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News from Britain

THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JULY 31, 1957.

Industrial violence belongs to Alien - Places where passions, run

by LES ARMOUR • high and faith in the law is low.

CMASHED' windows, free forall fight, masses attacks on buses, stink -bombay, crowbars.

solid majority of people in Briial favour,

But what interesting i that not one resolution in the lot makes any detailed pro- pornis for พ Intimationst agreement which might mak the bon safc.

And not one propose any defence policy which would

him if It pursues polles, of several different job in the Bil the gap left by the bomb. which he does not approve.

cours of a day,

Another root Is that the gov- Whatever ETUMPAL BOCITAS, unwittingly, to wrongs pr

the

One of these resolutions will rights and certainly pass the annual con- 0 matter, the fercnee, That will leave the

have accepted the curious publle may be forgiven for party leaders in the unenviable The list might easily it speech Mr Macmillian - have been having a very easy

Petin of the cha war. In a guspecting that the portera petion of having, whatever have been culled from an fer to employers and trade me

their persoad views, to invent Amerien #trike riot of the enlonists as "posters and inen."

posil. a policy to justify the thirties, Only the sub-

The left-wing of the popular machine gun was missing.

the

Enoli Scu rrd their newn papers just weck with growing

ANA MU

p

cicl NOL

of 11. The employers have been ruing the market almost entirely office staffs, miss

y portunity to make the utmost of that phrase,

The third Foot that the The sight to pick peacefully Dusman, unt alone among trade was enaidished nearly 100 graia: mists, believe that they are Attey and it then, apart froua being swemped in a runawny a short period toward the end of inflation, Mr Thornycroft's dire this subject- the B ceny, the rights of warnings an

in- b. b plaketoma

Inevedibly, by and property plowed,

catly eras in

charges, tablished almost always telephone rates, callway freight butrved with alonishing rates, and M.P's salaries did

1,01 go unheard.

LANCI

Lave

serupulouscOS.

be

[nduratio] vioituee bloughl to alto picera where is an high and faith in the law

wens lern eraTOMON

Why then should suite of provinelal butt - gencrally friendly Int--erupt do ugliness and bitteresa which will last and pollut for year, to etnies No one doubts that it is not Day 20 nye on provincial budimanda wage. The basic wote for a driver 1 right pounds, three billing a wick, Condur fur elillings Tees,

a

Overtime aris on wiknown

postal

They did not, unfortunately. the effect of inquiring Lave voters to relf-control but of jwpiring them to get in quick efore they were trampled in the rush.

Mir Maemillon was forced to make # "there is no crisis" speech but if did not, apparently, round very convincing.

311 this atmopshere the bus- men have somehow come to the conclusion that they

are in n fight to the death. And that is the way they are fighting it.

amount, pubably an overage of Garden of Trouble

a poured a wiek zhough nat nil bumen get a climes to work it,

The strike in, therefore, @prision even at, in a period of Inflation, it night era do the arm201

mue fl meetve lum that food it certainly Will not help the commmit 3)Aermination to win is also na starprising.

But the outburst of violence vergures a more complicated ex- plitation than that."

The other strike which was

the

betherton os het week was one of the curious things almost

to all but thinte Migible experis dispute over

of Jebs within division.

nem ty,

the

AT!

with thele

And so far there has no shortage of fruit vegetables.

been and

Democracy

The annual list of resolutions for the Labour Party's national conference has provided us, ouro again, with an object Irsson in the problems of de

nocrazy,

pro

Another delightful resolullam; calls for the establishment of a "Socialist United States of Europe. Note that it is to be "Socialist" or nothing.

The game rezolution terms the plans for Common Market, ike Schuman plan, the infant Council of Europe" Sups- burg and all the rest of the towards what tentalive steps appears to be its alm, a capitel

plot to be condeinned out of

i

The Socialist United States of Europe is to be born whole or

resolutions demanding the ban.

There are, for instance, 127 not at all. wing of the hydrogen bomb-a skell will probably

If that one passes Mr Gait- step which, it seems Bkely, a mercati......

inke to

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"Couldn't we have some of that hore, too, Nikita?"

