1959-10-06 — Page 4

THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1959.

Put your X

on me

BEHIND THE MARCHING TROOPS:-

CHINA'S INDUSTRIAL DISASTER

CHINA

Why Mao

took a

TIBET

Lhasa

Sikki

knock at Nehru

INDIA

Bhutan Darjeeling

¡PAKISTAH

The

TILES

"Frankly, young man, I do NOT recall patting your head in the last election and whispering I'd abolish schools if your father voted for me."

London Express Service

PRIVATE LINE by Chapman Pincher

Quiet Man With

The World's Most Powerful Secret

IF

Eisenhower

and

Khrushchev finally agree that war has be- come so insupportable that they must sink their

differences to prevent it,

then much of the credit should go to an unknown. Frenchman called

Robert Warnecke.

Dr Warnecke is the inventor

hydro-cur-

gence

been

con-

fize deterrent and published Forces contract for full details of it about six tisane uwarded by the Health

He has also yous ag Top-level diplomacy Ministry. used to be governed by historie given big Health Service

next, expanding population, tracts for other cut-price drugs. 1:d the ambition of leaders Whatever his competitors may with mighty names. Today it is say about his methods, the price

and being determined by Inert bils of

similar by hormone tablols hus fatten

rapidly from about

£60 per tives 1,000 to £9 sinc: ins entry into the drug market,

uf ironioNECTY unknown scientists,

devised

DO YOU REMEMBER JIMMY GOLDSMITH?

JIMMY

cortisone

One tranquilliser being suld by established hims at 58s, 116, for 250 tablets is now ca offer from the Goldsmith outfi 35s. Od.

TO SAVE money the British

Treasury has started a move

to cut down on the navel, military, and air attaches in the British Embassies abroad,

13

la 1

BY PAUL JOHNSON

Production figures were "re- vled" by as much as two-thirds. Targets were slashed.

AL once. the democratle experiment in Ilia nssumed Immense significance. It had

ESPITE scarcely veiled hints from Russia, not required DES

Communist China refuses to withdraw troops from the Indian frontier:

the slaughter of its two million "rightisty." Its sulecerses were suif mengte, but its production Bgures had bren vorified by UN "economists and found correct.

Both sides are rushing in not merely ignored this offer: reinforcements. The situation they have made two deep remains ugly, and in New Delhi thrusts into Indian territory, further incidents are expected.. The second explanation

Why has Mao Tse-tung-by exerting militery pressure on India's frontiers deliberately chosen to drive Pandit Nehru into the arms of the West?

1

is

Chinese have been angered by more cogent. It is true that the

Mr Klaushchev's fallure to cun- sult them before deciding on his irlp to Washington. Not unnaturally, they wished

Grand design

But it was based on one vital not have to defend itself. Since assumption: that India would

Independence, India's per caplia LO For the rubber-soled boots of make some international gesture expenditure on defence has been

few battalions of Chinese which would remind Russla, as the smallest in the world. soldiers have trampled into the well as the West, that the two Himalayan mud the grandiose super-pawers sjone cannot tallons

edisce paper

of the "third das peace to the world. force" the 1,000 million-streng ronsortium of the uncommitted world.

For a decade we in the West. have come to regard it as the most powerful

long term weapon in the Communist

Inadequate

Rivalry

of

There must, therefore, be a third reason; and believe t

of

So the scattered Chinese bat- their got

operational orders. Their purpose is not to to invide India, still less conquer 11. Their thrust is designed solely to force Nehnu to carry out an agonising resp- But this opportunity presented praisal in his defence spending, comes from the chiefs are actively preparing for

itself and was taken--in Lans, and so make the new five-year Service attachos. Remove Silvallons in which small atom

where the Communists have an plan inoperable. де вл them, and the cost of got emy in local conflicts without

bombs might be lobbed

armoury.

arguable case, and where they And, with the collapse Now, Inexplicably, it has been are assuredl

strong hoped-setting off o ting it will be infinitely

UN economie democracy In India, discarded. Yet the leaders of support. greater.

global war.

the Chinese way wil once more Corayunist China are neither

strm the best für Ayla... See how Russia has built

The official Government line impetuous of inexperienced.

Water represento- is that Blue

This is the Communist grand up its Service

Hies in the rivalry of economic design. Fortunately, it is likely abroad and with precaution. The Russians may

systems.

to be frustrated." By putting arm their small nation friends what rich rewards.

