1959-01-26 — Page 4

THE CHINA MAIE, MONDAY, JANUARY 26, 1959.

AS

THE CHALLENGE THAT FACES THE NATIONS OF THE WEST AFTER THE MIKOYAN JOY-RIDE

MAC MEETS

THE PEOPLE?

mi maim

Vicky

"Yor sco, I'm just an ordinary bloke. All that Supermac stuff's only an

invention by that cartoonist follor

London Express Sørster,

The high cost of keeping Sir Gladwyn

JUST for once, I wish that Mr Selwyn Lloyd

would follow Mr Dulles's example.

Mr Dulles is attacking the expenditure of the American in Paris, I would Embassy

ke to see Mr Lloyd, when be is it again, set About the British extravagance

there-and of all Embassy Our embassies.

of the

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The

is inspression heigh-

of Else toned by n rund-tooling Latty Jebb sweep- ing cat of the Embassy court- yard in a black Holls-Royce.

And indeed they are a very fortuante pair.

Lut it is hardly for Sir the British Government chooses to pay him nearly £20,000 a year... @salary of 10,000 plus ts-free dlowances et

by GEORGE HUTCHINSON

Can we ever make

KARL MARX wrote 100 years

ago: "A spectre is haunting Europe. It is the spectre of Communism:"

More than 100 years have gone by. And here we are, still haunted by the same spectre, still driven frantie by worry, piling up arma- ments to defend ourselves against the menace of Communism,

Do not let us be misled by Me of Mikoyan's triumphal tour America.

Hollywood stars kissed him, Rusiness men rose, cheering, to their feet at luncheon in Waldorf Astoria.

the

But when the cheering died tables away

lunch and the

back

cleared,

are

#ill

nowadays is that few Ainbas- bands of advisers from Whitewhere we were before.

through any ball,

Gladwyn to complain if Grandeur

For the costly grandeur of

Embassy In Paci the Briti is now out of all proportion to

its diplomatie value.

It happens that car Aniban tador, Sir Gladwyn Jelb. himself a princely gure, a man of commuting presence, great intelligence,

badors carry business of the Arst imporlaster, Even affairs a grade below are seldom left to resident envoys,

Modern communications, above all the speed of mix travel in ever-shrinking world, have

of the depived ambassadora £23,975. fuel, electricity and water bills old influence. Negollations ore conducted more and more by are also met by the Exchequer.

In

members of the Government.

y

all, the Paris Embassy 11% branches--consulates such is swallowing up 418,990 a year.

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and

anti

and

wit.

Sir

Cladwyn matches his surround-

ings to perfection.

See him in his conservatory

after lunch laking out over

the

Is the cutlay worthwhile?

Not justified

In an age when alt Ambas Embassy garden, The saders cf other countries Itaman head, the elpar, the berliten cur own - have al non-conformity in his much of their former value I hint of

with do not see how it can possibly shoes choice of brown blue sult, the monservants.... be justified. ali suggest some landed gran- dee living his years in affluence.

Whatever the lusion of the Foreign Office, the really

Just Arrived

Hour's flight

This is especially true of Paris, an hour's flight from London. Our Ministers are for ever and out of the place.

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Mr Macmillan

The Foreign Secretary goes. In the last few weeks I have seen Mr Heathroat-Amory there, Sir David Eccles und Mr Duncan Sandys, supported by strong

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--Pat Smythe, "In every one of his cartoons he says 'This Is Your

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for Me Reginald As Alauding the Cabinet Minister in charge of European trade gotiations, it would alranst pay him lu take a fat in Paris.

It seems at times that one ni inain funellons of Slr the Gladwyn's Enbassy is to look after visiting Ministers.

Imagination

Are we to go on like this for Ever? There are those who tell

a friend

of Russia?

g:19:03 by CGL1UNDIAIRE

A. J. P. TAYLOR

this;

They practice? Simply think that Communism is the best system for their countries and that in ting it will triumph everywhere.

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us to get cur teeth and hang on. Before you hold up your Then one day Communism will collapse of itself. The spectre will disappear.

Now turn to Washington. Sir Harold Caccia, our Ambas- rador, has a schry of 20,000, Mr Dulles is a great advocate allowances of £30,470. Diploma of this policy. I don't think much Be expenditure for which he is

of it. In my opinion, if that's responsible in the United States the best we can do, the world amounts altogether to £1,103,910. 100 years time will still be haunted by the spectre of Com- munism.

a year.

But the diplomacy that really counts is in the hands of the Foreign Pime Minister, the Secretary, and other Members of the Government.

Et

From America there is also an Anul bill of £223,310 for SIT Plerton Dixon's delegation te the United Nations in New York. rok what happens when Britain has major business the United Nations? · A Minister, with personal staf goes scuttling neross the Atlantic to set up an expensive fold- headquarters high In the

Waldorf Towers

Even in the bargain basement of diplomacy; in Cuba, say, we are spending £66,600 a year. And what have we had from Havana lately? Nothing but ob- Icquy.

Britain's prestige abroad, and the information available to the Government at home, wit not be increased by

swollen staffs and financial extravagance in our embassies,

Mr Lloyd has it in his power to save his countrymen a lot of money, without the loss of one single advantage,

(London Express Scrylee).

