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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 28,

World Copyright by arrangement with the Manchester Guardian

RED PEKING

Stern Discipline

On Every Level

By WALTER

BOSSHARD

Correspondent of the Neue Zuercher Zeitung, Zurich.

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1955.

DINNER POINTED THE WAY

WAY TO THE ELECTION RESULT

By SIR BEVERLEY BAXTER, M.P.

HERE is a

It

Was

swept us

the

Was

And what

לכת

movement

a

never tommoral com- it appeals to the sentimentalist

thing splendid and even Hring in the idea of raising

had

the common people to be equal forget that there is no more masters with the bosses. equality in men than in horses. "Eventually the intellectuals sicken of the very thing they believed in. Remember that Sir Oswald Mosley Sosialist who eventually. bc- Fascist. Whether Shaw- cross knows it or not his speech

a

London. in one jump. is 1943 and the to join a left wingt

club postwar General Election has if they sincerely believe in its

Tority out of office philosophy and policy. in London called and installed the first Socialist When the air was over, a

The Saints

and Government www a clear few of us sat down at a small

micrity

brity! table for Sinners."

a majority!

a nightcap and We Tories who survived the Anal appraisal of what was hap started by a few newspaper habemust were little more than pening in the Socialist Party men, music-hall comedians

decimated platoce

One of our party, a man of fine and bookmakers. The idea Mr Attice was busy forming mind and

judgment. his Government

"This has always bap- And when tid was to hold lunches at irre-

His:

in left wins pened in

movement was complete we dis at gular intervals and,

covered that

Mr

Hartley anywhere and everywhere. The Christmas, raise funds for, Shawcross, K.C., who had

Intellectunt, like ShawCross, beer on M.P., attracted to Socialism becs1190 charity.

The lunches were held in plate with the knighthood that and the idealist. There is some a sort of smugglers' room of

autperatically

accompanies the the Albany Club which is

of Attor YA DO

time much frequented by gentle-

made a a deep impression men who make books at race the House. His voice, had a sort upen meetings and shout the odds or exething authority, his man- to the innocents. There were ner was one of languid elegance,

the and be had invited speakers` at

fret rate brain. But we did not warm to him luncheons, but heaven help he seemed detached from. them if they were pompous the normal M.P. He had the and dull. No one was safe aloofness of man who walks with that crowd.'

alone, but we respected him for the quality of his mind. Unhappily the Club pros pered, and it became rather

"Bevan is at least consistent. He advocates the rule of the a smart thing to attend the

Generai Election 1050! The

MASCS, when. Socialists were

assuming of course, monthly luncheon,

hurled back

that he will rule the ITSSES. guests were permitted and with only a tiny majority

Shaw-

But before we condemn Shaw- oratory flowed from the keep them in power.

Across too much for his

per- hend table. Cabinet Minis General, but in a short time is

Attorney formance tonight let us at least ters, famous barristers and made President of the Board edc that it peers turned up as guests. Even Douglas Fairbanks, who is a knight but cannot standing gifts and gins with goodwill to men and call himself "Sir" unless he

General Election 1951: The tocracy. renounces his American Socialists were out and we goodwill in its heart towards

perilously citizenship, lent his social glory to the Club from time to time. For some reason the Club elected me a member, but we shall let that pass.

Move

i

Then, through some rear- Albany Club Tangement, could.co.

longe house us.

MONG the countless the day further instructions on mears but nevertheless they are impressions the how to work, how to behave, in no way the only method used foreign traveller én how to rest, how to share your in influencing the masses. If it that corruption meals with your comrades, were is true to say

has today disappeared. that counters during his given. first days in Communist The story goes that as a re- Fribes or other presents are no ted by officials and China, there are two which gult of the daily repetition of longer accepted

these orders

about getting up that almost every Chinese specially conspicuous.

hesitatingly accepts decisions well as the daily exhorta- e 37 First there is the stern dis- tcns to cleanliness, the diplo- given by Party bosses, it must cipline which permeates all mat himself became so obsessed be kept in mind that these are by no means voluntary con- classes. Secondly there is with the whole business that at the strongly developed sense the end of one month he began cessions but are much more re

sults forcibly brought about by became to fect a sense of guilt it of national consciousness.

