1954-01-28 — Page 4

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 1954.

* DON IDDON'S DIARY ⭑ Friendship And Thanks

S

The Best Payment

Now York, Tuesday. Right-Wing Republican IR HARRY BRIT- Ob

TAIN, who has done as much as anyone to keep the United Kingdom and the United States good friends, called on

mo the other day.

"Don't worry 'do much about Anglo-American relations he sold. "The malu stream flows on smoothly. There may be a lew ripples, even rapids, but they don't affect the main stream,"

Sir Harry, who is 00, founded Pilgrims' Club, and his list of achievements on both sides of the Atlantic occupies in. of

"ace

in Who's Who, so he hould know what he is talking about.

from

Senator Brickor wants to part the paralysing restrictions on Prouident's trenty making power he wants Congress in have that power instead.

Fighting back

WA

ghung

SENHOWER back with l the vigour. even anger, at his command. He Is talking his leadership on de- feating the Bricker amendment, which and

backed by Isolationists ichards and scrne

modernier,"

Aro

Scrne of the literature with

Bricket facts which the flooding the maiks says: "Wake up. Americans. Get the USA.

out of the United Nations.

Get the United Nations out of the U.S.A. Pass the Bricker wrote freitag amendment,"

I have received many letters

Anglo-American on

I

relations

from readers since

anti-American bost and mentioned that the United States had sent 40,000,000,000 dollars in aid abroad since the

war.

I am replying to the corres- pondents Individually,

won't enter the debele, but feel I utterly wrong to think has poured out that Amerien so much money purely out of self-interest-to protect herself or to prevent u depression.

NE of

O

Generosity

the mainsprings of

aid is the desire to help others not so fortunate.

more generosity

power politics. And it is

than

con-

tinuing, despite the dimeulues here and the somewhat grudg ing gratitude abroad,

The hoadlines

here

read:

to

"New U.S. Ad to Bolster R.A.F.

Krunts 250,000,000-dollar

would pruvide bow

to squadrona

Britain

fighter

NATO."

back

Last week it was eincurced we were going to get Arrerian beef tree. Next week there wa girt. All that be some other

in te- enost people here want turn are frientship and thanks.

It is a pity that President Eisenhower has so much on his hards ot the moment that he cannot devote more time to help make the partnership warm!

General Eisenhow.r is in the middle of a grave constitu!kiral battle, the mo momentous," the New York Times calls it, ize M Roorvel's proposal to peck the Supine Ciuri.

icined The base has been Inter a resolution known as the Bricker mend neat, after its author Swator John Bricke, a

Parasitic skin distase, itching dczema ste

'Mitigal

CIL & OINTMENT

»Bayer « LEVERKUSEN GERMANY.

THREE

The Brickers of the US, are frittered at Prendient Eisen- hower. They claim he has m braced the policies of Rocsevelt, Trian or the New Deal.

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has

ราavy.

New Yorkers are catching with thu duci rather ราฟต elty belatedly. been swamped with For two days schouls in many suburbs were shut down, traffic in Manhattan was cut to 11 trickle, tralas ran late or not a all, and hundreds of thousands could not or did not go to work.

We have dug ourselves out now, but huge mounds of dirty show still lifter the streets and I thought the new pavements,

Wagner, might mayor, Robert have done a better job in clean ing up the nyes

My neighbour sald to me; "If New York is ever bombed, I hope we shall clear up the debris ond get things moving more quickly than we have done this week. Ten inches of snow should not be able to cripple the city like this."

Theatres and cinemas suftór- ed badly from the storm. They were hurt in their most vulnerable, spot the box office,

The London importation, "The Starcross Story," closed after only one performance. The star, Mary Astor, was in team, "South Pacific" alro has end- It ran ed, but what a recordi for four years and nine months --1,925 performances. Only one musical, "Oklahoma," has run longer on Broadway.

