1957-07-27 — Page 7

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY--27, 1957.

The name is Nikita Sergyoyvich Krushchev. He is a bald, fat, bright-eyed little man once looked upon by Stalin as a court jester. But today he is undoubtedly the most powerful man on earth

act like a clown.

710 is the most important man in the lives of every person in this land?

WWithout a a Cornette Savereyvien Krushchev, the

new Soviet dictator.

Krushchev has emerged in the last few days as the most powerful man on earth. He is more powerful than Stalin. For Krushchev has the H-bomb, Stalin did not.

What kind of man is he? What are our chances a survival?

Certainly he is an entertaining fellow. Unlike any other dictator of modern times, he is human to a degree and often very close to being a clown.

Stalin looked upon him as the jester in the Kremlin. "Dance, little Nikita," Stalin would stay, and Krunhchev, as he has admitted since, would do the gopak,

When Stalin opened a Moscow housing estate, Krushchev suddenly whisked WAY from the solemn official party, seized an onlooker's accordion, and bad the whole place dancing to and singing Ukrainian folk

songs.

TIRESOME -yet exciting

THE Russians are clearly 4421-

joying Kus bald, fal, bright- eyed, hard-drinking little man with an ugly mouth. His be- haviour may sometimes be tire-

but the fate of

the world

is in his hands

by ROBERT EDWARDS

some to athers, but to his less says Mr Brown: "He Countrynien it Is exciting, knows what card votes you need What is more, he speaks their your pocket"). fanguage--the language of the Foll.

He understands the sterels of power and has trampled over many people to get it-including

i is the Arst spellbinder : Kaganovich, the man there has been in Russia for a

who lifted him from obscurity long time. Stalin spoke badly and whom he has now <1i5- and therefore did not encourage eloquence in ollers.

brused,

he also guilty of being Involved in the Skalin purges?

Now Krushchev has blossom- ed, like one of the hundred There truth in the charge, At flowers mentioned by Mao Tse- He constantly quotes Russian proverbs [<f uses peastini analogle::.

FRIENDLY

-but unchanged

lust twice he took part in on Stalin's large-scale purgez orders. But he himself was

He

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The Great Boom

in Never-Never

LATEST FIGURES SHOW EVERY FAMILY

IN THE LAND NOW OWES £25..

TORE and more Britain

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turning to the Never-Never. New returns first to Purge Stalin's name the Board of Trade show

the

from the hit of Russian heroes.

that the total debt for hire-

At the 20th Congress, where purchase is "at least" £373 Krushchev muie the original milion. This is an average shattering denunciation of his of more than £26 a family, former leader, a delegate is saldand the odds are that the to have sent him a note asking "What were you doing white poorer the family the more THE other day he expressed Stalin

committing his it owes. #redulity by saying he crimes?" would believe what he was told

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Krushchev read the note, and For a survey shows that two when he heard a crab whistle. said: "Will the questioner please out of every five wives buy on hire-purchase, but when the our stand up?"

"Anyone who friendlines

mistakes

said. "Those who expect will have to wait until

Jis

"That," suf This

for withdrawal Nobody moved. Krushchev wife has three or more children from the policles of Marx and repeated

request. Stil the proportion jumps to four out

of five. Lenin is making a mistake," he nowody moveľ

Krushchev, **is In May, the last month Easter what was doing while Stalin covered by the Board of Trade

was in power."

Agures, Anance Arms provided 95 per

more credit for hire-purchase Uran they did in May last year.

falls on a Tuesday,"

Ho has described the chief cause of international tension in terms that the simplest of his countrymen can understand: "It

is like a cabinage. If you tear

ult the leaves one by one you come to the heart, and heart of this matter is relations

ie

DIFFERENT

-but how much?

nothing PRACTICALLY

known

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THIS MAY TREE chorl by Michael Rand shows how sales in the merry, merry month this is year soared over those Krushchev's ago under never-nover agree- between the Soviet Union and private hic, He once boasted monts for monthly payments, the United States."

that he had many daughters. It Hire-purchase sales of new Is said that they have had com jumped 69 per cent and of On other day he was ex- pounding the theory which several mothers, One of his tons second-hand has been Communist doctrine is known to have been killed in cent, since Stalin defeated Trotsky the war. that neither Hussia nor America should seek to impuse its way of life on the other,

PROPHECY -Socialist U.S.

QAID Krushchev: "The tiger Stats uncal, and the buttato eats grass. You cannot make the buitniocs cat meat and the tigers

grass,"

All the same, Krushchev has

that prophesied

America's grandchildren will be Socialists

of their own free will.

Krushchev is both good humoured and bad tempered. Ha is charming and also offensive, Even Mr George Brown, MP. for Belper, who clashed with the Russian leader at the famous Socialist dirier party during the B und K visit; Ands much about Mr Krushchev that is likeable..

"It is awfully silly of us!" Mr Brown said to me, the other day, "o look down Oli" klases because he nets like an ordinary man instead of a polished diplo mat."

Recently in an entirely im- promptu speech, Krushchev en- Joyed himself at the expense of President

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by 137 per This upsurge may be halted because the deposit on buying cars has now

been Beyond question the dif- Increased from one-frth to one- ferences between the character third. uf Krushchev and his predeces.

So are enormous.

But this increase in down payments does not affect hire

But the world will be wise purchase sales of radios, to wait proof before it accepts ielevision Dets, and musical that his policies are so different. instruments, up 100 per cent

Krushchev's Western admirers in the month, or

of furniture say that he is tempering his up 25 per cent. authority with meley. They aa-

sume that the sacked Russian

IN ALL, the Amount owed on hire-purchase deals in- leaders will not be shot. That creased £12,000,000 in the asumption may be premature.first four months of this year. Beria Was executed several It seems that credit squeezes will have to be even Hghter weeks after he was deposed.

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For the West, therefore, hers

tho best atitude to towards Krushchev. Wait and sec.

it Britons are to be dissuaded show from the new trend of enjoy- ing this year on next year's

Income.

A-SECRETS

GO WEST

and Harwell men are angry

ECRETS of revolutionary the cost to well below a half-

atom power experi- penny a unit

ments which were expected

CONFIDENT

The Harwell men were con-

Elsenhower's claim to keep Britain far ahead in adent that are secrets of mak that America has invented the atom-export race are to ing uranium fuel rods, which do clcan H-bomb, "He is a talentedbe handed over to the U.S. not melt at this high tempera- man of great principles, but

ture, would enablo Dritain to look what stupid things hò mys

make ...How can you have a citav bomb to do dirty things?" asked Krushchov,

The White House promptly a swered with a pompous off- cial statement,

This decision has angered the be the first nation W scientists at the Harwell atom atomic electricity cheaper than station who thought out the new that produced from conl or oil. ideas and have now proved that Now they have been told that: they work.

the Information in to bo mado *******, ******* Dvailable to American Arms en The secrois concern a new der the interchange agreements Says George Brown: "I should type of power plant designed do with the U.S. Goverment. think Krushelsev goes away: and operate at

of a temperature

Several US. Are are known chuckios lūko hell when they more than 1,000 degrees Centi- to to concentrating money and ise these aid declutations."

men on the high temperatura Krushchev's frankness should

power stallön in an attempt to not of course, bo allowed This heal stopa up the output put it on the export market

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ruth-of electric power and should cut before Britain,

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