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HEXT LABOUR FOREIGH

SECRETARY

THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 1958.

DISARMAMEN

LONDON LETTER

PREPARED TO NEGOTIATE

TALKS

LOW

Word Copyright by arrangement with the Manchester Guardian

This is the rewriting

of history in action now

THE HOST STARTLING BOOKS

IN BRITAIN -PART TWO

INTERPRETATION BY

STEPHEN CONSTANT

Today: What they call

your marriage:

'a contract for cynics'

Germany.

War

the

"A

"In 1954 he was awarded the International Peace Prize.

the

MUNICH

By Sir Beverley Baxter, MP

and football,

and the outcry against the Press

could mako I learned a tow hours later

Tthe Munich air disaster it is necessary to approved pleasant reading for anyone akeh lea · German gurgoon asked

understand the tragedy and outcry that followed what soccer football means to the people of Great Britain. Americans in a satirical mond have mocked soccer as the only game in which the participants use the outside head. Rugger players look down upon it as the aport for the masses. Yet as the League games progress through all the vagaries of autumn and winter weather hundreds of thousands of fans follow the fortunes of their home teams and talk of little else.

never been seen or heard of be- fore. We ni home watching our television

the screens amy

At the end of the season comes the Cup Final

the two when winning League teams travel to Wembley In Greater London wounded men and the devoted and play it out to Anish. Morely surgeons in the desperate last to "get into the Anal" enrap act of the heartbreak winter tures a team's supporters, and tragedy. when the great match is over the fans move into central Lon- don and make a night of it until their train is ready to take them

home.

Among the many good things which Briain gave to the world was sport and its corollary of sportsmanship, Kipling mocked the flannelled fool nt the wicket of and there have been plenty satirists who have decried the

supporters of soccer teams but both cricket and soccer will exist when their detractors are sleeping in the good earth,

frenzied

It was not until the Tuesday morning that the whole affair took a different tum. The top letter to the Times newspaper was from Mr Anthony H. Mil ward, Chief Executive of British European Airways, the Corpora- on which had supplied the aeroplane that crashed.

In withering terms Mr MU- want described what he saw in the hospital at Munich. He had the flown out especially and he was horrified by the horde of British press photographers "walling for a chance to photograph victims in the wardu.'

a newspaper editor of many the camera men to move away years I felt a sense of shume, because their lights were burn- ́albeit with a realisation that the ing the eyes of wounded men, camera men had been ent but he adds that the photo- there to pleiure the now-and · graphers did not move nway. the news was tragedy.

Actually they did after a font But the next day in the Times moments. But ta tho photo- there was a reply that was like a graphle reproduction maro cruel blow between the eyes for Mr than the written word? Milward

come from Lord millons · who watched Beaverbrook's son, Max Aitken, television or who was a most gallont pilot in pictures in the newspapers were the war and is now the head of moved to profond sympathy-

so profound that the whole the Beaverbrook Group.

natlen mourned.

As an example of terseness and directness I commend the letter which was as follows:

Sir: I have read the letter today from Mr Milward, Chief British European Executive of Always, complaining about the behaviour of newspaper men in the Munich hospital

Too Many

who saw

the

There is a tendency for the modern newspaper reporter and photographer to think that no other his profession knows law than get your picture or et your story." Yet they are a race apart. The kindness of reporters to comrades and rivals who have fallen by the ways be 19 port of the story of journalism. Theirs is a Lough job and it is not to be wondered that in the carrying out of their Lazka they become 4ough fellows.

His letter, written even before the newspaper men were killed'

But in this tragic story the in the B.B.A. crash are burled, is, in my vlew, a disgraceful most significant intervention was document. Mr Milward should thus of the ex-Hurricane pilot concentrating his attentions Max Aitken who pointed his fin- be to the causes of dry shocking ger at the head of the B.E.A. and dilaster Instead of writing crid: "J'necusel" "I hopo" wrote Mr Milward, criticisma of the Press, and thus "that I may be spared from 200 catabilsh a standard of operation ing again the fash of camera which could enable both foot

more photo- ballers and newspaper men to bulbs from six graphers at a time as I walked travel by air in safety.

three

Yours faithfully, into the ward in which

for Aghung

their

(sigd) MAX AITKEN." men were

Thus these in lives, in order to photograph an

two nien faced unconscious man lying in a. each other across the editorial critical condition in an oxygen page of the London Times, "You lent. I do not feel that it was explolted human suffering,

And Aitken to the charged Milward. an edifying spectacle German medical staff who were replies: "Your moroplane Pont men to death and mutilation." thus impeded in their duties."

