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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, MARCH 19, 1957

BROADCASTER ATTACKS RED ETHICS

RELICS OF LOST

TOWN FOUND ON

GREEK ISLAND

VON BRENTANO RECEIVES DEGREE

Athens, Mar, 18,

Relics of an ancient civilisation on the tiny.

island of Andros, in the Aegean sea, have been

found by Professor Kontoleon,

靄 Greek

archaeologist and lecturer at the University of

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for

Excavations on this tiny is period,

which were used as land are being financed by the centres both

commercial "Islandera Lengue" members of transactions und "for" political which include a number of and public discussions. They wealthy Greek shipowners born reveal the existence of a marble there and now aqttled abroad.

arende, about 190 feet long and The main stie of the present about 40 feet wide which form exenvalions in Palaioupolis, an ed

side of the northern ancient city abandoned many

central square of the market. centuries ago, which was situat-A large number of white marble ext on the slopes of a mountain pedestals in the arcade indicate,

according to Professor Konto overlooking the sea.

leon, the existeïtçe af, missing statues of gods and prominent personalities of the city,

Ancient Market

During recent diggings, Pro- fessor Kanioleon unearthed the northern end of the ancient Agora (market) and brought to gh: the ruins of a magnificent building dating back to the 2nd or 3rd century BC.

the

The finds are typient of all

ancient markets

this

Marble Statue

the

The marble statue of Hermes

of Andres which was one of the first important discoveries

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1832,

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Abandoned

New York, Mar. 18.

A twin-jet Navy Skywarrior gave up in its attempt at a new transcontinental speed record today and bended for a landing at the Navy air test centre at Patuxent River, Maryland.

The pilot of the carrier-based A3D-1

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The history of the Island makes it doubtful,

whe opinton of Greek archaeological experts, whether any of the lost treasures of the ancient city of

Will Andros

The be found island, Inhabited by the ionians, was conquered by King Attalus of Pergamos and his allies, the Romans, 200 BC. The Romanis looted the town and gave all the statues and other objects of artistic or unclad value which they found to their дцу. the King of Pergamos, Hence, it is thought, the empty pedestals,China Mail Special.

to

von

The honorary degree of Doctor of Laws was presented West German Foreign Minlater Heinrich Brentano recently at George- town University, British Galana. Picture shown Herr von Brentano shaking hands with the university's pre- aldeni, Edward Bunn, 8J. during the conferring mony.-Express Photo,

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

WHAT HAPPENED-WHEN MANDRAKE ENTERES THE "LITTLE FOG"? |

IF I DON'T RETURN AT ONCE, PULL ME OUT.

FERDINAND

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US

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WHAT IS

-THIS?

WHERE

ARE

WE7

Individual Before

PAMELA MATTHEWS

Institution

London, Mar. 18. A strong and reasoned attack on the system'of Communist ethics on the grounds that it demands the sacrifice of the individual to the institution or even a distorted idea, was broadcast recently by a speaker in the Home Service of the Warsaw radio.

"This principle," the speaker declared, "danbad in theory and violated in practice, was taken up by Kari Marx, who said that man must constitute the highest

2. that there was a mystic unity between the interenta of society and the interests of the Individual in conkitions of socialism; and

3. "Tho conviction that all means leading to socialism were moral."

Moral Directive

The speaker demanded afening indeed. They showed up fundamental revision of ethical in all aspects of social, political, thinking to permit a return to and economic life........... "humaalet standards", and the "Kantian (principle that man "History has shown how un must always be treated as an just and unnecessary was end in himself, never only as sacrifice of the individual when the alleged good of the party ju means to an end."

It showed how was in question, detrimental it was, in the first place, 10 the party itself. Morai phenomena arise out of the

actual conditions of life;

Ho said that after power hack, bean won, the fat they are dependent on political in fact, and social

conditions: The principle "became atutude we have quoted into a moral motuł The talk is regarded by ob- above led to self-accusation by effect that the good of the

t in Lantion as an out- Communists who were in no way masses constituted

higher standing example of the discus-guilty; it produced self-criticismy value than the good of the in-

politica and morals on account of carors which had dividual" and thus "subordina which has been going on in

self-tion of the individual interest committed, bren not Poland since last summer,

ariticism for the sake the to the interest of society re- interest now proved to have mained,"

value for mRD."

servors

sion on

Communist History

Outlining the course of Com- munist history, the broadcaster sold:

"It is obvious that when une

transformed directive to the

boen only the alleged interest- "The next step in this opera- of the parly and the State.

