DON IDDON'S DIARY
Less Revelry On
New Year's Eve
I had lunch
New York. Tuesday. THE police didn't bother with
T
to
the other day one of the President's to put up barricades Inner council and he told me: "There has been a remarkable
his
in the streets leading change in the boss since Times Square (New United Nations atom - pool York's Piccadilly Circus) speech. He is overflowing with confidence; his aches and pains, this New Year's Eve.
which might have been psy- the shopkeepers did not board up their windows.
The time when 1,000,000 people gathered in the neon- bright square the most brilliantly lit of all the world's crossroads -- to greet the brand-new
year with yells and rattles and trumpet-blowing is over.
Ench New Year the crowd which guzes at the narrow slice of the New York Times building to wait for the sig- na gets smaller. Television kreps the people at home to see the New Year in at their fresides, or rather, their radiators.
I used to make an uncom- fortable pilgrimage to Times Square every New Year's Eve, crushed and bruised by it revellers; but no more. is a waste of a journalist' time and energy.
ht
ehologiet 1. have disappeared, and he is very definitely the man in charge.”
Whether the President's popularity abrood will re- main high is one of 1954's big questions.
Fewer dollars quite definitely will be sent to Europe. I don't now whether you realise that the United States has Bent 40,000,000,000 dollars — that's over £14,000,000,000 abroad the eight years since the in
war.
From each citizen
POLOSSAL sums are always
hard to grasp and you prob- ably wouldn't notice if a zero or two were omitted, but it balls down to hundreds of dolfurs, and in some instances thousands, coming from the every American pockets of citizen and other residents here.
American income tax is al- inost s high us British and there are hundreds of hidden faxes-more than in Britain,
There hag never been such
Americans are sober. Inhibited, worried
in the history ot people these days, reluctant generosity
the world, and we should realise to dance in the streets, wave
It. We are going to have to re- bottles, kiss strangers, and allse
because it t anyway, shout themselves hoarse. tapering off. Playing Father Perhaps it is world leader Christmas to all the free world ship which has quietened perpetually them.
Year of decision
ON the whole I don't expect much wild carousing last Thursday night, because the
Some
we
can become
tire-
dis-
Many of my friends say: "1
be shall suppose liked more than ever when the well runs dry."
There
is conviction here
that Americans are not liked,
actively even
disliked, and abroad. The magazine, The Re- porter. seizing on this tople, has year ahead looks like being published witty article en-
serious
for one
most itted "How to Hate Ameri-
Д
Americans. Nineteen-fifty- eens." by M. R. Werner.
four is being widely touted as the year of decision. seem to remember that 1962 and the year before that Were also advertised 18 years of decision, but '54 is declared to be the gemaine decisive article.
I
Like or dislike?
It says:
"Here are come sug-
grations:
"1. Hale Americans
THE CHINA MAIL THURSDAY, JANUARY
The top Nazi
who tried
H
to sway the King
-But he was 'not at home'
Bonn,
E suffered from The Great Delusion-and it helped
to bring him to the harsh reality of the gallows.
Today, seven years after his death by hanging na a war criminal, his death-cell justifications have been of "Bo- published in Western Germany under the title tween London and Moscow."
Joachim von Ribbentrop was the name. Política And his delusion, in the 18 months
were his business.
he served Hitler as Ger-
man Ambassador in Lon- don, was that Britain could be swung into the Nazi orbit.
by WILLIAM HAMSHER
Ribbentrop used to visit
He already given his mission Britain in his youth. because
quotes the Prussian Marshal wonderful start by sign-
the Blucher's view of
Angle-German London: ing
Naval
in Treaty
1935, "Clearly a good city to
which Germany under loot."
could start
Ú. building
$0
they rre tich. More Americans have money than people of any Minis- other one nationally. and
there are more of them to envy and hale;
Already Cabinet ters are hinting that they stand ready to counter the slumplet, known here now ns the "slide," with Govern- they ment spending.
Ribbentrop, The pump will be primed with Govern- ment money, credit will be made easier, interest rates will be lower.
