1957-07-06 — Page 6

In England the sun shines on Ascot and cricket ....but for me, well, let me tell you

Why I shall never forget

* THE CHINA'` MAIL, ́SATURDAY, JULY 6, 1957.

by

NEWS FROM BRITAIN

by LES ARMOUR

GEORGE

GALE

a day 7 months ago

L

ET us look at three hours in 1966. They

were covered in snow.

Moscow snow. It was February, the 20th Congress of the Com- munist Party sat in session.

Comrade Nikita Krushchev begins to speak. He speaks for three hours. By the time he has finished a myth is dead; the myth, the dead god, is Stalin the good.

deud. dent. “

Moro than a myth is A history hus been drawn und quartered: the history of Russla under Stulta.

Whal had been the glorious evolution of socialism becuines

al herole

epic

an awful chronicle of despic tyranny; and turns into a squalid account of tortured conlessions, uf H

newest go it was who did the dirty work. And Communist could Jose.

Thousands upon thousands of them had lost, had lost every-

ballet boys,

OCTOBER 19. Krushchev and Co. swoop on Poland; they ubject to Polish plans for more Cedom, OCTOBER 20: Gomulka the Polish beccanus boss of Commenist Party. Rokossovsky thrown of the Polish i politinuro, and Kruslichey and Co. go horne: to blood. To brood

of a

the

PHONE TAPPING SCANDAL

and the

Cancer Scare

THE BRITISH phone tapping scandal must be rather majority of scientifle lewe are based solely ork statistical co- THE

disconcerting for those who make their livings by lationships and, Inflood, some doubt that pointing out that the world is going to hell at a rapid scientists nowadays

there are any "causal relation- pace.

ship" at all." Whatever clso is or is not involved it is at least signi- ficant a nation should be up in arms over the tapping of a

telephone belonging to a man who has openly boasted scientists not to fool too com- that he is "the king of the underworld."

It might be thought that, to But it does seem certain that cheek on the doings of such a the whole matter will be thor man, it is even proper to pry oughly

Investigated and

So we are being urged by the

fortable about the fact that 10 has not been proved that smok- ing "causes" lung cancer.

Still, many people quite justly

the expect som.cono to offer some

into the telephone conversations public will have some oppor- explanation for the statisticas

a

if

who once slapped Stalin down. THE WORLD last year was determined most of all by

The clouds gathered fast, even boy with a home-made petrol bomb. The boy knew what though the Bolshoi came to be less doing when he dropped his bomb down the hatch England and conquered the

Russian tank as it advanced along a strect in Budapest. He was blowing a tank to pieces. But he was also blowing up more than he thought. It is summer now. The boy might be seven months dead. Hungary could But ve men, one from each become forgotten. of the continents, were told by the United Nations report on ilungary. Russia is charged with "massive armed intervention" in putting down "a spontaneous national uprising." We knew this. Last year we saw an empire cracking up. It still exists; Russian tanks saw to that in spite of the boys of Budapest. How secure is that empire now, these fine summer days?

The fighting stopped; be. cause Hungary bad bullets left.

end to act.

thing including their lives; and Red Cross or But was Banks to Studio, and therefore thanks to Stalinism--

Double Cross? posibly

(tel

murder, of military blindness, Communis.

of terror, of fully, of madness.

More thun

history is dead,

Export

A party, alt International

conspiracy, has been and died of the exposure,

It was all possible to be a Communist. But a Communist WIS NOW a thief, a robber, a bar, whose love of power yet exceeds hla knowledge of truth, pf hope, and of himself.

thuania

to

10

по

principles involved. demonstration that the English-smoke, But that

bna

he has with his lawyers and, unly to pass judgment on the coincidence, It has been shown

the Bar Council is concerned

that there is, nt least one poten.« about his relations with his law-

All in all it is a very good al concer Causer in cigaretim inlloo yes, to release thours onversus-

tuan's concern for justice is very rather dismally to produce của- toms to the Council.

much alive and that the de- cer when It has been injected mocratic

are processes

still into mice, So we go on doubling. working at full tut.

