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THE CHINA MAIL, § SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 1957.

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"LET ME IN,JOE, I'VE COME BACK"

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F you wanted to be-

THE GENTLEMAN RED

HAS A GAMBLE AHEAD

By LES ARMOUR

purges.

Russian-typo

that some must re-

Chou has Insisted capitalist enterprise main, that peasants must not be hustled onto collective farms.

He once explained that he centrated on buliding Commun- and organised fam joining the Communist ist China. All through the wars party rather like getting up of the warlords in the 1920's and early on a cold morning: it felt the 1930's, Mno, Chou and the very chilly bul, afterwards, the Communists had been building feeling of warmth was all the their government in the north. greater for having been cold.

During World War II, they has never

continued to build while Chiang Communist Jargon

his mountains, (Mao Tse-guished Tung silli disponses most of that

to do much more ihan in Peoples' China) and, during the war he once had to caution an American olleiai: "You must not forget That I am a Com- minist

nuch liked

But he did like revolution. In 1919, he led his first little revolt: a student affair in Nan kal and he promptly landed in gaol. There he met the woman who is now his wife and m converted him into a hardened Communist.

But for love, indeed, he might have stayed with Chiang Kai- shek under whom he served before and after.

lleve that there aro HEN no lles in China, you

W couldn't do better librarian than arrange an interview with Chou En-lai

They "gentleman

cr{k

find out why.

To Paris

G

hope.

In

Chiang would have liked to thenor at least to have let the have disposed of his old enemies

Japanese do it for him.

Ironically, it was the Ameri-

Insisted who

that the Nationalist-Communist alliance must stick.

cans

And it wus

Chou who po- litely kept the Americans firm. Chou, the gentleman Communist.

It was not very hard to pre- diet what must happen In the end.

It is not so easy, even now. to decide what it is that Chou

wants.

There appears no doubt that

he is determined at any cost whalever to secure an effetent, industrialised China, But does he want Communist China on the Russian pattern?

Hm

appears to have been in-

be came out, he met

Tse-tung, thun

Peking University, consistent. Mag persuaded Chou to go tu Purls with a group of "worker

Sung students."

him Communist " coal miners.

It is hard to believe that there are

Chou wen and spent three any flies in the years sweating it out in the coal vicinity of Chou.

mines at Lille. The French gov erament was glad to have them. the They were linding it hard to get

and it doesn't, take long to enal. He managed to found 4 But did more than mine

Paris branch of the Chinese Communist Party and to be- Chou is dapper,

quiel, come

a leader among soft-spoken, reasonable. He exiles. never raises his voice. lie

and

In the thirties, when Mao Tse- (even now the figure-head lender, though Chou is premier, foreign minister

lla type boss) wanted a guerilla ay

based on traditionál Chliese war methods and trudi-

peasant tional

organisations. Chou demanded an organised like Russia's.

Chinese China

army

Chinese th

THE tussle went on for years Mao usually getting

He came back to China in

does not trade in insults, 1924 a tougher man, but also

would no

sooner wave his armas about when he speaks than he would spit upon the floor.

are

a more determined man

He had become ascetle

his own way,

On the other hand, it has beca Mao who has oped Russian from jargon,, parroted"Russian slogans sheer poverty in France. He did about proletarian organisation, not drink and he did not smoke. Politics was his consuming interest.

1 And Chou would never spil.

Not long afterwards he had His clothes

political command standard

of a large Communist uniform. But there part of Chiang Kai-shek's army: is a difference. The high neck the Communists and the Nation- ed, plain fronted Jacket is in- alsts had joined forces in one variably expensive midnight, of their frequent uneasy trucus. blue sorgo. His hat is a soft. But it did not last long. Chou black fell with a wide brim. was determined to take over The uniform exudes good taste Chlang's organisation. Chiang and breeding.

won and had him outlawed- with a price of £30,000 on his un head.

Chou has these. His grand fother wo9 mandarin, aristocratic, scholarly officer the emperor.

U.S. Charm

of

CHARM, he has too-and un-

derstanding

Western

Chou

and that China must go its own

loward Socialism. way tow still wants a Chinese China.

AL one time he was busy sup- porting the Polish "revoli" and he seemed Hungary.

Waver

over

Lately no doubt for his own Iasons-le has swung back to the Russian Üne.

His own reasons ore plicated.