still remained in bed after the

end road disposes of a supervision These main impressions are land speaker across the completed by the realisation had for the third time ordered spy service which extends

every household. that the most important pillars everyone to get up. of the new regime-next

in

as

2

he

The same methods are used

which portant authoritarian rule an

PROPAGANDA

to

the

OFF

Eke that of a

Fascist Small Majority.

cross is once more

was 3

brave

speech even if it was embar of Trade. He takes the trans- rassing to his audience. The story

ca perfectly.

a Obviously of Socialism never alters. It be

personality.

were in-but by a emall majority.

for

on

ends up in some form of au- with anything but

anyone.

Significant

That ends my

1998

It was almost impossible for any of us is to

carry any of our normal outside oc-

story of the cupations. Although it is

of strange dinner which took place little importance 1 resigned in the heart of London's West Dramatic Critic of

of the London End As we entered the ban- Evening Standard

the quet hall each of us had to simple reason that I cupid not choose a white or red

indicating whether get out of the House of Com- tian mons to attend the first nights were saints or dinners. Bevan at the theatre. But most of us at least chose the flower of sin, Yet I believe that what we were in, that kind of predica-

saw that night was more signā ment.

Scant than a mere brawl be- tween

two left wing leaders WICDE Unless I am in my deductions in my deductions

to apelessly

the Socialist Party will be badly defeated in the General Election.

and forge the rehen, but it is of no matter. So we moved to the Dorchester in Park Lane, but in

And what did Master Shaw the transition lost something

character. Our

The comedians cross do? He calmly returned to accountants-seem-

private practice at the Bar and And the

ed to fade away and, instead, proceeded to camm an income of in- anything from £15,000 to £20, a gathering of

certain, 000 a a year. For weeks at a time men plus a

loaked more in tub he is still on M.P. number who

we never see him in the House

Socialism is a compromine allan and Cocor portant than they were.

butween Capitalisan Each

year we have an

an-Forgive me for the length of munism Liberalism gave birth dinner to which nual

guests Time have spent on this part- to Socialism and, in 'the process, javiied. This усаг the rait, but it is an escatial back the mothe died at any rate are chairman of the Chub was ground to what happened at the in Britain and Europe. In turn, Artur Christiansen, Edror of Saints und Sinners dinner.

Socialism gave birth to Co- Shawcross

the the Daily Express, and so large

af furst

munism and the continent that was the number of

when

the the food spetter

and Europe is covered with the Big Eznqueting wine We took

had ministered to *u*

Socialist corpses of

parties Room of the Dorchester. Physical comfort. His voice was Fortunately Conservatism

Understandably the

more like cello than ever,

and gives Firth to dians were not there because but the music that came from nothing, which is probably why they were performing at the it was not particularly sweet, it survives. theatres. As a matter of fact there

For With icy contempt he attacked

all those reascas the were peers, baronets, civil seT-

Bevan by inference and Tories are certain to win

He novelists

and by direct; 'accusation. vants, edtions,

it General Election in Britain. If It could hardly have ferred that the Bevanites were we needed any reassurance on politicians. leads,

been more respectable if we an irresponsible menace not that point, the dianer of the had invited the House of Lords only to Parliament but to the Saints and Sinners gave it to us

that night.

importance to the army and in regulating traffic on the Popular discipline is intensi-

an enthusiastie streets

behaviour the police-150

or the

of bed by means of systematic and as well as.

to in the bigger stores; almost frenzied appeals shoppers younger generation millions of women

par- also in the organisation of the national consciousness and pride. who

the wireless, the ticipate with quite unbelievable rubbish carts. Indeed even the The press. enthusiasm in the plencer work daily life of the ordinary house theatre, the cinema, all serve in of New holder has become regulated the first instance as instruments of the construction China

and supervised and a stage has of mass propaganda.