Perhaps it is. But what is im- portant is that the public has demanded to be shown that it and that M.P.s of both parties and even the government which authorised the proceedings are. concerned about the principles

involved,

The underlying problems are many and extremely compileat- ed. They include the deep con- cern of every Englishman for the preservation of the sanctity of every other Englishman's hone and the long tradition that what a man says to his lawyer is no mandant of Budapest taste's concern. but his own.

The row has brought a great November, "will Soviet many accusations including the Krushchev spoke on February That night the night of

Did the boy then kill the troops leave Hungary." one that M.P.s have had their Look what then huppenca, the 20th Russian

the troops

telephones tapped and MARCH 10—the working week began assembling noating tank entirely in vain?

The boy with the home-evidence, such as it is, suggests that telephone tapping has been made petrol bomb could yet much more widespread than any- this year, exactly make crayfish whistle and body has heretofore believed.

Some, perhaps even all, of the The next day in Humania speech Russian officers on leav wore a year after Krushchey's fishes sing, even though he accusations may turn out to be reeled, On the 22nd Russian speech. The speech has just now is dead. hoops in Hungary were moving been published. towards Budapest,

5.

nt Zahony in Russia reduced to 46 hour. bridges

the UITL 17--0 APTIL

Comintera, Hungarian-Soviel frontier. chief instrument of world con- Communism, dis- spiratorial yolved.

APRIL 18-Budganin and Krushchey came cavorting tu London,

Someone

made else

#

DAX 12--Harry Pollitt, secre- academic, tury of the British Communists, Why? Nothing much seemed In it Mao Tse-tung, the The point is not

Hungary boss of Chinia, allows Till Krushchev spoke a Con- 15gs: his belly fuli, JUNE 2 to be happening in munist could still cheal bi-

Molotov resipis 414 Russian But Poland had shown the way, seli; could say that all was for Foreign Minister, and in his and the students were restless, limited freedom of speech, freedom to strike, and but Hussla was taking no chances. the good, the cheating, the place Shoplov: no gent,

introduces 21 policy of JUNE 20 thu Ribbentrop-Stalin less of a Stalinist. lying,

Koo begin So to OCTOBER 23. Hundreds "letting a hundred flowers pact, the imperialist grabbings 33,000 Hussian of Tehran, the forged election withdrawing

Budapest are East of thousands tas

blossom and 2 hundred Germany. JUNE 28-riots break now elamouring in support of

the students. At 8 pm fear gas schools of thought contend."

thrown at them. While Riots in Pozuan: hint, a ambulances drive up: they slight shadow, or a sensation of curry police. The crowd attacks, wings Quttering over tho The revolution has begun. Russian empire,"

Within days the Russian

returns.

cause

He could вну this be-

the myth lived, be CALDO Jika Stalin-god smiled benevolently on the buff walls of Russian and satellite airports and courts of law,

The Stalin's successor spoke, and in three hours a god, a myth, a party perished: and the

out in Poznan,

from

A

In

China discipline is relaxed. The terror, it seems, is over in the cast.

On to SEPTEMBER, to the troops have retreated to regroup "Only when crayfish 19th, Krushchev goes a-courting and Hungary has gone out of whistle and fishes sing," Tito-in Belgrado. He goes to the Russian Empire, out of

uay ho's sorry, to the only man Communism,

If you appreciate

precision as well

*as quality

boasted the Soviet com-

wild.

LUNG CANCER TF SCIENCE does not kill us with ka dastardly inventions it seems reasonably certain that it will, at least, frighten a good many of us to death.

Another theory which hus been, running around the fringes of scientific discussions. in 'the last few months is the one that it is not cigarettes which chuan career but that the camo psycho- logical factors which have caused more heavily people to smoke also cause cancer,

It is against this background

government

do.