ST SILMAZLE

AI

BANFIELD

WhyT Because the spectra of Communism, ilke every other ghost, is a creation of "our own imagination,

Walk down a dark road nt night, and every vague shape

hand

horror at such wickedness, remember this:

the We thinks exactly about our way of freedom.

zame

We too think that our system Is the best, and, if we have any real faith in it, we believe It will triumph everywhere in the long run.

The challenge

I

curacy. By comparison, it is easy nearly destroyed by the Anglo- for them to make intercontin- French wars of intervention. ental missiles which can bem- Then she was kept in isolation, hard the United States.

exclude from al European affairs.

nre

And

they yet I say ntrald? Surely I must be in Khrushchev's pay, a more sup. cessful Burgess, a more subile

truc Maglean? It is

all the Game. They suffer from spectres just as we do. Only their spectre is the spectre of capitalist Imperialism, schending to over- throw them,

Frightened

We

One of the few things learn from history is that mea Oned it difficult, or even in- to think in terms of possible, today. They are always thinking in terms of yesterday or the day before.

It Is ke that with individuais. A young man grows up. He is strong, active, creative, Yet he goes on being frightened of his father or his old schoolmaster.

become

But, you will say, the Com-

Some men rever want to cecure their independent. Many do so only munists triumph by armed force. Not at in middle age. It takes a genius

In the

Second World War she last 15,000,000 dead. All her richiens provinces were. ravaged by the German Invaders,

It is fashionable nowadays not to be frightened of the Germana I'm out of fashion. And so are the Russians. They cannot forget So 6000 tho Second World dangers of the War.

They are like a man who has been in a car crash: Not afraid to go to the moon, but hesitant In crossing the road.

Suppose the Man in the Moon grow weary of being shot at What and decided to visit us. would he make of the inter- national situation? I hope he being would say that we were idiotle on doubt it."

both sides. But I

Simple rules

Being neither Communist nor

seems a lurking danger. Turn on, alt. They think that Communism to strike out for himself at the anti-Communist, he would sec

will triumph from our mistakes beginning.

the street-lamps or the head-

lights of your car, spectres vanish.

and the

It is the same in, politics, Away with the spectres. at the reality.

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Here to stay

There a, indeed; a really of Communism, which there was not in the days of Karl Marx.

One-third

are

and our weakness. They

to face the ready and eager

con- challenge of "peaceful petition."

Not it we sten to

Are We? Mr Dulles.

Soviet Russlu sects chor- mously powerful. It seems the secrets have mastered

timate space. Yet its foreign the polley still springs from

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to of

the American bases in Turkey,

and

Britain. Spain, Morocco, The world of States is just the He would see that there were samme. Countries that were once no Russian bases anywhere great Powers go on behaving as near America. such when their greatness over. The recent history o! France demonstrates this.

Fashionable'

So, too, the other way round. It takes a long time for uld motive. What is that motive? of mankind is Is it conquest? Is it aggression? country to wake up to its great- The United States was under Communist rule. The No, it is not. The key to Soviet ness.

THEY this; Communists are abreast of us policy

ARE economically the most powerful part of the world more than 50 in seleniliic technique, Their AFRAID.

It is here to

years ago. Yet it has realised its world prospers.

Incredible! Impossible!

The power only In the last few years. stay. But it is not the world of

Russians have the largest army our fevered imagination.

in the world. They have nuclear Soviet Russia has had a long weapons They have aimed at period of weakness and danger. the moon with astonishing ac The Bolshevik revolution

The rulers of the Communist world are themselves Commun- Lat. But what does this mean in

MONTE CARLO OR BUST

BY JAK

TVOJ

"OF COURSE, LAST YEAR WE ACTUALLY GOT TO GLASGOW FOR THE START !”

London Kapresa Keraton.

#

.

He would are too that wo were rearming the very Germans who nearly destroy-

not ed Russia

so long ago. And be would say: "The Rus- leas

flans are belog litle idiotle fan you are."

Here is a message of hope for 1959. We are not up enemy against an implacable who will launch an aggressive war at the frat opportunity. Wo A Are up against mutual fear. terrible enemy indeed, but one that can be defented by reason and cool Judgment.

We cannot change the Rus- clans. Only time and expert- ence can do that. But we can change ourselves. We can 150 our heads insicad of our emotions.

Start with this simple rule: The Russians are as afrakt of 163

as we are of them.

Here is another rule: Never

Nussions

ask anything of the

that we would ourselves.

We are

not accept for

Stop ?

always telling the Russians to stop Cominunist propaganda, But this ment that we should stop democratic propaganda.

We cannot do so. Freedom is its own propaganda. The China MAY 1 democratic propaganda. It is democratic propaganda when I try to think without prejudice and so annoy many of its readers.

"Pencetal competition". it A fine thing in propaganda as in everything else. Freedom will win if we believe in it and really Practiss it. Fear is a bad core- aellor. Bad for as. Bad for io Ilusalons,

Mankind has been haunted long enough by spectros, Draw back the curtains of fear · noit Ies in the daylight of common

!!