THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, MAY 3, 1958.
CONCLUDING: STALIN 'EXHUMED', by GEORGE GALE
THE WAR, THE GLORY
T
and then, the
REIGN OF TERROR
The
the
over The cobbler's son and the heir bleisered HE great monolith,
Russia, shuddered, of Lenin, the god of the revolu frontlers and
tion and the humbler of Hitler, millions." reeled,
Stalin, the cunning peasant and lord of Russia, won the haggling.
'The
voice grated out:---
harsh daubed himself with golden culcites, covered himself and
And, for the time in his life, he shed tears
"All property, including bis generats with orders known
metal, grain, and fuel, that cannot be withdrawn, must be destroyed.... Sabotage groups must be organised to combat the enemy,"
I was the summer of 1941
at The arth Stalin corched Russia, Terved his will on the nation
The
the
third
a
ofeers, murdered, children tor tured, the Innocent mas nered; who says Stalin was the hand behind the "doctors' plot,"
HIS TALENT IT RUSHCHEV told 1,000 dele.
to the A
Communis galer
Congress all this. Dele- Party gates fainted.
lines of reached the centre; had flowed Ilves of out a litile once more.
And now the testimony of Krushchev, who
Stalin sayB made him dance for him, who says Stalin Joyexi
to watch In 1918 Tile fore Yugoslavia nim of himselt braving the out of the body of Russian buliets of the civil war; who when he kissed the scabbard of Cominuniam, In 1049 Mau Mays Stalin had 3,000 army
Sword of flonour with won all China for the Com- the
was a living which the British King com- munist Battle of Stalu herefle
There was another memorated
pher The
ccasions had good. been when his two wives died
The old man in the Kremlin war should, by if the
may have trembled. The Berlin This with the bereits of Marx and Lenin, have airifft, the Marshall Plan, then told that the the Korean War been the last of the wars of the
the time for Stalan
With
West was olive to danger, that capitalista Etiller The
further imperitism
would be mel with
The bombs. WHY inexorably got bigger
exparision stopped: the Tito terror began
H Agen could defect, who might no17 The hangman's rope jurked in Bulgaria, Albunde; Hursgary. Rajk dangled, Kostov dangled, Xoxe nagle The bullets
attled and Stonsky fell
The ripples this time flowed Inwards.
Stali inertavact, fought and
moi
944278121 for Moscow Hy his troops were live miles outside the capital Rising
Government
Was The Volgh evacuated to the Moscow
14:4
noting plundering for food, burning its Party badges. The winter
Kripad
The
greatest opportunity of achieving Con- munism on €11:14
earth and in our
Hitler
halted Stella cinter-attacked. For the first time the Welt-
clit went backward‹
In the The summer came
In south divifivetjen festered. the
hundreds of ("ancipus thousands of Chechens, Inguals, and Tartan had to be deported to Siberia The armies were Wenry
The Germans threatened to cut the Vulga Hitky deter - mined to eat at Stalingrad Stalin's city, the city that by Jegend Stall had won for the revolution in the civil war.
Not a step back." sald Sintin, to the defenders of Stalingrad
The battle raged in factories, streets: oven houses we're fought over
Stally's preat counter-attack Isolated the besiegers of Stalin-
Von Poultes surrendered. d
greatest grentet war was
The
unitie
woll.
آرا
the
won an
FUT
Imperial war The second time Stalin had betrayed the revolution
Both times it hart been the med of Russia, and therefore bi own nerd. that dominated 1.is decision.
HIS TERROR
R
USSIA, exhausted after the
revolution, +1
craved mability and my end to herole torment; Stain gave it stability will lis "Socvdirm
one tourilay
The
again threatened Russin, Stalin fought for Huma brudd not for Communism
war
To the
کی
In Russia the first beginnings anteipated anti-Scoutin
the shock Je,x
Jews became “root- coarnespolias" hourgeois nationalists “
HIS DEATH
"What could we do?" sald Krushchev
There was a reign of terror. You just had to look at him wrongly and the next day you lost your head."
delegate shouted: "Why kill him with an did 10 one
A
inkstand?"