America's biggest television star, Arthur Godfrey, is in trouble

again--this time for "buzzing" an airport tower in & fit of pique after being refused permission to use his favourite runway. What has happened to Godfrey's "humility"

'A dream'

H ERMIONE GINGOLD, one of Broadway's tonsta, says: "Success in a new country. It's a dream of delight, and every-

Miss Glagold's habit of smoking one sald I was mad to come small rigars is fascinating New Yorkers.

Sir Cedric Hardwicke has stened to star in Charles Mor- gan's "The Burning Glass." He Geyerves a good vehicle,

Jean Simmons's contret is being sold again. Her talents have been largely wasted by Hollywood.

SAM WHITE'S PARIS LETTER

Elopement Brings

two

Patinos Together

W.

Why

}

and

to

20-

ת

д

cloped

His fint on the Left Bank was

him by

QUOTES

Playwright

Marcel Ayme:

on

A

"Now you're home--you'll be pleased to know that while you've been celebrating your new-found wealth

we've had the burglars in.”

Communist

In The

T the end of 1953

Soviet and satellite Communism found

year

London Express Bervice

Setbacks Past Year

By Walter Kolarz

Power was divided between

concessiona

for

wag a to

were

Bursion

the

few

The

Berla

to an end. As

Kremlin came

sideration

calculated to

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a

1053

a

must,

10

at

unexpected

carefully

For the rest, study the decrees which the Soviet Government la issuing to rt- Jeve the situation

Russia

tries."

took

go

the

It

1

own coun-

...

Going. Slow

camo

themselves political to re-establish its independence Beria was in office, the new ing deserts, erecting gigantic Itself, and apply them, mutalls ly and ideologically in from the empire Stolin hud Soviet rulers were unable to forest bbits, and switching over mutandis to your position far inferior to bullt.

Brrive at a clear-cut decision to the production of more food,

So the new Communist policy that which they occupied 12

about their future polley. Even furniture and kitchen utensils.

of This current

of realism,

appeasement started, simul- months ago. In fact, from the men who, for many years, their most basic statements

Jad been Stalin's closest polley were made only after if it is curity polloy who tancourly in most of the satel the Communist point of collaborators. Nor were

In the majority Beria

was safely out of the heartedly, might utimately res- lite countries. view, the

Russia took

and the Russian of cases It took the form of A minor appointments of the new

way.

new Soviet new, revised verslons of eche

The Only then was the long delay people. But the

duled Course contrary to all plan- realme in any way sensational, except for Marshal Zhukov's

both

to current year rulers will not be able

duled economic plans. ed budget for the ning.

return from semi-banishment.

genuinely for Russia's concessions varied according to What the Kremlin had

announced; only then did they work But

the first even in

same Ume special local conditions. fiscal and welfare and at the

The Hungarian Government, originally in store for Rus. weeks two significant and sur make clear what

sow_liselt com- ronomie measures they pro- maintain Communist ideology in

If Com for instance, sia and the small Soviet- prising things happened. Al- pored to take. Their new econo- lts traditional form.

a litle further Immediately after the on-

is scaled down and pelled to go controlled countries of

than others in nouncement of Stalin's death his mic policy Included greater com- munism

meeting the for the needs of the robbed of its ideological striking

of the Eastern Europe Is no successors throw overboard

consumer, greater encourage power, it will no longer be able, widespread opposition

Eastern European peasantry to At

of State the 19th large number mystery.

in-

ntent

Industry of light

and to pursue its main alm, that is,

nctually stitutions and Paris. married to the Prince of Beau-

in Soviet Party Congress

government trade, and a rediscovery of the to replace all the current philo collodivisation. to leave the the dictator had end.

allowed peasants offices which

sophical and religious systems collective farms in certain cir- THE Patino - Goldsmith veau-Croon-who once

October 1952, and in the created-showing, symbolically, unsuccessfully in Spain.