"2. Hate Americans because trick too much. The United States is one of the few nations that ever endured Pro-
hibition.
Ever since the 1840's
there has been a virulent tem- perance movement in America. Millions
Amricans of
drink nothing but water or milk;
felt spending as dangerous econemles gingerly advocating it.
The It sounds rather like
Repub- Roosevelt era again. Heans who used to dama de-
bad
fre
and 1XW
3. Hate Americans because and they are always thinking talking
and about business work. Point out that the United States has no leisured class;
wheel
hor
because
The Republican
vent
4. Hate Americans
Do
not turned full circle. but they do not produce great art or some of the schemes 10 pre- literature.
a depression have the stamp. or at least the anger prints, of the late Lord Keynes, the late Harry Hopkins, the New Dealers,
not read Poc, Thoreau, Melville, Emerson, Mark Twain, Henry James, and William Faulkner, or you might and change your mind;
President Eisenhower, on in semi-holiday in Georgia, is say ing little except that he is not mad at anybody.
Meddling
--
BIÐDENTROP A Nazi salute in diplomattr London-1938
FRAU RIBNENTROP Chatty footnotes-1953
He called up the Fuehrer in
Mr
Eden
seems
to have
valce
His widow
INTO the book from lime to time steps Ribbentrop's
1954.
The Workers' Lot Under the Reds
H
row do
By JULIUS GOULD
Lecturer on Sociology at the London School of Economics
In in
negotiate
113
Again, the authors of what is "Fundamental
never
happen again."
the workers political apparatus of their the Party organisation Issued fare under Com- countries; they jealously preserve orders to them,"
the munism?
right to This is a employers round the table, and described
with vital question, for it is upon it they cannot reach agrement Document on the Party's New their devotion to "working over wages and
of Course in Eastern Germany," say conditions of class interests" that Com- work, they reserve the right to
to his of previous trade union munists everywhere place members.
withdraw the labour of their
"Party officials fre- led the union by its so much stresa.
Communist countries the apron-strings and violated in- When they are in op- unions exist in name and internal trade union democracy by position, the Communists form only. In
kru effect they are interference
union ad- aim their propaganda at the executive agencies of the Com- ministration. They added: "This
munist Party. It is underdog and the under- mun
the Party, must not the trade union, which de Henceforth privileged, at all those who, cldes what the real interests of hammer in industrial society, feel the worker are. Thus, by a avolded. lonely and disinherited. kind of magle, any conflict of They exploit every social "real" interes between worker
and employer is banished. tension and injustice in their search for support among the masses. And by way of contrast, they paint a glowing picture of the prestige and authority en- joyed by the worker in Com-
munist countries.
This la logical Communist theory
"sledge-
methods" should be
course Western Com- munists never notice Fuch "sledgehammer methods" during their conducted tours; they never raise such "violations ct trade union democracy" at the meet- ings of the Communist-dominated enough, for World
Fouration insists that Unions (WFTU).
of
Trade
the Party, through its study of The "sledgehammer," however, Marxism-Leninism, knows with has been used deliberately not absolute clarity what the "real" onl
only in Eastern Germany but interests of the population hap throughout satellite Europe. It A superior social system, they pen to bc. Where thead argue. has been discovered and interests are "known" In this could have been
very difficult to see how this Is bi und wirk.ng orders
avolded, even little point in way, there can be
authorities system in which the working
any body other than the Com- though cloas reigns
Бесть m- Eastern Europe Com- supreme.
unist Party offering its opinion. publicly aware of its dangers. munists and their friends who The Party in its wisdom makes for everywhere the Communists Europe bring back known what the Interests of the have shown anxiety about what
to worker require; it then tells the they call "social_democracy."