Copyringja

Paid countrier

Labdon sprati Sektio

NATION NO PETTY

BALANCED ON A TIGHT-ROPE

our

These words were spoken to me by a young technician

Polish workers work a non- slop, eight-heur day from 7 an to 3 p.m.

At Cavent Garden Market geographical position, it makes it dif- and pavement cafes. the central distributing centre the the wallon's fruit and ficult." vegetable - the porters were on ririke because they refused

accept an One root of it lies in the fact 10

arbitration tri bunal decision that some of that Mr Frank Coms, the

the "specialist" rules General Secretary of the Trans-

Under the tori and General Workers bo roluxtil. Union, bu declared

which the system.

open war

should

employers

on the government. He na inslated should be put into said flatly that the government setien inuncdiately, one porter minst expel en-operation from might

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in the lounge of an hotel in Krakow, In essence, they project the problem of Poland.

-by

They have their Teddy boys and Teddy girls who rock 'n'

01

Things have been too easy fer knew the them. Betore-thuy

10 raswers. They did not have #ink.

Now, since October, we try to oh good standards again,

REVENGE

"The Communist Party of the Soviet Union," said Moscow Radio on the other night, "is not in the habit of taking petty revenge."

They never said a truer

word.

The revenge they take is not at all petty-it is mercl- less, irrevocable and com- to plete.

fallen

each years

upon other and the whole body their politic runs red with murderous fury.

"My mother was in a German concen- tractors, and too few lorries to With education free to all, In economle affairs, they agree

carry their goods to market. but with privrily going

to the that unless Poland can improve tration camp. My father

Nevertheless life is not was captured

all party incimber er the child of her position in the next Iwo Dusterity. In the bir lows the buty mumber is has been years she may become so weak by the Russians—we have not heard of him whole families sil for hours the case in the past, there has politically ilta! alt their

drinking a chemles-tasting lizz been very little incentive since 1952. Here in Poland at this moment

to advances since

October would known as fruit juice or a 2%- study for its own sake.

be lost, They must not make brer beneath cellent cheap it is good since October. But

bright

The mistakes that Hungary umbrellas on terraces "Now I did have to return made.

work to my students free four times until it is of sufficl- Meanwhile, they leam ratly hirth Plandard to pass braathe the Bir of freedom. Some of them do not like it. There is no more jamming of Like sharks these rulers B.B.C. programines. Hadreds of Russia have for forty of young Poles me applying for exit permits to visit the West rod getting them. And British people are welecaned warmly the moment in car la recognised the reads there are waves ont ili sider, As soon as It is known hotels that I am British I am Tekon from the

"foreigners About one-third at my stud- dung-rec and brought into ents are now beginning to see it the Polish 10cm. To the Poles the most im- roll in the night clubs. There is good for them to learn. When portont sign of change is their pre constant queries for the they do well, they will be I freedom of speech.

jew cinemus. Bie cafes

ar exemple to the others. My good "Now we talk co mything it full, and the wine-houses

are students study to is good," they eny. It is the first centres where aludonis and hourn and are fall of exche- was sunning himself outskie years is a faster demotion

point a Pole makes in explaining writers and journalists sit over life since October". The old their Hungarian Riesling or Never have I seen a whole be dissolved. Halt have b

security police, they rey, have Yugoslav Cabernet, nation so delicately balanced drafted into the ordinary police. on a tight-rope, from its The rest have found Jobs else leaders in Warsaw to its where. workers and teachers in the provinces.

Everywhere the persistent phrases are "since October", "at this moment", and "our geographical position makes it difficult". For the Poles

are living from day to day. How long their present free- dom will hust, how practical may be their hopes, not one of them would dare guess,

As I drove over the Oder into

Poland I wondered what I should find in this country that is now making one of the strangest experi- ments in government by consent that history has

seen.

ต

HONOR HALFOURS

But, I notice that although' all Foles with whom 1 tolk speak out fearlessly, ecch coe is care- ful to do so enly when alone or with others whom with me he knows well. There is sl just that amount of caution.

Manchester Guardian,

Teachers' task

Their

he minds et Lur students pre untrained.

