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International;; Students
At Red Cross Meet
CZECHS ANALYSE THE
NEW CULT
'It Is The People Who Make History'
Big names
Prague, Aug. 1.
from Napoleon to Khrushchev have come under scrutiny as puzzled Czechoslovaks probe the cause and effect of the cult of personality.
wrongly credited with "merits which belong to the party and
They cropped up in news- paper explanations of the "evils" of Stalin's one-man rule in the | the masses” and an atmospheÓ Soviet Unions and the cult of his personality and in some Creche- slovak Communist kulers per-
sonulītes in this coUYŁY,
Napoleon was brought into the discussion in an article in the youth organisation's newspaper,
Mlado Fronta, answering J reader who wante to know
whether it was the strong individuals history.
of "untouchabilliy"" was created TOUR! him, tho Party First
Secretary, Mr Automin Novotny, told the party Centrul Commit- fee in March.
Although observers interpreted tils ne implying Dust Herr Gott wald had tolerated this evil, Mr people or Novolny cid not attack Herr who znacio | Gottwald himself but emphasised
his "gread merlis“
"well-
Popular Masses
know modesty."
Le
Observers say that there are !further indicatione that Herr
Gottwakt's "downgrading" only partial. replied that only
Busts, statuettes ll! am pictures of him Kre prominently displayed. His cm- Lalmect body is
is still On view to the public in a mausoleum
His picture appeared alongside the Communist "cluster
Lenin-at anch Marx, Engels Prague's May Day parade.
The newspaper
were the the "popular masses. makers of history, even though they may not have realised it.
Andexi that but it
outstanding individuals who were the tradi representatives of various
social classes also influenced the course of history.
now
The newspaper neled that it would however be a mistake in think that there would havC
User been a gap in history if had be no Napoleon
It further stotext that nobody
Exlievert
German that fascism would not have started World War 1 if it were not for filter becouse 1141 decisive
the with factor was not power of Hitler but the expans RIVE charneter of German int- perialism.
Thir and other newspapers
defined the cult
of personality as artificially exaggerating some- one's merits, glossing over his mistakes and creating a myth of Infallibilty about him.
Another
accused the reader newspaper of the Ministry of Agriculture. Zemodelske Noviny, of fostering the cult of person - ality in a report about Mr Sergei Khrushchev, of the Soviet Communist Party
Socre Mr Nikita Khrushchev,
complained that the newspaper had reported that
the
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father and Marshal Nikolu Bulganin, Soviet Prime Minister, Khrushchey in Britain, young was shown round the Houses of Parliament and then dined with the son of Sir Anthony Eden, the British Prime Minister
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he was
cult
of
}} }}}e a warning against interpreting the conempt of the of personality widely and harshly and going to the op- pette extreme of not recognising personality at all.
you
Today if you say you Iko sme outstrating
percon
to must be prepareti
have warning finger levelled at you secusing you of the cull of per- sonality." "the newspaper plained.
com-
A woman's weekly magazine, Viasta, Joined in the debate with an attack on despotle husbabes who, it said, create a personality rult around themselves at home. "No member of the family allowed to be right except he.
criticism He brooks no
anet likes flattery," it said.
The magazine conceded that in these days 11 is often the wives who are guilty of this domestic tyranny and sometime even
children.
Drew Rebuke
This drew a rebuke from the Communist Party newspaper Rude Pravo that "the fight against the cult of personality is a serious thing," and not to be sought in relations between husbands and wives, and parents and children.
that
Many newspapers said before World War II the Czecho- slovak bourgeoisie created a cult Masaryk, founder modern and first
of Dr Thouident of Nende Ananolal support for the Czechoslovakia.
sake of poor children
They gave him, instead of the and Slovak people, the credit for Bberating their coun Lry from the yoke of the Austro- Hungarian empire after World War I, and called him the "President-Liberator," said there
пошарарств.
