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THE CHINA MAIK, SATULZAY, AUGUST ** 1954.

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A

THE PROBLEMS FACING SEATO

ASIA'S

POLITE

PAPER FLAG

FLAG WAR

3 Chou and his

guesta drink beside

the paviliona where Yehonala, last and

to

By James Wickenden

of

now

states: Slam. Burma, Laos and Cambodia. They total: four-and-a-half times the area of Vietnam with a com-

million.

moving

The

The now cordiality be interrupt China's north- to Communist rute greatest Empress reigned

and Britain south life-lines which at and listen to Ho Chi Minh bined population of over 40 tween Peking from China's Dragon Throne, thousands of red probably aimed partly present run round the coast more than ever.

To stop them The Vietnam help the "anti-base" paat Formosa.

Army hus bearing a

into theso paper flags

areas --- vla Peking, how- Second, China could move deserted in thousands to yellow star flutter round campaign.

ever, does not merely aim forces from close to north leave around Hanoi barely locul unrest is the first Saigon.

task of SEATO, which is vaguely to divide Britain Kashmir by way of ten battalions of troops So, while Peking goes gay from the United States. an interior communication where once there were 28. to be set up next month

•Out with fried duckskin and Poking has defintto reasons system.

Hanoi's

In the Philippines. 340,000 champagne, Southeast Asia's for dividing

SEATO powers, however, the great And, instead of bombers only 16,000 or so now a muat shape their strategy Communists surround an- powers.

threatening Kunming, for pear willing to evacuate other capital elty, this time

Chinn appears to have example, from Hanol at a into Nationalist south Viet to meet both the long-range "anti-base" talk from with banners Instead of

a plan staggering' in

its range

of 350 miles, the nam. The great exodus

ав Poking

well

the nearest Western base is from the Communist north guns.

vastness and detail,

Behind the fuss

800 and now Formosa, miles into the Nationalist south paper flag war in South-east. furore of the

from Indo-China away

and the railway by 'American The Communists are win- war, China has quietly arc. ning the first round on the begun building a great net. eve of next month's Asian work of roads and rail- defence planning in Baguio ways -Just as they won the battle mile

The polite propaganda war has begun.

to run in a 3,000- arc north of

the BUT

moun- from

of Dien Bien Phu in a thun- Himalayas and the dor of gunfire before tains round Burma Geneva.

Tibet in the west to Hanoi So and Haiphong in the south-

unt,

Their tactics are now. are their aims.

They cannot plead any more that they fight colonial rule because the

French

Life-lines

French

Asia.

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airlift will be smaller than Straight Fight

the French hoped.

Also, more and

the Communista, more LIKE

SEATO too must avoid Catholics, once staunch anti- Communists, are choosing to arousing Asian suspicion of But SEATO stay and accept inevitable interference.

has an additional handicap, Communist rule.

Only one of the threatened countries, Siam, has,

New Borders

80

him far, agreed to come into

SEATO,

No Violence UT that is still too close, Ho Formosa Loo must be neutralised.

To succeed in both the

the Bao Dai has lost much "anti-base" policy and

war now of his prestige. Many one flag paper kingpins of Communism's time Nationalists call long-term moves in Asia the lazy emperor; he seems

have stirred himself But in SEATO's favour the Communists know they to are going. But Vietnam, THESE lines will be con- must stop softly. Violence so little while his country is the very fact that it is

an attack was severed at Geneva.

on the way at last. It will divided by Geneva's armia- nocted by other lines, is taboo, unless

be the first combined Asiaл Когтова сап existing, on

be pre- tice line, wants unity.

some already

and Westeru effort to stem through Lanchow, Chun- sented as a purely Chinese

Communism.. The chances king. Kunming, and Nan- business with which the ning to centrai and north West has no concern. JUST now the Vietminh are of its success, therefore,

so optimistic of gaining cannot China.

And the In west and south

be gauged by the near the Indo- paign is the chosen weapon all Vietnam long before the past. The French exodus border region for the immediate task of elections that they have from Indo-China may auft

ad- the Communists.

But it Vietnam and formed an alternative a securing CHIEF Communist rival for there

over also clears the the 1966 elections to unite large-scale industrial pro- undermining the govern- ministration to take

way for Viot SEATO, Vietnam under one govern- gramme rivailing Man- ments of Siam and Burma. Saigon, capital of

1 Its offices stand quite nam.

Colonialism TO longer ment is Emperor Bao Dal. churia's.

It is strictly legn! --

non- few miles outside the city confuses the issue. That All the hate the Communists What this means in rela- democratic in its once fired at the French tion to Formoss and newly- violence and also offec- among the red paper ban- issue now starkly appears as a straight fight between thoy pour exclusively on won Vietnam is plain from a tive,

falling independent Asian govern Baoan Asian and an glance at the map.

andi their loent First, China will emperor.

no jubilant with their success easily into their hands, the ments that at politics and persuasion. Communists look over their Communist inspired

borders into four ponents. could The Vietnamese are resigned now

The Communists say they can provide this quicker than anyone else.

Chief Rival China

China

will also

In Slam and Burma also longer need to fear the Communists will have to American sea-power unseat not Western colonial rulers-but Asians in power, The Communists can no longer be champions of anti-| coloniallam.

LAND

be

They are becoming sabe-TRITONS seeking holl- tour of asian governments. Babroad are flock-

That

+

Bmear

cam-

Already the Vietminh are

OF THE

ners.

With Vietnam

-

"SMORREBROD"

By Joyce Barrington

from

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She usos oil power in nearly every plane of her life, and her oil consumption was around 2,000,000 tone

90

national

in

the

Art

While the Communists are ing in greater and greater busy with their now task, numbers to Denmark. This scone of Hamlet in the great Already Denmark has, 40,000 1953, more than twice the pre

tractore at work-her agylauj» we bervel. :. they want to keep the West may be some repayment for castle of Kronborg, standing on as far away

As regards private life, as possible the interest the Danes took the windswept tip of the island ture is run on an exceedingly (also the seat of mechanized basta-and sho...ex- Zealand Geneva sent the French in Britain nearly a thou- the Danish capital, Copen peete to raise this number to Danos are great letter writer

репод packing out of Indo-China, sand years ago. Then they hagen).

70,000 by 1080.....

writes 100 letters every year so now there are no West- temporarily "annexed" Eri- Leaving the world of litera- Even where only cix cows a staunch trunoberman. Visit pure and the theatre for the

electric milişini vai are ictypt, ern armies to face.

tain and added her to the kitchen, most Britons have en- machines

aradorationes? "at do the work, and

by the formidable is how the Communiata 500 other Islands which, joyed bacon that came

daunted electricity is used on the land arrebrodit thick alles of want to keep it.

with the mainland, com- the Danish Lengraço breed of wherever le can simplify the bread, Invishly buttered, Another side to the new prise the Danish King pigt This brood is so highly farmer's duties.

which is plied. "whateve prized by the Lance that they

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will

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