The last-named was the most of the world.

cumstances and at the price of Slansky trial of December how little stability the Stalinist A elopement has brought-

the polley important part of

The Unexpected considerable material sacrifice. about apparent recon- HOMES IN FRANCE

of the same year, the Com- era had really achieved.

switch. It found expression in

about B. decrea Developments in the satellite In Bulgaria, ciliation between Senor

Element Second munists laid their cards on

fairer taxation of the peasanta,

of the compulsory direction of la- delivery countries WITH the death of Lord Nor- and his Antenor Patino

more The second new element in in

easonable

bour was repealed. In Ruriania wich two little-known facts the table. The Soviet Polit-

series of quotas and in a large number of course, be considered primarily bour

construction of the unpopular wife.

concerning his two homes in buro and its agencies all · Soviet policy

the Russian

Canal Was Danube-Black Sour C routine measures almed at in- against the background of the France have been revealed.

over Eastern Europe were people, calculate to

enhance creesing agricultural production, political and ideological setbacks

suspended. Unil the lost few days the One is that his Chantilly house

determined to consolidate the popularity of the success of August 8, 1953, was the first The insecurit of the Kremlin e the fact that. the Communist

Malenkov himself. in his speech suffered by Soviet Communism.

But the importance of these doubts and in-... cach had not spoken to

was a virtual gift to him from

The to regime.

Arst major

"concessions" is all but nullified other in ten years. Over this

the French

The the Soviet empire and Government.

ternal struggles the new announce many years was to been forestall all eventualities amaed

policy period they have fought a series house had previously

The wrongly in-. which throughout the autumn were bound to touch them.

regimes of Eastern Europe took contested mainten- lensed under the same terms to against that uchievement, criminated

Nowhere was the situation of bitterly

put in doctors

re was immered

greater

Czecho- great care not, to fortelt any of as in New sults in ance

Paris and

former U.S. Ambassador in

the totalitarian

of the And, in the

power Mr Willam including the possible death cased.

no- deinit by his lieutenants, and as complicated York.

France, the late

slovakia, where Stalin's principal police state. Political trials and Khrushchev, local Heutenant, Russian republle various particularly by

Kiement Gott- Bullitt. The terms-a purely of the Soviet dictator.

opponents of Only two

wald, died only months ago Mme; nominal rent.

few days after arrests of This was to be done in wrongs were righted and un- Mikoyan and Kosygin.

Communison continued, and the Patino's hotel suite was raided

popular provincial bosses

Revelations

his mo

master. His

successors falled

for and her valuables seized in

the Ukraine and the late various ways: by the tight- Menikov in

Their speeches brought many to realise the weakness of their persecution of the Church, accordance with

from relenting, reached a new 4 Buccessful Willed to

Benjamin Guinness, the Inter-ening up of party discipline, Mgetadze in Georgia-lost their

interesting revelations

They went on with about position. claim made by her husband. national banker,

dramatic pitch by the arrest of by putting the final touches jobs.

nothing the true state of the Soviet their old policy as But not until July 1953 was Now both have travelled from

the Pollah Primate ---- Cardinal the end had happened, and economy, and were followed by of May decreed a currency re- to the ideological fabric of

Wyszinsk! on September, 28. Paris

Edinburgh together to

to assess world able the Marxist-Stalinist united in their opposition

a whole flood dogmat. real extent of the internal up-

of decrees almed

form which wiped out almost their daughter's marriage.

A PARIS newspaper: Theism to be achieved in part heaval which Stalin's death had at improving in the sent the entire savings of the people.

