purpose.

films.

more at present prices. Well, the pattern is unmistakable: techul-

This is just where the old which the ordinary man number of reasons why the by

economic now China should look to Russians have-or used to have

which principles has hoped and prayed, the USSR at this stage for and Chinese technical resources gress as the gilttering prize of a great name in the film world, col, economic and military pro-

proved true in Babylonia and with must eventually

various kinds of assistance. may be insufficient to all their association

"advanced" and industrialised

Rome are once more, as always, among their consequences

society.

proving true in Britain, a change in the controlled Many other nations, for cinemas, dynamic of activity in the reasons equally valid to

The secrets of power. The Chinese People's Republic. themselves, are glad of Chinese rources: 60 percent

magic book, The while man's To fight America and atd United States help in their textbooks in Tsinghua University medleine. Do not all these old

translations Korea is the "first' impera- recovery, development and Peking, are now

from the Russian-and what is ideas spring to mind as one con- defence programmes. But tive" laid down for the

of these nations, so more, the largest class of transla- templates the publicity, given to no China's new relationship with a of Russian books is ΠΟ Chinese people by Mao Tse-

for as I can tell, regard longer, as it used to be, pure

works. try that in the past has

and fought her, despised. tung early in February

despoiled her? For it is 1953, and constantly ham the acceptance of timely literature but political

This in the land where scholars ald in the light of an

beyond their the Russian people, carried

any students mared home since then.

all-embracing impulse to universities almost literally on doubt, that dominates the USSR, "learn from America." their backs into the interior of and anyone who reads Maxim

knows. What is it, then, that the the country out of reach of the Gorki

roughly how Russians regard the "Asiatic an- invading Japanese. Chinese people are so

Kordes" towards whom do much xious to learn or should

And when I am told that of their history-and one say, so little anxious Chinese artists are also expected before 1917-is a reaction. to learn that a Govern to "learn from Russia,"

my eyes. Is there ment campaign, an "im- rub perative," is needed to per-ulation from which

creative and respected elvilisa- suade them to do so?

tion will shrink in its efforts to achieve the drab stature of "Soviet Man"? It China

has T everything to learn from Russia, what Indeed has any other nation to learn from China,

The second imperative is to learn from the Soviet Union and the third is to combat bureaucratic ten- 'dencies inside China.

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Still Strange

If and when, in a system that is powered by slogans, "fighting America and nid-, ing Korea" becomes super- seded by events, "learning from the Soviet Union' may move up into first place. Even as the second imperative, it has had

of China's trade depends upon tromendous prominence in her Russian neighbours, it is sull

overall

state of things over 70 percent it is true that in the present

everything by which the strange that commercial relations world at large can judge subservience of one

require

party to the

and

Magic Book

really

no once

her

and

not only

Paradoxical

the new China in brond other. For in the terms in which ONE would like to think that the other way. But a tidal wave,

articles

than

Mao's sure, from

Russia 13 EX-

the

And so it has gone on through history. Again and again weli meaning rulers have sought to As prices rise, people rush in there create Utopia by controlling to produce more. Then And plenty,

910- Each becomes their country's economy. has failed.

ducers have to lower prices to Britain is now cmerging from tion Finally, producers have

housewife's atten capture the yet another of these experiments, to step up their culciency and necessary in war, disastrous in give the shoppers their best or peace.

Just how there is a big, they will look in other directions

for their purchases. Беспиза rumpus going

The principles of free buying Labour, the Opposition party, have already proved objects to the Churchillian policy worth as regards wheat. of gradually removing these controls.

Recently the outery le about butter,

and margarine, land bacon.

The Arst three have has gone up in price; bacon gone down.

on.

Bacon has fallen because there is so much of it about that the Government has even had to store some of its purchases, in Denmark.

Wheat Price

their

Britain recently walked out of the International Wheat because the top Agreement price quoted was first 2.05 dol- lars a bushel and then in consequence of Britain's refusal to pay it 2 dollars, which Britain also declined,

Butter has risen 4d. a pound, Later Britain bought 80,000 margarine and lard 2d., because tons of wheat from tho the Government will no longer Argentine at 1.82 dollars subsidise, them out of the tax payers' money.

bushel when the Chicago price

was ten cents more,

is a paradoxical business, and a disturbing one. You have to be a Marxist to be intellec tually satisfied by contradictions. The whole thing may, of course, be a big political gamble. Some

Labourites have been quick to people think so, and await the

About half the world's wheat one of pillory these measures; day when the theoretical "stage"

supplies are not affected by the will have been reached at which Their most vocal spokesmen Agreement, and the artificial China's policy will be switched refers to this dismal story of levels which it supports largely

broken pledges,

beneft the American farmer.

coust casts,

Now Britain is free to speeches,

a few days ago there whole

has when at length It recodes, leaves

Only process

and full of

find the was a big hullabaloo about the around to

cheapest and news items.

in the People's

maliciously exaggerated, the fields infertile Re been

market and beneЛlt: her egg. Yes, the humble hen's egg.

Own declared aim "to set going public It looks like nothing less But there are Chairman Mao's salt,

likewise on- echood

Five months ago the Churchill people and a tidal wave of learning vience, whatever

again and moral and spiritual subser- imperatives,

In the meantime, all that can Government de-ratloned the ega. courage the world's farmers to may be the again in official pronouncements. from the Soviet Union on ultimate political stakes that are udal wave. It must be even more "learn from the USSR is i

One can hardly exaggerate a be said is that the campaign to Its price levelled out at about produce more cheaply.

Socialist looders with

their a nation-wide scale" does being played

fivepence, Now it is sevenpence. for at the same difficult to avoid than the hose exact opposition

to the whole Soon, it is predicted, it will be yearning for controls, could well not look like something that time.

And what study these principles and their ninepence or more. with which, some 30 years ago, trend of thought in the rest of can or will be suddenly

has firmly and "Linguistic research," I read the Chinese General, Feng Yu- Asia, which

working family can afford to pay workings from Babylonian days that technical arrested.

his paraded finally decided

the onwards, Chinese

ninepence for Language hsiang subjected Magazine. "must be raised to the camy do mess-baptism as Ameri- ald, wherever it comes from, Is A tidal wave is a natural, Soviet level." The cinema in can Christian Methodists.

to be "aid without strings.** and usually ધ્ર calamitous phenomenon. This one is deliberately induced for some large and over-riding

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Heart allments and. other fatal complaints take Centenarian No. 2 their biggest toll among lawyer and property owner, who heart symptoms,

to play peoplo in their sixties, still visited his club

poker. He had worked 'In his Dr. Hussell's work" - coodārma Those who survive this once, travelling 25 miles each the finding of other medical critical decade seem to be way: daily, unill he was 10, 11 mon that tho' greatest killing 'made of "superior stuff,"

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