Blackmail

com-

PUSSIA supplied China with capital goods. The

with the West. bargo has prevented dealings

at

INTELLIGENCE

REPORT

Conducted by SEFTON DELMER

Contributing writers: STEPHEN CONSTANT.....MAURICE COWLING

RATION PLAN FOR OIL

LL WESTERN

A EUROPE MAY BD

When

10 bo

Polykarpos was about THIS statue driven back 10 the Name plana General Hospital, Eoka man

to put at the were waiting for him in the

entrance to lobby disguised as öul-patients and visitors.

bg Bugm canal 19 ro- Disco 149 one of the

In the shooting that followed, the Brillch guards did not have a chance.

PUT ON AN OIL AND PETROL RATIONING SCHEME Polykarpos, slipped oft his Own I'► AFTER FEBRUARY.

One of them was killed.

handcuffs, grabbed the

French buil-

Ferdi- nand da

I learn that at the top secret automatic of the fallon police meating of the oil committee of guard, and escaped. But the der, O.EE.C. (the Office of European, strangest poin; of all is this:

The they Co-operation)

people responsible for Lessays, dy- lipping off Eoka in the prison and ot the hospital are still there.

No changes have been mado.

Economle various Governments

and oil company reprezentatives agreed to examine a scheme by which (1) all the countries of Western

would be given

Europe

allocation

Gharce

of oli 01 basis. (2)

**

fuir special

Nor have any

changes been made among our own security high-ups who let this kind of reserve pool would be created thing happen,

from which special allocations

of oil would be made to SUEZ WRECKS

countries getting into dificulties,

Opposition to the plan comes FOR from one Power only so for Western Germany.

POLAND

POLAND'S Premier Gomulka is making a big bid to get hold of the wrecks salvajed from the Suez Canal as scrap

The

amited by

the Part

Sald mob.

Except for

the pistol

which the

lady kids s

if ghout to ammi

suicide, the

new

statue reminds me

The Germans are so rich in dollars, in addillon to being big oll fuel producers themselves, that they are unwilling to lose

Polish steel works at very much of the advantage this gives them Nova Huta is badly in need of the Idborty over less well placed countries, scrap because, as a reprisal for

The Americans came in for the more

of criticism at

Poland is the

good deal

independent lina faure pus up now taking in ile by the Bas

O.E.E.C. meeting for (1) economy, the Soviet Union has slans on the Falling to augment their pro- not been supplying iron ore." duction in Texas; and (2) Their

harrel

of

shipped

withdrawal of 100,000 U.S. WOOS

A day from Persia out

the 300,000 barrels being THE ARABS

from there daily.

America's third of the Persian

pitadel of Budape

to

Fro-American Arabe aro le recruitóct organisation. A

for the

new

positive

production, it was pointed out MAKE up your minds for an assurance will bo given that all-out anti-colonialist British Influence chai never

drive propaganda

by the again, be allowed to Americans in the Middle East. Itself in the area. They plan to outshout even the Russians in the fervour of their

pil

was

by the committee, was not only taking that much extra away from Europe, but also using up Searce tankor space.

BOW & ARROW GERMANS

Qu

1

Bort

Invective in the hopes of out- THE PRINCESS bidding Moscow for the love of the Arabs.

AND THE PUB The members of the special FIRST thing Princess Victorio mission, which is already on its Louise of Brunswick did way, have been drawn from after being expolled by her son

embassies

from the Marienberg Palace and moving herself, her maid, and her chauffeur into the house of Brunswick commoner, was to visit the neighbourhood local, Sald she: "I want to meet, the

UOTE. from

European Franz-Josef Western Strauss, son of a Bavaria Bonn, Paris, and Berlin.

and other U.S. agencies in butcher, who Is West Germany's forthright outspoken Minister Headquarters will be ini The boss will be of Defence: "It is intolerablo Baghdad.

Lewis

Larson, that we Germans should be the 45-year-old bow-and-arrow footsloggera for special consultant to President neighbours." the American atomic knights on Eisenhower on labour relations. horseback."

LUCKY

MRS FRANCE

has

the

Is French

M. Mendes-France. The Russians have been black-

ex-Premier, who been tempestuously malling him hard. They already buy Chinese raw materials

denouncing the French Govern- ment's Sucz policy, a beneficiary well below world prices Grud

under soll machinery at well above

Nasser's subile new At the same time, Chou is

"most favoured enemy"" policy? doing his best to secure

He has just learned that the their better terms with

Egyptians have revoked counter a little blackmail: Either the Russlaps

order sequestrating the Cicurel improve his trade terms, or he chain stores (Cairo's Maries and will do what he threatened to

Spencer). That is good news do some weeks ago support the

for the satellite rebels. If he did that, family, the West might ralent and give him machines.

