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The Vermin

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THE CHINĂ MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 1955.

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RUSSIAN-CHINESE RELATIONS EXAMINED

What Will Happen To The

"Great Friendship?"

By HUGH LUNGHI

Twas symbolic that The Chinese trade delega- Stalin's death and again after the first agreement tion, led by Li Che-jen, & the fall of Malenkey show that which the new Soviet Deputy Minister of Foreign the Chinese are adept at making

hay while the sun shines. Government concluded, with Trade, had been in Moscow The Chinese have more subtle a foreign country was with since October 18, last year, ways of keeping Russia tled to China. On February 11, two There must have been sorce China. China's success, they day's after the close of the hard bargaining before Malen-help of the Soviet Union. It is depends on the generous Supreme Soviet session, it kov went, for the tinting of the help

that signature suggests

this help which will was announced, that a new conclusion of the

make it agreement much less painful for trade agreement between was not unconnected with the Chinese people to follow Russia and China for 1955 Soviet Government crisis and Soviet example in making the 'necessary sacrifices of living had been signed in Moscow. Malenkov's fall

affair recalls a similar standards in the interests of Similar agreements. are situation. during the crisis developing heavy industry. concluded annually, but it which followed Stalin's death. is curious that it had taken A few weeks after Malenkov

טרדי

the

the Chinese neurly four had taken over it was suddenly

announced that the trade

ANOTHER SIDE OF

GRAHAM

Sit happens, "Loser

Takes All" is title

the

of Gruhum Greene's latest "en- tertainment." It could be, as well, a nutshell statement of his philosophy.

A close friend once re- marked that Greene har bours an ineradicable bitter- ness against life-simply because it has never dealt him a really nasty blow.

and

honours, Malenkov urged the national

strengthening of the

Obligations

the

the

05

as

The Peking Communist news- months to get this agree- exchange agreement. for 1953 -paper People's Daily, ment from

the Russians. had been signed. From the be- January 25 this year clearly im-

ginning of his rule, Malenkov plied that Russia's position did not under-estimate the im- both a European and an Asian portance of China's support. At power Involved her in certain Stalin's

where n's luneral,

the obligations. These meant that Chinese Prime Minister, Chou the Soviet Union should not En-lai

accorded

high only give moral support to the of the Asian→ eternal" African region," but also pro and indestructible friendship" vide materini assistance for the of Russia and China, and spoke "economic development" ot of China as the "great ally." He these under-developed coun- appointed as Ambassador to tries. In this way, the Chinese China the high-ranking Soviet put a moral obligation on Russia Troge union chief, Vasily to make good the promises to Kuznetsov.

which. Chinese propaganda has committed her.

For these reasons, we can ex- pect Russia and China to hang some time yet, together for

GREENE

By Les Armour

For several years now, novelist Graham Greene has kept. pricking at mankind's conscience. No one reads: Greene opus but with a shuddering moment of introspec- tion. He has built up a world-wide reputation on the strength of this literary sin-sniffing. Now he has turned out what he is pleased to call a new "entertainment" which reveals another facet of this diamond-hard character, a tongue-in-cheek Greene, who could be the prophet of new school" of contemporary, writing,

hamsted School, he was educated In any case he sees the there and went on to Balliol world as necessarily com- College, Oxford. After graduation he went to work for the Notting-

pounded of misery, grime, ham Journal, moves on to The torture 'and plain old- Times, spent four years there fashioned nastiness. The and passed to The Spectator... curious thing is that to where he was literary editor for Greene the nastier the a year before the war caught up with him and the Foreign to Ofice rant him to West Afties

world, the better. For

the

him the world is simply on "special duties" which

you still a littic mysterious,

of

place where

choose your kind eternity. And the more often you get kicked, the

more likely you are to land B

in Heaven.

The Secret

were

re

the war's end his novels

doing well enough 10 keep him in In "The Heart of the a style

of near opulence Matter" the hero, Scobie, which would probably have con- remarks that he likes the signed any of his heroes to Hell backwater West African without much further question.

The secret of his uncompro-

Sin-uniffer

(an, cotertainment

to

between the two kinds of work) he mys: "This tale has not been written for the purposts of on- ecuraging adultery, the use of Pyjama tops or registry office marriages. Nor is it meant to discourage gambling."