Prerequisite

was the substitution of

lion the good State.....

and interests of the for the good and This interests of the macses,

"Such an attitude was the substitution, logically unfounded, prerequisite for became obviously false in con- all tact with practice. It tumed

ls engaged on a great work, and necessary

of

the building of a new society is bureaucratie leadership in truly a rant task, one must al- aspects of social life. Il deprived out that even under socialism such values as unity of interests of the indivi- ways make choices, sterified the party

reason, of the possi- dual and of society did not al- for the sake of collectivo some values

ways exist, other, higher values.

bility of collective declsions on

"The denial of the real con- Thus the applica- all matters. The establishment of the tion of the principle of the flict between the interests of and the workers und employees and the most beautiful idea of mankind

of

Idea supremacy

turned the Interests of the factory da ocialism-has always de-insillutions Over man

for the sak♬ manded sacrifices, often sacri. into its opposite: fices of private happiness for of the good of the Institution, the the good the cause And it the institution itself was dis- unions, was always Communists who forted: for the sake of the great examples of such ideas, the ideas themselves were

of the individual to the interest provided

must be ad-distorted..... But sacrifices.

of the State was in fact a sub- mitted that in past years these The

high-banded speaker sald that the ordination to

This examples have turned into the

EXTERLAKİ often argument leading to the sacrifice bureaucracy. merciless principle of an

for the violation of senseless and unnecessary sub- of the individual was based on conditions

what he called "three immut- legailty, favoured the growth ordination and sacrifice of man

and strengthening of bureau- for the sake of a distorted idea uble axioms":

thecracy. pl and institution,

The moral consequences of

1. that liberation "masses" was the condition for

this metamorphosis were fright-liberation of the individual;

By Lee Falk and Phil Davis

(I HAVEN'T THE) ON THE 'OTHER SIDE' OF THE LITTLE FOG))-

SLIGHTEST IDEA!

PLOP

T-TAKE A CLOSER LOOK, HARLON! THIS WASN'T. ATTEMPTED

GABOTAGE

-OH-OH

HA-HA-

HAW-HAW!

T2 By Mik

By Ernie Bushmiller

ww.BUT WORSE!

OH, BOYĄ VANILLA SNOWBALL ---. YESTERDAY IT'

WAS PEACH

SPLAT

By Frank Robbins

There's More Than Magic FRYS

CRYSTALISED GINGER COVERED IN

FRY'S CHOCOLATE

CUTEX

THE WORLD'S

MOST

POPULAR

NAIL

POLISH

ROWNTREES

SMARTIES

LEAR

SMARTIES

this situation

calls for

t

San Miguel

a whole led to the distortions of

true

of trade function that ls, thefence of workers' Interests... Sequently the subordination of the

Sacrifice Happiness

"The tragedy of such an at- Utude was increased by the fact that Communists had always been ready to sacrifice their happiness and personal comfort for the cause, by the fact that they subordinate themselves and their interests to the interests of society. That is why it is especially painful that pure and noble intentions were wasted in conditions which caused actions to have results. which were often opposite to their intentions...........

"Too frequently the subordi→ nation of man to an idea was denial of the idea; the dental of the interests of the individumi for the sake of the interesia of the masses was a denial of these interests.

"It we want words to have their proper meaning we must discard the eliche according to which the good of the individual is the good of the masses and, the good of the masses meerS of the State, Tala

the

Good

cliche

expresses in practice the transformation of the beautiful Iden of the liberation of man into a demand for a complete sub- ordination of man to a, bureau- cratic Institution,

"It would be fine-and this in our alm-If the pursuit of the interests of soclely always auto-. matically resulted also in thio fulfilment of Individual interests; it the State, not only as a whole but all its institutions as well, were nothing but a means to pursue the desires of mankind. "In such conditions, the above cliche would assume an entirely different content,

Supreme Principle

"But in order to achieve this ono must always differentiato between the end and the mean between what is valumble in itself and what in 'valuable in account at something else.

"Man and the good of man must be the supreme principle of Communist morality

The State, the authority, the

al valles

on

moral

of mami to, so gai they purvue activities aimed at the Liquidation of conditions un- worthy of man, in so đạc do they contribute to the liberation of mun,

Such conditions would provent, the transformation of the State into a god, into an pim, in itself.

"It therefore right to change the system of Commumist morals by reviving the proper hierarchy- of values, by applying humanist standards in ranging the moral tenets within this hlerarchy. Among them the main part. must be played by the old Kantian principle that imani zilat, always be treated as an end in himself, never only a means to an end. This principle, denied in theory and violated in peretico,, was tükeri up by Kári Marx who said that for must constitute the hisbert "valon for man',"---Chien Mali- Boeciat,

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