The lung cancer scare seems to have a very considerable that the

the information number of people quaking in cided to fle their boots.

with Local authorities and le: The evidence, far the moment, then decide what sorts of ants secins to consist in Just this: smoking campaigns they want to People who smoke more than 25 Inunch, cigarettes a day meet their ends

Naturally, the tobacco manu from lung cancer forty times as

not happy about this. They have countered that often as people who don't smoke facturers ure at all.

This could, of course, just be the charge against the cigarette a very odd coincidmer, Statisti- has yet to be proved.

More happily, it seems that cal rela(kaships and causal re-

are not at all the the pipe and the cigar are pretty some thing.

great safe.

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REPORT FROM WASHINGTON by Alexander Broad

[N HELL, Michigan, the temperature soared to 95 this wook. In California, it was so hot that all the fleas in a circus died.

In the Dakotas there were tornadoes; in the moun- tains, on the other hand, it was shivering cold.

con-

Hot Weather And High Policy

THE

THE FURORE over the Supreme Court goes on. Some

body has even suggested that it might be nice to impeach a few justices.

Of course, nobody will. Even if there wore any grounds for impeachment and there aren't the process is so fearsome that it would be easier to abolish the court altogether than to go through it.

aro

They

said it wo? playing

fual staff, and mighty dangerous,

boon

over

One thing which has obscured by all the row

In the midst of all this, someone took Mr Kishi, the how did the folks in Hell,

The justices, Indeed, Prime Minister of Japan, Michigan, feel about it? Or

singularly unworried and they to visit the Tomb of the were they, liko most Unknown Soldier in Wash Americans, too hot to care? who draftedhe ne up with words, high level intellec

Constitution ington. The news pictures

and wrote the Bil 01 Rights showed the officers

If they managed to get coul must have meant, more or less, ducting him looking grim enough to give the world situa- what they said..

on a second thought it must and Mr Kishi looking more have seemed, as it seemed to a Some people, cannot quite see changed standards for the ap than a little embarrassed. lot of people in Washington, this. For instance wher, in the pointment of Supreme

Quat Pax Americana was taking decision on the appeal of some justices. It was not, perhaps, tact a knocking. ful to take so recent an onomy on a tour of the mili- tary monuments,

*

the Court decision has been tho

Court

Communists being tried for con- spiring to advocate the over The present "liberal" majority The Japanese thinit so little throw of the government by in the court is largely the ro of it that they reckon

the judges that force,

made an ult of President Elsenhower's distinction, there appointments. they're a whole lot safer with elementary

was a tremendous howl What Before his time, judges were Americana around

their enormous political, services more then for

out

at it

At the same time, the st oll. The good, citia of the majority decision said was usually appointed for U.S. announced in one Formosa have already indicated that there was m

think difference between urging mome-, their legal brillia breath that it was with more or less what they

ore to bolleve that, in theory, It But Ebenhower bea appointed drawing all its ground

would be good to overthrow the men of both political parties forces from Japan and In the Middle East, the Arab Boyertament and urging him to and men of no political amila- on the basis of strengthening its forces in powers who like Colon Namer believe that he ought to go out on-strictly.

their legal reputations. South Korea.

celebrated the houtwaye by mak- and do the job.

Frankfurter and ing it plain that they thought no

Justices Tho Justices said that it could Now the troops in Japan mooh of the Eisenhower doctrine, not possibly be illegal to pro- Black are now eligible for pen- were supposed to be "cover" that they were going to do all mulgate a theory, though it sichs whenever they want to

they could to keep fruel ships for the troops in Koren so gut of the Gulf of Aquaba Now could selly be legal to a relire. The President hao minde 'il clear that the_nove" appoint-. | VOCRDS; B‹ FOYvort. that this move looks about Prozident Elsenhower hos mado

mente, if and when they as sonsible as a schoolboy i prolly cloar that if there is. But at Rodet ono justice and modio, will be made, again,

one thing very dear to bla heart more newspaper columnists then strictly on merit. game of darES.

it roedom of navigation, you could count, with that they(It movetia, marafikely that That, no doubt, made Mr through that particular hot and were unable to understand this future, proaldent will be able to Kishi fovi just fino, Butimikky "gale.

distinction.

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