"Loser Takes All" is a roller-

More. Exchanges

in exchange for these ges- tares of friendship and promises of trade,

Mao Tse-tung pressed his loyalty to Malenkov, whom he acknowledged to be the Soviet leader. In a special message to the then Soviet President, Shvernik:

But what of the future of the "great friendship?" It is un- likely that Russia will help China so far as to allow her to become a fully-fledged modera industrial power. The Soviet

sary of the signing of the Sino-

This year the fifth anniver- leaders must be painfully aware

That it was Mao Tse-tung

who, the Soviet Treaty of Alliance, has in an essay entitled, given the Russians and Chinese Dictatorship

at

2

People's

There are signs that the jaar Groene may be getting the best of the gloomy Greene, coastering tale in which a baffled accountant suddenly finds him self whisked on to Monte Carlo by a capricious, and forgetful a great opportunity for exchang- Democracy" wrote in 1949 that Loss "who leaves hirm there on ing more and even stronger ex- it was "only when Chinese in- The repressions of mutual admiration..dustry developed and China was scureciul accountant promptly Pravda

a leader

to the

the no longe dependent, econo- inyents a system to beat the day

"The Great Friend- mically, on foreign powers that bank, but his new wife decides ship.". The

Soviet

press was she would achieve real and full deesn't like money and ruxis careful to point out that Russia independence. off with a bankrupt bay gambler who satisfies her taste for stale buns without butter.

penniless hoDEYINDON.

Tired Of Evil

•entitted a

had China's support for her Foreign Power

drew

The

policies of "collective security" in Europe. while China had Russia's backing over Formosa.

The

Chinese, in their turn, rew particular attention to the economic assistance which TE hero who is about to ac- China had received from the

quire his bass's business Soviet Union.

nëse wins her back with a handful of Vice-Premier and poker chips and throws away all his mancy.

The book might have been written by

Waugh, a prewar except that none of the char- acters is nasty. Probably the book at least indicates that Greene is tired of evil for the moment, And the critics have pointed cut that his entertainments are usually cummy runs in which

he works out the techniques for

his novels. It may be that a new side of Greene is slated for a public aring.

In

Whatever they may be saying about each other now, Russia is to China a "foreign power" and Mao Tse-tung's words sum up an irreconcilable conflict of in- terests. Rusia keeps Chin's dependent by helping to build As" soon up China's industry. as she has her lavy industry, China will no longer DC dependent on Russia.

chief, Li Fu-chun, went so far is to say that such aid as the Soviet Union had given China "bas never been and never will be seen in the capitalist world." It seems that.h the long run Soviet it will be Russia which will try actual fact, the assistance promised to China, a to hold on tight to China, while of the Chinese will be trying hard country with a population

amounts to

no o relax the grip of the "great 600,000,000.

than that given by friendship." more

Britain and the United

with a popula- to Yugoslavia tion of 16,000,000.

Great Publicity.co

colony where he is forced mising sin-sniffing lies in his to live because,

States "here religious development. He says: "pretace to his new entertain human nature hasn't had "At fourteen I read Marjory ment" time to disguise itself. Bowen's 'Viper of Milan From Nobody here could ever talk that moment I began to write, Greene is not a novel; the pur- She gave me my pattem-re- post of a novel being to edify, about a heaven on earth. figion might later explain it to and he makes a sharp distinction Heaven remains rigidly in me in other teams-but the pat- its proper place....and on tern was already there: Perfect this side flourish the in- evil walking the world where perfect good can never walk justices, the cruelties, the

again and only the pendulum meanness that everywhere censures that justice is done.” else people so cleverly hush up."

Better Deal

I was while he WIG at Nottingharn that he became a Roman Catholic. But it can be doubted whether he really be- .came a Roman Catholic in a sose in which a bbrn Catholic

AND probably no one has, would understand.

ever been quite 30. He brought to it his parental intent on "unhushing"

GAZA-AN ETERNAL SCENE OF STRIFE

By JAMES FORREST

satisfaction, but the smear dispassionately the insect stand 20 people were

was

Whatever help Russla has given to China has been accom- panied by the greatest possible publicity. When, last autumn, the Soviet Union provided machinery to equip a State: farm, the Soviet delegation visiting Peking wrote about it to Mao Tse-tung. The letter began by pointing out what a great sacrifice the Soviet Union in handing over agricultur

machinery at Д she herself had Gaza. harassed Israel in the late B.C. embarked on a "huge plan" to

sun centuries and there that the develop virgin land. as Protestantism, and the two have TH

THIS is an arid,

Egyptian, Syrian and Jewish The Chinese also, gave great Greene. In "The Power and fured into what can only be baked little town. as Demies mel In battles which publicity to this "gift" which the Glory"

Jesuitical wher the described, as

Caunattractive a place as the inspired the ideas of Armaged in itself showed that it was a somewhat isolated Instance of "whisky priest," starving vaniam,

Six fur three inches tall blue imagination can conjure up. don.