In Asia, politics is survival.

to bear pressure

on. India, atomic with tactical

weapons

Systems are judged by their Peking has evoked a gathering the British mus! After months of tightest

be

it is also se-

clear, from the ability to feed populations which response in Washington. ominous TRSS curity the Government has it prepared to retaliate.

communique ore growing at o steady 3 per now. U.S. ald to India has been leased information that the Royal

But I believe that what the published in Moscow, that they cent per annum. So far, only mengre end grudging, Artillery is to be equipped with army chiefs envisage is a situa- look it in defence ní

And the two alternatives have presented

the annual an atomic-headed rockel-enlied tion similar to Quemoy where Kremlin. Why?

themselves; the centralised meeting of the World Bank" Blue Water-which will re- the Americans opposed the Red The two reasons

far slave-state of China, and the The first item on the agenda will place whole batteries of feld Chinese masses with the threat advanced seem inadequate. It is democratic blend of Socialism be an Anglo-U.S. proposal to guns.

of nuclear-headed miselles. Irue that the Tibetan revolt still and free enterprise represented create an International agency What has not been made The easily portable wenpon continues, and that conditions on by Nehru's India.

to make long-term, low-Interest public is the dynamite implica with its light-weight warhead this undemarcated frontier make Until recently, the Chinese loans to underdeveloped coun- tion that it is primarily intended packing the punch of hundreds it difficult for the Chinese army tlternative was winning hands tries.

the Strategie Reserve-the of 25-pounders is idently sulted to bring the revolt under control. down.

I predict that the proposal will fre force troops kept in Britain for rapid to an anti-brush

But Nehr has already made Then, last month, the Chinese go through without argument. transfer to the Middle East, Far capable of being rapidly switch-it plain that he would co-operate pollbure issued on admission of And that the first and greatest

down this frontier failure without precedent in beneficiary will be India. Earl, or any other trouble spot, ed by air to hot spots ranging in shalling

(London Express Service), This means that the defence from Kuwaft to Malays.

completely. The Chinese have Communist history.

for GOLDSMITH," 26-year-old Paris financier, is winning his battle to slash the cast of

of an electronic gadget called a expensive drugs in Britain

Carcinotron which has put the H-bombers so much on top uf

and to make himself a tidy profit at the same time,

the anti-aircraft defences that When he cut the price of cor- the great majority of them mus! inevitably get through to their

targets.

Carried in a plane, the foo1- long Carcinotron sends outs

many radio signals on so many freqiseas that it confuses the defending radar, lighters, and guided missiles.

Shim tisone tablets by making frem imported materials from the Continent last year he mel severe difficult,cs in the form of allegations and inspired rumours | that his products

were of inferior quality.

Because of the doubt, big Governunent contracts wire

It is the sky with much gives to the established frois-

electric noise that the which had deeply resented the defenders do not know what to price cutting.

aim al.

If put in a big rocket it could make a monkey out of that sclentide fancy, the anti-missile misslie.

Rigorous analysis has proved the criticism unfounded. Guld- smith, who is still undercutting, Janded an Armed has now

But at least half the nation's worthwhile Intelli-

and

'Don't bully us!"

-and then no

holds were barred

Warnecke had no idea of its • The same Jiminy Goldemith military futurre when he who ran away with and married invented what has become

heiress Isabel Palino five } £V] Lin France's greatest contribution to years age.

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Continuing 'One Angry Night'-the story

right at the heart of the election WHO will speak for Britain at the Summit meating? Alroady that is the issue dominating the General Election. Both Mr Macmillan and Mr Gaitskell have met Of those Mr Khrushchev this year.

But meetings only scanty accounts exist. of ono meeting-between the Labour leaders and Mr Khrushcher-a very full disaster.

Until

account, indood, oxists. it was in April 1956 when the Labour Shadow Cabinot and the National Executive entertained Khrushchev and Bulganin at the House of Commons. The dinner began quietly— but then come the

of first signs

"That's right," すば This is Khrushchev was also highly in Soviet Russia and in her Khrushchev would critical of Western Ideas on dis- satellite States. Important,"

down his head and armament control. He comed pul

still

[R JAMES CALLAGHAN, MP, clearly not understanding that Mr MR

Gaitskell was to speak next, that there were to be a few questions, charge. and that the guests wished to leave by 10.30, showed his surprise that Khrushchev was not being called upon to speak.

started to

Mr Callaghan chunt: "We want Khrushchev. Before he had repeated this history of Russia,

phrase three mes, half a dozen of his neighbours decided that they wanted Khrushchev 100.

He

:

was fighting the war when your bitterly critical of the Chamber people were making a pact lain Government and charged that Britain's alm had been to with Hitlor."

turn Germany against Russia,

now

the

By

interruptions were playing little part- Khrushchev was convinced he

time the this By

thal was one issue He said control, heckling had become a barrage. which the party felt it had to ralse. He insisted it would be Khrushchev got warmer and treacherous to their Social Demo-

was eating with enemies. He, warmer and finished flushed and cratic colleagues in other coun- He sat down at 11.43, tries to allow this occasion to needed no further stimulus for excited. his anger,

having spoken for 59 minutes pass without mentioning it." and delayed his departure by 43 minutes.