I

nest to learn.".

many.

Innumerable incidents bring

Maienkov is for the exiled moment - derisory post as station manager.

Minister Prime

to a

a power

from

to

an

the man who left his family as keeper cut this Polish affection-enhanced electric light shop- In less than three

his enttage last Sunday evening

dare to help me find petrol when the than the West would pump was thul, He telephoned to contemplate for a Head a taxi-cab-owning friend, and of State.

m to his house, drove with of the taxi into my car. where they syphoned petrot cau

From ค

The Kaganovich

fates of Molotov.

Amid all this, the question arists: how is it that the Poles suppor. a Communist Govern nut? For part frem cffelals,

and pricually have nol met

Shepilov School and university teachers yet each ene suppers Gomulks. Krakow trumpeter,

Pole who is

is Communist.

This morning I listened to the have not yet been decided. dismissed seven years ago have He is a reed man and he is window high up in the tower

But at least the first two been recalled in their former

right for us now", is the ex- overlocking the market square, are in mortal peril for both Jacks. Their joy is incredible platation mostly given.

They ho plays his brief tune every have been responsible for Com hour when the clock has struck. countless entharsism is inspiring do not approve ether

deaths in the But they are finding it hard. munist ohms er ingthods. The Without a break, the custom has

Stalinite

has purges as critieke reverely the immense lasted the centuries. woman! university burtauerncy which is bogging

Khrushchev himself. a hard for the Peles, Pries for teacher pat ; to me, "For all down

every transaction.

There never was a body most foods and for all consumer the years, the students have ther goods are high. For exemple, a been taught not to accept reographiest position" they en

of rulers who have devoured sccrciary earns between 200 and whole range of principlea. They net offerd internal división, "at Ard it sourds still.

and destroyed each other been taught something this moment." have

zest. such

Nasty multe new which now

They hale and fear the learning here in Poland is that accidents have happened to Ruslar, but they realize they in spite of wars and dictatorship five out of the seven Presi- cannot afford to offend them the national spirit of Poland and dents of the Central Execu- to "only they can guarantee Ou their customs end characteristics tive and forty-three out of

Western territories and frontier." cannot be changed.

the fifty-three Secretaries of the Central Organisation.

As to standard of Ving. Hie

1,200 zloties I have come here 35 electrical tourist on a tourist visa, for proximately

month, Poland is now welcoming tourists from the West-but

One

any other

mouth. An engineer earns ap-

zlothes 2.000

we

lo unlearn teachers have theni

for

:

They do not know what bellere.

Against there wages, buller

to visit Poland is not merely 55 zloties per kilo, tomatoes 50- to do the tourist rounds. 79 złoties per kilo, cakes and

For every person, every ac- biscuits 30-50 zloties per kilo, cident,

meat everages 55 zloiles per woollen cloth: is 300-100 collon material

experience kilo. every here is coloured by the aloties a metre, political and economic situa- from 18 to 120 zlottes a melte, tion in which the country shoes anything from 120 zloties stands at this moment.

Freedom of speech

for a cheap summer canvas styio to as much as 1,200 zlolies for a decent leather pair--those worn by most people are of the 300- zloly styles.

Unlike other Iron Curtain

Grenled that, rave for the countries of my experience for the most generally worn type cheapest coltons and wools and there are no "Big Brother" of shoe, qualities

cre high.

bre

quile

| portraits of party lenders good-better than I have sect greeting you in each hotel in other Iron Curtain countries- bedroom and lounge and in still, for the Fules these prices, every street and office. There are no security escorts, no $9.50 questioning

us to one's 18.00 activities or whereabouts. 18.00

Poland is feet going through a severe and prolonged austerity period as we did offer the war. And she must crutinue to do so for some time.

Bul

[ that "in ogice

. During the German accupation and during the Russian oppress- ion te trtinel has founded every hour of the day and night

In fact, to me, the lesson I am

SCHOOL REPORT

ANNE EDWARDS says

"It's the biggest thing

in

millions of homes."