The general situation. has WTS arrested, Rumer goods during the арель

Then the Englishwoman's Ideal mate by Stalin's famous essay caused. this bitter opposition? The reason was stated four is a rugby-playing clergyman. economic theory-and and the new triumvirate in the two or three years. All this was place. Resistance started work made it necessary, however, to slow with inner party convey the months ago in the course of o

and ers in the principal Industrial my in rview between multi- Frankness is the tomb of jevn last, but not least, by the chief of the gigantic Soviet pression, both at home

that Patino

police

Berin was millionaire

broad, that business was going plants of the country, who had purges. From Rumania

Anna Pauker was no longer year-old James Goldsmith.

and friendship. It doesn't clear violent elimination of all poorly all, and it is on, not only as usual but much been considered the main but the surprising official news

stopped under arrest. while the still a mystery how he was so better and more harmoniously warks of the Doctors' Plot understand that we come from

eems. than ever before-despite Stalin work and demond against Gomulka trial in Poland easily made harmless. It seems,

the Communist government. --- to have been

shelved a very

These Czech workers' demon- definitely. okł Catholic family,"

The first few weeks of port outside two narrow

however, that he had little sup- and despite Berla.

In Czechoslovakia Goldsmith: Repiled

To what extent is this aptr

stradons werd the first major and Hungary, several Com in any gories of party members, name parent settling down to peaceful defeat the satellite. Commun munist personalities who had perfect.

I come from a very

French styl service posts 1953 left old Jewish family."

ly officials of the MVD and activities genuine? The infor- ists had suffered for some time, temporarily vanished have re- a ques doubt that the Soviet re- are being subjected to Under her

grandfather's will tiomnaire. Sample questions: Do gime was

leading porty cadres in Trans- mation which the Soviet Party But they were only in prelude appeared in other official posi determined to detective stories exist in China? revive the atmosphere of

caucasia. daughter Isabel will inherit

have provided show how bigger events in another satol- the difficulties are in the

country, trifle of two million pounds. What differences are

Very understandably, Malen- great

the East German

Only in the East German the 1987, the year of the "big kov and his but she will not be able to in- tween the fashionable,

There the 50- associate turned material sphere; and in addition, lite

puppet State. Party has herit under Bolivian law any habitual and the customary? | purge." Early in January their attention to clearing out the Soviet Communist

major now,

casualties, in- part of the bulk of the Patino What difference is there

among others, allon the Soviet press broke the these nests of Berin's support to cope with an ideological crisis vlet advisers, and their colla Communist Party were

which is perhaps the woborators had tried to learn fortune estimated at £77 million tween an

worst lesson from the loss of, face of cluding, legacy that

Icit. Stalint fantastic news of the so. ters, and this tasic filled the en-

Minister IIls

of Stato If she

her and an artistic one? marries against

the Czechoslovak Communists. former half of 1953.

Communist Why father's wishes.

did Hitler

has forced the encourage called "doctors' plot," in tre second

death anti-Beria purge put en leader

a number Although there has been Isabel is a wlity, cultured girl pornography? Replied one can which they were

influence leaders to reduce his mystical They made an attempt to ap- Security, Wilhelm Zaiser. to end to the excessive

pense the people by ordinary size and to

But the Eat absence of major of concessions.

burges, six languages), didate to the last question: "To (she speaks

satellite embark on the

Cammumist parties Is, from the the ex- lives of leading Soviet per- particularly the Georgian, Cam- embar veillance and constant chaperon- answer foreseen by

separating the Stalinist cult character, had enjoyed

felt. instinctively that

their leathers, Ing. In cloping she has emulated aminers was: "To undermine sonalities. This was soon Russia for a very long time, from Communism.

they indicated offeral wavering standpoint This

unsatisfactory At the may well turn out to be and confusion, and they revolt highly her eldest sister Christina-aow religion,"

followed by the discovery They were ousted from the

ཟླ་ more arduous task than to ad amid a dramatic wave of un- end of the year they had been of other minor "plots" all police apparatus, where Berla bring, order into Soviet agricul- rest in the middle of June.

compelled to maku another The whole had installed them with the over Russia.