रा available for
social evidence
It seems to have been heavy of economic breakdown, and in to the country.
going with Sir Robert (now Lord) Vansittari, who appar ently in all his meetings with Ribbentrop turned out to be a very good listener,
vel
the
พร
in
now
no
The Czechoslovakc
narrow
visit Eastern In 1936 Hitler appointed boats.
carefully chosen evidence him as envoy to Britain. To
support this case.
trade union to direct the workers London then
How, in fact, does the worker accordingly.
sow, in
If anyone doubts Impressed Ribbentrop when
In get
this new soclai that this seemed a good city to loot, Berlin and had the happiness of
along hoaring Hitler's own
so, the labour laws he was seen "with tears in his order? Is he really
at last
The sledgehammer methods of of Eastern Europe make It politically. But he admits on describing the day of the signing
eyes at the 1937 Coronation." emancipated from
which some German leaders are In abundantly plain; and the labour a later view that "it seemed as "the happiest of my life."
Justice? Much
пож Of him, Ribbentrop notes: "House!
is practice
complaining were countries make of those 08 though I must have
Hitler's reward for bringing did not do anything to make my
accident; they were devised to sensible and It even
even plainer. been
wearing rose-tinted off the treaty was an unlimited difficult task any more difficult honest answer to these questions.
break the working class from will show
the For in recent
old practices of social de-' months the lid few examples spectacles."
expenses account, and the order
what I mean. In Eastern Ger- than it was. He showed under- has been blown for the
emocracy. extension and new
off the Com- many in June 1953, the harsh trade union Rose-tinted?
of the standing for the German view-munist economies decorating Certainly interior
of Eastern
lender, Daubner, Party deerees on wages and in Carlton cmbassy
House point."
The satellite leaders Europe badly focused. For never
reat labour norms led to an explosion put it once very clearly: "Social have been faced with the threat Terrace.
democracy Induced workers to the favour was Ribbentrop's distorted
of which have not
and particular view evidenced so plainly na
local interests, placing them eleventh-hour attempts to restore
If this ex- in his record of his activities
the situation they have revealed yet died away.
interests of more than they intended about plosion did reveal a conflict be above the known
the working class, and deflect- worker and employer, a in London.
the system they have built up. gap between the warkon ring their attention from, general
interests and the wishes of the Socialism,
questions of the building up of from defending the Soviet-controlled State party, known interests and Bosing ourselves
words have lost their meaning, rolely
needs of the whole working class. Ribbentrop sums up: "If to- recent slatements by these
Everywhere the Communist day it is sald that Vansittart leaders, let us examine
one ment's statements which followed parties had Instructed the trade. they want to run the world. In FOR instance, Ribbentrop,
Writes Frou Ribbentrop: tsm and the hatred of Ger aspect of the position of the the explosion were extremely union movements they con- the man who gave the "The situation of our embassy
the nature of trolled to put their backs into Nazi salute when he pre- between Buckingham Palace
many summed up in this word working class in Eastern Europe revealing about
reat significance. an aspect of great
trade union practice. The Com the job of raising production in is a consequence of the policies What protection has the worker munist lauder Ulbricht in July accordance with the State plans. and the Admiralty could not sented his credentials to have been better. Hitler himself of Hitler-then I must counter vis a vis his employers?
explained that the hated Edward VIII (now the Dake ordered the new interior furn- with the belief it would be for
pro- These plana created strains, In country after country in posals,
Withdraw of Windsor), felt himself things" Just at that time Hit-
more accurate to say Hitlerism the West there exist strong and modified, had not been worked with brought the whole system"
to the verge of breakdown, yet, strong enough to meddle in ler had launched- four-year
out with union or out Was A consequence of Van-independent trades
the assistance of the throughout this period of faulty the constitutional
plan to make Germany indepen- crisis
ganizations, often politically trade union movement, The dent of a British blockade it sitturt's polley in 1936," which ended in the abdica- war came.
neutral, charged with the task responsible Ministries, he said, planning, the trade unions could
neither argue nor criticise- tion of the King in 1986.
defending the interests of the had ignored the unions in deter- let alon Ribbentrop, reporting on his
strike. worker against both private and mining the decrees.
"Instead conditions
against the last meeting with Hitler shortly public employers. Genuino trade of listening to the recommenda- members worked.
which their before the Fuehrer died in the
not part of the tions. of the- trado~-unlona, Berlin bunker with Eva Braun in 1948, says the Fuehrer then emphasised he had been anxious since the twenties that Germany should go along with Britain,
5. Hale Americans
because
be
this connection it would well no to coll Americans isolationists in the same breath."
