1954-11-06 — Page 13

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1954.

1984- Prime Minister Churchill making his 27 Cabinet reshuffle, felling Macmillan, Eden and Buller. they have to 80. Toa old. Winston, who has grown progresswaly younger since his eightieth birthday. gives a half-promise that he will resign on reaching, The age of fifteen.

OLD LOW'S CRYSTAL BALL

Russia's 66

D

Russia's

By

THINGS TO COME

"Attack Heaven"

WALTER KOLARZ

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a striking wALTER KOLARZ, author of of 1961 developer at

"Stalin 1024

and Elernal Russia" < 11 (1944); Mуyils and Rendilles in taken place

Eastern Europe" (1946); "Russia ** and Busin The

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IN Ruled" Peoples Ext

(10531 the

and Soviet

Treiiumas front."

The entire Sovies preis has her Colonies" (1962): "How

tack

(1954). specialist

scriptwriter staf of thr 1triti caating Corporation. formerly diplomate pondent news agency.

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William Hickey

THE BARRICADES..WERE NEVER LIKE THIS...

I

quarters,

troubles were the

London. Their WENT to u Bus troubles, that should be discuss

ext over balze-covered tables in atrikers' meeting itt some union or Ministry head- Trafalgar Square. The geraniums were blooming in the long flower- bed that runs along the back.

The central jets of the fountains were not playing, But the nymphs and fishes provided an agreeable artis- tic background.

There were several hun- dred people in the square. There was a line of faces peering down from the para. pet.

...

Overume

new schedules inadequate pay but the audience knew-a British audience takes a lot of fooling

...that

here was no cause to send them home Med with righteous indignation.

Take the audience. IL WAR working-class audience of the sort that there was before the war. You couldn't produce that sort of an vidhpura now however ard you tried,

It was a middle-class mutlence, That was the triumph of the Socialist Government under Afiice. It made the working- clrss a bourgeoisie.

out.

They faced the base of

The men were well turnt the Nelson Column. It was The children warmly cind ervered with 50 or 60 ræen in new coâts. The middle-aged and

wermen women—most of them se

wore good cloth coals drivers

and in the uniform of

new hats. The young girls went around and conductors.

In LWCN. arm-in-arm. They always to pround like that in London on a Sunday afternoon. Un they meet couple of

nice fellows,"

Two of the lions wire die- orated wifi miteropunes.

I do not know it Y Com- munists were in the crowd. I There were they ought to have thrown

themselves into The Tovatain-pools First resolutely 47 attempts ima bes to

TOLL

save them

A mockery

For this was

料 muckery of a

strike meeting. This

Was *

muckery 1f The

proletariat's struggle for bread and work.

This was a mockery of all

Brother Morgan-he admittei that he was Welsh-called for contributions.

And the platform was "asking for pounds." It didn't wint shilings and pence. They would be collected by

round the crowd.

What the

prope going platform

wanted

Hot two cheques!" sald the amplifiers.

A strikers meeting collecting cheques! Working-class people with bank accounts Just like some "grinder of the faces of the poor."

was the big stuff,

"We've

Five pounds was next counted out with satisfaction. It came from member of the travel- ling public."

The platform got a little cross because the pound notes were not

being collected quickly enough.

"They will get tired of holding them up." sald Brother Morgan.

מw!

"Ten chillings from a stove- dore," drew a sight cheer.

"A 15-shilling I.O.U. from nurses" had n slight response.

Then came a spot of sonii- "Two and sixpence from two children

ment.

There were quite a few notea from anonymous "members of the Iravelling public.

Pil they didnt give their names.

Oh, Marx! Beautifully dressed! Not just well dressed. Not just warmly dressed. But fashionably dressed. With good nylons and schart Brother Morgan gave another shoes. Tasteful jewellery and a fresh hair-05.

pep-talk. Kentlemen

On! Shades of Marx! Oh! comrades! - Shades of Engels! Oht Shades on. of Keir Hardie!