But the gamble "would bo tricky and Chou does not want to take it unless he has to.

So, if Russia co-operates, he will be good.

cx-Premier, because Cicures belongs t

to his wife's and

beautiful

Lily Mendes-France has shares in it. The revocation of the order is remarkable because not only number of arg a considerable

AR

shares in Cicurels French owned (which brings it under But, underneath, there seems

Nasser's decrees confiscating little doubt that he shares his

French and British property in of grandfathers' distrust the Egypt), but Mme.. Mendes-

France's family are. Jews, foreign devils.

Meanwhile, he is outwardly

Buch they are particularly all smiles. He and his now plump rimination.

Nusser's vindictive and pleasant looking wife ap- pear in public as the idyllic pale devoted public servants, Com- munist gentlefolk.

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But

apparently the wily NAST following out his

Divide-and-dupe plan against | the West, is making exceptions in favour of such enemies as he thinks might be helpful to his cause.

'Ghost' yard lands THE COST

big ship orders

By DEREK DALE

brace

OF BUNGLE

A SHOCKING bungle by our

security authorities Cyprus has been responsible for the deaths of 18" British zoldiers

and civilians sinco October 1. More deaths are THE world-wide scramble

of them-tankors such a frenzy that ships offshoot of the United Molasses caused by a man whom

for tankers has reached sealing 10,500 tons apiece--have likely in the weeks to come,

been ordered by the Athel Lino

Tho

deaths have all been munist organisation, retaliated.

we First, he boldly won over are now being ordered from group.

allowed to escape from the Nationalist army of 150,000. men building yard which does

prison. In which

Wezo which Chiang had left inade-not exist. quately paid, fed and housed und a long way from help.

A few years later, Chou, who had fled north with the Con

Outside

Then he captured Chiang him-

Gerion, the tastes and ways. He was born him to ransom, Price: a reunion bulld a new five-berth yard self and endeavoured to hold Italians have started to at Twi An, on the Grand Canal with the Communista in the North Kiangsu plain.

at La Spezia on the site of the Japanese From there, he went to an were on the march and Moscow a

wartime ammunition American mission school Tien sin.

at reckoned it was best to let dump. Work started last

Chiang go and leave ovente to

week. force the alliance,

He absorbed American charm and American ways so well that ho was able, in later life, to win publicly voiced respect of the General George Marshall - a respect the General'wag later to

regret,

From the mission school

By this time

Y

Alliance

HOU aciously complici.

he Not long afterwards, in went to Nankal University 1938, the alliance was real,

FRANCE,

LA SPEZIA

And such is the queue tor tankers that the "ghost" yard claims it will be able to deliver The yard will cost around. tankers quicker than any other £7,250,000 to build. And that yard in the world.

excludes a try dock which will be ablo la page with chips up A tanker offered now will to 100,000 tons.

delivered wiflijn two years. That good arginst the four

pload appret ... of where

WO

holding 'him: Polykarpos Genrybailiis, Poky's lop specialist in plectric bombs.

#

While he was in custody. there were not more than couple, of electrical... bombings. 'Singo ha' got away, there have been more than a hundred.

How did he got away?" Boon after his arrival in prison, Polykarpos Dsigned lung trouble

An

appointment for Folykarpos to be taken to the General Hospital for Nicosia an X-ray was moda 10 days ahead--pleaty of time for Roku

to

A

tions thoir rescue DELA ME

To our police guards,

Радукагром

where he first sniffed the smoke Clang had boen driyon back years you mun walt if you ingngy is coming from for this | Loweyen 503 only talven

of revolution and inpled deep- to Chungking by the App

and. Chow was Vice Ministr

The empire was doomed then ella am

f

odor with a British yard. Already the Italians

and Chou know it. What made watchdog in. l4 * Chinakins | Landell orders for 27 shlogy

him throw in his lot with the government,

Communio, no one knows : 1940. Chow wine, back to Perhaps he himselt does not, the north andy la

dod

1500 footag

new shipping, ventura a darga

10.

The police

hayo But the grapevine. whlaDED-in' Wês duo to guard die Pol

thab

influentlid mende of the even have: Ume to and hand- ugan have been persuaded to wire which atted Polykarpos.

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