But soccer football today is not confined to Britain. The cult has spread to Europe and even in Russia, Playere who cannot word of their oppon- speak a ents' language find a common enthusiasm and antagonism England's national game.

Break-Up

So in the order of things it was the lime of Manchester Yugoslav United to play the

teom at Belgrade in the In- ternational League. There was certain to be a great crowd and, the therefore, the players and

of Manchester management United would goin in experl- ence and money. So off they flow In a chartered plane to Belgrade on a wintry day with players, coaches as well as the leading British football sports writers and press photographers. When the game was over the and those Manchester players

with who made the journey them went to the aerodrome for the joyous homeward Journey. The first part of the Bight was to Munich and there is

no

There have been too many, aeroplane accidents in Great last six Britain during the months. It is not enough to plerce the mystery of the skies but we must maintain the maa- And when lery of the skies. conditions are had and there is a doubt in the pilot's mind the plane should not take off.

That cruel winter massacre of

the men

vibrant young strength of youth should never have happened.

*:2929109 UP COUNTRY by THURLOW CRAIG

Mr. Kingfisher

lacks skill as an angler

All that I have read of

HAVE always wanted to see a kingfisher in action. him implies that the gaudy, seven-inch bird is called "king" because of his con- summate skill in fishing, and I believed that his facility was greater in proportion

It

•

gone,

1

Finally, freed well forward and with the tail-end of the fish apparently sell down his throat, he took off like a lilliputian rocket with a sliver sputnik in his beak. He flew back to the

barge and proudly perched for a And minute on the cabin ridge-pole, as though showing off. indeed he had something to

evidence that the plane met with any engine trouble or any other defects on that part of the flight to his size than that of the heron or even the gannet.

on such a day he knew that spray halfway across the canal, ATER in World

II American and West Euro-

So I searched our local rivers, NOW Western eyes can see themselves as the Russians are allowed

It was snowing at Munich

Down again after Fascist Germany's pean composers."

when the pilot taxied the plane lakes, and canals until I looked there would be fish both big and then I saw the silver scales

kingfisher's and amali warming their frozen of a large tiddler. to see them-through the carefully doctored pages of Communism's

attsek on the treacherous world, the Great Soviet Encyclopaedia. official

was winter fins in those sunkissed shallows. went the kingfisher, obviously version of tho

U.S.S.R., "Churchill made a

The comic to the runway. Survivors stated what might be a Interpreted here for the first time, the new Red "line" on people,

declaration in support at

that the engines had apparently nesting-place. places and all of history sa rewritten and "rethought" to suit the

dveloped some trouble. At any and cold, but there he was, and Even I could see the continual trying to plan his herculean

some days I spent much movement of the water stirred opponent to the bottom. Soviet Union.

CHARLES CHAPLIN: Kremiin, emerges. Today, turning to some at the wider world's

by many sh. In July

time in fruitless watching. 1941 Churchill's

rate the pilot stopped while ho for great Individualistic artist,

Again he people and institutions, it begins with the most baslo institution

tested everything.

Now, on a morning of brilliant Government concluded with the

and

Then the peace and calm of creator

take-off of deeply honest and of all... marriage, the Western version, as the ordinary Soviet

revved for the U.S.S.R.

agreement about

democratic works, a fighter

and laxiedunshine and scintillating frost, people are supposed to view fl;-

again he stopped

not a leaf stirred save those on that sylvan sceno had joint

by a belly-flopping Hitler action against

against war and Fascism.

back to the apron to have

we call "woman's wiped out

aven on the dive of the little steel-blue and because HIS is Love, Marriage, and Divorce....as the

check. The third time he laxied the tree

Longue, "But Churchill in fact carried

chestnut bird. into position and the pilot de calmest days it is never still. Kremlin sees them. MARRIAGE in the

out a policy of delaying the

"In 1947 Chaplin produced

elded to go full out

From the chimney of a nearby

Next, half in and half out of Alm 'Monsieur Verdoux, West: "Bourgeois monogamy has a false, opening of a Second Front in