"Ladies

and notice that,

"they are not

Enmeshed

He was hoving another crack at the union and the London

To ask there people to march along to the Palace and ask the Queen to listen

their 10 grievances would be ilke asking Transport Executive.

the

As I come away the pigeons the directora of bloody

City น

+11 storm. Inland Revenue in pro-

we swaying a cloud cyc rest

gainst their new surtax the square. isseraments!

There

were

banners

placards decorating

all

(mm).

those meetings. those

protest marches of the hungry and the

This under-privileged,

Was mockery of the march 10 the barricades

of the struggles that have been reen- as 1887 on this same spot.

The sky was something Manet was a mmekery of trade

have liked to have unionism, of Socialism, of

and would that the so-culler

nil may clouds.In a progressive

the platintel

background of the soft blue parties have stood for

you get just before sunset. For

Some were simple affairs here

were bus-strikers

The audience made for the declaiming

We lift over- against London You lift wages,

dan

High

e-shops and the tubes, Transport

Fares, part

both were still working. donalised Industry

And was Low Wages,

make An afternoon

you nationalisation a cure for

think! Nearly all those people on the platform first-rate types. Certainly most of the audience.

а nil-

prayer. the Gissar furtress, on overcrowded buses, tay *x*

in abar-cycles, key

xot D1% dif

stel

Kaple attend but young folk as well.

them were

Collective farmers engaged in cotton pro- luctrutt Everybody seemed 10 condone the celebration - the elketive furm chairmen, the l'arts

l the Komsomol.

not Komsemolskiya Pravda com

all things? platnest Uhut the cotton growers And here were bus-strikers were paid as wruaj for the dary

declaiming against their union. they spent in

prayer.

And Such cases

yet was not trade union seem to happen lidarity

of the foundation they seem working-class progress? have induced the Agitation and Propaganda Department

They don't know! They don't care!" said Moscow to make the campaign against religious holidays

microphones. Ell focal point in the general anti- celigious offensive.

suddenly begun f religion with a violence and For

1s 4711 The intensity unheard of

Broad- the war. Of es urge, Seviel

He

Was nowspapers have feertently

COTTON- curried articles complaining

international He is a speefallst about the suryad of reli.

Enst Esropean affairs. superstr urging people

light *****..............................******** [requently, and 10 against them. But now, for bet of interesting cases have be-

enne kansun to a wider publ the first time in 15 Venta,

Fashooil in Kaluga we are faced with a system-

vince in Central

Russia, atie anti-religious campaign muanes, the respondent of centrally aspired and

ths Ted and

Pro-

for

Guzetle fund tene hers what either "1,ved their selves among thola. #

Cen

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tridly directed

Somedy

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raised bo objretion when avdirenis st vices, wenn helst

itu

in

Tegur da Scien

Eneas Jovire. apeetalize safe logiem) bl

FUGINDAR puntes viber,Ery For

instaties.

da OSTOBOR ol I-kaar

anminced in Central Asia and Eastern Trap on apa. Add the intrigues of the Vateau" are

} Ining teh own In a town near Novosibirsk,

Win fern Siberia, alth

another

spondary

FEAR, ENVY

Correspondent August

TALLY

to

But one of the banners was one of those elaborate trade union affairs, I always admire them. They remind me of the old guild banners that used to be carried in religious proces- slons In the great medieval

trading towns. in

11

nt the

The Soviet trade unions have abo been Andesi of them :pecial duties to this held, Trade which

Maad activiste Of the Morow pro- plays The Beding part

Pruvinee www suntoond effenalve 1: has

Stu ม a speyzal lee unterence. discoveral

The boren op med to estetil its ass

main speaker, teachers tiket to be invalest to Bho Char

al the Moscow and believers on religious hohy Trade unhas, Vasilev, urged that for Lunes

41 even perímet celigious the struggle against superstitions "varflohmy rites themKUIVOS, In another

her quid prejudices should be to be lawn in Nevinibusk Province

woman teacher of hilogy in a bread particularly in the dis- trict of Zagorsk, site of the chu. allowed her Troitse-Sergieva Monastery and child to be christened, and the

#famous place k pilgrimage hendtnister of a The Waves m

a village school ur Orthodox Christians. Mobil- nearby had induced ht pupils sation of the trade unions for work shows how anti-religious much the regime fears the in- of religious idens on the Pet working class.