Perhaps who knows?-some- one did.
Stalin had one folent above which ull the telent without
all other talents, however much they shine, Are uncle,s; that talents will
Without and
talents any other men of will have triumphed, You see that around you. Stotin hud other talents too: caution, cunning, patience, command of detail.
Jonary 13, 1053, news- pipers burst on the Moscow Yet there is another pattern strees with headlines scream- too After
exhausted ing: "Vile
Murderers! aples! twenties Stalin forred through Human monsters!"
eevesand revolution which in- dustrianised the tation und pressed
12 posants into collective forms.
After the war Stalin forced another.
diplomalle revolution which surned proud, free States into satellites and won the rowed submission of Poland, of Czechailovakki. of Rumonte, of Hungary, of of Bulgaria. Albantu
absolute
HIS ORDERS STALIN was not the tactician the strategist of that succeUS Zhukay was the commander of the armies, but Stati WIN will
This
fitne wis
It should not, 021- ferences Churchi grandeur.
of
i
The Imonsters were nine ductors, seven of them Jews, who were said to have killed Andrei Zhcianov, once secretary of the Central Committee of the Comununist Party, and another member of ne Politburo, three my marshals, 4 general, and nn admiral.
whe
In February diplomats saw Stalin remarked his health and grod spirits
Vissarionovich corrupts
Power, said Acton, corrupis;
power nbsolutely The tag is true of prime ministers and presidents
as well as generalissimos.
The war was won long before
and in their col", ndert,
On March 5 "be condition of Joseph
Stalin
deteriorated,
AL 4 p.m. blood pressure was 180 maxima! and 100 minima), the pulse was
120 beals minute,
At 21.30 hours Sinun died.
and Rouxxx- A month later the doctors of not, be denied him. ile, for volt Joked and quibbled, the plot were released. Six 11. ranked with Czar haggled, #lggled with Stalin months later Beria was shot for Alexander. who with the They disposed at Teheran and having arrested them The winter defeated
at Yalta of entire races, and ripples had Rowed In;
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But the steel in the man was his will
Biler's tyranny Was sterile. Only the autobahns renwin.
For good or evii, across Russia Live millions of men whose lives, and whose sally? and grandsons' lives, will still follow the pattern laid down for them by the greatest of all the Czars of Russia.
For Stalin was not only Czar. He was also the successor
Lenin and the inheritor of i the revolution.
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Where The Flag Flies
I
The People
HAVE now travelled
over half the Foilow- the-Flag route, and, although there are
DON
still many thousands IDDON
of
miles to cover, my convic- tion is plain. The flag flies high.
Where the British hold the authority of
govern- ment the people prosper, particularly when we
FOLLOWS
THE FLAG
exer-
cise, as we do in Hongkong,
a benevolent despotism.
I said to the
locul re- met me:
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When we get out of a porter who had country, either voluntarily "Has it always been
Prosper
Calcutta and then
reflect. Where I have seen British od-
shouting: "Let's go. Let's go. Let's have a ball. Fill 'em up,
THAT LOTTERY
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From
JAMES COOPER
New York EPUBLICAN Represen-
Rtative Paul Fine of New
York has asked Congress to establish a national, lottery commission, "now that even the Conservative British Government has realised the revenue-ruising features of a lottery plun."
́ ́As the US, recovers from its surprise, Macmillan's "you-can't lose" premium bonda become A talking point,
Saya the New York Daily News: "...the significant
feature is that Britain, arch- emblem of respectability all Around the world, has adopted any kind of lottery at all.
"Shouldn't that knock on. the head the long-standing feeling of some Americans that we should leave such things to allegedly lesser, looser breeds and hold our- selves above them?”