Sipped

He had barely sipped his wine, were His total consumption that night back to WDS a liqueur glass full of

Khrushchev now warmed up as Soon there was a roar of demand for Khrushchev,

It quickly became clear in the if he had suddenly become con- IL was intended to be a Battering sentence-by-sentence translation vinced that all his hoste

that the man who led the Chamberlainites way request,

onslaught on Stalin less than Munich.

months

ago

was

now

Khrushchev censed its warmth, two yet he sat til for some seconds, vigorously defending and justi looking down at the menú fying Stalin's pact with Hitler.

before him.

Mr Edwin Gooch, the chair- man trying to please all parties, whispered to him that a few

That did it.

Tense

George Brown,

of

brandy.

The

Bulganin, throughout the com- motton, had sat quiet and appa- rently shrinking in his chair.

Uneasy

:

He said, in a conciliatory lone, that he hoped tho Russlan visitors would not take offence the matter, at his mentioning but the imprisoned Social Demo- crats were men and women comrades of British Secialists.

He said they did not expect an * doors opened and

answer at once but hoped that- And then he went on to imply

Marshal Bulganin and shout:

Mr that because of Western policles policeman appeared to

who could tear their Khrushchev Those

use would

their think

the tradi Russia might well

"Who goes home?" forming en alliance with Ger- tional.signal that the

thoughts away from influence in this matter on the House eyes and many on the Stalin-Hitler' lines, had risen. Khrushchev had no Khrushchev to glance at Bul- Communist Partles of satellite

Intention of going home. He gunin saw him sinking lower States. It seems that this was more went on declaiming

and lower, his chin on his chest,

Mr Callskell put in a word and his eyes darting uneasily an Implication, perhaps wrongly

Jewish minorily Eri | words would be appreciated. Mr

MP, called construed, than a threat; but

One passage in Khrushchev's pcross the faces of his hosts for the Gooch had his eye on his wrist- out: May God forgive you." so it was generally understood. speech was typical of his general but never once looking towards Russia.

This is according to Sydney That was the deepest shook of tone. He explained why Russia Khrushchev.

was devoting so much of her Jacobson, Political Editor of the 1. A voice shouted: "Don't Dally Mirror, who said that Mr

lo bully 1.19. Comrade or effort to heavy engineer Brown was berating Khrushchev Khrushchev." for the Hitler-Stalin pact.

Gooch meant a few words. Mr

watch. It was now 10.14 p.m.

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Khrushchov, without note in front of him, opened

Ho' bad

He Bald thai Khrushchev tense silence and stopped in a

Brown to repent challenged Mc

try

Angry

ing.

Mr Khrushchev hardly walted Mr Galiskell had toyed ner-

his tle. vously with

He was until Mr Gaitskell had finished now re-porting his own speech,

"I know," he said bluntly, which had now to be different before he was on his feet with a belter houses from the appropriate gesture he flat refusal to take any action. † that you have and villages and towns in had prepared

in reply to But- Britain than we postess. I know gani's gracious contribution.

2

be

fox

He

He declared there were no

nonsense..

his remark adding: "Don't be Aneurin Bevan, at this stage there are some people in tho

West who would like us to do And by now It was beginning Social Democrats in the Soviet strait."

nonchalantly leuning for back in the same as you in that directo feel long night, There Union; that it was no business of up with a hamily on the MT Brown, according to

might now

no time

Russia what happened in other massive strungth of Soviet Jacobson, shouted again: "God is chair, wald: "That's a dan- tion.

questions at all,

countries; that any suggesilon of Industry and went on to his forgive you.".

gerous line of argument," loud

"They would like us to be

Mr Gaitskell rose. He extolled Jewish suffering was stuff and peculiar brand of plain talk. But the political correspon- enough for it to be overheard.

like the little' birds caught in dent of the Observer said that

the nets who have their the advantages of candour.

commented on · Khrushcheva apparently been

what Mr. Brown shouted was

and ciphasised par- churning over his resentment at God forgive him!" mouning Mr Bevan made many auch heads chopped off one by points what he believed to be Britain's Stalin and not Khrushchev.

remarks. He and some frienda one." And Khrushchay made itcularly the importance which view of Russia's achievements

argued later that he was not a chopping gesture with his. Britain and her allies place on controls. In any system, of dis- and trustworthiness.

There was, anyway, a heckling. He was merely think-

hand.

urinsment. He may have been smarting at babble of shouting and ing aloud, as he has been known to do many a time when sliting MI George Brown's cccle, Khrushchev said to Brown on the platform at Labour This, felt the Socialist leaders, The" he referred to the "What is it like to be the Big You are too young: What Party conference.

was harsh talk to thern who had. Buss?"

19397"

Welfare cases of Social Democrats He perplexed his hearers by were you doing in

Que version says that oven helped to build the

who had been imprisoned, lecturing them on the recent Brown retorted: “I ・ was when Mr Bevan was saying State in Britain.:

How dare anyone imply that fhere' was tyranny in Eumla! All the people were behind `tho Government. He was angrier

than ever.

TOMORROW:

A night of calamity:

(London Express 'Beroiče)..

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