1958-01-08 — Page 4

THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1958.

What's so wrong about talking to

Krushchev?

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We for

tho prospect Maybe decline,

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some economic

not. I'm not an maybe economic tipster so I won't try to guess. But basically it's likely that the Prime Minister will be able to keep saying: "You never had it so good."

We'll go on being warm and comfortable and well fed. We'll have television sets and wash- cars. And ing machines and

, and yo!. At the back yot. of our minds we groet 1958

"Yl's with the thought: miracle we are still here."

a

a

We are within a few inches of total destruction. 1 don't mean just the people of England, though war would hit us har der than anyone else. But one blunder by a radar observer

the here, in America, or In Soviet Union and within six minutes there would follow man-made catastrophe such as the world has never known.

this Are we to live with nightmare for ever? Are we to go on piling up weapons of destruction, waiting to dis- scienße new Cover Somo

to horror or for the Russians surrender at discretion?

No. No. A thousand times No, For our own sake, for the sake of our children, for the

rake of humanity, wo break the deadlock.

must quest as Hitler was,

well.

We pay our statesmen We given them honour and carn their respect. They must keep. They must try to find a way out. If they won't, let them make way for others who will.

This is the only problem that matters in the world. Every- thing else takes second place. End the horror of nuclear war- tare. There'll be plenty of other troubles afterwards, but none that threatens the destruc- tion of the human race,

THE WAY OUT

It

THERE is a way out. And to my mind one way only. is. LIVE AND LET LIVE. We can't win a wor agaust the Russian They can't win a wor against us. Then let us make pence.

were one

Vast CX-

is just penditure on arms much a curse for them as for want Soviet leaders us. The

Own And for that they people.

turn their gigantic re- must sources to peaceful production.

THE TIME

to be popular with their FOR ANOTHER

STRONG POINT

are not going

THE Russians To stop being Communists. That sounds tough, but it is really a strong point for peace.

Communists really believo that their system is better than ours, that it can win the race in peaceful competition. That seems crazy to us, but why not accept the challenge?

The West has plenty of reasons for being suspicious of alone the Russians. Hungary takes a lot of living down. But the Russians have good grounds for being suspicious, too. For

Arc

Is there a chance at all If instance, how many Nazis

now in high places in Western chance in there

Germany? How many thousand, it would be worth

Hitler's

generals trying. I believe the chance is

serving on our alde? much greater.

The Russions are not hell- world con- bent on was and

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CLEAN SLATE

SUMMIT MEETING IS NOW

Cummings

COLO

MALTA TO

BREAK WITH

BRITAIN OVER

SECRETAR

SACKED

WORKERS

"Hoavons! Tho Isle of Wight! Threatens to secede from Britain if no work found for Saunders-Roe men."

A Sea of Troubles

TT'S tough at the top. That is not an elegant phrase, You will be aware that when the that ruling, is it not a fact, Mr but it has the double merits of brevity and clarity. Hitler yer broke out, all rents, Speaker, that the Minister either And the more I study the British political drama, the below a certain level, werd does not know the answer or

instinct for.... rights more I wonder that so many men are ready and eager to frozen. This was a necessary in- else be is indulging his natural

of high ministerial which

the Mr Speaker: "Order! Order! accepted by take upon themselves the burden

landlords with deep misgivings I think we had better get on office.

with the next question. Number 221" LONDON LETTER.

terference with basic

was

And be surc The tuny. wants the sumne. He'll KO back in triumph to Moscow it.

backt goca

with peace he in his pocitel,

WORTH WHILE

we waiting for? WHAT are

Until we have someone ke Molotov to negotiate with? Then we'd certainly be going straight for war.

No one supposes that eternal peace and friendship are going to reign becauso of a few friendly chats. The tension has

My memory goes back to the Leen screwing up ever since the war. It will be worth while to days when Ramsay MacDonald, give even the tiniest twist in the hammered by the dissenters In other direction, Right about his own party, and patronised

TORMALLY such a zuling is the first thing. Quick by the Torles who had captured

ends the incident but a tow ulato

of past grievances. march will come after.

him for their own devices, made

days ngu the samo process Otherwise we may find that the

For instance, we've got a con- a speech of such meandering account shows a credit balance crete Russian

ibat before Incoherency

a Socialist that never pauses. To put it in and by the tenants with vast re- brought Macmillan and Hugh proposal