Europe. This was not opened showing up capitalism. The fim Survivors said that suddenly farm rose a thin pencil of smoke those three-inch shallows he was stabbing viciously with his hypocritical character. In fact, monogamy only unill the summer of 1944,

Was violently attacked by the March 1946 he made a bourgeois Press."

dark and shining beak. the plane appeared to be break-traight up until it vanished, so applies to women; in the majority of cases

ing up. There was on ominous breathless sull it was,

There was brute strength and (U.S.) in

There is, however, a slight dis rolling motion and the luggage speech at Fulton

bloodlust galore-but not the bourgeois men take up illegal relations with other which he cried on the Anglo- 01 Chaplin "In his early hurtled from the racks. Small

On my

left a bump-backed smooth skill of the experienced women, who are forced to do this as a result of Saxon nallers to unite and form pictures Chaplin mainly used

fires broke out in the luggage military-polical

aimed the blocs

deserted angler.

fish-tail section, and part of the engines bridge spanned the

Then a

Then, as swiftly as he had appeared and comedy! poverty and unemployment.

against the Soviet Union

of the airliner were thrown caral, with a farm cart stopped

shooting fine appeared, he vanished. da Ring, HOLLYWOOD: "Main

the crown and the horse wildly the Peoples' Democracies,"

forward for 150 yards, hitting alon of reactionary small house centre

that burst into dozing, while the carter leaned ETON: "Teaching at this

is permeated American propaganda.

flames. Seven players as well as over the parapet captly concen institution with the spirit of caste and The aim of films produced eight journalists and six officials trating on nothing at all.

To my right were the locks chauvinism. It

were killed.

that hadn't been opened for Those are the grim unadorned years and would gover

their roiten again, of Britain timbera hidden by moss and cay that the whole facts but it is not too much to opened was shocked and grieved. The ferns, permanently shared up on telovision programmes were in the lower side to hold the terrupted again and again to waters back. give items of news, Manchester Before ma lay a limpid pool was a city of horror and sus-half covered

"In fact, prostitution is the inevitable companion of bourgeois marriage. It is typical of bourgeois marriage that it is more like a business contract. Often people who want to marry advertise in the newspapers.

in

newspaperE are

to the arcording

conditions

sima

at

conventions of

crude

in Hollywood is to serve "The marriage announcements everting a family and contracted educating the future imperialist propaganda, to

bourgeois

officials, of the British Em- clear proof of the cynicism of established by law. the marriage contract.

"The collective interests of pire, faithful defenders of encourage war psychosis and enmity towards the the community excludes the the exploiting class."?

Soviet Union and the

marriage as a private matter.

The leader Peoples' Democracies."

The soldier

"

Punishing possibilty of. looking on

the majority of Capitalist The Government, with Its lawn, certain effect on -countries the low gives the must have a husband the right alone to marriage."

manage The family properly,

including the private property

of his wife,"

"According to British law

A

man can inlict physical punish- ment on his wife,

"Marriage in the

Capitullet

countries in going through a heavy crisis-even bourgeols scientists are prepared to admit this.

"The basic alm of bourgeois marriage laws is to safeguard the interests of private owner- ship and guarantee the hus- band's privilegs in the family.

"Typical of the governing West is the classes of the disintegration of the family, the wide ascendancy gained by debauchery, particularly among the young people, a cherp fall of the mumber of marriages and births, and a corresponding else Si divorces."

EISENHOWER: PRESIDENT

"During his presidency the armaments race has continued ELD - MARSHAL MONT-

And so to militarised.

the

GOMERY: "English Beld- and the country was further

one of the main In January 1057 marshal, Elsenhower Administration leaders of the armed forces of Great Britain during World and military interference in the War II.

of the affairs of the countries

Churchill began a programme of economie

and Near and Middle East which aggressive Western bloc

LABOUR

came to be called the Elsen hower Doctrine." "

others The Trio

movement of India was several

.

pense.