Even the sober New York Times rays of the British 104- lowy: "If this plan succeeds fea attracting the saving of any substantini number of persons of small means who could hot be induced to swo by moro orthodox methods the end may Justify its Introduction temporary arrangement. "
a
DITORS of 10 Scrippa- Howard newspapera pro agreed Lihat United States foreign policy needs an urgent overhaul. And it was to Mr Roy Howard, chairman of thin important
That Lori! group, Beaverbrook recently personal message warning of
tension. growing
in Anglo- American relations.
sent
a
After heating reports foreign editor Ludwell
from
Dermy,
East,
now touring the Middle
and formar foreign editor Philip Simms,
the
reached their conclusion.
editors
They call for better education
to produce scientists, and en- gineers on the same scaloos♪ Russia. better physical training - *** -large numbers of American youths Dre unfil for military servico-and a slash in the "boondoggling" (frivolous noti- vities) of the US. information services which "do more harm than good abroad.”
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George, where are the dames?" material on Fifth Avemie: before the grave Chinese waiters,
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An Englishwoman
mo said
acidly:
"God bless Amerka." But I told her: "These are just boya on a bat. They're not áll like that by a long shot."
sacking..
men
FASHION 2.—Many New York sport gally-coloured. women's umbrellas becausO they cost less of the corner drug store when caught in a sudders shower.
Despite SII the teng of millions of dollars the Ameri- cans have noured out they have Diels at Rosemont College,
not bought popularity, prestige. or even mild affection for the United States.
They are
misunderstood
or through compulsion, the bad as this? This is ter- ministration I inve seen efflel- E warm, generous people I
country sngs and withers.
rible,"
I have been spending the been pretty bad, but it has got The reporter said: "It's always past few days in Calcutta far worse since the British and Bombay en route to the went away.". Middle East before taking
off for Nairobi and
Gold Coast.
the A rotting
estate
I was still in a plea-
the bander
New York, and
BINĖ 1-Seventy of the 403
Philadelphia, have been fus- pended for a week for drinking. As a University of Wisconsin survey shows that 64 percent of high school students drink beer, wine, or spirits.
DRIN
RINK 2-The Scotch Whisky Association promises Ameri- can Importers "an amount modestly in know in
excess" of last throughout the US. are mi-
year's record
shipments understood in most of the places nearly 9,000,000 proof gallons. I have visited, except Australia, with and are often regarded great suspicion,
eney, fairness and utterly im- T partial Justice. On men are of Communist China our police
doctors. counsellors. friends, and protectors to the Chinese, who always go to them In trouble.
in
The standing of Mr Dulles The, respect of the native
oll Government peoples for the British In the among almost Fiji Islands, in Borneo,
officials, including British and
and the luck of Hongkong, In the New Terrl American,
only do sant glow of exuberance ROM what I've seen of India and standing in the Far East Communists good,
tories is immerise. Our prestige common policy, over British achievements
has becomo a rotting and India too, are still high,
In Hongkong when we land- estate since the British landlord ed in Calcutta.
a
the
If this tour has taught me
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did You gone.
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and Hong parts of the world serving the kong and in Sydney and Mel- flog seldesaly. bourne also, who are inclined A Eurasian proudly showed to put much of the blame for me his scarlet Army card with our troubles and tensions on the the Coat of Arms and said: "I Americans,
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Not prepared
for horror
WAS prepared
now look."
was a driver for the British in
the war. It wasn't so bad then
or before, A lot of us wish you for were back."
The root of
the trouble
OVET
I think of the police d the tiny forts сл the border of China, the officers in tengo Singapore, the oil men drilling in the best in Borneo, pilots and the sailors everywhere.
i Blood was
never thicker
the Imperialism is at the root of THE blood has
never been much of the trouble. The thicker.
The
Dominiions Americans have been shouting never stronger. (One of the
Kor
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made more extensive tours than I again: ""All this falič-. in well-equipped airport to the I felt capable of, told me that America about Colonialism and
said Great Eastern Hotel I saw several Indians had thousands of half-naked same thing to them. people lying in the streets, Well, it's too late as far as in, the gutters, on the side India is concerned, but it's not for care about Britain and her great dividends of this journey walks. They looked like too late in many of our other subiect peoples and randing has been the closeness of Aus
about self-government, possessions.. dend people. They lay in We are rushing and belog "At the same time they de- the British, at fromac.) So this is pushed into, granting Helmand a stronger stand against a day to rejoice, to stick out the peoples who Communism and say: 'Oh, no, chest, blow the bugle, and show All along the road the are not remotely equipped
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