Gaitskell into a head-on coll- side. the Russian

"For God's sake, sit another way, he is never free diet. We us. If we keep rocket bases and shouted;

of the fierce onslaught of homo Thus we were presented with sion which was not only bitter nuclear weapons must accept the world as it in

of down!"

and foreign affairs.

wer inflation and

rising but destroyed for over the legend and ask: How can we make Western Germany, Russia will

the unfortunate that nothing could prices while

upset the Nevillo of

Then there of Eastern the basis the treep them out peaco oni

Inflation in Uke a potent Germany, Poland, and Czecho Chamberlain, who was broken status quo?

possession of their own houses or the walrus moustache, The slovakia. What have we to lose on the wheel because he bought wine that is not only pleasant slords were unable to secure equanimity of the Premier with even to the palate but exhilarating to to raise the rent despite the ever Opposition Front Bench were time at Munich, and by trying this out?

the soul. Prices go up, wages increasing cost of maintenance putting questions to

the Prima Churchill was Winston

Minister about the demand of with fixed income With the widespread destruc- the medical service for more howled at during his Abdication go up, renta go up. Unhappily and repairs. speech that he strode out of the people House in a black fury. Indeed. Whether in wages, pensions or tion of houses during the Billz, pay and whether the Govern

gilt-edged Government the situation has become serious ment intended to side-step as if it had not been for Adolf frum

of their In fact, there was no busting they da 10 anolber Case Hitler, that moment might have bonds see the value

Macmlilan stalled been the end of the Churchill holdings or their money sink nor rebuilding with

after the wor nad ended. At any ing like the setting sun, story.

WE'D better make a clean furn

un

The only method is to talk to the Russians, talk again, and keep on talking. Long- range exchange of letters won't do. Leaving it to the German Ambassador at Moscow won't do, though it is what Nato has just agreed to. I wonder they didn't dig up Ribbentrop and send him to Moscow.

Nor is there

any point In leaving it to a conference Foreign Minister lovel

most important This is the

Why question in the world then have it dealt with ex- cept by

most important men?

the

out

When I rend this offer I though the West would send a "We telegram the same day: accept at once."

Instead, the offer has been ignored. It in A trap... trincere, and so on. How can we tell until we try it in practice? Or why not suggest something else in return? at

HIGH-MINDED

sure,

was

are worthy, high-I have to face only one crisis is minded men. None of them like a day off." wants the destruction of the human race. But they are

મ Macmillan bas The talks have to be at the top. They'll tako

time. All right It Is a price worth paying.

by Sir Beverley Baxter MP

Those Bonds

or

shortly

4

ever

sometime voly until Gaitskell

rate the Socialists were in power Leader

the Opposition, and one could hardly expect a

demanded to know whether the Left Wing Government to care Government intended to impose about the rights of landlords.

10

Now it is Harold Macmillan who faces Buch

of a sen that he might well problems

David repeat what

Lloyd TOOK at what has happened In fact it was left to Strong veto on any recommendations in salary scales for changes George

Bald during his to the gkt edged Gov. Man Macmillan to announce os JESTERN statesmen, I um Premiership:

righis among doctors and dentista "A day in which

Flushed with anger, the Prime crament bonds issued during Prime Minister that the the war,

after of ownership would be restored wards, at par What could to the owners of houses above a Minister rose and then snapped: be belter or safer than bonds certain level. It was in fact a "Not Only the Right Honourable

gentleman would • make For courageous action based on the foolish a supposition." deceptive guaranteed by the State? long getting on in years. Some of personally, so much so, in fact, brevity's sako let us leave out fundamental rights of ownership At which bedlam broke loose

them, including the President of that it sometimes seems as if he the fractions and content our which is the very basis of a tree

with the Tories roaring with the United States, are invalids.is puzzled by himself. A few setves with plain baste ngures. society. But we were able to see

weeks ago we were chatting The issue price in

each case the sharp reaction when in a fronte They are all fussed over a

the Tory majority thousand little problems in their together, when he assured me was par 100 and here are some Dye-election

them that all his Ministers

s of the day's quotations selected was wiped out and the Sociallet own countries. None of hears the Angel of Death overworked, but that he, as

Prime Minister, had no depar hovering over the world.

But we do. We have not ment to administer and, there- much time. Perhaps six minutes.fore, was under no strain what- At

a few years. Every socver. In fact, he implied that mast day makces agreement more fe for a Prime Minister WAY dificult. We should start talking

E sort of politiet siesta. by now. And we should never stop. pinetunted

occasional This is not a question of alarms, excursions and noises party or of political creeds. It off.