One of Dr Masaryk's suc-
De Proaldent, COSSATE
the 'labe who Herr Kiement Gottwald, was first Communist to become head of the Czechoslovak state, also sufferal from a personality cult developed around him by his comrades... according to the
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who Herr Gottwoch, elected President after the Com
·munista "etime to power hero in 1948 and died in 1958,was.
Busts Vanished
About the same time pictures
Marshal and busts <>T
Stalin vanish began tu
from public hero, places, shops and offices although wome are still founi,
to be
The Czechoslovaks were slow to echo the denunciations of the late Soviet leader in the Soviet Union and other East European countries after the Soviet Com-
Parly
Inst Congress
murest February.
the for
They have conceded press that it is difficult people to see Stalin toppled from his pedestal after looking on him for years their liberator from German wartime occupation and Live very personification of the Union Chinu Mall Sovlet Special
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MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
PRINCESS NARDA--
FERDINAND
NANCY
SOME BODY STOLE MY BOX OF
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WHAT WAS
IN IT?
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BUSHMILLB
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SHE'S GONE, YOUR HIGHNESS! HER BED WASN'T SLEPTIN!
MY HORN,
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AND MY DRUM
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GUSTY, KELATE TO. ME YOOR FLIGHT TEST TODAY OF THE
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Former Hongkong Resident Dies
Macuo, Aug. 3. Mr Manuel Sines, 64, well- known member of the Portu guere community of Hongkong and former staff member of Standard Vacuum, died here suddenly yesterday.
Bom In Amarante, the
Students from many Euro- pean countries are attending The Junior Red Crow Inter- national Study Centre for a at Woherth, England. At the end of the courge the students will be
ordine
be entertained in private homes. Six of the students are plotured as Red
Cross headquarters.
Left
Are:
Judith Hibberd, 15,
Andora Mrs
of
of England; Are 10,
of Norway:
noth Notgen of Canada; Agneta Skanizo, 17.
Sweden: Renate Gochrt. 17, of Ger- many; and
Ann MAITS. 10, of the USA- Express Photo,
RAAB GOING
TO GERMANY
Vienna, Aug. 2. Austrian Chancellor Julius Raab will visit Bonn between October 23 und 25 this year, It was oftenlly antiounced here
today.
The West German Chancellor,
Dr Konrad Adenauer, sent special invitation to the
trian Chancellor to pay
↑
Heart Injection For Radio Quiz Winner
Buenos Aires, Aug. 2.
While facing a radio microphone to answer the final question in a 100,000 pesos (£2,000 sterling) radio quiz an Argentine housewife had to be given a booster injection by a doctor in the audience because of the state of her heart.
For some
weeks 46-year-old daughters. Danaus a greedy Mrs Diana Pastora Arregui de man, hed his daughter marry Martin, a wife, part-time dress his nephews so that he could maker and mother of two, had have two kingdoma, Later he won round after round in quiz on Greek Mythology.
a thought he could have had 60 kingdoms if his doughters
| sanraled 50 differem kings. but
it was too late.
KILL HUSBANDS
She would take her place on the platform facing the micro- phone, look down, and in 0 monotone volco BIWOT one question after another correctly while the audience held their "So he gave his daughters 30 breathe whenever she hesitated. | dagger on the wedding day with instructions 10 13 their As Mra Arregul de Martin husbands, After the festivities, tells it, she first learned of the the daughters rotired and 49 of quiz show when she read o bill- them slow their husbands, board advertisement pasted up 50th fell in love with her mani near her home. Thinking that it and they fled. The gods were so would be a good way to earn wrathful about the crime some bedly-neaded money. she they doomed the 40 unfaithful
of overrode the scoffings
her wives
to pour
water in railway bottomless cistern or scoop M
take out to
of
broken
husband. worker.
મ
retired
and applied
part,
SURE OF GROUND
But Man Arregul de Martin
steves.'
with Hadés
The
that
And the mythological hurdles came and she successfully clear- ad them.