The past almost The discipline" comes

where achievements of the Communist lyceri reached

as automa- regime as well as what is hap surprise to every foreigner who people react much

tons and adapt and subordin- pening in the remainder of the know the former China. It can be observed the railway ate their own free will to the Communist-controlled world are. stations. in the train at the orders which issue from

in the radio or loud speaker. tram and bus stops, shops and even in the many narrow lanes of the Chinese metropolis.

the Everywhere Chinese now stands In well disciplined rows, He has learnt to wait patiently until his turn

comes.

st

It is extremely rare an impatien: crowd or people jostling each other.

the traveller

At every turn encounters

CONFESSIONS

the reproduced in, exaggerated

one-sided terms. This

and

pal with the younger

superiority their own.

unparalleled comrades urge those pre- its own feet.

or

are

come-

I

10 a sense of

ch madce On top of all this there are

mostly based

In response to the card cf in- the daily and weekly education

own ignorance.

vitation all of us were dinner To begin with the young are courses linked with the familiar and

jackets-all But one. The soli- behind enthusiastically

the

Right processes of confessions

because it try exception was the self-confession. These sessions Communist regime

Aneurin Hondurable are conducted by

Bevan, experienced

in the

This night he was in a lounge Party comrades in every office knows how to awake

mind of the adolescent faith in

suit, ever

2s when he was but also in the cells of the the conviction that the Chinese Cabinet Ministr he wore a different residential areas. These

people can now finally stand on

similar costume when dining at Buckingham Palace, their mistakes 'sent to confess

Moreover children, from the

He is quite logical about it sense of order. This is an amaz- and errors committed by them

of their birth, moment

*You wear livery as a Tory," ing adaptation of the highly during the course of the past

conceivable care he' once

said to me, and I individualistic mentality of the week. They always end with the given every There are in-

and attention.

wear my livery as a Socialist." Are you Chinese to the main lines lald question: "Is that all?

coloured posters down for him by the Com- not hiding

anything bything or keeping numerable

telling youth of its future munist Party.

the reconstruction

the of This system of weekly

They are encouraged fessions even of minor misdeeds country. in front of a group

of one's to attend schools in which the The first thing every foreigr fellow workers results in a sort largest possible number pisitor does is to enquire how of mutual control which inspires skilled workers, technicians and It has been possible to achieve anxiety and even fear. Nobody engineers are to be trained in and bridges not his order that streets oficial

whether or not knows The such discipline,

the neighbour has observed him in can be built throughout the answer invariably is to

illicit transaction and country. These are the men who effect that these surprising re- some

to are also to be trained to pro- sults are achieved by a con- whether or not he is likely tinuous process of teaching and bring the matter up in the next spect for the country's hidden enlightenment.

meeting. Perhaps by doing so mineral wealth, There is undoubtedly a lot of he can hope to prove his own to conceal his own for zeal and truth in this. Anyone

faults.

SURPRISING

#

Chinese railways and sits for.

COT.-

RECEPTIVE

in

of

The Communist regime in example who travels on the For some Chinese this

it demands find Important sup- hours obliged to listen to the of compulsory public cone China and the discipline which

to a sort amounts

of mental pors from the ranks of China's "incessant flow of directions

But to absent oneself womenfolk. torture.

Those have been given to the passengers as to without prior permission is to given the same rights as their how they should behave etc., risk being reported to the police men. Here again it is particu- at first only reluctantly. com who immediately investigate the Jarly y

the young who are ex-

plies with the directions given reasons for such absence. but eventually finds that he is doing so automatically.

Life in Moscow as in the capitals of the satellite conclusively proves

ما

secret

ceptionally receptive and

thusiastic. Numerous

All these observations experiences are restricted

wave also

apply to the villages and

A further measure

the loud speakers started to ensure discipline les

to

First Speech

Nye

country.

A Lion

bad

The rest of us who had to we make speeches felt that were merely Alling in. Shaw- croos had deliberately chosen to decry and ridicule one of his. own party in the presence of a host or Tories.