For the sake of world peace I'd put up with the absence of Mr Macmillan for six months, your, or for just as long us Mr Krushchey will talk to him, And we could throw in Mr Gaskell for good measure. ALTERNATIVE

That's WHERE do wa taik? W

easy. We must talk In a neutral country. And there aro plenty, countries already

than more secure

are. WO

is a simple question: THE FUTURE OF MANKIND.

for

Two

Fronts

In any

ot randor:

Fund

Conversion

Consolidated

Wor

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Idividual M.P. finds himself in

vestors who put their faith and

Na situation like this the in-

laughter atıl the Socialists shouting with anger. So

up sprang Geltskell and when the noise subsided sald: The Prime Minister is as usual rude and arrogant." At which the Socialists let out a vociferous roar of anger and approval.

Buch an incident would be of

a special importance, exrop

In other words these in a strange position. As in Canada, that it marks an important

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this

his heavy

task. their money In Treasury Bonds an MP. is elected on party lines change in the allude of Mac- Prime most British now show u lose varying roughly but is the servant of his con- million to

regardless of party Unlike

Ministers he has not had a deep from one-third to one-anit, No situents

Thus politics.

constituent Do wa want to go on living

wonder that the holders ask writes to me that his landlord experience of ministerial office.

word "gilt" themselves if the The present course is ai 7

great success an ultimatum to Ho has delivered Geneva worked last time and bound to end in the destruction T is true that Macmillan has should have the addition of one the effect that unless the tenant Minister of Housing but

everybody. Then gave us the best results since of

alphabet

pays an increased rental he task was practical rather than Stockholm is

the solid virtue of character. other letter of the an Heaven's sake lot us show some the war.

investors would have to ga these

politter and in principle had Indulged

Admittedly Не never alternative if we want a change. sense and find an alternative.

reach supreme cannot raise an outcry for the In the same post there would the support of both sides, In Whom do we talk to? Wo That alternative exista. It intrigue to

the war he held an administra- Talk

Is the alternative of living power, but rose on the collapse double reason that it would be be a letter from a landlord com- to Knushchev,

And

Anthony Eden and the futile and you cannot invoke plaining that his tenant refused five post under General Eisen- wa'd better hurry.

with Soviet Butela and the of

failure of Rab Butler to hold public sympathy for people for- to pay an increased amount and hower und in Churchill's peace- 'Krushonev

the

most

Communist world as equals.

as No. 2 in the funate to have money to invest would I intervene? In fact the time administration he had a sensible, most enlightened It we end the race in nuclear his place

By contrast the iniquitous worrying but absolutely essential brief spell es Foreign Secretary. lender Russia has had since wartere we shall be faced with hierarchy.

of these pasts did the Rent Act has been nothing but But in none. Yet the plain truth

is that Rent Act", Introduced in the death of Lenin. No one the political challenge of Com-

ad a headache from the day that it he come into any head-on from the day that he took over early days of Macmillm's knows whether his position munism Instead. That will be a

collisions with the Opposition in Russlu is secure. We must hard struggle, but at least woe Premlership ho has had to ministration, has produced on was born.

fight on two fronts in a battle mmense and bitter resentment the most of our oppor- shall be alive to fight it,

makte

The gipsies would not take me

Game

A

but

UP

COUNTRY

It the

them

by Thurlow.

Craig

blo old

for with its nights too cold

Then Gipsy and sleeping out Sal would return to the cave.

One day, while he and Sal were collecting for the pot, the roof of the cave fell in. Clpey remarked casually in the pub that night that there were 80 golden sovereigns burled in the back, and lived, peacefully in his tent until local fold-diggers had cleared the cave out for him--without finding so much as a sixpenco.

and was Gipsy Smith's scuffle,

she'd proud boast that he had ut

come, never been inside a private

ally with rabbit. as opposed to a public house. Yet in a way he sometimes with

a pheasant. put down roots,

was all From November to April he lived in a cave up-valley, because, accompanied by a small, Gipsy used to wise dog. To most people say, that cave would have been iron pot made everything. nelther warm nor hygienic, taste alike, provided it had a bit but for him it was homo, of grense, Often I have sat in it fac- When they returned, the con- the fire, tents of his capacious poacher's across ing him trading a bit of plug tobac pocket would be emptied on to co for a platter of his rich the floor of the cave. He hunted only by primitive skill. He had stew, after which we'd drink no time for modem contraptions, alternate tots of rum from