Any form of religion is harm- fut from

Soviet point of The Communists are as View, afraid of the solemn liturgy in Orthodox and Catholic churches

they

of the formles

be unmarked 2utter ureas.

THE GODLESS

+

419

the

party buriou-shotings of the socia

"The

Lithuanian

for both

Communist

#t voice

It wasn't bloated he was criticising.

tar

Throgmorton

Lombard Street.

Over the

The 'tap'

The orators were too educated, capitalists

used They He wasn't

Sire: (b

meeting.

usc

the and

10

Caught up in giant organisa- Llorts

in im- caught up personal urbitration methods caught up enmeshed in all the elaborate machinery that 20th-century

man

has long words that evolved to keep an impossibly with furious eloquence denoune didn't mean much in a public complicated civilisation at work. Men and women frustrated by And when they did

the work that the modern world vulgor

phrase they

has given them. Nursing griev- univer- Epologised for a-like about

ances over himself

their

monotonous. of the Transport sity professor

excusing for using

uncreative work. cockney word in a learned lecture.

And yet that same civilisation a standard has given them of living that not many coun tries

match

... nylons, fashions. TV sets, the radio, the pools, and paid holidays.

It's delicate thing this 1954 civiliantiont

He was talking lenders General Workers' Union,

But no zeal

"Our next nusiness." I heard The audience reacted slowly over the amplifiers, "is to "tap to the speakers. They were fair the public'-lo use a common speakers. They explained their expression to pay for the grievances. But they had not meeting. I'll let you into ព the drive, the burning zeal of secret, the organisation of this the starved and the ill-treated, meeting has cost £70."

SOCIALIST VIEW:

COLD WAR WILL

QUINCE

GO ON

By JAMES WICKENDEN

to pray

One of the main purposes .. { e present anti-religius cam- The Society has also been palan

gn fa to make such "reandals enecuraged to publish a

impossible, by inthuldating both special Journal devote

teachers and the population. 10 athentic propagandu. This will be the

An even greater problem than first anti-religious periodient to

the "neutralism" of the teachers is the attitude which pear in the Soviet Union since

Party and 1914 when the ill-famed wookly

Komsomo! effegati have Laken lezbozhnik (The Godless)

towards

anti- religījus pro- censed publication.

paganda. Many At

are not only afraid of them the

erats, though themselves frm In samo Vine the

their atheistic principles, do not send to offer

but they

London. Iack principle in their views on envy them, Ministries in charge of culture

019 many Socialists like to take 0 hand in anti-

groater attractions

Attlee's Peking Chim. and education are being drawn religiou

than the Communist institutions visit, China has rivalled us

S' Into the

propagandim.

For Eden, the guide to the campaign. The

have realised that reluring on

the discovery of the Mithras East has always been that none mouthpiece

the Soviet Ministry of Culture, Sovetskaya

anti-religious subjects demands youth paper recently contrasted temple as a popular mystery of its problems can be treated Kultura, has indicated that some

Church with the uninteresting in Britain. The strange life separately. All of them, from Korco to Indo-China and of the 30 anti-religious museumis

and beliefs of her swarming Formosa, depend on China's which

existed in Russia before

millions have begun to rulers deciding whether to abide demand for

unusual Interest, by international understanding arouse particularly among Social or play a double game.

Until Mao makës up his

ming Ists.

to deal fairly with the outside The Tories, on the other hand, world, says Eden in effect, there have almost forgotten that "Attlee can be no lasting settlement. But why has the Soviet 'Gov-

ever went to China. They re- And, for Eden, a settlements er ernment his ver-

chatter. the present fuse to balleve his visit had the only object worth striving urged to make greater efforts bal excesses. If he is 100 moment to launch its new "at-, much effect on the problems for. He is a negotiator who 10 secure tho materialist a gentle he may be charged with tack on heaven? Several ex-faced in the ROOMS off the likes results doctrination ot students school children.