World War One it was Soviet- generosity. In fact, the and weary, pauses in his eyes nearly always red-rimmed, But men, often whole civilist- flight through the jungle he stalks, the earth as a kind of tions, have battled over it for still place men fought over outstanding characteristic of all

there' 15

General Allenby broke the the “great friendship" of Russia China is that big words. to eat a lush ripe banana, twentieth-century Old Testa-3,500 years. And

Turkish lines there and so won and delighting fighting for it.

every sign that, they will go nu Greene records, not his ment propbet,

for the Allies the war in the have been accompanied by turning over stones to watch

small deeds. Last week a girl was killed Middle East.

injured

it is a rail junction. one df 'U.N.'s biggest when a

wedding party was shot and

headaches. The best Dr Ralph up. A month before, 39 men

and his UN truce One may well ask why the died and 30 more were wound Bunche <i when desperate Israelis makers could do in 1949 was to Chinese go on publicly thank-

make it international and turn 1ting the Russians with every ap than once he has charged across its border.

Thes

than into a refuge for fleeing Arabs. pearance of being satisfied with trouble with In

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this meagre Soviet help. One the' Vatican for he is scared stiff and suffers it too

going

in the pan-signals or a flashes far. The Pope is growing and widespread trouble

But the current problem is swer is to be found in China's material situation. China, with from wind..

believed to have found the pro-

all her size and resources, today Inside the 25-mile long and something new.

The Archs want the Negev produces only red with Russia's

82,000,000 The pastier the character, grese of Sarch from slut to caint

four-mile wide "strip" when desert. Egypt says it should go of compared the better the deal he is "The End of the Affair" a Surrounds the town-under

Production of 320,000,000 tons. likely to get in a Greene bit hard to swallow.

Bat there is

Arabs now cooped up in Gaza China's output of steel is as more to Greene United Nations' supervision and to Jordan. Ald it. is the novel, Pinkie, the immature than this. There is the shrewd Egyptian administration 370

who would populate it if it

#tile:

as 2,000,000 tons, while did, of razor-boy

Tussia's is over 20 times greater. "Brighton practical Greene once described 200,000 refugees whose exile has

dragged on for years.

To the Israchis, on the other and America's 50 times greates Rock", is unmistakably con- by London's Sunday Times as a

On the other side, worried hand, the Negry is the whole These basic facts show the ex- signed to Heaven, while Ida, man with one eye en the Vatican

and the other on the stock Israelis stand uneasily, regard southern half of their country tent to which China must lean "the book's only sympathetic market who has made a good ing the refugees as their sworn whose burning sands they want On Russia for material help for

to turn into fertile acres their character, is left wandering thing out of his personal, com enemies and knowing that the to

Egyptians support them. I

to feed their growing in some nameless limbo.

Pinkie. believed in Hell, Ida could believe only in right and wrong.

the banana leaves around nesses revealed,

his mouth and the belly

rumble which follows. Agun In Trouble

in "Brighton Rock," we

learn nothing about the MORE murdered Hale except that beer

||

victions,

And there is also the Greece.

sense of humOUT.

to come.

more

with the prankster schoolboy

The problem is one, which would puzzle a Solomon

d

chance

Asking Why

some time to come

COFpromise they have APPear-

#

kra? "Arab”

tons

At first glance, China would have far more to gain Russia then the other way rown, but "there is no doubt desert to Joe that when Russia is weakened

Corridor

Once the rather pompous The significance of Gaza is Egypt with Jordan. But the And in "The Heart of the literary New Statesman and purely and simply strategic Arab states have turned the by internal crisis, the moral sup

part of China is essential to the Matter," Greene cilen appears to Nalica bela u contest, offering a It stands Just ja trom the idea down flat.

Soviet Union, for the conduc: of have more sympathy for the prize of ene guinea for a parody Mediterranean paint where the problem is not one which

bet short-term weat-willed corniving Wilsen, on his style, The prize was won trade routes from Arabia focus can be settled by history and in the long-term, in order foreign policy than for Scobie, the man who le by a man who signed trim on the BC. Pharach Thuit tints and

Shifting triber, shifting civilisa co good that he drifts clowly into M Wilkinson Next week In 1500

the endless birkerings to consolidate the base of world there was a letter chiging the mase III used it as his base of powers great and small have

The why Chinese are not editer der failing to award prizes against the Syrions and st

extract more from the Ruslans Wilkinson'

All three bad been written by It was there that Samson un with an alterative to the of times of crisis.The Rusti

ccasions to the Chinese aners Greene –ktionella Anh - krytom | dital, kertre that the "Fidilistines 1949 trace Bolution"

How did Greene get this way?

тебя.

Outwardly, his lite follows the to "Mtegra: D, R. Cool Land:N->ployed to control the valu. Bu fizice stiped out blind to the fact that they cri

conventional pattern of the upper ralidic class Englishman. Son of the headmaster of Book

able frankincense trade.

of sovereignty,

one has come

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