No one who ever sto of his the same battered flask.

rabbit - cum - phossant - cum- Feather footed fat bacon row, thickened with Gipsy was a small, quiet man oat-ment and scented with wild sometimes

正 with no fuss, always softly herbs, ever forgot spoken. His wire-haired terrier

Gipay and Sal... two of a kind

Yet all this is of small impor- tance compared with the gyra- movement. To put it bluntly, the

tions of the mighty Trade Union Disenchantment purpose of Trade Unionism is to py temperament he enjoys a secure an ever rising standard of duel of wits but he loathes the living for its members. That is

understandable, but it is perfect brawling and shouting which ly obvious that unless increased seems Inseparable from Parifa- democracy. Nor can wages are balanced by increased entry production the cost of living must go up in unison. There is nothing new in this nor la Great Britain the only country when Laces such a problem,

Questions

ho look beyond the frontion.of the Island Kingdom for achieve=- ments of glory. The triumphant erroganes of Russia is not easy to bear, nor een he claim that.. Amerire and Britain are 'com. pletely of one mind and one voice. As for our closest ally, France, there seems a relentles TXCEPT on Friday each day's dipping sunset of the glory that

session in the House of Com. once was hers.

It was said of Stanley Bald-. But even at that early age 1

mors opens first with prayers

that ho resigned the Then he went back, but It Jooked liked a gipay and felt

and then an hour of questions Win

single wasn't the same; it was too big like one, too.. I could have

put to the appropriate Ministers Frommlership without a now, and it creaked at night.

So he hit the road and I bathed in walnut juice without who answer for their depart grat, and I do not doubt that altering my complexion. ments, The questions are print- Marmilion is experiencing the And how I wished that they ed on the Order Paper with the pangs of disenchantment, but I haven't seen him risco.

They of the wandering race would steal me, Once, almost

result that the occupants of the would be a mistake to linagico as soon as I could walk, public gallery hear this and of that his successor would have

Can casser tark. saldom put down roots in a house or in any particular: effered myself to a bunch, beg thing:

How simple by compariton is Mr Speaker: "Number 31," An god them to take me with fenced little bit of land.

and them. But what would they, The Home Secretary: "No te task of our brandy awilling friend, Mr Kruschev of Moscow. enigmatic people, legend

them- Sir." hearsay have woven wondrous, as prolife as rabbils

little foursome, talos selves, "want, with

But then comes the cut and Each day he is extolled to the thrust. The M.P. who has put skies by a sorvile press. Each around thom. But do tale is houso-dwelloc'? By spring the cave seeded an so tall that with which So they filled me with rabbit down the question sises gain day the people acciaim his they did with Lenin, Trolaker little my muro uod to try to stow and bolled to sweetened and ways: "While thanking the genius and hi-vision over an

Minister dor tile reply is ho Bal came from the me mould, airing, so he livedl ka' a

with syrup, then took aware that it will cause dismay Stailo and Zbukov in turn. and never heard her bark tent near the river, where there frighten me.

bawling my head off, bock to throughout the counter? (Hour! The fact that Trotsky was Together they used to wake up are trout for the tickling. When

summer arrived his supply of They'll steal you' my homeving that although Hoas) Will he not agree in fact murdered that Stalin was the mountain. It was

I looked like a little Homany, that his abrupt dismal of my undoubtedly polmoned, that education to trail along behind basket-work and clomes"pay award youru not a good boy," I was still too small them, sa I sometimes did.

Ruang thing is that quation le just another exemple Malenkov, huu, been sentito of the Insurferable arroganos? "Obscurity" and that Ferik WasƐ Feather-footed they proceeded, He would groan the axis of she'd tell me, “thoso, dirty

they nor I Mr Speaker: "Order Order]: executed, makus no difference. when suddenly Gipsy would his pusheart and away they'd CHippos will steal you away, though nether. give a quick tip of his hans go on the great highway the stain your face with walnut (ab that come? Jenew it, one honourable gentleman must Unill Nemcals plays the now of triumph; the leaders of Soviet fowartis" a bub Gəl would length and breadth of the Julco," and "being you tap bares sixteenth part of the blood not make a speech?

ate cant skollit (Intervening) Husain, snova“ ka tha trak allonily approach, then dash In countryside, everywhere wole fooled. You'll never be heard that runs in my, válna la true!

zanny blood,

you, sir, for clouds of glory. There would be a momentary...come until the hack-end" came of again!!...

Was ready,

.

Tho

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