ture and

effort consumer goods New Instructions

Inner-party situation. All the Soviet The young press,

Georgians, the regime ap-

will Under the immediate impact cept the Albanian, havo, called satellite Communist parties, ex- Army organ to the journal peald

pealed not too subtly-to the fund of the Soviet schoolboys, in widespread anti-Georgian animo revaluation ordered from above. the East German sling, the 1954. These will legalime

it dimcult to Decept the of the Czechoslovak riots and congresses for the beginning of bordering language

an alties of the Great Russims If the highest authority-Stalin Kremlin advised the satellite

Just as it had tried to mobilices to be demolished, how can Communist parties to modity many of whom are usurpers hysteria, called for "vigil- latent anti-Semitian in the first

position of the party' Chlets, ance" and a "merciless two months of 1943.

the Icaser authorities, the max their policies. The gist of ters of the day, hold their own? these now

who have never been properly fnstrictions ta fight against remnants of New Purge It is astonishing to what ex- Prague and Bucharest, to War alected by the the class 'onemy.”

Georgia, Berla's and Stalin's tent the political universe of saw and Budapest, to Sofa and the Sovief Citizen has become Tirana, zdemi- to have been This campaign was

It is not possible to sum up re homeland,

was shaken to the HAND echoed

the destinies of Eastern Europa is roughly thing throughout the core by the new purge, which do-personalised. No more

there a Stalin Constitution,

the present difficult in 1958 without mentioning ta satellite States, where also brought brusquely, to

more a Stalin' Five-Year Plan, situation you must try to number of imponderable from active preparations wore end the comparative political

Included in the and oven: the Stalin Plan for maintain and consolidate, poll- tors. These which two other being made for a series of Transcaucasian rope has disappeared, not only as a' and': concessions to the public social, oppression have Infileto

the hardships and the Transformation of Nature tical power through promises first place

le, sufferings which politicnt : anch trials on the Slansky pat Armenia and Azerbaijan, had torm but as a fact.

But you must avoid the mis tern.

enjoyed for a considerable

takes of the East German: Com- upon many million of pepple The new wave of terror, how- period. In Armenia it led to the

munlea..... Concessions-must, ba. Another factor vital for the ever, was interrupted by dismissal of Party Secretary Here lies another cause of the granted, not at a time of for Asement of the bustion i Stain's death. The world re- Arutinov, who Had ruled, the Soviet Ideological crisis, which ment by in a period of ap- Eastern Europe the ailsed at once that this was the country for 16 years; in Azer started to take shapo in 1963 parent detente. You must give hostility

regimes end of a period and not merely, baljan it resulted in the removal but which has not yet reached the impression that you are have kept themselves in pow the death of a man, although of Bagirov, who had been in is cutminating point. Russia of inflating a new economici pro by violence and Secelt those who

expected

ffor, 20 Instantane

both a

an the post-Stalinist period no grammey that life will become OUR

and striking external: Prime Minister and

Sald Paino: "You must

That's

s

#way misunderstandings it only makes them worse,

WHAT THEY ASK PANDIDATES for

potential opposition.

intellectual

senlor

there be

nation

no one

said

cate-

tions.

whose life was one of strict sur- encourage the birth rate." The have conspired against the which the Transcaucasian, and gure to org mcult operation Germanz understood their trus- situation, within - the `·

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Largest Morníita

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Afternoon W.Cireulátion,

Sunday

from

munista

In

Soviet

of

the Soviet connivance of Stalin. In purging nation, in particular, w

the

Another. Cause

Phanges were disappointed-at. Secretary; MET Monter refers to the age of Come easier for; the farmer ant!

feast for the time being. No Whatever {causes "of"

ege of abundance, contumery in There must): be something thin eary roacht move

Soviet Army:, gatrisón refused: sumarle inside the Communist Stalin's successors have becomes Indu AAN MA

allegiance to the new leaders, hurchy, and whatever Pulla mora, lévál hedded and have had worse) of Anemon And y no 4 ratelite government vario imed to exploit the nitustiors or

(huesitation Win Whaling his money in kwambay projects, such as irrigate, projects will:

supreme

seems

there

the

-an the

to save the

the

the party rank and

Finally, there

widespread

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