TOW that the Queen knows something of what it is "Quite moderate," first wes

with

Six per cent of all Soviet Generals, nine out of eleven Cabinet Ministers of the Sovict Covernment holding office in 1936, seven out of eight members of the Soviet War Council, and three out of every five Marshals of the Soviet Army have been liquidated.

Where is Rykoff? Milyu- fin? Krylenko? Avilaff? Trotsky? Beria? Kirov? Yenukidze? Bukharin? Bulanov? Voznessensky? the Kamenev? Pyatäkov?. Rakov- Sir sky?

Riumin? Abakumov? Bagirov? Zavenyagin?

I should warn her that getting through sports day is only Robert Bothy, the second Sir the first hurdle.

25.00 In the market squares the

The next and it will come along pretty soon now- 8.50 elaborate glass-framed

She has achieved many things is the school report. 25.00 "Norm" boards that used to in the material cense.

This document almost always 35,00

manages to pack a few sharp ·

fine city. But there are

master

wrote.

Norman Birkett,

They are very, very dead. Briet as it is, this Summary

of These are only some bears cut my theory that every parent should take school re} the more famous names in perts with a pinch of salt-and the now idealistic society of a backward glance at what their the Workers' Paradise.

If the boy collects a few "Fair-

carry charts and lists in- From a completely obliterated 7.50 dicating the local workers Warsaw, she has now built Jabs and uppercuts, thinly dis longside the stet for remarks own was like 7.50 levels of production are now neres of utter devnslation to be lingo,

announce local reclaimed. empty or 5.00

concerts. The barbed wire that used to surround, in-

western territories

60

sguised in mild, schoolmasterly on maths his

"Alarmingly stupid." Usually

Accuratifly almed and so plthily stated that

mind for the rest of his life,

10.00

4.50

1.00

3.00

1.50

armed guards at their gates8 a whole industrial have gone.

In elties like Wroclaw, in the they remain in the recipients that he was referred to as a "A good term,"

along the dustrial centres and the Inflammatory Oder-Neisse line,

baltle.

1,50

.30

.30

PINCH OF SALT

They held the highest

*

no

ly satisfactorys," a couple of posts in that unhappy land. Sir Leonard Hutlan told me "Making slow progress-es," one And then they went in

and only a deadly trice. dreamer," and added, "during couple of "His difficulty

with Among my friends I and that most lessens I used to dream this subject"-you are probably No, there is, region is the clings and arrows of these I was making 100 at Melbourne." the mother of an average school- operating in ruins of billz and reposts have left their scars.

boy who may easily turn out as charge of petty ra- above-average as the men I've It was even possible to be

"When I was at Blan,” recalls

just quoted.

venge. In the western territories she photographer Tony Armstrong-. regarded as an individual has rescued, the Inndi and made Jenes, 'my reports were

school's bright Just murder, cold, with a name of my own in it live again--Indied, through, awful that when I

and 30 booking rooms at hotels and out my 1.000 miles of driving I envelope I used to say, "Good of the Arts Counell' and ITA, marters and get their own back callous, 200 when paying hotel bills, in- have seen hardly one derella hye, I'm going out for the day, said he could not remember by writing school reports on the ending. 12.00 stend of the usual Iron Cur-fold. I saw high, healthy They used to any things like: anything outstanding about his offer men's song,

whicat, pin-nat rows

the hend of Maybe he is interested in some reports-except that tain method of dealing only potatoes and greens, regulated subject. but it isn't a subject we master once described him

"A fally boy."

siw

20

As for the Sir Kenneth Clark, chairman boys-they mostly become head

!

Like the head mester I know: who wrote about a amall boy

In

In his report: "Ho works woll

way, but his emmy ceilinis="

SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, LTD. have been addressed on of make-heavy cherty Another friend once at Hor- Two men said their

In "dologations". Hitherto I forestation of tall, firs, avenues teach here?"

malt-heavycherry trock EMOWLOON: hotel accounts as "English Thanisanda of peasants working row, how a successful businers were qulle ordinary. Prettying the head master was in the

[delegation."

HONGKONG, ARMADARA.

with ofton primitive tools-tow man, remembers with pain, that wall esendmacript," said the first, worst possible izslo,"

Cassandra

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