گردم

the war are to be reopened.

A

anti-religious more

specialised the

great deal of knowledge and they prefer ether

easter themes.

DANGEROUS

ceremonial

ritual of

cultural

mass work of the Kommmel, and there have been frequent admissions that the But to conduct anti-religious community life of Baptists is Gims has likewise suddenly propaganda is not only difficult; superior to that prevailing in appeared in Soviet newspapers the lecturer

It may even be dangerous. If many Communist clubs. Ministry for

is aggressive he EXPLANATIONS Education of the USSR and the may be accused of Ministries of Education in the the believers and of

Republies have

religious been

fanaticism by

The

Union

DISAPPOINTED

boon most

and

The

more

Jack of fighting spirit and with planations suggest, themselves. marble

Thalis

in the Foreign fuking a

a neutral position. First, the anti-religious

Office Even anti-religious text books palen must be related to "This different porty attitude cannot be relied upon by would. big internal and ideological does

So the Tories remain silent not spring from The greatest problem facing bo speakers. A case in point changes which have takers Labour

• pride in Attlee's visit about China. They wall to su the educational authorities con- vas. the book, "Chemistry place since Stulip's death.

stand Tory Jealousy, but from ternational morality. The Soviet rogima is weaker different ways of thinking.

signs that Peking accepts in- cerns the teachers. They have the Fight against Superstitions,

arrefully recruited, published in 1953. A Moscow poifically today than it was

To the Tories.

The Bocialist - look, - mot · for China. Is A many have come from the ranks newspaper complained that the two years ago at the time of

practical

in building signs of better Chinese polley, problem of tho Komsmol

book

bellof in the nineteenth promoted

party congress.

confidence between East and but for reasons which may hint (Communist miracles Instead of destroying. It is weaker Youth

ficologically, for Leamic) and staunch anil-religious convictions

nothing was able to replace the aulis at conferences than marvel

West. They prefer to get re at how China will behave

They have not been taken in their

A matter which has caused formidable, oppressive part have been a condition particular concern to the more thority of Stalin in ovary, field,

at China's ways. The Socialists by Chint, as crities Arat feared

might are maro detached; they want to trade unionists like Sain Watson be. Hard-headed of employment. Yet many militant section of the Cam- In this situation the how me know where the icechers have

'swort of disappointed munist Party is the indifference: In the Kryqila cannot afford to Practice has shown

have millions of Chinese worker will now communit

cust sbrowd eyes on the that their shown by many Party atheism.

chicla observe the same attitude

colossus, and cannot always be taken towards the observance of re- patronisie, contempt which the

get them

have come away with very clear for granted and the regime figlous holidays.. This obser- late. Üçübralkalmë, shqwet to-

my friens, realises that the education of vance has survived “stubbornly wards feligion in the last years

generations is

the rising

the

satest hands.

an

main in the outskirts of northe

from Ministry of Education, to the Caucasus and the

the

the outskirts of Lenin sillon nga riválidno ogy, much | duties" andTMfiafly: doć

therefore now carrying out of Afghanistan.

Hore had he did, and

a thorough check on teachers Komsomolskaya Pravde, the put new emphasis da

who in recent years have shown Boviet, youth newspaper, ros

a

neutral, or even a friendly, cently published

attitude towards religion. The picture of how a Muslim

an at the Ministry of Educa, was celstirated in the

ofan

tion, the Teacher's Gazette, has plain (the hot populoug

instructed its local "correspóna economically,

dable, to "donounce techers who portant.

allow, tolerange towards rullzijus Šavjet, despub

ther

of the Soviet ? Conspil

have

One reason for the

ach or

道

the

The содирот

Bocialists now

chancos of full o od good. Altho

me to possible to imp

ideologiani wan

vide conclusion

View

amont

that

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