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NOTICE
THE CHINA MAIL; THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1957.
POSITION OF STALIN CLARIFIED Indonesian Premier
Achievements Far Outweigh
Mistakes, Says Kremlin
Moscow, Feb. 13.
The position of Stalin, one of the fow great men who have so far boen as mysterious in death as in life, has been clarified by a policy declaration from the Kromlin.
This states that Stalin made overslepped the permitted undertaken in quick suecomión many mistakes, especially to- | boundo and began to attack the wards the end of his life when very basis of communism. Some his power was greater than any of then sold that the system other man's in history. But, which peraltted a tyranny like in the final count, his achieve Stalin's and the terror of the ments in building up sociotism | "knock on the door at night" in the Soviet Union far out-
WAS ilselt lo blame for past weight his mistakes. He ls
error; and oppressions. all accounted a great fighter for sociallem.
by representalives of the East European Communist states and by Chinese Communist leaders. These pledged their solidarity with the Soviet Union, asserted the belief that Moscow atlil held the leadership of the
and communist world demned those who "tried to Outside the Soviet Union, split the Communist camp”. Communists who looked problems from A nationalist As the fighting in Hungary
Stalin is, however, outranked by Lenin, the revolutionary leader who sparked off Itussin's famous October Revolution in line, They
1017.
In the Soviet Union
point of view began to adopt died 201 increasingly Independent
und
selzed
on
CON.
out, the Communist bloc thegan to consolidate its forces Congress declaration that there agat. It was no time to u "ore different roads to dulge in steviogies; adjustments, Lenin is by far the
now, socialism".
it used
to but Stalin, who indivklubl Moscow's political figure. He is described promote their own
supremacy Dg the "brilliant teacher and theories about these roads, communist world, for a policy great leader of the working people of the whole world,"
foremost
of no
stood
fur
tho
compromise with
President Tito of Yugoslavio and Mr Wladyslaw Gomulka, West, hud to be reinstated, the Polish communist leader,
io of D
OTHER PORTRAITS |developed Independence to Q
seemed point at which Threaten the creation Other portraits пошу come Third
Forco" somewhere and go in the offices and public between Moscow and the squares of Moscow but that of Western systems of democracy, Lenin is permanently enshrined in concrete, strel and In the eyes and minds of the people,
Soviet
Grent tribute is paid to Marx and
two Engels, the
great philosophers communis
and thinkers whose works laid the foundations for Lenin's victory in the streets of Petrograd (now Leningrad) 40 years ago. But Lenin soars above them all in pubile idolatry.
on the
The man who replaert Stalin
podestul, after many people here and abroad thought for that he had been depored good, wha
than Mr Nikita Khrushchev,
the
none
Finally, came the uprising in Hungary, which Soviet troops went in and quelled,
Thin forced the
IMPOSSIBLE
the
Today, his name gleama dully gutade the dark red granite
mausoleum where the embalmed
bodies of Lenin and Saun are preserved, and
seen by visitors of
cach
thousands
month. Rumours that his body Soviet | might be transferred from the
unders 10 make A quick | Roû Square Mausoleum to some immedia.e other resting place, have eappraisal of their atmis. For the time being, alQuruptly ceased,
rale, too much talk of berbisation" and "demo-
at
The wheel is not likely, bow- eratation had to be jettisoned ever, to turn all the way back or at least postponed. An urato where it was in 1953, of consolidation had lo be Stalin's death. That would be without the return impossible launched,
PILGRIMAGES
other
first
Soviet
Soviet In the
secretary ΟΙ Communist party.
Speaking at a New Your's banquet in the Kremin on the night of December 31, 1950, Mr Khrushchev tonated all thos present and wished everyone a happy New Your Then he paused for a moment, held up his forefinger,
favourite
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carnestly and swiftly made a statement which froze the smiles ότι The faces of hla audience.
4
Stalin, he said, had been: great nighter against imperialism and in the socialist cause,
we
"When it comes to Aghlingt imperialism
are all Stalinists," Khrushchev added, waving his arm at his con- panions, the men who truy rule the Soviet group.
Union a
their brief
Recovering from astonishment, the hundreds of guests applande Iodily and long. This, they immediately
Reports of the Directors and realised, was a statement of
of the Auditors and the Pro- Arst importance.
At and Loss Account and Balance Sheet for the year ended 31st December, 1956, and for the election of Diree- tors and the appointment of Auditors.
REPEATED
Mr Khrushchev repented his : statement honouring Stalin at 8 reception given la" January for -Mr
Chou En-il the Chinese Prime
Minister. Two days inter, Pravda, the Soviet Communist Party newspaper, reprinted his speech.
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For millions of Soviet people, was the first time that they had seen Stalin's nume in print for over a year.
Ever since Stalin's death, in February 1953, his name
and
extinction
influence had been progressively roduced by his successors until R I diminished to the point of during the 20th Congress of the Soviet Communist patly in February 1050.
During that Congress, two men in particular drew attention 10 Stalin's abuses. They жете Anastus Mikoyan
Nikita and
Khrushchev, both veteran collaborators with Stalin and two of the world's
most important communist figures.
Mikoyan, the zestful and
humorous Armonian, who once escaped execution at the hands of the White Army in the frat days of the Revolution, was especially vigorous in his donunciation of Stalinist methods.