Whea

speeches cur

inconsequential come to their end the Chairman of the dinner did the only possible thing. He said that we had among our guests a Lion accustomed to rear and that, with the permis My job at the dinner was to sin of the gathering, he would

bealth of the invite the lion to do this stuff. propose the

but I must confess to guests,

With

dignity Bevan much somewhat pleased that thanked us for our hospitality. being Bevan was not on the list of Them smmoning an elaborate The speakers.

courtesy that would not have luck would have it the deceived a Scotland Yard de first

night was tective, he said: In the course. speech of the by the Right Honourable Sir of his speech Sir Hartley re Hartley Shawcross, Q.C., At- marked that he would hav torney-General In the Socialist liked to make a speech on 2 I think I more political theme Government from 1945 to 1951, more

probably the highest-paid can help Sir Harley." barrister In Britain

Tuning directly towards

As

and

It is necessary to my tale Shawcross he went on: "Why that I should tell you a little does he not visit the House of about Sir Hartley. As a boy at Commons sometime? He could thore. Tast a public school (and in England mate his speech

Public school means the is what the House of Commons private school) he became is for."

the

Lied explain Sir Hardley,

a

I have a opicion that Sylvido Domed him and then

Socialist. He was destined for Embarrassing the Bar, and after to had pass en- ed his law exams he

he joined

Sir

This was a more unkind RISKS

apprent posts are held by erid Maxwell Fyfe (now Lord

Kimsuf and the present. Tery thrust than may be

to you. For reasons difficult to Special attention is devoted to hard-working women who often

Land

Chancellor) 趱

although states these cases which suggest that send their children for the day

Maxwell Fyfe had

an M.P., has returned Or how effce- there is some open

or even for a week at a time

az adorable

creature

named still

private practice tive, given the necessary con- opposition as the reason for ab-

to one of the state homes run Sylvia Harrison, who had

completely ditions, this method can in the sence. Anyone against whom

somewhat feckless, attractive and takes practically no part by well-trained personnel

the Ble of such suspicions are aroused runs

Parliament. long run be,

and brother named Hex, who, was

Bevan's But that was only the risk of one day being fetch- In Peking

determined to go on the stage beginning. Warning to his tack typical as a example they quote the experi- cd at his home and taken to a clusively to the capital Feking. Today, of course, he is a greas

taunted Shawcross, insulted ence of a foreign diplomat op re-education camp where he is

It is not clear whether they star likely

and undergo an

tim, posite whose house work on a

hin 29 he were "brain wa new building was proceeding. course of

was not very enthusiastic about citics in the interior of China,

eve contempt. After As early as in the morning

five

e No foreigner at present knows the debonair younger 20 years in publie Ke I am out the arrest of so-called "enemies of what is happening in the pro- States so bad joined her easily shocked, but I found the

busband No one could

dey whole thing embarrassing Cex- vinces. people." This kind of arrest All the signs point to the that Shawcross was good looking lainly Shawers had asked for

冠 routine

(he still is), nor could they deny

burt Beyeni might have first months fact that the Peking Govern basis during the

made it a a duel Instead of a after the seizure of power. The ment has already succeeded by that he had a vidoe like a collo. unfortunate people concerned use of modern technique, such

brawl surprise the gathering chained and as the wireless and permanent

To my were frequeritly paraded under military guard loud speakers installed every But why was he a Socialist was with Bevan, although he through the busy streets

BUZEY perentia in bringing its pro- His

had been suff was bitesving. Fike en to where TC-NEOLUS expected their place of execution outside paganda even to the most dis- ciently well endowed with the few feat Bullingsgate, Pe them to overfulfil their norms. the city walls where the corpses fant Valleys of great world's goods to send him to a hops the Tories there...Looked.

public (private) school, No There followed explanations were then left to rot for some Empire.

pox Sharwremios on the importance of physical days pour décourager les autres, ad Its endeavour, has

has been to doubt David, Maxwell Fyfe said who ined the Socialists: to

fos palm without bygiene. These invariably ended These are just a few of the impose on the 600 million in with the repeated exhortation means employed in the process habitants as stern a discipline to remember to wash their of achieving sterp discipline as that which has already been aces, and hands. In much the Admittedly education and teach accepted by the Chinese in the same way during the course of ing are the most important capitat Pekings

blare out directions to

the

workers lodged in barracks on took place almost on

the site of the building A

paternal friendly voice repeat ing the Game words three four times reminded them that

hat

it was time to get up. A new

day had started, Chairman Mao

One Jump

to his wife: "My dear, you can-,

the

not run British politics on one dust. Personally, I believe him party. But Sylvia probably to be a sincere Socialist arul I had an answer to that seed no reason why men from Now Jet us how everal years any walk of life should hesitate

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