SANDEMAN
PORT and SHERRY Sole Agents
DODWELL CO., LTD.
widow, who contributes chatty footnotes.
11
So to save foreign currency The aim of his meddling: everything even the workers
WON shipped from Germany, To keep Edward as King nothing was bought in London. "because he had several times shown himself to be really friendly towards Ger- many.'
"
Progress
"I racked my brains what ONCE the embassy was furn-
I could do," writes Ribben.
ished, the Ribbentrops really went to town. And from time went how they
trop; "whether there was to time interim reports anything left to do to in back to Berlin. on
| fluence the course of events."
Ал abdication rumours drifted down the Mall,
were doing..
ever
Colonies
of
unions are
011
The
East German Govern-
now
From The Palace
To The Ritz
By SAM WHITE
**
Gr
under
Such strikes
ar
would be, by e- support of "narrow, and local Interests"
and therefore reactionary and bourgeois! All this is now ad mitted, by people who ought to know!
The East European trade union movements are In forta fraudulent facade of the kind familiar to students of totall
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HERE is no specific statement from Ribbentrop on what would have been involved in an was a Stanley-Livinggroe of Buckingham Palaco,"
Paris. Aufry, I presume-herd chef fariantam. They resemble only in name the free organisations The ambassador was working Anglo-German pact. There are
Mr Aubery appeared Marled, of the working claus in non- Ambassador Ribbentrop on everybody with whom he scattered references in the book kind of encounter-bud in-
would teas of the African Jungle the "Look here, how did you know Communist
societies.
They phoned Hitler that com- could come into, contact. He to the fact that Hitler
not necessarily have asked for scares a thesening chen I was he? he way operate inn system where
not thing to abschutely secret,” montaries against the King notes his own record of progress all the German Colonies back of dhs Riz Hosk, Paris.
merely towards bringing about on
Soakti La xerrect.
but also about perhaps one or two, with special
Knowledge appearing in the British
My`opperfamily ter explath of Aubery's Buckingham Palace important detalls (such as the Prose, must on no account Anglo-German park. On Stanley trade terms for Nazl merchants
Baldwin bo echoed in Nazi new Donald: "I talked to them for
and... · Ramsay. Mac-" in the others.
tica ctmo when I reallund that badingizmit is confided to one of contents of the economic plan) the of the doces in the hotel the wo managers of the hotel, is regarded sabotage, in Hiller, if Britain had promised amach Bar Led dintily to the end Aube has en such controls, and dominates the con
systém
where the State" míáchina, papers.
a longtime "about "Hilor's
quarters. Sempurit his presccio: éve 15 ditions, of economie wag polition Then "through a friendly foreign polley, Baldwin express him a free hand against Poland undkitground ben
and Numia, would also have After threading my way through To others on the hotel staff 6. middleman in Buckinghamed himself positively. Mas been ready to offer us 13 divi- a maze de gammelt I bine upon Mr. Aubery is "imply so appren Evon now no Palace requested an Donald didn't seem to disap- sion for use wherever they geen what commed ice cook from Britain, here to government
prove of the ident either. Mac- might audierice."
be asedading our then groww marve, rosy But back came the reply: English can be said joklisly he, cellor deneuse, offering us the King was not at home. would certainly vote for me if 15 divisions for the dataties or
Though the fallod bwith
be amived have.
Communist
can admit.
the
of fråde", umrilon In-
Donald," "Jovable as only the Bizarre;ll is that today. Child chooked, men" and heard him learis more of the trade, to for: nouifrality." To do"
3 put up as a candidata; in his, the West. It looks na Drough, inis the Pace, Ribbentrop had constituency
in tradity
Mr.Abbery's job at present le that of repairer, or there so would, and Coximunit **holala kitchana, premiatagba akusten, backwards spproached him and weld in He came here by arrangement to the gold and unmerfectory
“Ronald with a high Palace omdal, deyil" of "sócial democracy wan
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