The night she answered the was sure of her ground. She had 50,000-peso series of questions been for many years
reading was soon
after the June 10 Greek Mythology to while away abortive uprising broke out and the long evening houTE. Why she looked
Atlas was condemned to support
over-anxious
and
the world on his strong should upset. Her son was doing mill- and two of her tary service Just ers ahe Gods
до enter- brothers were in the Army and taining as a murder thriller
love story.
or she had not heard from
for over a week.
them
The first question shot at her As fate would have t she for 100 pesos by the master of got the hardest question of the ceremonies was: "Who was the lot on that night "Name eight 600 of Theils and Pelleus, of the 12 labours imposed upon Trojan warrior?”
Hercules?"
"Achilles," she shot back
PROMPTLY REPLIED
The second question. for double the sun.
she thought would be her last: "Who was She promptly Danaus? Who were the Denaldes killed the lion of Nemes. and to what were they doomed?" slew the hydra of Lerna.
replied. "He
He Ho
She took a full minute to col-captured alive the wild boar of Leat her thoughts. Then, Mount Erymanthus. He hunted him "Danaus," she replied, "was the Diana's deen. He killed the man- Acgyptus eating birds of Lake Stymphalls.
Aus- Portugal, late Mr Simoes came lo Macno with his family 50 years ago.-France-Presse,
HELLO. THIS IS MANDRAKE SPEAKING, MAY I SPEAK TO THE PRINCESS NARDA, PLEASEY MANDRAKE. M-A-N-D-A«A•K•£¬
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MACH Ž, STILL SMOOTH { THERMOCOUPLES ON WING FOIL REGISTER OUTSIDEVA
TEMPERATURE OF
on official visit. This had now brother of Acgyplus. been officially accepted-Reuter. had 50 sons and Danaus 40 He slew the Cretan bull. He
By Lee Falk and Phil Davis
MANORAKE
SOMETHING'S
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kellied Diomedes, King of Thrace, who used to feed his horses with human flesh. He vanquished the Amazones and Hippolita, their queen. He cleaned the Augean riables of King Helim,
which contained a large mumber ot oxen and had not been tidied in years.
"Ten," she presevered loud
amid
she
applause, although knew that if she failed she would lose everything. "He stole the golden apples of Heape- richts."
"Eleven. He fetched the cattle of Geryon." Loud applause and the intervention of the master of ceremonies provented her from giving the twelfth labour of Hercules.
the
A few days later caRITIS all-or-nothing 100,000-peso question. When she come on stage she felt faint. A doctor in
the audience gave her a booster injection to help her bad heart which had started to worry her.
PAY TAX
When her doctor heard of it lator, he scotzred her of being both mad and reckless. “So much emotion could have killed you," he said. But Mrs Arregui
do Martin is still alive and hopes to enjoy her 100,000 pesos-that is after taxes.
"First," she says, "I plan to pay the inheritance tax still outstanding on the small, cotinge my father left me."
money
The cottage, a modest home on the outskirts of Buenos Aires tras an' adjacent parcel of land which will be sold and the
divided between her. three brothers and sisters. The cottage was left to her when her mother died about a year ago, but traction staggered her. Hug- band's modest pansion, and the prize was a godsend.
"Next," she adds, "we will get us some good furniture, The only two really, valuable things | we have at home are the electric Iron and the radio. Of course. I shall buy some books too," Asked if they would be Greek Mythology, she wild, of them, not necessarily
on
Home tecnia I'm interested..
ai
In mythology does not main every book I'll own will be only on that subject."
In her long and hard life, Mes Arregui de Martin burely finish- ed primary::eɑhool, became scoreriresto at the age of 18, worked as a poet office cleric· then returned to, stitching which paid better.
THREE YEARS SCHOOL
Her husband, Emiliano. Isidoro de only", tirred yours school before to, tandi [hia-poreesta jiérom; epaid, at the nge, worked succes driver in the
de a waiter, and;
dispatcher.
year-old
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