Coverage

the

DOZING

bo

with last year's rushes; on the for ride, half- sunk in the shallows, were two derellci barges that have teen there for yeare. On their ruined cabla superstructures could silli bo zeen Loint traces in blue and red of the crude but friendly longboats designs common to and the horse-drawn vardos of the Romany.

The British Press, og 1048-50 Chief of Staff of the

Freas of any other nation would have done, realised that this was a story of immense, if tragic

I mused on the lusty, brawl- BRITISH

interest and flow their reporters PARTY: "While in power

and photographors out to Bonning, tumultuous life that they in Britain in 1945-51, the or to any other aerodrome where had ienown in their many yours service along the maze of Labour Party attacked the they could come down reason-

waterways that were ably near Munich. In the mears. Injand encyclopaedia gives NEHRU: "Prominent Indian working classes and pro-

timo the Queen had sent ajoace so busy, and are now so born in THE

Churchilli 139 lines and one statesman... who for taking pared for a new war. After

mesange of sympathy to the lonely. Babies wero picture. This is only 36 lines part in the national liberation 1951 Labour leaders &CH

Lord Mayor of Manchester: "I them, old people died in them, am deeply shocked to hear of they have known laughter and more than Harry Follit, leader times prosecuted by the British tively supported the reac

salo the humblo of Britain's Reds who gets a

Colonial regime....In all he tionary aggressive policies the accident to the plane carry love, hatred and tours. And they

ing players and newspaper men guarded much larger picture.

treasures of those who called spent about ten years in prison of the Conservativos. "Churchil," 11 roads,

back from Belgrade. Plens con-

them home....oven today. **The British

Labour vey my sympathy to the rein-

FLASHED tives of those who have been Churchill was active in undling of the French Communist Party. loaders are the people who killed and to the injured."

"During the period 1918-1021 artist, socially active. the international reactionary "His creative development is split the British and inter- So far I have set down the forces for the organisation and Temarkable by its complexity national worker

more plain facts of a pitiful tragety Voluntary carrying out of the latervention and contradiction."

Paul Robeson: "Famous singer ment. The policy of the played like a cruel, fronte satire

background against the (low bass), actor, Jending U.S. Labour Party is resulting sport. But now we must move ALL this, as the reader might Republic.

progressive mod social figuro, in widespread protests in into the ferca zone of controTM by now expect, la not so in "Churchill-who, says Lenim His songs, urging struggle its rank and file.”

is the greatest enemy of Soviet for peace, are very popular in Russia, tried, as he himself has the US, and other countedes." State at its birth,

Soviet Russia,

"In Soviet Russia for the first time in history marriage is built on the basis of real love, mutual Inclination of the man and mono- Bond genuine Women, Kamy.

"prominent English statesman. Picasso: "Well-known

against

the

young

Soviet

Member

•

Britain

ano

to

and camera

versy.

The journalists admitted, to strange the Soviet JAZZ1 "Jaxx is generated W visited

WHEN the Bolshoi Ballet men had beens sont flying out into of the night to carry out their smaken. by' thu✨ degrading bour- the most dimant things wie ment, And what was the sa carried out Churchill

a goole culture of the United to find out the great Uloyw'n OK? It was thai with pen and policy of preserving and in States.

in real aga. The rotten

There were many camera they would dowribe the "Marriage in the USSR. is every WAY

scene at the hospital where doc- strengthening the the voluntary and tree unions of British Empire, which he con- fluence of jaxx has had its version

But the encyclopaedia has only tors and wirgoone were fighting affect on the work of many one. She was born in 1910. to save the lives of man that had and wourun, aimed at sidered one of his main tanka.”

Suddenly the kingfisher counterfallsed on the noaroot cabla-top and sat preening his brilliant feathers in the göldən sunlight. I dared not focus may spyglass on him, for I knew that my alightest move swould mean mother wasted day.

The certen had gone on his jaxy way, and 1, presummat>ly, bad not been æver. The king- Beber suddenly flashed low, ovoc the glassy wader, and anorek, up to rest on a 'dond branch, over- banging the shallows There iba mayed, moliomlan, tin

show, a fat three-incher that would keep him and his wife fou a couple of days at least.

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