NATIONALIST
Their speeches and the general attitude adopted by the Congress indicated that groal now forces were shaping inside the Soviet Union, forces which aimed at more freedom of speech
and action
and more Individual consideration needs. Aflor 28 years of | sacrifice a new day was seen to Soviet be dawning for Union's 200,000,000 people.
Throughout last summer, the forces released! by tho Hiew polley begun to ferment, boll Inside the Soviet Union and outside.
Granted an koercase ka free- dom of speech,
some, In- tellectuala in the Boviet Union
Union, Mr Molotov, AD old admirer of
Slave Labour Stalin's
special
intimidation-und
of Secret Police. cumpa บริษ system
of
experienced nol likely,
observers here do consider this possible, or
Vyacheslav
Stalin, friend and
But it was given the task of curbing
too-free the
Thoughts of
the Communist
bad shock He was given the intellectuals.
for rysponsibility
overall its runks Kuldance of ideological questions authority. in Berature and the arts.
Numorous visits to Moscow, resembling pilgrimages, were
does mean that the world has bod # and must now close ils and consolidate To do this, it must still call on the one man whose Dame stands for a concrete image of power and authority Stalin.-China Mail Special
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
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ME AGAIN ABOUT
DISAPPEARED IN
HOW YOUR COW
THAT LITTLE FOG-
NOPE. I'M FOLLOWIN' YOUR APVICE--
FERDINAND
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-- JUST FORGETTIN' IT LIKE IT DIDN'T HAPPEN-
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DOING OUT
THERE, MISTER
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HIGHWAY--
ERNIE
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NATO OBLIGATION FULFILLED
The Minister, speaking to re- The Hague, Feb. 13, Vice-Admiral H. W. C. Moor- | purters after a visit to the States, also said that man, the Dutch Navy Secretary, United said here today American autho- the Americans were convinced rifles had told him that the that by 1905 they could destroy Netherlands was the only nation any aircraft within a range of in the North Atlantic Treaty 14,000 foot by guided missiles so far to meet its obligation. launched trom ships.-Renter.
THERE WAS A KINDA FOG ON THE ROAD~~ THE CAR WENT INTO IT-THEN THE FOO WAS, GONE--SO WAS THE CAR!
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TOMORROW: THE LITTLE FÜG
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PUTTING THIS SIGN
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| WHILE UP IN THE VISITORS! GALLERY.
AH, GOOD!-TARK HAS ' [SUCCESSFULLY REACHED.
· HIS OBJECTIVE AND
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THIN
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By Frank Robbins
**WHEN THE COUNCIL CONVENES. TO HEAR MR.JAKAK'S CASE, THE FIRST WORD HE SPEAKS SHALL BE
HIS LAST!
Holding On
Djakarta, Feb. 13. Prime Minister Ali Sastroamidjojo, holding hard to the reins of his shaky government, told Parliament today that his Cabinet would
carry on while it
planned an internal reshuffle members.
During the pray few weeks four parties in All's coalition Cabinet have called for a coro- |plete reshuffle which would also topple him from the Premier
post.
All's Nationalist" PNI Party has agreed to switch, and All coalition membera decided on Tuesday to let President Sockturno decide the fate of the entire Cabinet.
of its
Professor's Views On H-Bomb
London, Feb. 13. Professor Joseph Rotblat, who has been working since mid-peace years 011
A Cabinet' delegation is ex- the
pected to meet with President
Soekarno on February 18, a nuclear physics in Poland, Nationalist officini saki,
in Mexico and since 1989 in Britain, said in a com- ment tonight on Britain's first megaton bomb:
<x
The originator of the reshuffle plan, Arudil Kartawinata, chair- man of the Moslem PSI Party, told reporters that “it was not
"The atomic bomb dropped at impossibio" that the PSL the Hiroshima, in 1045 was on Christian Parkindo and theplosive fores equal to that of 20 Cathous parties would force do tona of TNT. A megaton Cabinet collapse by walking out bomb (one million tona) would untess Soekarno agreed to dia- be so times
as powerful. Its Inusa Premmer All,
radius of damage would be four times greater, and the area of damage 15 times greater.
Escaped Test
All's government escaped the test of a vote of confidence in Parliament this morning after he delivered a reply to debates on the Government's policy toward the Sumatra revolis.
Political observers believe the
opposition parties refrained from calling for ocneizro of the Cabinet because they feel the coalition parties would rally to defeat
the measure. - United Press.
San Francisco, Feb. 13. Mr Yoshilo Kojima, Vice- Lines President of Japan Air (American region), today an- bounced the airline would in crease the Trans-Pacific service from four weekly flights to five effective on April 6.-Router.
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"The biggest bomb exploded so far-ai Bikini in 1954-wos about 17 megttons and its ex- plosive had a radius of 18 miles while the area of damage would be between 100 and 200 square
niles.
of
"We do not know, of course, what kind of bomb is to be tested by Britain, but if it is exploded at a great height very Ittle would come down the go fall-out because it would sto
the stratosphere and be curried right round the globe and eventually come down all over the world. No one knows the resultant
of that effect yet."-China Mail Special.
Invitations To Japan
Tokyo, Feb. 13. The Japanese Socialist party apokesman said here tonight the party had sent formal invitations to the Prime Ministors of India, Pakistan and Ceylon, to Japin in the near future.
visit
thot be
The spokesman added should the invitations accepted the party would make arrangements to hold a series of discussions on current interma- tional problems and the prospects of Japautso co-operation in the economic development of South- cast Asia Reuter,
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